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BookPal is honored by the recognition alongside notable companies such as Yogurtland, Inc., Vizio, Inc., and Yard House USA , Inc.

President, Tony DiCostanzo credits BookPal’s impressive growth to their excellent customer service, extensive title selection and discounted prices. “Given the recent troubles facing booksellers this year, we are thrilled by our growth in 2011,” said DiCostanzo. “We’ve added additional staff to our team and we are looking forward expanding BookPal in the coming year.”

BookPal is excited to launch the second phase of their new website this November. With over a million titles and pricing soon to be available online, ordering books in bulk is easier than ever. Along with their comprehensive book selection, BookPal offers promotional books and other special service to clients that include Google, WellsFargo, General Electric, Northwestern University , Coca-Cola and the United States Marine Corp.

About BookPal:

BookPal is a bulk book seller that specializes in selling books of any genre in quantities of 25 or more copies per title. The company offers over 5 million current book and movie titles to its business, association, non-profit, educational and government clients. BookPal provides book customization services and expedited shipping options to customers worldwide. Founded in 2005, BookPal is headquartered in Irvine, California . For more information, please visit www.book-pal.com or call (866) 522-6657 to speak to a friendly and knowledgeable member of BookPal’s team.

Eric Carle is best known for his unique picture books with engaging illustrations designed for young children. Eric Carle is the author of the classic children titles such as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and The Grouchy Ladybug. His most famous work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been read by millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 50 different languages. Just two years ago, The Very Hungry Caterpillar celebrated its 40th Anniversary. As I am sure most of you remember, this book is about a tiny green caterpillar that eats his way though the book until he transforms into a beautiful butterfly.

For our pumpkin, we combined the classic themes of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and still kept our festive flare. We stuck to the Halloween theme by using small pumpkins to comprise all of the elements in our entry including the body of the caterpillar. BookPal’s take on The Very Hungry Caterpillar was awarded 1st place in the Lakeshore Towers 19th Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest!

BookPal offers all of the versions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar available as well as all of the other Eric Carle classics. Please click here to request a quote!

“At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.”

The BookPal team works on Macs daily and we use Apple servers and iPhones so we are without doubt huge fans of the fruits of Job’s work over the last 30 years.  Apple gadgets have made our work life easier, more fun and more efficient.  The BookPal team was all saddened by his passing. Who knows what he could have done with 30 more years…

Look for Steve Jobs biography in bulk starting October 24^th on Book-Pal.com.

BABC Breakfast Panelists

Other participants included talented young concert pianist Berenika Schmitz, the leader in “Live Virtual Interviews” Theo Rokos, Director of Government Affairs for FlexEnergy Michael Levin, Sr. Manager of Executive Communications for the Walt Disney Company Matt Prince and Los Angeles Times Reporter Janice Voshall. The membership of the British American Business Council – Orange County includes many of the world’s leading multi-national companies and medium sized corporations in a variety of industries

The BABC OC provides members with access to practical, measurable business expansion opportunities by delivering high-caliber networking and targeted marketing platforms, as well as top-quality business intelligence and influence.

BookPal’s wants to thank BABC for extending the opportunity to learn about the success stories of these great entrepreneurs.

Author Crissy Trask looks to make it easy to be an environmentalist no matter how busy your lifestyle is. Welcome to your day to day guide to eco-friendly living. This book is chocked full of practical suggestions that anyone can put into action right now!

From the Back Cover It’s Easy Being Green is a handy tool to help you make better choices for the environment. This is what the busy person needs to start making changes today. Get informative, comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning from over 250 eco-tips for cultivating a sustainable environment. Take the difficulty and guesswork out of greener living by learning the following:    Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden. Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates! Make your own household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products. Submerge a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush and thousands of gallons a year. This book concurrently presents a plan, tips and an Internet resources list that you can use to follow-through on good intentions. An extensive product labels list is also provided to help interpret how some foods are produced. If you haven’t invested in substantially greener behaviors, consumerism and politics because you didn’t know how or thought it was difficult, help is here: It’s Easy Being Green is a handbook for all those who aspire do more to protect the environment but want it to be simpler. You can make a difference!

Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (Hardcover) [Bulk] by Dan Willingham will knock your socks off. Attention teachers, administrators, tutors, parents… everyone who works with kids or cares about eduction should read this book!

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds just switch off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite television program, yet miss the most obvious questions on their history test? Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.

The Washington Times reviewed it so eloquently in saying, “If you’ve ever felt the yen to celebrate a Jewish holy day in a festive, traditional style, this marvelous book will enable you to approximate the experience – without calories from rich, filling food or risks of leaving wine stains on the white tablecloth.

Your host, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, comes across as a chatty, good-natured, Old World uncle who’s free with advice, anecdote and sentimental reminiscence. Like most conversations around a religious family’s Sabbath table, the discussion rambles and wanders, with amusing, earthy or insightful asides of sometimes dubious relevance, but it keeps circling back to the book’s main argument: that all Americans, of every outlook or religious perspective, would benefit from a weekly embrace of the idea of a Sabbath.”

Of all the times of the year to consider rest and relaxation, the waning summer days that will soon turn into a bustling fall and holiday season remind each of us to find those precious few minutes a day to unwind, refocus and replenish one’s soul and spirit. “The purpose of “the gift of rest” in Mr. Lieberman’s view isn’t “to recharge our batteries so we can work harder but to recharge our souls so we can live better.” Citing a wide variety of Jewish sources both ancient and modern, the senator affirms that work and rest form an indissoluble whole. Six days a week we work to improve our world; on the seventh day, we rest to improve ourselves.” (From the Washington Times review by Michael Medved.

This book is sure to become a NY Time’s bestseller so snag #bulk copies at a discount today and get ahead of your holiday shopping… so you can enjoy the Sabbath table later with friends and family. Cheers!

These reader favorites are available in print or e-book for easy traveling.

“What could be more entertaining and magical than putting food in a box outdoors on a sunny day and enjoying a delicious fully-cooked meal just a few hours later? Solar cooking, which uses the suns rays as the sole heat source has been around for centuries and can be done just about anyplace where there’s sun. Not only is it completely safe and simple, but it also saves money on fuel, limits time spent preparing meals, and is kind to the environment plus the results are healthy, flavorful, and satisfying.

Whether you’re new to solar cooking or have been doing it for years, Cooking with Sunshine is your definitive guide to making a variety of tasty sun-cooked meals. Solar cooking experts Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic provide everything you need to get cooking, including:

Clear explanations of how solar cooking works and its benefits over traditional methods
Instructions for building your own solar cooker using inexpensive, easy-to-find materials and information on where to buy a ready-made solar cooker

A selection of fun and super-easy recipes to get you started
A wide variety of recipes for main dishes, accompaniments, and desserts for both vegetarian and omnivorous diets
Creative menu ideas for special diets, tastes, and occasions. . . and much more!

So what are you waiting for? It’s time to cook with sunshine!

Author and chef Lorraine Anderson is a freelance writer and editor with a special interest in encouraging a reciprocal relationship with nature. Her books include Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry About Nature, Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture (with Scott Slovic and John P. O’Grady), and At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women’s Nature Writing (with Thomas Edwards). She lives in Corvallis, Oregon. Rick Palkovic is an electrical engineer and technical writer. He lives in Davis, California.” ~www.book-pal.com

Buy this book in bulk and share the sunshine!

“On the one hand, the industry cultivates an image of wine being an almost accidental beverage, a product of a munificent nature that takes ripe fruit from sun-dappled vineyards and somehow, magically, transforms it into a liquid symphony that can ennoble not only those who consume it but also those who make it.

On the other, it is a ruthless, cutthroat business, one that accounts for more than $18 billion in sales every year — 80% of which goes through fewer than a dozen large corporations. And as important as the image of a rustic vigneron might be, the specialty equipment and chemical enhancements used in most modern wineries are capable of spinning neutral grape juice into salable product.”

According to Russ Parsons, the LA Times Food Editor, “One of Darlington’s strengths is that he is able to pull back the curtain on the wine business without ever losing sight that the beverage itself is capable of great magic. He takes us into the worlds of utterly opposite wine figures — or so it seems.”

Explore the wild side of wine with this fun summer read and maybe get inspired to learn more about your favorite drink.

Read the full review here.

Also, check out The Wine Enthusiast Magazine Wine & Food Pairings Cookbook: With More than 80 Recipes and Wine Recommendations (Hardcover). It makes a great gift and can be customized!