Imprints

Union Square & Co. Imprints:

UNION SQUARE & CO.

Union Square & Co.’s diverse list showcases top-tier talent and brands and gives space to unique perspectives and strong voices. It features books, decks, stationery, games, and calendars focused on fiction, narrative nonfiction, food & drink, decorating, health, wellness, and pop culture.

UNION SQUARE KIDS

Union Square Kids publishes fiction and nonfiction titles that engage, enrich, and excite a diverse audience of young readers. Our list includes picture books, early readers, chapter books, graphic novels, middle grade and young adult novels, as well as classics, reference, novelty and activity books.

BOXER BOOKS

Boxer Books brings a unique approach to children’s books combining inventive ideas, concepts, and storylines with a strong sense of style and design. Their focus is publishing new and established international authors and illustrators, working with them to develop their personal style and create books that children and adults can enjoy together.

STERLING ETHOS

Sterling Ethos is a body, mind, spirit industry leader dedicated to inspiring, informative, and empowering books and products covering subjects from meditation and mindfulness, alternative health, and inspiration to witchcraft and metaphysics, as well as esoterica such as tarot and mediumship.

PUZZLEWRIGHT PRESS

Puzzlewright Press prides itself on commitment to quality, accuracy, creativity, variety, inclusivity, and fun! Its list features core puzzle types such as crosswords and sudoku, as well as every other genre: logic games, brainteasers, word searches, memory puzzles, mazes, acrostics, trivia, kakuro, chess, and more.

KNOCK KNOCK

Knock Knock makes interesting, smart, well-designed gift and stationery products that bring wit, heart, productivity (and occasional light profanity) to everyday life. Their pads, planners, journals, and books help people accomplish their goals, express their feelings, and laugh at the absurdity of modern existence.

EM & FRIENDS

Em & Friends makes greeting cards and gifts that speak to the human condition with honesty, humor, and heart. Originally founded by writer and illustrator Emily McDowell, as an imprint of Union Square & Co., they create gifts and cards for the relationships we really have—and to help people connect when they’re not sure what to say.

SPARKNOTES

SparkNotes is a resource for students and teachers whose mission is to help students “make sense of confusing schoolwork.” It publishes books, blogs, quizzes, and flashcards, and offers multiple ways to study online, on e-readers, and with good old books.

FLASH KIDS

Flash Kids publishes workbooks and flash cards for preschool, elementary, and middle school students in essential curriculum areas such as reading, math, writing, test preparation, and much more.

HEARST BOOKS

Hearst Books publishes a broad spectrum of lifestyle titles under the brand names of Hearst magazines including: Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful, Popular Mechanics, and Veranda.

Union Square & Co. also distributes books for these publishers:

WHITE STAR PUBLISHERS

White Star was founded in 1984 and has become one of the major publishing houses in Italy and abroad in the sector of illustrated books. Today it boasts a catalog of over 800 titles, published in various languages. The books cover a wide range of subjects, including art, photography, lifestyle, culinary, gift, and children’s books. They publish under the imprints Vivida, White Star, and White Star Kids.

AMBER BOOKS

Amber Books Ltd. is a leading publisher of highly-illustrated non-fiction books for adults and children. Subjects include History, Photography, Military History, Technology, Gift, Natural History, Survival, Medical and General Reference. Their children’s line includes entertaining and informative titles on Animals, Natural History, History and Science for younger readers.

AGAINST ALL ODDS PRODUCTIONS

Against All Odds Productions, a transmedia organization, works with hundreds of leading international journalists to produce massive crowd-sourced projects which combine creative storytelling with state-of-the-art technology. Against All Odds’ projects, underwritten by Fortune 500 companies, focus on emerging topics ranging from big data to the global water crisis to the Internet. These cross-media projects result in award-winning books, WEBBY award-winning Apps, and TV documentaries accompanied by traveling interactive exhibits and massive media coverage.

BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment. Since 1945, BBG’s award-winning horticultural handbooks have offered practical information in a compact, easy-to-read format. Written by top gardening experts and packed with spectacular color photos, BBG guides are full of ideas on how to make your garden beautiful, bountiful, and ecologically sensible.

ENCHANTED WORLD

Since 1988, Monte Farber & Amy Zerner have shared their unique brand of life mastery and artistic excellence with their readers. They’ve combined Amy’s National Endowment for the Arts award-winning fabric collage tapestries with Monte’s words to create a unique line of executive decision-making tools based on the intuition-building techniques they discovered are hidden in astrology, tarot, alchemy, The Goddess, shamanism and talking boards, making these useful but misunderstood tools for developing one’s decision making ability available to a mainstream audience.

LIMINAL 11

This independent mind, body, and spirit publisher produces motivational titles on such topics as tarot, yoga, and traditional healing, as well as collections of quotable wisdom—all with a focus on illustration and comics.

SALARIYA

Salariya is an independent book publisher dedicated to publishing books with real child appeal, using innovative concepts, high-quality illustrations, informative writing and, above all, humor to captivate the minds of young people. Their imprints are Book House, Scribo, and Scribblers.

SALLY MILNER PUBLISHING

Sally Milner Publishing provides quality craft, health and history titles to the international book world. They specialize in soft crafts, especially embroidery, knitting, crochet, quilting, sewing and paper crafts.