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what haunts him
that moment after the bartender refused to serve the dark marine and the three white skinned others just sat there that moment before they rose and followed their nappy brother out into the USA they were willing to die to defend then

From The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 by Lucille Clifton Edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser Used by permission of BOA Editions, Ltd. www.boaeditions.org

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Fall / Winter 2012–2013

Congratulations to all our award winners!
2011 Nobel Prize in Literature: Tomas Tranströmer
The Sorrow Gondola
Tomas Tranströmer Translated by Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl Green Integer Trade Paper US $11.95 CAN $13.95 978-1-933382-44-9 W

2011 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction
The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak Bellevue Literary Press Trade Paper US $14.95 CAN $17.95 978-1-934137-34-5 USC

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2011 Rilke Poetry Prize
Space, In Chains
Laura Kasischke Copper Canyon Press Trade Paper US $16.00 CAN $18.95 978-1-55659-333-8 USC

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Poetry
Kingdom Animalia
Aracelis Girmay BOA Editions Ltd. Trade Paper US $16.00 CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-62-0 USC

2011 World Fantasy Award for Collection
What I Didn’t See
Stories Karen Joy Fowler Small Beer Press Trade Cloth US $24.00 CAN $29.50 978-1-931520-68-3 W*

2011 Mind Book of the Year
Diary Drawings
Mental Illness and Me Bobby Baker Profile Books Trade Paper US $22.95 CAN $27.95 978-1-84668-374-9 USC

Recent Award Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to all our award winners!
2011 Deutscher Memorial Prize
Theory As History
Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation Jarius Banaji Haymarket Books Trade Paper US $28.00 CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-143-1 USCO*

2011 IndieBound Indie Next Top 10 for Reading Groups 2011 Indie Choice Booksellers’ Choice Award
Wingshooters
Nina Revoyr Akashic Books Trade Paper US $15.95 CAN $19.50 978-1-936070-71-8 W

2012 IndieBound Indie Next Great Read
Country of the Bad Wolfes
James Carlos Blake Cinco Puntos Press Trade Paper US $16.95 CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-03-0 USC

2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Cloud Corporation
Timothy Donnelly Wave Books Trade Paper US $16.00 CAN $17.95 978-1-933517-47-6 USC

2011 Sheila Motton Book Award
The Available World
Poems Ander Monson Sarabande Books Trade Paper US $14.95 CAN $16.50 978-1-932511-83-3 USC

2011 Sheila Motton Book Award
Christopher Sunset
Geoffrey Nutter Wave Books Trade Paper US $14.00 CAN $14.00 978-1-933517-44-5 USC

Recent Award Winners and Finalists

3DTotal Publishing .......................................................................................................................1 AK Press ................................................................................................................................... 3 Akashic Books............................................................................................................................. 9 Alice James Books ....................................................................................................................... 19 Anvil Press................................................................................................................................23 Archipelago Books ......................................................................................................................25 Arsenal Pulp Press ..................................................................................................................... 29 Aunt Lute Books ........................................................................................................................35 Ballistic Publishing .....................................................................................................................37 Behler Publications .....................................................................................................................39 Bellevue Literary Press ................................................................................................................. 41 Biblioasis .................................................................................................................................45 Bilingual Readers ....................................................................................................................... 51 BIS Publishers ...........................................................................................................................53 Bitter Lemon Press .....................................................................................................................59 Black Balloon Publishing ..............................................................................................................63 BOA Editions Ltd.......................................................................................................................65 Breakaway Books ....................................................................................................................... 69 Bywater Books ........................................................................................................................... 71 Centipede Press .........................................................................................................................75 *Central Recovery Press ...............................................................................................................79 Chin Music Press........................................................................................................................87 Cinco Puntos Press .................................................................................................................... 89 City Lights Publishers .................................................................................................................. 91 Coach House Books ................................................................................................................... 99 Coffee House Press ................................................................................................................... 105 Copper Canyon Press ................................................................................................................. 111 Dewi Lewis Publishing ................................................................................................................121 Dialogue ................................................................................................................................ 123 Dzanc Books ........................................................................................................................... 127 Enigma Books ..........................................................................................................................137 Etruscan Press ..........................................................................................................................141 Exterminating Angel Press .......................................................................................................... 143 *February Books ....................................................................................................................... 145 The Feminist Press at CUNY ....................................................................................................... 149 Fence Books .............................................................................................................................155 Feral House .............................................................................................................................161 Frame Publishers ...................................................................................................................... 165 Fulcrum Publishing ................................................................................................................... 171 Gentle Path Press...................................................................................................................... 179 GLAS New Russian Writing..........................................................................................................181 *Global Book Sales.................................................................................................................... 183 Green Integer ...........................................................................................................................191 Gryphon House ....................................................................................................................... 193 Haus Publishing ....................................................................................................................... 201 Haymarket Books .....................................................................................................................207 Holy Cow! Press ....................................................................................................................... 219 Icon Books ............................................................................................................................. 221 Ig Publishing ...........................................................................................................................229 *Independent Thinking Press ...................................................................................................... 235

Table of Contents

Kehrer Verlag ..........................................................................................................................243 Kube Publishing Ltd .................................................................................................................249 Leapfrog Press ......................................................................................................................... 251 Manic D Press.......................................................................................................................... 253 MCCM Creations ..................................................................................................................... 255 Monkfish Book Publishing .......................................................................................................... 257 New Internationalist ................................................................................................................. 259 New Rivers Press ...................................................................................................................... 263 New Society Publishers .............................................................................................................. 265 New Village Press...................................................................................................................... 277 Nobrow Press .......................................................................................................................... 279 Nortia Press ............................................................................................................................283 Ocean Press ............................................................................................................................ 285 Old Street Publishing ................................................................................................................ 287 Paris Press ..............................................................................................................................289 Paul Dry Books ........................................................................................................................ 291 Process .................................................................................................................................. 293 Profile Books........................................................................................................................... 295 Promopress............................................................................................................................. 297 Pushkin Press .......................................................................................................................... 301 Redleaf Press ...........................................................................................................................305 Saqi Books .............................................................................................................................. 313 Sarabande Books .......................................................................................................................317 Serpent’s Tail .......................................................................................................................... 321 Small Beer Press ....................................................................................................................... 323 Stone Bridge Press .................................................................................................................... 327 Talonbooks ............................................................................................................................. 329 Telegram Books ....................................................................................................................... 335 Theatre Communications Group .................................................................................................. 337 *Torrey House Press .................................................................................................................. 363 Turtle Point Press ..................................................................................................................... 367 Two Dollar Radio .....................................................................................................................369 *Tyrant Books.......................................................................................................................... 373 Umbrage Editions .................................................................................................................... 377 *Uncivilized Books.................................................................................................................... 381 Wave Books ............................................................................................................................. 385 White Pine Press....................................................................................................................... 387 Zephyr Press ...........................................................................................................................389 *Zuccotti Park Press .................................................................................................................. 393 Distributed Publishers ............................................................................................................... 397 Index by Title .......................................................................................................................... 412 Index by Primary Subject ............................................................................................................ 417 Sales Reps...............................................................................................................................422 *Indicates first season at Consortium

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3DTotal Publishing Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 4
Edited with an introduction by 3DTotal

The successful Digital Painting Techniques series presents another volume bursting with advice, tips, and techniques for digital artists. Ian McQue (one of the driving forces behind the award-winning Grand Theft Auto franchise), Simon Dominic Brewer, and Serge Birault are just a handful of the talented artists who offer the benefits of their years of experience within these pages. Whether you’re looking to learn more about creating new worlds, designing custom brushes and illustration, or simply want to know how to paint tribal warriors, vehicles, and pin-ups, Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 4 is guaranteed to help you on your artistic journey.
ART / COMPUTERS October A Paperback Original Digital Painting Techniques 8½ x 11 | 288 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-0-9568171-2-9 USC

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign

A unique and valuable insight into the latest digital painting techniques, presented by some of the industry’s top artists.

Elysium—The Art of Daarken
Mike “Daarken” Lim
Edited by 3DTotal
Take a trip through Daarken’s mind as you travel from epic fantasy to contemporary beauty in Elysium—The Art of Daarken, the culmination of the past four years of this freelance artist’s work in the gaming industry. This exciting journey covers a selection of personal illustrations and private commissions, as well as previously unseen pieces for world-famous franchises such as Magic: The Gathering (Wizards of the Coast) and World of Warcraft (Blizzard). Mike “Daarken” Lim began working professionally in 2004 and has worked for clients like Wizards of the Coast, Blizzard, Honda, Electronic Arts, Fantasy Flight Games, Kabam, and BreakAway Games.

ART / GAMES November A Paperback Original 8¾ x 11 | 200 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $39.99 | CAN $43.99 978-0-9568171-3-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Pasadena, CA

One of the digital art industry’s rising American stars shares four years worth of his unique fantasy and sci-fi artwork.

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3DTotal Publishing Prime
The Definitive Digital Art Collection

Edited by 3DTotal

ART / COMPUTERS January A Paperback Original 8½ x 11¾ | 400 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $59.99 | CAN $65.99 978-0-9568171-4-3 USC

Prime showcases the pinnacle of digital artistic achievement in a definitive collection of twenty-first century CG artwork. This unique set of five books comes in a single slipcase, with each book devoted to a classic gallery theme— sci-fi, character, cartoon, fantasy, or scenes—and featuring stunning artwork from some of the industry’s greatest artists. Never before has a collection of this magnitude been released. Prime boasts over four hundred world-class pieces in one easily accessible set. Whatever your artistic taste, the tantalizing mix of images in Prime is guaranteed to capture your imagination and provide a timeless source of inspiration.

Offering five books in one slipcase and featuring two hundred artists, Prime is the definite collection of twenty-first century CG artwork.

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign

Crafting 3D Photorealism
Lighting Workflows in 3ds Max, mental ray and V-Ray

Jamie Cardoso
Edited by 3DTotal
In his latest book, Jamie Cardoso discusses how to perfect your lighting workflow and achieve a high quality photorealistic 3D image. He covers various different lighting conditions, while also looking at how shaders, textures, and rendering tie in to the overall workflow. With in-depth tutorials for both V-Ray and mental ray, this book is a goldmine of essential advice from one of the industry’s best architectural artists. Jamie Cardoso is an innovative senior computer artist and author whose first-rate experience has been gained designing and producing work since 1996 for a wide range of clients worldwide.

ART / COMPUTERS February 7½ x 9½ | 290 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $39.99 | CAN $43.99 978-0-9568171-5-0 USC

Learn how to perfect your lighting workflow and produce 3D photorealistic images with the in-depth tutorials featured in these pages.

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign

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AK Press Disassembly Required
A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism

Geoff Mann

“Geoff Mann is a new breed of monkey-wrencher. He knows that contemporary capitalism has a perverse habit of dismantling itself and gives us a toolkit to build a new, more socially just edifice.”—Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism “Insightful and incisive, thoughtful and thorough, filled with new avenues for thinking about resistance. Pass this one by at your own peril.”—Matt Hern, Common Ground in a Liquid City To imagine how we might change capitalism, we first need to understand it. To succeed in actually changing it, we need to be able to explain how it works and convince others that change is both possible and necessary. Disassembly Required is an attempt to meet those challenges, and to offer clear, accessible alternatives to the status quo of everyday capitalism. Originally crafted as a comprehensive overview for younger readers, Geoff Mann’s explanation of the fundamental features of contemporary capitalism is illustrated with real-world examples—an ideal introduction for anyone wanting to learn more about what capitalism is and where it falls short. What emerges is an anti-capitalist critique that fully understands the complex, dynamic, robust organizational machine of modern economic life, digging deep into the details of capitalist institutions and the relations that justify them to unearth the politically indefensible and ecologically unsustainable premises that underlie them. Geoff Mann teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy. He is the author of Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West (2007) and a frequent contributor to Historical Materialism and New Left Review.
From money and markets to the subprime crisis, this anti-capitalist pocket guide explains capitalism and its crises and suggests alternatives.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / POLITICAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 4½ x 7¼ | 160 pp B&W illustrations and charts throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84935-126-3 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National advertising: AlterNet • Mother Jones • The Progressive • Truthout • National online campaign • Social media campaign featuring video teasers • Reading group resource materials and discounts

Author Events
Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Asheville, NC • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA • Vancouver, BC Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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AK Press The Green Fuse
Inside the Radical Environmental Movement

Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank
“The corporate-led attacks on the environmental movement—and the movement’s response—are a teachable moment for all social movements. The Green Fuse is an important contribution to this dialogue of repression of resistance.” —Will Potter, Green is the New Red On October 19, 1998, five buildings and four chairlifts in Vail, Colorado, burned. In a communiqué from the Earth Liberation Front, activists claimed the fires were aimed at protecting the alpine habitat of endangered lynx from a planned expansion of a ski resort into the Two Elks Roadless Area. This dramatic act of political arson was rapidly followed by a wave of arson and sabotage, targeting research labs, logging companies, and industrial corporations by a shadowy network of environmental militants. These actions made for sensational headlines, prompted a covert FBI operation, and were used to justify repressive new laws at the state and federal level. The Green Fuse profiles the leading figures of this new movement: Tre Arrow, Mike Roselle, Rod Coronado, Marie Mason, Tim DeChristopher, and Jonathan Paul. The Green Fuse shows how activists were threatened, spied upon, infiltrated and ultimately arrested, tried under draconian new laws, and sentenced to harsh prison terms in a riveting, up-close narrative.
NATURE / POLITICAL SCIENCE December A Paperback Original Counterpunch 5 x 7½ | 275 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84935-124-9 USC

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch, author of Born Under a Bad Sky, and co-editor, with Joshua Frank, of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion. Joshua Frank is co-editor, with Jeffrey St. Clair, of Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. His investigative reports and columns appear in CounterPunch, CommonDreams.org, and AlterNet.
Today’s radical environmentalists and the state’s brutal approach to stopping them.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • • • • Excerpts in: CounterPunch National print and online campaign National radio campaign Promotion through: www.counterpunch.org Author Hometowns: Oregon City, OR / Long Beach, CA

Also Available
Hopeless Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion Edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-84935-110-2 USC Red State Rebels Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland Edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY 5½ x 8 | 280 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $16.95 978-1-904859-84-0 USC

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AK Press We Are Many
Reflections on Movement Strategy, from Occupation to Liberation

Edited by Kate Khatib, Margaret Killjoy, and Mike McGuire
“A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going. It is all too rare that in the process of creating the movement and living the moment, participants and thinkers step back and ask the most pressing questions. This book is an important step.”—Marina Sitrin, Occupy Wall Street organizer and author of Horizontalism We have all been swept up by the momentum of the Occupy movement. We have seen the results of years of organizing in different communities come together in ways that few could have imagined, bolstered by the scores of people who have left the comfort of their daily routine behind and taken to the streets. Yet as a movement so overflowing with new social and political actors, we lack the framework we need to help us all to understand what a social movement is, to understand how change has happened in the past, to understand what this moment means and what this movement makes possible. We Are Many is a reflection on Occupy from within the heart of the movement itself. Examining key questions—what worked? what didn’t? why? how? is it reproducible?—the authors and activists in this collection point toward a movement-based framework for future organizing. Heavily illustrated and annotated, We Are Many is a celebration of what worked, and a thoughtful analysis of what didn’t. Contributors include David Graeber, Yotam Marom, Tom Morello, Frances Fox Piven, Gan Golan, Cindy Milstein, Kristian Williams, Lisa Fithian, Lester Spence, Marisa Holmes, Max Rameau, Vijay Prashad, Josh MacPhee, Molly Crabapple, Micah Uetricht, CrimethInc., Team Colors, Bring the Ruckus, Picture the Homeless, and more.
The only book on Occupy written by organizers, for organizers! Essential lessons from key movement strategists.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 355 pp B&W photographs, illustrations, and charts throughout Trade Paper US $21.00 | CAN $22.99 978-1-84935-116-4 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National advertising: Boston Review • The Indypendent • Truthout • YES! Magazine • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Video trailers • 20-city author tour

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Asheville, NC • Philadelphia, PA • Olympia, WA Editor Hometowns: Baltimore, MD / New York, NY

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AK Press Queering Anarchism
Essays on Gender, Power, and Desire

Edited by C. B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon, and Abbey Volcano
Foreword by Martha Ackelsberg
“A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman “Against the austerity of straight politics, Queering Anarchism sketches the connections between gender mutiny, queer sexualities, and anti-authoritarian desires. Through embodied histories and incendiary critique, the contributors gathered here show how we must not stop at smashing the state; rather normativity itself is the enemy of all radical possibility.”—Eric A. Stanley, co-editor of Captive Genders What does it mean to “queer” the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of GLBT identity as a new gender norm come into focus in the context of anarchist theory and practice? How do our notions of orientation inform our politics—and vice versa? Queering Anarchism brings together a diverse set of writings ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal that explore the possibilities of the concept of “queering,” turning the dominant, and largely heteronormative, structures of belief and identity entirely inside out. Ranging in topic from the economy to disability, politics, social structures, sexual practice, interpersonal relationships, and beyond, the authors here suggest that queering might be more than a set of personal preferences—pointing toward the possibility of an entirely new way of viewing the world. Contributors include Jamie Heckert, Sandra Jeppesen, Ben Shepard, Ryan Conrad, Jerimarie Liesegang, Jason Lydon, Susan Song, Stephanie Grohmann, Liat Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella, A.J. Withers, and more.
A wrench in the gears of sexual politics—twenty authors challenge the social constructs of identity, ideology, and beyond.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84935-120-1 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National online campaign • Targeted outreach to queer and genderoriented media • Promotion through the North American Anarchist Studies Association

Author Events
Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Hartford, CT • Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Asheville, NC • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Olympia, WA • Seattle, WA Editor Hometowns: Hartford, CT / Austin, TX / Baltimore, MD

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AK Press Nine-tenths of the Law
Property and Resistance in the United States

Hannah Dobbz

“From the Native American Seizure of Alcatraz Island, to New York Squatters and Homesteaders of the 1980s, to the housing actions led by Occupy Wall Street today [Dobbz] asks important philosophical questions about these tendencies. [Her] book is a welcome addition.”—Seth Tobocman, co-author, Understanding the Crash How does “property” fit into designs for an equitable society? Nine-tenths of the Law examines the history of squatting and property struggles in the United States, from colonialism to twentieth century urban squatting and the foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s, and how such resistance movements shape the law. Stories from our most hard-hit American cities show that property is truly in crisis: • One in five homes in Buffalo, NY, are abandoned. • Our national housing vacancy rate is 14 percent. If we gave a house to every homeless person in the United States two-thirds of that stock would remain empty. • In May of 2011, one in every 103 homes in Nevada was in foreclosure. Nine-tenths of the Law expands our understanding of property law and highlights recent tactics like creative squatting ventures and the use of adverse possession to claim titles to vacant homes. Hannah Dobbz unveils the tangled relationship Americans have always had in creating and sustaining healthy communities. Hannah Dobbz is a writer, editor, filmmaker, and former squatter. In 2007 she produced a film about squatters in the Bay Area called Shelter. The film has screened widely at universities, bookstores, and community spaces, including the 2009 Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / LAW November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $21.00 | CAN $22.99 978-1-84935-118-8 USC

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Co-op available

A toolbox for housing justice: a guide to American property law and the squatter-rebels that dot our landscape.

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Excerpts in: CounterPunch National print and online campaign Screenings of companion film throughout the fall Promotion through: www.takebacktheland.org and www.occupyourhomes.org

Author Events
Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Pittsburgh, PA • Providence, RI • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

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AK Press Anarchists Against the Wall
Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle

Edited by Uri Gordon and Ohal Greitzer
Part of a small but growing phenomenon in Israel since 2003, Anarchists Against the Wall have been boldly challenging the Segregation Barrier and generalized violence against occupied Palestine. The reflections herein offer a window into some of the most dynamic direct action activism today. Uri Gordon is an Israeli activist and writer and the author of Anarchy Alive! Antiauthoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory (Pluto Press, 2008).
POLITICAL SCIENCE December A Paperback Original Anarchist Interventions 4½ x 6½ | 150 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-1-84935-114-0 USC

Ohal Greitzer is an activist with Anarchists Against the Wall and works as a freelance video editor, curator, and social media coordinator for grassroots organizations.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available National advertising: Heeb, Tikkun • National online campaign • 10-city speaking tour • Promotion through the Institute for Anarchist Studies and Anarchists Against the Wall Editor Hometown: New York, NY

Israeli anarchists grapple with active solidarity within a highly militarized, ideological state.

An Anarchist FAQ
Volume 2

Edited with an introduction by Iain McKay
Aimed at the curious and, as yet, unconverted, and covering topics from “Why do anarchists oppose State Socialism?” to “What would an anarchist society look like?” the two-volume An Anarchist FAQ stands as the go-to reference for what anarchists believe, what they want, and how they intend to go about it. Find out what all the fuss is about. Iain McKay is the editor of Property is Theft! A Pierre Joseph Proudhon Anthology. He lives in London, England.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / REFERENCE November A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 550 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84935-122-5 USC

Volume two of the indispensable guide to the world of anarchist ideas.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Promotion through: www.anarchistfaq.org

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Akashic Books When Johnny Came Marching Home
William Heffernan

“Sliding back and forth in time—before, during, and after the Civil War— William Heffernan creates a powerful, intriguing, and complex novel about the intricacies of friendship and the devastating effects of war.” —Jonathan Santlofer, author of The Death Artist “When Johnny Came Marching Home evokes a young soldier’s reluctant relationship to violence and brutality with a chilling realism that brings the reader face-to-face with the moral complexities of even the most noble of wars. Following in the literary tradition of Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, and Larry Heinemann, William Heffernan is able to somehow find grace and beauty amidst the horror of battle.”—Kaylie Jones, author of A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries “When Johnny Came Marching Home is a carefully constructed and evocative Civil War–era tale that will hold you from first to last page. The author has a rare gift for transporting the reader in time and place. Put this one at the top of your list. No one does this kind of novel better than Heffernan.” —John Lutz, author of Serial When Johnny Came Marching Home is a mystery, a love story, and William Heffernan’s best book to date. The novel tells the story of three boys who grow up in rural Vermont in a seemingly indestructible friendship, then see their lives ruined as they go off to fight in America’s “great and noble war.” Trapped in a what appears to be an endless bloodbath—vividly presented with Heffernan’s meticulous historical research—the boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war’s end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the third comes home as an unfeeling psychopath. The novel turns on the subsequent murder of the psychopath, and the offer of redemption for the wounded young man who must investigate the crime. When Johnny Came Marching Home is a story about war and how it affects the lives of all who become a part of it, both directly and peripherally. Although set during the Civil War, this book casts shadows of what we endure today and the horrors to which young soldiers are subjected. William Heffernan, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, is the author of fifteen novels, including such bestsellers as The Corsican, The Dinosaur Club (a New York Times bestseller), The Dead Detective, and Tarnished Blue (winner of an Edgar Award). Heffernan lives outside of St. Petersburg, Florida.
A one-armed young Civil War veteran investigates the death of a troubled fellow soldier in 1860s Vermont and Virginia.

FICTION / MYSTERY October 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-135-6 USLA* Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-127-1 USLA*

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 5-city national tour

Author Events
Miami, FL • St. Petersberg, FL • New York, NY Author Hometown: St. Petersburg, FL

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Akashic Books The Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola
Ricardo Cortés
The Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola is an illustrated book disclosing new research in the coca leaf trade conducted by the Coca-Cola Company. 2011 marked the 125th anniversary of its iconic beverage, and the 50th anniversary of the international drug control treaty that allows Coca-Cola exclusive access to the coca plant. Most people are familiar with tales of cocaine being an early ingredient of “Coke” tonic; it’s an era the company makes every effort to bury. Yet coca leaf, the source of cocaine, banned in the United States since 1914, has been part of Coca-Cola’s secret formula for over one hundred years. This is a history that spans from cocaine factories in Peru, to secret experiments at the University of Hawaii, to the personal files of US Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger (infamous for his “Reefer Madness” campaign against marijuana, lesser known as a long-time collaborator of the Coca-Cola Company). The Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola tells how one of the biggest companies in the world bypasses an international ban on coca. The book also explores histories of three of the most consumed substances on earth, revealing connections between seemingly disparate icons of modern culture: caffeine, cocaine, and Coca-Cola. Ricardo Cortés is best known for illustrating the number one New York Times best-selling Go the Fuck to Sleep and the G-rated follow-up Seriously, Just Go to Sleep. Cortés first gained notoriety after his debut It’s Just a Plant: A Children’s Book about Marijuana sparked controversy from The O’Reilly Factor to Capitol Hill. He has illustrated books about electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, and jury nullification; his work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, The Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, and on CNN and FOX News. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The co-creator of Go the Fuck to Sleep presents an illustrated history of the intermingling of coffee, Coca-Cola, and cocaine.

POLITICAL SCIENCE December 9 x 9 | 64 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-61775-134-9 USLA*

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10,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign 10-city national tour

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Akashic Books American Honor Killings
Desire and Rage Among Men

David McConnell

In American Honor Killings, straight and gay guys cross paths, and the result is murder. But what really happened? What role did hatred play? What were the men involved really like, and what was going on between them when the murder occurred? American Honor Killings explores the truth behind squeamish reporting and uninformed political rants of the far right or fringe left. David McConnell, a New York–based novelist, researched cases from small-town Alabama to San Quentin’s death row. The book recounts some of the most notorious crimes of our era. Beginning in 1999 and lasting until the 2011 conviction of a youth in Queens, New York, the book shows how some murderers think they’re cleaning up society. Surprisingly, other killings feel almost preordained, not a matter of the victim’s personality or actions so much as a twisted display of a young man’s will to compete or dominate. We want to think these stories involve simple sexual conflict, either the killer’s internal struggle over his own identity or a fatally miscalculated proposition. They’re almost never that simple. Together, the cases form a secret American history of rage and desire. McConnell cuts through cant and political special pleading to turn these cases into enduring literature. In each story victims, murderers, friends, and relatives come breathtakingly alive. The result is more soulful, more sensitive, more artful than the sort of “true crime” writing the book was modeled on. A wealth of new detail has been woven into old cases, while new cases are plumbed for the first time. The resulting stories play out exactly as they happened, an inexorable sequence of events—grisly, touching, disturbing, sometimes even with moments of levity. David McConnell is the author of the acclaimed novel The Silver Hearted. His short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies.
An exposé of an America no one is comfortable talking about: the volatile ground where male violence and sexuality overlap.
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TRUE CRIME / SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-132-5 USLA*

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Akashic Books Cervantes Street
Jaime Manrique

“A sprawling vivacious big-hearted novel. Manrique is fantastically talented and this is perhaps his masterpiece.”—Junot Díaz “Cervantes like we’ve never known him: the rogue, the lover, the soldier, the slave, and above all, the poet. In this novel, Jaime Manrique reminds us that the great writer was a man of flesh and blood whose eventful life seemed destined for great literature.”—Esmeralda Santiago “Jaime Manrique has written an exceptional historical novel, recreating with imagination and detailed accuracy the world of Late Renaissance in Spain. Manrique’s rendering of the life of Cervantes is brilliant, and his solution to the mystery of who wrote the false Quixote is fascinating, and very persuasive.” —Edith Grossman The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes’ life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: an impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile; later, he distinguishes himself in battle and is severely wounded, losing the use of his left hand; on his way back to Spain his ship is captured by pirates and he is sold into slavery in Algiers; after prolonged imprisonment and failed escape attempts, he makes his way back home, eventually settling in a remote village in La Mancha to create his masterpiece, the first modern novel in Western literature: Don Quixote. Taking the bare bones of Cervantes’ life, Jaime Manrique has accomplished a singular feat: an engaging and highly accessible take on a brilliant, enigmatic man and his epoch. This is an archetypal tale of rivalry and revenge— featuring Cervantes’ antagonistic relationship with the man who would go on to write his own sequel to Don Quixote—that is sure to garner comparisons to Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, and, with its extraordinary recreation of the life and times of Cervantes, to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Jaime Manrique is a novelist, essayist, and poet who lives in New York. His critically acclaimed novels include Columbian Gold, Latin Moon in Manhattan, and Our Lives Are the Rivers.

FICTION September 5¼ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-126-4 USLA* Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-107-3 USLA*

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A mesmerizing fictional biography of Miguel de Cervantes (author of Don Quixote) that Junot Díaz calls a “masterpiece.”

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Akashic Books God Carlos
Anthony C. Winkler

“Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours.”—Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women God Carlos transports us aboard an early sixteenth-century sailing vessel bound for the lately discovered West Indies with a band of ragtag sailors looking for gold in Jamaica. But the European newcomers find no gold, only the merciless climate that nourishes diseases that slaughter them and the native Arawaks whose culture, customs, and beliefs are anathema to the arriving Spaniards. Anthony C. Winkler was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1942. His comic novels include The Duppy and The Lunatic, which was turned into a feature film.
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A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early sixteenth-century Jamaica.

The Gospel According to Cane
Courttia Newland

Beverley Cottrell’s dream life—a prestigious job, a beautiful husband—is stolen from her when her son Malakay is kidnapped. Despite a media campaign, a full police investigation, and the offer of a reward, Malakay is never seen again—until one day a mysterious young man claiming to be her son starts appearing wherever she goes. The Gospel According to Cane is a meditation on pain and loss, the burden of heritage, and how the past can blur the present. Courttia Newland’s first novel The Scholar was published in 1997. He has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library Award, the Alfred Fagon Award, and the Frank O’Connor Award.

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FICTION February A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-133-2 USLA*

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After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell’s marriage fails. Years later, could a mysterious, lurking man be her long-lost son?

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Akashic Books Nowhere Is a Place
Bernice L. McFadden
“McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accomodates humor and pathos.”—The New York Times Book Review Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family’s history, which is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets, but Sherry is determined to know the full story. Bernice L. McFadden is the author of eight critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar, Gathering of Waters, and Glorious. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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FICTION February First Trade Paper Edition 5¼ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-131-8 USLA* Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-525-94875-9

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A reissue of Bernice L. McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.

The Baker’s Son
My Life in Business

Lowell Hawthorne
“Lowell Hawthorne’s chronicle of the development of a small Jamaican business into the highly successful Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, an American business empire, is an invaluable guide to business success.” —P.J. Patterson, former prime minister of Jamaica The Baker’s Son is a memoir by the founder of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, the hugely successful Jamaican owned and run enterprise that reaches from New York to Florida with over 120 franchise locations. Lowell Hawthorne is the president and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill. He lives in Westchester, New York.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE September 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-124-0 USLA* Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-125-7 USLA*

An inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by one of the most successful Caribbeanborn businessmen living in America.

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Akashic Books Noir Books Akashic Series Boston Noir 2
The Classics

Edited by Dennis Lehane, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke
Classic short fiction reprints from: George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Hannah Tinti, Abraham Verghese, David Foster Wallace, and others. Dennis Lehane is the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series (A Drink Before the War; Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; and Moonlight Mile), as well as Coronado (five stories and a play) and the award-winning novels Mystic River, Shutter Island, and The Given Day. Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone have been made into award-winning films. In 2009 he edited the best-selling anthology Boston Noir for Akashic Books. Mary Cotton is the pseudonymous author of nine novels for young adults, six of them New York Times bestsellers. She is also a fiction editor for the literary magazine Post Road, and is co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts. Jaime Clarke is the author of the novel We’re So Famous, editor of Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes and Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and co-editor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. He is a founding editor of Post Road and has taught creative writing at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Emerson College. He is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dennis Lehane returns to co-edit the sequel to the best-selling evergreen anthology Boston Noir.

FICTION / MYSTERY November Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-136-3 USLA* Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-137-0 USLA*

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Akashic Books Noir Series Kansas City Noir
Edited by Steve Paul

Brand-new stories from: J. Malcolm Garcia, Grace Suh, Daniel Woodrell, Kevin Prufer, Matthew Eck, Philip Stephens, Catherine Browder, John Lutz, Nancy Pickard, Linda Rodriguez, Andrés Rodríguez, Mitch Brian, Nadia Pflaum, and Phong Nguyen. Steve Paul has been a writer and editor at the The Kansas City Star since 1975. Currently the arts editor, he writes about music, books, architecture, food, and, occasionally, murder. He’s the author of Architecture A to Z: An Elemental, Alphabetical Guide to Kansas City’s Built Environment. A former bookseller and a native of Boston, he has served as a board member and officer of the National Book Critics Circle.
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FICTION / MYSTERY October A Paperback Original Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-128-8 USLA*

Steve Paul recruits Daniel Woodrell, John Lutz, and others to examine the seedy underbelly of this complex Midwestern city.

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Staten Island Noir
Edited by Patricia Smith
Brand-new stories by: Bill Loehfelm, S.J. Rozan, Ted Anthony, Todd Craig, Ashley Dawson, Bruce DeSilva, Louisa Ermelino, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Michael Largo, Mike Penncavage, Linda Nieves-Powell, Patricia Smith, Shay Youngblood, and Edward Joyce. Patricia Smith is the author of six acclaimed poetry volumes, including Blood Dazzler, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and Teahouse of the Almighty, a National Poetry Series selection. Her work has been published in the 2011 editions of both Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. In addition to her poetic works, Smith is also the author of Africans in America, a companion volume to the groundbreaking PBS documentary. She is currently a professor at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, and serves on the faculties of Cave Canem and the MFA programs at Stonecoast/University of Southern Maine and Sierra Nevada College.
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FICTION / MYSTERY November A Paperback Original Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-129-5 USLA*

New York’s fifth borough finally enters the Noir series arena, completing the series tour of the world’s noirest city.

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Akashic Books The Heroin Chronicles
Edited by Jerry Stahl

Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir series (Brooklyn Noir, Boston Noir, Paris Noir, etc.), last year Akashic created the new Drug Chronicles series. On the heels of The Speed Chronicles (Sherman Alexie, William T. Vollmann, Megan Abbott, James Franco, Beth Lisick, etc.) and The Cocaine Chronicles (Lee Child, Laura Lippman, etc.) comes The Heroin Chronicles, a volume sure to frighten and delight. The literary styles are varied, as are the moral quandaries herein. Heroin has long been understood as the most “literary” of narcotics, and this collection will, for better and worse, have tremendous pop cultural appeal. Featuring brand-new stories by: Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, Jerry Stahl, Nathan Larson, Ava Stander, Antonia Crane, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, John Albert, Michael Albo, Sophia Langdon, Tony O’Neill, and L.Z. Hansen. Jerry Stahl is the author of six books, including the memoir Permanent Midnight (made into a movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson) and the novels I, Fatty and Pain Killers. Formerly the culture columnist for Details, Stahl’s fiction and journalism have appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, and The Believer, among other places. He has worked extensively in film and television and, most recently, wrote Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, for HBO.
Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, and others join Jerry Stahl in mining the hazards of this deadly narcotic via original short fiction. Marketing Plans
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FICTION January A Paperback Original Akashic Books Drug Chronicles Series 5¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-106-6 USLA*

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Akashic Books Hunters in High Heels
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Hunters in High Heels loosely documents the years from 2000 to 2006, during which the sheer scope of output and travel undertaken by Grammy Award– winning musician Omar Rodriguez Lopez and his comrades was nothing short of exhausting. The viewer is treated to behind-the-scenes encounters both in the recording studio and on the road, as well as highlights from Omar’s personal life, travel abroad, and glances into relationships, all of which provide an intimate and encompassing profile of the man behind the name. Omar Rodriguez Lopez was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and is best known as guitarist, songwriter, and producer for the progressive rock band The Mars Volta.
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MUSIC / PHOTOGRAPHY December 7 x 10 | 176 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $23.95 | CAN $26.50 978-1-61775-138-7 USLA*

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Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group
Ian F. Svenonius
Ian F. Svenonius’ experience as an iconic underground rock musician—playing in such highly influential and revolutionary outfits as The Make-Up and The Nation of Ulysses—gives him special insight on techniques for not only starting but also surviving a rock ’n’ roll group. He’s written an instructional guide on how to do so, which doubles as a warning device, a philosophical text, an exercise in terror, an aerobics manual, and a coloring book. This volume features essays on everything the would-be star should know to get started. Ian F. Svenonius has created eighteen albums and countless singles in various rock ’n’ roll combos. He lives in Washington, DC.
MUSIC / HUMOR January A Paperback Original 4 x 6 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61775-130-1 USLA*

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Alice James Books Dark Elderberry Branch
Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva
As told by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine
“A poet of genius.”—Vladimir Nabokov Via what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call “readings”—not translations— of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems and prose, Tsvetaeva’s lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary. From “Poems for Moscow (2)”: From my hands—take this city not made by hands, my strange, my beautiful brother. Take it, church by church—all forty times forty churches, and flying up over them, the small pigeons; And Spassky Gates—in their flower— where the Orthodox take off their hats; And the Chapel of Stars—refuge chapel— where the floor is—polished by tears; Take the circle of the five cathedrals, my soul, my holy friend. Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1892 and died in 1941. Her poetry stands among the greatest works of twentieth century Russian writers. Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004) which won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship awarded annually by Poetry magazine. Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets award for Dream Barker in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass, from Copper Canyon Press. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965–2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
Two of America’s most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Marina Tsvetaeva, to “open [her] veins.”

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 64 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-882295-94-4 USC

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Alice James Books Tantivy
Donald Revell

“Every word counts in Donald Revell. You must read him carefully—not because he’s difficult but because he’s profound. But that’s too inappropriate, that word; let me say sun-worthy, Sophoclean, God-drenched. Let me say grave, trustworthy, loving, faithful, shocking, brilliant, honest. Let me say for dear life. One of America’s best poets.”—Gerald Stern Through close attention to nature’s myriad syntheses and separations, Donald Revell’s sage lyric meditations seek and find proof of the otherworldly. These poems are ripe with the ecstatic vision we come to expect from Revell’s work. “Victorians” There is snow and there is snow. A young woman, daughter of the eminent physician, Disrobes at her window, and starvation, Like a pack of dogs with jeweled mouths, Pauses a moment, howls, and the young woman Recites a poem to herself. So long ago the words are lost Even as each remains a part of us. Christmas meaning snow out of a broiling sun. Humanity meaning numbers. Childhood meaning children and railings and kisses Never kissed but carved into real trees. Motherless goddamn modernity never grew. Here we are again at Christmas On fire escapes without a fire in view. Poet, translator, and critic Donald Revell has authored ten previous collections of poetry. Winner of the 2008 NEA Translation Award, the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in Poetry, Revell has received fellowships from the NEA, Ingram Merrill, and Guggenheim memorial foundations. He is poetry editor of Colorado Review.
In his eleventh collection, Donald Revell confidently furthers Henry David Thoreau’s visionary impulse to reveal the world as it—so magically—is.

POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-882295-97-5 USC

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Alice James Books Black Crow Dress
Roxane Beth Johnson

“These poems move forward like a novel in verse with a real understanding of the differences between the past and history. Or, as Johnson herself says in the opening poem, ‘Each one is hungry for a voice & music to re-bloom.’ This is a poet the best readers will be reading for the rest of their lives.”—Jericho Brown A haunting collection of lyrically intense persona poems, Black Crow Dress is at once about the emancipation of slaves in their myriad voices as well as a meditation on the self. The collection’s lush imagery takes us from churchyard to church, chanting the old spirituals, as Roxane Beth Johnson seeks to embody the spirits of the dead: Clea, Caroline, and Zebedee. From “Slave Ancestors Found Unburied in a Dream”: Each one is hungry for a voice & music to re-bloom them alive in this room like water softens beans. Leaning near, close to me they see my tooth & tongue that test doneness, licks stamps & hums. Their ear listens to what a hand might fiddle if it had fingers. Stare this way with eyes like smudges . . . Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry, Jublilee (Anhinga Press, 2006), won the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. She won an AWP Donald Hill Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize in 2007 and has received scholarships and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Ghosts of American slaves have much to teach us. Roxane Beth Johnson, in her second collection, summons all ghosts, even our own.

POETRY January A Paperback Original 5¾ x 9¼ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-882295-95-1 USC

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Alice James Books Lit from Inside
40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books

Edited by Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno
Introduction by Maxine Kumin
“Forty years old and flourishing—a remarkable record for a small nonprofit press—Alice James Books deserves praise and admiration.”—Maxine Kumin A compilation of archival materials accompanies this collection of forty years of Alice James Books poetry. Nearly 150 authors are represented in chronological order. Maxine Kumin states, “the list of authors is remarkable for its breadth, variety, and passion. The assortment is idiosyncratic, the range of voices and styles embraces the familiar personal narrative voice and the innovative.” Contributors include Jane Kenyon, Fanny Howe, Forrest Gander, Jean Valentine, B.H. Fairchild, Matthea Harvey, Brian Turner, and Cole Swensen. Anne Marie Macari’s most recent book She Heads into the Wilderness was published in 2008 by Autumn House Press. She is also the author of Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005), and Ivory Cradle, which won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize in 2000. Macari founded and teaches in the low-residency MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation at Drew University.
POETRY January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 350 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-882295-96-8 USC

Carey Salerno is the executive director of Alice James Books. She earned an MFA in poetry from New England College and teaches in the BFA program at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her first poetry collection, Shelter, won a 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and was published in 2009. Former US Poet Laureate Maxine Kumin, winner of the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly prizes, is the author of Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990–2010 (W. W. Norton & Company), her seventeenth volume, which won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.
This distinctive anthology from a foremost American literary press is a must-have for all serious readers of contemporary poetry.

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Anvil Press The Lost Hare
Nina Bogin

“Nina Bogin’s poems are impeccable in craft, elegant in their economy, and emotionally profound. . . . There is no better poet of her generation, and few as good.”—Denise Levertov Nina Bogin’s spare, subtle third collection maps personal territory—places of memory and love, of language and geography. She explores the traces history leaves and how her language connects with that of her ancestors. Inside the words I use are words I’ve forgotten, buried dialects, whole alphabets left on the far side of rivers. Nina Bogin was born in New York City in 1952 and has lived in France since 1976.
POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 64 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-85646-445-4 USC

Nina Bogin maps personal territory which is as much a place of memory and love as of language and geography.

Angels and Harvesters
James Harpur
“His poetry, always strongly imbued with a sense of the sacred, makes great play of light’s spiritual resonance.”—Sarah Crown, The Guardian James Harpur’s fifth collection journeys from the landscapes of Ireland to the visionary realms of the mystics. His poems display an otherworldly wonder while keeping a sharply observant eye on the everyday world. From “Angels and Harvesters”: As thoughts arrive From god knows where, Or sun breaks through A fraying cloud Emboldening a patch Of trees, or grass, They just appeared From nowhere Among the harvesters . . . James Harpur won Ireland’s 2009 Michael Hartnett Poetry Award. He lives in County Cork, Ireland.

POETRY / RELIGION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 64 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-85646-447-8 USC

James Harpur displays both human tenderness and an otherworldly wonder while keeping a sharply observant eye on the everyday world.

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Anvil Press Swift
Jennie Feldman

In Jennie Feldman’s second collection, the earth-shy bird of the title flies high above the territorial rivalries of its region, the Middle East. Swift focuses on what compels and coheres, with an instinct for encounter: a Greek beekeeper, a cello maestro, a Latin poet in an East Jerusalem café. Buoyed by water and the power of music, these poems pursue an elusive equilibrium. How the mind accompanies the body’s faltering, hallucination where reverie should be . . .
POETRY November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-85646-443-0 USC

Jennie Feldman was born in South Africa, grew up in London, and studied French at Oxford. She lives in Jerusalem.

Jennie Feldman’s poems create, in the earth-shy bird of the title, a telling symbol of contemporary Middle Eastern politics.

To These Dark Steps
Gabriel Levin

Gabriel Levin’s fourth collection was written in Jerusalem in the shadow of Israel’s bombardment and incursion into Gaza in 2008. The title sequence and its prose commentary (“The Fathers are Watching”) navigate between war and the mind’s need to escape its depredations. The final section of this articulate and compassionate book is a fifteen-sonnet cycle dispatched from an unnamed island, which could be everyman’s abode. Little dustbowl brightly lit for Ramadan with your peppermint minaret tops and cannon-fire, greetings from an aging utopist, an orientalist manqué . . . Gabriel Levin grew up in the United States and has lived in Jerusalem since 1972.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-85646-444-7 USC

Gabriel Levin’s searching spirit deals compassionately and memorably with the mind’s need to disengage itself from the depredations of war.

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Archipelago Books The Eleven
Pierre Michon
Translated by Elizabeth Deshays and Jody Gladding

Winner of the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Roman. “Michon’s prose tends to slow down in order to oblige you to hear its rhythms and also to see and touch and smell what is happening beneath it.” —Harper’s Magazine He was not tall, unobtrusive, but he held your attention by his feverish silence, his dark cheer, his alternately arrogant and oblique manner—grim, you would call it. At least that was true seeing him later in life. None of that appears on the Würzburg ceilings in the portrait Tiepolo left of him, when the model was twenty years old: he is there, so they say, and you can go see him there, perched among a hundred princes, a hundred constables, and ushers . . . Corentin, a young man of humble origins, rises up in Parisian society, becoming a famous painter who is called upon to decorate the homes of Louis XIV’s mistresses. Yet his masterpiece is “The Eleven,” a revolutionary representation of the eleven members of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. Pierre Michon, born in Cards, France, in 1945, is one of France’s foremost contemporary writers. He has been awarded the Prix Décembre, the Grand Prix du Roman (for The Eleven), and the Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. Elizabeth Deshays is a teacher and a translator. She is the author of a study on bilingual education, L’Enfant Bilingue. She lives in Provence, France. Jody Gladding is a poet and translator of over twenty books from the French. Her most recent collection of poetry is Rooms and Their Airs (Milkweed Editions). She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
A Grand Prix du Roman–winning meditation on the relationship between art and power set during Louis XIV’s reign. Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign

FICTION February A Paperback Original 6½ x 7½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-935744-62-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-63-4 USC

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New York, NY

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New York, NY • Montpelier, VT

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Archipelago Books The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico
Antonio Tabucchi
Translated by Tim Parks
“Elegant, cosmopolitan, inventive, ambitious, and disquieting; his writing is, paradoxically, sensual and economical.”—Boston Review “Triumphs of nuance and suggestion.”—Chicago Tribune In this superbly imaginative collection of quasi-stories by the award-winning author of Indian Nocturne, the reader meets a flying creature of ambiguous species in a priest’s vegetable garden, and a revolutionary who is told her incredible future by Mademoiselle Lenormand, a fortune teller from the shadow world.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 6½ | 150 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935744-56-6 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-57-3 W*

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy, in 1943. His works have been translated into over forty languages and have won prestigious prizes including the Aristeion, the Hans-Erich-Nossak-Preis, the Österreichischer Staatspreis, and the Prix Médicis étranger.
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A gorgeous, fantastical collection of sketches—outbursts, moods, little ecstasies, real or presumed emotions, grudges, and regrets.

Author Events
New York, NY

Firefly
Severo Sarduy
Translated by Mark Fried
“Sarduy is the master of wordscapes that dip, shake, and explode.”—The New York Times Book Review For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy’s most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying, scatological, and very funny novel is a paradise of words, “paradisic by plenitude” (Roland Barthes).
FICTION March 6 x 7½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935744-64-1 W*

Severo Sarduy (1937–1993) was a Cuban poet, author, playwright, and literary critic, as well as a leading intellectual in the Cuban Revolution. His novel Cobra was awarded the Prix Médicis.
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National print and online campaign

Translator Events A daring, luminous, and hilarious novel by the Prix Médicis–winning Cuban writer.
New York, NY Translator Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Archipelago Books The Bottom of the Jar
Abdellatif Laâbi
Translated by André Naffis-Sahely
An exploration of Abdellatif Laâbi’s childhood city of Fez, The Bottom of the Jar is a warm and lyrical elegy to his family, full of intimate portraits of the lives of various colorful characters who once prowled the alleyways of Morocco’s storied medieval capital. Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, novelist, and playwright, was born in 1942 in Fez, Morocco, where he served an eight-year prison sentence under Hassan II. He has lived in Paris ever since. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his complete works (La Différence) and the French Academy’s Grand Prix de la Francophonie.

FICTION October 6¼ x 6¾ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935744-60-3 NA eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-61-0 NA

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National print and online campaign

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New York, NY

A searching autobiographical novel about Abdellatif Laâbi’s childhood and political struggles.

Diary of Exile
Yannis Ritsos
Translated by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley
“Without Ritsos’ eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name all those things that are there before their eyes.”—Pantelis Prevelakis This long poem is a nuanced and moving account of the poet’s time in exile, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous. Lyrical and idyllic, these re-creations of Greek mythology justify Yannis Ritsos’ reputation as one of the most honored in modern Greece. Plagued by tuberculosis, family misfortunes, and persecution for his Communist views, Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) spent many years in sanatoriums, prisons, and in political exile while producing over one hundred volumes of poems, dramas, and translations.
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Outreach to poetry publications and websites

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November 6¼ x 6½ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935744-58-0 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-59-7 W*

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Princeton, NJ • New York, NY • Portland, OR Translator Hometowns: Princeton, NJ / Eugene, OR

Harrowing, sorrowful poems written in prison by one of Greece’s most important twentieth-century poets.

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Selected Backlist from Archipelago Books

Small Lives
Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays
FICTION 6½ x 7½ | 215 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $15.00 978-0-9728692-1-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-70-2 W

Poems (1945–1971)
Translated by Karen Emmerich
POETRY 6 x 7½ | 235 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-0-9763950-6-5 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-40-5 W

Pierre Michon

Miltos Sachtouris

First North American Edition Breyten Breytenbach
FICTION / ART 6¾ x 8¼ | 115 pp 27 color illustrations Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $20.00 978-0-9793330-7-1 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-25-2 W

All One Horse

Translated by Ross Benjamin
FICTION 5½ x 6½ | 236 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $14.00 978-0-9793330-2-6 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-9819557-9-7 W

Friedrich Hölderlin

Hyperion

Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist
Translated by Peter Wortsman
FICTION 6 x 7 | 283 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $15.00 978-0-9819557-2-8 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-9826246-7-8 W

The Waitress Was New
Translated by Jordan Stump
FICTION 5½ x 6½ | 117 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $15.00 978-0-9778576-9-2 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-935744-10-8 W

Heinrich von Kleist

Dominique Fabre

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Arsenal Pulp Press Gorilla Food
Living and Eating Organic, Vegan, and Raw

Aaron Ash

Raw food diets have exploded in popularity in recent years; some believe that the cooking process destroys nutrients and even produces dangerous chemicals by the interaction of heat with fat, protein, and carbohydrates. Enter Aaron Ash, a charismatic chef whose organic raw vegan restaurant Gorilla Food has taken Vancouver by storm for its inventive and delicious dishes, all prepared without use of animal products or a stove. Aaron is a conscientious raw vegan whose beliefs about food are tied to personal and social well-being. Gorilla Food strives to promote the idea that a sustainable, healthy culture depends on humankind living as “lightly” as possible, mitigating the damage wrought on the environment and ourselves. Gorilla Food the book is both an innovative cooking manual and a raw vegan bible; recipes include a raw lasagna made with zucchini noodles, kale, and a “cheese” made from walnuts, and a raw soup made from seasonal greens, tomatoes, and avocado. There’s also amazing raw pizzas, fruit pies, and chocolate desserts that will delight vegans and non-vegans alike with their complex flavors. The book also contains recipes for dehydrated and cultured foods, important for a raw food diet but surprisingly simple to prepare. Gorilla Food will make you go ape for living life to the rawest! In addition to running Gorilla Food, Aaron Ash was a former personal chef to Mike D of the Beastie Boys. He is also an in-demand caterer for highprofile events around North America, and is making plans to open additional Gorilla Food locations.
A collection of high-energy raw vegan recipes from the proprietor of Vancouver’s famed Gorilla Foods organic raw vegan café.

COOKING October A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 208 pp 60 color photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-55152-470-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-471-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • Outreach to vegan, health, and alternative publications and websites • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.gorillafood.com

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Arsenal Pulp Press Hello, Cutie!
Adventures in Cute Culture

Pamela Klaffke
A doe-eyed doll, a smiley-faced cupcake, a sweet plush kitten: they’re cute— and cute is at the heart of a growing legion of adult collectors and enthusiasts who live and breathe all things cuddly and adorable. Pamela Klaffke takes readers on a rainbow-and-unicorn-filled journey through cute culture, from its origins in Japan where teenaged girls help drive the “cute” economy, to its modern-day manifestations in the bubblegumcolored careers of performers like Katy Perry. There’s also the phenomenon of cute food, anthropomorphized animals, as well as Blythe dolls, My Little Pony, and Hello Kitty herself. It’s as cute as can be!
SOCIAL SCIENCE / ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES October A Paperback Original 8 x 8 | 208 pp 50 color photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55152-472-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-473-3 W

Pamela Klaffke is the author of Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to toy collector and pop culture publications and websites Social media campaign

An irresistible illustrated guide to all things cute and collectible, from a history of cute culture to profiles of collectors.

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Los Angeles, CA • New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Calgary, AB

One Thousand Mustaches
A Cultural History of the Mo

Allan Peterkin
The ’stache is back! After decades of being much maligned in Western culture, the mustache is enjoying a cultural renaissance, thanks to the annual phenomenon of Movember (when men grow facial hair during November to raise funds for prostate cancer research) and the retro/modern mo’s sported by the likes of Ryan Gosling and James Franco. One Thousand Mustaches is both a lighthearted cultural history and a style manual; it’s a history of the ’stache through the ages and its manifestations in politics, movies, music, and art. It’s a book for those with mo’s, as well as those who love ’em.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / HEALTH & FITNESS September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 144 pp 50 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55152-474-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-475-7 W

Allan Peterkin is the author of One Thousand Beards and co-author of The Bearded Gentleman.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to men’s, LGBT, and pop culture publications and websites • Outreach to facial hair fan clubs and Movember participants • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

A fun romp through the cultural history of the mustache, including the ’stache’s role in art, movies, war, and politics.

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Arsenal Pulp Press One in Every Crowd
Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote’s wry, honest stories about gender and identity have captivated audiences everywhere. Ivan’s eighth book is her first for LGBT youth, written for anyone who has ever felt different or alone in their struggles to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan’s tomboy youth and her adult life, where she experiences cruelty and kindness in unexpected places. Funny, inspiring, and full of heart, One in Every Crowd is about embracing and celebrating difference and feeling comfortable in one’s own skin. Ivan E. Coyote was also featured in the anti-bullying anthology It Gets Better.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to LGBT, library, and youth publications and websites • Outreach to LGBT youth groups and anti-bullying organizations • Social media campaign • Promotion through: http://ivanecoyote.com JUVENILE FICTION / GENDER STUDIES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 238 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55152-459-7 US Ages 14 and up

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Famed lesbian storyteller Ivan E. Coyote’s first book aimed at queer youth: stories about being true to yourself.

First Spring Grass Fire
Rae Spoon
Transgendered electronica musician Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. Rae’s first book is a candid, powerful study of growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada. As their father’s schizophrenia causes their parents’ marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings and in their growing feelings for a girl at school. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance. Rae Spoon lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to LGBT, library, and youth publications and websites • Outreach to LGBT youth groups, anti-bullying organizations, and religious recovery groups • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.raespoon.com FICTION / GENDER STUDIES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-480-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-481-8 W

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • New York NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Montreal, QC

Transgendered musician and writer Rae Spoon’s book about growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family.

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Arsenal Pulp Press Escape to Gold Mountain
A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America

David H.T. Wong
This is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chinese to “Gold Mountain” (the Chinese colloquialism for North America) in the 1800s that resulted in decades of discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones. Based on historical documents and interviews with elders, the book is also the epic story of the Wong family as they traverse these challenges with hope and determination, creating an immigrant’s legacy in their new home of North America.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 256 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55152-476-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-477-1 W

David H.T. Wong is an architect and historian.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to Asian American, graphic novel, library, and youth publications and websites • Outreach to Asian American organizations • Social media campaign

An epic graphic novel about the experience of Chinese immigrants in North America over the past 150 years.

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

The Lava in My Bones
Barry Webster

A frustrated geologist studying global warming begins eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship. His sister is a high school girl who oozes honey through her pores that attracts hordes of bees and turns her into a social pariah. And their Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. This magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55152-478-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-479-5 W

Barry Webster’s first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to LGBT and literary publications and websites

An extravagant phantasia about a geologist who eats rocks and his sister who oozes honey and has sex with bees.

Author Events
New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: Montreal, QC

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Arsenal Pulp Press Strangers on a Train
A Queer Film Classic

Jonathan Goldberg
A Queer Film Classic on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 thriller based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley): two men meet on a train and enter into a murder plot that binds them to one another, with fatal consequences. The book includes a look at the making of the film and the critical controversies over Hitchcock’s representations of male homosexuality. Jonathan Goldberg is a professor at Emory University, where he directs the Studies in Sexualities program. He is the author of many books and editor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s posthumous 2012 book The Weather in Proust.
PERFORMING ARTS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original Queer Film Classics 5 x 7 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-482-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-483-2 W

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to LGBT and film publications and websites • Outreach to film studies departments • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Atlanta, GA

A Queer Film Classic on Hitchcock’s homoerotic 1951 thriller about two men who enter into a murder plot together.

Ma vie en rose
A Queer Film Classic

Chantal Nadeau
A Queer Film Classic on the acclaimed 1997 Belgian film about a sevenyear-old garçon-fille (boy-girl) who loves to wear dresses, and who celebrates pink as the true color-trace of gender, sexuality, and race. The film won a Golden Globe Award for best foreign film but was rated Restricted by the Motion Picture Association of America, a move that some regarded as transphobic. The film resonates in current debates on transgenderism, especially as they relate to children. Chantal Nadeau is professor and chair of the department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
PERFORMING ARTS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original Queer Film Classics 5 x 7 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-484-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-485-6 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to LGBT and film publications and websites • Outreach to film studies and gender studies departments • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Champaign, IL

A Queer Film Classic on the 1997 film about a boy who insists that she is supposed to be female.

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Arsenal Pulp Press V6A
Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Edited by John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner
“Real, heart wrenching, sublime, and necessary.”—Rawi Hage V6A is the postal prefix for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Canada’s poorest neighborhood and a prime example of the ramifications of urban blight in North America; it is also the epicenter of a notorious missing women’s case in which many sex workers and others were murdered, and home to a controversial safe-injection site for drug users. This anthology refracts the experience of those who live and work in the Downtown Eastside, reappropriating the coding of the area and recasting the neighborhood as a site of creative energy, community spirit, and human dignity.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 160 pp Maps Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55152-462-7 US

Marketing Plans Stories, essays, and poems about life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Canada’s most impoverished neighborhood.
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to urban studies departments Editor Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Heidegger Stairwell
Kayt Burgess

Winner of the thirty-fourth annual 3-Day Novel Contest. Music journalist Evan Strocker has almost finished a book about his time with Heidegger Stairwell, a legendary indie rock band. But the band thinks he’s left a little too much of himself on the page—letting his experiences as a transgender man and his complicated “romance” with the lead guitarist eclipse the story of the group’s dramatic rise and fall. Through notes and marginalia, the musicians argue over their friend’s version of the truth and fight to put their own testimony on record.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5¾ x 8¼ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-486-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-487-0 W

Kayt Burgess has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University (United Kingdom). This is her first novel.

The 3-Day Novel Contest winner about a transgender journalist writing a book about a legendary indie rock band named Heidegger Stairwell.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Promotion through: www.3daynovel.com Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Aunt Lute Books — Celebrating Thirty Years A Simple Revolution
Judy Grahn

A Simple Revolution is a unique memoir and a dramatic narrative of Judy Grahn’s working class roots, her army career and discharge for being lesbian, her education as one of the first whites to attend Howard University, and her life as a celebrated poet in the Bay Area during the tumultuous beginnings of the lesbian movement in the late ’60s. Judy Grahn is an internationally known poet, writer, and social theorist. She grew up in a working-class home in New Mexico. Seeking options not available in her small-town community of origin, she broke away and joined the Air Force. She was given a “blue discharge” (named for the blue paper on which these letters were printed) from the Air Force because she was a lesbian. This experience galvanized Grahn into public ownership of her lesbianism, into the writing of poetry, into lesbian activism, and into the project of publishing lesbian literature. She co-founded the Women’s Press Collective in Oakland, California, in 1969; using a barrel mimeograph machine, the WPC published the work of Grahn and other lesbians, including Pat Parker, Willyce Kim, and more. Grahn is the author of several poetry collections, including The Common Woman, A Woman is Talking to Death, and Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling. Aunt Lute Books published a collection of Grahn’s work, The Judy Grahn Reader, in 2009. In addition to her poetry, Grahn has written several celebrated nonfiction works exploring woman-centered spirituality, gay history and culture, and lesbian writing.
This vivid, insightful memoir by acclaimed poet Judy Grahn captures the vibrant Bay Area lesbian movement from the 1960s onward.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GAY & LESBIAN September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 360 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-879960-87-9 USC

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• National print and online campaign

Also Available

Author Events
Phoenix, AZ • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Cambridge, MA • Northampton, MA • Albuquerque, NM • Santa Fe, NM • New York, NY • Cincinnati, OH • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA

The Judy Grahn Reader Judy Grahn Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.95 978-1-879960-80-0 USC

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Photo by Chana Wilson

Selected Backlist from Aunt Lute Books — Celebrating Thirty Years

Borderlands / La Frontera
Introduction by Norma Cantú and Aída Hurtado
CHICANA STUDIES / WOMEN’S STUDIES 5½ x 8½ | 312 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-879960-85-5 USC

The New Mestiza Fourth Edition Gloria Anzaldúa

Beautiful and Dark
Translated by Adrienne Mitchell
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.95 978-1-879960-82-4 USC

Rosa Montero

The Judy Grahn Reader
Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.95 978-1-879960-80-0 USC

Judy Grahn

An Indian Baseball Story LeAnne Howe
FICTION / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 5½ x 8½ | 206 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-879960-78-7 USC

Miko Kings

Shell Shaker
LeAnne Howe
FICTION / NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-879960-61-9 USC

20th Century Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland and Shay Brawn
LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6 x 9 | 1416 pp Trade Paper US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-879960-77-0 USC

The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two

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Ballistic Publishing Transient Man
Justin Coro Kaufman

Transient Man is a black comedy about a homeless man whose visions lead him to believe he is an inter-dimensional savior of humanity, on a mission to save the universe. Is he indeed the “one,” chosen by mystical divine forces to embark on a crusade against ultimate evil, or a hopeless lunatic, aimlessly wandering the streets of San Francisco? Transient Man is a spoof on the hero’s journey that’s part Men In Black, part Raising Arizona, flavored with liberal portions of Ghostbusters and John Steinbeck. It is a ballad to the city by the bay, and a heartfelt take on the sacrifices one man will make for the love of his family, his friends, and all of humankind. Justin Coro Kaufman serves as the studio art director for Massive Black. Working professionally for the past fifteen years, Justin’s skill set initially led him to a lead artist and concept design position for an Activision developer in 2002. Since helping found Massive Black in 2003, he has lent his visualization and design skills to hundreds of Massive Black projects, ranging from high profile games (Infamous and Bioshock), television and print advertising (Desperate Housewives and Dancing With the Stars), film (Transformers 1, 2, and 3, and G.I. Joe 1 and 2), toy design, clothing, album jacket and poster design, graphic novels, and more. His multidisciplinary portfolio of work has enabled him to be a valuable asset to Massive Black’s design and pre-production arm. In some capacity, Justin has worked and supervised almost every concept design project that has passed through the Massive Black studio doors. He is also a well-known teacher, instructing art at various workshops and universities worldwide, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Montreal, Prague, and New Zealand.
A black comedy about a homeless man in San Francisco who has “visions.”

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS September 9 x 14 | 116 pp Color illustrations throughout Cloth Text US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-0-615-54471-7 USC

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• Outreach to digital art and graphic novel publications • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.CGSociety.org Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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Selected Backlist from Ballistic Publishing

Volume 2 Edited by Ronnie Gramazio
ART / COMPUTERS 8¾ x 11¾ | 192 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-1-921002-85-4 USC

Massive Black

The Art of Gears of War 3
First Trade Paper Edition Edited by Ronnie Gramazio
ART / GAMES 8¾ x 11¾ | 272 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-1-921828-15-7 USC

The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe First Trade Paper Edition Edited by Ronnie Gramazio
ART 8¾ x 11¾ | 240 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-1-921828-18-8 USC

EXPOSÉ 10

Creating Monster Models Edited by Ronnie Gramazio
ART / COMPUTERS 8¾ x 11¾ | 192 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-1-921002-89-2 USC

Essence: Creatures

d’artiste Matte Painting 3
Digital Artists Master Class Edited by Ronnie Gramazio
ART / COMPUTERS 8¾ x 11¾ | 208 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $75.00 | CAN $82.50 978-1-921002-79-3 USC

d’artiste Fashion Design
Digital Artists Master Class Edited by Daniel P. Wade
ART / DESIGN 8¾ x 11¾ | 208 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $75.00 | CAN $82.50 978-1-921828-10-2 USC

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Behler Publications The Four Gifts
How One Priest Received a Second, Third, and Fourth Chance at Life

Father Joseph Bradley
By all rights, Father Joseph Bradley should be dead. If past usage of beer, marijuana, and cocaine didn’t do the trick, then certainly heart failure should have. Instead, by the grace of God, he is alive, clean, sober, and a functioning Catholic priest with another man’s heart beating in his chest. But it came at a huge cost. While Joe was in his late teens, his father died suddenly. The loss was devastating, and Joe’s emotional desolation found escapist bliss in a beer bottle and cocaine vial, and he pledged irrevocable devotion to both. The slide into the abyss was ugly, and Joe finally sought help because there was nowhere else to go—which led him to serve others as a Catholic priest. The day of Joe’s ordination, an old friend came to the mass and announced for all to hear, “Well, now I can say I’ve seen a miracle.” Joe functioned for fifteen years as a sober priest before his heart gave out from the same heart disease that killed his father. But another miracle came his way, and he was blessed with a new heart—a gracious gift from a family during the most painful moment of their lives. Joe has been granted the blessing of four gifts: faith, sobriety, a new heart, and a fulfilling ministry. As Father Joe says, “Gratitude inspired this book. I owe it to people who helped rescue me from alcohol and drugs, and I owe it to my heart donor for giving me yet another chance at life.”

Father Joe Bradley’s spiritual journey from drug addict, to priest, to heart transplant patient, to a state of grace.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HEALTH & FITNESS November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 235 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933016-75-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933016-74-0 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Outreach to medical clinics, rehab centers, and churches • Social media campaign

Author Events
New York, NY Author Hometown: San Mateo, CA

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Behler Publications Pulse of My Heart
One Couple Survives A Wife’s Failing Heart

Patricia O’Mara-Croft and Brian O’Mara-Croft

Patricia O’Mara-Croft’s “widowmaker” heart attack was a cruel assault on her body, threatening the happiest years of her life. Originally misdiagnosed as a panic attack, common among women who suffer heart attacks, Patty’s heart suffers permanent damage, and her precarious condition threatens to raze all joy and hope between Patty and her husband, Brian. In a recounting both informative and inspirational, heartbreaking and funny, Patty and Brian share their stories from their own unique perspectives—the first-person account of painful revelations and medical struggles and a loved one’s experience of despair, hope, and renewal. Families in medical crisis are getting sucker-punched every day and need help from those who overcame it and emerge stronger than before. The dual voice of both authors represents a love that flourishes, even as Patty’s health weakens and is no longer a viable candidate for a heart transplant. Pulse of My Heart is part medical mystery, part comedy of errors, part family drama, and an enduring love story. The field notes at the back of the book focus on: • The sometimes-strained relationship between doctors and patient • Preparing for anticipatory grief • The potential for addiction when narcotics are part of the drug protocol • Dealing with familial strife during a time of need • Struggling with others’ prayers when one’s own faith is strained • Trying to maintain some level of dignity in an utterly undignified environment • Finding ways to be an effective parent in a blended family when illness demands so much attention
An unforgettable memoir: part medical mystery, part comedy of errors, part family drama, and, most of all, an enduring love story.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HEALTH & FITNESS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 282 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-933016-89-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933016-88-7 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • • • • • National radio campaign National print and online campaign Outreach to health publications and websites Social media campaign Midwest regional tour Author Hometown: Chicago, IL

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Bellevue Literary Press The Cage
The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

Gordon Weiss

“An excellent account . . . scrupulously fair.”—The Economist “This shattering, heartbreaking tale of savagery and suffering not only lifts the veil that conceals one of the most awful tragedies of the current era, but also helps us understand what should be done, not just in this sad and beautiful land, but long before other such horrors spiral out of control.” —Noam Chomsky, institute professor and professor of linguistics at MIT and author of Hopes and Prospects In the final days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, perhaps tens of thousands of civilians were killed as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand-spit, dubbed “The Cage.” Gordon Weiss, a journalist on the scene as the UN spokesman in Sri Lanka, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, The Cage is a harrowing portrait of the root causes and catastrophic consequences of a revolutionary uprising caught in the crossfire of international power jockeying. As Weiss relates the tale of an island paradise torn apart by war, he raises critical questions: Were war crimes committed? Was this the Obama administration’s first “human rights failure” (as suggested by Time magazine)? Does China’s central role in the Sri Lankan government’s victory sound a warning for democratic progress? Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including Bosnia, Afghanistan, Darfur, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over twelve years, he is now a visiting scholar at Sydney University and a correspondent for Australia’s Global Mail.
An incisive first account of the formation, history, and bloody dissolution of the rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 384 pp 20 B&W photographs and maps Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-934137-54-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-57-4 USC

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Promotion through: www.gordonweissauthor.com

Author Events
Washington, DC • New York, NY • San Francisco, CA • Toronto, ON

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Bellevue Literary Press The Polish Boxer
Eduardo Halfon
Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, and Anne McLean
“Eduardo Halfon’s prose is delicate, precise, and as ineffable as precocious art—a lighthouse that illuminates everything.”—Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather’s past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a young Mayan poet abandons his studies to tend his late father’s orchard; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can’t find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference. Drawn to what lies beyond the range of reason, they all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humor, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Across his encounters with each of them, the narrator—a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon—pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself. Mapping the geography of identity in a world scarred by a legacy of violence and exile, The Polish Boxer marks the debut of a major new Latin American voice in English. Eduardo Halfon has been cited as among the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá and is the recipient of Spain’s prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel. In 2011 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue the story of The Polish Boxer, which is his first novel to be published in English. He travels frequently to his native Guatemala and lives with his wife in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The English-language debut of a major Latin American writer.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-53-6 USCO eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-56-7 USCO

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpts in: The Jerusalem Post • Words Without Borders • National public radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Promotion through: www.wordswithoutborders.org

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Denver, CO • Iowa City, IA • Kansas City, MO • New York, NY Author Hometown: Lincoln, NE

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Bellevue Literary Press The Child
Pascale Kramer
Translated by Tamsin Black

“A flawless black diamond . . . luminous.”—L’Hebdo (Switzerland) “A knock-out.”—Madame Figaro (France) “Kramer’s sensuous, close observation casts a hypnotic spell on the narrative, leaving the reader unable to put it down until the last word.”—Publishers Weekly on The Living, starred review Simone and Claude live in a house with a lush garden, enclosed by a gate that barely protects them from the growing violence and unrest of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. Simone mourns the loss of youth and possibility as Claude, a gym teacher who has been diagnosed with cancer, edges toward death. This is an unflinching portrait of a couple ravaged by illness and locked into mutual isolation—that is, until the arrival of a young boy brings hope and upsets their delicate danse macabre to devastating effect. Pascale Kramer dissects romantic love’s psychic carnage while unsentimentally revealing the unique beauty born of an adult’s love for a child in this “singularly moving and disturbing novel about the ambiguity of feelings” (Le Monde). As does Marguerite Duras, she wields spare language like a club and plumbs emotional depths rarely reached outside of poetry. A brilliant collision of hope and despair, The Child is a tour de force. Pascale Kramer is the author of The Living and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Shiller (Switzerland) and the Prix du Roman de la Société des gens de lettres (France). The Child is her second novel to be translated into English. Born in Geneva, she lives in Paris, France.
An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings.

FICTION January 5 x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-55-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-58-1 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Promotion through: www.blpress.org

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • New York, NY

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Selected Backlist from Bellevue Literary Press

Paul Harding
FICTION 5 x 7 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-934137-12-3 USO*

Tinkers

Andrew Krivak
FICTION 5 x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-934137-34-5 USC

The Sojourn

Gregory Spatz
FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-42-0 W

Inukshuk

Understories
Tim Horvath
FICTION 5 x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-44-4 W

The Battle Over Science in America Jonathan D. Moreno
SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-934137-38-3 W

The Body Politic

Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century First Trade Paper Edition Jonathan D. Moreno
SCIENCE / MILITARY 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-934137-43-7 W

Mind Wars

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Biblioasis The Tuner of Silences
Mia Couto
Translated by David Brookshaw

“Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.”—Doris Lessing “By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic.”—Henning Mankell Mwanito Vitalício was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito’s been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He’s been told that the rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden. The eighth novel by The New York Times-acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito’s struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman’s arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father’s story and the world are heard once more. The Tuner of Silences was heralded as one of the most important books to be published in France in 2011 and remains a shocking portrait of the intergenerational legacies of war. Now available for the first time in English. Mia Couto is the author of twenty-five books. Translated into twenty languages, his novels have been bestsellers in Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

FICTION September A Paperback Original Biblioasis International Translation 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-926845-95-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-02-3 W

“Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears.”

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at BEA • International advertising: London Review of Books • National print and online campaign • National review copy mailing • Promotion through: www.biblioasistranslation.com

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Biblioasis Psychology and Other Stories
C.P. Boyko
“Seriously clever.”—Russell Smith Psychologists are people we love to hate. At best, they’re compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they’re smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, yappy, socially deaf, thrice-divorced and twice-separated spouse-swapping cat-torturing perverts. Plus, they’re all in this book. And so are their patients. C.P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories is a brilliant study of mental illness, mental health, and the people who try to tell them apart.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-926845-50-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-51-7-W

The author of Blackouts, C.P. Boyko has been twice diagnosed with schizophrenia— wrongly, he believes.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available National advertising: The Atlantic • National print and online campaign National review copy mailing • Promotional chapbook available at BEA Author Hometown: Victoria, BC

Like a little Freud in your fiction? C.P. Boyko’s new collection is a dream come true. A perversely funny new work.

David
Ray Robertson

Born a slave in 1847 but raised as a free man by the Reverend William King, David has rebelled against his emancipator and a future in the church. Now he’s a God-cursing, liquor-slinging, money-having, Hobbes-quoting manabout-town, famously educated, fabulously eccentric, and more-or-less happy . . . till the death of Reverend King brings his past back to haunt him. Inspired by the Elgin Settlement, which by 1852 housed seventy-five free black families and was studied by Abraham Lincoln, Ray Robertson’s novel is a fiery look at a community essential to the Underground Railroad’s success.
FICTION January 5¼ x 8¼ | 292 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-926845-86-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-87-6 USC

Ray Robertson is the author of Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at BEA Public radio campaign • National print and online campaign National review copy mailing • Author signing at BEA • Promotion through: www.rayrobertson.com Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Set in nineteenth-century Chatham, David’s rebellious hero breaks us in to a little-known place and time in black history.

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Biblioasis Blood Secrets
Nadine McInnis

“As a potential heir to the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, McInnis is off to a promising start.”—Publishers Weekly Nadine McInnis’ sophomore collection is about endings and their revelations: the affair that ends a marriage, the disease that ends a life, the effect of a longago suicide. As her characters struggle to administer to each other in their final moments, each story becomes an autopsy, dissecting bodies for their secrets and bloodlines for the things they hide. Nadine McInnis is the author of seven books and the winner of a CBC Literary Award.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-926845-93-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-00-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available National print and online campaign Outreach to women’s and lifestyle publications • Select review copy mailing Author Hometown: Ottawa, ON

Reminiscent of Alice Munro, each of these family stories is like an autopsy that reveals what’s hidden in our blood.

Unruly Voices
Essays on Democracy, Civility, and the Human Imagination

Mark Kingwell
“His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.”—Naomi Klein Mark Kingwell’s first book, A Civil Tongue, predicted with remarkable accuracy the Tea Party-style decline in political debate. Since then Kingwell has been urging readers to consider how bad public behavior can make it harder to imagine the society we want. Now, with these seventeen new essays, where cultural theorists share pages with poets, zombies, and presidents, Kingwell argues for a sympathetic democracy to counter the strangeness of the modern world. Mark Kingwell is the author of sixteen books and a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Excerpts in: Harper’s Magazine • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign • National review copy mailing Promotion through: Harper’s website Author Hometown: Toronto, ON PHILOSOPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-926845-84-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-85-2 W

A new collection by the author of The World We Want, with essays on civility, public space, Barack Obama, procrastination, and suicide.

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Biblioasis Marcel Pronovost
A Life in Hockey

Marcel Pronovost and Bob Duff
Between his time with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1950s, the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1960s, and his days as a scout with the New Jersey Devils, Marcel Pronovost has earned eight Stanley Cup rings and enjoyed one of the longest NHL careers of all time. Encounters with game greats and a thirty-two-page photo spread punctuate this compelling life story. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Marcel Pronovost has spent more than a half-century in the NHL, and presently works for the New Jersey Devils.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS & RECREATION November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 200 pp 32 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-926845-98-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-99-9 W*

The sports columnist for the Windsor Star, Bob Duff has covered the NHL since 1988.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available National print and online campaign • Select review copy mailing Coordinated launch with Detroit Red Wings, Joe Louis Arena Author Hometown: Windsor, ON

A biography of the eight-time Stanley Cup Champion Marcel Pronovost.

Original Six Dynasties
The Detroit Red Wings

Bob Duff
Lindsay. Abel. Howe. Sawchuk. Decades later, the names still resonate with Detroit Red Wings fans. The Wings were the dominant American-based team of the NHL’s so-called Original Six era, when teams played each other fourteen times a season, and rivalries were bitter. Often referred to as the New York Yankees of hockey, Wings GM Jack Adams would have none of it. “The Yankees,” he said, “are the Red Wings of baseball.” The sports columnist for the Windsor Star, Bob Duff has covered the NHL since 1988.
SPORTS & RECREATION November 8½ x 9 | 200 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-927428-08-5 W* (excludes Canada) Trade Cloth US $25.95 978-1-927428-10-8 W* (excludes Canada)

Marketing Plans
Co-op available National print and online campaign • Select review copy mailing Coordinated launch with Detroit Red Wings, Joe Louis Arena Promotion through: www.OriginalSixDynasties.com Author Hometown: Windsor, ON

A photographic history of the Original Six Era Detroit Red Wings, 1942–1967, with hundreds of previously unpublished photographs.

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Biblioasis Sub Divo
Norm Sibum

“Sibum’s poems are not everyone’s cup of tea . . . instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times.”—Books in Canada Sub Divo is a screed against the cultural impotence of modernity, and the decline of American empire. Personal, epistolary, corrosive, vented with Norm Sibum’s classical spleen and explosive prosody, this collection teems with emporers, historians, presidents, politicians, musicians, composers, trollops, poets, and gods. Few poets could pair such a flirtatious and colloquial style with Sibum’s legendary allusive breadth. Norm Sibum grew up in the United States before coming to Canada in 1968. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Promotional chapbooks available at BEA • Promotion through: http://normsibum.com/ephemeris.html Author Hometown: Montreal, QC POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-926845-96-8 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-03-0 W*

Invectives, addresses, and apostrophes from a great critic of American empire.

Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle
Jessica Hiemstra
In Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle, poet Jessica Hiemstra uses the idea of fugitive color to explore grief: whether her subject is a lost grandparent, child, or cat, Hiemstra renders the fleetingness of life delicately. Jessica Hiemstra is a visual artist and writer. Self-Portrait Without a Bicycle is her third volume of poetry.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS | September | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8¼ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | 978-1-926845-90-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-91-3 W*

Cooking with Giovanni Caboto
Regional Italian Cuisine

The Caboto Club of Windsor
A cookbook unlike any other. Featuring ten recipes from each of Italy’s twenty regions, Cooking with Giovanni Caboto is an exhaustive tour of traditional Italian cuisine, with all two hundred dishes tested and approved by the chefs at the Club’s famous kitchen. An invaluable resource for experts and beginners alike.
COOKING | November | 8½ x 11 | 320 pp Color photographs throughout | Trade Cloth US $35.00 978-1-926845-97-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-05-4 W*

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Selected Backlist from Biblioasis

Anakana Schofield
FICTION 5¼ x 7¼ | 225 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-926845-38-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-39-5 W

Malarky

Attack of the Copula Spiders
Essays on Writing Douglas Glover
LITERARY CRITICISM 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-926845-46-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-47-0 W

The End of the Story
Translated by Andrea Labinger
FICTION 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-926845-48-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-49-4 W

Liliana Heker

Three Stories by Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov
Translated by David Helwig Illustrated by Seth

About Love

Alexander MacLeod
FICTION 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-897231-94-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-21-0 W

Light Lifting

A Literary Memoir Bruce Jay Friedman
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5½ x 8½ | 275 pp 30 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $26.95 978-1-926845-31-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-54-8 W

Lucky Bruce

FICTION 4 x 6 | 112 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 978-1-926845-42-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-43-2 W

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Bilingual Readers Bilingual Is Better
Two Latina Moms on How the Bilingual Parenting Revolution is Changing the Face of America

Roxana A. Soto and Ana L. Flores
For years immigrants were told that the only way for their children to embrace American culture was to leave behind their heritage language and speak only English. But what if this advice was based solely on political motives and not the wellbeing of children? What if the truth was that all children in America, regardless of their cultural background, would actually benefit from learning two languages? The answer to this question has sparked a new Latino parenting revolution that is changing the face of America. Roxana and Ana, founders of the wildly successful parenting blog SpanglishBaby, are part of a growing movement of Latino parents who are proudly reclaiming their language and cultural heritage for themselves and their children. Laugh and cry with them as they stumble through the ups and downs of raising bilingual, bicultural children in America and discover themselves in the process. This inspiring parenting memoir includes practical tips and resources to help parents from all backgrounds give their children the benefits of bilingualism. Bilingual Is Better debunks old stereotypes while shedding new light on hot topics like bilingual education, cultural heritage, and what it really means to be Latino. A perfect blend of hilarious anecdotes and solid research, this book is a fun, engaging read which is sure to spark conversation and positive change. Roxana A. Soto and Ana L. Flores co-founded the popular parenting blog SpanglishBaby, which was recently named a Must Read Mom’s Blog by Parenting magazine. Both authors are well known, award-winning bilingual journalists.
This entertaining memoir by two Latina moms reveals the struggles and triumphs of raising bilingual, bicultural children in the United States.

EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-84-92968-21-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-84-92968-22-0 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Regional Florida tour Promotion through: www.spanglishbaby.com and www.bilingualreaders.com

Author Events
Miami, FL Author Hometowns: Los Angeles, CA / Denver, CO

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Selected Backlist from Bilingual Readers

Easy Alphabet! / ¡Abecedario fácil!
Bilingual edition Ana Gómez
JUVENILE FICTION 5⅛ x 5⅛ | 32 pp 54 color illustrations Kit US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-84-937273-0-7 USC Ages up to 5

Sea Animals / Animales del mar
Bilingual edition Mike Lowery
JUVENILE FICTION 7⅞ x 7⅞ | 16 pp 16 color illustrations Board Book US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-84-937273-2-1 USC Ages up to 4

Jungle Animals / Animales de la selva
Bilingual edition Mike Lowery
JUVENILE FICTION 7⅞ x 7⅞ | 16 pp 16 color illustrations Board Book US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-84-937273-1-4 USC Ages up to 4

Body Parts / Las partes del cuerpo
Bilingual edition Mike Lowery
JUVENILE FICTION 7⅞ x 7⅞ | 16 pp 16 color illustrations Board Book US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-84-937273-8-3 USC Ages up to 4

Move Your Body / Mueve tu cuerpo
Bilingual edition Mike Lowery
JUVENILE FICTION 7⅞ x 7⅞ | 16 pp 16 color illustrations Board Book US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-84-937273-9-0 USC Ages up to 4

Marina and the Little Green Boy / Marina y el niño verde
Illustrations by Miguel Ordóñez
JUVENILE FICTION 7⅛ x 7⅛ | 32 pp 32 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 978-84-937273-4-5 USC Ages 4 to 8

Bilingual edition Antonio Vicente

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BIS Publishers Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
Pop Music Wisdom

Marcus Kraft

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don’t take it. The great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a tough situation while rocking out at the same time. This wonderful book lists 250 of the best pop songs for those times that solid life advice is needed. The songs represent all popular music styles from the last fifty years, from rock to folk, and from punk to hip hop. There are for example many times in which the three words “let it be” are words of wisdom. Although the lyrics may have originally been written in reference to interpersonal difficulties within the Beatles, the song does possess a universality that makes “Let It Be” one of the great advice pop songs of all time. Other famous pop music advice to live by: • • • • “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones “If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free” by Sting “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” by Eric Idle
MUSIC / REFERENCE September 5⅛ x 7⅛ | 500 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-90-6369-288-9 USC

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow (Frank Zappa) is a collection of all the famous advice songs and many surprises as well. It gives the reader the song titles, painted by hand by the designer, and a striking quote from the song lyrics as well as indices on artist and themes. This well produced, iconic looking album of words of wisdom from pop music is the perfect gift for music lovers of all ages.
Shares the “pop music wisdom” of song titles, such as “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” A fun gift book for all music lovers.

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • Outreach to music publications and websites

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BIS Publishers Graduation Guide for Design Students
Moniek Paus

This book is the perfect gift for all design students who embark on their most stressful year in design education: graduation year. This guide helps the student to graduate as a designer by giving practical advice, design advice, and by suggesting ways to make graduation less stressful and more enjoyable. The advice is always very much on point and presented as double-page spread posters with smart and funny illustrations and short handwritten texts. You would want many of the spreads to hang on the door of your student room or studio. The dust jacket is a fold-out poster that you can actually put on your wall. It is maybe the most important advice for the final exam student: “Work Hard, Have Fun & Nooo Drama!”
An illustrated guide to surviving your graduation year in design school: work hard, have fun, and noooo drama!
DESIGN / REFERENCE September 4⅝ x 6⅛ | 144 pp 150 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-90-6369-286-5 USC

Marketing Plans
• Outreach to design publications and websites

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BIS Publishers The Pop-Up Generation
Design Between Dimensions

Edited by Lideweij Edelkoort

Young people easily shift between 2D and 3D, barely noticing a difference. Navigating this “no man’s land,” the new “pop-up generation” of designers create work that is malleable, transient, and ever-changing. The works selected have a few common characteristics. The projects popup. They float and melt down again. They are temporary. And they are mobile; they can take you anywhere. These projects are often hybrid, moving between the virtual and the physical world. And lastly they are very much DIY. The artist and designers are keen on sharing. Come join; make your own. It is give and take in this pop-up generation community. For The Pop-Up Generation: Design Between Dimensions, Lidewij Edelkoort in collaboration with Lotte van Gelder has collected outstanding and often poetical pop-up works which give a captivating and exciting picture of a new generation in the throes of designing the future. With additional essays from Paola Antonelli of the MOMA New York, Carla Fernandes, Bruce Sterling, and others, this thought-provoking book examines the pop-up phenomena in art and design and captures the essence of the time we live in.
A visual overview of the concept of pop-up in architecture and design from one of the world’s leading designers.
DESIGN September 5⅞ x 7½ | 288 pp 500 color photographs Trade Cloth US $32.00 | CAN $34.99 978-90-6369-282-7 USC

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BIS Publishers Dynamic Identities
How to Create a Living Brand

Irene van Nes
This visual book looks into design systems for brand identities that produces identities that are alive, meaning that they can change and generate new versions based on external data. The book offers a systematic process of creating brand identities that are alive and gives the reader a wealth of examples of international identities that were built on the discussed systems. There is no other book like this on the market!

DESIGN November 8½ x 9⅞ | 192 pp 1,000 color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-90-6369-285-8 USC

Explores how to produce brand identities that are alive, with the ability to morph into new versions based on outside influences.

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Convivial Design Toolbox
Generative Research for the Front End of Design

Liz Sanders and Pieter Jan Stappers
Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is of immense interest today not only to the academic design research community but also to those in the business community charged with the development of human-centred products, systems, services, and environments. There are no other books with this focus and coverage currently available.
DESIGN / PSYCHOLOGY September 9⅛ x 7⅝ | 272 pp 200 color photographs, illustrations, and charts Trade Cloth US $49.00 | CAN $53.99 978-90-6369-284-1 USC

The generative design research approach brings people served by design directly into the design process. The first book on this groundbreaking topic.

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Outreach to design publications and websites Author Hometown: Columbus, OH

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BIS Publishers Sustainist Design Primer
Collaborative Design for Connectivity, Localism, and Sustainable Life

Compiled by Michiel Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam
A practice of “social design” has emerged around issues such as community, crafts, sustainable living, public space, and housing. In the context of an emerging “culture of sustainism,” many successful social design projects have embraced qualities such as connectivity, sharing, and localism, as well as sustainability. Sustainism Design Primer charts what such “sustainist” values could mean for the practice of social design. It formulates an open-ended agenda for social design and presents a set of design criteria that goes well beyond “green” design. It brings together the key principles for sustainism design, maps out best practices, and explores workable ideas for developing future social design. Michiel Schwarz is a cultural thinker, innovator, and policy consultant working from Amsterdam and Berkeley, California. He holds a PhD in the sociology of technology from the University of London. He has advised public organizations and has initiated a wide range of projects on global issues, sustainable futures, design strategies, media culture, and innovation.
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DESIGN / NATURE December 6⅞ x 9⅝ | 120 pp 100 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $32.00 | CAN $34.99 978-90-6369-283-4 USC

This handbook is the first book to take sustainability—or “sustainism”— into the realm of social design thinking and practice.

Operative Design
A Catalog of Spatial Verbs

Anthony Di Mari, Megan Panzano, and Nora Yoo
The core idea for this project is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design.
ARCHITECTURE | December | A Paperback Original | 4⅛ x 5⅞ | 160 pp 500 duotone illustrations | Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-90-6369-289-6 USC

Computational Architecture
Digital Designing Tools and Manufacturing Techniques

Asterios Agkathidis
Computational Architecture offers an overview of digital tools and techniques, such as twisting, lofting, triangulating, drilling, knotting, and framing, that were used systematically to explore spatial, structural, and geometrical conditions, leading to the emergence of abstract prototypes.
ARCHITECTURE | September | A Paperback Original | 4⅜ x 6 | 160 pp 450 color photographs | Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-90-6369-287-2 USC

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Selected Backlist from BIS Publishers

Drawing Techniques for Product Designers Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur
DESIGN 8¾ x 11⅛ | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $49.00 | CAN $59.00 978-90-6369-171-4 USC

Sketching (12th printing)

Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur
DESIGN 8¾ x 11⅛ | 184 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-90-6369-253-7 USC

Sketching: The Basics (2nd printing)

Type, Typography and the Reader Jan Middendorp
DESIGN 8⅜ x 10¼ | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Flexibound US $25.00 | CAN $30.50 978-90-6369-223-0 USC

Shaping Text

Brand Memory Game
Hendrik-Jan Grievink
GAMES 2⅞ x 5¾ | 60 cards Color illustrations throughout Cards AH US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-90-6369-262-9 USC This item is nonreturnable.

Street Style Memory Game II
Barbara Iweins
GAMES 5¾ x 3⅞ | 50 cards Color photographs Cards AH US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-90-6369-270-4 USC This item is nonreturnable.

Dice for Change
Creative Heroes
GAMES 2¾ x 3⅝ | 3 cards Duotone illustrations Boxed Set AH US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-90-6369-278-0 USC This item is nonreturnable.

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Bitter Lemon Press The Eyes of Lira Kazan
Eva Joly and Judith Perrignon
Translated by Emily Read

“Plot twists galore, relentless suspense and expert insights to satisfy anyone fascinated by today’s financial crisis.”—Culture TF1 From Lagos to London, by way of the Faroe Islands and St. Petersburg, an investigation turns deadly. The head of the Nigerian fraud squad is evacuated from Lagos by secret service operatives. Meanwhile a junior prosecutor in Nice probes the mysterious death of the wife of a powerful banker, and a crusading journalist in St. Petersburg pursues a corrupt oligarch and his criminal business empire. The paths of all three cross in London, where they find themselves embroiled in violent events obviously linked to financial and political interests and hunted by the oligarch’s men, the Western secret services, and goons sent by Nigerian oil magnates. A satirical, intelligent, and fast-paced thriller set in the world of high finance and low politics, The Eyes of Lira Kazan is co-written by Eva Joly and Judith Perrignon. Eva Joly is a prominent former prosecuting judge in Paris, France, and a candidate in the 2012 French presidential election. She is Norwegian born and this is her first novel. Judith Perrignon is a prize-winning essayist and the author of a number of historical and other literary works, including La nuit du Fouquet’s avec Ariane Chemin. This is her second novel after the much lauded Les Chagrins, published in France in 2011.

FICTION October 5¼ x 7¾ | 367 pp A Paperback Original Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-00-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-01-0 W

Russian oligarchs and Western secret services pursue a beautiful journalist with too much information about their financial shenanigans.
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Bitter Lemon Press A Grain of Truth
Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Praise for the first novel in the Teodor Szacki series: “In Entanglement Miłoszewski takes an engaging look at modern Polish society in this stellar first in a new series starring Warsaw prosecutor Teodor Szacki. Readers will want to see more of the complex, sympathetic Szacki.” —Publishers Weekly It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw— he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a “brave new life,” Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman’s husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there’s time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish–Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier. Zygmunt Miłoszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1975. His first novel The Intercom was published in 2005 to high acclaim. In 2006 he published The Adder Mountains; in 2010, the crime novel Entanglement; and this year its sequel, A Grain of Truth.
Prosecutor Szacki’s investigation of a murder in a Polish town reveals the poisonous anti-Semitism that haunts all who live there. Also Available

FICTION / MYSTERY January A Paperback Original Polish State Prosecutor Szacki Investigates 5⅛ x 7¾ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-02-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-03-4 W

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Entanglement Zygmunt Miłoszewski Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones FICTION / MYSTERY Polish State Prosecutor Szacki Investigates 5¼ x 7¾ | 254 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-904738-44-2 USC

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Bitter Lemon Press Baksheesh
Esmahan Aykol
Translated by Ruth Whitehouse
Praise for the first Kati Hirschel Istanbul mystery: “The heroine is an offbeat amateur sleuth with a distinctive narrative voice. Fans of such female detectives as Amanda Cross’s Kate Fansler and Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher will find a lot to like.”—Publishers Weekly Kati Hirschel, the owner of Istanbul’s only mystery bookstore, is fed up. It all started when her lover Selim insisted that she behave like the Turkish wife of a respectable lawyer. Looking demure and making witty small talk were the only requirements. Then her landlord announced an outrageous rent increase on her Istanbul apartment. She has no desire to move in with Selim. She’d rather learn the art of bribing government officials in order to find a new place. Kati is offered a large apartment with a view over the Bosphorus at a bargain price. Too good to be true until a man is found murdered there and she becomes the police’s prime suspect. In her second novel Esmahan Aykol takes us to the alleys and boulevards of cosmopolitan Istanbul, to posh villas and seedy basement flats, to the property agents and lawyers, to Islamist leaders and city officials—in fact everywhere that baksheesh helps move things along. Esmahan Aykol was born in 1970 in Edirne, Turkey. She lives in Istanbul and Berlin. She has written three Kati Hirschel novels. Baksheesh is the second and has been published in Turkish, German, French, and Italian. The first, Hotel Bosphorus, was published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2011.
In Istanbul nothing happens without baksheesh. All fine until you’re the suspected murderer of the man you’ve paid off. Also Available
• • • • FICTION / MYSTERY February A Paperback Original A Kati Hirschel Istanbul Mystery 5¼ x 7¾ | 245 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-04-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-05-8 W

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Hotel Bosphorus Esmahan Aykol Translated by Ruth Whitehouse FICTION / MYSTERY Kati Hirschel Murder Mystery 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-904738-68-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-904738-71-8 W

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Bitter Lemon Press Reasonable Doubts
Gianrico Carofiglio
Translated by Howard Curtis

“The role of Guido Guerrieri is to take on impossible cases that have little chance of success. The lawyer accepts the case only because he’s fallen in lust with the prisoner’s wife; his efforts to prove his client’s innocence bring him into dangerous conflict with Mafia interests. Everything a legal thriller should be.”—The Times Counsel for the defense Guido Guerrieri is asked to handle the appeal of Fabio Paolicelli, who has been sentenced to sixteen years for drug smuggling. The odds are stacked against the accused: not only the fact that he initially confessed to the crime but also his past as a neo-Fascist thug. It is only the intervention of Paolicelli’s beautiful half-Japanese wife that finally overcomes Guerrieri’s reluctance. Matters are further complicated when Guerrieri ends up in bed with her. This book is hard-boiled and sun-dried in equal parts. Where Philip Marlowe would be knocking back bourbon and listening to the snap of fist on jaw, Guerrieri prefers Sicilian wine and Leonard Cohen. The local color is complemented by snappy legal procedural writing which sends the reader tumbling through the clockwork of a tightly wound plot.
FICTION / MYSTERY September Guido Guerrieri 5¼ x 7¾ | 249 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-904738-54-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-904738-24-4

Gianrico Carofiglio, a member of the Senate in Italy, was an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, a port on the coast of Puglia. He has been involved with trials concerning corruption, organized crime, and human trafficking. He has written four Guido Guerrieri novels, all bestsellers, having sold over a million copies worldwide.
Guidgo Guerrieri represents a neo-fascist accused of smuggling forty kilograms of cocaine into Italy, then falls in love with his wife.

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Outreach to mystery publications and websites Social media campaign Online giveaways, contests, and e-mail campaign • Promotion through: www.bitterlemonpress.com

Also Available
Involuntary Witness Gianrico Carofiglio Translated by Patrick Creagh FICTION / MYSTERY Guido Guerrieri 5¼ x 7¾ | 340 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-1-904738-07-7 USC A Walk in the Dark Gianrico Carofiglio Translated by Howard Curtis FICTION / MYSTERY Guido Guerrieri 5¼ x 7¾ | 218 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-904738-53-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-904738-76-3 W

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Black Balloon Publishing Maverick Jetpants in The City of Quality
Bill Peters

“Full of madcap energy, swagger, and brinkmanship.”—Fiona Maazel, author of Last, Last Chance Which I expect to be Toby, with his Colonel-Hellstache shaved head and his milkbag fat bulked around him. But instead, it's some shaved-headed guy who I don't even know. He's wearing a wifebeater and a leather vest, and these Army pants tucked into Nazi-type boots tied tight around his legs. His arms are as muscleless as the vanilla flats of an ice-cream sandwich. He has this sneery look on his face, with wire-rimmed glasses, i.e., not exactly a Rambo's Rambo. Necro doesn't even bother to introduce me, so I'm immediately calling the guy Rambocream. It's 1999 in economically gutted Rochester, New York—“The City of Quality”— and twenty-one-year-old Nate still lives at home with his cynical, overwhelmed mom and Fake Dad #3. He speaks in a made-up language of middle school jokes and bizarre catchphrases. His best friend Necro may be under the influence of a neo-Nazi gang that is burning down their hometown. Will Nate stop joking around, solve the mystery of the arsons, and grow up? Or is he destined to a life of mediocrity working night shifts at the Kodak plant? Originally from Rochester, New York, Bill Peters has worked as an editor and journalist, and is now an editor for The New York Times Syndicate and News Service. He lives in Gainesville, Florida. This is his first book.
Rochester, “The City of Quality,” 1999; a mystery surrounding arson; a hilarious and heart-breaking friendship based on a language of inside jokes.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-936787-02-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936787-03-6 USC

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign 6-city New York regional tour App and book trailer

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Northampton, MA • Albany, NY • Buffalo, NY • New York, NY • Rochester, NY • Syracuse, NY Author Hometown: Gainesville, FL

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Selected Backlist from Black Balloon Publishing

Louise: Amended
Louise Krug
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HEALTH & FITNESS 5½ x 8¼ | 200 pp Duotone art throughout Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-936787-01-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936787-04-3 W

A Delectable Extravaganza of Food and Music One Ring Zero
Edited by Michael Hearst and Leigh Newman

The Recipe Project

COOKING / MUSIC 8 x 8 | 116 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth & CD US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-936787-00-5 USC

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BOA Editions, Ltd. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010
Edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser
Foreword by Toni Morrison Afterword by Kevin Young
“If you only read one poetry book in 2012, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton ought to be it.”—NPR “The love readers feel for Lucille Clifton—both the woman and her poetry— is constant and deeply felt. The lines that surface most frequently in praise of her work and her person are moving declarations of racial pride, courage, steadfastness.”—Toni Morrison, from the foreword The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton’s published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems. The unpublished poems feature early poems from 1965–1969, a collection-in-progress titled the book of days (2008), and a poignant selection of final poems. An insightful foreword by Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison and comprehensive afterword by noted poet Kevin Young frames Clifton’s lifetime body of work, providing the definitive statement about this major America poet’s career. On February 13, 2010, the poetry world lost one of its most distinguished members with the passing of Lucille Clifton. In the last year of her life, she was named the first African American woman to receive the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize honoring a US poet whose “lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition,” and was posthumously awarded the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America. “mother-tongue: to man-kind” (from the unpublished the book of days): all that I am asking is that you see me as something more than a common occurrence, more than a woman in her ordinary skin.
A landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton’s published work and fifty-five previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Marketing Plans
15,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • National advertising: The New York Times Book Review • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Outreach to major magazines and newspapers

POETRY / SOCIAL SCIENCE September American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 720 pp Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-1-934414-90-3 USC

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Chicago, IL Author Hometown: Columbia, MD

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BOA Editions, Ltd. To Keep Love Blurry
Craig Morgan Teicher

To Keep Love Blurry is about the charged and troubled spaces between intimately connected people: husbands and wives, parents and children, writers and readers. These poems include sonnets, villanelles, and long poems, as well as two poetic prose pieces, tracing how a son becomes a husband and then a father. Robert Lowell is a constant figure throughout the book, which borrows its four-part structure from that poet’s seminal Life Studies. Craig Morgan Teicher won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. He is poetry reviews editor for Publishers Weekly magazine and served as vice president on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 110 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-93-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-94-1 USC

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Advance reader copies National advertising: Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign

Inspired by Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, Craig Morgan Teicher explores troubled spaces between loved ones.

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Washington, DC Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Theophobia
Bruce Beasley

Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley’s ongoing spiritual meditation, which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. Theophobia is structured around a series of poems called “Pilgrim’s Deviations” and forms a deviant and deviating pilgrimage through science, history, politics, and popular culture. Bruce Beasley is the author of six poetry collections, most recently The Corpse Flower: New and Selected Poems (University of Washington Press, 2007). He has won fellowships from the NEA and the Artist Trust of Washington and three Pushcart Prizes.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 112 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-91-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-92-7 USC

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Advance reader copies National advertising: Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Bellingham, WA

Theophobia continues Bruce Beasley’s postmodern spiritual meditations.

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BOA Editions, Ltd. Passwords Primeval
20 American Poets in their Own Words

Edited by Tony Leuzzi
Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry “schools” and “movements” to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi’s astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without losing any of their mystery. Tony Leuzzi is associate professor at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. He won the Wesley T. Hanson Award for Teaching Excellence and two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. For Passwords Primeval he interviewed twenty-five American poets in five years.

LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original American Readers Series 6 x 9 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $21.00 | CAN $22.99 978-1-934414-95-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-96-5 USC

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Advance reader copies National advertising: Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Rochester, NY

Prominent poets candidly discuss inspiration, craft, and living as a poet.

Diadem: Selected Poems
Marosa di Giorgio
Translated with an introduction by Adam Giannelli
Marosa di Giorgio has one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry. Her surreal and fable-like prose poems invite comparison to Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, or even contemporary American poets Russell Edson and Charles Simic. But di Giorgio’s voice, imagery, and themes—childhood, the Uruguayan countryside, a perception of the sacred— are her own. Previously written off as “the mad woman of Uruguayan letters,” di Giorgio’s reputation has blossomed in recent years. Marosa di Giorgio was born in Salto, Uruguay, in 1932. Her first book Poemas was published in 1953. Also a theater actress, she moved to Montevideo in 1978, where she lived until her death in 2004.
POETRY / FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY November A Paperback Original Lannan Translations Selection Series 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-97-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-89-9 USC

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Advance reader copies National advertising: Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign Translator Hometown: Woodhaven, NY

Selected poems by one of the most distinct and recognizable voices in Latin American poetry.

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Selected Backlist from BOA Editions, Ltd.

Kingdom Animalia
Aracelis Girmay
POETRY 6 x 9 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-62-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-68-2 W

Naomi Shihab Nye
POETRY 6 x 9 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.95 978-1-934414-52-1 USC Trade Cloth US $23.00 | CAN $25.50 978-1-934414-64-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-65-1 W

Transfer

Craig Morgan Teicher
FICTION 5¼ x 8 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-934414-35-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-60-6 W

Cradle Book

Poems from the Nursing Home Janice N. Harrington
POETRY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-54-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-67-5 W

The Hands of Strangers

Remnants of Another Age
Translated by Peggy Reid, Graham W. Reid, Magdalena Horvat, and Adam Reed Introduction by Carolyn Forché
POETRY 6 x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.00 978-1-934414-50-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-75-0 W

Nikola Madzirov

Barbara Jane Reyes
POETRY 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934414-37-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934414-72-9 W

Diwata

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Breakaway Books Honey, Do You Need a Ride?
Confessions of a Fat Runner

Jennifer Graham

This laugh-out-loud comedic memoir of life as an overweight runner moves along at a five-minute-per-mile pace. Jennifer Graham doesn’t run to lose weight—she runs because she loves it. And as much as she runs, her excess poundage never leaves. So she accepts her body type for what it is, and runs for the sheer joy of it. But along the way she must endure not only her selfmade exhaustion and lactic acid, but also the bemused stares of neighbors, offers of a car ride from strangers, and disdain from the dominant strain of runner—those long, lean “shirtless wonders.” The story revolves around her decision to run a serious half-marathon race, and her imaginary coaching relationship with the spirit of Steve Prefontaine. The late, great Oregon distance star gives her advice and encouragement, and doesn’t like excuses. (“Yeah, I know he’s been dead thirty-five years; it’s a minor metaphysical challenge.”) Moreover, the race is one month after Graham’s ex-husband is getting remarried (to a skinny woman), and the emotional rollercoaster heightens the intensity of her running. As she says, “If training for it doesn’t help me get over the pain, at least it will keep me preoccupied.” Her irreverent, hilarious, and brutally honest story will appeal to runners and non-runners alike, fat or thin.
A brutally honest, outrageously funny story of being overweight in a notoriously skinny sport.

SPORTS & RECREATION September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-891369-80-3 USC

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• Advertising in national running magazines • National print and online campaign • Outreach to running and fitness publications and websites • Promotions at major metropolitan marathons and other road races • Promotions on running and fitness websites Author Hometown: Hopkinton, MA

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Breakaway Books Back to the Zone
Sport and Inner Experiences

Damien Lafont, PhD

“The Zone” is that quasi-mystical state achieved only rarely by athletes, when everything flows effortlessly and you can do no wrong. Unfortunately, we enter the Zone seemingly at random, when it is least expected. The great hope of all competitors is to be able to summon the Zone at will. Toward this end, Back to the Zone breaks the Zone down into its many components and helps the athlete optimize each one: balance, absorption, clarity, feedback, concentration, control, loss of self-consciousness, imagination, positive thoughts, energy, self-esteem, meditation, and quiet mind. Ultimately, Damien Lafont shows us that reaching the Zone is more about freeing our mind from the unnecessary rather than learning new techniques and concepts. This is a short, clear, practical guide for athletes in all sports. With it the golfer or the baseball player, the runner or the swimmer, the tennis player or the cyclist will all reach new levels of performance, and will find themselves “in the Zone” more often.

SPORTS & RECREATION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-891369-99-5 USC

A concise guide to optimizing athletic performance in all sports.

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• Outreach to sports publications and websites • Promotion to high school and college coaches Author Hometown: Los Alamitos, CA

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Bywater Books Art on Fire
Hilary Sloin

Art on Fire is the apparent biography of subversive painter Francesca deSilva, the founding foremother of “pseudorealism,” who lived hard and died young. But in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov’s acclaimed novel Pale Fire, it’s a fiction from start to finish. It opens with Francesca’s early life. We learn about her childhood love, the chess genius Lisa Sinsong, as well as her rivalry with her brilliant sister Isabella, who publishes an acclaimed volume of poetry at the age of twelve. She compensates for the failings of her less than attentive parents by turning to her grandmother who is loyal and adoring until she learns Francesca is a lesbian, when she rejects her. Francesca flees to a ramshackle cabin in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, working weekends at the flea market. She breaks into the gloomy basement of a house, where she begins her life as a painter. Much to her confusion and even dismay, fame comes quickly. Interspersed with Francesca’s narrative are thirteen critical “essays” on the paintings of Francesca deSilva by critics, academics, and psychologists—essays that are razor-sharp satires on art, lesbian life, and the academic world, puncturing pretentiousness with every paragraph. Art on Fire is a darkly comic, pitchperfect, and fearless satire on the very art of biography itself. Art on Fire is the latest winner of the Bywater Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Heekin Foundation Award, the Dana Awards, and the Story Oaks Prize. It was mistakenly awarded the nonfiction prize in the Amherst Book and Plow Competition.
An amazing novel and pseudo-biography about the short but remarkable life of a young painter living in her sister’s shadow.

FICTION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-031-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-032-8 W

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Bywater Books The Raven’s Heart
A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots

Jesse Blackadder

“Jesse Blackadder has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. . . . In The Raven’s Heart she doesn’t hit one wrong note.” —The Sunday Telegraph Scotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the North Sea carrying home Mary, the young, charismatic Queen of Scots, returning after thirteen years in the French court to wrest back control of her throne. The Blackadder family has long awaited for the Queen’s return to bring them justice. Alison Blackadder, disguised as a boy from childhood to protect her from the murderous clan that stole their lands, must learn to be a lady-inwaiting to the Queen, building a web of dependence and reward. Just as the Queen can trust nobody, Alison discovers lies, danger, and treachery at every turn. This sweeping, imaginative, and original tale of political intrigue, misplaced loyalty, secret passion, and implacable revenge is based on real characters and events from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. The Raven’s Heart is a breathtaking epic from a bold, fresh voice. Winner of the Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award, The Raven’s Heart was published in Australia in 2011. Jesse Blackadder finally had enough of people asking if she was related to Rowan Atkinson, star of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. She traveled to Scotland to find the origins of her surname and discovered the ruins of Blackadder House on the banks of the Blackadder River. The Raven’s Heart grew from there. Jesse lives in Byron Bay, Australia.
The Raven’s Heart is a breathtaking epic set during the disastrous reign of Mary Queen of Scots.

FICTION September 5½ x 8½ | 464 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-61294-027-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-028-1 W

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Bywater Books 80% Done With Straight Girls
Mari SanGiovanni

Love and loss should not be this funny, but the entire Santora family has descended upon Marie again, just when Marie is sure she doesn’t need them anymore. After losing Erica she has made a vow to be done with straight girls once and for all. Then her ex makes a house call and puts her willpower to the test, proving that desperate times really do call for desperate measures. Meanwhile, Marie’s sister Lisa has ditched her gay campground in favor of becoming a celebrity chef. Lisa makes a career for herself by channeling her dead Aunt Aggie and the spirits of dead relatives while she cooks. She sees them squabbling, insulting, and love-tapping each other to get fresh dibs on all the ingredients, and follows their lead. Lisa and her “ghosts” invent dishes like the heavenly “Pasta Fa Brawl” and the audience loves it as she takes talk shows by storm. After all, who says playing with ghosts from the past can’t be fun and profitable? From Jamaica to Camptown and now landing lakeside, these ladies are still serving the fun up Italian style: loud, lusty, and with lots of love and laughs. Mari SanGiovanni was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist with her first book about the Santora family, Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer. Her second book in the series, Camptown Ladies, was released in December 2011 and is receiving great reviews. Mari is a member of a very large Italian family.
Marie Santora and her wild Italian family return for another hilarious romp through Rhode Island.

FICTION February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-033-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-033-5 W

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Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer Mari SanGiovanni FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-1-932859-30-0 USC Camptown Ladies Mari SanGiovanni FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 264 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-932859-86-7 USC

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Bywater Books Glass Lions
JD Glass

Francesca DeTomassa—Fran to her friends—has it all: she’s the daughter of a local politician, she’s won scholarships to college and law school, and now, in her final year and about to graduate, she even has the internship she wants at a film production studio in California. But Fran has a secret—she is a sworn member of the Circle, an order who protect and promote the Light. Fran is bound to them not only by oath and law, but also by blood, soul, and love to the person who is the Circle’s focal point, the Wielder. And the Circle has a dogma—We do things not because they are easy, but because they are right. Fran accepts that sometimes love must be sacrificed for the greater good, with the hope of “someday.” When Fran realizes that the Dark that touches the woman she loves is something that only the Wielder can truly handle, she knows that someday is now, bringing with it a choice to be made. But is she strong enough to choose what is ultimately the greatest good, not for her, but for everyone?
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 5½ | 384 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-029-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-030-4 W

JD Glass is the lead singer and plays guitar in The Charm Alarm. She is the author Punk Like Me, Punk And Zen, Red Light, American Goth, and X. Punk Like Me was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She lives in Staten Island, New York, and has a strong following for both her writing and her music.
Members of the Circle do things not because they are easy but because they are right.

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Centipede Press Hannes Bok
A Life in Illustration

Edited by Joseph Wrzos

Hannes Bok (1914–1964) is considered to be one of the premier fantasy illustrators of the twentieth century. Dying young, he left behind a mostly uncollected array of wonderful and astonishing black-and-white pulp illustrations, a dozen or so dazzling dust jacket covers, and an as-yet-undetermined number of gorgeous color paintings, most of them quickly snapped up early by connoisseurs and still under heavy guard in private collections. And it was only due to the efforts of a few dedicated admirers, who published the first Bok collections, that the richer part of his legacy still survives. But even these early Bok collections are out of print and going for high prices in the collectors’ market. As a consequence, none of Bok’s artwork is currently available to the general public, and there is still much that has never been reproduced in the first place. Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration redresses this by bringing back into print not only his out of print artwork but many newly discovered drawings and paintings, reproduced here for the first time. In addition, A Life in Illustration also includes a rich selection of critical and biographical background material, including a nostalgic memoir by Ray Bradbury, incisive tributes by fellow artists, a newly uncovered letter of encouragement by Maxfield Parrish, and Bok’s own concise autobiography, as well as his long unavailable essay, “Hannes Bok Looks at Fantasy Art and Illustration,” a cogent elaboration of his artistic credo. Hannes Bok: A Life in Illustration could well prove to be the definitive edition honoring his life and work.
The most massive and comprehensive collection of Hannes Bok’s work ever published, with dozens of new paintings never before seen.

ART October 8 x 12 | 456 pp Color illustrations throughout Smyth Sewn US $150.00 978-1-61347-025-1 US

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Centipede Press Speak to Me of Death
The Selected Short Fiction of Cornell Woolrich, Volume 1

Cornell Woolrich
The first in a series collecting, in uniform editions, all of the suspense and crime fiction of Cornell Woolrich. The first volume contains many stories that are seeing their first reprinting in book form in several years. Film noir expert Thomas Renzi has supplied an outstanding introduction to this volume, which includes many of Woolrich’s best-known tales, including “Rear Window,” “Marihuana,” and over a dozen others.
FICTION | November | 5½ x 9 | 600 pp Smyth Sewn US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-61347-024-4 USC

Dark Melody of Madness
Selected Supernatural Novellas

Cornell Woolrich
The supernatural novellas of Cornell Woolrich collected together for the first time. With a new introduction by Bill Pronzini and fabulous cover art by Matt Mahurin, this handsome new edition collects these chilling suspense classics: “Graves For The Living,” “Jane Brown’s Body,” “Dark Melody of Madness,” “I’m Dangerous Tonight,” and “Mannequin.”
FICTION | November | 5½ x 9 | 300 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 | 978-1-61347-023-7 USC

Phantom Lady
Cornell Woolrich
Phantom Lady is Cornell Woolrich at his best: a “wrong man” thriller compounded with a ticking clock (his execution) as well as shadowy femme fatales. In this new edition, Barry N. Malzberg, who was Woolrich’s agent in the 1960s, and one of perhaps only two literary figures still living that knew Woolrich, provides a fascinating account of the man.
FICTION | November | 5½ x 9 | 300 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 | 978-1-61347-021-3 USC

Deadline at Dawn
Cornell Woolrich
One of Cornell Woolrich’s most taut thrillers, Deadline at Dawn is a fantastic novel of existential angst, as two characters in a soulless city set out for redemption and a chance at a new life. With a fine introduction by Duane Swierczynski, new cover art by Matt Mahurin, and a gallery of old paperback and hardcover editions.
FICTION | November | 5½ x 9 | 360 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 | 978-1-61347-020-6 USC

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Centipede Press I Married a Dead Man
Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich is at his best here in this well-paced novel of identity, second chances, and a past that refuses to go away. With a fine new introduction, new cover art by Matt Mahurin, and a gallery of old paperback and hardcover editions and film posters.
FICTION | November | 5½ x 9 | 300 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 | 978-1-61347-022-0 USC

The Divinity Student and Others
Novels and Stories of Michael Cisco Limited Edition

Michael Cisco
Michael Cisco’s surreal horror is legendary and has a large cult following. Cisco also has the admiration of the best writers in the field. But never before have his works been collected in hardcover form. This collection of four novels and a short story volume uses the author’s preferred texts. Each book is signed and numbered by the author.
FICTION / HORROR | December | 5½ x 8½ | 600 pp Smyth Sewn US $195.00 | CAN $214.50 | 978-1-61347-027-5 USC

American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

One of the most maligned, misunderstood, and well-read books of the 1990s makes its first-ever United States hardcover appearance. This new edition features terrific cover art, a new introduction by John Langan, and a lengthy interview with the author. All copies signed by the author.
FICTION / HORROR | September | 6 x 9 | 416 pp Smyth Sewn US $125.00 | 978-1-61347-019-0 US

Tales of the Grand Guignol
Maurice Level
Maurice Level (1875–1926), was a French writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre that were sometimes staged by le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol. Level’s short stories are strong on obsession and violence. Their surprise endings are reminiscent of the stories of Guy de Maupassant.
FICTION / HORROR | December | 6 x 9 | 436 pp Trade Cloth US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-933618-94-4 USC

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Centipede Press Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
One of the touchstone horror novels of the 1970s, Harvest Home was Thomas Tryon’s second novel and was published to wide critical and commercial acclaim. This new edition features the original color dust jacket art by Paul Bacon, new interior works by Alex McVey, a new introduction by Tim Curran, and an afterword by a number of Tryon associates.
FICTION / HORROR | September | 6 x 9 | 500 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout Smyth Sewn US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-933618-93-7 USC

The Dark
James Herbert

The Dark is an ambitious novel, with solid characterization and excellent suspense, here reprinted with a fine new introduction by Brian Hodge, a cover by Gustav Klimt, the original Signet paperback art, a bonus short story by James Herbert, and a long interview with Herbert from 1984. All copies signed.
FICTION / HORROR | November | 6 x 9 | 428 pp Trade Cloth US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-933618-67-8 USC

The Nightwalker
Thomas Tessier
Thomas Tessier’s take on the werewolf novel is one of the more inventive and challenging works in the genre, and the novel has a highly esteemed reputation. This edition has an introduction by Jack Ketchum, a new afterword by the author, a bonus short novel “The Dreams of Dr Ladybank,” and the original Signet paperback cover art.
FICTION / HORROR | September | 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Cloth US $100.00 | CAN $109.99 | 978-1-933618-24-1 USC

The Tribe
Limited Edition

Bari Wood, T.M. Wright, and Aeron Alfrey
Highly acclaimed when first published in 1981, The Tribe follows a group of Jewish people who not only survive the concentration camps, but thrive. Their secret follows them to modern-day Brooklyn, where they continue their relationship and keep their deadly cabal until one day a new threat arrives. This fine novel draws heavily on Jewish mythology and folklore. All copies signed.
FICTION / HORROR | September | 6 x 9 | 326 pp Color illustrations and B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $100.00 | CAN $109.99 | 978-1-933618-77-7 USC

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Central Recovery Press
Las Vegas, Nevada

Committed to recovery. Central Recovery Press (CRP) is a full-service publishing and intellectual property clearinghouse specializing in addiction treatment and recovery and behavioral healthcare topics. Our publications and materials are written specifically for recovering individuals and their families, addiction and other behavioral health professionals, treatment facilities, and the general public. At Central Recovery Press, behavioral health refers to the reciprocal relationship between human behavior and mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. Achieving and maintaining balance within and among these four essential life domains provides a framework for healthy, purposeful living and offers holistic, sensible solutions to many of life’s problems. Our mission is to shed light on the age-old stigma associated with addiction, treatment, and recovery, and shift the prevailing understanding toward a paradigm of one disease with many manifestations, thereby offering an expansive view of recovery to a broader and more diverse audience. We are committed to offering exceptional published material on this critically important subject, and we accomplish this with content that is original and inspiring, using a distribution model that includes everything from traditional bound books to the latest in broadcasting and web technologies.

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Central Recovery Press Game Plan
A Man’s Guide to Achieving Emotional Fitness

David J. Powell, PhD; Alan Lyme, LCSW; and Stephen Andrew, LCSW
If you’re a man, get ready to unleash the hero inside, and if you’re a woman, get ready to understand men like never before. This practical and provocative book is packed with the lessons your dad never taught you about living life to the fullest, free from addiction and other self-destructive behaviors. From “Growing up Male” to “Men and Their Children,” Game Plan tells it the way only a man sees it and only as a man can hear it. David J. Powell, PhD, is president of the International Center for Health Concerns, Inc. and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He trains internationally on clinical supervision, family therapy, and men’s issues in recovery. He is the author of Playing Life’s Second Half: A Man’s Guide for Turning Success into Significance. Alan Lyme, LCSW, is clinical supervisor for the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Grant Program in Georgia. Alan is a Motivational Interviewing trainer, an internationally certified clinical supervisor, and an internationally certified alcohol and drug counselor.
SELF-HELP / HEALTH & FITNESS November 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-96-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-04-7 W

Stephen Andrew, LCSW, is an international consultant and trainer. He serves as the chief energizing officer for Health Education & Training Institute in Portland, Maine. Stephen is a true visionary and is the creator of SpiritWind, a CD series for personal growth and recovery.

An invaluable resource for any man who wants to lead a more whole and satisfying life. Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • National advertising: Baker & Taylor • Counselor • Ingram • Library Journal • New Leaf catalogs • Publishers Weekly • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress .com/books/gameplan/ Author Hometowns: East Granby, CT / Perry, GA / Portland, ME

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Central Recovery Press My Life As a Border Collie
Freedom from Codependency

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP

In this fun, inviting look at a serious topic—codependence—Nancy L. Johnston shares the life lessons she learned from her observations of the relationship behaviors exhibited by her pet collie, Daisy: “The book began by my noticing behaviors in Daisy that resemble the codependent behaviors in me, which I have been working to moderate through my recovery. Daily I am struck by our tendencies to attend to others, to herd, to overreact.” Johnston’s delightful book examines twelve specific behaviors that, in their extreme form, can be codependent. It also offers new information on codependence and help for it, including the latest research-supported findings, so that readers can understand “What am I doing that is not producing the relationship results I really want?” Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, is a licensed psychotherapist and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner in private practice in Lexington, Virginia. She has thirty-three years of clinical experience addressing a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. Johnston specializes in treating adolescents and adults, and has always had a special interest in addiction and its effects on both individuals and family systems. Her first book, Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else, was published by Central Recovery Press in 2011.
A whimsical yet meaningful look at codependency by relating it to traits observed in the author’s beloved border collie, Daisy.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / PSYCHOLOGY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936290-92-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-00-9 W

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • National advertising: Baker & Taylor • Counselor • Ingram • Library Journal • New Leaf catalogs • Publishers Weekly • National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign • Mid-Atlantic regional 10-city book tour • Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress .com/books/mylifeasabordercollie/ Author Hometown: Natural Bridge Station, VA

Disentangle When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP PSYCHOLOGY 6 x 9 | 284 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.99 978-1-936290-03-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-49-9 W

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Central Recovery Press Intimate Treason
Healing the Trauma for Partners Confronting Sex Addiction

Claudia Black, PhD, and Cara Tripodi, LCSW
Those in an intimate relationship with someone struggling with sex addiction will find hope and relief as they work through the exercises in this self-help workbook. They will also develop a better understanding of what is happening in their lives and find a path to healing and recovery. Claudia Black, PhD, is a renowned addiction and codependency expert recognized for her pioneering work with family systems and addictive disorders.
PSYCHOLOGY September A Paperback Original 8⅜ x 10⅜ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-936290-93-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-01-6 W

Cara Tripodi, LCSW, is the executive director of Sexual Trauma & Recovery (STAR) in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies National advertising: Baker & Taylor, Counselor, Ingram, Library Journal, New Leaf catalogs, Publishers Weekly • National radio campaign Outreach to men’s and women’s general health interest publications Social media campaign • Pacific Northwest regional 10-city tour Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/intimatetreason/ Author Hometowns: Bainbridge Island, WA / Wynnewood, PA

Partners affected by sex addiction learn to develop healthy boundaries and make positive changes.

The Light Side of the Moon
Reclaiming Your Lost Potential

Ditta M. Oliker, PhD
Learn about the unconscious survival systems developed in childhood to protect ourselves. Ditta M. Oliker shows us how to recognize and dismantle these systems now that they have outlived their usefulness and how to achieve personal fulfillment in the present. Ditta M. Oliker, PhD, is a founding member of Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum. Her PhD in clinical psychology is from the University of California, Los Angeles, and she has been in private practice for more than thirty years. She is a frequent lecturer at universities and mental health facilities.
SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY October 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936290-95-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-03-0 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: Baker & Taylor, Counselor, Ingram, Library Journal, New Leaf catalogs, Publishers Weekly • National radio campaign Outreach to men’s and women’s general health interest publications and websites Social media campaign • 5-city tour Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/thelightsideofthemoon/ Author Hometown: Venice, CA

Uncover the hidden behaviors that are keeping you from living the life you’ve always wanted.

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Central Recovery Press Behavioral Addiction
Screening, Assessment, and Treatment

An-Pyng Sun, PhD; Larry Ashley, EdS; and Lesley Dickson, MD
Written in scientific prose that can also be understood by the layperson, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for those working in the addiction field or anyone interested in learning more about this devastating disease. An-Pyng Sun, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Social Work. Larry Ashley, EdS, is the addictions specialist and undergraduate coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Lesley Dickson, MD, is ABPN board-certified in general psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and psychosomatic illness.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: Baker & Taylor, Counselor, Ingram, Library Journal, New Leaf catalogs, Publishers Weekly • National radio campaign • Outreach to men’s and women’s general health interest publications and websites • Social media campaign • 5-city tour Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/behavioraladdiction/ Author Hometowns: Henderson, NV / Las Vegas, NV PSYCHOLOGY January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-97-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-05-4 W

A reference manual that presents behavioral addiction in an accessible fashion.

It’s Not About You, Except When It Is
A Field Manual For Parents of Addicted Children

Barbara Victoria
Based on the author’s own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery. An essential book to help parents navigate this confusing and uncharted landscape—in the author’s words, “Planet Paradox.” Barbara Victoria is a parent who struggled with her own child’s addiction. She has been active in Al-Anon for many years.
SELF-HELP / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-94-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-02-3 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: Baker & Taylor, Counselor, Ingram, Library Journal, New Leaf catalogs, Publishers Weekly • National radio campaign • Outreach to men’s and women’s general health interest publications • Social media campaign • 5-city tour Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/itsnotaboutyou/ Author Hometown: Blairsville, GA

Straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in or out of recovery.

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Recent & Recommended from Central Recovery Press A Day without Pain
Revised Edition

Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM
With the increasing abuse of prescription drugs affecting every facet of society, this book addresses treating chronic pain without opioids and/or other prescription painkillers. The focus is on a holistic approach to living with chronic pain. Written in an easy-to-read, user-friendly format with an accompanying glossary of medical terms.
SELF-HELP | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 264 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-936290-62-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-98-7 W | Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-9799869-5-6

Leave the Light On
A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery

Jennifer Storm
A revealing, hopeful account of a young woman’s ascent out of the bleak despair of addiction and how recovery helped her confront the traumas and secrets that kept her living in the dark for so long.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 | 978-0-9818482-2-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-40-6 W

Pain Recovery
How to Find Balance and Reduce Suffering from Chronic Pain

Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM; Frank J. Szabo, Jr., LADC; Daniel Shiode, PhD; and Robert Hunter, PhD
This comprehensive workbook was developed for anyone struggling with chronic pain and dependence on opioids or other painkillers. Based on a program that has proven highly successful in a treatment setting.
SELF-HELP | Available Now | 8⅜ x 10⅜ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $20.95 | CAN $23.50 | 978-0-9799869-9-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-37-6 W

The Truth Begins with You
Reflections to Heal Your Spirit

Claudia Black, PhD
Illustrated by Lynne Adamson
A beautiful gift for oneself or others, this book will help open the window and let in the light that will guide readers to finding inner strength, wisdom, and serenity.
SELF-HELP | Available Now | 4½ x 6½ | 186 pp | 20 duotone illustrations Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-936290-61-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-78-9 W

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Recent & Recommended from Central Recovery Press The Mindful Addict
A Memoir of the Awakening of a Spirit

Tom Catton
The enlightening and worldly journeys of a once hopeless addict whose life was profoundly changed after a “chance” meeting with a nomadic spiritual healer.
SELF-HELP | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $21.50 | 978-0-9818482-7-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-44-4 W

Meditations for Pain Recovery
Tony Greco
This book features 365 unique entries for those in recovery from chronic pain and co-occurring addiction. Meditations address both pain recovery and addiction recovery with an eye to developing the reader’s “four points of balance.”
HEALTH & FITNESS | Available Now | 5½ x 7½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.99 | 978-0-9818482-8-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-45-1 W

Disentangle
When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else

Nancy L. Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP
An inspiring and practical guide for people seeking to find emotional freedom within relationships, whether those relationships are with an intimate partner; parent-child or other family members, friends, or those in the workplace.
PSYCHOLOGY | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 284 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.99 | 978-1-936290-03-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-49-9 W

A Spiritual Path to a Healthy Relationship
A Practical Approach

Steve McCord, MFT, and Angie McCord, CC
Husband and wife authors Steve and Angie McCord, a couple with more than twenty years in recovery each, show you what works for them. Drawing from lessons learned in their own relationship, the McCords provide wise counsel about what helps and what hurts a relationship.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.99 | 978-1-936290-65-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-77-2 W

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Central Recovery Press Backlist
Above and Beyond: 365 Meditations for Transcending Chronic Pain and Illness J.S. Dorian Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-66-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-82-6 W Becoming Normal: An Ever-Changing Perspective Mark Edick Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 978-0-9818482-1-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-39-0 W Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Maté, MD eBook US $2.99 | CAN $3.50 978-1-936290-69-7 W Dancing in the Dark: How to Take Care of Yourself When Someone You Love Is Depressed Bernadette Stankard and Amy Viets Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-70-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-83-3 W Dopefiend: A Father’s Journey From Addiction to Redemption Tim Elhajj Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936290-63-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-90-1 W Fear: Feel It, Face It, and Grow Mark Edick Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-936290-72-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-85-7 W Finding a Purpose in the Pain: A Doctor’s Approach to Addiction Recovery and Healing James L. Fenley, Jr., MD Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-71-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-84-0 W First Star I See Jaye Andras Caffrey; Illustrated by Lynne Adamson Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-936290-01-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-48-2 W From Bagels to Buddha: How I Found My Soul and Lost My Fat Judi Hollis, PhD Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936290-81-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-89-5 W From Heartbreak to Heart’s Desire: Developing a Healthy GPS (Guy Picking System) Dawn Maslar, MS Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 978-0-9818482-6-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-43-7 W Guide Me in My Recovery: Prayers for Times of Joy and Times of Trial The Reverend John T. Farrell, PhD Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-936290-00-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-47-5 W Guide Me in My Recovery: Prayers for Times of Joy and Times of Trial (Gift Edition) The Reverend John T. Farrell, PhD Cloth Text US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-1-936290-02-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-47-5 W Legacy of Shame and the Addictive Process Claudia Black, MSW, PhD eBook US $1.99 | CAN $1.99 978-1-936290-67-3 W Mommy’s Coming Home from Treatment Denise D. Crosson, PhD; Illustrated by Mike Motz Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 978-0-9799869-4-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-30-7 W Mommy’s Gone to Treatment Denise D. Crosson, PhD; Illustrated by Mike Motz Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 978-0-9799869-1-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-29-1 W My First Year in Recovery: A Journal for the Journey Edited by Central Recovery Press Cloth Text US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-0-9818482-4-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-42-0 W My Five-Year Recovery Planner: Looking to the Future, One Day at a Time Edited by Central Recovery Press Cloth Text US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-0-9818482-9-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-46-8 W My Pain Recovery Journal Edited by Central Recovery Press Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-0-9799869-7-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-35-2 W Of Character: Building Assets in Recovery Denise D. Crosson, PhD Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-9799869-2-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-31-4 W Pain and Addiction: A Challenging Co-Occurring Disorder Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM eBook US $1.99 | CAN $1.99 978-1-936290-68-0 W Pain Recovery for Families: How to Find Balance When Someone Else’s Chronic Pain Becomes Your Problem Too Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM; Frank J. Szabo, Jr., LADC; Daniel Shiode, PhD; and Robert Hunter, PhD Trade Paper US $20.95 | CAN $23.50 978-0-9818482-3-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-41-3 W Picking Up the Pieces without Picking Up: A Guidebook through Victimization for People in Recovery Jennifer Storm Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-64-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-79-6 W Recovery A to Z: A Handbook of Twelve-Step Key Terms and Phrases Edited by Central Recovery Press Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.99 978-1-936290-04-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-75-8 W Riding a Straight and Twisty Road: Motorcycles, Fellowship, and Personal Journeys James Hesketh Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936290-05-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-51-2 W The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe’s Dad Finds Recovery Helen H. Moore; Illustrated by John C. Blackford; Foreword by Claudia Black, PhD Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-9818482-0-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-38-3 W The Soul Workout: Getting and Staying Spiritually Fit Helen H. Moore Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-9799869-8-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-36-9 W Tails of Recovery: Addicts and the Pets That Love Them Nancy A. Schenck Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-0-9799869-6-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-34-5 W When the Servant Becomes the Master: A Comprehensive Addiction Guide for Those Who Suffer from the Disease, the Loved Ones Affected by It, and the Professionals Who Assist Them Jason ZW Powers, MD; Foreword by Mark S. Gold, MD Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-936290-73-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-86-4 W Why Is Brian So Fat? Gary Solomon, PhD; Illustrated by Lynne Adamson Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936290-74-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-76-5 W Yoga and the Twelve-Step Path Kyczy Hawk Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936290-80-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936290-88-8 W

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Chin Music Press Yokohama Yankee
The Helm Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

Leslie D. Helm

Leslie D. Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family’s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family’s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm overcome his cynicism and embrace his Japanese and American heritage. This is the first book to look at Japan across five generations, with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great-grandfather’s unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to life. Leslie D. Helm is a veteran foreign correspondent, having served eight years in Tokyo for Business Week and the Los Angeles Times. Currently, he is editor of Seattle Business, a monthly magazine that has won multiple first place excellence in journalism awards in the Pacific Northwest. Helm earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism and in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, where his family has lived since 1868.
A sweeping memoir about a foreign family’s five generations as outsiders in Japan.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 384 pp Color and B&W photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9844576-6-3 W

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Chin Music Press Jackson Squared
The Heart of the Quarter

Tom Varisco
Foreword by John Biguenet
“Does anyone else smell beignets?” Tom Varisco documents the French Quarter’s Jackson Square with funny, surprising, and sometimes shocking images and essays. Even the statue of Old Hickory weighs in with some colorful art criticism and an ode to the Who Dat nation. The book is an irreverent celebration of one of America’s most famous destinations. Tom Varisco is the creator of Spoiled, a photo book of Hurricane Katrina refrigerator art, and Signs of New Orleans, a record of the city’s colorful street signs.
PHOTOGRAPHY / TRAVEL October A Paperback Original Broken Levee Books 8¾ x 8¾ | 96 pp Color photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-0-9850416-1-8 W

John Biguenet has published seven books, including the novel Oyster and The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories.
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Co-op available Public radio campaign • National print and online campaign Promotion through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Regional Southern tour

The French Quarter, quirks and all, exposed like never before in this irreverent insider’s look at Jackson Square.

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Baton Rouge, LA • New Orleans, LA • New York, NY Author Hometown: New Orleans, LA

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
Third Edition

Edited by Bruce Rutledge and David Rutledge
“So lovely to look at, so pleasant to hold, with a bit of intrigue or insight on every page.”—The Times-Picayune This book of essays and art was compiled in the fall of 2005 while the writers were living in exile and watching their city drown. This lovingly designed paperback edition opens with a line of cars leaving New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp. The anthology, structured like a jazz funeral, includes essays by Jason Berry and Toni McGee Causey as well as reproductions of ninteenth century prints of the city.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / TRAVEL September Broken Levee Books 5¼ x 7¾ | 160 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $12.50 | CAN $13.99 978-0-9850416-0-1 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-9741995-7-3

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After Katrina, New Orleanians ponder their city’s fate in this mournful and at times celebratory jazz-funeral anthology.

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Cinco Puntos Press Make It, Take It
Rus Bradburd

An inventive novel, Make It, Take It sneaks the reader past the press conferences, locker rooms, and huddles of college basketball. Without judgment or sentimentality, Rus Bradburd lays bare the web of conflicts between players and coaches, blacks and whites, revealing the complex humanity of a team’s inner circle. Here, every choice has a very real cost. Steve Pytel is an assistant coach and top recruiter for a university basketball program. His goals are simple. He wants to keep his job and be a head coach someday. Keeping his wife barely makes the list. The team staggers; everyone’s days are numbered. Pytel was responsible for landing prized recruits Leonard Redmond and Jamal Davis. Pytel’s duties now? Keep Leonard out of jail. Make sure Jamal ignores the advice of his preacher, sidesteps his girlfriend’s pregnancy, and puts the ball in the basket. Good thing Pytel doesn’t carry around a bagful of scruples. Rus Bradburd is the author of the controversial Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson (HarperCollins/Amistad) and a memoir, Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops (University of New Mexico Press). He spent fourteen years as a college basketball coach, working for legends Don Haskins and Lou Henson. A regular contributor to SLAM Magazine, his essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, and Chicago’s SouthtownStar. He is married to poet Connie Voisine. They live in New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois.
Witty and cynical, this isn’t the college basketball we hear about on TV. And Rus Bradburd knows what he’s talking about.

FICTION January A Paperback Original 5½ x 9 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935955-43-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-44-3 W

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Los Angeles, CA • Chicago, IL • Albuquerque, NM • Memphis, TN • Austin, TX • Dallas, TX • El Paso, TX • Houston, TX Author Hometown: Las Cruces, NM

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Selected Backlist from Cinco Puntos Press

Country of the Bad Wolfes
James Carlos Blake
FICTION 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-03-0 USC

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
FICTION 6 x 9 | 180 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-32-0 USC

Growing Up in a Warzone: An Anthology of Essays from Around the Globe J.L. Powers
HISTORY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-22-1 USC

That Mad Game

The New Poetry of Disability Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen
POETRY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 326 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-935955-05-4 USC

Beauty is a Verb

My Marriage A to Z
A Big-City Romance Elinor Nauen
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 64 pp Duotone art throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-935955-04-7 USC

Dealing Death and Drugs
The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico Beto O’Rourke and Susie Byrd
POLITICAL SCIENCE 5 x 7 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-933693-94-1 USC

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City Lights Publishers Sister Spit
Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road

Edited by Michelle Tea

A collection of writing and artwork from the irreverent, flagrantly queer, hilariously feminist, tough-talking, genre-busting ruffians who have toured with the legendary Sister Spit. Co-founded in 1997 by award-winning writer Michelle Tea, Sister Spit is an underground cultural institution, a genderbending writers’ cabaret that brings a changing roster of both emerging writers and some of the most important queer and counterculture artists of the day to universities, art galleries, community spaces, and other venues across the country and worldwide. Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road captures the provocative, politicized, and risk-taking elements that characterize the Sister Spit aesthetic, stamping the raw energy and signature style of the live show onto the page. Bratty poets and failed priestesses, punk angst and tough love, too much to drink and tattooed timelines—this anthology captures it all in a collection of poetry, personal narrative, fiction, and artwork. Featuring a who’s who of queer and queer-centric writers and artists, the collection functions as a travelog, a historical document, and a yearbook from irreverent graduates of the school of hard knocks. Includes contributions by Eileen Myles, Beth Lisick, Michelle Tea, MariNaomi, Cristy Road, Ali Liebegott, Blake Nelson, Lenelle Moise, and many more! Editor and Sister Spit co-founder Michelle Tea is an award-winning author, poet, and literary arts organizer. She is the author of Valencia and Rent Girl, and the co-editor of Los Angeles Times bestseller Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache, among other works.
An outrageous and wildly popular performance tour of queer-centric, feminist, sex-positive writers, captured in print and coming to your town!

FICTION / POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 225 pp 10 color illustrations, 10 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-87286-566-2 W

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10,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • Outreach to GLBT radio and print • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.radarproductions.org

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Bloomington, IN • Amherst, MA • Holyoke, MA • Ann Arbor, MI • Minneapolis, MN • Las Vegas, NV • Brooklyn, NY • Portland, OR • Salt Lake City, UT • Olympia, WA • Milwaukee, WI • Vancouver, BC • Toronto, ON Editor Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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City Lights Publishers National Insecurity
The Cost of American Militarism

Melvin A. Goodman

Praise for Melvin A. Goodman’s The Failure of Intelligence: “An important and eye-opening account for policy makers and concerned citizens alike.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Upon leaving the White House in 1961, President Eisenhower famously warned Americans about the dangers of a “military industrial complex,” and was clearly worried about the destabilizing effects of a national economy based on outsized investments in military spending. Today in 2012, as more and more Americans fall into poverty and the global economy spirals downward, the United States is spending more on the military than ever before. What are the consequences and what can be done? Melvin A. Goodman, a twenty-four-year veteran of the CIA, brings peerless authority to his argument that US military spending is indeed making Americans poorer and less secure while undermining our political standing in the world. Drawing from his firsthand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, Goodman offers an insider’s critique of the US military economy from President’s Eisenhower’s farewell warning to Barack Obama’s expansion of the military’s power. He outlines a much needed vision for how to alter our military policy, practices, and spending in order to better position the United States globally and enhance prosperity and security at home. Melvin A. Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. A former professor of international security at the National War College and an intelligence adviser to strategic disarmament talks in the 1970s, he is the author of several books, including the critically acclaimed The Failure of Intelligence.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-0-87286-589-1 W

A former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security.

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Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • New York, NY Author Hometown: Washington, DC

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City Lights Publishers Occupy the Economy
Challenging Capitalism

Richard Wolff
Interviewed by David Barsamian
Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost jobs, homes, and healthcare. Many with jobs watch pensions, benefits, and job security decline. While most live with increasing uncertainty, the system makes the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the root causes of the current crisis, its unjust social costs, and what can and should be done to turn things around. While others blame corrupt bankers and unregulated speculators, the government, or even the poor who borrowed, the authors show that the causes of the crisis run much deeper. They reach back to the 1970s when the capitalist system itself shifted, ending the century-old pattern of rising wages for Americans and thereby enabling the top 1% to become ultra-rich at the expense of the 99%. Since then, economic injustice has become chronic and further corrupted politics. Occupy’s indignation with the whole system mobilizes a diverse range of Americans who seek basic change. Occupying the Economy not only clarifies and analyzes the crisis in US capitalism today, it also points toward solutions that can shape a far better future for all. Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and visiting professor at the New School in New York City. He hosts a program on WBAI and is author of the hit book Capitalism Hits the Fan. David Barsamian is director of Alternative Radio and author of many interview books, including Targeting Iran with Noam Chomsky.
A hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of capitalism to deliver public good. Marketing Plans
• • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.rdwolff.com

POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now A Paperback Original City Lights Open Media 5 x 7 | 180 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-87286-567-9 W

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Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Boulder, CO • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA • Austin, TX Author Hometowns: New York, NY / Boulder, CO

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City Lights Publishers Winged Shoes and a Shield
Collected Stories

Don Bajema
“A walking badass of a book.”—Rolling Stone Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California’s post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie’s transformation from a boy’s innocence to a man’s hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely uplifting odysseys, from hope to despair and back again.
FICTION October 5½ x 8 | 290 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-87286-588-4 W

Author, screenwriter, actor, and performer Don Bajema lives in New York.
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Advance reader copies National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.donbajema.com

Vivid, unforgettable stories of a young boy’s aching hopefulness, tortured disillusionment, and the confusing struggle of growing up in 1960s.

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Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: New York, NY

A Long Day’s Evening
Bilge Karasu
Translated by Aron Aji and Fred Stark
“One of Turkey’s most interesting modern writers.”—Booklist When the Emperor of Byzantium orders the destruction of all religious paintings and icons, Constantinople is thrown into crisis. Fear grips the monastery where Andronikos, a young monk, is thrown into a spiritual crisis. Amidst stirrings of resistance he decides to escape, leaving behind his beloved Ioakim, who must confront his own crisis of faith and decide where to place his allegiance. The dualities of dogma and faith, individual and society, East and West, are embodied in a story of prohibited love and devotion to the unseen.
FICTION November A Paperback Original 5 x 8½ | 150 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-591-4 W

Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was born in Istanbul. Often referred to as “the sage of Turkish literature,” during his lifetime he published collections of stories, novels, and two books of essays.
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Turkey’s great experimental modernist pens a philosophical novel in three parts about desire, faith, and the psychology of prohibited love.

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City Lights Publishers Time of Angels
Homero Aridjis
Illustrated by Francisco Toledo
One of Mexico’s most admired poets addresses the intangible reign of the angels amidst the ruins of our daily life. These poems offer faith in the eloquent silence of the angels as a sign of hope and point to glimpses of their presence among us. Time of Angels is a fable of sorts, with each poem accompanied by a drawing by Francisco Toledo in a deluxe, bilingual limited edition. Homero Aridjis (Solar Poems, City Lights Publishers, 2010) is also known for his pioneering work as an environmental activist and diplomat. Francisco Toledo is an internationally renowned painter and sculptor from Oaxaca, Mexico.
POETRY November A Paperback Original 10⅞ x 8 | 112 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-0-87286-564-8 USC Spanish bilingual

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A poetic fable, illustrated by one of Mexico’s most prominent artists, describes a dreamy contemplation of the reign of angels.

Nervous Device
City Lights Spotlight Series No. 8

Catherine Wagner
In Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner takes inspiration from William Blake’s “bounding line” to explore the poem as a body at the intersection between poet and audience. Using this as a figure for sexual, political, and economic interactions, Wagner’s poems shift between seductive lyricism and brash fragmentation as they negotiate the failure of human connection in the twilight of American empire. Catherine Wagner was born in Burma to American military parents. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, studying with Jorie Graham, Donald Revell, and Denis Johnson, and a PhD from the University of Utah. She teaches at Miami University.
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Outreach to poetry publications and websites • Social media campaign

POETRY October A Paperback Original City Lights Spotlight 5½ x 7 | 100 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-565-5 W

Author Events
New York, NY • Oxford, OH Author Hometown: Oxford, OH

With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire.

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City Lights Publishers The Wondrous Mushroom
Mycolatry in Mesoamerica

R. Gordon Wasson
Introduction by Daniel Pinchbeck
“From now on any comprehensive study of Ancient Mexican civilization must start from (and with) your discoveries.”—Octavio Paz “The late Mr. Wasson is the Abraham of the reborn awareness in Western civilization of the presence of the shamanically empowering mushroom.” —Terrence McKenna In 1957 Life magazine created a sensation by publishing an article about the experiences of a JP Morgan executive who took mind-altering mushrooms with a shaman woman in Mexico. The story captured the imagination of a generation, inspiring waves of intellectuals, artists, and seekers to travel in search of the mushrooms and the indigenous healer, Maria Sabina. Today, Gordon Wasson is credited with having triggered the psychedelic revolution and his influence lives on through the growing community of people who study indigenous spirituality, sacred plants, and their role in personal transformation. In celebration of Wasson’s pioneering work, we present a reprint of his classic The Wondrous Mushroom, an in-depth study of shamanic realities, mushrooms, and traditions connecting contemporary practices to pre-Conquest art, architecture, and culture. The book begins with Wasson’s first experiences taking mushrooms, going into a wealth of details about sacred indigenous ceremonies, culture, and practices. The Wondrous Mushroom reflects a lifetime of studies, personal experiences, and reflections on shamanism, culture, community well-being, healing, and spiritual strength. Long out of print, this new edition is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of psychedelics. R. Gordon Wasson (1898–1986) founded the field of “enthnomycology” and was considered the preeminent authority on the use of psychoactive mushrooms.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT March 7 x 10 | 280 pp B&W photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-87286-592-1 W

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Advance reader copies • Excerpts on: www.realitysandwich.com • Outreach to spirituality and drug-culture publications and websites • Social media campaign

The groundbreaking psychedelic classic about entheogenic mushrooms, shamanism, and mesoamerican cultures.

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY

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City Lights Publishers Robert Duncan in San Francisco
Expanded Edition

Michael Rumaker

A newly expanded edition of an enduring classic, Robert Duncan in San Francisco is both a portrait of the premier poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a fascinating account of gay life in late 1950s America. Following his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the postHowl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. His account of that time gives an unvarnished look at Duncan’s magnetic personality and occasional failings, while delivering vivid snapshots of other significant poets like Jack Spicer, John Wieners, and Joanne Kyger against the backdrop of legendary North Beach haunts like The Place, Vesuvio, and City Lights Books. Contrasting Duncan’s daringly frank homosexuality with his own then-closeted life, Rumaker conjures up with harrowing detail an era of police persecution of a largely clandestine gay community struggling to survive in the otherwise “open city” of San Francisco. First published in 1996, this expanded edition includes a selection of previously unpublished letters between Rumaker and Duncan, and an interview conducted for this edition, in which Rumaker provides further reflections on the poet and the period. Michael Rumaker has written several novels and short story collections, as well as the memoir Black Mountain Days. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Black Mountain College—where Duncan served as his outside thesis advisor—and Columbia University. He taught at City University of New York and the New School for Social Research.
A revealing portrait of the foremost poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and a gripping account of late 1950s gay life.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY January A Paperback Original City Lights/Grey Fox 5⅜ x 8 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-87286-590-7 W

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New York, NY Author Hometown: Buffalo, NY

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Selected Backlist from City Lights Publishers

Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters Bayard Rustin
Edited with an introduction by Michael G. Long Foreword by Julian Bond

I Must Resist

How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media Rory O’Connor
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 5 x 7 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-87286-556-3 W

Friends, Followers and the Future

The Historic Unfulfilled Promise
Foreword by Matthew Rothschild
HISTORY 5¼ x 8 | 184 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-87286-555-6 W

Howard Zinn

HISTORY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6 x 8½ | 276 pp 15 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-87286-578-5 W

The Meaning of Freedom
Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley
SOCIAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-87286-580-8 W

And Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis

Collected Poems (New & Expanded Edition) Lew Welch
Afterword by Gary Snyder
POETRY 5¾ x 9 | 256 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-0-87286-579-2 W

Ring of Bone

Foreword by David Meltzer
POETRY 5 x 7 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-577-8 W

Selected Poems Marilyn Buck

Inside/Out

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Coach House Books Maidenhead
Tamara Faith Berger

“Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild, and Michel Foucault. It’s a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.”—Sheila Heti On a mangy beach in Key West on an embarrassing family Spring Break vacation, Myra, naïve and curious, meets Elijah, a charismatic Tanzanian musician twice her age. Myra longs to lose her virginity to him, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive and violent woman with a strange power over him. Myra and her disintegrating family return home, and Myra falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world: Myra continues to experiment sexually with Elijah, while Gayl plays an integral part in the increasingly abject games. As Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race, and class, she explores territories unknown in herself. Maidenhead traverses the desperate, wild spaces of a teenage girl’s self-consciousness. How does a girl feel scared? What is she scared of? And how does telling yourself not to be scared really work? Tamara Faith Berger lives in Toronto, Ontario. She wrote porn for a living and attempted to make dirty films before publishing her first book, Lie With Me, which was made into a film. She has also published A Woman Alone at Night.

“Like Anaïs Nin, Berger pays little attention to what is expected of a woman writing smut.”—The Globe and Mail

FICTION September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 176 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-259-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-313-1 W

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Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • BEA author signing • Giveaways of Maidenhead condoms

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Brooklyn, NY Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Coach House Books Mad Hope
Heather Birrell

“This is a beautiful book: funny, whip-smart, compassionate, and gorgeously written. Heather Birrell belongs in the short story pantheon with Alice Munro, Lisa Moore, and Zsuzsi Gartner.”—Annabel Lyon In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don’t—they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania after a stu¸ dent makes a shocking request. The uncertainty, anxiety, and anticipation of pregnancy are examined through an online chat group. Parenting is viewed from the perspective of a gay man caring for his friend and her adopted son. A tragic plane crash becomes the basis for a meditation on motherhood and its discontents. Birrell uses precise, inventive language to capture the beautiful mess of being human—and more than lives up to her Journey Prize accolades. Her characters come to greet us, undo us, make us yearn, and make us smile.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 232 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-258-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-315-5 W

Heather Birrell is the author of the story collection I know you are but what am I? Her work has been honored with the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction and the Edna Staebler Award for creative nonfiction.

A Journey Prize–winning author returns with a kaleidoscope of off-kilter short stories about family in its many forms.

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Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Blog tour Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Coach House Books Probably Inevitable
Matthew Tierney

“Tierney accomplishes certain Albert Goldbarthian feats, weaving whiz-bang with philosophical insights that will break your heart.”—American Literary Review These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and legerdemain and jolted by the philosophy and science of time. “Time’s not the market, it’s the bustle; / not the price but worth,” he writes, sailing through the rhythms and algorithms of a world made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr. Matthew Tierney’s narrators grapple with the gap between what’s seen and what’s experienced, their minds tuned to one (probably) inevitable truth: the more I understand, the more I understand I’m alone. Matthew Tierney is the author of the Trillium Award–nominated The Hayflick Limit and Full Speed through the Morning Dark. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-261-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-318-6 W

“Matthew Tierney writes poems like a mad boy scientist.”—Eye Weekly

The Politics of Knives
Jonathan Ball

“[Ball is] one of our most exciting young poets.”—Robert Kroetsch If Lisa Robertson were to collide with David Lynch in a dark alley, the result would be a lot like The Politics of Knives. From shattered narratives to surrealistic fantasies, the poems in The Politics of Knives bridge the gap between the conventional and the experimental, combining the intellectual with the visceral. The complicity of language in violence, and the production of stories as both a defensive and offensive gesture, trouble the stability of these poetic sequences that dwell in the borderland between speaking and screaming. Jonathan Ball teaches English, film, and writing at two universities.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-262-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-320-9 W

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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Winnipeg, MB

Jonathan Ball’s poems of menace and horror promise to make him the Stephen King of verse.

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Coach House Books The Lease
Mathew Henderson
Inspired by the poet’s experiences working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, The Lease explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it. Equal parts character study, cultural documentary, and coming-of-age narrative, Henderson’s poems make it clear that however we may try to stay apart from them, the stubborn and unflattering realities of masculine culture persist, not just in isolated, dangerous environments, but in our very idea of what work is. No mark survives this place: you too will yield to unmemory. Give everything you are in three-day pieces. Watch the gypsy iron move, follow its commands. Tend the rusted steel like a shepherd. Mathew Henderson lives in Toronto, Ontario, writes about the prairies, and teaches at Humber College. The Lease is his first collection of poetry.
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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-263-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-322-3 W

A debut collection of poems written in the sweat, blood, and grease of those who labor in the oilfields.

Cutting Room
Sarah Pinder

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder’s poems navigate domestic and “natural” spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire while they scan scenes as an outsider or camera eye to unsettle and fray familiar settings. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. These are little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our undoing.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS December A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-264-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-324-7 W

Sarah Pinder was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and lives in Toronto, Ontario. This is her first collection.

Poems about the anxiety of the present— the dread that comes with being human at this particular moment.

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Advance reader copies Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Coach House Books The Beauty Is Relentless
The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Edited by Mike Hoolboom
“[Here] exists a kind of nakedness, a peeling away of propriety, a questioning of behavioral and social systems—and yet I find their work refreshingly playful and deeply generous.”—Deborah Stratman, University of Illinois at Chicago The literary post-punk short movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been tearing up the festival/gallery circuit for fifteen years with their blend of bedroom pop, perverse animations, and hopes for fame. In this collection of award-winning scripts and creative writings, scholars, video legends, and animal experts—including Steve Reinke, Sarah Hollenberg, Akira Lippit, and Tom Sherman—weigh in on why these movies matter. Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been collaborating since 1994. Their work has won the top prize at festivals in Ann Arbor and Chicago, and awards in New York, Zurich, and Hamburg. They teach at Syracuse University. Mike Hoolboom is an internationally renowned experimental moviemaker and critic.
Author Hometown: Lafayette, NY Editor Hometown: Toronto, ON

ART / PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 978-0-9682115-5-7 US

Writings by and about enfants terribles Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby and their ground-breaking movie art.

Some Great Idea
Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

Edward Keenan
Since 2010 Toronto’s headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto’s ascending as a mature global city. It raises questions: What role does a mayor play in a city’s temperament and self-confidence? Can a terrible mayor make a city better by forcing its citizens to engage? What place is there in our new decentralized, global, open-source world for an autocrat? Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at The Grid magazine in Toronto, Ontario. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards, he has written for and edited at Eye Weekly, Spacing magazine, and The Walrus.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 4½ x 7½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $10.00 978-1-55245-266-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-326-1 W

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National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Can a bad mayor make a city better?

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Selected Backlist from Coach House Books

Autobiography of Childhood
Sina Queyras
FICTION 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-55245-252-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-291-2 W

Tristan Hughes
FICTION 5¼ x 8¼ | 208 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-55245-253-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-293-6 W

Eye Lake

Maintenance
Rob Benvie
FICTION 5 x 8 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55245-251-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-295-0 W

Divide and Rule
Walid Bitar
POETRY 5 x 8 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-254-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-305-6 W

New Theatre
Susan Steudel
POETRY 5 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-255-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-307-0 W

Karen Hines
DRAMA 5 x 8 | 112 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-256-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-309-4 W

Drama

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Coffee House Press Hold It ’Til It Hurts
T. Geronimo Johnson

“The magnificence of Hold It ’Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book’s great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson’s storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don’t teach us how to live but Hold It ’Til It Hurts will make you hush and wonder.”—Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead “This rich and sophisticated first novel brings together pleasures rarely found in one book: Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a novel about war that goes in search of passionate love, a dreamy thriller, a sprawling mystery, a classical quest for a lost brother in which the shadowy quarry is clearly the seeker’s own self, and a meditation on family and racial identity that makes its forerunners in American fiction look innocent by comparison.”—Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award winner for Lord of Misrule When Achilles and his brother Troy Conroy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles—always his brother’s keeper—embarks on a harrowing journey in search of his brother, an experience that will change him forever. Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It ’Til It Hurts is a modern-day black man’s odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love and explores how we respond in the wake of disaster. T. Geronimo Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Best New American Voices, Indiana Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Illuminations, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Johnson teaches writing at the University of California–Berkeley. Hold It ’Til It Hurts is his first book.
A riveting debut—a black Afghanistan veteran in search of his lost brother amid the chaos of Hurricane Katrina.

FICTION September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 340 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-309-1 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • National advertising: Bookforum • Shelf Awareness • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 5-city national tour; regional Southern tour • Reading guide available

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Atlanta, GA • Decatur, GA • Baton Rouge, LA • New Orleans, LA Author Hometown: Berkeley, CA

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Coffee House Press Kind One
Laird Hunt

“There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt’s stories, with its echoes of habit caught in a timeless dialect, so we see the world he gives us as if new. ‘You hear something like that and it walks out the door with you.’”—Michael Ondaatje “Laird Hunt’s Kind One, about two slave girls who take their white mistress into captivity, is a profound meditation on the sexual and racial subconscious of America. . . . [A] gorgeous and terrifying novel.”—Danzy Senna As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother’s second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm “ninety miles from nowhere.” In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus’ “paradise”—a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm—until Linus’ attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and only companions. The events that follow Linus’ death change all three women for life. Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in antebellum America. Laird Hunt is the author of several works of fiction and a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA Award in Fiction. Currently on the faculty of the University of Denver’s creative writing program, he and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.
The powerful antebellum tale of three women and their evolving relationship as master, sister, friend, and captive.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-56689-311-4 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • National advertising: Bookforum • Shelf Awareness • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 5-city national tour • Reading guide available • Promotion through: www.lairdhunt.net

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Ray of the Star Laird Hunt FICTION 5¼ x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $14.95 978-1-56689-232-2 USC The Impossibly First Trade Paper Edition Laird Hunt Introduction by Percival Everett FICTION 5 x 7½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-56689-281-0 USC

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San Francisco, CA • Boulder, CO • Denver, CO • New York, NY Author Hometown: Boulder, CO

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Coffee House Press The Way of the Dog
Sam Savage

“Sam Savage [creates] some of the most original, unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction. . . . Readers are left with a voice so strong that Savage is able to derive significance from these events by sheer literary force.” —Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers “Savage’s skill is in creating complex first-person characters using nothing but their own voice.”—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times “[Savage] creates one of the most intriguing stories—and one of the most vivid characters—that this reader has encountered this year.”—The Writer Sam Savage’s most intimate, tender novel yet follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in “the now.” Sam Savage is the best-selling author of Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife, The Cry of the Sloth, and Glass. A native of South Carolina, Savage holds a PhD in philosophy from Yale University. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
A disillusioned artist looks for meaning in the wreckage of his life, and finds it in unexpected places.

FICTION February A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 152 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-56689-312-1 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • National advertising: Bookforum • Shelf Awareness • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Reading guide available

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Glass Sam Savage FICTION 5 x 7½ | 210 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-56689-273-5 USC The Cry of the Sloth Sam Savage FICTION 5 x 8 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $14.95 978-1-56689-231-5 USC

Author Hometown: Madison, WI

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Coffee House Press Read This!
Handpicked Favorites from America’s Indie Bookstores

Edited by Hans Weyandt
Introduction by Ann Patchett
“There is no greater joy for a bookseller than introducing a reader to a book they will love for the rest of their lives. Those of us in this business are, after all, matchmakers at heart. So consider this little book you now hold in your hands a sort of catalog of matchmakers.”—Ann Patchett “If I were still a bookseller, I’d be thrilled to share this wealth with my customers. As a reader, I’m deeply intrigued by the range of selections. . . . Do yourself a favor. Add Micawber’s Top 50 project to your must-read list.” —Robert Gray, Shelf Awareness This book offers lists of favorites that have flown under the radar, but off of bookstore shelves. First published on Hans Weyandt’s blog for Micawber’s Books, each list includes a bookseller’s top fifty books, anecdotes, and interviews about the life of being a bookseller, reader, and engaged citizen. All proceeds will go to American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE). Contributing bookstores include Book Passage, Tattered Cover Book Store, Three Lives & Company, Boswell Books, City Lights Bookstore, BookCourt, Harvard Book Store, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Prairie Lights, The King’s English Bookshop, Square Books, Magers & Quinn, Micawber’s Books, Unabridged Bookstore, Regulator Bookshop, Subterranean Books, Faulkner House Books, Skylight Books, Maria’s Bookshop, Inkwood Books, Rakestraw Books, RiverRun Bookstore, Sherman’s Books and Stationary, Iowa Book, and Fireside Books. Hans Weyandt is a co-owner at Micawber’s Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • National advertising: Publishers Weekly • Shelf Awareness • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • BLADs and postcard giveaways at BEA, ALA, and regional trade shows • Book display offer • Reading group kit, shelf talkers, and bookmarks available • Goodreads promotion and giveaway, online contests • Video trailer Editor Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

REFERENCE / LITERARY CRITICISM September A Paperback Original 4½ x 6½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-1-56689-313-8 W

Ann Patchett is the best-selling author of five novels, including Run, Bel Canto, and most recently, State of Wonder. She owns Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, Tennessee.
Twenty-five indie booksellers share the joy and wonder of books with must-read lists that “put a bookseller in your pocket.”

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Coffee House Press So Recently Rent a World
New and Selected Poems

Andrei Codrescu
Raconteur, poet, and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu delivers in his inimitable, irreverent style a collection that traverses subjects from aging to consumerism, to religion to mass media. Brilliantly funny yet deeply insightful, these poems illuminate Codrescu’s acerbic tone and outsized personality and capture the best of his oeuvre. Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1946, and immigrated to the United States in 1966. The author of more than thirty-five books, Codrescu has edited the literary magazine Exquisite Corpse, and his provocative commentary is featured regularly on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Codrescu currently resides in Arkansas.

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Advance reader copies National advertising: Poetry Project Newsletter Public radio campaign • Outreach to poetry publications and websites Promotion through: www.codrescu.com

POETRY December 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-56689-300-8 W Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-1-56689-304-6 W

A poetry selection that follows the upswell, downfall, and wake of forty-one years of wrestling the muse.

Rough, and Savage
Sun Yung Shin
“[These] accumulated poems [are] a smoldering tragedy, a heady descent, songs from a pit where what glints may be gems or the moon off snake scales.” —Douglas Kearney Sun Yung Shin’s poems animate the elements of the epic poem and Korean history across a dystopian dreamscape of fairy tale and folklore. Filled with pithy observations and striking lyrics, this collection explores alienation, moral isolation, and nationhood. Sun Yung Shin is the author of Skirt Full of Black, which won the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for poetry, and the children’s book Cooper’s Lesson, and is the co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Shin currently lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, and frequently returns to Korea.
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Advance reader copies National advertising: Korean Quarterly, Academy of American Poetry Outreach to poetry publications and websites Giveaways at BEA, Brooklyn Book Festival, Twin Cities Book Festival Promotion through: www.sunyungshin.com

POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 114 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-314-5 W

Author Events
Chicago, IL • Minneapolis, MN

Spirited and restlessly imaginative, Sun Yung Shin’s poems weave a lyrical collage of ancient fragments, fairy tale, and both Korean and American history.

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Coffee House Press Special Powers and Abilities
Raymond McDaniel
“McDaniel’s language trains every particle of your attention on the surface and what stirs beneath.”—C.D. Wright Inspired by the comic series The Legion of Super-Heroes, Raymond McDaniel’s poems morph superheroes into religious and mythological narratives. Using a range of traditional forms—versets, kennings, and sonnets—his poems consider the history of how we look at the future and take on an almost Talmudic complexity. Raymond McDaniel is the author of Saltwater Empire and Murder (a violet), a National Poetry Series selection. Born in Florida, McDaniel now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, teaches at the University of Michigan, and writes for The Constant Critic.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: Poetry Project Newsletter, Academy of American Poets Public radio campaign • Giveaways at BEA

POETRY January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 100 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-315-2 W

A futuristic, stunningly imaginative poetic exploration of superheroes, religion, and myth.

Author Events
Boston, MA • Ann Arbor, MI • New York, NY Author Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI

Green Is for World
Juliana Leslie
“Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious.”—Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series judge Peering through a macro lens at the shapes and voices of our universe, this collection captures the invisible and inexpressible elements of our world’s ruins and history while offering a “craving [for] details from the future.” Juliana Leslie was born in Cooperstown, New York. The author of More Radiant Signal (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and three chapbooks, Leslie is currently finishing a PhD at the University of California–Santa Cruz.
POETRY November 5½ x 8¼ | 74 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-316-9 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: Poetry Project Newsletter, Academy of American Poetry Public radio campaign Giveaways at BEA, Brooklyn Book Festival, Twin Cities Book Festival

Author Events A National Poetry Series selection chosen by Ange Mlinko, these are virtuosic lyrics for the visionaries among us.
Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Santa Cruz, CA • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • Northampton, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA

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Copper Canyon Press Selected Translations
Edited and translated by W.S. Merwin
“Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master.”—The New York Times “Merwin writes that the act of translation is ‘plainly impossible and nevertheless indispensable.’ We can be grateful that he feels compelled to master the impossible. . . . And that gift alone is priceless.”—The Wichita Eagle Selected Translations is the lifework from one of America’s greatest poets and translators. Dedicated to the art of translation since his undergraduate years at Princeton, Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin achieved an unmatched oeuvre of translated poems from every corner of the earth, from dozens of languages. This massive achievement is an essential volume for every library, public and private. From “In Praise of Darkness”: Translated from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges Old age (as others refer to it) can be the season of our good fortune. The animal has died, all but the dying. What remains is the man and his spirit. I live among vague luminous shapes that have not yet become darkness . . . W.S. Merwin was US Poet Laureate from 2010–2011. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Author and translator of over fifty books, Merwin lives in Hawaii and France.
Selected Translations is the crowning achievement for one of the world’s greatest and most prolific translators of poetry. Absolutely essential.

POETRY October 6 x 9 | 500 pp Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-55659-409-0 USC

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• National print and online campaign Editor Hometown: Haiku, HI

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Migration New & Selected Poems W.S. Merwin POETRY 6 x 8¾ | 570 pp Trade Paper US $24.00 | CAN $29.00 978-1-55659-261-4 USC The Shadow of Sirius W.S. Merwin POETRY 6⅛ x 9⅛ | 130 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.00 978-1-55659-310-9 USC Trade Cloth US $22.00 | CAN $24.50 978-1-55659-284-3 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Fall Higher
Dean Young
“Young has always stood out for his sharp humor, boundless poetic energy, and sheer readability. If adventurous poetry can sometimes feel like a tenuous tightrope walk, Young’s poems feel more like zip lines.”—The Boston Globe Fall Higher is a major collection by one of America’s most inventive and entertaining writers. In this paperback release, Dean Young’s work contends with the challenges of love, wryly cataloging mistakes, deterioration, and broken vows. Young’s humor is as sharp as ever, and coupled with a vulnerability that renders Fall Higher his most intimate collection to date. “The True Apology Takes Years” The true apology takes years. Terrible dry eyes! The tree rings grow closer and closer together but the nail is swallowed. Great heaps of rubble are moved up and down the shore. Finally a dance is performed to complete the forgiveness, stamping out small fires, the whole palladium decorated with thistles like the last twenty pages of a Victorian novel. Now that your hunger is gone you’re welcome to the banquet . . . Dean Young has published twelve books of poetry, including finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and Griffin Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of Texas and lives in Austin, Texas.
“A long, breathless thank-you for life’s seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness, and joy.”—Los Angeles Times

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-401-4 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55659-311-6

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• National print and online campaign Author Hometown: Austin, TX

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Fall Higher Dean Young POETRY 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Cloth US $22.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-55659-311-6 USC

Copper Canyon Press Bender
New and Selected Poems

Dean Young

“In Young’s work, the big essential questions—mortality, identity, the meaning of life—aren’t simply food for thought; they’re grounds for entertainment.” —The Toronto Star “Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young’s hilarious and cautionary poems.”—Booklist Bender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young’s twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by Surrealism, Dean Young’s poems flash with extravagant imagery, humorous speech, sly views of the quotidian, and the exposed nerves of heartache. As the American Academy of Arts and Letters raved, “Young’s poems are as entertaining as a three-ring circus and as imaginative as a canvas by Hieronymus Bosch. He is one of the most inventive and satisfying poets writing today.” From “Even Funnnier Looking Now”: If someone had asked me then, Do you suffer from the umbrage of dawn’s dark race horses, is your heart a prisoner of raindrops? Hell yes! I would have said or No way! Never would I have said, What could you possibly be talking about? I had just gotten to the twentieth century like a leftover girder from the Eiffel Tower. My Indian name was Pressure-Per-Square-Inch. I knew I was made of glass but I didn’t yet know what glass was made of: hot sand inside me like pee going all the wrong directions, probably into my heart which I knew was made of gold foil glued to dust . . .
“Only a rare poet can make a reader simultaneously cry and laugh this way.”—Publishers Weekly
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Cloth US $26.00 | CAN $28.50 978-1-55659-403-8 USC

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• National print and online campaign

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New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Austin, TX

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Copper Canyon Press Letters to Borges
Stephen Kuusisto
“A talented writer judged against any standard.”—USA Today Best-selling memoirist Stephen Kuusisto uses the themes of travel, place, religion, music, art, and loneliness to explore the relationship between seeing, blindness, and being. In poems addressed to Jorge Luis Borges—another poet who lived with blindness—Kuusisto leverages seeing as negative capability, creating intimacy with deep imagination and uncommon perceptions. “Alone” Today I understood While drinking tea & hearing rain That the word for birth & the one for sin Come from a single root In Finnish — that tongue they Spoke when I was small. Synnty, untranslatable, Original sin nearly, But softer, Like water Carried a long way In a jar In May. Stephen Kuusisto is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of two collections of poetry and two memoirs, including the best-selling Planet of the Blind (W. W. Norton & Company, 1998). A graduate from and former teacher at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kuusisto now teaches at Syracuse University.
“[Kuusisto] is a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor.”—The New York Times Also Available

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 110 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-386-4 USC

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Only Bread, Only Light Poems Stephen Kuusisto POETRY / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 5½ x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-55659-150-1 USC

Copper Canyon Press Our Andromeda
Brenda Shaughnessy
“A heady, infectious celebration.”—The New Yorker “Shaughnessy’s voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy.”—Harvard Review Brenda Shaughnessy’s heartrending third collection explores dark subjects— trauma, childbirth, loss of faith—and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new rules, she imagines a parallel existence in the galaxy of Andromeda. From “Our Andromeda”: Oh, maybe, Cal, we are home, if God will let us live here, with Andromeda inside us, doesn’t it seem we belong? Now and then, will you help me belong here, in this place where you became my child, and I your mother out of some instant of mystery of crash and matter . . . Brenda Shaughnessy earned degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Columbia University. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award and Interior with Sudden Joy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). She has taught creative writing at Princeton, New York University, and The New School, and currently teaches at Rutgers University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Confronting hard realities, Brenda Shaughnessy’s heart opens wide as she explores parallel universes and writes a utopian Andromeda of her imagination. Also Available

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-410-6 USC

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Human Dark with Sugar Brenda Shaughnessy POETRY 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-55659-276-8 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Sailing through Cassiopeia
Dan Gerber
“Gerber has a gentle touch and an unaffected, articulate voice that can be smart, funny, wise—sometimes all at the same time.”—Library Journal “The thing itself carries the weight of [Gerber’s] poems, which recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda, and Wright.”—Rain Taxi Dan Gerber’s mastery of layered imagery and crystalline vision marry European Romanticism with American Zen. These meditative poems engage the natural landscape of California’s oak savannas and memories of childhood, while calling upon an array of literary progenitors—from Robinson Jeffers and Rainer Maria Rilke to the classics of the Chinese canon—exploring what it means to be linguistically alive in an animal world. As ForeWord magazine wrote, “Dan Gerber’s poems are quick, graceful, alert to their surroundings, and rarely wasting a motion.” “The Word is the Picture of Things” Looking down at the lights of Earth, its constellations of lives, however unaware, signal back to the watching galaxies that have their seeing inside us. I praised flight and got stuck. I praised gravity and got lost. Along the way my life decays, and ripens . . . Dan Gerber is the author of seven collections of poetry, three novels, a book of short stories, and two books of nonfiction. A former racecar driver, he has traveled extensively as a journalist, particularly in Africa. His books have earned a Michigan Author Award and the Mark Twain Award. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.
“Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.”—Annie Dillard Also Available

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 110 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-408-3 USC

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A Primer on Parallel Lives Dan Gerber POETRY 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-55659-253-9 USC

Copper Canyon Press Charms Against Lightning
James Arthur

“That feeling of becoming a new person in a different place, even if it’s an illusion, is intoxicating to me, and always has been. I love writing about places, but only places where I don’t belong.”—James Arthur Awakening is the theme of this fiery debut about the “ghost world” of shadows and personae. A sense of history, politics, and place is an integrated and integral part of the whole, alive with stirring accounts of travel, intimate moments of solitude, and encounters with the ineffable. Romantic in spirit and contemporary in outlook, James Arthur writes exciting, rhythmical, elastic poems. “Charms against Lightning” Against meningitis and poisoned milk, flash floods and heartwreck, against daydreams Against losing your fingers, drinking detergent, earthquakes, baldness, divorce, against falling in love with a child Against lupus and lawsuits, lying stranded between nations, against secrets and frostbite, the burring of trains that never arrive Against songlessness, your mother’s depression, the death of the cedars, Siberian crane Against these talismans against lightning; the shutters swing, and clack their yellow teeth; the deep sky welters and the windows quiver James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and Narrative. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he earned degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Washington. He is a recent recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
James Arthur is among the most intriguing young poets writing today— a world traveler who composes poems entirely in his head.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-387-1 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Darkness Sticks to Everything
Collected and New Poems

Tom Hennen
Introduction by Jim Harrison
“As with Ted Kooser, Tom Hennen is a genius of the common touch. . . . They are amazingly modest men who early accepted poetry as a calling in ancient terms and never let up despite being ignored early on. They return to the readers a thousandfold for their attentions.”—Jim Harrison, from the introduction “One of the most charming things about Tom Hennen’s poems is his strange ability to bring immense amounts of space, often uninhabited space, into his mind and so into the whole poem.”—Robert Bly Tom Hennen gives voice to the prairie and to rural communities, celebrating— with sadness, praise, and astute observations—the land, weather, and inhabitants. In short lyrics and prose poems, he reveals the detailed strangeness of ordinary things. Gathered from six chapbooks that were regionally distributed, this volume is Hennen’s long-overdue introduction to a national audience. Includes an introduction by Jim Harrison. “In Falling Snow at a Farm Auction”
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 180 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-55659-404-5 USC

Straight pine chair Comfortable In anyone’s company, Older than grandmother It enters the present Its arms wide open Wanting to hold another young wife. Tom Hennen, author of six books of poetry, was born and raised in rural Minnesota. After abandoning college, he married and began work as a letterpress and offset printer. He helped found the Minnesota Writer’s Publishing House, then worked for the Department of Natural Resources wildlife section, and later at the Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Now retired, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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“Tom Hennen’s poetry is work of the highest order . . . I’m reminded again how deeply the earth inhabits us.”—Jim Harrison

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Copper Canyon Press Greenhouses, Lighthouses
Tung-Hui Hu
“Perplexity and wonder are integral parts of Tung-Hui Hu’s poetry, which is as elegant as it is surprising.”—Rain Taxi “This fresh and unexpected poet extends the lyric into the social space without losing any of song’s intensity or mystery.”—Mark Doty “Tung-Hui Hu works magic on the page.”—Linda Gregerson Weaving between the personal and cosmic I, Tung-Hui Hu’s lyrics seek the “greenhouse”—a place of saturation, growth—as a poetic space to cultivate new modes through which our common language can once again illuminate and guide—“lighthouse.” With minimalism and control, Greenhouses, Lighthouses draws subtly from photography, cinematography, and history to create haunting and memorable connections. From “A Gust of Wind”: There is so much he wants to ask his strange new wife: how many lovers she has had, American or Provolone, and why sometimes, listening to her, he can hear the sound of a radiator breathing steam in a cold room. But it feels ridiculous to doubt her, so he finds a patch of grass in the open field and speaks to it, bending down and burring his words through the blades . . . Tung-Hui Hu, author of three books of poetry, earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and a PhD in film from University of California Berkeley. He teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A poetic and provocative gesture toward cinematography, Tung-Hui Hu presents the ungraspable among memory, film, and history’s tantalizing ephemera. Also Available

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-406-9 USC

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Mine Tung-Hui Hu POETRY 5⅜ x 8½ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-1-931337-33-5 USC

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Copper Canyon Press A Larger Country
Tomás Q. Morín
Introduction by Tom Sleigh
“Tomás Morín’s poems are as infectious and spooky and darkly humorous as the Brothers Grimm, as shapely and colloquial and eloquent as John Donne, and as skeptical and addicted to history-as-fable as Zbigniew Herbert.” —Tom Sleigh, from the introduction “An energetic and moving book of fantasias and elegies.”—Edward Hirsch Selected from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Tomás Q. Morín’s debut is rich with the mastery of Morín’s lush storytelling. From war-torn images of Eastern Europe in the mid-1900s to modern-day glimpses of the American southwest, these poems are bold and brightly imagined. From “Castrato”: What do you call a gifted soprano with no balls who is too ugly to play the heroine, is never tall enough for the role of the hero? Wait a quarter century and you can fast forward past the floggings, the endless sermons, the giggles under alders with curious girls, busted noses, carped sisters with chubby boys, the innumerable nights of sleeplessness. Better to skip all this unpleasantness and descend the last rise toward the coast where you can stroll the docks . . . Tomás Q. Morín was born in Texas and educated at Texas State University and Johns Hopkins University. He lives in San Marcos, Texas, and teaches at Texas State University.
In this exhilarating APR/Honickman First Book Prize–winning debut, Tomás Q. Morín interacts intimately with history and story to craft complex and fantastical portraits.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original American Poetry Review APR Honickman 1st Book Award 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9663395-9-8 USC

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All-American Poem Matthew Dickman Introduction by Tony Hoagland POETRY APR Honickman 1st Book Award 7 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9776395-4-0 USC Rough Honey Melissa Stein Introduction by Mark Doty POETRY APR Honickman 1st Book Award 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-0-9776395-9-5 USC

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Dewi Lewis Publishing Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit
Mexico at War

David Rochkind
Over the past six years Mexico has been consumed by a brutal conflict—the battle against the drug cartels has escalated, more than thirty five thousand people have been killed, and kidnappings have skyrocketed. The narrative of Mexico’s conflict is often reduced to the body count on the border, but the offensive against the cartels has caused an eruption of violence that is not isolated to one region. David Rochkind explores the stress and tension left in the wake of such violence and illustrates how the conflict impacts, and handicaps, Mexico’s future.
PHOTOGRAPHY November 9¾ x 12 | 144 pp 90 color photographs Trade Cloth US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 978-1-907893-24-7 USC

Photographer Hometown: Washington, DC

The wounds of Mexico’s war on drugs bleed into every corner of the country, staining the fabric of everyday life.

Billy Monk
Night Club Photographs

Billy Monk
Billy Monk worked as a bouncer in the notorious Catacombs club in the dock area of Cape Town during the 1960s. He captures the raw energy of the club, its decadence and tragedy, its humanity and joy. The internationally acclaimed photographer David Goldblatt notes: “Monk’s non-judgmental, even cool-eyed awareness of the photographic possibilities of the bizarre pervades the work, and yet this awareness is never denigratingly exploitative. There is a strong empathetic spirit throughout.” First exhibited in 1982, it is now receiving significant media attention.
PHOTOGRAPHY October 9½ x 11 | 96 pp 47 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-907893-18-6 USC

Cult photographer Billy Monk presents powerful, poignant nightclub photographs from 1960s South Africa.

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Dewi Lewis Publishing Les Amies De Place Blanche
Christer Strömholm

Originally published in 1983, Les Amies focuses on the transsexual community around the Place Blanche district of Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book established Christer Strömholm’s reputation as one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. The book includes the original essays by Strömholm and publisher Johan Ehrenberg as well as newly commissioned texts by Jackie and Nana, two of the women who feature in many photographs in the book. The book concludes with a thirty-two-page notebook of unpublished letters, papers, and contact sheets.
PHOTOGRAPHY Available Now 11½ x 8¼ | 212 pp 125 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 978-1-907893-15-5 USC

A re-edit of a classic photobook of the twentieth century explores the transsexual community of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Automaton
Paolo Ventura

The Automaton is based on a story told to Paolo Ventura as a child. It centers on an elderly Jewish watchmaker living in the Venice ghetto in 1943, one of the darkest periods of Nazi occupation and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The city, desolate and fearful, is the stage on which the story unfolds. The old man decides to build an automaton (a robot), to keep him company while he awaits the arrival of the fascist police. Paolo Ventura is internationally known for the complex creative process he adopts. His meticulous miniature renderings create a fascinating narrative.
PHOTOGRAPHY Available Now 9¾ x 9 | 52 pp 22 color photographs Trade Cloth US $36.00 | CAN $39.50 978-1-907893-17-9 USC

A powerful and moving story of the Venice ghetto in 1943—the Jewish watchmaker and the automaton.

Photographer Hometown: New York, NY

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Dialogue Her Majesty
Sixty Regal Years Revised Edition

Brian Hoey
“The most intimate book ever written about the Royals.”—The Mail on Sunday This fully updated edition of a classic biography is a revealing portrait of the most famous woman in the world through the eyes of those who’ve known her and worked with her over the years. Now, in her sixtieth year on the throne, Brian Hoey uses unrivaled access to past and present members of the Royal household to take a searching look at the ups and downs of Her Majesty’s long reign. Brian Hoey is a writer and broadcaster who has covered countless Royal events. He lives in Cardiff, Wales.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY September 5 x 8 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84954-293-7 USC

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The fully updated edition of the definitive biography of the Queen of England, released to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year.

Greek Memories
Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie was a celebrated writer at the start of the Great War. He was soon recruited by British Secret Services, becoming “our man in Greece.” Later, he broke the rules by writing memoirs that included secret documents naming serving officers and exposing agents’ cover. Mackenzie was prosecuted and Greek Memories was banned. Now, for the first time, here is Mackenzie’s memoir as it should have been seen—a remarkable document of wartime espionage. Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) was the author of over ninety books including Whisky Galore. During the First World War he ran the Aegean Intelligence component of what later became MI6.

HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September 5 x 8 | 400 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84954-083-4 USC

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A classic “lost” British espionage title published in its true form for the first time since 1932.

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Dialogue Distilling the Frenzy
Writing the History of Our Times

Peter Hennessy
Britain’s leading contemporary historian revisits the grand themes that have run through modern Britain, including the abiding trends of the post-war era—Britain’s persistent impulse to punch well above its weight in the world and the secrecy that has too often surrounded state affairs. In Distilling the Frenzy a heavyweight of British scholarship lays bear the historian’s art for all to see, incorporating elements of autobiography that give the book a poignancy lacking in other grand historical works. This is the story of Britain’s century through the eyes of its most celebrated chronicler.
HISTORY December 6 x 9 | 304 pp Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84954-215-9 USC

Peter Hennessy is the Attlee professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of London.

This is the story of Britain’s century through the eyes of one of its most celebrated historians.

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The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations
The first in a landmark new series by literary quotations legend Fred Metcalf, building on the success of his best-selling series of quotations books for Penguin to produce classic, far-ranging volumes of humorous quotes on just about every subject you will ever need. The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations contains quotes, gaffes, and witticisms from politicians around the world and makes thoughtful and entertaining reading for anyone with a political bent.
HUMOR / REFERENCE | March | A Paperback Original | 5 x 8 | 384 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-84954-224-1 USC

Fred Metcalf

The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Sporting Quotations
Fred Metcalf
The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Sporting Quotations collects the funniest utterances from throughout the sporting world and makes essential reading for sports fans. Fred Metcalf is the author of many titles including the Penguin Book of Modern Humorous Quotations and Penguin Book of Jokes.
HUMOR / REFERENCE | March | A Paperback Original | 5 x 8 | 384 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-84954-225-8 USC

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Dialogue Under Every Leaf
How Britain Played the Greater Game from Afghanistan to Africa

William Beaver

“Anywhere in the world, where a leaf moves, underneath you will find an Englishman.”—Pharsi proverb Under Every Leaf tells the astonishing true story of the Britain’s first spies, and relays for the first time a dazzling adventure story set in the darkest heart of the Empire. We know more about the twentieth-century history of Britain’s secret intelligence services than ever before, but next to nothing about their Victorian antecedents. This book fills that gap, telling the story of the Intelligence Division of the War Office from 1856 to 1909—when MI6 was founded—and the hidden role that the Intelligence Division played in acquiring Britain’s vast empire without a major European or Asian war. In examining its influence in the formation of imperial policy-making and execution, Under Every Leaf is also a rollicking good read, shedding new light on the reality behind the partition of Africa, the Great Game in Asia, brains over brawn, espionage, adventure, and dedicated wholehearted commitment, sacrifice, and service to the Imperial ideal. Under Every Leaf is a major work of imperial history. William Beaver was born in Colorado and, after fighting in Korea, went to the University of Oxford in England on a US Army scholarship. He is a historian and officiating chaplain to the British Army.
HISTORY March 6 x 9 | 340 pp Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84954-219-7 USC

The little-known true story of Britain’s first spies, and a dazzling adventure story set in the darkest heart of the Empire. Marketing Plans
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Dialogue 100 Ways to Win an Election
Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield

This book is a “how to” guide for winning an election. It is divided into one hundred short standalone easy-to-digest chapters, expounding the universal principles of political campaigning. Each one gives advice on how to tackle a particular aspect of campaigning, and the book is designed to be dipped in and out of as required. However, this book is not aimed at candidates from one particular party, nor in one particular political system. Using examples from around the world, it is intended to be useful to citizens who decide to run for office without the backing of a political party as well as those who choose the party route. The book is addressed to the candidate but it will be useful to campaign managers and others involved in the campaign too. 100 Ways to Win an Election is a useful guide to what is one of the most noble career choices to make—to put your name in the public frame, ready of ridicule, disaster, and derision, but in search of making your contribution to making our world a better place to live. Mark Pack and Edward Maxfield have worked as campaign staff in the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, and Canada, and have worked extensively with US campaigners and consultants; here they draw on their and others’ experiences in winning (and losing) campaigns around the world.

POLITICAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-84954-312-5 USC

Everything you need to know about winning an election in one hundred easily digestible chapters. Marketing Plans
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Dzanc Books Stray Decorum
George Singleton

My dog Tapeworm Johnson needed legitimate veterinary attention. It had been two years since she received annual shots. I read somewhere that an older dog can overdose on all these vaccinations, and I have found—I share this information with every dog owner I meet—that if you keep your pet away from rabid foxes, raccoons, skunks, bats, and people whose eyes rotate crazy in their sockets, then the chances of your own dog foaming at the mouth diminishes drastically. I also believe that dogs don’t need microchips imbedded beneath their shoulder blades if you keep the dog leashed or in the house, or with the truck windows rolled up when you drive around showing the dog farm animals living in pastures. I brought this up to Dr. Page one time, back four years earlier when Tapeworm Johnson was somewhere between eight and nine. Tapeworm showed up at my door one morning, her ribs as visible as anything you’d order down at Clem and Lyda’s Barbecue Shack off Scenic Highway 11, her paw pads split open from, I assumed, days traveling from wherever her conscienceless owner dropped her off. Eleven stories, all previously published in journals like The Atlantic, Oxford American, and The Georgia Review, in which George Singleton brings small-town South Carolina alive. Using everyday situations like a dog needing its annual vaccination and buckets of humorous observations, Singleton pokes and prods his readers into realizing we’re all simply restless for a pat on the head.
George Singleton writes about the South as nobody else does— bringing humor and vision to his “regular people getting by.”
FICTION / SHORT STORIES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938103-54-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-61-2 USC

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Dzanc Books The Maggot People
Henning Koch

“Henning Koch is a writer who gets your attention and keeps it. His stories are written in language so beautiful that the reader finds himself reading aloud to hear it.”—Irene Zion The Maggot People are just that—people that have had maggots take over their bodies, working in unison to allow the bodies to continue to function and appear human. Reminiscent of Frank Herbert’s Hellstrom’s Hive, Henning Koch looks at religion as much as he does politics and the state of living in today’s world.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938103-53-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-60-5 W

Henning Koch brings Ray Bradbury’s touch to his work—literary with a sci-fi bent— as he looks at human nature.

The Bastard Pleasure
Seán McGrady

“McGrady scrapes away at the surface truths that so many people so comfortably hide behind in order to justify their lifetimes of action and inaction, and gets at, if not definitive answers, definitive questions, that, once asked, cannot be ignored.”—Louisiana State University Book Review The Bastard Pleasure is a dark novel. It concerns the destruction of identity, and the brutal way in which it is reclaimed—more plainly it is about terrorism, in all its mundane and incomprehensible forms, and self-determination.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 350 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938103-55-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-62-9 USC*

The Bastard Pleasure concerns the destruction of identity and the brutal way in which it is reclaimed. It’s about terrorism.

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Dzanc Books The Doctor’s Wife
Luis Jaramillo

In stylish, intimate, and devastating short flashes, The Doctor’s Wife tells the story of three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest. Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Contest, Luis Jaramillo’s The Doctor’s Wife pushes the limits of what a short story collection can be. In stylish, intimate, and devastating short flashes, Jaramillo chronicles the small domestic moments, tragic losses, and cultural upheavals faced by three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest, creating a moving portrait of an American family and the remarkable woman at its center.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938103-56-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-63-6 USLA

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A family’s fictional history spun from memory, from interviews, and from the blur between the two.

I Can Make It to California Before It’s Time for Dinner
Jen Michalski
The title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteenyear-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. Jen Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story. Combined with a Press 53 award-winning novella, this duo shows Michalski’s varying skills as a writer. Michalski also edits the online journal jmww, and runs a reading series in Baltimore, Maryland.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938103-57-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-64-3 USC

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Jen Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story.

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Dzanc Books Bloodwood and Other Stories
Roy Kesey

The Best American Short Stories author Roy Kesey’s second story collection, Bloodwood, is another fantastic collection of stories in the Kesey tradition: reminiscent of Donald Barthelme and George Saunders. Kesey’s usage of language is wonderful and entertaining, and his travels allow him to set his stories across the globe with the authority of one who has spent time with the locals. Roy Kesey’s previous novella, story collection, and novel have all been reviewed widely to great commentary. Currently residing in Peru, he and his family should be back in the United States in 2013.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938103-58-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-65-0 USC

With incredible language and plots, Roy Kesey leaves his readers wanting more stories.

The Zoo, a Going
J. A. Tyler

The Zoo, a Going employs beautiful language but does not sacrifice plot or characterization, and how the small act of a family visiting the zoo becomes a complex discussion of father-son relationships, coming of age, death, relationships, and the ineffable questions that any child growing up faces. J. A. Tyler is the author of Inconceivable Wilson, A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed, and A Shiny, Unused Heart. He is a regular contributor to the blogs of PANK, Monkeybicycle, and Big Other, and he runs Mud Luscious Press.
FICTION March A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 100 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-938103-59-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938103-66-7 USC

J. A. Tyler explores family dynamic in a fascinating structure here, using the present at the zoo to recall the family’s past.

Author Hometown: Fort Collins, CO

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Dzanc Books A Question Mark Above the Sun
Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem “By” Frank O’Hara Expanded Second Edition

Kent Johnson
Preface by Eric Lorberer Foreword by David Koepsell Afterwords by Jeremy Noel-Tod and Joshua Kotin

“At the end of last year, an extraordinary work of detective criticism briefly appeared, despite legal threats. Kent Johnson’s A Question Mark Above the Sun (Punch Press) movingly speculates that Kenneth Koch forged one of Frank O’Hara’s greatest poems as a posthumous tribute to his friend. A noir-ish middle also recounts some very funny run-ins with the English avant-garde. Shame on the poets who forced its redaction and suppression.”—Jeremy Noel-Tod, The Times Literary Supplement, including a previous edition of A Question Mark Above the Sun as one of its 2011 Books of the Year What you have in your hands is a kind of thought-experiment. It proffers the idea that a radical, secret gesture of poetic mourning and love was carried out by Kenneth Koch in memory of his close friend Frank O’Hara. I present the hypothesis as my own very personal expression of homage for the two great poets. The proposal I set forward here, nevertheless, is likely to make some readers annoyed, perhaps even indignant. Some already are. A few fellow writers, even, have worked hard through legal courses to block this book’s publication. The forced redaction of key quotations herein (replaced by paraphrase) is one result of their efforts. In this self-described “thought experiment”—part fiction, part literary detective work, and always daring—Kent Johnson proposes a stunning rewrite of literary history. Suppressed upon initial release, this is a one-of-a-kind book by one of our most provocative contemporary authors. Kent Johnson is the author, translator, or editor of over thirty books of poetry and criticism, including Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry (Shambhala Publications, 1991), Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1998), and his most recent collection of poems, Homage to the Last Avante-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008). Best known for his radical ideas about authorship, scholarship, and experimentation, it was with his translations of Hiroshima survivor poet Araki Yasusada that Johnson became both celebrated and castigated. Only after Yasusada’s poems were published in American Poetry Review did readers learn there was no Yasusada, and that Johnson was not a translator on this project, but the author. Johnson is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Illinois, where he is a faculty member in English and Spanish at Highland Community College.
Was a beloved Frank O’Hara poem written by Kenneth Koch? Kent Johnson guarantees . . . you’ll never see poetry the same again.

FICTION September Starcherone Books 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9837405-5-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9837405-6-8 W

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Dzanc Books The House Enters the Street
Gretchen E. Henderson

“The House Enters the Street is beautifully written, confident, and complex. I was appreciative of its language and intelligence, mindfulness and scope.” —Rikki Ducornet “A demanding and beautiful book, which tracks an exacting landscape with breathtaking inventiveness.”—Mary Gordon “A startling and lovely configuration of stories, endlessly echoing and reverberating, haunted and haunting. Gretchen E. Henderson creates a sublime and mysterious music all her own.”—Carole Maso It was all about the fruits of labors, not only on land: at sea. Faar’s life began at sea. Waves rolled outside his window, where he watched watery horizons. His father had disappeared on a voyage to terra incognita, where horned narwhales swam under ice, where profit lulled into frozen floes. The young Faar began to dream of cloud lagoons, bellied sails, and wind. The wayfaring trait had been inherited. He decided to wander. Cousins on the other side of the world sent him a letter to marry their eldest daughter: S-v-a-n H-a-r-d-t. I-o-w-a, they wrote, without mentioning the distance between bordering seas. Faar assumed oceans existed near their home. He was young, then. This beautiful novel is simultaneously a love letter to the arts and a complex interweaving of characters, stories, and landscapes. Scandinavian immigrants in Iowa migrate towards war. A photographer in Arkansas returns to California to repair her family after a devastating fire. Stories unfold, modulating and resonating. This intricate, moving book reminds us of the art a novel can be. Gretchen E. Henderson is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working at the intersection of literature, art history, museum studies, disability studies, and music, her creative and critical work explores aesthetics of deformity, museology as narrative strategy, poetics of embodiment, and literary appropriations of music. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Sourthern Review, and The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Her first novel Galerie de Difformité was awarded the 2011 Madeleine P. Plonskar Emerging Writer’s Prize from &NOW Books. Other works include a critical study of literary appropriations of music, On Marvellous Things Heard (Green Lantern Press), and a poetry chapbook engaging cartographic history, Wreckage: By Land & By Sea (Dancing Girl Press). At MIT, she is working on Ugliness: A Cultural History while continuing the collaborative deformation of her Galerie de Difformité. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From modern art to medieval music, Gretchen E. Henderson’s exuberantly innovative and moving second novel interweaves stories, characters, and physical and emotional terrains.

FICTION September A Paperback Original Starcherone Books 5½ x 8½ | 232 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9837405-1-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9837405-4-4 W

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Dzanc Books The Aversive Clause
B.C. Edwards

“[B.C. Edwards] is a writer possessed of a quicksilver anarchic imagination and I recommend his fiction highly to all and sundry.”—Patrick McGrath From “My Recipe for the Best Tuna Salad in the World”: Malcolm, I’ve finished clearing out the apartment, you boy-hungry mongoloid. The last of your things are in the vestibule. I’d come pick them up soon, as I’m sure you’re aware, the front door won’t shut completely and the glass has been broken in and so the rain is doing a number on that collection of forty-fives you inherited from your father but never got around to playing a single one of. Meanwhile, as requested, here is that recipe for tuna salad that you’ve enjoyed so much over all of these apparently bitter years. Every story in The Aversive Clause has its own unique world: the quiet moments of a couple’s destruction as one inexorably turns into a monster, a girl trapped in a tree at the end of the world, acrobats hired to tumble at an oil tycoon’s birthday, an entire city come to life to terrorize a dwarf. B.C. Edwards is the author of the forthcoming novella Knucklebone and is the prose and audio editor at Pax Americana. He received his MFA from The New School. He is a regular contributor to BOMBlog, FAQNP, and the Brooklyn Review. His most recent work can be found in Red Line Blues, LyreLyre, Sink Review, FOOD I CORP, as well as Hobart, which nominated him for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. His short story “Illfit” is being adapted into a piece by the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He is also a Literary Death Match champion and has the medal to prove it. His forthcoming short story collection The Aversive Clause won the 2011 Hudson Prize.
Stories exploring the sweetness of life’s everyday horrors. Some of which are funny.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES December A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937854-24-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937854-32-4 W

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Dzanc Books Placebo Junkies Conspiring With The Half Asleep
Bruce Cohen
“These are poems of unyielding, good-of-heart sensibility, but always at the edge of where the world is hanging on. The words that tell these lives gather themselves at the far reaches of the experiences they reveal, and the speaker is often the unelected rudder in a world that otherwise could—and does—turn so easily upside down. ‘Maybe love is just being very polite,’ asserts the selfeffacing narrator. These poems and this narrator quietly show that it is much more, but that we must indeed work at it heroically every moment. These poems help us to understand why.”—Alberto Rios Bruce Cohen was born in the Bronx, New York, and earned both a BA and MFA from the University of Arizona. He is the director of the counseling program for Intercollegiate Athletes at the University of Connecticut. His poems have appeared in various literary publications including AGNI, The Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Quarterly West. A recipient of an individual artist grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Culture and Tourism, he lives in Coventry, Connecticut, with his wife and three sons.
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POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 65 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-937854-21-8 USC

In these quirky meditations the anti-hero embraces chaos and finds beauty, redemption, and compassion in his private, off-center world.

O Holy Insurgency
Mary Biddinger
“With equal parts wit and wisdom, Mary Biddinger’s O Holy Insurgency does what all good poetry does: she entertains while demonstrating both social and personal awareness; she rouses, comforts, and frightens the reader (often in the same poem) in the best way possible. Sometimes surreal, always poignant, Biddinger’s lyricism transcends the whitewash of contemporary verse and gives us something both familiar and new.”—Michael Meyerhofer Mary Biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007). Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, The Collagist, Copper Nickel, diode, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, The North American Review, Passages North, Third Coast, and many other journals. She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry, co-editor-in-chief of Barn Owl Review, and director of the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (NEOMFA). She teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Akron. Her chapbook Saint Monica was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.
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POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 70 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-937854-20-1 USC

O Holy Insurgency elevates everyday love to epic scale against a backdrop of rust belt splendor.

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Dzanc Books Santa Ana
Russel Swensen

This is the story of a boy, a girl, a secret narrative, punk rock, and idle violence, set against Los Angeles’ fires, bars, and abandoned homes.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 30 pp Trade Paper US $9.00 | CAN $9.99 | 978-1-937854-22-5 USC

The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson
Bryan Furuness

Revie becomes convinced he is the second coming of Christ. But when his mother runs away to Hollywood, Revie’s faith is shaken.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-937854-23-2 USC

Far From Sudden
Brent Goodman

At only thrity-seven, Brent Goodman nearly died in the midst of April NaPoWriMo 2009. Spanning three decades, every poem in Far From Sudden radiates out from this bewildering experience.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS December | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 60 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-1-937854-25-6 USC

The Morrow Plots
Matthew Gavin Frank

The Morrow Plots is a series of linked, research-based, murderous, scandalous poems investigating the bloody history of small Midwestern towns.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS January | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 65 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-1-937854-27-0 USC

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Dzanc Books Quality of Life
Jason Tandon

Jason Tandon’s poems cast the mundane as miraculous and remind us that the trials of everyday can test even the most generous heart and patient soul.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS February | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 55 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-1-937854-28-7 USC

Rigger Death and Hoist Another
Laura McCullough

Rife with guns, tattoos, booze, wounds, and lost teeth, these explosive narrative lyrics imagine what it means to try and fail and still go on.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS February | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-1-937854-29-4 USC

The Following Sea
Marcel Jolley

A friend’s murder sends a small-town lawman on a rambling pursuit through rural Southeast Alaska.
FICTION / MYSTERY March | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 150 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937854-30-0 USC

The Man Who Noticed Everything
Adrian Van Young

Dark, cerebral stories of the American grotesque that light up hidden corners of the individual and national consciousness.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES March | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937854-26-3 USC

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Enigma Books Islam and the West
Wars of the Gods. The Geopolitics of Faith

Ardavan Amir-Aslani

The Muslim world had long been dormant and was therefore almost ignored by the west. Since 9/11 there is a new awareness seeking multiple explanations of those events often in a distorted and simplified manner. Is there such a thing as the “clash of civilizations”? Or is the turmoil in the Muslim world rooted in a set of causes that are based on religious belief that remain deeply misunderstood? This overview of the state of the countries where Islam is the dominant faith offers new insights into the Arab Spring and the challenge of Iran. Taking on such historians as Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama, Ardavan Amir-Aslani, an attorney and historian of Iranian descent living in Paris, argues persuasively for a different analysis and a fresh approach to what has become one of the major issues of the twenty-first century. How does religious faith intersect with geopolitics in the post Cold War period? America, Russia, and Israel are all playing major roles amid the turmoil of the region but the great originality of this book is to show the complexity and sometimes baffling actions and reactions within Muslim societies and countries. Across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, from Pakistan to Morocco, the world of Islam remains in religious and geopolitical ferment. Amir-Aslani’s authoritative voice suggests that western values may not apply neatly into the picture as many leaders would prefer. He offers a realistic and true understanding of this new reality.
Iran and all Muslim countries are in the news. This book offers insight into issues facing America today.

RELIGION November 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Cloth US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-936274-50-5 USC

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Enigma Books Mussolini’s Spies
Italian Military Espionage, 1940–1943

Giuseppe Conti
Based on recently available archives this is the first in-depth scholarly study of Italian military espionage during World War II. Italy’s ultimate demise in the course of the war becomes clear in reading this book that is filled with previously unknown data and shows how Italian dictator Benito Mussolini managed and mismanaged Italy’s war machine. In spite of the erratic directives that were periodically handed down from the top, Italian military intelligence was able to produce valuable information that was not taken into account or misinterpreted by those in charge. The espionage and counterespionage sections that had been so effective during the pre-war period suddenly fell back in the contest with Italy’s enemies. How did this happen and what were the decisions that led to fascist Italy’s defeat are the questions answered in this work that fills a gap in the history of the Second World War and its vital military intelligence component.

HISTORY December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 480 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-936274-48-2 USC

Adolf Hitler’s closest ally had an efficient intelligence service that is revealed here for the first time.

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Spy Lost
Caught Between the KGB and the FBI

Kaarlo Tuomi
Introduction by John E. Haynes
In this memoir of espionage and deceit a Finnish American who had returned to the Soviet Union in 1933 tells of his recruitment by the KGB after service in World War II. Because Kaarlo Tuomi was born in Michigan he had the most prized possession Soviet espionage could ask for: a legitimate American passport and native fluency in English. Tuomi was trained and sent back to the United States in the late 1950s as a “sleeper” but he was quickly identified and “turned” by the FBI that was soon feeding him doctored intelligence to transmit to his KGB bosses. This is an amazing double agent story told by the protagonist in his own words. The book has an introduction by historian John E. Haynes, co-author, with Harvey Klehr, of Spies, and many other books on espionage.

HISTORY March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-1-936274-55-0 USC

A true Cold War story of espionage and betrayal based on the memoir of a Soviet spy.

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Enigma Books Top Nazi
SS General Karl Wolff Second Edition

Jochen von Lang
Deeply involved in the Holocaust as Heinrich Himmler’s deputy for administration, Karl Wolff personally arranged for the transportation of three hundred thousand Jews from Poland to the Treblinka death camp in 1943. He went to trial in Germany and received a short prison sentence in 1964. But Wolff, even more than Reinhard Heydrich, could claim to enjoy Adolf Hitler’s complete confidence. He was appointed SS police chief in northern Italy in 1943–1945 and ordered by the Führer himself to kidnap the Pope and the cardinals and take them to Germany. Wolff managed to talk Hitler out of the wild scheme and escaped hanging at Nuremberg by negotiating the surrender of the German armies in Italy with Allen Dulles in Switzerland.

HISTORY March 6 x 9 | 416 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-1-936274-52-9 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-929631-22-3

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The only biography of General Karl Wolff, Heinrich Himmler’s assistant in the notorious SS.

Stalin’s Man in Canada
Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage

David Levy
Fred Rose was a labor organizer, left wing politician, Soviet agent, and atomic spy. He was born in Lublin, Poland, and lived in Montreal where he joined the Young Communist League. Rose quickly became a member of Gaik Ovakimyan’s North American NKVD network where he worked with Jacob Golos, Elizabeth Bentley’s employer, providing Canadian passports for Soviet agents. In 1942 he switched to the GRU, Soviet military intelligence. Rose was elected to the federal Canadian parliament from a working-class district in Montreal. He was re-elected in 1945. In September 1945 Soviet Embassy GRU clerk Igor Gouzenko defected, revealing an elaborate espionage operation to acquire American atomic research. Fred Rose was a major player in the scheme. Rose was found guilty of conspiring to turn over information about the explosive RDX to GRU chief Colonel Nicolai Zabotin, and was sentenced to a six-year prison term. He returned to his native Poland in 1953 after his release from prison and died in Warsaw in 1983. David Levy lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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HISTORY February First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-1-936274-54-3 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-936274-27-7

The first book about key Soviet spy and Canadian communist Fred Rose, who was deeply involved in atomic espionage.

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Selected Backlist from Enigma Books

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by His Private Secretary Baron Claude-François de Méneval
HISTORY 6 x 9 | 750 pp 20 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $26.00 | CAN $28.95 978-1-929631-94-0 USC

Working with Napoleon

The Bolsheviks Take Over Russia 1917–1924 Adapted by Yuri Felshtinsky
HISTORY 6 x 9 | 450 pp 30 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-929631-95-7 USC

Lenin and His Comrades

Truman, MacArthur and the Korean War
June 1950–July 1951 Dennis D. Wainstock
HISTORY 6 x 9 | 220 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $23.00 978-1-936274-04-8 USC

The Eichmann Trial Diary
A Chronicle of the Holocaust Sergio Minerbi, PhD
Translated by Robert L. Miller

The Many Plots to Kill Adolf Hitler James P. Duffy and Vincent L. Ricci
HISTORY 6 x 9 | 248 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $23.00 978-1-936274-02-4 USC

Target Hitler

American Police, A History: 1945–2012
The Blue Parade, Vol. II Thomas Reppetto
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 400 pp Trade Cloth US $23.00 | CAN $25.50 978-1-936274-43-7 USC

HISTORY 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $23.00 | CAN $25.50 978-1-936274-21-5 USC

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Etruscan Press White Vespa
Kevin Oderman

Anne shook herself then poured a little water from a plastic bottle onto her fingers and slapped it on her cheeks. “Wake up!” A few heads turned toward her and she walked stiffly over to the rail. She’d been sitting alone on a bench on the shady side of the boat for an hour, but no one had approached her, and no one approached her as she stood shading her eyes, looking down at the glassy water. She didn’t mind. She preferred to be left alone. Kevin Oderman’s second novel presents readers with a character of complexity and depth. Myles Toomey is an American ex-patriot who hopes to quell his grief for a long lost son in the stillness of his photographs of the Dodecanese Islands. But friendship and then love for a woman wounded in her own family-born grief propels him toward life again, where stillness is set into motion and identity might be recovered, against odds, in a foreign place. Out of his travel experiences Kevin Oderman wrote his first novel, Going, and currently his literary nonfiction about travel is being gathered into a volume, Cannot Stay. Twice he has lived abroad as a Fulbright Fellow and has taught modern American poetry as a senior lecturer at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and at Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a professor of English at West Virginia University.
Does art clarify or obscure love? With a photographic eye, Kevin Oderman probes family secrets on an exotic island.

FICTION November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 280 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9832944-9-8 USC

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Etruscan Press No Hurry
Poems 2000–2012

Michael Blumenthal
“No Hurry is a gorgeous book: the world of flesh, mind, and heart spoken through air and silk.”—George Szirtes The pages of No Hurry sing with poems for the aging in body but youthful in spirit, continuing to ask most meaningful questions as they head “downhill.” From my birth mother I took my melancholy disposition and from my father the ability to get through life with a bullet in one arm. Michael Blumenthal is an eminent American writer with seven previously published books of poetry. He has received worldwide recognition, and currently teaches at West Virginia University.
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Boston, MA • Youngstown, OH • Philadelphia, PA • Morgantown, WV Author Hometown: Morgantown, WV

POETRY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 125 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9832944-7-4 USC

No Hurry is of mixed blessings; of tension, hunger, and challenges of having a body which both thrives and decays.

What We Ask Of Flesh
Remica L. Bingham

“What We Ask of Flesh, like the flesh itself, is full of honey and fire. It’s impossible not to feel called by these poems, summoned by their rich sound and vatic voice.”—Amy Gerstler Blending biblical characters into a deeply personal history, What We Ask of Flesh tells of women through time, their spirits borne through broken flesh, through wombs and memories. The body becomes instrument as words explore the mystical connection between what was and is.
POETRY February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 85 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9839346-2-2 USC

Women are burdened with consequence hard-bought footprints leading from each father’s house Remica Bingham currently teaches at Norfolk State University.
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Youngstown, OH • Philadelphia, PA • Norfolk, VA Author Hometown: Norfolk, VA

Through biblical re-tellings, narratives, and lyric poems, this young African American poet examines and heals wounds of flesh and spirit.

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Exterminating Angel Press Lily the Silent
The History of Arcadia

Tod Davies
Illustrated by Mike Madrid
“Look inside this world and find wonder.”—Kate Bernheimer, editor of My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Lily leads a serene life in Arcadia until the forces of Megalopolis invade. Rescued from slavery by a prince of Megalopolis, Lily is sent to retrieve a very important key. Aided by her friends, her dog Rex, and even Death herself, Lily’s adventures take her from the Moons to the Bottom of the Sea, and finally back to Megalopolis, where she faces the decision of her life. Will she choose True Love and relinquish the key to those in Power or will she risk everything for who she is and return the key to Arcadia? Narrated by Lily’s daughter, Sophia the Wise, this is a story about a girl who learns to live by her own light and—no matter how reluctantly—become the queen her people need. Full of Arcadian legends, it is also a fairy tale within a fairy tale about a troubled world not unlike our own, as well as a beautifully illustrated sequel to Snotty Saves the Day, which critics and booksellers hailed as “Lewis Carroll with footnotes by Jonathan Swift,” while comparing it to authors whose work can be savored by readers of all ages: Susanna Clark, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and L. Frank Baum. Tod Davies lives with her husband and her two dogs in the alpine valley of Colestin, in Oregon, where she discovered the first Arcadian manuscript, and at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado. Mike Madrid, a native San Franciscan, is the author of The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines.
The story of a reluctant queen, as told by her daughter Sophia the Wise. Also Available

FICTION / FANTASY October A Paperback Original The History of Arcadia 5½ x 7½ | 224 pp 16 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935259-18-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-19-0 W

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Snotty Saves the Day The History of Arcadia Tod Davies Illustrated by Gary Zaboly FICTION / FANTASY The History of Arcadia 5½ x 7½ | 208 pp 7 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $13.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-935259-07-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-09-1 W Enhanced eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-20-6 W

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San Francisco, CA • Boulder, CO • New York, NY Author Hometown: Ashland, OR Illustrator Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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Exterminating Angel Press Park Songs
A Poem/Play

David Budbill
Photographs by R. C. Irwin
A “tale of the tribe” (Ezra Pound’s phrase for his own longer work), Park Songs is set during a single day in a down-and-out Midwestern city park where people from all walks of life gather. In this small green space amidst a great gray city, the park provides a refuge for its caretaker (and resident poet), street preachers, retirees, moms, hustlers, and teenagers. Interspersed with blues songs, the community speaks through poetic monologues and conversations, while the homeless provide the introductory chorus—and all of their voices become one great epic tale of comedy and tragedy. Full of unexpected humor, hard-won wisdom, righteous (but sometimes misplaced) anger, and sly tenderness, their stories show us how people learn to live with mistakes and make connections in an antisocial world. As the poem/play engages us in their pain and joy—and the goofy delight of being human—it makes a quietly soulful statement about acceptance and community in our lives.
POETRY / DRAMA September A Paperback Original 5½ x 7½ | 112 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935259-16-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-17-6 W

David Budbill has worked as a carpenter’s apprentice, short order cook, day laborer, and occasional commentator on NPR’s All Thing Considered. His poems can often be heard on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and his books include the best-selling Happy Life (Copper Canyon Press) and Judevine, a collection of narrative poems that forms the basis for the play Judevine, which has been performed in twenty-two states. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Budbill now lives in the mountains of northern Vermont. R. C. Irwin, whose absurdist and nostalgic work provides the set design for Park Songs, teaches at San Francisco City College.
“One of the most readable American poets ever” (Booklist) amplifies the voices of an unsung community.

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New York, NY Author Hometown: Wolcott, VT Photographer Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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February Books
New York, New York

February Books is a small but innovative publisher based in New York City’s Union Square. Conceived by industry veterans Dee Dee DeBartlo and Gretchen Crary, February Books publishes books that stand out from the crowd. As experienced book marketers, the team behind February Books seeks out the stories that will ignite meaningful debate and catch readers’ attention. In her previous job as senior director of publicity at a large New York publisher, DeBartlo was responsible for promoting the mega bestseller Freakonomics as well as other big name authors like the great American novelist Elmore Leonard and best-selling political commentator Cokie Roberts. Before starting her career in publishing, Crary was an Emmy Award–winning television news and documentary producer. As a publicity director, she worked with major nonfiction authors and journalists like Richard Clarke, Charles Gasparino, and filmmaker Werner Herzog. February Books works with savvy authors who understand both the media and the marketplace, and together they work diligently to connect with new audiences. February Books publishes quality fiction and nonfiction across all categories. The books are beautifully produced and deftly marketed with a goal to enlighten, entertain, inform, delight, and surprise.

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February Books

Excerpt from Obama Karma: Their strategy was simple. Win Iowa, then New Hampshire. Game over. They would become unassailable. The Obama campaign spent a whole year in Iowa building their campaign and in the end they pulled off the surprise upset they had been dreaming of. In Iowa the Clinton juggernaut had been knocked off track in a way that no one could have predicted just a few weeks earlier. The few days between the Iowa and New Hampshire elections went by like a daze. They were all on a high, surrounded by an expectant media ready to declare the Clinton candidacy dead and the Obama team as the giant slayers. Then, like melting ice cream, their victory morphed into defeat in New Hampshire. All sorts of questions were swimming around in the Obama team’s minds. How could this have happened? In the closing hours every single uncommitted voter must have gone Clinton’s way. “I think we may not have made it,” David Axelrod told Obama. “We’re going to be a couple of points short.” “This thing is going to go on for a while isn’t it?” Obama said with a wry smile. Later that night, however, after some deeper pondering, Obama gave his wider verdict. “I actually think this is for the best,” he said. “Sure if we had won New Hampshire, we’d be in the driver’s seat. But I’d be like a comet streaking across the sky. White hot. And comets eventually burn up. Now people can see how I deal with adversity, whether we can bounce back . . . They want me to earn this. They don’t want it to be easy for someone like me and it probably shouldn’t be.” The candidate’s reaction blew his campaign team away. “This guy really has what it takes to be President,” campaign manager David Plouffe thought to himself. “There’s not a lot of people who would react like that.”

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February Books Obama Karma
Lessons on Living Inspired by the 44th President

Russell Razzaque, PhD

President Barack Obama is one of the calmest, coolest, and most compelling political figures in modern times. Dealt a grueling first term of wars, recession, and bitter partisan attacks, he has remained even-tempered, levelheaded, and downright Zen. Obama’s appeal runs even deeper than the revolution his ethnicity represents. His rare combination of inner peace and outer passion, his mix of realism and idealism, are qualities that have made him an iconic figure around the globe. Extraordinary emotional intelligence is perhaps the prime quality that has drawn Barack Obama’s supporters to him through thick and thin. In Obama Karma, Russell Razzaque analyzes key moments in the life of our forty-fourth president that reveal his depth and self-awareness, especially when confronted with challenges. While temperament is largely inherited, emotional intelligence can be learned. Through simple exercises included in the book readers can learn to improve their own life skills and interpersonal relationships. Finally, Obama Karma helps make the case for the re-election of Barack Obama on the basis of his extraordinary leadership in a singular time in history. Russell Razzaque, PhD, has been a practicing psychiatrist for over fifteen years. His most recent book Human Being to Human Bomb was a psychological examination of suicide bombers. He is an attending psychiatrist across several mental health and addiction treatment centers in London. Razzaque has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Independent.
President Barack Obama’s greatest strength, emotional intelligence, can be learned. This book will teach you how.
SELF-HELP / POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now 5½ x 7½ | 282 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9849543-1-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9849543-3-9 W

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Washington, DC • New York, NY

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February Books Getting to Bartlett Street
Our 25-Year Quest to Level the Playing Field in Education

Joe Reich and Carol Reich
Foreword by Joel Klein
Getting to Bartlett Street is the inspiring story of Joe and Carol Reich—heroes in the education reform movement—how they built a school, changed the lives of many children, and helped redefine the system in the process. Joe and Carol Reich have spent the past three decades and a personal fortune to help underprivileged children access the same kind of high quality education that wealthier Americans enjoy. Yet few people even know who they are. In Getting to Bartlett Street, for the first time, Joe and Carol Reich tell the true story of how they started one of the first charter schools in the country in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since the Reiches began their work, the charter movement has spread across the country like wildfire, offering children a way out of failing schools managed by byzantine bureaucracies through privately managed public schools accessible to all through a simple lottery. But when they first conceived of their school, Beginning With Children, no one had ever started an independent public school anywhere in the country. Getting to Bartlett Street is a tale that will astound and inspire supporters of education reform everywhere.
EDUCATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Available Now 6 x 9 | 230 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9849543-0-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9849543-2-2 W

Joe Reich and Carol Reich are the co-founders of the Beginning with Children Foundation which opened the first charter-like school in New York City in 1992. Joe Reich also founded Reich & Tang, a leading investment firm, in 1970. Carol Reich is the former president of the Lexington Center (formerly the Lexington School for the Deaf).
The inspiring story of how one couple dedicated their lives and fortune to improving educational opportunities for underprivileged children.

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign 100% of the cover price matched in a donation to DonorsChoose.org • Promotional partnerships with DonorsChoose.org Author Hometown: New York, NY

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The Feminist Press at CUNY Kissing the Sword
My Prison Years in Iran

Shahrnush Parsipur
Translated by Sara Khalili
Shahrnush Parsipur was an important writer and television producer in her native Iran until 1979 when the Islamic Republic began imprisoning its citizens. Kissing the Sword captures the surreal experiences of serving time without being charged with a crime, and witnessing the systematic destruction of any and all opposition to fundamentalist power. It is a memoir filled with both horror and humor: nights blasted by the sounds of machine gun fire as hundreds of prisoners are summarily executed, and days spent debating prison officials on whether the Quran demands that women be covered. Parsipur, one of the great novelists of modern Iran, known for magic realism, tells a story here that is all too real. She mines her own painful memories to create an urgent call for one of the most basic of human rights: freedom of expression. Born in Iran in 1946, Shahrnush Parsipur began her career as a fiction writer and producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. She was imprisoned for nearly five years by the religious government without being formally charged. Shortly after her release, she published Women Without Men and was arrested and jailed again, this time for her frank and defiant portrayal of women’s sexuality. While still banned in Iran, the novel became an underground bestseller there, and has been translated into many languages around the world. Parsipur is also the author of Touba and the Meaning of Night, among many other books, and now lives in exile in northern California.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55861-816-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-817-6 W

An internationally acclaimed writer’s harrowing tale of imprisonment in Iran and her gripping story of getting out.

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Women Without Men A Novel of Modern Iran Second Edition Shahrnush Parsipur Translated by Faridoun Farrokh Preface by Shirin Neshat FICTION 5½ x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55861-753-7 USC Touba and the Meaning of Night Shahrnush Parsipur Translated by Havva Houshmand and Kamran Talattof Afterword by Houra Yavari FICTION Women Writing the Middle East 5½ x 8½ | 368 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-1-55861-557-1 USC

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The Feminist Press at CUNY Spit and Passion
Cristy C. Road

“Cristy C. Road is a bad ass. She has a list of published work that leaves me awed and inspired.”—Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day “Road’s writing has long brought to vivid life the experiences of a queeridentified Latina punk rocker.”—Bitch magazine At its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is struggling to balance tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. In this stunning graphic biography, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing suburban conformity she is surrounded by. She finds solace in the closet—where she lets her deep excitement about punk rock foment, and finds in that angst and euphoria a path to self-acceptance.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original Blindspot Graphics 7 x 9 | 128 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55861-807-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-808-4 W

Cristy C. Road is a twenty-nine-year-old Cuban American artist and writer from Miami; she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has reached cult status for work that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. She has since published Indestructible, an illustrated novel about high school; Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book; and Bad Habits, a love story about self-destruction and healing. She has also illustrated countless record album covers, book covers, political organization propaganda, and magazine articles.
A twelve-year-old Cubanita finds refuge in punk music in this illustrated tour de force.

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Who is Ana Mendieta? Christine Redfern Illustrated by Caro Caron Foreword by Lucy Lippard COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Blindspot Graphics 7¼ x 9½ | 84 pp B&W illustrations throughout Casebound US $18.95 | CAN $22.50 978-1-55861-703-2 USC

The Feminist Press at CUNY The Feminist Porn Book
The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young
The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do porn—that is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world’s most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the debates of the porn wars of the 1980s, which sharply divided the women’s movement, and identifies pornography as a form of expression and labor in which women and other minorities produce power and pleasure. Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, sex educator, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of seven books including The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women and Opening Up. She runs the adult film production company Smart Ass Productions and is an exclusive director for Vivid Entertainment. Celine Parreñas Shimizu is an associate professor of film and performance studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Constance Penley is professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and founding editor of Camera Obscura. Mireille Miller-Young is assistant professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / PERFORMING ARTS February A Paperback Original 6 x 8½ | 432 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-55861-818-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-819-0 W

The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY I Still Believe Anita Hill
Edited by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg

SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 8½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-55861-809-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-810-7 W

In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country’s attention when she testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, disbelieved, and humiliated; he was given a life-long appointment to decide America’s judicial fate. What is less known is how many women and men were inspired because of Anita Hill’s bravery, how her testimony changed the feminist movement, and how she singlehandedly brought public awareness to the issue of sexual harassment. Thomas might have won his seat, but Anita Hill’s legacy mobilized the women’s movement and our need to demand more than the status quo. Twenty years later, this collection brings together three generations to witness, respond to, and analyze Hill’s impact and present insights in law; politics; the confluence of race, class, and gender; the persistent questioning of women’s credibility; and current cases of sexual harassment. With original contributions by Anita Hill, Melissa Harris-Perry, Catharine MacKinnon, Patricia J. Williams, Eve Ensler, Ai Jen Poo, Kimberly Crenshaw, Lynn Nottage, Gloria Steinem, Lani Guinier, Lisa Kron, Mary Oliver, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Powell, and many others. Amy Richards is the author of Opting In, co-author of Manifesta, and co-founder of Soapbox, Inc. Cynthia Greenberg organized Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later, a conference at Hunter College in 2011.

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The nation’s most notable feminists, organizers, and scholars reflect on sexual harassment twenty years after the Clarence Thomas hearings.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY A Question of Choice
Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition

Sarah Weddington

“As a husband and as a father of a daughter, I am moved by Sarah Weddington’s eloquent reminder of what Roe truly means—that our most private decisions can be made behind the closed doors of our homes, with our families, and in private conversations with our hearts.”—Bill Clinton “A milestone. . . . She recounts with clarity and fervor the remarkable story of how she, her husband and a few other lawyers, supported by a handful of doctors and pro-choice advocates, researched and prepared briefs invoking the ‘right of privacy’ defense as a main argument to challenge the Texas antiabortion law.”—Publishers Weekly On the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, women’s reproductive freedom is just as contested as it was before abortion was made legal. Adding a new chapter to her celebrated book about the story behind that great legal challenge, Sarah Weddington brings up-to-date the status of choice and constitutional law. Sarah Weddington is an attorney and lecturer from Austin, Texas. She became a key figure in the reproductive rights movement when at the age of twenty-seven she successfully argued Roe v. Wade, the landmark court case that gave American women the right to abortion. She has served in the Texas House of Representatives and was a White House advisor to President Jimmy Carter. Weddington is currently a professor of law and women’s studies and travels around the country lecturing on leadership and women’s issues.
LAW / SOCIAL SCIENCE January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-55861-812-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-813-8 W

The incredible story of how a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer won Roe v. Wade, and what it means forty years later.

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The Feminist Press at CUNY By Cecile
Tereska Torres

By Cecile depicts post–World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists ( Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about . . . but only under the pseudonym of her husband. Tereska Torres is the author of Women’s Barracks, which is widely considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel, and has sold over four million copies. Torres lives in Paris, France.

FICTION September Femmes Fatales 4½ x 7¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-55861-805-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-806-0 W

Her husband takes her novels and signs them as his own; she takes his lover and becomes her mistress.

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Enchantment
Volume 40, Numbers 3 & 4

Edited by Ann Burlein and Jackie Orr
How can the power and seduction of enchantment intervene in the current political and cultural moment? In light of recent theories about “occult economies,” “the magic of the state,” “queer temporalities,” and “the enchantment of everyday life,” Enchantment invites scholars to move beyond social logics and political rationalities to explore magic, mysticisms, play, spiritualities, and fantasy. Ann Burlein teaches religion at Hofstra University.
SOCIAL SCIENCE December Women’s Studies Quarterly 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-55861-811-4 USC

Jackie Orr teaches sociology at Syracuse University.

Enchantment investigates our fascination with all things magical and mystical, from mermaids and witches to yoga and psychedelic drugs.

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Fence Books Book Beginning What and Ending Away
Clark Coolidge
Foreword by Tom Orange
“A modern-day Rosetta Stone, Book Beginning What and Ending Away bridges the wild conceptual experimentalism of the 1960s and the rigid, doctrine-driven personal politics of the 1970s and early 1980s Language poets, while illuminating the path toward a freeform, devastating ‘point perspective lyric’ that is Coolidge’s operative method today.”—Tom Orange Why the same cave? It is continuous. The weight exists, a drill, and it is well. One bridge is older than the stream. Of indebtedness great ground now possess changes. Crack cavity in the sung Hallelujah Chorus. I took a drink, still older than unequivocally slabby. My sac deposit lies life size. The well we have is little more than this sheet-iron. The making system drapes the writer’s contrast. At over five hundred pages of sustained, exhilarating prose, this work reconciles the relentless iconoclasm of the language poets with Clark Coolidge’s own deeply rooted theories of abstraction and musicality, yet remains astonishingly readable more than thirty years after Coolidge abandoned the project—planned to be more than one thousand pages—in 1980. An act of radical endurance, a resurrected classic. Author of more than twenty books of poetry, Clark Coolidge has occupied a singular place in American letters since the mid-1960s. An unparalleled influence on the wider avant-garde—the Language Poets, the second and third generation New York School, and whole movements of visual artists, musicians, and linguists, Coolidge is from Providence, Rhode Island. Since 1997 he has lived in Petaluma, California.
A missing masterpiece in twentieth-century experimental literature, Clark Coolidge’s legendary “Longprose” was written at a frenetic pace between 1973–1980.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original 6¾ x 9½ | 560 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-934200-60-5 USC

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Fence Books 88 Sonnets
Clark Coolidge

“Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde.”—Peter Gizzi Clark Coolidge’s embrace of the sonnet form is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality. Coolidge’s legendary proliferation—as many as ten sonnets in a single day—marries the stunning variety of his intellect on the mountaintop of formal inquiry. “LIBRARY OF HAY” So slow death oft the onyx dolls each in its own lab colors rollicking encores who’s there? do you want your museum room infiltrated? only the singing parts terrible loss of air raid powder entanglements poled on kapok the last to be heard? this ploy of dolls irradiated heads and curls of coffin wood death is always plural here? stolid anyway someway still enters the frontway through the water door to Manikin Lake the throttles held down there you went to hair school against my wisdom thus the remnants spelled out there then coded there Clark Coolidge was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Though associated with the Language Poets, his work predates the movement and despite close contact with many of them he remains distinct from any movement, literary or political. The author of more than twenty books of verse and prose, he is also the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations.
One of America’s most idiosyncratic and quixotic poets returns to form with this collection of relentless, hilarious, and visionary sonnets.

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-61-2 USC

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpts in: Fence • fenceportal.org • National advertising: BOMB • Bookforum • Boston Review • Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: fenceportal.org Author Hometown: Petaluma, CA

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Fence Books Mellow Actions
Brandon Downing

Brandon Downing, whose Lake Antiquity beguilingly combined painstaking full-color collage with painstaking found poetry and painstaking visual bravado, returns with this collection of new poems, his fourth. You’ll be laughing about flotsam, you’ll be crying about jetsam. There is nothing but supernaturally canny vernacular to hold on to in these poems, but there is excessive cultural material to dream about. Wait for me, Raymond Carver! You piece of shoot! The girls are too solo, not herd things, Dirty butt, jelly-jar weed-heads, Tiny chiggers leaving huge welts, That is the world waits in the woods. Me, I can’t buy enough Giclee prints To cover the guile accreting on my walls! What was that all about btw, Those donut bushes and Sprite Ladders running up over the defensive Walls of our new youth clinic? WTF?

Brandon Downing is an artist and writer from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in New York City. His collections include The Shirt Weapon, Dark Brandon, and Lake Antiquity.
Author Hometown: New York, NY

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-65-0 USC

These actions are deceptively mellow; with nary a narrative arc in sight they mime brain-scrambled, conceptually far-reaching, experientially shorthanded speech-moments.

Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
Hannah Gamble
“Like the favorite daughters of a Sufi master, these liberating poems love contradiction and whirling, and intimacy—their seriousness is droll, their humor warm and dark, their fables of selfhood are teasing and honest in marvelous and uncommon ways. They are truly delightful and robustly original—a poetic joy.”—Tony Hoagland Selected by Bernadette Mayer for the National Poetry Series, these poems engage the structures of family and intimacy, exposing the viscera of the everyday, all its frailties and familiarity rendered absurd and remade through language. Outside there’s a world where every love-scene begins with a man in a doorway; he walks over to the woman and says “Open your mouth.” Hannah Gamble has received fellowships from Rice University, The University of Houston, and The Edward F. Albee Foundation. She teaches literature and writing at Prairie State College and is the poet-in-residence at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
Author Hometown: Chicago, IL POETRY November A Paperback Original National Poetry Series 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-62-9 USC

Fables of selfhood in the form of whirling yet intimate poems from the latest winner of the National Poetry Series.

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Fence Books Eyelid Lick
Donald Dunbar

Eyelid Lick is borne out of individual psychedelic experience into a world of streaming communication. These loose, runny poems seek intimacy through testimonial. There’s the sensation of the lick, and the sensation of being licked, and if both people know each other enough both sides of the lick can be felt. Assam, Not hate, not no capability to find them cute, or charming, or things. Because there’s going to be a baby in the backyard. And because the lambs hang low in the trees.
POETRY November A Paperback Original Fence Modern Poets Series 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-63-6 USC

I am so not fucking around. Like a name strangling its body, I’ll forget it, too. I’ll say one thing, and then completely forget it. I’ll remind you of something known to everyone: We could have gotten away with so much more. Donald Dunbar lives in Portland, Oregon, where he co-curates the reading series If Not For Kidnap and teaches poetry to future chefs at Oregon Culinary Institute.

Winner of the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series, this book is charged with ecstatic yet gritty humor and hyperkinetic desire.

Author Hometown: Portland, OR

In the Laurels, Caught
Lee Ann Brown
In the Laurels, Caught is a collection of lighthearted, deep-rooted poems written around the Appalachian region of North Carolina in Madison County. An adventurous, intellectually restless native, Lee Ann Brown writes out of attachment but with the slant of a transplanted outsider. A Daylily’s blossom only lasts one day Binnorie O Binorie O My grandmother showed me how to have my say
POETRY November A Paperback Original Fence Modern Poets Series 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-64-3 USC

O the glory O the glory Now every time I see a faded drooping bud I deadhead it like she did so the rest can live on The story O the story

Lee Ann Brown is professor of English at St. John’s University. Her book Polyverse won the New American Poetry Series Award. The Sleep That Changed Everything appeared in 2003. She is founding editor of the small press Tender Buttons.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Excerpts in: Fence • fenceportal.org • National advertising: BOMB, Bookforum, Boston Review, Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 8-city East Coast tour • Promotion through: fenceportal.org Author Hometown: New York, NY

A major experimentalist digs up her rural roots in this portrait of flowery but never sweet dynamic regionalism.

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Fence Books Present Participle
Translated by Sarah Riggs and Ellen LeBlond-Schrader
In a dozen taut sequences, the book explores metaphorical and actual prisons and revolutions through references to political captivity, torture, and despotism as well as philosophical heroism through nuanced, striking, and heartfelt language. Fragmentation, affect, repetition, and riffs on proper names, places, dates, and facts construe a haunting verbal landscape for readers to navigate. Oscarine Bosquet was born in Paris in 1964, and is the author of Participe Présent (Le Bleu de Ciel, 2008) and Chromo (Éditions Fourbis, 1996). She teaches at the art school of Brest in Britanny, France. Sarah Riggs has published several other books of poetry, translation, and essays, and teaches at NYU Paris. Ellen LeBlond-Schrader teaches avant-garde movements in Paris and translates contemporary poetry as well as art criticism.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Excerpts in: Fence, fenceportal.org • National advertising: BOMB, Bookforum, Boston Review, Poets & Writers • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: fenceportal.org POETRY November A Paperback Original La Presse 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934200-59-9 USC

Oscarine Bosquet

A call to act in language, a radical way of listening, an absurd fashion that renders meaningful the ultra-serious.

Night and Day
Pierre Alferi
Translated by Kate Campbell
Each poem begins with an epigraph that distills a subject and then goes on to elaborate, extrapolate, complicate. Each poem reverses “communication”; pushes meaning from one image to the next, taking it apart, transferring it from line to line in a series of transformations that finally create an experience of the present. Pierre Alferi is the author of over fifteen novels and books of poetry as well as three volumes of philosophy/essay. He has worked extensively in the short ciné-poème form, and co-founded the influential Revue de littérature générale (1990–1996). His translations include works by John Donne, Meyer Shapiro, and Giorgio Agamben. Born in 1963, he graduated from the école Normale Supérieur, rue d’Ulm. He has taught at the ENSBA in Lyon, France, and currently at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
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POETRY November A Paperback Original La Presse 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934200-58-2 USC

Improvisational, conversational poems that distill a subject before elaborating and complicating it, creating an experience where “blurred contours are unavoidable.”

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Selected Backlist from Fence Books

Ariana Reines
POETRY 6 x 8 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-934200-47-6 USC

Mercury

Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays
Joyelle McSweeney
POETRY 6 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-52-0 USC

The Other Poems
Paul Legault
POETRY 6 x 8 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-50-6 USC

Nick Demske
Nick Demske
POETRY 8 x 6 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $19.95 978-1-934200-39-1 USC

Coeur de Lion
Ariana Reines
POETRY 6 x 8 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-48-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934200-54-4 USC

Negro League Baseball
Harmony Holiday
POETRY 8 x 6 | 88 pp Trade Paper & CD US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-42-1 USC

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Feral House Transhumanism
A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas

Joseph P. Farrell, PhD, and Scott D. de Hart, PhD

The ultimate question is no longer “who am I” or “why am I here.” These questions were answered in the earliest civilizations by philosophers and priests. Today we live in an age of such rapid advances in technology and science that the ultimate question must be rephrased: what shall we be? This book investigates what may become of human civilization, who is setting the agenda for a trans-humanistic civilization, and why. The modern Victor Frankenstein holds a high political office, carries diplomatic immunity, and is most likely funded by the largest corporations worldwide. His method is ancient: alchemy. His fraternities are well known and their secrets are well kept, but his goal of times past and present is the same; he dares to become as god, genetically manipulating the seeds of the earth, the beasts on the fields, and to claim legal ownership over humanity by re-creating it in his own image. This is no fairy tale, science fiction, or conspiracy theory . . . it simply is! Transhumanism, a Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Joseph P. Farrell and Scott D. de Hart lifts the veil from the macabre transhumanistic monster being assembled and exposes the hidden history and agenda that has set humanity on a collision course for the apocalypse. Joseph P. Farrell, PhD, is the author of the best-selling Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda.
Exposes the hidden history and agenda that has set humanity on a collision course for the apocalypse.

SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 340 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-936239-44-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-47-4 W

Marketing Plans Also Available
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Mojave Desert, CA

Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda Joseph P. Farrell, PhD SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $23.95 978-1-936239-08-5 USC

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Feral House You Will Die
The Burden of Modern Taboos

Robert Arthur

“A highly entertaining look at social lies and phobias, and the way the worst sort of laws are created and empowered. Unusual and fascinating.” —Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing Taboos, by definition, are off-limit topics. As a book that covers nasal mucus, excrement, sex, and drugs, You Will Die is inherently sensational, and author Robert Arthur takes advantage of that by packing its many fascinating pages with provocative information and illustrations, but You Will Die, beyond the surface, is an extraordinarily serious book.

Taboos are a burden on society. By protecting irrational views they hinder progress towards greater happiness.

SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 500 pp 36 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-936239-43-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-46-7 W

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Feral House Hipster Hitler
James Carr and Archana Kumar

In a competition of the most hated memes of modern times, “Hipster” has now caught up with “Hitler.” Artists James Carr and Archana Kumar thought, why not combine the two? After all, Hitler was indeed a hipster of his time, a failed artist in Vienna scrounging up extra dollars or kroner painting quick architecture scenes for the tourists. In their heavily trafficked website, “hipsterhitler.com,” these comic artists posit a new sort of history in which Hitler wears Silverlake-trendy glasses, thrift store sweaters, and outspoken T-shirts, and the reader begins to quickly understand the history of Hitler in a new and strangely engaging way. The Feral House book of Hipster Hitler includes a few dozen pages of comics heretofore unseen online.
Satirizes hipster culture and the exploits of the Third Reich using a combination of puns, parody, dark humor, and visual gags.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR September 8 x 10 | 200 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936239-42-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-45-0 W

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Feral House Several Ways to Die in Mexico City
An Autobiography of Death in Mexico City

Kurt Hollander

In the ’80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents. Before the decade ended, Hollander moved to the equally rough climes of Mexico City, making his living writing and photographing for The Guardian, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Hollander’s visual and textual extravaganza, Several Ways to Die in Mexico City, provides a perspective of this extraordinary city that could only have been caught by an observant outsider who lived in all its nooks and crannies for over two decades. Crammed with caustic but fair observations of the city’s history, food, cults, drugs, and buildings, Hollander proves that he can love a city and culture that also kills its inhabitants softly. The book contains dozens of extraordinary photographs. While living high in Mexico City, Kurt Hollander edited poliester, the renowned bilingual art magazine about the Americas. He also directed the feature film Carambola and wrote a successful series of children’s books. Grove Press published the Portable Lower East Side anthology in 1994.
Offers a perspective on Mexico City based on the hazard it poses to health and the reasons to embrace that.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 300 pp 30 color photographs Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-936239-48-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-49-8 W

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Frame Publishers Frame: The Great Indoors
“I think that Frame is the most exciting polished magazine that regales me, and since I am a neophiliac, Frame feeds me my dose every month. With every issue I have a frisson of pleasure. It is a beautiful hallmark for the design world and beyond.”—Karim Rashid “What other magazine?”—Marcel Wanders Frame: The Great Indoors is a bi-monthly international trade journal devoted to the design of interiors and products. Frame offers a stunning selection of interior designs created for shops, offices, exhibitions, residences, and hospitality venues. The magazine has the look, feel, and heft of a book. Frame packs the most interesting work from around the globe into six tactile issues a year. Visually focused, the magazine offers well-written articles illustrated with many photos, drawings, and sketches. A great deal of energy goes into finding, analyzing, and presenting the story behind each design published, and into communicating the message in everyday, easy-to-understand English. Loaded with only the best in contemporary design, Frame is an indispensable reference for professional interior designers, as well as for those involved in other creative pursuits. What readers find in each issue of Frame: Visions: From the Drawing Board • Interior designs for the future, including projects that may or may not be realized. Stills: Portfolio of Places • Concise reports on newly completed interiors worldwide, from Tokyo hair salons to the latest bars in London and New York. Features: Projects in Perspective • In-depth articles on recently created interiors and their designers. Goods: Material Matters • A section completely dedicated to the latest in product design, from furniture and lamps to display systems and cutting-edge fabrics.
UPCOMING ISSUES
The Great Indoors: Issue 87 Edited by Tracey Ingram and Femke de Wild ARCHITECTURE | September | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11⅜ | 208 pp 350 color photographs, 40 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-65-4 USC The Great Indoors: Issue 88 Edited by Tracey Ingram and Femke de Wild ARCHITECTURE | October | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11⅜ | 208 pp 350 color photographs, 40 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-75-3 USC The Great Indoors: Issue 89 Edited by Tracey Ingram and Femke de Wild ARCHITECTURE | December | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11⅜ | 208 pp 350 color photographs, 40 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-76-0 USC

www.frameweb.com [email protected]

Marketing Plans
35,500-copy print run • Advertising in Elephant magazine and Mark magazine • Social media campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the magazine sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international (interior) design trade fairs • Banners on design-related weblogs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

Frame

Frame

Frame

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Frame Publishers Mark: Another Architecture
Mark: Another Architecture is a bi-monthly international trade journal featuring exceptional architecture projects. Launched seven years ago by the makers of Frame, Mark takes a radical and international approach to architecture, showcasing the best new work from every corner of the world. Viewing the magazine as a visual medium, Mark attempts to avoid jargon and academicism, opting instead for direct communication. Ever curious, Mark wants to uncover architects’ motivations and use them to inspire. We dare you to try and find an international architecture journal that fills more of its pages with interviews than Mark. Mark shines its spotlight on starchitects and new talent alike. Mark explores the boundaries of architecture and anticipates what’s heating up around the next corner. What readers find in each issue of Mark: Notice Board • Pinned to Mark’s Notice Board are eye-grabbing images and memos sighted on architects’ drawing boards worldwide. Cross Section • Cutting-edge articles whisk readers to the outer reaches of architecture and beyond. Perspective • A theme section discussing the state of architecture in a specific city, region, or country. Long Section • Here the reader finds articles on new buildings, portraits of architecture practices, and reports on fascinating phenomena from cosmic architecture to treetop living. Tools • Concluding the magazine are reports from manufacturers and information about new building products.
UPCOMING ISSUES
Another Architecture: Issue 39 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | September | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 208 pp 300 color photographs, 100 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-77-7 USC Another Architecture: Issue 40 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | November | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 208 pp 300 color photographs, 100 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-78-4 USC Another Architecture: Issue 41 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | January | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 208 pp 300 color photographs, 100 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-79-1 USC

www.frameweb.com [email protected]

Awards
2008 European Design Award, Magazine Category 2009 ADC Cube Award, Magazine Category

Marketing Plans
19,000-copy print run • Advertising in Elephant magazine and Frame magazine • Digital newsletter announcing the magazine sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international (design, architecture, and building) trade fairs • Banners on architecture-related weblogs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

Mark

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Frame Publishers Elephant: The Arts & Visual Culture Magazine

Elephant—a quarterly magazine from the makers of Frame—focuses its keen eye on art and visual culture. Lately, creative individuals have been protesting against the corporate nature of things, often taking the initiative and setting up new independent ventures. Elephant looks at how it’s done. Elephant visits art and design studios, peers over shoulders, steps on graffiti artists’ toes, disturbs rehearsals, interrupts takes, rides fixed-gear bikes, and plays the latest computer games. Elephant’s tone of voice is direct, sincere, and multidisciplinary. Elephant believes it’s time for less cynicism and more encouragement for outbursts of spontaneity—think of those that gave birth to futurism, dadaism, and surrealism. Elephant is the first and only visually oriented art magazine that features over two hundred pages of high-quality, up-to-date, original creative material from all over the world. What readers find in each issue of Elephant: Meetings • This section focuses on ideas, personalities, and cultures. Research • Shines a light on forecasts, movements, and styles. “Studio Visits” includes chats in ateliers, garages, and back gardens. Economies • Looks at how people started their businesses, from initial ideas to actual plans and bank loans. Cities • Highlights creative cities around the globe, sharing images, characters, and special stories.
www.frameweb.com [email protected]

Marketing Plans
15,000-copy print run

UPCOMING ISSUES
The Arts & Visual Culture Magazine: Issue 11 Written and edited by Marc Valli ART | September | A Paperback Original | 8⅝ x 11 | 208 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-73-9 USC The Arts & Visual Culture Magazine: Issue 12 Written and edited by Marc Valli ART | November | A Paperback Original | 8⅝ x 11 | 208 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-74-6 USC

Elephant

Elephant

• Advertising in Mark magazine and Frame magazine • Digital newsletter announcing the magazine sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international (design and art) trade fairs • Banners on art-related weblogs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers Goods
Interior Products from Sketch to Use

Sarah de Boer-Schultz

DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE November 9 x 11¾ | 800 pp 1,000 color photographs, 100 duotone photographs, 300 B&W illustrations Paper over Board US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-90-77174-69-2 USC

Instead of just filling a book with new products, Goods takes design publishing a step further: iconic interior design products are analyzed and featured from sketch to realization. And that’s not all. This huge book also shows international reference projects where these products have been used successfully. Each product is featured on eight pages that tell its story step by step. Profiles of the manufacturer and their associated designers provide a first framework. Conceptual design sketches, studies, technical drawings, photography of the prototypes, and the manufacturing process—alongside a clear description—explain exactly how the product is designed and manufactured. Product photography showcases the end result, and a spread filled with photographs of various recently completed interiors that successfully feature the product complete the picture. Goods features ninety products which makes it quite a hefty book with eight hundred pages. All interior product ranges are included: from chairs to tables; from floor lamps to down lights; and from kitchens to bathrooms. The included brands are selected from all over the world and are the likes of Armstrong, Gaggenau, Hansgrohe, Herman Miller, Moooi, Vitra, and Zumtobel. Featured associated designers include Barber Osgerby, Jean-Marie Massaud, Patricia Urquiola, Porsche Design Studio, and Yves Behar. This book offers an exclusive peek into the world of both renowned brands and design studios. By explaining the design process, the manufacturing process, and the actual use of the product, Goods is valuable for anyone in the design industry, from interior designer to manufacturer, and from architect to product designer.
Ninety products from manufacturers around the world are shown from conceptual design sketch to realization and placement in interiors.

Marketing Plans
11,000-copy print run • Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Press release issued by email to thousands of press contacts • Promoted at more than thirty-five international design trade fairs • Banners on design-related weblogs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers Masterclass Product Design
Guide to the World’s Leading Graduate Schools

Sarah de Boer-Schultz, Carmel McNamara, and Marlous van Rossum-Willems
Aimed at current bachelor students, recent graduates, and professionals looking for a specialization, Masterclass Product Design provides an in-depth overview of forty leading design schools from all over the world that offer a master’s degree in product design. The featured schools are selected based on a list of criteria including the quality of the graduation work, the employability and success of former students, the list of faculty, and their reputation in the design industry. Each school is explored extensively on ten pages that contain an introduction by the dean, photographs of the school’s interior and exterior, a description of the course, application details and requirements, recent graduation work photography, student demographics, faculty and alumni lists, an interview with a successful alumnus, information about the school’s location regarding housing, transportation, and the cultural scene, and more. All this information results in a very clear impression of what the selected schools have to offer on every thinkable front that is relevant to the potential student. Various indexes, world maps indicating the demographic spread of included schools, comparison tables, and a notebook section for the students’ own research complete this guide.
A practical student guide to forty of the world’s leading design schools that offer a master’s degree in product design.

DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE November A Paperback Original 6¼ x 8¾ | 432 pp 900 color photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-71-5 USC

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Press release issued by email to thousands of press contacts • Promoted at more than thirty-five international design trade fairs • International campaign launched at schools and universities • Banners on design-related weblogs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers Grand Stand 4
Design for Trade Fair Stands

Carmel McNamara

ARCHITECTURE March Grand Stand 9½ x 12⅝ | 512 pp 900 color photographs and illustrations, 750 B&W illustrations Paper over Board US $89.00 | CAN $97.99 978-90-77174-72-2 USC

The scenographic design of space and the creation of a stimulating atmosphere are crucial in shaping human experience. The design of trade fair stands has become increasingly important to exhibiting organizations, and today’s designers are playing an essential role in integrating brand identity into fascinating corporate presentations. Following in the steps of the three previous books in the Grand Stand series, Grand Stand 4: Design for Trade Fair Stands brings readers up to date on current developments in the fast-paced world of stand design. The book encompasses 150 stunning projects representing a varied selection of remarkable trade fair environments from around the world—creative designs ranging from stands occupying cozy corners to those spanning supersized spaces—all of which have grabbed the attention of visitors to recent commercial events. Each stand is presented on two to six pages, which include an in-depth description of both concept and design, as well as project credits and remarkable photography. Outlined are the challenges that designers must overcome due to space limitations and lighting logistics, with technical information provided to help further explain the design process from concept to execution. An index of designer profiles and contact details of all stand constructors is included. Grand Stand 4 is brimming with contemporary stand designs that will inspire architects, designers, brand managers, and any individuals interested in the building of ephemeral environments that leave an indelible impression.
An inspiring compilation of 150 contemporary trade fair stands from around the world.

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com • Social media campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Press release issued by email to thousands of press contacts • Promoted at more than thirty-five international design trade fairs • Banners on design-related weblogs

Also Available
Grand Stand 2 Design for Trade Fair Stands Clare Lowther and Marlous van Rossum-Willems ARCHITECTURE Grand Stand 9½ x 12½ | 568 pp 800 color photographs and charts Boxed Set US $89.00 | CAN $108.50 978-3-89955-305-5 USC Grand Stand 3 Design for Trade Fair Stands Marlous van Rossum-Willems and Sarah Schultz ARCHITECTURE Grand Stand 9½ x 12⅝ | 520 pp 800 color photographs and charts Trade Cloth US $89.00 | CAN $108.50 978-90-77174-25-8 USC

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Fulcrum Publishing District Comics
An Unconventional History of Washington, DC

Edited by Matt Dembicki

District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Spanning 1794–2009, District Comics stops along the way for a duel, a drink in the Senate’s speakeasy, a look into the punk scene, and much more. Featuring stories by: • Scott O. Brown, award-winning man of comics and Harvey Award nominee • Chad Lambert, five-time Howard E. Day Memorial Prize finalist and writer for Kung Fu Panda and Megamind • Jim Ottaviani, creator of The New York Times bestseller Feynman Matt Dembicki, a member of the D.C. Conspiracy—a comics creators collective in the nation’s capital—previously edited and contributed to the Eisnernominated and Aesop Prize–winning Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection. His graphic novel Xoc—about a great white shark—will also be published in 2012.
A graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about our nation’s capital.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / JUVENILE FICTION September A Paperback Original 8 x 8 | 256 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-55591-751-7 US Ages 10 and up

Marketing Plans Also Available
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • National advertising: Diamond Distributors • School Library Journal • Public radio campaign • Outreach to Washington, DC, library and school publications and websites • Social media campaign • Regional East Coast tour • Promotion through: http://matt-dembicki.blogspot.com Editor Hometown: Fairfax, VA

Trickster Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection Edited by Matt Dembicki COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / JUVENILE FICTION 8 x 8 | 232 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $22.95 978-1-55591-724-1 US Ages 8 and up

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Fulcrum Publishing Tales of a River Rat
Adventures Along the Wild Mississippi

Kenny Salwey

The summer sun hung low over the wooded hills along the Mississippi. I pulled my old straw hat low over my eyes and dozed off. If you could have peered under the mud and the blood and the sweat on my face, you might have seen the corners of my mouth turn up, in the makings of a grin. In Tales of a River Rat, famed storyteller and self-described hermit Kenny Salwey informs and entertains readers as he weaves his life story on the Mississippi River. Salwey knows the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Here he shares his love of and knowledge about the mighty river in an accessible manner sure to appeal to all ages. Kenny Salwey is the last of a breed of men whose lifestyle has all but disappeared in this fast-paced, high-tech digital world. For thirty years, this weathered woodsman eked out a living on the Mississippi River, running a trapline, hiring out as a river guide, digging and selling roots and herbs, and eating the food he hunted and fished. Today, Salwey is a master storyteller, environmental educator, keynote speaker, nature writer, and advocate for the Upper Mississippi River.
Tales of history, wildlife, and the Mississippi River with the Last River Rat, Kenny Salwey.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / NATURE November First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 8 | 256 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55591-763-0 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National advertising: Big River Magazine • Sierra Magazine • Public radio and TV campaign • Outreach to environmental publications and websites • Social media campaign • Regional Midwest tour Author Hometown: Alma, WI

Also Available

Muskrat for Supper Exploring the Natural World with the Last River Rat Kenny Salwey JUVENILE NONFICTION 5 x 6½ | 160 pp 25 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55591-567-4 US Ages 9 to 12

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Fulcrum Publishing A Ditch in Time
The City, the West, and Water

Patricia Nelson Limerick
with Jason Hanson
The history of water development . . . offers a particularly fine post for observing the astonishing and implausible workings of historical change and, in response, for cultivating an appropriate level of humility and modesty in our anticipations of our own unknowable future. Tracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation, raises questions about the complex relationship among cities, suburbs, and rural areas, allowing us to consider this precious resource and its past, present, and future with both optimism and realism. Patricia Nelson Limerick is the faculty director and board chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, where she is also a professor of history and environmental studies. She currently serves as the vice president for the teaching division of the American Historical Association. Her most widely read book, The Legacy of Conquest, is in its twenty-fifth year of publication.
A study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation.
HISTORY / NATURE September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 352 pp 30 B&W photographs and maps Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-366-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-764-7 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Excerpts in: The Denver Post • High Country News • Public radio and TV campaign • Outreach to environmental and western publications and websites • Social media campaign • Regional West tour • Promotion through: http://centerwest.org/about/patty

Author Events
Boulder, CO Author Hometown: Boulder, CO

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Fulcrum Publishing Taino
A Novel

José Barreiro
“Written” by Guaikán, the elderly Taino man who, in his youth, was adopted by Christopher Columbus and saw history unfold, Taino is the Indian chronicle of the American encounter, the Native view on Columbus, and what happened in the Caribbean. This novel, based on a true story, penetrates the historical veil that still enshrines the “discovery.” Presently a senior fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, José Barreiro is a novelist, essayist, and an activist of nearly four decades on American indigenous hemispheric themes. Barreiro is a member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles.
FICTION / SOCIAL SCIENCE September First Trade Paper Edition 5½ x 8½ | 312 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55591-761-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-767-8 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Excerpts in: Indian Country Today • The Native American Press Public radio campaign • Outreach to Native American publications and websites Social media campaign

A novel of Christopher Columbus’ discovery, as told by the Native peoples who were present.

Author Events
Washington, DC Author Hometown: Washington, DC

Rez Salute
The Real Healer Dealer

Jim Northrup
Since 2001 Indian Country has seen great changes, touching everything from treaty rights to sovereignty issues to the rise (and sometimes the fall) of gambling and casinos. With unsparing honesty and a good dose of humor, Jim Northrup takes readers through the last decade, looking at the changes in Indian Country, as well as daily life on the rez. Jim Northrup is an award-winning journalist, poet, and playwright. His syndicated column “Fond du Lac Follies” was named Best Column at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association convention.
HUMOR / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-55591-762-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-769-2 US*

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Excerpts in: Indian Country Today • The Native American Press Public radio and TV campaign • Outreach to Native American publications and websites • Social media campaign • Regional Midwest and West tour • Promotion through: www.jimnorthrup.org

Join award-winning storyteller, poet, and humorist Jim Northrup for a look at Indian Country in the twenty-first century.

Author Events
Duluth, MN • Minneapolis, MN Author Hometown: Carlton, MN

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Fulcrum Publishing The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
Vine Deloria Jr.
Foreword by Daniel R. Wildcat Afterword by David E. Wilkins
Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world. Daniel R. Wildcat is the director of the American Indian studies program and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center at Haskell Indian Nations University. David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Excerpts in: Indian Country Today • The Native American Press Public radio campaign • Outreach to Native American, philosophy, and scholarly religious publications and websites

PHILOSOPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE October First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 978-1-55591-759-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-766-1 US

Science and religion align to create a holistic worldview infused with the wisdom of Native cultures.

Indians of the Pacific Northwest
From the Coming of the White Man to the Present Day

Vine Deloria Jr.
Foreword by Billy Frank Jr. Afterword by Steve Pavlik
The Pacific Northwest was one of the most populated and prosperous regions for Native Americans before the coming of the white man. By the mid-1800s, measles and smallpox decimated the Indian population, and the remaining tribes were forced to give up their ancestral lands. Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world, tells the story of these tribes’ fight for survival, one that continues today. Billy Frank Jr. was the first recipient of Indian Country Today’s American Indian Visionary Award. Steve Pavlik is a professor of Native American studies at Northwest Indian College.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Excerpts in: Indian Country Today • The Native American Press Public radio campaign • Outreach to Native American and Northwest history publications and websites HISTORY / SOCIAL SCIENCE October First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 978-1-55591-688-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-765-4 US

Pacific Northwest tribes and their struggle to maintain their culture and traditional homelands.

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Fulcrum Publishing Intensive Parenting
Surviving the Emotional Journey through the NICU

Deborah L. Davis, PhD, and Mara Tesler Stein, PsyD

Parenthood transforms you. Even before this crisis, you may have experienced a wide range of feelings triggered by pregnancy, birth, and welcoming a new baby. The NICU experience challenges your emotional coping, your developing parental identity, your relationship skills, and your ability to adjust. Intensive Parenting explores the emotions of parenting in the neonatal intensive care unit, from in-hospital through issues and concerns after the child is home. Deboral L. Davis and Mara Tesler Stein describe and affirm the wide range of experiences and emotional reactions that occur in the NICU and offer strategies for parents coping with their baby’s condition and hospitalization. Deborah L. Davis, PhD, is a developmental psychologist and writer who is the author of several books that support grieving parents including Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby and Loving and Letting Go. Mara Tesler Stein, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist. She consults to healthcare providers and hospitals, guiding their efforts to improve the level of psychological support and care to families in Labor and Delivery and in the NICU. She specializes in the emotional aspects of coping with crisis around pregnancy and parenting.
A guide to the relationships and emotions encountered when parenting a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / HEALTH & FITNESS February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-744-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-768-5 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National advertising: Parenting • Public radio and TV campaign • Outreach to prenatal, OB/GYN, and parenting publications and websites • Regional Colorado and West tour Author Hometowns: Denver, CO / Chicago, IL

Also Available
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Revised Edition Surviving the Death of Your Baby Deborah L. Davis SELF-HELP 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-302-1 US Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child The Emotional Journey Deborah L. Davis and Mara Tesler Stein FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 6 x 9 | 928 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 978-1-55591-511-7 US

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Fulcrum Publishing Brave New World of Healthcare Revisited
What Every American Needs to Know about Our Healthcare Crisis

Richard D. Lamm and Andy Sharma
“[Lamm] holds a stark mirror up to an American society willing to steal from its children and bankrupt the next generation.”—Senator Gary Hart An informed and erudite look at the current state of the American healthcare system from former governor Richard D. Lamm and political economist Andy Sharma, including: • Will the retirement of the baby boomer generation bankrupt our healthcare services? • What does the impending healthcare reform mean for the nation? • Does the United States still have the best healthcare system in the world? Lamm and Sharma address these questions and more as they expose the problems existing not only in policy and professional circles, but also in public attitudes and expectations. Richard D. Lamm is the codirector of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver and the former three-term governor of Colorado. A nationally recognized expert on healthcare issues, Lamm was chairman of the Pew Health Professions Commission and a public member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Andy Sharma is a political economist who was the recipient of the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Future Faculty Fellowship and Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship, as well as the former recipient of the Carolina Population Center Fellowship, with training grants from the National Institute of Aging and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
An informed look at the current state of the American healthcare system.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE March 6 x 9 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55591-854-5 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55591-510-0

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Time-Honored Values from the Heartland Jerry Apps
Photographs by Steve Apps
HUMOR 8 x 6 | 160 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55591-601-5 US

Rural Wit and Wisdom

Coming of Age on the Water Alan S. Kesselheim
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 336 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-351-9 US

Let Them Paddle

A Journey through Modern India Laura Pedersen
TRAVEL 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 978-1-55591-618-3 US

Planes, Trains, and Auto-Rickshaws

Durango
A Novel Gary Hart
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55591-670-1 US

Foreword by Sandra Day O’Connor
LAW 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55591-538-4 US

Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin with the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

Rebuilding Justice

A Citizen’s Guide to Grassroots Change Morgan Carroll
POLITICAL SCIENCE 8½ x 11 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-445-5 US

Take Back Your Government

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Gentle Path Press Ready to Heal
Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships Third Edition

Kelly McDaniel
It’s no surprise that our culture is addicted to “love.” The sappy love songs, the enticing ads for romantic getaways, and the desire to be cherished by a special someone will never lose their appeal. But for some women, this poses a significant problem. Because of their insatiable desire for love, they will do anything to find it and ultimately land in destructive addictive relationships over and over again causing incredible harm. This newly revised and expanded edition of Ready to Heal provides an opportunity for women to break free from painful addictive relationships. Kelly McDaniel provides the reader with the tools they will need to move along the path to living a life where intimacy is possible. Readers have an opportunity to begin to “connect the dots” in their own relationship patterns by following the stories of four brave women. A newly added chapter on “Mother Hunger” explores the role of the mother in infancy and how she ultimately impacts a daughter’s ability to have healthy intimate relationships later in life. Kelly McDaniel, MA, LPC, NCC, CSAT, is a licensed professional counselor and a sex addiction therapist in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. Her passion is working with women and couples. She holds Ready to Heal retreats for women.
Break free from the chains of addictive relationships that sabotage happiness and self-respect.

SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY September 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9832713-9-0 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-9774400-3-0

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10,000-copy print run • • • • National advertising: RTIR National print and online campaign National TV and radio campaign Published to coincide with the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) conference in September 2012 in San Antonio, TX Author Hometown: San Antonio, TX

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Gentle Path Press Cruise Control
Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men Second Edition

Robert Weiss
Foreword by Patrick Carnes, PhD
Sex is always part of Ed’s day, whether he’s masturbating during his morning shower, cruising the mall during lunch, or engaging in his post-workout gym ritual. He often spends whole weekends either searching for sex partners or having sex. In his rigidly compartmentalized daily sexual activities, Ed reveals a part of himself that his friends and coworkers most likely wouldn’t recognize. About 10 percent of gay men are sex addicts. For gay men like Ed who may have a problem with anonymous online hook-ups, porn, sex clubs, and prostitutes, the first step toward personal growth is to gain as much knowledge as possible about sexual addiction. Cruise Control will help readers determine whether or not they are sex addicts and how to reclaim their sexual health. This second edition is revised and expanded to include the impact of social media and mobile apps like Grindr (which uses GPS technology for instant hookups) on the “epidemic” of sex addiction in gay males. Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S, is director of sexual disorders services for Elements Behavioral Health and founding director of The Sexual Recovery Institute, an outpatient sexual addiction treatment center in Los Angeles, California. His media appearances include ESPN, The Discovery Channel, the Today show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Anderson Cooper 360°, and Dateline NBC.
Discover the important distinction between being a gay sex addict and a gay man exploring his sexual freedom.

SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY December 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9850633-0-6 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-5558382-1-8

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available • • • • • National advertising: RTIR National print and online campaign National TV and radio campaign Social media campaign Regularly featured blogger about sex and intimacy in the digital age at www.psychcentral.com • Promotion through: www.RobertWeissMSW.com Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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GLAS New Russian Writing Still Waters Run Deep
Young Women’s Writing from Russia

Yaroslava Pulinovich, Irina Bogatyreva, Olga Rimsha, Anna Lavrinenko, Victoria Chikarneeva, Anna Leonidova, and Ksenia Zhukova
These frank, unsparing, and varied stories by women in their twenties and thirties reveal the evolution of women’s consciousness in Russia through two decades of violent social upheaval—including the dramatic monologue of a teenage girl who grew up in an orphanage; an escape to the Altai Mountains and the mysterious local rites and lore; the seamy side of Siberian business and a young man’s failure to get to grips with it; the tricky backstage life of a provincial theater; and the private life of a wealthy family that mirrors the social stratification in Russian society today.

FICTION / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original New Russian Writing 5 x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-5-7172-0095-0 USC

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Seven Russian writers under thirty, winners of the prestigious Debut Prize, tackle issues faced by women, including formerly forbidden subjects.

Petroleum Venus
a novel

Alexander Snegirev
This is the tragicomic story of a successful young architect, Fyodor, the reluctant single father of an adolescent son with Down syndrome. The son is a terrible embarrassment to Fyodor, who relies on his own parents to take care of him. Fyodor has fraught relationship with them as well. But then a fatal car crash and the accidental discovery of a mystical painting, “Petroleum Venus,” force this self-involved father to ultimately embrace his troubled son, his parents’ moral values, and the real things in life. Petroleum Venus won the Debut Prize, was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize, nominated for the Russian Booker, and sat on the www.ozon.ru bestseller list for a year.

FICTION February A Paperback Original New Russian Writing 5 x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-5-7172-0096-7 USC

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Based on personal experience, this is the tragicomic story of a single father of a fourteen-year-old son with Down syndrome.

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Selected Backlist from GLAS New Russian Writing

Roman Senchin
FICTION 5 x 8 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0083-7 USC

Minus

Iramifications
Maria Galina
FICTION 5 x 8 | 252 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0082-0 USC

Contemporary Russian Prose Arkady Babchenko, Dmitry Bykov, Julia Latynina, Roman Senchin, and Olga Slavnikova
FICTION 5 x 8 | 400 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $21.00 978-5-7172-0074-5 USC

War & Peace

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
FICTION 5 x 8 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0073-8 USC

7 Stories

Edited by Olga Slavnikova
FICTION 5 x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0086-8 USC

Squaring the Circle

A Jewish God in Paris
Mikhail Levitin
FICTION 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0085-1 USC

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Global Book Sales
London, England

Global Book Sales is an exciting new sales and distribution company set up to offer nonfiction and specialist publishers the opportunity to increase their business through a worldwide, proactive sales team. Working with Macmillan Distribution Ltd in the United Kingdom, one of the leading UK book distributors, and Consortium Book Sales and Distribution in the United States, publishers will enjoy the combined advantages of reliable, international distribution and a close working relationship with our in-house team. Global Book Sales is launching with two publishers in the United States: Clarksdale Books and Fonthill Media. Clarksdale Books Clarksdale is the music imprint of Ovolo books and is dedicated to producing exciting, innovative, and commercial titles about contemporary music. Forthcoming Clarksdale titles include books about Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and punk, as well as reference works such as the highly popular Rock Atlas, 500 Lost Gems of the Sixties, and the Rock Almanac. Clarksdale has a reputation for originality and extremely high-quality content designed to sell well to both the specialist and general audience. Fonthill Media Fonthill Media is a new company set up to publish in the history, military, and transport genres, and for 2012 a large emphasis on the publishing output will be on aviation titles. Forthcoming titles include a book on the Mustang and the Phantom. Fonthill Media is building a team of hand-picked and talented editors to quickly become a well-recognized brand for high quality specialist books. A US local history list will commence in 2013.

first season at Consortium

Global Book Sales Hendrix: Made in England
Brian Southall

Jimi Hendrix cut a mesmerising figure striding through the grey London streets in late 1966 with his long hair and extraordinary clothes. This book traces the story in detail from him leaving New York in 1966 to arriving back home for the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The book offers a unique insight into the Hendrix story by talking with those who knew him best—many of whom have never gone on record before. Brian Southall’s other books include the Official History of Abbey Road Studios, Simply Red: The Official Story, and Beatles Memorabilia with Julian Lennon.
MUSIC September A Paperback Original Clarksdale 7½ x 9¾ | 312 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-905959-41-9 USC

A never-before-seen look at the years that made Jimi Hendrix into the legend he is today.

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Breakfast in Nudie Suits
Ian Dunlop

“Part Kerouac, part Tom Robbins, it’s a transcendental road trip down a lost highway that leads to the roots of the Americana music movement.” —Jim White, musician and writer Set between 1965 and 1968, Breakfast in Nudie Suits follows Gram Parsons as he travels across America trying to establish country music in the era of rock. This is a road trip in the great American tradition and the events of the midsixties crackle off the page.
MUSIC September A Paperback Original Clarksdale 6⅝ x 9½ | 312 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-905959-40-2 USC

Ian Dunlop, a close friend and fellow International Submarine Band member, in this book gives a glimpse into the Gram Parson’s legend that has never been offered before.

Offering a unique glimpse into the Gram Parsons legend from his bandmate in The International Submarine Band.

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Global Book Sales From Me to You
Songs the Beatles Covered and Covers of the Fab Four’s Songs

Brian Southall
A must-have book for any fan of the Beatles. This book shows how the Fab Four were heavily influenced by music from America and many of their concerts were built around classic songs that had their roots in American R&B, soul and rock ’n’ roll.
MUSIC | October | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 5⅝ x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-905959-23-5 USC

The Beatles Collected
Pete Nash with David Roberts and Brian Southall
2013 is the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ major arrival in America. This book is the first serious book about Beatles collectibles. Beautifully photographed and designed, it includes a range of Beatles merchandise from guitars, plastic models, clothes, wigs, bubblegum cards, and even Beatles mothballs.
MUSIC | November | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 7½ x 9½ | 224 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 | 978-1-905959-69-3 USC

’77 Sulphate Strip
An Eyewitness Account of the Year that Changed Everything

Barry Cain
An eyewitness account of 1977 by one of the only journalists allowed full access to the bands. This is the true story of punk—how it really felt and what happened—and how John Lydon, Hugh Cornwell, and Rat Scabies feel now about what they said and did back then.
MUSIC / HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 5⅝ x 8 | 400 pp 16 B&W photographs | Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9548674-9-2 USC

The Clarksdale Rock Almanac (aka Goats Head Soup for Starters and 999 Other Bizarre Servings of Music Trivia)
David Roberts
A collection of incredibly diverse facts and information about rock music. Beautifully designed with full color throughout, this book is real treat for music fans young and old.
MUSIC | October | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 6 x 8⅞ | 368 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-905959-35-8 USC

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Global Book Sales 500 Lost Gems of the Sixties
Kingsley Abbott
The idea behind this book is simple—to gather together a fantastic selection of Sixties pop releases that are not as well-known as they deserve to be. This book is perfect for those who enjoy collecting records or love the obscurer corners of pop history.
MUSIC / HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 5⅜ x 7⅜ | 208 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 | 978-1-905959-07-5 USC

650 Great Music Locations and the Fascinating Stories Behind Them

Rock Atlas
David Roberts

Illustrated with hundreds of rare and iconic color and black and white photographs, Rock Atlas is a must for anyone with an emotional tie to contemporary music and the important places associated with it. Rock Atlas includes artists as diverse as The Beatles, Sex Pistols, Lady Gaga, and Lonnie Donegan.
MUSIC / TRAVEL | September | A Paperback Original | Clarksdale | 7½ x 9¾ | 304 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-905959-24-2 USC

Amazing Contemporary Homes
Homebuilding and Renovating Magazine

This book is an invaluable source of inspiration for anyone planning to build their own home. Tells the real life stories behind thirty-six construction projects and includes 365 full-color photographs of contemporary style homes.
ARCHITECTURE | September | Ovolo Books | 7½ x 9¾ | 330 pp 365 color photographs | Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 | 978-1-905959-19-8 USC

The Sustainable Building Bible
Tim Pullen

This is an accessible and authoritative guide to sustainable building. It explains the technologies involved, from air pumps to wind generators and solar panels, helping you to achieve a zero carbon home.
ARCHITECTURE / HOUSE & HOME September | A Paperback Original | Ovolo Books | 7½ x 9¾ | 232 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 | 978-1-905959-14-3 USC

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Throughbred Stallion

Mustang

Steven Pace
The definitive book on the Mustang, the main US fighter plane in World War II. Many of the images in the book have never been published before and it includes numerous first-hand accounts of the Mustang in battle. Steven Pace is a leading aviation historian based in the United States.
HISTORY / TRANSPORTATION October | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 320 pp 50 color photographs, 150 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-051-9 USC

Churchill and Roosevelt’s Secret Airfield

Tempsford Academy
Bernard O’Connor

The remarkable story of the American Secret Service’s involvement in secret operations in occupied Europe during World War II. The story is based around RAF Tempsford which was designed by an illusionist to give overflying enemy pilots the impression it was a disused airfield.
HISTORY | October | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp 20 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-003-8 USC

A Navigator’s Eye on Britain’s Cold War Warrior

The Phantom in Focus
David Gledhill

An incredible insight into life during the cold war told through the eyes of a navigator who flew in this iconic US jet. Many of the pictures are unique, captured from the cockpit, showing the Phantom in action.
HISTORY | November | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 256 pp 37 color photographs | Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-048-9 USC

Wine, Women and Song
A Spitfire Pilot’s Story

Hamish Brown
Previously unpublished letters give a unique insight into life as an airman during World War II. The book brilliantly captures the thrills of flying as well as the many other emotions associated with warfare including the loss of fellow airmen and the anticipation of battle.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 368 pp 200 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-035-9 USC

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Global Book Sales Fighters over Stalingrad Volume 1
Air Operations of the Soviet Union VVS and Luftwaffe

Nikita Egorov and Boris Nechkin
The first book to give a detailed description of the air war over Stalingrad including maps of all the airfields and unique details of specific air battles. The material has been sourced from the Russian archives and has never been published before. Both authors are based in the Russian Federation.
HISTORY | November | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 384 pp Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-046-5 USC

The Great Man’s Life in Anecdotes

Winston Churchill
Patrick Delaforce

This wide-ranging collection of anecdotes reveals many facets about this illustrious man and his incredible life. It is an insight into Winston Churchill’s larger-than-life personality and a record of his caustic yet brilliant wit. Much of the material has been sourced from long out of print and forgotten sources.
HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY December | A Paperback Original | Fonthill Media | 6⅜ x 9¼ | 192 pp 50 B&W photographs | Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-78155-074-8 USC

A Burma Soldier’s Story in Letters, Photographs and Sketches

The Forgotten Army
James Fenton

An original and very accessible memoir of a soldier fighting the Japanese in World War II written by a veteran. This is an almost forgotten campaign and this account gives the reader an incredible insight into what life was like on the front line in Burma.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 336 pp 32 color photographs, 100 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-047-2 USC

War Games and Their History
Christopher George Lewin

A fascinating study of war games starting with those played in ancient and medieval times through to 1945. A must-read for anyone interested in military history. This is the complete history of war gaming.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 288 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-042-7 USC

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Global Book Sales Bismarck
John Asmussen
This is the amazing story of the Bismarck, which sank after only nine days. The book contains many photographs previously never published before. The Bismarck was one of the wrecks discovered by Robert Ballard after he found the Titanic, and the author was a member of Ballard’s team.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 8¼ x 11¾ | 368 pp 50 color photographs, 280 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $70.00 | CAN $76.99 | 978-1-78155-039-7 USC

Dearest Bess
The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster Afterwards Duchess of Devonshire

Dorothy M. Stuart
Bess was the other Duchess, Georgiana’s best friend, who with Georgiana and her husband, William Cavendish, Fifth Duke of Devonshire, formed the infamous ménage à trois at Devonshire House. This fascinating story was the subject of the film The Duchess starring Keira Knightley.
HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Fonthill Media | 6⅜ x 9¼ | 280 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-78155-005-2 USC

Napoleon and His Marshals
A. G. Macdonell

This is one of the finest accounts of Napoleon Bonaparte and his battles in the English language. This book covers the period of 1796 to 1815, from Napoleon’s classic victories in Italy up to the point of his defeat at Waterloo. It has been out of print since the 1930s.
HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 288 pp 30 B&W illustrations | Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-78155-036-6 USC

Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon on St Helena

Napoleon & Betsy
Lucia Elizabeth Abell

This is the fascinating tale of a fallen Emperor, who became the best friend of this thirteen-year-old English girl. It is the first modern edition of this classic text. Napoleon and Betsy, a major Hollywood film, is currently in production starring Al Pacino as Napoleon and Emma Watson as Betsy.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp 20 color illustrations, 29 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-034-2 USC

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The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon
Oscar Browning
HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 288 pp 30 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-78155-011-3 USC

Handley Page— The First Forty Years
Handley Page
HISTORY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 128 pp 145 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-78155-007-6 USC

The Fighting Wessex Wyverns
Patrick Delaforce
HISTORY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 256 pp 50 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-78155-071-7 USC

Napoleonic Anecdotes
Louis Cohen
HISTORY October A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6¼ x 9¼ | 256 pp 30 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-78155-033-5 USC

Britain’s Cold War Bombers
Tim McLelland
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6¾ x 9¾ | 288 pp 32 color photographs Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-1-78155-052-6 USC

Westland’s Enigmatic Fighter Niall Corduroy
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6¾ x 9¾ | 288 pp 150 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-1-78155-037-3 USC

Whirlwind

Hauptmann Hermann
HISTORY October A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 240 pp 30 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-78155-006-9 USC

The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe

The Merchantmen in Action
Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in the Second World War Roy V. Martin

Operation Pickaxe at RAF Tempsford Bernard O’Connor
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 320 pp 20 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-1-78155-002-1 USC

Churchill and Stalin’s Secret Agents

HISTORY October Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 192 pp 42 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-045-8 USC

Fighters over the Aegean
Hurricanes over Crete, Spitfires over Kos, Beaufighters over the Aegean 1943–44 Brian Cull
HISTORY October Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 224 pp 32 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-044-1 USC

Tirpitz Hitler’s Last Battleship
John Asmussen
HISTORY December Fonthill Media 8¼ x 11¾ | 368 pp 50 color illustrations, 500 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $70.00 | CAN $76.99 978-1-78155-075-5 USC

The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes Patrick Delaforce
HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 192 pp 50 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-073-1 USC

Adolf Hitler

Fokker Fodder
Paul Hare
HISTORY December Fonthill Media 6¼ x 9¼ | 160 pp 150 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-065-6 USC

Tor Idar Larsen and Finn Thorsager
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 208 pp 90 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78155-043-4 USC

Viking Spitfire: The Story of Finn Thorsager

Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess
Patron of Goethe and Schiller Frances A. Gerard
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅜ x 9¼ | 320 pp 20 color photographs, 37 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78155-016-8 USC

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Green Integer Reading Films: My International Cinema
Douglas Messerli

Encompassing two hundred international movies, Douglas Messerli’s Reading Films is a highly personal but profound discussion of some of the most important cinematic achievements from the earliest of film history—including numerous silent films—to current movies in theaters at the time of this book’s publication. As Messerli reveals in his insightful essay, “Reading Films,” his approach is not a mere evaluation of the films he has seen nor a passive appreciation or dismissal, but a deeper look into the structures of the works, the films’ significance in society, and their directors’ and actors’ personal relationship to the created works. Messerli not only “sees” the movies on which he writes, but watches them over and over again, finally “reading” them as works of poetry and fiction, evaluating and comparing them in terms of other works of art. Yet there is nothing “academic” about Messerli’s readings, written from 2000 to the present. His short essays are filled with passionate prejudices and concerns that sometimes take him on tangents other reviewers would not have dared. The author elucidates the contradictions and the sometimes subtle problems these films create that might have gone unnoticed even by their creators themselves. Writing in a lively, sometimes colloquial, occasionally idiosyncratic language, Messerli lays his heart on his sleeve, demonstrating his loves and dislikes in the art of filmmaking. Reading Films is a work any film lover—whether populist or admirer of art house fare—must read. Douglas Messerli is the author numerous books of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose, including the annual My Year series.

PERFORMING ARTS September First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 640 pp 200 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-55713-427-1 W* Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55713-417-2

Marketing Plans Essays on two hundred films with photographs— original viewpoints with interesting film history comments.
20,000-copy print run • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Selected Backlist from Green Integer

Himalaya
Translated by Brother Anthony and Lee Sang-Wha
POETRY 4¼ x 6 | 210 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-1-55713-412-7 W*

Ko Un

Book Alpha
Translated by Adrienne Dixon
FICTION 4¼ x 6 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-933382-15-9 W*

Ivo Michiels

The Botanical Garden
Translated by Brian Evenson
FICTION 4¼ x 6 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-1-55713-411-0 W*

Jean Frémon

Translated by Katia Sainson
NATURE 4¼ x 6 | 148 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-1-933382-11-1 W*

Jules Michellet

The Sea

Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
POETRY / FICTION 4¼ x 6 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $10.95 | CAN $13.50 978-1-931243-42-1 W*

Films without Images
Translated by Mark Spitzer
DRAMA 4¼ x 6 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $14.95 978-1-933382-40-1 W*

Blaise Cendrars

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Gryphon House Digital Decisions
Choosing the Right Technology Tools for Early Childhood Education

Fran Simon and Karen N. Nemeth
Foreword by Chip Donohue
“Digital Decisions will open your eyes and expand your awareness of how technology fits into a purposefully planned child-centered classroom.”—Paula Jorde Bloom, Michael W. Louis Endowed Chair, McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership “Simon and Nemeth transform the debate between technology as good or bad, rather showing us how to use technology actively and interactively within good active and interactive early childhood programs.”—Ellen Galinsky, author of Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs When it comes to choosing and implementing the most appropriate technology tools for an early childhood classroom, many educators feel exhilarated or overwhelmed. Most feel both! Digital Decisions offers expert guidance and simple strategies for early childhood educators, administrators, and directors looking to embrace and integrate technology in the classroom. This no-nonsense, jargon-free guide will help educators choose and implement the right technology tools based on the needs of the children, the context of the curriculum, and the resources available. Fran Simon is a contributing author on technology and social media for early childhood journals and frequently presents on technology and social media at national conferences. Karen N. Nemeth has been a teacher and a teacher educator for more than twenty-five years.
Marketing Plans A reference every early childhood teacher will want to have to correctly choose and effectively implement technology in the classroom.
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EDUCATION September A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $34.95 978-0-87659-408-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-433-9 W

193

Gryphon House Where Does My Shadow Sleep?
A Parent’s Guide to Exploring Science with Children’s Books

Sally Anderson with the Vermont Center for the Book
Take the time to watch, wonder, ask questions, talk about, and explore the world of science with your child! The activities in Where Does My Shadow Sleep? link great children’s books—which you are probably already reading with your child—with easy, fun-filled activities you can use to investigate things like clouds, bugs, bridges, and even mud. Sally Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Vermont Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-0-87659-387-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-429-2 W

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A unique resource for parents that uses favorite children’s books to explore and investigate the world of science!

How Many Ways Can You Make Five?
A Parent’s Guide to Exploring Math with Children’s Books

Sally Anderson with the Vermont Center for the Book
Explore connections between math and everyday life with your child! The activities in How Many Ways Can You Make Five? link popular children’s books—which you are probably already reading with your child—with easy, fun-filled activities you can use to explore important math concepts like mapping, following directions, noticing patterns, and finding shapes. Sally Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Vermont Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-0-87659-386-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-428-5 W

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A unique resource for parents that uses favorite children’s books to explore and investigate the world of mathematics!

194

Gryphon House Math and Science Investigations
Helping Young Learners Make Big Discoveries

Sally Anderson with the Vermont Center for the Book

Young children are naturally interested in the patterns and processes occurring in the world around them. They are beginning to learn about the changes happening each day, month, and season. They are starting to ask questions about the environment and world beyond. They are anxious to explore the creatures in their own backyard. Math and Science Investigations supports young children’s natural curiosity and encourages them to explore what happens around them. Hands-on investigations help children learn the skills, concepts, and standards of mathematics, science, language, and literacy—all at the same time—using some of their favorite books. Each chapter includes a general introduction to the theme; ideas to start you thinking about math, science, language, and literacy; vocabulary related to the topic; and children’s book suggestions. Sally Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Vermont Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. She has created professional development programs for early childhood educators and librarians across the country, including courses centering on math, science, social studies, and early literacy.
A unique teaching resource that uses children’s books and hands-on investigations to bring math and science concepts to life!

EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-87659-388-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-427-8 W

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195

Gryphon House Focus on Babies
How-tos and What-to-dos when Caring for Infants

Jennifer Karnopp
A beginner’s primer to providing child care for infants! Complete with tips for creating a developmentally appropriate environment and experiences that stimulate infants’ muscles and minds, Focus on Babies gives caregivers the tools to craft a quality learning environment that’s as unique as the needs of the babies in their care. In simple language, the book covers the role of the caregiver, setting up the physical environment, creating a daily schedule, daily planning, and understanding children’s growth and development. It also includes engaging activities that address multiple intelligences.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 136 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-87659-379-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-425-4 W

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A simple guide to crafting a quality learning environment for infants in child care!

Focus on Toddlers
How-tos and What-to-dos when Caring for Toddlers and Twos

Jennifer Karnopp
A beginner’s primer to providing child care for toddlers and two-year-olds! Complete with tips for creating a developmentally appropriate environment and experiences that stimulate muscles and minds, Focus on Toddlers gives caregivers the tools to craft a quality learning environment that’s as unique as the needs of the children in their care. In simple language, it explains how to structure a program where toddlers and two-year-olds can learn, play, and thrive. The book covers the role of the caregiver, setting up the physical environment, creating a daily schedule, daily planning, and understanding children’s growth and development.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 136 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-87659-380-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-426-1 W

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A simple guide to crafting a quality learning environment for toddlers in child care!

196

Gryphon House Let’s Build
Strong Foundations in Language, Math, and Social Skills

Pamela C. Phelps

Blocks are a key teaching tool in any early childhood program. Through wellplanned, teacher-supported block play experiences, young children can build math, language, and social skills. Let’s Build provides educators of young children with guidance in how to create early childhood environments that support children’s natural need to play. It includes strategies for creating and scaffolding the block play experience, recommends children’s books that support the learning, and outlines ways to match behaviors, content, and concepts to learning standards. More than just a collection of activities, lesson plans are based on ten broad themes including: Large Buildings Around the World, Wild Animals, Ways to Travel, and Our Families and Ourselves. Pamela C. Phelps is the creator of the Creative Pre-School Model Program and the author of Beyond Cribs and Rattles and Beyond Centers and Circle Time curricula. She has published articles in professional early childhood and special education journals, directed research in early childhood settings, and regularly conducts workshops for educators and parents on play and play environments, behavior management, and numerous other topics related to young children.
Support children’s natural need to play by scaffolding block play experiences to meet learning standards and develop core skills.

EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-87659-396-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-432-2 W

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Gryphon House Let’s Take It Outside!
Teacher-Created Activities for Outdoor Learning

Edited by Kathy Charner, Mary Rein, and Brittany Roberts
Children love outdoor play. Now teachers can combine the magic and excitement of the outdoors with activities that encourage and support learning! With more than one hundred new teacher-created, classroom-tested outdoor activities, Let’s Take It Outside! engages children’s minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors while also building key skills in areas like math, literacy and language, science, art, and music. Perfect for ages three to six, the activities in Let’s Take It Outside! take kids on an outdoor adventure as they make mud-dough letters, go on a rainbow scavenger hunt, and play animal charades. Let’s Take It Outside! is the result of a nationwide contest among teachers. The best of the best activities are selected and organized by theme for easy use. Themes include counting, alphabet, colors, shapes, art, touch, sound and sight, plants and gardening, bubbles and air, light and shadow, animals and insects, dramatic play, and large motor skills.
EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-87659-395-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-431-5 W

Over one hundred teacher-created, classroom-tested activities to engage children’s minds and bodies as they explore the limitless bounds of the outdoors!

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Gryphon House Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children
Over 300 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers

Edited by Kathy Charner, Stephanie Roselli, and Brittany Roberts
Actively engage children’s imaginations with more than three hundred activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themes—from the alphabet to the weather. The result of a nationwide contest among teachers, the classroom-tested activities in Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children provide many months of learning fun! Each activity is complete with learning objectives, materials list, related children’s book suggestions, step-by-step instructions of what to do, teacherto-teacher tips to expand on children’s learning, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays. Themes include All About Me, Alphabet, Animals, Art, Building and Construction, Celebrations, Colors, Five Senses, Health and Nutrition, Insects and Bugs, Kindness, Math, Music and Movement, My Community and Neighborhood, My Family and Friends, My School, Numbers, Our Earth, Plants, Science and Technology, Seasons, Shapes, Time, Transportation, Water, and Weather.
Actively engage children’s imaginations with over three hundred theme-based activities created by teachers for teachers!

EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 448 pp 100 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-87659-394-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-430-8 W

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The GIANT Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Children Over 600 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers for Teachers Edited by Kathy Charner Illustrated by Rebecca Butcher Schoenfliess FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / EDUCATION GIANT Encyclopedia 8½ x 11 | 510 pp 99 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $34.95 978-0-87659-166-6 US The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities Written by Teachers for Teachers Edited by Kathy Charner, Maureen Murphy, and Charlie Clark EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 8½ x 11 | 192 pp 50 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-87659-013-3 US

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Gryphon House Nailing Jelly to the Wall
Defining and Providing Technical Assistance in Early Childhood Education

Nancy P. Alexander
For experts in the field of early care and education, defining and providing technical assistance can be as difficult as nailing jelly to the wall. Learn to effectively coach, mentor, and train early childhood teachers and administrators with guided experiences, strategies, and activities to provide technical assistance in specific program areas like parent involvement, science, outdoor play, music, and art. Nailing Jelly to the Wall is written for: early childhood consultants offering an objective, outside view of what is needed to improve a program; mentors serving as a role model for others who are building a career in early childhood; coaches helping others in the field of early childhood improve their skills and knowledge by providing resources, demonstrations, and guidance; and program administrators working with their own staff to provide professional development and guidance Nancy P. Alexander is executive director of Northwestern State University Child and Family Network, a multi-faceted program providing a variety of services, including innovative projects to help programs advance in the state quality-rating system and career pathways. She is a nationally recognized speaker and a highly sought-after presenter and workshop leader in early childhood programs throughout the country.
Learn to effectively coach, mentor, and train early childhood teachers and administrators with this comprehensive guide to providing technical assistance. Marketing Plans
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EDUCATION September A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-87659-413-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-87659-434-6 W

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Haus Publishing A Woman in the Crossfire
Diaries of the Syrian Revolution

Samar Yazbek
Translated by Max Weiss Foreword by Rafik Schami
A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed in person and actively participated in the first four months of the Syrian intifada. Throughout she kept a diary of personal reflections. Her outspoken views published in print, online, and on Facebook quickly attracted the attention and fury of the regime, as vicious rumors spread about her disloyalty to the homeland and the Alawite community from which she comes. This narrative weaves together her struggle to protect herself and her young daughter after she is forced to leave her home and live on the run, detained multiple times, and eventually flees to Europe. Filled with exhilarating hope and horrifying atrocities, A Woman in the Crossfire offers us a wholly unique perspective on the Syrian uprising. Yazbek’s is a modest yet powerful testament to the strength and commitment of countless unnamed Syrians who dream of bringing an end to a forty-year-old dictatorship. Their fight for dignity will inspire all those who read this book and challenge the world to look anew at the trials and tribulations of the Syrian uprising. Samar Yazbek has published several novels and collections of short stories, the most recent of which is In Her Mirrors. An excerpt of her novel Cinnamon was published in the anthology Beirut 39 (Bloomsbury, 2010) and will be published in full by Haus in 2013.

A devastating and personal account of the ongoing uprising in Syria from a prominent Syrian journalist now in hiding.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8½ | 250 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-908323-12-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-14-9 W

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Haus Publishing The Barbary Figs
Rashid Boudjedra

Winner of the Arab Book Prize. Two old friends and cousins find themselves side by side on the flight from Algiers to Constantine. There is a lot of history between them, as well as bad blood. The flight will last only an hour—an hour during which both their stories will be told, interspersed by anecdotes of Algeria’s struggle to release itself from France’s colonial grip. The title, The Barbary Figs, is a symbol of the “old” Algeria, since their grandfather used to grow them on his estate. The “new” Algeria is far less straightforward, and has produced far more bitter fruit.
FICTION February A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-906697-42-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-906697-41-9 W

Two men reminisce about their shared history, the divergence of their lives, and their roles in Algeria’s brutal civil war.

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The Book of Doubt
Tessa de Loo

Born in Holland, Saeed has a Moroccan first name in memory of his father, who absconded before he was born. Uncertain about his place in the world, he goes in search of his father, hoping to reconnect with his Arabic heritage and, in doing so, find a new identity. His childhood friend Hassan accompanies him. As their journey becomes increasingly claustrophobic, a secret history emerges that shatters their expectations. Disillusioned and desperately seeking to throw off the vestiges of his childhood in Holland, Saeed’s search sends him deep into the hands of radical Islam. But will he be saved before events reach a destructive climax?
FICTION March A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 530 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-906598-94-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-15-6 W

A young European muslim descends into radical Islam on a quest to find the father he never knew.

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Haus Publishing Léon and Louise
Alex Capus
Translated by John Brownjohn

Longlisted for the German Book Prize. A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus’ French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list. Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the lovers are torn apart again by Louise’s refusal to destroy Léon’s marriage and the German invasion of France. Through occupied Paris during the Second World War, where Léon struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed on him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love. Léon and Louise’s is an enduring passion and an enchanting tale of love’s triumph against improbable odds. It is a story masterfully told. Alex Capus’ poetic, understated language is beautifully translated by John Brownjohn. Alex Capus is the author of Sailing by Starlight.
A tale of love’s triumph against improbable odds and the vicissitudes of history by one of Europe’s great emerging novelists.
FICTION October 5 x 7¾ | 262 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908323-13-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-16-3 W

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203

Haus Publishing Baron, Spy, Traitor, Scapegoat?
An Episode of the Great War

Antony Lentin
In the early summer of 1914 Sir Edgar Speyer and his wife Leonora stood at the center of London society, an era made famous by the television series Downton Abbey. He was the “King of the Underground” and a patron of the arts, she a famous violinist and poetess. Yet within weeks of the outbreak of war, they became pariahs, objects of suspicion and aversion. The “anti-alien” campaign following the sinking of the Lusitania forced the Speyers into exile in the United States. He was stripped of his membership of the Privy Council, but she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY March A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-908323-11-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-17-0 W

The first detailed account of the downfall of a prominent figure in the political, cultural, and social life of Edwardian London.

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Mannerheim
President, Soldier, Spy

Jonathan Clements
“An exemplary and generously illustrated account; it incorporates new historical material, and he describes the journey as if he had been there.” —The Times Literary Supplement Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. He spent two years undercover in Asia as a spy, escaped the Bolsheviks in 1917, lead the anti-Russian forces in the civil war and later, during Finland’s darkest hour, lead the defense of his country against the impossible odds of the Winter War. Mannerheim is a fascinating appraisal of an adventurer and explorer who would go on to forge a new nation.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY December First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-907822-57-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-18-7 W

The amazing life of Gustaf Mannerheim, a life tragically and heroically intertwined with the twentieth century.

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Haus Publishing The 13th Tablet
Alex Mitchell

Iraq, 2004. The War on Terror rages on and as lawlessness escalates, looters are hitting the museums. Mina Osman, a spirited young American archaeologist of Iraqi descent appalled at the loss of her parents’ heritage, heads to the University of Mosul to help safeguard Iraq’s antiquities. While reprimanding one of her students for conspiring with the looters, a cuneiform tablet dating back three thousand years is handed over for restitution. The tablet holds within a profound secret about the primordial flood described in the Gilgamesh epic. What begins as a straightforward translation of an ancient text triggers a series of disruptive and life-threatening events. A chase without limits ensues which takes the savvy and adventurous Mina and Jack, a handsome ex-US Army Major, from Mosul to Safed and from Cambridge to Phuket, in the midst of the tsunami cataclysm. Alex Mitchell is an honorary researcher at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. Alex is working on two sequels to The 13th Tablet which will take Mina Osman to China, India, and Greece, with a climax in North America.
A gripping thriller that weaves together the obsessions of archaeologists, shady art dealers, kabbalists, and ruthless businessmen.
FICTION October A Paperback Original A Mina Osman Thriller 5 x 7¾ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908323-09-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-19-4 W

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Haus Publishing The Golden Step
A Walk through the Heart of Crete

Christopher Somerville
The only plan for Christopher Somerville’s walk across Crete was to begin in the East at Easter and finish on Pentecost in the extreme West, at the Monastery of the Golden Step. During the three hundred-mile walk he tackled four mountain ranges and the numerous gorges of the West. Speaking only basic Greek and following a poorly marked path, he relied on his instincts to guide him through shepherding country where villages are few and each night’s accommodation uncertain. The result is a book that beautifully evokes a Crete few ever encounter; rugged, perilous, hospitable, and charming.
TRAVEL / SPORTS & RECREATION March First Trade Paper Edition Armchair Traveller 5 x 7¾ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 978-1-907973-34-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-907973-33-8 W

A travelog of a three hundred mile walk across Crete.

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Kipling
Jad Adams

“An enjoyably confrontational biography.”—The Times “Adams’ chronicle is an important study of one of England’s literary heroes.” —Financial Times Joseph Rudyard Kipling was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as he was loved. This accessible biography gives an understanding of the man behind the public image and seeks to explain his enduring popularity. It places him in the context not just of Imperialism, but as a sensitive artist of his time.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY February First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 7¾ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-908323-06-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908323-07-1 W

A reappraisal of a deeply controversial though great writer, as deeply hated as he was loved.

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Haymarket Books Howard Zinn Speaks
Collected Speeches 1963 to 2009

Howard Zinn
Edited by Anthony Arnove
“Howard Zinn—there was no one like him. And to hear him speak was like listening to music that you loved—lyrical, uplifting, honest.”—Michael Moore “Zinn’s speeches . . . are a joy and an inspiration.”—Marisa Tomei “Collected here for the first time, Howard’s speeches come to us at the moment when we need them most: just as a global network of popular uprisings searches for what comes next.”—Naomi Klein Howard Zinn was one of the great orators of the twentieth century and illuminated our history like no other historian. He rarely spoke from notes, and yet could weave rich historical narratives that inspired and captivated audiences. He could grab the attention of even the most jaded students and charm listeners with his sharp humor and personal, engaging style. Many of his speeches have never been published in book form. This first ever collection of his speeches will be an invaluable resource for new generations to continue to discover his work, as well as the millions he moved and informed in his lifetime. Howard Zinn wrote the classic A People’s History of the United States. The book, which has sold more than two million copies, was featured in the film Good Will Hunting, and has appeared multiple times on The New York Times best-seller list. Anthony Arnove wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn, Chris Moore, Josh Brolin, and Matt Damon, and co-edited, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

HISTORY October 5½ x 8½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-60846-259-9 USCO* Trade Cloth US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-1-60846-223-0 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-228-5 USCO* Enhanced eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-260-5 USCO*

Howard Zinn weaves rich historical narratives that inspire and captivate.

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Marx in Soho (Audio CD) A Play on History Brian Jones and Howard Zinn DRAMA 5½ by 5 | 180 min CD US $16.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-931859-80-6 USCO*

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Haymarket Books The John Carlos Story
John Carlos with Dave Zirin
Foreword by Cornel West

2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work— Biography/Autobiography. “A powerful and poignant memoir.”—Cornel West, from the foreword “John Carlos is an American hero. And finally he has written a memoir to tell us his story—and a powerful story it is. I couldn’t put this book down.” —Michael Moore Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos. John Carlos is a former track and field athlete and professional football player, and a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. He won the bronze medal in the 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, where his Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith caused much political controversy. Dave Zirin is the author of four books, including Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love, A Peoples’ History of Sports in the United States, and What’s My Name, Fool?

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE December First Trade Paper Edition 5⅝ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-224-7 USCO* Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-60846-127-1

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John Carlos, the man behind the most iconic moment of the Black Power movement, tells his story.

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What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States Dave Zirin SPORTS & RECREATION / HISTORY 5¼ x 7⅞ | 300 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-931859-20-2 USCO Welcome to the Terrordome The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports Dave Zirin SPORTS & RECREATION / SOCIAL SCIENCE 5¼ x 7⅞ | 280 pp 15 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-1-931859-41-7 USCO

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Haymarket Books The Silenced Majority
Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Introduction by Michael Moore
“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis.”—Noam Chomsky Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman’s New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power—and refusing to be silent. The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of “climate apartheid,” the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent “From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza.” Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media—and change the world. Amy Goodman is a multiple New York Times best-selling author and the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! a daily independent news program airing on more than one thousand television and radio stations. Time named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” Denis Moynihan, since helping co-found Democracy Now! as an independent production company in 2002 has participated in the organization’s growth, focusing primarily on distribution, infrastructure development, and coordinating complex live broadcasts from all continents (save Antarctica). He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today’s critical news stories and political events. Also Available
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / HISTORY September A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8½ | 380 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-231-5 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-232-2 USCO*

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Breaking the Sound Barrier Amy Goodman Foreword by Bill Moyers SOCIAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8½ | 380 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $16.00 978-1-931859-99-8 USCO*

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Haymarket Books Boots Riley
Lyrics in Context, 1933–2012

Boots Riley

“Every line brims with the grit of the underdog, burns with rage and tenderness. It’s no secret he is one of the most influential poets of this generation.” —Jeff Chang, Can’t Stop, Wont Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation “Boots’ lyrics contain the wit and satire to match their venom and potent political punch. His intricate yet relatable rhymes are like a combination of a Richard Pryor sketch and a guerrilla warfare manual.”—Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine “Fact is, the brother’s some writer. . . . Their low-slung rhythms imagine what might have happened if Reagan-era Prince had been less into getting some action and more into kicking up some activism.”—The Village Voice “Riley’s rhymes work so well because they’re more about real life than rhetoric. . . . It’s the rare record that makes revolution sound like hot fun on a Saturday night.”—Rolling Stone
MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 7 x 9 | 224 pp 24 color photographs Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-60846-253-7 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-225-4 USCO*

Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup for two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Riley combines hiphop poetics, radical politics, and the wry humor of the everyman. Including not-yet-released lyrics, photographs, and backstories, here’s an in-depth portrait of Riley’s life and work. A popular leader in the struggle for radical change through culture, Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal hip-hop group from Oakland, California, where he is an organizer and has been active in the Occupy movement. Billboard magazine declared the group “the best hip-hop act of the past decade.”
Blending poetics, politics, and everyday life, the singular lyrics of Boots Riley, poet of the hip-hop underground, are collected here.

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Haymarket Books Occupying Wall Street
The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America

Writers for the 99%

“An essential and galvanizing on-the-ground account of how oxygen suddenly and miraculously flooded back into the American brain.”—Jonathan Lethem “[Occupying Wall Street] runs through OWS’ beginnings and provides a fascinating look at how Zucotti Park functioned, the disagreements and difficulties in running the community, and contains first-hand accounts of some of its most dramatic moments. Part souvenir, part how-to guide, this is a remarkable and unique book.”—The Huffington Post For two months this fall, Zuccotti Park was the site of an extraordinary political action. Home to the hundreds of anti-capitalist protestors, the park became a communion of sharing and consensus in the heart of a citadel defined by greed and oligarchy. In the early hours of Tuesday, November 15, the occupiers’ camp was destroyed when police swept suddenly into the square. But if the occupation at Zuccotti was destroyed that night, the movement it spawned across America has only just begun. Occupying Wall Street draws on extensive interviews with those who took part in the action to bring an inside-the-square history to life. In a vivid narrative, the key events of the occupation are described, and woven throughout are stories of daily life in the square focusing on how the kitchen, library, media center, clean-up, hospital, and General Assembly functioned, all in the words of the people who were there. Writers for the 99% is a group of writers and researchers active in supporting Occupy Wall Street who came together to create this book.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now 5½ x 8¼ | 232 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-60846-251-3 NA*

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Haymarket Books Democracy at Work
A Cure for Capitalism

Richard D. Wolff

“Richard Wolff is the leading socialist economist in the country. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about a fundamental transformation of the ailing capitalist economy!”—Cornel West “Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for a much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.”—Noam Chomsky “Probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist.”—The New York Times Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers directing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Wolff is the author of many books, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He hosts the weekly hour-long radio program Economic Update on WBAI (Pacifica Radio) and writes regularly for The Guardian, Truthout.org, and MRZine.
A new manifesto for gaining democratic control of our workplaces.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-60846-247-6 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-257-5 USCO*

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Haymarket Books Rats, Riots and Revolution
Black Housing in the 1960s

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Through exacting research and urgent prose, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor demonstrates the way in which racism, redlining, and urban exploitation were not just expressions of white prejudice or generic anti-black attitudes, rather they were demonstrations of a “political economy of residential segregation.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Taylor has been awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. She is active in local housing struggles in Chicago, Illinois.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / HISTORY February A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8½ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-248-3 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-249-0 USCO*

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An insightful examination of the 1960s Black social movements for housing and their relevance for today’s anti-foreclosure and anti-eviction struggles.

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying
A Study in Urban Revolution Third Edition

Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.
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Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the ’60s and ’70s.

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Haymarket Books Reversing the Assault on Public Education
Joining the Power of Teacher Unions to the Heart of Teaching

Lois Weiner
In Reversing the Assault on Public Education, Lois Weiner explains why teachers who care passionately about teaching and social justice need to unite the energy for teaching to efforts to self-govern and transform teacher unions. Drawing on research, her experience as a public school teacher, and as a union activist, she explains how to create the teachers’ unions public education desperately needs. Lois Weiner is a professor at New Jersey City University and has been a lifelong teacher union activist who has served as an officer of three different union locals. She is the author of The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.
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EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8⅛ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-262-9 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-263-6 W

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A timely and experience-based guide to strengthening democracy within teacher unions.

The Meaning of Marxism
Second Edition

Paul D’Amato
Long-considered dead by mainstream critics, the basic ideas of Karl Marx are brought to life in this overview of his thought. This book argues that instead of being irrelevant, Marx’s ideas of globalization, oppression, and social change are more important than ever. Paul D’Amato is manging editor of the International Socialist Review. His writing has appeared in CounterPunch, Socialist Worker, and Selves and Others.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE September 5⅝ x 8½ | 250 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-60846-250-6 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-256-8 USCO* Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-93185-929-5

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A lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, with historical and contemporary examples.

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Haymarket Books Until My Freedom Has Come
The New Intifada in Kashmir

Sanjay Kak
The pieces in this volume voice the rage and helplessness sweeping through the Kashmir Valley while offering rare insights into the lives of those caught in the crossfire. This book is a timely collection of the most exciting writing that has recently emerged from within Kashmir, and about it. Sanjay Kak is a documentary filmmaker whose work includes Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom, 2007), a feature-length film about Kashmir. He is based in New Delhi, India.
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8½ | 303 pp 12 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-60846-252-0 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-261-2 W

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A collection of authoritative essays mapping Kashmir’s turbulent past, present, and possible futures.

Always on Strike
Frank Little and the Western Wobblies

Arnold Stead, PhD
Though he is widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World’s leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little. Little’s life offers innumerable lessons for working-class people facing many of the same economic injustices in today’s world. Arnold Stead, PhD, is a poet, fiction writer, historian, playwright, and jazz and film critic. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and family.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY December A Paperback Original 5⅝ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-220-9 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-226-1 USCO*

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A history of the Industrial Workers of the World’s golden years as lived by one of its guiding lights.

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Haymarket Books Lessons for Our Struggle
Frances Fox Piven
“Piven has embodied the best of American democracy.”—The Nation Frances Fox Piven reminds us why we must understand the labor, civil-rights, and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era if we are going to advance the struggles of the present. Frances Fox Piven is the author of many important books.
HISTORY | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 24 pp Saddle-stitched US $4.95 | CAN $5.50 | 978-1-60846-216-2 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-229-2 USCO*

Be Realistic
Demand the Impossible

Mike Davis
With wit and a remarkable grasp of the political marginalization of the 99%, Mike Davis crafts a striking defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This pamphlet brilliantly undertakes the most pressing question facing the struggle—what is to be done next? Mike Davis is the author of more than twenty books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE | Available Now | 5⅝ x 8½ | 48 pp Saddle-stitched US $4.95 | CAN $5.50 | 978-1-60846-217-9 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-230-8 USCO*

The Detroit Woolworth’s Strike of 1937
The Story Behind the First Successful All Women Sit-Down Strike

Dana Frank
Woolworth’s was the Walmart of the 1930s. The women were exploited and sexually harassed. This is the exciting story of how they fought back against corporate exploitation and oppression.
HISTORY / SOCIAL SCIENCE | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 5⅝ x 8½ | 60 pp Saddle-stitched US $4.95 | CAN $5.50 | 978-1-60846-245-2 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-246-9 USCO*

A Glance in the Rear View Mirror
Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present

Eric Toussaint
As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies. This informed and accessible primer drives a wedge into these cracks, allowing the non-expert to understand the flaws in the economic philosophy of the 1%.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now | A Paperback Original | 8⅝ x 11¼ | 60 pp Saddle-stitched US $4.95 | CAN $5.50 | 978-1-60846-254-4 USCO*

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Haymarket Books Coming Soon from Haymarket Books

FROM THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM SERIES Discovering Imperialism: Social Democracy to World War I
Edited, translated, and introduced by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido October Trade Paper SDT US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-1-60846-235-3 USCO*

Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism
David McNally August Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-233-9 USCO*

Financialisation in Crisis
Edited by Costas Lapavitsas February Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-237-7 USCO*

Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia
Jeffrey Webber October Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-258-2 USCO*

In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Paul Levi Translated by David Fernbach August Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-234-6 USCO*

Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922
John Riddell November Trade Paper SDT US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 978-1-60846-236-0 USCO*

FROM THE STUDIES IN CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES SERIES The Age of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge & Society
Edited by Henry Etzkowitz and James Dzisah October Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-241-4 USCO*

Fair and Affordable Housing in the US: Trends, Outcomes, Future Directions
Edited by Robert Mark Silverman and Kelly L. Patterson August Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-238-4 USCO*

Crisis of Capitalism: Compendium of Applied Economics (Global Capitalism)
Luciano Vasapollo August Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-239-1 USCO*

Labor Régime Change in the Twenty-First Century: Unfreedom, Capitalism and Primitive Accumulation
Tom Brass October Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-240-7 USCO*

The Cuban Revolution as Socialist Human Development
Henry Veltmeyer and Mark Rushton October Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-244-5 USCO*

Neoliberalism and National Culture: State-Building and Legitimacy in Canada and Québec
Cory Blad September Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-243-8 USCO*

The Entropy of Capitalism
Robert Biel September Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 978-1-60846-242-1 USCO*

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Selected Backlist from Haymarket Books

Real-Life Secrets of the Predator Class First Trade Paper Edition Chris Lehmann
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8¼ | 280 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-60846-152-3 USCO*

Rich People Things

Is Just a Movie
Earl Lovelace
FICTION 6 x 9 | 362 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-60846-175-2 USCLA*

The Communist Manifesto
A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Edited by Phil Gasper
POLITICAL SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY 7¼ x 7½ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $16.95 978-1-931859-25-7 USCO*

A Critical History (Updated edition) Lance Selfa
POLITICAL SCIENCE 5⅝ x 8½ | 260 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-192-9 USCO*

The Democrats

The United States of Fear
Tom Engelhardt
POLITICAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8½ | 230 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-60846-154-7 USCO*

Zombie Capitalism
Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx Chris Harman

POLITICAL SCIENCE / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5½ x 8½ | 425 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $20.95 978-1-60846-104-2 USCO*

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Holy Cow! Press — Celebrating Thirty-five Years Ekaterinoslav
One Family’s Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse

Jane Yolen

In Ekaterinoslav, award-winning author Jane Yolen writes about her father’s family journey from a small shtetl in the Ukraine in the early part of the twentieth century, through the Ellis Island portal, to a home in New Haven, Connecticut. Her father, only seven at the time, grew up wholly American and never spoke to her of the family’s passage. Here, through these brilliant poems, she pieces together a history of her family. Her poems are a celebration of passage, of ritual lost and then found, of a family who left a land of custom and arrived at a place of opportunity. As she says in the poem “Round Frame”: All those years Ekaterinoslav was lost to me, when I could have celebrated Ukrainian winters, learned words of love, fashion, passion, paternity; how to season the fish with pepper, not sugar; how to cut the farfl from flat sheets of dough. All I had was New Haven. Until she comes to understand with the words of the final poem, “Rebirth”: I have written these poems as resurrection. I have molded these words to reinvent moment and memory. I have crafted these short lines for the ones who come after, my children’s children. For them I’ve created, recreated really, a lifetime, a country, a shtetl, a home. I can do no more. Jane Yolen, often called the Hans Christian Andersen of America, is the author of over three hundred books, including Owl Moon and The Devil’s Arithmetic, many of them prize-winners, including the Jewish Library Association’s top honor.
Jane Yolen creates the immigrant history, in evocative poetry and photographs, of her family’s passage to America from 1800s Ukraine.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 72 pp 8 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9833254-6-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9833254-7-5 USC

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Holy Cow! Press — Celebrating Thirty-five Years The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars
A Memoir in Poetry

Roseann Lloyd

“This a book about that place inside us all where bafflement meets mystery: a strange place, sometimes frightening and sometimes filled with stars and pines, clear flowing water and the deep joy of companionship.”—Jim Moore Roseann Lloyd’s new poetry collection takes us on a sister’s unflinching exploration into grief for a brother lost on a solo hike in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. His clothes are found but not his body. How does one mourn without a body? This absence calls up memories of his life and mixed emotions; it evokes other disappearances— children missing in Iraq, climbers lost on Everest, a college student drowned. Even though I’ve said, for two years now, I don’t need his body to do my mourning, I’m suddenly desperate to touch your arms, muscled and tan . . . Full of verbal energy and rich patterns of sound, Lloyd’s lines are allowed to breathe and move about in always interesting forms: prose poems, found poems, section poems, swirling mosaics of time and place. Beautifully crafted, the poems are emotionally complex yet accessible. Roseann Lloyd has published eight books, including three poetry collections: Because of the Light (Holy Cow! Press), War Baby Express (Holy Cow! Press—awarded the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry), and Tap Dancing for Big Mom (New Rivers Press). The anthology she co-edited with Deborah Keenan, Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile (Milkweed Editions), was awarded an American Book Award. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The poet’s brother disappears mysteriously in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. These deeply felt poems explore loss, grief, and acceptance.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9833254-8-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9833254-9-9 USC

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Because of the Light Poems Roseann Lloyd POETRY 6 x 9 | 112 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $17.00 978-0-930100-45-2 USC War Baby Express Roseann Lloyd POETRY 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $10.95 | CAN $13.50 978-0-930100-68-1 USC

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Icon Books
London, England

TOTEM BOOKS IS NOW ICON BOOKS Icon Books, which previously published in the United States under the Totem Books imprint, will now publish globally under the Icon Books name as of March 1, 2012. Other than the name change to Icon Books, there are no alterations to individual titles, authors, series, or any other bibliographical information. Icon Books will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2013. Icon Books is the publisher of the famous Introducing series of graphic novel-style guides to mankind’s biggest thinkers and ideas, with top-selling titles including Introducing Quantum Theory, Introducing Fractals, and Introducing Postmodernism. Our publishing also covers history, philosophy, politics, science, and even sports and humor, characteristically presented to appeal to thoughtful, intelligent readers. In 2011 Icon Books launched a new Introducing series, The Practical Guides, to help people apply a range of new principles to everyday life. Topics include Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Introducing Child Psychology, and Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Icon Books aims to excite, thrill, inform, and entertain readers with all of the books we publish. Please visit us at http://www.iconbooks.co.uk/ and let us know what you think.

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Introducing: The Series
With over three million sales worldwide—one million sold in the United States alone—and covering topics ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche to neurolinguistic programming and from quantum theory to mindfulness, the classic pocket-sized Introducing series is the ever popular and proven way into a whole range of clever thinking.

Introducing: The Graphic Guides
With over sixty titles in the series, and only $9.95 each, the unique Introducing Graphic Guides cover every key thinker and topic in philosophy, psychology, and science, and many more in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics, and other areas. Each book is written by an expert in the field and illustrated by a leading graphic artist. There’s no better or more enjoyable way to get your head around the biggest ideas mankind has ever come up with.

Introducing Infinity
A Graphic Guide

Brian Clegg
A brand new graphic guide from Brian Clegg, author of the best-selling Inflight Science, Introducing Infinity will teach you all you need to know about this big idea, from mathematicians driven mad by transfinite numbers to the ancient Greeks who drowned the man that discovered an endless number.
SCIENCE / MATHEMATICS | December | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-406-1 US

Introducing Continental Philosophy
A Graphic Guide

Christopher Kul-Want and Piero
This brand new graphic guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the schools of thought and key figures in continental philosophy. Christopher Kul-Want is the course director for the MA in Fine Art at Central St. Martins, London, and the author of the popular Graphic Guide Introducing Slavoj Zizek.
PHILOSOPHY | February | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-417-7 US

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Icon Books Introducing Jesus
A Graphic Guide Fourth Edition
Christianity interprets Jesus as identical to Christ, but is the historical Jesus the same as the Christian savior? This Introducing Jesus graphic guide seeks to place Jesus within the context of his time and to trace the developments of Christianity from St. Paul to modern liberation theology.
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION | December | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-409-2 US

Antony O’Hear and Judy Groves

Introducing Eastern Philosophy
A Graphic Guide Fourth Edition

Richard Osborne and Borin Van Loon
Eastern philosophy is the most ancient form of thought known to man. This graphic guide brilliantly explains the complex branches of Indian Buddhism and the traditions of Confucius and the Tao in China, and demonstrates their fundamental differences from Western notions of truth.
PHILOSOPHY | December | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-410-8 US

Introducing The Freud Wars
A Graphic Guide Fourth Edition

Stephen Wilson and Oscar Zarate
The Freud Wars are the debates surrounding the iconic and infamous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. This graphic guide investigates whether Freud was a psychological genius or simply a man deluded by drugs. This and other definitive questions are answered in this witty introduction to the psychological theories and the man behind them.
PSYCHOLOGY | December | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp | B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-411-5 US

Introducing The Universe
A Graphic Guide Fourth Edition

Felix Pirani and Christine Roche
The universe is expanding, but how long has the expansion been going on? Will it expand forever, or collapse in a Big Crunch? From Aristotle to Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein to quantum mechanics, Introducing The Universe recounts the revolutions in physics and astronomy that underlie the present-day picture of the universe.
SCIENCE | February | 4½ x 6½ | 176 pp | B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-418-4 US

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Introducing: The Practical Guides
With nineteen titles already in the series, these user-friendly, jargon-free books are produced in the same focused format as their graphic guide cousins, at the same great $9.95 price. Written by established experts in their fields, the Practical Guides are complete with tips, facts, case studies, and effective exercises to help readers apply proven principles to everyday life and achieve their goals.

Introducing Business Creativity
A Practical Guide

Roger Neill
Learning how to think creatively and innovate is vital in today’s market. Introducing Business Creativity will help you diagnose where your business could achieve breakthrough innovation and what you can do to excel in this area by developing skills in receptivity, creativity, meeting management, and innovation leadership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | October | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-400-9 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-424-5 US

Introducing Management
A Practical Guide

Alison Price and David Price
The ability to make a successful transition into management is vital to anyone who wants to advance their career. Introducing Management explores the different management techniques and how to develop your management style to improve your relationships with colleagues to achieve better results.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | October | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-401-6 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-425-2 US

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming for Work
A Practical Guide
Neurolinguistic programming is about helping you to identify and develop the patterns of thought and behavior which are most beneficial to you. Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming for Work teaches you how to build a successful rapport with your colleagues, enabling you to deal effectively with any problems and master any situation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | October | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-380-4 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-381-1 US

Dianne Lowther

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Icon Books Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Work
A Practical Guide
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is generally used to get rid of negative habits and to build new, more positive ones. This jargon-free, concise guide teaches you how to tackle issues such as lack of self-motivation or feelings of inadequacy and replace them with new ways of thinking that make you happier and more effective.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | February | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-419-1 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-435-1 US

Gill Garratt

Introducing Stress Management
A Practical Guide

Graham Price
Introducing Stress Management provides a powerful new approach to the positive acceptance of change that eliminates stress, regret, worry, and self-blame and improves relationships. This Practical Guide will help you generate lasting improvements in stress resilience to achieve goals from losing weight to better networking.
SELF-HELP | February | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-420-7 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-436-8 US

Introducing Body Language
A Practical Guide

Glenn Wilson
Introducing Body Language will help to improve your nonverbal intelligence and your ability to communicate with others. Learn the simple nonverbal signals that instantly establish trust; how to decode sentiments and behaviors; and, using practical exercises, understand how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / SELF-HELP | February | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-421-4 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-437-5 US

Introducing Emotional Intelligence
A Practical Guide

David Walton
Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, learn from, manage, understand, and explain emotions. Introducing Emotional Intelligence teaches the reader how to become more aware of his or her own emotions, and shows how being more aware of others emotions can improve personal and professional relationships.
SELF-HELP | February | Introducing | 4½ x 6½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-422-1 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-438-2 US

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Icon Books Shakespeare on Toast
Getting a Taste for the Bard

Ben Crystal

Actor and author Ben Crystal brings the bright words and colorful characters of the world’s greatest hack writer brilliantly to life, handing over the key to William Shakespeare’s plays, unlocking the so-called difficult bits and, astonishingly, finding Shakespeare’s own voice in among the poetry. Told in five fascinating acts, Shakespeare on Toast sweeps the cobwebs from the Bard—from his language, his life, his time—revealing both the man and his work to be relevant, accessible, and full of beans. This is a book for everyone, whether you’re reading Shakespeare for the first time, occasionally find him troublesome, think you know him backwards, or have never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to. It’s quick, easy, and good for you. Just like toast. Ben Crystal is an actor for television, film, and theater, and has trodden the boards at Shakespeare’s Globe. With his father David Crystal, the acclaimed English scholar, he co-authored the international best-seller Shakespeare’s Words (Penguin Books, 2002) and The Shakespeare Miscellany (Penguin Books, 2005).
LITERARY CRITICISM September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-84831-054-4 US

Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing out of the staid myth of William Shakespeare, revealing his plays for everyone.

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Icon Books Roberto Mancini
Manager of the Richest Soccer Club in the UK

Luca Caioli
From the author of the best-selling Torres and Messi comes a revealing new biography of inspirational soccer manager Roberto Mancini. When Mancini was appointed to UK premiership soccer team Manchester City in late 2009, he came with a cup-winning pedigree at Italian clubs Lazio and Inter Milan. In his first full season, Mancini guided the club to European Champions League soccer and the United Kingdom’s premier cup competition, shaping the squad into one of the most successful in English soccer.
SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 978-1-906850-44-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-906850-45-6 US

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A revealing new biography of inspirational soccer manager Roberto Mancini.

Family
Life, Death and Football—A Year on the Frontline with a Proper Club

Michael Calvin
Award-winning sports writer Michael Calvin follows lower league UK soccer team Millwall FC through an emotional promotion season. There for the first day of training, he was on the substitutes’ bench at Wembley, 333 days later. In an environment which is less than glamorous, he vividly portrays players and management as family men, close to their roots.
SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | 5½ x 8 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | 978-1-906850-26-5 US | eBook ISBN: 978-1-906850-27-2

Ball of Confusion
Johnny Ball
From how to cheat in a coin toss to why it is that some parts of a high speed train travelling at 125 mph are actually going backwards, Ball of Confusion is designed to twist your brain into enjoyable knots of empuzzlement—from puzzles solved in a twinkling of an eye to some that will knit your brow for hours.
HUMOR / MATHEMATICS | November | 5½ x 8 | 254 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | 978-1-84831-370-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-84831-349-1

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Icon Books Backlist Practical Guides Counter Display

Icon Books Practical Guides Counter Display

The Practical Guides series counter display can hold up to twentyfour books and is free with an order to fill it. You can select any titles you like from the collection below—perfect for displaying a range of disciplines or showcasing one particular subject area.
Available Now Other US $0.00 978-1-84831-239-5 US

Introducing Body Language: A Practical Guide Glenn Wilson Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-421-4 US Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide Kairen Cullen Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-258-6 US Introducing Business Creativity: A Practical Guide Roger Neill Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-400-9 US Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): A Practical Guide Elaine Iljon Foreman and Clair Pollard Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-254-8 US Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Work: A Practical Guide Gill Garratt Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-419-1 US Introducing Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide David Walton Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-422-1 US Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide Dave Robinson Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-341-5 US Introducing Happiness: A Practical Guide Will Buckingham Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-362-0 US Introducing Management: A Practical Guide Alison Price and David Price Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-401-6 US Introducing Mindfulness: A Practical Guide Tessa Watt Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-255-5 US

Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP): A Practical Guide Neil Shah Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-256-2 US Introducing Neurolinguistic Programming for Work: A Practical Guide Dianne Lowther Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-380-4 US Introducing Philosophy for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide Trevor Curnow Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-356-9 US Introducing Positive Psychology: A Practical Guide Bridget Grenville-Cleave Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-277-7 US Introducing Psychology of Relationships: A Practical Guide John Karter Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-359-0 US Introducing Psychology of Success: A Practical Guide Alison Price Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-259-3 US Introducing Self-Esteem: A Practical Guide David Bonham-Carter Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-365-1 US Introducing Sport Psychology: A Practical Guide Arnold LeUnes Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-257-9 US Introducing Stress Management: A Practical Guide Graham Price Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-84831-420-7 US

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Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years The Terror Factory
Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism

Trevor Aaronson

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than fifteen thousand informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the War on Terror. An outgrowth of Trevor Aaronson’s work as an investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley—which culminated in an awardwinning cover story in Mother Jones magazine—The Terror Factory reveals shocking information about the criminals, con men, and liars the FBI uses as paid informants, as well as documenting the extreme methods the FBI uses to ensnare Muslims in terrorist plots—which are in reality conceived and financed by the FBI. The book offers unprecedented detail into how the FBI has transformed from a reactive law enforcement agency to a proactive counterterrorism organization—including the story of an accused murderer who became one of the FBI’s most prolific terrorism informants—and how so-called terrorism consultants and experts have made fortunes by exaggerating the threat of Islamic terrorism in the United States. Trevor Aaronson is associate director and co-founder of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit journalism organization that produces reporting about Florida and Latin America. He was a 2010–11 investigative reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where his reporting about the FBI’s informants in US Muslim communities resulted in a Mother Jones cover story that won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim 2012 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.

POLITICAL SCIENCE January 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-935439-61-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-67-7 W

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15,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.trevoraaronson.com

Is the FBI investigating domestic terror plots—or instigating them?

Author Events
Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY Author Hometown: Tampa, FL

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Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years Trailer Park Nation
The Glamorous Rise and Tragic Fall of the Dream of a Mobile America

Mark Van de Walle
Part travelogue and part cultural and literary exploration of the meaning of home and freedom in the American psyche, Trailer Park Nation: The Glamorous Rise and Tragic Fall of the Dream of a Mobile America tells the story of this country’s fascinating and sordid love affair with trailers and trailer parks. Mixing colorful encounters with the offbeat, bizarre, and larger-than-life characters who even today cling to the ideal of a nation on wheels with an appreciation of the trailer’s often contradictory role in modern American history, Trailer Park Nation takes us on a journey from the glittery dawn of the trailer in the early twentieth century—including a visit to a trailer park built by Bing Crosby as a hideout for celebrities to engage in their wildest fantasies—to Slab City, America’s only anarchist trailer park. Along the way, Mark Van de Walle shows us how trailers have been part of some of the strangest episodes of our history and culture—including the Cold War, UFO sightings, and conspiracy theories—and that, despite their contemporary association with trashiness, the trailer was once considered an important technological and social creation that would free Americans from the constraints of place.
TRAVEL / SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 248 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-935439-62-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-68-4 W*

Mark Van de Walle’s writing on subjects from art and design to apocalyptic millenarianism has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Paris Review, Slate, Travel + Leisure, and others. He is currently a contributing editor at Departures magazine.

A cultural history of America’s fascinating and sordid love affair with trailers and trailer parks.

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • Public radio campaign • National print and online campaign • BEA galley giveaway

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Denver, CO • New York, NY • Portland, OR Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets
Diana Wagman

Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her rental car, Winnie realizes too late that she’s been kidnapped. What follows is a riveting psychological game of cat and mouse set in the kidnapper’s tropically heated house—kept that way for Cookie, a menacing seven-foot long Iguana headquartered in the kitchen. While desperately seeking to escape—which leads to several violent clashes with her increasingly unstable kidnapper—Winnie also tries to understand why she was taken captive. Is her kidnapper merely seeking a ransom or does he have something more sinister in mind? Does he know that Winnie’s mother is an Oscar-winning actress? Or did he connect her with Jonathan, her famous ex-husband? When the truth reveals itself, Winnie is not only forced to fight for her life, but must also protect the lives of those she loves from the kidnapper’s deranged master plan. An engrossing, darkly humorous, edge-of-your-seat story, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets explores the dynamic between kidnapper and kidnapped, bizarre reptile lore, and the absurdity of the celebrity lifestyle. Diana Wagman is the author of the novels Bump, Spontaneous—which won the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction—and Skin Deep. She is also a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times.
From a PEN Award–winning author, an engrossing, darkly humorous, edge-of-your-seat novel—featuring a seven foot iguana.

FICTION November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-64-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-71-4 W*

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign BEA galley giveaway Promotion through: www.dianawagman.com

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Washington, DC • Amherst, MA Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years Love Song For Baby X
How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood

Cheryl Dumesnil

Love Song for Baby X is the moving and humorous story of a lesbian couple’s struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set against the backdrop of the marriage equality movement. While poet Cheryl Dumesnil suspects she’ll confront some formidable obstacles on her path to parenthood, she is nevertheless unprepared for what she actually encounters, including navigating the maze of the high-tech fertility business, the emotional conundrum of pregnancy loss, and the gathering steam of the marriage equality movement. Love Song for Baby X follows Cheryl and her unlawfully wedded wife through four conceptions, three miscarriages, a temporarily legal wedding during San Francisco’s Winter of Love in 2004, a stint as poster children for the marriage equality movement, and finally the arrival of their longed-for son—after twenty-five hours of labor. Along the way Dumesnil fails often (and comically) in her attempts to cultivate inner peace. Though she struggles mightily with the opposing forces of hope and fear, in the end, she finds the middle ground between them: acceptance.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935439-63-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-70-7 W

Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall, and co-editor, with Kim Addonizio, of Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Indiana Review, Calyx, and Many Mountains Moving, among other literary magazines. Her essays have appeared on literarymama.com, hipmama.com, mamazine.com, and in Hip Mama Zine. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their two sons.
A lesbian couple’s struggles with infertility as they attempt to become parents, set within the marriage equality movement.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.cheryldumesnil.com

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • San Francisco, CA • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years The Zero Footprint Baby
How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby

Keya Chatterjee

In our culture, pregnancy, birth, and childrearing are deeply connected to consumption and resource use. From the baby shower to the minivan and the larger apartment or first house, the baby-raising years are the most hyperconsumptive of our lives, and can set a family on an unsustainable track for years to come. The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby shows how to raise a child with little to no carbon footprint. The book covers every issue new parents face, including pregnancy (what kind of birth has the lowest impact), what to feed your baby (breastfeed, formula, or both?), childcare (who should take care of the baby, and how?), and of course, diapering. Using a mix of personal anecdotes, summarized research, and clear guidance on how to pursue the most sustainable baby-rearing options, The Zero Footprint Baby is the resource and reference book for all new parents with green inclinations. Keya Chatterjee is the director for international climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund. She previously served as a climate change specialist at the US Agency for International Development, and also worked on communicating climate issues while at NASA. Keya’s commentary on climate change policy and sustainability issues has been quoted in numerous media outlets, including USA Today, The New York Times, Fox News, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, and NBC Nightly News. She was also featured in a special issue of Politico on climate change highlighting the “muscle of the movement.”
How to raise a baby with a low, or even zero, carbon footprint. Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign National radio and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.keyachatterjee.com

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / NATURE March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935439-65-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-69-1 W*

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Washington, DC

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Selected Backlist from Ig Publishing — Celebrating Ten Years

Kirby Gann
FICTION 5½ x 8 | 248 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-47-9 USC

Ghosting

Christopher Narozny
FICTION 5½ x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-48-6 USC

Jonah Man

Outerborough Blues
A Brooklyn Mystery Andrew Cotto
FICTION 5½ x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-49-3 USC

The Waste Makers
Introduction by Bill McKibben
SOCIAL SCIENCE / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5½ x 8¼ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-37-0 USC

Vance Packard

Crystallizing Public Opinion
Introduction by Stuart Ewen
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5 x 7½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-26-4 USC

Edward Bernays

Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet Kendra Pierre-Louis
SOCIAL SCIENCE / HOUSE & HOME 5½ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935439-43-1 USC

Green Washed

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Independent Thinking Press
Bancyfelin, Wales

Independent Thinking Press is a brand new imprint, publishing the work of some of the most innovative practitioners in schools and education today. An award-winning, family-owned UK independent publisher, based in rural West Wales but with a global reach, the company was established in 1992 and has its origins in the distribution of Anglo-American psychology, neurolinguistic programming (NLP), philosophy, and education titles. Independent Thinking, set up by Ian Gilbert in 1993, is a leading voice in the drive to support creative teachers in innovative schools to think for themselves. At a time when education is in danger of being turned into a process by which schools are actively encouraged to churn out young people with qualifications but little else, genuine educationalists need to take back the process of education and spread the message that teaching children to think is real education. The press covers a wide spectrum of educational innovation from practical strategies to engage and motivate all young people, fostering great teaching and learning, to inspirational yet nononsense approaches to educational leadership. We aim to bring out the best in young people and in their teachers with our highly informative, instructional, fun, and often life-changing books. Our authors are our strength and, together, we have published bestsellers, award-winning titles, and ground-breaking work in our specialist areas. A key theme is encouraging learners and teachers to think for themselves: many of our titles help achieve creative thought. These include the awardwinning The Little Book of Thunks, used by teachers around the world to stretch children’s brains; The Big , Book of Independent Thinking: Do things no one does or do things everyone does in a way no one does, the very first in the Independent Thinking series; and The Little book of Values, because educating children to pass tests isn’t , enough. Independent Thinking comprises the work of educational free thinkers: they are committed, non-conformist individuals making a genuine difference in all sorts of schools with many different learners. The Independent Thinking Press is their voice in print.

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Independent Thinking Press Independent Thinking
Ian Gilbert

Beyond the goal of teaching children to know things, to pass exams, to get through school, to find a place in the system, we need to teach children to reflect critically on what is going on around them and to ask whether that’s the way it should be? Society, success, morals, poverty, social mobility, happiness, values, mental health, relationships, aspirations, self-esteem, equity, opportunity, politics— all are linked to education. The education of individuals, the education of whole generations. But what do we mean by education and what should a “quality education” involve in the twenty-first century? As one of the United Kingdom’s most sought-after speakers and trainers with experience supporting schools across the world for two decades, this controversial book is Ian Gilbert telling it how it is. Drawing on his experience in the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and most recently Latin America, it is a fascinating and controversial collection of articles, reflections, and inspirations to open our eyes to what education is really all about. Education is one of the hottest topics in the world today but, Ian warns, it is degenerating into a political football passed between politicians and big business. To address the real issues facing individuals, communities, and countries, we need to get education right. This book can help. Ian Gilbert, award-winning author, entrepreneur, and founder of Independent Thinking, has been at the forefront of educational innovation in the United Kingdom for twenty years and has been referred to as “one of the UK’s leading educational philosophers.”
Think for yourself—before someone does it for you.

EDUCATION / SELF-HELP March A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-78135-055-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-079-9 W

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• • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion to schools and teaching universities Promotion through: www.independentthinking.com

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Independent Thinking Press The Discipline Coach
Powerful Strategies for Helping Your Students Get the Best Out of Themselves

Jim Roberson
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Jim Roberson, born and raised in the Bronx, was the first African American to play sports for Bronxville High School and his teammate was Roger Goodell, commissioner for the NFL. Jim graduated from the University of Rhode Island. He now lives in the United Kingdom working with some of the most challenging children in school. Jim believes school should be the place where you learn how to succeed in life. Most importantly you have to learn discipline. That is to say “self discipline.” For Jim, behavior is the “B-word” and is forbidden! Discipline, on the other hand, is neatly described not as something others do to you to get you to behave nor even as something you do to yourself, but rather as “what you do for yourself.” Jim advocates a partnership between children and school. The school commits to teach children everything they need to succeed in and beyond school, no matter what career choices they make. In return, children commit to doing “what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done.” This unique book cleverly captures Jim’s inspirational message in his own voice. Jim Roberson has been working as a teacher, trainer, and coach on the Discipline Approach for over twenty years.
Turning the traditional approach to classroom behavior management on its head. Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotions to schools/direct mailing

EDUCATION November A Paperback Original 7⅛ x 8¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $26.99 | CAN $29.50 978-1-78135-005-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-037-9 W

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Independent Thinking Press The Philosophy Shop
Ideas, Activities and Questions to Get People, Young and Old, Thinking Philosophically

Edited by Peter Worley
Imagine a one-stop shop stacked to the rafters with everything you could ever want to tap into young people’s natural curiosity and get them thinking deeply. Well, this is it! Edited by professional philosopher Peter Worley from The Philosophy Foundation, this is packed with ideas, stimuli, thought experiments, activities, short stories, pictures, and questions to get young people thinking philosophically. Primarily aimed at teachers to use as a stimuli for philosophical enquiries in the classroom to get them thinking from the off, it can also be used by parents for some great family thinking or anyone fed up of being told what to think (or urged not to think) and who wants a real neurological workout. Contributors include: A. C. Grayling, Peter Adamson, Angela Hobbs, Ben Jeffery, David Birch, Phillip Cowell, and Peter Cave. The proceeds of the book are going towards The Philosophy Foundation Charity. What better time to have this available than World Philosophy Day on November 15, 2012?
EDUCATION / PHILOSOPHY November A Paperback Original 7⅛ x 8¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78135-049-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-061-4 W

Peter Worley has recently been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He read philosophy at University College London and Birkbeck College, and is currently studying for a PhD at King’s College London.
A veritable emporium of philosophical puzzles and challenges to develop thinking in all classrooms.

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• • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion to schools/direct mail Publicity and promotion in conjunction with The World Philosophy Day • Promotion through: www.thephilosophyshop.co.uk

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Independent Thinking Press Trivium 21st Century
Preparing Young People for the Future with Lessons From the Past

Martin Robinson
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Universities in the Middle Ages focused on three skills to develop the intellectual abilities of students, one—grammar, two—logic, and three—rhetoric. In this well-researched and fascinating work discover how these three tenets are as relevant in education today as they were eight hundred years ago. Martin Robinson has taught for twenty years in state schools in London, as a teacher, head of department, head of faculty, assistant head teacher, and AST. He’s now an entrepreneur, company director, and playwright interested in developing creativity in schools.
EDUCATION March A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 350 pp Trade Paper US $30.95 | CAN $33.99 978-1-78135-054-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-085-0 W

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National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Promotion to teaching universities

Lessons from the Middle Ages to prepare young people for the twenty-first century.

Oops!
Helping Children Learn Accidentally

Hywel Roberts
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
This is about engaging learners in great learning so well they barely know they are learning. It’s about finding a joy in the process of learning, enhanced by those spontaneous, serendipitous events that help you remember just why you came into the teaching profession in the first place. This is an excellent teaching resource to support the Montessori Method. Hywel Roberts is a creative educator with sixteen years’ experience in the classroom teaching drama and English in schools. He is a consultant and speaker specializing in Drama for Learning, Mantle of the Expert, Lures into Learning, and engagement across all phases.

EDUCATION September A Paperback Original 7⅛ x 8¾ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $26.99 | CAN $29.50 978-1-78135-009-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-040-9 W

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National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Promotions to schools/direct mail • E-mail campaigns to schools

Helping children to learn despite their best intentions to the contrary.

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Independent Thinking Press Brave Heads
How to Lead a School Without Selling Your Soul

Dave Harris
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
School leadership brings with it tremendous pressure for results and now more than ever, for genuine leaders, leading schools in the right direction for the right reasons, bravery is key. It’s about genuinely educating young people and not just focusing on targets. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | 7⅛ x 8¾ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78135-048-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-058-4 W

Altogether Now . . . The Ultimate Plenary Book
Phil Beadle
This practical book does what it says. It delivers a series of simple ideas for how to make your lesson endings—or mid-lesson recaps—interesting, engaging, and cognitively challenging. Apply these ideas and students will leave the lesson with the information you have taught them still in their heads.
EDUCATION | November | A Paperback Original | 5¾ x 8½ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-78135-053-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-073-7 W

The 21st Century School Assembly Book
Will Ryan
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Challenging times call for challenging assemblies. Global warming, depleted resources, conflicts, disease, and the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots. With a focus on citizenship, spirituality, values, and taking responsibility, this is for schools looking to develop the next generation of thinkers who might just save the world.
EDUCATION | December | 7⅛ x 8¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78135-007-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-046-1 W

Thinking Allowed
One Man’s Overhaul of the British School System

Mick Waters
Professor Mick Waters, former director of the curriculum at the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency, where he gained a heroic reputation, is now the president of the Curriculum Foundation. He’s the down-to-earth voice in the increasingly complex world of education and has endeared himself to school communities in the UK and overseas by talking the sort of sense they need to hear.
EDUCATION | December | A Paperback Original | 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $23.99 | CAN $26.50 | 978-1-78135-056-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-076-8 W

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Independent Thinking Press My School Improvement Doodle Book
Making Schools Better Three Notes at a Time

Ben Keeling
If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the power of three pictures at a time. As thought-provoking as it is simple, this combines an expert knowledge of schools and learning, an enviable talent for graphic design, and a keen sense of irony.
EDUCATION | January | A Paperback Original | 4 x 7⅞ | 120 pp 50 color illustrations | Trade Paper US $15.99 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-78135-051-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-067-6 W

Lazy Progress
How Your Students Go Further Faster When You Do Less . . . More

Jim Smith
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Jim Smith is the laziest (but professional) teacher in town. Where the traditional view is one that focuses on the teacher’s role in leading the learning, Jim’s take is that of “letting the learning lead.” The learners are very much in the driving seat. Practical hands-on advice.
EDUCATION | January | A Paperback Original | 7⅛ x 8¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $26.99 | CAN $29.50 | 978-1-78135-006-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-019-5 W

Boring, Irrelevant and Hard
How to Develop Outstanding Math Lessons That Aren’t Any of the Above

Ian Taylor
What is it with math? What makes people leave the school system thinking is that math is boring, serves little purpose, and is reeeeaaaallllly hard? Ian Taylor is a phenomenon when it comes to bringing math alive for even the most hardbitten, disaffected, back-of-the-classroom, bottom-of-the-math-class student.
EDUCATION | March | A Paperback Original | 7⅛ x 8¾ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $30.95 | CAN $33.99 | 978-1-78135-050-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-064-5 W

Foreword by Ian Gilbert

The Little Book of Laughter for Teachers
Dave Keeling and Stephanie Davies
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Schools can use laughter to develop openness, bravery, teamwork, imagination, creativity, and, most of all, improve relationships between students and teachers. This book is the ultimate guide to getting more out of yourself and each other through, well, lightening up a bit!
EDUCATION | February | The Little Book Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-78135-008-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-043-0 W

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Independent Thinking Press The Little Book of Awe and Wonder
Matthew McFall
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
A consummate cornucopia of the awe-inspiring, the jaw-dropping, the very weird, and the most wonderful, all designed to help tap into children’s natural curiosity. A delightful tome that will fire up even the most reluctant learners. An indubitable phantasmagoria to delight the head, hand, and heart.
EDUCATION | January | The Little Book Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-78135-001-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-013-3 W

The Perfect Teacher Coach
Terri Broughton and Will Thomas
Foreword by Jackie Beere
Powerful advice from two outstanding coaches who use coaching techniques that make a big impact in the schools they work in. Many schools are now recognizing that using a coaching model is the very best way to make sustainable improvements in teaching and learning across all departments.
EDUCATION | February | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-78135-003-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-025-6 W

Perfect Assessment for Learning
Claire Gadsby
Foreword by Jackie Beere
A simple “how-to” guide for improving achievement by implementing sustainable Assessment for Learning in schools. Includes how to shift staff culture to embed great practice, helping children own their own learning, effective use of learning objectives, and working well with parents.
EDUCATION | February | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-78135-002-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-028-7 W

The Little Book of Dyslexia
Both Sides of the Classroom

Joe Beech
Foreword by Ian Gilbert
Joe Beech stumbled through the education system and was diagnosed with both dyslexia and dyspraxia at age seven. He is currently a full time student teacher and who better to help teachers support students with dyslexia than someone who is a dyslexic student teacher? He shares what works so well for him.
EDUCATION | March | The Little Books Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Trade Cloth US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-78135-010-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78135-016-4 W

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Kehrer Verlag Saul Leiter
Edited by Brigitte Woischnik and Ingo Taubhorn
Text by Vince Aletti, Margit Erb, Adam Harrison Levy, and Carrie Springer Art by Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (b. 1923 in Pittsburgh) has only in recent years received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography. This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Leiter saw himself for a long time mainly as a painter. After coming to New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take photographs. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly interested in abstraction. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter’s photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Back then color photography was regarded as “low art,” fit only for advertising. Leiter accordingly worked primarily as a fashion photographer, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. Nearly forty years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered. This book, published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter’s work anywhere in the world, features for the first time, in addition to his early black and white and color images, his fashion photography, the overpainted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks.
The first major retrospective of American artist Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers of color photography.

PHOTOGRAPHY / ART September 9⅛ x 11⅛ | 296 pp 115 color photographs, 40 B&W photographs Slipcased US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-3-86828-258-0 USC

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• Outreach to art and photography publications and websites • Social media campaign • Book presentation and signing in NYC • Promotion through: www.howardgreenberg.com Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Kehrer Verlag Copley
Edited by Götz Adriani and Stiftung Frieder Burda
Text by Billy Copley, Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, and Man Ray Text and art by William N. Copley
The catalog features more than eighty works by the American William N. Copley (1919–1996), who as gallery owner, artist, author, and publisher, operated as an important mediator between the surrealists and the pop art movement since the mid-1940s and was one of the most unconventional personalities in the art scene. Tying in with the tradition of Dada, Surrealism, and American pop art, his paintings are an ironic examination of the erotic game played by men and women. The catalog includes numerous unpublished essays by Copley, and several of his works are presented for the first time.

ART September 7½ x 11⅛ | 256 pp 155 color illustrations, 25 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 978-3-86828-271-9 USC

Marketing Plans An extensive retrospective of American gallery owner, artist, author, and publisher William N. Copley.
Outreach to art publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.cplyestate.com and www.paulkasmingallery.com Author Hometown: Key West, FL / New York, NY

Steve McQueen
Works 1993–2012

Art by Steve McQueen
Text by Okwui Enwezor, Jean Fisher, Georges Didi-Hubermann, and Stuart Comer Contributions by James Rondeau and Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (b. 1969) is one of the most significant contemporary British artists. The catalog accompanying the largest exhibition to date of this artist’s work provides a detailed insight into his complex and unusual oeuvre. Installations, photographs, and film from every period of his artistic career are shown. McQueen’s early works are characterized by an experimental approach to cinematic history and the dynamic between black and white, particularly in the aesthetic of silent film. Over the past ten years this aspect of his work has been joined by an exploration of the boundaries between the documentary and the narrative.
Marketing Plans A comprehensive catalog on one of the most significant contemporary British artists.
Outreach to art and photography publications and websites • Social media campaign Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago Promotion through: www.artic.edu/aic/ and www.schaulager.org Author Hometown: Chicago, IL

ART October 8¼ x 11⅝ | 180 pp 200 color photographs Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 978-3-86828-308-2 USC

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Kehrer Verlag Thomas Ruff. Modernism
Photographs by Thomas Ruff
Text by Markus Kramer
The work of Thomas Ruff marks a paradigm change in photography: systematically and on an impressive level of aesthetic quality, the artist has for more than three decades been subjecting the medium of photography to a modernist analysis by introducing several formal innovations. The present examination by collector Markus Kramer focuses for the first time on the unique pictorial vocabulary Thomas Ruff has developed, which with its powerful and complex aesthetic demonstrates—while consistently reflecting on its medium—how the use of photography can be freed from its traditional patterns of application.
PHOTOGRAPHY Available Now 9⅜ x 11⅛ | 144 pp 50 color photographs Cloth Text US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-264-1 USC

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Outreach to art and photography publications and websites • Social media campaign

An examination of the powerful and complex aesthetic in the work of photographer Thomas Ruff.

Thomas Ruff. Stellar Landscapes
Photographs by Thomas Ruff
Edited by LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst u. Kulturgeschichte Münster and Melanie Bono
Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) is one of the most renowned contemporary German photographers. Over the course of two dozen photography series, he has explored and defined the medium’s limits like no other contemporary artist. Scientific images are the source material for all the photographs shown in this volume, and many of them were freely accessible via the internet, e.g., pictures from various NASA missions. The catalog focuses specifically on four of Thomas Ruff’s series: the stars series, produced between 1989 and 1992; zycles from 2007; the cassini series from 2008/2009; and recent work from the ma.r.s. series.
PHOTOGRAPHY Available Now 8¼ x 11⅛ | 144 pp 47 color photographs, 27 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-261-0 USC

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Outreach to art and photography publications and websites • Social media campaign

Four famous series by internationally renowned German photographer Thomas Ruff.

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Kehrer Verlag Presence
The Invisible Portrait

Photographs by Chris Buck
Text by Chris Buck and Rodney Rothman
Presence is a conceptual and ironic take on the perverse search for celebrity. The book features fifty sittings with Robert De Niro, Jay Leno, Chevy Chase, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Cindy Sherman, Russell Brand, Snoop Dogg, Nick Cave, David Lynch, and more. Only in this new series, portrait photographer Chris Buck makes his famous subjects hide from the camera—and the viewer. Chris Buck has been a professional photographer for more than twenty years and shoots for such clients as GQ, Esquire, Microsoft, and IBM. He was the first recipient of the prestigious Arnold Newman Portrait Prize.

PHOTOGRAPHY September 11⅛ x 9⅛ | 112 pp 50 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-307-5 USC

Marketing Plans A conceptual and thoroughly entertaining take on the search for celebrity.
Outreach to photography publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.chrisbuck.com Photographer Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Anonymization
The Global Proliferation of Urban Sprawl

Photographs by Robert Harding Pittman
Text by Alison Nordström, Anette Baldauf, Bill McKibben, and Ellen Dunham-Jones
All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles–style urban sprawl—consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls, and large-scale masterplanned communities with golf courses—is being stamped onto the earth’s topography. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted. German American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been photographing the spread of “L.A. style development” in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai, and South Korea.

PHOTOGRAPHY November 9½ x 9½ | 120 pp 50 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-288-7 USC

Marketing Plans A disturbing photo series showing a globalized model of architecture being stamped onto the earth’s topography.
Outreach to architecture and photography publications and websites • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.rhpimages.com Author Hometowns: Ripton, VT / Atlanta, GA / New York, NY

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Kehrer Verlag The Oracle@WiFi
Photographs by Beth Lilly
Text by Beth Lilly and Katherine Ware
Beth Lilly uses the camera in her cell phone as a mode of fortune-telling. Her project is open for participation to everyone calling her on a certain day, date, and number that can be found on her website. Once a seeker gets in touch with her, she intuitionally finds and shoots three photographs in rapid succession. She emails these to the seeker who only then reveals his question. Each combination of question and photographs creates surprising results that range from humorous to profound. This book compiles the most interesting results from hundreds of calls Lilly received from people around the world.
PHOTOGRAPHY September 7½ x 10¾ | 112 pp 135 color photographs Paper over Board US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-292-4 USC

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Outreach to photography publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.bethlilly.com Photographer Hometown: Atlanta, GA / Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Photographer Beth Lilly has access to a sixth sense—her mode of divination is the camera in her cell phone.

Ujjayi’s Journey
Photographs by Maxine Henryson
Text by Mario Kramer
Maxine Henryson explores the world through the lens of color. Hybrids of the abstract and the real, the painterly and the documentary, her photographs present a reality that is a cross between her imagination and the real world. “Ujjayi” means “victorious breath” in Sanskrit. Ujjayi’s Journey is a visual poem exploring religious coexistence, rituals, the female world, and nature. She tells the story of her search for the portrayal of the divine-as-feminine within India’s contemporary culture, linking the present to the past. Maxine Henryson’s photographs have been featured in exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and India.
PHOTOGRAPHY / TRAVEL September 9½ x 8 | 96 pp 56 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-280-1 USC

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Outreach to photography publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.maxinehenryson.com/ Photographer Hometown: New York, NY

A visual poem exploring religious coexistence, rituals, the female world, and nature within India’s contemporary culture.

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Kehrer Verlag Chernobyl Zone (II)
Photographs by Andrej Krementschouk
Text by Esther Ruelfs and Wolfgang Kil
Since 2008 Andrej Krementschouk ventured several times into the restricted area around the Chernobyl reactor. This volume presents his photographs of the deserted urban zone of Prypiat, evacuated on April 27, 1986. They show a ghost town where nature is reclaiming the cityscape and the traces of human habitation gradually disappear.
PHOTOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | 11⅞ x 7½ | 88 pp 42 color photographs | Trade Paper US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 | 978-3-86828-210-8 USC

Hijacked 3—Australia / UK
Edited by Louise Clements, Mark McPherson, and Leigh Robb
Building on the success of Hijacked 1. Australia and America (2008) and Hijacked 2. Australia and Germany (2010), this volume is again an expansive photographic anthology. Hijacked 3 juxtaposes the United Kingdom and Australia and showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of thirty-two contemporary British and Australian photographers.
PHOTOGRAPHY | October | 7⅞ x 10¼ | 412 pp 240 color illustrations, 40 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-285-6 USC

Eight Days
Photographs and text by Venetia Dearden
Venetia Dearden’s new photo series takes us on a journey to America’s Burning Man Festival. It offers a glimpse of the diversity of the people converging on this festival juxtaposed against the breathtaking backdrop of the wild American landscape, from awe-inspiring mountain ranges to the raw beauty of the Nevada desert.
PHOTOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | 9½ x 12½ | 80 pp 47 color photographs | Trade Paper US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 | 978-3-86828-254-2 USC

Max Dudler
Edited by Alexander Bonte
Text by Ludwig Oechslin and Michael Mönninger Contributions by Eberhard Syring and Max Dudler
In this volume are gathered together the most important buildings realized by Swiss architect Max Dudler, one of the most distinctive and independent European architects of our time. His projects, mostly situated in Germany, are illustrated with images, drawings, historical references, and model views, with accompanying explanatory texts.
ARCHITECTURE | October | 7⅞ x 7⅞ | 120 pp 300 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 | 978-3-86828-300-6 USC

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Kube Publishing Ltd Heavenly Bites
The Best of Muslim Home Cooking

Karimah bint Dawood

“Karimah bint Dawood has a passion for food that nourishes the body and pleases the senses with every bite. What a pleasure to be able to share this passion through the delicious recipes in this wonderful book—it showcases the best of Muslim cooking.”—Na’ima B. Robert, editor-in-chief, SISTERS Magazine Heavenly Bites is the first multinational Muslim cookbook that features the best of Muslim cooking to be found from Morocco to Bangladesh, served up by Karimah bint Dawood, the television presenter and cook and convert to Islam. Featuring fifty recipes for soups, salads, snacks and starters, smoothies, main courses, and sweets, it assembles dishes for all occasions from the international Muslim world. Each recipe is charmingly introduced by Karimah and an index is provided for quick and simple referencing. With an eclectic Asian, African, Scottish, and English heritage, Karimah bint Dawood is widely traveled and well-versed in global cuisines and cultures. She has worked as a make-up artist for Gucci, Revlon, and Brides magazine, and has traveled and worked as a fashion model around the world, during which time she developed her interest in world cooking. After converting to Islam, Karimah put down her brushes and white stilettos for a while and picked up the henna cone and the Qur’an.

COOKING / RELIGION September A Paperback Original 7⅝ x 9⅜ | 104 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84774-031-1 USC

The first multinational Muslim cookbook that features the best of Muslim cooking to be found from Morocco to Bangladesh. Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • Recipe excerpts in popular women’s interest, cooking, and spirituality magazines and websites • Outreach to regional and national magazines and websites • Social media campaign • Promotion through: http://karimahscuisina.wordpress.com

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Kube Publishing Ltd The Five Pillars of Islam
Laying the Foundations of Divine Love and Service to Humanity

Musharraf Hussain, PhD
The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam. Written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist with a contemporary Muslim audience in mind, this is an invaluable reference for every home and classroom. Musharraf Hussain, PhD, is the director of the Karimia Institute in the United Kingdom. In 2009 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to community relations in Britain.
RELIGION November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8⅜ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84774-023-6 USC

A traditional introduction to the basic beliefs and practices of Islam, written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist.

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies Outreach to librarians • Promotion through: www.karimia.com

Imam al-Ghazali
A Concise Life

Edoardo Albert
In this short biography you will discover how Imam al-Ghazali rose from his humble background as a fatherless young boy to become the preeminent Muslim scholar of the eleventh century and a towering figure in the history of Islamic thought. It also reveals why, after years of success, he left behind his prestigious teaching position and became a penniless traveler trying to experience the peace of a contented inner life. With illustrations, photographs, and maps, the rich and diverse world that produced al-Ghazali is vividly brought alive.
JUVENILE NONFICTION January A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 7⅜ | 84 pp 7 color photographs, 16 color illustrations, and 4 maps Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-84774-030-4 USC Ages 15 to 19

Edoardo Albert is a London-based writer of Italian and Sri Lankan extraction.

Imam al-Ghazali is a towering Muslim figure from the eleventh century whose thoughts and actions changed Islam forever.

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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Outreach to librarians Outreach to regional and national magazines and websites • Social media campaign

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Leapfrog Press Dancing at the Gold Monkey
Allen Learst

Winner of the 2011 Leapfrog Fiction Contest. “Renders transient moments of great beauty, to reveal the way we might transcend sorrow by our unwavering attention to exquisite detail and the mystery of creation.”—Melanie Rae Thon “Time jumps in this accomplished story cycle, as does the boundary betwixt reality and dream, memory and imagination. . . . And war, as it will, soaks all. Learst writes with the special visceral authority of combat seen and visions earned. Vital, necessary reading.”—Donald Anderson, author of Fire Road “The destruction of the human spirit at the hands of an experience that is as emotionally pyrotechnic and morally absurd as the behavior of [Learst’s] characters.”—Gordon Weaver, author of Count a Lonely Cadence A young naval officer crashes his F-16 fighter jet in the South China Sea, forever changing the lives of the five soldiers who find his body. They move through gritty post-Vietnam Detroit with the women they love in this linked collection of psychological drama, sexual escapades, and latent violence tinged with compassion, grief, and love, arriving finally at the death of one man’s son in Iraq. Allen Learst’s writing explores an interior war—the war of the psyche fought by all returning soldiers—and their attempts to adapt and survive without the knowledge it takes to heal or alleviate their pain. Allen Learst, a Vietnam combat infantryman, worked for Detroit’s auto industry, attended college on the GI Bill, and earned his PhD in creative writing. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Marinette.
Faith, mercy, grief, guilt, and love: soldiers returning home are haunted by the emotional pyrotechnics and moral absurdity of War.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 4⅝ x 7 | 130 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935248-29-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-30-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and MLA • Excerpts in: The Literary Review • War, Literature, & the Arts • National print and online campaign with outreach to veterans publications and websites • Social media campaign • Book giveaways, promotion through Leapfrog fiction contest • Promotion through: www.allenlearst.com

Author Events
Grand Junction, CO • Chicago, IL • Bay City, MI • Detroit, MI • Marquette, MI • Menominee, MI • Traverse City, MI • Duluth, MN • Minneapolis, MN • Stillwater, OK • Lubbock, TX • Spokane, WA • Marinette, WI • Milwaukee, WI Author Hometown: Marinette, WI

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Leapfrog Press The Immanence of God in the Tropics
George Rosen
“Precise, moving writing—a powerful and compelling collection.”—Joseph Hurka, author of Fields of Light “The unadorned sentences often reach a conclusion whose truth makes you catch your breath. This unpretentious book is the work of a master.” —Edith Pearlman, National Book Award finalist These are stories of unexpected encounters far from home, told with a vivid sense of place. A white man with more wives than money becomes Africa’s least-competent thief, two Americans contemplate love’s costs and possibilities in Mexico’s mountains, a seasick missionary bumps into God on the equator. George Rosen’s characters seek, and sometimes find, a reality in which “everywhere, there is something remarkable.”
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies available at ALA and MLA Excerpts in: The Yale Review • National print and online campaign: Harvard Magazine, Massachusetts Cultural Council, The National Peace Corps Association, travel magazines

FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 7½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935248-31-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-32-3 W

Tales of soccer, death, hot water, lost love, and the presence of God in Africa, Mexico, and coastal New England.

Author Events
Phoenix, AZ • Grass Vallye, CA • Los Angeles, CA • Nevada City, CA • Santa Cruz, CA • Boulder, CO • Chicago, IL • Portland, ME • Cambridge, MA • Boston, MA • Falmouth, MA • Gloucester, MA • New York, NY

Death My Own Way
Michael S. A. Graziano
Praise for Michael S. A. Graziano: “Darkly inventive. . . . Graziano’s grim allegory interrogates human existence with its visceral, sensuous description.”—Publishers Weekly “Not a word is wasted in this masterpiece . . . the finest in American literature.”—Geekscribe “A uniquely human story that proves humorous as well as thoughtful. Solid and very highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Review A man dying of cancer wanders naked into Central Park and embarks on a twisted, fetishistic, hilarious journey toward a deeper understanding of life. A story of vulnerability, brashness, and the universal need to find some comfort and philosophy before the journey ends.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies available at ALA and MLA National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Book giveaways • Promotion through: www.princeton.edu/~graziano/

FICTION December A Paperback Original LeapLit 4⅝ x 7 | 130 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-935248-33-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-34-7 USC

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • San Diego, CA • Washington, DC • Princeton, NJ • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA • Montreal, QC Author Hometown: Princeton, NJ

The journey of a dying man toward a spiritual understanding of life. A twisted, funny, ultimately uplifting story.

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Manic D Press Very Bad When the Drumming Stops
Steven Wishnia

Bass player and rapidly aging punk rocker Underend Vicodini is an unlikely hero. He loves New York City like nobody’s business but does it still love him despite his lack of affluence and influence? His former band, The Gutter Astronomers, was riding high in the 1980s, releasing albums and touring across the country playing to packed nightclubs filled with eager fans, but the Great Recession finds the band members middle-aged and struggling not to drown in the seas of gentrification and disillusion. When lead singer Mickey gets an offer to reunite the band, he jumps at it. But can the old bandmates overcome their acrimonious break up? Can they get back into it without shredding their lives? Can Underend Vicodini find inner peace and, more importantly, a reasonably priced apartment below 14th Street or in Brooklyn? Steven Wishnia is a New York-based musician and journalist. Born on the Lower East Side, he grew up in Brooklyn, New England, Edinburgh, and Long Island. He has played in numerous bands, including the False Prophets, an eclectic punk group that recorded two albums released by Alternative Tentacles. After the False Prophets broke up in 1987, he earned an MA at New York University’s School of Journalism, writing for failing newspapers before working for many years as news editor at High Times. Recipient of two New York City Independent Press Association awards, he currently works as a freelance writer and editor, most often for AlterNet.org and Junior Scholastic, and often performs musically with artist Mac McGill.
Will an ’80s punk band—now middle-aged and struggling in the Great Recession—discover anything when they reunite? Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 10-city tour

FICTION / MUSIC November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8⅛ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933149-66-0 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-71-4 W

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR •Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Manic D Press A Rule Is To Break
A Child’s Guide to Anarchy

John Seven and Jana Christy
“A Rule Is To Break says: Go ahead and throw your best self a party! So glad it exists.”—Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses A Rule Is To Break follows Wild Child as she has fun learning about just being herself and how that translates into experiencing a creative, unburdened life. It presents the ideas of challenging authority and tradition and expressing yourself freely in kid-terms that are both funny and thought provoking.
JUVENILE FICTION / POP CULTURE September 6 x 9 | 44 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933149-25-7 W* Ages 4 and up

John Seven and Jana Christy are a married creative team living in western Massachusetts. They have published several children’s books together, and found notoriety after their Occupy 1-2-3, a DIY mini-book about Occupy, appeared online at Boing Boing.
Marketing Plans
National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

In a world with too many rules, Wild Child is free to be herself, doing and learning as she pleases.

Author Events
Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • New York, NY Author Hometown: North Adams, MA

Happy Punks 1 2 3
A Counting Story

John Seven and Jana Christy
“To call Happy Punks 1 2 3 ‘adorable’ would be an understatement.” —Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Welcome to New Flip City, an imaginary town where Richard Scarry meets Joey Ramone. It’s home to the Happy Punks, twelve colorful, creative, funloving friends. Come along as they get ready for their big show and are joined by their friends, a collection of animals, robots, zombies, and others who all love to dance at the end of the day!
JUVENILE FICTION / MUSIC March 8 x 10 | 32 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933149-67-7 W* Ages 3 and up

John Seven and Jana Christy are an award-winning creative team living in western Massachusetts. They’re also the authors of A Rule Is To Break: A Child’s Guide to Anarchy.

Happy Punks 1 2 3 is what happens when Richard Scarry collides with Joey Ramone.

Marketing Plans
National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: North Adams, MA

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MCCM Creations Objects of Demonstration— A Visual Dictionary of Indigenous Cultural and Political Expression
Community Museum Project
Objects of Demonstration serves as an index for Hong Kong’s civic development— cataloging in visual dictionary format symbols, performances, rituals, street actions, and political demonstrations in Hong Kong. This compendium of local sources of creative expression and objects and artifacts ranges from ready-made and DIY materials used in a variety of street protests to collections of poems and images from the actions. Community Museum Project is a collective founded in 2002 by design educators, art curators, and cultural researchers from Hong Kong who examine visual culture and vernacular histories through research and exhibitions.
ART September A Paperback Original 7⅛ x 9⅜ | 220 pp 250 color photographs Trade Paper US $29.50 | CAN $32.50 978-988-18583-6-8 USC

Objects of Demonstration is a visual documentation of the available local sources of creative expression and demonstration objects.

Lesser Designs
Siu King-chung
A detour from the stylistic discourse of mainstream “western” and “modern” design, Lesser Designs focuses on issues of space-saving strategies, information and experience design, classifying and forwarding local and vernacular community concepts, and regenerative design examples. This title explores the unexplained concepts behind commonplace artifacts in our everyday urban environment.
DESIGN / ART | September | A Paperback Original | 6⅛ x 8¼ | 148 pp 250 color photographs | Trade Paper US $25.50 | CAN $27.99 | 978-988-99843-7-3 USC

Fridge Culture— You Are What You Freeze
Community Museum Project
A refrigerator is an expression of identity—what’s stored inside, the origins of its contents, usage patterns, and the ways the exterior of the appliance is adorned—a visual manifestation of a life. Through a socio-cultural survey of twenty-four refrigerators across Hong Kong, Fridge Culture examines identity through this often overlooked everyday appliance.
DESIGN / SOCIAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | 7⅛ x 9½ | 150 pp 400 color photographs | Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 | 978-988-99843-5-9 USC

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MCCM Creations My 36 Years of Model Making in Hong Kong
King Y. Chung
King Y. Chung is, as his colleagues have described him, probably the best architectural model maker in Hong Kong. This is not simply a look at how models are made, but rather his personal story of a lifetime’s work, which has closely tracked Hong Kong’s rapid development over the last thirty-six years. This volume captures the breadth of Hong Kong’s recent architectural development, including design prototypes and study and architectural models of Hong Kong’s most iconic buildings, including HSBC Headquarters and the Hong Kong International Airport. At the time of this book’s publication, King has completed 2,162 models.
DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE September 7⅜ x 9⅜ | 240 pp 490 color photographs Cloth Text US $43.00 | CAN $47.50 978-988-18583-8-2 USC

King Y. Chung’s personal story about the quietly dynamic role he has played in Hong Kong’s burst of urban development.

Presence
The Architecture of Rocco Design

Edited by James Saywell
Foreword by Michele Calzavara, Peter Cook, and Marco Imperadori
No one has built more public buildings in Hong Kong than Rocco Yim. A sequel to Being Chinese in Architecture (2004), Presence highlights Yim’s fourteen architectural projects across China, including museums, educational institutions, and district redevelopments. The main proposition raised is of “architecture shaping the city” and “the city shaping architecture.”
ARCHITECTURE | October | A Paperback Original | 8⅞ x 9⅞ | 248 pp 350 color photographs | Trade Paper US $39.50 | CAN $43.50 | 978-988-18583-2-0 USC

The Phantom of Consumerism
Tak-ping Tsang
Living in the advertising age, there seems to be no choice but to be enveloped by images, products, and services, despite the voices of anti-consumerism calling out to rethink this intricate relationship. The Phantom of Consumerism examines the entanglement of consumers and individuals through a series of critical essays and documentary photographs.
PHOTOGRAPHY / ART | September | A Paperback Original | 10⅜ x 8⅝ | 252 pp 270 color photographs | Trade Paper US $30.00 | CAN $32.99 | 978-988-18584-5-0 USC

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Monkfish Book Publishing Essential Chan Buddhism
The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen

Chan Master Guo Jun
Foreword by Robert Thurman
Essential Chan Buddhism is the rare unearthing of an ancient and remarkable Chinese spiritual tradition. Master Guo Jun speaks through hard-won wisdom on Chan’s spiritual themes familiar to Western readers, such as mindfulness and relaxation in meditation, as well as profound, simply expressed teachings and insightful explorations of religious commitment. Essential Chan Buddhism filters formal spiritual practices through the lens of mundane and everyday life activities. The work captures the lyrical beauty and incantatory style of Guo Jun’s spoken English from the talks he gave at a fourteen-day retreat near Jakarta in 2010 and in subsequent conversations with his editor Kenneth Wapner. This value-priced hardcover edition is both a distinctive addition to Buddhist collections and a thoughtful gift for anyone looking for spiritual guidance. Chan master Guo Jun is one of a new breed of international teachers taking the world’s great wisdom traditions into the twenty-first century. He is currently abbot of Mahabodhi Monastery in Singapore and teaches internationally. Chan master Sheng Yen’s youngest dharma heir, he served as abbot of his Pine Bush, New York, retreat center from 2005 to 2008. A native of Singapore, Guo Jun received his full monastic ordination in Taiwan. He is a lineage holder and successor in Chan as well as the Xianshou and Cien schools of Chinese Buddhism. Essential Chan Buddhism is his first book. Kenneth Wapner’s Peekamouse Books is a book packager and editor. Clients include Bantam, Tarcher/Putnam, Ballantine, and Doubleday. He is well known for his work on Rabbi Jesus, Bones of the Master, and The Zen of Creativity.
An inspiring introduction to Chan Buddhism in a value-priced hardcover edition. Perfect for daily spiritual guidance and gifts.
RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY January 5 x 8 | 240 pp Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9833589-1-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at BEA • National advertising: Chan Magazine • Shambhala Sun • Tricycle • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Outreach to Buddhist, Zen, and Taoist magazines • Author appearances in New York City, upstate New York, and Vancouver, BC • Promotion through: http://chancommunity .ca/teaching.php and the YouTube channel Chan Mountain, which hosts videos of Guo Jun teaching

Author Events
Vancouver, BC • New York, NY

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Selected Backlist from Monkfish Book Publishing

A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Mirabai Starr
RELIGION 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9833589-2-3 USC

God of Love

Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Translated by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
RELIGION 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9833589-0-9 USC

Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika Brad Warner

A Memoir of Sexual Awakening Caroline Muir
SELF-HELP / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 260 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9823246-8-4 USC

Tantra Goddess

Red-Robed Priestess
A Novel Elizabeth Cunningham
FICTION 6 x 9 | 350 pp Trade Cloth US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-0-9823246-9-1 USC

A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad Tamam Kahn
RELIGION 6 x 9 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $23.00 978-0-9823246-5-3 USC

Untold

A Novel Elizabeth Cunningham
FICTION / RELIGION 6 x 9 | 640 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-0-9766843-3-6 USC

The Passion of Mary Magdalen

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New Internationalist Dreaming in Public
Creating the Occupy Movement

Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world’s imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy’s merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say? Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the movement aimed at influencing its development and addressing those not yet involved. Produced by participant journalists, political analysts, writers, polemicists, photographers, organizers, and activists, these documents capture the vibrant, contentious, illuminating, and inventive exchange of Occupy. Work from contributors such as Naomi Klein and Harsha Walia complement public declarations from the movement, images, and graphics. Some pieces explore the rites and rituals of the movement, others its aims and overall structure. Yet others take up the role differences of race and gender play in a movement that claims to represent the 99%, and the complicated business of maintaining urban encampments. Many consider the challenge participatory democracy poses to conventional ideas of what politics is or should be. The materials in this collection attest not only to the extraordinary political energy that has already come out of Occupy, but to the implications of the movement for the future. Amy Schrager Lang is professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University and author of a number of books. Daniel Lang/Levitsky is an artist, theater producer, writer, and founding member of the Direct Action Network and Jews Against the Occupation.
A record of the thinking, writing, and imagery from Occupy, and a tool for those who carry the Movement forward.

POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original World Changing 5½ x 8⅝ | 320 pp 30 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78026-084-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-085-3 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Authors’ tour in Northeast • Academic e-mail to American Studies faculty • Outreach to US Occupy groups and supporting projects

Author Events
Baltimore, MD • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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New Internationalist The No-Nonsense Guide to Corporations
Adam Ma’anit

Almost everywhere we look, we can find the workings of the corporation. Their impacts can be found in the water we drink and the air we breathe. They are in our food, our culture, and our politics. They are an all-pervasive presence in the life of everyone on this planet. And yet we seldom examine what exactly a corporation is, how it works, who controls them, and what benefits and impacts they have on our lives. As we find ourselves in the tenacious grip of a global financial crisis, the need to scrutinize the role and function of corporations is now more important than ever. Adam Ma’anit traces the development of the corporation from its early origins to its modern incarnation, explaining its make-up and demonstrating the power it holds through wealth, lobbying, and the “revolving door” with government. He shows how to tackle some of the core problems associated with corporate power in the first steps of the movement towards a more sustainable and equitable future. Adam Ma’anit is a longtime activist and writer on issues of social, economic, and environmental policy, and has previously worked as co-editor of the New Internationalist magazine and with corporate watchdog group Corporate Europe Observatory and the Transnational Institute. He is co-author of Europe Inc.: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise of Corporate Power, as well as numerous reports on corporate lobbying, trade, and climate politics. He is currently an energy policy analyst and campaigner at Platform based in London, England.
In explaining the fundamentals of the modern corporation, this guide gives insight into the instabilities of the global economy.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS March A Paperback Original No-Nonsense Guides 4¼ x 7 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 978-1-78026-079-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-086-0 W*

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Social media campaign

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New Internationalist Co-operative Revolution
A graphic novel

Polyp
As the dominant economic system is increasingly called into question, the time of the co-operative has well and truly come. Illustrating the history of the co-operative movement from its humble beginnings in the north of England to a worldwide network, this graphic novel presents a robust foundation for future well-being. Using a range of styles and cartoon pastiches, Polyp brings to life ideas and people who are rebooting a sustainable economy. Radical cartoonist and activist Polyp has worked with campaigning organizations around the world for over fifteen years. He lives and works in a cooperative housing complex in Manchester, England.

In this International Year of the Co-op, Co-operative Revolution illustrates the history and enduring appeal of this robust business model.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / POLITICAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 6¾ x 9 | 80 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $9.99 | CAN $10.99 978-1-78026-082-2 USC

The Atlas of Migration in Europe
A Critical Geography of Migration Policies

Edited by Olivier Clochard
Compiled by Migreurop
This detailed atlas presents data on European migration policies in a clear manner in order to show their consequences and empower their critics. It addresses globalization and migration flows, increased protectionism in controls on international migration, the establishment of asylum and immigration at the heart of European politics, and the consequences of migration controls and the threats to fundamental rights. It is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in migration policies within Europe or to Europe, with application in academic subjects including migration studies, law, human rights, and international relations. The Atlas of Migration in Europe is published in association with Migreurop, an umbrella group with over forty association members.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / REFERENCE January A Paperback Original 8¼ x 11½ | 144 pp Color photographs, maps, and charts throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78026-083-9 USC

Explains the development of European immigration policies and their consequences and exposes realities little known in the general public.

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Selected Backlist from New Internationalist

Making Change Happen Tim Gee
POLITICAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8⅝ | 208 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-78026-032-7 USC

Counterpower

The Amazon Fight to Keep Oil Underground Photographs by Mauro Burzio
PHOTOGRAPHY / NATURE 9½ x 11⅜ | 176 pp 150 color photographs Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $29.95 978-1-906523-01-5 USC

Yasuni Green Gold

People First Economics
Second Edition Edited by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5⅜ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-1-906523-83-1 USC

The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
The Science, the Solutions, the Way Forward Second Edition Danny Chivers
POLITICAL SCIENCE / NATURE 4¼ x 7 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 978-1-906523-85-5 US

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011
Edited by The Caine Prize for African Writing
FICTION 5⅛ x 7½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-906523-86-2 USC

World History Without Words Illustrated by Polyp
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 8⅜ x 10 | 128 pp 104 color illustrations Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $18.95 978-1-906523-19-0 USC

Speechless

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New Rivers Press Haints
Clint McCown

“A new book by Clint McCown is always reason to rejoice. In Haints, McCown is at his storytelling best, weaving the lives of his characters together with the forces of nature, bad choices, love, and war.”—Ann Hood, The Red Thread The aftermath of the biggest tornado to ever rip through rural Lincoln, Tennessee, leaves a naked body, a missing person, and an escaped convict in its wake. Haints is Clint McCown’s fourth novel. Former creative consultant for HBO and screenwriter for Warner Bros., McCown won the American Fiction Prize twice and earned the AP Award for Documentary Evidence.
FICTION October American Fiction 5½ x 8½ | 229 pp Trade Cloth US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-0-89823-266-0 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: The Writer’s Chronicle • Social media campaign

Author Events
Pella, IN • Bluffton, OH • Gettysburg, PA • Murfreesboro, TN

Twists of fate and a haunted past wrack Lincoln, Tennessee, after a tornado rips straight through the small 1950s town.

American Fiction, Volume 12
Edited by Kristen J. Tsetsi, Bayard Godsave, and Bruce Pratt
Preface by Josip Novakovich
“Particularly fine scene-making, quintessential American cultural and cinematic talent in fiction. . . . More than a third of the stories are written by immigrants or children of recent immigrants, which reflects what America is—not only itself, but also the world with its currents and peregrinations.” —Josip Novakovich, April Fool’s Day American Fiction is an anthology of evocative American stories and poignant multicultural tales, brilliantly rendered by a diverse array of talented writers, exhibiting the vitality and intelligence of the short story form—powerful stories told in compelling voices by some of our brightest new literary stars.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-89823-264-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National advertising: The Writer’s Chronicle • Social media campaign

A collection of quintessential American stories and poignant multicultural tales, brilliantly rendered by a diverse array of talented writers.

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New Rivers Press It Takes You Over
Nick Healy
“It Takes You Over builds like a deceptively quiet, mesmerizing snowfall.” —Nicole Helget, The Turtle Catcher An elderly man caught with a hooker, a daughter outsmarting the IRS—Nick Healy’s stories are about rough relationships and the insular lifestyle of small towns, proving that “Minnesota Nice” isn’t all the state contains.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES October | A Paperback Original | Many Voices Project | 5½ x 8½ | 188 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-89823-263-9 USC

The Way of All Flux
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
“Suzuki-Martinez is a seducer in words [with] effervescent poems from the quotidian . . . syncopated edginess . . . a strong and affectionate sense of the absurd.”—David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate Welcome to Sharon Suzuki-Martinez’s world of odd ducks—human and otherwise—zigzagging toward wild fun or amazing grace.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October | A Paperback Original | Many Voices Project | 6 x 9 | 74 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 | 978-0-89823-261-5 USC

Good Things
Nick Knittel
Nick Knittel enchants with stories as dark and moving as your favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Characters maneuver their way through not only a dead-end town, but a dead-end existence. Caught in complex relationships—friendships, marriages, and families—they chronicle what it’s like to be blue-collar and barely making it.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | October | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 147 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-89823-262-2 USC

And Then
Tim Nolan
“In these graceful meditations on the death of his father, on his own fatherhood, and on the trembling terrors and mysteries and miracles of life in America, Nolan reminds us . . . that poetry is another way of letting the world speak to us.”—George Bilgere, The White Museum
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October | A Paperback Original | American Poetry Series | 6 x 9 | 81 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 | 978-0-89823-265-3 USC

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New Society Publishers Life Rules
Nature’s Blueprint for Surviving Economic and Environmental Collapse

Ellen LaConte
Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the same way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a critical mass of cascading environmental, economic, social, and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels, devastating resource wars—if the Earth were a patient, her condition would be critical. Life Rules offers a comprehensive analysis of our present circumstances, combined with a holistic treatment protocol for restoring health to vulnerable human and natural communities. Predicting that Life will last, but if we don’t make some fundamental changes, life as we know it—and a lot of us—won’t, Life Rules identifies natural laws that have allowed non-human communities to thrive and prosper for several billion years, including: • • • • • Local self-reliance Mutual interdependence Reliance on non-fossil sources of energy Resource conservation, sharing, and recycling Radically democratic self-organization and governance
NATURE / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-726-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-521-0 W

This sobering yet essentially optimistic manifesto is required reading for anyone concerned about our ability to live well and also within Earth’s means. A powerful tool for community transition and cultural transformation, Life Rules offers a solution to our global challenges that is at once authentically hopeful, deeply inspiring, and profoundly liberating. Ellen LaConte is acting director of the EarthWalk Alliance, a contributing editor to Green Horizon Magazine and The Ecozoic, a frequent talk show guest, and publisher of the Starting Point online newsletter. She has written two books about Helen and Scott Nearing, homesteaders and best-selling authors of Living the Good Life, and she is the author of the upcoming environmental novel Afton.

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • Excerpts in: Energy Bulletin • Harper’s Magazine • Ode • Orion • Utne Reader • YES! Magazine • National advertising: E Magazine • On Earth • Sierra • Utne Reader • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign: CollapseNet • Counter Currents • CounterPunch • Energy Bulletin • Harper’s Magazine • The Huffington Post • Mother Jones • Ode • On Earth • Orion • PeakOil.com • Post Carbon Institute • Utne Reader • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.ellenlaconte.com Author Hometown: Winston-Salem, NC

Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it.

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New Society Publishers The Intelligent Gardener
Growing Nutrient-Dense Food

Steve Solomon

GARDENING / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 336 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-718-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-513-5 W

Vegetables, fruits, and grains are a major source of vital nutrients, but centuries of intensive agriculture have depleted our soils to historic lows. As a result, the broccoli you consume today may have less than half of the vitamins and minerals that the equivalent serving would have contained a hundred years ago. This is a matter for serious concern, since poor nutrition has been linked to myriad health problems including cancer, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. For optimum health we must increase the nutrient density of our foods to the levels enjoyed by previous generations. To grow produce of the highest nutritional quality the essential minerals lacking in our soil must be replaced, but this re-mineralization calls for far more attention to detail than the simple addition of composted manure or NPK fertilizers. The Intelligent Gardener demystifies the process while simultaneously debunking much of the false and misleading information perpetuated by both the conventional and organic agricultural movements. In doing so, it conclusively establishes the link between healthy soil, healthy food, and healthy people. This practical step-by-step guide and the accompanying customizable webbased spreadsheets go beyond organic and are essential tools for any serious gardener who cares about the quality of the produce they grow. Steve Solomon is the author of several landmark gardening books including Gardening When it Counts and Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades. The founder of the Territorial Seed Company, he has been growing most of his family’s food for over thirty-five years.
Beyond organic—a practical guide to nutrient-dense food.

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • National advertising: E Magazine • Gardens West • Grit • Mother Earth News • On Earth • Organic Gardening • Pacific Northwest Magazine • Urban Farm • National print campaign: Acres • American Vegetable Grower • BackHome Magazine • Better Homes and Gardens • Boing Boing • Grit • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • NPR • Permaculture Activist • Urban Farm • Science Friday • Sierra • Spirituality and Health • Social media campaign

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New Society Publishers Beautiful Corn
America’s Original Grain from Seed to Plate

Anthony Boutard

Cultivated from sea level to mountaintop, from parched deserts to sodden rain forests, from the rocky Gaspé Peninsula to the plains of Argentina, corn is the grain of the Americas. In terms of culinary uses, it is amazingly diverse, reflecting the breathtaking variety of the continents and environments from which it evolved. The consummate immigrant, corn is grown extensively on every continent except Antarctica. Market farmer and naturalist Anthony Boutard weaves together this unique plant’s contribution to our culture, its distinctive biology, and the practical information needed to grow and enjoy it at home. Beautiful Corn advocates a return to the nourishing whole grain that built America, in place of today’s genetically modified crops processed by industrial agriculture into synthetic sweeteners and cheap meat. Come along on this lyrical and inspiring journey through the seasons, learning about growing and using corn in the traditional way. Gardeners and market farmers can lead the way to a healthier country by restoring heritage corn varieties to our tables. An unabashed celebration of a much-maligned culinary treasure, Beautiful Corn will forever change the way you view this remarkable plant. Anthony Boutard is a widely recognized advocate in the local food movement, well-known for his efforts in reviving long-lost crops and bringing littleknown varieties to market. He and his wife Carol own Ayers Creek Farm, a 144-acre organic market farm in Gaston, Oregon, specializing in berries, beans, grains, and greens for sale to local restaurants and markets.
From seed to plate—the seasons of a remarkable crop.

GARDENING / SOCIAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp 20 color photographs, 30 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-728-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-522-7 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National advertising: BackHome Magazine • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Organic Gardening • Urban Farm • National print campaign: BackHome Magazine • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Organic Gardening • Urban Farm • Email campaign to CSAs, seed saver organizations, and master gardeners as well as to websites and blogs such as: Culinate, Locavore, and The Urban Food Guy • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Gaston, OR

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New Society Publishers The Thinking Beekeeper
A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives

Christy Hemenway

What’s the buzz about the growing popularity of backyard beekeeping? Providing habitat for bees, pollinating your garden, and producing honey for your family are some of the compelling reasons for taking up this exciting hobby. But conventional beekeeping requires a significant investment and has a steep learning curve. The alternative? Consider beekeeping outside the box. The Thinking Beekeeper is the definitive do-it-yourself guide to natural beekeeping in top bar hives. Based on the concept of understanding and working with bees’ natural systems as opposed to trying to subvert them, the advantages of this approach include: • Simplicity, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness • Increased safety due to less heavy lifting and hive manipulation • Chemical-free colonies and healthy hives Top bar hives can be located anywhere bees have access to forage, and they make ideal urban hives due to their small footprint. Emphasizing the intimate connection between our food systems, bees, and the well-being of the planet, The Thinking Beekeeper will appeal to the new breed of beekeeper who is less focused on maximizing honey yield, and more on ensuring the viability of the bee population now and in the coming years. Christy Hemenway is the owner and founder of Gold Star Honeybees, a complete resource for all things related to beekeeping in top bar hives. A passionate bee-vangelist and advocate for natural, chemical-free beekeeping, Christy is a highly sought-after speaker, helping audiences to understand the integral connection between bees, food, human health, and the future of the planet.
Give bees a chance—the complete how-to and why-to for keeping bees in top bar hives.

GARDENING / HOUSE & HOME November A Paperback Original 7½ x 9 | 288 pp 100 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-86571-720-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-511-1 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • Excerpts in: BackHome Magazine • Mother Earth News • Urban Farm • National advertising: E Magazine • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Urban Farm • National print campaign: Acres U.S.A. • American Vegetable Grower • BackHome Magazine • Grit • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Permaculture Activist • Sierra • Urban Farm • Social media campaign • Market through: www.goldstarhoneybees.com • Email campaign to county beekeeping associations and organic farming associations • Sponsored contest in Hobby Farm Author Hometown: Bath, MN

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New Society Publishers Sustainable Market Farming
Intensive Vegetable Production on a Few Acres

Pam Dawling

Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family’s diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author’s extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: • Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage • Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties • Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement. Pam Dawling is a contributing editor with Growing for Market magazine. An avid vegetable grower, she has been farming as a member of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia for over twenty years, where she helps grow food for around one hundred people on three and a half acres, and provides training in sustainable vegetable production.
The complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.

GARDENING / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING February A Paperback Original 8 x 9¼ | 400 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $34.95 978-0-86571-716-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-512-8 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • Excerpts in: Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Organic Gardening • Permaculture Activist • Urban Farm • National advertising: Communities Magazine • E Magazine • Mother Earth News • Permaculture Activist • Urban Farm • Email campaign to CSAs, intentional communities, and master gardeners • Social media campaign • Giveaway through Growing for Market Author Hometown: Twin Oaks, VA

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New Society Publishers Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions
Oscar H. Will III and Karen K. Will
Fueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers are cash poor, but rich in energy and creativity. Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions offers them a set of fresh ideas for achieving independence through sweat equity and the use of unconventional resources. This highly readable and entertaining guide brings together answers to common problems faced by homesteaders young and old, urban, suburban, and rural. Traditional knowledge is combined with MacGyver-style ingenuity to create projects that maximize available resources, including: • • • •
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / HOUSE & HOME February 7½ x 9 | 352 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $26.95 978-0-86571-717-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-523-4 W

Animal management strategies for the yard, garden, and field Pole building and construction techniques from woodlot materials Replacing farm machinery with homemade hand tools and implements Leveraging increased self-sufficiency into a home-based business

Whether you are a dreamer or a doer, Plowing with Pigs will inspire, challenge, and enable you to do more with less (and have fun doing it). Oscar H. (Hank) Will III is a farmer, scientist, and author, known for seeking and implementing creative farmstead solutions. The editor of Grit magazine, Hank has published hundreds of articles and five books on a range of topics including antique farm machinery. Karen K. Will is editor of The Heirloom Gardener magazine and author of Cooking with Heirlooms: Seasonal Recipes with Heritage-Variety Vegetables and Fruits. She operates Prairie Turnip Farm with her husband Oscar H. Will III.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • National advertising: BackHome • Grit • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Urban Farm • National print and online campaign: Acres • American Vegetable Grower • BackHome • Countryside • Grit • Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Organic Gardening • Permaculture Activist • Sierra • Urban Farm • Social media campaign • Contest in Grit magazine Author Hometown: Scranton, KS

Off-the-wall solutions for real farmstead problems.

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New Society Publishers Unlearn, Rewild
Earth Skills, Ideas and Inspirations for the Future Primitive

Miles Olsen

Picture a world where humans exist, like all other living things, in balance. Where there is no separation between “human” and “wild.” Unlearn, Rewild boldly envisions such a world, probing deeply into the cultural constraints on our ability to lead truly sustainable lives and offering real, tangible tools to move toward another way of living, seeing, and thinking. Part philosophical treatise, part hard-core survival guide, this unique and thoroughly unconventional manual blends philosophy with a detailed introduction to a rich assortment of endangered traditional living skills, including: • • • • • Harvesting and preparing unconventional proteins Feral food preservation Dealing responsibly with waste Natural methods of birth control Tanning and processing animal skins

Lyrical, humorous, surprising, enlightening, and thought-provoking by turns, Unlearn, Rewild is essential reading for those who wish to heal themselves and the earth, live gracefully into the future primitive and experience their wildest dreams. Miles Olson has spent the past decade deeply immersed in learning and practicing earth skills. While foraging, hunting, gardening, and gathering for his livelihood, his experiences have given him a unique perspective on rewilding, radical self-reliance, and the impact of civilization on the natural world.
Wild by nature—radical sustainability skills and ideas for an uncertain future.
NATURE / SPORTS & RECREATION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 208 pp 45 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 978-0-86571-721-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-517-3 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Excerpts in: Outdoor Magazine • Outdoor Survival Magazine • Whole Terrain • Wilderness Way • National advertising: BackHome Magazine • Firemaker Primitive Skills Society • Going Feral • Herb Companion • Mother Earth News • On Earth • National print and online campaign: BackHome Magazine • Mother Earth News • On Earth • Paleo Planet • The Purple Thistle • The Rewilding Institute • Sierra • Utne Reader • Fishing and hunting focused publications • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.re-wild.org Author Hometown: Courtenay, BC

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New Society Publishers Financing Our Foodshed
Growing Local Food with Slow Money

Carol Peppe Hewitt

In towns and cities across North America, a quiet revolution is underway. Fed up with sending their money off to make a fast buck in faraway markets, people are putting their money to work where they live, in markets they trust and understand—starting with food. Financing Our Foodshed is a collection of real life stories of these Slow Money pioneers and the local food entrepreneurs, sustainable farmers, bakers, and restauranteurs that they have chosen to support. Fueled by their desire to do more than just eat local food, lenders of “nurture capital” are making low-interest, peer-to-peer loans to the people who produce, process, distribute, and sell food. Meet passionate entrepreneurs including: • Abi, a talented artist-turned-baker, who borrowed the funds for a commercial oven to start a gluten-free bakery • Angelina, owner of a Greek local foods restaurant, who refinanced exorbitant credit card debt incurred by renovations • Chatham Marketplace, a much-loved grocery co-op whose monthly loan payments were reduced by a third, thanks to an ambitious collaboration between sixteen investors Financing Our Foodshed tells the compelling stories of ordinary people doing something extraordinary, and will appeal to anyone who understands the critical importance of sustainably grown local food and resilient local economies, and wants a blueprint to get us there. Carol Peppe Hewitt is a business owner, social entrepreneur, and lifelong activist. She is co-founder of Slow Money NC, working to help finance North Carolina’s sustainable food and farming economy by guiding patient capital to small-scale farmers and businesses in North Carolina.
Bringing money home—real people and real stories from the Slow Money movement.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 288 pp 25 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-723-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-518-0 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Excerpts in: Green Money Journal • Orion • YES! Magazine • National advertising: E Magazine • Green Money Journal • On Earth • Sierra • Utne Reader • National radio campaign • National print campaign: Harper’s Magazine • The Huffington Post • Mother Earth News • Ode • On Earth • Orion • Utne Reader • Email blast to CSAs and targeted campaign to those interested in socially responsible investing Author Hometown: Pittsboro, NC

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New Society Publishers Occupy Money
Creating an Economy Where Everybody Wins

Margrit Kennedy

Money is arguably one of humanity’s most ingenious inventions. By serving as a medium of exchange, it facilitates the trading of goods and services, and in doing so it allows for specialization and the division of labor. The development of currency has been responsible for many significant advances in the history of civilization. However, modern-day inflation and compound interest have caused our monetary system to mushroom to the point where largescale collapse is not just likely but inevitable—unless we change the system in fundamental ways. As the current crisis gathers steam, bailing out banks, large corporations, and even entire countries will not prevent a complete breakdown of the global economy. It’s time for a grassroots movement to knock conventional money off its pedestal and replace it with a new paradigm that puts people before profit. Occupy Money demonstrates how we can create a monetary system that: • Favors stability over speculation • Eliminates inflation and artificial currency fluctuations • Creates sustainable money through creative alternatives such as interest-free lending and demurrage For many years bankers and other financial insiders have hidden economic truths by describing them in arcane terms that no layperson can understand. Occupy Money explains in clear and simple language why money should serve people instead of people serving money, and in doing so issues a challenge to the very foundations of conventional economic doctrine. A must-read. Margrit Kennedy is an architect, urban and regional planner, and wellknown advocate of complementary currencies. She is the author of the international bestseller Interest and Inflation-Free Money.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS September A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 144 pp B&W charts throughout Trade Paper US $12.95 978-0-86571-731-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-524-1 W

Marketing Points
Co-op available

A visionary case for a new monetary system that is interest-free, just, and stable.

• National advertising: On Earth • E Magazine • Green Money Journal • Utne Reader • National print campaign: Harper’s Magazine • Mother Earth News • On Earth • Orion • Ode • Utne Reader • Partnership with new economic foundation • Online promotion to Occupy groups

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New Society Publishers Ecofrugal
Cheaper, Greener Choices for a Happier, Healthier Life

Deborah Niemann

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without—our grandmothers knew the importance of responsible, thrifty choices. But somewhere along the way we lost our way and succumbed to the belief that we can get everything for next to nothing, have it shipped halfway around the world and then, more often than not, just throw it away. This consumer binge is taking its toll. Diet and lifestyle-related illnesses are epidemic, our environment is awash in a sea of plastic, our climate is changing, and the cost of everything is skyrocketing with the price of oil. Are we doomed? No. We can make greener, healthier choices, and we can do it while saving money. Where to start? Ecofrugal is packed with simple, practical ideas and recipes to help you: • Make homemade products for cleaning and skin care • Grow your own food and cook more from scratch • Raise your family without lowering your standards A must-read for anyone who has ever wanted to live a greener life but thought that it would be too expensive, time-consuming, or difficult, this handy, complete guide will show you how small changes can have a huge environmental impact and save you thousands of dollars, all while improving your quality of life. Deborah Niemann is a homesteader, writer, and self-sufficiency expert. The author of Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living, she presents extensively on topics including soapmaking, breadbaking, cheesemaking, composting, and homeschooling.

HOUSE & HOME / HEALTH & FITNESS September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-715-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-510-4 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • National advertising: Hobby Farm • Mother Earth News • Natural Home • Urban Farm • National radio campaign • National print and online campaign: Crunchy Chicken • Family Circle • Frugal Family • Frugal for Life • Frugal Life News • Frugally Sustainable • Good Housekeeping • Ladies’ Home Journal • The New York Times • Real Simple • Sustainably Frugal • The Wall Street Journal • Whole Earth Times • Social media campaign • Author will arrange TV interviews in her surrounding area • Promotion through: antiquityoaks.blogspot.com Author Hometown: Cornell, IL

When eco met frugal—how saving money can help save the planet.

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New Society Publishers The Better World Shopping Guide
Every Dollar Makes a Difference Fourth Edition

Ellis Jones, PhD
More than one hundred thousand North Americans rely on The Better World Shopping Guide to ensure that their consumer dollars contribute to building the kind of world they want to live in. Now completely revised and updated, this new edition distills twenty-five years of comprehensive research into a pocketsized guide, turning your shopping list into a powerful tool for social and environmental change. Ellis Jones, PhD, is a scholar of social responsibility, global citizenship, and ethical consumerism, and has dedicated himself to uncovering practical ways for people to make a difference in the world. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at Holy Cross College.
Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • Co-op available National advertising: E Magazine • Green America Quarterly National print campaign • E-mail promotion to ethical consumer organizations Promotion through: www.betterworldshopper.org Author Hometown: Auburn, MA

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / REFERENCE October 4 x 6 | 208 pp B&W tables throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 978-0-86571-724-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-519-7 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-86571-680-3

The ultimate resource for socially and environmentally responsible consumers.

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
Save Money, Save the Earth Tenth Edition

Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson, and Katie Ackerly
Continuously in print since 1990, Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings has sold nearly a quarter of a million copies. Completely updated to incorporate the latest developments in green technology, this is the definitive resource for consumers searching for the most cost-effective and energy-efficient household products and technologies. Jennifer Thorne Amann is the Buildings Program Director at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). Alex Wilson is the founder of BuildingGreen Inc., executive editor of Environmental Building News, and author of Your Green Home. Katie Ackerly is a researcher at the Center for the Built Environment and a graduate student in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • Co-op available A Mother Earth News Wiser Living Choice • National print campaign • National advertising: E Magazine, Green Builder, Home Power, Natural Home • E-blast to ACEEE Author Hometown: Washington, DC HOUSE & HOME November 5½ x 8½ | 288 pp B&W illustrations and tables throughout Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-725-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-520-3 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-86571-602-5

The most complete and up-to-date guide available to energy savings in the home.

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New Society Publishers The Mediator’s Handbook
Revised & Expanded Fourth Edition

Jennifer E. Beer, PhD, and Caroline C. Packard, JD
With Eileen Stief
The popular The Mediator’s Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the accessible manual format lays out a clear structure for new and occasional mediators while offering a detailed, nuanced resource for professionals. Starting with a new chapter on assessing conflict and bringing people to the table, the first section explains the process step by step, from opening conversations and exploring the situation through the phases of finding resolution— deciding on topics, reviewing options, and testing agreements. The “Toolbox” section details the concepts and skills a mediator needs in order to: • • • •
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / REFERENCE October 8½ x 11 | 224 pp B&W illustrations, charts, tables, and worksheets Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-86571-722-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-516-6 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-86571-359-8

Understand the conflict Support the people Facilitate the process Guide decision-making

Throughout the book the emphasis is on what the mediator can do or say now, and on the underlying principles and core methods that can help the mediator make wise choices. Long a popular course textbook for high schools, universities, and training programs, The Mediator’s Handbook is also a valued desk reference for professional mediators and a practical guide for managers, organizers, teachers, and anyone working with clients, customers, volunteers, committees, or teams. Jennifer E. Beer, PhD, mediates organizational conflicts, facilitates meetings, and offers related workshops, regularly teaching a negotiation course at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania). Caroline C. Packard, JD, led Friends Conflict Resolution Programs for fifteen years and is an organizational conflict response specialist and mediator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eileen Stief developed the mediation process presented in the Handbook, training a generation of mediators to work with community, multi-party, and environmental disputes.
The classic resource for effective mediation— now fully updated and expanded.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National advertising: The Progressive • Blog ads will be placed on leadership, group process, training, and management sites • E-mail campaign to Business Management colleges and universities • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Lansdowne, PA

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New Village Press Beyond Zuccotti Park
Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space

Edited by Ron Shiffman, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, and Lynne Elizabeth
Protests from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park have brought the crisis of public space to the forefront of our attention: Where can the public congregate? How can city planning, design, and policies support First Amendment rights to public assembly and free speech? Forty experts in social science, planning, design, civil liberties, urban affairs, and the arts use the Occupy movement as a springboard for original, multidisciplinary essays that address these exigent questions. This foundational book puts issues of democracy and civic engagement back into the center of dialogue about the built environment.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign: outreach to design, city planning, and architecture publications and websites; Occupy Wall Street movement publications and websites • Social media campaign SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 352 pp 60 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-61332-009-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61332-011-2 W

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Salt Lake City, UT • Seattle, WA Editor Hometowns: New York, NY / Oakland, CA

In the wake of the Occupy movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today.

Urban Alchemy
Restoring Joy in America’s Fractured Cities

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart as a guide, Fullilove takes readers on a tour of successful collaborative interventions that repair cities and reconnect communities to make them whole.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 288 pp 60 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-61332-010-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61332-012-9 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign: outreach to city planning and architecture publications and websites; public health publications and websites; community activist publications and websites • Social media campaign Author Hometown: West Orange, NJ

Urban segregation from a public health perspective: strengthening neighborhoods and empowering marginalized communities.

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Selected Backlist from New Village Press

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence Edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities Edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, and Polly O. Walker

Asphalt to Ecosystems
Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation Sharon Gamson Danks

ARCHITECTURE / EDUCATION 8½ x 9⅞ | 288 pp 500 color photographs Trade Paper US $39.95 | CAN $44.95 978-0-9766054-8-5 USC

PERFORMING ARTS / POLITICAL SCIENCE 7 x 9¼ | 320 pp 45 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $24.50 978-0-9815593-9-1 USC

PERFORMING ARTS / POLITICAL SCIENCE 7 x 9¼ | 320 pp 45 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $24.50 978-1-61332-000-6 USC

Dandelion School Blossoms Lily Yeh
ART / EDUCATION 10⅛ x 7¾ | 224 pp 275 color photographs Trade Cloth US $34.95 | CAN $38.95 978-0-9815593-7-7 USC

Awakening Creativity

Educating at the Boundaries Edited by Tom Angotti, Cheryl Doble, and Paula Horrigan
ARCHITECTURE / EDUCATION 6 x 9 | 320 pp 25 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $22.50 978-1-61332-001-3 USC

Service-Learning in Design and Planning

Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs Edited by Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth
ARCHITECTURE / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5½ x 8¼ | 320 pp 2 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $26.95 | CAN $30.00 978-0-9815593-1-5 USC

What We See

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Nobrow Press Nobrow 7: Brave New World
Edited by Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur
“Nobrow’s bold, expansive formula dissolves the borders supposedly demarcating illustration and comics. Their fluidity and hybridity infuse each miniature in this expertly crafted, alluringly colored feast for the eyes, mind, and heart.” —Paul Gravett, author of 1001 Comic Books You Must Read Before You Die “You want a cool book showing the latest and the best comics design out there, Nobrow will more than double your fun.”—Warren Bernard, executive director, Small Press Expo Taking inspiration from Aldous Huxley’s seminal 1931 novel of the same name, Nobrow 7 invites forty-five creative visionaries to re-interpret the theme of a “Brave New World.” Is this our brave new world? This is just one of the questions posed in a stunning large-format, 128-page presentation that features cutting-edge work from the world’s most exciting cartoonists and illustrators. Comprised of fifteen cartoonists and thirty illustrators, the latest edition of Nobrow’s flagship anthology continues to showcase the very best talent in the world of visual and narrative arts. Maintaining the acclaimed flip-cover format of Nobrow 6, Nobrow 7 is, in fact, two titles rolled into one: one side dedicated to comics, the other dedicated entirely to illustration. Featuring: Jillian Tamaki (Indoor Voice, Drawn & Quarterly), Luke Pearson (Hilda and the Midnight Giant, Nobrow Press), Joost Swarte (Is That All There Is? Fantagraphics Books), Tom Gauld (Goliath, Drawn & Quarterly), Anders Nilsen (Big Questions, Drawn & Quarterly), Joseph Lambert (winner of Ignatz Outstanding Artist award for I Will Bite You), and many more.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / DESIGN September A Paperback Original Nobrow Magazine 8⅞ x 12¼ | 128 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-907704-34-5 USC

Forty-five creative visionaries take on the theme to produce cutting-edge comics and illustration in this fantastic large-format anthology!

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Nobrow Press Dockwood
Jon McNaught

“McNaught’s comics are slow, quiet, and very sensitive to place and time. The work is certainly poetic but not precious or twee. And the drawings are beautiful. Masterful stuff for someone so young.”—Seth, author of Wimbledon Green and George Sprott: 1894–1975 in Time Dockwood is a small town in the Southeast of England, seven miles east of Brampton Moor. It has a population of 26,000 and is home to a bowling alley, a boating lake, and Willowbrook Outlet Village. It’s a cloudy Tuesday in October and the residents of the town are going about their business as usual. In Elmsview Nursing Home, a kitchen porter dutifully prepares lunch for residents. Elsewhere, a council worker sweeps the fallen leaves from the pavements. Along Nettlefield Road, a paperboy is delivering his daily round. And in the trees, swallows gather noisily in preparation for their annual migration. In this new work, Jon McNaught weaves together the everyday lives of three locals against an evocative backdrop of autumnal transitions. Bittersweet and contemplative, Dockwood is for anyone who believes the stories that take place within life’s small moments can often be the most meaningful of all. Jon McNaught is a printmaker and cartoonist living in Bristol, England. He also works as a printmaking instructor at the University of the West of England. He has produced comic strips for Nobrow, Art Review, and Stripburger, among others. His first book Birchfield Close was published in 2010 by Nobrow Press, as was his second, Pebble Island.
The inimitable Jon McNaught paints autumn through the experiences of a teenage paperboy, a care worker, and a street sweeper.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / DESIGN November 7⅝ x 10⅜ | 64 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-907704-26-0 USC

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Nobrow Press Bicycle
Ugo Gattoni

Inspired by the 2012 London Olympic Games, Ugo Gattoni intricately draws a gigantic cycle race through the streets of England’s capital. The latest in Nobrow’s ultra-popular Leporello series, Gattoni depicts the street race to end all street races with an astonishingly detailed illustration that totals over six feet in length. As the reader’s eyes travel alongside Bicycle’s speeding cyclists, it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary contest. Joining the elite athletes is a whole bunch of people including cycle couriers, commuters, bankers, delivery boys, moms with kids, youths on stolen mountain bikes, fashionistas, and hipsters riding their fixed gear bikes. Featuring an embossed wrap-around jacket, Bicycle has been expertly manufactured in the European Union to the highest standards. Beautifully printed, this specially designed, extra-large concertina title can be read as a book or displayed as an Olympic-sized work of art. In a brilliant alternative take on the biggest sporting event of 2012, Gattoni combines homage with humor in this two-wheeled free-for-all. With cycling only growing in popularity, both as a sport and a lifestyle, this book is an ideal gift for the bike-lover in your life. A recent graduate of one of Paris’ top art schools, Ugo Gattoni wowed the public with an incredible intricate pen drawing measuring approximately thirty-three feet by six feet. This Leporello project for Nobrow Press is his first publication.
A street cycle race to end all depicted in over twelve feet of detailed drawings by artist Ugo Gattoni.

DESIGN / SPORTS & RECREATION September Leporello 7⅝ x 13 | 20 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-907704-45-1 USC

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Nobrow Press Leeroy and Popo
Louis Roskosch
Come hang out with slackers Leeroy (a bear) and Popo (a dinosaur) as they get high, try to get laid, play too much Nintendo, and avoid anything that might be construed as work. This hilarious, deftly observed full-color graphic novel from new talent Louis Roskosch is not to be missed.
HUMOR / COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS October | A Paperback Original | Nobrow Serial Box | 6⅝ x 9 | 52 pp Color illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-907704-32-1 USC

Megaskull
Kyle Platts
Kyle Platts skateboards. A lot. Self-avowedly the worst skater in his crew, Kyle temporarily switches his skateboard for a drawing-board for this collection of off-the-wall comics. Megaskull contains an awesome medley of slapstick comics humor that will make you cry with laughter and reel back with revulsion all at once!
HUMOR / COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS September | A Paperback Original | Nobrow Serial Box | 6⅜ x 9½ | 50 pp Color illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-907704-50-5 USC

FIGHT! #2
Jack Teagle
Professional wrestler Diablo longs to play the hero. Easier said than done when you have red skin and horns! In a surprise twist of fate Diablo finally gets a taste of the limelight as a crowd favorite. How long can this success story last as his enemies conspire against him?
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / DESIGN September | A Paperback Original | Nobrow Serial Box | 6¼ x 9⅜ | 52 pp Color illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-907704-24-6 USC

17x23 Showcase #1
Isaac Lenkiewicz, Kyle Platts, Showchicken, Joe Kessler, and Henry McCausland
Featuring five artists taking on ten pages each, 17x23 Showcase is designed to give readers a chance to meet the best of the next generation of comic creators before they blow up. Published biannually, this anthology of one-off stories is the only regular publication of its kind in the United Kingdom.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS December | A Paperback Original | 17x23 Showcase | 6⅝ x 9 | 52 pp Color illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-907704-42-0 USC

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Nortia Press Rebel Streets
A Novel of the Irish Troubles

Tom Molloy

Praise for Tom Molloy’s The Green Line: “Molloy’s style is impressive in its tense self-control, conveying impacted emotion with a bare minimum of words. . . . The characters are vividly drawn, the whole thing is painfully realistic, and Tom Molloy has made an impressive debut.”—Publishers Weekly Set in Northern Ireland, Rebel Streets takes an unblinking look at what happens when ordinary people are thrust into a world of violence, extremism, and betrayal—where options are few and consequences severe. Without resorting to caricature or stereotypes, Tom Molloy invites the reader back to a time of religious violence known as the Troubles. Tom Molloy has driven eighteen-wheelers, served as a volunteer firefighter, de-iced commercial jetliners, worked as a social worker, and accompanied IRA fighters during street battles while covering the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a freelance journalist. On several occasions Molloy was detained by British security forces, and was once sent on a brief stint to the infamous Castlereagh detention center, where his novel Rebel Streets opens. Other books by Molloy include The Vandal and The Green Line. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Tom lives in South Portland, Maine.
A cracked insurgent and a determined loyalist navigate the rough-and-tumble undercurrents of Belfast during the Troubles of Northern Ireland.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9848359-1-1 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • Outreach to Northeastern and Irish American publications and organizations • Social media campaign • Goodreads, LibraryThing, and Twitter giveaways • Animated book trailer • Promotion through: www.NortiaPress.com Author Hometown: South Portland, ME

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Selected Backlist from Nortia Press

A Portrait of a Writer in Search of His Own Red Badge of Courage Douglas Savage
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9842252-8-6 USC

A Mouthful of Dust

Edgardo David Holzman
FICTION 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9842252-7-9 USC

Malena

Morning Calm
Jason Morwick
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9842252-4-8 USC

The Terrorism Lectures
James J.F. Forest
POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9842252-9-3 USC

An Interfaith Perspective Edited by Mahmoud Masaeli
RELIGION / POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 230 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9842252-3-1 USC

Morality and Terrorism

Understanding Sectarian Violence in the Middle East Nathan Gonzalez
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 200 pp 1 map Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $26.95 978-0-9842252-0-0 USC

The Sunni-Shia Conflict

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Ocean Press Podemos cambiar el mundo
Camila Vallejo

Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo was nominated as a Time magazine Person of the Year 2011. With the explosion of student protests for equal access to education, her voice became internationally recognized as representing the new wave of rebellion that spread from the Arab world to Europe, the United States, and Latin America in 2011. The New York Times compared the charismatic twenty-three-year-old to Comandante Marcos and Che Guevara. In this book of speeches and interviews, Camila argues “we are the 99 percent and we can change the world.”
POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 132 pp 24 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-921700-47-7 USC Spanish language

Chilean student leader and Time magazine’s Person of the Year 2011 Camila Vallejo believes “we can change the world.”

Cuba: Une Histoire
Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola Vega

From the pre-Hispanic period through to Cuba’s struggle to survive after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro’s stepping down in 2008, this book (in French) offers an overview of the history and politics of the tiny Caribbean island so often at the center of world events.
HISTORY | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 | 978-1-921700-35-4 USC | French language

La Izquierda latinoamericana en el gobierno
Roberto Regalado
Roberto Regalado, a well-respected authority on Latin American politics, reviews the “pink tide” of leftist and progressive governments elected over the last decade, from Venezuela to Argentina. He now considers whether these governments are capable of moving beyond being social protest movements to achieving real social transformation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now | A Paperback Original | Contexto Latinoamericano | 5½ x 8½ | 260 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 | 978-1-921700-45-3 USC | Spanish language

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Selected Backlist from Ocean Press

My Life with Che Guevara Aleida March
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY 5½ x 8½ | 190 pp 100 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9870779-3-6 USC

Remembering Che

From the Sierra Maestra to Santa Clara (Cuba: 1956–58) Ernesto Che Guevara
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY 6 x 9 | 300 pp 58 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $23.95 | CAN $26.50 978-0-9870779-4-3 USC

Diary of a Combatant

The Story of Che Guevara’s “Lost” Year in Africa Ernesto Che Guevara
Foreword by Aleida Guevara
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY 6 x 9 | 280 pp 28 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9804292-9-9 USC

Congo Diary

Latin America Diaries
The Sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto Che Guevara

Obama and The Empire
Second Edition Fidel Castro
POLITICAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8½ | 190 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9870779-1-2 USC

Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola-Vega
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 5 x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-9804292-4-4 USC

Cuba: A History

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5½ x 8½ | 180 pp 58 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-0-9804292-7-5 USC

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Old Street Publishing The Blast that Tears the Skies
J. D. Davies

Praise for J. D. Davies and the Matthew Quinton novels: “A delightful tale.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on Gentleman Captain “Swashbuckling suspense, royal intrigue, and high seas naval action . . . an excellent series.”—Publishers Weekly on The Mountain of Gold “Utterly impossible to put down . . . finely shaded characters, excellent plotting, gut-clenching action, and immaculate attention to period detail. . . . Superb.”—Angus Donald, author of The Outlaw Chronicles “A splendid addition to nautical adventure, and a grand story!” —Dewey Lambdin, author of The Baltic Gambit, on Gentleman Captain “Davies’ depiction of Restoration England is impeccable, his characters truly live and breathe, and the plot kept me in suspense. I could not recommend it more.”—Edward Chupack, author of Silver “As fascinating an account of Restoration politics as it is of the Restoration Navy.”—Seth Hunter, author of the Nathan Peake novels 1665. Britain’s at war, but conspiracies against the King abound. As plague stalks London, Captain Quinton commands a vast man-of-war in the fight against the Dutch. Surviving action in the thick of the Battle of Lowestoft, one of the greatest sea-fights in the age of sail, he returns home only to discover an uncomfortable truth about himself and his family. J. D. Davies was born in Wales and now lives in Bedfordshire, England. He is the world’s foremost expert on the seventeenth-century navy and recently published Pepys’ Navy, which won the 2009 Samuel Pepys Award. He is the author of Gentleman Captain and The Mountain of Gold, the first two books in the Quinton series, published in the United States by Houghton Mifflin.
War with the Dutch, rife conspiracies, and a long-buried family secret . . . The Blast that Tears the Skies is the third in the seventeenth-century naval series featuring young Captain Quinton.

FICTION March 5¾ x 8⅝ | 352 pp Trade Cloth US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-908699-03-9 USC

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Old Street Publishing Fun and Games for the 21st Century Family
Steve Caplin and Simon Rose
“Dozens of ways to entertain your offspring.”—Reader’s Digest “Jam-packed full of brilliant and inspiring activities for kids.”—ActiveDad It’s amazing what you can do with a smartphone, a laptop, and a little imagination. By the best-selling authors of Be the Coolest Dad on the Block (Broadway Books), this trail-blazing book shows how the gadgetry in every home can be used to bring families together instead of driving them apart. From Google-racing to geocaching, code-breaking to filmmaking to robot baiting, it’s bursting with over two hundred new, exciting, and creative ideas for all ages—more than half of them the authors’ inventions.

GAMES / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 256 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-906964-43-6 USC

Two hundred ideas for twenty-first century family fun, for rainy days and sunny afternoons, children’s parties and car journeys, grandparents and toddlers . . .

102 Ways to Write a Novel
Indispensable Advice for the Writer of Fiction

Alex Quick
This straight-talking, sympathetic, but never patronizing guide to the art—and the craft—of writing fiction is a refreshing blend of the mundane (how to find an agent), with the more cerebral (the importance of rhythm; how to handle point of view). A delightful vade mecum for the aspiring author.
REFERENCE | October | A Paperback Original | 5⅛ x 7¾ | 192 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-906964-92-4 USC

102 Free Things to Do
Inspiring Ideas for a Better Life

Alex Quick
Everyone knows the best things in life are free—but it’s easy to forget in a world of continuous commercials and competitive consumerism. In this witty, inspiring, and beautifully illustrated book, Alex Quick reminds us how many of the really important things can be done on less than a shoestring.
SELF-HELP | October | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 192 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $12.99 | 978-1-906964-17-7 USC

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Paris Press On Being Ill
Virginia Woolf
Introduction by Hermione Lee

“By turns lyrical, self-mocking, and outlandish, Woolf’s meditation on the perils and privileges of the sickbed lampoons the loneliness that makes one ‘glad of a kick from a housemaid.’ When Woolf imagines beauty in a frozenover garden . . . it seems less a triumph of nature than of art.”—The New Yorker “Brilliant and beautiful.”—Francine Prose, Bookforum “[A] long-neglected reverie on illness . . . reprinted by the sterling Paris Press. This is a brilliant and odd book, charged with restrained emotion and sudden humor.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “The resurrection of this forgotten work on illness is a boon indeed. . . . This is Woolf at her spangled best.”—Booklist In this poignant and humorous book, Virginia Woolf observes that no human being is spared toothaches, colds, and the flu. Yet illness—transformative and as common as love and war—is rarely the subject of polite conversation, let alone literature. This paperback facsimile of the 1930 Hogarth Press edition, with Hermione Lee’s introduction to Woolf’s life, work, and On Being Ill, is ideal for book groups, general readers, students, caregivers, and of course anyone suffering from a cold or more serious illness. Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is among the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. Her groundbreaking books include Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of One’s Own. Hermione Lee is the renowned author of Virginia Woolf. Her other best-selling biographies include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Philip Roth. She is president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, England.
Virginia Woolf explores the universal experience of illness, the absence of language that describes pain, and how illness transforms our perception.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 8 | 64 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-930464-13-1 USC

Marketing Plans
• National advertising: AARP • The New York Review of Books • PMLA • Women’s Review of Books • National radio campaign: NPR • Outreach to academics teaching Virginia Woolf, modernism, twentieth-century British literature, biography, narrative medicine, women’s studies, creative nonfiction, psychology • Social media campaign • Featured on the Virginia Woolf listserv • Promotion at BEA, MLA, AWP, Modernist Studies Conference, International Virginia Woolf Conference • New York City launch at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons • Readings from the book at bookstores, colleges, and universities • Announcements, discussions, and readings presented at health support groups and in hospitals for staff and patients • Study guide and reader’s guide available online

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Selected Backlist from Paris Press

Ruth Stone Reading From Ordinary Words and Simplicity Ruth Stone
Introduction by Bianca Stone
POETRY 5½ x 5 | 74 min Compact Disk US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-930464-11-7 USC

Look to the Future

Ordinary Words
Ruth Stone
POETRY 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9638183-8-6 USC

Simplicity
Ruth Stone
POETRY 6 x 9 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9638183-1-7 USC

An Anthology Edited by Jan Freeman, Emily Wojcik, and Deborah Bull
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 6 x 9 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $20.95 | CAN $25.00 978-1-930464-12-4 USC

Sisters

Visa For Avalon
Bryher
FICTION 5 x 7 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-930464-07-0 USC

Tell Me Another Morning
An Autobiographical Novel Zdena Berger
FICTION / HISTORY 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-930464-10-0 USC

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Paul Dry Books City Abandoned
Charting the Loss of Civic Institutions in Philadelphia

Vincent D. Feldman
Foreword by Robert Venturi
Philadelphia is rich with forgotten places surprisingly profound in their historical value. Architectural landmarks slowly crumble right in the heart of otherwise vibrant neighborhoods, given only cursory glances by passersby. Vincent D. Feldman photographed these buildings over the last two decades, collecting them in this book—“an aesthetic masterpiece” in the words of Robert Venturi, who contributes a foreword. Philadelphia native Vincent D. Feldman (born 1966) is adjunct assistant professor at Tyler School of Art’s program in Tokyo, Japan.
ARCHITECTURE / PHOTOGRAPHY March 8 x 10 | 144 pp 96 duotone illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-58988-082-5 USC

Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

Through his striking photographs, Vincent D. Feldman explores Philadelphia’s “ruins,” civic and religious buildings which have fallen into disuse and disrepair.

The Writer Who Stayed
William Zinsser
William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for The American Scholar about writing, the arts, New York, and popular culture. The Writer Who Stayed collects these engaging pieces by one of America’s best essayists. Relationships, storytelling, baseball, summer reading, comic strips, Woody Allen—Bill Zinsser illuminates modern life.
ESSAYS / LITERARY CRITICISM October | A Paperback Original | 5 x 8 | 225 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-58988-080-1 USC

The Fields of Light
An Experiment in Critical Reading

Reuben Arthur Brower
The Fields of Light offers an experiment in exploring the imaginative structure of a particular poem, play, or novel, as the surest and most rewarding way to reach a fuller understanding of literature. Close studies of The Tempest, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Passage to India lead the reader to an appreciation of great writing.
LITERARY CRITICISM / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES November | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8 | 218 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-58988-081-8 USC

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Selected Backlist from Paul Dry Books

On Friendship and Dogs Gary Borjesson
PETS 5½ x 8½ | 250 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-58988-076-4 USC

Willing Dogs & Reluctant Masters

A Critical Study of Remembrance of Things Past Howard Moss
Foreword by Damion Searls
LITERARY CRITICISM 5 x 8 | 124 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-58988-079-5 US

The Magic Lantern of Marcel Proust

Three Comedies by Aristophanes: Peace, Birds, and Wealth
Translated by Thomas L. Pangle and Wayne Ambler
DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-58988-078-8 USC

Aristophanes

From Berlin to Jerusalem
Translated by Harry Zohn
RELIGION 5½ x 8½ | 178 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-58988-073-3 USC

Memories of My Youth Gershom Scholem

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis
Selected Essays Gershom Scholem
RELIGION 5½ x 8½ | 306 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-58988-074-0 USC

Unreasonable Doubt
Circumstantial Evidence and the Art of Judgment Norma Thompson

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / TRUE CRIME 5½ x 8½ | 207 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-58988-072-6 USC

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Process Raw Magic
Super Foods for Super People

Kate Magic

There are some foods that have the power to change your life. There are certain foods that when you eat them, your body is in heaven, your cells start singing, your mind becomes ecstatic. “Yes,” they cry in unison, “Yes, these are the foods that I have been waiting for. These are the foods that I have been craving, that my body has been missing my whole life.” Sometimes, it is a particular nutrient you have been lacking. But more often with these foods it is their synergistic properties. They have a magical energy that comes not only from the synergy of their nutritional composition but from the way they are grown, the lands they are from, their history. Many of them are sacred plants in their countries of origin. What distinguishes Raw Magic from other raw food books is its emphasis on remarkable raw superfoods that can now be accessed at natural food stores and online. It’s new, it’s magic. Includes Kate’s beloved recipes: • • • • Greatest garlic goji relish Broccoli bonkers Rocket fuel soup Fire wizard crackers

Kate Magic is a raw food superstar in her United Kingdom home, but also often flies to North America for teachings and events. She also supervises the well-trafficked website www.rawliving.com.
A groundbreaking raw recipe book from the United Kingdom’s largest raw food promoter Kate Magic.

COOKING / HEALTH & FITNESS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 260 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-934170-37-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934170-39-7 W

Marketing Plans
• • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign Posters and postcards Online videos

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Process Shamanic Gardening
Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden

Melinda Joy Miller

A shaman is one who walks in two worlds, one seen easily by everyone, another seen with the senses of the heart, deep recesses of the mind, and within the collective spiritual consciousness. Shamanic Gardening integrates sustainable ancient and traditional gardening methods with shamanic principles and modern permaculture. The practices, history, myths, recipes, and philosophies inside this book will enhance your relationship with nature, sustain the earth, delight your senses, and nourish your soul. Shamanic Gardening includes a cultural history of sustainable gardening, including gardening techniques used by Cleopatra, the Japanese, the Pueblo Indians, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and many others. This book teaches both simple and advanced techniques to garden with more awareness and effectiveness, using your inner senses. Learn to design an elegant, edible, sustainable landscape, plant for nutrition and beauty, grow healing herbs and aphrodisiacs, work with earth energies and color, extract flower essences, and much more.
GARDENING / BODY, MIND & SPIRIT January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 244 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-934170-36-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934170-38-0 W

Melinda Joy Miller is a feng shui master, cultural anthropologist, medicine woman, and Keeper of the Medicine Wheel of Peace teachings of the Senecas. She has been practicing and teaching permaculture techniques and shamanic healing for over thirty years.
No other gardening book better illustrates the vast cultural history and modern practicality of sustainability and permaculture.

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
Phoenix, AZ • Sedona, AZ • Los Angeles, CA • Pasadena, CA • San Diego, CA • San Francisco, CA • Dover, DE • Gainesville, FL • Jacksonville, FL • Miami, FL • Sarasota, FL • Princeton, NJ • Collegeville, PA • New Hope, PA • Philadelphia, PA • Valley Forge, PA • Arlington, VA • Charlotte, VA Author Hometown: Orlando, FL

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Profile Books Paraphernalia
The Curious Lives of Magical Things

Steven Connor
“Ingenious, whimsical, imaginative, and entertaining, this is a magical little book.”—The Times In this highly imaginative exploration of our relationship with everyday things, Steven Connor looks at those items which, though mundane, have a magical quality—the things which have an often surprising power to absorb, disturb, seduce, and soothe. With chapters on everything from keys to handkerchiefs, and sweets to spectacles, Connor embarks upon a historical, philosophical, and linguistic journey to reconnect with the curious and quirky things with which we have a forgotten intimacy. Steven Connor is professor of modern literature and theory at Birkbek College, London.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Promotion through: www.stevenconnor.com

PHILOSOPHY December 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-84668-270-4 USC

A unique and quirky exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives.

The Diaries of Nella Last
Writing in War and Peace

Edited by Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson
“Her account records the personal adjustments that trickle into daily life amid sweeping international change.”—The Washington Post This collection brings together into a single volume the best of Nella Last’s prolific outpourings, including a great deal of new, unpublished material from the war years. Capturing the everyday trials and horrors of wartime Britain and the nation’s transition into peacetime and beyond, Nella’s touching and often humorous narrative provides an invaluable historical portrait of what daily life was like for ordinary people in the 1940s and 1950s. Patricia Malcomson and Robert Malcolmson are social historians. They live in Nelson, British Columbia.
HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 512 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-84668-546-0 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Editor Hometown: Nelson, BC

A collected edition of best-selling author Nella Last’s diaries, including some never-before-published material from the war years.

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Selected Backlist from Profile Books

A Year of Reading from Home Susan Hill
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5 x 8 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-84668-266-7 USC

Howards End Is on the Landing

Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You Max Landsberg
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5 x 7¾ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $16.00 978-1-86197-650-5 USC

The Tao of Coaching

And Why China and Europe Will Struggle After the Coming Slump Charles Dumas and Diana Choyleva
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-84668-564-4 USC

The American Phoenix

Managing Tensions and Divisions within Societies Edited by Jeffrey Herbst, Greg Mills, and Terence McNamee
POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-1-84668-588-0 USC

On the Fault Line

Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers Introduction by Michael Palin
TRAVEL 5 x 7¾ | 480 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84668-496-8 USC

OxTravels

The Tyranny of Choice
Renata Salecl
PHILOSOPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 5 x 7¾ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84668-186-8 USC

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Promopress The Art of Pop Up
The Magical World of Three-Dimensional Books

Jean-Charles Trebbi
With a refreshing perspective this book shows the designs of pop-up creators all around the world with some of their most innovative designs and practical examples to construct them. Full of color illustration and inspiring force, this book reveals the techniques of such a peculiar craft.

CRAFTS & HOBBIES / DESIGN October 8 x 9 | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-84-92810-65-9 USC

The Art of Folding
Creative Forms in Design and Architecture

Jean-Charles Trebbi
In today’s design, the role played by folding techniques has gained in visibility and polyvalence, as this book perfectly illustrates, showing designs by creators all around the world, using diverse materials (paper, plastic, textiles) applied to very different areas of creation, such as fashion, jewelry or interior design.

DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE October 8 x 9 | 142 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 978-84-92810-66-6 USC

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Promopress Full of Characters
Inma Alavedra
This outstandingly illustrated volume presents an unsurpassed collection of the most original and new characters from designers all around the world. A visual celebration of design, process, and imagination, this book is organized into three main sections: a showcase of characters grouped by color identifying the particular technique used to create them, interviews with the designers, and the design processes involved in the development of each character.
DESIGN | September | A Paperback Original | 6 x 8 | 239 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper and CD US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 | 978-84-92810-35-2 USC

Illustration Unzipped
Julia Schonlau
This book is a guide to image creation—it covers different ways of drawing viewpoints, perspective, palettes, and choice of media. By showcasing a range of illustrators—from established names to fresh talent—the book reveals the most compelling styles and techniques that are practiced today.
DESIGN / ART | November | A Paperback Original | 7 x 8 | 192 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-84-92810-61-1 USC

Innovative Pleats, Folds and Draping in Fashion Design

Couture Unfolded
Brunella Gianangeli

This book shows folding techniques through simple illustrations, detailed instructions, and examples of variations both traditional and modern. Includes an analysis of the use of fold in fashion throughout history and also a helpful tutorial using examples from some of the most innovative and avant-garde designers in fashion today.

DESIGN / CRAFTS & HOBBIES November 7 x 9 | 120 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-84-92810-55-0 USC

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Promopress Geometrix
Wang Shaoqiang

This title enforces in a showcase of examples with a retro-inspired flavor updated to the latest trends in the world of twenty-first century design. This book features a series of geometric elements. It explains the relationship and language between geometry and graphics using real life successful case study examples.

DESIGN September 8 x 11 | 240 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-59-8 USC

Geometrix celebrates all aspects of geometric elements in design.

Night Time
Innovative Design for Clubs and Bars

Wang Shaoqiang
This book identifies the latest tastes and current trends in nightclub space design with supplemented information on the venue, design studio, as well as artistic perspective and simple layout diagrams. More than forty restaurant bars and achingly hip clubs are featured in more than two hundred photographs showcasing the best after-dark playgrounds.
ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN | October | 9 x 11 | 240 pp | Color photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 | 978-84-92810-60-4 USC

Taste It!
Innovative Restaurant Interiors

Wang Shaoqiang
This book offers a visual journey through innovative storefronts, showcasing a new wave of design in the most unconventional and unique eateries world over, with beautiful full-color photographs throughout. It includes the work of the industry’s most exciting innovative architects and designers.
ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN | September | 8 x 11 | 240 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 | 978-84-92810-58-1 USC

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Selected Backlist from Promopress

Patternmaking in Practice
A Step by Step Guide Lucia Mors de Castro
DESIGN 8¼ x 10½ | 120 pp 300 color photographs Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-84-92810-07-9 USC

The Making of a Fashion Show Ester Vilaseca
DESIGN 6⅞ x 8⅞ | 192 pp 200 color photographs Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.95 978-84-92810-06-2 USC

Runway Uncovered

New Minimalism in Retail Design Edited by Sandu
ARCHITECTURE 21 x 28½ | 240 pp 480 color photographs Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-25-3 USC

Curated

Pop-Folk Contemporary Illustration Retina and Retinette
DESIGN 8⅜ x 10¼ | 272 pp 200 color photographs Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 978-84-92810-17-8 USC

Picnic

Free Fonts Source Book Maia Francisco
DESIGN 7¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp 250 color photographs Trade Paper & CD US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 978-84-92810-09-3 USC

Fontology

Re-designing the brand Edited by Sandu
DESIGN 7⅝ x 8⅛ | 272 pp 544 color photographs Trade Cloth US $59.99 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-28-4 USC

Relogo

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Pushkin Press Blame
Amanda Harlech

After an unsatisfying relationship, twenty-five-year-old Graye Weston falls immediately under the spell of Anthony Tierney, a virile gentleman farmer whose crumbling country pile contains long-buried family secrets. Abandoning London for a life of rustic seclusion at Oerley Hall, Graye finds herself feeling increasingly isolated as her wedding day approaches, troubled by mysterious noises in the night and the many unanswered questions concerning her fiancé’s background. What was the real fate of Anthony’s brother Lyonel, and how is it connected with his time in Tuscany twenty years previously? Who is the tall, debonair stranger and why does his visit to the Hall infuriate Anthony? And whose are the nocturnal footsteps in the attic? Moving backwards and forwards from the 1960s to the present day, Amanda Harlech’s captivating debut is a Gothic romance in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca, telling a powerful and moving story in vivid, impressionistic prose. After studying English at Oxford, Amanda Harlech worked at Harpers & Queen before moving to John Galliano’s label. She has famously worked ever since at Chanel as creative consultant and muse to designer Karl Lagerfeld. Amanda has featured in numerous short films and Blame is her first novel.
Amanda Harlech’s captivating debut is a Gothic romance in the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca.
FICTION March A Paperback Original 5 x 7⅞ | 150 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-906548-83-4 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Outreach to glossy magazines

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Pushkin Press Young Gerber
Friedrich Torberg
Translated by Anthea Bell
Kurt Gerber embarks enthusiastically on his last year at school, determined to focus on that all-important final exam. He soon finds, however, he is constantly at odds with his sadistic teacher, Professor Kupfer, known to the students as “Lord God Kupfer.” Inspired by the real-life suicides of ten school peers during one week in 1929, Young Gerber is a timeless tale of classroom angst and an undisputed classic of Austrian literature. Friedrich Torberg worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague before being forced to emigrate. Whilst in America, he worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter and for Time magazine.

FICTION November A Paperback Original 4⅝ x 6⅜ | 314 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-906548-89-6 USC

The Austrian equivalent of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche
Stefan Zweig
Translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul
The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Nietzsche—powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them to great works. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg, Austria, between the wars. He enjoyed worldwide literary fame, first as a poet and translator, then as a biographer.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October 5 x 7⅞ | 260 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-906548-86-5 USC

Fascinating biographical studies— both highly personal and philosophically wide-ranging.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign

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Pushkin Press The Essence of Place
Petr Král
Translated by Christopher Moncrieff
The Essence of Place is a personal memoir of Petr Král’s experiences growing up in post-war Czechoslovakia and then Paris. Armed only with his poetic sensibility, Král sets out to explore our relationship with the places that we inhabit, and with the apparently unremarkable everyday objects that often inform and enrich our lives. Král reveals not only the inner life of mundane objects and places, but also simple, profound truths about ourselves. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1941, Petr Král was a member of the Czech surrealist movement. He moved to Paris, France, in 1968, where he has a considerable reputation as a poet and essayist.

PHILOSOPHY December A Paperback Original 4⅝ x 6⅜ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-906548-87-2 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign

Petr Král delves beneath the surface of the everyday to explore the fascinating relationships with mundane places and objects that shape our lives.

The Forbidden Kingdom
Jacob Slauerhoff
Translated by Paul Vincent
Blending historical chronicle, fiction, and commentary, The Forbidden Kingdom brings together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth-century ship’s radio operator and the sixteenth-century Portuguese poet-in-exile Luis Camoes. Jacob Slauerhoff draws his reader into a dazzling world of exoticism, betrayal, and exile, where past and present merge and the possibility of death is never far away. Born in The Netherlands in 1898, upon graduating from university Jacob Slauerhoff signed up as a ship’s surgeon with the Dutch East India Company. He was at sea throughout his life, voyaging to the Far East, Latin America, and Africa.

FICTION February A Paperback Original 4⅝ x 6⅜ | 193 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-906548-88-9 USC

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A classic of early Modernism— the first English translation of Jacob Slauerhoff’s masterpiece.

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Pushkin Press The Break
Pietro Grossi
Translated by Howard Curtis
Dino is a placid, unambitious man. Living in a small provincial town, his only passion is billiards—he spends his evenings in the local billiards parlor honing his technique. One day, however, his quiet life is interrupted—his wife falls pregnant. This sparks a series of events that shake Dino from his slumber, challenging him for the first time. Born in Florence in 1978, Pietro Grossi lives between Tuscany and Milan. His collection of short stories Fists was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and won the Campiello Europa Prize in 2010.
FICTION December 5 x 7⅞ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-906548-84-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906548-46-9

Pietro Grossi’s muscular, stripped-down prose brings out the epic human drama in a tale of everyday life.

The Light in Between
Second Edition

Maria Caracciolo Chia
Translated by Howard Curtis
Based on a collection of letters lost for almost a century, this is the story of a love affair between an Italian princess and the futurist painter Umberto Boccioni, which also provides a wonderful vignette of an extraordinary period in history.
FICTION | March | 5 x 7⅞ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-908968-05-0 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906548-27-8

The French Father
Second Edition

Alain Elkann
Translated by Alastair McEwen
The French Father describes a dialogue between two men buried alongside each other in the Parisian cemetery of Montparnasse—now companions in the afterlife. Alain Elkann finds harmony in the clashing proximity of his stern father and the unruly artist, Roland Topor.
FICTION | February | 5 x 7⅞ | 119 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-908968-04-3 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906548-34-6

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Redleaf Press Theories of Childhood
An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky Second Edition

Carol Garhart Mooney
Examine the work of five groundbreaking education theorists—John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky—in relation to early childhood. Theories of Childhood provides a basic introduction to each theorist and explains the relationship of theory to practice and its impact on real children, teachers, and classrooms. This edition reflects current academic learning standards and includes new understandings of Vygotsky’s work. It is a popular guide to help early childhood professionals be aware of the theories behind good child care practices. It is also a widely-used text in undergraduate programs, community college courses, and training workshops that focus on early development and education. Carol Garhart Mooney has been an early childhood educator for more than forty years. She is also the author of Theories of Attachment, Use Your Words, and Swinging Pendulums.
The classic guide for early childhood classrooms and professionals, now revised and updated.

EDUCATION February 7 x 10 | 128 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-60554-138-9 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-88483-485-1

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Redleaf Press Understanding Infants
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
The first year is one of remarkable growth. This three-pack of Understanding Infants workbooks provides essential information to help caregivers and educators—both new and experienced—provide high-quality care to infants and understand their developmental needs. Practical tips, self-assessments, and reflection questions are included.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-139-6 US

Understanding Toddlers & Twos
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
Toddlers and twos have increased mobility, language acquisition, and social skills. This three-pack of Understanding Toddlers & Twos workbooks provides important information on early development to help early childhood professionals care for and promote growth in young children. Practical tips, selfassessments, exercises, and reflection questions are included.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-140-2 US

Understanding Preschoolers
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
Children make developmental leaps during the preschool years. This threepack of Understanding Preschoolers workbooks provides essential information to help early childhood caregivers and educators enhance their role in promoting growth by better understanding preschoolers’ development. Practical tips, self-assessments, exercises, and reflection questions are included.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS September | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-141-9 US

Understanding Infants, Toddlers & Twos, and Preschoolers Set
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals

Gigi Schweikert
The early years are a period of incredible growth in children. This assorted three-pack of workbooks helps early childhood professionals understand the developmental stages of young children. This set includes one copy each of Understanding Infants, Understanding Toddlers & Twos, and Understanding Preschoolers.
EDUCATION | September | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-142-6 US

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Redleaf Press Being a Professional
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
Passion for working with children is a cornerstone for educators and caregivers, but early childhood professionals also need to look and act the part. This three-pack of Being a Professional workbooks provides early childhood educators and caregivers with information to help them present themselves as the professional that they are.
EDUCATION | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-128-0 US

Partnering with Families
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
Strong partnerships with families create a better environment for children to learn and grow. This three-pack of Partnering with Families workbooks addresses the realities of working with families and provides effective steps to help early childhood professionals initiate and maintain efforts as they build mutually respectful relationships in their program.
EDUCATION | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-129-7 US

Becoming a Team Player
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals [3-pack]

Gigi Schweikert
Being a team player is not always easy, but it is necessary as an early childhood professional. This three-pack of Becoming a Team Player workbooks helps educators and caregivers work more effectively with their colleagues to be part of a supportive work environment.
EDUCATION | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-130-3 US

Being a Professional, Partnering with Families, and Becoming a Team Player Set
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals
Professionalism, partnerships with families, and teamwork are vital in early childhood settings. With practical information, these self-training workbooks are ideal for people just beginning their careers and professional development trainings. This assorted three-pack set includes one copy each of Being a Professional, Becoming a Team Player, and Partnering with Families.
EDUCATION | Available Now | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 10⅞ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-131-0 US

Gigi Schweikert

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Redleaf Press Foundations of Responsive Caregiving
Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Jean Barbre, EdD
Understanding the development of infants, toddlers, and twos equips caregivers with the tools and best practices needed to guide, teach, and care for them. This foundational approach provides information on theories of early development, components of high-quality, responsive caregiving, and strategies to support children in their earliest years.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 200 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $34.95 978-1-60554-085-6 US

Learn the foundations of responsive caregiving and create and sustain environments that foster young children’s growth and development.

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Activities for Responsive Caregiving
Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

Jean Barbre, EdD
The first three years set the stage for a lifetime of learning. This book provides more than eighty activities and experiences to optimize very young children’s intellectual, social, emotional, and physical development, as well as strategies that support responsive caregiving. Jean Barbre, EdD, has thirty years of experience working with children and families as a preschool director, teacher, therapist, college instructor, national and international presenter, and guest presenter on public television.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 240 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-60554-084-9 US

Optimize children’s development in the first three years with more than eighty intentional activities and learning experiences.

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Redleaf Press The Art of Awareness
How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching Second Edition

Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
Learning to closely observe children requires commitment to systematic study and ongoing practice. With activities, experiences, and stories, this book provides that opportunity. Nine observation study sessions help educators of young children discover the many ways that being observant can enhance their teaching. Updates to this second edition reflect current issues in early childhood education, including learning standards, assessment, and technology. Deb Curtis and Margie Carter are popular presenters at early childhood conferences, professional development speakers, and on-site consultants. They have written several books together, including Learning Together with Young Children and Designs for Living and Learning.

EDUCATION October 8½ x 11 | 232 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $44.95 978-1-60554-086-3 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-88483-484-4

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Outreach to early childhood education publications and websites Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.ecetrainers.com Author Hometown: Seattle, WA

Become a keen observer, find curriculum ideas, and meet requirements when assessing outcomes.

The Kindness Curriculum
Stop Bullying Before It Starts Second Edition

Judith Anne Rice
Bullying is a widespread and concerning issue that affects children of all ages. Focusing on character education in the early years, this resource aims to prevent bullying before it starts. Educators can use this comprehensive framework and developmentally appropriate activities to teach young children compassion, conflict resolution, respect, and other positive, pro-social values as they cultivate a peaceful and supportive learning environment for all children. Judith Anne Rice is a keynote speaker specializing in character building. She is the author of several books and an early childhood family education teacher.
EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS March 8½ x 11 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-60554-124-2 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-88483-402-8

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Stop bullying before it starts by teaching young children compassion, conflict resolution, and respect.

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Redleaf Press Challenging Exceptionally Bright Children in Early Childhood Classrooms
Ann Gadzikowski
Nearly every early childhood classroom has an exceptionally bright child— from the child who starts reading independently at age three to the child who would rather take apart his tricycle than ride on it. This book’s strategies help educators create a richer learning environment where exceptionally bright children are encouraged to learn beyond prescribed curriculum goals. It includes identifiers of exceptionally bright children, ideas to change the pace, level, or method of teaching in response to the needs of individual children, and guidance for working with families.
EDUCATION March A Paperback Original 8 x 10 | 192 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $34.95 978-1-60554-116-7 US

Ann Gadzikowski is the early childhood coordinator at Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development.

Support and guide exceptionally bright children while creating richer, inclusive learning environments for all children in early childhood classrooms.

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Teaching STEM in Preschool and Kindergarten
Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Sally Moomaw, EdD
The foundation for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education begins in the early years. This book provides more than ninety activities and learning center ideas that seamlessly integrate STEM throughout early childhood classrooms. These hands-on STEM experiences enhance cooking, art, and music activities, block play and sensory table exploration, and field trips and outdoor time. Information on assessment and early learning standards is also provided. Sally Moomaw, EdD, has spent much of her career researching and teaching STEM education. She is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati and the author of several early education books.
Marketing Plans Weave STEM activities into young children’s daily experiences for well-rounded learning.
Outreach to early childhood education publications and websites Social media campaign Author Hometown: Bethel, OH

EDUCATION / EDUCATION February A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 320 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $39.95 978-1-60554-121-1 US

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Redleaf Press Dual-Language Learners
Strategies for Teaching English

Angèle Sancho Passe
Growing research shows that many children from immigrant and refugee families are not doing well in school, due in part to linguistic and cultural disadvantages. Teaching dual-language learners requires cultural sensitivity, an understanding of language acquisition, and intentional teaching strategies. Combining research and techniques, this resource helps early childhood educators support dual-language learners as they develop the skills necessary for school readiness and success. Angèle Sancho Passe, an early childhood education consultant and writer, is trilingual and has worked with many programs serving dual-language learners. She is the author of Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten?
EDUCATION September A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-60554-101-3 US

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Outreach to early childhood education publications and websites Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.angelesanchopasse.com Author Hometown: Minnneapolis, MN

Teach young children English, maintain their home language, and develop the early literacy skills necessary for school readiness and success.

From Handprints to Hypotheses
Using the Project Approach with Toddlers and Twos

Todd Wanerman
Creativity, initiative, and inquiry are important in all children’s early education, including toddlers and two-year-olds. This book focuses on using the project approach—a teaching strategy that enables educators and caregivers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics—to scaffold very young children’s early learning. It provides information on creating sensorybased experiences—developmentally appropriate for toddlers and twos—that bring new perspectives and activities into the classroom. Todd Wanerman has been teaching toddlers and twos for twenty years. He is the coauthor of Including One, Including All.
EDUCATION December A Paperback Original 8 x 10 | 152 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 978-1-60554-123-5 US

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Build the foundation for a lifetime of inquiry and learning with projects for toddlers and twos.

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Redleaf Press
How to Observe Young Children for Assessment and Curriculum Planning Second Edition

Focused Observations

Gaye Gronlund and Marlyn James
Intentional teaching begins with focused observations and systematic documentation of children’s learning and development. This book is filled with tools and techniques designed to help early childhood educators purposefully observe children, create portfolios with rich documentation, and plan curriculum that supports every child. Discussion questions, observation practice exercises, and reflection assignments are included, as well as DVD with classroom vignettes showcasing observation techniques.
EDUCATION January 8½ x 11 | 232 pp Trade Paper & DVD US $69.95 978-1-60554-106-8 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-929610-71-6

Gaye Gronlund is an early childhood education consultant who trains early childhood educators across the country. Marlyn James is an education and early childhood professor.
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Observe and document children’s development in systematic, purposeful ways.

Outreach to early childhood education publications and websites Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.gayegronlund.com Author Hometowns: Grawn, MI / Kalispell, MT

Planning for Play, Observation, and Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten
Gaye Gronlund
Play is an important vehicle for learning in the early years. With intentional planning frameworks, this resource provides teachers with tools and strategies to organize and develop curriculum around high-level, purposeful play. Practical application techniques help teachers create a cycle of planning and observation as they use a play-based curriculum to help young children thrive in the classroom. Gaye Gronlund is an early childhood education consultant who trains early childhood educators across the country. She is the author of six books.
EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 978-1-60554-113-6 US

Marketing Plans Plan developmentally appropriate, play-based curriculum for early childhood classrooms.
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Saqi Books After Zionism
One State for Israel and Palestine

Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor

“Nothing will change until we are capable of imagining a radically different future. By bringing together many of the clearest and most ethical thinkers about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book gives us the intellectual tools we need to do just that. Courageous and exciting.”—Naomi Klein After Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution. Time is running out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. Although deep mistrust exists on both sides of the conflict, growing numbers of Palestinians and Israelis, Jews and Arabs are working together to forge a different future. Whatever the political solution may be, Palestinian and Israeli lives are intertwined, enmeshed, irrevocably. This daring and timely collection includes essays by Omar Barghouti, John Mearsheimer, Karma Nabulsi, Ilan Pappe, Sara Roy, and Jonathan Cook. Antony Loewenstein is an Australian journalist, activist, and blogger. He is the author of two best-selling books, My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Huffington Post, and Haaretz. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American journalist, blogger, and activist. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

POLITICAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 6 x 9⅛ | 287 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-0-86356-816-9 USC

After Zionism dissects the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians and explores possible forms for a one-state solution.

Editor Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

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Saqi Books The Calligrapher’s Garden
Gift Edition

Hassan Massoudy
Introduction by Venetia Porter
“Hassan Massoudy’s calligraphies are arranged to loosely follow the seasons, beginning and ending with autumn: sombre, wintry hues at one end, brilliant tones full of vibrant reds at the other.”—Venetia Porter Hassan Massoudy’s elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden. From the icy palettes of winter and the fading hues of autumn to delicate spring growth and the dazzling sunshine and blooms of summer, he captures in calligraphy what countless poets have wrought with words. Massoudy draws his seasonal inspirations from writers and artists, including Kahlil Gibran, Henri Matisse, Lao Tzu, William Blake, and Victor Hugo, as well as from Hungarian, Spanish, Turkish, and Japanese proverbs. Hassan Massoudy was born in Najaf, Iraq. He moved to France in 1969, where he studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and is in the permanent collections of the British Museum and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, among others. Nineteen books of his calligraphy have been published in France, along with his autobiography, Si loin de l’Euphrate: Une jeunesse d’artiste en Irak.
Hassan Massoudy’s elegant calligraphy depicts the four seasons of the garden in a new, full color gift edition.

ART / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September 5⅝ x 7⅛ | 128 pp 56 color illustrations, B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-86356-856-5 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-86356-619-6

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Saqi Books The Literary Heritage of the Arabs Volume 1
Tribal Society to the Abassid Dynasty

Edited by Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey
The breadth of Arabic literature produced by Arab writers from pre-Islamic times to the Abbasid Dynasty reveals a world of thought and feeling largely unseen and unheard in the English-speaking world. In this wide-ranging and unique anthology, works by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim authors show the genius of Arab civilization through the prism of literature. Through odes (or Mu’allaqat); selections from the Qur’an; samples of Hadith and the poetry of rivalry, love, adventure, and mystic transcendence; and prose conveying scientific innovation, philosophical inquiry, theological disputation, and historical analysis, this extraordinary collection provides an authoritative overview of Arabic literature.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / FICTION March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 440 pp Trade Paper US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-0-86356-824-4 USC

A landmark anthology of the finest literature produced by Arab writers, published in two volumes, from the past 1,500 years.

The Literary Heritage of the Arabs Volume 2
The Andalusian Age to Modern Times

Edited by Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey
This second volume begins with the emergence of Arab civilization in Andalusia, traces the evolution of Arabic literature during the transformative eras of the Arab Renaissance, spawned in response to European colonialism, and concludes in the contemporary era, foregrounding the struggle for dignity and search for identity. Suheil Bushrui is a distinguished author, poet, critic, and translator. He is a senior research scholar at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland. James M. Malarkey, a specialist in the Middle East and North Africa, is the chair of Humanities and General Education at Antioch University Midwest.

Editor Hometown: Yellow Springs, OH

SAQI
A landmark anthology of the finest literature produced by Arab writers, published in two volumes, from the past 1,500 years.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / FICTION March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 423 pp Trade Paper US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-0-86356-829-9 USC

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Saqi Books Lebanon Adrift
From Battleground to Playground

Samir Khalaf
Lebanon today is at a fateful crossroads in its eventful socio-cultural and political history. Imperiled by unsettling transformations, from postwar reconstruction and rehabilitation to the forces of postmodernity and globalism, it remains adrift. In this landmark study, Samir Khalaf explores how ordinary citizens, burdened by the consequences of war, persisting regional rivalries, mounting economic deprivation, and diminishing prospects for well-being, find meaning and coherence in a society that has not only lost its moorings and direction, but also its sense of control.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 9⅛ | 294 pp Trade Paper US $27.95 | CAN $30.99 978-0-86356-434-5 USC

Samir Khalaf is professor of sociology at the American University of Beirut. He has held academic positions at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, and New York University.

Lebanon Adrift is an invaluable investigation into contemporary Lebanese culture and society for students, academics, and the general reader alike.

A to Z of Arabic-English-Arabic Translation
Ronak Husni and Daniel L. Newman
The A to Z highlights common translation pitfalls within a bidirectional approach, addressing issues relating to both Arabic–English and English–Arabic translation. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with authentic examples drawn from contemporary literature and the media. The alphabetical arrangement of the entries ensures ease of use both as a manual and as a reference work. Ronak Husni is head of Arabic and Translation Studies and professor of Arabic studies at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 264 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-0-86356-885-5 USC

Daniel L. Newman is professor of Arabic and course director of the MA in Arabic–English Translation and Interpreting at the University of Durham, United Kingdom.

A much-needed addition to the field, the A to Z is aimed at university-level students of translation and professional translators alike.

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Sarabande Books Let Me Clear My Throat
Essays

Elena Passarello

From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of “Johnny B. Goode” affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices, making them hum with significance and emotion. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean’s “BYAH!” and Marlon Brando’s “Stella!” and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought’s incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello’s essays are a riotous deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are—the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves. Elena Passarello is an actor and writer originally from Charleston, South Carolina. She studied nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Iowa, and her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, Slate, Iowa Review, The Normal School, Literary Bird Journal, Ninth Letter, and in the music writing anthology Pop Till the World Falls Apart. She has performed in several regional theaters in the East and Midwest, originating roles in the premieres of Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge and David Turkel’s Wild Signs and Holler. In 2011 she became the first woman winner of the annual Stella Screaming Contest in New Orleans.

Phone psychics, Judy Garland, and the Rebel Yell make an annotated soundtrack of the whys and hows of popular voices.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / SHORT STORIES October 5¼ x 7¾ | 240 pp B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-45-0 USC Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-936747-52-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-50-4 USC

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Los Angeles, CA • Atlanta, GA • Iowa City, IA • Grand Rapids, MI • Pittsburgh, PA • Austin, TX Author Hometown: Salem, OR

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Sarabande Books Easy Math
Lauren Shapiro
“Lauren Shapiro can downshift from the sublime to the profane and back again in less than five seconds. Energy and joy create these metaphors, and if they are in discourse with postmodern malaise, they almost win the argument.” —Marie Howe “The Witness” There is a full moon the night St. Augustine invents Just War Theory. Which is to say though it is almost midnight he can see his toes, the flowering dogwood by his door, and down the walkway, a man beating a boy with a club. He picks up his pen.
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POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS February A Paperback Original Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry 6 x 9 | 64 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936747-48-1 USC

Author Events Pop culture gets the James Tate treatment in poems that offer a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world.
San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Amherst, MA • Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY • Milwaukee, WI Author Hometown: Madison, WI

Book of Dog
Poems

Cleopatra Mathis
“When She Spoke, He Closed His Eyes” So she tried to disappear, obliged by his own disappearing, becoming who she wasn’t. Not there was not who she was, and not how she was. She could tiptoe out, he could be relieved or (surprise!) come searching. But how would that work when he needed her to be there in order to make her gone, disappeared into other. What other? she thought, wondering how to make herself into someone absent, so she could be the one he would welcome, wide-eyed, wanting to hear whatever it was she had to say.
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POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 64 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936747-47-4 USC

Cleopatra Mathis’ best book— poems that counter absence with dogs, ducks, and spiders in the wilderness just beyond her back door.

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Sarabande Books If a Stranger Approaches
Stories

Laura Kasischke
Laura Kasischke’s stories are populated by people coming to terms with a life that is just a little bit off—there’s a cooler of eyeballs in the backseat and a tiny mummified heart in the dresser drawer. Lucid and unsparing, Kasischke offers no detours around the mysteries of our own minds and motives. We’re right to be spooked. Laura Kasischke is the author of seven collections of poetry and seven novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Pushcart Prize and the Juniper Poetry Prize. Her latest, Space in Chains, won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES February A Paperback Original 5¼ x 7¾ | 184 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-49-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-51-1 USC

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Goodreads giveaway Author Hometown: Chelsea, MI

Laura Kasischke’s surreal stories verge on sci-fi—ghost girls in the backyard and changelings in the kitchen.

Clangings
Steven Cramer
I hear the dinner plates gossip Mom collected to a hundred. My friends say get on board, but I’m not bored. Dad’s a nap lying by the fire. That’s why when radios broadcast news, news broadcast from radios gives air to my kinship, Dickey, who says he’d go dead if ever I discovered him to them. I took care, then, the last time bedrooms banged, to tape over the outlets, swipe the prints off DVDs, weep up the tea stains where once was coffee. Not one seep from him since.
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POETRY / PSYCHOLOGY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936747-46-7 USC

A book-length series of poems that mimics schizophrenia’s associative riffing and constructs an intimate and stirring portrait of a vibrant, unsteady mind.

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Selected Backlist from Sarabande Books

If You Knew Then What I Know Now
Ryan Van Meter
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5¼ x 7¾ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.00 978-1-932511-94-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-40-5 US

The Cold War
Kathleen Ossip
POETRY 6½ x 9 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-932511-95-6 USC

This Is Not Your City
Caitlin Horrocks
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.00 978-1-932511-91-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-25-2 USC

Syzygy, Beauty
An Essay T Fleischmann
LITERARY COLLECTIONS 5¼ x 7¾ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-26-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-35-1 W

The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets
A Self-Help Memoir Jeffrey Skinner
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES 5½ x 8½ | 225 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-27-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-36-8 W

The Cows
Lydia Davis
FICTION 6 x 9 | 32 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $11.95 978-1-932511-93-2 USC

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Serpent’s Tail The Dead Women of Juárez
Sam Hawken

Shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger Award. Since 1993 almost five hundred women have been murdered in Cuidad Juárez. Locals believe the true number stands at five thousand. When a new disappearance is reported, Kelly Courter, a washed-up Texan boxer, and Rafael Sevilla, a Mexican detective, are sucked into an underworld of organized crime, believing they can outwit the corruption all around. The Dead Women of Juárez follows these two men obsessed with seeking the truth about the female victims of the Mexican border wars. Sam Hawken is a native of Texas now living in Washington, DC.
FICTION / MYSTERY September 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84668-774-7 USC

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A visceral crime novel based on the true story of mass murder in a Mexican border town.

Falling Glass
Adrian McKinty

“McKinty possesses a talent for pace and plot structure that belies his years.”— Publishers Weekly Killian makes a living enforcing other people’s laws, collecting debts, dealing out threats, and finding people who do not wish to be found. But when Richard Coulter, an Irishman with political connections, offers him half a million to track down his ex-wife and children, Killian finds himself embroiled in something far bigger than he bargained for. Adrian McKinty grew up in Northern Ireland and lived in the United States for a number of years. His novel Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award.
FICTION / MYSTERY October 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84668-783-9 USC

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Killian makes a living collecting debts, dealing out threats, and finding people who do not wish to be found.

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Serpent’s Tail In The Seventies
Adventures in the Counterculture

Barry Miles
Beginning with the Weathermen explosion in Greenwich Village and ending with punk, the Seventies was the age of extremes, sex, drugs, and, of course, rock ’n’ roll. Traveling between the underground scenes of London, New York, and California, Barry Miles remembers encounters with the legends of the decade. In the Seventies is a memoir that challenges modern perceptions of the Seventies with great anecdotes featuring a larger than life cast of characters.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84668-690-0 USC

Barry Miles is the author of the bestseller Hippie and has written biographies of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg in addition to books on The Beatles and The Clash.

Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll in the 1970s—encounters with the legends of the decade.

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School for Patriots
Martin Kohan

Winner of the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize. An assistant in Buenos Aires’ most prestigious boarding school, Maria Teresa’s job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them—an activity she gets surprising pleasure from. In this confined society all appears fair and liberal, but within there is brutal repression and the teachers draw up lists of candidates for torture. School for Patriots powerfully shows how in a dictatorship the political and the sexual interact.
FICTION January A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84668-743-3 USC

Martin Kohan lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

An Argentinean boarding school is as brutal and perverse as its country’s military dictatorship.

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Small Beer Press The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One
Where on Earth

Ursula K. Le Guin
“It is the author’s more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection.”—Publishers Weekly “A master of the craft.”—Neil Gaiman The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin’s satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PEN–Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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20,000-copy print run • Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, NEIBA, and PNBA Outreach to short story publications and websites • Social media campaign Advance Access, Goodreads, and LibraryThing giveaways Promotion through: www.ursulakleguin.com Author Hometown: Portland, OR FICTION / SHORT STORIES November 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Cloth US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-61873-034-3 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-036-7 W

A must for every reader: two volumes of Ursula K. Le Guin’s short stories as selected by the author.

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two
Outer Space, Inner Lands

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Admirers of fine literature, fantastic or not, will cherish this rich offering.” —Publishers Weekly Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power— all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor. Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven collections, essays, poetry, translations, and books for children. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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20,000-copy print run • Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, NEIBA, and PNBA Outreach to short story publications and websites • Social media campaign Advance Access, Goodreads, and LibraryThing giveaways Promotion through: www.ursulakleguin.com Author Hometown: Portland, OR FICTION / SHORT STORIES November 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Cloth US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-61873-035-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-037-4 W

A long-awaited celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin’s incredible short stories.

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Small Beer Press Errantry
Strange Stories

Elizabeth Hand
Praise for Elizabeth Hand: “Fiercely frightening yet hauntingly beautiful.”—Tess Gerritsen, author of The Silent Girl “A sinful pleasure.”—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand’s new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true. Elizabeth Hand’s novels include Shirley Jackson Award–winner Generation Loss, Mortal Love, and Available Dark.
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FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-030-5 USCO eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-031-2 USCO

Elizabeth Hand’s award winning stories begin in the shimmery, dusty corners of upstate New York and move into even stranger settings.

Trafalgar
A Novel

Angélica Gorodischer
Translated by Amalia Gladheart
Don’t rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actually travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him? Trafalgar is Angélica Gorodischer’s second novel to be translated into English. Her first, Kalpa Imperial, was selected for the New York Times summer reading list. Angélica Gorodischer lives in Rosario, Argentina. She has received many awards, most recently the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-032-9 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-033-6 W

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When Trafalgar’s in town his friends know that even though the coffee might be terrible, the stories will be great.

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Small Beer Press Death of a Unicorn
Peter Dickinson

Praise for Peter Dickinson’s mysteries: “A literary magician controlling an apparently inexhaustible supply of effects.” —Penelope Lively For best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover’s mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family’s stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited. The first in a series of reprints of Peter Dickinson’s mysteries, this classic British mystery will win fans currently engrossed in Downton Abbey. Peter Dickinson has twice received the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger. He lives in England and is married to the novelist Robin McKinley.
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FICTION / MYSTERY March 5½ x 8½ | 204 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-040-4 USCO eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-041-1 W

A successful romance novelist answers the phone and a tragic death from thirty years before is cast in new light.

Under the Poppy
A Novel

Kathy Koja
“Koja can pack a lot Dickensian humor into a sentence.”—The Plain Dealer Decca runs a Victorian-era brothel and is in love with the co-owner, Rupert. He in turn is in love with Decca’s puppeteer brother, Istvan. When Istvan reappears, their love triangle is enmeshed in an approaching war which forces them to abandon the Poppy. Lush, sexy, and vivid, Under the Poppy is being adapted for the stage, was longlisted for the IMPAC Award, and received the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. Kathe Koja is working on The Mercury Waltz (the follow-up to Under the Poppy). She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
FICTION September First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 360 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-027-5 USCO Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-931520-70-6

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Love: it’s a triangle. War: is coming. Betrayal: is inevitable. Sex: watch out for the naughty puppets.

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Selected Backlist from Small Beer Press

After the Apocalypse
Stories Maureen F. McHugh
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 264 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-931520-29-4 W

At the Mouth of the River of Bees
Stories Kij Johnson
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-931520-80-5 USCO

Fountain of Age
Stories Nancy Kress
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-931520-45-4 W

A Stranger in Olondria
a novel Sofia Samatar
FICTION 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-931520-76-8 W

The Liminal People
A Novel Ayize Jama-Everett
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-931520-33-1 W

Stories of Your Life
and Others Ted Chiang
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-1-931520-72-0 USCO

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Stone Bridge Press Persona
A Biography of Yukio Mishima

Naoki Inose with Hiroaki Sato

Yukio Mishima (b. 1925) was a brilliant writer and intellectual whose relentless obsession with beauty, purity, and patriotism ended in his astonishing self-disembowelment and decapitation in downtown Tokyo in 1970. Nominated for the Nobel Prize, Mishima was the best-known novelist of his time (works like Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion are still in print in English), and his legacy—his persona—is still honored and puzzled over. Who was Yukio Mishima really? This, the first full biography to appear in English in almost forty years, traces Mishima’s trajectory from a sickly boy named Kimitake Hiraoka to a hard-bodied student of martial arts. In detail it examines his family life, the wartime years, and his emergence, then fame, as a writer and advocate for traditional values. Revealed here are all the personalities and conflicts and sometimes petty backbiting that shaped the culture of postwar literary Japan. Working entirely from primary sources and material unavailable to other biographers, author Naoki Inose and translator Hiroaki Sato together have produced a monumental work that covers much new ground in unprecedented depth. Using interviews, social and psychological analysis, and close reading of novels and essays, Persona removes the mask that Mishima so artfully created to disguise his true self. Naoki Inose, currently vice governor of Tokyo, has also written biographies of writers Kikuchi Kan and Osamu Dazai. New York–based Hiroaki Sato is an award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry, and also translated Mishima’s novel Silk and Insight.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY CRITICISM November 6 x 9 | 744 pp Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-1-61172-008-2 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-524-7 W

A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.

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New York, NY Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Stone Bridge Press Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe
How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan— and Japan to the West

Frederik L. Schodt
“Frederik L. Schodt has at long last unveiled the fascinating story of ‘Professor Risley.’ Circus scholars, history buffs, and anyone with an ounce of curiosity should be grateful to him.”—Dominique Jando, Circopedia.org “Professor” Risley (Richard Risley Carlisle) introduced the Western circus to Japan in 1864. Three years later, this former acrobat gave many in the West their first glimpse of Japan when he took his “Imperial Japanese Troupe” of acrobats and jugglers on a triumphant tour of North America and Europe. Over the next few years, the Troupe performed before presidents, monarchs, and ordinary citizens. Frederik L. Schodt argues compellingly that such early popular entertainments helped stir a curiosity about all things Japanese that eventually led to japonisme, The Mikado, and, in our time, the boom in manga and anime. Schodt’s depiction of Risley and his troupe is enlivened by portraits of the circus demimonde and supported by nineteenth-century photographs, posters, and drawings, many in color. His accounts of these first meetings between Westerners and Japanese shed new light on how different cultures meet, mingle, and influence each other. Descriptions of crowds, dazzling routines, and superstar troupe performers like the famous Little All Right are a delightful revelation to anyone interested in Asia, the circus, and popular entertainment. Frederik L. Schodt has authored numerous books about Japan, including Manga! Manga! and Native American in the Land of the Shogun. In 2009 for his work he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.

PERFORMING ARTS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November 6 x 9 | 320 pp Color and B&W photographs, 30 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-1-61172-009-9 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-525-4 W

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Co-op available • National print and online campaigns • Outreach to performing arts publications and websites • Promotion through: www.jai2.com Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

The unlikely history of early cross-cultural encounters between the West and Japan, featuring acrobats, jugglers, and a colorful American impresario.

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Talonbooks Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus
Garry Thomas Morse

In tribute to the surrealist narrative techniques of André Breton and Robert Desnos, Minor Episodes documents the serial adventures of Minor, the ubiquitous “everymogul” who embodies the economic one percent and keeps musically erotic quixotics on tap. Having entered a “rent in time” that gives each chapter an alternate reality, Minor swaggers through an undersea casino, in-flight blockbuster, bawdy Western, and Kafkaesque job hunt, cavorting with billboard queen Bébé Lala and country-music legend Faith Faith, when not dressing down his shifty sidekick, The Concierge, or haunting the intensely disinterested songstress Miss Sharp. However, danger looms in the form of The Stropper, a serial killer fresh out of a shaving promotion, and an enigmatic ginger-beer icon who has retired from a satisfying life of culinary assassinations. Major Ruckus, a contrapuntal text and parody of the speculative fiction genre, celebrates the stylistic techniques of William S. Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson, following a frenzied struggle by various parties to obtain an essential time-travel component, a struggle that includes psychic “dicks,” universal callcenter operators, aboriginal eroticists, lubricant heiresses, rogue advertisement animations, pornography censors, and alien sperm-bank clones, all to the horrified fascination of hapless meta-writer Oober Mann. But ultimately it is Carl Sagan who creates the most confusion, when his prudish doodle of a woman is sent into space aboard the Voyager probe, triggering a plan to “assist” Earth’s declining population through extraterrestrials in the guise of census takers. Minor Episodes and Major Ruckus introduce The Chaos! Quincunx series. Garry Thomas Morse is a Governor General’s Award–nominated poet and fiction writer.

FICTION September A Paperback Original The Chaos! Quincunx 5½ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-697-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-722-4 W Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Includes Minor Episodes, a tribute to surrealist narrative and film technique, and Major Ruckus, a parody of the speculative fiction genre.

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Talonbooks A History of Change
Dispatches from the Occupation

Stephen Collis

Somewhere at the core of almost every intellectual discipline is an attempt to explain change—why and how things change, and how we negotiate these transformations. It is the most ancient of philosophical questions, but in this collection of essays, award-winning poet Stephen Collis investigates the Occupy movement as it takes up the cause of social, economic, and political change. A History of Change opens with a series of short essays on the Occupy movement as the author witnessed it, and participated in it, firsthand. Here are “dispatches” from the day-to-day unfolding of the occupation in Vancouver, short manifestos, theoretical musings, and utopian proposals. The global Occupy movement has only just begun, so this book presents an important first report from the front lines. The middle section of the book is a long meditation on the idea of change as it moves through intellectual history. Change follows certain patterns, and its articulation can be compared across the humanities and sciences. Here the idea of “social change” is set in the wider context of change as one of the timeless ideas and problems of philosophy. A History of Change closes with a reflection on the city of Rome, written in the shadows of the Pantheon. Collis traces the trope of Rome as the “eternal city,” from its imperial past to the rebirth of Roman republicanism during the French Revolution and the era of modern social movements.
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-695-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-720-0 W

Investigates one of philosophy’s ongoing preoccupations—change— articulating its patterns across disciplines and through eras, from Ancient Rome to the Occupy movement.

Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Talonbooks Against the Wind
Madeleine Gagnon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
From the moment he takes drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from violent sexual assault, Joseph finds himself retreating into an increasingly abstract world where he must confront what he calls his “visions.” In reaction to his indistinct trauma, Joseph sets out to reconcile the contradictory themes in his life, including abandonment, madness, love, and death, as the reader experiences, through letters and journal entries, the creation and development of an artist “in his own words.” Acclaimed novelist and poet Madeleine Gagnon has published more than thirty books over four decades.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-0-88922-696-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-721-7 W

Author Hometown: Montreal, QC

A young man retreats into an increasingly abstract world, and sets out to reconcile the contradictory themes in his life.

Tracing the Lines
Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki

Edited by Maia Joseph, Christine Kim, Chris Lee, and Larissa Lai
Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, energizing teacher—Roy Miki is all these and more, a poet whose writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas of his passionate work—social critique and poetics—inform each other in this collection of essays marking a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual. Former students of Roy Miki, editors Maia Joseph, Christine Kim, Chris Lee, and Larissa Lai research or write on the subject of ethnicity and Asian American literature in the English departments at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.

LITERARY CRITICISM October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-88922-694-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-719-4 W

Editor Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Like an artist’s retrospective, Tracing the Lines marks a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.

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Talonbooks The Battle of Batoche
British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis Second Edition

Walter Hildebrandt
Introduction by Jean Teillet
The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Métis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It remains one of Canada’s most emotion-laden memories, eloquently revisited in this revised and expanded edition. The strategies of both sides are thoroughly examined, and numerous maps and photographs offer detailed description of the fateful battle. Introduction by Jean Teillet, great-grandniece of Louis Riel.
HISTORY September 10 x 8 | 144 pp 3 color illustrations, 88 B&W photographs and maps Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-88922-693-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-718-7 W

Walter Hildebrandt is a historian of the Canadian Prairies and co-author of The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7, which won the Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding work on intolerance in North America in 1997.

After Batoche, everything changed for the Métis people and for Canada, especially Quebec.

Author Hometown: Edmonton, AB

This Poem
Adeena Karasick

This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomediatic-saturated world we are enmeshed in. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended tweets, each section infuses itself with continuously shifting tones, styles, and commentary which are in turn provocative, emotive, and deeply satiric. Mashing up lexicons of Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, the recent financial meltdown, semiotic theory, Lady Gaga, Jacques Derrida, and Flickr streams, This Poem is a self-reflexive romp through fragments of post-consumer culture.
POETRY September A Paperback Original 5¾ x 8¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-88922-699-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-723-1 W

Poet and cultural theorist Adeena Karasick has written seven books of poetry and poetic theory. She currently teaches global literature at St. John’s University.

Investigates contemporary culture and our technomediatic-saturated world in a self-reflexive romp through fragments of post-consumer culture.

Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Talonbooks Theogony / Works and Days
Hesiod
Translated by C.S. Morrissey
C.S. Morrissey’s brilliant translations bring a modern sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod’s two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy. Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and recollects how Zeus established his cosmic reign of justice. Works and Days examines the two-fold role of competition in life, what Hesiod calls “the bad strife” and “the good strife” and how they affect our struggle to maintain order in the wake of chaos and the primeval void. C.S. Morrissey is a professor of philosophy at Trinity Western University.
POETRY September A Paperback Original 5 x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-88922-700-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-724-8 W

Translator Hometown: Vancouver, BC

Theogony adapts Hesiod’s two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy.

Fronteras Americanas
American Borders Second Edition

Guillermo Verdecchia
Fueled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, Fronteras Americanas recreates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Guillermo Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. This Governor General’s Award–winning play, first published in 1993, was updated for its 2011 Soulpepper Theatre (Toronto) run, taking into account new economic relations and new material realities in which border questions are expressed. Guillermo Verdecchia has won the Governor General’s Award and four Chalmers Canadian Play Awards.
DRAMA September 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-705-7 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-88922-383-7 eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-727-9 W

Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Plays with caricatures in reverse by making “gringos” and “WASPs” the objects of ridicule.

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Talonbooks Seeds
Annabel Soutar

Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question are the ethics of patenting genetically modified food crops. The play takes us back to the seminal moment when a single farmer stood up to international agribusiness and almost won.
DRAMA October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-88922-701-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-725-5 W

Annabel Soutar is artistic director of Porte Parole, a Montreal theater company dedicated to creating and producing original documentary plays about contemporary social and political issues.

Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict while penetrating the complex science of genetically modified crops.

Author Hometown: Montreal, QC

In Absentia
Morris Panych

Four seasons after her husband Tom’s disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage, waiting for word, or perhaps even more significantly, a connection. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake—a sign? She emerges to give him her husband’s parka—strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. A moving story of vanished love enlivened by Morris Panych’s trademark humor. Morris Panych has twice won the Governor General’s Award for Drama. His classic 7 Stories ranks ninth among the ten best-selling plays in Canada, outselling the Coles version of Romeo & Juliet.

DRAMA September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-88922-702-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-727-9 W

A riveting mystery and moving story of vanished love brought to light by Morris Panych’s trademark humor.

Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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Telegram Books The Whispering Muse
Sjón
Translated by Victoria Cribb

“An extraordinary, powerful fable—a marvel.”—Alberto Manguel “Sjón writes like a man under a spell, filled with enchantment and magic and great wit. He is a rogue of the first order.”—Keith Donohue The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the singular good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel, the Argo, on the Argonauts’ quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Sjón is a celebrated poet, novelist, and songwriter. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages, and include From the Mouth of the Whale and The Blue Fox (both Telegram Books). In 2005 Sjón won the Nordic Council Literary Prize, the equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, for The Blue Fox and Best Icelandic Novel for The Whispering Muse. Sjón has written lyrics for Björk, including for her most recent musical project, Biophilia. He lives in Reykjavik, Iceland. Victoria Cribb lived in Iceland for many years. She now lives in England, where she is completing a PhD in Old Icelandic literature at the University of Cambridge. Her translations include three novels in collaboration with Olaf Olafsson.
An ode to storytelling, The Whispering Muse evokes a time gone by with wit and verve.

FICTION October 5 x 7⅞ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-84659-124-2 USC

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Selected Backlist from Telegram Books

The Fall of the Imam
Nawal El Saadawi
5 x 8 | 202 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-84659-062-7 USC

Chingiz Aïtmatov
FICTION 5 x 8 | 196 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-84659-032-0 USC

Jamilia

For Bread Alone
Translated by Paul Bowles
FICTION 5 x 8 | 169 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $18.00 978-1-84659-010-8 USC

Mohamed Choukri

Mischa Hiller
5 x 7¾ | 231 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-84659-093-1 USC

Sabra Zoo

Translated by George Szirtes
FICTION 5 x 8 | 279 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84659-034-4 USC

Ferenc Karinthy

Metropole

Mohamed Choukri
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5 x 7⅞ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-84659-061-0 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Once
Enda Walsh Music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

“A jewel box of a musical: small, delicate, brimming with emotion and charm.” —Vogue “It may sound like heresy to fans of the 2006 film, but this bewitching stage adaptation arguably improves on the movie, expanding its emotional breadth and elevating it stylistically while remaining true to the original’s raw fragility.”—Hollywood Reporter Retaining the film’s popular music and lyrics, acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh adapts this charming tale of a complicated romance between an Irish street musician and a young Czech immigrant for the stage. A hit musical OffBroadway, Once premiered on Broadway in spring 2012 to rave reviews. Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Awardwinning plays, including Penelope, The Walworth Farce, and The New Electric Ballroom. He also co-wrote the film Hunger, which won the Camera d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová are the stars and songwriters of the 2006 film Once, for which they won an Academy Award for Best Song. The two comprise the musical folk-rock duo The Swell Season, which is currently touring the United States. A documentary film of the duo, The Swell Season, was an official selection of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Hansard is also a member of the Irish band The Frames and Irglová is a classically trained Czech pianist and vocalist.
A celebrated new musical based on the Academy Award–winning film.

DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-421-8 US

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The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom Enda Walsh DRAMA 5⅜ x 8 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-354-9 US The Small Things and Other Plays Enda Walsh DRAMA 5⅜ x 8½ | 252 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55936-403-4 US

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Theatre Communications Group Seventy-Five Seventy-Four Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write
Sarah Ruhl
“One of the country’s brightest playwrights. . . . Ms. Ruhl’s unmistakable voice is poetic and quirky, underpinned with serious feeling and even more serious intelligence.”—The New York Times “Ruhl has a mind of literary elasticity . . . that confirms the emergence of a fresh and provocative voice that the theatre desperately needs.”—The Washington Post Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama playwright Sarah Ruhl offers up seventy-four reflections on the world of theater. Touching on everything from literary influences and privacy to swordfights, crickets, and umbrellas, Ruhl’s short “essays” are thoughtful examinations of what plays were, are, and could be. A humorous, provocative, and personal glimpse into her unique mind, this delightful tome is an easy read that proves difficult to forget. Sarah Ruhl’s plays include In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passion Play, The Clean House (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn prize), Dean Man’s Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play), Demeter in the City (nominated for nine NAACP awards), Eurydice, Melancholy Play, Late: a cowboy song, and Orlando. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship, and is a three-time Tony Award nominee. She is the most produced female playwright over the past five years, and her plays have premiered on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in many theaters around the world.
A candid and charming collection of musings from one of the theater’s most celebrated and imaginative writers.

PERFORMING ARTS December A Paperback Original 4¾ x 7½ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55936-424-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-719-6 W

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The Clean House and Other Plays Sarah Ruhl DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 436 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55936-266-5 US In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) Sarah Ruhl DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 978-1-55936-360-0 US

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Theatre Communications Group The Adventures of Eugene Lee
Eugene Lee
Introduction by Oskar Eustis Afterword by Lorne Michaels
“This is a beautiful overview of the mind and spirit of Eugene Lee. It’s messy, unpretentious, spontaneous and full of joy—an utterly original designer who has worked successfully in more venues, mediums and esthetics than any scenic designer in American history.”—Oskar Eustis “Over the years whenever I felt the show [Saturday Night Live] has lost something, a feeling that we have wandered off our original principles—I turn to Eugene to restore the balance. He is the keeper of the flame with me—the true heart of the show.”—Lorne Michaels The Adventures of Eugene Lee takes us through the personal artistic journey of one of the major scenic designers of our time, with stops along the way in Rhode Island; NBC studios; Broadway; Texas; London; Alberta, Canada; and The Great Karoo, South Africa. Designed by Lee himself, this autobiographical scrapbook is illustrated with hundreds of photographs, sketches, diagrams, and models from his personal archives. It also provides an inside look at numerous collaborations with some of theater’s major artists and Lee’s designs for SNL and theater productions including Wicked, Ragtime, Show Boat, Candide, and Sweeney Todd. There are side trips and stories as well, covering his beloved sailboats, VW bug, carriage house design studio, and even his “flops.” Eugene Lee has been Saturday Night Live’s production designer since 1974 and resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. An adjunct professor at Brown University, Lee has received numerous awards, including three Tony Awards, American Theatre Wing’s Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Elliot Norton Award, Pell Award, and an induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
A one-of-a-kind illustrated autobiography of one of the theater’s foremost designers.

PERFORMING ARTS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY March A Paperback Original 12 x 9 | 280 pp 200 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $30.00 978-1-55936-420-1 US

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Theatre Communications Group After the Revolution and 4000 Miles
Two Plays

Amy Herzog

“After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences.”—Variety “A funny, moving new play . . . 4000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it’s hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog’s altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful, moment by moment, in death’s discomforting shadow.”—The New York Times Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance humor and insight, Amy Herzog is swiftly emerging as a striking new voice in the American theater. After the Revolution, an astute and ironic drama about how society appropriates history for its own psychological needs, was heralded by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best New Plays of 2010. Herzog’s other critical hit, 4000 Miles, is a quiet rumination on mortality in which twenty-one-yearold Leo seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her New York apartment.
DRAMA December A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-422-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-716-5 W

Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her newest play, Belleville, premiered at Yale Rep in fall 2011.

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Two plays by “one of the brightest new talents in the theatre” (The New York Times).

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Theatre Communications Group Don’t Start Me To Talking . . .
The Selected Plays

John O’Neal

“Nearly five decades of on-the-job training have equipped O’Neal with the skills and charm of a master storyteller.”—The Drama Review “A dramatic tale spinner with a canny sense of humor and a winning, engaging stage presence. . . . O’Neal’s shows mix folksiness, a sophisticated sense of theatricality and astute observation that are a pleasure to watch.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer Artist and activist John O’Neal is best known for his Junebug Jabbo Jones cycle of plays, a remarkable collection of tales and anecdotes drawn from African American oral literature, which he has performed all over the globe. Four of these plays are included in this volume, along with four of O’Neal’s other works: large-scale ensemble productions, first performed by his ensemble company Junebug Productions, as well as in collaboration with A Travelling Jewish Theater (San Francisco, California), Roadside Theater (Kentucky), and Pregones Theater (Bronx, New York). John O’Neal co-founded the Free Southern Theater in 1963 as a cultural arm of the southern Civil Rights movement, as well as Junebug Productions, a professional African American arts organization in New Orleans. For FST, O’Neal worked as a field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and worked as national field program director with the Committee for Racial Justice. He has written eighteen plays, a musical comedy, poetry, and several essays, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, France, and Scandinavia. He is the recipient of the Award of Merit from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the United States Artists Award, and a Ford Foundation Award.
A collection of eight plays by the acclaimed performer and civil rights activist John O’Neal.

DRAMA / SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55936-419-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-717-2 W

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Theatre Communications Group Theatre for Beginners
Richard Maxwell

“The reigning (and often brilliant) king of enervation in experimental theatre . . . one of the few truly original experimental theater auteurs to emerge in New York during the past decade.”—The New York Times “A downtown writer and director with a distinctive deadpan aesthetic.” —Time Out New York “His work is troubling. . . . But the trouble is intriguing and fruitful in itself, and therefore worth having.”—The Village Voice Richard Maxwell, the downtown writer and director with a deadpan aesthetic and an ever-innovative body of work, has written a quasi-study guide to the art of making theater according to his “affecting affectless technique” (The New York Times). This illuminating volume will provide students and artists with a deeper understanding of Maxwell’s work, aesthetic philosophy, and process for creating theater. Richard Maxwell is a playwright and program director living in New York. He was a founder of the Cook County acting at Illinois State University in Chicago, and he is now the artistic director of New York City Players and a resident writer at New Dramtists. Maxwell has received a number of awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and OBIE Award. His plays have been commissioned and presented in over sixteen countries, including Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, and Australia.
A unique meditation on the art and practice of theater from one of its most original thinkers and practitioners.

PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original 4¾ x 7½ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55936-423-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-718-9 W

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Plays, 1996–2000 (Maxwell) Richard Maxwell DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS 5½ x 8½ | 340 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55936-228-3 US

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Theatre Communications Group The Oberon Book of Contemporary American Plays: Volume One
Edited by Mark Subias
This new volume brings together plays from four of the best young artists on the contemporary American playwriting scene. Includes: Kin by Bathsheba Doran, Middletown by Will Eno, Completeness by Itamar Moses, and God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz, with introductions written by Christopher Durang, Tracy Letts, Doug Wright, and Edward Albee.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 400 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-153-8 USC

The Bomb
A Partial History

Ron Hutchinson, Lee Blessing, Diana Son, et. al
A collection of plays from Tricycle Theatre and leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the nuclear bomb and its proliferation over the last seventy years. Includes plays by John Donnelly, Elena Gremina, Amit Gupta, Zinnie Harris, Ron Hutchinson, Lee Blessing, Ryan Craig, David Greig, Diana Son, and Colin Teevan.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-152-1 USC

One Man, Two Guvnors
U.S. Edition

Richard Bean
Richard Bean’s retelling of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters ranks among the funniest and most celebrated plays in recent memory. After delighting British audiences and winning multiple Best New Play awards, Bean’s riotous comedy arrives in America. This edition was specially revised for the April 2012 Broadway premiere.
DRAMA | Available Now | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 | 978-1-84943-384-6 USC

BALL and Other Funny Stories About Cancer
Brian Lobel
A trilogy of works that subvert the expectations created by well-known stories of cancer survivors and cancer martyrs. Sometimes inappropriate, often salacious, and always funny, honest, and open, US author Brian Lobel’s provocative plays have already been seen by thousands of international audiences.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-168-2 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Sweet William
Twenty Thousand Hours with Shakespeare

Michael Pennington
A unique, personal guide to William Shakespeare’s life and plays told through the experience of a leading classical actor. Michael Pennington illuminates each of Shakespeare’s plays with his own considerable understanding of the theater then and now, and the result is an insightful examination of the man and his work.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 362 pp Trade Cloth SP US $40.95 | 978-1-85459-568-3 US

Shakespeare’s Lost Play
In Search of Cardenio

Gregory Doran
Many believe Cardenio, a play “lost” for centuries, to be the work of England’s greatest dramatist. Gregory Doran, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new director, takes the reader on a fascinating search through the fog of literary history on his quest to discover and stage a missing masterpiece.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 8½ x 12½ | 288 pp Trade Paper SP US $30.95 | 978-1-84842-208-7 US

How Musicals Work
And How To Write Your Own

Julian Woolford
This invaluable inside account, written by a writer and director of many successful musicals, is jam-packed with great advice, information, and exercises designed to help new musicals reach their full potential. It’s the ultimate guide to what to do and not do when you’re putting your show together.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 320 pp Trade Paper SP US $26.95 | 978-1-84842-175-2 US

So You Want to Be in Musicals?
Ruthie Henshall and Daniel Bowling
Celebrated actress Ruthie Henshall has starred on Broadway and the West End in Chicago, Les Misérables, Cats, and Oliver! among others. She brings her extraordinary knowledge and personal experiences to this insider account of how to make it in this very tough business. An essential guide to turning dreams into reality.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-150-9 US

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Theatre Communications Group The Golden Rules of Acting
Andy Nyman
This honest, truthful, and witty collection covers everything an actor should know about how to succeed—and stay sane—in show business. Derived from Andy Nyman’s vast experience in film, television, and theater, The Golden Rules of Acting is an accessible, invaluable treasure trove of advice that no performer should be without.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper SP US $12.95 | 978-1-84842-253-7 US

The Acting Book
John Abbott

The third of John Abbott’s essential guides to acting introduces young actors to the best performance techniques, old and new. What more can any aspiring actor want than a three-year course presented in just one volume? The Acting Book is an essential tool for aspiring actors, professionals, and educators.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Paper SP US $22.95 | 978-1-84842-144-8 US

Gielgoodies!
The Wit and Wisdom of John Gielgud

Jonathan Croall
Foreword by Simon Callow
Sir John Gielgud’s biographer reveals the lesser known side of the legendary actor: his lightning wit, love of scandal and gossip, wicked put-downs, and bawdy humor. Compiled from extensive interviews and unpublished letters, Gielgoodies! is a fascinating celebration that brings this merry and much-loved icon vividly to life.
PERFORMING ARTS | December | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 120 pp Trade Cloth SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-84943-448-5 USC

Royal Ballet Yearbook 2012/13
The Royal Ballet
The newest edition of the Royal Ballet Yearbook follows on the success of the previous editions. Featuring lavish photographs of last season, a special preview of the upcoming season, and lively and informative articles, this yearbook is an essential and richly illustrated companion to the Royal Ballet.
PERFORMING ARTS | November | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 9⅝ x 9⅝ | 96 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper SP US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 | 978-1-84943-207-8 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Oil and Water
Robert Chafe

The incredible true story of Lanier Phillips, the sole African American sailor aboard the USS Truxton, who finds an unexpected home when a 1944 shipwreck grounds him on the coast of Newfoundland. A tale of two cultures, Oil and Water is a hopeful and haunting legend that resonates deeply.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-066-9 US

The List
Jennifer Tremblay
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
A neglected favor sets in motion a series of events that end in tragedy, and a woman finds herself haunted by regret. Jennifer Tremblay’s play, winner of a 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award, is brought vividly to life in this celebrated new translation.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 72 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-080-5 US

Penny Plain
Ronnie Burkett

A new play from one of the world’s most acclaimed and inventive puppeteers. Humanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait. An unexpected cast of characters pay her visits, struggling to escape from the hostile world outside, in this strange and spellbinding play.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-047-8 US

Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily
Joanna McClelland Glass

A candid portrait of two elderly women, written by a Tony-nominated writer. As Mrs. Dexter and her longtime housekeeper prepare to part ways, they confront the hardships of the past and their fears about the future, and discover that they may have more in common than they ever expected.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-057-7 US

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Theatre Communications Group Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens, Volume 2
Edited by Sarah Bernstein and Gabriella Miyares
From the company that brought you Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Teens comes a brand-new collection of unique and compelling monologues, carefully chosen to help savvy actors shine at auditions and get the part.
PERFORMING ARTS | October | A Paperback Original | Playscripts, Inc. | 5⅜ x 8½ | 150 pp Trade Paper SP US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-9819099-9-8 USC

Twist of Gold
Simon Reade
Adapted from Michael Morpurgo
An epic adventure adapted from the novel by Michael Murpurgo, author of War Horse. When famine grips Ireland, Sean and Annie’s only chance of survival is to find their father. They embark upon a long and dangerous journey to America, with only Annie’s golden necklace to protect them.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-206-1 USC

Shakespeare Made French
Three Tragedies by Jean-François Ducis

Jean-François Ducis
An exciting collection of Jean-François Ducis’ radical reworkings of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, penned on the eve of the French Revolution. Following the rules of French neoclassicism, the result is a trio of almost totally different works. Plays included are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliette, and King Lear.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications | 6¼ x 9⅛ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9846160-3-9 USC

Edited with a translation by Marvin Carlson

Plays for Today By Women
Edited by Cheryl Robson

An anthology of six new and award-winning plays by female playwrights. Includes: Yours Abundantly by Gillian Plowman, From the Mouths of Mothers by Amanda Stuart Fisher, Welcome to Ramallah by Sonja Linden, River of Fire by Rukshana Ahmad, Making Capital by Clare Bayley, and Secret by Caroline Hume.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Aurora Metro Press | 5¾ x 8¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper SP US $28.95 | 978-1-906582-11-1 US

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Theatre Communications Group A Walk in the Woods
Lee Blessing
“A work of passion and power with the ring of political truth.”—Time “A minor miracle.”—New York Magazine A powerful and startling play about US and Soviet arms negotiators battling for supremacy from beloved American playwright Lee Blessing.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-181-1 USC

In Depth Acting
Dee Cannon
Leading acting coach Dee Cannon offers a methodical and systematic approach to tackling the Stanislavski technique. This essential handbook guides the reader through the various stages of auditioning, advises actors on how to approach a part once they’ve landed it, and steers them toward making strong, imaginative choices.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 254 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-232-0 USC

Modern Voice
Working with Actors on Contemporary Text

Catherine Weate
This follow-up to Catherine Weate’s successful Classic Voice focuses on the challenges of speaking contemporary texts. Think there isn’t as much to work on vocally when you approach a modern-day script? Think again. Weate offers up a myriad of ideas for exploring the demands of contemporary texts and rhythms.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 244 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-171-2 USC

The Role of Women in Theatre
Janet Suzman
Acclaimed actress Dame Janet Suzman conducts a fascinating re-appraisal of women’s roles. Suzman, who has played numerous iconic stage heroines herself, examines women’s roles and their impact on present day audiences and society as a whole. The Role of Women in Theatre is the latest addition to the Oberon Masters series.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | Oberon Books | Oberon Masters Series | 5 x 8¼ | 140 pp Trade Cloth SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-84943-201-6 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Inventing the Truth
Devising and Directing for the Theatre

Mike Bradwell
An accessible insider’s guide to creating a play from scratch, from the awardwinning author of The Reluctant Escapologist. Mike Bradwell serves up a clear and precise analysis of how an improvised play is put together, and how those same techniques can be invaluable even when working on a scripted play.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 208 pp Trade Paper SP US $22.95 | 978-1-84842-153-0 US

Travelling Light
Nicholas Wright
A funny and fascinating tribute to the European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s Golden Age, from award-winning dramatist Nicholas Wright. Set in 1900 in the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and 1940s Hollywood, Travelling Light is a delightful comedy-drama about revolutionary storytelling and the cost of fulfilling one’s dreams, fresh from its premiere at The National Theatre.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-247-6 US

The Heresy of Love
Helen Edmundson
Sister Juana writes dazzling plays, but her freedom of expression is threatened when a new archbishop arrives at her seventeenth-century convent. This epic play, first seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company, is a complex portrait of a nation and church in crisis and a unique look at the struggle for women’s rights in a restrictive society.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-239-1 US

Written on the Heart
David Edgar
Two men, eighty years apart, translate God’s word into the English tongue. For one, it could mean death at the stake; for the other, an archbishop’s mitre. David Edgar’s historical drama, seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company and on the West End, marks the King James Bible’s four hundredth anniversary and explores biblical translation, religious ideals, and the price of social peace.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-207-0 US

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Theatre Communications Group Brothel #9
Anusree Roy

Two men strike a deal, and Rekha, a young village woman, suddenly finds herself sold into prostitution. Confined to a Calcutta brothel, Rekha must learn to shape her own identity in this provocative and moving play about the human spirit’s ability to triumph in the face of corruption and suffering.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-041-6 US

The Romeo Initiative
Trina Davies
When Karin meets Markus, she can hardly believe her luck—perhaps with good reason. Equal parts romantic comedy and spy thriller, The Romeo Initiative follows a West German government secretary as she investigates her suspicions about her new boyfriend, who may have come from East Germany with ulterior motives.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 120 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-053-9 US

The Children’s Republic
Hannah Moscovitch

A violin prodigy, a troublemaker, a young abandoned girl, and a malnourished boy struggle to survive in a Warsaw ghetto orphanage under the watchful eye of a kindly doctor. Together they fight for beauty and hope, but the approaching war may be too great for them to overcome.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-060-7 US

The Cure for Everything
Maja Ardal

Elsa is fifteen. Her world revolves around independence, boys, and being popular at school, despite growing concerns surrounding the Cuban missile crisis. Knee-deep in teenage angst, Elsa is old enough to feel the tense political climate, but young enough to believe there might be a cure for everything.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-050-8 US

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Theatre Communications Group Queer Voices
Neil Bartlett
In this unique and original series of monologues, acclaimed and outspoken playwright Neil Bartlett returns to the radical queer cultural roots that brought him to prominence in the early 1980s. A vivid, fierce, and tender collection of highly actable new works from one of British theater’s most idiosyncratic voices.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-166-8 USC

The Girl I Left Behind Me
Neil Bartlett and Jessica Walker
What is it that makes women in trousers so appealing? A provocative, flirtatious, personal one-woman guide through musical theater and the tradition of cross-dressing female protagonists. Jessica Walker’s one-woman show, written with Neil Bartlett, conjures up an entire cross-dressing history, from Victorian musical halls to Mozart to the Harlem Renaissance.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-197-2 USC

The Riots
Gillian Slovo
From tweets by taxi drivers to accounts by riot police, The Riots builds a realtime picture of London’s 2011 summer riots. Through interviews with politicians, law enforcement, teachers, lawyers, community leaders, victims, and onlookers, The Riots analyzes what happened, why it happened, and what can be done.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-199-6 USC

Wittenberg
David Davalos
Join the jury as two of history’s most stubborn intellectuals go head-to-head in an entertaining battle of reason versus faith. This smart, audacious comedy from American David Davalos centers on a fictitious meeting between university colleagues Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther and their student, Hamlet. A sparkling celebration of history, language, academia, and religion.
DRAMA | January | Oberon Books | 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-212-2 USC

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Theatre Communications Group The Last of the Duchess
Nicholas Wright
Adapted from Caroline Blackwood
A thoughtful and funny glimpse into the final days of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, based on Caroline Blackwood’s best-selling book of the same name. The Last of the Duchess is an elegy for a lost age, and a careful exploration of what it once was to be an icon.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 98 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-206-3 US

The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan’s greatest play is a masterpiece of twentieth century drama. First performed in 1952, The Deep Blue Sea was inspired by the suicide of a young actor whom Rattigan had loved. This edition was reissued to coincide with Terence Davies’ 2011 film version, a highly acclaimed cinematic triumph.
DRAMA | Available Now | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | 978-1-84842-234-6 US

Making Noise Quietly
Robert Holman

A renowned trilogy that examines the violent impact of war on ordinary lives. Poetic and deeply affecting, this triptych is a subtle meditation on the humanity that unites us all in times of suffering, and is widely regarded as a modern classic. Includes Being Friends, Lost, and Making Noise Quietly.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-248-3 US

Mary Shelley
Helen Edmundson
Renowned ensemble Shared Experience and acclaimed playwright Helen Edmundson combine forces on this astonishing play about one of history’s most extraordinary women. Mary Shelley explores the title character’s remarkable life, from her scandalous teenage elopement to her authorship of Frankenstein—the radical novel that changed the literary landscape forever.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-257-5 US

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Theatre Communications Group Priestley: Plays Three
J.B. Priestley

The third volume of J.B. Priestley plays from Oberon includes a fascinating trio of plays, all written between 1938 and 1940, a creative period in Priestley’s career that was interrupted by war. All three plays (Music at Night, The Long Mirror, and Ever Since Paradise) demonstrate Priestley’s fascination with time.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper SP US $31.95 | CAN $34.99 | 978-1-84943-248-1 USC

Royal Opera House Guidebook
Royal Opera House
This is the first-ever guide to the magnificently rebuilt Royal Opera House, filled with color illustrations and photographs and packed with facts and littleknown anecdotes. A must-have guide for anyone visiting the Opera House, home of the Royal Ballet, and for all fans of this brilliant company.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 110 color and B&W photographs Trade Paper SP US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 | 978-1-84943-167-5 USC

White Hart, Red Lion
Nick Asbury
A unique geographical exploration of William Shakespeare’s eight history plays, from Richard II to Henry V to Richard III. Nick Asbury explores the places and personalities that were so crucial to the telling of Shakespeare’s epic histories and offers unique insight into why Shakespeare still means so much to us today.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 198 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-241-2 USC

Tanika Gupta: Political Plays
Tanika Gupta

The first collection of plays by acclaimed British dramatist Tanika Gupta, who offers a fresh perspective on race relations, generational divide, and sexual politics. Includes White Boy, Sugar Mummies, Sanctuary, and Gladiator Games.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-84943-247-4 USC

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Theatre Communications Group The Kitchen Sink
Tom Wells
This irresistibly funny and tender new play, about big dreams and small changes, has already garnered the inaugural Simon Gray Award and the London Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. The Kitchen Sink is a family comedy about dreams, drama, and dirty dishes. Also includes the monologue Spacewang.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-222-3 US

Bang Bang Bang
Stella Feehily
Irish playwright Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing new play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists, and NGOs. Inspired by a two-week workshop in which the creative team interviewed aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists, and photographers.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-211-7 US

truth and reconciliation
debbie tucker green
A hard-hitting, provocative new play from one of the United Kingdom’s leading writers. From Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia, answers are demanded, reconciliation is hard to hear, and truth is rarely told. This bold drama sets out to inspire serious reflection by confronting, shocking, and unsettling audiences.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-172-1 US

Goodbye to All That
Luke Norris

This tender and heartfelt debut play from acclaimed young actor Luke Norris (War Horse) asks whether it’s ever too late to start all over again. When David, seventeen, discovers that his grandfather is having an affair behind his grandmother’s back, he begins to interfere in his grandparents’ lives.
DRAMA | September | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-259-9 US

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Theatre Communications Group New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays
Edited by Roberta Barker and Kim Solga
A collection of contemporary Canadian plays. Includes Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s Still Stands the House, Trey Anthony’s ’da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan’s Miss Julie: Sheh’mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem’s La Maculées Tain, Hillar Liitoja’s The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendour series, Theatre Replacement’s BIOBOXES, and Zuppa Theatre’s Penny Dreadful.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 6 x 9 | 400 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | 978-1-77091-073-7 US

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs and Thinking of Yu
Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Two plays from the award-winning French Canadian playwright and her acclaimed translator. In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to a mysterious and forbidden room. Thinking of Yu follows a woman who becomes fascinated by a creative rebellion in Tiananmen Square.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 144 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-056-0 US

Provence
People, Places, Food: A Cultural Guide

Martin N. Gilbert
An essential guide for any culture-conscious traveler heading to Provence, full of color photographs and authentic local recipes. Take the road less traveled as you find out more about the extraordinary range of places and people who’ve found inspiration in the mountains and valleys, rocky coves and verdant islands.
TRAVEL | September | A Paperback Original Aurora Metro Press | 5⅜ x 8½ | 288 pp | Color photographs throughout Trade Paper SP US $22.95 | 978-1-906582-33-3 US

Edited by Cheryl Robson

Kipling & Trix
Mary Hamer
An award-winning novel that delves into the little-known life of Alice “Trix” Kipling, sister to the famous Rudyard. Mary Hamer’s debut novel peeks into the shadows cast by a literary legend and explores lies, love, troubles, and family secrets, set against the backdrops of colonial India, Edwardian England, and Vermont.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | Aurora Metro Press | 5 x 7¾ | 256 pp Trade Paper SP US $22.95 | 978-1-906582-34-0 US

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Theatre Communications Group Roadkill
Cora Bissett and Stef Smith
A powerful and award-winning account of the terrifying complexities of contemporary sex trafficking, based on real experiences. This explosive, multimedia story of a young woman trapped in a living nightmare combines direct, chilling performances with video and animation to create a site-specific experience that is both intimate and immersive.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-198-9 USC

Dracula and Frankenstein
Two Horror Plays

Bryony Lavery and Lisa Evans
Two classic horror tales, updated for the twenty-first century and adapted by two of Britain’s leading playwrights. Bryony Lavery’s Dracula promises to scare audiences while enthralling them with spectacle and breathtaking magic. Lisa Evans’ Frankenstein, framed from a modern perspective, raises questions about just who the monster really is.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 160 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-84943-185-9 USC

Sancho
An Act of Remembrance

Paterson Joseph
This one-hander tells the true story of Charles Ignatius Sancho, who became the first black person of African origin to vote in Britain. Full of surprising, moving, and funny twists, Sancho is the story of a man who dared to act, write, sing, dance, and voice his political opinion with wit and charm.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-149-1 USC

Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister
Rebecca Peyton and Martin M. Bartelt

Rebecca Peyton, the younger sister of a BBC journalist murdered in Somalia, offers up a funny, heartfelt play about death and other taboos. In this political and personal, one-woman account of life after Kate, Peyton crafts a moving and often comic tapestry of private moments out of a public tragedy.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-84943-186-6 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Boys
Ella Hickson

A thrilling exploration of the gray area between childhood and adulthood, from one of playwriting’s hottest young talents. Funny and bleak in equal measure, Boys offers a startling glimpse into a lost generation, following four new graduates who celebrate their impending adulthood with one hell of a party.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-262-9 US

Our New Girl
Nancy Harris

A witty and startling new psychological drama about the darker side of modern parenting from Susan Smith Blackburn Award finalist Nancy Harris (No Romance). When a professional nanny arrives, unsolicited, on her doorstep, Hazel suddenly finds her home falling under the shadow of a perfect stranger.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 152 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-223-0 US

Chalet Lines
Lee Mattinson
Can we ever really cut the apron string that ties us to our parents? This shockingly funny journey through five decades of family celebrations tackles the subject of teenage bullying with humor and complexity. When the Walker women reunite for Nana Barbara’s seventieth birthday, there’s plenty of dirty laundry to be aired.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-267-4 US

The Gatekeeper
Chloë Moss
In this dark comedy from one of Britain’s best young writers, long-forgotten secrets threaten a family get-together. Acutely observed and painfully funny, The Gatekeeper depicts the maddening aspects of family life, complete with sparkling dialogue that captures the endless conversations and annoying idiosyncrasies that drive us all up the wall.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-260-5 US

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The Life of Terence Rattigan Giles Cole
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-416-4 USC

Art of Concealment

Charles Morgan: Three Plays
Charles Morgan
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 4¾ x 7¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper SP US $31.95 | CAN $34.99 978-1-84943-182-8 USC

Ecstatic Bible
Howard Barker
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 332 pp Trade Paper SP US $33.95 | CAN $37.50 978-1-84943-417-1 USC

Behind the Curtain
Peter Bowles
PERFORMING ARTS September Oberon Books Oberon Masters Series 5⅜ x 8½ | 116 pp Trade Cloth SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-84943-215-3 USC

Children’s Children
Matthew Dunster
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-234-4 USC

A Few Man Fridays
Adrian Jackson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-218-4 USC

Black T-Shirt Collection
Inua Ellams
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-191-0 USC

Don Juan Comes Back from the War
Adapted by Duncan Macmillan
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-254-2 USC

Fit and Proper People
Georgia Fitch
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-229-0 USC

Ödön von Horváth

Blue Heart Afternoon
Nigel Gearing
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-139-2 USC

Double Nugget: Marymassacre & Seven Year Itch
Johnny McKnight
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-138-5 USC

Oliver Lansley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-214-6 USC

Flies

Ecologies of Theater
Bonnie Marranca
PERFORMING ARTS September PAJ Publications 5½ x 8½ | 292 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | CAN $22.99 978-1-55554-157-6 USC

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Foxfinder
Dawn King
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-244-5 US

Herding Cats
Lucinda Coxon
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-240-7 US

How to Think the Unthinkable
Based on Antigone Ryan Craig
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-432-4 USC

Arzhang Pezhman
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-154-5 USC

Gravity

Holly and Ivan’s Christmas Adventure
Oliver Lansley
JUVENILE FICTION September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-136-1 USC Ages 5 to 10

Oliver Lansley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-228-3 USC

The Infant

Roger Mortimer-Smith
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-202-3 USC

Guilty Secret

Horse Piss for Blood
Carl Grose
DRAMA September Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-238-2 USC

Tena Stivicic
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-236-0 US

Invisible

The Haunting
Adapted from Charles Dickens
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-215-5 US

Hugh Janes

Steven Canny and John Nicholson
Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-242-1 US

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Judgement Day
Adapted by Mike Poulton
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 64 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 978-1-84842-241-4 US

Henrik Ibsen

The House of Bernarda Alba
Translated with an introduction by Jo Clifford
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books Drama Classics 4¼ x 6¼ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $10.95 978-1-84842-181-3 US

Federico García Lorca

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Theatre Communications Group
Ladies in Lavender
Based on a short story by William J. Locke Adapted by Shaun McKenna
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-143-9 USC

Charles Dance

Marvellous Year for Plums
Hugh Whitemore
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-496-6 USC

The Mommiad
Sky Gilbert
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-063-8 US

Stacey Gregg
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-231-5 US

Lagan

Maxwell: Plays for Young People
Douglas Maxwell
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-84943-150-7 USC

Naylah Ahmed
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-264-3 US

Mustafa

Craig Higginson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-400-3 USC

Little Foot

May the Farce Be With You
Roger Foss
PERFORMING ARTS September Oberon Books Oberon Masters Series 5 x 8¼ | 160 pp Trade Cloth SP US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-84943-151-4 USC

Muswell Hill
Torben Betts
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-137-8 USC

Mad About the Boy
Gbolahan Obisesan
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-268-1 US

Three Early Jamaican Plays Edited by Yvonne Brewster
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper SP US $31.95 | CAN $34.99 978-1-84943-216-0 USC

Mixed Company

New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 2 Edited by Roberta Barker and Kim Solga
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.00 978-1-77091-072-0 US

New Canadian Realisms

Revised Edition Vivienne Franzmann
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-254-4 US

Mogadishu

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Our Brother David
Anthony Clark
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-250-4 USC

Pushkin’s Boris Godunov
Adapted from Alexander Pushkin
DRAMA January A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-255-9 USC

Adrian Mitchell

Rikki Beadle-Blair
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-213-9 USC

Shalom Baby!

Outward Bound
Sutton Vane
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-249-8 USC

Dennis Foon
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-037-9 US

Rick

Sixty Five Miles
Matt Hartley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-256-8 US

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Translated by Laurence Boswell
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-134-7 USC

The Phoenix of Madrid

Richard Shannon
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-246-7 USC

Sabbat

Will Adamsdale, Neil Haigh, Matthew Steer, and John Wright
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-175-0 USC

The Summer House

Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (or West End Girl)
Robert Chevara and Kfir Yefet
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-190-3 USC

The Servant of Two Masters
Translated by Stephen Mulrine
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books Drama Classics 4 x 6⅜ | 160 pp Trade Paper SP US $10.95 978-1-84842-193-6 US

Carlo Goldoni

Great Plays from the Indie Theatre Festival Edited by Michael Rubenfeld
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.00 978-0-88754-871-0 US

Summerworks

Sex with a Stranger
Stefan Golaszewski
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-255-1 US

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The Surprise of Love
Translated by Mike Alfreds
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-183-5 USC

Pierre de Marivaux

Tuesdays at Tesco’s
Translated by Matthew Hurt and Sarah Vermande
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 48 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-84842-225-4 US

Emmanuel Darley

who knew grannie
a dub aria ahdri zhina mandiela
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-069-0 US

Swallows and Amazons
Adapted from Arthur Ransome
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-237-7 US

Helen Edmundson and Neil Hannon

A British Bollywood Musical Tanika Gupta
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-187-3 USC

Wah! Wah! Girls

The Wind in the Willows
Adapted from Kenneth Grahame
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-148-6 US

Mike Kenny

Third Floor
Jason Hall
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-244-3 USC

We Are Three Sisters
Blake Morrison
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-214-8 US

Vivienne Franzmann
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-250-6 US

The Witness

The Tree of Knowledge
Jo Clifford
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-235-3 US

The Well and Badly Loved
A Queer Trilogy Ben Webb
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-170-5 USC

Wuthering Heights
Adapted from Emily Brontë
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-218-6 US

Lucy Gough

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Torrey House Press
Torrey, Utah

Torrey House Press is a publisher with a cause. We aim to increase awareness of and appreciation for the land, history, people, economy, and cultures of the American West through the power of pen and story. The world vacations in the numerous national parks, monuments, and wilderness areas of the American West. It’s an arid and sparsely populated country—harsh, wild, dramatic, beautiful, and delicate. These red rock deserts and mountain forests belong to the public: to all Americans as well as the people who live here. However, many of today’s land management practices remain tied to outdated legislation that perpetuates century-old customs that disrupt and damage the landscape. Even small changes of hearts, minds, and policies could make a big difference to the land and all the people who love it. Thus our slogan: Writing the New West. Torrey House publishes works that cultivate the West’s version of thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and the tradition of original western authors including Willa Cather, Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and today’s Brady Udall and Terry Tempest Williams. There is plenty of room for more such writers to tell the stories of the Colorado Plateau and the West, and Torrey House Press is here to help both published and new writers share their best fiction and literary nonfiction with the rest of the world. Given our desire to contribute to the betterment of both the ecology and the economy of the West, we donate two percent of Torrey House Press sales to a select group of not-for-profit environmental organizations. Donations also fund a scholarship available to upcoming writers at Western colleges. 2% to the West is our trademark logo, placed on the cover of each of our books, demonstrating our commitment.

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Torrey House Press The Ordinary Truth
Jana Richman

Praise for Jana Richman’s The Last Cowgirl: “Richman’s mastery of the emotional geography is illuminating. . . . Calls to mind the work of Pat Conroy.”—Kirkus Reviews When Nell Jorgensen buried her husband, she buried a piece of herself—and more than one secret. Now, thirty-six years later, the rift between Nell and her daughter Kate threatens to implode as Kate, a water manager for the Nevada Water Authority, plans to pipe water from a huge aquifer that lies beneath the family ranch to thirsty Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Nell’s granddaughter Cassie intends to unearth those old secrets and repair the resentments that grew in their place. Throughout the novel, sparse and beautiful landscapes surround an emotional wilderness of love, loss, and family. Jana Richman is the award-winning author of The Last Cowgirl (HarperCollins, 2009), a novel which won the 2009 Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. A sixth-generation Utahn, Jana was born and raised in Utah’s west desert, the daughter of a small-time rancher and a hand-wringing Mormon mother. With the exception of a few misguided years spent in New York City trying to make a fortune on Wall Street, she has lived her entire life west of the hundredth meridian. She writes about issues that threaten to destroy the essence of the west—and about passion, beauty, and love. Jana lives in Escalante, Utah.
Today’s western water wars and one family’s secrets divide three generations of women as urban and rural values collide.

FICTION November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 370 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-937226-06-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-14-5 USC

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • Promotion through: www.janarichman.com Author Hometown: Escalante, UT

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Torrey House Press Tributary
Barbara K. Richardson

Willa Cather and Sandra Dallas resonate in Barbara K. Richardson’s fearless portrait of 1870s Mormon Utah. This smart and lively novel tracks the extraordinary life of one woman who dares resist communal salvation in order to find her own. Clair Martin’s dauntless search for self leads her from the domination of Mormon polygamy to the chaos of Reconstruction Dixie and back to Utah where she learns from Shoshone Indian ways how to take her place, at last, in the land she loves. Barbara K. Richardson’s debut novel Guest House was an Eric Hoffer Award fiction finalist. She lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937226-04-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-12-1 W

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Promotion through: www.barbarakrichardson.com Author Hometown: Boulder, CO

A courageous young woman flees polygamy in 1870s Utah, but finds herself drawn back to the landscapes that shaped her.

Grind
Mark Maynard
Convicts round up wild mustangs, a schizophrenic homeless man wins the jackpot and disappears, a truck driver with a child’s mind spends his last hours in the embrace of a prostitute’s photographs—disparate and vivid, Mark Maynard’s characters intersect in the new wild west of Reno, Nevada.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | December | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8 | 180 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937226-03-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-11-4 W

Recapture
Erica Olsen
The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories—lyrical, deadpan, surreal—blur the line between the natural world and the world we make.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | October | A Paperback Original | 4¼ x 6⅞ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937226-05-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-13-8 W

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Recent & Recommended from Torrey House Press The Scholar of Moab
Steven L. Peck

A mysterious redactor finds the journals of Hyrum Thayne, a high-school dropout and wannabe scholar, who manages to wreak havoc among townspeople who are convinced he can save them from a band of mythic Book of Mormon thugs and Communists. Though he never admits it, the married Hyrum charms a sensitive poet claiming that aliens abducted her baby (is it Hyrum’s?) and philosophizes with Oxford-trained conjoined twins who appear to us as a two-headed cowboy. Steven L. Peck’s hilarious novel considers questions of consciousness and contingency, and the very way humans structure meaning.
FICTION / LITERARY COLLECTIONS Available Now 5¼ x 8 | 302 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937226-02-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-10-7 W

Steven L. Peck teaches evolutionary biology at Brigham Young University.

Philosophy meets satire, poetry, cosmology, and absurdity in this tragicomic brew of magical realism and 1970s rural Mormon Utah.

Author Hometown: Pleasant Grove, UT

Crooked Creek
Maximilian Werner
“In this deep measured prose is a western story, harsh and lush as the old world it depicts, showing once again that one of the natural laws of the wilderness . . . is violence. Just as wind and water shaped the stone, trouble shaped this family.”—Ron Carlson
FICTION | Available Now | 5¼ x 8 | 186 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937226-00-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-08-4 W

The Plume Hunter
Renée Thompson
Bird-watchers will love this journey back to the 1880s West Coast when vast populations of wild birds still filled the skies in annual migrations. But the birds were imperiled by plume hunters intent on personal fortune. This story of violence, love, and loss portrays the advent of the Audubon Society.
FICTION | Available Now | 5¼ x 8 | 274 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-937226-01-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-09-1 W

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Turtle Point Press A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
André Maurois

“Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds.”—Simon Van Booy André Maurois’ novella, published in the same year as Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who become shipwrecked on an uncharted South Seas Island and discover a race of literary zealots for whom every subject and feeling needs to be expressed as a form of literary art. As explained by Alberto Manguel, “An Articole will publish not only his Intimate Journal, but also his Journal of My Intimate Journal; and his wife will publish My Husband’s Journal of His Intimate Journal.”

FICTION October 5 x 7 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-1-933527-62-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933527-63-5 W

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A couple becomes shipwrecked on an island of literary zealots, a place where every subject and feeling deserves expression. Sound familiar?

The Drug of Choice
Christopher Cahill

“Christopher Cahill’s poems will keep you on your toes with their exciting mix of lust and formality, their happy shuffling together of curb-talk and cultured discourse. The selections in The Drug of Choice are a guaranteed buzz, and some are strong enough to get you off for days.”—Billy Collins “Christopher Cahill has reinvented the Roman erotic elegy for modern New York; lust, rage, and longing are given play in verse that ranges from the raw to the exquisitely formal.”—Ed Conlon The Drug of Choice is a lush and lacerating debut collection. Christopher Cahill’s poems are intensely seductive and inventively disquieting.
Marketing Plans
National print and online campaign POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933527-64-2 USC

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Chicago, IL • New Orleans, LA • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Burlington, VT Author Hometown: New York, NY

The welt, the welter, the long black veil of long black hair, sex—wedded and unwedded, the dead, New York City.

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Selected Backlist from Turtle Point Press

The Dead of the House
Hannah Green
FICTION 4¾ x 7 | 225 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $16.00 978-1-885983-07-7 USC

Nalda Said
Stuart David
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 152 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $18.00 978-1-885586-71-1 USC

Edward J. Delaney
FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 416 pp Trade Paper US $18.50 | CAN $20.50 978-1-933527-50-5 USC

Broken Irish

The Wilshire Sun
Joshua Baldwin
FICTION 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $10.50 | CAN $11.50 978-1-933527-46-8 USC

King Cophetua
Julien Gracq
FICTION 4¾ x 7¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $16.00 978-1-885586-86-5 USC

New and Selected Poems David Trinidad
POETRY 6 x 9½ | 512 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-1-933527-47-5 USC

Dear Prudence

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Two Dollar Radio Crapalachia
A Biography of a Place

Scott McClanahan

“McClanahan’s prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction. His delivery is guileless and his morality ambivalent and you get the sense, while reading him, that he is sitting next to you on a barstool, eating peanuts and drinking a beer, and intermittently getting up to pick a song on the jukebox.”—The Rumpus There were 13 of them. The children had names that ended in Y sounds. There was Betty and there was Annie and there was Stirley and there was Stanley and there was Leslie and there was Gary and there was Larry and there was Terry. Ruby said: “I like names that end in Y.” They all grew up in Danese, WV, eating blackberries for breakfast and eating blackberries for lunch and watching the snow come beneath the door in the wintertime. When Scott McClanahan was fourteen he went to live with his Grandma Ruby and his Uncle Nathan, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Crapalachia is a portrait of these formidable years, coming of age in rural West Virginia. Peopled by colorful characters and their quirky stories, Crapalachia interweaves oral folklore and area history, providing an ambitious and powerful snapshot of overlooked Americana. Scott McClanahan is the author of Stories II and Stories V! His fiction has appeared in BOMB, Vice, and New York Tyrant. His novel Hill William is forthcoming from Tyrant Books.
A colorful and elegiac coming-of-age story that announces Scott McClanahan as a resounding, lasting talent.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5½ x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper, Deckle Edge US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937512-03-3 USC

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpt in Harper Perennial’s 52 Stories

Author Events
Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • Ann Arbor, MI • Brooklyn, NY • New York, NY • Columbus, OH • Pittsburgh, PA • Charleston, WV Author Hometown: Rainelle, WV

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Two Dollar Radio The Other Side of the World
Jay Neugeboren

“[Neugeboren] might not be as famous as some of his compeers, like Philip Roth or John Updike, but it’s becoming increasingly harder to argue that he’s any less talented.”—Michael Schaub, Kirkus Reviews Charlie is a journeyman whose friend Nick convinces him to move to Singapore, where he falls in love with the vibrant and endangered world of nearby Borneo. One night, during a fight at a cocktail party in Singapore, Nick dies mysteriously, prompting Charlie to return to New England where he discovers that a former student has moved in with his father, Max, a former professor and source of unlimited sage expressions. Seana is a wildly successful and provocative writer who is equally wild and provocative in life. Together, she and Charlie set out on a road trip of resolution where “weird things happen if you make room for them.” From the lush forests of Borneo to coastal Maine, The Other Side of the World is a grand, episodic novel and another virtuosic performance by one of America’s most revered living writers
FICTION November A Paperback Original 5½ x 7½ | 282 pp Trade Paper, Deckle Edge US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-937512-02-6 USC

Jay Neugeboren is the author, most recently, of the novel 1940, and collection You Are My Heart and Other Stories. His previous novels have received the American Jewish Committee Award and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Tikkun, GQ, Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. He was the writer-in-residence for many years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and currently lives in New York City.
A seductive and intelligent novel of unlikely groupings and intrigue.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpt in Ploughshares

Author Events
Hartford, CT • Washington, DC • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • New York, NY Author Hometown: New York, NY

Also Available
1940 Jay Neugeboren FICTION 5¼ x 7½ | 284 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-0-9763895-6-9 USC You Are My Heart and Other Stories Jay Neugeboren FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper, Deckle Edge US $16.00 | CAN $19.00 978-0-9826848-8-7 USC

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Two Dollar Radio Frequencies
Vol. 1

Blake Butler, Joshua Cohen, Tracy Keaton, and Andy Bain
Illustrated by John Gagliano
From the essay “Open Sesame” by Joshua Cohen: A writer stands outside a story yelling, “Open Sesame!” and the story, as if a seed, opens. And treasure is found inside. That treasure, of course, is just another story, and it all begins again. From an interview with Anne Carson: comfort or the lack of it is not the point, thinking is the point to cause people to think is not easy to cause myself to think is not easy lack of ease generates a certain kind of alertness that is more alive to me Frequencies is a journal of creative or artful essays that aims to reconsider the current nonfiction prescription that is published biannually, in the fall and spring. Vol.1 features original work by Blake Butler on the disintegration of the mind, Joshua Cohen on the origins of the phrase “Open Sesame,” Tracy Keaton on groupie-dom and consumer culture, an excerpt from Scott McClanahan’s forthcoming memoir Crapalachia, and an interview with Anne Carson. Also included is Frequencies staple “Andy Bain’s Letters to Great Americans.” Frequencies: Vol.1 includes a letter from Christopher Hitchens in support of reinstating a revoked North Carolina Public Library card, and correspondence regarding Chalmers Johnson’s cat, Mof. Each issue features original cover artwork and interior illustrations by artist John Gagliano, whose design clients include Warner Music Group, Black Book Magazine, and the clothing line Unruly Heir.
Frequencies is a new biannual of creative essays, sharply illustrated by artist John Gagliano.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / SOCIAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 5½ x 7½ | 92 pp 6 color photographs, 5 color illustrations Trade Paper US $10.00 | CAN $10.99 978-1-937512-01-9 USC

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Advance reader copies • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Columbus, OH

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Selected Backlist from Two Dollar Radio

The People Who Watched Her Pass By
Scott Bradfield
FICTION 5¼ x 7½ | 162 pp Trade Paper US $14.50 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9820151-5-5 USC

Introduction by Erik Davis
FICTION 5⅜ x 7½ | 168 pp Trade Paper US $15.50 | CAN $17.00 978-0-9820151-2-4 USC

Rudolph Wurlitzer

Nog

The Drop Edge of Yonder
Rudolph Wurlitzer
FICTION 5⅜ x 7½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-0-9763895-5-2 USC

The Correspondence Artist
Barbara Browning
FICTION 5¼ x 7½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $18.95 978-0-9820151-9-3 USC

The Orange Eats Creeps
Introduction by Steve Erickson
FICTION 5¼ x 7½ | 208 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $18.95 978-0-9820151-8-6 USC

Grace Krilanovich

Stories From My Prison Life Xiaoda Xiao
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5¼ x 7½ | 274 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-0-9820151-7-9 USC

The Visiting Suit

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Tyrant Books
New York, New York

Though founded only recently in 2009, Tyrant Books has garnered the respect and the loyal fan base comparable to any cornerstone New York publishing house. Our taste is so well-defined that readers have begun seek out our releases without even having any knowledge of the writer or book. Our readers buy our books because they know what we publish, they love what we publish, and they know that we will continue to publish what they love, consistently. Tyrant Books operates as somewhat of a testing ground for today’s emerging writers, whose work is initially deemed too incendiary or avant garde for the more mainstream audiences and presses. However, we have proven with all of our releases that our titles can usurp the attention and praise from both prominent reviewers and major press. Our first novel, Firework, was featured in Vanity Fair. Our second novel, Us by Michael Kimball, was chosen by Oprah for her 2011 summer reading list. Our American readership flocked to the shelves and online sources to purchase these books, and are waiting for what we do next. In a market polarized between the indie press and the traditional powerhouse, Tyrant alone has traversed this gap—and is hailed by the industry and the American readership as the only independent press whose releases contain some of the best writing of the past decade. Eugene Marten’s Firework, for instance, has become an instant classic. Tyrant Books publishes what will last.

first season at Consortium

Tyrant Books Strange Cowboy
Lincoln Dahl Turns Five

Sam Michel

“Sam Michel is such a smart, manic, virtuosic stylist . . . the kind of deep insights that make you suddenly and newly appreciative of the world around you.” —George Saunders There was a hot, high sun, a hard ground and a long way off to any certain water, and my wife, a tenderfoot, I thought, not immodest, seemed bent on ruined feet and spectacle, on making of herself to passing innocents a living proof of what could happen to a man and woman ventured too far off alone together in the desert. Yet who passed? Who could be so innocent? Snakes and ravens, rabbits, buzzards, toads— these passed, these witnessed, and what could they have made from us? . . . I saw myself preceded by my wife. I wanted to follow her, feel what she felt; I thought that I might find myself absolved . . . Maybe I would get some. Somewhere in me was a cheerful voice assuring me that what this needed was our getting laid. Here is the head of his home—the one to speak, surely—on the occasion of his son Lincoln Dahl Jr.’s fifth birthday. Wife and mother order him to engage with his boy, but he remains in his chair dreaming up the speech he’ll give to convey his life and glory to his boy, meanwhile avoiding his child and all others, until forced from his chair. Here’s cowboy Beckett, a man of wonder and excess. Sam Michel is the author of Under the Light and Big Dogs and Flyboys.

FICTION November A Paperback Original 5⅛ x 7¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9850235-1-5 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • Excerpts on many online sites including www.htmlgiant.com • National print and online campaign • Outreach to all major print magazines and literary websites • Social media campaign • General tour info: a tour of New England and a tour through the southeast as part of Tyrant South with Sam Michel • Promotion through: www.nytyrant.com

From the author of Big Dogs and Flyboys and Under the Light, a novel of America and life.

Author Events
Washington, DC • Atlanta, GA • Oxford, LA • Baltimore, MD • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • Oxford, MS • New York, NY • Ashville, NC Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Tyrant Books Sky Saw
Blake Butler

“If there’s a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn’t.”—Dennis Cooper “Blake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel.”—Ben Marcus I could go on at what these days were but the truth is I am tired. Would you even believe me if I did or didn’t? Could this paper touch your face? I’ve spent enough years with my face arranged in books. I’ve read enough to crush my sternum. In each of the books are people talking, saying the same thing, their tongues thin and white and speckled. I don’t want to be here. I want to get older. I want to see my skin go folding over. Someday I plan to die. Books that reappear when you destroy them, lampshades made of skin, people named with numbers and who can’t recall each other, a Universal Ceiling constructed by an otherwise faceless authority, a stairwell stuffed with birds: the terrain and populace of Sky Saw is packed with stroboscopic memory mirage. In dynamic sentences and image, Blake Butler crafts a post-Lynchian nightmare where space and family have deformed, leaving the human persons left in the strange wake to struggle after the shapes of both what they loved and who they were. Blake Butler is the author of Ever, Scorch Atlas, There Is No Year, and Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia. He is the editor of the literary blog HTMLGIANT.
Another disturber from the author of Nothing and There Is No Year.
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FICTION November A Paperback Original 5⅛ x 7¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9850235-0-8 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies Excerpts on: www.htmlgiant.com National print and online campaign Social media campaign General tour info: a tour of New England and a tour through the southeast as part of Tyrant South with Blake Butler • Promotion through: www.htmlgiant.com and www.gillesdeleuzecommittedsuicideand sowilldrphil.com

Author Events
Atlanta, GA • New Orleans, LA • Baltimore, MD • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • Oxford, MS • New York, NY • Ashville, NC Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Recent & Recommended from Tyrant Books Firework
Eugene Marten

Praise for Eugene Marten’s Waste: “When a poet pal had put a copy of Waste into my hands, I right away went nuts. . . . Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half.” —Gordon Lish Firework is the story of a man who, though ill-equipped to help himself, attempts to help someone else, and the beautifully rendered, perhaps necessary catastrophe that results. Unequaled in intensity and often blackly humorous, it is also an exhilarating expression of the all-too-human impulse to become more than what we seem to be. Eugene Marten is the author of In the Blind and Waste.

FICTION Available Now 8 x 6 | 326 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.99 978-1-61658-964-6 USC

Called “an explosive road novel” by Vanity Fair, Eugene Marten is the rightful successor to Cormac McCarthy.

Author Hometown: New York, NY

Us
Michael Kimball

“Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction.”—Sam Lipsyte A husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. The husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife’s bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home.
FICTION Available Now 6 x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.99 978-0-615-43046-1 USC

Michael Kimball is author of The Way the Family Got Away, Dear Everybody, and the forthcoming Ray.

The star of Oprah’s 2011 Summer Reading List, Us by Michel Kimball may be the saddest book of the century.

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Umbrage Editions Wood by Design: The Artistry of John Yarema
John Yarema
“A gifted artist who takes woodworking to a new level, there is no one in John’s league. John Yarema is the Michelangelo of wood floors.”—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Richardson Kennedy Wood by Design presents the extensive body of work of John Yarema, one of the world’s most dynamic artisans. Full-color photographs from homes and businesses across the globe showcase the opulence and ingenuity of his designs. This monograph features some of Yarema’s most brilliant interiors, oneof-a-kind masterpieces that convey his unparalleled skill and true artistry. From the naissance of his career over twenty years ago, Yarema has worked with recycled, locally sourced, often salvaged materials—a practice that reflects his commitment to sustainability and his conviction that environmentally responsible methods are not only viable, but essential, to the future of high-end design. This book details his methods and sources and offers best practices for ethical design. John Yarema discovered his passion for the craft of wood flooring and design in 1991, when he and his wife moved into a nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse and renovated the building from top to bottom. This project proved to be a life-changing event, and ever since Yarema has specialized in creating exquisite hardwood floors and interiors using sustainable building techniques. He has been commissioned to design projects for the SC Johnson complex, the Kennedy Green House, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and residential clients from New York to Moscow to Los Angeles.
This monograph presents the awe-inspiring, environmentally sustainable interior design work of John Yarema— master craftsman, woodworker, and artist.
ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN March 9 x 12 | 160 pp 180 color photographs Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-1-884167-80-5 USC

Marketing Plans
• National advertising: Design industry publications • National radio and TV campaign • Outreach to outlets concerned with high-end and Eco design • National print and online campaign • Outreach to popular design, flooring, and architecture magazines, as well as industry and environmentally-conscious magazines • Promotion through the author’s website and client list • Promotion through Umbrage’s website and social media outlets that promote environmentally sustainable design Author Hometown: Detroit, MI

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Umbrage Editions Substructure
CYJO
Foreword by Jonathan Hursh Introduction by Sean Mooney
In stark, black and white images, artist CYJO documents fifty Chinese migrants, photographing only the subjects’ hands to reveal, paradoxically, the collective identity and anonymity of these marginalized workers. Through the migrants’ personal histories—recorded by the artist—we learn about the dire circumstances that forced them from their villages in search of work and, ultimately, survival. Since China’s economic boom three decades ago, rapid urbanization has spurred internal migration from the countryside to cities, creating an impoverished labor force that faces unfair working conditions, limited access to education, and poor health care. Through faceless portraits, CYJO conveys the indignity experienced by the laborers; it is only the unique texture of each subject’s hands that provides identification, and acts as physical evidence of harsh working and living conditions. Substructure was created in collaboration with Compassion for Migrant Children, a nonprofit organization that helps China’s urban migrant children through social and educational programs. CYJO (Cindy Hwang) has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; T. Art Center, Beijing, China; and The Korea Society, New York. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including The New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Her first book, Kyopo, was published by Umbrage Editions in 2011. Jonathan Hursh is the founder of Compassion for Migrant Children, which benefits children of urban migrant workers and their communities in China through social and educational programs. Sean Mooney has worked as an educator, designer, curator, museum administrator, and visual artist. In 2000 he co-founded SMAK Projects, a New York– based exhibitions consultancy that produces museum exhibitions worldwide.
Detailed portraits of Chinese migrant workers’ hands and revealing interviews juxtapose notions of the anonymous and personal in migrant life. Also Available

PHOTOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE October 8½ x 12 | 120 pp 50 color photographs, 100 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $37.00 | CAN $40.50 978-1-884167-81-2 USC

Marketing Plans
• National TV and radio campaign • Outreach to programs and networks interested in human rights and social justice issues • National print and online campaign • Outreach to publications concerned with international social justice, workers rights, and the economy • Book launch party in New York City in conjunction with exhibition • Social media campaign • 10-city national tour • Promotion through: www.cyjo.net

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY

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KYOPO Created and photographed by CYJO Foreword by Marie Myung-Ok Lee Introduction by Julian Stallasbrass PHOTOGRAPHY 9 x 13½ | 500 pp 237 color photographs Trade Cloth US $75.00 | CAN $82.50 978-1-884167-90-4 USC

Umbrage Editions Sudden Flowers
May The Finest In The World Always Accompany You!

The Children of the Sudden Flowers Collective
Edited by Eric Gottesman
In powerful photographic vignettes, Sudden Flowers illuminates American artist Eric Gottesman’s twelve-year experience working with children orphaned or affected by HIV/AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Using the technique of “positive-negative film,” which produces both print and negative images, Gottesman taught the children to use cameras in order to create portraits that communicate the complexity of their experience. With his help, the children formed the art collective Sudden Flowers, where today they continue to express themselves through the media of photography and film. The eponymous book is a representation of the work produced by both the children and Gottesman himself, and the poignancy of their combined vision. Self-portraits intertwine with youth testimonials to reveal an Ethiopian conscience whose activism and potential was not limited by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Eric Gottesman studied history, literature, and political science at Duke University and completed his master’s degree in fine art at Bard College. His collaborative photography project on the impact of AIDS in one Ethiopian community has been supported by arts organizations, NGOs, foundations, and UN agencies. His work has been featured in books and exhibited internationally. Gottesman is a 2012 Artist in Residence at Amherst College.

PHOTOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE November 8½ x 11 | 160 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-884167-89-8 USC

Using inventive photography and storytelling, twenty-three Ethiopian children affected by HIV/AIDS and Eric Gottesman share their story.

Marketing Plans
• National TV and radio campaign: Outreach to programs and networks interested in human rights and world health issues • National print and online campaign: Outreach to publications with socially conscious concerns • Potential interest from international HIV/AIDS organizations and other NGOs concerned with human rights and global health • Social media campaign • 10-city national book tour • Promotion through: www.ericgottesman.net and www.thevisioncollective.org

Author Events
Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY

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Selected Backlist from Umbrage Editions

A Girl and Her Room
Essays by Susan Minot and Anne Tucker
PHOTOGRAPHY 12 x 9 | 128 pp 250 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-884167-76-8 USC

Rania Matar

A Sustainable, Eclectic, Edible Guide to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom Photographs by Bethany Dunbar
Introduction by Bill McKibben
TRAVEL / PHOTOGRAPHY 6⅝ x 9 | 160 pp Color photographs and maps throughout Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-884167-42-3 USC

Kingdom’s Bounty

Introduction by Stephen YaleLoehr and Laura Danielson
Interviews and profiles by Saundra Amrhein Photographs by Ariana Lindquist
SOCIAL SCIENCE / PHOTOGRAPHY 11 x 8½ | 128 pp 50 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-884167-55-3 USC

Green Card Stories

Grace Before Dying
Essay by Lawrence N. Powell
PHOTOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 11 x 8½ | 120 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $48.00 978-1-884167-22-5 USC

Lori Waselchuk

Horace’s Big Hat
Judy Palaferro
JUVENILE FICTION 8½ x 11 | 32 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-884167-30-0 USC Ages 2 to 8

Essay by Patty Kelly Interview by Bill Higgins
PHOTOGRAPHY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 12 x 9 | 144 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $48.00 978-1-884167-15-7 USC

Marc McAndrews

Nevada Rose

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Uncivilized Books
Minneapolis, Minnesota

first season at Consortium

Uncivilized Books The Voyeurs
Gabrielle Bell
Introduction by Aaron Cometbus

“The Voyeurs is the work of a mature writer, if not one of the most sincere voices of her literary generation. It’s a fun, honest read that spans continents, relationships and life decisions. I loved it.”—Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library “As she watches other people living life, and watches herself watching them, Bell’s pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear.”—Alison Bechdel, Fun Home “A master of the exquisite detail, Bell provides a welcome peephole into our lives.”—Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker The Voyeurs is a real-time memoir of a turbulent five years in the life of renowned cartoonist, diarist, and filmmaker Gabrielle Bell. It collects episodes from her award-winning series Lucky, in which she travels to Tokyo, Paris, the south of France, and all over the United States, but remains anchored by her beloved Brooklyn, where sidekick Tony provides ongoing insight, offbeat humor, and enduring friendship.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / MEMOIR September 6 x 9 | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9846814-0-2 USC

Gabrielle Bell’s work has been selected for the 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Houghton-Mifflin Best American Comics and the Yale Anthology of Graphic Fiction, and has been featured in McSweeney’s, The Believer, and Vice magazines. “Cecil and Jordan In New York,” the title story of her most recent book, was adapted for the screen by Bell and director Michel Gondry in the film anthology Tokyo! She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“One of the best things going in auto-bio inflected comics these days.” —Art Spiegelman, Maus

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • National radio campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.gabriellebell.com

Author Events
Arcata, CA • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Miami, FL • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA • Toronto, ON Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Uncivilized Books True Swamp
Choose Your Poison Definitive Edition

Jon Lewis
Introduction by Charles Hatfield Foreword by Ed Brubaker
“True Swamp is a true classic. Melancholy frogs, awkward cross-species relationships, thoughtful discussions on the meaning of life and love and the possibility of kindness, and of course the ever-present need to eat and not be eaten. Jon Lewis has created a world so rich in detail and personality that once you’ve dipped your toe in the warm larvae-filled water, you won’t want to leave. And to tell the truth, you never will. It’s been nearly twenty years since I first read these stories and still they simmer away inside my brain, like a benevolent ink-borne parasite that burrows ever deeper, exposing strange new layers of wonder and insight in that crowded fertile swamp we call life.” —Dylan Horrocks, Hicksville True Swamp: Choose Your Poison collects the first storyline of this landmark series, telling the tale of Lenny the Frog—part coming-of-age story, part fantastic adventure, part gutter poetry. Unavailable for over a decade, this twentieth anniversary edition features meticulously restored art, never-reprinted material, an introduction by Charles Hatfield (The Hand Of Fire: The Comics Art Of Jack Kirby), and a foreword by Ed Brubaker (Criminal, Captain America, Incognito). Jon Lewis began True Swamp in 1992. It continues today. Other comics include Ghost Ship, Spectacles, and scripts for DC, Dark Horse, and Kodansha Publishing. Lewis came to prominence as one of a tight-knit wave of early ’90s Seattle cartoonists who brought new narrative ambition to alternative comics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The definitive presentation of a touchstone alternative comic, long out-of-print and now more vivid than ever.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS November True Swamp 7 x 10 | 160 pp B&W illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9846814-2-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • Social media campaign • Podcast interviews • Promotion through: www.trueswamp.com and www.trueswamp.wordpress.com

Author Events
Washington, DC • Boston, MA • Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Uncivilized Books Trans Terra
Towards a Cartoon Philosophy

Tom Kaczynski
Introduction by Kevin Huizenga
Trans Terra is a mutant memoir that melds comics, politics, and philosophy into a heady brew exploring work, creativity, emergence of the new, and the possibility of utopia. The author’s journey begins in the frigid wastelands of contemporary consumer culture. Like a surreal HMS Beagle, Trans Terra meanders through time and space exploring archipelagos real and imagined. Prominent stops include Soviet Siberia, Communist Poland, Plato’s Atlantis, nineteenth-century New York, and Sir Thomas More’s Utopia. Arriving on the polluted shores of collapsing global civilization, Tom K glimpses the faint light of utopia beyond the veil of Apocalypse. Taking cue from Salvador Dali’s paranoiac-critical method, the author unearths improbable connections between thinkers as disparate as Ignatious Donnelly, Alvin Toffler, Rem Koolhaas, Slavoj Žižek, and many others. Translated into several languages, Trans Terra is a comic book manifesto for the post-capitalist-crisis world. Tom Kaczynski (a.k.a. Tom K) is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist, designer, illustrator, writer, teacher, and publisher. His comics have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Mome, Punk Planet, The Drama, and many other publications. Beta Testing the Apocalypse, a collection of his Mome stories, was published by Fantagraphics Books in July 2012. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his partner Nikki and their two black cats.
Comics, politics, and philosophy meld into a heady brew exploring creativity, work, and the possibility of utopia in a post-capitalist-crisis world. Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • Social media campaign • Podcast interviews • Promotion through: www.transatlantis.net

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS February A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 160 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9846814-1-9 USC

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY • Toronto, ON Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Wave Books Thunderbird
Dorothea Lasky

“In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky’s poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be.”—Julia Bloch, Bitch “The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret.”—InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks Go, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the “purple motel / where the bird lives.” Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. Thunderbird’s controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky’s own fiery heart to light the way. Baby of air You rose into the mystical Side of things You could no longer live with us We put you in a little home Where they shut and locked the door And at night You blew out And went wandering . . . Dorothea Lasky is also the author of Black Life and Awe, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.
Echoes of Sylvia Plath amplify and eviscerate in this thunderous third collection.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933517-63-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events Also Available
Black Life Dorothea Lasky POETRY 6⅜ x 10 | 77 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-933517-43-8 USC Awe Dorothea Lasky POETRY 6 x 8¼ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-933517-24-7 USC Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Wave Books As Long As Trees Last
Hoa Nguyen
“[Nguyen] shares such a streetwise feminism, keeping the edge and making it something you can dance to.”—The Poetry Project Clear-eyed and grounded, Hoa Nguyen performs a hook and snare on what it means to be a twenty-first century human in the nearly ego-less space of these chiseled yet spacious poems. It’s not a time to run I wear soft shoes and it took a long time to walk here
POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933517-61-2 USC

Hoa Nguyen is the co-founder of Skanky Possum. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Boulder, CO • Denver, CO • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Detroit, MI • Minneapolis, MN • Buffalo, NY • New York, NY • Cleveland, OH • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Austin, TX • Dallas, TX • Marfa, TX • San Antonio, TX • Seattle, WA • Milwaukee, WI • Toronto, ON Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Large-hearted, hip, and hooky poems as sculpted as they are sensory.

In Time’s Rift (Im Zeitspalt)
Ernst Meister
Translated by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick
“[Meister’s work] . . . is not a peaceful, divine perception but rather a distillation of despair. . . . Derangement seems almost justified.”—Times Literary Supplement Ernst Meister’s brief, afflicted poems attend to the writer’s lifelong obsessions with being and mortality. First published in 1976 and appearing for the first time in English in its entirety, it is a collection equal parts philosophical rigor and lived experience. We had a face-off in the light. Dust floated around us, tenderly.
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POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933517-62-9 USC

Ernst Meister (1911–1979) was posthumously awarded the Georg Büchner Prize.
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Translator Events: “In a rift of time the corner of the universe appears to consciousness.” —Ernst Meister
Fayetteville, AR • San Francisco, CA • Los Angeles, CA • Boise, ID • Chicago, IL • Lincoln, NE • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Pemberton, SC • Houston, TX Translator Hometowns: Oakland, CA / Pendleton, SC

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White Pine Press Notes from the Journey Westward
Joe Wilkins

“Wilkins’ poems are savage and beautiful, full of hard-won lives and a godawful tenderness. In this book Manifest Destiny is more than political rhetoric— it’s a call to find the limits of survival. It has dust-stunned men, hardscrabble women, and a patient devil, sharpening his teeth.”—Traci Brimhall “For Wilkins, the American West is no theme park or romantic diorama. He offers an earnest glimpse into past and present landscapes that are real and imagined, mourned and celebrated and witnessed—for these are human landscapes.”—Michael McGriff Joe Wilkins is the author of The Mountain and the Fathers and Killing the Murnion Dogs.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original White Pine Press Poetry Prize 6 x 9 | 108 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935210-36-8 W

Author Events
Boise, ID • Moscow, ID • Des Moines, IA • Iowa City, IA • Minneapolis, MN • Oxford, MS • Billings, MT • Bozeman, MT • Missoula, MT • Athens, OH • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA • Spokane, WA • Vancouver, WA • Laramie, WY Author Hometown: Forest City, IA

A book that interrogates the idea of America—especially our westering, both historical and contemporary.

Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry 1900–1950
Edited by Robert Alexander
Introduction by Margueritte Murphy
“Family Portrait doesn’t just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America— it sets the record straight. Murphy’s scholarly introduction sets the stage for a book that traces the history of American prose poetry from 1900–1950. Simply put, this collection belongs on every poet’s—and poetry lover’s— bookshelf. No one will be able to write about the prose poem without referencing Family Portrait.”—Peter Conners The groundbreaking anthology of prose poetry collects over sixty voices including such well-known figures as Sherwood Anderson, William Lisle Bowles, Kay Boyle, e. e. cummings, H.D., Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Robert Lowell, Kenneth Patchen, Riding Jackson, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, Thornton Wilder, and William Carlos Williams.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original Marie Alexander Poetry Series 6 x 9 | 340 pp Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 978-1-935210-35-1 W

Editor Hometown: Madison, WI

Family Portrait doesn’t just rewrite the history of the prose poem in America— it sets the record straight.

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White Pine Press Red Radio Heart
Jane Lunin Perel

“Whether celebrating the mundane, recounting the estrangement between mother and daughter, contemplating sex and religion, or grieving the loss of a loved one, poem after poem is imbued with nerve, wit, grace—and heart. We need more poetry like this, poetry that is as profound and poignant as it is bold and lyrical. Quite simply, Red Radio Heart is a gift.”—Mary A. Koncel “The Muse for Perel’s new book of poems is Artemis of Ephesus, mother and goddess of fertility living in exile in the scorched twenty-first century.” —Bruce Smith
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935210-34-4 W

Jane Lunin Perel has published four books of verse poetry. She is professor of English and women’s studies at Providence College, Rhode Island.

Author Events Carnelia’s heart is a “red radio” broadcasting terror and the rhapsodic.
Fort Collins, CO • Hartford, CT • Portland, ME • Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • Brooklyn, NY • New York, NY • Syracuse, NY • Providence, RI Author Hometown: Providence, RI

A Hand Full of Water
Tzveta Sofronieva and Chantal Wright

“Listen carefully. . . . She has something to say.”—Joseph Brodsky “Tzveta Sofronieva’s poetry sparkles. Her memories go from Homer and Dostoyevski to Charlie Chaplin’s dance steps. Above all Sofronieva is a mythological poet. Each narration is a Cavafian voyage, never completed in order to wonder. The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verve and fluid images of Sofronieva’s poetry.”—Willis Barnstone, judge Tzveta Sofronieva was born in Sofia in 1963 and lives in Berlin, Germany. She is the author of eight poetry books and a short story collection, and was the winner of the first Cliff Becker Prize for Translation. This bilingual English/ German collection is Sofronieva’s first in the Untied States. Chantal Wright is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee.
Author Events
Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Madison WI • Milwaukee, WI Translator Hometown: Milwaukee, WI

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935210-37-5 W German bilingual

Water is the element that connects two shores, flows between and around countries; the element that belongs to nobody.

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Zephyr Press Twelve Stations
˙ Tomasz Róz ycki
Translated by Bill Johnston

“Although the past is a constant theme in Róz ycki’s work, the present erupts ˙ with no less urgency . . . he witnesses the ant-like unimportance of human beings viewed from a cosmic perspective.”—Helen Vendler, Harvard University The hero of the mock poem, Grandson, leaves his hometown of Opole, in the western Polish region of Silesia, to organize a family reunion in the Ukraine where his family had lived before World War II—before being forcibly resettled along with many thousands of other Poles. In this, his sixth book, Tomasz Róz ycki talks back, both to history and to important literary predecessors such ˙ as Czesław Miłosz and Adam Mickiewicz, in language that is as playful as it is masterful. Twelve Stations is a masterful work of contemporary world poetry by one of its most outstanding practitioners. In 2004 Twelve Stations won the prestigious Koscielski Foundation Prize and was named best Book of the Spring 2004 by the Raczynski Library in Poznan and its translator Bill Johnston received the 2008 Found in Translation Award. Tomasz Róz ycki also has received the Krzysztof Kamiel Baczynski Prize ˙ (1997), the Czas Kultury Prize (1997), The Rainer Maria Rilke Award (1998), and the Joseph Brodskie Prize from Zeszyty Literackie (2006), and has been nominated twice for Poland’s most prestigious literary award, the NIKE Prize (2005 and 2007).
The celebrated mock heroic poem now available in an English translation.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS December New Polish Writing 6 x 8 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9832970-4-8 USC

Translator Hometown: Bloomington, IN

Also Available
The Forgotten Keys Selected Poetry of Tomasz Róz ycki ˙ Tomasz Róz ycki ˙ Translated by Mira Rosenthal POETRY New Polish Writing 6 x 8 | 136 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $18.00 978-0-939010-94-3 USC The Colonies Tomasz Róz ycki ˙ Translated by Mira Rosenthal POETRY New Polish Writing 6 x 8 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9832970-3-1 USC

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Zephyr Press Paul Klee’s Boat
Anzhelina Polonskaya
Translated by Andrew Wachtel

Unlike many of her contemporaries, Anzhelina Polonskaya did not receive a classic Russian literary education, so her work is considerably more idiosyncratic and less anchored in tradition. This book, her first collection in English translation since 2005, includes her cycle “Kursk,” an oratorio requiem with music by David Chisolm that will be performed across Australia and the United States. Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow, Russia. She began to write poems seriously at the age of eighteen. Between 1995 and 1997 she lived in Latin America, working as a professional ice dancer. Her first book of verse Svetoch Moi Nebesny (My Heavenly Torch) appeared in 1993. Eventually deciding to leave ice skating, and to devote herself full-time to literature, Polonskaya consistently has been one of the freshest voices writing on both the Russian and world stage. Andrew Wachtel is the president of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Previously he was dean of The Graduate School and director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of numerous publications, he is also a translator from Russian, Bosnian/ Croation/Serbian, and Slovene. He translated Anzhelina Polonskaya’s previous collection, A Voice (Northwestern University Press, 1995).
One of Russia’s most accomplished younger poets writes with a complex synaesthesia of sound and memory.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS February A Paperback Original In the Grip of Strange Thoughts 5¼ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9832970-7-9 USC

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Zephyr Press Wind Says
Bai Hua
Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

“Subtle and compelling, Bai Hua is among the best in contemporary Chinese poetry.”—David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University “Fish” Unfathomable, the fish can’t sing swimming from silence to silence It needs things, it needs to speak but it stares blindly at a stone The strength of endurance is too precise Senility urges it to walk the road of kindness What is it? Image of a people or an act of soundless immersion? The face of grievance veers toward shadow the silence of death toward error Born as metaphor to clarify a fact: the throat where ambiguous pain begins Considered the central literary figure of the post-Obscure (post-“Misty”) poetry movement during the 1980s, Bai Hua was born in Chongqing, China, in 1956. After graduating from Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute, he taught at various universities before working as an independent writer. His first collection of poems, Expression (1988), found immediate critical acclaim. A highly demanding writer, Bai Hua has a small but selective poetic output: between the mid-’80s and 2007 Bai Hua wrote fewer than one hundred poems, most of which continue to command a large audience across China. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing again in 2007. This bilingual selection is a comprehensive overview of Bai Hua’s writing career. Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in French, English, and Chinese. Her recent work includes Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010). Co-director of Vif Éditions and one of the editors at Cerise Press, she is also a zheng concertist.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original Jintian 6 x 8 | 184 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9832970-6-2 USC Chinese bilingual

The first collection in English by the central literary figure of China’s post-Misty poetry movement beginning in the 1980s.

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Selected Backlist from Zephyr Press

Selected Poetry of Zhai Yongming Yongming Zhai
Translated by Andrea Lingenfelter
POETRY 6 x 8 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.00 978-0-9815521-3-2 USC

The Changing Room

Approaching You in English
Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman Admiel Kosman
Translated by Lisa Katz and Shlomit Naor

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki
Translated by Bill Johnston
POETRY 6 x 8 | 152 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.00 978-0-939010-97-4 USC

Peregrinary

POETRY / FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 6 x 8 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.00 978-0-9815521-4-9 USC

Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women Ch’oe Sung-ja, Kim Hyesoon, and Yi Yon-ju
Translated by Don Mee Choi
POETRY / HISTORY 6 x 9 | 175 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-0-939010-87-5 USC

Anxiety of Words

Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Edited by Roberta Reeder
POETRY / LITERARY CRITICISM 6 x 9 | 298 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-0-939010-61-5 USC

Anna Akhmatova

Translated by Peter Filkins
POETRY 5½ x 8 | 688 pp 6 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $30.00 978-0-939010-84-4 USC

The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann

Darkness Spoken

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Zuccotti Park Press
Brooklyn, New York

Inspired by the transformation of Zuccotti Park into a liberated space for organizing, advocacy, dreaming, art, free speech, and creative community, Zuccotti Park Press and its Occupied Media Pamphlet Series is founded to extend that spirit through the printed word and join in the advocacy of social change through public participation in debate, protest, and direct democracy. Produced by Adelante Alliance, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that serves the Spanish-speaking immigrant community, the goal of the new press is to produce accessible, affordable, pamphletsize works by well-known and emerging voices who are inspired by a vision for a new society. Producing timely titles that address ignored, taboo, or under-discussed issues necessary for greater public participation will be emphasized along with occasional works of the imagination, poetry, and indigenous culture. Bilingual English/Spanish editions will be explored. We celebrate the printed word, the tradition of the pamphlet, and the important role that bookstores play in protecting free speech and creating community. To quote Angela Davis, who will contribute a title to the series, “We transform the meaning of occupation. We turn occupation into something that is beautiful, something that brings community together, something that calls for love and happiness and hope.” The occupation of tent camps has ended. Join us to occupy the conscience of the nation. We look to bookstores to support our new effort!

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Zuccotti Park Press Occupy
Noam Chomsky

“The conscience of the nation.”—The Guardian Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns, cities, and college campuses across the United States. To date, more than 6,500 people have been arrested in 111 US cities, a number that grows daily. By early 2012 it was cliché to say the movement had shifted the national conversation—it has. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the national conscience as its messages spread organically from street protests to op-ed pages to the White House itself. From the movement’s onset, Noam Chomsky has supported its critique of corporate corruption and encouraged its efforts to increase civic participation, economic equality, democracy, and freedom for the 99%. Through talks and conversations with movement supporters, Occupy presents a crystallization of Chomsky’s latest thinking on the cornerstone issues, questions, and demands that are driving ordinary Americans to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1% influencing the nation? How are the financial crisis and our political system linked? How has corporate personhood impacted the country and why should it be stopped? How can we get money out of politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like? How can we redefine basic concepts like “growth” to increase equality and quality of life for all? Born of the moment, red hot, accessible, affordable, and designed to fit in your back pocket, Occupy is positioned to reach a wide national readership.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now A Paperback Original Occupied Media Pamphlet Series 4¼ x 8¼ | 128 pp B&W photographs Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-884519-01-7 USC

With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience.

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10,000-copy print run • National advertising: In These Times • The Progressive • Z Magazine Author Hometown: Cambridge, MA

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Zuccotti Park Press Occupying Language
Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini

Praise for Marina Sitrin’s previous works: “‘Another world is possible’ was the catch-phrase of the World Social Forum, but it wasn’t just possible; while the north was dreaming, that world was and is being built and lived in many parts of the global south. With the analytical insight of a political philosopher, the investigative zeal of a reporter, and the heart of a sister, Marina Sitrin has immersed herself in one of the most radical and important of these other worlds and brought us back stories, voices, and possibilities.”—Rebecca Solnit “Through her deeply respectful documentary editing, Marina Sitrin has produced a work that embodies the values and practices it portrays.” —Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis While the global Occupy movement is widely seen as unprecedented, its language and organizing practices are shaped and inspired by diverse historical precedents in the United States and around the world. Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini introduce the reader to the theory and practices of the movement and explore linkages and connections toward the dream of a common language of struggle, justice, democracy, and liberation. Marina Sitrin is an author and activist. An early organizer of the Occupy movement, she has been interviewed in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Democracy Now! and more. Dario Azzellini is an activist, writer, and filmmaker. He is a lecturer at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) and holds PhDs in political science and sociology. His latest book, together with Immanuel Ness, is Ours to Master and to Own.
An exploration of how key terms and words from other movements can help shift consciousness and connect communities of struggle.
Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original Occupied Media Pamphlet Series 4¼ x 8¼ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-884519-09-3 USC

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Zuccotti Park Press Taking Brooklyn Bridge
Stuart Leonard

“Brilliant . . . its beauty, power, flow and deep truth knocked me. . . . I got chills.”—Mumia Abu Jamal Taking Brooklyn Bridge is a poem about the struggle for liberty and the search for true democracy and redemption. Addressed to Walt Whitman and composed in the cadence and style of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” the poem tells the story of the personal and political awakening experienced while participating in a march across the Brooklyn Bridge.
POETRY September A Paperback Original Occupied Media Pamphlet Series 4¼ x 11 | 20 pp Saddle-stitched AH* US $5.00 | CAN $5.50 978-1-884519-05-5 USC Spanish bilingual

Stuart Leonard has been in the New York City poetry scene for decades.

Marching in a protest brings a poet to life, connecting inner struggle with social struggle, Walt Whitman, and redemption.

Author Events
New York, NY Author Hometown: Garwood, NJ

Message to the Movement
Mumia Abu-Jamal

“A tour de force for those just discovering themselves within the movement and struggle, and a smack of hope for those who had thought the moment to act was over.”—Daniel Olonso, Occupy Columbia University Reflecting on the meaning of struggle, education imperialism, and his own involvement in radical social movements, revolutionary journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal directly addresses the diverse community of organizers and activists who support and participate in the Occupy movement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original Occupied Media Pamphlet Series 4¼ x 11 | 40 pp Saddle-stitched AH* US $5.00 | CAN $5.50 978-1-884519-07-9 USC Spanish bilingual

Mumia Abu-Jamal is the author of many books including Death Blossoms, We Want Freedom, and Jailhouse Lawyers.

A radical black journalist gives organizing advice, political analysis, and encouragement to activists from his cell on death row.

Author Hometown: Frackville, PA

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3DTotal Publishing
29 Foregate Street Worcester, WR1 1DS UNITED KINGDOM
Executives: Tom Greenway and Simon Morse ph 011 44 (0) 190 529764 f 011 44 (0) 1905 731253 [email protected] www.3dtotalpublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9551530, 978-0-9568171

Alyson Books
245 West 17th Street, Suite 1200 New York, NY 10011
Executive: John Knoebel ph 212/242-8100 f 212/727-7939 www.alyson.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-55583, 978-0-932870, 978-0-917597, 978-1-59350

AK Press
674-A 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612-1163
ph 510/208-1700 f 510/208-1701 [email protected] www.akpress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-1-902593, 978-1-873176, 978-1-904859, 978-0-972742, 978-1-84935

Anvil Press
Neptune House 70 Royal Hill London, SE10 8RF UNITED KINGDOM
Managing Director: Peter Jay ph 011 44 (0) 208 469 3033 [email protected] www.anvilpresspoetry.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-85646, 978-0-900977

Akashic Books
232 Third Street, Suite A115 Brooklyn, NY 11215
Executive: Johnny Temple ph 718/643-9193 f 718/643-9195 [email protected] www.akashicbooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-888451, 978-0-9719206, 978-1-933354, 978-0-9789103, 978-0-9787794, 978-1-936070, 978-1-61775

Archipelago Books
232 Third Street, #A111 Building A, Ground Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215
Executive: Jill Schoolman ph 718/852-6134 f 718/852-6135 [email protected] www. archipelagobooks.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9778576, 978-0-9749680, 978-0-9763950, 978-0-97286, 978-0-9793330, 978-0-9819557, 978-0-9819873, 978-0-9826246, 978-1-935744

Alice James Books
238 Main Street Farmington, ME 04938
Executive: Carey Salerno ph 207/778-7071 [email protected] www.alicejamesbooks.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-914086, 978-1-882295

Arsenal Pulp Press
#101–211 East Georgia Street Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z6 CANADA
Executive: Brian Lam and Robert Ballantyne ph 888/600-7857 f 604/687-4283 [email protected] www.arsenalpulp.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-88978, 978-1-55152

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ArtNetwork
10655 Park Ave. Ext Nevada City, CA 95959
Executive: Constance Smith ph 530/478-0920 [email protected] http://artmarketing.com ISBN prefix: 978-0-940899

Behler Publications
22635 El Toro Road, #135 Lake Forest, CA 92630
Executives: Fred Price and Lynn Price ph 800/830-2913 f 949/716-8235 [email protected] [email protected] www.behlerpublications.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-933016, 978-0-9748962

Aunt Lute Books
P.O. Box 410687 San Francisco, CA 94141
Executive: Joan Pinkvoss ph 415/826-1300 f 415/826-8300 [email protected] www.auntlute.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-879960, 978-0-933216

Bellevue Literary Press
Department of Medicine New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, OBV A-612 New York, NY 10016
Executive: Erika Goldman ph 212/263-7802 [email protected] www.blpress.org ISBN prefix: 978-1-934137

Aztext Press
P.O. Box 214 2622 Mountain Road Tamworth, ON, K0K 3G0 CANADA
Executives: Cam Mather and Michelle Mather ph 613/539-2831 [email protected] www.aztext.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9733233, 978-0-9810132, 978-1-927408

Biblioasis
P.O. Box 92 Emeryville, ON N0R 1C0 CANADA
Executive: Daniel Wells ph 519/968-2206 [email protected] www.biblioasis.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9735881, 978-0-9735971, 978-0-9738184, 978-1-897231, 978-1-926845, 978-1-927428

Ballistic Publishing
134 Gilbert Street Adelaide, South Australia 5000 AUSTRALIA
Executives: Andrew Plumer and Garth Hammet ph 011 61 (0) 8 8463 1866 f 011 61 (0) 8 8212 8255 [email protected] www.ballisticpublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-921002, 978-0-9750965, 978-1-921828, 978-0-615

Bilingual Readers
Plaza Mostenses, 13—Suite 26 28015 Madrid SPAIN
Executives: Deanna Lyles and Íñigo Gil ph 011 34 91 758 0606 [email protected] www.bilingualreaders.com ISBN prefixes: 978-84-937273, 978-84-92968

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BIS Publishers
Het Sieraad Building Postjesweg 1 1057 DT Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS
Executive: Rudolf van Wezel ph 011 31 (0) 20 515 02 30 f 011 31 (0) 20 515 02 39 [email protected] www.bispublishers.nl ISBN prefix: 978-90-6369

Breakaway Books
P.O. Box 24 Halcottsville, NY 12438
Executive: Garth Battista ph 800/548-4348 f 212/898-0408 [email protected] www.breakawaybooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-891369, 978-1-55821

Bitter Lemon Press
37 Arundel Gardens London, W11 2LW UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: François von Hurter ph 011 44 (0) 207 727 7927 f 011 44 (0) 207 460 2164 [email protected] www.bitterlemonpress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-904738, 978-1-908524

Bywater Books
P.O. Box 3671 Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Executives: Kelly Smith and Marianne K. Martin ph 734/662-8815 [email protected] www.bywaterbooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-932859, 978-1-61294

Black Balloon Publishing
50 Ward Avenue Easthampton, MA 01027
Executives: Elizabeth Koch and Leigh Newman ph 413/977-8139 [email protected] www.blackballoonpublishing.com ISBN prefix: 978-1-936787

Centipede Press
2565 Teller Court Lakewood, CO 80214
Executive: Jerad Walters ph 303/231-9720 f 303/231-9720 [email protected] ISBN prefixes: 978-1-933618, 978-1-61347

BOA Editions, Ltd.
250 N. Goodman Street, Suite 306 Rochester, NY 14607
Executive: Peter Conners ph 585/546-3410 f 585/546-3913 [email protected] www.boaeditions.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-918526, 978-1-880238, 978-0-9665639, 978-1-929918, 978-1-934414, 978-1-938160

Central Recovery Press
3321 North Buffalo Drive, Suite 275 Las Vegas, NV 89129
Executives: Stuart Smith and Bob Gray ph 702/868-5830 f 702/868-5831 [email protected] www.centralrecoverypress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9799869, 978-0-9818482, 978-1-936290, 978-1-937612

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Child Heroes Publishing
3717 W. Owens Ct. Stillwater, OK 74074
Executive: Sharon Liddle ph 757/286-8181 [email protected] www.childheroespublishing.com ISBN prefix: 978-0-9746568

Coach House Books
80 bpNichol Lane Toronto, ON M5S 3J4 CANADA
Executive: Alana Wilcox ph 416/979 2217 fax 416/977 1158 [email protected] www.chbooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-55245, 978-0-88910, 978-0-9783426, 978-1-77056, 978-0-9682115

Chin Music Press
600 N. 36th Street, #422 Seattle, WA 98103
Executive: Bruce Rutledge ph 206/380-1947 [email protected] www.chinmusicpress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9741995, 978-0-9844576

Coffee House Press
79 13th Avenue NE, Suite 110 Minneapolis, MN 55413
Executive: Chris Fischbach ph 612/338-0125 f 612/338-4004 [email protected] www.coffeehousepress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-915124, 978-0-918273, 978-1-56689

Cinco Puntos Press
701 Texas Avenue El Paso, TX 79901
Executives: Bobby and Lee Byrd ph 915/838-1625 f 915/838-1635 [email protected] www.cincopuntos.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-938317, 978-1-933693, 978-1-935955

Common Courage Press
121 Red Barn Road P.O. Box 702 Monroe, ME 04951
Executive: Greg Bates ph 207/525-0900 f 207/525-3068 [email protected] www.commoncouragepress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9628838, 978-1-56751

City Lights Publishers
261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94133
Executive: Elaine Katzenberger ph 415/362-1901 f 415/362-4921 [email protected] www.citylights.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-87286, 978-0-912516, 978-0-87704, 978-1-931404

Contrasto
Via degli Scialoia, 3 Rome, 00196 ITALY
Executive: Roberto Koch ph 011 39 (0) 632 8281 f 011 39 (0) 632 828 240 [email protected] www.contrastobooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-88-89032, 978-88-86982, 978-88-6965

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Copper Canyon Press
P.O. Box 271 Port Townsend, WA 98368
Executive: Michael Wiegers ph 360/385-4925 f 360/385-4985 [email protected] www.coppercanyonpress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-914742, 978-1-55659, 978-0-9663395, 978-0-9718981, 978-0-9776395, 978-0-9672668, 978-1-931337, 978-0-9833008, 978-1-61932

Dzanc Books
1334 Woodbourne Street Westland, MI 48186
Executive: Dan Wickett ph 734/756-5701 [email protected] www.dzancbooks.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9767177, 978-0-9768993, 978-0-9793123, 978-0-9815899, 978-0-615, 978-1-934703, 978-0-9826318, 978-0-9821512, 978-0-9826228, 978-0-9827975, 978-0-9788811, 978-0-9842133, 978-0-9828766, 978-1-936873, 978-0-9837945, 978-1-938103, 978-1-937854

de.MO Design Limited
123 Nine Partners Lane Millbrook, NY 12545
Executive: Giorgio Baravalle ph 845/677-2075 [email protected] www.de-mo.org ISBN prefix: 978-0-9825908

Eighth Mountain Press
624 Southeast 29th Avenue Portland, OR 97214
Executive: Ruth Gundle ph 503/233-3936 f 503/233-0774 [email protected] ISBN prefix: 978-0-933377

Dewi Lewis Publishing
8 Broomfield Road Heaton Moor Stockport, SK4 4ND UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Dewi Lewis ph 011 44 (0) 161 442 9450 f 011 44 (0) 161 442 9450 [email protected] www.dewilewispublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-899235, 978-1-904587, 978-0-948797, 978-1-905928, 978-1-907893

Enchanted Lion Books
20 Jay Street, Studio M-18 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Publisher: Claudia Bedrick ph 646/785-9272 [email protected] www.enchantedlionbooks.com ISBN prefix: 978-1-59270

Dialogue
Westminster Tower 3 Albert Embankment London, SE1 7SP UNITED KINGDOM
Executives: James Stephens and Katy Scholes ph 011 44 (O) 207 091 1260 [email protected] [email protected] www.bitebackpublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-84954, 978-1-906447, 978-1-907278

Enigma Books
360 East 116th Street New York, NY 10029
Executive: Robert L. Miller ph 212/933-1315 [email protected] www.enigmabooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-929631, 978-0-982491, 978-1-936274

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Etruscan Press
84 W. South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
Executive Editor: Dr. Philip Brady Managing Editor: Starr Troup ph 570/408-4546 610/932-1949 f 610/932-1949 [email protected] www.etruscanpress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9718228, 978-0-9745995, 978-0-9797450, 978-0-9819687, 978-0-9832944, 978-0-9839346

Fence Books
SL 320 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222
Executive: Rebecca Wolff ph 518/591-8162 [email protected] http://fenceportal.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9663324, 978-0-9713189, 978-0-9740909, 978-0-9771064, 978-1-934200

Exterminating Angel Press
535 Hartford Place Boulder, CO 80305
Executive: Tod Davies ph 541/482-8779 [email protected] www.exterminatingangel.com ISBN prefix: 978-1-935259

Feral House
1240 West Sims Way, Box 124 Port Townsend, WA 98368
Executive: Adam Parfrey ph 323/666-3311 f 323/297-4331 [email protected] www.feralhouse.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-922915, 978-1-932595, 978-1-936239

February Books
126 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10011
Executives: Dee Dee De Bartlo and Gretchen Crary ph 212/255-2034 [email protected] http://februarybooks.com/ ISBN prefix: 978-0-9849543

Five Ties Publishing
1019 8th Avenue #2 Brooklyn, NY 11215
Executive: Garrett White ph 718/832-1721 [email protected] www.fiveties.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9777193, 978-0-9794727 , 978-0-9819690

The Feminist Press at CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016
Executive: Gloria Jacobs ph 212/817-7915 f 212/817-1593 [email protected] www.feministpress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-912670, 978-0-935312, 978-1-55861

Frame Publishers
Laan der Hesperiden 68 1076 DX Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS
Executives: Peter Huiberts and Robert Thiemann ph 011 31 (0) 20 423 37 17 f 011 31 (0) 20 428 06 53 [email protected] www.frameweb.com ISBN prefixes: 978-90-77174, 978-90-78080, 978-3-89955

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Fulcrum Publishing
4690 Table Mountain Drive, Suite 100 Golden, CO 80403
Executives: Robert Baron and Sam Scinta ph 303/277-1623 f 303/279-7111 [email protected] www.fulcrumbooks.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-55591, 978-1-933108, 978-0-9725776, 978-1-936218

Green Integer
6022 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 202C Los Angeles, CA 90036
Executive: Douglas Messerli ph 323/857-1115 f 323/857-0143 [email protected] www.greeninteger.com http://greeninteger.blogspot.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-892295, 978-1-55713, 978-1-931243, 978-1-933382

Gentle Path Press
7301 East Sundance Trail, B201 Carefree, AZ 85377
Executives: Dr. Stephani Carnes ph 480/488-0150 f 480/595-4753 [email protected] [email protected] www.gentlepath.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9774400, 978-0-9826505, 978-1-929866, 978-0-9832713, 978-0-9850633

Gryphon House
P.O. Box 10 6848 Leon’s Way Lewisville, NC 27023
Executive: Jennifer Lewis ph 800/638-0928 f 877/638-7576 [email protected] www.gryphonhouse.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-87659, 978-1-58904

GLAS New Russian Writing
Matveevskaya 10-5-345 Moscow 119517 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Executive: Natasha Perova ph 011 7 495 441 9157 [email protected] [email protected] www.glas.msk.su ISBN prefix: 978-5-7172

The Gryphon Press
6808 Margarets Lane Edina, MN 55439
Executive: Emilie Buchwald f 952/941-6593 [email protected] www.thegryphonpress.com ISBN prefix: 978-0-940719

Global Book Sales
2 The Hawthorns Berkhamsted Hertfordshire, HP4 3LL UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: David Wightman p 011 44 (0) 796 321 0830 [email protected] www.globalbooksales.co.uk ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9548674, 978-1-78155, 978-1-905959, 978-1-954867

Haus Publishing
70 Cadogan Place London, SW1X 9AH UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Barbara Schwepcke ph 011 44 (0) 207 838 9055 f 011 44 (0) 207 235 1999 [email protected] www.hauspublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-904341, 978-1-904950, 978-1-905791, 978-1-906598, 978-0-907822, 978-1-906697, 978-1-908323

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Haymarket Books
4015 North Rockwell Avenue Chicago, IL 60618
ph 773/583-7884 f 773/583-6144 [email protected] www.haymarketbooks.org ISBN prefixes: 978-1-931859, 978-1-60846

Ig Publishing
392 Clinton Avenue #1S Brooklyn, NY 11238
Executives: Robert Lasner and Elizabeth Clementson ph 718/797-0676 f 718/797-0676 [email protected] [email protected] www.igpub.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9703125, 978-0-9752517 , 978-0-9771972, 978-0-9788431, 978-0-9815040, 978-1-935439

Helter Skelter Publishing
P.O. Box 50497 London, W8 9FA UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Graeme Milton ph 011 44 (0) 794 120 6045 [email protected] www.helterskelterpublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-900924, 978-1-902799, 978-1-905139

Image Continuum Press
P.O. Box 51599 Eugene, OR 97405
Executives: David Bayles and Ted Orland ph 541/344-5955 f 541/344-4493 [email protected] www.artandfear.com ISBN prefix: 978-0-9614547

Holy Cow! Press
P.O. Box 3170 Mt. Royal Station Duluth, MN 55803
Executive: Jim Perlman ph 218/724-1653 f 218/724-1653 [email protected] www.holycowpress.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-930100, 978-0-9779458, 978-0-9823545, 978-0-9833254

Immedium
P.O. Box 31846 San Francisco, CA 94131-0846
Executive: Oliver Chin ph 415/452-8546 f 360/937-6272 [email protected] www.immedium.com ISBN prefix: 978-1-59702

Icon Books
c/o Icon Books, Ltd. Omnibus Business Centre 39-41 North Road London, N7 9DP UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Philip Cotterell ph 011 44 (0) 207 697 9695 f 011 44 (0) 207 697 9501 [email protected] www.iconbooks.co.uk ISBN prefixes: 978-1-84831, 978-1-84046, 978-1-874166, 978-1-906850

Imperfect Publishing
P.O. Box 608 Point Reyes, CA 94956
Executive: Leonard Koren ph 415/336-6015 www.imperfectpublishing.com ISBN prefix: 978-0-9814846

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Independent Thinking Press
Crown Buildings High Street Bancyfelin Carmarthen, SA33 5ND UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Caroline Lenton and Ian Gilbert ph 011 44 (0) 126 721 1345 f 011 44 (0) 126 721 1882 [email protected] www.independentthinkingpress.com ISBN prefix: 978-1-78135

Leapfrog Press
P.O. Box 505 Fredonia, NY 14063
Executive: Lisa Graziano ph 774/392-4384 [email protected] www.leapfrogpress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9654578, 978-0-9679520, 978-0-9728984, 978-0-9815148, 978-1-9352480, 978-1-9352481, 978-0-9796415

Joshua Odell Editions
P.O. Box 2158 Santa Barbara, CA 93120
Executive: Joshua Odell ph 805/966-4606 f 805/966-4627 [email protected] ISBN prefix: 978-1-877741

Long River Press
360 Swift Avenue, Suite 48 South San Francisco, CA 94080
Executive: Chris Robyn ph 650/872-7718 ext. 312 f 650/872-7808 [email protected] www.longriverpress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-59265, 978-0-9821816, 978-0-8351

Kehrer Verlag
Heinsteinwerk, Wieblinger Weg 21 69123 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Executive: Klaus Kehrer ph 011 49 (0) 6221 649 20 18 f 011 49 (0) 6221 649 20 20 [email protected] www.kehrerverlag.com ISBN prefixes: 978-3-933257, 978-3-936636, 978-3-980444, 978-3-939583, 978-3-86828

LoudMouth Press
152 Monitor Street Brooklyn, NY 11222
Executive: Gregory Ayres ph 646/326-6093 f 718/609-2706 [email protected] www.loudmouthpress.org ISBN prefix: 978-0-615

Kube Publishing Ltd
MCC, Ratby Lane Markfield Leicestershire, LE67 9SY UNITED KINGDOM
Executives: Haris Ahmad and Farooq Murad ph 011 44 (0) 1530 249 230 f 011 44 (0) 1530 249 656 [email protected] www.kubepublishing.com ISBN prefixes: 978-0-86037, 978-0-9536768, 978-1-84774

Lumen Books
40 Camino Cielo Santa Fe, NM 87506
Executive: Dennis Dollens ph 505/988-9236 [email protected] www.lumenbooks.org ISBN prefixes: 978-0-930829, 978-4-7571, 978-0-936050, 978-84-921103

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Manic D Press
P.O. Box 410804 San Francisco, CA 94141
Executive: Jennifer Joseph ph 415/648-8288 [email protected] www.manicdpress.com ISBN prefixes: 978-1-933149, 978-0-916397

Milo Books
14 Ash Grove Wrea Green Preston, Lancashire PR4 2NY UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Peter Walsh ph 011 44 (0) 177 267 2900 [email protected] ISBN prefix: 978-1-903854

Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd.
26 Parke Road London, SW13 9NG UNITED KINGDOM
Executive: Catheryn Kilgarriff f 011 44 (0) 208 789 8122 [email protected]