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A Penny for Your Thoughts
How are we to find eight short English words that actually stand for autumn? One peculiar way to die of loneliness is to try. Pretend November has a sliver of ice in her throat. Pretend it is nice, pretend the sliver of ice is nice, and beckons you. Talk for half an hour about the little churchyard full of the graves of people who have died eating nachos. Go on until you can go no further brown. Let the river flow. It is written in stone. Let the sparrows take your only coin and fly with it, twittering over some main event. What color ribbon will you wear in your hair? Now the clouds look burnt. But first they burned. To you I must tell all or lie.

From Trances of the Blast by Mary Ruefle Used by permission of Wave Books www.wavepoetry.com

Where Independent Publishers Live

Fall / Winter 2013–2014

Congratulations to all our award winners!
2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Cinco Puntos Press Trade Paper US $16.95 CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-32-0 USC

2013 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay
Lincoln
The Screenplay Tony Kushner Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin Theatre Communications Group Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-453-9 US

2012 Aesop Prize
Which Side Are You On?
The Story of a Song George Ella Lyon Illustrated by Christopher Cardinale Cinco Puntos Press Trade Cloth US $17.95 CAN $19.99 978-1-933693-96-5 USC

2012 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book
Bear Despair
Gaëtan Dorémus Enchanted Lion Books Trade Cloth US $14.95 CAN $16.50 978-1-59270-125-4 W*

2013 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children’s Book 2012 New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book
Little Bird
Germano Zullo Illustrated by Albertine Enchanted Lion Books Trade Cloth US $16.95 CAN $18.50 978-1-59270-118-6 W*

PEN Pinter Prize for International Writer of Courage
A Woman in the Crossfire
Diaries of the Syrian Revolution Samar Yazbek Translated by Max Weiss Foreword by Rafik Schami Haus Publishing Trade Paper US $18.95 CAN $20.99 978-1-908323-12-5 USC

Recent Award Winners and Finalists

Congratulations to all our award winners!
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Criticism
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Collected Lectures Mary Ruefle Wave Books Trade Paper US $25.00 CAN $27.50 978-1-933517-57-5 W

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Poetry
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
Lucia Perillo Copper Canyon Press Trade Cloth US $22.00 CAN $23.99 978-1-55659-397-0 USC

2013 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The Book of Hours
Marianne Boruch Copper Canyon Press Trade Paper US $15.00 CAN $16.50 978-1-55659-385-7 USC

2012 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry
Fast Animal
Tim Seibles Etruscan Press Trade Paper US $14.00 CAN $15.50 978-0-9832944-2-9 USC

2013 Angoulême Prix Révélation
Dockwood
Jon McNaught Nobrow Press Paper over Board US $19.95 CAN $21.99 978-1-907704-26-0 USC

2013 Ellery Queen Award: Akashic Books
USA Noir
The Best of the Akashic Noir Series Edited by Johnny Temple Akashic Books Trade Paper US $16.95 CAN $18.50 978-1-61775-184-4 USLA* Trade Cloth US $29.95 CAN $32.99 978-1-61775-189-9 USLA*

Recent Award Winners and Finalists

3DTotal Publishing ...............................................................................................................................1 AK Press ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Akashic Books.....................................................................................................................................11 Alice James Books ............................................................................................................................... 21 *And Other Stories .............................................................................................................................25 Anvil Press........................................................................................................................................29 Arsenal Pulp Press .............................................................................................................................. 31 Aunt Lute Books ................................................................................................................................39 Aztext Press....................................................................................................................................... 41 Ballistic Publishing .............................................................................................................................43 Behler Publications .............................................................................................................................45 Bellevue Literary Press .........................................................................................................................47 Biblioasis ......................................................................................................................................... 51 BIS Publishers ...................................................................................................................................57 Biteback Publishing............................................................................................................................. 61 Bitter Lemon Press .............................................................................................................................67 Black Balloon Publishing ...................................................................................................................... 71 BOA Editions, Ltd..............................................................................................................................73 Breakaway Books ................................................................................................................................ 77 Bywater Books ...................................................................................................................................79 Centipede Press .................................................................................................................................83 Central Recovery Press .........................................................................................................................87 Chin Music Press................................................................................................................................ 91 Cinco Puntos Press .............................................................................................................................93 City Lights Publishers ..........................................................................................................................95 Coach House Books ...........................................................................................................................101 Coffee House Press ........................................................................................................................... 107 Contrasto ........................................................................................................................................ 113 Copper Canyon Press ......................................................................................................................... 117 *Curbside Splendor Publishing ............................................................................................................ 129 Dewi Lewis Publishing ....................................................................................................................... 139 Dzanc Books ....................................................................................................................................141 Enchanted Lion Books ........................................................................................................................153 Engine Books ...................................................................................................................................155 Enigma Books ..................................................................................................................................157 Etruscan Press ................................................................................................................................. 159 Exterminating Angel Press ................................................................................................................... 161 February Books ................................................................................................................................ 163 The Feminist Press at CUNY ................................................................................................................167 Fence Books .....................................................................................................................................173 Feral House .....................................................................................................................................175 Frame Publishers ............................................................................................................................... 181 Fulcrum Publishing ........................................................................................................................... 191 *Gallic Books ...................................................................................................................................197 Gentle Path Press..............................................................................................................................203 *GILES .........................................................................................................................................205 Gilgamesh Publishing .........................................................................................................................217 GLAS New Russian Writing................................................................................................................. 221 Global Book Sales ............................................................................................................................. 223 Green Integer .................................................................................................................................. 229 Haus Publishing ............................................................................................................................... 231 Haymarket Books ............................................................................................................................. 237 Helter Skelter Publishing ................................................................................................................... 245

Table of Contents

Holy Cow! Press ............................................................................................................................... 247 Icon Books .....................................................................................................................................249 Ig Publishing ................................................................................................................................... 255 Independent Thinking Press ............................................................................................................... 257 Kehrer Verlag .................................................................................................................................. 261 *Koyama Press ................................................................................................................................. 267 Kube Publishing Ltd ......................................................................................................................... 273 Leapfrog Press ................................................................................................................................. 277 Manic D Press.................................................................................................................................. 279 MCCM Creations ............................................................................................................................. 281 New Internationalist ......................................................................................................................... 283 New Rivers Press .............................................................................................................................. 285 New Society Publishers ...................................................................................................................... 287 Nobrow Press .................................................................................................................................. 301 Nortia Press ....................................................................................................................................305 Ocean Press .................................................................................................................................... 307 Paul Dry Books ................................................................................................................................. 311 Process ...........................................................................................................................................315 Profile Books....................................................................................................................................317 Promopress..................................................................................................................................... 321 Prospect Park Books .......................................................................................................................... 325 Pushkin Press .................................................................................................................................. 331 Redleaf Press ................................................................................................................................... 337 Saqi Books ...................................................................................................................................... 341 Sarabande Books .............................................................................................................................. 345 Serpent’s Tail .................................................................................................................................. 349 Small Beer Press ................................................................................................................................351 *Stockholm Text............................................................................................................................... 355 Stone Bridge Press ............................................................................................................................ 359 Talonbooks ..................................................................................................................................... 361 Telegram Books ............................................................................................................................... 369 Text Publishing Company ................................................................................................................... 373 Theatre Communications Group .......................................................................................................... 383 Torrey House Press ............................................................................................................................411 Turtle Point Press ............................................................................................................................. 415 Two Dollar Radio ..............................................................................................................................417 Umbrage Editions ............................................................................................................................ 421 Uncivilized Books ............................................................................................................................. 423 Wave Books ..................................................................................................................................... 427 White Pine Press............................................................................................................................... 433 Windhorse Publications ..................................................................................................................... 435 Zephyr Press ................................................................................................................................... 437 Zuccotti Park Press ............................................................................................................................ 439

*Indicates first season at Consortium
Distributed Publishers ....................................................................................................................... 441 Index by Title .................................................................................................................................. 456 Index by Primary Subject .................................................................................................................... 461 Sales Reps.......................................................................................................................................466

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Cover image by Martin Usborne from The Silence of Dogs in Cars, reproduced by permission of Kehrer Verlag.

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3DTotal Publishing Art Fundamentals
Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective, and Depth

Gilles Beloeil and Andrei Riabovitchev
Edited by 3DTotal
A broad understanding of the fundamental concepts, conventions, and theories of art is essential when it comes to producing a successful piece of work. Art Fundamentals addresses key basic subjects such as color and light, composition, perspective and depth, anatomy, and portraying emotions in a series of insightful chapters. Find out about color relationships and how to choose colors that work well together. Learn about the Rule of Thirds, Rule of Odds, Golden Triangle, and Divine Proportions, all of which are key when it comes to creating a realistic and dynamic composition. Discover the power of storytelling in an image and how the slightest tilt of an eyebrow can transform happiness into anger. Written by some of the most experienced artists in the games and film industries, including Gilles Beloeil (Assassin’s Creed series) and Andrei Riabovitchev (Prometheus and X-Men: First Class), this title gives newcomers the tools they need to get them started on their artistic journey and offers veterans a chance to brush up on their theory. Gilles Beloeil is a senior concept artist and matte painter at Ubisoft Montreal who has spent the last several years working on titles in the best-selling Assassin’s Creed video game series. Andrei Riabovitchev works for MPC in the United Kingdom as a concept artist and has an impressive résumé that includes Prometheus, X-Men: First Class, and Snow White and the Huntsman.
ART September 11 x 8½ | 320 pp 450 color illustrations Slipcased US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-1-909414-00-6 USC

A back-to-basics look at the fundamental concepts, conventions, and theory that should be considered when creating art.

Marketing Plans
• Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.3dtotal.com and www.3dtotalpublishing.com

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3DTotal Publishing Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 5
Levi Hopkins, Shaddy Safadi, and Brian Sum
Edited by 3DTotal
Celebrating its fifth year, Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 5 continues to present the latest digital painting trends and techniques, courtesy of experts including Brian Sum (Mass Effect series) and Levi Hopkins (Guild Wars series). This year’s volume features such topics as weapon design, cartoon characters, painting materials, and battle scenes, and is a worthy addition to this groundbreaking series. Brian Sum is a concept artist and video games developer for BioWare and his credits include the award-winning Mass Effect series.
ART / COMPUTERS October A Paperback Original Digital Painting Techniques 8½ x 11 | 288 pp 350 color illustrations Trade Paper US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-1-909414-01-3 USC

Levi Hopkins is a versatile artist who has worked in a variety of different positions on the best-selling Guild Wars series.

Brush up on the latest digital painting techniques with the fifth volume in this essential series for any digital artist.

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion by authors on websites and in online forums Promotion through: www.3dtotal.com and www.3dtotalpublishing.com

Sketching from the Imagination
An Insight into Creative Drawing

Edited by 3DTotal
Concepts are where all great ideas begin. Whether scribbled in a sketch pad or on a napkin, concepts are a way for artists to discover interesting shapes and forms that can be developed into their next masterpiece. In Sketching from the Imagination, fifty talented artists have been chosen to share their sketchbooks and explain the reasons behind their design decisions. Follow their progress from the initial strokes of a pencil through to a detailed sketch, and experience a great value masterclass in concept design.
ART November A Paperback Original 8½ x 9 | 320 pp 750 color and B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $29.99 | CAN $32.99 978-1-909414-02-0 USC

An exclusive selection of awe-inspiring traditional and digital concept designs and sketches from some of the world’s most talented artists.

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.3dtotal.com and www.3dtotalpublishing.com

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3DTotal Publishing Designing New Worlds
Digitally Painting Coherent Characters, Vehicles, and Environments

Edited by 3DTotal
If you ever wanted to create an exciting new world full of fascinating landscapes and inhabitants but weren’t sure where to start, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. Designing New Worlds will take you through the process from beginning to end, starting with establishing the initial IP or game pitch, through to designing and populating your world. The combined experience of top artists like Raphael Lübke, Gerhard Mozsi (The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader), and Yong Sub Noh makes this title unmissable.
ART January A Paperback Original 9½ x 12 | 180 pp 300 color illustrations Trade Paper US $39.99 | CAN $43.99 978-1-909414-03-7 USC

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.3dtotal.com and www.3dtotalpublishing.com

Learn how to create and populate exciting new worlds at the feet of digital art masters.

The Unreal Game Engine
A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Playable Levels

Andrew Finch
The Unreal game engine is a versatile system that has been used to power a variety of best-selling video games. In The Unreal Game Engine, environment artist Andrew Finch looks at how to create game levels using the free Unreal Development Kit, from modeling the environment and building objects to adding those objects to the scene, texturing, and lighting. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a level designer, then look no further! Andrew Finch works for Codemasters games studio as an environment artist and his credits include F1 2012 and Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron.
COMPUTERS / ART March A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 288 pp 350 color photographs Trade Paper US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-1-909414-04-4 USC

Marketing Plans
Outreach to digital art publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.3dtotal.com and www.3dtotalpublishing.com

Discover how to create and populate your own video game level using the Unreal game engine.

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Selected Backlist from 3DTotal Publishing

Beginner’s Guide to Creating Manga Art
Learn to Draw, Color and Design Characters Steven Cummings and Gonzalo Ordoñez
Edited by 3DTotal

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Low Poly Game Character Gavin Goulden
Edited by 3DTotal
ART / COMPUTERS 8¼ x 9¾ | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $23.99 | CAN $26.50 978-0-9568171-7-4 USC

3D Masterclass: The Swordmaster in 3ds Max and ZBrush

Digital Art Masters: Volume 8
Edited by 3DTotal
ART / COMPUTERS 8½ x 11 | 320 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-0-9568171-8-1 USC

ART 11 x 8½ | 240 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.99 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9568171-6-7 USC

Crafting 3D Photorealism
Lighting Workflows in 3ds Max, mental ray and V-Ray Jamie Cardoso
Edited by 3DTotal
ART 7½ x 9½ | 344 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $39.99 | CAN $43.99 978-0-9568171-5-0 USC

Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop
Nykolai Aleksander and Richard Tilbury
Edited by 3DTotal

Prime: The Definitive Digital Art Collection
Edited by 3DTotal
ART 8½ x 11¾ | 400 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $59.99 | CAN $65.99 978-0-9568171-4-3 USC

ART / COMPUTERS 8½ x 11 | 224 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $49.99 | CAN $54.99 978-0-9551530-7-5 USC

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AK Press Dear Sister
Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence

Edited by Lisa Factora-Borchers
Introduction by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Dear Sister, It wasn’t your fault; it was never your fault. You did nothing wrong. Hold this tight to your heart: it wasn’t your fault. At night when you lay there and your mind fills with images and you wonder if only, if you had . . . if you hadn’t . . . . Remember: it wasn’t your fault. Dear Sister highlights the lessons, memories, and vision of over forty artists, activists, mothers, writers, and students who share a common bond: they are survivors of sexual violence. Written in an epistolary format, this multigenerational, multi-ethnic collection of letters and essays is a moving journey into the hearts and minds of the survivors of rape, incest, and other forms of sexual violence, written directly to and for other survivors. Dear Sister goes far beyond traditional books about healing, which often use “experts” to explain the experience of survivors for the rest of the world. Where other books about rape weave the voices of feminists and activists together and imagine what a world without violence might look like, Dear Sister describes the reality of what the world looks like through the eyes of a survivor. From a professor in the Midwest to a poet in Belgium, an escapee from a child prostitution ring, a survivor advocate in the Congo, and a sex worker in San Francisco, Dear Sister touches on issues of feminism, love, disability, gender, justice, identity, and spirituality. Lisa Factora-Borchers is a Filipina writer and editor whose work has been published in make/shift, Bitch, Left Turn, and Critical Moment.
One quarter of the total female population of the United States will experience rape at some point in their lives.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / SELF-HELP January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 178 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84935-172-0 USC

Marketing Plans
• National TV and radio campaign • Outreach to organizations focusing on violence against women • Social media campaign • Published to coincide with Women’s History Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • San Fransisco, CA • Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA

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AK Press The Method of Freedom
An Errico Malatesta Reader

Essays by Errico Malatesta
Edited by Davide Turcato Translated by Paul Sharkey
For sixty years, Errico Malatesta’s involvement with international anarchism helped fuel the movement’s radical approach to class and labor, and directly impacted the workers’ movement in Italy. A talented newspaper journalist, Malatesta’s biting critiques were frequently short and to the point—and written directly to and for the workers. Though his few long-form essays, including “Anarchy” and “Our Program,” have been widely available in English translation since the 1950s, the bulk of Malatesta’s most revolutionary writing remains unknown to English-speaking audiences. In The Method of Freedom, editor Davide Turcato presents an expansive collection of Malatesta’s work, including new translations of existing works and a wealth of shorter essays translated here for the first time. Offering readers a thorough overview of the evolution of Malatesta’s revolutionary thought during his half a century as an anarchist propagandist, The Method of Freedom explores revolutionary violence and workplace democracy, the general strike and the limitations of trade unionism, propaganda by the deed and the revolution in practice.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 330 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-84935-144-7 USC

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) was an enormously popular Italian anarchist, perhaps most well-known for his strong support of direct action and the general strike. A talented newspaper journalist and editor, Malatesta spent much of his life exiled from Italy because of his political beliefs. Davide Turcato is a computational linguist and an independent historian. He is the author of Making Sense of Anarchism and the editor of Malatesta’s collected works, a ten-volume project currently underway in Italy, to be released in English by AK Press.
Key essays, speeches, and strategies for self-emancipation from Italy’s most important anarchist.

Marketing Plans
• Social media campaign • Outreach to major journals of social science and political theory

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Fransisco, CA • Oakland, CA • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • Seattle, WA

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AK Press Eichmann on the Potomac
The Psychopathology of Drone Warfare

Norman Pollack
“Pollack is the Hannah Arendt of our time.”—Gabriel Kolko A searing indictment of the Barack Obama administration and the unchecked growth of executive power, Eichmann on the Potomac is a political and psychological profile of the contemporary imperial mindset. Norman Pollack’s book places Obama’s drone warfare program and targeted assassination plan into historical and legal context, showing how the routinization of assassination, aerial surveillance, and undeclared warfare shreds the constitutional limitations on unrestrained executive power. Norman Pollack is a widely published historian, lecturer, and Guggenheim fellow. His previous books include The Just Polity and The Populist Response to Industrial America.
Marketing Plans
National TV and radio campaign Outreach to major news outlets and journals of political science Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.counterpunch.org Author Hometown: East Lansing, MI POLITICAL SCIENCE December A Paperback Original Counterpunch 5 x 7½ | 250 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84935-182-9 USC

A “signature strike” against the government’s most terrifying weapon at home and abroad.

Blood and Betrayal
Inside Mexico’s Drug Wars

Paul Imison
Paul Imison’s Blood and Betrayal is a vivid and chilling A–Z of the Mexican drug war. It’s the story of how drug gangs, politicians, and the bankers of Mexico have capitalized on American prohibitionism, unleashing a wave of unprecedented and horrific violence. It also tells a modern history of Mexico, focusing on the broader factors behind the violence—the global drug market, US policy in Latin America, and corruption and impunity in Mexico. Paul Imison has published extensively on the politics of Mexico and Latin America and the drug war in CounterPunch, NarcoNews, AlterNet, and in the Mexican press.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / TRUE CRIME October A Paperback Original Counterpunch 5 x 7½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84935-178-2 USC

Marketing Plans
International TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign Coordinated publicity with Mexican citizen peace groups Promotion through: www.counterpunch.org

A beyond-the-headlines investigation into the local and global factors that have left one hundred thousand dead.

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AK Press Presente!
Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice Voces Inmigrantes Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial

Edited by Cristina Tzintzún, Carlos Pérez de Alejo, and Arnulfo Manríquez
Foreword by Juan González
Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate “browning of America.” Leftleaning journalists, on the other hand, foreground victimization, emphasizing the plight of immigrants, stripping them of their agency. Neither captures the range of experiences within undocumented immigrant communities, and both fail to see immigrants as active participants in their own struggle for racial and economic justice. Presente! offers a rare perspective on the immigrant-rights movement, written by immigrant workers themselves. Including a range of essays exploring the intersection of race, class, and immigration in the United States, this anthology challenges its readers to move beyond a “legalization-only” framework and embrace a broader vision for social justice organizing embodied in the work of grassroots organizations across the country resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change. Offered in a dual-language edition, with a foreword by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzáles. Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project, a Texas based workers’ rights organization. Carlos Pérez de Alejo is the executive director of Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives. Arnulfo Manríquez is an organizer at Workers Defense Project, where he organizes immigrant construction workers to defend their labor and human rights.
Documenting the undocumented: voices of immigrant workers.

SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5½ x 7½ | 270 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84935-166-9 USC Spanish bilingual

Marketing Plans
• Outreach to major political periodicals and newspapers • Social media campaign • Coordinated national publicity with major immigrant rights groups

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AK Press Direct Struggle Against Capital
A Peter Kropotkin Anthology

Essays by Peter Kropotkin
Edited with an introduction by Iain McKay
This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin’s writings available in English. Over half the selections have been translated for the first time or salvaged from long-out-of-print pamphlets and newspapers. Both an introduction to classic texts and a recontextualization of Kropotkin from saintly philosopher to dangerous revolutionary, Direct Struggle Against Capital includes a historical introduction, biographical sketch, glossary, bibliography, and index. Peter Kropotkin was one of anarchism’s most famous thinkers. His classic works include The Conquest of Bread and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. Iain McKay has edited An Anarchist FAQ (volumes one and two) and Property Is Theft: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 680 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84935-170-6 USC

Marketing Plans
Outreach to libraries Outreach to academic journals of history, political theory, and evolutionary studies Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.anarchism.pageabode.com

This compelling collection of Peter Kropotkin’s work helps recast him as the innovative revolutionary he truly was.

Ready for Revolution
The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938

Agustín Guillamón
Translated by Paul Sharkey
Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain’s largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers’ defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish Civil War. A fascinating new history and a lively narrative of ordinary men and women making history. Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian and the author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–39 and The Committees Revolution.
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE February A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 170 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84935-142-3 USC

Marketing Plans
Social media campaign • Outreach to journals of history and revolutionary movements Promotion through translations of interviews with author

An armed, clandestine, union committee evolves into the revolutionary vanguard.

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AK Press SCUM Manifesto
Valerie Solanas

First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this no-holdsbarred classic is a call to action—a radical feminist vision for a different world. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol.

SOCIAL SCIENCE September 4½ x 6½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $10.00 | CAN $10.99 978-1-84935-180-5 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-87317-644-3

Marketing Plans Time to dust off the switchblade— the SCUM Manifesto is back!
Outreach to major feminist publications • Outreach to feminist and women’s bookclubs Social media campaign Author Hometown: New York, NY

Self and Determination
An Inward Look at Collective Liberation

Joshua Stephens
Self and Determination examines the way selves are constructed through physical experiences, social forces, and cultural meanings that determine the conditions and limitations of social transformation. Joshua Stephens puts cognitive and neuro-science in conversation with Buddhist practice and critical theory, tackling “the self” as a site of intervention and decolonization. A crucial rethinking of the practicalities of on-the-ground organizing and the assumptions that drive it—from Occupy to international solidarity. Joshua Stephens is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. His writing has appeared in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Upping the Anti, and The European Journal of Eco-Psychology.
Marketing Plans
Social media campaign Outreach to spirituality, new age studies, yoga, and science publications Coordinated publicity with Buddhist organizations

PHILOSOPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original Anarchist Interventions 4½ x 6½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-1-84935-176-8 USC

The personal may be political, but what is a person? “Self” help for revolutionaries.

Author Events
Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Akashic Books As Flies to Whatless Boys
Robert Antoni

“Robert Antoni is one of the most original and eloquent writers working today.”—Stephen Dixon, author of I. “Trinidad, indeed the whole of the Caribbean, has its James Joyce.” —George Plimpton In 1845 London, an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist, and bold-faced charlatan, John Adolphus Etzler, has invented machines that he thinks will transform the division of labor and free all men. He forms a collective called the Tropical Emigration Society (TES), and recruits a variety of London citizens to take his machines and his misguided ideas to form a proto-Socialist, utopian community in the British colony of Trinidad. Among his recruits is a young boy (and the book’s narrator) named Willy, who falls head-over-heels for the enthralling and wise Marguerite Whitechurch. Coming from the gentry, Marguerite is a world away from Willy’s laboring class. As the voyage continues, and their love for one another strengthens, Willy and Marguerite prove themselves to be true Socialists, their actions and adventures standing in stark contrast to Etzler’s disconnected theories. Robert Antoni’s tragic historical novel, accented with West Indian cadence and captivating humor, provides an unforgettable glimpse into nineteenthcentury Trinidad and Tobago. Robert Antoni is the author of the landmark novel Divina Trace, for which he received a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and an NEA grant. He was a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, and recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad and Tobago National Library. He now lives in Manhattan, New York, and teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School University.
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FICTION / HISTORY September 5¼ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-156-1 USLA* (includes Canada) Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-155-4 USLA* (includes Canada)

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign 8-city national tour

Tragedy and humor meet in an adventure-packed, historical novel about a British incursion into the island of Trinidad in 1845.

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

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Akashic Books The Night of the Rambler
Montague Kobbé

“This is a fine novel, a surprising novel, perhaps the first true novel I have read about the nature of revolutions. The Night of the Rambler is ambitious, smart, and successful. It raises all sorts of questions about what revolutions want, how revolutions fail, and why revolutions are necessary—challenging all the while how history remembers them.”—Percival Everett, author of Erasure A sympathetic and often humorous account of an obscure episode in the history of the remote Caribbean island of Anguilla, The Night of the Rambler revolves around a haphazard attempt by a dozen or so locals to invade neighboring St. Kitts in an effort to topple the government of the recently established Associated State of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. Ostensibly, the action maps the fifteen hours that lapse between the moment when the “rebels” board the Rambler, the thirty-five-foot motorboat that will take them across the strait to St. Kitts, and the break of dawn the following day, when it becomes obvious that the unaccomplished mission will have to be aborted. The novel is at turns highly dramatic and hilarious, all the while bringing deep honesty to the often-unexamined righteousness of revolution. With echoes of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversation in the Cathedral, the novel presents an intricate pattern of subtly related anecdotes woven together by a handful of rich and complex characters. Montague Kobbé was born in Venezuela and has had close ties to Anguilla for over twenty-five years. He maintains a regular literary column in the WEEKender supplement of Sint Maarten’s Daily Herald.
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FICTION / HISTORY September A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-181-3 USLA* (includes Canada)

A gorgeously written and highly entertaining debut novel about a small island’s struggle for independence from Britain.

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Akashic Books Simon’s Cat vs. the World
Simon Tofield
“What elevates Tofield’s simple but expressive line drawings above the large litter of competing kitties is his keen grasp of cartoon physics and comedy cat antics. With a pitch-perfect pen, he captures the simple, realistic acrobatics of cats tumbling with toys or gracefully stretching out in the sun, and chronicles their adventures in pantomime stripes that pit them against household objects, their owner, and each other.”—Publishers Weekly Booksellers love Simon’s Cat: “My staff loves Simon’s Cat!”—Christine Onorati, Word Bookstore, Brooklyn, New York “Finally, the perfect (purrfect?) cat book for our store.”—Owen Hill, Moe’s Books, Berkeley, California “We have long been fans of Simon’s Cat.”—Britton Trice, Garden District Book Shop, New Orleans, Louisiana “The other Simon’s Cat books have sold well here. Cat lovers seem to be big readers (or vice versa). Can’t wait to see the new book.”—Kathleen Jewell, Pomegranate Books, Wilmington, North Carolina Simon’s Cat proved his authority in the house. He returned victorious from his adventures beyond the garden fence. He prevailed after the chaotic arrival of a new kitten. Now he takes on the world! Illustrated in glorious full color, this volume explodes from the page with mesmerizing levels of detail. Simon’s Cat films have over 280 million YouTube views! Simon Tofield is an award-winning illustrator, animator, and director at Tandem Films in London. At the age of nine, Simon received his first kitten, a stray rescued from a farmer’s barn. He has had cats ever since. When not attending to his cats’ needs, Simon likes painting, reading history books, and spending time in the great British countryside. His Simon’s Cat short films have garnered hundreds of millions of views, and the book versions have been international bestsellers.
This year, the world’s favorite cat faces his biggest series of challenges yet, as he takes on the whole globe! Also Available
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR October 8¾ x 7 | 96 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth, Picture Book US $15.95 978-1-61775-188-2 US

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Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos Simon Tofield COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR 8¼ x 6½ | 240 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-61775-158-5 US

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Akashic Books We Do!
American Leaders Who Believe in Marriage Equality

Edited by Jennifer Baumgardner and Madeleine M. Kunin
“Madeleine Kunin argues that empowering women to succeed at home and at work is both good economics and good social policy. She presents a convincing road map for how we achieve that vision, and calls on all of us to be part of a brighter future.”—President Bill Clinton Remember when gay marriage was the easiest way to inflame an otherwise mild electorate? This volume demonstrates, through speeches, interviews, and commentary, the encouraging story of American acceptance of gay marriage and the roles that politicians—gay and straight—have played in that history. This movement began with individuals telling the truth about who they are to a world that doesn’t accept them. From Supervisor Harvey Milk articulating in 1978 why gay people in all fields must be out and visible; to Governor Andrew Cuomo blinking back tears as he discussed his pride in making gay marriage a reality in New York in 2011; to President Obama’s unprecedented support and the courage of many other American politicians—We Do! triumphantly chronicles this recent chapter of our history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-187-5 USLA* (includes Canada)

Jennifer Baumgardner is the co-author of the contemporary feminist classics Manifesta and Grassroots. Baumgardner has won numerous awards for her activism; her work is widely taught and she has given keynote addresses at more than 250 colleges and universities. Madeleine M. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont and served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. She is the author of three books.

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This volume demonstrates, through speeches and interviews, the astounding story of American politicians’ increasing acceptance of gay marriage.

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Akashic Books Bedrock Faith
Eric Charles May
After fourteen years in prison, Gerald “Stew Pot” Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A frightening delinquent before being sent away, his return sends Parkland residents into a religiously infused tailspin, which only increases when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison. Eric Charles May is an associate professor in the Fiction Writing department at Columbia College Chicago. A Chicago, Illinois, native and former reporter for the Washington Post, his fiction has appeared in the magazines Fish Stories, F, and Criminal Class. In addition to his Post reporting, his nonfiction has appeared in Sport Literate, the Chicago Tribune, and the personal essay anthology Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck.
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FICTION March A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 420 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-61775-196-7 USLA* (includes Canada)

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

A deeply engaging and often hilarious debut novel about a morality clash in an insular Chicago neighborhood.

Unmentionables
Laurie Loewenstein
“Meticulously researched and exquisitely written, Unmentionables is a memorable debut.”—Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer Marian Elliott Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Caledonia with her speech: how can women compete with men in the workplace and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? Laurie Loewenstein grew up in the flatlands of western Ohio and now resides in Rochester, New York, where Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872.
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FICTION January A Paperback Original Kaylie Jones Books 5¼ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-194-3 USLA* (includes Canada)

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Albany, NY • New York, NY • Rochester, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: Rochester, NY

A powerful debut historical novel to launch a new imprint, Kaylie Jones Books, curated by acclaimed author Kaylie Jones.

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Akashic Books Drawing Autism
Edited by Jill Mullin
Introduction by Temple Grandin, PhD

“What is the actual experience of living with autism in a deep-felt sense, beyond the social stereotypes and headline-worthy superskills? Drawing Autism, a celebration of the artistry and self-expression found in artwork by people diagnosed with autism, explores just that. The stunning volume features works by more fifty international contributors, from children to established artists, that illustrate the rich multiplicity of the condition.”—The Atlantic “Drawing Autism is a drop-dead beautiful book that celebrates the artistry and self-expression found in the drawings, paintings, and collages created by individuals diagnosed with autism. It is a stunning, thoughtful and yes, HOPEFUL book that is not just for families touched by autism, but for all who are curious about the disorder.”—Examiner “If you’re a practicing or aspiring art therapist, this book is essential reading and it also offers the casual reader an insight into this curious strand of outsider art.”—Grafik Magazine
PSYCHOLOGY / ART March First Trade Paper Edition 8 x 11 | 160 pp 150 color illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-61775-198-1 USLA* (includes Canada)

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Over the last decade autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has become an international topic of conversation, knowing no racial, ethnic, or social barriers. Behavior analyst and educator Jill Mullin has assembled a staggering array of work from established artists like Gregory Blackstock, Jessica Park, and Ping Lian Yeak to the unknown but no less talented. Their creations, coupled with artist interviews, comprise a fascinating and compelling book that serves to educate and inspire anyone who knows someone diagnosed with ASD. Mullin’s introduction and the foreword by best-selling author Temple Grandin provide an overview of autism and advocate for nurturing the talents, artistic and otherwise, of autistic individuals. Jill Mullin, AS, MSEd, BCBA, is a behavior analyst and educator who teaches and applies a behavioral approach when working with individuals diagnosed with ASD. Temple Grandin, PhD, is considered the most accomplished adult with autism. She is the author of several books, including the bestsellers The Way I See It and Animals in Translation.
Autism spectrum disorder is found in one of every eighty-eight children— this gorgeous book offers powerful insight into the disorder.

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Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Editor Hometown: Queens, NY

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Akashic Books USA Noir
Best of the Akashic Noir Series

Edited by Johnny Temple

“Hold the eggnog: What you need is a draft of ‘edgy fatalism and sexy recklessness,’ of flashy crime, gallows humor, and ‘desperate deals with a variety of devils,’ served up every year since 2004 by the editors of Akashic Books’ brilliant noir anthologies. From Brooklyn to Boston, from Phoenix to pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans, each volume in the series reveals a city’s distinctive inner darkness.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Contributors include: Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Susan Straight, Jonathan Safran Foer, Laura Lippman, Pete Hamill, Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Terrance Hayes, Jerome Charyn, Jeffery Deaver, Maggie Estep, Bayo Ojikutu, Tim McLoughlin, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Reed Farrel Coleman, Megan Abbott, Elyssa East, James W. Hall, J. Malcolm Garcia, Julie Smith, Joseph Bruchac, Pir Rothenberg, Luis Alberto Urrea, Domenic Stansberry, John O’Brien, S.J. Rozan, Asali Solomon, William Kent Krueger, Tim Broderick, Bharti Kirchner, Karen Karbo, and Lisa Sandlin. Launched with the summer 2004 award-winning bestseller Brooklyn Noir, the groundbreaking Akashic Noir series now includes over sixty volumes and counting. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the city or region of the book. This is the first “best of” volume and it powerfully conveys what the series has accomplished. Johnny Temple is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books. He won the 2013 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2010 Jay and Deen Kogan Award for Excellence in Noir Literature. He is the chair of the Brooklyn Literary Council, which works with Brooklyn’s borough president to plan the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. Temple also plays bass guitar in the band Girls Against Boys, which has toured extensively across the globe and released numerous albums on independent and major record companies.
The first best-of collection from the Akashic Noir series assembles some of the greatest writers of our time into a single volume.
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FICTION / MYSTERY November Akashic Noir 6 x 9 | 548 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-61775-184-4 USLA* (includes Canda) Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-61775-189-9 USLA* (includes Canada)

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Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • New York, NY Editor Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Akashic Books Haiti Noir 2
The Classics

Edited by Edwidge Danticat
Praise for the original Haiti Noir: “Danticat has succeeded in assembling a group portrait of Haitian culture and resilience that is cause for celebration.”—Publishers Weekly “This anthology will give American readers a complex and nuanced portrait of the real Haiti not seen on the evening news and introduce them to some original and wonderful writers.”—Library Journal “The Haiti book offers its own spin with plenty of grisly crime, dire poverty, and references to magic and religion. There is also some tenderness.” —The New York Times Classic stories by: Graham Greene, Marie-Hélène Laforest, Truman Capote, Dany Laferrière, Roxane Gay, Nick Stone, Pierre Marcelin and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, Ben Fountain, Georges Anglade, Lyonel Trouillot, Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Ida Faubert, Michèle Voltaire Marcelin, Jacques Roumain, Frankétienne, Paulette Poujol Oriol, Jan J. Dominique, and others. The original best-selling Haiti Noir comprised all-new stories by today’s best Haitian authors. This new volume collects the true classics of Haitian literature—both short stories and excerpts from longer works—and will be an integral piece of understanding how Haitian culture has evolved over the past fifty years. Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the editor of Haiti Noir and author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories The Dew Breaker. She lives in Miami, Florida.
The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope. Also Available

FICTION / MYSTERY January Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-193-6 USLA* (includes Canada) Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-61775-192-9 USLA* (includes Canada)

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Washington, DC • Miami, FL • New York, NY Editor Hometown: Miami, FL

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Haiti Noir Edited by Edwidge Danticat FICTION Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-936070-65-7 USLA* (includes Canada)

Akashic Books Dallas Noir
Edited by David Hale Smith
Featuring brand-new stories by: Kathleen Kent, Ben Fountain, Clay Reynolds, Harry Hunsicker, Matt Bondurant, Merritt Tierce, Emma Rathbone, Jonathan Woods, Fran Hillyer, Daniel J. Hale, and others. In a country with so many interesting cities, Dallas is often overlooked— except on November 22 every year. The anniversary keeps coming back around in a nightmare loop, for all of us. In a stark ongoing counterweight to the John F. Kennedy tragedy are the two iterations of that ridiculous TV show. But Dallas is the ultimate noir town. David Hale Smith is a literary agent based in Dallas, Texas. Along with fourteen Edgar Award nominations, his clients have won the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Shamus, Barry, Macavity, Eisner, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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FICTION / MYSTERY November A Paperback Original Akashic Noir 5¼ x 8¼ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-190-5 USLA* (includes Canada)

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New York, NY • Austin, TX • Dallas, TX • Houston, TX Editor Hometown: Dallas, TX

Texas’s ultimate noir town reveals its unseemly underbelly.

2001–2011: Colaterales
Dinapiera Di Donato
“Dinapiera Di Donato’s poetry exhibits a tremendous control of language. . . . She is both ancient and contemporary . . . a vital poet who honors the memory of Octavio Paz.”—Victor Hernández Cruz, author of In the Shadow of Al-Andalus These poems were written during days spent clearing river debris while the author was living along the Hudson River in Manhattan. The poems speak of these wanderings in the imaginary landscape of a nomadic subject who erases and rewrites. Dinapiera Di Donato is an award-winning poet and fiction writer born in Venezuela. She has published several books, including La Sorda (poetry) and La Sonrisa de Bernardo Atxaga (novel). In 2011 she received a grant from the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. Currently she lives in New York where she teaches Spanish and French.
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POETRY December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 75 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-191-2 USLA* (includes Canada) Spanish bilingual

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

The debut winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series.

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Selected Backlist from Akashic Books

Go the Fuck to Sleep
Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés
HUMOR 8¼ x 6½ | 32 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $14.95 | CAN $16.95 978-1-61775-025-0 W*

Adam Mansbach

Seriously, Just Go to Sleep
Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés
JUVENILE FICTION 11 x 8¼ | 32 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-078-6 W* Ages 1 to 10

Adam Mansbach

Office Girl
Joe Meno
FICTION / ART 4 x 7 | 224 pp 10 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-076-2 W*

Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos
Simon Tofield
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR 8¼ x 6½ | 240 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-61775-158-5 US

Wingshooters
Nina Revoyr
FICTION 5¼ x 8¼ | 230 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-936070-71-8 USLA* (includes Canada)

Every Boy Should Have a Man
Preston L. Allen
FICTION 6 x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61775-157-8 USLA* (includes Canada)

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Alice James Books Hum
Jamaal May

“After so much contemporary writing that seems all flash, no mind and no heart, these poems show how close observation of the world and a gift for plain-spoken, but eloquent speech, can give to poetry both dignity and largeness of purpose.”—Tom Sleigh In Jamaal May’s debut collection, the human body is machine, manufactured in the motor city, alive with the urban sounds and beats. Poems buzz and purr like well-oiled chassis. Grit and trial and song thrum through each line. Tight syntax, finely tuned internal rhyme, and punchy consonants percuss each poem’s beat like an unfailing 808 drum. From “Mechanophobia: Fear of Machines”: There is no work left for the husks. Automated welders like us, your line replacements, can’t expect sympathy after our bright arms of cable rust over. So come collect us for scrap, grind us up in the mouth of one of us. Let your hand pry at the access panel with the edge of a knife, silencing the motor and thrum. Jamaal May was raised by two auto workers in Detroit, Michigan, where he eventually taught poetry in public schools. After making a living as a selftaught poet and musician, Jamaal went on to publish two chapbooks, earn an MFA from Warren Wilson, and be featured in Callaloo, Indiana Review, Blackbird, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among other journals, films, and broadcasts. He’s the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Bucknell University, where he was named the 2011–2013 Stadler Fellow.
Jamaal May’s language hits us hard and fast, immersing us in the rhythm and rush of his city’s ardent heart.

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938584-02-2 USC

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Advance reader copies • Excerpts in: Kenyon Review • Ploughshares • Poetry • National advertising: American Poet • American Poetry Review • Poets & Writers • The Writers Chronicle • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.alicejamesbooks.org and www.jamaalmay.com

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New Haven, CT • Bloomington, IN • Detroit, MI • University, MS • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Detroit, MI

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Alice James Books Viral
Suzanne Parker

“Parker turns tragedy into art—not for sensationalism, but an honoring of innocence, and love.”—Kurt Brown “Part outrage, part elegy, these spare and exact poems move me deeply.” —Thomas Lux Written in response to the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi, Viral explores the complex issues of sexuality, shame, and masculinity. Grief and loss guide us as Suzanne Parker investigates the issues of privacy, voyeurism, and human contact, seeking to understand what it means to live in a world where technology can quickly turn a dark computer screen into an open window. Only Kissing The webcam showed only the two men kissing In the eyes now a wilderness— when the birds open their beaks not in song, but a breath escapes from the rigor of killing and feeding and climbing to find, again, the swaying of the grass, the nudging a body makes as it moves, no matter how quietly, through the world, setting its neighbors in motion— How do you sleep when the siren is your own exhaled cry: “Oh Christ.” Suzanne Parker’s poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Rattapallax, and numerous other journals. She is a winner of the Alice M. Sellars Award from the Academy of American Poets, was a poetry fellow at the Prague Summer Seminars, and has received fellowships and scholarships from Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar and Prairie Schooner. Suzanne directs the creative writing program at Brookdale Community College and is an editor for MEAD: A Magazine of Literature and Libations.
Reflecting on the tragic suicide of Tyler Clementi, Viral reveals the way any one event ripples outward to affect many.

POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938584-01-5 USC

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Alice James Books Orphan
Jan Heller Levi

Praise for Jan Heller Levi: “It’s Levi’s humanity that ultimately won’t let you loose, words as direct as bullets, as kisses.”—Bob Holman Pioneering to free herself from worldly desires, Jan Heller Levi approaches the world with mindful observation, teaching us the art of surrender and release. Her adventure is vibrant, one of nonconformity wherein we encounter wisdom and wit even at points of deepest personal struggles. Levi’s poems are written with unabashed humor and sincerity, exuding confidence, generosity of spirit, and love. What Love Is To forsake all others. To float the beloved on your back from flood to land, to wrench bread from the beggar’s hand, snatch the oxygen mask from a child’s face. To ransack hospitals and nursing homes for drugs to ease the beloved’s pain, to stumble down 101 floors, beloved slung on your back, not stopping for the other ones in wheelchairs waiting at the landing doors. Jan Heller Levi’s first collection of poems, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, won the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and poems from her second collection, Skyspeak, won The Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. She is editor of A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, served as consulting editor for the new edition of The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, and is currently writing the biography of Rukeyser. She lives in New York City with her husband, the Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller, and teaches at Hunter College.

POETRY January A Paperback Original 6 x 8 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938584-03-9 USC

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“Because we like the maps, we take the trips,” Jan Heller Levi writes, and we follow her, wholeheartedly, on this transformative journey.

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Selected Backlist from Alice James Books

We Come Elemental
Tamiko Beyer
POETRY 6 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938584-00-8 USC

Angelo Nikolopoulos
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-882295-99-9 USC

Obscenely Yours

Matthew Olzmann
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-882295-98-2 USC

Mezzanines

Edited by Anne Marie Macari and Carey Salerno
Introduction by Maxine Kumin
POETRY 6 x 9 | 384 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-882295-96-8 USC

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

Roxane Beth Johnson
POETRY 5¾ x 9¼ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-882295-95-1 USC

Black Crow Dress

Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
As told by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine
POETRY 6 x 8 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-882295-94-4 USC

Marina Tsvetaeva

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And Other Stories
High Wycombe, England

“And Other Stories is a wonderful enterprise.”—Jonathan Lethem “And Other Stories is inspired.”—Ali Smith “A personalized antidote to the behemoth model of Amazon publishing.”—The Irish Times “And Other Stories add a new dimension to publishing.”—The Guardian “And Other Stories, arguably the hottest and most successful new publisher of the past few years.” —Chad Post, Three Percent We are a new independent British publisher of great fiction. The UK publishers of Down the Rabbit Hole (shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award) and Swimming Home (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012), we are now acquiring titles with world English rights. Great books can come from anywhere and from any language. We choose fiction for its originality and listen carefully to our reading groups made up of readers, writers, and translators, many of whom are eminent figures in their fields. Because our publisher Stefan Tobler and editor Sophie Lewis are translators too, we know whom to ask. Carlos Gamerro’s The Islands was called “one of the most ambitious novels about war” in the Nation recently, and we believe all our titles will receive reviews as excellent in North America as they have garnered in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Our beautifully made books are perfect for bookshops, for holding in your hands. Carefully crafted using designer Joseph Harries’s series design, good quality paper, and the little luxury of French flaps, these are not your average paperbacks. Many flagship bookshops in the United Kingdom, including Foyles, Daunt, and Waterstones, have found the series makes an eye-catching display. We hope you’ll enjoy discovering our list. We are excited to be bringing our authors to North American readers. www.andotherstories.org @andothertweets

first season at Consortium

And Other Stories All Dogs Are Blue
Rodrigo de Souza Leão
Translated by Zoë Perry and Stefan Tobler Introduction by Deborah Levy
“Rodrigo de Souza Leão is an exceptional author and has had a major impact on contemporary Brazilian literature.”—Paulo Scott All Dogs are Blue is a scurrilously funny tale of life in a Rio insane asylum. Its raw style and comic inventiveness signal a major voice in Brazilian literature. Sadly the author died, aged forty-three, soon after it was published in 2008. Due to his mental fragility, Rodrigo de Souza Leão rarely left his house and yet, through social media, blogging, and e-mail, he became close to many Brazilian writers and poets and remains highly regarded today.

FICTION September A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-20-9 USC

One of the most original and comic voices to come out of Brazil— Rodrigo de Souza Leão orchestrates a carnival among the mad.

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Open Door
Iosi Havilio
Translated by Beth Fowler Afterword by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
“An ambiguous tale that verges on dark comedy. . . . With skill and subtlety, the novel hints that a whole society might labor under an illusion of liberty.” —The Economist When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible . . .
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 213 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-03-2 USC

Iosi Havilio burst onto the Argentine literary scene after Open Door was highly praised by some of the country’s most influential critics and writers, including Beatriz Sarlo and Rodolfo Fogwill.

The word-of-mouth hit from Argentina’s new literary star.

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And Other Stories Paradises
Iosi Havilio
Translated by Beth Fowler Introduction by Alex Clark
“In contemporary Argentine literature, Paradises is an almost perfect novel.” —Tonica Albert Camus’s The Outsiders reimagined with a female lead in twenty-firstcentury Buenos Aires. Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents, to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections. Iosi Havilio’s captivating voice has brought him cult status in Argentina.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-24-7 USC

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A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

Double Negative
Ivan Vladislavi´ c
Introduction by Teju Cole
“One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.”—André Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa’s extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic ´ lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art, and what we should really be seeking. Ivan Vladislavic ´ is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.
FICTION November A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-26-1 USC

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Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavi´ c reminds us nothing is black and white.

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And Other Stories The Islands
Carlos Gamerro
Translated by Ian Barnett Introduction by Jimmy Burns
“Exhilarating, inventive, and consistently absorbing.”—The Guardian Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding witnesses to a very public crime. Refusal is not an option. After a decade immersed in virtual realities, trying to forget the Falklands War, Félix has to confront the city. Detective novel, cyber-thriller, inner-city road trip, and war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating, and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains raw.
FICTION January A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 548 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-08-7 USC

Carlos Gamerro, born in 1962, is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers.

The Falklands War novel—as if scripted by Roberto Bolaño and the South Park team.

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Zbinden’s Progress
Christoph Simon
Translated by Donal McLaughlin Introduction by Barbara Trapido
“Zbinden invites comparison with Leo Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilych.”—Alexander Starritt, The Times Literary Supplement Lukas Zbinden leans on the arm of his carer in an old people’s home. Step by step, the devoted walker recounts his life with his late wife and his son. She loved nature walks; he loved city streets. What was the secret of their lifelong love? And why is it so hard for him to talk to his son? A life-affirming novel about love.
FICTION January A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 172 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908276-10-0 USC

Christoph Simon was born in 1972 in Switzerland. After travels through the Middle East, Poland, South America, London, and New York, he settled in Bern, Switzerland.

Lukas Zbinden talks a lot about walking but ultimately the reader understands the core concern of Zbinden’s Progress is love.

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Anvil Press The Empty Air
Tony Connor
“His work is both original and entertaining. . . . Connor does not simply report events. He vividly recreates them, shaping each scene with the skill and care of a novelist . . . his work remains clear-headed, intelligent, and immensely readable.”—Dana Gioia in the Hudson Review Tony Connor’s poetry is often partly or wholly autobiographical, frequently returning to the characters and places of his Lancashire childhood. His new poems mix fantasy and reality in unexpected ways, always with the unobtrusive hand of a skilled craftsman. They are set equally in Britain and the United States, where he has spent half his life. From the personal ruminations of “Reading at Midnight” via the Agatha Christie satire “Death at the Vicarage,” to the riddling “Account of a Possible Coup d’Etat,” Connor’s poetry constantly entertains and surprises. From “Hotel de la Soledad”: The stranger flirts, with a sort of abstract grace, using her cane and mine as a limping pretext to stop me and converse on the courtyard cobbles. Seized by her vaunting beauty, I am vexed and surprised to be a man of seventy nine, still ready to let my life turn on a chance – if that’s what this is. My gap-toothed smile a sign of lifelong, optimistic, ignorance. Born in 1930, Tony Connor has lived mainly in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was a professor of English at Wesleyan University, since 1971. He spends the summers in London. He left school at fourteen and worked in Manchester as a textile designer for many years.
Tony Connor is the elder statesman of English poetry in America. He is rightly admired by poets like Dana Gioia. Also Available

POETRY October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-85646-453-9 USC

Author Hometown: Middletown, CT

Things Unsaid New and Selected Poems 1960–2005 Tony Connor POETRY 6 x 9¼ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $30.00 978-0-85646-385-3 USC

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Selected Backlist from Anvil Press

Weather Permitting
Dennis O’Driscoll
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-85646-315-0 USC

Collected Poems of Sally Purcell
Edited by Peter Jay
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $23.00 978-0-85646-338-9 USC

Sally Purcell

The Autumn-Born in Autumn
Afterword by Dick Davis
POETRY 6¼ x 9¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.95 978-0-85646-400-3 USC

Selected Poems Matthew Mead

Looking Out, Looking In
New and Selected Poems E.A. Markham
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.95 978-0-85646-414-0 USC

Exemplary Damages
Dennis O’Driscoll
POETRY 5½ x 8½ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $14.50 978-0-85646-350-1 USC

New and Selected Poems
Dennis O’Driscoll
POETRY 6¼ x 9¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 978-0-85646-373-0 USC

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Arsenal Pulp Press The Trial of Pope Benedict
Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity

Daniel Gawthrop
On February 28, 2013, Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly six hundred years to resign. In doing so, Joseph Ratzinger, the man who became Benedict, also relinquished a controversial religious career in which he was largely responsible for the Catholic Church’s prodigious troubles: his scorched-earth assault on modernity and the world of ideas destroyed any hope of progress in the Church while leaving a trail of shattered lives in its wake. In this persuasive new book, Daniel Gawthrop argues that Ratzinger must not be allowed diplomatic immunity from the abuse scandals that have rocked the Vatican. Gawthrop not only accuses Ratzinger of quitting to avoid potential prosecution, but also indicts him for promoting a toxic theology whose destructive impact can be felt far beyond the Church. In doing so, the book examines Ratzinger’s career in all its infamy, from his medieval understanding of women and demonization of homosexuality to his war on liberation theology. It also offers insight into Ratzinger’s successor, Pope Francis I, and provocative ideas on how the Church can transform itself, thereby restoring the faith of its followers. During his eight years as pope, Ratzinger attempted to rebrand himself from “God’s Rottweiler” to Prince of Peace. The Trial of Pope Benedict reveals the true Ratzinger, in the process telling one of recent history’s most astonishing tales of institutional power, religious bullying, and systemic abuse. Daniel Gawthrop is the author of four previous books and is a selfproclaimed “lapsed Catholic” who has written extensively on the subject.
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RELIGION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Available Now 5½ x 8 | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55152-527-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-528-0 W

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

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Arsenal Pulp Press The SimplyRaw Kitchen
Plant-Powered, Gluten-Free, and Mostly Raw Recipes for Healthy Living

Natasha Kyssa
The road to good health through proper diet and nutrition can lead down many paths; you may ask yourself, should I go vegan? Follow a gluten-free regimen? Should I eat raw or cooked foods? Natasha Kyssa offers all that and more in this inspiring collection of mostly raw, whole-foods recipes that will improve your health, no matter what your age. Natasha is a former international fashion model who transformed her unhealthy lifestyle by turning to raw foods almost twenty-five years ago; she is now a raw foods consultant and restaurateur who also runs marathons in her spare time. Natasha promotes a balanced, flexible diet designed for individual constitutions and based on fresh plant foods—gluten-free, toxin-free, and simply delicious. Her regimen also takes into consideration older folks and others who cannot tolerate an all-raw diet by including cooked foods. It’s a cookbook and lifestyle guide to be shared between generations, much like Natasha and her mother, who contributes vegan versions of central European classics like borscht, mushroom goulash, cabbage rolls, and lovage dumplings. Other recipes include raw soups, cakes, and puddings, as well as a raw Pad Thai and spaghetti bolognese. Spend some time in Natasha’s kitchen; it will transform your life! Natasha Kyssa runs SimplyRaw, a healthy lifestyles consulting company, and SimplyRaw Express, a vegan restaurant in Ottawa, Ontario. Her first book, The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual, was published in 2009.

COOKING October A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 176 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $21.95 978-1-55152-505-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-506-8 W

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Plant-based, gluten-free recipes featuring whole and unprocessed foods (both raw and cooked), providing a multi-faceted approach to health and nutrition.

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Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: Ottawa, ON The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual Natasha Kyssa HEALTH & FITNESS 6 x 9 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55152-250-0 US

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Arsenal Pulp Press Modern Native Feasts
Healthy, Innovative, Sustainable Cuisine

Andrew George Jr.

Native American cuisine comes of age in this elegant, contemporary collection that reinterprets and updates traditional Native recipes with modern, healthy twists. Andrew George Jr. was head chef for aboriginal foods at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver; his imaginative menus reflect the diverse new culinary landscape while being mindful of an ages-old reverence for the land and sea, reflecting the growing interest in a niche cuisine that is rapidly moving into the mainstream to become the “next big thing” among food trends. Andrew also works actively at making Native foods healthier and more nutritious, given that Native peoples suffer from diabetes at twice the rates of non-Natives; his recipes are lighter, less caloric, and include Asian touches, such as bison ribs with Thai spices, and a sushi roll with various cooked fish wrapped in nori. Other dishes include venison barley soup, wild berry crumble, seas asparagus salad, and buffalo tourtière. Full of healthy, delicious, and thoroughly North American fare, Modern Native Feasts is the first Native American foods cookbook to go beyond the traditional and take a step into the twenty-first century. Andrew George Jr. is a member of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia. He participated on the first all-Native team at the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany, and in 2012 was part of a group of chefs from twentyfive countries on a US State Department initiative called “Culinary Diplomacy: Promoting Cultural Understanding Through Food.” His first book, A Feast for All Seasons, was published in 2010.
Contemporary and imaginative interpretations of Native American cuisine, including lighter, healthier, and more nutritious versions of traditional recipes.
COOKING / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 176 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $21.95 978-1-55152-507-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-508-2 W

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A Feast for All Seasons Traditional Native Peoples’ Cuisine Andrew George Jr. with Robert Gairns COOKING 8 x 9 | 176 pp 16 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $21.95 978-1-55152-368-2 US

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Arsenal Pulp Press Universal Hunks
A Pictorial History of Muscular Men around the World, 1895–1975

David L. Chapman
Foreword by Douglas Brown
Over the last one hundred years, the image of the muscular man has known no boundaries; it has been the object of envy and desire, and used to convey optimal health and fitness, product appeal, political power, and military might. Universal Hunks, David L. Chapman’s follow-up to American Hunks, is a captivating collection of historical images of muscular men from around the world, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing up until the 1970s, including photographs, posters, advertisements, magazine and comic book covers, and product packaging. The book considers the eroticized, politicized, and commercialized male image through history, and evaluates its fascinating cultural context by country and continent; culled from the author’s personal collections, it includes materials never published before, including images of Asian bodybuilders, European comic-book superheroes, and muscleman posters from the Soviet Union. The book also includes a foreword by cultural and sports historian Douglas Brown. Full-color throughout, Universal Hunks is a thought-provoking and sexy visual tour of musclemen from all parts of the globe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / SPORTS & RECREATION October A Paperback Original 8 x 10 | 352 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 978-1-55152-509-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-510-5 W

David L. Chapman is the author of twelve books on male photography and bodybuilding, including American Hunks, Comin’ at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3D Photographs of Denny Denfield, and Adonis: The Male Physique Pin-up, as well as the book Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women.
A lively, wide-ranging pictorial history of muscular men around the world from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.

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American Hunks The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970 David L. Chapman and Brett Josef Grubisic SOCIAL SCIENCE / ART 8 x 10 | 316 pp 425 color and B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $29.95 978-1-55152-256-2 US Venus with Biceps A Pictorial History of Muscular Women David L. Chapman Introduction by Patricia Vertinsky SOCIAL SCIENCE 8 x 10 | 256 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $27.95 978-1-55152-370-5 US

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Arsenal Pulp Press Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter
S. Bear Bergman

S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer on trans issues. In hir third essay collection, Bear tackles the concept of the “modern family” as the trans parent of a young son; in Bear’s extended family “orchard,” drag sisters, sperm-donor parents, and other relations provide more branches of love and support than a mere family tree. Defiantly queer yet full of tenderness and hilarity, Bear’s book redefines the notion of what family is and can be. S. Bear Bergman’s previous books are The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, Butch is a Noun, and Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55152-511-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-512-9 W

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The third collection by this celebrated trans essayist who sheds necessary (and humorous) light on gender, sexuality, and family.

Blue Angel
Julie Maroh

In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire. First published in French by Belgium’s Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe’s largest. Julie Maroh is an author and illustrator originally from northern France.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS October A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55152-514-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-513-6 W

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A tenderly told graphic novel for adults about a young woman who becomes captivated by a girl with blue hair.

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Arsenal Pulp Press After Delores
Second Edition

Sarah Schulman
“Hilarious, hard-core . . . makes Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero seem thin and dated.”—Publishers Weekly A new edition of Sarah Schulman’s acclaimed 1988 novel, a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her; her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. After Delores is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side’s lesbian subculture in the 1980s.
FICTION September 5½ x 8 | 176 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55152-515-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-516-7 W

Sarah Schulman’s previous books include Empathy, Rat Bohemia, The Child, and The Gentrification of the Mind.
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A new edition of Sarah Schulman’s novel about a brokenhearted waitress looking for love in New York.

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The Laboratory of Love
Patrick Roscoe

In this powerful suite of stories set in Spain, Africa, and North America, populated by wild dogs, tattoo artists, and lost boys, Patrick Roscoe’s characters— lonely, damaged, nomadic—are outsiders in an often brutal and punishing world. In Roscoe’s beguiling laboratory, science meets emotion in experiments that attempt to decipher the forces of love, loss, and longing. Patrick Roscoe was born on the Spanish island of Formentera. He is the author of many acclaimed novels and story collections published in Canada. The Laboratory of Love, his first new book in thirteen years, is his first to be published in the United States.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55152-521-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-522-8 W

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A suite of stories set in Spain, Africa, and North America: an elegy to love, longing, and the eternal outsider.

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Arsenal Pulp Press Kuessipan
Naomi Fontaine
Translated by David Homel
“[Naomi Fontaine] writes in the same tradition as Native writers such as Thomas King and Louise Erdrich.”—Le Devoir Kuessipan (“to you” in the Innu language) is an extraordinary, meditative novel about life among the Native Innu people in the wilds of the Canadian North. With grace and perfect pitch, Naomi Fontaine conjures up a world that reads like no other, and a community—of nomadic hunters and fishers, of mothers and children—that endures a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity. Naomi Fontaine is a member of the Innu First Nation. Kuessipan, her first novel, is based on her own experience.
FICTION / SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-517-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-518-1 W

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to literary and Native publications Author Hometown: Quebec City, QC / Translator Hometown: Montreal, QC

A fictionalized, meditative chronicle of life among the Innu, a Native tribe in rural northeastern Quebec.

Paris Is Burning
A Queer Film Classic

Lucas Hilderbrand
This latest addition to the Queer Film Classics series pays tribute to Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s brilliant and award-winning 1991 documentary that captures the energy, ambition, wit, and struggle of African American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene. This book contextualizes the film within the longer history of drag balls, the practices of documentary, the fervor of the culture wars, and issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Lucas Hilderbrand is associate professor of film and media studies and queer studies at the University of California, Irvine.
PERFORMING ARTS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original Queer Film Classics 5 x 8 | 160 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55152-519-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-520-4 W

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to cinema and LGBT publications

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San Francisco, CA Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

A Queer Film Classic about New York’s 1980s drag subculture.

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Selected Backlist from Arsenal Pulp Press

Vegan Secret Supper
Bold & Elegant Menus from a Rogue Kitchen Mérida Anderson
COOKING 8 x 9 | 224 pp 50 color photographs Trade Paper US $26.95 978-1-55152-496-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-497-9 W

Living and Eating Organic, Vegan, and Raw Aaron Ash
COOKING 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

Gorilla Food

Great Vegan Food for Special and Everyday Celebrations Dreena Burton
COOKING 7½ x 10 | 176 pp 16 color photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-55152-224-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-282-1 W

Eat, Drink & Be Vegan

A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake Dany Laferrière
Translated by David Homel Foreword by Michaëlle Jean

The World is Moving Around Me

A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America David H.T. Wong
JUVENILE NONFICTION / SOCIAL SCIENCE 7 x 10 | 256 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55152-476-4 US Ages 12 and up eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-477-1 W

Escape to Gold Mountain

One in Every Crowd
Ivan E. Coyote
FICTION / SOCIAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8½ | 238 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55152-459-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-460-3 W

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY 5½ x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55152-498-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55152-499-3 W

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Aunt Lute Books flesh to bone
ire’ne lara silva

“An original and authentic voice . . . with an original vision. A blend of indigenismo and folktales retold in a modern vein. . . . These stories at times seem to come from the clouds, from spirits of ancient ancestors, or from the oblique corners of the human consciousness. . . . A new and engaging duende is being born in these pages.”—Alejandro Murguía, author of This War Called Love “If Chagall had written, he would have painted words in the fierce brushstrokes of ire’ne lara silva’s stories. If Remedios Varo had told stories, she would have wound the tendrils of her magic the way ire’ne lara silva paints her world.” —Cecile Pineda, author of The Love Queen of the Amazon Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories write and rewrite “myth” from a woman’s of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption and violence of the borderlands. A poet and fiction writer, ire’ne lara silva has been an active participant in the literary culture of Austin, Texas, for many years. Her first collection of poetry, furia, was published by Mouthfeel Press in 2010. She is the recipient of the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award and a 2010 Cantomundo Inaugural Fellowship.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-879960-88-6 USC

This lyrical fiction gives furioius voice to the violence and loss experienced by inhabitants of the borderlands of the American Southwest.

Author Hometown: Austin, TX

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Selected Backlist from Aunt Lute Books

Choctalking on Other Realities
LeAnne Howe
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp B&W photographs Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-879960-90-9 USC

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

A Simple Revolution
Judy Grahn
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GAY & LESBIAN 6 x 9 | 360 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-879960-87-9 USC

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

Judy Grahn

Borderlands / La Frontera
Introduction by Norma Cantú and Aída Hurtado
CULTURAL STUDIES / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 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

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Aztext Press The Sensible Prepper
Practical Tips for Emergency Preparedness and Building Resilience

Cam Mather and Michelle Mather

After a summer of record-setting wildfires, heat waves, and drought, Hurricane Sandy convinced many that climate change is real and that catastrophic weather events are the new norm. Many people resolved to be better prepared for the next big crisis and to make a plan to deal with the disruption that will come. The Sensible Prepper provides readers with the tools to make a plan and be prepared to deal with the next storm. The book takes a big picture look at additional challenges such as economic collapse, peak oil, and global pandemics that form the zeitgeist of “angst” many people are experiencing. It provides a framework for taking steps to build personal resilience, examining such questions as where to live, how to power your home, how to grow and store more food, as well as new models of economic exchange. The tools and knowledge exist today for people to be more independent and better able to deal with many of the challenging issues of our time, but what has been lacking is a coherent, achievable plan to build that resilience. Unlike the “stock up on guns and ammo” books of the past, this book provides a logical road map to build independence written by people who have lived independently for more than a decade. Cam Mather and Michelle Mather have lived off the electricity grid for fifteen years, heating and powering their home sustainably and independently with renewable energy while growing food for themselves and for others in their community.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / HOUSE & HOME October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 302 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-927408-05-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927408-06-3 W

If you miss the evacuation notice, as the wind gets louder, this is the most important book you’ll ever read.

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• National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometowns: Tamworth, ON

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Little House Off the Grid Our Family’s Journey to Self-Sufficiency Cam Mather and Michelle Mather BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HOUSE & HOME 6 x 9 | 220 pp 30 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-9810132-5-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-9810132-9-9

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Selected Backlist from Aztext Press

The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition
The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living Third Edition William H. Kemp

A Comprehensive Guide to Production and Use for the Home and Farm William H. Kemp
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING 6 x 9 | 300 pp 200 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-9733233-3-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-927408-03-2 W

Biodiesel Basics and Beyond

Easy Organic Vegetables and More Money in Your Pocket Cam Mather
GARDENING 8 x 10 | 250 pp 120 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-9810132-2-0 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-9810132-8-2 W

The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING 8 x 10 | 600 pp 200 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-9810132-1-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-9810132-7-5 W

The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook Cam Mather
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / HOUSE & HOME 6 x 9 | 250 pp 20 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-9733233-6-8 US

Thriving During Challenging Times

Biodiesel Basics
William Kemp
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING 5½ x 7½ | 60 minutes DVD US $19.95 978-0-9733233-7-5 US

Grow Your Own Vegetables
Seven Easy Steps to Your Own Backyard Produce Department Edited by Soutions For Sustainability
GARDENING 5½ x 7½ | 110 minutes DVD US $19.95 978-0-9733233-9-9 US

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Ballistic Publishing Creative Essence: Creatures
Edited by Ballistic Publishing

Creative Essence: Creatures features private work from some of the best creature concept artists in the VFX world today including Andrew Baker, James Van Den Bogart, Jacob Earl, Josh Herman, Ian Joyner, Aris Kolokontis, Ben Mauro, Martin Rezard, Simon Webber, and Bryan Wynia. Never-before-seen artwork—from napkin doodles to dynamic concept paintings and exploratory maquettes, through to 3D modeling and rendering—are all vividly displayed. This book reveals the essence of the creative processes and offers readers a map of some of the most incredible creative minds in the digital art world—to hold, study, and enjoy. We challenged a band of artists from world-leading studios such as Sony Santa Monica and Weta Digital with a simple statement, like “hunter, hunted” or “predator, prey,” and stood back to see what amazing directions the best minds in the digital world would go. What kind of predator? What kind of prey? Do they lope, slither, or plod? Fur or armor? Stealth or strength? Do they use weapons or their own natural armory? Desert, jungIe, or ocean? Prehistoric, middle-aged, or futuristic? The results are as fascinating as they are varied. This is an unprecedented exploration of the creative process and a stunning visual record—a vivid cornucopia of previously unimagined creatures. Ballistic doesn’t simply publish books, they craft gems—treasured and revered products that readers are proud to own and display. Creative Essence: Creatures is the next amazing book to come from the leading publisher of digital art.
An extraordinary book looking into extraordinary minds! Simply incredible.

COMPUTERS / ART December Essence 8¾ x 11¾ | 192 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-1-921828-99-7 USC

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Essence: The Face Modeling and Texturing Written and illustrated by Paul Fedor, Hong Suck Suh, Steven Stahlberg, and Matt Hartle Photographs and text by Peter Levius ART / COMPUTERS Essence 8¾ x 11¾ | 160 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $69.00 | CAN $84.00 978-1-921002-36-6 USC

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Ballistic Publishing EXPOSÉ 11
The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe

Edited by Ballistic Publishing
Designed by Mark Thomas and Paul Hellard
“When Ballistic describes EXPOSÉ as containing the finest digital art in the known universe they are not lying. I’ve never seen such an incredible collection of digital art compiled in one place in such an attractive format. Each category is represented by stunning art displaying high degrees of technical skill, color mastery, design accuracy, and a command of the various elements and principles of design.”—Boyce McClain The EXPOSÉ series has become legendary. This annual showcase is a musthave title, showcasing in exquisite quality the amazing talents of digital artists from around the world. With less than 1 percent of entries making the final cut, EXPOSÉ has become regarded as the single reference point for quality digital artists globally! Responsible for launching numerous careers, it is the pinnacle of the industry. No other book in this genre comes close! Every image is agonizingly color corrected to ensure the artist’s digital creation is as vibrant in print as on screen. The market for EXPOSÉ is extensive, from the digital art community to appreciators of quality art, all the way to Hollywood directors looking for the best digital artist to work on their next film. Without question a major market is the gaming industry, arguably the largest spending market globally. EXPOSÉ 11 showcases the world’s best digital art in over twenty categories; there is something here for everyone.
You won’t believe a book can be this good until you hold it. Marketing Plans
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ART / DESIGN October EXPOSÉ 8¾ x 11¾ | 240 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $79.00 | CAN $86.99 978-1-921828-98-0 USC

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EXPOSÉ 9 The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe Edited by Daniel Wade ART / DESIGN EXPOSÉ 8¾ x 11¾ | 240 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-1-921828-01-0 USC Paper over Board US $79.00 | CAN $86.99 978-1-921828-02-7 USC EXPOSÉ 10 The Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe Edited by Ronnie Gramazio ART / DESIGN EXPOSÉ 8¾ x 11¾ | 240 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $69.00 | CAN $75.99 978-1-921828-18-8 USC Paper over Board US $79.00 | CAN $86.99 978-1-921828-19-5 USC

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Behler Publications Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job
How to Survive Unemployment

Robert L. Leahy, PhD

“A practical guide to picking yourself up, restoring your health and well-being, and getting the motivation and confidence to move forward with your life.” —Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, PhD, author of the best-selling Women Who Think Too Much Losing your job may be the most difficult thing you’ll experience. Your mental health and physical well-being can suffer, leaving you feeling anxious, helpless, and alone. Dr. Robert L. Leahy has worked with many unemployed people over the years, and his successful techniques draw upon Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), as well as practices, such as mindfulness, to help you boost your self-esteem and confidence, decrease anxiety and feelings of helplessness, and develop resilience and strength. By keeping your head and learning how to deal with this time well, you can also learn how to live your life more effectively once you get a job. Unemployment is a time for new priorities and new meanings. This book will help you discover inner strengths and give you the skills to cope with life, whatever it may throw at you. Robert L. Leahy is the director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy. He has received the Aaron T. Beck Award for outstanding contributions in cognitive therapy, and is the author and editor of over twenty-one books, including The Worry Cure.
SELF-HELP October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-933016-62-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933016-61-0 USC

A self-help book to help the unemployed and their families cope more effectively during a time when they feel helpless. Marketing Plans
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Behler Publications Voice
A Stutterer’s Odyssey

Scott Damian
“Scott’s book will make a difference in the lives of the many people who struggle with this distressing disorder.”—Jane Fraser, president, The Stuttering Foundation of America For thirty-three years Scott Damian sought freedom from stuttering and being imprisoned by the terror of being unable to utter a single word, until he transformed into a highly successful actor and writer. Scott speaks to the heart and soul of a stutterer and addresses healing, help, and hope for the millions who are similarly afflicted. Damian is the 2012 winner of the Converting Awareness into Action Award from the Stuttering Foundation of America.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SELF-HELP September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 280 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933016-84-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933016-83-2 W

An emotional account of how successful actor and producer Scott Damian overcame stuttering while still coping with its psychological effects.

Impact
My Miraculous Comeback from Total Paralysis

John Miksa with Scott P. Leary, MD
Foreword by Chris Van Gorder, FACHE
John Miksa, an avid cyclist, was struck head-on by a car, and hurled into the air and onto his back, seriously damaging his C-5 and C-6 vertebrae. John realized he was completely paralyzed from the neck down. The trauma was devastating, and his chance of complete recovery was slim. But one thing was on his side—an exceptional neurosurgeon and trauma team. Only hours after extensive surgery, John was able to move his hands and feet. And after twenty-one days of rehabilitation, he walked out of the hospital on his own. Now, John’s back out on his bike every day.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 171 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933016-60-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-933016-58-0 W

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The story of John Miksa’s amazing recovery from being a quadriplegic, and the surgeon who saved his life.

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Bellevue Literary Press Palmerino
Melissa Pritchard

“A writer at the height of her powers.”—Oprah.com “Pritchard polishes the strange and makes it shine.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The singularity of [Pritchard’s] narrators remains indelible [and] shows that fiction still has the ability to shock and surprise.”—The Washington Post Welcome to Villa il Palmerino, the British enclave in rural Italy where Violet Paget, known to the world by her pen name and male persona, Vernon Lee, held court. In imagining the real life of this brilliant, gender bending, lesbian polymath known for her chilling supernatural stories, Melissa Pritchard creates a multilayered tale in which the dead writer inhabits the heart and mind of her lonely, modern-day biographer. Positing the art of biography as an act of resurrection and possession, this novel brings to life a vividly detailed, subtly erotic tale about secret loves and the fascinating artists and intellectuals—Oscar Wilde, John Singer Sargent, Henry James, Robert Browning, Bernard Berenson—who challenged and inspired each other during an age of repression. Melissa Pritchard is the author of eight books of fiction, including The Odditorium, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. Among other honors, her books have received the Flannery O’Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg awards, and two of her short fiction collections were New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice selections.
A richly atmospheric, supernaturally shaded novel based on the true story of a brilliant Victorian-era writer and intellectual. Marketing Plans Also Available
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FICTION January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-68-0 USCO eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-69-7 USCO

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The Odditorium Stories Melissa Pritchard FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-37-6 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-47-5 W Tempe, AZ • Tucson, AZ • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Denver, CO • Iowa City, IA • New York, NY • Cincinnati, OH Author Hometown: Tempe, AZ

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Bellevue Literary Press Aaron’s Leap
Magdaléna Platzová
Translated by Craig Cravens

“[Aaron’s Leap] must count among the best by contemporary Czech young authors.” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “Aaron’s Leap takes you on an epic journey, which is also a very intimate and personal story—entertaining, touching, and brutally honest. . . . A great book.” —Agnieszka Holland, Academy Award–nominated writer and director of Europa Europa and HBO guest director of Treme and The Wire “[A] brilliant novel.”—Ivan Klíma, Franz Kafka Prize–winning author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light and My Crazy Century In a Europe torn by war and revolution, Berta Altman comes of age as a gifted artist and independent woman. Her search for freedom leads her from Vienna to the Bauhaus school, Weimar Berlin, and Prague. As she encounters the celebrated artists of her time, she engages in aesthetic and ideological battles that will prove to have life-and-death consequences. Based on the real-life story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who taught art to children in the Nazi transport camp of Terezín and died in Auschwitz, Aaron’s Leap is framed by the lens of a twenty-first-century Israeli film crew that unknowingly unleashes the haunting force of buried history.
FICTION February A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-934137-70-3 USCO eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-71-0 USCO

Magdaléna Platzová was raised in Prague and has lived in Washington, DC, and New York City, where she taught literature at NYU. She currently lives in Lyon, France. When first published in Czech, Aaron’s Leap was a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist. It is her first book to be published in English. Craig Cravens is the translator of My Crazy Century by Ivan Klíma.
A multigenerational saga inspired by Bauhaus artists and the impact of the Holocaust’s lingering legacy on their children and protégés.

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New York, NY

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Bellevue Literary Press Then They Started Shooting
Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become

Lynne Jones

“Out of the horror of human cruelty in the Bosnian war comes a bright note.” —Foreign Affairs Imagine you are nine years old. Your best friend’s father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. Imagine you are ten years old and have to cross a snow-covered mountain range at night in order to escape the soldiers who are trying to kill you. How would you deal with these memories five, ten, or twenty years later once you are an adult? Lynne Jones, a relief worker and child psychiatrist, interviewed over forty Serb and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian War and now returns, twenty years after the war began, to discover the adults they have become. A must-read for anyone interested in human rights, children’s issues, and the psychological fallout from war, this engaging book addresses the continuing debate about PTSD, the roots of ethnic identity and nationalism, the sources of global conflict, the best paths toward peacemaking and reconciliation, and the resilience of the human spirit. Lynne Jones was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work in child psychiatry in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe and has established and directed mental health programs in areas of conflict and natural disaster throughout Latin America, the Balkans, East and West Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Her field diaries have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine and London Review of Books, and her audio diaries have been broadcast on the BBC World Service.
HISTORY / PSYCHOLOGY October First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 352 pp 4 B&W maps Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-934137-66-6 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-67-3 W

Marketing Plans An illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children’s experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood.
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Bellevue Literary Press The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass

Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Foreword by Lee Briccetti
“Wilson brilliantly analyzes the force, at once creative and destructive, of our biological inheritance and daringly advances a grand theory of the origins of human culture.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve, on Edward O. Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth “Hass [is] a philosophically attentive observer, deep thinker, and writer who dazzles and rousts.”—Booklist on Robert Hass’s What Light Can Do Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of “consilience” or the unity of knowledge, finds an ardent interlocutor in Robert Hass, whose credo as US poet laureate was “imagination makes communities.” As they explore the many ways that poetry and science enhance each other, they travel from anthills to ancient Egypt and to the heights and depths of human potential. This shimmering conversation is the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Poets House. A testament to how science and the arts can join forces to educate and inspire, it ends in a passionate plea for conservation of all the planet’s species. Edward O. Wilson, a biologist, naturalist, and best-selling author, has received more than one hundred awards from around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize. A professor emeritus at Harvard University, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Robert Hass’s poetry is rooted in the landscapes of his native northern California. He has been awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at University of California–Berkeley.

SCIENCE / LITERARY CRITICISM March 5½ x 6 | 112 pp Trade Cloth US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-934137-72-7 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-934137-73-4 W

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A meeting of great minds at the intersection of the arts and sciences.

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New York, NY Author Hometowns: Lexington, MA / Berkeley, CA

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Biblioasis The Strength of Bone
Lucie Wilk

At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: septic infection, probably malaria. Send Iris for saline. Shortness of breath: TB. Roll him to the ward. Round swellings, rashes with dimpled centers, the small rough patches on a child’s foot: HIV. Iris, say something. Translate. Give him a bath. And then there’s sleeplessness, rationed energy, misdirected grief, a censuring of hope: the doctor’s disease. Iris sees that one all the time. Bryce has come to Blantyre to exhaust the guilt he feels over his child’s death, but he can’t adjust to the hopelessness that surrounds him. He relies increasingly upon Sister Iris’s steady presence. Yet it’s not until an accident brings them both to a village outpost that Bryce realizes the personal sacrifices Iris has made for her medical training, or that Iris in turn comes to fathom the depth of Bryce’s grief. The Strength of Bone is the story of an American doctor, a Malawian nurse, and the crises that push both of them to the brink of collapse. With deftly interwoven narratives and a pathological eye for detail, novelist and medical doctor Lucie Wilk brings to life the ambition, the self-destructiveness, and the ultimate resiliency inherent in African relief workers—and shows, in a place where knowledge can frustrate as often as it heals, that true strength requires the flexibility to let go. Lucie Wilk practices medicine in London, England. Her short fiction has been nominated for several Canadian prizes. This is her first novel.

FICTION / SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-927428-39-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-40-5 W

Culture-shocked Western doctors, nurses alienated from their villages, undersupplied hospitals, a 10 percent AIDS rate: how does African medical practice endure?

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San Francisco, CA • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA

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Biblioasis Eucalyptus
Mauricı ˘o Segura
Translated by Donald Winkler
“Captivating . . . a story of blood, hatred, vengeance, and politics.”—Radio Canada Alberto Ventura has travelled to Chile for his father’s funeral. Hated and loved both by his family and the indigenous people, Alberto discovers that his rakish, controversial, once-incarcerated sire has decimated the family land by mass farming eucalyptus trees on behalf of global interests. Yet as Alberto investigates his father’s death—was it natural causes, murder, or self-sacrifice?— he finds the identity at stake is his own.
FICTION November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-927428-37-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-38-2 W

Born in Chile in 1969, Mauricı ˘o Segura is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, novelist, and scholar of French perceptions of Latin America.
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Murder, intrigue, suspicious cash, public munificence, scandal— and tree farming? A family saga of Sephardic Jews living in Chile.

Red Girl Rat Boy
Cynthia Flood
“Complicated, passionate, genuine.”—Chatelaine Women. Young women, old women. The hair-obsessed, the politically driven, the sure-footed, the bony-butted, the awkward and compulsive and alone. Sleep-deprived and testy. Exhausted and accepting. Among the innumerable wives, husbands, sisters, and in-laws vexed by short temper and insecurity throughout this short story collection, Cynthia Flood’s protagonists stand out as masters of a reality that the rest of the world will only partially understand. New from the Journey Prize–winning author, Red Girl Rat Boy is a collection of astonishing range and assured technique, whose voices—gothic, peculiar, domestic, and strange—remain as passionate and complex as ever.
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FICTION / SHORT STORIES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-927428-41-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-42-9 W

A new collection from a noted feminist author and winner of the prestigious Journey Prize for short fiction.

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Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Biblioasis This Great Escape
The Case of Michael Paryla

Andrew Steinmetz
“What the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!”—L.B. Mayer (1963) Michael Paryla had fifty-eight seconds of screen time in the most lavish prisoner-of-war film Hollywood ever produced: The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen. Paryla was a displaced Jew cast as a Gestapo agent. Shortly after filming he died. In This Great Escape, Andrew Steinmetz tenderly reconstructs the life of a man seen by millions yet recognized by nobody, whose story—from childhood flight from Nazism to suspicious death—shines an unexpected spotlight on Hollywood’s great war film. Andrew Steinmetz is the award-winning author of Eva’s Threepenny Theatre.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies at ALA, BEA, and MLA National radio campaign • National print and online campaign, including outreach to Jewish media • Social media campaign • Giveaways through social media Promotion through: www.andrewsteinmetz.blogspot.ca BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-927428-33-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-34-4 W

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Boston, MD • Brooklyn, NY Author Hometown: Ottawa, ON

Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster.

The River Detroit
A Memoir of Life in the Border Cities

Paul Vasey
What is the Detroit River? It’s dumps, dogpatches, ships, steamers, storms. It’s month-long salvage operations. It’s the Zug Island stacks, belching clouds of purple and yellow: naphthalene, chromium, benzene, copper. It’s the reflection of a city in riot. And it’s the singing motormen, the agitators, and the autoworkers who look into its waves every day and see something of their future. The River Detroit is a grassroots memoir of life along a great American waterway, and a journalist’s guide to the Border Cities in their most tempestuous times. Paul Vasey is a reporter, CBC broadcaster, and the author of ten books.
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Detroit, MI Author Hometown: Windsor, ON

A vivacious memoir of life along the Detroit River, from the prize-winning reporter, novelist, and CBC broadcaster Paul Vasey.

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Biblioasis Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Alexandra Oliver
“Excellent and entertaining.”—Timothy Steele In Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, Alexandra Oliver zooms in on the inertias, anxieties, comedies, cruelties, and epiphanies of domestic life: . . . those minkish teeth like shrapnel in the air, the Bacchic taunts, the Herculean dare, their soccer cleats against your porcine shin, that laugh, which sounded like a hundred birds escaping from a gunshot through the reeds – and now you have to face it all again: the joyful freckled faces lost for words in supermarkets, as those red hands squeeze your own. It’s been so long! They say. Amen. Performative and formally sensational, Oliver is a poet to watch.
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POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 64 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-927428-43-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-44-3 W

“Here are brilliantly contemporary poems in traditional forms, the work of a stunning new voice.”—Charles Martin

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Los Angeles, CA • Portland, ME • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Zero Kelvin
Richard Norman
Present-day astronomy, vast, complex, is looking through darkness to distant objects and times. Yet its discoveries aren’t exclusively scientific: from Pluto’s moons to Curiosity Rovers, the sky remains a place where math meets myth. Now, in Zero Kelvin, Richard Norman’s poetry probes the new heavens that are being generated daily by astronomical research. Experiment It is a human urge— to orbit backwards at great speed. Experimentally, you do it and then the crack of lightning, the open-ended snowflake, splits the sky . . . Seconds drop like filings when a magnet is turned off.
Marketing Plans Maths, myths, Mars! Hard science meets happy metaphor in a debut that asks how astronomy continues to define our lives.
Co-op available National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Giveaways through social media • Promotion through: www.biblioasis.com Author Hometown: Halifax, NS

POETRY / SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 72 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-927428-45-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-46-7 W

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Biblioasis Career-Limiting Moves
Zachariah Wells

In a country where unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce, Zachariah Wells has consistently said what he thinks aloud. Irascible, seething, scathing, and uncompromising, the goateed gadfly of Canadian poetry has here collected his criticism for the first time. With its revisionist assessments, satirical ripostes, and unpredictable bursts of praise, Career-Limiting Moves comprises not just an argument against literary culture writ large, but a condemnation of the polite silence so corrosive to poetry’s reputation. Zachariah Wells is the editor of Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and the author of two collections of poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 978-1-927428-35-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-36-8 W

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Who else gets this pissed about Canadian poetry?

God’s Plenty
A Study of Hugh Hood’s Short Fiction

W.J. Keith
A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood’s The New Age, God’s Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada’s Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood’s stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood’s technique, God’s Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop. W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
LITERARY CRITICISM / FICTION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 248 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 978-1-927428-47-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-926845-83-8 W

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The only critical guide to the short fiction of Hugh Hood (Montreal’s Marcel Proust, and author of thirty full-length prose works).

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Biblioasis Original Six Dynasties
The Detroit Red Wings

Bob Duff
Original Six Dynasties: The Detroit Red Wings is the first in a series of hockey books to showcase vintage photographs from the sport’s golden age. With nearly three hundred images ranging from 1942 to 1967, The Detroit Red Wings shows you Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuck, Ted Lindsay, Sid Abel, and other legends in their prime. Drawn from archives not available to the public, the Original Six series is must-have for collectors and sports fans alike. Currently the sports columnist for the Windsor Star, Bob Duff has covered the NHL since 1988 and is a contributor to The Hockey News.
SPORTS & RECREATION October 9 x 8½ | 232 pp 280 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 978-1-927428-27-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-28-3 W

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10,000-copy print run • Co-op available • Advance reader copies National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Regional Michigan tour • Giveaways through social media Promotion through: www.originalsixdynasties.com Author Hometown: Windsor, ON

Glorious vintage B&W photographs from the greatest era of Detroit Red Wings hockey, 1942–1967. See Howe, Sawchuck, Lindsay, and more.

50 Greatest Redwings
Bob Duff

Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidström, Ted Lindsay, and Brendan Shanahan: Bob Duff’s The 50 Greatest Red Wings is the definitive list of Hockeytown’s heroes. Including members of the famous Production Line and The Red Army, this attractive hardcover features images, full statistics, and in-depth player analysis. With rarely seen photographs and astonishing anecdotes, this book is essential to all real Red Wings fans. From the author of Original Six Dynasties and Marcel Pronovost: A Life in Hockey.
SPORTS & RECREATION November 9 x 8½ | 208 pp 150 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 978-1-927428-29-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-927428-30-6 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • Co-op available National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Regional Michigan tour • Giveaways through social media Promotion through: www.biblioasis.com

Glorious B&W photographs and in-depth analysis on fifty of the most astounding players in the game. An essential fan and collector’s book.

Author Events
Detroit, MI Author Hometown: Windsor, ON

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BIS Publishers Visual Persuasion Unveiled
50 Effective Influence Techniques in Visual Communication

Rick van Baaren, PhD, and Matthijs van Leeuwen, PhD, and Marc Andrews
Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn, and act. Some are more successful than others in influencing our behavior and choices. What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior? This book explains the psychology behind fifty effective influence techniques of visual persuasion and how to apply them. The techniques range from influence essentials to more obscure and insidious methods. The reader will gain deep insights into how visual means are constructed to influence behavior and decision making on an unconscious level. All techniques are supported by rich visual references and additional information on the psychology of behavior change. This publication is not just an eye-opener for professionals and students in the communication and design fields, but also for anybody who wants to understand how our behavior is influenced unconsciously by advertising, social campaigns, and government messages. The book is co-authored by leading figures in social influence and visual persuasion. It is designed as an accessible modern reference book for creating and understanding persuasive visual imagery.
This book explains the psychology behind fifty effective influence techniques of visual persuasion and how to apply them.

DESIGN October 7⅛ x 9⅝ | 192 pp 300 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-90-6369-314-5 USC

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BIS Publishers Dear Fashion Diary
Discover Your Taste—Become Your Own Fashion Guru

Emmi Ojala and Laura de Jong
This is Keri Smith meets Fashion. Dear Fashion Diary is an illustrated diary full of fashion assignments for young fashionistas to entrust their deepest fashion longings. It is a very creative activity book with which you can collect your personal favourite outfits, create lists of your seasonal must-haves, tidy up the content of your wardrobe closet, collect clippings of your wannahave fashion accessories, and much more. When your diary is full, you have a wonderful collection of your life in fashion of the past year and are ready to start filling a new volume. A real wannahave for young fashionistas for a grab-away price!
DESIGN September A Paperback Original 6⅝ x 8⅝ | 160 pp Two-color art throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-90-6369-310-7 USC

Keri Smith meets Fashion. An illustrated diary full of fashion assignments for young fashionistas.

Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act Like One
The Essential Rules for the Smart Negotiator

Aernoud Bourdrez
Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act Like One provides strategies to solve conflicts. Based on principles, research, and real-life examples ranging from Harvard University, Mikhail Gorbatsjov, two kissing boxers, and Sun Tze to John Rambo, Think Like a Lawyer Don’t Act Like One can be used when dealing with grumpy police officers, angry neighbors, unwilling debtors, nasty lawyers, and other conflict seekers. Each strategy is thoroughly tested and can be used at the kitchen table, on the street, and in the boardroom. All seventy-five rules are illustrated in a funny way.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 7⅛ | 160 pp 80 color illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-90-6369-307-7 USC

This book provides strategies to solve conflicts. Co-developed by Harvard University, many laywers, two kissing boxers, a cowboy, and Mikhail Gorbatsjov.

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BIS Publishers Creative Personal Branding
The Strategy to Answer: What’s Next
Jürgen Salenbacher examines the work of leading theorists in business culture before explaining how our success in exploring change rests on our ability to think creatively. Branding practises, he suggests, can help us, but we also need to cultivate creative thinking. This book is a unique resource for creative minds, entrepreneurs, and teams, but may also be used by anyone facing major life decisions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | September | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 228 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 | 978-90-6369-315-2 USC

Jürgen Salenbacher

Storytelling on Steroids
20 Stories That Hijacked Popular Culture

John Weich
In this captivating book, John Weich pinpoints the iconic moments that helped transform storytelling from a fringe communication movement into a pop culture phenomenon. Storytelling is the buzzword in global communications. This book explains the why, what, and how of storytelling. Weich is American and a great storyteller and public relations wizard!
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | November | A Paperback Original | 6⅝ x 9 | 160 pp 60 color illustrations | Trade Paper US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 | 978-90-6369-311-4 USC

Design Transitions
Untold Stories on How Design Practises are Transitioning

Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies, and Lauren Tan
The world of design is changing. In response, designers are expanding their professional boundaries, moving from designing objects to designing services and experiences, to designing for positive social change. This book reveals the working processes of these contemporary design practices, how they have transformed their own practice, and why they have done so.
DESIGN | October | A Paperback Original | 6⅞ x 9½ | 224 pp | 200 color illustrations Trade Paper US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 | 978-90-6369-321-3 USC

Street Art Memory Game
Edited by BIS Publishers
This new title in the series of memory games celebrates the popular field of international street art, with works of the most famous street artists. Your task, as ever, is to find the matching cards. In this game you have to match two works by the same street artist. Great fun to play, you will gain more knowledge about the iconic and often visually very engaging works of modern street art.
GAMES | November | 3 x 5⅝ | 60 cards | 60 color photographs Boxed Set AH US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-6369-322-0 USC This item is nonreturnable.

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BIS Publishers Product Sketches
From Rough to Refined

Andres Parada
This is a fully visual book with over one thousand product sketches organized in chapters covering the main product categories that designers design for, such as electronic devices, household appliances, furniture, apparel, mobility, and more. Every chapter evolves from rough sketches to refined computer renderings. A wonderful, inspirational book for anyone who wants to improve his or her sketching abilities.
DESIGN | September | A Paperback Original | 9½ x 7½ | 192 pp | 1,000 color illustrations Trade Paper US $32.00 | CAN $34.99 | 978-90-6369-309-1 USC

Know Your Onions: Web Design
How to Become a Top-class, Money Making Web Designer Without Learning Code

Drew de Soto
Know Your Onions: Web Design will show you how to get your head around web design without getting your hands dirty in code. The book reads in a conversational style and is more like having a chat with a bloke that knows his stuff than any kind of “how-to” manual. This is the sequel to Know Your Onions: Graphic Design by the same author.
DESIGN | September | A Paperback Original | 4⅝ x 7⅞ | 160 pp | 100 color photographs Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-6369-312-1 USC

The Innovation Expedition
A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation
The Innovation Expedition does for innovation what Alexander Osterwalder’s mega bestseller Business Model Generation did for business modeling: it makes a complicated business subject very accessible by telling the story in a visual way and by presenting a method that is tested and works! Gijs van Wulfen was chosen in 2012 by LinkedIn as one of the 150 thought leaders and was listed on the International Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | Available Now | 9½ x 7½ | 240 pp | 500 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 | 978-90-6369-313-8 USC

Gijs van Wulfen

Wayshowing > Wayfinding
Basic & Interactive

Per Mollerup
This is the completely renewed edition of the standard reference book Wayshowing, published in 2005. This new edition by Per Mollerop is fully updated with digital signage systems and has much more tool-oriented practical content. And all signage examples are newly selected.
DESIGN | November | A Paperback Original | 7½ x 11⅞ | 240 pp | 500 color illustrations Trade Paper US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 | 978-90-6369-323-7 USC

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Biteback Publishing The Boxer’s Story
Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps

Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris

Once in a while there comes along a story so powerful and so emotive that it makes you rethink your own values. This is the story of Nathan Shapow, a young Latvian, born in Riga, with nothing more on his mind than becoming a world-renowned boxer. However, the sound of jackboots marching across Europe and the systematic extermination of the Jews put an end to his boxing dreams. He was to fight a different sort of fight: one for survival. The prize? His life. Seeing his youth disappear in the squalor of the ghettos and the horror of the concentration camps, Nathan fell back on his previous existence to sustain him. The years of training, the running, the speed of work, the threeround amateur fights in the gym, the street fights in Riga, and the sheer competitive nature he developed saved him on more than one occasion, especially when he was forced to box for his life against a top German fighter in a concentration camp. The Boxer’s Story is an extraordinary and powerful true story that reads like a thriller. It will deeply affect everyone who reads it. Nathan Shapow was born in Riga, Latvia, and survived various camps including Birkenau and Stutthoff. After the war he went to Palestine, where he fought for the creation of Israel. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and family.
The Boxer’s Story is an extraordinary and powerful true story from the Holocaust that reads like a thriller.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS & RECREATION October The Robson Press 8¾ x 5¾ | 256 pp 16 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84954-190-9 USC

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

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Biteback Publishing A Spy Like No Other
The Cuban Missile Crisis, The KGB and the Kennedy Assassination

Robert Holmes
The arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and John F. Kennedy’s willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Kennedy’s confidence in his brinkmanship hung on evidence provided by Oleg Penkovsky, the MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence. While researching Penkovsky’s story, Robert Holmes stumbled upon an astonishing chain of intrigue, betrayal, and revenge that suggested a group of maverick Soviet intelligence officers had plotted the crime of the century. When Penkovsky’s treachery was discovered he was executed and his boss, General Ivan Serov (the head of Soviet military intelligence) was humiliated. In this extraordinary study, Holmes suggests Serov’s anger at America’s victory in Cuba and his resentment at the treachery of his protégé turned into an obsessive determination to gain revenge—and reveals the opportunity he had to do so by working with KGB rogue officers to enlist a young American loner, Lee Harvey Oswald, to assassinate the President. Robert Holmes was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a British diplomat for more than thirty years, serving in a number of foreign capitals including Moscow, Russia, and Budapest, Hungary, during the depths of the Cold War.

HISTORY / TRUE CRIME October 9½ x 6 | 324 pp 16 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84954-415-3 USC

This extraordinary new book draws dramatic links between those events and the death of JFK.

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Biteback Publishing Greta Garbo
Divine Star

David Bret

Though there have been numerous biographies of Greta Garbo, this is the first to fully investigate the two so-called missing periods in the life of this most mysterious and enigmatic of all the Hollywood stars. The first, during the late 1920s, when Garbo disappeared completely for several months, forcing the studio to employ a lookalike, was almost certainly to conceal a pregnancy. The second occurred during World War II, when Garbo was employed by British intelligence to track down Nazi sympathizers. In Greta Garbo: Divine Star, David Bret has acquired a large amount of previously unsourced material along with anecdotes from friends and colleagues of the star which have never before been published. For the first time, he paints a complete portrait of her childhood and youth in Sweden. Bret has also sourced copies of all Garbo’s films—with the exception The Divine Woman, of which no print survives, including the silent—before scenes were trimmed or cut. David Bret is one of Britain’s leading showbusiness biographers. His many, highly successful, biographies include those of Edith Piaf, Doris Day, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, and Mario Lanza.
A revealing new biography of Hollywood’s most enigmatic star using previously unsourced material.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERFORMING ARTS September The Robson Press 9½ x 6 | 352 pp Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84954-251-7 USC

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Biteback Publishing Mrs Hudson’s Diaries
A View From the Landing at 221b

Barry Cryer and Bob Cryer
These are diaries of Sherlock Holmes’s landlady, the unflappable Mrs. Hudson, humorously describing life with the great detective and his everfaithful companion, Watson. With mysterious visitors, disappearances, shouts, and bangs, life below stairs at 221b is silly, slapstick, and sentimental in equal measure. This affectionate and hilarious sketch of a remarkably enterprising Victorian female and her equally remarkable tenant is a must-have for any Sherlock Holmes aficionado. Behind every great man is an even greater woman . . . demanding rent!
FICTION October The Robson Press 8 x 5½ | 204 pp Trade Cloth US $16.99 | CAN $18.50 978-1-84954-390-3 USC

Barry Cryer is a comedian and writer. Bob Cryer is an actor and writer. They live in London.

The spoof diaries of Sherlock Holmes’s landlady, the unflappable Mrs. Hudson, present a portrait of life with the great detective.

The Real Iron Lady
Working with Margaret Thatcher

Gillian Shephard
In this remarkable collection, Gillian Shephard—who herself served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher—has brought together a group of contributors with experience of working with Mrs. Thatcher during her time at 10 Downing Street. The result is a revealing record of the way that Britain’s only female Prime Minister approached her job—her thoroughness, her extraordinary capacity for hard work, and her rare ability to combine attention to detail with a grasp of strategic issues. This is a unique insight into the working life of the real Iron Lady.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Available Now 6 x 9½ | 288 pp Trade Cloth US $28.95 | CAN $31.99 978-1-84954-401-6 USC

Baroness Gillian Shephard was Secretary of State for Education in John Major’s government.

What it was like to work every day with one of the most influential politicians of the last century.

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Biteback Publishing Wayne Rooney
Boots of Gold

John Sweeney
Irreverent, hilarious, and surprising, this is a warts-and-all biography of England’s most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Shorttempered he may be, but when he pulls on his boots to play for Manchester United, there’s no doubting Wayne Rooney’s talent or position as Britain’s greatest living footballer. With a supporting cast including David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, this is a must-read for all fans of soccer. John Sweeney is one of the BBC’s leading investigative journalists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS & RECREATION September A Paperback Original 5 x 7⅞ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84954-071-1 USC

This is the story of the rise, fall, and rise again of Wayne Rooney, England’s greatest modern footballer.

SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon
Soviet Military Counterintelligence in WWII

Vadim J. Birstein, PhD
Foreword by Nigel West
“Why is a book about SMERSH relevant today? As Mr. Birstein takes pains to point out, ‘the present Russian government seems intent on whitewashing Stalin’s atrocities and the history of the Soviet security services.’” —The Washington Times SMERSH is primarily known to readers in English as James Bond’s sinister opponent. Yet SMERSH was a real organization and was just as diabolical as its fictional counterpart. Based on Russian documents and memoirs, a critical missing piece of the history of World War II and the Soviet secret services is finally exposed to the light of day. Vadim J. Birstein, PhD, is a historian, activist, and molecular geneticist. He lives in New York.

HISTORY November First Trade Paper Edition 9 x 6 | 528 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84954-567-9 USC

Author Hometown: New York, NY

An authoritative and much-needed study of the Soviet Union’s feared SMERSH counterintelligence agency, written with access to Soviet archives.

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Selected Backlist from Biteback Publishing

The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II Juan Pujol García and Nigel West
HISTORY 5⅛ x 7 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-84954-107-7 USC

Operation Garbo

Not in Front of the Corgis
Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains Brian Hoey

The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker
Edited by Elizabeth Miller, PhD, and Dacre Stoker
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5¾ x 7¾ | 352 pp Trade Cloth US $30.00 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84954-188-6 USC

The Dublin Years Bram Stoker

REFERENCE 5 x 7⅞ | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-84954-176-3 USC

The Margaret Thatcher Book Of Quotations
Compiled by Iain Dale and Grant Tucker
REFERENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 5 x 8½ | 350 pp Trade Paper US $19.99 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84954-383-5 USC

Inside the Pakistan Army
A Woman’s Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror Carey Schofield
POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9⅛ | 352 pp Trade Cloth US $28.95 | CAN $31.99 978-1-906447-02-1 USC

The Real James Bonds 1909–39 Michael Smith
HISTORY 6 x 9⅛ | 400 pp Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $35.95 978-1-906447-00-7 USC

MI6

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Bitter Lemon Press Death on Demand
Paul Thomas

“It’s the stuff the best gangster films are made of, perfectly composed, the action kept in the realm of reality and a steady, tense wire of human pathos running down its spine.”—The Coast “Tito Ihaka, the maverick Maori cop, dances through a minefield of police politics, old grudges, blackmail, and gangs as he hunts a faceless killer in Auckland. Filled with helter-skelter storylines, witty dialogue, and captivating characters.”—Herald on Sunday Paul Thomas, the godfather of contemporary New Zealand crime writing, often described by some as “Elmore Leonard on acid,” has brought back offbeat local hero Detective Sergeant Tito Ihaka. Maori cop Ihaka, unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox, and profane, is a cop unable to play the police politics necessary for promotion, but he’s a man who has a way with women, and he’s a stubborn investigator with an uncanny instinct for the truth. Tito Ihaka is in the wilderness, having fallen foul of the new regime at Auckland Central. Called back to follow up a strange twist in the unsolved case that got him into trouble in the first place, Ihaka finds himself hunting a shadowy hitman who could have several notches on his belt. His enemies want him off the case, but the bodies are piling up. Ihaka embarks on a quest to establish whether police corruption was behind the shooting of an undercover cop and—to complicate matters—he becomes involved with an enigmatic female suspect who could hold the key to everything.

FICTION / MYSTERY October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-17-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-18-8 W

Set in New Zealand, featuring a Maori cop with a dubious reputation, for those with a taste for the exotic.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Outreach to mystery publications and websites Social media campaign Giveaways through quizzes and contests on Twitter, Facebook, and Bitter Lemon Press website

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Bitter Lemon Press Baghdad Central
Elliott Colla

Baghdad Central is a noir debut novel set in Baghdad in September 2003. The US occupation of Iraq is a swamp of incompetence and self-delusion. The CPA has disbanded the Iraqi army and police as a consequence of its paranoid policy of de-Ba’athification of Iraqi society. Tales of hubris and reality-denial abound, culminating in Washington hailing the mess a glorious “mission accomplished.” Inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji is a mid-level Sunni cop who deserted his post back in April. Khafaji has lived long enough in pre- and post-Saddam Iraq to know that clinging on to anything but poetry and his daughter, Mrouj, is asking for trouble. Nabbed by the Americans and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, Khafaji is offered one way out—work for the CPA to rebuild the Iraqi Police Services. But it’s only after United States forces take Mrouj that he figures out a way to make his collaboration palatable, and even rewarding. Soon, he is investigating the disappearance of young women translators working for the US Army. The bloody trail leads Khafaji through battles, bars, and brothels then finally back to the Green Zone, where it all began, and where his daughter lies hostage in the American hospital.
FICTION / MYSTERY February A Paperback Original 5¼ x 7¾ | 324 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-25-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-26-3 W*

This is a first novel by Elliott Colla, forty-four, an American writer totally immersed in Middle Eastern affairs. He is a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University, and a well-known translator from the Arabic of local fiction and poetry. He lives between Washington, DC, and the Middle East.
Baghdad, 2003: Iraqi police inspector Muhsin al-Khafaji investigates the disappearance of young women translators working for the American occupation forces.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Outreach to mystery publications and websites Social media campaign Giveaways through quizzes and contests on Twitter, Facebook, and Bitter Lemon Press website

Author Events
Washington, DC • New York, NY Author Hometown: Washington, DC

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Bitter Lemon Press Hotel Brasil
Frei Betto
Translated by Jethro Soutar

The setting for this witty and insightful debut crime novel is a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, family hotel. Rio is the perfect backdrop with its history of military dictatorship, drug wars, child gangs, and violent policing tactics. The decapitated body of a hotel resident is found. The eyes have been removed from the head, casually left on the floor of the room. The victim’s eerie, frozen Mona Lisa smile seems to indicate that the murderer had been received as a friend. According to the police, the victim was stabbed in the heart and died before the decapitation. As the investigation continues with few leads or clues worth pursuing, other hotel clients are found dead, all decapitated, usually with the head found delicately balanced on their knees. This classical crime novel provides an opportunity for Frei Betto (a Dominican friar, once a political prisoner, a union activist, and then an adviser to President Lula da Silva) to describe Brazilian society, especially those left at its edge, like Rio’s favela children, abused, hunted-down, but also addicted to drugs and violent crime. The book tells the fascinating back stories of the hotel residents, suspects, and eventual victims, such as the maid who dreams of making it in television soaps, and the female pimp who has survived incestuous rape, while being faithful to a suspenseful intrigue that could have been thought up by Ruth Rendell. Brazil will receive much attention as host of the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
The murder of guests in a run-down family hotel in Rio de Janeiro, smiling heads severed with a blunt blade.

FICTION / MYSTERY March A Paperback Original 5¼ x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-27-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-28-7 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Outreach to mystery publications and websites Social media campaign Giveaways through quizzes and contests on Twitter, Facebook, and Bitter Lemon Press website

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Selected Backlist from Bitter Lemon Press

A Crack in the Wall
Translated by Miranda France
FICTION 5¼ x 7¾ | 230 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-08-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-09-6 W

Claudia Piñeiro

Involuntary Witness
Translated by Patrick Creagh
FICTION 5¼ x 7¾ | 274 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-904738-52-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-904738-75-6 W

Gianrico Carofiglio

Translated by Peter Bush
FICTION 5 x 8 | 285 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-904738-36-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-904738-89-3 W

Leonardo Padura

Havana Fever

Translated by Jonathan Lynn
FICTION 5¼ x 7¾ | 275 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-904738-97-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-904738-98-5 W

Patrick Conrad

No Sale

Translated by Ruth Whitehouse
FICTION 5¼ x 7¾ | 245 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908524-04-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-908524-03-4 W

Esmahan Aykol

Baksheesh

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
FICTION 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

Zygmunt Miłoszewski

A Grain of Truth

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Black Balloon Publishing And Every Day Was Overcast
Paul Kwiatkowski

“Unlike any book I’ve ever read. . . . A completely original and clearheaded voice.”—Ira Glass, host of This American Life Out of south Florida’s lush suburban decay blooms the chaotic magic of Paul Kwiatkowski’s And Every Day Was Overcast. In a cable re-run world of Predator and Married With Children, our unnamed narrator finds himself trapped in his own adolescent misadventures, complete with LSD trips, romantic devastation on an island of castaway rabbits, and all-too-vivid brushes with AIDS. Kwiatkowski’s arresting photographs amplify the cruelty and wonderstruck vulnerability of adolescent junkies desperate for human connection. It’s where image meets travestied story that our narrator must confront his own brutal longing for love. New York City–based photographer and writer Paul Kwiatkowski was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up in south Florida during the 1990s. He studied at Tufts University and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston as well as at F + F School for Art in Zurich, Switzerland. This is his first novel, excerpts from which have appeared in numerous outlets, including Juxtapoz, American Suburb X, and the Paris Review.
A photography-driven fiction about coming of age in the creep show of south Florida’s swamps and strip malls.

FICTION / PHOTOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original 8 x 9½ | 280 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-936787-07-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936787-08-1 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.andeverydaywasovercast.com

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Miami, FL • New York, NY Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Selected Backlist from Black Balloon Publishing

Our Man in Iraq
Translated by Will Firth
FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 208 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-936787-05-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936787-06-7 USC

Robert Perisic

Maverick Jetpants in The City of Quality
Bill Peters
FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 280 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-936787-02-9 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-936787-03-6 W

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 W 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 W

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BOA Editions, Ltd. The Book of Goodbyes
Jillian Weise

Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award. The Los Angeles Times described Jillian Weise’s debut poetry collection as “a fearless dissection of the taboo and the hidden.” In this second collection she forwards her bold, sexy poetics by chronicling an affair with a man she names “Big Logos.” These poems throw into question sex, the law, identity, sentiment, and power, shifting between lyric and narrative, hyper-realism and magical realism, fact and fiction. I’ve Been Waiting All Night I reckon you were asleep with your girl before the phone rang. Make something up. I’ve been waiting all night to tell you about the couple in post-War France, the woman fresh in her grave and the man who didn’t like his mistress dead, no sir, and so exhumed her, to the dismay of his wife, who had him arrested for the stink he made. She was reburied, returned to the dead. After jail, he dug her up to fuck again. Attached suction cups and crafted a wig from a broom. You can go now. I’m more in the mood than you’re used to. Jillian Weise—an above-the-knee amputee with a computerized prosthetic— identifies as a cyborg and has discussed the identity in essays for the New York Times and Drunken Boat. Her books include The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and The Colony (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, 2010). She is an assistant professor at Clemson University, a contributing editor at the South Carolina Review, and co-director of the Annual Clemson Literary Festival.
The winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award writes of sex, identity, and the power struggles within a deranged love affair.

POETRY September A Paperback Original American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938160-14-1 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-15-8 W

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Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.jillianweise.freeservers.com

Author Events
New York, NY • Charleston, SC Author Hometown: Greenville, SC

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BOA Editions, Ltd. Birth Marks
Jim Daniels

A poet of the working-class and city streets, Jim Daniels’s fourteenth poetry collection travels from Detroit to Ohio to Pittsburgh, from one postindustrial city to another, across jobs and generations. Daniels focuses on the urban landscape and its effects on its inhabitants as they struggle to establish community on streets hissing with distrust and random violence. Out here, silence scrapes its knuckles in an attempt at prayer.
POETRY September A Paperback Original American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938160-16-5 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-17-2 W

Jim Daniels is Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Melon. Poetry editor for the scholarly journal Labor: A Working Class History of America, his awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and the Brittingham Prize for Poetry.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA

Tough, unflinching poems from the struggling urban heart of Detroit and Pittsburgh.

Jewelry Box
A Collection of Histories

Aurelie Sheehan
The sixty-eight short works in this collection (some only a paragraph, others a few pages) straddle memoir and fiction, exploring the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. Like Lydia Davis, Aurelie Sheehan’s stories are potent miniatures that blossom out from seemingly insignificant encounters and objects. Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate renderings of the life that surrounds us, just under the surface. Aurelie Sheehan is author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, and the story collection Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original American Readers Series 5¼ x 8 | 152 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-938160-24-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-25-7 W

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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.aureliesheehan.com Author Hometown: Tucson, AZ

Sixty-eight intimate “histories” straddling memoir and fiction in lyrical prose.

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BOA Editions, Ltd. No Need of Sympathy
Fleda Brown

Any one poem in Fleda Brown’s eighth collection may touch on contemporary science, physics, family, politics, the nature of poetry, and the nature of reality. There are sonnets for all ten grandchildren written by a grandmother, poems about the Big Bang, about child labor, the moon over Paris, and tent caterpillars, all written with humility, humor, curiosity, and a deep love of life. The dead seem like holes in the universe, each a random fuzz-spot, a sad little purse. Fleda Brown’s awards include the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award.
POETRY October A Paperback Original American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938160-18-9 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-19-6 W

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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.fledabrown.com Author Hometown: Traverse City, MI

The former Delaware poet laureate touches on physics, family, politics, and nature.

There’s a Box in the Garage You Can Beat With a Stick
Michael Teig
Michael Teig’s poems are moving, intelligent, full of delight, and—most refreshingly—a pleasure to read. Stephen Dobyns says of Teig’s poems, “they have this ability to make the world fresh again and make us realize why we love the world, despite its failings and our own.” When they gave him a shovel he repaired the ground. When they addressed him in memos he said I am lonely too. He gave them a shrug and held a gray cat to his chest like an alibi. Michael Teig is founding co-editor of jubilat. He won the inaugural A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Easthampton, MA

POETRY November A Paperback Original American Poets Continuum 6 x 9 | 136 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938160-20-2 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-21-9 W

Witty, intriguing, and self-effacing poems that pick up overheard conversations and the accidental encounters of everyday life.

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BOA Editions, Ltd. The Oasis of Now
Selected Poems Bilingual Edition

Sohrab Sepehri
Translated by Kazim Ali and Mohammad Jafar Mahallati
Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980) is one of the major Iranian poets of the twentieth century. Well-versed in Buddhism, mysticism, and Western traditions, he mingled Western concepts with Eastern ones, creating a poetry unsurpassed in the history of Persian literature. In Iran his verses are often recited in public gatherings and lines from them were used as slogans by the protesters in 2009. This first full-length American volume collects poems from three of Sepehri’s most important books, including the incredibly popular Water’s Footfall. I want to know: Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage. Why is the humble clover trodden upon rather than the red tulip. I want to see anew and wash the words of the world in wind and rain.
POETRY / RELIGION November Lannan Translations Selection Series 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938160-22-6 W Farsi bilingual eBook ISBN: 978-1-938160-23-3 W

Sohrab Sepehri wrote the poems collected in The Oasis of Now after traveling through Japan, China, and India, where he was exposed to the arts of those countries as well as the spiritual disciplines of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. This bilingual edition is crucial for anyone interested in Iranian arts and culture. Kazim Ali is author of ten books of poetry, fiction, essays, and translations. He is an associate professor at Oberlin College and founding editor of Nightboat Books. Mohammad Jafar Mahallati is Presidential Scholar in the religion department of Oberlin College. He served as Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1987 to 1989 and was instrumental in brokering a peace agreement between Iran and Iraq during that time.
The first US publication of one of Iran’s most important contemporary poets. This bilingual edition includes an essay and introduction by Kazim Ali.

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Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.kazimali.com Translators Hometown: Oberlin, OH

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Breakaway Books One Way, Uphill Only
Cross Country Dreams and the Journey to a Championship Season

Chris Quick
One Way, Uphill Only is a journey to the center of high school cross country in America. Covering an entire year of action, the narrative follows the trials and tribulations of five young men as they try to win the first state and national cross country championships in the history of Palatine (IL) High School. The story is told from the unique vantage point of their coach, Chris Quick, who is not only a remarkable coach but a writer of the first order as well. He takes a sport that seems on its surface to be dead simple—run hard, add up the finishing places of your first five runners, and the team with the lowest score wins—and unpacks its astonishing complexity and beauty. He weaves details of training, injury, psychology, rivalries, parents, and history into one dramatic, continuously fascinating story. Chris Quick has been a coach at Palatine High School since 2001. He is a graduate of both the University of Illinois and Northwestern University. This is his debut work of nonfiction. He lives in Palatine, Illinois.

A coach’s elegant nonfiction account of the training and racing that lead to his team’s state cross country championship.

SPORTS & RECREATION September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 320 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-62124-008-2 USC

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Author Hometown: Palatine, IL

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Selected Backlist from Breakaway Books

The Triumph of a Catholic School Running Team and Its Jewish Coach Marc Bloom
SPORTS & RECREATION / BODY, MIND & SPIRIT 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-891369-74-2 USC

God on the Starting Line

The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham Paul J. Kiell
SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 360 pp 50 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-891369-59-9 USC

American Miler

Relentless Forward Progress
Foreword by Eric Grossman
SPORTS & RECREATION 6 x 9 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-891369-90-2 USC

A Guide to Running Ultramarathons Bryon Powell

Running Through the Wall
Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon Neal Jamison
Foreword by Don Allison

The Haile Gebrselassie Story Jim Denison
SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 272 pp 50 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-891369-48-3 USC

The Greatest

Illumination and Ecstasy in Motion Edited by Garth Battista
SPORTS & RECREATION 6 x 9 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-891369-49-0 USC

The Runner’s High

SPORTS & RECREATION 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-891369-37-7 USC

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Bywater Books The Mirror and the Mask
Ellen Hart

“A tale full of complex plot lines, fast-paced action, and characters skilled in deception. Fans . . . will not be disappointed.”—Library Journal, starred review “Jane Lawless and her trusty sidekick, Cordelia Thorn, are the most refreshing, entertaining, and cerebrally stimulating duo since Rex Stout’s unbeatable combo of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin.”—Baltimore Alternative Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is at a crossroads. The rough economy has put her plans for a third restaurant on hold, and her long distance romance is on the rocks and quite possibly unsalvageable. Unsure of what to do next, she takes her good friend A. J. Nolan up on his standing offer to take her on as a private investigator. While still in training, Jane’s first job seems simple enough. Annie Archer explains that she left Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in search of her stepfather who vanished soon after her mom died in 1990. All Jane has to do is find Annie’s stepfather. But it’s not long before a hunt for a missing person turns into murder and Jane realizes this case is far from simple. Ellen Hart is the author of twenty Jane Lawless mysteries. She is a five-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery and a threetime winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Best Popular Fiction. Ellen lives in the Minneapolis area with her partner.
FICTION / MYSTERY October First Trade Paper Edition A Jane Lawless Mystery 5½ x 8½ | 312 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-043-4 USC

Restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers PI work is hotter than any kitchen when her first case ends in murder.
Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Bywater Books The Cruel Ever After
Ellen Hart

“Buttressed by distinctive characters and a splendid Minnesota setting, the well-constructed plot builds to a satisfying conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly “Hart has consistently maintained a level of excellence throughout her eighteen Lawless mysteries. [She] never overplays Jane’s lesbianism. It is just a fact of life in this truly engaging mystery series.”—Library Journal The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he’d never see again is nothing compared to Chester’s own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant. Now he’s back and penniless, or as he would prefer to say, between fortunes. He’s working an angle to make his next fortune by selling a priceless artifact recently looted from the Baghdad Museum, but it all falls through when he wakes up next to the dead body of his buyer with no memory of what happened the night before. Panicked, Chester flees the scene, eventually returning to cover his tracks only to find that someone has already taken care of that for him, but at what price? For the past fourteen years, Ellen Hart has taught “An Introduction to Writing the Modern Mystery” through the Loft Literary Center, the largest independent writing community in the nation. She was made an official GLBT Literary Saint at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans in 2005.
When Chester Garrity wakes up next to a dead stabbing victim he turns to his ex-wife, Jane Lawless, for help.

FICTION / MYSTERY November First Trade Paper Edition A Jane Lawless Mystery 5½ x 8½ | 328 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-044-1 USC

Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Bywater Books Finding the Grain
Wynn Malone

When Augusta “Blue” Riley’s parents are killed by a tornado in her last month of high school, Blue is thrown into a world where nothing is what she expected. She moves from her farm in Alabama to North Carolina to be near her aunt and attend college. Interesting classes and the love of sorority girl Grace Lancaster help Blue let go of her grief. But her world is shattered again when Grace abruptly leaves her. Blue quits college and hits the road. For nearly twenty years she moves from town to town, job to job, woman to woman—always the first to move on— until Blue comes back to the farming life that shaped her childhood. Mississippi Delta farmer Preacher Rowe and his invalid wife Mary put Blue to work plowing the fields and helping in the house. Eventually, Preacher teaches Blue the art and craft of fine woodworking and for the first time since her parents’ death Blue takes control of her life. The pull of the mountains brings Blue back to North Carolina where she opens a woodworking gallery. When her lost love walks in the door the strength and serenity Blue thought she found is put to the ultimate test. Wynn Malone was born and raised in rural Alabama, where she spent most of her childhood roaming around outside, fishing, and occasionally smoking rabbit tobacco. As a federal employee in natural resource management subject to the whims of Washington politics, she is constantly reminded of the value of patience and perspective.
After twenty years roaming the backwaters of the country, Blue Riley is finally going home to face her past.
Author Hometown: Lexington, KY

FICTION March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-045-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-046-5 W

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Selected Backlist from Bywater Books

The Escape Artist
Judith Katz
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 296 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-037-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-038-0 W

Giraffe People
Jill Malone
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-61294-039-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-040-3 W

Georgia Beers
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-932859-84-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-932859-85-0 W

96 Hours

Art on Fire
Hilary Sloin
FICTION 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

Trick of the Dark
Val McDermid
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-932859-82-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-932859-83-6 US

The Girls Club
Sally Bellerose
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-932859-78-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61294-020-5 W

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Centipede Press Algernon Blackwood
Edited by S.T. Joshi
The Library of Weird Fiction is an ongoing series that prints the best weird fiction by the best weird writers in literary history. Texts are prepared by leading authority S.T. Joshi, who has consulted manuscripts and original publications to present the most accurate texts. The Algernon Blackwood collection contains eighteen short stories and novelettes, including the classic tales “The Willows” and “The Wendigo” and the little-known novella Sand.
FICTION / HORROR | December | Library of Weird Fiction | 5⅝ x 9 | 900 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-61347-047-3 USC

H.P. Lovecraft
Edited by S.T. Joshi

Contains twenty-four short stories, novelettes, and short novels, including The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At the Mountains of Madness, as well as twenty-six poems. This edition has a fine introduction by S.T. Joshi, photographs of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive binding, uniform with others in this series.
FICTION / HORROR | December | Library of Weird Fiction | 5⅝ x 9 | 900 pp 6 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-61347-048-0 USC

Edgar Allan Poe
Edited by S.T. Joshi

With dozens of short stories and poems, including Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories, this essential collection includes an insightful introduction, photographs of Poe, and definitive texts. It also has a full cloth sewn binding, uniform with others in this series.
FICTION / HORROR | December | Library of Weird Fiction | 5⅝ x 9 | 736 pp 6 B&W photographs | Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-61347-050-3 USC

William Hope Hodgson
Edited by S.T. Joshi
This collection of William Hope Hodgson contains the novels The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates along with twenty-one short stories, including “The Voice in the Night” and the Carnacki stories. There is an excellent introduction by S.T. Joshi and rare photographs of Hodgson.
FICTION / HORROR | December | Library of Weird Fiction | 5⅝ x 9 | 900 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-61347-049-7 USC

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Centipede Press John Stewart: A Portfolio
John Stewart
British fantasy, horror, and science fiction artist John Stewart’s intricate black and white drawings and color paintings have embellished some of the most important publications in the modern fantasy field, including works by Stephen King and Richard Matheson. Includes a preface by British horror writer Ramsey Campbell and an introduction by Andrew Smith.
ART | September | 5½ x 7½ | 294 pp Color and B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-61347-002-2 USC

From the Thunder Colt’s Mouth
The Collected Short Fiction

R.A. Lafferty
Introduction by Michael Swanwick
With most of his brilliant and original work now out of print, this is the first volume in a series of the short fiction of R.A. Lafferty, one of science fiction’s most highly regarded authors. The series will include new introductions by many of the field’s top authors, including Harlan Ellison, Michael Swanwick, and others.
FICTION | January | 5⅝ x 9 | 260 pp Trade Cloth US $100.00 | CAN $109.99 | 978-1-61347-046-6 USC

Masters of the Weird Tale
Carl Jacobi
Introduction by John Pelan
This title in our Masters of the Weird Tale series focuses on the weird fiction of pulp master Carl Jacobi, and is introduced by John Pelan. Over sixty stories are collected in a large hardcover edition, featuring original artwork. A large number of stories have never before been collected in book format.
FICTION / HORROR | March | Masters of the Weird Tale | 7½ x 11 | 900 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout | Slipcased US $350.00 | 978-1-61347-051-0 US

Masters of the Weird Tale
David Case
Illustrated by Jason Zerrillo
This title in our Masters of the Weird Tale series focuses on the weird fiction of David Case, and is introduced by S.T. Joshi. There are over a dozen stories, with original artwork by artist Jason Zerrillo. Most of this work, considered Case’s best fiction, has been out of print for decades.
FICTION / HORROR | March | Masters of the Weird Tale | 7½ x 11 | 800 pp B&W photographs throughout Slipcased US $350.00 | CAN $384.99 | 978-1-61347-052-7 USC

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Centipede Press Dimiter
Limited Edition

William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic megabestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novel in the grand tradition of Morris West’s The Devil’s Advocate.
FICTION / HORROR | September | 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Cloth US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 | 978-1-61347-042-8 USC

Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing
Limited Edition

William Peter Blatty
A scathing modern fable that chronicles the descent of an acclaimed auteur and a Hollywood screenwriter caught in his own private hell. This novel draws on William Peter Blatty’s own experiences in Hollywood during the writing and filming of such acclaimed movies as The Exorcist. Blatty takes no prisoners in this fable of towering ambition, cross and doublecross.
FICTION | October | 6 x 9 | 260 pp | B&W illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 | 978-1-61347-045-9 USC

A Mountain Walked
Edited by S.T. Joshi
There is no bigger name in horror fiction than H.P. Lovecraft. This new collection of fiction assembles a handful of reprints and over a dozen new stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos. Authors include T.E.D. Klein, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Gemma Files, Lois Gresh, Thomas Ligotti, Patrick McGrath, and many others. Loaded with illustrations by David Ho, Thomas Ott, Denis Tiani, and John Kenn Mortensen, this is an oversized, gorgeous clothbound book.
FICTION / HORROR | March | 7¼ x 11 | 636 pp Color and B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Cloth US $250.00 | CAN $274.99 | 978-1-61347-053-4 USC

Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot
Studies in the Horror Film

Tony Earnshaw
Despite being held in total disregard by horror film cinephiles, Tobe Hooper’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (1979) ranks as one of the most popular horror films ever created for television. This is the first book-length critical commentary ever published on this film, and contains many new interviews, behind-the-scenes stills, poster artwork, and other extras.
PERFORMING ARTS | January | A Paperback Original | 6 x 8⅝ | 464 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-61347-054-1 USC

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Selected Backlist from Centipede Press

Deadline at Dawn
Cornell Woolrich
FICTION 5½ x 9 | 360 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 978-1-61347-020-6 USC

I Married a Dead Man
Cornell Woolrich
FICTION 5½ x 9 | 300 pp Smyth Sewn US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 978-1-61347-022-0 USC

Studies in the Horror Film William Peter Blatty with William Friedkin
Edited by Danel Olson
PERFORMING ARTS 6½ x 10 | 560 pp 125 color photographs Trade Paper US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-933618-96-8

The Exorcist

Tales of the Grand Guignol
Maurice Level
FICTION 6 x 9 | 436 pp Trade Cloth US $125.00 | CAN $137.50 978-1-933618-94-4 USC

Dead Titans, Waken! and Invisible Sun
Edited by S.T. Joshi Illustrated by Jon Arfstrom and Rodger Gerberding
FICTION 6 x 9 | 536 pp Color and B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $150.00 | CAN $164.99 978-1-61347-010-7 USC

Two Complete Novels by Donald A. Wandrei Donald A. Wandrei

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Limited Edition Robert Louis Stevenson
FICTION 8 x 12 | 276 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout Slipcased US $350.00 | CAN $384.99 978-1-933618-83-8 USC

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Central Recovery Press Acrobaddict
Joe Putignano

Follow the author as he goes on a harrowing journey from the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado to homeless shelters in New Jersey to shooting heroin on the job in the New York Times bathroom to being declared dead in Boston. This story goes beyond addiction. It is about the fragility and tenacity of the human spirit and how that spirit can redeem each and every one of us by helping to push us through the darkness, whether the darkness is from death, divorce, or the disease of addiction. Acrobaddict is a story about the close relationship between athletics and drug addiction—how the same energy, obsession, and dedication that can create an Olympic athlete can also create a homeless drug addict. Joe Putignano is a performing artist and contortionist who has toured with Cirque du Soleil. He was the star of the Cirque show Totem. He has performed in The Times They Are A’changin’ by Twyla Tharp and in a number of stage productions with the Metropolitan Opera. Since 1987 he has won numerous state and regional gymnastics championships. Putignano has been featured on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Human Factor, a CNN show that profiles survivors who have overcome the odds.

A gifted athlete’s Olympic hopes are derailed by his addiction, but recovery brings him to a role he never dreamed of.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SELF-HELP September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-937612-51-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-52-8 W

Marketing Plans
• National advertising: Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Shelf Awareness • Publication coincides with National Recovery Month • National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign • Regional Mid-Atlantic tour • Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/ books/acrobaddict

Author Events
Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Central Recovery Press Making Peace with Your Plate
Eating Disorder Recovery

Robyn Cruze and Espra Andrus, LCSW
With its unique three-phase approach to eating, this book smashes the illusion of control, the power, and the lies of the deadly illness of disordered eating, providing a concrete plan for long-term recovery. Robyn Cruze is a certified coach and author who struggled with an eating disorder that crippled her spirit for over a decade. She is now sharing her experience and her path to recovery with others.
SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-937612-45-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-46-7 W

Espra Andrus, LCSW, is a clinical therapist who maintains a private practice in St. George, Utah. She specializes in working with individuals who suffer with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders.

Marketing Plans
National advertising: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness Features in women’s lifestyle, wellness, and parenting print and online media National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/makingpeacewithyourplate Author Hometowns: Carbondale, CO / Hurricane, UT

A therapist and an eating disorder survivor come together to deliver expert guidance for readers with eating disorders.

The Therapist’s Guide to Addiction Medicine
A Handbook for Addiction Counselors and Therapists

Barry Solof, MD, FASAM
The author uses his expertise, developed over thirty-five years of addiction medicine practice, to give therapists and counselors the knowledge and tools they must have in order to work effectively in addiction treatment. Barry Solof, MD, FASAM, is a graduate of Yale Medical School and has been practicing addiction medicine for thirty-five years. He is the medical director of Michaels’ House, a nationally recognized rehabilitation facility for addiction and co-occurring disorders, located in Palm Springs, California.
PSYCHOLOGY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 340 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-937612-43-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-44-3 W

Marketing Plans
Excerpts in: Addiction Professional, Renew, Counselor Magazine, and Psychology Today National advertising: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/ therapistsguidetoaddictionmedicine

A comprehensive volume on addiction medicine designed for therapists and counselors practicing in or entering the field of addiction treatment.

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • San Diego, CA • San Francisco, CA • San Jose, CA • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Palm Springs, CA

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Central Recovery Press Love in the Land of Dementia
Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey

Deborah Shouse

From the earliest indicators and faint forebodings to the eventual grim diagnosis, Deborah Shouse carries readers along on the difficult—and at times joyous—road she and her parents walked through the Land of Dementia— Alzheimer’s disease. She shares the challenges she faced during the process of caring for both parents as her mother slowly vanished, to be replaced by a difficult but surprisingly no less valued and beloved stranger. Strong, fluid organization and tender writing distinguish this purposeful and compelling read on a heartbreaking subject filled with unexpected insights. In addition to its spiritual message, Love in the Land of Dementia includes practical suggestions and support for caregivers and other family members. Deborah Shouse’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, Hemispheres, Family Circle, Spirituality & Health, Chicago Tribune, and Ms. She writes a weekly column on love stories for the Kansas City Star, and has co-authored Working Woman’s Communications Survival Guide, which is in its fifth printing, and Antiquing for Dummies. She has written several memoirs and business books and has been featured in more than a dozen Chicken Soup books.
Caregiver Deborah Shouse celebrates spiritual and practical lessons learned on her unscripted yet rewarding journey with her mother through Alzheimer’s disease.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / HEALTH & FITNESS November 6 x 9 | 180 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937612-49-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-50-4 W

Marketing Plans
• Excerpts in: Psychology Today • National advertising: Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Shelf Awareness • Features in women’s lifestyle, wellness, and health print and online media • National TV and radio campaign • Publication coincides with National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.centralrecovery.com/ books/loveinthelandofdementia Author Hometown: Kansas City, MO

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Central Recovery Press Out of the Woods
A Woman’s Guide to Long-Term Recovery

Diane Cameron
Women new to recovery find much support; sponsorship and fellowship are readily available, and everything about the recovery life seems fresh and exciting. With time, recovering women face challenges from complacency to burnout, menopause to weight gain. Diane Cameron has faced these issues, and shares her “experience, strength, and hope” to teach readers how to handle the unexpected trials of double-digit recovery. Diane Cameron is a blogger, journalist, and columnist in long-term recovery. Her newspaper columns appear in the Albany Times-Union, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Washington Post.

SELF-HELP / HEALTH & FITNESS February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937612-47-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-48-1 W

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Excerpts in: TheFix.com National advertising: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/outofthewoods Author Hometown: Guilderland, NY

Real solutions to the unexpected threats that endanger long-term recovery written for a woman’s unique experience.

Chi Kung in Recovery
Finding Your Way to a Balanced and Centered Recovery

Gregory S. Pergament
Chi kung, the art of cultivating life force energy, is here distilled into a key selection of exercises designed to boost health and increase mind-body-spirit consciousness. For anyone interested in exercise with a deeper spiritual significance, this step-by-step guide takes readers through essential breathing, meditation, and mindfulness techniques that yield exponentially more powerful benefits than traditional exercise. Gregory S. Pergament is a clinical associate at the Las Vegas Recovery Center and an ordained Zen Buddhist and Taoist priest.
SELF-HELP / BODY, MIND & SPIRIT December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 140 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-937612-41-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937612-42-9 W

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Excerpts in: Yoga Journal National advertising: Library Journal, Publishers Weekly National TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.centralrecoverypress.com/books/chikunginrecovery Author Hometown: Las Vegas, NV

Introducing chi kung as a powerful practice to boost mental focus, enhance vitality, and live life in the present moment.

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Chin Music Press Yellow River Odyssey
Bill Porter

Bill Porter follows the Yellow River, the world’s sixth longest river, from its mouth to its source high in the Tibetan Plateau, a journey of more than three thousand miles through nine Chinese provinces. The trip takes the master translator into what was once the cradle of Chinese civilization and to the hometowns and graves of key historical figures such as Confucius, Mencius, Lao-tzu, and Chuang-tzu. Porter’s depth of knowledge of Chinese history and culture is unparalleled. Yellow River Odyssey, already a bestseller in China, reveals a complex, fascinating, contradictory country. Porter masterfully digs beneath China’s present-day materialism and the deep wounds of the Cultural Revolution to get at the roots of Chinese culture. And he does so with an everpresent wit and a keen eye for the telling detail. The book also includes more than fifty black-and-white photographs taken by Porter during his travels. Bill Porter is an award-winning author and translator also known by his pen name, Red Pine. He is considered one of the foremost translators of Chinese texts, especially Buddhist and Taoist poetry and sutras. His translation work includes major Buddhist texts such as The Platform Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, and The Heart Sutra as well as the best-selling poetry collections Taoteching and Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. He is also the author of Zen Baggage and Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Porter lives in Port Townsend, Washington.

Bill Porter, a.k.a. Red Pine, connects modern China to its past in a riveting journey down the Yellow River.

TRAVEL November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 284 pp 50 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $17.50 | CAN $19.50 978-0-9887693-0-4 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-9887693-1-1 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • 5-city tour

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Bellingham, WA • Port Townsend, WA • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Port Townsend, WA

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Chin Music Press A Commonplace Book of Pie
Kate Lebo
Art by Jessica Lynn Bonin

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”—Carl Sagan Poet and baker Kate Lebo takes her cue from Carl Sagan’s quote to reinterpret everything we thought we knew about pie. Lebo calls the book “a collection of facts, both real and imagined, about pie.” It includes time-proven recipes, an eclectic mix of prose poems, a pie horoscope, and ephemera. Lebo explores the tension between the container and the contained while also busting clichés and creating new myths around strawberry rhubarb, vanilla cream, mincemeat, and many other pies. A Commonplace Book of Pie expands on Lebo’s successful chapbook of the same name that has two thousand copies in circulation. The book includes two dozen watercolors and illustrations by artist Jessica Lynn Bonin that reinterpret pie and baking in a contemporary, feminist context.
POETRY / COOKING October 6¾ x 6¾ | 120 pp 25 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-0-9850416-7-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-9850416-8-7 W

Kate Lebo makes poems and pies—often at the same time—in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, AGNI, and Poetry Northwest, among other journals, and she’s the recipient of a Nelson Bentley Fellowship, a grant from 4Culture, and numerous writing residencies. After earning her MFA from the University of Washington in June 2012, she opened Pie School, her cliché-busting pastry academy. Jessica Lynn Bonin is a painter and illustrator interested in Americana—the artifacts and images of our culture—and how that culture confines and defines us. She lives and works in a former hardware store and lumberyard in Edison, Washington.
Kate Lebo blends her passions—poetry and pie—into an irresistible mixture of high art, pop culture, recipes, and fantasy zodiac.

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Co-op available • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Social media campaign • Promotion and giveaways through www.pie-school.com

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Ames, IA • Iowa City, IA • Louisville, KY • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Bellingham, WA • Port Townsend, WA • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Seattle, WA Illustrator Hometown: Edison, WA

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Cinco Puntos Press House of Purple Cedar
Tim Tingle

“The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville.” Thus begins Rose Goode’s story of her growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year’s Eve, 1896, of New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls died, but Rose escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother Pokoni and her grandfather Amafo, both respected elders who understand the old ways. Soon after the fire, the white sheriff beats Amafo in front of the town’s people, humiliating him. Instead of asking the Choctaw community to avenge the beating, her grandfather decides to follow the path of forgiveness. And so unwinds this tale of mystery, Indian-style magical realism, and deep wisdom. It’s a world where backwoods spiritualism and Bible-thumping Christianity mix with bad guys; a one-legged woman shop-keeper, her oaf of a husband, herbal potions, and shape-shifting panthers rendering justice. Tim Tingle—a scholar of his nation’s language, culture, and spirituality—tells Rose’s story of good and evil with understanding and even laugh-out-loud Choctaw humor. Tim Tingle, responding to a scarcity of Choctaw literature, began interviewing tribal elders in the early ’90s. His collection Walking the Choctaw Road was the Oklahoma Book of the Year. Tingle’s children’s book, Crossing Bok Chitto, garnered over twenty state and national awards, including Best Children’s Book from the American Indian Library Association, and was an Editor’s Choice in the New York Times Book Review.
A Choctaw tale of tragedy, whites and Indians, good and evil, revenge and forgiveness, even humor and magic realism, Choctaw-style.
FICTION January 6 x 9 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-24-5 USC Trade Cloth US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-1-935955-69-6 NA eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-25-2 NA

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Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA and BEA • Social media campaign • 5-city national tour • Promotion through: www.timtingle.com Author Hometown: San Antonio, TX

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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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-12-2 NA

Long Fall from Heaven
George Wier and Milton T. Burton
FICTION 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935955-52-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-53-5 W

Make It, Take It
Rus Bradburd
FICTION 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

Conquistador of the Useless
Joshua Isard
FICTION 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935955-54-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-55-9 USC

The Incredible and (Sometimes) Sad Story of Ramon and Cornelio Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Illustrated by Francisco Delgado
FICTION 5 x 7 | 184 pp 7 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935955-56-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-57-3 USC

Out of Their Minds

The New Poetry of Disability Edited by 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 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935955-37-5 W

Beauty is a Verb

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City Lights Publishers Culture of Cruelty
How America’s Elite Demonize the Poor, Valorize the Rich and Jeopardize the Future

Tim Wise
“One of the most brilliant, articulate, and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation.”—Michael Eric Dyson Tim Wise is one of America’s most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as a leading voice for racial equity. In Culture of Cruelty, Wise builds on his fierce critique of racial privilege to discuss a related issue: class disparity and a culture of cruelty that demonizes those in need. As Wise demonstrates, there was a time when the hardship of fellow Americans stirred feelings of sympathy, civic responsibility, and direct support for policies meant to alleviate poverty. But today, mainstream discourse increasingly blames low-income folks for their own situation, and the notion of an intractable “culture of poverty” has pushed our country in an especially ugly direction. Wise shows how the wealthy elite has commandeered discussions about class, moving the nation toward scorn and disengagement from the marginalized. With clarity and precision, Wise not only documents growing contempt for the nation’s have-nots, but also explores the reasons for it. In doing so, he demonstrates how classism, racism, and sexism are inextricably linked, and how popular culture has contributed to a deepening indifference to those who are struggling. Finally, Wise shows that far from a culture of poverty, it is the culture of affluence and power that deserves the blame for America’s economic and social crises. Tim Wise is author of many books, including Dear White America and Colorblind.
Marketing Plans A scalding indictment of how the wealthy influence the national economy, politics, and media to disadvantage those already less fortunate.
• • • • • 20,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign 30-city national tour Promotion through: www.timwise.org Author Hometown: Nashville, TN

SOCIAL SCIENCE February A Paperback Original City Lights Open Media 5 x 7 | 216 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-87286-633-1 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-87286-634-8 W

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City Lights Publishers Yokohama Threeway
And Other Small Shames

Beth Lisick

Praise for Beth Lisick: “An author you can’t refuse.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Her] sense of humor makes even the more ridiculous aspects of her history appealing. Full of oddball charm.”—People, critics’ choice “A delightful, Plimptonesque exercise in immersive journalism . . . sharp, irreverent, and endearingly screwed-up.”—Kirkus Reviews Peering into life’s cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful moments of shame and humiliation that we’d rather forget than relive. Beth Lisick has made a career of opening her life to her readers in all of its messy, smart hilarity, but this type of story doesn’t usually find its way into a memoir. With her trademark humor and sly intelligence, writing in short flashes the way these episodes tend to pop up in memory, Lisick recounts her most embarrassing moments with gusto. From a trick she played on a neighbor thirty years ago to what she accidentally blurted out at last night’s dinner party, she explores the bad judgments and free-floating regrets that keep her up at night, and the result is a daring, candid, and wickedly funny collection of embarrassment embraced, the triumph of humor and perspective over everyday mortification. Writer, performer, and independent film actress Beth Lisick is the author of the New York Times best-selling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool and the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself.
Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, Yokohama Threeway is a collection of one woman’s most humiliating moments, revealed with wit and gusto.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original City Lights/Sister Spit 5½ x 8 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-87286-625-6 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-87286-626-3 W

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15,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies available at BEA • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.bethlisick.com

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • Long Beach, CA • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Ann Arbor, MI • Minneapolis, MN • Las Vegas, NV • Brooklyn, NY • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Salt Lake City, UT • Seattle, WA • Milwaukee, WI • Vancouver, BC • Toronto, ON • Montreal, QC Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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City Lights Publishers Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

Todd Miller

Praise for Todd Miller: “[Miller] offers a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it’s transported, jobs and all, to the US–Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era . . . [it’s] a striking and original picture.” —Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape. Traveling the country—and beyond—to speak with the people most involved with and impacted by the Border Patrol, he combines these first-hand encounters with careful research to expose a vast and booming industry for high-end technology, weapons, surveillance, and prisons. While politicians and corporations reap substantial profits, the experiences of millions of men, women, and children point to staggering humanitarian consequences. Border Patrol Nation shows us in stark relief how the entire country has become a militarized border zone, with consequences that affect us all. Todd Miller has worked on US border issues for over fifteen years. His writing has appeared in Mother Jones, the Nation, TomDispatch, the Huffington Post, Al-Jazeera English, Common Dreams, and many others.
Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of the US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for a free society.

SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original City Lights Open Media 5¼ x 8 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-87286-631-7 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-87286-632-4 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: http://nacla.org/blog/ border-wars

Author Events
Phoenix, AZ • Tucson, AZ • Berkeley, CA • Los Angeles, CA • San Diego, CA • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • Princeton, NJ • La Cruces, NM • New York, NY • El Paso, TX Author Hometown: Tuscon, AZ

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City Lights Publishers Ghost Tantras
Michael McClure

Praise for Michael McClure: “Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence.”—Robert Creeley “McClure’s poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy.”—Allen Ginsberg “Without McClure’s roar there would have been no Sixties.”—Dennis Hopper Michael McClure is a living legend. One of the poets who participated in the famous Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem Howl, he was immortalized by Jack Kerouac in his novel Big Sur. A central figure of the Beat Generation, McClure collaborated with Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner and was later associated with San Francisco’s psychedelic counterculture. Originally self-published in 1964 and long out of print, Ghost Tantras is one of McClure’s signature works, a book mostly written in “beast language.” A mix of lyrical, guttural, and laryngeal sound, lion roars, and a touch of detonated dada, this is one of his best-known but least available books, a deep well from which decades of poetry have drawn. McClure’s inspiration has always been the animal consciousness that still lives in mankind, and he has had a consistent message: “When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal.” Ghost Tantras is his original and singular manifesto for a poetry that relies not on images and pictures, but on muscular, sensual, energetic sound. Michael McClure has received numerous awards. At the age of eighty, he continues to reach new audiences through his poetry, plays, and performance.
Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: Michael McClure describes these tantras as “ceremonies to change the nature of reality.”

POETRY / PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original City Lights/Grey Fox 5 x 7¼ | 106 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-627-0 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.michael-mclure.com

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • San Francisco, CA Author Hometown: Berkeley, CA

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City Lights Publishers Forest of A Thousand Daemons
A Hunter’s Saga

Daniel Orowole Fagunwa
Translated by Wole Soyinka Illustrated by Bruce Onabrakpeya
“His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to ‘justify the ways of God to man.’”—Wole Soyinka A classic work of African literature, Forest of A Thousand Daemons is the first novel to be written in the Yoruba language. First published in Nigeria in 1939, it is one of that country’s most revered and widely read works, and its influence on Nigerian literature is profound, most notably in the works of Amos Tutuola. A triumph of the mythic imagination, the narrative unfolds in a landscape where, true to Yoruba cosmology, human, natural, and supernatural beings are compellingly and wonderfully alive at once: a world of warriors, sages, and kings; magical trees and snake people; spirits, Ghommids, and bog-trolls. Here are the adventures of Akara-ogun—son of a brave warrior and wicked witch—as he journeys into the forest, encountering and dealing with all-tooreal unforeseen forces, engaging in dynamic spiritual and moral relationships with personifications of his fate, projections of the terrors that haunt man. Nobel Prize–winning author Wole Soyinka translated Fagunwa’s masterwork while imprisoned during the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s. He also provides an essay on the special challenges of translating Fagunwa from the Yoruba into English, along with a glossary of Yoruba and unfamiliar words. Daniel Orowole Fagunwa was born in western Nigeria in 1903. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1963.
The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language.

FICTION September First Trade Paper Edition 5¼ x 8 | 140 pp 6 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-87286-630-0 W

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Advance reader copies • Outreach to world literature and translation publications and websites • Social media campaign • Promotions and giveaways through Goodreads

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City Lights Publishers An Army of Lovers
Juliana Spahr and David Buuck

A picaresque experimental novel, An Army of Lovers is the story of Demented Panda and Koki, two friends trying to be political poets in a time when poetry has lost its ability to effect social change. Their collaboration unleashes a torrent of consumerist excess that morphs into a Gitmo-style torture camp. Our heroes struggle to avoid complicity in the spectacle, yet are unable to overcome it through poetry. Instead it invades their bodies, manifesting itself through blisters and other symptoms, as the poets attempt to move beyond this impasse. Absurdist, fantastic, conceptual, Army is a novel for the Occupy generation.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 4½ x 6½ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-629-4 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-87286-610-2 W

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Advance reader copies Outreach to poetry and literary publications and websites Social media campaign • Promotions and giveaways through Goodreads

In the age of Occupy, An Army of Lovers re-asks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?

Author Events
Berkeley, CA • San Francisco, CA • New York, NY Authors Hometown: Oakland, CA

Here Come the Warm Jets
Alli Warren

Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the tenth Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the brash debut volume by Bay Area poet Alli Warren. Taking its title from the Brian Eno classic, Jets jumbles gender, class, and space-time perspectives into a chorus of contemporary idioms and lyrical longings. Against the daunting backdrop of twentyfirst century consumerism, Warren launches her missives of sex and desire in writing that is at once raw and sly. From the Bishop of Worms to Flipper to E-40, nobody’s safe from the easy virtuosity with which she makes language sing.
POETRY September A Paperback Original City Lights Spotlight 5½ x 7 | 100 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-87286-609-6 W

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Advance reader copies Outreach to poetry publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotions and giveaways through Goodreads Promotion through: http://theingredient.blogspot.com Author Hometown: Oakland, CA

The second coming of gurlesque. Here Come the Warm Jets is the highly anticipated, swaggering debut of Alli Warren.

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Coach House Books In Love with Art
Françoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman

Jeet Heer

“Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who’s not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his subject not only by what he writes, but how he writes it—clearly, mellifluously, and beautifully. Our humble discipline is singularly lucky to have him telling its story.”—Chris Ware In a partnership spanning four decades, Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have become the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. Their landmark magazine Raw, which first published artists such as Ben Katchor, Chris Ware, and Charles Burns, brought an avant-garde sensibility to comics and, along with Spiegelman’s legendary graphic novel Maus, completely revolutionized the form. As art editor of the New Yorker since 1993, Mouly has remade the face of that venerable magazine with covers that capture the political and social upheavals of the last two decades, such as the black-on-black cover after 9/11 and the infamous Barack Obama fist-bump cartoon. Based on exclusive interviews with Mouly, Spiegelman, and a pantheon of comics artists— including Dan Clowes, Barry Blitt, Anita Kunz, and Adrian Tomine—In Love with Art is both an intimate portrait of Mouly and a rare, behind-the-scenes look at some of today’s most iconic images. Through the prism of an uncommonly successful relationship, the book tells the story of one of the most remarkable artistic transformations of our time. Jeet Heer’s writing has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Boston Globe, the American Prospect, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Learn about the woman behind the graphic novel revolution, Françoise Mouly, and her long relationship with Art “Maus” Spiegelman.

ART / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 120 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55245-278-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-351-3 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Toronto, ON Author Hometown: Regina, SK

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Coach House Books The Trouble with Brunch
Class, Fashion, and the Pursuit of Leisure

Shawn Micallef
Every weekend all across North America, bleary-eyed diners wait in long lines to be served overpriced eggs by hungover waitstaff. What does this ritual’s enduring popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status, leisure time, and consumption? Drawing on theories from Thorstein Veblen to Richard Florida, as well as Shawn Micallef’s own journey from the rust belt to cosmopolitan metropolis, The Trouble with Brunch incisively explores how, as manufacturing economies morph into service and creative ones, long-held conceptions of class and taste transform with them.
SOCIAL SCIENCE February A Paperback Original 4¾ x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 978-1-55245-285-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-365-0 W

Shawn Micallef is the author of Stroll and the co-editor of Spacing magazine. He was a 2011–12 Massey Fellow.

What do your Eggs Benedict say about how notions of class have changed with the birth of the “creative class”?

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Gods of the Hammer
The Teenage Head Story

Geoff Pevere
Teenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the insanely devoted. And they almost became world famous. Almost. Told by film critic and pop-culture aficionado Geoff Pevere, this is their story.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MUSIC | February | A Paperback Original 4¾ x 7¾ | 140 pp | Trade Paper US $12.95 | 978-1-55245-284-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-363-6 W

Army of Lovers
A Community History of Will Munro

Sarah Liss
“Will was pretty much the perfect role model.”—Beth Ditto, The Gossip Artist, activist, impresario, party-thrower, café operator, community-builder, and lover Will Munro (1975–2010) revolutionized his community. Journalist Sarah Liss has created both a biography of Munro and a document of how Toronto’s various subcultures came of age and came together.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ART | September | A Paperback Original 4¾ x 7¾ | 120 pp | Trade Paper US $12.95 | 978-1-55245-277-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-353-7 W

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Coach House Books The City Still Breathing
Matthew Heiti

“This is a book with brains and muscle, resonant and intense, and Matthew Heiti is a prodigious talent, the spooky bard of mullets and muffin-tops, grow-ops and stolen snakeskin boots on Highway 69.”—Mark Anthony Jarman A body is found on the side of a highway but goes missing, making its way, over the course of one early winter day, all around a northern town and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people, eventually bringing them together in a strange moment of violence. Matthew Heiti lives in Sudbury, Ontario, and writes for stage and screen.
FICTION November A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-283-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-355-1 W

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
Chicago, IL • Minneapolis, MN • Milwaukee, WI Author Hometown: Sudbury, ON

A northern gothic noir, The City Still Breathing is an acid-washed love letter to the 1980s.

The Cage
Martin Vaughn-James

First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Cryptic and disturbing, like Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) illustrating a film by Ozu, it spurns narrative for atmosphere, guiding us through a series of disarrayed rooms and desolate landscapes, tracking a stuttering and circling time and a sequence of objects: headphones, inky stains, bedsheets. With a creeping ominousness, we get a sense that meaning demands a new semiotics, that it’s not about where we’re going but how—if —we get there. Martin Vaughn-James (1943–2009) was a painter and groundbreaking comics-maker, and the author of Elephant, The Projector, and The Park. He lived in England, Australia, Canada, and Belgium.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS November First Trade Paper Edition 7 x 9¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 978-1-55245-287-5 W* (excludes Canada)

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The triumphant return of the 1975 cult classic and seminal graphic novel— it’s a nightmare you can’t awake from.

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Coach House Books Decomp
Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott
Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to decay in five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia. A year later, they photographed what remained, reading poetry into nature’s “rewriting” process and documenting the gorgeous detritus in Decomp, a long poem in prose and color photographs. Darwin is an eye amidst graphed genera seeing the web it is woven thereof. A matted scrap of printed material, shit, soil and leaf rot—all dried, bleached and curled up at small edges. Stephen Collis is the author of four books of poetry and a collection of essays, Dispatches from the Occupation. Jordan Scott is the author of Silt and Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering.
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POETRY / NATURE November A Paperback Original 9 x 6 | 120 pp 50 color photographs Trade Paper US $22.95 978-1-55245-282-0 W* (excludes Canada)

Origin of the Species left in five ecosystems for a year: a gorgeous photographic and poetic document of Nature’s force.

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San Francisco, CA Author Hometowns: Vancouver, BC

A Pretty Sight
David O’Meara

Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next century. Haunted by “time’s frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas,” David O’Meara sifts culture, art, war, rebellion, and technology, offering defiance amid decay, while singing with the conflicting impulses of reflection and dissent. David O’Meara has authored three poetry collections and a play. He’s been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Prize, the Trillium Book Award, a National Magazine Award, four Rideau Awards, and he won the Archibald Lampman Award twice. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-281-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-359-9 W

David O’Meara finds defiance amid decay and oblivion, with guest appearances from Sid Vicious, Socrates, and Sophie Scholl.

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Chicago, IL • New York, NY Author Hometown: Ottawa, ON

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Coach House Books Multitudes
Margaret Christakos

“Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work.”—Rachel Blau DuPlessis Margaret Christakos’s eighth collection, Multitudes, is a moving, witty foray into a modern frontier of public spaces, poetic forms, private longings, and virtual relocations. Pairing Walt Whitman with social media, her trademark linguistic sonar casts a discouraged eye on a world where citizens turn from ethical social activism to snitch on their Facebook friends after an urban hockey riot.
POETRY November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-279-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-361-2 W

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Chicago, IL • New York, NY Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Poems about the self’s fluctuating desire between near-obliterating connectedness and panoptical self-surveillance in the social media age.

Needs Improvement
Jon Paul Fiorentino
“Needs Improvement is a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow-moving lyric villanelles.”—Nicole Brossard Whether misreading sixth-grade pedagogical materials or offering visual schematics for reading theory, Jon Paul Fiorentino’s sixth poetry collection asks us to reconsider our engagement with received information—but it does so with a wink in the detention room, a dodgeball to the gut during recess.
POETRY | October | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8¼ | 84 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | 978-1-55245-280-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-357-5 W

Fault Lines
Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands

Nicolas Billon
“Iceland is a beautifully structured and extremely powerful play that haunts the mind. Billon is an original and exciting voice.”—Atom Egoyan Nicolas Billon’s acclaimed trilogy of interwoven monologues tackles, with wit and dark humor, the banking crisis, the whale hunt, and a real estate deal gone horribly awry. A surprising hybrid of Wallace Shawn and Neil Labute.
DRAMA | October | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8¼ | 180 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | 978-1-55245-276-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-349-0 W

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Selected Backlist from Coach House Books

Tenth Anniversary Edition Andrew Kaufman
FICTION 5 x 8 | 140 pp 30 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55245-270-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-337-7 W

All My Friends Are Superheroes

Tamara Faith Berger
FICTION 5 x 8 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-55245-271-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-339-1 W

Little Cat

The Devil and the Detective
John Goldbach
FICTION 5 x 8 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-269-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-335-3 W

Spencer Gordon
FICTION 5½ x 8¼ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-267-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-331-5 W

Cosmo

Cordelia Strube
FICTION 5¾ x 8¾ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-55245-265-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-329-2 W

Miłosz

And the Birds Rained Down
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
FICTION 5¼ x 8¼ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55245-268-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-77056-333-9 W

Jocelyne Saucier

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Coffee House Press An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky
A Novel

Dan Beachy-Quick

Daniel is pursued by stories. His father, in thrall to a myth, has disappeared; his mother and sister, too; and Lydia, his lover, leaves him and the novel he cannot finish for quantum mechanics, the place where theory tells tales about the real. And then there is Pearl, the girl beneath the floorboards, whose adventures hum alongside Daniel’s own. In this contemporary, contemplative fairy tale, the autobiographical novel takes on the cast of legend, and the uncertainty of memory leaves reality on shaky ground. Can parallel universes exist? Can a preoccupation with Moby Dick overwhelm the story unfolding before you? Where do you stand in relation to the metaphysics of your own life? Dan Beachy-Quick is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Circle’s Apprentice; two books of prose, A Whaler’s Dictionary and Wonderful Investigations; as well as a number of chapbooks and two collaborations, Conversities (with Srikanth Reddy) and Work from Memory (with Matthew Goulish). He teaches in the MFA program at Colorado State University, and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two daughters.
Tree of Life meets In Search of Lost Time in this contemporary tale of loss and the power of story.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-341-1 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-56689-343-5 W*

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Denver, CO • Fort Collins, CO • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Fort Collins, CO

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Coffee House Press Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow
Essays

Andy Sturdevant

Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant’s essays offer a new way of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest. Craigslist ads, homemade signs at Target Field, and alleyways all open up with possibilities for measuring cultural time and the resonance, not provincialism, of spaces closely observed. Published to coincide with Sturdevant’s solo show at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow reveals the essayist as pied piper and artist, whose canvas is the city. Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer, and arts administrator living in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written about art, history, and culture for a variety of Twin Cities–based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review, Preview!, Mpls.St.Paul, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center, and he writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis–St. Paul for MinnPost. His work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Soap Factory. Andy was born in Ohio, raised in Kentucky, and has lived in Minneapolis since 2005.
Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Andy Sturdevant’s essays offer new ways of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / ESSAYS October 7¼ x 9½ | 224 pp 25 B&W photographs, 60 B&W illustrations Paper over Board US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-56689-337-4 W

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Chicago, IL • Louisville, KY • Minneapolis, MN Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Coffee House Press The Rise & Fall of the Scandamerican Domestic
Stories

Christopher Merkner
In Christopher Merkner’s midwestern fabulism, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. For these inheritors of tradition, that which binds them most closely—offering stability and identity and comfort—is precisely what sets them back, pulls them down, burdens, limits, and ruins them. Christopher Merkner teaches creative writing at West Chester University. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Fairy Tale Review, Gettysburg Review, New Orleans Review, and Best American Mystery Stories. He and his wife and kids live in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 232 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-56689-338-1 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-56689-344-2 W

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Coffee House Press Collected Poems
Ron Padgett
Gathering the work of more than fifty years, Ron Padgett’s Collected Poems is the record of one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth-century American poetry. Padgett’s poems reverberate with his reading and friendships, from Andrew Marvell to Woody Guthrie and Kenneth Koch. Wry, insightful, and direct, they offer readers the rewards of his endless curiosity and generous spirit. From “Glow”: When I wake up earlier than you and you are turned to face me, face on the pillow and hair spread around, I take a chance and stare at you, amazed in love and afraid that you might open your eyes and have the daylights scared out of you. But maybe with the daylights gone you’d see how much my chest and head implode for you, their voices trapped inside like unborn children fearing they will never see the light of day. The opening in the wall now dimly glows its rainy blue and gray. I tie my shoes and go downstairs to put the coffee on. Ron Padgett grew up in Oklahoma and has lived mostly in New York City since he went there in 1960 to attend Columbia, with stays in Paris, South Carolina, and Vermont. Although a memoirist and translator, most of his writing since 1957 has been poetry. He is a happy grandfather.
Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.

POETRY November 7 x 10 | 800 pp Trade Cloth US $44.00 | CAN $48.50 978-1-56689-342-8 W

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Tucson, AZ • San Francisco, CA • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: New York, NY

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How to Be Perfect Ron Padgett POETRY 6 x 9 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.99 978-1-56689-203-2 USC How Long Ron Padgett POETRY 6 x 9 | 91 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.00 978-1-56689-256-8 USC

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Coffee House Press Anime Wong
Fictions of Performance

Karen Tei Yamashita
Edited with an afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn
“Smart, funny, and entrancing.”—Michael Schaub, National Public Radio Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively. Fiction interpreted by the body in real time, these kinetic encounters, complete with giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kung fu fighters, create a space for humor, interaction, and epiphany. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of five novels, including I Hotel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and was awarded the California Book Award and the American Book Award.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 304 pp 100 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-56689-340-4 W

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Los Angeles, CA • Oakland, CA • San Francisco, CA • Santa Cruz, CA Author Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA

Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kung fu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.

Bleed Through
New and Selected Poems

Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson’s first collection in twelve years represents the best of his forty-year career. Using the page as a plane for working out aesthetic problems, Davidson poems are a kind of battleground, where larger philosophical questions are grappled with through the sieve of language and form. From “The Second City”: in the second city I live out the dream of the first living neither for its access and glamour nor dying from its disregard simply talking towards the twin spires of an ancient cathedral like a person becoming like a person
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Los Angeles, CA • San Diego, CA • San Francisco, CA Author Hometown: San Diego, CA

The best of Michael Davidson’s forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

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Coffee House Press DANCE
Lightsey Darst
From “Beauvais”: “I a maker of beautiful hulls” transform this multitude of useless bells | “torrent of stones. the cracks are moving” [“paradise, erased in a few hours”] [“god’s bones, Vision of a pristine skeleton. Vision of hell— [“And it was marvelous, though sad, to behold”]
POETRY September A Paperback Original 8 x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-56689-334-3 W

Lightsey Darst writes, dances, and teaches. She is the author of Find the Girl (Coffee House Press, 2010) and numerous dance and book reviews, which you can find at mnartists.org and Bookslut, among other publications.
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DANCE is poetry as performance, precarious and joyful, a three-part journey through hell, earth, and paradise.

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Denver, CO • Tallahassee, FL • Atlanta, GA • Minneapolis, MN • Winona, MN • Asheville, NC • Durham, NC • Raleigh, NC • Wilmington, NC • Seattle, WA

Psychedelic Norway
John Colburn
Psychedelic Norway takes form as site of play and a place for the rupture of expectations. Sentence, folktale, confession, pop quiz—all allow for the chaotic impulse behind the imagination, defying the tyranny of orthodoxies with a visionary midwestern populism that argues for enchantment as the moral imperative of our time. From “a prayer for dropouts”: . . . you realize you are treading light, you, wherever you are, alone at the booth in an empty river town, buying a ticket for a movie which is also your life, a movie waiting for you to become its field of light
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POETRY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 144 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-56689-335-0 W

An exploration of folklore, visionary states, surrealism, hybrid forms, and the political implications of their confluence.

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Minneapolis, MN • Fargo, ND • Richmond, VA • Seattle, WA • Milwaukee, WI Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Contrasto New York Over The Top
Photographs by Max Kozloff

Max Kozloff walks down the streets of New York and offers to the viewer his peculiar vision of a colorful, multi-ethnic, and multi-faceted city. A series of funny pictures that can surprise and drive the viewer in a curious path in one of the most photographed places in the world. Max Kozloff (born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American art historian, art critic of modern art, and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation and executive editor of Artforum. His essay “American Painting During the Cold War” is of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism. He started his career with a teaching position at New York University (NYU), and joined The Nation as art critic in 1961, where he worked until 1968. In 1966, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association of America, and became Artforum’s contributing editor in 1967, rising to remain its executive editor between 1975 and 1977. In 1976, he became an art photographer, and in the following years held numerous shows and became a photography critic. He joined the School of Visual Arts in 1989. He also attended the California Institute of the Arts. He received the 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship and later the 1990 Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography.

PHILOSOPHY October 11⅓ x 8½ | 216 pp 80 color photographs Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-88-6965-399-5 USC

This compelling reportage is a valuable document about different people, situations, days, and lives in the same amazing place.

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Contrasto Pavilions and Gardens of Venice Biennale
Gabriele Basilico

Venice’s Giardini di Castello has been home to the exhibition pavilions of the International Art Biennale since 1895. As part of the thirteenth Architecture Biennale, various architects, philosophers, art historians, and artists were asked to write an essay on the pavilions. The text is accompanied both by an installation presenting the authors’ descriptions and by Gabriele Basilico’s photographs of the buildings. Gabriele Basilico (1944–2013) was one of today’s best known documentary photographers in Europe. Cities and industrial landscapes were his fields of investigation. Basilico’s photographs are represented in collections in many major institutions around the world.

ARCHITECTURE November 9⅝ x 10⅜ | 200 pp 130 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-88-6965-440-4 USC

A story that reminds us of the freedom of choice we still have as human beings to shape the destiny of our world in one direction rather than another.

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Vice Versa
Photographs by Stefano Cerio

Stefano Cerio asserts photography’s ability to render manifest the invisible, what is usually hidden from the eye—not, as the modernist tradition embodied by the “new vision” would have it, by exploiting the particular characteristics of the camera, nor, according to the lesson of photojournalism, by showing a surprising aspect of daily life, but by searching those parts of the world that only a specific and determinate photographic intentionality can bring to light. The work of Stefano Cerio fits into one of the most significant and distinctive areas in Italian photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY November 13⅞ x 11⅛ | 120 pp 52 color photographs Paper over Board US $39.00 | CAN $42.99 978-88-6965-443-5 USC

The staging of a possible reality that might not be true but is at least plausible.

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Contrasto The Enchanted Camera
Mimmo Jodice
Contributions by Isabella Pedicini
The Enchanted Camera is a combination of words and images that constitutes both a complex examination of Mimmo Jodice’s work and a manual on the reading of photography itself. Includes an interview by Isabella Pedicini. Mimmo Jodice (Naples, 1934) is an Italian photographer. He was professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli from 1970 to 1996. Since the 1960s Jodice has worked with many pop art, arte povera, and fluxus artists. He has also used his camera to document conceptual pieces of art. Isabella Pedicini is a journalist and a writer. She collaborates with Artribune, a magazine of contemporary art. She is the author of Francesca Woodman, The Roman Years: Between Flesh and Films.
PHOTOGRAPHY November Logos 6 x 8⅜ | 192 pp 50 B&W and color photographs Paper over Board US $27.50 | CAN $30.50 978-88-6965-462-6 USC

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A close dialogue with one of the biggest Italian photographers, discovering the secrets that characterize his work.

Il racconto del riso
An Italian Story of Rice

Photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin
Acquerello is the ultimate Carnaroli “extra” rice, produced and packed by the Rondolino family on the Colombara farm in the heart of Vercelli province. Its success is the result of extensive research and Rondolino’s legacy. It’s the union of tradition and innovation that allows its exclusive way of production. Acquerello rice is famous among chefs and gourmet lovers, and it is considered the best rice in the world. Gianni Berengo Gardin, one of the most important Italian photographers, was able to capture the essence of the world linked to the rice cultivation and production, offering a complete testimony. The book is a compelling overview of the faces, places, and moments composing this reality.

PHOTOGRAPHY November A Paperback Original 9¾ x 12⅛ | 312 pp 180 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $85.00 | CAN $93.50 978-88-6965-425-1 USC

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If photography has ever had an Italian interpreter, a dedicated artisan, a mate, a lover—he is certainly Gianni Berengo Gardin.

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Selected Backlist from Contrasto

Uncle Charlie
Marc Asnin
PHOTOGRAPHY 8⅜ x 11½ | 408 pp 206 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $49.00 | CAN $53.99 978-88-6965-177-9 USC

Alec Soth with Francesco Zanot Alec Soth
Text by Francesco Zanot
PHOTOGRAPHY / ART 5¾ x 8¼ | 176 pp 60 color photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-88-6965-409-1 USC

Ping-Pong Conversations

Photos of Atlanta by Martin Parr Martin Parr
PHOTOGRAPHY 8⅛ x 10½ | 208 pp 100 color photographs Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-88-6965-332-2 USC

Up and Down Peachtree

Klein Paintings, Etc.
William Klein and David Campany
ART / PHOTOGRAPHY 14½ x 9¾ | 80 pp 91 color and B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Cloth US $49.00 | CAN $53.99 978-88-6965-400-8 USC

Photographs by Irene Kung
Text by Ludovico Pratesi and Francine Prose

The Invisible City

The Wrong Side
Jérôme Sessini
PHOTOGRAPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 9¾ x 7½ | 176 pp 73 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $39.00 | CAN $42.99 978-88-6965-356-8 USC

ARCHITECTURE / PHOTOGRAPHY 9¾ x 11⅝ | 120 pp 55 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-88-6965-367-4 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Rilke: New Poems
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Joseph Cadora Introduction by Robert Hass
“Through him resounds the music of the universe.”—Herman Hesse Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world’s best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment—from an image held in a panther’s eye to a cathedral window. Translator Joseph Cadora has created the definitive English-language version through meticulous faithfulness to Rilke’s German and insightful commentary on each of the four-hundred-plus poems. As Cadora said in an interview, “I tried to stay true to the vision of Rilke that would invite the reader into his world, not mine.” Bilingual, with an introduction by Robert Hass. The Panther From endless passing of the bars his gaze has wearied—there is no more it can hold. There seem to be a thousand bars always, and past those thousand bars there is no world. The soft pad of his brawny, rippling pace turns itself in a tightening circle till, like a mighty dance around a tiny space, it centers a numb but still enormous will. But at times the shades of his pupils rise, grasping an image he cannot resist; through his tense, unmoving limbs it flies, and within his heart it ceases to exist. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is one of the world’s most beloved poets. Working at the cusp of the century, Rilke bridged the gap between traditional and modernist poetics. Born in Prague, Rilke traveled widely across Europe and Egypt, and lived for many years in Paris. Joseph Cadora is a guitarist, writer, and translator. He lives in Berkeley, California.
The definitive bilingual version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s New Poems—faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Essential.
POETRY November 6 x 9 | 410 pp Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-55659-424-3 USC German bilingual

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Copper Canyon Press Songs of Unreason
Jim Harrison
Number one on the Poetry Foundation bestseller list, a Michigan Notable Book, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. “A beautifully mysterious inquiry.”—Booklist “Songs of Unreason, Harrison’s latest collection of poetry, is a wonderful defense of the possibilities of living.”—The Industrial Worker Book Review “As in all good poetry, Harrison’s lines linger to be ruminated upon a third or fourth time, with each new reading revealing more substance and raising more questions.”—Library Journal Jim Harrison’s compelling and provocative Songs of Unreason explores what it means to inhabit the world in atavistic, primitive, and totemistic ways. “This can be disturbing to the learned,” Harrison admits. Using interconnected suites, brief lyrics, and rollicking narratives, Harrison’s passions and concerns—creeks, thickets, time’s effervescence, familiar love—emerge by turns painful and celebratory, localized and exiled. From “Suite to Unreason”:
POETRY September First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9 | 158 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55659-390-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55659-389-5

Where’s my medicine bag? It’s either hidden or doesn’t exist. Inside are memories of earth: corn pollen, a bear claw, an umbilical cord. If they exist they help me ride the dark heavens of this life. Such fragile wings. Jim Harrison is the author of thirty books, including Legends of the Fall and River Swimmer, and has served as the food columnist for Esquire. Harrison divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.
One of America’s leading novelists and poets, “Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him” (The Sunday Times).

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In Search of Small Gods Jim Harrison POETRY 6 x 9 | 104 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.50 978-1-55659-319-2 USC Braided Creek A Conversation in Poetry Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser POETRY 5½ x 7½ | 90 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-55659-187-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-091-8 W

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Copper Canyon Press On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
Lucia Perillo
A New York Times Book Review “100 Notable Books of the Year” selection, Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Poetry Book of the Year,” winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for Poetry, and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. “Perillo has long lived with, and written about, her struggle with debilitating multiple sclerosis. Her bracing sixth book of poems takes an unflinching, though not unsmiling, look at mortality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry.”—The New York Times Book Review From “Victor the Shaman”: I feel the need for more humanity because the winter wren is not enough, even with its complicated music emanating from the brambles. So I relent to my friend who keeps bugging me to see her shaman, tutored by the Indians who live at the base of Monte Albán. Tutored also by the heavy bag at Sonny’s Gym: Box like heaven / Fight like hell his T-shirt says; the graphic shows an angel’s fist buried to the wrist in Satan’s brisket, while the prince of dark jabs the angel’s kisser . . . Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and for most of the 1990s she taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University.
“I have two words for anyone who wants to know why people turn to poetry . . . Lucia Perillo.”—The New York Times Also Available

POETRY September First Trade Paper Edition 7 x 9⅞ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55659-415-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55659-397-0

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Inseminating the Elephant Lucia Perillo POETRY 7 x 9 | 106 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $18.95 978-1-55659-295-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-023-9 W

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Copper Canyon Press fungus skull eye wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D’Aquino
Alfonso D’Aquino
Translated by Forrest Gander
“Alfonso D’Aquino was raised by his grandmother in an old house attached to a colonial convent in Coyoacán, Mexico. He never met his parents. Books were his best friends from an early age. Often solitary, he spent many afternoons at a small aquarium in the nearby town of San Ángel, fascinated then as now by the non-human.”—Forrest Gander, from the introduction fungus skull eye wing is a book of shifting subjectivity and liquid perspective, of surrealist tradition and Butoh-like gestures. The text flirts with the margins of the “rational,” perception, and the subjective mind. The speaker morphs into what he observes; speech comes alive while a plant becomes speech. Impeccably translated from Spanish by award-winning poet Forrest Gander in a bilingual edition. From “Its Verb’s Forked Tongue”: Its verb’s forked tongue Transforms transnominates translucent line the viper the verb translades its shadow Tattoo freak from rows of spots a star transudes a language of scales . . . Alfonso D’Aquino is an editor, poetry instructor, snake handler, and author of six books. He was born in Mexico City in 1959 and currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. His poetry is included in the landmark anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry. Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 110 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55659-447-2 USC Spanish bilingual

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The first English-language edition of Alfonso D’Aquino’s poetry, a contemporary Mexican poet known for his fascination with the non-human world.

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Copper Canyon Press Pinholes in the Night
Essential Poems from Latin America

Selected by Raúl Zurita
Edited by Forrest Gander
“When we read a book we put it in front of our eyes, not behind them, which is to say, more or less, that we open ourselves to a dimension of our future.” —Raúl Zurita, from the introduction This intensely focused bilingual anthology pinpoints the heart of Latin American self-identification. In selecting these fifteen essential poems, Chilean poet Raúl Zurita was guided by the question, “What poem, had it not been written, would have rendered the author another author and Latin American poetry something else?” This extraordinary gathering of talent— from Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda to Ernesto Cardenal and César Vallejo—spans the twentieth century. From “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” by Pablo Neruda: How many times in the wintry streets of a city or in a bus or a boat at dusk, or in the deepest loneliness, a night of revelry beneath the sound of shadows and bells, in the very grotto of human pleasure I’ve tried to stop and seek the eternal unfathomable lode that I touched before on stone or in the lightning unleashed by a kiss . . . Raúl Zurita, winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature, survived arrest and torture during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. He co-founded CADA (Colectivo de acción de arte), and has created huge poetic art pieces, including poems carved into cliffs that can only be read from the sky. Forrest Gander is a poet, translator, and professor at Brown University. His books have been named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
One of the greatest living Latin American poets compiles and introduces an essential anthology.

POETRY December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 374 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-55659-450-2 USC Spanish bilingual

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Copper Canyon Press Dear Life
Dennis O’Driscoll
“Dennis O’Driscoll has produced an extraordinary body of work. . . . Some of his poems have already achieved the status of classics.”—Poetry Ireland Review “[One] of the most interesting poets now writing in English. O’Driscoll’s poetry has the rare virtue of making us feel that most other poets are forcing things a little, striving for effect. He writes directly, naturally, about the emotions that are closest to us and, for that very reason, go unobserved: how we actually feel about work and possessions and aging.”—Slate Irish poet Dennis O’Driscoll’s new poems engage with contemporary issues— the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming—as well as the timeless topics of working and aging, loving and dying, God and Mammon. His poems give voice to twenty-first century Western attitudes towards religion, while the ambitious title-sequence attempts a rigorous exploration of the purpose of human life. From “Valentine”: Back in hospital on this fateful date, but to no complications for once, I am discharged in good time to light a candle on the kitchen table, decant your Valentine’s glass of sparkling wine, sear the steak, sauté the onions, bake potatoes till their paunchy waistcoats loosen, launch the gravy boat on its salt voyage, let mushrooms set sail on melting butter . . . Dennis O’Driscoll (1954–2012) died suddenly on Christmas Eve, 2012. He was the author of nine collections of poetry as well as a book of interviews with Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones. Poetry Review famously—and deservedly—called O’Driscoll “one of the best-read men in the Western world.”
Dear Life focuses largely on mortality in a consumerist world, and foreshadows the author’s sudden death in December 2012.

POETRY September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-407-6 USC

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Quote Poet Unquote Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry Edited by Dennis O’Driscoll LITERARY CRITICISM 5½ x 7½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $21.95 978-1-55659-270-6 USC Reality Check Dennis O’Driscoll POETRY 6½ x 9½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-55659-280-5 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Who Said
Jennifer Michael Hecht

“Jennifer Michael Hecht writes delightfully tricky poems that wildly bend the sense of our language.”—Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate “Hecht’s rhymes are irregular, gymnastic, pointed, and fun; she’s found what so many would-be populists seek, an idiom entirely conversational yet able to sustain unexpected ideas.”—The Believer Who Said is a meditation on life’s profound questions told through playful engagement with iconic poems and lyrics. Jennifer Michael Hecht’s book is a magic echo chamber wherein great poems come back to us, altered to fit the concerns of our moment. This wildly interpretive treatment of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and the rock band Nirvana is original, occasionally hilarious, and always moving. From “Not Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening”: “Promises to keep,” was a lie, he had nothing. Through the woods. Over the river and into the pain. It is an addict’s talk of quitting as she’s smacking at a vein. He was always going into the woods. It was he who wrote, “The only way around is through.” You’d think a shrink, but no, a poet. He saw the woods and knew. The forest is the one that holds promises. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, they fill with a quiet snow. Miles are traveled as we sleep. He steers his horse off the road. Among the trees now, the blizzard is a dusting. Holes in the canopy make columns of snowstorm, lit from above. His little horse thinks it is queer. They go deeper, sky gets darker. It’s the darkest night of the year . . . Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of several nonfiction titles, most recently The Happiness Myth (HarperOne). She teaches at The New School and lives in the BoCoCa neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Jennifer Michael Hecht repurposes texts and creates a magic echo chamber, bringing the lines and lyrics of long-gone friends to the table.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-449-6 USC

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Copper Canyon Press King Me
Roger Reeves

From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, King Me examines the erotics of care and the place of song, elegy, and praise as testaments to those moments. As Roger Reeves said in an interview, “While writing King Me, I became very interested in the mythology of king, the one who is sacrificed at the end of the harvest season. . . . For me, the myth manifests in the killing of young black men, Emmett Till, and in the ways America deems young, black male bodies as expendable—Jean Michel Basquiat, Mike Tyson, Jack Johnson. These are the young kings whom we love to kill—over and over again.” From “Some Young Kings”: The hummingbirds inside my chest, with their needle-nosed pliers for tongues and hammer-heavy wings, have left a mess of ticks in my lungs and a punctured lullaby in my throat. Little boy blue come blow your horn. The cow’s in the meadow. And Dorothy’s alone in the corn with Jack, his black fingers, the brass of his lips, the half-moons of his fingernails clicking along her legs until she howls— Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker . . . Roger Reeves earned his MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing and his PhD from the University of Texas. His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, and Boston Review. He teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
In this riveting debut, Roger Reeves argues that black history is human history, and the suffering belongs to all of us.

POETRY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 72 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-55659-448-9 USC

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Copper Canyon Press Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower
Sarah Lindsay
“Lindsay’s delight in imaginary and unknown worlds, her compulsion to write exactly what she doesn’t know, removes her poems completely from the tired confessional anecdotalism of so much narrative poetry.”—Poetry In her fourth collection of poetry, National Book Award finalist and Lannan Fellowship winner Sarah Lindsay presents a lyric menagerie of bizarrely imagined personae and historic figures revealing their long-held secrets, alongside surprising scientific subjects and discoveries layered into quirky, dark-edged, sometimes macabre, always intimate and graceful poems. Imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected, and the challenging, Lindsay’s poems are alive with wonder. And when asked the obvious question about the title, you can say, “A ‘boneeating snotflower’ is the inelegant slang for the worm-like creature, Osedax mucofloris, that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea.” From “Without Warning”: Elizabeth Bishop leaned on a table, it cracked, both fell to the floor. A gesture gone sadly awry. This was close to fact and quickly became symbolic, bound to occur in Florida, where she was surrounded by rotting abundance and greedy insects. One moment a laughing smile, a graceful hand alighting on solid furniture, a casual shift of weight, the next, undignified splayed legs. The shell of the table proved to be stuffed with termite eggs . . . Sarah Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College and holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro. She currently works as a copy editor for Pace Communications.
“Sarah Lindsay’s poems open doors to other worlds and other ways of seeing.”—The New York Times Also Available

POETRY December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-446-5 USC

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Twigs and Knucklebones Sarah Lindsay POETRY 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-55659-164-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-101-4 W

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Copper Canyon Press House and Fire
Maria Hummel
Introduction by Fanny Howe

“A child is very ill; there is a hospital. . . . The subject is as basic as a bowl and a nail, wood and a house, and a house on fire.”—Fanny Howe, from the introduction House and Fire is a mother’s love song to her stricken young son, written over the years of his hospitalizations for an acute immune disorder. Maria Hummel is a poet of dazzling formal mastery, whose eerie, radiant lyrics and stories evoke the pediatric ward, California life, and the immortal, endangered world of childhood. This unforgettable debut was selected by Fanny Howe. From “House and Fire”: for thirty-three years I didn’t make anything with my body and then your brother and then he sickened watching him sleep hooked to tubes an empty envelope inside me fills each dawn with one long love letter by night it’s mostly apology A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Maria Hummel is the author of two novels and poetry and prose in Poetry, Narrative, and The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. She teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco, California. Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry, and her Selected Poems (UC Press, 2000) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

POETRY October A Paperback Original American Poetry Review APR Honickman 1st Book Award 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9718981-2-7 USC

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House and Fire is the 2013 winner of the American Poetry Review/ Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe.

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Copper Canyon Press Bangalore
Kerry James Evans

Drawing upon Kerry James Evans’s experience in the military, Bangalore speaks from the position of a natural class warrior who came of age desperately poor in some of the most hardscrabble parts of our country. Whether highlighting a barracks argument about gays in the military or contemplating pent-up eros, the poems are experientially political in the best sense. From “Lilacs and Razor Wire”: Bent over in a folding chair, my arm a rag of oil, I scrape the carbon from my M-16 with a pipe cleaner here in the armory named after a young Colonel who hanged himself. No one sitting here really knows whether or not the Colonel was a homosexual. I bring up my mother-in-law, who is. Outside the window the local convicts have decided to mow down the lilacs blossoming along the roadside. We go back to talking about homosexuals and homosexuality, and I say: We are all a little gay, which lands me on the floor in a wrestling position . . . Kerry James Evans served six years in the Army National Guard as a combat engineer. He received his MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and is enrolled in the PhD program in EnglishCreative Writing from Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
Kerry James Evans’s gritty, hard-hitting debut combines war poems, elegies, and high Southern lyrics to create a new understanding of American identity.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-405-2 USC

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Selected Backlist from Copper Canyon Press

When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Diaz
POETRY 7 x 9 | 124 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-383-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-033-8 W

Brenda Shaughnessy
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-55659-410-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-028-4 W

Our Andromeda

Lao-tzu’s Taoteching
Translated by Red Pine
RELIGION 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $21.00 978-1-55659-290-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-087-1 W

Lao-Tzu

The Shadow of Sirius
W.S. Merwin
POETRY 6 x 9 | 130 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $19.00 978-1-55659-310-9 USC

Delights & Shadows
Ted Kooser
POETRY 5½ x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.00 978-1-55659-201-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-61932-005-5 W

The Book of Questions
Translated by William O’Daly
POETRY / LITERARY CRITICISM 5½ x 7½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.00 | CAN $17.00 978-1-55659-160-0 USC

Pablo Neruda

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Curbside Splendor Publishing
Chicago, Illinois

We’re an independent and award-winning publisher of cutting-edge literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art, as well as an active producer of large-scale music and literary events in Chicago and beyond. Our titles have received national acclaim from Publishers Weekly, the Atlantic, the Huffington Post, Flavorwire, LA Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and NPR, just to name a few. Examples of our accomplishments include our story collection May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks, which the Atlantic Wire named the best small press debut of 2012, and Chicago Stories: 40 Dramtic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski that the likes of the Chicago Tribune heralded as one of the more unique takes on historical fiction. Our aim to is highlight diverse, urban voices celebrating the delicate point where gritty life and art intersect; to present stories that are easily accessible, yet powerful. Our printed books are meticulously designed, marrying artists with authors to create unique volumes that mesh artistic expressions. In addition to our flagship Curbside brand, our imprints expand our areas of interest: Artifice Books showcases work that is aware of its own artifice, and Concepción Books showcases elegant and romantic bilingual poetry and prose. In our Fall/Winter 2013 catalog you will find an exciting assortment of essay collections, novels, story collections, art books, and poetry collections.

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Meaty
Essays by Samantha Irby, Creator of the Blog Bitchesgottaeat

Samantha Irby

“The best thing to happen to passionate admirers since binoculars. Samantha Irby is a stunted adolescent who spends her free time drinking fancy beer, eating expensive macaroons, and writing about smart ladies, dumb dudes, music, tacos, and diarrhea.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Her candor in style and subject matter—mostly sex, dating, and the general lousiness of men—has earned Samantha Irby a cult following. . . . Honesty mixed with self-deprecating humor is what propels readers.”—TimeOut Chicago Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn’s disease, and more. Every essay is crafted with the same scathing wit and poignant candor thousands of loyal readers have come to expect from visiting her notoriously hilarious blog, bitchesgottaeat.com. Samantha Irby is a writer and performer who mostly jokes about hot dudes, kittens, and magical tacos at the highly visited Internet site bitchesgottaeat.com. Seriously. Go read it. In addition to co-hosting The Sunday Night Sex Show, a sex-positive live lit show, and Guts & Glory, a reading series featuring essayists, she has performed at Essay Fiesta, Write Club, This Much is True, Grown Folks Stories, The Paper Machete, and Story Club, among others. She opened for Baratunde Thurston during his “How to Be Black” tour. Her work has appeared on the Rumpus and Jezebel. Irby and creative partner Ian Belknap write a comedy advice blog at irbyandian.com.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 250 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9884804-2-1 USC

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Samantha Irby’s debut features narrative essays by a sex-obsessed dummy laughing her way through tacos, Crohn’s disease, and ridiculous dudes.

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Zero Fade
Chris L. Terry

“Zero Fade is wise and wise-assed, hilarious and subtle, knowing and searching. We need writers like Chris Terry, unafraid to plumb the complexities and absurdities of race and identity with grace and funk.”—Adam Mansbach, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Rage is Back and Go the Fuck to Sleep “Chris Terry has bestowed Kevin, the hero of Zero Fade, with an especially acute case of teenage angst, and the results are sweet, painful, and very recognizable to anyone who has survived seventh grade. This is a wonderful book.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife “With sharp storytelling sagacity and attention to detail, Mr. Terry speaks to modern society’s invisible men: the black, hip-hop kids of Generation X.” —J-Zone, author of Root for the Villain: Rap, Bullshit, and a Celebration of Failure Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia, teen Kevin Phifer as he deals with wack haircuts, bullies, last year’s fly gear, his uncle Paul coming out as gay, and being grounded. Chris L. Terry lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches writing and theater to juvenile inmates. He spent his teens and early twenties touring the world in a punk band. He has a fiction writing MFA from Columbia College Chicago. Zero Fade is his first novel. Excerpts have appeared in Chicago Reader, Curbside Splendor, Hair Trigger, and Trilling Magazine. His website is ChrisLTerry.com.
Inner-city teenager Kevin Phifer is grounded and battles with girls, bullies, so-called friends, his gay uncle, and wack haircuts.

JUVENILE FICTION September A Paperback Original 4 x 6 | 294 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9884804-3-8 USC Ages 12 and up

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Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Champaign-Urbana, IL • Indianapolis, IN • Kansas City, KS • Portland, ME • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • Ann Arbor, MI • Kansas City, MO • Springfield, MO • St. Louis, MO • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA • Richmond, VA • Seattle, WA • Milwaukee, WI

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Don’t Start Me Talkin’
Tom Williams

“A master storyteller, Tom Williams enters the living history of Delta Blues and emerges with his own thrilling tall tale, alive with American music, American legend, American heart.”—Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods “Tom Williams writes like Paul Auster might if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he’d ever been able to stop laughing. Darkly charming.” —Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe From the Neighbors, The End of California, and Prisoners of War, on The Mimic’s Own Voice “Williams perfectly mimics an array of voices, weaving in multiple layers of analysis so complex and believable the reader must either question their legitimacy or laugh out loud with admiration and enjoyment.”—Necessary Fiction, on The Mimic’s Own Voice Don’t Start Me Talkin’ is a comedic road novel about Brother Ben, the only remaining True Delta Bluesman, playing his final North American tour. Set in contemporary society, Brother Ben’s protege Peter narrates an episodic “last ride” across the great forty-eight, laying bare America’s complicated relationship with African American identity, music, and culture. Much like his hero Sonny Boy Williamson once sang, Peter promises, “I’ll tell everything I know.” Tom Williams is the author of The Mimic’s Own Voice (Main Street Rag Publishing Co). He has also published numerous stories, reviews, and essays, most recently in RE:AL, The Collagist, Booth, and Slab. An associate editor of American Book Review, he is the chair of English at Morehead State University.

FICTION February A Paperback Original 7 x 7 | 250 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9884804-4-5 USC

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In this comic road novel, roles are reversed, race gets reviewed, and a legendary Delta bluesman takes one last ride.

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Everything Flows
James Greer
Art by Robert Pollard

“James Greer is one of the nimblest and most multilayered American fiction writers.”—Dennis Cooper, author of Ugly Man “James Greer writes within the grand tradition of American postmodern, pessimistic, philosophic geniuses. . . . He unites sly humor, erudition, and a certain classical cast of mind, as aware of Heraclitus as he is of Teenage Fanclub. These stories are remarkable. They’re also a total freaking blast.” —Mathew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine, senior editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books Everything Flows is the first collection of short fiction by novelist, screenwriter, and musician James Greer. Greer mixes anachronistic pseudo-history and unserious/serious digressions into pop culture, pop physics, pop philosophy, and pop music, to arrive at something both universal in scope and intensely personal, twisting language into sometimes-strange shapes to devise new ways of looking at familiar things. Everything Flows also features color collages by Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard. Besides being known as one of underground music’s most prolific songwriters, Pollard’s irrepressible creativity has been an off-thecharts voice for a love-struck generation. James Greer is the author of the novels Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic Books, 2006) and The Failure (Akashic Books, 2010), and the nonfiction book Guided By Voices: A Brief History (Grove Press, 2005). He’s written or co-written movies for Lindsay Lohan, Jackie Chan, Benicio Del Toro, and Steven Soderbergh. He plays guitar and sings in a new band called Détective after the Jean-Luc Godard film of that name.
Experimental stories by novelist and musician James Greer accompanied by the surreal art of Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 125 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9834228-8-4 USC

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Kiss As Many Women As You Can
Franki Elliot
Art by Shawn Stucky
“The typewriter idea got my attention, but the writing kept me hooked. Franki’s stories have soul and wit, but are also made of real flesh and blood.” —Drew Dernavich, cartoonist for The New Yorker “Franki Elliot’s creative writing experiment is proving to be a unique blend of performance art, public art, literature, and text-based multimedia.” —L.A. Weekly “Sometimes I run across a poem that makes me second guess my opinion on poetry. It could be a line in the poem that impresses me. Or a person in the poem that makes me wonder what he’d be like in another situation. Or a relationship that makes me want to know if it worked out. Or a memory I have while reading the poem. For me, Piano Rats by Franki Elliot had all of the above.” —Chicago Tribune Kiss As Many Women As You Can presents new Franki Elliot “typewriter stories” in an art book brimming with full-color detachable postcards adorned with Chicagoan Shawn Stucky’s ethereal paintings. Stucky’s work has been shown across the United States and Europe, most notably at Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago (2009); Ferreira Projects, London (2008); and Sundlaugin (the recording studio of Sigur Rós) in Mosfellsbær, Iceland (2007). Franki Elliot is a music industry professional making a name for herself by crafting typewritten stories for people upon the suggestion of a word or phrase, as covered by L.A. Weekly and Flavorpill. Curbside Splendor published her first book Piano Rats to critical acclaim.
An art book featuring “typewriter stories” by twenty-something Los Angeles writer Franki Elliot alongside stylized paintings by Chicago artist Shawn Stucky.

ART / FICTION October A Paperback Original 7 x 5 | 55 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9884804-5-2 USC

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Piano Rats Franki Elliot FICTION 4 x 6 | 84 pp Trade Paper US $10.00 | CAN $10.99 978-0-9834228-3-9 USC

Curbside Splendor Publishing The Desert Places
Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss
Illustrations by Matt Kish

“Sparks’s story collection swirls with a Tim Burton-like whimsy. . . . Modern fables in which epiphanies replace moral lessons and tales unfold with Grimm-like wickedness.”—Publishers Weekly, on May We Shed These Human Bodies by Amber Sparks “Kloss peers inside, like some kind of mad historian, and records all the best and the worst of us with a passion and sometimes prophetic fervor.” —The McNeese Review, on The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss “Don’t mistake this gorgeous and wholly original book for a blow-by-blow comic-book-style retelling of Moby-Dick. . . . Let it sit on your coffee table as testament to what all of us human beings can do if we stick with it.” —Oprah.com, on Moby-Dick in Pictures by Matt Kish This pocket-sized edition of a hybrid text by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss explores the evolution of evil in worlds both seen and unseen and features full-color illustrations by Matt Kish, illustrator of the critically acclaimed Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page. Amber Sparks is the author of May We Shed These Human Bodies, released by Curbside Splendor in 2012. Her work has been widely published in print and online and you can find some of it at ambernoellesparks.com or follow her on Twitter @ambernoelle. Robert Kloss is the author of The Alligators of Abraham. His short fiction has been published in Crazyhorse, Gargoyle, Unsaid, and elsewhere. He can be found online at robert-kloss.com.
A hybrid text collaboration exploring the evolution of evil in worlds we know—and worlds we only think we know.
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FICTION / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 4 x 6 | 84 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9884804-8-3 USC

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May We Shed These Human Bodies Amber Sparks FICTION 5 x 8 | 150 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9834228-7-7 USC

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Lost in Space
A Father’s Journey There and Back Again

Ben Tanzer
“Ben Tanzer combines part Nick Hornsby, part Neal Pollack, and part good ole’ fashioned Midwestern.”—Gina Frangello, author of Slut Lullabies and My Sister’s Continent Lost in Space is an essay collection about fathers, sons, pop culture, death, and sex—because sex sells, even if you’re focused on parenting and the cultural impact of Star Wars.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / SOCIAL SCIENCE March A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 200 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9884804-6-9 USC

Ben Tanzer is the author of the novels My Father’s House, You Can Make Him Like You, and the forthcoming Orphans, among others. He is the curator of This Zine Will Change Your Life and This Blog Will Change Your Life.
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Lost in Space is a funny, sometimes sad, but always lively essay collection about fatherhood, and sex, because sex sells.

The Waiting Tide
La corriente en espera

Ryan W. Bradley
Illustrated by Brett Manning
The Waiting Tide is a bilingual homage to Pablo Neruda’s classic tome of love poetry, The Captain’s Verses, mixing classic love poetry with verse of a more modern and visceral bent, and all while never straying far from the sea. Illustrated by Chicago artist Brett Manning. Ryan W. Bradley has fronted a punk band, done construction in the Arctic Circle, and now designs book covers. He is the author of three chapbooks, a story collection, Prize Winners (Artistically Declined Press, 2011), and a novel, Code Failure (Black Coffee Press, 2012). He received his MFA from Pacific University.
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POETRY September A Paperback Original Concepcion Books 5½ x 8½ | 136 pp B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9834228-9-1 USC Spanish bilingual

A sensual poetry collection playing homage to Pablo Neruda’s classic tome of love.

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Always / Siempre
Helen Vitoria and B.L. Pawelek
Always/Siempre is a work of poetic and photographic ekphrasis, presented in English with Spanish translations. Helen Vitoria has been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize. She is the Founding Editor of THRUSH Press. B.L. Pawelek has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes.
POETRY / PHOTOGRAPHY | October | A Paperback Original | Concepcion Books 5½ x 8½ | 150 pp | Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9884804-7-6 USC | Spanish bilingual

Tomorrowland
Joseph Bates

The world of Tomorrowland is our own, reflected off a funhouse mirror— revealing our hopes and deepest fears to comic, often heartbreaking effect. Joseph Bates’s short fiction has appeared in the New Ohio Review and Identity Theory. He is the author of The Nighttime Novelist. Find him online at josephbates.net.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | September | A Paperback Original | 5 x 8 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-9888258-1-9 USC

Citizen J
Daniela Olszewska
Daniela Olszewska’s everywoman hero, Citizen J, moves across what might be America, re-imagined as a post-Soviet state. Daniela Olszewska was born in Poland and received her MFA from the University of Alabama. She serves as an associate poetry editor of H_NGM_N and web editor of Another Chicago Magazine.
POETRY | September | A Paperback Original | Artifice Books | 5 x 8 | 100 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-9884804-9-0 USC

Wolf Doctors
Russ Woods

In Russ Woods’s first collection of poetry, cities have transformed into girls, and rampaging herds of bulls desperately love that which they trample. Russ Woods edits Love Symbol Press and is the author of the chapbooks Tiny People and Pictures of Salukis Looking Majestic.
POETRY | March | A Paperback Original | Artifice Books | 5 x 8 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-9888258-0-2 USC

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Curbside Splendor Publishing Backlist
Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions Michael Czyzniejewski Trade Paper US $14.99 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9834228-5-3 USC May We Shed These Human Bodies Amber Sparks Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9834228-7-7 USC Piano Rats Franki Elliot Trade Paper US $10.00 | CAN $10.99 978-0-9834228-3-9 USC Sophomoric Philosophy Victor David Giron Trade Paper US $15.99 | CAN $17.99 978-0-615-40443-1 USC The Way We Sleep Edited by C. James Bye and Jessa Bye Trade Paper US $19.99 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9884804-0-7 USC

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Dewi Lewis Publishing Rainbow Transit
Per- Anders Pettersson

From the ashes of a repressive, segregated, and racist state, a multi-racial nation miraculously emerged, one of the greatest success stories of the African continent. And so began Per-Anders Pettersson’s love affair with South Africa. Digging beneath the myth of the “Rainbow Nation,” he explored the complex realities of daily life. Democracy brought both rewards and new struggles. A black middle class rapidly emerged, fostering a frenzied aspirational spirit amongst the poorer urban classes. But soon disillusion began to smother these feelings of hope and aspiration. Greed and disillusion are now predominant themes in South African life.
PHOTOGRAPHY October 9¾ x 12½ | 160 pp 79 color photographs Trade Cloth US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 978-1-907893-37-7 USC

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Per-Anders Pettersson explores the complex daily realities of twenty years of democracy in South Africa.

Afghan Box Camera
Lukas Birk and Sean Foley

Known as the “kamra-e-faoree,” Afghanistan is one of the last places on earth where the box camera continues to be used as a way of making a living. Handmade out of wood—a camera and darkroom in one—generations of Afghans have had their portraits taken with it. Spanning decades, from peacetime to war, box camera photography exists within a more sophisticated photographic history. Dozens of photographers have contributed to reveal the techniques and artistry of their photographic culture. The story is told through a rich mixture of contemporary and archive photographs, ephemera, illustrations, interviews, and storytelling.
PHOTOGRAPHY December 9½ x 10½ | 176 pp 120 color photographs, B&W and color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 978-1-907893-36-0 USC

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Street photography in Afghanistan— a visually enthralling culture under threat.

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Dewi Lewis Publishing The Black Kingdom
Brian Griffin
A visual autobiography of Brian Griffin’s life during the 1950s and ’60s, where everything surrounding him seemed to emanate from the factory. The Black Kingdom is a dissection of life in industrial England after the Second World War, showing the influences that would inspire the creative output of this highly successful photographer.
PHOTOGRAPHY | November | 9⅞ x 13½ | 108 pp | 118 color photographs Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 | 978-1-907893-34-6 USC

Brave New Burma
Nic Dunlop
Brave New Burma is an intimate portrait in words and pictures of a country finally emerging from decades of dictatorship, isolation, and fear. Nic Dunlop documents the plight of the people of Burma, from the front lines of the ongoing civil war to deceptively tranquil cities firmly under military control, a secretive and brutal world.
PHOTOGRAPHY | September | 6½ x 9 | 200 pp | 120 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 | 978-1-907893-31-5 USC

Havana: Intimations of Departure
John Comino-James
John Comino-James has developed a strong connection with the people of Havana, Cuba. His photographs reflect an everyday reality far removed from the blandishments of the tourist industry. Arranged in six sequences, the book contemplates the visual experiences and emotional connections the photographer might lose were he unable to walk its streets again.
PHOTOGRAPHY | November | 11¾ x 8¾ | 168 pp | 95 color photographs Trade Cloth US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 | 978-1-907893-30-8 USC

The Grey Line
Jo Metson Scott
A reflection on war told from the perspective of US and UK soldiers who have spoken out against the Iraq War. Through photographs and interviews, the lives of these soldiers are explored to understand more fully what it was that drove them to take an anti-war position—no matter what the consequence.
PHOTOGRAPHY | September | 8¾ x 12¼ | 122 pp | 60 color photographs Trade Cloth AH US $48.00 | CAN $52.99 | 978-1-907893-32-2 USC This item is nonreturnable.

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Dzanc Books The Brunist Day of Wrath
Robert Coover

The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover’s long-awaited, massive sequel to his awardwinning debut, is a committed and committing, awe-inspiring, humbling look at fundamentalisms of all sorts in a world where religion competes with money, common sense, despair, and reason; stranded in their midst is beauty, is art. “Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so . . .” The young Reverend Joshua J. Jenkins, candidate for the West Condon Presbyterian ministry, whushing along through the rain-drenched countryside, the bus nosing out of lush farmlands and dark wet forests onto the gently undulant and somewhat barren coal basin that is to be, if his interview goes well, his new home, finds himself meditating upon his church’s Great Awakening—a great disaster, as he was taught (he himself is just awaking from a thick early-morning doze, his head fallen against the bus window, muddled dreams of collegial dispute)—and upon the sequence of disruptive church schisms and rationalist heresies that followed upon the Awakening’s excessive evangelism through the convulsions of the American nineteenth century, so shaped by Presbyterian thought (and, one might say, confused by it as well), out of which musings he hopes to craft his inaugural sermon, and humming meanwhile that children’s hymn of simple faith . . . Robert Coover has published fourteen novels, three short story collections, and a collection of plays since The Origin of the Brunists received the William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1966.

The sequel to Robert Coover’s debut novel, the award-winning The Origin of the Brunists.

FICTION September 5½ x 8½ | 1,100 pp Trade Cloth US $30.00 | CAN $32.99 978-1-938604-38-6 USC

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Dzanc Books The Book of Important Moments
Richard Wiley

Married, pregnant, and happy, Ruth Rhodes is confronted by the man who raped her years earlier, and must come clean with herself and her husband while he negotiates the grief and mystery surrounding the murder of his own mother. The rapist, meanwhile, stands atop this narrative, telling his side of the story in diabolically captivating ways. Richard Wiley is the author of six previous novels including Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for best American fiction. He is a professor of English and the associate director of the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

FICTION September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 239 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-45-4 USC

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A rape in Nigeria, a murder in Washington state . . . deeply engaging characters whose worlds clash and collide.

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Neighbors of Nothing
Jason Ockert

Neighbors of Nothing examines characters who find themselves searching for new identities in worlds they no longer recognize. In “Piebald,” parents assume the identity of their dead son; in “Everyday Murders,” the sole survivor of a violent crime attempts to confront an online entrepreneur who sells footballstyle serial killer jerseys. Through odd, compelling, and sometimes futile gestures, these characters struggle against guilt and grief and the seemingly endless stretch of days. Influenced by absurdism and the southern gothic, Neighbors of Nothing offers intelligent and heartrending insights into the complex human struggle to exist with purpose.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 225 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-47-8 USC

Neighbors of Nothing explores the odd, nuanced ways that guilt and grief manifest in the behavior of seemingly ordinary people.

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Dzanc Books The Old Reactor
A Tale of Two Cities

David Ohle
A sequel of sorts to David Ohle’s classic Motorman, bringing the character Moldenke back to life . . . In those days Moldenke was so full of passion for the labor movement his nose bled when he spoke of it. He could be seen day after day going up and down Esplanade Avenue with a few like-minded friends passing out his pamphlet, “Fair Play for the Working Stiff.” He had to take care, though, of his bowel. At any time it could make sudden demands. Wherever he picketed, wherever he passed out leaflets, he had to be aware of the nearest public toilet.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 223 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-46-1 USC

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The Old Reactor finds readers enveloped in a complete and fascinating world—future, or simply an alternative look at the current?

Offerings from a Rust Belt Jockey
Andy Plattner

The novel is about a long-time jockey, Carl Arvo, and how decades in the saddle have taught him about all the things he can have and all the things he cannot. An unexpected turn of fortune gives him the chance to be with a woman, Christine Fleming, who in some ways is the person he’s been looking for his entire life. Andy Plattner lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a one-time horse racing journalist and has also published two short story collections, one of which, Winter Money, won the Flannery O’Connor Award.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 207 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-54-6 USC

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A jockey experiences an unexpected crest in his career and decides to pursue a woman he might otherwise not have.

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Dzanc Books Dancing Lessons
Olive Senior

“As a novel it is compelling, its heroine unforgettable. . . . A simply wonderful read.”—The Globe and Mail “This novel is a jewel that promises the reader a lesson in dancing to the right tune.”—Jamaica Observer Her mother’s death and her father’s madness leave G unloved and unwanted as a child. Her runaway marriage brings her children but not the fulfillment she yearns for. Years later, a hurricane destroys her Jamaican country house where she lives alone and she ends up—unwillingly—in a ritzy retirement home in the city, placed there by her well-to-do but distant daughter.

FICTION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 374 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-938604-49-2 US

A novel infused with Jamaica yet connecting with anyone who engages with notions of family, love, loss, friendship, and belonging.

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When Blackness Was a Virtue
Michael Grant Jaffe

Michael Grant Jaffe captures the chaos of the protagonist’s sudden downturn in his personal life, dealing with an ex-wife who makes his life miserable, and trying to keep his children happy in the midst of it all. He finds release for his frustrations through the violence of his bookie job as he tries to make sense of what happened to his life and hold onto his morality. When Blackness Was a Virtue is Michael Grant Jaffe’s fourth novel. He’s also the author of Whirlwind, Skateaway, and Dance Real Slow, which was adapted into the Twentieth Century Fox Film A Cool, Dry Place.
FICTION January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938604-50-8 USC

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Dzanc Books Byrd
Kim Church

Byrd is a contemporary novel about a woman who bears and surrenders a son, her only child, without telling his father, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives. Through letters and spare, precisely observed vignettes, the book examines how a thirty-three-year-old birth mother comes to make and live with the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices. Kim Church of Raleigh, North Carolina, has published fiction in Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, Millay Colony, VCCA, and Vermont Studio Center.

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FICTION March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 228 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-52-2 USC

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Byrd is the fragmented family history of a child given up for adoption, told through his birth parents and others.

Not for Nothing
Stephen Graham Jones

“My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt.” —PopMatters A novel written in second person. The town is Stanton, Texas, population three thousand; the private investigator is disgraced Midland homicide detective Nicholas Bruiseman, who’s so down on his luck that he’s forced to take a job as a live-in security guard for the town’s lone storage facility. This is his new life—starting over with nothing in the town he grew up in.
FICTION / MYSTERY March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 298 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938604-53-9 USC

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The detective novel resulting when Barfly’s Henry Chinaski stumbles into Larry McMurtry’s small-town Texas and an Elmore Leonard plot.

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Dzanc Books The True Actor
Jacinto Lucas Pires
Translated by Jaime Braz and Dean Thomas
Translated from the Portuguese, this is the third novel by writer, musician, and playwright Jacinto Lucas Pires. The True Actor recounts the story of the grotesque character Americo Abril, an actor confounded by the various roles that he plays in real life—weary dad, blocked artist, henpecked husband, and miserable lover—and in the cinema, where he inhabits the role of his alterego, Paul Giamatti. As a backdrop (and in intriguing confluence with current events), Portugal is in a state of high alert.
FICTION November A Paperback Original DISQUIET 5½ x 8½ | 190 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-48-5 USC

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The Gifts of the State and Other Stories
Afghan Writers Under Thirty

Edited by Adam Klein
The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: Afghan Writers Under Thirty radically reshapes our idea of Afghanistan as a place of unquestioning religiosity, brutal sexism, and anti-American and Russian resistance. Rather, employing stark naturalism and surrealistic and genre elements, these writers bravely depict Westernstyled women in former Russian apartments and men obsessed with fantasies based on Mickey Spillane novels. Adam Klein is the author of story collection The Medicine Burns, the novel Tiny Ladies, and the artist monograph Jerome: After the Pageant. His work has appeared in Bomb, the New York Times At War Blog, and the Huffington Post.

FICTION December A Paperback Original DISQUIET 5½ x 8½ | 175 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-55-3 USC

Young Afghan authors offer risky, provocative views into the ways they negotiate love, war, extremism, and a disputed history.

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Dzanc Books Sank’ya
Zakhar Prilepin
Translated by Jeff Parker and Mariya Gusev

“The novel is so vivid that it seems to be almost extremist.” —Komsomolskaya Pravda Sank’ya is an examination of the elements of rebellion and protest. The novel, drawing on Zakhar Prilepin’s own experiences, follows Sasha (whose grandmother calls him Sank’ya), a member of an extremist revolutionary group, as he tests the elemental force of the protest movement in Russia and in himself. Sank’ya faces a stark choice in the novel’s climax: whether to return to the villages (the unseen Russia) and accept the political fates or to engage the authorities in open rebellion. Originally published in 2006, Sank’ya is even more relevant today as a prism through which to view the recent large-scale actions against Vladimir Putin. It is Prilepin’s first novel and is widely considered his best. Zakhar Prilepin, born near Ryazan in 1975, lives in Nizhny Novgorod where he is the regional editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. Prilepin had a varied life before dedicating himself to writing, spending time as a student, laborer, journalist, and soldier, serving with the Special Forces in Chechnya.
Sank’ya is an examination of the elements of rebellion and protest. Compare to the recent large-scale actions against Vladimir Putin.

FICTION February A Paperback Original DISQUIET 5½ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938604-51-5 USC

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Dzanc Books Girl Show
Kristy Bowen
“Bowen’s dreamy, eerie poems create a subversively gothic landscape: ‘mile after mile of busted/lunchboxes glinting in the sun.’”—Carol Guess From “ballyhoo”: still-life with broken door god and circus laurel, nebraska the levitations bad endings locks the sugar sequence a little fever inertia theories of gravity trouble cure carnival season
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POETRY September A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 60 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-937854-93-5 USC

A collection of fragmented lyrics, Girl Show explores the transformative world of 1930s era carnivals and sideshows.

Uprising
Michele Battiste

“This is an extraordinary collection, and its strain of defiant, blood-stirring gypsy music is the tonic you’ve been looking for.”—Albert Godbarth and Budapest lives in sectioned-off coal cellars, black dust clogging the thin sieve of skin. Evening swells, sirens beating on six inches of window like autumn breaking down on barren streets. Jutka inhales on the decrescendo, the baby at her breast again, kicking her ribs—a soft metronome marking the rise and fall of mechanical howl, too slow for any melody but dirge and it is easy to forget that death is a mournful thing.
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POETRY October A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 125 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937854-94-2 USC

These poems document one family’s struggle to stay together and alive in the days just before the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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Boulder, CO • Denver, CO • Albany, NY • New York, NY • Schenectady, NY Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Dzanc Books Like Oysters Observing the Sun
Brenda Sieczkowski

“Animals rebel. Our senses rebel. The syllables of outcry are in open rebellion against our words. All this Sieczkowski documents with prophetic rigor and then, in poems of the damnedest, dearest insouciance I have ever encountered, begins to play.”—Donald Revell From “Exhume”: Pale children in nightscape, heads cocked, burying toys. This is the way we hide our toys, hide our toys—Smudge of dirty moon when you bend to kiss me—so early in the morning—on the neighbor’s porch. Blue flames waver over the giant refinery. The hollow-eyed children titter and clap dirt from their kid gloves.

POETRY November A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 75 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-937854-97-3 USC

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A beautifully balanced collection that imbues scientific, heady poems with the excitement of pop-up books, the energy of a hunting party.

Scouting for the Reaper
Jacob M. Appel

Each of the characters in Scouting for the Reaper faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country, arranging a proper Jewish burial for the remains of Gregor Samsa, selling tombstones dressed as a Girl Scout. These stories explore the domestic and professional adventures of people in over their heads, while leavening their struggles with humor. Jacob M. Appel is the author of more than two hundred published short stories and is a past winner of the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 210 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937854-95-9 USC

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Stories in which ordinary people confront extraordinary, unexpected events and strive to embrace their new realities.

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Dzanc Books From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes
B.C. Edwards
“Hilarious, absurd, frank, somehow honest, somewhat blasphemous, and wildly original.”—Justin Torres “Edwards is a writer possessed of a quicksilver anarchic imagination.” —Patrick McGrath From “How to Temper Knife Blades”: There is a piece of iron between us, straight and hard at first but we have worked it. Warped the iron until it is curved now to exactly us, fits the shape that lies in us two embracing. A line that runs from where our faces meet, the way we lay our necks on each other, the cut of our embraced torsos, tempered hot iron hips, twine of legs.
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POETRY December A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-937854-99-7 USC

Dark, but not terrifying, poems concerning life’s failures and triumphs. Adapted from a 1901 instruction manual of the same name.

Nonfiction
Shane McCrae

“Nonfiction is a welcome offering from one of the most stunningly original poets to emerge in the last few years. Using a hauntingly lyrical syntax that embraces stammerings and fragmentations, Shane McCrae gives us poems based on documentary accounts of slavery and imprisonment, as well as more intimate treatments of troubling subjects. Whatever their sources, the poems are ‘nonfiction’ in the most urgent sense, bringing to light some of our culture’s most deeply disturbing truths.”—Martha Collins
POETRY December A Paperback Original Black Lawrence Press 5½ x 8½ | 30 pp Trade Paper US $8.95 | CAN $9.99 978-1-937854-98-0 USC

The poems in Nonfiction are simultaneously poems and essays, formal and free, fiction and nonfiction, and all are music.

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Dzanc Books The Compleat Memoirrhoids
137.n

Steve Katz
“[Katz] reprises the pleasure of everything he has ever written, and yet it is utterly singular. No one who cares about America’s literary and art scene in the sixties should fail to read it.”—R. M. Berry, author of Frank Employing the “fine structure constant” that has tantalized physicists for decades, celebrated novelist Steve Katz conjures his life story from 137 discreet, shuffled memories of art, travels, reflections, and confusions. Here are sculpture and teepees, Western mountains, Eastern pilgrimages, and, throughout, artists’ lives: Kathy Acker, Philip Glass, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Serra, and a catalog of others Katz knows and knew.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September Starcherone Books 9 x 6 | 440 pp Trade Cloth US $23.00 | CAN $25.50 978-1-938603-05-1 USC

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Innovative novelist Steve Katz’s 137-part shuffled memoir reads like a database of twentieth-century alternative arts, artists, lives, worlds, and ways.

Cartilage and Skin
Michael James Rizza

“Cartilage and Skin has it all: a fast-paced narrative, cool language, downtrodden characters, and addictive intrigue. Rizza writes with dark high-energy and philosophical flair about his nervous anti-hero on a self-destructive quest. The story shifts with every page, never losing momentum, always surprising us. Fascinating, ferocious reading.”—Deb Olin Unferth, in awarding the Starcherone Innovative Fiction Prize An urban, brainy thriller that keeps us turning pages via a narrator both seductive and strange and a plot that ever shifts back on itself. This is a world of philosophy and violence, voyeurism and doubt, guilt and intrigue.

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Social media campaign

FICTION October A Paperback Original Starcherone Books 5½ x 8½ | 360 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938603-18-1 USC

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New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Morris Plains, NJ

Its cityscape dark with philosophy and violence, voyeurism and intrigue, readers won’t be able to put this debut novel down.

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Selected Backlist from Dzanc Books

Kamby Bolongo Mean River
Robert Lopez
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 188 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $16.95 978-0-9767177-6-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936873-42-5 W

Roy Kesey
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Cloth US $22.00 | CAN $26.95 978-0-9826318-2-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936873-20-3 USC

Pacazo

Fires of Our Choosing
Eugene Cross
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 170 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936873-07-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936873-29-6 USC

My Only Wife
Jac Jemc
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 194 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936873-68-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936873-73-9 W

The Doctor’s Wife
Luis Jaramillo
FICTION 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

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
Alissa Nutting
FICTION 6 x 9 | 188 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-0-9842133-2-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9842133-5-1

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Enchanted Lion Books Ballad
Blexbolex

Ballad is a story. It is also a narrative song, and like all great stories, it deepens with each retelling. This image-based story builds page by page, over seven rounds or sequences. The initial round consists of three images: the beginning: school; the middle: the path; and the end: home. The next round builds upon the first, and here we have: school, the street, the path, the forest, and home. The next five sequences take up this same story, but with new words and images integrated each time, while repeating the images and words from earlier rounds. Thus the story quickly becomes enormous, as the number of new images nearly doubles with each round. The story that Ballad tells plays with the stories that we make up and tell ourselves as we move through the world. Here we are given a child’s encounter with the world as he returns home from school each day, and we see how a child’s own small world can suddenly become enormous. The story that is told here is as old as the world. It happens every day. Blexbolex is a bold and highly talented graphic artist. In addition to creating numerous comics, he has been internationally acclaimed for his books Seasons, which was selected as a 2012 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and People, which received the prestigious Goldene Letter Award in 2009 for “Best Book Design throughout the World.”
JUVENILE FICTION February 5⅝ x 6½ | 280 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-59270-137-7 USC Ages 4 and up

Ballad is a story. It is also a narrative song, and like all great stories, it deepens with each retelling. Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Also Available
Seasons Blexbolex JUVENILE NONFICTION 7¾ x 10¼ | 180 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.99 978-1-59270-095-0 USC People Blexbolex JUVENILE NONFICTION / ART 7 x 9½ | 208 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.99 978-1-59270-110-0 USC

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Enchanted Lion Books The River
Alessandro Sanna

JUVENILE FICTION September 7¾ x 10½ | 110 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-59270-149-0 USC* Ages 6 and up

Surprising, original, and gorgeous, The River is a book about the seasons and the different kinds of experiences and stories that each season brings. Consisting almost entirely of images, The River presents each of the four seasons as its own chapter and story. A few sentences at the start of each chapter set the stage and provide clues for following each story. Beginning in autumn and ending in summer, The River is about our connection to place, as well as about the connections between geography, setting, and the stories we tell. The River is also about the flow of time, which flows like the river, and carries us. Alessandro Sanna is renowned throughout Italy and this book, which will fascinate young and old alike, demonstrates why.

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Co-op available National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

A richly imagined and surprising book about the flowing of a river, its stories, and the flow of life itself.

Author Events
New York, NY

The Hole
Øyvind Torseter

The protagonist of The Hole has discovered a hole in his apartment and tries to find an explanation. He seeks expert advice. But not everything can be explained. Perhaps he’ll just have to accept that the hole is there? The Hole has simple, expressive drawings created by pen and computer, and there’s a hole punched right through the book, so it really exists, even if it can’t be explained. Comic yet philosophical, The Hole is quite simply brilliant! Born in 1972, Øyvind Torseter is one of Norway’s most acclaimed illustrators. Torseter has received numerous prizes for his books, which have been translated into many languages. My Father’s Arms Are A Boat (Enchanted Lion Books, 2012) was his first book to be published in the United States.

JUVENILE FICTION September 9 x 10¾ | 64 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-59270-143-8 USC Ages 6 and up

A funny, original, and exciting picture book about a rebellious hole that will fascinate young and old alike.

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Co-op available National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Engine Books Play Pretty Blues
Snowden Wright

“Wright’s fervent, musical prose captures the very essence of the blues. Play Pretty Blues is a work of extraordinary imagination and soul.”—Will Allison, author of Long Drive Home The mysteries of blues legend Robert Johnson’s life and death long ago became myth. Part researched reconstruction, part vivid imagination, this lyrical novel brings Johnson alive through the voices of his six wives, revealing the husband and son inside the legend. Snowden Wright was born and raised in Mississippi. His work has been published at Salon, the Atlantic Online, Esquire Online, and the New York Daily News. He lives in New York.
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Advance reader copies National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign Social media campaign • 10-city national tour • Giveaways through Goodreads Promotion through: author website and www.enginebooks.org Author Hometown: New York, NY FICTION November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938126-10-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938126-11-6 USC

A novel of the life and death of blues legend Robert Johnson, as told by all six of his wives.

Fort Starlight
Claudia Zuluaga

Broke and stranded in a half-finished tract house in a swamp, Ida Overdorff discovers the strange community around her—a millionaire living in a tree house, two feral child thieves. Ida clings to her dream of returning to New York while weathering storms both meteorological and emotional, and comes to understand that nobody’s luck—even hers—is all bad. Claudia Zuluaga’s fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Lost Magazine, JMWW, Linnaean Street, and the Best of the Web series. Zuluaga is a lecturer in the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City.

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Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign 10-city national tour • Giveaways through Goodreads Promotion through: author website and www.enginebooks.org Author Hometown: Maplewood, NJ

FICTION September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 232 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938126-13-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938126-14-7 USC

Stranded in a half-finished tract house in a Florida swamp, Ida Overdorff turns away from her unlucky past.

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Engine Books The Fifty-First State
Lisa Borders

“A fresh new voice in fiction.”—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides After her father’s death, Hallie Corson returns from her New York photographer’s life to her south Jersey hometown to care for her long-estranged brother during his final year of high school. As they learn their family’s history, Josh and Hallie will invite disaster into their lives, and will learn, together, to navigate its currents, keeping further losses at bay.
FICTION October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938126-20-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938126-24-6 USC

Lisa Borders is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, winner of the Fred Bonnie Award for Best First Novel and fiction honors in the Massachusetts Book Awards.
Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign Social media campaign • 10-city national tour • Giveaways through Goodreads Promotion through: author website and www.enginebooks.org Author Hometown: Boston, MA

Hallie Corson returns home to care for her teenage brother, Josh, after their parents die in a fiery crash.

After
Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

Nina Baldwin’s perfect life unravels after she is diagnosed with breast cancer. As she struggles to remain a good wife and mother, her husband retreats into harrowing memories of his childhood in a family of Nazi sympathizers, and her awkward, extraordinary daughter sinks further into pre-teen misery. Isolated and afraid, Nina seeks escape in places she never imagined she would. Kristin Waterfield Duisberg has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Boston-based Grub Street Writers’ Workshop. After is her second novel; she is also the author of the critically acclaimed book The Good Patient (St. Martin’s Press).

FICTION February A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938126-22-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938126-23-9 USC

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Advance reader copies Public radio campaign • National print and online campaign Social media campaign • 10-city national tour • Giveaways through Goodreads Promotion through: author website and www.enginebooks.org Author Hometown: Durham, NH

When cancer shatters Nina Baldwin’s perfect life, she renegotiates her marriage and her relationship with her awkward, extraordinary daughter.

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Enigma Books Indochina and Vietnam
The Thirty-five Year War, 1940–1975

Robert Miller and Dennis Wainstock

The Indochina and Vietnam Wars followed one another over thirty-five years, from 1940 to 1975, yet these two closely related conflicts are usually treated separately. This book seeks to tell the story of those wars as a single historical event. Within days of France’s defeat by Nazi Germany and Japan’s military expansion into Southeast Asia in July 1940, the United States became involved in Indochina. Most histories quickly mention the colonial past, usually limited to the battle of Dien Bien Phu, to concentrate exclusively on the American war. A selection of published sources explains the context and the development of the long war while providing an overview of France’s imprint on Indochina and Vietnam. The question “Why were we in Vietnam?” comes up regularly regarding the root causes for the ultimate deployment of over five hundred thousand US troops, most of them conscripts, into a virtually unknown land. When France left Indochina in 1954 it became an American problem. Weeks before the murder of John F. Kennedy came the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem and the escalation of the war in 1965–68. Finally, Richard Nixon, after extending the war into Cambodia, enacted both the Vietnamization process and negotiations in Paris between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, until the final act in April 1975, when the US embassy rooftop with the last helicopter taking off was flashed around the world as the grand finale to the war.

A comprehensive, easy-to-read, and objective history of the Indochina and Vietnam wars for the general reader and undergraduate students.

HISTORY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 275 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-936274-65-9 USC

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New York, NY Author Hometowns: New York, NY / Salem, WV

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Enigma Books American Police 1945–2012
Second Edition

Thomas Reppetto
“A great addition to true crime collections. Recommended.”—Library Journal The San Francisco riot of 1945 and the 1953 kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease in Missouri revealed the serious deficiencies in local and federal agencies. Riots tore the 1960s: Watts, Detroit, and Newark were proof local police departments were powerless. The author, Thomas Reppetto, handled security at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party Convention. The 1970s and ’80s were the lowest points in American law enforcement, combined with political crisis. The picture improved when New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani introduced “zero tolerance.”

HISTORY / TRUE CRIME December 6 x 9 | 268 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-936274-67-3 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-936274-43-7

Author Events A comprehensive history of the American police.
New York, NY Author Hometown: Mount Vernon, NY

Carlos Marcello
The Man Behind the JFK Assassination

Stefano Vaccara
Translated by Robert Miller
“Like getting a pebble out my shoe.” New Orleans is the true birthplace of the Sicilian mafia in America. Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the Southeast in the 1950s and ’60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert Kennedy became attorney general, Marcello was deported to Guatemala and swore to seek revenge. It became a duel to the death. Marcello found his “patsy,” a former marine with a Russian wife. Lee Harvey Oswald was the perfect fall guy but he never pulled the trigger.
TRUE CRIME December 6 x 9 | 288 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $23.00 | CAN $25.50 978-1-936274-68-0 USC

The sensational story behind the New Orleans Mafia boss who claimed to have murdered JFK.

Author Events
Washington, DC • New Orleans, LA • New York, NY

158

Etruscan Press An Archaeology of Yearning
Bruce Mills

Digging into vivid moments within the metaphor of archaeology, Bruce Mills’s remarkable memoir maps the artifacts of life as a father of a boy with autism, and as a boy himself growing up in rural Iowa. An Archaeology of Yearning is not ultimately about autism; instead it reaches into the world of human connection and illuminates how storytelling and an understanding of language keep that connection alive. On some nights, I awake as if in a cave and think of the future. Mary and I will exist as memories: a quick glimpse of arms reaching toward another’s shoulders or face, an image of a hand upon a book, the scent of our bodies after the sweat of sleep, the tone of our young and old voices calling our daughter or son from distant rooms or down a stair. Eventually I arrive on the image of my son, in some new home. No matter how much I have written or catalogued or kept in images, I know that the site of his life and mine will inevitably remain fragments and that only a visitor can bring us to life. Bruce Mills has published scholarly books and articles on nineteenth-century American writings and co-edited a collection of essays by siblings of those on the autism spectrum. His creative nonfiction has appeared in the Georgia Review and New England Review. He teaches in the English department at Kalamazoo College.

The moving story of a father’s bond with his autistic son embodies powerful themes of family relationships and human connections.

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 146 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9839346-9-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9886922-2-0 W

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • Giveaways available • Promotion through: www.etruscanpress.org Author Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI

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Etruscan Press Scything Grace
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Through the smoke-lit pool halls, back roads, rehab centers, truck stops, and diners of the still industrial world, Sean Thomas Dougherty offers us the stories he has lived and collected of men and women barely working, just getting by, but every morning still going on, even if unsure. Unsung unbearably blue, even frightening in how they leave us, our responsibilities among the debris, these utterances we cannot hold.
POETRY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9886922-0-6 USC

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books including Nightshift Belonging to Lorca, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he teaches writing workshops.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies Giveaways available • Promotion through: www.etruscanpress.org Author Hometown: Erie, PA

Experimental in outlook, yet gritty and streetwise, the collection renders stories of loss and redemption as especially evocative and unforgettable.

As Much As, If Not More Than
H. L. Hix

“Hix has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and most challenging.” —David Caplan, author of Pleiades H. L. Hix’s newest book is an intellectual venture, testing the boundary between poetry and prose. He draws on questions from other sources and employs ancient meter techniques to challenge existing expectations, presenting a fresh exploration in poetics.
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS February A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 146 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9886922-1-3 USC

H. L. Hix, author of twenty-six books, teaches at the University of Wyoming.

Marketing Plans As Much As, If Not More Than explores the unmapped region between prose and poetry and reveals a new possibility.
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Giveaways available • Promotion through: www.etruscanpress.org Author Hometown: Laramie, WY

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Exterminating Angel Press Divas, Dames & Daredevils
Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics

Mike Madrid
Foreword by Maria Elena Buszek, PhD
“A long overdue tribute to the fabulous fighting females whose beauty and bravery brighten the pages of your favorite comics.”—Stan Lee on The Supergirls Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ruled the pages of comic books in the 1940s. But many heroines of the WWII era have been forgotten. Through twenty-eight full reproductions of vintage Golden Age comics, Divas, Dames & Daredevils reintroduces their ingenious abilities to mete out justice to Nazis, aliens, and evildoers of all kinds. Each spine-tingling chapter opens with Mike Madrid’s insightful commentary about heroines at the dawn of the comic book industry and reveals a universe populated by extraordinary women—superheroes, reporters, galactic warriors, daring detectives, and ace fighter pilots—who protected America and the world with wit and guile. In these pages, fans will also meet heroines with striking similarities to more modern superheroes, including The Spider Queen, who deployed web shooters twenty years before Spider Man, and Marga the Panther Woman, whose feral instincts and sharp claws tore up the bad guys long before Wolverine. These women may have been overlooked in the annals of history, but their influence on popular culture, and the heroes we’re passionate about today, is unmistakable. Mike Madrid is the author of The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines, an NPR “Best Book To Share With Your Friends” and American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project Notable Book. Madrid, a San Francisco native and lifelong fan of comic books and popular culture, also appears in the documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.
A fully illustrated and thrilling look back at the lost supergirls of Golden Age comics. Also Available

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LITERARY CRITICISM October A Paperback Original 7 x 9 | 240 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935259-23-7 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-24-4 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National public radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads and LibraryThing • Promotion through: www.heaven4heroes.com

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Seattle, WA The Supergirls Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines Mike Madrid COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LITERARY CRITICISM 5½ x 7½ | 334 pp 14 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $16.95 978-1-935259-03-9 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-00-8 W Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

161

Selected Backlist from Exterminating Angel Press

Snotty Saves the Day
Illustrated by Gary Zaboly
FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 208 pp 7 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $13.00 | CAN $15.50 978-1-935259-07-7 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-20-6 W

The History of Arcadia Tod Davies

Illustrated by Mike Madrid
FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 224 pp 16 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935259-18-3 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-19-0 W

The History of Arcadia Tod Davies

Lily the Silent

Richard James Bentley
FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 296 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-935259-21-3 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-22-0 W

Greenbeard

An Anarchist Fairy Tale Danbert Nobacon
Illustrated by Alex Cox
FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 208 pp 20 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $13.00 | CAN $15.95 978-1-935259-06-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-10-7 W

3 Dead Princes

All You Need to Know to Choose the Right Heaven Plus a Five-Star Rating System for Music, Food, Drink, and Accommodations E. E. King
FICTION 5½ x 7½ | 238 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935259-08-4 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-11-4 W

Dirk Quigby's Guide to the Afterlife

A Galaxy of Immortal Women
The Yin Side of Chinese Civilization Brian Griffith

HISTORY 5½ x 7½ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935259-14-5 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-935259-15-2 W

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February Books My Special Force
The Warrior Who Taught Me The Meaning of Life and Love

Heather Means

A modern day tale of love and war, My Special Force is the true story of a military widow’s relationship with her beloved husband and the lifelong impact he made on those around him. Weaving together the letters they wrote to each other while he was stationed in Iraq with her own story, Heather, now a single mother, tells the story of Ryan Means, whose zest for life, bravery, and indomitable spirit changed her forever. After losing his best friend in the September 11 tragedy, thirty-year-old Ryan leaves his old life in New York behind to join up with the Special Forces where he meets Heather while in training. After multiple deployments and two lonely pregnancies, Heather must summon unthinkable reserves of strength when Ryan is given thirty days to live after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer just weeks before the birth of his second child. In this universal story of patriotism, courage, and what it means to be truly transformed by the person you love, we get the devastating yet inspiring story of one single mother’s story of what it means to have known and loved a warrior. Heather Means lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her two daughters, Elizabeth and Sophie Ryan. In the wake of her husband’s death, she aspires to raise awareness of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and Wounded Warrior Program.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS October 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9849543-6-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9849543-9-1

The heartbreaking but inspiring memoir of a young widow and the green beret soldier whose love for her defied geography and time.

Author Hometown: Atlanta, GA

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February Books The FabYOUList
List It, Live It, Love Your Life

Susan Campbell Cross

There comes a time in every woman’s life when she realizes that the dreams she held as a girl are growing farther away in the rearview mirror. What can you do to make those childhood ambitions a reality? Join Susan Campbell Cross as she tackles that very question in The FabYOUList, a funny and endearing story of one suburban soccer mom’s madcap adventures. Cross’s declaration, “There are so many things I thought I would have done by now!” led her to reflect about what exactly those things were. Pen and paper in hand, she composed a “wish I would have done” list. Fly on the trapeze, skinny dip, learn to surf, get a paid acting job, go church shopping, take guitar lessons, run a 5K, and become Googleable, were just the tip of the iceberg. Ironically, the list ended with #40, write a book. That book is The FabYOUList: List it, Live it, Love Your Life. The explanation about how numbers 1 through 39 came to be on Cross’s list, and the hilarious ways that went into crossing them off, is the entertaining and inspiring theme of this heartfelt memoir. The reader is invited along on every escapade as Cross ventures outside her comfort zone and into the adventure of her life, ultimately coming face-to-face with what she discovers has been her biggest obstacle all along: herself.
SELF-HELP / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September 6 x 9 | 250 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9849543-4-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9887979-0-1 USC

Writer, actor, and mom Susan Campbell Cross is a lifestyle editor of Shape magazine and contributing lifestyle editor of Star and OK! magazines. She is also a contributor to The Daily Muse, HuffPost Women, and Forbes Woman. In addition she has her own blog, Secrets of a Suburban Soccer Mom. She lives in Hidden Hills, California, with her husband of twenty years and their three children and four dogs.
The humorous and inspiring story of suburban soccer mom Susan Campbell Cross’s adventures as she takes on forty challenges before her fortieth birthday.

Author Hometown: Hidden Hills, CA

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February Books Loves Me . . . Not
How to Survive (and Thrive!) in the Face of Unrequited Love

Samara O’Shea

Maybe you haven’t driven hundreds of miles in an adult diaper in order to confront the new girlfriend of an ex-lover like NASA engineer Lisa Marie Nowak. Or been humiliated on national television when your husband, the governor of South Carolina, was found cavorting in Argentina after telling you and everyone else he was hiking the Appalachian Trail like Jenny Sanford. But if you’ve ever stalked a crush on Facebook or can’t get over the guy who dumped you years ago, then Loves Me . . . Not is the book for you! With those who loved and lost or suffered unrequited love throughout history as your guide, Loves Me . . . Not comforts the broken hearted with hilarious tales, enlightening advice, and a little tough love to help you silence your inner psycho, rediscover your self esteem, and finally move on after a breakup. Samara O’Shea is the author of Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits and For the Love of Letters: A 21st-Century Guide to the Art of Letter Writing. In addition to writing letters and wedding vows on behalf of others at LetterLover.net, Samara is also a blogger for The Huffington Post, and her writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Country Living, and Woman’s Day.
A witty and inspirational guide to overcoming rejection and flourishing in the face of unrequited love.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / SELF-HELP February 5½ x 8½ | 250 pp Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.50 978-0-9849543-8-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9849543-7-7 USC

Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

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Selected Backlist from February Books

Lessons on Living Inspired by the 44th President Russell Razzaque, PhD
SELF-HELP / POLITICAL SCIENCE 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

Obama Karma

Getting to Bartlett Street
Our 25-Year Quest to Level the Playing Field in Education Joe Reich and Carol Reich
Foreword by Joel Klein
EDUCATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 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

The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat First Trade Paper Edition Jeff Benedict
HEALTH & FITNESS / HISTORY 5½ x 8½ | 301 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9849543-5-3 USC

Poisoned

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The Feminist Press at CUNY Ghostbelly
Elizabeth Heineman

“What an amazing story. . . . I applaud you for staying honest with yourself and listening to your feelings and what you needed to do to love and grieve and remember your son.”—comment on Elizabeth Heineman’s Salon article, “My Stillborn Child’s Life after Death” Everyone loves to blame a mother for making the “wrong” choices, and Elizabeth Heineman makes plenty of unpopular ones: being of advanced maternal age, having a home birth, using a midwife, communing with her dead baby. In Ghostbelly, Heineman’s brave, disarming, and stunning memoir, she recounts her indescribable grief after delivering a stillborn son, her shocking and intimate bonding with the baby’s body before the burial, and the impossible task of saying goodbye. If Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir opened the door for discussions about stillbirth—which account for one in 160 pregnancies in the United States— Heineman provides a necessary continuation on the topic. While motherhood remains a stronghold as a topic de jour in the media, there continue to be gaps in the newsworthy stories. Ghostbelly tells an unexpected, but not uncommon, tale of the space that one can occupy when birth and death are combined. Elizabeth Heineman is a professor of history and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at the University of Iowa. Her published works include Before Porn Was Legal, Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones, and What Difference Does a Husband Make? She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
You may not think you have assumptions about motherhood and grief, but you do. And this book will shatter them.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55861-844-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-845-9 NA

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpts in: Salon.com • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
Iowa City, IA • New York, NY Author Hometown: Iowa City, IA

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The Feminist Press at CUNY The Silent Woman
Monika Zgustova
Translated by Matthew Tree Foreword by Norman Manea
A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth century woman’s life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil. Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn’t love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s as an ambassador’s wife. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will inform and haunt the rest of her life. Sylva’s story is interwoven with a contemporary sex chronicle of her son Jan, a world-renowned mathematician and émigré living in the United States, who exudes the restlessness of a man without a country. Monika Zgustova was born in Prague and lives in Barcelona. She has published seven books, including novels, short stories, a play, and a biography. La muier silenciosa (The Silent Woman, 2005) was a finalist for the National Award for the Novel, given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Zgustova has translated more than fifty books of Russian and Czech fiction and poetry, including the works of Milan Kundera, Anna Akhmatova, and Vaclav Havel, into Spanish and Catalan. Norman Manea is a Romanian writer and the author of The Hooligan’s Return, as well as many other award-winning books. He is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College.
An aristocratic naif colludes with the Nazis, then stands up against the Gulag in this epic of riches to rags. Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print campaign

FICTION November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55861-841-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-842-8 NA

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Goya’s Glass Monika Zgustova FICTION 5½ x 8 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55861-797-1 USC

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The Feminist Press at CUNY A Taste of Molecules
In Search of the Secrets of Flavor

Diane Fresquez

Do men and women experience taste and smell differently? And what happens when you eat a meal completely in the dark? Diane Fresquez, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, spent a year on the trail of obsessive scientists and entrepreneurs who are trying to reveal the secrets of flavor. In this picaresque jaunt, Fresquez seeks out the people working to uncover the truths about taste, including a brewery owner who’s developed a bananaflavored beer meant to appeal to young women, and an entrepreneur who won’t rest until he develops the perfect mead, the ancient liquor considered the ancestor of all fermented drinks. We meet a young mother and a PhD student whose research shows that what a mother eats can influence the flavor of her breast milk, and a scientist in the Netherlands who does research on flavor and memory at an Orwellian university lab called The Restaurant of the Future. A Taste of Molecules will delight foodies and scientists alike. Recipes included! Diane Fresquez is a food and arts journalist based in Brussels, Belgium. She was for many years a special correspondent to the Wall Street Journal, contributing to and editing for the newspaper’s Weekend section in Europe.
A spirited food writer on the trail of obsessive scientists and entrepreneurs who want to titillate our taste buds.

SCIENCE / COOKING October A Paperback Original Women Writing Science 5½ x 8 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55861-839-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-840-4 NA

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Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY

Madame Curie Complex The Hidden History of Women in Science Julie Des Jardins SCIENCE Women Writing Science 5½ x 8 | 352 pp 14 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-55861-613-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-655-4 US

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The Feminist Press at CUNY Testo Junkie
Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

Beatriz Preciado
Translated by Bruce Benderson
What constitutes a “real” man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Beatriz Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of her own use of testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on her body as well as her imagination. Beatriz Preciado has become one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. She is currently a professor of political history of the body, gender theory, and history of performance at Université Paris VIII. She received her PhD in the theory of architecture at Princeton University, and a master of philosophy and contemporary theory of gender at the New School for Social Research in New York.
The most visionary book on gender and sexuality today.

SOCIAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 432 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-55861-837-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-838-1 NA

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Advance reader copies • National print campaign

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Tuscon, AZ • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • New Haven, CT • Princeton, NJ • New York, NY

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The Feminist Press at CUNY The Man Who Loved His Wife
Vera Caspary

With what Graham Greene once called her “devilish cunning,” Vera Caspary offers one of her most suspenseful thrillers in this tale of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate. When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife nineteen years his junior, he can’t imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder . . . Vera Caspary (1899–1987) is the author of many books, including Laura and Bedelia.
FICTION / MYSTERY March A Paperback Original Femmes Fatales 4½ x 7½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-55861-846-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-847-3 NA

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies National online campaign • Social media campaign

A jealous husband frames his wife for his own suicide so she’ll never love again.

Engage
WSQ Volume 41, Numbers 3–4

Edited by Cynthia Chris and David A. Gerstner
Engagement is entanglement—the drawing together of participants into a cooperating unit. So what does it mean to breach that participation? How do the dynamics of social and political engagements inform one another? How are our relationships to institutions and identities defined by the degree to which we engage? Cynthia Chris teaches media studies at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. David A. Gerstner teaches cinema studies at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE December Women’s Studies Quarterly 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-55861-843-5 USC

Author Hometowns: New York, NY

Engage upends your sense of belonging and reboots reality.

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Selected Backlist from The Feminist Press at CUNY

Savage Coast
Introduction by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
FICTION 5½ x 8 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-55861-820-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-821-3 W

Muriel Rukeyser

Kissing the Sword
Translated by Sara Khalili
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 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

A Prison Memoir Shahrnush Parsipur

The Riot Grrrl Collection
Edited with an introduction by Lisa Darms
Essay by Johanna Fateman

MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE 7½ x 10 | 320 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 978-1-55861-822-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-823-7 W

A Punk Prayer For Freedom Pussy Riot
POLITICAL SCIENCE / PERFORMING ARTS 4½ x 7½ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-55861-834-3 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-55861-833-6 W

Pussy Riot!

The Politics of Producing Pleasure Edited by Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young
PERFORMING ARTS / SOCIAL SCIENCE 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

I Still Believe Anita Hill
Edited by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg
SOCIAL SCIENCE 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

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Fence Books the meatgirl whatever
Kristin Hatch

Winner of the National Poetry Series. The poems in Kristin Hatch’s debut collection ooze with the viscus of shattered reality. Bodily, almost animalistic, they flirt with apocalypse, accumulate like diary entries from a madman’s kitchen where knife blades hover near the jugular. “This is a documentary,” writes K. Silem Mohammad, who selected this book for the National Poetry Series, “or these poems are promotional cartoon avatars, installations of a longer, live-action Emmy-winning series in which glee and melancholy, revulsion and beauty, lyric and satire, living flesh and chopped-up meat combine in sinister gurlesque fantasia.” A terrifying and necessary first book. From “annunciation”: bent, he talked me through all my tied, big like i was kansas or a diagram sketched with arrows pointing to my special parts with “trick” and “murder” spelled out in clean, legible type. his documentary voice uncled at my ankles. my legs folded back for him & he’d say my mouth was a hauntbag. he could take the willows from my lungs. i hated him but i begged for it in the underhang & the bad would bang into bird shapes & every time my ugly became less ugly, ours. for a while, the mirrors were too thick with it to see through. after he left, i picked at my at my toes & tried to get ancient. stungdumb, & gnarled against that autumn, i sat barefoot to imagine his arm hair—all of it shuttering like wheat in a stormfield—featherlight little marys—a legless army, aghast at god & beginning to show. Kristin Hatch has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, and Indiana Review. Her chapbook, through the hour glass, is forthcoming from CutBank and is about the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Poems of a distortional humanity. Poems with teeth, scraping furrows into the imagination, evoking the inferno of the ordinary.

POETRY November A Paperback Original National Poetry Series 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-72-8 USC

Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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Selected Backlist from Fence Books

Prageeta Sharma
POETRY 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-67-4 USC

Undergloom

Lauren Shufran
POETRY 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-68-1 USC

Inter Arma

In the Laurels, Caught
Lee Ann Brown
POETRY 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-64-3 USC

Book Beginning What and Ending Away
Foreword by Tom Orange
POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 6¾ x 9½ | 560 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-934200-60-5 USC

Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge
POETRY 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-61-2 USC

88 Sonnets

Mellow Actions
Brandon Downing
POETRY 6 x 8 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-934200-65-0 USC

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Feral House Black Metal
Evolution of the Cult

Dayal Patterson

Black Metal: Evolution of a Cult features over one hundred exclusive new and archival interviews with the genre’s most central figures. It is the most comprehensive guide yet to this fascinating and controversial form of extreme metal. It is encyclopaedic in length and breadth. From the early 1980s pioneers to its fiery rebirth in Scandinavia through to today’s increasingly diverse groups, this epic tome captures the movement’s development in unparalleled detail and images through such bands and personalities as Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Behemoth, Tormentor, Emperor, Darkthrone, Samael, Gorgoroth, and many dozens of others. Increasingly influential, black metal continues to grow and expand as a musical form as well as the subject of serious and satirical, animated, documentary, and narrative feature films. Publisher Feral House has already published the most famous and awardwinning book about this subculture, Lords of Chaos, soon to become a narrative feature film directed by Jonas Ackerlund, an ex-black metal musician who has directed feature films and award-wining videos for the likes of Madonna and Lady Gaga.
Here is the most comprehensive history yet of this fascinating offshoot of extreme heavy metal.

MUSIC November A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 600 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-936239-75-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-76-4 W

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• National print and online campaign • Outreach to heavy metal publications and radio outlets • Social media campaign

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Feral House Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia
Varg Vikernes
This book is from one the most controversial musicians of all time and the mastermind of the notorious black metal band Burzum. Convicted in 1994 of the murder of bandmate Euronymous, Varg Vikernes has since spent fifteen years in prison studying the traditions and beliefs of the ancient Scandinavians and their influence on modern Europeans. That research has culminated in a book in which the author challenges many widely held views of contemporary culture and its history. Known as a leading character from the best-selling Feral House book Lords of Chaos, and soon to be further recognized by a coming feature film of the same name, Vikernes’s passion and in-depth text provides an absorbing insight into the thoughts and beliefs of this most infamous of musicians. Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia will be of interest not only to black metal and Burzum fans, but also to those with an interest in Norse mythology or European history and contemporary social commentators.
The notorious Varg Vikernes explores pre-Christian Scandinavian folklore and how it intersects with his own black metal beliefs.
HISTORY / MUSIC December A Paperback Original 7¼ x 9½ | 107 pp Trade Paper US $13.00 | CAN $14.50 978-1-936239-79-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-80-1 USC

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• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Feral House Yé-Yé!
Girls of ’60s French Pop Music

Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe
Foreword by Lio
Yé-Yé is a delightful style of pop music featuring young female singers that influenced France and many other countries, as says Susan Sontag, with its particular “camp” style throughout the 1960s. Yé-Yé pop had secondary explosions in the 1970s and 1990s in Japan and Europe through the likes of Lio (who provides this book’s foreword), and in the United States through singers like April March, whose Yé-Yé number “Chick Habit” was heard in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof. Interest in Yé-Yé revived again recently during the fifth season of the megapopular television series Mad Men, when Don Draper’s young, sexy wife sang the Yé-Yé number “Zou Bisou Bisou,” originally made famous in the 1960s by blonde actress Gillian Hills. The most famous Yé-Yé practitioners include the glamorous Sylvie Vartan (married to rock star Johnny Hallyday), French lolita France Gall, beautiful actresses Brigitte Bardot and Chantal Goya, and the statuesque Françoise Hardy. This collection by French pop music expert Jean-Emmanuel Deluxe includes many interviews with the original singers and producers, visual excerpts of record covers, both 45s and LPs, and remarkable excerpts from a children’s fan diary of the period. Yé-Yé means “Yeah Yeah” and many music lovers are ready for an immersion in this beloved but little-known genre.

MUSIC / PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 400 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-936239-71-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-72-6 W

Yé-Yé means Yeah Yeah! and is best known as a style of ’60s pop music heard in France and Québec. Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Feral House Financial Vipers of Venice
Alchemical Money, Magical Physics, and Banking in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Joseph P. Farrell
In this sequel to Joseph P. Farrell’s Babylon’s Banksters, the banksters have moved from Mesopotamia via Rome to Venice. There, they have manipulated popes and bullion prices, clipped coins, sacked Constantinople, destroyed rival Florence, waged war, burned “heretics,” and suppressed hidden secrets threatening their financial supremacy . . . until Giordano Bruno and Christopher Columbus broke the banking cartel’s control of information and bullion. We might wonder—with some justification—how an excursion into such magical mediaeval matters could possibly shed light on the contemporary debate on finance, commerce, credit, and debt taking place around the world. As will be seen in these pages, the modern global economy, with its bonds, annuities, bills of exchange, alchemical paper “fiat money,” bullion, wage-slavery, national debts, private central banking, stock brokerages, and commodities exchanges, in a sense began in the Middle Ages, for all these institutions began for quite perceptible and specific reasons during that time. The centerpiece in this debate is of course money: what, and who, does it really represent? And how did it manage to begin as a purely metaphysical phenomenon, with deep ties to a cosmological and indeed topological and alchemical metaphor of the physical medium, thence to transmute itself into the conception that money is bullion, and thence once again to transmute itself back into a purely metaphysical construct of credit and debt denominated on tokens of paper?

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 269 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-936239-73-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-74-0 W

The much-anticipated sequel to Joseph P. Farrell’s Babylon’s Banksters. The banksters have moved from Mesopotamia to Venice . . .

Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Spearfish, SD

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Babylon’s Banksters The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion Joseph P. Farrell BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 6 x 9 | 340 pp 14 B&W illustrations and photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $20.95 978-1-932595-79-6 USC

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Feral House Larceny Games
Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI

Brian Tuohy

The NFL is a $10 billion-a-year business with prominent government and corporate ties—CBS, NBC/GE, Disney/ESPN, and FOX, to name a few. As the late broadcaster Howard Cosell wrote in 1985, “The NFL, you see, monitors and collects just about everything that is written about it in newspapers and magazines and said about it on radio and television. . . . Like the CIA and the FBI, the NFL has its own enemies list—and I got the distinct impression that I was at the top of it.” Although sports gambling is seen as a victimless crime, 99 percent of all sports gambling in the United States is done illegally, its untold billions of dollars directly handed by the mob. It is their top money maker, followed closely by loan sharking activities that often accompany gamblers who cannot pay their bookies in time. When games are fixed today, the money wagered on rigged contests is trafficked through these mob-backed bookmakers. Much of the information in this book is taken directly from FBI case files obtained through multiple Freedom of Information Act requests. The FBI held over four hundred files directly related to sports bribery, which is the legal term for game fixing and/or point shaving. These covered everything from horse racing to boxing to college athletic events to the NFL, NBA, and MLB (with a notable exception of the NHL). The files are quoted directly. This is Brian Tuohy’s second book on illegal game fixing.

SPORTS & RECREATION / GAMES September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 360 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-936239-77-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-78-8 W

With FBI files as evidence, Larceny Games unveils the names of players, coaches, owners, and referees who fixed games.

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• National radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Green Bay, WI

The Fix Is In The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR Brian Tuohy SPORTS & RECREATION 5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 12 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $19.95 978-1-932595-81-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-932595-84-0 W

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Selected Backlist from Feral House

Sex, Lies and The Dirty
Nik Richie
HUMOR 6 x 9 | 292 pp 8-page color section Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936239-59-7 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-66-5 W

Undercover Inside the Mexican Drug War by the Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco Blog del Narco
SOCIAL SCIENCE / TRUE CRIME 8¼ x 10⅛ | 398 pp 150 color photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-936239-57-3 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-936239-62-7 W

Dying for the Truth

Death in Mexican Popular Culture Harvey Bennett Stafford
SOCIAL SCIENCE 10 x 8 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-0-922915-59-0 USC

Muerte!

The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition Revised Edition Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind
MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 405 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $23.00 978-0-922915-94-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-932595-52-9 USC

Lords of Chaos

The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore Albert Mudrian
MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 978-1-932595-04-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-932595-53-6 W

Choosing Death

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Frame Publishers Frame: The Great Indoors
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 Frame

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

The Great Indoors: Issue 94 Edited by Robert Thiemann and Femke de Wild DESIGN | November | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-07-8 USC The Great Indoors: Issue 95 Edited by Robert Thiemann and Femke de Wild DESIGN | January | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-08-5 USC The Great Indoors: Issue 96 Edited by Robert Thiemann and Femke de Wild DESIGN | March | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-09-2 USC

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Frame Publishers Mark: Another Architecture
Mark: Another Architecture is a bi-monthly international trade journal featuring exceptional architecture projects. Launched eight 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 Mark

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 • Social media campaign • 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

Another Architecture: Issue 45 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | October | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-90-77174-93-7 USC Another Architecture: Issue 46 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | December | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-04-7 USC Another Architecture: Issue 47 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | February | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-05-4 USC Another Architecture: Issue 48 Edited by Arthur Wortmann and David Keuning ARCHITECTURE | March | A Paperback Original | 9 x 11¾ | 240 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-06-1 USC

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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: Open Files • Informs readers of running and upcoming exhibitions all over the world that are definitely worth checking out. Showcase • Puts artists in the spotlight through interviews and many visuals of their work. Research • Shines a light on forecasts, movements, and styles. Encounters • Includes chats in ateliers, garages, and back gardens. Process • Looks very closely into the working process of one artist. Cities • Highlights creative cities around the globe, sharing images, characters, and special stories.
UPCOMING ISSUES Elephant www.frameweb.com [email protected]

Marketing Plans
15,000-copy print run • Advertising in Mark magazine and Frame magazine • Social media campaign • 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

The Arts & Visual Culture Magazine: Issue 16 Written and edited by Marc Valli ART | December | A Paperback Original | 8⅝ x 11 | 208 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.99 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-11-5 USC The Arts & Visual Culture Magazine: Issue 17 Written and edited by Marc Valli ART | March | A Paperback Original | 8⅝ x 11 | 208 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.99 | CAN $21.99 | 978-94-91727-12-2 USC

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Frame Publishers Keisuke Fujiwara
Interior Elements for Space and Product Design

Keisuke Fujiwara

DESIGN October 9 x 11¾ | 256 pp Color photographs and illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $59.00 | CAN $64.99 978-94-91727-02-3 USC*

Keisuke Fujiwara—Interior Elements for Space and Product Design is a book showcasing the projects of Japanese interior designer Keisuke Fujiwara that gives readers insight into his idea and design processes. This is the first portfolio book of the designer and covers fifteen years of creativity. International and local projects of this Japanese design firm cross over between “space design”—retail interiors, offices, and exhibitions—and “product design,” including homeware, lighting, and a number of chair design collections. The title focuses on ninety projects and gives an in-depth look at the design processes and material experiments. His famous Spool Chair and other furniture collections are highlighted, as are a series of retail store designs for Pleats Please Issey Miyake. The fashion designer Miyake also contributes a commentary on the work of Keisuke Fujiwara, as do other professionals, including interior designers Ron Arad and Shigeru Uchida, journalist Noriko Kawakami, and graphic designer Taku Sato. This book offers an exclusive peek into the working life of a worldrenowned design firm. By explaining the design processes for creating both interior architecture and beautiful objects, it is valuable for anyone in the design industry, from interior designer to manufacturer and from architect to product designer, as well as for students, agencies, and professionals in the design sector.
A book showcasing the projects of Japanese interior designer Keisuke Fujiwara, with insight into his ideas and design processes.

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers Masterclass: Graphic 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: Graphic Design provides an in-depth overview of thirty leading design schools from all over the world that offer a master’s degree in graphic 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 thirty of the world’s leading schools that offer a master’s degree in graphic design.

DESIGN November Masterclass 6¼ x 8¾ | 328 pp 650 color and B&W photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-94-91727-01-6 USC*

Marketing Plans Also Available
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • International campaign launched at schools and universities • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

Masterclass: Product Design Guide to the World’s Leading Graduate Schools Sarah de Boer-Schultz, Carmel McNamara, and Marlous van Rossum-Willems DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE Masterclass 6¾ x 9 | 328 pp 900 color photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-71-5 USC

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Frame Publishers Masterclass: Architecture
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: Architecture provides an in-depth overview of thirty leading design schools from all over the world that offer a master’s degree in architecture. 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 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.

ARCHITECTURE November Masterclass 6¼ x 8¾ | 328 pp 650 color and B&W photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-98-2 USC*

A practical student guide to thirty of the world’s leading schools that offer a master’s degree in architecture.

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • International campaign launched at schools and universities • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Masterclass: Product Design Guide to the World’s Leading Graduate Schools Sarah de Boer-Schultz, Carmel McNamara, and Marlous van Rossum-Willems DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE Masterclass 6¾ x 9 | 328 pp 900 color photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-71-5 USC

Frame Publishers Masterclass: Fashion Design
Guide to the World’s Leading 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: Fashion Design provides an in-depth overview of thirty leading design schools from all over the world that offer a master’s degree in fashion 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 thirty of the world’s leading schools that offer a master’s degree in fashion design.

DESIGN November Masterclass 6¼ x 8¾ | 328 pp 900 color photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-99-9 USC*

Marketing Plans Also Available
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • International campaign launched at schools and universities • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

Masterclass: Product Design Guide to the World’s Leading Graduate Schools Sarah de Boer-Schultz, Carmel McNamara, and Marlous van Rossum-Willems DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE Masterclass 6¾ x 9 | 328 pp 900 color photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-90-77174-71-5 USC

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Frame Publishers Social Design
Good Designs for People, Planet, and Profit

Anne van der Zwaag

DESIGN December 7⅞ x 10¼ | 240 pp 200 color photographs, 50 color illustrations, 20 B&W illustrations Paper over Board US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-94-91727-03-0 USC*

Social design spans all areas of design that support a sustainable lifestyle and propose alternatives to the current social and economic systems: projects that are good for people, planet, and profit. In the last five years, the concept has become a focus of designers and corporate businesses worldwide. In the first chapter, this book explains in detail what social design is and how to create projects according to its standards and principles. The content of the second chapter is categorized according to five themes—the most important areas that social design currently relates to: Water, Food, Well-being, Waste, and Energy. Combining theory with practice, designs that have been successfully completed are shown here to set an example. They vary from architecture, interior design, and product design to fashion, art, graphic design, and photography. Interviews with social designers and background articles with other experts shed more light on these areas and the importance of social design. The third and last chapter provides many resources for further exploration of the subject. Given that there is very little published material about social design from a holistic and interdisciplinary angle, this book operates not only as a richly illustrated reference but also as catalyst for a design flow and mentality with great potential and far-reaching impact.
An accessible explanation of the rapidly emerging discipline of “social design” with examples from various creative disciplines and theoretical expert articles.

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • International campaign launched at schools and universities • Promoted at symposium for the launch of this book at the Dutch Design Week • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers Fetishism in Fashion
Lidewij Edelkoort

Internationally renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort delves into the fetishistic world of contemporary fashion to reveal a daring and instinctive future for style and culture. As Edelkoort explains, the book explores various themes, from “our fundamental need to cover ourselves to the eccentric extremes to which our desires can take us on the quest for beauty.” Fetishism in Fashion investigates topics including the evolution of taste from birth to adulthood, the elevation of shoes through ever-higher heels, the psychology of branding, the effects of infantilism, the power of the color black, the fetishizing of objects, and the interaction of architecture, fashion, and the body. The avant garde art performances of Leigh Bowery are highlighted in honor of his continually growing influence on contemporary culture. Talent will be sourced from around the globe, focusing on innovative and original content that illustrates a dramatic shift in aesthetics. Bolder, crazier, and more outlandish styles are on the fashion horizon, making this book a key reference in a new era of experimentation and intense creativity. With visually rich photography and essays by established authors discussing art, clothing, design, textiles, food, and beauty, this in-depth publication will unveil the intimate ties that bind us.
Internationally renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort delves into the fetishistic world of fashion to reveal our bold and instinctive future.

DESIGN September 9 x 11 | 208 pp Color photographs throughout Paper over Board US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-94-91727-13-9 USC*

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • Promotion at the Fashion Biennale Arnhem for which the book will be the official catalogue • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

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Frame Publishers My Secret Garden & Rock Strangers
Arne Quinze and Saskia de Coster

ART Available Now 7½ x 9⅝ | 576 pp 350 color photographs Boxed Set US $59.00 | CAN $64.99 978-90-77174-84-5 USC*

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam proudly hosted Arne Quinze’s first exhibition in the Netherlands: My Secret Garden. His first large-scale indoor project consisted of a wooden labyrinth that pushed the visitors towards participation, stimulating them to reflect on their inner selves. Light and music intensified the experience. The electronic music duo Vive la Fête produced specific tones and soundscapes for the exhibition. Simultaneously, in the Belgian coastal town Ostend, his permanent installation Rock Strangers was put into place. A sentiment of estrangement is generated by the monumental sculptures, due to their size and electric orange color, while they also evoke curiosity and astonishment. This installation intends to stimulate openness and bring different views and groups in society to the forefront. Quinze invited author Saskia de Coster for a unique project. In an encounter between two artists, de Coster immersed herself in Quinze’s work. She created a totally new work of fiction—which is included in the books—as well as a documentary for each project. The aim was multidirectional: not only to use Quinze’s work as a door to cover new artistic territories, but also to let the new words and images influence and bring to life the spatial installations. The documentaries, which are also included in the boxed book set, include various in-depth interviews and fascinating images of the making of these bold endeavors. The viewer gets a front-row look at the working process of both artists and will gain an intense experience of the works of art themselves.

Marketing Plans
• Advertising in Mark magazine, Frame magazine, and Elephant magazine • Social media campaign • National print and online campaign • Digital newsletter announcing the book sent to 60,000 subscribers • Presentation at many international design trade fairs • Promotion by Arne Quinze at exhibitions and lectures • Promotion through: www.frameweb.com

An insight in the creation of Arne Quinze’s installations, packed in two books and two DVDs.

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Fulcrum Publishing Wild Ocean
Sharks, Whales, Rays, and Other Endangered Sea Creatures

Edited by Matt Dembicki

The world’s oceans represent the last wild frontier on Earth. While our understanding of life in the ocean is relatively basic, our actions are putting hundreds of species in danger. In this graphic anthology, Matt Dembicki, editor and artist of the award-winning Trickster and District Comics, explores the adventures of twelve iconic endangered sea animals: hawksbill turtle, bluefin tuna, hammerhead shark, giant clam, manatee, blue whale, coral, albatross, whale shark, monk seal, manta ray, and seahorse. Produced in cooperation with the nonprofit PangeaSeed, these gripping stories instill a passion to conserve our magnificent sea creatures. PangeaSeed’s mission is to contribute to the protection of sharks and the preservation of our oceans by taking responsible action, increasing public awareness, and providing education that encourages environmental activism and sustainable consumption choices. Matt Dembicki is a member of the DC Conspiracy, a comics creators collective in the nation’s capital. He previously edited and contributed to the Eisner-nominated and Aesop Prize–winning Trickster and District Comics.
The first graphic anthology about endangered sea creatures.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / NATURE March A Paperback Original 8 x 8 | 156 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-938486-38-8 US Ages 8 and up

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • • • 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 Public radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign National tour ALA author signing Promotion through: http://matt-dembicki.blogspot.com Author Hometown: Fairfax, VA

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District Comics An Unconventional History of Washington, DC Edited by Matt Dembicki COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / JUVENILE FICTION 8 x 8 | 256 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 978-1-55591-751-7 US Ages 10 and up

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Fulcrum Publishing The Dogs and I
True Tails from the Mississippi

Kenny Salwey

Join Kenny and the dogs who have been his companions over the past fifty years. In this collection of stories, readers will delight in dog days on the farm herding cows and along the Mississippi trapping and fishing. Rover the mutt, Pepper the rat terrier, and many more will guide you through these humorous, warm, and adventure-filled stories that are a must for dog and outdoor lovers everywhere. Folks like to say they train their dogs. As far as I’m concerned, my dog trains me about as much as I train him. I just can’t help it; that’s the way it always seems to go. So, my friend, over the course of my life, I have had many animal friends, both wild and domestic. However, none can compare in terms of companionship, lovingness, faithfulness, and, yes indeed, friendship to that of the noble dog. 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.
Renowned storyteller Kenny Salwey shares stories of the dogs in his life.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PETS October A Paperback Original 5 x 6½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 978-1-938486-36-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-938486-44-9 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • Public radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Midwest regional tour Author Hometown: Alma, WI

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Tales of a River Rat Adventures Along the Wild Mississippi First Trade Paper Edition Kenny Salwey BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / NATURE 5 x 8 | 256 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55591-763-0 US 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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-753-1 US

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Fulcrum Publishing The Last Wilderness
Life at Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge

Michael McBride

The Last Wilderness describes Michael and Diane McBride’s remarkable journey as they left Homer, Alaska and went across the bay to an abandoned spit of land. The couple wanted to live off the land and raise a family. After fifteen years of dedication and struggle, they built the environmentally conscious Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge. Their story conveys the beauty, joy, and dangers of Alaska and the people they came to know. Beautifully written with humorous stories of people and events, this is a book everyone who likes adventure and eco-travel must read. When I first saw [Kachemak Bay], I fell hopelessly in love. . . . Standing on the bluff overlooking the bay, I pointed to the prettiest place I could see across the miles of blue-green water and thought to myself, “I’m going to spend the rest of my life right down there.” For almost fifty years Michael McBride has lived at his award-winning Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge. The lodge has won more awards, and has been the focus of more magazine, newspaper, and film attention, than any other in Alaska largely because of its environmental activism. The New York Times named the lodge one of the “1,000 Places to See Before You Die,” and the Travel Channel dedicated an entire episode to it. McBride is a member of the Explorers Club and a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He has extensive experience as a wilderness guide, bush pilot, licensed Coast Guard captain, marine biologist, conservationist, and voice for nature.
The story of a family who moved to Alaska to live off the land and build a life for themselves.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / NATURE September 6 x 9 | 256 pp B&W photographs and maps Trade Cloth US $27.95 978-1-938486-37-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-938486-40-1 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • Alaskan regional TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www. alaskawildernesslodge.com Author Hometown: Homer, AK

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Fulcrum Publishing Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method
More Than 100 Hands-On Science Experiments for Children Second Edition

Sally Kneidel, PhD

From monarch butterflies to earthworms, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method, Second Edition shows teachers and parents how to use bugs and other creatures to inspire in kids a passionate enthusiasm for living things and a love of studentled scientific inquiry. In an era of video games and over-structured afternoons, this book will re-ignite children’s ardor for the outdoors. The new edition includes four new insect species along with an increased emphasis on conservation and preserving natural habitats. Most butterflies are charismatic, but choosing which ones to include in this 2nd edition was easy. I chose Eastern black swallowtails because they’re dramatically big, common, easy to attract, [and] easy to raise. I don’t personally know of another butterfly that’s so convenient to study, as well as beautiful. They lay their eggs in our garden every year, whether we want them to or not!
EDUCATION / NATURE December 8½ x 11 | 240 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-938486-32-6 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-55591-118-8

Sally Kneidel, PhD, grew up next to a small creek and experienced crawling creatures at an early age. Her interest led her to ultimately pursue a PhD in biology from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Kneidel has now taught for more than fifteen years, including college biology courses and writing classes. She writes on a variety of science topics ranging from health to wildlife conservation, has published numerous other books, and has won several awards for writing, blogging, and photography. The first edition of this book, and the sequel to it, were both named in Science Books and Films’ “Best Books for Children” list.
The updated version of the popular guide to insects and the scientific method.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Outreach to teachers and schools • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Charlotte, NC

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Fulcrum Publishing Living with Loss
One Day at a Time

Rachel Blythe Kodanaz

“I am so glad that Rachel wrote this book so she can continue to help more people live with loss. She has a special gift for imparting small and manageable ideas that can profoundly impact someone grieving. Loss is never easy, but Rachel’s words and wisdom can help make the journey a bit more bearable and perhaps even more meaningful.”—Sharon Liese, from the foreword Living with Loss offers daily encouragement to individuals and families who have recently lost a loved one. The short entries are easy to read and give realistic, practical advice to guide readers through the day. By providing tools and suggestions that offer hope, optimism, introspection, and self-discovery, this book enables readers to embrace the happy days of life with their loved one. As a motivational speaker, author, grief consultant, and facilitator, Rachel Blythe Kodanaz provides encouragement to those who are suffering a loss. She speaks nationally to various groups and actively supports national grief and loss programs. Rachel is a columnist for Living with Loss magazine and has appeared on Good Morning America.
Living with Loss is a book of hope for anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one.

SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY September A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 392 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-938486-31-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-938486-42-5 US

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Outreach to hospitals and grief counseling centers • Promotion through: http://rachelkodanaz.com Author Hometown: Denver, CO

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Fulcrum Publishing Stillbirth, Yet Still Born
Grieving and Honoring Your Precious Baby

Deborah L. Davis, PhD
When your baby dies before birth, you experience an extraordinary grief. You never get to hear your baby’s voice nor see life in your baby’s eyes. Still, your baby lived. Your baby came into this world. Your baby’s existence is important and real. This small book offers tailored information and support for parents experiencing the early hours, days, and weeks that follow the death and birth of their beloved baby. Stillbirth is always a devastating shock, a heartbreaking collision of birth and death that leaves parents helpless. In this accessible book, you will find comfort and ideas for affirming and honoring your precious baby’s life. Deborah L. Davis, PhD, is a developmental psychologist who writes books that support parents through perinatal crisis, including the death of a baby (Empty Cradle, Broken Heart; Stillbirth Yet Still Born), premature birth (Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child), parenting in the NICU (Intensive Parenting), making decisions about end-of-life care (Loving and Letting Go and When Courage Lies in Letting Go), and perinatal hospice (A Gift of Time). Over the past twenty years, parents have found comfort, hope, and healing in her books. Davis has also written professional articles, position statements, and book chapters on medical ethics, perinatal bereavement care, and NICU parenting, and she advocates for training and supporting the health care practitioners who work with these families. She is forever inspired by the resilience parents demonstrate and the transformation that takes place after surviving trauma. She also writes a blog for Psychology Today online.

SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY January A Paperback Original 5 x 6½ | 76 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 978-1-938486-33-3 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-938486-43-2 US

Advice and comfort for surviving the death of your stillborn baby. Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Outreach to parenting magazines, hospitals, and doctors Author Hometown: Denver, CO

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Intensive Parenting Surviving the Emotional Journey through the NICU Deborah L. Davis, PhD, and Mara Tesler Stein, PsyD FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / HEALTH & FITNESS 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-744-9 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55591-768-5 W Empty Cradle, Broken Heart Surviving the Death of Your Baby Revised Edition Deborah L. Davis, PhD SELF-HELP 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-1-55591-302-1 US

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Gallic Books
London, England

Gallic Books is home to the best of French writing in English. Founded by Jane Aitken, working with fellow Francophile and ex-Random House colleague Pilar Webb, we launched our first titles in 2007. In the six years since, English-speaking readers have become far more interested in foreignlanguage authors, and Gallic has been at the heart of the publishing trend fulfilling that demand for books in translation. Gallic titles are wonderfully French and, even more importantly, good reads with universal appeal. And we have some brilliant books coming up next year. Highlights include the award-winning and Waterstone’s Book Club choice The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain, which, set in the 1980s, is the story of the mysterious power residing in a hat owned by François Mitterrand; in The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé, business is brisk at the futuristic store, until happiness threatens to ruin everything . . . We are also launching two historical crime series: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations by JeanFrançois Parot, set in eighteenth-century Paris, and The Napoleonic Murders from Armand Cabasson. Our contemporary noir title The Panda Theory is from critically acclaimed Pascal Garnier. And we are very pleased to be bringing to the United States Clisson and Eugénie, the love story from the pen of the great Napoleon Bonaparte. In September 2011 we opened a bookshop, Belgravia Books, specializing in books in translation and from independent publishers. Find out more at www.belgraviabooks.com.

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Gallic Books The President’s Hat
Antoine Laurain
Translated by Gallic Books

“As entertaining as it is original, this is a story to enjoy like a chocolate with a surprise centre.”—Marie France “An enjoyable trip into the heart of the 1980s.”—Le Figaro “Impossible to resist”—L’Express This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years. Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him. After the presidential party has gone, Daniel discovers that Mitterrand’s black felt hat has been left behind. After a few moments’ soul-searching, Daniel decides to keep the hat as a souvenir of an extraordinary evening. It’s a perfect fit, and as he leaves the restaurant Daniel begins to feel somehow . . . different. Has Daniel unwittingly discovered the secret of supreme power? For two years the iconic item of headgear plays with the lives of the men and women who wear it, bringing them success that had previously eluded them. Antoine Laurain’s brilliantly orchestrated tour captures entertaining portraits of a rich gallery of characters. Shot through with a delicious, wicked sense of humor, The President’s Hat is a vivid re-creation of the everyday life of an era. Antoine Laurain was born in Paris. He is a writer, collector, and director of several short films.
Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign Online giveaways and competitions Promotion through: www.gallicbooks.com

FICTION September A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908313-47-8 USC

Like Cinderella’s glass slipper or Aladdin’s lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers’ dreams come true.

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Gallic Books Monsieur Le Commandant
Romain Slocombe
Translated by Jesse Browner

“Probably one of the most significant novels of this year.”—L’Express “As soon as you open Monsieur Le Commandant you will not be able to put it down, such is Slocombe’s affinity for his subject matter. . . . His virtuosity and manner of storytelling reveal true talent. . . . Go out and buy a copy of Monsieur Le Commandant as soon as you can. Read it; you’ll be glad you did.”—Le Point “The novel is, in a unique way, a powerful piece of Resistance literature.” —La Vie French Academician and Nazi sympathizer Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has made a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own. The letter is intended to explain his actions. It is a dramatic, sometimes harrowing story that begins in the years leading up to the war, when following the accidental drowning of his daughter, Husson’s previously gilded life begins to unravel. And through Husson’s confession, Romain Slocombe gives the reader a startling picture of a man’s journey: from pillar of the French Establishment and World War One hero to outspoken supporter of Nazi ideology and the Vichy government. Romain Slocombe is a writer, director, translator, illustrator, cartoonist, and photographer. He was born in Paris in 1953.
French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in 1942, with shocking consequences.

FICTION March A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908313-50-8 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • • • • National print and online campaign Social media campaign Online giveaways and competitions Promotion through: www.gallicbooks.com

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Gallic Books The Châtelet Apprentice
Jean-François Parot
Translated by Michael Glencross
France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV at Versailles lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality . . . A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains suddenly come to light, he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. Le Floch will need all his skill, courage, and integrity to unravel a mystery that threatens to implicate the king and Madame de Pompadour. Jean-François Parot is a diplomat and historian.
FICTION / MYSTERY October A Paperback Original The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 5 x 7 | 403 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-906040-06-2 USC

The first in a series of ten historical crime novels set in pre-revolutionary Paris featuring policeman Nicolas Le Floch.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to mystery and historical publications and websites Promotion through: www.gallicbooks.com

The Officer’s Prey
Armand Cabasson
Translated by Michael Glencross
June 1812. Napoleon Bonaparte begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armée is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied in battle. When a Polish woman is brutally stabbed, Captain Quentin Margont of the eighty-fourth regiment is put in charge of an investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with the fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces an impossible task and the greatest challenge of his military career.
FICTION / MYSTERY November A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 426 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-906040-82-6 USC

Armand Cabasson is an author and psychiatrist who lives in the north of France.

June 1812—a serial killer is on the loose in the ranks of Napoleon Bonaparte’s army as he begins his invasion.

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Gallic Books Clisson and Eugénie
Napoleon Bonaparte
Translated by Peter Hicks
In Napoleon Bonaparte’s novella, triumphant soldier Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries Eugénie, and they live the simple life until Clisson is called back into battle. The tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie reveals that Napoleon was also an accomplished writer of fiction, and offers a fascinating insight into how he viewed love, women, and military life. Aged twenty-six, having already known success as a soldier, Napoleon was at a low ebb both professionally and personally when he began Clisson and Eugénie, and there are parallels between his life and their story.
FICTION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 7¾ | 86 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-906040-27-7 USC

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A romantic novella from the pen of the great Napoleon Bonaparte.

Freedom Fries and Café Crème
Jocelyne Rapinac

Lucas sits in a Boston coffee shop, longing for a proper cup of French café . . . Juliette returns to Burgundy and the love she turned her back on . . . In Manhattan, live-in chef Armand is content with his life. And yet . . . This delicious story collection brings together a cast of characters from both sides of the Atlantic who all share a genuine delight in good food. Each story captures a moment when love is found, lost, or rejected. There is a story for each month of the year, accompanied by easy-to-follow recipes. Jocelyne Rapinac is a modern languages teacher.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES February A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-908313-00-3 USC

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Transatlantic tales of food and love . . . with recipes.

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Gallic Books The Suicide Shop
Jean Teulé
Translated by Sue Dyson
With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. Business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family, the shop offers a variety of ways to end it all, with something to fit every budget. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they’ve never encountered before: a love of life.
FICTION September A Paperback Original 5 x 7 | 169 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-906040-09-3 USC

Jean Teulé lives in the Marais with his companion, the French film actress Miou-Miou.

Has your life been a failure? Let’s make your death a success.

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The Panda Theory
Pascal Garnier
Translated by Gallic Books
Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he’s here. Yet his small acts of kindness, and exceptional cooking, quickly earn him acceptance from the locals. His new friends grow fond of Gabriel, who seems as reserved and benign as the toy panda he wins at the funfair. But unlike Gabriel, the fluffy toy is not haunted by his past . . . Pascal Garnier is a leading figure in contemporary French literature, in the tradition of Georges Simenon. He lived in the Ardèche. Pascal Garnier died in March 2010.

FICTION March A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-906040-42-0 USC

Marketing Plans Highly original French noir in the tradition of Georges Simenon.
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Gentle Path Press Always Turned On
Facing Sex Addiction in the Digital Age

Robert Weiss, MSW, and Jennifer P. Schneider, MD, PhD
Technology has significantly changed our world. Sexual imagery and encounters can now be accessed anywhere, anytime, using portable electronic devices. Users can generate a stream of graphic pornography, a wide variety of virtual sexual activities, and casual, anonymous, or paid-for sexual encounters with a click or a tap. Simply put, we have greater access to highly stimulating sexual content, and potential sexual partners, with much less built-in accountability. Porn addicts are especially vulnerable to the lure of digital technology and the seemingly endless array of stimulation it provides. Research suggests that cyber-porn addicts spend at least eleven or twelve hours per week online viewing porn. Today, all forms of sex addiction are technology driven—from porn websites to webcams to casual sex hook-up apps found on smartphones. Sex addicts organize their lives around the pursuit of sexual activity with self or others, spending inordinate amounts of time viewing and masturbating to porn or planning, pursuing, and engaging in sex acts. At the same time, they neglect important relationships, work, and personal responsibilities. Overwhelming feelings of guilt, shame, and remorse invade when the acting out ends. While it’s complicated, recovery is possible. Always Turned On shows readers how to turn those temptations off while providing practical long-term solutions for recovery. Robert Weiss, MSW, is a therapist, international speaker, and regular blogger on Psych Central and the Huffington Post. Jennifer P. Schneider, MD, PhD, is a therapist, international speaker, and the author of nine books.

SELF-HELP December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9850633-6-8 USC

Turn off temptations that encourage sex addiction.

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Cruise Control Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men Second Edition Robert Weiss, MSW Foreword by Patrick Carnes, PhD SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9850633-0-6 USC Closer Together, Further Apart The Effect of Technology and the Internet on Sex, Intimacy and Relationships Robert Weiss, MSW, and Jennifer P. Schneider, MD, PhD SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 250 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9850633-3-7 USC

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Selected Backlist from Gentle Path Press

Breaking Free of Addictive Relationships Third Edition Kelly McDaniel
SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9832713-9-0 USC

Ready to Heal

Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts Stefanie Carnes, PhD, and Mari A. Lee, LMFT, with Anthony D. Rodriguez, LCSW
SELF-HELP / PSYCHOLOGY 8½ x 11 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-0-9832713-3-8 USC

Facing Heartbreak

Facing the Shadow
Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery Second Edition Patrick Carnes, PhD

PSYCHOLOGY / SELF-HELP 8 x 10 | 325 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $35.95 978-0-9826505-2-3 USC

How to End Negative Self-Talk and Take Your Life to a New Level Thomas Gagliano with Abraham J. Twerski, MD
PSYCHOLOGY / SELF-HELP 6 x 9 | 290 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9826505-7-8 USC

The Problem Was Me

A Wife’s Story of Recovering from Her Husband’s Sex Addiction Maurita Corcoran
SELF-HELP 6 x 9 | 280 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $20.50 978-0-9826505-8-5 USC

A House Interrupted

Mending a Shattered Heart
A Guide for Partners of Sex Addicts Second Edition Edited by Stefanie Carnes, PhD
SELF-HELP 6 x 9 | 220 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-0-9826505-9-2 USC

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GILES
London, England

D Giles Limited is a specialist visual publisher based in central London. The company supplies integrated book publishing and electronic/digital publishing products and services to leading international museums and galleries. Publishing under the imprint of GILES, the company focuses on co-publishing for museums, galleries, and a range of specialist institutions, including major research libraries. The core list comprises exhibition catalogs, permanent collection titles, souvenir and visitor guides with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art, fine and decorative art, architecture, photography, and history. GILES provides specialist editorial, translation, design, color origination, and pre-press services; printing and press management; and international sales, marketing, and distribution. The company is actively engaged in developing both web-based and portable electronic/digital content, coming out of its print book materials. These include web sites for the Library of Congress and a new app for Detroit Institute of Arts. Throughout, the emphasis is on the quality, design, and accessibility of the finished product.

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GILES The Armory Show at 100
Modernism and Revolution

Marilyn Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt
The 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (or Armory Show) marked a turning point in the history of American art and culture. Organized by a small group of American artists and presented in the huge space of the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, this ambitious exhibition of 1,400 works was the moment when the American public was introduced to European avant-garde art. This outstanding interdisciplinary volume re-examines the exhibition and its historical and cultural context. It includes over thirty essays by eminent scholars across diverse fields to evoke the wider social, political, and economic climate during the 1913 show.
ART October 10 x 12 | 512 pp 160 color illustrations, 160 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $79.95 | CAN $87.99 978-1-907804-04-5 USC

A groundbreaking re-examination of the seminal 1913 New York art show.

Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice and the Art of the Impossible
Jade Dellinger
This is a fascinating exploration of the incredible body of artwork produced at Graphicstudio, a print atelier based at the University of South Florida. Since its foundation in 1968, the studio has developed an international reputation, and this volume features over ninety modern artworks by thirty-four Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Keith Edmier, Alex Katz, Guillermo Kuitca, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Janaina Tschäpe, and Theo Wujcik. It features interviews with current and past Graphicstudio directors as well as artists, including former Graphicstudio master printer Theo Wujcik.

ART January 9½ x 11 | 160 pp Trade Cloth US $44.95 | CAN $49.50 978-1-907804-35-9 USC

Features over ninety modern artworks by thirty-four Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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GILES George Catlin’s American Buffalo
Adam Duncan Harris

Presenting forty major oil paintings by George Catlin from the mid–late 1830s, this volume re-examines the legacy of this complex artist. Many of Catlin’s paintings were produced following his 1832 expedition down the Missouri River, past the prairie lands of Oklahoma, where he witnessed the landscape blackened by millions of bison. On one level Catlin’s paintings offer an insight into nineteenth-century American ideas about the land and animals of the continent. But he was also the first to champion the notion of a national park to protect the buffalo and Native American people that he portrayed so vividly in his paintings.
ART September 10 x 11 | 136 pp 59 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 978-1-907804-32-8 USC

Author Hometown: Jackson, WY

Re-examines George Catlin’s art and his vision of a “nation’s park” to protect the buffalo and native American people.

Soulful Creatures
Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt

Edward Bleiberg, Yekaterina Barbash, and Lisa Bruno
A fascinating mix of archaeology, history, and medical imaging shedding new light on ancient Egyptian animal mummies, this fully illustrated volume explores the important role granted to animals in Egyptian life—they were seen as equals to humans within creation, endowed with souls. By providing vital background information, backed up with scientific examination of the techniques of mummification, this new book is the first proper, accessible survey of this fascinating side of ancient Egyptian life. It is full of amazing images of mummies, sculptures, and small decorative objects.
HISTORY November 8½ x 11 | 152 pp 125 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-907804-27-4 USC

A fascinating mix of archaeology, history, and medical imaging shedding new light on ancient Egyptian animal mummies.

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GILES Beauty’s Legacy
Gilded Age Portraits in America

Barbara Dayer Gallati
Named after a series of charity shows held by the New York social elite during the 1890s, Beauty’s Legacy examines the remarkable resurgence of portraiture in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. It features over fifty paintings, including works by John Singer Sargent, William Bouguereau, and James Montgomery Flagg, and twenty-five miniature portraits of reigning social celebrities from Peter Marié’s famous collection Gallery of Beauty. A chapter by leading fashion historian Valerie Steele reveals how important beauty and fashion were in Gilded Age America, and how artists helped sitters achieve what nature had not always provided.
ART November 9 x 11 | 184 pp 89 color illustrations, B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 978-1-907804-18-2 USC

Features sixty remarkable portraits of reigning social celebrities painted during the resurgence of portraiture during America’s Gilded Age.

Bright Lights of the Dark Ages
Arts of the Early Medieval World from the Thaw Collection

Noël Adams
Bright Lights of the Dark Ages is a stunning survey of magnificent early Medieval art objects. Many were found in burial mounds, interred as status symbols with their owners in the new barbarian kingdoms that developed in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. It features over two hundred extremely rare gold and precious stonework objects dating from the second to the tenth centuries AD that reveal the dramatic and surprising relationship between the so-called Dark Ages and later medieval art. Illustrated highlights include Gothic and Visigothic imperial style brooches from modern-day Slovakia and Crimea and enameled domed brooches and buckles from northern Europe and Britain.

ART January 9 x 12 | 432 pp 210 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $95.00 | CAN $104.50 978-1-907804-25-0 USC

Full of shining artistic gems from a dark period of early medieval history.

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GILES Living Artfully
At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post

Estella M. Chung
This is a beautifully illustrated account of the three main homes of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), through the 1950s to 1970s. From 1957 onwards Post lived in stately Hillwood in Washington, DC, for spring and autumn, retreated to Camp Topridge in the Adirondacks for the summer, and enjoyed the winter season at her glamorous villa Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Post was one of America’s most stylish and powerful women and this book, strongly evocative of the lifestyle magazines of the period, offers a vibrant and intimate picture of life in each residence—for Marjorie Post, her guests, and her staff.
HISTORY Available Now 8¼ x 10 | 144 pp 170 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-907804-13-7 USC

A wonderful book about life in the three magnificent homes of Marjorie Merriweather Post, one of America’s most stylish women.

Eternal Summer
The Art of Edward Henry Potthast

Julie Aronson
Contributions by Per Knutås, Carol Troyen, Cynthia Amnéus, and Anne Buening
Offering fresh insight into the art of Edward Henry Potthast (1857–1927), Eternal Summer features over one hundred works, covering the full range of the artist’s oeuvre. Potthast’s famous beach scenes are considered within the wider scope of his art, from his early portrayals of European agricultural laborers to his stunning landscapes and less well-known portraits and nudes. A technical study of Potthast’s paintings provides an invaluable resource for museums, collectors, and dealers, and a detailed illustrated chronology traces his full career. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique opportunity to consider Potthast—Cincinnati native and American Impressionist.

ART Available Now 9 x 11 | 240 pp 178 color illustrations, 30 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-1-907804-06-9 USC

A beautiful volume and the first to explore the full range of Cincinnati-born Edward Potthast’s art, including his European works.

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GILES The Coast and the Sea
Marine and Maritime Art in America

Linda S. Ferber
Illustrating fifty of the best American marine paintings from the New York Historical Society, this volume covers a variety of themes, from battles and heroes, to work and play at sea. Author Linda S. Ferber sets the scene with an absorbing essay on the development of maritime art in the United States.
ART | December | 9 x 9 | 96 pp | 60 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-907804-31-1 USC

The Art of Empathy
The Mother of Sorrows in Northern Renaissance Art and Devotion

David S. Areford
One of only a handful of extant works attributed to the Master of the Stötteritz Altarpiece, this small panel is a fine example of the heightened realism that characterized fifteenth-century Northern European painting. Author David S. Areford shows how the artist’s skilful portrayal of intense human emotion is still relevant today.
ART | November | A Paperback Original | 8 x 11 | 64 pp | 50 color illustrations Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-907804-26-7 USC

British Portrait Miniatures
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cory Korkow
A showcase of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s internationally important collection of British portrait miniatures, dating from the late sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Author Cory Korkow includes new research about the artists, sitters, and owners of these miniatures. Highlights include exquisite miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, Isaac Oliver, Samuel Cooper, and Richard Cosway.
ART | December | 9½ x 11 | 296 pp | 365 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 | 978-1-907804-23-6 USC

Poseidon and the Sea
Myth, Cult and Daily Life

Seth D. Pevnick
A completely new exploration of the the myths and iconography of the Greek deity Poseidon that looks at the sea and the art that it inspired in antiquity. It features remarkable Greek, Roman, and Etruscan objects from the Tampa Museum of Art, as well as other international and significant collections.
HISTORY | February | 8½ x 11 | 200 pp | 210 color illustrations and maps Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 | 978-1-907804-30-4 USC

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Recent & Recommended from GILES Nam June Paik
Global Visionary

John G. Hanhardt and Ken Hakuta
Internationally recognized as the father of video art, Korean-born artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) transformed twentieth-century art practice. His innovative, media-based artwork was grounded in avant-garde music and performance art, which he used to expand video and television as artistic expressions in contemporary visual culture.
ART | Available Now | 9½ x 10¾ | 216 pp | 326 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 | 978-1-907804-20-5 USC

Modern Masters
American Abstraction at Midcentury

Virginia Mecklenburg
Contributions by Tiffany Farrell Foreword by Elizabeth Broun
This brand new volume presents, in stunning color, over seventy postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the center of the modern art scene in the two decades following World War II.
ART | Available Now | 10 x 12 | 256 pp | 85 color illustrations, 66 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $72.99 | 978-1-904832-59-1 USC

Damaged Romanticism
A Mirror of Modern Emotion

Terrie Sultan, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Claudia Schmuckli, and Nick Flynn
Features fifteen internationally recognized contemporary artists whose work, in painting, sculpture, installations, and photography-based media, embodies an essentially idealistic outlook formed of traditional “romanticism,” tempered by a strong sense of reality and stubborn optimism in the face of daily adversity and disappointment.
ART | Available Now | 9½ x 11 | 136 pp | 134 color illustrations, B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $44.95 | CAN $50.50 | 978-1-904832-51-5 USC

Swing Time
Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York

Edited by Barbara Haskell
The first major assessment of the work of “American Scene” artist Reginald Marsh (1898–1954) in thirty years. It puts Marsh’s exuberant depictions of urban daily life within the context of 1930s America and the work of fellow artists who shared his interest in the New York scene.
ART | Available Now | 10 x 11½ | 176 pp 80 color illustrations, B&W photographs, 35 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 | 978-1-907804-09-0 USC

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Recent & Recommended from GILES A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox
Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1475–1550

John W. Hessler
The first full study in the English language to give context to the extraordinary life and seminal work of the Nuremburg mathematician, cartographer, and scientist Johannes Schöner (d. 1543). Schöner’s collection of maps and notes offers an unprecedented insight into cartographic development during this critical period in the history of science and exploration.
HISTORY | Available Now | 9 x 7½ | 176 pp | 100 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-907804-16-8 USC

British Drawings
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Heather Lemonedes
This volume presents fifty outstanding drawings from the internationally recognized collection of works on paper at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ranging from the eighteenth century to the Edwardian period, these cover a wide range of media and styles, including works by Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones, and J. M. W. Turner.
ART | Available Now | 9½ x 11 | 152 pp | 92 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $44.95 | CAN $49.50 | 978-1-907804-22-9 USC

Fine Lines
American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum

Karen A. Sherry
The first survey of the Brooklyn Museum’s world-class collection of drawings, Fine Lines highlights more than one hundred masterworks by some of the most important names in American art from the last three centuries. Among more than seventy artists included are John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Marsden Hartley.
ART | Available Now | 8¼ x 10 | 248 pp | 177 color illustrations, 15 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-907804-14-4 USC

Romare Bearden
Southern Recollections

Edited by Carla M. Hanzal
Featuring ninety works covering the full range of the artist’s oeuvre and career, this volume examines the numerous sources and inspiration behind much of Romare Bearden’s art. It focuses on a largely unstudied area of his work: his recollections and memories of his southern childhood.
ART | Available Now | 9½ x 11 | 144 pp | 140 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $44.95 | CAN $49.50 | 978-1-904832-98-0 USC

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Recent & Recommended from GILES Searching for the Seventies
The DOCUMERICA Photography Project

Bruce I. Bustard
The 1970s were more than leisure suits, streaking, and disco. As this volume shows in one hundred remarkable color photographs sourced from over twenty thousand DOCUMERICA images in the US National Archives, the ’70s witnessed profound changes in politics, society, and economy. These images highlight the achievements of the decade, capturing its growing evironmental awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity.
PHOTOGRAPHY | Available Now | 9½ x 11 | 144 pp | 120 color photographs Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 | 978-1-907804-15-1 USC

Attachments
Faces and Stories from America’s Gates

Bruce I. Bustard
A fascinating, thematic exploration of some of the millions of immigration files in the US National Archive, focusing on twenty-nine case studies, this book explores beyond the literal by looking at the “attachments” of immigrants to family and community. Included are many previously unpublished photographs and other documents.
HISTORY | Available Now | 7 x 10 | 96 pp | 100 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 | 978-1-907804-07-6 USC

Discovering the Civil War
National Archives Discovering the Civil War Team
Foreword by Ken Burns
Focusing on specific records to build into individual stories, this facinating book features over four hundred letters, diaries, photographs, maps, petitions, receipts, patents, amendments, and proclamations from the unparalleled holdings of the National Archives. It takes a fresh look at the war through little-known tales, seldom-seen documents, and unusual perspectives.
HISTORY | Available Now | 9 x 12 | 208 pp | 400 color photographs and illustrations Trade Cloth US $44.95 | CAN $50.50 | 978-1-904832-91-1 USC

Records of Our National Life
American History at the National Archives

Essays by Michael Beschloss, Tom Brokaw, Ken Burns, Cokie Roberts, and Tom Wheeler
This highly illustrated volume takes the reader on a journey through American history, offering a close-up examination of some of the billions of documents, photographs, maps, and films in the holdings of the National Archives.
HISTORY | Available Now | 10½ x 11½ | 320 pp | 812 color photographs and illustrations Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $66.99 | 978-1-904832-71-3 USC

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Recent & Recommended from GILES Making American Taste
Narrative Art for a New Democracy

Edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati
Contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Ella M. Foshay, and Kimberly Orcutt
A landmark publication on American art from 1825 to 1870, this is a significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting in America during this period. It presents fifty-five paintings from thirty-eight artists drawn from the New York Historical Society’s newly restored and superb collection of narrative art.
ART | Available Now | 11½ x 10 | 324 pp | 80 color illustrations, 85 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 | 978-1-904832-76-8 USC

Stories in Sterling
Four Centuries of Silver in New York

Margaret K. Hofer with Debra Schmidt Bach
This is the first comprehensive survey of the New York Historical Society’s superb collection of early American silver. It features the full range of silver works, including masterpieces like the teapot made by Albany silversmith Kiliaen Van Rensselaer in 1695—one of the earliest teapots made in New York.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES | Available Now | 8½ x 11 | 352 pp 265 color illustrations, 175 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $69.95 | CAN $76.99 | 978-1-904832-65-2 USC

Essays by Kenneth L. Ames, David L. Barquist, and Margaret K. Hofer

Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion
Edited by Elizabeth De Rosa, Lindsy R. Parrott, Patricia C. Pongracz, and Diane C. Wright
For over half a century, Louis C. Tiffany oversaw the production and marketing of a multitude of decorative elements for many of America’s leading congregations—Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish. This beautifully illustrated volume includes preliminary designs, cartoons, watercolor sketches, and archival photographs of these windows, interiors, and pieces of ecclesiastic furniture, many never published before.
ART | Available Now | 9½ x 11 | 216 pp | 125 color photographs and illustrations Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 | 978-1-907804-02-1 USC

Revolution!
The Atlantic World Reborn

Edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois, and Richard Rabinowitz
Drawing on an international cross-section of experts, this colorful new book presents the story of the eighteenth-century Atlantic revolutions as part of a wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society.
HISTORY | Available Now | 9 x 11½ | 288 pp | 160 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 | 978-1-904832-94-2 USC

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GILES Backlist
1934: A New Deal for Artists Ann Prentice Wagner Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $55.99 978-1-904832-67-6 USC Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow Joanna Marsh Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $55.99 978-1-904832-86-7 USC American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum Alicia G. Longwell Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $44.99 978-1-904832-74-4 USC American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876 Teresa A. Carbone, Barbara Dayer Gallati, and Linda S. Ferber Trade Cloth US $350.00 | CAN $391.99 978-1-904832-08-9 USC An American View: Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum Teresa A. 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Gilgamesh Publishing The Cross
Meditations and Images

Serena Fass
Foreword by HRH Prince Charles
“Of all the world’s great religious symbols, the Cross is the most widespread and the most enduring. This beautiful book celebrates it in all its countless varieties, as perhaps it has never been celebrated before.”—John Julius Norwich, chairman of Venice in Peril (1971–2000), chairman of Serenissima Travel (1972–1987) “This is a wonderful book. These images, gathered in one place, are an unique experience for the believer and non-believer alike. They are extraordinary artistic representations of great beauty from all over the world. Serena Fass’s passion to follow her path is palpable as you turn the pages.”—David Verey, chairman of the Tate Gallery Trustees (1998–2004), chairman of the Art Fund (2004–) Serena Fass has compiled a collection of many important and beautiful representations of the Cross, spanning different strands of the Christian faith from the earliest Christians in Pompeii to the present day, and criss-crossing the globe from Norway to Zimbabwe and Peru to Australia. Works are illustrated in a variety of media, including architecture, painting, sculpture, ivories, textiles, metalwork, and jewelry, as well as examples of the Cross manifest in nature. Serena has tried to convey the wide variety of cultural representations that illustrate Jesus’s great commission to “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation” (Mark 16:15).
A flamboyant celebration of the Crucifix with photos from across the world and a foreword by HRH Prince Charles.

RELIGION February A Paperback Original 7⅝ x 9⅝ | 416 pp 400 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-908531-29-2 USC

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Darin, CT • Washington, DC • Miami, FL • Baltimore, MD • New York, NY

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Gilgamesh Publishing Jerusalem, Palestine and Jordan
Images of the Holy Land

Hisham Khatib
Foreword by Sarah Searight
An extraordinary and beautifully presented perspective on the history and society of the Holy Land, as recorded in the writings, paintings, maps, and photography of Western travelers and observers. This remarkable collection spans the four hundred years of Ottoman rule, but has a heavy focus on nineteenth-century watercolors, including works from Edward Lear, Carl Haag, and Carl Werner. Also included are images from illustrated plate books, travel books, maps, surveys, and atlases of the region, as well as original photographs. This large, inspiring volume is a celebration of the Holy Land through the ages.

HISTORY September 9½ x 11¾ | 283 pp Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-1-908531-09-4 USC

A fascinating collection of paintings, drawings, letters, and maps, providing a stimulating picture of the Holy Land through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Voices of Arabia
Through the Eyes of the Greatest Travellers

Eid Al-Yahya, PhD
Arabia’s life before the oil boom years is probably best known to international audiences through the works of Wilfred Thesiger, the remarkable British explorer famous for his narrative and photography of the Empty Quarter. But the account from the perspective of his Arab traveling companions, Bin Kabina, Bin Kabisha, and others, has never been told. Now in their eighties, these old-timers are interviewed in this important new work, and the material is set down so future generations need not lose sight of their bedouin roots. Surprising and enchanting by turns, these anecdotes of life growing up in tents where now the giant skyscrapers stand paint a picture of a beautiful and vastly different vanished Arabia.

TRAVEL January 10¼ x 12¼ | 216 pp Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-908531-34-6 USC

A collection of engaging accounts of life in Arabia before the boom, with photographs from an Arab perspective.

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Gilgamesh Publishing Oman—A Photographic Voyage
Jaap Croese

This beautiful Sultanate, with high mountains and desert lowlands that sweep down to the waters of the Arabian Gulf, has a tourism strategy to bring in twelve million tourists annually by the year 2020. Jaap Croese’s lens here captures a diverse range of views of this enchanting land, bringing out the country’s natural beauties and striking traditional architecture and dress. This is Jaap Croese’s second photographic book on Oman, demonstrating his remarkable photographic gift over the course of his travels the length and breadth of the country.

TRAVEL December 10⅛ x 12⅛ | 216 pp 350 color photographs Trade Cloth US $32.00 | CAN $34.99 978-1-908531-31-5 USC

A remarkable celebration of the beautiful Sultanate of Oman in the Persian Gulf. Stunning photography. A glorious giftbook.

South Sudan
Colonialism, Resistance and Autonomy

Lam Akol
Foreword by Alan Goulty
The newly created state of South Sudan, declared by the United Nations as recently as 2011, has yet to be extensively written about by the international commentariat. Lam Akol, a scholar of international repute in the field, as well as a politician with close knowledge of the workings of government (he was former foreign minister and is now leader of the opposition), presents a history South Sudan that is uniquely authoritative and thorough. The book carries a foreword by Alan Goulty, who oversaw the secession discussions leading up the declaration of this, the world’s newest country. This book is essential reading for anyone involved in Africa and international development.

HISTORY September A Paperback Original 5 x 7⅞ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-908531-32-2 USC

South Sudan was declared a state just last year. This is the only modern history of the world’s newest nation.

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Gilgamesh Publishing Under My Wig
Jamal Nasir, PhD
Foreword by Jonathan Fryer
Dr. Jamal Nasir advised the King of Jordan through most of the last fifty years of the twentieth century and shares a personal insight on the way events unfolded in Jordan and Palestine. This heartwarming narrative follows Nasir from a young Palestinian refugee, through to a career at the bar in London, and on to being legal advisor to King Hussein, amongst others. Intimately acquainted with the workings of government in the region, Nasir here reveals previously unpublished accounts of key moments behind the scenes in modern Middle East history.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September 5⅜ x 8½ | 215 pp Trade Cloth US $32.00 | CAN $34.99 978-1-908531-33-9 USC

Previously unpublished accounts of key moments behind the scenes in modern Middle East history. A heartwarming personal narrative.

Zenobia
Queen: Between Reality and Legend Second Edition

Yasmine Zahran
Although she was eventually defeated by the emperor Aurelian in AD 274, Zenobia’s life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement, ending in tragic defeat and suicide. In this vividly recounted account of the Palmyrene warrior queen, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time to life through first-person narrative.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | November | 5⅜ x 8½ | 188 pp Trade Cloth US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 | 978-1-908531-27-8 USC

Desert Treks from Riyadh
Second Edition

Ionis Thompson and Ellie Whittaker
The first edition of Ionis Thompson’s book achieved instant cult status among intrepid travelers on publication some fifteen years ago. Now with updated directions and maps, and the crucial addition of GPS coordinates, this slim but essential handbook will encourage a fresh generation of desert trekker to explore further the lovely wadis, sand dunes, and ancient sites of Saudi Arabia’s desert.
TRAVEL | November | 6¼ x 8⅞ | 146 pp | 100 photographs; 20 maps Spiral US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 | 978-1-908531-30-8 USC

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GLAS New Russian Writing Mission to Mars, a novel
Igor Savelyev

“Savelyev is a professional in a good sense: his language consists of energetic short sentences, abundance of well-chosen details, and recurrent juxtaposition of the fictional and the documentary.”—Ex Libris “The novel is written masterfully, aptly phrased and rich in interesting details; it will look good in Volume One of his Collected Works a couple of decades from now.”—Afisha Mars symbolizes freedom and a daring goal, different for each character. One goes to America to break away from the humdrum provincial life. Other protagonists launch a campaign against a dishonest airline exploiting people’s fear of flying by promising false guarantees of safety, for an extra price. The protest peters out after the arrests, sobering the young people’s enthusiasm. Reports of actual plane crashes accompany the narrative, providing a frightening backdrop. New “heroes of our times”: confused and disillusioned young Russians growing up in conditions of wild capitalism and political stagnation. Throughout the novel reports of actual airplane crushes interfere matterof-factly into the narrative, providing a frightening a refrain to the story and symbolically in tune with the characters’ personal moral downfalls. The “Martian” theme is crowned by the seventy-five-year-old ex-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s letter to President Putin suggesting that she should be sent to Mars on a one-way mission for the glory of her homeland. Twenty-eight-year-old Igor Savelyev won many literary prizes for his masterful prose based on brilliant counterpoints. His stories have been translated into many languages.
Disillusioned young Russians whose growing up coincided with the wild capitalism of the 1990s followed by Vladimir Putin’s iron rule.

FICTION September A Paperback Original New Russian Writing 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-5-7172-0121-6 USC

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Selected Backlist from GLAS New Russian Writing

Tales and Legends of the Orient Vlas Doroshevich
Translated by Rowen Glie and Ronald Landau with John Dewey
FICTION 5 x 8 | 250 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-5-7172-0094-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-5-7172-0120-9 USC

What the Emperor Cannot Do

Second Edition Boris Yampolsky and Vasil Bykov
Introduction by Rachel Polonsky
FICTION 5 x 8 | 270 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-5-7172-0090-5 USC

The Scared Generation

The Russian Word’s Worth
A Humorous and Informative Guide to Russian Language Culture and Translation Second Edition Michele A. Berdy

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 5 x 8 | 496 pp Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 978-5-7172-0091-2 USC

Russian Authors Interviewed by Kristina Rotkirch Kristina Rotkirch
REFERENCE 5 x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0084-4 USC

Contemporary Russian Fiction

A Novel Without Lies
Anatoly Mariengof
FICTION 5 x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0049-3 USC

The Grassy Street
Asar Eppel
FICTION 5 x 8 | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $17.50 978-5-7172-0039-4 USC

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Global Book Sales Rock Atlas USA
The Musical Landscape of America

David Roberts
Featuring more than seven hundred great music locations across America, this book is the perfect guide for those people who want to visit some of rock’s most memorable sites. Also a great read for all music lovers who want to find out some of the fascinating stories behind many of the iconic locations covered. The book is packed with hundreds of rare and unseen photographs including pictures of The Beatles, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, and many more! It is a must-read for all music lovers. David Roberts was formerly managing editor of the Guinness range of music books including British Hit Singles, Rockopedia, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
MUSIC December A Paperback Original Clarksdale 7½ x 9¾ | 304 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-905959-97-6 USC

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National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Features over seven hundred great music locations across the United States and the stories behind them.

BB King: The Life of Riley
Survival is a Word . . . This is Its Story

Jon Brewer
This is a beautifully illustrated book about how America’s undisputed “king of the blues” became a blues legend. The book is based on the award-winning documentary film about BB King made by Jon Brewer. The book includes contributions from Morgan Freeman, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, President Obama, Mick Jagger, Bruce Willis, Bono, Ringo Starr, and many more famous names. Jon Brewer, “Mr. Rock & Roll” as he is affectionately known, is the producer and director of the much-lauded Classic Artist Series and Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero.
MUSIC November A Paperback Original Clarksdale 7½ x 9¾ | 224 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-905959-49-5 USC

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National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

A beautiful book about America’s undisputed “king of the blues.”

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Global Book Sales Bismarck and Hood
The Battle of the Denmark Strait, a Technical Analysis for a New Perspective

Marco Santarini
This book sheds new light on one of the most talked about incidents of the Second World War, the mighty duel between HMS Hood and the Bismarck. The author offers fresh evidence, based on recent studies of the wreck of the Hood, to unravel what happened on that fateful day.
HISTORY | December | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 176 pp 16 color illustrations, 69 B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $32.95 | CAN $36.50 | 978-1-78155-231-5 USC

Fires of October
The Cuban Missile Crisis that Never Was— The Invasion of Cuba and World War III

Blaine L. Pardoe
Using newly declassified archival sources, this book provides fascinating detail about the Cuban Missile Crisis and covers the conflict that did not happen— the invasion of Cuba by US forces. A must-read for anyone interested in this critical period in world history.
HISTORY | October | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 208 pp | 32 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-196-7 USC

The German Marine Corps in Flanders 1914–18
Johan Ryheul
Timed to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, this is a stunning account of the naval battle that raged between the German U-boats and the Royal Navy. The book is highly illustrated with many amazing photographs that have never been published before.
HISTORY | October | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 320 pp | 320 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-224-7 USC

Hitler’s Naval Bases
Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War

Jak P. Mallmann Showell
This is the definitive book on German naval bases during the Second World War written by a world expert. The author interviewed thousands of veterans over a forty-year period while researching this book, and the book is lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs from the period.
HISTORY | September | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 256 pp | B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-198-1 USC

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Global Book Sales Life and Death in Bomber Command
Tony Redding

Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the Dambusters, the daring raids on German dams by 617 Squadron, this book provides an amazingly insight into what it was like to be a rear gunner on a bomber during the Second World War.
HISTORY | October | Fonthill Media | 6¾ x 9¾ | 288 pp | B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-1-78155-228-5 USC

My Target was Leningrad
V Force: Preserving our Democracy

Philip Goodall
This is an enthralling book about the Cold War that tells the story like no other. It is a chilling account of the deteriorating relationship between the West and Russia after the end of the Second World War and it examines how close the world came to a Third World War and a nuclear apocalypse.
HISTORY | March | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 336 pp | 250 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-181-3 USC

Trunk Monkeys
The Life of a Contract Soldier in Iraq

Lewis Steiner
This is the gruesome and bloody account of what life was like working as a contract soldier in Iraq, shortly after the Gulf War. These hired soldiers were paid to sit on the back of pick-up trucks as the lookout for suicide bombers. It was a highly dangerous job and many lost their lives.
HISTORY | October | A Paperback Original | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 208 pp 32 color photographs Trade Paper US $23.95 | CAN $26.50 | 978-1-78155-220-9 USC

Untold Valor
The Second World War in the Pacific

Rob Morris
This an inspirational book told from the point of view of the veterans. From the survivors of the USS Indianapolis in shark-infested waters to a young Marine surrounded by the enemy on Okinawa, each story is deeply personal and at the same time hugely important in understanding the war in the Pacific.
HISTORY | November | Fonthill Media | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 192 pp | 75 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-1-78155-195-0 USC

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The Autobiography of a Cad
A. G. Macdonell
FICTION October A Paperback Original Fonthill Media Fonthill Complete A. G. Macdonell 6⅛ x 9¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-017-5 USC

Flight from a Lady
A. G. Macdonell
FICTION November A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp 32 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-020-5 USC

A. G. Macdonell
HISTORY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 176 pp 30 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-031-1 USC

My Scotland

The Avro Vulcan
A History Peter G. Dancey
HISTORY January A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6¾ x 9¾ | 176 pp 28 color illustrations, 150 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-78155-232-2 USC

Hitler’s Berchtesgaden
A Guide to Third Reich Sites in the Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg Area Geoff Walden

The Silent Murders
A. G. Macdonell
FICTION / MYSTERY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media Fonthill Complete A. G. Macdonell 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-022-9 USC

HISTORY December A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6½ x 9¼ | 128 pp Color photographs, 40 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78155-226-1 USC

A St Helena Who’s Who
A Complete Guide to the People on St Helena During Napoleon’s Captivity Arnold Chaplin

41 Squadron RAF 1942–1945 Steve Brew
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6¾ x 9¾ | 992 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-1-78155-193-6 USC

Blood Sweat and Valour

KEK’s and Fokkerstaffels
The Early German Fighter Units in 1915–1916 Johan Ryheul
HISTORY January Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 256 pp 200 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-223-0 USC

HISTORY September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 192 pp 32 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-1-78155-175-2 USC

The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends Stephen Wade
TRUE CRIME September Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 192 pp 32 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-194-3 USC

Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club

The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935–1944 Adam Thompson
HISTORY October Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp 80 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-225-4 USC

Küstenflieger

British and Foreign Tram Crashes and Accidents Peter Tuffrey
TRANSPORTATION September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media 6¾ x 9¾ | 144 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78155-210-0 USC

Tram Disasters

England Their England
A. G. Macdonell
FICTION September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media Fonthill Complete A. G. Macdonell 6⅛ x 9¼ | 190 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-000-7 USC

Lords and Masters
A. G. Macdonell
FICTION September A Paperback Original Fonthill Media Fonthill Complete A. G. Macdonell 6⅛ x 9¼ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78155-018-2 USC

Prisoners of War and the Secret Spitfire Colin Pateman
HISTORY September Fonthill Media 6⅛ x 9¼ | 288 pp 146 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-78155-191-2 USC

Unshackled Spirit

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Global Book Sales The 100 Greatest Road Songs
Robert Webb

This is the ultimate compilation of songs that no road trip should be without. The playlist captures the spirit, excitement, and freedom of traveling on the open road. Included in the playlist are classics such as “I Get Around” by The Beach Boys and “Take the Long Way Home” by Supertramp.
MUSIC | November | A Paperback Original | McNidder & Grace | 5⅛ x 7⅞ | 212 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-85716-054-6 USC

Laura Knight
A Life

Barbara C. Morden
This is the much-anticipated biography of the internationally renowned painter Dame Laura Knight (1877–1970). She had a varied and colorful life and this book sheds light on her extraordinary career for the first time and explores her deeper character which often revealed itself in her paintings.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | October | McNidder & Grace | 6 x 9¼ | 264 pp Trade Cloth US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-0-85716-049-2 USC

Top of the Pops
50 Years On

Steve Blacknell and Patrick Humphries
This book is aimed at everyone with an interest in popular music over the last fifty years. Through this classic, long-running show, there were many seminal moments in music, including David Bowie’s breakthrough performance of “Starman” in 1972 and Nirvana’s chaotic 1991 appearance promoting Smells Like Teen Spirit.
MUSIC | October | McNidder & Grace | 7¾ x 9⅞ | 260 pp Trade Cloth US $31.95 | CAN $34.99 | 978-0-85716-052-2 USC

The Inglorious Dead
Tony Black

This is the new Doug Michie crime novel by Tony Black, the acclaimed Scottish writer. Full of intrigue, lies, secrets, and illicit sexual encounters, this is a must-read for all fans of crime noir.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | McNidder & Grace | 5 x 7¾ | 170 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-0-85716-046-1 USC

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Global Book Sales Madness Contested
Power and Practice

Edited by Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan, and Bob Diamond
A critical review of how the mentally ill are treated both by the Mental Health Services and society, followed by alternatives to the current treatment of mental health based on views from nurses, service users, psychiatrists, psychologists, practitioners, and academics. This should be read by all those with an interest in mental health care.
PSYCHOLOGY | September | A Paperback Original | PCCS Books | 6¼ x 9¼ | 392 pp Trade Paper US SDT $36.00 | CAN $39.50 | 978-1-906254-43-8 USC

R.D. Laing: 50 Years Since The Divided Self
Edited by Theodor Itten and Courtenay Young
Timed to mark fifty years since the publication of The Divided Self, this is a fascinating collection of interviews with R.D. Laing himself and with the friends and colleagues he influenced. This is a timely reminder of the longevity of his ideas and their continued influence on today’s thinking.
PSYCHOLOGY | September | A Paperback Original | PCCS Books | 6¼ x 9¼ | 392 pp Trade Paper US SDT $26.00 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-906254-54-4 USC

A Straight Talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems
Sami Timimi
Rates of diagnosis of psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, and prescription of psychiatric drugs to children, have increased alarmingly. This book is an excellent introduction to the area for students and provides parents of children with mental health difficulties with all the information they need to make informed choices about a child’s treatment.
PSYCHOLOGY | September | A Paperback Original | PCCS Books | 4⅜ x 6¾ | 142 pp Trade Paper US $14.50 | CAN $15.99 | 978-1-906254-15-5 USC

A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems
John Read and Pete Sanders
As the causes of mental health problems are often more complicated than we understand, this book presents the reader with summaries of various causes. It is perfect reading for students of all mental health disciplines and everyone with an interest in mental health.
PSYCHOLOGY | September | A Paperback Original | PCCS Books | 4⅜ x 6¾ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $14.50 | CAN $15.99 | 978-1-906254-19-3 USC

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Green Integer Three Women
Robert Musil
Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes
Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, Three Women—consisting of three long stories, “Grigia,” “The Portuguese Lady,” and “Tonka”—was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil’s twentieth-century masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Beloved by writers Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch, Musil was several times nominated for a Nobel Prize before his death in 1942.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | 4¼ x 6 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-55713-419-6 W*

Conversations with Stalin
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin’s coming-of-age memoir is a smart, no-holds-barred black comedy in the picaresque coming-of-age tradition of Holden Caulfield, Huck Finn, and the irrepressible Dorothy on the road to Oz. Her stand-up, punch, and inventive style allows her audiences to enjoy any or all of her “meetings” with Joseph Stalin in Central Park.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | 4¼ x 6 | 210 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-55713-420-2 W*

Biography of Julie van Bartmann
Djuna Barnes
Although best known for her fiction, short stories, and interviews, gifted author Djuna Barnes also published numerous plays in her lifetime. This play, from 1923–24, and never before published, is about a remarkable opera singer who visits the isolated Born family farm, stealing the hearts of the father, two sons, and daughter, while creating family frictions resolved only by the death of the father.
DRAMA | December | A Paperback Original | 4¼ x 6 | 168 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-55713-421-9 W*

Patterns
Lee Si-young
Translated by Brother Anthony and Yoo Hui-Sok
Born in Gurye, South Korea, in 1949, Lee Si-young began publishing poetry in 1969, and has now published numerous volumes, from which Patterns selects. Winner of several major awards, Lee won the Republic of Korea Award for Culture and the Arts in 2007. He is head of the International Creative Writing Center at Dankook University.
POETRY | January | A Paperback Original | 4¼ x 6 | 150 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 | 978-1-55713-422-6 W*

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Selected Backlist from Green Integer

Films without Images
Translated by Mark Spitzer
DRAMA 4¼ x 6 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933382-40-1 W*

Blaise Cendrars

Notes on the Cinematographer
Translated by Jonathan Griffin Introduction by J.M.G. Le Clezio
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / PERFORMING ARTS 4¼ x 6 | 136 pp Trade Paper US $10.95 | CAN $12.00 978-1-55713-365-6 W*

Robert Bresson

Reading Films: My International Cinema
First Trade Paper Edition Douglas Messerli
PERFORMING ARTS 6 x 9 | 640 pp 200 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-55713-427-1 W*

Douglas Messerli
POETRY 4¼ x 6 | 88 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-933382-14-2 W*

Dark

The Collected Poems: Volume 1
Translated by Diane Butterman Introduction by Anja de Feijter
POETRY 4¼ x 6 | 350 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-1-55713-407-3 W*

Lucebert

Rich Catch in the Empty Creel
Translated by Richard Dove
POETRY 4¼ x 6 | 275 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.95 978-1-933382-24-1 W*

Reiner Kunze

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Haus Publishing The Inquisitor’s Diary
Jeffrey Lewis
“He [Lewis] has been painstakingly, novel by novel, constructing an oeuvre that puts him in the ranks of the country’s must-read authors.”—Peter Davis, author and Academy Award–winning director In Mexico City, the Holy Office of the Inquisition holds sway over the people. Fray Alonso, its most zealous advocate, awaits promotion and passage to Spain but, outmaneuvered by his rivals, he is instead sent north through the country, in search of heretics to bring before the tribunal. What appears at first to be a futile journey becomes a great test of faith, as Alonso forms an unusual connection with his captured heretic. The bond between them forces Alonso to question every element of the faith and doctrine he has held so dear. Alonso’s diary follows the priest and his captive as they come across questions of faith, love, and morality, and what it is to live—and die—in a state of grace. Interwoven with Alonso’s story is that of the Marranos and their role not only in New Spain, as Mexico was then known, but in the early Jewish settlements in California. Jeffrey Lewis is the author of Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Show, and Adam the King—four novels that comprise The Meritocracy Quartet, to be published as one volume in 2013 by Haus—and Berlin Cantata. He has twice been the recipient of the Independent Publishers Gold Medals for Literary Fiction and has won two Emmys and the Writers’ Guild Award for his work as a writer and producer on the critically acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues.
A zealous advocate of the Mexican Inquisition forms an unusual bond with a captured heretic and questions his faith.

FICTION October 5¾ x 8⅝ | 198 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-908323-31-6 USC

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Berlin Cantata Jeffrey Lewis FICTION 5 x 7¾ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-907822-43-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-907822-42-1 W

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Haus Publishing The Meritocracy Quartet
Jeffrey Lewis

FICTION March 5 x 7¾ | 742 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-908323-45-3 USC

Having introduced an unprecedented realism to American television through his work as a writer and producer on Hill Street Blues—work which earned him two Emmys and a Writers’ Guild Award—Jeffrey Lewis’s rich and complex relationship with American culture, upon which his writing has drawn deeply, required a new kind of telling. In an ambitious departure, Lewis conceived a series of four novels, each of which would follow the leaders of American culture through a decade of their lives. In so doing it would trace the very substance of America’s contemporary history through its unfolding. The series is a sweeping meditation on his generation and where it has led America, from the sixties to the turn of the century. For the first time the four interlinking novels—Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, Theme Song for an Old Show, and Adam the King—are published in a single volume. Set over four decades against the backdrop of changing American landscape, Lewis’s characters sweep in and out of the narrative, reflecting the passage of time and the rise of different social-cultural ideals and influences. The four novels are a testament to America’s changing personality, each seeking to define it for itself. For America is the central character and the quartet is the song of one generation passing through it, from the tragedy of wealth and potential to the search for meaning in a chaotic world and the highs and lows of celebrity. Each book is a life and a death, each a new start and a finality. The Meritocracy Quartet is a breathtaking panorama and an expression of how and why, but more than this, it is a story beautifully told.
The Meritocracy Quartet comprises Jeffrey Lewis’s four interlinking novels written between 2005 and 2008, published in a single volume for the first time.

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Haus Publishing A Matter of Time
Alex Capus
Translated by John Brownjohn
“Beautifully rendered in John Brownjohn’s translation . . . [a] magnificent novel.” —Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland “A war-torn farce worth waiting for.”—The Independent It is November 1913 and three German shipbuilders, led by master shipwright Anton Rüter, are ordered by Kaiser Wilhelm to dismantle a steam ship, send the parts to German East Africa, and reassemble it on Lake Tanganyika. But their aim of getting the job done and returning home quickly is soon eclipsed by the enchantment of the exotic landscape and the violent machinery of colonialism. At the same time, Winston Churchill sends the eccentric Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson to transport two dilapidated and incongruously named gun-boats, Mimi and Toutou, to the other side of the lake. When World War I breaks out, the Germans and British are facing each other, and the German shipbuilders reluctantly find themselves fighting under the unsympathetic Captain-Lieutenant Gustav von Zimmer. In the midst of the horrors of war, however, there are moments of great humor and pathos. Alex Capus was born in 1961 and has published numerous works, including novels, collections of short stories, essays, and historical accounts, as well as translations of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and three novels by John Fante. John Brownjohn is a renowned literary translator. His work has won him critical acclaim and numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Schlegel-Tieck Prize (three times), the US PEN, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize.
As WWI rages in Europe, the Kaiser’s pleasure cruiser and two dilapidated British gun-boats face off in the heart of Africa. Also Available

FICTION November 5 x 7¾ | 203 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-907822-03-2 USC

Léon and Louise Alex Capus Translated by John Brownjohn FICTION 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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Haus Publishing The Ends of the Earth
Roger Willemsen

In a world shrunk by mass tourism and the Internet, any attempt to bring fresh insights to the genre of travel writing might appear a futile endeavor. Yet Roger Willemsen’s The Ends of the Earth pulls off this feat with panache. Venturing, as the title promises, far and wide, and recording his impressions in twenty-two essays, this celebrated writer not only journeys deep into unfamiliar geographical territory, but also probes the lives of others and plumbs the innermost recesses of his own mind. The result is far removed from the superficial charm of the traditional travelogue: as the author admits, more often than not his quest is driven by “a predilection for unlovely things.” A series of remarkable encounters and mysterious entanglements combine to create an opinionated psychogeography that is by turns profoundly poignant and wryly humorous. Willemsen’s accounts of his visits to locations as diverse and distant from one another as a volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula, a railway station in Burma, an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean, and a hospital ward in Minsk, range from the mundane to the extraordinary, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and hold the reader constantly in thrall. The Ends of the Earth is a unique and fascinating work by one of Europe’s most idiosyncratic literary voices.
TRAVEL March 5½ x 8¾ | 480 pp Trade Cloth US $30.00 | CAN $32.99 978-1-907973-89-5 USC

Roger Willemsen was an author and foreign correspondent before becoming a television personality with his own show Willemsen’s Week in 1991. Since then he has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and producer. He has written several books, five of which have featured on the Der Spiegel bestseller list in Germany. He is the author of An Afghan Journey, published by Haus in 2007, which was recommended by PEN.

Celebrated writer Roger Willemsen weaves a collection of enthralling traveler’s tales around his journeys to “The Ends of the Earth.”

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Haus Publishing An Armchair Traveller’s History of The Silk Road
Jonathan Clements
The Silk Road is not a place, but a journey—a route from the edges of the Mediterranean to the central plains of China, through high mountains and inhospitable deserts. For thousands of years its history has been a traveler’s history, of encounters in desert towns, snowbound passes, and nameless forts. It was the conduit that first brought Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam into China. An Armchair Traveller’s History of the Silk Road takes a comprehensive and illuminating look at the rich history of the dynamic and little-known region through which the Silk Road passes. Paying particular attention to the historical sites that feature on any visitor’s itinerary, Jonathan Clements gives special emphasis to the writings and reactions of travelers through the centuries.

HISTORY / TRAVEL January Armchair Traveller’s History 4½ x 8¼ | 320 pp Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-907973-78-9 USC

A comprehensive and illuminating look at the rich history of this little-known region, and the trading route that shaped it.

The Whales Know
Travels along the Baja California Peninsula

Pino Cacucci
Revisiting some of the locations seen by John Steinbeck, Pino Cacucci travels the length of Baja California—the world’s longest peninsula. Along the way, he hears the story of a man still suffering from injuries sustained during his past life as a pirate, tales of buried treasure chests, and of the trials of Jesuit missionaries among the Indios. But it is the whales, with their extraordinary intelligence, playfulness, sense of revenge, and touching generosity, that capture the author’s heart. Written with humility and humor, The Whales Know is an insight into a land where appearances can be deceptive.
TRAVEL March Armchair Traveller 4¾ x 6⅝ | 180 pp Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-907973-88-8 USC

A journey through a wild landscape that echoes with legends of pirates, queens, Jesuits, buried treasures— and extraordinary whales.

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Haus Publishing Britten
Centenary Edition

David Matthews
“His comments on Britten’s music, which occur unobtrusively throughout the narrative, are richly informative.”—Alexander Waugh, Literary Review Benjamin Britten was one of the outstanding British composers of the twentieth century. He shot to international fame with his operas, performed by his own English Opera Group, and a series of extraordinary instrumental works. His music has won a central place in the repertoire and the affection of successive generations of listeners. David Matthews brings to this biography his special insight as a fellow composer, former assistant, and lifelong friend of Britten, producing a uniquely personal, sensitive, and authoritative account.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MUSIC October 5 x 7¾ | 195 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-908323-38-5 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-904341-21-5

A uniquely personal and centenary-year biography by fellow composer, former assistant, and lifelong friend of Benjamin Britten, David Matthews.

Churchill
Anniversary Edition

Sebastian Haffner
“Fast-moving and perceptive.”—The Times When Winston Churchill died Sebastian Haffner wrote that “it seemed as if not a mere mortal was buried, but English history itself.” Haffner was an “enemy alien” whose own writing deeply influenced Churchill’s policy towards Germany and the Nazis.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | October | 5 x 7¾ | 140 pp Trade Cloth US $28.95 | CAN $31.99 | 978-1-908323-37-8 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-904341-07-9

Sailing by Starlight
In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson

Alex Capus
When Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 he planned to stay no more than a few days. But before long he set about building an opulent villa and lived out the rest of his days on the island in splendor. What had happened? Had Stevenson not only written the world-famous Treasure Island but found the treasure himself?
TRAVEL / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September | First Trade Paper Edition | 4½ x 8¼ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-907973-74-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906598-78-5

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Haymarket Books The Speech
The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream

Gary Younge

Praise for Gary Younge’s Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States: “Abroad in America, Gary Younge is an acutely skeptical observer.” —Jonathan Raban “Gary Younge is an excellent journalist—a critical writer at a critical time.” —Andrea Levy “One of the tiny handful of contemporary journalists left who is consistently worth reading. A voice for our times.”—Stuart Hall Praise for No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey Through the American South: “Leavened with the sharp eyes and tongue of an outsider examining the American racial milieu.”—Booklist Praise for Who Are We—And Should it Matter: “Penetrating and provocative.”—The Guardian It was a sweltering eighty-seven degrees when Martin Luther King took the stage at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. He was the final speaker after a long day. The crowd, which numbered in the tens of thousands, had begun to leave. King took a deep breath and threw back his shoulders. “I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.” Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Fifty years later, The Speech endures as a defining moment in the Civil Rights movement. It continues to be heralded as a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality. This gripping book unearths the fascinating chronicle behind The Speech and the revealing events surrounding the march on Washington. Gary Younge is an author, broadcaster, and award-winning columnist for the Guardian and the Nation. His books include Who are We—And Should it Matter In the 21st Century and No Place Like Home, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award.
Gary Younge explains why “The Speech” maintains its powerful social relevance by sharing the dramatic story behind it.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY Available Now 5⅛ x 8¼ | 180 pp Trade Cloth US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-60846-322-0 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-356-5 USCO*

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies available at BEA • Excerpts in: The Guardian • The Nation • Truthout • National Advertising: The Nation • National and regional radio campaign • 10-city national tour • Published to coincide with fiftieth anniversary of the speech • Promotion through: www.garyyounge.com

Author Events
Washington, DC • Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Chicago, IL

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Haymarket Books Mayor 1%
Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%

Kari Lydersen

Praise for Kari Lydersen’s Revolt On Goose Island: “There is much talk about ‘audacity’ these days, but true chutzpah is when the workers take over the factory and take on the bank. Kari Lydersen’s invaluable account of the Republic sit-down strike is an instruction manual for worker dignity.”—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz “Lydersen demonstrates that journalism still has the power to sway both hearts and minds.”—Brian Awehali, LiP Magazine Praise for Out of the Sea and Into the Fire: Latin American–U.S. Immigration in the Global Age: “We need solid reporting from the Spanish-speaking world, and Lyderson delivers it with grace, intelligence, and a vigorous point of view.”—Scott Sherman, contributing writer, The Nation With deep connections to high finance and a penchant for profanity, Rahm Emanuel became the mayor of Chicago and seized control of its notorious Democratic party machine. This compelling examination of the contradictory past of this former congressman and White House Chief of Staff sheds a spotlight on our entire political system and the important issues that surround it. Kari Lydersen has worked since 1997 as a Chicago-based journalist in the Midwest bureau of the Washington Post, and currently works with The Chicago News Cooperative, specializing in the environment, energy, labor, and immigration. She is the author of three books and teaches journalism at Columbia College.
Kari Lydersen lambasts Chicago’s nationally recognized mayor for his obedient endorsement of the devastating austerity agenda set forth by the “1 percent.”

POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-222-3 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-285-8 USCO*

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies available at BEA • Excerpts in: The Chicago Reader • The Nation • Time Out Chicago • National advertising: The Chicago Reader • The Nation • Time Out Chicago • National TV and radio campaign • Promotion through: www.karilydersen.com Author Hometown: Chicago, IL

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Haymarket Books The Battle for Justice in Palestine
The Case for a Single Democratic State in Palestine

Ali Abunimah

Praise for Ali Abunimah’s One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse: “Abunimah’s approach, inspired by ongoing reconciliation processes in South Africa (and, to a lesser extent, Northern Ireland), is fresh, energetic, and ultimately optimistic that those tired of violence will eventually gravitate toward an inclusive, unified Israel.”—Booklist Efforts to achieve a “two-state solution” have finally collapsed, and the struggle for justice in Palestine is at a crossroads. As Israeli society lurches toward greater extremism, many ask where the struggle is headed. Abunimah, the most prominent Palestinian critic of Israel living in the United States, offers a clear analysis of this crossroads moment and looks forward with urgency down the path to a more hopeful future. Ali Abunimah is the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli Palestinian Impasse, and co-founder and director of the widely acclaimed publication the Electronic Intifada. Based in the United States, he has written hundreds of articles and has been an active part of the movement for justice in Palestine for twenty years. He is the recipient of a 2013 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship.
Ali Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE February A Paperback Original 5⅛ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-60846-324-4 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-347-3 USCO*

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

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Haymarket Books Striking Back in Chicago
How Teachers Took on City Hall and Pushed Back Education “Reform”

Lee Sustar
After years in which teachers have been blamed for the problems of underfunded and understaffed schools, the Chicago teachers strike of 2012 transformed the debate. From the overwhelming strike authorization vote that overcame anti-union legislation, to repeated mass marches and protests, the Chicago Teachers Union showed teachers were determined to make their voices heard in response to corporate-driven education reform. Lee Sustar is labor editor for Socialist Worker and SocialistWorker.org. His writings on economics and international affairs have appeared in the International Socialist Review, New Labor Forum, ZNet, CounterPunch, and other publications.
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EDUCATION November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8⅜ | 220 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-60846-335-0 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-348-0 USCO*

How the Chicago teachers strike of 2012 electrified the city and held the line against corporate education “reform.”

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In Solidarity
Essays on Working-Class Organization and Strategy in the United States

Kim Moody
In this thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays, Kim Moody, one of the world’s most authoritative and recognized labor writers, analyzes the past, present, and future of unions in the United States. With a sharp understanding of Marxist theory and labor history, Moody charts a wellreasoned course for the future of rank-and-file struggle. Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a senior research fellow at the Work and Employment Unit of the University of Hertfordshire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE December A Paperback Original 5⅛ x 8¼ | 326 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-60846-326-8 USCO*

A thorough collection of inspiring and informed essays on applied Marxist theory and the future of labor unions.

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Haymarket Books Higher Education After Neoliberalism
Henry A. Giroux

“Henry Giroux is one of our most important public intellectuals.” —David H. Price, St. Martin’s University A revealing look at how neoliberal policies, practices, and modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice of higher education. Henry A. Giroux shows what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from marketdriven education policy. Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University. His recent books include Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories and The Culture of Cruelty and Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future.
EDUCATION November A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8⅛ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $17.00 | CAN $18.50 978-1-60846-334-3 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-350-3 USCO*

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Addresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.

U.S. War Crimes in Indochina
History, Responsibility, and the American Future

Edited by Mark Pavlick
This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under US bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented US bombing. The book also includes classic works by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman. Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the US movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, DC.

HISTORY January 5¼ x 8½ | 450 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-1-60846-323-7 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-351-0 USCO*

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Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war.

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Haymarket Books Black Panthers Speak
Third Edition

Edited by Philip S. Foner
“Essential reading for those who would prefer to judge the Panther movement for themselves.”—Library Journal Here are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and Fred Hampton; Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women; the party’s court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education; as well as songs, poems, and political cartoons. This is the story behind the Black Panthers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE September 5¼ x 8⅜ | 328 pp Trade Paper US $19.00 | CAN $20.99 978-1-60846-328-2 USCO*

Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals.
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A sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.

Co-op available National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign Excerpts in: Oakland Tribune National advertising: Independent, Jacobin, The Nation, Progressive

Lineages of Revolt
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East

Adam Hanieh
Praise for Adam Hanieh’s Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States: “The first work to be published in English that gives a full understanding of the formation and development of the Gulf capitalist class.”—Counterfire Too often the Arab uprisings have been reduced to a simple expression of mass protest against authoritarian regimes. In an accessible and engaging style, Adam Hanieh shows how an analysis of the specific nature of capitalist development in the Middle East is key to understanding these revolutions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 6¼ x 8½ | 348 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-60846-325-1 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-352-7 USCO*

Adam Hanieh teaches development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is the author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States.

In this illuminating and original work, Adam Hanieh demonstrates that the Arab Spring rebellions are about much more than democracy.

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Haymarket Books Field Notes on Democracy
Listening to Grasshoppers Second Edition
“In language of terrible beauty, she takes India’s everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again.”—Time With stunning prose and haunting insight, Arundhati Roy’s essays examine the dark side of democracy in contemporary India.
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | 7⅝ x 5¾ | 230 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-60846-327-5 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-353-4 USCO* | Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-60846-024-3

Arundhati Roy

Gaza in Crisis
Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians

Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky
Israel’s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. In this updated and expanded edition, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé survey the fallout from Israel’s conduct in Gaza, including their latest incursions, and place it in historical context.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | 7⅞ x 5⅛ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-60846-331-2 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-354-1 USCO* | Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-60846-097-7

Holding Fast to an Image of the Past
Essays on Marxism and History
This book of essays by Deutscher Prize–winning historian Neil Davidson insightfully explores themes running through historical materialism to show how Marxism can retain a sense of historical tradition without becoming fossilized. Examining classical and contemporary figures, subjects range from Naomi Klein’s view of Neoliberalism to Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels’s views on Scotland.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY | November | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9 | 400 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 | 978-1-60846-333-6 USCO* eBook ISBN: 978-1-60846-355-8 USCO*

Neil Davidson

Radical Unionism
The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism
“This is a very valuable, well thought out and useful volume. . . . Darlington’s work will remain a touchstone for scholarly debate on syndicalism for years to come.”—European History Quarterly Though often seen as opposing ideas, Ralph Darlington engagingly traces the entwined international legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement.
HISTORY / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | September | 5¼ x 8⅜ | 338 pp Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 | 978-1-60846-330-5 USCO*

Ralph Darlington

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FROM THE HISTORICAL MATERIALISM SERIES The Culture of People’s Democracy: Hungarian Essays on Literature, Art, and Democratic Transition, 1945–1948
György Lukács Edited with a translation by Tyrus Miller Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-337-4 USCO*

Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory
Lise Vogel Introduction by Susan Ferguson and David McNally Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-340-4 USCO*

Marx’s Temporalities
Massimiliano Tomba Translated by Peter D. Thomas and Sara R. Farris Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-339-8 USCO*

Marx and Singularity: From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse
Luca Basso Translated by Arianna Bove Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-336-7 USCO*

The Meanings of Work: Essays on the Affirmation and Negation of Work
Ricardo Antunes Foreword by István Mészáros Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-338-1 USCO*

FROM THE STUDIES IN CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCES SERIES Capital Accumulation and Migration
Dennis Canterbury Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-342-8 USCO*

Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism
Edited by John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-346-6 USCO*

Economic Nationalism and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America and Central Europe
Henryk Szlajfer Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-344-2 USCO*

Theorizing Globalization: A Critique of the Mediatization of Social Theory
Marko Ampuja Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-343-5 USCO*

Messages from Georg Simmel
Horst J. Helle Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-345-9 USCO*

Towards a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization
Eugene Gogol Trade Paper SDT US $28.00 | CAN $30.99 November 978-1-60846-341-1 USCO*

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Helter Skelter Publishing Pegasus Epitaph: The Story of the Legendary Rock Group Love
Second Edition

Michael Stuart-Ware
“The author evokes LA and its club circuit with breathtaking clarity.” —Classic Rock Michael Stuart-Ware, drummer on classic late ’60s Love albums Da Capo and Forever Changes, shares his inside perspective on the band’s recording and performing career, telling how money wrangles, drugs, and egos thwarted the potential of one of the great rock ensembles of the burgeoning psychedelic era. He also vividly portrays Love’s life away from the stage: hanging out in Laurel Canyon, drinking, smoking grass, chasing girls, and shooting the breeze with his fellow band members back in the summer of love.

MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY November 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-905139-33-0 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-900924-59-7

Author Hometown: Las Vegas, NV

The revised and updated edition of an insider’s story on the legendary ’60s rock group Love’s rise and fall.

Bread: A Sweet Surrender
The Musical Journey of David Gates, James Griffin & Co.

Malcolm C. Searles
Researched in detail, Bread: A Sweet Surrender includes exclusive interviews with founding member Robb Royer, along with friends, family, and former musical associates of the band. This first-ever biography of Bread reveals the story behind the group members’ formative years, their coming together, the rise of Bread, and the subsequent break-up and the messy lawsuits that were to dog them in later years. Also features exclusive insights into their successful but short-lived 1990s reunion. Malcolm C. Searles is a freelance rock music writer and lifelong Bread fan. He lives and works in Essex, United Kingdom.
MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY February A Paperback Original 6⅛ x 9¼ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-905139-34-7 USC

The first ever biography of the ’70s musical collective known as Bread.

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Selected Backlist from Helter Skelter Publishing

Little Symphonies: A Phil Spector Reader
Edited by Kingsley Abbott
MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5 x 7¾ | 224 pp 16 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-905139-01-9 USC

The Big Wheel
Bruce Thomas
MUSIC 6 x 9 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $21.50 978-1-900924-53-5

The Who By Numbers
The Story Of The Who Through Their Music Alan G. Parker and Steve Grantley

MUSIC 6⅛ x 9¼ | 352 pp B&W illustrations and photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.00 978-1-905139-26-2 USC

Natural Born Man: The Life of Jack Johnson
Marc Shapiro
MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6 x 9 | 188 pp 8 color photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 978-1-905139-14-9 USC

Bill Nelson & Be Bop Deluxe Paul Sutton Reeves
MUSIC 6⅛ x 9¼ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $24.50 978-1-905139-29-3 USC

Music in Dreamland

A Mod Anthology Third Edition Edited by Paolo Hewitt
SOCIAL SCIENCE / HISTORY 5 x 7¾ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $15.95 978-1-900924-88-7 USC

The Sharper Word

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Holy Cow! Press The Heart of All That Is
Reflections on Home

Edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela Mittlefehldt
This engaging anthology on the theme of home includes twenty personal essays and nearly eighty poems from a wide variety of social and cultural perspectives, as unique and diverse as the authors who have written them. Herein are previously uncollected writings by Joseph Bruchac, Jane Yolen, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Roberta Hill, Mark Vinz, and many others. In a world of increasing change and mobility, these writings explore our most fundamental concerns for self-identity: what is our home, where have we come from, who am I? From “The House Made of Words”: Some day I will have a house made of words. It will be all windows and doors, with the words placed in rows, each one leading to the next, the way the present wears the face of the past. Jim Perlman is the founding editor and publisher of Holy Cow! Press. Deborah Cooper is the author of Under the Influence of Lilacs (Clover Valley Press, 2010). She is the 2012–14 Poet Laureate of Duluth, Minnesota. Mara Hart writes memoir in prose and poetry. Her book, Lovecraft’s New York Circle, was published in 2007 by Hippocampus Press. Pamela Mittlefehldt is a poet and mystery writer. She is working on a collection of essays about the meaning of place.
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• • • • Public radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Regional and national tours LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 280 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9859818-2-2 USC

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Duluth, MN • Minneapolis, MN • Portland, OR • Madison, WI

Beloved on the Earth 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude Edited by Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela Mittlefehldt POETRY 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9779458-9-4 USC

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Holy Cow! Press Dropping into the Flower
Poems

Susan Deborah King
“King has an eye and ear at times reminiscent of William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, Amy Clampitt, Frost. ‘Riveting’: that’s the word that summarizes this poet most accurately. She sees and feels things up close, in ways rare in American poetry these days. The eye on the object, and the rhythm of the experience, even if that object is humble as an earthworm.” —Brendan Galvin In Dropping into the Flower, her fifth full-length collection of poems, Susan Deborah King focuses in lush, sensual detail on many varieties of flower, celebrating their qualities and allowing them to speak to her imagination. Close observation leads her, through the flowers, to explore love, mortality, ecology, myth, history, politics, healing, grief, and the transcendent. In a voice suffused, by turns, with passion, vulnerability, confidence, wonder, playfulness, and insight, and in a style rich with rhythm and sound effects, she extends to the reader a generous bouquet, vibrant and fragrant with immediacy of being. From “Flowers that are Truly Orange are Relatively Few”: If I had only one day, I’d want to burst as they do: peeled out, with feelers, bold as leaping cossacks trumpeting over green – starfires, with petals soft as the cheeks of a child. Her work having appeared widely in nationally recognized journals, Susan Deborah King is the author of four other poetry collections, including OneBreasted Woman and Tabernacle: Poems of an Island. She teaches creative writing and leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.
A worldly bouquet of powerfully lyrical poems about flowers evokes our connections to the natural world, to ourselves, and to each other. Also Available

POETRY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 112 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9859818-1-5 USC

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Bar Harbor, ME • Portland, ME • Lennox, MA • Duluth, MN • Minneapolis, MN Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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One-Breasted Woman Susan Deborah King POETRY 6 x 9 | 135 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $19.50 978-0-9779458-2-5 USC

Icon Books Messi
2013 Edition

Luca Caioli
In this updated edition for 2013, Luca Caioli draws on numerous exclusive testimonies to tell Lionel Messi’s story, including his parents and extended family, his coaches, and people who have played alongside him, as well as Messi himself. Previous edition sales exceeded forty thousand copies. Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who crafted his reputation as chief editor of Euronews TV in France. He is currently a correspondent for SKY Italia and resides in Spain.
SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September 5⅛ x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-906850-61-6 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906850-39-5

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Revised and completely updated to include Lionel Messi’s record-breaking 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons.

Ronaldo
The Obsession for Perfection—Updated Edition

Luca Caioli
When Cristiano Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid for a world recordshattering £80 million in 2009, it cemented his position as one of the best players of his era. This is the story of the two-time Ballon D’or winner, the first Premier League player to be named FIFA World Player of the Year, and winner of the 2010–11 Golden Shoe. The first edition has sold over ten thousand copies. Luca Caioli is a renowned Italian sports journalist who crafted his reputation at ITV in Britain, and as chief editor of Euronews TV in France. He settled in Spain five years ago where he is a correspondent for SKY Italia.

SPORTS & RECREATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September 5⅛ x 7¾ | 302 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-906850-62-3 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906850-29-6

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A biography of the Portugal and Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Totally updated to include the 2012–13 season.

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Icon Books The Science Magpie
Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams, and Jokes Plucked From Science

Simon Flynn
“Simon Flynn’s cornucopia of curious facts, anecdotes, and quotations . . . is sure to entertain and surprise.”—New Scientist From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities. Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power of the Richter scale, and learn how to measure the speed of light.
SCIENCE / HISTORY October 8 x 5¼ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-84831-599-0 US Trade Cloth US $22.95 978-1-84831-416-0 US

Simon Flynn was the publisher at Icon Books for many years and is now a qualified science teacher. He has degrees in chemistry and philosophy.

Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams—and even jokes— from across the scientific disciplines.

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Pandaemonium
The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

Humphrey Jennings
Foreword by Frank Cottrell Boyce
“Pandaemonium was the biggest single inspiration for the Olympics Opening Ceremony . . . the book is the equivalent of Pepys giving a guided tour of the birth of electricity and the mechanical age—it’s brilliant, exciting, and essential.”—Danny Boyle
HISTORY / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING September | A Paperback Original | 8¾ x 5½ | 416 pp Trade Paper US $27.95 | 978-1-84831-585-3 US

Constant Touch
A Global History of the Mobile Phone

Jon Agar
Jon Agar takes the modern mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped as a global basis. A truly world history of this everyday device which we take for granted. Jon Agar is currently senior lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is an expert on contemporary technologies.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING | September | 5½ x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Cloth US $18.95 | 978-1-84831-507-5 US

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Icon Books

Imagine That . . .
Michael Sells’s brand new Imagine That series—short, popular histories of how the past didn’t quite happen—launches with four titles this year. Each book is a flight of imagination that explores how the smallest changes to history could have spiraled out of control. Would a happy ending to Casablanca have led to a more prejudiced world? Would the death of a cat have been the most costly road accident in the history of technology?
Michael Sells PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Imagine That 4⅝ x 6⅝ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-575-4 US Michael Sells MUSIC September | A Paperback Original | Imagine That 4⅝ x 6⅝ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-569-3 US Michael Sells TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING September | A Paperback Original | Imagine That 4⅝ x 6⅝ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-572-3 US Michael Sells SPORTS & RECREATION September | A Paperback Original | Imagine That 4⅝ x 6⅝ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-566-2 US

Imagine That—Film

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Imagine That—Music

Imagine That—Technology

Imagine That—Football

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Icon Books Introducing Series Spinner Display

The Introducing spinner is free with an order of sixty books, and can be dismantled for use as either a counter display or a freestanding spinner. You can select any titles you like from the Introducing Graphic Guides series listed below. Icon’s Introducing series titles are $9.95 each.
Icon Books Introducing Series Counter-Standing Spinner Display Available Now Other US $0.00 978-1-84831-582-2 US Icon Books Introducing Series Floor-Standing Spinner Display Available Now Other US $0.00 978-1-84831-581-5 US

Introducing Aesthetics 978-1-84831-167-1 US Introducing Aristotle 978-1-84831-169-5 US Introducing Baudrillard 978-1-84831-207-4 US Introducing Buddha 978-1-84831-011-7 US Introducing Capitalism 978-1-84831-055-1 US Introducing Chaos 978-1-84831-013-1 US Introducing Chomsky 978-1-84831-206-7 US Introducing Continental Philosophy 978-1-84831-417-7 US Introducing Critical Theory 978-1-84831-059-9 US Introducing Cultural Studies 978-1-84831-181-7 US Introducing Derrida 978-1-84831-205-0 US Introducing Descartes 978-1-84831-172-5 US

Introducing Economics 978-1-84831-215-9 US Introducing Ethics 978-1-84831-008-7 US Introducing Evolution 978-1-84831-186-2 US Introducing Evolutionary Psychology 978-1-84831-182-4 US Introducing Feminism 978-1-84831-121-3 US Introducing Foucault 978-1-84831-060-5 US Introducing Fractals 978-1-84831-087-2 US Introducing Genetics 978-1-84831-295-1 US Introducing Heidegger 978-1-84831-174-9 US Introducing Hinduism 978-1-84831-114-5 US Introducing Infinity 978-1-84831-406-1 US Introducing Islam 978-1-84831-084-1 US Introducing Jesus 978-1-84831-409-2 US Introducing Joyce 978-1-84831-351-4 US Introducing Kant 978-1-84831-209-8 US Introducing Lacan 978-1-84831-183-1 US Introducing Linguistics 978-1-84831-088-9 US Introducing Logic 978-1-84831-012-4 US Introducing Mathematics 978-1-84831-297-5 US

Introducing Media Studies 978-1-84831-184-8 US Introducing Modernism 978-1-84831-116-9 US Introducing Nietzsche 978-1-84831-009-4 US Introducing Particle Physics 978-1-84831-589-1 US Introducing Philosophy 978-1-84046-853-3 US Introducing Plato 978-1-84831-177-0 US Introducing Political Philosophy 978-1-84831-203-6 US Introducing Postmodernism 978-1-84046-849-6 US Introducing Psychology 978-1-84046-852-6 US Introducing Quantum Theory 978-1-84046-850-2 US Introducing Relativity 978-1-84831-057-5 US Introducing Romanticism 978-1-84831-178-7 US Introducing Rousseau 978-1-84831-212-8 US Introducing Sartre 978-1-84831-211-1 US Introducing Slavoj Zizek 978-1-84831-293-7 US Introducing Statistics 978-1-84831-056-8 US Introducing Stephen Hawking 978-1-84831-094-0 US Introducing the Enlightenment 978-1-84831-179-4 US Introducing Wittgenstein 978-1-84831-086-5 US

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Icon Books Introducing Family Psychology
James Powell
Based on clinically proven and tried-and-tested approaches, Introducing Family Psychology is a valuable resource to help all child carers—from couples to single parents and grandparents. James Powell is a leading clinical psychologist and a consultant psychologist for US military personnel stationed in the United Kingdom.
PSYCHOLOGY / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS | October | Practical Guides | 4¾ x 6¾ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-518-1 US

Introducing Particle Physics
Tom Whyntie
Illustrated by Oliver Pugh
What really happens at the most fundamental levels of nature? From the earliest history of the atomic theory through to the Higgs boson, practicing physicist and CERN contributor Tom Whyntie gives us a mind-expanding tour of cutting-edge science in this brand new graphic guide.
SCIENCE | February | Introducing | 4¾ x 6⅞ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-589-1 US

Introducing Existentialism
Richard Appignanesi
Illustrated by Oscar Zarate
This is Richard Appignanesi’s erudite investigation of existentialism, the philosophical and cultural movement that prioritizes individual experience. Richard Appignanesi is a novelist, editor, publisher, and research fellow at King’s College London.
PHILOSOPHY | January | Introducing | 4¾ x 6¾ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-613-3 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-84046-266-1

Introducing Fascism
Stuart Hood
Illustrated by Litza Jansz
A fascinating graphic guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism, tracing the origins of its ideas to nineteenth-century traditions. Stuart Hood is a World War II POW escapee and subsequent expert and BBC filmmaker.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | Introducing | 4¾ x 6⅞ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | 978-1-84831-612-6 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-84046-154-1

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Icon Books Introducing Series Box Sets
Three brilliant box sets, each containing three graphic guides!
Three titles from the Introducing Graphic Guides series in an attractive slipcase for only $21.95, a savings of $7.90. The Introducing box sets are the perfect gift for those who love big ideas. With a carefully curated selection of titles, they cover psychology (Know Thyself ), science (Great Theories), and philosophy (Think for Yourself ). Each contains unique titles to make you think, from specific subjects like Introducing Quantum Theory to the wide-ranging Introducing Psychology. Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind’s most thrilling ideas. A perfect introduction to the classic series or a great way to get started on a new subject area.

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Ig Publishing Part of the Family?
Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers and the Battle for Domestic Workers’ Rights

Sheila Bapat
Love and compassion are at the heart of domestic labor, yet historically, domestic workers have been rendered invisible—by society and in the eyes of the law. Mostly foreign-born women, these workers have been excluded from labor protections that workers in the rest of the economy take for granted. However, in the past decade, a growing movement has emerged calling for domestic workers to share in the same rights guaranteed other workers, which is likely to lead to one of the most critical and encompassing labor battles of the twenty-first century. Part of the Family? Nannies, Housekeepers, Caregivers and the Battle for Domestic Workers’ Rights chronicles the rising political and social movement to secure labor protections for domestic workers who toil in our homes cleaning, cooking, and caring for our children and elders. Through interviews with the leaders and activists who are forging new and unlikely political alliances among workers, employers, policymakers, and other social justice movements, as well as analysis of the historical underpinnings of the current fight for improved conditions and protections for domestic workers, this important and timely book will shine an overdue light on the invisible laborers who are so critical to our economy (and our families). Sheila Bapat is an attorney and writer covering economics, labor, reproductive policy, and gender discrimination and disparity in politics and the workforce. She writes about economic justice topics for RH Reality Check, and contributes to Reuters. Her work has been published in many places, including Slate and the Believer. She holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania, and currently lives in San Francisco, California.
Documents the rising movement to secure rights for cooks, nannies, caregivers, and other domestic workers.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS March A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935439-85-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-88-2 W

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Phoenix, AZ • San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

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Ig Publishing The Naked Society
Vance Packard
Introduction by Rick Perlstein
Originally published in 1964, The Naked Society was the first book to discuss how then-new technologies such as hidden microphones, concealed cameras, modern filing systems, and the polygraph lie detector could be used by government, employers, stores, credit bureaus, security personnel, and other officials to invade our civil liberties. Such activity, which represented the most flagrant of the many assaults upon individual rights, was only part of Vance Packard’s truly shocking book, which also considered the ominous implications of loyalty investigations, passport and travel restrictions, and overzealous police actions. In the end, according to Packard, new technologies, manipulated by government and business, were eroding our freedoms, creating a world akin to something out of George Orwell’s 1984. Timelier than ever in today’s world, where our civil liberties are under constant threat from technology and the actions of government and business, this all new edition of The Naked Society features an introduction by noted historian Rick Perlstein.

SOCIAL SCIENCE October 5½ x 8¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935439-83-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-86-8 W

The Naked Society (1964) was the first book to discuss the threats that new technology posed to individual privacy.

Betwixt and Between
Jessica Stilling

Peter Pan meets The Lovely Bones in this beautifully rendered and emotionally devastating debut novel about where children go when they die. Betwixt and Between follows three intertwining narratives: that of Preston Tumbler, a ten-year-old boy who is poisoned by a neighbor and wakes up in Neverland, where he finds himself—along with a group of other deceased children—under the watchful eye of Peter Pan; Preston’s mother, Claire, in the real world, as she deals with the loss of her son; and a family in Victorian London as they wait for their little girl to awake from a coma, a family whose neighbor happens to be Peter Pan author JM Barrie.
FICTION December A Paperback Original 5½ x 8 | 296 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-935439-84-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935439-87-5 USC

Jessica Stilling has an MFA from City College, where she currently teaches creative writing. She has been an editor for The Muse Apprenticeship Guild, The Olive Tree Review, and The Castalia Project. She lives in New York City.

Peter Pan meets The Lovely Bones in this devastatingly beautiful novel about where our children go when they die.

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

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Independent Thinking Press From My Heart
Transforming Lives through Values

Neil Hawkes, PhD
Values Education is the philosophy and practice that inspires both children and adults to be the best that they can be. Dr. Neil Hawkes advocates a positive mental attitude that aims to empower young people with a sense of their own future and their potential to shape it according to their own purpose. Neil discusses the benefits of caring for yourself and others, as well as providing medical evidence to support these ideas. He demonstrates ways in which teachers, parents, and pupils can use his philosophy to create a happier and more productive learning environment, raising their self-awareness and self-confidence.
EDUCATION March A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $23.95 | CAN $26.50 978-1-78135-106-2 USC

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The founder and father of Values discusses the benefits to education and learning of caring for yourself and others.

The Best Job in the World
Vic Goddard

Day after day we hear and read about the pressures of being a principal but we really don’t hear enough about the pure joy of it. The journey from trainee or newly qualified teacher to principal can seem to be a long and often treacherous road, with many reasons not to travel it. Vic Goddard shows you that it can be done and it can be done without losing your own passion and moral purpose. Vic shares the pitfalls that he fell into in the hope that you can avoid them as well as the amazing influences and experiences he has picked up on the way.
EDUCATION November A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $23.95 | CAN $26.50 978-1-78135-110-9 USC

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“Day after day we hear about the pressures of being a head teacher but not enough about the joy of it.”

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Independent Thinking Press Unhomework
How to Get the Most out of Homework Without Really Setting It

Mark Creasy
Of all the aspects of day-to-day school life, the one that causes the most aggravation and unpleasantness for children, their teachers, and their parents is homework. But the one aspect that could add the most value to children’s school experience, to their approach to learning, to their achievements in the classroom, and to their success beyond school as independent, resilient, and resourceful life-long learners, is homework . . . done well. This book, drawn from genuine classroom experience that really makes a positive difference, is full of tips and ideas to help make the move to children taking responsibility for their own work.
EDUCATION September A Paperback Original 8¼ x 5¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78135-109-3 USC

One of the most beneficial learning facilities that school provides is homework. But homework done well. Arguably, it’s often not.

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Freaked Out
The Bewildered Teachers Guide to Digital Learning

David Morgan
Ever had the feeling that if your classroom’s not switched on, wired up, flipped, blogged, and tweeted, then there’s something wrong? Ever wanted to do something about it but just haven’t known where to start? Ever thought to yourself, “All those gadgets are fine but what does it mean for their learning?” Ever felt freaked out? This is the book you need. Written in a practical, no-nonsense style by a real teacher who knows his technology but, above all, knows learning, this is the book that will help you make that twenty-first century classroom a reality.
EDUCATION October A Paperback Original 8¼ x 5¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78135-105-5 USC

David Morgan presents tools from Twitter to TelePresence and arms you with the knowledge to utilize them effectively!

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Independent Thinking Press Dirty Teaching
A Beginner’s Guide to Learning Outdoors

Juliet Robertson
Juliet Robertson offers tips and tricks to help any teacher develop variety in their teaching. One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it, and this book will give you the confidence to do it. It contains a wealth of ideas that allow teachers and parents to encourage outdoor learning and improve student participation. All you need is your coat, a passion for learning– oh, and bring the kids too! Juliet Robertson writes the popular education blog I’m a Teacher, Get me Outside Here, where she articulates her ideas and enthusiasm for learning outdoors.
EDUCATION January A Paperback Original 7⅛ x 8¼ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-1-78135-107-9 USC

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There’s no need for expensive tools or complicated technologies; all you need is your coat and a passion for learning!

The Thinking Teacher
Oliver Quinlan

“Good teachers do, great teachers think.” Oliver Quinlan presents ideas from education, business, and other areas of life that teachers and educational leaders can use to enhance and explore their thinking. In order to progress we must philosophize about learning, question traditional practice, and be resourceful in providing solutions for better education. The only way the education system can improve standards and be at its best is by ensuring that those who govern it don’t stop thinking about it! Innovation is the key to our progress as individuals and society as a whole.
EDUCATION March A Paperback Original 8¼ x 5¾ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $26.95 | CAN $29.50 978-1-78135-108-6 USC

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“Good teachers do, great teachers think.” Oliver Quinlan presents ideas from life, education, and business, enhancing learning and educational thinking.

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Independent Thinking Press The Perfect Teacher
Jackie Beere

A pragmatic, practical guide to help you grow and flourish so that you can become the outstanding teacher who makes the difference between success and failure for our future generation. Expectations are high, time is short— prepare to be challenged and supported to be the best you can be.
EDUCATION | February | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Paper over Board US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-78135-100-0 USC

The Perfect Tutor
Jamie Flanagan Williams
The most powerful influence on any individual child’s achievement in school is or should be their class tutor. Coach, mentor, critical friend, “parent,” nag, inspiration . . . so many opportunities to make a difference. This book provides practical strategies and guidance to make the most of this often underdeveloped role in so many schools.
EDUCATION | February | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Paper over Board US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-78135-102-4 USC

The Perfect SENCO
Natalie Packer
Leading provision to improve outcomes for children with special educational needs has never been more important. Natalie Packer brings her expertise as a special education needs consultant to offer practical guidance for coordinators and other school leaders that will ensure your school is delivering outstanding progress for all children.
EDUCATION | February | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Paper over Board US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-78135-104-8 USC

The Perfect ICT Lesson
Mark Anderson
Technology is at the heart of learning and every teacher needs to be using social media, mobile technologies, and transformational digital learning opportunities as an integral part of their range of strategies for helping students make the maximum progress. Mark Anderson provides practical strategies that are proven to be successful in classrooms.
EDUCATION | January | The Perfect Series | 5 x 7⅛ | 128 pp Paper over Board US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-78135-103-1 USC

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Kehrer Verlag Son
Photographs by Christopher Anderson

With this book, Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson, renowned for his documentary work from conflict zones all over the world, presents a very personal body of work: “These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. . . . Through my son, my role as the son took on new meaning and my senses were hypertuned to the evidence of my own life passing.” Christopher Anderson’s distinctions include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, two World Press Photo Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
PHOTOGRAPHY September 7⅞ x 9⅝ | 96 pp 50 color photographs Paper over Board US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-390-7 USC

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An intimate body of work from Magnum conflict photographer Christopher Anderson.

7 Rooms
Photographs by Rafal Milach
Text by Svietlana Alexievich
Polish photographer Rafal Milach accompanied with his camera seven young people living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Krasnoyarsk. In intimate pictures, he portrays a generation caught between the mentality of the old Soviet regime and the up-and-coming Russia of the Putin era. In this album, bound in high-grade synthetic leather, these snapshots of contemporary Russian life are accompanied by sensitive interviews with those portrayed. 7 Rooms was shortlisted for Paris Photo Aperture PhotoBook Award 2012 in the category First Book and was winner of the Best Photography Book Pictures of the Year Award 2011.

PHOTOGRAPHY September 6½ x 8 | 152 pp 57 color photographs Vinyl Bound US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-265-8 USC

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A sensitive portrait of contemporary Russian life that goes far beyond the familiar stereotypes.

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Kehrer Verlag Occupy São Paulo
Photographs and text by Carlos Cazalis
Edited by Bree Seeley
As one of the world’s mega cities, reaching a population of twenty million, São Paulo perpetuates a tremendous urban stress to its residents, especially in terms of habitat. Carlos Cazalis’s series shows the homeless sleepers in the streets, the illegal occupations of land in the outskirts and of buildings downtown São Paulo, as well as the gated communities outside the city. Carlos Cazalis’s work has been exhibited widely in Latin America and Europe, and his images have appeared in Le Monde, L’Espresso, the New York Times, National Geographic, and the Guardian. He has won a World Press Photo Award with this series.

PHOTOGRAPHY Available Now 9½ x 11⅞ | 112 pp 144 color photographs Paper over Board US $52.00 | CAN $56.99 978-3-86828-400-3 USC

Haunting images from one of the world’s mega cities.

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Topography is Fate
North African Battlefields of WWII

Photographs by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold spent months in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya to photograph these unfamiliar North African landscapes upon which many crucial battles in the North African Campaign were fought. The sites were found utilizing old battle maps to follow the paths that the Allied military units used, and hadn’t been seen and certainly not photographed in over sixty years. Arnold has documented the battlefields as they currently stand in a personal style of landscape photography: impressionistic muted horizons of desert, coastal seascape, and grassland, incorporating bunkers, trenches, and physical artifacts of the conflict that remain as part of the environment.
PHOTOGRAPHY November 11¾ x 9½ | 144 pp 60 color photographs Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 978-3-86828-404-1 USC

Marketing Plans A series of landscapes upon which many crucial battles in the North African Campaign were fought.
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Kehrer Verlag Ocean Beach
Photographs by Douglas Ljungkvist
Text by Harvey Benge and Steve Bisson
With his graphic, color-sensitive, and vernacular photographic voice, Douglas Ljungkvist produced a body of work depicting a unique place in the American landscape with strong yet quiet subtexts of time, memory, and identity. The project was completed before Hurricane Sandy partially destroyed Ocean Beach in October 2012. Fine art photographer Douglas Ljungkvist has exhibited at festivals and in galleries both in the United States and Europe as well as winning several awards for his personal projects.
PHOTOGRAPHY September 11⅞ x 9½ | 112 pp 90 color photographs Paper over Board US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-403-4 USC

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A topographic study of a 1940s New Jersey beach resort with a focus on color, form, and space.

Casa Ghirri
Photographs by François Halard

When François Halard visits the house and studio of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), the images, like an artist’s portrait, photograph the corporeality and atmospheres of a poetic work. It’s a demonstration of what photography is capable of, producing a radiography of a universe in which the relationships between objects are a perfect synthesis between sophisticated beauty and everyday life. François Halard studied in Paris, France, before he moved to New York to work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House & Garden. His photographs for these magazines made him one of the most sought-after and renowned architecture photographers of our age.

PHOTOGRAPHY October 8⅜ x 11 | 96 pp 50 color photographs Paper over Board US $52.00 | CAN $56.99 978-3-86828-397-6 USC

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A visit in poetic images of the home and studio of the iconic Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri.

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Kehrer Verlag The Burn
Photographs by Jane Fulton Alt
Introduction by Jane Fulton Alt
This photo series begun when the artist observed a controlled prairie burn. Jane Fulton Alt shows the diverse elements of the burn—the mysterious luminosity, the smoke that both obscures and reveals. She says, “I was immediately struck by the burn’s visual and expressive potential, as well as the way it evoked themes that are at the core of my photographic work—the moment when life and death are not contradictory but are perceived as as a single process.” Jane Fulton Alt is a fine art photographer whose work is in numerous American museums and collections.
PHOTOGRAPHY October 8¼ x 8¼ | 96 pp 40 color photographs Paper over Board US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-401-0 USC

Marketing Plans These images of prairie fires suggest a zone of ambiguity where destruction merges with renewal.
Outreach to photography publications and websites • Social media campaign Promotion through: www.janefultonalt.com Author Hometown: Chicago, IL

My Days of Losing Words
Photographs by Rachael Jablo
Introduction by Robert Wuilfe Essay by Dawn Buse
Photographer Rachael Jablo suffers from chronic migraine. Without medication, the pain makes her lose the ability to speak; with medication, she suffers from side effects that cause her to forget words. In My Days of Losing Words, she creates color photographs that act as synthetic memories of the lost words. The series consists of three types of images: domestic still life images, documentary images of medical spaces, and self-portraits at home and in medical spaces. Rachael Jablo has exhibited across the country, including the Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Washington; Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado; and Brandeis University.

PHOTOGRAPHY November 9½ x 8½ | 96 pp 50 color photographs Paper over Board US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-402-7 USC

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Images from the chronic migraine netherworld between pain and sanity.

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Kehrer Verlag Photographic Objects
Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, Spiros Hadjidjanos

Markus Kramer
For the first time, Photographic Objects traces important conceptual connections between the work of Thomas Ruff and that of a younger generation of artists. Against the backdrop of ongoing debates on the “nature of photography,” Markus Kramer has developed a new approach to pinpointing what distinguishes the photographic medium from all others. The book’s detailed illustrations offer an extensive overview of the work of Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Spiros Hadjidjanos, while the theory postulated here forms a conceptual framework for the discussion of contemporary artistic practices.
PHOTOGRAPHY / ART September 9½ x 11 | 144 pp 69 color photographs Paper over Board US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-378-5 USC

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An extensive overview of the work of Thomas Ruff, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Kelley Walker, and Spiros Hadjidjanos.

Paul Klee—Fausto Melotti
Edited by Bettina Della Casa and Guido Comis

This catalog, for the first time, highlights the relationships and affinities between Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, a leading figure in twentieth-century art, and Fausto Melotti, an Italian artist whose name has become increasingly well known at an international level in recent years, by means of a surprising dialogue between their works. The catalog compares over seventy paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Klee with some eighty sculptures and drawings by Melotti. A large selection of critical essays and short writings by contemporary artists contribute to casting light on the relationship between these two protagonists of twentiethcentury art.

ART December A Paperback Original 8⅝ x 11 | 384 pp 243 color photographs Trade Paper US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-3-86828-383-9 USC

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A surprising dialogue between the works of leading figures in twentieth-century art Paul Klee and Fausto Melotti.

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Selected Backlist from Kehrer Verlag

Retrospective Edited with an introduction by Dirk Luckow and Sabine Schnakenberg
PHOTOGRAPHY / ART 9⅜ x 11¾ | 256 pp 198 color and B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-3-86828-358-7 USC

Harry Callahan

Photographs by Jürgen Nogai and Julius Shulman
Text by Jürgen Nogai and Thomas Schirmböck

Julius Shulman: The Last Decade

Till the Cows Come Home
Photographs by Dan Nelken
Contributions by Roy Flukinger
PHOTOGRAPHY 9½ x 9½ | 120 pp 60 color photographs Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $55.00 978-3-939583-87-5 USC

PHOTOGRAPHY 11⅛ x 9⅛ | 144 pp 90 color photographs Trade Cloth US $60.00 | CAN $72.00 978-3-86828-159-0 USC

The Silence of Dogs in Cars
Photographs by Martin Usborne
Introduction by Susan McHugh
PHOTOGRAPHY / PETS 12½ x 10½ | 96 pp 45 color photographs Trade Cloth US $50.00 | CAN $54.99 978-3-86828-318-1 USC

Photographs by Sol Neelman
Edited by Mike Davis Text by Sol Neelman and Brandy Rettig

Weird Sports

The Oracle@WiFi
Photographs by Beth Lilly
PHOTOGRAPHY 7½ x 10¾ | 112 pp 135 color photographs Paper over Board US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-3-86828-292-4 USC

Text by Beth Lilly and Katherine Ware

PHOTOGRAPHY 11⅞ x 9⅜ | 112 pp 70 color photographs Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-3-86828-219-1 USC

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Koyama Press
Toronto, Ontario

Since its establishment in 2007, Koyama Press’s mandate has been to promote and provide support to an array of emerging and established artists. This mandate is realized by funding and producing a diverse collection of publications and artists’ projects. Projects include comics, art books, exhibitions, prints, and zines. Koyama Press has quickly become one of the most important and relevant publishers working in North America today. The press has produced and given audience to the earliest work from some of the brightest emerging talents in fine art and cartooning, as well as publishing work by more established artists. The artists and books they have produced have since gone on to win a number of awards and accolades and influence the medium itself. Koyama Press’s pioneering approach to book publishing—one that places art and artists above profits and bottom lines—has made a dramatic impact on the comics, artistic, and literary communities both locally, in their native Canada, and internationally.

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Koyama Press Fata Morgana
Jon Vermilyea

Fata Morgana follows the adventure of a young boy through the landscapes of his imagination. He encounters and befriends creatures that are, like all mirages, born out of aspects of his own unconscious. Presented in vibrantly colored two-page panoramas, Fata Morgana is a feast for the eyes and mind. Jon Vermilyea is a multitalented Los Angeles–based illustrator, cartoonist, animator, and printmaker. His psychedelic, candy-colored illustrations and unique designs of the monstrous and mythical have left their mark on a wide range of clients, including Problem Solverz, Adventure Time, Marvel Comics, the acclaimed alternative band Animal Collective, and many more.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS November A Paperback Original 8½ x 11 | 48 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.00 978-1-927668-03-0 W

Fata Morgana follows the adventure of a young boy through the landscapes of his imagination.

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Blobby Boys
Alex Schubert

Blobby Boys is a hilarious and slime-filled comic about pot smoking blobby bandmates who are equal parts Ninja Turtles and punks. Their exploits dealing, robbing, and jamming are rounded out by the misadventures of Aging Hipster and Punk Dad. Alex Schubert was born in Mascoutah, Illinois, and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. His Tumblr-based blog Zine Police features excerpts from his sketchbooks and zines including The Dudes and Blobby Boys, which MTV praised as “one of the funniest dumbest bestest webcomics we’ve come across in a minute.”
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 52 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $10.00 978-1-927668-02-3 W

Blobby Boys is not a rip off. It is a hilarious and slime-filled comic about pot smoking blobby band mates.

Author Hometown: Kansas City, MO

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Koyama Press Little Tommy Lost: Book One
Cole Closser

Separated from his parents on a trip to the big city, a lost little boy unknowingly sets out on a great adventure as he searches for a way home in Little Tommy Lost: Book One. Reminiscent of the newspaper strips and lushly illustrated Sunday comics of the early twentieth century, Cole Closser’s work is steeped in cartooning history, but filled with an unparalleled sense of the new. Cole Closser is a cartoonist who seemingly hails from a bygone era. Closser is a graduate of The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, and currently lives in the Ozarks.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS September A Paperback Original Little Tommy Lost 10 x 7½ | 72 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.00 978-1-927668-01-6 W

A little boy lost in the city unknowingly sets out on a great adventure as he searches for home.

S.F. #3
Ryan Cecil Smith

Our precocious protagonist Hupa Dupa’s family is blown up by pirates, so he’s recruited into the Space Fleet Scientific Foundation Special Forces to fight them. The S.F.S.F.S.F. is racing across the stars forming an alliance to win the war against the Pirate Nation. Hupa Dupa is a small kid, but he will “try his best” to “take positive action” in order to help! Ryan Cecil Smith was born in Southern California and currently lives and works in Nishinomiya, Japan. His work is a melange of imagery and style derived from both American and Japanese culture.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS November A Paperback Original S.F. 7 x 10 | 60 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $10.00 978-1-927668-00-9 W

A boy’s family is blown up by pirates, so he’s recruited into the galaxy’s most elite scientist-fighters to fight them!

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Koyama Press Lose #5
Michael DeForge
Lose houses three stories: “Living Outdoors” tracks two high school students as they explore a zoo and experiment with hallucinogens. “Muskoka” features a cowboy on the road home to see his family. “Recent Hires” follows a young author’s descent into the criminal underworld in order to win over a girl.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | Lose | 7 x 10 | 48 pp B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $8.00 | 978-0-9879630-6-2 W

Very Casual
Michael DeForge
Culled from mini comics, online comics, and anthology contributions, Very Casual collects notable short stories from Michael DeForge’s prolific oeuvre. Included are stories about litter gangs, meat-filled snowmen, righteous cops, beagle/human hybrids, and forest-bound drag queens.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | 6 x 9 | 152 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $15.00 | 978-0-9879630-7-9 W

Journal
Julie Delporte
Journal displays Julie Delporte’s organic and immediate drawings that utilize an uncanny sense of color and composition to illustrate their intimate, diarist narratives. Cataloging an emotional breakup, an artist’s residency, and the anxieties and joys of everyday life, Delporte’s elegant illuminated diary is a private life made public and poetic.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | 6½ x 9 | 184 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $20.00 | 978-0-9879630-9-3 W

Everything Takes Forever
Victor Kerlow
Everything Takes Forever is a collection of cartoonist and illustrator Victor Kerlow’s ink-and-wash comics that blur the quotidian with the absurd. In Kerlow’s world, tacos and toast have bodies and smoke, tiny men who can no longer copulate or consume sandwiches deal with existential angst, and dream logic pervades.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOR | Available Now | 8 x 10 | 60 pp Color and B&W illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $10.00 | 978-0-9879630-8-6 W

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Recent & Recommended from Koyama Press The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
Julia Wertz

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is not a sustained narrative, but rather a collection of three short stories. The stories in this collection contain Julia Wertz’s signature acerbic wit, ribald humor, and keen eye for the everyday, but they also find the cartoonist delving more deeply into the personal.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | 6½ x 9 | 228 pp B&W illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $15.00 | 978-0-9879630-2-4 W

Lose #4
Michael DeForge

This issue—“The Fashion Issue”—features a post-adolescent punk’s leatherand-spike-laced metamorphosis, a look at the lives and fashions of the exquisite corpses that make up the Canadian Royalty, and a town that is haunted by its past, which happens to look a lot like its present.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | Lose | 7 x 10 | 44 pp B&W illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $8.00 | 978-0-9879630-0-0 W

Rivers Forgotten
Jeremy Kai
Beneath the streets of cities lie networks of hidden water features, sewers, and storm drains, which go unobserved by the general public. Jeremy Kai’s underground photography explores these buried vistas, as well as the concepts of urban watersheds and the methods in which cities and their populations interact with them.
PHOTOGRAPHY / ARCHITECTURE | Available Now | 10 x 8 | 72 pp Color photographs throughout | Trade Paper US $25.00 | 978-0-9868739-5-9 W

By This Shall You Know Him
Jesse Jacobs
Witness the limitless ambitions of celestial beings as they fiddle and fuss with all sorts of molecular arrangements, creating infinitely detailed patterns and strange new worlds brimming with bizarre life forms. By This Shall You Know Him depicts all manner of beasts running, crawling, and slithering towards death’s cold embrace.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS | Available Now | 8½ x 10⅞ | 80 pp Color illustrations throughout | Trade Paper US $15.00 | 978-0-9868739-8-0 W

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Koyama Press Backlist
The Big Team Society League Book of Answers Team Society League Trade Paper $10.00 978-0-9879630-1-7 W Comics Class Matthew Forsythe Trade Paper $5.00 978-0-9868739-6-6 W Sunday in the Park with Boys Jane Mai Trade Paper $10.00 978-0-9879630-5-5 W Wowee Zonk 4 Edited by Chris Kuzma, Patrick Kyle, and Ginette Lapalme Trade Paper $15.00 978-0-9868739-9-7 W

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Kube Publishing Ltd The Muslim Heritage of Bengal
The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal

Muhammad Mojlum Khan
“The Muslim Heritage of Bengal is a multidimensional work. . . . I am sure this book will add to the vista of knowledge in the field of Muslim history and heritage of Bengal. I recommend this work.”—A. K. M. Yaqub Ali, PhD, professor emeritus, Islamic history and culture, University of Rajshahi “Khan’s book provides invaluable information which will inspire present and future generations.”—M. Abdul Jabbar Beg, PhD, former professor of Islamic history and civilization, National University of Malaysia A popular history that covers eight hundred years of the history of Islam in Bengal through the example of forty-two inspirational men and women up until the twentieth century. Written by the author of the best-selling The Muslim 100. Included are the prominent figures Shah Jalal, Nawab Abdul Latif, Rt. Hon. Syed Ameer Ali, Sir Salimullah Khan Bahadur, and Begum Rokeya. Muhammad Mojlum Khan was born in 1973 in Habiganj, Bangladesh, and was educated in England. He is a teacher, author, literary critic, and research scholar, and has published more than 150 essays and articles worldwide. He is the author of The Muslim 100 (2008). He is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and director of the Bengal Muslim Research Institute, United Kindgom. He lives in England with his family.
HISTORY November 7½ x 9⅝ | 384 pp Trade Paper US $30.95 | CAN $33.99 978-1-84774-052-6 USC Trade Cloth US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-84774-059-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-84774-062-5 W

Who are the most influential Muslims in the history of Bengal and why? Find out in this book. Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies

Also Available

• Outreach to South Asia interest magazines and websites • Social media campaign • Giveaways on Goodreads and LibraryThing • Promotion through: www.bmri.org.uk

The Muslim 100 The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential Muslims in History Muhammad Mojlum Khan BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 7½ x 9¾ | 450 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $30.00 978-1-84774-006-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-84774-029-8 W

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Kube Publishing Ltd Educating Muslim Women
The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u 1793–1864

Beverley Mack and Jean Boyd
Nana Asma’u was a devout, learned Muslim who was able to observe, record, interpret, and influence the major public events that happened around her. Daughters are still named after her, her poems still move people profoundly, and the memory of her remains a vital source of inspiration and hope. Her example as an educator is still followed: the system she set up in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, for the education of rural women, has not only survived in its homeland—through the traumas of the colonization of West Africa and the establishment of the modern state of Nigeria—but is also being revived and adapted elsewhere, notably among Muslim women in the United States. This book, richly illustrated with maps and photographs, recounts Asma’u’s upbringing and critical junctures in her life from several sources, mostly unpublished: her own firsthand experiences presented in her writings, the accounts of contemporaries who witnessed her endeavors, and the memoirs of European travelers. For the account of her legacy the authors have depended on extensive field studies in Nigeria, and documents pertaining to the efforts of women in Nigeria and the United States, to develop a collective voice and establish their rights as women and Muslims in today’s societies. Beverley Mack is an associate professor of African studies at the University of Kansas. She is co-editor (with Catherine Coles) of Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century and co-author (with Jean Boyd) of The Collected Works of Nana Asma’u, 1793–1864 and One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u Scholar and Scribe. Jean Boyd is former principal research fellow of the Sokoto History Bureau and research associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Nana Asma’u (1793–1864) was a prolific Muslim scholar, poet, historian, and educator whose legacy in Nigeria and America continues today.

HISTORY October A Paperback Original 5¾ x 8¼ | 240 pp 10 color photographs, 10 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-84774-044-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-84774-061-8 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • Outreach to libraries and universities • Outreach to Muslim, history, and West Africa magazines and websites • Giveaways on Goodreads and LibraryThing

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Kube Publishing Ltd New Directions in Islamic Education
Pedagogy and Identity Formation

Abdullah Sahin, PhD
“This ground-breaking book is one of the most significant contributions made in recent years to Islamic education.”—John M. Hull, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom New Directions in Islamic Education is a radical rethinking of Islamic education in the modern world. It explores the relationship between pedagogy and the formation of religious identities within Islamic education settings that are based in minority and majority Muslim contexts. Abdullah Sahin, PhD, directs the Centre for Muslim Educational Thought and Practice and is the course leader for the MEd program in Islamic education at MIHE in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
EDUCATION January 6¼ x 9¼ | 300 pp Trade Cloth US $54.95 | CAN $60.50 978-1-84774-033-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-84774-064-9 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies Outreach to libraries and universities Outreach to educational and religious magazines and websites

A groundbreaking rethink of Islamic education in the modern world.

Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship
Imam al-Ghazali

In this book readers are led on a powerful and inspiring journey through the inner dimensions of a range of Islamic acts, including prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage. Consisting of a selection of writings by a great figure in Islamic history, Imam al-Ghazali, this book helps readers realize the benefits of the upliftment of their spiritual, social, and moral qualities. Al-Ghazali (1058–1111), a towering figure in Islam, was born at Tus, near Mashhad in Iran, in the early Seljuq era. He wrote a large number of works, of which his magnum opus was the Ihya’ Ulum al-Din compiled during his period of retirement and contemplation.

RELIGION September A Paperback Original The Islamic Foundation 5¾ x 8¼ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $9.00 | CAN $9.99 978-0-86037-125-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-86037-516-6 W

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies Giveaways on Goodreads and LibraryThing Outreach to Muslim interest magazines and websites

A classic selection of Imam al-Ghazali’s work that outlines the fulfillment to the spirit from inner dimensions of worship.

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Selected Backlist from Kube Publishing Ltd

Life Coaching for Muslims
Discover the Best in You! Sayeda Habib
SELF-HELP 5 x 7¾ | 140 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84774-025-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-84774-055-7 W

The Best of Muslim Home Cooking Karimah bint Dawood
COOKING / RELIGION 7⅝ x 9⅜ | 104 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84774-031-1 USC

Heavenly Bites

Imam al-Ghazali
A Concise Life Edoardo Albert
JUVENILE NONFICTION 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

A Journey Through Islamic History
A Timeline of Key Events Yasminah Hashim and Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg
RELIGION / HISTORY 12 x 8½ | 164 pp Color photographs, illustrations, and maps throughout Trade Cloth US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-84774-028-1 USC

Muhammad: Man and Prophet
Adil Salahi
RELIGION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 6¼ x 9¼ | 854 pp Trade Paper US $40.00 | CAN $48.00 978-0-86037-322-3 USC

What Every Christian Should Know About Islam
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
RELIGION 5 x 7½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $12.00 | CAN $14.50 978-0-86037-375-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-86037-419-0 W

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Leapfrog Press Being Dead in South Carolina
Jacob White

“Jacob White can write.”—Padgett Powell “A wide array of layered stories written with disarming care.”—Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies “Jacob White’s characters are in trouble, and their creator brings them to life with language both lush and harsh, gritty and great.”—Antonya Nelson, author of Bound “Fresh, fierce, sad, funny, deep. The author is a natural storyteller, with a voice that is like music. . . . This book sings. It’s real, it’s beautiful.” —Lev Raphael, author of The German Money Set largely in the modern South, the stories in Being Dead in South Carolina concern people who no longer recognize themselves, who have arrived, like the Sunbelt itself, to a strange day that seems disconnected from all the old days, the old stories, the old selves. Yet it’s always on this day we must answer for ourselves—right an overturned car, recover the body of a brother, convince a son of our worth and his. We are adrift with bad judgment, a little loose in the head, but searching for the correction. A South Carolina native, Jacob White studied creative writing at the University of Houston, where he received the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Fiction. His fiction has appeared in many journals, including the Georgia Review, New Letters, Salt Hill, and the Sewanee Review, from which he received the Andrew Lytle Prize. He teaches creative writing at Johnson State College and co-edits Green Mountains Review.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES December A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935248-44-6 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-45-3 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • Excerpts in: Garden & Gun Magazine • BULL: Men’s Fiction • The Oxford American • The Georgia Review • The Sewanee Review • New Letters • The Literary Review • National print and online campaign

Sad, fierce, and funny, a new take on the South and those who are adrift in a disconnected modern world.

Author Events
Gainesville, FL • Jacksonville, FL • Atlanta, GA • Savannah, GA • Boston, MA • Northampton, MA • Asheville, NC • Charlotte, NC • Durham, NC • Greensboro, NC • Raleigh, NC • Ithaca, NY • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Providence, RI • Charleston, SC • Rock Hill, SC • Austin, TX • Houston, TX • Burlington, VT • Vancouver, BC Author Hometown: Stowe, VT

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Leapfrog Press The Wonder Chamber
Mary Malloy
Praise for Mary Malloy’s The Wandering Heart: “An impressive fiction debut. . . . Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler.”—Publishers Weekly “Mystery a la gothic. . . . Historian Malloy does her research proud, inserting humanity into the too-often dry history some of us suffered through in school.”—Mystery Scene “Malloy’s use of medieval tales, the Knights Templar history, ancient artifacts, and naval history deftly guides the reader deeper into the character and her motivations. . . . This novel itself reads like a seafaring voyage—full of swift turns, unknown frontiers, and the desire to answer the big questions we all ask ourselves.”—ForeWord “Malloy provides a terrific tense thriller.”—Midwest Book Review Professor Lizzie Manning is creating a centennial exhibition for her college’s one hundredth anniversary. Discovering that the founder’s daughter married an Italian prince with a family collection dating from the Renaissance, she travels to Bologna, where she finds ancient alligators, old master paintings, and unicorn tusks, among other rarities. But it is the unexpected mummified occupant of a sarcophagus that begs the most attention, and draws her into a mystery that spans ancient Egypt and German-occupied Italy of the 1940s. Mary Malloy is the author of The Wandering Heart and Paridise Walk, the first two Lizzie Manning Mysteries, and four maritime history books, including the award-winning Devil on the Deep Blue Sea. She has a PhD from Brown University and teaches maritime history at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and museum studies at Harvard University.
Researching an ancient collection, Lizzie Manning finds a sarcophagus with an unexpected mummified occupant— and another mystery that leads to danger.

FICTION / MYSTERY January A Paperback Original Lizzie Manning Mystery Series 6 x 9 | 280 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935248-42-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-43-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, bookseller trade shows, and regional shows • Outreach to mystery publications and websites • Promotion through: www.marymalloy.net

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • Monterey, CA • San Francisco, CA • Hartford, CT • New Haven, CT • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Chatham, MA • Dartmouth, MA • Falmouth, MA • New Bedford, MA • Durham, NH • Buffalo, NY • Fredonia, NY • Jamestown, NY • New York, NY • Cleveland, OH • Portland, OR • Providence, RI • Burlington, VT • Seattle, WA • Spokane, WA • Walla Walla, WA • Yakima, WA Author Hometown: Foxboro, MA

Also Available
The Wandering Heart Mary Malloy FICTION 6 x 9 | 408 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.55 978-0-9815148-5-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-03-3 W Paradise Walk Mary Malloy FICTION LeapSci 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-935248-21-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-935248-24-8 W

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Manic D Press Stealing Cherries
Marina Rubin

“Precisely chiseled blocks of soulful, funny, heart-rending fiction.” —Ted Jonathan, author of Bones & Jokes “Rubin will take you on a gritty but glamorous tour through New Delhi, Italy, Wall Street, the French Riviera, Grand Canyon, and Brooklyn. . . . And still, you will be the one who’s running to catch up with her wit, wisdom, and wondrously poetic narratives.”—Michael Montlack, author of Cool Limbo Whether she’s writing an engaging account of childhood memories from the Ukraine (“Otlichnitsa”), her family’s quixotic immigration experiences (“Welcome to America”), or current romantic misadventures (“Curious Things at the W Hotel”), with a unique voice and sharp eye for detail, awardwinning author Marina Rubin reveals the triumphant absurdities of contemporary times. Her stories and characters are all too human, too familiar, too flawed, and just charming enough to be endearing and unforgettable in these poetic, bite-sized short stories. Marina Rubin’s writing has appeared in more than seventy literary journals and magazines. Her family emigrated from the former Soviet Union seeking political asylum in 1989. She is an associate editor of Tribeca’s literary and art magazine Mudfish, and a 2013 recipient of COJECO’s Blueprint Fellowship. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.
In a unique collection of poetic bite-sized stories, Marina Rubin embraces immigration, love, and city life with humor and passion.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-933149-80-6 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-81-3

Marketing Plans
Advance reader copies • National advertising: Daily Forward • Tikkun • The Nation • Utne Reader • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • 10-city national tour • Promotion through author and publisher websites Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

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Selected Backlist from Manic D Press

A Child’s Guide to Anarchy John Seven and Jana Christy
JUVENILE FICTION 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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-82-0

A Rule Is To Break

A Counting Story John Seven and Jana Christy
JUVENILE FICTION 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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-83-7

Happy Punks 1 2 3

Hairdresser on Fire
A Novel Daniel LeVesque
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933149-73-8 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-74-5 W

Madhouse Fog
A Novel Sean Carswell
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-933149-75-2 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-76-9 W

Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves Edited by Zora von Burden
ART / SOCIAL SCIENCE 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 24 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-933149-33-2 W* eBook ISBN: 978-1-933149-72-1 W

Women of the Underground: Art

Containing Illustrations, Recipes, Formulas & Other Activities to Entertain & Entice Creativity for the Prevention of Ennui & General Malaise Among the Youth of Today & Their Progenitors Phoebe Longhi
ART 8 x 10 | 64 pp Trade Paper US $11.95 | CAN $12.99 978-1-933149-63-9 W*

The Steampunk Coloring and Activity Book

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MCCM Creations Uncle Ng Comes to America
Chinese Narrative Songs of Immigration and Love

Edited by Bell Yung and Eleanor S. Yung
The first publication to collect texts, audio, and video of the Chinese narrative form Muk’yu and the celebrated singer Uncle Ng, who, in 1992, was the first Chinese American to receive a National Heritage Fellowship. Besides the songs, essays provide background on the narrative form, along with discussion of the hardships faced by early Chinese American immigrants to the United States.
MUSIC | October | 6 x 8 | 104 pp | B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper & DVD US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-988-15218-4-2 USC*

The Urbanites
Almond Chu Photography

Almond Chu
Collects eighty black-and-white and color portraits of renowned film directors, artists, architects, writers, singers, and designers associated with Hong Kong, including Wong Kar-Wai, Bei Dao, Johnny To, and P.K. Leung. Born in Hong Kong, Almond Chu’s work is collected internationally by museums and private collectors.
PHOTOGRAPHY | September | 11¾ x 11¾ | 196 pp | 80 color and B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $45.50 | CAN $49.99 | 978-988-15218-3-5 USC*

The Right to Green
Hands-On Urbanism 1850–2012

Edited by Elke Krasny
From the onset of industrialization to today’s developer-driven global cities, the history of urban transformation processes unfolds as a sequence of critical situations. Gardening and informal settling are indicative of these crises. Taking root from below, these self-organized, self-help practices are dynamic and inspiring agencies of change.
ARCHITECTURE | September | A Paperback Original | 7¾ x 9⅜ | 355 pp 300 color photographs Trade Paper US $45.50 | CAN $49.99 | 978-988-15217-4-3 USC*

Kowloon Cultural District
An Investigation into Spatial Capabilities in Hong Kong

Edited by Esther Lorenz and Li Shiqiao
This book declares the existing Kowloon as a “cultural district” already in formation, constituting a parallel proposal to Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District project. In a three-fold approach comprised of the Cabinet of Curiosities, Archives, and Retrievals, it documents indigenous practices and spaces, reformulates them through architectural proposals, and links them to a broader context through reflection in essays.
ARCHITECTURE | February | 6⅞ x 8½ | 346 pp | 490 color and B&W illustrations Trade Cloth US $36.50 | CAN $39.99 | 978-988-15218-5-9 USC*

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Selected Backlist from MCCM Creations

Lesser Designs
Siu King-chung
DESIGN / ART 6⅛ x 8¼ | 148 pp 250 color photographs Trade Paper US $22.00 | CAN $23.99 978-988-99843-7-3 USC

My 36 Years of Model Making in Hong Kong
King Y. Chung
DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE 7⅜ x 9⅜ | 240 pp 490 color photographs Cloth Text US $43.00 | CAN $47.50 978-988-18583-8-2 USC

My 32m2 Apartment— a 30-year transformation
Gary Chang
ARCHITECTURE 11⅝ x 5⅜ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $36.00 | CAN $40.50 978-988-99842-6-7 USC*

The Mermaid and the Pink Dolphin
Theadora Whittington
JUVENILE FICTION 12⅜ x 8⅞ | 32 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-988-18583-4-4 USC* Ages 3 to 7

Fifty Stories Fifty Images
Madeleine Marie Slavick
LITERARY COLLECTIONS 4¾ x 6½ | 136 pp 50 color photographs Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-988-15217-5-0 USC*

Ping-kwan Leung and Gukzik Lau
Edited with an introduction by Christopher Mattison Translated by Brian Holton and John Minford

Fly Heads and Bird Claws

POETRY 5½ x 8¾ | 200 pp 20 color illustrations Trade Paper US $18.50 | CAN $20.50 978-988-15217-8-1 USC*

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New Internationalist The Adventurous Vegetarian
Around the World in 30 Meals

Jane Hughes
Thirty countries, thirty sumptuous menus offering everything you need to give your friends and family a taste of how vegetarians eat all around the world. Working with many vegetarian groups, societies, and chefs, Jane Hughes has brought together favorite meals and personal stories from Belgium to China, Cuba to Palestine. An inspiration for dinner clubs, themed parties, or simply the appetite to try something new, The Adventurous Vegetarian encompasses both traditional and modern—from African stews and Asian curries to veggie/vegan twists on classic “new world” recipes, such as macaroni cheese and blueberry cheesecake (both without the cheese!) All recipes are illustrated with tantalising color photography, do not involve complicated techniques, and suggest alternative ingredients should some be hard to source. Each country’s chapter is introduced with personal stories and insights into what it’s like to be vegetarian, from those with a rich history, such as India, to those where to be veggie can sometimes be an uphill, but satisfying, struggle. Jane Hughes has twenty years’ experience of working as food writer, production manager, and publisher. She has worked with The Vegetarian Society since the 1980s and edits their quarterly magazine. A vegetarian since her teens, she has a passion for sharing great food, and believes that fresh, delicious vegetarian and vegan dishes are the perfect way to bring everybody together around the dinner table. Interviews, food and cookery course reviews, features, and recipes can be found at veggiefoodwriter.co.uk.
Thirty sumptuous menus offering everything you need to give your friends and family a taste of how other vegetarians eat.
COOKING October A Paperback Original 9⅞ x 7⅞ | 296 pp 200 color photographs Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78026-124-9 USC

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run • Published to coincide with World Vegetarian Month • Outreach to food publications and websites • Outreach to vegetarian and vegan organizations and groups • Social media campaign • Giveaways and prizes

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New Internationalist The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Third Edition

Sally Blundell
An in-depth look at two decades of a global movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the free market, and a critical analysis of the state of fair trade today. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice. Sally Blundell is a freelance journalist and writer in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has conducted research, interviews, and reports for Trade Aid, New Zealand’s largest fair trade organization. She has written a history of the Trade Aid Movement.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / POLITICAL SCIENCE September No-Nonsense Guides 4¼ x 7 | 144 pp Charts and tables throughout Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-78026-133-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-134-8 W

A completely new investigation of the fair trade phenomenon, from its origins to what it is likely to become.

The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food
Second Edition

Wayne Roberts
Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on supermarkets and agribusiness corporations is unsustainable and looks at new models of producing healthy food from all over the world. Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. Author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he’s on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / SOCIAL SCIENCE October No-Nonsense Guides 4¼ x 7 | 144 pp Charts and tables throughout Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 978-1-78026-131-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-78026-132-4 W

The world food system is put under the microscope in this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food.

Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

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New Rivers Press A Star in the Face of the Sky
David Haynes
“A compelling, breakthrough work that explores what happens when ordinary lives meet extraordinary circumstances. A Star in the Face of the Sky is master craftsman David Haynes at his boldest and most imaginative.” —Rosalyn Story, author of More Than You Know and Wading Home Estelle wants to retire with Janet to steamy Florida, but there’s baggage: Janet’s grandson Daniel is the sole survivor of a Jonestown-inspired murder committed by his mother. Daniel has a secret as well—his romantic relationship with Estelle’s grandson, Ari. A former teacher, David Haynes has published six previous novels and received numerous awards for his writing and service.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to GLBT publications and websites • Social media campaign Regional Texas and Midwest tour

FICTION October A Paperback Original American Fiction 6 x 9 | 345 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-89823-283-7 USC

Author Events
Minneapolis, MN • Fargo, ND • Austin, TX • San Antonio, TX • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: Dallas, TX

Explorations of age, love, and sexuality offer a lesson in forgiveness while a new definition of family is created.

Whitney
Joe Stracci
“Joe Stracci’s Whitney is rough, beautiful, and sad, with singular characters who will challenge you and break you heart . . . It’s a hot, disturbing book, socially astute and incredibly smart. Stracci writes with a gritty urban mouth and the heart of a poet.”—Megan Mayhew-Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise “The story being told is one of love, desire, attachment, and all the things that come between two people who seem fated and ill-fated to be together.” —Debra Marquart, author of The Horizontal World Joe Stracci’s first novel, Whitney, was the prose winner of the 2011 New Rivers Press MVP competition.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies Outreach to Millenial publications and websites • Social media campaign

FICTION October A Paperback Original Many Voices Project 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-89823-282-0 USC

Author Events
New York, NY Author Hometown: New Fairfield, CT

A love tragedy in The Bronx reveals a Millenial’s fear that happily-ever-after might be the worst thing that could happen.

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New Rivers Press Borrowed Horses
Siân Griffiths
“[Siân Griffiths’s writing] is as tough and lovely as a flower blooming in gravel.” —Amina Gautier, author of At-Risk “Tough-minded and feisty as the prodigal daughter at its heart.” —Lance Olsen, author of Calendar of Regrets Once an Olympic hopeful, Joannie returns to her hometown and finds herself entangled in an abusive affair.
FICTION | October | A Paperback Original | American Fiction | 6 x 9 | 300 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-0-89823-284-4 USC

Rare Earth
Bradford Tice
“We are taken by our contemporary Virgil, Brad Tice, into the difficult world of true poetry, where images and lines gleam like burnished metal.” —Marilyn Kallet Rare Earth reveals a person in crisis, grappling with faith, identity, sexuality, mortality, and self-worth. Bradford Tice reveals how family can heal and harm.
POETRY | October | A Paperback Original | Many Voices Project | 6 x 9 | 90 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-89823-281-3 USC

Reports
Kathryn Levy
“[Kathyrn Levy embodies] grief and solitude with a masterful grace and ferocity, each webbed to the next with the immediacy of loss and the persistence of survival.”—Rachel McKibbens, author of Pink Elephant With symbolism from everyday occurrences and misrepresentations about love and existence, Kathyrn Levy examines the interaction between public and private worlds.
POETRY | October | A Paperback Original | American Poetry Series | 6 x 9 | 84 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-89823-286-8 USC

Oddly Beautiful
Madelyne Camrud
Inspired by her husband’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, Madelyne Camrud leads readers through a meditation on love, reflection, loss, and grief. She reveals light in unexpected places, from graffiti-splashed walls to a lone bird perched on a winter branch. These images bring hope to dark times, showing us life is oddly beautiful.
POETRY | October | A Paperback Original | American Poetry Series | 6 x 9 | 90 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-0-89823-285-1 USC

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New Society Publishers American Exodus
Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

Giles Slade

Some scientists predict the sea will rise one and a half meters before 2100, but rapidly melting polar ice caps could make the real amount much higher. In the coming century, intensifying storms will batter our coasts, and droughts and heat events will be annual threats. All this will occur as population grows, and declining water resources desiccate agriculture. What will happen when the United States cannot provide food or fresh water for the overheated, overcrowded cities where 80 percent of Americans currently live? The good news is that this overall decline of habitability in the midlatitudes will be matched by increases in the carrying capacity of sparsely populated lands above the 49th parallel. This phenomenon suggests that waves of environmental refugees will travel poleward as southern conditions worsen. Our northern lands are our Noah’s ark—a vital refuge against the moment of mankind’s greatest need. In this compelling cautionary work, Giles Slade argues that we are entering a long period of global desperation which will be characterized by human migration on an unprecedented scale. American Exodus is a frighteningly believable survey of our immediate future, but it ends on a note of hope: we may yet survive the coming century of climatic change if we act now to safeguard our shelter of last resort. Giles Slade is the award-winning author of Made to Break and The Big Disconnect. A recovering academic with advanced degrees in rhetoric and literature, he is regularly published in a variety of print and online journals.
Seeking higher ground—how rising global temperatures will lead to unprecedented waves of human migration.

SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 304 pp 10 B&W photographs, maps, and charts Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-749-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-548-7 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • • • • National radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.gilesslade.com Author Hometown: Delta, BC

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New Society Publishers Living in the Shadow of the Cross
Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony

Paul Kivel
Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise. Its institutions have fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless, and advocated for the poor. Christian faith has sustained people through crisis and inspired many to work for social justice. Yet although the word “Christian” connotes the epitome of goodness, the actual story is much more complex. Over the last two millennia, ruling elites have used Christian institutions and values to control those less privileged throughout the world. The doctrine of Christianity has been interpreted to justify the killing of millions, and its leaders have used their faith to sanction participation in colonialism, slavery, and genocide. In the Western world, Christian influence has inspired legislators to continue to limit women’s reproductive rights and has kept lesbians and gays on the margins of society. As our triple crises of war, financial meltdown, and environmental destruction intensify, it is imperative that we dig beneath the surface of Christianity’s benign reputation to examine its contribution to our social problems. Living in the Shadow of the Cross reveals the ongoing, everyday impact of Christian power and privilege on our beliefs, behaviors, and public policy, and emphasizes the potential for people to come together to resist domination and build and sustain communities of justice and peace. Paul Kivel is the award-winning author of Uprooting Racism and the director of the Christian Hegemony Project. He is a social justice activist and educator who has focused on the issues of violence prevention, oppression, and social justice for over forty-five years.
How our dominant Christian worldview shapes everything from personal behavior to public policy (and what to do about it).

SOCIAL SCIENCE / RELIGION October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-742-8 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-541-8 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available • • • • National radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.christianhegemony.org Author Hometown: Oakland, CA

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Uprooting Racism How White People Can Work for Social Justice Third Edition Paul Kivel SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 352 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-688-9 W* (excludes Canada)

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New Society Publishers Underminers
A Guide to Subverting The Machine

Keith Farnish

To undermine something is to weaken its very foundation in order to bring about its eventual collapse. Underminers is a radical guide to dismantling the industrial machine. The first section of the book deconstructs the Tools of Disconnection—the subtle and seemingly innocuous methods by which we are manipulated into artificial separation from other people and the natural world. These can take many forms, from tangible and intangible rewards for “good” consumer behavior to indoctrination through advertising, media, and compulsory schooling. Once these Tools of Disconnection have been identified, the challenge is to expose their true nature and to provide realistic alternatives to our culture of greed. Outlining a wide array of unconventional responses, Underminers is a practical, rational, and very human response to the ecological and social catastrophes facing us. By turns shocking, entertaining, inspiring, and empowering, this manual for a subversive revolution shows how ordinary people can become tomorrow’s catalysts for change—reconnected to one another and cocreators of a viable future for humanity. We are the Underminers, and this is our time. Keith Farnish is a longtime environmental activist and the author of Time’s Up! An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis. He has been blogging and writing on environmental and social issues since 2006.
A user’s guide for dismantling modern civilization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 384 pp 20 B&W photographs, maps, and charts Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-754-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-545-6 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • • • • National radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.underminers.org

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New Society Publishers Pure Poultry
Living Well with Heritage Chickens, Turkeys and Ducks

Victoria Redhed Miller

Houdan. Nankin. Indian Runner. Naragansett. These may sound like exotic place names or unusual varieties of produce, but each actually refers to one of the many hundreds of lesser-known poultry breeds that tempt the livestock owner who’s prepared to venture into less familiar territory. Providing an alternative to commercial breeds and hybrids, heritage breeds each boast their own unique set of characteristics and personality traits, and are a valuable (and entertaining) addition to a sustainable food system. Pure Poultry is the first book in nearly a hundred years to focus specifically on heritage breeds of chickens, turkeys, and ducks and their role in a self-reliant lifestyle. This timely, beautifully illustrated resource includes: • Detailed guidelines on everything from housing, breeding, and day-to-day care to processing, cooking, and preserving • Much-needed information on using heritage breeds for egg and meat production • Tips, inspiration, recommended reading, and additional resources • A unique planning worksheet that simplifies the process of starting out with poultry
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / GARDENING November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 288 pp 50 B&W photographs, charts, and tables 8-page color section Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-753-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-546-3 W

Brimming with quiet humor, Pure Poultry is an immensely readable “how-to and why-to” based entirely on personal experience—including plenty of lessons learned the hard way. Pure Poultry shows how heritage-breed poultry can enhance and deepen anyone’s quality of life, whether you have a farm, a small backyard, or a neighbor with space to share. Victoria Redhed Miller is a writer, photographer, and off-grid homesteader who raises heritage poultry in the foothills of Washington’s Olympic Mountains. Miller blogs about her experiences at potpiesandeggmoney.blogspot.com and canyoncreekfarms.blogspot.com.
Hatching a sustainable life with heritage poultry.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Sequim, WA

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New Society Publishers Raising Goats Naturally
The Complete Guide to Milk, Meat and More

Deborah Niemann
Complete self-sufficiency may seem out of reach, but for more and more of us, increasing our self-reliance as much as possible is the order of the day. Incorporating dairy goats as the centerpiece of a diversified homestead can be the key to achieving this goal, and Raising Goats Naturally will show you how. By working with nature, you can raise dairy goats and produce your own milk, cheese, meat, fertilizer, leather, fiber, and soap—all without relying on drugs or following the factory farm model. By observing your own animals closely and educating yourself about their specific needs, you can create an individualized plan for keeping them healthy and maximizing their productivity. This unique, fully illustrated guide will teach you to help your herd thrive with: • Breed-specific descriptions to help you choose the right goats for your goals and lifestyle • Detailed information on housing, fencing, breeding, health, milking, and nutrition • Complete recipes and instructions for making your own cheese, dairy products, and soap, as well as cooking with goat meat Packed with personal experiences backed up by expert veterinary advice and scientific studies, Raising Goats Naturally brings together a wealth of practical information on raising goats for the love of it and using their milk and meat to become more self-reliant. Deborah Niemann is a homesteader, writer, and self-sufficiency expert who has raised livestock for over ten years. The author of Homegrown and Handmade and Ecothrifty, she presents extensively on skills for living a self-reliant life.
Produce your own milk, cheese, meat, fiber, fertilizer, and more.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / GARDENING October A Paperback Original 7¼ x 9 | 288 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-86571-745-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-543-2 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.antiquityoaks.com and www.homegrownandhandmadethebook.com

Also Available
Ecothrifty Cheaper, Greener Choices for a Happier, Healthier Life Deborah Niemann HOUSE & HOME 6 x 9 | 208 pp B&W photographs and illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-715-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-510-4 W Homegrown and Handmade A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living Deborah Niemann HOUSE & HOME 7¼ x 9 | 288 pp 60 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $22.95 978-0-86571-702-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-0-86571-702-2 W

Author Hometown: Cornell, IL

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New Society Publishers Uprisings
A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution

Sarah Simpson and Heather McLeod

If we want to reduce our environmental impact, build resiliency in our community and improve food security, it’s up to us to make it happen. In many North American communities, the instrument of change is . . . grain. Grain is the perfect metaphor for how we’ve lost control of our food supply, and with it the skills and tools to feed ourselves. Uprisings shows how communities can take back their power by reviving local grain production to improve food security, local economies, and the environment. Profiles of ten unique community models demonstrating how local grain production is making a difference are rounded out by step-by-step instructions for small-scale grain production that will turn any community into a hotbed of revolution. Learn about: • How locally grown wheat, barley, and other grains can impact a community • How to start a community grain project from scratch • How to plant, grow, harvest, thresh, winnow, and store your grain • How to use whole and sprouted grains in your kitchen
GARDENING / COOKING September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp 100 B&W photographs and illustrations 8-page color section Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-734-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-542-5 W

The new self-sufficiency is community sufficiency. Uprisings offers a wealth of practical advice to inspire and empower anyone interested in local initiatives to develop a community grain-growing model tailored for their unique needs and resources. Vive la révolution! Sarah Simpson is an award-winning Canadian journalist who has been recognized for her coverage of local and environmental issues. She currently reports for the Cowichan Valley Citizen. Heather McLeod is the co-owner of Makaria Farm and the cofounder of the successful community grain-growing project, Island Grains.
From seed to loaf—everything you need to know to build community with grain.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.makariafarm.com Author Hometowns: Duncan, BC

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New Society Publishers Bokashi Composting
Scraps to Soil in Weeks

Adam Footer

Bokashi is Japanese for “fermented organic matter.” Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and convenient way to compost in your kitchen, garage, or apartment, using a specific group of microorganisms to anaerobically ferment all food waste (including meat and dairy). Since the process takes place in a closed system, insects and smell are controlled, making it ideal for urban or business settings. The process is very fast, with compost usually ready to be integrated into your soil or garden in around two weeks. While bokashi has enjoyed great popularity in many parts of the world, it is still relatively unknown in North America. From scraps to soil, Bokashi Composting is the complete, step-by-step, do-it-yourself guide to this amazing process, with comprehensive information covering: • Background—the history, development, and scientific basis of the technique • Getting started—composting with commercially available products or homemade systems • Making your own—system plans and bokashi bran recipes using common materials and locally sourced ingredients • Growing—improving your soil with fermented compost and bokashi “juice” This essential guide is a must-read for gardeners, homeowners, apartment dwellers, traditional composters, and anyone who wants a safe, simple, and convenient way to keep kitchen waste out of the landfill. Adam Footer is a permaculture designer with a focus on soil building, food forestry, cover crops, water conservation and harvesting, and natural farming. He is a tireless promoter of bokashi to maximize the recycling of food waste and runs the website bokashicomposting.com.
The safe, clean, and convenient way to compost all your food scraps.

HOUSE & HOME / GARDENING January A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp 30 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-86571-752-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-549-4 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.bokashicomposting.com Author Hometown: Vista, CA

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New Society Publishers Browsing Nature’s Aisles
A Year of Foraging for Wild Food in the Suburbs

Wendy Brown and Eric Brown
When most of us think of self-sufficiency, we think of growing a large garden, and maybe keeping a few chickens for eggs or meat. While this is certainly part of the picture, unless you live on a large acreage or happen to be a permaculture god or goddess, it is unlikely that it will be enough to allow you to completely break free from the corporate food machine. Wild foods are the ideal solution to bridging the gap between what you are able to produce to feed yourself and what your family needs to survive. Browsing Nature’s Aisles is the story of one suburban family’s adventures in wild foraging. As part of their commitment to self-reliance and resiliency, Wendy and Eric Brown decided to spend a year incorporating wild foods as a regular part of their diet. The experience fundamentally changed their definition of food. Not only did they learn about specific flora and fauna, but they also had to learn how to prepare them in ways that would be both aesthetically appealing and palatable. With information on collecting, preparing, and preserving easily identifiable wild edibles found in most suburban landscapes, this unique and inspiring guide is a must-read for anyone who wants to enhance their family’s food security by availing themselves of the cornucopia on their doorstep.
HOUSE & HOME / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 240 pp 20 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-750-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-540-1 W

Wendy Brown and Eric Brown are suburban homesteaders growing roots (both literally and figuratively) in southern Maine. They have been studying wild edibles for many years. Wendy is also the author of Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs.
Mud clams, knotweed, and plants that bite back— one family’s adventures in suburban foraging.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: http://happilyhome.blogspot.com and http://mooseboots.blogspot.com Author Hometowns: Old Orchard Beach, ME

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Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs The Thrivalist’s Guide to Life Without Oil Wendy Brown HOUSE & HOME 6 x 9 | 272 pp 25 photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-681-0 W* (excludes Canada)

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eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-471-8 W

New Society Publishers Green Wizardry
Conservation, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, and Other Hands-On Skills From the Appropriate Tech Toolkit

John Michael Greer
Merlin, Gandalf, Voldemort—these well-known sorcerers from popular culture are famed for their amazing spells and spectacular magical powers. In ancient times, however, a wizard was actually a freelance intellectual whose main stock in trade was good advice, supported by a thorough education in agriculture, navigation, political and military science, languages, commerce, mathematics, medicine, and the natural sciences—in essence, the true Renaissance man. John Michael Greer proposes a modern mage for uncertain times; one who possesses a startling array of practical skills gleaned from the appropriate tech and organic gardening movements forged in the energy crisis of the 1970s. From the basic concepts of ecology to a plethora of practical techniques such as composting, green manure, low-tech food preservation and storage, small-scale chicken and rabbit raising, solar water heating, alternative energy sources, and more, Green Wizardry is a comprehensive manual for today’s wizard-in-training. Providing a solid practical introduction to the entire appropriate tech toolkit, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about decreasing our dependence on an overloaded industrial system and, in a world of serious energy shortages and economic troubles, making life a great deal less traumatic and more livable. John Michael Greer is a scholar of ecological history and an internationally renowned Peak Oil theorist whose blog The Archdruid Report has become one of the most widely cited online resources dealing with the future of industrial society. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Wealth of Nature and The Long Descent.
Tested skills for thriving in the age of limits.

HOUSE & HOME / GARDENING September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 304 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-747-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-539-5 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.greenwizards.org Author Hometown: Cumberland, MD

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The Long Descent A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age John Michael Greer POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-609-4 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-396-4 W The Wealth of Nature Economics as if Survival Mattered John Michael Greer BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 6 x 9 | 272 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-86571-673-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-478-7 W

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New Society Publishers Catch the Fire
An Art-full Guide to Unleashing the Creative Power of Youth, Adults and Communities

Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy
Community, youth, nonprofit, education, entrepreneurial, and religious organizations all have exciting ambitions, but they often lack the creative skills to impact people on a deep level. Catch the Fire is a complete guide to using arts and empowerment techniques to bring greater vitality and depth to working with groups of youth or adults. Based on the premise that you don’t have to be a professional artist to use the arts in your work, this unique book invites group leaders into the realm of creativity-based facilitation, regardless of previous experience. Including over one hundred stimulating activities incorporating storytelling, theater, writing, visual arts, music, and movement, this detailed guide uses the Creative Community Model to: • • • • • Bridge gaps and unite people across generations and cultures Build vibrant, creative learning communities with youth and/or adults Fully engage participants and volunteers Develop social and emotional intelligence Take a deeper, more meaningful approach to learning

EDUCATION / PSYCHOLOGY January A Paperback Original 7½ x 9 | 272 pp 60 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-86571-757-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-550-0 W

Drawing on nearly two decades of experience providing transformative programs to empower youth and adults across North America and around the world, Catch the Fire is a powerful and valuable resource and a much-needed reminder that art is for everyone! Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy are co-founders of PYE Global: Partners for Youth Empowerment and developers of the Creative Community Model, a process for building creative, heart-centered learning communities with youth and adults from diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. Peggy is co-author of Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life, which sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.
The key to facilitating vibrant, deep, and motivating programs for youth and adults.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

Author Events
San Francisco, CA • Los Angeles, CA • Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Vancouver, BC Author Hometowns: Langley, WA

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New Society Publishers Sharing is Good
How to Save Money, Time and Resources through Collaborative Consumption

Beth Buczynski
Society is at a crossroads. We can either continue on the path of consumption at any cost, or we can make new choices that will lead to a happier, more rewarding life, while helping to preserve the planet for future generations. Unfortunately, we can’t all afford to install solar panels or buy a Prius. Does this mean we are doomed in our quest to live a truly sustainable life? Not at all. Collaborative consumption is a new way of living, in which access is valued over ownership, experience is valued over material possessions, “mine” becomes “ours,” and everyone’s needs are met without waste. Sharing is Good is your roadmap to this emerging economic paradigm. Discover: • The history and development of collaborative consumption • The benefits and challenges of a sharing lifestyle • A wealth of resources from around the world to help make sharing easy and safe The beauty of the sharing economy is that it is free, so anyone can participate and make a difference. No one has to sacrifice their individuality or comfort. Best of all, when we’re actively engaged in sharing, personal connections are rekindled and we become invested in our communities again. Beth Buczynski is a freelance writer and editor who covers clean technology, sustainable design, and environmental issues for some of the most popular green sites on the web. She is a passionate believer in building a new economy based on sharing and community to help end our dangerous obsession with consumer culture.
The new sharing economy—reduce waste, save money, and become more self-sufficient, all without buying more stuff.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 208 pp 10 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-746-6 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-544-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Denver, CO

297

New Society Publishers Making Better Buildings
A Comparative Guide to Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors

Chris Magwood
From foundation to finish, a wealth of information is available on sustainable construction methods—entire volumes have been published on individual green and natural building techniques. But with so many different ideas to choose from, there is no single resource that allows an owner or builder to quickly and objectively compare the merits of each system for their particular project. Making Better Buildings cuts through the hype and provides the unvarnished facts about the upsides and downsides of the most widely discussed materials and technologies. Drawing on the real-world experiences of designer/builders, this comparative guide systematically and comprehensively examines each approach in terms of: • Cost, sourcing, availability, labor intensity, and ease of construction • Energy efficiency, embodied energy, and environmental impacts • Availability/accessibility Each chapter is rounded out by a chart which summarizes the material in a quick and accessible manner. Whether you are an owner preparing to build a green or natural home or a conventional contractor determined to integrate sustainable alternatives into your existing construction practices, this up-to-the minute resource will help you make the best decisions for your project while meeting your energy, efficiency, budgetary, and site-specific needs. Chris Magwood is a sustainable builder and designer specializing in green and natural building techniques, and is the founder and director of the Endeavour Centre for Innovative Building and Living. He is also the author of three previous books on sustainable building, including Straw Bale Details and More Straw Bale Building.
Sustainable building from the ground up—the pros and cons of the latest green and natural materials and technologies.

ARCHITECTURE / HOUSE & HOME November A Paperback Original 8 x 9¼ | 400 pp 200 B&W photographs, illustrations, and charts Trade Paper US $32.95 978-0-86571-706-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-515-9 W

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Peterborough, ON

Also Available
More Straw Bale Building A Complete Guide to Designing and Building with Straw Chris Magwood and Peter Mack Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series HOUSE & HOME 8 x 10 | 288 pp 200 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $34.95 978-0-86571-518-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-322-3 W Straw Bale Details A Manual for Designers and Builders Chris Magwood Illustrated by Chris Walker Natural Building Series HOUSE & HOME 8½ x 11 | 68 pp B&W illustrations throughout Spiral US $32.95 978-0-86571-476-2 W* (excludes Canada)

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New Society Publishers The Salmon Recipes
Stories of Our Endangered North Coast Cuisine

Edited by Luanne Roth
Photographs by Michael Ambach Design by Ken McCormick
From time immemorial, wild salmon have nourished the people of the Pacific Northwest, forming an integral part of the region’s distinctive heritage and culture. The Salmon Recipes invites you to a sumptuous, visual feast drawn from the culinary practices and rich experience of the people of the North Coast, woven into a stunning full-color photographic essay. Mouthwatering recipes showcasing both time-honored and modern artisanal food skills share the page with an eclectic tapestry of captivating voices featuring such luminaries as Susan Musgrave and Robert Davidson. Ranging from rare, traditional salmon preparation techniques to avantgarde, subtly flavored seafood experiments, the recipes in this collection include: • • • • Cedar Planked Salmon Topped with Dungeness Crab Baked White Fish with Pine Nut, Parmesan, and Basil Pesto Crust Steamed Salmon with Huckleberries Pan Seared Honey Glazed Salmon with Browned Butter Lime Sauce

Just as the salmon returns year after year to renew the North Coast and its people, you will return time and time again to sample the pages of this beautiful book with its unique insights into the area’s culture, wildlife, and rich ecosystems. Profits from The Salmon Recipes will go towards ensuring that British Columbia’s coastal waters remain tanker free. Luanne Roth is a longtime North Coast resident, commercial fisher, and marine director of Prince Rupert Environmental Society and their Save our Skeena Salmon campaigns. She has a passion for high-quality seafood and the small-scale fishing culture that produces it.
An unforgettable collection of recipes, stories, poems, and photographs dedicated to the preservation and protection of endangered Northern coastal waters.

COOKING Available Now A Paperback Original Prince Rupert Environmental Society 9½ x 8 | 120 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $19.99 978-0-9917090-0-7 W* (excludes Canada)

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.saveourskeenasalmon.org Editor Hometown: Prince Rupert, BC

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Selected Backlist from New Society Publishers

Love, Friendship, Marriage, Family, Gender and Reproduction in an Ecologically Constrained World Sharon Astyk
SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 336 pp 60 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-732-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-525-8 W

Green Sex

Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth Bill Powers
Foreword by Art Berman
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 978-0-86571-743-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-528-9 W

Cold, Hungry and in the Dark

Financing Our Foodshed
Growing Local Food with Slow Money Carol Peppe Hewitt

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 6 x 9 | 224 pp 25 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-723-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-518-0 W

The End of Growth
Adapting to Our New Economic Reality Richard Heinberg

The Permaculture Handbook
Foreword by David Holmgren
GARDENING 8½ x 11 | 480 pp 350 B&W photographs and illustrations 8-page color section Trade Paper US $44.95 978-0-86571-666-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-485-5 W

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 6 x 9 | 336 pp 50 photographs, illustrations, and maps Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-86571-695-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-483-1 W*

Garden Farming for Town and Country Peter Bane

A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together Sylvia Bernstein
GARDENING / TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING 7¼ x 9 | 288 pp 70 B&W illustrations, 8-page color section Trade Paper US $29.95 978-0-86571-701-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55092-489-3 W*

Aquaponic Gardening

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Nobrow Press (In a Sense) Lost and Found
Roman Muradov

(In a Sense) Lost and Found, the first graphic novel by rising star Roman Muradov, explores the theme of innocence by treating it as a tangible object; something that can be used, lost, and mistreated. Muradov’s crisp, delicate style conjures a world of strange bookstores, absurd conspiracies, and charming wordplay. A surreal tale in the mold of the best American alternative comics, In a Sense retains its distinctly Eastern perspective. Roman Muradov was born in Moscow, Russia. He now resides in San Francisco, California.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / FICTION February 6¾ x 9½ | 56 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $18.75 | CAN $20.50 978-1-907704-67-3 USC

Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

F. Premise awoke one morning from troubled dreams to find that her innocence had gone missing.

London Deco
Thibaud Herem

Join architectural illustrator Thibaud Herem as he leads us through the streets of London to discover some of the most striking, elaborate, and intriguing art deco buildings in the capital. From imposing, Orwellian giants to the hidden jewels of the thirties, Thibaud takes us on a tour of London’s forgotten architectural masterpieces in an art edition of giant proportions. Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator currently living and working in London, England. He is renowned for his intricately detailed, hand-drawn architectural illustrations for clients such as the Conran Shop, Esquire, and Diplo magazine.

ARCHITECTURE / ART December 9½ x 11⅞ | 20 pp B&W illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-907704-64-2 USC

Astoundingly detailed drawings of twelve of London’s finest art deco buildiings.

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Nobrow Press Drawn to Drawing
John Vernon Lord

“When they put down this book after reading it, the reader will emerge as if from a dream or a magical, fantastical journey.”—Raymond Briggs John Vernon Lord is a master illustrator of children’s and adult books. His famous book The Giant Jam Sandwich has been in print for over forty years. This collection presents a wealth of previously unpublished material from sketchbooks and diaries along with memoirs from Lord himself. It is an essential chapter in the history of twentieth-century illustration and offers an insight into the life and working practices of a master draughtsman.
ART October 7⅝ x 9⅞ | 152 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $40.00 | CAN $43.99 978-1-907704-65-9 USC

A new collection of fifty years’ worth of work from master artist John Vernon Lord. A must for illustration fans.

Festival Frenzy
Kyle Platts

Burning Man, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury: eat your hearts out. This is the festival to end all festivals. Prepare to get frenzied! What if Spinal Tap, AC/DC, and Metallica teamed up to throw the most almighty party? You’ve just imagined Festival Frenzy, a concertina foldout that evokes the festival experience in all its horrific majesty. Smelly campers, drunken partyers, raging rock stars—from the campsite to the main stage, it’s all here. This is the perfect gift for any rock music fan. But be warned, this is not for the faint of heart.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / MUSIC September Leporello 7⅝ x 13 | 20 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $24.75 | CAN $27.50 978-1-907704-71-0 USC

Kyle Platts is a freelance illustrator residing in London, England.

Burning Man, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury: eat your hearts out. This is the festival to end all festivals. Prepare to get wild.

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Nobrow Press Freud
Corinne Maier
Illustrated by Anne Simon

As a boy Sigmund Freud dreamed of being an explorer, of discovering new lands and sailing the oceans. As an adult he set out to map a far stranger territory: the human mind. This stunning graphic novel by economist, historian, and psychoanalyst Corrine Maier explores the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers. Freud is the perfect introduction to the man’s genius, his life, and his struggles with a revolutionary and divisive approach to the mind and its inner workings. Anne Simon spins this unique and captivating story into a seamless whirl of image and text, worthy of the master of psychoanalysis’ most extraordinary cases. Corinne Maier was born in 1963 in Geneva. As a writer, economist, historian, and psychoanalyst, she has produced around fifteen nonfiction books on subjects like psychoanalysis, society, history, and humor. Though at first her interests seem diffuse, she tirelessly seeks out the common links between them. Her books are bestsellers in France and have been translated into many languages. Her recent writings have centered on work, family, and the nation. Hailed as a counter-culture heroine by the New York Times, she proudly embraces her independence from any club, scientific society, or political party and celebrates her absence from anyone’s payroll.

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY October 9⅞ x 11¾ | 56 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $19.75 | CAN $21.99 978-1-907704-73-4 USC

I changed lives. I’m famous around the world. My name is Sigmund Freud and I invented psychoanalysis. No big deal!

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Selected Backlist from Nobrow Press

The Burgermat Show
Introduction by Gavin Lewis
COOKING / ART 16½ x 12¾ | 100 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-907704-69-7 USC

Edited by Burgerac

Adventures of a Japanese Business Man
José Domingo
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 9⅜ x 13 | 120 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $29.99 | CAN $32.99 978-1-907704-53-6 USC

Nobrow 8: Hysteria
Edited by Alex Spiro and Sam Arthur
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / DESIGN 8⅞ x 12¼ | 128 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-907704-46-8 USC

Jon McNaught
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / DESIGN 7⅝ x 10⅜ | 64 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-907704-26-0 USC

Dockwood

Map of Days
Robert Hunter
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 6¾ x 11⅜ | 56 pp Color illustrations throughout Paper over Board US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-907704-61-1 USC

A History of Aviation Golden Cosmos
JUVENILE NONFICTION 5½ x 9⅜ | 20 pp Color illustrations throughout Slipcased US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-907704-35-2 USC Ages 5 and up

High Times

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Nortia Press A Journey to the Dark Heart of Nameless Unspeakable Evil
Charities, Hollywood, Kony, and Other Abominations

Jane Bussmann
“So funny you almost feel guilty laughing.”—Reuters “The funniest thing we’ve ever read.”—InStyle “Very funny. Jane’s got a death wish.”—Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park “This is one of the funniest books I’ve read for a long while.”—Sunday Times “This book will change your life.”—Mirror (five stars) After scriptwriter Jane Bussmann moves to Hollywood, she realizes her day job interviewing celebrities sucks. She goes to Africa in search of a dreamy activist and ends up uncovering Joseph Kony’s crimes.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HUMOR September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 344 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-0-9888798-4-3 USC

A celebrity gossip writer travels to a war zone in pursuit of a crush . . . really.

Davonte’s Inferno
Ten Years in the New York Public School Gulag

Laurel M. Sturt
Ever-irreverent Laurel M. Sturt pulls no punches detailing her bizarre life in the trenches of a South Bronx elementary school. An unflinching study of the crisis confronting today’s educators and a scathing indictment of the system, this cutting-edge story is punctuated with research, critique, and a generous serving of snark.
EDUCATION / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-0-9888798-1-2 USC

The Googlement
A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Starting Your Own Nation (and Changing the World)

Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof
Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof is a conflict zone entrepreneur who has assisted with building and overthrowing governments across the world. In The Googlement she provides a do-it-yourself guide to starting your own nation and changing the world.
PHILOSOPHY | February | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 296 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-0-9888798-5-0 USC

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Selected Backlist from Nortia Press

Love and Pomegranates
Artists and Wayfarers on Iran Meghan Nuttall Sayres
SOCIAL SCIENCE / TRAVEL 6 x 9 | 296 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-0-9848359-9-7 USC

Edgardo David Holzman
FICTION 6 x 9 | 368 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9842252-7-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9848359-3-5 W

Malena

A Novel of the Irish Troubles Tom Molloy
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-0-9848359-1-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9848359-8-0 W

Rebel Streets

Found Objects
Peter Gelfan
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 280 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9848359-6-6 USC

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 eBook ISBN: 978-0-9848359-4-2 W

A Mouthful of Dust

The Terrorism Lectures
James J.F. Forest
POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 424 pp Trade Paper US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9842252-9-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-0-9848359-5-9 W

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Ocean Press ¿Habrá paz en Colombia?
Entrevistas al comandante Timoleón Jiménez sobre el dialog entre las FARC-EP y el gobierno colombiano

Timoleón Jiménez and the FARC-EP Peace Delegation
Prepared as a submission to the peace talks, this book contains interviews with FARC leader Timoleón Jiménez together with key documents and letters related to the dialogue initiated in 2012 between the guerrillas and the government, which may finally lead to peace and social justice in Colombia.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5½ x 8½ | 96 pp 31 B&W photographs | Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-921700-88-0 USC Spanish language

El Legado de Allende
Fidel Castro and Beatriz Allende
The Popular Unity government (1970–73) under President Allende was a popularly elected, democratic, nationalist government committed to sovereignty, self-determination, and the recovery and control of Chile’s great wealth for the benefit of the people. Nevertheless, Washington viewed this as a threat to US hegemony and backed the bloody 9-11-1973 coup.
HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5¼ x 7¾ | 86 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 | 978-1-921700-43-9 USC | Spanish language

De Academias y subterráneos
Laboratorios de tortura del Chile escondido

Guillermo Teillier
Now a prominent left-wing political figure in Chile and member of parliament, the author describes his experiences following the 1973 military coup in Chile and his own torture in secret underground torture chambers designed to study the effectiveness of different methods of torture on prisoners used by subsequent repressive regimes.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur 5½ x 8½ | 166 pp | Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-921700-50-7 USC Spanish language

América Latina y la tercera ola emancipadora
Hugo Moldiz
After the independence movements of the nineteenth century and the liberation struggles of the last century, Latin America is now experiencing another emancipatory wave with new popularly elected governments. But the author asks whether democratic reforms will overcome the legacy of imperialist domination and achieve full sovereignty and social justice.
HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5½ x 8½ | 152 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 | CAN $15.50 | 978-1-921700-59-0 USC | Spanish language

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Ocean Press El país que quiero
2014: Elecciones presidenciales en El Salvador

Salvador Sánchez Cerén
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, former FMLN guerrilla commander and vice president of El Salvador, outlines his vision for his country as he prepares for his campaign for president in the 2014 elections. He shares his honest assessment of the achievements and failures of the FMLN government elected in 2009 and the challenges ahead.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur 5½ x 8½ | 152 pp | 28 color photographs Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-921700-87-3 USC | Spanish language

La Guerra que no quisimos
El Salvador, 1980–1992

Salvador Sánchez Cerén
For decades in El Salvador, all avenues to peaceful road to reform and social justice were closed and electoral fraud guaranteed military rule. The author is a historical leader of the FMLN that initiated a popular armed struggle that eventually led to a peace accord and a democratically elected government.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur 5¼ x 7¾ | 52 pp | Trade Paper US $7.95 | CAN $8.99 | 978-1-921700-49-1 USC Spanish language

Ana María Combatiente de la vida
Mélida Anaya Montes—Salvadoreña, maestra, guerrillera

Iosu Perales and Claudia Sánchez Villalta
This is the powerful story of a Salvadoran woman of humble origin, who, as a teacher, unionist, and social activist, was drawn into the revolutionary movement and became famous as guerrilla commander “Ana Maria.” She was assassinated in 1983 as a result of an internal conflict within the FMLN.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur 5½ x 8½ | 238 pp | B&W photographs Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 | 978-1-921700-64-4 USC | Spanish language

La Unidad Nacional
Cimiento de independencia y victoria

Pedro Prada
Leading Cuban intellectual and diplomat Pedro Prada reviews the legacy of José Martí and the lessons of the Cuban revolution for other national struggles for sovereignty and social justice. Includes an essay on the challenges that face left-wing political alliances today in Latin America.
HISTORY | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5¼ x 7¾ | 53 pp Trade Paper US $7.95 | CAN $8.99 | 978-1-921700-76-7 USC | Spanish language

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Ocean Press Perspectivas del socialismo latinoamericano en el siglo XXI
Nayar López Castellanos
A panoramic review of the history of the socialist ideas and practical experience, written by a prominent left-wing Mexican academic. Particular emphasis is given to the prospects for socialism in Latin America in the twenty-first century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5¼ x 7¾ | 124 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-921700-33-0 USC | Spanish language

La Vida y el Pensamiento revolucionario de Marx y Engels
David Riazanov
Just after the Russian revolution, David Riazanov initiated a conference in Moscow to consider Marxism, not simply from a theoretical standpoint, but Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as practical revolutionaries. This book, published for the first time in Spanish, remains the best introduction to the life and ideas of Marx and Engels.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5½ x 8½ | 280 pp Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 | 978-1-921700-03-3 USC | Spanish language

Rosa Luxemburgo
La flor más roja del socialismo

Rosa Luxemburgo, Néstor Kohan, and Clara Zetkin
This book about the Polish revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg includes an introduction by Argentine intellectual Néstor Kohan, a brief tribute by Clara Zetkin, and a poignant short piece by Luxemburg (published for the first time in Spanish) about a Christmas Eve mass poisoning in a homeless shelter in Berlin.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5¾ x 7¾ | 54 pp Trade Paper US $7.95 | CAN $8.99 | 978-1-921438-56-1 USC | Spanish language

La Izquierda latinoamericana a 20 años del derrumbe de la Unión Soviética
Roberto Regalado
It’s been twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and with it the main paradigms for left-wing movements disappeared. More than twenty prominent left-wing figures from most Latin American countries consider the impact of these events on the left and the prospects for Socialism in Latin America today.
POLITICAL SCIENCE | September | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 6 x 9 | 407 pp Trade Paper US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 | 978-1-921700-65-1 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 eBook ISBN: 978-0-9870779-9-8 W

Remembering Che

A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara’s Writing on Latin America Ernesto Che Guevara
HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 6 x 9 | 450 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9804292-8-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-921700-91-0 W

The Awakening of Latin America

The Diary of the Revolution that Made Che Guevara a Legend 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 eBook ISBN: 978-0-9870779-8-1 W

Diary of a Combatant

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

Revolutionary Photographer, Fotografa revolucionaria Tina Modotti
Compiled and designed by Rachel Kirby

Tina Modotti

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PHOTOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 7¼ x 9¾ | 120 pp 71 B&W photographs Trade Cloth US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 978-1-921700-69-9 USC

Paul Dry Books Where Somebody Waits
Margaret Kaufman

Ruby Davidson, the magnetic central character of Where Somebody Waits, is selfassured, kind—and always willing to take a stand for people less fortunate. Five foot ten inches, with masses of red hair and a pompadour that increases her stature to six feet, she’s also beautiful. Ruby leads a good life: she loves her husband, adores her nephews and nieces, and more or less dutifully respects the tightly knit southern Jewish family into which she married. A good life, yes . . . except that she also still loves her high-school sweetheart. In this story cycle, Ruby navigates the inner and outer quandaries she faces in her small Arkansas town during the second half of the twentieth century. “It don’t matter much what people say. I do as I please, so long as it don’t hurt anybody,” she tells herself, almost convincingly. But her double life weighs upon her, and it seems as if the person really hurt by her lifelong dual love is Ruby herself. How Ruby comes to terms with this old, old conundrum and the result of that effort shape the heart of Where Somebody Waits. Margaret Kaufman has written five books of poetry. Her collection Snake at the Wrist was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2002. A resident of Kentfield, California, Kaufman leads poetry workshops, teaches at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco, and edits both fiction and poetry. Where Somebody Waits is her first book of fiction.
Eleven stories revolving around Ruby—her life and lifelong love for two very different men—in a small Arkansas town.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-58988-089-4 USC

Author Hometown: Kentfield, CA

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Paul Dry Books
˙ukrowski Wojciech Z
Translated by Stephanie Kraft

Stone Tablets

“A high-paced, passionate narrative in which every detail is vital.” —Leslaw Bartelski ˙ukrowski is] a brilliantly talented observer of life, a visionary skilled at com“[Z bining the concrete with the magical, lyricism with realism.”—Leszek Zulinski Stone Tablets is a richly rendered novel of the plight of a Hungarian diplomat working in India in 1956. Istvan Terey serves as Hungarian cultural attaché in Delhi just a few months before his country is torn apart by the Hungarian Uprising. Though he is popular with Indians and Europeans, communists and capitalists, Terey’s outspoken criticism of corruption in the Hungarian government and the embassy threatens to undermine his career. His religious convictions trouble, and ultimately destroy, his relationship with his Australian lover. A sweeping Cold War romance, a critique of Soviet Communism, and an exposé of tensions within the Warsaw Pact, Stone Tablets is based on the author’s own experience as a Polish diplomat in India in the late 1950s, and is ˙ukrowski’s most famous novel. Stephanie Kraft’s vivid translation Wojciech Z unlocks this book for the first time to English-speaking readers. A huge bestseller in Poland, Stone Tablets won the Pietrzak Prize for literature (1966), was named the most popular book in a poll of Polish booksellers (1974), and was made into a successful movie (1984). ˙ukrowski was one of Poland’s best-known twentieth-century auWojciech Z thors. A prolific novelist, screenwriter, and essayist, he worked at the embassy in New Delhi from 1956 to 1959. In 1996 Zukrowski won the Reymont Award for lifetime literary achievement.
The splendor and drama of India intrigue Hungarian cultural attaché Istvan Terey, but his criticism of corruption undermines his career.

FICTION March A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 650 pp Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 978-1-58988-090-0 USC

Translator Hometown: Amherst, MA

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Paul Dry Books Along Those Lines
The Boundaries that Create Our World

Peter Cashwell

After years of crossing borders to see new birds and new landscapes, Peter Cashwell’s exploration of lines between states, between time zones, and between species led him to consider the lines that divide genders, seasons, musical genres, and just about every other aspect of human life. His conclusion: most had something in common—they were largely imaginary. Nonetheless, this tour of the tangled world of delineation attempts to address how we distinguish right from wrong, life from death, Democrat from Republican—and how the lines between came to be. Part storyteller, part educator, and part smartass, Cashwell is unafraid to take readers off the beaten path—to the desert vistas of the Four Corners, a quiet breakfast among the redwoods, or a pumping station in Cleveland: something amusing and/or educational awaits at every stop. And he’s not alone: the tricks and treats of the human instinct for drawing lines are revealed in interviews with experts of all sorts. Learn about the use of the panel border from a Hugo Award–winning comics creator. Trace the edge of extinction with the rediscoverer of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Get the truth about the strike zone from an umpire with a physics degree. You’ll see even the most familiar lines in a whole new way. Peter Cashwell’s lifelong fascination with birds and language inspired him to write The Verb ‘To Bird’ (Paul Dry Books), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Since 1995 he has taught at Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.
A witty, eclectic, and wide-ranging look at the many ways in which people draw, re-draw, erase, and sometimes ignore lines.

HUMOR February A Paperback Original 5 x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-58988-092-4 USC

Author Hometown: Woodberry, VA

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Paul Dry Books The Selected Poetry of Gabriel Zaid
Gabriel Zaid

“Gabriel Zaid . . . is a jewel of Latin American letters, which is no small thing to be. Read him—you’ll see.”—Paul Berman The first appearance in English of the poetry of Gabriel Zaid, this book comprises forty-two poems (in both English and the original Spanish), translated by a variety of English-speaking poets. Renowned in Mexico as one of his country’s leading writers, Zaid has published two books in English, So Many Books and The Secret of Fame (both from Paul Dry Books). Late Again Translated by Eliot Weinberger It’s so hard to coordinate: one hand over your head like a halo the other perpendicular to your navel. Nevertheless it’s a universal law: people begin soaping at their bellies while other worlds turn around in their heads. Think with your stomach, said the happy Buddha. But we ruminate with our heads. Gabriel Zaid’s poetry, essays, social and cultural criticism, and business writings have been widely published throughout the Spanish-speaking world. He lives in Mexico City, Mexico, with the artist Basia Batorska, her paintings, three cats, and ten thousand books. Paul Dry Books has published his So Many Books and The Secret of Fame.

POETRY October A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 120 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-58988-093-1 USC Spanish bilingual

The first English-language appearance of the poetry of Gabriel Zaid, author of So Many Books.

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Process Hashish The Lost Legend
The First English Translation of a Great Oriental Romance Limited Edition

Fritz Lemmermayer
Introduction by Ronald K. Siegel, PhD Illustrated by Gottfried Sieben
Here is a lost illustrated masterpiece, a book so rare and sought-after that only two copies can be found in world libraries. For the first time this classic work on a forgotten Arabian legend has been translated into English.This illustrated novel is presented as a “pictorial opera” of love, hashish, and tragedy in the time of Victorian erotica, and it contains the first known illustrations and descriptions of true hashish hallucinations. This high quality case-bound and slipcased limited edition reproduces all fifty original erotic illustrations and colorful extras by illustrator Gottfried Sieben, and it is limited to only 418 copies all signed by Ronald K. Siegel. This book will appeal to readers of Fitz Hugh Ludlow’s Hasheesh Eater, Charles Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradise, High Times magazine, and marijuana users everywhere. Fritz Lemmermayer was born in Vienna in 1857, became a writer, poet, and journalist, and maintained close relationships with Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner. Ronald K. Siegel is a recognized world authority on drugs and drug literature. A former research professor at UCLA, he is the author of numerous books including the critically acclaimed Intoxication. Siegel was featured in several Time magazine cover stories, and has been a consultant to presidential commissions and the World Health Organization. He is currently curator of the RKS Library of Drug Literature, one of the largest such libraries in the world.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / FICTION December 6½ x 10 | 132 pp 50 color illustrations Slipcased US AH $65.00 | CAN $71.50 978-1-934170-50-2 USC This item is nonreturnable. eBook ISBN: 978-1-934170-51-9 W

This much sought-after lost German novel of hashish visions is newly translated and illustrated with remarkable erotic nineteenth-century images.

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Process Morris Graves
His Houses, His Gardens

Richard Svare

ARCHITECTURE / ART October 9 x 12 | 110 pp 80 duotone photographs Paper over Board US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-934170-42-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-934170-43-4 W

The long-awaited Morris Graves: His Houses, His Gardens tells the story of the homes of Morris Graves, a leading figure in Northwest Art and one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. This high-quality book with beautiful duotone photographs concerns itself with four locations—The Rock, Careläden, Woodtown Manor, and The Lake. Author, photographer, and close Graves friend Richard Svare makes clear that the world Morris Graves inhabited physically was the world he experienced transcendentally. Morris Graves soared from obscurity to fame in 1942, when thirty of his works appeared in New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “Americans 1942: 18 Artists from Nine States.” A review in ARTnews magazine praised his paintings as the “sensation of the show.” As a charismatic figure who traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, Graves developed friendships with artists like John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and hobnobbed with celebrities and royalty. Throughout his career, Graves’s work is represented in many public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum, Washington’s Phillips Collection, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Partly because he chose to live in the Northwest, Graves was often said to be reclusive. Many of his early paintings were created at “The Rock,” a cabin he built for himself eighty-five miles north of Seattle. He built a home in Ireland and spent the last thirty-five years of his life in Northern California.
A delightful look at the unique residences built by the famed co-founder of the Northwest School of Art.

Marketing Plans
• Outreach to art and architecture publications and websites • Social media campaign Author Hometown: Seattle, WA

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Profile Books Lessons From the Top
The Three Stories That Successful Leaders Tell

Gavin Esler

“This brilliant book has some of the greatest tales of the past two centuries.” —Press Association Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade, and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful guide to getting to the top, leading journalist Gavin Esler presents firsthand knowledge of the secrets of those who achieve power based on over thirty years’ experience interviewing world famous figures from Bill Clinton to Angelina Jolie. Introducing the questions every leader must answer—and the elements that the best stories must contain—Esler explains how creating a leadership story can promote success at all levels, whether its running for the US presidency or applying for a place at college. While many essentials of storytelling have stood the test of time, he examines the opportunities and pressures created by twenty-first century phenomena such as twenty-four-hour news, and what they tell us about how to reach the top—and how to judge those already there. Spanning fields from business and culture to the military and even taking in lessons from terrorism, Lessons From the Top offers a fascinating portrait of leadership in the modern world— and shows how the methods of the most powerful leaders could work for you. Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist, and journalist. He currently presents Newsnight on BBC2 and Dateline London which goes out weekly on BBC World.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS January A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84668-500-2 USC

One of Britain’s leading journalists reveals firsthand insights into getting to the top, from the world’s most successful leaders.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Advance reader copies • Promotion through: www.gavinesler.com

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Profile Books Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense
Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others

Jules Goddard and Tony Eccles
This is for managers who know that their organizations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies are little more than banal wish lists. It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense— thinking or acting differently from other organizations in a way that makes unusual sense—is the secret to competitive success. Jules Goddard is a fellow of the Centre for Management Development at London Business School.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS December A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84668-602-3 USC

Tony Eccles is a visiting professor of strategic management at Cass Business School, City University, London.

Daring to be different can provide insights into how organizations can stand out from the herd.

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Surviving the Debt Storm
Getting Capitalism Back on Track

Leigh Skene and Melissa Kidd
Surviving the Debt Storm is a searing indictment of the agenda now adopted by governments and central banks, which is likely to result in yet more bank failures, dysfunctional capital markets, higher taxes, and reduced government services and benefits. But it’s not too late to choose a different path that will help put capitalism back on track. Leigh Skene and Melissa Kidd outline what that path should be to ensure a prosperous rather than an austere future.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-78125-105-8 USC

Leigh Skene an associate of Lombard Street Research. His most recent book is The Impoverishment of Nations. Melissa Kidd is a director and analyst at Lombard Street Research.

How the policies being followed by governments and central banks risk leading to an even greater economic mess.

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Profile Books Enterprise Rules
The Foundations of High Achievement—and How to Build on Them

Don Young
Don Young makes a devastating case about how management has in so many companies lost its way and needs to get back on track. He outlines the tried and tested principles that companies need to follow in order to become high achievers. Young goes on to show how managers can put their companies in a position where they are able to exploit the principles that determine high achievement and make life better for everyone they serve. Don Young started his business career with Unilever, and has since been a senior manager of several companies that have been forced to confront extensive change.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $22.95 | CAN $25.50 978-1-78125-116-4 USC

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The tried-and-tested rules that determine lasting success in business—and how to put them into practice.

Clarks: Made to Last
The Story of Britain’s Best-known Shoe Firm

Mark Palmer
Founded in Britain in 1825 by two brothers, Clarks’s reach extends to all corners of the globe and yet it remains a family-owned business. Over the years the company has had its ups and downs but it has always strived to remain true to its Quaker values in its commitment to the well-being of its workforce and the local community. In 2010 Clarks’s profits were over $160 million and its shoes have become fashionable, especially in China, Jamaica, and America. Mark Palmer has written for national newspapers and magazines for more than thirty years.
HISTORY October 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Cloth US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-1-84668-520-0 USC

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The story behind an iconic British brand, Clarks shoes.

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Profile Books The Arab Spring and the Gulf States
Time to embrace change

Mohamed A. J. Althani
The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. Mohamed A. J. Althani analyzes the domestically important areas of demography, security, provision of food and water, and the political and economic systems of the Arab countries at the center of the turmoil that has spread throughout the region since early 2011. Shaikh Mohamed A. J. Althani is a former minister in the Qatari government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Available Now 5½ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-78125-073-0 USC

A critical look at Arab leaders in its analysis of the challenges the region faces.

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Jassim—The Leader
Founder of Qatar

Mohamed A. J. Althani
The Gulf state of Qatar tops the Forbes list of the world’s richest countries. In 2010 the country had the world’s highest GDP per capita, and its reserves of oil and natural gas are vast. Yet Qatar has climbed to this pinnacle of wealth and influence in a remarkably short time, and from a starting point of obscurity and insignificance. This astonishing transition is the direct result of the efforts nearly two hundred years ago of one visionary man—Jassim bin Muhammad Bin Thani, known as “the Leader.” Shaikh Mohamed A. J. Althani is a former minister in the Qatari government.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Available Now 5½ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-78125-070-9 USC

The little-known story of the creator of the modern state of Qatar.

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies

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Promopress Hats & Caps
Designing Fashion Accessories

Edited by Gianni Pucci
Taking a highly visual, detailed approach, Hats & Caps provides an insight into the enormous variety of styles and trends in the world of headwear. This book is a must for any designer looking for inspiration. The book capitalizes on the recent upsurge in popularity of headgear among fashion followers and creators.

DESIGN / FASHION September A Paperback Original 9 x 8 | 224 pp Trade Paper US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-84-92810-90-1 USC

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Social media campaign • Promotion through newsletter sent to our customers Promotion through: www.promopresseditions.com

A prime selection of some of the world’s most striking hats and caps, as captured by the industry’s best photographers.

Fashion Design
The Sourcebook of Drawing Details

Elisabetta “Kuky” Drudi
This new title by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi offers an inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques for fashion details and contains all that is needed to know on how to make accurate technical drawings of details such as collars, pleats, flounces, gathers, drapes, necklines, and so on with threethousand original fashion drawings throughout. This title offers an extended, topic-by-topic guide to acquiring and perfecting the skills needed to produce realistic and precise fashion plates that accurately reflect a designer’s creative vision. The breadth of information and attention to detail makes this title an invaluable resource for designers, illustrators, artists, students, and anyone who enjoys fashion design.

DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE October 7 x 11 | 384 pp Trade Paper US $39.95 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-95-6 USC

An inspirational sourcebook of the drawing techniques for fashion details by best-selling author Elisabetta Drudi.

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Promopress Dress Up
New Fashion Boutique Design

Edited by Wang Sahoqiang
Here we have a splendid showcase title that reveals the functional and conceptual dimensions of contemporary store design. This book presents the newest retail fashion stores, where consumption combines effortlessly with sophistication. Dress Up is a lavish book that introduces the latest trends in store design, where fashion, creativity, and consumption fuse to deliver a unique experience. Through beautiful photographs, the reader is presented with a stunning gallery of stores from all around the world.
DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE October 8 x 11 | 240 pp Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-94-9 USC

This book presents the newest retail fashion stores, where consumption combines effortlessly with sophistication.

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Social media campaign • Promotion through newsletter sent to our customers Promotion through: www.promopresseditions.com

Eco Design: Lamps
Edited by Ivy Liu and Jian Wong
Green products and initiatives have become a key aspect of virtually all areas of our lives, and our interior surroundings are no exception. This book presents cutting-edge lighting and lamp designs that through their use of recycling techniques, natural materials, and new technologies, are both exceptionally environmentally friendly and highly stylish.
DESIGN | September | A Paperback Original | Eco Style | 9 x 10 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 | 978-84-92810-91-8 USC

Éclat
The Masters of New Jewelry Design

Edited by Cristian Campos
Compiled by Carlos Pastor Climent
Through beautiful photographs and interviews with the designers, Éclat presents the ways these most important jewelers have dominated the landscape of jewelry design in the last years. Their jewels, a fascinating fuse of imagination and innovation, pave the way for the future and rising stars.
DESIGN | February | A Paperback Original | 7 x 11 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 | 978-84-92810-97-0 USC

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Promopress Imprint 2
Innovative Book and Promo Design

Edited by Wang Sahoqiang
Following the success of Imprint, this second volume depicts more cutting-edge book and promotional designs. It reveals the elaborate processes behind each concept that enhance the visual identity and appeal of the promotional material to its target audience. This book offers a wide range of stimulating ideas for designers and creative artists alike.

DESIGN October 8 x 11 | 240 pp Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 978-84-92810-92-5 USC

Marketing Plans
Social media campaign • Promotion through newsletter sent to our customers Promotion through: www.promopresseditions.com

Imprint 2 is an impressive presentation of the most creative ideas and styles in print and promotional design.

Unpack Me!
New Packaging Design

Edited by Wang Sahoqiang
Unpack Me! presents a rich selection of cutting-edge concepts in packaging design through showcasing a wide variety of projects. The presentation and look of a product or brand can instantly upgrade its image and be the difference between a sales hit and a flop. This book offers some of the ways packaging design can be used to make a product stand out.
DESIGN | November | 8 x 11 | 240 pp Trade Cloth US $59.95 | CAN $65.99 | 978-84-92810-93-2 USC

Postermania
New Poster Design

Edited by Cristian Campos
This book offers a vibrant overview of contemporary poster design, showcasing the work of the sixty most exciting international illustrators and graphic designers in the field. It embraces a wide range of styles, from minimalist to baroque, from retro to futuristic, from the latest tendencies born in the avant-garde scene to the most traditional patterns and techniques.
DESIGN / ART | February | 8 x 11 | 256 pp Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 | 978-84-92810-98-7 USC

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Selected Backlist from Promopress

The Magical World of Three-Dimensional Books Jean-Charles Trebbi
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / DESIGN 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 Pop Up

Creative Forms in Design and Architecture Jean-Charles Trebbi
DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE 8 x 9 | 142 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $34.95 | CAN $38.50 978-84-92810-66-6 USC

The Art of Folding

Collars & Necklines
Edited by Gianni Pucci
DESIGN / CRAFTS & HOBBIES 9 x 8 | 224 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper US $39.95 | CAN $43.99 978-84-92810-79-6 USC

Edited by Ivy Liu and Jian Wong
DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE 9 x 10 | 160 pp Trade Paper US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-84-92810-84-0 USC

Eco Design: Furniture

Groundbeaking Finishes and Materials in Graphic Design Edited by Dopress
DESIGN 7⅞ x 10⅝ | 272 pp 500 color photographs, color illustrations throughout Trade Cloth US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 978-84-92810-47-5 USC

In Effect

New Directions in Motion Design Edited by Dopress
DESIGN 8⅞ x 8⅞ | 256 pp 300 color photographs Trade Cloth & CD US $49.95 | CAN $54.99 978-84-92810-46-8 USC

Moving Graphics

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Prospect Park Books All the Happiness You Deserve
Michael Piafsky

An Everyman searches for truth and meaning in a life fraught with unsettling challenges, joyful milestones, and the unconscious awareness of the passage of time. The seventy-eight evocative cards of the Tarot deck frame the narrator’s story as he journeys through the phases of his life from childhood to old age. Michael Piafsky’s dazzling debut novel offers a new and important voice to lovers of literary fiction. Michael Piafsky is an assistant professor and the director of creative writing at Spring Hill College in Alabama. The Missouri native earned an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Missouri. A former editor of the Missouri Review, Piafsky has published fiction and nonfiction in such journals as Meridian, Epic, and Bar Stories. A chapter from All the Happiness You Deserve was published by the Jabberwock Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Michael Piafsky’s captivating, Tarot-inspired debut depicts the dramatic arc of an everyman’s life from childhood to old age.

FICTION February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8¼ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-15-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-16-9 USC

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Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, BEA, and other trade shows • • • • Excerpts in: Jabberwock Review National print and online campaign Social media campaign Giveaways through Goodreads, LibraryThing, and targeted blogs • Promotion through: www.michaelpiafsky.com

Author Events
Mobile, AL • Los Angeles, CA • St. Louis, MO Author Hometown: Mobile, AL

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Prospect Park Books Who Wants Seconds?
Sociable Suppers for Vegans, Omnivores & Everyone in Between

Jennie Cook
Caterer, artist, permaculturist, and master food preserver Jennie Cook shares a lifetime of favorite recipes in this gorgeous hand-illustrated and photographed visual-journal-style cookbook. Emphasizing the joy of sharing simple but delicious dinners at home with family and friends, Who Wants Seconds? is rich with personality, advice, color, and updated classic American recipes, with equal appeal to vegans and omnivores. Sidebars provide a wealth of spot-on advice for entertaining, as well as wisdom about sustainability, cooking for both flavor and health, and sourcing quality products. Jennie Cook is the chef and owner of Jennie Cook’s Catering and PlantBased Parties, based in Los Angeles, California, and she’s been cooking and working in hospitality since she was a teenager in New York. She is the chair of the board of Root Down LA, which promotes healthy eating at high schools, and she is a Master Food Preserver, a certified permaculturist, and a visual journaler.
COOKING October A Paperback Original 7 x 10 | 208 pp 50 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-938849-13-8 USC* eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-14-5 USC

This gorgeous hand-illustrated cookbook from a celebrated Los Angeles caterer offers modern-classic American recipes for home entertaining with a sustainable focus.

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • • • • • Regional TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Blog cookbook tour Contests and giveaways through Goodreads and key food blogs • Promotion through: www.jenniecooks.com and www.whowantssecondscookbook.com

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

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Prospect Park Books The Devil’s Interval
Linda Lee Peterson

“Strong focus, admirable prose, and a nifty story line.”—Library Journal Maggie Fiori uses her powers as a journalist to dig into the world of San Francisco’s elite after a limo driver is convicted of murdering a socialite. Between managing her sons’ soccer practices, saving her damaged marriage, and handling her maddening staff, Maggie fights to prove that the “Limousine Lothario” was guilty of no more than loving his mother. Linda Lee Peterson is the author of Edited to Death, which introduced readers to San Francisco sleuth and magazine editor Maggie Fiori. A well-known marketing expert, Peterson has also written several nonfiction books and contributed to such publications as the Chicago Tribune.

Maggie Fiori, magazine editor and amateur sleuth, gets entangled in a high-profile murder among San Francisco’s elite.

FICTION / MYSTERY September A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8¼ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-11-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-12-1 USC

Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies at BEA and other trade shows • Regional TV and radio campaign • Social media campaign • Regional West Coast tour • Giveaways through Goodreads, LibraryThing, and targeted blogs • Promotion through: www.lindaleepeterson.com

Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Portland, OR Author Hometown: Portland, OR

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Prospect Park Books Blood Hina
A Mas Arai Mystery

Naomi Hirahara

The fourth installment of the Mas Arai mystery series and the precursor to Strawberry Yellow, Blood Hina is now in paperback for the first time. Mas Arai’s best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when the ancient Japanese doll display that belongs to Haruo’s fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To save his friend’s life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder dating all the way back to the Japanese American detention centers of World War II and drug-running of the 1980s. Naomi Hirahara is the Edgar Award–winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series, including Strawberry Yellow, Snakeskin Shamisen, Gasa-Gasa Girl, and Summer of the Big Bachi. Her books have earned such honors as the Chicago Tribune’s Ten Best Mysteries and Thrillers and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

In this compelling mystery, Mas Arai is back to save a wedding from a theft that threatens to destroy it.
FICTION / MYSTERY September Mas Arai Mystery First Trade Paper Edition 5¼ x 8¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-19-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-20-6 USC

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Advance reader copies at BEA and other trade shows • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads, LibraryThing, and targeted blogs • Promotion through: www.naomihirahara.com Author Hometown: Pasadena, CA Strawberry Yellow Naomi Hirahara Mas Arai Mystery FICTION / MYSTERY 5½ x 8¼ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $15.00 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-02-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-03-9 USC

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Prospect Park Books Quit Smoking for Life
A Simple, Proven 5-Step Plan

Suzanne Schlosberg

Based on the techniques used in the nation’s leading evidence-based tobacco cessation program, Quit Smoking for Life leads readers through a simple, proven method to quit smoking and remain tobacco-free for life. It’s full of engaging real stories from ex-smokers—more than four hundred thousand of whom have already quit using this method—and experienced coaches. The book includes a pull-out quitting plan and workbook and is endorsed by the American Cancer Society. Suzanne Schlosberg is one of the country’s top writers about health, nutrition, and parenting. She is the author or co-author of ten books, including The Ultimate Workout Log, Weight Training for Dummies, and Fitness for Dummies. A former senior editor at Shape, Suzanne has also written regularly for Health, Parenting, Cooking Light, Weight Watchers, Real Simple, Brides, and numerous other magazines.
An engaging, inspirational, evidence-based guide to quitting smoking based on the nation’s leading tobacco cessation program and endorsed by the American Cancer Society.

SELF-HELP January A Paperback Original Raymond Press 5½ x 8¼ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-938849-17-6 USC* eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-18-3 USC*

Marketing Plans
50,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies at ALA and BEA • • • • • National advertising National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Endorsement and promotion from the American Cancer Society • Promotion through: www.quitnow.net and www.cancer.org (American Cancer Society) Author Hometown: Bend, OR

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Selected Backlist from Prospect Park Books

Elizabeth the First Wife
Lian Dolan
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-938849-05-3 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-06-0 USC

The Texas Twist
John Vorhaus
FICTION / MYSTERY 5½ x 8¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-07-7 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-08-4 USC

Introduction by Michelle Huneven
FICTION 5 x 7 | 208 pp Trade Paper US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 978-1-938849-09-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-10-7 USC

The Fiction Edition Edited by Patricia O’Sullivan

Literary Pasadena

The Break-Up Activity Book
Crafting Your Way Through a Broken Heart Lynn Chang

Recipes from the Cafe Christine Moore
COOKING 6½ x 9 | 144 pp 50 color photographs Trade Cloth US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 978-0-9834594-8-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-938849-01-5 USC

Little Flower

HUMOR 6 x 8 | 104 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-938849-04-6 USC*

Strategies for Helicoptering, Hot-housing & Micromanaging J.D. Rothman
STUDY AIDS 5½ x 8¼ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-0-9834594-1-5 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-9834594-2-2 W

The Neurotic Parent’s Guide to College Admissions

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Pushkin Press The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell

Translated by Anthea Bell, this collection brings together twenty-three of Stefan Zweig’s best-loved short stories, three of them translated here by Bell for the first time. Written in Zweig’s typically flowing and readable style, these tales are characterized by their pacing, their psychological insightfulness, and above all, their pervading humanity. Including “Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman,” “Amok,” “Fantastic Night,” and “Letter from an Unknown Woman,” this gift edition hardback is a wonderful introduction to Zweig, or a wonderful treat for any fan of his work. Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was born in Vienna, Austria, into a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna, and, traveling widely, was an international bestseller between the wars with a string of hugely popular novellas. In 1940 Zweig left Europe for New York, before settling in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide.
The collected stories of Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular writers of short fiction of the twentieth century.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES November 5 x 7¾ | 750 pp Trade Cloth US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-1-78227-003-4 USC

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• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign

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Pushkin Press Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
Stefan Zweig
Translated by Anthea Bell
A brand new translation of four of Stefan Zweig’s most celebrated stories by the award-winning Anthea Bell. Expertly paced, laced with the psychological detail and empathy that are Zweig’s trademarks, this is a powerful addition to Pushkin’s growing collection of his work, and a must for all Zweig lovers.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | September | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-906548-93-3 USC

The Last Days
Laurent Seksik
Translated by André Naffis-Sahely
In 1942, exiled in Brazil, Stefan Zweig and his wife committed suicide. This last, desperate act of the great humanist has long puzzled and fascinated lovers of his work; here, Laurent Seksik reconstructs their final months—their hopes, anxieties, and inability to resist the call of the shadows.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-908968-91-3 USC

The Embroidered Armour
Roberto Peregalli
Translated by Shaun Whiteside
This new book by the Italian architect and writer Roberto Peregalli examines the Greek mysteries, mythology, and legends that heralded a revolution in thinking between the time of Homer and Plato, and which gave birth to the Western cultural tradition.
PHILOSOPHY | October | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-906548-33-9 USC

Enchantment
Pietro Grossi
Translated by Howard Curtis
Taut, moving, with a distinct flavor of Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger, Enchantment is a coming-of-age story and a powerful, original road trip from an important, compelling Italian author. Pietro Grossi’s Fists (which won the 2010 European Campiello Prize for translated fiction) and The Break have already been published by Pushkin Press to significant acclaim.
FICTION | October | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-908968-16-6 USC

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Pushkin Press Bullfight
Yasushi Inoue
Translated by Michael Emmerich

Bullfight is a Japanese modern classic, a tense story about post-war Japan and its people struggling to come to terms with a new epoch—available now in English for the first time. Three years after the end of the Second World War, Tsugami, the editor-in-chief of a newspaper, decides to organize a bullfight. But things are not as simple as Tsugami assumes: there are all kinds of logistical problems to overcome, and he has to go into an unwelcome alliance with a shady businessman. Tsugami’s private life is also difficult, and as the bullfight approaches he must decide whether or not to remain with his lover Sakiko . . . Bullfight won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1949, and Yasushi Inoue was consequently assured a place in the Japanese canon. This novel is translated by Michael Emmerich, who has translated much Japanese literature, including Hiromi Kawakami and Banana Yoshimoto. Pushkin Press will be publishing further works by Inoue, including the epistolary novel The Hunting Gun and the story collection The Counterfeiter. Contains a previously unpublished preface by Inoue himself. Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) is one of the great Japanese authors. Born in Asahikawa on Hokkaido, he studied first law and then history of art. From 1936, he worked as a journalist for a major Japanese daily, until Bullfight brought him the Akutagawa Prize and national acclaim. His central concern is the loneliness of modern life and the complexities of personal relationships.
A tense story about post-war Japan and those struggling to come to terms with a new epoch. Marketing Plans
• National print and online campaign • Social media campaign FICTION December A Paperback Original 4¾ x 6¼ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 978-1-78227-000-3 USC

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Pushkin Press A Tale Without a Name
Penelope S. Delta
Translated and illustrated by Mika Provata-Carlone
Available in English for the first time, A Tale Without a Name has been a classic of Greek literature for a century. It is a fable for children and adults, an acutely topical proposal for a better way of living together. Elegantly told, with charming drawings by Mika Provata-Carlone.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¼ | 232 pp | 25 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-908968-90-6 USC

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Gaito Gazdanov
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk
A superb, classic, proto-postmodern psychological thriller by one of Vladimir Nabokov’s fellow émigré writers, rediscovered after more than half a century. During the Russian Civil War, one young soldier kills another in self-defense; but years later, in Paris, he comes across a short story written, it seems, by his victim . . .
FICTION | December | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¼ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-78227-008-9 USC

Things Look Different in the Light and Other Stories
Medardo Fraile
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
From one of the finest short-story writers in Spanish, this is the first anthology of his work to appear in English. Like Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, Medardo Fraile is a chronicler of the minor tragedies and triumphs of ordinary life, and each short tale opens up an entire exquisite world.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | February | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-908968-18-0 USC

I Was Jack Mortimer
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Translated by Ignat Avsey
A taxi driver stalks a rich and beautiful young woman, who has no interest in him. Until, that is, one of his passengers is shot dead in his taxi. . . . A noir thriller with a twist, undiscovered in English until now, I Was Jack Mortimer is strictly for fans of Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-908968-15-9 USC

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Pushkin Press The Parrots
Filippo Bologna
Translated by Howard Curtis
A searing satire by the rising young Italian author of How I Lost the War, about three writers who compete for a prestigious literary prize. They will stop at almost nothing to win, and as this hugely entertaining novel reveals the dark underbelly of our literary world, no one escapes unscathed.
FICTION | October | 5 x 7¾ | 288 pp Trade Cloth US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 | 978-1-908968-19-7 USC

Three Lives
A Biography of Stefan Zweig

Oliver Matuschek
“A revealing new biography”—The New Yorker A new paperback edition of Oliver Matuschek’s fascinating glimpse into the private world of Stefan Zweig. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Matuschek recounts the life of a writer spoilt by success, which dramatically changed with the Second World War, and ended in suicide.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | September | First Trade Paper Edition | 5 x 7¾ | 384 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 | 978-1-78227-005-8 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906548-2-92

Château d’Argol
Julien Gracq
Translated by Louise Varese
A new edition of a Pushkin Press classic, in which an aimless young man arrives to stay with his friend in a dilapidated Gothic château, accompanied by a beautiful woman. His female companion’s detached amorality disturbs both men—the beginning of a dark and dreamlike tale leading to murder.
FICTION | October | First Trade Paper Edition | 4¾ x 6¼ | 148 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-78227-004-1 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-901285-1-47

Against Venice
Régis Debray
Translated by John Howe
A beautifully designed new edition of Régis Debray’s mischievous, provocative attack on the city and on those who have succumbed to its charms. With energetic and gleeful vitriol, Debray unpicks Venice’s superficiality, “gondolier kitsch,” and allure for intellectuals and sophisticates. With a cover illustration by famous fashion designer Julie Verhoeven.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / TRAVEL | September | 4¾ x 6¼ | 80 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-908968-88-3 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-901285-40-6

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Pushkin Press Loving Venice
Petr Král
Translated by Christopher Moncrieff
A leisurely, profound portrait of la Serenissima and a meditation on his own great love for it, by the author of In Search of the Essence of Place and Working Knowledge. No one writes as evocatively about place as Petr Král, or extracts such feeling and wisdom from it.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / TRAVEL September | First Trade Paper Edition | 4¾ x 6¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-908968-85-2 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-906548-47-6

Casanova’s Return to Venice
Arthur Schnitzler
Translated by Ilsa Barea
The greatest of all lovers returns to his greatest love in this moving and lyrical novel by the author of Dream Novella. Sensuous and weary, it is a movingly human portrait of a legend—a narrative of the mournful experience of loss and aging, punctuated with flaring libidinous intensity.
FICTION | September | First Trade Paper Edition | 4¾ x 6¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-908968-86-9 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-901285-16-1

Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro
Henry James
The great novelist Henry James was as enchanted by the Palazzo Barbaro as he was by Venice, and these wonderfully written letters penned while he stayed there create a deeply personal account of the master and his work—and the society of which he was a uniquely brilliant observer.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September | First Trade Paper Edition | 4¾ x 6¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-908968-89-0 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-901285-07-9

Venices
Paul Morand
Translated by Euan Cameron
A collection of beautifully sketched Venetian reminiscences from the French diplomat and traveling socialite Paul Morand. Morand was one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century, and Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / TRAVEL | September | 4¾ x 6¼ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-908968-87-6 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-901285-41-3

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Redleaf Press Let’s Play
(Un)Curriculum Early Learning Adventures

Jeff A. Johnson and Denita Dinger

Children’s play is focused, purposeful, and full of learning. As children play, they master motor development, learn language and social skills, think creatively, and make cognitive leaps. Let’s Play provides caregivers, teachers, and parents with a variety of budget-friendly, child-centered experiences that lead to countless learning opportunities. Each chapter outlines an open-ended play adventure with instructions, photographs, and fresh ideas for children to explore everything from worms to magnets. These activity starters were all tested by a slew of early childhood professionals and approved by the children they work with. Each of the thirty-nine adventures are simple, flexible, engaging, and packed with learning, and they support the philosophy that the best learning is done when children are allowed freedom to play. Jeff A. Johnson has more than twenty years of early childhood experience as a former child care center director and current family child care business owner. He is a popular keynote speaker, trainer, and author of six books. Denita Dinger has been a child care provider for more than ten years and is a frequent speaker at early childhood conferences, focusing on the topics of hands-on and play-based learning. This is her second book.
EDUCATION December A Paperback Original 8⅜ x 10⅞ | 224 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $17.95 978-1-60554-127-3 US

Thirty-nine teacher-tested, child-approved play-based adventures that are packed with endless learning opportunities.

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• Outreach to early childhood professional organizations, publications, and websites • Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.explorationsearlylearning.com, www.jeffajohnson.com, www.playcounts.com, and playcountsdenitadinger.blogspot.com

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Coeur d’Alene, ID • Paducah, KY • Lansing, MI • St. Cloud, MN • Kansas City, MO • St. Joseph, MO • St. Louis, MO • Grand Island, NE • Lincoln, NE • Mitchell, SD • Rapid City, SD • Nashville, TN • Jackson, WY • Alberta, AB • Toronto, ON • Halifax, NS • Truro, NS Author Hometowns: Sioux City, IA /Sioux Falls, SD

Let Them Play An Early Learning (Un)Curriculum Jeff A. Johnson and Denita Dinger EDUCATION 8 x 10 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $34.95 978-1-60554-053-5 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-60554-198-3 W

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Redleaf Press Body Care
Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett
Young children are aware of and naturally curious about their bodies. This health curriculum introduces positive body care habits that will greatly affect their quality of life. Thirty-six activities help children age three to eight learn about health concepts, self-help skills, and positive self-image.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-60554-240-9 US

Fitness and Nutrition
Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett
Given the recent rise of childhood obesity, health education is needed more than ever. This curriculum provides thirty-six developmentally appropriate activities that introduce important health concepts, including physical activity, rest and relaxation, and nutrition and eating habits.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-60554-241-6 US

Safety
Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett
The earlier children learn about safety, the more naturally they will develop habits that lead to lifelong patterns of safe behavior. These activities introduce topics—such as seat belt use, fire and burn prevention, and tobacco and alcohol awareness—in developmentally appropriate ways to help children take care of themselves.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-60554-242-3 US

Social and Emotional Well-Being
Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett
Children’s social and emotional skills form a critical foundation for learning and wellness that guide them into adulthood and influence how they deal with both successes and adversity in life. These activities support children as they learn about self-esteem, emotions and feelings, family and friends, and changes in life.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-60554-243-0 US

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Redleaf Press Community and Environment
Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett
Children develop a sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves, their home, and the world around them. This curriculum includes thirty-six activities that help children build connections with their community and foster positive feelings about health and safety personnel.
EDUCATION | October | A Paperback Original | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 88 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-60554-244-7 US

Growing, Growing Strong
A Whole Health Curriculum for Young Children Third Edition

This whole health curriculum includes activities and background information to help children develop lifelong healthy habits. This set of five books addresses body care, fitness and nutrition, safety, social and emotional wellbeing, and community and environment.
EDUCATION | October | Growing, Growing Strong | 8⅜ x 10¾ | 440 pp Prepack US $59.95 | 978-1-60554-143-3 US

Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, and Becky S. Bennett

Making It Better
Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World Second Edition
Children who have faced traumatic events may have a difficult time focusing on learning, and their teachers and caregivers need to help them feel emotionally secure. This second edition speaks to the concept of “traumainformed” early education and includes eighty-five activities to help fragile children process and heal from stress.
EDUCATION | December | 8½ x 11 | 184 pp Trade Paper US $19.95 | 978-1-60554-160-0 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-884834-26-4

Barbara Oehlberg

All the Colors We Are/ Todos los colores de nuestra piel
20th Anniversary Edition

Katie Kissinger
This engaging children’s book captures the essence of one way we are unique— our skin color! Bilingual English/Spanish text and beautiful photographs explain how skin tones come from our ancestors, the sun, and the pigment melanin.
JUVENILE NONFICTION | February | 8⅜ x 10⅝ | 32 pp | 30 color photographs Library Binding, Picture Book US $15.95 | 978-1-60554-079-5 US | Ages 4 to 10 Spanish bilingual

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Redleaf Press Being a Supervisor
Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals

Gigi Schweikert
When an early childhood classroom teacher is promoted to a supervisory role, he or she must transition from guiding young children to supporting staff members. This professional development workbook, part of the Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals series, presents eight supervisory concepts to ease the transition and enhance and improve leadership skills. Using this workbook will encourage, empower, and equip the reader with knowledge and confidence to work with other adults.
EDUCATION September A Paperback Original Winning Ways Series 8½ x 10⅞ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-60554-245-4 US

Gigi Schweikert is a popular speaker at early childhood conferences and parenting seminars. She is the author of many books and contributes to early childhood periodicals and journals.

The latest addition to the popular Winning Ways for Early Childhood Professionals series, this workbook covers eight supervisory concepts.

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I’m Going to Kindergarten!
[5-pack]

Angèle Sancho Passe
Going to kindergarten is important. Children can feel excited—and a bit worried. This book, sold in five-packs, helps children think about the new experience of going to kindergarten by addressing cognitive and social-emotional topics. As adults read the pages and help children write and draw, children talk about what they already know about kindergarten and anticipate what they will do in school. This book provides children with a thoughtful and fun way to prepare themselves. And it becomes a special keepsake for the family! Detailed lesson plans offer four different ways educators and caregivers can use the booklet.
EDUCATION Available Now 8⅜ x 10⅝ | 16 pp Color illustrations throughout Prepack US $12.95 978-1-60554-159-4 US

This colorful keepsake booklet helps children prepare for kindergarten with developmentally appropriate and engaging writing and art prompts.

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Outreach to early childhood professional organizations, publications, and websites Social media campaign • Promotion through: www.angelesanchopasse.com Author Hometown: Minneapolis, MN

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Saqi Books Classic Palestinian Cuisine
Third Edition

Christiane Dabdoub Nasser

“Thrilling . . . this charming book is about good real food with delicious flavours and centuries of tradition behind it.”—Claudia Roden Classic Palestinian Cuisine is a collection of over one hundred mouth-watering dishes, such as ful m’dammas (broad bean salad), kidreh (rice with mutton), and djaj mahshi (stuffed chicken), characteristic of the culinary culture of the Mediterranean. Christiane Dabdoub Nasser’s delightful tips and anecdotes, from coring marrows to buying the perfect cabbage for stuffing, vividly bring to life the smells and flavours of Palestinian cookery, as practiced in kitchens across the region for generations. Christiane Dabdoub Nasser worked at the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation in Bethlehem from 2001 to 2008, as head of international relations and then as director. She is currently a consultant for Euromed Heritage IV projects in Brussels.
This classic Palestinian cookbook features authentic and exciting Mediterranean recipes perfect for everyday eating and entertaining.
COOKING October 5⅞ x 8¼ | 224 pp Color illustrations throughout Trade Paper US $21.95 | CAN $23.99 978-0-86356-844-2 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-86356-618-9

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Saqi Books Understanding the Qur’an Today
Mahmoud Hussein
Translated by David Bond

The prevailing belief among Muslims is that, because the Qur’an is the Word of God and God is eternal, it follows that His Word is also eternal. The belief is based on the postulate that the Word of God must be of the same nature as God Himself. Mahmoud Hussein refutes this by showing that it contradicts the very teachings of the Qur’an. Whereas God transcends time, His Word is inscribed within time. It is not a monologue, but a living exchange, through which God reveals to His Prophet different orders of truth, weaving together the absolute and the relative, the general and the particular, the eternal and the contingent. An international bestseller, Understanding the Qur’an Today offers a new perspective on one of the world’s most influential texts and adds an invaluable contribution to the debate on Islam and modernity. Mahmoud Hussein is the pseudonym of Bahgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat, French political writers of Egyptian origin. Together, they have published many successful works, including La lute de classes en Egypte and Al-Sira, le Prophète de l’islam raconté par ses compagnons.
A topical and timely text arguing against a literalist reading of the Qur’an, accessible to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

RELIGION September A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $17.50 978-0-86356-849-7 USC

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Saqi Books Madam Atatürk
˙ Ipek Çalis ¸lar
Translated by Feyza Howell

“Sumptuous, surprising, and profound.”—Orhan Pamuk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual intellectual who read law at the Sorbonne, she was a suffragist who closely followed women’s movements around the world. Her marriage set her apart from her contemporaries, raising her to the pinnacle of political power, truly able to work for the betterment of the women of Turkey. But just after two and a half years, Atatürk divorced her and Hanim was forgotten and maligned. Public opinion became dominated by the image of a sharp-tongued, quarrelsome woman who strained Atatürk’s nerves. ˙pek Çalis In the first biography to be written on Latife Hanim, I ¸ lar reveals an astonishing woman, ahead of her time. ˙pek Çalis I ¸ lar is a journalist and writer. She has worked for the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet for twelve years, as news editor and later as the Sunday supplement editor. An international bestseller, Madam Atatürk is her first literary work. Feyza Howell was born in 1957 in Izmur, Turkey. Her translations include Fiasco by Coskun Büktel, The Book of Madness by Levent Senyürek, and The Concubine by Gül Irepoglu.
A surprising and controversial portrait of Latife Hanim— the First Lady of modern Turkey.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY March 5⅛ x 8¾ | 336 pp Trade Cloth US $25.95 | CAN $28.50 978-0-86356-842-8 USC

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Saqi Books Contemporary Iranian Art
Hamid Keshmirshekan

Renowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan explores contemporary art in Iran and considers the relationship between its cultural past, modernism, and the issue of contemporaneity with regard to cultural specificity. Using over three hundred color illustrations, Keshmirshekan contends that the twentieth century is a crucial period in the culture and art of Iran— when the legacies of tradition and modernism were being critically reviewed and the artistic concerns were indivisible from ideological ones.
ART March 9⅝ x 12 | 349 pp 350 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $69.95 | CAN $76.99 978-0-86356-721-6 USC

Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, critic, visiting fellow at the faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, and editor-in-chief of the bilingual quarterly Art Tomorrow.

The first comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary Iranian art by a noted expert in this field.

The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun
Chaouki Chamoun

Chaouki Chamoun is one of the Middle East’s most renowned artists. With 319 color plates to illustrate his story, Chamoun leads us through his own artistic journey, showing how the schools of the modern era have informed his technique and imagery, and how he has been motivated and inspired as much by the tiniest details of a pebble as by the political turmoil visited on his homeland. Born in Lebanon in 1942, Chaouki Chamoun has participated in over fifty group art shows and biennales since 1969. He is the president of the Lebanese Artists Association and has studied at both Syracuse and New York universities.

ART December 9¾ x 12 | 320 pp 319 color illustrations Trade Cloth US $55.00 | CAN $60.50 978-0-86356-791-9 USC

Going beyond a record of Chaouki Chamoun’s life and art, this book delves into what drives an artist to create.

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Sarabande Books Praying Drunk
Kyle Minor

“I finished this book with my heart pounding and grateful, my coffee cold and my smile wide and crying like a baby.”—Daniel Handler The characters in Praying Drunk speak in tongues, torture their classmates, fall in love, hunt for immortality, abandon their children, keep machetes beneath passenger seats, and collect porcelain figurines. A man crushes pills on the bathroom counter while his son watches from the hallway; missionaries clumsily navigate an uprising with barbed wire and broken glass; a boy disparages memorized scripture, facedown on the asphalt, as he fails to fend off his bully. From Kentucky to Florida to Haiti, these seemingly disparate lives are woven together within a series of nested repetitions, enacting the struggle to remain physically and spiritually alive throughout the untamable turbulence of their worlds. In a masterful blend of fiction, autobiography, and surrealism, Kyle Minor shows us that the space between fearlessness and terror is often very small. Long before Praying Drunk reaches its plaintive, pitch-perfect end, Minor establishes himself again and again as one of the most talented younger writers in America. Kyle Minor is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction, a three-time honoree in the Atlantic Monthly writing contest, and the author of In Devil’s Territory (Dzanc Books, 2008). His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Salon, Best American Mystery Stories 2008, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, and Forty Stories: New Voices from Harper Perennial.
This masterfully blended fiction and autobiography explores the lives of missionaries, drug addicts, and childhood bullies in Kentucky, Florida, and Haiti.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES February A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-63-4 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-71-9 USC

Author Events
Tuscaloosa, AL • Fayetteville, AR • Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Atlanta, GA • Iowa City, IA • Louisville, KY • Brookline, MA • Minneapolis, MN • Oxford, MS • St. Louis, MO • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA • Madison, WI Author Hometown: Maumee, OH

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Sarabande Books Red Holler
Contemporary Appalachian Literature

Edited by John Branscum and Wayne Thomas

“Buy this book, it’s a barn burner!”—Dorothy Allison In an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic essays by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer high-rises, exploring the vibrant migrant tradition of Appalachian culture. Editors John Branscum and Wayne Thomas have assembled a collection spanning ten years and the mountain range from Mississippi to New York, placing fresh new voices alongside widely known and celebrated authors. Spanning Native American myth, African American urban legend, folk culture, and European ghost stories, this is an anthology of disenfranchised, yet robust peoples. The stories and poems of Red Holler elegantly cohere to perfectly depict what makes Appalachia so fascinating: its irreverent and outlaw challenges to the notions of propriety and convention. John Branscum grew up in Kentucky, Arkansas, and California. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs pedagogy committee, and text editor for Black and Grey Magazine. His fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have won the national Ursula K. Le Guin Award for Imaginative Fiction, several Academy of American Poets awards, and appearances in Best American Non-required Reading and Best American Horror. Wayne Thomas teaches creative writing at Tusculum College, a small school located in the northeast Tennessee mountains. He is editor of The Tusculum Review.
This anthology of contemporary Appalachian literature travels through housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer high-rises, exploring Appalachia’s vibrant migrant tradition.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Lit 6 x 9 | 256 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-936747-66-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-70-2 USC

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Louisville, KY • Seattle, WA Author Hometowns: Philadelphia, PA / Tusculum, TN

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Sarabande Books Catherine’s Laughter
C. K. Williams

For grownups who’ve begun to wonder whether romance is just for the kids, C. K. Williams has answered with Catherine’s Laughter, the short and sweet story of the poet’s long love affair with his wife. Is romance still possible, after the excited beginnings? Can a poet find sustaining love in marriage? “Yes,” the poet declares, “yes”—even grownups can fall in love, and keep falling. C. K. Williams has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize, among other honors.
POETRY September A Paperback Original Quarternote Chapbook Series 6 x 9 | 32 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-936747-68-9 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-74-0 USC

Author Hometown: Princeton, NJ

The short and sweet story of a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s long love affair with his wife.

Fire Year
Jason K. Friedman
Introduction by Salvatore Scribona
Jason K. Friedman investigates art, sexuality, love, and religion in seven unconventional and engrossing short stories. A gay man attends his high school reunion in Savannah, where he’s pursued by the now-married former football star. An awkward teenager grapples with notions of God and girls at his bar mitzvah. A curator’s assistant struggles to understand a five hundred-yearold Italian painter’s body of work, until his boyfriend (whom he’s previously written off as frivolous), makes an accidental discovery that challenges decades of art criticism. A moving picture of the trials religious, cultural, and sexual minorities experience in Georgia and the Deep South.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction 5½ x 8½ | 176 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-936747-64-1 USC

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Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Baltimore, MD • Minneapolis, MN • Princeton, NJ • New York, NY • Seattle, WA Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA

eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-69-6 USC

Gay and Jewish men struggle to navigate conservative communities in Georgia and the Deep South.

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Sarabande Books Thought That Nature
Trey Moody
Introduction by Cole Swensen
In the middle of the night, when the fruit is scariest. I hold my hand out and feel your nibbling. Don’t worry, my eyes are still closed. I’ve only peeked that once. The cold that is your breath—these windows of fog. If I were outside, I’d read your name backward again and again.
POETRY January A Paperback Original Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry 6 x 9 | 80 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936747-67-2 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-72-6 USC

Trey Moody is from San Antonio, Texas. He earned an MFA from Texas State University and a PhD from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of the chapbook How We Remake the World, co-written with Joshua Ware, and winner of the Slope Editions Chapbook Prize.

Trey Moody’s poems begin with immediate evidence, then move outward, examining nature, weather, history, and ghosts.

Author Hometown: Lincoln, NB

Throw Yourself into the Prairie
Francesca Chabrier
“You won’t want to stop reading this other-worldly good book.”—Dara Wier 11 is 2 bodies and these 2 bodies want to crash into each other, but there is no ambulance. It is a nook of totem poles on a stubby road and also 2 modest giraffes peering at something unruly in the grass.
POETRY January A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 60 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-936747-65-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-936747-73-3 USC

Francesca Chabrier is the author of the chapbook The Axioms (Pilot Books, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Action Yes, jubilat, notnostrums, Sixth Finch, and Sink Review. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Author Events
Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Philadelphia, PA Author Hometown: Portland, OR

A debut of remarkable freshness and delight, Francesca Chabrier investigates love, nostalgia, place, family, and the natural world.

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Serpent’s Tail The Girl in Berlin
Elizabeth Wilson

“This is a clever, well-written, and carefully plotted novel in which class, hypocrisy, moral corruption, treachery, and taboos ancient and modern are cunningly interwoven.”—The Times Summer, 1951. Two suspected spies, Burgess and Maclean, have disappeared, and the nation is obsessed with their whereabouts. Speculation is at fever pitch when Colin Harris, a member of the Communist Party who has been in Germany for several years, turns up to see his old friends Dinah and Alan Wentworth. He has news: he has fallen in love with a girl in East Berlin, and is coming home—with her—for good. Meanwhile, Jack McGovern, who sometimes feels like the only decent man in Special Branch, has a rendezvous with a real spy. Miles Kingdom thinks there’s a mole at MI5, and he wants McGovern’s help. A novel about secrets, betrayal, and unearthing the truth, The Girl in Berlin is a reminder that when nothing is as it seems, no one can be trusted—even those you think you know best. Elizabeth Wilson is an independent researcher and writer best known for her commentaries on feminism and popular culture. She is currently a visiting professor at the London College of Fashion. Her novels The Twilight Hour and War Damage are also published by Serpent’s Tail.
A bohemian Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5 x 7½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84668-827-0 USC

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War Damage Elizabeth Wilson FICTION 5¼ x 8½ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $14.95 978-1-84668-650-4 USC The Twilight Hour Elizabeth Wilson FICTION 5 x 7¾ | 256 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $18.00 978-1-85242-477-0 USC

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Serpent’s Tail Her Privates We
Frederic Manning
Introduction by William Boyd

“The finest and noblest book of men and war that I have ever read.” —Ernest Hemingway “I am sure it is the book of books so far as the British Army is concerned.” —Lawrence of Arabia “A unique and extraordinary novel”—William Boyd First published privately in 1929 as The Middle Parts of Fortune, Her Privates We is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of Bourne, an ordinary private. A raw and shockingly honest portrait of men engaged in war, “that peculiarly human activity,” the original edition was subject to “prunings and excisions” because the bluntness of language was thought to make the book unfit for public distribution. This edition restores them. An undisputed classic of war writing and a lasting tribute to all who participated in the war, Her Privates We was originally published as written by “Private 19022.” Championed by, amongst others, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and T. E. Lawrence, it has become recognized as a classic in the seventy years since its first publication. Now republished, it will again amaze a new generation of readers with its depiction of the horror, the ordinariness, and the humanity of war. Frederic Manning enlisted in 1915 in the Shropshire Light Infantry and went to France in 1916 as “Private 19022.” The Shropshires saw heavy fighting on the Somme and Manning’s four months there provided the background to Her Privates We. He died in 1935.

FICTION November 5 x 7½ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-84668-787-7 USC Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-85242-717-7

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A new edition of a classic war novel, a brilliant and bitter picture of human conflict.

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Small Beer Press Spider in a Tree
Susan Stinson

“Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home “Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities.”—Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones “Wonderfully fuses the historic and the imaginative.”—Kenneth Minkema, executive director, Jonathan Edwards Center Jonathan Edwards is considered America’s most brilliant theologian. He was also a slave owner. This is the story of the years he spent preaching in eighteenth century Northampton, Massachusetts. In his famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards’s young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards’s wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale. Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach.

FICTION October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-069-5 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-070-1 W

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10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, AWP, Advance Access, Massachusetts Library Association, and NEIBA • National advertising • Outreach to historical fiction publications and websites • Social media campaign • Giveaways through Goodreads, LibraryThing, and Twitter • Promotion through: www.susanstinson.net

Eighteenth-century preacher Jonathan Edwards made the town of Northampton famous for its piety before the town rejected him.

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San Francisco, CA • Boston, MA • Northampton, MA • Charlotte, NC Author Hometown: Northampton, MA

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Small Beer Press Horse of a Different Color
Stories

Howard Waldrop

“If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he’ll come up with next, but somehow it’s always a Waldrop story.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Waldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today.” —The Houston Post “The most startling, original, and entertaining short story writer in science fiction today.”—George R. R. Martin “It always feels like Christmas when a new Howard Waldrop collection arrives.” —Connie Willis Howard Waldrop’s stories are keys to the secrets of the stories behind the stories . . . or perhaps the stories between the stories everyone else knows. From “The Wolfman of Alcatraz” to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from “The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew” to the sixth Marx brother’s story of a vaudeville act tracking down the Holy Grail, this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness. Howard Waldrop, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include Them Bones and A Dozen Tough Jobs, and the collections Howard Who?, Night of the Cooters, Other Worlds, Better Lives, and Things Will Never Be the Same. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette “The Ugly Chickens.”
Literary mashup master Howard Waldrop is back with new stories of pirates, hidden movie history, the Wolfman of Alcatraz, and more.

FICTION / SHORT STORIES September 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Cloth US $24.00 | CAN $26.50 978-1-61873-073-2 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-074-9 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Co-op available Advance reader copies available at ALA, Advance Access, and MBIPA • Launch party at World Sci Fi Convention in San Antonio, TX

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Small Beer Press Tyrannia
and Other Renditions

Alan DeNiro
Praise for Alan DeNiro’s books: “There aren’t many writers who take weirdness as seriously as DeNiro does, and fewer still who can extract so much grounded emotion, gut-dropping humor, and rousing adventure from it.”—Booklist, starred review People struggle for freedom from personal and political conventions and constraints—sometimes at massive cost. Tyranny takes many forms and the characters here must create their own renditions of freedom. This is Alan DeNiro’s second collection. His stories have been published in One Story, Asimov’s, and shortlisted for the O. Henry Award. He lives near St. Paul, Minnesota, with his family.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies available at ALA, AWP, and Advance Access National advertising • Promotion through: www.alandeniro.com FICTION / SHORT STORIES November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-071-8 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-072-5 W

Author Events
Minneapolis, MN • Fargo, ND • Madison, WI Author Hometown: St. Paul, MN

Bending, straddling, and contorting our notions of fiction and reality, these stories explore characters at major crossroads in their lives.

Questionable Practices
Stories

Eileen Gunn
Reviews for Eileen Gunn’s stories: “Corporate satire and Kafkaesque metamorphoses gleefully collide.”—Seattle Times “Reading this book is like getting to wear the eyeballs of a madwoman in your own sockets for a day.”—Warren Ellis Stories from Eileen Gunn are always a cause for celebration. Where will she lead us? “Up the Fire Road” to a slightly alternate world. Into steampunk’s heart. Never where we might expect. Eileen Gunn is the author of the collection Stable Strategies and Others. She has received the Nebula and the (Japanese) Sense of Gender awards. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available • Advance reader copies available at ALA , Advance Access, and PNBA National advertising • Promotion through: www.eileengunn.com Author Hometown: Seattle, WA FICTION / SHORT STORIES March A Paperback Original 8½ x 5½ | 208 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-075-6 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-076-3 W

Trains that go to unexpected places. A steampunk quartet. Stories that shake the tree. Stories that question normal practices.

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Selected Backlist from Small Beer Press

North American Lake Monsters
Stories Nathan Ballingrud
FICTION 5½ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-1-61873-060-2 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61873-061-9 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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-931520-77-5 W

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One
Where on Earth Ursula K. Le Guin
FICTION 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

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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-931520-35-5 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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-931520-81-2 USCO

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 eBook ISBN: 978-1-931520-89-8 USCO

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Stockholm Text
Stockholm, Sweden

We come from Scandinavia. We are progressive, yet serious. We are innovative, yet with strong traditions. We represent quality. We bring the best literature of the region to the world. With a long season of cold and darkness, reading and writing have always been genuine traditions. Conditions made to foster literary excellence. A natural home for the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is no surprise that Scandinavian literature is now getting a global audience. Girls in long stockings or with dragon tattoos have already made amazing characters. Stockholm Text is ready to bring you the next generation. We are based in Stockholm, the capital of Scandinavia, a hub for creativity, diligence, and intelligence. For world-class music, design, and technology. For outstanding literature. Stockholm Text takes great pride in our Scandinavian heritage. We work for the American book lovers to discover and enjoy the exceptional works of authors that have already achieved remarkable success in Europe and at home. We are proud to be part of the Consortium family. In 2012 we produced number one bestsellers on more than one of the major online book retailers, but will now focus on new forms of distribution to find readers wherever they are. From best-selling crime fiction to provocative niche publishing, our aim is to entertain, engage, and ignite the minds of readers. For more information about Stockholm Text, please watch The Stockholm Text Story on www.stockholmtext.com.

first season at Consortium

Stockholm Text Strange Bird
Anna Jansson
Translated by Paul Norlen

“Cold shivers run down my spine after reading just a few pages.” —Göteborgs Tidningen (Sweden) As the bird flu pandemic reaches Gotland Island, panic spreads among the inhabitants who are frantic for an elusive cure. In the desperation that rises, the hunt for scapegoats begins, and extremist and anti-immigrant groups gain ground. Meanwhile, nurse Sandra Hägg makes a gruesome discovery at the health clinic where she works—a discovery that will cost her life. Soon Detective Inspector Maria Wern is assigned to solve the murder. Strange Bird, the first novel in the Maria Wern series in English, showcases Anna Jansson’s mastery of both hair-raising crimes and the inner lives of her beloved characters. Ruben Nilsson stepped outside into the dusk of a summer’s evening, knocked his pipe against the veranda railing and looked around the garden. Had he known how short was the time he would be allowed to live, he might have been less leisurely. Anna Jansson has established herself as one of Sweden’s most popular crime writers, selling over two million copies in more than ten countries. Her titles have been adapted into movies, which were broadcast in the United States in 2012. Jansson lives in Örebro, Sweden.
Primal fear and panic drive the inhabitants of Gotland to extremes as they face a vicious strain of “bird flu.”

FICTION / MYSTERY September A Paperback Original The Maria Wern Series 5 x 7½ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-91-87173-95-0 USC eBook ISBN: 978-91-87173-96-7 W

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • National TV and radio campaign • National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Translator Hometown: Seattle, WA

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Stockholm Text Killer’s Art
Mari Jungstedt
Translated by Tiina Nunnally

“One of the best writers of Scandinavian crime fiction.”—Harlan Coben “Tightly written and twisty crime novel . . . well crafted.”—Library Journal, starred review “Jungstedt delivers an excellent clammy atmosphere and a constant premonition of weird deaths to come. She’s becoming one of Scandinavia’s best crime writers, no mean compliment in a crowded field.”—The London Times It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin’s battered and naked body is found hanging from a gate in the town’s old city walls. When the famous painting “The Dying Dandy” is stolen in Stockholm, disturbing links to Wallin’s murder slowly start to surface, taking the reader into the glittering world of the Swedish art elite and shadowy underground of prostitution and drugs. In this spine-tingling novel, superintendent Anders Knutas is facing one of the toughest investigations in his career. After this weekend his well-ordered life would be turned upside-down, but he was the only one who knew what lay ahead. He had formulated the plans over the past six months, and now there was no going back. His twenty-year marriage would be over when Monday arrived. Mari Jungstedt is known for her intelligent plots and excruciating suspense. Her Anders Knutas series has made her the second best-selling crime-intranslation author published by Random House World. Many of the titles have been turned into popular movies with European distribution. Previously Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television.
Brutal murderers and art thefts are shaking the exquisite Swedish art world as an underworld of prostitution and drugs is revealed.
FICTION / MYSTERY October The Anders Knutas Series 5 x 7½ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-91-87173-45-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-91-87173-90-5 USC

Marketing Plans
10,000-copy print run Advance reader copies • • • • National TV and radio campaign National print and online campaign Social media campaign Promotion through: www.marijungstedt.se/en Translator Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

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Stockholm Text Killer’s Island
Anna Jansson
Translated by Enar Henning Koch
The White Sea-Lady myth is said to be as old as the ancient Swedish island Gotland has been inhabited. It tells the story of a young bride who drowned on her wedding night and returns as a ghost to lure men into the watery depths. This legend resurfaces when a nurse is found murdered in a wedding dress. Detective Inspector Maria Wern investigates, but it becomes clear that the police are also under observation by a seemingly pervasive killer.

FICTION / MYSTERY February The Maria Wern Series 5 x 7½ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-91-87173-99-8 USC eBook ISBN: 978-91-87173-13-4 W

Ritualistic murders by an omnipresent killer occur in the medieval and mythical town Visby, on the island Gotland.

Translator Hometown: Seattle, WA

The Dead of Summer
Mari Jungstedt
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
“One of Scandinavia’s best crime writers”—The London Times While vacationing on the Swedish island Gotland, a young father of two is shot on the beach while jogging. Assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson, who must lead the investigation while Anders Knutas is on vacation, is at a loss until another horrific crime is committed. Mari Jungstedt successfully combines a thrilling, raw crime novel with a multilayered relational drama.
FICTION / MYSTERY March The Anders Knutas Series 5 x 7½ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-91-87173-98-1 USC eBook ISBN: 978-91-87173-20-2 USC

A painful past is woven into the crime investigation of the murder of a family man on picturesque island Gotland.

Translator Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

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Stone Bridge Press The Way of Taiko
Second Edition

Heidi Varian
Foreword by Seiichi Tanaka
“Packs a punch with gorgeous photographs, a brief history of taiko drumming, drums and accompanying instruments used in taiko, costumes, drumming techniques, and glossary. . . . A great introduction.”—WorldMusicCentral.org Japanese taiko drumming, an ancient sacred harvest-time practice, has evolved into a form of mental, physical, and martial arts training combining rhythm, harmony, and movement. This book is for anyone who plays taiko or is fascinated by the instruments, dances, and compositions of a typically powerful taiko performance. Heidi Varian has practiced taiko over thirty years and is a taiko event producer. Seiichi Tanaka is founder and director of the renowned San Francisco Taiko Dojo.
Marketing Plans
Co-op available Outreach to taiko clubs and performance groups • Social media campaign Promotion through concert performances and demonstrations Promotion through: www.sftaiko.com Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA MUSIC September 7 x 7 | 136 pp 68 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-61172-012-9 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-880656-99-0

The classic English-language guide to the exciting world of Japanese spiritual drumming.

China Survival Guide
How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps Third Edition

Larry Herzberg and Qin Herzberg
“Like [having] a professional guide walking alongside you answering your many questions. . . . A must for your next China visit!”—Travel Answer Man Online Compact, affordable, reliable, a delight to read—these qualities are what has made China Survival Guide so popular with first-time and seasoned China travelers. This third edition has a brand new section on train travel, plus updates and fresh recommendations. Includes practical strategies for lodging, walking, haggling, medical and bathroom emergencies, etiquette, crowds, and learning the twin arts of patience and persistence. Frequent China visitors Larry Herzberg and Qin Herzberg are professors of Chinese language and culture at Calvin College in Michigan.
TRAVEL December 4½ x 6 | 240 pp B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-61172-010-5 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-552-0 W Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-933330-94-5

Marketing Plans
Co-op available Outreach to travel blogs and media • Social media campaign Author Hometowns: Grand Rapid, MI

An updated edition of the best-selling travel guide that spells out tourist problems and solutions with humor and candor.

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Selected Backlist from Stone Bridge Press

Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, Brush Meditation, The Japanese Way of the Flower H. E. Davey
RELIGION / HISTORY 6 x 7¾ | 512 pp 135 B&W photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 978-1-933330-07-5 W

The Japanese Way of the Artist

A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness Toshimi A. Kayaki
Illustrated by Miyuki Matsuo
SELF-HELP / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 5½ x 7 | 160 pp 60 duotone illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.95 978-1-933330-84-6 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-547-6 W

Green Tea Living

A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan Josephine Yun
MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE 8 x 8 | 128 pp 50 color photographs and illustrations Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $23.00 978-1-880656-95-2 W

Jrock, Ink.

A Student’s Guide to Correct Structures and Common Errors Qin Xue Herzberg and Larry Herzberg
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES 5½ x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $15.95 978-1-933330-89-1 W

Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar

Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings
With Observations on Culture and Language Qin Xue Herzberg and Larry Herzberg

On Foot in the Ancient Capital Judith Clancy
TRAVEL 5 x 7 | 296 pp 60 B&W photographs and maps Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.75 978-1-933330-64-8 W eBook ISBN: 978-0-89346-991-7 W

Exploring Kyoto

REFERENCE / FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 5 x 7 | 178 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 978-1-933330-99-0 W eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-517-9 W

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eBook ISBN: 978-1-61172-528-5 W

Talonbooks Wigrum
Daniel Canty
Translated by Oana Avasilichioaei

2011 Grand Prize Winner in the Quebec Graphic Design Competition Grafika. It’s October 1944. During a brief respite from the aerial bombardment of London, Sebastian Wigrum absconds from his small flat and disappears into the fog for a walk in the Unreal City. This is our first, and only, encounter with the enigmatic man we come to discover decades later through the more than one hundred everyday objects he has left behind. Wigrum’s bequest is a meticulously cataloged collection of the profoundly ordinary: a camera, some loose teeth, candies and keys, soap, bits of string, hazelnuts, and a handkerchief. Moving through the inventory artifact to artifact, story to story, we become immersed in a dreamlike narrative bricolage determined as much by the objects’ museological presentation as by the tender and idiosyncratic mania of Wigrum’s impulse to collect them. With its traces of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Georges Perec, Daniel Canty’s Wigrum explores the limits of the postmodern novel. Having absorbed the logic of lists and the principles of classification systems, the Wigrumian narrative teeters on the boundary between fact and fiction, on the uncertain edge of the real and the unreal. Readers venturing into Sebastian Wigrum’s cabinet of curiosities must abide only the following maxim: If I can believe all the stories I am told, so can you. Daniel Canty is a writer and film director who works in literature, film, and new media. Oana Avasilichioaei is a poet, translator, and editor.
Wigrum is catnip for bibliophiles, collectors, designers, and museum lovers. Marginalia give the reader a meta-text and wonderful illustrations in a prize-winning design.

FICTION / PHILOSOPHY October A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 192 pp 50 B&W illustrations Trade Paper US $14.95 978-0-88922-778-1 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-779-8 W*

Author Events
Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Vancouver, BC • Toronto, ON • Montreal, QC Author and Translator Hometown: Montreal, QC

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Talonbooks The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage
Ludovic Fouquet
Translated by Rhonda Mullins

PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original 6 x 9¾ | 384 pp 35 color and B&W photographs Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-88922-774-3 US

For more than three decades, Robert Lepage’s dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages worldwide. Celebrated for his bold, visionary aesthetic, Lepage has received several high-profile commissions in recent years, including two Peter Gabriel world tours, Cirque du Soleil’s Kà in Las Vegas, a dramatic staging of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Lorin Maazel’s 1984 at London’s Royal Opera House. Despite Lepage’s prolificacy and his status as one of the pioneers of new media performance, little critical writing has been published about his work, particularly in English. Ludovic Fouquet’s The Visual Laboratory of Robert Lepage, translated for the first time into English, thus presents much-needed indepth analysis of Lepage’s strategies and practices. The book’s title references the experimentation so integral to Lepage’s creative process and the ways in which Lepage has always been attuned to the synergistic possibilities when art encounters science and technology. Whether as a playwright, actor, film director, or stage director, he is forever in search of new mutations of form and expression, and his unexpected narratives often write themselves out of discoveries he makes when staging a piece—indeed stagecraft often guides story in Lepage’s creative realm. This full-color volume will be of keen interest for theater practitioners of all kinds, from set designers to directors, from academics to fans. Ludovic Fouquet is a visual artist, actor, teacher, director, and founder of the company Songes mécaniques (Mechanical Dreams) in Blois, France. Fouquet earned his PhD studying Robert Lepage’s work and its relationship with technology. Rhonda Mullins is a Governor General’s Award–winning French-to-English translator, writer, and editor.
Investigates the influence of technology and visual art in the work of Robert Lepage, a leading figure on the international stage.

Author and Translator Hometown: Montreal, QC

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Talonbooks Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour
Garry Thomas Morse

Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour resumes The Chaos! Quincunx novel series and presents two ironically dystopic visions of the speculative future. In Rogue Cells, Oober Mann emerges from his cryobed on high alert in New Haudenosaunee, a “First” nation at war with the mysterious territory Nutella. It is a critical election year when citizens live in dread of celebrities who carry out terrorist actions in defense of their own fundamentalist belief systems. Mixed up in an assassination plot under investigation by ISM (Insurgent Sado Management) and DNA-specialist cops, Mann begins to wonder about not only the nature of reality but also the new woman in his life, a femme fatale known only as The Librarian. It is the Age of Aquarium in the speculative “green” dystopia of Carbon Harbour. Omni-magnate Cornelius Quartz is overseeing the merger between Bildung Endustries and Foreign Objects despite numerous distractions: a double wedding for himself and his daughter is imminent; he is about to lose his best promoter and lover to his rival Zirconium Bluff; and working conditions are terrible in the rehashing core and on the wind pharms for hardlucks. There bio-material is harvested to produce architecture, clothing, and other swag for a luxury class of hardcore gamers (they pay for “pollution fantasies” with carbon credits while on extended getaways to Putridworld). Garry Thomas Morse is the author of six books, including Discovery Passages, which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Morse is also recipient of the 2008 Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist.

FICTION September A Paperback Original The Chaos! Quincunx 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-776-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-777-4 W*

A unique fusion of science fiction and surrealism—the poetic density of the prose is a hermeneutic test for adventurous readers.

Author Events
Calgary, AB • Vancouver, BC • Haida Gwaii, BC • Winnipeg, MB • Toronto, ON • Whitehorse, YT Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Talonbooks Modern Canadian Plays
Volume 2, Fifth Edition

Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Now in its fifth edition, the two-volume Modern Canadian Plays drama series anthologizes major Canadian plays written and performed since 1967. Volume two presents Canadian plays written over the past twenty-five years. These plays respond directly or indirectly to the events of our time; work effectively on the stage, on the page, and in the classroom; and are contextualized with accompanying history, biography, and criticism—all in one place for a reasonable price! Polygraph (1988) by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard 7 Stories (1989) by Morris Panych Never Swim Alone (1991) by Daniel MacIvor The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (1995) by Wendy Lill Counter Offence (1996) by Rahul Varma Problem Child (1997) by George Walker Harlem Duet (1997) by Djanet Sears Street of Blood (1998) by Ronnie Burkett The Shape of a Girl (2001) by Joan MacLeod Tempting Providence (2002) by Robert Chafe Scorched (2003) by Wajdi Mouawad The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil (2005) by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Camyar Chai Age of Arousal (2007) by Linda Griffiths BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience (2007) by Theatre Replacement The Edward Curtis Project (2010) by Marie Clements Kim’s Convenience (2011) by Ins Choi Professor of English and theater at the University of British Columbia, Jerry Wasserman has written and lectured widely on Canadian theater and theater history, modern fiction, and blues music.
Modern Canadian Plays is the core text for university-level Canadian drama courses around the world. Previous edition published 2002.

DRAMA September 6¾ x 9¾ | 560 pp Trade Paper US $49.95 978-0-88922-679-1 US Previous edition ISBN: 978-0-88922-437-7

Editor Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Talonbooks Ali & Ali
The Deportation Hearings

Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef
In the sequel to the hilarious The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef turn their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity satire to new global realities—the world economy is in crisis, the US president’s middle name is Hussein, and, in Canada, the fiasco of the G20 summit and security certificates has downtown Toronto under martial law. Playwright collaborators and actors Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Marcus Youssef have staged their smart, political plays for more than two decades in Toronto and Vancouver.
DRAMA / POLITICAL SCIENCE October A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-782-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-783-5W*

Author Hometowns: Vancouver, BC / Toronto, ON

A satirical take on the “Age of Terrorism” from opposite perspectives.

My TWP Plays
A Collection from a Unique Canadian Theatre

Jack Winter
Introduction by Bruce Barton
My TWP Plays presents five plays written while Jack Winter was resident playwright at Toronto Workshop Productions. These plays from the 1960s and ’70s take a carnivalesque approach that reflects the topsy-turvy times and the turbulence of the social revolution in which they are written. Extensive notes and an introduction by director and dramaturge Bruce Barton illuminate an important two-decade period in the evolution of contemporary Canadian theater. Jack Winter is the author of numerous stage plays, radio and television productions, and films, as well as critical articles, prose fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.
DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 320 pp Trade Paper US $24.95 978-0-88922-784-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-785-9 W*

The first anthology of plays by one of the central figures of Toronto’s left-wing theater collective TWP.

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Talonbooks And Slowly Beauty
Michel Nadeau
Translated by Maureen Labonté
Falling through endless days at an office desk, the disillusioned, aptly named Mr. Mann wins tickets to see Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters. By no means a theater-goer, Mann nevertheless attends the play and is soon transfixed by what he sees onstage—he recognizes in the sisters a yearning to escape their mundane, provincial lives. With Chekhov’s characters and themes coming to inhabit the man’s mind and life, And Slowly Beauty speaks eloquently to the power of art to transform lives.
DRAMA November A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 144 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-0-88922-786-6 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-787-3 W*

Michel Nadeau is an actor, director, and playwright who has long been active in Quebec arts and culture. Maureen Labonté is a dramaturge, translator, and teacher.

A complex and captivating dramatization of the transformative power of art.

Author Hometown: Quebec City, QC / Translator Hometown: Montreal, QC

The (Post) Mistress
Tomson Highway

Marie-Louise Painchaud has worked for thirty-five years at the post office in Lovely, Ontario, a small French Canadian village where she now knows every client whose mail she handles. In this one-woman play, Tomson Highway creates not only a rural comedy but a sublime parody of small-town life— the northern Ontario version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town or Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Playwright and musician Tomson Highway is widely recognized for his tremendous contribution to the development of Aboriginal theater in both Canada and around the world.

DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original 5½ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-780-4 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-781-1 W

The first new play in six years from Canada’s most famous First Nations playwright. This latest play is a riveting musical.

Author Hometown: Sudbury, ON

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Talonbooks Singed Wings
Lola Lemire Tostevin

Singed Wings peers into the interior world of Camille Claudel (Auguste Rodin’s lover) whose intimate understanding of her subjects, from young girl to old woman, captured quite a different power. Lola Lemire Tostevin allocates a place in which a writer facing her own aging process can take the experience to the limits by giving it new shapes in language. Lola Lemire Tostevin is one of Canada’s leading feminist writers and a prominent figure in Canadian literary analysis, as well as the author of many books of poetry, including The Other Sister (2008), Site-Specific Poems (2004), and The Jasmine Man (2002).

POETRY September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-790-3 US

Author Events
Calgary, AB • Vancouver, BC • Winnipeg, MB • Toronto, ON • Montreal, QC Author Hometown: Toronto, ON

Spare, intimate poems situated at the threshold of the semiotic and the symbolic, the genotext and the phenotext.

Internodes
Ken Belford

The poetic language in Internodes traverses decades at the speed of a search query. In this twenty-first-century evolution of Marshall McLuhan’s coinage that “the medium is the message,” Ken Belford’s text takes into account the nature of viral marketing and the impact similar forms of social “trending” have on our lives and our language, challenging linearity and order. Ken Belford is the author of seven books of poetry, including Decompositions, which was nominated for the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. An early advocate for the ecology movement of the 1960s, he attempts to write not “about nature” but “from nature.”

POETRY / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES September A Paperback Original 5 x 8 | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-792-7 US eBook ISBN: 978-0-88922-793-4 W*

Author Events
Prince George, BC • Vancouver, BC Author Hometown: Prince George, BC

Poetry that focuses on viral marketing, social networking, and environmental concerns.

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Talonbooks The Vestiges
Jeff Derksen

The Vestiges moves across geography of the present, linking historical moments when quarters of cities were squatted, when social change boiled, and the future was up for grabs. Mining various texts, from historical accounts of cities to real-estate promotions, building an eclectic atlas of this unstable moment, The Vestiges engages modernism, conceptual writing, and post-conceptual art. Jeff Derksen’s poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism, and text have been published in Europe and North America. He currently teaches in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Derksen’s Down Time won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

POETRY / LITERARY CRITICISM September A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8 | 128 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-0-88922-794-1 US

Political poems at the nexus of aesthetic discourse, globalization, and cultural studies.

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The Place of Scraps
Jordan Abel

The Place of Scraps explores the relationship between First Nations cultures and ethnography. Marius Barbeau—an early-twentieth-century ethnographer who studied First Nations cultures, including Jordan Abel’s ancestral Nisga’a Nation—believed these ancient cultural practices were about to disappear completely. Through poetic erasure techniques, Abel carves out new and unexpected understandings of Barbeau’s writing. Jordan Abel is a First Nations writer who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a BA from the University of Alberta and a MFA from the University of British Columbia. Abel is an editor for Poetry Is Dead magazine and the former poetry editor for PRISM International.

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS September A Paperback Original 6 x 9 | 288 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 978-0-88922-788-0 US

A conceptual poetry book that plays with the idea of historical First Nations’ representation through visual and erasure poems.

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Calgary, AB • Edmonton, AB • Vancouver, BC • Victoria, BC Author Hometown: Vancouver, BC

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Telegram Books The Summer My Father Died
Yudit Kiss
Translated by George Szirtes

“A remarkable memoir . . . the journey is riveting.”—Lisa Appignanesi “Unusually moving . . . Remarkably, this insightful memoir, excellently translated by George Szirtes, is Yudit Kiss’s first literary venture.” —Elaine Feinstein, The Times Literary Supplement Yudit Kiss grew up a communist in Budapest, soaking up her father’s ideology unquestioningly. As a child she is puzzled when others refer to her as Jewish; she only knows that her family doesn’t believe in God. How can they? As her father lies dying, Yudit tries to understand the enigma surrounding his life. Where does his unshakeable communist conviction come from? Why doesn’t he have relatives? As she digs deeper into his tragic history, Yudit is forced to confront the contradictions and lies woven into the life of her family—and her country—through the dramatic twists of twentieth century Hungary. Yudit Kiss was born in Budapest in 1956. After having worked in Hungary, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, she moved to Switzerland in the early 1990s, where she currently lives. A researcher in economic development, she is the author of a number of articles, research papers, and academic works. This is her first literary work. George Szirtes is a celebrated poet and translator. His books include Reel, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2005. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His translations include Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy.
Lyrical and poetic, this is a powerful family memoir examining Jewish identity and Communist belief in post-war Hungary.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY September A Paperback Original 5 x 7¾ | 268 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-84659-094-8 USC

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Telegram Books Asian Britain
A Photographic History

Sushelia Nasta
Preface by Razia Iqbal
South Asians have influenced Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today. Asian Britain vividly charts Britain’s process of coming to terms with the historic realities of its culturally diverse past and present. This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement, and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean, and East Africa. Personalities from the arts, business, politics, and sports appear alongside the pioneers—the first female law student at Oxford, the first Indian RAF pilots, the first Asian MP—and of equal significance are the experiences and history of the ordinary immigrants. Published in partnership with the British Library and Getty Images.
PHOTOGRAPHY / HISTORY February A Paperback Original The Westbourne Press 8⅞ x 10⅝ | 320 pp 286 B&W photographs Trade Paper US $35.00 | CAN $38.50 978-1-908906-12-0 USC

Susheila Nasta is a critic, literary activist, and broadcaster. She is the editor of the internationally distinguished literary magazine Wasafiri and professor of modern literature at the Open University. She received an MBE for her services to black and Asian literatures in 2011.
A dynamic visual history that showcases the diverse influence of Southeast Asians on contemporary British life.

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Telegram Books I Am Nobody’s Nigger
Dean Atta

“Beyond black, beyond white, beyond straight, beyond gay, so I say. Love your eyes over these words of truth. You will be uplifted.”—Benjamin Zephaniah “Go Dean Atta. Speak the truth. Tweet the truth. Upload it. Let it ring out over the digital domain and strike at the heart of the offline wireless and disconnected.”—Lemn Sissay To know that we share something unspeakable To know that as high as we rise we are not seen as equal To know that racism is institutional thinking And that ‘nigger’ is the last word you heard before a lynching. Revolutionary, reflective, and romantic, I Am Nobody’s Nigger is the powerful debut collection by one of the United Kingdom’s finest emerging poets. Exploring race, identity, and sexuality, Dean Atta shares his perspective on family, friendship, relationships, and London life, from riots to one-night stands. Dean Atta is a writer and performance poet. He won the 2012 London Poetry Award and was named as one of the most influential LGBT people by The Independent on Sunday Pink List 2012. He is an ambassador for the Spirit of London Awards for Achievement through the Arts.
An explosive debut collection from a rising young star on the UK performance circuit, exploring race, identity, love, and sexuality.
POETRY September A Paperback Original The Westbourne Press 5⅛ x 7⅞ | 95 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 978-1-908906-16-8 USC

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Telegram Books Invisible
Britain’s Migrant Sex Workers

Hsiao-Hung Pai

“This is investigative journalism at its best. Fearless, rigorous, and compassionate, Invisible is a shocking exposé of Britain’s shadow world of sex slaves.” —James Brabazon, author of My Friend the Mercenary “Pai has done it again; she went undercover, smelled the breath of violence and videotaped the underworld of pimps and madams. . . . Hsiao-Hung deflates the myth of sex work as a free choice for migrant women.”—Lydia Cacho, author of Slavery Inc. Ming and Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background, yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties and both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China and Beata from Poland. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling exposé, investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel and unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Workers are trapped and controlled—the lack of freedom this invisible strait of society suffers is both shocking and scandalous and at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE November A Paperback Original The Westbourne Press 5⅜ x 8¼ | 356 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-908906-06-9 USC

Hsiao-Hung Pai is an acclaimed journalist whose report on the Morecambe Bay tragedy for the Guardian was made into the film Ghosts. Her book on undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain, Chinese Whispers, was shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize.
Invisible unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade through the lives of migrant sex workers.

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Text Publishing Company Bad Debts
The First Jack Irish Thriller (tie-in) Second Edition
Bad Debts is the first novel in Peter Temple’s iconic, prize-winning Jack Irish series. It introduces the titular ex-criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, and trainee cabinetmaker. Peter Temple is Australia’s most awarded crime writer, and the best-selling author of the international sensations The Broken Shore and Truth.
FICTION / MYSTERY | September | Jack Irish Thriller | 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-921758-81-2 US

Peter Temple

Black Tide
The Second Jack Irish Thriller (tie-in) Second Edition

Peter Temple
When Des Connors calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand to his father’s old friend. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. Book two in the thrilling Jack Irish series, adapted for the screen starring Guy Pearce.
FICTION / MYSTERY | November | Jack Irish Thriller | 5 x 7¾ | 368 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | 978-1-921758-82-9 US

Dead Point
The Third Jack Irish Thriller

Peter Temple
Jack’s not focused on his latest job: finding Robbie Colburn. But when he gets serious, he finds his target is of great interest to some powerful people—people with bad habits and little respect for the criminal justice system. The third novel in Peter Temple’s award-winning Jack Irish series.
FICTION / MYSTERY | January | Jack Irish Thriller | 5 x 7¾ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-921145-00-1 USC

White Dog
The Fourth Jack Irish Thriller

Peter Temple
Jack Irish—gambler, cook, and cabinet maker, finder of people who don’t want to be found—has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap. White Dog is the final installment in the Jack Irish series, featuring Peter Temple’s best-loved protagonist.
FICTION / MYSTERY | March | Jack Irish Thriller | 5 x 7¾ | 342 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-920885-29-8 USC

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Text Publishing Company By the Book
A Reader’s Guide to Life

Ramona Koval
What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? By the Book is respected literary journalist Ramona Koval’s love letter to books and writing, about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar Wilde, Christina Stead to Grace Paley. It is about learning to read (and asking her mother to buy her a copy of the Kama Sutra), about love and science, about poetry and travel and falling in love. By the Book is quintessentially Ramona: warm, bright, erudite—unmissable.
LITERARY CRITICISM / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY November 5⅝ x 8½ | 256 pp Paper over Board US $22.95 978-1-922079-06-0 US

Born to Yiddish-speaking survivors of the Holocaust and brought up in Melbourne, Australia, Ramona Koval found that books were her lifeline from a young age. She is now of the country’s best-loved broadcasters, spending sixteen years presenting The Book Show on Radio National and interviewing writers on stage at festivals in Australia, Europe, and North America.
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What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer?

Nine Days
Toni Jordan
Winner of Australian “Indies” Fiction Book of the Year 2012. One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business—your own and everyone else’s—as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life. Ambitious in scope and structure, triumphantly realised, this is a novel about one family and every family. It is about dreams and fights and sacrifices. And finally, of course, it is—as it must be—about love. Toni Jordan has a BSc in physiology and qualifications in marketing and professional writing. Her debut novel, Addition, has been published in sixteen countries and won numerous awards. Jordan lives in Melbourne, Australia.
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FICTION September A Paperback Original 6 x 9¼ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-921922-83-1 USC

This triumphant new novel from the internationally best-selling author of Addition presents a heart-wrenching family saga set in Melbourne during WWII.

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Text Publishing Company The Book of Fame
Lloyd Jones

In August 1905 a party of young men took ship for England. Among them: four farmers, two bootmakers, and a boatbuilder. They set out from Auckland, never dreaming they would conquer the world. They were bound for fame. From the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Mister Pip comes an utterly extraordinary novel about the New Zealand rugby team’s 1905 tour of Europe. In this singular melding of history and imagination, Lloyd Jones has created a work of great beauty and purity—a journey from innocence to celebrity; a story of loss and return. Lloyd Jones was born in New Zealand in 1955. His best-selling novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jones is the author of a further twelve books, including the multi-award-winning Book of Fame.
FICTION / SPORTS February First Trade Paper Edition 6 x 9¼ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-921145-97-1 US

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One of the greatest sports novels you will ever read. People who’ve never even watched rugby just love this book.

True Stories
Selected Non-Fiction

Helen Garner
“Helen Garner writes the best sentences in Australia.”—Bulletin Helen Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her nonfiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work by one of Australia’s great writers.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / ESSAYS | December | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7⅞ | 288 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 | 978-1-921351-84-6 USC

Steeplechase
Krissy Kneen

Bec lives in the shadow of her sister Emily: famous artist, schizophrenic. When Bec receives an invite to Emily’s latest exhibition, she is forced to confront the dark secrets of her childhood and her complicity in her sister’s madness. A powerful, moving book about art, love, sibling bonds, and madness.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | 6¼ x 9¼ | 272 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-922079-87-9 USC

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Text Publishing Company Shooting Star
Peter Temple

Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. And his every step into the darkness may end a girl’s life.
FICTION / MYSTERY February A Paperback Original 5⅛ x 7¾ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-921351-38-9 US

Peter Temple is Australia’s most awarded crime writer. Text Publishing will release his full backlist—from the Jack Irish Thrillers to An Iron Rose and Shooting Star—in North America by early 2014.

Shooting Star is a cold, hard, classic crime novel, winner of the 1999 Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction.

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Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Outreach to mystery booksellers

A Tiger in Eden
Chris Flynn

Beautiful beaches, sexy young backpackers, cheap drinks: Thailand is perfect for Billy, a Loyalist street fighter on the run from the Northern Ireland police. A heady ride of sex, drugs, and barroom brawls, A Tiger in Eden is a raucous debut novel in the anti-tradition of Trainspotting and The Beach.
FICTION | October | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7¾ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-921922-03-9 USC

Murder with the Lot
Sue Williams

A bloodstained stranger arrives in the outback town of Rusty Bore, seeking food and a hideout. Cass Tuplin, proprietor of the best (only) diner in town, offers to help—but this amateur PI soon has second thoughts . . . A fun and sassy read for fans of Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton.
FICTION / MYSTERY | December | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9¼ | 302 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-78-7 USC

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Text Publishing Company The Cook
Wayne Macauley
“Each time you think you’ve reached the limits of this thought-provoking and brilliant novel, it just gets deeper.”—The Guardian Power through service, says Head Chef. It’s one of the first lessons taught at Cook School, where troubled youths learn to be master chefs by bowing to decadence and whim. Zac throws himself into the world and work of haute cuisine. He wants to be the greatest chef the world has seen. But when his promised future looks unlikely to eventuate, Zac is forced to reassess everything. Sweet turns sour and ends in bitter revenge. Blackly funny and deliciously satirical, The Cook feeds our hunger to know what goes on in the kitchen, while skewering our culture of food worship. Wayne Macauley has published two previous novels, Blueprints for a BarbedWire Canoe and Caravan Story (both available through Consortium). His short-fiction collection, Other Stories, was released in 2010. His website is www.waynemacauley.com.
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Co-op available • Advance reader copies National print and online campaign • Social media campaign Promotion through foodie websites and blogs

FICTION October A Paperback Original 6 x 9¼ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-921758-69-0 US

After Romulus
Raimond Gaita
Described as “a profound meditation on love and death, madness and truth, judgment and compassion,” Romulus, My Father became an instant classic. Now, Raimond Gaita reflects on the book, the film, the philosophies that underpinned his father’s relationship to the world, and, most movingly, the presence and absence of his mother.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS | January | 6 x 9¼ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-921758-78-2 USC

Griffith REVIEW 40: Women & Power
Edited by Julianne Schultz
In one generation, women have taken control of their economic fate and risen to the most powerful political positions—but as recently as 2012 the Australian Prime Minister made international headlines with a blistering speech about misogyny in parliament. A timely collection exploring the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9¼ | 264 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 | CAN $20.99 | 978-1-922079-97-8 USC

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Text Publishing Company The Crystal Code
The Billionaire Series Book IV

Richard Newsome
Published in North America as the Archer Legacy, the Billionaire Series follows the adventures of the world’s youngest billionaire, Gerald Wilkins. In book four, The Crystal Code, Gerald and his friends are looking forward to two weeks of snowboarding in the mountains of California. But soon after they arrive, the private chalet is attacked. The gang escapes through a secret passage, only to be pursued on snowmobiles by men with guns across frozen lakes and into the path of a cascading avalanche. Could this be the work of Gerald’s nemesis Sir Mason Green? Or is someone else behind the attack?
JUVENILE FICTION October First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 7¾ | 384 pp Trade Paper US $8.99 | CAN $9.99 978-1-922079-03-9 USC Ages 8 to 12

Richard Newsome won the inaugural Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing for The Billionaire’s Curse, the first book in The Billionaire Series (published in North America as The Archer Legacy). The subsequent novels in the series have won numerous awards in Australia and New Zealand.
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Book four in the action-packed Billionaire Series, for 8–12 year olds. (Also known as the Archer Legacy.)

Fire in the Sea
Myke Bartlett

Sadie is sixteen and bored with life. It’s summer, and lazing on the beach in the stifling heat with her cousins and Tom is a drag. Then something comes out of the sea. Sadie soon finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient conflict that is nearing its final battle, a showdown that threatens to engulf her city and all those she loves in a furious tsunami. A rollicking, fast-paced adventure with a feisty heroine, Fire in the Sea will appeal to fans of Garth Nix and Doctor Who. Great reading for ages fourteen and up.
JUVENILE FICTION February First Trade Paper Edition 5 x 7¾ | 320 pp Trade Paper US $9.95 | CAN $10.99 978-1-921922-74-9 USC Ages 14 and up

A rollicking read and an unforgettable Australian adventure, for readers fourteen and up who are fans of Garth Nix and Doctor Who.

Myke Bartlett was born in Perth on Australia’s remote western coast and spent his first twenty years trying to escape. Like every other young Australian, he fled to London and, like most of them, didn’t stay. He currently lives in Melbourne and is working on a sequel to Fire in the Sea. His website is www.mykebartlett.com.
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Text Publishing Company The Book of Rachael
Leslie Cannold
What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? When Rachael falls in love with her brother’s dearest friend, the rebel Judah of Iscariot, it seems that at least one of the women of Nazareth may find happiness. Then a message comes from her brother in Jerusalem. And the events begin to unfold that will change not just Rachael’s life, but the world—forever.
FICTION | December | 5 x 7¾ | 336 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 | 978-1-921922-04-6 USC

A Love Letter from a Stray Moon
Jay Griffiths

In this fictional tour de force Jay Griffiths, author of the acclaimed Wild, creates a portrait of the artist Frida Kahlo—her devastating accident and her love for Diego Rivera—that is also a celebration of the spirit of poetry and the art of rebellion.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | 5⅛ x 7¾ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.50 | 978-1-921758-02-7 USC

Selected Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Introduction by Emily Perkins
Katherine Mansfield is widely acclaimed as one of the finest short-story writers in English, and the heir to Anton Chekhov. This essential collection brings together more than twenty of the best stories from her brief career and showcases the New Zealander’s dazzling brilliance, with a new introduction by Emily Perkins.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | March | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 416 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-50-3 USC

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
C.J. Dennis
Introduction by Jack Thompson
First published in 1915 and one of the most famous works of Australian literature, this verse novel tells the story of rascally Bill and a young woman named Doreen. The book chronicles their courtship and marriage, and Bill’s transformation from a thuggish gang member to a contented husband and father.
FICTION / POETRY | December | First Trade Paper Edition | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-83-1 USC

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Text Publishing Company Happy Valley
Patrick White
Introduction by Peter Craven
Patrick White’s magnificent debut novel, available for the first time since 1939. Based on Patrick White’s own experiences in the early 1930s as a jackaroo at Bolaro in southeastern New South Wales, Happy Valley paints a portrait of a community in a desolate landscape. It is a jagged and restless study of smalltown and country life. This mesmerizing first novel is the missing piece in the extraordinary jigsaw of White’s work. White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Its appearance now in the Text Classics series is a major literary event.
FICTION September Text Classics 5¼ x 8⅛ | 352 pp Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 978-1-921922-91-6 USC

Patrick White was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and is considered one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. Following his debut, Happy Valley, White went on to publish twelve novels, including The Aunt’s Story, Voss, The Eye of the Storm and The Twyborn Affair. He died in 1990, aged seventy-eight.

The magnificent debut novel of Patrick White, Australia’s first Nobel Prize winner.

A Difficult Young Man
Martin Boyd
Introduction by Sonya Hartnett
“A subtle and beautifully observed social comedy.”—The Times Literary Supplement Handsome, proud, reprehensible, and misunderstood, Dominic Langton is the dark heart of Martin Boyd’s much-loved novel. A Difficult Young Man is an elegant, witty, and compelling turn-of-the-century family tale, the quintessential Australian coming-of-age story.
FICTION | March | A Paperback Original | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-921922-12-1 USC

Bush Studies
Barbara Baynton
Introduction by Helen Garner
Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Barbara Baynton’s short-story collection presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it. “The terror Baynton evokes,” Helen Garner writes in her introduction to the book, “is elemental, sexual, unabashedly female.”
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | January | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-49-7 USC

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Text Publishing Company Swords and Crowns and Rings
Ruth Park
Introduction by Alice Pung
Jackie Hanna, born with dwarfism, and Cushie Moy, the girl next door, share an innocent love—a love that will be censured, but will persevere. This is the story of the triumph of a special kind of courage. Ruth Park’s Miles Franklin–winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the Great Depression.
FICTION | November | A Paperback Original | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-51-0 USC

A Woman of the Future
David Ireland
Introduction by Kate Jennings
“Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top.”—Patrick White An imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt—from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Australian literature.
FICTION | March | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅜ | 480 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-82-4 USC

All the Green Year
Don Charlwood
Introduction by Michael McGirr
It was a year of “outlandish happenings,” a time when everything seemed to change for Charlie Reeve, a daydreaming lad growing up in a small Australian seaside town. One of Australia’s best-loved coming-of-age novels, All the Green Year is the story of a boy’s journey towards adulthood.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 240 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-42-8 USC

Death in Brunswick
Boyd Oxlade
Introduction by Shane Maloney
Down on his luck, Carl works in a seedy rock ’n’ roll joint. When a dead body turns up he’ll have to do something about it, and fast—or it’s goodnight, Carl. A cult hit made into a film starring Sam Neill, Death in Brunswick is a classic Australian comedy.
FICTION | December | A Paperback Original | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 224 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-80-0 USC

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Text Publishing Company The Odd Angry Shot
William Nagle
Introduction by Paul Ham
Based on the author’s experience in the Australian Army, The Odd Angry Shot is the seminal account of Australian soldiers in the Vietnam War: brief and bracing, tragic yet darkly funny. This classic Australian novel won Australia’s National Book Council Award and became an iconic film.
FICTION | October | Text Classics | First Trade Paper Edition | 5 x 7⅞ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-71-8 USC

The Fringe Dwellers
Nene Gare
Introduction by Melissa Lucashenko
Set in a remote area of Western Australia, The Fringe Dwellers is the story of partAboriginal sisters, Noonah and Trilby, who live in a family camp on the fringe of white society. Noonah accepts her position—but Trilby refuses to. The Fringe Dwellers is a landmark novel in Australian literature.
FICTION | February | Text Classics | 5 x 7⅞ | 352 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-54-1 USC

The Home Girls
Olga Masters
Introduction by Geordie Williamson
Olga Masters’s short stories, distinguished by their acute observation of human behavior, have been compared with the finest exponents of the form, such as Anton Chekhov. The Home Girls is a collection of acutely candid, witty stories about the dichotomous nature of rural and suburban Australian life.
FICTION / SHORT STORIES | November | A Paperback Original | Text Classics 5 x 7⅞ | 208 pp | Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-46-6 USC

The Long Prospect
Elizabeth Harrower
Introduction by Fiona McGregor
Neglected twelve-year-old Emily befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist who encourages her to pursue her intellectual interests. But this innocent friendship will expose both to scandal, suburban snobbery, and psychological torment. Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, this is a powerful novel about a loved-starved child—and about trial by mob.
FICTION | February | Text Classics | First Trade Paper Edition | 5 x 7⅞ | 292 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-922079-48-0 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Lincoln
The Screenplay

Tony Kushner
Foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Splendid. . . . This is among the finest films ever made about American politics.”—The New York Times “A brilliant, brawling epic. . . . Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great American movie.”—Rolling Stone A decade-long collaboration between three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, the Academy Award–nominated screenplay of Lincoln is a revealing drama that focuses on the sixteenth president’s tumultuous final months in office. Having just won re-election in a country divided, Abraham Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of America and generations to come. Containing eight pages of color photographs from the film and based in part on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s critically acclaimed Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln is now a major motion picture by DreamWorks starring threetime Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis. Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America, Parts One and Two; A Bright Room Called Day; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols’s film of Angels in America and for Steven Spielberg’s Munich. Kushner is the recipient of a Pultizer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, and two Oscar nominations, among other honors. In 2008 he was the first recipient of the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
A revealing drama about a great American president.
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Revised and Complete Edition Tony Kushner DRAMA 5⅜ x 8½ | 304 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55936-384-6 W* (excludes Canada) Caroline, or Change Tony Kushner Contributions by Jeanine Tesori DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-248-1 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-605-2 W

Author Hometown: New York, NY

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Theatre Communications Group The Flick
Annie Baker
“Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking. . . . The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater.”—New York “Hilarious and ineffably touching. . . . Ms. Baker’s peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as they learn to accept disappointment, is among the things that make her such a gifted writer . . . this lovingly observed play will sink deep into your consciousness.”—The New York Times “This hypnotic, heartbreaking micro-epic about movies and moving on is irreducibly theatrical.”—Time Out New York In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, the tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks of three underpaid employees play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world. This comedy, by one of the United States’ most-produced and highly regarded young playwrights, premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in winter of 2013, directed by Sam Gold. The Flick was awarded the coveted 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Annie Baker’s works include The Aliens (Obie Award), Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), Nocturama, and a fresh, Off-Broadway-hit adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, an inaugural Horton Foote Legacy Project residency, and commissions from Center Theatre Group and Playwrights Horizons.
An Obie Award–winning playwright’s passionate ode to film and the theater that happens in between.

DRAMA February A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-458-4 W* (excludes Canada)

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Theatre Communications Group Belleville
Amy Herzog

One of the New York Times’s Top Ten Plays of 2011. “A quietly devastating new play . . . both heartbreaking and hair-raising . . . one of the most suspenseful plays in years.”—The New York Times A young American couple has abandoned a comfortable post-graduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighborhood, and their fraught relationship begins to unravel as secrets are revealed in this nail-biting psychological thriller. Here, the Obie Award– winning Amy Herzog looks at the limits of trust, truth, deception, and dependency in a world where love and loss can be pathological and cathartic. Belleville received its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2011, New York City premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in winter 2013, and will be produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company in the summer of 2013. 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, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Playwrights Horizons, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her critically acclaimed works include 4000 Miles, After the Revolution, and The Great God Pan.
Amy Herzog’s newest play is “heartbreaking and hair-raising . . . one of the most suspenseful plays in years” (The New York Times).

DRAMA March A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-457-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-771-4 W

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After the Revolution and 4000 Miles Two Plays Amy Herzog DRAMA 5⅜ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-422-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-716-5 W

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Theatre Communications Group The Happiest Song Plays Last
Quiara Alegría Hudes

“If you want evidence that American playwriting is in very good hands, you need look no further.”—Bloomberg News “Hudes possesses a confident and arresting voice.”—The New York Times “One of the most important playwrights of her generation.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution At the dawn of the Arab Spring in an ancient Jordanian town, an Iraq War veteran struggles to overcome the traumas of combat by taking on an entirely new and unexpected career: action film hero. A search for redemption, humility, and one’s place in the world, this is the final installment in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s The Elliot Trilogy, which began with Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and Pulitzer Prize–winner Water by the Spoonful. Set to the joyful sounds of traditional Puerto Rican folk music, this poignant new play enjoyed its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in spring 2013. Quiara Alegría Hudes wrote the book for the Broadway musical In the Heights, which received the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Hudes is on the board of Philadelphia Young Playwrights, which produced her first play in the tenth grade. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

DRAMA October 5⅜ x 8½ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-446-1 W* (excludes Canada) Trade Cloth US $28.00 978-1-55936-463-8 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-772-1 W

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Water by the Spoonful.

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Theatre Communications Group One Hundred Monologues
Eric Bogosian

“Bogosian’s a born storyteller with perfect pitch.”—The New York Times “Greatly and bilaterally talented . . . spiky, stinging, caustic without cauterizing. And funny.”—New York This new collection by one of America’s premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists includes one hundred monologues from his acclaimed plays and solo shows including: Drinking in America; Men Inside; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead; Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and more. Also included are additional pieces from the Pulitzer Prize finalist Talk Radio and Notes from Underground. Eric Bogosian has received three Obie awards and has toured throughout the country. His other well-known pieces include the solo performances FunHouse and Wake Up and Smell The Coffee and the full-length plays Suburbia, Griller, Red Angel, and Humpty Dumpty. He is the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty, and a novella, Notes from Underground. As an actor, Bogosian has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Robert Altman’s The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Atom Egoyan’s Ararat, Woody Allen’s Oscar-nominated Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–2010).
Complete and collected monologues by legendary playwright and performer Eric Bogosian. Marketing Plans
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DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 192 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 978-1-55936-464-5 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-773-8 W

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Theatre Communications Group The Inspector
Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky
“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.”—The New Yorker Called “the greatest play written in Russian” by Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol’s comedy now has a revelatory new translation by renowned American playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature including the best-selling Oprah’s Book Club selection, Anna Karenina. The Inspector marks the first in a series of translations of major works of Russian drama. Subsequent volumes already scheduled include A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. This edition also includes an introduction and text notes by Richard Pevear. Richard Nelson’s many plays include Rodney’s Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk–nominated Franny’s Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award– nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.
DRAMA February A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-455-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-774-5 W

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.

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A new series translating the major works of Russian drama.

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Theatre Communications Group Ming Cho Lee
A Life in Design

Arnold Aronson

Ming Cho Lee is considered to be the most influential stage designer in the United States in the past forty years, and one of the most respected designers in the world. His work with theater, opera, and dance companies in the 1960s, particularly the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New York City Opera, and the Joffrey Ballet, transformed the very nature of the design in America and introduced a scenic vocabulary and spatial aesthetic that underlies scenographic styles to the present day. Lavishly illustrated with over five hundred images in both color and black and white, this book chronicles Lee’s career from his early training as a watercolorist in China, his designs for over three hundred productions, and his esteemed forty-year career at the Yale School of Drama as a mentor to an entire generations of scenic designers. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest national award given in the arts awarded by the President of the United States, Lee’s work has been showcased at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and in fall 2013, the Yale School of Architecture will host a major retrospective of his work. His other awards include a Tony Award, Outer Circle Critics’ Award, and three Drama Desk Awards. Arnold Aronson has taught at Columbia University since 1991 and has previously worked in the theater departments at Hunter College, The University of Michigan, Cornell University, and The University of Virginia. He served as the editor of Theatre Design & Technology from 1978 to 1988 and is the author of American Set Design. In 2007 he served as the first non-Czech General Commissioner of the Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design and Theatre Architecture.
A celebration of “the dean of American set designers” (The New York Times).
PERFORMING ARTS / ARCHITECTURE December A Paperback Original 9 x 12 | 400 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Paper US $50.00 978-1-55936-461-4 W* (excludes Canada)

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Theatre Communications Group The Apple Family
Scenes from Life in the Country

Richard Nelson
“Sharp, engrossing . . . a soft-spoken play of ideas.”—Time, on That Hopey Changey Thing “A soul-stirring new play. . . . Mr. Nelson has a peerless grasp of the perils of family intimacy.”—The New York Times, on Sweet and Sad “Sorry—one of the best plays to emerge this fall in New York—affirms the Apple cycle as the prolific Nelson’s most satisfying drama to date.”—The Washington Post This critically acclaimed, searing play cycle about loss, memory, and remembrance follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, as they grapple with events both personal and current in the immediate present: the 2010 election (That Hopey Changey Thing), the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (Sweet and Sad), Barack Obama’s re-election (Sorry), and the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination (Regular Singing, which will premiere at NYC’s Public Theater on the anniversary: November 22, 2013). This quartet of plays, directed by the author, has featured an ensemble of six actors who, together, have delivered a master class on acting for the stage. Richard Nelson’s many plays include Rodney’s Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, the Drama Desk–nominated Franny’s Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award– nominated Two Shakespearean Actors, and James Joyce’s The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Over the next ten years, Nelson will be collaborating with pre-eminent translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on a major translations series of important Russian plays, beginning with Nikolai Gogol’s The Inspector in 2014.
A Chekhovian quartet of plays examining the contemporary American experience.

DRAMA February A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 300 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55936-456-0 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-775-2 W

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Theatre Communications Group The Whale / A Bright New Boise
Samuel D. Hunter

Praise for The Whale: “A vibrant, provocative new play. . . . The sharp-eared skill and sensitivity with which Hunter explores his thickly layered material are matched by his fair-mindedness.”—The Village Voice Praise for A Bright New Boise: “A simple, superb little heartland heartbreaker. . . . This is a rube tragedy— a respectful and honest-feeling one, for a change—and by jingo, it sings.” —New York Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter’s big-hearted and fiercely funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many Middle American lives. The Whale tells the story of a sixhundred-pound shut-in’s last chance at redemption and of discovering beauty in the most unexpected places when he reaches out to his long-estranged—and severely unhappy—daughter. Hunter’s second piece, the Obie Award–winning A Bright New Boise, is a philosophical investigation of faith and search for meaning in rural Idaho where a disgraced evangelical is forced to take a minimumwage job at the local Hobby Lobby craft store in an effort to reunite with his estranged son. Samuel D. Hunter’s other plays include A Permanent Image, Jack’s Precious Moment, Five Genocides, and Norway. He has active playwriting commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep (California), and Playwrights Horizons (New York). He is also the 2013 resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and is a core member of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Two plays by one of America’s brightest young playwrights.

DRAMA January A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-460-7 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-776-9 W

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Theatre Communications Group Title and Deed / Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions
Will Eno
“A haunting and often fiercely funny meditation. . . . The marvel of Mr. Eno’s voice is how naturally it combines a carefully sculptured lyricism with sly, poker-faced humor. Everyday phrases and familiar platitudes—‘Don’t ever change,’ ‘Who knows’—are turned inside out or twisted into blunt, unexpected punch lines punctuating long rhapsodic passages that leave you happily worddrunk.”—The New York Times on Title and Deed Known for his wry humor and deeply moving plays, Will Eno’s “gift for articulating life’s absurd beauty and its no less absurd horrors may be unmatched among writers of his generation” (The New York Times). This new volume of the acclaimed playwright’s work includes five short plays about being alive—Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured; Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rain; Enter the Spokeswoman, Gently; The Bully Composition; and Oh, the Humanity—as well as Title and Deed, a haunting and severely funny solo rumination on life as everlasting exile.
DRAMA October A Paperback Original 5⅜ x 8½ | 160 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 978-1-55936-465-2 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-777-6

Will Eno is the author of Thom Pain (based on nothing), which ran for a year Off-Broadway and was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other works include Middletown; The Flu Season; Tragedy: a tragedy; Intermission; The Realistic Joneses; and Gnit, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. His many awards include the PEN/ Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award, the Horton Foote Prize, and the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship from the Theater Hall of Fame.
A new collection by the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing).

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Theatre Communications Group I’ll Eat You Last
A Chat wtih Sue Mengers

John Logan
Bette Midler makes her long-awaited return to Broadway in this one-woman play about legendary super-agent Sue Mengers, an American original armed with pluck, charm, and a legendary wit. By the 1970s, Mengers represented most of Hollywood’s brightest stars. But now it’s 1981. The glory days are fading. How does a powerful woman face a treacherously shifting landscape?
DRAMA | Available Now | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-414-0 USC

Peter and Alice
John Logan
A remarkable new play from the acclaimed playwright (Red) and screenwriter (Gladiator, Skyfall) John Logan. Enchantment and reality collide at a 1932 meeting between Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the original Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Llewelyn Davies, the original Peter Pan. Peter and Alice, which opened on London’s West End in March 2013, stars Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw.
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Detroit ’67
Dominique Morisseau
Detroit, 1967. Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the siblings clash over much more than the family business. As their pent-up feelings erupt, so does their city, and they find themselves caught in the middle of riots.
DRAMA | Available Now | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-78319-000-3 USC

Mies Julie
Based on August Strindberg’s Miss Julie

Yael Farber
Adapted from August Strindberg
The visceral struggles of South Africa are laid bare in this haunting, violent, intimate, and epic retelling of August Strindberg’s classic drama Miss Julie. In a post-Apartheid kitchen, a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm laborer, his master’s daughter, and the woman who has raised them both. Selected as one of the New York Times’s top ten plays of 2012.
DRAMA | Available Now | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-489-8 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Ding Dong the Wicked
Caryl Churchill
The latest work from one of the world’s greatest playwrights: a short play that is as fresh and unusual as anything Caryl Churchill has written. A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother-inlaw. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country . . .
DRAMA | Available Now | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 40 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-84842-303-9 US

The Quality of Mercy
Reflections on Shakespeare

Peter Brook
Nine essays and speeches—most of them published here for the first time— offer illuminating and provocative insight into a great director’s relationship with our greatest playwright. Peter Brook’s writing touches on the Shakespeare authorship debate, William Shakespeare’s continued relevance, approaching verse, and Shakespeare in performance, and he revisits plays that he has directed with notable brilliance.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 128 pp Trade Cloth SP US $30.95 | 978-1-84842-261-2 US

The Low Road
Bruce Norris
The newest play from Bruce Norris, author of the international hit Clybourne Park, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2012 Tony Award for Best New Play, among other honors. In The Low Road, a fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism, a young entrepreneur sets out on a quest for wealth with priceless ambition and a purse of gold. Premiered at London’s Royal Court in spring 2013.
DRAMA | Available Now | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 176 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-318-3 US

Bull
Mike Bartlett
A savage new work from one of the United Kingdom’s most exciting dramatists and the author of the off-Broadway smash hit Cock. Razor sharp and blackly comic, Bull is a savage and insightful play about office politics or playground bullying, depending which side you’re on. Genuinely thrilling, daring, and inventive, acclaimed playwright Mike Bartlett probes the dark side of the modern workplace. Bull enjoyed its US premiere in spring 2013 at 59E59 Theaters’s “Brits Off-Broadway” festival.
DRAMA | Available Now | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 64 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | 978-1-84842-280-3 US

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Theatre Communications Group Soulographie
Erik Ehn
“Soulographie is an audacious and devastating achievement, sustained by Erik Ehn’s commitment to lyricism in the face of brutality. The strongest characters in his cycle resist pain and shame with their inviolate imaginations. In metaphor they achieve grace.”—Marc Robinson This epic volume presents the seventeen plays of Erik Ehn’s Soulographie: Our Genocides, which demonstrate Ehn’s approach to violence and brutality through “the marriage of heaven and hell.”
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 7¼ x 9¼ | 254 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.00 | CAN $27.50 | 978-0-9857577-2-4 W

Life and Times: Episode 1
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
This is the first episode of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s decalogue, a portrait of an unremarkable life. An epic narrative along the lines of Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, Life and Times is a deep map of memory that takes us on a journey into our own forgotten history. The first episode is a musical, using parts of a verbatim transcript of over sixteen hours of recorded telephone conversations as libretto.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 5½ x 7½ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 | 978-0-9857577-3-1 W

Life and Times: Episode 2
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
The second episode finishes the musical portion of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s epic tale generated from the single simple question, asked of a friend: “Can you tell me your life story?” The Life and Times cycle enjoyed a widely acclaimed run in New York’s Under the Radar Festival in January 2013, produced by Soho Rep, New York City.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 5½ x 7½ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 | 978-0-9857577-5-5 W

Life and Times: Episodes 3 & 4
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Parts three and four of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s grand theatrical presentation of an unremarkable life, of which Charles Isherwood of the New York Times wrote, “Entrancing, maddening, heartbreaking, sidesplitting, even, in its humble way, awe-inspiring. . . . An ambitious, brilliantly executed production from one of the most innovative theater companies in New York.”
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 5½ x 7½ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 | 978-0-9857577-6-2 W

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Theatre Communications Group A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost
Erin Courtney
This volume collects two plays by Erin Courtney, A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost. The Obie Award–winning Map is a symmetrical play: part interview, part comedy, part horror story. Courtney’s plays unfold in a delicate dance of pattern and narration; they ring out their images and meanings as a sequence of bells: complicating, harmonizing, and remapping their senses as they run their idiosyncratic course.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 6 x 8 | 104 pp Trade Paper SP US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-0-9817533-9-3 W

Pig Iron: 3 Plays
Pig Iron Theatre Co.
Three plays from a company known for making unprecedented, original work that cuts across the physical and the textual. In using both archaic and invented modes of theatrical entertainment, Pig Iron skillfully creates theater generated equally by written text and physical intensity and peculiarity. Includes Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Chekhov Lizardbrain, Gentleman Volunteers, and an introduction by the company.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 6½ x 8½ | 172 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9817533-8-6 W

The Mayor of Baltimore and Anthem
Kristen Kosmas
This volume includes The Mayor of Baltimore and its companion piece Anthem from Kristen Kosmas, whose writing invents its poetry from the blunt, the found, and the discarded. A coterie of friends and strangers gather to celebrate a modest electoral victory. Oblique poetry alternates with the syncopated clatter of small talk. A brokenhearted refrain of disappointment underscores, and a tiny aria of self-revelation hangs in the empty space after the guests leave.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 5 x 7 | 84 pp Trade Paper SP US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 | 978-0-9857577-0-0 W

Ich, Kurbisgeist
and The Secret Death of Puppets

Sibyl Kempson
Illustrated by Amanda Villalobos
Two forays into the damp, weird soil of ghosts, curses, and the roots and cousins of American language. Ich, Kurbisgeist, an agricultural vengeance play for Hallowe’en, is written in an oolde and whheurd variant of Amer-English. The three paranormal playlets of The Secret Death of Puppets are composed in “Fraunch,” English, and a Nordic-Latin homonculus language of the undead.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 8¾ x 6 | 176 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9857577-1-7 W

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Theatre Communications Group The River
Jez Butterworth

On a moonless night in August, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she’s not the first woman he has brought here—or indeed the last. A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem.
DRAMA | Available Now | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 56 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-289-6 US

The Best Brothers
Daniel MacIvor
A bittersweet comedy from one of Canada’s most beloved playwrights that explores grief and love in unexpected places. Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a gay pride parade. Now her sons must arrange her funeral and care for her beloved greyhound, as sibling rivalry reaches its peak and years of buried contentions surface.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-154-3 US

Skies
Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
The mysterious suicide of a key agent forces an international intelligence team to probe into his life in hopes of discovering what he knew and thwarting an attack. This fierce and poignant final installment in Wajdi Mouawad’s critically acclaimed Blood Promises dramatic quartet penetrates the intersection where violence, terror, beauty, and art converge.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 160 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | 978-1-77091-153-6 US

Shakespeare’s Nigga
Joseph Jomo Pierre
On a Southern plantation, William Shakespeare holds the fate of several black slaves, including Othello and Aaron from Titus Andronicus, in his hands, and a vital secret remains hidden. A riveting drama rife with power struggles and forbidden love that explores the relationship between the artist and the characters in his head.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 88 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-141-3 US

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Theatre Communications Group Meisner in Practice
A Guide for Actors, Directors and Teachers

Nick Moseley
This essential guide to the Meisner Technique, written by an expert in the field, offers actors a step-by-step introduction to the salient features of the technique, puts these to the test through practical exercises, and even addresses pitfalls and problems which the author has encountered in his own teaching.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 240 pp Trade Paper SP US $26.95 | 978-1-84842-087-8 US

Speaking the Speech
Giles Block
Foreword by Mark Rylance
The most authoritative, comprehensive, intensely practical book yet written on the subject of speaking William Shakespeare’s verse. Giles Block subjects Shakespeare’s language to rigorous examination, investigating topics that include the essential distinctions between prose, blank verse, and rhymed verse, Shakespeare’s use of silence, and the vital importance of paying attention to punctuation.
October | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 250 pp Trade Paper SP US $ | 978-1-84842-191-2 US

The Integrated Voice
A Complete Voice Course for Actors
A systematic and rigorous new approach to the understanding and training of the actor’s voice, structured as a series of practical workshops. Develop a voice that is utterly integrated with your body, breath, mind, and emotion—and, therefore, with any character or text you are working on. Accompanied by a one-hundred-minute DVD, featuring exercises, warm-ups, and full-length workouts.
PERFORMING ARTS | October | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 416 pp Trade Paper & DVD SP US $34.95 | 978-1-84842-184-4 US

Sarah Case

Becoming an Actor
Thomasina Unsworth
A brilliant new handbook full of insider information on the realities of attending drama school and pursuing an acting career. Practical and informative, Becoming an Actor reveals what drama school classes really entail and offers unbeatable guidance and support through the critical times in a young actor’s career.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 288 pp Trade Paper SP US $22.95 | 978-1-84842-156-1 US

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Theatre Communications Group The Full Monty
Simon Beaufoy
“Every inch a whopping hit.”—The Daily Telegraph In 1997, an award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they’re back, live on stage: only for them, it really has to be The Full Monty. Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy adapts his beloved film for the stage.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-446-1 USC

Stand-Up or Die
Andy de la Tour
A pocket-sized travelogue of one man’s journey through New York’s underground comedy scene. After a twenty-year break from stand-up, UK comedian Andy de la Tour returns to New York City, the genre’s spiritual home, to start all over again. Can Andy make ’em laugh? He’s a long way from home and dying is not an option.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 4⅜ x 6¾ | 64 pp Trade Paper SP US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-84943-394-5 USC

The Live Art Almanac: Volume 3
Edited by Lois Keidan and Aaron Wright
Drawing together the most engaging, provocative, and thoughtful writing about interdisciplinary, performance-based art and its cultural landscape from 2010 to 2011, the Almanac tracks a number of key changes, moments, and trends from around the world including activism, law, ethics, social media, popular culture, artist-led initiatives, exhibitions, visual art, and their relationship to performance.
ART | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 7¼ x 9¾ | 312 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-396-9 USC

Programme Notes
Case Studies for Locating Experimental Theatre
A unique resource, focused on furthering dialogues and collaborations across the spectrum of contemporary theater-making. A collection of case studies, interviews, and essays that explores how contemporary theater is changing through new relationships between mainstream venues and experimental practices. Features contributions from Marina Abramovic, ´ Neil Bartlett, Vicky Featherstone, and many others.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 7¼ x 9¾ | 312 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.00 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-459-1 USC

Edited by Lois Keidan and CJ Mitchell

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Theatre Communications Group Shakespeare Monologues for Young Women
The Good Audition Guides

Edited by Luke Dixon
Fifty fresh speeches from William Shakespeare’s plays, hand-picked for young women and prefaced with easy-to-use guides. Drawing on his experience as an acting and audition coach, Luke Dixon has selected fifty monologues for young women drawn from across the Shakespeare canon.
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 104 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | 978-1-84842-266-7 US

Shakespeare Monologues for Young Men
The Good Audition Guides

Edited by Luke Dixon
Fifty fresh speeches from William Shakespeare’s plays, hand-picked for young people and prefaced with easy-to-use guides that explain who is speaking; where, when, and to whom; what has just happened in the play; and what the character’s objectives are—everything actors need to know!
PERFORMING ARTS September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 104 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | 978-1-84842-265-0 US

Chimerica
Lucy Kirkwood

A provocative and timely play about international relations and the shifting balance of power between East and West. In the midst of America’s 2012 presidential race, a photojournalist investigates the truth about the unknown hero of a Tiananmen Square photograph he captured twenty-three years earlier.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-320-6 US

Table
Tanya Ronder
Six generations, nine performers, thirty characters, and one very special piece of furniture. A bold, epic, and intimate generational drama that crosses oceans and time, Tanya Ronder’s thrilling new play is a story of love, loss, life, and death seen through many eyes but with one constant to anchor these stories and tie them all together. Commissioned and developed by the National Theatre.
DRAMA | October | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-328-2 US

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Theatre Communications Group Actor’s Choice: Monologues for Women, Vol. 2
Edited by Sarah Bernstein and Erin Salvi
The Actor’s Choice series continues with this brand-new selection of unique contemporary monologues. The source of every monologue is easily accessible— each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. You’ll be sure to find the perfect fit in this collection of today’s most celebrated theatrical voices.
PERFORMING ARTS November | A Paperback Original | Actor’s Choice Series | Playscripts, Inc. | 8½ x 5½ 152 pp | Trade Paper SP US $14.95 | CAN $16.50 | 978-1-62384-001-3 USC

Passion Play
Peter Nichols
A glorious meeting of humor, eroticism, and duplicity, this modern classic recently enjoyed a major West End revival starring Zoë Wanamaker. Comfortably married for twenty-five years, James and Eleanor’s world is upended when James agrees to a secret rendezvous with their recently widowed friend, a decision that strips the marriage bare and reveals the illicit desires and hidden passions that lie beneath the everyday facade.
DRAMA | October | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-84842-319-0 US

Five Arab Hamlet Plays
Edited by Marvin Carlson and Margaret Litvin
A fascinating, hilarious, provocative collection of Arab works inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from political satire to musical comedy. Includes works by Moroccan Nabyl Lahlou (1968), Syrian Mamduh Adwan (1976), Jordanian Nader Omran (1984), Iraqi Jawad al-Assadi (1994), and Egyptian Hani Afifi (2009), plus an autobiographical sketch by Egyptian Mahmoud Aboudoma (2006).
DRAMA | September A Paperback Original | Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ. | 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9846160-2-2 USC

The Ibn D¯ aniy¯ al Trilogy
Theatre from Medieval Cairo

Ibn Da ¯niya ¯l
Edited with a translation by Marvin Carlson and Safi Mahfouz
This volume contains the first translation of the only three plays that survive from the medieval Arabic theater: the farces The Shadow Spirit, The Amazing Preacher and the Stranger, and The Love-Stricken One and the Lost One who Inspires Passion, created by Ibn Da ¯ niya ¯ l in thirteenth-century Cairo.
DRAMA | September A Paperback Original | Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publ. | 6 x 9 | 200 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.00 | CAN $21.99 | 978-0-9846160-4-6 USC

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Theatre Communications Group Royal Ballet Yearbook 2013–14
The Royal Ballet
Following on the success of previous editions, Royal Ballet Yearbook 2013-14 will bring ballet lovers up-to-date with the latest activities, performances, and company news from the prestigious Royal Ballet. Featuring lavish photographs of last season’s performances, a special preview of the new season, and lively, informative articles, the Yearbook is a richly illustrated companion to The Royal Ballet.
PERFORMING ARTS | November | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 9⅝ x 9⅝ | 112 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper SP US $31.95 | CAN $34.99 | 978-1-78319-002-7 USC

Lot and His God
Howard Barker
“A verbally dazzling subversion of the biblical story of Lot and his wife.” —Time Out (London) A new play from internationally acclaimed dramatist Howard Barker. The day before Sodom’s total annihilation, an angel warns Lot that God wants him to flee. But Lot’s irresistible wife has other ideas, and she and the angel embark upon a dangerous game of seduction, cruelty, and desire.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-409-6 USC

Dancers
Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet

Photographs by Andrej Uspenski
Dancers is an intimate photographic record taken by Royal Ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski. For two years, Andrej has taken luminous photographs of Royal Ballet dancers in rehearsal and on stage. Contains more than two hundred photographs in black and white and color, including backstage images and breathtaking glimpses taken from the wings.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | Oberon Books | 11⅝ x 11⅝ | 144 pp Color and B&W photographs throughout Trade Cloth SP US $60.00 | CAN $65.99 | 978-1-84943-388-4 USC

The 53rd State Occasional No. 1
Edited by Paul Lazar
An annual series with a guest editor/provacateur from within the experimenting, inquiring performance scene. The guest editor poses a question; the Occasional collects fifty short answers. A distributed state of mind portrait of a community of people making theater. For the inaugural Occasional, Paul Lazar, director and actor, poses the question.
PERFORMING ARTS | September | A Paperback Original | 53rd State Press | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 | 978-0-9857577-4-8 W

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Theatre Communications Group Proud
Michael Healey
A humorous and clever look at Canadian politics that humanizes the people behind the parliamentary divide. A prime minister discovers a secret weapon amongst his new staff—a single mother with a seemingly limited understanding of her role as an MP—and hatches a plan to distract the press from his true intentions.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-144-4 US

Fronteras Vivientes
Eight Latina/o Canadian Plays

Edited by Natalie Alvarez
The first anthology to showcase the work of established and emerging Latina/o playwrights in Canada charts the range and depth of Latina/o Canadian theater—its radical experimentations with form, its unflinching forays into histories of conquest, political oppression, and exile as told from intimate first-person perspectives, its community activism, and its dark humor.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 6 x 9 | 416 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.00 | 978-1-77091-147-5 US

It Is Solved by Walking
Catherine Banks
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. After learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens’s poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Bold and poetic, It Is Solved by Walking is an intimate portrait of a writer making her way back to poetry one step at a time.
DRAMA | Available Now | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-044-7 US

The Unplugging
Yvette Nolan
In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years. When a charismatic stranger from their former village seeks their aid, the women must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society that rejected them the chance at a future.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 | 978-1-77091-132-1 US

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Theatre Communications Group Moby Dick
Sebastian Armesto
Adapted from Herman Melville
The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville’s masterpiece—romantic, ambiguous, and rich with allegory—is captured onstage in this compelling adaptation. A schoolmaster called Ishmael arrives to ship on a whale-boat and enrolls under Ahab, captain of the Pequod. Ahab’s single-minded pursuit of the white whale that cost him his leg will come to consume Ishmael, the crew, and the Pequod itself.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-510-9 USC

The Empress
Tanika Gupta

Amidst Queen Victoria’s 1887 Golden Jubilee, two Indian immigrants step ashore. One will battle a society that sees her as a second-class citizen, while the other will forge an astonishing entanglement with an aging queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of India, a land she has ruled but never seen.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 | 978-1-84943-490-4 USC

The Physician of Sanlúcar
Jonathan Falla
An intense, graphic, quietly violent psychological novel from multi-awardwinning author Jonathan Falla that explores exile and redemption, set against the stark Patagonian wilderness in 1915. When a woman and her husband encounter a mysterious doctor, his reclusive life is irrevocably altered and forbidden attraction and impending war force him to make difficult decisions.
FICTION | September | A Paperback Original | Aurora Metro Press | 5 x 7¾ | 252 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-906582-38-8 US

The Trouble with Asian Men
Created by Sudha Bhuchar, Kristine Landon-Smith, and Louise Wallinger
Successful, soulful, and spirited Asian men have come a long way from their origins, but they’ve all got roots! A vital, tender, and hilarious insight into lives that surround us everyday, from the award-winning theater company that brought us East is East. This revealing verbatim comedy has played to sell-out houses internationally.
DRAMA | September | A Paperback Original | Aurora Metro Press | 5 x 7¾ | 48 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | 978-1-906582-41-8 US

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Crime or Emergency
and The Lost Acts of Crime or Emergency Sibyl Kempson

When You Rise Up
Performance Texts Miguel Gutierrez
DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 5 x 8 | 60 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9817533-4-8 W

God’s Property
Arinze Kene
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-325-1 US

DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 4½ x 7 | 124 pp Trade Paper SP US $14.00 | CAN $15.50 978-0-9817533-6-2 W

An Essay in the Form of a Building Karinne Keithley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 4¼ x 6 | 92 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9817533-5-5 W

Montgomery Park, or Opulence

The Astronaut’s Chair
Rona Munro
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-304-6 US

Deirdre Kinahan
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-301-5 US

Halcyon Days

Nature Theater of Oklahoma
DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 6⅛ x 9¼ | 158 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9817533-1-7 W

No Dice

The Authorised Kate Bane
Ella Hickson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-309-1 US

Two-Handers from the Abbey Theatre, Ireland Selected with an introduction by Aideen Howard
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 208 pp Trade Paper SP US $26.95 978-1-84842-317-6 US

Irish Shorts

Off the Hozzle
Illustrated by Bob Erickson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 4¾ x 6½ | 120 pp Trade Paper SP US $12.00 | CAN $12.99 978-0-9817533-7-9 W

Rob Erickson

The Container
Clare Bayley
DRAMA January A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 978-1-84842-073-1 US

Jumpers for Goalposts
Tom Wells
October A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-326-8 US

Nature Theater of Oklahoma
DRAMA September A Paperback Original 53rd State Press 6⅛ x 9¼ | 132 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.00 | CAN $17.50 978-0-9817533-3-1 W

Rambo Solo

Glory Dazed
Cat Jones
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 64 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-323-7 US

The Machine Gunners
Adapted from Robert Westall
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 120 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-314-5 US

Ali Taylor

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Jack Thorne
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 80 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-315-2 US

Mydidae

A Time to Reap
Translated by Catherine Grosvenor
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-324-4 US

Anna Wakulik

Charlotte Josephine
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-477-5 USC

Bitch Boxer

So You Want to Be a Corporate Actor?
Paul Clayton
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper SP US $22.95 978-1-84842-270-4 US

The Bards of Bromley and Other Plays
Foreword by Maureen Lipman
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-427-0 USC

Blonde Poison
Gail Louw
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-415-7 USC

Perry Pontac

So You Want to Work in Theatre?
Susan Elkin
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 224 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 978-1-84842-274-2 US

Before the Party
Adapted from W. Somerset Maugham
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-442-3 USC

Rodney Ackland

The Captain of Köpenick
Adapted by Ron Hutchinson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-458-4 USC

Carl Zuckmayer

Three Birds
Janice Okoh
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-276-6 US

Ben Travers: Four Farces
Ben Travers
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $29.95 | CAN $32.99 978-1-84943-443-0 USC

Chapel Street
Luke Barnes
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-426-3 USC

Amanda Whittington
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Nick Hern Books 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $20.95 978-1-84842-316-9 US

The Thrill of Love

Birmingham Royal Ballet
Photography by Bill Cooper
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5⅜ x 8½ | 168 pp Color photographs throughout Trade Paper SP US $45.00 | CAN $49.50 978-1-84943-440-9 USC

Christopher Marlowe
Adapted by Colin Teevan
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-413-3 USC

Doctor Faustus

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Everyday Maps for Everyday Use
Tom Morton-Smith
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-441-6 USC

The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam
Johnny McKnight
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-472-0 USC

Arthur Wing Pinero
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-457-7 USC

The Magistrate

Foreword by Simon Callow
PERFORMING ARTS November Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-78319-007-2 USC

The Wit and Wisdom of John Gielgud Jonathan Croall

Gielgoodies!

A Biography of a Classic War Play Robert Gore-Langton
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-395-2 USC

Journey’s End

Mare Rider
Leyla Nazli
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-430-0 USC

Nirjay Mahindru
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-473-7 USC

Golgotha

Khadija is 18
Shamser Sinha
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-488-1 USC

Mind Walking
Tanika Gupta
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-506-2 USC

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-411-9 USC

Laburnum Grove
J.B. Priestley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-492-8 USC

Clive Francis

Christopher William Hill
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-460-7 USC

Mister Holgado

I Didn’t Always Live Here
Stewart Conn
DRAMA November A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-78319-001-0 USC

John Van Druten
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-461-4 USC

London Wall

The Gameshow Clare Duffy
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-505-5 USC

Money

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my heart is hitchiking down peachtree street
Fergus Evans
DRAMA November Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-78319-005-8 USC

Adapted by Anya Reiss
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-425-6 USC

Anton Chekhov

The Seagull

The Soft of Her Palm
Chris Dunkley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-393-8 USC

Olga’s Room
Translated by David Tushingham
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-429-4 USC

Dea Loher

The Shit / La Merda
Cristian Ceresoli
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-410-2 USC

Solomon and Marion
Lara Foot Newton
DRAMA November A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-507-9 USC

Thomas Eccleshare
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-444-7 USC

Pastoral

Smallholding
Chris Dunkley
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-398-3 USC

Iain Finlay Macleod
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 7¼ x 9¾ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-508-6 USC

Somersaults

Pride and Prejudice
Adapted from Jane Austen
DRAMA November Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $16.95 | CAN $18.50 978-1-84002-951-2 USC

Simon Reade

So Great a Crime
David Gooderson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-397-6 USC

A New Version of Chekhov’s Platonov Helena Kaut-Howson
DRAMA November A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-78319-004-1 USC

Sons Without Fathers

Socrates and His Clouds
William Lyons
DRAMA November Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-78319-006-5 USC

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Theatre Communications Group
Omar El-Khairy
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 64 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-476-8 USC

Sour Lips

The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter
Don Hannah
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-129-1 US

Lucky Lady and Le Chien
Translated by Maureen Labonté and Robert Dickson
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 160 pp Trade Paper SP US $18.95 978-0-88754-917-5 US

Jean Marc Dalpé

The Trojan Women
Adapted by Caroline Bird
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-504-8 USC

Euripedes

The Goodnight Bird
Colleen Murphy
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-120-8 US

The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee
Daniel Karasik
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 88 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-126-0 US

Philip Osment
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $17.95 | CAN $19.99 978-1-84943-445-4 USC

Whole

The Hours That Remain
Keith Barker
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-135-2 US

Separate Beds
M.J. Cruise
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-138-3 US

Writing Master Class
David Pownall
PERFORMING ARTS November A Paperback Original Oberon Books 5 x 8¼ | 128 pp Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $21.99 978-1-84943-478-2 USC

Florence Gibson MacDonald
DRAMA September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-123-9 US

How Do I Love Thee?

Skin & Liars
Second Edition Dennis Foon
DRAMA September Playwrights Canada Press 5⅛ x 7⅝ | 112 pp Trade Paper SP US $16.95 978-1-77091-150-5 US

New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 3 Edited by Natalie Alvarez
PERFORMING ARTS September A Paperback Original Playwrights Canada Press 6 x 9 | 336 pp Trade Paper SP US $25.00 978-1-77091-148-2 US

Latin@ Canadian Theatre and Performance

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Selected Backlist from Theatre Communications Group

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts
DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 152 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-330-3 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-609-0 W

Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
PERFORMING ARTS / DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $14.95 978-1-55936-370-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-662-5 W

Next to Normal

Music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
DRAMA / PERFORMING ARTS 5⅜ x 8½ | 120 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 978-1-55936-421-8 US eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-768-4 US

Enda Walsh

Once

Introduction by Frank Rich
DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 112 pp Trade Paper US $13.95 978-1-55936-340-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-671-7 W

David Henry Hwang

Yellow Face

A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition Anne Bogart and Tina Landau
PERFORMING ARTS / DRAMA 6 x 9 | 240 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55936-241-2 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-677-9 W

The Viewpoints Book

Edited by Arthur Bartow
PERFORMING ARTS / DRAMA 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp Trade Paper US $18.95 978-1-55936-268-9 W* (excludes Canada) eBook ISBN: 978-1-55936-619-9 W

Training of the American Actor

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Torrey House Press Facing the Change
Personal Encounters with Global Warming

Edited by Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD

“Facing the Change shares the stories of some of the many people in the US and the world who are already witnessing climate change here and now. They are giving us early warning signs; it’s up to all of us to act now.”—Mae Boeve, executive director of 350.org “Facing the Change registers the impact of climate destabilization, not only on the sky above us and the earth beneath our feet, but also within our hearts. The voices in this eloquent and original book convey the dread and grief, the anger, but also the experiences of love and community that are intensified by the defining ecological challenge of our time.”—John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home, editor of The Norton Book of Nature Filled not with bare facts and dire warnings but with evocative, accessible stories, essays, and poetry, Facing the Change shows how global warming is affecting the everyday lives of people today. A wide range of writers and poets from across the United States—and Malaysia—brings courage, honesty, and insight to one of the major issues of our lives. Steven Pavlos Holmes, PhD, is an independent scholar, editor, and educator in the environmental humanities, with a special interest in people’s personal experiences of the natural world. His first book, The Young John Muir: An Environmental Biography, won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars. He currently lives, gardens, and watches birds in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
NATURE / LITERARY COLLECTIONS October A Paperback Original 5¼ x 8 | 225 pp Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.50 978-1-937226-27-5 USC eBook ISBN: 978-1-937226-28-2 W

Through personal and vivid encounters with climate change, this diverse array of writers inspires readers toward awareness and action.

Ed