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Birds of the North Woods by Sparky Stensaas Adventure Publications • On Sale: Jul 10/20 • 4.50 x 8.25 • 272 pages 9781936571109 • $28.50 • pb • Nature / Animals / Birds • Naturalist Series
The boreal and mixed forests of the North Woods have the highest breeding bird density in North America. And let's not forget the amazing winter birds that make the northern woods their Arctic Riviera," spending the winter in our "balmy" south. This handy field guide features more than 200 bird species found in the North Woods of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. The innovative format makes field identification a snap, and fieldmark arrows point out the best distinguishing characteristics. Fascinating natural history facts, range maps for some species, and more (...)
Apples 50 Tried and True Recipes by Julia Rutland Adventure Publications • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 7 x 7 • 140 pages 9781591939078 • $25.50 • pb • Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Fruit • Nature's Favorite Foods Cookbooks
The Cookbook That Celebrates the Crisp, Colorful, Healthy FruitEasy to grow, abundant, and delicious, apples are America's favorite fruit. It has a slightly sour and bitter taste that's overpowered by juicy sweetness - and it is enjoyed daily in homes across the country. Apples is a cookbook by Julia Rutland that features 50 easy recipes geared for busy cooks who enjoy great flavor. The author is a professional writer, recipe developer, recipe tester, food stylist, and television/media demonstrator, so you can be certain that every recipe is a crowd-pleaser (...)
Hungry for Harbor Country Recipes and Stories from the Coast of Southwest Michigan by Lindsay Navama, by (photographer) Gabrielle Sukich Agate Publishing • On Sale: May 22/20 • 8.5 x 11 • 208 pages 9781572842878 • $52.50 • cl • Cooking / American / Middle Western States
Escape to Harbor Country with 56 lake-life recipes and stories that capture the celebratory spirit of this Michigan vacation destination.
Hungry for Harbor Country is part cookbook, part travel guide, and part personal story about a life-changing year spent in a small lakeside town in Michigan. Featuring 56 delicious, seasonal, allergy-friendly recipes and illustrated with lavish full-color photography, this cookbook evokes the scenic beauty and charm of southwest Michigan's Harbor Country. (...) Ask Amy Essential Wisdom from America's Favorite Advice Columnist by Amy Dickinson Agate Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 7.5 • 224 pages 9781572842861 • $32.95 • cl • Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
Seven days a week, year in and year out, Amy Dickinson has taken on life's greatest and smallest questions. Her readers ask her about their relationship dramas, parenting dilemmas, and workplace complaints, offering a glimpse into the everyday and offbeat struggles we all sometimes confront. Amy responds with bracing honesty and gentle humor, presenting clear-eyed solutions to sometimes confounding problems. Her insights-and the weekly look into the lives of strangers-have kept readers turning to her column for almost two decades now.
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Burn the Place A Memoir by Iliana Regan Agate Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.25 x 8 • 250 pages 9781572842830 • $26.95 • pb • Biography & Autobiography / Culinary
A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place.
Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is raw like that first bite of wild onion, alive with startling imagery, and told with uncommon emotional power.
The Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Food Choices, 5th Edition by American Diabetes American Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association • On Sale: May 29/20 • 3.75 x 6 • 88 pages 9781580407588 • $11.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Food Content Guides
Completely updated to match the newest edition of Choose Your Foods: Food Lists for Diabetes, this pocket-sized guide is now better and more complete than ever.
Every day and at every meal, millions of people use the food list system to plan meals, make healthier food choices, and better estimate portions. This proven system is the most popular approach to diabetes meal planning and has been used by dietitians, diabetes educators, and people with diabetes for more than 70 (...)
Annual Review of Diabetes 2020 The Best of the American Diabetes Association's Scholarly Journals by American Diabetes American Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 8.25 x 11 • 364 pages 9781580407571 • $74.95 • pb • Medical / Diseases
The American Diabetes Association is the authoritative voice in diabetes research and standards of care.
For nearly 70 years, the ADA has published groundbreaking, vital, and timely articles in its scholarly journals, Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Spectrum, and Clinical Diabetes, to help researchers and care providers achieve the best patient outcomes.
Life with Diabetes, 6th Edition A Series of Teaching Outlines by Martha M. Funnell, MS, RN, CDE, FAAN American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 11.5 x 11 • 490 pages 9781580407151 • $149.95 • loose leaf • Medical / Education & Training
Life with Diabetes has given thousands of healthcare professionals the tools they need to facilitate behavior change and become effective teachers and counselors.
This series of teaching outlines was developed and tested by the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, affiliated with the Department of Medical Education of the University of Michigan Medical School. Previous editions of this teaching curriculum have been used by thousands of educators in diabetes clinics to help their patients understand and live with the many (...)
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Art of Dog Photography Pro Techniques for Everybody by Kimberly Hartz Amherst Media • On Sale: May 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034385 • $74.95 • pb • Photography / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals • Pro Photo Series
Master posing, props selection, and artificial light in the studio and on location to create top- notch dog portraits anywhere.
It takes a lot of know-how and the right gear to create a perfect dog portraits. In this book, award-winning pet photographer and photo-educator Kimberly Hartz teaches you the essential strategies you need to work with dogs, including how to effectively pose single and multiple subjects, elicit great expressions, select the best props and backdrops, and most (...)
iPhone Photography for Everybody Family Portrait Techniques by Neal Urban Amherst Media • On Sale: May 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034361 • $44.95 • pb • Photography / Techniques / General • iPhone Photography for Everybody Series
Use your iPhone camera to capture your best-ever family portraits anywhere!
In this book, acclaimed wedding and family portrait photographer Neal Urban teaches you how to create stronger, more professional family portraits using only your iPhone camera. Everyone loves to photograph their loved ones when on vacation--or just for fun in their own backyard--but many do not always want to carry a bulky camera. The good news is, the iPhone'apos;s highly sophisticated native camera app is (...)
iPhone Photography for Everybody Landscape Techniques by Barbara A. Lynch-Johnt Amherst Media • On Sale: Jun 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034408 • $44.95 • pb • Photography / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes • iPhone Photography for Everybody Series
Learn the technical and artistic skills you need to capture breathtaking iPhone landscape photographs.
It'apos;s been said that the best camera is the one you have with you. These days, most of us are fortunate enough to carry a sophisticated pocket-sized camera with us everywhere we go. Yes, the iPhone has made each of us a photographer. In this book, author, photographer, and editor Barbara A. Lynch-Johnt teaches you the basics of photography (...) iPhone Photography for Everybody Still Life Techniques by Beth Alesse Amherst Media • On Sale: Jul 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034446 • $44.95 • pb • Photography / Techniques / Digital • iPhone Photography for Everybody Series
Create amazing still life photos of everyday objects, collections, products, and more.
Still life images are an immense part of our daily media creations. Whether we are a professional or just someone with a phone in our pocket, we use the iPhone as the go-to tool to trans form objects to document our things, make remembrances, create product shots for Amazon and Ebay, record our lives, and yes, make our art. Learn to use this very sophisticated and everyday (...)
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iPhone Photography for Everybody Creative Techniques by Beth Alesse Amherst Media • On Sale: Jul 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034491 • $44.95 • pb • Photography / Techniques / General • iPhone Photography for Everybody Series
Grab your iPhone and be imaginative with photography, no matter your skill level, with this book'apos;s awesome and creative techniques.
Making photos is fun and creative, and we have an amazing artist'apos;s tool in our pocket or bag at all times--the iPhone! See how to deliver amazing compositions using techniques that will make your images pop! Learn how to create photos that appear contemporary or in the traditional artist materials like frescos, watercolor, mosaics, oils, block prints (...)
iPhone Photography for Everybody App Techniques by Paul J. Toussaint Amherst Media • On Sale: Jul 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 128 pages 9781682034514 • $74.95 • pb • Photography / Techniques / General • iPhone Photography for Everybody Series
Use iPhone apps to produce breathtaking, highly stylized photographs of any subject.
The iPhone contains a powerful camera that is always within reach and allows photographers of all ages and skill levels to capture high-quality images anytime, anywhere, with minimal effort. In this book, renowned mobile photographer Paul J. Toussaint teaches you how to use choose and use free and inexpensive iPhone apps to transform unexciting image into works of fine art. You'll see a plethora of before-and (...)
Pickles Tails The Hijinks of Muffin & Roscoe by Brian Crane Baobab Press • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 9 x 8.50 • 300 pages 9781936097258 • $44.95 • cl • Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
Pickles Tails Vol. I is Brian Crane's first collection dedicated to the beloved Pickles family pets, Roscoe and Muffin, and their wily ways. This hardcover, full-color collection is the first in a two-volume set and contains the daily and Sunday strips that feature Roscoe and Muffin from Crane'apos;s earliest work in 1990 through 2007. All of the belovedPickles characters are here, playing, cuddling, gently scolding, and loving wholeheartedly their favorite furry friends (...)
A Life On The Left A Memoir By A Member Of The Chicago 7 by Lee Weiner Belt Publishing • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9781948742689 • $43.50 • cl • History / US / State & Local / Midwest
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Car Bombs to Cookie Tables The Youngstown Anthology edited by Jacqueline Marino and Will Miller Belt Publishing • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 9781948742672 • $29.95 • pb • Travel / US / Midwest / East North Central
The Youngstown story often is told with a beginning in iron and steel and ending in decay with a subplot driven by violent mobsters and corrupt politicians. Aiming to provide a more well-rounded examination of Youngstown, this collection of essays provides an authentic look at the city through a diverse set of experiences from the perspectives of those who have lived there. Readers will gain a sense of the past, present, and future of the city. Edited by Jacqueline Marino and Will Miller, the book features contributions by Christopher (...)
So You Want To Publish A Book? by Anne Trubek Belt Publishing • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 5 x 7.25 • 150 pages 9781948742665 • $25.50 • pb • Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing
Anne Trubek wrote several books, was a member fo the National Book Critics Circle, and was a tenured English professor before she decided try book publishing. To start and run a small press, she had to teach herself the ins and outs of a confusing, often archaic, strangely shrouded industry from yet another angle: business owner, publisher, and editor. In So You Want to Publish a Book? Trubek, who also writes the weekly newsletter Notes from a Small Press, provides insights from her journeys through all facets of writing, making (...)
The World of Warcraft: Comic Collection Volume One by Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 6 x 10 • 136 pages 9781950366132 • $22.50 • cl • Comics & Graphic Novels / Adaptations
The World of Warcraft: Comic Collection brings together eleven digital World of Warcraft comic books for the first time ever in print!
Featuring all-new stories from the eras of Warlords of Draenor, Legion and Battle for Azeroth, go deeper into the lore of World of Warcraft with fan favorites such as Jaina Proudmoore, Magni Bronzebeard, Gul'dan and many more! Includes never seen concept art and sketches from Alex Horley, Nesskain and more acclaimed artists (...)
The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy by Micky Neilson Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Jul 31/20 • 11 x 10 • 240 pages 9781945683985 • $67.50 • cl
In 2018 Toys for Bob Studios thrilled fans worldwide by releasing Spyro(TM) Reignited(TM) Trilogy, a faithful remaster encompassing all three titles from the beloved Spyro(TM) trilogy introduced in 1998. The Art of Spyro(TM) is a meticulously crafted compendium filled with in-depth behind-the-scenes content, insightful quotes from top illustrators in the industry, anecdotes from the game developers, and a dazzling assortment of incredible concept art, some of which has never been seen by the public. It is a must-have for art lovers, gamers (...)
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The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Beautiful and devastating' Marlon James ETHIOPIA. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini'apos;s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie'apos;s army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade.
Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy'apos;s most vicious officers?
The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of Canongate Books female power, and what it means to be a woman at war. On Sale: Jan 17/20 5.31 x 8.43 • 448 pages 9781838851392 • $25.50 • pb Fiction / Literary Author Bio
Maaza Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Fulbright Scholar and professor in the MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation programme at Queens College, she is the author of The Shadow King and Beneath the Lion's Gaze, named one of the Guardian's Ten Best Contemporary African Books. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, Granta, and the New York Times, among other publications. She lives in New York City. @MaazaMengiste maazamengiste.com
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Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Canongate Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 288 pages 9781786898616 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Classics • Canons
Faced with a choice between a harsh farming life and the world of books and learning, Chris Guthrie chooses to remain in her rural community, bound by her intense love of the land. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War and Chris finds her land altered beyond recognition.
In lyrical prose, Sunset Song evokes village life in the early twentieth century, and offers a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil.
Portrayed with a (...)
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks Canongate Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 6.38 x 9.45 • 320 pages 9781786897145 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Crime • A Harry McCoy Thriller
WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE IS INNOCENT?
The papers want blood. The force wants results. The law must be served, whatever the cost.
July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock (...)
The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack Canongate Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 352 pages 9781786892324 • $23.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / General
Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize
Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, of harsh weather, close ties, and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him. A place that Alice has fled to after the death of her husband. A place where Sandy, a newcomer but already a crofter, may have finally found a home (...)
Think Like a White Man Conquering the World . . . While Black by Boule Whytelaw and Nels Abbey Canongate Books • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 256 pages 9781786894403 • $23.95 • B-format paperback • Humor / Topic / Business & Professional
This book rewarded me with dark, dry chuckles on every page"Reni Eddo-Lodge "The work of a true mastermind"Benjamin Zephaniah
By following the White Man Commandments - namely, that winning justifies anything and everything - you too can achieve success beyond your capabilities.
With lessons on the value of shock and awe, putting compassion on the back burner and pretending racism doesn't exist, Think Like (...)
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Crossroads In Search of the Moments that Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe
Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer.
This momentous time in his life, and being at the most famous junction in music history, led Radcliffe to think about the pivotal tracks in music and how the musicians who wrote and performed them - from Woodie Guthrie to Gloria Gaynor, Kurt Cobain to Bob Marley - had reached the crossroads that led to such epoch-changing music.
In this warm, intimate account of music and its power to transform our lives, Radcliffe takes a personal journey through these touchstone tracks, looking at the story behind the records and his own experiences as he goes in search of these moments. Canongate Books On Sale: Jun 12/20 Steal this book!" DAVID BOWIE on Thank You for the Days 6.38 x 9.45 • 304 pages 9781786898159 • $38.95 • cl "If I wanted to study the history of modern music, I'd have Mark Radcliffe as Music / Discography & Buyer'S Guides my professor" BRIAN ENO on Reelin' in the Years
"A love letter to pop music" Sunday Times on Showbusiness
Author Bio
Mark Radcliffe is: a broadcaster, writer, musician, father of three, grandfather of two, husband of one, dog owner, art appreciator, and Manchester City Soccer Fan. He is the author of three works of nonfiction: Showbusiness, Thank You For the Days and Reelin' in the Years ; and one work of fiction, Northern Sky. He lives in Cheshire, in North West England. @themarkrad
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To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek
Three journeys. One road.
England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais.
Coming in their direction from across the English Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers' past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires.
A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien, and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek's extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about Canongate Books love, class, faith, loss, gender, and desire - set against one of the biggest On Sale: Jul 14/20 cataclysms of human history. 6.38 x 9.45 • 400 pages 9781786896742 • $40.50 • cl Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled by a story so original and so fully imagined. Meek shows the era as alien, which it is, and doesn't falsify it by assimilating it to ours. But his characters are recognizably warm and human" HILARY MANTEL, author of Wolf Hall
"An inventive and original novel that captures the distant past and pins it to the page." -The Times of London
"A glorious imaginative feat, full of complex, compelling, believable characters. Rarely have I been so captivated by a novel, so keen to hurry back to it and reimmerse myself in its world." -SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith
Author Bio
James Meek is the author of six novels including The People's Act of Love which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won both the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Award. It has been published in more than thirty countries. Meek's last novel The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and he has also written two collections of short stories and a book of non-fiction, Private Island, which won the 2015 Orwell Prize. He is a Contributing Editor to the London Review of Books and writes regularly for the Guardian and New York Times. He lives in London.
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On Making Art and Being an Artist by Kent Nerburn Canongate Books • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.31 x 8.43 • 272 pages 9781786891174 • $25.50 • C-format paperback • Self-Help / Creativity
A rallying cry for artists.
When Kent Nerburn received a letter from a young woman questioning a life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth. So Nerburn resolved that he would write his own letter: one of welcome and encouragement to all young artists setting out on the same strange and magical journey, sharing the wisdom of a life spent working in the arts (...)
Idiot Wind A Memoir by Peter Kaldheim Canongate Books • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 352 pages 9781786897398 • $23.95 • B-format paperback • Biography / Personal Memoirs
In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, in debt to a drug dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of vagrancy forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers Island jail, to relationships lost and lamented.
Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate (...)
A Season for the Dead by David Hewson Canongate Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 288 pages 9781838850647 • $22.50 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Thrillers / Crime • Nic Costa thriller
THE FIRST IN THE ACCLAIMED NIC COSTA SERIES
No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me--nor made it seem so sinister." -Peter James
"David Hewson's Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history" - Tess Gerritsen
The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson Canongate Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 288 pages 9781838850661 • $22.50 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Nic Costa thriller
No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me--nor made it seem so sinister." Peter James
"David Hewson'apos;s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history." Tess Gerritsen
An ancient ritual. A modern-day crime.
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Absolution by Caro Ramsay Canongate Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 416 pages 9781786898739 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Anderson and Costello thrillers
The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims' mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. Detective Chief Inspector Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers Detective Inspector Anderson and Detective Sergeant Costello.
But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a woman - faceless after a sadistic acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born in that hospital (...)
Singing to the Dead by Caro Ramsay Canongate Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 528 pages 9781786899071 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Anderson and Costello thrillers
Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal. But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter . . .
With police resources stretched to breaking point, a simple house fire turns into a full-scale investigation. An invisible killer is picking off victims at random and, if Detective Sergeant Costello's hunch is correct, committing an (...) Dark Water by Caro Ramsay Canongate Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 480 pages 9781786898821 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Anderson and Costello thrillers
In the attic of a deserted tenement, the body of a criminal is found hanging with his face horribly mutilated. Investigating officers Detective Inspector Anderson and Detective Sergeant Costello believe he was a suspect in a decade-old case: the rape and attempted murder of a young student. There are other similar cases on file. But the dead man didn't act alone. He had an accomplice in his crimes.
When another young woman is brutally attacked, Anderson and Costello suspect the accomplice has developed a taste for killing. To satisfy (...) The Sideman by Caro Ramsay Canongate Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 256 pages 9781838851019 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Anderson and Costello thrillers
Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious and knows exactly who did it: George Haggerty, the husband and father. The only problem is that Haggerty has a cast-iron alibi - the police themselves caught him speeding at the time of the murders. But Costello can't let it go. Determined to expose Haggerty as a ruthless killer, she's gone solo.
DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder his partner of twenty years going rogue, as (...)
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Shadow Play by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Canongate Books • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 224 pages 9781838850920 • $20.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural • Bill Slider Mysteries
Bill Slider begins a nightmarish investigation when an unidentifiable victim is found in the no-man's-land beneath a London highway. Slider doesn't have much to go on. The victim, a smartly dressed businessman, has no ID in his pockets and no one has reported him missing. When the autopsy reveals old injuries and faded scars cover the man's body, the mystery only deepens. If he wants answers, Slider knows he must go into London's darkest corners.
'Ingenious' Daily Mail Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy edited by Robert Arp and Heather L. Rivera Carus Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9780812694857 • $29.50 • pb • Philosophy / Essays • Popular Culture and Philosophy
In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies:
Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible mass murder on a cosmic scale?
Are the Avengers who try to stop Thanos dishing out justice or merely fighting a man who is himself just?
His Dark Materials and Philosophy edited by Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene Carus Publishing • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9780812694864 • $29.50 • pb • Philosophy / Essays • Pop Culture and Philosophy
The new TV series, His Dark Materials, is based on the series of novels by Philip Pullman, depicting a young girl's adventures in an imaginary world with similarities and dissimilarities to our own. The story tells of world domination by a religious body, the Magisterium, with malevolent intentions, serving a really existing God who is evil and who can be killed. The story, in all its manifestations, as novels, movies, and television shows, has received fierce criticism from religious organizations, especially because its criticisms of religion are aimed primarily at (...)
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead Catapult • On Sale: May 1/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781646220021 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
In this delightful autofiction-the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English-a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." - The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive (...)
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Officer Clemmons: A Memoir by Francois Clemmons
Officer Clemmons: A Memoir details the incredible life story of Francois Clemmons, beginning with his early years in Alabama and Ohio, marked by family trauma and loss, through his studies as a music major at Oberlin College, where Clemmons began to investigate and embrace his homosexuality, to a chance encounter with Fred Rogers which changed the whole course of both men's lives, leading to a deep, spiritual friendship and mentorship spanning nearly forty years.
When he earned the role as Officer Clemmons" on the award-winning television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Clemmons made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's program. A new, wide world opened for Francois - but one which also required him to make painful personal choices, and sacrifices.
From New York to the Soviet Union, Berlin to California, Clemmons has performed for audiences around the world, and remains a beloved figure. Catapult Evocative and intimate, and buoyed by its author's own vivacious, inimitable On Sale: May 15/20 energy, Officer Clemmons chronicles a historical and enlightening life and 6 x 9 • 288 pages career of a man who has brought joy to millions of adults and children, across Photos provided by author generations and borders. 9781948226707 • $38.95 • cl Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts Author Bio
Dr. Francois S. Clemmons received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Middlebury College. In 1973, he won a Grammy Award for a recording of Porgy and Bess ; in 1986, he founded and directed the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble; and from 1997 until his retirement in 2013, Clemmons was the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence and director of the Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he currently resides.
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Even the Dogs A Novel by Jon McGregor Catapult • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 256 pages 9781948226721 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental." --James Wood,The New Yorker On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of heroin, they're ghosts in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and (...)
Rough Magic Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer Catapult • On Sale: May 22/20 9781948226981 • $25.50 • pb • Biography / Adventurers & Explorers
Think the next Educated or Wild . Palmer's memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance - and a classic underdog tale." - Entertainment Weekly, 1 of the 15 Most Anticipated Books of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Season by O, The Oprah Magazine, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Esquire, Conde Nast Traveler, Elle, Southern Living, Family Circle, and Buzzfeed
Magnetized Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter Catapult • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 8.25 x 5.5 • 192 pages 9781948226684 • $34.50 • cl • Biography / Criminals & Outlaws
Over the course of one ghostly week in September 1982, the bodies of four taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a nineteen-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: four murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than thirty years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the (...)
You Exist Too Much A Novel by Zaina Arafat Catapult • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 9781948226509 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother'apos;s response only intensifies a sense of shame: You exist too much," she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the (...)
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The Summer Demands by Deborah Shapiro Catapult • On Sale: Jun 26/20 9781948226998 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
A sun-saturated tale of love and longing. . . Smart, funny, nuanced and seductive." - The Chicago Tribune
Named one of the best books of the summer by O: The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The Chicago Tribune, BBC Culture, NYLON and more
On the verge of her fortieth birthday and shaken by a recent miscarriage, Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp in Massachusetts. She and her husband move onto the property and make (...) No Presents Please Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini, translated by Tejaswini Niranjana Catapult • On Sale: Aug 7/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 240 pages 9781948226905 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small-town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away.
Jayant Kaikini's gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai - a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them (...)
The Call Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project by Krithika Varagur Columbia Global Reports • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 5 x 7.5 9781733623766 • $23.95 • pb • Religion / Islam / General
Journalist Krithika Varagur's Da'wa chronicles the House of Saud as it systematically transforms the Muslim world in its own image, in one of the major imperial projects in today's world, on par with China's economic diplomacy. Since 1979, Saudi Arabia has spent $1.8 billion per year, by one estimate, to propagate its puritanical brand of Islam, called Salafism or Wahhabism. It has kept scrupulous records of its religious activity in 27 countries, with over 4,000 Salafi preachers on its payroll worldwide. This is the cumulative scope of the Saudi campaign (...)
The King's Beast A Mystery of the American Revolution by Eliot Pattison Counterpoint • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 6 x 9 • 432 pages 9781640094352 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical • Bone Rattler
When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing a bloody war with America is for Duncan to secretly deliver the fossils to Franklin in (...)
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Only the River A Novel by Anne Raeff Counterpoint • On Sale: May 15/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781640093348 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
From California Book Award silver medalist and Simpson Literary Prize finalist author Anne Raeff, comes a novel of two families set in New York and Nicaragua over several generations as their lives collide in mysterious ways.
Fleeing the ravages of wartime Vienna, Pepa and her family find safe harbor in the small town of El Castillo, on the banks of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. There her parents seek to eradicate yellow fever while Pepa falls under the spell (...)
A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do A Novel by Pete Fromm Counterpoint • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 336 pages 9781640093843 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
An Amazon Top Ten Book of May 2019
Five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award Pete Fromm returns with his big-hearted new novel, a love story about family and resiliency and second chances. For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the (...)
Braver Than You Think Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother'apos;s) Lifetime by Maggie Downs Counterpoint • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 9781640092921 • $38.95 • cl • Travel / Essays & Travelogues
At age 34, newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother'apos;s. As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. You are braver than you think," her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked (...)
Lifting Belly An Erotic Poem by Gertrude Stein Counterpoint • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 4 x 6 • 112 pages 9781640093430 • $14.95 • pb • Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica • Counterpoints Series
Fragmentary, unabashed, erotic - Lifting Belly" is a singular lesbian love poem from modernist Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) which lays bare desire and easy intimacy.
What is it when it's upset. It isn't in the room. Moonlight and darkness. Sleep and not sleep. We sleep every night (...)
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Between Everything and Nothing The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum by Joe Meno Counterpoint • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages 9781640093140 • $38.95 • cl
Joe Meno brings a novelist'apos;s eye to the true story of two young men from Ghana and their journey from the unjust political system of their homeland through the chaos of the United States'apos; failing immigration system Long before their chance meeting at a Minneapolis bus station, Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal had already endured injustice. Forced to flee their native Ghana, both men separately embarked on perilous odysseys through the jungles and bureaucracies of South (...)
China Dream by Ma Jian, translated by Flora Drew Counterpoint • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 192 pages 9781640093867 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" -Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
"[M]ay be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma's talent for probing the country's darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party's moral failings." -Mike Ives, The New York Times
The Great Clod Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia by Gary Snyder Counterpoint • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640093911 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Essays
Classical poetry, calligraphy, the best source of temple incense - all figure in the text, which has something of the feel of a valediction. Elegant and thoughtful, with much to read between the lines in commentary on a long life's work. Students and admirers of Snyder will be enchanted and intrigued." - Kirkus Reviews
Throughout his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes (...)
The Center of Everything A Novel by Jamie Harrison Counterpoint • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 9781640092341 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of Wyoming'apos;s Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a recent accident, not always trusting reality. Polly Schuster, an editor and a cook who is recovering from a head injury, finds her way through one chaotic week in July of 2002: a friend drowns, an old woman arrives for a party, and the past gets a second, echoing life in her new brain. Over the course of seven (...)
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Norco '80 The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan
An Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far
Gripping. . . [R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . Norco '80 is a fascinating true-crime account that seems likely to be one of the best nonfiction books of the year." -NPR
"[An] alarming account of a bank heist that rocked the country in 1980. . . For a first-time writer, Houlahan sure knows how to dramatize a scene. His cinematic treatment of the robbery itself reads like wildfire, the fatal shootout with the police ends in colorful chaos, and the huge manhunt through San Bernardino National Forest conducted by 'Hunt & Kill Teams' is a nail-biter." -The New York Times Book Review
Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an Counterpoint apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into On Sale: Jun 19/20 one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the 5.5 x 8.25 • 400 pages face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, 8-page black-and-white photo insert Norco '80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, 9781640093881 • $25.50 • pb an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, True Crime / Murder / General and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.
Au thor Bio
PETER HOULAHAN is a freelance writer contributing to a wide range of publications. In his career as an emergency medical technician, he has written a number of articles related to his profession. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. A native Southern Californian, Houlahan now lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Find out more at www.peterhoulahan.com.
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Desert Notebooks A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 288 pages 9781640093539 • $38.95 • cl • Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts
For fans of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush, National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning of our current moment and our all-too-human urge to grapple with apocalypse.
A book about the literal and figurative end of time and what that means for us as conscious beings, Desert Notebooks looks at how both the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and our (...)
Solid Seasons The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson by Jeffrey S. Cramer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5 x 9 • 368 pages 9781640093836 • $25.50 • pb • Literary Criticism / Modern / 19Th Century
A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world.
Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson (...)
Speaking of Summer A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 304 pages 9781640093898 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
Speaking of Summer gives us a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America." - Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
"Raise[s] universal questions about mental illness, racism, and love . . . Fiercely astute." - Tayari Jones, O, The Oprah Magazine
Death and the Butterfly A Novel by Colin Hester Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640093256 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love
London, England, September 1940. Thirteen-year-old Susan McEwan and her older brother, Phillip - himself a pilot - witness firsthand the initial Nazi bombing of civilian London. Weeks later, Phillip's Sunderland is shot down, and his family is wordlessly devastated.
Toronto, Canada, the early 1980s. As a young couple struggles to survive the Reagan
recession, the husband, Alexander Polo, is forced to take a job as a paperboy. When the
wife, Julie, is expectant, Polo must now confront his future head-on and heart open.
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Above Us Only Sky Essays by Marion Winik Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 336 pages 9781640093089 • $25.50 • pb • Literary Collections / Essays
These essays on a woman's wild ride through life give us Marion's bracing tonic-of- truth voice in splendid form--her voice that is always brilliantly funny, intelligent, brave, haunting, and full of surprises, revelations, and wise, wild connections. At this point, I don't think I could live without it. If you don't know her yet, your life is about to get better." --Naomi Shihab Nye Whether she is writing about the vagaries of family vacations on land and sea, about getting her tubes tied (...)
Radical Ritual How Burning Man Changed the World by Neil Shister Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 256 pages 9781640093904 • $25.50 • pb • Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Neil Shister's book skillfully traces the evolution of Burning Man and provides rare insights into how this cultural phenomenon is changing the world." - Michael Mikel, founding board member of the Burning Man Project
Written from Neil Shister's perspective as a journalist, student of American culture, and six- time participant in Burning Man, Radical Ritual presents the event as vitally, historically important. Shister contends that Burning Man is a significant player in the avant-garde, forging new social paradigms as liberal (...) Zero Zone A Novel by Scott O'Connor Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781640093737 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
From Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award winner Scott O'Connor comes a literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and a series of violent events.
Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the former site of nuclear (...)
Figure It Out Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum Counterpoint • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 9781593765958 • $25.50 • pb • Art / Individual Artists / Essays
Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse ." In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for "stranger"; Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend's stinky feet. Wayne dreams about a handjob from (...)
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Branwell A Novel of the Bronte Brother by Douglas A. Martin, introduction by Darcey Steike Counterpoint • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 9781593765972 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
They must coax his hidden talent out into full bloom. He must be driven enough, in imagination, talented enough to support them all.
Branwell Bronte - brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne - has a childhood marked by tragedy and the weight of expectations. After the early deaths of his mother and a beloved older sister, he is kept away from school and tutored at home by his father, a curate, who rests all his ambitions for his children on his only (...)
Yours, Jean by Lee Martin Dzanc Books • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages 9781950539147 • $40.50 • CL - Hardcover with jacket • Fiction / Historical
When she refused me," Charlie says at his trial. "Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?" Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking off her engagement to Charlie Camplain. She has no way of knowing that in a few short hours, Charlie will arrive at the school, intent on convincing her to take back his ring. What happens next will reverberate through the lives (...)
The Lost Country by William Gay Dzanc Books • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.50 x 8.50 • 384 pages 9781945814884 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Romance / Gothic
Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of the Southern Gothic - the work William Gay fans have anticipated for a decade.
Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying.
No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing by Dan S. Kennedy and Kim Walsh Phillips Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: May 29/20 • 6 x 9 • 262 pages 9781599186627 • $26.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Marketing / Direct • No B.S.
Everyone's Talking About It. But Nobody Knows What They're Talking About.Social Media Examiner's 2018 Social Media Marketing Industry Report found that only 10% of respondents strongly agree that they can measure ROI - yet half of them will dedicate increased time and money to social media marketing instead of cutting back.
Millionaire maker Dan S. Kennedy, joined by marketing strategist Kim Walsh Phillips, tells it like it is: If you're not focusing on converting traffic into (...)
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Start Your Own eBay Business by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Christopher Matthew Spencer Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: May 29/20 • 9 x 7 • 210 pages 9781599186702 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship • StartUp Series
Sold! To the Highest Bidder! eBay has changed the way the world shops. Here's your chance to get in on this retail phenomenon - it's simple and inexpensive to get started. All you need is a product (or service) people want and internet access, and you're well on your way to reaching eBay's millions of customers. Newly revised and updated with the latest eBay tools and features, this book puts you on the fast track to your own eBay business. You'll learn: - Tips for attracting interested customers and high bids
Start Your Own Wholesale Distribution Business by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Christopher Matthew Spencer Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 7 x 9 • 150 pages 9781599186719 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship • StartUp Series
There's Money in the Middle! Like making deals and earning money but don't care for the daily grind? Then consider becoming a middleman - the wholesaler - who buys goods in volume from manufacturers and sells them to retailers for a profit. The experts of Entrepreneur deliver a step-by-step guide that shows you how to start a thriving wholesale operation, specializing in any industry - and running it from the comfort of your home. This guide will reveal how to:
- Establish your business and get funded (...)
Start Your Own Import/Export Business by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Jason R. Rich Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 7 x 9 • 300 pages 9781599186726 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship • StartUp Series
As a successful import/export agent, you can net a healthy six-figure income by matching buyers and sellers from around the globe, right from your own home. This book is loaded with valuable insights and practical advice for tapping into highly lucrative global markets. You'll learn every aspect of the startup process, including: - Choosing the most profitable goods to buy and sell - Setting up and maintaining a trade route - Using the internet to simplify your transactions - How the government can help you find products (...)
Start Your Own Consulting Business Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and Terry Rice Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 7 x 9 • 180 pages 9781599186658 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Consulting • StartUp Series
Use What You Know and the Profits Will FlowWhether you're a graphic designer, an accounting expert, or an advertising guru, your special skills are in high demand. Let the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to capitalize on your talents and help others achieve their business goals.
With new and revised chapters, consulting and coaching expert Terry Rice presents his tested, repeatable framework to creating a steady stream of referrals - and so much more. Dive in and learn how to (...)
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Start Your Own Pet Business by Inc. The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. and Rich Mintzer Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 7 x 9 • 250 pages 9781599186696 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship • StartUp Series
Unleash the Profits with Your Passion for Pets Are you a pet lover? Fascinated by all things furred, feathered, and finned? A fast-growing market, the multibillion-dollar pet industry offers a world of business opportunities for entrepreneurs like you!From hands-on pet care to specialty pet products like toys, food, and treats, the experts at Entrepreneur cover everything you need to build a successful pet-related business.
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Apr 10/20 • 6.29 x 8.07 • 88 pages 9780571348046 • $22.50 • pb • Poetry / General • Faber Poetry
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow'apos;) is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan'apos;s young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh'apos;) and weaponised ('fleche'apos;), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one'apos;s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one'apos;s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Central to the collection is the figure (...)
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs by Christopher Reid Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 8.50 x 10.60 • 96 pages 9780571334100 • $29.50 • cl • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
T. S Eliot's Old Possum's Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged.
First published in 1939, T. S. Eliot's best-selling, much-loved collection of practical cat poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, has become one of the most successful poetry collections in the world. Now, an official canine companion will be available. Written by award-winning poet - and like Eliot himself a fellow former editor of Faber and Faber (...)
Keep 'er Lit New Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 6 x 9.5 • 240 pages 9780571353897 • $35.95 • cl • Music / Lyrics • Faber Social
Carefully curated by the artist himself, this is the follow-up collection of lyrics from one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century. Readers will find examples of all the features of the world thatVan Morrison has created through his work: the back streets and mystic avenues; memories of childhood wonder and of adult work; the chime of church bells and the playing of the radio; the generous naming of other artists and the joy of solitude; love and sharp dealing; consolation and grace (...)
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Mrs Moreau's Warbler How Birds Got Their Names by Stephen Moss
Swallow and starling, puffin and peregrine, blue tit and blackcap. We use these names so often that few of us ever pause to wonder about their origins. What do they mean? Where did they come from? And who created them? The words we use to name birds are some of the most lyrical and evocative in the English language. They also tell incredible stories: of epic expeditions, fierce battles between rival ornithologists, momentous historical events and touching romantic gestures. Through fascinating encounters with birds, and the rich cast of characters who came up with their names, in Mrs Moreau's Warbler Stephen Moss takes us on a remarkable journey through time. From when humans and birds first shared the earth to our fraught present-day coexistence, Moss shows how these names reveal as much about ourselves and our relationship with the natural world as about the creatures they describe.
Faber & Faber Publishing Author Bio On Sale: Apr 24/20 5.10 x 7.80 • 368 pages Stephen Moss is a naturalist, broadcaster, television producer and author. In a 9781783350919 • $25.50 • pb distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Nature / Animals / Birds Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His books include The Robin: A Biography, A Bird in the Bush, The Bumper Book of Nature, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds and Wild Kingdom. He is also Senior Lecturer in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he lives with his family on the Somerset Levels, and is President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust.
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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 1/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 144 pages 9780571347162 • $20.95 • pb • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Faber Poetry
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition (...)
Explorers on Black Ice Bridge by Alex Bell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 15/20 • 384 pages 9780571332588 • $13.50 • pb • Juvenile Nonfiction / Adventure & Adventurers
Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix are in trouble: President Fogg has expelled them from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club, and banned them from going on any further expeditions. Stella's not going to be put off by rules and regulations though. She knows her friend Shay is in danger of turning into a witch wolf himself, since receiving a deadly bite on their last adventure. It's vital that Stella and her friends set out to find the spellbook that could savehis life, even if it means travelling over (...)
Loss by David Harsent Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 15/20 • 160 pages 9780571290550 • $29.50 • cl • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The city never sleeps. Silence would weaken it. When all else fails it talks to itself seamless thrum of machinery dark undertone. It is 00:00 and the full of the night yet to come. A man sits at a window through the dead hours of night, his sleep broken by troubling dreams of a figure in a white landscape. This fragmentary vigil anchors a series of narrative sections in which a dramatic voice - which might well be an interior monologue - gives, first, an account of the man, then addresses him (...)
Napoleon Volume 2 by Michael Broers Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 400 pages 9780571301546 • $25.50 • pb • History / Europe / France
Napoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage, between 1805 and 1810. In 1805, Napoleon was suddenly at war with Britain, Russia, and Austria. He mobilised all his power to confront them, unleashing his magnificent Grande Armee. Its first, resounding victory at Austerlitz was followed by a whirlwind of campaigns, bringing Napoleon and his men to the borders of Russia. These stunning triumphs made Napoleon the master of the continent, but they left Britain unbowed. In the years that followed, this struggle with Britain came to dominate Napoleon's actions, leading him (...)
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Magic Mobile by Michael Frayn Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 22/20 • 192 pages 9780571355006 • $25.50 • cl • Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The whole world at the touch of your finger - why ever leave the imaginary realm of your mobile phone? But this book is even better. Anything but analogue, Magic Mobile is the latest offering of comic genius from Michael Frayn, the author of Matchbox Theatre and Pocket Playhouse . 'Michael Frayn is the most philosophical comic writer - and the most comic philosophical writer - of our time.' Daily Mail (...)
Selected Poems by Charlotte Mew Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 29/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 160 pages 9780571316182 • $26.95 • pb • Poetry / Women Authors • Faber Poetry
The British poetCharlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers. She has since been neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. Two new books on this important writer are being prepared by Faber poet Julia Copus, who recently unveiled a blue plaque on Mew's childhood house in Doughty Street. Mew was a curious mix of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure (...)
The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 31/20 • 160 pages 9780571360475 • $29.50 • cl • Performing Arts / Film / Screenwriting
Poems of Dorothy Molloy, The by Dorothy Molloy Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 296 pages 9780571348466 • $34.50 • cl • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as 'gurlesque'), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book (...)
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Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed by Paul Cronin
One of the best things published about cinema.' Sight & Sound Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and the terrifying Nosferatu - and more recently with documentaries such as Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Into the Abyss, Herzog has built a body of work that is one of the most vital in post-war German cinema. Here, he reflects on his legendary and inspiring career.
Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Jun 12/20 592 pages 9780571336067 • $34.50 • pb Performing Arts / Film / Direction & Production
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Fairy Tales by Marianne Moore Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 48 pages 9780571356140 • $10.50 • pb • Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
A wily cat, a strange romance, detestable daughters: the great American poet Marianne Moore retells three stories originally written by Charles Perrault to amuse the niece of Louis XIV. Modern readers may be surprised to find that the prince does not wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss - the more he cares, the less willing he is to intrude - and that his mother is descended from ogres. Characterised by vivid imagery, uncluttered prose, inventive alliteration and a sly sceptic'swit, Moore's versions do more than tell a tale: 'Having seen a problem (...)
As If By Chance by David Lan Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 256 pages 9780571357796 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town andDavid Lan is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting London fresh out of high school, he interviews theatre luminaries Sybil Thorndike, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Nunn, Paul Schofield before heading home to join the South African army. Now it's 1999. We're at the Young Vic where David is interviewed to be artistic director, a job he'd do for eighteen years, ensuring it's (...)
Polly Stenham: Plays 1 by Polly Stenham Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 400 pages 9780571357222 • $37.50 • pb • Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Polly Stenham's explosive That Face, written at the age of nineteen, was staged at the Royal Court before transferring to London's West End. Tusk Tusk and No Quarter followed, also for the Royal Court. Her fourth play, Hotel, opened at the National Theatre. All four are contained in Plays 1, together with an introduction from the author.That Face 'One of the most astonishing debuts I have seen in more than 30 years.. In every respect this is a remarkable and unforgettable piece of theatre.' Daily Telegraph Tusk Tusk 'A cracking (...)
Hansard by Simon Woods Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 96 pages 9780571355433 • $20.95 • pb • Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital sparring quickly turns to blood-sport. (...)
28 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — ADULT Spring 2020
Salt Water by Andrew Motion Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jul 3/20 • 128 pages 9780571356010 • $13.50 • pb • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Salt Water isAndrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal concerns with themes which are more expansive and social. Family and loved ones appear in the company of historical and legendary figures; private dramas raise large general issues. But there is concentration as well as diversity. From the Orford Merman of the title poem, to an elegy written for a friend who died on the Marchioness, to the vivid prose (...)
Tamworth Pig Stories by Gene Kemp Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jul 3/20 • 288 pages 9780571356645 • $13.50 • pb • Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Pigs
Features two classic tales about Tamworth, the kind-hearted and very wise pig with a flair for publicity, and his human friends, Thomas and Blossom - The Prime of Tamworth Pig and Tamworth Pig Saves the Trees . In these tales Tamworth, Thomas and Blossom campaign to 'Save The Trees' and 'Grow More Grub and Eat Less Meat'.Carolyn Dinan's classic interior illustrations complement these exciting adventures (...)
Poems of Basil Bunting, The by Basil Bunting Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 7/20 • 624 pages 9780571235018 • $34.50 • pb • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect (...)
Six Bad Poets by Christopher Reid Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 7/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 64 pages 9780571304042 • $22.50 • pb • Poetry / Continental European • Faber Poetry
Six Bad Poets is a farce-in-verse byChristopher Reid. It follows the exploits and mishaps of a group of poets, whose destinies are more intimately connected than they themselves can know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society. Recklessness, fecklessness, blind ambition and enthralment to dark secrets are among the forces that drive these colourful and conflicted characters - three male, three female - towards their fates. Six Bad Poets is a fast-paced romp through a world that the author has observed closely over many years (...)
29 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — ADULT Spring 2020
Monolithic Undertow by Harry Sword Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 6 x 9.2 • 320 pages 9780571349043 • $38.95 • pb • Music / General
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious, and subcultural frontiers, exploring a concept that is often described as 'the drone'. Harry Sword traces the line from neolithic Indo-European traditions to the modern underground by way of mid-20th Century New York, navigating a beguiling topography of archeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub bass, avant-garde eccentricity, and fervent spiritualism. From ancient beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters, North Mississippi bluesmen to cone-shattering South London dub reggae sound systems, Hawkwind's Ladbroke Grove (...)
On the Back of Our Images (2006-2014) by Luc Dardenne, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman and Sammi Skolmoski Featherproof Books • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 6 x 9 • 416 pages 9781943888207 • $32.95 • pb • Art / Film & Video
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne are giants in contemporary world cinema, steadfastly radical in both principles and approach. Their films tackle social and political issues by focusing keenly on the intimate stories of individuals locked into their fates by unjust systems. Now available for the first time in English, this two volume set collects over 20 years of Luc's journals as the brothers work through their films, along with the shooting scripts of these films.
The Royal Abduls by Ramiza Shamoun Koya Forest Avenue Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 9781942436416 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Ramiza Shamoun Koya reveals the devastating cost of anti-Muslim sentiment in The Royal Abduls, her debut novel about an Indian-America family. Evolutionary biologist Amina Abdul accepts a post-doc in Washington, DC, choosing her career studying hybrid zones over a faltering West Coast romance. Her brother and sister-in-law welcome her to the city, but their marriage is crumbling, and they soon rely on her to keep their son company. Omar, hungry to understand his cultural roots, fakes an Indian accent, invents a royal past, and peppers (...)
The Naturalist's Illustrated Guide to the Sierra Foothills and Central Valley by Derek Madden, Ken Charters and Erinn Madden Heyday • On Sale: May 1/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 9781597144865 • $37.50 • pb • Nature / Reference
California's San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over seven hundred meticulous line drawings with descriptions of the birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, invertebrates, plants, and fungi that make the Central Valley and Foothill Regions their home. Like a ranger-led nature walk, each species receives a lively overview; readers will learn about freshwater jellyfish, mushrooms that decompose railroad ties, handstanding spotted skunks, salt-shedding pickleweed - not to mention insects (...)
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California's Wild Coast Poetry, Prints, and History by Tom Killion, with Gary Snyder Heyday • On Sale: May 15/20 • 11.5 x 9 • 208 pages 9781597145077 • $44.95 • pb • Art / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
Previously published as California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History, this volume captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Woodcut artist Tom Killion's prints combine exquisite color with dynamic composition to portray the coast's ever-changing moods and diverse formations: storm tides crashing at Point Lobos, serene moonlit coves at Mendocino, fog encircling the Golden Gate Bridge. Deepening our experience are poetry and prose from Gary Snyder, as (...)
How to Teach Nature Journaling Curiosity, Wonder, Attention by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren, foreword by Amy Tan Heyday • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 8.5 x 11 • 288 pages 9781597144902 • $52.50 • pb • Art / Study & Teaching
Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State by Gary Noy Heyday • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9781597144995 • $26.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / West
In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors... finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]" than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California's settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours (...)
Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood by Marni Fylling Heyday • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 5 x 7 • 208 pages 9781597144803 • $29.95 • pb • Nature / Reference • Fylling's Illustrated Guides
In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling's full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling's guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life - with occasional dalliances; squirrel (...)
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Heirloom Fruits of America Selections from the USDA Watercolor Pomological Collection by introduction by Daniel J. Kevles Heyday • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 9781597145060 • $44.95 • cl • Art / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Heirloom Fruits of America features 100 full-color illustrations selected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, an archive of 7,584 paintings, lithographs, and line drawings created from 1886 to 1942 by about sixty-five commissioned artists. These images served as de facto trademarks in the highly competitive and fraud- plagued American fruit industry in a time before patent protection extended to living organisms. They are also meticulously and beautifully rendered, uncovering a cache of botanical diversity in turn-of-the-century American agriculture. Yale historian Daniel J (...)
The David Lance Goines Note Card Collection Chez Panisse, Volume 1 illustrated by David Lance Goines Heyday • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5 x 7 • 12 pages 9781597145121 • $32.95 • card deck • Design / Graphic Arts / Illustration
The David Lance Goines Note Card Collection Movies illustrated by David Lance Goines Heyday • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5 x 7 • 12 pages 9781597145138 • $32.95 • card deck • Design / Graphic Arts / Illustration
Sleepovers : Stories by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Hub City Press • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 9781938235665 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Hailed by Lauren Groff as fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We meet a runaway teen, a mattress salesman, feral kittens, an elderly bachelorette wearing a horsehair locket, and a little girl named after Shania Twain. Here, time and memory circle above Phillips (...)
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JavaScript in easy steps by Mike McGrath In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Apr 4/20 • 192 pages 9781840788778 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Programming / Cgi, Javascript, Perl, Vbscript
HTML in easy steps by In Easy Steps Limited In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Jun 4/20 • 240 pages 9781840788761 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Programming / Html
Excel Functions & Formulas in easy steps by In Easy Steps Limited In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Jun 4/20 • 192 pages 9781840788815 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Spreadsheets • In Easy Steps
Excel Functions & Formulas in easy steps is a comprehensive guide to Excel functions and formulas that will help the reader to build more powerful spreadsheets and make the most of Excel once they have mastered the basics (...)
HTML, CSS & JavaScript in easy steps by Mike McGrath In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Jul 5/20 • 480 pages 9781840788785 • $37.50 • pb • Computers / Programming / Html • In Easy Steps
A comprehensive guide to everything the reader will need to get to grips with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - all in easy steps (...)
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Deep Space Mysteries 2021 Calendar by compiled by Astronomy Magazine Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Jun 11/20 • 10.5 x 13 • 28 pages 9781627007504 • $19.50 • wall calendar • Nature / Star Observation
The Deep Space Mysteries 2021 calendar features 12 breathtaking images of stars, planets, galaxies, and other deep space wonders. Each image is accompanied by an informative, educational essay about the celestial object shown in the image. A perennial favorite among astronomy and space enthusiasts, the calendar is also ideal for budding astronomers and anyone interested in space science. Space and astronomy themes are popular calendar titles. Deep Space Mysteries 2021 is an exclusive calendar from the editors of Astronomy magazine, the most popular magazine of its kind in the world (...)
Model Railroader 2021 Calendar by compiled by Model Railroader magazine Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Jun 11/20 • 10.5 x 13 • 28 pages 9781627007481 • $19.50 • wall calendar • Crafts & Hobbies / Model Railroading
The Model Railroader 2021 calendar features 12 model railroad layouts showcased in Model Railroader magazine, Model Railroad Planning, Model Railroader: The Ultimate Guide, or Great Model Railroads. Beautifully photographed to capture detail and realism, each image showcases a special layout that will inspire model railroaders throughout the year. Railroad and train-themed calendars are very popular and appeal to consumers looking for an inspirational or favorite model railroad that they can view all year. Model Railroader 2021 features a wide range of scales, locations, and railroads, appealing to a broad (...)
Trains Across America 2021 by compiled by Trains magazine Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Jun 11/20 • 10.5 x 13 • 28 pages 9781627007498 • $19.50 • wall calendar • Transportation / Railroads / General
The Trains Across America 2021 calendar features curated images from the pages of Trains magazine and Model Railroader: The Ultimate Guide. Beautifully photographed for visual impact, each image captures a moving train at a scenic location around the country. Train- themed calendars are very popular and appeal to railroad enthusiasts and the general public with an interest in modern railroading. This calendar also appeals to readers of Trains -- the world's largest circulation publication about railroading. Because it features a variety of trains and locations, Trains Across America 2021 offers something (...)
Beaded Kumihimo Jewelry by Rebecca Ann Combs Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Jul 30/20 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 112 pages 9781627007221 • $32.95 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Jewelry
Beaded Kumihimo Jewelry is a collection of projects made using the most common kumihimo braid: kongoh gumi. The book includes 20+ all-new projects using this popular technique all in a friendly, easy-to-follow format made using an inexpensive kumihimo disk incorporating all your favorite beads. As you go through her third book, Rebecca will show you how to use many different types of beads in a variety of sizes to make kumihimo jewelry effectively. One beneficial section of this book is Rebecca's trouble shooting" section, used to help (...)
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Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Mistake Issue Summer 2020, No. 27 edited by Tom Lutz Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) • On Sale: Jul 12/20 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 144 pages 9781940660516 • $17.95 • pb • Literary Criticism / General
The Summer 2020 issue Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal is dedicated to the Mistake. From Eve and the apple to the invention of penicillin, many of the watershed moments in human history and mythology were catalyzed by a mistake. In Paradise Lost, Eve's mistake was interpreted as an exercise of free will - as well as the folly - of man. This issue explores the limits of humanity within the context of the mistake - what does it mean that many of the most significant turning points in history (good and (...)
Unsayable Words, Unforgivable Crimes by Jody David Armour Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) • On Sale: Aug 14/20 9781940660684 • $23.95 • pb • Law / Criminal Law
Racialized mass incarceration is not just cell blocks brimming with black bodies. It's a pervasive and deep-seated way of talking and thinking about morality, law, and politics in matters of blame and punishment; it's a punitive impulse and retributive urge that runs so strong and deep in most Americans that taming it will take a revolution in consciousness. Through radical critiques of conventional morality, conventional legal theory, and conventional politics in criminal justice matters, this book fuels this revolution. Drawing on the phenomenon moral philosophers call moral luck, Armour's (...)
Humans Are Not Robots Why We All Need Work Flexibility and What Company Leaders Can Do About It by Robert Hawkins Maven House Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 9781947540040 • $44.95 • cl • Bus & Econ / Careers / General
A vision forwhat could be regarding society and work, with practical guidance for how to get there
In this entertaining, thought-provoking, and comprehensive guidebook on work flexibility, Robert Hawkins builds on new and old management theories, case studies, interviews, and his own personal journey from rigidity to flexibility to show leaders how to free hundreds,
Master the Wizardry of Project Management Seven Leadership Principles to Help You Create and Sustain High- Performing Teams by Jimmie L. West Maven House Press • On Sale: Jul 1/20 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 9781947540064 • $37.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Leadership
Dealing with the human side of project management - generating an effective team culture in an environment where project managers must influence without authority - continues to be one of the most consistent challenges to project managers.Master the Wizardry of Project Management offers a solution to this challenge - a project management framework that'apos;s based on the application of principle-centered project leadership. You'apos;ll succeed by using a simple, repeatable, and flexible set of seven principles for creating (...)
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Thrasher's Fly Fishing Guide An Essential Handbook for All Skill Levels by Susan Thrasher, foreword by Ron Ellis Menasha Ridge Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9781634042444 • $25.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Fishing
Your Informative (and Entertaining!) Guide to Fly FishingFly fishing is a wonderful and thrilling way to catch fish - and it isn't as complicated as you might think. More and more people are using this intriguing method to catch trout, bluegill, sailfish, and more. You can count yourself among them. It just takes the right equipment, a little bit of know-how, and some practice. If you've never tried because you heard it's too hard," then you are missing out! Ignore the doubters and the naysayers. In Thrasher's Fly Fishing Guide (...)
The Blue Sky A Novel by Galsan Tschinag and Galsan Tschinag Milkweed Editions • On Sale: May 14/20 • 224 pages 9781571311399 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Family Life • Seedbank
Book by book, Tschinag is championing his people and preserving their traditions. He gives a whole new meaning to the power contained in the written word." - San Francisco Chronicle
In the high Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, a young shepherd boy comes of age, tending his family's flocks on the mountain steppes. Knowing little of the world beyond the surrounding peaks, his nomadic way of life is disrupted by modernity.
The Clearing Poems by Allison Adair Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 88 pages 9781571315144 • $32.95 • cl • Poetry / Women Authors
North American Stadiums by Grady Chambers Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 112 pages 9781571315359 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / American
Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize,North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.
You were supposed to find God here / the signs said." In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small--of a city, of a family, of a shirt--is unearthed. Here is a (...)
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Late Migrations A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Jul 23/21 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 248 pages 9781571313836 • $23.95 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
An Indie Next Selection for July 2019 An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019 A 2019 Okra Pick A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week"
From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family - and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within (...)
Stop Checking Your Likes Shake Off the Need for Approval and Live an Incredible Life by Susie Moore New World Library • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 9781608686735 • $23.95 • pb • Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
In the age of social media, too many people obsess over Facebook likes, Twitter retweets, and other digital tokens of popularity. That habit is a symptom of a deeper problem: the need for constant approval. Too often we live our lives for an audience and miss out on the kind of life we really desire. In Stop Checking Your Likes, author and life coach Susie Moore shows readers how to escape the approval trap" and accept themselves as they are right now . With warmth and down-to-earth humor, Moore (...)
Kickass Recovery From Your First Year Clean to the Life of Your Dreams by Billy Manas, foreword by Liberty De Vitto New World Library • On Sale: May 1/20 • 5.50 x 8.50 • 256 pages 9781608686506 • $23.95 • pb • Self-Help / Substance Abuse & Addictions / General
Getting clean is seldom the biggest hurdle for addicts -STAYING clean is, and relapse is common. As author Billy Manas shows, the crucial key to long-term sobriety is learning how to not just survive but thrive - what he calls kickass recovery." Manas knows firsthand that being clean, while a great accomplishment, has to feel good and be fulfilling in order to stick. This means different things to different people - everything from having a stable income and family life to playing in a band or writing a book. His techniques (...)
Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child Practical Tips and Tools to Heal Your Relationship by Tina Gilbertson New World Library • On Sale: May 8/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 272 pages 9781608686582 • $25.50 • pb • Family & Relationships / Parent & Adult Child
Parents whose adult children have cut off contact wonder: How did this happen? Where did I go wrong? What happened to my loving child? Over time, holidays, birthdays, and even the birth of grandchildren may pass in silence. Anguish may turn into anger. While time, in and of itself, does not necessarily heal, actions do, and while every estrangement includes situation-specific variables, there are practical, effective, and universal techniques for understanding and healing these not-uncommon breaches. Tina Gilbertson has developed these techniques and tools over years of face (...)
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The Final 8th Enlist Your Inner Selves to Accomplish Your Goals by Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, foreword by Hal and Sidra Stone New World Library • On Sale: May 15/20 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 9781608686919 • $26.95 • pb • Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
Stuck. It's a miserable way to feel and a lousy place to be. The misery is amplified when a cherished goal - whether breaking a bad habit or building a business, finding a mate or finishing a degree - is within sight. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard coined the term the final 8th" to describe a phenomenon she experienced herself and found in many clients: talented, energetic, motivated men and women who had accomplished many steps toward a goal (7/8 of it) but stalled "in front of their finish line, for no good reason (...)
The Language Your Body Speaks Self-Healing with Energy Medicine by Ellen Meredith, DA, EEMAP, foreword by Donna Eden New World Library • On Sale: May 15/20 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 9781608686759 • $26.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Healthy Living
Energy healing is based on the premise that energy is our essence, that while our bodies appear solid, they are in fact a constantly swirling set of energetic exchanges. Ellen Meredith's innovative approach to energy medicine recognizes these exchanges as a language in itself. Speaking that language allows us to hear and understand what the body is telling us so that we can heal ailments and maintain optimal well-being. Though this communication may seem esoteric, it is actually a fundamental human skill, one we had as preverbal infants. (...)
Lifeboat Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption by Maggie Craddock New World Library • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 224 pages 9781608686841 • $26.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Personal Success
In Lifeboat, Maggie Craddock uses the stories of the survivors of the Titanic as a metaphor for hardworking professionals today facing uncertainty. They are swimming in waters jarred by sudden waves of downsizing, management shakeups, company mergers, dried-up funding, scandals, and probably a shark or two. The experiences of Titanic survivors, Craddock shows, offer lessons for a transformative workplace approach, one that recognizes that every man for himself" does not work long-term. Craddock illustrates how the skills people need to survive and thrive are those that help them (...)
Repair Revolution How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture by John Wackman and Elizabeth Knight New World Library • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 224 pages 9781608686605 • $25.50 • pb • House & Home / Sustainable Living
Every year, millions of people throw away clothes, furniture, computers, appliances, and countless other items that get broken through natural wear and tear, simply because they lack the know-how to fix them. It's just more convenient to buy new stuff. This throwaway lifestyle depletes Earth's resources and adds to overflowing landfills. Although our society accepts frivolous waste as normal, there is a better way. Repair Revolution chronicles the rise of repair cafes : nonprofit, volunteer organizations devoted to repairing electronics and household items for free. Repair Revolution explores the philosophy (...)
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Firefighter Zen A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times by Hersch Wilson
"Be brave. Be kind. Fight fires." That's the motto of firefighters, like Hersch Wilson, who spend their lives walking toward, rather than away from, danger and suffering. In this unique collection of true stories and practical wisdom, Wilson shares the Zen-like techniques that allow people like him to stay grounded while navigating danger, comforting others, and coping with their personal response to each crisis. As in Zen practice, firefighters are trained to be fully in the moment andpresent to the heartbeat, the life at hand. Each of five sections applies the firefighter's experience to everyone's lives. Readers learn to maintain perspective and equilibrium even in the midst of urgency and to prepare for adversity as well as aftermath and recovery. Finally, six key strategies for thriving in the face of difficulty include practical exercises and real-world advice. Every life contains the unexpected and the unwelcome. Since how we cope with those inevitable events, more than the events themselves, defines the quality of our lives, Firefighter Zen is an invaluable guide to meeting every day with our best calm, creative, and optimistic New World Library selves." On Sale: Jun 5/20 5.25 x 8 • 256 pages This unflinchingly honest book [is] a rich read full of the bittersweet wisdom of Illustrations, black and white hard experience." -Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers 9781608686889 • $25.50 • pb Self-Help / Personal Growth / General Author Bio
Hersch Wilson and his wife, Laurie, became volunteer firefighters in 1986. He has worked as an organizational consultant, pilot, outdoor adventure trainer, professional dancer, and author. He writes for Backdraft magazine and other publications. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility A Natural Approach to Getting Pregnant by Heather Grzych New World Library • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9781608686803 • $25.50 • pb • Health & Fitness / Infertility
To be or not to be a mother is a question that increasing numbers of women postpone answering until their fertility has diminished. Heather Grzych knows this firsthand. As someone who spent most of her adult life trying not to get pregnant, she grappled with conception in her midthirties but faced many challenges. In the midst of this reckoning, she left her successful corporate life and became one of only a few people in the United States with an advanced degree in Ayurvedic medicine. In Ayurveda, she found a gentle (...)
Working to Restore Reversing Climate Change through Innovation - Why We Do Business in the Regenerative Era by Esha Chhabra Patagonia Books • On Sale: May 8/20 • 6 x 9 • 384 pages 9781938340918 • $41.95 • cl • Bus & Econ / Development / Sustainable Development
A top reporter on mission-driven brands highlights how and why businesses are moving beyond sustainability to solve problems and regenerate the earth.
During this time of unprecedented environmental, cultural, and financial global disruption, can business save the world?After decades of extraction of human and environmental resources and years of attempts to make business sustainable," today's (...)
Surf Is Where You Find It The Wisdom of Waves, Any Time, Anywhere, Any Way by Gerry Lopez, foreword by Rob Machado and Steve Pezman Patagonia Books • On Sale: May 29/20 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 416 pages 9781938340949 • $37.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Surfing
The saying goes, The second best thing about surfing is talking about it afterward."Gerry Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of all time brings readers into the intimately personal sport with Surf Is Where You Find It, a collection of stories that recount harrowing waves, epic wipeouts, and heroes encountered over a lifetime on the water.From growing up in Hawaii in the '50s and '60s, to finding the tube in the early days at Pipeline, to pioneering legendary spots like Uluwatu and G-Land in Indonesia, Lopez has (...)
Waves and Beaches The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast by Kim McCoy and Willard Bascom Patagonia Books • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 5.5 x 7.5 • 440 pages 9781938340956 • $37.50 • pb • Nature / Oceans & Seas
The Bestselling Classic Updated for Surfers, Sailors, Oceanographers, Climate Activists, and Those Who Love the SeaFirst published in 1963 and updated in 1979, this classic was an essential handbook for anyone who studies, surfs, protects, or is fascinated by the ocean. The original author, Willard Bascom, was a master of the subject and included a wealth of information, based on theory and statistics, but also anecdotal observation and personal experience. It brought to the general public understanding of the awesome and complex power of the waves.This revision from Kim McCoy (...)
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The 45th by D.W. Buffa Polis Books • On Sale: Apr 16/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 352 pages 9781951709051 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Thrillers / Political
What if a political party in disarray turned to a man to lead them with no political background? What if a country torn apart by ideology turned to a man whose charisma belied a complete lack of governing experience? What if a country elected a President based not on qualifications, but on hope? Would this man lead the country into a new era of fortune and prosperity? Or would he lead them into total and complete chaos? D.W. Buffa has proven himself as one of the absolute best political writers (...)
The Privilege by D.W. Buffa Polis Books • On Sale: May 1/20 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 9781947993976 • $41.95 • cl • Fiction / Thrillers / Legal
The riveting new Joseph Antonelli novel from bestselling, Edgar Award nominee author D. W. Buffa!
Praise for the novels of D.W. Buffa Buffa's characters are compelling; the dialogue authentic and well crafted. With the current political upheaval, Buffa's newest novel hits home in more ways than one. The author draws on his own experience as a criminal defense attorney to render realistic courtroom proceedings. Highly recommended for lovers of legal and political thrillers." -Library Journal (Starred Review) "Expect NECESSITY to appear (...)
Hunting Ground by Meghan Holloway Polis Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 336 pages 9781947993983 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Suspense
Fifteen years ago, Hector Lewis's wife and young daughter vanished without a trace. People have long thought he was responsible, but the man he knows is behind their disappearance still walks free. As a police officer, he is sworn to uphold the law. But he has seen how little justice there is in the world. And when a newcomer's arrival sparks a harrowing series of crimes, Hector finds himself in a race to catch a man he is convinced is a killer. Evelyn Hutto knows what it isto be prey (...)
Miami Midnight by Alex Segura Polis Books • On Sale: Jun 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 336 pages 9781951709044 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled • Pete Fernandez
THE THRILLING FINAL CHAPTER IN ALEX SEGURA'S ACCLAIMED PETE FERNANDEZ SERIES! A year has passed since Pete Fernandez's latest, closest brush with death. After months of recovery, the newly sober Pete has managed to rebuild his life, contentedly running a small Miami bookstore and steering clear of the dangers of private eye work. So when an aging Cuban mobster asks Pete to find out who killed his drug- addicted, jazz pianist son and to locate his missing daughter-in-law, Pete balks. Until another victim suggests that the murder of (...)
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Shadows Deep by Sung J. Woo Polis Books • On Sale: May 29/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 9781947993952 • $25.50 • C-format paperback • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators • Siobhan O'Brien
Korean adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but her more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a donut than a romance, but when an old friend and fellow adoptee asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm room, the rookie private detective's search begins in Llewellyn College. A private college in upstate New York (...)
Undocumented by Johnny Shaw Polis Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 9781947993969 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Noir
UNDOCUMENTED tells the story of three unauthorized Mexican immigrants living in Los Angeles: Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Nadia, a former journalist with PTSD, fled Mexico and tries to stay hidden from the dangerous men that she exposed in Sinaloa. Ostelinda works as a laborer in a garment factory, having been deceived by coyotes and imprisoned in the same building since her arrival. Their lives intersect through terrifying circumstance thatclarify and contrast the horrors of existence. When Eliseo goes missing, Luz is (...)
Three-Fifths by John Vercher Polis Books • On Sale: Jul 17/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 9781951709068 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
A compelling and timely debut novel from an assured new voice: Three-Fifths is about a biracial black man, passing for white, who is forced to confront the lies of his past while facing the truth of his present when his best friend, just released from prison, involves him in a hate crime.
Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known, and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, twenty-two year-old Bobby Saraceno has (...)
Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta by J David Spurlock, afterword by Frank Frazetta Jr. PolisPoint Press • On Sale: Apr 11/20 • 10.5 x 14.62 • 120 pages 9781934331811 • $59.95 • cl • Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Discover, or return to, the world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta in this landmark art collection entitled, Fantastic Paintings of Frazetta . The New York Times said, Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potency, but rendered with a panache seldom seen outside of major works of Fine Art. Despite his (...)
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Kompromat My Story from Trump to Mueller and USSR to USA by Giorgi Rtskhiladze Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 6 x 9 • 264 pages 9781644281031 • $40.50 • cl • Biography / Political
Garrett's Store The Ingenuity of a Young Garrett Morgan by M. J. Mouton, illustrated by Jezreel Cuevas Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 8 x 8 • 24 pages 9780998314747 • $25.50 • cl • Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / US / African- American • Tiny Thinkers
The sixth book in the Tiny Thinkers series covers Garrett Morgan!
Garrett Morgan invented the respiratory device that powered WWI gas masks, as well as chemical hair straighteners and and improved sewing machine. A trailblazer in many aspects of his life, Morgan's story is one that kids and adults will love! Follow Garrett Morgan as he builds his store, and begins to invent some of the items we still rely on today.
Father on the Line by Jim Hock and Michael Downs Rare Bird Books • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 344 pages 9781644280942 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
From the time he was old enough to remember, Jim Hock was told stories of his dad's glory days playing football in LA. A member of the 1950s LA Rams, John Hock, Jim's dad, was a member of Hollywood's Team, a football team that redefined what a sports team looked like, sounded like, and acted like, all while revolutionizing the sport of football.
But Jim didn't know John the football star, he just knew the sweet, funny guy he called (...)
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Cheap Shots A Photographic Look at Underground Bands Through the 80s and Beyond by Chris Barrow, foreword by Ben Weasel
Featuring never-before-seen photographs of U2 on their first US Tour, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Danzig, The Descendants, Fugazi, The Damned, The U.K. Subs, and many, many more
Since 1981, Chris Barrows has taken pictures of bands at their concerts, backstage, and behind the scenes. From U2 during their first tour in 1982 to Captain Sensible of The Damned on his knees in an alley licking a dominatrix's thigh high vinyl boots, or Lee Ving standing on railroad tracks at night, Barrows' intimate and stirring portraits of bands stripped down and unguarded will be a wonderful addition to any music fan's collection.
Sadly, there is a lot of American music history that will be forgotten in the mists of time, simply because no one thought to document these instances. Thankfully, this is not always the case. Chris Barrows captured many nights, Rare Bird Books now decades old, with his camera. His work is not only good but allows us to On Sale: May 22/20 see what was happening way back then. Chris (...) 7 x 9 • 144 pages Fully Illustrated 9781644280294 • $44.95 • cl Author Bio Photography / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles Chris Barrows was born in 1958 in Wichita,Kansas. He is the former singer for the punk bands Pink Lincolns, the Spears, and the Jackie Papers. He now resides in St Petersburg, Florida.
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Reports from Hell by Chas Smith Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 9781644280751 • $40.50 • cl • Sports & Recreation / Surfing
A gonzo ride through war-torn Yemen as only Chas Smith, the award-winning author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair, could provide. Follow Smith and his misfit band of merrymakers as they search for the true origins of Al Qaeda and endeavor to ride the unsurfed waves of Yemen all while exploring the slim opportunities for fun in the margins of our global war on terror and at what cost - even if it means eventual kidnapping (...)
It's The World's Birthday Today by Christian "Flake" Lorenz, translated by Tim Mohr Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 312 pages 9781644280638 • $38.95 • cl • Music / Heavy Metal
1 German bestseller
I have no idea how late it actually is. We flew off somewhere this morning, and my cell phone automatically turns off the clock if we're getting close to a new time zone by plane. Mile by mile, the bus pushes through the inner city. Budapest seems to be quite big. We are in the middle of rush hour traffic. As it is Friday, everyone wants to get out of the city very quickly. But nothing works (...)
Big Wednesday (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) by Denny Aaberg and John Milius Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 208 pages 9781644280966 • $40.50 • cl • Fiction / Sports
Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their alcoholic and unruly ways to go fight in the Vietnam War. When they reunite ten years later, they find that things in Malibu are much different after fighting a war (...)
Dead Iranian Girl by Roxana Shirazi Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 356 pages 9781644280799 • $40.50 • cl • Biography / Women
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Sweet Dreams by Peter Leonard Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781644280959 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in her room. Days later Kate is discharged. Still recuperating, she sees a man in a car parked on the street watching her apartment. This is the third time she has seen him. Kate gets the license number, follows and confronts him and discovers he's (...)
Son of the City A Memoir by Dante Ross Rare Bird Books • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 352 pages 9781947856943 • $40.50 • cl • Biography / Composers & Musicians
Son of the City goes behind the scenes of the Golden Age of Hip Hop with esteemed producer and music industry veteran, Dante Ross, one of the top-25 greatest A&Rs as named by Complex Magazine . Ross pulls no punches as he details his time growing up on the pre-gentrification Lower East Side as the child of political activists, his devotion to punk rock, and his eventual discovery of a brand new art form, which landed him at Tommy Boy Records, where he signed and handled the careers (...)
The Gamesmaster My Life in the '80s Geek Culture Trenches with G.I. Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, and The Transformers by Flint Dille Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5.50 x 8.50 • 312 pages 9781644280126 • $40.50 • cl • Biography / Science & Tech
The Gamesmaster is a narrative memoir chronicling the life and career of Flint Dille. And while he isn't exactly a household name, you almost certainly know his work - which includes credits from some of the most important and successful entertainment franchises throughout the world across the cartoon, film, video game, and comic book industries and beyond.
True Wellness the Heart How to Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Heart Health by Catherine Jeane Kurosu and Aihan Kuhn Rich Press LLC • On Sale: May 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 9781594397356 • $23.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Diseases / Heart • True Wellness
Combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of heart disease and hypertension.
Over a decade has passed since Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.) and Energy Medicine (Donna Eden) seminal books shed light on taking more control of person health through lifestyle changes. Now, Drs. Kurosu and Kuhn offer a step-by-step (...)
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Spotting Danger Before Danger Spots You A Federal Air Marshal's Guide to Situational Awareness by Gary Dean Quesenberry Rich Press LLC • On Sale: May 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 220 pages 9781594397370 • $28.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts & Self-Defense • Head's Up
Spotting danger before it happens is a skill that can be developed and may even save your life.
A mother dropping her teenager off at the mall, a young man leaving home for college, a family about to head out on their first trip overseas. What do all of these people have in common? They all have a vested interest in their personal security and the wellbeing of those they love. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, there were (...)
What We Inherit A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi The Unnamed Press • On Sale: May 1/20 9781951213077 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
A beautiful amalgam of memoir, travelogue, and investigative report that moves with the propulsive forward energy of a thriller. A haunting chronicle of loss and redemption." - Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Alexander Hamilton In the wake of her mother's death, Jessica Pearce Rotondi uncovers boxes of letters, declassified CIA reports, and newspaper clippings that bring to light a family ghost: her uncle Jack, who disappeared during the CIA-led "Secret War" in Laos in 1972. The letters lead her across Southeast Asia in (...)
Vagablonde by Anna Dorn The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Jun 5/20 9781951213008 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Lesbian
Vagablonde is a darkly humorous, rollercoaster ride through the Los Angeles music scene about a woman who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as an artist. A cautionary tale about viral fame, Vagablonde speaks directly to our time in biting detail. Prue Van Teesen is thriving. That is, her life looks good on paper. She has an easy government job, a nice girlfriend, and a budding music career. When Prue is introduced to producer Jax Jameson, they instantly (...)
ESCAPEs by Daniel Tunnard The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Jul 17/20 9781951213114 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
After the peak of the 1990s Scrabble boom, an estranged couple (both Scrabble world champions), meets deep in the Tigre Delta for one final game. The words they play spell out how they ended here, and why they are probably going to die. In this alternate history, Scrabble is suddenly everywhere. The once innocent board game went pro, and got rich and corrupt on TV money and cigarette sponsorships - becoming the third-most televised sport" by 1996 and earning its major players fame and fortune. The league was tightly controlled (...)
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The Faking of the President Nineteen Stories of White House Noir by contributions by Gary Phillips and Alison Gaylin, edited by Peter Carlaftes Three Rooms Press • On Sale: May 1/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 320 pages 9781941110898 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Short Stories
What would the White House be like if U.S. Presidents of the past were not restricted by the time-honored hallmarks and traditional behavior of the office, leaving them free to do whatever they wanted, anytime and anywhere?THE FAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir pulls back the curtain on the new norm" for America's highest office, with a collection of bizarre new stories by a diverse group of renowned authors that take readers across the chasm of reality into an alternate (...)
Ray By Ray A Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray by Nicca Ray Three Rooms Press • On Sale: May 8/20 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages 9781941110874 • $29.95 • mass market non-strippable • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Nicholas Ray was cinema. The legendary director of such classic films as Rebel Without a Cause was an innovative force who dramatically changed the Hollywood landscape. He was also Nicca Ray's dad, Nick.
After he disappeared from her life in 1964, Nicca began to imagine her father as a hero who would return and whisk her away from a life in LA where she never felt safe. However, the man who finally reappeared was not the legendary figure she dreamed (...)
Maintenant 14 A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges Three Rooms Press • On Sale: Jun 12/20 • 6.75 x 9.62 • 212 pages 9781941110911 • $37.50 • pb • Art / Folk & Outsider Art
The MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers the work of renowned and emerging dada artists and writers from around the world. The series has been archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art-New York, the BelVUE Museum-Brussels, and more. Renowned contributors have included artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Giovanni Fontana, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Kazunori Murakami. Writers have included Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jerome Rothenberg, and more, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Alice Bag, Grant Hart, Mike Watt (...)
Life Under Glass by Mark Nelson, Abigail Alling and Sally Silverstone Too Far Publishing • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 6 x 9 • 275 pages 9780907791768 • $28.50 • pb • Science / Experiments & Projects
Planet in a bottle. Eden revisited. Laboratory under glass. The largest self-sustaining closed ecological system ever made. Biosphere 2 is many things to many people. From its half- acre farm to its coral reef to its emerald rainforest - this unique research facility has proven itself a marvel of human engineering and a testament to the human imagination. For two full years from 1991 to 1993, four men and four women lived and worked inside the structure, recycling their air, water, food,and wastes, and setting a world record for (...)
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Reclaiming the Commons In Defense of Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge by Vandana Shiva Too Far Publishing • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9780907791782 • $29.50 • pb • Social Science / Agriculture & Food
Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many plants, including basmati, neem, and wheat. The author presents details of the specific attempts made by corporations to secure these patents and the legal actions taken to fight (...)
The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need Care, Training, and Rehabilitation for Rescues, Purchases, and Adoptions by Stacie G. Boswell, DVM, DACVS Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Apr 3/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 256 pages 9781570769627 • $44.95 • pb • Medical / Veterinary Medicine / Equine
In the United States alone, it is estimated that almost 150,000 horses per year are unwanted. This number grows exponentially when you consider horses worldwide. What is unwanted"? The term is used to refer to horses that are old, injured, sick, unmanageable, or fail to meet expectations. The horse may have a lameness or illness... or he could just be the wrong color or gender. His problem could be life-threatening... or chronic and manageable. He may have a mild behavioral problem... ora severe one. (...)
Jorid Linvik's Big Book of Knits for Kids Over 45 Distinctive Scandinavian Patterns by Jorid Linvik Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 7.5 x 10.25 • 208 pages 9781570769863 • $41.95 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Beloved bestselling knit designer Jorid Linvik'apos;s latest collection draws on her characteristic ability to fill every pattern with warmth, charm, and color, in 45 delightfully distinctive designs for kids from newborn to eight years old. Who doesn'apos;t know a kid who'apos;s fallen thoroughly in love with tractors, ponies, cats, or hearts--and just can'apos; t get enough? Indulge them with all their favorite things in their favorite colors, on hats, mittens, gloves, and socks that are designed to fit little heads, hands, and feet just right. (...)
Anne Kursinski's Riding and Jumping Clinic: New Edition A Step-by-Step Course for Winning in the Hunter and Jumper Rings by Anne Kursinski, with Miranda Lorraine, photographs by Amber Heintzberger Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: May 1/20 • 8 x 9 • 336 pages 9781570769849 • $44.95 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Equestrian
NOW WITH ALL-NEW, FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS! Olympian Anne Kursinski's acclaimed book on riding horses over fences delivers on-target counsel and the kind of sophisticated, quality instruction you can only get in top barns around the world. Let this (...)
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Still Horse Crazy After All These Years If It Didn't Happen This Way, It Should Have by James Wofford Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: May 1/20 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages 9781570769559 • $37.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Equestrian
Three-time Olympian Jim Wofford grew up with horses, beginning with his childhood on a Kansas farm in the forties. The son of an Olympic show jumper, Wofford and his siblings all found themselves pursuing a riding life"-one of reward and growth, of challenge and disappointment, but mostly of learning to understand and work with a complex animal as an athletic partner and friend. Over the years Wofford developed as an international competitor, successful coach, and sought-after commentator. Known for his wit, irreverence, and whip- smart observations on (...)
Norwegian Knitting Designs - 90 Years Later A New Look at the Classic Collection of Scandinavian Motifs and Patterns by Wenche Roald and Annichen Sibbern Bohn Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: May 29/20 • 9.5 x 11 • 272 pages 9781570769894 • $52.50 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Contemporary style and fresh modern colors meet classic Norwegian knitting patterns in this magnificent collection! Annichen Sibbern Bohn'apos;s timeless and beloved Norwegian Knitting Patterns, first published in 1929, has been a guiding light and a source of inspiration for knitters around the world for decades--and now, working from Bohn'apos;s original set of charts, knit designer Wenche Roald has created brilliant, vividly rejuvenated patterns for everything from wrist warmers to sweaters, mittens to baby blankets, for children and adults.
Yoga for Riding: From Mat to Saddle Principles and Postures to Improve Your Horsemanship by Cathy Woods Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 184 pages 9781570769719 • $44.95 • pb • Pets / Horses / General
Scandinavian Sweaters Over 25 Stunning Patterns to Knit by Kristin Wiola Odegard Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Jul 10/20 • 8 x 10.25 • 216 pages 9781570769924 • $37.50 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Popular knit designer Kristin Wiola Odegard has brought together some of her best-loved original patterns alongside brand-new designs to form a striking and eye-catching selection of sweaters and cardigans, for women and men, featuring her signature attention to detail, skill with unusual color combinations, and distinctly Scandinavian style. Including bonus wrist warmers and two patterns for children's sweaters, plus an instructional section to smooth the way for knitters new to sweater-making and a stitch table" to help you adjust sizing, this lovely book is both a (...)
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Dear America Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy edited by Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd and Derek Sheffield Trinity University Press • On Sale: Apr 19/20 • 320 pages 9781595349125 • $28.50 • pb • Political Science / Essays
America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that patriotic spirit, hundreds of writers, artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer their impassioned letters to America, in a project envisioned by the online journal Terrain.org and collected in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. In the inaugural piece in Terrain.org's Letters to America series, Alison Hawthorne Deming writes (...)
Art History 101 without the Exams by Annie Montgomery Labatt Trinity University Press • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 6 x 7 • 56 pages 9781595348784 • $44.95 • pb • Art / Reference
Have you ever found art museums intimidating and art history a baffling mix of periods, names, and styles? Annie Labatt'apos;sArt History 101 aims to remove this inaccessibility issue in the art world by breaking the history of art down into twenty accessible lessons, each built around a single, canonical piece considered a masterpiece from its era.
Beginning with prehistoric cave drawings and Greek statues; continuing through the Gothic, Byzantine, Baroque, and the Renaissance movements; and concluding with the Impressionist (...)
La Finca Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island by Corky Parker Trinity University Press • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 256 pages 9781595349057 • $44.95 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of running an inn far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker operated La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a rough-and-tumble dream grew into a paradise enjoyed by guests from around the world. Sketchbook in hand, Parker chronicled her daily adventures living with the land.La Finca is a lively graphic memoir about a woman creating a new life amid countless (...)
Living in the West by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, photographs by Peter Brown Trinity University Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.75 • 176 pages 9781595348760 • $29.50 • pb • Architecture / Landscape
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Moral Ground Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson Trinity University Press • On Sale: Jul 11/20 • 512 pages 9781595349279 • $29.50 • pb • Nature / Essays
Moral Ground brings together the testimony of over 80 visionaries - theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturists, activists, and writers - to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibilities to our planet. In the face of environmental degradation and global climate change, scientific knowledge alone does not tell us what we ought to do. The missing premise of the argument and much-needed centerpiece in the debate to date has been the need for ethical values, moral guidance, and principled reasons (...)
Border Creative Nonfiction in Social Equity by foreword by Kapka Kassabova, edited by Yvette D. Benavides Trinity University Press • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 288 pages 9781595349149 • $29.50 • pb • Social Science / Social Classes • EQ
Border, the first book in the EQ: Creative Nonfiction on Social Equity series, features nonfiction that underscores the idea of borders in both obvious and unexpected ways. Borders are commonly thought of as concrete, if arbitrary, geographical and physical spaces. But we construct and experience borders in other ways. We live in margins defined by gender, race, disability, illness, and cultural bias. In Border, Leslie Jamison, Oscar Casares, Daniel Tammet, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sandra Cisneros, and others share stories about borders between nations and cultures and the liminal spaces of (...)
Laika's Window The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell Trinity University Press • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 256 pages 9781595349217 • $28.50 • pb • Science / History
Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated (...)
Putting on the Dog The Animal Origins of What We Wear by Melissa Kwasny Trinity University Press • On Sale: Jul 24/20 • 256 pages 9781595349200 • $29.50 • pb • Nature / Animal Rights
In Putting on the Dog, Melissa Kwasny explores the age-old relationship between humans and the animals that have provided us with our clothing: leather, wool, silk, feathers, pearls, and fur. From silkworms grown on plantations in Japan and mink farms off Denmark's western coast to pearl beds in the Sea of Cortes, Kwasny offers firsthand accounts of traditions and manufacturing methods - aboriginal to modern - and descriptions of the marvel and miracle of the clothing itself. What emerges is a fresh look at the cultural history of fashion.
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Greetings from San Antonio Historic Postcards of the Alamo City by Lewis F. Fisher Trinity University Press • On Sale: Apr 11/20 • 11 x 8.5 9781595349187 • $49.50 • map, flat • History / US / State & Local / Southwest
At the dawn of the twentieth century, just as color postcards were becoming a worldwide sensation, San Antonio bypassed Dallas as the largest city in Texas. Idyllic postcard images of San Antonio began landing in mailboxes across the country, displaying recently gained wealth and prosperity. Greetings from San Antonio: Historic Postcards of the Alamo City is a collection of more than six hundred color and black-and-white photo postcards, many of them quite rare, that yield a compelling visual narrative of the city during this pivotal period.
Large buildings (...) San Antonio 365 On This Day in History by Yvette D. Benavides and David Martin Davies Trinity University Press • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 288 pages 9781595349163 • $26.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / Southwest
San Antonio 365: On This Day in History tells one story a day in the history of the Alamo City, from popular lore to lesser known events critical to understanding its people and culture. The result is a treasure trove of remarkable tales highlighting small ripples that created big waves in the region'apos;s history. Included are the Pecan Shellers'apos; Strike led by Emma Tenayuca, the integration of San Antonio schools, and popular culture legends about the San Antonio Riverwalk, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and the band R.E.M. (...)
Alligator by Dima Alzayat Two Dollar Radio • On Sale: Jun 8/20 • 5.5 x 7.5 • 206 pages 9781937512897 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Originality meets craft." - Anne Enright, author of The Gathering The award-winning stories in Dima Alzayat's collection, Alligator and Other Stories, are luminous and tender, whether dealing with a woman preforming burial rites for her brother in "Ghusl," or the great-aunt struggling to explain cultural identity to her niece in "Once We Were Syrians."
Alzayat's stories are rich and relatable, chronicling a sense of displacement through everyday scenarios. There is the intern in pre (...)
Lake Like a Mirror by Sok Fong Ho, translated by Natascha Bruce Two Lines Press • On Sale: Apr 24/20 • 240 pages 9781931883986 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Magical Realism
Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers
Winner of a PEN Translates award
By an author described by critics as "the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop," Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanization, patriarchal structures (...)
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On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Two Lines Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 4.5 x 7 • 174 pages 9781949641011 • $29.50 • cl • Literary Collections / Essays
AFTER SPENDING SUFFICIENT TIME INSIDE A LIGHTHOUSE, WHO WOULDN'APOS; T BEGIN TO HEAR A SONG IN THE SOUND OF THE MACHINERY, A VOICE IN THE WIND OR THE WAVES?" Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here." Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson'apos;s grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline,ON (...)
Echo on the Bay by Masatsugu Ono, translated by Angus Turvill Two Lines Press • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 5 x 8 • 160 pages 9781949641035 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize- winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. As the city council election approaches, and as tongues are loosened by drink, evidence of rampant corruption piles up - and a long-held feud between the village's captains of industry,two brothers-in-law, threatens to boil over. (...)
Now Is the Time to Invent! edited by Katherine Spielmann, Steve Connell and J Neo Marvin Verse Chorus Press • On Sale: Jul 3/20 • 8 x 10 • 352 pages 9781891241673 • $44.95 • pb • Music / Rock
Now Is the Time to Invent offers a definitive portrait of the vibrant indie-rock scene that flourished in the mid-1980s and reached its creative peak in the 1990s. More than 60 profiles and interviews, taken from the pages of the acclaimed independent music magazine Puncture and illustrated with many rare photographs, cover all the major contributors to a lastingly influential musical movement.
It's impossible to determine a single starting point for indie rock, but here it is found (...)
Hidden History Ancient Aliens and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization by Jim Willis Visible Ink Press • On Sale: May 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578597109 • $29.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Mythical Civilizations
Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization
Investigates and questions the scientific consensus on the origins of civilization Do we, the human species, really know who we are or where we came from or how we originated or our place in the cosmos? Or is much of what we have been taught wrong or misguided or possibly even blatant lies intended to keep people in power and everyone else in line? Exploring alternative theories on the (...)
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The Nature of Yosemite 2021 Calendar A Visual Journey by Robb Hirsch Yosemite Conservancy • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 12 x 12 • 24 pages 9781951179007 • $22.50 • wall calendar • Photography / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
Incomparable Yosemite all year long!
Robb Hirsch's passion is the ongoing search for the Wow!" that can be found in every acre of Yosemite National Park. From his years of exploring and studying the Sierra Nevada, Robb, a scientist by training, knows that understanding the natural processes underlying the magic of a place like Yosemite can thoroughly enhance one's connection to the landscape. In this twelve-month wall calendar-as in his book of the same name-Robb provides that (...)
Modern Kogin Sweet & Simple Sashiko Embroidery Designs & Projects by Boutique-Sha Zakka Workshop • On Sale: Jun 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 112 pages 9781940552453 • $29.95 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Embroidery
Discover the art of kogin, a style of traditional Japanese sashiko embroidery with modern appeal. Historically, kogin was used as a pattern darning technique to reinforce threadbare fabric and add warmth to the clothing worn by farmers in the villages of northern Japan. With dozens of beautiful and simple geometric patterns, kogin embroidery offers fresh inspiration and authentic technique to proponents of the decorative mending movement. Colorful photos offer step-by-step instructionfor learning this simple counted thread embroidery technique. Beginners will discover how to prepare the thread and fabric (...)
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Trees of Michigan Field Guide Trees of Minnesota Field Guide Colorado Day Trips by Theme by Stan Tekiela • Adventure Publications by Stan Tekiela • Adventure Publications by Aimee Heckel • Adventure Publications On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: May 22/20 4.38 x 6 • 240 pages 4.38 x 6 • 216 pages 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 9781591939672 • $22.50 • pb 9781591939696 • $22.50 • pb 9781591938910 • $25.50 • pb Nature / Trees & Forests Nature / Trees & Forests Travel / US / West / Mountain Series: Tree Identification Guides Series: Tree Identification Guides Series: Day Trip Series
New York Day Trips by Theme Washington Day Trips by Theme Oregon Day Trips by Theme by Sandra Mardenfeld • Adventure Publications by Ellie Kozlowski • Adventure Publications by Stacy McCullough • Adventure Publications On Sale: Jun 19/20 On Sale: Jun 19/20 On Sale: Jun 19/20 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 9781591938934 • $25.50 • pb 9781591939245 • $25.50 • pb 9781591939283 • $25.50 • pb Travel / US / Northeast / Middle Atlantic Travel / US / West / Pacific Travel / US / West / Pacific Series: Day Trip Series Series: Day Trip Series Series: Day Trip Series
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Butterflies of the Northwest Wildflowers of the Northeast Birds of the North Woods by Jaret C. Daniels • Adventure Publications by George Miller • Adventure Publications by Sparky Stensaas • Adventure Publications On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: Jul 10/20 4.25 x 7.5 • 22 pages 4.25 x 7.5 • 28 pages 4.50 x 8.25 • 272 pages 9781591939375 • $14.95 • spiral bound 9781591939443 • $14.95 • spiral bound 9781936571109 • $28.50 • pb Nature / Butterflies & Moths Nature / Flowers Nature / Animals / Birds Series: Adventure Quick Guides Series: Adventure Quick Guides Series: Naturalist Series
Birds of Ohio Field Guide The Kids' Guide to Birds of Texas The Kids' Guide to Birds of Georgia by Stan Tekiela • Adventure Publications by Stan Tekiela • Adventure Publications by Stan Tekiela • Adventure Publications On Sale: Apr 17/20 On Sale: Jun 19/20 On Sale: Jun 19/20 4.38 x 6 • 332 pages 5 x 7 • 240 pages 5 x 7 • 240 pages 9781591939610 • $22.50 • pb 9781591939658 • $20.95 • pb 9781591939634 • $20.95 • pb Nature / Birds & Birdwatching Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Birds Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Birds Series: Bird Identification Guides Series: Birding Children's Books Series: Birding Children's Books
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Little Washington Yosemite: The Complete Guide by Nicole Hardina • Adventure Publications by James Kaiser • Destination Press On Sale: May 22/20 • 9781591938453 • $28.50 • pb On Sale: May 11/20 • 9781940754413 • $29.95 • pb
Grand Canyon: The Complete Guide Acadia: The Complete Guide by James Kaiser • Destination Press by James Kaiser • Destination Press On Sale: May 11/20 • 9781940754437 • $29.95 • pb On Sale: May 11/20 • 9781940754451 • $32.95 • pb
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Frommer's EasyGuide to Prince Edward Island, Nova Frommer's EasyGuide to Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque Scotia and New Brunswick by Barbara Laine and Don Laine • FrommerMedia by Pat Lee • FrommerMedia • 9781628874938 • $29.50 • pb 9781628874976 • $29.50 • pb
Frommer's Banff day by day Frommer's New York City day by day by Christie Pashby • FrommerMedia by Pauline Frommer • FrommerMedia On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 9781628874952 • $23.95 • pb On Sale: Jul 10/20 • 9781628875034 • $23.95 • pb
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The Local Angler Fly Fishing Austin & 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Madison Central Texas by Steve Henry by Kevin Revolinski by Aaron Reed Menasha Ridge Press Menasha Ridge Press Imbrifex Books On Sale: Apr 17/20 On Sale: Jun 19/20 On Sale: May 11/20 9781634041065 • $34.50 • pb 9781634041201 • $34.50 • pb 9781945501241 • $37.50 • pb
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: San Francisco 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Denver and Five-Star Trails: Spokane by Jane Huber Boulder by Seth Marlin Menasha Ridge Press by Mindy Sink Menasha Ridge Press On Sale: Jun 19/20 Menasha Ridge Press On Sale: May 22/20 9781634041263 • $34.50 • pb On Sale: Jun 19/20 9781634041348 • $26.95 • pb 9781634042857 • $34.50 • pb
Best Tent Camping: Ohio Best Tent Camping: Michigan Half-Pint Guide to Craft Breweries by Robert Loewendick by Matt Forster by June Skinner Sawyers Menasha Ridge Press Menasha Ridge Press Roaring Forties Press On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: May 22/20 On Sale: Apr 24/20 9781634042895 • $25.50 • pb 9781634042963 • $25.50 • pb 9781938901843 • $25.50 • pb
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Time Out London Shortlist Time Out Vienna City Guide by Time Time Out • Time Out by Time Time Out • Time Out On Sale: May 12/20 • 9781780592732 • $19.50 • pb On Sale: Jun 11/20 • 9781780592817 • $32.95 • pb
Time Out Amsterdam City Guide by Time Out • Time Out On Sale: Apr 11/20 • 9781780592800 • $32.95 • pb
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French Like Moi A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter Ah, Paris! Whether you're talking last tangos, midnights in, red balloons, hunchbacks, French connections, Jean Valjean, Ratatouille, or Amelie Poulain, Paris is the place where it all goes down - and where the it has to be big and heart-stopping, something that never leaves you, that you'll always have, like the Paris of Casablanca . It's a layered pastry of romance, adventure, and elegance, coated with a glaze of chic! But for humorist Scott Dominic Carpenter, it's mostly a tax dodge. When he moves his family to Paris, he's cutting corners, and in more ways than one. After setting up shop in the thirteenth arrondissement, the adventures begin. His apartment building proves to be a battleground over both property and propriety; the neighborhood crawls with self-appointed experts; he is mysteriously denounced to the police; the city convulses with violent demonstrations. Through it all, Carpenter keeps his eye on the central mystery of what makes the French French. Everything is grist for his mill: language, Travelers Tales education, politics, immigration, habits, healthcare, friendship, home repairs, and even On Sale: May 11/20 terrorism. Because Carpenter has spent years (on again off again) in the world's most 5.25 x 8 • 256 pages Line drawings, black and white glorious capital, he knows French culture intimately. But because he's from the (...) 9781609521837 • $25.50 • pb Travel / Europe / France • Ages 16 years and up
100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go - 10th Anniversary Edition by Susan Van Allen This fully updated 10th Anniversary Edition of 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go is packed with new information. Susan Van Allen provides the best insider's femme- friendly advice for sights, shopping, restaurants, and many new destinations and Golden Day itineraries to enhance your travel experiences in the Bel Paese. Susan is your fun-loving, savvy-traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear, inspiring you to make your Italian dream vacation come true. Go along with her as she leads you up and down the boot to discover this extraordinary country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and The Madonna (Nurturing Mother of Compassion) reign side-by- side. These pages, curated with passion, humor, and expert female tips, are guaranteed to lift you out of the flood of online information and make your travel planning easy and pleasurable. Discover masterpieces of art that glorify womanly curves, join a cooking class taught by revered grandmas, shop for artisan treasures, ski Travelers Tales the Dolomites, or paint a Tuscan landscape. Make your trip a string of Golden Days by On Sale: Jun 11/20 5.5 x 7.5 • 464 pages pairing your experience with the very best restaurant nearby, so sensual delights clipart harmonize and you simply bask in the glow of bell'Italia. Whatever your mood or (...) 9781609521868 • $32.95 • pb Travel / Europe / Italy • Ages 16 years and up Series: 100 Places
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Quotable Texas The Artist's Field Guide to Yellowstone Tahoe Rim Trail edited by Joe Holley edited by Katie Shepherd Christiansen by Tim Hauserman Trinity University Press Trinity University Press Wilderness Press On Sale: Jun 19/20 On Sale: Apr 24/20 On Sale: Jul 17/20 9781595347701 • $19.50 • pb 9781595348951 • $49.50 • cl 9780899979601 • $29.50 • pb
Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon and Washington Pacific Crest Trail Data Book Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California by Jordan Summers by Benedict Go by Laura Randall Wilderness Press Wilderness Press Wilderness Press On Sale: Jun 12/20 On Sale: Jun 12/20 On Sale: Jun 12/20 9780899978444 • $44.95 • pb 9780899979014 • $19.50 • pb 9780899978406 • $44.95 • pb
Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California Walking Chicago North Bay Trails by Jordan Summers by Ryan Ver Berkmoes by David Weintraub Wilderness Press Wilderness Press Wilderness Press On Sale: Jun 12/20 On Sale: May 15/20 On Sale: Aug 14/20 9780899978420 • $44.95 • pb 9780899976976 • $25.50 • pb 9780899978529 • $28.50 • pb
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The Nature of Yosemite A Visual Journey photographs by Robb Hirsch, foreword by John Muir Laws Here is Yosemite in all of its wonder and allure, brought to the page in vivid color by photographer Robb Hirsch.
Capturing the jaw-dropping splendor California'apos;s crown jewel, the crisp photos and essays in 'The Nature of Yosemite: A Visual Journey' by Robb Hirsch inspires the naturalist in all of us." -Los Angeles Times, November 2019 "The photos are humbling: Whether a devoted naturalist or a committed city-dweller, the viewer can't help but be moved and inspired by these images." -High Country News Yosemite is like nowhere else on Earth. Within its vast expanses, are found spectacular granites, two major watersheds, glacially carved valleys, delicate meadows, thousands of lakes, grand trees, and charismatic wildlife. From his years of exploring and studying the Sierra Nevada, Robb knows that understanding the natural processes underlying the Yosemite Conservancy magic of a place like Yosemite can thoroughly enhance one'apos;s connection to the On Sale: May 22/20 landscape. In this book, Robb provides that enriching experience by calling on 11 x 11 • 144 pages full-color and black-and-white photographs knowledgeable friends-all experts in their fields-to contribute insights into the natural (...) throughout 9781930238923 • $40.50 • pb Photography / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
John Muir's Grand Yosemite Musings & Sketches by Curated by Michael Wurtz A guide to seeing Yosemite through John Muir's eyes.
The renowned naturalist John Muir spent several years in Yosemite and returned there often throughout his life. His early training as a botanist instilled in him a keen eye for detail and a talent for representing his surroundings in his sketchbooks. Part treasure hunt, part immersive experience, this slender volume shares 25 places that beckoned Muir to draw them-places he paused in his ramblings and wondered over.
Thanks to detailed directions and coordinates, visitors to the park can find these spots and delight in the incredible scenery that Muir himself enjoyed, often from the same enduring spot. John Muir's Grand Yosemite also includes Muir's own voice in brief selections that accompany the locations; editor Michael Wurtz's engaging commentary Yosemite Conservancy enlivens the tour. On Sale: May 22/20 .38 x 8.25 • 64 pages 9781930238978 • $19.50 • cl . Travel / US / West / Pacific
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Static by Eric Laster Automatic Publishing • On Sale: Jul 31/20 • 5.50 x 8.50 • 336 pages 9780991272990 • $14.95 • pb • YA Fic / Mysteries & Detective Stories
It was strange - Wilt calling me when he'd died the week before. Maybe a lot of other people get called from the spirit world or whatever, but it was a first for me and so I didn't pick up until the fifth or sixth ring.'
When Curtis Brooks gets a phone call from his older brother Wilt the week after his funeral, he's sure his brother is reaching out from beyond the grave to find evidence that will lead to his murder's arrest. But Wilt claims he wasn't murdered; his calling is standard protocol for newly deceased at the Aftermart-a kind of inescapable, ever-expanding Walmart filled with obsolete technology and discontinued products.
Curtis embarks on a dangerous plan to find the killer, which soon has him scheming against a billionaire and fumbling towards love with his brother's ex-girlfriend Suzy, all while struggling with typical high school drama and his single mom's questionable choices.
The Looking Glass Wars: UnderFire by Frank Beddor and Curtis Clark, by (artist) Sami Makkonen Automatic Publishing • On Sale: Jul 31/20 • 6.62 x 10.25 • 80 pages 9780991272976 • $14.95 • pb • Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Nov / Fantasy • Looking Glass Wars
The direct sequel toThe Looking Glass Wars: Crossfire. Full description TBA.
Frank Beddor
The Looking Glass Wars
New York Times Best-Seller for 26 weeks
2007 Ben Franklin Award for Best YA audiobook
The Looking Glass Wars, the series of bestselling novels by Frank Beddor that takes the classic 19th century children's tale off into a truly unexpected literary territory - the battlefields of epic fantasy." -The LA Times
Always Be A Unicorn by Karla Oceanak, illustrated by Kendra Spanjer Bailiwick Press • On Sale: May 11/20 • 7.9 x 11.5 • 32 pages 9781934649794 • $25.50 • cl • Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dragons
Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn... And lucky you - whether you know it or not, you ARE a unicorn! In this inspiring picture book for unicorn lovers young and young-at-heart, readers are urged to believe in their remarkable, singular, imperfect selves. And it's not what's on the outside that makes a unicorn a unicorn. It's what's on the inside . Which means anyone can be a unicorn! So what are you waiting for? Go! Frolic in every forest. Slide down every rainbow. Swim in every glittery sea. And charge fearlessly in the direction of your most outlandish dreams. Written and illustrated by the creators of the bestseller Goodnight Unicorn, Always Be a Unicorn makes a spot-on gift for anyone enchanted by unicorns, celebrating a big life moment, or in need of a reminder about how special and beloved they are. Perfect for birthdays, holidays, graduations, milestones, and just because.
This book about being yourself, finding your joy, and living a magical life is as relevant to adults as (...)
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Discovering Energy by Veronica Sanz, illustrated by Eduard Altarriba
Creating and harnessing energy is a fundamental part of enabling life to exist and thrive on earth. Energy comes in a vast array of different forms - using our muscles and those of other creatures, enabling us to move, lift etc, creating heat and steam through fire, capturing the power of the wind in a ship's sails or to turn the blades of a wind turbine, harnessing the power of moving water to generate electricity in a hydroelectric power station, applying the forces of magnetismto turn an electric motor, using solar panels to transfer the sun's energy into electricity for our homes - all of these and more are explained in Understanding Energy. This exciting new book from award-winning illustrator Eduard Altarriba introduces children aged 8-12 to this fascinating world in a fun and absorbing way. The book explains many of the different principals of energy production with the use of beautiful, dynamic illustrations.
Author Bio
Button Book Veronica Sanz is Professor of Physics at the University of Sussex, UK. She On Sale: May 11/20 has worked at Harvard, Yale, Boston and Durham universities, as well as her 9.7 x 9.7 • 48 pages hometown university in Valencia, Spain. She was a Fulbright fellow at Harvard Full colour throughout and Marie Curie fellow at Yale and she has been awarded a Large Hadron 9781787080492 • $26.95 • cl Collider-Theory initiative prize. Eduard Altarriba is a graphic designer and Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Discoveries • illustrator. He runs Alababala, a Barcelona-based independent studio Ages 8-12 years producing games, exhibitions, animation, apps and workbooks for children Series: Discovering Big Ideas that are practical and fun. He also illustrated My First Book of Relativity and My First of Quantum Physics. My First Book of Quantum Physics was the 2018 winner of the British Book Design and Production Awards in the Educational Books Category as well as the silver winner of the Junior Design Awards in Junior Magazine.
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Discovering Architecture by Bardi I Mila, illustrated by Eduard Altarriba Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/19 9781787080294 • $26.95 • cl
Discover Our Solar System by Colin Stuart, illustrated by Charlie Brandon-King Button Book On Sale: Apr 11/19 9781787080171 • $26.95 • cl
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Vacation Activity Book illustrated by Alain Gree This fun and educational vacation-themed activity book will keep young children entertained for hours. The pages are packed with all sorts of enjoyable things to do, including colouring in, counting, dot to dots, spot the difference and other engaging puzzles. The Vacation Activity Book features beautiful, bright illustrations that will draw children in and keep them busy. Alain Gree's unmistakably rich and appealing style of illustration makes every page incredibly absorbing. Andwhile children are enjoying the activities, they will be practising a wide range of skills, including observational, conversational and motor skills.
Button Book On Sale: Aug 11/20 9 x 12 • 64 pages 9781787080553 • $19.50 • pb Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books • Ages 4-8 years Series: Alain Gree Activity Book
Viking Adventure Activity Book by contributions by Jen Alliston Generally associated with bloody and gruesome tales, the Vikings also have another side to them. In this fun-packed book, children will discover more about these fearless explorers who left behind a legacy of art, language and technology. The pages are crammed with all sorts of Norse-themed activities, including dot to dot, spot the difference, colouring in and mazes. Fun and educational, Viking Adventure Activity Book features beautiful, bright illustrations that will draw children inand keep them busy. And while they are enjoying the colouring, matching and counting, the activities are helping them to develop a wide range of skills, including observational, conversational and motor skills. They'll also find out more about the fascinating world of the Vikings along the way.
Button Book On Sale: Aug 11/20 8.6 x 11.6 • 64 pages 9781787080751 • $14.95 • pb Juvenile Nonfiction / Activity Books • Ages 4-8 years Series: Adventure Activity Book Series
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All Along the River by Magnus Weightman Bunny Rabbit has lost her toy duck! So Bunny and her brothers jump in their boat and head down the river in search of Little Duck. Their journey takes them from the mountaintop to the open sea, but there are many other adventures for you to follow along the way. Why are the Speedy Pigs in such a hurry? What will Laura Lamb catch on her fishing line? And what kind of mischief will Sippi Swan get into? Join this delightful river journey through forests, farms, waterfalls, and harbors. A seek-and-find book on and around the river for little adventurers ages 3 and up.
Clavis On Sale: May 29/20 9.25 x 12.8 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375199 • $14.95 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Travel Ages 4 years and up All Along the River • Magnus Weightman • Clavis May 29/20 • 9.25 x 12.8 • 32 pages 9781605375182 • $28.50 • CL - Hardback with jacket • Juvenile Fiction / Travel
Ella the Swinging Duck by Suzan Overmeer, illustrated by Myriam Berenschot Ella is different from her brothers and sisters. Less neat. And less sweet. And she sings her own songs, all day long! The other animals need time to get used to it... An inspiring picture book about music, friendship, and the courage to be yourself. For swinging music makers ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: May 8/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375175 • $14.95 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Ducks, Geese, Etc. • Ages 4 years and up Ella the Swinging Duck • Suzan Overmeer, illustrated by Myriam Berenschot • Clavis May 8/20 • 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages 9781605374987 • $26.95 • CL - Hardback with jacket • Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Ducks, Geese, Etc.
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Sometimes Daddies Are... by Guido Genechten
Sometimes daddies are silly. Sometimes they forget things. Sometimes they are embarrassing. But there's nothing better than your daddy.
A hilarious picture book about daddies. For everyone ages 4 and up.
Author Bio
Guido Van Genechten (1957, Belgium) studied drawing and painting, graphics and photography. Afterwards he worked for many years in the graphic industry. Now Guido works as a fulltime illustrator of children's books. In 1998 he won the international Illustrator's Award City of Hasselt with his picture book Ricky. This prize was the beginning of his international career as a children's book illustrator. Since that moment, Guido Van Genechten has created many best-selling stories and received several awards. In 2007 he was the winner of the Reader's Digest Award for Best Children's Book Clavis Illustrator. And in the past ten years his books were published in 30 countries On Sale: May 15/20 around the world. 9.25 x 12.8 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375243 • $14.95 • pb Ages 4 years and up
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Sometimes Daddies Are... by Guido Genechten Clavis On Sale: May 15/20 9781605375236 • $29.50 • CL - Hardback with jacket
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Little White Fish Deep Beneath the Sea by Guido Genechten A new book in the Little White Fish series, which has sold over 600,000 copies in twenty countries! How deep is the sea? Little White Fish is curious. But his friends Little Goldfish, Little Turtle and Octopus warn him: the sea is very deep and very dangerous. Yet Little White Fish wants to know... An adventurous story about the deep sea for little daredevils ages 2.5 and up
Praise for the LITTLE WHITE FISH series: • Guido Van Genechten'apos;s Little White Fish books make a sweet series for the youngest readers. Small children will love the smiling sea creatures and the playful relationship among the friends. In Little White Fish Is So Happy, young grammarians are introduced to a few of the most common prepositions, with clear visuals to reinforce Clavis their meaning..The endearing relationship among these friends will charm young On Sale: Jun 19/20 children as the idea of being away from home is presented in an upbeat way that 8.27 x 8.66 • 18 pages encourages independence while also reassuring little ones of parents' love (...) Illustrations, color 9781605375205 • $19.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Marine Life Ages 30 months and up
Dinnertime for Zaza by Mylo Freeman A new title in Clavis' Bestselling series! Zaza is cooking in her little kitchen. She'apos;s making a meal for her animal friends. Then it's dinnertime for Zaza. A delicious book about pretend cooking and dinnertime. For toddlers ages 24 months and up with a focus on the child's daily life.
PRAISE FOR FREEMAN'S ZAZA BOOKS: Make room, Doc McStuffins!....offer[s] a mirror for many readers of color and a window for others while also emphasizing that imaginative play around STEM professions should be the purview of children from every background...A fun and visually inviting book that encourages children to consider one more 'when I grow up' possibility." --Kirkus Reviews "Here's a small smattering of some of the true beauties I've run across this Clavis year. There are two Zaza books out this year and they're both great." --Elizabeth On Sale: Jun 5/20 Bird, Fuse Eight, SLJ.com 8.27 x 8.66 • 24 pages "A perfect story to read on a sick day, or any day!" --Black Children's Books and Illustrations, color Authors 9781605374963 • $22.50 CL - Hardback with rounded corners Juvenile Fiction / Cooking & Food • Ages 2 years
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Benny Learns to Swim by Judith Koppens, illustrated by Marja Meijer It'apos;s hot outside. Sam and Benny would really like to cool off in the lake. But first Benny has to take swimming lessons and pass his test. And that'apos;s not easy for a dog . . . A funny and an endearing story about the friendship between a girl and her dog, and about how much fun it is to swim. For animal lovers and little swimmers ages 4 and up.
Praise for A Book For Benny:
"Kids will enjoy the playfulness and, no doubt, try reading to their own dogs." --Kirkus Clavis On Sale: Jun 5/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375168 • $14.95 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Pets • Ages 4 years and up Series: Sam & Benny Benny Learns to Swim • Judith Koppens, illustrated by Marja Meijer Clavis Jun 5/20 • 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages 9781605374970 • $26.95 • CL - Hardback with jacket • Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Pets Series: Sam & Benny
Mila Has Two Beds by Judith Koppens, illustrated by Anouk Nijs Mila has two homes: some days she lives with Mommy and some days she lives with Daddy. Today she is going to her mommy'apos;s house. Everything is a little different at Mommy's than at Daddy's. But Mommy and Daddy both think Mila is the sweetest girl in the whole world. A warm and simple story about a girl whose parents are divorced. For toddlers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child's daily life.
Clavis On Sale: May 22/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 24 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375359 • $22.50 • CL - Hardcover with rounded corners Juvenile Fiction / Family / Marriage & Divorce • Ages 30 months and up Series: Mila
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Plastic Soup by Judith Koppens and Andy Engels, illustrated by Nynke Mare Talsma The animal friends are spending the day at the beach. Frog jumps in the water and comes up with a torn plastic bag on his head. Fox thinks Frog looks like a sea monster! But the plastic bag isn't the only thing that floats in the water. Why is there so much plastic in the sea?
An simple story to introduce children to water pollution and little changes that can make a big difference. For children ages 5 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 7/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375304 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / Environment • Ages 5 years and up
Sir Tim Has a Secret by Judith Koppens, illustrated by Eline Lindenhuizen Real knights are always honest. But when Sir Tim accidentally rips his cape, he tries to blame his friend Max. And when Mom leaves a strawberry shortcake on the table, he sneaks a bite. Keeping all these secrets begins to give Sir Tim a bellyache . . . A sweet and recognizable book about keeping secrets. For honest knights ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Jul 17/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375366 • $26.95 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Values Ages 4 years and up
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You are Special by Sam Loman Kiki looks in the mirror. She thinks her fur is boring. Then Kiki has an idea. She uses pencils, ink, and paint to make herself colorful. Will her friends think she is special now? A fun story about appreciating yourself just the way you are. For all children ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Jul 10/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375328 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Self-Esteem & Self- Reliance • Ages 4 years and up
Little Book of Kindness by Francesco Pirrone It'apos;s easy to be kind. Offer a smile. Say thank you. Lend a helping hand. You'apos; ll see that when you are kind, others are kind too. A little book about kindness and friendship. For people of all ages.
Clavis On Sale: Jun 12/20 5.2 x 8.27 • 50 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375335 • $17.95 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Values Ages 3 years and up
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Archeologists and what they do by Liesbet Slegers An archaeologist searches for things that people used a long, long time ago. By studying these objects we learn about the past and how people lived in ancient times. Maybe you would like to be an archaeologist? An informative book for adventure lovers ages 3 and up about archaeologists and what they do.
PRAISE FOR LIESBETH SLEGERS' PILOTS AND WHAT THEY DO: "This book does a great job of teaching your toddler what a pilot does. You will have opportunity to interact with your child as well as some elements mentioned in the book will need to be explained further. It also encourages children to imagine what they might want to be when they grow up. This book also features lovely, colorful artwork that is great Clavis for toddlers." -First Time Parent Magazine On Sale: Jul 31/20 "A great book for a toddler that is interested in planes or about to go on their first flight." 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages -Taryn Villareall, The Overly Attached Reader Illustrations, color 9781605375342 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Discoveries Ages 3 years and up
Great Buildings by Mack Gageldonk A building is something that a person has built. Houses, shops, offices ... But do you know what the first houses look like? And what the ancient Greeks and Romans built? In this book you will learn about the largest, highest, most beautiful and oldest buildings in the world. You discover why the tower of Pisa is leaning and which building reaches all the way to the clouds. An informative book full of fun facts and special stories about magnificent buildings, with beautiful pictures and nice drawings. For children ages 5 years and up.
Clavis On Sale: Jul 24/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 80 pages Illustrations, color 9781605374994 • $29.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Architecture Ages 5 years and up
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Mara the Space Traveler by An Leysen Mara'apos;s biggest wish is to become an astronaut -- to discover new planets. Sometimes dreams and wishes come true... She lands on the most beautiful planet she has ever seen. But the planet is in trouble and only Mara can help. A wonderful space adventure about a small girl with big dreams and a big heart. For astronauts and explorers ages 6 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Jun 26/20 10.63 x 13.39 • 56 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375274 • $35.95 • cl Ages 6 years and up
Mission to the bottom of the Sea by Jan Leyssens, illustrated by Joachim Sneyers Almost one hundred years ago, William Beebe and Otis Barton crawled into a tiny submarine to explore the depths of the sea. How did they come to invent the Bathysphere? And what did they find there, far below the ocean'apos;s surface? A book about dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For researchers ages 6 and up.
Very short and concise with cute illustrations. The deep ocean is something I'm fascinated by and wished it was explored more. It's a good introduction to the two men who helped discover new sea creatures at the time and the effort they made." -Erika Sarutobi (...)
Clavis On Sale: May 1/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375311 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Water Ages 6 years and up
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Child's Play by Ramiro Jose Peralta, illustrated by Blanca Millan, translated by Jon Brokenbrow Jon Brokenbrow Danny loves music; Molly loves painting; and Marcus loves writing. And they all love playing together. But there's something worrying them: they'll soon be moving to a new house.
Child's Play is a tale of love, dedicated to creativity, to change, and to all of the children who have had to leave their home countries in search of a brighter future.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: May 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 28 pages 9788416733767 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play Ages 4-8 years
Juego de ninos (Child's Play) by Ramiro Jose Peralta, illustrated by Blanca Millan Danny loves music; Molly loves painting; and Marcus loves writing. And they all love playing together. But there's something worrying them: they'll soon be moving to a new house.
Child's Play is a tale of love, dedicated to creativity, to change, and to all of the children who have had to leave their home countries in search of a brighter future.
A Damian le gusta la musica; a Mercedes, la pintura, y a Marcos, la escritura. Les encanta jugar juntos. Pero hay algo que les preocupa: pronto se iran a una nueva casa.
Juego de ninos es un canto de amor a la creatividad, al cambio y,en definitiva, a los ninos que han tenido que dejar su paisen busca de un futuro mejor. Cuento de Luz On Sale: May 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 28 pages 9788416733750 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play Ages 4-8 years
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Calm Down, Zebra by Lou Kuenzler Annie said to the animals, Let's help baby Joe. He's learning his colours, which he doesn't yet know. I'll paint pictures of you - please line up for me. If I use the right colours then Joe will soon see." Everyone's favourite, enthusiastic zebra is back, eager to get in on the act as Annie tries to teach her little brother about colours. But although things don't turn out quite the way she imagines, together they make the world a brighter and more beautiful place!
Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: May 1/20 32 pages 9780571351701 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General
Catch A Cloud by Elena de Roo I spy a cloud go floating by Where do you go, Cloud, so high? Have you ever watched a cloud and wondered where it's going, or wanted to catch it? In this beautiful quirky picture book, full of poetry and action, a little boy challenges the elements and almost comes a cropper!
Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 9/20 32 pages 9780571340552 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / Environment • Ages 5-7 years
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Emergency Vehicles by Simon Tyler Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Jun 5/20 • 32 pages 9780571349470 • $13.50 • pb • Juvenile Nonfiction / Transportation / General
The fastest police cars . . . Mammoth fire trucks . . . Firefighting helicopters . . . A thrilling large format book packed with full-colour illustrations and information about emergency vehicles from around the world. The size, style and power of these vehicles make for an exciting reading experience!
Jennyanydots by T.S. Eliot Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 15/20 • 32 pages 9780571352807 • $13.50 • pb • Juvenile Fic / Poetry (See Also Stories In Verse)
I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots. Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat: She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But the Old Gumbie Cat gets busy at the end of the day, teaching and cooking, and getting the mice, cockroaches and beetles organised! The sixth gorgeous Cats picture book with lively and colourful illustrations by Arthur Robins.
My Daddy is Hilarious by Gavin Puckett Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: May 22/20 • 32 pages 9780571336418 • $25.50 • cl • Juvenile Fiction / Family / Parents
Daddy, what is going on? Last night was just your hair. It also seems this dreadful curse has changed the clothes you wear. Dad usually looks fairly sensible, so it's a bit surprising when he starts appearing with outlandish new hairstyles! Then things get weirder when he turns up in odd and eccentric clothes! Why can this be? Has he gone mad?
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Christmas Carol, A by Charles Dickens Bah,'said Scrooge, 'Humbug.' But that was before he was presented with visions of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come, which gave him a whole new lease of life: 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the World!' Old Ebenezer Scrooge is too mean to spend money on coals for the fire in his counting-house, where his clerk Bob Cratchit shivers in the winter cold. Declining an invitation to his nephew Fred's Christmas party, and refusing to give money to charity, he is ready for his usual miserly Christmas in his cold, dingy apartment. But that night, the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley appears and tells him to expect a visit from three spirits over the next three nights . . . Liberty of London and Faber & Faber both offer peerless quality and unrivalled originality. Liberty of London's patterned, print and floral fabrics are world famous. This partnership brings together the best writers with one of the foremost design teams to Faber & Faber Publishing create books that will be coveted by artistic shoppers and book lovers the world over On Sale: May 29/20 (...) 176 pages 9780571355860 • $13.50 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Classics • Ages 9-11 years
Happy Prince and Other Tales, The by Oscar Wilde High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories: 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose', 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Devoted Friend', and 'The Remarkable Rocket'. The Happy Prince stars the statue of the Prince, who persuades a swallow to deliver his gold and jewels to the poor and needy in his city. Liberty of London and Faber & Faber both offer peerless quality and unrivalled originality. Liberty of London's patterned, print and floral fabrics are world famous. This partnership brings together the best writers with one of the foremost design teams to create books that will be coveted by artistic shoppers and book lovers the world over.
Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: May 29/20 208 pages 9780571355846 • $13.50 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Classics
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Wild Wolf by Fiona French
When Bravest Warrior is refused as a suitor by beautiful Proud Girl his heart turns to anger. In revenge he makes Ice Man, who leads Proud Girl into great danger. But Wild Wolf, guardian spirit, is watching. Can he rescue Proud Girl and could pride and anger turn to forgiveness and love? Inspired by a traditional Algonquin tale, this powerful story, decorated with bold, brightly coloured paintings based on First Nation costume and beadwork, is by an internationally celebrated artist, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal.
Author Bio
Fiona French has been writing and illustrating children's picture books for more than forty years. She is a past winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal (for Snow White in New York ). Born near Bath in south-west England, she studied at Croydon College of Art, then worked as an assistant to the celebrated artist Bridget Riley before becoming an artist in her own right. She now lives in a Otter-Barry Books small village near the North Norfolk coast in the UK. On Sale: Mar 13/20 9.8 x 10.4 • 32 pages Colour illustrations throughout 9781910959930 • $28.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Wolves Ages 5 years and up
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Big Green Crocodile Rhymes to Say and Play by Jane Newberry, illustrated by Carolina Rabei Otter-Barry Books • On Sale: Apr 17/20 • 9.4 x 10.8 • 32 pages 9781910959619 • $26.95 • cl • Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / Humorous
Specially devised to entertain and delight very young children (and incidentally to help along their vocabulary and cognitive skills) here are sixteen original play-rhymes with child-friendly illustrations to cover the events of a baby's or toddler's day, and guidance on how to play: Tickle Beetle runs round your tummy, Tickle Beetle jumps on your nose, Tickle Beetle runs down your leg And jumps up and down on your toes, Up and down, up and down, He jumps up and down on your toes! (Create a nice sensory experience by wiggling your fingers and tickling gently, as much or as little as your baby likes.) The rhymes cover the day, from morning playtime and lunchtime to being out and about, teatime, evening playtime, bathtime and bedtime. They feature jungle animals, farm animals, buzzing bees, big green crocodiles of course, tractors, rockets, aeroplanes - and lots more!
Invisible Nature A Secret World Beyond our Senses by Catherine Barr, illustrated by Anne Wilson Otter-Barry Books • On Sale: May 15/20 • 9.4 x 10.8 • 40 pages 9781910959671 • $28.50 • cl • Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Tech / Earth Sciences
We all know about the five senses: sight, sound, smell and taste. But there are sounds no human ear can hear, scents no-one can smell, colours our eyes cannot detect, waves of radiation that pass right through us without our noticing ... but known and used by many different animal species. They have their dangers as well as their uses, but are vital to all life on Earth. This fascinating unseen and secret world is revealed in Catherine Barr's latest book. Fourteen colourful spreads display the impact on human and animal life of: Microwaves Ultra-violet and infra-red light Electromagnetic waves Ultrasound and infrasound Scents and smells beyond human detection Understanding these hidden forces enables us to use them in many ways, from photographing babies not yet born, to doors that automatically open, or tracking migratory animals. But many animals also use them. They help cats to catch mice, elephants to find mates, vampire bats to find victims. Ants 'talk' by exchanging smells. Indeed, without 'Invisible Nature', life on Earth would not (...)
Mrs Noah's Garden by Jackie Morris, illustrated by James Mayhew Otter-Barry Books • On Sale: Jun 19/20 • 9.4 x 10.8 • 40 pages 9781910959466 • $28.50 • cl • Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General
A new story about the lovable, independent-minded and resourceful Mrs Noah will be widely welcomed. Mrs Noah touched the earth. It was warm on her fingertips. She looked all round the Ark. On the south side the slope was less steep. A few shrubs and bushes had clung on, despite the flood. Two yew trees stood, ancient and tall. Yes, thought Mrs Noah. Here." Mrs Noah, ever-resourceful, ever-surprising, won a host of admirers with Mrs Noah's Pockets (2016). Now, with the Ark safely grounded, she gives herself a new task, to make a garden in the bare earth. The famously deep pockets hold flower and plant seeds, and with her children's help she prepares the ground, plants and waters, until on a magical midsummer's morning, the garden is there in full bloom. For Mr Noah, who has watched her sewing in the evenings and thought, 'Ah, curtains at last', there is a special surprise. Mrs Noah's Pockets was one of the Guardian's Best Picture Books of 2017.
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50 Successful Ivy League Application Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Get Free Cash for College Essays Essays by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe SuperCollege SuperCollege SuperCollege On Sale: May 29/20 On Sale: Jun 26/20 On Sale: Jul 24/20 9781617601590 • $29.95 • pb 9781617601569 • $22.50 • pb 9781617601576 • $22.50 • pb
Get into Any College How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay The Ultimate Guide to America's Best by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe Colleges 2021 SuperCollege SuperCollege by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe On Sale: May 29/20 On Sale: May 29/20 SuperCollege 9781617601606 • $26.95 • pb 9781617601613 • $26.95 • pb On Sale: Jul 24/20 9781617601552 • $37.50 • pb
The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2021 by Gen Tanabe and Kelly Tanabe SuperCollege On Sale: Jun 26/20 9781617601545 • $43.50 • pb
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Great Balls of Doubt Poems and Prose Poems by Mark Terrill, illustrated by Jon Langford Verse Chorus Press • On Sale: May 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages 9781891241666 • $20.95 • pb • Poetry / General
Great Balls of Doubt gathers 96 of Mark Terrill's poems and prose poems from limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides (many now sold out or no longer in print) and from hard-to-find journals and magazines, as well as his recent, previously uncollected work. Lavishly illustrated with 25 drawings by Jon Langford, Great Balls of Doubt delivers images and sentiments ranging from the real to the surreal to the elegiac, with no shortage of humor along the way. Doubt is an unpleasant condition," Voltaire once remarked, "but certainty is absurd.""
An ally of the Zen wing of the New American Poetry of observation & witness, Mark Terrill's poems receive inspiration from his expansive 'radar dish of consciousness.' A solid collection from a vigilant companero of the real work.""It is sweetly familiar to move thru the movement of Mark Terrill's lines - his way, his path, his punch lines - the details of his physical life . . . But Great Balls of Doubt is more than his very sure tour of words on the page - he gives a (...)
The Turtle Dove's Journey A Story of Migration by Madeleine Dunphy Web of Life Children's Books • On Sale: Apr 3/20 • 8.38 x 10 • 32 pages 9781970039016 • $26.95 • cl • Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Birds • A Story of Migration
Part hero's journey, part guided tour, this account of the turtle dove's annual migration carries readers' imaginations into unexplored territories. Starting in the prim hedges of Suffolk, England, instinct drives the dove high into the night skies for a 4,000 mile trip to the savannahs of Mali, in West Africa. Along the way there are lonely, moonlit flights above the sea, a cozy hideout in the bushes of Bordeaux, France, a meeting of the birds at Gibraltar, the fountains of Casablanca,winds flowing like a river" down canyons of the Atlas Mountains, and a Sahara sandstorm churning below. With carefully researched prose and luminous paintings, this book is perfect for anyone who has ever wondered about the mysterious journeys of Earth's feathered creatures."
Reviews for the first book, THE PEREGRINE'S JOURNEY, in the A STORY OF MIGRATION" series. "This well-illustrated, well-written book provides a wealth of information about peregrine falcons, bird migration, and predator-prey relationships. It would be an excellent addition to a school library or to a child's personal (...)
Call Me Floy by Joanna Cooke Yosemite Conservancy • On Sale: May 22/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 192 pages 9781930238992 • $26.95 • CL - Jacketed hardcover • Juvenile Fiction / Historical / US / 19Th Century
A bold girl persists against expectations and follows her dream in 19th century Yosemite
Florence Floy" Hutchings is the daughter of a famous father, and while the extra attention that brings is not unwelcome, all she really wants is to be herself. However, in 1876 being clever, confident, and bold are not expected of girls on the cusp of turning twelve. Stuck in a stuffy classroom in crowded San Francisco, Floy longs to return to the majestic place where she was born and where she has always felt free: Yosemite! Upon returning to her beloved Valley, Floy finds that it is changing in confusing ways: the intimate paradise she once knew is opening to more visitors and to troubling attitudes about her indigenous friends and about what girls should and should not do. Yet, against this backdrop of change, Floy pursues her dream of climbing the indomitable Half Dome. Steeped in the rich atmosphere of old Yosemite and based (...)
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