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FRANKFURT 2019

FIREFIGHTER ZEN: A Field Guide to Thriving in Tough Times Hersch Wilson

•New World Library | Emotional Health/Living | October 2020 (ms 1/2020)

“Hersch Wilson has taken his thirty years in the firefighting world and turned them into this unflinchingly honest book—a rich read full of the bittersweet wisdom of hard experience.” —, bestselling author of In the Kingdom of Ice and Blood and Thunder

Writer and firefighter Hersch Wilson juxtaposes the gritty realities firefighters face daily with the Zen-like techniques and practices they employ to stay grounded through each call, and cope with the inevitable personal toll of each crisis. This guide provides an invaluable and unique approach to finding joy and peace in an often disheartening and sometimes devastating world. Wilson shows you that don’t have to be a firefighter to rediscover your best self—you just need to look at the world through a firefighter’s eyes; to see your life as one of purpose, meaning, and service.

In addition to his decades as a volunteer firefighter, Hersch Wilson is the author of Changing the Game: The New Way to Sell, Play to Win!, Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life (in its14th printing), and Test of Faith: A Novel of Faith and Murder in New Mexico. He is also an organizational consultant, pilot & former professional dancer.

WHERE’S MY OFFICE?: How to Create Agility in the Workplace Chris Kane

Foreword by Mark Thompson, CEO of and former Director-General of the BBC

•Bloomsbury UK | Business | October 2020 (ms Spring 2020)

Where’s My Office? offers a game-changing approach to how we use our physical workplaces. Chris Kane presents a challenge to the existing ways we work, providing creative, intelligent and innovative ways to consolidate work environments so that they will harness the true potential of people and space, and contribute more effectively to an organization’s success.

Kane’s positions at the BBC and Disney, two of the largest media enterprises in the world, involved making them more productive through their corporate real estate. Here he talks to how an entire sector (real estate) is facing largescale disruption and how CEOs of corporations can boost productivity and improve returns financially, benefitting their workforce and ultimately, society. He shows how a monolithic and traditional organization can use its real estate as a value enhancer rather than as a liability to enable a business to develop into an agile, more productive working environment fit for the demands of the 21st century.

Chris Kane is an instigator, an integrator and an interpreter. He is the former head of Corporate Real Estate at BBC and the Founder of Six Ideas, a collective bringing people who are creating and redesigning the future of work together.

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THE LAST DAYS OF SYLVIA PLATH Carl Rollyson

•University Press of Mississippi | Biography | March 2020

•RIGHTS: AUDIO to Blackstone

In her last months, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently available court records, archives, and interviews, and reevaluating the memoirs of the formidable Hughes contingent who treated Plath as a female hysteric, Carl Rollyson rehabilitates the image of a woman too often viewed solely within the confines of what Hughes and his collaborators wanted to be written.

Rollyson is the first biographer to gain access to the papers of Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, a key figure in the poet’s final days. Barnhouse was Plath’s therapist, and may have been the only person to whom Plath revealed her whole self. Barnhouse served more as Plath’s ally, seeking a way out of the imprisoning charisma of Hughes and the friends he counted on to support a regime of antipathy against her.

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath focuses on the train of events that plagued Plath’s last seven months when she tried to recover her own life in the midst of Hughes’s alternating threats and reassurances. In a siege-like atmosphere a tormented Plath continued to write, to reach out to friends, and care for her two children. Why Barnhouse seemed to be, in Hughes’s view, his wife’s undoing, and how biographers parsed the events that led to the poet’s death, forms the charged and contentious story this book tells.

Carl Rollyson, author of American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, is a journalist, playwright, and professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York. He has published biographies of Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag.

TALK IS CHIEF Leadership, Communication, and Credibility in a High-Stakes World Jack Modzelewski

•RosettaBooks | Business/Communication | November 2019

"Talk is Chief is a guide to leadership at a challenging time of tweets, fake news and growing divisions within our democracy …The author makes clear that leadership requires courage in both action and communication." —Leon E. Panetta, Chairman, The Panetta Institute for Public Policy and former Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA and White House Chief of Staff

Today’s leaders spend up to 90% of each day communicating with colleagues, customers, shareowners, creditors, regulators, advocates, and competitors to make good things happen. They influence culture, opportunity, risk-taking, and risk aversion in their firms. Jack Modzelewski’s decades of experience with Fortune 500 companies has shown him that too many leaders undervalue and therefore underperform their vital communication responsibilities, and they do so at their own peril in this age of heightened activism, transparency, disinformation, and disruption. Leadership communication today—the ability for leaders to be heard and clearly understood above the constant noise of the complicated worlds in which they govern—is of highest importance.

In Talk Is Chief, Modzelewski shares compelling stories and strategies that will inspire all to treat their daily communication practices as seriously as they treat their fiscal, operational, value creation, deal making, business transformation, and other executive responsibilities.

Communications consultant Jack Modzelewski is founder and president of JackKnifePR. His extensive career in public relations, marketing, communications, and executive management includes roles with multi-national corporations like McDonald’s, AT&T, General Motors, Chase Bank, Monsanto, and Procter & Gamble. He has attended five World Economic Forum (WEF) conferences in Davos and WEF meetings on five continents.

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MOTÖRHEAD: WHERE IS LEMMY? David Calcano and Lindsay Lee, with illustrators Ittai Manero and Samuel Blanco

•Fantoons | Music/Pop Culture | 12.5 x 9.5, 32 pages | November 2019

Here’s a challenge for you: Try to find Lemmy living the fast life in the middle of the chaos, sex, drugs and rock n’ roll across these amazing jam- packed 14 double-spread pages. This official Motörhead hardcover features search-and-find art in the tradition of Where’s Waldo, is inspired by the group’s classic albums.

David Calcano is the creative director of Fantoons, an animation studio based in Los Angeles, where he works with companies and artists like Rush, Frank Zappa, Steve Martin, Poison, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Mr. Big, Universal Music, and Ole, among many others.

FALL OF A GREAT AMERICAN CITY: New York and the Urban Crisis of Affluence Kevin Baker with a Foreword by James Howard Kunstler

•City Point Press & Harper’s Magazine | Social Change | October 2019

Writer and editor Kevin Baker examines the impact affluence is having on the very fabric of New York City life, and on many other cities around the world. He posits affluence – and the greed of bankers, billionaires and landlords – is destroying the things we often love most about cities: small shops, good local restaurants, public spaces, street life, affordable apartments, responsive government, beauty, idiosyncrasy, and each other. This is the story of how we are losing so much and how we can begin to take them back.

Kevin Baker is the bestselling author of the novels Dreamland, Paradise Alley, and Strivers Row. He’s been published in the New York Times, New Republic, Politico, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Harper’s Magazine, among others.

THE MELON Amy Goldman and photographer Victor Schrager

•City Point Press | Food | October 2019

Melons, the crown jewels of the garden, are beautifully, enticingly and lovingly showcased in Amy Goldman’s newest book, prepared in collaboration with celebrated photographer Victor Schrager over the course of nine years. Her comprehensive work includes portraits in words and stunning photographs of 125 extraordinary varieties of melons, along with expert advice on cultivation and seed saving and a generous selection of mouthwatering recipes by renowned cookbook author Mindy Fox.

Amy Goldman is a gardener, author, artist, and well-known advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her books include three that earned the American Horticultural Society Book of the Year award: Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table.

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DIAGNOSIS FEMALE How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health Emily Dwass

•Rowman & Littlefield | Medicine/Women | October 2019

“Women are not the weaker sex, they are the less studied sex, and as a result, their health suffers. Journalist Dwass reveals how medical research has long over- focused on men, leading to misdiagnosis, mistreatment, or no treatment for women. Even most brain studies have been conducted on male animals. Why? Often it’s unconscious gender bias. What can women do to counter this aberration? A lot, according to Dwass.” —BOOKLIST

“Dwass bravely offers readers a look into medical misogyny, validating women's common experiences in doctors' offices, with both wit and candor.” —Melissa Fabello, Former Managing Editor, Everyday Feminism

An accessible and forceful addition to the growing chorus exposing the deep-seated gender bias within medicine.” —Maya Dusenbery, author of Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

“A smart and supremely telling addition to the vital body of work by women transforming pain into power.” —Abby Norman, Author of Ask Me About My Uterus

Why do so many women have trouble getting effective and compassionate medical treatment? Diagnosis Female examines this widespread problem, exploring how medical research has long over-focused on men, thus leading to misdiagnosis, mistreatment, or no treatment for women. Journalist Emily Dwass zeroes in on specialties where women are more likely to encounter particularly troubling roadblocks: cardiology, neurology, chronic diseases and obstetrics/ gynecology. She profiles women whose stories illustrate how medical practitioners often dismiss their claims or disregard their symptoms, and because women are excluded from important medical research, doctors don’t always recognize that male symptoms and female symptoms can vary from problem to problem. Dwass also offers measures women can take to protect their health and receive better care, and she suggests ways the medical community can address the problem so that outcomes can improve all around.

Emily Dwass writes about health and cultural issues for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Chicago Tribune, among others.

CAMEL CRAZY A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels Christina Adams

•New World Library | Health/Culture/Science | October 2019

“This is a book that can change the world. Adams does it all with such an infectious sense of wonder, a love of facts, and an insistence to get at the truth, that I’d follow her anywhere.” — Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

“A book for anyone who believes in the power of belief, science, and love…Adams has created a magical story that feels part memoir, part fairy tale, pure heart.” —Jennifer Pastiloff, bestselling author of On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Combining strong narrative, cutting-edge science, and lively portraits of distinct cultures and personalities, Adams takes us to the camel farms of Arab royals, dines with elusive Indian camel caregivers, travels with white-swathed Tuareg nomads and their herds, and meets passionate Amish camel farmers. She also teams up with international scientists to explore the amazing properties of camel milk—properties that help combat autism, allergies, diabetes, and immune dysfunction.

When Christina Adams, a journalist by training, discovered that camel’s milk helped her son with autism, she started a journey she could never have anticipated and this is her story. Adams is an award-winning writer and speaker, and the author of A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery (Berkley). Her work appears in , Los Angeles Times, LA Times Magazine, Gulf News, Dubai One, GOOD, Open Democracy, OZY, Autism File, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, WebMD, The Rajasthan Patrika and on NPR.

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THE WORLD BY DESIGN Eugene Kohn with Clifford Pearson

•RosettaBooks |Business/Architecture | October 2019

Kohn Pederson Fox has been shaping skylines and cities around the world – where we live, work, learn, and play – for over 40 years. KPF is one of the most successful international architecture firms, creating iconic structures like Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills, Shanghai’s World Financial Center, Frankfurt’s DZ Bank Tower, Mumbai’s Ritz-Carlton, and the Goldman Sachs building in London. Indeed this fall, two KPF projects open - the Abu Dhabi International Airport (3rd largest in the world) and the tallest tower at NYC’s Hudson Yards.

Eugene Kohn, founder and principal visionary behind the firm, explains how he helped build KPF, pioneering a model of global practice that has influenced architecture, design, and creative-services firms ever since, and offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and

design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Eugene Kohn is chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has taught at Yale, Penn, and Columbia. Clifford Pearson is KPF editorial director.

*KPF has offices in London, Berlin, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, New York and San Francisco*

GOOD TIME PARTY GIRL The Notorious Life of Dirty Helen Cromwell 1886-1969 Helen Cromwell

•Feral House | Autobiography | September 2019

This long-lost autobiography of a woman who lived life with no regrets from the 1880s to the 1960s offers a rare look into the colorful criminal underworld from New York to San Francisco and every whorehouse, tavern, and mining camp in between. Dirty Helen, with the self-assurance of a defrocked debutante, takes you through her myriad adventures.

Demure, sweet, and wild teenage Helen flees from small-town Indiana to Cincinnati with the first of her six husbands, realizing pretty quickly that the role of wife and mother isn’t for her. She meets cunning millionaires, bank robbers, detectives, and gangsters as she hustles her way across the decades.

Helen Worley Cromwell born in Indiana in 1886 she was known far and wide as “Dirty Helen.” In the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50’s, her Milwaukee bar (The Sunflower Inn) was a rendezvous for the famous and the infamous. Sports heroes, movie stars, gangsters, and regular folks all ‘pulled up the floor’ (there were no chairs or stools) to listen as Helen regaled them with stories of her wild life. Robert Dougherty, an old writer friend of hers, helped her write the book and got ‘Dirty Helen’ published in 1966.

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OUT OF MY FATHER'S SHADOW Sinatra of the Seine, My Dad Eddie Constantine Tanya Constantine

•Feral House | Biography/Memoir | April 2019

In his day, he was known as the Humphrey Bogart of Paris, the Sinatra of the Seine. He sold millions of records abroad and was the only singer who could lay claim to recording with greats like Edith Piaf, Juliette Gréco, and Frank Sinatra. As a young man, Eddie Constantine collaborated with the stars of the day –James Stewart, Joan Crawford, Gene Kelly, and June Allyson – without ever getting noticed. After relocating to Europe in the late ’40s, he became a huge action star of French cinema, and he matured into an icon of the French and German New Wave cinema, starring in pictures by Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier. His most famous role married these two career extremes, in Godard’s legendary classic Alphaville.

Constantine's daughter Tanya Constantine takes us behind the curtain of celebrity and gives a heartfelt reflection on growing up with a superstar father, providing a cathartic recollection of the highs and lows of a most unusual life.

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SEEDS ON ICE: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault Carey Fowler

• Prospecta Press | Climate Change/Agriculture/Environment | 160 pages

The DOOMSDAY VAULT and how we save the world

“An extraordinary book - in equal measure fascinating, beautiful, and haunting." —Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

"For those of us struggling to keep the planet from cracking, it's a great comfort to know all about this project." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

Inside the seed vault – NY TIMES video

With the world’s sharp focus on climate change and the devastation it may lead to—not to mention the apocalyptic potential of a virus or nuclear war—this is a good time to think about how we sustain, or rebuild, our civilization in the worst case scenario. How will we grow corn or wheat or rice? Back in the 1990’s scientist, conservationist, and biodiversity advocate Cary Fowler wondered the same thing, so he petitioned the UN and created the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. In Nautilus award-winner Seeds on Ice, Fowler tells the comprehensive inside story of how the "doomsday seed vault," which houses more than half billion seeds from every country in the world, came to be. And Mari Tefre’s breathtaking photographs offer a stunning guided tour not only of the private vault, but of the windswept beauty and majesty of Svalbard, a desolate island in Norway above the Arctic Circle.

DONE WITH THE CRYING Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children Sheri McGregor

•Sowing Creek Press | Parent & Adult Child Relationships

McGregor helps parents who know they did their best, to break free from emotional pain— and move forward in their own lives.

“I am a Family Practice doctor and none of my training in psychiatry or medical textbooks helped me through the healing process, but Done With the Crying did! I recommend this book as first-line treatment.” — Dr. Alison Garza, M.D.

“A breath of fresh air offering a new perspective and providing support, encouragement, resources, and compassion to good parents who have found themselves in an unimaginable situation.”—Maritza Parks, Inspired Journeys Counseling

“This wonderful book will help you see how you can hold your chin up high, dry your eyes, and get on with your life.” —Joi Sigers, Self Help Daily.com

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RECENT RIGHTS SALES

BLACK METAL: Evolution of the Cult Dayal Patterson

•Feral House | Music

•RIGHTS: French/Camion Blanc; Spanish/Pending

“A modern masterpiece of the declining art of music journalism.” –Vice

“There are already some superlative books published on black metal… But none have documented the genre so comprehensively, with such detail.” Decibel Magazine

This epic work explores the history and development of black metal from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. Dayal Patterson has been following the black metal scene since the mid-1990s and writes and photographs for Metal Hammer and Record Collector magazines, and also contributes to The Quietus, Terrorize, Decibel and Classic Rock Presents, as well as writing biographies and liner notes for Marduk and Killing Joke.

DROPPING ACID: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure Dr. Jamie Koufman with Dr. Jordan Stern and Marc Michel Bauer (chef)

•Reflux Cookbooks | Food/Health •RIGHTS: Polish /pending

This New York Times bestselling book was the first to offer a nontraditional diet to help cure reflux. Dr. Jamie Koufman, one of the world's leading authorities on the diagnosis and treatment of acid reflux, uses her extensive research to define this shockingly common disease and explain why a change in diet can alleviate some of the most typical symptoms. Her other titles include The Chronic Cough Enigma, and Dr. Koufman's Acid Reflux Diet. She is the Founder and Director of the Voice Institute of New York and Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, New York Eye & Ear Infirmary.

TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD WITH AUTISM WISHES YOU KNEW Ellen Notbohm (THIRD EDITION-Revised and Updated)

•Future Horizons | Special Needs Parenting

•RIGHTS this summer: HEBREW/Matar; CZECH/Portal CHINESE/Huaxia; FRENCH/Dunod (Europe) FRENCH/Hurtubise (French North America)

“This third edition is without exception the best yet! …A must have for your autism resource collection.” —Jim Ball, Immediate Past Chair, Autism Society of America and President/CEO of JB Autism Consulting

“Essential reading for people who are important in your child’s life, be it teachers, therapists, family members, neighbors and even the bus driver.” —Lindsey Biel, author, Raising a Sensory Smart Child

Currently in print in: ARABIC/Scientific Publishing Center, AZERBAIJANI/Teas Press, BRAZIL & PORTUGAL/Inspirado Pelo Autismo, DUTCH/Pica, HUNGARIAN/Autisták Országos Szövetsége, ITALIAN/Erickson, KOREAN/Hanulim, POLISH/Jagielloński, TURKISH/Andante, VIETNAMESE/Panda, and AUDIO/Recorded Books

•Over 250,000 copies sold in the USA ……………………………..

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MAMMOTHER Zachary Schomburg

•Featherproof | fiction •RIGHTS: French/Actes Sud

“It is actually quite simple, I have never read anything like Mammother, never. Through my job, I’ve gradually learnt that my deepest joy, as a reader and as a publisher, is to be unsettled, to read something that will shift perspectives and maybe some of the things I thought were certain and tangible. Reading Mammother was to experience an upside-down value system, not even upside-down but totally new. I believe that through this reading, readers could experience life in a womb, in an unknown matrix where they could gravitate and slowly move in a sort of amniotic fluid. Mammother is a strong creative and imaginative novel. This imagination belongs to Zachary Schomburg but he manages to make his mind understandable and readable without losing one inch of his singularity and unique personality. I am so very excited and so very happy to be able to make his mind available to the French readers.” —David Gressot, Publisher, les éditions Jacqueline Chambon, an imprint of Actes Sud

YOUR ENERGY IN ACTION: Energy Balancing for Daily Living Kabir Jaffe and Ritama Davidson

•EBI Press | Self Help/Energy Healing •RIGHTS: Complex Chinese/Cosmic Garden

This rich introduction to the fascinating world of energy gives you a whole new take on reality. Presented with over 150 illustrations of energy, this book will help you UNDERSTAND how energy works in the world around you; PERCEIVE energy in action by developing energy awareness; and USE energy in your communications, relationships and all aspects of your life. Essence Training Institute and the Energy Balancing Institute founders Kabir Jaffe and Ritama Davidson are master trainers and guides for inner development. They’re also the authors of Indigo Adults: Understanding Who You Are and What You Can Become.

THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P- Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

•Feral House | Cults •RIGHTS: Spanish/Caja Negra (also French/Camion Blanc)

This extraordinary collection of “occulture” texts and images recalls the crucial influence on youth culture that TOPY (Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth) had throughout the ’80s and ’90s, popularizing occult investigations, tattooing, body piercing, acid house raves, and other ahead- of-the-curve cultic flirtations and investigations. Its leader was Genesis P-Orridge, co- founder of Psychick TV and Throbbing Gristle, the band that created the industrial music genre. According to Genesis, “this is the most profound new manual on practical magick, taking it from its Crowleyan empowerment of the Individual to a next level of realization to evolve our species."

GRANDPA’S GHOST STORIES James Flora

•Feral House | Scary Fun fiction; Children •RIGHTS: Italian/Cliquot (also Spanish+ Catalan/Blackie; Polish/Prószyński)

Grandpa’s Ghost Stories is ghoulish and amusing and filled with wildly inventive illustrations that will keep readers shivering. In this classic republication, Grandpa comforts his grandson during a fierce thunderstorm by telling him stories about far scarier things, including a hungry werewolf and an evil witch who turns boys into spiders. James Flora was the author/ illustra- tor of 17 popular children's books. He worked with renowned children's book editor Margaret McElderry at Harcourt Brace and Atheneum and his books include The Fabulous Firework Family, The Day the Cow Sneezed, Leopold, the See-Through Crumbpicker, and Stewed Goose.

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Identity: A Story of Transitioning –FALL 2020 by Corey Maison, Zuiker Anthony, et al.

Brother: A Story of Autism –NOVEMBER 2019 by Carlton Hudgens, Bridget Hudgens, et al.

Activist: A Story of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Shooting –NOVEMBER 2019 by Lauren Elizabeth Hogg, Anthony Zuiker, et al.

Zuiker Press is an “issue-based” nonfiction graphic novel imprint founded by the creator of the mega-hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV franchise Anthony Zuiker and his wife Michelle Zuiker (it’s distributed by Simon & Schuster). Their mission is to address subjects that affect young people, and to empower kids everywhere with the knowledge that they are not alone. This series allow them to share their stories in their own words; each one tackling a sensitive topic that happened to them. Every book is the culmination of months of personal interviews with the author, and is presented as a graphic novel to help bring extremely tough topics to life. Each book includes sections with photos of the authors and updates about their lives.

Anthony Zuiker is Co-Founder, Publisher, and Creative Director of Zuiker Press, and creator of the super hit CSI franchise. Michelle Zuiker is Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Zuiker Press.

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SUNSHINE ON AN OPEN TOMB Tim Kinsella

•Featherproof Books | Unusual | October 2019

"Kinsella bleeds you as you giggle."― Adam Levin, author of The Instructions

"A wild romp through bohemian grove as seen through the brain cave of the syphilitic, privileged, and unreconstructed." ― Ian Svenonius, author of Censorship Now!

For fans of Richard Brautigan and Robert Anton Wilson, and for anyone who’s ever looked at the moon. Set in fall 1988, the narrator is doing his best to work out the meaning of life. He is the brooding runt of a political dynasty and his father is about to be appointed Prez. Our narrator has been living freely among The Barbarians for years when The Media, desperate for content at the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, aims its fervent interest at him. The Family, famously quick to eradicate unpredictability, plucks him from his comforts and relocates him to the secret family compound. There, away from the everydayness that blanketed him, he must navigate a shape-shifting estate and confront an impossible love triangle in order to find an elusive bunker where he will set to work on his revenge: he will correct the best-selling, so-called objective biography of The Family with the real story—the book you’re reading about right now.

Tim Kinsella is the author of two novels, Let Go and Go On and On (Curbside Splendor 2014) and The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense (Featherproof). Recently he was both the artist in residence at Joyful Noise Records and the visiting writer at Roosevelt University and served on the programming committee at Chicago Filmmakers.

LUCKY THIRTEEN!

THE RIVER BY STARLIGHT Ellen Notbohm

•She Writes Press | Historical Fiction | 2018

JUST ANNOUNCED—the longlist for the 2019 CIBAs/Chanticleer’s Chatelaine Award for Romantic Fiction (TBA April 2020). This is the 13th honor for this novel based on true events. It is a timeless love story of unthinkable loss and redemption and it tells the century-old tale of one woman’s tenacious quest for control over her own destiny in the face of devastating misfortune and injustice.

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ADRIATIC ALLURE An International Mystery Jane Golden

•iUniverse Star | Mystery | Summer 2019

It’s been a little over a year since Jeni, our amateur sleuth, abandoned her career as an attorney outside New Orleans to accompany her husband, Zach, to Romania. While he’s settling into his new role as a diplomat, she’s embracing the excitement of being an expat in Europe. All that changes when her impulsive college-age niece Candi comes to stay. Soon after Candi arrives the drama begins, and Jeni must not only step out of her comfort zone to protect Candi, but to find her! Golden takes readers on a lively adventure through bustling European cities on the Adriatic during Yacht Week and into the world of yachts, yachting, and the very rich.

Jane Golden once yearned for a career as a foreign journalist, but law school was a more practical plan. She accompanied her real life diplomat husband to Bucharest, Romania after retiring from law, and from there, took advantage of travels in Eastern Europe. Retired now, she writes mysteries.

THE ENDLESS MILE Andrew Horlick

• iUniverse Star | Suspense | 2019 (star edition)

All Bucky Whalen ever wanted to be was an honest harness-racing driver. When he moves from his rural farm to stable horses at Speedway Racetrack in New York, he has no idea he's about to be pulled into a seedy and dark world by his uncle Max. Bucky finds himself in the middle of a crime syndicate filled with crooked track managers and dangerous gangsters, and he realizes the only way out is for him to start fixing races. As Bucky sinks into despair, he seeks comfort in his first and only love, Anna. Unfortunately, there's one major complication… she's married to his best friend.

The Endless Mile, Andrew Horlick’s first novel, is a rollicking tale of love, loss, and the exciting world of high stakes harness racing.

DEEP PAST Eugene Linden

•RosettaBooks | Environmental Thriller | May 2019

“For those anticipating the next JURASSIC PARK-like sci-fi—everyone, right?—look no further than Gabra Zackman's fine performance of Eugene Linden's anthropological adventure, set in remote Kazakhstan. This is science writer Linden's first foray into fiction, and he plunges in with a dramatic plot, academic and corporate skullduggery, a touch of romance, and a fascinating hypothesis. Since evolution produced advanced intelligence once (namely us), perhaps it's happened before. And why assume that the intelligent creature had to have been a homo sapien? Zackman rises to the challenge of many diverse characters, giving all the central folks, including American protagonist Claire Knowland and assorted Kazaks, Russians, and Americans, unique and informative voices. Add a steady, even narration, and you have a fun and involving listen.” --AudioFile Magazine

“An excellent thriller with real meat on the bones … makes you think as well as sweat.” — LEE CHILD “Vivid characters and exotic settings, a book you won’t be able to put down.”-—DOUGLAS PRESTON “Fascinating … masterly … intriguing … page-turning” —STARRED Publishers Weekly ……………………………………… From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Parrot’s Lament, comes this accomplished debut novel challenging our ideas about intelligence, evolution and the impact of climate change. Eugene Linden’s celebrated works on animal intelligence and climate change include Apes, Men, and Language, the New York Times “Notable Book” Silent Partners, and Winds of Change, awarded the Grantham Prize Special Award of Merit. Linden contributes to the New York Times, TIME, Foreign Affairs, and National Geographic, among other publications.

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