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ELIZABETH ROSNER SURVIVOR CAFÉ The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

COUNTERPOINT | NON-FICTION | SEPTEMBER 2017

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“A rare blend of scholarly assessment and personal revelation… important and vital…with an elegance and eloquence that reverberates with both depth and nuance.” —Booklist, Starred

“Combines moving personal narrative with illuminating research…Each page is imbued with urgency, with sincerity, with heartache, with heart."—San Francisco Chronicle

“A thoughtful, probing meditation on the fragility of memory and the indelible inheritance of pain." —Kirkus

"Rosner shines an unblinking light on the most horrific of 20th-century crimes and asks, what is the intergenerational legacy of trauma? … Rosner’s conclusions: that powerful suffering must be communicated before healing can occur and that the most profound of human atrocities must be acknowledged so that their like does not happen again."—Publishers Weekly

"A beautifully expressed personal examination of how trauma is passed down through generations...An exquisite read."—The Daily Gazette

“A breathtaking overview of events as varied as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide, and Japanese American internment….Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

As firsthand survivors of many of the 20th century's most monumental events―the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, Nagasaki―begin to pass away, award-winning novelist and essayist Elizabeth Rosner addresses urgent questions: How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten? How do we carry those stories forward?

Rosner delves into how we speak about the unspeakable, and how we construct memory and memorials. She explores the echoes of legacies among descendants of holocaust survivors; descendants of Cambodian survivors of the Killing Fields, descendants of African American slaves, descendants of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of Armenia, Rwanda, and 9/11.

Rosner also examines current brain research, describing the efforts to understand the intergenerational inheritance of trauma, both emotional and physical, as well as the intricacies of remembrance in the aftermath of atrocity. Survivor Café becomes a lens for numerous constructs of memory―from museums and commemorative sites to national reconciliation projects to small-group cross-cultural encounters.

Elizabeth Rosner’s novels include The Speed of Light (Ballantine 2001) translated into nine languages, short-listed for France’s Prix Femina, recipient of the Prix France Bleu Gironde, and awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize; Blue Nude (Ballantine 2006), named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Electric City (Counterpoint 2015) named among the best books of 2014 by NPR. Her essays and reviews appear in the New York Times Magazine, Elle, San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.

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JODY REIN and MICHAEL LARSEN HOW TO WRITE A BOOK PROPOSAL, 5th Edition The Insider's Step-by-Step Guide to Proposals that Get You Published

WRITER'S DIGEST BOOKS | REFERENCE | SEPTEMBER 2017

A perennial bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold since first publication

With more than 25 years in print and sales exceeding 150,000 copies, the success of How to Write a Book Proposal is indisputable. Available for foreign rights for the first time, this classic bestselling handbook for prospective authors has been completely overhauled, updated and significantly restructured by two veteran industry professionals who provide a precise and clear roadmap to the ideal book proposal. They describe in erudite and accessible fashion exactly what agents and editors are looking for in a proposal and what makes for good outline/sample chapters/submission requirements. They also include examples of successful proposals that earned six-figure deals, strategies for proposals in the Digital Age, and a list of the "Top Ten Proposal Killers."

Jody Rein, a former executive editor with Bantam Doubleday Dell and Morrow/Avon, is a highly successful literary agent and publishing consultant, generating millions of dollars in advances for her authors and prompting intense bidding wars. Michael Larsen is a publishing consultant and co-founder of the renowned San Francisco Writers Festival, which draws speakers and writers from around the world.

JAVIER REGUEIRO AYAHUASCA: Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle 2nd edition/revised & expanded

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SAN PEDRO HUACHUMA: Opening the Pathways of the Heart

LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | SPIRITUALITY | SEPTEMBER 2017

In this revised and expanded edition of Ayahuasca: Soul Medicine of the Amazon Jungle, a master of ayahuasca (also known as an ayahuasquero), offers a guide for the ever-increasing number of people who approach this powerful Amazonian rainforest medicine for their own personal healing and development. Indeed, ayahuasca was recently described in The New Yorker as being as ubiquitous as "having a cup of coffee." Here Javier Regueiro provides practical and meaningful advice on how to use it, bridging the cultural gap between native use and the current use of ayahuasca by Westerners. He also shares his extensive knowledge of plant medicine, providing background about the plant, its history, how to engage with it and how to learn through its use. Regueiro includes stories of his own

experience of transformation, and stories from many he’s guided over the years.

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San Pedro (Echinopsis pachanoi), also known in South America as Huachuma, is a psychoactive cactus native to the Andes, but more importantly it’s an ancestral medicine that has been used for millennia for healing and ceremonial purposes. It is sometimes called a master heart opener and emotional healer, and has a very different impact from ayahuasca. In San Pedro Huachuma: Opening the Pathways of the Heart, Javier Regueiro discusses how our Western psychic and psychological make-up differs radically from that of Andeans, and how our needs differ just as much from the needs of Andean inhabitants and their ancestors. Regueiro intends to bridge the cultural gap in ways that honor the wealth of wisdom gathered through centuries and at the same time address our present day state of emotional disconnection and spiritual confusion, which are at the root of most physical, emotional, and mental diseases. ------Javier Regueiro, a Spanish national who grew up in Switzerland, moved to Peru in 2004 to study Amazonian plant medicine and shamanism and has apprenticed with teachers in the Iquitos and Pucallpa areas. He is a Rebirther, Avatar Master, and a full-time ayahuasquero living in Pisac, Peru, where he created the Ayaruna Center, hosting retreats and conducting healing work. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

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RICHARD BOCH THE MUDD CLUB

FERAL HOUSE | MUSIC | SEPTEMBER 2017 The Mudd Club was a loud, dirty dream with a radical aesthetic born of Punk, No Wave and the celebrity-infused Downtown and East Village art performance and music scene. There was nothing like it and author Richard Boch, who was its doorman during much of its four and a half year run, saw and experienced all of it. The Mudd Club was filled with the famous and soon- to- be famous, from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons, and Robert Rauschenberg to Johnny Rotten, The Hell's Angels, and John Belushi. Marianne Faithful, Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, are just a few who stepped on stage. This book is a cornucopia of memories, images, and tales of how this famed wicked downtown club acquired a chic, often elitist reputation.

The New York Times referred to Richard Boch as making “live or die decisions” as the club's “longtime alpha doorman. Today his is an artist and writer. He is currently editing Bobby Grossman’s Low Fidelity: Still Photographs 1975-1983 and recently contributed a sidebar to Tannenbaum’s Grit and Glamour.

DAVID BIESPIEL THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG POET

COUNTERPOINT | MEMOIR | OCTOBER 2017

"Beguiling … Biespiel shows himself to be exhilarated as much by failure as by success … (he) will surely inspire other writers to embrace the bodily character of writing." ―Publishers Weekly starred

"Lyrical, affectionate . . . Graceful reflections on creativity." ―Kirkus

"A feast: of language, of memory, and of insights into how one young writer came into his own." ―Patrick Phillips, author of Blood at the Root and Elegy for a Broken Machine

This beautifully rendered memoir about creative beginnings, in the vein of Umberto Eco’s classic Confessions of a Young Novelist, offers a moving account of David Biespiel’s awakening to writing and to how language can shape a life. Impelled by the wonder and delight of the imagination, Biespiel, always restless with curiosity and enthusiasm, writes for every creative soul who longs to shape the actions of their world into art and literature.

David Biespiel, an award-winning poet and longtime National Book Critics Circle poetry judge, is the author of A Long, High Whistle. He’s written five books of poetry, most recently The Book of Men and Women, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation. He writes the Poetry Wire column for The Rumpus. Among his honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a Lannan Fellowship.

NICOLE YERSHON ROUGH DIAMOND Turning Disruption into Advantage in Business and Life

LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | BUSINESS | OCTOBER 2017

“Somewhere out there is someone who already has a solution to your problem. You could spend months trying to find them. Nicole has them on speed-dial.”— Rory Sutherland, Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy

“I’ve not come across anyone as articulate in describing the nuances of our digital worlds.”— Maz Nadjm, CEO, SoMazi

If you regret not doing more of what you love; if you wish your creative juices were flowing faster/harder; if you need to re-ignite that fire in your belly, innovator and disruptor Nicole Yershon puts you on notice. Yershon, the founder of Lab For Hire™ and Ogilvy Labs – a dedicated Innovation unit of Ogilvy & Mather Group – sits at the complex and vital intersection between business, creativity, technology, and marketing. She’s prepared this guide as a manifesto for those who want to fly above the ordinary and she includes many examples from her own life.

Nicole Yershon has worked recently with Amex, IBM, BP, Crimestoppers, Selfridges, and Unilever. She is the founder of Lab For Hire™ and lives in London.

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DAN ENGLE, M.D. THE CONCUSSION REPAIR MANUAL A Practical Guide to Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries

LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | HEALTH | OCTOBER 2017

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“Required reading for concussion patients, their caregivers, and all allied healthcare.”—Scott Sherr, MD Founder, Integrative HBOT, Head of Protocol and Innovation at Hyperbaric Medical Solutions

“The definitive resource that weaves together cutting edge technologies with traditional practices to provide both clinician and patient with the necessary tools to heal the injured brain.” –Harry McIlroy, MD Integrative Physician

“In its class, it is the best book on the market.” –Matt Cook, MD Founder, BioReset Medical

“An immensely useful guide to navigate the turbulent waters of recovery by weighing the risks and unknowns to the possible benefits of particular therapies…an invaluable resource.”—Cavin Balaster, Author of How to Feed a Brain, Creator and CEO of FeedaBrain.com and AdventuresinTBI.com

“Simply magnificent…As a TBI and Post-Concussion syndrome sufferer myself, his insight has provided significant healing I could not find elsewhere.”—Guenter Bergmann, Entrepreneur and Adventurist, CEO, High Five Digital, LLC

As research reveals the devastating impact of concussions, and more high profile athletes come forward to share their stories of invisible suffering after head injuries, this silent epidemic is finally being acknowledged. Dr. Dan Engle, a specialist in psychiatry and neurology with a clinical practice combining functional medicine, integrative psychiatry, neuro-cognitive restoration and peak performance methods, has written an indispensable user’s guide for those suffering after head traumas and for those who support them. It is one-part “textbook,” packed with the leading research and one-part “workbook,” offering a step-by-step method for making and tracking a personalized recovery regimen.

Dr. Dan Engle lectures and consults globally and is the medical advisor to Onnit Labs, True Rest Float Centers and several international treatment centers. This is his first book.

JEFF EMMERSON and ROBERT YEHLING BEYOND ADHD Overcoming the Label and Thriving

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD | PSYCHOLOGY/SELF-HELP | NOVEMBER 2017 | PDF

"Courageous, tenacious, smart, and full of a hockey goalie's all-star heart.”—Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction

"A beautiful amalgam of lived experience and first rate science writing. Helpful and inspiring for those who suffer with ADHD; essential for those who need protection from misdiagnosis and careless drug prescriptions."—Allen Frances, MD and professor emeritus, Duke University School of Medicine

Mental health advocate, popular video blogger, leading social media figure and ADHD sufferer Jeff Emmerson focuses on reframing how we view ADHD. He tells the story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition, and he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can actually be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explains how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years. Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and that treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual.

Jeff Emmerson writes for EverydayHealth.com, AdditudeMag.com, and AOL Health.

Co-writer Robert Yehling is the author of ten books and ghostwriter of seven others. He has won national awards for his work in magazine journalism, online journalism, website editing, and a Bank of America Arts Award.

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WENDELL BERRY THE ART OF LOADING BRUSH: New Agrarian Writings

COUNTERPOINT | ESSAYS/STORIES | NOVEMBER 2017| PDF

“Vintage Berry sure to please and instruct his many admirers.” ― starred Kirkus

The renowned Wendell Berry’s profound critique of American culture has entered its sixth decade, and in this energetic new gathering of essays and stories he reaches with deep devotion toward a long view of Agrarian philosophy. Berry believes that American cultural problems are nearly always aligned with their agricultural problems, and recent events have shone a terrible spotlight on the divides between our urban and rural citizens. Our communities are as endangered as our landscapes. There is, as Berry outlines, much work to do, and hope and affection must triumph over despair. Filled with insights and revelations from a mind thorough in its considerations and careful in its presentations, The Art of Loading Brush is a necessary and timely collection.

Wendell Berry is an essayist, novelist, and poet, and has been honored with the T. S. Eliot Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among other honors. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama, and in 2016 he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. His work is published in the UK, Spain, Italy, Korea, Germany France, Japan, Sweden and India.

TERESE MARIE MAILHOT HEART BERRIES Introduction by Sherman Alexie

COUNTERPOINT | MEMOIR | FEBRUARY 2018| PDF

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“An epic take―an Iliad for the indigenous ... Terese is a world-changing talent, and I recommend this book with 100% of my soul." ―Sherman Alexie, author of You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

"Shot through with funny angry beautiful brutal truths. This is a writer for our times who simultaneously blows up time." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Chronology of Water

"Heart Berries is phenomenal. Mailhot's voice is so clear, so disruptive, so assured, and always so mesmerizingly poetic―it somehow startles and lulls all at once." ―Justin Torres, author of We the Animals

"Mailhot sends across generations a love letter to women considered difficult. She sends a manifesto toward remembering―culture and heartbreak and laughter. She writes to the men who love these women. She writes prose tight as a perfect sheet, tucked.” ―Toni Jensen, author of From the Hilltop

A powerful, poetic debut memoir of a woman's coming of age on an Indian Reservation, Heart Berries is Terese Mailhot’s story of how she survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II; Terese is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is this memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father, an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how hard it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.

Mailhot "trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain and what we can bring ourselves to accept." Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people and to her place in the world.

Terese Mailhot is the Saturday Editor at The Rumpus and a columnist for Indian Country Today. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Carve Magazine, The Offing, The Toast, Yellow Medicine Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of many fellowships -- and was recently named the Tecumseh Post Doctoral Fellow at Purdue University.

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TALLULAH POMEROY A GIRL’S GUIDE TO PERSONAL HYGIENE: True Stories, Illustrated

SOFT SKULL | HUMOR| FEBRUARY 2018|PDF

We sniff our knickers; we bite our own toenails; we laboriously dig out ingrown hairs: Women aren’t as ladylike as people would like to imagine. Using anecdotes collected from hundreds of anonymous sources, this gleefully disgusting illustrated book rewrites our definition of femininity.

Artist Tallulah Pomeroy overheard a conversation between two girls about another friend. Apparently, when this friend had been on tour with the rugby team, she’d drunkenly “done a shit in the sink.” “She’s not a girl if she did that,” said one to the other. “She may have a vagina, but she’s not a girl.” This exchange made Tallulah laugh but it also made her think. She created a Facebook group and asked people to submit stories about their “unladylike” behaviors. The page was flooded with stories: about ear wax and trapped wind, gray pubes and bloody pajamas. For A Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene, Tallulah made original illustrations to accompany a selection of posts—plus dozens more from an expanded call for submissions—and she’s created an exuberant and galvanizing handbook for all the nasty women of the world.

Tallulah Pomeroy is an English writer, illustrator, and artist. Her works include Hallelujah I’m a Bum, (Ugly Duckling Presse 2015) and her poetry has been published in Poems by Sunday and Coldfront magazine.

SÉBASTIEN REGNIER and BARBARA BROWNING WHO THE HELL IS IMRE LODBROG?

OUTPOST19 | MEMOIR (sort of) | FEBRUARY 2018|PDF

"Through Browning’s deceptively simple prose and Régnier's smoky, backwards-glancing reveries, they repaint the world. I found myself asking---is this real? Is this true? … I guarantee there will be questions, like the title, you never asked before." ―David Duchovny, actor, writer, director

In Barbara Browning’s eyes, Imre Lodbrog is the greatest aging French rock star you’ve never heard of, with the appeal of “Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan or Serge Gainsbourg on shrooms.” For Imre Lodbrog, music is an alter-ego experience―a late-in-life outlet for a mild-mannered screenwriter deeply shaped by the generation of May ‘68. Both ask the same questions: What revolution has wreaked more havoc and beauty than rock ‘n’ roll? And why do a certain few geniuses inside every revolution go silent and unrecognized? This is ultimately a very true love story, told in counterpoint, about friendship, politics and rock n roll.

Barbara Browning is the author of The Gift (or Techniques of the Body), The Correspondence Artist and I'm Trying to Reach You. Imre Lodbrog is the stage name for Sébastien Regnier. He and Barbara Browning perform together in a folk rock duo. Sébastien Regnier is a French songwriter and screenwriter, winning the French Grand Prize for Best Screenplay for Kabloonak.

JOHN ZERZAN A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

FERAL HOUSE | POLITICS/ANARCHISM | APRIL 2018 |MS December

Has civilization been a good idea? Anti-civilization theorist, anarchist, provocative writer and public speaker John Zerzan doesn't think so. One of Feral House's favorite authors and thinkers presents a new collection of 16 essays that give an alternative and unique view of ancient and modern civilizations. His work criticizes agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of hunter gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.

Previous sales: KOREA/Against Civilization-Wise Book 2009; ITALY/No Way to Escape -Arcana 2007, Think Primitive -Bepress 2009; Primitivo Attuale-Stampa Alternativa 2004.

John Zerzan is the author of many works, including Why Hope: The Stand Against Civilization (2015), Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005), Twilight of the Machines (2008), and Running on Emptiness (2002).

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WENDELL BERRY THE WORLD-ENDING FIRE: The Essential Wendell Berry With an introduction by Paul Kingsnorth

COUNTERPOINT | ESSAYS | MAY 2018|

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“Read [Berry] with pencil in hand, make notes and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." ―New York Times

"The rarest (and highest) of literary classes consist of that small group of authors who are absolutely inimitable… One of the half-dozen living American authors who belongs in this class is Wendell Berry." ―Los Angeles Times

"A Berry's writings are timelier than ever."―Financial Times

"Berry overturns plenty of thoughtful topsoil on environmental issues with a precise pen, and clears any thicket of cosy consensus with a clear eye and cutting hand." ―Irish Times

"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." ―Washington Post Book World

“Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow." ―Nick Offerman, New York Times bestselling author of Paddle Your Own Canoe

The writings gathered in The World-Ending Fire are the unique product of a life spent farming the fields of rural Kentucky with mules and horses, and of the rich, intimate knowledge of the land cultivated by this work. These are Wendell Berry essays written in defiance of the false call to progress and in defense of local landscapes, essays that celebrate our cultural heritage, our history, and our home. With grace and conviction, Berry shows that we simply cannot afford to succumb to the mass-produced madness that drives our global economy―the natural world will not survive it. Yet he also shares with us a vision of consolation and of hope. We may be locked in an uneven struggle, but we can and must begin to treat our land, our neighbors, and ourselves with respect and care.

Wendell Berry is an essayist, novelist, activist, winner of a Leadership Award from the James Beard Foundation, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. His most recent non-fiction includes Our Only World (2016) and The Art of Loading Brush (2017). He is also a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

FERAL HOUSE COLORING BOOKS FOR ADULTS Art by professional and amateur artists / size: 8.5 x 11

October 2016 January 2017 April 2017 June 2017 83 pages 88 pages 104 pages 88 pages

• ‘Curators’ select the art for each edition • All coloring books have an underground commix sensibility and feature a mix of established and outsider artists • They are composed of line drawings that invite people to color in the images

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JACK HAMILTON and ELIZABETH SEAMAN CONFLICT—THE UNEXPECTED GIFT-Third Edition Making the Most of Disputes in Life and Work

iUNIVERSE STAR | BUSINESS | AUGUST 2017

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Even the best of friends face conflicts, but that needn’t mean the end of the relationship

At some point in your life you have engaged in conflict, it’s a natural dimension of human interactions, but these standoffs don’t need to create a lifetime of hurt and anger. Each chapter of Conflict—The Unexpected Gift helps you develop conflict-resolution skills, offering concrete steps and real-life vignettes that teach new ways of communicating. Learn how to resolve conflict and build more viable relationships with family members, friends, coworkers and acquaintances. And in the course of working through your conflict, you’ll learn to let go of unfounded assumptions and pave new chapters in your relationships.

Jack Hamilton and Elisabeth Seaman are mediators and facilitators with Learn2Resolve, which provides mediation, facilitation, training in communication and conflict-resolution skills, and team-building workshops in English and Spanish.

HELOISE JONES THE WRITER’S BLOCK MYTH: A Guide to Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom

LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | WRITING/REFERENCE | MARCH 2017

The Writer’s Block Myth is a grounded, practical guide for what every writer and creative person wants—to live their joy in the process and to create. Whether you're a seasoned writer or new to the page, The Writer's Block Myth will shift your thinking and integrate writing as part of your real world, whatever your circumstances. You’ll learn how to apply the principles presented, plus short, easy exercises & tools to support you.

Heloise Jones is a novelist, poet, essayist, and consultant specializing in assisting writers and artists. She is a Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize finalist and her “The Altar of Birds” (The Wayfarer) was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her publications include a contributing essay in the bestselling book, What I Wish for You by Patti Digh, and a forthcoming novel, Flight.

HOWARD BLOOM THE MUHAMMAD CODE: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram

FERAL HOUSE | RELIGION | DECEMBER 2016 Militant Muslims believe that Islam is on the brink of toppling today’s superpowers and taking over the world. In this volume, Howard Bloom lays bare the origins of what he believes is a profoundly dangerous belief. Many contemporary thinkers excuse Islamic violence as a legitimate reaction to Western imperialism, blaming America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the establishment of Israel. But Jihad was invented in 624 AD by the only prophet ever to call himself "The Prophet of War." And that prophet, as Bloom says, was not responding to "legitimate grievances," but an ambition for world conquest. Howard Bloom’s work explores pop culture, mass social movements, space travel, theoretical physics, and The Grand Theory of Everything. The God Problem (Prometheus 2012), The Genius of the Beast (Prometheus 2010), Global Brain (Wiley 2000) and The Lucifer Principle (Atlantic Monthly Press 1995).

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AL RIDENOUR, designed by Sean Tejaratchi THE KRAMPUS AND THE OLD, DARK CHRISTMAS Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil

FERAL HOUSE | MYTHOLOGY | OCTOBER 2016

"Ridenour serves up an immensely accessible, well-researched history mixed in with his own personal journey tracing the Krampus, a Christmas devil with roots in Austrian and German folklore...Those interested in folklore, anthropology, history, counter-culture, and cosplay will enjoy this thorough assessment and its plethora of illustrations." --Publishers Weekly

"Gleefully erudite....well-researched and sumptuously illustrated... Ridenour's book deserves to become a classic in its own right." --LA Times

"The Krampus is jam-packed with information on the history and meaning of the Krampus as well as scads of photos and art prints. The dozens of photos of celebrants of myriad regional-variant Yuletide festivals in bizarre and terrifying costumes is worth the price of admission alone. Award-winning designer Sean Tejaratchi has laid everything out gorgeously, augmenting Ridenour’s thoughtful analysis. If you have any interest in the subject, this book is simply a must-have.”—Dangerous Minds

Medieval folklore’s demonic Christmas character Krampus is making appearances in contemporary movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards. Though the Krampus figure has become iconic, not much is known about its history and meaning, until now. Al Ridenour investigates the symbolic figure in detail, searching for its origins, transformation over time, and exploring its permutations in various local traditions. He also makes important observations about the psychological function of ancient traditions and their continuing importance for us today.

Al Ridenour writes for Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Fortean Times, Maxim, Stuff, Saveur, and other periodicals as well as the websites Boing Boing, Laughing Squid, Atlas Obscura, and Morbid Anatomy. He is author of Offbeat Food, Adventures in an Omnivorous World (Santa Monica Press 2000).

Sean Tejaratchi is the award-winning graphic designer who created this highly and beautifully illustrated volume. All permissions are cleared.

JASPER RIBBERS AND HUZEFA KAPADIA GET PAID FOR YOUR PAD How to Maximize Profit From Your Airbnb Listing

LIFESTYLE ENTREPRENEURS PRESS | BUSINESS | OCTOBER 2016

SOLD: Korea/ Purun Communication China/ United Sky New Media

“I did it for three years and it was wonderful! Though I had no problems with my Airbnb renters, I wish I’d had this book!” –me (Judy)

“Highly recommended as the first - and only - guide to Airbnb you'll need.” –Chris Backe, CEO OneWeirdGlobe.com

“Easily the most thorough resource on this topic I've ever seen. ” –Nathaniel Boyle, The Daily Travel Podcast

This handy well-designed volume is a veritable blueprint on how to transform your home into a short-stay rental boon. It’s an easy-to-use well-formatted step-by-step introduction renting out your space, full of clever tricks and hacks. True, it’s not rocket science, and you can spend a few hours online and figure a lot of it out, but getting the “best practices” scoop from people who’ve managed to make a lot of money is worth the time you invest reading this 232 page book and set things up right.

Jasper Ribbers is a former arbitrage trader in the Netherlands who runs a collection of online businesses from his laptop as he travels the world.

Huzefa Kapadia is an attorney turned entrepreneur and the owner and founder of Scalar Learning LLC, an education services company that focuses on math tutoring and standardized test preparation.

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CARON BUTLER TUFF JUICE: My Journey from the Streets to the NBA Foreword by Kobe Bryant

LYONS PRESS | MEMOIR/SPORTS | SEPTEMBER 2016 (pb)

SOLD: Finnish/Minerva

MOVIE RIGHTS to Mark Wahlberg (Transformers, Patriot’s Day, Deepwater Horizon) and Stephen Levinson/Leverage. Wahlberg will play the detective who gave Caron a chance. And HUGE DIRECTORS are talking to Wahlberg –Spike Lee, Peter Berg and Barry Jenkins, as per TMZ. The Tuff Juice script is being written by Jason Lew (The Free World, Restless) and Stephen Levinson & Mark Wahlberg /Leverage are producing.

Like the hit movie The Blind Side, Tuff Juice offers a gripping narrative filled with hubris, dangerous obstacles and heartwarming moments that transcend sports and speak to perseverance, hope and the triumph of the human spirit. It’s the story of champion basketball player Caron Butler’s delinquent youth as a gang member and drug dealer on the streets of his hometown of Racine, Wisconsin, where he saw friends gunned down in the bloody street wars near his home; was arrested 15 times; and wound up behind bars and in solitary confinement before his 15th birthday. Yet he made it to the NBA, becoming an accomplished pro, dedicated husband and father, active philanthropist and burgeoning businessman. This is the stuff of legend.

Caron Butler was a two-time All-Star basketball player – a key player for the Dallas Mavericks in their championship- winning season and a 13-year NBA veteran. He is extremely active with organizations that specialize in youth outreach. In addition to his extensive philanthropy Butler is also a businessman with plans to own an NBA team. Soon.

JESSICA HOPPER THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC

FEATHERPROOF | MUSIC| 2015

"A game-changer, a godsend, and a Holy Grail for those who have been forced to reside on the fringe of the notoriously "male-dominated sphere" of rock criticism and fandom .”—The Village Voice

"An airtight case for why the professional critic still matters, and why it is a thrill to spend time in the presence of someone whose job it is to care so much and so intelligently."—Chicago Tribune

"Hopper is one of the most vital and prolific music critics around…the book brims with (her) lean prose and mic-dropping one-liners."—Newsweek

"Hopper has become a mandatory name in the world of music criticism, and this latest collection is the icing on the cake."—Paste

"Diverse and important.”—Salon

"A game-changing collection...Hopper has created a bible for aspiring writers, not just music critics."—Huffington Post

"A unique voice among a sea of male rock critics."—MTV News

Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer, and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. This volume, spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly's past, leaves no doubt why The New York Times called her work "influential." Not merely a selection of two decades of Hopper's most engaging, thoughtful, and humorous writing, The First Collection documents the last 20 years of American music-making and the shifting landscape of music consumption. Hopper is planting a flag for all women music writers. Through this vast range of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews, and oral histories, Hopper chronicles what it is to be truly obsessed with music.

Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic whose work regularly appears in GQ, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and the Chicago Tribune. She was a senior editor at The Pitchfork Review and the music editor at Rookie. Today she is senior producer at Spotify. Her essays have appeared in Best Music Writing for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, and 2011. Hopper was the longtime music consultant for NPR’s This American Life. Her book, The Girls' Guide to Rocking was named one of 2009's Notable Books For Young Readers by the American Library Association.

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TOD GOLDBERG GANGSTER NATION

COUNTERPOINT | CRIME/THRILLER | SEPTEMBER 2017

SOLD: UK/No Exit Press DUTCH/Q AUDIO/ Blackstone TV RIGHTS/Caryn Mandabach, producer of PEAKY BLINDERS

“One can’t help but think of such greats as Mario Puzo, Jimmy Breslin, Elmore Leonard, and Donald E. Westlake while reading this witty, brutal, vital book. Goldberg is a master."—Mystery Scene Magazine

"The sacred gets the stuffing kicked out of it by the profane in this wild and sometimes-shocking novel.” —Kirkus

"Fans of Elmore Leonard will quickly devour Tod Goldberg’s latest novel… (a) worthy follow-up sees Goldberg fine-tune his signature mix of dark humor, violent crime, Talmudic wisdom and suburban satire."—Orange Coast Magazine

"A funny, unique and sometimes poignant novel of mistake, regret, and faith. Gangster Nation is violent, unpredictable, and wonderful."—GreatMysteriesandThrillers

“Sal Cupertine is back —and better than ever. I love this guy.”—Lee Child

“Gangster Nation is a razor. It will slice you open and reveal your insides. And like the best of Tod Goldberg's work, it'll show you everything you are at your core.” —Brad Meltzer

“The Sopranos-good and The Sopranos-funny: he can hit you high, low, or straight in the gut.”—Bill Beverly

“Hilarious, complex, and a total page-turner."—Lisa Lutz

"Amid all the expertly choreographed violence and intrigue is a moving, thought-provoking story about the fluid nature of identity, spirituality, and love.”—Vu Tran

"Fans of clever mixes of dark humor and violent crime by authors such as Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen will be pleased." —PW

With the signature wit and the gritty glamor that defines his writing, Tod Goldberg continues the often deadly adventures of legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine, who disappeared into the guise of a Las Vegas rabbi after a botched job left three undercover FBI agents dead. This time it’s September 2001 and Sal/David still works for The Family while overseeing his synagogue and laundering money (as well as corpses) in the Jewish cemetery. But his inner hitman wants out. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays and he’ll have enough money to grab his wife and kid, slip away, and start fresh in another country. But events set in motion by ex-FBI agent Matthew Drew will have Sal running for his life as a new post-9/11 world begins to close in on him.

Filled with plot twists and propulsive action, GANGSTER NATION takes you on an uproarious journey that examines how the most fundamental aspects of life, the ones we prize most, like job, home, health, and even spiritual loves have often been built on double dealing, Ponzi schemes, and criminal enterprises. More than we realize and care to admit, what we covet and worship and how we seek to acquire, supports the ethos of organized crime and criminality.

● Gangsterland (2014) sold in 8 languages: GERMAN/Bertelsmann, ITALIAN/Sperling & Kupfer, FRANCE/Sonatine-Super 8, NETHERLANDS/Querido-Q, UK/Titan, HUNGARY/Jaffa and BULGARIA/Soft Press ●

New York Times bestselling writer Tod Goldberg is the author of Gangsterland, Living Dead Girl, Fake Liar Cheat, and the popular Burn Notice series. His essays and short stories have been published in Best American Essays, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Wall Street Journal, and E!, among others. Goldberg is a Hammett Prize finalist (awarded by the Inter- national Association of Crime Writers) and he has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and Distinguished Story of the Year in Best American Mystery Stories.

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T.W. COAKLEY KEEF: A Story of Intoxication, Love & Death Introduction, Epilogue and Notes by Ronald K. Siegel, PhD

PROCESS MEDIA | CLASSIC | SEPTEMBER 2017

"Everything one does in life occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke [Cannabis, marijuana, opium] is to get out of the train while it is still moving." —Jean Cocteau

This classic 1897 novel in the form of an illustrated memoir was heralded as one of the most important publishing events of 1897, making the list alongside H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man and Rudyard Kipling's Captain Courageous. Among the native tribesmen in the Rif region of Morocco who have been smoking a Cannabis preparation known as kif for over 800 years, it is accepted as part of the magic and sorcery in everyday life. In Timothy Wilfred Coakley's Keef – written in the witchy style of an Edgar Allan Poe horror story – the narrator, a kif smoker, takes us through his supernatural search for love powered by his kif wisdom growing from his chronic smoking. At maturity, the wisdom allows him to see that the path to love goes beyond death.

Art and literature expert Ronald Siegel adds an introduction to this timely reprint, explaining and contextualizing T.W. Coakley’s novel. He also illuminates how kif influenced artists of that time and beyond.

SIMEON MARSALIS AS LIE IS TO GRIN

CATAPULT | CONTEMPORARY | OCTOBER 2017

 NOMINATED FOR BEST NOVEL Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize  Chicago Reader “Books we can’t wait to read”  Huffington Post - Fall “Must-read” list  Lit Hub – “The Most Recommended Books of Fall”

“A sophisticated and complex work, this debut reconsiders the coming-of-age story for the twenty-first century.” —Foreword Reviews (starred)

“This is superb writing that feels ceremonious in its wisdom and inexhaustible in its offerings.” —Major Jackson, author of Roll Deep

“Achieves more in its brief span than most books do at three times the length.” —Zachary Lazar, author of I Pity the Poor Immigrant

“Marsalis’s slim, ambitious debut tackles loss and racial identity… (he) incisively comments on a wide range of ideas, from authenticity to architecture.” —Publishers Weekly

David, the narrator of this singular first novel, is a freshman at the University of Vermont, struggling to define himself against the white backdrop of his school. He is also mourning the loss of his New York girlfriend Melody, whose grandfather’s alma mater he has chosen to attend. When David met Melody, he told her he lived with his drug-addicted single mother in Harlem, a more intriguing story than his own. This lie haunts and almost unhinges him as he attempts to find his true voice and identity.

This is the debut novel for New Orleans writer Simeon Marsalis.

JOHN DOLAN (Adaptor) THE WAR NERD ILIAD

FERAL HOUSE | MODERN PROSE | OCTOBER 2017

We recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We're taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who’s really read the text? Here poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher John Dolan revisits this ancient tale and restores it to its early glory. The Greeks and Trojans are still fighting; the gods are still interfering; but in Dolan's version, you'll be amazed at how funny, raw, and terrifying this doomed world of war really is. He strips away clunky, archaic language to reveal the true meaning and themes that animate this tale of war and futility.

Writer John Dolan produces the Radio War Nerd weekly podcast on military matters. He currently lives in Macedonia.

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ADAM BRAVER THE DISAPPEARED

OUTPOST19 | CONTEMPORARY | OCTOBER 2017

“This compelling and elegantly written novel charts the intersections of individual and collective grief, unfolding in unexpected ways. It is both profoundly personal and smartly political, a memorable page turner with urgent, resonant themes." ―Alix Ohlin, author of Signs and Wonders

A novel of terrorism and conspiracy told through two strangers swept up in the aftermath of two politicized acts of violence. The Disappeared traces the pair of survivors: a woman whose husband is missing in a San Bernardino-type of attack, and a man who believes his sister was an unidentified victim of the ’93 World Trade Center bombing. With a remarkable mix of nuance and momentum, Braver portrays their post-trauma experience in the face of relentless public feedback.

Adam Braver is the author of several novels including Misfit (2012)—published in French, Italian, Turkish, and Russian; and November 22 1963 (2008)—published in French, Italian and Japanese. His books have been Barnes & Noble’s Discover New Writers selections, Borders’ Original Voices and IndieNext selections. His writing appears in Daedalus, Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, West Branch, and many others.

JAMES FLORA GRANDPA’S GHOST STORIES Introduction by Irwin Chusid

FERAL HOUSE |SCARY | OCTOBER 2017

James Flora may be better known for the hundreds of jazz and classical record album covers he designed, but his fantastically illustrated books captivated kids throughout the 1960s and 70s, so much so that secondhand copies sell for exorbitant sums. Grandpa’s Ghost Stories is one of the most sought after volumes and these ghoulish and amusing stories and wildly inventive illustrations will keep readers shivering. In it, 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. This new edition includes an introduction by writer, radio personality and cultural historian Irwin Chusid, who has published several books of Flora's artworks and illustrations, and also runs JimFlora.com.

James Flora was the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books. He worked with renowned children's book editor Margaret McElderry at Harcourt Brace and Atheneum. His books included The Fabulous Firework Family, The Day the Cow Sneezed, Leopold, the See-Through Crumbpicker, and Stewed Goose (1973). Irwin Chusid is a journalist, music historian, radio personality. His most recent work is The High Fidelity Art of Jim Flora (2013).

DEB OLIN UNFERTH and BETH HAIDLE I, PARROT

BLACK BALLOON | GRAPHIC NOVEL | NOVEMBER 2017 | PDF

Typing up positive-thought messages for a self-help guru isn’t exactly Daphne’s idea of dream job. But to regain custody of her 9-year-old son, she’s willing to try it. A few weeks later, when that same self-help guru asks her to take care of 100 endangered parrots, Daphne is willing to try that too. What ensues is a hilarious, heartbreaking tragicomedy involving the love of her life, the landlady from hell, three house painters, a flock of passenger pigeons and a super-sized bag of mite-killing powder. With text by acclaimed author Deb Olin Unferth and stunning illustrations by artist Elizabeth Haidle, I, Parrot is not only a poignant, truly literary graphic novel, it’s also a portrait of woman who will do anything—no matter how ridiculous or revolutionary —to find a way to triumph in world where idealists and misfits rarely win.

Deb Olin Unferth, the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, author of four books, including Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf 2017). Her fiction has appeared in Harper's, Paris Review, Granta, Tin House, and other publications.

Elizabeth Haidle, creative director/designer for Illustoria magazine, is also a freelance artist.

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ROB REYNOLDS WIRE MOTHER MONKEY BABY

OUTPOST19 | CONTEMPORARY | NOVEMBER 2017 | PDF

In search of meaningful connection, Clayton Draper moves into The Complex, a residential development in Austin, TX sponsored by Kool Kola, and comes face-to-face with very contemporary modes of self-absorption and a rampant materialism he can’t resist. He keeps a journal, and in his entries he looks for guidance from Schopenhauer, Snagglepuss, Aldous Huxley, Howlin' Mary, The Flintstones, Willa Cather, Winston Churchill, the voice of God, and many others. He quits his job, treks to Paris, and wrestles with a feral cat while struggling with a sniping nemesis and a way too blonde and charismatic neighbor. This debut novel is a sharp, quick-paced satire, full of erudition and irreverent observation.

Rob Reynolds’s work has appeared in the Tampa Review, Kennesaw Review, Mad Hatter’s Review, flashquake, Vestal Review, and Eunoia Review and he was a contributing editor to the Harvard Review and Boston Book Review.

ERIC G. WILSON POLARIS GHOST

OUTPOST19 | EDGY STORIES | MARCH 2018 | PDF

Inspired by the work of David Lynch and William Blake, Eric Wilson's fiction debut is a fractured bildungsroman interrupted by meditations on marriage, addiction, depression, and parenting. Polaris Ghost is a fascinating hybrid of memoir, journalism, scholarship, and cultural analysis. In scenes reminiscent of Blue Velvet and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he explores what goes on deep in the psyche through scenes of unnerving breakages and private rupture.

Eric G. Wilson is author most recently of Keep It Fake (2016), Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck (2013) also published in China by Beijing Yanshan Press, and Against Happiness (2009). His work has appeared in The Oxford American, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, The LA Times, The New York Times, and others. He is the recipient of a National Humanities Fellowship and he teaches Romanticism and creative writing at Wake Forest University.

SAM PINK GARBAGE TIMES/WHITE IBIS Two Novellas

SOFT SKULL | CONTEMPORARY | MAY 2018 | MS

A FLIPEROO - designed with tête-bêche binding, as a SINGLE volume

“Sam’s writing reminds me of Kurt Cobain’s or Eminem’s, with a mixture of anger and dead babies and umbilical cords. It alternates swiftly from humor and playfulness to isolation and sadness.” ―Elizabeth Ellen, editor of Short Flight/Long Drive Books

There are the writers whose names you can make adjectives out of and Sam Pink is one of them: You know what it means for a story or a sentence to be Pinkian. Here, you have a tale of two tales, connected by a mysterious sunlit portal; these two novellas take you from the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida; from bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Our hero, a lowly restaurant worker in Garbage Times who unclogs toilets, breaks up fights and fantasizes about killing his landlord, is with his girlfriend in Florida in White Ibis where life is country clubs, themed birthday parties, card-games, and trying to get a job in a bagel suit. Goodbye, hello, goodbye.

Sam Pink is the author of The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home, Person (published in Spanish/ Triana 2014), The No Hellos Diet (published by Alpha Decay/Spanish), Hurt Others, Frowns Need Friends Too, Rontel, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It (published in Finnish/Poesia and Spanish/Triana 2012) and Witch Piss. His writing has been published widely in print and on the internet.

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LINCOLN MICHEL and NADXIELI NIETO (EDITORS) TINY CRIMES Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder BLACK BALLOON | FLASH NOIR| June 2018 | MS

Perfect for the fans of True Detective, Fargo, and Westworld, here are forty very very short tales of tiny tightrope robberies, disastrously diminutive double crosses, mournful muggings, and murders both foul and sweet. This anthology of flash noir will explore the genre of crime fiction—from the most hardboiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries—gathering leading literary voices who scour the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved. Immensely fun to read, Tiny Crimes is a playful mashup of crime genres (noir, sci-fi, cozy, absurdist, humor, international, and more); the collection is also a "who's who" of literature today: J. Robert Lennon, Amelia Gray, Laura van den Berg, Brian Evenson, Yuri Herrera and Amber Sparks, to name just a few.

Lincoln Michel is the author of Upright Beasts, (Coffee House Press). His fiction and criticism appear in New York Times, Vice, Granta, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and elsewhere. With editor and art director Nadxieli Nieto, he is the co-editor of Gigantic World, an anthology of science flash fiction.

ELLEN NOTBOHM RIVER BY STARLIGHT

SHE WRITES PRESS | HISTORICAL FICTION | June 2018 | MS

Moving away from unsettling pasts and thrown together by circumstance, Montana homesteaders Annie Rushton and Adam Fielding meet in 1911 and are bound by a potent chemistry they don’t necessarily recognize as love. Against a backdrop of economic boom and bust, catastrophic climate events and war, they marry hopefully and prosper briefly, but personal and natural disasters unravel this couple. One will meet the challenge with unforgettable resilience. One will be thoroughly broken by it. A century-old story as relevant as ever to women today, The River by Starlight reaches across the years with a compelling message for our own time: that healing and reconciliation can emerge from devastating emotional and financial wreckage.

Ellen Notbohm’s nonfiction titles, Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes you Knew, and 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's have been translated into 22 languages and have sold over 300,000 copies in the US alone. This is her first novel and it is based on the true story of her husband’s mother. ______MICAH PERKS WHAT BECOMES US

OUTPOST19 | WOMEN’S FICTION | May 2017

“A warm, wild, hilarious, eccentric and moving book." —Lauren Groff

“Wonderful…surprising ”—Alison Lurie

"There is real magic here. . . Completely original, completely delightful." —Karen Joy Fowler

A mild-mannered, pregnant school teacher flees her controlling husband to make a new life for herself, renting a farmhouse and teaching high school. She becomes obsessed with an assigned book - the early classic The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson, the first book written by a woman in the Americas. As Mary Rowlandson's insatiable hunger begins to fill Evie's dreams, Evie wonders if she may actually be haunted. She also becomes obsessed with her neighbor, a married Chilean immigrant. As she grows more pregnant, her desires grow out of control, and soon threaten to destroy her adopted community.

Micah Perks’s books include the novel We Are Gathered Here, the memoir Pagan Time, and the personal essay Alone in the Woods: Cheryl Strayed, my daughter, and me. She’s been published in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Rumpus, and many others. She’s won an NEA, five Pushcart Prize nominations, and the New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. Micah is in Berlin through mid-November and will be in Spain from November through September 2018.

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Additional Deals since MARCH 2017

Bulgarian: Susan Spann’s BETRAYAL AT IGA – Trud

Canadian: Terese Mailhot’s HEART BERRIES – Doubleday Canada

Chinese: Steven Stralser’s MBA IN A DAY 2.0 – Citic Press

Chinese: Gary Snyder’s THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD - Guangxi Normal University Press

Chinese: Robb Walsh’s ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO EAT THAT? Reflections of a culinary thrill seeker - SDX

Czech: Abby Geni’s THE LIGHTKEEPERS - Nakladatelství Host

Italian: Wendell Berry’s OUR ONLY WORLD - Piano B Edizioni

Farsi/Persian: Noam Chomsky’s HOW THE WORLD WORKS - Parvin Daneshvar

French: Gary Snyder’s PLACE IN SPACE - Editions Wildproject

German: Wendell Berry, Selections of ESSAYS - Peter Hammer Verlag

India: Andrew Schelling’s LOVE AND THE TURNING SEASONS (in English) - Aleph

Korean: Jerry Mander’s THE CAPITALISM PAPERS - Ulyuck

Portuguese (Brazil only): Lee Ranaldo’s JRNLS80S - Terreno Estranho

Portuguese (ex. Brazil) Gary Snyder’s THE PRACTICE OF THE WILD - Antigona

Spanish: Wendell Berry, THREE titles: HOME ECONOMICS, A WORLD LOST and WATCH WITH ME - Nuevo Inicio

Swedish: Wendell Berry, Selections of ESSAYS - Ariel Förlag

Spanish: Mikita Brottman’s THE SOLITARY VICE - Blackie Books

Spanish: Steven Nightingale’s GRANADA: A POMEGRANATE IN THE HAND OF GOD - Almuzara

UK: Maggie Nelson’s SOMETHING BRIGHT THEN HOLES– Zed Books

UK: Wendell Berry, Selection of POEMS – Penguin Press

UK: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s A KIND OF FREEDOM – John Murray

Vietnamese: Yvonne Brooks’s TWO Teen Success series books - Phuong Nam 1) FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR TEENS: TEEN SUCCESS SERIES (V. I) 2) 100 WAYS TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TEENAGER: TEEN SUCCESS SERIES (V.II)

Vietnamese: Elle Notbohm’s TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD WITH AUTISM WISHES YOU KNEW – Panda Books

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