CATALOG APRIL–AUGUST 2021 CONTENTS FORTHCOMING TITLES PAGES 1–18 LYRICPOP PAGES 1–6 BLACK SHEEP PAGES 7 ZIGGY MARLEY PAGES 8–9 KAYLIE JONES BOOKS PAGE 14 AKASHIC NOIR SERIES PAGES 15–16 CURRENT TOP SELLERS PAGES 18–22 SALES & RIGHTS INFORMATION PAGE 23 AKASHIC BOOKS 232 Third Street, #A115, Brooklyn, NY 11215 TEL: 718.643.9193 FAX: 718.643.9195 E-MAIL:
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[email protected]) CATALOG AND COVER DESIGN: Aaron Petrovich & Sohrab Habibion COVER ART: TG Design (A River Called Time, page 10) PRINTED IN CANADA AKASHIC BOOKS is an award-winning independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers. Akashic Books hosts additional imprints, including the Akashic Noir Series, the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series, Black Sheep Books for Young Readers, the Akashic Urban Surreal Series, Punk Planet Books, Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery Series, Open Lens, Chris Abani’s Black Goat Poetry Series, Infamous Books, Peekash Press, Kaylie Jones Books, Dave Zirin’s Edge of Sports, LyricPop, and Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle. BLACK BOOKS SHEEP KAYLIE JONES FORTHCOMING/LYRICPOP STRAWBERRY SWING A CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK SONG LYRICS BY COLDPLAY ILLUSTRATIONS BY MITCH MILLER Coldplay’s warm and infectious hit song “Strawberry Swing” finds a perfect vessel in this gentle picture book for children.