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OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz Summary: This shattering memoir by a journalist about Goran Rosenberg, Sara Death his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of 9781590516072 Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the Pub Date: 2/24/15, On Sale Date: 2/24 prestigious August Prize $24.95/$28.95 Can. On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small 352 pages Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the Hardcover ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at AuschwitzBirkenau, the Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Ctn Qty: 12 Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.250 lb Wt 140mm W | 210mm H | 567g Wt In this intelligent and deeply... Contributor Bio: Göran Rosenberg was born in 1948 in Sweden, where he is a wellknown author. In 1970 he left academia to work as a journalist for Swedish television, radio, and print. He is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Det Förlorade landet [The Lost Land: A Personal History of Zionism, Messianism, and the State of Israel]. Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Blood Brothers Summary: Originally published in 1932 and banned by Ernst Haffner, Michael Hofmann the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang 9781590517048 of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and Pub Date: 3/3/15, On Sale Date: 3/3 mutual loyalty. $14.95/$17.95 Can. 176 pages Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social Trade Paperback worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces Fiction / Crime were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, Ctn Qty: 24 unsparing detail, Haffner’s story delves into the illicit 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 0.810 lb Wt underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s rise to power, 140mm W | 210mm H | 367g Wt describing how these blood br... Contributor Bio: Ernst Haffner was a journalist and social worker and his only known novel, Blood Brothers, was published to wide acclaim in 1932 before it was banned by the Nazis one year later. In the 1940s, all records of Haffner disappeared. His fate during World War II remains unknown. Michael Hofmann has translated the work of Franz Kafka, Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Recapitulations Summary: A distinguished anthropologist tells his life Vincent Crapanzano story as a wistful novelist would, watching himself as if 9781590515938 he were someone else Pub Date: 3/17/15, On Sale Date: 3/17 $30.00/$35.00 Can. This memoir recaptures meaningful moments from the author’s 300 pages life: as his childhood on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, Hardcover his psychiatrist father’s early death, his years at school in Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Switzerland and then at Harvard in the 1960s, his love affairs, Ctn Qty: 24 his own teaching, and his farflung travels. Taken together, 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H | 0.810 lb Wt these stories have the power of a nothingtakenforgra... 152mm W | 229mm H | 367g Wt Contributor Bio: Vincent Crapanzano is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has published articles in major periodicals and academic journals such as American Anthropologist, Les Temps Modernes, The New Yorker, New York Times and Times Literary Supplement. He lives in New York City. Author Residence: New York City Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni September 2014 Page 66 OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Whisper Hollow Summary: Set in a small coalmining town, a debut Chris Cander novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious 9781590517116 accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and Pub Date: 3/17/15, On Sale Date: 3/17 two courageous women make choices that will challenge $17.95/$21.50 Can. our own moral convictions 400 pages Trade Paperback One morning in Verra, a town nestled into the hillsides of Fiction West Virginia, the young Myrthen Bergmann is playing tugof Ctn Qty: 24 war with her twin, when her sister is killed. Unable to accept 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 0.810 lb Wt her own guilt, Myrthen excludes herself from all forms of 140mm W | 210mm H | 367g Wt friendship and affectio... Contributor Bio: Chris Cander is a novelist, children’s book author, freelance writer, and teacher for Houstonbased Writers in the Schools. Her novel 11 Stories, published by a small press in Houston, was included in Kirkus’s Best Indie General Fiction of 2013. Find more of her work at www.chriscander.com Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Out of Sight : The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Summary: Histories of modern art are typically centered in Sixties Paris and New York. Los Angeles is relegated to its role as the William Hackman center of popular culture— a city of movie stars, tan lines, 9781590514115 and surfers—but lacking the highbrow credentials of the Pub Date: 4/14/15, On Sale Date: 4/14 chosen places. Until 1965, there was no art museum, few $27.95/$33.00 Can. notable collectors, and—especially in terms of modern and 256 pages contemporary work—even fewer galleries. Yet in the 1950s Hardcover and 1960s, L.A. witnessed a burst of artistic energy and Art / American / General invention rivaling New York’s bu... Ctn Qty: 24 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H | 1.210 lb Wt Contributor Bio: William Hackman, longtime arts journalist and former 152mm W | 229mm H | 549g Wt managing editor for public affairs at the J. Paul Getty Trust, has written extensively about the visual and performing arts. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in major American newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times. His books include Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for the Art Spaces series (Scala, 2008), and Inside the Getty (J. Paul Getty... Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Where Women are Kings Summary: From the awardwinning author of Tiny Christie Watson Sunbirds, Far Away, the story of a young boy who 9781590517093 believes two things: that his Nigerian birth mother loves Pub Date: 4/28/15, On Sale Date: 4/28 him like the world has never known love, and that he is a $16.95/$19.95 Can. wizard 284 pages Trade Paperback Elijah, seven years old, is covered in scars and has a history Fiction / Literary of disruptive behavior. Taken away from his birth mother, a Ctn Qty: 24 Nigerian immigrant in England, Elijah is moved from one foster 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 0.810 lb Wt parent to the next before finding a home with Nikki and her 140mm W | 210mm H | 367g Wt husband, Obi. Nikki believes that ... Contributor Bio: Christie Watson is a British novelist and pediatric nurse. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she won the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary, and has since published short fiction and other writings in numerous publications including Wasafiri, Mslexia, Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni September 2014 Page 67 OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay Summary: What happens when you can’t see that the Andrea Gillies man you married is actually the one you love? 9781590517291 Pub Date: 5/5/15, On Sale Date: 5/5 For her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with $17.95/$21.50 Can. two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with 304 pages whom she was always in love and who remained her best Trade Paperback friend throughout her marriage. 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Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Utopia Parkway : The Life and Work of Joseph Summary: Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Cornell Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and Debrorah Solomon unusual twentiethcentury artists, now reissued ten 9781590517147 years later Pub Date: 6/23/15, On Sale Date: 6/23 $19.95/$23.95 Can. Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the 450 pages selftaught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow Trade Paperback boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Expressionism, and Pop Art. Legends about Cornell abound— Photographers the shy hermit, the devoted family caretaker, the artistic Ctn Qty: 24 innocent—but never before has he be... 6.000 in W | 9.000 in H | 0.810 lb Wt 152mm W | 229mm H | 367g Wt Contributor Bio: Deborah Solomon is a nationally acclaimed art critic, journalist, and biographer.