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FALL 2020 CATALOGUE
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Animal Tracks of the Southeast Your Way to Easily Identify Animal Tracks by Jonathan Poppele Adventure Publications • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 4.25 x 7.5 • 22 pages 9781591939498 • $14.95 • spiral bound • Nature / Animals • Adventure Quick Guides
Your Quick Guide to Identifying Animal TracksWhen you're out and about, keep this convenient track guide by Jonathan Poppele close at hand. Designed for ease of use, the tabbed booklet is organized by track group for quick identification. Narrow your choices by group, and view just a few animal tracks at a time. The detailed illustrations cover more than 70 species of mammals - plus major groups of birds, reptiles, and amphibians - found in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.The illustrations are carefully drawn to resemble the track prints as you might see them in the field. Plus, size information, sample gait patterns, and a step-by-step guide to track identification help to ensure positive ID. The pocket-sized format is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the tear-resistant pages help to make the booklet durable. So bring this lightweight quick guide along on your next hike, camping trip, or walk to the park, and improve your tracking skills with every animal track sighting.
Birds of Florida Field Guide by Stan Tekiela Adventure Publications • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 4.38 x 6 • 384 pages 9781647550653 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Birds & Birdwatching • Bird Identification Guides
Get the New Edition of Florida's Best-Selling Bird GuideLearn to identify birds in Florida, and make bird watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 140 species of Florida birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out.Book Features:
- 140 species: Only Florida birds - Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section - Compare feature: Decide between look-alikes - Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts - Professional photos: Crisp, stunning full-page images This new edition includes more species, updated photographs and range maps, revised information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Birds of Florida Field Guide for your next birding adventure - to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
Birds of Texas Field Guide by Stan Tekiela Adventure Publications • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 4.38 x 6 • 456 pages 9781647550622 • $28.50 • pb • Nature / Birds & Birdwatching • Bird Identification Guides
Get the New Edition of Texas's Best-Selling Bird GuideLearn to identify birds in Texas, and make bird watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 170 species of Texas birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out.Book Features:
- 170 species: Only Texas birds - Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section - Compare feature: Decide between look-alikes - Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts - Professional photos: Crisp, stunning full-page images This new edition includes more species, updated photographs and range maps, revised information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Birds of Texas Field Guide for your next birding adventure - to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.
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Birds of the Carolinas Field Guide by Stan Tekiela Adventure Publications • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 4.38 x 6 • 384 pages 9781647550684 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Birds & Birdwatching • Bird Identification Guides
Get the Best-Selling Bird Guide for North Carolina and South CarolinaLearn to identify birds in the Carolinas, and make bird watching even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 140 species of North Carolina and South Carolina birds organized by color for ease of use. Do you see a yellow bird and don't know what it is? Go to the yellow section to find out.Book Features:
- 140 species: Only Carolina birds - Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section - Compare feature: Decide between look-alikes - Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts - Professional photos: Crisp, stunning full-page images This new edition includes more species, updated photographs and range maps, revised information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Birds of the Carolinas Field Guide for your next birding
Trees of the Carolinas Field Guide by Stan Tekiela Adventure Publications • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 4.38 x 6 • 360 pages 9781647550714 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Trees & Forests • Tree Identification Guides
Learn to Identify Trees in North Carolina and South Carolina!With this famous field guide by award- winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree identification simple, informative, and productive. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of trees that don't grow in North Carolina or South Carolina. Learn about all 153 species found in the two states, organized by leaf type and attachment. Just look at a tree's leaves, then go to the correct section to learn what it is. Fact-filled information contains the particulars that you want to know, while full-page photographs provide the visual detail needed for accurate identification. Plus, Stan's naturalist notes feature fascinating tidbits and facts. This new edition includes updated photographs, expanded information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab Trees of the Carolinas Field Guide for your next outing - to help ensure that you positively identify the trees that you see.
Crystal Healing The Science and Psychology Behind What Works, What Doesn't, and Why by Dan R. Lynch and Julie A. Kirsch Adventure Publications • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6 x 8 • 192 pages 9781591939177 • $28.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Crystals
A Fact-Based Introduction to Crystal Healing Whether you're new to the practice of crystal healing or have a level of experience with it, chances are you have questions: What works? What doesn't? How and when should I spend my money? And so on. Forget the magic, the mysticism, and the mythology. You've come to the right place for answers. Dan R. Lynch is a professional geologist and the author of many books about rocks and minerals. Julie A. Kirsch is a trained psychologist. Together, they delve into the fascinating studyof crystal healing, and they share their answers with you.The book begins with an explanation of what crystal healing is, as well as a simple introduction to the basics of geology/mineralogy. From there, the book takes a closer look at several of the most popular methods of crystal healing, such as wearing the crystals or using a healing crystal grid. That's followed by an examination of the science and the psychology behind what the crystals are said to do versus what they have been proven to do. A "field guide" section spotlights some of themost important minerals to know, including amethyst and fluorite, presenting the most commonly used crystals by healing practitioners. The book is rounded out with safety warnings, recommended resources, and more. It's everything you need to take an objective look at crystal healing and to make informed decisions about this controversial practice
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History of Heartbreak The Events That Tortured the Souls of Minnesota Sports Fans by Dan Whenesota, foreword by Dan Barreiro Adventure Publications • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 6 x 8 • 176 pages 9781940647418 • $22.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / History
We Love Minnesota Sports: Win, Lose, or Missed Field Goal!Let's face it: Minnesota fans have had it rough. From the Lakers leaving in 1960 to the original Hail Mary" to one of the worst trades in professional sports to the departure of the beloved North Stars, we've cried, shrugged our shoulders, and cried some more. From generation to generation, the heartbreaks continue to pile up. But we don't quit. We don't give up. Minnesota's fans of baseball, basketball, football, and hockey keep coming back, season after season, year after year.Twin Cities filmmaker Dan Whenesota has called upon the diehard fanatics in the Land of 10,000 Lakes to help him compile a list of the worst, the most devastating moments in our sports history. This "Calendar of Calamity" became the basis for History of Heartbreak . It's more than a collection of unforgettable moments. It's a tribute to our spirit, to our unwavering loyalty. It is a celebration of our favorite teams - the Vikings, Twins, Wild, Timberwolves, Lynx, Gophers, and more - and a reminder that those who have experienced the worst learn to truly cherish the best. Join Minnesota fans across the state and around the country in remembering the moments that both broke our hearts and brought us back for more.
Martha Stewart: In Her Own Words edited by Suzanne Sonnier Agate Publishing • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5 x 7 9781572842885 • $19.50 • pb • Biography / Rich & Famous
Get inside the head of one of the most influential women in the world, one who has penetrated almost every media space with her unique combination of savvy business sense, practical homemaking advice, and good humor. This collection of quotes has been gathered from Martha Stewart's numerous public statements- interviews, op-eds, television appearances, books, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of her business empire, her advice for life and the home, and her comeback after scandal and imprisonment. Martha Stewart has called herself a late bloomer," but after she published her first book, Entertaining, at the age of 49, she rapidly built on that first success, launching magazines, television shows, retail lines, and more books to establish a media empire. Her name is synonymous with tasteful decor, delicious from- scratch foods, and the covetable estates she keeps in upstate New York, the Hamptons, and Maine. Even after the insider trading scandal that threatened to derail her career in 2004, Stewart was able to rebuild her image of classic domesticity matched by a tireless work ethic. New ventures like "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party" have added a sense of playfulness to her personal brand and introduced her to new audiences.
Richard Branson: In His Own Words edited by Danielle McLimore Agate Publishing • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5 x 7 • 216 pages 9781572842915 • $19.50 • pb • Biography / Business • In Their Own Words
Richard Branson, who has been called England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16, when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and finding innovative ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate known as the Virgin Group. At the age of 20, Branson founded a mail-order record retailer. Two years later he built a recording studio where the first artist signed to his Virgin label, Mike Oldfield, recorded the haunting soundtrack to The Exorcist . Decades later, industries as varied as entertainment (Virgin Music), retail (Virgin Megastores), transportation (Virgin Airlines), and telecommunications (Virgin Mobile) all bear Branson's business moniker. For the first time, the most thought-provoking, revealing, and inspiring quotes from Branson have been compiled in a single book.
Updated and redesigned since its initial publication in 2013 as Virgin Rebel: Richard Branson in His Own Words, this new edition is a comprehensive guidebook to the inner workings of the Virgin Group chairman and founder. Hundreds of Branson's best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, music, entrepreneurship, politics, exploration, and life lessons, provide an intimate and direct look into the mind of this modern business icon.
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Dolly Parton: In Her Own Words edited by Suzanne Sonnier Agate Publishing • On Sale: Dec 18/20 • 5 x 7 9781572842946 • $19.50 • pb • Biography / Composers & Musicians • In Their Own Words
Get inside the head of one of the most beloved musicians of our time, a longtime country music phenomenon turned titan of industry and cultural icon: Dolly Parton.
This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Parton's numerous public statements- interviews, speeches, social media posts, and more. It's a comprehensive picture of her legacy as one of America's most recognizable music superstars, whose considerable impact can be felt well beyond popular culture.
Since her career began in the Nashville music scene of the 1960s, Parton has become revered for her work as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. Parton has sold over 100 million records world- wide, she's one of the most-honored female country performers of all time, and in 1999, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her profile has long transcended her musical achievements, as she became a successful businesswoman and co-owner of the Dollywood Company. She has also been recognized for her philanthropic work, providing scholarships and awards through her Dollywood Foundation and successful literacy program. State by Melissa Isaacson Agate Publishing • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 320 pages 9781572842908 • $25.50 • pb • Biography / Women
Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality-or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it.
In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson-along with the other girls who'd spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play-entered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For Missy," that team turned out to be basketball.
Title IX had passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity competition-and state tournaments-for girls' high school sports.
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears, 2nd ed. by Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Staff Agate Publishing • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 11 x 9.5 9781572842939 • $59.95 • cl • Sports & Recreation / Football
In Chicago, the Bears's grip on the city spans generations and cultures, endures disappointments, and impels celebration of triumphs great and small. From the team's humble beginnings to its century-long status as the flagship NFL franchise, the Chicago Tribune has documented every season. The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears is an impressive testament to Bears tradition, compiling photography, original box scores, and entertaining essays from Hall of Fame reporters. This expanded second edition will include updated writing from the past five years, and will be released to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of the NFL-and the Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears is a decade-by-decade look at the team, beginning with George Halas moving the team to Chicago in 1921. The Bears soon became known as the Monsters of the Midway, dominating the sport with four NFL titles in the 1940s, seven winning campaigns in the 1950s, and a final title with Halas as coach in 1963. Their 1985 Super Bowl championship transformed the city's passion into a full-blown love affair that continues today.
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The Tahini Table Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal and in Between by Amy Zitelman and Andrew Schloss, by (photographer) Jillian Guyette Agate Publishing • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 7 x 9 • 248 pages 9781572842892 • $43.50 • cl • Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Herbs, Spices, Condiments
Most people who know about tahini understand the sesame paste as simply one of the building blocks of hummus. But for Amy Zitelman, CEO and cofounder of woman-owned Soom Foods-the leading purveyor of tahini and tahini products in the American market-the culinary potential of tahini goes far beyond hummus. In The Tahini Table: Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal, tahini is introduced to home cooks as a new pantry staple that can be used in recipes from dips to desserts. Tahini, made from pressed roasted sesame seeds, is a healthy, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and low- sugar superfood rich in Omega fatty acids, protein, and calcium. Although tahini's historical roots are in the Middle East, Zitelman aims to stretch the culinary borders of tahini outside of traditional Middle-Eastern fare. The Tahini Table contains 100 recipes that showcase tahini's wide range of uses. This cult condiment is mild enough to step in as an inspiring replacement for the eggs, cheese, mayo, and cream called for in recipes that American home cooks are making for their families every day. The Tahini Table provides tahini hacks for reimagined American classics, including vegan "queso," eggless mayonnaise, and gluten-free brownies. Cooking for Latinos with Diabetes (Cocinando para Latinos con Diabetes), 3rd Edition by Olga V. Fuste, MS RD CDE American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 8.5 x 9 • 304 pages 9781580407298 • $28.50 • pb • Cooking / Health & Healing / Diabetic & Sugar-Free
Take a culinary journey through Latin America!
Capture the flavor and culinary traditions of authentic Latin cooking with more than 100 healthy and diabetes-friendly recipes. This newly revised and updated edition of the best-selling bilingual cookbook features both new recipes and updated classics that meet nutrition guidelines set by the American Diabetes Association. Plus, each recipe is provided in English and Spanish! In addition to classic favorites, you'll find dozens of new recipes, including: Faina, Arroz Imperial, Peanut & Caramel Popsicle, Ensalada Pulpo, and much more!
From rice and beans to hearty stews, you'll find all your favorite Latin dishes, modified to fit a diabetes- friendly meal plan.
Diabetic Cooking Made Easy A Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at Home by Jennifer Bucko Lamplough American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages 9781580407656 • $14.95 • pb • Cooking / Health & Healing / Diabetic & Sugar-Free
Cooking more meals at home is one of the best ways to change the way you eat and manage your diabetes. But If you haven't spent much time in the kitchen, this task may feel nearly impossible! You don't need to be a professional chef to create wholesome meals at home that will help you manage your diabetes and save you money. Diabetic Cooking Made Easy is an introductory guide that will give you all the information you need to get started and help you feel more confident in the kitchen. In addition to tips and guidance on meal planning, equipping your kitchen, shopping, and cooking, you'll find 50 quick and easy beginner recipes that use simple ingredients, don't require any fancy kitchen gadgets, and come together effortlessly. You'll also find a sample, low-budget meal plan and grocery list to help get you started.
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Diabetic Cooking Made Easy A Beginner's Guide to Healthy Meals at Home by Jennifer Bucko Lamplough American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages 9781580407861 • $29.50 • cl • Cooking / Health & Healing / Diabetic & Sugar-Free
Cooking more meals at home is one of the best ways to change the way you eat and manage your diabetes. But If you haven't spent much time in the kitchen, this task may feel nearly impossible! You don't need to be a professional chef to create wholesome meals at home that will help you manage your diabetes and save you money.DIABETIC COOKING MADE EASY is an introductory guide that will give you all the information you need to get started and help you feel more confident in the kitchen. In addition to tips and guidance on meal planning, equipping your kitchen, shopping, and cooking, you'll find 50 quick and easy beginner recipes that use simple ingredients, don't require any fancy kitchen gadgets, and come together effortlessly. You'll also find a sample, low-budget meal plan and grocery list to help get you started.
Everyday Low Carb A Complete Guide to Carb-Savvy Eating for People with Diabetes and Prediabetes by Christy Brissette American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Dec 25/20 • 8.5 x 9 • 288 pages 9781580407458 • $37.50 • pb • Cooking / Health & Healing / Diabetic & Sugar-Free
Everyday Low Carb is the definitive guide to low-carb eating for people with diabetes, from the experts at the American Diabetes Association.
As many people living with diabetes know, carbohydrate is an important nutrient that plays a large role in managing blood glucose. With this in mind, a number of diets have been created over the years designed to reduce or eliminate carbs as a way to improve glycemic control. Unfortunately, many of these fad diets weren't based on scientific evidence and were unhealthy, heard to follow, and sometimes dangerous for people with diabetes. With this in mind, the American Diabetes Association teamed up with author and registered dietitian Christy Brissette to create Everyday Low Carb: A Complete Guide to Carb-Savvy Eating for People with Diabetes and Prediabetes .
The What Do I Cook Now? Cookbook Recipes and Action Plan for People with Diabetes or Prediabetes by Tami A. Ross, RDN, LD, CDE, MLDE and Nancy S. Hughes American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Nov 17/20 • 7 x 9 • 224 pages 9781580407601 • $37.50 • C-format paperback • Cooking / Health & Healing / Diabetic & Sugar-Free
The cookbook that answers the question every person with diabetes and prediabetes asks: What do I cook now?
From the authors of the bestselling What Do I Eat Now? nutrition and meal planning bible comes the cookbook that puts meal planning advice into practice. If you've been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes, you probably know that healthy eating is essential to the successful management or prevention of type 2 diabetes. With so much nutrition advice out there and so many different diets, it's hard to know who to trust or what is best for you. This cookbook and action plan cuts through the noise, and gives you the information and recipes you need, from the experts you can trust.
More than just a collection of recipes, this cookbook will walk you through the why and how of healthy eating, giving you the knowledge and skills you need to form healthier habits. You'll learn: how to find a healthy eating pattern that works for you; the simplest way to plan healthy meals (no counting, measuring, or calculating required!); how to equip your kitchen for diabetes-friendly cooking; easy tricks to make recipes and meals healthier tips for shopping and cooking to save you time and money. Each chapter includes simple recipes to help you practice new healthy eating skills and build your confidence in the kitchen. Your journey to a happy, healthy life with diabetes starts here!
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Pregnancy & Diabetes A Real-Life Guide for Women with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes by Marina Chapparo, RDN CDE MPH American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 6 x 9 • 128 pages 9781580407304 • $26.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Pregnancy & Childbirth
A practical, down-to-earth guide to managing diabetes and pregnancy from an educator, nutrition professional, and mother living with diabetes.
Diabetes during pregnancy can be a scary experience for women, whether they are diagnosed with gestational diabetes or have been living type 1 or type 2 diabetes for years. This book gives moms-to-be practical, easy-to-follow, and reassuring advice to successfully manage diabetes during the nine months of pregnancy. It answers common questions such as:
- Can I have a healthy pregnancy if I have diabetes? - What can I eat? - How do I keep blood sugars in target?
The 2020-21 Guide to Medications for the Therapy of Diabetes Mellitus edited by John R. White American Diabetes Association • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 568 pages 9781580407670 • $104.95 • pb • Medical / Endocrinology & Metabolism
Newly updated to reflect the latest research and medical guidance, the 2020-21 Guide to Medications for the Treatment of Diabetes offers a bridge between drug handbooks and pharmacology texts.
Focusing entirely on diabetes drugs, this reference is divided into two sections: Drugs used to manage
Black in the Middle An Anthology of the Black Midwest edited by Terrion L. Williamson Belt Publishing • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 9781948742696 • $29.95 • pb • Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies
Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous with the Midwest. Since the 2016 election, many traditional media outlets have renewed attention on the conditions of Middle America," but the national discourse continues to marginalize the Black people who live there. Black in the Middle brings the voices of Black Midwesterners front and center. Filled with compelling narratives, thought-provoking analyses, and impactful commentaries, this anthology explores the various meanings and experiences of blackness throughout the Rust Belt, the Midwest, and the Great Plains. Bringing together people from major metropolitan centers like Detroit and Chicago as well as smaller cities and rural areas where the lives of Black residents have too often gone unacknowledged, this collectionis a much-needed corrective to the narrative of the region.
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Clutter An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard Belt Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5 x 7.25 • 192 pages 9781948742726 • $38.95 • cl • History / Social History
I'm sitting on the floor in my mother's house, surrounded by stuff." So begins Jennifer Howard's Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Sparked by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother's house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods. With sharp prose and an eye for telling detail, she connects the dots between the Industrial Revolution, theSears & Roebuck catalog, and the Container Store, and shines unsparing light on clutter's darker connections to environmental devastation and hoarding disorder. In a confounding age when Amazon can deliver anything at the click of a mouse and decluttering guru Marie Kondo can become a reality TV star, Howard's bracing analysis has never been more timely.
Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook edited by Ben Gwin Belt Publishing • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 9781948742719 • $29.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / Middle Atlantic
Pittsburgh is made up of over 90 different neighborhoods, and while The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook doesn't have room for all of them, it does its best, exploring the contrasts that exist between and within neighborhoods and how they play out in personal narratives. In these pages you'll find essays about old Lawrenceville, and poems about Larimer before Google. Nonfiction set in the Mon Valley, Wilkinsburg, and East Pittsburgh, and work by lifetime residents, transplants and transients. The fourth in Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook is a book that reflects the city.
The Dayton Anthology edited by Shannon Shelton Miller Belt Publishing • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 9781948742801 • $29.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / Midwest
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The Gary Anthology edited by Samuel A. Love Belt Publishing • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 9781948742757 • $29.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / Midwest
Instant City," "Magic City of Steel," "Sin City," "Chocolate City," "Plywood City," "Murder Capital." Once the second-largest city in Indiana, and home to the world's largest steel mill, Gary has suffered and shrunk greatly in the postindustrial global economy. Population numbers now approach pre-Great Depression lows. Large swathes of its land are urban prairie, and a recent survey found a quarter of the Gary's built environment is in a dilapidated or dangerous condition. But Gary isalso a center of Black culture and political power. It is home to the Indiana Dunes National Park and globally rare ecosystems. Union, community organizing, and environmental justice struggles based in Gary have profoundly shaped social and political life in the United States. It is the setting for everyday joys and tragedies, and very much alive. The Gary Anthology 's contributors include not only the essayist, poet, and journalist but also the graffiti writer, the minister, the activist, the singer, the organizer, and of course, the steel worker. Their work complicates standard narratives about steel, violence and urban decay, and offers readers the chance to hear from those who are reshaping the city from the bottom up. Taken as a whole, the collection is a vibrant rebuke to the notion that Gary is "dead."
The Louisville Anthology edited by Erin Keane Belt Publishing • On Sale: Oct 1/20 • 6 x 9 • 224 pages 9781948742702 • $29.95 • pb • History / US / State & Local / Midwest
What is Louisville's identity in the twenty-first century? Is it the Southernmost Midwestern city, the Midwestiest Southern town, or somewhere in between? Living on the border of two regions creates a hybrid sensibility full of contradictions that can be difficult to articulate beyond from Louisville, not Kentucky." In this collection of evocative essays and poems by natives and transplants, The Louisville Anthology offers locals and visitors a closer look at compelling private and public spaces in an attempt to articulate what defines Louisville beyond - but also inclusive of - its most recognized cultural exports.
StarCraft: Ghost Academy (Volume One) Blizzard Legends by Keith Decandido Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 5 x 7.5 • 192 pages 9781950366255 • $19.50 • pb • Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Science Fiction
Elite Soldiers known as ghosts are trained to use their special psychic powers for military operations, and one Ghost Academy cadet, Nova, must handle both her teammates and her own demons.
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The Art of Hearthstone: Year of the Mammoth by Robert Brooks Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 10 x 11.5 • 144 pages 9781950366224 • $44.95 • cl • The Art of Hearthstone
It was a year of exploration, adventures... and loot! The third volume of the Art of Hearthstone chronicles the artistic achievements that infused the Year of the Mammoth with charm, character, and beauty. Artists, developers, technical wizards, and cinematic geniuses gave players the chance to explore the exotic wilds in Journey to Un'goro Crater, challenge the Lich King in Knights of the Frozen Throne, and plunder a bizarre empire of Kobolds & Catacombs. Through vivid illustrations and behind-the-scenes interviews with artists and gamedesigners, the Art of Hearthstone draws back the curtain to a massive creative undertaking, showing how a huge team came together to deliver one of Hearthstone's most impressive years ever.
The Cinematic Art of Overwatch by Jake Gerli, Assisted by Matt Burns Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 1 x 11.5 • 244 pages 9781945683640 • $67.50 • cl
Starting with the announcement trailer in 2014, Overwatch's award-winning cinematics captured the hearts of millions across the world, introducing them to a hopeful science-fiction world where heroes are needed. Crafting these animated shorts required the Blizzard cinematics team to explore new ways of animated film making with a bold new art style, more frequent releases, and intimate collaboration with the game team. The Cinematic Art of Overwatch chronicles this journey, featuring never-before-seen art and anecdotes that illustrate how Overwatch's richly imagined characters and world were brought to life through cinematic storytelling.
World of Warcraft: Exploring Azeroth The Eastern Kingdoms by Christie Golden Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 7.75 x 10 • 168 pages 9781950366279 • $37.50 • cl • Fic / Fantasy / Action & Adventure
For over a quarter of a century, players of Warcraft and World of Warcraft have been treated to a treasure trove of artifacts, gear, weaponry, and trinkets of both awe and amusement. Now players can get an in-depth look at the items they have collected... and some they might not have just yet. With exquisite art and a framing story involving the no-nonsense Matthias Shaw and high-spirited Captain Flynn Fairwind, this book covers the continent of the Eastern Kingdom, from Stormwind to Stranglethorn, plaguelands to palaces, and all the lands in between.
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World of Warcraft: Pearl of Pandaria Blizzard Legends by Micky Neilson Blizzard Entertainment • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 11 x 7.5 • 112 pages 9781950366262 • $22.50 • cl • Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Fantasy
In this enthralling original graphic novel published in a landscape format, you will meet the PANDAREN, one of the most beloved (and mysterious) races in World of Warcraft!
Written by Micky Neilson (the World of Warcraft MMORPG, World of Warcraft: Ashbringer and World of Warcraft: Curse of the Worgen), with art by fan-favorite Sean Cheeks" Galloway (TV's Teen Titans Go and Wednesday Comics), this story ties directly into the upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion pack. World of Warcraft: Pearl of Pandaria introduces Li Li Stormstout, a precocious young student who lives atop a giant turtle called Shen-zin Su. Like the rest of the wandering island's Pandaren, Li Li comes from a line of adventurers who left their homeland long ago to explore the world... and she wants nothing more than to chase that dream. But when Li Li runs away to find her famous uncle Chen, how will she survive Azeroth's perils?
A Long Stride The Story of the World's No. 1 Scotch Whisky by Nicholas Morgan Canongate Books • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 6.38 x 8.66 • 256 pages 9781838852078 • $37.50 • cl • Cooking / Beverages / Wine & Spirits
The remarkable history of how Johnnie Walker became the world's number one Scotch, a perfect gift for whisky fans
The history of Johnnie Walker, beginning in 1820, is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker - the man who started the story? And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small grocery shop in Kilmarnock to become the world's number one Scotch?
A Long Stride tells the story of how John Walker and a succession of ingenious and progressive business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international stage. By doing things their own way, Johnnie Walker overturned the conventions of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, survived two world wars, and flourished despite prohibition and the Great Depression to become the first truly global whisky brand, revolutionizing the world of advertising along the way.
Another Planet A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn Canongate Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 224 pages 9781786892584 • $23.95 • pb • Biography / People Of Color
A wise and witty exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen
Before becoming an acclaimed musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
Returning to the scene of her childhood, Thorn takes us beyond the bus shelters, the pub car parks, and the weekly discos, to the parents who wanted so much for their children and the children who wanted none of it. With great wit and insight, Thorn reconsiders the Green Belt post-war dream so many artists have mocked, and yet so many artists have come from.
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Leaving Alexandria A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway Canongate Books • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 368 pages 9781786898913 • $23.95 • pb • Religion / Christianity / Christian Life • Canons
This Sunday Times bestseller is a memoir about faith and doubt, with a strong meditative and philosophical heart
At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed, Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his confident public faith lay a restless heart and an inquisitive mind.
Poignant, wise, and fiercely honest, Leaving Alexandria is a remarkable memoir of a life defined by faith but plagued by doubt.
PARADISE Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray and Dante Alighieri Canongate Books • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 144 pages 9781786894748 • $44.95 • cl • Poetry / European / Italian
The final book from the late Alasdair Gray-the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul.
The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante's trilogy.
Rise Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way by Gina Miller Canongate Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 224 pages 9781786892911 • $22.50 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
An extraordinary account of what it means to stand up for justice, and for yourself, no matter the cost; now with a new epilogue
"It is when things feel the most uncertain, and we are at our most tired, frustrated, and worn out, that we must dig deep. That's when we need to find it within ourselves not to turn away and hide in our bunkers, but to rise up and be even more vocal . . . If we hide, when we emerge from our hiding places the world might be transformed into a hostile, alien environment in which we have no say at all, and where the things we love and value no longer exist.
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The Art of Rest How to Find Respite in the Modern Age by Claudia Hammond Canongate Books • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 5.67 x 8.66 • 304 pages 9781786892805 • $38.95 • cl • Psychology / General
Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead, we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how.
The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on - 'The Rest Test': the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different; it is how we unwind, calm our minds, and recharge our bodies. And, as the survey revealed, how much rest you get is directly linked to your sense of well-being.
Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, examines the science behind the results to establish what really works, and offers a roadmap (...)
The Heights by Parker Bilal Canongate Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 320 pages 9781838850807 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Crime
The gripping second book in the Crane and Drake series from crime writer Parker Bilal
What starts with the gruesome discovery of a severed head on the Tube soon becomes personal for former DI Cal Drake. After one betrayal too many, Drake has abandoned the police force to become a private detective. He's joined forces with enigmatic forensic pathologist Dr Rayhana Crane, and it's not long before the case leads them to the darkest corners of the nation's capital and into dangerously close contact with an international crime circuit, a brutal local rivalry, and a very personal quest for retribution. With the murder victim closely tied to Drake's past, his new future is about to come under threat.
The Honours by Tim Clare Canongate Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 416 pages 9781782114796 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Fantasy / General
Neil Gaiman meets The Golden Compass in this dark and epic fantasy novel about the secrets we keep, the lies we need to believe, and the things that are truly worth fighting for
True honor is endless.
1935. Norfolk. War is looming in Great Britain and the sprawling country estate of Alderberen Hall is shadowed by suspicion and paranoia. Alderberen's newest resident, Delphine Venner, is determined to uncover the secrets of the Hall's elite society, which has taken in her gullible mother and unstable father.
As she explores the house and discovers the secret network of hidden passages that thread through the estate, Delphine unearths a world more dark and threatening than she ever imagined. With the help of head gamekeeper Mr Garforth, Delphine must learn the bloody lessons of war, and find the soldier within herself in time to battle the deadly forces amassing in the woods...
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The Ice House by Tim Clare Canongate Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 416 pages 9781786894823 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Fantasy / General
A strangely beautiful, beautifully strange fantasy" (SFX) about endless life, cheating death, and staying true to what matters most from "one of the UK's most versatile writers" (Grazia)
War doesn't end. It sleeps.
Delphine Venner remembers everything. She remembers what it is to be a child of war, and what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago.
And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, daily paying a terrible price for her unending youth, is planning one final death, the death that will cost her everything. The death which requires Delphine.
In the battle to destroy an ageless evil, Delphine must remember who she is and be ready to fight once more, as war reawakens.
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Canongate Books • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 5.08 x 7.8 • 448 pages 9781838851170 • $23.95 • B-format paperback • Fiction / General
Ethiopia. 1935.
With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade.
Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers?
The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.
Unspeakable The Things We Cannot Say by Harriet Shawcross Canongate Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 352 pages 9781786890078 • $23.95 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
From award-winning journalist and film-maker Harriet Shawcross comes a deeply personal exploration of silence, taboo, and how and why words fail us
As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language.
From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster, to the taboo of coming out, Harriet examines all the ways in which words scare us. She studies wartime poet George Oppen, interviews the author of The Vagina Monologues, meets Nepalese earthquake-survivors, and the founders of the Samaritans, and asks: what makes us silent?
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KISS and Philosophy edited by Courtland Lewis Carus Publishing • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9780812694918 • $29.50 • pb • Philosophy / Essays • Popular Culture and Philosophy
KISS is the most outrageous and yet the most enduring of rock bands, with an unparalleled, almost religious level of devotion from millions of die-hard fans. In KISS and Philosophy, professional thinkers of diverse outlooks provide much-needed insights into the motivating ideas and metaphysical foundations of the KISS take on life.
According to some, the true message of KISS is self-actualization through the hard work of following your dreams. Others focus on the existential aspect of KISS thinking, drawing upon Camus and Sartre to show that KISS is preoccupied with empowering the individual to achieve self-greatness. By contrast, there is a view of KISS which identifies a destroyer" attitude, leading some listeners to reject KISS outright, while encouraging others to become the most dedicated of followers. Yet another view sees KISS's "letting loose" as essentially Dionysian.
Some chapters gain access to KISS thinking by tracing the band's cultural and historical impact, finding meaning in the way generations of fans make sense of KISS's always evolving output, the changing (...)
Perry Mason and Philosophy edited by Heather L. Rivera and Robert Arp Carus Publishing • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9780812699074 • $29.50 • A-format paperback • Philosophy / Essays • Popular Culture and Philosophy
In 1933 the crime writer Erle Stanley Gardner, himself a practicing lawyer, unleashed the character Perry Mason in the novel The Case of the Velvet Claws . Perry Mason entered into public consciousness as a new conception of the role of the defense lawyer, so that millions of Americans came to expect every criminal trial to have its Perry Mason moment."
In the 1950s the Perry Mason TV show had a phenomenal success, and Mason came to be identified with Raymond Burr. Now Perry Mason has again been restored to life in the HBO series starring Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow. Meanwhile, the eighty-two original Erle Stanley Gardner novels continue to sell thousands of copies each week.
Perry Mason gave America a new conception of the trial lawyer, as someone who was always loyal to his client and always prepared to use dirty tricks such as misdirection and withholding of evidence to protect the innocent and secure the ends of Justice. The Mason of the novels is less scrupulous than the Raymond Burr Mason, and would sometimes be in danger of going to jail if the trial didn't turn out right (...)
The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva edited by Sara G. Beardsworth Carus Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 1000 pages 9780812694895 • $299.95 • cl • Philosophy / General • The Library of Living Philosophers
The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva is the latest addition to the highly acclaimed series, The Library of Living Philosophers. The book epitomizes the objectives of this acclaimed series; it contains critical interpretation of one of the greatest philosophers of our time, and pursues more creative regional and world dialogue on philosophical questions. The format provides a detailed interaction between those who interpret and critique Kristeva's work and the seminal thinker herself, giving broad coverage, from diverse viewpoints, of all the major topics establishing her reputation. With questions directed to the philosopher while they are alive, the volumes in The Library of Living Philosophers have come to occupy a uniquely significant place in the realm of philosophy. The inclusion of Julia Kristeva constitutes a vital addition to an already robust list of thinkers.
The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva exemplifies world-class intellectual work closely connected to the public sphere. Kristeva has been said to have inherited the intellectual throne left vacant by Simone de Beauvoir," and has won many awards, including the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought.
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Best Debut Short Stories 2020 The PEN America Dau Prize by selected by Tracy O'Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Deb Olin Unferth Catapult • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 240 pages 9781646220229 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author) • PEN America Best Debut Short Stories
The essential annual guide to the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Tracy O'Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth
Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen compelling answers to these questions.
The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes twelve writers who have made outstanding debuts in literary magazines in the previous year. They are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, themselves innovators of the short story form: Tracy O'Neill, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Deb Olin Unferth. Each piece comes with an introduction by its original editors, whose commentaries provide valuable insight into what magazines are looking for in their submissions, and showcase the vital work they do.
Black Card A Novel by Chris L. Terry Catapult • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 272 pages 9781646220199 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
Black Card holds many modes and many moods in its packed and tactile narrative. Chris L. Terry has managed to capture, all at once, the complications of being black, being young, and being in love. This is a detailed ride about finding one's way to the inside, and finding that the inside isn't all you thought it would be. This book is a mirror, inside of which I saw so many selves." - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us and Go Ahead in the Rain
Chris L. Terry's Black Card is an uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be "black enough," a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call "black stuff." After remaining silent during a racist incident, the unnamed narrator has his Black Card revoked by Lucius, his guide through Richmond, Virginia, where Confederate flags and memorials are a part of everyday life. High as the Waters Rise A Novel by Anja Kampmann, translated by Anne Posten Catapult • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781948226523 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
German poet Anja Kampmann's award-winning debut novel is the dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past
One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Matyas, has gone missing. A search of the rig confirms his fear that Matyas has fallen into the sea.
Grief-stricken, he embarks on an epic emotional and physical journey that takes him to Morocco, to Budapest and Matyas's hometown in Hungary, to Malta, Italy, and finally to the mining town of his childhood in Germany. Waclaw's encounters along the way with other lost and yearning souls - Matyas's angry, grieving half-sister; lonely rig workers on shore leave; a truck driver who watches the world change from his driver's seat - bring us closer to his origins while also revealing the problems of of a globalized
economy dependent on waning natural resources. High as the Waters Rise is a stirring exploration of male
intimacy, the nature of memory and grief, and the cost of freedom - the story of a man who stands at the
margins of a society from which he has profited little, though its functioning depends on his labor.
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What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron Catapult • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781948226967 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
An atmospheric, suspenseful story of a couple's struggle to adopt a baby, while staying in a fading, grand European hotel. (Think: Barton Fink crossed with Patricia Highsmith)
In this atmospheric, suspenseful novel, an American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. Their difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child.
The couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open, the restaurant serves thirteen-course dinners from centuries past, and the doors of the guest rooms have been salvaged from demolished opera houses. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse, a debauched businessman, an enigmatic faith healer, and a stoic bartender who dispenses an addictive, lichen-flavored schnapps. Nothing is as it seems in this mysterious, frozen world, and the longer the couple endure the punishing cold the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself. Tiny Nightmares Very Short Stories of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto Catapult • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 4.88 x 7 • 204 pages 9781948226622 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Horror
A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers - edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder (Black Balloon, 2018).
In this playful, spine-tingling collection, leading literary and horror writers spin unforgettably chilling tales in only a few pages. Tiny Nightmares brings to life broken-hearted vampires, Uber-taking serial killers, mind- reading witches, and monsters of all imaging, as well as stories that tackle the horrors of our modern world from global warming and racism to social media addiction and online radicalization. Writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott expand our understanding of horror fiction with inventive and blood-curdling new tales. We suggest reading with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack.
In the Country of Women A Memoir by Susan Straight Catapult • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 384 pages 9781646220205 • $25.50 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
Straight's memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women's stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading. -San Francisco Chronicle
In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight - and
eventually her three daughters - heard for decades the stories of Dwayne's female ancestors. Some women
escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled
abusive men. Straight's mother-in-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan's
family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward - fromSwitzerland, Canada, and the
Colorado Rockies to California.
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The Baddest Bitch in the Room A Memoir by Sophia Chang Catapult • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781646220090 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Sophia Chang's debut memoir The Baddest Bitch in the Room is an inspiring story about her life as the first Asian woman in hip-hop, working with such acts as The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest. The book spans her career in the music business, her path to becoming an entrepreneur, and her candid accounts of marriage, motherhood, aging, desire, marginalization, and martial arts.
Fearless and unpredictable, Sophia Chang prevailed in a male-dominated music industry to manage the biggest names in hip-hop and R&B. The daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, Chang left for New York City, and soon became a powerful voice in music boardrooms at such record companies as Atlantic, Jive, and Universal Music Group.
As an A&R rep, Chang met a Staten Island rapper named Prince Rakeem, now known as the RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, the most revered and influential rap group in hip-hop history.
The Ungrateful Refugee What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri Catapult • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 368 pages 9781646220212 • $25.50 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence." --The New York Times Book Review "Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those of the 'feared swarms'...Her family's escape from Isfahan to Oklahoma, which involved waiting in Dubai and Italy, is wildly fascinating...Using energetic prose, Nayeri is an excellent conduit for these heart-rending stories, eschewing judgment and employing care in threading the stories in with her own...This is a memoir laced with stimulus and plenty of heart at a time when the latter has grown elusive." --Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story (...)
White Tears/Brown Scars How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Catapult • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 304 pages 9781948226745 • $25.50 • pb
For readers of White Fragility, an explosive book of history and cultural criticism (Ruby Hamad blows open inconvenient truths . . . in this powerful book" - Marie Claire Australia ) which argues that white feminism, from Australia to Zimbabwe to the United States, has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color.
Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color.
Discussing subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and 19th century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad undertakes a new investigation of gender and and race. She shows how the division between innocent white women and racialized, sexualized women of color was created, and why this division is crucial to confront.
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The Socialist Awakening What's Different Now About the Left by John B. Judis Columbia Global Reports • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 5 x 7.5 9781734420708 • $23.95 • pb • Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
Who are the young people rallying behind Bernie Sanders for president? The Socialist Awakening brilliantly explains how a new generation has rediscovered socialism (but not in the traditional Marxist guise) driven by their growing anxiety and uncertainty about access to education, healthcare and the danger of climate change. It is socialism within capitalism and it's a political trend we need to better understand now.
There is renewed interest in socialism in the US and the UK, particularly among young people. Who are these new socialists? Why now?
In The Socialist Awakening author John B. Judis, who brilliantly explained the rise of populism and nationalism in his two most recent books, The Populist Explosion and The Nationalist Revival , charts the path of socialism in the last century to today's rising left, which has little connection to Marxian socialism (...)
The Revisioners A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 288 pages 9781640094260 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / African American / Contemporary Women
Few capture the literary world's attention with their debut like [Sexton] did; her first novel, A Kind of Freedom, was nominated for the National Book Award. . . Her anticipated follow-up offers a bracing window into Southern life and tensions, alternating between two women's stories-set nearly 100 years apart." - Entertainment Weekly
"Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's writing is graceful and stylish, her truths relevant and necessary-it's just so exhilarating to read her. I was mesmerized by The Revisioners, an impeccable novel of magic, loss, and family, all anchored by generations of powerful women." -Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up
In 1924, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan (...) , Evening A Novel by Nessa Rapoport Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9781640094086 • $38.95 • cl
Two sisters, lost youth, and youthful obsessions; organized by day as the family sits shiva, Evening unfolds the paradoxes of love, ambition, siblings, and the way the past continues to inflect the present, sometimes against our will.
In her thirties, Eve is summoned home by her distraught family to mourn the premature death of her sister, Tam, a return that becomes an unexpected encounter with the past. Eve bears the burden of a secret: Two weeks before Tam died, Eve and Tam argued so vehemently that they did not speak again. Her sister was famous, acclaimed for her career as a TV journalist and her devoted marriage. But Tam, too, had a secret, revealed the day after the funeral, one that inverts the story Eve has told herself since their childhood. In the aftermath, Eve is forced to revise her version of her fractured family, her sister's accomplishments and vaunted marriage, and her own impeded ambition in work and love.
Day by day as the family sits shiva, the stories unfold, illuminating the past to shape the present. Evening explores the dissonant love between sisters, the body in longing, the pride we take in sustaining our illusions, and the redemption that is possible only when they are dispelled.
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The Disaster Tourist A Novel by Yun Ko-eun, translated by Lizzie Buehler Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640094161 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement.
For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specializing in vacation packages to destinations devastated by disaster and climate change. Her work life is uneventful until trouble arises in the form of a predatory colleague.
To forestall any disruption of business as usual, Jungle makes Yona a proposition: a paid vacation" to the desert island of Mui. But Yona must pose as a tourist and assess whether Jungle should continue their partnership with the unprofitable destination.
Yona travels to the remote island, whose major attraction is an underwhelming sinkhole, a huge disappointment to the customers who've paid a premium. Soon Yona discovers the resort's plan to (...)
Three Flames A Novel by Alan Lightman Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640094253 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
Lightman's best book since Einstein's Dreams . . . a piercing story of social dissolution in damaged Cambodia . . . an important story of global women's rights." - Annie Proulx
The stories of one Cambodian family are intricately braided together in Alan Lightman's first work of fiction in seven years.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, set in a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. Ryna is a mother fighting against memories of her father's death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge and her powerful desire for revenge. Daughter Nita is married off at sixteen to a wandering husband, while her sister Thida is sent to the city to work inthe factories to settle their father's gambling debt. Kamal, the only son, dreams of marrying the most beautiful girl in the village and escaping the life of a farmer. Yet it will be up to Sreypov, the youngest, to bravely challenge her father (...) The Beadworkers Stories by Beth Piatote Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640094277 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Native American & Aboriginal
Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world
Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote's first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.
A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college - one French and the other Lakota - each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce-Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.
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A Human Algorithm How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are by Flynn Coleman Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 336 pages 9781640094284 • $25.50 • pb • Computers / Artificial Intelligence
The Transpacific Experiment How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future by Matt Sheehan Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 320 pages 9781640094208 • $25.50 • pb • Political Science / Globalization
An Amazon Best History Book of the Month
A timely, vital account of California's unique relationship with China, told through the exploits of the entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians driving transformations with international implications
Tensions between the world's superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. Yet, the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, making California and China a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the twenty-first century.
In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist and China analyst Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections. Sheehan tells the story of a Southern Californian mayor who believes (...)
This Is Ohio The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America by Jack Shuler Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 304 pages 9781640093553 • $38.95 • cl • Social Science / Poverty
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The National Road Dispatches From a Changing America by Tom Zoellner Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 9781640092907 • $38.95 • cl • Social Science / Essays
How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land - in every direction - could be fastened together into a whole?"
From the embattled newsrooms of small town newspapers to the pornography film sets of the Los Angeles basin, from the check-out lanes of Dollar General to the holy sites of Mormonism, from the nation's highest peaks to the razed remains of a cherished home, like a latter-day Woody Guthrie, Tom Zoellner takes to the highways and byways of a vast land in search of the soul of its people.
But what does it mean when a nation accustomed to moving begins to settle down, when political discord threatens unity, and when technology disrupts traditional ways of building communities? Is a shared soil enough to reinvigorate a national spirit? In these divided times, Zoellner's journey across America - and into our often-contradictory histories - serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the (...)
Lincoln's Lie A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781640092822 • $38.95 • cl • History / US / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
A thrilling dive into the little-known, darker side of a revered president's history, Lincoln's Lie untangles the threads behind a mysterious 1864 newspaper article to reveal how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War, shining new light onto today's issues of fake news and presidential conflict with the press.
In 1864, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, two newspapers published a call, allegedly authored by President Lincoln, for the immediate conscription of 400,000 more Union soldiers. New York streets erupted in pandemonium. Wall Street markets went wild.
When Lincoln sent troops to seize the newspaper presses and arrest the editors, it became clear: The proclamation was a lie. Who put out this fake news? Was it a Confederate spy hoping to incite another (...)
Looking for Miss America A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781640092235 • $41.95 • cl • History / Social History
From an author praised for writing delicious social history" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times ) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals - and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress
Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women's status during periods of social change - the post-suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever-changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations.
Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant's history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be "of the white race," was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s.
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The Doll A Portrait of My Mother by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson Counterpoint • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 208 pages 9781640094222 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Biographical
In this autobiographical novel, Albania's most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom.
Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible."
In his father's great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight-lipped and wise mother-in-law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will never again step foot over the threshold to leave her home. Young Ismail finds it difficult to understand his mother's tears, though he can understand her boredom. She told him the reason herself in aphrase that terrified and obsessed the boy: "The house is eating me up!" The Way of Imagination Essays by Scott Russell Sanders Counterpoint • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 272 pages 9781640093652 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Essays
Prize-winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living through climate disruption, as climate change and broad extinction forever alter our place on the planet and our lives together.
Imagination breaks the shell of the status quo, summoning up objects that do not yet exist, actions that no one has yet performed, and wiser ways of living that have yet to be realized.
Fascinated by science and math from an early age, Scott Russell Sanders later developed a passion for literature and art. From his college years onward, he has been deeply engaged in struggles against racism, sexism, environmental devastation, and war. Gradually he realized that his response to each of these challenges arose from compassion and a desire to reduce suffering.
Woven through his reflections on issues vital to human survival and flourishing, Sanders tells the story (...)
The Practice of the Wild Essays by Gary Snyder, introduction by Robert Hass Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 256 pages 9781640094215 • $25.50 • pb • Nature / Essays
This is an important book for anyone interested in the ethical interrelationships of things, places, and people, and it is a book that is not just read but taken in." - Library Journal
Featuring a new introduction by Robert Hass, the nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and thought, and this profound collection is widely accepted as one of the central texts on wilderness and the interaction of nature and culture.
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Discovering the True Self Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation by Kodo Sawaki, Translated with commentary by Arthur Braverman Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 272 pages 9781640093775 • $25.50 • pb • Religion / Buddhism / Zen
You can't see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen." Profound Zen Buddhism teachings explained in ordinary language from one of the most respected Zen masters of the 20th century, Kodo Sawaki.
Having come of age as an orphan in the slums of Tsu City, Japan, Kodo Sawaki had to fight his way to adulthood, and became one of the most respected Zen masters of the 20th century. He had a great understanding of Dogen Zenji's teaching and he knew how to express Dogen's philosophy in clear, easily- understood language. Sawaki's primary mission was to bring all people to an awareness of the Self, which he believed came through Zen meditation.
His humor and straightforward talk garnered Sawaki followers from all walks of life. Though he remained poor by choice, he was rich in spirit. Two of his disciples who became known in America as well as in Japan were Kosho Uchiyama (...)
What It Means to Be Moral Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life by Phil Zuckerman Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 400 pages 9781640094246 • $25.50 • pb • Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
A thoughtful perspective on humans' capacity for moral behavior." - Kirkus Reviews
"A comprehensive introduction to religious skepticism." - Publishers Weekly
In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others.
By deconstructing religious arguments for God-based morality and guiding readers through the premises and promises of secular morality, Zuckerman argues that the major challenges facing the world today - from global warming and growing inequality to religious support for unethical political policies to gun violence and terrorism - are best approached from a nonreligious ethical framework. In short, we need to (...)
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton Counterpoint • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 160 pages 9781593766900 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services - from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.
A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women - who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stubbornness, and other excessive feminine" passions are not to be feared or suppressed, but rather cultivated; and, chances are, a man named Mr. Tei will notice your talents and recruit you, dead or alive (preferably dead), to join his mysterious company.
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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami by David Karashima Counterpoint • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 384 pages 9781593765897 • $25.50 • pb • Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting
How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A rare look inside the making of the Murakami Industry" - and a thought-provoking exploration of the role of translators and editors in the creation of global literary culture.
Thirty years ago, when Haruki Murakami's works were first being translated, they were part of a series of pocket-size English-learning guides released only in Japan. Today his books can be read in fifty languages and have won prizes and sold millions of copies globally. How did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? This book tells one key part of the story. Its cast includes an expat trained in art history who never intended to becomea translator; a Chinese American ex-academic who never planned to work as an editor; and other publishing professionals in New York, London, and Tokyo who (...)
Coach 'Em Way Up 5 Lessons for Leading the John Wooden Way by Lynn Guerrin and Jason Lavin Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages 9781642011210 • $37.50 • pb • Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
All Great Coaches Are Good Leaders But Not All Good Leaders Are Great Coaches Coach 'Em Way Up teaches readers to exhibit their best thinking, set a great example, lead, and mentor others to put them on a path to lasting competitive greatness while becoming great people, too. Based on the teachings of legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, readers get effective leadership strategies for creating a culture of excellence in today's modern workplace. Simply put, Coach 'Em Way Up does for readers what John Wooden did for decades: - guide you to achieve true success - challenge you to reach extraordinary levels of performance - prepare you to coach yourself and others to be the very best - inspire you to pursue not just greatness but also goodness Make John Wooden a coach and mentor for your future. Allow him to coach you to coach yourself, your team, and business up - all the way up.
Money-Smart Solopreneurs A Personal Finance System for Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, and Side- Hustlers by Laura D. Adams Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages 9781642011104 • $32.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship
Build Your Business and Your Financial Future Every new entrepreneur has questions about how to manage money when they become their own boss or start working on the side. This title answers key legal, financial, and tax issues that affect full and part-time freelancers, independent contractors, and side- hustlers in the on-demand economy. Whether you work by yourself, with an outsourced team, from home, or in coffee shops around the globe, this guide will give you easy-to-follow tips and strategies to create financial success and stay out of trouble. You won't find overused business jargon, instructions to create a business plan, or tips for schmoozing with venture capitalists. Laura explains, in plain English, what solopreneurs need to know to thrive. You'll get practical knowledge to earn more, tips to create an automatic money system, and create the financial security you deserve.
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Napoleon Hill's First Editions On Mastering Personal and Professional Success by Napoleon Hill, edited by Inc. Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 6 x 9 • 180 pages 9781642011203 • $32.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Personal Success
The Best of Napoleon Hill's Early Works with Commentary from Entrepreneur Media for Today's Modern World Entrepreneur Media presents the best of Napoleon's early works enhanced by the voices and hard-earned insights of today's modern entrepreneurs, small business owners, and thought leaders. These two well-known and sought-out brands have decades of how-to, self-help knowledge to bridge the gap between generations of entrepreneurs to teach them how to master their personal and professional success as they run, start, and grow their enterprises.
The Six-Figure Freelancer Your Roadmap to Success in the Gig Economy by Laura Pennington Briggs Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages 9781642011166 • $29.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Entrepreneurship
Start and Scale Your Freelance Business The freelance portion of the workforce and the economy is growing at a rapid pace, but the lack of proper training or knowledge about how to run a freelance venture sets most freelancers up for failure. With this new workforce picking up speed, the need is real and the time is now for freelancers to learn how to take their businesses and their paychecks to the next level. The Six-Figure Freelancer is a proven path, a battle-tested guide that works for freelancers of all types and includes the author's five years of trial-by-fire lessons used to find, land, and amaze your clients. The book follows an outline of proven tactics to grow a business to the six-figure level and keep it there: - Knowing the current phase of your freelance business - Getting into the right mindset to shift your money power - Knowing how to spot high-value, high-dollar clients - Determining the structure of your six- figure business (solo or agency model?) - Speeding (...)
The Wealthy Franchisee Game-Changing Steps to Becoming a Thriving Franchise Superstar by Scott Greenberg Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 6 x 9 • 200 pages 9781642011241 • $32.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Franchises
Take Your Business from Average to Extraordinary The Wealthy Franchisee pulls concepts from cognitive behavioral therapy, brain science, interviews, and Scott Greenberg's firsthand experience as a franchisee to help readers replicate the mental habits, tactics, and financial results of high-performing franchisees. As a franchising consultant, Scott Greenberg has helped franchise owners and franchisees improve their performance. Readers will learn how to: - Explore their own mental responses and become more self-aware - Bring out the best in employees and build superstar teams - Dazzle customers and increase sales with emotionally satisfying experiences - Optimize the human elements of their operation so they can grow into a next-level enterprise and become wealthy (...)
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Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising by Perry Marshall, Thomas Meloche and Bob Regnerus Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 8 x 10 • 376 pages 9781599186757 • $32.95 • pb • Bus & Econ / Advertising & Promotion • Ultimate Series
New Customers Are Waiting... Find Them On FacebookFacebook makes it easy for businesses like yours to share photos, videos, and posts to reach, engage, and sell to more than 1 billion active users. Advertising expert Perry Marshall is joined by co-authors Bob Regnerus and Thomas Meloche as he walks you through Facebook Advertising and its nuances to help you pinpoint your ideal audience and gain a ten-fold return on your investment. Now in its fourth edition, Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising takes you further than Facebook itself by exploring what happens before customers click on your ads and what needs to happen after - 10 seconds later, 10 minutes later, and in the following days and weeks. You'll discover how to: - Maximize your ad ROI with newsfeeds, videos, and branded content - Create custom audiences from your contact lists, video views, and page engagement - Use the Facebook Campaign Blueprint proven to generate your first 100 conversions - Boost your Facebook ads using the Audience Network and Instagram - Follow the three-step formula for successful (...)
Ultimate Guide to Google Ads by Perry Marshall, Mike Rhodes and Bryan Todd Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 8 x 10 • 367 pages 9781599186733 • $37.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Advertising & Promotion • Ultimate Series
Get More Customers with Google Ads Focusing on the growing number of mobile users and increased localized searches, Google Ads experts Perry Marshall and Bryan Todd, joined by AdWords and analytics evangelist Mike Rhodes, once again deliver the most comprehensive and current look at today's fastest, most powerful advertising medium. Marshall and team teach you how to build an aggressive, streamlined Google Ads campaign proven to increase your search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double your website traffic, and increase sales on not one, but three ad networks. Plus, get access to bonus online content and links to dozens of resources and tutorials. Whether you're a current advertiser or new to AdWords, the Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords is a necessary handbook.Covering the latest breaking news in Google Ads, this sixth edition introduces revised, expanded and new chapters covering Enhanced Campaigns, Google Ads Express, Google's Product Listing Ads, and more. Changes in Big Data advertising are also revealed and expanded sections and necessary updates have been (...)
Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing by Eric Butow, Jenn Herman and Stephanie Liu Entrepreneur Press • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 8 x 10 • 376 pages 9781599186740 • $37.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Advertising & Promotion • Ultimate Series
Create Focused Social Media Campaigns Tailored to Your Business Ultimate Guide to Social Media Marketing takes readers through a 360-degree perspective of social media marketing in businesses, from strategy to tactics, from organic to paid, from B2B to B2C, encompassing all of the current networks. Topics include: - Why businesses need to embrace social media marketing - Understanding today's social networks from big ones like Facebook and YouTube to emerging platforms - Learning how to craft your business's social media strategy using today's formats - How to leverage images and video in your social media outreach - Leveraging chat bots, paid social media, and influencer marketing - Building your business social marketing team - Measure your social media outreach progress and improve your performance over time (...)
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The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein LEAD Europa Editions • On Sale: Sep 1/20 • 7.15 x 9.17 • 336 pages 9781609455910 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend .
Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself?
She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey Europa Editions • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 464 pages 9781609456276 • $38.95 • cl
Moving away from Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind, and best of all - right on their doorstep - are some of the finest craftsmen from all over Europe, prepared to make for her and the other officers' wives living in this small community anything they could possibly desire: new curtains from the finest silks, furniture designed to the most exacting specifications, executea fresco or a mural even.
The looming presence of the nearby prison camp - lying just beyond a patch of forest - is the only blot to mar what is otherwise an idyllic life in Buchenwald.
Frau Hahn's husband, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, has taken up a powerful new position as camp administrator. The job is all consuming as he wrestles with corruption that is rife at every level, inadequate supplies, and a sewerage system under ever-growing strain as the prison population continues to rise.
The Memory of Babel Book Three of The Mirror Visitor Quartet LEAD by Christelle Dabos, translated by Hildegarde Serle Europa Editions • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 6.1 x 8.8 • 508 pages 9781609456139 • $29.95 • cl • YA Fic / Fantasy / Epic • The Mirror Visitor Quartet
In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future.
After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?
The Memory of Babel is rich with memorable inventions: spells, transfigurations, prophecies, metamorphoses, dreams, arks, Citaceleste, ciphered manuscripts, enchanted mirrors. Ophelia is the Alice of the 21st century." - Il borghese
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Cathedral by Ben Hopkins Europa Editions • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 624 pages 9781609456115 • $40.50 • cl • Fiction / Literary
A thoroughly immersive read and a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story about obsession, mysticism, art, and earthly desire in gripping prose. It deftly combines historical fiction and a tale of adventure and intrigue.
At the center of this story is the Cathedral. Its design and construction in the 12th and 13th centuries in the town of Hagenburg unites a vast array of unforgettable characters whose fortunes are inseparable from the shifting political factions and economic interests vying for supremacy. Around this narrative center, Ben Hopkins has constructed his own monumental edifice, a novel that is rich with the vicissitudes of mercantilism, politics, religion, and human enterprise.
Fans of Umberto Eco, Hilary Mantel, and Ken Follett will delight at the atmosphere, the beautiful prose, and the vivid characters of Ben Hopkins's Cathedral (...)
Peace Talks by Tim Finch Europa Editions • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 192 pages 9781609456160 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
Edvard Behrens is a highly regarded senior diplomat who has made his reputation as a mediator in international peace negotiations. In his latest post, he has been sent a resort hotel in the Tyrol. High up on this mountain, the air is bright and clear. When he isn't working, Edvard reads, walks, listens to music. He confides in no one - no one but his wife Anna. Anna, whom he loves with all his heart; Anna, always present and yet forever absent.
A small masterpiece of compression and containment, Peace Talks tells the story of one man's grief, the tribulations of the human heart, and our longing for peace.
Reminiscent of Robert Seethaler's work in its formal elegance and emotional heft, of Rachel Cusk's novels in the precision and tenacity of its prose, and of David Szalay's writing in its abiding preoccupations, Finch's new novel is a work of great depth, honesty, wit, beauty, and enduring importance.
The River Within by Karen Powell Europa Editions • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 5.31 x 8.5 • 272 pages 9781609456153 • $35.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident?
Lady Venetia Richmond has no time to dwell on the death. Newly widowed, she is busy trying to keep the estate together, while struggling with death duties and crippling taxation. Alexander, her son and sole heir to Richmond Hall, is of little help. Just when she most needs him, he grows elusive, his behavior becoming increasingly erratic.
Lennie Fairweather, 'child of nature' and daughter of the late Sir Angus's private secretary, has other things on her mind too. In love with Alexander, she longs to escape life with her over-protective father and domineering brother. Alexander is unpredictable though, hard to pin down. Can she be sure of (...)
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Never Forget by Michel Bussi, translated by Sam Taylor Europa Editions • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 480 pages 9781609456122 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Suspense
In the town of Yport, during a run along Europe's tallest cliff, Jamal notices a red scarf hanging on a fence. Then he sees the woman, her dress torn, her back to the void, her eyes fixed on his own. Jamal holds the scarf out to her like a buoy.
A few seconds later, the stranger's lifeless body is found lying on the icy pebbles of the empty beach below. Around her neck, the red scarf.
Everyone thinks he pushed her. He only wanted to save her.
That's Jamal's version. Do you believe it?
The Intrusions by Stav Sherez Europa Editions • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 272 pages 9781609456207 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Crime • Carrigan and Miller
It's Always Watching... A distressed young woman arrives at the police station station claiming her friend has been abducted, and that the man threatened to return and claim her next." Detectives Carrigan and Miller are drawn into a terrifying new world of cyberstalking - where the threat of online intimidation, hacking, and control is ever-present, and disturbing contemporary themes and dark psychology are explored with Stav Sherez's customary skill.Under scrutiny themselves, and with old foes and enmities re- surfacing, how long will Carrigan and Miller have to find out the truth behind what these two women have been subjected to?An all-too-plausible entry into a terrifying new world just reaching the public mind - in which a computer can turn against its owner with the push of a button - The Intrusions shows how easy it can be to become an unwilling victim to the new generation of stalkers.
A Kingdom of Tender Colors A Memoir of Comedy, Survival, and Love by Seth Greenland Europa Editions • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.25 x 8.25 • 288 pages 9781609455835 • $35.95 • cl • Biography / Medical
One unremarkable day at the age of 37 Seth Greenland finds himself in everyone's nightmare - a routine doctor visit, some swollen glands, a series of tests, a biopsy, and finally a diagnosis of an aggressive form of lymphatic cancer. A screenwriter and satirist with a blooming career in Hollywood, Seth has felt pretty good about his life until now; suddenly, the world has tipped on its axis.
A Kingdom of Tender Colors is a book about cancer - the funny side.
With the support of friends and family, Seth launches into an attempt to save his own life without losing either his sanity or his sense of humor. From chemotherapy treatments, to meditation and more alternative treatments, he battles the disease with wit, honesty, and no small amount of sheer terror. There are no pat answers or inspirational revelations here, just one man confronting hopes and fears recognizable to us all - and triumphing.
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Atlantis A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano and Renzo Piano, translated by Will Schutt Europa Editions • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 320 pages 9781609456238 • $35.95 • cl • Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays
Renowned architect Renzo Piano (the New Whitney Museum, the Pompidou Center, Potsdamer Platz, Cite Internationale, New York Times Building, The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, etc.) and his son Carlo, a well-regarded journalist, set sail from Genoa one late Summer day to search for Atlantis, the perfect city, built to harbor a perfect society.Embarking not only on a life-changing journey but also on series of conversations that are humorous, irreverent, erudite, and always entertaining, Renzo and Carlo travel from Genoa in search of the perfect city, along the way reflecting on their own relationship, on fathers and sons, on the idea of travel itself, and perhaps most notably on architecture, space, and the secret life of forms.Piano, subject of The Art of Making Buildings and a man who can not only measure land at a glance but also the sea's infinite geometry, returns to the places where he has created his iconic works, mosaic pieces in the infinite, necessary quest for perfection. With his son he sails across the Pacific, along (...)
The Night in Gethsemane by Massimo Recalcati, translated by Ann Goldstein Europa Editions • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 5.31 x 8.27 • 80 pages 9781609456221 • $23.95 • cl • Philosophy / Essays
Highly regarded philosopher and psychoanalyst, Massimo Recalcati has penned a gripping, erudite meditation on suffering, doubt, betrayal, and the potential for renewal that dwells in our most painful moments. For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where agony and doubt mingle with potential rebirth and revitalization.As the Gospels recount, after the Last Supper, Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him, betraying and abandoning him with a kiss. Jesus is forsaken by his friends and, it seems to him in this moment, by his father, his God. His sin, in Recalcati's view, is like Prometheus to have drawn Divine closer to man. The Night in Gethsemane is a revelatory, moving, and inspiring meditation (...)
The Passenger: Brazil by AA. AA.VV. Europa Editions • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6.3 x 9.4 • 192 pages 9781787702417 • $32.95 • pb • Travel / South America / Brazil • The Passenger
Order and Progress? by Jon Lee Anderson Pride, Prejudice, and Funk by Alberto Riva I Was King of The River by Eliane Brum
In the second half of the 20th century Brazil made extraordinary contributions to music, sport, architecture. From bossa nova," to acrobatic soccer, to the daring architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, the country seemed to embody a new, original vision of modernity, at once "fluid, agile, and complex." Seen from abroad, the victory of the far right in the 2018 elections was a rude awakening that suddenly turned the Brazilian dream into a nightmare. For locals, however, illusionshad started fading long ago, amid paralyzing corruption, environmental degradation, racial discrimination, and escalating violence. Luckily, Brazilians are still willing to fight in order to build a better future. Today the challenge of telling the story of this extraordinary country consists in finding its (...)
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Meanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 9780571228935 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / General
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little, a humane, deeply empathetic starburst of a satire; the most moving and entertaining exaggeration of the fearful nightmare of trying to raise a kid now . Dopamine City is the story of Lonny Cush, sanitation worker and single parent, kind-hearted and red- blooded, who is trying his best to protect his kids from the hysterical hyper-reality of 21st century life. He lives in an unnamed fictional world city, dominated by a huge tech company akin to Google. A manual worker - although he has been put forward for 'retraining', a euphemism for redundancy - Lonny is out of sync with the changes in his hometown and his century, and doesn't have the meansto give his quiet teenage son Egan and his precocious, ultra-demanding nine-year-old daughter Shelby (one of the most memorably awful children in literature!) what they need, or say they need. But with his mother-in-law circling for custody, and needing (...)
Meanwhile in Dopamine City by DBC Pierre Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 9780571228942 • $37.50 • cl • Fiction / General
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little, a humane, deeply empathetic starburst of a satire; the most moving and entertaining exaggeration of the fearful nightmare of trying to raise a kid now . Dopamine City is the story of Lonny Cush, sanitation worker and single parent, kind-hearted and red- blooded, who is trying his best to protect his kids from the hysterical hyper-reality of 21st century life. He lives in an unnamed fictional world city, dominated by a huge tech company akin to Google. A manual worker - although he has been put forward for 'retraining', a euphemism for redundancy - Lonny is out of sync with the changes in his hometown and his century, and doesn't have the meansto give his quiet teenage son Egan and his precocious, ultra-demanding nine-year-old daughter Shelby (one of the most memorably awful children in literature!) what they need, or say they need. But with his mother-in-law circling for custody, and needing (...)
Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 256 pages 9780571339143 • $19.50 • pb • Performing Arts / Comedy
Ayoade on Top is a brilliant satire of film, academia, commerce and Richard Ayoade. It is his funniest creation yet and, page for page, the funniest book I've ever read." - Jessie Eisenberg"By far the best deep dive critical examination of View From The Top ." - Joel McHale"
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful and non-invasive; a journey for which we will all pay a heavy price, even if you've waited for the smaller paperback edition. Ayoade argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory; one we might (...)
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Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 224 pages 9780571356058 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Romance / Historical / 20Th Century
Best and Edwards by Gordon Burn Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 256 pages 9780571353644 • $22.50 • pb • Biography / Sports
Best and Edwards describes one football club, two players and the fame that destroyed them. Duncan Edwards played his first game for Manchester United at the age of fifteen and Walter Winterbottom, then England manager, called him 'the spirit of British football'. On Pounds15-a-week, Edwards was the most prized of the Busby Babes. Then in February 1958 came Munich. Half a decade later George Best represented United reborn. 'Georgie' of the boutiques and dolly birds; 'El Beatle' of the European Cup in '68 and European Player of the Year; in the opinion of Pele, the most naturally talented footballer that ever lived. Retired at 27 and reduced to the role of Chelsea barfly and tabloid perennial; George, where did it all go wrong (...)
Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 352 pages 9780571313549 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / General
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Clea by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 256 pages 9780571356034 • $22.50 • pb
Faber & Faber Poetry Diary 2021 by Various Various Poets Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 128 pages 9780571356089 • $25.50 • cl • Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. The poets in the 2021 edition are: Rachael Allen Simon Armitage William Blake Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Mary Jean Chan John Clare Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wendy Cope Emily Dickinson
I Is a Strange Loop by Marcus du Sautoy and Victoria Gould Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 96 pages 9780571360734 • $22.50 • pb • Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Indian Sun The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar by Oliver Craske Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 6 x 9.2 • 672 pages 9780571350858 • $40.50 • cl • Biography & Autobiography / General
The first full biography of India's most important cultural figure of the past century. As an icon of India, Ravi Shankar ranks not far below Gandhi or the Taj Mahal. He was one of the twentieth century's most important musicians, and India's greatest cultural ambassador. The maestro of the sitar filled the world's leading concert halls, festival stages and airwaves with Indian classical music at a time when it was little known outside its homeland. A sensation at Monterey Pop, the Woodstock Festival and the Concert for Bangladesh, he also helped reshape jazz,minimalism and electronic music, pioneered the sitar concerto, and wrote many film scores, including Pather Panchali and Gandhi . He charted the map for countless global musicians who followed in his wake. The unparalleled breadth of his impact is reflected in his disciples, who included George Harrison, John Coltrane, Philip Glass and Yehudi Menuhin. For this first biography of Ravi Shankar, Oliver Craske has carried out more than 130 new interviews and enjoyed unprecedented (...)
Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2021 by Various Various Poets Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 128 pages 9780571356072 • $29.50 • cl • Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list. The poets in the 2021 edition are: Rachael Allen Simon Armitage William Blake Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Mary Jean Chan John Clare Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wendy Cope Emily Dickinson
Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 320 pages 9780571356041 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Romance / Historical / 20Th Century
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Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 80 pages 9780571362790 • $22.50 • pb • Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
T. S. Eliot's first major full-length verse drama reissued for the 850th anniversary of Thomas Becket's death.
Murder in the Cathedral was written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935 and it remains one of the great plays of the century. Like Greek drama, its theme and form are rooted in religion and ritual purgation and renewal, and it was this return to the earliest sources of drama that brought poetry triumphantly back to the English stage. It is reissued with new covers featuring artwork by Cyril Power to join the commemorations marking 850 years since Thomas Becket's dramatic murder.
Music Lessons by Pierre Boulez Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 496 pages 9780571334285 • $37.50 • pb • Fiction / General
Pincher Martin by William Golding Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 256 pages 9780571362349 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
The ultimate survival story: a shipwrecked sailor's disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. An hour on this rock is a lifetime. Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the brutal cold, and the aching terror of his isolation. To drink there is a pool of rainwater; to eat, seaweed and anemones, preyed upon by feathered reptiles. As he descends into the abyss of his consciousness, weathering lightning strikes of memory, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate - piece by terrible piece.
The utmost inventiveness ... No reader will forget the world it reveals. - Kingsley Amis (...)
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Rebecca Gilman Plays 1 by Rebecca Gilman Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 368 pages 9780571336272 • $37.50 • pb • Performing Arts / Theater / Playwriting
Selected Poems by Christopher Reid Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 160 pages 9780571273287 • $26.95 • pb • Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Faber Poetry
With his first book of poems, Arcadia (1979), Christopher Reid won both a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. His second, Pea Soup (1982), showed him developing the line of defamiliarising metaphor that had associated him, in the public mind, with the so-called Martian School. With his third, Katerina Brac (1985), however, he surprised readers with something quite different: a volume purporting to consist of translations from the work of a foreign poet, whose nationality and language remained undisclosed. Subsequent volumes have confirmed Reid's restless spirit of enquiry and invention, adding new, imaginatively oblique approaches, assumed voices and authentic translations to his repertoire. The present Selected Poems follows his career as far as A Scattering, the set of elegies for his late wife that was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009.
Our most jaunty, disturbing poet... poems at once quietly canny in their verbal simplicity, and wildly ambitious in their reach' - Observer
Side by Side by Robert Wyatt Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 240 pages 9780571360512 • $29.50 • cl • Music / Lyrics
Selected and arranged by the authors, and with a new introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics of Robert Wyatt and Alfreda Benge for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound Faber edition including previously unseen lyrics and artwork, annotations and poems. 'English music has produced some fascinating personalities, but few are as unusual as Robert Wyatt.'Brian Eno'Robert Wyatt is one of the greats of English music'Geoff Travis, Rough Trade'A highly idiosyncratic and intuitively melodic maverick'BBC Music (...)
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Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics LEAD From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 432 pages 9780571353439 • $41.95 • cl • Music / General
The definitive oral history of the New Romantics. Sweet Dreams charts the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985 - the rise of the New Romantics. Growing out of the remnants of the post-punk period, the New Romantics introduced club culture, ska, electronica, and goth to the world. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of broadcast media. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonized by British pop music, making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. For fans of Jon Savage's 1966 and Lizzie Goodman's Meet Me in the Bathroom - SWEET DREAMS is the fascinating story of how The New Romantic movement was born in the British clubs of the late 1970s and flourished on the radio and television airwaves of the early 1980s.
Tenet by Christopher Nolan Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 239 pages 9780571362738 • $25.50 • pb • Performing Arts / Screenplays
The new blockbuster from Christopher Nolan. Tenet is a global thriller whose action stretches across time zones, and stars Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki and John David Washington. The film displays Nolan's preoccupations, especially how Time can shift from one moment to the next. The film is out in the US on July 17, 2020.
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 5 x 7.8 • 896 pages 9780571283934 • $34.50 • pb • Fiction / Classics
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that the author himself described as 'an investigation of modern love."
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The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 256 pages 9780571362462 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Classics
The Forward Book of Poetry 2021 by Various Poets Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 176 pages 9780571362486 • $22.50 • pb • Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
The annual Forward Book of Poetry brings news from the frontlines of the contemporary poetry boom. The judges of the Forward Prizes, described by the Daily Telegraph as 'the most coveted awards in British poetry', have chosen the best work from the year's UK crop of new collections and literary journals. Their selection combines fresh voices with familiar names, making the book essential reading for seasoned poetry enthusiasts and new readers alike.
The Gododdin by Gillian Clarke Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 144 pages 9780571352111 • $29.50 • cl • Poetry / Medieval
The first English translation by a poet of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures, which captures its compelling 'word-music'. The Gododdin charts the rise and fall of 363 warriors in the battle of Catraeth, around the year 600AD. The men of the Brittonic kingdom of Gododdin rose to unite the Welsh and the Picts against the English, only to meet a devastating fate. Composed by the poet Aneirin, the poem was originally orally transmitted as a sung elegy, passed down for seven centuries before being written down by two medieval scribes. It is comprised of one hundred laments to the named characters who fell, and follows a sophisticated alliterative poetics. Former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke is the first poet to create a translation. She animates this historical epic with a modern musicality, making it live in the language of today.
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The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 326 pages 9780571362417 • $19.50 • pb • Biography / Personal Memoirs
As every fan of the much-loved travel writer Lawrence Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, from his early years in Corfu to life on the dazzlingly beautiful islands of Greece. In this uniquely captivating book, Durrell weaves together evocative descriptions, history, and myth with luminous personal reminiscences of the islands and their people. No traveller to Greece or admirer of his genius should miss it.
The House Party by Adrian Tinniswood Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5.3 x 7.8 • 144 pages 9780571350964 • $22.50 • cl • History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian. Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party and you are invited. Our host, celebrated historian Adrian Tinniswood, traces the evolution of this quintessentially British pastime from debauched royal tours to the flamboyant excess of the Bright Young Things". With cameos by the Jazz Age industrialist, the bibulous earl and the off-duty politician - whether in moated manor houses or ornate Palladian villas - Tinniswood gives a vivid insight into weekending etiquette and reveals the hidden lives of celebrity guests, from Nancy Astor to Winston Churchill, in all their drinking, feasting, gambling and fornicating. The result is a deliciously entertaining, star-studded, yet surprisingly moving portrait of a time when social conventions were being radically overhauled through the escapism of a generation haunted by war - and a uniquely fast-living period of English history."
The Inheritors by William Golding Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 256 pages 9780571362325 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning vision of prehistory on the cusp of a new age,from theradical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey and shoots, bulbs and grubs, the hot richness of a deer's brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening - inexplicable scents, sounds, and violence - and, suddenly, unimaginable creatures are half-glimpsed in the forest; an upright new people of bone-faces and deerskins. What the early people don't know is that their season is already over (...)
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The Spire by William Golding Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 256 pages 9780571362332 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
An apocalyptic portrait of one medieval man's spiritual vision by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding. There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in. Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone, and his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker as the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below (...)
Then It Fell Apart by Moby Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 416 pages 9780571339419 • $22.50 • pb • Biography / Composers & Musicians
What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle. In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it,PLAYwas ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking esctasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn't last. And then it fell apart. The second volume of Moby's memoir is a classic about the banality of fame. It is shocking, riotously entertaining, extreme, and unforgiving. It is unedifying, but youcan never tear your eyes away from the page.
This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else by Jon Savage Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 336 pages 9780571350636 • $25.50 • pb • Biography / Composers & Musicians
Pitchfork named it one of the Best Music Books of 2019 #1 Book of the Year, UNCUT #1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADE A Book of the Year, MOJO Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life. In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon Savage (...)
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Untitled by Kate Tempest Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 5.30 x 7.80 • 96 pages 9780571354023 • $22.50 • cl • Political Science / Commentary & Opinion • Faber Social
Staggering talent Kate Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness. The increasingly hyper- individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new decade; in order to survive, numbness has pervaded us all. In her urgent and incisive nonfiction debut, Kate Tempest leads the reckoning against this system, placing our legacy in our own hands. Creativity holds the key: the ability to provide us with internal and external connection, to move us beyond consumption, to allow us to discover authenticity and closeness to all others, to deliver us an antidote for our numbness. This is beyond art". Creative connection is anything that brings us closer to ourselves and fellow human beings, and it has the potential to offer insights into mental health, politics and beyond. Powerful, hopeful and full of humanity, this new book confirms Tempest as one of the most important voices of her generation.
Awesome Tapes from Africa by Brian Shimkovitz Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 7.50 x 10 • 320 pages 9780571327270 • $50.95 • pb • Music / General
In 2001, Brian Shimkovitz was on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana studying ethnomusicology when he first discovered the region's thriving cassette culture. Since then, he has dedicated his time to sharing this previously unheard music for a global audience on a hugely popular website. Curated by Shimkovitz himself, Awesome Tapes from Africa brings together the website's most listenable finds to create a dazzling visual history of the amazing music that has emerged from West Africa in recent years. From hip- hop inflected pop to traditional local songs, house disco beats to classic soul ballards, this is an exuberantly diverse collection of genres, styles, and artists. Wonderfully combining Shimkovitz's infectious enthusiasm with his academic expertise and local knowledge, Awesome Tapes from Africa is a collection to revisit again and again.
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 256 pages 9780571362363 • $22.50 • pb • Travel / General
WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE
Cyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek Cypriots trouble the glittering Mediterranean waters. Into the brewing storm comes ex-pat writer Lawrence Durrell, yearning for the idyllic island lifestyle of his youth in Corfu.
With his poet's eye for beauty and humour - and passable Greek - Durrell settles into a dilapidated villa and brilliantly captures the moods and atmospheres of island life in a changing world. Whether collecting folklore or wild flowers, describing the brewing revolution or eccentric local characters, this is more than just a classic travel memoir - it is an unforgettably intimate portrait of a community lost forever.
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Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 224 pages 9780571362370 • $22.50 • pb • Travel / Europe / France
Lose yourself in this classic memoir of idyllic southern France by the bestselling king of travel writing.
Provence, Southern France. Celebrated writer and poet Lawrence Durrell made the Midi his home for more than thirty years: and in this, his final book, he shares his most evocative, dazzling memories of life as a local.
A seductive blend of travelogue, poet's notebook, and intimate autobiography, Durrell guides us through the rich layers of human history that lie beneath the region's legendary landscapes. From stories of magic and mythology infusing the rolling vineyards and vivid lavender fields to tales of Roman conquest, bull- worship, and courtly love beneath the wounded blue skies, Ceasar's Vast Ghost is a book to be treasured.
Prospero's Cell (Faber Library 4) by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 224 pages 9780571362387 • $22.50 • pb • Travel / Europe / Greece
Before Lawrence Durrell became a celebrated writer and poet, he spent four youthful years on the idyllic island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores.
While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells In Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank, and befriended the villagers.
After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu: and Prospero's Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape and local people that changed him forever.
Reflections on a Marine Venus by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 240 pages 9780571362394 • $22.50 • pb • Travel / Europe / Greece
World War II is finally over, and after four tortuous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved since growing up in Corfu: ancient Mediterranean islands.
He is posted to Rhodes, and from his first dip in the dazzling blue Aegean - which jolts his soul awake for the first time in years - he immerses himself in the rhythms and moods of local life, befriending eccentric villagers and quaffing ouzo as through the war was a distant dream.
With his poet's eye and passion for excavating local history, Durrell recaptures the mythic Rhodes of legend, of knights and crusades, that lies beneath its war-ravaged surface. Rich in character, wit, and insight, it is a Mediterranean journey that will stay with you forever.
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Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell Faber & Faber Publishing • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 240 pages 9780571362400 • $22.50 • pb • Travel / General
Despite decades spent poetically evoking Mediterranean life in Rhodes, Cyprus, and Corfu, celebrated travel writer Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily.
For years, his friend Martine begged him to visit her on this sun-kissed paradise, but it took her sudden death to finally bring him to its shores. Joining an idiosyncratic tour group, Durrell immerses himself in the spectacular archaeological remains, dizzy with Sicily's rich history and struck by the unity of Mediterranean civilization: its myths, manifestations, and meaning. Featuring several unpublished poems and illustrated with elegant engravings. Sicilian Carousel is a gem.
Tiny by Mairead Case Featherproof Books • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 4.75 x 7 9781943888221 • $22.50 • cl • Fiction / Coming of Age
Tiny is a poetic retelling of Sophocles' Antigone . Instead of having two brothers who kill each other in a civil war, Tiny has one who kills himself after coming home from a far-away war. Our heroine mourns her brother, forever, but - with best friend Izzy, boyfriend Hank, and a collective dance night held in an old artificial limb store - she escapes freezing herself in grief, too.
Notes from the Shadowed City by Jeffrey Alan Love Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 9781640410305 • $29.50 • pb • Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Nov / Fantasy
Notes From the Shadowed City is the travelogue of a young man who sets off on a journey to research magical swords. He finds himself stranded in a land he does not know and enters a city with no name over which looms an ominous floating citadel. As he seeks a way home, he fills his notebook with drawings and observations of his life in this strange place. It is full of masked swordsmen, cities that walk, ancient gods, swords made from petrified trees and dragons that move mountains. There's also a mysterious woman who captures his heart. From the imagination of award-winning artist Jeffrey Alan Love comes this illustrated tale of swords and magic, memory and loss, and the overwhelming desire to find a way home no matter the cost. His first book detailing this fantastic journey, Notes From the Shadowed City is told through small moments that create a larger narrative. Love employs his renowned artistry to create a heavily visual narrative boasting more than seventy illustrations, and every spread (...)
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Spectrum 27 The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by John Fleskes Flesk Publications • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 9 x 12 • 304 pages 9781640410343 • $59.95 • pb • Art / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy
The best-selling Spectrum series continues with this lavishly produced 27th-anniversary annual. Spectrum is the premier showcase for imaginative fantastic arts in the book, comics, film, horror, illustration, sculpture, conceptual art, fine art and videogame genres. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant, full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium - both traditional and digital. Spectrum 27 continues the freshness and excellence that was established more than a quarter-century ago. The mission of Spectrum is to promote the fantastic arts and provide an annual showcase for contemporary artists. Spectrum exists to honor the imaginations of very special artists who delight in helping us see the world in a wonderfully different light. It's our job to help them reach a wider appreciative audience.
Spectrum 27 The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by John Fleskes Flesk Publications • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 9 x 12 • 304 pages 9781640410336 • $74.95 • cl • Art / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy
The best-selling Spectrum series continues with this lavishly produced 27th-anniversary annual. Spectrum is the premier showcase for imaginative fantastic arts in the book, comics, film, horror, illustration, sculpture, conceptual art, fine art and videogame genres. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant, full-color collection showcases an international cadre of creators working in every style and medium - both traditional and digital. Spectrum 27 continues the freshness and excellence that was established more than a quarter-century ago. The mission of Spectrum is to promote the fantastic arts and provide an annual showcase for contemporary artists. Spectrum exists to honor the imaginations of very special artists who delight in helping us see the world in a wonderfully different light. It's our job to help them reach a wider appreciative audience.
The Art of Frank Cho A Twenty-Year Retrospective by Frank Cho, by (artist) Frank Cho, introduction by John Fleskes Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 9 x 12 • 336 pages 9781640410169 • $59.95 • pb • Art / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Art of Frank Cho presents Frank's first full career overview in this 20-year retrospective featuring over 400 pieces of art. They include his early student works, personal paintings and a section on his creator- owned properties, followed by an extensive overview of his adventure and superhero work completed for the major and independent comic publishers. Frank provides fresh commentary throughout to reveal insight into his art. An interview covers his recent projects with a revealing look at his working process. Frank picked many of his favorite comic covers and interior pages to share for this book. Preliminary pencil sketches from his archives are revealed for the first time. A range of art shows the finished inks direct from the original art as well as final published colored versions. Step-by-step stages are included for selected works, showing the initial concept to the final form for reproduction. Extensive scanning and photography of the originals has been done over the course of a year to provide the best reproductions possible. Art examples (...)
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The Big Tease A Naughty and Nice Collection by by (artist) Bruce Timm Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 9 x 12 • 208 pages 9781640410312 • $59.95 • pb • Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Bruce Timm has been creating elegant drawings of women for over 30 years, and nearly all of these charming nudes were drawn purely for fun after-hours. This book collects his three Teaser collections - released from 2011 to 2013 and long sold out - plus Surrender, My Sweet from 2015. In addition, Timm has created new material especially for this collection and delved into his personal archives to share pieces not shown before. These culminate in more than 75 additional pages of material not reproduced in any of his previous Naughty and Nice collections. In all, over 260 women drawn in pencil, ink or color fill these pages. Timm's art is reproduced at an impressive size and showcased in this oversized format. Mature Warning: The Big Tease contains nudity throughout. This book is intended for ages 18 and up.
The J.A.W. Cooper Genesis Collection by by (artist) J.A.W. Cooper Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 7.5 x 10 • 224 pages 9781640410275 • $59.95 • pb • Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
The J.A.W. Cooper Collection compiles drawings and paintings from the sold-out 2017 releases of Familiars, Flora and Fauna, and Viscera. This collection leads us on a journey into the violent, steaming innards of making art - raw, spontaneous and unfettered. Drawing on themes of the occult, the artist explores animals as allegories for the human condition - a physical projection of that which is clandestine. Cooper explores instinct and intuition as the spark of artistic creation, to delight the feral child at our core. More than 230 works in a variety of mediums fill this handy-to-hold and easy-to-reference collection of art from the unique mind of J.A.W. Cooper. Please note that this art book contains nudity and is intended for mature audiences.
The Mountain of Smoke A Jeffrey Alan Love Sketchbook by Jeffrey Alan Love Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 11.75 x 9 • 128 pages 9781640410282 • $52.50 • cl • Art / Subjects & Themes / Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Mountain of Smoke is a collection of 51 paintings completed in acrylic, ink and pencil by Jeffrey Alan Love. These works are reproduced directly from Jeff's sketchbook, which took him seven months to complete. Jeff is now sharing these personal works for the first time. The viewer follows along as the artist loses himself in his practice of letting his mind wander to see what it unveils. The result is a fantasy collection where you create the story. The collection has been professionally photographed to showcase Jeff's textures and paint strokes to give viewers the intimate feeling that they are holding the actual sketchbook. Over half of the paintings are accompanied by the artist's captions and initial pencil sketches. Details of 19 paintings are showcased.
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The Thousand Demon Tree by Jeffrey Alan Love Flesk Publications • On Sale: Aug 13/20 • 9 x 12 • 96 pages 9781640410183 • $37.50 • pb • Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Nov / Fantasy
Drawn into a strange quest by a bird and a sword, a lone warrior travels across a silent landscape of smoke and dirt and bone. Transformed by what he encounters along the way, he searches for the Thousand Demon Tree, and the hope of a new world that lies beyond it.
A Small Crowd of Strangers by Joanna Rose Forest Avenue Press • On Sale: Sep 22/20 • 6 x 9 • 396 pages 9781942436430 • $26.95 • pb
How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters - she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic' - and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinkerthan a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it, especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason. A Small Crowd of Strangers, Joanna Rose's second novel, is part love story, part slightly sideways spiritual journey.
A tale of the impossibility of becoming someone that some else wishes you were (that you thought you could be), with (...)
Jimmy Page: The Anthology by Jimmy Page LEAD Frog Ltd • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 9.84 x 12.2 • 400 pages 9781905662616 • $89.95 • cl • Biography / Composers & Musicians
In this book, I wanted to include items from my personal archive that have played a part in my career over 60 years, to give the detail behind the detail. - Jimmy Page
From his early days as a young session musician, through his years on the world stage with Led Zeppelin, to his solo work and collaborations, Jimmy Page has lived a spectacular life in music. Throughout it all he has amassed an extensive private archive of iconic guitars, stage costumes and personal ephemera.
Now, in The Anthology, Jimmy Page is granting exclusive access to his archive for the first time, and telling the inside story of his phenomenal career.
In the new text of over 70,000 words, Jimmy Page guides the reader through hundreds of rare items, many of which are unseen, others of mythic status, such as the Gibson double neck guitar, his (...)
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Wembley or Bust by Jeff Lynne Frog Ltd • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 8.27 x 11.81 • 212 pages 9781905662647 • $67.50 • cl • Biography / Composers & Musicians
When I wrote and recorded these songs originally, I never would have expected the fantastic audience response all these years later; it's amazing.' - Jeff Lynne
The music of Jeff Lynne is beloved by fans all over the world and has been for three generations. Now, after a hiatus of nearly thirty years, the multi-award winning songwriter, producer and founder of ELO has made a triumphant return to touring. Since 2014, he has played across Europe and North America, the high point for Lynne being his dramatic homecoming for a crowd of 60,000 fans at Wembley. On 24th June 2017, London's historic stadium was transformed into one of the greatest rock'n'rollspectacles of all time, as Lynne performed his group's most extensive set list to date against a dazzling backdrop of pyrotechnics, lasers and a giant ELO spaceship.
Now, in his first official book, Lynne reveals the meticulous planning leading up to the epic concert, and shares the stories behind (...)
Whatever It Takes by Tom Morello Frog Ltd • On Sale: Sep 15/20 • 9.65 x 11.42 • 208 pages 9781905662630 • $67.50 • cl • Biography / Composers & Musicians
I'm both blessed and cursed to be a guitar player. I didn't choose it, it chose me. The challenge was to find a way to weave my convictions into my music in a meaningful way.' - Tom Morello
As the co-founder of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage, and as a collaborator with rock legends from Bruce Springsteen to Johnny Cash, few musicians have been as groundbreaking as Tom Morello. Now, for the first time, Morello describes his remarkable life as a guitarist, songwriter, singer, and political activist in the ultimate book of his career, Whatever It Takes .
From his first guitar to the present day, Morello's inspiring story is told entirely in his own words. His commentary accompanies hundreds of photographs, many of which are previously unpublished. From the author's archives, handwritten notes, tour itineraries and setlists offer first-hand perspective. News clippings, concert posters and album covers provide further context. Stunning images of Morello's (...)
How to Be Kinkier More Adventures in Adult Playtime by Morpheous Green Candy Press • On Sale: Sep 19/20 • 8.5 x 8.5 • 334 pages 9781937866426 • $44.95 • pb • Self-Help / Sexual Instruction
This updated and expanded new edition of How to Be Kinkier will help you take your next steps in BDSM.
Do you want to learn How to be Kinkier? If you've experimented with kink and now want to go further in your life and play, it can be tough to find the resources to show you how to do safe, sane and consensual kink with an even sharper edge. But don't worry; this updated and hugely expanded new edition of the massively popular follow up to Morpheous' How to Be Kinky is here to show you exactly how to take your next steps in BDSM, whether you're a rigger, a sub, a professional Domme or a wannabe slave.
Packed with more information and photos than ever before, this reader favorite just got even better. Morpheous discusses new ideas, under-represented subgenres and how to look after your head and your body when playing on the edge. With four brand (...)
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The Psilocybin Chef Cookbook by K. Mandrake, PhD and Virginia Haze Green Candy Press • On Sale: Sep 19/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 164 pages 9781937866419 • $29.95 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Entheogens & Visionary Substances
The only psilocybin-focussed cookbook on the market.
If you've mastered the art of growing mushrooms at home and have your growing method tuned in perfectly, or you've just got very good at foraging and have a reliable patch, you'll have an endless stream of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. But where do you go from here? What's the best method of extraction to minimize loss, and how can you stave off the dreaded nausea every time you dose? What's the deal with microdosing, and how do you do it safely? And if you want toput on a three-course dosed dinner for a few of your best friends, what are the best dishes to cook? All these questions are answered, deliciously, in The Psilocybin Chef Cookbook .
Containing fifty recipes, eight different extraction methods, cocktails, drinks and more, The Psilocybin Chef Cookbook is the only psilocybin extraction and consumption guide you'll ever need. With photo- essays to illustrate each step of (...)
Bohemians West Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America by Sherry L. Smith Heyday • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 6 x 9 • 400 pages 9781597145169 • $44.95 • cl • Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women's suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundredsof letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara's star rose in the suffrage movement, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress, she began to ask questions about her own power in (...)
My Country 'Tis of Thee Reporting, Sallies, and Other Confessions by David Harris Heyday • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages 9781597145152 • $41.95 • cl • Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
A multifaceted career-spanning collection from famed activist and journalist David Harris
David Harris is a reporter, a clear-eyed idealist, an American dissident, and, as these selected pieces reveal, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders, the downtrodden, and those who demand change, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism, essays, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War, through regular contributions to many publications, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times, and on into the twenty-first century.
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Patriotic Dissent America in the Age of Endless War by Daniel A. Sjursen Heyday • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.1 x 7.5 • 160 pages 9781597145145 • $32.95 • cl • Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism
What is patriotism in our volatile age?
This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop of the terror wars of the last two decades, Sjursen asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. Once a burgeoning believer and budding conservative, who performed an intellectual and spiritual about face, Sjursen calls for a critical exploration of our allegiances, and suggests a path to a new, more complex notion of patriotism. Equal parts somber and idealistic, this is a story about what it means to be an American in the midst of perpetual war, and what the future of patriotism might look like.
Major Danny Sjursen gives readers a right seat ride on his transformation from a U.S. Army commander (...)
San Francisco's Chinatown by Dick Evans, text by Kathy Chin Leong Heyday • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 11 x 11 • 208 pages 9781597145206 • $59.95 • cl • Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials)
America's oldest Chinatown comes alive in stunning photos of its people and places
Following his award-winning book on San Francisco's Mission District, Dick Evans turns his attention to Chinatown, the fifth of a square mile that attracts more tourists than the Golden Gate Bridge but where the median household income is a quarter of the citywide average. From delicious dim sum to wok-filled shops, from iconic red lanterns to elaborate parade floats, from inside single-room occupancy apartments to outdoor games of Chinese chess in Portsmouth Square, Evans captures a place filled with diverse residents and a unique melange of American and Chinese architecture, cuisine, and culture. Vibrant images are interspersed with sidebars highlighting particular people and institutions, deepening viewers' immersion into this community. Kathy Chin Leong's lucid text introduces readers to the history of the neighborhood, as well as to themes of tourism, daily life, and celebrations. At the heart of the book is a tight (...)
The California Field Atlas Collector's Edition by Obi Kaufmann Heyday • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 7 x 9.55 • 552 pages 9781597145237 • $97.50 • cl • Reference / Atlases
A new classic gets the deluxe treatment
Following the success of Obi Kaufmann's bestselling The California Field Atlas, this Collector's Edition features a larger format showcasing Kaufmann's sumptuous watercolors and lettering. In addition to its larger size, the Collector's Edition has lush, illustrated endpapers, a ribbon bookmark, premium paper, and gold embossing on a luxurious leather-like cover. This is a must-have for any book lover, or for fans of nature guides, atlases, and works that fuse science and art. Plus, with a limited print run and deluxe materials, this edition makes a stunning gift.
A winner of multiple awards, including the 2018 California Book Award (Notable Contribution to Publishing) and the NCIBA Book of the Year Award (Regional Interest), and a #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, The California Field Atlas is unlike any other book. Artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann takes readers beyond normal conceptions of California, blending science and art to illuminate the state's (...)
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The Forests of California A California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann Heyday • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 7.5 • 640 pages 9781597144797 • $82.50 • Flexible plastic/vinyl cover • Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests
The first book of a major new trilogy from artist-naturalist Obi Kaufmann
From the author of The California Field Atlas (#1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller) comes a major work that not only guides readers through the Golden State's forested lands, but also presents a profoundly original vision of nature in the twenty-first century. The Forests of California features an abundance of Obi Kaufmann's signature watercolor maps and trail paintings, weaving them into an expansive and accessible exploration of the biodiversity that defines California in the global imagination. Expanding on the style of the Field Atlas, Kaufmann tells an epic story that spans millions of years, nearly one hundred species of trees, and an astonishing richness of ecosystems. The Forests of California is the first volume in a planned trilogy of field atlases, with The Coasts of California and The Deserts of California to follow, and Kaufmann seeks to create nothing less than a new understanding of (...)
A Measure of Belonging Writers of Color on the New American South edited by Cinelle Barnes Hub City Press • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 8 x 5 9781938235719 • $25.50 • pb • Literary Collections / Essays
A fierce collection of essays that tackle the question, Who is welcome?" while also uplifting and celebrating the incredible diversity in the contemporary South, by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working there.
Essays in A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South, examine issues of sex, gender, academia, family, immigration, health, social justice, sports, music, and more. Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones, like Popeyes and OutKast. Aruni Kashyap apartment hunts in Athens and encounters a minefield of invasive questions. Frederick McKindra delves into the particularly Southernhistory of Beyonce's black majorettes.
From the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors' offices, there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent, necessary, funny, and poignant, these essays from new and (...)
The Hub City Writers Project The First 25 Years edited by Betsy Wakefield Teter Hub City Press • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 8.5 x 8.5 • 128 pages 9781938235733 • $29.50 • cl • Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing
This full color book details fifty iconic stories in the twenty-five year history of the Hub City Writers Project, founded in 1995 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Each includes a double page illustrated spread. The book features short essays by local and regional writers about moments like the Lawson's Fork Festival in 2000, the Out Loud campaign against academic censorship, all the way to the introduction of our signature event, Delicious Reads. This book celebrates the first twenty-five years and details how the Hub City Writers Project grew from an idea hatched in a downtown coffee shop among three local writers to now being one of the South's most robust literary organizations.
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The Magnetic Girl A Novel by Jessica Handler Hub City Press • On Sale: Aug 28/20 9781938235740 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Historical
Wall Street Journal 's Ten Books You'll Want to Read This Spring
Indie Next Pick, April 2019
Spring Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence . Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection.
You Want More Selected Stories of George Singleton by George Singleton Hub City Press • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 368 pages 9781938235696 • $40.50 • cl
With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Barry Hannah and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, with its inexorable defeats and small triumphs.
Assembled here for the very first time, You Want More represents a body of work that showcases the incisive talent that earned George Singleton's place among the great pillars of Southern literature." ( The New York Times (...)
100 Years of Leeds United 1919-2019 by Daniel Chapman Icon Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 9781785786358 • $29.50 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Soccer
The Sunday Times bestselling, definitive account of Leeds United's first century.
100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team.
Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has seen more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 70s, clinching the last Division One title of the pre-Sky Sports era in 1992, before becoming the epitome of financial mismanagement at the start of the 21st century.
Despite this demise, United remains one of the best supported - and most divisive - clubs in football, with supporters' clubs dotted across the globe.
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Apollo 11 The Inside Story by David Whitehouse Icon Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 9781785786181 • $26.95 • pb • Science / Astronomy
The amazing full story of Apollo 11 - Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff for a new generation
Informed by extensive interviews with astronauts such Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, David Scott, John Young, Alan Shepard, Charlie Duke, Al Bean, Gordon Cooper, Al Worden, Walt Cunningham, Tom Stafford, Dick Gordon, John Glenn, Pete Conrad, Edgar Mitchel, James Irwin, Stu Roosa, Ron Evans, Deke Slayton, Wally Schirra, as well as key politicians and NASA personnel
Fifty years ago in July 1969, Apollo 11 became the first manned mission to land on the moon, and Neil Armstrong the first man to step onto its surface. President Nixon called it the greatest week since creation.
Fixing Meetings A Productivity Ninja Guide by Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts Icon Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 9781785784750 • $25.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Time Mgmt
Learn the secret to more productive meetings from the author of the bestselling How to be a Productivity Ninja
Too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. It's time to think like a Ninja.
With realistic and practical advice this book shows how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings, and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done.
Hacking the Code of Life How gene editing will rewrite our futures by Nessa Carey Icon Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 9781785786259 • $23.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Diseases / Genetic • Hot Science
The cutting-edge science that will revolutionise the way we prevent disease
Just 45 years ago, the age of gene modification was born. Researchers could create glow-in-the-dark mice, farmyard animals producing drugs in their milk, and vitamin-enhanced rice that could prevent half a million people going blind every year.
But now GM is rapidly being supplanted by a new system called CRISPR or ‘gene editing'. Using this approach, scientists can manipulate the genes of almost any organism with a degree of precision, ease and speed that we could only dream of ten years ago.
But is it ethical to change the genetic material of organisms in a way that might be passed on to future generations? If a person is suffering from a lethal genetic disease, is it even more unethical to deny them this option? (...)
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Imperial Mud The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce Icon Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 9781785786501 • $35.95 • cl • Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
A post-colonial history of the drainage of the Fens of Eastern England, from a highly acclaimed author.
A pre-existing population of proud indigenous people are forced out of their homelands. Then they are materially, culturally and spiritually disenfranchised by a financially mighty imperial state. Their impoverishment is justified to them, and to the outside world, as being necessary for ‘progress'. All of this takes place in East Anglia, an often forgotten area of eastern England.
An innovative new take on the drainage of the Fens, framed in the language of colonialism, Imperial Mud upends the classical narrative of this being a triumph of technology over nature.
Lost in a Good Game Why we play video games and what they can do for us by Pete Etchells Icon Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 9781785786143 • $26.95 • pb • Games / Video & Electronic
An exploration of the psychological effects - the pleasures, benefits and disbenefits - of computer games, and a touching memoir of a dedicated gamer.
When Pete Etchells was 13, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify ‘game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea.
In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft or Fortnite - via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do (...)
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus Icon Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 9781785786174 • $23.95 • pb • Biography / Science & Tech
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science.
Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes.
Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number. His restless speculations and experiments about the way tomorrow would look helped to inaugurate a new way of trying to understand the future.
More than just a biography of Tesla, this book takes the inventor as its guide and follows (...)
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Origins of the Universe The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity by Keith Cooper Icon Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 9781785786426 • $23.95 • pb • Science / Space Science • Hot Science
The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.
Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio static that was interfering with their observations. They had found the key to unravelling the story of the Big Bang and the origin of our universe.
That signal was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the earliest light in the universe, released 379,000 years after the Big Bang. It contains secrets about what happened during the very first tiny increments of time, which had consequences that have rippled throughout cosmic history, leading to the universe of stars and galaxies that we live in today.
This is the enthralling story of the quest to understand the CMB radiation and what it can tell us of the origins of time and space, from bubble (...)
Space 2069 After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars ... and Beyond by David Whitehouse Icon Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 9781785786464 • $40.50 • cl • History / General
From the author of the acclaimed Apollo 11: The Inside Story - our next fifty years of space exploration.
Half a century after Apollo 11 we have still not returned to the Moon, but that is about to change.
The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole.
The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions transforms our ability to live on the Moon. From bases on the Moon we can make the long, lonely and dangerous voyage to Mars, where there is also ice. The obstacles are many, not least the fragilities of the human body. And what type of world would the first Mars explorers find?
The Boy With Two Hearts A Story of Hope by Hamed Amiri Icon Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 9781785786198 • $35.95 • cl
One family's escape from the Taliban and their fight to save their son.
When Hamed Amiri was ten years old he watched his mother give a speech in his home town of Herat, Afghanistan, speaking out for women's rights and education, and against the ruling Taliban.
That night, an order was given for her execution. The family packed up their most precious belongings and escaped in darkness, starting what would be a long and dangerous journey.
But his mother's was not the only life in danger. Hamed's older brother suffered from a rare heart condition, and this escape offered a chance of life-saving treatment in the West.
Exploring the humanity of being a refugee, this is not only a tale of a family in crisis, but a love letter (...)
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The Six Secrets of Intelligence What your education failed to teach you by Craig Adams Icon Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 9781785786525 • $25.50 • pb • Philosophy / Movements / Critical Theory
Six ideas that reveal how to see through lies, deceptions and empty rhetoric, and a warning that we currently misunderstand both intelligence and education.
Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it?
So many books, apps, courses, and schools compete for our attention that the problem isn't a lack of opportunity to sharpen our minds, it's having to choose between so many options. And yet, more than two thousand years ago, the greatest thinker of Ancient Greece had already discovered the blueprint of the human mind. Despite the fact that the latest cognitive science shows his blueprint to be exactly what sharpens our reasoning, subtlety of thought, and ability to think in different ways and for ourselves, we have meanwhile replaced it with a simplistic and seductive view (...)
The Ultimate Bucket List 50 Buckets You Must See Before You Die by Dixe Wills Icon Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 128 pages 9781785786808 • $22.50 • cl • HUMOR / Topic / History
50 buckets that have witnessed great moments in history.
The Battle of Hastings, where Harold's penchant for wearing on his head an upturned bucket rather than the standard issue helmet was to prove his undoing; the invention of the wheel, which occurred when a gentleman in Mesopotamia stumbled upon a bucket and watched transfixed as it rolled across the floor; the foundation of Rome: Romulus, Remus and a bucket - the rest is history.
Unchanged in design over millennia, the humble bucket possesses a versatility unmatched in the history of human invention. It is the unobtrusive onlooker, the fly on the wall sat in quiet contemplation at all great turning points in world history.
Detailing 50 buckets that were present at great moments in history, Guardian travel writer and author of Tiny Castles and Tiny Histories, Dixe Wills, describes each event through their sage and unblinking gaze. (...)
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club A Childhood on the Eve of War by Enid Elliott Linder Icon Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 9781785786099 • $26.95 • pb • Biography / Historical
For fans of Downton Abbey, a unique autobiography of a 1930s London childhood
Enid Elliot Linder was the daughter of a butler and a lady's maid in service in some of England's grandest country houses.
Evoking the lost world of a childhood ‘below stairs', Linder's touching memoir describes how her life changed as Britain headed towards war.
After the family moved to a Marylebone tenement, her father sought work in London restaurants whilst battling personal demons. Meanwhile Linder's aunt was nanny to a high-ranking member of the British Union of Fascists as they grew in influence.
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Comanche A Novel by Brett Riley Imbrifex Books • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 336 pages 9781945501364 • $37.50 • cl • Fiction / Suspense
Brett Riley's COMANCHE is the best western-horror-thriller-ghost story-PI novel ever written." - Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsterland
Like a cylinder in a six-shooter, what goes around, comes around.
In 1887 near the tiny Texas town of Comanche, a posse finally ends the murderous career of The Piney Woods Kid in a hail of bullets. Still in the grip of blood-lust, the vigilantes hack the Kid's corpse to bits in the dead house behind the train depot. The people of Comanche rejoice. Justice has been done. A long bloody chapter in the town's history is over.
The year is now 2016. Comanche police are stymied by a double murder at the train depot. Witnesses swear the killer was dressed like an old-time gunslinger. Rumors fly that it's the ghost of The Piney Woods Kid, back to wreak revenge on the (...)
A Chip Shop in Poznan My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken Icon Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 9781785786266 • $26.95 • pb • Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Why do the Poles leave Poland? Travel writer Ben Aitken booked a one-way ticket to Poznan to find out. This account of his year is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country.
Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament.
Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard of - Poznan. This candid, funny and offbeat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant.
Between peeling potatoes and boning fish, Ben spent time on the road travelling the country. He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how Solidarity rose and communism fell. A bittersweet portrait of an unsung country (...) The Gran Tour Travels with my Elders by Ben Aitken Icon Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 9781785786488 • $34.50 • cl • Travel / Special Interest / Senior
One millennial, six coach trips, one big generation gap.
When Ben Aitken - a millennial Bill Bryson - learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over.
Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last.
A series of coach holidays ensued - from Scarborough to St Ives, Killarney to Lake Como - during which Ben attempts to shake off his thirty-something blues by getting old as soon as possible.
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Alexa for Seniors in easy steps by Nick Vandome In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Oct 5/20 • 7.38 x 8.88 • 192 pages 9781840789072 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Hardware / Handheld Computing • In Easy Steps
Smart speakers are becoming more and more common in the home. These are devices that use a voice- controlled digital personal assistant to perform a range of everyday tasks. One of the most popular of these is Alexa, which operates on the Amazon Echo smart speaker.
Alexa for Seniors in easy steps shows the Senior reader how to use Alexa to help with everyday tasks, and to give you peace of mind and keep you safe, including:
- Setting reminders and alerts for:
- taking medication - upcoming appointments - paying bills - daily/weekly/monthly household tasks
iPad for Seniors in easy steps by Nick Vandome In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Dec 4/20 9781840789096 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Hardware / Handheld Computing • In Easy Steps
iPad for Seniors in easy steps, 10th edition gives a comprehensive introduction to the iPad, showing how it differs from more traditional computers and how to find your way around this captivating device. It is written with Seniors' needs in mind.
The iPad is a tablet computer that is stylish, versatile and easy to use, and is one of the most popular tablets used by all ages. The range of models has been expanded over the years so that there are now different sizes to cover all mobile computing requirements.
iPad for Seniors in easy steps, 10th edition gives you all the essential information you need to know to make the most out of your iPad:
- Choose the right model for you - Navigate around with Multi-Touch gestures - Customize the iPad for your needs
iPhone for Seniors in easy steps by Nick Vandome In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Dec 4/20 9781840789089 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Hardware / Handheld Computing • In Easy Steps
Written with the Senior reader in mind and presented in larger type for easier reading, iPhone for Seniors in easy steps, 7th Edition will help the user to quickly feel confident using their iPhone.
iPhone for Seniors in easy steps, 7th edition covers everything you need to know to keep fully connected. With your iPhone in your pocket you are only ever a couple of taps away from friends and family. Learn how to:
- Make and receive phone calls - Text with the Messages app, including a variety of fun features including Animojis and Memojis - Make video calls with FaceTime - Set up and use email accounts - Use Settings to customize your iPhone exactly to your style and requirement - Use Apple Pay on your iPhone to pay securely - no need to carry your wallet all the time - Use apps to stay healthy, shop online, plan your vacation, get instant news, and more.
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SQL in easy steps by Mike McGrath In Easy Step Limited • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 7.38 x 8.88 • 192 pages 9781840789027 • $23.95 • pb • Computers / Programming / Sql
SQL (Structured Query Language) is THE standard language used world-wide for database communication on all popular database software. It allows the storage and manipulation of data both on Windows platforms and on Unix-based platforms, such as Linux.
SQL in easy steps, 4th edition begins by explaining how to download and install the free MySQL database server on both Windows and Linux platforms. This allows you to establish an environment in which to develop and administer your own databases. This book makes no assumption that you will have previous knowledge of any programming or scripting language so it's ideal for the newcomer to SQL. Each chapter builds your knowledge of executing database queries. The book contains exciting chapters on how to selectively extract data from within one, or more, databases and there are complete examples that illustrate each aspect of SQL. By the end of this book you will have gained a sound understanding of the Structured Query (...)
Intricate Wire by Debbie Benninger Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Aug 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 112 pages 9781627007269 • $34.50 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Wirework
Intricate Wire is ideal for intermediate wireworkers who are hungry for knowledge and new techniques. Includes 18 projects demonstrating various techniques for jewelry construction, such as wire weaving, bezel-forming, and fusing. Pieces showcase crystals and stones, and readers will learn how to use fine silver, copper, and even Argentium silver in their wirework. Follow the step-by-step instructions to create fascinating pendants, rings, earrings, and bracelets.
Stitched Holiday Ornaments by Thomasin (Alyx) Alyxander Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Oct 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 96 pages 9781627007610 • $32.95 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Beadwork
Stitched Holiday Ornaments: 25+ Beaded Treasures is ideal for any bead stitcher hungry for a challenge with a great range of appealing projects. It includes 25+ detailed ornaments made with popular stitches such as peyote stitch, netting, bead embroidery, and herringbone, in addition to general bead weaving techniques. Use easy-to-find seed beads, pearls, crystals, and more, and follow step-by-step instructions and illustrations to create a lovely collection of stitched holiday ornaments. Go beyond jewelry with this 96- page book. A widevariety of colorful ornament options are available for bead stitchers who want to explore these techniques further and decorate their homes with beaded treasures, making this a great value.
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Stone & Wire Jewelry by Irina Miech Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 112 pages 9781627007306 • $34.50 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Wirework
Stone & Wire Jewelry is a collection of wireworked jewelry projects made to showcase colorful gemstone beads and cabochons. The results? Beautiful, timeless pieces. This book focuses on easy-to- find materials that suit any taste. There are 1-3 design options for every project, along with complete instructions, to more than double the true project count and get more for your money. The book is a collection of wireworked jewelry pieces made from standard wire gauges and gemstones in various common shapes and sizes. Projects are clean and stylish, and inviting for readers of all skill levels. Techniques includewire shaping, hammering, coiling, weaving, capturing cabochons, working with paddles, and making frames (...)
Two-Drop Peyote Patterns by Holly Kurzman Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Nov 15/20 • 8.25 x 10.75 • 112 pages 9781627007566 • $32.95 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Beadwork
Two-Drop Peyote Patterns is ideal for any beader familiar with peyote stitch and it is perfect for those who are on the search for new beadwork patterns. The 20+ projects in this collection demonstrate the wide range of pictures one can create with easy-to-find cylinder beads. Each project includes a bead legend that lists specific bead colors and counts, a two-drop peyote pattern, and a word chart. Everything you'll need to learn and finish a project is included within these pages. The wide variety of colorful bracelets, inspired by florals, patterns, abstracts, portraits, and more, will tempt pattern lovers of all kinds.
Union Pacific's Big Boys The Complete Story from History to Restoration by foreword by Jim Wrinn, compiled by Trains Trains Magazine Kalmbach Books • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 11 x 8.5 • 224 pages 9781627007924 • $44.95 • pb • Transportation / Railroads / General
Union Pacific's Big Boys: The complete story from history to restoration covers the who, what, why, and when of the 25 popular 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives.This book gives the historical background on the early 1940s development, explains why they were built, how they were used, and traces their history until they were retired in the 1950s. It also covers the much anticipated and well covered restoration of No. 4014 starting when it was recovered in a park in 2013 all the way through to its restoration and tour across the United States in the summer of 2019. Trains magazine has been published for almost 80 years, much of which has included extensive coverage of Union Pacific's Big Boys since they were created. Everything you need to know about these popular steam locomotives can be found in this 224-page book.
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Humanity At Work Leading for Better Relationships and Results by Pierre Battah LifeTree Media • On Sale: Sep 8/20 • 9 x 6 • 320 pages 9781928055747 • $32.99 • cl • Bus & Econ / Leadership
A pocket mentor" for leaders who want to engage and energize their workforce with a leadership strategy that puts the well-being of people first.
Every leader has a duty to ensure their teams hit sales targets, deliver goods and services efficiently, and meet strategic goals. But leaders who only focus on the bottom line risk alienating or burning out the people integral to the success of the organization.
Engaged employees are more productive, have fewer sick days, and tend to stay in their jobs longer. They go the extra mile because they want to contribute to an organization that cares about them as human beings. Put simply, people-centric leadership is good for business.
But what steps can leaders take to cultivate a workplace culture that is positive, engaged, and also productive? This is what long-time CBC columnist and leadership blogger Pierre Battah tackles in (...)
1949: China, Trauma and Memory by Lung Yingtai, Interviewer Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, translated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) • On Sale: Oct 30/20 9781940660691 • $17.95 • pb
This slim volume will be an interview with Taiwan's most famous activist and author, Dr. Lung Yingtai. It's a conversation between Yingtai and Duke professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow about politics, activism, and writing, in which they discuss: personal history as national history, the public role of a writer in a places like Taiwan and China, and the writerly life as a woman, activist, and mother. Yingtai's most famous book, Big River, Big Sea - which will be excerpted and translated in this collection of interviews - has been banned in mainland China but is widely read among Chinese speakers and its diaspora. She describes it as a novel in which everything is true.
Animal Quintet by Colin Dayan Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) • On Sale: Dec 18/20 • 5 x 6 9781940660721 • $22.50 • pb • True Stories
Colin Dayan meditates on the connection between her personal and family history and her relationship with animals in this lyrical memoir about her upbringing in the South. Unraveling memories alongside family documents and photographs, Animal Quintet takes a raw look at racial tensions and relations in a region struggling to change while providing a disquieting picture of a childhood accessible only through accounts of the non-human, ranging from famed Southern war horses led by Civil War generals and doomed Spanish fighting bulls to the lowly possum hunted by generations of Southerners. Placing the reader in the mind's eye of a writer still grappling with her own mixed identity and unsettled past, the book is uniquely capable of transporting one's imagination across time and place, mirroring the natural behavior of remembrances with its feeling of dislocation and non-linear movement. Regional folk songs about old gray mares and possums hiding in trees intermingle with stories and confidences shared by the household's African-American nanny, enclosing the reader in a chorus composed of otherwise (...)
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Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Domestic Issue Fall 2020, No. 28 edited by Tom Lutz Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 7.5 x 9.5 • 144 pages 9781940660523 • $17.95 • pb • Literary Criticism / General
Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. Since its founding in 2011, LARB has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers and readers. The LARB Quarterly Journal, a signature print edition, reflects the best that this institution brings to a national and international readership. The print magazine cultivates a stable of regular and ongoing contributors, both eminent and emerging, to cover all topics and genres, from politics to fiction, film to poetry, and much more. LARB specializes in a looser and more eclectic approach than other journals: grounded in literature but open to all varieties of cultural experience. Headquartered in Los Angeles, but home to writers and artists from all over the world, the LARB Quarterly Journal brings the pioneering spirit of the online magazine into print and and remains committed to covering and representing today's diverse literary and cultural landscape.
How to Think Strategically Sharpen Your Mind. Develop Your Competency. Contribute to Success. by Greg Githens Maven House Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 304 pages 9781947540125 • $47.95 • cl • Bus & Econ / Skills
This is the book for those who confidently want to declare, I'm a competent strategic thinker!
How to Think Strategically is the ideal primer for those who want to develop their mental acumen and make strategic impact. This book will help you understand what it means to be strategic" and how to craft strategy that is effective, powerful, and clever. A competent strategic thinker tolerates ambiguity, notices weak signals, defines the core challenge facing the organization, and designs effective responses with a winning strategic logic.
How to Think Strategically provides numerous real-world examples of individual strategic thinkers in action describing how they constructed a winning strategic logic. Through these examples, you'll learn useful lessons that can be applied in any organization and in your personal life. This book will show you how to internalize the 20 microskills of strategic thinking (...)
Not Just Numbers Rediscovering the Promise and Power of Marketing Research by Lawrence D. Gibson Maven House Press • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 9781947540118 • $37.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Marketing / General
In this provocative and insightful book, highly regarded marketing research expert Lawrence Gibson argues that the multibillion-dollar marketing research industry has largely failed. The book shows you exactly why it's failed and how it must change. Gibson asserts that businesses need a different way of looking at marketing research, both more scientific and more practical. Marketing research needs to help you solve marketing problems and capitalize on marketing opportunities and not merely be a source of data.
The logical steps required to do marketing research right are simply and clearly described in the book. Cases from the author's extensive experience show you how his problem-solving approach has worked in real-world situations and demonstrate the dramatic sales and financial gains you can achieve when marketing research is properly designed and used.
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Turn Waste into Wealth How to Find Cash in Every Corner of the Company by Mark C. DeLuzio, foreword by Jeffrey J. Fox Maven House Press • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5 x 7.5 • 165 pages 9781947540101 • $29.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Mgmt
Pre-eminent Lean thought leader shows CEOs and other business leaders why Lean is the modern way to run any organization
Cash is lying around everywhere in companies. It's in warehouses and on shelves, hiding in plain sight as inventory. It litters administrative offices, disguised as incorrect invoices, late billings, sloppy requests from salespeople. It sits in company lobbies waiting for sales calls to start. All that cash is retrievable - available for re-investment. Turn Waste into Wealth will help you get that cash by turning your organization into a Lean company.
Mark DeLuzio, principle architect of the vaunted Danaher Business System that has led companies to world-class performance, presents hard-hitting advice and numerous case histories that will help you make your company Lean. You'll learn: Why Lean is the modern way to run any organization; What you must do to insure a successful Lean transformation; Lean accounting practices that promote Lean (...)
Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6 x 9 • 456 pages 9781571311771 • $52.50 • cl • Nature / Essays
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped linen cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book - gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred - and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on a journey (...)
Northern Light Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 9781571313829 • $35.95 • cl • Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Places do not belong to us. We belong to them."
The child of South Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, made a life in the United States, and grew up in the cities and small towns of Manitoba. As a queer, Muslim man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, the celebrated poet and essayist finds himself thinking longingly of the boreal forests and lush waterways of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once livedfor several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?
When Ali goes searching, however, he finds not news of Jenpeg, but of the local Pimicikamak community. Facing environmental degradation and broken promises from the Canadian government, they have evicted Manitoba's electric utility from the dam on Cross Lake. Furthermore, in a place (...)
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Stone-Garland by translated by Dan Beachy-Quick Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 128 pages 9781571315328 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / Ancient, Classical & Medieval • Seedbank
Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; a flower-logic, a petal- theory, a blossom-word." In Stone-Garland, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks.
Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses.
Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and "the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the (...)
The Century Poems by Eireann Lorsung Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6.5 x 8.5 • 144 pages 9781571314833 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / Women Authors
A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.
In the tradition of witness poetry, The Century tugs apart the quotidian horrors required to perpetuate acts of violence like the Holocaust, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Japan and Iraq, American slavery and its lingering aftermath. When Eireann Lorsung writes of death and dying, of bodies in the fields becoming the fields," it's the simplicity that's most haunting. After a fire, "some of their skin moved off of them as they ran, a very / simple melting... " But these poems don't just witness; they also resist and serve as models for resistant lives. Pushing back against form and grammar, constructions of time and geography, Lorsung traces decades of technological, geopolitical, and cultural shifts through generations and across continents as networks of dominance continue to be stubbornly upheld.
The Shame A Novel by Makenna Goodman Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 160 pages 9781571311368 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
What if you could change your life? Would you do it? How would you do it?
Alma and her family live close to the land: they raise chickens and sheep, they make maple syrup. Every day Alma's husband leaves for his job at a nearby college while she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night, she abruptly leaves it all behind - speeding through the darkness, away from their Vermont homestead, bound for New York.
In a series of flashbacks, Alma reveals the circumstances and choices that led to this moment. The joys and claustrophobia of their remote life through the passing of each season. Her fears and uncertainties about motherhood. The painfully awkward faculty dinners. Her feelings of loneliness and failure. And her growing fascination with Celeste: the mysterious ceramicist and self-loving doppelganger whose story begins as inspiration for Alma before (...)
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Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 6.5 x 8.5 • 80 pages 9781571315212 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / American / Hispanic American • National Poetry Series
Tongues make mistakes / and mistakes / make languages." And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with Thrown in the Throat . In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship, family, and Adam Rippon's butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented, one speaker recalls nights when "because we cannot sleep / we dream with open eyes." Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country's long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other,he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with.
With language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, Thrown in the Throat shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. "Sometimes even a diamond was once alive" writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says "has deadly superpowers." And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through (...)
Untitled Anthology of Dutch Poetry edited by Rob Schouten Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 224 pages 9781571315335 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / Continental European
World of Wonders In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 184 pages 9781571313652 • $37.50 • cl • Nature / Essays
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction - a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted - no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape - she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures for guidance. What the peacock can do," she tells us, "is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to (...)
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Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by torrin a. greathouse Milkweed Editions • On Sale: Dec 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 96 pages 9781571315274 • $23.95 • pb • Poetry / General
The Chronicles of Bizah: A Student of Truth by Constance Kellough, illustrated by Mary Kellough Namaste Publishing • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 7.5 x 5.25 • 208 pages 9781897238899 • $32.95 • CL - Hard Cover Illustrated Book • Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth
You are about to meet your new guru. He's open-hearted, curious and confused; and he's shuffling his way toward enlightenment. Perhaps he's just like you! A simple, fun way to reflect on your own life, The Chronicles of Bizah, Student of Truth is a treasure trove of short, sweet stories that simplify complex life lessons and ancient wisdom into fables that are timeless, universal and accessible to all ages. Written by Constance Kellough, author, meditation teacher, and publisher of great works in spiritual thought and philosophy, The Chronicles of Bizah is her unique expression of many core ideas and essential truths she has gathered on her journey. An inspirational keepsake to reference when you need a quick reminder, a pick me up, or a giggle, meeting Bizah is like meeting a little piece of your own soul. Welcome Bizah into your life and see what happens!
Taking A Breath A Meditation and Reflection Journal by Lama Tsomo, contributions by The Namchak Community Namchak Publishing • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 7.5 x 9.75 • 211 pages 9780999577042 • $29.50 • pb • Self-Help / Meditations
Meditation has many proven benefits from decreasing stress to making us happier. But how do you transform it from an extended, boring silence into a habit that brings more meaning and joy to your daily life?
This journal will guide you through a rich and engaging exploration of your inner life. Taking A Breath provides instruction and inspiration for beginning and more advanced meditators. Removed from the noise and distraction of our digital lives, this beautiful and functional journal is both guide and tracker. This journal gives you accessible meditations with fun exercises along with the science around both meditation practice and habit formation to inspire your time on the cushion. By journaling, you heighten your memory retention and increase creativity on the journey to creating a daily meditation practice.
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The Two Hands of God The Myths of Polarity by Alan Watts New World Library • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5.25 x 8 • 282 pages 9781608686865 • $25.50 • pb • Philosophy / Eastern / General
Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius. In this ambitious work, Watts takes readers on a fascinating journey through the mythology of China, Egypt, India, the Middle East, and Medieval Europe. His theme is the human experience of polarity, a condition in which opposing qualities define and complement each other. Light cannot exist without darkness, good cannot exist without evil, and male cannot exist without female. Chinese philosophy expresses this idea of universal polarity with the concepts of yin and yang, while other cultures express it through the symbolic language of myth, literature, and art. Watts illustrates the way great sages and artists across time have seen beyond the apparent duality of the universe to finda deeper unity that transcends and embraces everything.
Found in Transition A Mother's Evolution during Her Child's Gender Change by Paria Hassouri, MD New World Library • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 6 x 9 • 272 pages 9781608687084 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
What do you do when, just before Thanksgiving at your mother's, your fourteen-year-old son asks you to iron the dress he recently purchased and plans to wear? Readers learn the answer and much more in this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen. Paria Hassouri chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Despite her experience advising other parents in her work as a pediatrician, she was blindsided by her child's gender identity. Her journey forces her to reckon with how her own childhood as a brown kid in a white world led her to sometimes parent with fear rather than love. Hassouri discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love. At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.
The Power of Daily Practice How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals by Eric Maisel, PhD New World Library • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 5.25 x 8 • 240 pages 9781608687060 • $23.95 • pb • Self-Help / Creativity
Anyone who has ever picked up a creativity or self-help guide has likely been advised to keep to a daily schedule, daily pages, or other everyday ritual. But just do it" usually just doesn't work. Longtime creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel has found an approach that does work: giving clients, and now readers, a clear understanding of what makes them personally blocked or stuck and unable to start or finish. Not enough time, resources, or talent? Fear of success, guilt about being "selfish," and variations on the theme of "what's the point?" Maisel has spent thirty years helping people overcome these kinds of blocks with skills including anxiety management, positive self-talk, cognitive behavioral therapy, and even "sleep thinking." The tools Maisel offersare a potent alternative to waiting for the spirit to move or the muse to inspire: a sustainable, self-directed path to success.
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Mastering the Art of Public Speaking 8 Secrets to Transform Fear and Supercharge Your Career by Michael J. Gelb New World Library • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 224 pages 9781608686278 • $26.95 • pb • Self-Help / Communication & Social Skills
Glossophobia is the technical term for the fear of public speaking, and according to the National Institute of Mental Health, 74 percent of Americans suffer from it. In fact, many top professional speakers and accomplished actors experience butterflies in the stomach before presenting. They never eliminate the butterflies; they just teach them how to fly in formation. How? Michael Gelb's techniques help readers clarify what they want to say and why they want to say it. Gelb helps them zero in on theirmessage and why their audience - no matter how big or small - should care about it. Once the message is razor-sharp, he teaches how to convey it in memorable, effective ways. Gelb shows that public speaking is a skill anyone can learn and enjoy. As babies we were naturally expressive and engaging, even charismatic. Mastering the Art of Public Speaking guides readers to rediscover their natural gift for communication while strengthening confidence and presence.
101 Rescue Puppies One Family's Story of Fostering Dogs, Love, and Trust LEAD by Kathy Callahan New World Library • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 8 x 8 • 160 pages 9781608686568 • $28.50 • pb • Pets / Dogs / General
Over the past decade, Kathy Callahan's family has taken in more than 150 rescue puppies. This engaging, photo-filled book features the wonderful stories that emerge as these foster pups, typically from underfunded rural shelters, are suddenly surrounded by a nurturing family complete with generous-spirited adult dogs and curious cats. With a gift for capturing the moment in both words and images, Callahan brings readers inside the delightful, moving, and ultimately uplifting work of fostering.
Callahan didn't set out to become the puppy lady," but, as she explains: "Somebody had surrendered a mother dog, Nala, and her less-than-a-month-old pups at the local shelter. I thought about that exhausted nursing mom who'd been caring for those seven puppies around the clock, only to find herself suddenly homeless. There are a lot of terrible things that happen in life, and I can't do a darned thing about most of them. It struck me that this was a tiny little tragedy in my corner of theworld that our family could remedy.
Overwhelmed and Over It Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World by Christine Arylo New World Library • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781608686773 • $26.95 • pb • Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
Ask any woman if she feels overwhelmed, and you'll likely get an eye roll and a duh." Adding to her sense of overload may be books hectoring her to Lean In, Lean Out, Dare to Lead, and Work It. Even advice aimed to soothe - urging meditation, yoga, and unplugged weekends - can increase a sense of inadequacy when one can't find the time or money for these worthy suggestions. And if one does, asserts Christine Arylo, she is often treating the symptoms, rather than the root cause, which is why she can't seem to end the burnout cycle of overwork and overgiving. First and foremost, Arylo assures women that if all their leaning, logging off, and downward-dogging aren't doing the trick,"It's not your fault!" She replaces outdated bits of "conventional wisdom" with elevated versions and offers intensely practical and realistic solutions, including her "Five Points of Liberation." Her approach takes women out of the shoulds that surround them and into their inner wisdom in ways that allow them to authentically live, love (...)
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Manage Your Menopause Naturally The Six-Week Guide to Calming Hot Flashes & Night Sweats, Getting Your Sex Drive Back, Sharpening Memory & Reclaiming Well-Being by Maryon Stewart, foreword by Emmanuela Wolloch, MD New World Library • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 7 x 9 • 272 pages 9781608686827 • $26.95 • pb
Menopause has historically been treated as a problem to be solved or an illness to be cured, not the natural process it is. Many modern books on menopause offer worthy insights and advice, others are written in bewildering medicalese, and many others recommend unproven, piecemeal approaches to various symptoms. Here, Maryon Stewart outlines something different: a wonderfully comprehensive six- week Natural Menopause Solution with steps that a woman can take immediately to feel better right away. A series of detailed questionnaires helps women assess which areas of their lives most need addressing - from brain fogginess and mood swings to painful sex, weight gain, and complexion issues. Stewart then shows readers exactly what to do, nutritionally and in other areas of their lives, to overcome their symptoms. The powerful results of Stewart's program don't end after six weeks; instead, they point the way toward not just a good life, but a life that's better than ever.
The Clear Light Spiritual Reflections and Meditations by Steve Taylor New World Library • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 5 x 8 • 144 pages 9781608687121 • $28.50 • cl • Body, Mind & Spirit / Meditation
Steve Taylor offers short and powerful poetic reflections as a guide to spiritual awakening, and as experiential glimpses of the state of enlightenment itself. As Eckhart Tolle has written, the poetic form has been recognized since ancient times as a highly appropriate medium for the expression and transmission of spiritual truth." Taylor ranges widely, through subjects including "Making the Human Race Whole," "Freedom from the Past," and "The Reality of Connection," always in clear and simple language. Best of all, he reminds readers of the choices they always have when life feels chaotic and overwhelming - empathy, acceptance, and love. Soothing but also challenging, Taylor's words continually affirm the profound bedrock of peace and even joy in the present that is always available. The book's eponymous reflection says it best: "There is nothing that can't be undone - no past injury that can't be healed / no past mistake that can't be corrected - in the clear light of the present." Reading this book is a transformational spiritual experience in itself."
The Language of Loss Writers on Grieving the Death of a Life Partner by Barbara Abercrombie New World Library • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 5 x 8 • 176 pages 9781608686957 • $25.50 • pb • Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement
When Barbara Abercrombie's husband died, she found the language of condolence, no matter how well intended, irritating. My husband had not gone to a better place, as if he were on a holiday. He had not passed, like clouds overhead. He wasn't my late husband, as if he'd missed a train. And I had not lost him, as if I'd been careless." She yearned instead for words that acknowledged the reality of death, that spoke about the unfathomable sorrow and loneliness (and perhaps even guilt andanger), and that might even point the way toward hope and healing. She found those words in the writings gathered here. The prose and poetry in The Language of Loss follows an arc that mirrors the path of many mourners - from abject loss and feeling unmoored, to glimmers of promise and possibility, through to gratitude for the love they knew. C.S. Lewis wrote, "We read to know that we're not alone." These writings, which express what often feels ineffable, will accompany those who grieve, offering understanding and solace.
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Radical Intuition A Revolutionary Guide to Using Your Inner Power by Kim Chestney New World Library • On Sale: Nov 13/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9781608687145 • $23.95 • pb • Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
Working as a leader in the technology sector for nearly twenty years, Kim Chestney observed that intuition played a huge role in business and cultural progress. Through research and practice, Chestney evolved techniques that allow anyone to tap into this extraordinary power that is actually hardwired into us all. Radical Intuition presents a pioneering understanding of our inner wisdom not as some murky, mystical kind of hunch but as the highest form of everyday human cognition. Chestney shows how anyone can tune in to this guidance within to understand who they are and how to achieve their highest potential. Her practice helps readers develop their own intuitive development system, one that allows them to be conscious of their insights and to use them to create, innovate, and thrive. Aligned with this inner compass,people are empowered to not only create their own best lives but to live in ways that facilitate optimal outcomes for the people, communities, and businesses around them.
Growing Big Dreams Manifesting Your Heart's Desires through Twelve Secrets of the Imagination by Robert Moss New World Library • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 304 pages 9781608687046 • $25.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth
Imagination is sometimes confused with idle daydreaming, but the two are worlds apart. The imagination is a powerful creative resource for insight and self-actualization, one that can be tapped by anyone with the right attitude and practice. In Growing Big Dreams, Robert Moss shows readers how to harness the power of the creative imagination to manifest the life they truly desire. The process involves setting an intention, visualizing the goal with such intensity that it becomes tangible, and then using the imagination to make the vision take root in the real" world. Moss offers a wide array of techniques to access the creative imagination, including lucid dreaming, the "yoga of sleep," summoning spirit guides, cultivating psychic states of consciousness, and more. Great artists, mystics, and shamans know that there are places of the imagination that are entirely real. Growing Big Dreams shows everyone how to get there.
The Journey of Soul Initiation A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries by Bill Plotkin, PhD New World Library • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 320 pages 9781608687015 • $28.50 • pb • Self-Help / Spiritual
As cosmologist Brian Thomas Swimme writes, Bill Plotkin lives in the creative universe as articulated by quantum physics, indigenous traditions, and evolutionary cosmology." While this might sound esoteric, Plotkin is anything but. He has devoted his life to guiding individuals to discover their soul's purpose - their unique niche in the Earth community. Here, in a culmination of his life's work, Plotkin describes for the first time the five phases of the descent to soul. Stories of those who have undertaken the journey illuminate the process, which includes the dissolution of earlier identity, the revelation of destiny or mythopoetic identity, and the subsequent metamorphosis of the ego into that of an initiated adult. Readers need not be familiar with Plotkin's previous works to benefit from this revolutionary, phase-by-phase guidance through the lost journey of soul initiation, a journey that can transform individuals and cultures - and, ultimately, our planet.
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Active Hope (revised) How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone New World Library • On Sale: Dec 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages 9781608687107 • $28.50 • pb • Nature / Ecology
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, political polarization, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide us through a transformational process informed by mythic journeys, modern psychology, spirituality, and holistic science. This process equips us with tools to face the mess we're in and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, to a life-sustaining society.
'Books about social and ecological change too often leave out a vital component: how do we change ourselves so that we are strong enough to fully contribute to this great shift? Active Hope fills this gap beautifully, guiding readers on a journey of gratitude, grief, interconnection, and, ultimately, transformation.
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 1 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 1-6 The End of Sorrow by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 425 pages 9781586381325 • $34.50 • pb • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its bestselling translation.
The Bhagavad Gita is set on the battlefield of an apocalyptic war between good and evil. Faced with a dire moral dilemma, the warrior prince Arjuna turns in anguish to his spiritual guide, Sri Krishna, for answers to the fundamental questions of life.
Easwaran points out that Arjuna's crisis is acutely modern. The Gita's battlefield is the struggle for self- mastery that every human being must wage. Arjuna represents each of us, and Sri Krishna is the Lord, instructing us in eighteen chapters of lofty wisdom as we face the social, environmental, and global
challenges that threaten our world today.
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 1 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 1-6 The End of Sorrow by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 425 pages 9781586381332 • $44.95 • cl • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
The practical exercises recommended by Easwaran to achieve transformation are part of a spiritual program he developed for his own life. They are accessible to people from all backgrounds and cultures. Urging us to adopt a higher image of the human being, he assures us that peace and unity are within reach. Each volume of this series covers six chapters of the Gita. Each may be read on its own, but all three volumes together form an in-depth, verse-by-verse explanation of this ancient scripture and its relevance today.
VOLUME 1: The first six chapters of the Gita explore the concept of the innermost Self and source of wisdom in each of us. Easwaran explains how we can begin to transform ourselves, even as householders engaged in busy lives. The introduction includes instructions in Easwaran's universal eight-point program of passage meditation.
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The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 7-12 Like a Thousand Suns by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 455 pages 9781586381349 • $34.50 • pb • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
Easwaran is a spiritual teacher and author of deep insight and warmth. His verse-by-verse commentary interprets the Gita's teachings for modern readers, explaining the Sanskrit concepts and philosophy and applying them with practicality, wisdom, and humor to every aspect of our work, our relationships, and our lives. With everyday anecdotes, stories, and examples, he shows that the changes we long to see in the world start with the transformation of our own consciousness.
The practical exercises recommended by Easwaran to achieve transformation are part of a spiritual program he developed for his own life. They are accessible to people from all backgrounds and cultures. Urging us to adopt a higher image of the human being, he assures us that peace and unity are within reach.
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 7-12 Like a Thousand Suns by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 455 pages 9781586381356 • $44.95 • cl • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
Each volume of this series covers six chapters of the Gita. Each may be read on its own, but all three volumes together form an in-depth, verse-by-verse explanation of this ancient scripture and its relevance today.
VOLUME 2: The chapters in this volume go beyond the individual Self and investigate the Supreme Reality that underlies all creation. Here, Easwaran delves into the unity of life, and builds a bridge across the seeming divide between scientific knowledge and spiritual wisdom.
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 13-18 To Love Is to Know Me by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 519 pages 9781586381363 • $35.95 • pb • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
VOLUME 3: The final six chapters put forth an urgent appeal for us to begin to see that all of us are one - to make the connection between the Self within and the Reality underlying all creation. Global in scope, the emphasis is on what we can do to make a difference to heal our environment and establish peace in the world.
Easwaran's commentary is for all students of the Gita, whatever their background, and for anyone who is trying to find a path to wisdom, love, and kindness in themselves and our troubled world. Written as an authoritative, accessible guide to a much-loved scripture, it is a handbook for finding peace and clarity within.
This second edition incorporates minor revisions made across all three volumes following the author's final instructions.
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The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3 A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 13-18 To Love Is to Know Me by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 6 x 9 • 519 pages 9781586381370 • $44.95 • cl • Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings • The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living
VOLUME 3: The final six chapters put forth an urgent appeal for us to begin to see that all of us are one - to
make the connection between the Self within and the Reality underlying all creation. Global in scope, the
emphasis is on what we can do to make a difference to heal our environment and establish peace in the world.
Easwaran's commentary is for all students of the Gita, whatever their background, and for anyone who is trying to
find a path to wisdom, love, and kindness in themselves and our troubled world. Written as an authoritative,
accessible guide to a much-loved scripture, it is a handbook for finding peace and clarity within.
This second edition incorporates minor revisions made across all three volumes following the author's final
instructions.
Your Life Is Your Message Finding Harmony with Yourself, Others & the Earth by Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri Press • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 5 x 8 • 126 pages 9781586381462 • $16.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Inspiration & Personal Growth
Make your life a message of hope, love, and purpose.No matter what crises may threaten the world, you can live in harmony with your highest ideals - and help others to do the same. This practical and inspiring book, a classic from a much-loved spiritual teacher, shows how.
You can find harmony with yourself by gaining mastery of your internal environment, a world within of thoughts, desires, and feelings as real as the world outside.
You can build harmony in your relationships with family, colleagues, and your community by learning to love more fully than you had thought possible.
You can establish harmony with the physical environment by living your life to ensure, in every way, a brighter future for all our children.
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon by Dennis J Bernstein, by (artist) Warren Lehrer On Sale: Oct 7/19 • 300 pages 9780996950633 • $52.50 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
Five Oceans in a Teaspoon is an innovative, beautiful and moving collection of short visual poems written by muckraking journalist/poet Dennis J Bernstein, visualized by pioneer designer/author Warren Lehrer. Thirty-five years after the publication of their book/play French Fries, considered a classic in visual literature and expressive typography, Bernstein and Lehrer have reunited to complete a book of visual poetry they began forty years ago. As with his journalism, Bernstein's poems reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. Divided into eight movements, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon reads like a memoir in poems. It spans a lifetime: growing up confused by dyslexia and a parental gambling addiction; graced by pogo sticks, boxing lessons and a mother's compassion; becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermaths, prison, street life, poverty, love and loss, open heart surgery, caring for aging parents and visitations from them after they're gone. Lehrer's typographic compositions give form to the interior (...)
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Popol Vuh An Illustrated Retelling by Ilan Stavans, illustrated by Gabriela Larios Orange Avenue/Zest • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 6 x 6 • 160 pages 9781632062406 • $32.95 • cl • Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
The most important creation story in the Americas before the European conquest, Popol Vuh was a millennia-old oral tradition that, in the 16th century, as the Mayan civilization was being threatened with destruction, was written down in verse by members of the K'iche' nobility in what is today Guatemala. That original was translated into Spanish by a priest and then vanished mysteriously. Composed of four parts, Popol Vuh tells the story of how the world was created in a series of rehearsals that included wooden dummies, demi-gods, and eventually humans.
Cosmic in scope and yet intimately human, Popol Vuh offers invaluable insight into the Mayan way of life before 1492, their code of ethics, their views on death and the afterlife, and their devotion to passion, courage, and the natural world. One of the most extraordinary sections of the narrative is the description - as inspired as Dante's hell - of the underworld, Xibalba. Equally archetypal is the legend of the ultimate king, who, in the face of tragedy, became a spirit that (...)
The Diaries of Emilio Renzi A Day in the Life by Ricardo Piglia, translated by Robert Croll Orange Avenue/Zest • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.51 x 8.27 • 480 pages 9781632060471 • $35.95 • pb • Fiction / Hispanic & Latino
Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.
The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan Orange Avenue/Zest • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.24 x 7.38 • 176 pages 9781632062710 • $29.95 • cl • Fiction / Jewish
The controversial English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a harrowing, ironic parable of how we reckon with human horror, in which a young, present-day historian becomes consumed by the memory of the Holocaust.
Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II and guides tours through the sites for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives.
The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living (...)
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The Way Out by Ricardo Piglia, translated by Robert Croll Orange Avenue/Zest • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 5.51 x 8.27 • 304 pages 9781632062208 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others.
In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves behind his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in for a semester of academic quietude and wintry isolation, he is surprised to be swept up in a secret romance with his colleague, the brilliant and enigmatic Ida Brown. But their clandestine relationship comes to an abrupt end when Ida is discovered in her car, killed in what appears to be a tragic accident. Discontented with the police's lackluster inquiries, and troubled by the inexplicable burn found on her hand, Renzi begins his own investigation.
David Lynch: Weirdsville USA The Obsessive Universe of David Lynch by Paul A Woods Plexus Publishing Limited • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 5 x 6 • 224 pages 9780859655552 • $34.50 • pb • Performing Arts / Film / General
David Lynch, maverick Hollywood director, has pursued his contrasting obsessions more than most movie-makers would dare. In a wildly varying career, he has experienced cult adulation, mainstream success, virtual rejection by the film industry, and a renaissance which has seen him established as the brand name of 'Weird Americana.'
Weirdsville USA charts Lynch's work from the experimental art-school years and the Midnight Movie hit Eraserhead, the mainstream success of The Elephant Man and the resounding failure of Dune, through the Weird Americana prototypes of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, the heyday of the 'Lynch Mob', and the fall from fashionable grace; to the success of the neo-noir mystery Lost Highway that brought about a spurt of cinematic activity, as well as new fine art and musical projects. Weirdsville USA includes many fascinating anecdotes and quotes, a look at Lynch's personal life away from the camera and detailed film analysis, backed up by a wealth of film (...)
Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder: None Too Fragile by Martin Clarke Plexus Publishing Limited • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 5 x 6 • 192 pages 9780859655590 • $29.50 • pb • Biography / Composers & Musicians
In this major biography Martin Clarke investigates one of the most popular and influential bands of our time and paints a detailed portrait of their enigmatic leader, Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam exploded onto the world stage in 1991, captivating a generation with their inspirational live shows and being hailed as the 'kings of grunge'. Their first album, Ten, went multi-platinum and won four MTV awards.
Yet this massive popularity brought problems. In a rivalry fanned by the media, Kurt Cobain condemnded Pearl Jam's popularisation of grunge, calling them a 'corporate' group. Pearl Jam responded with multi- million sales and critical acclaim. Vs. became the fastest-selling American album of all time and its follow- up, Vitalogy, was equally successful. By this stage, however, the pressures of fame had begun to take their toll. Band tensions, personnel changes and substance abuse reared their ugly heads before Pearl Jam returned with the lauded album, No Code . It proved to be a turning point, with subsequent albums Yield, Binaural, Riot Act, Pearl Jam, Backspacer and (...)
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Scott Walker: The Rhymes of Goodbye by Lewis Williams Plexus Publishing Limited • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 5 x 9 • 280 pages 9780859655583 • $29.50 • pb • Biography / Composers & Musicians
Scott arrived in the UK in 1965 with 2 American friends and formed The Walker Brothers. Their second release 'Make It Easy On Yourself' went to Number 1 in the British Charts and Number 16 in the US. Responsible for some of the biggest hits of the 60s, Scott Walker was once more popular than The Beatles and his music influenced the likes of Radiohead, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. The Rhymes of Goodbye tells the amazing story of Scott Walker's life and work through his songs - a track by track commentary in the tradition of Revolution In The Head that encompasses his entire career from the first Walker Brothers single up to his final work before his death in March 2019. Featuring an informed guide to Walker's exceptional and esoteric lyricism and providing an insightful analysis that will delight his legions of fans, lifelong fan Lewis Williams presents a wealth of engaging information about an artist who has been described as the most enigmatic singer of modern times.
Wes Anderson: Film Maker Extraordinaire by Plexus Publishing Plexus Publishing Limited • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 192 pages 9780859655545 • $34.50 • pb • Performing Arts / Film / Screenwriting
A comprehensive look at the films of the distinct and the strange Wes Anderson, whose genius and talents know no limits.
A maverick of the modern-day film industry, Wes Anderson has made a name for himself in recent years as both a screenwriter and a director. His films celebrate the gloriously eccentric, transcending the norm of a Hollywood blockbuster, and focusing on the aesthetically wonderful as well as the poignantly sad. Anderson breaks away from the cliched as he combines the tragic with the intermittently funny. All of his scenes are executed in the most meticulous manner, each detail adding another dimension to his superbly multi-layered films.
This highly in-depth book will look at the work of Wes Anderson, exploring in detail his unique style, from the scrupulously arranged sets to the emotive yet deadpan dialogue. Wes Anderson is a director who has fearlessly made his own path in the film industry, creating his unique style (...)
A Will to Kill by Actor RV Raman Polis Books • On Sale: Oct 30/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 340 pages 9781951709075 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British • Harith Athreya
For fans of Knives Out, a book that embodies all the things we love about Agatha Christie - a haunted manor house, estranged relatives a will, and a murder - set in modern-day India, and the first in a series from author RV Raman. Aging and wheelchair-bound patriarch Bhaskar Fernandez has finally reclaimed his family property after a bitter legal battle, and now wants to reunite his aggrieved relatives. So, he invites them to remote Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris - a mansion that has played host to several sudden deaths; a colonial edifice that stands alone in a valley that is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Englishman. But Bhaskar has other, more practical problems to deal with. He knows that his family is waiting for him to die to regain the family fortune, and to safeguard himself against violence during the house party, he writes two conflicting wills. Which one of them comes into force depends on how he dies. Into this tinderbox, he brings Harith Athreya,a (...)
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Ain't Nobody Nobody by Heather Harper Ellett Polis Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709167 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Still reeling from the scandal that cost him his badge, Randy Mayhill - fallen lawman, dog rescuer, Dr Pepper enthusiast - sees a return from community exile in the form of a dead hog trapper perched on a fence. The fence belongs to the late Van Woods, Mayhill's best friend and the reason for his spectacular fall. Determined to protect Van's land and family from another scandal, Mayhill ignores the sherriff who replaced him and investigates the death of the unidentified man. His quest crosses with two others: Birdie, Van's surly, mourning daughter, who has no intention of sitting idly by and leaving her father's legacy in Mayhill's hands; and Bradley, Birdie's slow, malnourished but loyal friend, whose desperation to escape a life of poverty has him working with local criminals, and possibly a murderer. A riveting debut novel about family and loyalty, old grudges and new lives, AIN'T NOBODY NOBODY is like a cross between Faulkner and Breaking Bad", from a talented new writer with an authentic Texas voice.
Famous in Cedarville by Erica Wright Polis Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709150 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
From one of the most original writers in crime fiction comes a diabolical mystery wrapped in Hollywood tinsel.
When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something of an outsider, and his wife's death hasn't exactly improved his reputation. In fact, the local gossipmongers think he might be losing his mind. Their bless-your-heart manners can't disguise their distrust, which makes his amateur attempts at an investigation even more difficult.
When Lace's assistant is found decidedly murdered, the town starts to change its tune, though, and soon Samson finds himself in the thick of an improbable chase. Hollywood hotshots and small-town law enforcement make strange bedfellows - especially when secrets are getting women killed.
Lockdown edited by Nick Kolakowski and Steve Weddle Polis Books • On Sale: Jun 26/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709174 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
A mysterious virus sweeps across the country, mutating rapidly as it jumps from person to person. Cities are locked down. The skies are clear as all planes are grounded. Some people panic, while some go to heroic lengths to save those they love - and others use the chaos as an opportunity to engage in purest evil. In Lockdown," 19 of today's finest suspense, horror, and crime writers explore how humanity reacts to the ultimate pandemic. From New York City to the Mexican border,from the Deep South to the misty shores of Seattle, their characters are fighting for survival against incredible odds. An anthology for our time, showing how the worst crises can lead to the best of us. Proceeds from LOCKDOWN will go to support BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, as it seeks to help booksellers recover from the devastating COVID-19 crisis. Contributors to LOCKDOWN include: Hector Acosta Scott Adlerberg Ann Davila Cardinal V. Castro Angel Luis Colon Jen Conley TerriLynn Coop S.A. Cosby Alex DiFrancesco Michelle Garza/Melissa Lason (...)
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Poetic Justice by Andrea J. Johnson Polis Books • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709082 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Contemporary Women • Victoria Justice
A riveting debut thriller by Andrea J. Johnson, and the first in the VICTORIA JUSTICE series. Twenty-five year old Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning at the hands of a high school bully, but has attempted to build her confidence and career as a court stenographer under the mentorship of The Honorable Frederica Scott Wannamaker, the county's first African-American Superior Court judge. But when her old nemesis appears on the court docket, Victoria's carefully crafted world implodes - evidence goes missing, a potential mistrial abounds, and the judge winds up drowned in the courthouse bathroom. Victoria realizes her transcript of the proceedings unlocks everyone's secrets... including the murderer's. Plagued with guilt for failing to protect her mentor, Victoria teams up with Ashton North, the handsome state trooper accused of mishandling trial evidence, and starts to untangle the conspiracy surrounding the case. Meanwhile, the deputy attorney general hangs himself during the Post-Election Festival. Everyone is quick to accept his suicide note as a sign of guilt, but Victoria (...)
The Lakehouse by Joe Clifford Polis Books • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709105 • $40.50 • cl • Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
After being cleared of his wife's murder, Todd Norman returns to her small Connecticut hometown in order to finish building their dream house by the lake. He is eager to restart his life and cast aside any remaining suspicious� but all of that is dashed when a young woman's body washes up on the beach next door. When Tracy Somerset, divorced mother from the small town of Covenant, CT, meets a handsome stranger in a midnight Wal-Mart, she has no idea she is speaking with Todd Norman, the former Wall Street financier dubbed The Banker Butcher" by the New York tabloids. The following morning, on the beach by Norman's back-under-construction lakehouse, another young woman's body is discovered. Sheriff Duane Sobczak's investigation leads him to town psychiatrist Dr. Meshulum Bakshir, whose position at a troubled girls' group home a decade ago yields disturbing ties to several local, prominent players, including a radical preacher, a disgraced politician, a down-and-out PI - and Sobczak's own daughter. Unfolding over the course of New (...)
The Ninja's Blade by Tori Eldridge and Tori Eldridge Polis Books • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 320 pages 9781951709099 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Contemporary Women • Lily Wong
Lily Wong - a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja - has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily knew who to trust. But when victims are villains, villains are victims, and even family is plotting against her, easy is not an option. All Lily can do is follow the trail wherever it leads: through a high school campus polarized by racial tension or the secret back rooms of a barber/tattoo/brothel or the soul-crushing stretch of Long Beach Boulevard known as The Blade. She relies on her ninja skills to deceive and infiltrate, rescue and kill - whatever is necessary to free the girls from their literal and figurative slavery. If only thosesame skills could (...)
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Branding Bud The Commercialization of Cannabis by David Paleschuck Quick Trading Company • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 9781936807512 • $34.50 • pb • Bus & Econ / Advertising & Promotion
The United States cannabis industry is currently estimated to be a $55 billion market. Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of it. Celebrities like Mike Tyson, Jim Belushi, and 2 Chainz have established cannabis brands alongside legacy names like Tommy Chong and the Marley family. But what makes a cannabis brand successful? What techniques are companies using to brand and market their products? What market segments have been established? Is prohibition in non-legal states limiting or fueling the demand?
Never before has a book been compiled on cannabis brands and the consumers they appeal to. In Branding Bud, David Paleschuck digs deep into this still-evolving industry to explore what small players and major conglomerates alike are doing to bring their products to the forefront of consumer awareness. The results may surprise you.
Branding Bud breaks stereotypes and sheds light on how an underground commodity is evolving into a (...)
Cannabis Breeding Basic to Advanced Marijuana Propagation by James Loud Quick Trading Company • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 7 x 10 • 256 pages 9781936807451 • $52.50 • pb • Gardening / Marijuana Cultivation
Let's talk about sex. Not human sex, but the science of the cannabis plant - how it procreates and how you, the grower, can get involved for fun and profit. There's no shortage of books covering how to grow your own, but Cannabis Breeding teaches you how to create your own stable, genetically unique lines of cannabis. Cannabis Breeding isn't just a technical manual, it's a fresh, energetic take on the genetic history and future of cannabis; not just the plant'sorigins and the story of its global spread, but the history of how cannabis, as we know it, got that way. Cannabis genetics continue to change. Cannabis Breeding takes stock of what growers can do to preserve what's good about the plant, while also chasing what's new. The book covers material other cultivation manuals don't, providing a deep but accessible primer on the theory and practice of cannabis breeding that will inform the novice and educate experienced breeders on thelatest advancements in technology and methodology. From the core principles of genetic selection to the (...)
Healing with Cannabis Optimizing Your Ideal CBC:THC Ratio by Uwe Blesching Quick Trading Company • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 7 x 10 • 240 pages 9781936807482 • $34.50 • pb
The author of the game-changingCannabis Health Index returns with a book designed specifically for general readers who want to understand how THC and CBD can benefit them
While CBD is the new buzzword for health and wellness, many researchers and practitioners believe that the symbiotic relationship between THC and CBD, known as the entourage effect, allows for greater therapeutic benefits for patients. Unfortunately, when it comes to optimizing that ratio to a particular health condition, it is often a process of trial and error for medical patients
Healing with Cannabis provides detailed information on how to find the best ratios of CBD:THC and covers the preferred ratios of these two primary cannabinoids for ten prevalent medical conditions - including cancer, chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, and many others. Blesching'apos;s unique chemotype- based system takes into account CBD:THC ratios, the various forms of cannabis medicine available to consumers, and the subjective therapeutic dosages, presenting a complete evidence-based methodology.
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Vajra Heart Revisited Teachings on the Path of Trekcho by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, foreword by Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso Rangjung Yeshe Publications • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 6 x 9 • 240 pages 9781732871762 • $44.95 • pb • Religion / Buddhism / Tibetan
Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's impeccable qualities were evident to all who met him and received pith instructions and empowerments from him. His teachings on mind nature and the path of the Great Perfection were unparalled. He had confidence and utterly pure trust based on the personal, direct understanding that buddha nature really is present in every sentient being. Just like oil is present in each and every sesame seed, any sentient being can realize the awakened state and thus has the basis for enlightenment.
These pith instructions in Vajra Heart Revisited are concise, brilliant expositions on the path of Trekcho, starting with the ground, the preliminaries, shamatha, and viphashyana, Three Vital Words, up to and including teachings on guru yoga, and bardo. They are extremely clear explanations on all aspect of practice that the Dzogchen yogi can use as a manual of guidance and inspiration. They include key topics such as differentiating mind and awareness and threefold sky practice, among others. It is all that is necessary to attain full mastery and realization.
Bob Goes to Jail by Rob Sedgwick Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 288 pages 9781644281086 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
In 1989 Rob Sedgwick was caught with an incriminating hoard of marijuana by the DEA in his Upper West Side apartment, and charged with possession and distribution. Bob Goes to Jail follows Rob as he prepares for the trial and explores his childhood and early adulthood through a series of intimate, and sometimes dark, vignettes of privilege and debauchery.
Rob Sedgwick was born into a famous New York family and then famously screwed up [... ] Which is not to say that his life story isn't filled with adventure, humor, and hope - it is. And indeed, you'll revel in the chance to meet the rich cast of characters that are his family and friends. You'll also dig Sedgwick's portrait of New York in all its 1970s and 80s grimy splendor. Bob Goes to Jail is a great read and Sedgwick is the only one who could have told it." - Tom Barbash, New York Times best selling author of The Dakota Winters
Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn by Sean Penn Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 176 pages 9781644281178 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / Black Humor • Bob Honey
Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn - the madcap follow-up to his debut novel, which was hailed by authors as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Jane Smiley, and Paul Theroux - explores the deepest recesses of American politics and culture. Bob Honey, the disillusioned divorcee with a penchant for murder by mallet, weaves his way toward Washington DC for the ultimate showdown with a certain nefarious landlord," but nothing is as it seems, and Bob will have more than just the government working against him. Part comedy and part thriller, Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn establishes Sean Penn as a fixture of the literary landscape for years to come.
"Charmingly weird... Penn takes on an ambitious challenge here, and he succeeds spectacularly. Bob is a wonderful character, the kind of guy you can't take your eyes off... that's part of the book's almost immeasurable charm." - Booklist (starred review)
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Crack City Rockers by John Gentile and Brad Logan Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 296 pages 9781644281109 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Composers & Musicians
Daughters of Darkness by by (photographer) Jeremy Saffer Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Nov 9/20 • 8 x 10 • 148 pages 9781644281239 • $89.95 • cl • Photography / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles
Daughters of Darkness is a collection of fine art portraits of women in corpse paint. A nod to black metal and doom album cover art, Daughters of Darkness was photographed over 10+ years, with more than 400 models from all over the world, almost all of which did their own corpse paint and are fans of black metal. Daughters of Darkness features many celebrities, actresses, musicians, and models (some under the cover of corpse painted anonymity) all of whom donned only corpse paint for this book. Photographed by internationally renowned music and fine art photographer Jeremy Saffer, this project combines both his music photography and fine art photography worlds into a single project, which was conceived to capture the memory of flipping though albums in a music store and buying albums based entirely on the albums cover art (which often featured a nude portrait, someone in corpse paint, or both) prior to knowing the music or the band. Like the music that inspired it, Daughters of Darkness shows the duality of finding beauty (...)
I Remember Everything Life Lessons from Dawson's Creek by Erin Hensley and Julia Callahan, illustrated by Jillian Barthold Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5 x 7 • 192 pages 9781644281284 • $29.95 • cl • Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism
Featuring illustrations by Jillian Barthold
The first coming of age series for millennial consumption, Dawson's Creek created the most iconic meme of all time before the word meme was invented. On January 20, 1998, we were introduced to our Capeside High Class of 2001 - the last class of students to live their whole childhood before 9/11. We met Jen Lindley, who, at the age of 15, we were told was a big city vixen," but actually turned out to be the third wave feminist icon, we didn't know we desperately needed. Pacey Witter, "the lovable loser", who was less loser, more the guy who taught us all exactly how sexy consent can be and sailed off with our hearts. Joey Potter, the "poor tomboy" from the wrong side of the creek that showed us the incredible amount of work it takes to rise up the social ladder, especially compared to her white, upper middle class, male best friend, Dawson (...)
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Ian Fleming's War The Inspiration for 007 by Mark Simons Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 6 x 9 • 312 pages 9781644281345 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
In 1953 Ian Fleming's literary sensation James Bond emerged onto the world's stage. Nearly seven decades later he has become a multi-billion-dollar film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation that battled his way through the fourteen Bond novels, from 1953 -1966, was a maverick, a man out of place. Bond even admits it, wishing he was back in the real war... the Second World War. Indeed, the thread of the Second World War runs through all the Bond books, and many were inspired by the real events and people Ian Fleming came across during his time in Naval Intelligence. In Fleming's 007, Mark Simmons explores these remarkable similarities. For example, Thunderball has a clear link to Operation Ruthless, Fleming's scheme to capture a German naval code book desperately wanted by the boffins at Bletchley Park. Also, the exploits of 30 Assault Unit, the commando team he helped to create, provided the inspiration for Moonraker . Both of these examples and many more are explored in (...)
Ironic Icons by by (artist) Valentin Popov Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Nov 22/20 • 9 x 11 • 168 pages 9780997148688 • $74.95 • cl • Art / Popular Culture
Valentin Popov's art combines images of the superhero in American society with traditional religious iconic art from his native Ukraine. His work is in a number of major art museum collections including the National Museum of Ukrainian Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and more. Ironic Icons is his first book.
Liars by Steven Gillis Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 322 pages 9781644281192 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Family Life
Eric McCanus is a novelist with the misfortune of having written his one great book when he was young. Struggling to write more, recently divorced, while still missing his ex-wife, Eric becomes convinced that happy relationships are unsustainable. Determined to prove the accuracy of his theory, Eric stumbles upon a seemingly perfect couple at the market. Convinced the marriage of Cara and Matt can't be as successful as it appears, Eric does what he can to break them apart. What follows is a psychological and philosophical comedy of errors. Liars is an exploration of love, relationships, and human interaction, a madcap romp through the vestiges of modern affairs, revolving around five characters, each spun drunk on the batterings of love while attempting to sustain themselves in a false world.
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Rock Monster My Life with Joe Walsh by Kristin Casey Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 352 pages 9781644281307 • $26.95 • pb • Biography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Far from bitter or self-pitying, Rock Monster is an honest account of one woman's life-changing experience in a relationship with rock legend Joe Walsh. At once envious, glamorous, debauched and disturbing, it's her long and winding journey from life in the fast lane to sobriety and redemption.
Set in the late-eighties and nineties, these are some of Walsh's darkest years, from spiraling addiction to a stunning comeback with the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour. Loaded with true stories never before heard, Rock Monster is essential reading for classic rock fans and anyone touched by addiction. Kristin Casey pulls no punches, sharing gritty details with self-awareness, humor, and affection. Sharply written, bold and incisive, it's the worldly-wise tome only an ex-addict, ex-stripper, and ex-rock-chick could give us.
In the tradition of women-in-rock survivor tales - by Marianne Faithfull, Crystal Zevon, or Mackenzie Phillips - Kristin Casey pulls a veil on the (...)
The Case Against George W. Bush by Steven C. Markoff Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 6 x 9 • 356 pages 9781644281352 • $41.95 • cl • Political Science / Corruption & Misconduct
This book chronicles the presidency of George W. Bush, through almost 600 quotes from over 90 authors and other information sources, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Hans Blix, head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003; former President George W. Bush himself; former Vice President Dick Cheney; former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and writers and journalists such as Steve Coll, Frank Rich, Craig Unger and Bob Woodward. The author presents detailed sourced evidence of three crimes committed by George W. Bush during his presidency: - His failure to take the many warnings of coming terror attacks on our country seriously. - Taking our country, by misleading and false information, into an unnecessary and disastrous 2003 war with Iraq, costing the lives of more than 4,000 Americans and 500,000 others. - Breaking domestic and international laws by approving the torturing of people thought to have needed information of terrorists and their plans.
The City of Mist by Pier Paolo Pasolini Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 5 x 8 • 256 pages 9781644281116 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Coming of Age
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The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray by Bella Thorne Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 192 pages 9781644281185 • $26.95 • pb • Poetry / Women Authors
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray, Bella Thorne's collection of illuminating and inspiring poems chronicles her personal struggles, relationships, and wild-child lifestyle, all with her trademark wit and wisdom.
You'll always be the Cece to my Rocky." - Zendaya
"Hey, I didn't read this book. Bella gave it to me and I left it on an airplane." - Diplo
"Bella is one of those rare artist who is utterly fearless. Her courage to show you who she truly is - including hopes, fears, and vulnerabilities - is what makes her a relevant and meaningful voice for this (...)
The Master of Deception A Son's Search For His Father in the House of Illusion by John-Ivan Palmer Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9781644281437 • $38.95 • cl • Biography / Personal Memoirs
The Master of Deception tells of a son's search for his father amid the fabric of family, guilt, renunciation, and hidden history in the borderlands of 1950s stage show and trailer park culture.
In the tradition of Geoffrey Wolf's The Duke of Deception and Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle, John-Ivan Palmer's The Master of Deception takes readers on the road with his magician father and his mother, the lovely assistant, as they travel from Elks Lodges to County Fairs, performing alongside contortionists, ventriloquists, and every manner of screwball act that passed for variety entertainment before television drove us all indoors and away from one another. From dressing rooms across America, John learned to stay invisible among other acts while his parents performed, making friends with janitors, night watchmen, elevator operators, and cooks who gave him leftover tortes and parfaits. They were as exotic to him as the Master of Deception was to them. When they were in one (...)
The Velvet Rose by Susan Holmes McKagan Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Aug 21/20 • 8.5 x 5.5 • 320 pages 9781644281161 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Coming of Age
In the early nineties, Scarlet, a painter and high fashion model, finds herself working in some of the world's most famous fashion capitals. As her adventure continues, she meets Johnny of The Westies, an up-and- coming band on the cusp of superstardom. What ensues is an unhinged ride of a novel following the audacious lead female protagonist as she navigates her life through fame, addiction, infidelity, and all the ups and downs of dating a legendary musician from one of the biggest rock bands in history. A riveting and heartfelt journey of figuring out one's own path and championing that aspect to finding their dreams. Rich in spirit and relatable for all those who have ever had the courage to chase their dreams and pursue an unconventional path in this glorious world. A page-turner, frequently injected with laugh-out-loud humor, front row seat of fun debut that is being heralded as the earnest generation of authenticity of a nineties voyage, Susan Holmes McKagan shines in The Velvet Rose.
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The Woman in Black by Erik Tarloff Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 280 pages 9781644281208 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Literary
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Chance Hardwick, the fictitious star of the breakout film Plains and Hills, is widely considered the greatest, most charismatic young movie actor of the postwar generation. However, his meteoric rise to fame and his tragic demise have remained an inexplicable puzzle to all who knew him, as well as to his millions of fans around the world.
But all these years later, famed producer and film historian Gordon Frost has gathered Chance's family, friends, lovers, and colleagues - all the people who loved and loathed him - to tell his story and try to come to terms with the elusive, unknowable figure who continues to haunt their lives. The oral history he's pieced together uncovers the secret life of one of America's premier talents. From Chance's humble Midwestern beginnings, to his time in New York as an acting student, and finally his (...)
This Isn't 40 by Scott Caan Rare Bird Books • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 120 pages 9781644281369 • $29.95 • cl • Drama / American
Jimmy is a semi-successful artist and playboy approaching middle age, when he decides it's time to step up and try love maybe before it's too late. He meets Rose, she's different in all the right ways. The head on her shoulders and her family values juxtaposed with Jimmy's childhood trauma and lack of family values makes for a potent match. But unexpectedly, with in the first year of the romance, she gets pregnant things get all too real, too quickly. The complexities of making a new relationship work, while raising a small child, ultimately tear them apart.
Donnie, Jimmy's closest friend, is going through a divorce that almost takes him down. After a long indecisive battle, he somehow makes it through, gets in shape, and with the help of modern technology makes a solid run at reliving his twenties. He pulls Jimmy along with him, forcing him into a date with a young, sharp and fierce gal named Binky, who basically ends up taking Jimmy to school. A night of sex, drugs (...)
Tai Chi Push Hands The Martial Foundation of Tai Chi Chuan by Jwing-Ming Yang and David W. Grantham Rich Press LLC • On Sale: Nov 11/20 • 7.25 x 9.38 • 320 pages 9781594396458 • $44.95 • pb
Push Hands is the other" part of tai chi that makes your practice a true living art
Tai chi push hands practice is a necessary next step for tai chi practitioners who wish to make their art come alive. Push hands practice requires two people to engage in a variety of "light touch" moving and walking routines. By practicing these movements, practitioners begin to develop tai chi's sensing, listening, and yielding skills. Combined, these skills are the first step for expending your tai chi as a martial art.
The Dao De Jing classic reminds us that knowing others (an opponent) is important for knowing ourselves. By develop tai chi push hand skills, one begins to obtain a profound sense of feeling of your own body and mind. This ability aids greatly in regulating and controlling body, balance, health, perseverance, compassion, and overall spirit.
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The Martial Arts of Vietnam An Overview of History and Styles by Augustus John Roe Rich Press LLC • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 9781594397974 • $26.95 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts & Self-Defense
The first English-language book to detail the combat systems and martial culture of a land shaped by centuries of conflict.
The Martial Arts of Vietnam presents an engaging overview of the evolution of Vietnamese martial arts from 2,000 BCE until today.
We will look at the mythical origins of the Vietnamese people and the impact that invasions from neighboring countries had on the martial culture of Vietnam. We will discover how kings and governments promoted and, in some cases, crushed martial traditions; alongside how Vietnams' unusual geography both protected and exposed martial styles and lineages.
This work offers stunning photography, era timelines, and regional maps that allow for an engaging adventure through Vietnam's northern, central, and southern regions, all in search of events and catalysts (...)
True Wellness For Your Gut Combine the Best of Western and Eastern Medicine for Optimal Digestive and Metabolic Health by Catherine Jeane Kurosu and Aihan Kuhn Rich Press LLC • On Sale: Oct 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 160 pages 9781594397455 • $26.95 • pb • Health & Fitness / Diseases / Abdominal • True Wellness
Combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity. All the while, boosting your immune system!
True Wellness for Your Gut combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine have to offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of gastrointestinal disease, diabetes, and obesity. By blending modern research with ancient practices, this book will help readersstay positive and keep motivated along their journey toward better health and overall well-being.
The authors have helped thousands of people through the use of surgery, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, herbs, qigong, tai chi, meditation, and life-style counseling. They explain how Western medicine has (...)
8 First Choices An Expert's Strategies for Getting into College by Joyce Slayton Mitchell SuperCollege • On Sale: Aug 4/20 • 6 x 9 • 208 pages 9781617601637 • $22.50 • pb • Study Aids / College Entrance
Written within an educational framework, this handbook offers general guidance to help students do a self- assessment and select the top eight colleges that are the strongest fit for them. Establishing readers as anthropologists, students will learn to observe 20 campus cultures, assess each one, and research their options in American higher education. Additionally, it offers several basic assumptions that are contrary to common knowledge about getting into college. Written by a collegecounselor with decades of experience, this guide offers insight into the college admissions process and allows students to hone in on the schools that are right for them.
HARVARD 'Mitchell offers many great insights into the complexity of the college admissions process and what should be the overriding concerns of the vital issue of the match between the student and the college.' -William R. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions
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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 240 pages 9781951213145 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.
But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.
A satire of early foodieism, a critique of how gender is defined, and a showcase of virtuoso storytelling, Chelsea G. Summers' A Certain Hunger introduces us to the food world's most charming psychopath and an exciting new voice in fiction. Hysteria by Jessica Gross The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Aug 28/20 • 144 pages 9781951213121 • $26.95 • pb • Fiction / Literary
In HYSTERIA, we meet a young woman an hour into yet another alcohol-fueled, masochistic, sexual bender at her local bar. There is a new bartender working this time, one she hasn't seen before, but who can properly make a drink. He looks familiar, and as she is consumed by shame from her behavior the previous week - hooking up with her parents' colleague and her roommate's brother - she also becomes convinced that her Brooklyn bartender is actually Sigmund Freud. They embark on a relationship, and she is forced to confront her past through the prism of their complex, revealing, and sometimes shocking meetings. With the help of Freud - or whoever he is - she begins to untangle her Oedipal leanings, her upbringing, and her desires. Jessica Gross's debut is unflinchingly perceptive and honest, darkly funny, and unafraid of mining the deepest fears of contemporary lives.
Like a Bird by Fariha Roisin The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 288 pages 9781951213091 • $38.95 • cl • Fiction / Literary
There was something powerful in being seen. Taylia Chatterjee has never known love, and certainly has never felt it for herself. Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with her older sister Alyssa, their parents were both overbearing and emotionally distant, and despite idyllic summers in the Catskills, and gatherings with glamorous family friends, there is a sadness that emanates from the Chatterjee residence, a deep well of sorrow stemming from the racism of American society.
After a violent sexual assault, Taylia is disowned by her parents and suddenly forced to move out. As Taylia looks to the city, the ghost of her Indian grandmother dadi-ma is always one step ahead, while another more troubling ghost chases after her. Determined to have the courage to confront the pain that her family can't face, Taylia finds work at a neighborhood cafe owned by single mother and spiritualist, Kat. Taylia quickly builds a constellation of friends and lovers on her own, daring herself to be open to new experiences, even as they call into question what she thought she knew about the past.
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The Happy Broadcast How to Stay Positive, Take Action & Make the World a Better Place by Created by Mauro Gatti The Unnamed Press • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 5.5 x 5.5 9781951213169 • $20.95 • cl • Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
The Happy Broadcast: How to Stay Positive, Take Action & Make the World a Better Place is filled with inspiring true stories of people doing good around the world, as well as prompts, tips, and how-tos for taking action to make good things happen in your own community. From drone delivered medical supplies, to a cuddle club uniting senior dogs with senior people, to a man who planted a tree every day for thirty- five years and created a forest larger than Central Park, the stories collected in The Happy Broadcast are surprising, diverse, and empowering, featuring Mauro Gatti's charming and humorous illustrations.
Loudmouth A Novel by Robert Duncan Three Rooms Press • On Sale: Oct 16/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 248 pages 9781941110928 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Coming of Age
Thomas Ransom was not the first of his generation to imagine rock 'n' roll as a way out. But he took it to the extreme, first, as an outrageous singer in seventies' New York, then as editor of the scrappy Detroit magazine that invented punk. All this, despite being raised in an unreconstructed Southern family ferociously determined to make him something else. Inspired by the author's experience as a musician and former editor of Creem,LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned young seeker finding his way among the punks, hippies, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center of the world. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids,LOUDMOUTH is a novel about growing up while falling down.
A sonic wail of a tale about the youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore 'heads' of rock 'n' roll journalism. I loved it." - Joel Gion, musician, Brian Jonestown Massacre
Scavenger A Novel by Christopher Chambers Three Rooms Press • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 5.5 x 8.25 • 356 pages 9781941110942 • $23.95 • pb • Fiction / African American / Mystery & Detective
In the streets of the nation's capital, a homeless man must quickly learn the ropes of being a detective after a wealthy ex-government official sets him up to take the fall in a cat-and-mouse game of greed, deceit, and murder.
Dickie Cornish's lives in a homeless camp dotting the Smithsonian's Museum of National History, addled by the K2 and liquor he prays will blunt the pain of a harsh winter, the cruelty of Donald Trump's capital, and the enduring nightmares from his youth. He makes a few dollars a day turning the possessions of evicted tenants into curb flotsam, scavenging what he can from the wreckage of other lives to save his.
On one expedition Dickie gets lucky as he uncovers a treasure in the trash of a wealthy ex-Homeland Security Secretary, Jamie Bracht. But his joy is short-lived, when he simultaneously finds out that his dear friends who escaped the shelters for a decent life have been murdered. In fury, he attacks the local cops, lands in jail, then is plucked out by Bracht, who has a job for him: find a woman using the sub-level network of the streets and the underground world of undocumented immigrants. In return, Bracht promises Dickie a fresh, clean start at a new life.
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The Revolution We Expected Transforming Education and Society for a Post-Patriarchal Future by Claudio Naranjo, MD Too Far Publishing • On Sale: Sep 25/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 176 pages 9780907791805 • $25.50 • pb • Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
In his last work as an author, celebrated doctor and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo uses The Revolution We Expected to make a final call to humanity to awaken to our collective potential and work to transcend our patriarchal past and present. The book presents a map that argues not only for collective individual awakening but a concerted effort to transform our institutions so that our educational and cultural lessons are in service to a better world. The author targets traditional education and our global economic system that increasingly neglect human development and must transform to meet the needs of future social evolution. He stresses the need for education to teach wisdom over knowledge and he suggests meditation and contemplative practices can help us realize new ways to learn. Ultimately, we need to embark on a collective process of re-humanizing our systems and establishing self-awareness as individuals to create the necessary global consciousness to realize a new way forward.
Favorite Rag Rugs 45 Inspiring Weave Designs by Tina Ignell Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 10.5 x 8.5 • 128 pages 9781646010363 • $37.50 • pb • Crafts & Hobbies / Weaving
45 fabulous design ideas from 20 top weavers, bringing new life to discarded materials.Creating rag rugs has enthralled weavers for over a century. Now you, too, can recycle your favorite fabrics and transform them into unique rugs that will bring a striking personal touch to every room in your home. From stripes, checks, and rosettes to mosaic, twists, and diamond twill; from soft to sturdy, and subtle to statement-making, Tina Ignell's superb selection of rag rugs provides you a wealth of inspiration, conveniently paired with practical instruction. Inside, find:
- Six technique-based sections with 45 designs by 20 professional weavers - Charts, illustrations, and color photos of finished projects - Creative use of unusual materials, like lambskin, straw, and leather - Specialty patterns, such as a round rug and a runner for a spiral staircase - Instructions for finishing, including fringed and woven edges
Horse Training in Translation Using Horse Speak to Improve Behavior and Performance in Every Discipline by Sharon Wilsie Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 248 pages 9781570769467 • $44.95 • pb • Pets / Horses / General
A comprehensive how-to manual for applying Horse Speak® principles to common training goals. In 2016 Sharon Wilsie's Horse Speak: The Equine-Human Translation Guide broke new ground for anyone who works with horses, providing a practical system to listening" and "talking" to horses in their language instead of expecting them to understand ours. Now Wilsie has provided a comprehensive how- to manual for applying Horse Speak® principles to common training goals. Those familiar with Wilsie's work will find novel ideas that have developed since the first book was released, and those new to Horse Speak® will be supported with fundamental lessons that will allow them to start having authentic "conversations" with their horses during their very next trip to the barn. With a focus on how horse training methods in general can be improved with certain small changes in movement and mindset, Wilsie has once again created a resource of immense value across the equestrian spectrum.
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How Two Minds Meet The Mental Dynamics of Dressage by Beth Baumert Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 216 pages 9781570769726 • $44.95 • pb • Sports & Recreation / Equestrian
An exciting follow-up to the bestselling book When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics. Beth Baumert's first book, When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics, was a popular and critical success. Lauded by Olympian Carl Hester as the book he most frequently quotes at clinics, it examined the ways the physical bodies of horse and rider work together - the physics behind riding in balance. In Baumert's new book How Two Minds Meet, she takes us beyond physical harmony to look at the minds of both horse and rider, each complete with its own set of emotions and mental capabilities. Readers will explore: - How the mind of the horse works. - The rider's two minds" - the analytical mind and the sensory dimension of the mind (with which the horse more readily identifies). - Specific ways to get into the "non-thinking place" where the best communication between horse and rider takes place. - Principles of Learning that enable riders to improve the use of the traditional, knowledge-accumulating part of their brains
It's. Been 20 Years, Fergus ... And You're Still Spooking at that Thing?! by Jean Abernethy Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 136 pages 9781570769580 • $29.50 • cl • Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
A rollicking comic treasury, starring the world's most famous cartoon horse.He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and a surging presence on Instagram. Each day, he and his diverse group of friends share their mishaps, their successes, and their innermost thoughts with the world. He is seemingly ageless, looking even better now than when his ascent to fame began. Who is this intriguing Internet celebrity? Fergus the Horse ( Equus hilarious ), the creation of artist Jean Abernethy, has been entertaining audiences - young and old, in print and online - with his comedic adventures for the past 20 years. His rise to fame was documented in the epic equine comic collection The Essential Fergus the Horse, and now, Abernethy celebrates his age - and the wisdom that should come with it - with an all-new selection of horsey humor, including many cartoons fans have never seen before, created exclusively for this book. With a genuine appeal that crosses boundaries of breed, discipline, and geographic location, Fergus unites anyone with an eye for a horse and and a need for a laugh.
Kinesiology Taping for Dogs The Complete Guide to Taping for Canine Health and Fitness by Katja Bredlau-Morich Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Dec 4/20 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 160 pages 9781646010226 • $32.95 • pb • Pets / Dogs / General
Do-it-yourself physical therapy techniques for keeping your dog happy, active, and pain-free - now and for years to come. Kinesiology taping on humans is now commonplace - it is widely used by physical therapists, chiropractors, and personal trainers. The idea behind taping is that it provides incredible support and stabilization of ligaments and tendons while simultaneously stretching and flexing like a second skin" to allow full range of motion. It can also activate or relax muscles, depending on its application.
Taping is now also being successfully applied to other animals. Canine and equine physiotherapist Katja Bredlau-Morich, author of Kinesiology Taping for Horses, is a pioneer in bringing the method to the dog world. She believes that dogs can benefit hugely from taping techniques, and even better, dog owners and trainers can learn practical steps to using kinesiology tape themselves. In her terrific guidebook, Bredlau- Morich provides the ultimate reference for understanding both the uses of kinesiology tape and its numerous canine applications. With hundreds of color photographs and step-by-step (...)
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Knitted Baby Blankets & Cuddle Bags Over 50 Designs to Make and Share by Marta Skadsheim Torkildsen Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Dec 4/20 • 144 pages 9781646010356 • $37.50 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Dozens of patterns for charming, cozy projects to keep newborns to toddlers snug as a bug.A blanket is the perfect gift to welcome a newborn to the world, let a busy new parent know you're thinking of them, or settle a toddler down for a night of sweet dreams - and this comprehensive collection is a wonderful place to start. With projects ranging in size from snuggly cuddle bags to complete child-sized bedspreads, covering a variety of colors, styles, and difficulty levels, there's something here to send every baby off to sleep in warmth and comfort.
- Soft, sweet handknit designs to express your love and care, easy to adjust, amend, and resize to fit the bundle of joy in your life just right - Straightforward, clearly-written patterns to keep things simple, with easy-to-follow instructions and full- color photographs - All patterns marked with degrees of difficulty, so beginners will know where to start
Nordic Knits with Birger Berge Traditional Patterns, Exciting New Looks by Birger Berge Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Nov 6/20 • 144 pages 9781646010349 • $37.50 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Breathe new life into Norwegian tradition with one of Norway's hottest knit designers.Birger Berge is a study in apparent contradictions: he's a trained historian ... and an Instagram star - a trend-setting contemporary knitter ... who's deeply passionate about traditional patterns and their origins. Berge learned to knit as a child from his mother and grandmother, and for him handcrafts have become a source of comfort and creative energy, and a well of endless inspiration. Now, he combines his own distinctly modern style, a love of contrasts and dynamic color combinations, andthe classic beauty of Norwegian patterning in a collection of gorgeous knitwear designs freshly adapted for an American knitting audience.
- Eye-catching and varied knitting projects, including sweaters, cardigans, scarves, hats, mittens, and home decor and accessories - Striking, wearable garments for women and men, featuring timeless motifs in vivid colors and compelling
combinations
On the Hoof: Pacific to Atlantic A 3,800-Mile Adventure: Pacific to Atlantic by Jesse McNeil Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Oct 23/20 • 6 x 9 • 288 pages 9781570769771 • $37.50 • pb • Biography / Adventurers & Explorers
The true tale of a voyage that broke a man down and built him back up, with the help of one special horse. At 37 Jesse McNeil - at times carpenter, commercial fisherman, dabbler in real estate - decided to buy an untrained horse, make himself into a horseman, and ride all the way across the United States, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
A fiercely independent traveler, Jesse had navigated previous coast-to-coast trips - solo journeys by moped, bicycle, and small airplane. This time, however, he had a partner: a five-year-old Tennessee Walking Horse named Pepper. An inexperienced horseman with an equally inexperienced mount, Jesse would quickly discover the immense challenges of his new undertaking. Over the course of eight months and fourteen states-beginning in Oregon and ending on a beach in New Hampshire-he would be tested many times over as he learned not only what it took to keep Pepper safe and healthy (...)
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Squares, Stripes & Lice 25 Traditional Knitting Designs from Bergen, Norway by Hanne Dale and Siri Angela Gamborg, edited by Ann Kristin Ramstrom Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Sep 4/20 • 7.5 x 10.5 • 192 pages 9781646010202 • $44.95 • cl • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting
Dive into a wealth of classic patterns, inspired by the textile history of Norway.One of the oldest textile factories in Norway, Salhus Knittery operated outside Bergen for over 130 years, producing thousands of sweaters and other knitted fabrics. The technical knowledge required in the early days to develop patterns that could be knitted on machines has resulted in a collection of timeless geometric motifs, which inspired some of Norway's best-loved knit designers to come together and create this striking selection of all-new contemporary handknit garments - now translatedinto English for the first time.
- Sweaters, jackets, skirts, home decor, and more, for children and adults - - The best of both worlds: bold, dynamic, fashionably retro designs, and flattering contemporary shaping and cut! - - Full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions, with patterns that include both complex finishing for veterans and simpler raglan shaping.
The Horse Is My Teacher Lessons from the Ranch: Training, Riding, Luck, and Love by Van Hargis Trafalgar Square Books • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 6.5 x 9.5 • 184 pages 9781570769900 • $32.95 • pb • Pets / Horses / General
Stories from a rural working life that teach us how to be better horsemen - and better people. Van Hargis grew up in the saddle on an East Texas ranch, training his first horse at age 12 and eventually making a living starting cutting and reining colts, many of which would leave his hands to become champions. Naturally outgoing (labeled a talker" by teachers in grade school), Hargis shared stories and lessons from his work with horses early on. Here, in his first book, he reaches out to readers with a collection of down-to-earth, highly relatable tales - experiences that, over the years, have impacted his own horsemanship and life in significant ways. Readers absorb fundamental knowledge of horses skillfully embedded in genuine anecdotes straight off the ranch: - How Grandma's cross-stitch laid the groundwork for more patience when starting colts and trailer loading. - How a daughter's temper tantrum helped perfect timing of the release of pressure. - How the way Mom worked the gate when sorting cattle taught you to look for what (...)
In the Loop A Political and Economic History of San Antonio by David R. Johnson Trinity University Press • On Sale: Oct 9/20 • 576 pages 9781595349224 • $52.50 • cl • History / US / State & Local / Southwest
In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city. Beginning with San Antonio's formation more than three hundred years ago, Johnson lays out the factors that drove the largely uneven and unplanned distribution of resources and amenities and analyzes the demographics that transformed the city from a frontier settlement into a diverse and complex modern metropolis.
Following the shift from military interests to more diverse industries and punctuated by evocative descriptions and historical quotations, this urban biography reveals how city mayors balanced constituents' push for amenities with the pull of business interests such as tourism and the military. Deep dives into city archives fuel the story and round out portraits of Sam Maverick, Henry B. Gonzales, Lila Cockrell, and other political figures.
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Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives edited by Ellen Riojas Clark, Kathy Sosa and Jennifer Speed Trinity University Press • On Sale: Nov 26/20 • 352 pages 9781595349255 • $29.50 • pb
Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico , which celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path.
The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary by looking at female role models from decades ago and subversives who continue to stand up for their visions and ideals. Eighteen portraits introduce readers to these rebels by providing glimpses into their lives and places in history. At the heart of the portraits are the women of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) - women like the soldaderas who shadowed the Mexican armies, tasked with caring for and treating the wounded troops. Filling in the gaps are iconic godmothers like the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Malinche whose stories are seamlessly woven into the collective history of Texas and Mexico. Portraits of artists Frida Kahlo and Nahui Olin and activists Emma Tenayuca and Genoveva Morales take readers from postrevolutionary Mexico into the present. Terroir Love, Out of Place by Natasha Saje Trinity University Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 9781595349323 • $26.95 • pb • Literary Collections / Women Authors
Eight essays exploring how identity is shaped by place and its people
"Terroir" refers to the environment in which a wine is produced-climate, the earth and its minerals, water, weather, and wind-and also to human intervention, for example, how and when a row of grapevines is pruned.
In her essay collection Terroir , Natasha Sajé applies this concept to people and their relationships, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. As she revisits people and literature across her life, she plumbs the language through the filter of place, which becomes a powerful, grounding motif: her experiences as the child of Eastern European refugees in suburban New Jersey, taken under the wing a widowed neighbor; her college summers spent abroad waitressing in Switzerland; her interracial marriage to Tyrone and the accompanying intolerance they experienced in Baltimore; and finally her years as a widow in Salt Lake City facing an unsanctioned love with her wife.
The Shaping of Us How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being by Lily Bernheimer Trinity University Press • On Sale: Dec 4/20 • 336 pages 9781595349248 • $28.50 • C-format paperback • Social Science / Sociology / Urban
The spaces we inhabit- from homes and workspaces to city streets - mediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us shows how the built and natural worlds subtly influence our behavior, health, and personality. Exploring ideas such as ruin porn" and "ninja-proof seating," mysteries of how we interact with the physical spaces around us are revealed. From caves and cathedrals to our current housing crisis and the dreaded open- plan office, Lily Bernheimer demonstrates that, for our well-being, we must reconnect with the power to shape our spaces.
Have you ever wondered why we adorn our doorframes with moldings? What does Wikipedia's open- source technology have to teach us about the history and future of urban housing? What does your desk say about your personality?
From savannahs and skyscrapers to co-working spaces, The Shaping of Us shows that the built (...)
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Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby by Travis Hoewischer Two Dollar Radio • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 112 pages 9781937512965 • $22.50 • pb • Humor / Topic / Family
Your friends are in the hospital, awaiting the arrival of their first child. You and your friends are eager to see a new member of your extended family enter the world. Then, you see the Instagram post: "Hey everyone, mom and son are doing fine. Happy and healthy! We want to introduce you to... KEITH."
What do you say? I mean, you're meant to say congratulations, but do they know? Keith is clearly step- dad's name, and there have been no recorded Baby Keiths on record since the last time gas was 5 dollars a gallon. Is it ironic? Maybe it's ironic. Like DadCore, but ... a baby.
With Two Dollar Radio's Guide to Naming Your Baby, you'll find plenty of useful information-charts, graphs, potential career paths, projected family trees-to help you avoid blame when your full-grown Karen asks you why everyone asks her if she wants to see a manager. Your Karen is into horses, we know, but that's why you should have gone with Millie.
Two Dollar Radio Guide to Vegan Cooking by Jean Claude van Randy, commentaries by Speed Speed Dog Two Dollar Radio • On Sale: Sep 17/20 • 5.5 x 5.5 • 132 pages 9781937512958 • $22.50 • pb • Cooking / Vegan
If you've searched online for a recipe, you've likely encountered a digressive treatise on family history or mundane childhood reflection, none of which actually has anything to do with how to make enchilada sauce. After extensive scrolling, you've really only uncovered that self-taught chef/blogger Linda needs to talk to a professional counselor about her relationship with her mother.
In this Two Dollar Radio Guide to Vegan Cooking, executive vegan chefs Jean Claude van Randy and Speed Dog unearth a fount of vegan cheffing knowledge. In addition to exquisite recipes and vegan life hacks, they, too, view food as a story: nary a meal is prepared without recalling when Speed Dog summited Goat Peak in Banff armed with nothing more than a sack full of cherry ring pops and a wily pack burro.
This Guide to Vegan Cooking is for you if: You're looking for satisfying vegan food; interested in a vegan diet but unwilling to give up to give up cheese; accessible vegan recipes that don't require hard-to-find ingredients you have to google and can't pronounce; the adventurous tales behind the meals. We are all explorers, vegan food explorers - join us on this culinary journey as we slay Vegan Hunger Demons. Harmada by Joao Gilberto Noll, translated by Edgar Garbelotto Two Lines Press • On Sale: Nov 20/20 • 4.5 x 7 9781949641059 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
Like an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay, our narrator rises to his feet from the muck - reborn, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him, he's on a desperate search for Harmada, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Noll's characteristic fragmented logic and spirited prose, Harmada traces the life of this nameless man on a voyage that takes him from aimless outcast to revered director of avant-garde theater, from asylum patient to father to God, conjuring along the way essential questions about the power of art and storytelling, the vanity of glory, and the meaning of freedom.
A mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto, Harmada serves as yet another reminder of Joao Gilberto Noll's sublime literary power: generous in its mystery; earthbound in its essential urges; and entirely unpredictable.
"Noll's daring and original style and sensibility has been brought to life in this expert translation. Lord is a brilliant introduction to a hero of Brazilian literature who deserves to be widely known in the English-speaking
world." -Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
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Home New Arabic Poems by Iman Mersal, Samir Abu Hawwash and Ines Abassi Two Lines Press • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 6 x 7 • 112 pages 9781949641073 • $25.50 • pb • Poetry / Middle Eastern • Calico
Evoking the sights, sounds, and tastes of contemporary life, the poets in Home explore the intimate world of everyday life, its agonies and delights. A glass shatters in a neighbor's sink followed by the stomping of little feet"; a woman falls asleep on the shoulder of a man she doesn't know on an airplane; and a man passes his time smoking alone a cafe, observing the charge of activity all around him. The worlds these poets traverse are not devoid of politics, wars, and global migrations, and yet by taking the minutiae of everyday life as their subject they remind us of the need to periodically turn inward and find meaning in the specific and deeply personal.
Featuring work by Iman Mersal (Egypt), Samir Abu Hawwash (Palestine), Ines Abassi (Tunisia), Fadhil al- Azzawi (Iraq) and others, this second book in the Calico series introduces readers to contemporary voices from across the Arabic-speaking world that are sorely underrepresented in the United States. Beautifully rendered into English by some of today's leading Arabic translators, these poems are presented alongside their Arabic originals in a bilingual collection that celebrates language and its power to transform even the most (...) That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stumps Two Lines Press • On Sale: Sep 18/20 • 5 x 8 9781931883917 • $29.50 • cl • Fiction / Literary
Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement." - The New York Review of Books
Herman's wife and child are nowhere to be found, and the weather in the village, perfectly agreeable just days earlier, has taken a sudden turn for the worse. Tourist season is over. It's time for the vacationing Parisians, Herman and his family included, to abandon their rural getaways and return to normal life. But where has Herman's family gone? Concerned, he sets out into the oppressive rain and cold for news of their whereabouts. The community he encounters, however, has become alien, practically unrecognizable, and his urgent inquiry, placed in the care of local officials, quickly recedes into the background, shuffled into a deck of labyrinthine bureaucracy and local custom. As time passes, Herman, wittingly and not, becomes one with a society defined by communal surveillance, strange traditions, ghostly apparitions, and a hospitality that verges on mania. A literary horror story about power and assimilation, That Time of Year marks NDiaye once again as a contemporary master of the psychological novel. Working in the spirit of Leonora Carrington, Victor LaValle, and Kobo Abe, NDiaye's novel is a nightmarish vision of otherness, privilege (...)
They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears by Johannes Anyuru, translated by Saskia Vogel Two Lines Press • On Sale: Nov 27/20 • 5 x 8 • 272 pages 9781949641080 • $25.50 • pb • Fiction / Literary
In the midst of a terrorist attack on a bookstore reading by Goran Loberg, a comic book artist famous for demeaning drawings of the prophet Mohammed, one of the attackers, a young woman, has a sudden premonition that something is wrong, changing the course of history. Two years later, this unnamed woman invites a famous writer to visit her in the criminal psychiatric clinic where she's living. She then shares with him an incredible story - she is a visitor from an alternate future.
Despite discrepancies that make the writer highly skeptical, he becomes increasingly fascinated by her amazing tale: in her dystopian future, any so-called anti-Swedish" citizens are forced into a horrific ghetto called The Rabbit Yard. As events begin to spiral and the author becomes more and more implicated in this woman's tale, he comes to believe the unbelievable: she's telling the truth.
A remarkably intense, beautifully wrought tale that combines the ingenuity of speculative fiction with the difficulties of today's harsh political realities, They Will Drown in Their Mothers Tears is the groundbreaking, award-winning work from the bestselling Swedish-Ugandan author Johannes Anyuru. With echoes of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and anti-immigrant hysteria, this largest and most complex novel from an already celebrated poet, author, and spoken word artist catapults him to the front ranks of world writers.
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Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Luc Sante Verse Chorus Press • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 5.25 x 8 • 336 pages 9781891241574 • $29.50 • pb • Biography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City.
The glue holding the collection together is autobiography. Every item carries deep personal significance, and most are rooted in lived experience, in particular Sante's youth on the Lower East Side of New York in the fertile 1970s and '80s. He traces his deep engagement with music, his experience of the city, his progression as an artist and observer, his love life and ambitions. Maybe the People Would Be the Times is organized as a series of sequences, in which one piece leads into the next.
Memoir flows into essay, fiction into critical writing, humor into poetry, the pieces answering and echoing one another, examining subjects from multiple vantages. The collection shows Sante at his most lyrical, impass- ioned, and imaginative, a writer for whom every assignment brings the challenge of inventing a new form.
Reservation for Murder by June Wright Verse Chorus Press • On Sale: Oct 2/20 • 5.25 x 8 • 256 pages 9781891241406 • $22.50 • pb • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention - she has a shrewd grasp of everything that's going on beneath the surface. In Reservation for Murder, the first of three Mother Paul novels (originally published in 1958), she is in charge of a residential hostel for young women who work in offices and shops in Melbourne. A tense atmosphere pervades the house - many of the residents have received unpleasant anonymous letters, and there is much speculation as to their author. When Mary Allen finds a stranger stabbed in the garden, who dies after uttering a mysterious name, and a few days later one of the residents is found drowned, an apparent suicide, the tension reaches fever pitch. Is there a connection between these two deaths? Or between them and the letters? The police investigation, abetted by the resourceful Mary Allen, proceeds in in fits and starts, but meanwhile Mother Paul pursues her own enquiries.
Monsters of the Deep by Nick Redfern Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Aug 14/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 9781578597055 • $29.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Supernatural
A deep dive into the undersea netherworld of sea serpents, lake monsters, surviving dinosaurs, genetically altered mutants, and legendary aquatic creatures. Water takes up 70 percent of Earth's surface, with countless lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, seas and oceans covering much of the land, but what lurks beneath the water? For centuries, sightings have been made of huge, marauding monsters swimming the world's oceans and lakes. They include Scotland's legendary Loch Ness Monster; the United States' equivalent, Champ, of Lake Champlain; and Canada's long-necked denizen of the deep known as Ogopogo. These, and many more, famous monsters of the world below us also include giant squid, massive octopi, and even the fabled Kraken and the fabled mermaids of millennia long-gone. Possibly, too, there survive populations of marine reptiles that were assumed to have gone extinct millions of years ago, in the Jurassic period, such as the plesiosaur. Whether scaly or slithery, massive prehistoric dinosaurs or mutant serpents, Monsters of the Deep catalogs nearly 100 accounts of eels, alligators, reptiles, giant squids, snakes, worms, deadly fish, and cold-blooded creatures of all manner and ilk. It reveals the astonishing extent to which lake monsters and sea serpents have surfaced throughout history to terrify, perplex, and amaze those who have crossed paths with these monsters of the unknown. Master storyteller and respected expert on the unexplained Nick Redfern sifts through the historical record, first-person accounts, and unearthed government files on lake monsters and sea serpents to tell of encounters with a variety of beasts, including: a 19th-century account of the massive Gloucester, New England, Sea Serpent; the brontosaurus-like Mokele-Mbembe of the Congo; the Bunyip, a monster that lurks within the waterways of Australia, known to the Aboriginal people for centuries; the disputed claims of a former Commissioner of Sewers in NYC, of alligators roaming the sewers of the city; and many more!
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Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 by Heather E. Quinlan Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Nov 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578597048 • $34.50 • pb • Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
It can come in waves - like tidal waves. It changes societies. It disrupts life. It ends lives. As far back as 3000 BCE (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example and shows that we should not expect relief anytime soon. Yet, life continues, and knowledge and social cooperation can save lives. Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts. Most, but not all, bacteria are good for us. Some are truly horrific, including those that caused the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plagues. And viruses and bacteria are always morphing, evolving, and changing, making them hard to treat. Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses is an enlightening, and sometimes frightening, recounting of the destruction wrought by disease. From the plague of Athens to the COVID-19 pandemic, this fascinating tome covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics as well as several modern diseases of note and those that are making a comeback. (...) Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 by Heather E. Quinlan Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Nov 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578597390 • $74.95 • cl • Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
It chronicles the diseases that have inflicted man throughout the millennia, including: the bubonic plague/ black plague, which killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population; the devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas; the 1918 Spanish Flu, which likely originated in France or Kansas, not Spain; how disease inspired The Canterbury Tales, Wuthering Heights, the art of Keith Haring and others; AIDs "patient zero"; the differences between COVID-19 and other corona viruses; how climate change will affect future pandemics; the aftermath of various pandemics; and much, much more.
Along with investigating some of history's most notorious pandemics and diseases, Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses takes a look at human resilience and what we've learned from the past. It looks at how science, the medical community, and governments have conquered or mitigated most epidemics even before they can turn into pandemics. It reviews the science of pandemics, preventative measures, and medical interventions. Richly illustrated, it also has a helpful bibliography and extensive index. This invaluable resource is designed to help you understand, and protect you from, plagues, pandemics, epidemics, viruses, and disease!
The Handy History Answer Book From the Stone Age to the Digital Age by Stephen A. Werner Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 624 pages 9781578596805 • $35.95 • pb • History / World • The Handy Answer Book Series
An informative, accessible, easy-to-use history primer that takes a journey through the high- and low-lights, twists and turns of social, political, and cultural history. Climate change. Coronavirus. Conspiracy hoaxes. Civil unrest. Regime change. Altered national borders. The news is coming fast and furious; the world is ever-changing and a knowledge of history is more important than ever. An understanding of history gives us insights into the hows, whats, and whys of modern society and life. The Handy History Answer Book provides abundant information about many of the most frightful events of the past 5,000 years, including wars, disasters, pandemics, and so on. But it also supplies a context for the time with a wealth of information on invention, philosophy, science, politics, culture, sports, business, law, media, and religion. It surveys significant people, times, and events worldwide, with a special focus on U.S. history from its origins to the present. Some say that history is too big a subject to squeeze itself into a finite series of questions and answers neatly arranged by subject, trimmed, and bound into a book of manageable size, but the wild success of the first three editions suggests otherwise. From the Stone Age to the Digital Age, from the Trojan War to the war in Afghanistan, from the Gutenberg Bible to social media, The Handy History Answer Book provides a feast of facts and compelling stories of the revolutionary ideas, acts, and inventions that have changed the world. Clear, concise, and straightforward, this informative primer is a resource for brushing up on the events, terms, and history-makers many of us remember from school but can't completely recall.
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The Handy History Answer Book From the Stone Age to the Digital Age by Stephen A. Werner Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 500 pages 9781578597338 • $89.95 • cl • History / World • The Handy Answer Book Series
Fully revised and updated for the first time in more than eight years, this new edition of The Handy History Answer Book is a convenient place to go to look up those devilish questions that have a way of cropping up in everyday conversation and reading. Engaging and easy-to-use, this friendly resource answers more than 1,600 of the most frequently asked, most interesting, and unusual how-what-why history questions, including: - What was the Stone Age? - Why was Julius Caesar murdered? - What are the origins of the religion of Islam? - Why is the COVID-19 pandemic so significant? - Why is the shamrock the symbol of St. Patrick? - What is the legacy of the Crusades today? - What are England's royal houses"? - Did Marie Antoinette really say, "Let them eat cake"? - When did people first migrate to North America? - Who are the Cajuns? - What is the Hubble Space Telescope? - Were the Nazi's socialists? - What happened at Pearl Harbor? - What was the Bataan Death March? - What is NATO? - What is habeas corpus ? - Who was Emmett Till? - Who was Genghis Khan? - What was the triangular trade? - Who is called the "Father of the Interstate System"? - Who is Bernie Madoff? - Who were the Wobblies? - What was the Beat movement? - Who is Ralph Nader?? - What is the Occupy movement? - What is the strongest earthquake ever measured? - And many more!
The Handy Physics Answer Book by Charles Liu Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578596959 • $32.95 • pb • Science / Physics • The Handy Answer Book Series
An informative, accessible, easy-to-use guide to physics, covering the fundamental concepts and amazing discoveries that govern our universe! We don't need a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to know that everyone is governed by the laws of physics, but what are they? How do they affect us? Why do they matter? What did Newton mean when he said, For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?" What is gravity? What is Bernoulli's Principle? Einstein's Theory of Relativity? How do space, time, matter, and energy all interact? How do scientific laws, theories, and hypotheses differ? Physics can often seem difficult or complex, but it's actually beautiful and fun - and it doesn't need to be hard to understand. Revised for the first time in a decade, the completely updated third edition of The Handy Physics Answer Book makes physics and its impact on us, the world, and the universe entertaining and easy to grasp. It disposes with the dense jargon and overly-complicated explanations often associated with physics, and instead it takes an accessible, conceptual approach - never dumbing down the amazing science, yet all written in everyday English. (...)
The Handy Physics Answer Book by Charles Liu Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578597352 • $74.95 • cl • Science / Physics • The Handy Answer Book Series
The Handy Physics Answer Book tackles big issues and concepts, like motion, magnetism, sound, and light, and lots of smaller topics too - like, why don't birds or squirrels on power lines get electrocuted? - and makes them enlightening and enjoyable for anyone who picks up this informative book. For everyone who has ever wondered about the sources of energy production in the United States, or how different kinds of light bulbs shine, or why wearing dark-colored clothes is warmer than light-colored ones, or even what happens when you fall into a black hole, The Handy Physics Answer Book examines more than 1,000 of the most frequently asked, most interesting, and most unusual questions about physics, including - How can I be moving even while I'm sitting still? - If the Sun suddenly disappeared, what would happen to the Sun's gravity? - What is the energy efficiency of the human body? - Why do golf balls have dimples? - How can ice help keep plants warm? - What kinds of beaches are best for surfing? - What do 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless networks mean? - Why shouldn't metal objects be placed in microwave ovens? - Why does my voice sound different on a recording? - Can a light beam be frozen in time? - Why are soap bubbles sometimes so colorful? - Why does a charged balloon stick to a wall? - Is Earth a giant magnet? - What are gamma rays? - What happens when antimatter strikes matter? - What is quantum teleportation? - Are artificial intelligence systems able to think on their own? - What happens when two black holes collide? - How will the universe end?
Useful and informative, The Handy Physics Answer Book also includes a glossary of commonly used terms to cut through the jargon, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index. Ideal for students, curious readers of all ages, and anyone reckoning with the essential questions about the universe.
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The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding by Ed D'Angelo Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578595563 • $37.50 • pb • Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical • The Handy Answer Book Series
Difficult philosophy made easy. The universe and our place in it, the meaning of life, the nature of justice and the good society, and the powers of reason. All these topics explored, questioned, and explained. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Stoicism, Skepticism, Cynicism, Continental philosophy, ethics, government and governing, virtue, love, life, and death. Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Bertrand Russell, and Michel Foucault... From famous figures in the history of philosophy to the deepest questions of religion to the relationship between knowledge and power, The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book: The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding makes esoteric ideas and the jumble of names easy to understand, enriching readers' lives and answering the question, What does philosophy have to teach us about life and society? Today many people experience a loss of trust in government and organized religion. There's increased social isolation and a rise in insult politics. Seeking an alternative, some have experimented with new forms of politics, social organization, and spirituality. All these developments have led to a great deal of confusion. Who and what can we believe? (...)
The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book The Ancient Greek Influence on Modern Understanding by Ed D'Angelo Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 7.12 x 9.25 • 400 pages 9781578597314 • $74.95 • cl • Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical • The Handy Answer Book Series
From its beginning, philosophy was conceived as a conversation or dialogue, and The Handy Western Philosophy Answer Book raises and offers answers to questions like these ... - What is philosophy? - What is metaphysics? - What is logic? - How is ethics different than morality? - How did Pre-Socratic philosophy get started? - What is the arrow paradox? - Who was Pythagoras? - How did Stoicism inspire modern cognitive psychotherapy? - Who was the founder of Western philosophy? - What is a harmonic sequence in music? - What are the four cardinal virtues? - Was pederasty condoned in ancient Greece? - How, according to Plato, is philosophy like making love? - What are the three parts of the soul? - How does democracy degenerate into tyranny? - What is the history of Alexander the Great's military campaigns? - How did Alexander the Great change the course of the history of philosophy? - What did Aristotle say about the social nature of human beings? - What is Aristotle's conception of the soul? - What is the soul of a plant? - What is virtue? - What is an emotion? - Why do we need friends? - Why did Aristotle believe that the state has a responsibility to educate its citizens? - What did Aristotle think about money? - What is the meaning and origin of the Serenity Prayer? - What impact did the Epicureans have on the modern world? (...) The New Witch Your Guide to Modern Witchcraft, Wicca, Spells, Potions, Magic, and More by Marie D. Jones Visible Ink Press • On Sale: Oct 11/20 • 6 x 9 • 256 pages 9781578597161 • $29.50 • pb • Body, Mind & Spirit / Witchcraft & Wicca
Celebrate the Modern Witch! Good energy. Sacred spaces. Healing, harmony and balance. Honoring Earth and nature. Developing your sixth sense. Tapping into your natural talents and creativity. Unlocking your potential. Being your best self. Connecting your soul to life, nature, and all living creatures. Harnessing the power of natural magic, The New Witch: Your Guide to Modern Witchcraft, Wicca, Spells, Potions, Magic, and More bridges the ancient pagan ways of our ancestors and today's digital world to help you live a happy life to its fullest. Embracing the past and honoring the future, The New Witch focuses on the harmony between the new way" of technology and the "old way" of living. It brings together the brave new world of gadgets and social networks with the wise nature-based traditions of our ancestors by offering ideas on how to combine the old with the new for a more successful, fulfilling practice. Discover and learn about: finding tools and items for spells and rituals; amplifying the good and dispelling the bad; "High Magic" versus "Low Magic"; getting grounded, alert, and aware for spell casting; finding substitutions for items you might not have available; learning the astrological correspondences of candle colors; recharging your own energy; building your intuitive muscles; adding love in your life; calming anxiety; lifting your vibration; improving sleep; learning the connection between the Moon's phases and Moon magic; understanding the benefits (and detriments) of technology; and much more! Rediscovering the past and aligning it for today's world, The New Witch offers a look at fresh, new ways to make the old craft fun, exciting, inspiring, and workable on any budget.
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Doodle It All by Boutique-sha Zakka Workshop • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 128 pages 9781940552507 • $25.50 • mass market non-strippable • Art / Techniques / Drawing
Doodle Mania!
Learn how to draw just about everything under the sun-from bumblebees and broccoli to pianos and pizza. With over 1000 cute and easy illustrations, there's something for everyone! Inside these pages, you'll find endless inspiration for drawing people, animals, flowers, food, everyday objects, holiday motifs, and more!
Each illustration is broken down into simple steps using basic shapes and lines. There's no reason to be intimidated-anyone can draw following these easy techniques.
Use these adorable illustrations to decorate your calendar or planner or create one-of-a-kind greeting cards and gifts. Learn all about drawing with ballpoint pens and discover new and interesting techniques to expand your artistic repertoire, such as shading, combining colors, and developing patterns.
Little Bead Charms Fun Bead Mascots To Make & Give Today! by Miyuki Oku Zakka Workshop • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 64 pages 9781940552514 • $26.95 • KT - shelf friendly book format that includes beads and wire to make projects • Crafts & Hobbies / Beadwork
Make Your Own Mini Mascots and Lucky Charms!
Try your hand at creating super cute mascots, accessories, and charms using seed beads and wire! This collection of over 150 beginner-friendly designs includes animals, flowers, food, vehicles, holiday motifs, letters, numbers, and more!
Best of all, the book comes with a colorful assortment of beads and craft wire so you can get started today! Inside, you'll find materials for making six of the included designs. Show off your handmade mascots and charms on backpacks, hats, and clothing, create unique key chains and cell phone charms, use them to decorate for the holidays, or personalize presents and cards.
Paper Quilling for All Occasions by Mire Takayama Zakka Workshop • On Sale: Dec 11/20 • 8.25 x 10.25 • 56 pages 9781940552521 • $29.95 • mass market non-strippable • Crafts & Hobbies / Papercrafts
Everything you need to started quilling today!
- Quilling paper, tools and supplies included with the book! - No prior quilling experience is necessary - More than 30 projects featured in book This collection of over 30 gorgeous projects also includes materials and tools so you can start quilling straight away! Inside, you'll find vibrantly colored quilling strips in an assortment of widths, a quilling pen, and card stock.
Discover the art of paper quilling, which involves rolling and shaping thin strips of paper into decorative designs. Start out by learning how to make a variety of basic shapes, including circles, squares, triangles, stars, teardrops, petals, and leaves, following the step-by-step color photo guide.
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Simply Stitched with Embroidery Embroidery Motifs for Purses and More by Yumiko Higuchi Zakka Workshop • On Sale: Sep 11/20 • 8.5 x 10.25 • 104 pages 9781940552460 • $29.95 • mass market non-strippable • Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Embroidery
Introducing beloved Japanese embroidery artist Yumiko Higuchi's newest collection of motifs, showcased on a variety of purses, wallets, and bags. Inside, you'll find an assortment of the simple, folk-inspired floral and animal designs stitched in Yumiko's signature style, as well nine lovely bag patterns inspired by the motifs.
Stitch a single flower onto the diminutive Teardrop Pouch, perfect for storing spare change, or use the vibrant lemon pattern to embellish the Oval Pouch for a chic summertime accessory.
Beautiful step-by-step photos clearly explain Yumiko Higuchi's favorite techniques for sewing bags, installing metal purse clasps, and making pompom and tassel embellishments. A helpful embroidery stitch guide outlines the eight basic stitches used to create the designs in this book. Full-size templates are included for all 20 embroidery motifs and nine bag patterns.
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Apples Home Winemaking Little Washington Sometimes Farmgirls Become by Julia Rutland • Adventure Publications by Jack Keller • Adventure Publications by Nicole Hardina • Adventure Revolutionaries On Sale: Sep 18/20 On Sale: Sep 18/20 Publications by Florence Tate • Black Classic Press 9781591939078 9781591939474 On Sale: Oct 23/20 On Sale: Oct 30/20 $25.50 • pb • 140 pages $37.50 • pb • 364 pages 9781591938453 9781574781649 Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Fruit Cooking / Beverages / Alcoholic / Wine $28.50 • pb • 224 pages $28.50 • pb • 400 pages Nature's Favorite Foods Cookbooks History / US / State & Local / Pacific Biography / Personal Memoirs Northwest Tiny Towns
A Bad Bad Thing On Making Art & Being an Artist Think Like a White Man Nature Matrix by Elena Forbes • Canongate Books by Kent Nerburn • Canongate Books by Boule Whytelaw and Nels Abbey • by Robert Michael Pyle • Counterpoint On Sale: Nov 20/20 On Sale: Dec 4/20 Canongate Books On Sale: Sep 25/20 9781786898685 9781786891174 On Sale: Nov 13/20 9781640092761 $22.50 • pb • 448 pages $25.50 • C-format paperback • 272 pages 9781786894403 $25.50 • pb • 288 pages Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Self-Help / Creativity $23.95 • B-format paperback • 256 Nature / Essays Procedural pages Humor / Topic / Business & Professional
Zero Zone 100 Poems Marko Sent Me North Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh by Scott O'Connor • Counterpoint by Seamus Heaney • Faber & Faber by Alan Warner • Faber & Faber by Mike Leigh • Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 16/20 Publishing Publishing On Sale: Oct 23/20 9781640093737 On Sale: Nov 27/20 On Sale: Dec 25/20 9780571353828 $38.95 • cl • 320 pages 9780571347162 9780571334575 $50.95 • pb • 560 pages Fiction / Literary $20.95 • pb • 144 pages $29.50 • pb • 352 pages Biography / Personal Memoirs Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fiction / Literary Faber Poetry
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Xero in easy steps Humans Are Not Robots Sweet Dreams ESCAPEs by Bill Mantovani • In Easy Step Limited by Robert Hawkins • Maven House Press by Peter Leonard • Rare Bird Books by Daniel Tunnard • The Unnamed Press On Sale: Sep 4/20 On Sale: Oct 16/20 On Sale: Sep 24/20 On Sale: Oct 16/20 9781840787764 9781947540040 9781644280959 9781951213114 $23.95 • pb • 192 pages $44.95 • cl • 288 pages $38.95 • cl • 320 pages $25.50 • pb Computers / Financial Applications Bus & Econ / Workplace Culture Fiction / Thrillers / Crime Fiction / Literary In Easy Steps
Scandinavian Sweaters Still Horse Crazy After All These Art History 101 without the Exams Border by Kristin Wiola Odegard • Trafalgar Years by Annie Montgomery Labatt • Trinity by foreword by Kapka Kassabova • Trinity Square Books by James Wofford • Trafalgar Square University Press University Press On Sale: Sep 4/20 Books On Sale: Oct 23/20 On Sale: Dec 4/20 9781570769924 On Sale: Nov 20/20 9781595348784 9781595349149 $41.95 • cl • 216 pages 9781570769559 $44.95 • pb • 520 pages $29.50 • pb • 288 pages Crafts & Hobbies / Needlework / Knitting $37.50 • pb • 312 pages Art / Reference Social Science / Social Classes Sports & Recreation / Equestrian EQ
La Finca Moral Ground Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at by Corky Parker • Trinity University Press by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. an Elephant On Sale: Sep 4/20 Nelson • Trinity University Press edited by Dale Peterson • Trinity 9781595349057 On Sale: Oct 9/20 University Press $44.95 • cl • 256 pages 9781595349279 On Sale: Oct 30/20 Biography / Personal Memoirs $29.50 • pb • 512 pages 9781595348661 Nature / Essays $37.50 • pb • 416 pages Nature / Wildlife
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Arthur Frommer's Europe Frommer's Italy 2021 Frommer's Ireland 2021 by Arthur Frommer by Stephen Brewer by Parker Robbins FrommerMedia FrommerMedia FrommerMedia On Sale: Aug 13/21 On Sale: Oct 16/20 On Sale: Oct 16/20 5 x 8 • 896 pages 5 x 8 • 832 pages 5 x 8 • 608 pages 9781628875331 • $40.50 • pb 9781628875119 • $40.50 • pb 9781628875096 • $40.50 • pb Travel / Europe / Western Travel / Europe / Italy Travel / Europe / Ireland Series: Complete Guides Series: Complete Guides
Frommer's Israel Frommer's New Zealand Frommer's EasyGuide to Rome, by Karen Chernick by Jessica Wynne Lockhart Florence and Venice FrommerMedia FrommerMedia by Elizabeth Heath and Stephen Keeling On Sale: Dec 4/20 On Sale: Feb 5/21 FrommerMedia 5 x 8 5 x 8 On Sale: Feb 12/21 9781628875317 • $37.50 • pb 9781628875294 • $34.50 • pb 5 x 8 • 320 pages Travel / Middle East / Israel Travel / Australia & Oceania 9781628875256 • $29.50 • pb Series: Complete Guides Series: Complete Guides Travel / Europe / Italy Series: EasyGuide
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Frommer's EasyGuide to Paris Frommer's EasyGuide to London 2021 Frommer's Hawaii 2021 by Anna E. Brooke by Jason Cochran by Martha Cheng and Jeanne Cooper FrommerMedia FrommerMedia FrommerMedia On Sale: Feb 19/21 On Sale: Nov 13/20 On Sale: Oct 16/20 5 x 8 • 320 pages 5 x 8 • 352 pages 5 x 8 • 640 pages 9781628875232 • $29.50 • pb 9781628875171 • $29.50 • pb 9781628875072 • $40.50 • pb Travel / Europe / France Travel / Europe / Great Britain Travel / US / West / Pacific Series: EasyGuide Series: EasyGuide Series: Complete Guides
Frommer's EasyGuide to Las Vegas Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans Frommer's EasyGuide to New York City by Grace Bascos 2021 2021 FrommerMedia by Diana K. Schwam by Pauline Frommer On Sale: Nov 13/20 FrommerMedia FrommerMedia 5 x 8 • 288 pages On Sale: Dec 4/20 On Sale: Oct 30/20 9781628875157 • $29.50 • pb 5 x 8 5 x 8 • 320 pages Travel / US / West / Mountain 9781628875195 • $29.50 • pb 9781628875218 • $29.50 • pb Series: EasyGuide Travel / US / South / West South Central Travel / US / General Series: EasyGuide
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Frommer's EasyGuide to Washington, Frommer's EasyGuide to Disney World, Five-Star Trails: Birmingham D.C. 2021 Universal and Orlando 2021 by Thomas M. Spencer by Meredith Pratt by Jason Cochran Menasha Ridge Press FrommerMedia FrommerMedia On Sale: Oct 23/20 On Sale: Oct 23/20 On Sale: Dec 4/20 5.5 x 8.5 • 264 pages 5 x 8 • 320 pages 5 x 8 • 320 pages 9781634043076 • $28.50 • pb 9781628875270 • $29.50 • pb 9781628875133 • $29.50 • pb Travel / US / South / East South Central Travel / US / South / South Atlantic Travel / US / South / South Atlantic Series: Five-Star Trails Series: EasyGuide Series: EasyGuide
Five-Star Trails: Chattanooga Time Out Florence City GuideT The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2021 by Johnny Molloy Time Out by Bob Sehlinger and Seth Kubersky Menasha Ridge Press On Sale: Sep 11/20 Unofficial Guides On Sale: Oct 23/20 5.1 x 7.8 On Sale: Dec 25/20 5.5 x 8.5 • 256 pages 9781780592886 • $32.95 • pb 5.13 x 8 • 512 pages 9781634043052 • $28.50 • pb Travel / Europe / Italy 9781628091168 • $32.95 • pb Travel / US / South / East South Central Travel / US / West / Mountain Series: Five-Star Trails Series: The Unofficial Guides
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The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2021 The Unofficial Guide to the Disney The Unofficial Guide to Universal by Seth Kubersky and Bob Sehlinger Cruise Line 2021 Orlando 2021 Unofficial Guides by Erin Foster and Len Testa by Seth Kubersky On Sale: Dec 25/20 Unofficial Guides Unofficial Guides 5.13 x 8 • 392 pages On Sale: Dec 25/20 On Sale: Dec 25/20 9781628091120 • $29.95 • pb 5.13 x 8 • 440 pages 5.13 x 8 • 392 pages Travel / Amusement & Theme Parks 9781628091205 • $29.95 • pb 9781628091182 • $29.95 • pb Series: The Unofficial Guides Travel / Cruises Travel / Amusement & Theme Parks Series: Unofficial Guides Series: Unofficial Guides
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney Sierra North World 2021 World with Kids 2021 by Elizabeth Wenk and Mike White by Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa by Bob Sehlinger and Liliane Opsomer Wilderness Press Unofficial Guides Unofficial Guides On Sale: Nov 10/20 On Sale: Nov 20/20 On Sale: Dec 25/20 6 x 9 • 344 pages 5.13 x 8.5 • 800 pages 5.13 x 8 • 488 pages 9780899978864 • $32.95 • pb 9781628091106 • $37.50 • pb 9781628091144 • $32.95 • pb Travel / US / West / Pacific Travel / Amusement & Theme Parks Travel / Amusement & Theme Parks Series: Sierra Nevada Guides Series: The Unofficial Guides Series: The Unofficial Guides
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Sierra South Walking Milwaukee Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California by Elizabeth Wenk and Mike White by Royal Brevvaxling and Molly Snyder by Jordan Summers Wilderness Press Wilderness Press Wilderness Press On Sale: Nov 10/20 On Sale: Sep 11/20 On Sale: Sep 11/20 6 x 9 • 344 pages 5.5 x 7.5 • 224 pages 6.5 x 9.5 • 384 pages 9780899978840 • $32.95 • pb 9781643590202 • $25.50 • pb 9780899978420 • $44.95 • pb Travel / US / West / Pacific Travel / US / Midwest / East North Central Travel / US / West / Pacific Series: Sierra Nevada Guides Series: Walking Series: Pacific Crest Trail
Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon and Pacific Crest Trail Data Book by Laura Randall Washington by Benedict Go Wilderness Press by Jordan Summers Wilderness Press On Sale: Sep 11/20 Wilderness Press On Sale: Sep 20/20 6.5 x 9.5 • 384 pages On Sale: Sep 11/20 5.50 x 7.50 • 128 pages 9780899978406 • $44.95 • pb 6.50 x 9.50 • 344 pages 9780899979014 • $19.50 • pb Travel / US / West / Pacific 9780899978444 • $44.95 • pb Travel / US / West / Pacific Series: Pacific Crest Trail Travel / US / West / Pacific Series: Pacific Crest Trail Series: Pacific Crest Trail
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The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12 True Stories from Around the World edited by Lavinia Spalding Since publishing the original edition of A Woman's World in 1995, Travelers' Tales has been the recognized national leader in women's travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was a periodic collection of the best women's travel writing of the year. This title is the twelfth in that series - The Best Women's Travel Writing - presenting stimulating, inspiring, and uplifting adventures from women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples, and facets of themselves.The common threads connecting these stories are a female perspective and fresh, compelling storytelling to make the reader laugh, weep, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes are as eclectic as in all of our books, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters Travelers Tales with exotic cuisine.The 30 true travel stories in this year's collection are, as always, On Sale: Oct 16/20 wildly diverse in theme and location. They tell of places like California and Cuba, 5.25 x 8 • 328 pages 9781609521899 • $29.95 • pb Switzerland and Singapore, Iran and Iceland, Montana and Mexico and Mongolia (...) Travel / Essays & Travelogues Ages 15 years and up Series: Best Women's Travel Writing
How To Shit Around the World, 2nd Edition by Jane Wilson-Howarth International travel is rewarding and fun, but sometimes it exacts a price. Activities we take for granted - eating, bathing, and going to the toilet - can range from challenging to risky in unfamiliar territory. In How to Shit Around the World, Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth takes a sympathetic and funny approach to the most basic human activity, interweaving hilarious anecdotes from fellow travelers with sensible tips and techniques. More than just a how-to, this book inspires the traveler to be adventurous in dealing with foreign toilets, and to heed the fascinating cultural lessons to be learned from the simple act of using the bathroom.
Straightforward advice... a great bathroom read." - The Washington Post
"Worth digesting." - Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
Travelers Tales "A cheery and common-sensical guide." - The Independent On Sale: Oct 2/20 5.25 x 8 • 208 pages "... the good doctor has our best interests at heart, giving expert advice, about learning 9781609521929 • $25.50 • pb (...) Health & Fitness / Healthy Living Ages 16 years and up
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One Hundred Years of Exile A Romanov's Search for Her Father's Russia by Tania Romanov One Hundred Years of Exile: In Search of My Father's Russia is the story of one woman's journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. Tania Romanov Amochaev and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. Their shared fate does not lead to mutual understanding. The family's immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future - but while Tania just wanted to be an American, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment toward him and her Russian heritage. Decades later, his unexpected death exposes Tania's open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her Travelers Tales father and his story. A serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal On Sale: Oct 16/20 5.25 x 8 • 352 pages family, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives, B&W photos catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father's homeland. Tania's story proves inseparable 9781609521950 • $28.50 • pb (...) Travel / Russia • Ages 16 years and up
One Hundred Years of Exile • Tania Romanov • Travelers Tales Oct 16/20 • 5.5 x 8.5 • 352 pages 9781609521974 • $52.50 • cl • Travel / Russia
Native Texan by Joe Holley Native Texan: Deep in the Heart of the Lone Star State is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holley is widely loved for his popular Native Texan" column, which appears in the Houston Chronicle . In thirty-five stories curated from column archives, Holley introduces readers to his favorite people and places across the state. From interviews on the "weird" streets of Austin and his search for ghosts in Bigfoot to a decades-long love affair with everything about Marathon and hikes on the back trails of the Big Bend, Holley is a masterful storyteller. His instincts are backed by a seasoned journalist's passion to measure legends and tall tales against investigations into what really happened. He reveals small-town Texas, and some small towns Trinity University Press within the largest cities, with a style that has proven popular with readers and a keen eye for a On Sale: Nov 20/20 unique spin on an old story. 5 x 8 • 208 pages 9781595349019 • $26.95 • pb Travel / Essays & Travelogues
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Quotable Texas edited by Joe Holley Every Texan has an opinion. And everyone else has an opinion about Texas. Quotable Texas is where these two factions meet to form a rich repository of the piquant thoughts, curious notions, and memorable ideas that have been expressed about Texas through the years.
Texans are people of the word - written, spoken, sung. That's not the stereotype, of course. Texans are doers, men and women of action. They're Davy Crockett swinging Ol' Betsy as the Alamo falls, Texas Rangers nabbing desperados in the South Texas brush country, cowboys riding rip-snortin' Brahma bulls on the West Texas prairie, hell- for-leather oilmen punching holes in the earth until they hit the big one. Texas is all those things, but it is also the birthplace and incubator of thoughtfulhumorists, outlandish artists, outspoken politicians, soulful musicians, history-making athletes, and history-changing scholars. Whether it's Sam Houston excoriating his political rivals, the Trinity University Press late Molly Ivins satirizing the state legislature or memoirist Mary Karr recounting the On Sale: Nov 20/20 eccentricities of small-town life in East Texas, the denizens of the Lone Star State have 5 x 7 • 288 pages no compunction about expressing themselves. 9781595347701 • $19.50 • pb Reference / Quotations
The Artist's Guide to Yellowstone A Natural History by Greater Yellowstone's Artists and Writers edited by Katie Shepherd Christiansen The Artist's Field Guide to Yellowstone introduces readers to the wildlife of the world's first national park through the works of fifty of the region's distinguished writers and artists. Yellowstone naturalist, artist, and educator Katie Christiansen has assembled a robust anthology of the traditional field guide (facts and illustrations on flora and fauna) with an enlivened, often whimsical view of nature through the eyes of area artists.
This approach embodies the ethos of Christiansen's work, which is to foster meaningful connections between the region's people and its environment. The book's format features artwork and writing to remind readers of their personal connections to the natural world. The guide features twenty-five plants and animals prevalent to the Greater Yellowstone Trinity University Press ecosystem, organized across four habitats - sky (birds), earth (mammals), soil (plants), On Sale: Sep 4/20 and water (fish and bacteria). Each species is paired with a writer and artist, with 10 x 8 • 224 pages 9781595348951 • $49.50 • cl entries including a visual identifier (say, tracks or seed pods), a detailed illustration (...) Travel / Parks & Campgrounds
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Courtland Sutton From Farmhand to Football Star by Ryan Jacobson The Inspiring Biography of a Denver Broncos Football Star!Courtland Sutton grew up in a city south of Dallas, Texas. There, he worked on a cattle farm and learned the meaning of hard work. Courtland dreamed of one day playing in the pros, but no one could imagine the path that awaited him. In high school, he proved his skill as a player with potential for greatness. Yet few colleges were interested in offering him a scholarship. Due to a lucky break, Courtland landed at Southern Methodist University (SMU) - to play on defense. As a freshman, Courtland experienced injury and disappointment. The young football player never gave up. This is a story of determination and perseverance. It is proof that anything is possible with hard work and a winning attitude.Award-winning author Ryan Jacobson chronicles Courtland's rise from a relatively unknown high school football player to one of the best wide receivers in professional sports. Complete with full-color photographs, this true story of the Adventure Publications Denver Broncos star will inspire readers of all ages. With sports accounts from high On Sale: Oct 2/20 school, college, and the pros, Courtland Sutton is a must-read for every sports fan in 5.25 x 8 • 112 pages Color photos throughout Colorado and beyond. 9781940647395 • $19.50 • pb Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography / Sports & Recreation • Ages 9-13 years
The Kids' Guide to Bugs of Florida Fun Facts, Activities and 85 Cool Bugs by Jaret C. Daniels Catch All the Buzz About Florida's Amazing Bugs!Kids love the thrill of discovery - especially when it comes to bugs. Florida is home to some 12,500 types of insects, so there are plenty of opportunities to spot something new. Florida author and entomologist Jaret C. Daniels has written the perfect identification guide for children! The Kids' Guide to Bugs of Florida features 170 of the most common and important bugs to know, from ants to mosquitoes to spiders.The species are organized by where they are commonly found. Do you see a bug on a flower and don't know what it is? Go to the On Flowers" section to find out. Each creepy crawly gets a full-page entry that includes a full-color photograph and neat-to-know information - such as diet, life cycle, and Jaret's cool facts - that make identification a snap. Fun bonus activities for the whole family, like building a bug house and planting a bug garden, add even more to this must-have beginner's guide to bugs in the Sunshine State! Adventure Publications On Sale: Nov 20/20 5 x 7 • 240 pages Color maps and photos throughout 9781591939351 • $22.50 • pb Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Insects, Spiders, Etc. Ages 8-12 years
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Goodnight Mermaid by Karla Oceanak, illustrated by Allie Ogg Glide with us into the magic of nighttime under the sea... As the full moon rises, we meet the lively, lovely mermaids. They sing, dance, and swim with a breathtaking array of ocean-going friends, from turtles and seals to whales, octopi, polar bears, and many more. And here come the mermaids' cousins - the adorable selkies and the fairy-like nymphs! Meanwhile, Her Majesty the Merqueen keeps watch over them all. Say goodnight to this marvel of strong, smart, and kind mermaids dedicated to caring for their ocean home. Readers curious about mermaid habits, anatomy, and likes and dislikes will love diving into the Mermaidology facts that follow the story! And if you recite the Mermaid Pledge on the final page, you, too, will be transformed into an honorary mermaid. This enchanting picture book in the style of Goodnight Moon will be a favorite among mermaid lovers of all ages as well as all children and families who treasure our oceans and the astonishing creatures that inhabit them.
Bailiwick Press On Sale: Sep 11/20 10.2 x 8.7 • 32 pages Color illustrations throughout 9781934649800 • $26.95 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Mermaids Ages 3 years and up
Kids Can Cook Fun and Yummy Recipes for Budding Chefs illustrated by Esther Coombs Help your child develop good eating habits by teaching them how to cook. In this brilliant book, beautifully illustrated step-by-step recipes show children how to make delicious and nutritious food. As well as finding out how easy it is to make lots of yummy things to eat, they'll practice skills like measuring, weighing and counting without even realising it. Packed with ideas for everything from pizzas to pancakes, including breakfasts, snacks, main meals and sweet treats, there's plenty to keep kids busy in the kitchen.
Button Book On Sale: Oct 16/20 8.6 x 10.8 • 64 pages Full color throughout 9781787080713 • $26.95 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Cooking Ages 6-12 years
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Great Lives in Graphics: Anne Frank LEAD by GMC GMC Editors Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. You may already know that Anne Frank wrote a diary, but did you know she had a pet cat called Moortje? Or that another cat called Mouschi lived with her in hiding? This graphic retelling of Anne's story gives children a visual snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from World War II tothe dangers of prejudice.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 8 x 9.8 • 32 pages Full color throughout 9781787081000 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography / Historical Ages 8-12 years
Great Lives in Graphics: Cleopatra by GMC GMC Editors Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. You may already know that Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt, but did you know she married her little brother? Or that she could speak nine languages? This graphic retelling of Cleopatra's story gives children a colorful snapshot of her life and the world she grew up in, while educating them on everything from the Romans to the Egyptian zodiac.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 8 x 9.8 • 32 pages Full color throughout 9781787081017 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography / Historical Ages 8-12 years
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Great Lives in Graphics: Martin Luther King by GMC GMC Editors Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. This graphic retelling of Martin's story gives children a visual snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from civil rights to the power of words.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 8 x 9.8 • 32 pages Full color throughout 9781787081024 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography / Historical Ages 8-12 years
Great Lives in Graphics: Stephen Hawking by GMC GMC Editors Great Lives in Graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way. You may already know that Stephen Hawking was a scientist, but did you know he kept bees in his basement as a little boy? Or that he ran over Prince Charles's toes with his wheelchair? This graphic retelling of Stephen's story gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from black holes to the big bang.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 8 x 9.8 • 32 pages Full color throughout 9781787081031 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography / Science & Tech Ages 8-12 years
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My First Book of the Cosmos by Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferron, illustrated by Eduard Altarriba My First Book of the Cosmos is the latest title from the awarding winning illustrator and author duo Eduard Altarriba and Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferron. Cosmology is closely related to astronomy and studies the origin and evolution of the universe. As with Eduard and Sheddad's first book published by Button Books My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of the Cosmos introduces children to what is an incredibly complex subject in a fun and entertaining way, using highly attractive and absorbing illustrations to explain the basic principals and concepts of this complex and fascinating subject.
Button Book On Sale: Oct 16/20 9.7 x 9.7 • 56 pages 9781787080775 • $26.95 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Tech / Astronomy Ages 8-12 years Series: My First Book of Science
Bright Sparks Flash Cards - Alphabet illustrated by Dominika Lipniewska The laminated flashcards in this pack are ideal for teachers, parents and carers to teach the alphabet to children aged 3+. There are two sets of cards: one set features the letters of the alphabet and delightful illustrations by Dominika Lipniewska. The second set includes the letters in lower and upper case. The set features notes and handy suggestions for games and activities to play with the cards.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 5.2 x 3.2 • 52 pages Full color throughout 9781787080805 • $19.50 • card deck Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / Alphabet Ages 3 years and up • Non Returnable
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Bright Sparks Flash Cards - Numbers illustrated by Dominika Lipniewska The laminated flashcards in this pack are ideal for teachers, parents and carers to teach the numbers 0 to 50 to children aged 3+ and to practise sums with young school children. The cards have the number on one side and the word on the other. The plus, minus, multiply, divide and equals signs are included. Notes provide handy suggestions for a variety of games and activities with the cards.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 56 pages 9781787080829 • $19.50 • card deck Juvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / Card Games • Ages 3 years • Non Returnable Series: Bright Sparks
Bright Sparks Flash Cards - Three-letter Words illustrated by Dominika Lipniewska The laminated flashcards in this pack are ideal for teachers, parents and carers to teach common three-letter words to children aged 3+. Each card has a single word in clear, easy-to-read text accompanied by a delightful illustration by Dominika Lipniewska. The set features notes and handy suggestions for games and activities to play with the cards.
Button Book On Sale: Sep 11/20 5.2 x 3.2 • 52 pages Full color throughout 9781787080782 • $19.50 • card deck Juvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / Card Games • Ages 3 years and up • Non Returnable
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The Truth Pixie Goes to School by Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould
The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller The Truth Pixie, an uplifting, illustrated story about beating back-to-school nerves
New school. New friends. Same old pixie.
Don't try to be something You really are not. Your one true self Is the best thing you've got.
In this heartwarming adventure, the Truth Pixie and her human friend go to school, face a bully, and learn the importance of friendship and being yourself. With words by the bestselling mastermind Matt Haig and pictures by the inky genius Chris Mould.
Canongate Books Author Bio On Sale: Aug 14/20 Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and 128 pages Notes on a Nervous Planet and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, 9781786898265 • $20.95 • cl including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys . He has also Juvenile Fiction / General written many books for children, including most recently the Sunday Times Ages 5-7 bestseller, The Truth Pixie, and he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.
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The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig Canongate Books On Sale: Nov 15/19 9781786894328 • $20.95 • cl
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I Love You, Grandma by Ruth Wielockx Celebrate International Grandparents Day (09/13) with this lovely book!Who do you love? Grandma! A cheerful little book about playing with Grandma. For toddlers ages 12 months and up, with a focus on the child's emotions.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 28/20 6.3 x 6.3 • 12 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375618 • $16.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational • Ages 1 years and up
I Love You, Grandpa by Ruth Wielockx Who do you love? Grandpa! A cheerful little book about playing with Grandpa. For toddlers ages 12 months and up, with a focus on the child's emotions.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 28/20 6.3 x 6.3 • 12 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375625 • $16.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational • Ages 1 years and up
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The Mermaid Counting Book by Suzanne Diederen One little mermaid swimming in the sea. Off on an adventure - come along with me!
A sweet counting book that encourages reading together. For toddlers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child's language development.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 6/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 20 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375830 • $19.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Counting • Ages 2-5 years
A Kiss for You by Guido Van Genechten You are so kissable, from head to toe!
A sweet celebration of babies and kisses. For little ones of all ages.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 6/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 18 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375601 • $19.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Family / New Baby • Ages 1 years and up
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Good Morning, Farm by Anita Bijsterbosch Time to wake up at the farm. The rooster wakes up the dog. And the dog wakes up the sheep. But who will wake up the cat? And on every page a little mouse is hiding. Can you find it?
A colorful search-and-guess book about animals and waking up. For toddlers ages 24 months and up, with a focus on the child's world.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 30/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 18 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375687 • $19.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Farm Animals • Ages 2 years and up
Getting Dressed by Pauline Oud Playing outside is always fun . . . as long as you wear the right clothes! What's the best way to get dressed for winter, spring, summer, and fall? And what do you wear to a party?
A cheerful book with flaps about picking out clothes and having fun. For toddlers ages 18 months and up, with a focus on the child's daily life.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 21/20 7.28 x 7.28 • 10 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375649 • $22.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Clothing & Dress • Ages 1 years and up
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Animals at Play by Anita Bijsterbosch What animals live in the jungle? And what animals live in the ocean? How about the farm? And the garden?
A cute book with flaps about animals playing together. For toddlers ages 18 months and up, with a focus on the child's world.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 11/20 7.28 x 7.28 • 10 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375632 • $22.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General • Ages 1 years and up
The Farmer by Liesbet Slegers It's a new day at the farm. The farmer feeds his animals, picks fruit, waters the vegetables, and carries hay in his tractor. There's a lot to see and do at the farm!
An informative book for toddlers with flaps about a day at the farm. For toddlers ages 18 months and up, with a focus on the world around the child.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 11/20 7.28 x 7.28 • 10 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375861 • $22.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Farm Animals • Ages 1 years and up
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Bakers and What they Do by Liesbet Slegers Do you love fresh bread and sweet treats? Well, do you know who makes them? A baker! Bakers wake up in the middle of the night to start work each day. There is so much to do to get the delicious baked goods ready for when the shop opens in the morning.
A delicious informative picture book about the baker.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 25/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375762 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Careers • Ages 4 years and up Series: Profession Series
Oops, I Dropped the Lemon Tart by An Swerts, illustrated by Eline van Lindenhuizen Lucy was always cheerful and adventurous, but one day she started worrying about everything. She didn't want to try new things because she didn't want to make mistakes. The only place she was happy was at her dad's restaurant, where she would work with her best friend, Evan. It is there that she discovers that something beautiful can come from making a mistake!
A captivating and encouraging story about fear of failure. Based on a true story for children ages 6 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 4/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 48 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375793 • $28.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Situations / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance • Ages 6 years and up
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Have You Seen Bunny? by Sam Loman Muffin wants to play with Bunny. But . . . where is he? Muffin looks in the living room, in her bedroom, in the laundry room . . . but Bunny is nowhere to be found. Have you seen Bunny?
A cheerful story about friendship and playing hide-and-seek together. For seeking champions ages 3 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 4/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375731 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Social / Friendship • Ages 3 years and up
Warm Clothes for Bear by Sam Loman Bear is all dressed up to play outside in the snow. His friends are there too. But they aren't quite as prepared. Bear shares his warm clothes with his friends. But what about Bear?
A heartwarming story about caring for others and caring for yourself. For cuddly bears ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 16/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375724 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Seasons • Ages 4 years and up
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Luke & Lottie. Fall is Here! by Ruth Wielockx Fall is here! Luke and Lottie are playing outside. They find a hedgehog building a nest in the leaves. They decide to help the little hedgehog get ready for winter. What a nice way to spend a fall day!
A cheerful and simple story about the fall. For toddlers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child's world.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 18/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 24 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375700 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Seasons • Ages 2 years and up
Winter with Lily & Milo by Pauline Oud It's winter! Lily and Milo go outside. They want to feed the birds in the yard and play in the snow. But . . . what happened to Milo's warm hat and scarf?
A simple and interactive story about the winter. For toddlers ages 24 months and up, with a focus on the child's world.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 20/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375656 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Seasons • Ages 2 years and up
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A Potty for Zaza by Mylo Freeman Mommy shows Zaza a potty. Who could it be for? Is it a potty for Zaza?
A simple and sweet book about a child's first potty. For toddlers ages 24 months and up, with a focus on the child's skills.
PRAISE FOR FREEMAN'S ZAZA BOOKS:Make room, Doc McStuffins! ... . offer[s] a mirror for many readers of color and a window for others while also emphasizing that imaginative play around STEM professions should be the purview of children from every background. ... A fun and visually inviting book that encourages children to consider one more when I grow up"" possibility." - Kirkus Reviews
"Here's a small smattering of some of the true beauties I've run across this year. There are two Zaza books out this year and they're both great." - Elizabeth Bird, Fuse Eight, Clavis SLJ.com On Sale: Oct 30/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 24 pages "A perfect story to read on a sick day, or any day!" - Black Children's Books and Illustrations, color 9781605375670 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Toilet Training • Ages 2 years and up
Mia and Molly: The Same and Different by Mylo Freeman Mia and Molly are twins. They look the same and they like the same things. But they are also different in many ways!
A lovely flip book about similarities and differences - and twins! For toddlers ages 24 months and up, with a focus on the child's daily life.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 23/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 42 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375717 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings • Ages 2 years and up
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Mila Wants to Go to School by Judith Koppens, illustrated by Anouk Nijs Today Mila is going to school for the first time, and she can hardly wait to get there. But Daddy is being a real dilly-dally. Why is that? Mila doesn't want to be late on her first day of school...
An endearing and funny story about the first day of school. For toddlers aged 30 months and up, with a focus on the child's emotions.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 14/20 8.27 x 8.66 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375694 • $22.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / School & Education • Ages 2 years and up
Bear Is Not Sleepy by Jelleke Rijken, illustrated by Mack van Gageldonk It's almost winter. Bear is getting ready to go to sleep. But when he sees birds flying south, Bear decides he wants to go too! Bear isn't sleepy . . . yet . . .
A warm story about adventure, and friendship, and being yourself. For sleepy bears ages 3 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 13/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375663 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Bears • Ages 4 years and up
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Pablo Can't Sleep by Aurelia Higuet Pablo is tired. But he can't sleep because his friends are too busy or make too much noise. Angrily, Pablo walks off. In the desert, everything is quiet at last. But falling asleep is now completely impossible, since Pablo feels alone and misses his friends �
An exotic and colorful story about friendship and sleeplessness. For bad and other sleepers from 4 years up.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 27/20 11.42 x 8.27 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375892 • $28.50 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Bedtime & Dreams • Ages 4 years and up
Good Night and Sleep Tight by Esther van den Berg Dot is checking in to the Bug Hotel for the night. But before she goes to sleep, she makes sure all the other bugs are ready for bed. Good night, sleep tight!
A funny book about bedtime rituals. For sleepyheads ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 9/20 9.25 x 12.8 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375885 • $28.50 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Bedtime & Dreams • Ages 4 years and up
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Benny Wants a Haircut by Judith Koppens, illustrated by Marja Meijers Sam's hair is getting long. Time for a visit to the hairdresser. But when Pierre begins to cut Sam's hair, Benny starts to bark. Is Benny scared?
A funny and sweet story about a special friendship between a girl and her dog, and about a visit to the hairdresser. For animal lovers ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 13/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375755 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories • Ages 4 years and up
Ballerhino by Anne Schneider Rhino dreams of being as graceful as a bird. He wants to dance and fly, and flutter! But he's so big and clumsy. Maybe if he took some dancing lessons?
A funny and carefree story about dreams and accepting who you are. For young and old ages 5 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 2/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375847 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Social / Self-Esteem & Self- Reliance • Ages 5 years and up
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Timmy's Tornado by David Vliestra, illustrated by Barbara Denef Timmy finds a tornado at the bottom of his bathtub. He decides he's going to keep it . . .
A book full of fantasy and fun and a pet tornado. For bath-loving children ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Sep 18/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375854 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play • Ages 4 years and up
A Real Friend by Jennifer Wolfthal, illustrated by Judi Abbot Benny and Max are best friends. They often play together, until Max annoys Benny and the two friends get into a fight. Then, Benny decides to build a new best friend�
A recognizable story about playing together, quarreling and patching up a quarrel. For playful children ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 20/20 9.84 x 10.2 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375823 • $26.95 • CL - with jacket Juvenile Fiction / Social / Emotions & Feelings • Ages 4 years and up
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Monty's Special Day by Ellen Delange, illustrated by Malgorzata Zajac Monty is a typical donkey living a typical donkey life. Until the one day, he walks through the open gate and goes on an adventure . . .
A cheerful book about pushing your limits and just trying something new. For curious readers ages 5 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Dec 4/20 11.42 x 8.27 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375878 • $28.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / New Experience • Ages 5 years and up
Santa's Present Hunt by Mieke Goethals Did Santa come to visit? Yes! How can you tell? Because the houses are filled with presents! Can you spot all the gifts on each wish list? And can you find all of the differences before and after Santa's visit?
A colorful and engaging Christmas seek-and-find book. For young and old present- hunters ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Nov 27/20 9.25 x 12.8 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375748 • $28.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Festivals / Christmas • Ages 4 years and up
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Robin's Christmas Journey by Maya Onodera It's almost Christmas Eve. Robin wants to celebrate Christmas Day with his grandfather. But Grandpa lives on the other side of the mountain. So, with his backpack and a lot of courage, Robin takes off on an adventure.
An exciting and moving Christmas story about a brave little mouse. For adventurers ages 4 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 9/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 40 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375779 • $28.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Festivals / Christmas • Ages 4 years and up
Builders by Reina Ollivier and Karel Claes, illustrated by Steffie Padmos Just like people, animals need a place to live. The nine animals in this book are very talented builders and make their own homes! Discover the amazing beaver, cross spider, sociable weaver, termite, stork, meerkat, honeybee, Japanese puffer fish, and mole.
This is the first book in the Super Animals series, beautifully illustrated nonfiction about special animals. For little biologists ages 5 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 16/20 9.25 x 12.8 • 60 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375786 • $31.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / General • Ages 5 years and up
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How the Continents Move by Jan Leyssens, illustrated by Joachim Sneyers In the early part of the twentieth century, the researcher Marie Tharp worked on a detailed map of the bottom of the ocean. And then she made a discovery - a chasm down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Could this discovery help prove the age-old theory that the continents on Earth move?
The second book in a series about scientific wonder. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For researchers ages 6 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Oct 23/20 8.27 x 11.42 • 32 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375809 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Water • Ages 6-12 years
The Universe by Danielle Futselaar Are you ready for the journey of a lifetime? Jump on board of the Mars Cruiser with Luke and Maya, and travel to a different planet! While the earth is getting smaller and smaller and the stars shoot past the window, you'll discover all the secrets of the universe. From planets to supernovas and from black holes to aliens: this will be an unforgettable journey!
An exciting and informative book about the universe. A unique mix between fiction and non-fiction, for curious readers ages 10 and up.
Clavis On Sale: Aug 14/20 7.68 x 10 • 112 pages Illustrations, color 9781605375816 • $37.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Tech / Astronomy Ages 10 years and up
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A Mystery in the Forest by Susanna Isern, illustrated by Daniel Montero Galan A deer who cooks the best pies in the forest. A missing recipe book. An unsolved mystery.
The delightful characters from the hugely successful book The Lonely Mailman return, in a charming tale that invites readers to think about the emotional impact of jealousy, the importance of empathy, and the ability to forgive.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Sep 25/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 32 pages 9788416733927 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Cooking & Food • Ages 4-8 years Series: Whispers in the Forest
Un misterio en el bosque (A Mystery in the Forest) by Susanna Isern, illustrated by Daniel Montero Galan A deer who cooks the best pies in the forest. A missing recipe book. An unsolved mystery.
The delightful characters from the hugely successful book The Lonely Mailman return, in a charming tale that invites readers to think about the emotional impact of jealousy, the importance of empathy, and the ability to forgive.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Sep 25/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 32 pages 9788416733910 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Cooking & Food • Ages 4-8 years Series: Susurros en el bosque
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The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff by Jose Carlos Roman, illustrated by Zurine Aguirre, translated by Jon Brokenbrow The day that Miss Dragonfly asked her pupils to draw an elephant, Ladybug surprised everyone by drawing a giant ball of fluff. All the forest animals were worried: why would she have done something like that? The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff is a story that asserts the right to freedom and the value of creativity, against the limitations and conventions we sometimes impose on ourselves.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Nov 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 28 pages 9788416733880 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play • Ages 4-8 years
El dia mariquita dibuja una pelusa gigante (The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff) by Jose Carlos Roman, illustrated by Zurine Aguirre El dia que Dona Libelula le pidio a sus alumnos que dibujaran un elefante, Mariquita sorprendio a todos dibujando una pelusa gigante, creando una gran preocupacion entre todos los animales del bosque Por que habria hecho algo asi? El dia que Mariquita dibujo una pelusa gigante es una historia que reivindica la libertad y el valor de creatividad, frente a las limitaciones y convenciones que a veces nos imponemos.
The day that Miss Dragonfly asked her pupils to draw an elephant, Ladybug surprised everyone by drawing a giant ball of fluff. All the forest animals were worried: why would she have done something like that? The Day Ladybug Drew a Giant Ball of Fluff is a story that asserts the right to freedom and the value of creativity, against the limitations and conventions we sometimes Cuento de Luz impose on ourselves. On Sale: Nov 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 28 pages 9788416733873 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play • Ages 4-8 years
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The Walk by Celia Sacido A walk. An unexpected encounter.
Sharing wordless books is a terrific way to build important literacy skills, including listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension and an increased awareness of how stories are structured. And children love them - they can really pore over the pictures and create their own story in their own words.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Sep 11/20 10.25 x 8.5 • 32 pages 9788416733804 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Friendship • Ages 4-8 years
El paseo (The Walk) by Celia Sacido Un paseo. Un encuentro inesperado.
A walk. An unexpected encounter.
Sharing a wordless book is a terrific way to build important literacy skills, including listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension and an increased awareness of how stories are structured. And children love them - they can really pore over the pictures and create their own story in their own words.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Sep 11/20 10.25 x 8.5 • 32 pages 9788416733798 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Friendship • Ages 4-8 years
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My Neighbor Frankie by Ignacio Sanz, illustrated by Eva Poyato, translated by Jon Brokenbrow Childhood and old age go hand in hand in this beautiful poetic text.
Age-related increases in wisdom and life experiences, is a drive to give to children in a meaningful way. The aging population has distinctive qualities" to meet the needs of youth. Older adults are exceptionally suited to meet these needs in part because they welcome meaningful, productive activity and engagement. They seek - and need - purpose in their lives. As for older adults they benefit as well, experiencing emotional satisfaction in relationships with young people. One way to achieve such contact is through volunteer service, which is associated with better physical health and cognitive performance for aging people. From a societal view, these interactions are positive, too.
Cuento de Luz On Sale: Oct 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 24 pages 9788416733866 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Emotions & Feelings Ages 4-8 years
Mi vecino Paco (My Neighbor Frankie) by Ignacio Sanz Ignacio Sanz p Age-related increases in wisdom and life experiences, is a drive to give to children in a meaningful way. The aging population has distinctive qualities" to meet the needs of youth. Older adults are exceptionally suited to meet these needs in part because they welcome meaningful, productive activity and engagement. They seek - and need - purpose in their lives. As for older adults they benefit as well, experiencing emotional satisfaction in relationships with young people. One way to achieve such contact is through volunteer service, which is associated with better physical health and cognitive performance for aging people. From a societal view, these interactions are positive, too. Cuento de Luz On Sale: Oct 11/20 8.25 x 10.25 • 24 pages 9788416733859 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Emotions & Feelings Ages 4-8 years 138 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 LEAD The Memory of Babel Book Three of The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christelle Dabos, translated by Hildegarde Serle In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again? "The Memory of Babel is rich with memorable inventions: spells, transfigurations, prophecies, metamorphoses, dreams, arks, Citaceleste, ciphered manuscripts, enchanted mirrors. Ophelia is the Alice of the 21st century." - Il borghese Europa Editions On Sale: Sep 18/20 6.1 x 8.8 • 508 pages Author Bio 9781609456139 • $29.95 • cl YA Fic / Fantasy / Epic • Ages 14 years and up Christelle Dabos was born on the Cote d'Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home Series: The Mirror Visitor Quartet filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. A Winter's Promise, her debut novel, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL- Telerama First Novel Competition in France, and was named a Best Book of the Year by critics and publications in the US, including Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, and Chicago Review of Books . A Winter's Promise was also named the #1 Sci-Fi/Fantasy title of the year by the editors of the Amazon Book Review Related Titles The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos Europa Editions On Sale: Aug 14/20 9781609456085 • $17.95 • pb A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos Europa Editions On Sale: May 22/20 9781609456078 • $17.95 • pb 139 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Veg Patch Party by Clare Foges, illustrated by Al Murphy Glastonbury with veg! The vegetables start waking up They stretch and rise and shine - They set up lots of stages, 'Cos it's VEGGIE PARTY time! Mud, rain, vegetables. A winning combination from the team behind the bestselling Kitchen Disco! Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 30/20 32 pages 9780571352852 • $23.95 • cl Juvenile Fiction / General Squishy McFluff: On with the Show by Pip Jones The latest in this charming series of rhyming tales, Ava and her invisible cat perform at the circus! 'In a change to our scheduled programme tonight, I proudly present, for your joy and delight . . .' (in the glare of the bulbs, Ava tipped her tall hat) 'AMAZING AVA! AAAAAAND . . . HER INVISIBLE CAT!' Ava and Squishy are going to see the circus, but when one of the acts doesn't turn up they must perform in his place! Another joyful, hilarious, instant classic of a tale for five year olds and upwards, stunningly illustrated by Ella Okstad. Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Nov 27/20 80 pages 9780571350360 • $13.50 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Readers / Beginner Ages 5-7 years 140 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 LEAD Santa's New Beard by Caroline Crowe, illustrated by Jess Pauwels The big red suit was ironed and ready. The elves had stuffed the final teddy, When from the bathroom came a yelp, 'Ho Ho, oh no! Quick, someone HELP!' When Santa accidentally shaves off his famous beard, the elves all rally round to help. Can they glue it back on? Maybe the answer is whipped cream or candyfloss. Or perhaps it's mashed potato . . . Will they be able to sort him out before Christmas Eve? Things are not looking too good until the littlest elf has a bright idea! Festive and fun, this is destined to become a seasonal favourite. Author Bio Caroline Crowe worked as a journalist for many years, before switching to writing books for children full-time. Her first book, Pirates in Pyjamas, won the Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award and her second, Is that an Elephant in my Fridge was chosen by the Scottish Booktrust as one of their Bookbug Faber & Faber Publishing books for 2018. When she isn't thinking up words that rhyme with pants (there On Sale: Oct 16/20 aren't that many), she enjoys eating salt and vinegar crisps and reading as 9.8 x 9.8 • 32 pages much as she can. Jess Pauwels is a graphic designer and illustrator of 9780571336548 • $13.50 • pb children's books. She lives in Brussels. Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Festivals / Christmas Ages 0-5 years 141 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. ELIOT, illustrated by Julia Sarda A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing enchanting new color illustrations by Julia Sarda. The naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. So begins one of the best-known poetry collections of all time. The practical cats need no introduction, but this stunning new full-color version is the perfect companion to Old Toffer's Dogs . Whether you are a cat or a dog person, you will be enchanted by Julia's highly original interpretation. Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 2/20 96 pages 9780571346134 • $29.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Classics The World's Most Magnificent Machines by David Long, illustrated by Simon Tyler Taking our lead from the travel posters of the 20s and 30s, a beautiful and thrilling round-up of 32 of the best Magnificent Machines from across history. The longest ship ever built, the heaviest digger and the largest aeroplane, the world's first working motorcar, and its most expensive one. What machines like these have in common is that they all say a lot about the inventiveness and imagination of the people who conceived and created them. Some of them are useful, others are just a bit of fun, but the best ones are truly magnificent, and fascinating to discover. Designed to drive faster, fly higher, carry more cargo or - in the case of space rockets - travel hundreds of thousands of miles to places no-one has ever been before, not every idea has worked but the best have been inspired and inspirational, and in a few cases they have gone on to change the world. It is the human stories and atmospheric art that make this a book to actually read and delight in. Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Nov 20/20 32 pages 9780571347186 • $37.50 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / General Ages 9-11 years 142 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 The Ocean Squid Explorers' Club by Alex Bell, illustrated by Tomic Tomislav In this fourth explorers adventure we meet Ursula, a part mermaid girl who is determined to help Stella defeat the Collector! Alex Bell deftly takes her readers to another enchanting corner of the Explorers Kingdom. Orphaned, but determined to make her way in the world, Ursula wants to follow in Stella Starflake Pearl's footsteps and become an explorer, even though she is 'only' a girl! But she has countless barriers in her way, not least the fact that she is part mermaid - and therefore the sworn enemy of all Ocean Explorers . . . When the mysterious and now much feared Collector threatens the very existence ofthe Club, however, Ursula does not hesitate to defend it, even though it puts her own future in jeopardy. At last it seems she will meet Stella and go on an expedition of her own - through treacherous waters -full of gremlins and far worse - aboard the Blowfish submarine, helped by the suspicious twins Genie and Jai Bartholomew Singh. Thrilling, heart-pounding adventure with exquisite detail throughout. Alex Bell's world-building is second to none. Children will adore this. Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Nov 13/20 352 pages 9780571359714 • $14.95 • pb Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, a sensationalist story involving bigamy, arson and murder. 'Women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, and Cleopatras, and Joan of Arcs, Queen Elizabeths, and Catharine the Seconds . . . To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the nosier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex.' The beautiful and innocent-seeming Lady Audley is uncovered in this stunning novel that combines a crime thriller with historical drama to create an unputdownable tale that has been perennially popular since its publication in 1862. Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 2/20 5.3 x 7.8 • 576 pages 9780571358250 • $19.50 • pb YA Fic / Classics • Ages 12 years and up 143 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Strange Star by Emma Carroll They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' was the only rule. Switzerland, 1816. On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn- more chilling than any tale. Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger, a girl covered in the most unusual scars. She claims to be looking for her sister, supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley. Someone else has followed her here too, she says. And the girl is terrified... Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 16/20 5.1 x 6.3 • 320 pages 9780571317653 • $13.50 • pb Juvenile Fiction / General Waa'aka' The Bird Who Fell in Love with the Sun by Cindi Alvitre, illustrated by Carly Lake A dazzling, own-voice Native Californian folktale Waa'aka' was born when the earth was soft and the waters were new. It was the beginning of time." So begins Cindi Alvitre's vivid and multifaceted telling of a traditional Tongva creation story from Southern California. Waa'aka' follows the title character, a beautiful bird who falls in love with Tamet, the sun, and tries to follow him up to the sky. Accompanied by richly colorful illustrations from Carly Lake, the book touches deftly on themes like the unintended consequences of greed and the importance of working together. A rendition of one of California's oldest tales, Waa'aka' is a beautiful children's book in the classic style. Heyday On Sale: Sep 11/20 8 x 10 • 32 pages 9781597145091 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Native American • Ages 4-8 years 144 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Learning Express The PAW Patrol Pups' Big Rescue by REBECCA A. MATHESON The 32-page paperback book includes an exciting, 3-spread story (fiction) starring the PAW Patrol characters and their daring rescue. It also includes a non-fiction component, with each character personally ?introducing? readers to the real facts about his/her job: their daily routines and how they operate in a real emergency rescue to save people and animals from danger, and about their vehicle: its rescue parts and how they work. The sturdy outer book is three-dimensional and folds out to create an interactive Adventure Bay play-set with the PAW Patrol Lookout Tower in the center. Large fit together pieces form a road around the Lookout Tower and sturdy pop-out pieces that children can easily assemble into their favorite Paw Patrol characters and other rescue-themed props and equipment. Learning Express On Sale: Sep 30/20 7 x 10 • 32 pages 9781948206136 • $29.95 • kit Juvenile Fiction / Movie Or Television Tie-In Ages 5-8 years • Non Returnable M Press Home A Story of Resilience and Healing by Carrie Barnes, illustrated by Lyn Meredith A child's home is their center, their nest, and where they feel the most comfortable in the world. Home is one boy's account of an abrupt and devastating loss of his house and his emotional journey in discovering what truly makes a home. Based on the tragic events of the Santa Rosa, California, Tubbs Fire, Home is an uplifting story of resilience and healing in the face of a national disaster. M Press On Sale: Oct 2/20 9 x 11 • 32 pages 9781949480092 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Social / Emotions & Feelings Ages 3-7 years 145 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Penny Candy Books In One Ear and Out the Other Antonia Brico and her Amazingly Musical Life by Diane Worthey, illustrated by Morgana Wallace In a time when women were told they couldn't become conductors, Antonia Brico didn't listen to discouraging words. Those words went in one ear and out the other. The second title in Penny Candy's Amazing Women Series of nonfiction picture books, In One Ear and Out the Other: The Amazingly Musical Life of Antonia Brico tells the story of one woman's fight to gain recognition as a conductor in an era when men dominated classical music. The first woman to guest-conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Antonia Brico never secured a permanent conducting job with a major symphony - but her contributions paved the way for the many women conductors to follow. A true visionary in the long fight for equal opportunities for women. Penny Candy Books On Sale: Oct 16/20 Now forty-four years after Judy Collins and I made a film about the extraordinary 6.5 x 8.5 • 48 pages symphony conductor, Antonia Brico, the first woman to conduct major symphonies 9781734225914 • $25.50 • cl (...) Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Women • Ages 7-11 years Series: Amazing Women Penny Candy Books Infinity by Pablo Bernasconi What is infinity? It's reading the last line of a book and imagining the rest. No, wait, it's the instruction manual for the machine that operates the sun and the stars. In unexpected observations, captivating images, and even some equations, celebrated Argentinian author-illustrator Pablo Bernasconi, finalist for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award, offers up verses about what infinity could mean to all of us. Winner of the Grand Prize from the Asociacion de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil de la Argentina (ALIJA) in 2018, Infinity is a book children and adults alike will find endlessly fascinating. Pairs nicely with Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford. Penny Candy Books On Sale: Nov 20/20 6.31 x 8.88 9781734225921 • $25.50 • cl Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play Ages 9 years and up 146 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Penny Candy Books Cloud Hopper by Beth Kephart When a girl in a homemade hot air balloon falls out of the sky in rural Gilbertine, there are questions: Who is this girl, where exactly did she come from, why won't she talk, and what has she risked to live in a country that does not seem to want her? And what can Sophie, Wyatt, and K - three misfit best friends with complex and harrowing stories of their own - do to help the girl who can't trust those who want to help her? What should they do? As seen through the eyes of 14-year-old Sophie, who lives with her terminally ill grandmother, Cloud Hopper by National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is a poignant, high-flying adventure set among the old planes, Vietnam vets, and majestic hot air balloons of a run-down municipal airport. It's about the rules we'll break and the dangers we'll face to do the most-right thing we can imagine, even when we're feeling long past brave. Penny Candy Books On Sale: Sep 18/20 5.75 x 7.88 • 332 pages spot illustrations, black and white 9781734225907 • $26.95 • cl YA Fic / Family / Alternative Family Ages 11-14 years Moctu and the Mammoth People Illustrated Edition by Neil Bockoven Moctu and the Mammoth People is a compelling, well-researched story of a strong, young, dark-skinned Cro-Magnon boy who must fight his rival for leadership of his tribe and the right to mate the beautiful Nuri. Additionally, Moctu has confrontations with the Pale Ones, a fierce group of Neanderthals also called the People Eaters, as the two cultures interact in Paleolithic Italy 45,000 years ago. Besides having dangerous encounters with mammoths, wolves, and saber-tooth tigers, Moctu has to deal with his older rival, Jabil, who fights and undermines him at every opportunity. After Jabil murders several elders who go against him, he deftly shifts blame onto the Pale Ones. He takes over as the tribe's leader and makes Moctu's life miserable. Rare Bird Books On a hunting trip, Moctu is captured and enslaved by the Pale Ones. While with them, On Sale: Aug 11/20 Moctu is shocked to discover that, although these primitive people know little about 5.5 x 8.5 9781644281130 • $40.50 • cl spear-throwers or making clothes, they can make fire, and he learns the skill. (...) YA Fic / Nature / Environment 147 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 The Door to Inferna by Rishab Borah Fourteen-year-old Khioneus Nevula is beginning to realize something strange is going on. Adopted from unknown parentage, he has always been marked as different by his purple eyes. Now a winter break that should have been nothing but goofing around with his best friends is haunted by some other presence - ghostly apparitions appear to him in the dark of night, the surface of his mirror ripples like a pool of water, and he dreams of a girl with a long blue braid who invents fantastical devices. Drawn into a mystical land, he meets his twin sister, a proficient mage, a slightly mad scientist, and a princess. In this land where he is a prince, he finds himself and his friends caught in a war between the inhabitants of Elkloria and an ancient and powerful evil.THE DOOR TO INFERNA, Rishab Borah's first novel, creates a fantasy world as fully realized as those of Rick Riordan or Tamora Pierce. Elkloria draws on Borah's interest in mythology, science, and linguistics as well as the imaginative lands he and Three Rooms Press On Sale: Oct 30/20 his friends once inhabited in play - open to all to explore. 5.5 x 8.25 • 236 pages 9781941110966 • $22.50 • pb YA Fic / Fantasy / Contemporary Pika Country Climate Change at the Top of the World by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and Marlo Garnsworthy, by (photographer) Dan Hartman Journey to a place you've never ventured before - beneath a rock pile on a lonely mountain top - and meet the pikas, or rock rabbits. These scurrying, squeaking, industrious, and exceedingly cute mammals make their living harvesting grass and wildflowers during the brief alpine summers. But despite the remoteness of their homes, the pikas' lifestyle and survival are threatened by Climate Change. Follow the story of pikas, told with lavish photographs and clear prose, and learnhow small actions on our part can have global benefits. Web of Life Children's Books On Sale: Oct 2/20 10 x 8.37 • 32 pages Diagrams 9781970039023 • $26.95 • cl Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection • Ages 5-9 years 148 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Little Muir's Night by John Muir, illustrated by Susie Ghahremani An original board book that encourage a bedtime in tune with nature.Join Little Muir as he bids good night to the natural world and experiences the wonder of a starry night outdoors. Legendary conservationistJohn Muir's dreamy prose and award- winning illustrator Susie Ghahremani's cheerful paintings come together in this luminous board book. Young children will be treated to nighttime creatures-owls, bats, bears, and more-in this colorful ode to our planet and its celestial neighbors, which directly supports the legacy of Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Conservancy On Sale: Aug 21/20 6 x 6 • 14 pages Illustrations, color 9781930238985 • $13.50 • board book Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / Environment • Ages 6-36 months The Awesome 3-D Art Coloring Guide Learn 3-D Coloring Techniques & Color Cool Drawings! by Yukari Mishima Have fun creating colorful optical illusion drawings with The Awesome 3-D Art Coloring Guide! Try your hand at 3-D coloring with one of the 20 dynamic images included, such as: - A snowboarder catching air on the slopes - Colorful birds and butterflies soaring across the sky - A secret underground staircase full of mystery Discover special coloring tips and tricks to make flat illustrations appear as if they're about to jump right off the page! You'll learn how coloring techniques like blending, shading, blurring, outlining, and erasing can be used to capture shape and texture and create shadow within an illustration. Zakka Workshop On Sale: Aug 11/20 Each drawing is accompanied by step-by-step instructions and special tips and tricks 8.25 x 10.25 • 96 pages 9781940552491 • $22.50 • pb tailored to the specific image. You'll also find finishing techniques for maximizing (...) YA NonFic / Art / Drawing • Ages 8 years and up 149 Publishers Group Canada Publishers Group West — KIDS & YA Fall 2020 Static The Looking Glass Wars: UnderFire Catch A Cloud by Eric Laster by Frank Beddor and Curtis Clark by Elena de Roo, illustrated by Anuska Allepuz Automatic Publishing Automatic Publishing Faber & Faber Publishing On Sale: Oct 1/20 On Sale: Oct 1/20 On Sale: Oct 2/20 5.50 x 8.50 • 336 pages 6.62 x 10.25 • 80 pages 32 pages 9780991272990 • $14.95 • pb 9780991272976 • $14.95 • pb 9780571340552 • $25.50 • cl YA Fic / Mysteries & Detective Stories Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World / Series: Looking Glass Wars Environment Christmas Carol, A Surprise, Pups! 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