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Tongue Tied a Dirty Word Untangling Communication in How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality Sex, Kink, and Relationships Steph Auteri Stella Harris Red Wheel/Weiser Featuring Career Press, Conari & Hampton Roads Books to Live By New Titles and Bestselling Backlist, Fall 2018 FALL 2018 New Title Showcase Red Wheel / Weiser B OOKS TO LIVE BY Contents Pg. 3 Pg. 5 Pg. 7 New Titles 1-34 Weiser Books Conari Press Career Press Disinformation Books Hampton Roads Publishing Hierophant Publishing Eddison Books Ibis Press Origin Press Pg. 13 Pg. 14 Pg. 15 Rockpool Publishing Viva Editions, The Witches’ Almanac AEON Books 35-38 Rockpool Publishing 39-43 Skinner House Books 43 Cleis Press 44-46 Backlist Highlights Erich von Däniken 47 Pg. 19 Pg. 23 Pg. 27 New Page Books 48-49 Career Press 50-51 For Beginners Books 52 Holiday Stocking Stuffes 53-54 Bestsellers 55-58 Index 59 Order Information 60 Pg. 29 Pg. 31 Pg. 34 OCTOBER Protest Kitchen Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, and Fuel Your Resistance One Meal at a Time Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina Protest Kitchen is an empowering guide to the food and lifestyle choices anyone can make for positive change in the face of the profound challenges of our time. Our food choices have much more of an impact than most people imagine. They not only affect our personal health and the environment, but are also tied to issues of justice, misogyny, national security, and human rights. Protest Kitchen is the first book to explore the ways in which a more plant- based diet challenges regressive politics and fuels the resistance. A provocative and practical resource for hope and healing, Protest Kitchen, features over 50 vegan recipes (with alternatives for “aspiring vegans”) along with practical daily actions such as: • Substitute cow’s milk in your coffee and cereal for any of a variety of delicious non-dairy milks. This will help lower the release of methane gas that contributes to global warming • Use a smartphone app when buying chocolate to avoid supporting About the Authors Carol J. Adams is the author of the African farmers who use child-labor, even child slavery, to supply pioneering Sexual Politics of Meat, cacao beans to the food industry which the New York Times called a • Make your own cleaning supplies and wood polish; it’s frugal and “vegan bible” and is now in a 25th anniversary edition. The book was avoids reliance on products that may be tested on animals named one of Ms. Readers' 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Carol has also written pieces for sources as diverse as the New York Times, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and Christian Century. Photo credit: Jo-Anne McArthur Virginia Messina is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in public health nutrition from the University of Michigan. She is a longtime vegan who writes about vegetarian and vegan diets for the public and health professionals. Her articles have appeared in a variety of popular publications including Family Circle Magazine, Self Magazine, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Related Backlist October • Conari Press Cooking / Social Activism ISBN: 978-1-57324-743-6 eISBN: 978-1-63341-110-4 Hardcover • $16.95 • CAN$24.95 6 x 8.25 • Pages: 208 30 line drawings Rights: Red Wheel/Weiser The Food Revolution Why We Love Dogs, 978-1-57324-487-9 Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows Market: World Paper $21.95 978-1-57324-505-0 Author Residence: Texas and Massachusetts (CAN $29.50) Paper $18.95 (CAN $27.95) [P] 800 423 7087 / [F] 877 337 3309 / [email protected] 1 SEPTEMBER The Woman's Book of Hope Each Journey Begins Meditations for Passion, Power, & Promise with a Single Step Eileen Campbell, The Taoist Book of Life author of The Woman's Book of Joy Deng Ming-Dao, author of 365 Tao This is a book of daily Deng Ming-Dao provides meditations designed to key poetic lines that distill help restore a sense of the essence of Taoism, hopefulness and purpose organizing them in the form to our daily lives. It is of a journey. The material a book for women who here is drawn from three feel overwhelmed and sources: The Tao Te Ching, underappreciated. It is the The Yijing, and 300 Tang perfect antidote to despair: Poems. a book that teaches women In the words of the author: to practice hope—to take "We walk the Way each day. concrete steps in the face of We don’t know what’s ahead pain and despair and to make and so it’s helpful to have their lives happier. the wisdom of others to guide us. They have left us a message Throughout the book author Eileen Campbell includes stories to encourage us. They have spoken of the joys, griefs, and of those who have triumphed over adversity and have been purity that we should embrace. Like good pathfinders, they sustained by hope, such as Maya Angelou, Hildegard of Bingen, give us direction and prepare us for what we might encounter. Grace Lee Boggs, Anne Frank, Xiaolu Guo, Natascha Kampusch, They let us walk for ourselves. We have a wonderful companion and Oprah Winfrey. She also includes the inspiring stories of for the journey." refugees who have made new lives for themselves, escaping from Uganda, Iran, and Syria. About the Author Deng Ming-Dao is an artist, philosopher, teacher, About the Author martial artist, and the author of 8 books that have Eileen Campbell is the author of several books, been translated into 15 languages, including the including The Woman’s Book of Joy. She was a highly bestseller 365 Tao. He is also an award-winning regarded publisher for over 30 years and worked in graphic designer and fine artist whose work can be various capacities for major publishers including Random found in several collections, including those of the House, Rodale, and Harper Collins. Visit her at Brooklyn Museum. Visit him at dengmingdao.com. www.eileencampbellbooks.com. Photo credit: Bill McCosh Also by the Author Also by the Author The Woman's Book of Joy The Wisdom of the Tao 978-1-57324-670-5 978-1-57174-837-9 Paper $15.95 Paper + flaps $16.95 (CAN $21.95) (CAN $24.95) September • Conari Press • Self-Help September • Hampton Roads Publishing • Religion ISBN: 978-1-57324-699-6 • eISBN: 978-1-63341-061-9 ISBN: 978-1-57174-838-6 • eISBN: 978-1-61283-424-5 5 x 7 • Pages: 272 • Paperback • $16.95 • CAN$24.95 5 x 7 • Pages: 208 • Paper + flaps • $16.95 • CAN$24.95 Rights: Red Wheel/Weiser • Market: North America Rights: Hampton Roads Publishing • Market: World Author Residence: London Author Residence: San Francisco, CA 2 [P] 800 423 7087 / [F] 877 337 3309 / [email protected] SEPTEMBERMONTH C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature C. S. Lewis Compiled by Andrea Kirk Assaf and Kelly Anne Leahy Novelist, poet, critic, lay theologian, and bestselling author of the Narnia series, C. S. Lewis' works have become timeless classics for adults and children around the world. Here in one concise volume is the essence of his thought on subjects ranging from love and faith to ethics and morality and myth and literature that will throw open the windows of the soul and provide readers with bite-size nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from one of the best-loved writers of the 20th century. This lovely little gift book will provide sustenance, wisdom, and hope for both believers and seekers. And, most importantly, it will provide an entry point for those unfamiliar with Lewis that will make them want to explore his fiction and nonfiction works. About the Author C. S. Lewis (1898 – 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his nonfiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Related Backlist September • Hampton Roads Publishing Subject: Religion ISBN: 978-1-57174-845-4 eISBN: 978-1-61283-430-6 Paperback + flaps • $15.95 • CAN$22.95 4.25 x 5 • Pages: 400 Rights: HarperCollins UK Pope Francis' Little Book Pope Francis' Little Book Jesus' Little Book The Saints' Little Book of Wisdom of Compassion of Wisdom of Wisdom Market: North America 978-1-57174-738-9 978-1-57174-778-5 978-1-57174-826-3 978-1-57174-763-1 Author Residence: Deceased/United Kingdom Paper + flaps $14.00 Paper + flaps $14.95 Paper + flaps $14.95 Paper + flaps $14.95 (CAN $19.00) (CAN $20.95) (CAN $21.95) (CAN $21.95) [P] 800 423 7087 / [F] 877 337 3309 / [email protected] 3 MONTHSEPTEMBER The Seven Chakra The Circle of Nine Personality Types An Archetypal Journey to Awaken Discover the Energetic Forces That Shape Your the Divine Feminine Within Life, Your Relationships, and Your Place in the World Cherry Gilchrist Shai Tubali "Life guidance as to 'why we As women seek to cultivate are who we are.' Shai has an understanding of their made a great contribution lives, a mythological model to the vibrant living can provide a tool for library of evolving human self-discovery and realizing consciousness in a most individual potential. The integrated, readable and Circle of Nine presents nine admirable way. A must read.” archetypes that represent different, but equally —Patricia Mercier, important aspects of the author of bestselling book feminine psyche. They The Chakra Bible portray both the life of the individual and the story of This book presents a system woman as a whole—a circle for classifying people into of ever-changing patterns seven personality types based on the wisdom of the chakras.
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