HICAGO REVIEW PRESS is a dynamic independent publisher that gives voice to new ideas that reach beyond the trends. We publish general nonfiction on a wide range of subjects including history, biography, memoir, music, Cfilm, pop culture, and true crime, as well as award-winning lines of children’s nonfiction books and young adult biographies. The press was founded in 1973 and has a distinguished backlist of more than 900 titles. We currently publish about 60 new titles annually under six different imprints: Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, Council Oak Books, Amberjack Publishing, and Parenting Press. All Chicago Review Press titles are distributed to the book trade by IPG. 2020 STANDOUTS page 10 page 38 page 14 page 2 page 1 page 15 page 32 page 31 CONTENTS Spring Adult Titles 1 Spring Children’s and Parenting Titles 21 Fall Adult Titles 31 Fall Children’s and Parenting Titles 52 Recent Award-Winning Titles 54 Bestselling CRP Titles 56 Index 59 Contact Information 60 SPRING ADULT TITLES 1 HOME IS A STRANGER A Memoir Parnaz Foroutan Praise for The Girl from the Garden “Parnaz Foroutan takes the timeless themes of love, honor, sacrifice and betrayal and makes them new.” —Gloria Steinem “A riveting, finely wrought novel by an author who joins the ranks of other young cross-cultural writers who tell their story through the lens of gender.” —New York Journal of Books he daughter of a Jewish mother and a Mus- Tlim father, Parnaz fled persecution in Iran as a young girl and grew up an immigrant in Los Angeles. Nineteen years later, after the death of her father and a frightening diagnosis for herself, she decides rekindling her shattered spirit is more important to her than undergoing open-heart surgery. She returns to her homeland, this time as a stranger. Home Is a Stranger is a memoir about transcending boundaries and the meaning of hos- ALSO AVAILABLE pitality—not only in the sense of welcoming oth- ers into our lives but also of remaining open to the world in the wake of loss. I Am Yours 978-1-948705-11-0 Biography & Autobiography/Personal Memoirs PARNAZ FOROUTAN is the author of The Girl from the Cloth, 224 pages, 6 × 9 Garden, for which she received the PEN USA Emerging $24.99 (CAN $29.99) | 978-1-948705-60-8 Voices fellowship. Parnaz has also received grants from Also available in e-book formats the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Barbara Deming Rights available: None Foundation, and a Hedgebrook Fellowship. She lives in Pub Month: March Los Angeles. Amberjack Publishing 2 CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS ALL THIS MARVELOUS POTENTIAL Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Tour of Appalachia Matthew Algeo n the winter of 1967–68, Robert F. Kennedy, Ithen a US Senator from New York, ventured deep into the heart of Appalachia on what was dubbed a “poverty tour.” He visited one-room schoolhouses and dilapidated homes, toured a strip mine, and held a public hearing in a ramshackle high school gymnasium. Kennedy learned that job training programs were useless, welfare programs proved insufficient, and jobs were scarce and getting scarcer. Robert Kennedy wasn’t merely on a fact-finding mission, he was considering challenging Johnson for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination. His trip to eastern Kentucky was an opportunity to test his antiwar and antipoverty message with hardscrabble whites. All This Marvelous Potential meticulously retraces RFK’s tour of eastern Kentucky, visiting ALSO BY THE AUTHOR the places he visited and meeting with the people he met with. The similarities between then and now are astonishing: vicious, divisive politics; bitter racial strife; economic uncertainty; envi- ronmental alarm. Author Matthew Algeo explains how and why the region has changed since Robert Kennedy visited the area in 1968; how and why it hasn’t; and why it matters for the rest of the country. Harry Truman’s The President Is a Excellent Adventure Sick Man 978-1-56976-707-8 978-1-61374-456-7 History/United States/20th Century/State & Local/South | MATTHEW ALGEO is the author of Harry Truman’s Political Science/Political Process/Campaigns & Elections Excellent Adventure, The President Is a Sick Man, and Cloth, 304 pages, 6 × 9, 34 B/W Photos, 1 Map Pedestrianism. An award-winning journalist, Algeo $28.99, (CAN $38.99) | 978-1-64160-059-0 has reported from four continents for public radio’s All Also available in e-book formats Things Considered, Marketplace, and Morning Edition. Rights Available: World Translation, Audiobook Pub Month: March Chicago Review Press SPRING Adult TITLES 3 ALL THE DREAMS WE’VE DREAMED A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago’s West Side Rus Bradburd • IN THE MARGINS BOOK AWARD IN ADVOCACY/SOCIAL JUSTICE “With heart and verve, Rus Bradburd takes us on this extraordinary journey of friendship, contrition, and heroism, all in the confines of a storied basketball program on Chicago’s West Side, all amid the persistent violence of the city. It’s one compelling read.” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and An American Summer “This unflinchingly honest work insinuates its way into the reader’s psyche the way only great books can. Unforgettable.” —Booklist “A sobering book, filled with horrors and heroes. It is tough and observant.” —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune hawn Harrington returned to Marshall High ALSO AVAILABLE SSchool as an assistant coach years after appear- ing as a player in the iconic basketball documentary filmHoop Dreams. Everything changed, however, when two young men opened fire on Harrington’s car as he drove his daughter to school. Author Rus Bradburd tells Shawn’s story with empathy and care, exploring the intertwined tragedies of gun violence, health care failure, racial assumptions, struggling educational systems, corruption in ath- My Bloody Life Once a King, In Deep 978-1-55652-427-1 978-1-64160-041-5 letics—and the hope that can survive them all. Always a King 978-1-55652-553-7 History/United States/21st Century | Chicago native RUS BRADBURD is the author of the short Social Science/Violence in Society story collection Make It, Take It; the controversial Trade Paper, 272 pages, 6 × 9, 14 B/W Photos Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan $17.99, (CAN $23.99) | 978-1-64160-272-3 Richardson; and his memoir Paddy on the Hardwood. Also available in e-book formats He coached basketball for fourteen seasons at UTEP Rights Sold: Audiobook rights sold to Blackstone Audio and New Mexico State. Rus and his wife, the award-win- Rights Available: World Translation, Film/TV ning poet Connie Voisine, live with their daughter in Pub Month: March Chicago and New Mexico. Lawrence Hill Books 4 CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS A STRANGER AMONG SAINTS Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth Jonathan Mack ometime between 1610 and 1611, William SShakespeare wrote The Tempest, inspired by the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply the colony at Jamestown. Among the castaways was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months marooned on Bermuda, Hopkins was charged with trying to incite a mutiny and condemned to die, only to have his sentence commuted. Hop- kins eventually reached Jamestown, where he spent six years before returning to England. In 1620, Hopkins signed on with a group of religious radicals on the Mayflower. Hopkins was the only passenger who’d been across the Atlantic before— the only one who’d encountered America’s native peoples and understood the complexities of their societies. The Pilgrims encountered disease and ALSO AVAILABLE sickness that stole nearly half their number, and their first contacts with the indigenous Americans were contentious. It was during these trials that Hopkins playing a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the English immigrants and their native neighbors. Without him, the Pilgrims would not likely have lasted through that brutal first year. The Admiral and the The Madman and Ambassador the Assassin 978-1-61374-730-8 978-1-61373-649-4 History/United States/Colonial Period (1600–1775) JONATHAN MACK is an attorney and an official member of the Cloth, 272, 6 × 9, 10 B/W Illustrations General Society of Mayflower Descendants. He is a graduate $30.00, (CAN $40.00) | 978-1-64160-090-3 of Harvard Law School and lives in the San Diego area. Also available in e-book formats Rights Available: World Translation, Audiobook, Film/TV Pub Month: April Chicago Review Press SPRING Adult TITLES 5 A DIRTY YEAR Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in Gilded Age New York Bill Greer ew York, 1872, was a city convulsing with Nsocial upheaval and sexual revolution seven years after the Civil War. As the year began, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals the edi- tors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free love advocate Victoria Woodhull was run- ning for president; vice hunter Anthony Comstock battled smut dealers poisoning children’s minds; and abortionists were thriving—and killing. These stories intertwined in ways unimaginable, pull- ing in suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Brooklyn’s beloved preacher Henry Ward Beecher, the nation’s richest tycoon Corne- lius Vanderbilt, and William Howe, preeminent counsel to the criminal element. Through the lives of these larger-than-life characters, the issues of ALSO AVAILABLE the day played out—rigged elections, everyday shootings, attacks on the press, sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, the chasm between rich and poor—issues that resonate today.