OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz Summary: This shattering memoir by a journalist about Goran Rosenberg, Sara Death his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of 9781590516072 Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden won the Pub Date: 2/24/15, On Sale Date: 2/24 prestigious August Prize $24.95/$28.95 Can. On August 2, 1947 a young man gets off a train in a small 352 pages Swedish town to begin his life anew. Having endured the Hardcover ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz­Birkenau, the Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs slave camps and transports during the final months of Nazi Ctn Qty: 12 Germany, his final challenge is to survive the survival. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.250 lb Wt 140mm W | 210mm H | 567g Wt In this intelligent and deeply... Contributor Bio: Göran Rosenberg was born in 1948 in Sweden, where he is a well­known author. In 1970 he left academia to work as a journalist for Swedish television, radio, and print. He is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Det Förlorade landet [The Lost Land: A Personal History of Zionism, Messianism, and the State of Israel]. Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Blood Brothers Summary: Originally published in 1932 and banned by Ernst Haffner, Michael Hofmann the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang 9781590517048 of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and Pub Date: 3/3/15, On Sale Date: 3/3 mutual loyalty. $14.95/$17.95 Can. 176 pages Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social Trade Paperback worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces Fiction / Crime were lost during the course of World War II. 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Author Residence: New York City Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni ­ September 2014 Page 66 OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Whisper Hollow Summary: Set in a small coal­mining town, a debut Chris Cander novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious 9781590517116 accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and Pub Date: 3/17/15, On Sale Date: 3/17 two courageous women make choices that will challenge $17.95/$21.50 Can. our own moral convictions 400 pages Trade Paperback One morning in Verra, a town nestled into the hillsides of Fiction West Virginia, the young Myrthen Bergmann is playing tug­of­ Ctn Qty: 24 war with her twin, when her sister is killed. Unable to accept 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 0.810 lb Wt her own guilt, Myrthen excludes herself from all forms of 140mm W | 210mm H | 367g Wt friendship and affectio... Contributor Bio: Chris Cander is a novelist, children’s book author, freelance writer, and teacher for Houston­based Writers in the Schools. Her novel 11 Stories, published by a small press in Houston, was included in Kirkus’s Best Indie General Fiction of 2013. Find more of her work at www.chriscander.com Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press Out of Sight : The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Summary: Histories of modern art are typically centered in Sixties Paris and New York. Los Angeles is relegated to its role as the William Hackman center of popular culture— a city of movie stars, tan lines, 9781590514115 and surfers—but lacking the highbrow credentials of the Pub Date: 4/14/15, On Sale Date: 4/14 chosen places. Until 1965, there was no art museum, few $27.95/$33.00 Can. notable collectors, and—especially in terms of modern and 256 pages contemporary work—even fewer galleries. 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She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she won the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Bursary, and has since published short fiction and other writings in numerous publications including Wasafiri, Mslexia, Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni ­ September 2014 Page 67 OTHER PRESS Random House Adult Green, Spring 2015 Omni Other Press The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay Summary: What happens when you can’t see that the Andrea Gillies man you married is actually the one you love? 9781590517291 Pub Date: 5/5/15, On Sale Date: 5/5 For her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with $17.95/$21.50 Can. two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with 304 pages whom she was always in love and who remained her best Trade Paperback friend throughout her marriage. 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