SPRING / SUMMER 2010 - Consortium Book Sales & Distribution

consortium book sales & distribution 

SPRING / SUMMER 2010 

celebrating twenty-five years 

1985–2010

Consortium congratulates Herta Müller, 

winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! 

The Passport 

Herta Müller 

Translated by Martin Chalmers 

Serpent’s Tail 

Trade Paper US $12.95 | CAN $14.95 

978-1-85242-139-7 CUSA 

Children of Ceausescu 

Essay by Herta Müller 

Photographs by Kent Klich 

Umbrage Editions 

Trade Cloth US $40.00 | CAN $48.00 

978-1-884167-10-2 CUSA 

The Passport 

Herta Müller 


“This English-language debut by a Romanian-born West Berliner is remarkable for its stylistic 

purity.”—Publishers Weekly 

“A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail.” 

—The Philadelphia Inquirer 

The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught 

between the stifl ing hopelessness of Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship and the glittering 

temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, 

the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta 

Müller describes with acute attention the dreams, superstitions, confl icts, and oppression 

of a forgotten region, the Banat, in the Danube Plain. In sparse, poetic language, Müller 

captures the forlorn plight of a trapped people. 

Children of Ceausescu 

Essay by Herta Müller 


More than a decade after the fall of the iron curtain and the overthrow and execution of 

brutal Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the worst AIDS epidemic among children in 

the world bears out its infamous legacy in Romania, still one of the poorest and most fractured 

societies in Eastern Europe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, tens of thousands of children 

in government hospitals and orphanages were systematically infected by unsterilized needles 

and HIV-tainted blood transfusions given to them instead of food. 

In Children of Ceausescu, Kent Klich and Herta Müller present compassionate yet unfl inching 

images and brief life stories of the boys and girls who still suff er from the state’s mass 

experiment. 

Herta Müller was born in Romania in 1953. After refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu’s 

Securitate, she lost her job as a teacher and suff ered repeated threats before she was able to 

emigrate in 1987. She is the author of Traveling on One Leg and The Land of Green Plums, among other 

titles. In addition to the Nobel Prize in Literature, she has won many awards for her work, 

including the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and the Kleist Prize.

consortium book sales & distribution 

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution was founded twenty-fi ve years ago as an off shoot of 

Bookslinger, a small press wholesaler based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Independent literary 

publishers like Coff ee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, and Serpent’s Tail were seeking 

a new way to distribute their books to bookstores, libraries, and wholesalers in the United 

States and Canada. We’ve come a long way from the fourth fl oor of a downtown St. Paul 

building to the renovated Keg House in Minneapolis, and we now represent over one hundred 

publishers, including those original companies. 

Through the years we have continued to nurture our literary roots while broadening our 

commitment to books about politics, the environment, gender studies, art, popular culture, 

and children’s education. Although ownership has changed over time, the leadership 

of the company—including Bobbi Rix, Randall Beek, Don Linn, and David Steinberger 

of Perseus—all had one thing in common. We were then and we are now passionate about 

bringing the best of independent publishers to the marketplace. 

In the past three years we have forged new relationships within the Perseus family and we 

are able to off er our publishers a wider distribution base and access to Constellation, one of 

the most innovative digital programs in the publishing industry. The landscape is changing, 

but we continue to meet the challenges through innovation, creativity, and elbow grease. 

I want to personally thank the Consortium staff past and present for their part in developing 

and sustaining our mission. I also want to thank our independent sales representatives 

for their breadth of knowledge and dedication to our sales eff orts. 

We are grateful to the many booksellers, librarians, and committed readers who have 

made this twenty-fi ve year journey possible. 

Serendipitously, as this catalog goes to press, I have just learned that Herta Müller, an 

author from Serpent’s Tail, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. This is the second 

Nobel Prize–winning author from Serpent’s Tail in the last fi ve years. It is rare that a year 

goes by that an illustrious prize is not awarded to one of our family of publishers. 

All of us at Consortium want to thank our publishers for their support, their belief in 

us, and their unwavering commitment to the power of the written word. 

Julie Schaper 

President and COO 

celebrating twenty-five years 

1985–2010 

Where Independent Publishers Live

Recent Award Winners 

Congratulations to all our award winners! 

2009 Pulitzer Prize 

for Drama 

Ruined 

Lynn Nottage 

Theatre Communications 

Group 

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Gerhard L. Weinberg 

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978-1-929631-91-9 CUSA 

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David’s Revenge 

Hans Werner Kettenbach 

Translated by Anthea Bell 

Bitter Lemon Press 


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978-1-904738-39-8 CUSA 

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The Shadow of Sirius 

W. S. Merwin 

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Hitler’s Second Book 

The Unpublished Sequel 

to Mein Kampf 

Edited by 

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978-1-929631-61-2 CUSA


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Rising, Falling, Hovering 

C.D. Wright 



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Even the Hollow My 

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Janice N. Harrington 

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978-1-929918-89-8 CUSA 

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978-1-56947-536-2 CUSA 

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Translated by 

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Intersex (For Lack of 

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Manic D Press 


978-1-933149-24-0 USA


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Pierre Michon 

Translated by Jody Gladding 

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978-0-97286-921-8 CUSA 

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for Best Short Story 

from the Crime Writers 

of Canada 

“Filmsong” by Pasha Malla, 

published in Toronto Noir 

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Edited by Janine Armin and 

Nathaniel G. Moore 

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Learning 

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for Best Novelette 

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and Other Stories 

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a Part of the 

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“Buckner’s Error” by 

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published in Queens Noir 

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The Secret History of NASA, Enlarged and Revised Edition 

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978-1-932595-48-2 CUSA 

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978-0-9794727-9-4 CUSA


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Dick Kreck 

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978-1-55591-718-0 USA 

978-1-905139-00-2 CUSA 

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Robert Bresson 

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978-1-55713-365-6 CUSA 

Games to Play with Babies—3rd Edition 

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978-0-87659-255-7 USA 

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978-0-940719-00-2 CUSA 

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Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking 

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978-0-9614547-3-9 CUSA 

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978-1-59702-010-7 CUSA 

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for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers 

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978-0-9814846-0-0 CUSA 



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Michael Benedikt 

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978-1-897178-45-4 USA 

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Zen in the Art of Writing 

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Ray Bradbury 

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So You Want to Write (2nd Edition) 

How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir 

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978-0-9728984-5-4 CUSA 

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978-1-59265-069-9 CUSA 


Phantom Shanghai 

Photographs by Greg Girard; Text by Leo Rubinfi en 

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978-0-9739739-1-4 CUSA 

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The Autobiography of Bigfoot 

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978-0-916397-84-5 USA 

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978-0-7145-3090-1 CUSA 

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A Novel 

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978-0-86571-448-9 USA 

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978-1-84659-010-8 CUSA 

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978-1-55936-231-3 USA 

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978-1-930650-18-3 CUSA 

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978-1-933527-14-7 CUSA 

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Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova 

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Zephyr Press 


978-0-939010-61-5 CUSA 


AK Press ....................................................................................................................................1 

Akashic Books ............................................................................................................................. 7 

Alice James Books ....................................................................................................................... 15 

Alyson Books ............................................................................................................................. 19 

Anvil Press ................................................................................................................................ 41 

Archipelago Books ..................................................................................................................... 43 

Arsenal Pulp Press ......................................................................................................................45 

Aunt Lute Books ........................................................................................................................ 51 

Aztext Press ...............................................................................................................................53 

Bellevue Literary Press .................................................................................................................55 

BIS Publishers ...........................................................................................................................57 

Bitter Lemon Press ..................................................................................................................... 61 

Black Rose Books ........................................................................................................................65 

BOA Editions, Ltd. .....................................................................................................................67 

Breakaway Books ........................................................................................................................ 71 

Busted Flush Press, LLC ..............................................................................................................75 

Bywater Books ...........................................................................................................................79 

Centipede Press .........................................................................................................................83 

City Lights Publishers ................................................................................................................. 89 

Coffee House Press .....................................................................................................................95 

Contrasto ................................................................................................................................101 

Copper Canyon Press ................................................................................................................ 103 

The Disinformation Company ...................................................................................................... 111 

Dzanc Books ............................................................................................................................113 

Enigma Books .......................................................................................................................... 115 

Etruscan Press .......................................................................................................................... 117 

The Feminist Press at CUNY ........................................................................................................119 

(See page 128 for a special offer on select backlist titles from The Feminist Press at CUNY!) 

Feral House ............................................................................................................................ 129 

Fulcrum Publishing .................................................................................................................. 133 

Gryphon House ....................................................................................................................... 143 

Haus Publishing ........................................................................................................................ 151 

Haymarket Books ......................................................................................................................157 

Helter Skelter Publishing ........................................................................................................... 163 

Holy Cow! Press ....................................................................................................................... 165 

Ig Publishing ........................................................................................................................... 167 

Insomniac Press ....................................................................................................................... 169 

Kehrer Verlag ...........................................................................................................................173 

Kube Publishing Ltd ................................................................................................................. 179 

Leapfrog Press ......................................................................................................................... 183 

Long River Press ...................................................................................................................... 185 

*LoudMouth Press .................................................................................................................... 193 

Lumen Books .......................................................................................................................... 195 

Manic D Press.......................................................................................................................... 197 

Milo Books ............................................................................................................................. 199 

New Internationalist ................................................................................................................. 201 

Table of Contents

New Society Publishers ..............................................................................................................207 

New Village Press ...................................................................................................................... 221 

*Nicolo Whimsey Press...............................................................................................................223 

Ocean Press ............................................................................................................................ 227 

Old Street Publishing ................................................................................................................ 233 

Paul Dry Books ........................................................................................................................ 237 

Persephone Books..................................................................................................................... 241 

Plain White Press ......................................................................................................................243 

Process ..................................................................................................................................245 

Profile Books ........................................................................................................................... 247 

Redleaf Press ........................................................................................................................... 251 

Saqi Books .............................................................................................................................. 253 

Sarabande Books ...................................................................................................................... 257 

Serpent’s Tail .......................................................................................................................... 261 

Seven Stories Press.................................................................................................................... 265 

Small Beer Press ....................................................................................................................... 281 

Soho Press .............................................................................................................................. 287 

South End Press ........................................................................................................................311 

Stone Bridge Press .................................................................................................................... 315 

Tara Books ...............................................................................................................................317 

Telegram ................................................................................................................................ 319 

Theatre Communications Group .................................................................................................. 321 

Turtle Point Press .....................................................................................................................339 

Two Dollar Radio ..................................................................................................................... 341 

*Tyrus Books ...........................................................................................................................343 

Umbrage Editions .................................................................................................................... 351 

Wave Books ............................................................................................................................. 353 

White Pine Press....................................................................................................................... 355 

Whitelines®............................................................................................................................. 357 

Windhorse Publications ............................................................................................................. 361 

Zephyr Press ........................................................................................................................... 367 

Distributed Publishers ................................................................................................................371 

Index by Title ..........................................................................................................................384 

Index by Primary Subject ............................................................................................................388 

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Common Ground in a Liquid City 

Essays in Defense of an Urban Future 

Matt Hern 

If we want to preserve what’s still left of the natural world, we need to stop 

using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities 

are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what 

does it take to make a truly sustainable city? 

Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban 

life. Hern takes us on a journey through over a dozen urban centers, from 

Vancouver to Istanbul, Las Vegas, and beyond, exploring the history and current 

composition of cities around the globe and highlighting the elements of 

each that make it livable. 

Each of Hern’s ten chapters focuses on a central theme of city life: diversity, 

street life, crime, population density, water and natural life, gentrifi cation, 

and globalism. What emerges in the end is an appealing portrait of what 

the urban future might look like—environmentally friendly, locally focused, 

and governed from below. 

Matt Hern is an inveterate city dweller and an environmental and education 

activist. The editor of Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader and the author 

of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day, he founded Vancouver’s Car-Free Day and 

is the director of the Purple Thistle Center for alternative education. These 

days, he lives in Vancouver with his partner and daughters and lectures widely 

around the globe. 

An unapologetic defense of city life in a time of environmental crisis. 

Also Available 

Everywhere All the Time 

A New Deschooling Reader 

Edited by Matt Hern 

EDUCATION 

5½ x 8 | 268 pp 

20 B&W illustrations and photographs 


978-1-904859-83-3 CUSA 

Marketing Plans 

AK Press 

POLITICAL SCIENCE / ARCHITECTURE 

April 

A Paperback Original 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 

40 B&W photographs 


978-1-84935-010-5 CUSA 

Co-op available 

Advance reader copies 

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The Progressive 

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Black Bloc, White Riot 

Antiglobalization and the Geneaology of Dissent 

AK Thompson 

Are you taking over, or are you taking orders? 

Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards? 

White riot—I wanna riot. 

White riot—a riot of my own. 

—The Clash, “White Riot” 

Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the 

forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the antiglobalization 

generation is ready to refl ect on a decade of organizing that 

changed the face of mass action around the globe. 

Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits the struggles against globalization 

in Canada and the United States at the turn of the century, and he explores 

the connection between political violence and the white middle class. 

Equal parts sociological study and activist handbook, Black Bloc, White Riot engages 

with the key debates that arose in the anti-globalization movement over 

the course of the past decade: direct or mass action? Summit-hopping or local 

organizing? Pacifi sm or diversity of tactics? 

Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and 

practical investigations, Thompson outlines the eff ect of the anti-globalization 

movement on the white, middle-class kids who were swept up in it, and he 

considers how and why violence must once again become a central category of 

activist politics. 

AK Thompson is a writer and activist living and working in Toronto, Canada. 

Currently completing his PhD in sociology at York University, Thompson 

teaches social theory and serves on the editorial committee of Upping the Anti: A 

Journal of Theory and Action. His publications include Sociology for Changing the World: 

Social Movements/Social Research (Fernwood Publishing, 2006). 

New Refl ections on Violence for the twenty-fi rst century.

Dancing with Dynamite 

Social Movements and States in Latin America 

Benjamin Dangl 

Grassroots social movements played a major role in electing new left-leaning 

governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the 

streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite, Benjamin Dangl 

explores the complex ways these movements have worked with, against, and 

independently of national governments. 

Recent years have seen the resurgence of worker cooperatives, anti- 

privatization movements, land occupations, and other strategies used by 

Latin Americans to confront economic crises. Using original research, lively 

prose, and extensive interviews with farmers, activists, and politicians, Dangl 

suggests how these tactics could be applied internationally to combat the exploitation 

of workers and natural resources. He looks at movements across 

the Americas, drawing parallels between factory takeovers in Argentina and 

Chicago and battles over water rights in Bolivia and Detroit. At the same 

time, he analyzes recurring problems faced by social movements, contextualizes 

them geopoliti cally, and points to practical examples for building a better 

world now. 

Benjamin Dangl has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for 

the Guardian Unlimited, The Nation, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. He edits 

TowardFreedom.com, off ering a progressive perspective on world events, 

and UpsideDownWorld.org, covering activism and politics in Latin America. 

Dangl is a recipient of two Project Censored Awards and teaches Latin 

American history and globalization at Burlington College in Vermont. 

One step forward, two steps back: 

when social movements win state power. 


The Price of Fire 

Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia 


HISTORY / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

5¼ x 8½ | 240 pp 


978-1-904859-33-8 CUSA 


AK Press 

POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY 

July 


5½ x 8½ | 160 pp 

7 B&W photographs and maps 


978-1-84935-015-0 CUSA 



CounterPunch • The Indypendent • 

Latin American Politics and Society • 

NACLA Report on the Americas • 

The Progressive • Z Magazine 

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Baltimore, MD • Boston, MA • New York, NY • 

Portland, OR • Burlington, VT • Seattle, WA 

Author Hometown: Burlington, VT 

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June 


6 x 9 | 320 pp 

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A stunning autobiographical 

account of the fi ght for freedom in 

Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE 

June 


5½ x 8½ | 174 pp 


978-1-84935-011-2 CUSA 

Building power beyond the state. 

In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded 

Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam 

from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was 

won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more—this time by 

the Stalinist freedom fi ghter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in 

Paris, working with the surrealists. 

In the Crossfi re documents Ngo Van’s incredible life in Vietnam during the 

two world wars, and his subsequent years spent in the midst of the Parisian intelligentsia. 

This is the fi rst English translation! 


Co-op available • Advance reader copies 

National advertising: CounterPunch • Monthly Review • Social Anarchism • 

Z Magazine 

Raúl Zibechi is one of Latin America’s leading political theorists. This, his 

fi rst book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in 

Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country’s indigenous 

Aymara. Dispersing Power gracefully maps the “how” of revolution, off ering 

valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding 

how social movements can and do operate independently of state-centered 

models for social change. 

Raúl Zibechi is an international analyst for Brecha (Montevideo, Uruguay), 

professor at the Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina, and author of 

Genealogía de la Revuelta and La Mirada Horizontal. 



In the Crossfi re 

Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary 

Ngo Van 

Edited by Ken Knabb and Hélène Fleury 

Dispersing Power 

Social Movements as Anti-State Forces 

Raúl Zibechi 

Translated by Ramor Ryan

Wasting Libby 

The True Story of How the WR Grace Corporation Left a 

Montana Town to Die (and Got Away with It) 

Andrea Peacock 

Introduction by Jeff Bridges 

Wasting Libby chronicles decades of neglect by state and federal agencies, which 

allowed the Grace corporation to reap millions in profi ts from the largest vermiculite 

mine in the world, while knowingly exposing generations of Montana 

residents to fatal levels of asbestos-contaminated dust. Libby’s story, which 

culminates in the 2009 criminal trial of the corporation’s executives, is ultimately 

the tale of the families who fought Grace for justice, who refused to 

sacrifi ce their dignity even as they lost their lives. 

With an introduction by actor and environmentalist Jeff Bridges. 

Andrea Peacock is the co-author, with Doug Peacock, of The Essential Grizzly. 



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Author Hometown: Livingston, MT 

Anarchism and the City 

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937 

Chris Ealham 

Anarchism and the City is a fascinating look at four decades of tension preceding the 

Spanish Civil War, and the actors in competition for control of social and economic 

space in the expanding industrial city of Barcelona—host to the largest 

anarchist movement in Europe’s history. This history “from below” examines 

the burgeoning public sphere of working-class life and its relationship to the 

State, industrial bourgeoisie, and professional classes. Unemployment, rent 

strikes, and rising food prices are the backdrop to this laboratory of emergent 

urbanism. 

Chris Ealham is a lecturer at Saint Louis University in Madrid and co- editor 

of The Splintering of Spain. 

AK Press 


May 

CounterPunch 

5 x 7½ | 270 pp 


978-1-84935-017-4 CUSA 

An investigation of the 

greatest environmental crime 

in US history. 


April 

5½ x 8 | 304 pp 

29 B&W photographs, charts, and maps 


978-1-84935-012-9 CUSA 

A dramatic study of 

working-class urbanism and the 

fi ght for control of Barcelona. 

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CIA misdeeds aren’t the result of 

“rogue elements.” Whiteout exposes the 

world’s largest drug dealer. 

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CounterPunch 

5 x 7½ | 420 pp 


978-1-84935-008-2 CUSA 

FICTION 

June 

CounterPunch 

5 x 7½ | 260 pp 


978-1-84935-009-9 CUSA 

Graham Greene and Eric Ambler fans will 

love Beat the Devil . . . a must-read 

for all movie buffs! 

In their signature journalistic style, Alexander Cockburn and Jeff rey St. Clair 

batter the CIA on their record of drug dealing—from Laos and Nicaragua to 

the streets of Los Angeles. The US press has remained shamelessly silent on 

the matter, obscuring the agency and its association with gangsters, Nazis, and 

thugs for the last sixty years, enabling this criminality to persist. 

This new edition includes updated information on the CIA’s own Dark 

Alliance investigations and the expanded opium trade in Afghanistan since 

September 11. 

Alexander Cockburn and Jeff rey St. Clair are editors of CounterPunch, the 

popular print and web journal. 



Whiteout 

The CIA, Drugs and the Press 

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair 

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Author Hometowns: Petrolia, CA / Oregon City, OR 

Beat the Devil 

Claud Cockburn 

Introduction by Alexander Cockburn 

This is the classic ’50s noir novel that brought John Huston and Humphrey 

Bogart together for the last time in fi lm. Published under the pseudonym 

James Helvick, this sophisticated comedy-thriller was in fact the work of Claud 

Cockburn, whose early career as a Communist agitator prompted his publisher 

to demand a pseudonym in the McCarthy years. Beat the Devil shows how eff ortlessly 

Cockburn moved from agitprop to elegant and witty fi ction. Alexander 

Cockburn’s introduction delves into the long-simmering debate over the real 

source of the movie’s most famous lines. Was it Truman Capote, Anthony 

Veiller and Peter Viertel, Robert Morley, or Claud Cockburn himself?

“Like Dostoyevsky, Allen colorfully evokes the gambling milieu—the chained 

(mis)fortunes of the players, their vanities and grotesqueries, their quasiphilosophical 

ruminations on chance. Like Burroughs, he is a dispassionate 

chronicler of the addict’s daily ritual, neither glorifying nor vilifying the matter 

at hand.”—The New York Times Book Review, on All or Nothing 

Into an austere community of Christian believers at the Church of Our 

Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters come the star-crossed 

African American Romeo and Juliet. In the world of Jesus Boy, Romeo is sixteen-year-old 

Elwyn Parker, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who learns 

too late that the saintly girl he has had a crush on all his life is inexplicably 

pregnant and soon to be wed. Juliet is the beautiful widow, Sister Morrisohn, 

age forty-two, who, in the pain and confused emotions of her grieving, ends 

up in Elwyn’s arms. 

Despite the problems posed by their age diff erence and the strict prohibitions 

of their strong religious beliefs, Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn’s love is 

true, and as it grows among the ascetics, abstainers, and holy ghost rollers of 

their church, it exposes with wit, poignancy, and insight the dark secrets and 

ancient crimes of the pious. In Jesus Boy, Elwyn learns through tragedy and 

epiphany that the holy are no diff erent from the rest of us. 

Preston L. Allen, recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, 

is the author of the critically acclaimed novel All or Nothing (Akashic Books) and 

the award-winning collection Churchboys and Other Sinners (Carolina Wren Press). 

His stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals and have been 

anthologized in Brown Sugar (Penguin/Plume) and Miami Noir (Akashic Books). 

He lives in southern Florida. 

A majestic new novel that will launch Preston L. Allen 

into the ranks of Junot Díaz and Toni Morrison. 

All or Nothing 

Preston L. Allen 

FICTION 

6 x 8 | 280 pp 


978-1-933354-41-5 CUSA 

Jesus Boy 

Preston L. Allen 

Also 

Available 

Miami Noir 

Edited by Les Standiford 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8¼ | 356 pp 


978-1-933354-13-2 CUSA 


FICTION 

April 


6 x 8 | 364 pp 


978-1-936070-04-6 CUSA 



10,000-copy print run 

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Author Hometown: Miami, FL 

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May 


5¼ x 8¼ | 250 pp 


978-1-936070-11-4 CUSA 



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Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • 

Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Brooklyn, NY 

Glorious 

Bernice L. McFadden 

“The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit 

in this remarkably rich and powerful novel, Glorious. Bernice McFadden’s fully 

realized characters are complicated, imperfect beings, but if ever a character 

were worthy of love and honor, it is her Easter Bartlett. This very American 

story is fascinating; it is also heartbreaking, thought-provoking, and beautifully 

written.”—Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of The Scenic Route 

“Riveting. . . . I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and 

expertly imagined scenes.”—Toni Morrison, on The Warmest December 

Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem 

Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history 

with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of 

Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fi ctional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous 

path to success, ruin, and revival off ers a candid portrait of the American 

experience in all its beauty and cruelty. 

Glorious is ultimately an audacious exploration into the nature of self- 

hatred, love, possession, ego, betrayal, and, fi nally, redemption. 

Bernice L. McFadden is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including 

the classic Sugar and Nowhere Is a Place, which was a Washington Post best fi ction 

title for 2006. She is a two-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award fi nalist, 

as well as the recipient of two fi ction honors from the Black Caucus of the 

American Library Association (BCALA). McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New 

York, where she is working on her next novel. 

Award-winning novelist Bernice L. McFadden’s highly anticipated 

new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.

“In his paean to the perplexities of dislocation and discovery—both in bohemian 

life and in life at large—Nersesian makes us eager to see what happens 

when the curtain fi nally rises.”—The New York Times Book Review, on Unlubricated 

Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her 

job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy 

bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is fl at broke. 

Nonetheless, she’s still a crack reporter and when a tabloid off ers her a freelance 

assignment in Memphis—just a stone’s throw from her childhood home 

in Mesopotamia, Tennessee—she takes it. 

Though sent there for one story, she winds up tracking down another: 

someone is killing Elvis impersonators who perform at the annual Sing-the- 

King festival. The few clues lead her to several unlikely characters: a cheating 

local minister constantly on the make, a strange band of misfi ts who only cover 

Elvis tunes, and a small-town private eye who blew himself up along with his 

crystal meth lab. As Sandy’s investigation closes, she realizes that she is sitting 

on what could be the story of the century. The only problem is she can never 

reveal what she has found. 

Arthur Nersesian’s latest novel is a satiric thriller that takes an amusing 

view of America’s predilection with the superfi cial over the relevant, and celebrity 

excitement over real news. 

Arthur Nersesian is the author of nine novels, including the cult-classic The 

Fuck-Up (more than 100,000 copies sold), dogrun, and Suicide Casanova. He lives 

in New York City. 

A stand-alone satiric thriller from New York City 

literary icon Arthur Nersesian. 

Suicide Casanova 

Arthur Nersesian 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8¼ | 368 pp 


978-1-888451-66-5 CUSA 

Mesopotamia 


Also 

Available 

The Swing Voter of Staten Island 


FICTION 

5¼ x 8¼ | 278 pp 


978-1-933354-61-3 CUSA 


FICTION 

July 


5¼ x 8¼ | 225 pp 


978-1-936070-08-4 CUSA 



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New York, NY 

Author Hometown: New York, NY 

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July 



5¼ x 8¼ | 390 pp 


978-1-936070-12-1 CUSA 

Matthew Stokoe’s fi rst mainstream 

crime fi ction novel will shock and awe. 

FICTION 

August 

6¼ x 8¼ | 280 pp 

40 Color and B&W illustrations 


978-1-936070-09-1 CUSA 

Previous edition ISBN: 978-1-933354-47-7 

Twenty artists illustrate twenty stories 

from the best-selling author of 

Hairstyles of the Damned. 

When Johnny Richardson comes home to the town of Oakridge, California, 

he has one thing on his mind—putting right a terrible mistake he made eight 

years ago. Revisiting the past, though, is a dark and dangerous game in smalltown 

America. A searing meditation on the futility of trying to right the 

wrongs of the past, Empty Mile blends elements of thrilling urban noir with the 

wide-open spaces of outdoor adventure. 

Matthew Stokoe was born in England and grew up in Australia. He presently 

divides his time between Sydney and northern California. He is the author 

of the groundbreaking novels Cows and High Life, and he is internationally regarded 

as one of the most daring and innovative writers working today. 



“Eclectic, funny, constantly surprising—these are the things a short story collection 

should be allowed to be, and Joe Meno’s Demons in the Spring absolutely 

is . . . a rich, unforgettable stew of a book.”—Dave Eggers 

The limited-edition hardcover of Demons in the Spring was a fi nalist for the 2009 

Story Prize, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2008, a Time Out Chicago Best Book of 

2008, and it drew starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. It is a collection 

of twenty short stories with illustrations by twenty artists from the fi ne 

art, graphic art, and comic book worlds. 

Joe Meno is the best-selling author of fi ve novels, including the smash hits 

Hairstyles of the Damned and The Boy Detective Fails (both published by Akashic Books), 

and two story collections. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren 

Award for short fi ction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia 

College in Chicago. 

Author Events 

Chicago, IL • New York, NY 

Empty Mile 

Matthew Stokoe 

Demons in the Spring 

Joe Meno



The Lesser Tragedy of Death 

Cristina García 

Edited by Chris Abani 

“[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unfl inching 

honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, 

complex, and errant life. . . . These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing 

result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. 

With this fi rst book of poems, García, one of our best novelists and storytellers, 

proves herself to be a talented poet as well.”—Julia Alvarez, author of 

Saving the World 

Cristina García is the author of several novels—including Dreaming in Cuban— 

anthologies, and books for young readers. A National Book Award nominee, 

she is also a visiting professor and Black Mountain Institute teaching fellow in 

creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Miami, FL • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA 

Heart of the Old Country (The Narrows) 

Tim McLoughlin 

“Part coming-of-age story, part thriller, it’s got all the ingredients for what 

may be a whole new genre.”—Entertainment Weekly 

“McLoughlin in his fi rst novel easily ranks with Richard Price.”—Penthouse 

Based on Heart of the Old Country, The Narrows is now a major motion picture starring 

Kevin Zegers, Vincent D’Onofrio, Sofi a Bush, and Eddie Cahill. This is 

not the Brooklyn of Spike Lee or Matty Rich, but a counterpoint, where the 

hangers-on—those left behind in the white fl ight to the suburbs—continue to 

“do business” while defending their shrinking borders. 

Tim McLoughlin is the editor of the multiple award-winning anthology 

Brooklyn Noir and its companion volumes. His work has been included in The 

Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in Brooklyn. 



POETRY 

May 


Black Goat 

6 x 9 | 95 pp 


978-1-936070-01-5 CUSA 

The highly anticipated debut poetry 

collection from the best-selling author 

of Dreaming in Cuban. 

FICTION 

Available Now 

5¼ x 8¼ | 216 pp 


978-1-936070-00-8 CUSA 


The movie tie-in edition of 

Tim McLoughlin’s best-selling debut novel, 

the basis for the fi lm The Narrows. 

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April 


Akashic Noir 

5¼ x 8¼ | 300 pp 


978-1-936070-03-9 CUSA 

A hard-boiled tour behind 

the Orange Curtain. 

FICTION 

April 


Akashic Noir 

5¼ x 8¼ | 300 pp 


978-1-936070-02-2 CUSA 

The sequel to Los Angeles Noir, 

an award-winning Los Angeles 

Times bestseller. 

Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and 

surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and tony shopping 

centers. It’s a place where pilates classes are run like boot camps, real estate 

values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice cream parlors on Main 

Street, USA, exist side-by-side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir 

pulls back the veil to reveal what lurks behind the curtain. 

Features brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob 

Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Dan Duling, Mary 

Castillo, Lawrence Maddox, Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, 

Gordon McAlpine, Martin J. Smith, and Patricia McFall. 

Editor Gary Phillips is the author of many novels and short stories. He lives 

in Southern California. 



Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Orange County, CA 

From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue 

speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding 

the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, 

lust, and loss in the City of Angels. 

Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, 

Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter 

Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell 

Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray. 

Editor Denise Hamilton is the author of the Eve Diamond series and the editor 

of Los Angeles Noir. Her latest novel, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Last Embrace, 

has been compared to works by James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. She 

lives in Los Angeles. 



Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Orange County, CA 

Orange County Noir 

Edited by Gary Phillips 

Foreword by T. Jefferson Parker 

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics 

Edited by Denise Hamilton



Author Events 

New York, NY 

Indian Country Noir 

Edited by Sarah Cortez and Liz Martínez 

Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout 

the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. 

Features brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence 

Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O’Neil De Noux, 

A.A. Hedge Coke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martínez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly 

Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi. 

Sarah Cortez, a law enforcement offi cer, is the award-winning author of the 

poetry collection How to Undress a Cop. She brings her heritage as a Tejana with 

Mexican, French, Comanche, and Spanish blood to the written page. 

Liz Martínez’s stories have appeared in Manhattan Noir, Queens Noir, and Cop Tales 

2000. She is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, 

and she lives in New York. 



Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • New York, NY 

Editor Hometown: New York, NY 

Moscow Noir 

Edited by Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen 

The more you watch Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that 

keeps changing its face—and it isn’t always pretty. Following Akashic Books’ international 

success with London Noir, Delhi Noir, Paris Noir, and others, the Noir 

series explores this fabled and troubled city’s darkest recesses. 

Features brand-new stories by: Alexander Anuchkin, Igor Zotov, Gleb 

Shulpyakov, Vladimir Tuchkov, Anna Starobinets, Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, 

Sergei Samsonov, Alexei Evdokimov, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Maxim 

Maximov, Irina Denezhkina, Dmitry Kosyrev, Andrei Khusnutdinov, and 

Sergei Kuznetsov. 

Natalia Smirnova was born in 1978 in Moscow. In 2006, together with Julia 

Goumen, she founded Goumen&Smirnova Literary Agency, representing 

Russian authors worldwide. 

Julia Goumen was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1977. She holds a PhD 

in English and has worked in publishing since 2001. 

Akashic Books Noir Series 

FICTION 

June 


Akashic Noir 

5¼ x 8¼ | 300 pp 


978-1-936070-05-3 CUSA 

The sharpest, most stylized, and most 

ambitious anthology of Native American 

literature ever published. 

FICTION 

June 


Akashic Noir 

5¼ x 8¼ | 280 pp 


978-1-936070-06-0 CUSA 

Moscow has been chomping at the 

bit to enter the Akashic Noir series— 

with the intention of perpetrating 

extreme Russian menace. 

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August 

5¼ x 8¼ | 232 pp 


978-1-936070-10-7 CUSA 


The long-awaited paperback 

edition of the acclaimed Jamaican 

author’s debut novel. 

POETRY 

July 


6 x 9 | 275 pp 


978-1-936070-07-7 CUSA 

Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott 

anchor this groundbreaking, 

soulful poetry collection. 

“A powerful fi rst novel. . . . Writing with assurance and control, James uses his 

small-town drama to suggest the larger anguish of a postcolonial society struggling 

for its own identity.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice 

“It’s 150-proof literary rum guaranteed to intoxicate and enchant. Highly 

recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review 

This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote 

Jamaican village in 1957 with language as taut as classic works by Cormac 

McCarthy and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison. 

Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His second novel, 

The Book of Night Women, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was released in 2009 

to widespread critical acclaim. Currently a professor of literature and creative 

writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he divides his time between 

Jamaica, New York City, and the Twin Cities. 

Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: St. Paul, MN 

Editor Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. He is the 

author of many books of poetry, fi ction, nonfi ction, criticism, and drama. 

His debut novel, She’s Gone (Akashic Books), was a fi nalist for the Hurston/ 

Wright Legacy Award. He is Distinguished Poet in Residence at the University 

of South Carolina. He is also the programming director of the Calabash 

International Literary Festival that takes place each May in Jamaica. 



Author Events 

New York, NY 

Editor Hometown: Columbia, SC 

John Crow’s Devil 

Marlon James 

So Much Things to Say 

100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the 

Calabash International Literary Festival 

Edited by Kwame Dawes 

A dazzling array of world-renowned poets donate their words in celebration 

of Calabash, the world’s best literary festival, held annually in Treasure 

Beach, Jamaica. Contributors include: Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, 

Elizabeth Alexander, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Terrance Hayes, Valzyna 

Mort, Sonia Sanchez, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Patricia Smith, Saul Williams, 

Staceyann Chin, and many others.

Phantom Noise 

Brian Turner 

“The day of the fi rst moonwalk, my father’s college literature professor told 

his class, ‘Someday they’ll send a poet, and we’ll fi nd out what it’s really like.’ 

Turner has sent back a dispatch from a place arguably more incomprehensible 

than the moon—the war in Iraq—and deserves our thanks.”—The New York Times 

Book Review, on Here, Bullet 

In the aftermath of best-selling Here, Bullet, Brian Turner deftly illuminates 

existence as both easily extinguishable and ultimately enduring. These prophetic, 

osmotic poems wage a daily battle for normalcy, seeking structure in 

the quotidian while grappling with the absence of forgetting. 

From “Discotheque”: 

Late at night, Jackowski and I taped the fl ex-charge 

to the gate. I unspooled the shock tube, removed the safety. 

Hathaway radioed the countdown—and at zero— 

I pulled the pin. It was me, Sgt. Turner, 

who cracked the night open with explosives 

and wrote it all down, word by word. 

Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon before serving 

with the US Army as an infantry team leader in Iraq. He has been featured 

on National Public Radio, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and the BBC. He 

has received an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Poetry 

Traveling Scholarship, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. 

A soldier struggles to reintegrate, exploring the foundations of the 

psyche and how history instructs identity. 


Here, Bullet 

Brian Turner 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-55-5 CUSA 


POETRY 

April 


7 x 9 | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-80-7 CUSA 




AGNI • American Poet • 

The American Poetry Review • Poetry • 

Poetry Daily • Poetry Flash • 

The Poetry Project Newsletter • Poets & Writers • 

Rain Taxi • The Writer's Chronicle 

Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Denver, CO • Chicago, IL • 

New York, NY • Seattle, WA 

Author Hometown: Fresno, CA 

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April 


5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-79-1 CUSA 




The American Poetry Review • Poetry • 

Poetry Daily • Poetry Flash • 


Rain Taxi • The Writer’s Chronicle 

Author Events 


Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • 

Salem, OH • Seattle, WA 

Author Hometown: Cambridge, MA 

How to Catch a Falling Knife 

Daniel Johnson 

“ How to Catch a Falling Knife is a perfect title for this book: there is danger, playfulness, 

impossibilities made possible, and surprise, in varying doses, in every 

poem! Most of all though, what I end up loving most about these spare, intense 

poems, is their heart, their urgent, nutty, burning, utterly whole heart.” 

—Thomas Lux 

Like an album of photographic negatives, this book is transformed by light, 

inhabited by family, illness, mortality, and faith. Daniel Johnson hammers 

plain speech into exquisite song that is celebratory, mysterious, and elegiac. 

This transfi xing collection resounds with what’s left unsaid. 

From “Hungry for Wonder”: 

Smoke smeared the sky. 

the sun was a hole, 

but my mother wouldn’t believe 

the river was burning. 

Another drowned twin, 

a two-headed perch: perhaps, 

but water, brown and crooked 

as it was, still wouldn’t burn. 

Must be a mill caught fi re, my mother said. 

Daniel Johnson’s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including 

The Best American Poetry 2007, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, and I Have 

My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Johnson is the founding director of 826 

Boston and teaches writing in public schools, hospitals, and prisons. He lives 

with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Daniel Johnson’s debut is a praise song for the 

Midwestern steel towns sinking into their own history.

Shahid Reads His Own Palm 

Reginald Dwayne Betts 

“Inside silence there is a sliver of light that is the seed of the music of these 

poems, the origin of a melodic range we seldom see in a poet’s fi rst collection. 

These melodies move in a harmonic range affi rming human struggle 

with an extraordinary elegance. This collection of song is defi nite evidence of 

the gift.”—Afaa Michael Weaver 

Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection 

delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture 

time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live 

a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one’s illogical fear of 

freedom. 

From “Tell this to the people you love”: 

or think about—the young boy, 

whose name you won’t say, 

his name written in dirt by 

the fence closest the weight 

pit, ’cause 

prison cells drive men to practice 

history, writing names—their own, 

someone else’s—into 

myth—on walls, benches, even 

dirt . . . 

Reginald Dwayne Betts received the Holden Fellowship from the Warren 

Wilson MFA Program for Writers. A Cave Canem fellow, Breadloaf 

Writer’s Conference scholarship recipient, and graduate of Prince George’s 

Community College and the University of Maryland, his poetry has appeared 

in such journals as Ploughshares and Poet Lore. His memoir A Question of Freedom has 

just been published by Avery Books/Penguin. 

Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within 

prisoners’ cells, pulling readers to walk through a brutal underworld. 


POETRY 

May 


5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-81-4 CUSA 




The American Poetry Review • 

Poetry • Poetry Daily • Poetry Flash • 


Rain Taxi • The Writer’s Chronicle 

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Selected Backlist from Alice James Books 

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The Bitter Withy 

Donald Revell 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-76-0 CUSA 

Slamming Open the Door 

Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-74-6 CUSA 

Pageant 

Joanna Fuhrman 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-77-7 CUSA 

Winter Tenor 

Kevin Goodan 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-75-3 CUSA 

Father Dirt 

Mihaela Moscaliuc 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-882295-78-4 CUSA 

Rough Cradle 

Betsy Sholl 

POETRY 

5½ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-882295-73-9 CUSA

The Unreal Life of Sergey 

Vladimirovich Nabokov 

A Novel 

Paul Russell 

This is the most extensive look at the life of Sergey Nabokov, the novelist’s 

openly gay brother who, in spite of serving as the basis for numerous gay characters 

in Vladimir’s fi ction, was a lifelong embarrassment to his elder sibling. 

Paul Russell’s meticulously researched novel explores these tense relations, 

which begin in childhood with the aristocratic Nabokov family being forced 

from Russia during the Revolution. Once an adult, the eff ete Sergey moves to 

Paris, where he comes into his own in the bohemian circles of Jean Cocteau, 

the wealthy American expatriates Sarah and Gerald Murphy, Gertrude Stein’s 

salon, and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. It’s within the ballet world that Sergey 

meets the Austrian prince who becomes his lover. The couple lives a fairy-tale 

romance that ends tragically after Sergey denounces the Nazis and is arrested. 

While his brother soars to international literary fame, Sergey dies unceremoniously 

under the horrifi c conditions of a German prison camp. The Unreal Life 

of Sergey Vladimirovich Nabokov provides for the fi rst time an important window 

onto a seldom-discussed chapter of the Nabokov family history. 

Paul Russell is the author of six novels, including Sea of Tranquility, The Coming 

Storm (winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award), and War Against the Animals. He is a 

recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 

and he teaches literature and creative writing at Vassar College. 

From acclaimed novelist Paul Russell comes a roman à 

clef about Vladimir Nabokov’s gay brother whose turbulent story 

came to the fore only ten years ago in a Salon.com article. 

Alyson Books—Celebrating Thirty Years 

FICTION 

April 

6 x 9 | 450 pp 


978-1-59350-165-5 CUSA 





The Advocate • Gay.com • Out 

• National author publicity 

• Author profi le to broadcast on here! TV 

• Author video for online promotion 

• Reviews targeting literary publications 

• Promotion to the gay and lesbian and 

alternative media 

• Outreach to reading groups 

• Reading group guide online 

Author Events 

New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Poughkeepsie, NY 

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April 

5½ x 8¼ | 384 pp 


978-1-59350-183-9 CUSA 











• Outreach to LGBT religious groups 

• Promotion through speaking engagements via 

Soulforce: www.soulforce.org 

Author Events 

Washington, DC • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Lynchburg, VA 

Holy Terror 

Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay, Lesbian, 

and Transgender Equality 

Reverend Mel White 

A deeply religious man who sees fundamentalism as “evangelical Christian orthodoxy 

gone cultic,” Mel White believes that it is not a stretch to say that the 

true goals of today’s fundamentalists are to break down the wall that separates 

church and state, superimpose their “moral values” on the US Constitution, 

replace democracy with theocratic rule, and ultimately create a new “Christian 

America” in their image. As he writes, “These are not just Neocons dressed 

in religious drag. These men see themselves as gurus called by God to rescue 

America from unrighteousness. They believe this is a Christian nation that 

must be returned forcibly to its Christian roots.” 

White is also a gay man who made news when he came out more than fourteen 

years ago. He has gained a unique understanding of the fundamentalist 

agenda because, since the fall of “godless Communism,” homosexuality and 

abortion have become the primary targets through which fundamentalists have 

created fear, raised money, and mobilized recruits. Originally published in 

hardcover three years ago under the title Religion Gone Bad, Holy Terror documents 

the thirty-year war that fundamentalist Christians have waged against gays and 

lesbians and off ers dramatic, heartbreaking evidence that fundamentalist leaders 

are waging nothing less than a “holy war” against sexual minorities. 

Mel White is the president and co-founder of Soulforce, an organization 

committed to ending religious-based bigotry against gay men and lesbians in 

America. The recipient of the ACLU’s National Civil Liberties Award, he lives 

in Lynchburg, Virginia. 

The best-selling author of Stranger at the Gate and former 

fundamentalist who ghost-wrote books for Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, 

and Billy Graham, the Reverend Mel White provides an insider’s exposé 

of the Christian Right’s agenda—and a clarion call to resist it.

Once a Marine 

A Memoir of Coming Out Under Fire 

Eric Alva with Sam Gallegos 

Only four hours into his tour, US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Eric Alva 

lost his leg to an explosive device buried in the sand. Upon his return to the 

United States, he was visited by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 

embraced by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and invited to the White 

House by the president and fi rst lady. He was praised on shows like Oprah, Good 

Morning America, and the CBS Early Show, and he was lauded by People, Parade, and 

Newsweek. An adoring public and a complimentary government knew he was a 

model soldier. No one knew he was gay. 

When Alva announced in 2007 that he had served in the military—and had 

been promoted, ornamented, and praised—as a gay man, he highlighted the 

ineff ectiveness and mendacity of a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that renders 

such a patriot unfi t for duty. He now is a spokesperson for the Human Rights 

Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights organization in the country, leading 

the movement for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and for full inclusion 

of gay persons into the military. Once a Marine goes behind the scenes of his 

mili tary battles—both on and off the battlefi elds. 

Eric Alva is the national spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign’s fi ght 

to repeal the military’s discriminatory LGBT policy. Among Alva’s awards and 

recognitions for his service are the “Heroes Among Us” award from People and 

the Public Citizen Award from the National Association of Social Workers. 

The story of US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Eric Alva, 

the fi rst American casualty in the Iraq War whose public coming out 

shook the same military establishment that had heralded him a 

hero by awarding him the Purple Heart. 


BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

May 

6 x 9 | 300 pp 



978-1-59350-166-2 CUSA 











• National promotion in conjunction with the 

Human Rights Campaign 

• National promotion through LGBT service 

member’s organizations 

Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • New York, NY • San Antonio, TX 

Author Hometown: San Antonio, TX 

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April 


5½ x 8¼ | 80 pp 

15 B&W illustrations 


978-1-59350-169-3 CUSA 










• Promotional tie-in to National Poetry Month 

• Reviews targeting literary and poetry 

publications 

• Outreach to LGBT reading groups 

Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • New York, NY 

“Cooper has given voice to an emptiness we can barely stand to think about. . . . 

He dallies with the workings of narration and, in doing so, with the meaning 

of self. His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles 

Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality.” 

—San Francisco Chronicle 

A new collection of poetry from “the most dangerous writer in America,” 

whose poems Wayne Koestenbaum says “are the heart—the core—of his oeuvre. 

Pure genius, they are tender and deadened, breathing and stupefi ed.” 

From “Elliott Smith at 14”: 

I’ve drugged myself to your place 

because my life is all fucked up. 

You mistake my life for yours or 

take the life you had imagined. 

I’m so stoned yours seems real 

but you were too fucked up to live. 

I wish I was dead and you aren’t 

because there’s no place on earth. 

The Weaklings 

Dennis Cooper 

Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Myles Cycle—fi ve interconnected 

novels—as well as The Sluts, which won France’s Prix Sade and the Lambda 

Literary Award for Best Gay Men’s Novel. 

The fi rst book of poems in fi fteen years by the author 

Vanity Fair calls “a disquieting genius.”

Why Are You Telling Me This? 

Christopher Isherwood’s Commonplace Book, 1940–1985 

Edited by Don Bachardy and James White 

Among the most distinguished twentieth-century English novelists, 

Christopher Isherwood—author of The Berlin Stories, Down There on a Visit, and A 

Single Man—is equally famous for the meticulous journals he kept and later 

published. Numbering thousands of pages at the time of his death in 1986, 

his journals were a frequent source for his fi ction and nonfi ction. 

It is therefore not surprising that Isherwood made a record of his personal 

reading. Throughout much of his life, he kept an annual list of books read, 

along with his opinions of them. At some point, he began a separate notebook 

quoting specifi c passages from books that most infl uenced his thinking. These 

selections, spanning the time period from the earliest Upanishads to the contemporary, 

comprise his commonplace book. 

Isherwood’s collection diff ers from those of many writers, however, because 

it is not a compilation of ideas, conversations with others, and comments 

on his reading. Rather, that material is found in his journals. Why Are 

You Telling Me This? is an annotated list of readings selected during the last fortyfi 

ve years of his life. Among the works excerpted are novels, essays, and letters 

by Saint Augustine, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Marcel Proust, 

E.M. Forster, Federico García Lorca, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, 

Tennessee Williams, Shirley Jackson, Ian Fleming, Andy Warhol, and John 

Lennon. 

Don Bachardy is the president of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and 

was the late writer’s partner of thirty-three years. 

James White is the Christopher Isherwood Foundation’s executive director. 

Published for the fi st time, novelist Christopher Isherwood’s 

record of his personal readings from forty-fi ve years. His 

celebrated novel A Single Man is being directed by fashion 

designer Tom Ford in a fall 2009 feature fi lm. 


LITERARY COLLECTIONS 

May 

5½ x 8¼ | 380 pp 


978-1-59350-193-8 CUSA 








• Promotion to academia and librarians 

• National review attention 

• Interview with editors to broadcast on here! TV 

• Promotion through the Christopher Isherwood 

Foundation (www.isherwoodfoundation.org) 

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Magnus Editions 

5½ x 8¼ | 496 pp 


978-1-59350-176-1 CUSA 




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• Outreach to LGBT studies programs and 

libraries 


The Bostonians 

Henry James 

Introduction by Regina Marler 

“As devastating in its wit as it is sharp in its social critique of sexual politics. 

No writer in America has dared the subject before. No one has done it so well 

since.”—The New Republic 

Described by the esteemed literary scholar Terry Castle as the fi rst “lesbian 

novel” written in English—that is, “the fi rst nonpornographic work in 

Anglo-American literature to engage fully and self-consciously with the love- 

between-women theme”—The Bostonians hinges on a rivalry between two distant 

cousins, a man and a woman, for the love of a beautiful, curiously passive girl 

named Verena Tarrant, an inspirational speaker whose parents are trying to 

launch her on the lecture and social circuit during the 1870s. 

As with all titles in the new Magnus Editions series, The Bostonians includes 

an overview of the author’s work with special attention paid to its queer dimensions, 

as well as a reading group guide that similarly places emphasis on 

the sexual politics behind the writing. 

One of the most celebrated American novelists, Henry James is the author of 

The Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw, among other classics. 

The fi rst book in the Magnus Editions series, Alyson Books’ new line of 

literary classics introduced and packaged with the queer reader in mind.

Walking on Glass 

A Memoir of the Later Days of Tennessee Williams 

Scott Kenan 

In the fall of 1981, when Tennessee Williams found his household in an uproar 

after a visiting ex-lover ran his housekeeper off with a gun, he turned to 

Scott Kenan for help. Recently laid off from a restaurant management job and 

standing an inch short of seven feet tall, Kenan was available and appeared capable 

of handling any situation. He agreed to move into Williams’ house to 

manage it, run errands, and accompany the playwright nearly everywhere. 

Never before has anyone chronicled the experience of living and working 

continuously at the playwright’s side. With compassion and humor, Walking on 

Glass unfl inchingly portrays life and relationships within Tennessee Williams’ 

world—the rich realm from which his inspiration sprang. Many iconic people, 

including Meryl Streep, Jackie Onassis, Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn, 

and Ronald Reagan, crossed their paths—sometimes in shocking ways— 

as Kenan accompanied Williams to the White House; the Kennedy Center 

Honors; and, fi nally, to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago for the staging of 

A House Not Meant to Stand, Williams’ last new play produced during his lifetime. 

The story climaxes with the emotional roller coaster of the play’s production, 

after which the two part company when the playwright chose to travel 

with his newfound love, a poetry-spouting youth. Ten months later, Williams 

was dead. Kenan’s chronicle concludes with a twist that casts the entire book 

in a new light when an executor of Williams’ estate reveals what he found in 

the playwright’s desk. 

Scott Kenan lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and is a member of the 

Atlanta Writers Club. 

A rare look into the day-to-day private world of Tennessee Williams, 

written by his secretary who lived with the playwright. 



April 

6 x 9 | 325 pp 



978-1-59350-171-6 CUSA 









• Promotion to theater publications and blogs 




Author Events 

Atlanta, GA • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Stone Mountain, GA 

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WOMEN’S STUDIES 

April 


5½ x 8¼ | 275 pp 


978-1-59350-196-9 CUSA 



• Author performance to broadcast on here! TV 


• Promotional tie-in to National Poetry Month 

Crossfi re 

Staceyann Chin 

Widely known as a co-writer and original performer in the Tony Award– 

winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Staceyann Chin’s work has received 

rousing cheers at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and in her one-woman 

shows Off Broadway. A proud Jamaican national, she has been featured on The 

Oprah Winfrey Show, where she spoke candidly about her experiences of growing 

up on the island and the dire consequences of her coming-out there. 

With Crossfi re, Chin collects for the fi rst time twelve years of writing from a 

no-holds-barred career that has fearlessly bridged the divides not only of race, 

gender, sexuality, and national origins, but those of performance and poetry 

as well. In the author’s words, “I would say I do a mad dance between the kind 

of poetry that attempts to clarify detail and the kind of hurricane that is necessary 

for performance.” Crossfi re combines Chin’s most outspoken and revealing 

poems, performance pieces, and personal essays that have earned her an 

iconic status among spoken word audiences and beyond. 

Staceyann Chin has been interviewed on NBC, CNN, VH1, BET, LOGO, 

and 60 Minutes, and she has performed on the CBS-aired Tony Awards. 

Additionally, she has been a stock feature on the Peabody Award–winning 

HBO series Def Poetry Jam. Her memoir, This Side of Paradise, was published by 

Scribner’s in 2008. 

The fi rst book of writings from poetry and spoken word sensation 

Staceyann Chin, whose acclaimed memoir, The Other Side of Paradise, 

was praised by Dorothy Allison as “a completely absorbing account of 

how a girl born into denial and contempt can grow up resilient, 

sane, and full of purpose.”

100 Butches, Volume I 

Elisha Lim 

Up-and-coming queer graphic novelist and Alison Bechdel protégée Elisha 

Lim presents fi fty portraits—some lovers, some friends, some relatives, others 

strangers and missed connections—from around the world in this celebration 

of butch sexuality. Fully illustrated in color throughout, these fi fty 

illustrations and accompanying mini-memoirs of the artist’s encounters with 

her subjects bring together a diverse array of queers whose lives and work have 

had a special impact on the author’s life. 100 Butches launches the new Sister 

Spit series that will be curated by Michelle Tea. 

Elisha Lim’s comics have run in Diva Magazine, LOTL Australia, and the Canadian 

queer magazines NMP and Xtra! She was Curve’s “Artist in Residence” and named 

one of afterellen.com’s “Queer Women To Watch.” 

“From Elisha Lim’s fi nely-drawn-and-written portraits, a picture begins to 

emerge of the elusive and indefi nable quality of butchness itself.” 

—Alison Bechdel, author of Dykes to Watch For and Fun Home 


LESBIAN STUDIES 

April 

8½ x 11 | 70 pp 

Color illustrations 

Paper over Board US $18.95 | CAN $22.00 

978-1-59350-168-6 CUSA 





The Advocate • Gay.com • SheWired.com 

• National author tour in conjunction with 

Michelle Tea’s Sister Spit Troop 

• Promotion through gallery exhibitions of the 

“100 Butches” show 

Author Events 


Washington, DC • Boston, MA • New York, NY • 

Philadelphia, PA • Toronto, ON 

Author Hometown: Toronto, ON 

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July 


5½ x 8¾ | 280 pp 


978-1-59350-161-7 CUSA 





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• Promotion to transsexual/transgender 

publications and blogs 





Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY 

Editor Hometown: San Francisco, CA 

Gendered Hearts 

Transgendered, Transsexual, and Gender Variant 

Writers on Sex, Love, and Relationships 

Edited by Morty Diamond 

Celebrating a radical frontier of sex and love within the queer experience, 

Gendered Hearts breaks new ground by focusing on trans writers from diff erently 

gendered perspectives. The collection includes thirty-one fi rst-person narratives, 

poems, and interviews that create a raw and honest depiction of dating, 

sex, love, and relationships within the trans community. 

T Cooper shares details of loves old and new, critically acclaimed fi lmmaker 

Silas Howard discusses how writing a movie about transman Billy 

Tipton brought him closer to his own intimate desires, writer Max Valerio 

shares stories from the early days of love and transition in the 1980s, author 

and performer Julia Serano explains how she settled into her identity as a 

transwoman and a lesbian, activist Bryn Kelly off ers a compelling chronicle of 

fi nding love in the face of HIV, and musician Shawna Virago off ers a titillating 

tale of a one-night stand that ends with a diaper and a pacifi er. With stories 

ranging from triumphant to excruciating, endearing to bittersweet, this anthology 

provides an authentic account of real life and real love within an often 

marginalized element of queer sexuality. 

Morty Diamond is the editor of the anthology From the Inside Out: FTM and Beyond. 

His performance work includes My Year In Pink and Ask A Tranny, a public performance 

piece on acceptance of and education on the trans experience. 

“This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of 

heart rending shrapnel. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much 

love, confl ict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what’s in 

these stories, or you think you don’t need to know, you’re wrong.” 

—Patrick Califi a, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism

Spirits of Desire 

Conversations with My Priest 

Frank Browning 

Journalist Frank Browning, who has shared personal narratives in his books 

Culture of Desire and A Queer Geography, now turns his attention to the spiritual 

world, particularly the intersection of sexuality and religion. A casual pick up 

of an unnamed priest of the Dominican order in a Paris art gallery leads to an 

aff air, which in turn serves as the basis for Browning’s provocative conversations 

with the closeted clergyman. 

Accessible in tone and content, their conversations excavate the nature of 

secular and spiritual friendship; the relation of the body to God; the mission 

of charity enacted by the drag troop Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, several 

of whom the priest knows rather well; the biblical prohibitions on improper 

pleasures of the body and how this priest managed his confessions knowing 

that he would not cease to have sex with men; the anathema represented, in 

his view, by the campaign for gay marriage; and his own conviction that the 

human body, and in particular his own handsome body, would persist in its 

fi nest perfection for all eternity so long as he maintains his faith and follows 

the duties and obligations prescribed by Christ. In short, this is a personal engagement 

between two profoundly diff erent gay men who attempt to comprehend 

each other’s sense of spirit and desire. 

Frank Browning’s newspaper and magazine articles have appeared in The 

Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The New York Times, Mother Jones, and Playboy. 

He divides his time between Paris, France, and eastern Kentucky. 

NPR correspondent and best-selling author Frank Browning 

(Culture of Desire) recounts his talks with a closeted priest with 

whom he has had an ongoing affair—a priest who cannot and 

will not live without physical, sexual expression. 


GAY STUDIES / RELIGION 

June 

5½ x 8¼ | 230 pp 


978-1-59350-194-5 CUSA 












• Outreach to spirituality market 


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FICTION / YOUNG ADULT 

May 


5½ x 7½ | 260 pp 


978-1-59350-173-0 CUSA 





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• Promotion to schools and librarians 

• Promotion to young adult publications and 

blogs 

• Publicity in conjunction with the fi lm Lady 

Trojans, which stars the author 

• Outreach to LGBT and young adult reading 

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Author Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA 

The You Know Who Girls of Gila High 

A Novel 

Annameekee Hesik 

Future Gila High freshman Abbey Brooks never thought a hellish day of shopping 

at the Tucson Mall with her best friend, Kate, could change her life. But 

when she orders french fries from the fl irtatious Hot Dog on a Stick Chick, 

she gets back more than deep-fried potatoes. Abbey tells no one about her 

unexpected attraction and tries to get over the weird, happy feeling in her 

gut, but forgetting the Hot Dog on a Stick Chick proves to be as impossible as 

avoiding the very lesbian and very insistent players on Gila High’s girls’ basketball 

team who want freakishly long-legged Abbey to try out. Considering 

how much Kate faux-gags when she hears about the girls on the team, Abbey 

knows better than to tell Kate that Abbey might be one of them too. To avoid 

any suspicions, she accepts Kate’s pinky promise to never join the basketball 

team, no matter how much taller they get, and to stay as far away from the lesbians 

as they can. Abbey soon learns, though, that some promises just can’t be 

kept and that girls in uniforms are impossible to resist. 

A former high-school basketball player and the subject of the documentary 

fi lm Lady Trojans, Annameekee Hesik is a high-school English teacher. She 

lives in Santa Cruz, California. 

A debut young adult novel that combines the humor of 

Boy Meets Boy with the emotional depths of Lock and Key, 

bringing an exciting new voice to young adult literature.

Remembrance of Things Forgotten 

A Novel 

Bob Smith 

In this hilarious novel, comic book dealer John Sherkston fl ees 2006 in a 

time machine invented by his boyfriend, renowned physicist Taylor Esgard. 

His destination: 1961. His goal: purchasing thirty copies of Spiderman no. 1 

(now worth thirty grand apiece) to fi nance the breakup of his fourteen-year 

relationship with Taylor—a nice guy turned staunch Republican. But things 

go deliciously wrong when the machine malfunctions and sends John back to 

1986 where he meets—and gets hit on by—himself at age twenty-six. 

Seizing the opportunity to team up with “Junior” to prevent their sister’s 

suicide—and stop George W. Bush from becoming president—John comes 

middle-aged face to twenty-something face with his past and must decide 

whether or not to intervene and spare his younger self from all the bad fashions, 

lousy jobs, and dud boyfriends of the last two decades. Should he let the 

bad news stop with his baldness, or should he clue Junior in to the devastating 

losses, embarrassing secret screen names, and the news that money will still be 

a problem when he’s forty-six? In this wickedly funny and thought-provoking 

trek, John confronts his (and our country’s) blunders, and learns that having 

a second chance to change your life means having new and improved opportunities 

to make things worse—and maybe even better. 

The best-known gay stand-up comedian in the country (with appearances on 

The Tonight Show, HBO, and Politically Incorrect), Bob Smith’s fi rst novel Selfi sh and 

Perverse garnered praise from such funny people as Armistead Maupin, Stephen 

McCauley, and David Rakoff . 

A time travel novel in which a middle-aged gay man has to 

decide how he would introduce himself to himself at twenty-six: 

“Hi. I’m you only with more wrinkles and problems you can’t imagine.” 


Selfi sh and Perverse 

Bob Smith 

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Odd Fellow’s Rest 

A Novel 

William Sterling Walker 

“William Walker is a wonderful writer, fl uent, warm, intelligent, and real. 

His fi ction about gay life in New Orleans is fi rmly rooted in place, and all his 

characters, gay and straight, are observed with a wise heart and a deep soul.” 

—Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters 

A group of linked narratives about the gay demimonde in New Orleans before 

the fl ood, Odd Fellow’s Rest is a debut book from a promising new talent. Circles 

of friends and acquaintances—lawyers and supermarket clerks, drifters, painters 

and musicians, cabaret singers and writers—alternately dominate the landscape 

and fade into the background. However they identify themselves, they 

speak a common language—funny, sexy, pithy, sometimes bitchy, and always 

on target. 

But perhaps the main character is the city itself. A litany of street names 

evoke New Orleans’ visceral hold on these men; even when they are far away, 

the memory of the city haunts them. William Sterling Walker’s vividly imagined 

creations embody the unquenchable spirit of place that would go on to 

survive unimaginable natural disasters, both physical and personal. Like the 

city, his characters are unforgettable in their boldness and fascination. 

A native of New Orleans, William Sterling Walker has had work published 

in Best American Gay Fiction and the Lambda Award–winning Fresh Men: New Voices in 

Gay Fiction. Walker holds an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and 

resides in Brooklyn, New York. 

Andrew Holleran meets Jim Grimsley 

in this debut book of interconnected stories.

Chulito 

A Novel 

Charles Rice-González 

Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the queer youth culture 

of Manhattan’s piers, Chulito is a coming-out, coming-of-age love story 

of a sexy, tough, hip hop–loving, young Latino man and the colorful characters 

in his vibrant neighborhood. Chulito, which means “cutie,” is one of 

the boys, and everyone in his neighborhood has seen him grow up—the owner 

of the local bodega, the Lees from the Chinese restaurant, his buddies from 

the corner, and all of his neighbors and friends, including Carlos, who was 

Chulito’s best friend until they hit puberty and people started calling Carlos 

a pato . . . a faggot. 

Chulito rejects Carlos, buries his feelings for him, and becomes best 

friends with Kamikaze, a local drug dealer. When Carlos comes home from 

his fi rst year away at college and they share a secret kiss, Chulito’s worlds collide 

as his ideas of being a man, being macho, and being in love are challenged. 

Vivid, sexy, funny, heartbreaking, and fearless, this brilliant work is 

destined to become a queer classic. 

Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, received 

an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. He has attended 

the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and worked with writers David Leavitt, 

Rebecca Brown, and Stacey D’Erasmo. The author is a public relations and 

marketing specialist in the area of Latino arts and culture. He lives in New 

York. 

“A tremendous debut . . . full of heart and courage and a ferocious 

honesty.”—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 


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The thirtieth-anniversary edition 

of the groundbreaking text that brought 

the Nazi persecution of homosexuals to 

the attention of the world. 

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June 

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Named one of the “100 Best Gay/ 

Lesbian Books of the 20th Century” by the 

Publishing Triangle, a new edition of this 

enduring feminist classic. 

GAY STUDIES / HISTORY 

June 

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Surpassing the Love of Men 

Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the 

Renaissance to the Present, Third Edition 

Lillian Faderman 

Hailed as “one of the most signifi cant contributions yet made to feminist literature” 

by The New York Review of Books and praised by Michel Foucault as being 

“remarkable for its rediscovering of texts and also for its study of feelings that 

we no longer fi nd in society,” this feminist classic is a fascinating history of 

women’s romantic friendships over the centuries. Includes a new introduction 

by the author. 

Lillian Faderman is a renowned scholar whose books on lesbian relationships 

in history have earned critical praise and awards. Faderman is a professor 

of English at California State University in Fresno, California. 



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The Men with the Pink Triangle 

The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals 

in the Nazi Death Camps, Third Edition 

Heinz Heger 

Translated by David Fernbach 

“It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to 

the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third 

Reich. . . . Heinz Heger’s fi rst-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle, was 

one of the fi rst books on the topic and remains one of the most important.” 

—Michael Bronksi, gay historian 

The fi rst and still the best-known testimony by a gay survivor of the Nazi concentration 

camps translated into English, this harrowing autobiography opened 

new doors onto our understanding of homosexuality and the Holocaust when 

it was fi rst published in 1980. Includes a new introduction and bibliography. 

Heinz Heger was the pen name of the late Josef Kohaut, an Austrian Holocaust 

survivor who died in 1994. 



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Gay is Good 

The Collected Writings of Frank Kameny 

Edited by Charles Francis 

Before there was Stonewall or Harvey Milk, Frank Kameny, an astronomer 

in the US Army Map Service Department who was fi red by the federal government 

in 1957 for being gay, introduced militancy into the staid agitation 

among homosexuals that had defi ned the protest movement since its inception 

in the early 1950s. Determined to see justice carried out, he sought reinstatement 

all the way to the US Supreme Court. When Kameny’s petition was 

denied, he persisted in his fi ght, most notably leading the historic 1965 picket 

outside the White House. His struggle continues up to the present, including 

his determination to see the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, 

with President Obama praising Kameny’s “conscience . . . and extraordinary 

courage.” 

Gay is Good (a phrase Kameny coined after “black is beautiful”) collects for 

the fi rst time highlights from the author’s private papers from the Library of 

Congress. Among the materials included are letters of protest pertaining to 

his 1957 dismissal, essays documenting the fi rst public protests for gay rights at 

the White House, his statement submitted in hearings before the House Un- 

American Activities Committee, speeches protesting the US military’s ban on 

gay and lesbian soldiers, and writings and advocacy to remove homosexuality 

from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of 

Mental Disorders. Gay is Good functions as a memoir from fi fty years of activism. 

Charles Francis is an openly gay Washington player who served on the 

Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV/AIDS under President George W. 

Bush and is the founder/director of The Kameny Papers Project. 

The fi rst book from one of the founding fathers of the gay movement, 

of whom President Obama says “We are proud of you— 

we are grateful to you for your leadership.” 


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August 

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Bend Over 

The Complete Guide to Anal Sex for Men 

Stephan Niederwieser 

“An advisor who doesn’t restrict himself to the mere game of in-and-out, but, 

along with practical tips, also off ers extensive refl ection on what’s going on 

mentally and physically before, after, and during. Bravo!”—Uptown 

Even among gay men, anal sex can involve a lot of anxieties: Will it hurt? Will 

I be able to relax? Will I enjoy it? Am I saying something about myself as a 

gay man if I’m the passive sex partner? What’s the risk of infection? Plenty of 

questions—and not only for beginners. 

Bend Over: The Complete Guide to Anal Sex for Men fi nally sheds light into the pleasures 

of anal penetration from a reader-friendly, sex-positive point of view. 

Included in this comprehensive book written for newcomers and the experienced 

alike are chapters on anatomy, cultural taboos, preparation, technique, 

positions, sex toys, shaving, frequently asked questions, solo sex vs. partnered 

sex, S/M, and more. 

Stephan Niederwieser is an author and sex educator whose titles include Blow 

Me and Do It Yourself. 

The fi rst anal sex guide written for gay men, 

Bend Over includes more than forty photographs.

Gay Panic 

Stories of Straight Men Who Kill the Gay Men Who Love Them 

David McConnell 

Here’s the America that everyone, both gay and straight, needs to know about. 

Included among the true crime stories: 

• Matt Williams and his brother were raised with peculiar beliefs. When 

they tried to start a racial holy war to clean up a sick society, they included 

a gay couple on their hit list. 

• Joshua Cottrell’s grifter family was so used to lies they didn’t believe 

him when he said he’d killed a friend. After Richie Phillips’ body was 

found stuff ed in a suitcase at the bottom of a lake, his mother and aunts 

recalled how Joshua always said he didn’t like fags. 

• Terry Mangum claimed he went to a gay bar to fi nd someone who’d pay 

for him to go to welding school. Later he said he’d planned the murder 

for six months after reading the Bible for thousands of hours. 

• John Katehis, a sixteen-year-old who answered a Craigslist ad 

from “SmotherMe.” A well-known New York radio personality, 

“SmotherMe” was later found stabbed on the bed in his Brooklyn 

apartment. 

In each story, victims, murderers, friends, and relatives all come breathtakingly 

alive. Researched from small-town Alabama to San Quentin State 

Prison, these stories play out before the reader’s eyes exactly as they happened, 

an inexorable sequence of real events—grisly, touching, and disturbing. 

David McConnell is the author of The Silver Hearted and The Firebrat, as well as a 

journalist. 

The latest addition to Alyson Books’ new true crime series and 

the fi rst book to profi le some of the most notorious crimes of our 

era in explicit and shocking detail. 


The Silver Hearted 

A Novel 

David McConnell 

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August 


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Picking up where Pride and Prejudice 

and Zombies left off, this is the fi rst erotic 

romance novel for zombie lovers. 

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July 


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You’ve heard Katy Perry’s hit song, now 

read enticing stories of women exploring 

new boundaries for the fi rst time. 


June 


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I Kissed a Girl 

Erotic Fiction on First Time Lesbian Encounters 

Edited by Regina Perry 

In these twenty-one stories of fi rst-time lesbian lust, college dorms help redefi 

ne for roommates the meaning of “pulling an all-nighter,” champagne 

cellars spark spontaneous nocturnal encounters, riding stables provide a private 

space for girl-on-girl horseplay, and even historical English bedchambers 

become hotbeds of lesbian all-girl experimentation. 

Regina Perry is a writer and editor who lives in New York. 



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For the Love of the Dead 

Gay Zombie Erotica 

Hal Bodner 

Combining horror, romance, and explicit sex, For the Love of the Dead centers 

on a grieving mortician who, after the death of his beloved partner, becomes 

obsessed with a series of hunks that return from the dead looking for hot 

encounters. 

Hal Bodner is the author of Bite Club: A West Hollywood Vampire Novel and the 

e-book Set in Stone. He lives in Los Angeles. 



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A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy 

Diana Cage 

Part sex instruction and part cultural analysis, A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstacy— 

the only book of its kind—covers the most important aspects of female sexuality. 

Emphasizing the role that sexual liberation plays in a woman’s ability to 

get the most out of sex, the book encourages women to open their minds, reject 

stereotypes, educate themselves and their lovers, and feel deserving of 

sexual gratifi cation. Beginning with a brief historical overview, the book provides 

women and their lovers with an expansive view of female sexuality—from 

where it’s been to where it’s headed. 

Aimed at all women and their lovers, regardless of sexual orientation or 

gender, the book is an inclusive, hands-on sexual guidebook. A Woman’s Guide 

to Sexual Ecstasy takes a very contemporary approach to female sexuality, off ering 

direct tips and informed advice to all women on how to have the best sex 

possible without marginalizing queer women or alienating straight women 

or men. 

The book approaches sex instruction in a relaxed, non-judgmental manner, 

often using humor and irreverence to make the discussion more accessible, 

comfortable, and encouraging. A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy off ers solid 

information from the perspective of a woman who knows how to please other 

women. 

For years, author and “sexpert” Diana Cage has been dishing out sex advice 

to Sirius Radio listeners and to readers of On Our Backs magazine and her book 

Box Lunch (more than 15,000 copies sold). 

The fi rst book in Alyson Books’ new Sense and Sexuality 

line of sex guides for women and men, partnered and single. 

On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex 

Edited by Diana Cage 

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The Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus 

Diana Cage 


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The fi rst book in Alyson’s new 

series of M/M romance novels published 

in partnership with e-publisher 

Ravenous Romance. 

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When a gay couple frustrated by 

straights decides to boycott weddings, 

a city-wide campaign is born and saying 

“I do” will never again be so easy. 

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August 


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The Marrying Kind 

A Novel 

Ken O’Neill 

Adam More, a successful wedding planner, has been having nightmares featuring 

the Bush family and characters from Gone with the Wind. His partner, 

Steven Worth, a columnist with The Gay New York Times, is understandably concerned. 

However, everything comes to a comic point when Adam decides he 

can no longer promote marriage for heterosexuals until he can legally marry 

Steven, who, through his column, ignites a marriage boycott among the many 

gay fl orists, hairdressers, chefs, waiters, and musicians who keep the wedding 

industry humming. 

Ken O’Neill is a New York–based writer and activist whose blog 

(themarryingkind.org) is devoted to marriage equality. 



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An Offi cer and His Gentleman 

Ryan Field 

Brody Johnston, bad boy naval offi cer on extended leave from his post in 

Europe, can’t take his eyes off innocent Chance’s round butt and smooth legs. 

He is determined to get to know him better, and Brody is used to getting what 

he wants. Though they are complete opposites, Chance is ready to submit to 

all of Brody’s sexual kinks and desires. And it never occurs to either one of 

them that they might actually fall in love with each other. 

Ryan Field is the author of ten books published by Ravenous Romance, including 

the best-selling e-books Pretty Man and Take Me Always. His short story 

“Down the Basement” is included in the Lambda Award–winning Best Gay 

Erotica 2009. 



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Facing the Public 

Martina Evans 

The opening poems of the Cork-born writer’s fourth collection draw on stories 

from her Irish childhood and tales of the impact of the Black and Tans 

on her family’s locality in the 1920s. The heady brew of Irish politics and religion 

is close to the surface throughout. The title poem captures conversational 

drama in Martina Evans’ most engaging style, familiar to audiences at 

her highly successful readings: 

My mother never asked like a normal person, it was 

I’m asking you for the last time, I’m imploring you 

not to go up that road again late for Mass . . . 

The Last Geraldine Offi cer 

Thomas McCarthy 

In the beginning, light. At Templemaurice House, 

Light in the cool dust of Nineteen Nineteen— 

A grid of morning on the bare fl oorboards, 

Oak light and ivy light, and the lead-crystal green 

Of a Waterford demesne . . . 

The fi rst part of Thomas McCarthy’s new book collects lyrics of public and 

private life. Part two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish 

world: a Big House in the years between the Wars, a FitzGerald (“Geraldine”) 

family that has sent young men back to British regiments. Poems, prose texts, 

Gaelic verse, and recipes evoke the competing loyalties and readings of Irish 

history. 

Anvil Press 

POETRY 

April 


5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-0-85646-412-6 CUSA 

Great Irish historical interest 

in the London-residing, Cork-born 

poet’s varied new collection. 

POETRY 

April 


5½ x 8½ | 176 pp 


978-0-85646-421-8 CUSA 

Features a daring recreation of a 

forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish political 

world between the wars. 

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POETRY 

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Jean Follain’s short, down-to-earth poems 

will pleasantly surprise any reader who 

thinks modern French poetry is diffi cult. 

Jean Follain: 130 Poems 

Jean Follain 

Translated by Christopher Middleton 

“Family Dinner” 

When the maid placed one plate on another 

it made a clear noise 

from the depth of warm days 

with the shining 

of silver forks 

the blue veins and the ghosts afl oat 

refl ected in the wax. 

Christopher Middleton has chosen poems spanning the whole of Jean Follain’s 

work. Born in 1903 and raised in Normandy, Jean Follain died in a street accident 

in Paris in 1971. His poetry is now recognized as central to French 

poetry’s change of course after surrealism. He has infl uenced a generation of 

poets with his short, subtle, and down-to-earth poems, here elegantly translated 

and introduced. 



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The Ogre’s Wife 

Anthony Howell 

“The best of Ashbery’s disciples.”—Robert Nye 

Anthony Howell’s poems are cool, intelligent, entertaining, and simply different 

from anything else being written. His subjects include anorexia, the 

situation of so-called “vulnerable” prisoners, the confi nement of obligatory 

commuting across London—and in the title poem, a theme of dubious empathy 

explored by Browning in “My Last Duchess.” 

POETRY | April | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 56 pp 

Trade Paper US $15.95 | CAN $17.95 | 978-0-85646-422-5 CUSA 

The Golden Apple 

A Round of Stories, Songs, Spells, Proverbs and Riddles 

Selected by Vasko Popa 

Edited and Translated by Andrew Harvey and Anne Pennington 

A delightful selection from one of Europe’s richest folk literatures, The Golden 

Apple will appeal to a wide range of readers, including children. Admirers 

of Vasko Popa’s poetry will fi nd it rewarding for the insight it gives into his 

sources. Illustrated with traditional Serbian rug-motifs. 

LITERARY COLLECTIONS | April | 5½ x 8½ | 104 pp | 25 B&W illustrations 

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White Masks 

Elias Khoury 

Translated by Maia Tabet 

With empathy, tenderness, and pain, Elias Khoury tells the tragedy of the 

Lebanese Civil War through the eyes and lives of fi ve Beirutis. Khalil Ahmed 

Jaber is found dead in a refuse heap, and we follow a journalist investigating 

the crime. We learn about Khalil from his widow, an engineer, a concierge, 

the garbage collector who discovered his body, and a doctor. Beirut itself is 

also a transfi gured victim, buried in the rubble of violence, destruction, and 

inhumanity. 

Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun (deemed a “masterwork” by The New York Times) was 

a 2006 New York Times Notable book and was named Best Book of the Year by 

both The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle. His Yalo inspired the 

Los Angeles Times to assert that “the beautiful, resilient city of Beirut belongs to 

Khoury.” 



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Eline Vere 

Louis Couperus 

Translated by Ina Rilke 

Afterword by Paul Binding 

Louis Couperus, widely considered one of the greatest Dutch novelists, gained 

prominence in 1889 with this psychological novel inspired by Émile Zola, 

Gustave Flaubert, and Leo Tolstoy. Eline, withdrawn and subject to depression, 

accepts the marriage proposal of a family friend, only to break off the 

engagement, convinced that her sickly but charismatic cousin Vincent is in 

love with her. Vincent drifts in other directions. She travels, dreams, and deteriorates. 

Moving back to the Hague, she lives alone in a hotel, where, during 

a nervous crisis, she takes what may or may not be an accidental overdose. 

Award-winning translator Ina Rilke’s new translation of this masterpiece will 

be a literary event. 


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This is the defi ning novel of the 

Lebanese Civil War. Elias Khoury reveals 

its devastating effects. 

FICTION 

April 


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Madame Bovary 

of the Netherlands. 

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A searing, raw, and haunting story of a 

reclusive woman’s journey through love. 

A symphony of emotion. 

To Mervas 

Elisabeth Rynell 

Translated by Victoria Häggblom 

Shortlisted for Sweden’s August Prize, Elisabeth Rynell’s To Mervas is a vivid exploration 

of both an external and internal wilderness. Marta, a middle-aged 

woman who has withdrawn almost completely into herself, is jolted back into 

contact with the world by a letter from her once-great love. Physical and emotional 

abuse, longing and loss, and the nature of love and redemption are explored 

with remarkable empathy and a visceral lyricism in Rynell’s wrenching 

novel. 

Elisabeth Rynell is a novelist and poet. Her fi rst novel, Hohaj, was adapted into 

the Swedish fi lm Snowland. To Mervas is her fi rst novel to appear in English. 



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Voice Over 

A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish 

Breyten Breytenbach 

After Mahmoud Darwish’s death in 2008, his friend Breyten Breytenbach was 

inspired to create this collection of poems honoring him. There is much fertile 

common ground the two poets share: a guiding empathy, an uncompromising 

commitment to truth and humanity, and a language- and dreamscape 

rooted in love and hope. Voice Over is Breytenbach’s passionate and elegiac exploration 

“to look for Darwish among the words.” 

POETRY | April | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 5½ | 48 pp 


Of Song and Water 

Joseph Coulson 

“Joseph Coulson’s writing makes a reader hear jazz.”—Los Angeles Times 

Forced to abandon his musical career, Coleman Moore fi nds himself at midlife 

in the company of ghosts: his grandfather, a rumrunner and Great Lakes pirate; 

his jazz mentor, a black man in a white town; and his fi rst love. Like a 

melody or a swift stream, Of Song and Water pulls us into a world of hidden truth, 

crushed dreams, and possible redemption. 

FICTION | May | 6¾ x 8¼ | 260 pp 


Ripe from Around Here 

A Vegan Guide to Local and Sustainable Eating 

(No Matter Where You Live) 

jae steele 

Praise for jae steele’s Get It Ripe: 

“This book is less a cookbook than an all-in-one guide to healthy vegan living, 

for which steele’s holistic-nutritionist training is put to good use.”—VegNews 

Get It Ripe, jae steele’s 2008 cookbook, established her as a credible and charismatic 

authority on veganism; her holistic nutritionist background and sassy 

cowpunk sensibility encouraged countless others to “get it ripe.” Her new 

cookbook underscores the importance of local, sustainable eating and living 

by helping readers deepen their understanding of organic and local foods and 

their positive impact on our health and our planet. 

The book includes chapters on the concept of local food and why it’s important; 

fi nding a balance between various food issues, personal priorities and 

values; and the benefi ts of the local food movement that go beyond reducing 

our carbon footprint. It also helps readers become more informed about where 

their food comes from, no matter where they live, whether their source is the 

farmer’s market or the grocery store down the street. 

The book’s 180 recipes, which encourage the use of fresh, organic ingredients 

wherever possible (as well as potential alternatives depending on where 

you live), include Strawberry Rhubarb Muffi ns, Pear Parsnip Soup, Asparagus 

and Spring Onion Quiche, Mushroom Asparagus Risotto, and Butternut 

Chipotle Chocolate Cake. 

Both thought-provoking and delectable, steele’s new cookbook makes any 

time the “ripe” time to go vegan. 

jae steele is a holistic nutritionist who runs the popular blog Domestic Aff air. 

She lives in Toronto. 

A fresh vegan take on the locavore phenomenon. 


Get It Ripe 

A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living 

jae steele 

COOKING 

8 x 9 | 256 pp 

16 Color photographs 


978-1-55152-234-0 USA 


COOKING 

April 


8 x 9 | 240 pp 



978-1-55152-254-8 USA 




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COOKING 

June 

12 x 12 | 24 pp 


Calendar CAL $14.95 

978-1-55152-342-2 USA 





BUST • Geist • Utne • Vegetarian Times • 

VegNews • Whole Earth 

Author Hometown: Victoria, BC 

Go Vegan! 2011 Wall Calendar 

Sarah Kramer 

“What Mick Jagger is to rock ‘n’ roll, Sarah Kramer is to the vegan lifestyle.” 

—BUST 

With four best-selling cookbooks under her belt, including the recent tenthanniversary 

edition of her classic How It All Vegan! (co-authored with Tanya 

Barnard), Sarah Kramer is North America’s vegan sweetheart, appealing to 

vegans and non-vegans alike with her funky charm and sunny demeanor. Last 

year, Sarah’s fi rst wall calendar (for 2010) was a big success; in it, she “veganized” 

iconic images of the past fi fty years, from movie posters for Breakfast at 

Tiff any’s and Attack of the 50-Foot Woman to the ubiquitous “Got Milk?” ads. 

For 2011, Sarah turns her attention to classic album covers of the past; 

among those she veganizes are David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane, Herb Alpert & The 

Tijuana Brass’ Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Jimi Hendrix’s 

Are You Experienced, Devo’s Freedom of Choice, The Clash’s London Calling, and even 

Barbra Streisand’s Yentl soundtrack. Each month features a recipe appropriate 

for the season or a particular holiday. 

Sarah Kramer’s newest Go Vegan! calendar (one of the few, if not only, designed 

specifi cally for vegans) will help Sarah’s fans keep track of their days in 

rock-star style. 

Go vegan with the latest wall calendar from 

best-selling author Sarah Kramer. 

How It All Vegan! 


Irresistible Recipes for an 

Animal-Free Diet 

Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer 

COOKING 

7½ x 9 | 240 pp 


978-1-55152-253-1 USA 

Also 

Available 

La Dolce Vegan! 

Vegan Livin’ Made Easy 

Sarah Kramer 

COOKING 

7½ x 9 | 240 pp 


978-1-55152-187-9 USA

The Bearded Gentleman 

The Style Guide to Shaving Face 

Allan Peterkin and Nick Burns 

For centuries, men have been growing and styling their facial hair, whether 

for the sake of vanity, religion, or cultural considerations, but most of us don’t 

give it a second thought. The Bearded Gentleman is an authoritative yet lighthearted 

guide that off ers detailed information on some fi fty specifi c facial hair styles: 

where they come from, how to grow them, and how to maintain them. 

Among them are many well-known styles, such as the Handlebar, the Fu 

Manchu, the Goatee, the Van Dyck, and the more recent Soul Patch. But there 

are also those that are less familiar, including the Horseshoe, the Lampshade, 

the Painter’s Brush, the Landing Strip, the French Fork, and El Insecto (a.k.a. 

the Mighty). There’s also practical advice on choosing a facial hair style that’s 

right for you, as well as insight into how facial hair has fi gured in the history of 

masculinity, including its impact on politics, class, and sexuality. 

The Bearded Gentleman is an entertaining, witty, and useful guide to facial hair 

styles and the men who wear them. 

Allan Peterkin’s previous books include One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of 

Facial Hair, featured in Time, Esquire, and The New Yorker. 

Nick Burns is one of the leading writers on men’s grooming; he has covered 

skin care, fashion, and health for publications including The New York 

Times, GQ, Details, and Out, and he is author of the popular men’s style blog 

HommeGrooming.com. 

A fun, informative guide to fi fty-plus facial hairstyles for men. 

Outbursts! 

A Queer Erotic Thesaurus 

Allan Peterkin 

EDUCATION / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

5¾ x 8 | 208 pp 

100 B&W photographs and illustrations 


978-1-55152-151-0 USA 

Also 

Available 

One Thousand Beards 

A Cultural History of Facial Hair 

Allan Peterkin 

EDUCATION 

6 x 9 | 227 pp 



978-1-55152-107-7 USA 


HEALTH & FITNESS / REFERENCE 

May 


5½ x 8 | 144 pp 



978-1-55152-343-9 USA 





Bookforum • Geist • Publishers Weekly • Utne 

Author Events 



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ART / PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 


13½ x 16 | 176 pp 



978-1-55152-295-1 USA 





Artforum • BOMB • Bookforum • Geist • 

Lambda Book Report • Utne 

Author Events 

New York, NY 


Polaroids 

Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris 

Art by Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris 

Attila Richard Lukacs is one of the art world’s most talented and controversial 

contemporary artists, best known for his epic paintings that depict masculine, 

homoerotic imagery, featuring fi gures such as gay skinheads and military cadets. 

His work has been exhibited at documenta in Kassel, Germany, as well as 

in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, and Cologne, among other cities. 

A co-publication between Arsenal Pulp Press and three Canadian art galleries, 

this is the fi rst book to document the work of this important artist, 

from an unusual perspective—a collection of some 1,200 full-color Polaroid 

images (twelve per page) taken by Lukacs over the past twenty years as core referents 

for his paintings, assembled and collaged by Vancouver artist and curator 

Michael Morris. 

Lukacs regularly employs a Polaroid camera as part of his artistic process, 

using his friends and acquaintances as models; taking advantage of the 

Polaroid’s unique characteristics, his painterly sensibility is evident in the rich 

hues and romantic sensuality of these photographs, which are strikingly similar 

to the paintings that resulted from them. 

The book is physically enormous, allowing the Polaroid grids to be printed 

at their full size. It also features essays by award-winning author Michael 

Turner (Hard Core Logo); curator Scott Watson; gay writer Stan Persky; and 

Vince Aletti, the American curator and photography critic for The New Yorker. 

Stunning and bold, Polaroids: Attila Richard Lukacs and Michael Morris is a remarkable 

visual and written document on one of the most compelling visual artists 

working today. 

A lavish book on the art of Attila Richard Lukacs.

Missouri 

Christine Wunnicke 

Translated by David Miller 

This earnest, violent, yet utterly transfi xing gay love story is set in the 

nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet 

who fl ees England for America following a scandal; Joshua Jenkins is a feral 

young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six. The two men meet 

when Joshua robs Douglas’ carriage and takes him hostage; soon, a remarkable 

secret is revealed, and these two very diff erent men grow closer, even as 

Douglas’ brother tries to “save” him from his uncivilized surroundings. 

First published in Germany, Missouri is available in English for the fi rst 

time. 



National advertising: BOMB • Bookforum • The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide • 

Geist • Lambda Book Report 

The Only Thing I Have 

Rhonda Waterfall 

“In succinct, Carveresque prose, Waterfall creates remarkable protagonists 

obsessed with starlet pixies, squash, lost infants, pregnant throats, ghosts 

in telephone poles and above all the sheer longing requisite in being alive.” 

—Adam Lewis Schroeder, author of Kingdom of Monkeys 

Rhonda Waterfall evokes A.M. Homes and Alice Munro in these unsettling, 

evocatively written stories about domestic dysfunction. In them, life unfolds 

in odd, unpredictable ways: a murderous plot is revealed through Post-It 

notes, a fi lm director will do anything to recapture his lost youth, and an elderly 

woman fi nds the love of a child in a marrow squash. 



National advertising: BOMB • Bookforum • BUST • Geist • Rain Taxi • 

subTerrain Magazine • Utne 



FICTION 

May 


5½ x 8 | 128 pp 


978-1-55152-344-6 USA 

A German take on Brokeback Mountain, 

set in the nineteenth-century 

American Midwest. 

FICTION 

April 


5½ x 8 | 160 pp 


978-1-55152-293-7 USA 

Beautifully written stories about 

domestic dysfunction. 

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TRAVEL 

April 


5½ x 8 | 224 pp 



978-1-55152-294-4 USA 

Vancouver’s past, present, 

and future in words and photographs. 

POETRY 

April 


5½ x 8 | 168 pp 


978-1-55152-292-0 USA 

Poetry about the search for self 

amidst the shrill din of technology. 

Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics 

and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural 

city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative 

guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs deep to examine 

the past, present, and future of Vancouver, shedding light on the various 

strategies and infl uences that have made the city what it is today (and what it 

should be). Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred 

look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight. 



National advertising: BOMB • Geist • subTerrain Magazine • Utne 


“Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies 

wends through creative industries and uncommon commons, picking up the 

shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts.”—Mark Nowak, poet 

The fi rst poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand) is a multilayered 

“autobiography” that puts an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop 

music, CNN, and biotechnology, exploring the problem of what it means to 

exist on the boundaries of “human.” Lai, who teaches English at the University 

of British Columbia in Vancouver, is prominent within the women’s, LGBT, 

and Asian American communities. 



National advertising: BOMB • Geist • Lambda Book Report • Rain Taxi • 

subTerrain Magazine 

Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Seattle, WA 


Vancouver Special 

Charles Demers 

Automaton Biographies 

Larissa Lai

Beautiful and Dark 

Rosa Montero 

Translated by Adrienne Mitchell 

“In her most thoughtful novel to date, Rosa Montero brilliantly combines 

intrigue and imagination with personal insight into human nature.” 

—Javier Escudero, World Literature in Review 

“Intent on shaking the foundations of beauty and truth, Bella y oscura provides a 

provocative feminist indictment of Francoist historiography.” 

—Mary C. Harges, Synergy and Subversion in the Second Stage Novels of Rosa Montero 

Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, Beautiful and Dark (Bella y oscura) 

is written from the perspective of Baba, an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives 

in a neighborhood called El Barrio. Trying to cope with the mystery and 

violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, 

who fascinates Baba with her fantastic tales that mix myth and memory. 

Born in Madrid in 1951, Rosa Montero has been a journalist for Madrid’s daily 

newspaper El País since 1976. She has published eight novels, many of which 

have been bestsellers in Spain. Montero’s novel La hija del canibal (1997) won 

Spain’s most prestigious literary award, the Premio Primavera de Novela. 

Adrienne Mitchell is a literary translator and tenured professor who holds 

an MEd in educational leadership with a focus on second language acquisition 

and pedagogy, as well as an MA in romance languages from the University 

of Oregon. 

Available in English for the fi rst time, an arresting novel by one of 

Spain’s most accomplished writers. 


FICTION 

June 


5½ x 8½ | 192 pp 


978-1-879960-82-4 CUSA 

Translator Hometown: Eugene, OR 

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Selected Backlist from Aunt Lute Books 

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The Judy Grahn Reader 

Judy Grahn 

Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland 


6 x 9 | 336 pp 


978-1-879960-80-0 CUSA 

Shell Shaker 

LeAnne Howe 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 216 pp 


978-1-879960-61-9 CUSA 

Me as her again 

True Stories of an 

Armenian Daughter 

Nancy Agabian 


8½ x 11½ | 216 pp 


978-1-879960-79-4 CUSA 

Borderlands/La Frontera 

The New Mestiza , Third Edition 

Gloria Anzaldúa 

WOMEN’S STUDIES / CHICANO STUDIES 

5½ x 8½ | 288 pp 


978-1-879960-74-9 CUSA 

Miko Kings 

An Indian Baseball Story 

LeAnne Howe 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 206 pp 


978-1-879960-78-7 CUSA 

The Aunt Lute Anthology 

of U.S. Women Writers, 

Volume Two 

20th Century 

Edited by Lisa Maria Hogeland 

and Shay Brawn 


6 x 9 | 1416 pp 


978-1-879960-77-0 CUSA

The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook 

Easy Organic Vegetables and More Money in Your Pocket 

Cam Mather 

There’s never been a better time to grow your own food as we face the converging 

challenges of the fi nancial crisis, climate change, water shortages, peak oil, 

and 6.5 billion people worldwide competing for a limited amount of food. 

Many gardening books are so technical that they are intimidating to the beginning 

gardener. This book shows how easy gardening can be while providing 

tips and techniques to ensure success. Whether you live in the country, the 

city, or the suburbs, you’ll learn: 

• How to create lots of rich compost as the basis for vigorous growth 

• Simple techniques to safely deal with pests 

• The most eff ective techniques for irrigation, including harvesting your 

rainwater 

• How to store your harvest using canning, freezing, and drying 

techniques 

• How to build and stock a root cellar 

• How to choose which vegetables to grow based on their nutritional value 

This book is a step-by-step guide to turning your lawn into a great source 

of personal satisfaction and economic independence. Having an organic produce 

department in your backyard creates your own “one hundred-foot diet” 

to reduce your carbon footprint and keep more money in your pocket. 

Cam Mather has been gardening organically and market gardening for thirtyfi 

ve years. His entertaining and informative workshops and DVD have inspired 

thousands of people to get out and get their hands dirty. He publishes 

books about renewable energy and sustainability from his off -grid solar and 

wind-powered home offi ce. 

Grow your own organic vegetables and enjoy a “one hundred-foot diet”! 

Thriving During Challenging Times 

The Energy, Food and Financial 

Independence Handbook 

Cam Mather 

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 

6 x 9 | 300 pp 



978-0-9733233-6-8 USA 

Also 

Available 

Grow Your Own Vegetables 

Cam Mather 

GARDENING 

5½ x 7½ | 110 minutes 

DVD $19.95 

978-0-9733233-9-9 USA 

Aztext Press 

GARDENING 

April 


8 x 10 | 250 pp 



978-0-9810132-2-0 USA 

Author Hometown: Tamworth, ON 

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Selected Backlist from Aztext Press 

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The Renewable Energy 

Handbook, Revised Edition 

The Updated Comprehensive 

Guide to Renewable Energy and 

Independent Living 

William H. Kemp 

HOUSE & HOME / 

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

8 x 10 | 512 pp 

400 B&W illustrations, photographs, 

and charts 


978-0-9810132-1-3 USA 

Home-Scale Wind Turbine 

Installation 

Cam Mather and 

Michelle Mather 

TECHNOLOGY 

5½ x 7½ | 60 minutes 

DVD $19.95 

978-0-9810132-0-6 USA 

Biodiesel Basics 

and Beyond 

A Comprehensive Guide 

to Production and Use for the 

Home and Farm 


TECHNOLOGY 

6 x 9 | 588 pp 


and charts 


978-0-973323-33-7 USA 

Living with Renewable 

Energy 


TECHNOLOGY 

5½ x 7½ | 120 minutes 

DVD $19.95 

978-0-9733233-8-2 USA 

The Zero-Carbon Car 

Building the Car the Auto 

Industry Can’t Get Right 


TRANSPORTATION 

6 x 9 | 544 pp 


and charts 


978-0-9733233-4-4 USA 

Biodiesel Basics 


TECHNOLOGY 

5½ x 7½ | 60 minutes 

DVD $19.95 

978-0-9733233-7-5 USA

Beyond Uncertainty 

Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb 

David C. Cassidy 

“Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book.” 

—Publishers Weekly, starred review 

“Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency 

that makes this biography a pleasure to read.”—Los Angeles Times 

“Well crafted and readable . . . [Cassidy] provides a nuanced and compelling 

account of Heisenberg’s life.”—The Harvard Book Review 

In 1992, David C. Cassidy’s groundbreaking biography of Werner Heisenberg, 

Uncertainty, was published to resounding acclaim from scholars and critics. 

Michael Frayn, in the Playbill of the Broadway production of Copenhagen, referred 

to it as one of his main sources and “the standard work in English.” 

Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atom Bomb) called it “the defi nitive biography 

of a great and tragic physicist,” and the Los Angeles Times praised it as “an important 

book. Cassidy has sifted the record and brilliantly detailed Heisenberg’s 

actions.” No book that has appeared since has rivaled Uncertainty, now out of 

print, for its depth and rich detail of the life, times, and science of this brilliant 

and controversial fi gure of twentieth-century physics. 

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, long-suppressed information has 

emerged on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project. In Beyond 

Uncertainty, Cassidy interprets this and other previously unknown material 

within the context of his vast research and tackles the vexing questions of a 

scientist’s personal responsibility and guilt when serving an abhorrent military 

regime. 

David C. Cassidy is the author of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century, 

Einstein and Our World, and Uncertainty. 

Now in paperback: Werner Heisenberg’s life reconsidered for the 

twenty-fi rst century by the world’s leading English-language authority. 


Beyond Uncertainty 

Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, 

and The Bomb 

David C. Cassidy 

SCIENCE / HISTORY 

6½ x 9¼ | 480 pp 


978-1-934137-13-0 CUSA 


SCIENCE / HISTORY 

April 

6½ x 9¼ | 480 pp 



978-1-934137-28-4 CUSA 




Author Hometown: Hempstead, NY 

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Selected Backlist from Bellevue Literary Press 

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The Anatomist 

A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy 

Bill Hayes 

MEDICAL / HISTORY 

5 x 8 | 250 pp 



978-1-934137-21-5 CUSA 

The Lives They Left Behind 

Suitcases from a 

State Hospital Attic 

Darby Penney with Peter Stastny 

Photographs by Lisa Rinzler 

Introduction by Robert Whitaker 

PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY / 


6 x 9 | 205 pp 



978-1-934137-14-7 CUSA 

Strange Bedfellows 

The Surprising Connection Between 

Sex, Evolution and Monogamy 

David P. Barash and 

Judith Eve Lipton 

SCIENCE 

6 x 9 | 192 pp 



978-1-934137-20-8 CUSA 

A Mathematician’s Lament 

How School Cheats Us Out 

of Our Most Fascinating and 

Imaginative Art Form 

Paul Lockhart 

Foreword by Keith Devlin 

MATHEMATICS / EDUCATION 

5 x 7½ | 192 pp 



978-1-934137-17-8 CUSA 

Tinkers 

Paul Harding 

FICTION 

5 x 7 | 192 pp 


978-1-934137-12-3 CUSA 

The Jump Artist 

Austin Ratner 

FICTION 

5½ x 8¼ | 300 pp 


978-1-934137-15-4 CUSA

Good 50x70 

The Social Communication Project 

Pasquale Volpe and Tommaso Minnetti 

No one is better at conveying a message and getting people to act on it than 

those in the communications industry. But, sadly, the industry spends little 

time on issues that really matter. Work for charities is nice, but it doesn’t pay 

the bills. 

The creators of the Good 50x70 project found this incredibly frustrating. 

They decided to create their own project to reward creativity in social communication 

and provide charities with a database of posters they could use for 

free in their campaigns. 

This book collects the best responses to seven design briefs from seven 

charities addressing seven critical global issues. 

Branding a Store 

How to Build Successful Retail Brands 

in a Changing Marketplace 

Ko Floor 

Branding a Store shows how to build a strong, independent retail brand to remain 

competitive in today’s global marketplace. It shows how to make your 

shop a winner. 

A survival guide for shops that explains how you can create an appealing 

retail business, Branding a Store is full of practical tips on how shops can win the 

“battle of the brands.” 

Branding a Store is a must-have title for professionals who earn their living 

in the retail business. The book will be of benefi t to retailers, manufacturers, 

and advertising agencies, and it is suitable for those taking retail training 

courses. 


DESIGN / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

October 

9¾ x 7 | 288 pp 

210 Color illustrations 

Flexibind US $25.00 | CAN $29.00 

978-90-6369-218-6 CUSA 

A selection of the best posters that 

confront seven of the critical issues 

affecting today’s world. 

DESIGN 

April 

6½ x 9½ | 304 pp 


978-90-6369-122-6 CUSA 

How to build a strong, independent retail 

brand identity to remain competitive in 

today’s global marketplace. 

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DESIGN 

April 

5 x 7½ | 144 pp 



978-90-6369-227-8 CUSA 

A look at the position of 

design in the ever-expanding areas 

in which it fi nds itself. 

ART / DESIGN 

April 

11 x 8½ | 192 pp 


Flexibind US $32.00 | CAN $38.00 

978-90-6369-224-7 CUSA 

A collection of in-depth interviews 

with the most infl uential typeface 

designers in the business. 

Everyone is a Designer 

Manifest for the Design Economy 

Mieke Gerritzen and Geert Lovink 

The growth of design schools seems unstoppable. Designers born after 1980 

have a totally diff erent view of visual culture, aesthetic products, creative vision, 

and history from that of their predecessors. Communication aesthetics 

are in an ever-temporary state; design has become a dynamic and unstable 

area. 

All these developments pose new questions to the status of the designer and 

the trade. With visual contributions, quotations, and short essays from dozens 

of international designers, thinkers, critics, and strategists, this book presents 

a new manifesto for the design economy of 2010 and beyond. 

Creative Characters 

Interviews with Font Designers 

Edited by Jan Middendorp 

Creative Characters is a collection of in-depth interviews with the most infl uential 

typeface designers in the business as well as up-and-coming young guns, who 

discuss the motives and methods behind type. The list of designers includes 

Jim Parkinson, Underware, David Berlow, Alejandro Paul, Veronika Burian, 

Rian Hughes, Cristian Schwartz, and many more. 

Creative Characters was edited by Jan Middendorp, whose Dutch Type (2004) is 

among the most acclaimed typography books of the present decade. He is a 

frequent contributor to Eye magazine and blog. His other books inlcude Made 

with FontFont (2006, with Erik Spiekermann) and A Line of Type (2006).

The Quick Brown Fox 

Jumps Over the Lazy Dog 

Edited by Mieke Gerritzen 

A typeface memory game. With twenty-fi ve pairs of cards, each presenting a 

diff erent type family, this is a very stylish and interesting typographic concentration 

game. The kit includes a typographical glossary with the main terms 

used in typography as well as a text about the evolution of type design, locating 

in history each one of the fonts used in the game. 

GAMES / ART | April | 3½ x 2½ | 50 Cards | 50 Color illustrations 

Box Set AH US $25.00 | CAN $29.00 | 978-90-6369-221-6 CUSA 

Amsterdam Memory Game 

This memory game is devoted to images of Amsterdam, the world’s most cosmopolitan 

village. The challenge is to fi nd matching pairs of typical Amsterdam 

bridges, houses, bikes, architectural details, shop windows, ladies behind redlight 

windows, kitsch Amsterdam souvenirs, famous Amsterdammers, street 

brands, Amsterdam boats, and more. 

GAMES / TRAVEL | April | 3 x 6 | 60 Cards | 60 Color illustrations 

Box Set AH US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 | 978-90-6369-226-1 CUSA 

The Medium is the Message 

And 50 Other Ridiculous Advertising Rules 

Anneloes van Gaalen 

The world of advertising seems to have a seemingly endless list of rules. Some 

consider these rules to be valuable words of wisdom; others perceive them to 

be mere restrictions, dogmas, and formulae that need to be bent, twisted, or 

broken entirely. 

The Medium is the Message provides a list of inspirational or delusional advertising 

jargon for the world to judge. 

ART / HUMOR | April | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¾ | 160 pp | 100 Color illustrations 


Never Leave the House Naked 

And 50 Other Ridiculous Fashion Rules 


The world of fashion is inundated with an apparently endless list of rules. 

Some consider these to be valuable words of wisdom, whereas others perceive 

them to be mere restrictions imposed by the fashion police. 

Never Leave the House Naked presents a list of inspirational or delusional fashion 

jargon for the world to judge. 

ART / HUMOR | April | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6¾ | 160 pp | 100 Color illustrations 



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Sketching (6th printing) 

Drawing Techniques 

for Product Designers 

Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur 

ART 

8¾ x 11 | 256 pp 


978-90-6369-171-4 CUSA 

Never Use White Type 

on a Black Background 

And 50 Other 

Ridiculous Design Rules 


ART 

5 x 7 | 160 pp 



978-90-6369-207-0 CUSA 

Creativity Today 

Ramon Vullings with Godelieve 

Spaas and Igor Byttebier 


6¾ x 9½ | 238 pp 


978-90-6369-146-2 CUSA 

Visual Power Memory 

Game (6th printing) 

Mieke Gerritzen and 

Koert van Mensvoort 

GAMES / ART 

3 x 6 | 60 cards 

Box Set AH US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 

978-90-6369-098-4 CUSA 

British Design 2009/2010 

DESIGN 

9½ x 11¾ | 248 pp 



978-90-6369-202-5 CUSA 

Twins Memory Game 

(4th printing) 

Mieke Gerritzen and 

Koert van Mensvoort 

GAMES / ART 

3 x 6 | 60 cards 

Box Set AH US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 

978-90-6369-103-5 CUSA

The Lie 

Petra Hammesfahr 

Translated by Mike Mitchell 

Praise for Petra Hammesfahr’s The Sinner: 

“The Sinner is best psychological suspense novel I have read all year.” 

—Daily Telegraph 

“Dubbed Germany’s answer to Patricia Highsmith, Hammesfahr should win 

new fans with this novel.”—Publishers Weekly 

“Demonstrates why she is one of Germany’s bestselling writers of crime and 

psychological thrillers. It’s grim, delves deep into the human psyche, and 

keeps you gripped.”—The Times (London) 

Nadia and Susanne look uncannily alike, but one of the women is seriously 

rich and the other is destitute. When Nadia asks Susanne to spend the weekend 

with her husband so that she can sneak off with a lover, how can Susanne 

refuse the outrageous payment on off er? Nadia and her husband barely speak 

to each other, and he will be working most of the weekend. Easy money, or 

so it seems. 

One Friday afternoon Susanne drives Nadia’s Alfa to her beautiful suburban 

villa with its indoor pool and glass doors opening onto the sloping lawn. 

This fi rst stay is followed by others, as an apparently harmless game becomes 

a deadly web of lies. 

Petra Hammesfahr, born in 1951, has not had an easy life: she left school at 

thirteen and became pregnant by an alcoholic husband at seventeen. She published 

her fi rst novel when she was forty and has since written over twenty 

crime and suspense novels. Petra also writes scripts for television and fi lm. She 

has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden 

and the Rhineland Literary Prize. 

A rich psychological thriller where the women look so alike, 

it must be an opportunity for easy money. 


The Sinner 

Petra Hammesfahr 

Translated by John Brownjohn 

FICTION 

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978-1-904738-25-1 CUSA 


FICTION 

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978-1-904738-42-8 CUSA 




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A Jew Must Die 

Jacques Chessex 

Translated by Donald Wilson 

Praise for A Jew Must Die: 

“Chessex, our new Flaubert, has no equal when describing horror without 

fl inching, screaming sotto voce and exploring guilt in taut prose.” 

—Le Nouvel Observateur 

“A masterpiece. Beauty of the world, ubiquity of evil, God’s silence, it’s all 

there, delivered like a slap to the face.”—Le Point 

“A great author explores a nightmare not as anachronistic as it might 

appear.”—L’Hebdo 

A novel based on a true story. 

On April 16, 1942, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, 

a Jewish cattle merchant, into an empty stable and kill him with a crowbar. 

Europe is in fl ames, but this is Switzerland, and Payerne, a rural market town 

of butchers and bankers, is more worried about unemployment and local 

bankruptcies than the fate of nations across the border. Fernand Ischi, leader 

of the local Nazi cell, blames it all on the town’s Jewish population and wants 

to set an example, thinking the German embassy would be grateful. Ischi’s 

dream of becoming the local gauleiter is shattered, however, when the milk containers 

used to dissimulate Bloch’s body parts are discovered fl oating in a lake 

nearby, leading to his arrest. 

Jacques Chessex, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, is one of Switzerland’s 

greatest authors. He knew the murderers, went to school with their 

children, and has written a terse, implacable story that has awakened memories 

in a country that seems to endlessly rediscover dark areas of its past. 

The murder of a Jewish merchant in Switzerland 

during WWII, told in a haunting novel. 


The Vampire of Ropraz 

Jacques Chessex 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 106 pp 


978-1-904738-33-6 CUSA

Entanglement 

Zygmunt Miloszewski 

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 

Praise for Entanglement: 

“An exquisite contemporary crime story. Polish literature boasts a real master.” 

—Jerzy Pilch, author of The Mighty Angel 

“A tightly plotted mystery novel, dark humor and contemporary Warsaw perfectly 

rendered.”—Przekrój Magazine 

The morning after a group psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, 

Henry Talek is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye. 

Public prosecutor Teodor Szacki, world-weary, suff ering from bureaucratic 

exhaustion and marital ennui, feels that life has passed him by. But 

this case changes everything. Because of it he meets Monika Grzelka, a young 

journalist whose charms prove diffi cult to resist, and he discovers the frightening 

power of certain esoteric therapeutic methods. The shocking videos of 

the sessions lead him to an array of possible scenarios. Could one of the patients 

have become so absorbed by his therapy role-playing that he murdered 

Telak? Szacki’s investigation leads him to an earlier murder, before the fall of 

Communism. 

And why is the Secret Police suddenly taking an interest in all this? As 

Szacki uncovers each piece of the puzzle, facts emerge that he’d be better off 

not knowing, for his own safety. 

Zygmunt Miloszewski, born in Warsaw in 1975, is an editor currently working 

for Newsweek. His fi rst novel, The Intercom, was published in 2005 to high 

acclaim. Entanglement followed in 2007, and the author is now working on 

screenplays based on The Intercom and Entanglement as well as on a sequel to the 

latter, also featuring Teodor Szacki. 

Vicious psychotherapy, a murder, and a suicide. 

Mayhem in Warsaw for a world-weary public prosecutor. 


FICTION 

June 


5¼ x 7¾ | 254 pp 


978-1-904738-44-2 CUSA 




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Havana Fever 

Leonardo Padura 

Translated by Peter Bush 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 285 pp 


978-1-904738-36-7 CUSA 

Back to the Coast 

Saskia Noort 

Translated by Laura Vroomen 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 275 pp 


978-1-904738-37-4 CUSA 

Reasonable Doubts 

Gianrico Carofi glio 

Translated by Howard Curtis 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 275 pp 


978-1-904738-24-4 CUSA 

A Not So Perfect Crime 

Teresa Solana 

Translated by Peter Bush 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 295 pp 


978-1-904738-34-3 CUSA 

David’s Revenge 

Hans Werner Kettenbach 

Translated by Anthea Bell 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 274 pp 


978-1-904738-39-8 CUSA 

Thursday Night Widows 

Claudia Piñeiro 

Translated by Miranda France 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 269 pp 


978-1-904738-41-1 CUSA

Montreal at the Crossroads 

Super Highways, the Turcot and the Environment 

Edited by Pierre Gauthier, Jochen Jaeger, 

and Jason Prince 

In cities across North America, car-era infrastructures such as elevated highways 

are crumbling. City residents the world over are questioning how best to 

deal with aging infrastructures built for the automobile during an era of cheap 

fuel. The environmental crisis obliges cities to think about the environmental 

costs of car-dependency. Now is the time to weigh also the social, cultural, 

and economic costs of unrestrained automobility. 

Transportation engineers and political leaders are about to make decisions 

that will aff ect cities for generations to come. This volume brings together a 

wide range of viewpoints that enriches the discussion. 

Manufacturing Consent: 

Noam Chomsky and the Media 

The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by 

Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar 

Edited by Mark Achbar 

“A juicily subversive biographical/philosophical documentary work bristling 

and buzzing with ideas.”—The Washington Post 

“You will see the whole sweep of the most challenging critic in modern political 

thought.”—The Boston Globe 

“One of our real geniuses! An excellent introduction.”—The Village Voice 

“An intellectually challenging crash course in the man’s cooly contentious 

analysis, laying out his thoughts in a package that is clever and accessible.” 

—Los Angeles Times 

The companion book to the award-winning fi lm, this work charts the life of 

America’s most famous dissident, from his boyhood days in Manhattan to his 

current role as outspoken social critic. 



Available Now 

5½ x 8½ | 200 pp 


978-1-55164-342-7 CUSA 

Trade Cloth SDT US $34.99 | CAN $34.99 

978-1-55164-343-4 CUSA 

eBook $14.00 

978-1-55164-350-2 USA 

Sheds light on the complex and 

overlapping jurisdictions and institutions 

typically involved in urban planning. 


April 

9 x 8½ | 272 pp 


978-1-55164-346-5 CUSA 


978-1-55164-354-0 USA 

The companion fi lm has won 

more than a dozen festival awards. 

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June 

5¼ x 8¼ | 296 pp 


978-1-55164-348-9 CUSA 


978-1-55164-356-4 USA 

Written with passion and humor, 

but without romanticizing or ignoring 

the unsavory side of piracy. 


May 

5¼ x 8½ | 220 pp 


978-1-55164-344-1 CUSA 


978-1-55164-352-6 USA 

R eveals a very different understanding 

of the nature of radical social change, 

and the means of achieving it. 

Women Pirates and the 

Politics of the Jolly Roger 

Ulrike Klaismann, Marian Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn 

“Lively and exciting. A hearty read which I recommend.” 

—Feminist Bookstore News 

“Carefully researched and vividly told.”—In These Times 

“The language is blunt, poetic and innocent of academic jargon. Includes 

regional recipes; readers will want to try Piquant Shark Schnitzel from the 

Caribbean.”—Rain Taxi 

“A fascinating book . . . the off beat subject makes for provocative reading.” 

—Rapport Magazine 

An account of piracy through three millennia, in histories of women and men 

sailing on four seas. Writing with passion and humor, but without romanticizing 

or ignoring the unsavory side of some of their heroines, the authors turn 

history on its head. 

The Anarchist Collectives 

Workers’ Self-management in the Spanish Revolution 1936–1939 

Edited by Sam Dolgoff 

Introduction by Murray Bookchin 

“Varied, complex, often inspiring, the achievement of the people in Spain 

is unique in the history of 20th century revolution. It should be carefully 

studied.”—Noam Chomsky 

“An excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collective in Spain.” 

—Paul Avrich 

This is the fi rst book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers’ 

self-management, both urban and rural, which constituted one of the most 

remarkable social revolutions in modern history. Libertarian communism 

was truly the creation of workers and peasants—a “spontaneous” creation, for 

which the groundwork had been laid by decades of struggle and education, experiment 

and thought.

“Peter Makuck sees through the detritus of daily life to what matters. . . . It’s 

that essence that lives deep down in things, looked for in people, sea- and 

landscapes, and creatures, that lifts the quotidian toward the marvelous, and 

animates this selection of poems from four decades.”—Brendan Galvin 

From “Long Lens”: 

Folding laundry, I can see our clothesline 

waving its patches of color like the fl ag 

of a foreign country where I had happily lived 

in a small clapboard house surrounded by pines. 

I can hear my mother in her strong accent 

saying she didn’t want a dryer 

even when we could fi nally aff ord one— 

Our sheets won’t smell of trees and sunlight anymore. 

Long Lens represents forty years of Peter Makuck’s work, including twenty-fi ve 

new poems. With precise language, Makuck’s imagery evokes spiritual longing, 

love, loss, violence, and transcendence. His subjects include the aftermath 

of the 1970 killings at Kent State University; scuba diving on an off shore 

shipwreck; fl ying through a storm in a small plane; rescuing a boy caught in a 

riptide; and lucid observations of spinner sharks, a gray fox, a spider, and a 

pelican tangled in a fi shing line. 

Peter Makuck taught at East Carolina University from 1976 to 2006, where he 

founded Tar River Poetry. He was 2008 Lee Smith Chair in Creative Writing 

at North Carolina State University. Winner of the Brockman Award and the 

Charity Randall Citation, he lives on Bogue Banks, one of North Carolina’s 

barrier islands. 

A well-deserved new and selected collection representing forty years 

of poetry, including twenty-fi ve new poems. 

Off-Season in the Promised Land 

Peter Makuck 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-929918-71-3 CUSA 

Long Lens 

New and Selected Poems 

Peter Makuck 

Also 

Available 

Against Distance 

Peter Makuck 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 75 pp 

Trade Cloth SP US $20.00 | CAN $22.00 

978-1-880238-44-8 CUSA 


POETRY 

April 


American Poets Continuum 121 

6 x 9 | 200 pp 


978-1-934414-32-3 CUSA 



Author Events 

Savannah, GA • Aurora, NY • 

St. Bonaventure, NY • Chapel Hill, NC • 

Durham, NC • Greenville, NC • Raleigh, NC • 

Wilmington, NC • Indiana, PA •Knoxville, TN • 

Sewanee, TN • Provo, UT • Farmville, VA 

Author Hometown: Pine Knoll Shores, NC 

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April 


A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America 32 

6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-934414-33-0 CUSA 

Selected by Thomas Lux 

as the winner of the eighth annual 

A. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize. 

POETRY 

May 


American Poets Continuum 122 

6 x 9 | 88 pp 


978-1-934414-34-7 CUSA 

A sonnet and sonnet-like poetry 

collection ranging from travelogue 

to monologue, social commentary 

to solitary musing. 



Author Events 

Washington, DC • Missoula, MT • West Caldwell, NJ • New York, NY • Eugene, OR • 

Philadelphia, PA 

Author Hometown: Missoula, MT 

Chaos is the New Calm expands the parameters of the sonnet form, putting rhymes 

in unusual places, inventing new stanza structures, and addressing a variety of 

subject matter ranging from travelogue to inner monologue, from social commentary 

to solitary musing. These poems are alive with sound, rhythm, and 

lyric insights into the world. 

Wyn Cooper’s poem “Fun” was adapted by Sheryl Crow for her hit song “All I 

Wanna Do.” He collaborates on music and spoken word with novelist Madison 

Smartt Bell. Cooper is co-organizer of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. He 

consults for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. 



Beautiful in the Mouth 

Keetje Kuipers 

Foreword by Thomas Lux 

Thomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. Poulin, Jr., 

Poetry Prize. In his foreword he writes, “I was immediately struck by the boldness 

of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems. 

We should be glad that young poets like Keetje Kuipers are making their 

voices heard not by tearing up the old language but by making the old language 

new.” 

Keetje Kuipers, a native of the Northwest, earned her BA at Swarthmore 

College and MFA at the University of Oregon. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford 

University, she divides her time between Stanford and Missoula, Montana. 

Chaos is the New Calm 

Wyn Cooper 

Author Events 

Amherst, MA • Boston, MA • Cambridge, MA • Northampton, MA • 

Williamstown, MA • Bennington, VT • Brattleboro, VT • Burlington, VT • 

Manchester, VT • St. Johnsbury, VT 

Author Hometown: Brattleboro, VT





Translator Hometown: San Diego, CA 

Cradle Book 

Craig Morgan Teicher 

Timeless yet timely and hopeful with a dark underbelly, these fables revive a 

tradition running from Aesop to W.S. Merwin. With a poet’s mastery, Craig 

Morgan Teicher creates strange worlds populated by animals fated for disaster 

and the people who interact with them, or simply act like them, including a 

very sad boy who wishes he had been raised by wolves. There are also a handful 

of badly behaving gods, a talking tree, and a shape-shifting room. 

Craig Morgan Teicher is poetry editor of Publishers Weekly and a vice president 

on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. He lives in Brooklyn, New 

York. 

Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Providence, RI 


Book of the Edge 

Ece Temelkuran 

Translated with an Introduction by Deniz Perin 

Ece Temelkuran is arguably Turkey’s most accomplished young writer. In Book 

of the Edge, she describes an allegorical journey wherein the speaker, or explorer, 

encounters strange creatures, including a butterfl y, bull, swordfi sh, 

sow bug, and cruel city dwellers. These poems point to the undeniable connection 

between all living beings. 

Born 1973 in Turkey, Ece Temelkuran (www.ecetemelkuran.com) has published 

eight books of poetry, prose, and nonfi ction. An award-winning 

daily columnist for Milliyet, she was a 2008 visiting fellow at the University of 

Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. 

Translator Deniz Perin received the 2007 Anna Akhmatova Fellowship for 

Younger Translators. 


FICTION 

May 


American Readers Series 13 

5¼ x 8 | 92 pp 


978-1-934414-35-4 CUSA 

Haunting and beautiful fables of 

lonely birds, groaning cows, nurturing 

wolves, and sad little boys. 

POETRY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 

June 


Lannan Translations Selection Series 17 

6 x 9 | 120 pp 


978-1-934414-36-1 CUSA 

The fi rst US poetry translation of an 

award-winning younger Turkish poet and 

controversial investigative journalist. 

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Struggling Times 

Louis Simpson 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 88 pp 


978-1-934414-19-4 CUSA 

Dark Things 

Novica Tadic 

Translated with an Introduction 

by Charles Simic 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 64 pp 


978-1-934414-23-1 CUSA 

And 

Michael Blumenthal 

POETRY 

8 x 8 | 112 pp 


978-1-934414-21-7 CUSA 

Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters 

Jessica Treat 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8 | 160 pp 


978-1-934414-22-4 CUSA 

Awayward 

Jennifer Kronovet 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 80 pp 


978-1-934414-18-7 CUSA 

Glass Grapes 


Martha Ronk 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8 | 216 pp 


978-1-934414-13-2 CUSA

Mud, Sweat, and Gears 

A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven Wheels 

Joe Kurmaskie with Beth Biagini Kurmaskie 

After seventeen years, who would road test a perfectly good marriage by putting 

it on a summer-long, self-contained bicycle adventure across Canada? 

Only the Metal Cowboy, of course. Beth Biagini Kurmaskie, the woman behind 

the man-child, has fi nally saddled up on her own volition—if only to 

bring a bit of parental supervision to the mix. She struggles and stumbles 

along the way while celebrating summer, speed, the simple pleasures of a road 

trip powered by one’s own muscles, and family: what it means to be part of one 

stripped of the comforts and noise of the modern world, riding sixteen feet of 

bicycle train. With three sons aboard—one celebrating his fi rst birthday on the 

road—a nursing mother fi nds her inner Xena Warrior Cyclist and all the reasons 

why she’s stayed married to a whirling dervish of a husband. 

Mud, Sweat, and Gears brings together absurd and sublime moments, introduces 

an American family to the wilds of Canada, uncovers choice characters 

(man and animal), and fi nds all the humor and pathos a Metal Cowboy adventure 

is famous for. If Momentum Is Your Friend was about fathers, sons, and hometown 

heroes, then Mud, Sweat, and Gears is about mothers, wives, family, and the 

glue that holds the world together. 

With an extra twist: revealing and outrageous footnotes from Beth throughout, 

fi lling in the backstories to many previous Metal Cowboy tales. 

The Metal Cowboy rides across Canada with 

his wife and three young sons. 


Momentum Is Your Friend 

The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized 

Posse Take on America 

Joe Kurmaskie 

SPORTS & RECREATION / TRAVEL 

6½ x 9¼ | 272 pp 



978-1-891369-65-0 CUSA 



April 

6 x 9 | 304 pp 


978-1-891369-85-8 CUSA 



Author Hometown: Portland, OR 

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6 x 9 | 304 pp 


978-1-891369-86-5 CUSA 


Metal Cowboy 

Ten Years Further Down the Road Less Pedaled 

Joe Kurmaskie 

“Joe Kurmaskie’s stories are full of optimism, zaniness, and depth; a winning 

combination.”—The Seattle Times 

“The Metal Cowboy is crazy, wise, funny, and living the dream all cyclists 

have—riding off to see the world on a bike. Don’t miss this ride with him.” 

—Bill Strickland, Bicycling 

It’s as if Dave Barry and Charles Kuralt squeezed together onto a bicycle to 

pedal across America and around the world, fi ling outrageous dispatches 

along the way. Insightful, humane, sublimely amusing—Metal Cowboy fi nds nobility 

in the common man, explains true bicycle-love, celebrates the beauty of 

the country, and charmingly relates encounters with malcontents and misfi ts. 

Most of all, Metal Cowboy is a quest. It is the record of a young man seeking 

meaning in the world, trying to fi nd what is good in the people he meets, what 

is good in himself, and a route off the prescribed roadways of life. The forty 

stories in this book describe the highlights and low moments of Metal Cowboy’s 

cycling life, including his hallowed beginnings at age fi ve— absconding with his 

sister’s bike—through fi ve cross-country tours: sleeping in cemeteries, cycling 

through an Elvis-impersonator convention, being attacked by geese, meeting 

madmen (and enjoying their company), being run off the road by rednecks, 

and meeting his future wife (while cycling). 

Joe Kurmaskie is an unforgettable, ebullient, inspiring, bighearted storyteller. 

His love for bicycles, and for humanity, is infectious. Metal Cowboy will 

bring a smile to the face (and adrenaline to the bloodstream) of anyone who 

has ever ridden a bicycle. 

The Metal Cowboy’s debut—an enduring classic of bicycle travel. 


Momentum Is Your Friend 

The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized 

Posse Take on America 

Joe Kurmaskie 


6½ x 9¼ | 272 pp 



978-1-891369-65-0 CUSA

Building the Sea Eagles 

A Pair of Safe and Seaworthy Beach and Coastal Cruisers 

David L. Nichols 

Includes two original beach-cruising sailboat designs, with full plans for 

building them and thorough, meticulous instructions and photos. Beach 

cruisers are sailboats designed to pull up in the shallows near shore for overnight 

camping, with room for sleeping on board if desired, and ample stowage 

for gear so you can stay out for a weekend or a week of adventure. These 

new designs by David L. Nichols take the general concept and perfect it with 

the extra righting moment provided by a weighted keel, plus the extraordinary 

handling abilities imparted by tandem centerboards. 

This book will guide even the novice builder through each step of the 

building process with clearly written sequences and hundreds of excellent 

color photographs. There are also extensive chapters on making all the hardware 

and sails. The builder can choose between sixteen- and fourteen-foot 

sailboats, either of which can be built in a double-car garage. They are fi tted 

with traditional sails that are simple and easy to rig. These boats can be 

launched from a trailer with the same ease as a power boat because they both 

draw less than fi fteen inches of water with the boards up. But even with their 

shallow draft, these boats stay on their feet because there is a generous amount 

of fi xed lead and concrete ballast in the box keels. 

For beginner boatbuilders on up to more experienced craftsmen, this book 

will provide a wealth of information on creating a versatile, safe, and delightful 

sailboat. 

A thorough all-color guide to building two small cruising sailboats. 

The Working Guide to 

Traditional Small-Boat Sails 

A How-to Handbook for 

Builders and Owners 


CRAFTS & HOBBIES / 

SPORTS & RECREATION 

8½ x 11 | 176 pp 



978-1-891369-67-4 CUSA 

Also 

Available 

Lapstrake Canoes 

Everything You Need to Know to 

Build a Light, Strong, Beautiful Boat 


CRAFTS & HOBBIES 

5 x 11 | 160 pp 

150 Color photographs and illustrations 


978-1-891369-72-8 CUSA 


CRAFTS & HOBBIES / SPORTS & RECREATION 

May 


8½ x 11 | 160 pp 



978-1-891369-87-2 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Austin, TX 

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Bicycle Love 

Stories of Passion, Joy, and Sweat 

Edited by Garth Battista 


6 x 9 | 288 pp 


978-1-891369-45-2 CUSA 

Boatbuilding for Beginners 

(and Beyond) 

Everything You Need to Know 

to Build a Sailboat, a Rowboat, 

a Motorboat, a Canoe, and More! 

Jim Michalak 

CRAFTS & HOBBIES / TECHNOLOGY 

9 x 12 | 175 pp 



978-1-891369-29-2 CUSA 

The Art of Bicycling 

A Treasury of Poems 

Edited by Justin Daniel Belmont 

POETRY / SPORTS & RECREATION 

6 x 9 | 348 pp 



978-1-891369-56-8 CUSA 

Cheap Outboards 

The Beginner’s Guide to Making 

an Old Motor Run Forever 

Max Wawrzyniak 

CRAFTS & HOBBIES / 


8½ x 11 | 176 pp 

100 B&W illustrations, 

photographs, and charts 


978-1-891369-62-9 CUSA 

The Long Season 

One Year of Bicycle 

Road Racing in California 

Bruno Schull 

SPORTS & RECREATION / 


5½ x 8¼ | 256 pp 


978-1-891369-32-2 CUSA 

Small Boats on 

Green Waters 

A Treasury of Good Reading on 

Coastal and Inland Cruising 

Edited by Brian Anderson 


6 x 9 | 304 pp 



978-1-891369-70-4 CUSA

“Like the perfect heist, Donna Moore’s screwball caper is slick, audacious and 

hugely rewarding.”—Chris Ewan, author of The Good Thief ’s Guide to Paris 

“Roll out the awards shelf, Donna is going to grab them all.” 

—Ken Bruen, award-winning author of London Boulevard 

La Contessa Letitzia di Ponzo and her sister Signora Teodora Grisiola are 

not who they might seem. Now in their seventies, they’re actually Letty and 

Dora, a pair of ex-hookers turned con-artists who’ve decided to steal a pair 

of gold, jewel-encrusted Tibetan shih tzu dog statuettes from a Glasgow museum. 

Unfortunately, it seems everyone wants to get their hands on the expensive 

pooches. There’s the dodgy chauff eur, a pair of delinquents who work 

in a crematorium, an out-of-work insomniac bent on revenge, and an innocent 

young islander who’s obsessed with returning the dogs to Tibet. And yet 

the elderly con-artists might just manage to execute their plan and live the rest 

of their lives in the lap of luxury. That’s if they can avoid the Australian hitman 

with his sights on a very diff erent future for them . . . 

Donna Moore is the author of Go to Helena Handbasket, winner of the 2007 

Lefty Award for most humorous crime novel. She has short stories in various 

anthologies, including Damn Near Dead and A Hell of a Woman (both Busted 

Flush Press). Donna runs the blog Big Beat From Badsville, which focuses on 

Scottish crime fi ction. 

A comic crime novel centered on the heist of a pair of 

jewel-encrusted gold dog statuettes. 

Damn Near Dead 

An Anthology of Geezer Noir 

Edited by Duane Swierczynski 

Introduction by James Crumley 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8 | 400 pp 


978-0-9767157-5-7 CUSA 

Old Dogs 

Donna Moore 

Also 

Available 

A Hell of a Woman 

An Anthology of Female Noir 

Edited by Megan Abbott 

Introduction by Val McDermid 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 370 pp 

Trade Paper US $18.00 | CAN 22.00 

978-0-9767157-3-3 CUSA 


978-0-9792709-9-4 CUSA 


FICTION 

June 


5 x 8 | 250 pp 


978-1-935415-24-4 CUSA 




CrimeSpree Magazine • Mystery Scene 

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FICTION 

May 


Charlie Fox Series 1 

5 x 8 | 250 pp 


978-1-935415-13-8 CUSA 





Killer Instinct 

Zoë Sharp 

Introduction by Lee Child 

“One of the best crime debuts in years.”—Yorkshire Post 

“An exciting . . . entertaining fi rst novel.”—The Sunday Telegraph 

Introducing a tough new heroine in thriller fi ction—Zoë Sharp’s Charlie Fox! 

Charlie makes a living of sorts teaching self-defense to women. It’s a skill she 

picked up out of necessity, having been kicked out of the British Army for reasons 

she prefers not to go into. So when Susie Hollins is found dead after she 

mistakenly tussles with Charlie, Fox knows it’s only a matter of time before the 

police come calling. And when the real killer starts taking a very personal interest 

in Charlie, she fi nds herself in the middle of the investigation, where 

she has no choice but to stand and fi ght. 

Fans of Lee Child, Greg Rucka, Gayle Lynds, and Stella Rimington should 

not miss this thriller series! Never before published in the United States, this 

is the highly sought fi rst novel in the Charlie Fox series. An original novel 

with an introduction by Lee Child. 

Zoë Sharp lives in the English Lake District with her husband, Andy. Her 

hobbies are sailing, fast cars (and faster motorbikes), target shooting, travel, 

fi lms, music, and reading just about anything she can get her hands on. She 

is the author of seven Charlie Fox novels, including Third Strike (St. Martin’s 

Minotaur, 2009). Sharp’s heroine Charlie Fox was featured in a story in 

Busted Flush Press’ A Hell of a Woman, “Served Cold,” which was nominated for 

the 2009 Crime Writers’ Association Short Story Dagger. 

The fi rst Charlie Fox thriller, never before published in the United States! 


A Hell of a Woman 

An Anthology of Female Noir 

Edited by Megan Abbott 

Introduction by Val McDermid 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 370 pp 


978-0-9767157-3-3 CUSA 


978-0-9792709-9-4 CUSA

Riot Act 

Zoë Sharp 

“Charlie Fox is simply the best.”—Jeff ery Deaver 

“Zoë Sharp writes some of the best thrillers around. . . . Charlie Fox is totally 

believable, thanks to Sharp’s writing skill.”—Ted Hertel, Deadly Pleasures 

“Male and female crime fi ction readers alike will fi nd Sharp’s writing style 

addictively readable—one of the very best crime fi ction sagas out there.” 

—Paul Goat Allen, Chicago Tribune 

“Charlie Fox is fast becoming the must-read heroine of mystery.”—Ken Bruen 

A self-defense expert with a motorbike and an attitude, Charlie Fox doesn’t 

need to go looking for trouble. It generally fi nds her. House-sitting for a friend 

seemed like an easy favor at fi rst, but the house in question is in the Lavender 

Garden Estate. Teenage gangs are running riot and Charlie’s desperate neighbors 

have been forced to employ an expensive—and ruthless— security fi rm to 

apply rough justice where the legal kind has failed. The situation gets even uglier 

when a young Asian boy is fatally wounded in what appears to be a racially 

motivated shooting. Caught in the middle of an urban battlefi eld, Charlie’s 

more than able to take care of herself, but then she comes face-to-face with a 

specter from her army past. As the tensions rise, lives will depend on Charlie 

working out just whom she can really trust. 

The second Charlie Fox thriller, 

never before published in the United States! 


FICTION 

July 


Charlie Fox Series 2 

5 x 8 | 250 pp 


978-1-935415-15-2 CUSA 





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Walking the Perfect Square 


Foreword by Megan Abbott 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 230 pp 


978-0-9792709-5-6 CUSA 

Tower 

Ken Bruen and 


FICTION 

5 x 8 | 240 pp 


978-1-935415-07-7 CUSA 

Redemption Street 


Foreword by Peter Spiegelman 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 220 pp 


978-0-9792709-0-1 CUSA 

A Fifth of Bruen 

Early Fiction of Ken Bruen 

Ken Bruen 

Introduction by Allan Guthrie 

FICTION / POETRY 

5 x 8 | 360 pp 


978-0-9767157-2-6 CUSA 

The James Deans 


Foreword by Michael Connelly 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 240 pp 


978-0-9792709-8-7 CUSA 

Just Another Day in 

Paradise 

A.E. Maxwell 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 250 pp 


978-0-9792709-6-3 CUSA

It’s not meant to be like this. Section 8 housing is for other people, not for Jen 

Manners, used to the suburbs and Junior League. But Jen’s now divorced, she 

has her daughter Emily to support, and the only job she can secure is working 

as a checker in the local grocery store. 

She’s not the only one fi nding it diffi cult. Divorce has forced Carrie Angel 

into Section 8 housing too. She’s got two teenage sons, Tex and Casper, and 

for them she’s trying to do her best: she’s an apprentice carpenter in a statesupported 

program. But it’s hard and she’s angry and that temper of hers is not 

something she can easily control. And that’s one reason why her exhusband 

Dill is fi ghting for custody of their sons. He might just win it too; it seems like 

Tex is getting more and more unmanly, and that’s just gotta be Carrie’s fault. 

Slowly, the two women get to know each other, to trust each other, to be 

friends. Jen begins making sense of her new life. Then, into the store walks 

Georgia, a woman recently bereaved, and the confusion Jen had last felt as a 

teenager comes to grab hold of her again. 

Angels and Manners shows us three women who have been tripped up by life 

but are determined to claw their way back. Not back to where they came from, 

though. These women have new lives to make. 

Down-on-their-luck women struggle to take control of their future. 

Babies, Bikes and Broads 

The Third Book in the Cat Rising Series 

Cynn Chadwick 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-62-1 CUSA 

Angels and Manners 

Cynn Chadwick 

Also 

Available 

Cat Rising 

The First Book in the Cat Rising Series 

Cynn Chadwick 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-66-9 CUSA 


FICTION 

April 


5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-71-3 CUSA 




Author Hometown: Asheville, NC 

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FICTION 

June 


5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-73-7 CUSA 




Author Hometown: Washington, DC 

I Came Out for This? 

A Novel 

Lisa Gitlin 

There’s only one place Joanna Kane can tell it like it is. Her journal: 

I hate Terri Rubin, the woman I’m in love with. She called and told me she’s dating a woman named 

Sonya. I hate this Sonya and I hate Terri and I hate myself because I was never like this in my life. Do 

you know what it’s like to come out when you’re in your forties, having menopausal symptoms, for 

God’s sake, and then fall madly in love with someone? All of a sudden you’re in adolescence for the 

fi rst time. You don’t even recognize yourself. My whole adult life I was this cool, collected writer, 

strutting around in jeans and leather jacket, advising friends and siblings about their relationships, 

being a devoted daughter and a responsible professional person and a good citizen, and then one day I 

woke up and realized I was gay, and then this sassy woman walked into my life and I fell in love at fi rst 

sight, after spending my life thinking that never really happened and only watching West Side Story 

because of the gangs. And now I’ve become the kind of person I used to make fun of, who becomes 

hysterical because her beloved tells her she’s dating some woman named Sonya who has an apothecary 

store in Bethesda, Maryland. 

I’m sick of being in this endless rut, I’m sick of Cleveland, and I’m thinking of moving to 

Washington, DC to be with Terri Rubin who I hate. 

A hilarious tale of lesbian adolescence at forty-seven years old.

“ Mirrors is a very fi ne novel, well worth your time and treasure.” 

—The Bay Area Reporter 

“Marianne Martin is a wonderful story teller and a graceful writer.” 

—Ann Bannon 

“This is a novel of discovery that reaches into the deeply personal and well beyond. 

. . . Marianne Martin achieves new heights with this lovingly researched 

and intelligent novel.”—Katherine V. Forrest 

They both have dedication. Passion. Commitment. No wonder Jean and Shayna 

are best friends. Jean Carson is a teacher, striving to make a diff erence to her 

students. Shayna Bradley is an attorney, determined to help lesbian mothers 

keep their kids. 

Shayna has her life under control, has things just how she likes it: her own 

law practice and a girlfriend and, always, her best friend Jean. 

For Jean, it’s diff erent. There’s always Shayna. There are her students too— 

but there’s also a husband, and he’s anxious for kids. She’s made excuses, but 

she knows it isn’t fair. She’s short-changing him, and she’s short- changing 

herself. 

She must fi nd the strength to leave. And then she must fi nd the courage to 

face facts: Shayna is more than a friend. 

It’s a new reality, and one that catches both women unawares. And when the 

school board learns of Jean’s “situation,” suddenly Jean and Shayna face greater 

risks to their happiness—and their dreams—than they ever anticipated. 

Dedication. Passion. Commitment. They may not be enough. 

Mirrors was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award when it was fi rst published 

in 2001. 

Jean ended her marriage; 

now can she fi nd the courage to follow her heart? 

For Now, For Always 


FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 


978-1-932859-43-0 CUSA 

Mirrors 


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FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-932859-17-1 CUSA 


FICTION 

May 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-72-0 CUSA 




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For Now, For Always 


FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 


978-1-932859-43-0 CUSA 

Risk 

Elana Dykewomon 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-1-932859-69-0 CUSA 

Girls with Hammers 

The Second in the 

Cat Rising Series 

Cynn Chadwick 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-67-6 CUSA 

Last Chance at the 

Lost and Found 

Marcia Finical 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-932859-28-7 CUSA 

Verge 

Z Egloff 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-932859-68-3 CUSA 

Red Audrey and the Roping 

Jill Malone 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 264 pp 


978-1-932859-54-6 CUSA



If You Could See Me Now 

Peter Straub 

Afterword by Thomas Tessier 

Illustrated by J.K. Potter 

This ghost story was a classic when it was fi rst released, and its reputation has 

only grown over the years. Now it has been republished in hardcover format, 

with a suite of handsome full-color, full-page photographs by J.K. Potter, 

who has given us these haunting compositions that perfectly complement the 

understated beauty of Peter Straub’s prose. Elegantly typeset and handsomely 

bound, this new edition is limited to three hundred copies, each one signed 

by Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, and J.K. Potter. The book also features a 

lengthy interview with Straub and a bonus short story. 

Koko 

Peter Straub 

Afterword by Laird Barron 

Illustrated by Howie Michels 

This is a tremendously beautiful and oversized edition of Peter Straub’s classic 

novel of the Vietnam War, with fi fteen full-page exquisite wood engravings 

by artist Howie Michels. This edition also features a fi ne afterword by Laird 

Barron and is handsomely bound, with a top-edge stain, ribbon marker, special 

endsheets, and other extras. Limited to three hundred numbered copies, 

each one signed by Peter Straub, Howie Michels, and Laird Barron. 


FICTION 

April 

7 x 10 | 372 pp 


Trade Cloth AH US $200.00 | CAN $225.00 

978-1-933618-45-6 CUSA 

Peter Straub’s novel of revenge, 

now offered for the fi rst time in 

a signed, limited edition. 

FICTION 

April 

7 x 10 | 768 pp 

15 Woodcuts 


978-1-933618-55-5 CUSA 

Koko is Peter Straub’s 

foray into the psychological horror 

of the Vietnam War. 

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Falling Angel 

William Hjortsberg 

Introduction by James Crumley 

Foreword by Ridley Scott 

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a private 

eye against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced. A routine 

missing-persons case soon turns into a nightmare of voodoo and black magic. 

Each book is signed by William Hjortsberg. 

FICTION | April | 5½ x 8½ | 302 pp 

Trade Cloth AH US $65.00 | CAN $75.00 | 978-1-933618-09-8 CUSA 

The Tenant 

Roland Topor 

Art by Roland Topor 

Introduction by Thomas Ligotti 

The Tenant chronicles a harrowing descent into madness as Mr. Trelkovsky is 

subsumed into Simone Choule, a suicide victim whose presence still saturates 

Mr. Trelkovsky’s new apartment. The novel probes the depths of guilt and obsession. 

With four short stories and a selection of Roland Topor’s artwork. 

Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti. 

FICTION | April | 5½ x 8½ | 216 pp | 9 B&W illustrations 


In Concert 

Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem 

Illustrated by Howie Michels 

The fi rst collection of this dynamic writing duo’s science fi ction stories, In 

Concert also includes their short story “The Man on the Ceiling,” the fi rst short 

story ever to win the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild 

Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Each book is signed by the Tems. 

FICTION | April | 6 x 9 | 364 pp | 7 B&W illustrations 


Child of Rage 

Jim Thompson 

Introduction by Ed Gorman 

Photographs by Harry O. Morris 

Child of Rage is one of Jim Thompson’s most bitter and sexually explicit novels. 

Includes an interview with Thompson’s paperback publisher, two color photographs 

by Harry O. Morris, photographs of Thompson, and a bonus novella 

by Thompson, this is the defi nitive edition. Signed by Ed Gorman and 

Harry O. Morris. 

FICTION | April | 6 x 9 | 288 pp | 4 B&W photographs and color illustrations 

Trade Cloth AH US $75.00 | CAN $95.00 | 978-1-933618-32-6 CUSA



Stand on Zanzibar 

John Brunner 

Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson 

Illustrated by Jacob McMurray 

This dystopian look at the future, one of the most bleak in all of science fi ction, 

is now in a new edition with full-page, full-color designs by Jacob McMurray. 

Challenging and unconventional, this is an important work in science fi ction, 

and it won the Hugo Award in 1969. 

Each copy of the book is also signed by John Brunner. Brunner passed 

away in 1985, but in the early 1980s he had worked on a project with Charles 

Brown of Locus. This project never came to be, but Brunner had signed a few 

hundred sheets for it. 

The Sheep Look Up 

John Brunner 

Introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson 

Illustrated by Dan J. O’Driscoll 

Food and crops, water and scarce resources—all are undergoing major stresses 

due to human incompetence and greed. In The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner describes 

the lives of the people in the midst of ecological catastrophe and their 

attempts to come to terms with their environment. 

This is the fi rst limited edition of The Sheep Look Up ever published. This edition 

features an introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson, one of science fi ction’s 

best-known writers. The book is also signed by Robinson and features 

an interview with John Brunner, a column by Brunner, and a short autobiography 

with photographs. 


FICTION 

May 

7 x 10 | 560 pp 



978-1-933618-54-8 CUSA 

John Brunner’s classic on the dangers 

of overpopulation presents an eerie and 

unsettling view of humanity’s future. 

FICTION 

May 

7 x 10 | 464 pp 



978-1-933618-53-1 CUSA 

John Brunner’s classic 

novel of ecological catastrophe, 

now more relevant than ever. 

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The Ninth Confi guration 

William Peter Blatty 

Essay by Mark Kermode 

Published in 1967 and then extensively revised in 1978, The Ninth Confi guration 

is a fascinating look at madness, philosophy, and the nature of religious belief. 

Both The Ninth Confi guration and Twinkle, Twinkle ‘Killer’ Kane have been out of 

print for decades, but this new edition combines both novels with a long essay 

by Mark Kermode. 

FICTION | June | 6 x 9 | 292 pp | 8 B&W photographs 


Black Wings Has My Angel 

Elliot Chaze 

Introduction by Bill Pronzini 

Art by Joe Servello 

An acknowledged cult classic, Bill Pronzini makes a convincing argument that 

Black Wings Has My Angel is really a literary novel operating under the guise of a 

crime novel. The book is less about plot than the completely convincing characterizations. 

This is the defi nitive edition of the book, available for the fi rst 

time in a hardcover edition. 

FICTION | April | 6 x 9 | 282 pp 

Trade Cloth AH $95.00 | 978-1-933618-43-2 USA 

The Far Cry 

Fredric Brown 

Illustrated by Joe Servello 

Introduction by William F. Nolan 

Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. 

No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed 

her. Years later a man moved into the same house and discovered that nothing 

is more seductive than an unsolved murder. 

FICTION | June | 6 x 9 | 280 pp | 8 Color and B&W illustrations 


I Wake Up Screaming 

Steve Fisher 

Introduction by Keith Allan Deutsch 

I Wake Up Screaming is a classic Hollywood noir about obsession. Steve Fisher used 

his extensive Hollywood knowledge to create a realistic and thrilling novel. 

This is the fi rst hardcover edition of the novel since 1941, and it includes 

ten short stories, an essay, and a never-before-published memoir by Fisher 

about Humphrey Bogart. 

FICTION | June | 6 x 9 | 420 pp | 8 Color and B&W illustrations and photographs 

Trade Cloth AH US $125.00 | CAN $140.00 | 978-1-933618-61-6 CUSA

The Infl uence 

Ramsey Campbell 

Introduction by Peter Atkins; Afterword by Ramsey Campbell 

and J.K. Potter; Photographs by J.K. Potter 

This new edition of The Infl uence features J.K. Potter’s rare photographs, outtakes, 

and a fi fty-page interview with Ramsey Campbell. The book is not 

available in any other format. With a printed silk front panel, top-edge stain, 

ribbon marker, patterned endsheets, and duotone images, this edition is 

signed by Ramsey Campbell and J.K. Potter. 

FICTION | June | 7 x 10 | 368 pp | 10 Duotone photographs 


Dracula 

Bram Stoker 

Introduction by Patrick McGrath; Illustrated by Greg Hildebrandt 

Dracula may be the most infl uential horror novel ever published. Now, we have 

published Bram Stoker’s enduring classic in a new edition with the complete 

black and white and color illustrations by Greg Hildebrandt. 

This edition includes three bonus stories: “Dracula’s Guest,” along with 

Stoker’s best two short tales “The Judge’s House” and “The Squire.” 

FICTION | July | 8 x 12 | 434 pp | 30 Color and B&W illustrations 

Slipcased AH US $295.00 | CAN $325.00 | 978-1-933618-62-3 CUSA 

The Werewolf of Paris 

Guy Endore 

Introduction by Thomas Tessier 

The only edition of this novel that is currently in print, The Werewolf of Paris is 

replete with a number of wood engravings of werewolves. In the back of the 

book is a gallery of cover artwork from the various editions of The Werewolf of 

Paris. Each book is signed by Thomas Tessier. 

FICTION | July | 6 x 9 | 368 pp | 10 Woodcuts 


Night of the Living Dead 

Studies in the Horror Film 

Edited by Jerad Walters and Marco Lanzagorta 

The most defi nitive collection of criticism ever published about this fi lm, with 

eighteen essays and two interviews with George Romero. Also discussed are 

the many sequels to the fi lm, its place in fi lm history, and every critical perspective 

you could imagine. With an extensive bibliography and fi lm stills, this 

edition is indispensable for any fi lm student. 

PERFORMING ARTS | June | 6⅝ x 10 | 368 pp | 50 Color and B&W photographs 



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Knowing Darkness 

Artists Inspired by Stephen King 

George Beahm 

Introduction by Frank Darabont 

ART / FICTION 

11 x 15 | 440 pp 



978-1-933618-49-4 CUSA 

Videodrome 

Studies in the Horror Film 

Tim Lucas 

PERFORMING ARTS 

6 x 8¾ | 144 pp 

50 B&W illustrations / 

Color and B&W fi lm stills 


978-1-933618-28-9 CUSA 

A Lovecraft Retrospective: 

Artists Inspired by 

H.P. Lovecraft 

Introduction by Harlan Ellison 

Preface by Stuart Gordon 

Afterword by Thomas Ligotti 

ART / FICTION 

12¾ x 16 | 400 pp 



978-1-933618-34-0 CUSA 

Muddy’s Chronicles 

Memoirs from the 

Last Great Coffeehouse 

Bill Stevens 

SOCIAL SCIENCE 

5½ x 9 | 454 pp 

B&W photographs 


978-1-933618-40-1 CUSA 

The Other 

Thomas Tryon 

Introduction by Ramsey Campbell 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 290 pp 


978-1-933618-26-5 CUSA 

The Tenant 

Roland Topor 

Introduction by Thomas Ligotti 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 224 pp 



978-1-933618-06-7 CUSA

The Black History of the White House 

Clarence Lusane 

“Clarence Lusane is one of America’s most thoughtful and critical thinkers on 

issues of race, class and power.”—Manning Marable 

The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and 

shifting signifi cance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, 

from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced 

to work there to its fi rst black First Family, the Obamas. 

Juxtaposing signifi cant events in White House history with the ongoing 

struggle for equal rights, Clarence Lusane off ers a unique and compelling 

view of one of America’s most symbolic structures. From the fi rst slave- 

owning presidents to more contemporary examples, he shows how US presidents 

have used their authority to advance racial justice only when under great 

pressure to do so. Here is the story of the furious backlash unleashed against 

President Roosevelt for inviting Booker T. Washington to dinner in 1901, 

which resulted in a virtual ban on such invitations for the next thirty years. 

Here too are the voices of those who insisted on justice and representation, 

such as Marcus Garvey, who issued a call in 1920 for a Black House and a black 

president. The Black History of the White House is a timely reminder that the White 

House has always been a prism through which to view the progress and struggles 

of black Americans. 

Clarence Lusane has been published in The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The 

Baltimore Sun, Oakland Tribune, Black Scholar, and Race and Class. He often appears on 

PBS, BET, C-SPAN, and other national media. The author of several books 

and the former editor of Black Political Agenda, he teaches at Howard University. 

The untold history and politics of the White House 

from the perspective of African Americans. 


HISTORY / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

June 


City Lights Open Media 

5½ x 8 | 200 pp 


978-0-87286-532-7 CUSA 






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Howard Zinn’s personal, historical, and 

political views on the signifi cance of the 

US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima. 

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5 x 7 | 160 pp 


978-0-87286-508-2 CUSA 

How “colorblindness” in policy and 

personal practice perpetuate racial 

inequity in the United States today. 


August 



5 x 7 | 100 pp 


978-0-87286-509-9 CUSA 

Colorblind 

Barack Obama, Post-Racial Liberalism 

and the Retreat From Racial Equity 

Tim Wise 

In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues 

against “colorblindness” and for a deeper color-consciousness in both public 

and private practice. We can only begin to move toward authentic social 

and economic equity through what Wise calls “illuminated individualism”— 

acknowledging the diverse identities that have shaped our perceptions and 

the role that race continues to play in the maintenance of disparities between 

whites and people of color in the United States today. This is the fi rst book to 

discuss the pitfalls of “colorblindness” in the Obama era. 


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The Bomb 

Howard Zinn 

As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing 

of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima 

and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, 

Zinn off ers his deep personal refl ections and political analysis of these events, 

their consequences, and the profound infl uence they had in transforming 

him from an order- taking combat soldier to one of the greatest living anti- 

authoritarian, antiwar historians writing today. Zinn says that only by embracing 

the truth of history can ordinary people, rethinking their role, fi nd 

the possibility for redemption and change. Published on the sixty-fi fth anniversary 

of the bombing of Hiroshima. 



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New World of Indigenous Resistance 

Noam Chomsky and Voices from 

North, South, and Central America 

Edited by Lois Meyer and Benjamín Maldonado 

Indigenous societies today face diffi cult choices: can they develop, modernize, 

and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal 

identity? Specifi cally, can their communities benefi t from national education 

while resisting the tendency of state-imposed programs to undermine their 

cultural sovereignty, language, and traditions? According to Lois Meyer and 

Benjamín Maldonado, these are among the core questions being raised by indigenous 

societies whose comunalidad—or communal way of life—is at odds with 

the dictates of big business and the social programs of the state. 

To explore these issues in depth, Meyer and Maldonado conducted a series 

of dialogues with Noam Chomsky, and invited numerous organizers and intellectuals 

from indigenous communities of resistance to comment. In three 

in-depth conversations, Chomsky off ers poignant lessons from his vast knowledge 

of world history, linguistics, economics, anti-authoritarian philosophy, 

and personal experience, and traces numerous parallels with other peoples 

who have resisted state power while attempting to modernize, develop, survive, 

and sustain their unique community identity and tradition. Following 

the interviews are commentaries from more than a dozen activists and intellectuals 

from the Americas, who speak from their own on-the-ground experiences 

and work with indigenous communities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, 

Peru, Panama, and Canada. 

This is a powerful refl ection on the interconnected issues of education, 

cultural preservation, globalization, forms of resistance, and possibilities for 

hope on local, regional, and national levels. It is Noam Chomsky at his best— 

lucid, accessible, and deeply informative. 

Interviews with Noam Chomsky accompanied by commentaries by 

indigenous organizers on globalization and resistance in the Americas. 


Interventions 

Noam Chomsky 


5¼ x 8 | 176 pp 


978-0-87286-483-2 CUSA 


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April 



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Seen through the prism of 

personal history, Islanders is an evocative, 

unsettling view of a world falling apart. 

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August 


5½ x 8 | 250 pp 


978-0-87286-507-5 CUSA 

In Danger reveals the literary 

life of internationally renowned fi lmmaker 

Pier Paolo Pasolini. 

FICTION 

April 


5¼ x 7 | 96 pp 


978-0-87286-506-8 CUSA 

In Danger 

A Pasolini Anthology 

Pier Paolo Pasolini 

Edited with an Introduction by Jack Hirschman 

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) was a major cultural fi gure in post-WWII 

Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and fi lmmaker. 

In Danger is the fi rst anthology in English devoted to his political and literary 

essays, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of postwar 

Italy, and through the mid-’70s, Pasolini’s writings provide a fascinating 

portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for 

power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay 

Pasolini was murdered at the age of fi fty-three; In Danger includes his fi nal interview, 

conducted hours before his death. 



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Islanders 

Ammiel Alcalay 

Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about fi nding one’s own hard-won 

truth. A young man’s indelible memories of the struggle to fi nd intimacy— 

formative experiences like the ebb and fl ow of friendships, love, and ordinary 

workaday life—are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed 

realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm 

of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the 

bleak fi shing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, 

Islanders explores the classic theme of identity’s intricate relationship to place. 



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Absence of the Hero 

Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946–1992 

Charles Bukowski 

Edited with an Introduction by David Calonne 

Everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected 

work. Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), one of the most outrageous fi gures of 

twentieth-century American literature, was so prolifi c that many signifi cant 

pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much of 

his earliest fi ction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished 

stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions are here: sex, 

booze, and gambling, along with trenchant analysis of what he calls “Playing 

and Being the Poet.” Among the book’s highlights are tales of his infamous 

public readings (“The Big Dope Reading,” “I Just Write Poetry So I Can Go 

to Bed with Girls”); a review of his own fi rst book; hilarious installments of 

his newspaper column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, including meditations on neo- 

Nazis and driving in Los Angeles; and an uncharacteristic tale of getting lost 

in the Utah woods (“Bukowski Takes a Trip”). Yet the book also showcases the 

other Bukowski—an astute if off beat literary critic. From his own “Manifesto” 

to his account of poetry in Los Angeles (“A Foreword to These Poets”) to 

idiosyncratic evaluations of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, 

and Louis Zukofsky, Absence of the Hero reveals the intellectual hidden beneath 

the gruff exterior. 

Our second volume of his uncollected prose, Absence of the Hero is a major addition 

to the Bukowski canon, essential for fans, yet suitable for new readers 

as an introduction to the wide range of his work. 

Everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man returns with more 

boozy tales of extraordinary madness. 


Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook 

Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944–1990 

Charles Bukowski 

Edited by David Calonne 

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Nearly fi fty artists, poets, and activists 

examine the contemporary prison system 

through heartrending art and writing. 

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April 


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Like a chance encounter between 

Albert Einstein and André Breton, 

Trance Archive embraces philosophy, 

science, and surrealism. 

ART / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

April 


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978-1-931404-11-2 CUSA 

Since his post-9/11 essay “The Emergency,” Andrew Joron has been regarded 

as one of American poetry’s most profound practitioners. Trance Archive draws 

on over twenty years of Joron’s work, from his early science fi ction poetry to 

his later fusion of surrealist romanticism and avant-garde materialism, into 

what he calls “speculative lyric.” Infused with radical politics, Joron’s poetry 

takes inspiration from chaos and complexity theory, and refl ects personal associations 

ranging from anarchist philosopher Paul Feyerabend to surrealist 

mystic Philip Lamantia. The third volume in our vibrant Spotlight series, 

Trance Archive affi rms Joron’s place among major contemporary poets. 



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Over two million individuals are behind bars in US prisons, living in isolation 

from their families and their communities. Prison/Culture investigates the culture 

of incarceration as an integral part of the American experience through 

a compilation of stunning and often heartrending artwork by inmates as well 

as by artists on the outside, such as Sandow Birk and Keith Antar Mason, who 

address incarceration, criminal profi ling, wrongful conviction, prison labor, 

and the death penalty. The book also includes essays on prisons and prison 

art by Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis, and poetry by Amiri Baraka, Ericka 

Huggins, Luis Rodriguez, Sesshu Foster, and more. 



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Edited by Sharon E. Bliss, Kevin B. Chen, 

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I Hotel 

Karen Tei Yamashita 

Illustrated by Leland Wong and Sina Grace 

“Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow.”—Booklist 

“With humor and bite, [Yamashita] takes on waste, greed, stupidity, love, 

environmental and cultural apocalypse and the problems of migration and 

belonging—achieving a kind of cross between Kobo Abe, Gabriel García 

Márquez and Upton Sinclair.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 

Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, 

graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil 

rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten novellas, 

one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and 

Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam 

War raged, and cities burned. 

As Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, 

and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they 

become caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and 

personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International 

Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement—their stories have come to 

defi ne the very heart of the American experience. 

Heralded as a “big talent” by the Los Angeles Times and praised by Newsday for 

“[wrestling] with profound philosophical and social issues” while delivering 

an “immensely entertaining story,” Karen Yamashita is the recipient of an 

American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A California 

native who has also lived in Brazil and Japan, she teaches at the University 

of California–Santa Cruz, where she received the Chancellor’s Award for 

Diversity in 2009. 

A tour de force through America’s most transformative decade. 

Tropic of Orange 


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Author Hometown: Terre Haute, IN 

Drowning Tucson 

Aaron Michael Morales 

“Morales wrestles with nothing less than the parameters of the human soul.” 

—Luis Alberto Urrea 

Set in Tucson’s toughest neighborhoods during the late 1980s, this explosive 

debut follows the disintegration of the Nuñez family and the people whose 

paths they cross. From crooked cops to prostitutes plying their trade along the 

“Miracle Mile,” each person’s destiny is linked by crushing poverty, the brutal 

codes of the street, and the harsh nature of the desert. In this place of drought 

and fl ood, “civilization” is every bit as dangerous as its surroundings. 

Fast-paced and unrelenting, each chapter draws the reader in with the fi rst 

line and doesn’t let go until the heartrending fi nale. Like a southwest version 

of HBO’s The Wire, this riveting novel is an episodic portrait of a desperate, 

violent America, populated by characters as lethal as they are sympathetic. 

Genuinely relevant and never gratuitous, Morales writes about the side 

of humanity that society fears and ignores. Without judgment, he portrays 

the lives of young gangbangers, despondent mothers, gay teenage runaways, 

corrupt preachers, twisted pedophiles, murderous vigilantes, and broken 

families—all just trying to get by. 

Born in 1976, Aaron Michael Morales grew up in Tucson. At age ten, 

he became a paperboy for the Arizona Daily Star and since then his jobs have 

ranged from working in a car parts factory to bartending in Chicago’s Oak 

Park neighborhood. He currently teaches writing and literature at Indiana 

State University and is working on his second novel. Visit him online at 

www.aaronmichaelmorales.com. 

Hi-def, brutally honest tales from the streets of Tucson.

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder 

Travis Nichols 

Titled after the US Air Force song, this engaging debut explores the legacy of 

the Greatest Generation from the perspective of Generation Y, the fallout of 

war through the eyes of a pacifi st, and the enduring human desire for love, adventure, 

truth, and understanding. 

Pensive in the wake of 9/11, a young man—our “correspondent between the 

past and the present”—launches a mission to reunite his beloved grandfather, 

an American bombardier, with Luddie, the woman who saved him during 

WWII. Armed only with the address on the back of an old photograph and his 

grandfather’s memories, the young man begins writing letters to Luddie. 

Undaunted by her lack of response, the narrator travels to Poland with his 

girlfriend and grandfather. As they come closer to fi nding the site where the 

bombardier was shot down, the letters to Luddie become more personal and 

the saga of a family with a long and storied history emerges. 

Beautifully orchestrated and eloquently original, each sentence slowly 

builds upon the next in a charming style both poetic and engrossing. A tale of 

soldiers and saviors, of burning and bombing, of fathers and sons and brothers 

and lovers, this is also the story of what we fi nd when we dare to revisit the 

past. 

Born in Iowa in 1979, Travis Nichols now lives in Chicago. An editor at 

the Poetry Foundation, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Believer, 

Details, Paste, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Stranger. Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder 

is his fi rst novel. 

A picturesque story of modern love, old fl ames, 

and the long shadow of history. 


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Shoulder Season 

Ange Mlinko 

“In Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season observation and metaphor are always on 

edge. . . . The poems are at once formally engaged, playful, and disturbing. 

It’s a wild ride and a great read.”—Rae Armantrout 

With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful 

and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil 

of twenty-fi rst-century life, where the mind might still be “a little spa,” but the 

future “is hedged against the / boys who died.” 

A longtime East Coast resident and language columnist for The Nation, Ange 

Mlinko currently lives in Beirut. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, 

The London Review of Books, Poetry, and elsewhere. 

Exacting, virtuosic lyrics on surviving tough times.

Find the Girl 

Lightsey Darst 

“ Find the Girl is a book of poems as urgent as its title. . . . Here we have an 

important new poetic voice, one that fully earns Louis Zukofsky’s observation 

that, in poetry, ‘The story must exist in each word or it cannot go on.’” 

—Laura Kasischke, author of The Life Before Her Eyes 

From Snow White to the Yde Girl and Helen of Troy to JonBenét, this lurid 

and lyrical debut explores the transition from girlhood to womanhood 

and America’s almost pornographic fascination with missing and exploited 

children. 

Born and raised in Florida, Lightsey Darst is a writing instructor, dancer, 

and dance critic who lives in Minneapolis. 



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darkacre 

Greg Hewett 

Through exploring the infrastructure of civilization, the body’s intimate 

topography, and the cultural terrain of Italian opera, Greg Hewett excavates 

the fi elds where humanity has erected its monuments, fought its battles, and 

sowed the seeds of both redemption and ruin. 

for everyman’s a remainderman 

every boundary evidence 

every terminus implication 

and every acre dark 

Greg Hewett’s three previous collections have received a Publishing Triangle 

Award, two Minnesota Book Award nominations, and an IndieBound Poetry 

Top Ten recommendation. 



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A poetic exposé of girlhood, 

obsession, and the CSI industry. 

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April 


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A penetrating, 

richly metaphoric survey of 

the human landscape. 

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The Latehomecomer 

A Hmong Family Memoir 

Kao Kalia Yang 


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The Ocean in the Closet 

Yuko Taniguchi 

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Famous Suicides of the 

Japanese Empire 

David Mura 

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Legends from Camp 

Lawson Fusao Inada 

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The Last Communist Virgin 

Wang Ping 

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Donald Duk 

Frank Chin 

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TJ—The Various Names of Johannesburg 

Johannesburg—50 Years of the City 

Photographs by David Goldblatt 

Text by Ivan Vladislavic 

This is a luxurious box containing two books, a large book on Johannesburg, 

TJ, with astonishing pictures by David Goldblatt, and a smaller second book, 

Double Negative, with a novel by Ivan Vladislavic. This collection is an exceptional 

duo-edition in a special format—part fi ction and part photo-essay. 

The book is about Johannesburg and about life in the city, home, habit, 

change, memory, mortality, friendship, ghosts, gardens, walking, falling, selling, 

and stealing. It is a partial account of both authors’ lives in their neighborhoods; 

it is a selective self-portrait. 

David Goldblatt is the recipient of Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2009 for 

this work. 

Ivan Vladislavic is one of the most talented authors of South Africa. 

Koudelka Piedmont 

Photographs by Josef Koudelka 

Introduction by Giuseppe Culicchia 

“If humans are largely absent from [Josef Koudelka’s] pictures, it is because 

the main protagonist is the land itself. In some of his images, the construction 

sites appear as if they had been abandoned after some catastrophic event such 

as the one inferred by Cormac McCarthy in his masterpiece The Road. It is almost 

as if Koudelka, through his camera lens, had already seen nature slowly 

beginning to heal its wounds by reclaiming what humans have taken away from 

it.”—Giuseppe Culicchia 

This is the last photographic essay by Josef Koudelka, one of the most renowned 

photographers of the world, about the Piedmont region in Italy. 

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Contrasto 

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300 Color and B&W photographs 


978-88-6965-218-9 CUSA 

David Goldblatt is a world-renowned 

photographer, and Ivan Valdislavic is one 

of the best writers from South Africa. 

Josef Koudelka has reached 

national acclaim in the United States 

for his previous books Invasion and 

Retrospective by Aperture. 

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The Black Figure is 

Waiting for the White 

Photographs by Mario Giacomelli 

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William Klein Contacts 

Photographs by William Klein 

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Love Me 

Photographs by Zed Nelson 

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Flamboya 

Photographs by Viviane Sassen 

Afterword by Edo Dijksterhuis 

with Moses Isegawa 

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American Youth 

Photographs by Redux Pictures 

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8 x 10¼ | 240 pp 



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War Souvenir 

Photographs by Paolo Ventura 

Foreword by Francine Prose 

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Sanctifi cum 

Chris Abani 

“Abani . . . explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience 

and imagination . . . [he] enters the wound with a boldness that avoids 

nothing. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal 

“Stunning poems.”—New Humanist 

A self-described “zealot of optimism,” poet and novelist Chris Abani bravely 

travels into the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, 

loss and renewal. In poems of devastating beauty, he investigates complex 

personal history, family, and romantic love. 

Sanctifi cum, Abani’s fi fth collection of poetry, is his most personal and ambitious 

book. Utilizing religious ritual, the Nigerian Igbo language, and reggae 

rhythms, Abani creates a post-racial, liturgical love song that covers the globe 

from Abuja to Los Angeles. 

I say hibiscus and mean innocence. 

I say guava and mean childhood. 

I say mosquito netting and mean loss. 

I say father and it means only that. 

Happen that we all dream, but the sea is only sea. 

Happen that we call upon God but it is only a breeze 

ruffl ing a prayer book in a small church 

where benches groan in the heat . . . 

Chris Abani was born in Nigeria in 1966 and published his fi rst novel at sixteen. 

He was imprisoned for his writings, and after his release he eventually 

moved to the United States. He is the author of ten books of poetry and fi ction, 

including the best-selling novel GraceLand. He teaches at the University 

of California, Riverside, and lives in Los Angeles. 

Chris Abani fi nds the sacred in a charged and broken world, 

to “build meaning from detritus.” 


Hands Washing Water 

Chris Abani 

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Author Hometown: Westerly, RI 

Winter’s Journey 

Stephen Dobyns 

“[Dobyns’ poetry] has a somber, eccentric beauty not quite like anything else 

around these days.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“[Dobyns] blends philosophical musings with daft, deft metaphors and a 

cheeky vernacular.”—Poetry 

In extended prose poems, poet and best-selling novelist Stephen Dobyns employs 

everything from Atlantic seascapes to werewolf dreams to explore issues 

public and private. By turns tough and tender, Dobyns’ plainspoken poems 

create and refl ect a worldview full of possibilities. He contrasts the quotidian 

with the exalted, always delivered in a precise, familiar voice. Daily walks become 

meditations on politics, philosophy, literature, and the larger considerations 

of existence and being: 

Not so long ago Harvard’s top poetry critic told me 

and a few others that she took pride in never once 

having voted. It was hard to feel more than sad, but, 

to me, she vanished, she became a non-person, as if 

she had walked out on the human race, her writings 

also, since what truth could she say about poetry if 

she separated poetry from the world? 

Stephen Dobyns is the author of twenty-one novels, including the popular 

Saratoga crime series, twelve books of poetry, and a collection of non fi ction. 

Dobyns has worked as a reporter for The Detroit News and has taught at the 

University of Iowa, Sarah Lawrence College, Warren Wilson College, Syracuse 

University, and Boston University. He lives in Rhode Island. 

Stephen Dobyns, author of the best-selling Saratoga crime series, says 

“I consider myself entirely a poet.”

Horses Where the Answers 

Should Have Been 


Chase Twichell 

“[Twichell’s] poems generate the requisite heat with the poet’s precise, original 

and frequently brilliant use of language. . . . A major voice in contemporary 

poetry.”—Publishers Weekly 

“[Twichell’s poems] track the inner movements of one life with an unexpected 

freshness.”—The Washington Post 

Publishers Weekly called Chase Twichell “a major voice in contemporary poetry,” 

and this long overdue retrospective supports the claim. Selected from six 

award-winning books, this volume collects the best of Twichell’s meditative 

and startling poems. A longtime student of Zen Buddhism, Twichell probes 

how the self changes over time and how the perception of self aff ects the history 

and meaning of our lives. Her poems exhibit a deep and urgent love of 

the natural world amidst ecological decimation, while also delving into childhood 

memories and the surprise and nourishment that come from radical 

shifts in perception. 

What etiquette holds us back 

from more intimate speech, 

especially now, at the end of the world? 

Can’t we begin a conversation 

here in the vestibule, 

then gradually move it inside? 

What holds us back 

from saying things outright? 

Chase Twichell is the author of six books of poetry and the best-selling writer’s 

manual Practice of Poetry. She is the founding editor of Ausable Press and 

lives in rural New York with her husband, the novelist Russell Banks. 

A collection of the work of a poet whom Publishers Weekly called 

“a major voice in contemporary poetry.” 

Dog Language 


POETRY 

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Rabindranath Tagore 

Translated by Tony Stewart and 


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978-1-55659-196-9 CUSA 


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May 


6 x 9 | 200 pp 


978-1-55659-318-5 CUSA 






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Author Hometown: Keene, NY 

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Poets & Writers 

Author Hometown: Provincetown, RI 

Mean Free Path 

Ben Lerner 

“Lerner [is] among the most promising young poets now writing.” 

—Publishers Weekly 

“Sharp, ambitious, and impressive.”—Boston Review 

National Book Award fi nalist Ben Lerner turns to science once again for his 

guiding metaphor. “Mean free path” is the average distance a particle travels 

before colliding with another particle. The poems in Lerner’s third collection 

are full of layered collisions—repetitions, fragmentations, stutters, 

re- combinations—that track how language threatens to break up or change 

course under the emotional pressures of the utterance. And then there’s the 

larger collision of love, and while Lerner questions whether love poems are 

even possible, he composes a gorgeous, symphonic, and complicated one. 

You startled me. I thought you were sleeping 

In the traditional sense. I like looking 

At anything under glass, especially 

Glass. You called me. Like overheard 

Dreams. I’m writing this one as a woman 

Comfortable with failure. I promise I will never 

But the predicate withered. If you are 

Uncomfortable seeing this as portraiture 

Close your eyes. No, you startled 

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry and was named a fi nalist 

for the National Book Award for his second book, Angle of Yaw. He holds degrees 

from Brown University, co-founded No: a journal of the arts, and teaches at 

the University of Pittsburgh. 

The National Book Award fi nalist’s third volume is layered with quick 

changes, false starts, and continuous reorientation . 

Angle of Yaw 

Ben Lerner 

POETRY 

7 x 9½ | 80 pp 


978-1-55659-246-1 CUSA 

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Ben Lerner 

POETRY 

7 x 9½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-211-9 CUSA

Is Music 


John Taggart 

“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen 

Is Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems 

from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments 

and jazz-infl uenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions 

regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality 

to Taggart’s poetry, rooted in music—from medieval Christian traditions and 

soul to American punk rock. He is also heavily infl uenced by the visual arts, 

most notably in his classic “Slow Song for Mark Rothko,” in which he did with 

words what Rothko did with paint and dye. 

To breathe and stretch one’s arms again 

to breathe through the mouth to breathe to 

breathe through the mouth to utter in 

the most quiet way not to whisper not to whisper 

to breathe through the mouth in the most quiet way to 

breathe to sing to breathe to sing to breathe 

to sing the most quiet way. 

To sing to light the most quiet light in darkness 

radiantia radiantia 

singing light in darkness. 

To sing as the host sings in his house. 

John Taggart is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two books of 

criticism. He was, for many years, a professor of English and director of the 

Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. He lives near 

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. 

Gathering the best work from nearly forty years of 

an iconic innovator in American poetry 


POETRY 

April 


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978-1-55659-304-8 CUSA 






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Author Hometown: Newburg, PA 

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Author Hometown: El Paso, TX 

The Book of What Remains 

Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

“To write well about your life, you need to have a life worth writing about. On 

that score, Sáenz hits pay dirt.”—Booklist 

“A former Catholic priest, this poet creates prayerful verse that is at once mystical 

and utterly human.”—The Washington Post 

Poet, novelist, and popular YA writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz writes to the core 

truth of life’s ever-shifting memories. Set along the Mexican border, the contrast 

between the desert’s austere beauty and the brutality of border politics 

mirrors humanity’s capacity for both generosity and cruelty. In his numbered 

series “Meditation on Living in the Desert,” Sáenz turns to memory, heritage, 

and a host of literary progenitors as he directly confronts matters of faith, civil 

rights, and contemporary politics—always with the unrelenting moral urge to 

speak truth and do something. 

I am looking at a book of photographs. 

The photographs document the exodus of Mexicans crossing the desert. 

I am staring at the face of a woman who is more a girl than a woman. 

She is handing her documents to a government offi cial. 

I know and you know and we all know that the documents are forged. 

The offi cial is not in the photograph. 

Only the frightened eyes of a girl. 

A former Catholic priest who worked with Mother Teresa, Benjamin Alire 

Sáenz has published fi ve books of poetry, four novels, a collection of short 

stories, and two bilingual children’s books. He received the American Book 

Award and teaches in the bilingual MFA program at University of Texas, El 

Paso. 

Benjamin Alire Sáenz turns to memory, heritage, and the living desert 

as he confronts faith and contemporary politics 


Dreaming the End of War 

Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-239-3 CUSA

Preliminary Report 

Jon Davis 

“Davis is as good as DeLillo at playing off our internal hunger for meaning 

against surface senselessness. And Davis catches the surface brilliantly.” 

—American Book Review 

Punctuated by subversive humor, verbal theatrics, and moments of strange, 

luminous beauty, Davis’ clear, unsentimental poems are meditations and mediations 

on contemporary existence and the unreliability of language, emotions, 

and the memory to gather it all in. 

Jon Davis, author of fi ve collections of poetry, earned his MFA from the 

University of Montana. He has received a Lannan Literary Award and currently 

teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New 

Mexico. 



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Author Hometown: Santa Fe, NM 

The Correct Spelling and Exact Meaning 

Richard Jones 

“Jones can be stunning, eff ortlessly fi nding the right tone.”—The Village Voice 

Richard Jones examines the details of daily life as though through a child’s 

eyes, taking in every wondrous moment as if time were nonexistent, yet with 

the intensely painful understanding that the elemental world of the family is 

fl eeting. Jones, who is strongly infl uenced by Rilke and Keats, is a master of 

metaphor who can transform mundane things into sacred objects. 

Richard Jones is the author of ten books of poetry and criticism and founding 

editor of the literary magazine Poetry East. He teaches at DePaul University 

in Chicago. 



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POETRY 

June 


6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-315-4 CUSA 

“[Davis’] voice remains among 

the sharpest and most unique in 

contemporary poetry.” 

—The Independent 

POETRY 

April 


6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-317-8 CUSA 

A tough-minded, tender book 

Rainer Maria Rilke might have written had 

he studied Zen and become a parent. 

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Selected Backlist from Copper Canyon Press 

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The Shadow of Sirius 

W.S. Merwin 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 130 pp 


978-1-55659-310-9 CUSA 

Rising, Falling, Hovering 

C.D. Wright 

POETRY 

7 x 9¼ | 100 pp 


978-1-55659-309-3 CUSA 

The Book of Questions 

Pablo Neruda 

Translated by William O’Daly 

POETRY 

5½ x 7½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-160-0 CUSA 

Delights & Shadows 

Ted Kooser 

POETRY 

5½ x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-201-0 CUSA 

Lao-tzu’s Taoteching 

Translated by Red Pine 

RELIGION / POETRY 

6 x 9 | 200 pp 


978-1-55659-290-4 CUSA 

Human Dark with Sugar 

Brenda Shaughnessy 

POETRY 

6 x 9 | 96 pp 


978-1-55659-276-8 CUSA

Hidden Wisdom 

The Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition 

Tim Wallace-Murphy 

From Egyptian mythology to Jewish mysticism, Rome and Greece to the druids 

and the gnostics, Tim Wallace-Murphy exposes a fascinating lineage of hidden 

mysteries and secret societies, continuing through the Templars, Rosicrucians, 

and Freemasons to our modern visionaries. This hidden stream of spirituality 

and that of sacred knowledge are inseparably entwined to form the single most 

important continuous strand in the entire Western esoteric tradition. 

This tradition exerted a seminal infl uence on the thinking of the builders 

of the great cathedrals; leading teachers in ecclesiastical schools; philosophers; 

playwrights; poets such as Shakespeare, Goethe, Blake, and W. B. Yeats; and 

on artists and Renaissance giants such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. 

It is also the root from which sprang alchemy and modern science. 

Now, as more people are looking to fi nd information on the alternatives to 

dominant religions and dogmas that have told us what to think and how to behave, 

as faith has been questioned by religious scandals, economic meltdowns, 

and an increasingly sick planet Earth, Wallace-Murphy reveals the secrets of 

the masters, including invaluable spiritual insights into every day life that have 

been hidden throughout the ages. He shows us who kept this spiritual tradition 

alive despite appalling persecution, so that we in the twenty-fi rst century 

might benefi t from its accumulated fruits and ennoble our lives. 

Hidden Wisdom will be of immense interest to readers of the number one bestseller 

The Lost Symbol as it explains much of Dan Brown’s focus on the Ancient 

Mysteries. 

Tim Wallace-Murphy is an international best-selling author known for his 

deep knowledge of Rosslyn, the Knights Templar, Sacred Geometry, and Rex 

Deus. 

Hidden Wisdom reveals the hidden stream of spirituality and sacred 

knowledge underlying the entire Western esoteric tradition. 


The Enigma of the Freemasons 

Their History and Mystical Connections 

Tim Wallace-Murphy 

HISTORY / EDUCATION 

8 x 10½ | 144 pp 


and photographs 


978-1-932857-44-3 CUSA 


HISTORY / RELIGION 

April 


5¼ x 8½ | 304 pp 


978-1-934708-48-4 CUSA 




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978-1-934708-49-1 CUSA 



The Egypt Code 

Robert Bauval 

Why did the ancients align their monuments so precisely with the stars? What 

were the practical and symbolic reasons behind these mysterious confi gurations? 

From the author of The Orion Mystery, the best-selling book that introduced 

the revolutionary star-correlation theory about the Giza pyramids, The 

Egypt Code reveals an amazing Grand Unifi ed Plan behind the legendary temples 

of upper Egypt. 

Robert Bauval, one of the world’s most prominent and controversial 

Egyptologists, completes his groundbreaking investigation of astronomy as related 

to Egyptian monuments and related religious texts. The Egypt Code revisits 

the Pyramid Age and the Old Kingdom, proposing a vast sky-ground correlation 

for the Memphite-Heliopolis region, and presenting the possibility of 

a grand plan spanning three thousand years of Pharaonic civilization and involving 

pyramids and major temple sites along the Nile. 

The central idea of the book is that the cosmic order, which the ancients 

referred to as “Maat,” was comprised of the observable cycles of the sun and 

stars, in particular the star Sirius, and that the changes that took place due to 

the precession of the equinoxes and the so-called Sothic Cycle are refl ected in 

the orientation and location of religious sites. 

Born in Egypt and having lived there and elsewhere in the Middle East for 

much of his life, Robert Bauval has published several papers linking the 

pyra mids with astronomy, and his fi ndings have been presented at the British 

Museum. He has also written three books with best-selling author Graham 

Hancock (Message of the Sphinx, Talisman, and The Mars Mystery). 

The mysteries of the planetary alignments of the 

pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt are unlocked.

The Taste of Penny 

Jeff Parker 

Tight, wry, dark, and deeply funny, The Taste of Penny agitates the senses in stories 

modern and mischievous. This collection captures love, relationships, 

and fi nding one’s way in the twenty-fi rst century. 

Jeff Parker’s work has been included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006, 

The 2005 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories, and other anthologies. 

FICTION | April | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 167 pp 

Trade Paper $16.95 | 978-0-9825204-4-4 USA 

Love Doesn’t Work 

Henning Koch 

Stories hilarious and haunting, characters reckless and wary, wise and 

wanting—Love Doesn’t Work works absolutely. These stories have a futuristic 

feel to them—almost a literary science fi ction reminiscent of Ray Bradbury. 

Readers will enjoy their way through Henning Koch’s ideas as expressed by 

his characters. 

FICTION | June | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 200 pp 


Best of the Web 2010 

Edited by Matt Bell and Kathy Fish 

“The book is heartily signifi cant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising, 

sometimes frustrating and sometimes exhilarating—not unlike the Web itself.” 

—Los Angeles Times Book Review 

“There is good work here. Perhaps that’s all that needs to be said.” 

—Fiction Writers Review 

FICTION / LITERARY COLLECTIONS | June | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 330 pp 


The Devil’s Moor 

Stefan Kiesbye 

With characters carved with an eye for what makes us all perversely and palpably 

human, the humorously heartbreaking The Devil’s Moor is the story of the 

postwar village of Hemmersmoor, where incest, superstition, war crimes, and 

fairy tales are interwoven and create their own time and reality. 

FICTION | August | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 8½ | 185 pp 



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Currency 

Zoe Zolbrod 

Robin, an American backpacker low on money but infatuated with travel and 

beauty, and Piv, her charismatic Thai lover who dreams of a better life, become 

embroiled in the dangerous world of international animal traffi cking in 

this exotic literary thriller. 

FICTION | April | A Paperback Original | OV Books | 5½ x 8½ | 272 pp 


Every Bitter Thing 

Hardy Jones 

“Hardy Jones writes with admirable clarity and directness about growing up 

under an overbearing and unapologetic father.”—Thomas Russell 

“Every Bitter Thing is a very readable, intense, and compelling addition to the literature 

of diffi cult, harrowing childhoods. The story feels very real . . . it will 

aff ect you deeply.”—Moira Crone 

FICTION | May | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 185 pp 


Todos Santos 

Deborah Clearman 

“Clearman paints a vivid picture of the gritty and graceful sights of Guatemala 

as well as of the human heart, while touching upon the universal instinct to 

protect our children from real and imagined threats.”—Holly MacArthur, 

managing editor of Tin House 

FICTION | June | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


Pictures of Houses with Water Damage 

Michael Hemmingson 

Michael Hemmingson has been called “Raymond Carver on acid” by literary 

guru Larry McCaff ery and “a disciple of a quick and dirty literature” by the 

American Book Review. Hemmingson writes from within the everyday man’s murky 

nightmares, off ering hints and then, dazzlingly, reneging on his hints. 

FICTION | August | A Paperback Original | Black Lawrence Press | 5½ x 8½ | 170 pp 


Working with Napoleon 

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by his Private Secretary 

Baron Claude-François de Méneval 

To be employed by a towering military and political fi gure such as Napoleon 

Bonaparte during the entire period of his active life gives the astute observer 

an incomparably privileged position. Claude François de Méneval remained 

a secretary and close confi dant of the emperor from 1802 to 1815 and was especially 

attached to the Empress Marie Louise. Thanks to the author’s notes 

and exceptional memory, these memoirs were published in 1894 and immediately 

became the most authoritative document used by every historian of 

the Napoleonic era. Besides being a most effi cient secretary and note-taker, 

Méneval was also himself a man of letters, and his writing style, clear and unadorned, 

makes for wonderful reading of a history in the making during a 

most fascinating era. 



Lenin and His Comrades 

The Bolsheviks Take Over Russia 1917–1924 

Yuri Felshtinsky 

What was the real impact and signifi cance of the October Revolution of 1917? 

This avowedly revisionist interpretation by a major Russian dissident seeks to 

place Lenin and those around him in the proper perspective. Since the takeover 

of Russia was the result of a coup d’état by a tiny minority of criminals 

that Yuri Felshtinsky doesn’t hesitate to call gangsters, the Communist regime 

was doomed from the start. 

Yuri Felshtinsky received a PhD in history from Rutgers University. His books 

include The Failure of the World Revolution (1991), Blowing up Russia (with Alexander 

Litvinenko, 2007), and The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin 

(with Vladimir Pribylovsky, 2008). He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. 

Author Events 


Author Hometown: Boston, MA 


HISTORY 

April 

6 x 9 | 750 pp 



978-1-929631-94-0 CUSA 

Working with Napoleon 

has no competition. A one of a 

kind classic memoir. 

HISTORY 

May 


6 x 9 | 450 pp 



978-1-929631-95-7 CUSA 

Reads like a true crime investigation. 

A hard-hitting anti-Communist slant by a 

dissident critic of the Communist regime. 

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FICTION 

June 


5½ x 8¼ | 220 pp 


978-1-929631-97-1 CUSA 

A fast-paced historical mystery set in 

Aquitania during during Roman conquest. 

Will appeal to readers of I, Claudius. 

FICTION 

July 


5½ x 8¼ | 300 pp 


978-1-929631-96-4 CUSA 

The shocking revelations 

of the Rosenberg spy case are in 

this fast-paced thriller. 

Pax Romana 

The Aquitania Mysteries 

Benoît Séverac 

In the faraway province of Aquitania, in the confi nes of the Roman Empire 

during the time of Augustus, a new city is terrorized by what appear to be a 

series of brutal murders of young Roman noblemen. There is a background 

of deep tension between the Roman colonizers and the inhabitants of the 

town of Lugdunum Convenarum. The Gauls have not been able to accept the 

strange ways of their masters, and the reign of Augustus—with its promise of 

universal peace—wants no accidents with the local population. An investigator 

arrives from Tolosa and begins to uncover the strange happenings in this 

backwater of the Empire at the foot of the Pyrenees. 

Code Name: Kalistrat 

Secrets of the Rosenberg Spy Case 

Arno Baker 

“An expertly informed treatment of the Rosenberg case, using fi ction to fi ll in 

the shadowy places where our imagination wants to go.”—Gary Kern, author 

of A Death in Washington and The Kravchenko Case 

A thriller, largely based on fact, that tells the inside story of the Rosenberg spy 

network and the fate of the famous couple that was sentenced to die on the 

electric chair. The truth fi nally comes out with the memoirs of their Soviet 

handler who tells all (or . . . almost all) with the blessing of the KGB, now 

known as the SVR. But which story is Kalistrat telling? The true facts, or those 

manipulated to ensure that the Rosenbergs appear to be innocent? How the 

story unfolds and what the Russians were really seeking becomes a nonstop espionage 

novel set in the 1940s and ’50s. Was Julius Rosenberg paying for the 

mistakes of others? Did the KGB really want him and Ethel to live? Were there 

last-minute top secret negotiations between the United States and the Soviet 

Union that could have saved the Rosenbergs’ lives? These and other questions 

are asked and fi nally answered.

“Here are poems of intelligent consideration and a deft and heart-born 

music, fi lled with the gleam of particularity and a lushness of language and 

substance.”—Jane Hirshfi eld 

Out of acutely observed, deeply felt particulars, Carol Moldaw constructs 

poetry of imaginative daring that illuminates and transforms the life within us 

all. In So Late, So Soon, “oblique, wily, and intensely intelligent poems” repeatedly 

achieve, to quote from The New Yorker, “lyric junctures of shivering beauty.” 

Aurally rich, structurally varied, inventive, and sensually textured, these are 

poems at once passionate and analytical, descriptive and meditative, lyrical 

and complex—poems that keep one eye on the moon while leveling their gaze 

at the self and its immediate world. 

“Out of the West” 

Out of the west, unexpected, lyric, 

a stand of yellow irises 

rises from the pond muck. 

Two horses graze the fi eld, 

one limping from the fi re they fl ed. 

Matter and spirit meet, love, 

argue, wherever you rest your eyes, 

on microscopic midges, horsefl ies. 

So Late, So Soon 


Carol Moldaw 

Carol Moldaw is the author of a novel, The Widening, and four books of poetry— 

The Lightning Field, which won the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize; Through the Window; 

Chalkmarks on Stone; and Taken from the River. She is the recipient of a Lannan 

Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, 

and a Pushcart Prize. 

Carol Moldaw’s “lyric junctures of shivering beauty” 

illuminate and transform the life within us all. 


The Widening 

Carol Moldaw 

FICTION 

6 x 9 | 120 pp 


978-0-9745995-9-5 CUSA 


POETRY 

June 


6 x 9 | 144 pp 


978-0-9819687-2-8 CUSA 




Author Events 


Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR 

Author Hometown: Pojoaque, NM 

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May 


6 x 9 | 72 pp 


978-0-9819687-1-1 CUSA 

At stake are no less 

than the origins and mysteries of 

fl esh and touch: food. 

POETRY 

July 


6 x 9 | 72 pp 


978-0-9819687-3-5 CUSA 

Voices chafe against circumstances 

of love, sex, loss, and longing with 

sometimes humorous, sometimes 

disasterous results. 



Author Events 

Washington, DC • Chapel Hill, NC • Greensboro, NC • Hillsborough, NC • 

Raleigh, NC • Gettysburg, PA • Lewisburg, PA • Charleston, SC • Columbia, SC • 

Rock Hill, SC • Knoxville, TN • Nashville, TN • Morgantown, WV • Charlottesville, VA • 

Lexington, VA • Lynchburg, VA • Richmond, VA • Roanoke, VA 

Author Hometown: Roanoke, VA 

“In this wild, sexy, exuberantly off -the-wall collection, parrots, puppets, and 

the great Casanova take turns force-feeding Viagra to the stuff y old sonnet. 

But it’s Myrna Stone’s Rabelaisian gift for language that really steals the show. 

My head’s still spinning.”—George Bilgere 

In this book of voices, speakers resurrected from the deeper past and the dead 

chafe against the circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing. 

Myrna Stone is the author of two poetry books—How Else to Love the World and 

The Art of Loss—and the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and an 

Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. 



Venison 

Thorpe Moeckel 

“Part orison, part ecstatic vision, part post-Lapsarian psalm, Venison turns the 

act of dressing/blessing a buck into rumination on ‘the red path’ of laboring, 

bloodshed, making, and the search for meaning that marks the human fall 

from paradise into time.”—Lisa Russ Spaar 

Food doesn’t get any more local, cosmic, primitive, tasty, or disturbing than 

in this book-length, lyrical-meditative poem. At stake are no less than the origins 

and mysteries of fl esh and touch. 

Thorpe Moeckel teaches at Hollins University and is the author of two books 

of poems—Odd Botany and Making a Map of the River. 

The Casanova Chronicles 

Myrna Stone 

Author Events 

Cincinnati, OH • Cleveland, OH • Columbus, OH • Dayton, OH • Toledo, OH 

Author Hometown: Greenville, OH

The Feminist Press at CUNY—Celebrating Forty Years 

From Madea to Michelle 

Courtney Young 

In an impassioned polemic, Courtney Young strikes at the heart of this potent 

cultural moment. Turn on the TV or hop over to the Cineplex. Chances 

are, you’ll come across a Tyler Perry production. One of the most successful 

producers in Hollywood, Perry has made a literal industry out of his Madea 

character: one steeped in a long tradition of men dressing as women, spoofing 

black femininity. At the heart of Perry’s comedy is an unruly woman who 

needs to be saved by her man and by her church. He’s laughing all the way to 

the bank, but what about the women and girls who comprise his core audience? 

What are they getting? 

At the other extreme, Michelle Obama represents an independence and 

integrity that inspire new paradigms. Yet we all know her popularity has been 

hard won. Public debates over her body, wardrobe, and lifestyle choices make 

clear that she is seen in light of centuries-old clichés of black womanhood that 

threaten to marginalize her. 

With humor and a broad frame of reference, Young looks at hip-hop and 

other cultural icons, fi nding hope in a new generation that subverts traditional 

renderings of being black and female. 

Courtney Young’s fi ction and pop culture commentaries have appeared in 

The Nation, The Huffi ngton Post, TheGrio.com, The Root, and Popmatters. 

com, and she blogs at thethirtymilewoman.wordpress.com. Originally from 

Lafayette, Louisiana, she now lives in New York City. 

From Michelle to Rihanna to Madea, Courtney Young 

breaks down images of today’s most iconic black women. 

SOCIAL SCIENCE / CURRENT EVENTS 

June 


5½ x 8 | 144 pp 


978-1-55861-663-9 CUSA 





Black Issues Book Review • 

The Huffi ngton Post • The Nation • Signs 

Author Events 

Washington, DC • Boston, MA • 



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Bitch • BUST 

Author Events 


King Kong Theory 

Virginie Despentes 

Translated by Stéphanie Benson 

“ King Kong Theory is essential reading!”—Dorothy Allison 

“King Kong Theory brings to mind Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, Muscio’s CUNT, and 

Plath’s The Bell Jar—feminist eloquence without restraint. You will love it.” 

—Susie Bright 

“Finally someone has done it! The feminist movement needs King Kong Theory 

now more than ever. A must-read for every sex worker, tranny, punk, queer, 

john, academic, pornographer—and for all those people who dislike them 

too.”—Annie Sprinkle 

With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes—in her own 

words “more King Kong than Kate Moss”—delivers a highly charged account 

of women’s lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender, 

and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her 

own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as 

a jumping-off point, she creates a new space for all those who can’t or won’t 

obey the rules. 

Virginie Despentes is the writer and co-director of Baise-Moi, the controversial 

rape-revenge novel that became the basis for a notorious fi lm by the same 

name. Born in Paris, she now lives in Barcelona. 

A manifesto for girls and women who can’t or won’t obey the rules.


Revenge 

Taslima Nasrin 

Translated by Taslima Nasrin and Honor Moore 

“Nasrin’s voice is the voice of humanism everywhere.”—Wole Soyinka 

“Taslima Nasrin has spoken out about the oppression of women under Islam, 

and what she’s said needs saying.”—Salman Rushdie 

Revenge is a delicious novel about getting even from one of the most controversial 

and internationally acclaimed writers of her generation. 

In modern Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with 

her husband, Haroon, will continue much as it did when they were dating on 

her university campus. But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon’s family 

home, Jhumur fi nds she is expected to be the traditional Muslim wife: head 

covered, eyes averted, and unable to leave the house without an escort. When 

she becomes pregnant, Jhumur is shocked to discover that Haroon doesn’t believe 

the baby is his. Overwhelmed by his mistrust, Jhumur plots her revenge 

in the arms of a handsome neighbor. Readers from every walk of life will be 

stunned by this tale of love, lust, and blood ties. 

Taslima Nasrin, an award-winning writer and human rights activist, is known 

for her powerful writing on women’s oppression and unfl inching criti cisms of 

Islam, despite forced exile and multiple fatwa calling for her death. In India 

and Bangladesh, Nasrin’s fi ction, poetry, memoirs, and essays have topped 

bestseller lists abroad since the 1990s and have been translated into twenty 

languages. 

Between husbands and wives, sometimes revenge 

is the only way to get even. 

FICTION 

August 

5½ x 8 | 200 pp 


978-1-55861-659-2 CUSA 

Library Binding SDT US $55.00 | CAN $63.50 

978-1-55861-664-6 CUSA 





The Nation • Signs • Words Without Borders • 

World Literature Today 

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Artforum • The Journal of Popular Culture 

Author Events 


Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • New York, NY 


Streb 

How to Become an Extreme Action Hero 

Elizabeth Streb 

Foreword by Anna Deveare Smith 

Afterword by Peggy Phelan 

Elizabeth Streb has been testing the potential of the human body since childhood. 

Can she fl y? Can she run up walls? Can she break through glass? How 

fast can she go? With clarity and humor—and with a world-class dance troupe 

called STREB—she continues to investigate what real movement is and has 

come to these conclusions: It’s off the ground! It creates impact! It hurts trying 

to stop it! In this pathbreaking book, Streb combines memoir and analysis 

to convey how she became an extreme action dancer/choreographer, developing 

a form of movement that’s more NASCAR than modern dance; more boxing 

than ballet. 

Once called the Evel Knievel of dance, Elizabeth Streb intertwines the disciplines 

of dance, athletics, rodeo, the circus, and Hollywood stunt-work. She 

founded STREB in 1985, which performs internationally in theaters, museums, 

and town squares. She established S.L.A.M. (STREB Lab for Action 

Mechanics) in 2003, a factory space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which produces 

a cottage industry of extreme action performances and invites everyday 

people to wonder about movement, gravity, and fl ight. 

Actor, playwright, and author Anna Deveare Smith is performing her latest 

play Let Me Down Easy off -Broadway, and she appears on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. 

Peggy Phelan, author of Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories, is the chair of the 

drama department at Stanford University. 

The Evel Knievel of dance creates a new way of seeing the body in action.


His Own Where 

June Jordan 

Introduction by Sapphire 

Nominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of 

Buddy, a fi fteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He 

meets Angela, whose angry parents accuse her of being “wild.” When life falls 

apart for Buddy and his father, and when Angela is attacked at home, they take 

action to create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn. In the process, the 

two fi nd refuge in one another and learn that love is real and necessary. His 

Own Where was one of The New York Times’ Most Outstanding Books and was on the 

American Library Association’s list of Best Books in 1971. 

June Jordan was a poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist, activist, and educator 

known for challenging oppression through her inspirational words and 

actions. She was the founder of Poetry for the People at the University of 

California, Berkeley, where she taught for many years. The author of over 

twenty books, her poetry is collected in Directed by Desire; her selected essays in 

Some of Us Did Not Die. 

Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, Black Wings & Blind Angels, and Push, 

which has been made into a motion picture called Precious. 

The great June Jordan’s young adult classic is rediscovered and 

introduced by best-selling author Sapphire. 

YOUNG ADULT 

May 

Contemporary Classics 

5½ x 8 | 112 pp 


978-1-55861-658-5 CUSA 




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Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • 

School Library Journal 

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July 

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Literature in Medicine • Mother Jones 

Author Events 


Author Hometowns: Alexandria, VA / Berkeley, CA 

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses 

(Second Edition) 

A History of Women Healers 

Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English 

As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the 

United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how fi rmly 

entrenched we are in a system that doesn’t work. 

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, fi rst published by The Feminist Press in 1973, is 

an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its 

historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and 

Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current 

fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and 

fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women 

healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This 

quick history explores changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, 

and modern-day witches. 

Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed 

and Bait and Switch, and, most recently, This Land is Their Land. 

Deirdre English, the former editor of Mother Jones, is a professor in the 

Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. 

A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a 

substantial new introduction by the authors. 


Complaints and Disorders 

The Sexual Politics of Sickness 

Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English 

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / 


5¼ x 8¼ | 96 pp 

B&W illustrations 

Saddlestitched SDT US $6.95 | CAN $8.50 

978-0-912670-20-1 CUSA


Rajmahal 

Kamalini Sengupta 

“Kamalini Sengupta’s Rajmahal is indeed her Howard’s End! But the encompassing 

achievement of the novel is its penetration of a new stage in our human 

history: Sengupta’s is among the fi rst and unquestionably to me the most revealing 

description of the life of the post-colonialist and post-colonized living 

on, somehow together. The colonizers who have lost the sense of what 

home they came from, and the colonized fi nding they have become inexorably 

something like the people from whom they struggled so long to gain their 

freedom.”—Nadine Gordimer 

Marriages, aff airs, suicides, duplicitous relations, second chances, murder, 

madness, and true love—Rajmahal is a beautifully crafted tale of families 

brought together in an unusual Bengali house over a century of turbulent 

changes. Within the walls of this stately home, the melting pot of tenants, alive 

and dead, struggle to come to grips with the social, economic, and intellectual 

forces working in India as it moves from the British Raj to independence. 

Their intertwined fortunes and personal battles become a mirror of the struggle 

for possession of the country’s future. 

Kamalini Sengupta writes for newspapers and magazines in India, the United 

Kingdom, and Hong Kong. As the executive director of the Surya Trust, she 

fi lms documentaries that aim to correct misconceptions about Indian life. 

Rajmahal is her second novel. 

The growth of modern India captured through the lives and loves 

of a Calcutta mansion’s tenants. 

FICTION 

June 


6 x 8½ | 288 pp 


978-1-55861-608-0 CUSA 




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June 


Women’s Studies Quarterly 

6 x 9 | 200 pp 


978-1-55861-660-8 CUSA 



Feminist Studies • Signs • 

The Women’s Review of Books 

Editor Hometown: New York, NY 

Citizenship 

WSQ: Spring/Summer 2010 

Edited by Terri Gordon-Zolov and Robin Rogers 

The concept of nationalism conjures up feelings of belonging and allegiance, 

togetherness and protective boundaries, but what of alienation and xenophobia, 

immigration and asylum? How do we gauge social and political confl ict 

in an age of national and transnational allegiances and identities? Just what 

is nationalism? This special issue of WSQ questions what it means to be a citizen 

in a world haunted by terrorism, racial tension, and gender and class 

exclusion. 

Terri Gordon-Zolov is an associate professor at The New School and has 

also taught at Columbia and Barnard College. She received her PhD from 

Columbia University. She has published on the cabaret, postwar fi lm, and 

performance art in the Third Reich. Her translation of Jean Genet’s Elle was 

adapted for an off -Broadway production. 

Robin Rogers is an associate professor at CUNY’s Queens College and the 

Graduate Center. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, 

was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, and 

served as a Congressional Fellow on Women and Public Policy. She is the author 

of The Welfare Experiments. 

Reimagining what it means to be a citizen in a globalized world. 


Technologies 

WSQ: Spring/Summer 2009 

Edited by Karen Throsby and Sarah Hodges 


6 x 9 | 320 pp 



978-1-55861-600-4 CUSA


If a Tree Falls 

A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard 

Jennifer Rosner 

When Jennifer Rosner’s fi rstborn baby fails her postnatal hearing test, Rosner 

is stunned: How will she and her husband, both hearing, raise a deaf child? 

How will they communicate with a baby who can’t hear their voices? Although 

her mother is hard of hearing, Rosner has no real experience with deafness. 

But then she discovers a hidden history going back generations to the ghettoes 

of Eastern Europe and the culture of shame that was attached to the “deaf 

and dumb.” 

Now the parent of two congenitally deaf children, Rosner shares her journey 

into the modern world of the hearing impaired, and the tough decisions 

she and her husband have made about hearing aids, cochlear implants, and 

sign language. She also travels back in time to imagine her silent relatives who 

had few options but showed surprising creativity in dealing with a world that 

preferred to ignore them. If a Tree Falls is a memoir, a tale of the imagination, 

a guide for families with special-needs children and adults, and a poignant 

meditation on life’s most unpredictable moments. 

Jennifer Rosner is the author of The Messy Self. She holds a PhD in philosophy 

from Stanford University and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her 

husband and two daughters. 

Hearing parents battle to do what’s best for their deaf children. 

Arguing with the Storm 

Stories by Jewish Women Writers 

Edited by Rhea Tregebov 

FICTION 

Jewish Women Writers 

5½ x 8½ | 128 pp 


978-1-55861-558-8 USA 

Also 

Available 

Dearest Anne 

A Tale of Impossible Love 

Judith Katzir 

Translated by Dalya Bilu 

FICTION 


5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 


978-1-55861-575-5 CUSA 

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / 


May 



5½ x 8 | 200 pp 


978-1-55861-662-2 CUSA 


978-1-55861-666-0 CUSA 





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Publishers Weekly 

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Backlist Special from The Feminist Press at CUNY 

And the World Changed 

Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women 

Edited by Muneeza Shamsie 


978-1-55861-580-9 CUSA 

The Answer / La Respuesta (Expanded Edition) 

Including Sor Filotea's Letter and New Selected Poems 

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 


978-1-55861-598-4 CUSA 

Baghdad Burning 

Girl Blog from Iraq 

Riverbend 


978-1-55861-489-5 CUSA 

Baghdad Burning II 

More Girl Blog from Iraq 

Riverbend 


978-1-55861-529-8 CUSA 

Born in the Big Rains 

A Memoir of Somalia and Survival 

Fadumo Korn with Sabine Eichhorst 


978-1-55861-578-6 CUSA 

Bunny Lake is Missing 

Evelyn Piper 


978-1-55861-474-1 CUSA 

Brown Girl, Brownstones 

Paule Marshall 


978-1-55861-498-7 CUSA 

Children of the New World 

A Novel of the Algerian War 

Assia Djebar 


978-1-55861-510-6 CUSA 

Daddy was a Number Runner 

Louise Meriwether 


978-1-55861-442-0 CUSA 

Dearest Anne 

A Tale of Impossible Love 

Judith Katzir 


978-1-55861-575-5 CUSA 

Departing at Dawn 

A Novel of Argentinas Dirty War 

Gloria Lisé 


978-1-55861-603-5 CUSA 

Dreaming of Baghdad 

Haifa Zangana 


978-1-55861-605-9 CUSA 

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Feminist Press 40 th Anniversary Offer 

50% discount on 20 or more copies from assorted titles below. Free freight for US retailers. 

Returnable retail accounts only, one order per account, no backorders. 

Offer runs from January 1, 2010 to March 30, 2010. Promo code: CBFP40 

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From Eve to Dawn, A History of Women in the World, 

Volume I 

Origins: From Prehistory to the First Millennium 

Marilyn French 


978-1-55861-565-6 USA 

From Wonso Pond 

A Korean Novel 

Kang Kyong-ae 


978-1-55861-601-1 CUSA 

Here and Somewhere Else 

Grace Paley and Robert Nichols 


978-1-55861-537-3 CUSA 

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . . And Then Again 

A Zora Neale Hurston Reader 

Zora Neale Hurston; Edited by Alice Walker 


978-0-912670-66-9 CUSA 

In a Lonely Place 

Dorothy B. Hughes 


978-1-55861-455-0 CUSA 

Laura 

Vera Caspary 


978-1-55861-505-2 CUSA 

Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories 

Second Edition 

Rebecca Harding Davis; Edited by Tillie Olsen 


978-0-935312-39-3 CUSA 

The Little Locksmith 

Katharine Butler Hathaway 


978-1-55861-239-6 CUSA 

The Love Children 

Marilyn French 


978-1-55861-606-6 CUSA 

A Matter of Time 

Shashi Deshpande 


978-1-55861-264-8 CUSA 

The Milk of Almonds 

Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture 

Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Guinta 


978-1-55861-453-6 CUSA 

Now, Voyager 

Olive Higgins Prouty 


978-1-55861-476-5 CUSA 

Shalom India Housing Society 

Esther David 


978-1-55861-596-0 CUSA 

Still Alive 

A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered 

Ruth Kluger 


978-1-55861-436-9 CUSA 

Still Brave 

The Evolution of Black Women's Studies 

Edited by Stanlie M. James, Frances Smith Foster, 

and Beverly Guy-Sheftall 


978-1-55861-611-0 CUSA 

Taking On the Big Boys 

Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, 

and the Nation 

Ellen Bravo 


978-1-55861-545-8 CUSA 

Tatterhood and Other Tales 

Ethel Johnston Phelps 

Illustrated by Pamela Baldwin Ford 


978-0-912670-50-8 CUSA 

Touba and the Meaning of Night 

Shahrnush Parsipur 


978-1-55861-557-1 CUSA 

Walking the Precipice 

Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan 

Barbara Bick 


978-1-55861-586-1 CUSA 

Wall Tappings 

Women's Prison Writings, 200 A.D. to the Present 

Edited by Judith A. Scheffler 


978-1-55861-273-0 CUSA 

Women on War 

An International Anthology of Writings from 

Antiquity to the Present 

Edited by Daniella Gioseffi 


978-1-55861-409-3 CUSA 

Women Who Kill 

Ann Jones 


978-1-55861-607-3 CUSA 

Women Without Men 

A Novel of Modern Iran 

Shahrnush Parsipur 


978-1-55861-452-9 CUSA 

Women's Barracks 

Torreska Torres 


978-1-55861-494-9 CUSA 

Word. 

On Being a [Woman] Writer 

Edited by Jocelyn Burrell 


978-1-55861-467-3 CUSA 

The Yellow Wall-Paper 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 


978-1-55861-158-0 CUSA 

You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town 

Zoë Wicomb 


978-1-55861-225-9 CUSA

The Complete and 

Authorized Unabomber 

The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski 

Theodore J. Kaczynski and David J. Skrbina 

Introduction by David J. Skrbina 

“Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber’s 

next target. He is clearly a Luddite, but simply saying this does 

not dismiss his argument. . . . As diffi cult as it is for me to acknowledge, I 

saw some merit in the reasoning in [Kaczynski’s writing]. I started showing 

friends the Kaczynski quote from Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines; I 

would hand them Kurzweil’s book, let them read the quote, and then watch 

their reaction as they discovered who had written it.”—Bill Joy, founder of Sun 

Microsystems, in “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” Wired magazine 

Theodore J. Kaczynski has been convicted for illegally transporting, mailing, 

and using bombs, resulting in the deaths of three people. He is now serving a 

life sentence in the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. 

The ideas and views expressed by Kaczynski before and after his capture 

raise crucial issues concerning the evolution and future of our society. For the 

fi rst time, the reader will have access to an uncensored personal account of 

his anti-technology philosophy, which goes far beyond Unabomber pop culture 

mythology. 

Feral House does not support or justify Kaczynski’s crimes, nor does the 

author receive royalties or compensation for this book. It is this publisher’s 

mission, as well as a foundation of the First Amendment, to allow the reader 

the ability to discern the value of any document. 

David Skrbina, who wrote the introduction, teaches philosophy at the 

University of Michigan, Dearborn. 

Sociopath? Absolutely! Prophetic genius? 

The First Amendment ensures that every reader gets to decide. 



Feral House 

TRUE CRIME / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

April 


6 x 9 | 480 pp 



978-1-932595-80-2 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Florence, CO 

129

Feral House 

130 


April 


5½ x 8½ | 380 pp 



978-1-932595-81-9 CUSA 



Author Hometown: Green Bay, WI 

The Fix Is In 

The Showbiz Manipulations 

of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR 

Brian Tuohy 

Professional sports in America: it’s all about fair play and the goal of winning 

championships. At least that’s the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation 

fi lled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all 

with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible? 

Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has 

infected the storied histories of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NASCAR. 

With reality obscured by a complacent and often complicit sports media, 

The Fix Is In shines a light on a hidden history of clandestine arrangements between 

television networks and sports leagues, all against a background of 

drinking, drugging, and crime. 

Finally, here’s a book that unfl inchingly examines the sordid underbelly of 

the American sports industry. 

Brian Tuohy maintains the website thefi xisin.net and is a frequent contributor 

to the CBS Sports website bleacherreport.com, where he chronicles sports 

scandals and conspiracies as the stories break. Brian has been interviewed by 

The New York Times, ESPN, Fox Sports, and The Power Hour radio program. 

Factual accounts expose how professional sports manipulate the 

outcomes of games for TV ratings and profi ts.

Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman 

The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman 

Edited by Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon 

Art by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster 

Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a 

little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman. Included are 

complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from 

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fi asco. 

Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to 

their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective 

Comics for $130 in 1938. Not only did they lose the ownership of the 

Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at 

ten dollars per page. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded 

as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture. 

After toiling on workman’s wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled 

to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and 

prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American 

way and would lead to ultimate victory. But when the naïve duo launched their 

new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. All the turmoil 

and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the 

comic strip. 

This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and 

Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman. 

Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. 

Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me. 

The Jewish jokester turned crime fi ghter as created by 

Superman’s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. 


Voluptuous Panic 

The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin 

(Expanded Edition) 

Mel Gordon 


8 x 11 | 300 pp 


and photographs 


978-0-922915-96-5 CUSA 

Author Events 

Feral House 

HUMOR / RELIGION 

June 


7½ x 10½ | 240 pp 



978-1-932595-78-9 CUSA 


Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Portland, OR • 

Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA 

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Feral House 

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 

April 


6 x 9 | 340 pp 



978-1-932595-79-6 CUSA 

Astrology, ancient temples, and 

modern banking: here are the alchemical 

physics behind it all. 

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MEDICAL / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

July 


5½ x 8½ | 175 pp 



978-1-932595-82-6 CUSA 

The bizarre history of the 

all-American drug epidemic. 

Babylon’s Banksters 

The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion 

Joseph P. Farrell 

In this latest installment of his remarkable series of books of alternative science 

and history, Joseph P. Farrell outlines the consistent pattern and strategy 

of bankers in ancient and modern times, and their desire to suppress the 

public development of alternative physics and energy technologies, usurp the 

money creating and issuing power of the state, and substitute a facsimile of 

money-as-debt. Here, Farrell peels back the layers of deception to reveal the 

possible deep physics that the “banksters” have used to aid them in their fi - 

nancial policies. 

Feral House also published Farrell’s Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Secret 

Research for Exotic Matter. 

Author Hometown: Spearfi sh, SD 

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak 

A Fast History of Amphetamine 

Mick Farren 

Elvis Presley, the Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the 

Beatles, Judy Garland, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Kerouac, 

Johnny Cash, JFK, and Adolf Hitler. All of the above were, at one time or another, 

to put it bluntly, speedfreaks. 

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces the criminal and cultural use of amphetamine 

and its growing use through each new and destructive cycle. The book will be 

printed in rounded pill capsule form, like the vaunted “black beauty” of pharmaceutical 

history. 

Mick Farren is the former lead singer of The Deviants and the author of more 

than forty books. 

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Endangered 

Biodiversity on the Brink 

Mitch Tobin 

Since 1973, the Endangered Species Act has served as our nation’s legislative 

ark for imperiled wildlife. But our toughest and most controversial environmental 

law has failed to recover all but a handful of the 1,300 species under 

its protection. In Endangered, award-winning journalist Mitch Tobin uses fi rsthand 

accounts to show why so many species are at risk of extinction. 

For nearly seven years, Tobin reported from the front lines of Endangered 

Species Act battles. He crisscrossed the Southwest—our hottest, driest, fastestgrowing 

region—in search of wildlife driven to the brink of extinction and solutions 

to the crisis. Tobin discovered that this region, with its urban sprawl, 

wasteful water use, and vulnerability to climate change, provides a snapshot of 

the issues facing species throughout the world. 

Yet in one of the continent’s hot spots for biodiversity, Tobin also found 

compelling examples of collaboration. With these examples in mind, he advocates 

for a set of innovative policies that can preserve the species and wild 

places that sustain us all. 

As a journalist from 1999 to 2006, Mitch Tobin covered wildlife, wildfi 

res, and other environmental issues for the Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and 

High Country News. Endangered grew out of Tobin’s year-long series on Arizona’s 

endangered species, which was a fi nalist for the John B. Oakes Award for 

Distinguished Environmental Journalism. His work has also been awarded 

two fi rst prizes from the Associated Press. Today, Tobin serves as a consultant 

to leading conservation groups and foundations. 

An award-winning journalist goes to the front lines of the battle for 

endangered species and the desert environment. 


NATURE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

July 

6 x 9 | 304 pp 



978-1-55591-721-0 USA 





Author Events 

Phoenix, AZ • Tucson, AZ • San Francisco, CA • 

Denver, CO • Washington, DC • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Denver, CO 

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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / JUVENILE FICTION 

June 


8 x 8 | 232 pp 



978-1-55591-724-1 USA 

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Author Events 

Washington, DC • Baltimore, MD • New York, NY 

Author Hometown: Fairfax, VA 

Trickster 

Native American Tales 

A Graphic Collection 

Edited by Matt Dembicki 

All cultures have tales of the trickster—a crafty creature or being who uses cunning 

to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. He disrupts 

the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself. 

In Native American traditions, the trickster takes many forms, from coyote 

or rabbit to raccoon or raven. The fi rst graphic anthology of Native American 

trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world 

of comics. 

In Trickster, more than twenty Native American tales are cleverly adapted 

into comic form. Each story is written by a diff erent Native American storyteller 

who worked closely with a selected illustrator, a combination that gives 

each tale a unique and powerful voice and look. Ranging from serious and 

dramatic to funny and sometimes downright fi endish, these tales bring tricksters 

back into popular culture in a very vivid form. From an ego-driven social 

misstep in “Coyote and the Pebbles” to the hijinks of “How Wildcat Caught a 

Turkey” and the hilarity of “Rabbit’s Choctaw Tail Tale,” Trickster provides entertainment 

for readers of all ages and backgrounds. 

Along with compiling and editing the book, artist Matt Dembicki illustrated 

one of the featured trickster tales. Dembicki is the founder of D.C. 

Conspiracy, a comic creators’ collaborative in Washington, DC, and has won 

acclaim for his nature graphic novel, Mr. Big. He currently works as an editor 

for a higher-education association. 

This extraordinary graphic novel depicts traditional Native American 

trickster tales with inspired artists and Native writers.

DeKok and the Corpse by Return 

A. C. Baantjer 

Inspector DeKok awakens one morning to a call from a local radio personality. 

The caller alerts him that he has been selected by one of their listeners 

as the famous Dutchman they would like most to meet. DeKok and eighteenyear-old 

Sandra Verloop never expect that this chance meeting will plant them 

squarely in the middle of a murder investigation. 

Driving Sandra home after a day of shadowing his police work, DeKok 

pulls over to help a stranded motorist. DeKok doesn’t realize that when he 

stepped out of the car to inquire about the man’s automotive troubles, Sandra 

noticed a woman in the car. Although she had never seen a corpse before, 

there was no question that the woman was dead. 

After they drop the man off , the frightened Sandra quickly tells DeKok 

what she saw. They drive back to the spot where they had left the car, only 

to fi nd it missing. What remains are Sandra’s vision of the dead woman and 

DeKok’s recollection of the tattoo on the man’s hand, a bundle of arrows held 

in a claw. 

A. C. Baantjer is one of the most widely read authors in the Netherlands. His 

fi ctional characters refl ect the depth and personality of individuals encountered 

during his thirty-eight-year career as a detective inspector of the Amsterdam 

police. The fi fty-plus crime novels featuring Inspector DeKok have achieved a 

large following among readers in the Netherlands. They continue to conquer 

new territory in these highly acclaimed English translations. 

This classic A. C. Baantjer mystery has Inspector DeKok 

tracking a murderer with only a handful of clues. 

DeKok and the Dead Harlequin 


MYSTERY 

Speck Press 

Inspector DeKok Investigates 

5¼ x 7¾ | 232 pp 


978-1-933108-27-8 USA 

Also 

Available 

DeKok and the Dead Lovers 


MYSTERY 

Speck Press 


5¼ x 7¾ | 208 pp 


978-1-933108-22-3 USA 

Fulcrum Publishing / Speck Press 

MYSTERY 

August 

Speck Press 


5¼ x 7¾ | 216 pp 


978-1-933108-32-2 USA 




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TRAVEL 

April 


Speck Press 

Ramble Guides 

6 x 7¾ | 256 pp 



978-1-933108-28-5 USA 



Author Events 

Austin, TX • Dallas, TX • Del Rio, TX • 

Fort Worth, TX • Houston, TX • San Antonio, TX 


Ramble Texas 

A Wanderer’s Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous 

Eric Peterson 

Every Texan has a personal vision of the true Texas. The problem is, every 

Texan has a diff erent personal vision of the true Texas. An outsider is free to see 

the many sides to the Lone Star State, and seasoned travel writer Eric Peterson 

bellies up to do just that. 

Combining classic guidebook fare with lesser-known destinations Ramble 

Texas creates a unique approach to travel. From mesquite-smoked BBQ on the 

border, tracking the Texas Chupacabra (a vampiric legend known for sucking 

goats dry), and sipping a Shiner under a two-headed calf at the Buckhorn 

Saloon to a visit to the Cockroach Hall of Fame & Museum, Ramble Texas provides 

plenty of ideas on how to spend your time. 

In between the state’s regional chapters, Peterson’s travelogues recount 

adventures and encounters such as “Oil, Power, and Money” in Houston; 

“Border Run” along the Rio Grande; and “Lone Rockstar Tour,” a musical 

road trip from the Panhandle to the heart of Austin. 

Eric Peterson is the author of the Ramble series, books sitting at the intersection 

between guidebook and travelogue. Previous books in the Ramble series 

include Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A., Ramble Colorado, and Ramble California. He is 

also the author of numerous Frommer’s travel guides, including Frommer’s Texas 

(co-author), Frommer’s Colorado, and Frommer’s Yellowstone and Grand Teton National 

Parks, and has contributed to the New York Daily News, The Denver Post, Delta Sky, and 

High Country News. 

Seasoned and entertaining travel writer Eric Peterson uncovers the 

biggest, best, and weirdest of the Lone Star State. 

Ramble California 

A Wanderer’s Guide to the Offbeat, 

Overlooked, and Outrageous 

Eric Peterson 

TRAVEL 

Speck Press 

Ramble Guides 

6 x 7¾ | 280 pp 


978-1-933108-20-9 USA 

Also 

Available 

Ramble Colorado 

A Wanderer’s Guide to the Offbeat, 

Overlooked, and Outrageous 

Eric Peterson 

TRAVEL 

Speck Press 

Ramble Guides 

6 x 7¾ | 232 pp 


978-1-933108-19-3 USA

Buffalo Bill 

Scout, Showman, Visionary 

Steve Friesen 

William F. “Buff alo Bill” Cody was America’s fi rst celebrity. He lived during a 

time of great geographic and technological expansion, a time when American 

mass media became dominant. Cody was there at every step, the right person 

at the right place at the right time. It was through those brilliant eff orts that 

Cody the man became Buff alo Bill the celebrity and, eventually, Buff alo Bill 

the legend. 

Buff alo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary stands apart from other historical tributes 

to Buff alo Bill’s life and times. Based upon the collection of the Buff alo 

Bill Museum and Grave, this book provides a new perspective on William F. 

Cody through a detailed look at his personal eff ects and memorabilia from his 

larger-than-life shows. 

Steve Friesen is the director of the Buff alo Bill Museum and Grave. Like 

Buff alo Bill, Friesen was raised in Kansas. He attended Bethel College in 

Newton, once characterized by Buff alo Bill as the wildest and wickedest town 

in the West. Friesen has a master’s degree in American folk culture from the 

State University of New York’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. He’s married 

to Monta Lee Dakin, whom he met at a national museum conference in 

Philadelphia. They married the following year and have two children. 

The story of Buffalo Bill beautifully told and illuminated 

by his personal artifacts. 



May 


9 x 8½ | 144 pp 



978-1-55591-719-7 USA 



Author Events 

Denver, CO 

Author Hometown: Littleton, CO 

137


GARDENING 

April 

7 x 9 | 368 pp 



978-1-55591-740-1 USA 


This unique book highlights 

150 species of native plants guaranteed 

to be low-maintenance successes for 

high-altitude regions. 

138 

Jay P. K. Kenney is an avid outdoorsman and road biker who thought, during 

the gas crisis of 2008, that it seemed crazy to drive someplace to ride when 

Denver off ers numerous possibilities to the curious cyclist. 


May 


5 x 8 | 128 pp 



978-1-55591-737-1 USA Marketing Plans 


Twenty-fi ve fantastic 

road rides for creative cyclists 

in and around Denver. 

Native Plants for High-Elevation 

Western Gardens, Second Edition 

Janice Busco and Nancy R. Morin 

This new edition of Native Plants for High-Elevation Western Gardens is a comprehensive 

guide to native plants that thrive in the high-altitude regions of the 

American West, featuring 150 plants proven to withstand weather extremes 

and water shortages. Each plant entry includes a description, history, cultivation 

instructions, and color photographs. 

Janice Busco is a native plant horticulturalist and has authored three books on 

gardening with Western native plants. She currently works at Grand Canyon 

National Park. 

Nancy R. Morin served as director of the Arboretum at Flagstaff for fi ve years 

and has been an editor for Flora of North America for the past twenty-fi ve years. 



Metro Denver is one of the great road-biking areas in America. This guide 

shows riders how to link the best streets and bike lanes with dedicated trails 

to create truly interesting rides that take you along rivers and creeks, through 

the best park system in the country, and to the foothills where the plains meet 

the Rockies. 

Author Events 

Denver, CO 


Great Road Rides Denver 

Jay P. K. Kenney

How the West Was Warmed 

Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies 

Edited by Beth Conover 

Foreword by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper 

Afterword by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter 

“There is no single menu theme here, but plenty of food for thought. Sample 

it. Chew on it. Share it with friends. Enjoy.”—From the foreword by Denver 

Mayor John Hickenlooper 

Melting glaciers. Pine beetle infestation. Drought. Carbon footprints. Green 

jobs and promises of a new energy economy. . . . When the venerable Aspen 

Skiing Company starts talking about the “death of snow,” even the most determined 

deniers start to wonder, what is going on? This enlightening collection 

of essays develops a portrait of the wide range of responses to climate change 

in the Rocky Mountain West. For more than two decades, this region has been 

a leader in addressing climate change, and today it is a hub of solutions to this 

pressing global issue. 

Written by more than forty veteran journalists, scientists, businesspersons, 

and policy makers, these essays show us how climate change has and continues 

to aff ect the ways in which we live, work, and play. An alternative to the many 

dry scientifi c books and how-to greening manuals about global warming, How 

The West Was Warmed provides insight, hope, and a little dose of humor to inspire 

all Americans as we face the future. 

Editor Beth Conover has worked for twenty-fi ve years at the intersection 

of environmental protection and economic development. As policy advisor 

to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, she was the architect of Greenprint 

Denver, one of the nation’s earliest and largest urban sustainability programs, 

and helped lay the groundwork for the greening of the 2008 Democratic 

National Convention. 

Stories from communities and individuals who are 

responding to climate change and making a difference. 

Fulcrum Publishing / Speaker’s Corner 

POLITICAL SCIENCE / NATURE 

Available Now 


Speaker’s Corner 

6 x 9 | 320 pp 


978-1-936218-02-8 USA 



Author Events 

Denver, CO 

Editor Hometown: Denver, CO 

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5 x 8 | 256 pp 


978-1-936218-00-4 USA The inside story of one of the most stunning reversals 

of political fortune in American history. 



Author Events 

Denver, CO 

Author Hometowns: Golden, CO / Centennial, CO 

The Blueprint 

How the Democrats Won Colorado 

(and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care) 

Rob Witwer and Adam Schrager 

This is the inside story of one of the most stunning reversals of political fortune 

in American history. Four years ago, the GOP dominated politics at every 

level in Colorado. Republicans held both Senate seats, fi ve of seven congressional 

seats, the governor’s mansion, the offi ces of secretary of state and treasurer, 

and both houses of the state legislature. After the 2008 election, the 

exact opposite was true: replace the word Republicans with Democrats in the 

previous sentence, and you have of one the most stunning reversals of political 

fortune in American history. 

This is also the story of how it will happen—indeed, is happening—in other 

states across the country. In Colorado, progressives believe they have found 

a blueprint for creating permanent Democratic majorities across the nation. 

With discipline and focus, they have pioneered a legal architecture designed to 

take advantage of new campaign fi nance laws and an emerging breed of progressive 

donors who are willing to commit unprecedented resources to local 

races. It’s simple, brilliant, and very eff ective. 

Rob Witwer is a former member of the Colorado House of Representatives 

and practices law in Denver. 

Emmy award–winning journalist Adam Schrager covers politics for 

KUSA-TV, the NBC affi liate in Denver. Schrager and his family live in the 

Denver area.

In the Courts of the Conqueror 

The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided 

Walter Echo-Hawk 

The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition 

and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural 

rights as indigenous peoples by American courts. Most people think that the 

goal of the judiciary, and especially the US Supreme Court, is to achieve universal 

notions of truth and justice. In this in-depth examination, however, 

Walter Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered 

legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture. 

Echo-Hawk analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice 

and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines. He delves into the dark 

side of the courts, calling for a paradigm shift in American legal thinking. 

Each case study includes historical, contemporary, and political context from 

a Native American perspective, and the case’s legacy on Native America. In the 

Courts of the Conqueror is a comprehensive history of Indian Country from a new 

and unique viewpoint. It is a vital contribution to American history. 

Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) is of counsel to the Crowe & Dunlevy law fi rm 

in Oklahoma. As a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund for 

thirty-fi ve years, he represented tribes and Native Americans on signifi cant 

legal issues during the modern era of federal Indian law. In addition to litigation, 

he worked on major legislation, such as the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), and federal religious freedom 

legislation. He is a prolifi c writer whose books include the award-winning 

Battlefi elds and Burial Grounds. 

A vital contribution not only to Native American history, 

but also to American history. 


HISTORY / LAW 

June 


6 x 9 | 360 pp 


978-1-936218-01-1 USA 




Author Hometown: Tulsa, OK 

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The Tattooed Lady 

A History 

Amelia Klem Osterud 

PERFORMING ARTS / HISTORY 

Speck Press 

8 x 10 | 160 pp 



978-1-933108-26-1 USA 

Durable Plants 

for the Garden 

A Plant Select Guide 

Plant Select 

GARDENING 

10 x 10 | 216 pp 

Color photographs and illustrations 


978-1-55591-590-2 USA 

Roller Derby 

The History and All-Girl Revival of 

the Greatest Sport on Wheels 

Catherine Mabe 

SPORTS & RECREATION / EDUCATION 

Speck Press 

7 x 7¾ | 160 pp 

80 Color and B&W illustrations and 

photographs 


978-1-933108-11-7 USA 

Xeriscape Handbook 

A How-to Guide to Natural 

Resource-Wise Gardening 

Gayle Weinstein 

GARDENING 

8½ x 10 | 144 pp 

Color and B&W photographs 

and illustrations 


978-1-55591-346-5 USA 

Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway 

An Epoch Tale of a Scientist 

and an Artist on the Ultimate 

5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip 

Kirk Johnson 

Illustrated by Ray Troll 

NATURE / TRAVEL 

10 x 10 | 208 pp 

Color photographs and illustrations 


978-1-55591-451-6 USA 

God Is Red 

A Native View of Religion 


Vine Deloria Jr. 

PHILOSOPHY 

6 x 9 | 344 pp 


978-1-55591-498-1 USA

What Does a Lion Say? 

And Other Playful Language Games 

Between the Lions® Staff 

Gryphon House is delighted to announce a new partnership with the awardwinning 

PBS KIDS children’s television show Between the Lions®, produced by 

WGBH Boston, Sirius Thinking, Ltd., and Mississippi Public Broadcasting. 

Children already love Between the Lions®, a television show for preschoolers 

that focuses on developing literacy skills. The main characters, cubs Lionel 

and Leona, their parents Theo and Cleo, and many others, teach young children 

about phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and other literacy skills. 

This new book, What Does a Lion Say? is fi lled with fun and easy literacy games 

for parents to play with young children anytime, anywhere. Children play 

their way into discoveries in the world of letters and reading while building 

the skills they need for a lifetime of future learning. 

With alphabet games like “License Plate Lingo,” writing games like 

“Au-Toe-Graph,” and describing games like “Silly Scenarios,” What Does a 

Lion Say? helps parents make the most of playful everyday moments with their 

child. 

Fun and easy literacy games based on the 

Between the Lions® approach to literacy. 

Gryphon House 

FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 

May 


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5½ x 8½ | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-147-5 USA 





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40 Duotone illustrations 


978-0-87659-125-3 USA 



Author Hometown: Johnson City, TN 

Everyday Play 

Fun Games to Develop the Fine Motor Skills 

Your Child Needs for School 

Christy Isbell 

Organized by age for easy referencing, the dozens of creative activities in 

Everyday Play are perfect for children aged three to fi ve, and they develop the 

fi ne motor skills every child needs for school. More than just an activity book, 

Everyday Play is full of information for parents, including advice from the author, 

developmental guideposts, and easy strategies for teaching children important 

skills. 

The activities are inexpensive, requiring few or no materials or props. The 

language is conversational, so parents at every experience level will feel comfortable 

and capable. But most of all, teaching the skills in Everyday Play provides 

parents with an opportunity to have fun with their child while laying the 

foundation for success in school. 

Activities include: 

• No-Mess Finger Painting 

• Racing Tracks 

• Squeezy Water Play 

• Graph Paper Art 

• Water Droppers 

Fine motor skills are a stepping stone for school readiness, and Everyday 

Play gives parents the tools they need to make developing those skills easy 

and fun! 

Develop the fi ne motor skills your child needs to be successful in school. 

Sensory Integration 

A Guide for Preschool Teachers 

Christy Isbell and Rebecca Isbell 

EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 

8½ x 11 | 144 pp 



978-0-87659-060-7 USA 

Also 

Available 

The Inclusive Learning Center Book 

For Preschool Children With Special Needs 



9½ x 11 | 320 pp 



978-0-87659-294-6 USA

Art with Anything 

52 Weeks of Fun Using Everyday Stuff 

MaryAnn F. Kohl 

With fi fty-two weeks of fantastic art projects using ordinary materials, Art with 

Anything provides a year of creativity, imagination, and fun! This new book 

uses best-selling author MaryAnn F. Kohl’s mantra “It’s the process, not the 

product” to explore making art every day from everyday materials. 

Organized alphabetically by material, each of the fi fty-two weeks features 

fi ve days of activities, increasing in complexity with each day: Day 1 is basic, 

Days 2 and 3 are more challenging, Day 4 is a craft project, and Day 5 is multifaceted 

or fancy. Materials include address labels, fabric scraps, hole punch 

dots, junk mail, leaves, rocks, salt, and many more! 

The activities in Art with Anything are creative, fun, and geared to children 

ages four to ten. Children will love making Glitter Photo Jars or working 

on Shake-It-Up-Bag Paintings, and projects like Family Finger Puppets and 

Fluff -N-Puff Mobiles will keep them entertained for hours, while stretching 

their imaginations. 

Exploring the process of creating art is one of the most creative ways children 

learn, and Art with Anything will keep children learning creatively all year 

long! 

Award-winning author MaryAnn F. Kohl returns with art projects 

made from easy-to-fi nd, everyday materials. 

Global Art 

Activities, Projects, and Inventions 

from Around the World 

MaryAnn F. Kohl and Jean Potter 

ART / EDUCATION 

8½ x 11 | 160 pp 



978-0-87659-190-1 USA 

Also 

Available 

First Art 

Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos 

MaryAnn F. Kohl 

Illustrated by Katheryn Davis 


8½ x 10¾ | 160 pp 



978-0-87659-222-9 USA 

Gryphon House 

EDUCATION 

May 


11 x 8½ | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-085-0 USA 



Author Hometown: Bellingham, WA 

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978-0-87659-079-9 USA 

Author Hometown: Johnson City, TN 

Mighty Fine Motor Fun 

Fine Motor Activities for Young Children 

Christy Isbell 

Teachers know how important it is to develop children’s fi ne motor skills as a 

stepping stone to future learning. Christy Isbell’s new book, Mighty Fine Motor 

Fun, provides teachers with the tools and information to teach fi ne motor skills 

to children ages three to fi ve. Isbell covers a wide range of current research 

on fi ne motor development, from developmental diff erences between boys 

and girls to guideposts for what is developmentally appropriate for children 

at each age. 

The activities in Mighty Fine Motor Fun are organized by age; they are useful 

and creative, but most important, they are fun! With few materials needed, 

teachers will fi nd that the activities are perfect for both large and small groups, 

and are easy to integrate into any curriculum. 

Activities include: 

• Moving Bubbles 

• Hide-and-Seek Playdough 

• Tape It Up! 

• Shape Person 

• Itsy Bitsy Writing Utensils 

• Paper Mobile 

In the fi nal chapter of the book, author and occupational therapist Christy 

Isbell answers real questions from preschool teachers, including “Should preschoolers 

use ‘fat’ or ‘skinny’ pencils?” “What type of paper is best for cutting?” 

and “When should a child use an adult-like grasp of the pencil?” 

Teachers will appreciate the practical, real-world knowledge Isbell off ers, 

and children will love the playful, absorbing activities! 

This book offers teachers the tools to develop preschoolers’ 

fi ne motor skills in preparation for kindergarten. 

Sensory Integration 

A Guide for Preschool Teachers 



8½ x 11 | 144 pp 



978-0-87659-060-7 USA 

Also 

Available 

The Inclusive Learning Center Book 

For Preschool Children With Special Needs 



9½ x 11 | 320 pp 



978-0-87659-294-6 USA

After the Crisis 

Using Storybooks to Help Children Cope 

Cathy Grace and Elizabeth F. Shores 

Children who experience a traumatic crisis cannot process their feelings without 

adult support, and it can be hard for teachers to know how to help. After 

the Crisis provides teachers with tools to help children who have been through a 

trauma, such as homelessness, a natural disaster, or the death of a loved one. 

With activities and exercises that can be used in conjunction with fi fty-two 

children’s books, discussion starters, writing activities, and art centers, teachers 

can use After the Crisis to promote children’s ability to cope and heal. 



Author Hometowns: Tupelo, MS / Little Rock, AR 

Preparing for Disaster 

What Every Early Childhood Director Needs to Know 

Cathy Grace and Elizabeth F. Shores 

Disasters happen without warning. A catastrophic event can destroy an early 

childhood program, and preparedness is the responsibility of any program 

director. Based on the authors’ experiences working in Mississippi after 

Hurricane Katrina, Preparing for Disaster explains the steps directors can take to 

insure the safety of the children they care for and the program itself. 

This groundbreaking guide contains forms, worksheets, staff -training 

workshops, and task lists, as well as helpful guidelines and insights. From universal 

disasters like fi res and epidemics to regional disasters like tornadoes 

and wildfi res, Preparing for Disaster is fi lled with practical advice for every program 

director. 

Author Hometowns: Tupelo, MS / Little Rock, AR 

Gryphon House 

EDUCATION 

April 


8½ x 11 | 64 pp 


978-0-87659-129-1 USA 

A guide for teachers, using 

storybooks to help children cope in 

the aftermath of crisis. 

EDUCATION 

April 


8½ x 11 | 128 pp 


978-0-87659-099-7 USA 

This groundbreaking guide for directors 

helps prepare an early childhood program 

for disaster—before it strikes. 

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April 


Learn Every Day 

8½ x 11 | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-127-7 USA 

Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth 

Edited by Kathy Charner 

Each book in the Learn Every Day series features one hundred activities contributed 

by teachers around the world. Classroom tested and teacher approved, 

these activities teach children ages three to six about some of their 

favorite topics. Organized by curriculum area, each chapter is structured by 

age, starting with the youngest preschooler. 

All the activities off er: 

• Learning objectives to meet state standards 

• Materials lists 

• Related children’s books 

• Assessment components to measure learning 

Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth makes it easy for teachers to incorporate 

discussions about caring for Earth into any curriculum with activities that 

promote responsible behaviors while remaining fun and enjoyable. Taking 

care of our planet has never been more important, and schools and families 

are teaching even the youngest children about environmental responsibility. 

In this book, activities like “Recycling Adds Up” and “Block Compost” teach 

children the importance of reusing and recycling, while “Thank a Tree” and 

“Worms Are Good Guys” teach them how to respect and love nature. Global 

awareness is everyone’s responsibility, and the activities in Learn Every Day About 

Our Green Earth help teachers pass along this important knowledge to the next 

generation. 

Activities to help children learn about the planet Earth, 

and simple ways to care for it. 

Learn Every Day About Colors 


EDUCATION 

8½ x 11 | 128 pp 


978-0-87659-088-1 USA 

Also 

Available 

Learn Every Day About Numbers 


EDUCATION 

8½ x 11 | 128 pp 


978-0-87659-090-4 USA

Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders 


Bugs and spiders are fascinating to adults and children alike! Now teachers 

can take children on an expedition into the mysterious world of some 

of nature’s smallest inhabitants with Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders. These 

easy-to-do activities give children a peek into the lives of our creepy-crawler 

friends, with activities like “Create Caterpillars” and games like “Ants in Your 

Pants!” Children will love exploring the world of these mysterious and interesting 

creatures, and teachers will fi nd the activities in Learn Every Day About Bugs 

and Spiders to be adaptable, expansive, and, most of all, fun! 

Learn Every Day About Animals 


Even the youngest children love animals; they want to pet puppies, visit lions 

at the zoo, and imitate animal sounds. Learn Every Day About Animals is an activity 

book inspired by children’s fascination with our furry friends. With this 

resource, teachers can easily incorporate learning about animals into any 

curriculum: games like “Whose Feet Are These?” teach recognition, while 

“Playdough Porcupine” makes use of art centers, and “Scratch Like a Monkey” 

gets kids active and moving. Curiosity about our animal friends is natural for 

children ages three to six, and with Learn Every Day About Animals, the learning has 

never been more fun! 

Gryphon House 

EDUCATION 

April 



8½ x 11 | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-128-4 USA 

Children love bugs and spiders! Now they 

can learn about these creepy-crawlers 

with one hundred fun activities. 

EDUCATION 

April 



8½ x 11 | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-126-0 USA 

These engaging activities introduce 

children ages three to six to the 

fun world of animals. 

149

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150 

Baby Smarts 

Games for Playing and Learning 

Jackie Silberg 

EDUCATION 

5½ x 7½ | 128 pp 



978-0-87659-065-2 USA 

Seven Skills for 

School Success 

Activities to Develop Social 

and Emotional Intelligence in 

Young Children 

Pam Schiller 

EDUCATION 

8 x 10 | 112 pp 



978-0-87659-071-3 USA 

My Child Has Autism 

What Parents Need to Know 

Clarissa Willis, PhD 


5 x 8 | 160 pp 


978-0-87659-093-5 USA 

The Encyclopedia of Infant 

and Toddler Activities 

Written by Teachers for Teachers 

Edited by Kathy Charner, 

Maureen Murphy, and 

Charlie Clark 


8½ x 11 | 192 pp 



978-0-87659-013-3 USA 

Good Morning, Children 

My First Years in 

Early Childhood Education 

Sophia E. Pappas 

EDUCATION / 


5½ x 7½ | 192 pp 



978-0-87659-078-2 USA 

The GIANT Encyclopedia 

of Lesson Plans 

More Than 250 Lesson Plans 

Created by Teachers for Teachers 

Edited by Kathy Charner, 

Maureen Murphy, and 

Charlie Clark 

EDUCATION 

8½ x 11 | 574 pp 



978-0-87659-068-3 USA

Togo Heihachiro (1848–1934) was born into a feudal society that had withdrawn 

into seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the 

destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary 

“Silent Admiral,” he was at the forefront of innovations in warfare, pioneering 

the Japanese use of modern gunnery and wireless communication. 

Togo is best known as the “Nelson of the East” for his resounding victory over 

the tsar’s navy in the Russo-Japanese War, but he also lived a remarkable life, 

studying at a British maritime college and witnessing the Sino-French War, 

the Hawaiian Revolution, and the Boxer Uprising. After his retirement, he 

was appointed to oversee the education of Emperor Hirohito. 

This new biography spans Japan’s sudden, violent leap out of its self- 

imposed isolation and into the twentieth century. Delving beyond Togo’s fi nest 

hour at the Battle of Tsushima, it portrays the life of a diffi dent Japanese sailor 

in Victorian Britain; his reluctant celebrity in America, where he was laid low 

by Boston cooking and welcomed by his biggest fan, Theodore Roosevelt; his 

role in forgotten wars over the short-lived Republics of Ezo and Formosa; and 

the accumulation of peacetime experience that forged a wartime hero. 

Jonathan Clements studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Leeds 

before receiving a master’s degree from the University of Stirling. He has 

written books on many prominent fi gures in Asian history, including Marco 

Polo, Chairman Mao, Confucius, and the Japan volume in the Makers of 

the Modern World series on Prince Saionji. 

The life of the military hero who destroyed the Tsar’s navy and 

so became an international celebrity. 

Mao Zedong 

Jonathan Clements 


5 x 7¾ | 178 pp 


978-1-904950-33-2 CUSA 

Admiral Togo 

The Nelson of the East 


Also 

Available 

Marco Polo 



5 x 7¾ | 178 pp 


978-1-905791-05-7 CUSA 



May 

6 x 8¾ | 320 pp 



978-1-906598-62-4 CUSA 



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HISTORY / LITERARY COLLECTIONS 

April 

6½ x 9½ | 350 pp 



978-1-906598-63-1 CUSA 

The Chamberlain Litany 

Letters within a Governing Family from Empire to Appeasement 

Peter T. Marsh 

The Chamberlains were the most controversial dynasty in British public life 

for more than sixty years. They were a close-knit family, and they treasured 

that solidarity throughout their lives. Bereft of a mother and with a largely absent 

father, the children of Joseph Chamberlain clung to each other as they 

grew up, and they kept in lifelong touch by letter. Based on those family letters, 

this book explores the accounts that the Chamberlain children told each 

other about the events in their lives. 

The two sons, Austen and Neville, followed their father into the highest 

echelons of British public life, and Neville eclipsed his father in fame. Their 

story is told through the eyes of their sisters. Hilda, the youngest of the surviving 

children, discovered that a pattern was repeated in the lives of all three 

men, a pattern that she recited in a kind of litany echoed by the family. Hilda’s 

litany spoke of the way in which the Chamberlain men secured victory for 

each other over their adversaries. Her story reached its climax when Neville 

met Adolf Hitler in Munich on the brink of war and managed to preserve the 

peace. But Hilda had reckoned without the last and greatest adversary of the 

Chamberlains: Winston Churchill. Churchill’s achievement, fi rst in winning 

the war that Neville had failed to avert, and then in writing a history of that 

war that damned Neville for its outbreak, forced Hilda to change her interpretation 

of the Chamberlains’ story from a hymn of praise to a lament. 

Unseen letters between one of Europe’s foremost political families, 

from the British Empire to World War II.



Haus Publishing Red Books Series 

Red Books Series 

“If Homer’s Mediterranean is anything to go by, this will be a series to collect.” 

—The Sunday Times 

Elegant and cloth-bound, the Red Books are about literary infl uence and the 

ideas that have changed the places we visit and admire. Whether they unearth 

the hidden infl uences behind poems and classic literature or map cultural 

shifts in art, design, and creative society, they all seek to explore a world where 

place, politics, and relationships have inspired writers and artists. 

Rilke’s Venice 

Birgit Haustedt 

Rainer Maria Rilke criss-crossed Europe; he visited Russia and sailed on the 

Nile. Yet over and over again, he went to Venice: St. Mark’s Square and the 

Lido, the Doge’s Palace and the Grand Canal. Travel for Rilke was a passion, a 

way of life, and it served a single purpose: to seek impulses, stimuli, and ideas 

for writing. Venice, above all others, enthralled and provoked him. Using his 

poems and extensive letters, Birgit Haustedt shows Rilke’s intimate relationship 

with the city he loved the most. As Rilke himself wrote, “Poems are not, 

as people think, feelings . . . they are practical experiences.” 

TRAVEL 

April 

Red Books 

4¾ x 8½ | 124 pp 

5 Maps 


978-1-905791-40-8 CUSA 

Travel was the passion of Rainer Maria 

Rilke’s life, and he repeatedly returned to 

Venice for inspiration. 

153

Haus Publishing Red Books Series 

A unique and beautifully 

produced history of the development 

of stately English garden design. 

154 

TRAVEL 

June 


4¾ x 8½ | 223 pp 



978-1-905791-39-2 CUSA 

Using The Odyssey as his guide, 

Wolfgang Geisthövel follows the path of 

Homer’s epic poem. 

TRAVEL / GARDENING 

April 


4¾ x 8½ | 113 pp 



978-1-906598-20-4 CUSA 

Readers of The Odyssey who enjoy traveling often turn their attention to the 

places that are featured in the hero’s wanderings and his son’s journey in search 

of his absent father. Yet this book is not an attempt to locate the places visited 

by Homer’s hero in the real world; instead, it is an attempt to follow the 

wanderings of Odysseus, which are both literary and almost certainly contain 

references to real places. Beginning with these places, Wolfgang Geisthövel 

traces his way back to the poetry through a journey in which personal perception 

and reading, topography and imagination, and authenticity and fi ction 

all mingle. 



Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. 

The strictly symmetrical gardens of the French Baroque were replaced 

by the artifi cial landscapes that soon became almost indistinguishable from 

natural scenery. This ideal image of nature continues to govern our notions 

of a beautiful landscape today. Hans von Trotha guides us through the history 

of the English garden to the most important, original, and beautiful park 

gardens in Britain. On the way, we learn how these gardens were born of the 

spirit of political opposition and the signifi cance of imitation temples and 

ruins. 



Homer’s Mediterranean 

Wolfgang Geisthövel 

The English Garden 

Hans von Trotha

General Smuts, South Africa 

Makers of the Modern World 

Antony Lentin 

Jan Smuts was one of the key fi gures behind the creation of the League of 

Nations; Woodrow Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates 

scheme. Smuts pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of 

Versailles would lead to another war. Declaring “I return to South Africa a defeated 

man,” Smuts encouraged John Maynard Keynes to write The Economic 

Consequences of the Peace. Smuts denounced the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, 

became prime minister of South Africa, and made important contributions to 

the British cause in World War II. 

Maharajah of Bikaner, India 

The Makers of the Modern World 

Hugh Purcell 

The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs new telling, and one 

important chapter in its history features the Maharajah of Bikaner. Dashing, 

autocratic, and a formidable public speaker, Ganga Singh fought on the 

Western Front and in Egypt, became the fi rst Indian general in the British 

Indian Army, and convinced the maharajas to unite into the Chamber of 

Princes. He took his rightful place at the Paris Peace Conference table and 

persuaded the other delegates to include India in the new League of Nations— 

quite an achievement as it was not yet an independent nation. 


HISTORY 

April 

5½ x 8¼ | 208 pp 



978-1-905791-82-8 CUSA 

Jan Smuts was one of the most 

independent and infl uential personalities 

at the Paris Peace Conference. 

HISTORY 

April 

5½ x 8¼ | 244 pp 



978-1-905791-80-4 CUSA 

The Maharajah of Bikaner was one 

of the last Indian princes to play an 

important part in global politics. 

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April 

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Vittorio Orlando arrived at Versailles as 

one of the “Big Four,” but he left the 

conference in turmoil. 


Vittorio Orlando, Italy 


Spencer M. di Scala 

The Italian premier Vittorio Orlando came to Paris as one of the “Big Four,” 

yet in April 1919 he walked out in one of the most dramatic crises of the Peace 

Conferences. Orlando’s failure to satisfy his country’s territorial demands in 

the Balkans directly led to the rise of Fascism and to Mussolini’s policies in the 

1930s as he sought to obtain what Italy had been denied at Versailles. 

Professor Spencer M. di Scala’s previous book Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 

1700 to the Present was chosen as an alternate of the History Book Club and has 

gone into several editions. 

Paul Hymans, Belgium 


Sally Marks 

Paul Hymans was the champion of the small states in the League of Nations 

Commission at the Paris Peace Conference and was rewarded by being named 

the League’s fi rst president. He thereby brought about Belgium’s transition 

from the status of sheltered child to its full participation in much great-power 

diplomacy. 

HISTORY | July | 5½ x 8¼ | 224 pp | 5 B&W illustrations 

Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.95 | 978-1-905791-81-1 CUSA 

The League of Nations 


Ruth Henig 

Ninety years ago the League of Nations convened for the fi rst time, hoping to 

settle disputes by diplomacy, not war. Failure to prevent World War II led to 

its dissolution and the subsequent creation of the United Nations. Can the 

United Nations’ fate be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor? 

HISTORY | July | 5½ x 8¼ | 224 pp | 5 B&W illustrations 

Trade Cloth US $19.95 | CAN $21.95 | 978-1-905791-75-0 CUSA

The American Way of War 

How the Empire Brought Itself to Ruin 

Tom Engelhardt 

Praise for TomDispatch.com: 

“One of my favorite websites.”—Bill Moyers 

“Tom Engelhardt is a national treasure and always worth reading.” 

—Juan Cole 

“Indispensable.”—Tony Karon 

“TomDispatch is indispensable and irreplaceable.”—Andrew Bacevich 

“TomDispatch is essential reading.”—Amy Goodman 

Tom Engelhardt, creator of the vital website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel 

to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 

9/11 to late last night, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet 

to end. 

Since 2001, Tom Engelhardt has written regular reports for his popular 

site TomDispatch that have provided badly needed insight into US militarism 

and its eff ects, both at home and abroad. When others were celebrating the invasions 

of Afghanistan and Iraq, he warned of the enormous dangers of both 

occupations. 

In The American Way of War, Engelhardt documents Washington’s ongoing 

commitment to military bases to preserve—and extend—its empire; reveals 

damning information about the American reliance on air power, at great cost 

to civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan; and shows that the US empire 

has deep historical roots that precede the Bush administration—and continue 

today into the presidency of Barack Obama. 

Tom Engelhardt created and runs TomDispatch.com, a project of The 

Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history 

of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, and of 

a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his TomDispatch interviews, 

Mission Unaccomplished. 

The creator of TomDispatch.com takes a scalpel to the 

American urge to dominate the globe. 



April 


5½ x 8¼ | 269 pp 


978-1-60846-071-7 CUSA 




Author Events 

New York, NY 


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POLITICAL SCIENCE / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 

May 


5 ½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-1-60846-070-0 CUSA 

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Live Working or Die Fighting 

How the Working Class Went Global 

Paul Mason 

“This is micro-historical writing at its best.”—Walden Bello, author of Dilemmas 

of Domination 

“Don’t die stupid. If you haven’t read Mason’s book, you know nothing about 

how this planet works . . . breathtaking, fascinating, perceptive. . . . Damn, 

I wish I’d written this book.”—Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller 

Armed Madhouse 

“Brilliant.”—Ken Loach 

The stories in this book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: 

child laborers in Dickensian England, visionary women on Parisian barricades, 

gun-toting railway strikers in America’s Wild West, and beer-swilling 

German metalworkers who tried to stop World War I. 

It is a story of urban slums, self-help cooperatives, choirs and brass bands, 

free love, and self-education by candlelight. And, as the author shows, in the 

developing industrial economies of the world, it is still with us. Live Working 

or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defi ance, idealism, and self- 

sacrifi ce, one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago. It is a 

unique and inspirational book. 

Paul Mason is an award-winning journalist who reports regularly on labor 

rights and social justice stories as economics editor for BBC World News America 

and BBC Newsnight. In addition to Live Working or Die Fighting, which was shortlisted 

as a 2007 Guardian First Book Award, Mason is the author of Meltdown: The 

End of the Age of Greed (Verso Books). 

The two hundred-year story of the global working class 

and its many struggles for justice.

Floodlines 

Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six 

Jordan Flaherty 

“This is the most important book I’ve read about Katrina and what came after. 

In the tradition of Howard Zinn this could be called ‘The People’s History of 

the Storm.’ Jordan Flaherty was there on the front lines.”—Eve Ensler, playwright 

of The Vagina Monologues and activist and founder of V-Day 

“Jordan Flaherty brings the sharp analysis and dedication of a seasoned organizer 

to his writing, and insightful observation to his reporting. He unfailingly 

has his ear to the ground in a city that continues to reveal the fl oodlines 

of structural racism in America.”—Tram Nguyen, author of We Are All Suspects 

Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 

Floodlines is a fi rsthand account of community, culture, and resistance in New 

Orleans. The book weaves the stories of gay rappers, Mardi Gras Indians, 

Arab and Latino immigrants, public housing residents, and grassroots activists 

in the years before and after Katrina. From post-Katrina evacuee camps 

to torture testimony at Angola Prison to organizing with the family members 

of the Jena Six, Floodlines tells the stories behind the headlines from an unforgettable 

time and place in history. 

Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. 

In addition to his award-winning post-Katrina journalism, he was the fi rst 

journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case and played 

an important role in bringing the story to the attention of the world. He has 

produced news segments for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, and Democracy Now! and appeared 

as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including 

CNN’s American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, GRITtv, Keep Hope 

Alive with Reverend Jesse Jackson, and both local and nationally syndicated shows on 

National Public Radio. 

A people’s history of community organizing in New Orleans 

in the years before and after Hurricane Katrina. 


POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

July 


5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-1-60846-065-6 CUSA 




Author Events 


Chicago, IL • New Orleans, LA • New York, NY • 

Portland, OR • Houston, TX • Seattle, WA 

Author Hometown: New Orleans, LA 

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The era of American labor’s greatest 

struggles, vividly reconstructed by one of 

labor history’s greatest historians. 

160 


April 

6 x 9 | 592 pp 


978-1-60846-063-2 CUSA 

A fascinating, comprehensive 

study of the American workforce, 

from the “roaring twenties” through 

the Great Depression. 


April 

6 x 9 | 880 pp 


978-1-60846-064-9 CUSA 

“Pre-eminent among historians of labor history.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 

The complex fate of individual American workers, both organized and unorganized, 

defi nitively shaped the era of the 1920s and early 1930s. Irving 

Bernstein’s classic text revolutionizes social history, vividly narrating an era of 

wrenching hardships but also great victories for American labor. With an introduction 

by Frances Fox Piven. 



“A broad panorama in brilliant prose.”—American Historical Review 

In this groundbreaking work of labor history, Irving Bernstein uncovers a period 

when industrial trade unionism, working-class power, and socialism became 

the rallying cry for millions of workers in the fi elds, mills, mines, and 

factories of America. With an introduction by Frances Fox Piven. 



The Lean Years 

A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933 

Irving Bernstein 

Introduction by Frances Fox Piven 

The Turbulent Years 

A History of the American Worker, 1933–1941 

Irving Bernstein 

Introduction by Frances Fox Piven

The Case for Socialism (Updated Edition) 

Alan Maass 

Afterword by Howard Zinn 

Growing numbers of people are disgusted by the disaster of poverty, war, oppression, 

and environmental destruction caused by global capitalism. But is 

there an alternative? Author Alan Maass argues that socialism—a democratically 

planned economy based on workers’ control—is rational, necessary, and 

possible. With an afterword by Howard Zinn. 

Alan Maass is the editor of the website SocialistWorker.org. 



Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • San Francisco, CA • Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • 

Portland, OR • Houston, TX • Seattle, WA 

The Political Economy of Racism 

Melvin Leiman 

“An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy 

of racism evolved in the United States.”—Science & Society 

Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a 

past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence 

of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold 

the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it. 

Author Hometown: Seattle, WA 



April 

5 x 7 | 160 pp 


978-1-60846-073-1 CUSA 


A clear, bold case for a socialist 

alternative to democratically meet 

people’s needs here and abroad. 


April 

5½ x 8¼ | 432 pp 


978-1-60846-066-3 CUSA 

A forceful, well-researched 

historical analysis of racism’s roots 

and its persistence in the institutions 

of American society. 

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162 

How Revolutionary Were the 

Bourgeois Revolutions? 

Neil Davidson 

In this panoramic historical analysis, Neil Davidson defends a renovated concept 

of bourgeois revolution. Davidson shows how our globalized societies of 

the present are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often 

forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt 

to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY | June | A Paperback Original | 5½ x 6¼ | 400 pp 


The Palestinian Communist Party 

1919–1948 

Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism 

This history of the Palestinian Communist Party upends the caricature of the 

Israeli-Palestinian confl ict as an ancient religious blood feud. Musa Budeiri 

shows how the complex history of the Palestinian Left before the Zionist destruction 

of historic Palestine was defi ned by secularism and solidarity be- 

tween Arab and Jewish workers. 

Musa Budeiri 

POLITICAL SCIENCE / HISTORY | June | 5½ x 8¼ | 304 pp 


The Politics of Combined and 

Uneven Development 

The Theory of Permanent Revolution 

Michael Löwy 

Drawing on the prescient insights of Leon Trotsky, Michael Löwy shows how 

modern economic development across continents can only be understood as a 

process of ferocious change, in which social formations fuse, come into tension, 

and collide—and how the resulting ruptures make it possible for the oppressed 

and exploited to change the world. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE | June | 5¼ x 8¼ | 140 pp 


El precio del fuego 

Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia 


“Ben Dangl takes the reader on an unforgettable and inspiring journey 

through Bolivia and neighboring countries, providing a window on the revolutionary 

struggles of the poor and dispossessed.”—Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz 

New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over “the price of fi re”—access 

to the basic elements of life for the impoverished majority. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY | April | A Paperback Original | 5¼ x 8¼ | 240 pp 


The Who By Numbers 

The Story Of The Who Through Their Music 

Alan G. Parker and Steve Grantley 

From “I Can’t Explain” to Tommy, from “Won’t Get Fooled Again” to 2006’s 

comeback studio album Endless Wire, The Who By Numbers tells the story of The 

Who’s extraordinary, electrifying career, track by track. 

Alan G. Parker is the author of many rock books, including the best-selling 

Sid Vicious biography No One is Innocent. 

Steve Grantley combines writing with the life of a professional drummer and 

currently plays with Stiff Little Fingers and The Alarm. 

Steve Marriott 

All Too Beautiful 

Paolo Hewitt and John Hellier 

“A wonderful book . . . wonderfully researched, eminently readable.”—Uncut 

This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed 

music books of recent years: the best-selling account of the Small Faces and 

Humble Pie mainman, Steve Marriott. 

MUSIC | May | 6⅛ x 9¼ | 352 pp | B&W illustrations and photographs 


The Sharper Word 

A Mod Anthology 

Edited by Paolo Hewitt 

“An unparalleled view of the world-conquering British youth cult.” 

—Guardian 

Paolo Hewitt, celebrated former NME scribe and acclaimed biographer of 

Steve Marriott, The Jam, and Oasis, collects the best writing on the original, 

and peculiarly British, cult of mod. Revised and updated. 

SOCIAL SCIENCE / HISTORY | June | 5 x 7¾ | 224 pp 




MUSIC 

April 


6⅛ x 9¼ | 352 pp 

B&W illustrations and photographs 


978-1-905139-26-2 CUSA 

The story of The Who’s 

extraordinary, electrifying career, 

track by track. 

163

Selected Backlist from Helter Skelter Publishing 

164 

Natural Born Man: 

The Life of Jack Johnson 

Marc Shapiro 

MUSIC / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

6 x 9 | 188 pp 



978-1-905139-14-9 CUSA 

Here Come The Nice: 

A Small Faces Songbook 

Edited by Paul Weller 

and John Hellier 

MUSIC 

9 x 12 | 128 pp 



978-1-905139-12-5 CUSA 

Metal Box 

Stories From John Lydon’s 

Public Image Limited 

Phil Strongman 


5¾ x 8¾ | 224 pp 



978-1-900924-66-5 CUSA 

Electric Pioneer: 

An Armchair Guide to 

Gary Numan 

Paul Goodwin 

Foreword by Gary Numan 


6¼ x 9¼ | 288 pp 



978-1-900924-95-5 CUSA 

In Between Days: 

An Armchair Guide 

to The Cure 

Dave Thompson 


6⅛ x 9¼ | 256 pp 



978-1-905139-00-2 CUSA 

Harmony In My Head 

The Original Buzzcock Steve 

Diggle’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Odyssey 

Steve Diggle with Terry Rawlings 

Foreword by John Cooper Clarke 

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MUSIC 

6⅛ x 9¼ | 256 pp 



978-1-900924-37-5 CUSA

Every Natural Fact 

Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting 

Amy Lou Jenkins 

“If you combined the lyricism of Annie Dillard, the vision of Aldo Leopold, 

and the gentle but tough-minded optimism of Frank McCourt, you might 

come close to Amy Lou Jenkins, a writer who obliterates the distinction between 

regional writing and actual, honest-to-god writing. I, for one, would follow 

her anywhere.”—Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things 

“Braiding together history, memoir, gentle parenting guidance, and superb 

nature writing, Jenkins’ prose illuminates the details of ordinary life.” 

—Susan Cheever, author of American Bloomsbury 

Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is a narrative of mother-and-son 

nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices 

of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the 

world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters stand on their own 

and build upon each other. These explorations of natural history, fl ora and 

fauna, and parenting themes demonstrate that the mythic thread that winds 

through everything can still be found, even in a world of wounds. Amy Lou 

Jenkins’ award-winning writing is rich in sensory immediacy, characterization, 

natural history, and humor. 

Amy Lou Jenkins holds a MFA in literature and creative writing from 

Bennington College. She has taught writing at Carroll University in Waukesha, 

Wisconsin, and has presented at multiple writing conferences and workshops. 

Selections from her manuscript have placed in regional and national contests, 

including The Florida Review Editor’s Award in Nonfi ction, Literal Latte Essay 

Awards, Flint Hills Review Nonfi ction Award, XJ Kennedy Award for Nonfi ction, 

and the Ellis Henderson Outdoor Writing Award. 

In ten wilderness walks, a mother and son explore natural history 

and the mystique of being human. 


NATURE / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 

May 


6 x 9 | 196 pp 


978-0-9823545-1-3 CUSA 




Author Events 

Denver, CO • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • 

New York, NY • Milwaukee, WI • 

Wauwatosa, WI 

Author Hometown: Milwaukee, WI 

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June 


6 x 9 | 296 pp 


978-0-9823545-2-0 CUSA 




Author Events 

Sonoma, CA • Minneapolis, MN • 

Winston-Salem, NC 

Editor Hometowns: 

Minneapolis, MN / Winston-Salem, NC 

When Last on the Mountain 

The View from Writers over 50 

Edited by Vicky Lettmann and Carol Roan 

“One day I will write my last downhill run, not on snow, but on paper. 

Not today. No. I dance, stop, dance, stop, dance, dance, dance down the 

mountain.”—Kaye Bache-Snyder 

What sets these writers apart? Until we reach fi fty, how we live and write is 

colored by our futures: those we expect to have and those we imagine. The 

perspective of the over-fi fty writer takes on the hues of both past and future, 

tinted by memories of fi rst loves, stained by memories of war and loss, and 

made more poignant by the knowledge that this spring’s blooms or this morning’s 

cup of coff ee with a beloved husband may be the last and must be savored 

fully. 

These essays, stories, and poems were chosen from more than two thousand 

submissions of previously unpublished work. Some of the contributors—a 

poet laureate, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a former foreign correspondent— 

have long literary histories; others—a social worker, a civil service employee, a 

clergywoman—began to write later in life. All of them were inspired by a call 

that asked for fresh and honest writing from the fullness of their lives. 

Vicky Lettmann, who writes fi ction, essays, and poetry, served as an editor 

for the literary/arts magazines Speakeasy (the Loft Literary Center) and Under 

Construction (North Hennepin Community College). She received an MFA in 

fi ction writing from Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in Twenty- 

Six Minnesota Writers (Nodin Press) and in Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and 

Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press). 

Carol Roan teaches voice and stage presence in Winston-Salem, North 

Carolina. She is the author of Clues to American Dance (Starrhill Press) and Speak 

Easy: A Guide to Successful Performances, Presentations, Speeches, and Lectures (Starrhill 

Press), and she writes a column on the “art of performance” for an online 

’zine. She won a fellowship to Summer Literary Seminars, Russia, in 2006. 

Sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching, 

this gathering of new work by writers over fi fty is always honest.

Changing the Script 

An Authentically Faithful and Authentically 

Progressive Political Theology for the 21st Century 

Daniel Schultz 

In recent years, and in particular since the election of Barack Obama, the religious 

conversation in America has been dominated by calls for progressives 

to move beyond “partisanship” by reaching out to evangelicals in order to create 

a “big tent” on social issues such as abortion and marriage equality, despite 

the lack of evidence that such a strategy can or ever did work. This misguided 

notion that we can build a shared political and religious center has for the 

most part shut out true progressive voices, allowing a small conservative minority 

to control the political and religious debate in this country, with only 

the most tepid of moral criticism from the religious centrists who claim to desire 

bipartisan consensus. 

In Changing the Script, Daniel Schultz, one of the leading progressive religious 

voices in America today, builds upon the insights of Old Testament scholar 

and theologian Walter Brueggemann to identify fi ve “scripts” that exercise unseen 

power in our society: the therapeutic, technological, consumerist, militarist, 

and conformist. Confronting each of these scripts and the actions of 

both the Right and the Left that have allowed them to take root in our culture, 

Schultz voices a perspective that shows what an authentically progressive and 

authentically faithful religious ideal would truly look like. 

Daniel Schultz is a pastor in the United Church of Christ and co-founder of 

the blog Street Prophets (www.streetprophets.com), where he writes as “pastordan.” 

He has contributed to many online sites and publications and is a 

graduate of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. 

How to build a real religious Left! 

Ig Publishing 

RELIGION 

August 


5½ x 8¼ | 220 pp 


978-1-935439-14-1 CUSA 




Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Chicago, IL • 

Minneapolis, MN • New York, NY 

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FICTION 

April 


5½ x 8 | 200 pp 


978-1-935439-13-4 CUSA 

An emotionally searing 

meditation on the meaning of faith 

in the modern world. 



Sarah/Sara 

Jacob Paul 

An engrossing meditation on the meaning of faith, Sarah/Sara is the story of a 

young Orthodox Jewish woman who undertakes a solo kayaking journey across 

the Arctic Ocean after her parents are killed and she is disfi gured by a terrorist 

bomb in a Jerusalem café. Haunted by her parents’ death, and in particular 

by memories of her father, a 9/11 survivor whose dream was to kayak through 

the Arctic, Sarah embarks on her expedition unprepared for the strenuous 

physical and emotional trial that lies ahead. What begins as a series of diary 

entries on her struggle with faith ends in a fi ght for survival, as Sarah slowly 

comes to realize that she is lost in the Arctic wilderness with the ice closing in 

around her. 

Jacob Paul teaches creative writing at the University of Utah. 

Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Boston, MA • New York, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA 

Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars 

Drinking and Diving in the City of Angels 

Lina Lecaro 

Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars off ers opinionated reviews of one hundred of the grittiest 

drinking establishments in the City of Angels. If you want to avoid the 

tourist traps listed in those “other” bar guides and fi nd out where the nonglitzy 

crowd goes to get wasted, then Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars is your guide to the 

delightfully fi lthy underside of Los Angeles bar life. 

TRAVEL / REFERENCE | May 

A Paperback Original | Gamble Guides | 5 x 7 | 176 pp | 25 B&W photographs 


Houston’s Best Dive Bars 

Drinking and Diving in the Bayou City 

John Nova Lomax 

Houston’s Best Dive Bars off ers opinionated reviews of one hundred of the grittiest 

drinking establishments in the Bayou City. If you want to avoid the tourist 

traps listed in those “other” bar guides and fi nd out where real Texans go to 

get plastered, then Houston’s Best Dive Bars is your guide to the delightfully fi lthy 

underside of Houston bar life. 

REFERENCE / TRAVEL | July 

A Paperback Original | Gamble Guides | 5 x 7 | 176 pp | 25 B&W photographs 


Being Young 

Scott, Neil and Me 

Astrid Young 

Neil Young’s contribution to rock music and the counterculture stretches 

over generations, from Woodstock to today’s antiwar movement. His distinctive 

voice and his grasp of the art of songwriting have elevated him to 

superstardom. 

In Being Young, Astrid Young off ers a fresh perspective on the cultural icon 

she knows as her older brother. Taking up where their father Scott Young’s 

book Neil and Me left off , she explores the infl uences that shaped their family 

and the events that drove them apart and, eventually, brought them back 

together. 

The book is a searingly honest, funny, and touching celebration of family 

life lived in the spotlight of fame and the joys and diffi culties of trying to live 

up to a legacy while attempting to make your own way in the world. Astrid offers 

an insider’s intimate view of Neil Young’s career and life as a family man, 

activist, businessman, and musician. Written with a sharp eye for detail and a 

refreshing willingness to dispense with illusion, Being Young shows Neil Young 

and his family and friends from his sister’s unique perspective. 

Astrid Young is a singer-songwriter and sommelier. She began writing creatively 

at an early age, and her work includes the fi lm Haunted. Her career has 

taken her around the world, both on her own and singing backup for her 

brother, Neil Young. She lives in Toronto and Picton, Ontario. 

Being Young shows Neil Young and his family and 

friends from his sister’s unique perspective. 


Being Young 

Astrid Young 


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978-1-897178-45-4 USA 



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6 x 9 | 294 pp 



978-1-897178-88-1 USA 





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May 


6 x 9 | 258 pp 


978-1-897178-82-9 USA 




Author Hometown: Edmonton, AB 

Money Assassins 

How They Stole Your Financial Freedom and 

How You Can Get It Back 

Chad Viminitz 

Money Assassins is a guide to eliminating debt and reclaiming fi nancial well- being 

despite our prevailing consumer culture. It gives readers a comprehensive examination 

and explanation of why we are set up to fail fi nancially. The book 

explores three main areas that have hindered the fi nancial well-being of individuals: 

the evolution of our consumer culture and marketing’s drastic transformation 

since the 1970s, advancements in technology, and today’s access to 

credit. Money Assassins re-introduces the importance of thrift and frugality so 

prevalent only two generations ago. It ultimately attempts to answer the question: 

Why are so many breaking the most basic fi nancial rule “spend less than 

you make”? This book strives to revive the lost art of saving and in doing so 

returns economic power to the middle class. Individual fi nancial behavior is 

paramount in the promotion of positive social and environmental change, 

and yet this link is rarely, if ever, discussed. Ultimately, Money Assassins promotes 

an overhaul of consumptive patterns by providing real solutions to overcome 

debt and recapture fi nancial stability. 

Chad Viminitz is a fi nancial behavior coach and planner with over a decade 

of industry experience. After majoring in fi nance, Chad graduated from the 

College of Commerce at the University of Saskatchewan. Throughout his career 

he has won numerous awards and has received special recognition for 

his commitment to the success of advisors and clients. In 2005 Chad made 

the decision to return to personal advising in Edmonton, where he currently 

works. 

How they stole your fi nancial freedom and how you can get it back.

And Baby Makes More 

Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families 

Edited by Susan Goldberg and Chloë Brushwood Rose 

And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families explores 

the phenomenon of the “known donor” in the queer family structure: what 

happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance 

to donate sperm or an egg, or to act as a surrogate? 

And Baby Makes More pushes at the boundaries of current family conceptions. 

This quirky, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of personal essays 

off ers a front-row view into the relative risks and unexpected rewards 

of queer, do-it-yourself baby-making, and the ways in which families themselves 

are re-made in the process. The authors—donors, biological and non- 

biological parents, and their children—off er provocative, nuanced insights 

into what it means to be or use a known donor—and how queer families are 

being reconceived to include new roles, new rules, and, sometimes, more 

than two parents. 

Susan Goldberg is a writer and editor whose work has been featured in a variety 

of media. She is the recipient of the 2002 Editors’ Association of Canada 

Tom Fairley Award. Both Susan and Chloë are queer moms who conceived 

their children with help from known donors. 

Chloë Brushwood Rose works as a professor of education at York University. 

She is the co-editor of the Lambda shortlisted and critically acclaimed Brazen 

Femme: Queering Femininity (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002). 

Known donors and queer families. 



May 


6 x 9 | 324 pp 


978-1-897178-83-6 USA 




Editor Hometowns: Toronto, ON / Sudbury, ON 

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978-1-897178-87-4 USA 

Sometimes, hair is just hair. 

Sometimes, it’s much more. 

FICTION 

April 


5 x 8 | 224 pp 


978-1-897178-86-7 USA 

A brave new voice that is both 

fresh and brash. 

The Politics of Black Women’s Hair 

Althea Prince 

In 1905, Madame C.J. Walker invented a metal comb that, when heated, 

transformed black women’s hair from tight curls into smooth, straight tresses. 

The iron comb made her a millionaire, but many black people criti cized her 

for creating a product that made black women’s hair imitate white women’s 

long, straight hair. 

From Madame Walker to First Lady Michelle Obama, this series of essays 

by Althea Prince and others explores the role of hairstyle in black women’s relationships 

with their mothers, their peers, their self-image, and society as a 

whole. 

Althea Prince’s books include Being Black, Loving This Man, and Ladies of the Night. 

She teaches at Ryerson University in Toronto. 




In Charles Demers’ darkly comic debut novel, Daniel—an East Vancouver 

obsessive-compulsive—is forced to evaluate his self-absorption against the trials 

and traumas of others. As he tries to submerge himself in a solitary, Karl 

Marx-inspired research project in the basement archives of the medical library, 

Daniel watches his family fl ounder at the center of a free-speech fi ght 

for a children’s book about a same-sex relationship—between turtles. 

Charles Demers is a writer, political activist, and comedian. His comedy is 

featured regularly on CBC Radio, and he is co-host of The CityNews List, a comic 

news show. He lives in East Vancouver with his wife. 



Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Seattle, WA 


The Prescription Errors 

Charles Demers

Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel 

Photographs by Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel 

Edited by Ingo Taubhorn 

This is the fi rst comprehensive catalog on the work of the legendary fashion 

photographer couple, presenting their famous works for Vogue and Harper’s 

Bazaar, as well as many previously unpublished photographs. 

This publication accompanies the fi rst museum exhibition showing 

the work of Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel in dialogue. Starting at the 

Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, the exhibition is intended to tour in 

the United States in 2010. 

Bassman and Himmel are enjoying a resurgence with exhibitions, including 

in the galleries of Howard Greenberg, James Danzinger, and Staley Wise, 

New York; and at the Palais du Tokyo, Paris. 

Lillian Bassman was married to Paul Himmel in 1935. From the 1940s, 

Bassman was at the cutting edge of fashion, working as both fashion photographer 

and art director for Harper’s Bazaar. At Junior Bazaar she worked with young 

photographers such as Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, and Arnold Newman. 

Studying at the New School under Alexey Brodovitch, Bassman started shooting 

pictures herself. She soon was in constant demand and shot campaigns for 

Chanel and Balenciaga. Her work in black and white brought a sophisticated 

new aesthetic to print photography. Today she is experimenting with digital 

technology and abstract color photography. 

Paul Himmel (1914–2009) was one of the few photographers working for 

both Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, but in the 1950s he was becoming increasingly 

disillusioned with commercial photography and started his own projects, poetic 

and graphically powerful series on boxers, the circus, and ballet. His pictures 

became well known through Edward Steichen’s important exhibition 

“The Family of Man.” 

The fi rst comprehensive publication on the work of the 

great fashion photographer couple. 

Kehrer Verlag 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 

9½ x 11 | 416 pp 

300 Duotone and color photographs 


978-3-86828-101-9 CUSA 

Photographer Hometown: New York, NY 

173

Kehrer Verlag 

174 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 

10 x 11¾ | 176 pp 



978-3-86828-073-9 CUSA 

Brilliantly observed and captured 

vignettes of contemporary adolescence, 

organized around a single room. 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

Available Now 

9¾ x 9¾ | 96 pp 

61 Duotone photographs 


978-3-86828-077-7 CUSA 

Enigmatic duotone photographs 

show the mystery and poignancy 

of abandoned medieval pigeonniers 

in northwestern France. 

In the Kitchen 

Photographs by Dona Schwartz 

Text by Alison Nordström and Marion Winik 

“ In the Kitchen explores family life, youth culture, and coming of age. . . . The 

kitchen is the place in the house where our daily dramas are enacted. It’s 

where, together, we make a mess of things and do our best to clean it all up.” 

—Dona Schwartz 

“Brilliantly observed and captured vignettes of contemporary adolescence, 

organized around a single room.”—Alison Nordström, curator of photography, 

George Eastman House 

Dona Schwartz, based in Minneapolis, has shown her photographs at many 

international venues, including the National Portrait Gallery, London, 

England; Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Milwaukee Art Museum, 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada; New 

Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana; and the FotoFest 2010 

Biennial, Houston, Texas. 

Photographer Hometown: Minneapolis, MN 

Silent Nests 

Photographs by Vicki Topaz 

Text by Gilles Boussard and Doreen Schmid 

For centuries, raising pigeons and doves was a symbol of privilege granted to 

the aristocracy. Before the French Revolution, there were over forty thousand 

dovecotes in France: large, freestanding buildings that Vicki Topaz depicts in 

her enigmatic black-and-white photographs. Today, less than one thousand of 

these colombiers remain. 

Images from Silent Nests are included in several American collections, like 

the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and have been presented at international 

venues and photo festivals. 

Vicki Topaz is based in San Francisco. She is one of the co-founders of 

PhotoAlliance and a member of San Francisco Camerawork. 

Photographer Hometown: San Francisco, CA

Not Niigata 

Photographs and Text by Andrew Phelps 

“The best I can do is tell the story of my traveling and responding visually to 

a place I don’t necessarily understand. It is the story of not understanding 

Niigata.”—Andrew Phelps 

In 2009, Andrew Phelps took photographs in Japan’s Niigata prefecture for 

the European Eyes on Japan Festival. This elaborately designed volume presents 

the artist’s selection from the hundreds of images he brought back from 

his trip. 

Andrew Phelps works as a freelance artist in Salzburg, Austria, and is member 

of the Galerie Fotohof. He has published several photo books and has shown 

his works in numerous international exhibitions. 

Photographer Hometown: Higley, AZ 

Empire 

Photographs by Charles Fréger 

Text by Prosper Keating and Charles Fréger 

The photo series Empire is a long-term project (2004–2008), comprising portraits 

of a wide variety of elite troops across Europe, mostly Republican or 

Royal Guards, who stand out for both their historical and very colorful uniforms 

and for the draconic protocolary rule common in such units. 

The work of French photographer Charles Fréger is considered groundbreaking 

in the complex genre of contemporary portraiture. In extensive series 

he portrays individual members of social groups—be it sports clubs or 

professional guilds—who demonstrate their affi liation to the specifi c collective 

through external signs such as uniforms. 

Kehrer Verlag 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 

11 ¼ x 11¼ | 72 pp 



978-3-86828-081-4 CUSA 

Andrew Phelps’ images from 

Japan show us a world that is 

both exotic and mundane. 

PHOTOGRAPHY / HISTORY 

April 

8½ x 11½ | 164 pp 



978-3-86828-097-5 CUSA 

A unique portrait collection 

of European uniforms. 

175

Kehrer Verlag 

176 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

May 

13 x 9¾ | 88 pp 



978-3-86828-080-7 CUSA 

Haunting images by 

Helsinki School member 

Riitta Päiväläinen. 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

June 

9¾ x 11¾ | 160 pp 



978-3-86828-093-7 CUSA 

Just a simple book of photos. 

Imaginary Meetings 

Photographs by Riitta Päiväläinen 

Text by Andréa Holzherr 

Riitta Päiväläinen’s work could be defi ned as the emotional archaeology of the 

ordinary. Using old clothes she fi nds in secondhand shops and fl ea markets, 

the artist creates installations in landscapes and photographs them. By soaking 

the garments in water and placing them outside in the Finnish winter, for 

example, they freeze solid, fi lling out as if someone were wearing them. The 

garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners. 

Finnish photographer Riitta Päiväläinen is a member of the internationally 

renowned Helsinki School and is represented by Gallery TaiK, among 

others. 

Walter Kehr: Photographs 1995–2005 

Photographs by Walter Kehr 

Walter Kehr has described his book as “just a simple book of photos.” It is a 

collection of snapshots that were taken when no one was looking, or as the sun 

was beginning to creep above an otherwise empty street corner in New York. 

But they also form a greater truth. They remind us that, in life, it is the smallest 

moments that often mean the most. 

Walter Kehr studied at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and was an assistant 

to Richard Avedon, Tony Kaye, and others before making his career as a photographer 

and movie director in Los Angeles. 

Photographer Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Disorient 

Art by Fiona Tan with Saskia Bos, Bruce Grenville, 

and Doris von Drathen 

With her new work Disorient, Fiona Tan represents the Netherlands at the fi ftythird 

Venice Biennale. Her audio-visual installation refers to Venice’s pivotal 

position in the history of geostrategy in the time before the discovery of new 

routes to Asia diluted the city’s power. 

Fiona Tan describes herself as “a professional foreigner, whose identity is 

defi ned by that which I am not.” Her recent notable exhibitions include the 

Vancouver Art Gallery; Freer Galleries, Washington; New Orleans Biennial; 

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los 

Angeles; ICP Triennial, New York; Documenta 11, Kassel; and the fortyninth 

Venice Biennale. 

COMPESHITSTEM 

The New Deal 

Art by Phoebe Washburn 

Edited by Veit Görner and Frank-Thorsten Moll 

New York artist Phoebe Washburn is presenting the largest and most complex 

installation she has ever been able to realize during her career. She takes 

up themes like globalization and ecology in her work and frequently turns to 

found materials, giving them a new function within the artwork and thus creating 

new frames of reference. A critique of consumer society or an appeal for 

environmental awareness are of secondary importance for the artist. 

Phoebe Washburn’s works were shown at the Deutsche Guggenheim/Berlin 

(2007), the Whitney Biennial (2008), the Zach Feuer Gallery, and Wallpaper 

LAB, amongst others. 

Artist Hometown: New York, NY 

Kehrer Verlag 

ART 

Available Now 


7¼ x 9½ | 128 pp 



978-3-86828-068-5 CUSA 

Fiona Tan’s works for the Dutch pavilion 

at the 2009 Venice Biennale. 

ART 

May 

6¾ x 9 | 144 pp 



978-3-86828-087-6 CUSA 

New York artist Phoebe Washburn's 

largest and most complex 

installation ever. 

177

Kehrer Verlag 

178 

ART 

April 


9½ x 12¼ | 79 pp 



978-3-86828-070-8 CUSA 

An exciting group of new 

large-format paintings by American 

painter David Salle. 

ART 

June 

9¾ x 7¾ | 80 pp 



978-3-86828-100-2 CUSA 

New paintings and photographs 

by Swiss artist Leta Peer. 

Distance from Nowhere 

Art by David Salle 

Edited by Veit Görner and Frank-Thorsten Moll 

David Salle numbers among the most important American painters in contemporary 

art. This catalog presents an exciting group of new large-format 

paintings combined with a choice selection of older works. Salle’s work not 

only references artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Andy 

Warhol, but also Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jean-Luc Godard. Painting and 

drawing as well as fi lm and installation, performance, and stage design can all 

be associated with Salle’s work. 

David Salle’s work has been shown in many American and international exhibitions 

and is included in major collections, including Whitney Museum, 

New York; Documenta 7, Germany; and the Venice Biennale. 

Artist Hometown: Sagaponack, NY 

Along with Simon 

Art by Leta Peer 

Text by Thomas Elsen 

For several years the paintings and photographic works by Swiss artist Leta 

Peer have focused on the Lower Engadin landscape, the region in which she 

grew up. With recurrent, allegedly conventional subjects that run contrary to 

the fl eetingness of our society, and by using the “classical” medium of painting, 

Peer generates artistic contributions of great intensity in today’s world. 

Leta Peer has received several awards to work artistically in the United States, 

including the Pollock-Krasner Scholarship. Since 1994 she has continuously 

shown her work at international galleries, museums, and art fairs such as 

Photo Miami and Paris Photo.

For Whom the Troubadour Sings 

Dawud Wharnsby 

“Wharnsby’s message is substantive, and his vocals are compelling—similar in 

style to Peter Yarrow and Paul Simon.”—Dallas Morning News 

Dawud Wharnsby’s unconventional approach to writing and religion challenges 

how we look at our lives and the world through which we all journey. 

There was nothing more to say. 

There was sun-snow as I drove away. 

Back home was the only place to go, 

and I did not know, 

I would never see her after that day. 

Canadian-born Dawud Wharnsby began writing poetry, composing music, 

and performing in his teens. Since then he has become a voice for socially 

conscious and spiritually minded individuals in the twenty-fi rst century. 



“Lyrical yet careful, this introduction to the Ottoman reality will soon become 

a classic of popular history-writing.”—T.J. Winter, University of Cambridge 

What was the signifi cance of the Ottoman Empire? What kind of lives did 

people live? What does the Ottoman Empire mean to us today? Discovering the 

Ottomans refl ects on the life, legacy, and relevance of the Ottomans. 

Ilber Ortayli is a leading expert on the Ottomans. He is the director of the 

Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, and is also a professor of history at the universities 

of Galatasaray and Bilkent. 



Discovering the Ottomans 

Ilber Ortayli 


POETRY 

June 


5½ x 8½ | 156 pp 


978-1-84774-011-3 CUSA 

A compilation of 

twenty years of work in print for 

the fi rst time! 

HISTORY 

April 


5 x 7¾ | 192 pp 



978-1-84774-008-3 CUSA 

A detailed history of the 

Ottomans written by a leading 

Turkish historian. 

179


180 

RELIGION 

May 


The Islamic Foundation 

5½ x 8½ | 270 pp 


978-0-86037-457-2 CUSA 

Arabic bilingual 

A selection of 393 traditions of the 

Prophet Muhammad, including Arabic and 

commentary to elucidate their meanings. 

RELIGION 

July 



5½ x 8½ | 310 pp 


978-0-86037-446-6 CUSA 

Arabic bilingual 

One hundred and 

forty keywords explained. 

“A beautiful handbook of Hadith, making the radiant gems of Prophetic wisdom 

available to a wider public. With admirable brevity, it gives the sum and 

substance of the Prophet’s way.”—Professor Khurshid Ahmad 

Featuring 393 traditions of the Prophet, this book provides Arabic text and 

English commentary to elucidate their meanings. This comprehensive selection 

covers faith, worship, morality and character, ethics, society, law, and 

politics in Islam. 

Shaykh ‘Abd Al-Ghaff ar Hasan (1913–2007), a graduate of Dar al-Hadith 

al- Rahmaniyyah in Delhi, taught the sciences of Ahadith at the University of 

Madinah from 1964 to 1979. 



“This book is a valuable addition to the Qur’anic literature in English and it is 

worth having in every Muslim home as . . . a reference book.”—Professor Syed 

Salman Nadvi, Durban University 

This book provides a concise and authoritative guide to 140 keywords in the 

Qur’an. The full meaning of each keyword is given, with Qur’anic citations 

and discussions of allied and related terms. Ideal for students of the Qur’an 

as well as general readers. 



The Way of the Prophet 

Shaykh ‘Abd Al-Ghaffar Hasan 

Qur’anic Keywords 

A Reference Guide 

Abdur Rashid Siddiqui

Islam: Its Meaning and Message 

Edited by Khurshid Ahmad 

Foreword by Salem Azzam 

This book provides a window into the world of Islam. It covers the whole spectrum 

of its beliefs, values, social principles, cultural institutions, and contemporary 

problems. Edited by Khurshid Ahmad, this book brings together 

leading Muslim scholarship and covers ideology, culture, the concept of worship, 

social justice, women in Islam, political theory in Islam, and the objectives 

of the Islamic economic order. It also discusses what Islam gave to 

humanity, the Western world and its challenges to Islam, and Islam and the 

crisis of the modern world. 



Seven Steps to Moral Intelligence 

Musharraf Hussain 

How do we develop a good understanding of right and wrong? How do we 

change ourselves so that we can live by the universal, moral values of Islam? 

This handbook tells us how to go about changing ourselves in seven steps. 

Based on Imam Ghazali’s teachings, this handbook is attractively laid out and 

easy to understand. 

Musharraf Hussain is the chief executive of the Karimia Institute. In 

2009 he was nationally recognized for his services to community relations 

in Britain. He is also a chair of the United Kingdom’s national Christian- 

Muslim Forum. 




RELIGION 

June 



5½ x 8½ | 284 pp 


978-0-86037-287-5 CUSA 

Understand Islam, 

its ideology, beliefs, values, 

and principles. 

RELIGION 

April 


4½ x 6¼ | 108 pp 



978-1-84774-009-0 CUSA 

A handbook to 

universal moral teachings, 

based on Imam Ghazali’s teachings. 

181

Selected Backlist from Kube Publishing Ltd 

182 

The Muslim 100 

The Lives, Thoughts and 

Achievements of the Most 

Infl uential Muslims in History 

Muhammad Mojlum Khan 


7½ x 9¾ | 450 pp 


978-1-84774-006-9 CUSA 

Muslim Civilization 

The Causes of Decline and the 

Need for Reform 

M. Umer Chapra 

RELIGION / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

5½ x 8½ | 224 pp 


978-0-86037-461-9 CUSA 

What Every Christian 

Should Know About Islam 

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood 

RELIGION 

4¾ x 7¼ | 160 pp 


978-0-86037-375-9 CUSA 

Turning the Tide 

Reawakening the 

Woman’s Heart and Soul 

Suma Din 

RELIGION 

8 x 8 | 192 pp 

Slipcased US $20.00 | CAN $24.00 

978-0-86037-399-5 CUSA 

Towards Understanding 

the Qur’an 

Abridged Version (Pocket Size) 

Sayyid Abul A’la Mawdudi 

RELIGION 

4¼ x 6¼ | 1,408 pp 

Leather Bound US $19.95 | CAN $24.00 

978-0-86037-580-7 CUSA 

Muhammad: 

Man and Prophet 

Adil Salahi 

RELIGION / 


6¼ x 9¼ | 854 pp 


978-0-86037-322-3 CUSA

Monster: Oil on Canvas 

Dmitry Zlotsky 

“Marvelously original. . . . Zlotsky has done for conjoined twins what Günter 

Grass did for midgets in The Tin Drum. . . . A weirdly hilarious Russian fairytale 

composed with the comedic zeal of Gogol and the rhetorical brilliance of 

Nabokov.”—Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language 

“Pure joy in language. . . . Nabokov’s Pale Fire mated with Finnegan’s Wake.” 

—Michael Drout, PhD, language scholar 

Meet Alex and Alex, as compelling a Russian portrait as the two sides of 

Raskolnikov. He is—or they are—a dark-caped anti-hero, conjoined twins 

stalking, counterfeiting, fl eeing the iron curtain, delightfully innocent, seeking 

what everyone seeks: love, hope, and redemption. 



Author Events 

Washington, DC • Boston, MA • Trenton, NJ • New York, NY • Philadelphia, PA • 

Providence, RI • Toronto, ON 

Author Hometown: Livingston, NJ 

An engineer whose life is in shambles meets a blind oceanographer who spends 

her life at sea. In this memoir of their courtship, David Fisichella writes of science, 

love, adventure, and danger on the ocean. He survives heavy weather, 

an equator crossing, and a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. He learns 

how scientists study ocean physics and why their research is so important, how 

people live for months on a crowded boat, and what it means to be working 

for, and dating, the chief scientist. Told with humor, gritty details, and a refreshing 

sense of wonder about our oceans. 



Seven-Tenths 

Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea 

David Fisichella 

Author Events 

San Diego, CA • Washington, DC • Bar Harbor, ME • Portland, ME • Boston, MA • 

Portland, OR • College Station, TX • Salt Lake City, UT • Seattle, WA • Victoria, BC • 

Halifax, NS 

Author Hometown: Woods Hole, MA 


FICTION 

April 


LeapLit 

6 x 9 | 330 pp 


978-1-9352480-9-5 CUSA 

A weirdly hilarious Russian fairy tale 

featuring conjoined twins, reminiscent 

of Nikolai Gogol, Günter Grass, and 

Vladimir Nabokov. 


April 


LeapSci 

6 x 9 | 230 pp 


978-1-9352481-0-1 CUSA 

A disillusioned man and a blind 

oceanographer fi nd love and adventure 

while studying the world’s oceans. 

183

Selected Backlist from Leapfrog Press 

184 

The Ghost Trap 

K. Stephens 

FICTION 

6 x 9 | 280 pp 


978-0-9815148-7-1 CUSA 

The Divine Farce 

Michael S. A. Graziano 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7½ | 155 pp 


978-1-9352480-4-0 CUSA 

La bell’America 

From La Rivoluzione to the Great 

Depression: An Italian Immigrant 

Family Remembered 

Anthony M. Graziano 


6 x 9 | 600 pp 



978-1-9352480-1-9 CUSA 

The Wandering Heart 

Mary Malloy 

FICTION 

6 x 9 | 300 pp 


978-0-9815148-5-7 CUSA 

Squiggle 

B.B. Wurge 

JUVENILE FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 178 pp 



978-0-9815148-9-5 CUSA

798 

Inside China’s Art Zone 

Wenya Huang and Kaixuan Cui 

In China, if you have exhibited at 798, you have “made it” as an artist. Relatively 

little-known outside of China until very recently, 798 is now mentioned in 

nearly every travel guide on China. It has captured the attention of the international 

art world and is developing into a major cultural phenomenon. 

As this book shows, 798 is the result of a unique cultural paradox: as China 

increasingly embraces individual artistic freedom, it is being combined with 

China’s long, collectivist history of “doing work together.” For the artists who 

have exhibited at 798, their association has become a badge of legitimacy 

within the art world and often a passport to worldwide acclaim (i.e. Song 

Dong’s recent installation at the Museum of Modern Art). This book off ers a 

revealing fi rst look behind the artistic and cultural phenomenon that is at the 

vanguard of contemporary Chinese art. 

Wenya Huang is a photographer whose work has been published in Oriental 

Arts, China Gallery, and Conceptual Photography. 

Kaixuan Cui is an art critic and curator. He is a member of the Beijing 

University of Technology faculty. Cui was instrumental in setting up the exhibitions 

Beijing 2008, You and Me and Everything in Between, and Home 

Workshop–Beijing Olympics Series. 

The fi rst art book about China’s 798 District that’s 

not priced like an art book. 


ART 

April 


10 x 7 | 260 pp 



978-1-59265-084-2 CUSA 

185


186 

ART / DESIGN 

August 


8 x 8 | 250 pp 



978-1-59265-094-1 CUSA 

Sourcebook of Chinese 

Art and Design Motifs 

Quanxin Huang 

An indispensable guide, this book features a compilation of Chinese folk art 

images—many presented here for the fi rst time—depicting a variety of artistic 

themes, motifs, and styles throughout Chinese art history. Included are 

paintings, drawings, stone carvings, woodcuts and wood block prints, calendar 

pictures, and door gods, among others. Common folk art themes such as 

wealth, happiness, and longevity feature unique motifs that were enjoyed by 

the common people for centuries and have become a deeply ingrained part of 

Chinese culture. 

Part art appreciation, part fi eld guide, this book will enable the reader 

to have a deeper understanding of the many facets of Chinese popular art. 

Providing a rich degree of cultural context and history, the Sourcebook of Chinese 

Art and Design Motifs is an ideal reference book for professional illustrators or designers, 

as well as a fascinating book on art history and culture. 

Quanxin Huang is a professor of art at Beijing Normal University. 

A compilation of some of China’s most diverse 

design patterns and art motifs.

At Work 

Portraits of 25 Contemporary Chinese Artists 

Jon Burris 

This unique book shows why many believe China is the next “tidal wave” of 

opportunity for art collectors due to the sheer creative output and artistic variety 

now blooming from within a country where only a few decades ago such 

expression would have been repressed. 

Within the Western art world, contemporary Chinese art is the subject of 

intense fascination and speculation. In this book, Jon Burris profi les contemporary 

Chinese painters, sculptors, photographers, and conceptual artists in 

their studios, presenting intimate glimpses into their life and work. As a result, 

he off ers a fascinating, lingering portrait of the contemporary Chinese 

art scene. 

From the symbolist paintings of Zhang Xiaogang to Fang Lijun and other 

post-Tiananmen artists, Burris details the historical, political, and cultural 

mimesis shaping China’s contemporary artists. This is a must-have book for 

admirers of contemporary Chinese art. 

Jon Burris is the author of Beijing Days. He has served as a curator for the 

Christian Keesee Collection of New Russian Art, the Robert A. Hefner III 

Collection of Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting, and the Brett Weston 

Archive. He is the executive director of Untitled [Artspace] in Oklahoma City. 

Documentary-style portraits of twenty-fi ve of China’s 

most accomplished and fascinating artists at work. 


ART 

April 

12 x 10 | 240 pp 



978-1-59265-085-9 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK 

187


ARCHITECTURE 

April 


5½ x 8¼ | 220 pp 



978-1-59265-083-5 CUSA 

Humorous, irrevrent, and poignant 

drawings show how even in the twentyfi 

rst century, Confucius is around us. 

188 

In contemporary Chinese 

architecture there is only one rule: 

there are no rules. 

HUMOR / PHILOSOPHY 

May 


8 x 8 | 210 pp 



978-1-59265-087-3 CUSA 

World Architecture in China 

Charlie Xue 

As China moves forward, it off ers fertile ground for the world’s architectural 

community. From the pioneering work of I.M. Pei, the stunning CCTV 

complex of Rem Koolhaas, Paul Andreu’s National Theater, Norman Foster’s 

Beijing Airport, and Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Jimnao Tower, China is 

reinventing its skyline on a vast scale. 

This highly readable book charts the history of international architecture 

in China and places special emphasis on China’s post-1978 reforms. China 

is now embracing international architecture, whereas a quarter of a century 

ago, names like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius 

were practically unknown. 

Charlie Xue is the author of Building a Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980. 

The World of Confucius 

Why the Golden Rule Matters in a Murphy’s Law World 

Xin Zhao 

This is a whimsical, introspective book on the relevance of Confucian teachings 

in contemporary life. Xin Zhao is one of the most popular illustrators in 

China today. His witty, irreverent drawings off er a unique blend of sage wisdom 

in a not-so-calm world. Zhao is at his best at showcasing China’s ancient 

philosophy with a modern twist. No matter what path of life you are on, a little 

bit of Confucius can go a long way. Ideal for all readers. 

Xin Zhao is one of China’s most popular contemporary cartoonists, whose 

work has appeared in books, calendars, and other media.

Shaolin Quan 

The 10-Minute Primer 

Shaolin martial arts are gaining popularity in China and are based on the 

teachings of the once-mysterious Shaolin monks. 

SPORTS & RECREATION | April 

A Paperback Original | 6 x 9 | 100 pp | 100 Color illustrations 


Taiji Quan 


Taiji (Tai Chi) currently enjoys enormous popularity in the West. 




Chinese Wushu 


Wushu techniques are at the core of all of China’s martial arts. 




Qi Gong 


Qi Gong requires the utmost concentration to attain an almost meditative 

state. 





The 10-Minute Primer Series on Chinese Martial Arts 

Qingjie Zhou 

These four compact, easy-to-follow books feature the essential history and practical application of some of China’s most 

popular martial arts. For physical and mental fi tness, this full-color series introduces the reader to simple, everyday exercises. 

Each volume is illustrated in full color and is ideal for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. 

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190 

The Illustrated Chinese Classics Series 

Written and Illustrated by Chuncai Zhou 

Translated by Paul White 

This series solves an interesting problem: How does one tackle over 2,500 years of Chinese philosophy? Simple! Use the comic 

book format! This series by Chuncai Zhou takes some of China’s most important classical stories and reinvents them for a new 

audience. The series includes the Analects of Confucius, which presents the story of Confucius and his teachings; Laozi, the 

father of Daosim; and, fi nally, the Book of Changes, the central treatise on ancient China’s philosophical traditions. These lighthearted, 

fun to follow stories allow readers to discover the classics of ancient China in a new way. 

The Illustrated Book of the Analects 

This volume presents the core teachings of Confucianism in a fun, easy to follow 

way. 

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / PHILOSOPHY | April 

A Paperback Original | 7 x 10 | 300 pp | 300 B&W illustrations 


The Illustrated Book of Laozi 

This is a thoughtful and funny look at Laozi and the Dao De Jing, its history, 

and its impact on the world. 




The Illustrated Book of Changes 

The Book of Changes, or I Ching, is the core foundation of all Chinese philosophy. 

This volume presents the story of the I Ching in a humorous, comic 

book format. 




Stories of Famous Chinese Heroes 

The Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Ltd. 

For intermediate to advanced Chinese-language learners, this book emphasizes 

cultural learning alongside language learning. Featuring twelve of 

China’s most beloved folk legends, this book includes the story of Mulan and 

the travels of the Monkey King. It contains essays in simplifi ed Chinese, pinyin, 

English translation, key vocabulary, questions for further review, and additional 

exercises. All books are illustrated in full color and feature text and 

vocabulary that conform to the HSK, the only offi cially recognized language 

profi ciency standard used in China today. 

The Commercial Press Ltd. is China’s oldest publishing company, founded 

in 1897. 

China: The Country and the People 

The Commercial Press (Hong Kong) Ltd. 

This reader for intermediate to advanced Chinese-language learners introduces 

a dozen essays about important aspects of Chinese society that are essential 

for language learners’ understanding of what makes China unique in 

world history, particularly at the dawn of the twenty-fi rst century. Covering 

China’s history, civilization, natural resources, art, and culture, this “mini 

encyclopedia” will enrich the cultural experience of anyone wishing to learn 

Chinese at an intermediate or advanced pace. Suitable for those at or approaching 

AP level, or for those on the track to HSK certifi cation for Chinese 

language profi ciency. 

The Commercial Press Ltd. is China’s oldest publishing company, founded 

in 1897. 


FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 

April 


Read About China 

5½ x 8¼ | 104 pp 



978-0-9821816-2-1 CUSA 

Chinese bilingual 

Readings for language learners in 

English and Chinese about famous 

Chinese cultural stories. 


April 


Read About China 

5½ x 8¼ | 144 pp 



978-0-9821816-1-4 CUSA 


A collection of twelve short 

readings on traditional and contemporary 

Chinese culture. 

191

Selected Backlist from Long River Press 

192 

China Complex 

U.S.–China Relations in the 

21st Century: Crossroads or 

Collision Course 

Shouhua Qi 


9 x 6 | 224 pp 


978-1-59265-079-8 CUSA 

A Basic Dao 

An Introduction to The Way 

Translated by Philip Robyn 

PHILOSOPHY 

5½ x 6½ | 140 pp 



978-1-59265-077-4 CUSA 

In the Realm of the Gods 

Lands, Myths, and 

Legends of China 

Translated by Victoria Cass 

TRAVEL / PHOTOGRAPHY 

10 x 10 | 216 pp 



978-1-59265-076-7 CUSA 

In the Footsteps of the 

Yellow Emperor 

Tracing the History of 

Traditional Acupuncture 

Peter Eckman, MD 

HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

6 x 9 | 248 pp 



978-1-59265-074-3 CUSA 

Sisters of Heaven 

China’s Barnstorming Aviatrixes: 

Modernity, Feminism, and Popular 

Imagination in Asia and the West 

Patti Gully 

HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

6 x 9 | 448 pp 



978-1-59265-075-0 CUSA 

Shanghai Style 

Art and Design Between the Wars 

Lynn Pan 

ART / HISTORY 

5½ x 8½ | 312 pp 

250 Color and B&W illustrations and 

photographs 


978-1-59265-078-1 CUSA

LoudMouth Press 

Brooklyn, New York 

LoudMouth Press is a nonprofi t, independent publishing house founded in 2008 in Brooklyn, New 

York. We are a grassroots organization committed to developing and producing works by writers, 

artists, and critical thinkers that advocate an awareness of human and civil rights and issues of social, 

political, and cultural importance. LoudMouth Press publishes a variety of trade books that vary in 

format and design. 

LoudMouth Press’ mission is activism and advocacy through print and digital media. LMP is 

a platform to voice ideas that wouldn’t otherwise be given a forum. Our projects off er innovative 

perspectives on important issues that concern the entire human family. LMP develops and publishes 

titles by today’s most innovative thinkers while maintaining the ability to keep our fi nger on the pulse 

of the cultural zeitgeist, with materials that will often be interactive, collaborative, and involve the 

readers’ participation in some way. 

In addition to our publishing program, we support an education initiative, which provides tools 

and resources for high school teachers and students in New York City. Our education initiative is 

based on a philosophy of increasing youth awareness concerning global and social issues, improving 

student literacy, and creating opportunities for youth activism. 

At the core of our education initiative is the in-house publication LOUD, an educational periodical 

designed to integrate issues of social justice with traditional curriculum, creating a relevant and 

structured lens through which to view topics that are not normally covered by traditional textbooks. 

It is produced quarterly in print and digital formats and is available on a subscription basis. 

fi rst season at Consortium


194 

SOCIAL SCIENCE / ART 

April 


6 x 9 | 220 pp 



978-0-615-28909-0 CUSA 




Author Hometown: Union City, NJ / Oceanside, CA 

Offi ce of Blame Accountability 

Geoff Cunningham and Carla Repice 

Born out of the iconographic qualities found in forms, annual reports, and 

textbooks from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, Offi ce of Blame Accountability places itself 

outside of time and within a context of oral storytelling and myth. One hundred 

and forty blame forms fi lled out and fi led by private citizens are collected 

here to give the reader a sense of the mindset of an America beset by war, the 

drama of national politics, natural disasters, and private and personal dilemmas. 

Combined with interviews, essays, and photographs of the OBA in its 

various locations, this book provides an uncanny picture of America today. 

The OBA is an art project, taking place on public sidewalks across the 

United States. The OBA has traveled to the Democratic and Republican 

National Conventions, Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11, and Wall 

Street during the stock market crash. The ideas that inform OBA stem from 

the growing lack of corporate responsibility and the increasing economic and 

social divide between people living in the United States. Since October 2007, 

the OBA has collected and fi led hundreds of blame forms in collaboration 

with the American public. 

Geoff Cunningham is an artist living and working in Oceanside, 

California. 

Carla Repice is an artist and teacher living in Union City, New Jersey. After 

beginning their study of systems of bureaucracy, confl ict resolution, thought 

structures, and political divisions in South Africa, Geoff and Carla established 

the OBA in 2007 while sitting on a park bench at a mall in Orange 

County, California. 

“Blame forms” fi led by private citizens reveal an America beset by 

national politics and personal drama.

Genetic Architectures III / 

Arquitecturas Genéticas III 

Edited by Alberto T. Estévez 

Genetic Architectures III / Arquitecturas Genéticas III advances from its predecessors GAI 

of 2003 and GAII of 2005, presenting investigative theory, production, and 

hybridized design from experimental architecture, biology, computation, and 

art history. The book features contributions from Spanish, Catalan, French, 

British, and American specialists in architecture, science, and philosophy: 

Alberto T. Estévez, Josep Corcó, Dennis Dollens, Bernard Cache, Michael 

Hensel, Neil Leach, Agustí Fontarnau, and Judith Urbano. Their works and 

words are set in a framework of illustrated projects developed in the Genetic 

Architectures and BioDigital master program at the Universitat Internacional 

de Catalunya, Barcelona. 

The experimental research in GAIII is algorithmically generative, scripted, 

and parametric, stemming from collaborations between design, science, and 

nature—specifi cally between biology and architecture. Projects, illustrated 

with full-scale examples, are modeled and/or fabricated with CNC and rapid 

prototyping technologies. While some of the works and discussions are speculative 

and hypothetical, others focus on morphological and anatomical structural 

transformations fully realizable today; still others incorporate advanced 

visualization and techniques from science and nature that lend themselves to 

extrapolation for today’s design studios and classrooms. 

Unthinkable only a few years ago, biologically living buildings or parts of 

buildings collaborating with sensor networks and actuator/robotic controls 

are the stuff of advanced experimentation and building research taking place 

at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya’s Barcelona campus’ Genetic 

Architectures and BioDigital master programs. 

Experimental architecture discussed by eight international experts with 

emphasis on emerging technologies and biological, structural potential. 


ARCHITECTURE 

April 


6½ x 8¼ | 208 pp 



978-0-930829-68-1 CUSA 

195

Selected Backlist from Lumen Books 

196 

Genetic Architectures / 

Arquitecturas genéticas 

Edited by Dennis Dollens 

ART / ARCHITECTURE 

6⅛ x 8½ | 112 pp 



978-0-930829-51-3 CUSA 

El Zarco 

the Blue-eyed Bandit 

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano 

Translated by Ronald Christ 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8½ | 225 pp 


978-0-930829-61-2 CUSA 

Genetic Architectures II 

Digital Tools & Organic Forms 

Alberto T. Estévez 

ARCHITECTURE / EDUCATION 

6½ x 8¼ | 208 pp 



978-0-930829-59-9 CUSA 

The Shadow Factory 

Paul West 

Introduction by Diane Ackerman 


6¼ x 9½ | 115 pp 


978-0-930829-65-0 CUSA 

Digital-Botanic 

Architecture 

D-B-A 

Dennis Dollens 

ARCHITECTURE / ART 

5¼ x 8½ | 96 pp 



978-0-930829-54-4 CUSA 

Soul’s Infarct 

Photographs by Paz Errázuriz 

with Diamela Eltit 

Translated by Ronald Christ 

PHOTOGRAPHY / FICTION 

8½ x 9½ | 84 pp 



978-0-930829-67-4 CUSA

The Underground Guide to San 

Francisco, 3rd Edition 

Edited by Jennifer Joseph 

“A way cool guide that manages to raise the art of irreverence to a new level.” 

—Chicago Tribune 

The Underground Guide to San Francisco is the original alternative guidebook. Not 

for the average tourist looking for cable cars and Fisherman’s Wharf, The 

Underground Guide gives the lowdown on the weirdest, coolest stuff to do, see, 

and buy, and where to hang out in the Bay Area, including where to fi nd the 

Jonestown Massacre mass grave in Oakland, where to fi nd gourmet meals for 

under $10, couch-surfi ng alternatives, how to fi nd help if you’re in trouble, 

free and cheap entertainment, where to rent a dungeon by the hour, and a 

zillion other obscure, fascinating details necessary for life among the young, 

restless, and notorious. 

Includes the queer scene, East Bay explorations, “Weird Museums and 

Unusual Libraries,” and “Mini-Cinies and Micro-Theaters.” New chapters include 

“For the Dogs” and “The Final Frontier: The Excelsior and Beyond.” 

Contributors include Beth Lisick, Jon Longhi, Miles Long, and many others. 

Jennifer Joseph is the publisher and editor of Manic D Press, an award-winning, 

internationally distributed independent literary press specializing in 

fi ction, poetry, art, and travel books. Her writing about San Francisco has appeared 

in The San Francisco Bay Guardian and on citysearch.com. She lives in San 

Francisco, California. 

“An alternative to the typical visitors’ guide . . . a help for decades-long 

denizens as well as wide-eyed sightseers.”—San Francisco Chronicle 

The Underground Guide to Los Angeles, 

3rd Edition 

Edited by Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry 

TRAVEL 

4¼ x 7 | 240 pp 



978-1-933149-14-1 USA 

Also 

Available 

The Underground Guide to Las Vegas 

Edited by Jarret Keene 

TRAVEL 

4¼ x 7 | 208 pp 


978-0-916397-99-9 USA 

Manic D Press 

TRAVEL / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

June 


4¼ x 7 | 240 pp 

15 B&W illustrations and charts 


978-1-933149-35-6 USA 



197

Manic D Press 

198 

ART / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

April 


Women of the Underground 

5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 



978-1-933149-33-2 USA 





Bitch • BUST • The Progressive • 

Radical America 


Women of the Underground: Art 

Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves 

Edited by Zora von Burden 

“It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: 

mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist 

“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a 

refl ection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see, whose critique 

is relevant to him or herself, exposing his or her own perversions.” 

—Irina Ionesco, artist 

Until the late twentieth century, women’s creative skills were relegated to craft 

and decorative arts, and valued only for utilitarian purposes in service to others 

and the manufacturing of products to benefi t society. 

After enduring the great injustice of being denied the freedom that selfexpression 

brings through art for the joy of the human spirit, Women of the 

Underground: Art celebrates those female cultural innovators who are creating 

new artwork that pushes boundaries, dares to question, and redefi nes the 

genres of mixed media; theater; fi lm; photography; and visual, conceptual, 

and performance art. 

In this groundbreaking anthology that will inspire artists and everyone interested 

in alternatives to mainstream culture, as well as serve as a reference 

book for art historians, twenty-six female artists describe their ideas, beginnings, 

infl uences, and creative techniques. Contains interviews with Lady 

Pink, Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Aleksandra Mir, Penny Arcade, Johanna 

Went, the Guerrilla Girls, and many others. 

Editor Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. 

A frequent contributor to The San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the 

screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult classic fi lm, Hotel Hopscotch. 

The unconventional, the radical, the subversive, the unorthodox: 

revealing interviews with underground women artists. 


Women of the Underground: Music 

Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves 

Edited by Zora von Burden 

MUSIC / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

5½ x 8½ | 192 pp 



978-1-933149-19-6 USA

Hit Man 

The Thomas Hearns Story 

Brian Hughes and Damian Hughes 

Thomas Hearns is one of the greatest fi ghters of all time. From his explosion 

onto the pro boxing scene with seventeen straight knockouts, he struck 

fear into opponents and awe into spectators. He featured in some of the most 

thrilling bouts ever and became the fi rst champion to win six titles at diff erent 

weights. He will forever be known by his chilling nickname: Hit Man. 

Growing up in the urban wasteland of inner-city Detroit, Hearns learned 

to defend himself at the notorious Kronk gym. There he came under the tutelage 

of master trainer Emanuel Steward, who turned him into the deadliest 

puncher in the game. From his destruction of Pipino Cuevas to his now- 

legendary fi ghts with fellow greats Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran, 

Hearns carved out a reputation for skill, courage, and stunning power. His 

epic 1985 challenge against middleweight champion Marvin Hagler, billed as 

“The War,” has gone down as the most exciting three rounds in boxing history. 

Defeats only seemed to make Hearns stronger, and he achieved the extraordinary 

feat of winning titles in every weight category, from welterweight to 

cruiserweight. Lately he has devoted his energies to his promotions company, 

Hearns Entertainment, yet he still toys with the idea of winning “one more 

belt.” Hit Man delves inside this complex, charismatic character to present a 

compelling portrait of a modern sports legend. 

Brian Hughes is a boxing trainer and the author of numerous boxing biographies. 

His son, Damian Hughes, is a leadership consultant. Both live in 

Manchester, England. 

The fi rst-ever biography of US boxing legend Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns. 







April 


6 x 9 | 272 pp 



978-1-903854-90-7 CUSA 

199

Selected Backlist from Milo Books 

200 

Hands of Stone 

The Life and Legend of 

Roberto Duran 

Christian Giudice 


5 x 8 | 384 pp 



978-1-903854-75-4 CUSA 

Drug Lords 

The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel 

Ron Chepesiuk 

TRUE CRIME / HISTORY 

5 x 8 | 326 pp 



978-1-903854-38-9 CUSA 

Journey To Hell 

Inside the World’s Most 

Violent Prison System 

Donald MacNeil 

TRUE CRIME / 


6 x 9 | 304 pp 


978-1-903854-57-0 CUSA 

Cinderella Man 

The James J. Braddock Story 

Michael C. DeLisa 



5 x 8 | 336 pp 



978-1-903854-37-2 CUSA

The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion 

Symon Hill 

Religion is a term that is often used in the media and public life without any 

clarifi cation. However, it is a word that encompasses hundreds of diff erent 

beliefs. It is a loaded word that has a diff erent meaning for every person; 

religion can be seen as a source of war and peace, love and hate, dialogue and 

narrow-mindedness. 

Symon Hill’s No-Nonsense Guide to Religion tries to explain what religion means, 

how we relate to it, how it was created, and how it aff ects us culturally, politically, 

and spiritually today. 

Drawing on a wide range of sources, The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion does not 

just concentrate on the popular and well-established traditions, which normally 

over-emphasize powerful fi gures. The guide also focuses on the diversity 

within religions as well as the similarities between them. 

The globalization of communications has made more people aware of religious 

conversion, with more people than ever before belonging to a diff erent 

religious community from their parents. The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion considers 

how religion has shaped our culture as well as how our culture is shaping 

religion today. 

Symon Hill is a tutor in practical theology, a writer, a trainer, and an activist. 

He has written comment pieces for newspapers ranging from the Sunday 

Herald to The Daily Mail and contributes regularly to the Guardian’s website, The 

Friend, and Ekklesia. 

A balanced guide to religion, which analyzes the cultural, social, 

and political implications of religion globally. 


The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam 

Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies 

RELIGION 

4¼ x 7⅛ | 144 pp 



978-1-904456-61-2 USA 


RELIGION 

April 


No-Nonsense Guides 

4¼ x 7⅛ | 144 pp 

20 B&W illustrations, charts, and graphs 


978-1-906523-29-9 USA 



201



April 

No-Nonsense Guides 

4¼ x 7⅛ | 144 pp 

20 B&W illustrations, photographs, and charts 


978-1-906523-30-5 USA 

202 




The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 

Richard Swift 

Following the economic meltdown and the triumph of Barack Obama, have 

the chances of genuine democracy improved? 

In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores 

how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power 

brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. He 

considers the diff erent tools people in power have used to manipulate democratic 

principles, such as freedom, to their advantage. 

The book includes chapter-length discussions of topics such as the economic 

meltdown, Barack Obama, eco-democracy, democratizing the economy, 

and democracy in the global south. It is also a guide to the rich diversity 

of forms of elected government, and it contains practical ideas for empowering 

today’s voters around the world. 

Richard Swift was co-editor for the New Internationalist magazine from 1984 to 

2007 and lives in Toronto. He has written and broadcast on questions of 

ecology and democracy for many years. 

An in-depth guide into the history of democracy and 

how it has developed. 


The No-Nonsense Guide 

to Globalization 

Wayne Ellwood 

HISTORY 

4¼ x 7⅛ | 144 pp 



978-1-904456-44-5 USA

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010 

11th Annual Collection 

Edited by The Caine Prize for African Writing 

The Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize. For the 

past ten years it has supported and promoted contemporary African writing. 

Previous winners and entrants include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Segun 

Afolabi, EC Osondu, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, Henrietta Rose-Innes, 

Mary Watson, and Binyavanga Wainaina. 

The 2010 collection will include the shortlisted stories and the stories 

written at the Caine Prize Writers’ Workshop. It will be published in time for 

the announcement of the award in July 2010. 



One World Calendar 2011 


Each year, New Internationalist’s One World Calendar portrays positive and inspiring 

images of people around the world. The photographs are taken by 

some of the world’s leading photographers. The images in the 2011 calendar 

all show diff erent recreational activities from around the globe. 

This large-format wall calendar is a collaboration between New 

Inter nationalist and a consortium of aid agencies worldwide. Photographs are 

accompanied by thoroughly researched text, giving background information 

and context to the subject of each photograph. 


FICTION 

July 


5¾ x 8¼ | 208 pp 


978-1-906523-37-4 CUSA 

The best in new 

short story fi ction from Africa’s 

leading literary award. 

REFERENCE 

August 

22 x 11 | 26 pp 


Calendar CAL US $24.95 | CAN $29.00 

978-1-906523-31-2 CUSA 

A unique large-format landscape 

calendar featuring striking and colorful 

photographs and presenting a 

positive worldview. 

203


204 

REFERENCE 

August 


8¼ x 4¼ | 140 pp 


Trade Paper CAL US $23.95 | CAN $27.50 

978-1-906523-32-9 CUSA 

A versatile and beautiful 

fold-out diary with an eclectic mix 

of world photography. 

REFERENCE 

August 

11¾ x 11¾ | 24 pp 



978-1-906523-33-6 CUSA 

A brand new calendar for families, 

from New Internationalist’s 

One World series. 

One World Almanac 2011 


The One World Almanac is a practical appointment diary that features a diverse 

and eclectic collection of world photography, giving a unique insight into the 

lives of people around the globe. 

The robust cover folds out to create a stand that displays a landscape photograph 

for each week while leaving the diary page fl at to write on. 

The One World Almanac includes US public holidays, a Peters’ Projection 

equal area map, UNICEF basic country indicators, a year planner, and information 

on the dates and festivals noted in the almanac. 

One World Family Calendar 2011 

The All-In-One Organizer for the Family on the Go! 


The One World Family Calendar is full of colorful images from around the world 

and is designed to keep the family updated on the activities of the months to 

come. With space for entries by up to fi ve people, it is the ultimate calendar 

for you to plan your family’s year. 

Spreads feature a vertical grid with fi ve columns across (one for each family 

member) and the days of the month running down the left side. Includes 

US public holidays and international holidays.

The World in Your Kitchen Calendar 2011 


The calendar’s beautiful, bold illustrations will fi ll your kitchen with the colors 

of the world, while the vegetarian recipes will inspire any chef to produce 

the delicious aromas and tastes of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. There’s a 

new recipe for each month, plus plenty of space for your appointments. Every 

year a new artist is commissioned to illustrate the calendar; the 2011 calendar 

will feature work from British artist Jenny Reynish. 

REFERENCE | August | 11¾ x 11¾ | 24 pp 

Calendar CAL US $17.95 | CAN $20.95 | 978-1-906523-34-3 CUSA 

People Diary 2011 


A double-page photo spread featuring portraits of diff erent people from 

around the world divides each month in this attractive diary. Bound in recycled 

leather, this is a compact diary that has two days-to-view on each page, 

ideal for journal writing as well as appointment-keeping. There’s lots of space 

to write in and a fastener/page marker. 

REFERENCE | August | A Paperback Original | 4¾ x 6⅛ | 244 pp | 23 Color photographs 

Trade Paper CAL US $17.95 | CAN $20.95 | 978-1-906523-36-7 CUSA 

Diary Planner 2011 


This is the diary for those who swim against the tide. The Diary Planner is a 

weekly diary with street art, photographs, illustrations, and more—all submitted 

by young artists and activists from around the world. 

The diary is designed for students in its refl ection of counterculture, dissent, 

and protest. It presents a quirky and creative way to illustrate the injustice, 

success, irony, humor, and tragedy of politics, love, and life in the world 

today. Includes international festivals, events, activist organizations, and subway 

maps—including New York. 


REFERENCE 

August 


5¾ x 8¼ | 146 pp 


Trade Paper CAL US $17.95 | CAN $20.95 

978-1-906523-35-0 CUSA 

A diary like none other— 

an eclectic mix of photos, illustrations, 

street art, and one-off design. 

205

Selected Backlist from New Internationalist 

206 

Nine Lives 

Making the Impossible Possible 

Edited by Peter Braaksma 


5½ x 8½ | 208 pp 


978-1-906523-26-8 CUSA 

Fire in the Soul 

100 Poems for Human Rights 

Edited by Dinyar Godrej 

POETRY 

5 x 7¾ | 192 pp 


978-1-906523-16-9 CUSA 

People First Economics 

Edited by David Ransom 

and Vanessa Baird 


5½ x 8½ | 208 pp 


978-1-906523-23-7 CUSA 


to Global Finance 

Peter Stalker 


4¼ x 7 | 144 pp 



978-1-906523-18-3 USA 

Speechless 

World History Without Words 

Illustrated by Polyp 

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 

8¼ x 10 | 128 pp 



978-1-906523-19-0 CUSA 


to the Arms Trade 

Nicolas Gilby 


4¼ x 7 | 144 pp 



978-1-906523-17-6 USA

All New Square Foot Gardening 

to the Rescue 

Food Security for Everyone 

Mel Bartholomew 

The breakdown of our global food system due to peak oil, climate change, and 

a collapsing economy has triggered an unprecedented surge in backyard gardening 

and small-scale local agriculture. Square Foot Gardening to the rescue! 

Using Mel Bartholomew’s groundbreaking techniques, households the 

world over can enhance their food security, reduce their food costs, earn extra 

money, and enjoy the satisfaction of a healthy and productive harvest. 

Square Foot Gardening is simply a better way to garden. It uses 80 percent 

less space and 90 percent less water, and it takes a fraction of the time and 

eff ort of traditional gardening methods while dramatically increasing yields. 

Uniquely suited for children, the elderly, or those with physical limitations, 

Square Food Gardens are “bite-sized landscapes” that are: 

• Scaleable 

• Organic 

• Beautiful 

• Effi cient 

• Easy to maintain 

Published in 1981, the original Square Foot Gardening became the most popular 

gardening book ever, selling over one million copies in the United States. 

Packed with plans, illustrations, tips, recipes, and many new improvements, 

All New Square Foot Gardening to the Rescue brings this innovative method to a new 

generation, and is a must-read for gardeners, homeowners, apartment dwellers, 

and anyone who wants to become more self-suffi cient and food secure. 

Mel Bartholomew is a civil engineer, inventor, and the founder of the Square 

Foot Gardening Foundation. He has written numerous books, including the 

original Square Foot Gardening, and his Square Foot Gardening TV shows ran on PBS, 

the Discovery Channel, and the Learning Channel for eight straight years. 

Thinking inside the box—a new approach to traditional gardening. 


GARDENING 

April 


6 x 9 | 208 pp 



978-0-86571-664-3 USA 






BackHome • Communities • 


Mother Earth News 

Author Hometown: Eden, UT 

207


208 

GARDENING 

April 


6 x 9 | 248 pp 


8 Page color insert 


978-0-86571-665-0 USA 




BackHome • Communities • 


Mother Earth News 

Author Hometown: St. George, UT 

From Container to Kitchen 

Growing Fruits and Vegetables in Pots 

D.J. Herda 

More and more people are recognizing the need for nutritious, local, sustainable 

food, but organic options can be costly, and the produce sections of most 

supermarkets are packed with fruits and vegetables that have racked up more 

frequent fl ier miles than a rock band on world tour. How can urban dwellers 

without ready access to fertile land enjoy the benefi ts of traditional gardening? 

And for those with a yard, how do you maximize the harvest of fresh, 

healthy edibles? 

In From Container to Kitchen, D.J. Herda shows that there is a way. Written for 

the novice home gardener as well as the seasoned pro, this fully illustrated, 

comprehensive guide will show you how to save up to 70 percent on your produce 

bill by growing fruits and vegetables in pots. Topics include: 

• Selecting the right container size and location 

• Optimizing soil composition and nutrients 

• Managing light, water, and humidity 

• Choosing the best fruits and vegetables for container gardening 

• Eliminating pests and plant diseases naturally 

• Extending the harvest 

Dig in to this bumper crop of container gardening tips and techniques and 

learn how to create your own moveable feast! 

D.J. Herda is an award-winning freelance author, editor, and photojournalist 

who has written several thousand articles and more than eighty books, including 

Zen and the Art of Pond Building. He is an avid organic gardener and test 

grower and has been writing extensively about growing fruits and vegetables 

for over forty years. 

The complete guide to growing food in the “no-yard” garden.

Energy-Wise Landscape Design 

A New Approach for Your Home and Garden 

Sue Reed 

Residential consumption represents nearly one quarter of North America’s 

total energy use and the average homeowner spends thousands of dollars a year 

on power bills. To help alleviate this problem, Energy-Wise Landscape Design presents 

hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time, and eff ort while 

making their landscapes more environmentally healthy, ecologically rich, and 

energy effi cient. 

Combining general guidelines with tips, techniques, and actions, this fully 

illustrated guide explains the many opportunities our landscapes provide for 

conserving energy. Readers will learn how to: 

• Lower a home’s heating and cooling costs 

• Minimize fuel used in landscape construction, maintenance, and 

everyday use 

• Choose landscape products and materials with lower embedded 

energy costs 

• Make a positive diff erence without a major investment or change in 

lifestyle 

Intended for homeowners, gardeners, landscape professionals, and students, 

the design ideas in this book will work in every type of setting—large 

or small, hilly or fl at, urban or rural. Written in non-scientifi c language with 

clear explanations and an easy conversational style, Energy-Wise Landscape Design is 

an essential resource for everyone who wants to shrink their energy footprint 

while enhancing their property and adding value to their home. 

Sue Reed is a registered landscape architect and a specialist in ecological landscape 

design who has helped hundreds of homeowners create comfortable, 

livable, and beautiful landscapes that save energy. She is also an experienced 

writer and teacher whose work specifi cally focuses on environmentally sound, 

energy-effi cient, and sustainable landscape design. 

Save money and energy while adding natural beauty to your home. 


LANDSCAPING / SUSTAINABLE LIVING 

April 


7½ x 9 | 288 pp 

150 Two-color photographs and illustrations 


978-0-86571-653-7 USA 




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Author Hometown: Shelburne Falls, MA 

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EDUCATION 

April 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 


978-0-86571-669-8 USA 






Weapons of Mass Instruction 

A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the 

Dark World of Compulsory Schooling 

John Taylor Gatto 

John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses 

on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage 

critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of 

rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced 

the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons 

of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional 

schooling. 

Gatto demonstrates that the harm school infl icts is rational and deliberate. 

The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population 

manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon 

experts, to remain divided from natural alliances, and to accept disconnections 

from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged 

from developing self-reliance and independence. 

Escaping this trap requires a strategy Gatto calls “open source learning” 

which imposes no artifi cial divisions between learning and life. Through this 

alternative approach, our children can avoid being indoctrinated—only then 

can they achieve self-knowledge, judgment, and courage. 

John Taylor Gatto is an internationally renowned speaker who lectures widely 

on school reform. He taught for thirty years in public schools before resigning 

on the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New 

York’s offi cial “Teacher of the Year.” On April 3, 2008, the Kennedy School 

of Government at Harvard credited Gatto with adding the expression “dumbing 

us down” to the school debate worldwide. 

The transformation of schooling from a 

twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn.

Peak Everything 

Waking Up to the Century of Declines 

Richard Heinberg 

The twentieth century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption, 

and food production. As the population shifted from rural to 

urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically. 

The twenty-fi rst century ushered in an era of declines, including: 

• Oil, natural gas, and coal extraction 

• Yearly grain harvests 

• Climate stability 

• Economic growth 

• Fresh water 

• Minerals and ores such as copper and platinum 

To adapt to this profoundly diff erent world, we must begin now to make 

radical changes to our attitudes, behaviors, and expectations. 

Now in paperback and featuring a new author preface and discussion 

guide, Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological, and practical 

changes we will have to make as nature dictates our new limits. This landmark 

book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important 

books on Peak Oil, touches on the vital aspects of the human condition at this 

unique moment in time. 

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse 

as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the 

transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, 

while preserving the best of our collective achievements. Peak Everything 

is a must-read for individuals, business leaders, and policy makers serious 

about eff ecting real change. 

Richard Heinberg is a journalist, lecturer, senior fellow-in-residence at the 

Post Carbon Institute, and the author of nine books, including Blackout and The 

Party’s Over. He is one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. 

Transitioning gracefully from the 

Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty. 



June 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 


978-0-86571-645-2 USA 





Author Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA 

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HOUSE & HOME / NATURE 

April 


Sustainable World Coalition 

8½ x 11 | 96 pp 



978-0-615-30980-4 USA 







Author Hometown: Berkeley, CA 

Sustainable World SourceBook 

Critical Issues, Viable Solutions, Resources for Action 

Sustainable World Coalition 

Foreword by Paul Hawken 

As we come to understand the urgency of our multiple global crises, we become 

motivated to get involved, to make use of our collective wisdom and our 

capacity to work for solutions in community. 

The Sustainable World SourceBook is designed to support readers in fi nding 

pathways for eff ective individual and group action. It cuts through the glut of 

information, providing a clear, concise overview of the most important issues 

and aspects of sustainability that everyone needs to know. And it’s packed with 

successful models and inspiring examples. 

This richly illustrated, beautifully designed, full-color manual addresses: 

• Environmental issues and their impacts, along with a prescription for 

rapid, large-scale change 

• Energy resources, peak oil, conservation, and emerging technologies 

• The global fi nancial crisis, economic transition, green jobs, and 

sustainable business 

• Poverty, health, education, food security, and social justice 

• Local, sustainable communities and engaged citizens 

• Green lifestyle choices 

Featuring a foreword written by renowned environmentalist and bestselling 

author Paul Hawken, the Sustainable World SourceBook will appeal to anyone 

seeking an understanding of a broad range of sustainability issues. Focused 

on solutions and actions, it is the essential guidebook for every concerned 

citizen. 

The Sustainable World Coalition’s purpose is to provide educational materials 

that foster strong engagement in personal and planetary sustainability. The 

Coalition is a project of Earth Island Institute, a nonprofi t organization dedicated 

to environmental sustainability and social justice. 

A world of solutions at your fi ngertips!

Thriving Beyond Sustainability 

Pathways to a Resilient Society 

Andres R. Edwards 

Every fi fteen seconds on our Earth, a child dies from waterborne disease. 

Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 

eighty-fi ve million barrels of oil and pump twenty-three million tons of carbon 

dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, 

beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives 

taking place everywhere from isolated villages to major urban centers. 

Thriving Beyond Sustainability draws a collective map of individuals, organizations, 

and communities from around the world that are committed to building 

an alternative future—one that strives to restore ecological health; reinvent 

outmoded institutions; and rejuvenate our environmental, social, and economic 

systems. The projects and initiatives profi led are meeting the challenges 

of the day with optimism, hope, and results, leading the way in: 

• Relocalization 

• Green commerce 

• Ecological design 

• Environmental conservation 

• Social transformation 

Overfl owing with inspiration, the stories and ideas in these pages will cause 

the most chronic pessimist to see the glass as half full—to move beyond a perception 

of surviving with scarcity to one of fl ourishing with abundance. The 

comprehensive resource section provides the tools for everyone to become a 

catalyst for change. 

Andres R. Edwards is the author of The Sustainability Revolution, which has sold 

over twenty thousand copies. He is an educator, media designer, LEEDaccredited 

green building and sustainability consultant, and the founder of 

EduTracks, a fi rm specializing in developing education programs and providing 

consulting services on sustainable practices. 

Turning challenge into opportunity—a survey of successful sustainable 

ideas and practices from around the world. 


The Sustainability Revolution 

Portrait of a Paradigm Shift 

Andres R. Edwards 

Foreword by Lester R. Brown 

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / ENVIRONMENT 

6 x 9 | 224 pp 


978-0-86571-531-8 USA 



May 


6 x 9 | 224 pp 



978-0-86571-641-4 USA 




E / The Environmental Magazine 

Author Hometown: Fairfax, CA 

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ALTERNATIVE & RENEWABLE ENERGY 

June 

A Green Energy Guide 

5 x 8 | 192 pp 



978-0-86571-618-6 USA 

A clean and simple 

introduction to generating 

electricity from the sun. 

ALTERNATIVE & RENEWABLE ENERGY 

May 


5 x 8 | 192 pp 



978-0-86571-617-9 USA 

A clean and simple 

introduction to generating 

electricity from the wind. 

Solar Electricity Basics 


Dan Chiras 

The future will be powered by renewables. As we transition away from fi nite 

and polluting fossil fuels, clean, reliable, and aff ordable renewable technologies 

such as solar electricity will become the mainstay of our energy supply. 

Solar Electricity Basics provides a clear understanding of electricity and energy. 

It discusses the types of solar electric systems you can choose from, their components, 

solar site assessment, the installation of photovoltaic systems, and 

much more. 

Whether your goal is to lower your energy bill or to achieve complete energy 

independence, Solar Electricity Basics is the introduction you need. 

Dan Chiras is a respected educator and an internationally acclaimed author 

who has published more than twenty-fi ve books on residential renewable energy 

and green building, including Power From the Sun. 


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Sustainable Industries Journal 

Author Hometown: Evergreen, CO 

Wind Power Basics 


Dan Chiras 

Wind energy is the fastest growing source of energy in the world, and by 

the year 2020 it is projected to supply at least 12 percent of global electrical 

demand. 

Wind Power Basics provides a clear understanding of wind and wind energy 

systems, including turbines, towers, inverters and batteries, site assessment, 

installation, and maintenance requirements. 

Whether you’re considering your own small-scale wind energy system or 

just want a straightforward, detailed introduction to the benefi ts and challenges 

of this rapidly emerging technology, Wind Power Basics is the guide you 

need. 

Dan Chiras is a respected educator and an internationally acclaimed author 

who has published more than twenty-fi ve books on resedential renewable energy 

and green building, including Power From the Wind. 


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Author Hometown: Evergreen, CO

Serious Microhydro 

Water Power Solutions from the Experts 

Edited by Scott Davis 

Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and 

microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, 

renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment. 

Serious Microhydro brings you dozens of fi rsthand stories of energy independence 

covering a complete range of systems, from household pressure sites to 

higher pressure installations capable of powering a farm, business, or small 

neighborhood. Topics include: 

• Low head and medium head sites 

• AC-only systems as well as ones using a battery/inverter subsystem 

• Stand alone power supply or grid intertie setups 

• Hybrid systems (combined with photovoltaics or wind) 

With all the variables involved in microhydro, there is no “typical” system. 

These case studies represent the most comprehensive collection of knowledge 

and experience available for tailoring an installation to meet the needs 

of a site and its owner or operators. If you are considering building a system, 

you are bound to fi nd a wealth of creative solutions appropriate to your own 

circumstances. 

Serious Microhydro shows how scores of people are achieving a high standard 

of living from local energy sources with a minimal ecological footprint. It has 

particular appeal to homeowners, teachers, renewable energy professionals, 

activists, and decision makers who want to understand the technology from a 

“hands-on” perspective. 

Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with 

decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling, and teaching 

microhydro technology. He is a founder and president of Friends of 

Renewable Energy BC, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Power From Water. 

From water to wire—harnessing the energy of running water. 


Microhydro 

Clean Power from Water 

Scott Davis 

Illustrated by Corrie Laschuk 

HOUSE & HOME / NATURE 

7½ x 9 | 176 pp 

B&W photographs and illustrations 


978-0-86571-484-7 USA 


TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING 

June 


7½ x 9 | 336 pp 



978-0-86571-638-4 USA 




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Home Power Magazine • Mother Earth News • 

Solar Today • Sustainable Industries Journal 

Editor Hometown: Victoria, BC 

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7½ x 9 | 288 pp 



978-0-86571-668-1 USA 




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Author Hometown: Amherst, WI 

Solar Water Heating— 

Revised and Expanded Edition 

A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and 

Space Heating Systems 

Bob Ramlow and Benjamin Nusz 

Heating water with the sun is a practice almost as old as humankind itself. Solar 

Water Heating, now completely revised and expanded, is the defi nitive guide to 

this clean and cost-eff ective technology. 

Beginning with a review of the history of solar water and space heating systems 

from prehistory to the present, Solar Water Heating presents an introduction 

to modern solar energy systems, energy conservation, and energy economics. 

Drawing on the authors’ experiences as designers and installers of these systems, 

the book goes on to cover: 

• Types of solar collectors, solar water, and space heating systems and 

solar pool heating systems, including their advantages and disadvantages 

• System components, their installation, operation, and maintenance 

• System sizing and siting 

• Choosing the appropriate system 

This book focuses on the fi nancial aspects of solar water or space heating 

systems, clearly showing that such systems generate signifi cant savings in the 

long run. With many diagrams and illustrations to complement the clearly 

written text, this book is designed for a wide readership ranging from the curious 

homeowner to the serious student or professional. 

Bob Ramlow has been involved in renewable energy system sales, installation, 

and manufacturing since 1976. He is an IREC/ISPQ certifi ed solar thermal 

independent master trainer and a NABCEP certifi ed solar thermal installer. 

He writes and teaches workshops about solar energy. 

Benjamin Nusz has worked as an installer, site assessor, designer, and consultant 

for solar thermal systems. He currently trains renewable thermal technicians 

at Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin. 

A complete array of solar water heating solutions.

Dry Run 

Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis 

Jerry Yudelson 

In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly 

serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed 

countries and water diversions for industrial, urban, and environmental reasons 

stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a growing thirst for innovative 

approaches to reducing our water footprint. 

Dry Run shows the best ways to manage scarce water resources and handle 

upcoming urban water crises. Featuring original interviews with more than 

twenty-fi ve water researchers and industry experts, this book explains water 

issues and proposes solutions for homes, buildings, facilities, and schools. 

Examining the vital linkages between water, energy use, urban development, 

and climate change, Dry Run demonstrates best practices for achieving “net 

zero” water use in the built environment, including: 

• Water conservation strategies for buildings, factories, cities, and homes 

• Rainwater harvesting 

• Graywater reuse and water reclamation systems 

• Water effi ciency retrofi ts 

• On-site sewage treatment 

• New water reuse and supply technologies. 

Ideal for concerned citizens, building managers, homeowners, architects, 

engineers, developers, and public offi cials faced with charting a course in a 

more arid future, Dry Run overfl ows with practical solutions. 

Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED AP, leads the Yudelson Associates consultancy 

and is a leading authority on green building, clean water, and sustainable development. 

He is the author of eleven books, including Choosing Green and Green 

Building A to Z. 

When the rivers run dry—water solutions for a thirsty planet. 

Choosing Green 

The Homebuyer’s Guide to 

Good Green Homes 


HOUSE & HOME 

6 x 9 | 256 pp 



978-0-86571-610-0 USA 

Also 

Available 

Green Building A to Z 

Understanding the Language 

of Green Building 


HOUSE & HOME 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 



978-0-86571-572-1 USA 


ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION / 

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 

June 


6 x 9 | 240 pp 



978-0-86571-670-4 USA 





Home Power Magazine • Mother Earth News • 

Sustainable Industries Journal 

Author Hometown: Tucson, AZ 

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6 x 9 | 160 pp 


978-0-86571-615-5 USA 





Author Hometown: Maple City, MI 

On Gandhi’s Path 

Bob Swann’s Work for Peace and Community Economics 

Stephanie Mills 

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted 

a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of 

our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward 

looks a lot like the way back—back to strong local economies; back to resilient, 

tight-knit communities; back to the land and work that is real. 

As we chart our course through these uncertain times, we are hungry for 

inspiration. Robert Swann was a self-taught economist, a tireless champion of 

decentralism, and the father of the relocalization movement. A conscientious 

war resistor imprisoned for his beliefs, Bob Swann engaged in lifelong nonviolent 

direct action against war, racism, and economic inequity. His legacy is 

a vision of a life-affi rming, alternative economy of peace founded on innovations 

in land and monetary reform. 

Swann’s story is also the untold history of decentralism in the United 

States. He associated with a constellation of vital, intelligent, independent authors 

and activists, and ultimately co-founded the Schumacher Society based 

on the philosophies of Small Is Beautiful author E. F. Schumacher. 

Swann forged tools to build productive, resilient local and regional economies. 

Now as global industrial civilization fl ails in the throes of ecological and 

economic crisis, Swann’s working innovations are at the ready to help neighborhoods, 

local entrepreneurs, and willing communities rebuild at appropriate 

scales. 

Stephanie Mills is an author, teacher, practicing bioregionalist, and fellow 

of the Post-Carbon Institute. She has written numerous books, including 

Whatever Happened to Ecology? 

The life of Robert Swann—pioneer of relocalization.

The Sustainability 

Champion’s Guidebook 

The Presentation DVD 

Bob Willard 

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook is a practical, easy-to-follow guide that helps 

sustainability champions at any level in a company lead a transformation to 

a smarter, more successful, and more sustainable enterprise. The perfect 

companion resource, this DVD features author Bob Willard presenting the 

highlights of the book, including transformational steps to take, tips and techniques 

to use, and derailers to avoid. 

Bob Willard’s previous books provide a fi nancially relevant, compelling 

business case outlining why smart business executives should embrace sustainability. 

An expert on leadership, culture change, and organizational development, 

Willard distils lessons learned about cultural transformation and 

provides guidance on how to embed sustainability into corporate culture. 

This DVD is organized around four frameworks: 

• The seven-step sustainability change process 

• Seven leadership practices to use during the change process 

• Seven paradoxes that complement the seven leadership practices 

• Seven derailers to avoid 

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook: The Presentation DVD is essential viewing 

for sustainability champions who want to transform their companies so their 

companies can in turn help transform society. 

Bob Willard uses his senior management experience from his thirty-fouryear 

career at IBM to create a business case for corporate sustainability strategies. 

He has delivered hundreds of keynote presentations on the subject to 

corporations, consultants, academics, and NGOs worldwide. He is also the 

author of The Sustainability Advantage and The Next Sustainability Wave and has produced 

The Business Case for Sustainability DVD. 

The essential how-to guide for transforming your 

company’s corporate culture—now available on DVD. 

The Business Case for Sustainability 

Bob Willard 


5½ x 7½ | 55 minutes 

DVD $24.95 

978-0-97841-40-0-9 USA 

Also 

Available 

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook 

How to Transform Your Company 

Bob Willard 


6 x 9 | 144 pp 


978-0-86571-658-2 USA 



April 

Bob Willard 

5 x 5 | 53 minutes 

DVD $14.95 

978-0-9784140-1-6 USA 

Author Hometown: Whitby, ON 

219

Selected Backlist from New Society Publishers 

220 

Less is More 

Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy 

Planet, a Caring Economy and 

Lasting Happiness 

Cecile Andrews and 

Wanda Urbanska 


5 x 8 | 288 pp 


978-0-86571-650-6 USA 

Wearing Smaller Shoes 

Living Light on the 

Big Blue Marble 

Chip Haynes 


6 x 9 | 192 pp 


978-0-86571-657-5 USA 

Independence Days 

A Guide to Sustainable Food 

Storage & Preservation 

Sharon Astyk 

COOKING / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

6 x 9 | 368 pp 


978-0-86571-652-0 USA 

Power from the Sun 

A Practical Guide to 

Solar Electricity 

Dan Chiras 


7½ x 9 | 272 pp 



978-0-86571-621-6 USA 

The Making of an 

Elder Culture 

Refl ections on the Future of 

America’s Most Audacious 

Generation 

Theodore Roszak 


5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-0-86571-661-2 USA 

College Without 

High School 

A Teenager’s Guide to 

Skipping High School and 

Going to College 

Blake Boles 

EDUCATION 

5½ x 8½ | 176 pp 


978-0-86571-655-1 USA

By Heart 

Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives 

Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson 

“A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his 

mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his fi rst listener. 

And so begins a twenty-fi ve year friendship between two gifted writers 

and poets. The result is By Heart—a book that will anger you, give you hope, and 

break your heart.”—Gloria Steinem 

For most of their adult lives, since meeting as teacher and pupil at San Quentin 

State Prison, Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson have conferred, corresponded, 

and sometimes collaborated, producing very diff erent bodies of 

work resting on the same understanding: that human beings have one foot in 

darkness, another in light. Moving stories of their childhoods and adult creative 

lives reveal both tragedy and beauty. 

In alternating chapters—part memoir, part essay—By Heart reveals painful 

truths about prison, education, and which children our world nurtures and 

which it shuns. At its core are two stories that speak for human imagination, 

spirit, and expression. 

Judith Tannenbaum is a nationally respected poet, educator, lecturer, and 

the author of Disguised as a Poem, among other works, including poetry, anthologies, 

and guidebooks for teaching arts in prison. She coordinates training at 

WritersCorps. 

Born into an impoverished family of fi fteen boys, Spoon Jackson was sentenced 

to life without possibility of parole by age twenty. He discovered 

himself as a writer for the fi rst time in prison, eventually becoming an awardwinning, 

internationally known poet and essayist, as well as a facilitator of 

creative writing classes for other prisoners. 

Two California poets plumb the telling depths of their 

creative lives and souls across prison bars. 




April 


6 x 9 | 224 pp 



978-0-9815593-5-3 CUSA 




Author Events 

Los Angeles, CA • Sacramento, CA • 

San Francisco, CA • Santa Cruz, CA • 

Denver, CO • Middletown, CT • York, CT • 

Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Cedar Rapids, IA • 

Iowa City, IA • Ann Arbor, MI • Minneapolis, MN • 

New York, NY • Dallas, TX • Seattle, WA 

Author Hometowns: El Cerrito, CA / Represa, CA 

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What We See 

Advancing the Observations 

of Jane Jacobs 

Edited by Stephen A. Goldsmith 

and Lynne Elizabeth 

ARCHITECTURE / 


5½ x 8¼ | 320 pp 



978-0-9815593-1-5 CUSA 

Art and Upheaval 

Artists on the World’s Frontlines 

William Cleveland 

Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 


7 x 9¼ | 332 pp 



978-0-9766054-6-1 CUSA 

Asphalt to Ecosystems 

Design Ideas for Schoolyard 

Transformation 

Sharon Gamson Danks 

EDUCATION / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 

8½ x 8½ | 272 pp 



978-0-9766054-8-5 CUSA 

Undoing the Silence 

Six Tools for Social Change Writing 

Louise Dunlap 

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / 


7 x 9¼ | 240 pp 



978-0-9766054-9-2 CUSA 

Arts for Change 

Teaching Outside the Frame 

Beverly Naidus 


6 x 9 | 256 pp 



978-0-9815593-0-8 CUSA 

Building Commons 

and Community 

Karl Linn 

SOCIAL SCIENCE / GARDENING 

9 x 10½ | 224 pp 



978-0-9766054-7-8 CUSA

Nicolo Whimsey Press 

Brandywine, Maryland 

Nicolo Whimsey Press aims to make Shakespeare’s plays accessible, performable, and fun for young 

people, regardless of their experience level. Through his thirteen years of working as a directorin-residence 

in DC public high schools under the auspices of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Nick 

Newlin has created thirty-minute edits of Shakespeare’s plays, complete with stage directions and 

character suggestions that can be performed by groups of fi fteen to thirty young people. 

Now anybody, including novices and non-actors, can put on a lively Shakespeare play that keeps 

the beauty of the language intact, but makes the action easy to perform and the relationships easily 

understandable. The 30-Minute Shakespeare series is a dream come true for teachers, youth leaders, 

and even adult groups who want to make performing Shakespeare easy and fun. 

Drawing on his Harvard education, his thirty years as an internationally performing professional 

jester with the Nicolo Whimsey Show, and his love of Shakespeare, Mr. Newlin approaches his texts 

with the mind of a scholar, the eye of a performer, and the sensibility of a director. Inner-city high 

school English classes at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s annual Secondary School Shakespeare 

Festival have performed all these tried-and-true thirty-minute cuttings, many of which have won 

awards at the Folger Festival. 

Performance rights are included with the purchase of playscripts. Unlike most other scripts on the 

market today, The 30-Minute Shakespeare has no separate charge for public performances, making 

each volume an exceptional value. 

Each edition contains a preface by Nick Newlin, with helpful advice on how to put on a Shakespeare 

performance in a high school class with novice actors, as well as an appendix with suggestions for the 

specifi c play, and recommendations for further resources. 

Nicolo Whimsey Press believes that William Shakespeare wrote for all of us, and to that end, Mr. 

Newlin uses his experience, expertise, and love of the Bard to make these great works accessible to 

young people and those who work with them. 



“A master at engaging students in the 

process of performing a Shakespeare 

scene.”—Janet Field-Pickering, head of 

education, Folger Shakespeare Library 

224 

DRAMA / EDUCATION 

April 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-00-6 CUSA 


978-1-935550-12-9 USA 

“Truly an advocate of the child, of the 

arts and of humanity.”—Tia Powell Harris, 

Education, Kennedy Center 


April 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-01-3 CUSA 


978-1-935550-13-6 USA 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: 

The 30-Minute Shakespeare 

Edited by Nick Newlin 

This thirty-minute cutting focuses on three ridiculously funny and vibrant 

scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

The fi rst scene starts with Puck mistakenly anointing the eyes of the wrong 

lovers with love potion, leading to a madcap chase scene between Helena, 

Lysander, Hermia, and Demetrius. 

Scene two features Bottom’s magical transformation to an ass, always an 

audience favorite. The fi nal scene is the classic play within a play, where the 

“Rude Mechanicals” act out with “tragical mirth” the story of Pyramus and 

Thisbe, with specifi c comic suggestions for the characters, including Lion 

chasing Thisbe into the audience. 

The edition includes a preface by Nick Newlin, containing helpful advice 

on how to put on a Shakespeare performance in a high school class with 

novice actors, as well as an appendix with suggestions for the specifi c play and 

recommendations for further resources. 

Editor Hometown: Brandywine, MD 

Romeo and Juliet: 



In this edition, Romeo and Juliet is edited to fi ve key scenes, starting with the 

lyrical prologue and the foreboding opening brawl, which is played out in 

slow motion to music as we are introduced to Romeo’s romantic and volatile 

nature. 

This cutting includes the timeless balcony scene; the harsh scolding of 

Juliet by her father, Lord Capulet; and the fi nal moments at the tomb, where 

our tale of woe reaches its fateful conclusion. Throughout the play, specifi c 

stage directions and character suggestions give young actors the tools and confi 

dence to tell Shakespeare’s most famous love story. 





Editor Hometown: Brandywine, MD

Macbeth: The 30-Minute Shakespeare 


This thirty-minute Macbeth packs seven key scenes into a play cutting so powerful 

that actors choose to refer to it only as “The Scottish Play.” We open with 

the Weird Sisters predicting Macbeth’s fate, followed by Macbeth and his villainous 

wife’s plot to kill and then carry out the murder of King Duncan. 

This cutting also features the appearance of Banquo’s ghost at the banquet, 

the Witches’ unforgettable “double double toil and trouble” scene, and Lady 

Macbeth’s riveting “out, damned spot” sleepwalk. 

This endlessly entertaining edition ends with the entire cast reciting 

Macbeth’s poignant “tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech in unison. 






Much Ado About Nothing: 



This thirty-minute cutting of Shakespeare’s utterly charming and popular 

comedy Much Ado About Nothing features fi ve key scenes, including Beatrice and 

Benedick’s classic initial word-battle, and the uproarious hide-and-seek deception 

of the two “lovers.” The next scenes are the brutal rejection of Hero 

at the altar by a deceived Claudio and the timeless manhandling of the English 

language by the bumbling constable Dogberry. 

In the fi fth and fi nal scene, Shakespeare resolves the play’s confl icts and 

confusions, and love reigns again. This cutting really tells the story, and includes 

some sidesplitting stage business, particularly the back-and-forth 

physi cal and verbal parrying between Benedick and Beatrice. 








May 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-02-0 CUSA 


978-1-935550-14-3 USA 

“Nick Newlin’s 30-minute play cuttings 

are perfect for students who have no 

experience with Shakespeare.”—Michael 

Ellis-Tolaydo, St. Mary’s College, Maryland 


May 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-03-7 CUSA 


978-1-935550-15-0 USA 

“I never understood how much drama is 

used and how valuable it can be.” 

—Courtney McBride, teacher, 

Washington, DC 

225


“Wonderfully informative and fun. 

You can’t do better.”—Charles P. Lord, 

headmaster, St. Timothy’s School, 

Baltimore, Maryland 

226 


June 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-04-4 CUSA 


978-1-935550-16-7 USA 

“Nick Newlin is a superb communicator 

with a deep knowledge of Shakespeare’s 

text.”—Leo R. Bowman, English teacher, 

Washington, DC 


June 

5½ x 8½ | 64 pp 


978-1-935550-05-1 CUSA 


978-1-935550-17-4 USA 

Twelfth Night: 



This thirty-minute edit of Shakespeare’s bittersweet comic masterpiece consists 

of three classic scenes. After an extended introductory narration, the action 

begins with Feste the Fool consoling a mourning Lady Olivia with wit and 

wordplay. Viola (disguised as a male Cesario) woos Olivia on behalf of Duke 

Orsino, but Olivia falls for the messenger Viola/Cesario instead. Specifi c 

stage directions and character activities allow even novice actors to breathe life 

into these scenes. 

This lively cutting includes a group “rap” version of the song “Come Away 

Death.” The fi nal scene in Olivia’s kitchen gives young actors an easy and specifi 

c way to play late-night revelry with Sir Toby Belch and company, including 

the ever-censorious Malvolio. 






The Merry Wives of Windsor: 



We begin this merry cutting with one of Shakespeare’s favorite fat knights, Sir 

John Falstaff , who announces his intention to woo both Mistress Ford and 

Mistress Page simultaneously, to the delight of his cohorts, Bardolph, Pistol, 

and Nym, who then decide to double-cross Falstaff . 

The characters’ movements on stage are clearly denoted so that even inexperienced 

actors can give the scenes life. Robin is nearsighted, Bardolph 

is a drunk who tries to juggle, and Pistol and Nym are constantly jostling for 

position. 

Other key moments include the hilarious wooing of Mistress Ford by 

Falstaff and the hysterical concealment of Falstaff in the laundry basket. The 

cutting ends in the woods with Falstaff dressed as a stag, being tormented by 

fairies for his comeuppance. 





Editor Hometown: Brandywine, MD

Travelers’ Tales of Old Cuba 

From Treasure Island to Mafi a Den 

Edited by John Jenkins 

“Creating both a literary project and an historical mini-course on the early 

nineteenth to middle twentieth century, the editor has gathered writings 

mostly by Americans in Cuba who have tended to have a complex ‘love/hate 

relationship’ with the place. . . . In the end, most reveal their fondness for 

Cuba. . . . Those with a committed interest in the region will be grateful 

that this book takes them beyond the dissertations on Che Guevara and Fidel 

Castro.”—ForeWord Magazine 

Cuba has drawn and intrigued travelers ever since it was “discovered” by 

Columbus in 1492. Magnifi cently evoking the country’s romance and drama 

as well as its darker episodes of slavery and tyranny, this selection of journal 

entries, essays, and guidebook commentaries transports the reader to the days 

when Havana sheltered Caribbean pirate treasure ships and was the gateway to 

the Spanish empire in the New World. 

Later chapters refl ect the “American era” when Cuba was transformed into 

a glittering tourist and gambler’s paradise operated by the Mafi a. 

As with all good travelers’ stories, this selection not only informs the reader 

but also fi res the imagination. These tales of pre-revolutionary Cuba are fi lled 

with the fl avor and manners of a bygone era, refl ecting the various impressions 

of visitors to one of the most alluring islands on earth. 

John Jenkins is an award-winning Australian poet and travel writer. The author 

of several books of poetry, two books on contemporary music, a libretto, 

and many other publications, Jenkins won the prestigious international James 

Joyce Foundation Suspended Sentence Award in 2004. 

An evocative and entertaining selection of travel writing 

on a Cuba “so near, and yet so far.” 

Ocean Press 

TRAVEL / HISTORY 

April 

5½ x 8½ | 175 pp 


978-0-9804292-1-3 CUSA 






227

Ocean Press 

228 

TRUE CRIME / HISTORY 

May 

5½ x 8½ | 180 pp 



978-0-9804292-3-7 CUSA 






The Mafi a in Havana 

A Caribbean Mob Story 

Enrique Cirules 

“A meticulously accurate and superbly written history of the Cuban underworld 

in terms of the interactions between the American Mafi a, US businesses 

and governmental intelligence agencies. . . . The Mafi a in Havana is a 

seminal and strongly recommended addition to the personal and academic 

American Organized Crime historical studies and supplemental reading lists.” 

—Midwest Book Review 

“We invented Havana, and we can goddamn well move it someplace else if 

[Batista] can’t control it.”—Meyer Lansky, in Sydney Pollack’s movie Havana 

Here is a vibrant picture of the Mafi a’s Caribbean empire, when Havana was 

the playground of the rich and infamous. With a novelistic eye for detail and 

drama, prize-winning author Enrique Cirules presents a shockingly glamorous 

and fantastically seedy picture of the world of Frank Sinatra and showgirls, 

mambo and marijuana, corrupt cops and politicians, run by shady characters 

like “Lucky” Luciano and Meyer Lansky. 

In this extensive investigation into the Cuban underworld, the author exposes 

the close ties between the Mafi a, US business interests, and intelligence 

agencies—and their often brutally enforced reign over pre- revolutionary 

Cuba. 

The Mafi a in Havana won the Casa de las Américas Prize for Latin American 

Literature and the Critics’ Prize in 1994. It features stunning photographs of 

the famous personalities who hung out in Havana in the era before the 1959 

revolution. 

Enrique Cirules was born in Camaguey, Cuba, in 1938. He is a great storyteller 

and the author of several novels and short stories, including Conversation 

with the Last American. 

A vibrant if shocking portrait of the Mafi a’s Caribbean empire 

before Fidel appeared on the scene.

Cuba: A History 

Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola-Vega 

Competitively priced, this book is the perfect companion to the more than 

thirty travel guides on Cuba available today. 

Beginning with the pre-Hispanic period, moving on to Cuba’s struggle 

to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet 

Union, and fi nally ending with Fidel Castro’s decision to step down in 2008, 

this slim volume provides the reader with an overview of the history of the tiny 

Caribbean island that so often has been at the center of world politics. 

Including a bibliography for further reading, this is a most useful introduction 

to Cuba’s history for students, teachers, and others, as well as those 

visiting the island. 

This book is published to coincide with the expected lifting of the US government’s 

ban on its citizens’ travel to Cuba and will be actively marketed 

through travel agencies, in-fl ight magazines, and more. 

Available in both English (978-0-9804292-4-4) and Spanish 

(978-1-921438-60-8). 

Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy, a professor at the University of Havana, obtained a 

doctorate in history at the University of Leipzig. He is the author of numerous 

books on Latin American history and is currently the executive secretary of the 

Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians. 

Oscar Loyola-Vega is a professor of history at the University of Havana. 

A concise, readable history beyond the images of cigars, 

classic cars, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara. 

Also Available in Spanish in April 

Cuba: Una Historia 

Sergio Guerra-Vilaboy and Oscar Loyola-Vega 

April 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY 

La Otra Historia de America Latina 

5 x 7¾ | 120 pp 


978-1-921438-60-8 CUSA 

Ocean Press 


April 


5 x 7¾ | 120 pp 


978-0-9804292-4-4 CUSA 





229

Ocean Press 

230 

América Latina hoy: 

¿reforma o revolución? 

Edited by Roberto Regalado 

Today, with left-wing and progressive forces running many governments 

throughout the continent, a diverse range of political commentators, activists, 

and academics debate here which way forward for Latin America. Can 

urgently needed social change be achieved through reform or only through 

revolution? Edited by leading Cuban political analyst Roberto Regalado. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE | Available Now | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 6 x 9 | 272 pp 


Procesos revolucionarios en 

América Latina 

Alberto Prieto 

A comprehensive history of a continent in turmoil and struggling for unity, 

this is an inspiring journey through centuries of Latin American revolutions, 

insurrections, rebellions, and armed resistance to invasion, colonization, 

and imperialist interventions. Written by respected Cuban historian Alberto 

Prieto, author of Contemporary Guerrilla Movements in Latin America. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY | Available Now 

A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 6 x 9 | 376 pp 


El Salvador 

Su historia y sus luchas (1932–1985) 

Amílcar Figueroa Salazar 

Its title translated as El Salvador: Its History and Struggles, this short history reviews 

the continual upheavals, interventions, and civil war that have wracked El 

Salvador since the 1930s, explaining the FMLN’s armed struggle in 1980s and 

the peace accords that eventually led to the former guerrilla movement’s electoral 

victory in March 2009. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY | Available Now 

A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5½ x 8½ | 136 pp 


El futuro está lleno de Memoria 

El Salvador, de la guerra a la paz 

Iosu Perales 

Its title translated as The Future is Full of Memories: El Salvador, From War to Peace, this 

is a timely history of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. It describes the 

FMLN’s later transformation from a guerrilla movement to a political party 

that won the 2009 presidential election, ending decades of neo-fascist rule. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY | April | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | 5½ x 8½ | 120 pp 


La revolución negra 

La rebelión de los esclavos en Haití 1791–1804 

María Isabel Grau 

Published in the series Historia desde abajo (History from Below), this is 

the inspiring story of the armed rebellion in Haiti (1791–1804), when black 

slaves, led by Toussaint Louverture, adopted the French Revolution’s cry for 

liberty, equality, and fraternity, leading to the island colony’s own declaration 

of independence in 1804. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / HISTORY | Available Now | A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur 

Historias Desde Abajo | 5 x 7¾ | 160 pp 


Julio Antonio Mella 

Julio Antonio Mella 

Edited by Julio César Guanche 

This is a new Rebel Lives title about Julio Antonio Mella, who was only twentyfi 

ve when he was assassinated in Mexico in 1929, but who was already recognized 

internationally as a young Communist leader. Often regarded as a 

victim of the Stalin-Trotsky struggle, he was also famous for his relationship 

with photographer Tina Modotti. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Available Now 

A Paperback Original | Ocean Sur | Vidas Rebeldes / Ocean Sur | 5 x 7¾ | 192 pp 


Refl exiones 

Una selección de los comentarios de Fidel Castro (2007–2009) 

Fidel Castro 

This is a selection of Fidel Castro’s recent political “refl ections,” which are always 

thoughtful and often provocative. Since illness forced him to step down 

in 2007, the former Cuban leader has regularly published his commentaries 

on political events and personalities (including President Obama), history 

and world aff airs, climate change, and the international fi nancial crisis. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / POLITICAL SCIENCE | April | A Paperback Original 

Ocean Sur | 6 x 9 | 336 pp 


Notas sobre la revolución latinoamericana 

Patricio Echegaray 

This is a selection of articles, interviews, and speeches by a leading voice of 

the Latin American Left, famous for his interview with Colombian guerrillas. 

Here, Patricio Echegaray discusses recent political developments in Venezuela, 

Cuba, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as his refl ections on the signifi cance 

of the Russian and Cuban revolutions. 

SPANISH LANGUAGE / POLITICAL SCIENCE | July | A Paperback Original 

Ocean Sur | 6 x 9 | 302 pp 


Ocean Press 

231

Selected Backlist from Ocean Press 

232 

Cuban Revolution Reader 

A Documentary History of 

Key Moments in Fidel Castro’s 

Revolution 

Edited by Julio García Luis 


6 x 9 | 392 pp 


978-1-920888-89-3 CUSA 

Che (Movie Tie-In Edition) 

The Diaries of 





5½ x 8½ | 200 pp 



978-1-920888-93-0 CUSA 

Fidel Castro Reader 

Fidel Castro 

Edited by David Deutschmann 


6 x 9 | 524 pp 

24 pp B&W photographs 


978-1-920888-88-6 CUSA 

The Bolivian Diary 

Authorized Edition 

Ernesto Che Guevara with 

Camilo Guevara 


5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 



978-1-920888-24-4 CUSA 

Guerrilla Warfare 



with Harry “Pombo” Villegas 


5½ x 8½ | 157 pp 


978-1-920888-28-2 CUSA 

Reminiscences of the 

Cuban Revolutionary War 




5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 



978-1-920888-33-6 CUSA

Neverland 

The Unreal Michael Jackson Story 

Simon Crump 

Praise for Simon Crump: 

“Deliciously obscene and blackly comic. . . . Quentin Tarantino on acid in 

Graceland. Extraordinary.”—The Sunday Times 

“Like an episode of South Park, where just as you get into the story something 

goes splat, Crump’s contorted imagination is alarmingly enjoyable.” 

—Guardian 

“Superb.”—FHM 

“There’s a lot more to the book than you might think; an undercurrent of 

despair and depression that leads to an unexpected and thoroughly moving 

conclusion.”—The Independent 

“Simon Crump is a vicious and endearing fellow.”—Todd McEwen 

“Crump has a uniquely honest and unfl inching vision and he has the talent to 

tear off the veneer and revel in the insalubrious reality beneath without being 

gratuitous or heartless. If you have a dark side, Simon Crump will let you see 

it—but beware, you might not like what you fi nd.”—Time Out 

“Wickedly funny.”—Uncut 

“Crump is in total control of his material. His writing is plain, the humor a 

faded black, the dusting of pathos unobtrusive.”—Zembla 

Neverland is Simon Crump’s most daring collection yet—surreal, outrageous, 

and laugh-out-loud funny. Four years in the making (and delivered just hours 

before Michael Jackson’s death), this is a superb piece of writing that transposes 

the King of Pop into a world of $2,000,000 unicorns bought on eBay, 

giant whelks, rampaging bodyguards, violence, wonder, mystery, and golf. 

Outrageous and hilarious, Neverland is nevertheless more than just satire: it 

is a profound—and profoundly entertaining—fi ctional exploration of celebrity. 

A hilarious and timely collection of short stories 

about the King of Pop. 


FICTION 

Available Now 


5 x 7¾ | 192 pp 


978-1-905847-37-2 CUSA 

233


234 


April 

5 x 7¾ | 272 pp 



978-1-905847-76-1 CUSA 

Dancing On Ice 

A 1930s Arctic Adventure 

Jeremy Scott 

“Scott is a charming writer who douses the reader with lush descriptions of 

the jaunty era that produced these men, of the love some found with Eskimo 

women, of the brutal choices that befell them.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 

“Gripping. . . . Scott paints a vivid and riveting picture of the experiences of 

these men . . . an exhilarating, fascinating story.”—Library Journal 

“A stunning addition to the best-selling arctic exploration genre . . . a breathtaking 

adventure story.”—Publishing News 

“One of the most gripping stories to emerge from the polar regions.” 

—Daily Telegraph 

In 1930, fourteen young men with barely a shred of experience between them 

traveled to the Arctic and stayed there for a year. In that time, led by Gino 

Watkins, they charted the east coast of Greenland, discovered a mountain 

range, ate polar bears, and taught the Inuit people to dance the Charleston. 

But their journey was touched by extreme hardship and tragedy as well as 

success. One of the party, August Courtauld, was forced to spend the winter 

alone on the icecap. For six weeks he was trapped in his lightless cave, clinging 

to life and his sanity as his supplies dwindled and his companions mounted a 

desperate, last-ditch rescue attempt. 

Dancing on Ice is at once a classic adventure story, a compelling study of 

humanity stretched to its limits, and a vivid portrait of the last great age of 

exploration. 

Jeremy Scott is Gino Watkins’ nephew and the son of J.M. Scott, who also 

took part in the exhibition. 

A gripping tale of courage and triumph from the 

great age of polar exploration. 


Dancing on Ice 

A Stirring Tale of Adventure, 

Risk and Reckless Folly 

Jeremy Scott 


6½ x 9½ | 272 pp 


978-1-905847-50-1 CUSA

Do Time Get Time 

Andrey Rubanov 

Translated by Andrew Bromfi eld 

“One of the best books on crime and punishment ever written, from the cold, 

heartless homeland of the genre.”—Prospect 

“An involving meditation on Russia, avarice, and the nature of liberty.” 

—The Times (London) 

“A cautionary tale about the consequences of greed and, as such, a fi tting one 

for these times”—The Guardian 

When young, wealthy Andrei is thrown into Moscow’s toughest prison, he’s 

forced to turn inward to escape his daily hardships. A bestseller and critical 

sensation in Russia, this is a shocking indictment of the post-Soviet era 

and a fast-paced, psychologically astute thriller from an exciting new voice in 

European literature. 

Scarred Hearts 

Max Blecher 

Translated by Henry Howard 

“ Scarred Hearts is a masterpiece. . . . It is a book to live with, to read again and 

again, as only great literature demands us to.”—Paul Bailey 

“Elegant and powerful.”—Financial Times 

“It is a matter for rejoicing that this small masterpiece should survive to delight 

readers of another century.”—Daily Telegraph 

It is Paris in the 1930s and Emanuel, a Romanian student, fi nds himself dangerously 

ill with spinal tuberculosis. Sent to a sanatorium near the coast, he 

remains wrapped in a full body cast for a year. But while he endures his terrible 

cure, he unexpectedly falls in love. 


FICTION 

June 

5 x 7¾ | 528 pp 


978-1-905847-75-4 CUSA 


A fast-paced, psychologically astute 

thriller set in one of Moscow’s 

darkest places. 

FICTION 

May 

5 x 7¾ | 240 pp 


978-1-905847-87-7 CUSA 


A never-before-translated 

classic of modern European literature. 

235

Selected Backlist from Old Street Publishing 

236 

Charlotte & Leopold 

The True Story of the Original 

People’s Princess 

James Chambers 


6½ x 9¼ | 256 pp 


978-1-905847-23-5 CUSA 

The Oxford Despoiler 

And Other Mysteries from the 

Casebook of Henry St Liver 

Gary Dexter 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8½ | 272 pp 


978-1-905847-88-4 CUSA 

Jamaica 

Malcolm Knox 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8½ | 400 pp 


978-1-905847-54-9 CUSA 

Hotel Heaven 

Confessions of a 

Luxury Hotel Addict 

Matthew Brace 

TRAVEL 

5 x 7¾ | 320 pp 


978-1-905847-40-2 CUSA 

Who is Charlie Conti? 

Claus von Bohlen 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-905847-49-5 CUSA 

The Selman-Troytt Papers 

Edited by P. J. Barrington 

HUMOR 

5¼ x 8 | 288 pp 

50 B&W illustrations, 

photographs, and charts 


978-1-906964-06-1 CUSA

Flotsam 

John Stewart 

This is a memoir by the British photographer John Stewart, known for his 

images of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Muhammad Ali, 

and many others. Through short, gripping vignettes, Flotsam lets us peer into 

Stewart’s chance encounters with the famous and fascinating, observe how he 

gained entry to explore forbidden Asian locales, and witness his three years in 

a World War II POW camp on the River Kwai (Stewart was a consultant on the 

fi lm The Bridge on the River Kwai). 

Stewart began taking photos after a friend introduced him to Pablo Picasso 

and, on a whim, he asked the artist to pose. He embarked on his professional 

career working for Alexei Brodovitch, famed art director of Harper’s Bazaar. 

Through the telling of his life story, Stewart reveals an intimate side of 

the varied and colorful fi gures he has met, and he casually divulges intriguing 

facts. Mixing personal refl ections and stories about the people he has encountered, 

Stewart weaves a captivating and charming narrative spanning decades 

and continents, and creates verbal snapshots thoroughly on par with his celebrated 

visual images. 

John Stewart began his career in photography in the 1950s after a six-year 

stint in the British Army. During his prestigious career, his photographs have 

appeared in Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, as well as in museums and major 

collections around the world. Now in his nineties, Stewart lives and works in 

Paris and Provence. 

A photographer’s travels lead him to forbidden Asian locales 

and to a chance encounter with Pablo Picasso. 


BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 


5½ x 8½ | 300 pp 



978-1-58988-063-4 CUSA 




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238 

PHILOSOPHY 

June 


5½ x 8½ | 260 pp 


978-1-58988-062-7 CUSA 




Author Hometown: Annapolis, MD 

Homage to Americans 

Mile-high Meditations, Close Readings, 

and Time-Spanning Speculations 

Eva Brann 

In her latest collection of essays and lectures, Homage to Americans, Eva Brann 

explores the roots and essence of our American ways. 

In “Mile-high Meditations,” her fl ight’s late departure from the Denver 

airport prompts a consideration of her manner of waiting (i.e., “being”). As 

she looks around, she notes (and compares to her own) the ways her fellow 

travelers pass their time. These observations lead her to wonder how each of 

us lives with ourselves and how we live together—and put up with one another. 

With these questions in mind, the next two essays carefully examine two 

famous political documents that have shaped American self- understanding: 

James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance,” which is the essential argument 

for separation of church and state; and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg 

Address, which enlarged and refashioned our understanding of the American 

political character, fi rst given formal expression in the Declaration of 

Independence and the Constitution. 

In “Paradox of Obedience,” a lecture delivered at the Air Force Academy, 

Brann considers the puzzling character of obedience in a country dedicated 

to liberty. 

The concluding piece, “The Empire of the Sun and the West,” takes us to 

Aztec Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. What allowed Cortes and 

his handful of men to overcome a great empire? In pursuit of an answer, 

Brann describes a human type whose fulfi llment she sees in the American 

character. 

Eva Brann has taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis for fi fty years. Paul 

Dry Books has published four of her books. 

In Homage to Americans, Eva Brann explores the roots 

and essence of our American ways. 

Feeling Our Feelings 

What Philosophers Think and People Know 

Eva Brann 

PHILOSOPHY 

6¼ x 9¼ | 550 pp 


978-1-58988-046-7 CUSA 

Also 

Available 

Open Secrets / Inward Prospects 

Relections on World and Soul 

Eva Brann 

PHILOSOPHY 

4¾ x 7¼ | 378 pp 


978-1-58988-019-1 CUSA

The Flight of Ikaros 

Travels in Greece During the Civil War 

Kevin Andrews 

“An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archeologist 

wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, 

still one of the best books on Greece as it was before ‘development.’” 

—The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands 

“He also is in love with the country . . . but he sees the other side of that dazzling 

medal or moon. . . . If you want some truth about Greece, here it is.” 

—Louis MacNeice, The Observer 

“One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks.” 

—E. R. Dodds 

In 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright 

Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent 

the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters 

writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented 

areas during Greece’s postwar civil war—and before the advent of tourism, 

industrialization, or easy communications—brought Andrews into immediate 

contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes 

who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the 

displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these 

lives took shape in The Flight of Ikaros, fi rst published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is 

pleased to return to print this modern travel classic. 

Kevin Andrews (1924–1989) was a writer and archaeologist. He wrote many 

books about Greece, of which he became a citizen in 1975. 

“One of the great and lasting books about Greece.” 

—Patrick Leigh Fermor 


TRAVEL / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

April 

5 x 8 | 200 pp 



978-1-58988-064-1 USA 



239

Selected Backlist from Paul Dry Books 

240 

The Tables of the Law 

Thomas Mann 

Translated by Marion Faber and 

Stephen Lehmann 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 80 pp 


978-1-58988-057-3 CUSA 

The Six-Cornered 

Snowfl ake 

Johannes Kepler 

Translated by Jacques Bromberg 

Foreword by Guillermo Bleichmar 

SCIENCE 

5½ x 6½ | 115 pp 


978-1-58988-053-5 CUSA 

Seven Conversations with 

Jorge Luis Borges 

Fernando Sorrentino 

Translated by Clark M. Zlotchew 


5½ x 8½ | 220 pp 


978-1-58988-060-3 CUSA 

The Book Shopper 

A Life in Review 

Murray Browne 


5 x 8½ | 250 pp 


978-1-58988-056-6 CUSA 

Zift 

A Noir Novel 

Vladislav Todorov 

Translated by Joseph Benatov 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 200 pp 


978-1-58988-059-7 CUSA 

Bombay Smiles 

Jaume Sanllorente 

Translated by Gwendolyn Gout 

and Robert Dreesen 


4¾ x 7¼ | 173 pp 



978-1-58988-055-9 CUSA

The Home-Maker 

Dorothy Canfi eld Fisher 

“A remarkable and brave novel. I was astonished at the acute angle of vision 

and the fullness of sympathy toward both men and women—and children.” 

—Carol Shields 

An ahead-of-its-time novel about an unhappy and obsessively house-proud 

mother of three whose husband is disabled, leaving her free to work in a department 

store and him to be a Montessori father. One of the ten best- selling 

novels of 1924 and made into a (silent) fi lm, it was singled out by Elaine 

Showalter in her recent book on American women writers and was included 

in the collection Five Hundred Great Books by Women. 

Dorothy Canfi eld Fisher (1879–1958) was one of America’s best-known novelists. 

The Home-Maker has been a bestseller for Persephone Books in the United 

Kingdom, and with this edition it will be widely available in the United 

States. 

A 1924 novel by one of America’s leading writers 

about a couple who role-swap. 


FICTION 

August 


5½ x 7½ | 288 pp 


978-1-906462-13-0 CUSA 

241

Selected Backlist from Persephone Books 

242 

Miss Pettigrew Lives 

for a Day 

Winifred Watson 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 256 pp 



978-1-906462-02-4 CUSA 

Someone at a Distance 

Dorothy Whipple 

Preface by Nina Bawden 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 420 pp 


978-1-906462-00-0 CUSA 

Mariana 

Monica Dickens 

Preface by Harriet Lane 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 377 pp 


978-1-906462-04-8 CUSA 

Cheerful Weather 

for the Wedding 

Julia Strachey 

Preface by Frances Partridge 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 136 pp 


978-1-906462-07-9 CUSA 

Good Evening Mrs Craven 

The Wartime Stories of 

Mollie Panter-Downes 

Mollie Panter-Downes 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 200 pp 


978-1-906462-01-7 CUSA 

The Making of a 

Marchioness 

Frances Hodgson Burnett 

FICTION 

5½ x 7½ | 328 pp 


978-1-906462-12-3 CUSA

Moms Who Make a Difference 

Inspiring Stories of Women Who Change the World 

Edited by Beth Feldman 

“Role Mommy books are the perfect books for today’s multi-hatted women as 

they take on our lives, look at them from all angles, and serve them back to 

us with candor, humor, and a dash of poignancy.”—Lee Woodruff , author of 

Perfectly Imperfect 

Moms Who Make a Diff erence, the second book in the Role Mommy series edited by 

Beth Feldman, comprises two dozen interviews of successful women in business, 

community organizing, politics, and the media. With more than a dozen 

infl uential women contributing to this book as both writers and interviewees, 

Moms Who Make a Diff erence will create lots of buzz at conferences such as BlogHer 

as well as sponsored book events. 

Beth Feldman is the owner of RoleMommy.com, an online community and 

events company created to inspire, entertain, and inform today’s busy moms. 

Role Mommy has a BlogTalk radio station, an online community, and a series 

of locally planned events. The mission of Role Mommy is simple: Helping 

your children realize their hopes and dreams doesn’t mean you have to give up on your own. Beth 

Feldman lives just north of New York City. 

Inspiring interviews by bloggers with notable mothers who have 

succeeded in transforming their careers and communities. 


See Mom Run 

Side-Splitting Essays from the 

World’s Most Harried Blogging Moms 

Edited by Beth Feldman 


Role Mommy 

5 x 7 | 172 pp 



978-1-936005-02-4 CUSA 



April 


Role Mommy 

5 x 8 | 172 pp 


978-1-936005-12-3 CUSA 




Author Events 


Miami, FL • Chicago, IL • New York, NY • 

Charlotte, NC • Philadelphia, PA • Seattle, WA 

243

Selected Backlist from Plain White Press 

244 

You Bet Your Tomatoes 

Fun Facts, Tall Tales, and a 

Handful of Useful Gardening Tips 

Mike McGrath 

GARDENING 

8 x 8 | 96 pp 



978-0-9815004-2-3 CUSA 

Perform at Your Best 

Acting Techniques for Business, 

Personal & Social Success 

Jane Marla Robbins 


4¼ x 6 | 82 pp 


Box Set US $19.95 | CAN $19.95 

978-0-9777383-4-2 CUSA 

Soccer for Moms 

Game & Parenting Essentials 

for Healthy Kids 

Kerrie Paige 



5 x 8 | 284 pp 



978-0-9815004-3-0 CUSA 

Lite’N Up! 

Laugh Yourself Skinny 

Samara Q. Klein 

Illustrated by Helen Dardik 


4½ x 6 | 156 pp 



978-0-9777383-5-9 CUSA 

Dinner for Busy Moms 

Easy Strategies for Getting 

Food on the Table—Quick 

Jeanne Muchnick 

COOKING / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS 

5 x 8 | 224 pp 



978-1-936005-00-0 CUSA 

Tweets to Self 

An Offl ine Journal 


3½ x 7 | 96 pp 


978-0-9815004-5-4 CUSA

When There Is No Doctor 

Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times 

Gerard S. Doyle, MD 

The fi fth title in Process’ Self-Reliance series demystifi es medical practices 

with a practical approach to twenty-fi rst-century health and home medicine, 

particularly helpful in a fi nancial downturn. 

When There Is No Doctor is smartly designed and full of medical tips and emergency 

suggestions. At a time when our health system has become particularly 

susceptible to strain, it should be no further than an arm’s reach away in your 

household. 

This is a book about sustainable health, primarily having to do with your health and what you can do 

to protect it—in bad times certainly, but also in good. I will help you ensure the health of those you 

love, yourself and, should you so choose, your community, if and when the world changes. World 

may come to mean your little town or the whole globe. It could change for a few days or weeks, or for 

a few years. It could change because of a fl ood, fi nancial crisis, fl u pandemic, or failure of our energy 

procurement, production or distribution systems. 

I will not teach you to be a lone survivalist who anticipates doing an appendectomy on himself or 

a loved one on the kitchen table with a steak knife and a few spoons, although I will discuss techniques 

of austere and improvised medicine for really hard times. 

Gerard S. Doyle, MD, teaches and practices emergency medicine at the University 

of Wisconsin, Madison, where he also plans the hospital’s response to 

disasters. 

A practical guide to twenty-fi rst-century home medicine, especially 

helpful during a fi nancial downturn. 

Depression 2.0 

Creative Strategies for Tough 

Economic Times 

Cletus Nelson 

SELF-HELP 

Process Self-Reliance Series 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 



978-1-934170-06-9 CUSA 

Also 

Available 

PREPAREDNESS NOW! 

An Emergency Survival Guide 

(Expanded and Revised Edition) 

Aton Edwards 

REFERENCE 


7 x 9 | 350 pp 



978-1-934170-09-0 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Madison, WI 

Process 


April 



5¼ x 8¼ | 360 pp 



978-1-934170-11-3 CUSA 

245

Process 

246 

HOUSE & HOME 

April 



5¼ x 8¼ | 360 pp 



978-1-934170-10-6 CUSA 




Author Events 


Chicago, IL • New York, NY • Portland, OR • 

Seattle, WA 


The Urban Homestead 

(Revised & Expanded Edition) 

Your Guide to Self-Suffi cient Living in the Heart of the City 

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen 

“A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable 

gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other 

useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and 

preparing the food they eat.”—BoingBoing.net 

This celebrated, essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement 

shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, 

raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, 

tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. 

The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point 

you to the best books and Internet resources on self-suffi ciency topics. 

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, twocolor 

instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, 

our community, and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing 

natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities. 

New projects include: 

• How to sterilize jars and bottles 

• How to make infused oil 

• Six ways to preserve a tomato 

• How to make soda bread 

• How to store grain with dry ice 

• How to make a tomato can stove 

• How to make a Viet Nam light 

• How to make a Euell Gibbon’s crock 

• How to make L’hamd markad, or preserved, salted lemons 

• How to make a bike light 

The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, 

with a dozen new projects.

Ox-Tales 

Edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence 

Profi le Books 

“One of the joys of collections like these is that you’re bound to come across something new. . . . You really should buy them 

all.”—Financial Times 

“A fabulous way to swot up on well-known authors, as well as discovering a few names you might not be so familiar with.” 

—Daily Mail 

The Ox-Tales series is made up of four compelling and collectible books, each themed on one of the elements. They include 

short stories from some of Britain and Ireland’s best-selling and most loved authors, who each contributed their work for free 

in order to raise money and awareness for the charity Oxfam. 

The idea behind Ox-Tales is to raise money and to highlight Oxfam’s project areas: agriculture in Earth, water projects in 

Water, confl ict aid in Fire, and climate change in Air. 

Ox-Tales Air 

Features stories by Alexander McCall Smith, Helen Simpson, DBC Pierre, AL 

Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie, Beryl Bainbridge, Louise Welsh, Diran Adebayo, 

Helen Fielding, and a poem by Vikram Seth. 

FICTION | April | A Paperback Original | 5 x 7 | 208 pp 


Ox-Tales Fire 

Features stories by Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian 

Faulks, John le Carré, Xiaoulu Guo, William Sutcliff e, Ali Smith, Lionel 

Shriver, Jeanette Winterson, and a poem by Vikram Seth. 



Ox-Tales Water 

Features stories by Esther Freud, David Park, Heri Kunzru, Zoë Heller, Michel 

Faber, William Boyd, Joanna Trollope, Giles Foden, Michael Morpurgo, and 

a poem by Vikram Seth. 



Ox-Tales Earth 

Features stories by Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, 

Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Nicholas 

Shakespeare, Rose Tremain, and a poem by Vikram Seth. 



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May 


5 x 8 | 208 pp 


978-1-84668-874-4 CUSA 

Finally—a truly useful 

environmental guide for businesses 

of all shapes and sizes. 


April 


5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-84668-332-9 CUSA 

A plan to deal with a very 

different economic future following 

the fi nancial crisis. 

The Green Guide for Business 

The Ultimate Environment Handbook for Businesses of All Sizes 

Chris Goodall 

Greener businesses are more profi table. They produce more with less. They’re 

resilient to shocks, and they win loyalty from customers and staff . 

The Green Guide for Business answers all of your questions and enables businesses 

and organizations of all sizes to make environmentally savvy decisions. 

Accessible but authoritative, it also features scores of case studies to help readers 

learn from other people’s successes and mistakes. 

Chris Goodall is a world-leading expert on climate change solutions. His 

book How to Live a Low-carbon Life won the 2007 Clarion Award for Nonfi ction, 

and he publishes Carbon Commentary, a website providing incisive appraisal 

of climate issues. 



The Impoverishment of Nations 

The Issues Facing the Post-meltdown Global Economy 

Leigh Skene 

Early in 2007 Leigh Skene warned of the danger of a meltdown in global markets. 

Now, while governments spend furiously to rescue the global economy, 

he again challenges received wisdom. In The Impoverishment of Nations, Skene prescribes 

a diff erent solution, outlining a plan to deal with a very diff erent economic 

future, following the fi nancial crisis that ended the longest period of 

prosperity for some fi ve hundred years. 

Leigh Skene is an independent economic consultant specializing in fi nancial 

markets. 


Co-op available • Advance reader copies

Occasions of Sin 

Sex and Society in Modern Ireland 

Diarmaid Ferriter 

Occasions of Sin charts the Irish sexual experience during the twentieth century. 

In tackling the public and private worlds of Irish sex, this book is groundbreaking 

in its scope and ambition. Diarmaid Ferriter covers such subjects as 

abortion, contraception, censorship, homosexuality, and the various hidden 

Irelands associated with sexual abuse—all in the context of a conservative offi - 

cial morality backed by the Catholic church. The breadth of this book and the 

richness of the material uncovered make it defi nitive in its fi eld and a remarkable 

work of social history. 

Diarmaid Ferriter is a professor of modern Irish history at University 

College, Dublin. 



Don’t Be Needy Be Succeedy 

The A to Zee of Motivitality 

L. Vaughan Spencer 

“Hilarious! Laughed out loud from start to fi nish. So much great material. 

Silly and smart. Bravo.”—Mike Myers 

“Without him, I’d be nothing.”—Richard Branson 

In a hilarious satire of the corporate self-improvement industry, the character 

L. Vaughan Spencer puts his wisdom into book form. This ultra- observant 

how-not-to guide, on everything from clothes and hairstyles to spellology and 

720-degree feedback, is a based on a successful stage show that won the 

Edinburgh Fringe Report Award for Best Satire. 

L. Vaughan Spencer (Neil Mullarkey) co-founded Britain’s top improvisation 

troupe, The Comedy Store Players. He has also acted in several fi lms, including 

two Austin Powers movies. 




HISTORY / SEXUALITY 

July 

6 x 9 | 640 pp 


978-1-86197-918-6 CUSA 

The defi nitive sexual history of 

twentieth-century Ireland. 

HUMOR 

June 


5 x 8 | 224 pp 


978-1-84668-163-9 CUSA 

A hilarious—and surprisingly 

useful—satire of the corporate 

self-improvement industry. 

249

Selected Backlist from Profi le Books 

250 

We-Think 

Mass Innovation, 

Not Mass Production 

Charles Leadbeater 

TECHNOLOGY 

5¼ x 7¾ | 304 pp 


978-1-86197-837-0 CUSA 

The Real Offi ce 

All the Offi ce Questions 

You Never Dared to Ask 

Lucy Kellaway 

HUMOR / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS 

5¼ x 7¾ | 224 pp 


978-1-84668-214-8 CUSA 

Darwin’s Angel 

An Angelic Riposte to 

The God Delusion 

John Cornwell 

RELIGION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 176 pp 


978-1-84668-065-6 CUSA 

Nella Last’s War 

The Second World War 

Diaries of Housewife, 49 

Nella Last 

Edited by Richard Broad 

and Suzie Fleming 


5¼ x 7¾ | 320 pp 


978-1-84668-000-7 CUSA 

Crude Continent 

The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize 

Duncan Clarke 


6½ x 9½ | 720 pp 


978-1-84668-097-7 CUSA 

The Tao of Coaching 

Boost Your Effectiveness at 

Work by Inspiring and Developing 

Those Around You 

Max Landsberg 


5¼ x 7¾ | 144 pp 


978-1-86197-650-5 CUSA

Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten? 

A Toolkit for Preparing Children and Families 

Angèle Sancho Passe 

Making the transition into kindergarten is a signifi cant and exciting milestone 

in young children’s lives. With proper coordination and planning, it can be 

a smooth process, benefi ting children, families, and schools. Is Everybody Ready 

for Kindergarten? provides early childhood professionals with information and 

practical advice to help children and their families prepare for the transition 

and then successfully begin kindergarten. Helpful activities and reproducible 

checklists and handouts are included. 


Twins and Supertwins 

A Handbook for Early Childhood Professionals 

Eve-Marie Arce, EdD 

Approximately one in every thirty children born today is a twin or supertwin— 

a child of a higher-order multiple birth, such as a triplet or quadruplet. With 

twins and supertwins an increasingly growing population in preschool classrooms, 

early childhood professionals have more questions and concerns 

regarding the best ways to care for and educate preschool-age children of multiple 

births. Twins and Supertwins addresses these issues and highlights the best 

program practices supported by recent research and study fi ndings; includes 

information on physical, social, emotional, and language development; identifi 

es unique needs of twins and supertwins; and off ers guidance to create 

partnerships with families. 

Author Hometown: Redding, CA 

Redleaf Press 

EDUCATION 

June 


7 x 10 | 136 pp 



978-1-60554-015-3 USA 

With the right tools, 

a successful transition from preschool 

to kindergarten is possible. 


May 


6 x 9 | 200 pp 



978-1-60554-030-6 USA 

Highlights issues 

specifi cally affecting twins and 

supertwins in preschool. 

251

Redleaf Press 

252 

Developmentally Appropriate Play 

Guiding Young Children to a Higher Level 

Gaye Gronlund 

Following the new Developmentally Appropriate Practice guidelines from the 

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), this 

resource helps teachers enhance the depth and richness of children’s play. 

Chapter topics include identifying and planning purposeful play, incorporating 

standards into play, and suggestions to reach higher levels of play. 

EDUCATION | May | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9 | 120 pp | 20 B&W photographs 


Come and Play 

Sensory Integration Strategies for Children with Play Challenges 

Aerial Cross 

Early intervention is vital in addressing and redirecting play challenges in 

young children. Each of fi ve common play challenges—children who roam 

playrooms, play repetitiously, appear anxious, are detached, or are rejected by 

peers—are highlighted. Also included are sensory integration ideas and activities 

to promote positive and productive play. 

EDUCATION | August | A Paperback Original | 8½ x 11 | 200 pp | 10 B&W photographs 


Rethinking Nutrition 

Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood Settings 

Susan Nitzke, PhD, RD; Dave Riley, PhD; 

Ann Ramminger, MS; and Georgine Jacobs, MS 

Rethinking Nutrition provides science- and practice-based information to meet 

young children’s nutritional and developmental needs and establish healthy 

patterns with food. Each chapter includes a summary of key concepts and 

promising practices for early childhood settings. 

EDUCATION / FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS | April | A Paperback Original 

The Redleaf Professional Library | 7 x 10 | 168 pp | 6 B&W photographs 


Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood 

Connecting Theory, Practice, and Refl ection 

Joy Lubawy 

This thoughtful resource inspires early childhood professionals to develop 

curriculum encouraging children’s creativity. Blending the ideas of Reggio 

Emilia, emergent curriculum, and Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple 

Intelligences, Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood brings creativity to the learning 

dimensions of visuals and aesthetics; music and rhythm; kinesthetics; mathematics 

and logic; nature; language; and interpersonal relationships. 

EDUCATION | May | A Paperback Original | 8¼ x 11 | 264 pp | 53 Color photographs 

Trade Paper $59.95 | 978-1-60554-038-2 USA

What’s Really Wrong With 

The Middle East 

Brian Whitaker 

“A passionate call for political and social change in Arab countries . . . and a 

stern critique of the status quo.”—Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor 

The problems in the Middle East are always someone else’s fault. 

While the West blames dictators and extremists, Arabs often blame centuries 

of foreign interference. For many, both in the East and West, the root 

problem is a lack of freedom. 

Looking beyond the turmoil reported on our TV screens, Guardian journalist 

Brian Whitaker examines the “freedom defi cit” that aff ects Arabs in their 

daily lives: their struggles against corruption, discrimination, and bureaucracy, 

and the stifl ing authoritarianism that pervades homes, schools, and 

mosques as well as presidential palaces. 

Drawing on a wealth of new research and wide-ranging interviews, Whitaker 

analyzes the views of Arabs living in the region and argues that in order to 

achieve peace, prosperity, and full participation in today’s global economy, 

Arabs should embrace political and far-reaching social and cultural change. 

Brian Whitaker was Middle East editor at the Guardian for seven years and is 

currently an editor for the newspaper’s Comment is Free website. He is the author 

of Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East (Saqi Books, 2006; also 

published in the United States by the University of California Press, 2006). 

His website, www.al-bab.com, is devoted to Arab culture and politics. 

A counter-blast to simplistic Western views about the Middle East. 


POLITICAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE 

May 


5½ x 8½ | 384 pp 


978-0-86356-624-0 CUSA 

SAQI 253


254 



April 

5¾ x 8½ | 244 pp 



978-0-86356-684-4 CUSA 

Hussein and Abdullah 

Inside the Jordanian Royal Family 

Randa Habib 

“In a part of the world in which journalism is a dangerous business, Randa 

Habib is courageous, considered, and infl uential. By being there to write the 

stories of Jordan and the region, she has shaped history as much as she has revealed 

it. In her profession, Randa Habib is a star.”—Paul McGeough, author 

of Kill Khalid 

In January 1999, a newswire shocked Jordan. King Hussein announced that 

it was not his brother Hassan that would succeed him, but his son Abdullah. 

Less than a week later, King Hussein was dead. 

During his forty-six-year reign, the Hashemite king preserved his kingdom 

against rising Islamism and maintained its neutrality in the face of the 

confl icting interests of neighboring countries. Hussein left his son a stable 

kingdom, allied to the West. Today, King Abdullah is following in his father’s 

footsteps, positioning himself as a peace broker alongside the United States in 

the hopes of ending the sixty-year Middle East confl ict. 

Award-winning journalist Randa Habib draws on twenty-fi ve years of 

unparalleled access to the former king to share unique insights into King 

Hussein’s relations with Saddam Hussein, Hafez al-Assad, and Itzhak Rabin. 

A lively chronicle of the end of an era, this is also a fascinating account of 

twenty-fi rst-century Jordan, the Jordan of King Abdullah and Queen Rania. 

Randa Habib has been director of the Amman bureau of Agence France 

Presse since 1987, and she has reported extensively from Iraq and other areas 

of confl ict. Habib was the fi rst journalist to interview King Abdullah when he 

ascended the throne. 

A highly accessible account of the domestic and 

regional politics of Jordan.

The Devil You Don’t Know 

Going Back to Iraq 

Zuhair al-Jezairy 

Translated by John West 

“What really comes through and is startlingly refreshing are al-Jezairy’s encounters 

with ordinary Iraqis . . . during the American occupation. Through 

them come all the extraordinary Iraqi stories that have been so hard for 

Westerners to capture all these years.”—Rageh Omaar 

In 1979, journalist Zuhair al-Jezairy fl ed Iraq and certain death after openly 

criticizing Saddam Hussein’s regime. Twenty-fi ve years later he is back and 

cautiously celebrating the toppling of the hated Ba’ath Party. 

As editor of a newspaper, he breaks the Oil for Food scandal, disclosing the 

names of Arabs and Westerners who were involved, and is subsequently forced 

to resign. He then sets up a television company and travels all over Iraq, documenting 

the country’s descent into sectarianism and hopeless violence, soon 

becoming a target himself. 

Al-Jezairy’s fi rsthand accounts of the looting of Baghdad, the destruction 

of government buildings, and indiscriminate bombings present a searing, 

personal, and unique view of Iraq after Saddam Hussein. 

Zuhair al-Jezairy lives in Iraq, where he manages the country’s fi rst independent 

news agency, Voice of Iraq. He has published nine books, including two 

novels, in Arabic. 

John West is a journalist and a graduate in classics from Balliol College, 

Oxford. He has covered three wars in the Middle East as a correspondent for 

Reuters. 

An elegiac and inspirational account of Iraq 

after the fall of Saddam Hussein. 



LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES 

June 


5¼ x 8¼ | 288 pp 


978-0-86356-649-3 CUSA 

SAQI 255


256 

POETRY 

April 


6¼ x 8 | 166 pp 

Trade Paper CAN $17.50 

978-0-86356-634-9 Canada Only 

Love, loss, and the pain of 

exile in bittersweet poems leavened 

with hope and joy. 

MATHEMATICS 

July 

7 x 9¾ | 392 pp 

Trade Cloth SP US $100.00 | CAN $115.00 

978-0-86356-430-7 CUSA 

The fi rst critical edition of 

Al-Khwārizmī’s Algebra. 

A River Dies of Thirst 

Diaries 

Mahmoud Darwish 

Preface by Ruth Padel 

Translated by Catherine Cobham 

“Darwish has given expression to his people’s ordinary longings and desires.” 

—The New York Times 

Mahmoud Darwish was one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets 

in the Arab world and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian 

people. During the tumultuous summer of 2006, as Israel attacked Gaza and 

Lebanon, Darwish was in Ramallah and recorded his observations and feelings 

in this diary. 

Mahmoud Darwish was born in 1941 in the village of al-Birweh in Galilee, 

Palestine. He published around thirty poetry and prose collections, which 

have been translated into thirty-fi ve languages. He died in August 2008. 

Al-Khwārizmī 

The Beginnings of Algebra 

Edited and Translated by Roshdi Rashed 

Al-Khwārizmī’s Algebra (Kitab al-Jabr wa-al-muqabala), written around 820, was 

the fi rst scientifi c text in history to systematically present algebra as a mathematical 

discipline that is independent of geometry and arithmetic. Roshdi 

Rashed has produced the fi rst Arabic critical edition of Al-Khwārizmī’s work, 

containing an annotated translation into English, an introductory essay, and 

extensive commentaries on the text. 

Roshdi Rashed is a leading authority in the history and philosophy of science 

and mathematics. He is senior director of research at the Centre National de 

la Recherche Scientifi que in Paris, and is a former professor at the University 

of Tokyo.

You Have Given Me a Country 

A Memoir 

Neela Vaswani 

“Vaswani is a confi dent writer whose unfl inching eye shows the reader the 

beauty grounded in the mundane.”—San Francisco Chronicle 

“Vaswani’s voice is witty, sharp, innovative, unique.”—Chitra Banerjee 

You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred 

borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, 

history, and fi ction, the book follows the paths of the author’s Irish-Catholic 

mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the 

biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani’s second full-length work thematically 

echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba’s Tatoos, 

but it is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story. The book reveals the 

self as a culmination of all that went before it, a brilliant new weave of two varied, 

yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, 

languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family. 

Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection Where the Long Grass 

Bends (Sarabande Books, 2004). Recipient of a 2006 O. Henry Prize, her fi ction 

and nonfi ction have been widely anthologized and published in journals 

such as Epoch, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner. She lives in New York City. 

A multi-genre memoir exploring the author’s Irish-Catholic, 

Sindhi-Indian, and American identities. 


Where the Long Grass Bends 

Stories 

Neela Vaswani 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 192 pp 


978-1-889330-96-9 CUSA 



August 


6 x 9 | 256 pp 



978-1-932511-82-6 CUSA 





Poets & Writers • The Writer’s Chronicle 

Author Events 


Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Louisville, KY • 

Baltimore, MD • College Park, MD • 

Kalamazoo, MI • New York, NY • 

Saratoga Springs, NY • Knoxville, TN • 

Nashville, TN • Houston, TX • Montpelier, VT • 

Laramie, WY 


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FICTION 

April 


Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature 

6 x 9 | 256 pp 


978-1-932511-80-2 CUSA 

258 





Poets & Writers • The Writer’s Chronicle 

Author Events 

Fairhope, AL • Atlanta, GA • Bowling Green, KY • 

Lexington, KY • Louisville, KY • 

Baton Rouge, LA • Jackson, MS • Oxford, MS • 

Jefferson City, MO • Nashville, TN 

Author Hometown: Rosine, KY 

The Name of the Nearest River 

Stories 

Alex Taylor 

“Alex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American 

literature.”—Chris Off utt 

Like a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor’s 

America is at once intoxicating, vulnerable, and full of brawn. These stories 

reveal the hidden dangers in the coyote-infested fi elds, rusty riverbeds, 

and abandoned logging trails of Kentucky. There we fi nd tactile, misbegotten 

characters, desperate for the solace found in love, revenge, or just enough 

coal to keep an elderly woman’s stove burning a few more nights. Echoing 

Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner, Taylor manages fervor as well as 

humor in these dusky, shotgun plots, where in one story, a man spends seven 

days in a jon boat with his fi ddle and a Polaroid camera, determined to enact 

vengeance on the water-logged body of a used car salesman; and in another, a 

demolition derby enthusiast nicknamed “Wife” watches his two wild, burning 

love interests duke it out, only to determine he would rather be left alone entirely. 

Together, these stories present a resonant debut collection from an unexpected 

new voice in Southern fi ction. 

Alex Taylor has worked as a day laborer on tobacco farms, as a car detailer at 

a used automotive lot, as a sorghum peddler, as a tender of suburban lawns, 

at various fast food chains, and at a cigarette lighter factory. He holds an MFA 

from the University of Mississippi and now teaches at Western Kentucky 

University. He lives in Rosine, Kentucky. 

Stories confronting the unfailing constant of blood in the 

rough woods of western Kentucky.

The Sensual World Re-emerges 

Poems 

Eleanor Lerman 

“Eleanor Lerman’s poems have sociological savvy, philosophical rue, historical 

recognition, and vernacular resilience. They sing a song that is bravely 

gloomy, but they sing it with a fi erce and earned dignity.”—Tony Hoagland 

“Lerman is as sly as a pool hustler, mapping complex constellations on the 

dark felt, setting gleaming images into spinning motion, then sinking each 

whirling sphere into a corner pocket.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist 

Eleanor Lerman has been a Chinese museum guide, a harpsichord kit workshop 

manager, and a comedy writer. She has received a National Book Award 

nomination and an NEA grant. She lives in New York. 


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The Available World 

Poems 

Ander Monson 

“[Ander Monson’s] poems celebrate defi ant excess. In this land of scarcity, 

right-living involves using up what you have, where you have it; otherwise 

someone might wreck, steal, or use it and you might not get any. A carpe diem 

for obscure, doomed youth.”—Stephen Burt 

Ander Monson lives in Tucson, Arizona. 

POETRY | July | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9 | 72 pp 


Post Moxie 

Poems 

Julia Story 

Winner of the 2009 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Dan 

Chiasson 

From “The Above Song”: 

Foie gras has been outlawed. So has gravitas, / faux grass, middle class. Soon: the past. 

Julia Story lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. 

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POETRY 

April 


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The fi fth collection from the Lenore 

Marshall Prize–winning poet, a writer at 

the absolute height of her powers. 

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Once the Shore 

Stories 

Paul Yoon 

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I’ll Tell What I Saw 

Selections from Dante’s 

Divine Comedy 

Illustrated by Michael Mazur 

Translated by Robert Pinsky 

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When to Go into the Water 

A Novel 

Lawrence Sutin 

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I Have to Go Back to 

1994 and Kill a Girl 

Poems 

Karyna McGlynn 

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Dear Sound of Footstep 

Essays 

Ashley Butler 



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Orange Crush 

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Simone Muench 

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Praise for Dave Zeltserman: 

“Pariah will keep you glued to its pages. There are no holds barred anywhere 

in this wonderful launch into evil. The meek beware . . . be-very-ware.” 

—Charlie Stella 

“This fusion of hard-boiled and bitter satire is brand new territory for noir 

and I suspect that [Pariah] will be one of the most talked about novels of 2009.” 

—Ed Gorman 

“The plot of Small Crimes is a thing of beauty.”—The Washington Post 

Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years’ hard time served after 

turning state’s witness against his Mafi a boss Salvatore Lombard. It’s only after 

Leonard is sentenced that the public learns that he was a Mob hitman with 

eighteen deaths to answer for. 

Leonard is released to public outrage and media furor. He spends his time 

working as a janitor while looking over his shoulder, fearful of a vigilante attack 

or revenge hit from his former colleagues. At sixty-two and with plenty 

of time on his hands, he is at an age when most men grow refl ective and attempt 

to understand their mark on the world. But for Leonard, while the 

threats to his safety are not imagined, his self-refl ection may pose the greatest 

threat of all. 

Dave Zeltserman lives in the Boston area with his wife. Small Crimes was included 

in The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008 and was one of NPR’s top fi ve 

crime and mystery novels of 2008. 

Hard-boiled noir by a rising star: the third in 

Dave Zeltserman’s “badass gets out of jail” trilogy. 

Pariah 

Dave Zeltserman 

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A story of submission and domination, 

Happiness is The Story of O for the 

twenty-fi rst century. 

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A new edition of the 

youth culture classic—previous 

editions sold ten thousand copies. 


July 


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Altered State 

The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House 

Matthew Collin 

“I can’t recommend this marvellous piece of work enough.”—Irvine Welsh 

Altered State—now updated—is the defi nitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast 

of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, 

underground gay discos, and the Balearic paradise of Ibiza. It examines the 

ideologies and myths, documenting the criminal underside to the blissed-out 

image, and shedding light on the social history of the most spectacular youth 

movement of the twentieth century. 

Matthew Collin is the author of Guerrilla Radio and The Time of the Rebels. He now 

reports for Al Jazeera from Tbilisi in Georgia. 



“A new erotic classic.”—Scarlet Magazine 

“Exquisitely French . . . throbbingly intense.”—Evening Standard 

He’s thirty-nine, a writer, dried up and waiting for better days. She’s ten years 

younger, an arts graduate, not doing anything much. Both married, both 

bored. Lust at fi rst sight. And so they have sex with each other just about 

everywhere in just about every way, and their desire increases. They explore 

every facility available to intensify their excitement. Their erotic journey begins 

in a hotel room, and ends in a toilet cubicle. Happiness is not a love story. 

Denis Robert is a French journalist, novelist, essayist, and fi lm director who 

is renowned for uncovering political and fi nancial scandals and for his unconventional 

journalism. 



Happiness 

Denis Robert 

Translated by John Innes

“Wonderfully entertaining.”—Guardian 





Stairway to Hell 

Charlie Williams 

Something strange has been happening, and local singer Rik Suntan is about 

to have his doors of perception blown wide open. It seems that during the 

1970s, Jimmy Page’s experiments with the occult wandered into the art of 

soul-shifting—namely, swapping the souls of celebrity rivals with those of 

newly born babies. 

Obviously this news is a tad hard to swallow, and Rik’s got other problems 

on his plate, but none as jaw-dropping as fi nding out he’s the reincarnation 

of David Bowie. . . 

Charlie Williams is the author of Deadfolk, Fags and Lager, and King of the Road. 

Nights Beneath the Nation 

Denis Kehoe 

“Complex and spellbinding.”—The Independent on Sunday 

“Kehoe writes this engaging tale of long-buried secrets with poetic fl air.” 

—Gay Times 

One fateful, scandalous night brings the curtain down on Daniel Ryan’s life in 

Dublin during the 1950s. Years later, returning from an exile in New York, he 

is pursued by a shady young man—and the ghosts of his past. 

Set against the backdrop of a production of Federico García Lorca’s Blood 

Wedding, Denis Kehoe’s debut is a sepia-toned tribute to love and loss. 

Denis Kehoe lives in Dublin. Nights Beneath the Nation is his fi rst novel. 


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Rock stars get paranoid too. 

A mind-bending trip into musical legend, 

time travel, and soul stealing. 

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978-1-84668-679-5 CUSA 

A passionate story of love, 

jealousy, and desire. 

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the most gastronomic detective in fi ction. 

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A moving account of a 

remarkable event, and a tragic story with 

glimmers of hope and happiness. 

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The Wedding in Auschwitz 

Erich Hackl 


“An exceptional book.”—The Times Literary Supplement 

“Gracefully measured, conversational and obliquely impressionistic . . . 

a cause for celebration.”—The Irish Times 

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story of the love between Rudi and 

Marga. Imprisoned in Auschwitz, Rudi petitions to be allowed to marry Marga 

and make his son legitimate. Eventually his petition is granted—no one knows 

why. Rudi’s wife and child are brought to Auschwitz, his father and brother 

come from Vienna, and the offi cials who normally spend all their time registering 

the deaths now register a marriage. 

Erich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. 



“One of the fi nest examples of European ‘noir’ literature.”—John Harvey 

“Pepe Carvalho is a true original.”—The Times (London) 

As private investigator Pepe Carvalho cruises the backstreets of Barcelona, 

fi nding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, 

seedier town hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved 

city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past. 

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the 

Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for 

his thrillers. He died in 2003. 



An Olympic Death 

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán 

Translated by Ed Emery

“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” 

Ralph Nader 

“As inspirited a work of the political imagination as Tom Paine’s Common 

Sense.”—Lewis Lapham 

“Mr. Nader has produced a wonderful piece of fi ction that I’d love to see become 

nonfi ction!”—Tom Peters, author of The Secret of Excellence 

This vivid fi ctional account by three-time presidential candidate and bestselling 

author Ralph Nader asks: What if several of America’s wealthiest individuals 

decided it was time to work for the collective good? 

The story that unfolds returns us to the literature of American social movements—to 

Edward Bellamy, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, and Stephen 

Crane. And “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” is something else too, a reminder 

that real changes in America always start with the imagination. 

Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most infl uential fi gures in 

American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most 

infl uential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader has helped us 

drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, 

and work in safer environments for more than four decades. Nader’s books 

include In Pursuit of Justice, The Ralph Nader Reader, The Good Fight, and The Seventeen 

Traditions. He lives and works in Washington, DC, at the helm of several citizens’ 

action groups that he founded. 

Ralph Nader’s fi rst work of fi ction paints a portrait 

of what America could become. 

In Pursuit of Justice 

Collected Writings 2000–2003 

Ralph Nader 


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Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich 


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Jesus of Nazareth 

Paul Verhoeven 

Translated by Susan Massotty 

Who was the historical Jesus? Here veteran movie director Paul Verhoeven’s 

lifelong fascination with the facts and fi ctions surrounding the life of Jesus of 

Nazareth culminates in a work of brazen scholarship. Combining his passion 

for the subject with an in-depth knowledge of the history gained through rigorous 

study, Verhoeven paints a portrait of Jesus the man and Jesus the radical 

prophet. Verhoeven constructs a new vision of Jesus as a child born from the 

rape of Mary by a Roman soldier, as a spiritualist who performed exorcisms by 

screaming and spitting in the mouths of the possessed to drive out demons, 

and as a militant revolutionary who urged his followers to arm themselves. 

After moving from his native Holland to Los Angeles in 1985, Paul Verhoeven 

became the only non-theologian admitted into the Jesus Seminar, a group of 

seventy-seven eminent scholars in theology, philosophy, linguistics, and biblical 

history. Their discussions are devoted to determining what Jesus actually 

said and did. Jesus of Nazareth was developed in extensive consultation with 

Rob van Scheers, Verhoeven’s biographer. Verhoeven is the director of successful 

fi lms such as Turkish Delight (1973), Soldier of Orange (1977), The Fourth Man 

(1983), RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992), Starship Troopers (1997), and Black 

Book (2006). 

Susan Massotty is an award-winning translator who has also translated The 

Diary of Anne Frank, My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah, All Souls Day by Cees 

Nooteboom, Wedding by the Sea by Abdelkader Benali, and The Kreutzer Sonata by 

Margriet de Moor. She lives and works in the Netherlands. 

Scholar, director, and iconoclast Paul Verhoeven 

paints a groundbreaking portrait of Jesus.

Talk Softly 

A Memoir 

Cynthia O’Neal 

Actress and model Cynthia O’Neal was living her dream life—married to the 

famous stage and screen actor Patrick O’Neal, the mother of two young sons, 

resident of The Dakota downstairs from John Lennon, owner of the successful 

Ginger Man restaurant, and friend to many brilliant musicians and 

performers. When the AIDS epidemic hit the arts community hard, her life 

changed course suddenly, surprisingly, and completely. Cynthia did not hesitate 

to throw herself into the fray. With the support of longtime friend Mike 

Nichols, she founded Friends in Deed and soon found herself spending her 

days in hospitals, cramped rooms, and dirty apartments: anywhere a patient 

needed a hug, a hand held, or confi dence boosted. And when Patrick became 

ill and passed away in 1994, Cynthia had to work through her own grief instead 

of someone else’s, and she found her life transformed again. 

Talk Softly is the story of a life well-lived—with passion and compassion, in 

celebration of the joy of each moment, endlessly surprising. 

Born in Los Angeles, Cynthia O’Neal modeled and appeared in fi lms, including 

Carnal Knowledge and Primary Colors. In 1991, she founded Friends in 

Deed—The Crisis Center for Life-Threatening Illness—to provide emotional 

and spiritual support for anyone diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and 

other life-threatening physical illnesses, where all services are free of charge. 

Friends in Deed also runs an HIV prevention program for teens in New York 

City public schools, having reached over one hundred thousand at-risk students 

since the program began. O’Neal currently lives in New York City. 

An inspiring memoir about changing your life 

and responding to loss with grace. 



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Overcoming Speechlessness 

A Poet Encounters the Horror in 

Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel 

Alice Walker 

“[Alice Walker] has transcended expectations in her response to 

September 11. Sent by Earth . . . is simple, practical, and beyond argument.” 

—The New Yorker, on Sent by Earth 

“There is only one daughter, one father, one mother, one son, one aunt or 

uncle, one dog . . . or goat in the Universe, after all: the one right in front of 

you.”—From Overcoming Speechlessness 

In 2006 Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited 

Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in 

Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, 

Walker traveled to Palestine/Israel three years later to view the devastation on 

the Gaza Strip. Here is her testimony. 

Bearing witness to the depravity and cruelty, she presents the stories of the 

individuals who crossed her path and shared their tales of suff ering and courage. 

Part of what has happened to human beings over the last century, she believes, 

is that we have been rendered speechless by unusually barbaric behavior 

that devalues human life. We have no words to describe what we witness. Selfimposed 

silence has slowed our response to the plight of those who most need 

us, often women and children, but also men of conscience who resist evil but 

are outnumbered by those around them who have fallen victim to a belief in 

weapons, male or ethnic dominance, and greed. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Alice Walker is 

the author of more than thirty books including The Color Purple and Sent by Earth. 

Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages. From 

her essays concerning the civil rights movement to cries for intervention on 

the Gaza Strip, Walker continually and eloquently calls attention to ignored 

injustices around the world. 

In this collection, Alice Walker eloquently 

calls attention to ignored injustices around the world.

Between the Fences 

Before Guantanamo, There Was the 

Port Isabel Service Processing Center 

Tony Hefner 

Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner 

knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything 

they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas 

in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays the 

best wages for a hundred miles. The guards follow orders and keep quiet. 

For six years, Tony Hefner was a security guard at the Port Isabel Service 

Processing Center, one of the largest immigration detention centers in 

America, and witnessed alarming corruption and violations of basic human 

rights. Offi cers preyed upon the very people whom they are sworn to protect. 

On behalf of the 1,100 men, women, and children residing there on an average 

day, and the 1,500 new undocumented immigrants who pass through its 

walls every month, this is the story of the systematic sexual, physical, fi nancial, 

and drug-related abuses of detainees by guards. 

The Port Isabel Service Processing Center continues to hold detainees of 

the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement whose immigration statuses 

or citizenship have not been offi cially determined or who are awaiting repatriation. 

On April 22, 2009, detainees there began a hunger strike, alleging violations 

of due process, inadequate access to medical care and legal resources, 

and various other abuses. 

Tony Hefner is a human rights activist and founder of the Bearing Precious 

Seed Ranch ministry in southern Texas for local Hispanic children. He has 

appeared on Inside Edition, PBS, and many other radio and television news programs 

where he reported the abuses taking place at Port Isabel. Tony and his 

wife Barbara now live in northern Michigan, where he continues his fi ght with 

national offi cials for new investigations. 

The fi rst insider account of life inside a US detention 

center written by a former guard. 



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Editor Hometowns: Auburndale, MA / 

Brooklyn, NY 

Voices of a People’s History 

of the United States 


Edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove 

“In Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn has given us our true 

story, the ongoing, not-so-secret narrative of race and class in America.” 

—Russell Banks 

This updated companion to Howard Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United 

States brings together the powerful words and actions of people of all ages, 

races, and creeds who, though mostly powerless themselves, have made change 

in America across the centuries. 

This second edition now contains additional voices of conscience who have 

spoken out over the past fi ve years, including Camilo Mejia, the fi rst US soldier 

serving in Iraq to go public with his refusal to continue fi ghting Bush’s 

war; Evann Orleck-Jetter, the middle school student who testifi ed in support 

of equal rights for gay and lesbian families; and Cindy Sheehan, whose son 

Casey was killed in action in Iraq, and whose speeches galvanized sentiment 

against the occupation of Iraq. 

This edition will be promoted throughout the fall and winter by Howard 

Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Matt Damon, and others, as part of a coordinated effort 

to enlarge awareness in the United States of Howard Zinn’s vision of our 

history. December’s launch of The People Speak on the History Channel will be 

just one of the major events that will also include live performances, press 

conferences, and more. 

Howard Zinn’s great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a 

bombardier in World War II more than sixty years ago, he became convinced 

that there could no longer be such a thing as a “just war,” because the vast majority 

of victims in modern warfare are, increasingly, innocent civilians. Zinn 

has, over the course of a lifetime of civil disobedience and authoring books, 

including the best-selling A People’s History of the United States, infl uenced four generations 

in the ways of peace. 

Anthony Arnove is the editor of Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn, and of 

Iraq Under Siege. An activist and regular contributor to ZNet, his writing has 

appeared in The Nation, Financial Times, and Mother Jones. He lives in Brooklyn, 

New York. 

An original sourcebook for Matt Damon’s 

History Channel documentary, The People Speak.

In Our Control 

The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices for Women 

Laura Eldridge 

Do diaphragms work? Should you stay on the pill? What does fertility awareness 

really mean? The effi cacy and risks of diff erent birth control options 

are dramatically diff erent today from what they once were thanks to scientifi 

c advances and increased awareness of STDs and other factors. In the most 

comprehensive book on birth control since the 1970s, women’s health activist 

Laura Eldridge discusses the history, scientifi c advances, and practical uses of 

everything from condoms to the male pill to Plan B. 

Eldridge presents her meticulous research and unbiased consideration of 

our options in the intimate and honest tone of a close friend. Eldridge goes 

on to explore large-scale issues that might factor into women’s birth control 

choices, urging her readers to consider the environmental impacts of each 

method and to take part in a dialogue on how international reproductive 

health issues aff ect us all. 

Whether you’re looking for your fi rst birth control method or want to 

know more about your current contraceptive choice, A Field Guide to Birth Control 

off ers the cutting-edge information and practical wisdom you’ll need to make 

empowered decisions about your sexual health. 

Laura Eldridge is a women’s health writer and activist living in Brooklyn, 

New York. Her latest books are The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause and Body Politic, 

with Barbara Seaman. 

Everything you need to know about sexual health and birth control. 


Body Politic 

Dispatches from the Women’s 

Health Revolution 

Edited by Barbara Seaman 

with Laura Eldridge 


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Love Like Hate 

A Novel 

Linh Dinh 

Praise for Linh Dinh: 

“[Linh] Dinh’s abrupt epiphanies mix A.D.D. with Thoreau’s economy, 

Calvino’s globe-trotting, and a pungent eroticism reminiscent of Kawabata’s 

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories.”—The Village Voice 

“[Linh Dinh’s Blood and Soap] owes a certain debt to Jorge Luis Borges, but uses 

Borgesian metafi ction and genre-bending to depict a sense of absurdity, confusion, 

and displacement peculiar to being a contemporary world citizen.” 

—Matthew Sharpe, The Brooklyn Rail 

“[Linh] Dinh reveals a refreshing sense of utter irreverence and experimental 

fun.”—AsianWeek 

Protagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam 

War, uniting in a setting that allows Linh Dinh’s dark, deadpan humor to 

fl ourish. Describing his mushrooming cast of characters in unsentimental 

and sometimes absurd ways, Dinh embraces contradictions with the surreal 

exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino. 

A recipient of the Pew Fellowship, the David T. Wong Fellowship, and the 

Asian American Literary Award, Linh Dinh is the author of two collections 

of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap; and four books of poems, All Around What 

Empties Out, American Tatts, Borderless Bodies, and Jam Alerts. He is editor of the anthologies 

Night, Again and Three Vietnamese Poets. Love Like Hate is his fi rst novel. 

A dysfunctional family saga that doubles as a portrait of 

Vietnam in the last half century. 

Blood and Soap 

Stories 

Linh Dinh 

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White People 

Stories from the Heart of the Suburbs 

Lee Stringer 

Praise for Lee Stringer: 

“[In Grand Central Winter] Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, 

born of pain but delivered with style and heart.”—John Jiller, The New 

York Times Book Review 

“[Sleepaway School] is an unforgettable coming of age.”—Booklist, starred review 

“[Sleepaway School] is stark and eloquent, raw and beautiful.” 

—Times Union (Albany) 

Lee Stringer’s inimi table wit and grace in White People: Stories from the Heart of the 

Suburbs brings to life what it meant to be black in a time of peace, love, riots, 

assassinations, revolution, and counterrevolution. The harder the adolescent 

Lee looked, the more perplexing the people around him looked and acted. 

Black power may have been on the news, but white power was everywhere. 

White People is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of a country in turmoil. 

In White People, Lee Stringer attempts the near-impossible task of searching 

out our common humanity while addressing race head on. 

Lee Stringer is the author of Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life and Grand 

Central Winter: Stories from the Street, a New York Times Notable Book and USA Today 

Top Ten Pick. He is the two-time recipient of the Washington Irving Award 

and was awarded a 2005 Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship. He is also 

the author, with Kurt Vonnegut, of Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation on 

Writing. Stringer’s work has been translated into a dozen languages. He lives in 

Mamaroneck, New York. 

A poignant and hilarious memoir about the 

unexpected reality of race in America. 

Grand Central Winter 

Stories from the Street 

Lee Stringer 


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A Memoir 

Lee Stringer 


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Sailor & Lula 

The Complete Novels 

Barry Gifford 

“I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild world, and 

I wanted to go on that trip with them. . . . It’s like looking into the Garden of 

Eden before things went bad.”—David Lynch 

“A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately 

true.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Giff ord sketches marvelous characters as deftly as William Faulkner and animates 

them in scene after scene of hilarious dialogue. . . . Barry Giff ord continues 

to be one of America’s most original writers.”—Playboy 

On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Giff ord’s international 

bestseller Wild at Heart, as well as on the anniversary of the Cannes 

Palme d’Or–winning fi lm adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: 

The Complete Novels presents all seven of the novels and novellas that comprise 

the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, “the Romeo and Juliet of 

the South”: Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango (also made into a feature fi lm), Sailor’s 

Holiday, Sultans of Africa, Consuelo’s Kiss, Bad Day for the Leopard Man, and The Imagination 

of the Heart. 

The author of more than forty published works of fi ction, nonfi ction, and poetry 

that have been translated into twenty-eight languages, Barry Giff ord is 

one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar 

to audiences around the world. Giff ord lives in the San Francisco Bay area. 

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Wild at Heart, 

Sailor & Luna collects all seven novels together in one volume. 


The Imagination of the Heart 

Book Seven of the Story of Sailor and Lula 

Barry Gifford 

FICTION 

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978-1-58322-873-9 USA

Bad Shoes and the 

Women Who Love Them 

Leora Tanenbaum 

Illustrated by Vanessa Davis 

“Leora Tanenbaum is one of the most astute and thoughtful of the new generation 

of feminist writers.”—Elizabeth Wurtzel 

“Tanenbaum’s prose is provocative.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian 

“Tanenbaum is thorough but never patronizing. Warm and informative, her 

own voice enriches the text.”—BUST 

“[Tanenbaum’s] intimate perspective is personally revealing and enormously 

informative.”—Feminist Review 

Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted but highly informed wakeup 

call to women to make smart decisions when buying and wearing fashionable 

shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as 

well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Leora Tanenbaum covers 

the history of high heels, Chinese foot binding, the controversy over cosmetic 

surgery of the foot, and what Sigmund Freud had to say about women’s 

shoes and sex. 

Illustrated throughout by artist Vanessa Davis, Bad Shoes also includes hilarious 

anecdotes from women who love shoes. And in case you’re wondering: 

yes, it is possible to make good footwear decisions without sacrifi cing style! 

Tanenbaum shows you how. 

Leora Tanenbaum is the author of Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation; 

Catfi ght: Rivalries Among Women; and Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious 

Equality. She lives in New York City. 

Vanessa Davis is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist. Her fi rst book, Spaniel 

Rage, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2005, and her second, Happy 

Chappie, is due out from Drawn & Quarterly in 2010. She produces a comics 

column for Tabletmag.com. 

Ladies, here’s how to make better choices about 

your shoes before it’s too late! 

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Author Events 

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Author Hometown: Missoula, MT 

Mama’s Boy 

A Novel 

Rick DeMarinis 

Praise for Rick DeMarinis: 

“DeMarinis is a contemporary avatar of that tradition in American short story 

writing that, by way of Hawthorne, Melville, Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and 

Cheever, is essentially religious and, because rooted in everyday, comic. . . . 

His art, then is comedy of a very high order.”—Russell Banks, The New York Times 

Book Review 

“However similar the existential suff ering of his characters, DeMarinis expertly 

probes the contours of their condition. You simply can’t move your eyes 

from the page.”—Mark Smirnoff , The New York Times Book Review 

“Rick DeMarinis has long been one of my favorite writers; wherever he has 

cast his gaze, he has taught me something new about the way to see things.” 

—Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 

Gus Reppo’s parents won’t leave him alone, following him to the air force base 

where he enlists to escape them. Gus still learns a thing or two about girls, 

crime, and punishment, though shades of mama are never far behind. 

Rick DeMarinis is the author of eight novels, including The Year of the Zinc Penny, 

a New York Times Notable Book, and six short story collections. In 1990, he received 

an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts 

and Letters. 

A hilarious tale of growing up, featuring parents who just won’t let you. 

Apocalypse Then 

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“A Singing in Every Moment 

and Inch of Me” 

The Letters of Barney Simon to Lionel Abraham 

Barney Simon 

“No one knows how many men and women who have become makers of a 

unique black theatre and a unique non-racial theatre in South Africa known 

all over the world come from [Barney Simon’s] vision and patient energy as 

director/writer.”—Nadine Gordimer 

Set in the 1960s in Johannesburg, London, and New York, and told in a 

young theater director’s letters home to a friend who is a struggling novelist, 

here is the true story of one of South Africa’s national treasures, co-founder 

of the Market Theatre, director of the early productions of the plays of Athol 

Fugard, and mentor to a generation of South African actors. 

Barney Simon was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator of 

the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Armed with little more than the conviction 

that culture can change society, the Market Theatre challenged the 

apartheid regime, and became recognized as one of the most infl uential, distinguished 

theaters in South Africa and beyond. 

A South African Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 


The World in an Orange 

Creating Theatre with Barney Simon 

Irene Stephanou with Leila Henriques 

Edited by Lionel Abrahams and Jane Fox 

DRAMA 

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The Emergence of Memory 

Conversations with W. G. Sebald 

Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz 

“Schwartz does a fi ne job of evoking this elusive author.”—David Ulin, 

Los Angeles Times 

“If this interesting book of criticism and interviews introduces you to Sebald 

or encourages you to return to him, it will have served a noble purpose.” 

—The Jerusalem Post 

“The great achievement of [Sebald’s] work is that he makes it audible to his 

readers while still honoring the silence.”—Evelyn Toynton, Harper’s Magazine 

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fi ftyseven, 

the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre we were 

just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays 

on Sebald, American novelist and translator Lynne Sharon Schwartz off ers 

a profound portrait of the late author, who has been praised posthumously 

for his unfl inching explorations of modern history, dislocation, and the role 

of memory. Includes essays from Charles Simic, Ruth Franklin, Michael 

Silverblatt, and others. 

W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944. His novels—The Rings of Saturn, 

The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, 

including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book 

Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He is also 

the author of three books of poems and a book-length essay. He died in 

December 2001. 

Lynne Sharon Schwartz has authored fourteen works of fi ction, nonfi ction, 

and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir Ruined by Reading. She won 

the PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for her translation from Italian of Liana 

Millu’s Smoke Over Birkenau. 

A portrait in conversations with one of the 

towering literary fi gures of our times. 


The Emergence of Memory 

Conversations with W. G. Sebald 

Edited by Lynne Sharon Schwartz 


5¾ x 8½ | 160 pp 


978-1-58322-785-5 USA

A New York Times Notable Book 

Grand Central Winter 

Stories from the Street 

Lee Stringer 

As seen in People and USA Today and featured on CBS This Morning, CNN, and 

NPR 

“Stringer gives us the long view of New York’s underbelly, born of pain but 

delivered with style and heart.”—John Jiller, The New York Times Book Review 

“Stringer’s crisp detail, straight no-chaser wit, and uncompromising frankness 

are as bracing as his subject is signifi cant.”—Booklist 

In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer— 

homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years—found a pencil 

to run through his crack pipe. One day, he used it to write. Soon, writing became 

a habit that won over drugs. And before long, Stringer had created one 

of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time. 

With humane wisdom and a biting wit, Lee Stringer chronicles the unraveling 

of his seemingly secure existence running a graphic design company and 

his odyssey of survival on the streets of New York City. Whether he recounts 

taking shelter underneath Grand Central by night and collecting cans by day 

or making a living hawking Street News on the subway, Stringer conveys the vitality 

and complexity of a down-and-out life. Rich with small acts of kindness, 

humor, and even heroism amid violence and desperation, Grand Central Winter 

off ers a touching portrait of our shared humanity. 

This paperback edition now features four new chapters chronicling events 

since the original publication of Grand Central Winter in 1998. 

One of the most powerful urban memoirs of our time. 


Sleepaway School 

A Memoir 

Lee Stringer 


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A Young People’s History 

of the United States 

(Enhanced Omnibus 

Edition) 

Howard Zinn 

Adapted by Rebecca Stefoff 

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Howard Zinn on History 

Howard Zinn 

HISTORY 

6 x 9 | 240 pp 


978-1-58322-048-1 USA 

The Zinn Reader 


Howard Zinn 


5½ x 8¼ | 704 pp 


978-1-58322-870-8 USA 

Howard Zinn on War 

Howard Zinn 

HISTORY 

6 x 9 | 208 pp 


978-1-58322-049-8 USA 

Readings from Voices of 

a People’s History of the 

United States 

Edited by Howard Zinn 

and Anthony Arnove 

HISTORY 

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Compact Disk $14.95 

978-1-58322-752-7 USA 

La Otra historia de los 

Estados Unidos 

Howard Zinn 

HISTORY 

5½ x 8¼ | 504 pp 


978-1-58322-054-2 USA

Redemption in Indigo 

Karen Lord 

“Lord weaves fantasy into an implied history of the world to refl ect on the use 

of power and human choice.”—The Carl Brandon Society 

Karen Lord’s debut novel, which won the prestigious Frank Collymore 

Literary Prize in Barbados, is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, 

and the power of the human spirit. 

Paama’s husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her 

to her parents’ home in the village of Makende, now he’s disgraced himself by 

murdering sheep and stealing corn. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts 

the attention of the undying ones—the djombi—who present her with a 

gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the 

world. Unfortunately, a wrathful trickster god with indigo skin believes this 

power should be his and his alone. 

Bursting with humor and rich in fantastic detail, Redemption in Indigo is a 

clever, contemporary fairy tale that introduces readers to a dynamic new voice 

in Caribbean literature. Lord’s world of spider gods and tricksters, inspired 

in part by Senegalese folk tales, will feel instantly familiar—but Paama’s adventures 

are fresh, surprising, and utterly original. 

“Fantasy as a genre does not have boundaries,” writes Lord. “It has roots. 

You may call it fantasy. I call it life.” 

Karen Lord was born in Barbados in 1968. She holds a science degree from 

the University of Toronto and a PhD in the sociology of religion from the 

University of Wales. 

In this funny, fresh fable, a villager leaves her husband and 

fi nds she can manipulate chaos. 


FICTION 

June 


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Translator Hometown: New York, NY 

A Life on Paper 

Stories 

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud 

Translated by Edward Gauvin 

The celebrated career of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is well known 

to readers of French literature. This comprehensive collection—the fi rst to 

be translated into English—introduces a distinct and dynamic voice to the 

Anglophone world. In many ways, Châteaureynaud is France’s own Kurt 

Vonnegut, and his stories are as familiar as they are fantastic. 

A Life on Paper presents characters who struggle to communicate across the 

boundaries of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the real and 

the more-than-real. A young husband struggles with self-doubt and an ungainly 

set of angel wings in “Icarus Saved from the Skies,” even as his wife 

encourages him to embrace his transformation. In the title story, a father’s 

obsession with his daughter leads him to keep her life captured in 93,284 

unchanging photographs. While Châteaureynaud’s stories examine the diffi - 

dence and cruelty we are sometimes capable of, they also highlight the humanity 

in the strangest of us and our deep appreciation for the mysterious. 

Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is the author of eight novels and almost 

one hundred short stories, and he is a recipient of the prestigious Prix 

Renaudot and the Bourse Goncourt de la nouvelle. His work has been translated 

into twelve languages. 

Edward Gauvin has published Châteaureynaud’s work in AGNI Online, 

Conjunctions, Words Without Borders, The Café Irreal, and The Brooklyn Rail. The recipient 

of a residency from the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, 

he translates graphic novels for Tokyopop, First Second Books, and Archaia 

Studios Press. 

A comprehensive introduction to the short stories of renowned 

French fabulist Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.

Old Men in Love 

John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers 

Alasdair Gray 

“Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.”—The Times (London) 

“Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured 

screwed-up visionary.”—London Evening Standard 

Alasdair Gray’s unique melding of humor and metafi ction at once hearken 

back to Laurence Sterne and sit beside today’s literary mash-ups with equal 

comfort. Old Men in Love is smart, down-to-earth, funny, bawdy, politically inspired, 

dark, multi-layered, and fi lled with the kind of intertextual play that 

Gray delights in. 

As with Gray’s previous novel Poor Things, several partial narratives are presented 

together. Here the conceit is that they were all discovered in the papers 

of the late John Tunnock, a retired Glasgow teacher who started a number 

of novels in settings as varied as Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, 

Victorian Somerset, and Britain under New Labour. 

This is the fi rst US edition (updated with the author’s corrections from the 

UK edition) of a novel that British critics lauded as one of the best of Gray’s 

long career. Beautifully printed in two colors throughout and featuring Gray’s 

trademark strong design, Old Men in Love will stand out from everything else on 

the shelf. Fifty percent is fact and the rest is possible, but it must be read to 

be believed. 

Alasdair Gray is one of Scotland’s most well-known and acclaimed artists. He 

is the author of nine novels, including Lanark, 1982 Janine, and the Whitbread 

and Guardian Prize–winning Poor Things, as well as four collections of stories, 

two collections of poetry, and three books of nonfi ction, including The Book of 

Prefaces. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. 

A fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in 

Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow. 


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Author Events 

New York, NY 


Meeks 

Julia Holmes 

No woman will have Ben without a proper bachelor’s suit . . . and the tailor refuses 

to make him one. Back from war with a nameless enemy, Ben fi nds that 

his mother is dead and his family home has been reassigned by the state. As if 

that isn’t enough, he must now fi nd a wife, or he’ll be made a civil servant and 

given a permanent spot in one of the city’s oppressive factories. 

Meanwhile, Meeks, a foreigner who lives in the park and imagines he’s 

a member of the police, is hunted by the overzealous Brothers of Mercy. 

Meeks’ survival depends on his peculiar friendship with a police captain—but 

will that be enough to prevent his execution at the annual Independence Day 

celebration? 

A dark satire rendered with the slapstick humor of a Buster Keaton fi lm, 

Julia Holmes’ debut marries the existentialism of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes 

from Underground to the strange charm of a Haruki Murakami novel. Meeks portrays 

a world at once hilarious and disquieting, in which frustrated revolutionaries 

and hopeful youths suff er alongside the lost and the condemned, 

just for a chance at the permanent bliss of marriage and a slice of sugar-frosted 

Independence Day cake. 

Julia Holmes was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and grew up in the Middle 

East, Texas, and New York, where she is currently an assistant editor at Rolling 

Stone. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in fi ction. 

A hapless bachelor must quickly fi nd a wife—and a nice suit— 

or lose his freedom forever.

A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011 

Your Year in Writing 


The perfect supplement to any writer’s life, this new edition of A Working 

Writer’s Daily Planner is even bigger and even better, packed with more of the information 

writers need to organize their work schedules, track upcoming 

deadlines, and learn about grant opportunities, contests, and workshop programs. 

For 2011 we turned to those who know best what writers want— writers 

themselves—and asked them what resources they’d fi nd most useful. The result 

is a unique and indispensable tool that makes it easy for writers to keep 

track of the practical, business end of writing, leaving more time for them to 

actually spend writing. 

If you’re a writer, you’ll immediately see the advantage of gathering so 

much information into one spiral-bound compendium: application deadlines 

are built right into the calendar, along with spotlights on writing markets 

and helpful online resources. You’ll also fi nd information on writing conferences, 

advice on formatting manuscripts, suggested readings, and the dos and 

don’ts of submitting your work to journals, magazines, and literary agents. If 

there’s a writer in your life, this calendar will make the perfect gift. 

And because every professional writer needs distractions, we’ll sneak in 

peculiar tales of the writing life, plenty of inspiring art and photos, writing 

prompts, and, as always, a few surprises too. 

This fun, practical week-per-page engagement calendar is the 

perfect gift for the writer in the family. 


A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2010 

Your Year in Writing 


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285

Selected Backlist from Small Beer Press 

286 

The Poison Eaters 


Holly Black 


Big Mouth House 

5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-931520-63-8 CUSA 

Couch 

Benjamin Parzybok 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-931520-54-6 CUSA 

Second Line 

Two Short Novels of Love and 

Cooking in New Orleans 

Poppy Z. Brite 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-931520-60-7 CUSA 

The Serial Garden 

The Complete Armitage 

Family Stories 

Joan Aiken 


Big Mouth House 

5¾ x 8¾ | 320 pp 


978-1-931520-57-7 CUSA 

Hound 

A Novel 

Vincent McCaffrey 

FICTION 

5½ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-931520-59-1 CUSA 

Stranger Things Happen 

Stories 

Kelly Link 

FICTION 

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978-1-931520-00-3 CUSA

Rock Paper Tiger 

Lisa Brackmann 

“A terrifying odyssey in present-day China . . . with the protagonist pursued 

by the Chinese and American governments alike in a global panorama. A totally 

captivating page-turner with vivid, fi rst-hand details and nuanced multicultural 

facets.”—Qiu Xiaolong, author of The Mao Case 

“Lisa Brackmann’s Rock Paper Tiger is a compelling debut that takes you deep into 

the dangerous, complicated heart of modern China, with a tough and appealing 

heroine in Ellie.”—Jeff Abbott, author of Trust Me 

American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a 

chance encounter with Uighur—a member of a Chinese Muslim minority—at 

the home of her sort-of boyfriend Lao Zhang turns her life upside down. Lao 

Zhang disappears, and suddenly multiple security organizations are hounding 

her for information. They say the Uighur is a terrorist. Ellie doesn’t know 

what’s going on, but she must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, 

collectors, and operatives claiming to be on her side—in particular, a mysterious 

organization operating within a popular online role-playing game. As she 

tries to elude her pursuers, she’s haunted by memories of Iraq. Is what she did 

and saw there at the root of the mess she’s in now? 

Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher 

in a presidential campaign. A southern California native, she’s lived 

and traveled extensively in China. She currently lives in Venice, California, 

with her three cats. Rock Paper Tiger is her fi rst novel. 

A wild ride through the world of online gaming, artists, and 

international espionage in contemporary China. 





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Soho Press 

FICTION 

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6 x 9 | 384 pp 


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Soho Press 

History’s famous literary duo 

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell are 

stalked by Boswell’s mad younger brother. 

288 

FICTION 

April 

6 x 9 | 368 pp 


978-1-56947-630-7 CUSA 


A supernatural epic set 

in 1960s Bombay. 

FICTION 

May 

6 x 9 | 336 pp 


978-1-56947-635-2 CUSA 


A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller 

“Intriguing.”—USA Today 

“Will defi nitely appeal to fans of Monica Ali and Jhumpa Lahiri . . . fresh, 

original.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review 

A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their 

bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family 

to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there 

years earlier. 

Shilpa Agarwal was born in Bombay and currently lives in Los Angeles. She 

is a graduate of Duke University and UCLA and has taught at both UCLA and 

UC Santa Barbara. Haunting Bombay is her fi rst novel. 




“An exciting, suspenseful story. . . . Not to be missed.”—The Washington Post 

“[An] accurate, original, and entertaining fi ctional reconstruction.” 

—The Boston Globe 

“Remarkable.”—David Liss, author of The Devil’s Company 

“It is a beautifully written novel, with the fl avor of a literary work.” 

—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 

In this literary thriller set in eighteenth-century London, Samuel Johnson 

and James Boswell are threatened by Boswell’s mad and envious younger 

brother John. 

Philip Baruth is a novelist and an award-winning commentator for Vermont 

Public Radio. His previous novel, The X President, was a New York Times Notable 

Book. He teaches at the University of Vermont in Burlington. 




Haunting Bombay 

Shilpa Agarwal 

The Brothers Boswell 

Philip Baruth

The Sandbox 

David Zimmerman 

“ The Sandbox sabotaged me. I read the fi rst four pages and my sleeve got caught 

in the lives of these soldiers, and the story was gritty and real and off hand, and 

so I lost the day and the next, and I’m so happy to report back that this terrifi c 

novel off ers us both the world of the confl ict and another story just as powerful. 

Zimmerman’s made a fi ne book.”—Ron Carlson, author of The Signal 

Operating Base Cornucopia: A three hundred-year-old fortress in the remote 

Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment; 

among them, Private Toby Durrant, a self-described “broke nobody.” Then 

a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far- 

reaching conspiracy. Insurgents massing in the nearby hills, a secretive member 

of military intelligence, an abandoned toy factory, and a mysterious, 

half- feral child—Durrant must fi gure out the links between them if he’s to 

survive. A classic story of a decent man trying to do right under impossible 

circumstances, this blistering look at military life in “the sandbox” of Iraq 

marks the debut of a major new talent. 

David Zimmerman, the eldest of six children, was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, 

by an army nurse and an army JAG offi cer. After receiving his MFA degree in 

creative writing from the University of Alabama, he spent several years living 

and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. The Sandbox is his fi rst novel. 

A roadside ambush in Iraq enmeshes a young American soldier 

in a high-level conspiracy. 





Soho Press 

FICTION 

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6 x 9 | 304 pp 


978-1-56947-628-4 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Iowa City, IA 

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May 

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A novel of love and jealousy 

at Eton College. 


April 

5½ x 8¼ | 320 pp 


978-1-56947-648-2 CUSA 


A woman’s journey from 

rice to riches in the new China. 

“What a read! . . . A triumph.”—Alexander McCall Smith 

“Prelude is surprisingly passionate and excruciatingly compelling.” 

—Curled Up with a Good Book 

“An outstanding debut.”—Louise Robinson, Sunday Express (UK) 

“A beautiful and heartbreaking story.”—Pop Culture Junkie 

When he was a seventeen-year-old schoolboy at Eton College, Kim fell in love 

with his piano teacher, a beautiful young woman named India, and a passionate 

aff air developed. Twenty-fi ve years later, he recalls this life-changing fi rst 

love and his enduring regrets. 

William Coles has worked as a journalist for over eighteen years. This is his 

fi rst novel. He lives in Edinburgh. 



“Heart-rending.”—Boston Herald 

“Riveting. . . . All readers interested in China, as well as fans of memoirs . . . 

must read this astonishing title.”—Library Journal, starred review 

“Unfl inching, unapologetic. . . . Vivid.”—Publishers Weekly 

Born to illiterate peasants, Aisling Juanjuan Shen was the fi rst in her village 

to go to college. Assigned to a low-paying government job, she left for 

southern China to fi nd success. Her story embodies the changes in China in 

recent decades. 

Aisling Juanjuan Shen immigrated to the United States in 2000. In 2005, 

she graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College. She currently works for 

an investment management fi rm in Boston. 




Prelude 

William Coles 

A Tiger’s Heart 

The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman 

Aisling Juanjuan Shen

Stettin Station 

David Downing 

Praise for the John Russell series: 

“Will have readers clamoring for a sequel.”—BookPage 

“A fi nely drawn portrait of the capital of a nation marching in step toward 

disaster.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch 

“A beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart stopping ending 

as John Russell learns the personal faces of good and evil. An unforgettable 

read.”—Charles Todd, author of A Duty to the Dead 

“Wonderful. . . . Downing’s mingling of history and thrills makes this a must 

read.”—Rocky Mountain News 

“An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war, the smell of 

cruelty seeping through the clean modern surface.”—C. J. Sansom, author of 

Revelation 

“An atmospheric tale.”—St. Petersburg Times 

“A welcome new addition to the historical suspense genre. . . . [Downing’s] 

excellent at building suspense . . . and shows a keen eye for describing people 

and places.”—The Sacramento Bee 

“A page turner.”—The Palm Beach Post 

In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in 

Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his 

fourteen-year-old son Paul and his longtime girlfriend Effi . Forced to work 

for both German and American intelligence, he’s searching for a way out of 

Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him? 

David Downing grew up in suburban London. He is the author of numerous 

works of fi ction and nonfi ction for both adults and children, including two 

previous books featuring John Russell—Zoo Station and Silesian Station. He lives 

with his wife, an American acupuncturist, in Guildford, England. 

With American entry into WWII looming, 

Anglo-American John Russell searches for a way out of Germany. 

Zoo Station 

David Downing 

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David Downing 

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The Manhattan Family Guide to Private 

Schools and Selective Public Schools, 

6th Edition 

Victoria Goldman 

“Parents will line up single fi le for [this] guide to Manhattan’s private 

schools.”—The New York Observer 

“The information is on the mark and insightful. . . . Parents will pass The 

Manhattan Family Guide to parents as gleefully as they once passed notes in class.” 

—New York Magazine 

“A knowing look at those privileged places of learning.”—Town & Country 

“Parents can turn to . . . objective and informative Manhattan Family Guide to 

Private Schools, the fi rst to cover subjects from admission to tuition, curriculum, 

and general atmosphere.”—AVENUE magazine 

This guide, written by a parent for parents, is a perennial seller. Expanded 

and extensively revised in this sixth edition, it is the fi rst, last, and only word 

for parents on choosing the best private and selective public schools for children. 

Including information on admissions procedures, programs, diversity, 

school size, staff , tuition, and scholarships, this essential reference guide lists 

over eighty elementary and high schools located in Manhattan and the adjacent 

boroughs, including special needs schools and selective public schools 

and programs. 

Victoria Goldman has had children in private schools and is often quoted for 

her expertise concerning private education. Her articles have appeared in New 

York Magazine and The New York Times. She is the author of The Manhattan Directory of 

Private Nursery Schools and The Los Angeles Guide to Private Schools. 

The only comprehensive guide to New York City’s 

private schools on the market. 


The Manhattan Directory of 

Private Nursery Schools, 6th Edition 

Victoria Goldman 

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The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life 

William Nicholson 

“The writing is unobtrusively brilliant. I can’t remember enjoying and admiring 

a new novel more.”—Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of Marking Time 

“Utterly captures the sense of quiet desperation of ordinary lives . . . and the 

ways in which life turns on a sixpence.”—Kate Mosse, author of Sepulchre 

“Hugely funny. . . . But beneath the Wodehousian surface, it is a serious book 

about men, women and children with complex inner lives trying to fi nd happiness 

and coping with disappointment.”—Daily Telegraph 

Laura is a happily married mother of two who begins to question her choices 

when her fi rst love resurfaces after twenty years. She’s forced to compare the 

passion of that relationship with the domesticity of her suburban life. What if 

she’d stayed with him? Would she be happier? And what is happiness, really? 

Little does she know that many others in her gentrifi ed English village, including 

a rector who’s lost his faith, a frustrated school teacher, and a successful 

single mother who can’t get over her ex, are struggling with their own 

personal crises. 

Two of William Nicholson’s screenplays—Shadowlands and Gladiator—have garnered 

Academy Award nominations. He is the author of fi ve previous novels 

and lives in Sussex with his wife and three children. 

A novel about what it means to be happy, 

by the Academy Award–nominated writer of Gladiator. 

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Love and death on 

Australia’s Mornington Peninsula. 

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The sixth mystery 

in the Edgar Award–winning 

Shan Tao Yun series set in Tibet. 

Blood Moon 

An Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry Investigation 

Garry Disher 

“Excellent.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review 

“Terrifi c, no-nonsense police procedurals.”—The Seattle Times 

“A fi ne detective novel.”—The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 

The beating of a politically connected chaplain, a murdered planning offi cial, 

a fundamentalist church, racist bloggers, and vacationing teenagers bedevil 

Inspector Hal Challis and his team as he and Ellen Destry try to keep their new 

romantic relationship from interfering with their work. 

Garry Disher is the author of over forty books for adults and children. A previous 

mystery in the Inspector Hal Challis series, Chain of Evidence, won the Ned 

Kelly Award for best Australian crime novel. 



“[A] superlative series set in ethereal, enigmatic, long enduring Tibet.” 

—Booklist, starred review 

“Eye-opening . . . stellar.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review 

The Chinese minister of tourism has been assassinated on the slope of Everest. 

Shan, a former investigator from Beijing, must solve the mystery of the assassination 

to save the accused man, the only person who can help his imprisoned 

son. 

Eliot Pattison is an international lawyer based near Philadelphia. His fi ve 

previous Shan novels, set in Tibet, have been critical and commercial successes. 

He won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for 

the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger. 



Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA 

The Lord of Death 

A Shan Tao Yun Investigation 

Eliot Pattison

Random Violence 

A Jade de Jong Investigation 

Jassy Mackenzie 

“ Random Violence excels in its ability to translate our propensity for violent crime 

into a clever plot that could take place only in South Africa.”—Gillian Anstey, 

The Sunday Times (South Africa) 

“Mackenzie delivers a thriller that will hopefully be the fi rst of many.”—The Star 

(South Africa) 

In Johannesburg, prosperous whites live behind gates; when they exit their 

cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim 

killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband of 

the wealthy woman, is the primary suspect in his wife’s murder. 

PI Jade de Jong fl ed South Africa ten years ago after her father was 

killed. Now back in town, she off ers to help her father’s former assistant, 

Superintendent David Patel, with his investigation of this case. Under apartheid, 

Patel, of Indian descent, could never have attained his present position. 

But he is feeling pressure from his “old line” boss with respect to this investigation 

and fears lingering prejudice is at work. 

As Jade probes into this and other recent car-jacking cases, a pattern begins 

to emerge, a pattern that goes back to her father’s murder and involves a 

vast and intricate series of crimes for profi t. 

Jassy Mackenzie, born in Rhodesia, moved to South Africa when she was 

eight years old. She has actually been car-jacked at gunpoint outside her home 

in Kyalami, near Johannesburg. She edits and writes for the annual publication 

Best of South Africa. 

After ten years in England, South African PI Jade de Jong 

returns to violent Johannesburg. 





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Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger 

for Best First Novel. 

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Boetie wanted to be a detective, 

but he couldn’t interpret his clues. 

The Steam Pig 

A Lieutenant Kramer and 

Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi Investigation 

James McClure 

“James McClure’s fi rst novel arrives like a slam in the kidneys . . . a gripping 

style, real characters, and an exotic locale. . . . The Steam Pig will not 

only keep the reader’s nose to the page, it will also make [him] think.” 

—The New York Times Book Review 

In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant 

Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle 

spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why? 

James McClure was born in Johannesburg. He published eight wildly successful 

books in the Kramer and Zondi series. He died on June 17, 2006. 

The Caterpillar Cop 

A Lieutenant Kramer and 

Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi Investigation 

James McClure 

Praise for James McClure: 

“More than a good mystery story . . . a revealing picture of the hate and sickness 

of the apartheid society of South Africa.”—The Washington Post 

“The Caterpillar Cop is just as stark, just as earthy, just as lusty. . . . Powerful. . . . 

The pace is fast, the solution ingenious.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“The Caterpillar Cop . . . unusually enough—is just as good, if not better, than its 

predecessor.”—St. Louis Post Dispatch 

Handsome twelve-year-old Boetie was strangled and stabbed. Was he the victim 

of a pedophile? On whom was he spying?

Gunshot Road 

An Emily Tempest Investigation 

Adrian Hyland 

Praise for the Emily Tempest series: 

“Beguiling fi rst mystery . . . wonderful.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Startling turns of phrase, vivid Outback setting, and rich rendering of cultural 

diff erences. . . . All in all, the novel is a corker, engaging from page 1 and 

on through to an ending that pulls out all the stops.”—The Boston Globe 

“A delightful, engaging book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer 

“Perfect for mystery fans who are craving new horizons.”—Library Journal 

“A hymn to the wit, courage, stark beauty and the power of dreaming of a 

unique people. One cannot help but be enriched by it.”—Anne Perry 

Emily Tempest is appointed an aboriginal community police offi cer for the 

Moonlight Downs station. Investigating the possible murder of an elderly geologist, 

she encounters Danny, an emotionally fragile Stonehouse mob teenager 

who is traumatized by the image of “poison fl owing green.” The terrain 

of Australia, a Japanese rock garden painter, a rash of unexplained illnesses, 

and the implausibility of two elderly friends killing each other present Emily 

with a unique puzzle. 

Adrian Hyland won Australia’s 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel 

for Moonlight Downs, published in Australia as Diamond Dove, which was also a 

Book Sense Notable book. He spent many years in the Northern Territory living 

and working among the indigenous people. He now teaches at La Trobe 

University and lives in Melbourne. 

Half-aboriginal amateur detective Emily Tempest in her second 

investigation set in the Australian outback. 


Moonlight Downs 

Adrian Hyland 

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Dark Dreams 

A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation 

Michael Genelin 

“Readers hungry for a fresh crime setting will be enormously satisfi ed with 

Michael Genelin’s Jana Matinova novels based in Bratislava, Slovakia, a place 

relatively unknown to Westerners. . . . Matinova goes head-to-head with a beloved 

childhood friend whose budding political career is in crash mode because 

of an aff air. . . . The portrayal of life in post-Communist Slovakia is 

riveting.”—USA Today 

“[A] gripping novel . . . with a truly original central character. . . . Plan on 

getting the fi rst Matinova novel, Siren of the Waters, too. You’re not going to want 

to miss an episode.”—The Globe and Mail (Toronto) 

“Outstanding.”—Booklist 

Jana and Sofi a were best friends when they were schoolmates. Now Jana is 

a commander in the Slovak police force and Sofi a, having made a name as 

a reformer, is a member of parliament. Jana has fallen in love with an upright 

government prosecutor and Sofi a is carrying on a notorious aff air with 

a suave, married fellow MP. 

One day Jana fi nds an enormous diamond gem dangling from a string 

fi xed to the ceiling of the living room of her house. Was it put there as a present? 

Or, more likely, to entrap her? The answer leads Jana across Europe to 

unravel a criminal conspiracy involving multiple murders that has entangled 

her hapless, impulsive friend, Sofi a and which ultimately leads to the criminal 

mastermind. 

The second Commander Jana Matinova investigation set in Slovakia.

The Magician’s Accomplice 

A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation 


Praise for Michael Genelin: 

“The resourceful and prodigiously insightful Jana seems to have no fl aws. But 

it isn’t her feats of superheroism that give the story its chilly sense of reality; 

it’s her casual acceptance of the almost universal corruption of everyone who 

lives in her world.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Genelin eff ectively brings a relatively unknown country like modern Slovakia 

to life for American readers.”—Booklist 

“Genelin ratchets up the prose with smooth suspense, evocative locales, and 

distinctive characters who leap from the page.”—Publishers Weekly 

Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day an indigent 

student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to 

The Hague, headquarters of the international police force Europol. On the 

fl ight she encounters a retired magician, the dead student’s uncle, who is determined 

to help Jana investigate his nephew’s death. And his help is indeed 

needed as Jana faces an international criminal conspiracy emanating from 

Europol itself. 

Michael Genelin is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School. He has served 

as a consultant for the US State Department and USAID in Central Europe, 

Africa, Asia, and Haiti. He lives with his wife in Paris. 

Contract killings of an indigent student and of Jana Matinova’s lover. 

Are they connected? 


Siren of the Waters 


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The Merry Misogynist 

A Dr. Siri Investigation Set in Laos 

Colin Cotterill 

Praise for the Dr. Siri series: 

“Terrifi cally beguiling detective novels steeped in local color and history.” 

—The New York Times Book Review 

“Like Dr. Siri, Colin Cotterill has a touch of magic about him.” 

—The Boston Globe 

“A delightfully fresh and eccentric hero.”—John Burdett 

“Unpredictable. . . . Tragically funny and magically sublime.” 

—Entertainment Weekly 

“A crack storyteller and an impressive guide to a little-known culture.” 

—The Washington Post Book World 

In poverty-stricken 1978 Laos, a man from the city with a truck was “somebody,” 

a catch for even the prettiest village virgin. The corpse of one of these 

bucolic beauties turns up in Dr. Siri’s morgue and his curiosity is piqued. The 

victim was tied to a tree and strangled, but she had not, as the doctor had expected, 

been raped. And though the victim had smooth, pale skin over most of 

her body, her hands and feet were gnarled, callused, and blistered. 

On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri discovers that many women have been 

killed in this way. He sets out to investigate this unprecedented phenomenon— 

a serial killer in peaceful Buddhist Laos—only to discover when he has identifi 

ed the murderer that not only pretty maidens are at risk: seventy-three-yearold 

coroners can be victims too. 

Dr. Siri is confronted with a deadly 

Casanova targeting lovely young women. 

Anarchy and Old Dogs 


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Love Songs from a Shallow Grave 

A Dr. Siri Investigation Set in Laos 


Praise for the Dr. Siri series: 

“The consistently fi ne characterizations of the entire cast are matched by a 

tightly constructed plot.”—Booklist 

“Glimpses of everyday life in Laos will appeal to those readers curious about a 

culture unfamiliar to most Americans.”—Publishers Weekly 

Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of 

them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete 

his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. 

Accused of spying for the Vietnamese, he is imprisoned, beaten, and threatened 

with death. The Khmer Rouge is relentless, and it is touch and go for the 

dauntless, seventy-four-year-old national—and only—coroner of Laos. 

Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952 and taught and trained teachers 

around the world before settling in Thailand. He spent several years in Laos, 

initially with UNESCO, before he moved on to become involved in child protection 

in the region and set up a non-governmental organization in Phuket. 

He later moved on to ECPAT, an international organization combating child 

prostitution and pornography. Colin writes and illustrates full time, and lives 

in Chumphon on the Gulf of Thailand with his wife, Jessi, and a bunch of dogs. 

He is a Dilys Award winner. 

The seventh Dr. Siri investigation by the winner of the 

2009 CWA Dagger in the Library. 

Thirty-Three Teeth 


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The Curious Incident at Claridge’s 

An Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne Investigation 

R.T. Raichev 

Praise for the Antonia Darcy series: 

“Except for its modern day setting, the book could have been published during 

Agatha Christie’s heyday, the so-called Golden Age of detective fi ction, 

and readers who relish that period will be delighted.”—The Denver Post 

“Raichev’s use of characterization and allusion will keep the reader turning 

pages to the end.”—The Oklahoman 

“Deftly mixes dark humor and psychological suspense, its genteel surface 

masking delicious deviancy.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review 

“Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review 

Did the young and beautiful Lady Tradescant try to poison her elderly husband? 

If not, who did? There is no shortage of suspects. His eccentric twin 

sister Bettina, his disgruntled son Nicholas, his scheming daughter Olivia . . . 

Antonia Darcy and Hugh Payne face one of their most baffl ing cases. 

Their investigation takes them from the luxury of Claridge’s Hotel to 

Mayholme Manor, a residential home for elderly gentlemen. This proves to 

be a distinctly sinister establishment, where they encounter the mysterious 

Doctor Fairchild and his albino manservant Madden. There seems to be a link 

in all of this to the Nuremberg trials. Did a royal fi gure secretly plot to save 

one of Hitler’s most notorious henchmen from the gallows? And how does 

that relate to the murder? 

R.T. Raichev is a researcher and writer who grew up in Bulgaria and wrote a 

university dissertation on English crime fi ction. He is the author of fi ve novels 

in the Antonia Darcy series and has lived in London since 1989. 

Did young and beautiful Lady Tradescant try to 

poison her elderly husband? If not, who did? 

The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette 

R.T. Raichev 

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R.T. Raichev 

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Strange Images of Death 

A Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery 

Barbara Cleverly 

Praise for Joe Sandilands series: 

“In her spellbinding debut mystery, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Barbara Cleverly 

evokes both the enchantments and the dangers of India during the convulsive 

later days of the Raj.”—The New York Times 

“Cleverly maintains the high standards set by earlier Sandilands tales, blending 

a sophisticated whodunit with full-blooded characters and a revealing look 

at her chosen time and place.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review 

Provence, 1926. Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, driving his 

way south to the Riviera while dropping off his niece at an ancient chateau. 

A troubling crime committed just before their arrival leaves a clear message 

that more violence is to come. To allay panic, Joe agrees to stay on and root 

out the guilty person. But, despite Joe’s vigilance, a child goes missing and an 

artist’s beautiful young model is murdered in circumstances eerily recreating 

a six hundred-year-old crime of passion. 

Helped and hindered by a rising star of the French Police Judiciaire, Joe 

must delve into a horror story from the castle’s past before he can tear the 

mask from the diseased soul responsible for these contemporary crimes. 

Barbara Cleverly lives in the middle of Cambridge surrounded by ancient 

buildings and bookshops. She was born and educated in the north of England 

at a Yorkshire grammar school and then at Durham University. Her debut, The 

Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002. 

In a Provence chateau in 1926, a murder and a 

missing child echo centuries-old crimes. 


Folly du Jour 

Barbara Cleverly 

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Smoke and Whispers 

Mick Herron 

Praise for Mick Herron: 

“[An] assured mystery. . . . Herron does a nice job of planting red herrings 

and making his heroine’s amateur sleuthing plausible.”—Publishers Weekly 

“In Smoke and Whispers, Herron has spun an intricate, suspenseful web. . . . 

Meticulously weaves seemingly disparate strands into a stunning fi nale. . . . A 

nicely crafted, suspenseful plot, an empathetic heroine and victim, and some 

really scary people. A very good read.”—Deadly Pleasures 

“[A] superb investigative thriller.”—Midwest Book Review 

“Electrifying.”—Mystery Books News 

“Atmospheric, full of surprises, with some pools of seductive prose.” 

—ForeWord Magazine 

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle 

for a closer look. She identifi es the dead woman as private detective Zöe 

Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. 

Did Zöe kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? 

Why was she wearing a jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what’s 

brought Sarah’s sparring partner, Gerard Inchon, to the same broken-down 

hotel? Coincidence is an excuse that soon looks pretty unconvincing. Sarah 

can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous 

that might turn out to be. 

Mick Herron is the author of fi ve successful titles. Born in Newcastle upon 

Tyne and a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he has a degree in English. A 

resident of Oxford, Mick works in London on future novels and writes book 

reviews. 

A woman trying to solve the mystery of a drowned PI 

discovers the truth is dangerous. 

Down Cemetery Road 

Mick Herron 

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Mick Herron 

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Praise for Mick Herron: 

“Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way. . . . In Herron’s 

book, there is no hiding under the desk.”—The New York Times Book Review 

“Stylish and engaging.”—The Washington Post 

“[A] masterful thriller. . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron’s breezy 

writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels 

of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison.”—Publishers Weekly, 

starred review 

“Like a good movie . . . grabs the reader from the fi rst page.”—Booklist, starred 

review 

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who’ve 

screwed up a case in any number of ways—by leaving a secret fi le on a train 

or blowing a surveillance. River Carter, one such “slow horse,” is bitter 

about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone 

conversations. 

When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast 

his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem 

himself. 

Is the victim who he fi rst appears to be? And what’s the kidnappers’ connection 

with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River 

fi nds that everyone has his own agenda. 

Who can you trust when nothing’s as it seems? 

Reconstruction 

Mick Herron 

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Slow Horses 

Mick Herron 

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Why We Die 

Mick Herron 

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Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy 

and DCI Max Trentham investigate 

a strange murder. 

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The danger of keeping a 

secret is that it’s going to 

fi nd a way out. 



The Broken Circle 

A Forensic Psychologist Jill Kennedy and 

DCI Max Trentham Mystery 

Shirley Wells 

Praise for the Jill Kennedy and Max Trentham series: 

“Wonderful, individual and realistic characters.”—Booklist 

“A deft combination of police procedural and psychological thriller.” 

—Kirkus Reviews 

Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham investigate a crime 

in the quiet Lancashire village where Kennedy has made her home. A man 

with a dark past has been murdered after moving there from London. 

While local residents are always wary of newcomers, one in particular seems 

especially determined to hinder the investigation. 

Shirley Wells lives in Lancashire, United Kingdom. She has published thirteen 

novels, including two previous novels in the Jill Kennedy and Max 

Trentham series. 

When Kate Mayfi eld receives a letter from dying Mrs. Ivanisovic, she realizes 

that the secret she’s kept for more than thirty years is no longer safe. But is 

the old woman really after Kate’s story of love, lies, and murder? Or something 

more? 

Diane Janes grew up in Birmingham and has worked in seemingly every 

fi eld, from mortgages to engineering. She has been shortlisted for the CWA 

Debut Dagger. She lives in the north of England with her husband and two 

children. 



The Pull of the Moon 

Diane Janes

Swing, Swing Together 

A Sergeant Cribb Investigation 

Peter Lovesey 

“The late Victorian atmosphere and dialogue are beautifully and accurately 

rendered. The characters are done with a masterly hand. But perhaps 

the best thing about it is the way you feel all the time that this must be an account 

of a real-life crime, because nothing strikes a false note, nothing seems 

contrived.”—Ruth Rendell 

An elementary school teacher in training takes a midnight swim in the Thames 

and witnesses a body being dumped. Cribb and Thackerey investigate and uncover 

strange parallels with the then-popular Jerome K. Jerome mystery Three 

Men in a Boat. 


10,000-copy print run • Co-op available 

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb Series: 

“Delightful Victorian mysteries. . . . [A] fi ne picture of vice, good mystery 

plotting, and fun.”—San Francisco Chronicle 

“Lively and well-plotted.”—The New York Times 

Beautiful Miriam Cromer seems confi dent that she will be acquitted of the 

murder of her husband’s assistant despite her confession. She blames her husband 

although he has an alibi. It’s up to Cribb and Thackeray to discover what 

really happened. 

Peter Lovesey is the author of over twenty-fi ve novels. He has received many 

CWA awards and the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement. He 

lives in Chichester, England. 


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Waxwork 

A Sergeant Cribb Investigation 

Peter Lovesey 

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Soho Press 

In the seventh Sergeant Cribb Victorian 

mystery, only a daring skinny dipper can 

identify three murderers. 

When a photographer’s assistant 

is poisoned, his employer’s wife is tried 

for murder. Is she guilty? 

307

Soho Press 

A Gil and Alys Cunningham 

investigation set in medieval Scotland. 

308 

FICTION 

July 


5½ x 8¼ | 288 pp 


978-1-56947-650-5 CUSA 

The seventh mystery in the 

Gil Cunningham series set in 

medieval Glasgow. 

FICTION 

July 


5½ x 8¾ | 212 pp 


978-1-56947-651-2 CUSA 




A Pig of Cold Poison 

A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery 

Pat McIntosh 

Praise for the Gil Cunningham series: 

“McIntosh does a solid job of blending plot and period detail.” 

—Publishers Weekly, starred review 

“Will do for Glasgow in the 15th century what Ellis Peters and her Brother 

Cadfael did for Shrewsbury in the 12th.”—Mystery Readers Journal 

Gil Cunningham is the Archbishop’s questioner—his investigator. Nanty and 

Danny were rivals for the aff ection of Agnes, the apothecary’s daughter. Danny 

dies, apparently of poisoning, after drinking from his friend’s fl ask. But what 

was the poison? Is Nanty guilty? Then more murders ensue, and Gil’s wife, 

Alys, joins the investigation. 

The Stolen Voice 

A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery 

Pat McIntosh 

Praise for the Gil Cunningham series: 

“McIntosh provides a signature twist at the end that serves as an unexpected 

bonus for readers already enthralled with the medieval mystery she has 

spun.”—Booklist 

“Excellent.”—Kirkus Reviews 

Could Davey have been carried off by the fairies only to reappear forty years 

later, seemingly not a day older than when he vanished? What about other 

Scottish sweet singers who are missing? 

Pat McIntosh was raised in Lanarkshire, lived in Glasgow, and now resides in 

the west of Scotland.



Bones in High Places 

A Reverend Oughterard Mystery 

Suzette A. Hill 

Praise for Suzette A. Hill: 

“This dry, funny British gem, with its eccentric cast of characters, will leave 

readers laughing and eagerly awaiting the next episode.”—Publishers Weekly 

“Charming and engaging.”—Kirkus Reviews 

The hapless Reverend Francis Oughterard (“FO”) is lured by his blackmailer, 

Nicholas Ingaza, to the French Auvergne accompanied by stowaways Maurice, 

a cynical cat, and Bouncer, an enthusiastic dog. There FO is pursued by murderous 

thugs and ensnared by a cranky religious sect. 

Suzette A. Hill taught literature for many years at Reading College and now 

lives in Hertfordshire. 

A Load of Old Bones 

A Reverend Oughterard Mystery 

Suzette A. Hill 

“Should appeal to fans of Martha Grimes, Saki, and Wodehouse.” 

—Historical Novels Review 

“Quite why this series should be charming, astringent and witty instead of 

emetically twee, I am not sure, but it is entirely delightful.”—Guardian 

The Reverend Francis Oughterard merely longs for a quiet life far from his 

bishop’s overview. Instead, he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of 

predatory female parishioners, offi cious policemen, and accidental murder. 

It is up to Maurice, the cat, and Bouncer, the dog, to save him. 

Soho Press 

FICTION 

August 


5½ x 8¾ | 320 pp 


978-1-56947-655-0 CUSA 

More from Maurice, Bouncer, 

and the hapless Reverend Oughterard. 

FICTION 

August 


5 x 7¾ | 208 pp 


978-1-56947-656-7 CUSA 

A charming and 

farcical romp introducing a vicar 

and his most peculiar cat and dog. 

309

Selected Backlist from Soho Press 

310 

Evil for Evil 

A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery 

James R. Benn 

FICTION 

6¼ x 9¼ | 320 pp 


978-1-56947-593-5 CUSA 

Skeleton Hill 

An Inspector Peter Diamond 

Investigation 

Peter Lovesey 

FICTION 

5¼ x 7¾ | 336 pp 


978-1-56947-598-0 USA 

How to Rob an 

Armored Car 

Iain Levison 

FICTION 

5½ x 8¼ | 304 pp 


978-1-56947-599-7 CUSA 

The Ghosts of Belfast 

Stuart Neville 

FICTION 

6½ x 9½ | 336 pp 


978-1-56947-600-0 USA 

Alcestis 

Katharine Beutner 

FICTION 

5½ x 8¼ | 304 pp 


978-1-56947-617-8 CUSA 

Murder in the Palais Royal 

An Aimée Leduc Investigation 

Cara Black 

FICTION 

6 x 9 | 304 pp 


978-1-56947-620-8 CUSA

In Kashmir 

Gender, Militarization, and the Modern Nation-State 

Seema Kazi 

Kashmir is the world’s most heavily militarized region—“an earthly paradise 

and the nuclear powder keg of South Asia.” From the 1947 partition of 

British India emerged two modern nation-states, India and Pakistan, vying 

for Western-style dominance on the international stage, backed with nuclear 

muscle and riding a downward spiral of “tit for tat” militarization on their 

borders and in their own streets. With the partition, the independent state 

of Kashmir became subject to a territorial grab, and Pakistan and India have 

violently disputed its boundaries ever since. Though millions of Kashmiri 

civilians, and ultimately the world at large, are caught in the crosshairs of 

the deadly impasse, Kashmir’s long struggle for self-determination has all but 

disappeared from mainstream consciousness. 

In Kashmir re-centers the focus of this battle for justice on the most resilient 

survivors of the pervasive multi-state violence: Kashmiri women. Making 

thoughtful use of rare, candid interviews, Seema Kazi constructs global lessons 

from the experiences of women living under intensifying militarization, 

manifested in the Kashmir valley as a daily onslaught of sexual violence, murder, 

family destruction, grinding poverty, and social death. 

Breaking the long silence on one of the most dangerously misunderstood 

crises of our time, Kazi boldly holds up a mirror in one hand and a warning in 

the other: The world may continue to ignore Kashmir, but only at our peril. 

Award-winning author Seema Kazi is an internationally regarded expert on 

feminism, human rights, and violence against women around the world. She 

lives in New Delhi. 

A groundbreaking feminist consideration of the deadly Indian 

and Pakistani struggle over Kashmir. 



August 


5⅜ x 8½ | 200 pp 


978-0-89608-792-7 CUSA 



311


312 

SOCIAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

April 

5⅜ x 8½ | 240 pp 


978-0-89608-793-4 CUSA 




Staying Alive 

Women, Ecology, and Development 

Vandana Shiva 

“Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most prominent radical scientists . . . in 

Staying Alive she defi nes the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the 

oppression of women. It is a scholarly and polemical plea for the rediscovery 

of the ‘feminine principle’ in human interaction with the natural world, not 

as a gender-based quality, rather an organizing principle, a way of seeing the 

world.”—Guardian 

In this pioneering work, Vandana Shiva looks at the history of development 

and progress, stripping away the neutral language of science to reveal thirdworld 

development policy as the global twin of the industrial revolution. 

As Shiva makes clear, the way this development paradigm is being implemented—through 

violence against nature and women—threatens survival itself. 

She focuses on how rural Indian women experience and perceive the 

causes and eff ects of ecological destruction, and how they conceive of and initiate 

processes to stop the destruction and begin regeneration. As the world 

continues to follow destructive paths of development, Shiva’s Staying Alive is a 

fi ercely relevant book that positions women not as mere survivors of the crisis, 

but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle. 

A world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva is the 

author of many books, including Stolen Harvest, Earth Democracy, and Soil Not Oil. 

She is the founder of Navdanya and a leader in the International Forum on 

Globalization (IFG) and the Slow Food movement. 

Staying Alive links the violation of nature with the violation and 

marginalization of women in the third world.

Biopiratería 

El Saqueo de la Naturaleza y del Conocimiento 

Vandana Shiva 

“A path-breaking work on one of the most important issues. . . . Shiva’s inspiring 

book is a clarion call [that] should be widely read and discussed by 

everyone concerned with the fate of the earth.”—Jeremy Rifkin 

Biopiratería (Biopiracy) charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture 

on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat. Since the original 

English-language publication, Shiva has successfully fought to overturn 

Monsanto’s seed patents and help create a global food movement. Examining 

the politics of genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, and aquaculture in 

an increasingly “go green” economy, this classic book will continue to inform 

our understanding of what sustainability really means. 

Vandana Shiva is the author of many books, including Staying Alive, Earth 

Democracy, and Soil Not Oil. She is a leader in the International Forum on 

Globalization (IFG) and the Slow Food movement. 

Las Guerras del Agua 

Privatización, Contaminación y Lucro 

Vandana Shiva 

“A chilling, in-depth examination of the rapidly emerging global crisis.” 

—In These Times 

In Las Guerras del Agua (Water Wars), Vandana Shiva reveals how many of the most 

important confl icts of our time, most often camoufl aged as ethnic or religious 

wars, are in fact confl icts over scarce but vital natural resources. Using her 

remarkable knowledge of science and society, the globally renowned physicist 

and ecowarrior analyzes the historical erosion of communal water rights. 

Whether it’s the international water trade, damming, mining, or aquafarming, 

Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of 

the world’s poor—and demands nothing less than the full restoration of our 

natural rights to a precious common good. 


National advertising: Latino Review of Books 


SCIENCE / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

May 


5⅜ x 8½ | 152 pp 


978-0-89608-791-0 CUSA 

English edition ISBN: 978-0-89608-555-8 

Uncovers the devastating 

consequences of corporate-engineered 

international trade agreements. 


May 


5⅜ x 8½ | 160 pp 


978-0-89608-790-3 CUSA 

English edition ISBN: 978-0-89608-650-0 

An exposé of the privatization of 

water that threatens people’s lives 

and livelihoods. 

313

Selected Backlist from South End Press 

314 

Toolbox for Sustainable 

City Living 

A Do-It-Ourselves Guide 

Scott Kellogg with Stacy Pettigrew 

Illustrated by Juan Martinez 

HOUSE & HOME / POLITICAL SCIENCE 

8 x 8 | 264 pp 

88 Duotone illustrations 


978-0-89608-780-4 CUSA 

Año 501 

La Conquista Continua 

Noam Chomsky 


5 x 8 | 444 pp 


978-0-89608-488-9 CUSA 

Conquest 

Sexual Violence and 

American Indian Genocide 

Andrea Smith 


5½ x 8½ | 250 pp 



978-0-89608-743-9 CUSA 

Dispatches from 

Latin America 

On the Frontlines Against 

Neoliberalism 

Edited by Vijay Prashad 

and Teo Ballvé 

HISTORY 

5½ x 8½ | 376 pp 


978-0-89608-768-2 CUSA 

Incognegro 

A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid 

Frank B. Wilderson, III 


6 x 9 | 500 pp 


978-0-89608-783-5 CUSA 

The Revolution Will 

Not Be Funded 

Beyond the Non-Profi t 

Industrial Complex 

Edited by INCITE! Women of 

Color Against Violence 


6 x 9 | 256 pp 


978-0-89608-766-8 CUSA

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens 

From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur 

Zenko Adachi 

“True to my zodiac, I’m a reckless, charging, wild boar kind of man. Rushing 

ahead without looking right or left has often left me with honorable—or maybe 

not so honorable—scars on my shins and shoulders.”—Adachi Zenko 

In his own words, Adachi Zenko (1899–1990) tells how a scrappy and impoverished 

boy from rural Japan turned the profi ts from his fl air for daring 

and dealmaking into a world-class museum and garden. A poor student, bullied 

in school, the gregarious Adachi learned to seize on every opportunity 

that came his way. He began as a lowly coal hauler and, after a short stint in 

the military—aided by his ready, practiced smile—built a series of businesses in 

Osaka. Always the opportunist, during WWII he sold the army swords while 

buying up timberland for the expected postwar boom. He was a rice broker, 

a textile wholesaler, and a real estate man. He went to jail (unjustly). He had 

close friends who both loved and betrayed him. 

In the end, Adachi always pursued his three unshakeable passions: art, 

women, and Japanese gardens. When he was seventy, he fulfi lled a lifelong 

dream by founding the Adachi Museum of Art. With 500,000 visitors per 

year, today it boasts one of Japan’s best Nihonga and ceramics collections 

amidst a spectacular garden rated by Sukiya Living as “the fi nest in Japan.” 

Lively, refreshingly frank, and full of insights into the uniquely Japanese 

pursuit of business and pleasure, this book presents a full-blooded portrait of 

a creative, vigorous entrepreneur. 

How a poor yet scrappy young man made a fortune 

and built a world-class art museum. 


BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ASIAN STUDIES 

April 

6 x 9 | 256 pp 



978-1-933330-86-0 CUSA 

315

Selected Backlist from Stone Bridge Press 

316 

Hidden Buddhas 

A Novel of Karma and Chaos 

Liza Dalby 

FICTION 

6 x 9 | 396 pp 



978-1-933330-85-3 CUSA 

The Heart Sutra in 

Calligraphy 

A Visual Appreciation of 

The Perfection of Wisdom 

Nadja Van Ghelue 

ART / RELIGION 

7 x 11 | 120 pp 



978-1-933330-79-2 CUSA 

The Japanese Way 

of the Artist 

Living the Japanese Arts & Ways, 

Brush Meditation, The Japanese 

Way of the Flower 

H. E. Davey 

RELIGION / HISTORY 

6 x 7¾ | 512 pp 



978-1-933330-07-5 CUSA 

The Art of Setting Stones 

& Other Writings from the 

Japanese Garden 

Marc Peter Keane 

NATURE / ART 

6 x 8½ | 160 pp 



978-1-880656-70-9 CUSA 

Exploring Kyoto 

On Foot in the Ancient Capital 

Judith Clancy 

TRAVEL 

5 x 7 | 296 pp 

60 Maps and B&W photographs 


978-1-933330-64-8 CUSA 

Mirei Shigemori 

Modernizing the Japanese Garden 

Christian Tschumi 

Photographs by Markuz Wernli 

GARDENING / ART 

6½ x 8¾ | 128 pp 



978-1-880656-94-5 CUSA

SSSS! 

Snake Art & Allegory 

Gita Wolf 

Illustrated by Ianna Andreadis 

An unusual combination of art and allegory, this stunning hand-printed 

book invokes the fascinating world of Indian snake mythology. These evocative 

fables about real and imagined serpents show the snake to be as much a 

creature of the human mind and imagination, as it is of earth and water. 

A handsome museum edition, SSSS: Snake Art & Allegory has been co- published 

with the Musee Du Quai Branly, France. 

Greek artist Ianna Andreadis’ bold, fl owing lines counterpoint the rich, 

teeming world of Hindu and Buddhist snake lore. 

An unusual hand-printed art book (museum edition), 

in which bold graphic art meets Hindu and Buddhist mythology. 


The Flight of the Mermaid 

Illustrated by Bhajju Shyam 

Retold by Sirish Rao and Gita Wolf 

ART 

9¼ x 8¼ | 32 pp 

Color plates 


978-81-906756-0-4 CUSA 


ART / FICTION 

July 

7 x 7 | 48 pp 


978-81-906756-6-6 CUSA 

317

Selected Backlist from Tara Books 

318 

Revolution 

Art by Sara 

HISTORY / ART 

8 x 11½ | 74 pp 



978-81-86211-46-5 CUSA 

The Circle of Fate 

Raja Mohanty with Sirish Rao 

Art by Radhashyam Raut 

ART / FICTION 

9¼ x 9½ | 24 pp 



978-81-86211-58-8 CUSA 

Metamorphosis 

Art by Emanuele Scanziani 

with Jennifer Abel 

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / ART 

7¼ x 7½ | 48 pp 



978-81-86211-48-9 CUSA 

Nurturing Walls 

Gita Wolf with Madan Meena 

ART 

7¾ x 9 | 64 pp 


978-81-86211-68-7 CUSA 

I Like Cats 

Anushka Ravishankar 

Edited by Gita Wolf 

ART / PETS 

7¼ x 7½ | 48 pp 



978-81-906756-1-1 CUSA 

The Night Life of Trees 

Art by Durga Bai, Bhajju Shyam, 

and Ram Singh Urveti 

FICTION / ART 

9½ x 13¼ | 48 pp 



978-81-86211-92-2 CUSA

“ My Driver is an entertaining, droll novel, executed with a lovely, light touch. . . . 

Gee’s control of tone is supremely artful.”—Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph 

“A tour de force—brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful.” 

—Elaine Showalter 

“Worldly, witty, enjoyable, impressive.”—Doris Lessing 

Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, fl ies from London 

to Uganda for a Pan-African writers’ conference. She also intends to pay her 

former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. But Mary—now the executive 

housekeeper of the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala—has her own agenda, and she 

has secretly summoned Vanessa’s beloved ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, to 

her home village to help build a well. 

The conference over, Vanessa sets off alone on a safari to the distant Bwindi 

Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. Farce teeters on the edge of 

something much darker when Vanessa quarrels with her driver and a bloody 

war closes in on Bwindi from Congo. Can anyone save her? 

Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta’s original “Best Young British 

Novelists.” She has published many novels to great acclaim, including The White 

Family, shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes, and My Cleaner and The 

Flood, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She was the fi rst female chair 

of the Royal Society of Literature, and she lives in London. 

This swift, sparkling, and sharp-edged book juxtaposes comedy 

and danger in the author’s most original work yet. 

My Cleaner 

Maggie Gee 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 336 pp 


978-1-84659-008-5 CUSA 

My Driver 

Maggie Gee 

Also 

Available 

The Ice People 

Maggie Gee 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 244 pp 


978-1-84659-038-2 CUSA 



Telegram 

FICTION 

June 


5¼ x 8 | 344 pp 


978-1-84659-079-5 CUSA 

T 

TELEGRAM 319

Selected Backlist from Telegram 

320 

Metropole 

Ferenc Karinthy 

Translated by George Szirtes 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 279 pp 


978-1-84659-034-4 CUSA 

Adam Gould 

Julia O’Faolain 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8½ | 392 pp 


978-1-84659-060-3 CUSA 

The Fall of the Imam 

Nawal El Saadawi 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 202 pp 


978-1-84659-062-7 CUSA 

Songs My Mother 

Never Taught Me 

Selçuk Altun 

FICTION 

5 x 8 | 212 pp 


978-1-84659-053-5 CUSA 

The Legend of 

Sander Grant 

Marc Phillips 

FICTION 

5¼ x 8 | 220 pp 


978-1-84659-064-1 CUSA 

Many and Many A Year Ago 

Selçuk Altun 

FICTION 

5 x 7¾ | 238 pp 


978-1-84659-067-2 CUSA

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) 

Sarah Ruhl 

“A fascinating, funny and evocative play. . . . Ruhl develops the story with the 

enticing blend of irreverent humor and skewed realism. . . . It’s beautiful.” 

—San Francisco Chronicle 

“[This] breathtakingly inventive addition to Ruhl’s singular body of work . . . 

has the potential to be a modern masterpiece.”—Los Angeles Times 

Sarah Ruhl made her Broadway debut this fall with her latest eff ervescent 

comedy: a play about sex, intimacy, and equality, set in the 1880s, when enthusiasm 

for the electric light bulb gave rise to a handy new instrument to 

treat female hysteria. The story revolves around the medical offi ce and home 

of Dr. Givings, who regularly induces “paroxysm” in his once high-strung patient 

Sabrina, allowing her to happily return to playing piano. Soon, Sabrina 

falls in love with the doctor’s assistant Annie, and also befriends his wife 

Catherine, who is dealing with her own neurotic misgivings about not being 

able to breast-feed her baby. With this new work, Ruhl once again uses playful 

symbolism and lyrical language as she makes seemingly eff ortless thematic 

leaps—crafting a play with tremendous critical and audience appeal, in her 

singular theatrical voice. 

Sarah Ruhl’s plays include Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Clean House (a Pulitzer Prize 

fi nalist), Passion Play, and Eurydice, all of which have been widely produced 

throughout the United States and internationally. She is a recipient of the 

MacArthur Fellowship. 

A new comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. 

The Clean House and Other Plays 

Sarah Ruhl 

DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 436 pp 


978-1-55936-266-5 USA 

Also 

Available 

Dead Man’s Cell Phone 

Sarah Ruhl 

DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55936-325-9 USA 


DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55936-360-0 USA 




American Theatre magazine 


321


322 

DRAMA 

June 


5⅜ x 8½ | 112 pp 


978-1-55936-370-9 USA 





Next to Normal 

Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey 

Music by Tom Kitt 

“Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It’s the best musical of 

the season by a mile . . . an emotional powerhouse with a fi re in its soul and a 

wicked wit that burns just as fi ercely.”—Rolling Stone 

“No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart—or 

wrings it as thoroughly—as Next to Normal does. . . . [It] focuses squarely on the 

pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute 

does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives. Next to Normal 

does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead 

this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages 

is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, 

with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts.” 

—Ben Brantley, The New York Times 

Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Original Score (Music 

and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre, Next to Normal is also available in an 

original cast recording. It was named Best Musical of the Season by Rolling 

Stone, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. 

Brian Yorkey received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Original Score for his 

work on Next to Normal and was also nominated for Best Book of a Musical. His 

other credits include Making Tracks and Time After Time. 

Tom Kitt received two 2009 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best 

Orchestrations for Next to Normal. He also composed the music for High Fidelity 

and From Up Here. His string arrangements appear on the new Green Day album 

21st Century Breakdown, and he is the leader of the Tom Kitt Band. 

“A brave and breathtaking musical.”—The New York Times

Superior Donuts 

Tracy Letts 

“It is a meditation on Chicago’s old soul . . . a witty, seductive, live-wire 

and greatly entertaining dark comedy that you just don’t want to end.” 

—Chicago Tribune 

“The sting, the speed and marksmanship of the gimcracks his characters fi re at 

each other . . . drips the kind of soulful, energized sarcasm that has long characterized 

[Letts’] work as an actor and playwright.”—Time Out Chicago 

Tracy Letts, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his epic, caustic Oklahoma 

family drama August: Osage County, has shifted gears with this entertaining comedy 

set in a donut shop. A love letter to the city where he has lived for more 

than twenty years, Letts describes his new work as “an exploration of the 

Chicago storefront experience.” The play takes place in the north side neighborhood 

of Uptown, where Arthur Przybyszewski runs the donut shop that 

has been in his family for sixty years. More content to spend the day smoking 

weed and reminiscing about his Polish immigrant father, Arthur hires 

a shop assistant, the young African American Franco Wicks, who has both 

an unpublished novel and unpaid gambling debt. Superior Donuts premiered at 

Steppenwolf Theatre Company and recently opened on Broadway—following 

the same path of success as Letts’ previous work. 

Tracy Letts is the author of Killer Joe, Bug, Man from Nebraska (nominated for the 

2004 Pulitzer Prize), and August: Osage County (awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize 

for Drama). He is a member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 

A new Chicago-set comedy by the author of August: Osage County. 


August: Osage County 

Tracy Letts 

DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 152 pp 


978-1-55936-330-3 USA 


DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55936-361-7 USA 






323


324 

DRAMA 

June 

6 x 9 | 108 pp 


978-1-55936-362-4 USA 





Author Events 


New York, NY 


The Designated Mourner 

Wallace Shawn 

“The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary.” 

—Time 

“Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefi ed 

manner. Its implications are both aff ecting and disturbing.”—Los Angeles Times 

“In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . 

[Shawn] off ers a defi nition of the self that should rattle the defenses of intellectual 

snobs everywhere.”—The New York Times 

Writer and performer Wallace Shawn’s landmark 1996 play features three 

characters—a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband—suspected 

of subversion in a world where culture has come under the 

control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, 

the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of 

a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a 

production directed by David Hare, who also directed the fi lm version, starring 

Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. The play’s subsequent New York 

premiere was staged in a long-abandoned men’s club in lower Manhattan, directed 

by Shawn’s longtime collaborator André Gregory. 

Wallace Shawn is the author of Our Late Night (OBIE Award for Best Play), 

Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, and the screenplay for My Dinner with 

André. His most recent play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, premiered last year in 

London. 

A major work in the writings of Wallace Shawn. 

Grasses of a Thousand Colors 

Wallace Shawn 

DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 112 pp 


978-1-55936-345-7 USA 

Also 

Available 

Our Late Night and 

A Thought in Three Parts 

Two Plays 

Wallace Shawn 

DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 120 pp 


978-1-55936-322-8 USA

Version 3.0 

Contemporary Asian American Plays 

Edited by Chay Yew 

“The fi rst two generations of Asian American drama articulated experiences 

and issues of race and identity. In this anthology, a new generation of 

Asian American playwrights explores the myriad ways in which Asians live in 

America.”—Editor Chay Yew 

This fi rst major anthology of contemporary Asian American drama in almost 

two decades collects the following: Julia Cho’s Durango; Sunil Kuruvilla’s Rice 

Boy; Han Ong’s Swoony Planet; Sung Rno’s Wave; Diana Son’s Boy; Alice Tuan’s 

Last of the Suns; and Chay Yew’s Question 27, Question 28. These are works that readily 

combine the Medea myth with wave-particle physics; that nimbly move between 

a fi eld in Kitchener, Canada, and a treetop in Kerala, India; that fully 

explore complexities of gender, sexuality, and family, demonstrating the cultural 

and aesthetical diversity of the new generation. 

Also included is The Square, a choral piece by sixteen leading playwrights 

(including Maria Irene Fornes, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Craig 

Lucas, José Rivera, and Mac Wellman) meditating on 120 years of relationships 

between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set 

in a public square of an American city’s Chinatown. 

Chay Yew is a noted playwright and director whose work has been produced 

Off Broadway and across the United States. He has served as head of the Asian 

Theatre Workshop at the Mark Taper Forum, and he is a former resident director 

at East West Players. 

A major new anthology of contemporary Asian American playwrights. 


DRAMA 

July 


6 x 9 | 400 pp 


978-1-55936-363-1 USA 





325


326 

DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55936-365-5 USA 





Author Hometown: New Haven, CT 

Time Stands Still 

Donald Margulies 

“The play’s two hours fl y by as if you’ve barely taken a breath. . . . Ethical dilemmas 

arise like exploding mines.”—Variety 

“Mr. Margulies is a skilled practitioner of fl uid dialogue that is naturally funny 

and sensibly smart.”—The New York Times 

In his “absorbing intelligent” (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald 

Margulies uncovers the layers of a relationship between a photojournalist and 

foreign correspondent—once addicted to the adrenaline of documenting the 

atrocities of war, and now grounded in the couple’s Brooklyn loft. Photographer 

Sarah was seriously injured while covering the war in Iraq; her reporter partner 

James had left weeks earlier, when the stress and horrors became too much 

for him. Now James writes online movie reviews while Sarah recovers, mourning 

for her Iraqi driver (and former lover) killed in the explosion, and itching 

to get back behind the camera. With this play—coming to Broadway this winter— 

Margulies revisits themes of being an artist, as characters ask: What does it mean 

to capture suff ering on fi lm, rather than stopping to intervene? 

Donald Margulies received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner 

with Friends, which has been produced throughout the world. Other plays include 

Sight Unseen (OBIE Award), Brooklyn Boy, and Collected Stories, among many 

others. 

A new play from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Dinner with Friends. 

Dinner with Friends 


DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 112 pp 


978-1-55936-194-1 USA 

Also 

Available 

Shipwrecked! 

The Amazing Adventures of Louis de 

Rougemont (as told by himself) 


DRAMA 

5⅜ x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-55936-343-3 USA

Stunning and Other Plays 

David Adjmi 

“Nearly everything about David Adjmi’s Stunning has an original ring to it, from 

the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue.”—Time Out New York 

This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian 

Jewish community, where a teenage bride’s world is disrupted by her intellectual 

African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged 

couples; and Elective Affi nities, a post-9/11 monologue. 

David Adjmi’s work has been produced at Lincoln Center Theatre, Yale 

Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and the Royal Court in London. He 

has received numerous commissions and is the recipient of a 2009 Kesselring 

Fellowship and a Bush Artist Fellowship. 



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Havana is Waiting and Other Plays 

Eduardo Machado 

“The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex 

legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant [in] Mr. Machado’s 

writing.”—The New York Times 

Eduardo Machado explores his lifelong themes with humor and passion in 

Havana Is Waiting (a writer returns to Cuba after thirty years), Kissing Fidel (a comedy 

set in Miami funeral parlor), The Cook (chronicling Cuban history), and 

Crocodile Eyes (inspired by Federico García Lorca). 

Eduardo Machado is the author of more than forty plays. Born in Cuba, his 

plays have been widely performed. He is artistic director of INTAR Theatre 

and head of playwriting at New York University. 






DRAMA 

July 


5⅜ x 8½ | 280 pp 


978-1-55936-364-8 USA 

The fi rst collection by a striking new voice 

in the American theater. 

DRAMA 

August 


5⅜ x 8½ | 290 pp 


978-1-55936-366-2 USA 

Recent works from the 

Cuban American playwright. 

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DRAMA 

July 


5⅜ x 8½ | 180 pp 


978-1-55936-367-9 USA 

The thoughts and work of the 

legendary avant-garde director. 

DRAMA 

April 


5¾ x 8½ | 120 pp 


978-1-55936-358-7 USA 

One of Richard Wilbur’s 

world-renowned translations of 

Molière’s brilliant farces. 

Manifestos and Essays 

Richard Foreman 

“Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design 

and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history.” 

—PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citation 

These writings, collected from two earlier books now long out-of-print, provide 

a fascinating window into Richard Foreman’s singular mind and creative 

process. Also included is The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah), 

his last play before transitioning to more multimedia work. 

Richard Foreman has written, directed, and designed more than fi fty of 

his own plays, both internationally and at his Ontological-Hysteric Theater, 

which he founded in 1968. He has received many OBIE Awards, an NEA 

Lifetime Achievement Award, and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. 





Amphitryon 

Molière 

Translated by Richard Wilbur 

“Richard Wilbur’s translations of classic French drama are among the undiscovered 

treasure of our recent literature.”—The Hudson Review 

Molière’s late, elegant comedy, based on Plautus’ Roman version, alludes to 

the love aff airs of the French king. This is the fourth and fi nal volume of 

Theatre Communication Group’s series (with cover designs by Chip Kidd), 

completing trade publication of these vital theatrical works. Includes Richard 

Wilbur’s translation notes. 

Richard Wilbur is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former poet 

laureate of the United States. His verse translations of Molière’s plays have 

been performed for audiences throughout the world. 



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Humana Festival 2009 

Edited by Adrien-Alice Hansel and Amy Wegener 

Foreword by Marc Masterson 

Includes: Absalom; Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry; Under Construction; 

Slasher; Ameriville; The Hard Weather Boating Party; a comic anthology of short scenes 

by Lydia Diamond, Kristoff er Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter 

Sinn Nachtrieb and Deborah Stein; ten-minute plays from Alex Dremann, 

Michael Lew, and Marco Ramirez; and Brink! 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Playscripts, Inc. | 5½ x 8½ | 400 pp 

Trade Paper SP US $19.95 | CAN $23.00 | 978-0-9819099-3-6 CUSA 

New Europe, New Voices 

Edited by Bonnie Marranca and Małgorzata Semil 

Written in the last decade, these plays address life in a portrait of politics and 

culture after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Includes: Push 1–3 (Germany), Hamelin 

(Spain), norway. today (Switzerland), The Squirrel Man (Poland), Sa ka la (Norway), 

Tales of Ordinary Madness (Czech Republic), and Hotel Europa (Macedonia). 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | PAJ Publications | 6 x 9 | 275 pp 


Playwrights Before the Fall 

Eastern European Drama in Times of Revolution 

Edited by Daniel Gerould 

The fi rst multi-author international anthology of Eastern European plays 

to deal with the fall of Communism. Includes: Portrait by Sławomir Mroz˙ek 

(Poland); Chickenhead by György Spiró (Hungary); Military Secret by Dušan 

Jovanović (Slovenia); Horses at the Window by Matei Vis¸niec (Romania); Sorrow, 

Sorrow, Fear, the Rope, and the Pit by Karel Steigerwald (Czechoslovakia). 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original 

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications | 6 x 9 | 300 pp 


Quick Change 

Essays on Theatre 

Edited by Daniel Gerould 

Contains previously uncollected writings, including articles about Witkacy’s 

doubles, historical and medical simulations, the Battleship Potemkin, comédie 

rosse at the Grand Guignol, Polish theater, Grotowski and Kantor, Mroz˙ek 

and Róz˙ewicz, Polish and Russian symbolists, and erotic French puppets. 


Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications | 6 x 9 | 300 pp 



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Jerusalem 

Jez Butterworth 

“[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in 

an English country community. Butterworth’s new work was the most talked 

about new work of the season.”—The London Paper 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 

Trade Paper SP $18.95 | 978-1-84842-050-2 USA 

The Space to Move 

Essentials of Movement Training 

Christian Darley 

For actors, directors, students, and teachers of movement in the theater. It 

is bursting with energy, ideas, passion, and commitment. In precise detail 

Christian Darley sets out, step by step, the exercises and techniques she developed 

with her own students at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic 

Art, dealing with the vital building blocks of movement training. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 224 pp 


How Plays Work 

David Edgar 

How Plays Work has grown out of David Edgar’s teaching in the University of 

Birmingham’s MA course in playwriting studies, which he founded twenty 

years ago. Through historical and modern examples, the book analyzes the 

basic elements of dramatic structure, action, plot, character, dialogue, and 

genre. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 228 pp 


Beside Myself 

An Actor’s Life 

Antony Sher 

Republished to mark Antony Sher’s sixtieth birthday. In Beside Myself, Sher takes 

us to the heart of what it is to be an actor today, describing the journeys he undertakes 

in order to inhabit the roles for which he is famous. Utterly involving, 

this book will both inspire young actors and inform seasoned theatergoers. 

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | April | A Paperback Original 

Nick Hern Books | 5⅜ x 8½ | 412 pp 

Trade Paper SP $22.95 | 978-1-84842-035-9 USA

The Author 

Tim Crouch 

Tim Crouch’s new play is about the abuse carried out in the name of the spectator; 

it is a story of hope, violence, and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, 

tap your feet to the music, and turn to your neighbor. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


Dear Mr. Shakespeare 

Letters to a Jobbing Playwright 

Simon Reade 

A wonderful book for afi cionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike. 

This is a unique introduction and guide to Shakespeare’s life and times, and 

a uniquely modern take on Shakespeare by a man uniquely qualifi ed to write 

about him. Imagines Shakespeare having to deal with the attitudes of modern 

times. 



Before Anger 

Two Early Plays by John Osborne 

John Osborne 

Edited with an Introduction by Jamie Andrews 

Two never-before-published works. The Devil Inside Him, written in 1950, is a 

melodrama with a poetic edge about a Welsh boarding house, lorded over by a 

self-righteous, religious bigot of a father. Personal Enemy, written with Anthony 

Creighton, is set in America at the height of the McCarthy communist 

witch-hunts. 



Prick up Your Ears 

Simon Bent 

Inspired by John Lahr’s biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, this is a darkly 

funny and moving play. It tells the sensational story behind the life of Joe 

Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in a tiny fl at in Islington, trading 

well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple. 




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One Voice 

House and Here Lies Henry 

Daniel MacIvor 

A must-have collection of two celebrated solo works by Daniel MacIvor, winner 

of both the Siminovich Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. 

House is a stand up, sit down one-man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man 

on the edge. Here Lies Henry is a one-man show about lies and the nature of 

truth. 


Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 120 pp 


Lesbian Scenes and Monologues 

Edited by Susan G. Cole 

Lesbian Scenes and Monologues showcases a variety of takes on gender, sexuality, 

family, and history. The selections collected in this anthology refl ect personal, 

political, and cultural complexities. Intended for study, auditions, or 

general interest, this collection includes works by Trey Anthony, Ann-Marie 

MacDonald, Mariko Tamaki, d’bi young anitafrika, and Jovette Marchessault. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 6 x 9 | 320 pp 


The Greek Playwright 

Clem Martini 

The Greek Playwright outlines the major playwrights of the ancient Greek era, 

their major plays, and the impact they had on our modern understanding of 

drama. Clem Martini weaves his direct, informative, and entertaining style 

through centuries of dramatic evolution to show us exactly what the fi rst dramatists 

have to say to contemporary playwrights. 



The Drowning Girls and Comrades 

Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, 

and Daniela Vlaskalic 

The Drowning Girls refl ects on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the 

not-so-happily ever after. Comrades brings to life the story of a seven-year imprisonment 

and explores the struggles and agonies of two men, tried not for 

what they did, but for who they were. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 136 pp 

Trade Paper SP $17.95 | 978-0-88754-847-5 USA

Shakespeare Monologues for Men 

The Good Audition Guides 

Edited by Luke Dixon 

Fifty monologues for men drawn from across the Shakespeare canon. Each is 

prefaced with an easy-to-use guide to who is speaking, where, when, and to 

whom; what has just happened in the play; and what the character’s objectives 

are. In fact, it contains everything the actor needs to know before embarking 

on the audition! 



Shakespeare Monologues for Women 

The Good Audition Guides 

Edited by Luke Dixon 

Fifty monologues for women drawn from across the Shakespeare canon. Ideal 

for actors of all ages and experience. Also includes uniquely formatted summarizations 

to each piece. 



Apologia 

Alexi Kaye Campbell 

The follow-up to Alexi Kaye Campbell’s award-winning debut The Pride comes 

this play about the confl icting demands of fame and family. A disastrous family 

reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened 

to the children of ’60s idealists. 



Dreams of Violence 

Stella Feehily 

Forty-something Hildy is in crisis. Her father is in a nursing home. Her belittling 

mother has moved in with her and shows no sign of leaving. Her son 

is a recovering drug addict on methadone and hugely overweight. And her exhusband 

persuades her to have sex one more time. 




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Parlour Song 

Jez Butterworth 

Laugh-out-loud funny to start with, Jez Butterworth’s new play Parlour Song 

gets darker and more surreal as it unfolds. It is a darkly hilarious exploration 

of deceit, paranoia, and murderous desire, as the spirit of the blues lands in 

leafy suburbia. 

DRAMA | April | A Paperback Original | Nick Hern Books | 7¾ x 5 | 96 pp 


The Royal Ballet Yearbook 2009/10 

The Royal Ballet 

This essential guide contains news on who has joined and left the organization; 

it is a look at the Company as of the end of 2009 season, with photos 

from the year, interviews with dancers on what life at the Royal Ballet is really 

like, articles, a preview of next season, and much more. 

PERFORMING ARTS | April | A Paperback Original | Oberon Books | 8¼ x 8¼ | 96 pp 


The Story of the Ring 

Adapted by Michael Birkett 

Illustrated by Elizabeth Bury 

Here is a wonderful book that not only helps readers gain a fuller understanding 

of The Ring Cycle, but is also a joy to read. Noted fi lm producer Michael 

Birkett gets to the heart of the story to produce a narrative that will thrill and 

delight. 

DRAMA | April | Oberon Books | 8⅞ x 11 | 96 pp 

Trade Cloth SDT US $40.00 | CAN $46.00 | 978-1-84002-938-3 CUSA 

Motherland 

Steve Gilroy 

This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday 

lives have been touched by the recent confl icts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These 

women, who live on our street and drink in our local bar, share their stories 

with warmth, humor, and candor, as they reveal the real lottery of war. 


Trade Paper SP US $18.95 | CAN $22.00 | 978-1-84002-948-2 CUSA

Love and RelASIANships, Volume 1 

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino 

Love and RelASIANships includes works that represent cultures from all over Asia 

and the place those cultures have in Canada. It includes Yellow Fever by Rick 

Shiomi, Bachelor-Man by Winston Christopher Kam, Maggie’s Last Dance by Marty 

Chan, Mother Tongue by Betty Quan, Noran Bang: The Yellow Room by M.J. Kang, and 

The Plum Tree by Mitch Miyagawa. 



Love and RelASIANships, Volume 2 

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino 

The second volume in this groundbreaking collection features plays written 

since 2002. It includes Yes Yoko Solo by Jean Yoon, Tiger of Malaya by Hiro 

Kanagawa, Miss Orient(ed) by Nina Lee Aquino and Nadine Villasin, China Doll by 

Marjorie Chan, Banana Boys by Leon Aureus, and paper SERIES by David Yee. 



A Foster Christmas 

Norm Foster 

Light up the tree and break out the eggnog: Christmas has arrived with this 

collection of four festive plays by Canada’s most-produced playwright. Foster 

Christmas includes Ethan Claymore, Bob’s Your Elf, The Christmas Tree, and Dear Santa. 



Palace of the End (Second Edition) 

Judith Thompson 

Palace of the End is a searing triptych of three monologues. With its emphasis on 

the human voice and power of the soul in the midst of a destructive war, each 

account is a riveting and brilliantly portrayed indictment of the war in Iraq. 

DRAMA | April | Playwrights Canada Press | 5⅜ x 8⅜ | 56 pp 



335


Plays for Youth Theatres 

and Large Casts 

Neil Duffield 

336 

DRAMA 

April 


Aurora Metro Press 

5⅞ x 8¼ | 240 pp 

Trade Paper SP $26.95 

978-1-906582-06-7 USA 

Dracula 

Bram Stoker 

Adapted by Liz Lochhead 

DRAMA 

April 

Nick Hern Books 

5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 


978-1-84842-029-8 USA 

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her 

Head Chopped Off 

Liz Lochhead 

DRAMA 

April 


5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 


978-1-84842-028-1 USA 

Fuente Ovejuna 

Lope de Vega 

Translated by Laurence Boswell 

DRAMA 

April 



Drama Classics 

4 x 6¼ | 128 pp 


978-1-84842-023-6 USA 

Yerma 

Federico García Lorca 

Translated by John Clifford 

DRAMA 

April 



Drama Classics 

4 x 6¼ | 128 pp 


978-1-85459-578-2 USA 

When the Rain Stops Falling 

Andrew Bovell 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 


978-1-84842-034-2 USA 

David Copperfield 

Charles Dickens 

Adapted by Alastair Cording 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 7¾ | 128 pp 


978-1-84842-022-9 USA 

Far from the Madding Crowd 

Thomas Hardy 

Adapted by Mark Healy 

DRAMA 

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5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 


978-1-84842-027-4 USA 

Wallenstein 

Friedrich Schiller 

Adapted by Mike Poulton 

DRAMA 

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5 x 7¾ | 164 pp 


978-1-84842-051-9 USA 

Death of Long Pig 

Nigel Planer 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 7¾ | 96 pp 


978-1-84842-041-0 USA 

The Contingency Plan 

Steve Waters 

DRAMA 

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5 x 7¾ | 160 pp 


978-1-84842-052-6 USA 

Exit Pursued by a Badger 

An Actor’s Journey Through 

History with Shakespeare 

Nick Asbury 

DRAMA 

April 


Oberon Books 

5 x 7¾ | 256 pp 

Trade Paper SP US $20.95 | CAN $24.50 

978-1-84002-892-8 CUSA 

Orwell: A Celebration 

George Orwell 

Adapted by Dominic Cavendish 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-931-4 CUSA 

Bad Blood Blues 

Paul Sirett 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-927-7 CUSA 

Foreplay 

Arthur Schnitzler 

Adapted by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-926-0 CUSA

Ì yà-llé (The First Wife) 

Oladipo Agboluaje 

DRAMA 

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5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-925-3 CUSA 

A British Subject 

Nichola McAuliffe 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-947-5 CUSA 

Karoo Moose 

Lara Foot Newton 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-932-1 CUSA 

Mincemeat 

Adrian Jackson and 

Farhana Sheikh 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-935-2 CUSA 

Monsters 

Niklas Rådström 

Translated by Gabriella Berggren 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-928-4 CUSA 

Nocturnal 

Juan Mayorga 

Translated and Adapted by David Johnston 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-923-9 CUSA 

Orphans 

Dennis Kelly 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-943-7 CUSA 

S-27 

Sarah Grochala 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-930-7 CUSA 

Canada and the Theatre of 

War Volume II 

Edited by Donna Coates 

and Sherrill Grace 

Translated by Jill MacDougall 

and Linda Gaboriau 

DRAMA 

April 


Playwrights Canada Press 

6 x 9 | 400 pp 


978-0-88754-841-3 USA 

Forests 

Wajdi Mouawad 

Translated by Linda Gaboriau 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 120 pp 


978-0-88754-793-5 USA 


Almighty Voice and His Wife 


Daniel David Moses 

DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8⅜ | 80 pp 


978-0-88754-897-0 USA 

Billy Twinkle 

Ronnie Burkett 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 80 pp 


978-0-88754-885-7 USA 

The Clockmaker 

Stephen Massicotte 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 88 pp 


978-0-88754-843-7 USA 

East of Berlin 

Hannah Moscovitch 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 88 pp 


978-0-88754-849-9 USA 

The Good Egg 

Michael Lewis MacLennan 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 96 pp 


978-0-88754-851-2 USA 

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Good Mother 

Damien Atkins 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 128 pp 


978-0-88754-853-6 USA 

Mary’s Wedding 


Stephen Massicotte 

DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8⅜ | 84 pp 


978-0-88754-899-4 USA 

Rice Boy (Second Edition) 

Sunil Kuruvilla 

DRAMA 

April 


5⅜ x 8⅜ | 88 pp 


978-0-88754-901-4 USA 

Singkil 

Catherine Hernandez 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 120 pp 


978-0-88754-869-7 USA 

While We’re Young 

Don Hannah 

DRAMA 

April 



5⅜ x 8⅜ | 120 pp 


978-0-88754-877-2 USA 

Developing Nation 

New Play Creation in 

English-Speaking Canada 

Edited by Bruce Barton 

DRAMA 

April 



6 x 9 | 232 pp 


978-0-88754-593-1 USA 

The Shakespeare’s Mine 

Adapting Shakespeare in 

Anglophone Canada 

Edited by Ric Knowles 

DRAMA 

April 



6 x 9 | 448 pp 


978-0-88754-729-4 USA 

A Certain William 

Adapting Shakespeare in 

Francophone Canada 

Edited by Leanore Lieblein 

DRAMA 

April 



6 x 9 | 360 pp 


978-0-88754-731-7 USA 

Theatre Histories 

Critical Perspectives on Canadian 

Theatre in English, Vol. 13 

Edited by Alan Filewod 

DRAMA 

April 



6 x 9 | 246 pp 


978-0-88754-831-4 USA 

Ethnic, Multicultural, and 

Intercultural Theatre 



Edited by Ric Knowles 

and Ingrid Mündel 

DRAMA 

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6 x 9 | 246 pp 


978-0-88754-832-1 USA 

Design and Scenography 



Edited by Natalie Rewa 

DRAMA 

April 



6 x 9 | 188 pp 


978-0-88754-833-8 USA 

Reading Carol Bolt 

Carol Bolt 

Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman 

DRAMA 

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6 x 9 | 600 pp 


978-0-88754-807-9 USA 

The Wicked Lady 

Magdalen King-Hall 

Adapted by Byrony Lavery 

DRAMA 

April 



5 x 8¼ | 96 pp 


978-1-84002-940-6 CUSA 

A Guide to UK Theatre for 

Young Audiences 

Edited by Paul Harman 

REFERENCE 

April 


Aurora Metro Press 

5 x 8¼ | 104 pp 


978-1-906582-09-8 USA

Wild Punch 

Creston Lea 

“Attentive, sure-footed, possessed of an engaging voice and, best of all, a spirit 

of generosity, Creston Lea’s Wild Punch is an exciting new fi nd for any serious 

reader of short stories.”—Rick Bass 

These debut stories, set in northern New England, portray the revelatory moments 

of small- timers, clergymen, hotheads, day laborers, motorcycle racers, 

loggers, horse farmers, and young veterans of the Gulf War. In Wild Punch, 

Creston Lea achieves the rare congruence of language and landscape. 

Creston Lea’s writing is realistic and understated. His style can be compared 

to writers like Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff . He is as much a master 

of local grit as he is of local color. Lea is an author who clearly loves his 

characters. He understands their contradictions and their stark daily realities, 

and he writes about them with an authority based on authenticity, generosity, 

grace, and sharply observed humanity. 

Creston Lea was born in New Hampshire in 1971. He has lived in northern 

New England for all but his academic years, during which time he received 

an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in 

DoubleTake, Open City, and W.W. Norton’s 25 and Under: Fiction. He has worked as 

a carpenter, house-mover, barn builder, and rock ‘n’ roll musician. He lives 

in Burlington, Vermont, with his wife and young daughter. There he builds 

handmade electric guitars under the name Creston Electric Instruments. Wild 

Punch is his fi rst collection of stories. 

An intense, nimble, and fl at-out tough debut collection that 

portrays loss and honesty in subtle daily revelations. 


FICTION 

April 


5 x 7½ | 160 pp 


978-1-933527-40-6 CUSA 




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POETRY 

April 


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978-1-933527-33-8 CUSA 




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New York, NY • Montréal, QC 


In This House 

Howard Altmann 

“Howard Altmann interrogates the sky, the light, the world, about their intentions. 

If he seldom fi nds reassuring answers, he fi nds something better: 

‘When all that consoled consoles no longer / loneliness fi nds a room 

inside the one it knows.’ These poems are as essential as a glass of water.” 

—John Ashbery 

“Howard Altmann has found a music all his own, a glissando of what Stevens 

calls ‘sudden rightnesses’ whirling from the page.”—Carol Muske-Dukes 

“Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the 

elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly 

amazing lines—‘you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the 

dark . . .’ Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of 

poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It’s a thrill 

to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.”—Dennis Nurkse 

Howard Altmann lives in New York City but he was born and raised in 

Montreal, Canada, where he graduated from McGill University. He received 

his MBA from Stanford University and worked as senior vice president of a 

real estate investment company. He has taught poetry at a women’s prison in 

Manhattan, and he has written children’s stories and plays. He is the author of 

The Johnsons and The Thompsons, which was published by Playscripts, Inc., in 2008. 

Poems from In This House have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, and Open City. 

Large ideas bloom from the elemental, ephemeral, and sublime in 

Howard Altmann’s American debut poetry collection.

The People Who Watched Her Pass By 

Scott Bradfi eld 

“Bradfi eld is one of my favorite living writers.”—Jonathan Lethem 

“Scott Bradfi eld has not simply staked out new literary terrain . . . he has 

mapped and colonized an entire new planet.”—Michael Chabon 

“A master chronicler of the absurdity, emptiness, and beauty that riddle modern 

life.”—Caroline Hsu, The Washington Post 

In his fi fth novel, Scott Bradfi eld delivers an arresting and unsentimental 

childhood voice. 

Salome Jensen is three years old when she is taken from her home by the 

man who fi xes the hot water heater. As Sal drifts through Laundromats and 

people’s homes, she develops a perspective of the world and an understanding 

of its people more meaningful than the most erudite observer could muster. 

Sal is never a victim or abused, she’s simply a child providing a humorous 

and fresh take on society. 

The People Who Watched Her Pass By is often hilarious as well as startling, and it 

is a poignant new contribution to the body of literature of a respected prose 

craftsman. 

Scott Bradfi eld has published stories, reviews, and essays in places as varied as 

Bookforum, Poetry, Triquarterly, Fence, Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Pushcart Prize Collection, 

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, The Times Literary Supplement, The 

New York Times Book Review, Black Clock, The New York Ghost, and Neue Rundschauer. His 

books include The History of Luminous Motion, What’s Wrong with America, Animal Planet, 

Greetings From Earth, and most recently Good Girl Wants it Bad and Hot Animal Love: Tales 

of Modern Romance. 

A philosophical road novel from the 

insightful vantage point of a four-year-old girl. 


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Portland, OR • Seattle, WA 


Termite Parade 

Joshua Mohr 

“Mohr’s prose roams with chimerical liquidity.”—Boston’s Weekly Dig 

“Mohr uses punchy, tightly wound prose to pull readers into a nightmarish 

landscape, but he never loses the heart of his story; it’s as touching as it is 

shocking.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review for Some Things That Meant the World to Me 

Termite Parade is the second novel from San Francisco Chronicle best-selling author 

Joshua Mohr. It is a mature look at the honest side of human interaction. 

Derek drops his black-out drunk and verbally abusive girlfriend Mired 

down a fl ight of stairs in their apartment building on purpose, and then calls 

his estranged twin brother Frank to help clean up the mess. 

Mired thinks she fell and blames herself; Frank knows better; Derek, ravaged 

with guilt, plays along before ditching town altogether. 

Termite Parade examines how Derek, Mired, and Frank cope with the incident, 

and, more deeply, the concepts of how we love one another; whether individuals 

are capable of change or whether we simply are who we are; and how 

capable we are, despite being an extremely intelligent and evolved species, of 

being savage animals. 

Joshua Mohr is the author of Some Things That Meant the World to Me, is a regular 

contributor to TheRumpus.net, and teaches writing in San Francisco. 

A mature second novel from the best-selling author of 

Some Things That Meant the World to Me. 


Some Things That Meant the World to Me 

Joshua Mohr 

FICTION 

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Madison, Wisconsin 

Tyrus Books publishes crime and dark literary fi ction, off ering books from exciting new voices and 

established, well-loved authors. Prior to founding Tyrus Books, Benjamin LeRoy and Alison Janssen 

worked in the crime fi ction fi eld for several years, publishing works that went on to be winners and 

fi nalists for all the major awards in the crime and mystery world. They hope to continue that tradition 

with Tyrus Books, and are proud to present the spring 2010 line. 

Visit Tyrus Books online at www.TyrusBooks.com. 



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Hello Kitty Must Die 

Angela S. Choi 

On the outside, twenty-eight-year-old Fiona Yu appears to be just another 

Hello Kitty—an educated, well-mannered Asian American woman. Secretly, 

she feels torn between the traditional Chinese values of her family and the social 

mores of being an American girl. 

To escape the burden of carrying her family’s honor, Fiona decides to take 

her own virginity. In the process, she makes a surprising discovery that reunites 

her with a long-lost friend, Sean Killroy. Sean introduces her to a dark 

world of excitement, danger, cunning, and cruelty, pushing her to the limits 

of her own morality. But Fiona’s father throws her new life into disarray when 

he dupes her into an overnight trip that results in a hasty engagement to Don 

Koo, the spoiled son of a wealthy chef. 

Determined to thwart her parents’ plans to marry her off into Asian suburbia, 

Fiona seeks her freedom at any price. How far will she go to bury the 

Hello Kitty stereotype forever? Fiona’s journey of self-discovery is biting and 

clever as she embraces her true nature and creates her own version of the 

American Dream, eliminating—without fear or remorse—anyone who stands 

in her way. 

Angela S. Choi is a writer who lives in San Francisco, California. Born in 

Hong Kong, Angela practiced law until she took up writing. Hello Kitty Must Die 

is her debut novel. 

Dexter meets The Joy Luck Club, 

with a pinch of Heathers for the thirty-something set.

Delta Blues 

Edited by Carolyn Haines 

Foreword by Morgan Freeman 

A dollar donation for every book sold will be given to the Rock River 

Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping the arts and literacy in the Delta. 

Contributing to the volume are Ace Atkins, Lynne Barrett, James Lee 

Burke, Suzann Ellignsworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bill Fitzhugh, Tom Franklin, 

John Grisham, Carolyn Haines, Charlaine Harris, Suzanne Hudson, Alice 

Jackson, Dean James, Toni L.P. Kelner, Michael Lister, Daniel Martine, Mary 

Saums, David Sheffi eld, Nathan Singer, and Les Standiford. 

From the introduction by Morgan Freeman: 

This collection of short fi ction captures both the art of the tale and the power of the blues, and is a 

nod at the human condition that often inspires musicians to write and sing the blues. These stories 

tell about bad men and bad women who sometimes do good—or sometimes follow their true nature. 

Some of these characters know all about the dangers of making a bargain with the devil. And some 

know the power of redemption. These are characters who would not be out of place in a Honeyboy 

Edwards tune, and would be right at home alongside the desolate wail of Clarksdale, Mississippi, 

native Son House. 

An outstanding collection of short stories from 

writers aching to sing you the blues. 


FICTION 

May 

5½ x 8½ | 392 pp 


978-1-935562-06-1 CUSA 


978-1-935562-07-8 CUSA 





Editor Hometown: Mobile, AL 

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5½ x 8½ | 256 pp 


978-1-935562-00-9 CUSA 


978-1-935562-01-6 CUSA 

An updated take on High Noon, 

with a garage band soundtrack. 

FICTION 

May 

5½ x 8½ | 264 pp 


978-1-935562-04-7 CUSA 


978-1-935562-05-4 CUSA 

Murder at a bike rally in 

Panama City. 

Toby is twenty-fi ve, with a couple of years of junior college, a wife and kid, 

and a trailer. He’s living in Coyote Crossing, working as a part-time deputy. 

When he gets a call about a dead body in the center of town, he pins his tin star 

to his Weezer T-shirt, slips into a pair of sweatpants, and grabs his revolver. 

Victor Gischler is the author of fi ve novels, including Gun Monkeys, Shotgun 

Opera, and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. 



Author Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA 

Thousands of bikers have descended on the Miracle Strip in Panama City 

for one of America’s premier biker rallies, but a storm is blowing in. Amid 

the bikes and beer and bikinis, crimes of unspeakable brutality are being 

committed—one of which touches too close to home for former reporter 

Merrick McKnight. 

Between crashes of thunder, a killer strikes, and a young woman’s life hangs 

in the balance. 

Michael Lister is the author of the Blood series featuring prison chaplain/detective 

John Jordan, and a second series featuring Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, a PI 

in Panama City during Word War II. 



Author Hometown: Wewahitchka, FL 

The Deputy 

Victor Gischler 

Thunder Beach 

Michael Lister







Day One 

Bill Cameron 

Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker fl ees her 

home and abusive husband, unaware she’s being tracked by an ex-cop in the 

hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective 

Skin Kadash fi lls his idle days drinking coff ee and searching for Eager 

Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome 

and long-unsolved murder. Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting 

and oblivious to the danger he’s in. 

Bill Cameron lives in Portland, Oregon. His previous novels are Lost Dog and 

Chasing Smoke. 

Frozen Stiff 

Mary Logue 

Book eight in the Claire Watkins mystery series fi nds car mogul Daniel Walker 

celebrating New Year’s Eve alone, roasting in his sauna. At midnight he runs 

outside for a quick roll in the snow . . . and the next morning he’s found 

dead—naked, frozen, and covered in snow. 

While solving this midwinter crime, Claire realizes how tenuous love is, 

and how frozen she’s been since the death of her fi rst husband. 

Mary Logue is an award-winning poet and mystery writer. She has taught for 

many years at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at 

Hamline University in St. Paul. 


FICTION 

June 

5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-1-935562-08-5 CUSA 


978-1-935562-09-2 CUSA 

A retired detective about to give up 

on life helps a woman escape 

an abusive past. 

FICTION 

June 

5½ x 8½ | 264 pp 


978-1-935562-10-8 CUSA 


978-1-935562-11-5 CUSA 

The eighth installment in the 

popular Claire Watkins series brings 

winter to Pepin County. 

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July 

5½ x 8½ | 320 pp 


978-1-935562-12-2 CUSA 


978-1-935562-13-9 CUSA 

A murder-for-hire goes wrong 

when a man with late-stage Alzheimer’s 

witnesses the crime. 

FICTION 

July 

5½ x 8½ | 300 pp 


978-1-935562-14-6 CUSA 


978-1-935562-15-3 CUSA 

The Grateful Dead meets 

a dead body. 

Desire, need, and ambition fuel Corrine Tedros, a Lady Macbeth wannabe 

who arranges the murder of her father-in-law, a soft-drink mogul. It’s witnessed 

by a man in the late stages of Alzheimer’s; he provides scattershot details 

but cannot accurately communicate what he saw. 

Dark and beautiful, this novel explores the fear that drives how far people 

are willing to go to fi nd what they want, and the steps they’ll take to get it. 

Lynn Kostoff is a professor of English at Francis Marion University in 

Florence, South Carolina. He’s previously written A Choice of Nightmares and The 

Long Fall. 



Author Hometown: Florence, SC 

A soft-boiled detective story where The Big Lebowski meets Fletch. 

In the sixties, Harry Stein was the foremost authority on cannabis, writing 

a book on indoor cultivation and inventing thirteen diff erent hybrids. 

Nowadays, he stays straight to keep joint custody of his daughter. But when a 

crop of “orchids” goes missing, Stein must re-enter the haze he thought he’d 

left behind. 

Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film 

and Television for the past twenty-four years. His book Write Screenplays That 

Sell . . . The Ackerman Way, is in its third printing. 




Late Rain 

Lynn Kostoff 

Stein, Stoned 

Hal Ackerman






Editor Hometown: Wewahitchka, FL 

Listen to the Dead 

Randall Peffer 

Inspired by one of the largest unsolved cases of serial killings in the United 

States, the New Bedford Serial Killings of 1988. 

Harbormaster Corby Church fi nds the bones of a human body on Bird 

Island off Cape Cod. As brassy, young police detective Yemanjá Colón struggles 

with the case, she realizes that Church may know more than he’s letting 

on, and a trip he took to the Bahamas in the ’80s may prove the key. 

Randall Peff er is an instructor at Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. 

He is the author of the Cape Islands Mystery series and several nonfi ction 

titles. 

Florida Heat Wave 

Edited by Michael Lister 

The suff ocating heat makes you do things—it seeps in through your pores and 

sucks out your life. Like the bloody smear of a swatted mosquito on sweatsoaked 

skin, violence erupts suddenly, but the damage lingers. 

From the pine tree–lined rural highways of north Florida, the tourist traps 

of central Florida, and the tropical, international environs of South Beach, 

come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed. 

Michael Lister is the author of the Blood series featuring prison chaplain/ 

detective John Jordan, and a second series featuring Jimmy “Soldier” Riley, a 

PI in Panama City during Word War II. 


FICTION 

August 

5½ x 8½ | 300 pp 


978-1-935562-18-4 CUSA 


978-1-935562-19-1 CUSA 

A cold case is given new life when the 

bones of another victim are unearthed. 

FICTION 

August 

5½ x 8½ | 400 pp 


978-1-935562-16-0 CUSA 


978-1-935562-17-7 CUSA 

Sunshine State short stories. 

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Available Now 

5½ x 8½ | 600 pp 


978-0-9825209-4-9 CUSA 


978-0-9825209-5-6 CUSA 

Crime great Ed Gorman collects 

the best short stories of 2008, including 

four Edgar Award fi nalists. 

Between the Dark and the Daylight 

And 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 

Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg 

“Gorman and Greenberg follow up A Prisoner of Memory with another impressive 

anthology, which features a diverse assortment of styles and settings.” 

—Publishers Weekly 

This must-have collection is the perfect book for people who like their crime 

fi ction in small doses from some of the biggest names in the fi eld. 

Includes: “Skinhead Central,” the Edgar Award–winning story by T. Jeff erson 

Parker; “Lucky,” a Sookie Stackhouse short story by Charlaine Harris; 

and more from Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, Sean Chercover, Megan 

Abbott, and others! Features “The Mystery Year in Review” by Jon L. Breen. 



Editor Hometowns: Cedar Rapids, IA / Green Bay, WI 

Silver Lake 

Peter Gadol 

Two architects—two men turning forty who have been involved professionally 

and personally for twenty years—are beginning to see their practice and 

their marriage falter. After an evening of food and conversation with a young 

stranger, an act of violence leaves the men coping with doubt and secrets. 

FICTION | Available Now | 5½ x 8½ | 296 pp 


Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 | 978-0-9825209-1-8 CUSA 

Double Exposure 

Michael Lister 

Remington James returns to the small north Florida town where he grew up to 

watch over his widowed mother and manage the family pawn shop. When he 

unwittingly captures a murder on camera in the river swamp near his home, 

Remington fi nds himself on a night-long quest for survival. 

FICTION | Available Now | 5½ x 8½ | 240 pp 


Trade Cloth US $24.95 | CAN $27.50 | 978-0-9825209-3-2 CUSA

The Kennedy Green House 

Mary Richardson Kennedy and Robin Wilson 

A primer for all families interested in greening up, The Kennedy Green House 

shows intimate details on how the Richardson Kennedys transformed a “sick “ 

home into a standard-setter in eco-effi cient design, decoration, and practice. 

The large-format book documents the “greening” process with a practical, accessible, 

how-to approach, drawing on the knowledge of amazing contributors 

from the forefront of green design and architecture. 

Following the renovation of the Kennedy family home from conception 

to construction and the fi nal move in, The Kennedy Green House tells the story of 

the family’s journey to health, wellness, and a better lifestyle. In doing so, 

it presents simple, easy, and inviting options for consumers from any background 

who are interested in bringing the environmental movement home. 

Expert team advisors, including Bob Vila, William McDonough, Allan Shope, 

Allen Hershkowitz, Al Franken, Lew French, George Bridge, and more add 

their specialized input on the project’s undertaking and outcomes, providing 

unique advice to homeowners. 

Architectural designer Mary Richardson Kennedy has worked with the fi rm 

of Diana Kellogg, the prestigious Parrish Hadley Associates, and leading designer 

Annabelle Selldorf. Mother of six and married to Robert F. Kennedy 

Jr., Richardson embraced this project to encourage green deconstruction, 

construction, and sustainability. 

An award-winning designer with a national profi le, Robin Wilson has won 

the AMEX/OPEN Business Award and was named the Black Enterprise Small 

Business Innovator of the Year, and she was featured in the annual “50 Most 

Powerful Women in New York” list by the New York Post, as well as in numerous 

other publications and broadcasts. 

The eco-friendly, outdoorsy, how-to transformation of the 

Kennedy family residence into a “green” and healthy home. 


ARCHITECTURE / HOUSE & HOME 

April 

8½ x 11 | 200 pp 



978-1-884167-84-3 CUSA 




Author Events 


Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • 

New York, NY • High Point, NC • Cleveland, OH • 

Houston, TX 

Author Hometowns: 

Westchester County, NY /Austin, TX 

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Daring inspiration in a 

daily calendar from some of the 

world’s boldest thinkers past and present. 

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PHOTOGRAPHY 

April 

7½ x 10 | 88 pp 



978-1-884167-86-7 CUSA 

Disturbingly beautiful images and 

gripping interviews show war’s 

annihilating effects through personal 

stories of Palestinian families. 

REFERENCE / SELF-HELP 

April 

4¼ x 5¼ | 370 pp 


978-1-884167-87-4 CUSA 

With heartbreaking images and studious research, Gaza Photo Album is an intimate 

window into the devastation facing Palestinian families after the Gaza 

attacks. Visceral media articulate the stories of victims whose voices are not 

often heard. 

Kent Klich is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for his work in 

fi lm, his photography, his books, and his exhibitions, including important 

projects in the fi eld of human rights. 

Human rights activist Jaber Wishah is the deputy director of the Palestinian 

Center for Human Rights and has been an advocate for equal justice and 

greater democratic reforms for many years. 



Author Events 

Washington, DC • New York, NY • Burlington, VT 

A collection of inspirational meditations from courageous men and women 

who have changed our world and are still doing so today, Courage: A Calendar 

helps ordinary people become extraordinary through their actions each day. 

Heartening and encouraging, the daily excerpts will guide readers of any age 

to the exultant, positive path to personal freedom. The cast of contributors 

ranges vastly, encompassing thinkers from Aristotle to Kailash Satyarthi to 

Dr. Seuss. 



Gaza Photo Album 


Foreword by Jaber Wishah 

Courage: A Calendar 

Edited by Umbrage Editions



“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had 

a son named Geoff rey Nutter?”—John Yau 

Bearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early 

twentieth-century painters, Geoff rey Nutter casts a penetrating light into the 

colorfully shifting landscape of modern existence. Christopher Sunset reinvigorates 

the architecture of society’s captive and captivating imaginations. 

Geoff rey Nutter is the author of Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Verse Press) and A 

Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have been widely 

anthologized, including in the Best American Poetry series. He lives in Manhattan 

with his family. 




Black Life 

Dorothea Lasky 

You are born and it is to a black life 

Full of abuse and strange things . . . 

In her brazen second collection, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy 

and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of 

becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected not in 

tranquility, but in radically affi rming intensity. 

I leave and I am a black life . . . 

And I want to 

Be what you made me to be 

Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry. Educated at the 

University of Massachusetts, Washington University, and Harvard University, 

she currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Denver, CO • Washington, DC • Chicago, IL • Seattle, WA 


Christopher Sunset 

Geoffrey Nutter 


POETRY 

April 


6½ x 10 | 72 pp 


978-1-933517-43-8 CUSA 

Infused with dark, tumultuous, 

and urgent feeling—emotion recollected 

not in tranquility, but in intensity. 

POETRY 

April 


5½ x 8½ | 80 pp 


978-1-933517-44-5 CUSA 

Christopher Sunset casts a 

penetrating light into the colorfully 

shifting landscape of modern existence. 

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Selected Backlist from Wave Books 

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Awe 

Dorothea Lasky 

POETRY 

6 x 8¼ | 88 pp 


978-1-933517-24-7 CUSA 

Rise Up 

Matthew Rohrer 

POETRY 

5¾ x 8½ | 72 pp 


978-1-933517-18-6 CUSA 

The Most of It 

Mary Ruefl e 

FICTION 

5 x 8½ | 96 pp 


978-1-933517-29-2 CUSA 

Sorry, Tree 

Eileen Myles 

POETRY 

5½ x 9 | 83 pp 


978-1-933517-20-9 CUSA 

Remnants of Hannah 

Dara Wier 

POETRY 

5½ x 8 | 72 pp 


978-1-933517-08-7 CUSA 

Water’s Leaves and 

Other Poems 

Geoffrey Nutter 

POETRY 

5½ x 8 | 96 pp 


978-0-9746353-6-1 CUSA





Finding the Way Home 

Poems of Awakening and Transformation 

Edited by Dennis Maloney 

Good poetry contains the kind of knowledge we search for, the kind that resonates 

in the heart as well as the mind. The poems in this anthology are timeless, 

spanning two millenniums, and are drawn from many diff erent centuries 

and cultures. The voices range from ancient China, Japan, and India to contemporary 

America and Europe. What they share is a living spirit that can help 

us change the way we see ourselves, and the world. 

Contributors include Han-shan, Du Fu, Li Po, Ryokan, Issa, Yosa Buson, 

Ikkyu, Rumi, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Tomas Tranströmer, 

Rolf Jacobsen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Denise 

Levertov, Jane Hirshfi eld, Gary Snyder, Joseph Bruchac, Sam Hamill, James 

Wright, Ilya Kaminsky, Robert Bly, and many others. 

Author Events 

San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Minneapolis, MN • Albuquerque, NM • 

Santa Fe, NM • Buffalo, NY • Rochester, NY • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA 

Editor Hometown: Buffalo, NY 

Rants and Raves 

Selected and New Prose Poems 

Peter Johnson 

“The excitement of prose poetry is that it transgresses the rules to catch 

a glimpse of what could be called the true life of the imagination.” 

—Charles Simic 

“Johnson’s clear-eyed explication of our sad, bruised, fallen world becomes 

a celebration, an elation. Johnson shouts, ‘Hallelujah!’ in one of his poems. 

Read Rants and Raves and you’ll be shouting it too.”—Gary Young 

Rants and Raves draws from three previously published volumes and includes a 

selection of new poetry by this master of the prose poem. 

Peter Johnson has published three books of prose poems and three books of 

fi ction. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. 

Author Events 

Boston, MA • Buffalo, NY • Providence, RI 

Author Hometown: Providence, RI 


POETRY 

June 


Companions for the Journey 22 

5 x 7 | 240 pp 


978-1-935210-12-2 CUSA 

Poetry that has the capacity 

to slow us down, make us listen, 

and pay attention. 

POETRY 

April 


6 x 9 | 120 pp 


978-1-935210-06-1 CUSA 

Peter Johnson’s clear-eyed explication 

of our sad, bruised, and fallen world is a 

celebration and elation. 

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POETRY 

April 


Marie Alexander Poetry Series 13 

6 x 9 | 128 pp 


978-1-935210-13-9 CUSA 

“Chinquee is a true artist with a true 

vision, and Pretty is a brilliant book.” 

—Robert Olen Butler 



Pretty 

Kim Chinquee 

“There is always a roiling subtext beneath the seemingly placid surfaces and 

tones of Chinquee’s pieces, a dichotomy which speaks to deep truths about the 

human condition. Kim Chinquee is a true artist with a true vision, and Pretty 

is a brilliant book.”—Robert Olen Butler 

“These brief snapshots of conversations manage to seem not like fragments of 

lost wholes but like vivid distillations of essential dramas, each a variation on 

the shared subject of thwarted intimacy.”—Carl Dennis 

Kim Chinquee lives in Buff alo, New York, where she teaches creative writing. 

Oh Baby is her fi rst book of fl ash fi ction. 

Author Events 

Chicago, IL • Boston, MA • Buffalo, NY • Rochester, NY • Syracuse, NY • 

Milwaukee, WI 

Author Hometown: Buffalo, NY 

The Alchemist’s Kitchen 

Susan Rich 

“Kaleidoscopic curiosity, powerfully kinesthetic language, and an encompassing 

compassion range in this abundant collection, in which personal and 

public realms serve as equal alembics for the distillation of both materia and 

light.”—Jane Hirshfi eld 

“Rich is a traveler and an observant one at that, with a keen attention to detail 

and a wonderful ear. These poems are a delight.”—Library Journal 

POETRY | May | A Paperback Original | 6 x 9 | 96 pp 


The Star Wizard’s Legacy 

Poems of Vasko Popa 

Translated by Morton Marcus 

Building on surrealist fables and traditional folktales, personal anecdotes and 

the tribal myths of his Serbian homeland, Vasko Popa created one of the most 

original poetries of the twentieth century. 

POETRY | April | A Paperback Original | Terra Incognita Series 10 | 6 x 9 | 108 pp 


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Meaning in Life : A Buddhist View 

Sarvananda 

How can we bring more sense of signifi cance into our lives? What meaning 

does life have in the face of suff ering or death? Do we have a why to live for? 

Sarvananda takes us from the challenge of fi nding meaning to a need to 

engage with the wider world, by drawing a parallel with the Buddha’s own 

quest. Using references from the twentieth century, Sarvananda covers many 

of the ways in which we seek meaning, citing writers and thinkers such as Akira 

Kurosawa, William Wordsworth, and Woody Allen. In so doing he moves from 

individual understanding to the principles of Buddhist teaching and demonstrates 

in a calm, friendly way how to apply the teachings practically. 

Sarvananda was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1987, after being 

ordained as a member of the Western Buddhist Order, he moved to Norwich, 

England, where, over the last twenty years, he has taught classes in Buddhism 

and meditation. At present he earns a living by writing and has had six plays 

and a comedy series broadcast on BBC radio. This is his fi rst book. 

Meaning in Life: A Buddhist View 


PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION 

April 


A Buddhist View 1 

4½ x 7 | 128 pp 


978-1-899579-87-7 CUSA 

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ENVIRONMENT / RELIGION 

April 


4½ x 7 | 152 pp 


978-1-899579-99-0 CUSA 

Saving the Earth : A Buddhist View 

Akuppa 

“What welcome wisdom comes our way in this book! If you want to stay sane, 

motivated, and productive while working for the healing of our world, read 

these pages of priceless and pleasurable advice. It is like having a heart-toheart 

with a trusted and savvy friend.”—Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, 

World as Self 

Filled with practical tips as well as insightful refl ections, Saving the Earth provides 

tools for change while showing how the Buddhist philosophies of interconnectedness 

and compassion are of immense use in our eff orts toward 

preserving the natural world. 

Akuppa helps discover new ways to reduce your impact on the earth, and 

also to deal with the feelings of panic and despair that news of the environment 

can often evoke. With an ultimately positive view, he champions the human 

ability to change and celebrates the enormous diff erence this can make. 

Akuppa was born and bred on Tyneside, England. After studying geography, 

he worked as a planner with a particular concern for environmental issues 

and has campaigned politically for the environment. He was ordained into 

the Western Buddhist Order in 2000 and teaches meditation and Buddhism, 

often with a particular focus on beauty. 

Saving the Earth: A Buddhist View

Vegetarianism : A Buddhist View 

Bodhipaksa 

How does what we eat aff ect us and our world? Is there a connection between 

vegetarianism and living a spiritual life? Doesn’t the Dalai Lama eat meat? 

A trained vet, respected teacher, and happy vegan, Bodhipaksa answers 

all of these questions and more. Tackling issues such as genetically modifi ed 

vege tables and modern ways of producing food, he dispels widespread myths 

and refl ects upon the diets dominant in the contemporary West. In comparison, 

he considers the diets of wandering monks in ancient India and the diet 

of the Buddha himself. 

By considering why people eat meat and relating this to Buddhist ethics, 

he explores habits and the possibility of change. He shows how to maintain a 

healthy and balanced vegan or vegetarian lifestyle, and how a meat-free life 

can not only lighten the body but also the soul. 

Bodhipaksa is a Buddhist practitioner, writer, and teacher, and is the founder 

of www.wildmind.org, an online meditation resource. He lives in New 

Hampshire with his family and conducts classes at Aryaloka Buddhist Center 

in Newmarket, New Hampshire. He is the author of the best-selling Wildmind. 

Vegetarianism: A Buddhist View 


RELIGION / HEALTH & FITNESS 

April 


4½ x 7 | 104 pp 


978-1-899579-96-9 CUSA 

Author Hometown: Newmarket, NH 

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April 

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Wildmind 

A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation 

Bodhipaksa 

“Of great help to people interested in meditation and an inspiring reminder to 

those on the path.”—Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of the Insight Meditation 

Society and author of One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism 

“Bodhipaksa has written a beautiful and very accessible introduction to meditation. 

He guides us through all the basics of mindfulness and also lovingkindness 

meditations with the voice of a wise, kind, and patient friend.” 

—Dr. Lorne Ladner, author of The Lost Art of Compassion 

The aim of Buddhist meditation is to clear away the “defi lements” so that we can experience ourselves— 

more deeply and more truly—in our primordial purity, clarity, and freedom of mind. Meditation 

helps us to cut through the agonizing clutter of superfi cial mental turmoil and allows us to experience 

more spacious and joyful states of mind. It is this pure and luminous state that I call your Wildmind. 

From how to build your own meditation stool to how a raisin can help you 

meditate, this illustrated guide explains everything you need to know to start 

or deepen your meditation practice. This bestseller is in a new handy format 

and features brand-new illustrations. 

Bodhipaksa is a Buddhist practitioner, writer, and teacher, and he is the 

founder of www.wildmind.org, an online meditation resource. He lives in 

New Hampshire with his family and conducts classes at Aryaloka Buddhist 

Center in Newmarket, New Hampshire. 

Tame your wild mind.

A Refl ective Life 

Ratnaguna 

Ratnaguna off ers practical and specifi c advice on refl ection as a spiritual practice. 

He also demonstrates its great value—not just as a part of life, but as a way 

of reminding oneself of life’s true meaning. 

Ratnaguna is a respected member of the Western Buddhist Order. 

RELIGION | July | A Paperback Original | Buddhist Wisdom in Practice | 6 x 9 | 256 pp 


Conditionality 

Dhivan and Sagaraghosa 

Conditionality is an exploration of the Buddha’s fundamental insight that all 

things arise from dependence on conditions. Practical exercises and refl ections 

are included to prompt readers to explore how conditionality works in 

their own lives. 

Dhivan and Sagaraghosa are both respected members of the Western Buddhist 

order. 

RELIGION | June | A Paperback Original | Buddhist Wisdom in Practice | 6 x 9 | 224 pp 


FWBO: The Story of a 

Western Buddhist Movement 

Vajragupta 

This is the story of a circle of friends dreaming a dream, and working to make it a reality. . . . It’s the 

nitty-gritty story of how a community evolves. It’s a story of idealism and naivety, growth and growing 

pains, hard work and burn-out, friendship and fall-out. 

This book tells the story of an international Buddhist movement, from its inception 

in London to its growth worldwide. It is the story of mistakes made, 

lessons learned, and how a Buddhist community was built. 

Vajragupta is the author of the best-selling Buddhism: Tools for Living your Life. 


RELIGION 

April 


5 x 7¾ | 224 pp 

Color and B&W illustrations and photographs 


978-1-899579-92-1 CUSA 

A short history of the 

Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. 

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Sangharakshita Classics Series 

Sangharakshita 

With a timeless design and brand new introductions, Sangharakshita Classics refreshes these important and beloved works by 

Sangharakshita. First published twenty or more years ago, they are as relevant now as when they were fi rst written. 

Sangharakshita is the founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), an international Buddhist movement. 

He is a treasured teacher and the author of over forty books. 

The Religion of Art 


O ne of Sangharakshita’s most studied works, The Religion of Art discusses how 

art, like religion, can challenge our perceptions, awareness, and experience 

of truth. 

RELIGION / ART | April | Sangharakshita Classics 1 | 4½ x 7 | 144 pp 


The History of My Going for Refuge 


“Going for refuge” is the act of committing one’s life to Buddhism. Tracing 

his own path of discovery, Sangharakshita shows how the monastic and spiritual 

life are not identical but that what is truly important is commitment to 

spiritual ideals. 

RELIGION | April | Sangharakshita Classics 2 | 4½ x 7 | 144 pp 


The Ten Pillars of Buddhism 


The ten pillars of Buddhism are ten ethical principles, such as generosity, 

truthfulness, or compassion, that together provide a comprehensive moral 

guide. Sangharakshita highlights the depth of these apparently simple teachings 

by fi rst considering them collectively and then individually. 

RELIGION | April | Sangharakshita Classics 3 | 4½ x 7 | 144 pp 


Approaching You in English 

Selected Poems of Admiel Kosman 

Admiel Kosman 

Translated by Lisa Katz and Shlomit Naor 

“Verses to be added to the end of Deuteronomy” 

Are you kidding, let it be, 

just write that we were born, we were here, 

and we drowned in the sea. 

That’s enough. Keep the fi nal verses 

short, in your generosity, just hint that it’s bad here, 

without love, in the desert, the old people grumbling, 

even dying all the way here, 

a long journey and contention. 

And the day-old baby of the homeland—hatred— 

the baby of the homeland, and its mother—longing, 

and the baby of the homeland, 

swallowing oatmeal and milk, some more, 

dying and hunger. 

Write concisely about murder and blood, 

just hint at a people and a homeland, 

keep it short, in your generosity (let it be), 

and remind the reader 

that we drowned in the sea. 

Admiel Kosman is one of Israel’s most prominent contemporary poets, with 

eight books of poetry to his credit, and several more of prose. His work evokes 

multiple tensions between prayer and modern life, sacred texts and eroti cism, 

war and peace, language and translation. After teaching at Bar Ilan University 

in Israel for many years, Kosman moved permanently to Berlin, where he 

is now professor of religious studies at Potsdam University and heads the 

fi rst Reform rabbinical college in Germany to resume operations after the 

Holocaust. 

Lisa Katz is the author of Reconstruction (Am Oved) and the translator of Look 

There: New and Selected Poems of Agi Mishol (Graywolf Press). Her poems, translations, 

essays, and reviews have appeared in scores of publications, and she is 

the translation coordinator for the Jerusalem International Poetry Festival. 

In 2008, she won the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. She teaches at the Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem and frequently lectures abroad. 

Shlomit Naor, born in Raanana, Israel, in 1974, is an educator and published 

poet. She holds an MA in creative writing from Ben Gurion University and 

a BA in philosophy and literature from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 

A broad selection from the Israeli poet’s 

seven volumes of Hebrew writing. 

Zephyr Press 

POETRY / FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 

April 


6 x 8 | 144 pp 


978-0-9815521-4-9 CUSA 

Hebrew bilingual 




AGNI • Harvard Review • Heeb • 

Rain Taxi • Tikkun 

367

Zephyr Press 

368 

POETRY / FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY 

June 


Chinese Writing Today 

6 x 8 | 144 pp 


978-0-9815521-5-6 CUSA 






American Poet • Asian Weekly • Bookforum • 

Boston Review • Harvard Review • 

Library Journal • Persimmon 

Translator Hometowns: St. Paul, MN / 

New York, NY 

Flash Cards 

Selected Poems from Yu Jian’s Anthology of Notes 

Yu Jian 

Translated by Wang Ping and Ron Padgett 

Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical 

vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has 

written about his own work: “It is possible to see eternity—to see everything— 

in a teacup or a sweet wrapper. Everything in the world is poetry.” 

An eighteen-year-old college girl 

walks to class on a spring morning 

rosy cheeks long legs 

inside a wool skirt 

only a small wild part revealed 

beautiful girl chest held high 

a cup of tea between her hands 

a book beneath her elbow 

crossing the fl ower garden 

looking straight ahead 

she is rushing to catch 

a philosophy class 

Yu Jian, born in 1954 in Kunming, China, is a poet, author, and documentary 

fi lm director. He began writing poetry in the early 1970s, infl uenced 

both by classical Chinese poetry and modern Western writers such as Walt 

Whitman. Yu Jian is a major fi gure among the “Third Generation Poets” who 

came after the “Misty Poetry” movement of the early 1980s. 

Wang Ping’s books include two collections of poetry, The Magic Whip and Of Flesh 

& Spirit, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. Her novel The 

Last Communist Virgin was winner of the 2008 Minnesota Book Award in the category 

of Novel & Short Story and the 2007 Book Award from the Association 

for Asian American Studies in the category of Poetry/Prose. 

Ron Padgett’s translations include Blaise Cendrars’ Complete Poems, Guillaume 

Apollinaire’s Poet Assassinated, and, with Bill Zavatsky, Valery Larbaud’s Poems of 

A. O. Barnabooth. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Padgett was 

named offi cer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. 

In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of 

America. 

Selected work from one of the most infl uential and 

subversive contemporary Chinese poets.

Black Square 

Tadeusz Da˛browski 

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 

When in 2006 Tadeusz Róz˙ewicz won the Polish Culture Foundation’s Golden 

Sceptre lifetime achievement award, he presented the Little Sceptre—awarded 

by the major winner to his favorite younger artist—to Tadeusz Da˛browski, with 

the words: “One day he’ll swap his little sceptre for a big one.” 

A thirty-year-old boy solemnly convinced 

of his own immortality. 

A boy with blue-and-white skin like the marble 

of heaven. 

The boy who falls on me like the tombstone 

of night. Like dreamless sleep. 

Someone who promptly appears and disappears 

like a black square on a black background. 

Tadeusz Da˛browski was born in northern Poland in 1979. From his fi rst volume, 

published in 1999, he has been critically acclaimed for poetry that combines 

a tone of metaphysical meditation with the theme of love. His poems 

are like snapshots taken by a sensitive camera that captures moments fi lled 

with the “caring absence” of God and intimacy with the woman the poet loves. 

Here we fi nd gravity laced with humor and sublimity mixed with pleasure. 

So far Da˛browski has published fi ve volumes of poetry in his native Poland, 

which have won him numerous awards. His work has appeared in translation 

in thirteen European languages. English translations of his poems by Antonia 

Lloyd-Jones have been published in several leading literary journals, including 

Agni, American Poetry Review, and Tin House. Black Square is his fi rst collection to 

be published in English. 

Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a translator of Polish literature. In 2008 she won 

the Found in Translation Award for her translation of The Last Supper, a novel 

by Paweł Huelle. Her other translations of fi ction include works by Jarosław 

Iwaszkiewicz and Olga Tokarczuk. Her translations of poetry by Jacek Dehnel 

appeared in a recent anthology, Six Polish Poets, published by Arc Publications. 

R ecent work from a celebrated contemporary Polish poet. 

Zephyr Press 

POETRY 

June 


New Polish Writing 

6 x 8 | 112 pp 


978-0-9815521-6-3 CUSA 



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Lightwall 

Liliana Ursu 

Translated by Sean Cotter 

POETRY 

6 x 8 | 144 pp 


978-0-9815521-2-5 CUSA 

Feelings Above Sea Level 

Prose Poems from the 

Chinese of Shang Qin 

Shang Qin 

Translated by Steve Bradbury 


5¼ x 9¼ | 104 pp 



978-0-939010-89-9 CUSA 

Door Languages 

Zafer Senocak 

Translated by 

Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright 

POETRY 

6 x 8 | 144 pp 


978-0-939010-78-3 CUSA 

Anxiety of Words 

Contemporary Poetry 

by Korean Women 

Ch’oe Sung-ja with Kim Hyesoon 

and Yi Yon-ju 

Translated by Don Mee Choi 


6 x 9 | 175 pp 


978-0-939010-87-5 CUSA 

Peregrinary 

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki 

Translated by Bill Johnston 

POETRY 

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978-0-939010-97-4 CUSA 

Darkness Spoken 

The Collected Poems of 

Ingeborg Bachmann 

Ingeborg Bachmann 

Translated with an Introduction 

by Peter Filkins 

POETRY 

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CANADA 

Executive: Dimitrios Roussopoulos 

ph 514/844-4076 

f 514/849-4797 

info@blackrosebooks.net 

www.blackrosebooks.net 


978-0-919619, 978-0-920057, 

978-0-921689, 978-1-895431, 

978-1-55164, 978-1-551640 


250 N Goodman Street, Suite 306 

Rochester, NY 14607 

Executive: Nora A. Jones 

ph 585/546-3410 

f 585/546-3913 

info@boaeditions.org 

www.boaeditions.org 


978-1-880238, 978-0-9665639, 

978-1-929918, 978-1-934414 

372 Consortium Distributed Publishers Spring / Summer 2010


P.O. Box 24 

Halcottsville, NY 12438 

Executive: Garth Battista 

ph 800/548-4348 

f 212/898-0408 

breakawaybooks@gmail.com 

www.breakawaybooks.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-891369, 978-1-55821 


P.O. Box 540594 

Houston, TX 77254 

Executive: David Thompson 

ph 713/924-9282 

f 713/942-9227 

bustedflushpress@yahoo.com 

www.bustedflushpress.com 


978-0-9767157, 978-0-9792709 


P.O. Box 3671 

Ann Arbor, MI 48106 

Executives: Kelly Smith and Marianne K. Martin 

ph 866/390-7426 

into@bywaterbooks.com 

www.bywaterbooks.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-932859 

CALYX Books 

P.O. Box B 

Corvallis, OR 97339 

Executive: Margarita Donnelly 

ph 541/753-9384 

f 541/753-0515 

calyx@proaxis.com 

www.calyxpress.org 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-934971 


2565 Teller Court 

Lakewood, CO 80214 

Executive: Jerad Walters 

ph 303/231-9720 

f 303/231-9720 

jerad@centipedepress.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-933618 

Child Heroes Publishing 

1371 Hillandale Road 

Norfolk, VA 23502 

Executive: Sharon Liddle 

ph 757/286-8181 

f 757/626-3109 

admin@childheroespublishing.com 

www.childheroespublishing.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9746568 

Chin Music Press 

2621 24th Ave W 

Seattle, WA 98199 

Executive: Bruce Rutledge 

ph 206/784-4700 

f 206/784-4700 

bruce@chinmusicpress.com 

www.chinmusicpress.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9741995 

Cinco Puntos Press 

701 Texas Ave 

El Paso, TX 79901 

Executives: Bobby and Lee Byrd 

ph 915/838-1625 

f 915/838-1635 

info@cincopuntos.com 

www.cincopuntos.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-938317, 978-1-933693 



261 Columbus Avenue 


Executive: Elaine Katzenberger 

ph 415/362-1901 

f 415/362-4921 

staff@citylights.com 

www.citylights.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-87286, 978-0-912516, 

978-0-87704, 978-1-931404 


79 13th Ave. NE, Suite 110 

Minneapolis, MN 55413 

Executive: Allan Kornblum 

ph 612/338-0125 

f 612/338-4004 

allan@coffeehousepress.org 

www.coffeehousepress.org 


978-0-918273, 978-1-56689 

Common Courage Press 

121 Red Barn Road 

P.O. Box 702 

Monroe, ME 04951 

Executive: Greg Bates 

ph 207/525-0900 

f 207/525-3068 

gbates@commoncouragepress.com 

www.commoncouragepress.com 


978-1-56751 

Contrasto 

Via degli Scialoia, 3 

Rome, ITALY 00196 

Executive: Roberto Koch 

ph 011 39 (0) 632 8281 

f 011 39 (0) 632 828 240 

rkoch@contrasto.it 

www.contrastobooks.com 


978-88-86982, 978-88-6965 


P.O. Box 271 

Port Townsend, WA 98368 

Executive: Michael Wiegers 

ph 360/385-4925 

f 360/385-4985 

poetry@coppercanyonpress.org 

www.coppercanyonpress.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-914742, 978-1-55659, 

978-0-9663395, 978-0-9718981, 

978-0-9776395, 978-0-9672668, 

978-1-931337 

Dewi Lewis Publishing 

8 Broomfield Road 

Heaton Moor 

Stockport, SK4 4ND 


Executive: Dewi Lewis 

ph 011 44 (0) 161 442 9450 

f 011 44 (0) 161 442 9450 

mail@dewilewispublishing.com 

www.dewilewispublishing.com 


978-1-904587, 978-0-948797 


220 East 23rd Street 

Suite 500 


Executive: Gary Baddeley 

ph 212/691-1605 

f 212/691-1606 

books@disinfo.com 

www.disinfo.com 


978-0-9664100, 978-1-932857, 

978-0-9729529, 978-1-934708 


1334 Woodbourne St. 

Westland, MI 48186 

Executive: Dan Wickett 

ph 734/756-5701 

dan@dzancbooks.org 

www.dzancbooks.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9767177, 978-0- 

9768993, 978-0-9793123, 978-0- 

9815899, 978-0-615, 978-1-934703 


Editions Intervalles 

80 Boulevard Haussmann 

75008 Paris 

FRANCE 

Executive: Armand de Saint Sauveur 

ph 011 33 (0) 153 438 330 

f 011 33 (0) 153 430 595 

stsauveur@editionsintervalles.com 

www.editionsintervalles.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-2-916355 

Eighth Mountain Press 

624 Southeast 29th Ave. 

Portland, OR 97214 

Executive: Ruth Gundle 

ph 503/233-3936 

f 503/233-0774 

eighthmt@pacifier.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-933377 

Enchanted Lion Books 

20 Jay Street, Studio M-18 


Publisher: Claudia Bedrick 

ph 646/785-9272 

enchantedlion@gmail.com 

www.enchantedlionbooks.com 



360 East 116th Street 


Executive: Robert L. Miller 

ph 212/933-1315 

editor@enigmabooks.com 

www.enigmabooks.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-929631 


84 W. South Street 

Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 

Executive Editor: Dr. Philip Brady 

Managing Editor: Doris Umbers 

ph 570/408-4546 

f 570/408-3333 

etruscanpress@gmail.com 

www.etruscanpress.org 


978-0-9745995, 978-0-9797450, 

978-0-9819687 

Exterminating Angel Press 

1892 Colestin Road 

Ashland, OR 97520 

Executive: Tod Davies 

ph 541/482-5106 

f 541/482-5106 

info@exterminatingangel.com 

www.exterminatingangel.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-935259 

The Feminist Press at CUNY 

365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 


Executive: Gloria Jacobs 

ph 212/817-7915 

f 212/817-1593 

GJacobs@gc.cuny.edu 

www.feministpress.org 


978-0-935312, 978-1-55861 

Feral House 

1240 West Sims Way, Box 124 


Executive: Adam Parfrey 

ph 323/666-3311 

f 323/297-4331 

ap@feralhouse.com 

www.feralhouse.com 


978-1-932595 


Five Ties Publishing 

396 Twelfth Street, 2L 


Executive: Garrett White 

ph 347/529-5077 

f 267/501-7658 

editor@fiveties.com 

www.fiveties.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9777193, 978-0-9794727, 

978-0-9819690 


4690 Table Mountain Drive 

Golden, CO 80403 

Executive for Fulcrum Publishing: 

Derek Lawrence 

Executive for Speaker’s Corner: Sam Scinta 

ph 303/277-1623 

f 303/279-7111 

info@fulcrum-books.com 

www.fulcrum-books.com, 

www.speckpress.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-55591, 978-1-933108, 

978-0-9725776, 978-1-936218 

Green Integer 

6022 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 202C 

Los Angeles, CA 90036 

Executive: Douglas Messerli 

ph 323/857-1115 

f 323/857-0143 

douglasmesserli@gmail.com 

www.greeninteger.com 

http://greeninteger.blogspot.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-892295, 978-1-55713, 

978-1-931243, 978-1-933382 

Gryphon House 

P.O. Box 207 

Beltsville, MD 20704-0207 

Executive: Larry Rood 

ph 800/638-0928 

f 301/595-0051 

info@ghbooks.com 

www.gryphonhouse.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-87659, 978-1-58904 

The Gryphon Press 

6808 Margarets Lane 

Edina, MN 55439 

Executive: Emilie Buchwald 

f 952/941-6593 

eb6@earthlink.net 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-940719 


70 Cadogan Place 

London, SW1X 9AH 


Executive: Barbara Schwepcke 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 838 9055 

f 011 44 (0) 207 235 1999 

info@hauspublishing.com 

www.hauspublishing.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-904341, 978-1-904950, 

978-1-905791, 978-1-906598 


4015 North Rockwell Avenue 

Chicago, IL 60618 

ph 773/583-7884 

f 773/583-6144 

info@haymarketbooks.org 

www.haymarketbooks.org 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-931859, 978-1-60846 


18a Radbourne Road 

Balham 

London, SW12 0DZ 


Executive: Graeme Milton 

ph 011 44 (0) 208 673 6320 

sales@helterskelterpublishing.com 

www.helterskelterpublishing.com 


978-1-902799, 978-1-905139 



P.O. Box 3170 

Mt. Royal Station 

Duluth, MN 55803 

Executive: Jim Perlman 

ph 218/724-1653 

f 218/724-1653 

holycow@holycowpress.org 

www.holycowpress.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-930100, 978-0-9779458, 

978-0-9823545 

Ig Publishing 

178 Clinton Avenue 


Executives: Robert Lasner and Elizabeth 

Clementson 

ph 718/797-0676 

f 718/797-0676 

robert@igpub.com 

elizabeth@igpub.com 

www.igpub.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9703125, 978-0-9752517, 

978-0-9771972, 978-0-9788431, 

978-0-9815040, 978-1-935439 

Image Continuum Press 

P.O. Box 51599 

Eugene, OR 97405 

Executives: David Bayles and Ted Orland 

ph 541/344-5955 

f 541/344-4493 

tno@cruzio.com 

www.artandfear.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9614547 

Immedium 

P.O. Box 31846 

San Francisco, CA 94131-0846 

Executive: Oliver Chin 

ph 415/452-8546 

f 360/937-6272 

pr@immedium.com 

www.immedium.com 


Imperfect Publishing 

P.O. Box 608 

60 Overlook Road 

Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 

Executive: Leonard Koren 

ph 415/336-6015 

info@imperfectpublishing.com 

www.imperfectpublishing.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9814846 


520 Princess Ave. 

London, Ontario 

CANADA N6B 2B8 

Executive: Mike O’Connor 

ph 416/619-5912 

f 647/722-4989 

mike@insomniacpress.com 

www.insomniacpress.com 


978-1-895837, 978-1-897178 

Joshua Odell Editions 

P.O. Box 2158 

Santa Barbara, CA 93120 

Executive: Joshua Odell 

ph 805/966-4606 

f 805/966-4627 

joshua.odell2@verizon.net 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-877741 

Kehrer Verlag 

Heinsteinwerk Wieblinger Weg 21 

69123 Heidelberg, GERMANY 

Executive: Klaus Kehrer 

ph 011 49 (0) 6221 649 20 18 

f 011 49 (0) 6221 649 20 20 

contact@kehrerverlag.com 

www.kehrerverlag.com 


978-3-936636, 978-3-980444, 

978-3-939583, 978-3-86828 



MCC, Ratby Lane 

Markfield 

Leicestershire, LE67 9SY 


Executives: Haris Ahmad and Farooq Murad 

ph 011 44 (0) 1530 249 230 

f 011 44 (0) 1530 249 656 

info@kubepublishing.com 

www.kubepublishing.com 


978-0-9536768, 978-1-84774 


P.O. Box 2110 

Teaticket, MA 02536 

Executive: Lisa Graziano 

ph 774/392-4384 

leapfrog@leapfrogpress.com 

www.leapfrogpress.com 


978-0-9679520, 978-0-9728984, 

978-0-9815148, 978-1-9352480, 

978-1-9352481 


360 Swift Avenue, Suite 48 

South San Francisco, CA 94080 

Executive: Chris Robyn 

ph 650/872-7718 ext. 312 

f 650/872-7808 

chris@longriverpress.com 

www.longriverpress.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-59265, 978-0-9821816 


152 Monitor Street 


Executive: Gregory Ayres 

ph 646/326-6093 

f 718/609-2706 

greg@loudmouthpress.org 

www.loudmouthpress.org 



40 Camino Cielo 

Santa Fe, NM 87506 

Executive: Ronald Christ 

ph 505/988-5820 

f 505/988-5820 

lumenbooks@earthlink.net 

www.lumenbooks.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-930829, 978-4-7571, 

978-0-936050, 978-84-921103 

The Magenta Foundation 

151 Winchester Street 

Toronto, Ontario 

CANADA M4X 1B5 

Executive: MaryAnn Camilleri 

ph 416/925-0310 

maryann@magentafoundation.org 

www.magentafoundation.org 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9739739 

Manic D Press 

P.O. Box 410804 


Executive: Jennifer Joseph 

ph 415/648-8288 

f 415/648-8288 

info@manicdpress.com 

www.manicdpress.com 


978-0-916397 

Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. 

24 Lacy Road 

London, SW15 1NL 


Executive: Catheryn Kilgarriff 

ph 011 44 (0) 208 788 9522 

f 011 44 (0) 208 789 8122 

catheryn@marionboyars.com 

www.marionboyars.co.uk 



Mathew Price Ltd. 

12300 Ford Road, Suite 455 

Dallas, TX 75234 

Executive: Mathew Price 

ph 972/484-0500 

f 972/484-0500 

mathewp@mathewprice.com 

www.mathewprice.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-935021 

Mercury House 

P.O. Box 192850 

San Francisco, CA 94119-2850 

Director: Jeremy Bigalke 

ph 415/626-7874 

mercury@mercuryhouse.org 

www.mercuryhouse.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-916515, 978-1-56279 


The Old Weighbridge 

Station Road, Wrea Green 

Preston, Lancashire PR4 2PH 


Executive: Peter Walsh 

ph 011 44 (0) 177 267 2900 

f 011 44 (0) 177 268 7727 

pete@milobooks.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-903854 

Monkfish Book Publishing 

27 Lamoree Rd 

Rhinebeck, NY 12572 

Executive: Paul Cohen 

ph 845/876-4861 

Call for fax 

bookcohen@aol.com 

www.monkfishpublishing.com 


978-0-9749359, 978-0-9766843, 978-0- 

9798828, 978-0-9823246 


55 Rectory Road 

Oxford, OX4 1BW 


Executive: Daniel Raymond-Barker 

ph 011 44 (0) 186 581 1425 

f 011 44 (0) 186 579 3152 

danrb@newint.org 

www.newint.org 


978-1-869847, 978-0-9540499, 

978-1-906523 

New Rivers Press 

c/o Minnesota State University 

Moorhead 

1104 7th Ave S 

Moorhead, MN 56563 

Executives: Alan Davis and Wayne 

Gudmundson 

ph 218/477-5870 

f 218/477-4333 

nrp@mnstate.edu 

www.newriverspress.com 



P.O. Box 189 

1680 Peterson Rd. 

Gabriola Island, BC, V0R 1X0 CANADA 

Executives: Judith Plant and Christopher Plant 

ph 250/247-9737 

f 250/247-7471 

info@newsociety.com 

www.newsociety.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-86571, 978-1-89804, 

978-1-90217, 978-0-91657, 978-1-88169, 

978-0-97332, 978-0-96641, 978-0-97585, 

978-0-97380, 978-0-97675, 978-0-97733, 

978-0-97719, 978-0-9789257, 978-0-9788848, 

978-0-97390, 978-0-9666783, 978-0-97809, 

978-0-91042, 978-0-97841, 978-0-9809366, 

978-0-9798683, 978-0-9685754, 

978-0-97347, 978-1-92100, 978-0-96667, 

978-0-615 


P.O. Box 3049 

Oakland, CA 94609 

Executive: Lynne Elizabeth 

ph 510/420-1361 

f 510/420-1361 

lynne@newvillagepress.net 

www.newvillagepress.net 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9766054, 978-0-9815593 



14411 Baden Westwood Road 

Brandywine, MD 20613 

Executive: Nick Newlin 

ph 301/888-1281 

f 301/579-6051 

nnewlin@erols.com 

www.nicolowhimsey.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-935550 

Ocean Press 

GPO Box 3279 

Melbourne, Victoria 3001 AUSTRALIA 

Executive: Deborah Schnookal 

ph 011 61 (0) 3 9326 4280 

info@oceanbooks.com.au 

www.oceanbooks.com.au 

www.oceansur.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-876175, 978-1-875284, 

978-1-920888, 978-1-921235, 

978-1-921438 


28-32 Bowling Green Lane 

London, EC1R 0BJ 


Executive: Ben Yarde-Buller 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 837 1600 

f 011 44 (0) 207 900 6563 

info@oldstreetpublishing.co.uk 

www.oldstreetpublishing.co.uk 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-905847, 978-1-906964 

Paris Press 

P.O. Box 487 

Ashfield, MA 01330 

Executive: Jan Freeman 

ph 413/628-0051 

f 413/628-0051 

info@parispress.org 

www.parispress.org 


978-1-930464 


1616 Walnut Street, Suite 808 

Philadelphia, PA 19103 

Executive: Paul Dry 

ph 215/231-9939 

f 215/231-9942 

pdb@pauldrybooks.com 

www.pauldrybooks.com 


978-0-9679675, 978-1-58988, 

978-0-9793787 


59 Lamb’s Conduit St. 

London, WC1N 3NB 


Executive: Nicola Beauman 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 242 9292 

f 011 44 (0) 207 242 9272 

nicola@persephonebooks.co.uk 

www.persephonebooks.co.uk 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-906462 


151 E. Post Road, Suite 110 

White Plains, NY 10601 

Executive: Julie Trelstad 

ph 914/428-4725 

f 866/273-6516 

juliet@plainwhitepress.com 

www.plainwhitepress.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-9777383, 978-0- 

9815004, 978-1-936005 

Polhemus Press 

441 10th Street 


Executives: Andrea Israel and 

Nancy Garfinkel 

ph 718/499-6012 

polhemuspress@aol.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9823492 

Pond Press 

128 Java Street 


Executive: Bill Hannigan 

ph 718/388-8436 

info@pondpress.com 

www.pondpress.com 


978-0-9761955 


Process 

1240 West Sims Way, Box 124 


Executives: Jodi Wille and Adam Parfrey 

ph 323/666-3377 

f 323/297-4331 

www.processmediainc.com 


978-0-9664272, 978-1-934170 

Profile Books 

3A Exmouth House 

Pine Street, Exmouth Market 

London, EC1R OJH 


Executive: Andrew Franklin 

ph 011 44 (0) 20 7841 6300 

f 011 44 (0) 20 7833 3969 

info@profilebooks.com 

www.profilebooks.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-84668, 978-1-86197 

Redleaf Press 

10 Yorkton Court 

St. Paul, MN 55117 

Executive: Linda Hein 

ph 800/423-8309 

f 800/641-0115 

sales@redleafpress.org 

www.redleafpress.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-929610, 978-1-884834, 

978-0-934140, 978-1-933653, 

978-1-60554 

Reportage Press 

26 Richmond Way 

London, W12 8LY 


Executive: Rosie Whitehouse 

Ph 011 44 (0) 208 749 2867, 

011 44 (0) 797 146 1935 

info@reportagepress.com 

www.reportagepress.com 


978-0-9558302, 978-1-906702 

SAF Publishing, Ltd. 

149 Wakeman Road 

London, NW10 5BH 


ph 011 44 (0) 208 969 6099 

f 011 44 (0) 208 354 3132 

info@safpublishing.com 

www.safpublishing.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-946719 

SAQI 


26 Westbourne Grove 

London, W2 5RH 


Executive: Ashley Biles 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 221 9347 

f 011 44 (0) 207 229 2911 

ashley@saqibooks.com 

www.saqibooks.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-86356, 978-1-87339 


2234 Dundee Road, Suite 200 

Louisville, KY 40205 

Executive: Sarah Gorham 

ph 502/458-4028 

f 502/458-4065 

info@sarabandebooks.org 

www.sarabandebooks.org 


978-1-889330, 978-1-932511 


3A Exmouth House 

Pine Street 

London, EC1R 0JH 


Executive: Pete Ayrton 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 841 6300 

f 011 44 (0) 207 833 3969 

info@serpentstail.com 

www.serpentstail.com 


978-0-9631095, 978-1-84668 


140 Watts Street 


Executive: Dan Simon 

ph 212/226-8760 

f 212/226-1411 

www.sevenstories.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-58322, 978-1-888363 



150 Pleasant St. #306 

Easthampton, MA 01027 

Executives: Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link 

ph/f 413/203-1636 

info@smallbeerpress.com 

www.smallbeerpress.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-1-931520 

Soho Press 

853 Broadway 


Executives: Laura Hruska 

ph 212/260-1900 

f 212/260-1902 

www.sohopress.com 

soho@sohopress.com 

ISBN prefixes: 978-1-56947, 978-0-93914, 

978-9-627160, 978-9-628783 


7 Brookline Street #1 

Cambridge, MA 02139 

ph 617/547-4002 

f 617/547-1333 

southend@southendpress.org 

www.southendpress.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-89608, 978-0-8467, 

978-1-878825 


P.O. Box 8208 

Berkeley, CA 94707 

Executive: Peter Goodman 

ph 510/524-8732 

f 510/524-8711 

sbp@stonebridge.com 

www.stonebridge.com 


978-0-9628137, 978-4-89684, 

978-4-925080, 978-1-933330, 

978-0-89346, 978-0-893469 

T 

TELEGRAM 


38/GA Shoreham 

5th Avenue, Besant Nagar 

Chennai, 600 090 

INDIA 

Executive: Gita Wolf 

ph 011 91 44 2452 3696, 

011 91 44 4201 9652 

f 011 91 44 2452 4658 

mail@tarabooks.com 

www.tarabooks.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-81-86211, 978-81-906756 

Telegram 

26 Westbourne Grove 

London, W2 5RH 


Executive: Ashley Biles 

ph 011 44 (0) 207 229 2911 

f 011 44 (0) 207 229 7492 

ashley@telegrambooks.com 

www.telegrambooks.com 



520 Eighth Ave; 24th Floor 

New York, NY 10018-4156 

Executive: Terry Nemeth 

ph 212/609-5900 

f 212/609-5901 

tcg@tcg.org 

www.tcg.org 

ISBN prefixes: 978-0-930452, 978-1-55936, 

978-1-85459, 978-0-913745, 978-0-9515877, 

978-0-88754, 978-1-870259, 978-1-84002, 

978-0-9536757, 978-0-8018, 978-0-921368, 

978-0-933826, 978-0-952544, 

978-0-9542330, 978-0-9546912, 

978-0-9630126, 978-0-9666152, 

978-1-55554, 978-0-9773074, 

978-0-9551566, 978-0-9790570, 

978-0-9819099, 978-1-906582, 

978-1-84842, 978-0-9709046 

Trellis Publishing 

2701 Minnesota Avenue 

Duluth, MN 55802 

Executive: Mary Koski 

ph 800/513-0115 

f 218/722-3184 

trellis2@aol.com 

www.trellispublishing.com 


978-0-9663281 



233 Broadway, Room 946 


Executive: Jonathan Rabinowitz 

Executive for Helen Marx Books: Helen Marx 

ph 212/945-6622 

f 212/285-1019 

countomega@aol.com 

helenmarxbooks@aol.com 

www.turtlepointpress.com 


978-1-885983, 978-1-885586, 

978-1-933527, 978-1-933521 


141 East Town Street, Suite 200 

Columbus, OH 43215 

Executive: Eric Obenauf 

ph 740/504-7456 

eric@twodollarradio.com 

www.twodollarradio.com 

ISBN prefix: 978-0-9763895, 

978-0-9820151 


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100 Butches, Volume 1, 27 

798, 185 

a 

Absence of the Hero, 93 

Admiral Togo, 151 

After the Crisis, 147 

Al-Khwārizmī , 256 

The Alchemist’s Kitchen, 356 

All New Square Foot Gardening to the 

Rescue, 207 

The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook, 

53 

Almighty Voice and His Wife (Second 

Edition), 337 

Along with Simon, 178 

Altered State, 262 

América Latina hoy: ¿reforma o 

revolución? 230 

The American Way of War, 157 

Amphitryon, 328 

Amsterdam Memory Game, 59 

Anarchism and the City, 5 

The Anarchist Collectives, 66 

And Baby Makes More, 171 

Angels and Manners, 79 

Apologia, 333 

Approaching You in English, 367 

Art with Anything, 145 

At Work, 187 

The Author, 331 

Automaton Biographies, 50 

The Available World, 259 

b 

Babylon’s Banksters, 132 

Bad Blood Blues, 336 

Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love 

Them, 275 

The Bearded Gentleman, 47 

Beat the Devil, 6 

Beautiful and Dark, 51 

Beautiful in the Mouth, 68 

Before Anger, 331 

Being Young, 169 

Bend Over, 36 

Beside Myself, 330 

Best of the Web 2010, 113 

Between the Dark and the Daylight, 350 

Between the Fences, 269 

Beyond Uncertainty, 55 

Billy Twinkle, 337 

Biopiratería, 313 

Black Bloc, White Riot, 2 

The Black History of the White House, 89 

Black Life, 353 

Black Square, 369 

Black Wings Has My Angel, 86 

Blood Moon, 294 

384 Index by Title 

The Blueprint, 140 

The Bomb, 90 

Bones in High Places, 309 

Book of the Edge, 69 

The Book of What Remains, 108 

The Bostonians, 24 

Branding a Store, 57 

A British Subject, 337 

The Broken Circle, 306 

The Brothers Boswell, 288 

Buffalo Bill, 137 

Building the Sea Eagles, 73 

By Heart, 221 

c 

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010, 

203 

Canada and the Theatre of War Volume 

II, 337 

The Casanova Chronicles, 118 

The Case for Socialism (Updated Edition), 

161 

The Caterpillar Cop, 296 

A Certain William, 338 

The Chamberlain Litany, 152 

Changing the Script, 167 

Chaos is the New Calm, 68 

Child of Rage, 84 

China: The Country and the People, 191 

Chinese Wushu, 189 

Christopher Sunset, 353 

Chulito, 33 

Citizenship, 127 

The Clockmaker, 337 

Code Name: Kalistrat, 116 

Colorblind, 90 

Come and Play, 252 

Common Ground in a Liquid City, 1 

COMPESHITSTEM, 177 

The Complete and Authorized Unabomber, 

129 

Conditionality, 365 

The Contingency Plan, 336 

The Correct Spelling and Exact Meaning, 

109 

Courage: A Calendar, 352 

Cradle Book, 69 

Creative Characters, 58 

Crossfire, 26 

Cuba: A History, 229 

The Curious Incident at Claridge’s, 302 

Currency, 114 

d 

Dancing On Ice, 234 

Dancing with Dynamite, 3 

Dark Dreams, 298 

darkacre, 99 

David Copperfield, 336 

Day One, 347 

Dear Mr. Shakespeare, 331 

Death of Long Pig, 336 

DeKok and the Corpse by Return, 135 

Delta Blues, 345 

Demons in the Spring, 10 

The Deputy, 346 

Design and Scenography, 338 

Designated Mourner, 324 

Developing Nation, 338 

Developmentally Appropriate Play, 252 

The Devil You Don’t Know, 255 

The Devil’s Moor, 113 

Diary Planner 2011, 205 

Discovering the Ottomans, 179 

Disorient, 177 

Dispersing Power, 4 

Distance from Nowhere, 178 

Do Time Get Time, 235 

Don’t Be Needy Be Succeedy, 249 

Double Exposure, 350 

Dracula, 87 

Dracula, 336 

Dreams of Violence, 333 

The Drowning Girls and Comrades, 

332 

Drowning Tucson, 96 

Dry Run, 217 

e 

East of Berlin, 337 

The Egypt Code, 112 

El precio del fuego, 162 

El Salvador, 230 

Eline Vere, 43 

The Emergence of Memory, 278 

Empire, 175 

Empty Mile, 10 

Endangered, 133 

Energy-Wise Landscape Design, 209 

The English Garden, 154 

Entanglement, 63 

Ethnic, Multicultural, and Intercultural 

Theatre, 338 

Every Bitter Thing, 114 

Every Natural Fact, 165 

Everyday Play, 144 

Everyone is a Designer, 58 

Exit Pursued by a Badger, 336 

f 

Facing the Public, 41 

Falling Angel, 84 

The Far Cry, 86 

Far From the Madding Crowd, 336 

Find the Girl, 99 

Finding the Way Home, 355 

The Fix Is In, 130 

Flash Cards, 368

The Flight of Ikaros, 239 

Floodlines, 159 

Florida Heat Wave, 349 

Flotsam, 237 

For the Love of the Dead, 38 

For Whom the Troubadour Sings, 179 

Foreplay, 336 

Forests, 337 

A Foster Christmas, 335 

From Container to Kitchen, 208 

From Madea to Michelle, 121 

Frozen Stiff, 347 

Fuente Ovejuna, 336 

El futuro está lleno de Memoria, 230 

FWBO: The Story of a Western Buddhist 

Movement, 365 

g 

Gay is Good, 35 

Gay Panic, 37 

Gaza Photo Album, 352 

Gendered Hearts, 28 

General Smuts, South Africa, 155 

Genetic Architectures III / Arquitecturas 

Genéticas III, 195 

Glorious, 8 

Go Vegan! 2011 Wall Calendar, 46 

The Golden Apple, 42 

Good 50x70, 57 

The Good Egg, 337 

Good Mother, 338 

Grand Central Winter, 279 

Great Road Rides Denver, 138 

The Greek Playwright, 332 

The Green Guide for Business, 248 

Las Guerras del Agua, 313 

A Guide to UK Theatre for Young 

Audiences, 338 

Gunshot Road, 297 

h 

Happiness, 262 

Haunting Bombay, 288 

Havana is Waiting and Other Plays, 327 

Heart of the Old Country (The Narrows), 11 

Hello Kitty Must Die, 344 

Hidden Wisdom, 111 

His Own Where, 120 

The History of My Going for Refuge, 366 

Hit Man, 199 

Holy Terror, 20 

Homage to Americans, 238 

The Home-Maker, 241 

Homer’s Mediterranean, 154 

Horses Where the Answers Should Have 

Been, 105 

Houston’s Best Dive Bars, 168 

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois 

Revolutions? 162 

How Plays Work, 330 

How the West Was Warmed, 139 

How to Catch a Falling Knife, 16 

Humana Festival 2009, 329 

Hussein and Abdullah, 254 

i 

I Came Out for This? 80 

I Hotel, 95 

I Kissed a Girl, 38 

I Wake Up Screaming, 86 

If a Tree Falls, 125 

If You Could See Me Now, 83 

The Illustrated Book of Changes, 190 

The Illustrated Book of Laozi, 190 

The Illustrated Book of the Analects, 190 

Imaginary Meetings, 176 

The Impoverishment of Nations, 248 

In Concert, 84 

In Danger, 92 

In Kashmir, 311 

In Our Control, 271 

In the Courts of the Conqueror, 141 

In the Crossfire, 4 

In the Kitchen, 174 

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), 

321 

In This House, 340 

Indian Country Noir, 13 

The Influence, 87 

Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten? 

251 

Is Music, 107 

Islam: Its Meaning and Message, 181 

Islanders, 92 

Ìyà-llé (The First Wife), 337 

j 

Jean Follain: 130 Poems, 42 

Jerusalem, 330 

Jesus Boy, 7 

Jesus of Nazareth, 266 

A Jew Must Die, 62 

John Crow’s Devil, 14 

Julio Antonio Mella, 231 

k 

Karoo Moose, 337 

The Kennedy Green House, 351 

Killer, 261 

Killer Instinct, 76 

King Kong Theory, 119 

Koko, 83 

Koudelka Piedmont, 101 

l 

The Last Geraldine Officer, 41 

Late Rain, 348 

The League of Nations, 156 

The Lean Years, 160 

Learn Every Day About Animals, 149 

Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders, 

149 

Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth, 

148 

Lenin and His Comrades, 115 

Lesbian Scenes and Monologues, 332 

The Lesser Tragedy of Death, 11 

The Lie, 61 

A Life on Paper, 282 

Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel, 173 

Listen to the Dead, 349 

Live Working or Die Fighting, 158 

A Load of Old Bones, 309 

Long Lens, 67 

The Lord of Death, 294 

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, 12 

Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars, 168 

Love and RelASIANships, Volume 1, 335 


Love Doesn’t Work, 113 

Love Like Hate, 272 

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, 301 

m 

Macbeth: The 30-Minute Shakespeare, 225 

The Mafia in Havana, 228 

The Magician’s Accomplice, 299 

Maharajah of Bikaner, India, 155 

Mama’s Boy, 276 



6th Edition, 292 

Manifestos and Essays, 328 

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky 

and the Media, 65 

The Marrying Kind, 40 

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head 

Chopped Off, 336 

Mary’s Wedding (Second Edition), 338 

Mean Free Path, 106 

Meaning in Life: A Buddhist View, 361 

The Medium is the Message, 59 

Meeks, 284 

The Men with the Pink Triangle, 34 

The Merry Misogynist, 300 

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The 

30-Minute Shakespeare, 226 

Mesopotamia, 9 

Metal Cowboy, 72 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The 


Mighty Fine Motor Fun, 146 

Mincemeat, 337 

Mirrors, 81 

Missouri, 49 

Moms Who Make a Difference, 243 

Money Assassins, 170 

Monster: Oil on Canvas, 183 

Index by Title 385

Monsters, 337 

Montreal at the Crossroads, 65 

Moscow Noir, 13 

Motherland, 334 

Much Ado About Nothing: The 30-Minute 

Shakespeare, 225 

Mud, Sweat, and Gears, 71 

My Driver, 319 

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens, 315 

n 

The Name of the Nearest River, 258 

Native Plants for High-Elevation Western 

Gardens, Second Edition, 138 

Never Leave the House Naked, 59 

Neverland, 233 

New Europe, New Voices, 329 

New World of Indigenous Resistance, 91 

Next to Normal, 322 

Night of the Living Dead, 87 

Nights Beneath the Nation, 263 

The Ninth Configuration, 86 

The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, 202 

The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion, 201 

Nocturnal, 337 

Not Niigata, 175 

Notas sobre la revolución latinoamericana, 

231 

o 

Occasions of Sin, 249 

Odd Fellow’s Rest, 32 

Of Song and Water, 44 

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, 97 

Office of Blame Accountability, 194 

An Officer and His Gentleman, 40 

The Ogre’s Wife, 42 

Old Dogs, 75 

Old Men in Love, 283 

An Olympic Death, 264 

On Gandhi’s Path, 218 

Once a Marine, 21 

One Voice, 332 

One World Almanac 2011, 204 

One World Calendar 2011, 203 

One World Family Calendar 2011, 204 

“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” 265 

The Only Thing I Have, 49 

Orange County Noir, 12 

Orphans, 337 

Orwell: A Celebration, 336 

Overcoming Speechlessness, 268 

Ox-Tales Air, 247 

Ox-Tales Earth, 247 

Ox-Tales Fire, 247 

Ox-Tales Water, 247 

p 

Palace of the End (Second Edition), 335 

The Palestine Communist Party 

1919–1948, 162 

386 Index by Title 

Parlour Song, 334 

Paul Hymans, Belgium, 156 

Pax Romana, 116 

Peak Everything, 211 

People Diary 2011, 205 

The People Who Watched Her Pass By, 

341 

Phantom Noise, 15 

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, 

114 

A Pig of Cold Poison, 308 

Plays for Youth Theatres and Large Casts, 

336 

Playwrights Before the Fall, 329 

Polaroids, 48 

The Political Economy of Racism, 161 

The Politics of Black Women’s Hair, 172 

The Politics of Combined and Uneven 

Development, 162 

Post Moxie, 259 

Preliminary Report, 109 

Prelude, 290 

Preparing for Disaster, 147 

The Prescription Errors, 172 

Pretty, 356 

Prick Up Your Ears, 331 

Prison/Culture, 94 

Procesos revolucionarios en América 

Latina, 230 

Pull of the Moon, 306 

q 

r 

Qi Gong, 189 

Quick Change, 329 

Qur’anic Keywords, 180 

Rajmahal, 124 

Ramble Texas, 136 

Random Violence, 295 

Rants and Raves, 355 

Reading Carol Bolt, 338 

Redemption in Indigo, 281 

A Reflective Life, 365 

Reflexiones, 231 

The Religion of Art, 366 

Remembrance of Things Forgotten, 31 

Rethinking Nutrition, 252 

Revenge, 123 

La revolución negra, 231 

Rice Boy (Second Edition), 338 

Rilke’s Venice, 153 

Riot Act, 77 

Ripe from Around Here, 45 

A River Dies of Thirst, 256 

Rock Paper Tiger, 287 

Romeo and Juliet: The 30-Minute 


The Royal Ballet Yearbook 2009/10, 

34 

sS-27, 337 

Sailor & Lula, 274 

Sanctificum, 103 

The Sandbox, 289 

Sarah/Sara, 168 

Saving the Earth: A Buddhist View, 362 

Scarred Hearts, 235 

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, 293 

The Sensual World Re-emerges, 259 

Serious Microhydro, 215 

Seven Steps to Moral Intelligence, 181 

Seven-Tenths, 183 

Shahid Reads His Own Palm, 17 

Shakespeare Monologues for Men, 333 

Shakespeare Monologues for Women, 

333 

The Shakespeare’s Mine, 338 

Shaolin Quan, 189 

The Sharper Word, 163 

The Sheep Look Up, 85 

Shoulder Season, 98 

Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman, 131 

Silent Nests, 174 

Silver Lake, 350 

“A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of 

Me,” 277 

Singkil, 338 

Slow Horses, 305 

Smoke and Whispers, 304 

So Late, So Soon, 117 

So Much Things to Say, 14 

Solar Electricity Basics, 214 

Solar Water Heating—Revised & Expanded 

Edition, 216 

Sourcebook of Chinese Art and Design 

Motifs, 186 

The Space to Move, 330 

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak, 132 

Spirits of Desire, 29 

SSSS: Snake Art & Allegory, 317 

Stairway to Hell, 263 

Stand on Zanzibar, 85 

The Star Wizard’s Legacy, 356 

Staying Alive, 312 

The Steam Pig, 296 

Stein, Stoned, 348 

Stettin Station, 291 

Steve Marriott, 163 

The Stolen Voice, 308 

Stories of Famous Chinese Heroes, 191 

The Story of the Ring, 334 

Strange Images of Death, 303 

Streb, 122 

Stunning and Other Plays, 327 

Superior Donuts, 323 

Surpassing the Love of Men, 34 

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook, 

219

Sustainable World SourceBook, 212 

Swing, Swing Together, 307 

t 

Taiji Quan, 189 

Talk Softly, 267 

The Taste of Penny, 113 

The Ten Pillars of Buddhism, 366 

The Tenant, 84 

Termite Parade, 342 

Theatre Histories, 338 

Thriving Beyond Sustainability, 213 

Thunder Beach, 346 

A Tiger’s Heart, 290 

Time Stands Still, 326 

TJ—The Various Names of Johannesburg, 

101 

To Mervas, 44 

Todos Santos, 114 

Trance Archive, 94 

Travelers’ Tales of Old Cuba, 227 

Trickster, 134 

The Turbulent Years, 160 

Twelfth Night: The 30-Minute 


Twins and Supertwins, 251 

Typeface Memory Game, 59 

u 

The Underground Guide to San Francisco, 

3rd Edition, 197 

The Unreal Life of Sergey Vladimirovich 

Nabokov, 19 

The Urban Homestead (Revised & 

Expanded Edition), 246 

v 

Vancouver Special, 50 

Vegetarianism: A Buddhist View, 363 

Venison, 118 

Version 3.0, 325 

Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood, 252 

Vittorio Orlando, Italy, 156 

Voice Over, 44 

Voices of a People’s History of the United 

States, 270 

w 

Walking on Glass, 25 

Wallenstein, 336 

Walter Kehr: Photographs 1995–2005, 

176 

Wasting Libby, 5 

Waxwork, 307 

The Way of the Prophet, 180 

The Weaklings, 22 

Weapons of Mass Instruction, 210 

The Wedding in Auschwitz, 264 

The Werewolf of Paris, 87 

What Does a Lion Say? 143 

What’s Really Wrong With The Middle 

East, 253 

When Last on the Mountain, 166 

When the Rain Stops Falling, 336 

When There Is No Doctor, 245 

While We’re Young, 338 

White Masks, 43 

White People, 273 


(2 pack), 357 

Whitelines Orange Glue A4 Squared 

Notepad (2 pack), 357 


(2 pack), 357 




(2 pack), 357 



Whitelines Saddle Stitch A4 Lined 

Notebook (2 pack), 359 

Whitelines Saddle Stitch A4 Squared 






Whitelines Soft Cover Perfect Bound A5 

Lined Notebook, 358 


Squared Notebook, 358 

Whitelines Soft Cover Perfect Bound 

Pocket Lined Notebook (2 pack), 358 


Pocket Squared Notebook (2 pack), 358 

Whiteout, 6 

The Who By Numbers, 163 

Why Are You Telling Me This? 23 

The Wicked Lady, 338 

Wild Punch, 339 

Wildmind, 364 

Wind Power Basics, 214 

Winter’s Journey, 104 

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (Second 

Edition), 126 

A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy, 39 

Women of the Underground: Art, 198 

Women Pirates and the Politics of the 

Jolly Roger, 66 

Working with Napoleon, 115 

A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011, 

285 

World Architecture in China, 188 

The World in Your Kitchen Calendar 2011, 

205 

The World of Confucius, 188 

y 

Yerma, 336 

You Have Given Me a Country, 257 

The You Know Who Girls of Gila High, 30 

Index by Title 387

ARCHITECTURE 

Genetic Architectures III / Arquitecturas 

Genéticas III, 195 

The Kennedy Green House, 351 

World Architecture in China, 188 

ART 

798, 185 

Along with Simon, 178 

At Work, 187 

COMPESHITSTEM, 177 

Creative Characters, 58 

Disorient, 177 

Distance from Nowhere, 178 

The Medium is the Message, 59 

Never Leave the House Naked, 59 

Polaroids, 48 

Prison/Culture, 94 

Sourcebook of Chinese Art and Design 

Motifs, 186 

SSSS: Snake Art & Allegory, 317 


(2 pack), 357 




(2 pack), 357 




(2 pack), 357 












Lined Notebook, 358 


Squared Notebook, 358 


Pocket Lined Notebook (2 pack), 358 


Pocket Squared Notebook (2 pack), 

358 

Women of the Underground: Art, 198 

BIOGRAPHY & 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

Admiral Togo, 151 

Being Young, 169 

388 Index by Subject 

Beside Myself, 330 

Buffalo Bill, 137 

By Heart, 221 

Dancing On Ice, 234 

The Devil You Don’t Know, 255 

The Emergence of Memory, 278 

The Flight of Ikaros, 239 

Flotsam, 237 

Hit Man, 199 

Hussein and Abdullah, 254 

If a Tree Falls, 125 

In the Crossfire, 4 

Jesus of Nazareth, 266 

Julio Antonio Mella, 231 

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens, 315 

On Gandhi’s Path, 218 

Once a Marine, 21 

Seven-Tenths, 183 

“A Singing in Every Moment and Inch of 

Me,” 277 

Talk Softly, 267 

A Tiger’s Heart, 290 

Walking on Glass, 25 

You Have Given Me a Country, 257 

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT 

Babylon’s Banksters, 132 


The Green Guide for Business, 248 

The Impoverishment of Nations, 248 

Money Assassins, 170 

The Sustainability Champion’s Guidebook, 

219 

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS 

The Illustrated Book of Changes, 190 

The Illustrated Book of Laozi, 190 

The Illustrated Book of the Analects, 190 

Trickster, 134 

COOKING 

Go Vegan! 2011 Wall Calendar, 46 

Ripe from Around Here, 45 


Building the Sea Eagles, 73 

DESIGN 

Branding a Store, 57 

Everyone is a Designer, 58 

Good 50x70, 57 

DRAMA 

Almighty Voice and His Wife (Second 

Edition), 337 

Amphitryon, 328 

Apologia, 333 

The Author, 331 

Bad Blood Blues, 336 

Before Anger, 331 

Billy Twinkle, 337 

A British Subject, 337 

Canada and the Theatre of War Volume 

II, 337 

A Certain William, 338 

The Clockmaker, 337 

The Contingency Plan, 336 

David Copperfield, 336 

Dear Mr. Shakespeare, 331 

Death of Long Pig, 336 

Design and Scenography, 338 

Designated Mourner, 324 

Developing Nation, 338 

Dracula, 336 

Dreams of Violence, 333 

The Drowning Girls and Comrades, 332 

East of Berlin, 337 

Ethnic, Multicultural, and Intercultural 

Theatre, 338 

Exit Pursued by a Badger, 336 

Far From the Madding Crowd, 336 

Foreplay, 336 

Forests, 337 

A Foster Christmas, 335 

Fuente Ovejuna, 336 

The Good Egg, 337 

Good Mother, 338 

The Greek Playwright, 332 

Havana is Waiting and Other Plays, 327 

How Plays Work, 330 

Humana Festival 2009, 329 

In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), 

321 

Ìyà-llé (The First Wife), 337 

Jerusalem, 330 

Karoo Moose, 337 

Lesbian Scenes and Monologues, 332 



Macbeth: The 30-Minute Shakespeare, 

225 

Manifestos and Essays, 328 

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head 

Chopped Off, 336 

Mary’s Wedding (Second Edition), 338 

The Merry Wives of Windsor: The 

30-Minute Shakespeare, 226

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The 


Mincemeat, 337 

Monsters, 337 

Motherland, 334 

Much Ado About Nothing: The 30-Minute 


New Europe, New Voices, 329 

Next to Normal, 322 

Nocturnal, 337 

One Voice, 332 

Orphans, 337 

Orwell: A Celebration, 336 

Palace of the End (Second Edition), 335 

Parlour Song, 334 

Playwrights Before the Fall, 329 

Prick Up Your Ears, 331 

Quick Change, 329 

Reading Carol Bolt, 338 

Rice Boy (Second Edition), 338 

Romeo and Juliet: The 30-Minute 


S-27, 337 

Shakespeare Monologues for Men, 333 

Shakespeare Monologues for Women, 

333 

The Shakespeare’s Mine, 338 

Singkil, 338 

The Space to Move, 330 

The Story of the Ring, 334 

Stunning and Other Plays, 327 

Superior Donuts, 323 

Theatre Histories, 338 

Time Stands Still, 326 

Twelfth Night: The 30-Minute 


Version 3.0, 325 

Wallenstein, 336 

When the Rain Stops Falling, 336 

While We’re Young, 338 

The Wicked Lady, 338 

Yerma, 336 

EDUCATION 

After the Crisis, 147 

Art with Anything, 145 

Come and Play, 252 

Developmentally Appropriate Play, 252 

Is Everybody Ready for Kindergarten? 251 

Learn Every Day About Animals, 149 

Learn Every Day About Bugs and Spiders, 

149 

Learn Every Day About Our Green Earth, 

148 



6th Edition, 292 

Mighty Fine Motor Fun, 146 

Preparing for Disaster, 147 

Rethinking Nutrition, 252 

Twins and Supertwins, 251 

Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood, 

252 

Weapons of Mass Instruction, 210 


And Baby Makes More, 171 

Everyday Play, 144 

Moms Who Make a Difference, 243 

What Does a Lion Say? 143 

FICTION 

Absence of the Hero, 93 

Angels and Manners, 79 

Beat the Devil, 6 

Beautiful and Dark, 51 

Best of the Web 2010, 113 

Between the Dark and the Daylight, 350 

Black Wings Has My Angel, 86 

Blood Moon, 294 

Bones in High Places, 309 

The Bostonians, 24 

The Broken Circle, 306 

The Brothers Boswell, 288 

The Caine Prize for African Writing 2010, 

203 

The Caterpillar Cop, 296 

Child of Rage, 84 

Chulito, 33 

Code Name: Kalistrat, 116 

Cradle Book, 69 

The Curious Incident at Claridge’s, 302 

Currency, 114 

Dark Dreams, 298 

Day One, 347 

DeKok and the Corpse by Return, 135 

Delta Blues, 345 

Demons in the Spring, 10 

The Deputy, 346 

The Devil’s Moor, 113 

Do Time Get Time, 235 

Double Exposure, 350 

Dracula, 87 

Drowning Tucson, 96 

Eline Vere, 43 

Empty Mile, 10 

Entanglement, 63 

Every Bitter Thing, 114 

Falling Angel, 84 

The Far Cry, 86 

Florida Heat Wave, 349 

For the Love of the Dead, 38 

Frozen Stiff, 347 

Glorious, 8 

Grand Central Winter, 279 

Gunshot Road, 297 

Happiness, 262 

Haunting Bombay, 288 

Heart of the Old Country (The Narrows), 

11 

Hello Kitty Must Die, 344 

The Home-Maker, 241 

I Came Out for This? 80 

I Hotel, 95 

I Kissed a Girl, 38 

I Wake Up Screaming, 86 

If You Could See Me Now, 83 

In Concert, 84 

Indian Country Noir, 13 

The Influence, 87 

Islanders, 92 

Jesus Boy, 7 

A Jew Must Die, 62 

John Crow’s Devil, 14 

Killer, 261 

Killer Instinct, 76 

Koko, 83 

Late Rain, 348 

The Lie, 61 

A Life on Paper, 282 

Listen to the Dead, 349 

A Load of Old Bones, 309 

The Lord of Death, 294 

Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics, 12 

Love Doesn’t Work, 113 

Love Like Hate, 272 

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, 301 

The Magician’s Accomplice, 299 

Mama’s Boy, 276 

The Marrying Kind, 40 

Meeks, 284 

The Merry Misogynist, 300 

Mesopotamia, 9 

Mirrors, 81 

Missouri, 49 

Monster: Oil on Canvas, 183 

Moscow Noir, 13 

My Driver, 319 

The Name of the Nearest River, 258 

Neverland, 233 

Nights Beneath the Nation, 263 

The Ninth Configuration, 86 

Odd Fellow’s Rest, 32 

Of Song and Water, 44 

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, 97 

An Officer and His Gentleman, 40 

Old Dogs, 75 

Old Men in Love, 283 

An Olympic Death, 264 

“Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” 265 

Index by Subject 389

The Only Thing I Have, 49 

Orange County Noir, 12 

Ox-Tales Air, 247 

Ox-Tales Earth, 247 

Ox-Tales Fire, 247 

Ox-Tales Water, 247 

Pax Romana, 116 

The People Who Watched Her Pass By, 

341 

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, 

114 

A Pig of Cold Poison, 308 

Prelude, 290 

The Prescription Errors, 172 

Pull of the Moon, 306 

Rajmahal, 124 

Random Violence, 295 

Redemption in Indigo, 281 

Remembrance of Things Forgotten, 31 

Revenge, 123 

Riot Act, 77 

Rock Paper Tiger, 287 

Sailor & Lula, 274 

The Sandbox, 289 

Sarah/Sara, 168 

Scarred Hearts, 235 

The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, 293 

The Sheep Look Up, 85 

Silver Lake, 350 

Slow Horses, 305 

Smoke and Whispers, 304 

Stairway to Hell, 263 

Stand on Zanzibar, 85 

The Steam Pig, 296 

Stein, Stoned, 348 

Stettin Station, 291 

The Stolen Voice, 308 

Strange Images of Death, 303 

Swing, Swing Together, 307 

The Taste of Penny, 113 

The Tenant, 84 

Termite Parade, 342 

Thunder Beach, 346 

TJ—The Various Names of Johannesburg, 

101 

To Mervas, 44 

Todos Santos, 114 

The Unreal Life of Sergey Vladimirovich 

Nabokov, 19 

Waxwork, 307 

The Wedding in Auschwitz, 264 

The Werewolf of Paris, 87 

White Masks, 43 

Wild Punch, 339 

The You Know Who Girls of Gila High, 30 



China: The Country and the People, 191 

Stories of Famous Chinese Heroes, 191 

GAMES 

Amsterdam Memory Game, 59 

Typeface Memory Game, 59 

GARDENING 

All New Square Foot Gardening to the 

Rescue, 207 

The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook, 

53 

From Container to Kitchen, 208 

Native Plants for High-Elevation Western 

Gardens, Second Edition, 138 


The Bearded Gentleman, 47 

Bend Over, 36 

In Our Control, 271 

When There Is No Doctor, 245 

A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Ecstasy, 39 

HISTORY 

The Anarchist Collectives, 66 

The Black History of the White House, 89 

The Bomb, 90 

The Chamberlain Litany, 152 

Cuba: A History, 229 

Discovering the Ottomans, 179 

The Egypt Code, 112 

El precio del fuego, 162 

El Salvador, 230 

El futuro está lleno de Memoria, 230 

General Smuts, South Africa, 155 

Hidden Wisdom, 111 

In the Courts of the Conqueror, 141 

The League of Nations, 156 

The Lean Years, 160 

Lenin and His Comrades, 115 

Maharajah of Bikaner, India, 155 

The Men with the Pink Triangle, 34 

Occasions of Sin, 249 

Overcoming Speechlessness, 268 

Paul Hymans, Belgium, 156 

Procesos revolucionarios en América 

Latina, 230 

La revolución negra, 231 

The Turbulent Years, 160 

Vittorio Orlando, Italy, 156 

Voices of a People’s History of the United 

States, 270 

Women Pirates and the Politics of the 

Jolly Roger, 66 

Working with Napoleon, 115 

HOUSE & HOME 

Dry Run, 217 

Energy-Wise Landscape Design, 209 

Sustainable World SourceBook, 212 

The Urban Homestead (Revised & 

Expanded Edition), 246 

HUMOR 

Don’t Be Needy Be Succeedy, 249 

Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman, 131 

The World of Confucius, 188 


His Own Where, 120 

Plays for Youth Theatres and Large Casts, 

336 

See more children’s and young adult titles 

on reverse side of catalog 

JUVENILE NONFICTION 

A Guide to UK Theatre for Young 

Audiences, 338 

See more children’s and young adult titles 

on reverse side of catalog 

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES 

New World of Indigenous Resistance, 91 


Gendered Hearts, 28 

The Golden Apple, 42 

When Last on the Mountain, 166 

White People, 273 

Why Are You Telling Me This? 23 

MATHEMATICS 

Al-Khwārizmī , 256 

MEDICAL 

Speed-Speed-Speedfreak, 132 

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (Second 

Edition), 126 

MUSIC 

Steve Marriott, 163 

The Who By Numbers, 163

NATURE 

Endangered, 133 

Every Natural Fact, 165 

Thriving Beyond Sustainability, 213 


Night of the Living Dead, 87 

The Royal Ballet Yearbook 2009/10, 334 

Streb, 122 

PHILOSOPHY 

Homage to Americans, 238 

Meaning in Life: A Buddhist View, 361 

Saving the Earth: A Buddhist View, 362 

Vegetarianism: A Buddhist View, 363 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

Empire, 175 

Gaza Photo Album, 352 

Imaginary Meetings, 176 

In the Kitchen, 174 

Koudelka Piedmont, 101 

Lillian Bassman & Paul Himmel, 173 

Not Niigata, 175 

Silent Nests, 174 

Walter Kehr: Photographs 1995–2005, 

176 

POETRY 

The Alchemist’s Kitchen, 356 

Approaching You in English, 367 

Automaton Biographies, 50 

The Available World, 259 

Beautiful in the Mouth, 68 

Black Life, 353 

Black Square, 369 

Book of the Edge, 69 

The Book of What Remains, 108 

The Casanova Chronicles, 118 

Chaos is the New Calm, 68 

Christopher Sunset, 353 

The Correct Spelling and Exact Meaning, 

109 

darkacre, 99 

Facing the Public, 41 

Find the Girl, 99 

Finding the Way Home, 355 

Flash Cards, 368 

For Whom the Troubadour Sings, 179 

Horses Where the Answers Should Have 

Been, 105 

How to Catch a Falling Knife, 16 

In Danger, 92 

In This House, 340 

Is Music, 107 

Jean Follain: 130 Poems, 42 

The Last Geraldine Officer, 41 

The Lesser Tragedy of Death, 11 

Long Lens, 67 

Mean Free Path, 106 

The Ogre’s Wife, 42 

Phantom Noise, 15 

Post Moxie, 259 

Preliminary Report, 109 

Pretty, 356 

Rants and Raves, 355 

A River Dies of Thirst, 256 

Sanctificum, 103 

The Sensual World Re-emerges, 259 

Shahid Reads His Own Palm, 17 

Shoulder Season, 98 

So Late, So Soon, 117 

So Much Things to Say, 14 

The Star Wizard’s Legacy, 356 

Trance Archive, 94 

Venison, 118 

Voice Over, 44 

The Weaklings, 22 

Winter’s Journey, 104 


América Latina hoy: ¿reforma o 

revolución? 230 

The American Way of War, 157 

Anarchism and the City, 5 

Between the Fences, 269 

The Blueprint, 140 

The Case for Socialism (Updated Edition), 

161 

Common Ground in a Liquid City, 1 

Dancing with Dynamite, 3 

Dispersing Power, 4 

Floodlines, 159 

Las Guerras del Agua, 313 

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois 

Revolutions? 162 

How the West Was Warmed, 139 

Live Working or Die Fighting, 158 

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky 

and the Media, 65 

Montreal at the Crossroads, 65 

The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, 

202 

Notas sobre la revolución latinoamericana, 

231 

The Palestine Communist Party 

1919–1948, 162 

Peak Everything, 211 

The Politics of Combined and Uneven 

Development, 162 

Reflexiones, 231 

Wasting Libby, 5 

What’s Really Wrong With The Middle 

East, 253 

Whiteout, 6 

REFERENCE 

Diary Planner 2011, 205 

Houston’s Best Dive Bars, 168 

One World Almanac 2011, 204 

One World Calendar 2011, 203 

One World Family Calendar 2011, 204 

People Diary 2011, 205 

A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011, 

285 

The World in Your Kitchen Calendar 2011, 

205 

RELIGION 

Changing the Script, 167 

Conditionality, 365 

FWBO: The Story of a Western Buddhist 

Movement, 365 

The History of My Going for Refuge, 366 

Islam: Its Meaning and Message, 181 

The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion, 201 

Qur’anic Keywords, 180 

A Reflective Life, 365 

The Religion of Art, 366 

Seven Steps to Moral Intelligence, 181 

The Ten Pillars of Buddhism, 366 

The Way of the Prophet, 180 

SCIENCE 

Beyond Uncertainty, 55 

Biopiratería, 313 

SELF-HELP 

Bad Shoes and the Women Who Love 

Them, 275 

Courage: A Calendar, 352 

Wildmind, 364 


100 Butches, Volume 1, 27 

Altered State, 262 

Black Bloc, White Riot, 2 

Citizenship, 127 

Colorblind, 90 

Crossfire, 26 

From Madea to Michelle, 121 

Gay is Good, 35 

Holy Terror, 20 

In Kashmir, 311 

Index by Subject 391

King Kong Theory, 119 

Office of Blame Accountability, 194 

The Political Economy of Racism, 161 

The Politics of Black Women’s Hair, 172 

The Sharper Word, 163 

Spirits of Desire, 29 

Staying Alive, 312 

Surpassing the Love of Men, 34 


Chinese Wushu, 189 

The Fix Is In, 130 

Great Road Rides Denver, 138 

Metal Cowboy, 72 

Mud, Sweat, and Gears, 71 

Qi Gong, 189 


Shaolin Quan, 189 

Taiji Quan, 189 

TECHNOLOGY 

Serious Microhydro, 215 

Solar Electricity Basics, 214 

Wind Power Basics, 214 


Solar Water Heating—Revised & Expanded 

Edition, 216 

TRAVEL 

The English Garden, 154 

Homer’s Mediterranean, 154 

Los Angeles’s Best Dive Bars, 168 

Ramble Texas, 136 

Rilke’s Venice, 153 

Travelers’ Tales of Old Cuba, 227 

The Underground Guide to San Francisco, 

3rd Edition, 197 

Vancouver Special, 50 

TRUE CRIME 

The Complete and Authorized 

Unabomber, 129 

Gay Panic, 37 

The Mafia in Havana, 228

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