As the temperatures begin to drop, October's featured titles will make staying indoors with a hot mug of tea much more exciting. Readers will look forward to curling up with the psychological mystery The Dead Detective (Akashic Books), written by three-time Pulitzer nominee William Heffernan. At once fantastical and scientific, Graham Hancock's Entangled (The Disinformation Company) will have even the most skeptical reader enthralled. And when readers desire a break from action-packed novels, Censored 2011 (Seven Stories Press) will provide real-life intrigue just as gripping as any thriller. Lovers of action and mystery, science and history alike will delight in this month's featured titles!
Featured Titles
The Dead Detective
Harry Doyle was murdered as a ten-year-old child and brought back to life by two Tampa cops. Twenty years later, he has dedicated his life to putting killers behind bars as a homicide detective who has the unwanted ability to hear the postmortem whispers of murder victims. Dubbed "The Dead Detective" by his fellow cops, Doyle now faces his most difficult case—a beautiful murder victim who was a notorious child molester. It is a case that will shake Harry to his very core. William Heffernan, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, is the author of fifteen novels and lives outside of St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Dead Detective | William Heffernan | Akashic Books | Fiction | 9781936070619 | October 2010 | Trade Cloth | $24.95
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
A powerful and historically accurate graphic portrayal of Indigenous peoples' resistance to the European colonization of the Americas. With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book documents the fighting spirit and ongoing resistance of Indigenous peoples through five hundred years of genocide, massacres, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to the conventional history of the Americas. Gord Hill, a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation in British Columbia, has been active in Indigenous resistance, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist movements since 1990.
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book | Gord Hill | Arsenal Pulp Press | Comics & Graphic Novels | 9781551523606 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $11.95
The Art of God of War III
The Art of God of War III takes you behind the scenes of Sony's biggest 2010 game release, featuring unseen character and environment concept art and production art. Ballistic Publishing's new series, The Art of the Game, takes you into the world of game art development, offering insight directly from the creative teams who conceived and created the games that are pushing visual and technical limits. Also in the new series is The Art of Uncharted 2.
The Art of God of War III | Edited by Daniel P. Wade | Ballistic Publishing | Art / Games | 9781921002724 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $65.00
In the Time of the Girls
This innovative debut from Anne Germanicos uses discrete, telling moments to create gripping stories that are richly pleasurable to read. Heavily informed by her life in Greece, these stories are often just as strange and tragic as the myths they riff on. In one story, a middle-aged woman with a checkered past falls in love with the epileptic kindergartner next door. In another, a contemporary Oedipus living with his mother in a house full of cats is cured of his blindness while a neighbor woman's head boils on a stove up the street. In the Time of the Girls is not your standard short story collection—it is an innovative work of literary prose as brilliant, concise, and potent as a bolt of lightning from the hand of Zeus. Born in San Francisco, Anne Germanacos has lived between Greece and San Francisco for thirty years. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.
In the Time of the Girls | Anne Germanacos | BOA Editions, Ltd. | Fiction | 9781934414385 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $14.00
Dear Sandy, Hello
Ted and Sandy Berrigan's honeymoon ended when her father, a well-connected doctor, forced Sandy into a mental hospital, had Ted run out of town by the sheriff, and hired private detectives to investigate his friends. These intimate, irresistible letters, written over the course of their three-month separation, read like a passionate, epistolary novel. In addition to the letters, this collection contains never-before-published reproductions from A Book of Poetry for Sandy, featuring Berrigan's cutouts, drawings, photographs of fellow poets and artists, and excerpts from poems that eventually became The Sonnets. Ted Berrigan (1934–1983) was a prominent American poet in the second generation of the New York School of Poets.
Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted to Sandy Berrigan | Ted Berrigan; Edited with an introduction by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett | Coffee House Press | Literary Collections | 9781566892490 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $19.95
Entangled
The first novel from Graham Hancock, the author of several best-selling investigations of historical mysteries, Entangled is a time-slip adventure alternating between present-day California, Brazil, and prehistoric Spain. The first book in a trilogy, Entangled is at once a gripping fantasy set in parallel dimensions, and a work grounded in anthropological and scientific research. The story dips into cutting-edge issues, including the "Neanderthal Enigma," the nature of consciousness, and time travel. Hancock is the author of several books, including Fingerprints of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Underworld, and Supernatural.
Entangled | Graham Hancock | The Disinformation Company | Fiction | 9781934708569 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $19.95
The DeValera Deception
It is the summer of 1929, and in an attempt to prevent an attack on the Irish Free State, new Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald asks Winston Churchill to handle a secret assignment by enlisting the help of American President Herbert Hoover. Churchill decides to have his own unofficial team help out as well, bringing in Bourke Cockran Jr., a law professor, former military intelligence agent, and the son of Churchill's old Irish American mentor, and Mattie McGary, Churchill's goddaughter. Tempers clash in the heat of attraction as Cockran and Mattie follow a trail from New York to Los Angeles through Canada. But Mattie is also keeping secrets from Cockran, who has his own secret agenda as well. This is the first book in a series of thrillers about Winston Churchill.
The DeValera Deception | Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin | Enigma Books | Fiction | 9781936274086 |October 2010 | Trade Cloth | $23.95
More Miles Than Money
Armed only with a Greyhound ticket and enough money for his next beer, Garth Cartwright sets out to see whether the American roots music he loves—blues and country, folk and soul—is still alive in the twenty-first century. His journey introduces him to an exotic mix of surviving legends, from soul diva Mabel John to country troubadour Billy Joe Shaver. Constantly in motion, Cartwright observes a frayed, divided United States, one plagued by crystal meth and poverty. But when the music plays and the open road calls, he finds America's primal spirit remains. Garth Cartwright writes for various international publications and is the author of Princes Amongst Men.
More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music | Garth Cartwright | Serpent's Tail | Music / Travel | 9781846686870 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $15.95
Censored 2011
"Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us."—San Diego Review
Each year, as it has for the past quarter century, Project Censored lists its list of the top twenty-five censored stories—the major news stories that were ignored or under-reported by the mainstream press. Stories are presented in depth, and the original reporters are given the opportunity to provide updates on how their stories came about. Mickey Huff is an associate professor of history and social science at Diablo Valley College and is the associate director of Project Censored. He blogs at www.dailycensored.com. Peter Phillips is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State and the director of Project Censored, well known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide.
Censored 2011: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10 | Edited by Mickey Huff, Peter Phillips, and Project Censored | Seven Stories Press | Social Science | 9781583229200 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $19.95
The Siren
Praise for the DC Gary Goodhew series:
"[An] assured debut . . . By the end, readers will be flipping back to the beginning to suss out those clues that they may have missed."—Publishers Weekly
All it takes is one small item on the regional news for Kimberly Guyver and Rachel Golinski to know that their checkered pasts are catching up with them. Within hours, Rachel's home is burning, and Kimberly's young son Riley is missing. When DC Gary Goodhew begins to sift through their lives, he uncovers an unsettling picture of deceit, murder and accelerating danger. Kimberly seems distraught, but is also defensive and uncooperative. Is it mistrust of the police, who may be putting her son at risk, or does she have darker motivations? Author Alison Bruce is married with two small children and lives in Cambridge.
The Siren | Alison Bruce | Soho Press | Fiction | 9781569476055 | October 2010 | Trade Cloth | $25.00
Stories of Your Life and Others
"Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . this collection is a pure marvel. Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish, he just leaves you speechless. I always suggest a person read at least 52 books a year for proper mental functioning, but if you only have time for one, be at peace: you found it."—Junot Díaz
This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories, plus the author's story notes and a cover that the author commissioned himself. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. Chiang is one of the most celebrated science fiction authors writing today. His most recent short story, "Exhalation," won the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Locus awards. He lives near Seattle.
Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | Small Beer Press | Fiction | 9781931520720 | October 2010 | Trade Paper | $16.00
By Hook or By Crook
Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg are back with a brand-new collection featuring the best short stories of 2009 from the biggest names in crime fiction! The book includes stories from Elizabeth George, Laura Lippmann, Nancy Pickard, Max Allan Collins, S.J. Rozan, Ace Atkins, Dana Cameron, Jim Fusilli, Dennis Lehane, and Luis Alberto Urrea.
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year | Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg | Tyrus Books | 9781935562313 | October 2010 | $29.95 | Trade Cloth
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year | Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg | Tyrus Books | Mystery | 9781935562320 | October 2010 | $19.95 | Trade Paper