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Sneak Peeks: July 2011

Digital Arts Masters: Volume 6

Originally launched in 2005, the annual Digital Art Masters series continues to showcase the work of some of the finest 2D and 3D artists from around the world. The latest volume, Digital Art Masters: Volume 6, welcomes another fifty up-and-coming and veteran artists and follows the tradition of taking readers beyond the breathtaking images with detailed breakdowns of the techniques and tricks each artist employed while creating their stunning imagery, with the added bonus of video tutorials from selected artists.

Digital Art Masters: Volume 6 | Edited and introduced by 3DTotal | 3DTotal Publishing | 9780955153044 | July 2011 | $49.99 | Trade Paper


The Sexy Part of the Bible

Set in modern West Africa, Europe, and the United States, The Sexy Part of the Bible features the kind of heroine readers rarely get to encounter in popular culture: beautiful charcoal-skinned Eternity, a spirited and diabolical young African hellcat whose life is stigmatized by a heart-stopping secret. Enveloped in the arms of a domineering revolutionary, Eternity finds herself miraculously surviving several African rebellions. Kola Boof is the author of several novels and poetry collections. Her writing has appeared in Harper's and the story collection Politically Inspired.

The Sexy Part of the Bible | Kola Boof | Akashic Books | 9781936070961 | July 2011 | $15.95 | Trade Paper


Hotel Bosphorus

This debut novel by a young Turkish woman is set in her beloved Istanbul. This suspenseful tale of murder features a feisty, funny heroine: Kati Hirschel, a foreigner and proud owner of the only mystery bookshop in town. When the director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room, Kati cannot resist starting her own maverick investigation. Esmahan Aykol was a journalist for a number of Turkish publications and radio stations. After a stint as a bartender she turned to fiction writing.

Hotel Bosphorus | Esmahan Aykol; Translated by Ruth Whitehouse | Bitter Lemon Press | 9781904738688 | July 2011 | $14.95 | Trade Paper


This New & Poisonous Air

Blending historical fiction with fantasy and the macabre, Adam McOmber's debut short story collection brings the influence of Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allan Poe to the next generation. In "The Automatic Garden," a solitary architect from the court at Versailles builds a water-powered pleasure garden, while in "Fall, Orpheum," a small town movie palace becomes the temple for an entire town's devotion and sacrifice. Adam McOmber is assistant director of creative nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago and associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika.

This New & Poisonous Air | Adam McOmber | BOA Editions Ltd. | 9781934414514 | July 2011 | $14.00 | Trade Paper


The Terror Conspiracy Revisited

The year 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the history-changing terror attacks of September 11, 2001. In The Terror Conspiracy Revisited, the world's leading conspiracy writer updates his authoritative dissection of the official story of 9/11. This revised edition contains new material, including the European scientists' determination that there was nano-thermite in the World Trade Center debris—a high explosive available only through the U.S. military. Jim Marrs is the New York Times best-selling author of two other conspiracy titles.

The Terror Conspiracy Revisited What Really Happened On 9/11, And Why We're Still Paying The Price | Jim Marrs | The Disinformation Company | 9781934708637 | July 2011 | $17.95 | Trade Paper


The Gambler’s Nephew

In his latest novel, Matthews returns to the 1850s, where you will enter a world of slavery, abolitionist passion, murder, hypocrisy, grave-robbery, chicanery, holiness, memory, guilt and plain old-fashioned cussedness. In contrast, however, the reader will come upon the beauty and grandeur of the old steamboats plying the Ohio River, along with people troubled by such grand irrelevancies as love and tenderness. In short, The Gambler’s Nephew brings us a world as richly confused as our own and as alive as living can get.

The Gambler's Nephew | Jack Matthews | Etruscan Press | 9780981968773 | July 2011 | $15.95 | Trade Paper


Who is Ana Mendieta?

Who Is Ana Mendieta? is a cultural biography of a Cuban American feminist artist working on the cusp of rebellion and regression. Ana Mendieta—whose bold work about violence and the female body was changing the course of art history—"went out the window" of the New York City apartment she shared with her husband, sculptor Carl Andre, at the height of her career. Andre was tried and acquitted of her murder, and the legacy of Mendieta has been shrouded ever since. Christine Redfern and Caro Caron are artists living and working in Montreal.

Who is Ana Mendieta? | Christine Redfern; Illustrated by Caro Caron | The Feminist Press at CUNY | 9781558617032 | July 2011 | $18.95 | Boxed Set/Slipcased/Casebound


Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear

In every American Indian culture, there comes a time in each boy's life when he must walk forth on his own, leave his home and the protection of his family to prove to himself and to his people that he can survive and grow. Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear is a continent-spanning collection of such thrilling tales in which young men must face great enemies, find the strength and endurance within themselves to succeed, and take their place by the side of their elders. Joseph Bruchac is a traditional storyteller and prolific writer whose work often reflects his Abenaki Indian ancestry.

Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear: Tales from Native North America | Joseph Bruchac | Fulcrum Publishing | 9781555916930 | July 2011 | $12.95 | Trade Paper


The John Carlos Story

Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos. Carlos won the bronze medal in the 200 meters race at the 1968 Olympics. The John Carlos Story is his first book.

The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World | John Carlos with Dave Zirin | Haymarket Books | 9781608461271 | July 2011 | $22.95 | Trade Cloth


Crystallizing Public Opinion

Nicknamed "the father of public relations," Edward Bernays was a pioneer in the fields of propaganda and public relations, combining theories on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, to become the first thinker to explain how corporations and politicians could manipulate public opinion. A foundational text in the history of marketing and public relations, this first edition of Crystallizing Public Opinion in nearly fifty years features an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.

Crystallizing Public Opinion | Edward Bernays | Ig Publishing / MCM Books | 9781935439264 | July 2011 | $15.95 | Trade Paper


The Early Sprouts Cookbook

Discover delicious new ways to provide healthy meals in preschool settings. Packed with forty breakfast, lunch, snack, and special celebration recipes, this hands-on cookbook promotes the development of healthy eating habits in young children. Anchored by wholesome ingredients, these recipes are nutritionally sound, follow federal dietary guidelines, and are all child-tested and approved. Nutrition information, food safety procedures, tips for cooking with children, and colorful photographs of completed recipes are also included.

The Early Sprouts Cookbook | Karrie Kalich; Lynn Arnold; Carole Russell | Redleaf Press | 9781605540429 | July 2011 | $29.95 | Trade Paper


This Is Not Your City

Eleven women confront outlandish dramas everyday in Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as they are unflinching, people isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace—they have no other choice. A Russian mail-order bride in Finland is rendered silent by her dislocation and loss of language, the mother of a severely disabled boy writes him postcards he'll never read on a cruise ship held hostage by pirates, and an Iowa actuary wanders among the reincarnations of those she's known in her 127 lives. Caitlin Horrocks lives in Michigan by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland, and the Czech Republic. This Is Not Your City is her first book.

This Is Not Your City | Caitlin Horrocks | Sarabande Books | 9781932511918 | July 2011 | $15.95 | Trade Paper


A Slepyng Hound to Wake

Geoffrey Chaucer said, "It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake." Henry Sullivan, book hound, is ready to be that sleeping dog: to settle down in his new apartment and enjoy life with his new girlfriend. But the underside of the literary world won't let him go. A book scout sells Henry a book—and is murdered later that night. Henry can read the signs: to save those he loves he has to save himself. Vincent McCaffrey has owned the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop for more than thirty years. He has been paid to do a variety of manual labor jobs, but has chosen at various times to be a writer, editor, publisher, and bookseller.

A Slepyng Hound to Wake | Vincent McCaffrey | Small Beer Press | 9781931520263 | July 2011 | $24.00 | Trade Cloth


Good People

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Rabbit Hole, Good People is set in South Boston, the blue-collar neighborhood where David Lindsay-Abaire himself grew up: Margie Walsh, let go from yet another job and facing eviction, decides to appeal to an old flame who has made good and left his Southie past behind. Lindsay-Abaire offers us both his "quiet three-dimensional depth" (Los Angeles Times) and his carefully observed humor in this exploration of life in America when you're on your last dollar.

Good People | David Lindsay-Abaire | Theatre Communications Group | 9781559363938 | August 2011 | $14.95 | Trade Paper


Seven Days in Rio

Kenny Cantor is a CPA, amateur psychoanalyst, and sex-tourist vacationing in Rio when he gets waylaid at a psychoanalytic conference. What ensues is a provocative journey that merges sex and psychoanalysis through Rio's tawdry netherworld of Susan Sontag-quoting denizens as only an incendiary voice like Francis Levy could imagine. Francis Levy’s short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, and many others. He is the co-director of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination.

Seven Days in Rio | Francis Levy | Two Dollar Radio | 9780982684870 | July 2011 | $16.00 | Trade Paper, Deckle Edge


Screams & Whispers

Young Cape Cod public defender and commercial fisherman Michael Decastro ventures to Saigon with his father, a Vietnam War vet, to come to the aid of his long-lost client and love-interest Tuki Aparecio. The half-Vietnamese, half-African American diva is in a fight of her life with a mysterious dragon lady from Indochina's underworld. At stake is an antique ruby in Tuki's possession—and the mortal souls of everyone Decastro loves. Ghosts that the Decastros and Tuki carry with them from Cape Cod and Southeast Asia will have their day in Randall Peffer’s sixth and newest installment to his Cape Islands Mystery series.

Screams & Whispers | Randall Peffer | Tyrus Books | 9781935562368 | July 2011 | $24.95 | Trade Cloth