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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of Small Town Iowa
Photographs by Everett W. Kuntz – Text by Jim Heyen
ISBN 978-1-58729-653-6 Cloth $29.95 June 2008 Photography Univ. of Iowa Press
“These pictures, resting like treasures from 1939 until now are delights … The photographs are garnished by Jim Heyen’s witty affectionate commentary … If 2007 looks insane to you, pursue for a while this lovely, charming book …” – Bill Holm
9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press
David Ray Griffin
ISBN 978-1-56656-716-9 Paperback $20.00 May 2008 Current Affairs Interlink Publishing
“David Ray Griffin has established himself – alongside Seymour Hersh – as America’s number one bearer of unpleasant, yet necessary, public truths.” – Richard Falk, Princeton University
The Color of Loss: An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans After Katrina
Photographs and Introduction by Dan Burkholder – Foreword Andrei Cordescu
ISBN 978-0-292-71713-8 Cloth $50.00 March 2008 Photographs Univ. of Texas Press
Using an innovative digital technology that creates photographs that look like paintings, Dan Burkholder offers a powerful new way of seeing New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids with Nature through the Seasons
Rick Van Noy
ISBN 978-0-8203-3103-4 Paperback $16.95 June 2008 Nature Univ. of Georgia Press
This book answers the call to action raised by The Last Child in the Woods.
What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
Toni Morrison
ISBN 978-1-60473-017-3 Cloth $30.00 April 2008 American Literature/African American Studies Univ. Press of Mississippi
Thirty years of the Nobel Laureate’s reflections on life, writing, and other writers. This edition includes her Nobel Prize speech in 1993.
Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers
Edited by Kathryn Kyser
ISBN 978-0-87351-614-3 Cloth $24.95 April 2008 Literature/Anthology MN Hist. Soc. Press
With honesty and extraordinary self-knowledge twenty-one accomplished authors illuminate the mother-daughter relationship – intimate, complicated, loving, flawed – with humor and clarity.
Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota
Toby Thompson
ISBN 978-0-8166-5445-1 Paperback $15.95 May 2008 Music/Regional Univ. of Minnesota Press
A young writer uncovers Bob Dylan’s past, back when music mattered. “Dylan fans will not
want to miss this book.” – Sioux City Journal
Hitler’s Priest: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism
Kevin F. Spicer ISBN 978-0-87580-384-5 Cloth $34.95 April 2008 World History/Religion N. Illinois Univ. Press
Notre Dame professor Spicer use of archival materials is almost superhuman and he has done a true detective’s job in tracking down priests the Catholic Church leadership would rather be stricken from the historical recor
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac, Updated Edition
David Amram
ISBN 978-1-59451-544-6 Paperback $19.95 March 2008 Music/Literature Paradigm Publishers
David Amram’s musical career has spanned 50 years, and he participated with the first jazz-poetry reading in 1957 with Jack Kerouac in Greenwich Village. Now updated, this is the rollicking story of this legendary musician and his adventures with his close friend Jack Kerouac.
Jackie Ormes: The First African-American Cartoonist
Nancy Goldstein
ISBN 978-0-472-11624-9 Cloth $30.00 February 2008 Art/Comics Univ. of Michigan Press
A richly illustrated biography of a pioneering woman artist and the characters she created.
A Time to Dance
Heinz Poll
ISBN 978-1-931968-52-2 Paperback $22.95 Dance/Regional Univ. of Akron Press
Heniz Poll was an internationally known choreographer who founded the Ohio Ballet. Through all unexpected twists and turns of his adventurous life he displayed a total dedication to the art of dance.
A Cook’s Journey: Slow Food in the Heartland
Kurt Michael Friese
ISBN 978-1-8881603-6-9 Paperback $26.95 Cooking/Regional Ice Cube Press
Iowa City Chef Friese explores the Slow Food Movement in the 13 state Midwest region. We learn about the remarkable diversity of foods throughout the region. This book will be a stunner.
The Long Journey Home: A Novel
Laurel Means
ISBN 978-0-89733-569-0 Paperback $ 16.95 Historical Fiction Academy Chicago Publishers
A fascinating saga set on the Minnesota prairie of the 1860s. Filed with shifting shapes and graphic action, this book is set in the aftermath of the Civil war and tells a compelling story of 19th Western America.
Gallery Ghost: Find the Ghost Who Paints the Most
Anna Nilsen
ISBN 978-1-59960-036-9 Cloth $18.00 Children’s Birdcage Press
Bestselling children’s author Nilsen (Art Fraud Detective) joins up with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and features 24 of their masterpieces where a spooky time is has by all.
The Informed Gardner
Linda Chalker-Scott
ISBN 978-0-295-98790-3 Paperback $18.95 Gardening Univ. of Washington Press
This is a solid introduction to sustainable landscape practices that is of interest to a wide variety of designers, architects, arborists, foresters, and the home gardener.
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology
Edited and Translated from Arabic by Shakir Mustafa
ISBN 978-0-8156-0902-5 Cloth $22.95 World Literature Syracuse Univ. Press
The first anthology of its kind in the West: -- here is the work of sixteen Iraqi writers that sheds important new light on the rich diversity of the Iraqi experience. Themes range from childhood and family to war, political oppression and interfaith relationships.
Bang: The Complete History of the Universe
Brian May, Patrick Moore, and Chris Lintott
ISBN 978-0-8018-8985-1 Cloth $29.95 Science/Astronomy Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
This all-color book was a bestseller in the U.K. This fascinating book includes photographs, short biographies of key figure, glossary of terms, and suggested resources for further exporation. Brian May, recently awarded a PHD in Astrophysics, was the founding guitarist of the rock band Queen. Pick up a copy of Bang - it will rock you!
At Maxwell Street: Chicago’s Historic Marketplace Recalled in Words and Photographs
Compiled by Tom Palazzolo
ISBN 978-0-9786976-1-1 Cloth with DVD $40.00 Photography/Film/Chicago Wicker Park Press
Legendary Chicago filmmaker and artist Tom Palazzolo has assembled photographers, musicians, journalists, writers, and everyday people to bring the classic marketplace of Chicago back to life in a vibrant multimedia book. Maxwell Street started in the first years of the Twentieth Century before being razed by City officials and the University of Illinois at Chicago. A DVD of the 1983 film produced by Tom Palazzolo, along with a slide show of color images, accompanies this book.
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