Thursday, July 21, 2011

Top 25 Forthcoming Books from the Great Lakes Region

The following books represent the cream of the crop of Great Lakes regional publishing. Diverse authors, diverse subjects, diverse publishers! Happy reading!!

Univ. of Utah Pr./Poetry Foundation - BLUEPRINTS: BRINGING POETRY INTO THE COMMUNITIES
edited by Katherine Coles paperback $8.95 trade 978-1-60781-147-3 Available - Poetry

Academy Chicago - COUNTY: LIFE, DEATH, AND POLITICS AT CHICAGO'S PUBLIC HOSPITAL by David Ansell MD cloth $32.50 978-0-89733-620-8 trade Available Memoir/Medicine

Univ of Georgia Pr. - LAST DAY ON EARTH: A PORTRAIT OF THE NIU SCHOOL SHOOTER by David Vann cloth $24.95 trade 978-0-8203-3839-2 October 2011 True Crime

Intelink Pub Group - 9/11: 10 YEARS LATER by David Ray Griffin paper $18 trade 978-1-56656-868-5 September 2011 Current Affairs/Politics

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr - INVENTING IRON MAN: THE POSSIBIBILITY OF A HUMAN MACHINE by E. Paul Zehr cloth $24.95 trade 978-1-4214-0226-0 - Science

Univ. Pr. of Kansas - DEFENDING CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION by Louis Fisher paper $24.95 trade 978-0-7006-1799-9 - Politics

Univ Pr. of Kansas - FISHES OF THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES 2nd edition Revised & Expanded
by Joseph R. Tomelleri paper $24.95 trade 978-0-7006-1816-3 Nature/Picture Book

Univ. Pr. of Kentucky A VOICE IN A BOX: MY LIFE IN RADIO by Bob Edwards cloth $21.95 trade 978-0-8131-3451-2 Memoir/Media

Univ Pr. of Mississippi ALAN MOORE: CONVERSATIONS edited by Eric T. Berlatsky paper $25 trade 978-1-61703-159-5 Graphic Novels/Comics

Minnesota Historical Soc Pr. THE1968 PROJECT: A NATION COMING OF AGE by Brad Zellar paper $24.95 trade 978-0-87351-842-0 US History

Univ. of Texas Pr. - GREEBACK PLANET: HOW THE DOLLAR CONQUERED THE WORLD ... by H.W. Brands cloth $24.95 trade 978-0-292-72341-2 History/Economics

Tupelo Pr. - TRAFFIC WITH MACBETH: POEMS by Larissa Szporluk (at Bowling Green St U, Ohio) paper $16.95 trade 978-1-936797-02-8 Poetry

Wayne State Univ Pr. - DETROIT LAND by Ricahrd Bak paper $24.95 tarde 978-0-8143-3499-7 Regional History

Wayne State Univ Pr. - THE STOOGES - HEAD ON by Brett Callwood Foreword by Alice Cooper paper $19.95 trade 978-0-8143-3484-3 Music/Regional

Wicker Park Pr./Lake Street Pr. BEYOND THE PEWS: BREAKING WITH TRADITON AND LETING GO OF RELIGIOUS LOCKDOWN by Jillian Maas Backman paper $16.95 trade 978-1-936181-34-6 Religion/Spirituality

NIU Pr. – CHICAGO’S TRUNK MURDER by Elizabeth Dale cloth $32 trade 978-087580-440-8 True Crime/Regional

Michigan State Univ. Pr. – LAUGHING WHITEFISH by Robert Traver paper 19.95 trade 978-1-61186-014-6 Historical Fiction/Native American

Ohio Univ. Pr. – THE MIDWESTERN NATIVE GARDEN by Charlotte Adelman paper $26.95 trade 978-0-8214-1937-3 Gardening/Regional

Ohio Univ. Pr. – THE LOCAVORE’S KITCHEN by Marilou K. Suszko (from Ohio) paper $32.95 trade 978-0-8214-1938-0 Cooking/Regional

Ohio Univ. Pr. – MARIEMONT: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF A MODEL TOWN by Millard F. Rogers, Jr. cloth $59.95 trade 978—0-8214-1972-4

Univ. of Minnesota Pr. - WHISKEY BREAKFAST: MY SWEDISH FAMILY, MY AMERICAN LIFE by Richard C. Lindberg (set in Chicago) paper $22.95 trade 978-0-8166-4684-5 Memoir

Univ. of Michigan Pr. – FAITHFUL ONTO DEATH by Becky Thacker Paper $22.95 trade 978-0-472-03469-7 Available Fiction/Regional History

Univ. of Michigan Pr. – THE WINDWARD SHORE: A WINTER ON THE GREAT LAKES by Jerry Dennis cloth $22.95 trade 978-0-472-11816-8

Univ. of Michigan Pr. – THE ART OF COOKING MORELS by Ruth Mossok Johnson – cloth $29.95 trade 978-0-472-11784-0 Cooking

Kent State Univ. Pr. - 1950’S RADIO IN COLOR (Photos of Tommy Edwards)
By Christopher Kennedy cloth $49 trade 978-160635-072-0 Music/Photo

2 comments:

Katherine said...

Great list. Pub dates?

Becky Thacker said...

Um, FAITHFUL ONTO DEATH should be FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH :)
-becky t-