ECW Press
324 pages
$17.95
“Gorgeous, brilliantly written, deeply moving, funny as f-bomb, life-affirming and just plain stunning. J.M. Blaine’s debut will blow you away.”
— Augusten Burroughs, author, Running with Scissors
Grove Press
256 pages
$15
“For more than two decades [Gil Scott-Heron] has been committed to examining those facets of the human condition that most of us would rather forget . . . he is an artist who has crafted witty but crucial insights for black America.”
—Washington Post
Sartoris Literary Group
286 pages
$20.95
“Memphis Going Down is told in the words of the record producers, performers, and songwriters themselves as they reflect on their lives and music and its impact on popular culture.”
—From the publisher
McFarland & Company
220 pages
$53.50
“In the third wave, Irish writers express the frustrations of their cultural identity. Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You takes her protagonist back to Ireland to heal her psychic wounds. In England, Thatcherism had created a materialistic culture that eroded many feminists’ socialist values. Fay Weldon’s Big Woman satirizes the demise of second-wave idealism, asking where feminism can go from here.”
—From the publisher
Crown Archetype
416 pages
$28
“Basketball legend Pat Summitt recalls her life in vivid detail, describing its triumphs, both on and off the court…. With her trademark honesty and grace, Summitt reveals her fears, her early anger and astonishment, her diminishing abilities, her decision to retire, and how her faith sustains her.”
—USA Today
Henry Holt and Co.
288 pages
$17.95
“How to Build an Android is an attempt to bring the science fiction legend back to life as a robot.”
—Chapter 16 book review
