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	The Scent of God A Memoir BERYL SINGLETON BISSELL After ten years of life in the convent the author meets a handsome Italian priest and discovers that that her religious garb cannot protect her from her budding sexuality. In spare but lyrical language, Bissell weaves a powerful story of love, death, guilt, and redemption. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-361-5 \| Trade Paper \| $15.00

	Drugs Are Nice A Post-Punk Memoir LISA CRYSTAL CARVER “Hunter S. Thompson in a miniskirt.” —Wired “She is a postmodern knight of faith, gracefully transforming the awkward shifts between being and thinking into a disco dance.” —Globe and Mail SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-1-93236-094-3 \| Trade Paper \| $14.95

	X Films True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker ALEX COX Filmmaker Alex Cox (of Sid and Nancy and Repo Man) weaves his own “confessions” with his notes to the new guard, and the result is a readable, startling treatise on both the film innovations of today and the thrilling potential of future filmmaking.Cox’s thoughtful autobiography examines his craft and influences, as well as providing his insights into many of his favorite films. SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-1-59376-193-6 \| Trade Paper \| $17.95

	Swallow the Ocean A Memoir LAURA M. FLYNN In her debut work, Laura M. Flynn shares childhood memories of her charismatic mother’s harrowing mental deterioration. Flynn and her two sisters escaped into their imaginations to deflect the danger threatening their fragile family. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of the determination of three young girls to survive their environment even as they yearned to escape it. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-385-1 \| Cloth \| $23.00

	Horizontal World Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere DEBRA MARQUART Growing up on the family farm in rural North Dakota, Debra Marquart always knew she wanted out. Though she was never able to abandon it completely, Marquart went on to become a rock musician, a poet, an English teacher, and a memoirist with sentences praised by the New York Times as “elegant, understated . . . as fertile as tilled rows of loam.” COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-363-9 \| Trade Paper \| $15.00

	Jesus Land A Memoir JULIA SCHEERES “Sibling bond is at the core of Jesus Land, Scheeres’s gritty, heart-wrenching memoir. . . . A lesser writer would have buckled under the weight of this story. . . . A page turner. . . . Heart-stopping and enraging. . . . There is much praise, these days, for the detached, quietly elegant narrative. But there is little mention of the power a well-tended rage can bring to a good story. . . . Focused, justified and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy.” —New York Times Book Review COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-58243-354-7 \| Trade Paper \| $14.00

	Typo The Last American Typesetter or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars DAVID SILVERMAN This memoir about buying a typesetting company tells one entrepreneur’s story of what it means to take on, run, and ultimately lose an entire life’s work. In Typo we find the American Dream run aground, rife with humor and moments of tragedy. It is “amusing, appalling, infuriating and wonderfully written.” —Wall Street Journal SOFT SKULL PRESS \| 978-1-933368-65-8 \| Trade Paper Original \| $16.95

	The Palace of the Snow Queen Winter Travels in Lapland BARBARA SJOHOLM In a book Rebecca Brown calls “thoroughly researched, funny, lively and—yes—warm,” detailing “what humans can discover and create in the cold,” Sjoholm both tells of her adventures in the winter landscape of Scandinavia and considers the power of ice and snow to shape our imaginations. With passionate descriptions she delivers both a powerful travel narrative and an unforgettable memoir. COUNTERPOINT \| 978-1-59376-159-2 \| Trade Paper Original \| $15.95


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