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Appetites cover image Appetites
Why Women Want
CAROLINE KNAPP

Knapp, bestselling author of Drinking: A Love Story, has turned her brilliant eye toward how a woman’s appetite—for food, love, work, and pleasure—has become a battlefield. Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully and urgently challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-226-7 | Trade Paper | $14.95

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On the Lower Frequencies cover image On the Lower Frequencies
ERICK LYLE A.K.A IGGY SCAM

Iggy Scam’s On the Lower Frequencies is at once a manual, memoir, and history of creative resistance in a world awash with poverty and war. Whether handing out fake Starbucks coupons or dreaming of a future with more public art and punk holidays, Scam gives the reader inspiration for living defiantly.

SOFT SKULL PRESS| 978-1-93336-898-6 | Trade Paper | $14.95

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Into Thick Air cover image Into Thick Air
Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
JIM MALUSA

This large-hearted narrative of a friendly, perceptive American at the mercy of strange landscapes finds writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycling to the lowest point on six continents in a series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.”

“[H]is descriptions of desert landscapes can be extraordinary.” —New York Times Book Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-57805-141-0 | Trade Paper | $16.95

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Tintin and the Secret of Literature cover image Tintin and the Secret of Literature
TOM MCCARTHY

Is Tintin literature? asks Tom McCarthy in this slyly brilliant study of one of the greatest comics of the 20th century. McCarthy’s irresistibly clever, tightly constructed tour de force of literary theory shows how the themes Tintin generates are the very same that have fueled and troubled writers from the classical era to the present day.

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-405-6 | Trade Paper | $15.95

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Leonard Woolf
A Biography
Victoria Glendinning

Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning presents a meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of the “dark star” of Bloomsbury. Leonard Woolf is a shrewdly perceptive and lively biography of a man whose impact on society is far-reaching and who is owed long-overdue appreciation for his contributions.
“Comprehensive and eminently readable.” —New York Times Book Review

COUNTERPOINT | 978-1-58243-411-7 | Trade Paper | $16.95

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Deathtripping cover image Deathtripping
Underground Trash Cinema
JACK SARGEANT

This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “None shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post–punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators.

SOFT SKULL PRESS| 978-1-93336-895-5 | Trade Paper | $18.95

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Hey Mr. Green cover image Hey Mr. Green
Sierra Magazine’s Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions
BOB SCHILDGEN

Bob Schildgen answers real-world questions about being environmentally friendly in this compilation of the best of his “Hey Mr. Green” column in Sierra magazine. From the greenest oil company to whether to buy your beer in cans or bottles, Hey Mr. Green provides practical advice—and a laugh—for everyone trying to do their part for the environment.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-143-4 | Trade Paper | $14.95

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Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet
Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warming
ERIC SORENSEN & THE STAFF OF THE SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE

What do a clothesline, a locally grown tomato, and a microchip have in common? They’re all ordinary things that, with widespread use, can have an extraordinary impact in the fight against global warming, one of the most urgent challenges facing life on Earth in this century.

SIERRA CLUB BOOKS | 978-1-57805-145-8 | Trade Paper | $9.95

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