What a Wonderful World The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years 978-0-307-37844-6 Ricky Riccardi HC: $28.95 US / $33.00 on sale 06-21-2011 400 pages: carton 12 Pantheon "We need this book," says Dan Morgenstern, America's most esteemed jazz critic. While the early and middle years of Armstrong career have been deeply analyzed and justly celebrated for the genius of his virtuosity and musical innovations, his later years, when he was dismissed as a buffoonish, if popular, entertainer, have received scant critical attention. This prodigiously research and authoritative book repairs the breach. The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove A Novel 978-0-307-39504-7 Susan Gregg Gilmore TR: $14.00 US / $16.00 on sale 08-02-2011 272 pages: carton 24 Broadway Unlikely Brothers Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption 978-0-307-46484-2 John Prendergast and Michael Mattocks HC: $24.00 US / $27.00 on sale 05-17-2011 272 pages: carton 12 Crown This unputdownable, beautifully written memoir is The Blind Side meets The Constant Gardener meets Push.
Nobody Turn Me Around A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington 978-0-8070-0155-4 Charles Euchner TR: $17.00 US / $19.00 on sale 07-12-2011 248 pages: carton 24 Beacon Press A dramatic account of the 1963 March on Washington--the demonstration that changed America. Hellhound On His Trail The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History 978-0-307-38743-1 Hampton Sides TR: $15.95 US / $17.95 on sale 03-22-2011 480 pages: carton 24 Anchor From the bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder, comes a fast-paced, riveting exposé about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the relentless search to find his killer. First time in paperback. Anchor. Season of Darkness 978-0-7710-4325-3 Maureen Jennings TR: $22.95 US / $24.99 on sale 08-02-2011 400 pages: carton 24 McClelland & Stewart The creator of the acclaimed Murdoch Mysteries turns her exceptional storytelling skills to a murder mystery set in rural England in the darkest days of the Second World War, for fans of Foyle's War, Rennie Airth, and Alan Furst. Space Race 978-93-80028-62-0 CEL Welsh; Illustrated by K.L. Jones TR: $9.99 US / $10.99 on sale 07-12-2011 68 pages: carton 24 Campfire
Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife A Novel 978-0-345-51108-9 Nikki Turner TR: $14.00 US / $16.00 on sale 04-05-2011 224 pages: carton 24 One World The VIPs A Novel 978-0-7679-2974-5 Scott Poulson-Bryant TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 on sale 07-05-2011 384 pages: carton 24 Broadway A la Carte 978-0-375-84306-8 Tanita S. Davis TR: $8.99 US / $9.99 on sale 06-14-2011 288 pages: carton 24 Ember How's a girl to fix a broken heart? By cooking, of course! The Other Half of My Heart 978-0-440-24006-8 Sundee T. Frazier DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 on sale 06-14-2011 304 pages: carton 48 Yearling Biracial twins' relationship is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African-American girls.
Children of the Street An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery 978-0-8129-8167-4 Kwei Quartey TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 on sale 07-12-2011 352 pages: carton 24 Random House Trade Paperbacks From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Wife of the Gods comes the second installment in the Darko Dawson mystery series that has already hooked fans of Alexander McCall Smith. Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 978-0-307-47745-3 Harriet E. Wilson TR: $15.00 US / $17.00 on sale 08-23-2011 320 pages: carton 24 Vintage This new edition of Our Nig, based on new research and scholarship provides a fuller account of the life of Harriet Wilson, the first African American woman novelist and a deeper understanding of her work. Riot Chike and the River 978-0-307-47386-8 Chinua Achebe TR: $10.00 US / $11.00 on sale 08-09-2011 96 pages: carton 24 Anchor From Chinua Achebe, one of the world's most admired and mesmerizing storytellers--the delightful story of Chike, an eleven-year-old Nigerian boy, and his journey across the Niger River. A children's classic in the making. ANCHOR TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. 978-1-60684-209-6 Walter Dean Myers TR: $8.99 US / $9.99 on sale 04-26-2011 176 pages: carton 24 EgmontUSA
Bob Marley Calendar 2012 978-0-85768-147-8 Kim Gottlieb-Walker NT: $13.95 US / $15.95 on sale 07-26-2011 28 pages: carton 1 Titan Books No One But You Handa's Hen 978-0-7636-5361-3 Eileen Browne TR: $6.99 US / $8.00 on sale 08-09-2011 32 pages: carton 1 dlewick 978-0-7636-3848-1 Douglas Wood HC: $16.99 US / $19.00 on sale 05-10-2011 32 pages: carton 28 dlewick Visions of a Better World Howard Thurman's Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence 978-0-8070-0045-8 Quinton Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt HC: $34.95 US / $40.00 on sale 08-30-2011 288 pages: carton 12 Beacon Press The first biographical exploration of one of the most important African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century- -Howard Thurman--and of the pivotal trip he took to India that ultimately shaped the course of the civil rights movement.
Chirchir Is Singing 978-0-375-86198-7 Kelly Cunnane; illustrated by Jude Daly HC: $17.99 US / $19.99 on sale 08-23-2011 40 pages: carton 24 Schwartz & Wade What can little Chirchir do to help? White Water 978-0-7636-3678-4 Michael S. Bandy HC: $16.99 US / $19.00 on sale 08-23-2011 40 pages: carton 1 dlewick The Strawberry Letter Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn't Sexy 978-0-345-52550-5 Shirley Strawberry with Lyah Beth LeFlore HC: $22.00 US / $25.00 on sale 04-05-2011 192 pages: carton 12 One World For readers of Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man comes straight, nononsense, girlfriend-next-door advice from the cohost of The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Shirley Strawberry, with a foreword from Steve Harvey. Passing the Music Down 978-0-7636-3753-8 Sarah Sullivan HC: $16.99 US / $19.00 on sale 05-10-2011 32 pages: carton 30 dlewick
Cabin Fever A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild 978-0-8070-0096-0 Tom Montgomery Fate HC: $24.95 US / $27.95 on sale 06-07-2011 224 pages: carton 12 Beacon Press A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our hightech, materialist culture. The Persistence of the Color Line Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency 978-0-307-37789-0 Randall Kennedy HC: $25.95 US / $29.00 on sale 08-16-2011 336 pages: carton 12 Pantheon Even amidst the avalanche of Obama books, here's a standout: curiously, there's been scant commentary about the so-called first black president by prominent black intellectuals, but now the author of the New York Times bestseller Nigger gives us keen and shrewd essays on the fraught relationship between Obama and his black constituency, the preponderance of whom voted for him in 2008 but might not do so in 2012, many having grown disaffected. Handa's Hen 978-0-7636-5361-3 Eileen Browne TR: $6.99 US / $8.00 on sale 08-09-2011 32 pages: carton 1 dlewick The Fairy Godmother Academy #4: Lilu's Book 978-0-375-85187-2 Jan Bozarth DG: $6.99 US / $7.99 on sale 05-10-2011 192 pages: carton 48 Yearling Girl-powered adventure filled with danger and magic, as well as meaningful relationships and real-life issues.