Small Press Month 2010

March is Small Press Month which recognizing the work of independent publishers to produce a variety of books that might be considered risky ventures by larger publishing house.  Here is a sampling of titles from independent publishers released in 2009.

Nonfiction

The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, Kenneth Whyte  070.5 WHY

A Book of Silence, Sara Maitland  155.92 MAI

A Literary Bible: An Original Translation, David Rosenberg  221.5209 BIB

A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman, Aisling Juanjuan Shen  305.488951 SHE

Bluebird: A Memoir, Vesna Maric  305.906914 MAR 

Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters,
Frances Fox Piven  324.62 PIV

Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man With a Hundred Faces, Harry Ferguson  327.1241 FER

Getting Green Done: Hard Truths From the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution, Auden Schendler  333.7 SCH

Where Underpants Come From: From Checkout to Cotton Field: Travels Through the New China and into the New Global Economy, Joe Bennett  338.951 BEN

The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy, Lisa Dodson  339.2 DOD

The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity, Nicholas Stern  363.73874 STE

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities, Amy Stewart  581.65 STE

Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors: The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World, Jeremy Coller  601 COL

Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, Rick Smith  615.902 SMI

A Rose By Any Name, Douglas Brenner  635.933734 BRE

In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles, Chris Welles Feder  791.430233 FED

Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers, Daniel Arnold  796.522 ARN

The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish, David Kinney  799.1 KIN

The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else, Christopher R. Beha  809 BEH

Camus, a Romance, Elizabeth Hawes  843.914 CAM

The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat, Bob Drury  951.904242 DRU

Founders: The People Who Brought You a Nation, Ray Raphael  973.3 RAP

The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West, Christopher Corbett  979.404 COR

Fiction

Haunting Bombay, Shilpa Agarwal

Year of the Horse, Justin Allen

As God Commands, Niccolò Ammaniti

The Accordionist's Son, Bernardo Atxaga

A Glass of Water, Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Brothers Boswell, Philip Baruth

Evil for Evil: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, James R. Benn

The Lie, O.H. Bennett

Murder in the Latin Quarter, Cara Black

The Jade Cat, Suzanne Brøgger

Hell, Robert Olen Butler

The Puzzle King, Betsy Carter

The Merry Misogynist, Colin Cotterill

Repeat After Me, Rachel DeWoskin

Blood Moon, Garry Disher

A Quiet Belief in Angels, R.J. Ellory

Alice Fantastic, Maggie Estep

I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett

Wanting, Richard Flanagan

Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame

The Stranger, Max Frei

Buried Strangers, Leighton Gage

Stealing Fatima, Frank X. Gaspar

Dark Dreams, Michael Genelin

Ultimatum, Matthew Glass

A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick

As If By Magic: A Jack Haldean Murder Mystery, Dolores Gordon-Smith

A Friend of the Family, Lauren Grodstein

The Music Teacher, Barbara Hall

Skin, Mo Hayder

The Vows of Silence: A Simon Serrailler Mystery, Susan Hill

Show Me the Sky, Nicholas Hogg

Waiting for Rescue, Lucy Honig

The Big Steal, Emyl Jenkins

Village of the Ghost Bears, Stan Jones

House Secrets, Mike Lawson

Castle, J. Robert Lennon

About Face, Donna Leon

How To Rob an Armored Car, Iain Levison

G.I. Bones, Martin Limón

Skeleton Hill, Peter Lovesey

Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell

The Stolen Voice: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery, Pat McIntosh

Picking Bones From Ash, Marie Mutsuki Mockett

The Ghosts of Belfast, Stuart Neville

Far Bright Star, Robert Olmstead

Eye of the Raven: [A Mystery of Colonial America], Eliot Pattison

The Lord of Death, Eliot Pattison

The Bell Ringers, Henry Porter

Rifling Paradise, Jem Poster

The Little Victim, R.T. Raichev

The Samaritan's Secret: An Omar Yussef Mystery, Matt Beynon Rees

One D.O.A., One on the Way, Mary Robison

The Creed of Violence, Boston Teran 

The Readers Services staff will be happy to help you locate any of these or other books. Just Ask Readers Services! For more information about independent publishers, visit the websites for The Independent Publishers Group or The New York Center for Independent Publishing.

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