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Fisherman’s Beach by George Vukelich
$2.99. Kindle ebook.
CBR Press is proud to present this 50th Anniversary ebook edition of Fisherman’s Beach, the masterful debut novel by the late Wisconsin author and long-time Madison newspaper columnist and radio-host George Vukelich (1927-1995). Originally published in 1962 by St. Martin’s Press, Fisherman’s Beach charts the postwar struggles of a Catholic fishing clan in Two Rivers, Wisconsin headed by a dying patriarch, Old Man LeMere. Often at odds with his Irish wife, his five sons, not to mention his doctor and his priest, LeMere represents a tradition and moral force that seem to be breaking down around him. The 2012 enhanced ebook edition features a Foreword by Wisconsin State Journal columnist Doug Moe and photos of Two Rivers by photographer Thomas J. King. Bonus ebook supplements include biographical and critical essays on George Vukelich and Fisherman’s Beach by August Derleth and James P. Roberts. There are also discussion questions for book clubs and classrooms.
Read Doug Moe’s Foreword and an excerpt from Fisherman’s Beach in the May 2012 online issue of Madison Magazine.
Look for an excerpt from Chapter Eight of Fisherman’s Beach in the Spring 2012 issue of Rosebud, available in bookstores and for purchase online.
“I couldn’t be happier that on this, the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Fisherman’s Beach, Cambridge Book Review Press is bringing it to a new generation of readers.”—From the Foreword by Doug Moe, columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal, and author of Lords of the Ring: The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing’s Greatest Team.
“One of the best family novels of our time—not the family novel that moves from one generation to another … but the novel that is the portrait of the family seen at a time of crisis.”—August Derleth.
“This impressive first novel by George Vukelich has all the turbulence, surge, ebb and, sometimes, serenity of the great body of water which is its setting—Lake Michigan … Every character is as true as life.”—The Milwaukee Journal.
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Lights! Camera! Autism! by Kate McGinnity, Sharon Hammer, and Lisa Ladson
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Using video technology to enhance lives. Supplemental DVD included.
Read Paula Kluth’s online interview with the authors.
“Lights! Camera! Autism! challenged me with its many rich ideas, clear and compelling examples, and positive and ever-encouraging voice. It is not only a user-friendly guide, it is also a call to action. Throughout the book, the authors quietly suggest that we think differently about autism and about support. They also show us how to calm, support, encourage, teach, and challenge students with this one simple tool and they compel us to use it often and widely.”—from the Foreword, by Paula Kluth, Ph.D., author of You’re Going to Love This Kid!: Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom.
“This is an amazing book. The authors do what so many in the autism industry fail to do: they nest their suggestions in a solid understanding of the literature on sensory-movement differences that people with autism tell us circumscribe their experience and their performance. From iPads to iPhones, Flip videos to skyping, social networking to TV shows, they guide us through example after example of ways to use technology to truly personalize supports and accommodate the unique needs of individual learners in real life situations.” —Anne M. Donnellan, Ph.D., Director of the University of San Diego Autism Institute; Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“It is essential for self-advocates, professionals and family members to have consistent access to learning technology information that is evolving faster than one can keep up with. This person-centered, wonderful book clearly accomplishes just that. I couldn’t put it down and you won’t either. Lights! Camera! Autism! heralds a new realm of achieving learner participation in the classroom and the community.” —Patrick Schwarz, Ph.D., National-Louis University, Chicago, author of From Disability to Possibility: The power of inclusive classrooms, and co-author with Paula Kluth of three books, You’re Welcome, Just Give Him the Whale, and Pedro’s Whale.
“A must-have for all who want to work with, rather than work on, people with autism differences, supporting them to be all they wish to be in this world. Lights! Camera! Autism! explains how to use the power of visual technology across environments in an easy to read, pick-up-and-implement format.” —Judy Endow, MSW, author of Making Lemonade: Hints for autism’s helpers, and Paper Words: Discovering and living with my autism.
“Arguably the most extensive, readable, and clearly written book on using video technology for individuals on the autism spectrum.” —Jane Pribek, parent, and Events Coordinator, Autism Society of Wisconsin.
“An invaluable reference tool and guide for anyone wanting to support and empower individuals with autism at home, in school, and in the community.” —Michael D. Shoultz, Ph.D, educational and behavioral consultant with more than 30 years of experience in the field of autism.
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Redshift: Greenstreem by Rod Clark / Illustrations by Spencer Walts
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Rod Clark’s visionary science-fiction micro-novel, first published in 2000, is back in print in a 2011 second-printing and an enhanced Kindle ebook.
Read the Fact Sheet: The “Redshift: Greenstreem” Prophesies.
Listen to Rod Clark read a passage from Redshift: Greenstreem:
“Cambridge’s CBR Press has just reissued the short, punchy and funny sci-fi ‘micro-novel’ Redshift: Greenstreem by Cambridge resident Rod Clark. First published in 2000, it’s an unapologetically geeky piece of futuristic sci-fi set in 2093 Los Angeles, in a world where what we quaintly refer to as ‘the 99 percent’ have been enslaved by debt and inflation. These consumer drones inhabit ‘Redshift,’ an area where their whimsical desires, fanned by a constant stream of advertising, can be transformed against their will into binding agreements to purchase. Redshift presents a satirically exaggerated dystopia, but one that pointedly resembles our own here and now. Wonky appendices hark back to other sci-fi classics like 1984 and A Clockwork Orange, but Redshift is more intent—if only slightly—on tickling your funnybone than giving you nightmares.”—Stephanie Bedford, The Capital Times.
“The book is being touted as ‘a minor cult classic,’ and having just purchased and read a copy I can see why. It has much to say about the present economic crisis (about which it is highly prescient) and about the need for something like the Occupy Wall Street movement that is currently sweeping the nation. Say what you will about the merits of these occupations, the need for concern that they highlight—over the wildly increasing gap between rich and poor both at home and abroad—seems hard to seriously question. Maybe, by some creative mix of rhetoric and protest, we can still save our children and grandchildren from the ill fate prophesied in Clark’s dystopian narrative.”—Brett Alan Sanders, writer, literary translator (most recently of Passionate Nomads by María Rosa Lojo).
“Rod Clark’s sci-fi satire of the economic and financial universe is more relevant than ever since the housing bubble crash and the emergence of the Great Recession, including even his independent invention of ‘econophysics,’ which has become a real scientific discipline inspiring hosts of wonky traders, some of whom played key roles in the recent crashes.” — John Barkley Rosser, Jr., mathematical economist and Professor of Economics at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, known for his advanced work in nonlinear economic dynamics, including applications in economics of catastrophe theory, chaos theory, and complexity theory.
“In Redshift: Greenstreem master wordsmith Rod Clark trains his sights on our acquisitive society, vividly imagining a fearsome future world. It’s a fascinating read that leaves us with a rich feast for thought.”—X.J. Kennedy, former poetry editor for The Paris Review, and the author of An Introduction to Poetry.
“Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science-fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.”—Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo Award-winning writer, and former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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Walk Awhile in My Autism by Kate McGinnity and Nan Negri
$20.00 from PayPal. Or Amazon: $20.00 (paperback) / $9.99 (Kindle edition).
A manual of sensitivity presentations to promote understanding of people on the autism spectrum.
“A must for every parent, every professional and every child who lives with autism. Buy it. Read it. Love it.”—Anne M. Donnellan, Ph.D., Director of the University of San Diego Autism Institute, and Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“I especially liked the quotes from people with autism, Planet Autism [page 34], and the visual, auditory and tactile exercises to simulate the sensory problems of people with autism. The main thing is all the exercises people can do so teachers, parents, and others can experience how a person with autism senses and feels the world.”—Temple Grandin, Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, and Thinking in Pictures.
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Making Lemonade: Hints for Autism’s Helpers by Judy Endow
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Visit Judy’s website.
Watch a book trailer for Making Lemonade.
“This collection is a beautiful and complex expression of what it is to know autism from the inside out. These poems are more than moving, they are instructive and teach much about how to support, listen, and appreciate.”—Paula Kluth, Ph.D., author of You’re Going to Love This Kid!: Teaching students with autism in the inclusive classroom.
“Autism has many faces and ‘ARTism’ is surely one of them. Judy Endow captures the fluid world of the autistic person with ‘artism,’ so naturally compelled by a world of pattern, theme and feel. This natural alternative ‘normality’ is one of the most misunderstood ‘functionally non-verbal’ worlds of cognitively different people. Judy playfully addresses her audience through a middle world where the language of ‘artism’ is those with autism can borrow the interpretive words of the mainstream world to build bridges and entice and invite them to respectfully do likewise.”—Donna Williams, bestselling author of Nobody Nowhere and Autism and Sensing: The Unlost Instinct.
“I’ve had the honor of hearing Judy speak at several autism institutes geared at educators over the past several years. One book she shared with us is Making Lemonade, her first publication. Judy read poems from this book that artistically describes what it feels like to live with autism: getting stuck in moments everyday, interpreting language literally and dealing with sensory input that is inescapable in our world. Her positive outlook to deal with the ‘lemons’ life offers is of course, ‘to make lemonade!’ This is a must-read for those who work with individuals on the spectrum.”—Carrie Heinbuch Anciaux, photographer, carrieanciauxblog.com.
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Two English Girls and the Continent by Henri-Pierre Roché (trans. Walter Bruno)
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“Finally the English-speaking world can see what inspired François Truffaut to make one of his best films. How wonderful to finally have Henri-Pierre Roché’s Two English Girls in translation!”—Annette Insdorf, author of François Truffaut, and Director of Undergraduate Film Studies at Columbia University.
Henri-Pierre Roché (1879-1959) had a Zelig-like ability for inserting himself into auspicious cultural moments. Time and again he emerges as a felicitous footnote abetting major 20th century artists and artistic movements. It is Roché, for example, who is credited with arranging the initial meeting between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso in Paris in 1905. A decade later, in New York City, it is Roché—along with his friend Marcel Duchamp—who published The Blind Man, a short-lived but influential magazine heralding the arrival of Dada in America.
Roché was in his seventies when he reinvented himself as a novelist. The result was two vibrant autobiographical fictions. Jules and Jim (1953) took as its backdrop Roché’s early Paris years as a bohemian aesthete in the era of the First World War. Two English Girls and the Continent (1956) goes back further in time, to the turn of the century, and relates Roché’s sexual awakening and his complex romantic involvement with two English sisters. French New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut adapted the novels into movies in 1961 and 1971 respectively.
Read more about Truffaut’s film adaptation of Two English Girls on our blog.
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Caffeine & Other Stories by Robert Wake.
$12.95 from PayPal. Or Amazon: $12.95 (paperback) / $2.99 (Kindle edition with four bonus stories).
“We see stimulants from caffeine to cocaine, alcohol and marijuana to nicotine. His characters glean intelligence (however wacky, artificial, or genius) and courage from their personal favorite highs. In a rather dark interpretation, I often felt as though many of his characters were on a bumpy ride to suicide. Yet, just when we are shaking our heads at them, Wake surprised me with his unfaltering wit and I laughed my fears away. After all, this is human spirit he is so masterfully portraying …”—Tracy Walczak, BookLovers.
“Caffeine is a book of constant surprises. In this collection of linked stories set in south-central Wisconsin, Wake sets before us the confusions of life in yuppie heaven. And he does so with tough love, and a wit which will have you laughing wickedly along. Bob Wake has a great sense of where he lives, Madison, Wisconsin, postmodern America. I, for one, look forward to continuing words from this bright writer.”—Jim Stevens, editor of The Journey Home: The Literature of Wisconsin Through Four Centuries.
“The range shown by Bob Wake in creating this series of interconnected, readable stories that stand well on their own is a considerable accomplishment. Reading Caffeine & Other Stories is like being a kid again and reaching into a grab bag at a rich friend’s birthday party: you can’t know what you are going to get, but you can be sure it’s going to be damn good.”—Chris Lott, Eclectica.
“Bob Wake writes likes Ralph Steadman draws: a few choice words and boom! there’s a real, living, breathing character… Caffeine and Other Stories kicks ass, rocks hard, and leaves you wanting more.”—Marie Mundaca, Erupture.
Read the title story, “Caffeine,” online.
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Shrine of the Tooth Fairy by John Lehman
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Listen to John Lehman reading “Clark Street Rag” from Shine of the Tooth Fairy:
“John Lehman’s Shrine of the Tooth Fairy won me over immediately, and I bet you’ll love it too. Start with the title poem or with ‘Del’s Supper Club,’ with the city landscapes and vivid portraits of ‘Just Breakfast’ or ‘Clark Street Rag,’ with the rich humor of ’3 Big Dogs in a Convertible’—or just plunge in anywhere. In Lehman’s keen, fresh view, ordinary things can amaze. Again and again, we’re startled to recognize what we always had known, but hadn’t been aware of before.”—X. J. Kennedy, former poetry editor for The Paris Review, and the author of An Introduction to Poetry.
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