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By Joanna Stingray and Madison Stingray 416 pages, 150 black and white illustrations.September 2020. Paperback.Ebook also available. $32.95 | 9781733957922 (pb) The story of the American musician who opened the clandestine world of Leningrad punk and rock n’ roll to the West. What an adventure Joanna Stingray’s life has been. Red Wave is wild and vivid — a rollicking memoir of romance and rock ‘n’ roll in an era of upheaval and transition. From Los Angeles to Leningrad and back again, Joanna’s story is borne along by her infectious, headlong enthusiasm. It’s quite a ride.– Patrick Radden Keefe, award winning staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland At home in California, Joanna Stingray [works in] real estate with two additional jobs. But in Russia, Stingray is a near-legend, feted by rock fans and musicians for her fearless championing of Soviet underground music during the Cold War. “You are the mother of Russian rock!” a fan shouted as Stingray promoted her new autobiography at a Moscow bookstore. … The California musician aroused the suspicions of the KGB and the FBI as she bravely championed the Soviet underground in the 1980s. The Red Wave LP, released in America in 1986, introduced western audiences to Russian rock and helped end the Kremlin’s censorship of homegrown groups.– The Guardian, Joanna Stingray – the woman who smuggled punk rock out of the USSR A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world…[Red Wave] captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear (David Bowie and Molly Ringwald each wanted to adapt her story), and she’s a study in moxie and enthusiasm.– Kirkus Reviews As one of the first American musicians to break through the Soviet scene, and one of the few women to be seen as an equal amongst Leningrad’s pantheon of rock superstars, Stingray’s perspective on the development of late Soviet rock is truly one of a kind. This memoir is probably the single most important source for researchers who want a birds-eye view of late Soviet youth culture, and Stingray’s stories are as entertaining as they are relevant and illuminating. – Alexander Herbert, author of What About Tomorrow: An Oral History of Russian Punk Rock from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot

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By Dara Waldron New York Times BestsellerIrish Times BestsellerBarnes & Noble Non-Fiction Sept 2025 Pick of the Month 200 pages.September 2025. Paperback.B&W photos throughout. $22.95 | 9781954600294 A moving memoir of grief, healing, and the unbreakable bond between man and dog, set against the lush backdrop of rural Ireland. "Waldron’s moving memoir on how his adopted border collie gave him emotional and even spiritual kinship . . . is a touching meditation on the ever-shifting nature of grief, 'akin to waves that roll in,' as well as an ode to the Irish countryside: its myths, its agricultural traditions and the restorative wisdom of nature." —Irish Independent After the sudden loss of his father, film scholar and father of two boys, Dara Waldron finds unexpected solace in Ireland’s East Clare region. There, on an abandoned farm, he encounters a lone, enigmatic border collie—Oscar. What begins as an animal rescue gradually evolves into a profound companionship that helps Waldron navigate his grief. Oscar is no ordinary dog. A working sheepdog by nature, his instincts pull him to charge ahead—yet always return. As Waldron embarks on daily walks through misty woodlands and along rugged hillsides, their bond deepens. Each step through the Irish countryside becomes part of a ritual of recovery, trust, and understanding. In spare, lyrical prose and accompanied by cinematic images of Oscar’s life, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is more than a story of a man and his dog—it’s a meditation on place, memory, the call of the wild, and the quiet strength found in nature and companionship. With reflections on cinema, art, and animal consciousness, Waldron crafts a uniquely soulful memoir that explores the emotional terrain of loss and the redemptive power of connection. For readers of Jon Katz, Helen Macdonald, and nature-infused memoirs, A Sheepdog Named Oscar is a poignant reminder that sometimes the path to healing begins with a four-legged guide. PRAISE "A captivating story of the challenges of turning a working sheepdog into a family pet. Exquisitely written, it is also a powerful study of grief and companionship intersected with compelling descriptions of the countryside around [Waldron's] home near Glenstal Abbey in Limerick." —Irish Times "A Sheepdog Named Oscar is essential reading. Dara's voice is warm and humane and full of hard-won wisdom and empathy as he guides us along the paths of loss and grief, love and life, taking care always to show how rich life can be, even when we're struggling. This book will do great good, and bring light to many lives." —Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart "A beautiful, vulnerable, polymathic book that traverses art and animal; the rescue and recovery of Oscar and author; and the belonging of each to the other in their own particular way."—Jack Anderson, Irish Examiner "Freely traveling between academic and rural knowledge, Dara Waldron explores the fluid divide between the animal and human world. A Sheepdog Named Oscar also makes you realize how important landscape and weather are to our thinking. His moving book in essence is about responsibility and what it means for humans 'to take care'." —Peter Delpeut "What wins one's heart is not just the almost indecently elegant writing, writing that really does justify the descriptor "Proustian," but Dara Waldron is right on time with this deeply personal memoir that explores extra-human sentience as part of a relationship cemented through grief, growth, and regeneration." —Aryan Kaganof "Braiding grief, groundedness, and the generosity of the more than human world, Dara Waldron’s writing gently tugs us into the place and spirit at the heart of his experience, making this much more than a dog story." —Judy Strang, executive director, Pedlar River Institute’s Sourwood Forest Artist Residency program, Amherst County, VA "This lovely book gives great insight into the history and inner lives of the working sheepdog in Ireland. It charts the challenges that they face as they provide the companionship and loyalty that truly earns them the title of man's best friend.[...] Up to 70% of our intake is a Border Collie, Sheepdog, or crossbreed of them, [and] we see just how often these beautiful dogs are abandoned, discarded and left to their fate, redundant and surplus to requirements. However, we also see just how many people like Dara step up to support these incredible creatures and offer them the life, love and security that they deserve. —Marina Fiddler, Co-founder of MADRA Dog Rescue, Galway, Ireland Dara Waldron is a film scholar and author of two monographs and multiple articles in international film journals and magazines: Millennium Film Journal, Alphaville, and MIRAJ among others. His 2018 book New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is a standard reference for documentary filmmaking courses across the globe. He teaches Critical and Contextual studies at Limerick School of Art and Design and has been a visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, and the Ethnography Lab at University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2023 he published a study of sheepherding traditions documented in the 2009 film Sweetgrass (dir. Barbash, Castaing-Taylor) that included auto-ethnographic reflection on herding practices and farming in Ireland. A Sheepdog Named Oscar, an extension of this study, is his first memoir. Born in Manchester and raised in Ireland, he currently lives on the border between County Limerick and Tipperary in Ireland’s Midwest, in the shadow of the Silvermines Mountains and close to the gates of well-known Glenstal Abbey and its school, which feature prominently in his memoir.

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The Future Tense of JoyA MemoirBy Jessica Teich 302 pages.June 2026 9781954600904 $28.95 A deeply moving account of love, friendship, and the complexities of memory and healing told through an intertwining story of two women grappling with their demons; one is the narrator, a mother and survivor of sexual assault in her youth, and the other, a young woman in a magazine, familiar but a stranger. For readers of Jeanette Walls, Alexandra Fuller, and anyone who has struggled to find hope on the long road to healing, and freedom in the power to forgive. When Jessica Teich happens upon the obituary of a fellow Rhodes scholar named Lacey, she vows to unravel the truth behind the young woman’s suicide. As Lacey’s story unspools, Teich begins to detect haunting links to her own life, forcing her to reflect on her own anguished past. A tender, profoundly affecting book, The Future Tense of Joy immerses readers in the fluid shifts between past and present, as each woman struggles to free herself from the ghosts of her memory. The book defies genres to tell the stories of two talented, troubled women, each trying to reclaim her future and find strength and consolation in the embrace of the people she loves. “‘No one was less likely to take her own life.’ That’s what her Oxford thesis advisor said. From the moment I stumbled across her obituary, late at night when I couldn’t sleep, I was captivated. This brilliant woman seemed incandescent. She was gifted and generous and beloved. Twenty-six years old, and a newlywed. Why would she decide to die?” “Jessica Teich’s understanding of trauma is the infallible authority upon which her tale rests. But the delicacy and nuance with which she renders this story is that of a poet. This beautiful, compassionately imagined book will bring a pang of recognition to anyone who has traveled to young adulthood from a wounded adolescence via the quest for ‘perfection.’” —MERYL STREEP PRAISE “Provocative in its questioning of what female success really means. An honest, compassionate memoir about shaking off personal demons.” —Kirkus Reviews “Teich looks at motherhood, depression, the effect of damaging relationships, and the challenges placed on successful, driven women. She does so with grace and openness, even while exploring painful parts of her past.” —Library Journal, starred review “A daring and intimate journey into the soul of motherhood. Compelling.” —Steve Martin “Intoxicating and deeply immersive. This elegant book has a cinematic immediacy. It’s a page turner in the best sense of the word.” —Daniel Silva, #1 New York Times bestselling author “A dazzling debut. Teich moves immediately to the first ranks of memoirists. Her book is wry and poetic and deeply moving. This story of hope and healing will lift your heart.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author “Jessica Teich takes us on a passionate and inspiring quest revealing how unresolved traumatic experiences and the societal push for performance and perfection can rob us of the joy of simply being. Within the wisdom of this tale, we gain knowledge and insight into how best to navigate, as women and men, the important challenges of the passage from childhood into adulthood to create a life of meaning and connection.” —Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., New York Times bestselling author ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jessica Teich is a writer and mother, an abuse survivor, and an advocate for others who have suffered violence or sexual assault. She graduated from Yale and received an MPhil from Oxford, where she was among the first female Rhode scholars. Her previous book, Trees Make The Best Mobiles: Simple Ways To Raise Your Child In A Complex World, appeared in Vanity Fair, People, Us, and The Chicago Tribune, and was featured on the Today show. For almost a decade, Teich worked as a literary manager at the Mark Taper Forum, commissioning and developing plays. She subsequently received a grant to write and direct a movie for the Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute. Teich served as head of the Biography committee for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her articles have appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and numerous other publications. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters, and dog.

The Future Tense of Joy: A Memoir

By Peter DelpeutTranslated by Céline Linssen 168 pagesPaperback with lie-flat binding May 2026 $24.95 USD | 9781954600829 A filmmaker cycling across the United States connects his journey to the first adventuresome high-wheelers, surrealism, film, and philosophy in this charming and artful travel book. The challenge: to cycle from Disney’s Epcot Center toward San Francisco — a 4350 mile journey — on the cusp of summer. In search of the mythological American West seamlessly represented in movies and literature, Delpeut and his beloved cycling companion instead discover a landscape rarely felt in its actual punishing weather and expanse. On their way through the South, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the couple encounter a blistering and varied cast of characters. A philosophy emerges as they bicycle their way across America that unites the challenge, wonderment, discovery, and naiveté that brought them along these roads. Woven into their journey is the history of long-distance cycling in America, the 19th-century high-wheeler adventures, H.G. Wells’s Wheels of Chance, the sublime paintings of Mark Rothko, and Alfred Jarry’s parody Supermale about the erotics of the machine age. On the day the author turns forty, the adventure culminates in Las Vegas, the ridiculous exaggeration of Manifest Destiny. But instead of becoming discouraged, he writes in a new introduction that this trip was the seed of a passion that has taken him and his still-beloved all over the world for decades since. “Delpeut has written a fantastic story, which in its charming combination of style, color, content and depth, can hardly be compared to the average world of the average cyclist.” —The World Cyclist “Much more than just another travelogue.” —De Volkskrant “Discussions about the work of Peter Delpeut are dominated by …time. This unstoppable force, which hovers in the background of our daily lives exerting its endless influence on all things, could be considered Delpeut’s professional forte.” –Matthew Cole Levine, Found Footage Magazine “A thoughtful, quietly ambitious travel memoir that uses cycling as a lens to explore memory, perception, and the changing nature of experience. Rather than focusing on action or adventure, The Long Landscape leans into reflection, asking what it really means to move through the world—especially in an age where even “self-powered” travel is no longer entirely independent. Its strongest quality is the central idea that, despite technological evolution, the essence of cycling remains unchanged. The notion that riding a bicycle today can evoke the same sense of wonder felt by early cyclists—and even be compared to the astonishment of the first cinema audiences—is both original and convincing. It gives the narrative a philosophical backbone.” —Cycloscope

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By Sarah KaminskyTranslated by Mike Mitchell Authorized Biography. New and Expanded Edition. Photographs by Adolfo KaminskyIntroduction by Paul Salmona, Director, Museum of the Art and History of JudaismCommentary by Deborah Dash Moore Paperback. 288 pages with 60 black and white photographs. Ebook also available. As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper and in the Emmy-award-winning New York Times documentary, the gripping true story of a Jewish teenager who became "The Forger of Paris" for the French Resistance. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was recruited to join the Jewish underground. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and an artistic, technical ability to reproduce official documents, he soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, creating papers that would save an estimated 14,000 Jewish men, women and children from certain death. Upon the Liberation and for the next twenty-five years, Kaminsky worked as a professional photographer. But, recognizing the fight for freedom had not ended with the defeat of the Nazis, and driven by his own harrowing experiences, he continued to secretly forge documents for activists, refugees, and pacifists throughout the world. "At a moment when someone’s passport, or religion, can still mean the difference between life and death, Mr. Kaminsky’s story remains painfully relevant, but inspiring." —Filmmakers Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia and Pamela Druckerman for The New York Times "... has a thriller dimension that outshines even the best undercover fiction." —Jewish Book Council "A triumphant wartime biography, full of heroism and near-alchemistic craftiness." —Foreword Reviews Short documentary produced by The New York Times. PRESS AND PRAISE Every resistance movement had its forgers,​but few have told their tales. Many, like​ ​Kaminsky, were very young technicians and​ ​chemists when they began their work. Sarah​ ​Kaminsky’s affectionate rendering of her​​ ​father’s life, with all the intricacies of his trade,​ ​is a book not just about a remarkable craftsman,​ ​but a man who strove to save "every life​ ​that​ ​was​ ​in danger​.​"– The Times Literary Supplement Penned in unassuming, unembellished language, perhaps as discreet as Adolfo’s self-effacing personality, and rendered in a smooth translation by Mike Mitchell, […] Sarah Kaminsky dons her father’s persona seamlessly by transcribing Adolfo’s account to her in his own voice, so the book reads like a memoir. It is a powerful homage, written with a casual, if poignant, simplicity, often masking heartfelt conundrums.– Jerusalem Post An engrossing debut … Writing in Adolfo’s voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy.– Kirkus Reviews Kaminsky’s career as a forger is remarkable by any standard. He served almost every major revolutionary or subversive cause in the world from the upheavals of the 1940s until the end of the turbulent 1960s. … He was driven by principles, took no payment for his work … and kept his secret well until the new millennium. Only then did he decide to tell his incredible story, under the gentle prodding of his youngest daughter, actress Sarah Kaminsky. … The result is a riveting book.– Haaretz Kaminsky’s story has received attention internationally including coverage from outlets in Italy, Brazil, Germany, Algeria, Spain, Israel and Argentina. View a selection of these articles. BIOGRAPHIES Sarah Kaminsky is a screenwriter, author, and actor. Born in Algeria in 1979 to an Ashkenazi Jewish father from Argentina and a Tuareg Algerian mother, Kaminsky immigrated to France at the age of three. Her 2009 book about her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, has sold widely throughout the world and has been translated into ten languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Hebrew, Chinese, and Arabic. Her screenplays and writing credits are numerous and noteworthy, including for recent films "The Braid" (2023) and "Farewell, Mr. Haffmann" (2021), which earned an Audience Award at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. She lives in Paris. Watch Sarah Kaminsky’s talk at TEDx Paris Mike Mitchell is an award-winning translator of French and German who has been active as a translator for over thirty years and recently completed his one hundredth translation. He is the recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations of German works published in Britain, has won the British Comparative Literature Association translation competition twice for translations from German and received commendation for a translation from French. He has been shortlisted for many awards including the French-American Translation Prize, the Weidenfeld prize, the Aristeion prize, the Kurt Wolff prize, and the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger. In 2012, the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture, awarded him a lifetime achievement award as a translator of literary works. He lives in Scotland. Adolfo Kaminsky (b. 1925 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; d. 2023 in Paris) made his living as a photographer in various fields: postcards, advertising photos, but also photo reportage on industry (for example, the coal mines of the North and the French sugar refineries). He took numerous photographs of works of art for exhibition catalogs and posters, and he was the regular photographer for the painters who were the precursors of kinetic art such as Antonio Asis, Jesús Rafael Soto, Carmelo Ardenquin, and Yacov Agam. As a specialist for giant-format photography he produced photos for film sets for Alexandre Trauner, the set designer for Marcel Carné, René Clair and others. Late in life, he began to publicly show some of the thousands of artistic photographs he took since the 1940s, the first being a major exhibition in 2019 at the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris. Deborah Dash Moore is an American Jewish historian, author of nine books, and is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her influential scholarship in the field of modern Jewish history focuses on Jewish urban life, women and gender, the creation of ethnic identity, and Jewish photographers. Her books have regularly garnered awards, including a National Jewish Book Award. Her most recent book is Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York (2023). She also serves as Editor in Chief of the ten-volume The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.

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