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		The Match by Bruce Schoenfeld Althea Gibson first met Angela Buxton at an exhibition match in India. On the surface, the two women could not have been more different. The daughter of sharecroppers, Gibson was born in the American South and grew up in Harlem. Angela Buxton, the granddaughter of Russian Jews, was raised in England, where her father ran a successful business. But both women encountered prejudice, particularly on the tennis circuit, where they were excluded from tournaments and clubs because of race and religion. Despite their athletic prowess, both Gibson and Buxton were shunned by the other female players at Wimbledon in 1956 and found themselves without doubles partners. Undaunted, they chose to play together and ultimately triumphed. In The Match Bruce Schoenfeld delivers the little-known history of Gibson's life and the inspiring story of two underdogs who refused to let bigotry stop them. ISBN: 0060526521 Hardcover SRP: $24.95 Pub Date: June 2004 Publisher: Amistad Press
		The Spithead Nymph by Jan Needle The William Bentley novels are gritty, noir-inspired sea adventures that plumb the depths of shipboard life. In this third novel of the series, Jan Needle gives readers an unflinching look at the cruelty of slavery. The novel explores the repercussions of this degrading institution for all members of society: those who traffic in human lives, those who try to stop it, and those who stand by and simply watch the depravity unfold. Click the link to read an exclusive interview with the president of McBooks Press, Alexander Skutt. ISBN: 1590130774 Paperback SRP: $14.95 Pub Date: May 2004 Publisher: McBooks Press
		You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon You Remind Me of Me begins with a series of separate incidents: in 1974 a little boy named Jonah is savagely attacked by dogs and left with scars that will keep him lonely and alienated well into adulthood; in 1997 a child disappears from his grandmother’s backyard on a summer morning; in 1966 a pregnant teenaged girl, Nora, admits herself to a maternity home with the intention of giving up her child for adoption; in 1991 a young man drifts toward a career as a drug dealer even as he hopes for something better. The novel follows the lives of these characters, exploring the secret connections between them, traveling along the intertwined threads of their histories. ISBN: 0345441419 Hardcover SRP: $24.95 Pub Date: May 2004 Publisher: Ballantine Books
		This Is Not Civilization by Robert Rosenberg With captivating insight, realism, and humor, this stunning debut novel tells the parallel stories of two native villages, each facing cultural extinction. It's the end of the 20th century, and in the towering mountains of post-Soviet Central Asia, Anarbek Tashtanaliev is single-handedly providing for his small village in the face of a collapsed economy. But the cheese factory he manages no longer produces any cheese, and his favorite daughter has been stolen in an ancient nomadic courting ritual. When he is ruthlessly blackmailed, Anarbek finds himself at a crossroads between the traditional past and the uncertain future. He stands to lose everything he loves. Half a world away, in the high canyons of Arizona, Adam Dale is a young Apache basketball star and the future hope of his tribe. He struggles to keep his family together amid the pressures of reservation poverty and the corrupt rule of his increasingly bull-headed father, the tribal councilman. Anarbek and Adam seek out the one person they think will be the solution to all their problems: a peripatetic American aid worker who'd once volunteered in both of their villages. Now working as a refugee resettlement officer in Istanbul, Jeff Hartig must suddenly play host to first one, then both of these men from his past. Soon, Anarbek's disgraced daughter joins them and the unlikely foursome find themselves sharing an apartment in the magical, sprawling city. Equally fascinated and perplexed by one another, they discover hope, then friendship, then love, unaware that they will soon face one of the most disastrous earthquakes of the century. ISBN: 0618386017 Hardcover SRP: $24.00 Pub Date: June 2004 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
		Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait, and Andrew Thomson In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN cross paths in Cambodia. As the Cold War ends and the new world order dawns, as the peacekeeping community in Phnom Pehn throws wild parties, the three become friends for life. In this powerful, devastatingly honest memoir, the authors mingle their distinct voices and experiences to paint a searing portrait of life amidst war and genocide. ISBN: 1401352014 Hardcover SRP: $25.95 Pub Date: June 2004 Publisher: Hyperion Books
		The Summer Guest by Justin Cronin Harry Wainwright is dying, and he wants to fish one last time at the fishing camp in Maine that he’s visited for the past 20 years. His son Hal believes his father is going for a quick trip, but Harry has other plans. He is tied to the owners of the camp by deep emotional bonds that reach far into the past. Now, wealthy beyond his wildest dreams, Harry has a legacy to impart that will affect each of these characters in life-altering ways. ISBN: 0385335814 Hardcover SRP: $24.00 Pub Date: June 2004 Publisher: Dial Books

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