Goodbye Boudin

Goodbye Boudin is a touching story about the Super Bayou Buddies dealing with the loss of their beloved friend, Boudin. When Boudin tragically passes away in an accident, the close-knit bayou community comes together to honor his memory. Noopsie, Chuppie, and Graton, who were especially close to Boudin, find comfort and strength in each other as they navigate their grief. Paw Paw gently explains to the children that while Boudin is no longer with them, his spirit lives on in Heaven. He encourages them to cherish the wonderful memories they shared with Boudin and to understand that it's okay to be sad. Even though it may not feel like it at the time, this too shall pass. Maw-Mawsky suggests creating a memory book, allowing the friends to reminisce about the joyous and funny moments they had with Boudin, bringing his spirit alive through their stories. The book concludes with a beautiful image of Boudin playing his banjo among the clouds, serving as a reminder of the enduring nature of love and family. This heartwarming tale teaches young readers about coping with loss, the importance of remembering loved ones, and the strength found in love and family bonds.

This graphic memoir of growing up queer in Revolutionary Cuba “is both historically important and utterly engaging” (Justin Hall, editor of No Straight Lines). Through evocative illustration and honest prose, Anna Veltfort tells a candidly personal story set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest years of the Cuban Revolution. Goodbye, My Havana follows sixteen-year-old Connie as her relatively privileged life among anti-imperialist expatriates turns to progressive disillusionment and heartbreak. The consolidation of Castro’s position brings violence, cruelty, and betrayal to Connie's doorstep. And the crackdown that ultimately forces her family and others to flee for their lives includes homosexuals among its targets. Connie’s coming-of-age story is one also about the dangers of coming out. With clarity and tenderness, Veltfort looks back at her alter ego and a forgotten era. She takes leave of the past even as she brings neglected moments of the Cold War into the present.

Alan Berkman (1945–2009) was no campus radical in the mid-1960s; he was a promising Ivy League student, football player, Eagle Scout, and fraternity president. But when he was a medical student and doctor, his politics began to change, and soon he was providing covert care to members of revolutionary groups like the Weather Underground and becoming increasingly radicalized by his experiences at the Wounded Knee takeover, at the Attica Prison uprising, and at health clinics for the poor. When the government went after him, he went underground and participated in bombings of government buildings. He was eventually captured and served eight years in some of America's worst penitentiaries, barely surviving two rounds of cancer. After his release in 1992, he returned to medical practice and became an HIV/AIDS physician, teacher, and global health activist. In the final years of his life, he successfully worked to change U.S. policy, making AIDS treatment more widely available in the global south and saving millions of lives around the world. Using Berkman's unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, Susan M. Reverby sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account of Berkman's extraordinary transformation from doctor to co-conspirator for justice.

"To those on the outside looking in, the New York art scene is the Beautiful People and the Big Rich buying and selling beautiful pictures. But as this novel reveals, a group portrait of the members of this invred club might mmore appropriately by hung in a rogues' gallery. It is a world of glitter and of ego, where a Renoir is a ticket to the best parties, where a tugged earlobe at an auction can buy a half-million dollars' worth of painted canvas, where an ancient bronze may have been made only last year, where beauty is truth, and truth is putting your money where your mouth is. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, but along the gallery--auction house--museum axis, it's ten-tenths of who you are. Into this arena of malice, Old Masters, and black-tie openings steps Andor, a man of shadowy antecedents and encyclopedic knowledge of art. He had an extraordinary plan, and with his nerve, flair, and cunning it could not fail to work. This would be one gamble in which luck could have no part." -- paraphrased from dust jacket

When her grand-mère comes down wit' de flu, this Cajun Little Red knows what she has to do. With her witty cat, TeJean, she sets off in a pirogue to bring Grand-mère some gumbo. Who should she meet upon the way, but that big ol' swamp gator, Claude! Mean ol' Claude may want to gobble up Petite Rouge, but she and TeJean have a better idea. Before long, they have Claude running back to the bayou where he belongs!

After his brother dies, Sam Forest is traumatized when the cremation goes horribly wrongbut the bad times have only just begun. Without knowing why two professional killers are after him, Sam saves his cousins from certain torture and death in a staged home invasion. When others involved are murdered in heinous ways, Sam is framed. Innocent and on the run, he is forced to seek refuge with a mysterious road dogs biker family while the only cop that believes in his innocence is the first detective that questioned him. Unexpectedly, Sam finds love with Betsy, who is soon fighting for her life as Sam and his friends face off against outlaw bikers, serial killers, corrupt lawmen, and a secret smuggling organization that will do anything to protect itself from discovery. All seems hopeless as Sam and his brothers-of-the-wind mix with old-school bikers, moonshiners, pot growers, and ruthless killers while chasing leads across the southeast. Together, they must risk all to prove Sams innocence by finding the actual killers and uncovering their deadly secrets and motives. Lone Wolfs Run put me on my motorcycle and took me on a tour that had me stopping only for fuel. Larry Lindsey, Legislative director, Dixie ABATE, MSF rider/coach

In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing three different fowl—into each other-- to produce the Cajun specialty called “turducken.” It Must’ve Been Something I Ate finds Steingarten testing the virtues of chocolate and gourmet salts; debunking the mythology of lactose intolerance and Chinese Food Syndrome; roasting marrow bones for his dog , and offering recipes for everything from lobster rolls to gratin dauphinois. The result is one of those rare books that are simultaneously mouth-watering and side-splitting.