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CATALOG
Spring 2021
Fall 2021
Spring 2022
Welcome to Girl Friday Books! As we look back at our first Girl Friday Books™ curates a distinctive list of stories across
season, prepare to launch our second season, and look for- genres with the common thread of challenging the status quo.
ward to our third season in Spring '22, we are so excited and
Bird Upstairs™ is a children’s book imprint that highlights the
just a little bit exhausted. Launching three new imprints in
lives and imaginations of a diverse set of young experiences,
the middle of a pandemic may not be ideal, but we’ve used
from picture books to middle-grade.
every bit of Girl Friday’s independent spirit to keep the train on
the tracks—even if that sometimes meant laying down those Flashpoint Books™ is a partnership publishing avenue for
tracks with the train right at our heels. We couldn’t have done cultural icons, individuals with influence, and beloved brands,
it without our amazing authors; our distribution partner, In- which offers our clients royalties several times above industry-
gram Two Rivers; the bookstores and other retailers who have standard and keeps their vision at the center.
embraced our books; and, of course, our nimble and extremely
Our three imprints share the mission of shifting the power in
talented staff. No matter what we throw at them, they are
publishing for good. A natural extension of our independent
undaunted in helping us bring our vision to life.
spirit, Girl Friday’s hybrid programs are designed to allow us
At Girl Friday, one of our core values is inclusive publishing. to partner with authors in particular focus areas to bring about
We have long observed a bounty of worthy books that don’t changes we want to see—in both the industry and the world.
fit perfectly into a genre or have a less traditional platform, We are here to change the narrative.
and we built our leading-edge independent publishing pro-
Thank you for your support as we launch Girl Friday Books!
gram to give them a forum. While not every author or book
we work with requires distribution, for many it is a strategic
necessity, so creating this hybrid publishing option has allowed
us to expand our authors’ audience range significantly. We are
excited that our hybrid publishing imprints allow us to steer Ingrid Emerick Kristin Mehus-Roe
our lists intentionally—and we do, each with a different aim. Publisher of GFB & Bird Upstairs Publisher of Flashpoint
The Big Silence
A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness and Healing
BY Karena Dawn
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Wellness entrepreneur Karena Dawn opens up about her per-
sonal mental health journey in the hopes of reaching
the 1 in 5 US adults experiencing mental illness
• Author is an active board member of NAMI
• Author’s personal and professional social reach is 3.3M+
“In honest and beautiful prose, Karena writes about confronting
her struggles with bravery and courage, removing the stigma of
mental illness and paving the way for others seeking empathy
and acceptance.” —Jewel, New York Times bestselling author of Never
Broken; musician; songwriter
“Karena’s revealing memoir is an example of personal transfor-
mation. She demonstrates how to overcome a life filled with
trauma and family mental illness and how one can truly create
a new journey with renewed sense of identity, hope and opti- Karena’s bold and brave memoir shows us how staying silent
mism.” —Deepak Chopra, New York Times bestselling author of Total about mental illness struggles only reinforces the stigma. At
Meditation the heart of her story is the eternal struggle we all share—how
to move past the pain and suffering of our personal battles
“Karena’s new book is about transformation. As she struggles to experience life’s joys. Through the healing power of nature,
to cope with her mother’s mental illness, Karena learns it’s not meditation, and fitness, Karena was able to forge a path to
about being perfect but about striving each day to learn, accept, self-discovery, cofound a nurturing wellness community that
and forgive. It’s about using tools like physical movement and has helped thousands, and ultimately find peace.
meditation that will improve the quality of your life. That is
transformation.” —Jillian Michaels, New York Times bestselling author In the inspiring tradition of Glennon Doyle’s Love Warrior and
Tara Westover’s Educated, The Big Silence reveals how a journey
A heart-wrenching and transformational journey from crisis, of self-love can lead to a renewed sense of identity and a life
addiction, and depression to a life of hope, healing, and filled with hope and optimism.
happiness—from Karena Dawn, author, entrepreneur, and ABOUT THE AUTHOR
cofounder of Tone It Up. Karena Dawn is a wellness entrepreneur, trainer, cofounder of the
Tone It Up app and New York Times bestselling author of Tone It Up:
Growing up with a mother suffering from severe mental health Balanced and Beautiful. Her lifelong passion for fitness, mindfulness,
issues, Karena Dawn’s childhood felt hopeless. During her and spiritual empowerment have made her a leader in the wellness
teenage years, she desperately tried to escape her own inner space. While she helps others practice self-care and find positive
demons, leading to an addiction to pain-numbing drugs and a mental health, her own journey was anything but easy, and she
struggle with crippling depression. But Karena learned how to hopes her story can help to embolden others to find beauty and
healing in their stories.
use grief as a teacher, releasing herself from guilt and shame,
and finding the inner strength to go from abandonment to
forgiveness, from hopelessness to healing.
PUBLICATION April 2022
PAGE COUNT 360
TRIM 9 in H, 6 in W
CATEGORY Biography & Autobiography /
Personal Memoirs
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN 9781954854499
PRICE $27.95/$36.99 Can./£19.99 UK/€24.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854505
FLASHPOINT BOOKS SPRING 2022
Wings Over Water
The Magic and Mysteries of North America’s
Prairie Wetlands
BY Chris Dorsey, John Cooper, Charles S. Potter Jr.,
T. Edward Nickens, AND Glenn Olson
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Companion book to the nationally distributed IMAX film,
Wings Over Water, narrated by Michael Keaton. More than 300
beautiful images of ducks, songbirds, and shorebirds.
• Text by leading bird conservationists from the Audubon
Society and the McGraw Foundation and outdoors television
and radio personalities.
• Publication will correspond with Earth Day 2022.
Through soaring images and essays from leading bird conser-
vationists, Wings Over Water provides a stirring glimpse into
one of the most vital and threatened of the world’s ecosystems,
the Prairie Pothole Region and the birds that nest and breed
there.
This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the na-
tionally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over
Water celebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie
wetlands and the birds that live and breed there through
inspiring text from some the nation’s foremost conservations
of bird habitat and more than 300 stirring images. The Prairie
Pothole Region is critical breeding and nesting habitat for the
birds of North America—over 60 percent of America’s ducks
are hatched there, as well as hundreds of other shore and
song birds. Wings Over Water immerses the reader into one of
earth’s most important ecosystems, following the breeding
and migrations of sandhill cranes, mallards, and yellow war-
blers from their southern wintering grounds back to the prairie
wetlands to nest and raise the next generation of the species.
Wings Over Water is a joint venture with The National Audubon
Society, the world’s oldest non-profit environmental organi-
zation dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitat;
Ducks Unlimited, the world's largest nonprofit organization
dedicated to conserving North America's continually disap-
pearing waterfowl habitats; and the Max McGraw Wildlife
Foundation, which works to secure the future of hunting,
fishing and land management through programs of science,
education, demonstration and communication. PUBLICATION April 2022
PAGE COUNT 128
TRIM 11 in H, 9.5 in W
CATEGORY Nature / Photography
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
ISBN 9781954854550
PRICE $29.95/$38.99 Can./£21.99 UK/€26.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook , 9781954854567
FLASHPOINT BOOKS SPRING 2022
Grace and Frankie
A Guide to Best-Friendship and Not Giving a Damn
BY Emilie Sandoz-Voyer
FOREWORD BY Marta Kauffman AND Howard J. Morris
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Grace and Frankie has been a breakout hit for Netflix. It reso-
nates with a diverse audience—women from 13 to 103, LGBTQ
folks, and a strong millennial fan base.
• A foreword by famed show creators Marta Kauffman and
Howard J. Morris describes the show’s inspiration and the
experience of creating a groundbreaking hit that speaks to
and about women and men of all ages.
“You make me feel strong, Grace Hanson.” —Frankie
As Grace and Frankie comes to a close with season 7, it is
Netflix’s longest running original show. At the story’s heart is
Grace and Frankie’s epic friendship—the ultimate womance—
which is at turns difficult and heartwarming, hilarious and
heartbreaking. Through Grace and Frankie’s friendship, we see
their very full and perfectly imperfect lives: their friendships,
romances, family dynamics, aging woes, and losses. And we get
to see just how real and important friendships are at every age.
The perfect gift book, this celebration of best-friendship and
starting over at any age provides a cheeky-yet-heartfelt look
at life’s ups and downs—and the unique ways friends like Grace
and Frankie deal with them. Organized by the most important
parts of any friendship, the book guides readers through the
besties’ classic takes on subjects like dealing with love and
loss, helping your work wife get ahead at the office, hashing
out inevitable arguments, and how to always put your ride-or-
die first. Photographs and spot illustrations depict the show’s
most iconic moments, while lists, quizzes, recipes, quotes, and
tips provide everything fans need to bring Grace and Frankie’s
don’t-give-a-crap attitude into their own lives. You know that
friend who completes you? This book is for them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emilie Sandoz-Voyer is an editor and the author of The Very Hungry
Pregnant Lady. When she’s not binge-watching Netflix, she works on
a wide range of fiction, nonfiction, and illustrated book projects as an
editor at Girl Friday Productions. She lives in Seattle with her family,
and she’s a Frankie.
PUBLICATION November 2021
PAGE COUNT 144
TRIM 8.3 in H, 5.8 in W
CATEGORY Humor
RIGHTS World, excluding China
FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
ISBN 9781736324387
PRICE $17.95/$23.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€15.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854574
FLASHPOINT BOOKS FALL 2021
I’ll Give It to You
Straightish
What Your Teen Wants You to Know
BY Max Dubrow WITH Dr. Judy Ho
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Max Dubrow is the host of the podcast I’ll Give It to You
Straightish, where she discusses teen issues in context of her
own experiences as a bisexual Jewish teenager
• Includes practical advice for teens and parents from neuropsy-
chologist Dr. Judy Ho
• Includes reflections on how Max’s own parents, Heather and
Terry Dubrow of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County
fame, have guided her through the teen years
Hit podcast host Max Dubrow reveals what teens wish their
parents understood, with insight from Dr. Judy Ho.
Most parents know being a teenager is hard but have no idea
what is actually going on in their teen’s life. Podcast host and
teenager Max Dubrow, of Real Housewives fame, breaks it down
for parents, setting the record straight . . . ish.
Whether your child is just entering their teenage years or on
the way out of them, Max Dubrow provides a peek into what
teens like herself are really experiencing—and what they want
parents to know about it. This book includes:
• insights from clinical and forensic
neuropsychologist Dr. Judy Ho
• key takeaways for parents
• quotes from teens
In I’ll Give It to You Straightish, Max pulls back the curtain on the
emotional life of today’s teens, providing valuable insight to
anyone close to a Gen Z teen.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Max Dubrow is the seventeen-year-old daughter of reality TV stars
Heather Dubrow (Real Housewives of Orange County) and Dr. Terry
Dubrow (Botched). She currently hosts a podcast with the same title:
I’ll Give It to You Straightish, where she talks about being a bisexual
Jewish girl attending a conservative Catholic high school in Orange
County, California.
Dr. Judy Ho is a triple board certified and licensed clinical and foren-
sic neuropsychologist, a tenured associate professor at Pepperdine
University, and a published author. Her most recent book, Stop PUBLICATION November 2021
Self-Sabotage, was published by HarperCollins and has been trans- PAGE COUNT 176
lated into seven languages. Dr. Ho maintains a private practice in TRIM 9 in H, 6 in W
Manhattan Beach, California, where she specializes in comprehensive CATEGORY Family & Relationships / Life Stages
neuropsychological assessments and expert witness work. RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854307
PRICE $19.95/$25.99 Can./£14.99 UK/€17.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854239
FLASHPOINT BOOKS FALL 2021
The Art of Tablescaping
Deck Out Your Table with the Queen of Theme
BY Bugsy Drake
FOREWORD BY Captain Sandy Yawn
“Glorious full-page photos and playful typography add some
visual fizz. Drake’s fun guide is sure to please hosts looking for
a bit of whimsy.” —Publishers Weekly
“The perfect book for anyone who wants to elevate their own
table for that next party or just have a stunning book for the
coffee table.” —The Portland Book Review
You can set your table—or you can ’scape it.
When Bugsy Drake stepped onboard the yacht as Second Stew
on Bravo’s Below Deck Med, she showed the world the magic of
tablescaping. With the help of some unconventional center-
pieces, a few artfully folded napkins, well-placed lighting, and a
generous sprinkling of décor, tablescaping is the art of trans-
forming a meal into an adventure that your guests will never
forget. Bugsy’s gorgeous, over-the-top themes have captivat-
ed guests and earned her legions of devoted fans. Now she’s
ready to share her passion and talent for creating unforget-
table dining experiences, honed during nearly a decade work-
ing on the world’s most exclusive yachts and private islands.
Featuring step-by-step instructions for building your own
enchanting events, The Art of Tablescaping is packed full of
inventive ideas and design hacks, on-the-job stories and
lessons learned. Get inspired by some of Bugsy’s most iconic
tablescapes, from rustic outdoor gatherings to glam-as-all-
get-out soirees, then follow her tips for getting your own
party started.
You don’t need to have the superpowers of a Chief Stew to
make a simple dinner party into a lasting memory—just your
creativity, a sense of fun, and a few tips from the Queen of
Theme herself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The self-professed Queen of Theme, Christine “Bugsy” Drake
is widely known for her role as a stew on Bravo’s Below Deck
Mediterranean, Seasons 2 and 5, where her gorgeous signature
tablescapes and over-the-top theme parties are often the star of
the show. Born and raised in South Africa, she is a seasoned yachtie
who began her career in floating hospitality in 2013. She has since
worked on a private island in the Bahamas and sailed the seas on
some of the world’s most exclusive luxury yachts.
Called “perhaps the greatest tablescape artist who has ever lived”
by the New York Times, Bugsy always brings her passion and talent PUBLICATION May 2021
for stunning décor to the table. PAGE COUNT 224
TRIM 9.8 in H, 6.8 in W
CATEGORY Design / Decorative Arts
RIGHTS World, Audio
FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
ISBN 9781734880229
PRICE $27.95/$36.99 Can./£19.99 UK/€24.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854208
FLASHPOINT BOOKS SPRING 2021
Tracking a Shadow
My Lived Experiment with MS
BY Edith Forbes
KEY SELLING POINTS
• It is estimated that nearly 1 million people in the United States
are living with MS. This is more than double the last reported
number. Globally, this number is estimated at about 2.3 million
people. About 200 new cases are diagnosed each week in the
United States.
• Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most widespread disabling
neurological condition of young adults around the world. You
can develop MS at any age, but most people receive diagnoses
between the ages of 20 and 50.
A memoir of the author’s twenty-five-year, self-designed
experiment with a nonpharmaceutical approach to multiple
sclerosis and of the indomitable mother who taught her to
meet trouble with active resistance.
When novelist Edith Forbes experienced her first episode of
multiple sclerosis in 1993, few treatments existed. The famously
crippling disease was a medical mystery, its cause unknown
and its course unpredictable. The only medical advice Forbes
received then was to “live your life.” She had other ideas.
Forbes grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, raised by a widowed ABOUT THE AUTHOR
mother who met challenges head on. Besides shouldering Edith Forbes grew up on a family ranch in Wyoming. She graduated
responsibility for seven children and a cattle ranch, Forbes’s from Stanford University with a degree in English. After a short
dynamo mother had ambitions to change the world. As a career in computer programming, she abandoned computers for
more earthbound pursuits, including farming and writing.
forward-thinking woman in a largely male business, she
became a model of tenacity and independence for her daughter. Forbes is the author of the novels Alma Rose, Nowle’s Passing, Exit to
Reality, and Navigating the Darwin Straits. Her work is characterized
After her MS diagnosis, Forbes turned her fear into action, by skillful writing, poignant observations, and quiet yet evocative
immersing herself in the medical literature to search for ideas. explorations of the human heart. Recently retired from her farm, she
Finding an unexpected connection between the medical infor- works as a writer and plays as a cross-country skier, gardener, musi-
mation and her own knowledge of agriculture, she embarked cian, reader, and moviegoer. She lives in Vermont. Tracking a Shadow
is her first memoir.
on a self-designed experiment that continues to this day.
Tracking a Shadow weaves together the story of Forbes’s per-
sonal twenty-five-year medical experiment with a memoir of
the mother whose constant determination to look for better
answers shaped the author’s unique approach to her disease.
PUBLICATION March 2022
PAGE COUNT 156
TRIM 8.5 in H, 5.5 in W
CATEGORY Health & Fitness / Diseases / Personal Memoir
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854246
PRICE $15.95/$20.99 Can./£11.99 UK/€13.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854253
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2022
How to Draw Adorable
Joyful Lessons for Making Cute Art
BY Carlianne Tipsey
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Carlianne has reached more than 500,0000 viewers through
her simple art tutorials on Instagram, proving her simple step-
by-step approach is highly desirable.
AKING
• Carlianne worked at Disney as well as at KiwiCo, a kid’s creativ- E TO M
A GUID YTHING CUTE
ity company. She has worked in kids’ publishing for many years AN
and is a great teacher. She has created hundreds of step-by-
step illustrated instructions for children’s products. Carlianne
has mentored and trained other professional illustrators to
achieve cute styles!
C OV E R
Making adorable art brings joy to any moment! CARLIANNE TIPSEY N OT
F IN A L
In this heavily illustrated book, children’s artist Carlianne
Tipsey teaches readers how to create art that is happy,
bright, expressive, and full of fun! Not only is it fun to create,
but cute art also feels more achievable for newer and younger
artists. Adorable art is often the gateway to learning more
advanced design and drawing. Unlike other drawing books,
How to Draw Adorable presents detailed instructions behind
the design. Each lesson includes visual tips and specific design
theories that can be used to make literally anything cute. In
addition to sections on basic drawing tips, Carlianne’s step-by-
step tutorials, reference sheets, and practice sheets teach
readers skills they can apply to their own projects.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carlianne Tipsey is a professional illustrator for children’s media. As
the senior illustrator for the children’s brand KiwiCo, her daily work
consists of drawing cute stuff every day for both children and par-
ents (and herself) to enjoy. Her first job in illustration was for Disney
Interactive, where she got to draw Disney princesses and characters
all day! These days, she is inspired daily by her two adorable toddlers
and loves illustrating books to read back to them at night. And when
everyone is asleep, she gets back to work making tutorials to share
on her popular Instagram account to help inspire other artists to
create cute stuff. Because the only thing better than cute art is LOTS
of cute art.
PUBLICATION July 2022
PAGE COUNT 160
TRIM 8 in H, 8 in W
CATEGORY Juvenile Nonfiction / Art
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854475
PRICE $17.95/$25.99 Can./£14.99 UK/€17.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854482
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2022
Impact with Integrity
Repair the World Without Breaking Yourself
BY Becky Margiotta
KEY SELLING POINTS
• In 2014 Becky Margiotta was featured on 60 Minutes for her
work as director of the 100,000 Homes Campaign for Com-
munity Solutions, which mobilized 186 cities to permanently
house more than 100,000 people who had previously been
living on their streets.
• Billions Institute founder Becky Margiotta provides a proven
step-by-step framework for doing the inner work necessary to
design and implement programs for leaders who want to make
a large-scale impact in the world.
“Want to spark change? Start with yourself—and this book.
Funny, probing, inspiring, and at times wonderfully blunt,
Margiotta’s work is an absolute must-read for world-changers.”
—Dan Heath, New York Times bestselling author of Upstream and
coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick
“Becky tackles the essential inner work of leadership, including
the need to wrestle with our conditioning so that we can lead
from a place of authenticity and love. If you are a leader, and
we all leaders if only and most importantly our own lives, you
will benefit from taking the time to sit with this book and the C OV E R
N OT
support it offers your leadership practice.” —Tema Okun, author F IN A L
of White Supremacy Culture
The world is on fire and in desperate need of volunteer effective change in the world. With authenticity, grit, and grace,
firefighters. If you’ve ever wondered if you have a purpose, if Margiotta reveals her time-tested strategies for doing the hard
there’s a place in the world in need of your unique genius, the work of repairing yourself first, then taking on the world.
answer is yes. And the right time to step into your purpose and
explore the path of your potential is now. But you don’t have
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
to do this work alone—and you shouldn’t do it without taking
Becky Margiotta is a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the US
care of yourself first. Burnout rates in the helping professions Army. She is cofounder of the Billions Institute, a company that sup-
are off the charts, but we won’t make progress “out there” until ports social-change leaders in making their big dent in the universe.
we take full ownership of whatever we’re feeling “in here.” Margiotta has trained thousands of people the world over on how to
design and lead large-scale social change initiatives, ranging from
Becky Margiotta’s Impact with Integrity: Repair the World With- tackling homelessness in New York City to aiding Britain’s National
out Breaking Yourself is a call to action, but also an invitation Health Service through modern health crises.
to reclaim your agency and mobilize your creativity in order
to enact meaningful, efficient, and effective social change.
Margiotta lays out a proven step-by-step framework for doing
the inner work that is necessary for advancing social change.
Examining yourself is key to supercharging your power to make PUBLICATION April 2022
the world a better place. In this essential guide, she weaves joy PAGE COUNT 240
and well-being into the work of sustainable transformational TRIM 8.5 in H, 5.5 in W
CATEGORY Business & Economics /
leadership strategy. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
RIGHTS World
Not just for nonprofit leaders, activists, and educators, Impact FORMAT Hardcover with dust jacket
with Integrity is for any of us inspired to do good and make ISBN 9781954854277
PRICE $24.95/$30.99 Can./£17.99 UK/€20.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854284
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2022Just Like Us
A Veterinarian’s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great
Ape Relatives
BY Rick Quinn
FOREWORD BY Jane Goodall
“Just Like Us will be a classic and is a must read. The book adds
much to what we can learn about ourselves. A beautifully writ-
ten adventure with great apes, with some of the most difficult
and stunning photographs of the great apes ever made.”
—Thomas Mangelsen, award-winning nature and wildlife photographer
and conservationist
“Just Like Us is an entertaining and informative read that illus-
trates how one ordinary person can be a catalyst for positive
change.” —Jane Goodall, primatologist and bestselling author
A stirring account of hope and survival for the planet’s
endangered great ape species.
For most of his life, veterinarian Rick Quinn ignored a deep
longing to meaningfully protect the endangered animals that
fascinated him. Then one day, he read two magazine clippings
about the great apes and knew it was time to set aside excuses
and find the means to help. Armed with his camera and an
insatiable curiosity, Dr. Quinn set off for the front lines of great
ape conservation.
Just Like Us is a gorgeous tribute to our not-too-distant rel-
atives as well as the courageous people who are risking their
lives to protect them.
In this remarkable memoir, we follow Dr. Quinn’s seven-year
journey across seven African countries and Indonesia, where
he photographed each great ape species in its natural habitat.
Using inspiring stories juxtaposed with stunning photographs,
he illuminates the threats to great ape survival as well as the
complexity of saving them. The result delivers an empathetic
sense that these magnificent beings really are—strikingly so—
just like us.
The author will donate all proceeds of your book purchase to
Docs4GreatApes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Avid wildlife photographer and founding director of Docs4GreatApes,
Dr. Rick Quinn serves on both the Canadian and global boards of the
Jane Goodall Institute. His veterinary career includes ten years in gen-
eral practice, training as a veterinary ophthalmologist, and working PUBLICATION April 2021
in a specialty practice managing eye problems in his animal patients. PAGE COUNT 246
Rick has taught veterinary undergraduate and graduate students and TRIM 10 in H, 8 in W
residents. He continues to lecture globally about veterinary ophthal- CATEGORY Nature / Animals
mology and great ape conservation. Rick and his wife, Diane, a family RIGHTS World, except South Korea
doctor, have raised four children. They live in Ontario, Canada. FORMAT Hardcover with dust jacket over board
ISBN 9781734880212
PRICE $34.95/$44.99 Can./£24.99 UK/€30.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854321
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2021Unconventional
A Memoir of Entrepreneurism, Politics, and Pot
BY Jamie Andrea Garzot
KEY SELLING POINTS
• More than 20 states have legalized marijuana. And with a
dozen more states having marijuana legalization on the ballot,
Garzot provides her invaluable expertise on regulation when it
comes to retail best practices, legislative hurdles, and financial
challenges.
Jamie Andrea Garzot was one of the least likely people to
become a cannabis entrepreneur, advocate, and industry pio-
neer. She had no business background. She was not involved
in politics. She had only a four-figure capital investment to
start with. And, surprisingly, she had very limited experience
with cannabis products. So how did Garzot find herself at the
forefront of California’s cannabis movement?
In this inspirational memoir, Garzot describes her trajectory
from a cannabis retail rookie navigating an unregulated market
to a cannabis authority. During her time in the industry, she
developed a wildly successful line of artisanal edibles, managed
$12 million a year in all-cash sales, and became an advocate for
cannabis legislation at the state capitol—all of which led to an
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
eventual acquisition by High Times, one of the most recognized
With eleven years of cannabis-industry expertise, Jamie Garzot is
names in the industry. From office intrigues, personal crises, one of California’s pioneers. She has boots-on-the-ground expe-
and shifting regulations to teamwork, innovation, and commu- rience as a cannabis retailer, an appointed city official, and an
nity leadership, Garzot, with good-natured humor, shares how industry advocate. Jamie has logged thousands of hours advocat-
creative thinking, planning ahead, and forming connections in ing for responsible cannabis regulation before the California State
the most unlikely places contributed to her success in a contin- Legislature and providing policy analysis to local governments
throughout her region. In August 2020, both of her groundbreaking
ually shifting business landscape. businesses—530 Cannabis and Synergy—were acquired by the most
Unconventional is the story of an industry in its wild heyday, the globally recognized name in cannabis, High Times. Jamie remains a
high-profile industry advocate, educator, and public speaker. She
inner workings of local and state government and cannabis’s currently divides her time between San Diego and Sonoma counties
dicey road to regulation, and the seismic changes in the way where she and her partner, Jim, share their life with their growing
cannabis was distributed and sold. But it is also the story of menagerie.
one woman’s tenacious spirit and all the lessons she learned
the hard way—by refusing to give power to fear, taking risks,
building community in a volatile environment, and listening to
what people wanted—and how staying true to her vision paid
off every step of the way.
Anyone who has ever dreamed of following their gut and
reinventing their life will be inspired by Garzot’s unusual and
unconventional journey.
PUBLICATION April 2022
PAGE COUNT 160
TRIM 8.5 in H, 5.5 in W
CATEGORY Business Memoirs
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN 9781954854291
PRICE $24.95/$30.99 Can./£17.99 UK/€20.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854406
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2022Lived Through That
’90s Musicians Today
BY Mike Hipple
FOREWORD BY Dave Holmes
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Spotlights indie, rock, and rap artists that shaped the sound of
the '90s. Photographic portraits are all paired with in-depth
interviews with the musicians.
• Featured artists include Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, indie icon
Tanya Donelly, The Dandy Warhols, Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto),
Scott McCaughey (R.E.M.), Eric Judy (Modest Mouse), Chris
Ballew (The Presidents of the United States of America), Adrian
Young (No Doubt), Kay Hanley (Letters to Cleo), and many more.
“The music of the ’90s continues to hold a special place in the
popular consciousness. [Lived Through That is a] handsome,
intimate, and engaging volume of photos and interviews with
’90s musicians.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Lived Through That is a beautiful photographic reminder of a
special era in music. These photos tell a story about alternative
icons often left out of mainstream music.” —Charles R. Cross,
author of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
The '90s live on in this edgy offstage glimpse of the indie
musical artists that shaped a decade.
The music of the 1990s shaped more than one generation. It
was the music Generation X came of age listening to and the
songs millennials cut their teeth on. In Lived Through That,
professional photographer and music enthusiast Mike Hipple
shares intimate and unique photographic portraits of dozens
of the greatest artists from the ‘90s. Accompanied by in-
depth interviews throughout, this behind-the-scenes image-
driven collection reveals details of each musician’s time in the
limelight as well as where life has taken them. Their words and
images are open, honest, inspiring, and personal, offering pro-
found and humorous memories and gems of wisdom that will
resonate with fans and music lovers alike.
From Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic to indie icon Tanya Donelly to
Arrested Development’s Speech, the portraits and stories fea-
tured in Lived Through That cover a wide range of rock, rap, and
alternative stars. Whether they were chart-toppers or under-
ground sensations, the artists in Hipple’s epic collection tell the
story and reawaken the songs of a pivotal era. PUBLICATION October 2021
PAGE COUNT 144
TRIM 9 in H, 9 in W
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CATEGORY Music / History & Criticism
Mike Hipple is a photographer with more than twenty years of RIGHTS World
freelance experience for publications such as Fast Company, Sunset, FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
Bicycling, and National Geographic, as well as for corporate clients ISBN 9781736357934
such as Microsoft, Seattle’s Best Coffee, among others. His first book, PRICE $29.95/$38.99 Can./£21.99 UK/€26.99 EU
80s Redux (Schiffer Publishing), which focused on music from that
decade, was released in 2018. His work has been shown in many
galleries around the Northwest and beyond. He is based in Seattle.
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021Where the
Language Lives
Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed
BY Janet Yoder
KEY SELLING POINTS
• This book will appeal to Pacific Northwest readers interested in
local history.
The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who
revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and the cul-
ture it expresses.
In 1978, Seattle writer Janet Yoder took a Lushootseed class at
the University of Washington with Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert.
Yoder was expecting to learn a little about this local indige-
nous language, but what followed was a lifelong journey with
Vi, who worked to preserve a language on the brink of disap-
pearance. Thanks to Vi Hilbert’s work and those who now have
taken it on, Lushootseed is on the rise.
Drawn from thirty years of friendship, adventures, and inter-
views, Where the Language Lives is a tribute to Vi Hilbert’s life,
work, and quest to preserve her native language.
Hilbert’s historical preservation efforts were recognized with
a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and she was named a Washington State Living
Treasure in 1989.
To honor and celebrate the life and achievements of her dear
friend and mentor, Janet Yoder has woven what she learned ABOUT THE AUTHOR
from Vi Hilbert with the story of Vi’s life and work to create Seattle writer Janet Yoder’s work has been published in literary
these essays. journals, including the Baltimore Review, Chautauqua, Jet Fuel Review,
Apalachee Review, American Literary Review, and Passages North. Her
Where the Language Lives is a tribute to the memory of a work has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize nomination and
woman who profoundly impacted a culture, a history, the a Hedgebrook residency. She lives with her husband on a floating
longevity of a language, and even the larger world. home in Seattle, Washington.
PUBLICATION May 2022
PAGE COUNT 176
TRIM 8.5 in H, 5.5 in W
CATEGORY Social Science / Anthropology
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854260
PRICE $16.95/$22.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€14.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854512
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2022A Little Book of
Self-Care for Those
Who Grieve
BY Paula Becker
ILLUSTRATED BY Rebekah Nichols
“So much loss this year, and so much need for a book exactly
like this one. These beautiful images and thoughtful words (and
not too many of them) are just what a grieving person probably
needs right now.” —Karen Maeda Allman, Elliott Bay Book Company
Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb.
Breathe.
This beautiful book offers a gentle and honest guide for sur-
viving the early days of grief—shock, trauma, disbelief—and
beyond. In simple, easy-to-absorb pages composed of short,
poetic text and spot illustrations, readers will begin to find
the path they need to move through their grief, step-by-step.
From grieving a sudden death or a long illness, someone hard
to love or impossible to live without, anyone suffering a loss
will see themselves and their grief reflected in these pages.
When author Paula Becker’s son was killed in 2017, she reached
for grief books to help her understand how to proceed through
the enormous grief engulfing her. Most grief books are tens
of thousands of words long—helpful resources, but often too
overwhelming for the newly bereaved to navigate with shat-
tered attention spans and broken hearts. With A Little Book of
Self-Care for Those Who Grieve, as only someone who knows
grief intimately can, Paula Becker offers grievers a touchstone,
quiet snippets of care and advice that can be returned to again
and again as they travel the lifelong road of grief. A resources
section rounds out this essential book.
In the vein of It’s OK That You’re Not OK, A Little Book of Self-
Care for Those Who Grieve acknowledges the brokenness, the
pain, and how grief alters your reality and with great tender-
ness and gentle compassion, walks with readers in that new
world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paula Becker is a writer and historian living in Seattle, Washing-
ton. She is the author of the memoir A House on Stilts: Mothering in
the Age of Opioid Addiction (University of Iowa Press), a finalist for
the 2020 Washington State Book Award, and of the book Looking
For Betty MacDonald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and I
(University of Washington Press).
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR PUBLICATION September 2021
Rebekah Nichols is an artist who works primarily in watercolor PAGE COUNT 112
and has worked as an illustrator for several years. She has done TRIM 7 in H, 5 in W
work ranging from editorial to packaging. She graduated from the CATEGORY Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement
University of Kansas with a BFA in design with a concentration in RIGHTS World
illustration in 2007. She lives in Austin, Texas. FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
ISBN 9781736357958
PRICE $17.95/$23.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€15.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781736357965;
Audio, 9781954854109
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021The Burning Light
of Two Stars
A Mother-Daughter Story
BY Laura Davis
KEY SELLING POINTS
• From the bestselling coauthor of The Courage to Heal: A Guide
For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, which has sold 1.8
million copies and has been translated into 11 languages.
“This masterful heart-filling book is deeply moving and wise.”
—Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, therapist and author of Filling Her Shoes and
Fire and Water
“Caregiving an elderly parent, especially against the backdrop
of a difficult shared past, can be a bruising spiritual ordeal. We
who must travel this territory don’t need any more sentimental
narratives about it. What we do need is the healing medicine of
truth-telling, and Laura Davis brilliantly and generously gives
it to us. I literally could not put this book down.” —Katy Butler,
bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door and The Art of Dying Well
This riveting memoir by Laura Davis, the coauthor of The
Courage to Heal, examines the endurance of mother-daughter
love, how memory protects and betrays us, and the determi-
nation it takes to fulfill a promise when ghosts from the past
come knocking.
When she published The Courage to Heal in 1988, Laura Davis
helped more than a million women work through the trauma ABOUT THE AUTHOR
of childhood sexual abuse. But her decision to go public with Laura Davis is the author of seven nonfiction books, including The
her grandfather’s incest deepened an already painful estrange- Courage to Heal, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, and I Thought
ment with her mother, Temme. We’d Never Speak Again. Her groundbreaking books have been trans-
lated into eleven languages and sold more than 1.8 million copies. In
Over the next twenty years, from a safe distance of three thou- addition to writing books that inspire and change people’s lives, the
sand miles, Laura and Temme reconciled their volatile relation- work of Laura’s heart is to teach. For more than twenty years, at
locations around the world, she’s helped her students find their
ship and believed that their difficult past was behind them. But voices, tell their stories, and hone their craft as writers.
when Temme moves across the country to entrust her daugh-
ter with the rest of her life, she brings a faltering mind, a fierce
need for independence, and the seeds of a second war
between them. As the stresses of caregiving rekindle Laura’s
rage over past betrayals, they threaten her intention to finally
love her mother “without reservation.” Will she learn what it
means to be truly openhearted before it’s too late?
PUBLICATION October 2021
PAGE COUNT 368
TRIM 9 in H, 6 in W
CATEGORY Family & Relationships / Parenting /
Personal Memoir
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854161
PRICE $17.95/$23.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€15.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854178
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021Remembering Shanghai
A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
BY Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao
KEY SELLING POINTS
• WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS,
INCLUDING:
• Writer’s Digest GRAND PRIZE
• Rubery Book Award BOOK OF THE YEAR
• IAN Independent Author Network OUTSTANDING MEMOIR
“Sparkling prose and enthralling stories catapult you into the
inner life and doings of Shanghai’s cultured classes.”
—Helen Zia, author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai
“Beautiful and rich, with fascinating details—transports the
reader to Shanghai and Hong Kong . . . this volume is a trea-
sure.” —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of author of
Shanghai Girls and The Island of Sea Women
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five
generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of impe-
rial rule to the Cultural Revolution.
A high position bestowed by China’s empress dowager grants
power and wealth to the Sun family. For Isabel, growing up
in glamorous 1930s and ’40s Shanghai, it is a life of utmost
privilege. But while her scholar father and fashionable mother
shelter her from civil war and Japanese occupation, they cannot
shield the family forever.
When Mao comes to power, eighteen-year-old Isabel journeys
to Hong Kong, not realizing that she will make it her home—
and that she will never see her father again. She returns to
Shanghai fifty years later with her daughter, Claire, to confront
their family’s past—one they discover is filled with love and
betrayal, kidnappers and concubines, glittering palaces and
underworld crime bosses.
Lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched, Remembering
Shanghai follows five generations from a hardscrabble village in 1950 and never saw her father again. She has since lived in Hong
to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and Kong, where she worked for more than thirty years as a cultural
heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity, loss and affairs specialist in the US Consulate General. Now in her nineties,
redemption against an epic backdrop. Isabel is retired, and most days can be found exercising her skills and
diplomacy at the mahjong table.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Isabel’s daughter, Claire Chao, spent much of her youth seeking PUBLICATION October 2021
connections to her parents’ homeland. After thirty years in manage- PAGE COUNT 308
ment with companies such as Tiffany & Co., Harry Winston and Hill TRIM 9 in H, 6 in W
& Knowlton, she spent a decade creating Remembering Shanghai, CATEGORY Biography & Autobiography / Cultural,
uncovering an uncanny link with the grandfather she never met. She Ethnic & Regional
has been designated one of Avenue magazine’s “500 Most Influential RIGHTS World
Asian Americans” and Tatler Hong Kong’s “Who’s Who in Hong Kong.” FORMAT Hardcover with dust jacket
She graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and ISBN 9781954854031
lives in Honolulu with her husband and two dogs. PRICE $29.95/$38.99 Can./£21.99 UK/€26.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Paperback, 9781954854055;
Isabel Sun Chao is one of the last of her generation to have expe- Ebook, 9781954854062
rienced legendary “Old Shanghai” firsthand. After growing up in
Shanghai, she left for Hong Kong on what she thought was a holiday
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021F*cks to Give
A Gratitude Journal for When Life Hands You Lemons
BY L.T. Jenness
Down to your last f*ck? Journal your way to more.
Feeling burned out? So done? Like you’ve got zero left to give?
This guided journal will help shift your focus from giving up
to gratitude and refuel your soul, one prompt at a time. Yeah,
yeah, we know it sounds like another line, but gratitude really
can improve your overall attitude and have profound effects
on your life. Real-life, actual scientific studies have found that
people who regularly practice gratitude and write about it
have better relationships and are healthier and happier than
people who don’t.
Use this journal to dig deep to find your f*cks, or focus on the
ones right in front of your face. Sometimes you’ll want to fill
pages with paragraphs, while other times a simple list will do.
Skip around and work on the prompts that speak to you in the
moment.
Thoughtful quotes from superwise and bad*ss people will
inspire you, while quick tips, tricks, and suggestions for max-
imizing all that latent gratitude will help you make the most
of even the sh*ttiest day. Even when life ships you crates of
lemons, you can still make one super strong vodka lemonade
and find that there are a whole lot of reasons to give a sh*t.
Now let’s find those f*cks, one by one.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L.T. Jenness found herself completely out of f*cks in late 2018. But
thanks to kind people—family, friends, coworkers, acquaintances,
and strangers—she was able to find reasons to give a sh*t again and
figured she should pay it forward. Writing as L.J. Tracosas, she also
creates books for curious kids, including Sink Your Teeth Into Sharks,
with more than 500,000 copies in print. She lives, writes, and edits
in Atlanta, Georgia, and has too many cats. She makes books in
memory of her son Miles.
PUBLICATION May 2021
PAGE COUNT 128
TRIM 9 in H, 6 in W
CATEGORY Self-Help / Journaling
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781736357927
PRICE $14.99/$19.99 Can./£10.99 UK/€13.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854338
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS SPRING 2021Born to Read
Our First Five Years in Books
BY L.J. Tracosas
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Interspersed throughout the journal pages are age-appropriate
tips for raising a reader and book lists with reading recommen-
dations
• Includes diverse books recommendations for every age group
and a resources page for building a diverse book collection for
kids.
• Perfect for several gift-giving occasions, including baby show-
ers, birthdays, and Mother’s and Father’s Day.
Reading to kids from birth to age five has bundles of benefits:
It helps them develop language skills, encourages empathy
and emotional development, fires up their imagination, helps
them focus, and better prepares them for school, especially
reading and writing. But most important, story time is quality
time between your child and you.
Born to Read is a keepsake memory book of your story time
together and a guide to raising a reader, all rolled into one.
By reading just one book a day for the first five years of your
child’s life, they can log almost two thousand books before
kindergarten. Use the beautiful journal pages within to keep a
list of the books you and your child read together from birth to
age five. It’s a perfect way to recall particular favorites, record
memories, and chronicle your child’s reading journey—and your
child will look back proudly at all the books they’ve logged as
they start school.
Interspersed throughout the journal pages are age-appropriate
tips for raising a reader and book lists to help you expand you
and your child’s reading horizons or dive deeper into particular
interest areas. Special features encourage you to think about
your unique reader. For example, “My Kid in Books” allows you
to record specific reading milestones and passions and, as your
child grows, interview them about the books they love. And in
“Reading Recs” you can note recommendations from family and
friends.
The perfect baby shower gift for expecting parents or an
excellent birthday present for growing readers, Born to Read:
My First Five Years in Books helps document the story of how
your child grew from baby to bookworm, as well as the memo-
ries you created along the way.
PUBLICATION October 2021
ABOUT THE AUTHOR PAGE COUNT 192
TRIM 8 in H, 8 in W
L. J. Tracosas writes books for curious kids and edits anything she
can get her hands on. She’s published more than ten books for CATEGORY Family & Relationships / Parenting
young readers, including the bestselling Creature Files series, as well RIGHTS World
as licensed titles with Mattel, WWE, and others. L.J. lives in Atlanta, FORMAT Hardcover paper over board
where she likes to visit the whale sharks at the aquarium. She makes ISBN 9781736357941
books in memory of her son Miles. PRICE $18.95/$24.99 Can./£13.99 UK/€16.99 EU
GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021The Trials of New Startup Mindset
Adeline Turner 2nd edition
BY Angela Terry Ten Mindset Shifts to Build the Company of Your Dreams
BY Sandra Shpilberg FOREWORD BY Mona Bijoor
“The Trials of Adeline Turner is a fast-paced tale of dating in
your 30s and learning to trust your inner voice. Brimming “This is a game-changing must-read for anyone who dreams of
with wit, banter, romance and heart, it has all the ingredients creating a business—and in particular for those who don’t fit
of the perfect beach read. I was charmed!” —Lindsay Cameron, the mold” —Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of the New York Times bestseller
award-winning author of BIGLAW and Just One Look How to Raise an Adult and Real American: A Memoir
From Charming Falls Apart author Angela Terry comes a story This provocative startup tale of success exposes Silicon Val-
about finding the courage to face your past, be true to your ley’s startup myths and sets forth a new approach for aspiring
heart, and live your best life. Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Emily and current founders to build companies that make an impact.
Giffin will enjoy cheering for Adeline Turner as she navigates
In New Startup Mindset, Sandra Shpilberg, founder and CEO of
the twists and turns of her newly complicated life in this fun,
Seeker Health, introduces a new mindset for starting and build-
heartwarming novel.
ing a successful company. Shpilberg shows that Silicon Valley’s
Thirty-three-year-old corporate attorney Adeline Turner has startup formula—a few young male cofounders attempting to
built her adult life around stability. Her professional life is build a unicorn funded by venture capital—is a broken system
thriving, but her personal life . . . not so much. Deep down she that puts excessive emphasis on hype and improbable out-
wants more, but finds it’s easier to brush aside her dreams and sized outcomes, disregards real results such as revenue and
hide behind her billable hours. That is, until a new client and a profit, and promotes limiting beliefs for the next generation of
chance encounter with her high school crush have her taking entrepreneurs.
leaps she never planned. Suddenly, unadventurous, nose-
In this expanded second edition, Shpilberg shares her suc-
to-the-grindstone Adeline finds herself moving across the
cess story of starting, building, and exiting her startup Seeker
country from her predictable life in Chicago to San Francisco,
Health and provides readers with sage insights and practical
falling into messy romantic situations, and trying to unravel an
tools to follow this approach. This book is simultaneously a
office-sabotage plot before it ruins her career.
needed dose of reality for Silicon Valley and a large serving
Without the safety net of her old life in Chicago, Adeline must of inspiration for those who want to create something from
become her own advocate and learn that people aren’t always nothing.
who they seem. Which makes her wonder if the key to having
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
the future she desires lies in uncovering the truth of the past.
Sandra Shpilberg is the founder
ABOUT THE AUTHOR and CEO of Seeker Health, a lead-
Angela Terry is an attorney who for- ing digital patient-finding platform.
merly practiced intellectual proper- Prior to this successful entrepre-
ty law at large firms in Chicago and neurial pursuit, Shpilberg held
San Francisco. She is also a Chicago executive roles at biopharmaceu-
Marathon legacy runner and races tical companies. She has an MBA
to raise money for PAWS Chicago— in marketing and entrepreneurial
the Midwest’s largest no-kill shelter. management from Wharton School
She resides in San Francisco with at the University of Pennsylvania.
her husband and two cats and en-
joys throwing novel-themed dinner
parties for her women’s fiction book
club. Her debut novel, Charming
Falls Apart, is a 2020 Best Book
Awards Finalist.
PUBLICATION October 2021 PUBLICATION October 2021
PAGE COUNT 384 PAGE COUNT 194
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CATEGORY Fiction / Romance CATEGORY Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship
RIGHTS World RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781736324370 ISBN 9781954854048
PRICE $16.95/$22.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€14.99 EU PRICE $14.95/$19.99 Can./£10.99 UK/€13.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854000 ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854086;
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GIRL FRIDAY BOOKS FALL 2021L’Origine
The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece
BY Lilianne Milgrom
KEY SELLING POINTS
• Winner of 5 major book awards, including the Publishers Weekly
U.S. 2021 Selfies Award for Best Adult Fiction and winner of
the IndieReader 2021 Discovery Award.
“Brilliant . . . Lilianne Milgrom offers us an entertaining, provoc-
ative read which will continue to intrigue us and invite specula-
tion, long after we have turned the last page.” —California Review
of Books
“The outrages, desire, and desperation the painting provokes
make for delicious, emotionally powerful reading, while the
historical details appear unobtrusively. Readers will be delighted
by this delectable tale.” —Publishers Weekly BookLife
The riveting odyssey of one of the world’s most scandalous
works of art.
In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted
one of the most iconic images in the history of art: a sexually
explicit portrait of a woman’s exposed genitals.
Audaciously titled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World),
the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a
half. Today, it hangs in the world-renowned Orsay Museum in ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paris, viewed by millions of visitors a year. Internationally acclaimed artist Lilianne Milgrom was born in Paris,
grew up in Australia, and currently resides in the United States.
As the first artist authorized by the Orsay Museum to re-create Milgrom holds two degrees from Melbourne University and an
Courbet’s The Origin of the World, author Lilianne Milgrom was associate art degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. She
thrust into the painting’s intimate orbit, spending six weeks exhibits her artwork around the world and is the recipient of multiple
replicating every fold, crevice, and pubic hair. The experience awards. In 2011, she became the first authorized copyist of Gustave
Courbet’s controversial painting L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of
inspired her to share her story and the painting’s riveting the World), which hangs in the Orsay Museum in Paris and draws
clandestine history with readers beyond the confines of the art over a million visitors a year. After rendering a near-identical copy of
world. Courbet’s masterpiece, she spent close to a decade researching and
writing L’Origine. She lives in the greater Washington, DC, area with
L’Origine is an entertaining and superbly researched work of her husband while her grown children explore the world. L’Origine is
historical fiction that traces the true story of the painting’s her first book.
unlikely tale of survival, replete with French revolutionaries,
Turkish pashas, and nefarious Nazi captains. But L’Origine is
more than a riveting romp through history—it also sheds light
on society’s complex relationship with the female body.
PUBLICATION October 2021
PAGE COUNT 292
TRIM 8 in H, 5.3 in W
CATEGORY Fiction / Literary
RIGHTS World
FORMAT Trade paperback
ISBN 9781954854147
PRICE $16.95/$22.99 Can./£12.99 UK/€14.99 EU
ALSO AVAILABLE Ebook, 9781954854154
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