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Beauty for Ashes:
Destruction of an American Girl

by David C. Deller

Upper Story Press, 250 pps, $19.95
6x9 Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9793582-6-5

Publishing: April, 2010

Was it murder? A cover up? An unimportant destruction of an anonymous life in a featureless suburb of Philadelphia? A searching, searing, first-person account of the loss of "An American Girl"
from the criminal justice system and modern society itself.

The Fountains of
Sultan Qaboos

by Joseph Painter

Upper Story Press, 176 pps, $15.95
6x9 Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9793582-7-2

Publishing: May 2010

On the Gulf of Arabia, fragile monarchies live on oil and illusion. Personal journeys into a region where paradox has become a way of life.

The Urban Man:
Staying Human in L.A.

by Marc Porter Zasada

Upper Story Press, 200 Pages, Deluxe 6x9 Paperback, $15.95, Available Now
ISBN 978-0-9793582-6-5

Limited, Signed, Advance Edition
Available for $15.95 Direct to the Public!

Each week on National Public Radio station KCRW, on iTunes and on KCRW.com, The Urban Man sets out to fathom modern life—he cruises its cluttered boulevards and shows up at its TV shoots; he sleeps in its picture-perfect mini-mansions, takes meetings in its glittering office towers, and goes looking for a glimpse of the moon up among the billboards and power lines. Along the way, he tries to figure out what it all means.

For the first time, the best of Marc Porter Zasada's short pieces, famous for their incisive wit and gorgeous prose, have been pulled together in one place. Some have been expanded, and some have been created just for this collection.

Anyone who has a love/hate relationship with L.A.— in fact anyone who struggles with the slippery logic of life anywhere in the 21st Century—will find this little volume impossible to put down.

The Virginian

by Owen Wister

An Upper Story Neglected Classic

Fiction, $27.95, 357 Pages, Deluxe 6x9 Paperback. Available August 2010.
ISBN 978-0-9793582-0-3

This 1902 novel established the very concept of the modern western novel, bringing the form beyond the dime novels of the past. The Virginian takes a group of Easterners into the glorious beauty of Wyoming--contrasting it with "Fifth Avenue." We encounter natural justice in new lands as Americans did in the 19th Century.

The Water Babies

by Charles Kingsley

An Upper Story Neglected Classic

Fiction, $27.95, 357 Pages, Deluxe 6x9 Paperback. Available October 2008.
ISBN 978-0-9793582-1-0

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First published in 1863 with Noel Paton’s illustrations, the Water Babies tells the story of Tom, a young chimney sweep employed by nasty Mr Grimes. Falling down a chimney, Tom finds himself in the presence of a girl called Ellie. Her cleanliness and neatness makes Tom aware for the first time of his own dirty blackened body. He is chased out of Ellie’s house and falls into the river where he enters a magical underwater world and becomes a water-baby. Like Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this tale explores the possibilities of an alternative world. The Caddis Fly, the Salmon, and other creatures teach Tom morality. The famous characters of Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby and Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid appear in the story.

Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

An Upper Story Neglected Classic

Fiction, $25.95, 340 Pages, Deluxe 6x9 Paperback. Available August 2010.
ISBN 978-0-9793582-3-4

Trollope’s second novel, published in 1857 goes after the foibles of the clergy, detailing the squabbling that goes on over the position of bishop of Barchester. Great fun.

If You Save One Life
A Survivor's Memoir

by Eva Brown, 148 pps, $15.95 6x9 Deluxe Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9793582-6-5 Avaiable Now
Written with Thomas Fields-Meyer

“Point a finger,” said the American soldier, “at the one who made you look like a skeleton.” That sentence marks the end of a nightmare and a moment of moral clarity for Eva Brown, who survived Auschwitz and lost sixty members of her extended family in the Holocaust. Born into a close and loving Jewish home, Brown saw her idyllic childhood end at age 16, when Nazi troops invaded the small Hungarian town where her father was a rabbi. In If You Save One Life Brown vividly describes how she endured through faith, determination, and her sheer will to survive.

Erewhon

by Samuel Butler

An Upper Story Neglected Classic

Fiction/Essay, $22.50, 132 Pages
Deluxe 6x9 Paperback.
ISBN 978-0-9793582-4-1

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A strange, highly-prophetic, anti-utopian fantasy written in 1861 which takes Darwin to the extreme and predicts a world in which mankind becomes more and more dependent on machines...

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

An Upper Story Neglected Classic

Fiction, $29.95, Deluxe 6x9 Paperback, 400 Pages.
ISBN 978-0-9793582-5-8

The Woman in White is a classic mystery featuring a multitude of different narrators: many unreliable. First published in 1860, this neglected classic starts out with a late night meeting with the Woman in White, who the first narrator saves from a group of pursuers. Things complicate rapidly from there. Ages 16 and up will enjoy the deceit, amor, and surprise turns of plot. Expect adventure, villainy and superb retribution.