Welcome to Workman’s virtual booth! We’re so glad you’re here. We know the last couple of months haven’t been the easiest for booksellers and bookstores, so it means a lot to us that you’re stopping by for a visit. Workman’s Fall 2020 list is packed with timely and important titles (like How to Argue With a Racist, The ABCs of Black History, Immunity, and more), but we’ve also got some things that are just for fun (Star Wars Origami 2, Tiny Love Stories, and puzzles galore!). We hope these titles bring you and your customers as much joy reading them as we had making them.
Holiday Catalog Titles
From America's most celebrated chef, The French Laundry, Per Se focuses on how Keller's two legendary fine dining institutions are inextricably linked, influencing each other’s evolution through the exchange of chefs and ideas. The recipes and methods featured in this book represent the cutting-edge of culinary technique, and will delight and inspire professional and home cooks as only those in Keller's books can.
In this wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, former NASA Astronaut and Commander of the International Space Station Terry Virts reveals the often-untold side of an experience that few will ever know firsthand: astronaut survival training, how to deal with a dead body in space, space shuttle emergencies, the art of putting on a spacesuit, time travel, and much more!
Featured Titles
A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.
*In-House Favorite!*
His Only Wife is a witty, smart, and moving debut novel about a brave young woman traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices, living in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to be women who respect their husbands and grant them forbearance. And in Afi, Peace Medie has created a delightfully spunky and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules.
A celebration of cars and stories that speak to the heart of men’s obsession with them, told in firsthand and original interviews with notable car enthusiasts including Jay Leno, Kevin Costner, and Snoop Dogg. With Hranek’s storytelling, the cars become more than just vehicles for transportation and status symbols; they represent pop-culture moments, pioneering achievements, heirlooms, friendships, and more. Exquisite photos of each car accompany each story.
Brimming with passion, beauty, flow, and style, here is an ABC book like no other—a celebration of Black history and culture in lively verse, written by the poet Rio Cortez and illustrated by Lauren Semmer. In this book, the letters represent history (G is for the Great Migration), culture (K for Kwanzaa), people and places (H is for Harlem and Zora Neale Hurston), and big ideas (B for beautiful, bold, brave, brotherhood).
What does it mean to truly live gratefully, every day? In Wake Up Grateful, Kristi Nelson, executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, unlocks the path to recognizing abundance in every moment, and gives readers the tools to bring this transformational shift in perspective into their daily lives. With questions for reflection, daily exercises, and perspective prompts for appreciating the fullness of life as it is, right now, this book promises profound personal change through the practice of taking nothing for granted.
*Regional author: Kristi resides in western MA!*
The New York Times bestselling author of Real Food/Fake Food delivers a short, highly entertaining volume that uses cutting-edge research into sports fandom to show us why being a fan is good for us individually and is a force for positive change in our society.
This book is about sports fans. Using fascinating new studies on sports fandom, Fans makes the sometimes counterintuitive case that more you identify with a sports team, the better your social, psychological and physical health is, the more meaningful your relationships are, the more connected and happier you are, and even the more optimistic.
*Regional author: Larry resides in Vermont!*
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Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake with illustrations throughout by Jon Klassen. This beautifully bound book contains both full-color pages and numerous black-and-white illustrations. Skunk and Badger is a book you’ll want to read, reread, and read out loud . . . again and again.
As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration.
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Ms. Adventure skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, scientific exploration, and girl power, following Phoenix’s journey from jungles to glaciers, university classrooms to television studios, and even to the side of the world’s largest volcano, where she fixes a tire with a ballpoint pen, bubblegum, and duct tape. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science.
How to Argue With a Racist emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference. We now know that the racial categories still dividing us do not align with observable genetic differences. In fact, our differences are so minute that, most of all, they serve as evidence of our shared humanity.
Authors & Editors at NEIBA
Meet debut author Zak Salih at the Author Reception: September 21st 5-7:30PM
Set in the year between the 2015 Supreme Court marriage equality ruling and the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, Let’s Get Back to the Party explores the intertwined lives of two gay men named Sebastian Mote and Oscar Burnham: estranged childhood friends who reconnect as adults in Washington, DC. Alternating chapters from Sebastian and Oscar’s points of view, Let’s Get Back to the Party recounts their mirrored struggles with generational envy, cultural identity, the traumas of history, and, ultimately, each other.
Meet award-winning author C.L. Polk at the Author Reception: September 21st 5-7:30PM
From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family.
Meet debut author Hannah Abigail Clarke at the Author Reception: September 21st 5-7:30PM
An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, and performs some seriously badass magic in the process.
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Rich with the urgency of feral youth, The Scapegracers explores growing up and complex female friendship with all the rage of a teenage girl. It subverts the trope of competitive mean girls and instead portrays a mercilessly supportive clique of diverse and vivid characters. It is an atmospheric, voice-driven novel of the occult, and the first of a three-book series.
Meet author Kaitlyn Greenidge at the Author Breakfast: September 23rd 9-10:30 AM
Written by critically-acclaimed author Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie is a coming-of-age story about a freeborn Black woman in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn. From her girlhood in her intense and brilliant mother’s medical practice to her adulthood as a wife in Haiti, Libertie Sampson finds that in order to claim a better, more free future for herself, she must let go of the expectations of those whose love has made her subordinate – never equal. Rooted in historical detail and brought to life through deeply human characters, Libertie is perfect for readers of Brit Bennett and Yaa Gyasi.
Hear Algonquin Publisher & Editor Betsy Gleick at the Editors' Buzz Panel: September 23rd 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, a young woman believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the Voiceless," trying to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it—or revealing anything about herself. Silence Is a Sense explores what it means to be a refugee and to need asylum, and how fundamental human connection is to survival.
Hear Workman Editor Traci Todd at the Editors' Buzz Panel: September 23rd 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
A moving picture book for older children and families that introduces a difficult topic, amplifying the voices and experiences of immigrant children detained at the border between Mexico and the US. The children's actual words (from publicly available court documents) are assembled to tell one heartbreaking story, in both English and Spanish (back to back). Each spread is illustrated in striking full-color by a different Latinx artist. A portion of sales will be donated to human rights organizations that work with children on the border.
Authors in Their
Own Words
In this video, authors from all Workman Publishing imprints talk about their books: why they wrote them, where they find their passion, how they did their research, and more.
Indie Sales Team
Reps Picks
Watch the Indie Sales team (Liz, Ally, & Christian) discuss some of their favorite titles from the Fall 2020 list.
Edelweiss Collections
Schedule an Appointment
We are missing that face-to-face connection we get when Regionals are in-person! Schedule an appointment to chat with Liz, Ally, & Christian to talk all things Fall 2020, get a sneak peek into what we're most excited for in the Spring, or just say hi. We would love to see you!
About Us
Family-owned and proudly independent, Workman Publishing Company is known for its award-winning cookbooks, parenting and pregnancy guides, children’s books, books on gardening, illustrated gift books, humor, fiction, serious nonfiction, and the bestselling calendar line in the business. Our imprints and partners include Workman Publishing, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Algonquin Young Readers, Artisan, Storey Publishing, Timber Press, The Experiment, duopress, Erewhon Books, and Familius.
