Books to take on vacation
SUMMER READING: CRIME, FAME, PASSION, AND LAUGHS
Graphic novels to read on the plane and the beach

Everyone needs something to read during the long, hot days of summer. Whether you’re writing a recommended-reading list or you simply like to know what’s cool this year, NBM Publishing recommends:

A Treasury of XXth Century Murder, Volume 2
FAMOUS PLAYERS:
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR
By Rick Geary

It’s the early days of Hollywood. Quick fame, big money, and sexy young stars are a mix made for scandal. Suddenly, prestigious director William Desmond Taylor is found shot in his home. Could the killer have been star actress Mary Miles Minter? And what about Taylor’s strange past? FAMOUS PLAYERS is a delectable mystery as only Rick Geary can tell it! Available in June.

Jacketed hardcover, black-and-white art, 6” x 9”, 80 pages, $15.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-555-9.

Full-color trade paperback, 8½” x 11”, 48pp., $10.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-558-0



LITTLE NOTHINGS
Volume 1: THE CURSE OF THE UMBRELLA
Volume 2: THE PRISONER SYNDROME
By Lewis Trondheim
No matter what happens on your vacation, LITTLE NOTHINGS can make you feel good. Lewis Trondheim portrays the strains of travel and other aspects of modern life with warm humor. You can see samples at www.nbmpub.com/news/littlenothingblog.html.
• “LITTLE NOTHINGS is a hoot.” -- The Onion

• “A charmingly lighthearted stroll through life.” -- Publishers Weekly

• ”Extraordinary artist.” -- Booklist

Each volume is a full-color trade paperback, 6” x 9”, 128 pages, $14.95. Volume 1 ISBN: 978-1-56163-523-8; Volume 2 ISBN: 978-1-56163-548-1

MISS DON’T TOUCH ME

By Hubert & Kerascoet

At the start of the 20th century, the “Butcher of the Garden Cafes” is prowling for loose women. When young, cute Florence loses a friend to the Butcher, she tracks the killer herself. She ends up a servant in a luxury house of call girls, where she becomes good at certain lascivious practices -- while still remaining a virgin! But she never loses sight of her goal: find the Butcher. See previews of MISS DON’T TOUCH ME at http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/dontouchme/touchmeprev1.html.

Full color trade paperback, 6½” x 9”, 96 pages, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-56163-544-3


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