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Saving Our Schools On Capitol Hill Congressmen Joe Baca has introduced the Save Our Schools Act recommending that Congress end the onerous and unfair testing provision of the No Child Left Behind Act which is punishing thousands of school systems across the country. A key recommendation of Saving Our Schools by Ken and Yetta Goodman, Congressman Baca's bill is a great step forward on educational reform. To learn more visit Saving Our Schools or read the bill here.

Associated Press Hails Linda Grekin's Never Get Lost Again!
"If getting lost is your normal way of getting from one place to another, no matter how many times you stop to ask for directions, a new book out will help you realize you're not alone and even give you some pointers for solving your problem..." MORE

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Thank you for the heartwarming response to our announcement of Steve Vander Ark's new book, The Lexicon. As Publisher's Weekly reports, this book includes material that does not appear on the Lexicon website. Orders received before June 30th will be autographed by the author and receive free media mail shipping in the United States. Click here to order.

AVAILABLE NOW! This unauthorized guide to the popular series by author J.K. Rowling is a 400 page companion work perfect for the curious reader who wants to know more about these remarkable books. Extensive new commentary, which does not appear on Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon website (www.hp-lexicon.org) adds to the fun of reading this reference work.

"Steve Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon website is visited by more than 25 million visitors annually," said RDR Books publisher Roger Rapoport. "For years fans who have seen the author keynote major academic conferences on the Harry Potter novels, including Sectus in London, Patronus in Copenhagen, Lumos in Las Vegas and Prophecy in Toronto, have been asking him to write an original companion work on this wonderful series. This book offers fascinating analysis, new insights and a deep appreciation of Rowling's work. " MORE...

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE LEXICON Read the latest reviews of the Lexicon from publications like the Detroit Free Press, the Muskegon Chronicle, Fox News and The London Telegraph.

• The Kirkus Review hails: "Stealing a march on all competitors ... this wins points for currency, and all but the most obsessive readers will find it unexcelled for ease of use as a quick reference guide."

• "The perfect accompaniment to any library already strong in Harry Potter fans."
-Midwest Book Review

• "If you want to understand the marvelously complex world that underlies Harry Potter this is the book for you."
-Michael Perry, author of Untangling Tolkein.

• "Highly recommended for fans of the truth. The best book of its kind published to date."
-Harry Potter Latino.

• "Essential for fanatics, essential for new fans."
-HP Lunatic

The Lexicon by Steve Vander Ark is AVAILABLE NOW in trade paperback at $24.95 (ISBN 978 1-57143-174-5).

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LEXICON MEDIA CONTACTS

Download the press release.
Information on the Lexicon litigation with Warner Bros. Enterainment.

For more information, contact RDR Books at 510 595-0595.
read@rdrbooks.com, fax (510) 228-0300.

Great New Books by Michael Grossman and Fred Rosenbaum
RDR Books is pleased to announce that the publication of new books by two of our popular authors, Fred Rosenbaum and Michael Grossman.

Rosenbaum returns as co-author of Sonia Shainwald Orbuch's Here There No Sarahs. The January release of this beautifully written account of a woman partisan fighting the Germans in the Soviet Union is perfectly timed to coincide with Daniel (James Bond) Craig's new film Defiance. There are many parallels between these two books and Craig's partisan film which has received rave advance reviews. Both of Rosenbaum's books are heroic stories of young people fighting the Nazis against seemingly impossible odds. Rosenbaum co-authored RDR's Taking Risks with Joseph Pell. This title won Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year bronze award in history and has been widely honored as one of the best books after written about the Soviet partisans. Based in New York and California, Rosenbaum is an eminent holocaust scholar and founding director of Lehrhaus Judaica.


We are also pleased to announce a new book by Michael Grossman, author of RDR's Coming to Terms With Aging. His remarkable story, Shrinkwrapped: My First 50 Years on the Couch offers a panoramic look at how one man, with a good deal of professional help, untangled the complex, sometimes abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century. You won't want to miss this panoramic view of therapies including Freudian psychoanalysis, Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD. Grossman's book is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn. He lives in Naragansett, Rhode Island.

Both Rosenbaum and Grossman will be on national author tours.

I Should Have Stayed Home: Hotels is the definitive book about terrible lodging on incredible vacations. Read more about this RDR title in Yahoo's Books that make you feel better about staying home.

Among alternative energy advocates, Makhijani's book -- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, a Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy -- has become a touchstone.
-Albuquerque Journal

Now in it's third printing Arjun Makhijani's Carbon Free and Nuclear Free has been making news across the country. From Washington where Makhijani frequently briefs Congressmen and their staffs, to college campuses across the country, the president of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research is recognized as one of our nation's leading experts on energy policy.

Read what the Albequerque Journal has to say about the book!
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On Muskegon 365. " The midwest has been good to RDR Books and from our present vantage point as the largest publisher in Muskegon, Michigan, we have attracted many outstanding employees and interns who love to read. We are particularly proud of our association with Grand Valley State University which has sent many outstanding interns who are determined to join the publishing business and make their own contribution to the world of books. Every day they put down their ipods and their cellphones to make sure that our new books continue to demonstrate the strength of independent book publishing. Yes we rely heavily on people like our managing editor Richard Harris, who telecommutes from Santa Fe. But the heart and soul of our operation is right here in this county of 170,000.

We have returned the favor to our friends by publishing Muskegon 365." -- Read the entire Muskegon 365 introduction here!

• Coastal Living reviews Muskegon 365
• Also: The Muskegon Chronicle on Muskegon 365 - read it here!

• Waterwalk hailed by the Detroit Free Press, as well as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

• Here is what author William Least-Heat Moon, author of Blue Highways and River Horse has to say about Steven Faulkner's Waterwalk: "Thank you so much for sending along Steve Faulkner's Waterwalk, and please pass along to him my admiration for his long voyage and for setting down his account in a most capable prose style. Well done on both counts."

From the Traverse City Record Eagle: "Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghostsis the debut book of Steven Faulkner, who teaches creative writing in Virginia. Faulkner and his teenage son go on an epic journey, retracing the 1673 route of French explorers Marquette and Joliet along the Lake Michigan shore to Green Bay, up the Fox River, then down the Wisconsin River to the Mississippi. Here's a compelling travel tale that will appeal to anyone with a sense of adventure or a yearning to paddle."

• Citizen Moore: The Making of An American Iconoclast wins ForeWord Magazine's Gold Award for Biography.