A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks:

–Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig (November 17, 2008)
–Life along the Illinois River by David Zalaznik  (November 17, 2008)
–Postmodern American Literature and Its Other by W. Lawrence Hogue  (November 17, 2008)
–Rudolf Friml by William Everett
(November 24, 2008)
–Sally Potter by Catherine Fowler
(November 24, 2008)
–Made-from-Bone: Trickster Myths, Music, and History from the Amazon by Jonathan D. Hill (November 24, 2008)
–Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage by Susan Thomas (December 1, 2008)
–A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America by Corey D. B. Walker (December 1, 2008)

The publication dates are noted above but all will be available to order within the next week.