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Chemo Cat Cathy Nilon Price: $9.95 ISBN: 978-0-9791921-4-2 Author and Illustrator Cathy Nilon has created the book that she wished had been available to share with her young son when she was first diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in the fall of 2004. There were no programs available for his age group; the family had no mental health coverage to help deal with the trauma. Cathy decided to write one, and began sketching while still bald. Chemo Cat is the account of the pain-filled journey of her family, told in the voice of her son Luca who was four years old at the time. This book hopes to bridge the gap for families with children as to how to deal with the news of this awful illness. Luca and Mama cat, aka Cat-Cat, personified as a family of cats, take you through the emotions and realities of that most difficult time. It is meant to open a dialog with children without adding to their fears. It explains the changes they can expect when their mother loses her hair and is sick from chemotherapy and can't be with them all the time. The story is real and all too common. It should prove also, to be emotionally helpful for the child and the whole family. "I was saddest by far and sometimes would shout or just sit on my floor and cry my eyes out. I was tired of kids who had healthier moms..." The author's net proceeds will be donated to Living Beyond Breast Cancer.

Chinese Checkers Mario Bellatin Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-9776162-9-9 Three modern, edgy and superb stories by famous Mexican author Mario Bellatin--Chinese Checkers, Hero Dogs and My Skin Luminous--translated by Cooper Renner.   This, his first book to appear in English, promises us an fascinating, unsettling and important new voice in modern writing.  In these stories the narrator speaks rationally, cleanly, carefully, with a sense of precision and progression.  But the life he describes is not rational, clean precise or progressive.  His focus seems to be on exploring the ins and outs of specific situations. He is not plot-driven, nor do his characterizations seem to function in the normal way -- that is, to create a sympathetic character whom the author leads through some sort of growth process to a sort of epiphany. Any given one of his sentences, isolated from its context, might seem like an ordinary narrative sentence in a traditional work. Bellatin's contexts don't work that way: situations and thought repeat and recur in an apparently random fashion; he refuses to orchestrate climaxes and artificial excitements, even where a conventional writer would immediately do so.  Illustrated with photographs by the author.