THREE NEWEST POCKET GUIDES:

• Each based on the 25 series book of same name

• Low price point, making them very popular with students; you can have several, carry in your car, purse, bathroom, POCKET

POCKET GUIDE TO DECLARER PLAY:Barbara Seagram and David Bird

POCKET GUIDE TO DEFENSE:Barbara Seagram and David Bird

NEW! POCKET GUIDE TO EVEN MORE CONVENTIONS

• Includes Bergen Raises, Support Doubles, Forcing 1NT, Puppet Stayman, Inverted Minors etc.

PATTY TUCKER — WINNING BRIDGE CONVENTIONS SERIES

• 10 books total in series

• Novice to Intermediate level

• Explains each convention fully then gives numerous practice hands

• Individual conventions available as ebooks

BUMBLEPUPPY DAYS: Julian Laderman

• How we got from whist to bridge: 1890 - c. 1950

• 2015 winner of the ABTA special citation book award

• IBPA nominated book this year

ABTA TEACHER’S CONVENTION 2015: NEW BOOKS FROM MASTER POINT PRESS

BIDDING AT BRIDGE: A QUIZBOOK: Barbara Seagram and David Bird

• Barbara’s newest Quizbook, all are very popular for novice to low intermediate students

• Brief explanation of principle then quizzes

• This new quizbook covers:

» PART 1: Opening bids, responses - notrump bidding» PART 2: Higher-level Opening bids (preempts,

strong club and 2NT)» PART 3: Competitive bidding — overcalls, dbls,

when they dbl or overcall» PART 4: More advanced: FSF, RKCB, cuebidding and

slam bidding

Also in this series...

DECLARER PLAY QUIZBOOK

DEFENSIVE PLAY QUIZBOOK

• These two quizbooks: themed problems, with expository material, designed to go along with:

PLANNING THE PLAY OF A BRIDGE HAND

• Planning in Suit Contract, Planning in Notrump Contract, Clever Moves (holdups, counting, etc)

NEW BOOK — PLANNING THE PLAY TEACHER’S MANUAL Part I: Jonathan Shute

• Covers Part 1 of book – basic play in suits and notrump

» Six Lesson Plans, Hands, Scripts» Review handouts for the class» Key Points» Everything you need to use PtP as a classroom text» Part II coming this fall

WINNING DUPLICATE TACTICS

• Winner of the 2015 ABTA Book of the Year Award

• Computer simulations

• Aims to tell the reader how to bid, play and defend in a duplicate pairs event.

• Pairs strategy, Competitive bidding, Choosing the Right Game, Slam bidding

• Sacrificing, Overtricks and safety plays, Opening leads,Etc.

MIKE LAWRENCE BRIDGE TIPS SERIES

TIPS ON BIDDING

• Intermediate level

• Completely revised and updated his Topics on Bridge series (20 years ago)

• Book 1: 3-card major raise (1C-1S; 2S), How long is partner’s suit?, Weak two-bids, Passed hand bidding, Reverses, Splinters, Avoiding common errors, Etc.

TIPS ON COMPETITIVE BIDDING

• Overcalls, Responsive Doubles*, The Takeout Double, Bidding over Preempts, Balancing, Penalty Doubles, Bidding against an Opening 1NT, Etc.

• new this summer 2015

TIPS ON CARDPLAY

• COMING NOVEMBER 2015

• Opening leads, Signalling, General defense tips, Mistakes in cardplay, Endplays, Loser on loser, Etc.

ABTA Home website

• Log in to ABTA Members’ area: exclusive content

• ABTA Quarterlies now available, old issues available

• IBPA hands — free bridge hands monthly

MPP TEACHER’S DISCOUNT: AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER!

• 15+ assorted — 40% discount (the usual 30+ discount)

• 30+ assorted — 50% discount

• Plus shipping/handling (10-15% of order), Tuesday morning cutoff for shipment that week

• Special goes through Sept 30th — email Sally!

NOVEMBER TITLES

THE EIGHT OF CLUBS WAS GOOD? by Elizabeth Flynn

• Personal stories and anecdotes and even recipes from a novice player

• Author has a blog, and has been published by Reader’s Digest and USA Today

• Great stocking stuffer!

OUT OF HAND… OUT OF MIND by Bill Buttle

• ACBL Bulletin cartoonist

• His first collection just of bridge cartoons

And coming next Spring! You asked for it, so here it is…

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT — 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know: Barbara Seagram and David Bird

• March 2016

• 25 Conventions practice hands

• Brief summary of each convention followed by four full deals