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Spring 2015
Amnesia
A novel
Peter Carey
From the two-time Booker Prize winner: an exhilarating, exceedingly timely new
novel--at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny--that journeys to the place
where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics.
When Gaby Baillieux released the Angel Worm virus into Australia's prison system,
hundreds of asylum seekers walked free. And because the Americans run the
prisons--as they do so many parts of her country--the doors of some 5,000 jails in the
US also opened. Was this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? What, if anything,
does it have to do with the largely-forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and
Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix
Moore--known to himself as "Australia's last serving left-wing journalist"--is determined
to write Gaby's biography in order to find the answers, to save her, to save his career,
and perhaps to save his country. But how to get Gaby to cooperate? Bringing together
the world of hackers and radicals with the "special relationship" between the United
States, the CIA, and Australia, Amnesia is Peter Carey at his best, a novel that speaks
powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present.
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UNKNOWN KNOWNS: Set in 2010, the book explores several intentionally well-hidden
episodes in U.S.-Australian relations, stretching back to World War II.
COULDN'T BE MORE TIMELY: Secret activities undertaken by the CIA in the past have new
resonance in our secretly super-surveyed present culture.
PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR: Carey has won the Booker twice. the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
twice, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times.
Praise for Peter Carey
"Peter Carey [has] that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and
language that turns a novel into an important book." --Beryl Bainbridge, The New York Times
Book Review
"One of the finest living writers in English. His books satisfy both intellectually and emotionally:
he is lyrical yet never forgets the imperative to entertain." --The Economist
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Victoria, Australia
PETER CAREY is the author of twelve previous novels and has twice received the
Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles
Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for the past
twenty years.
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A Bad Character
A novel
Deepti Kapoor
A highly charged debut novel about a young woman in India, and the love that
both shatters and transforms her.
She is twenty and restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for
Singapore.
He is a few years older, just back to India from New York.
When they meet in a café one afternoon, she--lonely, hungry for experience,
yearning to break free of tradition--casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong
into a love affair, one that takes her where she has never been before.
Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, mournful and frank, A Bad Character is an
unforgettable hymn to an exhilarating, dangerous city, and a portrait of desire and its
consequences as timeless as it is universal.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary
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Page Count: 240
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VOICE: Fearless, intimate, and immediate, A Bad Character portrays with seamless authenticity
a new generation of young women from around the world who are coming into their own--and
sometimes paying a steep price for newfound freedoms. This breakthrough story will hit a nerve,
and be covered both on and off the book page.
COMPS: A vision of a life in transition, and a burgeoning sexuality, that evokes Marguerite
Duras's The Lover; the raw, intoxicating storytelling of Josephine Hart's Damage, Scott
Spencer's Endless Love, and James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime; an exquisitely rendered
sense of place reminiscent of Paul Bowles.
AUTHOR: Kapoor is a dynamic, natural promoter who will speak eloquently both to the changes
sweeping across today's India and to her personal story of writing this book.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: Released this summer by Penguin India, Jonathan Cape in
the UK, and more territories to come; we will benefit from early reviews. Vogue India has hailed
the novel as "the literary fiction debut of the year."
NEW TAKE ON INDIA: Many novels from India have found devoted global audiences, but this
one captures Delhi in all its vital splendor--never before have we heard a voice from India quite
like this one.
Praise from India
"Twenty-first-century Delhi needed a voice, and here it is, in all its dark majesty. A marvel, a
novel of stunning beauty and originality." --Rana Dasgupta, author of Solo
"Quick to move, charged with the energy of a racy page-turner, and visceral in its treatment of
female desire and sexuality." --Mint
"A vivid account of a young woman coming of age, finding her sexuality and herself against the
backdrop of a dangerous city." --The Financial Express
"Sinewy in its prose and fierce in its sentiment, this is a book to be read in one go. It is liberating,
especially for any young woman who wants to live life looking her demons in the eye." --India
Today
"This stunning novel about female desire is the literary fiction debut of the year. Kapoor is a
compelling new voice. A fan of Marguerite Duras's The Lover? Get this book." --Vogue India
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Goa/Southern India
Author Hometown: Delhi
DEEPTI KAPOOR grew up in Northern India and attended college in New Delhi, where
she worked for several years as a journalist. A Bad Character is her first novel.
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Sometimes an Art
Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn
From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the
Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and
accomplishments in history.
The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds
were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight?
What did things feel like in the moment when outcomes were uncertain? How can we
recover the uncertainties of the past, before the outcomes were known? What kind of
imagination goes into the writing of transformative history? Are there latent trends that
distinguish the kinds of history we now write? How unique was North America among
the far-flung peripheries of the early British empire?
As Bernard Bailyn argues in this elegant, deeply informed collection of essays,
history always combines approximations based on incomplete data, with empathic
imagination and the interweaving of strands of knowledge into a narrative which also
explains. This is a stirring and insightful work drawing on the wisdom and perspective of
a career spanning more than five decades--a book that will appeal to anyone interested
in history.
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Category: History
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HIGHLY RESPECTED AUTHOR: A specialist in American colonial and Revolutionary-era
history, Bailyn is one of the most important and esteemed historians in the United States.
PERFECT FOR STUDENTS and for enthusiasts of history at all levels
RECENT ACCLAIM: Celebrating a lifetime's contribution to American scholarship, in 2010
Bailyn was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Boston, MA
BERNARD BAILYN is currently Adams University Professor emeritus at Harvard
University. He founded and for fifteen years directed the International Seminar on the
Atlantic World, which helped reorient the study of the Atlantic region in the early modern
era. His previous books include Education in the Forming of American Society; The
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, which received the Pulitzer and Bancroft
Prizes in 1968; The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, which won the 1975 National Book
Award for History; Voyagers to the West, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; Atlantic
History: Concept and Contours; and To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and
Ambiguities of the American Founders.
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The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got
Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe
A novel
Romain Puertolas
A wildly charming comedic debut: a novel about a fake fakir who travels from
India to France in order to shop at IKEA--and unwittingly embarks on a European
tour that is certainly the first of its kind. (Swedish meatballs not included, but
highly recommended.)
A fakir from rural India arrives in Paris with one goal: to get to IKEA. A professional
con artist with only a counterfeit hundred-euro note in the pocket of his silk trousers, the
fakir is confident that his usual bag of tricks is all he needs. But his plan goes quickly
awry: when he steps inside a wardrobe at the iconic Swedish retailer, it's only the first in
a series of accidents that send him on a spontaneous tour of Europe. As his journey
progresses in the most unpredictable of ways, the fakir finds unlikely friends in even
unlikelier places. To his surprise, the stirrings of love well up in his heart, even as his
adventures lead to meditations on the perils of immigration and the universal desire for a
better life. With some of the manic energy of the Marx Brothers and the biting social
commentary of Candide, this unforgettable comic romp around Europe is propelled by
laughter, love, and redemption.
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FRENCH BEST SELLER: A #1 best seller in France, where it was published in April 2013.
Rights have already been sold in 35 countries.
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RH EDITIONS: we acquired this novel along with Harvill Secker (UK),
RH Australia, and RH Canada, who will all publish in August.
AWARDS: a finalist for the 2013 Prix Renaudot.
COMPS: readers who enjoyed the frenetic creativity of Jonas Jonasson's The
One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and Robin Sloan's
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore will love this novel.
BOOK CLUB: a quick and enjoyable read that also raises important questions about immigration
issues, the novel is a whistle-stop tour around Europe that reading groups will enjoy.
Praise from abroad for The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an
Ikea Wardrobe
"I fell in love with an absolutely fantastic book . . . Wonderfully funny, brash, brimming with
ideas. It's brilliant." --Michel Crépu, France Inter
"Romain Puértolas, the mad hatter . . . This great satire of today's world and men boldly
revitalizes the art of the fable, including the moral." --Le Point (Paris)
"This summer's must-read novel...quirky, hilarious, elegantly written" --The Telegraph
"Full of quirky charm... Delightful" --The Times
"A madcap romantic adventure... Blessed with an energetic bonhomie that's thoroughly
endearing" --Mail on Sunday
"A laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that is as bonkers as the title suggests" --Candis Magazine
"A genuinely funny novel" --Vogue
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Hometown: Montpellier, France
ROMAIN PUÉRTOLAS was born in Montpellier and has lived in France, Spain, and the
UK, where he has been a DJ, singer-songwriter, language teacher, translator-interpreter,
and steward. He most recently worked as a police inspector with the French border
service, specializing in document fraud. The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir was a #1
best seller in France. Translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
www.romainpuertolas.com
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Schubert's Winter Journey
Anatomy of an Obsession
Ian Bostridge
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An exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle by one of
the world's most renowned singers, a leading interpreter of the work, who teases
out the themes--literary, historical, psychological--that weave through the
twenty-four songs comprising this legendary masterpiece.
Written in 1828, in the last months of the young Schubert's life, Winterreise ("Winter's
Journey"), has come to be considered the single greatest piece of music ever written for
the male solo voice. Deceptively brief--the twenty-four short poems are performed
uninterrupted in 70 minutes--it nonetheless has an emotional depth and power that no
music of its kind has ever equaled. Originally intended to be sung to an intimate
gathering, performances of Winterreise now pack the greatest concert halls around the
world. Drawing on his firsthand experience with this work (he has performed it more than
one hundred times), on his musical knowledge, and on his training as a scholar, Ian
Bostridge teases out the enigmas and subtle meanings of each song, exploring the
world and the states of heart and mind in which Schubert created them, and the
exquisite resonance and affinities that continue, even today, to move us so profoundly.
THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF AUTHOR AND SUBJECT: Ian Bostridge is universally
recognized as one of the greatest Lieder interpreters of our day, and his previous books have
been very well received (see quotes below). There is arguably no one more suitable to take on
this subject.
WINTERRIESE ITSELF: Universally loved among classical music aficionados, all of whom will
have to have this book.
Praise from the U.K. for A Singer's Notebook
"These are the thoughts of a profoundly engaged artist . . . provocative, astringent, capable of
arresting insights." --The Independent
"A consistently lively, learned, urbane and passionate book, once opened not likely to be closed
until you have read it all" --BBC Music Magazine
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London
IAN BOSTRIDGE performs regularly throughout Europe, North America and the Far
East to outstanding critical acclaim. He read Modern History at Oxford and received a
D.Phil in 1990. He is the author of Witchcraft and Its Transformations c.1650-c.1750 and
A Singer's Notebook. He is Humanitas Professor of Music at the University of Oxford
and a regular contributor to The Guardian and the TLS. He is married to the writer and
critic Lucasta Miller. They live in London with their two children.
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Washington's Revolution
The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - United States - Revolutionary
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A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great
leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian who is a Bancroft
Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
George Washington was famously unknowable but Robert Middlekauff penetrates
the mystique to reveal the fears, values, and passions that drove him. Rich in
psychological details regarding Washington's temperament, idiosyncrasies, and
experiences, this book shows us a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence
and experience as a young soldier, businessman, and Virginian gentleman; and was
transformed into an American patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and 70s.
Taking command of an army constantly in dire need--without adequate food, weapons,
and, at times, even clothing and shoes right up until the end--Washington displayed
incredible persistence and resourcefulness, and evolved into a leader who understood
perhaps better than anyone the crucial role the army had to play in the formation of a
new American society. Washington, Middlekauff leaves no doubt, was at the heart not
just of the revolution's course and outcome, but also the success of the nation that it
produced. This is an essential book for understanding the character of one of America's
great figures.
LEADERSHIP: Washington was never a great field tactician; he won the war by inspiring his
men to continue fighting despite terrible conditions and long odds. Middlekauff shows how
Washington's persistence and loyalty to his men made him the great leader he was.
AUTHOR EXPERTISE: Middlekauff is an expert historian whose work will shed light for even the
most knowledgeable of readers.
PAST PRIZES: Middlekauff's critical track record is exemplary, having previously won the
Bancroft prize, and been a finalist for the Pulitzer.
A NEW AUDIENCE: This is the first book for Middlekauff with a trade publisher and presents a
new opportunity to take his work to a wider audience.
"This is not just another account of George Washington's leadership in the Revolutionary War; it
is special. It is perceptive, balanced, judicious, and, most important, clearly and succinctly
written. A marvelous achievement." --Gordon. S. Wood, author of The Radicalism of the
American Revolution
"Brilliantly concise, insightful, and emotionally riveting . . . New understanding of the
transformation of Washington from a provincial Virginian to an advocate of the common cause of
the American nation . . . Enlightening and pure pleasure." --Richard Beeman, author of Plain,
Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Oakland
ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus,
at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Director of the Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (1983--1988), and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth
Professor of American History at Oxford University. His books include The Mathers:
Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals 1596--1728, which won the Bancroft Prize;
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763--1789, which was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize; and Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies.
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A Spool of Blue Thread
A novel
Anne Tyler
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her
remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true
new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life.
"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby
Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959.
The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their
faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have
heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are
growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the
fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight,
humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us
across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets,
all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they
are as a family.
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NO ONE DOES FAMILY LIKE ANNE TYLER: This novel is among her biggest, deepest, and
widest-reaching--reminiscent of her best-selling classics Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant or
Back When We Were Grownups--and more of a family saga than anything she's written before.
BEST-SELLING AND PRIZEWINNING: Tyler's books have achieved major commercial and
literary success. Several of her novels have been #1 New York Times best sellers. She was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Breathing Lessons, and the National Book Critic Circle
Award for The Accidental Tourist.
AUDIENCE: This novel has the potential to find a broader readership than we've seen. We
expect it will not only reinvigorate loyal fans, but also win the hearts of a new generation of Anne
Tyler readers.
LONGTIME HOUSE AUTHOR: A magnificent new book--her twentieth--by a writer who has
been published by Knopf over the course of her entire half-century career.
Praise for Anne Tyler
"Without Anne Tyler, American fiction would be an immeasurably bleaker place." --Newsday
"The charm of an Anne Tyler novel lies in the clarity of her prose and the wisdom of her
observations . . . Her characters endear themselves to the reader with their candor and their wit
and their simple decency." --The Washington Post
"Tyler's eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible." --People
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Baltimore, Maryland
ANNE TYLER was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh,
North Carolina. This is her twentieth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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When the Doves Disappeared
A novel
Sofi Oksanen
From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge--a chillingly suspenseful,
deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter
of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia during and
after World War II.
1941: In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red
Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When
the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit,
and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime... 1963: Estonia is
again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron
Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet apparatchik, desperate to hide the secrets of his past life
and stay close to those in power. But his fate remains entangled with Roland's, and with
Juudit, who may hold the key to uncovering the truth... In a masterfully told story that
moves between the tumult of these two brutally repressive eras--a story of surveillance,
deception, passion, and betrayal--Sofi Oksanen brings to life both the frailty, and the
resilience, of humanity under the shadow of tyranny.
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER: The book went straight to #1 in Finland and Sweden. In
Finland, it was the best-selling hardcover for the entire year of publication, with 150,000 copies
in print. In both Finland and Estonia, the book sold at the same rate as Fifty Shades. The book is
being published in twenty-nine countries around the world.
PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR: Oksanen has received the prestigious Swedish Academy Nordic
Prize (called the "little Nobel," as it's awarded by the same organization), the Prix Femina, the
Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
MOMENTUM: This follows Oksanen's breakout, widely acclaimed novel Purge, which was her
first to be published in English. Purge was an IndieBound pick and a B&N Discover title, as well
as the only novel to have won Finland's two most important literary awards.
CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE: Estonia's years under Soviet control resonate particularly
with the current tension between Russia and Ukraine. Oksanen has written a powerful op-ed on
the subject, published in Europe.
AUDIENCE: For the multitudes of fans of World War II fiction--Estonia remains mostly
unexplored in the literature--and also for those who love stories of Soviet-era Eastern Europe
(think, too, of the film The Lives of Others).
STORY BEHIND THE TITLE: Estonians remember that all the doves suddenly disappeared
from the cities in the '40s--because the German soldiers were capturing and eating them. A
chilling foreshadowing of how long it took for peace to arrive.
International reviews for When the Doves Disappeared
"With her new novel, Sofi Oksanen demonstrates that she belongs in the premier league of
literature . . . In many ways it can be said to have a kinship with the great Russian classics . . .
The story also offers a lot of suspense and many surprising twists . . . What a unique literary
talent she possesses." --Dagsavisen (Norway)
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Author Residence: Helsinki, Finland
SOFI OKSANEN is a Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright. She has received
numerous prizes for her work, including the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, the Prix
Femina, the Budapest Grand Prize, the European Book Prize, and the Nordic Council
Literature Prize. She lives in Helsinki. Translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers.
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Satin Island
A novel
Tom McCarthy
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From the author of Remainder (the major feature-film adaption of which will be
released in 2015) and C (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and winner of the
Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the first and last word
on the world--modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in.
When we first meet U., our narrator, he is waiting out a delay in the Turin airport.
Clicking through corridors of trivia on his laptop he stumbles on information about the
Shroud of Turin--and is struck by the degree to which our access to the truth is always
mediated by a set of veils or screens, with any world built on those truths inherently
unstable. A "corporate ethnographer," U. is tasked with writing the "Great Report," an
ell-encompassing document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels
himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through
crowds of apparitions. Madison, the woman he is seeing, is increasingly elusive, much
like the particulars in the case of the recent parachutist's death with which U. is
obsessed. Add to that his longstanding obsession with South Pacific cargo cults and his
developing, inexplicable interest in oil spills. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report
might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of
an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures--as only he can-- the
way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and
discern the narratives we think of as our lives.
OPPORTUNITY: C was a tour de force of literary formalism. This time, McCarthy's fierce
engagement with idea and theory is enveloped within an engaging contemporary narrative.
ANTICIPATION: The originality of C and Remainder earned the attention of the most eminent
literary gatekeepers. Satin Island will not disappoint them.
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Author Residence: London
TOM McCARTHY was born in 1969 and lives in London. He is known in the art world for
the reports, manifestos, and media interventions he has made as general secretary of
the International Necronautical Society (INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde network. His
previous books include Men in Space, C, Remainder, and Tintin and the Secret of
Literature.
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Anonymous Soldiers
The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman
A landmark history of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to
the creation of Israel, based on newly available documents from the National
Archives in Britain.
Anonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates a crucial period in the establishment of
Israel, chronicling three decades of growing anti-colonial unrest that culminated in the
end of British rule and the UN resolution to create two separate states. Based on newly
available documents, this groundbreaking book tells in riveting detail the story of how
Britain, in the twilight of empire, struggled and ultimately failed to reconcile competing
Arab and Jewish demands. Above all, Hoffman shows how the "anonymous soldiers" of
Irgun and Lehi beat the British and set in motion the chain of events that resulted in
Israel's creation. This is a towering accomplishment of research and narrative: one of the
most detailed and sustained accounts of a terrorist and counterterrorist campaign ever
written, which will be the definitive account of the struggle for Israel for years to come.
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AUTHORIAL STANDING: Hoffman is universally respected for his scholarship on terrorism, and
will command the attention of journalists, government officials, military representatives, and
general readers alike. This is in many respects his magnum opus, a book he has been preparing
since he was in graduate school.
REMARKABLY FAIR-MINDED: Hoffman does not take sides or moral stances, focusing instead
on the respective effectiveness of the uprising and the British response. This is a book that can
be appreciated no matter one's position on the complicated history and current politics of the
Middle East.
JEWISH COMMUNITY: The book will have major traction with and be especially meaningful to
Jewish readers across America, for its commentary on the history and formation of the Israeli
state.
UNPRECEDENTED RESOURCES: Hoffman has made extensive use of the newly opened
National Archives in Britain and documents pertaining to British rule of Palestine in the first half
of the twentieth century, making this book uniquely and richly researched.
"Terror works--at least sometimes--and there is no better proof than the success of the
Israeli underground during the British Mandate in Palestine. In Anonymous Soldiers,
Bruce Hoffman, the dean of counterterrorist scholars, explores the history and methods
that would become the template for terrorist movements of the present day. This book
will become a classic on the shelf of those who seek to understand and fight against
nonstate actors, who were themselves inspired by the Israeli example." --Lawrence
Wright, author of The Looming Tower and Thirteen Days in September
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, DC
BRUCE HOFFMAN is the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies and
director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service and a Senior Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy's
Combating Terrorism Center. His previous books include Inside Terrorism (1998), and
The Failure of British Military Strategy within Palestine, 1939--1947 (1983).
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The Buried Giant
A novel
Kazuo Ishiguro
An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker
Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it
anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay . . ."
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in
the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a
decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
ALMOST A DECADE: Never Let Me Go was published in 2006, and readers have been waiting
for his next novel with bated breath ever since.
AUTHOR: It goes without saying that Ishiguro is widely known beyond literary readers--or even
avid readers. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have been adapted into
highly acclaimed films, The Remains of the Day starring Emma Thompson and Anthony
Hopkins, Never Let Me Go starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, and Andrew Garfield.
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"Remarkable . . . Strikingly original." --Lawrence Graver, The New York Times
"A master craftsman." --Margaret Atwood, Slate
"The best and most original writer of his generation." --Susan Hill, The Mail on Sunday
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, England
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Author Hometown: Nagasaki, Japan
KAZUO ISHIGURO's seven previous books have won him wide renown and numerous
honors. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Both The Remains
of the Day and Never Let Me Go have more than 1,000,000 copies in print across
platforms, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films.
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Stories
Thomas McGuane
From one of our most deeply admired storytellers, author of the richly acclaimed
Gallatin Canyon, his first collection in nine years.
Set in McGuane's accustomed Big Sky country, with its mesmeric powers, these
stories attest to the generous compass of his fellow feeling, as well as to his unique way
with words and the comic genius that has inspired comparison with Mark Twain and
Ring Lardner. The ties of family make for uncomfortable binds: A devoted son is horrified
to discover his mother's antics before she slipped into dementia. A father's outdoor skills
are no match for an ominous change in the weather. But complications arise equally in
the absence of blood, as when life-long friends on a fishing trip finally confront their
dislike for each other. Or when a gifted cattle inseminator succumbs to the lure of a
stranger's offer of easy money. McGuane is as witty and large-hearted as we have ever
known him -- a jubilant, thunderous confirmation of his status as modern master.
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AUTHOR: With frequent appearances in The New Yorker, Thomas McGuane has become since
his last collection an even more essential figure in American fiction. Sure to be as widely
reviewed as ever.
SALES: A solid history, with 30,000 units combined in all formats for Gallatin Canyon.
SEVEN ENTIRELY NEW STORIES: seventeen stories in total, and ten previously published in
The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Granta.
List of Stories:
Weight Watchers (published in The New Yorker) Motherlode The Good Samaritan (published in
The New Yorker) Stars (published in The New Yorker) On a Dirt Road River Camp (published in
McSweeney's) Prairie Girl (published in The New Yorker) Grandma and Me Hubcaps (published
in The New Yorker) Shaman The House on Sand Creek (published in The New Yorker) An Old
Man Who Liked to Fish The Casserole (published in The New Yorker) A Long View to the West
(published in The New Yorker as "Crossing") Lake Story Canyon Ferry Crow Fair (published in
Granta)
Acclaim for Gallatin Canyon
"Astonishing." --The New York Times Book Review
"McGuane is a master . . . You can't force this kind of writing." --Los Angeles Times
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Author Residence: McLeod, Montana
Author Hometown: Wyandotte, Michigan
THOMAS MCGUANE lives on a ranch in McLeod, Montana. He is the author of nine
novels, three works of nonfiction, and two other collections of stories, Gallatin Canyon
and To Skin a Cat.
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Elegy for a Broken Machine
Poems
Patrick Phillips
The poet Patrick Phillips joins our list with a stunning collection of elegies that
bear witness to the small beauties and inevitable losses of our transient life.
Elegy for a Broken Machine is a son's lament for his father. It takes us from the
luminous world of childhood to the fluorescent glare of operating rooms and recovery
wards, and into the twilight lives of those who must go on. In one poem Phillips watches
his sons play "Mercy" just as he did with his brother: hands laced, the stronger pushing
the other back until he grunts for mercy "a game we played / so many times / I finally
taught my sons, / not knowing what it was, / until too late, / I'd done." Phillips documents
the unsung joys of midlife, the betrayals of the human body, and his realization that as
the crowd of ghosts grows, we take our places, next in line. The result is a
twenty-first-century memento mori, fashioned not just from loss but also from praise, and
a fierce love for the world in all its ruined splendor.
Praise for Patrick Phillips's previous collections
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"For me this is a real discovery . . . the language is quiet and accurate, the details precise, and
the emotions--though never insisted upon--are there, unquestionable and complex . . . The art
here is in hiding the art, and [Phillips] is the rare poet with the tact and chops to accomplish that
. . . What a find!" --Philip Levine, Ploughshares
"Mesmerizing and moving . . . Opening new ground as fatherhood claims his attention, the poet
continues to freshen his already profound gifts." --Floyd Skloot, Harvard Review
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Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Author Hometown: Atlanta, GA
PATRICK PHILLIPS is the author of two poetry collections, Boy and Chattahoochee,
which won the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His honors include both Guggenheim
and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry
Society of America, a Discovery / The Nation Prize from the 92nd Street Y, and the
Translation Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn and
teaches at Drew University.
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Follies of God
Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog
James Grissom
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Promotion at Tennessee Williams
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An extraordinary book that masterfully illuminates the dreamlike writing world of
Tennessee Williams, revealing the heart and soul of artistic inspiration and the
unwitting collaboration between playwright and actor, playwright and director.
At a moment in Tennessee Williams' life when he felt he had been relegated to a
"lower artery of the theatrical heart," when critics were proclaiming his work overrated,
he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old hopeful writer, James Grissom,
who had written an unsolicited letter to the great playwright asking for advice. After long,
intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he,
Williams, or his work, had ever mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him,
those who had kept him going to face another day, another judgment. Among the more
than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked, giants of the American theater
and film: Lillian Gish, (she was "the escort who brought me to Blanche") . . . Maureen
Stapleton, Serafina of The Rose Tattoo . . . Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche DuBois
on Broadway . . . Eva Le Gallienne ("She was a stone," said Williams, "against which I
could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper") . . . Julie Harris . . . Geraldine
Page, Alma of Summer and Smoke . . . Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud . . .
The most revealing, illuminating portrait to date of Tennessee Williams, who remains one of the
seminal American playwrights of our time.
To write this long-awaited book--more than two decades in work--the author spent many hours
deep in conversation with Williams and interviewed many, among them: Judith Anderson, Anne
Bancroft, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Zoe Caldwell, Bette Davis, John Guare, Kim
Hunter, Deborah Kerr, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Harold
Pinter, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Joanne Woodward.
The author is well connected in acting and media circles (he has written for television: The Good
Wife, Murder One, Law & Order, Sex and the City among others); quotes will be forthcoming.
Will be featured at Tennessee Williams Festivals (New Orleans; Clarksdale, Mississippi;
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival) as well as film festivals (Film Forum, TCM, etc).
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA
JAMES GRISSOM studied at Louisiana State University and the University of
Pennsylvania. He has written for HBO, Showtime, CBS, and NBC. He lives in New York.
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Roosevelt and Stalin
Portrait of a Partnership
Susan Butler
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Category: History
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Illustrations: 28 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
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The first book to fully explore the complex partnership during World War II
between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete
Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin were more than allies of convenience
during the war. They were partners who shared the same outlook for the postwar world
and formed an uneasy but deep friendship. Making use of previously classified
materials, Susan Butler reassesses in-depth the relationship between these two men
who shaped the world's political stage from World War II to the decades leading up to
and into the new century. She tells the story of how the leaders of the capitalist and
Communist worlds joined forces to defeat Hitler and illuminates the real alliance the two
men forged. She reveals their modus operandi; what they knew and thought about each
other; and how, by the time of Roosevelt's death in April, 1945, they had come to a
meeting of minds, agreeing on a world organization to prevent war, on the evils of
colonialism, on the presumption that Germany had to be dealt with as a future, as well
as present, threat that could never again be allowed to menace civilization--and on their
respective goal: to fashion a world without war for at least a generation.
The critical success of Butler's My Dear Mr. Stalin, the first book that brought together the
complete correspondence of FDR and Stalin.
The first book to exclusively examine the relationship between the two leaders and to offer
insights into the profound bond between them using newly unclassified files from the Russian
State Archive of Sociol and Political History and Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian
Federation as well as the FDR Library, Library of Congress, Cold War International History
Project, and Harvard Houghton Library.
Butler's is the first book to show just how FDR methodically and successfully pushed Stalin to
reinstate religion in the Soviet Union, which he did in 1943.
Butler reveals for the first time J. Edgar Hoover's power to influence FDR and shows how
Hoover derailed the U.S. planned establishment of OSS intelligence officials in Russia and
Russian intelligence officials in America just before the November 1944 election.
The first book to reveal FDR's conversations with Secretary of War Henry Stimson on the atom
bomb, making clear that FDR was preparing to discuss nuclear fission with Stalin.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Lake Wales, FL
SUSAN BUTLER grew up in New York and received her MA from Columbia University.
Her articles have appeared in The New York Times and Barron's. She lives in Lake
Wales, Florida.
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Stay, Illusion
Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido
The much anticipated volume of poems from acclaimed poet Lucie
Brock-Broido--a pioneering collection that brings her work, and our
understanding of the broken but beautiful world she inhabits, to a whole new level.
In these stirring, long-lined poems, we meet a poet as gifted and dangerous as ever,
a poet with an unflinching, ironic, and unique vision. As Brock-Broido puts it, she has, by
now, "contracted the habit of believing in the interior world." Yet, despite the plaintive
siren call of that interior, this most restless and powerful of American poets asserts: "I
am of a fine mind to worship the visible world, the woo and pitch and sign of it." And in
this collection, she does just that, striking out through gorgeous vistas of the seeable
and knowable, drawing us into a stunning new way of perceiving, both haunting and
playful, where we experience fresh understandings of our great loves and our great
foolishness, and the often invisible ways these things might move us, in the end, to "still
have plenty heart."
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"Brock-Broido's best yet. This is a poet who cultivates elegant nerviness and a riveting poetic
clairvoyance, daring the soul to push deeper and deeper into unwrit dimensions . . . Gorgeous."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"She has begun to write what Stevens called 'the poem of the mind in the act of finding what will
suffice.' No reality, that is, without imagination." --The New York Times Book Review
"A jumpy, brooding, highly charged poetry . . . Brock-Broido leaves our cramped imaginations
divinely readjusted." --Boston Review
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY and Cambridge, MA
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO is the author of three previous collections of poetry, A Hunger,
The Master Letters, and Trouble in Mind. She is Director of Poetry in the School of the
Arts at Columbia University and has been the recipient of awards from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the
American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son
Kent Russell
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From one of the most ferociously brilliant young voices in literary non fiction: a
debut of extraordinary force that interrogates a particular paradigm of American
masculinity, capturing with discomforting intimacy and precision the landscape of
the misfit.
Kent Russell's essays take us to society's ragged edges, the junctures between
savagery and civilization, where solitary, philosophical, troubled men yearn for a more
heightened form of existence. We meet a self-immunizer in small-town Wisconsin who
has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes; NHL
enforcers who build their careers on violence and intimidation; a former mogul who has
retreated to a crocodile-infested island off the Australian coast; the fans at a three-day
music festival ominously called the Gathering; Amish baseball players who push the
limits of their cultural restraints; and, perhaps most memorably, Russell's own oddball,
inimitable forebears. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, at once blistering
and deeply personal, records Russell's quest to understand, through his journalistic
subjects, his own appetites and urges, his childhood demons and persistent alienation,
and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father.
Combining the fierce intellect and humane wit of John Jeremiah Sullivan and David
Foster Wallace with a dark, unfettered sensibility all his own, Russell gives us a haunting
and unforgettable portrait of America.
COMPS: The extraordinary recent success of The Empathy Exams and Pulphead testify to the
appetite for voice driven long-form narrative non fiction. Like Empathy and Pulphead, Russell's
subjects are wide-ranging and various, linked by a quest for self-discovery that provides a deep
emotional and psychological underside to his intellectual proclivities and preoccupations.
VOICE:Russell writes with a force that feels nearly explosive; his prose teems with the hyper
connective, barely controlled genius of early David Foster Wallace or Dave Eggers, paired with
the gonzo risk-taking and off-the-grid sense of mission of a young Hunter S. Thompson.
DEBUT:Kent Russell is 28 and I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son heralds the
arrival of a singular new talent.
REACH: Collection includes seven essays previously published or forthcoming in n+1, The
Believer, Tin House, and The New Republic, plus brand-new autobiographical interstitial
material
TITLE: The book's title is from Daniel Boone: "I did not hear your name when they were beating
up for volunteers . . . I am sorry to think I have raised a timid son." Boone ended up burying that
son following the 1782 Battle of the Blue Licks.
KAREN RUSSELL: Kent Russell is Karen Russell's younger brother, and she is eager to help
promote the book and support Kent in any way possible.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Author Hometown: Miami, FL
KENT RUSSELL's essays have appeared in The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, n+1, The
Believer, and Grantland.
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The Tusk That Did the Damage
A novel
Tania James
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Category: Fiction
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Page Count: 240
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From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a
tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory
trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of
audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger.
Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the
Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his
name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger
son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger's violence and is drawn, with his
wayward brother Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young
American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the
porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own
moral gray area, a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film's subject. As the novel
hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation
on love and betrayal, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice.
With lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where
Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer's livelihood can be destroyed
by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching by extreme poverty; where
elephants are seen as both god and menace. In James's arrestingly beautiful prose, The
Tusk That Did the Damage tells a wholly original and unforgettable story about our
relationship with an animal that has mesmerized us for centuries.
EARLY ENDORSEMENTS:"The Tusk That Did the Damage is a novel of great moral intensity,
with the pacing of a thriller. Everyone is implicated. Everyone is righteous. Tania James's gift,
her genius, is to turn this scenario into an occasion for grace." --Julie Otsuka; " The Tusk That
Did the Damage is one of the most unusual and affecting books I've read in a long time.
Narrated by a poacher, a filmmaker, and, most brilliantly, an elephant, this is a compulsively
readable, devastating novel." --Jonathan Safran Foer
BREAKOUT BOOK:Extraordinarily ambitious, with the weight of myth yet the immediacy and
structure of an absolutely modern novel, this is an outstanding departure and the best work yet
from the prodigiously gifted James.
ARRESTING SUBJECT AND TITLE: In a feat of bravura invention, Tania James has elected to
narrate a key section of the novel from the point of view of a legendary elephant, a creature
whose transformation from gentle calf to brutal killer is rendered with astonishing complexity. In
the novel's unforgettable centerpiece, a young boy who steals the tusk of an elephant brings a
curse down on his village, and begins a grotesque personal metamorphosis reminiscent of
Kafka and Ovid. James's narrative artistry is reflected in every dimension of this stunning novel,
and her subject and title provide a unique publicity angle.
AUTHOR: Tania is as dazzling in person as she is on the page, poised and beautiful, an
excellent promoter.
INTERNATIONAL EVENT: Auctions currently under way all over the world. More on this to
follow.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, DC
Author Hometown: Louisville, KY
TANIA JAMES is the author of the novel Atlas of Unknowns and the short story
collection Aerogrammes. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Guernica,
One Story, A Public Space, and The Kenyon Review. She lives in Washington, DC.
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The Beauty
Poems
Jane Hirshfield
A stunning new collection of verse, paired with the publication of Ten Windows,
the author's new collection of essays, becomes a literary occasion for spring and
Poetry Month.
This new collection opens with a series of "My" poems--"My Skeleton," "My
Corkboard," "My Species," "My Weather"--in which Hirshfield uses the familiar materials
of the self to explore the profundities and quirks of existence. Of her memory, she writes,
"Like the small soaps and shampoos / a traveler brings home/ then won't use, / you,
memory, / almost weightless / this morning inside me." She reflects on the advice
someone older long ago gave her--to avoid life's "or"s--and she concludes, "Now I too
am sixty. / There was no other life." This robust sense of inevitability, and the poet's
tender consciousness of the unjudging "beauty" of what just exists, make the poems
powerfully affecting. For Hirshfield, "Zero Plus Anything Is A World," as she entitles one
poem, and her recipes for that world ("add salt to hunger," "add time to trees") are doors
through which we enter into a higher understanding of ourselves and of the small
beauties we so often miss.
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JANE'S PROFILE: there is almost no other poet like Jane in terms of audience reach, and the
ability she has to bring out crowds and reach her readers.
TWO-BOOK OCCASION: the event created by Jane's book of essays being published
simultaneously will make this spring perfect for tour events and big reviews of her career to date.
Praise for Come, Thief
"A deep well full of strength and wisdom." --Dana Jennings, The New York Times
"In these clear-eyed and often luminous poems she has borrowed a page from the great Tang
Dynasty Masters and fused style and philosophical outlook into a fresh way of representing
experience." --Steven Ratiner, The Washington Post
"Come, Thief is as much the accomplishment of a life in poetry as it is of a life given to inner
investigation of what it means to be a human being." --Afaa M. Weaver, Orion
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Mill Valley, CA
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JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of seven previous collections of poetry, two books of
essays, and four books collecting and co-translating the work of poets from the past. A
current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Hirshfield has received many
prizes and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller
foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Book Award, the
Poetry Center Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle
Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's,
Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, McSweeney's, and seven editions of
The Best American Poetry. She has been featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television
specials and her work appears frequently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and
other public radio programs.
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Ten Windows
How Great Poems Transform the World
Jane Hirshfield
A dazzling collection of essays on how the best poems work, from the master
poet and popular essayist.
Jane Hirshfield offers ten lively and eminently readable explorations into how great
poems transform our experience of the world. Touching on everything from the concept
of "windows" in poems (the moments where a word, phrase, or shift in tone "opens"
something for the reader) to the mechanisms of surprise and uncertainty, Jane uses
particular poems (by Basho, Dickinson, Szymoborska, Gilbert, Cavafy and Creeley, to
name a few) to show us how poetry works, word by charged word. Most of all, she
captures the ways in which poems make something possible that is separate from and
beyond our daily reality ("[Poetry's] seeing is not our usual seeing, its hearing is not our
usual hearing"). Locating the border realm between inner and outer, what is known and
what can only be apprehended in the realm of verse, Hirshfield's lucid understanding is
gripping and transformative itself, showing us at every turn how poems restore us to and
expand our sense of a broader humanity.
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Jane's popularity/accessible voice as poet and essayist: The chapter on haiku in this volume
was a Kindle single that remained on the Amazon best seller list for many weeks. Nine Gates,
her previous essay volume, is still in print and selling seventeen years on.
Promoting bonanza with a poetry collection at the same time: Jane has done this in the past,
going on the road with both poems and essays. She will be busy on the lecture circuit during the
spring and into the fall.
Praise for Nine Gates from Robert Pinsky: "Jane Hirshfield [approaches] the mysteries of art in a
way that feels exactly right to me: plainly, reverently, intelligently. She gives due weight to both
past masters and her own intuition. The result is rare and fine: a collection of essays combining
the richness of a daybook with the pointed quality of a good lecture."
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Mill Valley, CA
JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight books of poetry and one previous, now-classic
collection of essays, and four books collecting and co-translating the work of poets from
the past. A current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, hHirshfield has
received many prizes and awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and
Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Book
Award, the Poetry Center Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics
Circle Award and England's T.S. Eliot Prize. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The
Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's,
Orion, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, McSweeney's, and seven editions of
The Best American Poetry. She has been featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television
specials, and her work appears frequently on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and
other public radio programs.
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Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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From the renowned translators: a new translation--certain to become the definitive
version--of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of the writer's
life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.
Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a
commuted sentence of four years of hard labor. The account he wrote afterward
(sometimes translated as The House of the Dead) is filled with vivid details of brutal
punishments, shocking conditions, and the psychological effects of the loss of freedom
and hope, but also of the feuds and betrayals, the moments of comedy, and the acts of
kindness he observed. As a nobleman and a political prisoner, Dostoevsky was
despised by most of his fellow convicts, and his first-person narrator--a nobleman who
has killed his wife--experiences a similar struggle to adapt. He also undergoes a
transformation over the course of his ordeal, as he discovers that even among the most
debased criminals there are strong and beautiful souls. Notes from a Dead House
reveals the prison as a tragedy both for the inmates and for Russia. It endures as a
monumental meditation on freedom.
ACCLAIMED TRANSLATORS: Pevear and Volokhonsky are in a class of their own: winners of
the PEN translation prize; anointed by Oprah, who made their Anna Karenina a million-copy
seller; clear victors among the competing War and Peace translations. Net sales of their Vintage
translations exceed 800,000.
FIRST PRISON MEMOIR: The very first account of life inside the Russian penal system,
Dostoevsky's hybrid novel-memoir not only made him famous but also inaugurated a significant
literary tradition.
DOSTOEVSKY'S REAWAKENING: The author's imprisonment was a transformative
experience, one that profoundly influenced all his later works, particularly Crime and
Punishment.
Praise for Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
"The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators." --The New York
Review of Books
"The premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." --The New Yorker
"The reinventors of the classic Russian novel for our times." --PEN/Book of the Month
Translation Prize Citation
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Paris (translators)
Together, RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY have translated works
by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were
twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for Dostoevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina), and their translation of Dostoevsky's
Demons was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in
France.
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Butter Baked Goods
Nostalgic Recipes From a Little Neighborhood Bakery
Rosie Daykin
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Page Count: 272
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101 recipes for homemade treats and childhood favorites, the way your mom used
to make. Chapters include, Muffins, Scones, Cinny Buns and Loaves; Cookies,
Bars and Slices; Cakes, Cupcakes and Whoopie Pies; Pastry, Pies and Tarts;
Confections; Butter Creams and Frostings
Butter Baked Goods is a gorgeously illustrated cookbook, packed full of delicious
recipes for irresistible confections that you will want to make, time and time again. These
are recipes for the classics, rich in the nostalgic flavors of your childhood: from Peanut
Butter Sandwich Cookies, Cinny Buns and S'mores to Classic Chocolate Cake, Lemon
Meringue Cupcakes and Good Ol' Apple Pie.
Butter began as a tiny bakery in Vancouver, opened and operated by Rosie Daykin, a
passionate home baker since she was six years old. The bakery is a
pink-and-pistachio-colored slice of heaven; its counters are piled high with glass cases
and cake stands filled with sugary treats. Word soon got out (the baking was too good to
keep quiet!) and Butter is now famous across North America for being the home of the
very best gourmet marshmallow. Butter's marshmallows are now stocked in more than
300 (and counting) stores across Canada and the United States. The recipe for Rosie's
famous marshmallows is just one of the 101 tucked into the pages of this beautiful book.
Every recipe in Butter Baked Goods has simple step-by-step instructions and is
written in an accessible and easy-to-follow style, so that everyone can create Butter's
delectable treats--from grandmothers who have been baking all their lives to teenagers
making their very first cupcakes. Rosie's baking is not about trickery, flamboyance, or
hard-to-find ingredients but about great-tasting, homemade treats to celebrate life's
milestones: birthdays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, baby showers, bridal showers,
or just a gloomy, rainy afternoon when you need a little pick-me-up.
BUTTER BAKED GOODS SOLD ACROSS NORTH AMERICA: in more than 300 gourmet
grocery stores and high-end retailers (Dean and Deluca, Whole Foods, Neiman Marcus,
Bergdorf Goodman, Sur La Table)
BEAUTIFUL PACKAGE: with deluxe ribbon, wraparound photographic jacket and packed with
full-color photography from award-winning photographer Janis Nicolay
MEDIA-FRIENDLY AUTHOR: with multicity tour confirmed and phenomenal prepublication
support
NOSTALIC HOME BAKING AT ITS BEST: this is the perfect book for every home baker, and a
fantastic addition to your cookbook collection
About the Author/Illustrator
ROSIE DAYKIN is the owner of Butter Baked Goods. Rosie was a successful interior
designer, who dreamed of opening a bakery since she was a little girl. Rosie is a
passionate home baker, who transformed her favorite hobby into a phenomenal success
story. Rosie lives in Vancouver, with her husband and daughter.
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Made in Detroit
Poems
Marge Piercy
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A treasure trove of new work from one of our most popular poets: poems that
range from the Detroit of her childhood to her current life on Cape Cod, from deep
appreciations of the natural world to elegies for lost friends and fellow poets.
In her trademark style combining the sublime with gritty reality, Marge Piercy
describes the night she was born: "the sky burned red /over Detroit and sirens
sharpened their knives. / The elms made tents of solace over grimy / streets and alley
cats purred me to sleep." She writes in graphic, unflinching language about the poor,
banished now by politicians, no longer "real people like corporations." There are elegies
for her peer group of poets, gone now, whose work she cherishes but from whom she
cannot help but want more. There are laments for the suicide of dolphins and for her
beloved cats, as she remembers "exactly how I loved each." She continues to celebrate
Jewish holidays in compellingly original ways, and sings the praises of her marriage and
the small pleasures of life. A stunning collection in the best Piercy tradition.
AUTHOR: Over time, one of our best selling poets. She's still doing rounds of readings, where
she sells both her new and backlist books.
PROVEN POPULAR THEMES: Growing up poor in Detroit; her love of the natural world; her
wholehearted embrace of leftist causes, both human and environmental; her feminism; her
marital happiness; her personal involvement with Judaism.
A LONG, LARGE CAREER: This is her nineteenth book of poems, and she's moving toward the
end of her career.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Cape Cod, MA
Author Hometown: Detroit, MI
MARGE PIERCY is the author of eighteen previous poetry collections and seventeen
novels. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages and she has won many
honors, including the Golden Rose, the oldest poetry award in the country. She lives on
Cape Cod with her husband, Ira Wood, the novelist, memoirist, community radio
interviewer, and essayist.
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American Warlord
A True Story
Johnny Dwyer
A gripping work of reportage that, for the first time, tells the story of "Chucky"
Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his
African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.
Chucky Taylor was in many ways an average American kid: growing up in Florida he
had friends, a high school sweetheart, and some brushes with the law. But then, in
1992, at age fifteen, he traveled to Liberia to meet his estranged father, Charles
Taylor--the warlord and future president of Liberia. Adrift in a strange, underdeveloped
country, Chucky became the commander of the infamous Anti-Terrorist Unit, aka
"Demon Forces." Suddenly powerful amidst the lawlessness of his father's rule, any
semblance of morality vanished: the savagery and pointlessness of his crimes shocked
even his brutal father. Fleeing Liberia as his father's government fell, Chucky was caught
sneaking into the United States and became the first American convicted of the war
crime of torture. Now, Johnny Dwyer's deeply researched book tells not just the riveting
story of Chucky Taylor and his family, but also of Liberia, a nation which only recently
has found reason to hope for the future.
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BISAC 1: History - Africa - West
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Criminals &
Outlaws
BISAC 3: Social Science - Violence In Society
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 16PP OF PHOTOS + 2 MAPS
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National Media Appearances,
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Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage
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and Blogs
3-city Author Tour: Miami, New York,
and Washington, D.C.
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EXTENSIVE FIRSTHAND RESEARCH: Dwyer has been researching and reporting on Liberia
and the Taylor family for seven years, first reporting on the story for Rolling Stone in 2008, on
the eve of the trial. Over the years, he has been able to correspond with and access Chucky and
others involved directly. His research draws from hundreds of documents declassified for this
book.
UNKNOWN STORY: The story of regime change in Liberia seen through the Taylor family has
never been revealed in such detail; this book will break new ground.
A NEWFOUND INTEREST: Africa's place in the American consciousness is growing,
demonstrated by the groundswell of interest in new African novelists, and American Warlord,
which explores Liberia's origins in American slavery, is a perfect book to connect that continent
with our own, and make the most of the surge of attention.
JUSTICE FOR FATHER & SON: Chucky was convicted in 2008 in a federal court in Miami and
sentenced to ninety-seven years in prison. He was the first American to be convicted for human
rights violations committed abroad. His father was convicted by the Special Court for Sierra
Leone in 2012, the first former head of state convicted by an international tribunal since
Nuremberg. He was sentenced to fifty years. Both men are expected to spend their entire lives
in prison.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
JOHNNY DWYER is a reporter living in New York City. He has written for Esquire, The
Guardian, Rolling Stone, Time magazine, Foreign Policy, Vice, and The New York
Times. American Warlord is his first book.
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Healthy Pasta
The Sexy, Skinny, and Smart Way to Eat Your Favorite
Food
Joseph Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
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Category: Cookbooks
BISAC 1: Cooking - Pasta
BISAC 2: Cooking - Health
BISAC 3: Cooking - Italian
Page Count: 192
Trim Size: 8 x 9-1/8
Spine/Depth: 23/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 60 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
A delectable, wonderfully informative, easy-to-use cookbook that provides simple
ways to make pasta an integral part of a healthy and well-balanced life style--even
gluten-free--from two members of the beloved first family of Italian American
cooking.
As it says in the introduction: "Eating pasta can be advantageous to your health,
satisfying, and economical. Pasta should be a staple in every kitchen." Now, brother and
sister Bastianich--who certainly know great-tasting food--provide tips, instructions, and
delectable recipes for making pasta healthfully delicious. This is not a diet book--there
are no tricks and no punishing regimens--but a guide to enjoying more of the food you
love in ways that are good for you. Joe and Tanya explain the health benefits of cooking
pasta al dente; they show us ingredients and cooking methods that maximize taste but
minimize fat content and calories; and they provide us with 100 mouth watering recipes
for regular, whole grain, and gluten-free pastas, including: Gnocchi with Lentils, Onions,
and Spinach; Bucatini with Broccoli Walnut Pesto; Linguine with Shrimp and Lemon;
Summer Couscous Salad with Crunchy Vegetables; Spaghetti and Onion Fritttata; and
many more. A book to revolutionize the way we think about pasta. Buon appetito!
THE BASIC PREMISE: A very commercial concept: not a gimmicky diet book but a long-term
way to eat a favorite food and keep it healthy, which will resonate with a lot of pasta lovers and
people who want to love their pasta more--and, thus, a lot of book buyers.
VALUABLE, HEALTHY TIPS: What different grains mean to your diet; pairing certain grains with
sauces; why better quality pasta is healthier; how to reduce fat and calories in your sauces, etc.
Every recipe gives the number of calories in the dish. Also, several gluten-free options.
PUBLICITY: Because of Joe's success on MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, and the
appealing idea of the book, we should have a lot of ways to promote and publicize this fresh
concept. Both Joe and Tanya will publicize the book.
Marketing and Publicity
About the Author/Illustrator
Publicist: Erinn McGrath
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle
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Author Residence: Greenwich, CT & New York, NY
JOSEPH BASTIANICH is co-owner (with Mario Batali) of Eataly, Babbo, Esca, Lupa,
and Italian Wine Merchants, as well as (with Lidia Bastianich) Becco and Felidia, and
has published extensively on the subject of Italian wine. TANYA BASTIANICH MANUALI
received her PhD in Renaissance art history from Oxford University. In 1996 she started
Esperienze Italiane, a travel company that arranges food, wine, and art tours to Italy.
She also coauthors cookbooks with her mother, Lidia; manages Lidia's product line; and
serves as the cultural and art consultant for the art series.
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Odysseus Abroad
A novel
Amit Chaudhuri
From the widely acclaimed writer, a beguiling new novel, at once wistful and
ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London--a university student
and his bachelor uncle--each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness,
and the very art of living.
It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing
at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an inveterate outsider, and yet he
can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle,
Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has
been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their
weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative surface has the sensual richness that
has graced all of Amit Chaudhuri's work. But the great charm and depth of the novel
reside in Ananda's far-ranging ruminations (into the triangle between his mother, father,
and Radhesh--his mother's brother, his father's best friend; his Sylheti/Bengali ancestry;
the ambitions and pressures that rest on his shoulders); in Radhesh's often artfully
wielded idiosyncrasies; and in the spiky, needful, sometimes comical, yet ultimately
loving connection between the two men.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
BISAC 2: Fiction - Family Life
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 224
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 28/32 Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
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RETURN TO NOVEL WRITING: Chaudhuri's previous book was a work of nonfiction, Calcutta,
and this is a return to his celebrated fiction style.
WELL-REGARDED AUTHOR: Amit Chaudhuri has been heralded as one of the most distinct
voices in international literature. The numerous awards his work has received include the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Among his
fans are James Wood, Richard Ford, Ann Beattie, Jim Harrison, Annie Dillard.
HOMAGE: This is a book that speaks not only to Homer's Odyssey but also to James Joyce's
Ulysses, tapping into--and re-envisioning--a rich vein of classic material that readers will take
pleasure in recognizing.
COMPRESSED: An elegant and swift-moving piece of writing that begs to be read in a single
sitting.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: Penguin India is publishing in November 2014, and the UK
publisher Oneworld in February 2015, so we will have early reviews to work with.
Praise for Amit Chaudhuri
"A gifted writer who has created an indelible portrait of India...while at the same time leaving us
with a Proustian tapestry of quotidian moments recaptured and remade as they loom large and
astonishing in his characters' minds." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"No lover of literature will fail to love these vivid novels by a master of prose." --Annie Dillard
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: India; UK
Author Hometown: India
AMIT CHAUDHURI is the author of several award-winning novels and an internationally
acclaimed musician and essayist. Freedom Song: Three Novels received the Los
Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His many international honors include the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize; most recently, he became the first recipient of the Infosys
Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies. He is a contributor to the London Review of
Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is currently professor of
contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
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Women of Will
The Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
Tina Packer
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Category: Literary Criticism
BISAC 1: Literary Criticism - Shakespeare
BISAC 2: Performing Arts - Theater - History &
Criticism
BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - Feminist
Criticism
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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Publicist: Jessica Purcell
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Promotion through Shakespeare
Facebook page (13.5 million likes)
Possible Facebook chat with author on
Shakespeare Facebook page
Outreach to feminist bloggers
From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, a
fierce, funny exploration--part master class, part brilliant analysis--of the women
of Shakespeare's plays that illuminates for us his changing understanding of the
feminine and reveals some of his deepest insights.
Beginning with Shakespeare's early work, including the early comedies (The Comedy
of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Love's Labour's
Lost) and early histories (Henry VI: Parts 1, 2, 3 and Richard III), Tina Packer writes of
his journey becoming a playwright and actor, and the role of the theatre in Elizabethan
England. She explores Romeo and Juliet as a foundation for Shakespeare's deeper
understanding of the relationship between men and women as well as the continuation
of the sexual/spiritual story of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice,
Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and Cressida, and which has its supreme
manifestation in Antony and Cleopatra. She wrestles with Shakespeare's middle period:
with Isabella in Measure for Measure, with Twelfth Night, Hamlet, As You Like It, and
Othello, giving us a clear picture of the constraints put upon the women of these plays
as they articulate the truth about what they see and feel . . . She asks--and
answers--what happens when women want the same power as men, and examines
Macbeth, Coriolanus, and King Lear.
A long-awaited book. One the country's premier experts on Shakespeare and founder of the
more than three decades old Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts (one of the
most influential Shakespeare companies in the U.S.), Packer has been traveling the country for
four years performing a theatrical version of Women of Will ("Impassioned; compelling . . . It's
not just poetry in motion; it's thought made flesh" --Ben Brantley, New York Times). She has
appeared in Lenox (3 years); Boston; Boulder, Colorado; Los Angeles; San Francisco; State
Theatre of New Jersey; Charlotte, North Carolina; Sewanee, Tennessee; Nashvillle, Tennessee;
and New York.
To help publicize the book, Packer has planned an exclusive tour, performing Women of Will in
major cities, including: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego,
and Philadelphia. Dates--and additional cities--to come.
COMP TITLES: Juliet Dusinberre's Shakespeare and the Nature of Women; Kate Chedqzoy's
Shakespeare, Feminism and Gender. Books on Shakespeare but not about his female
characters: Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Stephen Greenblatt's
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, and James Shapiro's A Year in the
Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Stockbridge, MA
TINA PACKER is the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,
Massachusetts. She has directed most of Shakespeare's plays (some of them several
times), acted in seven of them, and taught the whole canon in various guises at thirty
colleges, among them Harvard, MIT, and Columbia. Packer was an Associate Artist with
the Royal Shakespeare Company in England, working at The Royal Court and the
Aldwych Theatre in London, at Leicester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other regional
theatres, as well as in television for the BBC and ITV, including David Copperfield with
Ian McKellen. She lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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Agency: LEVINE GREENBERG LITERARY
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9780439321075
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James Merrill
Life and Art
Langdon Hammer
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - LGBT
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Rich &
Famous
Page Count: 840
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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Illustrations: 32PP OF PHOTOS;5 PHOTOS IN
TXT
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and New York
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The first biography of one of the most important poets in the second half of the
twentieth century, whose life story is unparalleled in its narrative interest.
The story of James Merrill (1926-1995) is that of a young man escaping, but
inevitably reproducing, the energies and obsessions of glamorous, powerful parents (his
father founded Merrill Lynch); of a gay man inventing his identity against a shifting social
and sexual backdrop; and of a brilliantly gifted poet testing the redemptive potential of
his art. We see how Merrill, freed from having to work for a living, made his life itself a
kind of work. After Amherst and a period of adventure in Italy, he returned to the New
York art world of the 1950s (he met W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote,
Larry Rivers) and began publishing his poems, novels, and plays. In 1953, he fell in love
with budding writer David Jackson, who remained his companion for forty years while
they explored "boys and bars" in Greece and elsewhere. At the same time, they were
talking to the spirits of the otherworld using a Ouija board, which became an improbable
source of poetic inspiration for Merrill. In his many collections of poetry and the candid
letters and diaries that enrich every page of this deliciously readable life, Merrill created
a prismatic art of multiple perspectives. Holding that life and art together in a complex,
evolving whole, Langdon Hammer illuminates Merrill's "chronicles of love & loss" and the
remarkable personal journey they record.
THE POET: Merrill's visibility and importance has increased since his death and a biography of
his life should be a major front-page occasion for the book reviews.
THE BIOGRAPHER: this Yale professor and critic will be discovered as a literary biographer of
the first rank, as he offers a deeply absorbing story of Merrill's unique life and art, at the highest
level of scholarship.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New Haven, CT
LANGDON HAMMER is chair of the English Department at Yale and the poetry editor of
The American Scholar. His books include Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced
Modernism and, as editor for the Library of America, Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and
Hart Crane: Selected Letters and May Swenson: Collected Poems. His lectures on
modern poetry are available free online at Yale Open Courses.
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Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
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Natural Born Heroes
How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost
Secrets of Strength and Endurance
Christopher McDougall
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Category: Sports
BISAC 1: Health & Fitness - Exercise
BISAC 2: Travel - Adventure
BISAC 3: History - Military - World War II
Page Count: 368
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 41/32 Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Erica Hinsley
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
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including NPR and print features
National Online Interviews, Reviews,
and Literary Blog Coverage
Men's Magazine and Blog Coverage
Sports, Fitness, and Running
Publications and Blog Coverage
Coverage in WW II and History
Publications
Appearances at Running, Fitness, and
CrossFit Events and Marathons
Author Tour, including Boston and New
England, Chicago, Denver, Los
Angeles, Minneapolis, New York,
Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco,
Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
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New Yorker, and The Atlantic
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Author of the phenomenal national best seller, Born to Run, Christopher
McDougall now travels to the Mediterranean where he discovers that the secrets
of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete and in the
muscles and minds of fitness enthusiasts everywhere.
While researching Born to Run, Chris McDougall encountered the story of
Pheidippides, the legendary ancient Greek "all-day runner." Later, when McDougall met
a dedicated amateur historian, he saw a connection to one of the most fascinating
mysteries of World War II: How did a small band of Resistance fighters surrounded by
German troops kidnap a top German general? What he discovered is that ancestral
techniques for extraordinary endurance, natural movement, and nutrition allowed ancient
Greek soldiers and Cretan shepherds to race across mountains on all-night missions.
Inspired by their heroic acts, McDougall sets off to discover the lost art of the hero, both
throughout history and across the world. Just as Born to Run inspired casual runners to
get off the treadmill, out of their shoes, and into nature, Natural-Born Heroes will inspire
casual athletes to leave the gym and take their fitness to nature doing cross-training,
mud runs, parkour and free-running to bound--and climb, swim, skip, wade, and
jump--their way to heroic feats.
SALES HISTORY: Born to Run has been a huge international best seller, published in 30
countries to date. In the U.S., it spent a combined 206 weeks on The New York Times best
seller list, also landing on every other major American best seller list.
MORE THAN A MILLION COPIES SOLD: The Knopf and Vintage editions have netted more
than one million copies across all formats.
AUTHOR: Chris is very well connected in the media and in the running world, giving us the
ability to reach significant numbers of readers.
HISTORY MEETS FITNESS: Natural-Born Heroes combines a thrilling WORLD WAR II
adventure narrative with a a fascinating sports narrative. The incredible feats of daring of the
Resistance are every bit as impressive, and as thrilling to read about, as Chris's explorations of
modern sports and fitness.
SUBJECT: Just as Born to Run was ahead of the curve on barefoot running, trail running, and
ultramarathoning, Natural-Born Heroes is ahead of the curve on tough mudders, parkour,
Crossfit and movement to get people out of gyms and onto obstacle courses.
Praise for Born to Run:
A Forbes and Washington Post Best Book of the Year
"A tale so mind-blowing as to be the stuff of legend." --The Denver Post
"Fascinating. Thrilling. An operatic ode to the joys of running." --The Washington Post
"One of the most entertaining running books ever." --Amby Burfoot, Runnersworld.com
"Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history. It simply makes you want to run."
--Outside
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Lancaster, PA
Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is
now a contributing editor for Men's Health. A three-time National Magazine Award
finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men's
Journal, and New York.
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Skyfaring
A Journey with a Pilot
Mark Vanhoenacker
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds
us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys and renews our
capacity to be amazed.
The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of
human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying,
they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees,
shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up
careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight,
asks us to reimagine what we--both as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing
when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of
history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, the author vaults
across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts,
through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost
superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit
and the communities we form.
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STORY: While there is a great literature of flight, the best of it is old. Skyfaring will fill this void in
the current market.
AUTHOR: Vanhoenacker contributes to a range of publications including The New York Times,
Slate, Wired, and Financial Times.
AUDIENCE: The range of approaches he takes to his subject is sure to attract a wide array of
readers who are united by the shared experience of flight.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
MARK VANHOENACKER is a pilot and writer. A regular contributor to The New York
Times and a columnist for Slate, he has also written for Wired, Financial Times, the Los
Angeles Times, and The Independent. Trained as a historian, he worked as a
management consultant before starting his flight training in 2001. His airline career
began in 2003. He lives in New York.
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Voices in the Night
Stories
Steven Millhauser
From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories--provocative, funny,
disturbing, magical--that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people,
alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the
human spirit.
Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser
further reveals in Voices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and
dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that
pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of
our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and
fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God
calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her
Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine,
and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor, Voices in the Night seamlessly combines
the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond
our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of
one of our greatest modern storytellers.
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CRICITAL ACCLAIM: We Others, Millhauser's most recent omnibus of new and selected stories,
was showered with coast-to-coast raves. It won the 2011 Story Prize and was a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Award.
PRIOR PUBLICATIONS: This book includes four previously unpublished stories; others have
been published in McSweeney's, Tin House, Harper's Magazine, Best American Short Stories,
and in The New Yorker, where Millhauser is a house favorite.
SALES: Dangerous Laughter, his last all-new collection, was a New York Times Book Review
front-cover review; his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Martin Dressler, has sold more than 238,000
copies across all formats.
Praise for We Others
"Powerful, sublime . . . A book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories by one of America's
finest and most original writers." --Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books
"Lapidary, disturbing, mandarin, brilliant, perverse, and funny . . . A longtime master, Millhauser
writes with clarity, power, and emotional heft." --Claire Dederer, Slate
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Saratoga Springs, NY
STEVEN MILLHAUSER is the author of numerous works of fiction, including Martin
Dressler, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1997, and, most recently, We Others:
New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner
Award. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and his story "Eisenheim
the Illusionist" was the basis of the 2006 film The Illusionist. He teaches at Skidmore
College.
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My Organic Life
How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat
Today
Nora Pouillon
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A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora,
America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier
than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American
table.
The current proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine owes its existence
to this mostly unheralded, groundbreaking woman who changed the way we eat as few
others have. Growing up on a farm in the Alps, she was surrounded by fresh
food--delicious produce and meats that had never been touched by artificial pesticides or
hormones. When she and her husband moved to the United States in the 1960s, she
was horrified to discover a food culture dominated by hormone-bloated meat and
unseasonal vegetables. The distance between good, healthy produce and what even the
top restaurants were serving was enormous. Determined to make a difference, first as a
teacher and then as the country's premiere organic restaurateur, she charted a path that
forever changed our relationship with what we eat. Spanning the last forty years of our
culinary history, My Organic Life gives us the remarkable life of a little-known hero of the
organic revolution.
AUTHOR PROFILE: Nora is to the East Coast what Alice Waters is to California. She is iconic in
her industry.
A NATION'S OBSESSION: Organic food has never been more talked about than it is today. The
rise of supermarkets like Whole Foods, Michelle Obama's healthy eating programs, and the
controversial Stanford study of the healthfulness of organic vs. traditional produce, have brought
the organic movement to the forefront of popular consciousness.
A CHEF'S STORY: Following in the footsteps of Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, & Butter,
Marcus Samuelsson's Yes, Chef, and Thomas McNamee's Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, this
is a deeply personal story as well as the story of a food movement.
NORA'S FANS: Restaurant Nora was chosen as the venue for Michelle Obama's birthday party
in 2010 and has been visited by every president since Carter. Since it opened in 1979, it has
been a hangout for journalists and politicians alike.
Praise for Nora Pouillon
"As founder of America's first organic restaurant, and tireless advocate of local food systems
(not to mention a brilliant chef), Nora Pouillon is one of the pioneers of the Food Movement."
--Michael Pollan
"Her inspiring personal tale of turning a passion for food into both a career and cause . . .
parallels the nation's changing relationship with its food supply. A nation is what it eats, and to
understand what and how America should be eating now, we need Nora Pouillon." --David Corn,
journalist
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, DC
Author Hometown: Vienna, Austria
NORA POUILLON was born in Vienna in 1943. She moved to the United States in the
late 1960s and in 1979 opened Restaurant Nora, which in 1999 became the first certified
organic restaurant in the country.
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The Children Return
A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel
Martin Walker
The Dordogne's favorite chief of police is back in a heart-poundingly suspenseful
case that finds his small town innocently targeted by a global terrorism network.
When an agent tracking domestic jihadists is found murdered near St. Denis, it's
troubling enough for Bruno's beloved village. But when Sami--an autistic Muslim youth
raised locally but thought lost to Islamic extremism in Afghanistan--comes home, things
get far more complicated: abducted and exploited for his technological genius, Sami has
used that same talent to gather a trove of al-Qaeda intel. Now the same jihadists who
killed the agent aim to silence Sami, and as an international tribunal descends to
process Sami's case, Bruno must scramble to track the terrorists down before they exact
their own justice. Meanwhile, Bruno's juggling the affections of a sometime lover and the
mixed, alluring signals of one of the high-ranking U.S. intelligence officers on Sami's
case. Add to that a member of the tribunal with dangerous skeletons in his closet, and a
high-profile Jewish philanthropist whose presence in St. Denis seems to be attracting
attention from the jihadists. It's almost enough to make Bruno miss out on the village's
wine harvest supper.
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GROWING SALES: Each new Bruno book not only wins new readers for the series, but spurs
backlist sales. Across all platforms the series now has almost 140,000 copies in print.
RIPPED-FROM-THE-HEADLINES STORY: The Children Return features Martin Walker's
timeliest subject to date--jihadist terrorism--which should enhance promotional opportunities.
AUTHOR APPEAL: Booksellers and sales reps report increasing enthusiasm for author
appearances, and Walker has committed to a full slate of media and in-person appearances.
ONLINE PRESENCE: Walker actively updates the charming Bruno, Chief of Police website
(brunochiefofpolice.com), which features everything from the author's personal blog, to recipes
featured in the books, to extensive travel suggestions for the Périgord region. It even includes
Bruno's Spotify playlist.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, D.C.
Author Hometown: London, England
MARTIN WALKER is a senior fellow of the Global Business Policy Council, a private
think tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington, D.C. He is also editor
in chief emeritus and international affairs columnist at United Press International. His
previous novels in the Bruno series are Black Diamond; Bruno, Chief of Police; The
Crowded Grave; The Dark Vineyard; The Devil's Cave, and The Resistance Man, all
international best sellers. He lives in Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne.
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Went the Day Well?
Witnessing Waterloo
David Crane
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Page Count: 400
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The panoramic story of Waterloo, from its causes to its aftermath, told through
uniquely interwoven narratives drawn from the diaries, letters, reminiscences, and
great novels of participants and witnesses--published in time for the 200th
anniversary of the battle.
With Bonaparte's escape from Elba in February 1815, the world was jolted from the
profound peace it had experienced for eleven months back into the frenzied panic of a
war it believed had ended. David Crane captures the mixture of excitement and fear that
gripped England in the final days of a war that opened up complex divisions in its
society--from Liverpool merchants who celebrated the end of hostilities with America and
stood allied against another war, to the children of the Romantic Age who felt torn
between their own patriotism and a lingering hero-worship that no crime of Napoleon's
could eradicate. And he gives us an unprecedented, revelatory hour-by-hour account of
the day of the battle. Focusing as much upon the boys and men torn from their farms
and flocks as on the aristocratic families who provided Wellington with his officers, Went
the Day Well? is a remarkable portrait of an entire nation engaged in a battle that
changed the history of our world.
THE CUSP OF A NEW AGE: For Churchill the "Age of Waterloo" ended only with the beginning
of World War I. The Britain that emerged from the battle was a country of unprecedented global
power with a new sense of imperial destiny. The unique fascination of Waterloo is the chance it
offers to see the country at a crucial moment in its nineteenth century history, fixed here amid all
the trivial and mundane detail of one day, and drawn from the diaries, newspapers, and letters
of the time.
THE BREADTH OF THE BATTLE'S IMPACT: "There would not have been a town in Britain that
had not sent its soldiers to Belgium, hardly a household that was not holding its breath . . . At the
height of the invasion scarce eleven years earlier the whole country had been caught up in the
demands of total war, but this was different again from anything that had gone before, different
in its intensity and its immediacy, different in the fissures that it revealed in society, and different,
above all in that sense of suspended time . . . during which a whole country held its breath . . . "
Praise for Scott of the Antarctic
"Masterly . . . engrossing . . . The most balanced biography [of Scott] yet . . . Crane's stylish
prose is a sheer pleasure." --The New York Times Book Review
"A volume of its own epic proportions, using a historian's depth and research perspective,
leaving few stones unturned in pursuit of painting a thorough picture of the times and the
intrigue and pressures of mounting such ventures." --The Providence Journal
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Scotland
DAVID CRANE read history and English at Oxford University before becoming a lecturer
at universities in Holland, Japan, and Africa. His previous books include Scott of the
Antarctic and The Kindness of Sisters. He lives in northwest Scotland.
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The Book of Aron
A novel
Jim Shepard
From the hugely acclaimed National Book Award finalist, a novel that will join the
shortlist of classics about the Holocaust and the children caught up in it.
Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar young boy whose family is driven from
the countryside into the Warsaw Ghetto. As his family is slowly stripped away from him,
Aron and a handful of boys and girls risk their lives, smuggling and trading things
through the "quarantine walls" to keep their people alive, hunted all the while by
blackmailers and by Jewish, Polish, and German police (not to mention the Gestapo).
Eventually Aron is "rescued" by Janusz Korczak, a Jewish-Polish doctor and advocate of
children's rights famous throughout prewar Europe who, once the Nazis swept in, was
put in charge of the ghetto orphanage. In the end, of course, he and his staff and all the
children are put on a train to Treblinka, but has Aron managed to escape, to spread
word about the atrocities, as Korczak hoped he would?
Jim Shephard has masterfully made this child's-eye view of the Warsaw Ghetto
mesmerizing, sometimes comic despite all odds, and truly heartbreaking. It is nothing
less than a masterpiece.
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Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5 x 7-1/2
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Carton Count: 12
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THE AUTHOR: Since 1996 we have published six books by Jim Shepard, who by now is widely
regarded one of our premier storytellers. Dave Eggers: "Let's hope Shepard becomes as
influential as he should be. He's the best we've got." John Freeman: "His voice should be
essential reading." His collection Like You'd Understand Anyway (2008) won the Story Prize and
was short-listed for the National Book Award, and his work has been selected several times for
The Best American Short Stories and the PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories.
THE BREAKTHROUGH: This book will certainly win Shepard the wide readership he has long
deserved. It has routinely been pointed out that he often draws characters from many different
nationalities, is exceptionally good with children, and does a tremendous amount of research,
and those talents serve him very well indeed in The Book of Aron, since anyone who hears
Aron's voice will remember it forever.
GLOBAL APPEAL: The book caused a sensation at the London Book Fair and we very quickly
sold rights in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Canada,
Norway, and Israel, and will add many other countries to that list.
COMBINED APPEAL: Shepard is so highly regarded by a host of reviewers and fellow writers
both young and old that this provides one strong market for this remarkable novel; but that he
has now ventured into the very heart of a horror show that has rightly fixed our attention for
seven decades enables us to introduce him to a host of new readers, who will soon find
themselves indebted to him. As tragic as the story is, it is also deeply inspiring and a testament
to Janusz Korczak's teachings.
FULL-COURT PRESS: The Book of Aron gives us the occasion to promote Jim Shepard
aggressively and relentlessly, so all accounts will recognize that our expectations here are every
bit as great as the novel itself.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Williamstown, MA
Author Hometown: Bridgeport, CT
The author of six previous novels and four collections of stories, JIM SHEPARD was
born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and now lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his
wife and three children, and teaches at Williams College. His work has been published
in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, Tin House, Zoetrope, Playboy, and
Vice, among other periodicals.
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The Goddess Pose
The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who
Helped Bring Yoga to the West
Michelle Goldberg
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Women
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
BISAC 3: Health & Fitness - Yoga
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
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and Blogs
Select Author Events
Advertising Campaign with Yoga
Journal (nearly 2 million readers)
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fitness sites
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Your Goddess Pose"
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The incredible story of the woman--actress, dancer, yogi, globetrotter--who
brought yoga to America and to much of the rest of the western world.
Born Eugenia Peterson in early 20th century Russia, Indra Devi was a rebel from
earliest childhood. In the 1930s she fled to Berlin, and then--driven by her passion for
yoga and a fascination with yogic philosophy (and Theosophy)--she journeyed to India,
at a time when unaccompanied young European women were unheard of. In India she
performed perhaps her greatest feat--convincing even the most recalcitrant yogis, from
Krishnamurti to Krishnamacharya, to reveal to her the secrets of their art. She would go
on to share what she learned with men and women around the world--teaching Gloria
Swanson and Greta Garbo in Hollywood, then moving to Mexico and later to Buenos
Aires--helping to usher in the craze for yoga that continues unabated in the U.S. and
throughout the world today. Written with vivid clarity, and describing the extraordinary
spread and popularization of a philosophical movement, The Goddess Pose brings
Indra Devi's little known but wholly remarkable story to life.
REMARKABLE STORY: Indra Devi's life, which spanned the entire twentieth century, is a
fascinating story that has gone largely untold--until now.
YOGA: The yoga being practiced in gyms around the country today is far removed from its
Indian roots. The book traces the evolution of yoga in America and will surely be of interest to
anyone who studies yoga today.
COMPS: Like Frances Osborne's The Bolter and Hannah Rothchild's The Baroness, Goldberg's
book dives headfirst into the life of a glamorous, complicated woman; like Stefanie Syman's The
Subtle Body and Robert Love's The Great Oom, The Goddess Pose depicts another angle on
the spread of a worldwide phenomenon.
AUTHOR: Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for The Nation and the author of two previous
books, The Means of Reproduction and Kingdom Coming. She will be writing her first piece for
The New Yorker this year.
Praise for Kingdom Coming
"An important work of investigative journalism." --Esquire
"Goldberg's book will be recognized as the definitive guide to how a relatively tiny group of
intellectuals, politicians, and conservatives religionists positioned themselves to take over
America. This stuff is no joke." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Illustrator Residence: Brooklyn, NY
MICHELLE GOLDBERG is an investigative journalist and the author of Kingdom
Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a New York Times best seller, which was a
finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in
Journalism; and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World.
A former senior writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Salon.com, her work has also
appeared in Glamour, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Guardian and many other
publications, and she has taught at NYU's graduate school of journalism. She lives in
Brooklyn with her husband and son. www.michellegoldberg.net
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The Life of Saul Bellow
To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964
Zachary Leader
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
BISAC 2: History - United States - 20th Century
BISAC 3: Literary Criticism & Collections - American
Page Count: 816
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 50/32 Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 14 ILL IN TEXT + 16PP TK
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Jessica Purcell
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England, Chicago, New York, and
Washington, D.C.
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Written with the cooperation of the Bellow estate, but by no means an authorized
biography, the most comprehensive account ever of the most decorated writer in
American history, winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize for Literature,
three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize, who as a public intellectual
engaged fully with the most pressing issues of his time.
Based on much heretofore unavailable archival material and access to close
relations, and extraordinary for the diligence of its scholarship, the unsparingness of its
scope, and the engaging clarity of its prose, this booktraces not only Bellow's rise to
literary eminence--from the roots of his family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to his birth
and childhood in Quebec, to his years in Chicago and at the University of Chicago, to
right before the breakout commercial success of his novel Herzog in 1964--but also
Bellow's life away from the desk, which was rich with incident. In the mornings he wrote;
in the afternoons, he went out and got into trouble. Often this trouble involved
women--spirited, intelligent, beautiful women. And more: throughout we are given fresh
and fulsome readings of Bellow's work, from his early writings and debut novel Dangling
Man to Herzog.
TIMING: The Life of Saul Bellow will be published in the year that marks the centenary of
Bellow's birth and the decennium of his death, a time ripe for reappraisals of Bellow's
monumental achievement.
SUBJECT: In addition to being an iconic, canonical man of letters, Bellow often found himself
deeply embroiled in intellectual skirmishes and altercations regarding race, religion, foreign
affairs, education, social policy, the state of the culture, the fate of the novel.
ACCESS: The author has unprecedented access to unpublished Bellow material.
AUTHOR: Zachary Leader is author of the highly praised The Life of Kingsley Amis (Pantheon,
4/2007), which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London
ZACHARY LEADER is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University in
Great Britain, where he has resided for over thirty years, and a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature. Before his appointment at Roehampton, he taught at Caltech and
the University of Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern, Cambridge, and Harvard
universities, and is the author of Reading Blake's Songs, Writer's Block, Revision and
Romantic Authorship, and The Life of Kingsley Amis, a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
in Biography. He has edited Romantic Period Writings 1798-1832: An Anthology (with
Ian Haywood), The Letters of Kingsley Amis, On Modern British Fiction, The Movement
Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and Their Contemporaries (Oxford
UP, 2009), and the Oxford Authors Shelley (with Michael O'Neill).
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Ordinary Light
A memoir
Tracy K. Smith
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
Memoirs
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Women
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/4
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Coverage
African American Press
Poetry Press
Religious Press
10-city Author Tour: Atlanta,
Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Houston,
Los Angeles, New York, Oakland,
Princeton, and San Francisco
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores
coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race,
faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.
Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in
a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a
stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama
at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means
for her to be black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's
field for pennies a bushel, to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights movement.
These dizzying juxtapositions--between her family's past, her own comfortable present,
and the promise of her future--will eventually compel her to act on her passions for love
and "ecstatic possibility," and her desire to become a writer. But when her mother is
diagnosed with cancer, which she says is part of God's plan, Tracy must learn a new
way to love and look after someone whose beliefs she has outgrown. Written with a
poet's precision and economy, this gorgeous, probing kaleidoscope of self and family
offers us a universal story of belonging and becoming, and the ways we find and lose
ourselves amid the places we call home.
ACCLAIM: The narrative debut of a critics' darling whose name is instantly recognizable among
reviewers. Parts of this memoir expand, in prose, upon the elegy for Smith's father that was the
centerpiece of her most recent, Pulitzer-winning collection, Life on Mars, which was also a New
Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Times
Notable Book of 2011, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
AUTHOR: Smith is a brilliant and charismatic presence who has lectured widely across the U.S.
Her frankness about herself and her family in Ordinary Light will attract reader engagement,
book-group discussion, and the review community.
MOTHER-DAUGHTER STORY: The memoir, framed by the complex relationship between a
mother and daughter, is perfect for Mother's Day.
EVOCATIVE PROSE: Smith conjures her home and family with vivid, visceral imagery and a
richly textured sense of place in a wholly accessible voice. She skillfully combines a child's and
teenager's perceptions with adult retrospection, giving Ordinary Light the feel of a classic.
Praise for Life on Mars
"A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . Life on Mars first sends us out into the
magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and
consoled." --The New York Times Book Review
"One of the finest poets writing right now." --The Miami Herald
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Princeton, NJ
TRACY K. SMITH is the author of three acclaimed poetry collections, including Life on
Mars, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award
and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and currently teaches at Princeton
University.
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The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution,
1783-1789
Joseph J. Ellis
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - United States - Revolutionary
Period (1775-1800)
BISAC 2: History - United States - General
BISAC 3: History - Revolutionary
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us
the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just
fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide
to subordinate themselves anew.
The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political
guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation
of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the
story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such
as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, and some
less so, such as Robert Morris and Governeur Morris. It was these men who shaped the
contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the
Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force a calling of the
Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating
the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to
assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement.
SUBJECT: The question of how we moved from revolution to the establishment of a political
order is at the heart of understanding the creation of the United States of America.
OPPORTUNITY: This book is a summa of many of Ellis's earlier books--a gripping, dramatic
telling of the most crucial period between the end of the Revolution and the formation of the
federal government.
TARGET READERS: Ellis's own as well as those of Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough,
Stacy Schiff, Ron Chernow, Walter Isaacson.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Amherst, MA
JOSEPH J. ELLIS is the author of many works of American history including Founding
Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which won the National Book
Award. He recently retired from his position as the Ford Foundation Professor of History
at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and their
youngest son.
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Vintage
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Vintage
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Divorcing Better
Helping Children Survive the Storm of Separation
Penelope Leach
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From the author of the best-selling Your Baby & Child: completely practical,
comprehensively researched information and advice on how you can do what is
best for your child when you are going through a separation or divorce.
Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach covers the
various effects of divorce on children in five stages of life (infants, toddlers/preschoolers,
primary school children, teenagers, college students/young adults), many of whom are
far more deeply affected than previously thought. She explains recent studies which
overturn many common assumptions, and which show, for example, that many standard
custody arrangements for very young children are harmful to children's attachment to
their parents and therefore to their brain development. There is evidence to suggest that
the practice of having infants and toddlers spend regular overnights with non custodial
parents may be damaging, and the practice of dividing children's time equally between
the parents is seldom best for the children. Leach's advice is meticulously considered
and exhaustive, covering everything from access, custody, and financial and legal
considerations to managing separate sets of technology in two houses, and she includes
the voices of both parents and children to illustrate her points. She explains why "mutual
parenting" is the ideal way to co-parent after a divorce, and delineates ways to carry this
out. And throughout, she makes clear that, most importantly in any separation or
divorce, both parents must put their relationship to their children and responsiveness to
their needs ahead of their feelings about each other.
AUTHORITATIVE: Divided into five stages--infants, toddlers/preschoolers, primary school
children, teenagers, college students/young adults. As always, Leach's advice for each stage is
child-centered, opinionated, and fearlessly provocative in the interests of children, with just the
right balance of toughness and warmth.
MARKET: Fewer than half of today's children will celebrate their sixteenth birthday with their
parents still together. This book is for separating mothers and fathers, for their extended families
and prospective new partners, and for the professionals who support and advise them.
SALES: Your Baby & Child has sold more than 1.25 million; Babyhood 175,000 copies
Praise for Penelope Leach
"Leach is pre-eminently the thinking parent's guide, encouraging not just sensible reflexes but
subtle reflection . . . Articulate and impassioned." --The New York Times Book Review
"A militant advocate of the young and, just as crucial, of their parents." --San Francisco Chronicle
"One of the world's leading nurturers of parents." --T.Berry Brazelton
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Lewes, England
PENELOPE LEACH is a research psychologist and one of the world's leading experts
on child development. Her books include Your Baby & Child, Babyhood, and Children
First. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a visiting professor at
Winchester University and a Senior Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of
London and at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She has been vice
president of the Health Visitors' Association, President and Chair of the Child
Development Society, and President of the National Childminding Association.
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Freedom of Speech
Mightier Than the Sword
David K. Shipler
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Category: History
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From the longtime New York Times reporter, best-selling author, and Pulitzer
Prize winner-- an expansive, timely assessment of the state of free speech in
America.
David Shipler's recent best seller, The Working Poor, cemented his place among our
most trenchant social commentators. Now, he turns his keen, illuminating focus to
another endangered American ideal: freedom of speech. Through selected accounts of
First Amendment invocation and infringement, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting
topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified
for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches' tax-exempt status to
preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more
common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; history teachers in Texas quietly
navigating around a conservative curriculum to give students access to unapproved
perspectives. Anchored in personal stories--sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd,
sometimes dishearteningly familiar--but encompassing a theme as sweeping and
essential as democracy itself, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and
challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern
America.
SALES TRACK RECORD: Shipler is a proven best-selling author; The Working Poor has more
than 205,000 copies in print across all formats and continues to backlist in paperback.
AUTHOR GRAVITAS: Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize winner (for Arab and Jew) and 2009 chair of the
nonfiction Pulitzer committee, is a former New York Times reporter and bureau chief.
EVERGREEN SUBJECT, RIPE FOR NEW ANALYSIS: Free speech has always been a
lodestone of American culture and politics, but the ways in which we communicate having been
transformed so dramatically in recent years--by the Internet as well as post-9/11 policy--it's high
time for a reappraisal.
GUARANTEED MEDIA APPEAL: Free speech controversies are never far from the headlines,
and with his feature-ready focus on individuals--people who have either had their free speech
shockingly curtailed or have done so to others--Shipler's book is poised to generate plenty of
discussion (and controversy) and lead to course adoptions down the road.
About the Author/Illustrator
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Author Residence: Chevy Chase, MD
Author Hometown: Orange, NJ
DAVID K. SHIPLER reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York,
Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous
books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and
Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings
Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at
The Shipler Report.
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England
and Other Stories
Graham Swift
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Wish You Were Here and Last Orders,
his first new book of short stories in nearly thirty years: beautifully crafted,
character-driven stories that subtly illuminate the way a seemingly quotidian
moment can reshape an entire life.
Not just the name of the final story in this mesmerizing collection, "England" can be
read as the subject of the collection as whole: a tapestry to which each story adds a
subtle and telling thread. There is the barber who says "people are life," but is glad to be
through with them at the end of every day . . . the two young gay women who find each
other working at a sperm bank . . . a young bride in 1918 coping with her shell-shocked
husband . . . the twelve-year-old boy weighing his desire to be part of a gang against his
sense of wrong and right . . . a father having his last conversation with his soldier son in
Afghanistan. Here are memories of first sex and long relationships; secrets revealed and
kept; faith held and belief undermined; love, friendship, and kinship begun, ended, and
renewed. Open-eyed, compassionate, and eloquent, these stories give us Graham Swift
at his most piercingly observant of human behavior.
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AUTHOR: A longtime house author and winner of the Booker Prize, Graham Swift is an
international literary figure with a dedicated following and a strong backlist with Vintage.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION: The U.K. edition was published in July 2014.
RETURN TO FORM: Swift hasn't published a collection of short stories since early in his career.
With England he reminds us what we've been missing.
UK Praise for England
"A coherent, powerful statement about English ways of life and death...This is a collection at
once elegant, humble, and humane that makes you sad that the Man Booker overlooks the
form" --Independent on Sunday
"Swift's exquisite stories...are parables, cautionary tales, fables without a moral. What is not said
is as important as what can't be told"--Independent
"For all that many of his characters come close to being types, these stories assert forcibly the
individual beneath the conventional exterior. That ability to colour forever the reader's
perception...at the same time as articulating emotions too strong for the narrator's own words, is
typical of Swift's gift one reason these stories resonate with such vibrancy" --Spectator
Praise for Graham Swift
"[Swift is] an artist with profound insight into human nature and the mature talent to deliver it . . .
As every truly great novelist does [Swift] demonstrates that perfect coordination between style
and story." --The Washington Post
"Swift is a writer who clearly revels in dialogue and nuance." --The Boston Globe
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: London, England
GRAHAM SWIFT lives in London and is the author of nine novels, including: Waterland,
which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Ever After,
which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders, which was awarded
the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and, most recently, Wish You Were Here. He is also
the author of one other collection of short stories, Learning to Swim, and Making an
Elephant, a collection of nonfiction pieces. His work has been translated into more than
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The Water Knife
A novel
Paolo Bacigalupi
ON SALE 5/26/2015
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Page Count: 384
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The eagerly anticipated follow-up novel by the best-selling, National Book
Award-nominated author of The Windup Girl: a scorching thriller born out of
today's front-page headlines that preys on our worst fears about potential
catastrophic failures awaiting us in our resource starved future. Think Roman
Polanski's Chinatown as written by Michael Crichton. WATER IS POWER.
In the very near future, the American Southwest is battling for water. Phoenix is
covered in dust, desolate, and on the verge of total breakdown. Severe drought has
demolished Texas.
Into the fray, steps Angel Velasquez, a water knife working for Las Vegas water
mogul Catherine Case. Case is in the Arcology business, opulent real estate in which
lush, luxury living environments are raised out of dry earth. Zipping around in his tricked
out Tesla, Angel "cuts" water for Case. Hijacking pumping stations or unearthing long
forgotten water rights, he is a detective and mercenary rolled into one. When an
informant shows up dead in Phoenix, Angel is sent to find out what has happened. It
turns out that a major power play is taking place, and the race is on to find a
long-forgotten deed between the state of Arizona and a Native American tribe that grants
Phoenix the rights to enough water to rebuild itself but to crush Las Vegas in the
process. A shady West Coast conglomerate is watching closely, as is Lucy Monroe, a
Phoenix-based journalist, desperate to save the city she calls home. Angel and Lucy are
natural enemies, but the two realize the only way they may stay alive is by joining forces.
The missing piece to the puzzle is Maria, a fifteen-year-old Texas migrant, blessed with
street smarts, but burdened by getting herself into something over her head. Pretty soon
the body count begins to rise, alliances come in to question, and it looks like either
Phoenix or Las Vegas is going down in flames.
AUTHOR: The Windup Girl sold more than 220,000 copies (and counting) and won every major
sci-fi award (worldwide). Paolo's YA novel Ship Breaker was nominated for a National Book
Award.
EAGERLY AWAITED: This is Paolo's first adult novel in six years. His fans are salivating for it.
TRUE BREAKOUT NOVEL: This is the breakout thriller from a writer with an escalating track.
For the first time Paolo will have true publicity, marketing, and editorial teams behind him for his
adult fiction.
HOT TOPIC: With headlines in The New York Times like "West's Drought and Growth Intensify
Conflict Over Water Rights (Mar 16, 2014)," it is clear that Paolo has his finger on the pulse. As
a former web editor/writer for High Country News (which covers the West's water issues), he
knows of what he writes.
DIVERSITY: With a diverse cast, The Water Knife is a true portrait of our social landscape.
LOVE STORY:Not to get cliché here, but there's a pretty steamy love story woven in here too.
RIGHTS: Rights have sold in Japan, France, Russia, Taiwan, Hungary, Spain, Germany,
Poland, United Kingdom, and Turkey.
AMC: AMC has optioned The Windup Girl and ordered the writing of a pilot script.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Paonia, Colorado
Author Hometown: Paonia, Colorado
PAOLO BACIGALUPI is the author of The Windup Girl, as well as the YA novels Ship
Breaker and The Drowned Cities. A National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the
Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, John W. Campbell Award, and a
three-time winner of the Locus Award, he lives in Colorado with his wife and son.
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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Stories and a novella
David Gates
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These eleven stories, along with a masterful novella, mark the triumphant return
of David Gates, whom New York magazine anointed "a true heir to both Raymond
Carver and John Cheever."
Gates's characters, young or old or neither, are well educated, broadly
knowledgeable, often creative and variously accomplished, whether as a doctor or a
composer, an academic or a journalist. And every one of them carries a full supply of the
human condition: parents in assisted-living--or assisted-dying--facilities, too many or too
few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot,
age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or
catastrophe. Terrifyingly self-aware, they refuse to go gently--even when they're going
nowhere fast, in settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast to
the countryside upstate and in New England.
Relentlessly inventive, alternatively hilarious and tragic, always moving, this book proves
yet again that Gates's stories, as The Boston Globe concluded, "have something for
which many fiction writers would make a pact with any sort of devil--utter authenticity."
AWARDS: Jernigan, his first novel, was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, followed by Preston
Falls (named by The New York Times one of the Best Eleven Books of the Year) and the
collection The Wonders of the Invisible World, both of which were shortlisted for the National
Book Critics Circle Award.
REPUTATION: Acclaimed by both peers (including Joseph Heller, Frederick Exley, Joy
Williams, Barry Hannah, Gail Caldwell, Jay McInerney, Nick Hornby) and our most esteemed
critics (Michael Wood, Michiko Kakutani), Gates is highly influential among younger writers
whose support we can count on, making this publication a...
LITERARY EVENT: His first book in fifteen years will be heralded as such by reviewers and
writers and booksellers across the country.
SERIALIZATIONS: "A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me" has been selected by Jennifer Egan
for The Best American Short Stories 2014. Other stories in this collection were previously
published in GQ, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Granta.
Acclaim for Jernigan (1991)
"Astonishing . . . The minute he starts talking, Peter Jernigan grabs you by the lapels and
compels you to listen to the sad-funny-tragic story of his life . . . Mr. Gates has created one of
recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes, and in doing so, he has established himself as a
novelist of the very first order." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
And for Wonders of the Invisible World (1999)
"Gates demonstrates his pitch-perfect ear for the snappy conversations, reveries, and rattling
inner monologues . . . that few writers are able (or willing) to confront with so much wit,
sympathy, and lethal precision." --Francine Prose, Elle
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Missoula, MT
Author Hometown: Middletown, CT
DAVID GATES lives in Missoula, where he teaches at the University of Montana, and in
Granville, New York, where he is associated with the Bennington Writing Seminars. A
former Guggenheim Fellow, for many years he was a writer and editor at Newsweek,
where he specialized in music and books.
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Muse
A novel
Jonathan Galassi
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A sparkling fiction debut from the poet, translator, and FSG publisher that tells the
story of the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions over the work of an
iconic female poet.
Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent
publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices on Union Square belie the
treasures of its list. Thanks to his boss, the flamboyant Homer Stern, Paul learns well
the ins and outs of the book world: how to work an agent over lunch and swim with the
literary sharks at Frankfurt; how to marry flattery with criticism when combing over the
manuscripts of brilliant, volatile authors. But though things can be shaky in the age of
conglomerates and digital, Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling writer: poet Ida
Perkins, whose outsize life and audacious verse have shaped America's contemporary
literary landscape, and whose longtime publisher--also her cousin and erstwhile
lover--happens to be Homer's biggest rival. When Paul at last meets Ida at her secluded
Venetian palazzo, she entrusts him with her greatest secret--one that will change all of
their lives forever. Enriched by juicy details only a quintessential insider could know,
written with both satiric sharpness and sensitivity, Muse is a hilarious and touching love
letter to the people who write, sell--and, above all, read--the books that shape our lives.
DEBUT: Galassi's most recent work was an acclaimed poetry collection, Left-handed. His debut
novel is a marvel, one that showcases a natural storytelling gift and the sophistication and
narrative flair of someone who knows what makes books really work.
CHARACTERS: Muse is a beguiling and entirely fictional triangle of love, ambition, and desire.
But many of its characters were inspired by real-life writers and publishing figures; playing who's
who will be a sport.
AUDIENCE: All those entranced by the allure and nostalgia of books, including people who work
or have worked in publishing, bookselling (both an independent bookseller and a mogul at an
Amazon like retailer are characters), and writers: a reader's book in every sense.
COMPS: Publishing can be a hot topic, e.g. in thrillers like Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm.
Muse will also appeal to readers of Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists. Unlike Hothouse,
Boris Kachka's (nonfiction) history of FSG, this is a novel with richly drawn characters and an
engrossing story; some may call it an update of Henry James's The Aspern Papers.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York, NY
JONATHAN GALASSI is the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux and the
author of three collections of poetry, as well as acclaimed translations of the Italian poets
Eugenio Montale and Giacomo Leopardi. A former Guggenheim Fellow and poetry
editor of The Paris Review, he also writes for The New York Review of Books, The New
Republic, and other publications.
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The Jezebel Remedy
A novel
Martin Clark
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Page Count: 400
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Martin Clark, "the new standard by which other works of legal fiction should be
judged," now delivers his breakthrough novel.
Lisa and Joe Stone, married for twenty years and sole partners in their small law firm
in Henry County, Virginia, handle less than glamorous cases, whether domestic
disputes, personal injury settlements, or a plethora of complaints from their
cantankerous client Lettie VanSandt ("eccentric" by some accounts, "certifiable" by
others). When she dies in a freakish incident, the Stones think it's within the realm of
possibility that she was cooking meth in her trailer. But details soon emerge that lead
them to question how "accidental" Lettie's demise actually was, and settling her peculiar
estate becomes endlessly complicated.
Before long, the Stones find themselves embroiled in a corporate conspiracy that will
require all of their legal prowess--not to mention some serious guts--for them to survive.
Meanwhile, Lisa is making secret, herculean efforts to shield Joe from an egregious
error that she would give anything to erase entirely, even as his career--and her
own--hangs in the balance.
In The Jezebel Remedy, Clark gives us a stunning portrait of a marriage, a gripping
courtroom drama, and a relentlessly entertaining story that is full of inventions, shocks,
and understanding.
UNIQUE AUTHOR BIO: A circuit-court judge in Virginia for nearly twenty years (and the
youngest ever appointed there), Clark has a day job that provides an abundance of material and
experience for his vocation as a novelist.
THE PRAISE OF PEERS AND COMPARISONS TO OTHER WRITERS: The former includes
Elizabeth Strout, David Baldacci, Haven Kimmel, James Crumley, and Kaye Gibbons, while the
latter list is even more impressive: Flannery O'Connor, John Grisham (over and over), Harry
Crews, Nick Hornby, Thomas McGuane, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Tom Robbins, Scott
Turow, even John Kennedy Toole.
CRITICAL RECEPTION: From the first book, astonishing and truly overwhelming in retrospect,
even to his editor. See quote below for a splendid overview from the august Dwight Garner of
The New York Times.
PROMOTION: this is something Clark has also mastered, with clever marketing schemes
(T-shirt giveaways, billboards, you name it) and the devotion of independent booksellers, and
he's tireless on the road.
A FEMALE LEAD: Lisa Stone is his first, and an amazing, compelling creation.
"Clark's [first novel] is arguably the funniest legal thriller ever written--a book that made Clark
seem like not only the thinking man's John Grisham but, maybe better, the drinking man's John
Grisham...The legal thriller has become an uptight and moribund genre, and this is what made
Clark's novel feel so winning: it cheerfully, and comprehensively, failed its sobriety test...You can
count on Clark for extreme situations and fresh, perfectly salted prose... I'd say Clark wrote Plain
Heathen Mischief while jacked on Elmore Leonard, The Scarlet Letter, and a pile of John Prine
albums. 'Mischief' is the perfect word for it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Stuart, VA
Educated at Davidson College and the University of Virginia School of Law, MARTIN
CLARK lives in Stuart, Virginia, where he is either on the bench or writing.
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The Governor's Wife
A novel
Michael Harvey
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Category: Fiction
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Page Count: 256
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In the latest installment in Michael Harvey's beloved Michael Kelly series,
Chicago's favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois'
first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and
evil begins.
It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a
federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in
prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an
anonymous email offering to pay him nearly a quarter million dollars if he will find Perry,
no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left
behind--his wife, Marie. Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds,
Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, Kelly
doesn't believe her. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry's
past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her
husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him. Everyone in
Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. Some of them she shared with her
husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly
killed.
The Governor's Wife is a gimlet-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the
personal, at the perils of trusting even those closest to us and the collateral damage of
our highest aspirations. Stylish, knock-out suspense from a modern master.
RETURN TO SERIES: Harvey's last novel, The Innocence Game, was a stand alone thriller that
did not feature his best-known and best-loved character, the inimitable classics
scholar-turned-private-investigator Michael Kelly.
TITLE: The novel takes its title from the irresistibly cunning figure who holds the key to the
novel's central mystery--how did the governor of Chicago, convicted of wire fraud and
racketeering, disappear from the courthouse without a trace after his sentencing? From The
Senator's Wife and The Good Wife to Ahab's Wife and The Silent Wife, complex female
spouses have a proven appeal, and provide a terrific title and hook for this most expert of
Harvey's novels.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Chicago, IL
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Author Hometown: Boston, MA
MICHAEL HARVEY is the author of The Innocence Game, The Chicago Way, The Fifth
Floor, The Third Rail, and We All Fall Down, and is also a journalist and documentary
producer. His work has received numerous national and international awards, including
multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award
nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master's degree
in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude,
in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives, of course, in Chicago.
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In the Country
Stories
Mia Alvar
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Page Count: 288
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A powerful, globe-trotting debut short-story collection from an exciting new
writer--vivid, character-driven stories about Filipinos from every walk of life.
Mia Alvar's stunning debut gives us a vivid, insightful picture of the Filipino diaspora:
exiles and emigrants and wanderers uprooting their families to begin new lives in the
Middle East and America--and, sometimes, turning back. One man smuggles drugs from
his pharmacy in New York to Manila for his ailing father, only to discover an alarming
truth about his mother. A woman living in Bahrain faces a challenge that compels her to
question her marriage. A college student in Manila struggling to write fiction knows that
her brother, who has gone abroad to make money, is the one living a life that stories are
made of. The novella-length title story follows the unexpected fates of a journalist and a
nurse during the 1970s labor strikes in Manila. Exploring the universal experience of
loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined,
In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call
home.
FORTHCOMING NOVEL: We have already signed up Mia's first novel, forthcoming in 2017. It
builds on the characters introduced in the title story.
AUTHOR: Mia's work has appeared in One Story, The Missouri Review, FiveChapters, and The
Cincinnati Review, and she has been cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories,
and nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.
COMPS: Rajesh Parameswaran's I Am an Executioner, Nam Le's The Boat, Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck, Julie Orringer's How to Breathe Underwater.
BOOK CLUB/READING GROUP: These are terrific, accessible, character-driven stories that
stunningly evoke their locales. Touching on themes of loss and upheaval that will appeal to
readers of all backgrounds, these piercing stories are well-suited for book clubs.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York City, NY
Author Hometown: Manila, Philippines
MIA ALVAR was born in Manila in 1978 and grew up in Bahrain and New York City. She
received an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from Harvard
College. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Missouri Review,
FiveChapters, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications; has been cited for
distinction in The Best American Short Stories; and has been nominated twice for the
Pushcart Prize. She has received grants and residencies from Yaddo, the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe
Guild, and Sarah Lawrence College. Mia is currently a writer-in-residence at the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council.
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Keepers
The Greatest Films--and Personal Favorites--of a
Moviegoing Lifetime
Richard Schickel
ON SALE 6/23/2015
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Category: Film
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Page Count: 320
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From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire, the highlights reel of a
life spent at the movies.
Richard Schickel has been going to the movies for more than seven decades
(reviewing them since 1965), and, in that time, he's seen, by his own count, somewhere
in the neighborhood of 18,750 films. Call it "obsession," "lunacy," or a "grand passion"
(Schickel grants all three), but there's no one who knows film better than Schickel. Now
he gives us the ultimate summing up: a history of film as he's seen--and lived--it, a tour
of his favorites, a master class in what makes a film soar or flop. Schickel's
no-holds-barred, often raucously irreverent opinions can range from panning classics
(Gone with the Wind) to defending bombs (A.I.) to spotlighting forgotten treasures.
Buster Keaton, Ingrid Bergman, Bonnie and Clyde, Star Wars, Stanley Kubrick, The
Matrix--Schickel reveals all the films and the forces behind them that have kept him
coming back for more. An essential addition to any cinephile's library, Keepers is the
curation of a brilliant connoisseur and critic, but more than that, it's a love letter to film
from one of its most dedicated fans.
EXPERT AUTHOR: Nobody knows movies better than Richard Schickel: a critic at Life from
1965 to 1972 and Time from 1972 to 2009, the prizewinning author of 37 previous books, and a
longtime director and producer of television documentaries. He now writes for Truthdig.com.
CRITICAL AND SALES SUCCESS: Schickel's Clint Eastwood: A Biography (1998) has 66,453
copies in print across all formats (more than 52,000 hardcovers alone), and his books on figures
such as Walt Disney and D. W. Griffith remain landmark works on their subjects.
A UNIQUE CRITICAL VOICE: not just another AFI's 100 copycat, Schickel's idiosyncratic taste
and bold judgments cast him in the mold of David Thomson and Roger Ebert.
Series Overview
Praise for Clint Eastwood: A Biography
"Exhilarating . . . substantial, insightful, and right." --Newsday
"Authoritative . . . highly nuanced . . . gives the reader a palpable sense of Mr. Eastwood's
career." --The New York Times
"Entertaining and penetrating . . . as unpretentious and involving as any Eastwood movie." --The
Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Author Hometown: Milwaukee, WI
RICHARD SCHICKEL is a film critic, documentary filmmaker, and movie historian who
has written almost forty books, including Clint Eastwood: A Biography, Intimate
Strangers, and The Disney Version. His thirty documentaries include Charlie: The Life
and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film; and Shooting War, about
combat cameramen in World War II. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was
awarded the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy Prize for film criticism,
and the William K. Everson Award for his work in film history. He now writes for
Truthdig.com.
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The Gods of Tango
A novel
Carolina De Robertis
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978-1-101-87449-3
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Hispanic & Latino
BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age
BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Lesbian
Page Count: 384
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 42/32 Carton Count: 12
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From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature--a lush,
lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early
sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change.
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's
cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in
Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she
remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still,
she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from
lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets.
Leda eventually acts on a long-held desire to master the violin, knowing that she can
never play in public as a woman. She cuts off her hair, binds her breasts, and becomes
"Dante," a young man who joins a troupe of tango musicians bent on conquering the
salons of high society. Now, gradually, the lines between Leda and Dante begin to blur,
and feelings that she has long kept suppressed reveal themselves, jeopardizing not only
her musical career, but her life.
Richly evocative of place and time, its prose suffused with the rhythms of the tango,
its narrative at once resonant and gripping, this is De Robertis's most accomplished
novel yet.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM: With the publication of Carolina De Robertis's prior novels, she has
established herself of one of the outstanding voices of Latin American literature. She's already
garnered the reviews to take her place on the best seller lists next to Isabel Allende, Gabriel
García Márquez, and Junot Díaz (see quotes).
FIRST SERIAL: An excerpt of the novel will appear in McSweeney's, in coordination with our
publication.
PUBLICITY: We will host a series of luncheons with select booksellers and reviewers.
A WRITER'S WRITER: De Robertis has a formidable fan in Junot Díaz ("an extraordinarily
courageous writer who only gets better with each book"). She was recently featured in the short
story collection of immigrant voices alongside the likes of Edwidge Danticat and Yiyun Li. We
will aggressively pursue advance quotes from other authors.
AN ENDURING SUBJECT: Public interest in the tango is ever present and growing; there are
entire Web sites, festivals, movies, plays (Tango Argentino was a Broadway smash hit), and
classes around the country dedicated to this captivating music and dance.
Praise for Perla
"A gripping journey that's as heart-wrenching as it is healing... De Robertis's writing from
beginning to end hypnotizes with poetic, crushing beauty." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Oakland, CA
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS was raised in England, Switzerland, and California by
Uruguayan parents. She is the author of two previous novels, Perla and The Invisible
Mountain (a Best Book of 2009 according to the San Francisco Chronicle, O, The Oprah
Magazine, and Booklist), the recipient of Italy's Rhegium Julii Prize, and a 2012
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has spent the past year living
in Uruguay, but her permanent home is in Oakland, CA.
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Restriction: World
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
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Perla/De Robertis, Carolina/HC
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The Invisible Mountain/De Robertis, Caro…
Invisible Mountain, The (Ebk)/De Roberti…
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