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The Dust That Falls from Dreams
A Novel
Louis de Bernieres
From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a sumptuous, sweeping,
powerfully moving new novel about a British family whose lives and loves are
indelibly shaped by the horrors of World War I and the hopes of its aftermath.
In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era, Rosie McCosh and her three
sisters are growing up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London.
With their neighbors, the two Pitt brothers and the three Pendennis boys, they are
"The Pals." But these days of childhood camaraderie and adventure are brought to
an abrupt end by the outbreak of World War I, in which some will lose their lives,
some their loved ones, some their faith, and all of them their innocence. We follow
them through the years of the war--in the trenches, in air battles, in the hospitals
where the women serve with as much passion and nearly as much hardship as the
men at the front--and its aftermath as the modern world slowly emerges out of
the ashes of the old. We come to know intimately this vibrant and eclectic cast of
characters, and to see how the connections of their childhood reach deep into
their adult lives, the fate of each reverberating in the lives of the others. And at the
center is Rosie--in love with one of The Pals and beloved by another--who, in the
end, will emerge from tragedy into a profound understanding of what it means to
love, not just deeply, but well.
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Page Count: 528
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BEST-SELLING HOUSE AUTHOR: Corelli's Mandolin was a nationwide best seller and a hit
film, and a reader's group favorite in paper, selling more than 600,000 copies to date.
Birds Without Wings appeared on the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and
Book Sense best seller lists.
REVIEWS: De Bernières is beloved in the UK, and we will certainly have wonderful reviews
from their publication, scheduled for July 2015.
READING GROUPS AND BOOK CLUBS: This is an excellent candidate for book clubs: lush,
rich, and epic, with a cast of characters crying out to be discussed and obsessed over.
DOWNTON ABBEY FANS: Brief, episodic chapters make this very swift reading, but at the
same time it immerses us in this extraordinary time: the war, of course, but also the
optimism of the Edwardian age; the influenza pandemic of 1918; the change in the attitude
toward women in society (the suffrage movement, women at the front as nurses and
drivers, the first women given degrees from Oxford); class distinctions blurred by the
shared experience of the war.
A POWERFUL, IMMERSIVE, EPIC NOVEL: The descriptions of the trench warfare and air
battles are powerfully visceral, detailed in descriptions of both the physical and the
emotional environments.
"A novel of romantic obsession... An intricate historical narrative." --The New York Times
Book Review
"Louis de Bernières is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... He has
only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colors and touch and taste."
--A. S. Byatt
"A master storyteller... De Bernières has reached heights that few modern novelists ever
attempt." --The Washington Post Book World
"De Bernières is so inventive--celebratory but never sentimental." --Newsweek
"[Birds Without Wings] is told in a beautiful lyrical style and with deep insight... Marvelously
engaging." --Chicago Tribune
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Norfolk, UK
Author Hometown: London, England
LOUIS DE BERNIÉRES is also the author of A Partisan's Daughter, Birds Without Wings, Red
Dog, Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World, Corelli's Mandolin (Commonwealth Writers'
Prize, Best Book, 1995), The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, Señor Vivo and the
Coca Lord (Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Eurasia Region, 1992), and The War of
Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Eurasia Region,
1991). He was selected by Granta as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in
1993.
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In the Mind Fields
Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis
Casey Schwartz
A thorough, witty, and accessible journalistic exploration of the culture of modern
psychiatry, focusing on the nascent reconciliation of neuroscience and
psychoanalysis--historically opposed approaches to understanding how human
beings think, feel, and behave.
As part of a pioneering program to unite the disciplines of psychoanalysis and
neuroscience, Casey Schwartz spent 2006 immersed in the masterworks of
psychoanalytic theory at the Anna Freud Centre in London, and 2007 studying the
brain among Yale's cutting-edge neuroscientists. She came away with a clear
picture of the distance between the two fields: while neuroscience is lacking in
attention to the lived experience of the individual, psychoanalysis is often too
ephemeral, arbitrary, and subjective. Armed with this awareness, Schwartz set out
to study the main players in the ongoing struggle to reconcile these disciplines. In
the Mind Fields is the product of her rigorous study and her remarkable access to
the lives and work of several pioneers in the budding field of neuropsychoanalysis.
Ultimately, she presents us with a trenchant argument for the molding of the
culture of psychiatry into a hybrid shape that will allow the two approaches to
thrive together.
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Category: Memoir; Psychology
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
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BISAC 2: Psychology & Psychiatry - Neuropsychology
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Page Count: 224
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VOICE: Schwartz lends her vibrantly fresh and funny voice to a subject that is often
inaccessible. Readers will love her not only for her mastery of the topics at hand, but also
for her wit.
SUBJECT: Schwartz has been actively engaged in the moment of neuropsychoanalysis's
creation.
OPPORTUNITY: Schwartz is willing to pitch sections of the manuscript at various magazines
and journals--she wants to get the word out. She is also scheduled to appear on the
Jonathan Schwartz radio show.
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Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: New York, NY
CASEY SCHWARTZ has worked as a staff writer at Newsweek/The Daily Beast, where she
covered neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Her writing has also appeared in The New
York Times and The New York Sun. A graduate of Brown University, she also has a degree in
psychodynamic developmental neuroscience from University College London. She was born
and raised in New York, where she currently lives.
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Negroland
A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac,
a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the
author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to
distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself
against both.
Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of
pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital; her mother
was a socialite--Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what
you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society. Since the
nineteenth century they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, "a small
region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of
privilege and plenty."
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Illustrations: 8 PAGES B&W ILLUSTRATIONS
Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical
moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of
post-racial America--Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life
informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of
heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the
grace of perseverance.
AUTHOR: Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, Margo Jefferson was for years a theater
and book critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in,
among other publications, Vogue, New York, and The New Republic. She is author of On
Michael Jackson (2006) and is professor of writing at Columbia University. She is highly
regarded and beloved in journalistic circles.
GENRE: A female memoir of triumph over adversity.
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Author Residence: New York, New York
Author Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, MARGO JEFFERSON was for years a theater and book
critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in, among other
publications, Vogue, New York, and The New Republic. She is author of On Michael Jackson
(2006) and is professor of writing at Columbia University. She is highly regarded and beloved
in journalistic circles.
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Finale
A Novel of the Reagan Years
Thomas Mallon
From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate, a galvanizing new novel about
the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of
modern times.
Finale takes readers to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986; the
wealthiest enclaves of southern California; and the volcanic landscape of Iceland,
where the president engages in two almost apocalyptic days of negotiation with
Mikhail Gorbachev. Along with Soviet dissidents, illegal arms traders, and
antinuclear activists, the novel's memorable characters include Margaret Thatcher,
Jimmy Carter, Pamela Harriman, John W. Hinckley, and even Bette Davis, with
whom the president long ago appeared on screen. Several figures--including a
humbled, crafty Richard Nixon; the young, brilliantly acerbic Christopher Hitchens;
and an anxious, astrology-dependent Nancy Reagan--become the eyes through
which readers see the last convulsions of the Cold War, the AIDS epidemic, a clash
of ideologies, and a political revolution. At the center of it all--but forever out of
reach--is Reagan himself, whose genial remoteness confounds his subordinates,
his children, and the citizens who elected him.
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OPPORTUNITY: Watergate, Mallon's last novel, enjoyed a crescendo of critical acclaim, as
well as his strongest sales to date. It was both a New York Times and a Washington Post
Notable Book for 2012, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2012, and a finalist for the
2013 PEN/Faulkner Award. Mallon's focus in Finale on the center stage of American history
will bring even more readers.
SUBJECT: Ronald Reagan's popularity remains at an all-time high, and the action of Finale
gives us a remarkable and compelling perspective on his legacy
SURPRISE ALLY: James Ellroy is a huge fan of Mallon's. About Watergate, he said: "The book
encapsulates no less than everything...Watergate is certainly a masterpiece."
Praise for Watergate
"Mallon uses his literary sensibility and mordant wit to give humanity to characters who in
their confusions and delusions staggered across the national stage . . . Let Mallon be your
archaeologist, excavating a now distant past." --George F. Will, The Washington Post
"Gore Vidal and E. L. Doctorow were instrumental in resuscitating the historical novel genre
in this country. Now that their best days are past, it is comforting to know that the patient is
thriving in Dr. Mallon's capable hands." --The Miami Herald
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, D.C.
THOMAS MALLON is the author of nine novels, including Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats
Truman, Fellow Travelers, and Watergate. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker,
The New York Times Book Review, and The Atlantic, and he was the recipient of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters' Vursell prize for exceptional prose style. He has been the
literary editor of GQ and the deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Letter to His Father/Brief an den Vater
Bilingual Edition
Franz Kafka
One of the most astonishing and revelatory pieces of writing ever produced by this
twentieth-century literary icon, presented in both the original German and the
English translation.
Kafka's letter to his father is at once an exploration of his relationship to his
father, his need to write, and the source of his fear--one that his father prompts
in him but that is beyond the scope of Kafka's memory and power of reasoning.
There is no greater text about authority, the disfiguring effects of shame, and, in
particular, Kafka's lifelong need to have his father's unobtainable approval.
AUTHOR: Kafka is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers.
OPPORTUNITY: Peter Mendelsund has designed a striking new series look for all of the
Schocken Kafka titles.
COMPETITION: There is only one other freestanding edition of Letter to his Father (from
lulu.com), but ours is the only bilingual edition available.
INTRODUCTION: Tom McCarthy will provide a brief essay assessing Kafka's letter.
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FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near
Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the
Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were
published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his
unpublished work after his death. Brod ignored those instructions and undertook instead to
publish The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927).
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Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka
A reissue of the passionate correspondence between one of the greatest
twentieth-century literary figures and the woman whom he described as "a living
fire, such as I have never seen."
As Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenská was unequaled in her ability to
recognize his complex genius and his even more complex character. What began
essentially as a business correspondence between a charismatic woman of
twenty-three and the thirty-six-year-old author becomes a correspondence of
love, in which Kafka reveals his ultimate self.
AUTHOR: Kafka is one of the universally acknowledged great twentieth-century literary
figures, revered for his stories, parables, aphorisms, and letters.
EDITION: This edition--out of print for two decades--is the only collection of these letters.
FEATURES: Includes letters from and essays by Milena Jesenská and an introduction by the
translator Philip Boehm.
NEW LOOK: Brilliant new jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
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FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near
Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the
Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were
published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his
unpublished work after his death. Brod ignored those instructions and undertook instead to
publish The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927).
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Open Heart
Elie Wiesel
Now in paperback, a profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting
summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality,
Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces, and questions flash
through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts
of marriage and children and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his
teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and for the survivors?
His ongoing questioning of God--where has it led? Is there hope for mankind?
The world's tireless ambassador of tolerance and justice gives us a luminous
account of hope and despair, an exploration of the love, regrets, and abiding faith
of a remarkable man.
Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel
"Wiesel is an asset to humankind. He has turned despondency into a message of approval
and optimism. Wiesel packages equal parts beauty and astonishing description in an
impossibly concise manner. Few authors have possessed such capacity for succinctness and
brevity with magnificent dexterity." --New York Journal of Books
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"An absorbing, clear-eyed reflection on Wiesel's own mortality and a candid account of a life
lived. Open Heart is Wiesel at his most vulnerable and his most determined, and his
thoughts and ideas have never been so lucidly conveyed." --The Rumpus
"The reader becomes a quiet observer of Wiesel's thoughts, which are plagued by the
question: 'Am I ready to die?' His answer, clearly, is no. What seems like a quick and easy
read actually delves deeply into the philosophical and makes you wonder: Will I be ready
when it's my time?"
--The Free Lance-Star
"In Open Heart's brief chapters of spare descriptions and quiet dialogue, Wiesel reviews with
eloquent and poignant clarity the entirety of his own history." --San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York
Author Hometown: Sighet, Romania
ELIE WIESEL was fifteen years old when he was deported to Auschwitz. After the war he
became a journalist and writer in Paris, and since then has written more than fifty books,
both fiction and nonfiction. His masterwork, Night, was a national best seller when it was
republished in 2006 in a new English translation. Wiesel has been awarded the United States
Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor's
Grand Cross, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace
Prize. Since 1976 he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston
University.
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Abraham
The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
Alan M. Dershowitz
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One of the world's best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of
Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham, who argued with God on behalf of the
doomed sinners of Sodom, through modern-day advocates who have changed the
world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the
rule of law, and following the biblical command to pursue justice.
As Alan Dershowitz sees it, the Hebrew Bible's two great examples of advocacy
on behalf of problematic defendants--Abraham trying to convince God not to
destroy the people of Sodom, and Moses trying to convince God not to destroy the
golden-calf-worshipping Children of Israel--established the template for Jewish
lawyers for the next four thousand years. Whether because throughout history
Jews have found themselves unjustly accused of crimes ranging from deicide to
ritual child murder to treason or because the biblical exhortations regarding
"justice, justice, shall you pursue" have been implanted in the Jewish psyche,
Jewish lawyers have been at the forefront of the battles against tyranny, in
advocating for those denied due process, in negotiating for just and equitable
solutions to complex legal problems, and in the efforts to ensure a fair trial for
anyone accused of a crime.
In this survey of Jewish lawyers throughout history, Dershowitz profiles Jewish
lawyers both wellknown and unheralded, admired and excoriated, victorious and
defeated--and, of course, gives us some glimpses into the gungho practice of law
Dershowitz-style. Louis Brandeis, Theodor Herzl, Judah Benjamin, Max Hirschberg,
Rene Cassin, Bruno Kreisky, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan are just a few
of the "idol-smashers, advocates, collaborators, rescuers, and deal-makers" whose
advocacy helped to change history. Dershowitz's concluding thoughts on the
future of the Jewish lawyer--given today's rates of intermarriage and
assimilation--are presented with the same thought-provoking insight,
shrewdness, and candor that are the hallmarks of more than four decades of his
writings on the law and how it is (and should be!) practiced.
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good at what they do
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ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ is the New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty
books, including Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law, Chutzpah, The Best Defense, Reversal
of Fortune, and The Case for Israel. His articles and essays have appeared in hundreds of
publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street
Journal, The Huffington Post, the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, The Jerusalem
Post, and Haaretz. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law
School, and has been practicing law for more than fifty years in the areas of civil liberties,
human rights, and criminal law. The recipient of many honorary degrees and awards,
including the Anti-Defamation League's William O. Douglas First Amendment Award,
Dershowitz is married and has three children and two grandchildren.
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Not in God's Name
Confronting Religious Violence
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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In this groundbreaking work of biblical analysis and interpretation, one of the most
admired religious leaders of our time shows that religiously inspired violence has
as its source misreadings of the texts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and
the Koran.
When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit--i.e., my religion is the only
"right" path to God, therefore your religion is by definition "wrong"--violence
between peoples of different beliefs is the only natural outcome, argues Rabbi
Sacks. But by looking anew at seminal biblical texts in the Book of Genesis--in
which we find the foundational stories of all three Abrahamic faiths--Rabbi Sacks
offers an entirely different understanding of God's multiple relationships: with
Jacob, patriarch of Judaism; with Ishmael, patriarch of Islam; and with Esau, whose
blessing is understood to confirm God's relationship with monotheists from other
faiths and overarching relationship with all of humanity. By analyzing the texts
that recount how Abraham's immediate descendants resolved their various sibling
rivalries, Rabbi Sacks teaches us a powerful lesson in the existence of multiple
pathways to God. "We are not all the same," he declares. "There is no one faith that
encompasses the plenary truth of human wisdom... The belief that one
faith--ours--holds the key to salvation deserves to be challenged, not just
because it has led to so much persecution and bloodshed in the name of God, but
because it attempts to confine God to one religion, one way, one image of
mankind. God cannot be so confined and remain the God of transcendence, the
God-without-an-image who systematically defies our attempts to capture Him in
categories of human understanding... Making space for that which is other than
myself is not a doctrine of religious relativism. It is, rather, the humility that says
there are things I will not, cannot, understand and that I must leave to God."
Rabbi Sacks's bold statement of our need to look with new eyes at specific
scriptural passages from within each of the Abrahamic monotheisms--passages
that, when interpreted literally, can lead to hatred, violence, and war--is an
eloquent, clarion call for people of goodwill from all faiths to join together to end
the misunderstandings that threaten to destroy us all.
AUTHOR: Rabbi Sacks will be doing the Jewish Book Fair circuit in the Fall of 2015. We
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SUBJECT: Terrorism in the name of God. This book could not be more timely.
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RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS is the award-winning author of more than two dozen
books, is heard regularly on the BBC, and has received international awards and honorary
degrees from universities around the world. From 1991 to 2013 he served as Chief Rabbi of
the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. In 2009 he was made a Life Peer
and took his seat in the House of Lords. Rabbi Sacks divides his time between Great Britain
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Dissent and the Supreme Court
Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional
Dialogue
Melvin I. Urofsky
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Category: Law
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From revered judicial authority--author of Louis D. Brandeis; Division and Discord;
and Supreme Decisions--a major book that looks at the role of dissent in the
Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution through the greatest and
longest lasting (226years) public policy debate in the country's history, among
members of the Supreme Court, between the Court and the other branches of
government, and between the Court and the people of the United States.
Melvin Urofsky writes of the necessity of constitutional dialogue as one of the
ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. In
Dissent and the Supreme Court, he explores the great dissents throughout the
Court's 225 year history. He discusses in detail the role the Supreme Court has
played in helping to define what the Constitution means, how the Court's majority
opinions have not always been right, and how the dissenters, by positing
alternative interpretations, have initiated a critical dialogue about what a particular
decision should mean. This dialogue, Urofsky writes, is sometimes resolved
quickly; other times it may take decades before the Court adjusts its position.
Louis Brandeis's dissenting opinion about wiretapping became the position of the
Court four decades after it was written. The Court took six decades to adopt the
dissenting opinion of the first Justice Harlan in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)--that
segregation on the basis of race violated the Constitution--in its decision in Brown
v. Board of Education (1954).
An important, timely book that looks at how constitutional development in the United
States during the past two and a quarter centuries has been a discourse among the courts,
the Congress, the presidency, and the public, and shows how key to the constitutional
dialogue is the dissent, the voice that says "Wait! This is not the right answer." A book that
explores the great dissents, those that scholars call the canon.
The author's reputation as a major constitutional historian, scholar, and observer of the US
Supreme Court (A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States is the
"best and most complete textbook of U.S. Constitutional history in print" -Judith Kellaher
Schafer, Tulane University)
A crucial book sure to be discussed in legal and political worlds given this age of incivility
and extreme ideologies. Dissent and the Supreme Court shows how reasoned argument
and dissent have been central to our constitutional system and how it still continues in the
face of all of the discord around it.
Acclaim for Urofsky's previous book, Louis D. Brandeis ("Remarkable" --Anthony Lewis,
NYRB; "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, New Republic; "Monumental"--Alan Dershowitz, The
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Author Residence: Gaithersburg, MD
MELVIN I. UROFSKY is professor of law and public policy and a professor emeritus of history
at Virginia Commonwealth University and was the chair of its history department. He is the
editor (with David W. Levy) of the five-volume collection of Louis Brandeis's letters, as well as
the author of American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust and Louis D. Brandeis. He lives
in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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Here and There
Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
Chaya Deitsch
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Category: Memoir; Religion
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A heartfelt and inspiring personal account of a woman raised as a Lubavitcher
Hasid who leaves that world without leaving the family that remains within it.
Even as a child, Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn't belong in the Hasidic world
into which she'd been born. She spent her teenage years outwardly conforming to
but secretly rebelling against the rules that tell you what and when to eat, how to
dress, whom you can befriend, and what you must believe. Loving her parents,
grandparents, and extended family, Chaya struggled to fit in but instead felt
angry, stifled, and frustrated. Upon receiving permission from her bewildered but
supportive parents to attend Barnard College, she discovered a wider world in
which she could establish an independent identity and fulfill her dream of a life
unconfined by the strictures imposed upon her by a belief system that she had
never bought into, a life that would be filled with the secular knowledge and
culture that were anathema to her friends and relatives in Crown Heights,
Brooklyn. As she gradually shed the physical and spiritual trappings of Hasidic
life--the long skirts and long-sleeved blouses, the rules of kashrus, the
meticulous observance of the Sabbath and the Jewish holidays--Chaya found
herself torn between her desire to be honest with her parents about who she now
was and her need to maintain loving relationships with the family that she still very
much wanted to be part of.
As she navigated the complexities of her new life, Chaya and her parents
eventually came to an understanding that was based on unqualified love and a
hard-won but fragile form of acceptance. With honesty, sensitivity, and
intelligence, Chaya Deitsch movingly shows us that lives lived differently do not
have to be lives lived apart.
GENRE-BUSTING: The first I-used-to-be-an-Orthodox-Jew memoir that isn't filled with
dysfunction and recrimination.
SUBJECT: Whether it's Rhoda Janzen writing about the Mennonites or Jamaica Kincaid
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with the birth world they have moved beyond are subjects of enduring fascination.
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Author Residence: New York City
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CHAYA DEITSCH graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in English literature and
received her M.A. from Columbia University. She has held editorial positions at Viking
Penguin and Little, Brown, and now works as a financial writer in New York City.
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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
Edited with an Introduction by Otto Penzler
Presenting Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology, The Big
Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, the largest collection of Sherlockian tales ever
assembled--now in a deluxe hardcover edition, perfect for the collector and gift
markets.
Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as
Sherlock Holmes. From his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella
A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him--and writers have loved
writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects 83 wonderful stories about Holmes
and Dr. John Watson, the majority of which will be new to readers. Among these
pages are tales by acclaimed Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay
Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (Kenneth
Millar, P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen
King, Neil Gaiman); and parodies by Conan Doyle's contemporaries James M.
Barrie, O. Henry, and August Derleth.
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collectors of Sherlockiana.
SALES TRACK: Vintage's twelve Black Lizard "Big Book" anthologies (most recently The
Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries) have been steady sellers, with more than
100,000 copies, cumulatively, in print. The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) has
netted more than 30,000 copies in paperback and eBook to date.
OUR BIGGEST BIG BOOK EVER: This collection contains 83 stories, more than any other Big
Book anthology to date (though some are only a few hundred words long). It also covers
the widest span of time--more than 100 years--from the earliest Arthur Conan Doyle
tales of the 1890s to a Neil Gaiman story first published in 2011.
FOR FANS OF ANY HOLMES: The Great Detective is constantly being re-launched and
reinvented, not only in literature but in television and film: the Guy Pearce-directed films
starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, the current CBS hit series Elementary starring
Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu (as Joan Watson) and the BBC series Sherlock starring
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Whether readers know him from Laurie R.
King's Mary Russell series, from Daniel Stashower's pastiches, or from the original Conan
Doyle tales, they will love this collection of stories.
Praise for Otto Penzler
"Penzler, the prime minister of crime fiction, delivers the goods." --Book Page
"[Penzler] knows this turf." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"If there's some star around which the mystery world orbits, it might well be Otto Penzler,
who is widely considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the genre." --Los
Angeles Review of Books
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: New York City
OTTO PENZLER is the editor of twelve other Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies,
including The Big Book of Pulps, The Big Book of Black Mask Stories, and, most recently, The
Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries. He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of
The Mysterious Bookshop.
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The Familiar, Volume 2
Into the Forest
Mark Z. Danielewski
From the universally acclaimed, genre-busting author of House of Leaves comes the
second volume of The Familiar, a page-turning novel of brilliant imagination.
In The Familiar: Volume 2, the lives of the disparate and dynamic nine
characters begin to draw together and intersect in inexplicable ways: slowly,
steadily, inevitably. . . . Once again, at the center, is 12-year-old Xanther. Her new
cat is now firmly in her care but strange changes have begun to afflict her. Worse
than the pain she feels when separated is how the world around her seems to be
opening, whether doors and windows, visions and sounds, or questions and ideas.
Xanther is beginning to glimpse something she doesn't understand but
unequivocally craves--the only thing that will bring her relief and keep her new
companion alive.
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Page Count: 816
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Illustrations: FULL-COLOR THROUGHOUT
VOLUME 1: The first Familiar book will publish in May 2015. Fan anticipation is high, and
readers are already analyzing Mark's social media posts for clues.
AUTHOR: Mark Z. Danielewski has gained a huge cult following in the decade since House
of Leaves, and every new work is eagerly anticipated by his readers. His reputation has
grown as well: Only Revolutions was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award. His
dedicated fans turned out in force in 2012 for the publication of The Fifty Year Sword.
SALES: House of Leaves, published in 2000, has more than 580,000 copies in print,
hardcover and paperback combined; Only Revolutions (2006) has more than 90,000 in
print, hard and paper combined LTD, and both have sold consistently year after year.
UNPRECEDENTED PROJECT: Over the last nine years, Mark Z. Danielewski has revealed only
two things about his forthcoming project: 1) "It's about a 12-year-old girl who finds a
kitten" and 2) "If House of Leaves tackles the movies, Only Revolutions music, and The
Fifty Year Sword the campfire story, then The Familiar will show how the novel can stalk,
take down and devour the television series."
Praise for Mark Z. Danielewski
"One of the most gifted and versatile writers of our time." --The Washington Post
"Danielewski...isn't merely a storyteller. He creates experiences, multidimensional pieces of
art that don't conform to one genre, and that beg for physical engagement from the
audience." -- The A.V. Club
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Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI lives in Los Angeles.
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The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (16)
Alexander McCall Smith
This latest installment of the beloved and best-selling series--as endearing and
delectable as ever!
Business is slow at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, so at Mma Makutsi's
suggestion, Mma Ramotswe is persuaded to take her first-ever holiday. But just as
she's about to depart, a new client arrives: a young woman whose father was
considered a hero in Botswana but whose reputation is now being called into
question. Mma Ramotswe almost cancels her trip, but Mma Makutsi is adamant
that she and Charlie have the situation in hand. Precious can't relax, however, if
she doesn't know what's going on at the agency, so she enlists Charlie to be her
eyes and ears while she's away. But Charlie may not be an altogether reliable
emissary, particularly with much of his attention devoted to his newly adopted
dog. In the end, it's an investigation that will affect everyone at the Agency, and a
reminder for us all that ordinary human failings should be treated with a large
helping of charity and compassion.
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Category: Mystery
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women
Sleuths
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Contemporary Women
Page Count: 256
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
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Carton Count: 12
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BEST-SELLING SERIES: The latest No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency book, The Handsome
Man's De Luxe Cafe, hit the New York Times best-seller list (at #6), as well as the Los
Angeles Times (#3) and ABA IndieBound (10 weeks) best-seller lists.
SALES: The Knopf group has more than 17 million copies of Sandy's books in print.
AUTHOR REACH: Sandy continues to add new fans through his ever-expanding web
presence, where he likes to interact with readers. He now has 60,000 likes on Facebook,
and more than 14,000 followers on Twitter. Our digital marketing team is coordinating
with his UK publishers to redesign his website, set to launch soon.
Praise for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series:
"Enchanting.... An inspiration to us all.... The sweet, chuckling voice of Precious Ramotswe
falls gentle on the ear."--The New York Times Book Review
"Endearing... The long-running series has lost none of its gentleness or its love for
Botswana." --The Christian Science Monitor
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Author Residence: Edinburgh, Scotland
ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the
Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street
series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and
has served with many national and international organizations concerned with bioethics. He
was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and was a law professor at the University of
Botswana.
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Aphorisms
Franz Kafka
For the first time, a single volume that collects all of the aphorisms penned by this
universally acclaimed twentieth-century literary figure.
Kafka twice wrote aphorisms in his lifetime. The first effort was a series of 109,
known as the Zürau Aphorisms, which were written between September 1917 and
April 1918 and originally published posthumously by his friend, Max Brod, in
1931. These aphorisms reflect on metaphysical and theological issues--as well as
the occasional dog. The second sequence of aphorisms, numbering 41, appears in
Kafka's 1920 diary dating from January 6 to February 29. It is in these aphorisms,
whose subject is "He," where Kafka distills the unexpected nature of experience as
one shaped by exigency and possibility.
Foreword by Daniel Frank
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Category: Philosophy
BISAC 1: Philosophy - Existentialism
BISAC 2: Philosophy - Metaphysics
BISAC 3: Philosophy - Free Will & Determinism
Page Count: 144
Trim Size: 4 x 6
Spine/Depth: 22/32
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AUTHOR: Kafka is one of the greatest twentieth-century literary figures, revered for his stories, parables, aphorisms, and
letters.
EDITION: This is the first time that all of Kafka's aphorisms will be published in a single volume.
FEATURE: An introduction by Daniel Frank that explores echoes between Kafka's aphorisms and the work of the first
aphorist, the pre-Socratic Heraclitus.
OPPORTUNITY: Brilliant jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.
About the Author/Illustrator
FRANZ KAFKA was born in Prague in 1883 and died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium near
Vienna in 1924. After earning a law degree in 1906, he worked most of his adult life at the
Worker's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague. Only a small portion of Kafka's writings were
published during his lifetime. He left instructions for his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his
unpublished work after his death. Brod ignored those instructions and undertook instead to
publish The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926), and Amerika (1927).
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The Mare
A Novel
Mary Gaitskill
From the author of the National Book Award-nominated Veronica: her most poignant
and powerful work yet--the story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who
introduces her to riding, and the horse who changes everything for her.
Velveteen Vargas is eleven years old, a Fresh Air Fund kid from Brooklyn. Her
host family is a couple in upstate New York: Ginger, a failed artist on the fringe of
Alcholics Anonymous, and her academic husband, Paul. They wonder what it will
mean to "make a difference" in such a contrived situation. Mary Gaitskill
illuminates their changing relationship with Velvet over several years, as well as
Velvet's powerful encounter with the horses at the stables down the road,
especially with an abused, unruly mare called Fugly Girl. With strong supporting
characters--Velvet's abusive mother; the eccentric horse trainer who instructs
Velvet; the charismatic older boy who wakens Velvet's nascent passion--T he Mare
weaves together Velvet's vital city community and the privileged country world of
Ginger and Paul. In Gaitskill's hands, the timeless story of a girl and a horse is
joined with the timeless story of people from different races and socioeconomic
backgrounds trying to meet each other honestly; The Mare is something raw,
striking and completely original.
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Gaitskill is of major interest to critics and we will see major coverage of this novel, which
has been long awaited.
Featuring a teenager facing complex difficulties and embracing complex and thrilling
hopes, The Mare should also appeal to high-school age readers of realistic fiction.
Praise for Veronica:
"Gaitskill is enormously gifted . . . [Veronica] is a masterly examination of the relationship
between surface and self, culture and fasion, time and memory." --The New York Times
Book Review
"Gaitskill has written a novel that will leave you shaking and joyful simultaneously, dizzy
with the proximity of private terror and bottomless hope." --O Magazine
"Gaitskill writes from the gut . . . [Her] characters bleed, sweat, cry, and they experience
sadness, anger and love as much as a physical sensation as an emotion." --San Francisco
Chronicle
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Author Residence: Brooklyn, New York
Author Hometown: Lexington, KY
MARY GAITSKILL is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted
To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don't Cry; her novels are Two Girls, Fat and
Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker,
Harper's, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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William Cameron Menzies
The Shape of Films to Come
James Curtis
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Category: Biography
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From the acclaimed film historian and biographer of Spencer Tracy, W. C. Fields,
and Preston Strurges--the first book to look at the life and work of Hollywood's
greatest production designer (a job title David O. Selznick invented for William
Cameron Menzies's extraordinary, all-encompassing work on Gone with the Wind,
which he co-directed, sketching beforehand 2,000 watercolors of the picture's every
shot regarding angle, color tone, and composition).
It was Menzies--winner of the first ever Academy Award for Art Direction for two
pictures jointly, and who was as well director (twenty pictures); producer (twelve
pictures); set decorator (ten pictures); screenwriter--who changed the way movies
were (and still are) made in a career as production designer that spanned four
decades, from the 1920s through the 1950s, and whose more than 90 films include:
The Thief of Baghdad (1924 and 1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Our Town
(1940), Meet John Doe (1941), Kings Row (1942), Mr. Lucky (1943), The Pride of the
Yankees (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Duel in the Sun (1946), It's a
Wonderful Life (1946), Invaders from Mars (1953), and Around the World in 80 Days
(1956).
He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale,
influenced by German expressionism and the work of D.W. Griffith; he collaborated
with producers including Goldwyn and Selznick; directors, among them: Allan
Dwan, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, and Cecil B. DeMille. He was
known for his visual flair and love of adventure and fantasy films--a timeless
innovator who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through
a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the
actors' positions for each scene.
Interviewing colleagues, friends, and family, and drawing on archives, among
them the William Cameron Menzies family collection, with access to original
artwork, correspondence, scrapbooks, and unpublished writing, and with more
than 130 black-and-white and color illustrations, James Curtis has given us a
full-scale portrait of an extraordinary artist in his time.
The first--and long overdue--book on the most influential of all Hollywood's art directors.
Menzies, winner of the first Academy Award (1929) for Art Direction (The Dove, 1927;
Tempest, 1928), single-handedly changed the way movies were made and influenced
generations of filmmakers to come. He was the first American art director to develop the
now-common technique of storyboarding a film prior to production and to begin directing
through design; one could look at Menzies's sketches and see the movie before a foot of
film was shot.
The long reach of Menzies's work, influencing film-makers decades after his death, among
them: Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Joel and Ethan Coen.
The author's reputation as a first-rate biographer and film historian, author of Spencer
Tracy ("Definitive"--David Thompson), W. C. Fields ("Sympathetic and
scrupulous"--Richard Schickel, New York Times Book Review).
Retrospectives of Menzies's work to coincide with publication: In LA: UCLA Film Archive; in
NY--Film Forum; Turner Classic Movies; much more to come.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Brea, CA
JAMES CURTIS is the author of Spencer Tracy: A Biography; W. C. Fields: A Biography; James
Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters; and Between Flops: A Biography of Preston
Sturges. Curtis is married and lives in Brea, California.
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9780307262899
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9780345526113
9780385155694
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1946
The Making of the Modern World
Victor Sebestyen
Sebestyen creates a taut, panoramic narrative and takes us to meetings that
changed the world: from Berlin, July 1945, when Truman tells Stalin we have
successfully tested the bomb; to Ye'nan, China, January 1946, General George
Marshall tells the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong Americans won't send
troops to China assuring the Communists will attain power; Delhi, India, April 1946,
UK Cabinet Members tell Pandit Nehur and Mahatma Gandhi that the British will
leave India within a few months ending two centuries of British imperialism; to
Jerusalem, May 1946, representatives of David Ben Gurion and moderate Zionists,
meet Begin and Jewish terrorist groups, to agree to drive British from Palestine.
The bombing of King David Hotel resulted, accelerating the creation of Israel.
Drawing on new archival material and many interviews, Sebestyen reveals the
major postwar decisions as he points up the economic collapse, starvation, ethnic
cleansing, and displacement that followed the war. He gives a vivid, bleak, and
detailed picture of suffering of the populations from Europe to Asia. It was the
year it was decided there would be a Jewish homeland, that Europe would be split
by the Iron Curtain, independent India would become the world's biggest
democracy, and the Chinese communists would win a civil war that positioned
them to become a great power.
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PERSPECTIVE: As a foreign correspondent for more than 20 years, Sebestyan has reported
widely from Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, the Middle
East and, from the 1970s on, he has interviewed people from many countries whose lives
were affected by postwar events--refugees, concentration camp survivors, atomic
scientists and members of the STASI among others.
PLAYERS: Sebestyan gives us glimpses into the characters and decisions involving: Stalin,
the Shah, Churchill, Truman, George Kennan, General Douglas Mac Arthur, David Ben
Gurion, Menachin Begin, Dean Acheson, George Marshall, Hirohito, General Joe Stilwell,
Chiang Kai-shek
HISTORICAL SNAPSHOTS: This is a year of dramatic events and violent confrontations: July
25, 1946, the Bikini test underwater; July 22, the bombing of the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem; August 16, the Great Calcutta Killings, among others.
Reviews from the UK:
"An exceptionally involving and horrifying book . . . grindingly awful detail." --Sam Leith,
The Spectator
"An admirable piece of journalism . . . He reminds us that the world's miseries persisted in
plenty after the defeat of the Axis." --Max Hastings, The Sunday Times
"1946 is a gripping and authoritative work spanning the world: an excellent, elegant and
exciting panoramic portrait of the dark world emerging from WW2." --Simon Sebag
Montefiore
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Author Residence: London, UK
VICTOR SEBESTYEN was born in Budapest. As a journalist, he has worked on many papers
including The Times, The Daily Mail, and The London Evening Standard. He has written for
many American publications, including The New York Times. He is currently associate editor
at Newsweek.
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Hour of the Wolf
An Inspector Van Veeteren Mystery
Hakan Nesser
The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this latest entry into the
internationally acclaimed, award-winning mystery series--one of the darkest tales
yet in the series that is, as well, an electrifying stand-alone novel.
In the middle of the night, a boy is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's
house. The driver, drunk, leaves the boy's body by the side of the road and,
wrestling with guilt, tries to put it all out of his mind--until a ransom note arrives.
In the meantime, Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force,
has set his team to work. But a second, possibly related killing proves that this is
no ordinary case. Van Veeteren's former colleagues, desperate for answers,
struggle to decipher the clues to these appalling crimes, but as the killer becomes
increasingly unhinged and unpredictable, Van Veeteren is compelled to re-enter
the world he left behind. Now he will face the greatest trial of his career as he
seeks vengeance for the death of someone who was close to him. Told with
Nesser's trademark eye for detail, breakneck plotting, and gut-wrenching moral
tension, Hour of the Wolf finds the Nordic noir superstar spinning one of his most
spellbinding tales yet.
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INTERNATIONAL STAR: Long before Stieg Larsson, Håkan Nesser set the standard in
Scandinavian crime fiction, selling millions of copies worldwide and pulling in multiple
crime fiction awards.
CAN BE READ ON ITS OWN: Hour of the Wolf is the seventh entry in the Van Veeteren
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alone as its own work for new readers looking for a place to start.
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HÅKAN NESSER is one of Sweden's most popular crime writers and has received numerous
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Star Award, the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy Prize (three times), and Scandinavia's
prestigious Glass Key Award. The Van Veeteren series is published in more than twenty-five
countries and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Nesser lives in Gotland with
his wife.
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NeuroLogic
The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior
Eliezer J. Sternberg
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A young neuroscientist investigates the brain's hidden logic behind our strangest
behaviors, explaining how conscious and unconscious systems interact in order to
create our experience and preserve our sense of self.
From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple
personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse spectrum of strange
thoughts and behaviors. From the outside, these phenomena are written off as
being just "crazy," but what if they were actually planned and logical? NeuroLogic
explores the brain's internal system of reasoning, from its unconscious depths to
conscious decision-making, and how it explains our most outlandish as well as
our most stereotyped behaviors. Drawing on current research in neuroscience and
fascinating neurological cases, Eliezer J. Sternberg explores questions such as:
What do the blind see when they dream?
Why do people believe in alien abductions?
Why do schizophrenics hear voices?
From sleepwalking murderers, contagious yawning, and the brains of sports fans
to false memories, subliminal messages, and the secret of ticklishness, you'll find
that there's a pattern to the way the brain interprets the world--a pattern that fits
the brain's unique logic. Unraveling this pattern and the various ways it can be
disturbed will alter not only our view of mental illness and supernatural experience
but also shed light on the hidden parts of ourselves.
SUBJECT: Neuroscience is a crowded shelf, but the successful books (Ariely, Eagleman,
Kahneman) are often written by neuroscientists who have an engaging thesis and
compelling presentation. Sternberg is the latest--and youngest--example.
AUTHOR: Still in his twenties, Sternberg is doing his residency in clinical neurology and is
the author of two previous books that address new findings in brain science.
AUDIENCE: Not only the readers of Eagleman, Kahneman and Gladwell, but also those of
Michael Gazzaniga and Antonio Damasio.
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ELIEZER J. STERNBERG, MD is a resident neurologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. With a
background in neuroscience and philosophy, he studies how brain research can shed light
on the mysteries of consciousness and decision-making. He is the author of Are You a
Machine? (Prometheus Books, 2007) and My Brain Made Me Do It (Prometheus Books, 2010).
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The Last Yakuza
A Life in the Japanese Underworld
Jake Adelstein
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A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at the life and times of yakuza mob boss
Sugawara Tatsuya, aka Tsunami, by America's foremost expert on Japanese
organized crime.
Sugawara Tatsuya could have been a rock star. Instead he became a yakuza.
Born in Japan, but the son of an American-born Japanese woman--who moved
back to Japan to avoid internment camps--Sugawara was never a typical Japanese
boy. As a child, other children referred to him as "a damn American," or simply a
"non-person." He was always an outsider, but as a teenager in 1970s Tokyo he
found his tribe in Japan's notorious motorcycle gangs--the Bosozuko. His life was
full of speed, whether synthetically through crystal meth, mechanically from the
engine of his bike, or rhythmically as he played guitar for Japan pioneering
punk-rock group Gedo. But a chance encounter--and perhaps a bit too much lust
for life that kept leading him to Toyko's notorious red light district--placed him on
a different path of becoming a boss in the Inagawa-kai, the country's third largest
organized-crime group.
Full of swordfights, gun battles, finger amputation, rock 'n' roll, financial
crimes, gang wars, tattoos, and personal vendettas, Sugawara's story is one of a
kind. But it is not the only story told here. The Last Yakuza also tells the history of
the yakuza since World War II, and explains how the yakuza became so entrenched
in Japan. Sugawara's life is the axis around which tales of yakuza life and their role
in Japanese society are told. It is the story of one yakuza boss--not a good man,
but a man with a code of honor--and the history of the rise and fall of Japan's
underworld as it is almost literally tattooed on his body and charted by his missing
finger.
SUGAWARA TATSUYA: Nicknamed Tsunami because of his huge stature, Sugawara is
larger than life in every way. He and the author are very close. Adelstein hired Sugawara to
be his bodygaurd during the Tokyo Vice years. Thus, Adelstein knows him and his life
incredibly well.
YAKUZA: The yakuza are a subject of great fascination in the West. In the words of 2011's
Executive Order, they are "a transnational criminal organization which threatens the
national security of the United States of America."
ORGANIZED CRIME: American readers cannot get enough material about organized crime.
AUTHOR: Adelstein has firmly established himself as one of the leading experts on
Japanese culture, economics, and organized crime. He has been profiled in The New
Yorker, feautured on 60 Minutes, and appeared on NPR, CNN, and The Daily Show.
JAPANOFILES: America's culture obsession with Japan continues; whether it is cat cafes,
Tokyo street style, or Manga, we are fascinated with the land of the rising sun.
TOKYO VICE MOVIE: Starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, Horns) and produced by John
Lesher (End of Watch, Fury, Birdman), the movie adaptation of Tokyo Vice is in
development.
"No American knows more about the inner workings of the yakuza than Jake
Adelstein."--Lara Logan, 60 Minutes
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Author Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Author Hometown: Columbia, Missouri
JAKE ADELSTEIN is the author of Tokyo Vice. He was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun,
Japan's largest newspaper, and was the chief investigator for a U.S. State
Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. He is also the public relations
director for the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project Japan, which combats human
trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. Adelstein has written
for The Daily Beast/Newsweek, The Independent, and The Guardian, and is a regular
contributor to The Atlantic Wire. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC, and other media
outlets as a commentator on yakuza-related news and Japan's nuclear industry giant, TEPCO.
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The Stargazer's Sister
A Novel
Carrie Brown
From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day: a beautiful new period novel--a
nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time--based on the life
of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great astronomer William Herschel and an
astronomer in her own right.
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as the great astronomer and composer
William Herschel rescues his sister Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany
and brings her to England and a world of music-making and stargazing. Lina, as
Caroline is known, serves as William's assistant and the captain of his
exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an
obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife.
When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches as her
world collapses. With her characteristically elegant prose, Brown creates from
history a compelling story of familial collaboration and conflict, the sublime
beauty of astronomy, and the small but essential place we have within a vast and
astonishing cosmos. Through Lina's trials and successes, we witness the dawning
of an early feminist consciousness, of a woman struggling to find her own place
among the stars.
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Brown's tremendous appeal to a female audience will be lifted by her focus on the
wonderful historical female character of Lina Herschel.
Carrie has connections and fans throughout the writing world and will be well received as
a reader and presenter wherever we can put her out there.
Reviews for The Last First Day:
"Quietly powerful . . . The gentle, deep and abiding love that Ruth and Peter have for each
other provides the container for this exquisitely written, multidimensional story. There is
lucidity and depth in each observed or remembered moment of their lives, giving an
overall view of a beautiful landscape seen through clear water, a scene of truth and
transformation." --T he Washington Post
"[A] restrained yet emotionally powerful portrait of enduring love." --Kirkus Reviews
"A powerful examination of love across the years and a heartfelt story of the strength of
unbreakable bonds." --Carol Gladstein, Booklist
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Author Residence: Sweet Briar, Virginia
CARRIE BROWN is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. She is the
recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the
Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and, twice, the Library of
Virginia Award. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, Glimmer Train, The Georgia
Review, and The Oxford American. She taught for many years at Sweet Briar College in
Virginia, where she lives with her husband, the writer John Gregory Brown. She is now the
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University.
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising,
inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of
curiosities regarding African Americans.
In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut
to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. Rogers, a largely
self-educated black journalist and historian. Now with élan and erudition--and
winning enthusiasm--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a corrective yet loving
homage to Rogers's work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a
romp through African American history and gossip in question and answer format:
Who was the first African American? What was the second Middle Passage? Did
black people own slaves? Why was cotton king? Who was the first black president
in North America? How much African ancestry does the average African American
have? Who really invented "the talented tenth"? What were the biggest acts of
betrayal within the enslaved community? Who was the first black American woman
to be a self-made millionaire? For 100 questions, 100 answers, intended to shine
light on the sheer complexity and diversity of being African American.
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ESTABLISHED AUDIENCE: This book brings together entries that have been appearing on
the website The Root to acclaim and popularity. Skip's 100 Amazing Facts blog averaged
350,000 unique readers per month. Gates's major six-part PBS documentary series, The
African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, broadcast in fall 2013, was recently awarded an
Emmy.
AUTHOR: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of
the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is
editor in chief of the Oxford African American Studies Center and of the daily online
magazine The Root. He has received more than forty honorary degrees from institutions
the world over. All of his books receive widespread attention.
PREVIOUS BOOK: We have sold more than 22,000 copies of the hardcover edition of Life
Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008, published in 2011.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Cambridge, MA
Author Hometown: Keyser, WV
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is an educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He
received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Yale College and his PhD from
Cambridge University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Ostend
Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark
Volker Weidermann
The true story of two of the twentieth century's great writers exiled from Nazi
Germany to a Belgian seaside resort, and the world they built there: written with a
novelist's eye for pacing, chronology, and language--a dazzling work of historical
nonfiction.
It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German
publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria
has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town--a
paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his
new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semi-estranged fellow writer and
close friend Joseph Roth, himself newly in love. For a moment, they create a
fragile paradise. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find
themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn. In Ostend,
Volker Weidermann lyrically recounts "the summer before the dark," when a
coterie of artists, intellectuals, drunks, revolutionaries, and madmen found
themselves in limbo while Europe teetered on the edge of fascism and total war.
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Category: Literary History
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
BISAC 3: History - Modern - 20th Century
Page Count: 160
Trim Size: 5-1/4 x 7-1/2
Spine/Depth: 24/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: B&W PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT
POP CULTURE RELEVANCE: Stefan Zweig's life and work have been recently brought back
to popular attention, thanks to Wes Anderson's Golden Globe winning The Grand Budapest
Hotel (2014), a film inspired by Zweig's life and writing, as well as recent New York Review
Books reissues of his work. Joseph Roth is now universally hailed as one of the iconic
writers of the twentieth century.
NOVELISTIC HISTORY: This is a work of historical nonfiction that reads like a lyrical novel.
HISTORY ON A HUMAN SCALE: Weidermann offers the personal (and often scandalous)
histories of a number of writers beyond Zweig and Roth, including Irmgard Keun, Egon
Kisch, Ernst Toller, and Arthur Koestler.
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Author Residence: Berlin
VOLKER WEIDERMANN is the literary director and editor for the Sunday edition of
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the author of a number of works of literary history and
critical biography.
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