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LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015
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FICTION
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JUST PUBLISHED
CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW
Tim Wirkus
Tyrus Books, December 2014
Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses
CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW tells the story of two Mormon missionaries
stationed in a dangerous Latin American neighborhood who suspect the worst
when a man they recently baptized disappears from a crowded street market.
Determined to track down their missing friend, the elders embark on a perilous and
ill-advised investigation of their own, breaking mission rule after mission rule along
the way. As their search continues, they find themselves on a collision course with a
dangerous and shadowy figure known to locals only as the Argentine. CITY OF
BRICK AND SHADOW is a fantastically fun ride, recasting the classic buddy-cop
dynamic in a pair of hapless young missionaries; a gripping and unconventional
mystery along the lines of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union or Motherless Brooklyn.
PRAISE:
“Utterly unique and uniquely satisfying—CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW is a
smart, funny, fresh mystery (is it a mystery? Is it a comedy? Is it a dramatic character
study?) by an author who is willing to take risks and let the reader think. Chandler
meets Borges meets a buddy comedy. A marvelous debut!”
– Aimee Bender, bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Intimate, mysterious, magical, Tim Wirkus’ debut novel is as accomplished and compelling as anything I’ve read in recent
years. All I can say is “Bravo!” – T.C. Boyle, award winning author of The Women
“The narrative flows simply...interspersed with the fascinating...folklore describing The Argentine’s reign in Vila Barbosa....
An absorbing mental exercise...for the most jaded armchair detectives...guaranteed to spark delicious book-group debates.”
– Booklist, Starred Review
“Tim Wirkus’ CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW is a brilliant debut novel.... Wirkus...emerges here as a formidable talent-the kind of writer who...combines wicked verbal felicity with an amused eye for human behavior.” – The Daily Pilot
“Tim Wirkus’ CITY OF BRICK AND SHADOW is beautifully conceived and beautifully written. The story is rendered
with a strong, confident voice that is so rare in a first novel. There’s not a false word here. It’s a smart book.”
– Percival Everett, award winning author of Assumption
More about Tim Wirkus
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A doctoral candidate at USC’s creative writing and literature program,
Tim’s work has been included in The Best American Non-Required Reading,
Subtropics, Cream City Review, Weird Fiction Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere.
His novella, Sandy Downs, won the 2013 Quarterly West novella contest.
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JUST PUBLISHED
WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE
T. Geronimo Johnson
William Morrow, February 2015
From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ‘Til It Hurts comes a
dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who
stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment—a fierce, funny, tragic work from a
bold new writer.
Selected for March Indie Next List
SIBA Okra Pick for 2015
A National Bestseller
PRAISE:
“The most dazzling, most unsettling, most oh-my-God-listen-up novel you’ll read this
year…T. Geronimo Johnson plays cultural criticism like it’s acid jazz.” – Ron Charles, The
Washington Post
“…A radical book in every sense of the word—thoroughgoing and extreme, ghastly and
funny, and gloriously provocative—a gauntlet thrown…This book will wake you up!” – Karen
Russell, award-winning author of Swamplandia!, finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
“A rollicking satire . . . Radical, hilarious, tragic, and all too relevant.” – O Magazine
“Big shiny literary prizes were created for books like this one.” – Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of A Land More
Kind Than Home
“A partial list of great American writers whose names came to mind as I was reading T. Geronimo Johnson's new novel, Welcome
to Braggsville: Tom Wolfe, Mark Twain, Toni Morrison, H.L. Mencken, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, Norman Mailer and
Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison.” – Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air NPR
“This is literary showmanship… at its most provocative and daring…a volatile mix of stinging satire, linguistic pyrotechnics and
heartbreaking narrative.” – The San Francisco Chronical
“WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE is audacious, unpredictable, exuberant and even tragic, in the most classic meaning of the
word.” – Los Angeles Times
“Stunning and poignant . . . Johnson’s novel may not have the answer to the problems he’s addressing, [but] it’s clear that he’s
asking the right questions.” –LA Review of Books
“…Organic, plucky, smart, WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE is the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy and white
racial anxiety to hit the scene in years... [Johnson] knows just which dark corners to expose, which cultural buttons to push, which
ironies to illuminate and how to whirl an affecting yarn all the while.” –New York Times Book Review
“…Surprising, heartbreaking, tragicomic and deeply disturbing.” – Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award-winning author of Lord
of Misrule
“WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE is that rare book so highly charged with both comedy and tragedy, and so nimble in its
storytelling, that it seems to understand the world of its characters down to the smallest particle. This is one of the most
invigorating and least predictable novels of the year.” – Kevin Brockmeier, award-winning author of The Brief History of the Dead
More about T. Geronimo Johnson
Born in New Orleans, T. Geronimo Johnson received his MFA from the Writers’ Workshop and
has taught writing and held fellowships—including a Stegner Fellowship and an Iowa Arts
Fellowship—at ASU, Iowa, Berkeley, and Stanford. He has been a visiting writer at Western
Michigan University, and is the founding director of the U.C. Berkeley Summer Creative Writing
Program. His writing has appeared in Best New American Voices, the Indiana Review, the LA Review,
and Illuminations, among others.
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JUST PUBLISHED
THE PRECIOUS ONE
Marisa de los Santos
HarperCollins, March 2015
Selected for April Indie Next List
An Amazon Big Spring Reads: Editors' Picks in Literature & Fiction
From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In, Belong to Me, and Falling
Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the
redemptive power of love.
In all her life, Taisy Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben
Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson Cleary—professor, inventor,
philanderer, self-made millionaire, brilliant man, breathtaking jerk: her father.
Seventeen years ago, Wilson ditched his first family to marry a beautiful young
sculptor. In all that time, Taisy’s family has seen Wilson, his new wife, and their
daughter Willow only once.
So why is Wilson calling Taisy, inviting her for an extended visit, encouraging her to
meet her pretty sister—a teenager who views her with jealousy, mistrust, and grudging
admiration? Why, now, does Wilson want Taisy to help him write his memoir?
Told in alternating voices—Taisy’s strong, unsparing observations and Willow’s naive, heartbreakingly earnest yearnings—
THE PRECIOUS ONE is an unforgettable novel of family secrets, lost love, and dangerous obsession, with the deep
characterization, piercing emotional resonance, and heartfelt insight that are the hallmarks of Marisa de los Santos’s beloved
works.
PRAISE:
“With warmth, humor, and a light, sure touch, Marisa de los Santos tells a big-hearted story about how the ties of family and
bonds of friendship can prevail over devastating misunderstandings and long-buried secrets – and how expanding the
definition of family may be the only way to rebuild broken relationships.” – Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
“Emotionally potent, painfully honest, and, at times, delightfully funny, de los Santos’s latest is a must for fans of intelligent,
thoughtful women’s fiction.” ― Booklist, Starred Review
“The slow fracturing of each sister’s perception of the other and the strong three-dimensional characters are exceptionally
well crafted. ...de los Santos’s characters’ journeys are perfectly paced.” ― Publishers Weekly
“De los Santos offers a comfort-food story in which men are either predators or perfect and women are both beautiful and
brilliant.” ― Kirkus
More about Marisa de los Santos
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Contact
Jennifer Carlson
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Marisa de los Santos has published three New York Times bestselling novels for adults,
including Love Walked In, Belong to Me, and Falling Together, with over 1 million copies in print
combined, as well as middle-grade novel Saving Lucas Biggs with her husband David Teague.
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JUST PUBLISHED
THE ANIMALS
Christian Kiefer
Liveright, March 2015
An Amazon best book of the month, March 2015
Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals—
raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them—that are unable to survive
in the wild. Seemingly rid of his troubled past, Bill hopes to marry the local veterinarian
and live a quiet life together, the promise of which is threatened when a childhood
friend is released from prison. Suddenly forced to confront the secrets of his criminal
youth, Bill battles fiercely to preserve the shelter that protects these wounded animals
and to keep hidden his turbulent, even dangerous, history. Alternating between past
and present, Christian Kiefer contrasts the wreckage of Bill’s crime-ridden years in
Reno, Nevada, with the elusive promise of a peaceful future. In finely sculpted prose
imaginatively at odds with the harsh, volatile world Kiefer evokes, THE
ANIMALS builds powerfully toward the revelation of Bill’s defining betrayal—and the
drastic lengths Bill goes to in order to escape the consequences.
PRAISE:
“…Because he writes so well, has such genuine compassion for his characters, for the
animals they care for, for the animals they are, the book is not just a galloping great
read; it’s a violent, tender, terrifying, genuine work of art.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“A rare young stylist, with an abundance of vivid, engrossing stories in his brain; Christian Kiefer is a genuine find.”
– Richard Ford
“Every once in a while, a book moves me to tears with the grace of its prose, the depth and humanity of its characters, and
the ferocity of its singular vision. Christian Kiefer’s THE ANIMALS is such a book: a startling and beautiful novel about
friendship, grief, and the urge to start over, to be blameless. I loved it.” – Edan Lepucki, author of California
“Kiefer creates a wilderness for us in these pages with as sure a hand as any god. All of life’s hardest questions are put to us
with such confidence we do not see the hand at work. THE ANIMALS is beyond a pleasure to read.” – Tupelo Hassman,
author of Girlchild
“…This tough-minded thriller weaves a hot red thread through an introspective, sensuous landscape, a meditation on
instinct, memory and the nature of friendship between species and between men.” – Janet Fitch, Author of White
Oleander and Paint It Black
“Christian Kiefer is a philosopher surgeon, and his work is an exquisite dissection of the human heart. On his operating
table, you’ll find an array of loves, a pile of guilt, and even hope. But under his scalpel pulses an entirely new kind of fear.
THE ANIMALS is dark and strange, and beats with a familiar urgency. The cold of a forest in winter collides with the heat
of a wild bear, the sharp dialogue of men in extremity crackles against the silence of a secret, and laughter will rush through
tears for readers of this American masterpiece.” – Lydia Netzer, author of Shine Shine Shine
More about Christian Kiefer
Christian Kiefer earned his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California,
Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. He is an active
poet, songwriter, and recording artist, and lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
in Northern California with his wife and sons.
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France: Albin Michel
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Eleanor Jackson
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JUST PUBLISHED
ORHAN’S INHERITANCE
Aline Ohanesian
Algonquin Books, April 2015
#1 on April Indie Next List
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick
In her extraordinary debut, Aline Ohanesian has created two remarkable
characters—a young man ignorant of his family’s and his country’s past, and an old
woman haunted by the toll the past has taken on her life.
Moving back and forth in time, between the last years of the Ottoman Empire and
the 1990s, ORHAN’S INHERITANCE is a story of passionate love, unspeakable
horrors, incredible resilience, and the hidden stories that can haunt a family for
generations.
PRAISE:
“A harrowing tale of unimaginable sacrifice . . . A novel that delves into the darkest
corners of human history and emerges with a tenuous sense of hope.” – Kirkus,
Starred Review
“Aline Ohanesian draws from her family’s own dark history to create a tender,
powerful story of love and reclamation. ORHAN’S INHERITANCE is a
breathtaking and expansive work of historical fiction and proof that the past can
sometimes rewrite the future.” – Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
“To take the tumultuous history of Turks and Armenians in the early part of this century, and to tell the stories of families
and lovers from the small everyday moments of life to the terrible journeys of death, to make a novel so engrossing and
keep us awake--that is an accomplishment, and Aline Ohanesian’s first novel is such a wonderful accomplishment.”
– Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon
“Readers who were moved by the work of Carol Edgarian, Mark Mustian, and Nancy Kricorian will appreciate the historical
authenticity and passion that Aline Ohanesian brings to this story of the Armenian Genocide. ORHAN’S
INHERITANCE is heartfelt and sincere.” – Chris Bohjalian, author of The Sandcastle Girls
“From its first startling image, ORHAN’S INHERITANCE will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon
your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesian’s gorgeous work.” – Gayle Brandeis, author of Delta Girls
“ORHAN’S INHERITANCE is a remarkable debut from an important new voice. It tells us things we thought we knew
and shows us we had no idea. Beautiful and terrible and, finally, indelible.” – Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America
More about Aline Ohanesian
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Italy: Garzanti • Serbia: Laguna
Aline Ohanesian was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction and Glimmer
Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. She lives and writes in San Juan Capistrano,
California, with her husband and two young sons. Her website is
www.alineohanesian.com.
Contact
Eleanor Jackson
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JUST PUBLISHED
WISHFUL THINKING
Kamy Wicoff
She Writes Press, April 2015
WISHFUL THINKING follows Jennifer Sharpe, a divorced mother of two with a
problem just about any working parent can relate to: her boss expects her to work as
though she doesn’t have children, and her children want her to care for them as
though she doesn’t have a boss. But when, through a fateful coincidence, a brilliant
physicist comes into possession of Jennifer’s phone and decides to play fairy
godmother, installing a miraculous time travel app called Wishful Thinking, Jennifer
suddenly finds herself in possession of what seems like the answer to the impossible
dream of having it all: an app that lets her be in more than one place at the same time.
With the app, Jennifer goes quickly from zero to hero in every part of her life: she is
super worker, the last to leave her office every night; she is super mom, the first to
arrive at pickup every afternoon; and she even becomes super girlfriend, dating a
musician who thinks she has unlimited child care and a flexible job. But Jennifer soon
finds herself facing questions that adding more hours to her day can’t answer. Why
does she feel busier and more harried than ever? Is she aging faster than everyone
around her? How can she be a good worker, mother, and partner when she can’t be
honest with anybody in her life? And most important, when choosing to be with your
children, at work, or with your partner doesn’t involve sacrifice, do those choices lose
their meaning?
PRAISE:
“A thought-provoking, gimlet-eyed satire of contemporary motherhood in the guise of a romantic comedy, WISHFUL
THINKING is a Trojan horse of a novel, delivering incisive social commentary while it entertains and delights you. I
devoured every word of this funny, brilliant book.” – Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train
“WISHFUL THINKING is funny, tender, perceptive—I tore through it with delight.” – Gretchen Rubin, best-selling
author of The Happiness Project and Happier At Home
“WISHFUL THINKING is a whimsical, time-bending tale about an overextended, working single mother’s Year of
Magical Living. The solution handed to Jennifer is both fanciful and practical. Who wouldn’t want extra hours added to
each day? If only!” – Hope Edelman, The Possibility of Everything
“In WISHFUL THINKING, Kamy Wicoff takes a fantasy we’ve all had and turns it into a sparkling, witty, sympathetic
take on the stresses, and the rewards, of motherhood, of work, and of being alive at this moment.” – Francine Prose, author
of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris: 1932
More about Kamy Wicoff
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Kamy Wicoff is the author of the nonfiction book I DO BUT I DON’T: Why the Way We
Marry Matters. WISHFUL THINKING is her debut novel. She is the cofounder of one of
the world’s largest communities for women writers, www.shewrites.com. She is also
cofounder, with Brooke Warner, of She Writes Press. She Writes and She Writes Press are
part of the SparkPoint Studio family. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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Erin Hosier
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JUST PUBLISHED
DISCOUNT
Casey Gray
Overlook, April 2015
Set in the American Southwest, forty miles north of Juárez, Casey Gray’s
ambitious, tragicomic, and ultimately redemptive novel follows a group of
customers and employees through the twenty-four hour work cycle as they seek
comfort and sustenance inside of the cinderblock walls of a classic American
institution—The Superstore.
On the eve of the company president’s visit to the store, a manager’s drunk text to
a coworker leads to a series of consequences as brutal as they are wide-ranging:
Everyone around him will be affected.
With a cast of characters featuring Ernesto, a local gang member struggling to
choose a job pushing carts over a desultory life as a drug dealer; Wilma, a
grandmother working double shifts to support her family; and Keith, a high school
student with a penchant for filmmaking, Gray offers a startlingly humane, utterly
contemporary portrait of life on the suburban fringe.
A vision of an America barely getting by and assaulted by crime, corruption, and
exploitation in all of its manifestations, Discount is nevertheless a triumphant and
big-hearted novel that marks the arrival of a new voice we won’t soon forget.
PRAISE:
“From disaffected goth teens to lonely housewives, Gray’s characters are far from being the clichéd stereotypes these labels
would suggest. Their frailties and pride, confusion and alienation, conformity and disdain reflect society’s essential
conundrums with a zest and vigor that elevate them to prototypes of a new and daring culture. Fans of Jonathan Franzen
and T. C. Boyle, Sam Lipsyte and Jonathan Tropper will flock to Gray’s hearty satire of rampant consumerism and
corporate arrogance.” –Booklist, Starred Review
“In DISCOUNT, Casey Gray uses the American phenomenon of the superstore as Nathanael West used Hollywood in Day
of the Locust but also as Ken Kesey used the psychiatric hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and even as Upton Sinclair
used meatpacking industry in The Jungle: it is metaphor and microcosm, a source of satire and of social commentary. Which
is to say, DISCOUNT is a big, bold, ambitious novel that takes on just about everything suspect in the culture and shirks
nothing. With this novel, Casey Gray leaps into the American literary landscape as an author who cannot be ignored.”
– Robert Boswell, author of Tumbledown, Mystery Ride, Crooked Hearts, and Century’s Son
“This novel takes as its magnificent social subject the world of the mega-store, a book as relevant to our contemporary lives
as Middlemarch was to a different society. It is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, personal and political, and all in the
very best ways. I love this novel. Its news is vital.” – Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once
More about Casey Gray
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Casey Gray teaches English at New Mexico State University. His work has appeared
in Ploughshares.
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Eleanor Jackson
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FORTHCOMING
STUDIES OF THE HEREAFTER
Sean Bernard
Red Hen Press, August 2015
A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn’t
all it’s cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he
finds his one saving grace in his Field Studies: detailed reports he compiles on the living in
order to determine their best fit in his world. While working on his 62nd Field Study, he
begins to fall for Tetty, a detached Basque-American beauty living in Nevada, while
struggling to understand what she sees in Carmelo, a clumsy scholar obsessed with the
elusive Basque culture. When people start going missing from heaven for no apparent
reason, the narrator learns that Field Study 62 may hold the key to explaining the
disappearances.
PRAISE:
“In STUDIES IN THE HEREAFTER, reality grants us two equally puzzling lives—the afterlife and this one, both of them
part poetry and part bureaucracy, part fantasy and part mystery. The opening pages of the novel are welcomingly comic, yet
permeated with a sense of intrigue whose source is hard to locate. Gradually this sense gathers itself together in the form of
a question: How much of ourselves do we lose when we're stripped of our memories? The explorations Sean Bernard
conducts into this riddle are never less than fascinating.” – Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
“A book of lives and afterlives and after-afterlives, an existential mystery set in a heaven that’s anything but. Bernard’s novel
is an absurdly comic, wildly inventive, warm, and wise meditation on mortality and the stuff that gives life meaning. An
unputdownable and life-affirming debut.” – Bryan Hurt, author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the
Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories from Persons of Interest
More about Sean Bernard
Sean Bernard is the author of Desert, Sonorous (UMass Press, 2015) and Studies in the
Hereafter (Red Hen Press, 2015). Bernard’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in
numerous literary magazines, including Santa Monica Review, Glimmer Train, Gigantic,
EPOCH and LIT. He has received fellowships and awards from the National
Endowment of the Arts, Poets & Writers, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center
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FORTHCOMING
BEST BOY
Eli Gottlieb
Norton, August 2015
In the tradition of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
and the film Rainman, comes a powerfully moving novel about an autistic adult.
At 49, Todd Aaron is the oldest “citizen” at Payton Neurohealth, a residential
treatment center for the developmentally disabled. Diagnosed as a young boy,
Todd has spent most of his life institutionalized and is considered a model
“villager.” His only living family member is his guilt-ridden older brother Nate.
For Todd’s part: he’s happiest with a hamburger, his Fifties golden oldies block
on the radio, and a winning Bingo card. He has an encyclopedic memory without
any practical application other than to help organize his world. The novel opens
when his well ordered life is disrupted by the arrival of a threatening aide. It
ignites Todd’s yearning for home; his journey there is told in first person in this
unforgettable tour de force.
PRAISE:
“Amid the flood of books about autism in childhood comes this gripping novel
about the fresher territory of autism in midlife. It is written with elan, wit, and
great empathy, and it limns in fiction the crisis our nation faces in real life as we
try to construct viable supports for this burgeoning population.” – Andrew
Solomon
“This astonishing story of goodness and resilience, about the adventure of loving and being loved, is a marvel of
Wordsworthian perception, inviting us to behold existence through unclouded eyes, with an unguarded heart, as though we
and the world had never grown apart. The music of consciousness playing in these pages will stay with you long after you’ve
finished reading. A literary experience of piercing, invigorating, profound humanity. A homecoming that restores the mind
and soul.” – Walter Kirn
“BEST BOY is a remarkable achievement – an intimate and convincing portrayal of what the world looks like from inside
the mind of a mentally handicapped but unusually sensitive, observant, and decent man.” – Alison Lurie
“Gottlieb records the utterly confounding and inevitable plunge into adulthood with bold clarity. He depicts the spoken and
unspoken language of cruelty and love in a family with confidence and poetry. But he is at his very best in the freshness of
his imagery, creating a world so vivid and memorable the reader finds all five senses delightfully engaged in experiencing it.”
– Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
More about Eli Gottlieb
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Gottlieb is the author of The Boy Who Went Away which won The Rome Prize and
received the McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. He is the author of
two psychological thrillers, Now You See Him and The Face Thief, and lives in New York
City.
Contact
Betsy Lerner
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FORTHCOMING
R&R
Mark Dapin
Viking Australia, August 2015
In an R&R town at the height of the Vietnam War, a corpse in a casket turns up
at the door of a notorious bar and brothel. When two GIs drunkenly remove the
dead man and bring him in for a drink, the threads which hold together the local
truce between US MPs, South Vietnamese gangsters, and the Viet Cong suddenly
begin to unravel. With tensions rising and strange new crimes occurring daily,
jaded MP John “Nashville” Grant and his naive Australian partner, Shorty are
tasked with finding some answers. At the center of their investigation looms TJ
Caution, a brutal MP who’s been missing since the night the corpse turned up.
R&R is a thrilling, startlingly original Military Police mystery. It’s Catch-22 meets
James Elroy, south of Saigon in 1967.
PRAISE FOR SPIRIT HOUSE:
“Dapin is a true original. SPIRIT HOUSE is strikingly original, a novel of war
and its terrible legacies that eschews sentimentality, that is full of uniquely funny
and wonderfully human characters, and is also profoundly moving and
honourable. The voices are vivid, complex, authentic and richly democratic. This
is a remarkably strong book.” – Christos Tsiolkas
“The rewards are all over SPIRIT HOUSE, a little masterpiece of comedy and
torment that mines new life from the well-told legend of the Thai-Burma railway
of World War II.” – The Australian “Books of the Year”
“Every other week, it seems, a fine new Australian novel is published. Few, however, can equal the vernacular flair, the
originality of treatment of matters that we had thought overly familiar and the narrative drive of Mark Dapin's SPIRIT
HOUSE… Dapin is funny, poignant, vibrantly witty and his novel is a treat from its elegiac opening to its bitter,
unexpected close.” – Canberra Times
“This is a book destined for classic status in every sense of the word. It is powerful, poignant, moving, tragic and intensely
distressing. It is a feast of a story which will almost simultaneously move you to tears and bring a smile to your face.”
– ABC News
More about Mark Dapin
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Mark Dapin’s most recent novel, Spirit House, was shortlisted for the Royal Society for
Literature’s Oondatje Prize and the Age Book of the Year, longlisted for the Miles Franklin
Literary Award, Highly Commended in the Prime Minister’s Awards and Commended in the
New South Wales Premier’s Awards. His debut, King of the Cross, won the Ned Kelly Award
for best first novel. He is also the author of The Nasho’s War, a non-fiction account of the
Australian involvement in Vietnam and has edited two anthologies of war writing for Penguin
Books. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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FORTHCOMING
EXTRA LIFE
Derek Nikitas
Polis Books, September 2015
THE PASTIME PROJECT is a speculative Young Adult thriller about a controlfreak teen named Russ Vale who receives an app on his phone that allows him to
"leap" twelve hours into the past in order to fix a disastrous day. Given a fresh
chance to set things right, Russ begins manipulating the day in his favor. But
tampering with time and space has unexpected consequences. Soon, he begins
experiencing dangerous glitches he can't control and things begin to spiral as he
confronts willful alternate versions of himself.
PRAISE FOR THE LONG DIVISION:
“The Long Division" loves its characters, fears for them, and when, in a flawlessly
choreographed ballet of violence, someone meets an abrupt end, the shock sears. In
his acknowledgments, the author modestly dismisses himself as a writer ‘of minor
talents.’ This is his only mistake. Here is a major talent.” – The Washington Post
“Derek Nikitas reveals a maimed beauty in the darkest recesses of the human heart,
and THE LONG DIVISION will stay with you long after you turn the last page. I
loved this book.” – Sean Chercover, author of Big City, Bad Blood and Trigger City
“Coming off one of the most accomplished debuts in recent years, Derek Nikitas’s second novel, THE LONG DIVISION,
exceeds even the grandest of expectations. As he deftly weaves together three perilous storylines, we feel ourselves
simultaneously moved, horrified and brokenhearted as the novel spirals towards its breathtaking conclusion. Nikitas finds
beauty and pathos in the smallest of gestures, the largest of actions, the darkest of paths. Not to be missed.” – Megan
Abbott, Edgar-winning author of Queenpin and Bury Me Deep
“In its dark heart, this murderous tale is about family, but whether family is our salvation or our doom is the real mystery.
Pushed to their breaking points, Nikitas’ characters are brutally compelling, his narrative voice riveting. Once again, his
storytelling seems powered by a steam-engine, an unstoppable force.” – Julianna Baggott, author of The Prince of Fenway Park
and My Husband’s Sweethearts (as Bridget Asher)
More about Derek Nikitas
Derek Nikitas is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Pyres and The Long Division, which
was a Washington Post Best Book of 2009 selection. His short stories have appeared in Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine, The Ontario Review, Chelsea, New South, Washington Square, Thuglit, and
other journals. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington and a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University.
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FORTHCOMING
THE GREAT FORGETTING
James Renner
Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, November 2015
In THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE, James Renner fused time travel with
serial-killer thrillers, resulting in what the Associated Press called “a superbly crazy
and imaginative story.” Now, in THE GREAT FORGETTING, he blends science
fiction and conspiracy thrillers with a touch of pure fantasy, and the result is just as
crazy and imaginative.
Jack Felter, a history teacher, returns home to bucolic Franklin Mills, Ohio, to care
for his father, a retired pilot who suffers from dementia and is quickly losing his
memory. Jack would love to forget about Franklin Mills, and about Sam, the girl he
fell in love with, who ran off with his best friend, Tony. Except Tony has gone
missing.
Soon Jack is pulled into the search for Tony, but the only one who seems to know
anything is Tony’s last patient, a paranoid boy named Cole. Jack must team up with
Cole to follow Tony’s trail—and maybe save the world. Their journey will lead them
to Manhattan and secret facilities buried under the Catskills, and eventually to a
forgotten island in the Pacific—the final destination of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
When Jack learns the details about the program known as the Great Forgetting, he’s
faced with the timeless question: Is it better to forget our greatest mistake or to
remember, so it’s never repeated?
PRAISE FOR THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE:
“Well written…Ambitious and innovative…If you like your fiction tidy and predictable, look elsewhere.” – The Washington
Post
“Fascinating and unpredictable, with shades of Stephen King and HP Lovecraft as well as Douglas Adams, [The Man from
Primrose Lane] never loses touch with the human story of loss, guilt and fate that is at its core.” – Laura Wilson, The
Guardian (UK)
“The Man from Primrose Lane barrels along, fueled by Renner’s addictive storytelling….It’s quite the interesting ride.” – The
Denver Post
“A well-told story filled with darkness, horror, humor, and surprising tenderness. And that’s just the first part. There is a
moment in this novel when the story moves in a way so unexpected I actually had to put it down and catch my breath. Go
ahead, see what I mean. I’ll wait here for you.” – Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“Features superbly drawn characters and escalates into a genre-bending narrative (noir, sci-fi, and more) of thrills and twists.
A great choice for readers who enjoyed Tana French’s In the Woods or any work by Philip K. Dick.” – Library Journal
Foreign Sales for THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE:
UK: Corsair • ANZ: Constable & Robinson • Italy: Einaudi • Norway: Pantagruel
France: Super 8 • China: CITIC • Russia: Sindbad • Taiwan: Azoth
More about James Renner
James Renner's first novel, The Man from Primrose Lane, was released in 2012. He is also the
author of two books of nonfiction that detail his adventures in investigative journalism: Amy:
My Search for Her Killer and The Serial Killer’s Apprentice. His work has been featured in Best
American Crime Reporting and Best Creative Nonfiction.
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FORTHCOMING
THE NEST
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Ecco, 2016
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s wickedly smart and funny debut novel, The Nest,
opens during a wintry October weekend in New York City as three adult
Plumb siblings – Melody, Beatrice and Jack – are preparing to confront their
charismatic, reckless older brother, Leo Plumb, newly released from rehab.
Months earlier, while under the influence, Leo got behind the wheel of his car
with a 19 year old waitress with disastrous consequences. Complications from
the ensuing accident endanger the Plumbs’ joint trust fund, a.k.a. “The Nest,”
which the siblings have been counting on forever and are mere months away
from receiving. Each believes the money will solve a host of self-inflicted
problems.
Can Leo pull some magic out of the hat and replenish the Nest, as the others demand? Or will the Plumbs face a future in a
post-Nest life very different from the one they’d envisioned? As the siblings grapple with family tensions, old histories, and
the significant emotional and financial cost of the accident, Sweeney introduces an unforgettable cast of supporting
characters: Leo’s stalwart ex-girlfriend who now thinks that maybe, just maybe, he is capable of change; the Latina waitress
whose life was shattered in the accident; the Iraqi-war-veteran amputee who falls in love with her; and a retired firefighter
who has been hiding a cast of Rodin’s The Kiss recovered from the World Trade Center site, and his blue-eyed pug, Frank
Sinatra.
If you’ve enjoyed some of the wonderfully dysfunctional families in recent popular novels – Emma Straub’s The Vacationers,
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You – the Plumbs will take their place right beside
them. Tender, funny, deftly observed – THE NEST reminds us that if family doesn’t kill you, it only makes you stronger.
And that happiness can sneak up on you when least expected.
More about Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney worked in New York as a marketing and
communications consultant and copywriter before relocating to Los
Angeles, where she lives with her husband, a television writer, and
kids. She has an MFA from Bennington.
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France: Fleuve • Germany: Klett Cotta
Holland: Ambo Anthos • Italy: Frasinelli
Poland: Znak • Spain: Maeva
Taiwan: Chi Ming • Turkey: Epsilon
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FORTHCOMING
DON’T LET MY BABY DO RODEO
Boris Fishman
HarperCollins, Spring 2016
DON’T LET MY BABY DO RODEO tells the story of a Russian immigrant couple in
suburban New Jersey, Maya and Alex, whose adopted American son is an odd boy who
likes to sleep outside, communicates with animals, collects grass, and often runs away
from home. Remembering the parting words of the boy’s teenage birth mother –
“Don’t let my baby do rodeo!” – the couple travel to the boy’s birthplace in Montana in
an attempt to reconnect with the biological parents and hopefully gain some insight into
their son’s strange behaviors. The trip affords some new understandings, although more
than anything else it becomes a journey of self-discovery for Maya, as the wide-open
spaces of Montana unleash her own dormant dreams with seismic consequences for
everyone.
Praise for A REPLACEMENT LIFE:
“Is there room in American fiction for another brilliant émigré writer? There had better be, because here he is. Boris
Fishman’s first novel is bold, ambitious and wickedly smart…Comparisons will be made – to Bellow and the Roths (Henry
and Philip)…and Bernard Malamud.” – New York Times, cover review
“Bold, ambitious and wickedly smart…A REPLACEMENT LIFE is full of descriptive treasures…The only problem with
this novel is that its covers are too close together. I wanted more of Slava, his bumpy love life, his venal grandfather.” –
Patricia T. O'Conner, New York Times Book Review)
“A memorable debut by a wonderfully gifted young writer...Boris Fishman has written a beautifully nuanced, tender, and
often very funny novel about conscience and familial loyalty that will linger long in the memory.” – Joyce Carol Oates
“[An] ingenious debut...the novel is often very funny, but its most rewarding moments come as Slava, listening to the war
stories of...elderly strangers, finds himself drawing closer to the grandmother whose secrets once seemed lost to him.” – The
New Yorker
“The debut novel from Fishman shines with a love for language and craft.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Fishman has talent galore, and an attractive love interest, funny set-pieces, a brochure-beautiful Big Apple, and spectacular,
acutely self-conscious prose are all most enjoyable.” – Booklist
“Powerful yet tender…real and vibrant…Fishman never loses the reader’s trust. No line in this book rings false, no
character is unheard, no event seems like a plot device.” – Newsweek
Foreign sales for A REPLACEMENT LIFE
UK: Pushkin Press • Brazil: Rocco • Estonia: OU Hea Lugu • France: Buchet Chastel • Germany: Blessing
Holland: Unieboek • Italy: Rizzoli • Israel: Kinneret • Spain: Siruela
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States at the age of nine. His first novel was a finalist for the Sami
Rohr Prize and the National Jewish Book Award. His work has
appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, the New
Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books and
elsewhere. He lives in New York City.
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FORTHCOMING
METEOR BOY
Mark Childress
Little, Brown, 2017
From ONE MISSISSIPPI and GEORGIA BOTTOMS author Mark Childress comes the story
of a boy growing up in Tallapoka, Alabama who discovers that his hands have magnetic
powers, the result of his mother having been struck by a meteor fragment that crashed through
the roof when she was pregnant with him; his unusual powers will eventually land him at the
very heart of the 1960s Civil Right movement.
PRAISE FOR GEORGIA BOTTOMS:
“In this hilarious Southern-fried novel, belle Georgia Bottoms cuts a sassy swath through the town ....Riffs on small-town
hypocrisy and racial tensions enliven the plot, but it’s the unsinkable Georgia who makes the book delicious.” – People
‘This is Mark Childress’ seventh novel, and it is a doozy. The simple act of reading GEORGIA BOTTOMS releases
tension; buttons are undone, shoes kicked off -- man, is it hot.” – Los Angeles Times
“Move over, Flannery O’Connor, and make room for a new master. Mark Childress has written yet another laugh-out-loud
Southern classic. In his new novel, GEORGIA BOTTOMS, you will meet the most hilariously dysfunctional bunch of
characters to come down the literary pike in years. Try to stop laughing!” – Fannie Flagg, author of I Still Dream About You
“Georgia Bottoms is one of my favorite characters in recent years, a lovingly drawn woman from a small Southern
town…charming, hilarious, heartbreaking, warm and tough, rich in charm and denial and insight. She’s an inspired creation
who grows before our very eyes, in a story filled with serious challenges and fabulous people, good and bad, rich and poor,
stunning and appalling, sometimes all at once. They all ring true, and I will never forget them. This is Childress’s best book
yet.” – Anne Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds
“This is Mark Childress’s finest novel. I adore GEORGIA BOTTOMS, novel and character. Her story is funny, smart,
serious and engaging beginning to end. A must read.” – Lynn Freed, author of The Servants’ Quarters
“A sparkling novel... Mark Childress once again proves himself the master of American comic fiction.” – Janet Fitch, author
of White Oleander and Paint it Black
More about Mark Childress
Mark Childress is the author of seven novels: GEORGIA BOTTOMS, ONE MISSISSIPPI,
GONE FOR GOOD, CRAZY IN ALABAMA, TENDER, V FOR VICTOR, and A WORLD
MADE OF FIRE.
His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of
London, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and
Leisure, and other national and international publications.
Childress is now working on his eighth novel and a film project. He lives in Key West, Florida.
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NON-FICTION
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M TRAIN – Knopf, Fall 2015
COLLECTED LYRICS – Ecco, 2015
Patti Smith
FORTHCOMING
M TRAIN begins and ends at a beloved café that becomes a second home to
Patti as she nurses a low-grade malaise and ponders the writer’s calling. During
this time, she travels the world seeking solace from the work of great writers
and artists. Rare scenes depict Patti’s life in Detroit with her husband Fred
Sonic Smith, conjuring moments of pure happiness, sitting in a docked boat
listening to the ball game, or searching for stones outside a French prison for
Genet. A book for anyone who appreciates the pleasure of spending an
afternoon at a café with a book, this is a narrative that begins in loss and
emerges as a book of hope about life, art, love and writing. A tour de force that
mingles the all-knowing drawl of a mystic cowpoke with Patti Smith’s singular
vision.
Foreign Sales: UK: Bloomsbury • France: Gallimard • Sweden: Brombergs • Italy: Bompiani • Poland: Czarne
Brazil: Companhia das Letras • Netherlands: De Geus • Germany: Kiepenheuer • Finland: Siltala • Norway: Det Norske
Samlaget • Spain: Lumen
2015 marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of Patti Smith’s seminal album Horses.
To celebrate, Smith and her band will embark on an international tour. Sony records will release
a box set of Smith’s entire catalogue. And Ecco will release a revised and updated edition of
COMPLETE, Smith’s lyric collection, originally published in 1998.
This new edition is redesigned and retitled as COLLECTED LYRICS, and will include a new
introduction by the author as well as new lyrics, songs written for films including Golden Globe
nominee Mercy (check!) from Noah. Illustrations will include cover art for each album and
additional artwork on a selective basis.
Foreign Sales for JUST KIDS:
Brazil: Companhia das Letras • Bulgaria: Mahaloto • Catalan: La Galera • China: Beijing BBT • Croatia: Sareni Ducan
Czech Republic: Dokoran • Denmark: Klim • Estonia: OU Mask • Finland: Werner Soderstrom • France: Denoel
Germany: Kiepenhauer • Greece: Kedros • Holland: De Geus • Hungary: Magveto • Iceland: Salka
Israel: Kinneret • Italy: Feltrinelli • Japan: Uplink • Korea: ArtBooks • Norway: Det Norske Samlaget
Poland: Czarne • Portugal: Quetzal • Serbia: Rende • Russia: Astrel • Slovenia: Zalozba • Spain: Lumen
Sweden: Brombergs • Taiwan: ThinKingdom• Turkey: Domingo
More about Patti Smith
Patti Smith is a writer, artist, and musician. Her international bestselling memoir JUST KIDS was awarded the 2010
National Book Award. Among her awards are the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest honor
for a living artist, the distinguished The Polar Award for music and ASCAP’s Founders Award for Lifetime Achievement..
In 2008, Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She is the author of The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, and
Woolgathering.
Contact: Betsy Lerner • [email protected]
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JUST PUBLISHED
JERRY LEE LEWIS: His Own Story
Jerry Lee Lewis and Rick Bragg
Dey St. / HarperCollins, November 2014
New York Times Bestseller
Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction of 2014
PRAISE:
“An iconic rocker receives a warm, admiring biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and author . . . Throughout, Bragg displays his characteristic frisky prose . . .
From a skilled storyteller comes this entertaining, sympathetic story of a life flaring with
fire, shuddering with shakin’.” – Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW
“Mesmerizing . . . Rick Bragg illuminates Jerry Lee Lewis’s controversial-but brilliant-life
and career in this captivating biography.” – Parade
“One of the best rock biographies ever. Lewis has had his fingers in nearly every piece of
the 20th century’s popular-music pie, and so Bragg’s biography becomes not just the
history of the man but a history of modern American music.” – Shelf Awareness
“I loved every amphetamine-laced, whiskey-soaked, gun-shot page of it.” – Ann Patchett
“An epic life deserves an epic narrative, and Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg delivers such with this major work on rock and roll
pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis. – Library Journal
“There’s plenty of richness in Rick Bragg’s retelling of the Killer’s life . . . .Bragg, a former reporter for the New York Times,
hits all the legendary moments, both high and low . . . Worth reading.” – Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
More about Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis was the first person inducted in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, at its opening
ceremony in 1986. His original recording of “Great Balls of Fire” was elected to the Grammy
Hall of Fame in 1998 and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” received this honor in 1999. He has
garnered countless honors, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Rolling Stone
ranked him one of their Top 25 Greatest Artists of All Time, and he is a member of the
Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Hit Parade Hall of Fame, and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Lewis has had 14 #1 Hits, 47 Top 20 hits, and 10 Golden Records. In 2010, actor Levi Kreis
won a Tony Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Lewis in the hit Broadway show Million
Dollar Quartet.
Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, journalist and author of two bestselling memoirs,
All Over But the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man.
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JUST PUBLISHED
UNREQUITED: The Power and Peril of Women’s Romantic Obsessions
Lisa A. Phillips
Harper, January 2015
Blending memoir, literary exposition, and revealing case studies, a powerful, surprising,
and empathetic cultural and psychological exploration of one-sided romantic obsession.
In UNREQUITED, Lisa A. Phillips explores the tremendous force of obsessive love in
women’s lives, arguing that it needs to be understood, respected, and channeled for
personal growth. Interweaving her story with frank interviews and in-depth research in
science, psychology, cultural history, and literature, Phillips describes how romantic
obsession takes root and grows, and how it strongly influences our thoughts and
behaviors.
Going beyond images of creepy, fatally attracted psychos, male fantasies of unbridled
female desire, and the platitudes of self-help books, Phillips reveals a powerful, troubling,
and surprisingly common phenomenon that often defies dismissive stereotypes. As she
illuminates this mysterious and misunderstood psychological experience, placing it in a
rich and nuanced context, she offers compelling insights and understanding to help all
women who have experienced unrequited obsessive love and been mystified and
troubled by its grip.
PRAISE:
“Rare is the woman who hasn’t struggled with unrequited love and wondered why it makes her feel so crazy. Deeply
researched and compellingly written, UNREQUITED unravels the complex psychology of this obsession and offers an
illuminating path back to balance and peace.” – Colette Dowling, psychotherapist and author of The Cinderella Complex
“A gorgeously written, often cringe-inducing, but ultimately consoling deconstruction of the confounding power of
unreciprocated passion. UNREQUITED made me feel both very much and much less alone.” – Julie Powell, author of
Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
“Ditch all the dating advice books -- with acute intelligence warmth, and humor, Phillips has captured a perilous, powerful,
hidden current of romantic feeling. Lively, fun and insightful, Unrequited should be mandatory reading for anyone interested
in understanding romantic desire. I wish I had read this book when I was young!” – Melanie Thernstrom, author of The Pain
Chronicles
“The author offers an empathetic, below-the-surface examination of what the ‘beloved’ means to the scorned
woman…Compelling…Compassionate and, perhaps for some readers, encouraging.” – Kirkus
“This book illuminates one of our most ingrained emotional experiences…A fluid storyteller…Phillips makes a convincing
case for the universality of lovesickness.” – Publishers Weekly
“Phillips chases down the history of unrequited love, from courtly love to online courtships in which the interested parties
may never meet…Unrequited lovers will learn they are not alone, and they will also acquire useful tips on ways of letting go
for good.” – Booklist
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Radio: Behind the Voices. Her work has appeared in a range of publications such as the New
York Times, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Neurology Today, and Neurology Now.
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JUST PUBLISHED
BON APPETEMPT
Amelia Morris
Grand Central, February 2015
When Amelia Morris found a beautiful chocolate cake in Bon Appétit and took the recipe
home to recreate it for a Christmas day brunch she was hosting, it collapsed into a terrible
(but delicious) mess that had to be served in an oversized bowl. It also paralleled the
interesting and never-quite-predictable situations she’s gotten herself into throughout her
life, from her one-day career as a six-year-old lady wrestler to her ill-fated job at the School
of Rock in Los Angeles. As she gets older, the kitchen is where she finds that even if some
of her attempts fall short of the standard set by a food magazine, they can still bring
satisfaction to her and her family and friends. Full of hilarious observations about food,
family, unemployment, romance, and the excesses of modern L.A., and incorporating
recipes as basic as Toasted Cheerios and as advanced as gâteau de crêpes, BON
APPETEMPT is sure to resonate with anyone who has tried and failed, and been all the
better for it.
PRAISE:
“A winning memoir about youthful befuddlement and finding yourself.” – People
“…Whether Morris is deconstructing her failed attempts at finding satisfying work, struggling with rocky family relationships
or experiencing a culinary failure, she adroitly blends the ingredients of humor and self-reflection.” – Kirkus
“Amelia Morris uses her trademark humor and fierce honesty to tell a wry and touching coming-of-age story. It made me
laugh, wrenched my heart and gave me an instant craving for beans and rice in coconut milk” – Luisa Weiss, Founder of The
Wednesday Chef and author of My Berlin Kitchen
“I picked up BON APPETEMPT on a flight, planning to read for maybe five minutes before taking a nap, and when I finally
came up for air, three hours had passed. (Readers: consider yourselves warned!) Smart, funny, and most of all human, Amelia
Morris is a winning storyteller, even when she’s losing at everything. I love this book."—Molly Wizenberg, author of Delancey
and A Homemade Life
“BON APPETEMPT is a charming, thoughtful, and touching memoir about growing up and becoming the person and artist
you’ve always wanted to be--both inside and outside the kitchen. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and I could not put it
down. It also made me very, very hungry for crepes!” – Edan Lepucki, author of California
“Amelia Morris’s debut…[is] spirited, funny, smartly nostalgic, wistful, real. I’ve never seen another author break a reader’s
heart, make them laugh, and offer up a recipe for broccolini in the span of two pages. It’s all here: big love, big sadness, superb
self-aware writing, and cake. Indulge in all of it as fast as you can, and enjoy the rewarding fullness of this incredible book.”
– Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise and Almost Famous Women
More about Amelia Morris
Amelia Morris is the creator of Bon Appétempt, which Time magazine named as one of the
twenty-five best blogs of 2012. Her work has also been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The
Splendid Table, Saveur.com, BonAppetit.com, and McSweeney’s. She holds an MFA in Creative
Writing from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where she was the recipient of the
Margaret Shannon Morton Fellowship. She currently lives on the east side of Los Angeles with her
husband, baby son, and small dog.
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JUST PUBLISHED
ON YOUR CASE: A Comprehensive, Compassionate (and Only Slightly Bossy)
Legal Guide for Every Stage of a Woman's Life
Lisa Green
William Morrow, February 2015
If your best friend had a law degree, she would offer the useful counsel Lisa Green delivers in ON
YOUR CASE. From dating, marriage, and kids to divorce, retirement, and aging parents, ON
YOUR CASE offers smart, jargon-free lessons on how to solve the legal challenges that arise over
the course of every woman's lifetime. A lawyer and television legal analyst herself, Lisa shares
court cases and real-life legal horror stories (including her own) to illustrate how readers can not
only solve problems, but learn how to protect themselves before a crisis hits.
Lisa's warm, inviting voice imparts essential information about these important topics and many
more:
 Relationships: online dating, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, engagement, and marriage
 Separation and divorce: splitting without anxiety, child custody and support, pet custody
disputes, domestic violence
 Babies, children, and teens: pregnancy and adoption, advocating for a special needs child,
misbehaving teens
 Work: employment and household help
 Online legal issues: privacy, copyright, and social media
 Midlife and elder care: wills, medical decisions, and power of attorney
 Legal help: hiring a lawyer and DIY
Always clear and often funny, Lisa will help you take legal charge of your life, telling it to you
straight without putting you to sleep or scaring you to death. She provides all the essential tools
and inspiration necessary to care for yourself, your assets, your family, and your career.
PRAISE:
“Will serve as a trusted resource to show the layperson her legal rights and options…The topics [Green] discusses… are absolutely
necessary for women to lead proactive and independent lives. Part reference, part self-help, Green’s winning book will empower
women through knowledge of the law.” – Kirkus
“On Your Case should be on every woman’s bookshelf. I would call it an insightful encyclopedia and brilliantly crafted.”
– Judge Judy Sheindlin
“Lisa Green’s compelling and breezily conversational book gives us the tool kit we’ve been waiting for to wise up and open our eyes.
It’s a must-read for all women--and the earlier, the better.” – Lee Woodruff, New York Times bestselling author of Perfectly Imperfect: A
Life in Progress
“What sort of woman needs the straight-shooting, absurdly entertaining legal advice Lisa Green lays out in ON YOUR CASE?
Mothers, daughters, wives (current and ex), those in the workforce and those at home… in other words, every one of us. I wish I’d
read it twenty years ago.” – Jean Chatzky, best-selling author and financial editor, NBC Today
“Lisa Green is every woman’s cheerleader, best friend, and advocate when it comes to the legal matters that affect our daily lives.
You can defend your rights when you know your rights. I will give it to every woman I know--I loved it!” – Adriana Trigiani, New
York Times bestselling author
More about Lisa Green
Lisa Green is a lawyer and legal analyst. After earning her law degree at New York University, she was a
litigator in private practice before joining NBC News, first as a lawyer and then as a senior producer
for Weekend Today and as an NBC News legal analyst. Lisa continues to make on-air appearances for NBC
News and MSNBC, and she has written and blogged about legal issues for msnbc.com and published
articles in Barron's, the National Law Journal, and the Wall Street Journal. Lisa lives in New York City, where
she serves as communications director for a major New York law firm. She is the mother of two young
adults.
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JUST PUBLISHED
GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science
Alice Dreger
Penguin, March 2015
An impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual
responsibility, GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER is one American’s eye-opening story of life
in the trenches of scientific controversy. For two decades, historian Alice Dreger has led a
life of extraordinary engagement, combining activist service to victims of unethical medical
research with defense of scientists whose work has outraged identity politics activists. With
spirit and wit, Dreger offers GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER an unforgettable vision of
the importance of rigorous truth seeking in today’s America, where both the free press and
free scholarly inquiry struggle under dire economic and political threats.
PRAISE:
“Alice Dreger would win a prize for this year’s most gripping novel, except for one thing:
her stories are true, and this isn’t a novel. Instead, it’s an exciting account of complicated
good guys and bad guys, and the pursuit of justice.” – Jared Diamond, author of Guns,
Germs, and Steel and The World until Yesterday
“Let us be grateful that there are writers like Dreger who have the wits and the guts to fight
for truth.” – Kirkus, Starred Review
“Accomplishing deft journalistic storytelling, [Dreger] pursues relentlessly her thesis that neither truth nor justice can exist
without the other, and that empirical research is essential to democratic society. She challenges readers to recognize that the
loudest voice is not necessarily right, the predominant view is not always correct, and the importance of fact-checking and
defending true scholarship. A crusader in the mold of muckrakers from a century ago, Dreger doesn’t try to hide her politics
or her agenda. Instead she advocates for change intelligently and passionately.” – Library Journal, Starred Review
“If there ever there were a book that showed how democracy requires smart activism and solid data—and how that kind of
work can be defeated by moneyed interests, conservative agendas, inept governments, and duplicitous “activists”—this is it.
GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER reads like a thriller. The cliché applies: I literally couldn’t put it down. Alice Dreger leaves
you wondering what’s going to happen to America if our universities continue to turn into corporate brands afraid of daring
research and unpopular ideas about who we are.” - Dan Savage, founder of “It Gets Better” Project; author of American Savage
More about Alice Dreger
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Betsy Lerner
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Alice Dreger is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern
University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the author of Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention
of Sex and One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. Her work has been discussed in The
New York Times, The New Yorker, and Science and on CNN, and her op-eds have appeared in The
New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. She has appeared as a
guest expert on Oprah, Savage Love, Good Morning America, and NPR. Her TED talk, “Is Anatomy
Destiny?,” has been viewed more than 850,000 times.
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FORTHCOMING
DRIVING HUNGRY
Layne Mosler
Pantheon, July 2015
A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author,
driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected
flavor.
Layne Mosler’s search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab
driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the
dance floor, she impulsively asks her taxista to take her to his favorite restaurant. Soon she’s
savoring one of the best steaks of her life, and in the weeks after, repeating the experiment
with equally delectable results. So begins the gustatory adventure that became the basis for
her cult blog, Taxi Gourmet. In New York City, the author continues her food quests and
meets a pair of extraordinary lady cab drivers who convince her to become a taxi driver
herself. In Berlin, she becomes as enchanted with the city’s aura of restless transformation
as she does with the spicy curries, and a certain fellow cabby who knows as much about
Nietzsche as he does about sausage. With her vivid descriptions of places and people and
food, Layne Mosler, who has a degree in anthropology and over a decade of experience in
the restaurant trade, has given us a beguiling book that speaks to the beauty of chance
encounters and the pleasures of not always knowing your destination.
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Eleanor Jackson
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Layne Mosler has written for The Guardian/Observer and NPR Berlin, reviewed restaurants for New
York magazine, served as a New York editor for Not for Tourists, written a food column for South
American Explorer, reported on restaurants for The Buenos Aires Herald, and contributed to
worldhub.com and Time Out. Her stories about taxi adventures around the world have also been
included in The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 and The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2012.
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NEW PRAISE
REBEL YELL: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S. C. Gwynne
Scribner, October 2014
National Book Critic Circle Award Finalist
From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of
the Summer Moon comes a thrilling account of how Civil War general
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.
PRAISE:
“…A riveting, cover-to-cover read for history buffs.” – Booklist , Starred Review
“A stimulating study of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. . . . Gwynne tells
Jackson’s story without editorializing and readers are likely to agree that, without
Jackson, Lee ‘would never again be quite so brilliant,’ while even in the north
Jackson was considered, rather than a rebel, ‘a gentleman and…fundamentally an
American.’” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“In the magnificent REBEL YELL, one of the year’s best biographies, writer S.C.
Gwynne brings Jackson ferociously to life... His battle scenes are marvels of
description and kinetic action. [He] brings a deep humanity to his portrayals of
Jackson, his fellow Confederate generals and their Union adversaries... Gwynne’s
pages fly by, brimming with excitement and terror.” – Newsday
“In REBEL YELL, Mr. Gwynne’s easy, loping style wraps itself effortlessly around the particulars of Stonewall Jackson’s life,
from his back-of-the-mountain upbringing to the outburst of military genius in the Civil War. The result is a narrative vivid
with detail and insight.” – Wall Street Journal
“Gwynne stirringly recreates the bloody, error-plagued battles of the early war and argues that Jackson’s legend galvanized the
South, outmanned and outgunned, to keep fighting.” – New Yorker
“An engaging narrative with a pace that never flags... Gwynne accomplishes a great deal in his clear and highly readable book...
If you read everything about the Civil War – or if you have read very little about the Civil War – REBEL YELL is an excellent
addition to your reading list.” – Huffington Post
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S. C. Gwynne is the author of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon, which was a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He spent most of his career
as a journalist, including stints with Time as bureau chief, national correspondent, and senior editor,
and with Texas Monthly as executive editor. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Katie, and
daughter, Maisie.
Contact
Amy Hughes
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Amy Hughes • Yishai Seidman • Eleanor Jackson
Edward Necarsulmer IV • Julia Kenny
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