ON SALE 7/29/2014

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ON SALE 7/29/2014

Tigerman
A novel
Nick Harkaway
From the award-winning author of Angelmaker and The Gone-Away World: a
novel at once deeply heartfelt and headlong thrilling--about parenthood,
friendship, and secret identities, about heroes of both the super and the everyday
kind.
Exhausted by a hard tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sergeant Lester Ferris is sent to
occupy the largely ceremonial post of British consul in Mancreu. This larcenous island is
facing impending ecological disaster--which makes it, in the meantime, the perfect spot
for the international underworld. Hence the Black Fleet of illicit ships lurking in the bay:
spies, arms dealers, offshore hospitals, money-laundering operations, drug factories,
and torture centers. Lester's brief is to sit tight and turn a blind eye, which he's happy to
do. In his downtime, he's made a friend: a brilliant, Internet-addled, comic-book-addicted
street kid who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But when violence erupts,
the boy suddenly needs Lester to be more than just an observer: he has no choice now
but to rediscover the man of action he once was--and find out what kind of hero he might
become.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Adventure
BISAC 2: Fiction - Science Fiction - Apocalyptic &
Post-Apocalyptic
BISAC 3: Fiction - Literary
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32 Carton Count: 12
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Brittany Morrongiello
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
National Media Appearances,
including NPR and print features
Comic-Con Promotion
6-city Author Tour: Los Angeles,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, San
Francisco, and Seattle
Extra Galleys
Also available as an eGalley
Online Advertising Campaign,
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USAToday.com, EW.com, TheMillions,
GoodReads, and Facebook
Online Promotion, including giveaways
on Facebook and GoodReads; cover
reveal on Twitter; quote graphic
campaign featuring the cast of
characters and a roadmap of the book
Online Promotion on Corporate
Verticals, including Everyday eBook and
Suvudu
Giveaways at San Diego Comic-Con,
July 24th - 27th
Jacket Blowups Available
AUTHOR: Since his debut, The Gone-Away World, was published in 2008, Nick Harkaway has
become a recognized author. In 2013 he collaborated with Neil Gaiman on a unique literary/art
installation project in Bristol, England, called These Pages Fall Like Ash, and BBC Books
announced he will contribute an original short story to their Time Trips series of Doctor Who
eBooks.
AWARD ATTENTION: Angelmaker was named a best book of the year by The Guardian (best
science fiction), Wired.com's GeekDad blog (best adult fiction), The Wall Street Journal and
Booklist (best mysteries of the year), and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
ONLINE OPPORTUNITIES: On Twitter (10,000+ followers) and on his website, Nick engages
with readers and with the internet at large. He is a favorite of booksellers and bloggers, who can
help him reach an audience. Internet culture and slang are a major part of the story which will
make for some fun promotional opportunities on social media.
FATHERHOOD AND SUPERHEROES: Whereas Angelmaker was a spy novel about a son
looking up to his father, Tigerman is a superhero novel about a father figure looking after his
son.
COMP TITLES: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Anansi
Boys by Neil Gaiman, About a Boy by Nick Hornby.
Praise for Angelmaker
"A big, gleefully absurd, huggable bear of a novel.... Harkaway's prose is playful and beguiling,
with a keen satiric edge." --Slate
"[Harkaway] manages to write surrealist adventure novels that feel both urgent and relevant....
Angelmaker is a truly impressive achievement." --The Millions
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: London, England
Author Hometown: London, England
NICK HARKAWAY is the author of two previous novels, The Gone-Away World and
Angelmaker, and a nonfiction work about digital culture, The Blind Giant: Being Human
in a Digital World. He is also a regular blogger for The Bookseller's FutureBook website.
He lives in London with his wife, a human rights lawyer, and their two children.
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Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: CONVILLE & WALSH LTD
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Back Channel
A novel
Stephen L. Carter
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women
Sleuths
BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - Espionage
BISAC 3: Fiction - Historical
Page Count: 464
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle
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Reading Group Guide
From the best-selling author of The Emperor of Ocean Park and The Impeachment
of Abraham Lincoln--a new novel of terrific suspense and surprise: a brilliant
amalgam of fact and fiction about a young black woman on whom the outcome of
the Cuban Missile Crisis depends.
October 1962. In Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear
missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over
how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first
bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen--a nineteen-year-old Cornell
sophomore--is swept up in a "bizarre concatenation of circumstances" that will make of
her the "back channel" liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy.
Events unfold too quickly for her even to ask "why me?" But the stunning answer is
revealed bit by bit as she races from Ithaca to Bulgaria to Washington, D.C., drawn ever
more deeply into the crossfire--figurative and literal--of infighting between governmental
agencies, both American and Soviet; into the confidence and--unsettlingly--the affection
of the president of the United States; into desperate negotiations to avoid nuclear war;
and, finally, into the secrets of the extraordinary legacy--of honor and bravery--she
inherited from the father she never knew.
THE SUBJECT: A thrilling, moment-to-moment retelling of one of the most heart-stopping,
dangerous few days in modern American history.
JOHN F. KENNEDY: A complex portrait of the popular late president as a very human human
being--including his indecisive and philandering sides.
OLD FRIENDS FOR ESTABLISHED CARTER READERS: Some of the characters in this book
will be familiar to readers of his previous novels but one doesn't need to have read those books
to understand or relate to this novel.
PREVIOUS SUCCESS: The in-print numbers of Carter's other books are extraordinary, and this
novel is a return to what he does best.
Praise for Stephen Carter's The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
"With an encyclopedic command of period detail...Carter has created an entertaining story
rooted in the legal, political and racial conflicts of 19th-century America....Carter's delight in all
this material is infectious. He's a fantastic legal dramatist, and there's the constant pleasure of
seeing his creation of Washington City in 1867, alive with sounds and smells....History buffs can
test their mettle by trying to unwind Carter's entangling of fact and fiction, but anyone should
enjoy this rich political thriller that dares to imagine how events might have ricocheted in a
different direction after the Civil War." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"[T]he best legal thriller so far this year." --Patrik Henry Bass, Essence
"The best thing about sitting down with this rich, often thrilling novel is watching its alternative
history unfold." --John Wilwol, Washingtonian
Author Residence: New Haven, CT
STEPHEN L. CARTER is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale
University, where he has taught since 1982. He is also the author of seven books of
nonfiction.
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Palace Council/Carter, Stephen L./HC
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978-0-307-27299-7
978-0-307-26658-3
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$15.00/$17.50 Can.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of
Pilgrimage
A novel
Haruki Murakami
The new novel--a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went
on sale in Japan--from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since 1Q84.
In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends
who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year
of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. Something has
changed, but nobody will tell him what--and he never sees them again. Years later,
Tsukuru has become a successful engineer, but is also something of a loner. It is only
when he begins dating an older woman named Sara that he confesses the story of this
mysterious betrayal and the shadow it has cast over his life. Sara becomes convinced
that Tsukuru must track down his old group to try to answer the question that has
haunted him all these years, creating a hole inside of him: Why did they suddenly turn
on him? Tsukuru searches out his old friends, and as the truth reveals itself, he must
confront the simmering emotional undercurrents that the group had suppressed in order
to reach their ideal of perfect friendship--and in order to find himself.
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Coming Of Age
BISAC 3: Fiction - Fantasy - Contemporary
Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 4-7/8 x 7
Spine/Depth: 47/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing Contact: Katherine Burns
National Print Features
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Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and
New York magazine
Online Preorder Campaign, including
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Holiday Advertising Campaign,
Review, Los Angeles Times, Chicago
Tribune, NYTimes.com, Google
network, and Facebook
Academic Advertising in PMLA (the
journal of the Modern Language
Association of America)
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING EVENT: Readers around the world have been eagerly
anticipating Murakami's next book since the English-language publication of his best-selling
epic, 1Q84, in 2011. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage was published to
great acclaim in Japan in April 2013.
A RETURN IN STYLE: The new novel is a return to the sort of romantic fiction, a more lyrical
realism, that Murakami made famous in his 1987 novel, Norwegian Wood, but set against the
social realities of contemporary Japan.
MORE MURAKAMI: Knopf will be publishing two early Murakami novellas--Pinball, 1973 and
Hear the Wind Sing--in 2015. These are new translations--the previous editions, published only
by Kodansha USA, are long out of print. The novellas are essentially prequels to A Wild Sheep
Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance.
BACKLIST: There are more than 2 million copies in print across Vintage's fifteen-book Murakami
backlist and these books sell steadily each year. 1Q84 alone has sold a stunning 142,000
copies in hardcover, 102,000 copies in eBook, and 110,000 in paperback--and it spent 14
weeks on the New York Times best seller list.
ONLINE PRESENCE. Murakami's Facebook fan page has more than 775,000 fans who avidly
follow news about the publication of the new novel.
Praise for Haruki Murakami
"Mann, Camus, Borges, García Márquez--an ethereal crowd with which to associate any
contemporary writer, and of course amazingly difficult to compare with. But Murakami can stand
the heat." --Chicago Tribune
"Murakami has established himself as the unofficial laureate of Japan--arguably its chief
imaginative ambassador, in any medium, to the world."--The New York Times Magazine
Author Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Author Hometown: Kyoto
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has
been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many
international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M.
Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
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What I Talk About When I Talk/Murakami,…
What I Talk About When I Talk/Murakami,…
After Dark/Murakami, Haruki/HC
After Dark/Murakami, Haruki/TR
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Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Vintage
Knopf
Vintage
Knopf
Vintage
Reprint: Yes
1st Serial: No
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In a Rocket Made of Ice
Among the Children of Wat Opot
Gail Gutradt
A beautifully told, inspiring true story of one woman's volunteer experiences at an
orphanage in rural Cambodia--a book that embodies the belief that love,
compassion, and generosity of spirit can overcome even the most fearsome of
obstacles.
Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot
Children's Community. Begun with just $50 in the pocket of Wayne Matthysse, a former
Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among
Cambodia's verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of
healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDs could live outside of
fear or judgment, and find a new family--a place that Gutradt calls "a workshop for
souls." Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of
children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one woman's
transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity
and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat
Opot forever on your heart.
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Category: Memoir
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
Memoirs
BISAC 2: Social Science - Volunteer Work
BISAC 3: Travel - Asia - India & South Asia
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/8
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 69 PHOTOS IN TEXT; 8 PP 4-C
Publicist: Erinn McGrath
Women's Magazine Coverage
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Reading Group Guide
COMPS: In the tradition of Nicholas Kristof's Half the Sky, Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond
Mountains, and Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Gutradt makes
global themes accessible through an indelibly human lens.
TITLE: In the last chapter, a former Wat Opot boy now studying science asks Gail if man might
one day fly to the sun, as we have to the moon. When she says it's too far and too hot, his face
brightens and he replies: "Maybe we could fly to the sun in a rocket made of ice!"
PACKAGE: With its juxtaposition of photos, art (done by the children), and text, Rocket is an
immersive reading experience--a perfect gift and keepsake.
AUDIENCE: A story that will speak to Americans' widespread desire to work at the grassroots
level. Embracing global health, spirituality, travel, and philosophy, Rocket will reach both
mainstream and political/academic audiences.
AUTHOR: A force to be reckoned with. Gutradt is a natural-born writer--and a notably
self-effacing one; her integrity and modesty grace these pages. Though it is a voyage of
self-discovery, this book is focused on the world and people around her.
EARLY SUPPORT: Quotes already in from Anne Fadiman, Pico Iyer, and Paul Farmer, who
also has written the Introduction.
Advance praise for In a Rocket Made of Ice:
"Before I read Gutradt's moving account of Wat Opot, I had never heard of it. Now I will never
forget it." --Anne Fadiman
"A beautiful book. Read it, and act on the heart-lifting vision of a universal humanity it brings so
movingly home to us." --Pico Iyer
"Much more than a story of hope in the face of grim news and chronic disappointment, Gutradt
makes a compelling case for the efficacy of ingenuity, imagination, and a commitment to human
dignity in accompanying each other through adversity." --Dr. Paul Farmer
Author Residence: Bar Harbor, ME
GAIL GUTRADT has volunteered at the Wat Opot Children's Community in Cambodia
since 2005. Her stories, articles, and poems have appeared in the Japan-based Kyoto
Journal, as well as in the Utne Reader and Ashé. Her first Kyoto Journal article, "The
Things We've Gone Through Together," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A novel
Richard Flanagan
From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely
acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial, Rashomon-like novel of love and
war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway in 1943,
Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young
wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command
from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will
change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from
the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this
savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family; exploring the many forms
of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age,
prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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AUTHOR: Lauded, prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan is joining the Knopf list for the first
time. His debut novel won Australia's National Fiction Award, and he has also received the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (earlier winners include Peter Carey, J. M. Coetzee, Rohinton
Mistry), as well as numerous other awards.
MAJOR BOOK: The novel has been 12 years in the making. Flanagan completed the
manuscript on the day his 98-year-old father, a survivor of the Death Railway, passed away. He
has written: "I have known for a long time that this was the book I had to write, if I was to keep
on writing."
AUSTRALIAN PUBLICATION: The response has been ecstatic, an Australian #1 best seller
hailed in reviews as a masterpiece, the crowning achievement of Flanagan's career so far.
SETTING: Made famous by Bridge on the River Kwai, the building of the Thai-Burma railway is
brought devastatingly to life here, as are Depression-era Tasmania, post-war Tokyo, and
contemporary Sydney.
UK PUBLICATION: Chatto at RHUK plans to publish in August.
First reviews for The Narrow Road to the Deep North
"A masterpiece...A symphony of tenderness and love, a moving and powerful story that captures
the weight and breadth of a life...An extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already
distinguished career." --The Guardian (UK)
"Nothing could have prepared us for this immense achievement...The Narrow Road to the Deep
North is beyond comparison...Intensely moving." --The Australian
"Possibly the year's most beautiful and moving novel." --Herald Sun (Sydney)
Author Residence: Tasmania
Author Hometown: Tasmania
RICHARD FLANAGAN is the author of five previous novels, Death of a River Guide,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and
Wanting. He lives in Tasmania.
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping/TR
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: THE WYLIE AGENCY LLC
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9780802119001
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9780802118516
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Unmanned
A novel
Dan Fesperman
A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by
one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets.
As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's
a washout--drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he
saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an
Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up with three journalists seeking to
discover the identity of the anonymous--and possibly rogue--intelligence operative who
called the shots in Cole's ill-fated drone mission. But in a surveillance culture, even the
well-intentioned must sometimes run for their lives, especially when they're tracking
leads to the very heart of that culture--in intelligence, in the military, and among the
unchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing technology .
. . technology not just for use "over there," but for right here, right now.
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Page Count: 336
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TIMELINESS: Extremely resonant given the recent revelations about the continuing use of
drones by the United States, and the NSA's surveillance operations.
DARK AND MENACING: This is an ominous story of modern warefare, showcasing the way
technology has altered the American military.
JOURNALIST AUTHOR: As a former war correspondent, Fesperman knows of what he speaks,
and he brings to his thrillers a serious and factual tone.
Praise for Dan Fesperman's The Double Game
"A spy novel about spy novels, calculated to deliver a maximum dose of fun for the
genre fan . . . Breezing through The Double Game is like encountering 30 spy classics . .
. Fesperman's book is a triple, quadruple, quintuple game, thrilling and fun." --The Daily
Beast
"The Double Game is not just a spy novel--it's a love letter to the genre, renditioning the
unwary reader and dropping him into a dizzying pastiche of classic espionage, cleverly
woven into a thrilling story. Brilliantly executed and a joy from start to finish." --Olen
Steinhauer, author of An American Spy
"A beautifully written book [from] the highly accomplished Fesperman, a veteran of the
sophisticated, literary novel of intrigue." --Publishers Weekly
Author Residence: Baltimore
DAN FESPERMAN's travels as a writer have taken him to thirty countries and three war
zones. Lie in the Dark won the Crime Writers' Association of Britain's John Creasey
Memorial Dagger Award for best first crime novel, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows won
their Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller, and The Prisoner of Guantánamo
won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers.
He lives in Baltimore.
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Adultery
A novel
Paulo Coelho
In the latest novel from #1 best-selling author Paulo Coelho, a woman attempts to
overcome midlife ennui by rediscovering herself in a passionate relationship with
a man who had been a friend in her youth.
A woman in her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days.
In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet
what she feels is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters a
successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend. As she
rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.
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Page Count: 272
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BEST-SELLING AUTHOR: Manuscript Found in Accra hit #2 on The New York Times
best-seller list and has sold more than 130,000 copies in hardcover, paperback, and eBook.
WORLDWIDE PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: Adultery will be published in April in Brazil, and in
summer and early fall around the world.
ONLINE FAN BASE: Paulo Coelho has a massive and devoted following on social media; he is
extremely active on Twitter (now nearly 9 million followers) and Facebook (now more than 17
million fans).
THE ALCHEMIST: Coelho's best-selling novel The Alchemist has remained on The New York
Times best seller-list longer than any other paperback (290 weeks). The twenty-fifth anniversary
of publication will be marked in 2014.
Praise for Manuscript Found in Accra:
"An exceptional writer." -- USA Today
"Coelho's writing is beautifully poetic...His message is what counts." -- Daily Express
"His writing is like a path of energy that leads readers to themselves, toward their mysterious
and faraway souls." -- Le Figaro
"His books have had a life enhancing impact on millions of people." -- The Times (London)
Author Residence: Rio de Janeiro
Paulo Coelho is the author of many international best sellers, including The Alchemist,
The Pilgrimage, Eleven Minutes, Aleph, and Manuscript Found in Accra. Translated into
74 languages, his books have sold more than 140 million copies in more than 170
countries. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and, in 2007, he was
named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa and
Zoë Perry.
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You
A novel
Zoran Drvenkar
From the author of the highly praised novel Sorry: a new gritty, pulsating,
psychological thriller centered on a cadre of teenage girls who faceoff against one
of Berlin's most hardened underworld crime bosses.
No one is expecting the chaos that breaks out when the notorious Berlin criminal
Ragnar Desche and his henchmen discover Ragnar's brother, Oskar, dead, and a huge
cache of their drugs gone missing. Least of all, a group of teenage girlfriends out
together at the movies, daydreaming about boys and worrying about acne. They're
missing one of their clique, and the trouble she's about to find herself in will bring all the
girls face-to-face with the Desche gang and force them into a fight for their lives that
every cell in their bodies should tell them they can never win. But the violent clash
between these two gangs may be more evenly matched than it first appears. Written
entirely in the second person and told through flashbacks that revisit events from various
points of view--You is an audacious and shrewdly plotted novel.
PULP + PLUCK: Think Pulp Fiction meets The Baby-Sitters Club, in crime-ridden Berlin.
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throughout in the second person and told through the eyes of an enormous cast of characters,
makes for an unpredictable and rewarding page-turner.
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Page Count: 512
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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"Stunning...Sorry is the kind of thriller, the kind of novel, that doesn't come along every
day...[It] thrills, and it thrills immaculately. It's that oft-cited but very rare species of novel
we call a page-turner, and it brilliantly achieves this because Drvenkar knows how to use
all the tools at his disposal, to excellent effect...Sorry is a thriller that should--despite its
occasional grisly moments--be savored." --The New York Times Book Review
"Riffing on the nature of remorse within an elegantly structured and labyrinthine plot,
Drvenkar gives his lead characters complicated backstories touching on estrangement,
child abuse, and grief. This is a very clever, dark read...Drvenkar [is] a writer to watch."
--Booklist
Author Residence: Berlin, Germany
Author Hometown: Berlin, Germany
Zoran Drvenkar was born in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Germany when he was three
years old. He has been working as a writer since 1989 and lives in a former corn mill just
outside of Berlin. Translated by Shaun Whiteside.
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Collected Poems
Jack Gilbert
More than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale
Younger Poets prize volume to glorious late poems, including a section of new
and unpublished work--now in paperback.
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert in postwar American poetry. Turning away
from the literary scene after garnering acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he
escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely
fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our
midst with Monolithos (1982), and then went underground again until The Great Fires
(1994), eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a multiple prize-winning volume
of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Now, for
the first time, we have all of his work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning
career, and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.
Praise for Refusing Heaven:
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BISAC 1: Poetry - General
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Page Count: 432
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Spine/Depth: 35/32
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"Poems so beautiful a single reading will brand them to your insides." --Newsday
"In these poems, language is not merely ornament or persuasion, but a vehicle--or in Gilbert's
terms, a titanic vehicle, shearing and forging deep in us." --The Washington Post Book World
"His work radiates with humility and awe, and he brings an intellectual heft that is often lacking in
contemporary poetry." --Los Angeles Times
Author Residence: Berkeley, CA
Author Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
JACK GILBERT is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Views of Jeopardy, the
1962 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize; Monolithos, winner of the Stanley Kunitz
Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize; The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992;
Refusing Heaven, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Dance Most of All. Both Views of Jeopardy and
Monolithos were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught at
Smith College and the University of Tennessee.
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem
The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
Bettina Stangneth
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A total reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and
notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of
the Third Reich and permanently undermines Hannah Arendt's often-cited notion
of the "banality of evil."
Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a
peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad.
Though once widely known by nicknames such as "Manager of the Holocaust," he was
able to portray himself, from the defendant's box in Jerusalem in 1960, as an
overworked bureaucrat following orders--no more, he said, than "just a small cog in
Adolf Hitler's extermination machine." How was this carefully crafted obfuscation
possible? How did a principal architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? How
had he occupied himself in hiding? Drawing upon an astounding trove of newly
discovered documentation, Stangneth gives us a chilling portrait not of a reclusive,
taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an
inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes to
discuss past glories and vigorously planning future goals.
RESEARCH: Bettina Stangneth is the first to analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann's own
recently discovered written notes, as well as 73 extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded
Nazi salon held weekly in the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires.
RECOGNITION: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, originally published in 1963,
unleashed a firestorm of controversy and discussion that continues to this day.
RIVETING: This book maps out the astonishing postwar lives of innumerable Nazis in
exile--from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen--and the community they nurtured together in
Argentina as no other book has.
ACCLAIMED: Published by Arche Literatur Verlag in 2011, Eichmann vor Jerusalem was
awarded the prize for best nonfiction book from North German Broadcasting (NDR) and received
major international attention. The popular New York Times opinion blog "The Stone" has already
written of the book and there has been interest from The New York Review of Books.
Author Residence: Hamburg, Germany
Bettina Stangneth wrote her dissertation on Immanuel Kant and the concept of "Radical
Evil" and has written extensively about anti-Semitism in 18th century and National
Socialist philosophy. In 2000 she was awarded first prize by the Philosophical-Political
Academy, Cologne. She lives in Hamburg. Translated by Ruth Martin.
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Gabriel
A Poem
Edward Hirsch
An unforgettable account of the life and death of the poet's son, Gabriel.
Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a
bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a
sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch's heart to our
own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines--"The funeral director opened the
coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up"--Hirsch's account is poignantly
direct and open to the strange vicissitudes and tricks of grief. He tells the story of how a
once unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental disorders, turned into
a tattooed, impulsive, rebellious young adult. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the
stories of other poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and expresses
his feelings through theirs. His poem enters the broad stream of human grief and raises
in us the strange hope, even consolation, we find in the writer's act of witnessing.
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Category: Poetry
BISAC 2: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death,
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Page Count: 96
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POWERFUL MATERIAL: The loss of Edward's son is an unbearable grief, told by a
distinguished poet at the top of his form. This will attract not only his usual audience but new
readers.
A RISING PRESENCE: People were electrified by Edward's "5x15" talk last spring. People
normally uninterested in poetry were blown away by his magnetic, accessible delivery and ability
to share the power of poetry. He is poised to become a star lecturer.
Praise For Edward Hirsch
"When a Hirsch poem strikes its mark, you feel the utter necessity of its impulse:
language unveiling the lived moment."--The Washington Post
"Singular in American poetry is the balance he strikes between the quotidian and
something completely other--an irrational counterforce, the 'living fire' that gives its name
to his new selected poems."--The New York Times Book Review
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Edward Hirsch is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Wild Gratitude,
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently, The Living Fire:
New and Selected Poems. He has published several prose books, among them How to
Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, a national best seller. His numerous awards
include a MacArthur Fellowship. A longtime teacher in the Creative Writing Program at
the University of Houston, Hirsch is now the president of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation.
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Gwynne's Grammar
The Ultimate Introduction to Grammar and the Writing
of Good English
N. M. Gwynne
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BISAC 1: Language Arts - Grammar
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Crushing national Debt? Climate Change? No: the greatest danger to our way of
life is the decline of grammar. Thus preaches the inimitable Mr Gwynne as he
shows us the way out of this sorry state.
"Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading
to deciding rightly, without which--as both common sense and experience
show--happiness is impossible. Therefore, happiness depends at least partly on good
grammar." So writes Mr. Gwynne in his small but perfectly formed new book of grammar
with an attitude.
Mr. Gwynne believes passionately that we must regain our knowledge of the workings
of our language before it is too late. Schools don't teach it, and as the Internet drives the
written word to new lows of informality, we approach a tipping point of expressive
dysfunction. Into the breach steps this doughty grammarian. Rejecting popular notions
that language is simply a matter of the way people use it, he meticulously spells out
what tradition and common sense have, over centuries, dictated to be the right and the
wrong.
His teaching method is also defiantly old school: no one can follow a rule he hasn't
committed to memory. But not all rules are equal. For a country whose only broadly
subscribed guide to writing is Strunk and White, Mr. Gwynne performs a radical
procedure. He presents its original seed: Strunk's 1918 essay, which E. B. White
expanded. But neither form was ever meant as a guide to grammar, and so Mr. Gwynne
presents only the kernel of Strunk's useful advice as a companion: a guide to putting
words together nicely set within Gwynne's wisdom about putting them together correctly.
The result is the last word on the subject anyone should need.
BRITISH SENSATION: As high as #2 on Times (UK) best seller list (June 2, 2013).
SUBJECT: Despite the mania for STEM subjects in education, business leaders consistently
rate effective verbal expression as the most essential and least developed skill among new
graduates.
GREAT BACKSTORY: an Eton- and Oxford-educated banker who remade himself as a teacher
for the modern age. With a perfect Mr Chips-like affect and devotion plus an unapologetically
old-fashioned sense of correctness, he began offering classes over the Internet and was
discovered by a publisher.
Surprising allure of quirky British pronouncements on such matters: Truss's Eats, Shoots and
Leaves sold more than one million hardcovers.
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: Prince Charles wrote to congratulate Mr Gwynne on "producing
something so outstandingly useful," adding "It is so exactly what is needed."
Author Residence: County Wexford, Ireland
In the 1980s, on retirement from a successful career as a businessman in London and
Australia, N. M. Gwynne took up teaching. He discovered a real demand for his
traditional methods and began teaching a diverse range of subjects: foreign languages,
mathematics, history, classical philosophy, natural medicine, the elements of music, and
even business. With an international word-of-mouth reputation, Mr. Gwynne has been
flown around the world to teach his pupils privately, and his reach online has extended
to India, Europe and across the United States.
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Perfidia
A novel
James Ellroy
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Page Count: 720
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From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book
Review)--a brilliant crime/historical novel, and his largest, most accessible novel
yet: a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over
twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941.
The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of
war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in
L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will
draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic
chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact
(William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the
LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain
of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are
given a story of war and consuming romance, a searing exposé of the Japanese
internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. Perfidia has the
full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of
the "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction."
PREVIOUS SUCCESS: American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book of Fiction for 1995;
his memoir My Dark Places (1996) was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times
Notable Book; The Cold Six Thousand (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los
Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Blood's a Rover and The Cold Six Thousand were both
New York Times best sellers.
ANOTHER L.A. QUARTET: This is the first installment in his Second L.A. Quartet, and he's
already working on the second novel.
Praise for James Ellroy:
"No living crime writer so unflinchingly chronicles the darkest aspects of American
history...In Blood's a Rover, Ellroy reveals his keen eye for the shapes that lurk within
shadows--to the best effect of his career...It achieves a greater depth, emotional
resonance and sense of closure than his earlier books. This trilogy is a work of ambition
unmatched among contemporary crime novelists." --The Economist
"Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir....Pick it up if you dare;
put it down if you can." --Time
Author Residence: Los Angeles
Author Hometown: Los Angeles
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld
U.S.A. Trilogy--American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's a Rover--and
the L. A. Quartet novels, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L. A. Confidential, and
White Jazz. He lives in Los Angeles.
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The Roosevelts
An Intimate History
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
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An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family
and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary
to air in the fall of 2014.
This handsome, engaging, revelatory book is an intimate history of three
extraordinary individuals from the same extraordinary family--Theodore, Eleanor, and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking
and writing about the Roosevelts, and the acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns help us
understand for the first time that, despite the fierce partisanship of their eras and ours,
the Roosevelts were far more united than divided. All the history the Roosevelts made is
here, but this is primarily a book about human beings, each of whom somehow
overcame obstacles that would have undone less forceful personalities, and all of whom
wrestled in their lives with issues still familiar to the rest of us--anger and the need for
forgiveness, courage and cowardice, confidence and self-doubt, loyalty to family and the
need to be oneself. This is the story of the Roosevelts--no other American family ever
touched so many lives.
THE FILM: PBS is enormously excited about this seven-part series: in an unprecedented
commitment, each broadcast will appear twice a night, at 8 and 10 pm, taking over primetime for
the entire premiere week, starting September 14.
BIOGRAPHY: This is Ken Burns's first major, multipart series that is explicitly a biography. From
Goodwin to Meacham to Chernow, most blockbuster works of history are biographies, which
may make this book particularly commercial.
NEW APPROACH TO FAMILY: The Roosevelts are generally seen as two distinct New York
clans--the Republicans of Oyster Bay and the Democrats of Hyde Park. This book makes vividly
clear that they were a single family, linked by Eleanor's marriage to Franklin, and united in spirit
by a gift for leadership and an unshakable commitment to public service.
LEADERSHIP: At a time when Washington politicians seem smaller than ever, the Roosevelts
tower as models of leadership, powerful examples of how character forges destiny. Their stories
have the potential to inspire viewers across the political spectrum.
GEOFFREY WARD ON CAMERA: After collaborating with Ken Burns for more than twenty-five
years, Geoffrey Ward, an award-winning FDR biographer, appears on camera for the first time,
evoking memories of Shelby Foote's star turn in The Civil War.
NEW APPROACH TO BOOK: This is a sumptuous, richly illustrated chronicle, a Roosevelt
family album filled with great events and personal stories and never-before-seen images.
Author Residence: New York City; Walpole, New Hampshire
Geoffrey C. Ward, historian and screenwriter, is the author of 16 books, including A
First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize. He has written or cowritten many documentary films, including The War,
The Civil War, Baseball, The West, Mark Twain, Not for Ourselves Alone, and Jazz. He
lives in New York City. Ken Burns, the producer and director of numerous film series,
including The War, founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in
1976. His landmark film The Civil War was the highest-rated series in the history of
American public tv, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and
Peabody Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award. He lives in Walpole, New
Hampshire.
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Station Eleven
A novel
Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie
days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous
novels.
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a
production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving
back and forth in time--from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the
future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of
what remains--this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of
fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first
wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the
crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes
tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral
nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.
AUTHOR: Mandel is the author of three highly acclaimed novels--all Indie Next picks--published
by Unbridled Books. Beloved by reviewers and indie booksellers, Emily is perfectly poised to
break out with this first major trade publication.
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Page Count: 352
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BUZZ: This was one of the most talked-about books at Frankfurt. Deals have been made in
eight countries with many more to follow. It was also selected as a BEA Buzz Book.
THE READ: From the terrifying opening chapter, as Jeevan raids a grocery store, to the
bittersweet pages set in an abandoned airport, to the chilling game of cat and mouse played out
between the Symphony and those who hunt its members, this book combines tension,
suspense, beauty, and even flashes of humor.
Author Hometown: British Columbia, Canada
EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL was born in British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of
three previous novels--Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, and The Lola
Quartet--all of which were Indie Next picks. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her
work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Mystery
Stories 2013 and Venice Noir. She lives in New York City with her husband.
www.emilymandel.com
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An Empire on the Edge
How Britain Came to Fight America
Nick Bunker
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Category: History
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The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British
Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies.
Here, Nick Bunker explores and illuminates the dramatic chain of events that led to
the outbreak of the war--revealing a tale of muddle, mistakes, and misunderstandings by
men in London that led to the Boston tea party and then to the decision to send redcoats
into action against the minutemen. Charting the three years prior to the war during which
the British regime in America was already collapsing, Bunker shows how a lethal
combination of politics and personalities led to a war that should never have been
fought. Revisiting the tea party from the point of view of British economics and drawing
upon new and unpublished sources from Britain and the U.S., he argues that thanks to
the colonialists' misunderstandings about the strength of British power, and London's
inability to take American cries for freedom seriously, both were pushed beyond the
point of compromise. The outcome? A war that few welcomed but all were powerless to
stop.
ECONOMICS: Bunker makes it possible for us to understand Britain's global economic
instabilities and argues convincingly that the precarious financial situation of The East Indian Co.
was symptomatic of London's growing credit bubble and a skyrocketing real estate boom, which
encouraged many to flee across the Atlantic.
PEERS AND LORDS: Bunker paints in textured strokes just how unthinkable the idea of
American Independence truly was to the landed British gentry and just how much of a shock it
created when they learned that they had no recourse but war.
PRAISE FOR MAKING HASTE FROM BABYLON:
"Never before has such a comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of the subject
appeared...The results are stunning. Certain to be the dominating work on the Pilgrims for
decades." --Publishers Weekly
"Nick Bunker has done the seemingly impossible: he has shed new light on the oldest of stories,
the epic of the Pilgrims' experience in the Old and New Worlds... an engaging and original
book." --Newsweek
"Combining intensive archive research with a time traveler's eye he conjures a wonderfully
evocative sense of place...It is a fabulous tale of our ancestors, but also the true founding
moment of America." --Michael Wood
Author Residence: Lincolnshire, England
A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, with a master's degree from Columbia
University, NICK BUNKER has had a diverse career in finance and journalism. A former
investment banker and reporter for the Financial Times, he now lives, with his wife, in
Lincolnshire, England.
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Thirteen Days in September
Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright
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A dramatic, illuminating day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference,
when President Jimmy Carter convinced Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to sign a peace treaty--the first treaty in the
modern Middle East, and one which endures to this day.
With his hallmark insight into the forces at play in the Middle East and his acclaimed
journalistic skill, Lawrence Wright takes us through each of the thirteen days of the
Camp David conference, delving deeply into the issues and enmities between the two
nations, explaining the relevant background to the conflict and to all the major
participants at the conference, from the three heads of state to their mostly well-known
seconds working furiously behind the scenes. What emerges is not what we've come to
think of as an unprecedented yet "simple" peace. Rather, Wright reveals the full extent of
Carter's persistence in pushing peace forward, the extraordinary way in which the
participants at the conference--many of them lifelong enemies--attained it, and the
profound difficulties inherent in the process and its outcome, not the least of which has
been the still unsettled struggle between the Israelis and the Palestinians. In Thirteen
Days in September, Wright gives us a gripping work of history and reportage that
provides an inside view of how peace is made.
THE AUTHOR: Wright's most recent two books, The Looming Tower and Going Clear have both
been national best sellers. He won the Pulitzer and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for The
Looming Tower, and Going Clear was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is extremely
well known and respected in the news media, and is a top request at the Random House
Speakers Bureau.
NEWSWORTHINESS: A revelatory view of the Camp David Peace Accords thirty-five years
later and the first book for the general reader devoted entirely to the subject. As Kerry tries once
again for peace, this time between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the subject is back in the
news.
MATERIAL: In addition to research in books, memoirs, and records, Wright interviewed
President and Rosalynn Carter extensively and consulted their conference journals. He was also
able to speak with at least five people in each of the three retinues that accompanied the
leaders, as well as to others knowledgeable about the event.
CAMP DAVID, THE PLAY, BY LAWRENCE WRIGHT: Uses only four characters: the three
leaders--Begin (Ron Rifkin), Sadat (Khaled Nabawy), Carter (Richard Thomas)--and Rosalynn
Carter (Hallie Foote). It has a six-week run at the Arena Stage, in Washington, D.C. Previews
began March 21, 2014. Response excellent. Possibly moving to New York in the fall.
Author Residence: Austin, TX
Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of one novel, God's
Favorite, and six previous books of nonfiction, including In the New World; Saints and
Sinners; Remembering Satan; The Looming Tower, which was the recipient of many
honors; and Going Clear. He is also a screenwriter and a playwright. He and his wife are
longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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A Path Appears
Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Page Count: 384
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From the authors of the #1 New York Times best-selling Half the Sky, a unique
and essential narrative about making a difference in the world--a road-map to
becoming a conscientious global citizen. Soon to be the basis of a PBS four-hour
series.
Equal in urgency and compassion to Half the Sky, this galvanizing new book from the
acclaimed husband-and-wife team is even more ambitious in scale: nothing less than a
deep examination of people who are making the world a better place, and the myriad
ways we can support them, whether with a donation of five dollars or five million, an
inkling to help or a useful skill to deploy. With scrupulous research and on-the-ground
reporting, the authors assay the art and science of giving--determining the current most
successful local and global aid initiatives (on issues from education to inner-city violence
to disease prevention), evaluating the efficiency and impact of specific approaches and
charities, as well as fund-raising. Most compellingly, perhaps, they show us how
particular people have made a difference, and offer practical advice on how best each of
us can give and what we can personally derive from doing so.
STRONG SALES: Half the Sky was a #1 New York Times best seller and has more than
635,000 copies in print across all formats. It is in its twenty-seventh printing in hardcover.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM: Half the Sky garnered stellar reviews and appeared on many "best of
2009" book lists (e.g., Washington Post 10 Best Books of the Year and Publishers Weekly Top
100 Books of 2009).
ROBUST MEDIA PLATFORM: A four-part series based on the book (and carrying the same
title) will air on PBS. As a New York Times op-ed columnist, Kristof enjoys a devoted readership,
many of whom also follow his frequently updated blog, "On the Ground." The authors have been
publicizing their Half the Sky Movement (www.halftheskymovement.org), which has produced a
multipart PBS documentary and a series of mobile games dedicated to fostering education and
awareness of women's rights and health issues.
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS: In his Times column, Kristof has become known for his efforts
to raise awareness and galvanize national action on issues like the Darfur genocide. He was the
subject of a 2009 HBO documentary, Reporter, about his work in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Sheryl WuDunn is the founder of a firm dedicated to advancing "double bottom line"
companies, i.e., those with a charitable mission as well as a profit motive.
TITLE: The book's epigraph, from which the title derives, encapsulates the authors' goal to incite
positive change: "Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing--but as
people walk this way again and again, a path appears." --Lu Xun, Chinese essayist, 1921
CHARITY COMPONENT: Two foundations will be making donations tied to each book sold, and
the authors will donate part of their earnings to select charities. Details to come.
Author Residence: Scarsdale, NY
Author Hometown: NK: Yamhill, OR; SW: NYC
NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN, husband and wife, have coauthored
three previous books: Half the Sky, Thunder from the East, and China Wakes. They
were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the 2009 Dayton
Literary Peace Prize. Now an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, Kristof was
previously bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He won his second Pulitzer in
2006 for his columns on Darfur. WuDunn worked at the Times as a business editor and
foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing, and now works in banking.
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Collected Poems
Mark Strand
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Category: Poetry
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A celebration of the magnificent career of the former poet laureate of the United
States and Pulitzer Prize winner whose haunting and exemplary style has
influenced an entire generation of American poets.
Beginning with Reasons for Moving, published in 1968, Mark Strand was hailed as a
poet of piercing originality and elegance, and in the ensuing half century he has not
swerved from his vision of how a poem should be shaped and what it should deliver. As
he entered the stunning middle period of his career, with volumes such as The
Continuous Life (1990), he was already well known for his ability to capture the subtle
music of consciousness, and for creating painterly physical landscapes that could
answer to the inner self: "And here the dark infinitve to feel, / Which would endure and
have the earth be still / And the star-strewn night pour down the mountains into the
hissing fields and silent towns..." In his later work, from Blizzard of One (1998) which
won the Pulitzer Prize, through the cheeky riddles of his recent Almost Invisible (2012),
Strand has delighted in reminding us that there is no poet quite like him for a dose of
dark wit that turns out to be deep wisdom, and self-deprecation. He has given voice to
our collective imagination with a grandeur and comic honesty worthy of his great Knopf
forebear Wallace Stevens. With this volume, we celebrate his canonical work.
STRAND IN THE CANON: Mark has long ago taken his place on the Mount Rushmore of
American poets. A Collected from him will garner major review attention and discussion.
LECTURES AND APPEARANCES: Though Mark now lives abroad, he will come to do key
appearances, and will sell and promote well in the right venues.
Praise for Mark Strand
"Strand's poems resonate with a shimmering sense of the infinite that befits his stature...His
apparently simple lines have the eerie, seductive ring of the inevitable." --The New York Times
Book Review
"Breaktakingly, unostentatiously skillful." --Philadelphia Inquirer
Author Residence: Madrid, Spain
Mark Strand is the author many books of poems, a book of stories, and three volumes of
translations, and is the editor of several anthologies. He has received many honors and
awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize (for Blizzard of One), the
Bollingen Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. In 1990, he was appointed poet laureate of the United States. He lives in Madrid.
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Seven Bad Ideas
How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America
and the World
Jeff Madrick
The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of
some of our most accepted economic theories--why they're wrong, the harm
they've done, and the theories that would vastly improve on them.
Jeff Madrick--former New York Times business columnist and now Harper's
economics columnist--mounts a comprehensive case against prevailing mainstream
economic thinking, illustrating how it has damaged markets, infrastructure, and individual
livelihoods, causing hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted investment; financial crisis
after financial crisis; poor public education and public transportation; gross inequality of
income and wealth, and stagnating wages; uncontrolled military spending; and a failed
healthcare system that delivers far less than it costs. Using the Great Recession as his
foremost case study, Madrick shows how the decisions America should have made
before, during, and after the financial crisis were suppressed by popular theory, and how
the consequences are still being felt here and around the globe. And he examines the
too-often-marginalized good ideas of modern economics, and convincingly argues just
how beneficial they might be if only they can gain greater traction among policy makers.
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Category: Business
BISAC 1: Business & Economics - Economic History
BISAC 2: Political Science - Economic Policy
BISAC 3: Business & Economics - Business Ethics
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 8-1/4
Illustrations: 1 CHART
STRONG REVIEWS: Madrick's previous book, Age of Greed, received stellar critical attention
(see below), and the Washington Post named it a Notable Nonfiction Book of 2011.
A WORLD-CLASS ECONOMIST: Madrick has established himself in the company of liberal
economists including Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, and Robert Kuttner. Seven Bad Ideas picks
up after Reich's Aftershock, identifying what must change to avoid a reoccurrence of the Great
Recession.
FRONTAL ATTACK ON CONSERVATIVE ECONOMICS: Milton Friedman is seen here as the
archenemy, and Alan Greenspan comes in for major criticism.
WELL-TAILORED AUTHOR PLATFORM: Madrick is a columnist for Harper's and a regular
contributor to The New York Review of Books, both of which publications have subscriber bases
who really buy books.
Praise for Age of Greed:
"Fascinating... a much-needed reminder of just how we got into the mess we're in...Greatly
needed when we are still being told that greed is good." --Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, The
New York Review of Books
"The timing could not be better for a book like Age of Greed."-- San Francisco Chronicle
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Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Seaford, NY
JEFF MADRICK, a former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times,
is a contributing editor for Harper's, a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books, and editor of Challenge Magazine. He is visiting professor of humanities at The
Cooper Union, and director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government
Initiative at the Roosevelt Institute. His books include Age of Greed, The End of
Affluence, and Taking America. He has also written for The Washington Post, the Los
Angeles Times, Institutional Investor, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Boston
Globe, and Newsday. He lives in New York City.
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The Zone of Interest
A novel
Martin Amis
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that
provides a searing portrait of life--and, shockingly, love--in a concentration camp.
Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to
create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your
soul--it showed you who you really were.
The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The
courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look
at it for sixty seconds without turning away. And no one could.
The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive
the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are?
In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and
contradictions of the human soul.
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Page Count: 304
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CERTAIN ACCLAIM: Each of Amis's last four books appeared on the cover of The New York
Times Book Review, and in papers and magazines across the country.
SUBJECT:Of his twenty-plus titles in Vintage, Time's Arrow--which also has to do with the
Holocaust--backlists the most successfully, and clearly this book will enjoy that same appeal. It
should also arouse controversy and debate.
PR:An irresistible subject for profiles, Amis offers endless promotional opportunities and now
conveniently live in Brooklyn.
Praise for Martin Amis
"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation." --Time
"A choreographer of imagination and ideas, bracing and morally brave." --Los Angeles Times
"A force unto himself . . . There is, quite simply, no one else like him." --The Washington Post
Author Hometown: Swansea, South Wales
Martin Amis is the author of thirteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two
collections of stories, and six nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn.
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All the Truth Is Out
The Fall of Gary Hart and the Rise of Tabloid Politics
Matt Bai
The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine
brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the
intersection of American media and politics.
In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in
for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H. W. Bush comfortably in
the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model
snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing
down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and
late-night farce. Matt Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the
ethos of political media--and, by extension, politics itself--when candidates' "character"
began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai offers a poignant, highly
original, and news-making reappraisal of Hart's fall from grace (and overlooked political
legacy) as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm
shifted--private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became
the stuff of Page Six.
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BISAC 1: History - United States - 20th Century
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BISAC 3: Political Science - Government - National
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TOP-NOTCH AUTHOR: Matt Bai was a political correspondent for The New York Times
Magazine for more than a decade. He is now national political columnist for Yahoo! News. His
last book, The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, was named one of
the best books of 2007 by The New York Times.
GAME CHANGER: The author offers additional facts and corrects misinformation about how
Hart was brought down that will fundamentally alter our understanding of the event. He reveals
for the first time who leaked the story and photos, and Donna Rice herself adds telling details.
MEDIA PLATFORM: In addition to his print journalism and blog writing, Bai maintains a personal
website and is an active Twitter user, with more than 12,000 followers. Yahoo! has promised
promotional assistance.
CONTROVERSY: Bai's argument that the Gary Hart affair marked a turning point in the
evolution of American political media will be grist for the mill of the chattering classes.
Praise for All the Truth Is Out: "In the tradition of his friend Richard Ben Cramer, Matt Bai
astonishes us by delving deeply into a story and thus overturning our views about how the press
should cover politics." --Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
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Author Hometown: Trumbull, CT
MATT BAI is national political columnist for Yahoo! News. For more than a decade he
was a political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of
The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, named one of the best
books of 2007 by The New York Times. He lives in Bethesda, MD.
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Elsa Schiaparelli
A Biography
Meryle Secrest
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The first biography of the grand couturier, surrealist, and embattled figure (her
medium was apparel), whose extraordinary work has stood the test of time.
Her style was a social revolution through clothing--luxurious, eccentric, ironic, sexy;
synonymous with fashion innovation and chicesse. She was audacious; her fashions
were inspired from the whimsical to the most practical--from a Venetian cape of the
commedia dell'arte to a Soviet parachute. She collaborated on her designs with some of
the greatest artists of the twentieth-century: on jewelry with Jean Schlumberger; on
clothes with Salvador Dalí; with Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti; with photographers
Man Ray, Horst, Cecil Beaton, and the young Richard Avedon.
Her name: Elsa Schiaparelli. She was known as the Queen of Fashion; a headline
attraction in the international glitter-glamour show of the late twenties and thirties; she
gave fabulous parties--and went to those given by others; she lived and worked
seriously and hard in much-photographed residences and was a guest at others; she
knew the "everybodies" who were always "there" and inevitably became one of them
herself, feted in Rome (where she was born), Paris, New York, London, Moscow, Dallas,
Hollywood, Dublin.
Now, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer--whose work has been called
"enthralling" (WSJ); "captivating" (WP Book World); "Rich in detail, scrupulously
researched, sympathetically written" (NYRB), and who has captured the lives of many of
the twentieth-century's most iconic, cultural figures, among them: Frank Lloyd Wright,
Bernard Berenson, Leonard Bernstein, Duveen; Richard Rodgers; Modigliani; Stephen
Sondheim--gives us the never-before-told story of this most extraordinary fashion
designer, perhaps the most extraordinary fashion designer of the twentieth-century, who
in her time was more famous than Chanel.
This is Schiaparelli's moment: the rebirth in January 2014 at 21 Place Vendome in Paris, after
six decades, of the Maison Schiaparelli; in the form of designer Marco Zanini, formerly of
Rochas; the Christian Lacroix tribute; the 2012 Prada Schiaparelli show at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art that set the stage.
AUTHOR: Meryle Secrest's large and well-established reputation as a first-rate biographer.
SUBJECT: There have been two books about Elsa Schiaparelli: her own memoir, Shocking Life,
which was published in 1954, in which she revealed little of her life; and Palmer White's
biography, published in 1986 after Schiaparelli's death, which was mostly about her work as a
designer but steered away from her private life.
The sources used (the usual archives as well as obscure government records from State
Department files of the 1930s to FOIA FBI files; British National Archives, etc.) to get to the truth
of the life of this extraordinary person.
PUBLICITY: The author has already confirmed talks on Schiaparelli for fall 2014: Cosmopolitan
Club in New York, the Philadelphia Museum; the Dalí Museum; Parsons; Leslie Hindman,
Chicago; the Aspen Institute; the French Embassy in Washington; Musée Galliera in Paris;
Cosmos Club, Washington; Sulgrave Club, Washington; and the Fashion Museum, Bath. More
to come.
Author Hometown: Bath, England
Meryle Secrest is the author of ten biographies and the recipient of the 2006 National
Humanities Medal.
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio
A True Story
Hubert Wolf
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Category: Religion
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Page Count: 512
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A true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a
nineteenth century convent--discovered by the world's leading papal scholar in a
secret Vatican archive.
In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the
convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the
Pope, claiming that she was being abused and feared for her life. What the subsequent
investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered were the extraordinary secrets of
Sant'Ambrogio and the illicit behavior of the convent's beautiful young mistress, Maria
Luissa. What emerges through the fog of centuries is a sex scandal of ecclesiastical
proportions, skillfully brought to light and vividly reconstructed in scholarly detail. Offering
a broad historical background on female mystics and the cult of the Virgin Mary, and
drawing upon written testimony and original documents, Professor Wolf tells the
incredible story of how one woman was able to perform deception, heresy, seduction,
and murder in the heart of the Catholic Church.
DEVIOUS NUNS: Having convinced those under her charge of visions and heavenly visitations,
Maria Luissa began to lead, and coerce, her novices into lesbian initiation rites and entered into
a highly erotized relationship with a young theologian known as Pater Peters--urging him to
dispense upon her, in the privacy and sanctity of the confessional box, what the two of them
referred to as the "special benediction."
HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE: After his sentence was commuted by the Pope, the humiliated
and disgraced Pater Peters went on to become a prime theological architect of the controversial
doctrine of Papal Infallibility, imposed in 1870.
BACKSTORY: Professor Wolf was among the very first scholars to be granted access to the
archives of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith--formerly the Office of the
Inquisition--in order to investigate the Vatican's complicity with the Third Reich, a question of
such sensitivity that the Vatican was comfortable only with someone of his stature. When asked
what it felt like to discover the secrets of Sant'Ambrogio for the first time he responded, "It felt
like discovering Troy."
Author Residence: Muenster, Germany
HUBERT WOLF, born in 1959, is a professor of ecclesiastical history at University of
Muenster, Germany. He was honored with the Leibnizpreis of the German Science
Society (DFG), the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize, and he was a fellow
at the historical society in Munich. Translated by Ruth Martin.
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A Painter's Progress
A Portrait of Lucian Freud
David Dawson
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More than 235 behind-the-scenes color photographs of Freud at work, at home
with friends and animals and on trips abroad, taken over a period of twenty years
by his assistant and model David Dawson.
Very few people had access to the extremely private but iconic British painter Lucian
Freud who died in 2011. He moved in rarified, powerful circles and was ferocious about
protecting his privacy; he was known to have had a major American company remove
their magazine from the newstands because he did not like something said about him in
the issue. David Dawson, his confidant and gatekeeper, was the only person allowed to
photograph Freud in the last twenty years. His photographs tell an intriguing story and
reveal so much about the final years of Freud's life that they have been included in the
recent exhibitions of Freud's paintings and drawings in New York, São Paulo, Vienna,
London, and Dublin. Intimate, vivid, and unexpected, they show us how Freud worked,
and where he worked: the paint-splattered walls and floors of his Holland Park studio
with its disheveled bed, doing a portrait of the Queen or Hockney, clowning with Kate
Moss, having tea with Bono, looking at a Velázquez in the Prado, or the paintings of the
Duke of Beaufort at Badminton House, Gloucestershire, among many others.
The book begins in the Holland Park studio, then moves to his eighteenth-century
house in London, where, at the end, he made the first floor his studio. We tour the rooms
of his house just as he left them and see his own collection of art before it was
dispersed. All text and captions are by David Dawson, who was privy to most everything.
Haunting and fascinating, this is a revelatory document about one of our most important
and influential painters.
IN THE NEWS: In November 2013, the sale at Christies of Francis Bacon's triptych portrait of
friend and rival Lucian Freud for $142.4 million broke all records and stunned the art world as it
topped the previous record set in May for the sale at Sotheby's of Edvard Munch's The Scream
for $119.9 millon. But the painting stayed in the news as people and the media speculated about
the mysterious buyer later revealed in mid-January 2014 to have been Elaine Pascal Wynn,
ex-wife of Las Vegas resort-owner Steve Wynn.
GIFT POTENTIAL: In a market of their own, art books are for the new collectors as well as art
historians.
ICONIC SUBJECT: Lucian Freud is one of giants in the art world--his work is modern, shocking
and monumental--and this portrait of him is not only provocative but tender, showing him with
the horse, fox, falcon, and dog he adored, as well as one of his daughters, Bella, and his
grandson. Freud had a retrospective at the Tate in London in 2002 which traveled to Barcelona
and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. And the Metropolitan in New York has also
had a major survey show.
Author Residence: London, United Kingdom
DAVID DAWSON studied at the Royal College of Art before becoming an assistant,
model, and photographer for Lucian Freud. His photographs of Freud were exhibited at
the National Portrait Gallery, in 2004, at the Acquavella Gallery in New York, and at
Hazlitt, Holland-Hibbert in London among other places; they are currently at the
Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. He has also had shows of his own paintings at
Marlborough Gallery in 2007 and 2013.
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Some Luck
A novel
Jane Smiley
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres: a heartwarming,
deeply engaging new novel--the life and times of an American farm family over
three transformative decades--certain to become an instant classic.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored
values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children:
Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the
natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage
with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different;
and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart. Moving from post-World
War I America through the early 1950s, Some Luck gives us an intimate look at this
family's triumphs and tragedies, zooming in on the realities of farm life, while casting--as
the children grow up and scatter to New York, California, and everywhere in between--a
panoramic eye on the monumental changes that marked the first half of the twentieth
century. Rich with humor and wisdom, twists and surprises, Some Luck takes us through
deeply emotional cycles of births and deaths, passions, and betrayals, displaying
Smiley's dazzling virtuosity, compassion, and understanding of human nature and the
nature of history, never discounting the role of fate and chance. This potent conjuring of
many lives across generations is a stunning tour de force.
AUTHOR: The most exciting project yet by a beloved writer in top form. With her Pulitzer and
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, Smiley is one of America's most celebrated literary
treasures, whose range of subjects seems infinite. She has established a rock-solid reputation
among critics, reviewers, and readers alike.
TRILOGY: A seamless blend of family drama with history, this is the first volume of an epic
trilogy that chronicles life in America over the last century--a saga that will eventually span
1920-2019, each chapter covering a single year. The second and third volumes are complete,
and tentatively slated for February/March 2015 and August 2015 publications, respectively, but
each volume will stand brilliantly alone as well. These books will appeal to readers of
contemporary trilogies like those of Haruki Murakami, Ken Follett, Hilary Mantel, and Penny
Vincenzi.
GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS: This thrilling new cycle of novels will be hailed as a capstone to
an astonishing career.
9-city Author Tour: Chicago, Iowa City,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis,
New York, St. Louis, San Francisco,
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Author Residence: Carmel Valley, CA
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JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well as five works of nonfiction and a series of books
for young adults. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, and in 2006 she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for
Literature.
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The Marquis
Lafayette Reconsidered
Laura Auricchio
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American
Revolution, a book that looks past the storybook general and selfless champion of
righteous causes who, at the age of nineteen, volunteered to fight under George
Washington, casting aside fortune and family (from one of France's oldest
families; his ancestors served in the Crusades and alongside Joan of Arc) to
advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice.
We see how Lafayette's reputation rose to great heights during the American
Revolution but collapsed more than a decade later during the French Revolution; how
when the Bastille fell on July 14, 1789, Parisians hailed Lafayette as the French
Washington, appointing him commander of their National Guard in the hope that he
would be able to restore order to a city wracked by starvation and violence. As
revolutionaries hurtled in radical directions and staunch monarchists dug in their heels,
Lafayette lost control, remaining steadfast in his belief that the French monarchy needed
to be reformed, but not abolished, and doing everything in his power to prevent an
American-style republic from taking root in his native land. Formerly seen as France's
heroic figure, he was now a traitor to his nation, forced to flee his country, and today
remains a murky figure in French memory.
SUBJECT: The Marquis draws on substantial new research conducted at archives, libraries, and
museums; the first Lafayette biography to incorporate newspapers and pamphlets of the day
that shaped public opinion in the Age of Revolution.
COMPARATIVE TITLES: Marc Leepson, Lafayette (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) relies on
published sources and makes no claims to providing new information; David A. Clary, Adopted
Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (Bantam, 2007);
Jason Lane, General and Madame de Lafayette, written by a member of the American Friends
of Lafayette; Olivier Bernier, Lafayette: Hero of Two Worlds (Dutton, 1983); Lafayette in
America, six volumes by Louis Gottschalk (published 1935-1969) covering the first 33 years (!)
of Lafayette's life (he died at age 77).
LAFAYETTE IS STILL BEING CELEBRATED AS THE EPITOME OF THE SPIRIT OF
DEMOCRACY AND THE HISTORIC BOND BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FRANCE: A
reconstruction of the ship--a perfect replica of the most authentic tall ship ever made--will
re-create the journey the French general made in 1780 when he brought news of French support
and troops for the American Revolutionary War. The new ship will sail across the Atlantic from
France to the United States in 2015. Both the ship and the man on it became pivotal; the war
wouldn't have been won without it. L'Hermione will port in Yorktown, Virginia, where the original
L'Hermione took part in the blockade that led to the British surrender, then sail on to Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Halifax, Nova Scotia; visitors will be able to tour the docked
ship and see a traveling exhibition.
LAURA AURICCHIO is a specialist in eighteenth-century French history and art who
received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Columbia
University. She received her doctorate with distinction at Columbia in 2000, sponsored
by Simon Schama. Auricchio has been the recipient of major fellowships from the
Fulbright Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Columbia University. She has taught
at Princeton University and Connecticut College, and is currently the Dean of the School
of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Public Engagement.
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Hitler's First Victims
The Beginning of the Holocaust
Timothy W. Ryback
From the author of the widely praised Hitler's Private Library: the remarkable
story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to
justice the first Nazi killers of the Holocaust.
The prosecution at the Nuremberg trials was charged with proving that the monstrous
acts of the SS were not, as the defendants argued, a case of foot soldiers performing
"normal duty." A key argument focused on the first killings by SS guards in the Dachau
concentration camp in 1933. Now, Timothy Ryback's gripping and poignant historical
narrative focuses on those events and on the investigation that followed, which exposed
not only the earliest evidence of the machinery of the Holocaust, but also the remarkable
courage of Josef Hartinger, a local Munich prosecutor, who openly challenged these first
homicidal impulses of the Third Reich. Ryback describes Hartinger's willingness to risk
everything in an unflinching pursuit of justice. And he makes clear that while Hartinger's
fight couldn't stop the Nazi atrocity, his story suggests how vastly different history might
have been had others acted with equal determination and personal courage.
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enthusiastic (see below); The Washington Post Book World named it to the Best Nonfiction list
of 2008. The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau was a New York Times Notable book in 1999.
PREEMINENT IN HIS NICHE: With the publication of Hitler's Private Library in 20 countries, and
his writings on the Third Reich in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times,
Ryback has become a major figure in his field.
NOTABLE COMPANY: Josef Hartinger, the centerpiece of Hitler's First Victims, fought against
injustice and the murder of Jews every bit as forcefully as Oskar Schindler and Raoul
Wallenberg. This book ends where Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts begins.
HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INVOLVEMENT: Josef Hartinger's 92-page memoir, which gave rise to
this book, will be made a permanent part of the museum's collection. A museum event will be
tied to our publication.
Praise for Hitler's Private Library:
"Crisply written...Thoroughly engrossing...Fascinating." -The Washington Post Book World
"Fascinating... Deftly and with an economy of words, he sketches the future dictator's transition
from young volunteer to bitter and hardened soldier." --The Boston Globe
Author Residence: Paris, France
Author Hometown: Belleville, Michigan
TIMOTHY W. RYBACK is the author of Hitler's Private Library, which was named to the
Washington Post Book World Best Nonfiction list in 2008, and The Last Survivor:
Legacies of Dachau, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for The Atlantic
Monthly, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He lives
and works in Paris.
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The Georgetown Set
Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington
Gregg Herken
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A fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of postwar Washington--a rich and
colorful portrait of the close-knit group of journalists, spies, and government
officials who waged the Cold War over cocktails and dinner.
In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely
group of Cold Warriors: a coterie of affluent, well-educated, and well-connected civilians
who helped steer American strategy from the Marshall Plan through McCarthyism,
Vietnam, and the endgame of Watergate. This Georgetown set included Phil and Kay
Graham, husband-and-wife publishers of The Washington Post; Joe and Stewart Alsop,
odd-couple brothers who were among the country's premier political pundits; Frank
Wisner, a driven, manic-depressive lawyer in charge of CIA covert operations; and a
host of diplomats, spies, and scholars. It was a time when presidents made foreign
policy in consultation with reporters and professors--often over martinis and hors
d'oeuvres--and columnists like the Alsops promoted those policies in the next day's
newspapers. Gregg Herken illuminates the drama of these years and brings this
remarkable roster of men and women and their world not only out into the open, but
vividly to life.
UNUSUALLY INTIMATE: Cold War history told through the actions of a tight-knit collection of
the people who both experienced and directed it to the very end.
BASED UPON NEWLY AVAILABLE SOURCES: The author's extensive original research
includes recently declassified CIA and FBI documents obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, as well as exclusive access to previously unavailable private papers.
BEYOND OLD BOYS AND WISE MEN: The Georgetown Set prominently features Kay Graham,
publisher of The Washington Post, as one of the most important of Washington's political
players.
AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY: Herken indulges the guilty American pleasures of observing the
well-oiled social connections that proliferate at the nation's highest levels.
PARALLEL UNIVERSE: Herken's Washington is one of the "coziest capitals" in the
world--making it an interesting comparison with our own hyper-partisan D.C.
"An absolutely fascinating look into a world that has long remained half hidden but was
at the center of America's postwar global supremacy. This book was waiting to be
written, and Gregg Herken delivers with insight and panache." --Evan Thomas, author of
The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA and Ike's Bluff
"Gregg Herken has diligently brought the old Eastern Establishment back to life in The
Georgetown Set. A whole host of luminaries--Joseph Alsop, Dean Acheson, Paul Nitze,
Phil and Kay Graham among them--make grand appearances in this group biography.
Herken has connected the dots between these so-called--"Wise Men of the twentieth
century" better than anybody else. An absolutely wonderful read!"--Douglas Brinkley,
author of Cronkite
Author Residence: Santa Cruz, CA
GREGG HERKEN is professor emeritus of modern American diplomatic history at the
University of California, and the author of Brotherhood of the Bomb, The Winning
Weapon, Counsels of War, and Cardinal Choices. He and his family live in Santa Cruz,
California.
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It Ain't Sauce, It's Gravy
Macaroni, Homestyle Cheesesteaks, the Best Meatballs
in the World, and How Food Saved My Life
Steve Martorano
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From the self-proclaimed heavyweight champ of Italian-American cooking and
owner of four incredibly popular restaurants in Florida and Las Vegas--a
cookbook that includes all the staples of delicious Philly-style comfort food
served up in the author's deliciously flamboyant style.
Has cooking ever saved a life? It definitely rescued Steve Martorano: from the streets
of South Philadelphia and an almost certain end in jail or worse. And, 18 years after
opening the original Cafe Martorano in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, he has two restaurants in
Las Vegas, another in Hollywood, Florida, and a devoted and ever-growing clientele
(including a bevy of celebrities), who are more than willing to wait hours for a table. Now,
in this personal, funny, delectable cookbook, Martorano offers us a wide range of the
dishes that have made his restaurants so popular: along with his classic tried-and-true
favorites like meatballs and gravy, fresh mozzarella stuffed hot peppers, and fried
calamari, here is newer fare like grilled octopus with lemons, Sicilian rice balls, buffalo
mozzarella, and braised pigs' feet. And don't worry: he doesn't skip the cocktails or
dessert!
MARTORANO HIMSELF: He pulls you in with his huge personality and authenticity, and this
alone should present a ton of unique publicity opportunities.
BOOK'S HISTORY: Martorano self-published a version of this book, sold it only at his
restaurants, and he's sold 5,000 copies. BUT: Our book has more than 50 additional recipes -80 in all -- and the text has been 80% rewritten and reconfigured. Ours is, in essence, a
brand-new book. The self-published book will not be sold in the restaurants for 6 months
prior to our pub.
ENDORSEMENTS: With praise already from the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Cruise, Jamie
Foxx, Peyton Manning, Lorraine Bracco, Monique, Guy Fieri, and Dan Marino, Martorano will
tap into his faithful celebrity clientele to promote this book and introduce new readers to his food.
GIVING BACK: Steve is very grateful for everything he has in his life and part of the reward is
being able to give back to his community and under-privileged youngsters. He lives to help kids
in trouble--often hiring them to work in his restaurants. This book will not only tell his amazing
story but hopefully provide inspiration for others.
Author Residence: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Author Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
STEVE MARTORANO is the owner of Cafe Martorano in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and
Hollywood, Florida and two Martorano's locations in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has also
launched a Martorano wine label, pasta sauces, and a line of clothing. He currently
resides in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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Maeve's Times
In Her Own Words
Maeve Binchy
Five decades of selected writings from the Irish Times by the beloved and
best-selling author, filled with her hallmark humor, candor, and wisdom--a
timeless gift to her legion of fans.
Maeve Binchy once confessed: "As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying
to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am
obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives."
She was an accidental journalist, yet from the beginning, her writings reflected the
warmth, wit, and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction.
From the royal wedding to boring airplane companions, Samuel Beckett to Margaret
Thatcher, "senior moments" to life as a waitress, Maeve's Times gives us wonderful
insight into a changing Ireland as it celebrates the work of one of our best-loved writers
in all its diversity--revealing her characteristic directness, laugh-out-loud humor, and
unswerving gaze into the true heart of a matter.
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Page Count: 400
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
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MAEVE IN HER OWN WORDS: Maeve never wanted to write an official autobiography and this
is the closest anyone will ever get to know their beloved author. The introduction by her
husband, Gordon Snell, brings her that much closer. Reading this book is like sitting down with
an old friend, not unlike the way Nora Ephron entranced us.
SUCCESS AROUND THE POND: Edited by Irish Times journalist Róisín Ingle, Maeve's Times
quickly reached #1 on The Irish Times best-seller list and made it to #5 on the Sunday Times
best-seller list.
MOMENTUM: After the hugely successful hardcover of A Week in Winter, Anchor published the
paperback in January 2014, then Chestnut Street, a new hardcover, follows in May, and then
Maeve's Times in December. The year of Maeve...
Praise for Maeve's Times
"Funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people...what this
wonderful collection...makes abundantly clear is that she was a superb journalist." --The Irish
Times
"Brimming with Binchy's intelligence, incisive wit, straightforwardness and incomparable charm."
--Burnley Express
Author Hometown: Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland
MAEVE BINCHY is the author of numerous best-selling books, including her most recent
novels, A Week in Winter, Minding Frankie, Heart and Soul, and Whitethorn Woods, as
well as Circle of Friends and Tara Road, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection.
Married to Gordon Snell, she lived in Dalkey, Ireland, until her death in July 2012 at the
age of seventy-two.
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Prince Lestat
The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire
universe beginning with the now iconic INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, THE
VAMPIRE LESTAT, and QUEEN OF THE DAMNED--a stunning departure, a
surprising and compelling return . . . a new, exhilarating novel that deepens Rice's
vampire mythology, and gives us a chillingly hypnotic, rich mystery-thriller.
"What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now
contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and
again..." --from The Vampire Lestat
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Page Count: 464
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
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Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful
forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take
blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire
Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned ("mesmerizing" --SF
Chronicle), a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat ("brilliant...its
undead characters are utterly alive" --New York Times) left off more than a quarter of a
century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters,
legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.
The novel opens with the vampire world in crisis...vampires have been proliferating
out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to
those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned... Old vampires, roused from
slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they
indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong,
Kyoto, and San Francisco.
As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient
Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the
worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles--Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally
young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora
and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and
Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive,
supernatural creatures--come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to
ultimately rise up and seek out who--or what--the Voice is, and to discover the secret of
what it desires and why...
And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer,
the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince
Lestat...
SUBJECT: Anne Rice's long-awaited first vampire novel in eleven years; her continuation of The
Vampire Lestat, first published in 1985 (more than 4 million copies sold to date), and The Queen
of the Damned 1988 (more than 3 million copies).
TRACK: The success of The Wolf Gift (337,000 copies) and the fulsome embrace by critics of
the Wolf Gift Chronicles.
AUTHOR: Anne Rice herself.
Author Residence: Palm Desert, CA
ANNE RICE is the author of thirty-two books. She lives in Palm Desert, California.
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Wolf Gift, The (Ebk)/Rice, Anne/EL
Of Love And Evil/Rice, Anne/HC
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore
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Category: History
BISAC 1: Social Science - Feminism & Feminist
Theory
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 150 ILLUS + 24PP OF 4C;4C ENDS
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A riveting work that reveals the origin of one of American popular culture's most
iconic figures--a story that hides within it not only a fascinating family saga but a
crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. From the author of the National
Book Award finalist Book of Ages.
Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time.
Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so
vast and wildly passionate a following. In the more than seven decades since she first
appeared, her comic books have never been out of print. In years of interviews and
archival research, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has
uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private
papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Lepore has discovered
that, from Marston's days as a Harvard undergraduate, he was influenced by early
suffragists and feminists, starting with the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst, who
was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the
1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home, as Marston's mistress, the niece of
Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. The
Marston family story--a house of one man, three women, and four children--is a story of
drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Sanger's niece together wrote a
regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they
pursued a life of extraordinary nonconformity. No less fascinating is Marston's role as
the inventor of the lie detector. Internationally known as an expert on truth, he lived a life
of secrets--only to spill them, as if in secret code, on the pages of the Wonder Woman
comics he began writing in 1941.
The Secret History of Wonder Woman not only explains what has long baffled
readers of Wonder Woman--in particular, the role of bondage in Marston's stories--but
also reveals that Wonder Woman, a little slinky, and very kinky, is the missing link in the
history of the struggle for women's rights--a chain of events that begins with the
women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of
feminism a century later.
AUTHOR: Lepore's visibility and readership continue to grow.
ORIGINAL MATERIAL: Lepore had access to Marston family albums, FBI files, and Marston's
private papers which have never been seen by anyone outside his family.
PREVIEW: Prior to our publication, The New Yorker will run a piece by Lepore exploring
connections between Wonder Woman and feminism, past and present. Lepore will participate in
this fall's New Yorker Festival.
AUDIENCE: From comics enthusiasts (Zadie Smith, Michael Chabon) to readers of Cleopatra
and Bossypants.
Author Residence: Cambridge, MA
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard
University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include Book of Ages, a
finalist for the National Book Award; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize;
The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; and The Mansion of Happiness, which
was short-listed for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She
lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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China 1945
Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein
A riveting account of a watershed moment in history: when America's struggles
with the despotic Chiang Kai-shek and the manipulative, ascendant Mao Zedong
altered the course of East-West relations.
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with Mao and his
Communist rebels. But by year's end Communist diplomacy had all but frozen and
America was resigned to unqualified support for China's Allied leader, General Chiang
Kai-Shek, despite growing certainty that Mao was China's heir apparent--a political
allegiance whose consequences would echo down the subsequent decades, most
violently in the form of the Korean and Vietnam wars. What happened? Richard
Bernstein brilliantly analyzes the many components of that year's sea change, from
ideological infighting among U.S. diplomats, military leaders, and opinion makers, to
Mao's opportunistic presentations of identity and ambition, to China's status as the
crucible of a new world order, in which Soviet influence and intention were increasingly
clearly manifest. Bernstein challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern
Sino-American paradigms and meaningfully considers whether things could have turned
out differently.
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Category: History
BISAC 2: History - China
BISAC 3: Political Science - International Relations
Page Count: 464
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Illustrations: 2 MAPS & 14 ILLUS IN TEXT
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KEY MOMENT IN TIME: Like Paris 1919 or Catastrophe 1914, a book that brilliantly depicts a
dramatic turning point in history and illuminates enduring themes.
LARGER-THAN-LIFE HISTORY: A war is raging, yet huge decisions need to be made for the
postwar period. Mao, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, George Marshall, Stillwell--the cast of
characters couldn't be grander.
AUTHOR CREDENTIALS ON CHINA: Studied with the legendary John Fairbank at Harvard;
first China bureau chief for Time magazine; wrote often on China for The New York Times (as
daily book critic and chief cultural correspondent) and now writes for The New York Review of
Books; fluent in Chinese; lives part of the year in Beijing; his best-selling book in hardcover was
The Coming Conflict With China.
Praise for Ultimate Journey:
"Wonderful...Deserves to become a classic in its own right."--The New York Times Book Review
"Bernstein has the ability with his lucid, penetrating prose to connect the distant past to the way
we live today."--Gay Talese
"An engaging read, a trek that rewards with its richly tapestried background and its refreshing
pauses for thoughtful historical and aesthetic insight."--Los Angeles Times
Author Hometown: East Haddam, CT
RICHARD BERNSTEIN has been a reporter, culture critic, and commentator for more
than thirty years. He was a foreign correspondent in Asia and Europe for Time magazine
and The New York Times, and was the first bureau chief in China for Time. He is the
author of many books on Chinese and Asian themes, among them: The Coming Conflict
with China and Ultimate Journey, the latter of which was a New York Times Best Book
of the Year. He is also the author of Out of the Blue: From Jihad to Ground Zero, which
was named by The Boston Globe as one of the seven best books of 2002.
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Vintage
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Knopf
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Empire of Cotton
A Global History
Sven Beckert
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Category: History
BISAC 2: History - Social History
BISAC 3: History - World
Page Count: 704
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Illustrations: 109 ILL IN TEXT; 2 MAPS
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Historical Review and The Chronicle of
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The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world
economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief
period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most
significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with
new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how,
beginning well before the advent of machine production in 1780, these men created a
potent innovation (Beckert calls it war capitalism, capitalism based on unrestrained
actions of private individuals; the domination of masters over slaves, of colonial
capitalists over indigenous inhabitants), and crucially affected the disparate realms of
cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how this thing called war capitalism shaped
the rise of cotton, and then was used as a lever to transform the world.
The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle
between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, farmers and merchants,
workers and factory owners. In this as in so many other ways, Beckert makes clear how
these forces ushered in the modern world.
The result is a book as unsettling and disturbing as it is enlightening: a book that
brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to
exist.
SUBJECT: Beckert's is the first book to tell the transformative history of cotton as one coherent
international narrative, from Mississippi's cotton plantations to the factories of England, from the
fields of Africa's farmers to the merchant houses of Bombay and Buenos Aires, from the workers
in Alsatian cotton mills to the spinners and weavers of the Mexican highlands.
Since the great global recession of 2008, few subjects have animated public discussion more
than that of capitalism. Beckert's book, focusing on one specific commodity, makes clear how
capitalism emerged and revolutionized the working and living conditions, even the fates, of
people around the world.
Empire of Cotton reveals how the enormous economic inequalities of the past two centuries that
have characterized the world have come about--following up on, and verging away from, the
work of Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel), David Landes (The Wealth and Poverty of
Nations), Niall Ferguson (The Great Degeneration), and, most recently, James Robinson (Why
Nations Fail).
Author Residence: Cambridge, MA
Author Hometown: Frankfurt, Germany
SVEN BECKERT was born in Frankfurt, Germany, studied at the University of Hamburg
and at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in American history. He
received a MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship for Research in Peace and Conflict
(1991). Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. He has been the
recipient of numerous fellowships from institutions including the Harvard Business
School, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New
York Public Library, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He
held further fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Translation: Yes
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9780521790390
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9780143037224
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Fields of Blood
Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong
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Category: Religion
BISAC 1: History - Civilization
BISAC 2: Religion - Ethics
BISAC 3: Religion - Comparative Religion
Page Count: 432
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Publicist: Kim Thornton
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features
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Boston, New York, and Washington,
D.C.
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From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping
exploration of religion's connection to violence.
For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline.
Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11, 2001 -- that faith
in general is a source of aggression, intolerance, and divisiveness, something bad for
society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths?
In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence
on mistaken understandings of the faiths around us, in our immediate community as well
as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen
Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions.
The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or
the Crusades, for example this one lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by
side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism.
Each of these faiths arose in an agrarian society with plenty of motivation for violence:
landowners had to lord it over peasants, and warfare was essential to increase one's
landholdings, the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and
commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimate the actions of the
state. And so the martial ethos became bound up with the sacred.
At the same time, however, the faiths developed ideologies that ran counter to the
warrior code: around sages, prophets, and mystics within each tradition there grew up
communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to
agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these two impulses and its
development as these confessional faiths came of age.
But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show
how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern
belligerence--and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time.
AUTHOR: Since the TED Prize and the launch of the Charter for Compassion in 2008,
Armstrong's visibility and audience have only grown.
SUBJECT: Goes to the heart of what has become an urgent concern: Is religion by its nature
ultimately violent as claimed by books like Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great and Richard
Dawkins's The God Delusion?
Author Residence: London, UK
Karen Armstrong is the author of numerous books on religious affairs, including The
Case for God, A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The
Great Transformation--as well as a memoir, The Spiral Staircase. Her work has been
translated into forty-five languages. In 2008 she was awarded the TED Prize and began
working with TED on the Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public,
crafted by leading thinkers in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and
Confucianism. It was launched globally in the fall of 2009. She is currently an
ambassador for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
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Family Furnishings
Selected Stories, 1995-2014
Alice Munro
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From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature--perhaps our most beloved
author--a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections
of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994).
By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic
reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, her reputation and readership has
skyrocketed worldwide. Now, Family Furnishings will bring us twenty-five of her most
accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, most of them set in the territory she has
so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario.
Sublty honed with the author's hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories
illuminate the ordinary but quite extraordinary particularity in the lives of men, women,
and children as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, head out into the unknown,
suffer defeat, find a way to be in the world.
As the Nobel Prize presentation speech reads in part: "Reading one of Alice Munro's
texts is like watching a cat walk across a laid dinner table. A brief short story can often
cover decades, summarizing a life, as she moves deftly between different periods. No
wonder Alice Munro is often able to say more in thirty pages than an ordinary novelist is
capable of in three hundred. She is a virtuoso of the elliptical and...the master of the
contemporary short story."
HER TRULY AMAZING POPULARITY: Vintage has sold more than 300,000 copies of Munro's
books since the Nobel announcement.
THE BEST OF THE BEST: These twenty-five stories are among her very best, ranging from
"The View from Castle Rock," in which a family leaves Edinburgh for Canada in 1810, to "The
Eye" and "Dear Life," two of the revelatory autobiographical stories that conclude Dear Life,
which she has said will be her final book.
FOR THE WIDEST AUDIENCE: This selection will appeal to both the beginning Munro reader
and those who want to renew their acquaintance with some of her best stories.
OBVIOUS GIFT BOOK: A no-brainer for the holidays.
FAMILY FURNISHINGS, together with the Selected Stories (1998-1994) now in Vintage,
chooses from all 13 of Munro's story collections. Everyman's Carried Away (from half her
collections) and Vintage Munro (only 6 stories,) are smaller selections.
Author Residence: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Author Hometown: Clinton, Ontario, Canada
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western
Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of
Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many
awards, including two Giller Prizes, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man
Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her
stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review,
Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen
languages. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia, near Lake Huron.
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The World of Raymond Chandler
In His Own Words
Raymond Chandler; edited by Barry Day
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The first book to give us the life and times of Raymond Chandler through his own
writing--from the acclaimed editor of The Letters of Noël Coward.
Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of
Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating
commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced
between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a
fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing
vernacular. Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was
to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the
way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain,
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham,
among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted
him in the post-World War I period...Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy
Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others...Chandler on organized crime and
on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armor who
walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights...on drinking (his life in the end
was in a race with alcohol--and loneliness)...and here are Chandler's women--the Little
Sisters; the dames--in his fiction--and his life.
SUBJECT: The first book to piece together the life and world of Chandler in his own words.
Written with the full cooperation of the Chandler estate.
AUTHOR: Barry Day's considerable reputation as a first-rate compiler and editor of the lives of
Dorothy Parker, P. G. Wodehouse, the Lunts, Harold Arlen, and editor of our very own Letters of
Noël Coward and The Noël Coward Reader.
With more than 100 photographs.
Chandler's books have sold 1.25 million copies in Vintage, and almost 60,000 copies in the last
three years (Collected Stories; Trouble is My Business; The Simple Art of Murder; Playback;
The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; The Lady in the Lake; The High Window; Farewell My
Lovely; The Big Sleep).
PRAISE FOR THE LETTERS OF NOËL COWARD: "There is much to dazzle here in just the
way we expect...the book is meticulous, artfully structured--splendid" --Daniel Mendelsohn, The
New York Review of Books; "What we get is much more than Coward's letters, however
delectable. . . the result is first class biography," --John Simon, front page of The New York
Times Book Review; "Noël Coward's letters are wonderful to read--what astounds me, however,
is Barry Day's brilliant commentary," --André Bishop, artistic director, Lincoln Center.
BARRY DAY was born in England and received his M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford. In
addition to his books on Noël Coward, Day has written about Dorothy Parker, Oscar
Wilde, Johnny Mercer, and Rodgers and Hart. He has written and produced plays and
musical revues showcasing the work of Coward, the Lunts, Oscar Wilde, and others.
Day is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Noël Coward
Foundation and was awarded the Order of the British Empire. He lives in New York,
London, and Palm Beach.
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Gay Berlin
Birthplace of a Modern Identity
Robert Beachy
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A detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban
sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin
created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay
identity.
Long known for the friendly company of its "warm brothers" (German slang for men
who love other men), Berlin, even before the turn of the twentieth-century, was a place
where educators, activists, and medical professionals could explore and begin to
educate both themselves and Europe about new and emerging sexual identities. From
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German activist described by some as the world's first openly
gay man, to the world of Berlin's vast homosexual subcultures--tolerated and monitored
by the police commissioner through the "Department of Homosexuals and
Blackmailers"--to a major sex scandal that enraptured the daily newspapers and shook
the court of Emperor William II, and on through some of the world's first sex
reassignment surgeries, Beachy deftly guides the reader through past events and
developments that continue to shape and influence the way we think of sexuality to this
day. Gay Berlin is certain to be considered a foundational study.
FASCINATING FIRSTS: Chapter by chapter Beachy illuminates forgotten firsts, including the life
and work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the first to claim (in 1896) that same-sex desire is an
immutable characteristic and biologically determined, and the founder, in 1919, of the Institute of
Sexual Science. Though raided by the Nazis in 1933, the institute served as, among other
things, "a veritable incubator for the science of transexuality." One of the first male-to-female
surgeries was performed there and then performed again, in reverse, when the patient insisted
that she had met a woman, fallen in love, and changed her mind.
AUTHOR: This is Beachy's first commercial book, but his background makes him especially
suited to this subject. In his scholarly work he has explored three broad areas of European
history from the eighteenth century to the present: the relationship of commercial culture to
political and social change; the role of war and occupation in shaping German national and
regional identities; and the history of sexuality and sexual identity.
Author Residence: Baltimore, MD
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Robert Beachy was trained as a German historian at the University of Chicago, where
he received his Ph.D. in 1998. He is presently Associate Professor of History at Goucher
College in Baltimore.
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Love Me, Feed Me
Sharing with Your Dog the Everyday Good Food You
Cook and Enjoy
Judith Jones
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From the esteemed food editor and author of The Pleasures of Cooking for One--a
charming, practical guide to sharing the pleasures of home cooking with your dog.
Doesn't man's best friend deserve a little more than cardboard-dry kibble day in and
day out? Judith Jones thinks so, and in this delightful new cookbook she offers up more
than fifty home-cooked recipes--among them braised beef shank, shrimp and grits,
shepherd's pie--that she's loved and shared with her own canines. These meals are
both time-efficient and finance-friendly, and Jones clearly explains the nutritional benefits
of substituting, or just supplementing, store-bought food with a diet of fresh,
home-prepared ingredients. Balancing her recipes, tips, and techniques with endearing
accounts of life with her own dogs, Jones makes the case for a simpler way of caring for
your pet--one in which planning what to put in his bowl becomes a natural part of
planning what to put on your own table, in which great meals and a grateful audience
help you--and your dog--savor cooking and mealtimes a little more. Quite simply: Love
Me, Feed Me can only lead to a happier, healthier dog.
STERLING AUTHOR REPUTATION: Judith Jones has worked with the greatest chefs of our
time, including Julia Child, James Beard, and Marcella Hazan, in her storied career as a culinary
author and editor. Some of them make cameo appearances in these pages.
STRONG SALES: Judith's last cookbook, The Pleasures of Cooking for One (2009), has more
than 75,000 copies in print.
A READY AUDIENCE: As anyone who's seen the outfits dogs are dressed in--or the
proliferation of dog-walking services, groomers, even dog spas--can attest, if there is anyone
willing to spend money to improve their pets' wellbeing, it's dog owners.
GENRE CROSSOVER APPEAL: Love Me, Feed Me is full of the reflections of a longtime dog
owner and dog lover, which should appeal to fans of books like Marley and Me or The Art of
Racing in the Rain.
Praise for The Pleasures of Cooking for One (2009):
"Cooking when you're on your own can be a challenge...Thank goodness for Judith Jones! The
redoubtable editor conclusively demonstrates that the joie de manger belongs to everyone, not
just breeders, honeymooners, and clans." --National Public Radio 10 Best Cookbooks of 2009
"[Judith Jones's] wise pep talk of a cookbook is also a manifesto: she encourages readers to
experience food with all of the senses." --Christine Muhlke, The New York Times Book Review
Author Residence: New York, NY and Vermont
Author Hometown: New York, NY
JUDITH JONES joined Alfred A. Knopf in 1957. She had worked before that for
Doubleday and was responsible for recommending the American publication of The
Diary of Anne Frank. Her authors included Julia Child, Lidia Bastianich, James Beard,
Marion Cunningham, Rosie Daley, Marcella Hazan, Madhur Jaffrey, Edna Lewis, Joan
Nathan, Jacques Pépin, Claudia Roden, and Nina Simonds. She is the author of The
Tenth Muse: My Life in Food and The Pleasures of Cooking for One. She is the
coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of The Book of Bread: Knead It, Punch It,
Bake It! (for children), and The Book of New New England Cookery. She also
collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook.
Recently, she has contributed to Vogue and Saveur. In 2006, she was awarded the
James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
A Life
Hermione Lee
The acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us a vivid,
intimate, and critically acute portrait of one of the finest and most understated
novelists of the twentieth century.
Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer--many say the greatest in recent
years--whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life moved from a
Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of
renown. Her novels are short, spare masterpieces: subtle, understated, and intensely
evocative. The early works draw on Fitzgerald's own experiences--working at the BBC in
wartime; at a failing bookshop in Suffolk; at an eccentric stage school--while her later
books open out into historical worlds that, magically, she seems to entirely possess.
Despite the late start of her career, Fitzgerald's books won some of the most coveted
awards in literature: the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hers is
a story of lateness, persistence, and redemption. Now, Hermione Lee, a master
biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable
author's unforgettable story.
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RENOWNED BIOGRAPHER: Hermione Lee's literary biographies are admired by critics and
writers alike. Penelope Fitzgerald herself called Lee's Virginia Woolf "not only very good, but
very necessary." Lee is head of a graduate college at Oxford, where Fitzgerald was once a
student.
PRAISE FROM THE UK: Praise is pouring in for the Chatto edition. England's top publications,
including The Guardian, The Economist, and The Sunday Times, have all run rave reviews.
MARINER BACKLIST: Mariner will be reissuing their Fitzgerald novels in paperback and eBook
when our biography publishes. These will feature new introductions by some of Fitzgerald's
admirers, including Julian Barnes and Alan Hollinghurst.
FITZGERALD'S FASCINATING LIFE: Penelope Fitzgerald's life and work often echo one
another, and Hermione Lee explores these connections astutely.
FITZGERALD IN EVERYMAN'S: Fitzgerald's most cherished novels--Human Voices, The
Beginning of Spring, The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower, and the Booker
Prize-winning Offshore--are available in beautiful Everyman's Library editions.
Praise from the UK for Penelope Fitzgerald
"Excellent...Lee was a perfect choice as Fitzgerald's biographer. She has done a superb job,
capturing an elusive personality and a complex, sometimes rather harrowing story." --Philip
Hensher, The Guardian (London)
"A perfect literary biography...Brilliant social history." --Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times
Author Residence: Oxford, England
Hermione Lee is a biographer, critic, teacher of literature, and president of Wolfson
College, Oxford. Among her many works are literary biographies of Willa Cather, Virginia
Woolf, and Edith Wharton, and critical books on Elizabeth Bowen and Philip Roth. She is
a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and a Foreign
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was made a
CBE in 2003 for services to literature, and a DBE in 2013 for services to literary
scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.
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I Think You're Totally Wrong
A Quarrel
David Shields and Caleb Powell
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate,
about life and art--cocktails included.
Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a
stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a
human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting
twenty-five years ago, they headed to a cabin in the Cascade Mountains and threw
down. The focus? Life vs. Art. Over the next four days they played chess, shot hoops,
hiked, relaxed in a hot tub, watched My Dinner with André, Sideways, The Trip, and
talked about everything they could think of--genocide, marriage, sex, Toni Morrison,
sports, porn, the death penalty, baldness, evil, James Wood, happiness, sports radio,
George Bush, drugs, death, betrayal, alcohol, Rupert Murdoch, Judaism, bad book
titles--in the name of exploring their central question. While confounding, as much as
possible, the divisions between "reality" and "fiction" and between "life" and "art," their
dialogue remains dazzlingly provocative and entertaining from start to finish.
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FEROCIOUS: A wild and wide-ranging conversation between a teacher and his former student,
both of them opinionated, funny, contrary, contentious, and articulate.
DIALOGUE as a form has roots as deep as Plato and Socrates and as wide as Beckett's Didi
and Gogo, Laurel and Hardy, and Car Talk's Magliozzi brothers. Here as always, Shields takes
the form and turns it on its head, redirecting it toward the velocity and excitement of
contemporary culture.
MOVIE TIE-IN: In December 2013, actor/director/writer James Franco adapted the book into a
film; Shields and Powell play themselves. The film will debut at Sundance in January 2015.
SHIELDS: A major, catalyzing figure in contemporary writing whose work generates an
enormous amount of review and social media attention. His 2010 book Reality Hunger was
named one of the best books of the year by more than 30 publications; Salinger, which he
cowrote, and The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead spent several weeks on the
New York Times best seller list in 2013. Black Planet was a NYBCC finalist.
Author Residence: Seattle, WA
6-city Author Tour: Boston, Los
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead; How Literature Saved My Life;
and Salinger (co-written by Shane Salerno). He lives with his wife and daughter in
Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of
Washington.His work has been translated into twenty languages. CALEB POWELL,
who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, has played bass in a band, worked construction,
and spent ten years teaching ESL and studying foreign languages on six continents.
Now a stay-at-home father in Seattle, he's published stories and essays in descant, Post
Road, and ZYZZYVA.
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A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg
From one of South Africa's most distinguished journalists--the wrenching,
masterfully told story of a Somali man whose life has been shaped equally by
violence, displacement, and fierce determination.
Asad Abdullahi's life has been one of brutality and struggle, but also of remarkable
strength of spirit. He was forced into exile in 1991 at the age of eight after witnessing his
mother's murder by Somali militiamen. On his own he moved from town to town, country
to country, refugee camp to refugee camp, relying on strangers and distant relatives but
often left to fend for himself. When Jonny Steinberg first met Asad in 2010, he and his
wife and son were living in a desolate displaced persons camp in South Africa, victims of
violence against foreign nationals and seeking what seemed unattainable refugee status
in America. From interviews with Asad himself and with people in Europe and the United
States who knew Asad's parents, from reports of nongovernmental organizations and
international newspapers, Steinberg has brilliantly pieced together the story of Asad's
profoundly moving quest for peace and stability, placing it in the context of the Somali
Diaspora.
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STORY: Asad's story is extraordinarily compelling and powerful, the nonfiction equivalent of J.
M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K.
AUTHOR: Jonny Steinberg is one of South Africa's most distinguished journalists and twice the
winner of the Alan Paton Award.
AUDIENCE: Readers of Mark Mathabane's Kaffir Boy, Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat,
Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart, and Peter Godwin's When a Crocodile Eats the Sun.
OPPORTUNITY: This is not only a remarkable story of one man, but also a work of masterful
journalism as powerful as Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers and Tracy Kidder's
Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Author Residence: Capetown, South Africa
JONNY STEINBERG was born and bred in South Africa. He is the author of the critically
acclaimed Three Letter Plague, published by Vintage, and Midlands and The Number,
both of which won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Alan Paton
Award. Steinberg was educated at Wits University in Johannesburg and at Oxford
University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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The Girl from Human Street
Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family
Roger Cohen
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An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the
diaspora of the author's own family to assay the impact of memory, displacement,
and disquiet.
The award-winning New York Times columnist and former foreign correspondent
turns a compassionate yet discerning eye on the legacy of his own family--most notably
his mother's--in order to understand more profoundly the nature of modern Jewish
experience. Through his emotionally lucid prose, we relive the anomie of European Jews
after the Holocaust, following them from Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United
States, and Israel. He illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family
witnessed living in apartheid-era South Africa and the ambivalence felt by his Israeli
cousin when tasked with policing the occupied West Bank. He explores the pervasive
Jewish sense of "otherness" and finds it has been a significant factor in his family's
history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance and repression, suicide and
resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving loyalties (religious, ethnic, national)
both tells an unflinching personal story and contributes an important chapter to the
ongoing narrative of Jewish life.
AUTHOR MEDIA PLATFORM: Cohen, in addition to his Times column, writes frequently for The
New York Review of Books. He is also an active user of social media (28,481 Twitter followers).
AN EXCEPTIONAL WRITER: Cohen's subtle investigation of Jewish experience belongs in the
celebrated company of memoirs such as Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes and
André Aciman's Out of Egypt.
UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER: Cohen's depiction of his mother's life is as rich as Geoffrey
Wolff writing about his father in The Duke of Deception or Justin St. Germain about his mother
in Son of a Gun.
Praise for Soldiers and Slaves
"This story of American POWs...has surprisingly been forgotten or inadequately recalled by
historians. Roger Cohen is to be thanked for revealing to the public its profound human drama
with talent, sensitivity, and a commitment to truth." --Elie Wiesel
Praise for Hearts Grown Brutal
"Remarkable...Cohen has won two Overseas Press Club awards for his reporting, but in Hearts
Grown Brutal he surpasses himself...[He is] a reporter with a poet's heart." --The New York
Times
Author Residence: London, England
ROGER COHEN is a columnist for The New York Times, where he has worked since
1990: as a correspondent in Paris and Berlin, and as bureau chief in the Balkans
covering the Bosnian war, for which he was cited for excellence by the Overseas Press
Club. He was named foreign editor on 9/11, overseeing Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage
in the aftermath of the attack. His previous books include Soldiers and Slaves and
Hearts Grown Brutal. He lives in London.
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Glow
A novel
Ned Beauman
From one of England's most accomplished young writers: a taut, riveting,
compulsively readable novel in which a young man (with a bizarre sleep disorder)
uncovers the connections between foxes behaving oddly in London, Burmese
people going missing, and glow, the newest recreational drug.
South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after
Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his nights
at raves in dingy warehouses and launderettes, where he first hears about the
mysterious glow. When a good friend disappears without a trace, Raf's efforts to find him
will lead gradually and then suddenly right into the thick of a massive corporate
conspiracy. And along the way, he falls in love with a stunningly beautiful young woman,
only to discover that there is far more to Cherish than meets the eye.
Combining the pace, drama, and explosive plot twists of a thriller with his trademark
intellectual, linguistic, and comedic pyrotechnics, Glow is Ned Beauman's most
compelling and virtuosic novel yet.
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Page Count: 256
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THE AUTHOR: At age twenty-eight, Ned Beauman is one of the most exciting and highly
acclaimed writers in the UK. In April 2013, he was the youngest on Granta's once-a-decade list
of the Best Young British Writers. His debut novel, Boxer, Beetle, was shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Writers Guild of America
Award and the Goldberg Prize. His second novel, The Teleportation Accident, was longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize, and won the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award.
ABSOLUTELY, UTTERLY UP TO THE MINUTE: Booksellers and readers here are already
familiar with Beauman's first two novels, published by Bloomsbury, but they are wide-rangingly
historical in setting. Glow is not only his first contemporary novel but also his most commercial
by far, and will thus attract a much larger readership.
Praise for The Teleportation Accdient
"A singular novel--singularly audacious, singularly strange--from a singular, and almost
recklessly gifted young writer." --Time
"Fiendishly clever. . . Every generation gets the hipster satire it deserves. But this one's for
every generation. Grade: A" --Entertainment Weekly
Praise for Boxer, Beetle
"An ebullient and thrilling narrative . . . Irreverent, profane, and very funny. Best of all,
[Beauman] writes prose that, like Chabon's, has the power to startle, no small feat in a debut."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
NED BEAUMAN was born in London in 1985 and studied philosophy at the University of
Cambridge. He is the author of two previous novels, and his work has appeared in The
Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Esquire, The Sunday Times
(London), Financial Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Field of Light and Shadow
Selected and New Poems
David Young
Now in paperback, a gorgeous 50-year selection of the humane and moving
poetry of David Young, a poet of the Midwestern landscape and the people who
live in it.
This career-spanning book builds a case for David Young as one of our most
valuable living American poets, in poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the
natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of
language. Young's settings are at once local and universal--an adolescence in Omaha,
late summer on Lake Erie, a sleepless night in the backyard during a meteor shower. He
moves with dazzling ease between culture and nature, between the literary and the
philosophical, microcosm and macrocosm. Here are poems on Osip Mandelstam and
Chairman Mao, the meaning of boxcars on the track, the beautiful names of the months,
and a fox at the field's edge, charged in each case by Young's fierce intelligence and
candor in the face of grief and loss.
Praise for Field of Light and Shadow:
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"In his own language, Young writes clearly and with confidence. He is undeterred by thoughts of
whether the world needs another poem, and he is free of self-conscious tics. His poems flow
gracefully one after the other." --The Boston Phoenix
"Young's awareness of literary precursors and allies saturates the poems: Vladimir Nabokov,
Edmund Spencer, Miroslav Holub, Wallace Stevens, Henry Vaughan, James Wright are a few of
the writers addressed or described. Yet the late poems (including nine new ones) seek instead
the simplest possible pleasures--equanimity, companionship, and ease." --Publishers Weekly
Author Residence: Oberlin, OH
David Young is the author of ten previous books of poetry, including Black Lab and At
the White Window. He is a well-known translator of the Chinese poets, and more
recently of the poems of Petrarch and Eugenio Montale. A past winner of Guggenheim
and NEA fellowships as well as a Pushcart Prize, Young is the Longman Professor
Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the editor of the of the
Field Poetry Series at Oberlin College Press.
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Single, Carefree, Mellow
Stories
Katherine Heiny
A tender and ruefully funny look at varieties of love, secrets, and betrayal in ten
exquisite stories that form a guided tour of the human heart.
In the title story, we meet Maya, who is torn between her wryly funny boyfriend and
the allure of her veterinarian. In "Andorra," a woman's lover calls her every Thursday as
he drives to meet his wife at marriage counseling. "How to Give the Wrong Impression"
shows us a woman pining for her roommate, a man who will hold her hand but then tell
her that her palm is sweaty. In "The Dive Bar" a girl agrees to have a drink with her
married lover's wife. Revisiting Maya in several stories, chronicling her various states of
love, this is a collection about how we are unfaithful to each other, both willfully and
unwittingly. Populated with unwelcome houseguests, disastrous birthday parties, needy
but loyal friends, and flirtatious older men, the stories are emotionally astute, sexy, and
disarming--and they introduce us to a tart, and marvelous, new voice.
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AUTHOR: Katherine Heiny's "How to Give the Wrong Impression" has been published in The
New Yorker, anthologized, critically acclaimed, performed, and studied in classrooms, and it is
now enormously exciting to publish her in book form for the first time.
VOICE: Like the wild lovechild of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette, Lorrie Moore's
Anagrams, Melissa Bank's Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, and Elissa Shappell's Blueprints
for Building Better Girls, the voice of these stories is wonderfully funny, sharp, transgressive and
captivating.
HILARIOUS: The stories are poignant and gorgeously written, but they are also just blissful
entertainment.
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Katherine Heiny's fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Ploughshares,
Narrative,Glimmer Train, and many other places. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her
husband and children. This is her first book.
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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
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A publishing event: for the first time, a comprehensive selection from the
correspondence of the now iconic and beloved African American author -- a
virtual "life in letters," showcasing his struggles and extraordinary achievement.
This unprecedented selection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades,
with linking material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its
aspects: personal, literary, political, practical. His correspondents include such
luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps,
Countee Cullen, Ezra Pound, Paul Robeson, and James Baldwin. The letters tell the
story of a writer finding his voice; struggling to support himself in a literary career in a
generally hostile landscape; reaching out to young people and challenging them to
aspire beyond the bounds of segregation; using his artistic clout in the service of the
disenfranchised or wrongly accused; bravely laughing at the world, whatever its oddities
and would-be humiliations; and discovering, above all, that as an African American writer
in a segregated America, his only true freedom was to be found on the page.
Photographs and quotations from the poetry enliven the volume and give a fuller picture
of this generous, visionary, and gratifyingly good man who was a genius of modern
American letters.
FIRST COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF HUGHES LETTERS: What Arnold Rampersad and
David Roessel--preeminent Hughes scholars--have delivered has taken many years, and has
never been done before. This will be a blockbuster of a book in terms of interest and reviews,
and it delivers on the promise of a wonderful, revelatory Hughes experience.
HUGHES'S PROFILE: Hughes grows ever larger in our poetic landscape, and his role in his
own time, in the Harlem Renaissance, and as a power in the entrance of African American
literature into the broader realm of American literature is unparalleled.
Author Residence: Philadelphia, PA
Arnold Rampersad, the Sarah Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at
Stanford University, has also taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers University. His
books include The Life of Langston Hughes (two volumes); biographies of W.E.B.
DuBois, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison; and, with Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace: A
Memoir. Among his numerous awards and honors are a MacArthur Foundation
fellowship in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal, presented at the White House in
2011. David Roessel is the associate editor, with Arnold Rampersad, of The Collected
Poems of Langston Hughes, as well as the coeditor, with Nicholas Moschovakis, of The
Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams and Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
by Tennessee Williams. He is the author of In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in the
English and American Imagination, which won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.
He is the Peter and Stella Yiannos Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and has translated works from ancient and
modern Greek.
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The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published
in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book -- "I am a
Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa" --Hughes spoke directly,
intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans, at a time when their
voices were newly being heard in our literature. As his Knopf editor Carl Van Vechten
wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 volume, illuminating the potential of this
promising young voice, "His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his
sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his
race...Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal" and, he concludes, they
are "the expression [of] an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature." That illusive
nature darts among these early lines and begins to reveal itself, sometimes with
shocking confidence and clarity: "Bring me all of your / Heart melodies / That I may wrap
them / In a blue cloud-cloth / Away from the too-rough fingers/ Of the world."
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Illustrations: PHOTOS IN TEXT
A GREAT OCCASION: Perfect timing to celebrate Knopf's 100th year with the Selected Letters
and this first collection of one of our best read and significant authors.
INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN YOUNG: A direct poetic descendant of Hughes and a well known
"blues poet" in our own time, will write a brief introduction to the new edition.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH / POETRY MONTH OPPORTUNITIES: We can use both to promote
this volume alongside the Letters. A great occasion for big Hughes pieces in all the review
outlets.
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high
school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then a year studying at Columbia
University. In 1925, he was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the magazine
Opportunity, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues," which gave its title to the
current volume. From 1926 until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes devoted his time to
writing and lecturing. In addition to poetry, he wrote, short stories, autobiography, song
lyrics, essays, humor, and plays. His work is available in multiple editions and languages
and is beloved by readers around the world.
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The Players
Poems
Jill Bialosky
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The strongest collection yet from this widely praised poet is about the central
players in our lives, our relationships over time--between mother and son, mother
and daughter--and how one generation of relationships informs and shapes the
next.
The opening sequence of the collection "Manhood" looks at the insular world of
baseball, shedding light on the complexities of gender, boyhood, and coming of age. The
poet captures the electrifying, proud language of baseball talk, channeling the tone and
approach of the young men she observes as a mother and bringing poignance and
deeper understanding to the transaction between herself as observer and the young
men she sees growing into adulthood. "American Comedy" is a sonnet sequence about
the absurdities and realities of modern domestic life; figures in literature are the players
in "Classical Education." The final section, "The Players," makes a forceful and
disturbing revelation as to how generations hand down both strengths and weaknesses.
Exploring the nature of attachment on many levels, The Players brings us Jill Bialosky at
her best in poems that find a new language to describe the rich and universal story that
is modern motherhood.
BIALOSKY'S STRONGEST WORK: The Players is undoubtedly Jill's strongest work as a poet.
The challenge and "otherness" of the young men on the ball field has brought out a sharp new
sensibility and wisdom in her.
WELL CONNECTED: An editor at Norton, Jill has many well-placed fans and great connections
in the poetry world; she will get many invitations to read and promote throughout the spring
poetry month season.
Category: Poetry
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Praise for Jill Bialosky:
"Bialosky recounts skillfully her experiences, desires, and imaginings. Her
grief...temptation, longing, and other emotions are expressed with a classical
elegance."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"The domestic, the feminine, as in Sylvia Plath and Louis Bogan, retain their air of
opulence [in her work], even in the extremity of grief."--The Nation
JILL BIALOSKY is the author of three previous poetry collections, The End of Desire,
Subterranean, and Intruder. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Paris
Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. She is also
the author of several novels and the recent memoir History of a Suicide: My Sister's
Unfinished Life. An editor at W. W. Norton, she lives in New York City.
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