“The perfect author to read late into the night.” —Clive Cussler

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“The perfect
author to read late
into the night.”
—Clive Cussler
Praise for a quiet vendetta:
“As in the very best of thrillers, A Quiet Vendetta has the ring of truth and real research
behind it all. With exquisite pace and perfect timing, R.J. Ellory has given us a
piercing assessment of the nature of love, loyalty and obsessive revenge, not to mention
a deep understanding of la cosa nostra.” —The Guardian
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A Quiet Vendetta
A Thriller
R.J. Ellory
R.J. Ellory is the author of eight
novels, including the bestselling A
Quiet Belief in Angels,which was
The Strand Magazine’s Thriller of
the Year, nominated for the Barry
Award, and a finalist for the SIBA
Award. His novel A Simple Act of
Violence won the Theakston’s Crime
Novel of the Year Award. Visit
rjellory.com.
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y award-winning thriller heavyweight R.J. Ellory, this ambitious crime novel takes his skill for suspense to a spellbinding level.
When Catherine Ducane disappears in New Orleans, the cops
react fast—she is the governor’s daughter, after all. But the case
quickly grows strange.
Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated, and when the
kidnapper calls, he doesn’t want money: he wants time alone with
a minor government functionary. By the time the pieces fall into
place, it’s already too late . . .
A Quiet Vendetta is the epic story of one mobster’s life—ranging
from Cuba to Chicago—and equally a powerful thriller of rage,
love, and loss. With tension to match the best of Cussler, Patterson,
and Ellory’s own bestselling work, A Quiet Vendetta confirms R.J.
Ellory’s place at the forefront of the genre.
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The history of samurai warfare
over seven centuries, with more
than 150 full-color illustrations
The Samurai
Warrior
Weapons and Fighting Techniques
Thomas D. Conlan
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january
Thomas D. Conlan is a professor of history and
Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. He is the author of
two scholarly works, In Need of Divine Intervention and
State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth Century
Japan. He lives near Portland, Maine.
978-1-59020-698-0
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Martial Arts/History
7 5⁄8 x 10 1⁄32 224 pp.
Over 150 full-color illustrations & photos and 150 line
drawings
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he samurai warrior is famed throughout history for his strict martial code, intricately constructed
armor, and distinctive katana sword. But samurai
warfare and military culture is often misunderstood
in the modern era. In The Samurai Warrior, this history and development is traced over seven centuries,
including the early mounted, bow-armed samurai,
naginata-wielding footsoldiers, and finishing with
those who employed firearms and cannons. The author
analyzes the success of particular samurai dynasties as
well as the roles of the great battlefield commanders at
key battles.
The color images and detailed line drawings show
the weapons, equipment, techniques, and tactics of the
samurai. Types of armor—such as o-yoroi, haramaki,
and paper armor, and weapons, such as the tachi long
sword, wakizashi short sword and yari (pike), are shown
in colorful detail. Illustrations depict many types of
Japanese soldier from the thirteenth-century samurai to seventeenth-century harquebus-armed warrior
monks. Japanese terminology is explained in a clear
and concise glossary.
Written by an acknowledged expert, The Samurai
Warrior is a highly illustrated, accessible introduction
to samurai warfare for both the military enthusiast and
general reader.
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A thought-provoking design work
that shows the connectedness of
ideas
in search of
the miraculous
Or, One Thing Leads to Another
Milton Glaser
Introduction by Ralph Caplan
ilton Glaser is perhaps the most celebrated graphic designer in the world. As a young
man, he read a phrase that stayed with him
through his life: “In Search of the Miraculous.”
One could say that all human experience is a
miracle—memory, color, taste, Vermeer, stars, watermelon, etc. For those like Glaser, the act of making
things that move the mind is perhaps the deepest aspiration to the miraculous. In this volume, he has chosen
work, largely created by him over the last five years,
to demonstrate how one concept leads to another.
Through fascinating juxtapositions, readers will gain
insights into Glaser’s oeuvre, journeying with him as
he discovers that seemingly new designs frequently
come out of provocative ideas taken from the distant
past.
Praise for the work of Milton Glaser:
“Elegant . . . a book in which the text and the picture
positively embrace and dance together .”
—The New York Times
“To younger graphic designers, Glaser has the stature
of Marlon Brando in Hollywood . . . He appears to
have thought more deeply about what he makes than
many lionized by the contemporary art world and its
market.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
Milton Glaser has had one-man shows at the
Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou
Center. In 2004 he was selected for the lifetime
achievement award of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum. In 2010, he was awarded a
National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama. His books
include Graphic Design, Art is Work, and Drawing is
Thinking, all published by Overlook.
Visit miltonglaser.com.
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The bold, brave, and revealing
coming-of-age memoir by beloved
actor Stephen Fry
The Fry
Chronicles
An Autobiography
Stephen Fry
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January
Stephen Fry is an actor, producer, director,
and writer who has starred in numerous TV series
including Blackadder, Jeeves & Wooster, and the sketch
show A Bit of Fry and Laurie (with House star Hugh
Laurie). He is the bestselling author of four novels as
well as several works of nonfiction. Visit stephenfry.com.
978-1-59020-714-7
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Autobiography
6 x 9 448 pp.
53 color & 17 b&w photographs
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tephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as
a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment
he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright
young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie,
and he emerged as one of the most promising comic talents in the world. This is the engrossing, hilarious, and
utterly compelling story of how the Stephen the world
knows (or thinks it knows) found his way. Tales of
champagne, love, and conspicuous consumption jostle
with insights into Broadway and TV stardom. A feat
of trademark wit and verbal brilliance, this is a book
that is not afraid to confront the chasm that separates
celebrity from a young man’s personal reality.
“This is, above all else, a thoughtful book. And
namedroppy too, and funny. . . . Its camaraderie of
tone lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves you
with a hoaching number of new insights, new ways
of looking at things.” —The Guardian
“This is one of the funniest, most generous, most
daring pieces of confessional writing published for
years.”—The Telegraph
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A dream wedding turns into
a nightmare when the bride
disappears in this engrossing new
Vincenzi blockbuster
Another
Woman
A Novel
Penny Vincenzi
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“Penny Vincenzi is poised to fill the gap in the
American realm of Cinderella fiction. With so few
current writers able to summon the quaint allure of
such women’s fiction without stooping to sensation.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial
women’s fiction like Vincenzi.”—USA Today
“Soap-opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn
characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things
humming.”—People
“Satisfaction guaranteed.”
—The Washington Post Book World
Penny Vincenzi, before becoming a novelist,
worked at such magazines as Vogue, Tatler, and
Cosmopolitan. She is the author of The Dilemma,
Almost a Crime, No Angel, Something Dangerous, Into
Temptation, Sheer Abandon, An Absolute Scandal, An
Outrageous Affair, Windfall, and Forbidden Places.
Visit pennyvincenzi.com.
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6 x 9 512 pp.
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enny Vincenzi, queen of riveting family drama,
delivers her most page-turning saga yet in this novel of
intrigue, sure to please her legions of fans. The night
before her lavish wedding, Cressida Forrest went to
bed serene and happy. By morning she had vanished—
without apparent cause, and without a trace. Shocked,
anxious, and uncomprehending, the two families face
a long day of revelations, as a complex, fragile web of
sexual, marital, and financial secrets is ripped apart by
Cressida’s disappearance.
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“In the beginning there was
blame. Adam blamed Eve, Eve
blamed the serpent, and we’ve
been hard at it ever since.”
Scapegoat
A History of Blaming Other People
Charlie Campbell
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february
Charlie Campbell was Books Editor at The
Literary Review, where he ran the Bad Sex in Fiction
Prize among other things. He lives in London.
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e may have come a long way from the days
when a goat as a symbol was saddled with all the
iniquities of the children of Israel and driven into the
wilderness, but is our desperate need to find some
organization or person to pin the blame on and absolve
ourselves of responsibility really any more advanced?
Charlie Campbell highlights the plight of all those
others who have found themselves in the wrong place
at the wrong time, illustrating how God needs the
Devil as Sherlock Holmes needs Professor Moriarty
or James Bond needs “Goldfinger.” Every person and
society needs someone to oppose. Scapegoat ranges from
serious contemplation of Jesus and contemporary issues
of government blame-shifting to conspiracy theories.
Scapegoat is a tale of human foolishness that exposes the anger and irrationality of blame-mongering
while reminding readers of their own capacity for it.
From medieval witch burning to reality TV, this is a
brilliantly relevant and timely social history that looks
at the obsession, mania, persecution and injustice of
scapegoating.
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The unbelievable true stories
behind eight of the most
disastrous and outlandish
film sets ever
Apocalypse on
the set
Eight Disastrous Film Productions
Ben Taylor
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“Taylor details the excruciating, mind-boggling and
downright insane conditions in which eight films,
both popular and obscure, were made . . . Pick this
bad boy up when it hits shelves.” —Cinebyte.com
• The eight films are Pulgasari, The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen, The Twilight Zone: The Movie, Heaven’s Gate,
Fitzcarraldo, Apocalypse Now, The Crow, and The Abyss
Ben Taylor is a contributing writer for
DamnInteresting.com, a weekly online publication
with 400,000 visitors a month, and contributed to their
volume, Alien Hand Syndrome. He lives outside of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Visit welcometomynightmare.net.
978-1-59020-188-6
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Film/TV
6 x 9 352 pp.
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february
or starters, there’s Pulgasari—a North Korean
Godzilla clone dreamed up by Kim Jong-Il and created
by a kidnapped Korean director, with a budget of millions and a staff of seven hundred fed on truckloads
of pheasants, wild geese, and deer. The stories behind
the other seven films, from The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen and The Twilight Zone: The Movie to
Apocalypse Now and The Crow, are just as astounding
and as gripping—this is a book film fans will devour.
These bizarre, often hilarious cinematic endeavors
confirm that truth is stranger than fiction, reality more
volatile than narratives, and fate more improbable
than plots.
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The first dual biography of the
legendary opponents of World
War II
Monty and
Rommel
Parallel Lives
Peter Caddick-Adams
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february
Peter Caddick-Adams lectures at U.S.
military colleges, leads tours of the Revolutionary
War and Civil War battlefields, and appears on U.S.
television to discuss current military matters. He holds
the rank of major in the British Territorial Army and
has served with U.S. forces in three war zones: Bosnia,
Iraq, and Afghanistan. Visit caddick-adams.com.
978-1-59020-725-3
$35.00 (ncr)
History/WWII
6 x 9 640 pp.
40 b&w images & 10 maps
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wo men came to personify British and German
generalship in the Second World War: Bernard
Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a
series of extraordinary battles across several theaters
of war that established them as two of the greatest
generals of their age. They were born four years apart,
and their lives were remarkably similar—from their
shared provincial upbringings to each nearly dying in
but emerging from the First World War with glowing
war records. They would begin to fight each other as
divisional commanders in 1940 and as they came to
prominence, first in North Africa, then at Normandy.
Caddick-Adams tracks and compares their military talents and personalities in battle. Each brought
something unique to his command. Rommel’s breathtaking advance in May–June 1940 was nothing less
than inspired. Montgomery took a demoralized Eighth
Army in August 1942 and led them to victory just two
months later.
Monty and Rommel explores how each general was
raised to power by their war leaders, Churchill and
Hitler, and how the innovative military strategy and
thought of both permeate down to today’s armies.
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The beguiling debut, with the
charm of Lost in Translation,
by turns laugh-out-loud funny,
bittersweet . . . and profound
Like Life
A Novel
Michael Tucker
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“Guileless narrative intertwined with generous
descriptions.” —Publishers Weekly
“Earthy, humorous, and poignant stories that will
draw readers in.” —Library Journal
Michael Tucker is an actor, perhaps best known
for his work on LA Law (for which he was nominated
for multiple Emmy Awards). He has written three
works of nonfiction, all about food and family. This is
his first novel.
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n irresistible tale by the veteran LA Law actor,
Like Life is an astonishing debut. Herbie Aaron is
one half of a celebrity marriage. He and Annie have
been together a lifetime. They’ve been famous, nobodies, and mingled with the rich and crazy. Through
it all, they’ve been passionate lovers and fast friends.
But when Annie dies of cancer, Herbie doesn’t know
what to do without her—his conscience and his muse.
If you think this is going to be a tragic tale about
death and grief, think again. Herbie is too cantakerous, sly, and charming to keel over. Enter Olive, a
beautiful bartender who just might be a great actress;
Candy, Herbie and Annie’s neurotic daughter; and a
woman named Billy, the tough-talking golf pro who
teaches Herbie more about his psyche than about his
lousy swing.
Like Life is a hilarious and beautifully rendered
novel about a man off the rails, battling through the
middle-aged wilderness days he hoped never to face
alone.
Praise for the work of Michael Tucker:
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The stunning contemporary
thriller from the “suspense
master” (Entertainment Weekly)
Timebomb
A Thriller
Gerald Seymour
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february
Gerald Seymour spent fifteen years as an
international television news reporter, covering
Vietnam and the Middle East and specializing in
terrorism. He is the author of the acclaimed thriller
Harry’s Game and many other books, six of which have
been filmed for television.
978-1-59020-699-7
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Thriller
6 x 9 448 pp.
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ard on the heels of last year’s brilliant The
Collaborator comes this multilayered novel of espionage
and crime. In 1992, after being fired from a top secret
nuclear facility, a KGB operative buried a nuclear suitcase—a dirty bomb. Sixteen years later he has found a
buyer. Traveling with the buyer is an undercover agent,
working for MI6. But as their shadowy journey begins,
it becomes clear that their man is beginning to suffer
from Stockholm Syndrome, and the whole operation is
very likely to be thrown into jeopardy.
Displaying a fast-paced narrative and an in-depth
knowledge of international politics, Timebomb is a racing thriller to keep you reading late into the night.
Praise for Gerald Seymour:
“Three British masters of suspense, Graham Greene,
Eric Ambler, and John le Carré, have been joined by a
fourth—Gerald Seymour.” —The New York Times
“No summary can suggest its depth and texture. . . .
[He] gives us richly imagined novels that bristle with
authenticity.” —The Washington Post
• Gerald Seymour was featured in the Oscar-winning film One
Night in September
• Edgar Award Best Novel nominee for The Journeyman Tailor
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The “masterpiece” (Jonathan
Lethem) by a key figure of the
radical 1960s
Any Day Now
A Novel
Terry Bisson
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Terry Bisson is an award-winning writer. He
is the author of seven novels, and his short fiction
has appeared in Playboy and Harper’s, among other
magazines. He previously worked as an auto mechanic
and as a magazine and book editor. Bisson lives in
Oakland, California. Visit terrybisson.com.
978-1-59020-709-3
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Praise for the work of Terry Bisson:
“An unsettling, funny, freaky reimagining of
America, impeccably written, by one of our most
consistently interesting transgressors of literary
boundaries.” —Michael Chabon
“He writes like a man who invented language . . .
Treat yourself to this book.” —Peter Coyote, author
of Sleeping Where I Fall
Fiction
5 3⁄8 x 8 356 pp.
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ublishers Weekly has called Bisson’s prose “a wonder of seemingly effortless control and precision,” and
John Crowley hails Bisson as a “national treasure!” Any Day Now is truly a literary tour de force. It is a
poignant excursion into the last days of the Beats and
the emerging radicalized culture of the 1960s from
Kentucky to New York City and beyond, written in a
voice that is hauntingly original and daringly unique.
This road movie of a novel, which begins as a 1950s
coming-of-age story and ends in an isolated hippy
commune under threat from a national revolution,
provides a transcendent commentary on America’s
civil liberties —and on the perils of growing up— then
and now.
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The history of
Russia and its
people, from the
nation’s founding
a thousand years
ago through the
post-Soviet era
Praise for The work of Martin Sixsmith:
“Martin Sixsmith brings out all the political drama (and literary resonance) of the
ongoing confrontation between Putin and the imprisoned entrepreneur Mikhail
Khodorkovsky.” —Times Literary Supplement
“This history of the rise and fall of the Yukos company reads like a nineteenth century
Russian novel in which titans battle for a nation’s soul . . . We are grateful to Mr.
Sixsmith for the work he has done in telling this sordid story.” —Contemporary Review
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Russia
A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Martin Sixsmith
ussia is a country of contradictions: a nation that rules by “the
iron fist,” with an ingrained tendency to sacrifice the individual for
the collectivist cause and yet also a country of cultural refinement
and artistic originality. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith
shows how Russia’s complex identity has been formed over a thousand years, and how it can help us understand its often baffling
behavior at home and abroad.
Combining in-depth research with his personal experiences as
the BBC Moscow correspondent for almost twenty years, Sixsmith
tells Russia’s full and fascinating story, from its foundation in the
last years of the tenth century to the first years of the twenty-first,
skillfully tracing the conundrums of modern Russia to their roots
in its troubled past. Covering politics, music, literature and art, he
explores the myths Russians have created from their history.
Marking the twentieth anniversary of the dissolution of the
Soviet Union, Russia is essential reading for anyone who wants
to understand the complex political landscape of Russia and its
unique place in the modern world.
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Martin Sixsmith is the
author of Moscow Coup: The Death
of the Soviet System, The Litvinenko
File: The True Story of a Death
Foretold, and two novels. Educated
at Oxford, Harvard, and the
Sorbonne, he was the BBC Moscow
correspondent for many years.
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32 color and 37 b&w illustrations
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April
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The greatest race horse in
history and ancestor of nearly all
Kentucky Derby winners of the
last fifty years
Eclipse
The Horse that Changed Racing History Forever
Nicholas Clee
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Nicholas clee is a journalist and racing
enthusiast. He is also the author of Don’t Sweat the
Aubergine.
April
978-1-59020-737-6
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chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across
the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals
are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are
“nowhere.” Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to
buy him. An adventurer and rogue who has made his
money through gambling, Dennis O’Kelly is also companion to the madam of a notorious London brothel.
While O’Kelly is destined to remain an outcast to
the racing establishment, his horse will go on to become
the undisputed, undefeated champion of his sport.
Eclipse’s male-line descendants include Secretariat,
Barbaro, and all but three of the Kentucky Derby winners of the past fifty years.
“It is a centaur of a book: half-human, half-horse. But
Clee knows how to tell a gripping story: he weaves the
halves together into a well-written narrative of social
change. . . . Fascinating.” —The Independent
“Splendid . . . This is a read bursting with life, and
Clee has the balance and worldliness to weigh all his
material with sense and perspective. No racing home
should be without it.”—The Times
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The thrilling story of Freud’s
escape from the Nazis, and of the
unexpected man who saved him
The Escape Of
Sigmund Freud
David Cohen
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“A tantalizing exploration of Freud’s escape from
Vienna . . . [Cohen’s] writing is passionate,
sometimes wry, and always gripping.”
—The Independent
David Cohen is a writer, filmmaker, and
psychologist. His books include Psychologists on
Psychology and biographies of the therapist Carl Rogers
and of John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism.
His films include The Pleasure Principle. He lives
in London.
978-1-59020-673-7
$28.95 ($33.50 CAN)
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6 x 9 272 pp.
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april
month after the Nazis took over Austria on
March 12, 1938, every business owned by Jews had
a Nazi appointed to run it. For eighty-two-year-old
Sigmund Freud, the world’s leading psychoanalyst,
the appointed “commissar” was a thirty-five-year-old
chemist, Anton Sauerwald. Goebbels and Himmler
wanted all psychoanalysts, especially Freud, humiliated and, later, killed, and Sauerwald was in a position
to seal Freud’s fate.
The Escape of Sigmund Freud tells of how the Nazi
raid on Freud’s house produced evidence that would
have prevented the Freuds from leaving Austria—
yet Sauerwald chose to hide this from his superiors. With never-before-seen material, David Cohen
reveals the last two years of Freud’s life and the fate of
Sauerwald, from the arrest of Freud’s daughter, Anna,
by the Gestapo; the dramatic saga behind the signing
of Freud’s exit visa and his eventual escape to London
via Paris; Sauerwald’s meeting with the ailing Freud in
London; to how the Freud family would in turn save
Sauerwald’s life as well.
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The breakout novel by the
“sparkling, witty, astute”
P.F. Kluge (Entertainment Weekly)
The Master
Blaster
A Novel
P.F. Kluge
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Novelist, journalist, and teacher, P.F. Kluge is
Writer in Residence at Kenyon College. He is the
author of Gone Tomorrow and A Call From Jersey,
published by Overlook. Two films, Dog Day Afternoon
and Eddie and the Cruisers, are based on his work.
Visit pfkluge.com.
April
978-1-59020-322-4
$25.95 ($30.00 CAN)
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6 x 9 304 pp.
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Associates
he much-hailed author of Gone Tomorrow has
crafted a luminous portrayal of strangers adrift in an
intoxicating land. This captivating novel intertwines
the stories of several inhabitants on Saipan, America’s
least-appreciated tropical island. George Griffin is a
jaded writer who comes for a press junket and stays far
longer than expected; Stephanie Warner is a university professor on “trial separation” from her husband;
Mel Brodie is an elderly entrepreneur; and Khan is a
Bangladeshi laborer who comes to Saipan (“America”)
to escape hunger. Their voices circle the enthralling
element of Saipan—and the hopes that originally drew
them to the island.
With the versatility that won Kluge accolades
as the writer behind Dog Day Afternoon, The Master
Blaster is a rare wonder of contemporary storytelling.
Praise for the work of P.F. Kluge:
“Gorgeous, wrenching . . . He can really write, like a
man who means it.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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“A serious book as well as a very entertaining one.”
—The Los Angeles Times
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The dramatic story of when
American vessels first arrived in
Japan, changing both cultures
forever
The Black Ships
The American Fleet that Opened Japan
to the West
Henry Scott Stokes
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Henry Scott Stokes was the Tokyo bureau
chief for The New York Times, The Financial Times,
and other publications. Educated at Oxford, he is the
author of The Life and Death of Yukio Mishimia. He
lives in Tokyo.
978-1-59020-466-5
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History/Japan
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april
he Black Ships” were U.S. Navy vessels that
sailed to Japan in 1853 and 1854. Their timbers were
blackened with tar, and black smoke coiled from their
steam engines. They were armed with powerful guns
developed by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
himself. Acting against known Japanese wishes, this
was also the first foreign fleet to enter the strategic Bay
of Edo (now Tokyo) in three hundred years—causing
great fear in the leaders of Edo Japan.
Perry delivered a letter of peace from President
Fillmore in a beachside ceremony on July 14, 1853.
A skilful diplomat, he also threw parties aboard his
flagship Susquehanna and shared important inventions
with the nation, such as the telegraph.
The Black Ships forever opened Japan to the West,
leading to a rapid transition toward Western customs. Henry Scott Stokes has written an exciting and
insightful narrative of the pivotal event and its lasting
impact on world history.
Praise for The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima:
“Well worth reading even for those not particularly
interested in Japanese literature. For Mishima the
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