Fall 2016 - Knopf Doubleday

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Knopf
Fall 2016
The Hopefuls
A novel
Jennifer Close
From the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses: A glorious send-up of young
D.C. and a blazingly honest portrait of a marriage--the finest work yet by one of our
most beloved writers.
When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the
confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the humidity that
descends each summer. At dinner parties, guests compare their security clearance
levels. They leave their BlackBerrys on the table. They speak in acronyms. And
once they realize Beth doesn't work in politics, they smile blandly and turn away.
But when Beth and her husband, Matt, meet a charismatic White House staffer
named Jimmy, and his wife, Ashleigh, the four become inseparable, coordinating
brunch, birthdays, and long weekends away. Then: as Jimmy's star rises higher and
higher, their friendship--and Beth's relationship with Matt--is threatened by
jealousy, competition, and the inevitable rumors.
ON SALE 7/19/2016
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978-1-101-87561-2
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Literary
BISAC 2: Fiction - Political
BISAC 3: Fiction - Contemporary Women
Page Count: 320
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 36/32
Carton Count: 12
INSIDE SCOOP: Jennifer Close's husband has worked in the White House for eight years.
Her best friend is Joe Biden's press secretary. She spends every Christmas in Hawaii with
President Obama's advance team. This novel is built from ten years of careful, hilarious
observation.
A NEW LEVEL: Early readers have marveled at the ambition and sophistication of this novel.
The subject makes Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife the perfect comp.
SALES: Jennifer Close's first book, Girls in White Dresses, has sold 188,000 copies across
all formats. These sales, combined with engaging subject matter and Close's commercial
writing style, give us an amazing platform from which to launch this novel.
About the Author/Illustrator
Author Residence: Washington, DC
Author Hometown: Chicago, IL
Jennifer Close is the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses and The Smart One. Born
and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, she is a graduate of Boston College and received
her MFA in fiction writing from The New School in 2005. She worked in New York in
magazines for many years. She now lives in Washington, DC, and teaches creative writing at
George Washington University.
Marketing and Publicity
Publicist: Helen Tobin
Marketing Contact: Danielle Plafsky
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D.C.
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Fates and Furies; House of Cards,
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The Smart One/Close, Jennifer/HC
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Smart One, The (Ebk)/Close, Jennifer/EL
Girls In White Dresses/Close, Jennifer/H...
Girls In White Dresses/Close, Jennifer/T...
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Comparative Titles by Other Authors
Fates And Furies/Groff, Lauren/HC
American Wife/Sittenfeld, Curtis/HC
American Wife/Sittenfeld, Curtis/TR
Return indicator: Full copies only
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: TBG LITERARY LLC
ISBN
9780307596864
9780307743701
9780307962324
9780307596857
9780307743695
9780307700414
ISBN
9781594634475
9781400064755
9780812975406
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Riverhead (HC)
Random House
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Bright, Precious Days
A novel
Jay McInerney
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978-1-101-94800-2
$27.95/$35.00
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Urban
BISAC 3: Fiction - Family Life
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 45/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing Contact: Sara Eagle
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Jay McInerney's first novel since the best-selling The Good Life: a sexy, vibrant,
cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial read of the highest
order.
Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book
parties one night and high-society charity events the next; jobs they care about
(and actually enjoy); twin children, a boy and a girl whose birth was truly
miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes
at a high cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has cultural clout but minimal
cash; as he navigates an industry that requires, beyond astute literary taste,
constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, expensive and
potentially ruinous opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of seeking personal profit in
this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine is devoted to feeding its hungry poor, and
they soon discover they're being priced out of their now fashionable
neighborhood.
Then Corrine's world is turned upside down when the man with whom she'd
had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel
unfolds across a period of stupendous change--including Obama's historic
election and the global economic collapse he inherited--the Calloways will find
themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have
anticipated.
NEW YORK NOVELS: Garth Risk Hallberg and Hanya Yanagihara have lately proved Sam
Tanenhaus correct when he wrote, in a front-page 2009 piece in The New York Times
Book Review: "Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it." He
goes on to add: "But it was McInerney who succeeded," referring to Bright Lights, Big City.
One might say the same of Story of My Life as well as Brightness Falls and The Good Life,
and here's a magnificent new addition.
THE CALLOWAY NOVELS: Tanenhaus then goes on to single out "Russell and Corrine
Calloway, the Manhattan couple-with-everything whose marital vicissitudes animate
McInerney's two most ambitious novels" (Brightness Falls and The Good Life). The
Calloways are truly the abiding linchpins of these novels...which also reveal such things as
the Reagan eighties and that economic crisis, 9/11 and Bush and various wars, and now
Obama and the bigger economic meltdown he inherited--nearly thirty years of this
nation's history, all seen through the peculiar prism of New York City.
AND: Tanenhaus isn't the only one who believes that McInerney "possesses the literary
naturalist's full tool kit: empathy and curiosity, a peeled eye and a well-tuned ear, a talent
for building narratives at once intimate and expansive, plausible and inventive."
AN OBVIOUSLY PROMOTABLE AUTHOR: On this occasion, really the confirmation of this
landmark series, the man who put Vintage Contemporaries on the best seller lists with his
first book will be very helpful in putting Bright, Precious Days there as well.
A REMINDER: The Good Life, a New York Times best-seller, netted more than 36,000
copies in hardcover, and together the first two books in this saga have sold 170,000
copies in the age before eBooks.
Author Residence: Bridgehampton, NY and Author Hometown: Hartford, CT
New York City
Jay McInerney is the author of seven previous novels, a collection of short stories, and three
collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.
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Model Behavior/Mcinerney, Jay/HC
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Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE
MANAGEM
ISBN
9781101948019
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9780307268051
9780307387950
9780307271525
9780375411403
9780375725456
9780307264695
9780679428466
9780679749530
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The Nix
A novel
Nathan Hill
ON SALE 8/30/2016
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978-1-101-94661-9
$27.95/$36.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 3: Fiction - Humorous
Page Count: 640
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 47/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 1 PHOTOGRAPH
Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks
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A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as
a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim
his own.
Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local
college, obsessive player of an online video game. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye,
since she walked out when he was a child. But then one day there she is, all over
the news, throwing rocks at a presidential candidate. The media paints Faye as a
militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never
left her small Iowa town. Which version of his mother is the true one? Determined
to solve the puzzle--and finally have something to deliver to his
publisher--Samuel decides to capitalize on his mother's new fame by writing a
tell-all biography, a book that will savage her intimately, publicly. But first, he has
to locate her; and second, to talk to her without bursting into tears.
As Samuel begins to excavate her history, the story moves from the rural Midwest
of the 1960s to New York City during the Great Recession and Occupy Wall Street
to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, and
finally to Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a
child. And in these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink
everything he ever knew about his mother--a woman with an epic story of her
own, a story she kept hidden from the world.
GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: The Corrections meets The Flamethrowers, with the verve,
scope, and biting humor of the best of DeLillo and Roth, THE NIX is that unique American
fiction, that can move from family to politics to big social issues to side-splitting laughter
in the turn of a sentence (one of which is ten pages long).
HUGE DEBUT: THE NIX is an extremely confident debut by a fearless writer. It's big. It's
bold. It's funny. It will break your heart and put it back together again.
TIMING: With stops at the Republican National Convention of 2004, Occupy Wall Street,
and a climax at the tumultuous Democratic National Convention of 1968 in Chicago, THE
NIX touches on and completely skewers today's political engine.
LOVE STORY: Woven into Samuel's quest to uncover his mother's history is the touching
love story about another woman in his life--his childhood crush, Bethany.
CULTURALLY RELEVANT: From the online world of Elfscape to pop-star anthems to
emotion-based phone apps, THE NIX reflects our current culture in all its glittering
beauty.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: Simply put, there is a CYOA novel in this novel.
RIGHTS: Acquired in major preempts and auctions around the world, THE NIX is a global
phenomenon.
Author Residence: Naples, FL
Nathan Hill's short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa
Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, where he was awarded the annual Fiction
Prize. A native Iowan, he now lives with his wife in Naples, Florida. This is his first novel.
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Visit From The Goon Squad, A/Egan, Jennifer/HC
Visit From The Goon Squad, A/Egan, Jennifer/TR
This Is Where I Leave You/Tropper, Jonathan/HC
This Is Where I Leave You/Tropper, Jonathan/TR
The Flamethrowers / Kushner, Rachel/HC
The Flamethrowers / Kushner, Rachel/TR
The Corrections/Franzen, Jonatha / HC
The Corrections/Franzen, Jonathan/TR
The Art of Fielding/Harbach, Chad/HC
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: BRANDT & HOCHMAN LITERARY
AGEN
ISBN
9780307592835
9780307477477
9780525951278
9780452296367
9781439142004
9781439142011
9780374129989
9780312421274
9780316204729
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Agent: EMILY FORLAND
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Knopf
Anchor
Dutton Adult (HC)
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Scribner
Scribner
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Picador
Little Brown
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$25.95/$32.50
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His Final Battle
The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld
From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely
insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical
prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to
a successful conclusion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is often ranked among the greatest of American
presidents, but his legacy has never been considered like this: through the lens of
his final sixteen months. This little-examined period encompasses the D-Day
invasion, the Manhattan Project, the Yalta conference--and the discovery that he
was suffering from severe hypertension and congestive heart failure.
With precision and compassion, Joseph Lelyveld examines the choices Roosevelt
made in this period, illuminating his state of mind, his preoccupations, and his
motives, both as a wartime leader and in his personal life. Confronting his own
mortality, Roosevelt operated under the belief that he had a duty to see the war
through to the end--while simultaneously pressured by the demands of family,
health, and volatile enemies. Lelyveld delivers an incisive portrait of this famously
inscrutable man, full of contradictions but a consummate leader to the very last.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Presidents &
Heads Of State
BISAC 2: History - United States - 20th Century
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 45/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 19 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT
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American History
A CLASSIC MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Roosevelt has been extensively biographied,
but this era of his life has been mostly glossed over: the last attempt was by Jim Bishop, in
1974, and Doris Kearns Goodwin's 1994 biography spends only about 150 pages on the
end of Roosevelt's life (focusing more on Eleanor in these pages). No one has yet
attempted such an in-depth, psychologically astute portrait of this complicated,
fascinating man at a crucial point in his life.
EVERGREEN SUBJECT, FRESH APPROACH: In Hemingway's Boat, after all that had been
written about Hemingway, Paul Hendrickson allowed us to see the writer in a genuinely
new light. Lelyveld does the same in this study of FDR.
GREATLY RESPECTED AUTHOR: Lelyveld is the former executive editor of The New York
Times and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Move Your Shadow. His book will be
widely reviewed and be given great exposure.
IDEAL TIMING: Roosevelt, like Lincoln, Kennedy, and Washington, is one of the presidents
to whom modern politicians compare themselves and evoke, and his name will be
mentioned repeatedly throughout election season.
Advance Praise for His Final Battle
"With a seasoned journalist's built-in skepticism and a gifted historian's scrupulous respect
for evidence, Joseph Lelyveld leads us deeper into Franklin Roosevelt's 'thickly forested
interior' at the end of his life than anyone has ever gone before. His Final Battle is now
required reading for anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century's most
consequential--and most mysterious--president." --Geoffrey C. Ward, author, The
Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Author Residence: New York, NY
Author Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
JOSEPH LELYVELD is a former correspondent and executive editor of The New York Times. He
is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White;
Omaha Blues, a memoir; and Great Soul, on Mahatma Gandhi. He is a frequent contributor to
TheNew York Review of Books.
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Traitor To His Class/Brands, H.W./HC
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FDR/Smith, Jean Edward/HC
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Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
Agency: THE WYLIE AGENCY LLC
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9780307269584
9780307389954
9780307595362
9780374225902
ISBN
9780385519588
9780307277947
9781400061211
9780812970494
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Hitler
Ascent, 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich
A landmark biography that gives us an unprecedented understanding of the man
who has become the personification of evil.
Volker Ullrich draws on previously unseen papers and recent scholarly research
to shed new light on the man behind the public persona: from Hitler's childhood
and his failures as a young man in Vienna to his First World War experience and
his rise as a far-right party leader. Ullrich deftly captures Hitler's intelligence,
intuitive grasp of politics, and skill at oratory as well as his megalomania, deep
insecurity, and repulsive worldview. He gives us a vivid portrait of the postwar
Germany Hitler stepped into--humiliated by defeat, wracked by political crisis,
starved by economic depression--but the author's unique gift is to elucidate how
Hitler used his ruthlessness and political acuity to shape the Nazi party and lead it
to power. The world has long tried to grasp how Hitler was possible. By focusing
on how he experienced his world, formed his political beliefs, and wielded power,
this riveting biography brings us closer than ever to the answer.
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978-0-385-35438-7
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
BISAC 2: History - Europe - Germany
BISAC 3: History - Modern - 20th Century
Page Count: 1008
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 24 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Publicist: Kathryn Zuckerman
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Higher Education
MAJOR EVENT: This first volume is a landmark publishing event on the level of Ian
Kershaw's monumental two-volume biography of Hitler, as well as other recent historical
biographies such as Simon Sebag Montefiore and Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, and Jung
Chang on Mao.
NEW APPROACH: While Kershaw wrote primarily about how economic and political crises
fused with defeat in WWI to render Germany susceptible to the rise of Hitler, Ullrich
thoroughly covers the political landscape but he focuses on Hitler himself, and on how he
led his party from rallies for a few dozen people at beer gardens to complete control of
Germany.
MYTH BUSTING: Ullrich corrects a number of misimpressions about Hitler--that his
anti-Semitism was forged as a young man in Vienna (actually it was in Munich after WWI);
that he had no personal life (there is a chapter on his awkward but not abnormal relations
with women); that he was unintelligent (he was a remarkably canny political strategist and
tactician).
CONTROVERSIAL: Ullrich is ultimately attempting to humanize Hitler--not out of sympathy,
but to understand better how he was able to gain power. The conditions were ripe, but
only Hitler could have exploited them the way he did.
NEW SOURCES: Ullrich was able to use Hitler's complete notes and speeches up to 1933,
and the official Chancellery documents from Hitler's reign, as well as Goebbels's complete
diaries, which were not available when Kershaw was writing.
BRITISH EDITION: The book will be published in March by The Bodley Head, and we will
have their reviews to help our publication.
AUTHOR'S PREVIOUS BOOKS: Other than a 176-page minor biography of Bismarck released
by a tiny press, this is Ullrich's first book to be published in the US.
"The first volume of Volker Ullrich's monumental new biography...is beautifully written, as
befits the experienced journalist, and deeply and freshly researched, with many new
details and a finely balanced judgment, as one would expect from the trained historian."
--Sir Richard J. Evans, Cambridge University, Times Higher Education (Best Books of 2013)
Author Residence: Hamburg, Germany
Author Hometown: Celle, Germany
VOLKER ULLRICH is a historian and journalist whose previous books in German include
biographies of Bismarck and Napoleon, as well as a major study of Imperial Germany, Die
nervöse Grossmacht1871-1918 (The Nervous Empire). From 1990 to 2009, Ullrich was the
editor of the political book review section of the influential weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase.
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Stalin/Montefiore, Simon Sebag/HC
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Stalin (Ebk)/Montefiore, Simon Sebag/EL
Stalin/Kotkin, Stephen/HC
Stalin/Kotkin, Stephen/TR
Hitler 1889 To 1938 Hubris/Kershaw, Ian/HC
Book Club: Yes
Translation: No
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ISBN
9780679422716
9780679746324
9780307807137
9781400042302
9781400076789
9780307427939
9781594203794
9780143127864
9780393046717
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Razor Girl
A novel
Carl Hiaasen
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978-0-385-34974-1
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Category: Fiction
BISAC 1: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
BISAC 2: Fiction - Thrillers - Suspense
BISAC 3: Fiction - Thrillers - General
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 39/32
Carton Count: 12
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The new full-tilt, razor-sharp, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the
best-selling author of Bad Monkey, Star Island, Nature Girl, et al.
When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida
Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!).
Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous Razor
Girl--and the crash scam is only the beginning of events that spiral crazily out of
control while unleashing some of the wildest characters Hiaasen has ever set loose
on the page. There's Trebeaux, the owner of Sedimental Journeys--a company
that steals sand from one beach to restore erosion on another . . . Dominick "Big
Noogie" Aeola, a NYC mafia capo with a taste for tropic-wear . . . Buck Nance, a
Wisconsin accordionist who has rebranded himself as the star of a redneck reality
show called Bayou Brethren . . . a street psycho known as Blister who's more Buck
Nance than Buck could ever be . . . Brock Richardson, a Miami product-liability
lawyer who's getting dangerously--and deformingly--hooked on the very E.D.
product he's litigating against . . . and Andrew Yancy--formerly Detective Yancy,
busted down to the Key West roach patrol after accosting his then-lover's husband
with a Dust Buster. Yancy believes that if he can singlehandedly solve a
high-profile murder, he'll get his detective badge back. That the Razor Girl may be
the key to Yancy's future will be as surprising as anything else he encounters along
the way--including the giant Gambian rats that are livening up his restaurant
inspections.
BEST SELLER, HIGH SELLER: Carl Hiaasen is legendary. His backlist is bursting with best
sellers. And his last book, Bad Monkey, has sold more than 170,000 in hardcover alone.
ZANY, RAUNCHY, IRRESISTIBLE FUN: Hiaasen gives his legion of fans even more of the
bizarre and loony action that they've been craving since our last publication in 2013. Let's
not keep them waiting any longer.
STYLE AND SUBSTANCE: Lest we forget amidst the belly-laughs, beneath Hiaasen's
humor and wit is always also a story of corruption, of greed, of environmental degradation,
and of heroes rising to the challenge. And, of course, of Florida.
HOUSE AUTHOR: We've been publishing Hiaasen at Knopf since 1991 (Native Tongue) but
Razor Girl, his eighth novel, marks the first time Vintage will have frontlist paperback
rights.
Praise for Bad Monkey:
"[A] comedic marvel . . . [Hiaasen] hasn't written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip. . . .
Beautifully constructed." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"[A] deliciously zany romp. Buckle up for the ride." --People
"Bad Monkey boils over with corruption and comeuppance. And yes, there's a monkey."
- -O, The Oprah Magazine
"[A] rollicking misadventure in the colorful annals of greed and corruption in South
Florida. . . . Hiaasen has a peculiar genius for inventing grotesque creatures . . . that
spring from the darkest impulses of the id. But he also writes great heroes." --Marilyn
Stasio, The New York Times
"This 'Triple-F'-fierce, funny, and Floridian . . . enfolds corruption, greed, mayhem, and
very funny social satire in the way that only Hiaasen does it." - -Reader's Digest
Author Residence: Florida
Author Hometown: Florida
Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of thirteen previous novels,
including the best-selling Bad Monkey, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and
Lucky You, and four best-selling children's books, Chomp, Hoot, Flush, and Scat. His most
recent work of nonfiction is The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport. He also
writes a weekly column for The Miami Herald.
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Swimming in the Sink
An Episode of the Heart
Lynne Cox
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Personal
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BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Sports
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From an inspired and inspiring open water swimmer, a supreme athlete who swims
without a wetsuit, able to endure cold water temperatures that would kill others,
author of Swimming to Antarctica ("Riveting"--Sports Illustrated), Grayson ("Moving,
mystical" --People), and Open Water Swimming Manual ("Exceptional" --The
Independent)--a powerful book about super athleticism and human frailty, about
invincibility and the sudden (mind-altering) repercussions of illness, and about the
triumph of spirit, surrender, and love against it all.
Lynne Cox was a super athlete who broke many world records, among them
swimming the English Channel at 15, being the first woman to swim across Cook
Strait (15.2 miles) between the North and South Islands of New Zealand, and the
first to swim off Antarctica in 32-degree water--for 25 minutes!--all without a
wetsuit. And that's where Swimming in the Sink begins--at a laboratory at the
University of London, with Cox's hand in cold water, hooked up to thermocouples
and probes, with three scientists trying to make sense of her extraordinary human
capabilities of athleticism. The test results paved the way for new medical and
life-saving practices. As an athlete, Cox had put her heart into everything she'd
ever accomplished. In turn her heart gave her great physical strength and
endurance.
In the midst of becoming the embodiment of a supreme endurance athlete,
Cox had taken care of her elderly parents, both of whom passed away in quick
succession followed by the death of her beloved Labrador retriever, leaving Lynne
in shock from loss and loneliness and soon, literally, suffering from the
debilitating effects of a broken heart.
On the edge of a precipice, Cox was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (Afib). As
the prognosis went from bad to worse, Cox was in fear of living out a lesser life as
an invalid with a pacemaker, hooked up to a defibrillator . . . for the first time, the
very real possibility of her own death was before her.
Cox writes of her full surrender to her increasing physical frailty, to her illness,
her treatment, her slow pull toward recovery. In Swimming in the Sink we see her
finding her way, writing about her transformative journey that led her away from
her illlness back toward health, and slowly making her way toward the one aspect
of her life that meant everything to her--freedom; mastery; transcendence--back
to open waters, and the surprise that she never saw coming: falling in love.
Lynne Cox's passionate following and readership.
The book's subject and its inspiring message about super athleticism; about human frailty;
loss, surrender, and the power of love in all its forms. For athletes, swimmers, and for
anyone coming back from illness.
Cox is a much-sought-after motivational lecturer and has given talks to executives at
Johnson & Johnson, Prudential Insurance, Smith Barney President's Club, Starbucks, New
York Life Insurance, and at Vassar, Tufts, UC Santa Barbara, and UC San Diego.
Author Residence: Long Beach, CA
Author Hometown: Boston, MA
Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California. She
has held open-water swimming records all over the world, swimming without a wetsuit. Cox
has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Her articles have appeared
in many publications, among them The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
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Designing Your Life
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
At last, a book that shows you how to build--design--a life you can thrive in, at any
age or stage
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look
around your office or home--at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or
the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And
every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to
solve.
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help
us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where
we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The
same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces
can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and
joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of
surprise.
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Category: Self-Help
BISAC 1: Self-Help - Personal Growth - Success
BISAC 2: Business & Economics - Careers - Job
Hunting
BISAC 3: Business & Economics - Careers - General
Page Count: 304
Trim Size: 5-7/8 x 8-1/4
Spine/Depth: 35/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 33 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
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AUTHORS: Esteemed Silicon Valley designers whose thinking brought us the Apple mouse,
the first consumer laptop, laser desktop printing, Star Wars action figures, and Electronic
Arts video games...
BASED ON FIFTEEN YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT: Readers can learn what authors Burnett and
Evans have taught thousands of people through their popular class, Life Design, at
Stanford University. Everything one needs to answer the question--whether at age
eighteen, twenty-eight, forty-eight, or sixty-eight--"What do I do with my life?" can be
found in the pages of their book.
ANYONE CAN DO IT: Designing Your Life emphasizes actionable, short exercises and
simple ideas and tools to empower you at any stage of your adult life.
PROVEN RESULTS: Burnett and Evans's class has been the subject of academic studies that
have proven the efficacy of their model and its ability to reduce anxiety in your career and
life, as well as helping people reframe and reach their goals.
COMPARATIVE TITLES: Designing Your Life has the sales potential of Eckhart Tolle's A New
Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose; Dick Bolles's What Color Is Your Parachute (10
million copies), and Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? (32
million copies)--but goes beyond what those books have to offer.
Author Residence: San Francisco, CA
Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Design Program at Stanford. Dave Evans is an
adjunct lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, a management consultant, and a
co-founder of Electronic Arts
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What Should I Do With My Life?/Bronson, Po/HC
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Purpose Driven Life/Rick Warren/TR 2013
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Eyes on the Street
The Life of Jane Jacobs
Robert Kanigel
The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view
and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban
planning to this day.
Eyes on the Street is a revelation of the phenomenal woman who raised three
children, wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped
expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged at home and on the streets in
thousands of debates--all of which she won. Here is the child who challenged her
third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the journalist who honed her writing
skills at Iron Age, Architectural Forum, Fortune, and other outlets, while amassing
the knowledge she would draw upon to write her most famous book, The Death
and Life of Great American Cities. Here, too, is the activist who helped lead an
ultimately successful protest against Robert Moses's proposed expressway
through her beloved Greenwich Village; and who, in order to keep her sons out of
the Vietnam War, moved to Canada, where she became as well known and admired
as she was in the United States.
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978-0-307-96190-7
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Category: Biography
BISAC 1: Biography & Autobiography - Women
BISAC 2: Political Science - Public Policy - City
Planning & Urban Development
Page Count: 512
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 54/32
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 34 PHOTOGRAPHS; ENDPAPER MPS
Publicist: Jessica Purcell
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New York, Philadelphia, Scranton,
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JACOBS'S CONTINUING POPULARITY AND INFLUENCE: Death and Life has more than
600,000 copies in print, hard/soft. First published in 1961, it still sells about 15,000 a
year in Vintage. Jacobs's seven books, their ideas, and their reception are all thoroughly
discussed by Kanigel.
TITLE: Eyes on the Street is a phrase Jacobs first used in The Death and Life and repeated
often. It stands for her vision of cities as enriched and made lively and safe for people by
the "civilizing and enjoyable services that good city street life casually provides."
COMPREHENSIVE: Based on new research and sources as well as standard archives of her
letters and material.
CENTENNIAL: 2016 is the hundredth anniversary of Jane Jacobs's birth.
AUTHOR: Kanigel has written two previous very successful biographies: The Man Who
Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, the subject of a coming movie starring Dev
Patel and Jeremy Irons, and The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of
Efficiency--the basis of the PBS documentary Stopwatch. Kanigel is reviewed widely and
well (The One Best Way was a TBR front cover review).
Author Residence: Baltimore, MD
ROBERT KANIGEL is the author of seven previous books. He has been the recipient of
numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Grady-Stack Award for
science writing. His book The Man Who Knew Infinity was a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. For twelve years he was a
professor of science writing at M.I.T. He and his wife now live in Baltimore, Maryland, and he
writes full time.
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A Kingdom of Their Own
The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster
Joshua Partlow
The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately
failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United
States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former
Washington Post Kabul bureau chief.
The United States came to Afghanistan on a simple mission: to avenge the
September 11 attacks and to drive the Taliban from power. This took less than
two months. But over the next decade, the ensuing fight for power and money left
the region even more dangerous than before the first troops arrived.
At the center of this story are President Hamid Karzai and his brothers who
began the war as symbols of a new, moderate, forward-looking Afghanistan--the
antithesis of the brutish and backward Taliban regime. Now, with the war in
shambles, they are in open conflict with one other and with their Western allies.
Joshua Partlow's clear-eyed analysis reveals the mistakes, squandered hopes, and
wasted chances behind the scenes of a would-be political dynasty that, in turn,
newly illustrate the arc of the war and America's relationship to
Afghanistan--from optimism to despair, and from friendship to enmity.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Middle East - General
BISAC 2: Political Science - World - Middle Eastern
BISAC 3: Political Science - International Relations General
Page Count: 416
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 46/32
Carton Count: 12
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Foreign Policy Associations
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ORIGINAL APPROACH TO A FAMILIAR SUBJECT: By addressing the war from an unexpected
angle--through the Karzai family--this book does for American efforts in Afghanistan
what Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the Iraq War.
LITERARY ECHOES: Partlow's approach to the subject--dark humor and intensive
knowledge of his subject blended with tragically lost opportunities--evokes Graham
Greene's Our Man in Havana and the novels of John Le Carré.
THE WAR GOES ON: It is now clear that there will be a sizable military commitment in
Afghanistan until the end of President Obama's time in office, guaranteeing journalistic
coverage and controversy.
"With great writing and deep reporting, the Washington Post series captured the war in
Afghanistan, from the seeming futility of the U.S. offensive and the challenges American
soldiers faced on the ground in Marja to the Taliban forces moving into Zabul and the bizarre
allegiances the U.S. has made with regional tribal leaders. In this rich body of work,
Chandrasekaran and Partlow captured the tragedy of Afghanistan's war." --Overseas Press
Club citation for Joshua Partlow and Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Hal Boyle Award
Author Residence: Mexico City, Mexico
Author Hometown: Olympia, WA
Joshua Partlow is The Washington Post's bureau chief in Mexico. Between 2009 and 2012, he
was the Post's Kabul bureau chief and has also worked as a correspondent in South America
and Iraq. In 2010, Partlow shared an Overseas Press Club award with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
for the best newspaper or news service reporting from abroad, in recognition of their series
on the war in Afghanistan.
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Odes
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds follows her Pulitzer Prize winner, Stag's Leap, with a stunning book of
odes.
Opening with a powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Sharon Olds uses this
age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is
centered around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way
on parts of her own story that will be familiar from earlier works, each episode
and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such
poems as "Ode to My Sister," "Ode of Broken Loyalty," "Ode to My Whiteness,"
"Blow Job Ode, " "Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This
Window," Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is
universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily
joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her -the "Sheffield Mountain Ode" for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces
here -- Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its
conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.
A thrilling and equally strong book to follow Sharon's Pulitzer win.
The thematic nature of Odes, treating the woman's bodily experience, from girlhood to
wise old age, will make this an ideal seller to the women's market as well as for course
adoption in English and Women's Studies programs.
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Category: Poetry
BISAC 1: Poetry - American - General
BISAC 2: Poetry - Women Authors
BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica
Page Count: 128
Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 5 ILLUSTRATIONS
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Reviews of Stag's Leap:
"Stag's Leap moves through the stages of post-divorce life--the reconciling with fact, the
slow acceptance of parting, the indulgence in erotic remembrance, the freedom in
forgetting...The emotional acumen in her lines is still steak-knife sharp." --The Boston
Globe
"Olds, who has always had a gift for describing intimacy, has, in a sense, had these poems
thrown at her by life and allowed them to take root: they are stunning--the best of a
formidable career. Deserted after decades of marriage, she describes a love for her
husband that refuses to die to order. They are the most unusual love poems: fortified by
years, by sexual passion of valedictory intensity and by vows she does not, at first, know
how to unmake. They can be read as an ongoing narrative--a calendar of pain." --The
Observer
"A tremendous book of grace and gallantry, which crowns the career of a world-class
poet." --T. S. Eliot Prize Citation
Author Residence: New York, NY; New
Author Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Hampshire
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia
University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and England's T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012
collection, Stag's Leap, she is the author of ten previous books of poetry and the winner of
many other awards and honors, including the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award
for her first book, Satan Says (1980) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her
second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The
Father was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the
National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the
Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and helped to found the NYU
workshop program for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for veterans
of Iraq and Afghanistan. She lives in New Hampshire and New York City.
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Odes
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds follows her Pulitzer Prize winner, Stag's Leap, with a stunning book of
odes.
Opening with a powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Sharon Olds uses this
age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is
centered around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way
on parts of her own story that will be familiar from earlier works, each episode
and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such
poems as "Ode to My Sister," "Ode of Broken Loyalty," "Ode to My Whiteness,"
"Blow Job Ode, " "Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This
Window," Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is
universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily
joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her--the
"Sheffield Mountain Ode" for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces
here--Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its
conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.
A thrilling and equally strong book to follow Sharon's Pulitzer win.
The thematic nature of Odes, treating the woman's bodily experience, from girlhood to
wise old age, will make this an ideal seller to the women's market as well as for course
adoption in English and Women's Studies programs.
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Illustrations: 5 ILLUSTRATIONS
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Reviews of Stag's Leap:
"Stag's Leap moves through the stages of post-divorce life--the reconciling with fact, the
slow acceptance of parting, the indulgence in erotic remembrance, the freedom in
forgetting...The emotional acumen in her lines is still steak-knife sharp." --The Boston
Globe
"Olds, who has always had a gift for describing intimacy, has, in a sense, had these poems
thrown at her by life and allowed them to take root: they are stunning--the best of a
formidable career. Deserted after decades of marriage, she describes a love for her
husband that refuses to die to order. They are the most unusual love poems: fortified by
years, by sexual passion of valedictory intensity and by vows she does not, at first, know
how to unmake. They can be read as an ongoing narrative--a calendar of pain." --The
Observer
"A tremendous book of grace and gallantry, which crowns the career of a world-class
poet." --T. S. Eliot Prize Citation
Author Residence: New York, NY; New
Author Hometown: San Francisco
Hampshire
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia
University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and England's T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012
collection, Stag's Leap, she is the author of ten previous books of poetry and the winner of
many other awards and honors, including the inaugural San Franciso Poetry Center Award for
her first book, Satan Says (1980) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second,
The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father
was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the
National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the
Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University, and helped to found the NYU
workshop program for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for veterans
of Iraq and Afghanistan. She lives in New Hampshire and New York City.
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Wild Things, Wild Places
Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
Jane Alexander
A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet
earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird
preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists,
environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist,
impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the
National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony
Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress.
In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a
knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and
the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive
and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife
conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her,
the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in this work, of her travels with
them--and on her own--to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as
they try to save many species, including ourselves.
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Memoirs
BISAC 2: Science - Life Sciences - Biological Diversity
BISAC 3: Science - Life Sciences - Ecology
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 16 PP 4-C; 57 PHOTOS IN TXT
PBS, NPR, and print features
Coverage in and on Science, Nature, and
Environmental Publications and Sites
Author Tour, including Boston,
Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami,
Minneapolis, New York, San Diego, San
Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
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nature, birding, natural science, and
conservation sites including National
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Nature, American Scientist, ScienceMag,
PopSci, Discovery, and interest targeting,
as well science pages on major news
sites. Advertising on IMDB and other
celebrity sites
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Outreach to Wildlife Conservation Society,
the National Audubon Society, and
Project Greenhope
The urgency of the book's subject, the earth's changing character and its profound effects
on the natural worlds and wildlife.
Jane Alexander has immersed herself in the natural world for more than three decades,
traveling, working, collaborating with the most renowned scientists--heroes of
conservation at work--and her own serious reputation in those worlds as committed
naturalist and environmentalist.
Alexander's unique position and ability as an award-winning actress and former head of
one of America's foremost arts organizations to be a sought-after spokesperson for the
important work being done to help restore and protect our planet.
Alexander's deep and long-standing associations with those at the center of the worlds of
science, politics, and conservation, and the worlds of theater, film, and television.
Alexander sits on many boards, among them the Wildlife Conservation Society, the
National Audubon Society, and Project Greenhope.
The Jane Alexander Global Wildlife Ambassador Award (Jane was its first recipient) is the
Indianapolis Prize, the most prestigious award today comparable to the Nobel for
scientists, field biologists, etc., and the gala will be held on October 15, 2016.
Author Residence: Dobbs Ferry, NY
Author Hometown: Boston, MA
Jane Alexander was born and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, and attended Sarah
Lawrence College and the University of Edinburgh. Alexander has appeared in more than
twenty films, including Testament, Kramer vs. Kramer, All the President's Men, The Great
White Hope, Brubaker, The Cider House Rules, Sunshine State, Feast of Love, and Terminator
Salvation. She has performed in more than 100 plays, among them The Great White Hope,
The Visit and The Sisters Rosensweig, appearing on Broadway, London's West End, and in
regional theaters from Atlanta to LA. She has received, in addition to a Tony and two Emmys,
an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award, as well as being inducted into the
Theater Hall of Fame. She lives in upstate New York and Nova Scotia with her husband, Ed
Sherin, the award-winning director of the TV series Law & Order and the Broadway
productions of The Great White Hope and The First Monday in October, among many others.
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The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the
phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its
transformative effect on our society and our selves.
Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm
whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: Business & Economics - Industries - Media
& Communications
BISAC 2: History - Social History
BISAC 3: Social Science - Popular Culture
Page Count: 432
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 46/32
Carton Count: 12
Marketing Contact: Stephanie Kloss
National Online News Interviews,
Reviews, and Blog Coverage
Coverage in and on Business,
Technology and Science Publications
and Sites
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Prepub Advertising on Facebook
Prepub Promotion: Timeline or video
showing the rise and fall of attention
merchants
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mobile and desktop campaign targeting
arts, books, science, advertising,
business. Online campaign targeting
Wired, FastCo, AdAge, Forbes,
BusinessInsider, Atlantic, Slate
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of Higher Education
In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising
enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other
efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have
remained uncultivated by the "attention merchants," contributing to the distracted,
unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct
of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth and
expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison
Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically
individualized choices, the business model of "attention merchants" has always
been the same. He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless
attempts to influence our consumption, from the remote control to FDA
regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention
merchants grow ever-new heads, and their means of harvesting our attention
have given rise to the defining industries of our time, changing our
nature--cognitive, social, and otherwise--in ways unimaginable even a generation
ago.
SUBJECT: A perfect complement to Wu's acclaimed history of information industries. Here
is the epic battle not for control of "the pipes" (as in The Master Switch) but for eyeballs.
Keyed also to the contemporary anxiety concerning loss of control over our attentional
faculties.
AUTHOR: One of the most influential commentators on the tech industry and society;
coined and developed "net neutrality" before it became a federal law. Since TMS, he has
grown only more prominent, whether as a regular contributor to The New Yorker, special
adviser to the FTC, candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, and now special counsel
to the NYS Attorney General's office.
The Master Switch was named one of the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker, PW, and
Fortune. It has sold 46,000 in print across all formats and remains one of the most widely
referred to books in tech.
Author Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia University, best known for
coining the term "net neutrality." In 2006, Scientific American named him one of 50 leaders
in science and technology; in 2007, 01238 magazine listed him as one of Harvard's 100
most influential graduates; in 2013, National Law Journal included him in "America's 100
Most Influential Lawyers"; and in 2014 and 2015, he was named to the "Politico 50." He
formerly wrote for Slate, where he won the Lowell Thomas Gold medal for Travel Journalism,
and is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. In 2015, he was appointed to the Executive
Staff of the Office of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as a senior
enforcement counsel and special adviser.
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The French Chef in America
Julia Child's Second Act
Alex Prud'homme
The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook
author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew
Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much
deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France coauthor vividly recounts
the myriad ways in which she profoundly shaped how we eat today. He shows us
Child in the aftermath of the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking,
suddenly finding herself America's first lady of French food and under
considerable pressure to embrace her new mantle. We see her dealing with difficult
colleagues and the challenges of fame, ultimately using her newfound celebrity to
create what would become a totally new type of food television. Every bit as
entertaining, inspiring, and delectable as My Life in France, The French Chef in
America uncovers Julia Child beyond her "French chef" persona and reveals her
second act to have been as groundbreaking and adventurous as her first.
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Category: Cooking
BISAC 1: Cooking - History
BISAC 2: Biography & Autobiography - Women
BISAC 3: Cooking - Essays & Narratives
Page Count: 336
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 38/32
Carton Count: 12
Publicist: Jordan Rodman
National Food Press
Women's magazine and blog coverage
Coverage on Food and Lifestyle Blogs
Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Pre-pub Promotion: Tastebook and
Goodreads giveaways (My Life in France
has 57,000 Goodreads ratings)
Cover reveal on Julia Child's Facebook
page (more than 152,000 fans)
NYTimes.com, Boston.com,
SFChronicle.com, USAToday.com,
EW.com, CNN, Epicurious.com,
FoodNetwork, SmittenKitchen,
MarthaStewart.com, AllRecipes.com
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JULIA!: No American food icon is more beloved than Julia Child. The recent successes
Dearie--six weeks on the New York Times best-seller list--and the movie Julie & Julia, as
well as the outpouring of affection that her 2012 centennial inspired, are proof that
enthusiasm for all things Julia Child has not abated.
MY LIFE IN FRANCE:The French Chef in America is a sequel of sorts to Child's
autobiography--nearly 600,000 copies in print and the basis for the movie Julie & Julia,
starring Meryl Streep.
AUTHOR: Alex Prud'homme is Child's great-nephew and, with her, the coauthor of the
New York Times #1 best-selling My Life in France. An acclaimed writer in his own right,
he tells Child's story as no one else can.
BACKLIST: Child's books (including Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which celebrates
its fifty-fifth anniversary in 2016) have sold nearly 4 million copies. Many of her titles are
available as eBooks.
UNTOLD STORY: The story of Child's later years--particularly the massive role she played
in shaping American food culture--has been largely overlooked. This book covers it all in
detail.
FEMINIST ICON: In part, this is the story of Child's liberation. After her relationship with
friend and coauthor Simca Beck soured, Child struck out on her own, becoming an unlikely
feminist icon along the way.
IILUSTRATED: Like My Life in France, this book is filled with charming personal
photographs from Julia and Paul Child's adventures.
FOOD TV: At the heart of the book is Julia's crusade to transform the way cooking is
presented on television, making it a fascinating read for fans of the Food Network, the
Cooking Channel, etc.
Praise for My Life in France:
"What a joy!" --The Washington Post
"Endlessly engaging." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Inspiring." --Entertainment Weekly
Author Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Author Hometown: New York City
ALEX PRUD'HOMME is Julia Child's great-nephew and the coauthor of her autobiography, My
Life in France, which was adapted into the movie Julie & Julia. He is also the author of The
Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century, Hydrofracking: What
Everyone Needs to Know, and The Cell Game, and he is the coauthor (with Michael
Cherkasky) of Forewarned: Why the Government Is Failing to Protect Us--and What We Must
Do to Protect Ourselves. Prud'homme's journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, and People.
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Who Killed These Girls?
Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry
From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the
murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of
the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years
now--to find and punish those who committed it.
The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked,
bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were
found in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and
horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though
all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often
misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried;
moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD
detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the
story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other
developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story
belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a
riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly
engrossing.
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Category: True Crime
BISAC 1: True Crime - General
BISAC 2: Social Science - Criminology
BISAC 3: History - United States - State & Local Southwest (Az, Nm, Ok, Tx)
Page Count: 352
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 39/32
Carton Count: 12
THE AUTHOR: As demonstrated by 1992's Crossed Over--centered on her friendship with
the convicted (and finally executed) murderer Karla Faye Tucker--Lowry writes about
crime with deeply personal passion and insight, all of which is on display here.
ALSO: The author of six novels and three works of nonfiction, Lowry enjoys the support of
peers and reviewers alike, which bodes well for this publication.
THE YOGURT SHOP MURDERS were featured on national television from the start and for
years and years afterward, and their twenty-fifth anniversary will provide enormous
opportunities for off-the-book-page coverage, with our very eloquent author as the
reigning expert.
Author Residence: Austin, TX
Author Hometown: Memphis, TN
BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of nonfiction. Her
writing has appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity
Fair, Rolling Stone, Mississippi Review, Granta, and many other publications. She has
received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the
Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in
Austin, Texas.
National OnlineInterviews, Reviews,
and Literary Blog Coverage
True Crime and Mystery Press
Author Tour, including Austin, Dallas,
Houston, Mississippi, Nashville, San
Antonio
Goodreads giveaways
NYTimes, WashPost, CNN, Salon, Slate,
Huffington Post, Austin Chronicle, Austin
Statesman, and the LitBreaker network
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LITERA
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The Earth Is Weeping
The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Peter Cozzens
A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native
Americans over the fate of the West.
With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto
traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last
more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that
destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the
modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and
singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment experienced by the
tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and explores
the squalid lives of soldiers posted to the frontier and the ethical quandaries faced
by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. As the action moves
from Kansas and Nebraska to the Southwestern desert to the Dakotas and the
Pacific Northwest, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters including
Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well
as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud.
For the first time The Earth Is Weeping brings them all together in the fullest
account to date of how the West was won -- and lost.
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Category: History
BISAC 1: History - Native American
BISAC 3: History - Military - United States
Page Count: 576
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 24 MAPS AND 24 PAGES OF 4-C
Publicist: Kim Thornton Ingenito
Smithsonian Magazine essay confirmed,
issue on stands 10/20
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and Military Publications and Sites
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WSJ, Smithsonian, MensJournal,
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history and historians, including Stephen
Ambrose, Hampton Sides, Bob Drury,
Nathaniel Philbrick, T. J. Stiles, and more
American History
POPULAR CATEGORY: Recent years have seen many successful books about the Indian
wars, from Empire of the Summer Moon to The Last Stand to The Killing of Crazy Horse to
Blood and Thunder to The Heart of Everything That Is.
NEW APPROACH: There are many books about individual aspects of the story, but they
have never been pulled together in this fashion to give us a comprehensive story of the
battle for the West in the second half of the nineteenth century.
BALANCED PERSPECTIVE: While Cozzens describes eloquently the raft of broken promises
and unnecessary violence carried out by the United States, he also shows that many of
these tribes had themselves taken land from other tribes, resulting in divisions between
and within tribes that weakened their ability to resist.
CHARACTERS AND NARRATIVE: Full of great characters, exciting battle scenes, and
personal rivalries between chiefs and generals, and between the chiefs themselves. All of
this makes for a riveting read in addition to a definitive history of the subject.
NOVEMBER IS NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: The Smithsonian, Library of Congress,
and other institutions promote Native American history and culture throughout November.
"Peter Cozzens has taken on a massive chunk of Native American history and delivered it
with power, style, and insight. He is above all a great storyteller. I have never read better,
more concise, or more entertaining versions of the Little Bighorn story, Geronimo's wild
run to glory, the Ute War, or Captain Jack's rebellion in the northwest." --S. C. Gwynne,
author of Empire of the Summer Moon
"I've been waiting for an up-to-date, objective, and well-researched book on the Indian
Wars, and Peter Cozzens's The Earth Is Weeping is all that and more--an elegantly written
narrative of one of the great sagas in American history, and better than Bury My Heart at
Wounded Knee." --James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory and The Blood of Heroes
"The uninterrupted succession of armed conflicts between the U.S. army and Indians on
the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains from the 1860s to 1890, with fatalities mounting
into the thousands, were truly America's longest and most tragic war. In sobering detail,
Peter Cozzens has chronicled this dark chapter in our history." --James M. McPherson,
author of The War That Forged a Nation and Battle Cry of Freedom
Author Residence: Kensington, MD
Peter Cozzens is the author or editor of sixteen acclaimed books on the American Civil War
and the Indian Wars of the American West, and a member of the Advisory Council of the
Lincoln Prize. In 2002 he was awarded the American Foreign Service Association's highest
honor, the William R. Rivkin Award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for
exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent.
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Empire of the Summer Moon/SC Gwynne/HC
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Agency: DEBORAH GROSVENOR
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9780807832004
9781469606828
9781402779367
9780807857830
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9781451654660
9781451654684
9781416591054
9781416591061
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Sterling
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Simon & Schuster
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Scribner
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Float
Anne Carson
ON SALE 10/25/2016
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978-1-101-94684-8
$30.00
Category: Poetry
BISAC 1: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief,
Loss
BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Family
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 8-3/8
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: BOXED, 4 COLOR
Publicist: Josefine Kals
Poetry Press
Writers and Bookforum
Quote card campaign
From the renowned classicist and MacArthur Prize winner: a new collection that
explores myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with--and
pushing--the limits of language and form.
Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and
the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of brilliance
and surprise. Presented in an arrestingly original format--individual chapbooks
that can be read in any order, and that float inside a transparent case--this
collection conjures a mix of voices, time periods, and structures to explore what
makes people, memories, and stories "maddeningly attractive" when observed in
spaces that are suggestively in-between.
One can begin with Carson contemplating Proust on a frozen Icelandic plain, or
on the art-saturated streets of downtown New York City. Or journey to the peak of
Mount Olympus, where Zeus ponders his own afterlife. Or find a chorus of
Gertrude Steins performing an essay about falling--a piece that also unearths
poignant memories of Carson's own father and great-uncle in rural Canada. And a
poem called "Wildly Constant" piercingly explores the highs and lows of marriage
and monogamy, distilled in a wife's waking up her husband from the darkness of
night, and asking him to make them eggs for breakfast.
Exquisite, heartbreaking, disarmingly funny, Float kaleidoscopically illuminates
the uncanny magic that comes with letting go of expectations and boundaries. It is
Carson's most intellectually electrifying, emotionally engaging book to date.
AUTHOR: A poetry star whose every book is a publishing event. Her most recent, Red
Doc>, received major press, including a profile in The New York Times Magazine. Carson's
backlist has more than 170,000 copies in print across formats; several backlist titles were
released as ebooks for the first time in March 2015.
PACKAGE/TIMING: A wonderfully special holiday gift: superb design and typography; full
color covers for each of the chapbooks, bound in a case you can see through: Float is as
gorgeous to hold as it is to immerse yourself in--a reading experience that's new every
time you enter it.
PRAISE: The constant wow from critics for Carson will be loud for this book, which gathers
material she has been working on for several years.
Praise for Anne Carson:
"A daring, learned, unsettling writer." --Susan Sontag
"She is an inspiration to us all. She is that rarest of entities, a writer as fearless as she is
gifted." --Michael Cunningham
"Cool, resolute, smart, and lovely...Carson has emerged in the last two decades as a kind
of prophet of the unknowable." --T he Village Voice
Author Residence: Ann Arbor, MI; New
Author Hometown: Toronto, Canada
York, NY
ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years.
Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award
for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
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Antigonick/Carson, Anne/HC
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Agency: ARAGI, INC.
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9781101946855
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9780811223171
9780307960580
9780307950673
9780307960597
9780811219570
9780811218702
9781400043491
9781400078905
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Vintage
Knopf
New Directions
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Vintage
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Mozza at Home
More than 150 Crowd-Pleasing Recipes for Relaxed, Family-Style
Entertaining
Nancy Silverton with Carolynn Carreno
ON SALE 10/25/2016
KNOPF
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978-0-385-35432-5
$35.00/$47.00
Category: Cookbooks
BISAC 1: Cooking - Regional & Ethnic - Italian
BISAC 2: Cooking - Entertaining
BISAC 3: Cooking - Courses & Dishes - Pizza
Page Count: 432
Trim Size: 8-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 8
Illustrations: 66 4-C PHOTOGRAPHS BY
CHRISTOPHER HIRSHEIMER
National Food Press
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York, San Francisco, Seattle
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NYTimes.com, LAWeekly,
TheKitchn.com, Epicurious.com, PBS.org,
BonAppetit.com, and more top news and
lifestyle sites
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From the restaurateur, acclaimed chef, and beloved author of cookbooks on
everything from bread baking to pizza making--most recently, The Mozza
Cookbook--comes a delectable new book that explores the recipes that inspired her,
after a years-long hiatus, to cook at home again.
For years, Nancy Silverton was so consumed by her life in the professional
kitchen that she forgot what made her love cooking in the first place--fabulous
ingredients at the height of their season, simple food served family style, and
family and friends gathered around the dinner table. Now, in nineteen menus
packed with easy-to-follow, prepare-in-advance recipes that are perfect for
entertaining, she rediscovers, and shares, the great pleasures--and great
tastes!--of cooking and eating at home. Whether it's Marinated Olives and Fresh
Pecorino that can be put out while you're assembling the rest of the
meal...salads--such as Endive Salad with Date Anchovy Dressing--composed of
sturdy lettuces that won't wilt...simple sides such as Roasted Carrots and
Chickpeas with Cumin Vingrette that are just as delicious served at room
temperature as they are warm...or show-stopping mains such as Braised Oxtails
and Celery--there is something here for everyone and every occasion, positively
stress-free and delicious!
MAKE IN ADVANCE: Almost every recipe can be prepared in advance -- so these meals are
stress-free!
NANCY SILVERTON: In 2014, she was named Outstanding Chef by the James Beard
Foundation, the organization's highest honor for an individual chef. She has one of the
most diverse résumés in the culinary world and is very well- known and respected in the
community. She will get plenty of media attention for this book.
MOZZA: Pizzeria Mozza, Osteria Mozza, Chi Spacca, and Mozza2Go (now with locations in
Singapore and Newport Beach, CA) are still some of the hottest restaurants in Los Angeles
and have been nationally recognized by the James Beard Foundation. As the sales of The
Mozza Cookbook have proven, fans of the restaurant will definitely be interested in the
recipes that inspired Nancy's concept.
SIMPLE, SLOW-COOKED FOOD: These unfussy recipes are much simpler than those in The
Mozza Cookbook and they capitalize on the slow-cooking craze that seems to be
everywhere today. You don't need any fancy equipment, a restaurant-level pantry, or an
eye for intricate plating, you just need great ingredients and some time to put it all
together. And as always, Nancy guides the reader every step of the way.
A TRUE ENTERTAINING BOOK: All of the recipes in this book serve six to twelve guests and
are organized by menu, but Nancy encourages readers to make each menu their own. She
also includes some amazing tips on how to organize the table and manage time when
serving a large number of guests, and how to cook from these same recipes for an easy
weeknight meal.
Nancy has relationships with Macy's and Le Creuset cookware.
Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Silverton is the co-owner of Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, Chi Spacca, and Mozza2Go
in Los Angeles. She is the founder of the La Brea Bakery and formerly owned and operated
Campanile. She is the author of T he Mozza Cookbook, Twist of the Wrist, Nancy Silverton's
Sandwich Book, Nancy Silverton's Pastries from the La Brea Bakery (recipient of a 2000 Food
& Wine Best Cookbook Award), and Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery, and
Desserts. Carolynn Carreño is a James Beard Award-winning journalist and the coauthor of
many cookbooks, including Meat (with Pat LaFrieda), The Mozza Cookbook and Twist of the
Wrist (with Nancy Silverton), Eat Me! (with Kenny Shopsin), Fresh Every Day and Sara Foster's
Casual Cooking (with Sara Foster), 100 Ways to Be Pasta (with Wanda and Giovanna
Tornabene), and the upcoming Bowls of Plenty. She lives in New York and San Diego.
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Sunday Suppers At Lucques/Goin, Suzanne/HC
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9780307272843
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9780307767554
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Knopf
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Clarkson Potter
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Kenneth Clark
A Life
James Stourton
ON SALE 11/1/2016
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978-0-385-35117-1
$35.00
Category: Art History
BISAC 1: Art - History - Contemporary (1945-)
BISAC 2: Art - European
BISAC 3: Biography & Autobiography - Artists,
Architects, Photographers
Page Count: 448
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Carton Count: 12
Illustrations: 24 PAGES OF 4-C PHOTOGRAPHS
Coverage in and on Art and History
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NYTimes arts, Guardian (U.S. readers),
New York Review of Books, Art history
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of major museums
The first and definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National
Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of
television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his
astonishing life.
Kenneth Clark's thirteen-part 1969 television series, Civilisation, established
him as a globally admired figure. Clark was precient in making this series: the
upheavals of the century, the Cold War among others, convinced him of the power
of barbarism and the fragility of culture. He would burnish his image with two
memoirs that artfully omitted the more complicated details of his life. Now,
drawing on a vast, previously unseen archive, James Stourton reveals the
formidable intellect and the private man behind the figure who effortlessly
dominated the art world for more than half a century: his privileged upbringing,
his interest in art history beginning at Oxford, his remarkable early successes. At
27 he was keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean in Oxford and at 29, the
youngest director of The National Gallery. During the war he arranged for its entire
collection to be hidden in slate mines in Wales and organized packed concerts of
classical music at the Gallery to keep up the spirits of Londoners during the
bombing. WWII helped shape his belief that art should be brought to the widest
audience, a social and moral position that would inform the rest of his career.
Television became a means for this message when he was appointed the first
chairman of the Independent Television Authority. Stourton reveals the tortuous
state of his marriage during and after the war, his wife's alcoholism, and the
aspects of his own nature that he worked to keep hidden. A superb work of
biography, Kenneth Clark is a revelation of its remarkable subject.
AUDIENCE: Anyone interested in art history and history. Given Kenneth Clark's influence
over the arts in Britain in the twentieth century, this is not just a biography of the man but
also a major contribution to the history of the art world and of television.
NEW MATERIAL: James Stourton has unprecedented access to the fabulously rich Clark
archive at Tate Britain, which includes 180 boxes containing 8,000 documents, and will
also draw on Clark's own personal letters from around the world.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS: Clark moved in the highest social and cultural circles in
postwar Britain and the extensive roster of his friends and associates includes Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant, the Queen Mother, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Bernard
Berenson, Cecil Beaton, Noel Edith Sitwell, H. G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley.
AUTHOR: James Stourton, former UK chairman of Sotheby's, is a widely known and
respected figure in the art world and has written widely on art.
Author Residence: London, UK
JAMES STOURTON is the former chairman of Sotheby's UK. He writes regularly for The Times,
The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, and Apollo magazine. Previous books
include Great Houses of London, The British as Art Collectors, Great Collectors of Our Time,
and Great Smaller Museums of Europe.
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9780711233669
9781857597493
9781857595147
9781857592849
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9780674067776
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Frances Lincoln
Scala
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Belknap Press
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Thus Bad Begins
A novel
Javier Marías
From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the
mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy
history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love.
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a
job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film
director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young
man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted
ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend
implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel now asks Juan to investigate. As Juan
draws closer to the truth, he uncovers only more questions. What is at the root of
Muriel's hostility toward his wife? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? What
happened during the war? Marías leads us deep into the intrigues of these
characters, through a daring exploration of rancor, suspicion, loyalty, trust, and
the infinitely permeable boundaries between the deceptions perpetrated on us by
others and those we inflict upon ourselves.
ON SALE 11/1/2016
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HARDCOVER
978-1-101-94608-4
$27.95/$36.95
Category: Fiction
BISAC 2: Fiction - Psychological
BISAC 3: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Page Count: 448
Trim Size: 6-1/4 x 9-1/4
Spine/Depth: 44/32
Carton Count: 12
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Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
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Online Advertising, including Goodreads
and Facebook
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Reading Group Guide
TITLE: The title comes from a memorable Hamlet quote: "I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind."
AUTHOR: Marías's profile in the U.S. continues to grow. His first publication with Knopf,
The Infatuations, was a national best seller, outselling all of his previous books; reviewed
on the cover of The New York Times Book Review by Edward St. Aubyn; an NBCC finalist
and longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize; on several best-of-the-year lists. A lengthy
feature on the author also ran in the International New York Times.
MAJOR BOOK: Thus Bad Begins was a huge success in Spain: a best seller (120,000 in
print) and chosen as the #1 Book of the Year by the country's best-known cultural
supplement.
CONTEXT: The bulk of the story takes place shortly after Franco's death, but the
reverberations of the Spanish Civil War and immediate postwar years ('40s and '50s) loom
large. A state-of-the-nation novel with an ambitious sweep.
UK PUBLICATION: Hamish Hamilton will publish in February 2016, so there will be reviews
and coverage in advance of our publication.
ACCLAIM: Marías is often a candidate for the Nobel. Among his admirers: W. G. Sebald,
Jonathan Franzen, Orhan Pamuk, J. M. Coetzee, John Banville, Salman Rushdie, Roberto
Bolaño, Dave Eggers, Graham Swift, Anthony Marra, John Ashbery, Ben Lerner, Mark
Strand, Claudio Magris and António Lobo Antunes.
VINTAGE: Vintage Español will publish simultaneously. Vintage also continues to support
Marías with new English-language editions of selected backlist titles. Between Eternities, a
forthcoming paperback original of selected articles and essays, is scheduled for 2017.
BOOK TOUR: Marías will be coming over for a U.S. tour.
Praise for The Infatuations
"The Infatuations is mysterious and seductive; it's got deception, it's got love affairs, it's
got murder...Sheerly addictive." -- Fresh Air/NPR
"Masterly...Insightful, witty, sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always
intelligent." --Edward St. Aubyn, The New York Times Book Review (cover)
Author Residence: Madrid
Author Hometown: Madrid
JAVIER MARÍAS was born in Madrid in 1951. The recipient of numerous prizes, including the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Femina Étranger, he has written
fourteen novels, three story collections, and twenty works of collected articles and essays.
His books have been translated into forty-three languages, in fifty-five countries, and have
sold more than eight million copies throughout the world. Translated from the Spanish by
Margaret Jull Costa.
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A Heart So White/Marias, Javier/TR
A Heart So White/Marias, Javier/TR
A Heart So White/Marias, Javier/EL
Constellation Of Vital Phenom/Marra, Anthony/HC
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9781101946091
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9780307960726
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9780307950734
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9780307951076
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9780770436407
9780770436421
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Knopf
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Knopf
Vintage
Vintage
Vintage
New Directions
Vintage
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Hogarth
Hogarth
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Butter Celebrates!
A Year of Sweet Recipes to Share with Family and Friends
Rosie Daykin
ON SALE 11/8/2016
KNOPF
HARDCOVER
978-0-451-49387-3
$35.00
Category: Cooking
BISAC 1: Cooking - Methods - Baking
BISAC 2: Cooking - Courses & Dishes - Confectionery
BISAC 3: Cooking - Courses & Dishes - Desserts
Page Count: 272
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Illustrations: 204 FOUR-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
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Celebrate your favorite occasions with recipes from Butter Baked Goods: the little
neighborhood bakery in Vancouver that is positioned to become a phenomenon
across North America.
What's a celebration without baked goods? Whether you're welcoming a new
baby, a new neighbor, or the New Year; sharing Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, or
Christmas with friends and family; or simply enjoying your day, Butter Celebrates!
has the perfect easy-to-follow recipe. With her warm, welcoming style and funny
anecdotes, Rosie Daykin takes the fear out of making delectables like French
Macarons. She introduces us to the surprise that only a Reveal Cake offers. She
pays homage to such classics as Vanilla Butter Cream. Here are Apple Stuffed
Challah and Champagne Cupcakes, Lil' Ghost Meringues and Eggnog-less Bars:
more than 100 recipes, each one promising an unforgettable treat. And Butter
Celebrates! is a feast for the eyes as well: brimming with gorgeous photographs
that take you step by step through the recipes. With Butter Celebrates!, Rosie
takes you through a year of celebrations to give your sweet tooth the most
delicious indulgence.
Butter Baked Goods began as a tiny bakery in Vancouver, with an emphasis on
nostalgia and the classics. With the publication of Rosie's first book, Butter Baked
Goods: Nostalgic Recipes from a Little Neighborhood Bakery, its fame rapidly
spread across North America. Butter Celebrates! is a peek into Rosie's world, filled
with family, friends, laughter, witty toasts, good music, general chaos, and, of
course, delicious baked goods.
BUTTER BAKED GOODS SOLD ACROSS NORTH AMERICA: in more than 300 gourmet
grocery stores and high-end retailers (Whole Foods, Crate and Barrel, Pusateri's and
Chapters Indigo). (Rosie's bakery is named Butter Baked Goods. They license their goods
across the US).
TRADITION AT ITS BEST: This book recognizes the value of tradition and the importance of
celebrating annual milestones.
ACCESSIBLE TO ALL LEVELS OF BAKER: no fancy techniques, no exotic ingredients; this is
tasty, manageable baking at its best.
GORGEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY: Packed with full-color photography from award-winning
photographer Janis Nicolay.
MEDIA-FRIENDLY AUTHOR: who has been written about by Elle, The Daily Meal, Yahoo
Food, Oprah.com, Sunset magazine, and many more.
"What a marvelous cookbook! Rosie's exquisite gourmet marshmallows put her on the map
(and fly off our shelves at Joan's on Third). Her wonderful Butter Baked Goods is an
essential, accessible book of baking, filled with Rosie's delicious recipes for classic
sweets--and beautiful photography that bring Butter home." --Joan McNamara, owner of
Joan's on Third, Los Angeles
"The Butter Baked Goods cookbook is as inviting as a bakeshop window. In reading the
curated recipes and taking in the enticing photos, you will be convinced you can actually
smell the goodies in the oven! Passionate home cooks know that baking is about that
treasured process, and Rosie will have you rushing into the kitchen to bake." --Anna
Olson, Food Network host and author of Back to Baking
"This cookbook is a celebration of the memories shared through baking, with recipes that
will have you running back to the cookie jar for more. " --Trish Magwood, chef and author
of In My Mother's Kitchen
Author Residence: Vancouver
ROSIE DAYKIN is the owner of Butter Baked Goods, a Vancouver bakery and café. An
accomplished interior designer and a passionate home baker, Rosie transformed her favorite
hobby into a phenomenal success story. Rosie lives in Vancouver, with her husband and
daughter.
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The Last Shift
Poems
Philip Levine
The final collection of new poems from one of our finest and most beloved poets.
The poems in this wonderful collection touch all of the events and places that
meant the most to Philip Levine. There are lyrical poems about his family and
childhood, the magic of nighttime and the power of dreaming; tough poems about
the heavy shift work at Detroit's auto plants, the Nazis, and bosses of all kinds;
telling poems about his heroes--jazz players, artists, and working people of every
description, even children. Other poems celebrate places and things he loved: the
gifts of winter, dawn, a wall in Naples, an English hilltop, Andalusia. And he makes
peace with Detroit: "Slow learner that I am, it took me one night/to discover that
rain in New York City/is just like rain in Detroit. It gets you wet." It is a peace that
comes to full fruition in a moving goodbye to his home town in the final poem in
the collection, "The Last Shift."
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BISAC 2: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Family
BISAC 3: Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Places
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REPUTATION: Levine has long been considered one of the leading poets of our time and
was truly beloved. He was poet laureate in 2011, and won a Pulitzer Prize and two
National Book Awards, among many other honors.
TIMING: We're publishing the poems simultaneously with Levine's My Lost Poets, a
collection of essays. Both together should be an opportunity for widespread attention and
a thoughtful reappraisal of all his work.
HIS LAST POEMS and as such the collection will be a favorite among his readers. And these
poems are particularly lovely, a little looser and more reflective than some of his other
collections.
STEADY SALES: What Work Is reprints often and now has more than 50,000 copies in print.
His last three collections each have nearly 10,000 in print, split evenly between hard and
soft.
Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. After a
succession of industrial jobs, he left the city for good and lived in various parts of the
country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the state university until his
retirement. He was the author of nineteen previous collections of poetry and was the
recipient of two National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. He
was poet laureate from 2011 until 2012, and served twelve autumns as poet-in-residence at
New York University. He died in February 2015.
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My Lost Poets
A Life in Poetry
Philip Levine
Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved
poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and
people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him.
In prose both as superbly rendered as his poetry and as down-to-earth and
easy as speaking, Levine reveals the things that made him the poet he became. In
the title essay, originally the final speech of his poet laureate year, he recounts
how as a boy he composed little speeches walking in the night woods near his
house and how he later realized these were his first poems. He wittily takes on the
poets he studied with in the Iowa Writing Program: John Berryman, who was his
great teacher and lifelong friend, and Robert Lowell, who was neither. His deepest
influences--jazz, Spain, the working people of Detroit--are reflected in many of
the pieces. There are essays on Spanish poets he admires, William Carlos Williams,
Wordsworth, Keats, and others. A wonderful, moving collection of writings that
add to our knowledge and appreciation of Philip Levine--both the man and the
poet.
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REPUTATION: Levine has long been considered one of the leading poets of our time and
was truly beloved. He was poet laureate in 2011, won two National Book Awards and a
Pulitzer, among many other honors.
TIMING: We're publishing this volume simultaneously with The Last Shift, Levine's final
poetry collection. Both together should provide an opportunity for widespread attention
and a thoughtful reappraisal of all his work.
ACCESSIBILITY: Reading these pieces is like having a conversation with Levine, one of the
world's most endearing men. His voice is omnipresent, with its elegance, wit, and its touch
of feigned toughness.
STEADY SALES: What Work Is reprints often and has more than 50,000 copies in print. His
last three books each have nearly 10,000 copies in print, half hard, half soft, and continue
to reprint.
Philip Levine was born in 1928 in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. After a
succession of industrial jobs, he left the city for good and lived in various parts of the
country before settling in Fresno, California, where he taught at the state university until his
retirement. He was the author of twenty collections of poetry and was the recipient of two
National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors. He was poet
laureate from 2011 until 2012, and served twelve autumns as poet-in-residence at New York
University. He died in February 2015.
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Absolutely on Music
Conversations
Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the
internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former
conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to
writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and from The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" to
Franz Liszt's "Years of Pilgrimage," the aesthetic and emotional power of music
permeates every one of his much-loved books. Now, in Absolutely on Music,
Murakami fulfills a personal dream, sitting down with his friend, acclaimed
conductor Seiji Ozawa, to talk, over a period of two years, about their shared
interest. Transcribed from lengthy conversations about the nature of music and
writing, here they discuss everything from Brahms to Beethoven, from Leonard
Bernstein to Glenn Gould, from record collecting to pop-up orchestras, and much
more. Ultimately this book gives readers an unprecedented glimpse into the minds
of the two maestros.
It is essential reading for book and music lovers everywhere.
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Memoirs
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AUTHOR: A perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize; each new book is greeted with huge
excitement.
BACKLIST: There are more than 3.6 million copies in print across KDPG's eighteen-book
Murakami backlist. These books sell steadily, and we are currently rolling out a major
repackaging effort, featuring new cover designs by John Gall.
DEEPLY PERSONAL: As any reader of Murakami knows, he is an enormous music fan, and
here he talks about his passion in unprecedented detail.
FOR MUSIC LOVERS: Seiji Ozawa: internationally renowned conductor and former director
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Music fans will be fascinated by his insights into his
decades as one of the premier figures in the classical music world.
ONLINE PRESENCE: Murakami's Facebook fan page has more than a million fans who avidly
follow news about every publication. His official website (managed by Vintage;
harukimurakami.com) has recently undergone a massive overhaul and looks fantastic. We
have also established a Pinterest page.
MURAKAMI PROGRAM: Wind/Pinball, a volume of Haruki's first two novellas, debuted at #8
on the NYT best seller list in August and has sold 66,000 copies to date in print and
eBook. In 2014, we published two books by Murakami: the NYT #1 best seller, Colorless
Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies across
formats, and The Strange Library, which has sold 82,000 copies.
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Author Residence: Tokyo, Japan
Author Hometown: Kyoto, Japan
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 from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
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Brothers at Arms
American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who
Saved It
Larrie D. Ferreiro
The remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended
on substantial military assistance provided by France and Spain, and places the
Revolution in the context of the global strategic interests of those nations in their
fight against England.
In this groundbreaking, revisionist history, Larrie Ferreiro shows that at the
time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the colonists had little
chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had
no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his
detailed accounts Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and financial
support of the French and Spanish, the American cause would never have
succeeded. France and Spain provided close to the equivalent of $30 billion and
90 percent of all guns used by the Americans, and they sent soldiers and sailors by
the thousands to fight and die alongside the Americans.
Ferreiro adds to the historical records the names of French and Spanish
diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and sailors whose contribution is at last given
recognition. Instead of viewing the American Revolution in isolation, Brothers at
Arms reveals its global implications.
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BISAC 3: History - Europe - General
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Illustrations: 19 PHOTOS, 3 MAPS, IN TXT
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NEW PERSPECTIVE: While we like to think of the outcome of the American Revolution as the
result of American ideals and daring, it never would have succeeded without the
intervention and support of France and Spain, whose interests were, nonetheless, entirely
self-serving in their own battle with England. This geopolitical reference point puts the
revolution in an entirely new light, which has never before been treated as thoroughly or
comprehensively.
MILITARY HISTORY: Historians and armchair historians alike will be fascinated by this
detailed account of how the American Revolutionary War was financed and outfitted.
CHARACTER DRIVEN: Brothers at Arms tells, for the first time, the full story of the other
founding fathers--men like Diego de Gardoqui; comte Charles Gravier de Vergennes;
Bernardo de Gálvez; and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau--who
were every bit as responsible for achieving American independence as Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and George Washington.
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Larrie D. Ferreiro received his PhD in the History of Science and Technology from Imperial
College London. He teaches history and engineering at George Mason University in Virginia
and the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He has served for over thirty-five
years in the US Navy, US Coast Guard and Department of Defense, and was an exchange
engineer in the French Navy. He is the author of Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment
Expedition That Reshaped Our World and Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture
in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800. He lives with his wife and their sons in Virginia.
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Island People
The Caribbean and the World
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
A masterwork of travel literature: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to
Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, the author limns each culture,
society, and politics, at the same time illuminating the islands' common heritage of
the Caribbean's imagined exotic allure.
From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at
what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to
fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be
consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than
three hundred years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced
labor from the sixteenth century onward, imposed by European or later, by
American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some
instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more
than forty million Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by
shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and
religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness."
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A Unique Literary Event: Not since Patrick Leigh Fermor in The Traveller's Tree (1950) has
a writer attempted and achieved with such flair A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.
Caribbean Tourism: Twenty-five million people, more or less, visit the Caribbean each
year; nearly half are from the United States--the preponderance of whom travel during the
high season, which extends from mid-December to mid-April.
Author: Writer, scholar, and geographer, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro has written for The New
Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Guardian, and The Paris Review,
among other publications, and is well regarded by critics.
A student of race and the Caribbean, JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO graduated from Yale College
before receiving his PhD from UC-Berkeley, where he was awarded the Caribbean Studies
Association's Best Dissertation Award for 2012. His introduction to the latest U.S. edition of
Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Traveller's Tree was published in 2011 by New York Review of
Books Classics. He lives in New York City.
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Novels, Tales, Journeys
The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most
acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest
storytellers.
The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but
also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession,
and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical
epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to
imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of
Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly
humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The
Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.
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DEFINITIVE COLLECTION: There is no other Pushkin collection as complete as this, in a
modern translation. With its informative introduction and useful notes, it will become the
standard edition.
ACCLAIMED TRANSLATORS: Pevear and Volokhonsky are in a class of their own: winners of
the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize; anointed by Oprah, who made their
Anna Karenina a million-copy seller; clear victors among the competing War and Peace
translators. Their Vintage translations exceed 1.3 million copies in print.
FATHER OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Because Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin famously
defies translation, the best way for a non-Russian-speaker to appreciate his greatness is
through his prose fiction, here collected in full.
BONUS MATERIAL: Includes more of his inventive and colorful short sketches than other
collections, along with a dazzling nonfiction account of his wartime visit to the front in the
Russo-Turkish war, Journey to Arzrum, written during his period of exile.
SALES OF PUSHKIN: Our older translations of Pushkin story collections: The Captain's
Daughter, Vintage, more than 36,000 in print; Collected Stories, Everyman's Library, more
than 18,000. And our Pocket Poet of Eugene Onegin has more than 13,000 copies in print.
FIRST SERIAL: The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of "The Queen of Spades" appears
in the current Winter edition of The Hudson Review.
VINTAGE SHORTS: The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin has been added to the
Vintage Shorts program. The e-short will publish as part of Short Story Month in May.
A&E MINISERIES OF WAR AND PEACE: This six-part period drama, starring Paul Dano, Lily
James, James Norton, Gillian Anderson, and Jim Broadbent, aired on Lifetime, A&E, and the
History Channel in January and February. Sales of the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation
have increased since then, and should help bring attention to the Pushkin.
Author Residence: France (translators)
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837) was a poet, playwright, and novelist who achieved literary
prominence before he was twenty. His radical politics led to government censorship and
periods of banishment from the capital, but he eventually married a popular society beauty
and became a regular part of court life. Notoriously touchy about his honor, he died at age
thirty-seven in a duel with his wife's alleged lover. RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA
VOLOKHONSKY have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, Bulgakov,
and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
(for Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina). They are married
and live in France.
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How to Survive a Plague
The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an
Oscar finalist--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS
epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die
without a fight.
Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching
their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the
nation at large, and confronted with shame and hatred, chose to fight for their
right to live. We witness the founding of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action
Group), the rise of an underground drug market in opposition to the prohibitively
expensive (and sometimes toxic) AZT, and the gradual movement toward a
lifesaving medical breakthrough. With his unparalleled access to this community
David France illuminates the lives of extraordinary characters, including the
closeted Wall Street trader-turned-activist; the high school dropout who found
purpose battling pharmaceutical giants in New York; the South African physician
who helped establish the first officially recognized buyers' club at the height of the
epidemic; and the public relations executive fighting to save his own life for the
sake of his young daughter. Expansive yet richly detailed, this is an insider's
account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights.
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AidsAlliance.org, and many more
organizations
A CLASSIC IN THE HISTORY OF AIDS: Where Randy Shilts's major best seller And the
Band Played On ends, this book begins. Filled with the intimate stories of individuals who
triumphed in the face of a galloping plague.
FIRST THE FILM, NOW THE BOOK: The prizewinning documentary film of the same title
(available on DVD and downloads) was judged a "Top 10 Film of the Year" by The New
York Times, New York, the Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Slate, and NPR. It served
as a brief overview. Now we have the whole story.
A CLASSIC IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: One of the most stunning
examples of citizen activism in our nation's history--and a landmark victory for the gay
community.
PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: The film has given the author great stature in the gay
community, and the offers to help in the publication of the book are already mounting.
"How to Survive a Plague is both a great and an important book, and we owe David France
an enormous debt of gratitude for writing it. At once global and achingly intimate, his
story provokes righteous rage, despair, the blackest of humor, heartbreak and, finally,
blessedly, hard-won hope...for all of us. You will not soon forget these smart, courageous,
dying young men. In fact, let's call them heroes, since they were." --Richard Russo
"As one generation grows up with the misconception that AIDS is nothing more than a
manageable illness, another grows old with the fear that the epidemic's early days will
disappear into the fog of history. How to Survive a Plague is the book for both
generations. France has pulled off the seemingly impossible here, invoking the terror and
confusion of those dark times while simultaneously providing a clear-eyed timeline of the
epidemic's emergence and the disparate, often dissonant forces that emerged to fight it."
- -D ale Peck, author of Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
Praise for How to Survive a Plague (documentary film), 2012
"The currents of rage, fear, fiery determination and finally triumph that crackle through
David France's inspiring documentary, How to Survive a Plague, lend this history of the
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power a scorching electrical charge." --The New York Times
Author Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI
David France is the author of Our Fathers, a book about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal,
which Showtime adapted into a film. He coauthored The Confession with former New Jersey
governor Jim McGreevey. He is a contributing editor for New York and has written as well for
The New York Times. His documentary film How to Survive a Plague was an Oscar finalist,
won a Directors Guild Award and a Peabody Award, and was nominated for two Emmys,
among other accolades.
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The Wood for the Trees
One Man's Long View of Nature
Richard Fortey
From the author of Earth: An Intimate History, an exuberant "biography" of four
acres of woodland, evoking a cosmos of living and inanimate things and imagining
its millennia of existence
A few years ago, award-winning scientist Richard Fortey purchased four acres
of woodland in the Chiltern Hills of Oxfordshire, England. The Wood for the Trees
is the joyful, lyrical portrait of what he found there.
With one chapter for each month, we move through the seasons: tree felling in
January, moth hunting in June, finding golden mushrooms in September. Fortey,
along with the occasional expert friend, investigates the forest top to bottom,
discovering a new species and explaining the myriad connections that tie us to
nature and nature to itself. His textured, evocative prose and gentle humor
illuminate the epic story of a small forest. But he doesn't stop at mere observation.
The Wood for the Trees uses the forest as a springboard back through time, full of
rich and unexpected tales of the people, plants, and animals that once called the
land home. With Fortey's help, we come to see a universe in miniature.
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CROSSOVER APPEAL: Fortey deftly weaves technical terms into his generous depictions of
nature, bridging the gap between naturalists and the general reading public
TRACK RECORD: Fortey's last five books with Knopf have posted strong sales, from 1998's
Life to Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms in 2012.
POETIC STYLE: Fortey remains unmatched among science writers for his lyrically creative
prose
Praise for Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms:
"Reading this book is like stepping into the field with a man who's equal parts naturalist
and poet, equal parts E.O. Wilson and Paul Muldoon . . . Fortey is as vivid and charming
about live things as he's long been about dead ones, perhaps even more so.. . . His book
is not only well built and witty but emotionally profound too." --The New York Times
"[A] fascinating story . . . [Fortey is] a lively writer with a penchant for slightly goofy jokes,
a vast storehouse of arcane knowledge, and an inexhaustible fund of enthusiasm for his
subject." --The Boston Globe
Praise for Dry Storeroom No. 1:
"An idiosyncratic, endearing, and colorful journey through the towers, vaults, libraries,
collections, offices, and cabinets that lie beyond the public galleries." --Boston Globe
"Engaging and funny . . . Worth the price of admission." --Los Angeles Times
RICHARD FORTEY was a senior paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. He
was Collier Professor in the Public Understanding of Science and Technology at the Institute
for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol in 2002. In 2003, he won the Lewis Thomas
Prize for Writing About Science from Rockefeller University. He has been a Fellow of the Royal
Society since 1997 and was elected as a Fellow in the Royal Academy of Literature in 2009.
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The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes
From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening
exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new
millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us
very sick.
Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at
epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic
fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical
society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both
science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar:
its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse
of high-fructose corn syrup. He explains what research has shown about our
addiction to sweets. He clarifies the arguments against sugar, corrects
misconceptions about the relationship between sugar and weight loss; and
provides the perspective necessary to make informed decisions about sugar as
individuals and as a society.
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CNN, NPR, and print features
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TRACK RECORD: Gary Taubes's earlier books have reached legions of fans worldwide and
continue to sell consistently. Why We Get Fat (2010) has sold 375,000 copies across
platforms, and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), a New York Times best seller, has sold
nearly 225,000.
BUILT-IN AUDIENCE: The popularity of Grain Brain, Salt Sugar Fat, and Fast Food Nation
confirms the appeal of books that demonstrate the social factors and marketing that lead
to poor nutrition and disease.
TAUBES, POLLAN: In the world of food and nutrition, these two are becoming the go-to
figures for researchers and journalists. Along with his books, Taubes's writing for Science
and The New York Times Magazine and his lectures have established his credentials. He is
the only print journalist to receive three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the
National Association of Science Writers.
READING LINE: From the Best-selling Author of Why We Get Fat, a Groundbreaking Exposé
Author Residence: Oakland, CA
Author Hometown: Rochester, NY
Gary Taubes is cofounder and senior scientific advisor of the Nutrition Science Initiative
(NuSI). He's an award-winning science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat
and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent
for the journal Science. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The
Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies, including The
Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society
Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the recipient
of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives
in Oakland, California.
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The House of the Dead
Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer
A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the
last tsarist regimes exiled more than one million prisoners and their families to
Siberia. Common criminals, political radicals, prostitutes, and alcoholics arrived
desperate and half-starving in a land of harsh weather, grueling work, and
pestilential conditions. A place of brutal realities, it was known as "the vast prison
without a roof."
In his riveting new history, Daniel Beer takes readers deep inside Siberia,
unearthing true-life tales of inhuman punishments and the crimes that occasioned
them. Focusing his gaze on the last four tsars (1801 to 1917), Beer sheds light on
how the massive penal colony, a project of correction and colonization, became an
incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia.
As comprehensive as it is bloody, The House of the Dead delves beneath the
statistics and dares to imagine the human experience of Siberian exile. Beer's
original scholarship--examining letters, petitions, and court records in Russian
and Siberian archives--tells the story of Russia's struggle to master its prison
continent as revolution loomed.
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POLITICAL RELEVANCE: With Russia's justice system making regular headlines--notably,
the punk group Pussy Riot's onetime banishment to a penal colony--the history of the
gulag is becoming increasingly relevant in the Putin era.
BLOODY HISTORY: Beer's well-researched scholarship is packed with viscerally rendered
scenes of violence, making this the rare history book that will make readers' hair stand on
end.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH: Beer's extensive use of primary sources makes for countless new
arguments and information on the subject.
Author Residence: London
Author Hometown: London
DANIEL BEER is senior lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of
London. He has written widely on nineteenth-century Russia and is the author of Renovating
Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880 to 1930.
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The Arc of a Covenant
The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
Walter Russell Mead
From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a
groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the
Israeli-American relationship and explores the fate of the Jewish people.
In this brilliant investigation, one of our premier scholars of American foreign
policy contends that both pro- and anti-Zionists have unintentionally collaborated
in a myth of monolithic American-Jewish support for Israel that exaggerates Jewish
unity concerning Israel, overstates the influence of Jewish lobbyists, and
underestimates the potential for change in the Israeli-American relationship. Mead
unveils the little-known incidence of non-Jews such as J.P. Morgan and John D.
Rockefeller lobbying for a Jewish homeland well before the foundation of the
modernist Zionist movement. He makes clear how, in contrast, many Jewish
Americans feel at odds with Israel's right-wing nationalists; and how
developments under both George W. Bush and Obama have driven the most heated
American debate over Israel since the 1940s. Throughout, Mead's singular
intelligence and lively prose penetrate layers of opaque history and politics,
illuminating a better way forward.
.
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AUTHOR FOLLOWING: Mead's God and Gold was listed among the best books of the year
by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Washington Post. He appears frequently
on NPR, Charlie Rose, CNN, every major network news show, Fox News, and the Hugh
Hewitt radio program.
CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC EQUALS SALES: The last big work on this topic, John Mearsheimer
and Stephen Walt's The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, was a New York Times
bestseller (51,900 sold in hardcover, 26,500 in trade paper) and made headlines around
the world.
IDEAL TIMING: The Israeli-American relationship is strained as never before, and
anti-Semitism is on the rise, creating an unprecedented opening for a serious critical work
on this topic.
Author Hometown: Charleston, SC
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD is James Clark Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at
Bard College, Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson
Institute, and the editor-at-large of The American Interest. He served as the Henry A.
Kissinger Senior Fellow in American Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and as
a Brady-Johnson Fellow in Grand Strategy at Yale University. His other books include, most
recently, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. He is a
frequent contributor to publications including Foreign Affairs and The Wall Street Journal,
and his popular blog, Via Meadia, appears at The American Interest online.
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New and Selected Stories
Tim Gautreaux
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A widely celebrated novelist gives us a generous collection of exhilarating short
stories, proving that he is a master of this genre as well. Once again, "he reminds
us," wrote The Miami Herald, "that great writing is a timeless art."
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim
Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories
and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many
hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina and even in midwinter
Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they
wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of
tight-knit communities--a remarkable cast of characters, primarily of the working
class, proud and knowledgeable about the natural or mechanical world, their lives
marked by a prized stereo or a magical sewing machine retrieved from a locked
safe, boats and card games and casinos, grandparents and grandchildren and
those in between, their experiences leading them to the ridiculous or the
scarifying or the sublime; most of them striving for what's right and good, others
tearing off in the opposite direction.
THE STORIES THEMSELVES: This big collection is shot through with humor and delight,
incident and expertise, with all of Gautreaux's deep understanding of the vastness of life
and its many particulars on full display in each and every one. It is a landmark collection
that his fans will embrace and that will encourage others to discover "one of our most
graceful writers, an openhearted explorer of life's tiny beauties" E
( squire).
AWARDS, TOO: Gautreaux's include the Southeast Booksellers Association Award, the
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize.
NEW AND OLD: This collection includes twelve new stories and eight previously published
Praise for Tim Gautreaux:
"Gautreaux, like some bayou Conrad, manages to combine verbal luxuriance and swift,
brutal action to devastating effect." --The New Yorker
"Moving and resonant.... Gautreaux has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect, and
vivid powers of description." --T he New York Times Book Review
Author Residence: Chattanooga, TN
Author Hometown: Morgan City, LA
TIM GAUTREAUX is the author of three novels and two earlier short story collections. His
work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic,
Harper's, and GQ. After teaching for thirty years at Southeastern Louisiana University, he now
lives, with his wife, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Dark at the Crossing
A novel
Elliot Ackerman
ON SALE 1/24/2017
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Category: Fiction
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Romance - Contemporary
Page Count: 272
Trim Size: 5-5/8 x 9-1/4
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From the author of the acclaimed Green on Blue, a timely new novel of stunning
humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with
Syria.
Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted
past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against
Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in
by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife,
Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne
is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching:
Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? And will he be
able to bring meaning to a life of increasing frustration and helplessness? Told
with compassion and a deft hand, Dark at the Crossing is an exploration of loss,
of second chances, and of why we choose to believe--a trenchantly observed
novel of raw urgency and power.
AUTHOR: Based in Istanbul, Ackerman has reported on the Syrian civil war since 2013, and
his pieces run regularly on NewYorker.com. He has unique access to the worlds portrayed
in his fiction, and he's able to bring to life places that most American readers see only in
the news.
PUBLICITY: Ackerman is a frequent presence in the media. His broadcast appearances
include Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, NPR's Talk of the Nation, Meet the Press, CNN,
MSNBC, Fox News, Al Jazeera, BBC,and PBS NewsHour. He has been interviewed in The Wall
Street Journal and The Washington Post, profiled in Vanity Fair and Vogue, and has
written for the op-ed page of The New York Times.
A CONTEMPORARY GRAHAM GREENE or CASABLANCA: The novel has a timeless feel--like
other, now-classic stories of war-torn love and intrigue--yet couldn't be more up to the
moment or relevant in its treatment of Syria and the complexity of our time.
COMPACT: A taut novel--at once spare and evocative--that can be read in a single sitting.
ACCLAIM FOR FIRST NOVEL: Among the many accolades for Green on Blue are blurbs from
Khaled Hosseini, Azar Nafisi, Ben Fountain, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, Anthony Marra, Andre
Dubus, Roxana Robinson, Lea Carpenter, Alexander Maksik.
Praise for Green on Blue
"A haunting debut...Remarkable...Harrowing...Attests to Ackerman's breadth of
understanding--an understanding not just of the rhythms of war in Afghanistan and the
harsh, unforgiving beauty of that land, not just of the hardships of being a soldier there,
but a bone-deep understanding of the toll that a seemingly endless war has taken on
ordinary Afghans who have known no other reality for decades." --Michiko Kakutani, The
New York Times
"A spellbinding tale that puts the human face on unimaginable suffering and violence."
--San Francisco Chronicle
Author Residence: Istanbul
Author Hometown: Washington, DC
ELLIOT ACKERMAN's fiction and essays have appeared in, among other publications, The
Atlantic, The New Republic,The New York Times Magazine, and The Best American Short
Stories. He is a contributing editor at The Daily Beast and a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations. He spent eight years in the military as both an infantry and special
operations officer, serving multiple tours in the Middle East, and subsequently was a White
House Fellow in the Obama administration. He is the recipient of the Major General Edwin B.
Wheeler Award for Infantry Excellence; and he earned a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his
role in the November 2004 battle of Fallujah, and a Bronze Star for Valor in Afghanistan in
2008. He holds a master's degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy.
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Who Killed Piet Barol?
A novel
Richard Mason
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BISAC 3: Fiction - Cultural Heritage
Page Count: 368
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Reading Group Guide
A haunting, wildly imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure
Seeker ("the best new work of fiction ... in many moons; a classic" --The Washington
Post); set in the first decades of twentieth-century colonial Cape Town and in a
spirit-filled forest of secrets and magic powers.
It is 1914. Germany has just declared war on France. Piet Barol, the handsome,
irresistible figure of Mason's much-admired, sensuous History of a Pleasure
Seeker, is once again at the center of this ambitious, lush new novel. Barol, a
European adventurer living as a poseur in South Africa's Cape Colony, navigates
the turbulence and opportunities of this strange land in his blind quest for
comfort and riches as thousands of black families have been turned out of their
homes by a white government bent on confiscating 90% of the country for the
exclusive use of Europeans.
Piet and his wife have successfully, grandly lived a life for the past five years as
colonials impersonating French aristocrats (the dazzling Vicomte and Vicomtesse
Pierre de Barol of the Château de Barol on the banks of the Loire River), though in
truth, he is Dutch and far from aristocratic and she is American and hardly of the
railroad fortune family she so often and casually invokes. Both are wily, and both
have large dreams. After years of supremely decadent living, Fortune, which has
always favored Piet, has grown tired of him and the Barols' luck is about to run
out. They are short of cash and on the verge of ruin.
As one last grand effort they have embarked on a furniture business full of
possibility. They need wood for the enterprise, and through Piet's charm and guile
have come upon the source for their inventory that will make all of them rich. The
wood is in a forbidden forest filled with sacred, untouchable trees of fine
mahogany which Piet is sure he will be able to extract in exchange for beads and
glass trickets. His pursuit of the bewitched trees of the fabled forest of Gwadana
takes him deep into the Xhosa [pron. KO-sa] homelands, where unfailing charm,
wit and the friendship of two black men are his only allies as he attempts an act of
supreme audacity: to steal a forest from its rightful owners--a Xhosa clan who
know to be true that the spirits of their ancestors reside in their magical, ageless
trees . . .
The critical embrace of History of a Pleasure Seeker
A wholly separate novel but a continuation of the Piet Barol narrative of History of a
Pleasure Seeker ("A literary guilty pleasure" --The Los Angeles Times)
The richness of the storytelling; the ambitious reach and originality of the novel
To write the novel, Mason spent a year living under canvas in the rural Eastern Cape,
learning the language and ways of the Xhosa people.
History of a Pleasure Seeker is being made into a TV series by Oscar-winning producer
Alison Owen and BAFTA-winning director Philippa Lowthorpe. Natural Elements is also
being made into a TV series in the UK. And Mason has written an original TV series that
will be developed by Hat Trick Productions, the UK's leading independent company.
Author Hometown: New York, NY
Richard Mason is the author of four novels: The Drowning People (winner of Italy's Grinzane
Cavour prize for Best First Novel), Us, Natural Elements (longlisted for the IMPAC and Sunday
Times Literary Award), and History of a Pleasure Seeker ("A gorgeous confection"--The New
York Times), longlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award and shortlisted for a Lambda
Literary Award. History of a Pleasure Seeker is currently in development as a TV series,
produced by Oscar winner Alison Owen and directed by BAFTA-winning Philippa Lowthorpe.
Mason lives in London and Glasgow.
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