Summer 2012 Paperback Catalog

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The “utterly unputdownable” (Sunday Times) and
scandalous chronicle of Britain’s wild and wonderful
’60s cultural transformation
Richard Neville
Hippie Hippie Shake
The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-Ins, the Sixties
As publisher of the satirical magazine Oz—the hippies’ handbook and a
monument to psychedelia—Richard Neville was at the center of a cyclone
of radicals, rock musicians, artists, and hustlers. Oz was at the forefront of the
’60s underground movement, featuring articles by Germaine Greer,
groundbreaking design by pop artist Martin Sharp, and cartoons by Robert
Crumb. When the magazine was tried for obscenity, John Lennon and Yoko
Ono marched in protest. With an updated chapter on the legacy of flower
power a generation later, Neville demythologizes the 1960s in this hilarious,
colorful, and provocative memoir of the time.
“More dopers, visionaries, groupies, loonies, con artists, and sharks
than you can wave a spliff at . . . Hugely enjoyable.” 978-1-59020-112-1 • U.S. $16.95 / $20.00 CAN.
Memoir
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—Time Out
“An entrancingly wicked account of the greatest decade ever.”
—Marie Claire
“The perfect sixties book . . . the definitive guide to the sex and
drugs shebang.” —Independent
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richard neville (born 1941) is a writer and self-described futurist who
came to fame as a coeditor of the counterculture magazine Oz in
the 1960s and early 1970s.
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The “riveting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and intelligent”
(San Francisco Chronicle) historical thriller by the bestselling
author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Richard Zimler
The Warsaw Anagrams
A Novel
With his international bestseller The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler
first made a name as a master of historical thrillers. In this chilling mystery,
winner of the Marques de Ouro Prize, Zimler has woven a gripping tale in the
tradition of The Shadow of the Wind.
It is autumn, 1940, and the Nazis have sealed 400,000 Jews into the Warsaw
Ghetto. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, moves into a tiny apartment with
his last remaining relatives. Then his beloved great-nephew Adam goes missing
and his body is discovered tangled in the barbed wire, strangely mutilated.
Soon afterward another body turns up, this time a young girl. Could there
be a Jewish traitor luring children to their deaths? With an unlikely hero and
hair-raising suspense, The Warsaw Anagrams is a profoundly moving and darkly
978-1-59020-847-2 • U.S. $15.95 / $18.50 CAN.
Fiction
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atmospheric thriller.
“Part murder mystery and part historical fiction . . . thrilling.”
“A gripping, heartbreaking, beautiful thriller.”
■■ Richard Zimler’s novels been translated into 22
—Boston Globe
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin
“Spare but striking prose . . . masterful.”
—Newsday
languages and have been bestsellers in 12 countries.
■■ Selected as a “Page-Turner” by the Los Angeles Times
The Last Kabbalist
of Lisbon
978-1-58567-022-2, $15.00
■■ www.zimler.com
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richard zimler was born in New York and studied journalism at
Stanford University. He has published eight novels over the last fifteen
years, including the The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. Zimler has won numerous 89
prizes for his work and contributes to the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
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For those who would rather be eating than cooking,
everything from simple snacks to dinner-party desserts,
by the “genius!” (Jamie Oliver) of simple cuisine
Nigel Slater
Introduction by Nigella Lawson
Real Fast Food
350 Recipes Ready-to-Eat in 30 Minutes
Nigel Slater is one of the world’s most acclaimed food writers. Winner of
the Glenfiddich Trophy and twice winner of the BBC Food Personality of the
Year award, he has had an enduring effect on cooking and helped bring to
prominence a new generation of charismatic, unpretentious chefs, including
Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray. His down-to-earth style and infectious enthusiasm
have won him a loyal following both here and in the UK, where his books have
been number-one bestsellers and where he is the Observer’s food writer.
Imagine shredded basil leaves stirred into buttery mashed potatoes and a
slice of pork pan-fried with fennel, followed by a juicy white peach sliced and
978-129020-981-3 • U.S. $17.95 / NCR
Cooking
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dropped into chilled white wine. That’s Nigel Slater’s fast food! Real Fast Food
is the ultimate modern-day cookbook, filled with recipes for everyone who
enjoys delicious home-style cooking.
“His writing could not be more palate-cleansing . . . his acidic riffs put
you in mind of Nick Hornby, Martin Amis and Philip Larkin all at the
same time.”
“One of the greatest living food writers.”
—The New York Times
—Bon Appétit
■■ Real Fast Food was shortlisted for the prestigious
André Simon prize
“No one has their finger so firmly on the pulse of modern cooking.”
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—Time Out
The indispensable companion to Real Fast Food, focusing on the
sweeter things in life, by “pure, honest, and delicious Nigel Slater”
(Alice Waters)
Nigel Slater
Real Fast Desserts
Over 200 Desserts and Sweet Snacks in 30 Minutes
This book is a mouth-watering collection of easily executed desserts suitable
both for entertaining and for everyday eating. Consider blackberries steeped
in a glass of deep red Barolo or a dish of steamy rice scented with rosewater,
cardamom, and pistachios. Or think of a thin apple crisp straight from the oven,
or warm chocolate mousse cake with homemade espresso ice cream.
All these are “real fast desserts” that can be prepared in less time than it takes
a frozen cheesecake to thaw. Slater’s signature style and wit shines through
in his adaptations of traditional favorites: bread and butter pudding that uses
fruity, buttery panettone and crème brûlée with nectarines are just a couple.
Standing alongside these classics are dozens of brilliantly creative (and easy)
desserts.
978-1-59020-861-8 • U.S. $16.95 / NCR
Cooking
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16 b/w line drawings
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Praise for the work of Nigel Slater:
“[Slater] wants you to love the messy process, not just the finished
dish, which, come to think of it, you’ll love, too. These easy-to-execute
dishes go down just as easy.” —The Washington Post
“A rare treasure.” —Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Cooking
■■ The film version of Nigel Slater’s memoir, Toast,
released in theaters in the fall of 2011
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nigel slater is the author of bestselling books including Real Fast Food,
Real Fast Desserts, Appetite, and The Kitchen Diaries. He writes a column
for the Observer, and is the author of the award-winning memoir Toast: The 91
Story of a Boy’s Hunger.
The retelling of the epic Welsh myth that is “certainly among the
top 5 fantasy series of the twentieth century” (sfsite.com)
Evangeline Walton
Introduction by Betty Ballantine
The Mabinogion Tetralogy
The Prince of Annwn - The Children of Llyr The Song of Rhiannon - The Island of the Mighty
The Mabinogion is to Welsh mythology what the tales of Zeus, Hera, and Apollo
are to Greek myth. These tales constitute a powerful work of the imagination,
ranking with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings novels and T.H. White’s The Once and
Future King. Evangeline Walton’s compelling rendition of these classic, thrilling
stories of magic, betrayal, lost love, and bitter retribution include the encounter
between Prince Pwyll and Arawn, the God of Death, which Pwyll survives by
agreeing to kill the one man that Death cannot fell, and the tale of Bran the
Blessed and his family’s epic struggle for the throne.
The Mabinogion is internationally recognized as the world’s finest arc of Celtic
mythology; Walton’s vivid retelling introduces an ancient world of gods and
978-1-58567-504-3 • U.S. $24.95 / $30.00 CAN.
Fantasy
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monsters, heroes, kings and quests, making accessible one of the greatest
fantasy sagas of all time.
“Magnificently conceived . . . powerful.”
—August Derleth, publisher of H.P. Lovecraft
“Ranks with the best of twentieth-century fantasy.”
—Publishers Weekly
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evangeline walton (1907-1996) was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna
Ensley, one of the acknowledged masters of fantasy literature. In addition to
the Mabinogion novels, she is the author of Witch House, considered one of
the classics of the genre. She has won two World Fantasy Awards.
This revelatory book explores modern society while
journeying back to the Greeks and Romans—
“will have readers grabbing for the classics” (Kirkus)
Natalie Haynes
The Ancient Guide
to Modern Life
In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and
wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient
Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including
philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating connections
between antiquity and our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks and
Romans were not so different from ourselves: Is Bart Simpson the successor
to Aristophanes? Do the Beckhams have parallel lives with The Satiricon’s
Trimalchio?
Along the way Haynes debunks myths (gladiators didn’t salute the emperor
before their deaths, and the last words of Julius Caesar weren’t “Et tu, Brute?”)
From Athens to Zeno’s paradox, this irresistible guide shows how the history
978-1-59020-850-2 • U.S. $15.00 / $17.50 CAN.
Ancient History / Classics
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and wisdom of the ancient world can inform and enrich our lives today.
“A romp through some of the best-known, and some of the more
obscure, writers, thought, and stories of Greece and Rome.”
—Times Literary Supplement
“Delivered with wonderful energy, wit, zeal, expertise. Irresistable!”
—Andrew Motion, former UK Poet Laureate
“A constantly amusing but quite serious book!” —Associated Press
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natalie haynes appears regularly on BBC television’s Newsnight Review
and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row. She writes for the Sunday
Telegraph, the Mail on Sunday, The New Humanist, and the Times. She earned
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stand-up comedian. She lives in London.
The White-Luck Warrior
The Aspect-Emperor: Book Two
R. Scott Bakker
978-1-59020-816-8 • U.S. $15.95 / NCR
Fantasy
5 3/8” x 8” • 608 pages
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the darkness that comes before
978-1-59020-118-3, $13.95
the warrior prophet
978-1-59020-119-0, $14.95
the thousandfold thought
978-1-59020-120-6, $14.95
the judging eye
978-1-59020-292-0, $15.95
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r. scott bakker’s previous books
include the Prince of Nothing trilogy:
The Darkness that Comes Before, The
Warrior Prophet, and The Thousandfold
Thought. The Aspect-Emperor series
is a sequel trilogy that began with The
Judging Eye. R. Scott Bakker lives in
London, Ontario.
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The dazzling second book in Bakker’s
“exquisitely intelligent and beautifully written”
(Steven Erikson) saga
Praised by readers and critics around the world, R. Scott
Praise for the work of R. Scott Bakker:
Bakker has become one of the most celebrated voices
“A fine example of the new anti-epic fiction
in fantasy fiction. The Aspect-Emperor trilogy follows
on from the acclaimed Prince of Nothing saga, and The
White-Luck Warrior is the chilling second book in the new
series. Ruler Anasûrimbor Kellhus and his Great Ordeal
march ever farther into the Ancient North, as his consort
Esmenet finds herself at war. Exiled wizard Achamian,
meanwhile, leads his own ragtag mission to the legendary
ruins of Sauglish. Into this tumult walks the White-Luck
Warrior, assassin and messiah both . . .
In this ambitious volume, Bakker delves even further
into his richly imagined universe of myth, violence, and
sorcery.
at its best . . . This is one of the more
brilliant pieces of writing that you’re liable
to read for a long time.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Bakker has been praised by fans and
critics around the world for his thoughtful,
complex and meticulously detailed world,
his colorful and credible characters, and
his deviously intriguing, action-packed
plotting.” —Globe and Mail
“One of the major-league fantasy releases
of 2011, the highly awaited The WhiteLuck Warrior by Scott Bakker . . . Nobody
can deny the powerful nature of those
books . . . Overall [Bakker’s books have]
enriched the potential of the fantasy
genre quite a lot.” —Fantasy Book Critic
There is no name for this war; men cannot reference what transcends the short interval of
their comprehension. It began when they were little more than savages roaming the wilds,
in an age before script or bronze. An Ark, vast and golden, toppled from the void, scorching
the horizon, throwing up a ring of mountains with the violence of its descent. And from it
crawled the dread and monstrous Inchoroi, a race who had come to seal the World against
the Heavens and so save the obscenities they called their souls.
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Over fifty years of reportage on American life by one of the 20th
century’s greatest broadcasters
Alistair Cooke
Introduction by Susan Cooke Kittredge
Reporting America
The Life of the Nation: 1946-2004
For nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life for the BBC.
Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His beloved
radio show, Letter from America, saw eleven presidents, four wars, and an
incredible shift in culture. He adored the U.S. as only a naturalized citizen could,
and his reports were incisive and often moving. Cooke traveled extensively all
over the United States to convey the views of citizens in all the nuances of
regional opinion as well as those of the presidents and policy makers to whom
he had easy access.
Susan Cooke Kittredge’s introduction offers rare insight into the life of her
father, the man many knew as the voice of Letter from America and the host of
978-1-59020-852-6 • U.S. $17.00 / 19.50 CAN.
History / American
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CBS’s Omnibus and PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre. Here are the triumphs, disasters
and vicissitudes of American life—from Korea, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights
movement, JFK, the moon landings, Watergate, Nixon’s resignation, Clinton’s
scandals, the attacks of 9/11, right up to the war with Iraq—as told by one of
the century’s most admired reporters.
“A peerless observer of the American scene for almost 70 years . . . His
observations were not only insightful but also gracefully written and
often gently witty.” —The New York Times
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alistair cooke was born in England in 1908 and was educated at Yale,
Harvard, and Cambridge. He was best known for his weekly BBC radio
broadcast Letter from America, which reported on fifty-eight years of
American life and totaled 2,869 broadcasts.
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One woman moves to New York and falls in love . . .
with a violent sport
Kate Sekules
The Boxer’s Heart
One Woman’s Love of the Fight
Published to coincide with the first Olympic event for women’s boxing,
The Boxer’s Heart is a brilliantly candid memoir of the world of women’s
boxing, now updated and with a new afterword. Written in raw and vivid
style, it tells the story of how a young every-woman moves to New York City
to write and, through struggles and disappointments in her personal life, rises
through the ranks at the famed Gleason’s gym to box professionally.
Sekules’s account unfolds with the pace and depth of a great novel, crammed
with larger-than-life characters and piercing observations. Any woman who has
grappled with anger and trust in her relationships, been nagged by insecurity at
the gym, or wondered what it feels like to throw a punch will identify with this
witty and honest account of the “sweet science of bruising.”
978-1-59020-811-3 • U.S. $17.00 / $19.50 CAN.
Memoir
5 3/8” x 8” • 272 pages
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Pub History: Villard HC, 978-0-37550-395-5;
Seal Press PB, 978-1-58005-077-7
On Sale: 5/29/12
“It’s a knockout, folks . . . The Boxer’s Heart is a winner, on all cards.”
—Newsweek
“Sekules . . . is appealingly self-aware . . . [and] gives us a sense of
women’s boxing as a thriving movement.”
—New York Times Book Review
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kate sekules has edited Food and Wine, Culture and Travel, and Gourmet
magazine and has written for publications including The New York Times,
The New Yorker, and Vogue. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The new noir tour de force by the riveting Jim Nisbet,
“whose pen is mightier than a million swords” (Michael Connelly)
PAPERBACK
Original
Jim Nisbet
Old and Cold
A Novel
What’s a guy to do, when he lives under a bridge and has an unshakeable
thirst for martinis? Kill for cash. So goes the logic at the heart of Old and Cold,
leading to a spree of hits that are sometimes perfectly executed, sometimes
messy, set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s beaches, bars, and murky
darkened streets.
Told at breakneck speed in a bravura voice, this novel is Jim Nisbet’s finest
work yet, reminiscent of Jim Thompson at his best and Tarantino at his most
irreverent. A tough and tender love letter to a city’s underbelly, this is a
shockingly funny tale of suspense that won’t let you go.
Praise for the work of Jim Nisbet:
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“An unheralded masterpiece of the noir genre. Everyone who loves
Noir should read this brilliant book.” “Nobody has Nisbet’s distinctive style, humor, and sheer craft … one of
the finest masters of noir.” “Truly, hellishly gritty.” THE DAMNED DON’T DIE
978-1-59020-196-1, $14.95
DARK COMPANION
978-1-59020-202-9, $13.95
WINDWARD PASSAGE
978-1-59020-194-7, $25.95
LETHAL INJECTION
978-1-59020-195-4, $12.95
—James Ellroy
—Ken Bruen
—Los Angeles Times
■■ www.noirconeville.com
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jim nisbet is the author of twelve novels and five books of poetry. He
has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, shortlisted for the
Hammett Prize, and published in ten languages. He lives in San Francisco,
California.
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The “sympathetic and compelling” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) novel
about a young woman untangling family secrets and claiming
her independence
Julie Drew
Daughter of Providence
A Novel
Julie Drew’s extraordinary novel is a breakthrough work in the tradition of
Richard Russo and Annie Proulx. Summer, 1934: Anne Dodge, raised by her
old-money father in a small Rhode Island coastal town, has always been told
that her mother abandoned them. But then Anne learns that she has a halfsister, Maria Cristina—and when Maria Cristina comes to live with Anne and
her father, ugly truths begin to surface about the family.
Within a context of jazz, the end of Prohibition, and stifling gender expectations,
Daughter of Providence is a gripping and seductive summer read. This story of
loss and rediscovery will resonate with readers long after the final page.
“An engrossing story of discovery, tragedy, and redemption …
This is a book that stays with you.”
978-1-59020-815-1 • U.S. $15.00 / $17.50 CAN.
Fiction
5 3/8” x 8” • 320 pages
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—Sandra Dallas, author of The Bride’s House
“Haunting, mesmerizing . . . this atmospheric and compelling historical
tale will surely sweep the reader into the past.” —Library Journal
“In real life, societal expectations take over the show. ‘Success’ is first
class, and the heart is second class. In this moving tale . . . the firstclass price tag is paid with those hearts.”
—Carolyn Chute, author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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julie drew is Associate Professor of English at the University of Akron,
where she teaches writing, film, and cultural studies.
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A Simple Act of Violence
A Thriller
R.J. Ellory
■■ Nominated for the Barry Award
■■ Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier
Crime Novel of the Year
978-1-59020-812-0 • U.S. $14.95 / NCR
Thriller
5 3/8” x 8” • 448 pages
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A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS
978-1-59020-338-5, $14.95
The anniversary man
978-1-59020-683-6, $14.95
a quiet vendetta
978-1-59020-508-2, $25.95
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r.j. ellory is the author of eight
novels, including A Quiet Belief
in Angels, which was The Strand
Magazine’s Thriller of the Year
and was nominated for the SIBA
award, and The Anniversary Man,
both published by Overlook. He
is a regular at Bouchercon and
ThrillerFest, and his novels have been
translated into twenty-five languages.
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The award-winning CIA thriller by “a uniquely
gifted, passionate, and powerful writer”
(Alan Furst)
R. J. Ellory’s latest paperback is his most timely, menacing
Praise for the work of R.J. Ellory
serial killer novel yet. As in his globally acclaimed A
“A beautifully written novel that is also a
Quiet Belief in Angels, it is a stunning work of suspense
great mystery.” —James Patterson
guaranteed to keep the reader awake at night. Set in
“The master of the genre.” —Clive Cussler
Washington, embroiled in elections, it follows Detective
“A police procedural thus shifts into a
Robert Miller as he is assigned to an unsettling murder
case. He finds a serious complication: the victims do not
officially exist. Their personal details do not register on
any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more
disturbing facts, he starts to face truths about the corrupt
world he lives in—truths so far removed from his own
reality that he begins to fear for his life.
conspiracy thriller and historical exposé …
Powerful scenes and vivid images.”
—Wall Street Journal
“A masterful exercise in suspense . . . This
one will keep you uplate reading, and then
you won’t be able to sleep.”
—John Lutz, New York Times bestselling
author of Mister X
“A rich, powerful, evocative novel of great
psychological depth.”
As CrimeSquad described it, “this is a book with everything
—Jonathan Kellerman
that a fan of modern mystery fiction could hope for: a
labyrinthine plot, unbearable tension, controvery, and a
social conscience.”
It is then that Catherine hears something. She thinks to turn, but doesn’t dare. A sudden rush
of something in the base of her gut. Wants to turn now. Wants so desperately to turn around
and look him square in the face, but knows that if she does this she will break down, she
will scream and cry and plead for this to happen some other way, and it’s too late now, too
late to go back . . . too late after everything that’s happened, everything that they’ve done,
everything they’ve learned and what it all meant . . .
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The Stranger’s Woes
The Labyrinths of Echo: Book Two
Max Frei
978-1-59020-813-7 • U.S. $15.95 / $18.50 CAN.
Fiction
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The stranger
978-1-59020-065-0, $27.95 (HC)
978-1-59020-331-6, $15.95 (PB)
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max frei is the author of the internationally bestselling
Labyrinths of Echo series, of which over two million books have
been sold in many languages worldwide, as well as books on
literature and art. He lives in Lithuania.
The irresistible newest novel by the bestselling
Max Frei, set in a magical city where losers
make good
The Labyrinths of Echo series—the adventures of Max,
who was once a loser but discovers a new world—has
been an international literary sensation since its debut. In
this second installment, Sir Max is still a hardened smoker,
an uncomplicated glutton, and a loafer, but once again he
gets lucky. He travels to the parallel world of Echo, where
magic is commonplace and where he fits right in.
Plunging back into the astounding and absurd realm first
portrayed in The Stranger (Fandomania.com’s #1 Book
of 2009), this is a sequel of addictive power, blending
fantasy, horror, philosophy, and comedy. Readers will
Praise for Max Frei and The Labyrinths of
Echo:
“Fans of Jasper Fforde and Susanna Clarke
will happily jump into Frei’s world.”
—USA Today
“Impossible to put down . . . The Stranger’s
Woes served up exactly what I was craving
for . . . another wildly imaginative and
entertaining entry in The Labyrinths of
Echo.” —Fantasy Book Critic
“If Harry Potter smoked cigarettes and
took a certain matter-of-fact pleasure in
administering tough justice, he might like
Max Frei.” —Kirkus Reviews
welcome this “utterly original” (Bookslut) volume of the
new adventures and misadventures of Sir Max in this
enchanting world.
The dinner finally came to an end. Out of the folds of the Mantle of Death I ceremoniously
drew a box of Cuban cigars. I had come by these rare delights when I was in Kettari. I had
fished them out from the Chink between Worlds, where up until then I had found only
cigarettes. Since that day I’ve never known what I would find when I reach my hand into
that sinning Chink. In any case, I’ve learned that everything comes in handy sooner or later.
Well, nearly everything.
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The astounding and often comic story of writers fostering the
tragic delusions of Stalinist Russia
Frank Westerman
Engineers of the Soul
The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin’s Russia
Frank Westerman draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian
Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of
renown, described by Stalin as “engineers of the soul,” were encouraged to
sing the praises of canal and dam construction under titles such as Energy: The
Hydraulic Power Station and Onward, Time! But their enthusiasm—spontaneous
and idealistic at first—soon became an obligatory song of praise. And as these
colossal waterworks led to slavery and destruction, Soviet writers, such as
Maxim Gorky, Isaak Babel, Konstantin Paustovsky, and Boris Pasternak, were
forced to labor on in the service of a deluded totalitarian society.
Combining investigative journalism with literary history, Engineers of the Soul is
a journey through contemporary Russia and Soviet-era literature. Westerman
978-1-59020-853-3 • U.S. $17.00 / NCR
History / Russian
5 3/8” x 8” • 320 pages
2 b/w maps
Rights: A00
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Pub History: Overlook HC 978-1-59020-087-2
On Sale: 7/31/12
examines both the culture landscape under Stalin’s rule and the book—and
lives of writers caught in the wheels of the Soviet system.
“Engagingly written and extensively researched, the book covers
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authors traveled.”
■■ Westerman’s award-winning work has been published
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
in more than fifteen languages
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frank westerman lived and worked in Moscow from 1997 to 2002
as correspondent for the leading Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspaper.
Westerman is the author of seven books, including Ararat.
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The essential book on Churchill’s passion for innovation and the
science of war—from codes to radar to bouncing bombs
Taylor Downing
Churchill’s War Lab
Code-breakers, Scientists, and the Mavericks
Churchill Led to Victory
Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator, and, with Franklin
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25 b/w photographs
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Park to the study of the D-Day beaches and the use of bouncing bombs,
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taylor downing is an award-winning television producer and historian.
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Five key plays by the master of post-Revolutionary Russian theater
Nikolai Evreinov
Translated from the Russian by
Christopher Collins
Theater as Life
Five Modern Plays
Nikolai Evreinov stands with Stanislavsky and Meyerhold in his importance
to Russian theater. He founded theaters, directed plays and opera, was a
theater historian, and wrote some thirty plays. As a playwright he explored
the dichotomy of reality and illusion, employing the full range of theatrical
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Long unavailable, this essential anthology contains translations of five plays;
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Pirandello’s theater and then on Broadway starring Edward G. Robinson and
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Drama
6” x 9” • 320 pages
Rights: V00
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On Sale: 7/31/12
Lee Strasberg, as well as A Merry Death, The Ship of the Righteous, The Theater
of the Soul, and The Theater of the Eternal War. Rounding out the volume
is an extensive introduction by Christopher Collins, written in consultation
with Evreinov’s widow, and many rare illustrations and photographs, including
portraits of Evreinov, sketches of sets by the playwright, and photographs from
productions in NYC, Paris, Milan, and Warsaw.
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Photo © Serge Lachinov
nikolai evreinov (1879-1953) was a Russian playwright, director, and
producer associated with the Russian Symbolists. christopher collins
studied Evreinov’s work as a Fulbright Fellow in Paris. His translations and
articles have appeared in the Russian Literature Triquarterly and Slavic and
East European Journal.
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An unorthodox biography of “the greatest comic
writer ever” (Douglas Adams) and a window into the
mind of a brilliant humorist
Barry Day and Tony Ring
P.G. Wodehouse
in His Own Words
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31 b/w illustrations
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addition to anyone’s library.
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—Village Voice
■■ A complete list of the Collector’s Wodehouse
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written an eight-part Concordance covering all of Wodehouse’s fiction.
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