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contents bloomsbury press Unaccountable Marty Makary, M.D. 2 Hidden Harmonies (pb) Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan 4 El Narco (pb) Ioan Grillo 5 Volcker William L. Silber 6 What’s the Economy Good For, Anyway? (pb) John de Graaf and David K. Batker 8 America Aflame (pb) David Goldfield 9 Fever Season Jeannette Keith 10 The Watchers Stephen Alford 11 Bloomsbury Press Backlist highlights 12
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Bloomsbury Salvage the Bones (pb) Welcome to Your Child’s Brain (pb) The Shadow Scholar The Odyssey The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History Just Plain Dick Wilderness Midnight in Austenland (pb) Painter of Silence Rabid Raising Wrecker (pb) The Man Who Never Died (pb) Unbored Rip Tide (pb) The Geneva Trap Prophet’s Prey (pb) Finding Casey Don’t Shoot (pb) Abbey Road Hand Me Down World (pb)
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Unaccountable What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Marty Makary, M.D. An urgent call for action from a leading surgeon to make our health care more transparent, more democratic, and safer for patients.
To patients, the health care system is a black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws unchecked. Patients need to know more of what health care workers know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in health care would expose dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the free market. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals and reforming our broken health care system.
Excerpt from Unaccountable: From my earliest days as a medical student I’ve wondered why the same patient wheeled off for heart bypass surgery in Houston would simply be given an aspirin in San Francisco. I have long considered it self-evident that good medicine is not local; best practices are universal. Good and bad medical care in the U.S. is sold on an open market, except that (unlike in other free markets) consumers have no information to make decisions … In the last few years, experts who gauge the quality of medical care have formalized fair and simple ways to measure how well patients do at individual hospitals. These statistics are telling; they identify the good and the bad outliers. [But] as a result of the failure in information transparency in America, we are left frustrated with our health care, forced to walk blind into the local hospital or doctor’s office. Hospitals are black boxes—and they like it that way.
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Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande’s bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he’s also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down, despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why?
Marty Makary, M.D., M.P.H., is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a professor of health policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is a regular medical commentator for CNN and FOX News, and appears weekly on a wide variety of programs to discuss health topics. He is a leading patient-safety researcher and led the World Health Organization’s effort to develop ways to measure health care quality. He tweets @DrMartyMD.
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Robert and Ellen Kaplan have taught mathematics to people from six to sixty, at leading independent schools and, most recently, at Harvard University. Robert Kaplan is the author of the bestselling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, which has been translated into 10 languages, and together they wrote The Art of the Infinite and Out of the Labyrinth. Ellen Kaplan is also coauthor of Chances Are: Adventures in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is Human, cowritten with her son Michael Kaplan. They live in Southampton, Massachusetts. 4
Hidden Harmonies The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan “Hidden Harmonies is a stunning book, taking the most classic theorem in mathematics and exposing its story, its human story, for what it really is: true poetry.”—James Tanton, educator, mathematician, and author of The Encyclopedia of Mathematics A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet this familiar expression opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasons—not to mention the elusive Pythagoras himself, who almost certainly did not make the statement that bears his name. As in the authors’ bestselling The Nothing That Is and Chances Are …, the excitement of mathematics leaps from the pages of Hidden Harmonies.
Praise for Hidden Harmonies: “Showing the theorem’s endless versatility, the Kaplans and their logic- and symbol-permeated text will engage those who delight in doing the math.”—Booklist “The Kaplans have given us a wonderful, fun, and entertaining math book.”—Library Journal
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Praise for El Narco: “El Narco achieves something unattempted in the English-language reporting on the Mexican drug war: it lays out in clear terms the contours of a world that has existed for years and only grown more barbaric as it’s graduated to ‘war’ status.” —Bookforum
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El Narco Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
Ioan Grillo “Terrific—full of vivid front-line reporting; diverse interviews; a sense of history; a touch of social science; clarifying statistics; and realistic reviews of what might be done to improve things, none of it easy. It is essential reading.”—Steve Coll, NewYorker.com The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico’s democracy? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and lots of money at the problem. But in secret, Washington is at a loss. Who are these mysterious figures who threaten Mexico’s democracy? What is El Narco? El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from bullet-riddled barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise to paramilitary death squads battling from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond). In this “propulsive … high-octane” book (Publishers Weekly), Ioan Grillo draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico’s cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past decade.
Praise for El Narco: “This excellent work packs the punch of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah.”—Booklist
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Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines, and TV stations in the U.S. and the UK. He reports for Time as well as producing presentations for PBS, ABC, and Channel 4 (UK). He regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues. He has witnessed police and military operations, mafia killings and major drug seizures; he has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three attorneys general, and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, among others. 5
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Volcker the triumph of persistence
William L. Silber A biography of a true financial hero: former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who steered America’s economy through multiple crises—drawn from unprecedented access to Volcker’s papers and Volcker himself.
Volcker’s career demonstrated that a determined central banker can prevail over economic turmoil—so long as he can resist relentless political pressure. His resolve and independent thinking—sorely tested by Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan—laid the foundation for a generation of economic stability. Indeed, William L. Silber argues, it was only Volcker’s toughness on monetary policy that “forced Reagan to be Reagan” and to rein in America’s deficit. Noted scholar and finance expert Silber draws on hours of candid personal interviews and complete access to Volcker’s personal papers to render dramatic behind-the-scenes accounts from Volcker’s career at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve: secret negotiations with European ministers; confrontations with the White House; crisis conferences with Wall Street titans, and even tense boardroom rebellions within the Fed itself. Filled with frank commentary from Volcker himself—including why he was personally irked with the “Volcker Rule” label—this will be the definitive account of Volcker’s indispensable role in American economic history.
Praise for William Silber’s When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: “Brilliant.”—The New York Times “Fascinating work of financial history.”— The Washington Post “More than just a ripping yarn—and it is that—[this] is a cautionary tale of how humankind can get suckered into so believing economic myths that they take on a dangerous reality.”— The Washington Times
Advance praise for Volcker: “William L. Silber weaves a subtle link between the three crises that tested Paul Volcker: gold in 1971, inflation in 1979, and sub-prime mortgages in 2007. He tells the story of Volcker’s success in a lively and authoritative style, but unless America heeds the lessons for fiscal responsibility that Silber draws from Volcker’s record, the crisis that lies ahead could make those past upheavals seem tame by comparison. Every member of Congress and every concerned citizen should read this book.”—Nouriel Roubini, chairman, Roubini Global Economics, and author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
William L. Silber is one of America’s most respected experts on finance and banking. He is currently Marcus Nadler Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Glucksman Institute for Research in Securities Markets at the Stern School of Business, NYU. His many books include When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s Monetary Supremacy. He is coauthor of the standard textbook Money, Banking and Financial Markets and, with Lawrence Ritter, of the classic Money.
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Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents—three Democrats and two Republicans—have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did nothing less than restore the reputation of an American financial system on the verge of collapse. After the 2008 financial meltdown, the nation turned again to Volcker to restore trust in a shaky financial system: President Obama would name his centerpiece Wall Street regulation the Volcker Rule.
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“[De Graaf and Batker’s] combined expertise on issues of happiness, time use, ecology, and economic alternatives permeates the pages of this breezily written, inspiring, and common-sense account of what really yields true economic well-being.” —Juliet B. Schor, author of True Wealth, Born to Buy, and The Overworked American
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John de Graaf is the national coordinator of Take Back Your Time, an organization challenging time poverty and overwork in the U.S. and Canada (see www.timeday.org), and a frequent speaker on issues of overwork and over-consumption in America.
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Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness
John de Graaf and David K. Batker “With our economy tattered and listing, it’s an excellent moment to ask basic questions: What should we be aiming for as a society, and what’s necessary to get there? Happily, other parts of the world provide many of the answers, as John de Graaf and David K. Batker show in this extremely valuable volume.”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet In this funny, readable, and thought-provoking book, activists John de Graaf (coauthor of the bestselling Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen economic issues, challenging the reader to consider the goal of our economy. Emphasizing powerful American ideals, including teamwork, pragmatism, and equality, de Graaf and Batker set forth a simple goal for any economic system: the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run. Drawing from history and current enterprises, they show how the good life is achieved when people and markets work together with an active government to create a more perfect economy—one that works for everyone.
Praise for What’s the Economy For, Anyway?: David K. Batker is the director of Earth Economics, a firm which provides ecologically oriented economic analysis.
“De Graaf and Batker pose a provocative question: What is the economy for if not to maximize the well-being of the citizenry? … [Their] criticisms—of big business, taxation, American universities, Obama’s response to the financial meltdown—are lucid; what comes as a pleasant surprise is that their solutions are no less clear and actionable.”—Publishers Weekly “A stimulating approach to the economy, which puts people and their needs ahead of money-based indicators of growth and performance … An entertaining presentation of important ideas and information about how lives could be improved.”—Kirkus Reviews
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“Not just a reappraisal of the Civil War, but an exemplary cultural study of 19th-century America.” —Kirkus Reviews “Goldfield writes more as a novelist than an academic … A wonderful portrait of a nation scarred yet transformed.”—Forbes “A sweeping, insightful and articulate new look at the war and the country it transformed.”—The Dallas Morning News
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How the Civil War Created a Nation
David Goldfield “Riveting, often heartbreaking … [A] masterly synthesis of political, social, economic and religious history … Goldfield’s thought experiment in alternative history is provocative in the best sense. Most history books try to explain the past. The exceptional ones, of which America Aflame is a distinguished example, remind us that the past is ultimately as inscrutable as the future.”—New York Times Book Review In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America’s greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. The victorious North moved ahead, a land of innovation and industry. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, and the South was left behind. The “fiery trial” of war transformed our country—a conflagration captured in vivid detail in America Aflame.
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America Aflame
David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of many works and textbooks on Southern history, including Still Fighting the Civil War, Southern Histories, Black, White and Southern, and Promised Land.
Praise for America Aflame: “A monumental new appraisal of the war.”—Los Angeles Times
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Originally trained as a journalist, Jeanette Keith obtained her Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt University in 1990 and is currently professor of history at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books, including Country People in the New South and the award-winning Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight.
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Fever Season The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and the People who Saved It
Jeanette Keith Brilliant new history from an acclaimed scholar—the forgotten story of the epidemic that nearly destroyed an American city, and the desperate valor of those who stayed behind to fight the fever. While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn’t flee the city, seventeen thousand contracted the fever, and more than five thousand died—the equivalent of a million New Yorkers dying in an epidemic today. Fever Season chronicles the drama in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course in late October. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a profound–and never more relevant–account of how a catastrophe inspired reactions both heroic and cowardly. Some ministers, politicians, and police fled their constituents, while prostitutes and the poor risked their lives to nurse the sick. Using the vivid, anguished accounts and diaries of those who chose to stay and those who were left behind, Fever Season depicts the events of that summer and fall. In its pages we meet people of great courage and compassion, many of whom died for having those virtues. We also learn how a disaster can shape the future of a city.
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The Watchers Stephen Alford A thrilling history of Queen Elizabeth I’s secret service and its ruthless war against the enemies of the realm—a vivid portrait of the original “national security state.” In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth’s government, defending God’s true Church of England and its leader, the queen, could stop at nothing to defend itself. Headed by the brilliant, enigmatic, and widely feared Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan state deployed every dark art: spies, double agents, cryptography, and torture. Delving deeply into sixteenth-century archives, Stephen Alford offers a groundbreaking, chillingly vivid depiction of Elizabethan espionage, literally recovering it from the shadows. In his company we follow Her Majesty’s agents through the streets of London and Rome, and into the dank cells of the Tower. We see the world as they saw it—ever unsure who could be trusted or when the fatal knock on their own door might come. The Watchers is a riveting exploration of loyalty, faith, betrayal, and deception with the highest possible stakes, in a world poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.
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A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
Stephen Alford is a fellow in history at King’s College, Cambridge, and the author of the acclaimed Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I, The Early Elizabethan Polity: William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569, and Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement and other periodicals.
“A remarkable book … Chilling reading … A classic example of history written to the highest standards.” —The Independent on Sunday (UK) 11
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“Martin Smith investigates a little-known federal program and finds it brimming with fun characters, a quirky culture, and valuable lessons for anyone who wants government to actually work.” —Mark Obmascik, author, The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession “Smith’s tale of the noble and obscure federal duck stamp contest, and the men who love it just a bit too much, is a delight to read.”—Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author
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The Wild Duck Chase Martin J. Smith “I call it America’s first reality show—American Idol for wildlife artists,” says Pat Fisher, chief of the Federal Duck Stamp Office, about the annual art contest. The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest—the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought annually by hunters to certify their hunting license, has generated more than $750 million, and 98 cents of each collected dollar has been used to help purchase or lease 5.3 million acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S.—the core of the National Wildlife Refuge System. As Martin J. Smith chronicles in his revealing narrative, within the microcosm of the duck stamp contest are intense ideological and cultural clashes between the mostly rural hunters who buy the stamps and the mostly suburban and urban birders and conservationists who decry the hunting of waterfowl. At issue is preserving the habitat of ducks and other waterfowl for all to enjoy: If the number of hunters continues to decrease—and unless nature lovers support the duck stamp program—this landmark conservation effort faces possible extinction. The competition also fuels dynamic tensions between competitors and judges, and among the invariably ambitious, sometimes obsessive, and often eccentric artists—including Minnesota’s three fabled Hautman brothers, the “New York Yankees” of competitive duck painting. Martin Smith takes readers down an arcane and uniquely American rabbit hole into a wonderland of talent, ego, art, controversy, scandal, big money, and migratory waterfowl.
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Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands A Young Politician’s Quest for Recovery in the American West
Roger L. Di Silvestro “I owe more than I can ever express to the West, which of course means to the men and women I met in the West.”—Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, following the sudden deaths on February 14, 1884, of his wife, two days after giving birth, and of his mother. Grief-stricken—and driven by doubts about his career after failed attempts as a reformer fighting political corruption—the young, Harvard-educated New York politician left his infant daughter in his sister’s care and went to live on a Badlands ranch he had bought a year earlier. Drawing on Roosevelt’s own accounts and on diverse archives, Roger Di Silvestro tells the exciting story of how the character and commitment of the future president and conservationist were forged during roundups, bronco busting, fist fights, grizzly bear hunts, and encounters with horse thieves as the Old West drew to its end. In the dramatic life story of Theodore Roosevelt, few adventures exceed those that he found in the Badlands.
Praise for Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: “TR was a man of his times, and his time in the Badlands was a moment of wild resurrection.” —American Heritage “Fascinating biographical sketch … Di Silvestro paints a vivid panorama of the fast-vanishing frontier and plays the material straight.”—Publishers Weekly
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History September paperback u.s. $20.00 / Can. $21.00 512 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " 8-page B&W insert ISBN 978-0-8027-7881-9 TERRITORY U.S. CANADA penguin agency Inkwell Management MARKETING Coverage in print paperback columns Focused outreach to history websites and publications Academic marketing also available ebook
The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944
Anna Reid A majestic narrative history of the epic World War II siege of Leningrad, interwoven with indelible personal accounts of daily life drawn from diarists on both sides. On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler’s brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid chronicles the Nazis’ deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the ordeal of life in the blockaded city. Leningrad tackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the fault of Stalin as of Hitler? Why didn’t the Germans capture the city? Why didn’t it collapse into anarchy? What decided who lived and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style, Leningrad gives voice to the dead and throws new light on one of the twentieth century’s greatest calamities.
Praise for Leningrad: “Excerpts from the diaries kept by Leningraders during the blockade balance Reid’s lively academic prose. Juxtaposed with the ravings of two dictators, the siege diarists carry the book with a raw, desperate eloquence.” —The New Yorker “In the first full-length book on the siege since 1969, Anna Reid used [a trove of new material] to compelling effect to tell this horrific and occasionally inspiring story.”—The Economist “With access to candid diaries, police records, and government and military archives, [Reid] gives a detailed and harrowing account of life and death in Leningrad … The people themselves have regained their voices.” —The Wall Street Journal
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Leningrad
Anna Reid is the author of The Shaman's Coat: A Narrative History of Siberia and Borderland: A Journey Through the History of the Ukraine. She holds a master’s degree in Russian history and reform economics from the University of London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She was Ukraine correspondent for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph from 1993 to 1995, and from 2003 to 2007 she ran the foreign-affairs program at the think tank Policy Exchange. 15
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Mirror Earth Michael D. Lemonick has written many Time magazine cover stories on science, including its 1996 story on the discovery of the first planets beyond the solar system. He also has been published in Discover, New Scientist, Newsweek, Wired, and Scientific American. He is the author of four books, most recently Echo of the Big Bang and The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos. Lemonick lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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The Search for Our Planet’s Twin
Michael D. Lemonick The dramatic race to be the first to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life as we know it. In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than five hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael D. Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Geoff Marcy, at the University of California, Berkeley, is the world’s most successful planet hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar planets. Bill Borucki, at the NASA Ames Research Center, struggled for more than a decade to launch the Kepler mission—the only planet finder, human or machine, to beat Marcy’s record. David Charbonneau, at Harvard, realized that Earths would be much easier to find if he looked at tiny stars called M-dwarfs rather than stars like the Sun—and that he could use backyard telescopes to find them! Unlike those in other races, the competing scientists actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth’s twin. Mirror Earth is poised to narrate this historic event as the discovery is made.
Popular Science October Hardcover u.s. $24.00 / can. $25.00 304 PAGES 7" x 8" ISBN 978-0-8027-1770-2 also available as an ebook TERRITORY World, all languages CANADA walker via penguin Walker subrights First Serial, Audio, and Translation Film/TV Reid Boates Literary Agency MARKETING National print, online, and radio media campaign Digital galleys on NetGalley
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“This little book is a treasure trove of facts, folklore, quotes, uses, puzzles, and even the first 1 million digits of pi … The rich history of this ratio is never boring, as anecdotes and weird trivia pop up throughout.” —Science News “A beautifully designed, poetic little book about the ratio’s history, nature and use. The book is a delightful testimonial to the elegance of math.” —The Dallas Morning News
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Spectrums our mind-boggling universe from infinitesimal to infinity
David Blatner From the author of The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book, an eye-opening guide to the biggest and smallest, farthest and closest, hottest and coldest. In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. There is actually very little in this universe that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It’s not an easy task to stretch the mind to encompass both billions of years and billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size of a proton; the tiny waves of visible light and gargantuan but invisible gamma rays; or the freezing point of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atom bomb. Exploring these far-reaching spectrums gives us fascinating perspective on our small but not insignificant place in the universe. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams, Blatner helps us “grok”—understand intuitively—six spectrums we encounter constantly, making our daily lives richer and more meaningful through greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.
Praise for The Flying Book: “The Flying Book delivers, ranging from the deeply wonky, a revisionist discussion of the Bernoulli effect involving wing lift, to the nitty-gritty, such as why vacuum toilets are better than flush types. A good gift for a long flight.”—San Antonio Express-News “Fun facts for airline airplane geeks who, if possible, would ride in planes like dogs in pickups, with their heads out the window.”—The Washington Post
David Blatner is known for his award-winning books, including The Joy of Pi, The Flying Book, and various books on computer science topics, such as InDesign, Quark XPress, and Photoshop. He lectures worldwide on electronic publishing. More than 500,000 copies of his books are in print in twelve languages. He and his wife and son live in Seattle, Washington. 17
History October Paperback u.s. $16.00 / can. $17.00 288 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " B&W images throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-7894-9
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A More Perfect Heaven How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Dava Sobel Publishers Weekly’s Best Science Book for Fall 2011
Longitude PB ISBN 978-0-8027-1529-6 U.S. $14.00 also available as an eBook
An unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith, from the bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter.
In 1539, a young German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, drawn by rumors of a revolution to rival the religious upheaval of Martin Luther’s Reformation, traveled to Poland to seek out Copernicus. Two years later, the Protestant youth took leave of his aging Catholic mentor and arranged to have Copernicus’s manuscript published, in 1543, as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)—the book that forever changed humankind's place in the universe.
Galileo’s Daughter PB ISBN 978-0-8027-7965-6 U.S. $17.00 also available as an eBook
In her elegant, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play “And the Sun Stood Still,” imagining Rheticus’s struggle to convince Copernicus to let his manuscript see the light of day.
Praise for A More Perfect Heaven:
“Lively, inventive … a masterly specimen of close-range cultural history. Ms. Sobel certainly brings Copernicus to life, perhaps better than any other author. Ms. Sobel presents a thoroughly researched and eminently readable account of a major scientist who celebrated the sun yet lurks in the shadows.”—The Wall Street Journal “A delightful immersion into tumultuous times.”—Mike Brown, The Washington Post
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“Ms. Sobel is an elegant stylist, a riveting and efficient storyteller, a writer who can bring the dustiest of subjects to full-blooded life—poignant, in the case of Galileo; cautious but also loving, loyal and feisty in the case of Copernicus.”—Katherine Bouton, The New York Times
Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Illustrated Longitude, and The Planets. She lives in East Hampton, New York. 19
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By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory—in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades, Copernicus expanded his theory and compiled in secret a book-length manuscript that tantalized mathematicians and scientists throughout Europe. For fear of ridicule, he refused to publish.
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Praise for The Sugar Barons: “An engaging journey to a mercifully vanished world.” —The Wall Street Journal “A tumultuous rollercoaster of a book … Mr. Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with gusto.” —The Economist
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“This is a rousing, fluently written narrative history, full of color, dash, and forceful personalities, but it’s also a subtle social portrait of plantation life and governance.” —Publishers Weekly
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The Sugar Barons Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Matthew Parker The dramatic and largely untold story of the rise and fall of the great Caribbean sugar dynasties.
Matthew Parker was born in Central America and spent part of his childhood in the West Indies, acquiring a lifelong fascination with the history of the region. He is the author of Panama Fever, the story of the building of the Panama Canal, and Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II. He lives in London. 20
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the Western world’s greatest power struggles as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar—a commodity so lucrative it became known as “white gold.” Matthew Parker vividly chronicles how the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England’s commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.
History October Hardcover u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 304 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " 22 b&W images ISBN 978-0-8027-7996-0 also available as an ebook TERRITORY u.s. and canada CANADA walker via penguin Walker subrights First serial Film/TV, Audio, and translation Profile Books MARKETING National print, online, and radio media campaign Digital galley on NetGalley Online consumer advertising
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The Damnation of John Donellan A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
Elizabeth Cooke A masterful forensic reconstruction of the death of a young English nobleman 232 years ago. Was it murder? Was the right person convicted? On August 30, 1780, in Warwickshire, England, twenty-year-old Theodosius Boughton, the dissolute heir to a vast fortune and baronetcy, died suddenly and in violent convulsions after taking a medication prescribed by his doctor. Was he poisoned by his mother, who insisted that he drink the draft despite its scent of bitter almonds? His brother-in-law, John Donellan, who hurriedly rinsed and broke the bottle containing the medicine after Theodosius’s death? His cousin, who desperately wanted the baronetcy? The jealous maid with whom Theodosius frequently cavorted? Many had a score to settle or stood to benefit financially from his demise. But perhaps he wasn’t murdered at all. Could he have died from the quack medicines—including mercury—he used to treat his debilitating syphilis? Or was it a heart attack or stroke, rare in young men but the cause of the deaths of his father and grandfather? Or an epileptic fit? With the cleverness of a master detective and the literary skill of the finest crime writers, Elizabeth Cooke deconstructs the evidence, chronicles the sensational trial that ensued, and provides intriguing new proof that Donellan, who was executed for the murder, may not have been guilty after all. In the process, she opens a fascinating window on the dark and violent underbelly of Georgian society.
“A fascinating account … A potent brew of resentment, loyalty and sexual bad behaviour … Just as Kate Summerscale did in The Suspicions of Mr.Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect.” —The Mail on Sunday “True life period crime is gruesomely well served by this forensic examination of a death in 1780 … Cooke’s analysis is a masterpiece.” —The Times (London)
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“In her highly readable book Elizabeth Cooke re-examines events and coincidentally uncovers a mystery with all the component parts of an Agatha Christie thriller. It’s gripping stuff.” —The Daily Express
Elizabeth Cooke is the author of ten novels. Little White Lies was televised by the BBC, and The Ice Child recounts the story of the doomed Franklin expedition to find the Northwest Passage. She lives in Dorset, England.
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History/Art November Hardcover u.s. $28.00 320 PAGES 6 1 /8 " x 9 1 /4 " 16-page color insert and B&W images throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-1705-4 also available as an ebook
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Praise for Ross King:
Leonardo and The Last Supper Ross King The fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of history’s greatest masterpieces.
“Scrupulously researched, written with wit and panache, Ross King’s Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling is a sublime peek into a remarkable era.”—The Miami Herald on Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history’s most influential and beloved works of art—The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father: His 75 tons of bronze had been expropriated to be turned into cannons to help repel a French invasion of Italy. The commission to paint The Last Supper in the refectory of a Dominican convent was a small compensation, and his odds of completing it were not promising: Not only had he never worked on a painting of such a large size—15' high x 30' wide—but he had no experience in the extremely difficult medium of fresco.
“One of architecture’s great tales.”—Newsweek on Brunelleschi’s Dome
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In his compelling new book, Ross King explores how—amid war and the political and religious turmoil around him, and beset by his own insecurities and frustrations—Leonardo created the masterpiece that would forever define him. King unveils dozens of stories that are embedded in the painting. Examining who served as the models for the Apostles, he makes a unique claim: that Leonardo modeled two of them on himself. Reviewing Leonardo’s religious beliefs, King paints a much more complex picture than the received wisdom that he was a heretic. The food that Leonardo, a famous vegetarian, placed on the table reveals as much as do the numerous hand gestures of those at Christ’s banquet. As King explains, many of the myths that have grown up around The Last Supper are wrong, but its true story is ever more interesting. Bringing to life a fascinating period in European history, Ross King presents an original portrait of one of the world’s greatest geniuses through the lens of his most famous work.
Praise for The Judgment of Paris: “The Judgment of Paris tells a well-known story, but one seldom recounted in such vivid detail, or with such a novelistic sense of plot and character … In all, King pulls off a tour de force of complex narrative that readers of his previous books about the Sistine Chapel or Brunelleschi’s dome will have come to expect.” —The New York Times Book Review “Riveting … Such material could have been tedious in less nimble literary hands. But so thorough is King’s grasp of the Second Empire’s cultural politics, so ironic his wit and choice of detail, that his text remains a page-turner throughout.”—Los Angeles Times
Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome (the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2000), Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling (on the New York Times extended bestseller list), The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives outside Oxford in England. 23
Two new titles in the acclaimed Wooden Books series
The Miracle of Trees Olavi Huikari What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? How many different kinds of trees are there, and where do they live? In this beautiful little book, illustrated with rare old engravings and specially commissioned drawings, internationally renowned Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on an unforgettable journey deep into the secrets of these most majestic of Earth’s life forms.
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Professor Olavi Huikari is one of the world’s foremost experts on trees and forestry. He was until recently head of the department of forestry at Helsinki University, Finland. TERRITORY U.S. and Canada CANADA Walker via penguin WALKER SUBRIGHTS first serial and audio Film/TV and translation Wooden Books Ltd. MARKETING National media campaign Coverage in gift book roundups Online promotion via www.woodenbooks.com
Grammar The Structure of Language
Rachel Grenon
Language November hardcover u.s. $12.00 / can. $12.99 64 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 6 5 /8 " 52 B&W illustrations ISBN 978-0-8027-4358-9
In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true? Rhetoric asks: Which is the right sentence? Grammar purely asks: When is a sentence correct? In Grammar, Rachel Grenon defines the rules governing the construction of words, phrases, sentences, and extended text or speech. Beginning with the rules behind ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, she then focuses on how the rules of English have developed— from nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, to tenses, the passive voice, questions, imperatives, and much more. With diagrams, engravings, and witty cartoon illustrations, this original take on a classic subject is essential for anyone interested in language. Rachel Grenon is a freelance writer, translator, and editor. She holds a master’s degree in French cultural studies from Columbia University, and has also studied Latin, Spanish, Italian, and German. A native Texan, Rachel now lives outside Cambridge, England, with her husband, Pierre, and their four children. TERRITORY U.S. and Canada CANADA Walker via penguin WALKER SUBRIGHTS first serial and audio Film/TV and translation Wooden Books Ltd. MARKETING National media campaign Coverage in gift book roundups Online promotion via www.woodenbooks.com
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Tom Standage
Ross King
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A History of the world in 6 glasses
the lost history of 1914
Tom Standage
Jack Beatty
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An Edible History of Humanity
the private lives of birds
Tom Standage
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george washington’s America
the silent season of a hero
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The Procrastinator’s handbook Rita Emmett pb ISBN 978-0-8027-7598-6 u.s. $13.00
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recently published Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for fiction National Bestseller
salvage the bones
reading group guide available
a novel
Jesmyn Ward “Masterful … Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it.”—The Washington Post They heard it on the radio: a hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch’s hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries, too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she’s pregnant. The children of this family have always been short on nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face the building storm—and the day that will dawn after.
“Salvage the Bones, a story of youth and poverty and love and pain, told in twelve chapters over twelve days leading up to Katrina, is at once powerful, artful, raw, and beautiful.” —Richard Howorth, Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi “In her totally captivating novel, Jesmyn Ward gives powerful, visceral, eloquent voice to people and circumstances that were both suddenly visible when Hurricane Katrina struck and, simultaneously, all-too-invisible to others before and since.” —Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington “Salvage the Bones is an amazing contribution to literature and Katrina literature, specifically. It is a story destined—to paraphrase the poet Mary Oliver—to break your heart in order to break it open.” —Lucy Kogler, Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, New York
Praise for Salvage the Bones from the media: “Ward’s writing is startling in its graphic clarity … [This] author has an unusual gift.”—The Boston Globe “The novel’s hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah’s pit bull.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Searing … Salvage the Bones is a beautiful read. Ms. Ward’s redolent prose conjures the magic and menace of the Southern landscape.”—The Dallas Morning News “A taut, wily novel, smartly ploted and voluptuously written.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi, and lives there now. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama. She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds, and of a forthcoming memoir, Men We Reaped.
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Also available Welcome to Your Brain PB ISBN 978-1-59691-523-7 U.S. $15.00
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Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., is the former editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience, the leading scientific journal in the field of brain research. During her career, she has read over five thousand neuroscience papers, given lectures at many universities, and attended over forty scientific meetings in ten countries. Her science writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, El Mundo, and the London Times. She lives in Northern California with her husband. Sam Wang, Ph.D., is an associate professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. He has published over fifty articles on the brain in leading scientific journals and received numerous awards. His research and analysis have been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and he has made numerous television and radio appearances, including on NPR. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife and daughter.
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B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-933-4 TERRITORY U.s. and canada CANADA bloomsbury via penguin agency Levine-Greenberg Literary MARKETING National print, online, and radio media campaign Social media campaign on Bloomsbury Facebook and Twitter accounts at publication Focused outreach to parenting, general-interest, and science publications and websites Also Available eBook HC ISBN 978-1-59691-649-4 U.S. $26.00
Welcome to Your Child’s Brain How The Mind Grows from Conception to College
Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., and Sam Wang, Ph.D. Foreword by Ellen Galinsky “Can’t understand your child’s behavior? Relax, parents …These two neuroscientists explain it all.”—The Sacramento Bee In this critically acclaimed, popular, and essential book, neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang (who is also a parent) explain the facets and functions of the developing brain, discussing salient subjects like sleep problems, language learning, gender differences, and autism. They dispel common myths about important subjects like the value of educational videos for babies, the meaning of ADHD in the classroom, and the best predictor of academic success (hint: it’s not IQ). This book helps you know when to worry, how to respond, and, most important, when to relax. Welcome to Your Child’s Brain upends myths and misinformation with practical advice, surprising revelations, and real, reliable science. It’s essential reading for parents of children of any age, from infancy well into their teens.
Praise for Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: “Neuroscientists Aamodt and Wang take a fresh approach to brain research … The authors are consummate myth busters … In this info-packed text, Aamodt and Wang offer some familiar advice as well as some thought-provoking revelations.”—Publishers Weekly “Dr. Wang and Dr. Aamodt playfully and engagingly introduce us to the hidden talents of our children’s brains.” —Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of The Dr. Oz Show
Current Affairs/education September hardcover u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 272 PAGES 6 1 /8 " x 9 1 /4 " ISBN 978-1-60819-723-1 also available as an ebook TERRITORY World English CANADA bloomsbury via penguin Bloomsbury subrights first serial and audio Film/TV Susan Rabiner Literary MARKETING Online consumer advertising National print, online, and broadcast media campaign Social media outreach targeting college students, faculty, alumni organizations
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The Shadow Scholar How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
Ed Dante The shocking story of one man’s ten-year career writing term papers for money. Last fall, a writer using the pseudonym Ed Dante wrote an explosive article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, confessing to writing term papers for a living. Technically, they are “study guides,” and the companies that sell them—there are quite a few—are completely legal and easily found with Google. For about $10–20 a page, Dante’s former employers will give you a custom essay, written to your specifications. During Dante’s career, he wrote made-to-order papers for everything from introductory college courses to Ph.D. dissertations. There was never a shortage of demand. The Shadow Scholar is Dante’s account of this dubious but all-too-relevant career. In stories embarrassing, absurd, hilarious, and ultimately sobering, he explores not merely his own misdeeds but the bureaucratic and cash-hungry colleges, lazy students, and even misguided parents who helped make it all possible. With unemployment pushing 10 percent and many college grads living with their parents, the need for this book has never been more urgent. As this bitingly funny memoir reveals, colleges and graduate schools are victims not merely of tough economic times but of a profound sense of entitlement and apathy. Here is a searing, often maddening indictment of the big business of college.
Ed Dante is the pseudonym of a writer living in Philadelphia. He has kept his real name secret to facilitate his research and reporting for this book, but it will be revealed on the advance reading copies.
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The Odyssey Adapted by Seymour Chwast Design legend Seymour Chwast lends his “diabolically witty, devilishly expressive” style (NPR) to one of the Western world’s most celebrated classics. Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homer’s Odyssey, one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpretation, filled with mythic characters we all know well: the Cyclops, the Lotus-Eaters, the cannibal Laestrygonians, the Sirens, the monster Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis), Poseidon, Athena, and Zeus. Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, and imbued with Chwast’s own sly humor, The Odyssey brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys.
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“Seymour’s take on this timeless classic is not only charming and clever, it is so cannily rendered that it makes Dante’s complex masterwork easily understood for any reader. Divine.” —Chip Kidd, graphic designer and author of The Cheese Monkeys “A clever reimagining of a classic … The lamentations of the damned were never so much fun.” —Entertainment Weekly
Praise for The Canterbury Tales: “[A] lighthearted read. Cartoonish touches and playful anachronisms help bring these stories into this century.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union, where he studied illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio’s director. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and has created two previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. He lives in New York City. Visit www.pushpininc.com.
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Jim Baker has been a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the coauthor of numerous books, including The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Mind Game, and The Most Memorable Games in Giants History. He lives in Texas. Bernard M. Corbett is the radio voice of Harvard University football and Boston University hockey. He is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including The Only Game That Matters: The Harvard/Yale Rivalry, The Beanpot, and The Most Memorable Games in Giants History.
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The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History The Oral History of a Legendary Team
Jim Baker and Bernard M. Corbett Relive the most glorious and important moments in New England Patriots history. Tom Brady marching the team upfield in the final minute of the 2001 Super Bowl. Troy Brown playing offense, defense, and special teams. The Tuck Rule. A rogue groundskeeper plowing a path for kicker John Smith at the end of a scoreless, snowy game. Gino Cappelletti setting the AFL record for points in a game against the Houston Oilers. These are the moments Patriots fans love to remember, now retold by the players who lived them. Once a top team in the AFL in the 1960s, the Patriots have returned to glory as one of the NFL’s best franchises for the past decade, and enthusiasm for them has never been higher. Sportswriters Jim Baker and Bernard M. Corbett relive the evolution of the team, telling the war stories of players from John Hannah and Steve Grogan to Troy Brown and Rodney Harrison. Moving through thirteen of the team’s biggest games, they put a fresh spin on the stories all Pats fans love, with detail and color from the players who were there, on the field, making history. The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History is a perfect gift for the serious fan—not just a collectible, but the kind of book to hunker down with and enjoy.
History/ Politics September Hardcover U.S. $25.00 / can. $26.50 256 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " ISBN 978-1-60819-812-2 also available as an ebook TERRITORY u.s. and canada CANADA bloomsbury via penguin bloomsbury subrights audio film/tv and translation icm MARKETING National print, online, and radio media campaign
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Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the Madman Election of 1952
Kevin Mattson A look behind the scenes at one of the most famous campaign speeches—Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech, to be published on its sixtieth anniversary. It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a “salesman against socialization.” But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to do to keep his place on Eisenhower’s Republican ticket, so he took to the airwavess. In making his speech, Nixon left behind lines about a “Republican cloth coat” and a black and white cocker spaniel named “Checkers.” The speech saved and bolstered Nixon’s political career and set the tone for the 1952 campaign. Just Plain Dick is political history and more. It’s the story of a young man nearing a nervous breakdown and staging a political comeback. While the narrative focuses tightly, almost cinematically, on the 1952 election cycle—from the spring primary season to the summer conventions, and then to the allegations against Nixon through to the speech in September and finally the election in November—Mattson also provides a broad-stroke depiction of American politics and culture during the Cold War. With publication scheduled during the 2012 election season, readers will see Nixon’s contribution to current campaign styles. Here is a story of phony populism, a hatred of elites (tagged “eggheads” back then), and emotionally charged appeals erasing a rational assessment of a politician’s qualifications. An entertaining and suspenseful read, Just Plain Dick is ideal election context for political junkies and those fascinated with 1950s America.
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Just Plain Dick
Kevin Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. He is the author of Rebels All!, When America Was Great, Upton Sinclair and the Other American Century, Intellectuals in Action, and “What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?” Mattson writes for the American Prospect, Dissent, the Nation, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, and many other publications. 33
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Advance praise for Wilderness: “Lance Weller’s magnificent Wilderness is a brilliant, singular achievement. Now and again comes a novel that is so wholly its own that any comparison shrivels away. Lance Weller has given us this, not only in the tale, which is deeply compelling and superbly page-turning but most importantly, a thoughtful and illuminating exploration of who we are and how we got here. These people are heartrendingly beautiful, fragile and resilient but also ugly, hateful and hurtful. And Weller masterfully raises the stakes as he draws these webs of humanity with prose constructed with compelling art and ease.” —Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall 34
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Wilderness A Novel
Lance Weller Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain meets David Guterson’s East of the Mountains in this sweeping historical novel of a Civil War veteran’s last journey on the Pacific Coast. Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It’s a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war.
“Weller has crafted a novel of stories within stories, all interwoven in prose so exquisite and descriptive that you will want to read Wilderness more than one time, and all in one sitting to capture this novel in its salvific beauty. Put aside your day, open up Wilderness, and take a dive into this fabulous work of fiction.” —Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
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As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he took part in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life—from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and finally to the unbearable memory of the wife and child he lost as a young man. Haunted by tragedy, loss, and unspeakable brutality, Abel has somehow managed to hold on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path.
Excerpt from Wilderness: The old man sat and rocked and tried not to remember his younger days when he was a married man and soldiering was the farthest thing from his mind. He tried hard not to see his wife, his infant daughter. After a while, the breath that escaped his bearded lips was hot and he covered his eyes with his right palm and left it there until it was over. Far to the west, where the night was fast upon the ocean’s rim, the clouds had blown back and the old man could see stars where they dazzled the water. He breathed and rocked before the fire. His thoughts, beyond his control, went from painful recollections of women and family, to worse remembrances of war because it had been his experience that one often led to the other—stoking its fires until there was not a man who could resist and, upon yielding, survive as a man still whole.
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In its contrasts of light and dark, wild and tame, brutal and tender, and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended, Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character, but a story about who we are as human beings, a people, and a nation. Lance Weller’s immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers.
Lance Weller has published short fiction in several literary journals. He won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Harbor, WA, with his wife and several dogs. 35
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Austenland PB ISBN 978-1-59691-286-1 U.S. $12.99 also available as an eBook
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Shannon Hale is the author of two previous novels for adults, Austenland and The Actor and the Housewife. Her novels for young adults include the Newbery Honor–winning bestseller Princess Academy, the Books of Bayern series, and Book of a Thousand Days, and she has cowritten two graphic novels for young readers, Rapunzel’s Revenge and Calamity Jack, with her husband, Dean Hale. They live with their four small children near Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit her website at www.squeetus.com 36
midnight in austenland a novel
Shannon Hale Bestselling author Shannon Hale offers up mystery, romance, and a lot of fun in this modern homage to Jane Austen. Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park, a Jane Austen– themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out, this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts are racing and stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues—real and pretend, sinister and romantic— increasingly tough to sort out. It’s midnight in Austenland, and Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine worthy of Austen herself.
Praise for Midnight in Austenland: “Hale’s fans will be thrilled to revisit Pembrook Park and reunite with its regulars. Hale provides a welcome, witty glimpse of a side of Austen rarely explored in the many contemporary riffs on her work.”—Publishers Weekly “Hale’s light romantic comedy will appeal to chick-lit fans as well as Austenites … looking for a fresh way to explore the author’s enduring legacy.”—Library Journal
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“Austere but atmospheric debut … [Harding’s] accounts of Cave’s daily struggle for survival are powerful, and she reveals myriad gradations of light and color in what first appears a blank and unchanging landscape.” —The New Yorker “Deeply affecting … [with] scenes of devastating pathos.”—The New York Times Book Review
Painter of Silence A Novel
Georgina Harding An intimate and devastating portrait of Eastern Europe during and after WWII, and the story of an utterly original friendship.
Georgina Harding’s kaleidoscopic new novel will appeal to readers of Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, and Sandor Marai. It is as intense and submerging as rain, as steeped in the horrors of our recent history as it is in the intimate passions of the human heart.
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It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook’s son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin’s world stayed the same size, Safta’s expanded to embrace languages, society, and a fleeting love one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same. Georgina Harding is the author of the novels The Spy Game and The Solitude of Thomas Cave. She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex.
“Georgina Harding’s second novel proposes a tantalizing mystery … full of melodramatic marveling.” —The New York Times Book Review 37
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Humor october Paper over boards u.s. $18.00 / Can. $19.00 160 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " 4-color photos throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-837-5 TERRITORY World english CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin Bloomsbury subrights first serial film/tv and audio Trident Media Group MARKETING National print, online, and broadcast media campaign Online consumer advertising campaign Social media campaign on Bloomsbury Facebook and Twitter accounts at publication Focused outreach to women’s interest, men’s interest, animal lover, humor, and pop culture websites and publications Digital assets: author videos, slideshows, author blog Gift roundups
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rabid Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy?
Pamela Redmond Satran The next hilarious hit from the author of the New York Times bestselling humor book How Not to Act Old—a funny, fun, fully illustrated look at our over-the-top dog-obsessed society, for dog lovers and dog skeptics alike. Dogs now dominate the $55 billion a year pet business, with nearly 40 percent of American households owning a total of 78.2 million dogs. Dog products, dog services, dog admiration—okay, let’s call it dog worship—has become totally over the top, with doggie treadmills, dog swimming pools, caffeine-free doggie java, dog massage, dog perfume, aromatherapy, hair coloring, and, yes, dog tattoos that would have seemed outlandish a generation ago when applied to your everyday household Rover. www.bloomsburyusa.com
But Rover isn’t called Rover anymore: he’s called Rufus. Or Lola, according to the Tumblog Hipster Puppies. In fact, all Top Ten Dog Names are people names. And the canine Rufus doesn’t stay home alone all day; he goes to Doggie Daycare. Eats brightly frosted martini-shaped doggie treats. Wears designer tutus. Gets married on the beach. Has… Well, you’ll see. With hilarious full-color photos throughout, Rabid holds a humorous mirror up to our dog-centered society, helping us laugh at our own behavior and at the even-more-insane antics of all those other dog people.
Praise for Pamela Redmond Satran: “Ms. Satran’s take on the latest generation gap is as insightful as it is entertaining—a comic blend of advice and anthropology that skewers both young and old.” —Christina Binkley, The Wall Street Journal, on How Not to Act Old
Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of the New York Times bestselling humor book How Not to Act Old, optioned by DreamWorks. She is also the author of seven novels and the coauthor of eight baby name books, including the bestselling Beyond Jennifer & Jason. Satran is a columnist for Glamour and contributes frequently to such publications as the Daily Beast, the New York Times, and More magazine. Visit her website at pamelaredmondsatran .com.
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Raising Wrecker
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A Novel
Summer Wood Summer Wood is the author of Arroyo. In 2007 she received the Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation for her work on Raising Wrecker. She teaches writing at the University of New Mexico’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and in 2009 she directed the first NEA Big Read in Taos. She has lived with her family in Taos for the past twenty years. Visit her website at summerwoodwrites.com
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“Opening [Raising Wrecker] is akin to unwrapping a gift wrapped with great care. Summer Wood … delivers a rare treat in this story of a boy and his mothers. It unfolds along a deliciously unpredictable path, one that can and should be savored.”—The Denver Post Wrecker is born in 1965 in flower-powered San Francisco. By his third birthday, his mother has landed in prison and he’s been taken by the state. So when an uncle claims the boy and brings him to a place called Bow Farm, Wrecker is scared and angry and quick to cause chaos. Here among the California redwoods, a clan of eccentrics will come together to raise one remarkable child, and feel themselves transformed. Charting two decades of an unconventional family, Raising Wrecker celebrates the highs and lows, joys and pains, of real and ragged love.
Praise for Raising Wrecker: “This sensitive novel inspires nostalgia for the days when a boy could spend his youth running wild in the woods … and it reminds us of what a difference it makes when adults truly open their hearts to a child who needs to be loved.”—High Country News “A big hearted novel … [Wood] writes with a warmth and compassion that radiates from her pages. It’s impossible not to fall in love with Wrecker as he grows up, and perhaps more importantly, with his family.”—BookPage
Biography September Paperback U.S. $18.00/ Can. $19.00 352 pages 6 1 /8 " x 9 1 /4 " B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-460-5 TERRITORY U.S. and canada CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin Agency Markson thoma Agency MARKETING Coverage in paperback columns Focused outreach to history, labor, and political websites and publications Tie-in to election coverage Academic marketing
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The Man Who Never Died The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon
William M. Adler
In 1914, Joe Hill, the prolific songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World (also known as the Wobblies), was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. In the first major biography of the radical historical icon, William M. Adler explores an extraordinary life and presents persuasive evidence of Hill’s innocence. Hill would become organized labor’s most venerated martyr, and a hero to folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. His story shines a beacon on the early-twentieth-century American experience and exposes the roots of issues critical to the twenty-first century.
Praise for The Man Who Never Died: “As relevant today as ever … As this splendid, sympathetic biography makes clear, Joe Hill spent his life on the run from the dark realities of capitalism, but Hill’s true genius was his refusal to surrender to despair.” —The Boston Globe “A fast-paced chronicle of a life that would have gone unsung if not for Hill’s martyrdom in the wake of a mockery of a trial.”—Chicago Tribune “Hill’s status as a labor icon and the debate about his conviction certainly never died. [Adler] makes the strongest case yet that Hill was wrongfully convicted.”—The New York Times
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“William Adler has given Joe Hill’s remarkable story an artist’s touch. Careful, powerful, and profoundly moving, The Man Who Never Died is narrative history at its best.” —Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice
William M. Adler has contributed to numerous publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Texas Monthly, and the Texas Observer, and is the author of Land of Opportunity and Mollie’s Job. He lives with his wife and son in Denver, Colorado. Visit themanwhoneverdied .com. 41
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Unbored the essential field guide to serious fun
Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen Designed by Tony Leone With an Introduction by Mark Frauenfelder The most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published— jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Unbored is the guide and activity book every modern kid needs. Vibrantly designed, lavishly illustrated, brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it’s crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable but also designed to get kids engaged with the wider world.
Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech skills to be creative, try new things, and change the world. And it encourages parents to participate. Unbored is exciting to read, easy to use, and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humor. Kids will just think it’s awesome. Contributors include: Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE magazine; Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man; Douglas Rushkoff, renowned media theorist; Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG; John Edgar Park, a CG supervisor at DisneyToon Studios; and Jean Railla, founder of GetCrafty.com and Etsy consultant.
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With contributions from a diverse crowd of experts, the book provides kids with information to round out their worldview and inspire them to learn more. From how-tos on using the library or writing your representative to a graphic history of video games, the book isn’t shy about teaching. Yet the bulk of the 350-page mega-resource presents hands-on activities that further the mission in a fun way, featuring the best of the old as well as the best of the new: classic science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn bombing, stop-action movie-making— plus tons of sidebars and extras, including trivia, best-of lists, and Q&As with leading thinkers whose culture-changing ideas are made accessible to kids for the first time.
Joshua Glenn is cofounder of the websites Significant Objects, Hilobrow, and Semionaut, and has authored and edited a number of books. Together with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, he writes a parenting column based on Unbored for Slate. He lives in Boston and has two sons, ten and thirteen. Elizabeth Foy Larsen was a member of the team that launched Sassy, a magazine for teen girls. Her writing on families has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, the Daily Beast, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis and has two sons and a daughter, ages seven to twelve. Tony Leone is a principal of Leone Design. His work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Brand Design Association, and has been featured in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, and elsewhere. He has a son in kindergarten and a newborn daughter.
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Fiction September Paperback U.S. $15.00 384 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " ISBN 978-1-60819-820-7 TERRITORY World English CANADA bloomsbury via penguin agency Capel & Land Ltd MARKETING Coverage in print and crime columns nationwide Consumer advertising campaign Outreach to crime and mystery bloggers Early e-book promotion of author’s backlist
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Rip Tide
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Stella Rimington “The densely imagined counterterrorist culture Rimington creates beneath the tradecraft is as compelling as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews In this fast-paced novel from the former director of MI5, a British-born Pakistani is discovered among a gang of pirates attacking a cargo ship off the Somalian coast, setting agent Liz Carlyle on a case that will unravel across continents and ideological boundaries, and ultimately bring bigger, more explosive trouble—far closer to home. A riveting story full of treachery, Rip Tide is also a reminder that terror can lurk in the unlikeliest places. Published in paperback to coincide with Rimington’s newest novel, this is a relevant, insightful story with a unique perspective on a crucially important issue.
Praise for Rip Tide: “Rimington’s best work demonstrates a flair for narrative, with a sense of authenticity and an insider’s grasp on the pressing issues of the day.”—The Washington Post “Rimington’s thought-provoking fifth thriller featuring MI5 agent Liz Carlyle … Rich with authentic details from Rimington’s own life as director general of MI5, this is a must-read for fans of contemporary spy fiction.” —Publishers Weekly “Like the earlier Carlyle novels, this one is closer in tone to John le Carré … Rimington, herself a long-serving MI5 officer (and former director general), gives the reader a nice sense of the intricacies of the British intelligence services.”—Booklist 44
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The Geneva Trap A Liz Carlyle Novel
Stella Rimington MI5 agent Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her when a rogue Russian spy warns her of a plot to hack into the West’s military. At a tracking station in Virginia, U.S. Navy officers watch in horror as one of their communications satellites plummets into the Indian Ocean and panic spreads through the British and American intelligence services. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the cyber sabotage, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and how is he connected to Liz? Is this a Russian plot to disable the West’s defenses? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and her team search for a mole inside the Ministry of Defense, the trail takes them from Geneva, to Marseilles, and to Korea in a race against time to stop the Cold War from heating up.
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“[A] thrilling and disturbing tale.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian “An excruciatingly detailed, nightmarish saga demonstrating the sometimes inexplicable power of human evil.” —Kirkus Reviews
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“[A] gripping memoir and detective tale…. of one man’s megalomania.” —Publishers Weekly
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“A chilling portrait of inhuman zealotry.” —Booklist
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My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Private detective Sam Brower is the investigator who pushed forward the long and hard legal battles against the radical FLDS and Warren Jeffs. Raised in the Mormon Church (mainstream LDS), he lives in Cedar City, Utah. Visit his website at www.prophetsprey.com.
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Sam Brower, Preface by Jon Krakauer, with a new afterword by the author “A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extremely disturbing and absolutely riveting.”—Jon Krakauer, from the preface From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman’s vision. In Prophet’s Prey, Brower implicates Jeffs in his own words, bringing to light the contents of Jeffs’s personal priesthood journal, discovered in a hidden underground vault, and revealing to readers the shocking inside world of FLDS members whose trust he earned and who showed him the staggering truth of their lives.
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Jo-Ann Mapson A ghost, a birthday gift, and an ailing child are parts to a puzzle that will change the lives of one New Mexico family forever—from the bestselling author of Solomon’s Oak. Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister, Casey, disappeared—in a time before she’d ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she’d finally buried. A love story, a family story, a story of searching and the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament to human resilience. This completely stand-alone novel, featuring beloved characters from Solomon’s Oak, will charm Mapson’s readers and move her into a larger sphere.
Praise for Jo-Ann Mapson: “If you haven’t discovered Jo-Ann Mapson yet, you’re in for the finest of treats—her books will move you from outloud laughter to bittersweet tears.”—Jodi Picoult “One of the most gifted writers of the contemporary [American] West.”—Los Angeles Times
Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including the beloved Solomon’s Oak, winner of the American Library Association’s 2011 RUSA Award for Women’s Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (a CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs.
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David M. Kennedy is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control and a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College. Kennedy has received two Webber Seavey awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, two Innovations in American Government awards from the Kennedy School of Government, and a Herman Goldstein Problem-Oriented Policing Award. His work has been used as a model or source for safety and drug intervention initiatives by the Clinton and Bush administrations, and by the Bureau of Justice. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn, New York. 48
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One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
David M. Kennedy “Don’t Shoot will do for the fight against violence what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for the environmental movement a generation ago.”—Malcolm Gladwell “Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,”* Don’t Shoot is David M. Kennedy’s chronicle of his decades-long crusade to solve one of America’s most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered the “Boston Miracle” in the 1990s, cutting youth homicide by two-thirds at the height of the crack epidemic, reveals the history and the strategy behind his commonsense yet revolutionary approach to ending crime. He has refined an approach in which everyone—gang members, drug dealers, cops, and neighbors— comes together in a giant community meeting, an intervention and an affirmation of a shared desire for safety and peace. The proof is in the miraculous results. Don’t Shoot offers a bold way forward in combating one of our country’s most intractable social problems. (*Boston Globe)
Praise for Don’t Shoot: “[An] important book … This is how we, as a nation, can and must finally back out of the rolling destruction, by death and mass incarceration, of our cities, our society, and our moral character.”—The Boston Globe “Impassioned… It’s an unorthodox book, part memoir, part polemic, with a spirit and style closer to The Autobiography of Malcolm X than to your typical book of wonkery. Like Malcolm X, Kennedy has no time for the pieties of the left or the right … [A] gripping account of a life spent combating violence.” —The Washington Post Book World “What is brilliant about Don’t Shoot is its specificity, its insistence that street violence has its own special contours and patterns that can be understood, and manipulated … that maybe crime itself [can] be bargained with.” —The New Republic
music October Hardcover U.S. $75.00 / can. $79.00 304 PAGES 12" x 12" ISBN 978-1-60819-999-0 TERRITORY World, all languages CANADA bloomsbury via penguin Bloomsbury Subrights translation audio, serial, film/tv abbey road studios MARKETING National print and broadcast media coverage Digital galleys for preview on NetGalley
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Abbey Road The Best Studio in the World
Alistair Lawrence, foreword by Sir George Martin
Alistair Lawrence is a music enthusiast and critic for BBC Music and Kerrang! magazine.
A big photographic celebration of the world’s most celebrated recording studio—a beautiful gift for any music fan. Abbey Road studios have been on the cutting edge of recording for eighty years, hosting some of the biggest names in music over the decades: the Beatles, of course, who immortalized it with the title of their 1969 album; Pink Floyd; Kate Bush; Duran Duran; Radiohead; Florence and the Machine. Any number of albums made here have gone gold or platinum, picking up Grammys and other awards along the way. Famed producers and sound engineers at the studios have developed groundbreaking new techniques, including automatic double tracking at the instigation of John Lennon. And it’s also been a landmark in moviemaking: here were recorded John Williams’s original scores for five Star Wars films, as well the scores for the Lord of the Rings trilogy—two of them awarded Oscars. This gorgeous book includes a full history and time line, facts and figures, a discography with famous album covers from the 1930s to now, and a wealth of never-before-seen photos and treasures from the studio’s own archive. It’s an incredible document of cultural history, for anyone who values music and how it’s made.
Sir George Martin is a record producer, composer, arranger, and conductor. He has produced thirty number-one hit singles in the UK and twenty-three in the U.S. Martin is perhaps most famed for his association with the Beatles, whom he signed to their first recording contract in 1962, auditioning them in studio three at Abbey Road. 49
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Lloyd Jones’s many books include Biografi (a New York Times Notable Book), Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance, and Mister Pip, which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
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“An extraordinary novel … [Jones] is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today.”—The Guardian (UK) We begin in Tunisia, where a young woman’s son is stolen from her, taken by his father back to Berlin, far from reach. And yet this mother will do anything to reclaim him; she embarks on a journey first across the Mediterranean, and then across Europe. Her story emerges through a kaleidoscope of voices of the people she meets along the way—a taxi driver, a hunter, a snail collector, a street performer, a blind man—all of whom view the anonymous traveler through their own lens. But her sacrifices won’t be fully understood until she retells her own story, bringing the novel to its powerful conclusion.
Praise for Hand Me Down World (Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award): “Hand Me Down World slowly reveals itself, like a jigsaw puzzle. This is the story of a mother’s determined courage … She possesses a fierce kind of hope that no one can take from her.”—Newsday “Compelling … vivid … intense … One of the most significant novelists writing today.”—Sunday Times (UK) “An absorbing work recommended for fans of Peter Carey, whose novels have a similar dreamy, shifting quality.” —Library Journal
A Halloween Treat Edward Gorey A brand-new Gorey gem for Halloween—including a spooky story and a collection of his illustrations of ghosts, ghouls, and spectres. In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick-or-treating and gather loot that might be tricks—or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. This short vignette, published in book form for the first time, will be an undiscovered delight for Gorey fanatics. But that’s only half the fun: Turn the book over to read from the other direction, and you’ll delve into a collection of Gorey’s charmingly ghastly ghosts, curated from his extensive oeuvre. A Halloween Treat is the perfect thing to give to your favorite trick-or-treater, or to curl up with yourself on a chilling Halloween night. humor • September • paper over board • U.S. $12.00 / can. $12.99 • 48 PAGES 6 7 /8 " x 6 7 /16 " • 20 color, 20 B&W illustrations • ISBN 978-1-60819-616-6
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Edward Gorey A rare, hilarious, and irreverent never-before-published story from the ironic and offbeat Edward Gorey. Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction—rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams. And as Gorey wrote, “letters she wrote are still to be delivered, traps she set are still to be sprung, pronouncements she devised are still to be promulgated, objects she hid are still to be found.” humor • September • paper over board • U.S. $12.00 / can. $12.99 • 48 PAGES 6 7 /8 " x 6 7 /16 " • 25 B&W illustrations • ISBN 978-1-60819-885-6
Edward St. John Gorey (1925–2000), a truly prodigious and original artist, gave to the world more than one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest, and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; and a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times. Gorey’s masterful pen-and-ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world. Praise for Edward Gorey: “Irresistible black-and-white drawings … Irrepressible wordplay.”—The New York Times
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Decades 100 Years of Style and Fashion
Cameron Silver with Rebecca DiLiberto The most celebrated vintage fashion expert in Hollywood presents a decade-by-decade guide to the most influential looks of the last century.
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Rebecca DiLiberto has written or collaborated on more than a dozen books and contributed extensively to In Style and the Boston Globe. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Cameron Silver founded the Decades boutique in Los Angeles in 1997. He is a favorite pundit on E! Entertainment and Access Hollywood, and was named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Names and Faces in Fashion” in 2002. He is a contributing editor at Departures and C Magazine, as well as a consultant to various upscale brands.
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What Cameron Silver doesn’t know about fashion is not worth knowing. For fifteen years he has owned Decades, the renowned vintage boutique on Melrose Avenue, hunting the world for couture from decades past, matching gorgeous red-carpet gowns to actresses including Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez. In Decades, Silver commits all his sartorial knowledge to paper in an oversized, visually stunning book: ten chapters, each devoted to the iconic looks of a decade. Josephine Baker and Zelda Fitzgerald show off their legs in the ’20s; Jackie O embodies feminine polish in the ’60s; Calvin Klein’s minimalism meets Marc Jacobs’s grunge remix in the ’90s. This true fashion bible includes original designer sketches and patterns and photos of rare couture as styled decades ago and today. There are contributions from and interviews with movie stars, models, and style icons, fashion editors and revered designers. Decades is a fashion treasure: a century of colorful history to inspire the stylish of today for years to come.
Beverly Johnson wearing Halston, 1970s
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Praise from France for Ru: “Kim Thúy’s writing flows like poetry—it transports and appeases. It is powerful and evocative. This first novel provides a rare feeling of bliss.” —Le Figaro
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“Rich in sense and imagery… Past and present mingle, reconstructing the course of a singular life.” —Le Monde
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Ru
Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman
Kim Thúy was born in Saigon and arrived in Quebec at age ten in 1978. She has degrees from the University of Montreal in linguistics and translation and in law, and lives in Montreal, where she now devotes herself to writing. Sheila Fischman is a two-time winner of both the Canada Council Prize for Translation and Columbia University’s Felix-Antoine Savard Award, and has also received the Governor General’s Award for Translation and the Molson Prize for the Arts. 54
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A Novel
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Winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award and an international success, an exquisite autobiographical novel of a Vietnamese refugee finding her way—and finding her voice—on new shores. At ten years old, Kim Thúy fled Vietnam on a boat with her family, leaving behind a grand house and the many less tangible riches of their home country: the ponds of lotus blossoms, the songs of soup vendors. The family arrived in Quebec, where they found clothes at the flea market, and mattresses with actual fleas. Kim learned French and English and, as she grew older, seized what opportunities an immigrant could: she put herself through school picking vegetables and sewing clothes, worked as a lawyer and interpreter, and later as a restaurateur. She was married and a mother when the urge to write struck her, and she found herself scribbling words at every opportunity—pulling out her notebook at stoplights and missing the change to green. The story emerging was one of a Vietnamese émigré on a boat to an unknown future: her own story fictionalized and crafted into a stunning novel. The novel’s title, Ru, has meaning in both Kim’s native and her adoptive languages: in Vietnamese, ru is a lullaby; in French, a stream. And it provides the perfect name for this slim yet potent novel. With prose that soothes and sings, Ru weaves through time, flows and transports: a river of sensuous memories gathering power. It’s a classic immigrant story told in a breathtaking new way.
Praise for Ru (Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Grand Prix RTL-Lire; Shortlisted for the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie): “The major events in the fall of Vietnam are painted in delicate strokes, through the daily existence of a woman who has to reinvent herself elsewhere. A tragic journey described in a keen, sensitive and perfectly understated voice.”—Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation
paperback original Popular Culture November Paperback original U.S. $17.00 / can. $18.00 240 PAGES 7" x 10" 2-color interior; B&W images throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-921-1 Also available as an eBook TERRITORY World, All languages Canada Bloomsbury via Penguin Bloomsbury subrights Translation, first serial, and audio film/tv Direct MARKETING National print, online, and broadcast media campaign Gift roundups
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50 Licks myths and stoires from half a century of the Rolling Stones
Pete Fornatale with Bernard M. Corbett Fifty great rock-and-roll stories of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the fiftieth year— based on exclusive material and featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band, and illustrated throughout. Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World’s Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins. On July 12, 1962, London’s Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song—the Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic, styling themselves as the devil's answer to the sainted Beatles. A young, inexperienced producer named Andrew Loog Oldham first heard the band at a session he remembers with four words: “I fell in love.” Though unfamiliar with such basic industry practices as mixing a recording, he made a brilliant decision—he pitched the band to a studio that had passed on the Beatles. Afraid to make the same mistake twice, they signed the Stones, and began a history-making career. This is just one of the fifty classic stories that make up 50 Licks, each named for a different Stones song. Many are never before told, some are from exclusive interviews—including with elusive bassist Bill Wyman—and all are told by the people who lived them. Part oral history, part memorabilia, this fiftiethanniversary book is the Stones album every collector will need to have.
Bernard M. Corbett is the radio voice of Harvard University football and Boston University hockey. He is the author and coauthor of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and is a lifelong Rolling Stones fan.
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Pete Fornatale is an award-winning broadcaster and rock icon who has been a fixture on the New York radio scene for the past forty years. He is most recently the author of Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock and How It Changed a Generation, and he can be heard on WFUV radio’s Mixed Bag. He lives in New York City.
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Zoo Time A Novel
Howard Jacobson The new novel from the acclaimed author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2010.
Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn’t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does.
No More Mr. Nice Guy PB ISBN 978-1-60819-687-6 U.S. $16.00 also available as an eBook Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It PB ISBN 978-1-60819-798-9 U.S. $18.00 also available as an eBook
In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it’s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn’t. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac, and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love—love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.
Praise for The Finkler Question: “Like all of [Jacobson’s] work, The Finkler Question has a kind of energy that you have to look at through your fingers, like an eclipse. As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I don’t know a funnier writer alive.”—Jonathan Safran Foer “Like Phillip Roth, to whom he is fairly compared, Howard Jacobson is a magnificent prose stylist who is often at his most serious when he is being uproariously funny.”—Slate “Mr. Jacobson doesn’t just summon Roth; he summons Roth at Roth’s best. This prizewinning book is a riotous morass of jokes and worries about Jewish identity, though it is by no means too myopic to be enjoyed by the wider world. It helps that Mr. Jacobson’s comic sensibility suggests Woody Allen’s, that his powers of cultural observation are so keen, and that influences as surprising as Lewis Carroll shape this book.” —The New York Times “The acrobatic wit and biting humor Jacobson displayed in Kalooki Nights and The Mighty Waltzer is honed sharp in The Finkler Question. Masterfully, Jacobson will bury a joke only to knock you out with a punch line 10 pages later.”—San Francisco Chronicle
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson is the acclaimed author of The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), No More Mr. Nice Guy, The Act of Love, and, most recently, the Man Booker Prize–winning The Finkler Question. He lives in London.
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Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife, Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful redhead, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than like mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy’s peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them.
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Praise from the UK for Polpo, the restaurant: “Inspiring.” —The Daily Telegraph “Brilliant.”—The Observer “This one’s a winner.” —The Evening Standard
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Russell Norman spent a decade running several venerated London restaurants before setting up his own place in the scruffy Soho district, serving authentic Venetian cuisine. Polpo was an instant hit and has been followed in quick succession by Polpetto, da Polpo and Spuntino. Russell Norman lives in London. 58
A luscious cookbook of little-known Venetian specialties from one of London's hottest restaurants. Tucked away in London’s edgy Soho district, Polpo is one of the most irrepressibly buzzing restaurants in town. Critics and food aficionados have been flocking to this understated bacaro where Russell Norman serves up small dishes—think tapas—from the backstreets of Venice. A far cry from the tourist-trap eateries of the famous floating city, this kind of cooking is unfussy, innovative, and exuberantly delicious. The 120 recipes in this book range from salads and snacks to small main courses, drinks, and desserts, including asparagus with Parmesan and anchovy butter; warm duck salad with beets and walnuts; crispy baby pizzas with zucchini, mint, and chilli; scallops with lemon and peppermint; soft-shell crab in Parmesan batter with fennel; fizzy bellinis and glasses of bright orange spritz; panacotta with poached rhubarb; and warm autumn fruits with amaretto cream. The recipes are accompanied by luminescent photography within a dazzling design, all of which capture the unfrequented corners, bustling bacari, and sublime waterways of Venice as they’ve never been seen before. Polpo is a dazzling tribute to Italy’s greatest hidden cuisine.
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Praise for The Big Snow: “A closely observed tale of how transfigured landscapes and familiar yearning converge … Absorbing.” —The Washington Post
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The Light of Amsterdam A Novel Three families set off for weekends in Amsterdam where the problems of home reveal themselves in a new light—from “a writer of consequence” (The Boston Globe). It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities about age, desire, and motherhood. During their brief stay in the city, the confusions and contradictions inherent in their relationships assert themselves in unexpected ways, forcing each couple into a sometimes painful reassessment and a new awareness of the price that love demands. As these people brush against one another in the squares, museums, and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured in the winter light as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. Tender and humane, elevating the ordinary to something timeless and important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare dignity.
Praise for The Truth Commissioner: “With guile and wonderful imaginative sympathy, Park stays afloat on the most treacherous thematic currents.” —The New York Times “Powerful … Park humanizes all the participants but never backs away from the dark crime at the heart of the narrative … Chilling and heartbreaking.”—Booklist (starred)
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Kevin Young is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Ardency and Dear Darkness. His collection For the Confederate Dead won the Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, and Jelly Roll was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the editor of six previous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2011; The Art of Losing; and Blues Poems and Jazz Poems, from the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series. Young is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta. 60
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Poems of Food and Festivity
Edited by Kevin Young What better gift for your favorite foodie? A delectable compendium of food poetry by some of our most celebrated poets, selected by a National Book Award–nominated poet. Food and poetry: in so many ways a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food make these satisfactions explicit and complete. Pages can and have been filled about food’s elemental pleasures. And of course we all know food is more than food: it’s identity and culture. Our days are marked by meals; our seasons are marked by celebrations. We plant in spring, harvest in fall. We labor over hot stoves; we treat ourselves to special meals out. Food is nurture; it’s comfort; it’s reward. While some of the poems here are explicitly about the food itself—the blackberries, the butter, the barbecue—all are evocative of the experience of eating. Many of the poems are also about the everything else that accompanies food: the memories, the company, even the politics. Kevin Young, distinguished poet, editor of this year’s Best American Poetry, uses the lens of food—and his impeccable taste—to bring us some of the best poems, classic and current, period. Poets include: Elizabeth Alexander, Elizabeth Bishop, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Tony Hoagland, Langston Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Rohrer, Charles Simic, Tracy K. Smith, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Mark Strand, Kevin Young
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Praise for Us: “The best little novel you haven’t heard about … Kimball’s clear-eyed prose unlocks the most vulnerable voice in this aging man, creating an emotional link that leaves no reader untouched.” —O, the Oprah Magazine
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Big Ray A Novel
Michael Kimball A potent novel revealing a son’s complicated feelings in the aftermath of his abusive father’s death—“funny and terrifying and … his masterpiece” (Sam Lipsyte). Big Ray’s temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father’s memory. This stunning novel, narrated in more than five hundred brief entries, moves between past and present, between his father’s death and his life, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot through with humor and insight that will resonate with anyone who has experienced a complicated parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story—at once brutal and tender, sickening and beautiful.
Advance praise for Big Ray: “Michael Kimball has been writing innovative, compelling, and beautifully felt books for years, but Big Ray seems a breakthrough and culmination all at once. It’s funny and terrifying and it’s his masterpiece, at least so far.” —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask “Big Ray, Michael Kimball’s terrific new novel, is genuinely moving because it is so rigorously unsentimental. Kimball is a powerful and courageous writer.”—Dana Spiotta, author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document “Elegy, meditation, story, final reckoning—whatever you want to call it, Big Ray is mesmerizing. Sorrowful and honest, the kind of book that compels, not compromises.”—Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution “Big Ray is disturbing in the most extraordinary ways, and in the end extraordinarily touching also. There’s nothing quite like it I’ve ever read till now (though there were times I thought the ghost of Barry Hannah was whispering in my ear). It’s amazing.”—Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls’ Rising
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Michael Kimball is the author of The Way the Family Got Away, Dear Everybody, and, most recently, Us, and his novels have been translated into a dozen languages. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and in the Guardian, Vice, Bomb, and New York Tyrant. He is also responsible for the project Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) and a couple of documentary films. He lives in Baltimore. Visit his website at http:// michael-kimball.com.
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Praise from the UK for The Illustrated Guide to Chickens: animal care November Hardcover u.s. $20.00 / Can. $21.00 160 PAGES 8 1 /4 " x 10" 4-color throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-975-4
“A sumptuously illustrated guide to our feathered friends … peppered with practical advice on how to look after them.”—Express “Some of the best contemporary illustrations of popular breeds that we’ve ever seen … but this certainly isn’t just a picture book.”—Practical Poultry
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“Beautifully illustrated … A great starting point for learning more about hens.” —Garden Answers
The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl How to Choose Them. How to Keep Them.
Celia Lewis
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“An attractive book (the pun cannot be resisted) to crow about.”—Science and Technology Journal
Beautifully illustrated and perfectly practical, this is the ultimate guide to the domestic fowl of North America and Europe—with information on how to raise them and how to select the right breed for your needs. Celia Lewis is the author and illustrator of The Illustrated Guide to Chickens and The Illustrated Guide to Pigs. Prizes for her art include a medal from the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and the Winsor & Newton Prize from the Royal Watercolour Society. She lives in the country in Surrey, England, where she keeps hens and turkeys.
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Across the country, backyard birds are a growing trend—an extension of the urban farming movement. With just a little land and available water, you can raise all kinds of domestic fowl: ducks and geese, as well as turkeys, guinea fowl, quails, and peacocks. Celia Lewis’s Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl is full of practical advice, starting with how to choose the right breed. The book covers sixty-five of the most popular domestic breeds in Europe and North America, helping you make informed decisions based on your environment, the personalities and temperaments of different birds, their eggs and meat, and whether you intend to breed them. Lewis offers advice on housing, water, and feeding; on the impact of birds on your land and on your neighbors (such as noise); and on the prevention and treatment of common ailments. She also provides brief profiles covering the history and place of origin of each breed, and the appearance of males, females, and chicks—illustrated in her own lush watercolors. Lewis has created a practical guide thorough enough for a small farmer and beautiful enough to grace the coffee table of a casual enthusiast.
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Advance praise for Hard Twisted: “Hard Twisted reads like the perfect amalgam of Cormac McCarthy and Jim Thompson: violent, hilarious, and as bracing and painful as the blow of a dog quirt across the face. Utterly irresistible.” —Pinckney Benedict, author of Town Smokes and Miracle Boy and Other Stories
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Hard Twisted A Novel
C. Joseph Greaves “Hard Twisted is fictional crime, with an exceptional true story as its spine, written in prose as stylish and engaging as one will find … [A] compelling saga of murder, mystery, and good and evil at its rawest in the hardscrabble rural Southwest of the 1930s.” —Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter and Four Days in November In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime spree—culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas, “skeleton murder” trial of 1935. C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, historic figures, America’s last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl’s coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.
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C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. His discovery of two human skulls in a remote Utah canyon would lead, eighteen years later, to the completion of Hard Twisted, named Best Historical Novel of 2010 in the SouthWest Writers international writing contest, in which Greaves was also honored with the grand-prize Storyteller Award. Greaves is also writing an L.A.-based mystery series; the first installment, Hush Money, will be published by Minotaur in Spring 2012. 63
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Advance praise for Life! Death! Prizes!: “Life! Death! Prizes! is a raw, funny and heartfelt book, full of surprising tenderness and hope—a fine achievement.” —A. L. Kennedy, Costa award–winning author of What Becomes
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Life! Death! Prizes! A Novel
Stephen May Poignant, funny, and with echoes of Roddy Doyle and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this is a story of grief, resilience, and brotherly love. Billy’s mother is dead. He knows—because he reads about it in magazines—that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Stephen May’s first novel, Tag, was published by a small Welsh press and won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Welsh Book of the Year Awards in 2009, despite Stephen’s not being Welsh. Stephen lives in Yorkshire, where he works for the Arts Council.
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Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, social services, and Oscar’s own prodigal father all think, he feels certain that he is the one for the job. The boys’ new world—where bedtimes are arbitrary, tidiness is optional, and healthy home-cooked meals pile up uneaten in the freezer—is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it’s also a world that teeters perilously on its axis. As Billy’s obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters: the only family he has left.
Advance praise for Life! Death! Prizes!: “Left in charge of his six-year-old brother after their mother’s murder, Billy is a depressed, profane, randy, impecunious teenager, given to vengeful rages and obsessed with a video game; he also turns out to be one of the wisest and most appealing parents I’ve ever encountered. I don’t know how he does it, but Stephen May manages to balance hilarity and sadness in nearly every sentence of this deftly comic, completely engaging, and at times absolutely hair-raising novel. Life! Death! Prizes! deserves every one of its exclamation marks.” —Suzanne Berne, Orange Prize–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood
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“[A] memoir of a brief but formative friendship … It encapsulates a celebrity’s relationship with his own fame, which is this book’s achievement throughout.”—The Telegraph “In vivid dialogue and fond memory, [Walden] gives candid background color and rare balanced complexity to the tragedy of a dying man in his last days.” —The Times (London) “Funny, affectionate and tragically sad by turns, and the book actually sheds new light on [Best] … I devoured it in a weekend.” —The Independent
Babysitting George The Last Days of a Soccer Icon A moving account of a rookie journalist’s memorable summer in the company of worldrenowned soccer star George Best, as he neared the end of his life. As a young reporter, Celia Walden receives an unusual assignment: track down a global superstar and keep him away from all other journalists. That man is soccer player George Best, who made his debut for Manchester United at age seventeen and was the star of a star team throughout the 1960s. Enormously skilled and ruggedly handsome, idolized by men and women alike, he was referred to as “the fifth Beatle,” and still holds a firm place among the world’s all-time best players. But in 2004, George Best is nearing sixty and deteriorating like a much older man. A notorious alcoholic and philanderer, he has just received a liver transplant and has Antabuse tablets sewn into his stomach lining. His wife has left him again. When Celia finds him in a bar in Malta, he isn’t exactly delighted to see her. He’s been chased by journalists all his life. Yet as Celia’s assignment to “babysit” George around the clock stretches out over months, an unlikely sort of friendship develops, and she gets to know George as a funny, volatile, and complex human being, an avid reader and member of MENSA, ravaged by alcohol and gradually withering under the constant glare of the spotlight. Babysitting George is a tender account of a unique relationship between a young journalist and a dying star. It questions the exploitative nature of tabloid journalism; the terrifying, all-consuming nature of addiction; and the implausible meetings that can change one’s life.
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Celia Walden was born in Paris in 1975. She is a senior feature writer for the Daily Telegraph, a correspondent for British GQ, and an interviewer for British Glamour. She is also a regular on a number of TV programs, and a commentator on the British royals for NBC and Extra. Her first novel, Harm’s Way, was published in 2008. With her husband, Piers Morgan, and their young child, she divides her time between New York and 65 Los Angeles.
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Wilpon’s Folly The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets
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The remarkable story of Fred Wilpon, a man who lost everything in one day, then lost it all again over the next three years.
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On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for “fictitious profits” that he now owes to other Madoff victims. To the tune of almost a billion dollars. How did this happen? Where did Wilpon go wrong, and why does a fraud victim suddenly owe money? The truth about these questions has been largely hidden, but in this short book, the whole story is fully revealed. In this tight narrative, Howard Megdal tells the dramatic financial tale and proves a surprising truth: Wilpon’s thirty-year reign as owner of the Mets is about to end. Perhaps the most public victim of the Madoff scandal, Wilpon now faces a long road, and likely a difficult offseason. Here Megdal articulates both Wilpon’s position and those against him. Like Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, this book unravels the world of a major investment scandal through an entertaining and recognizable story.
Praise for Wilpon’s Folly: “[A] bombshell book.”—New York Post
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Praise for My Side of the Story: “A gay British teenager delivers a sniping, witty rant à la Holden Caulfield … A first novel featuring a truculent, funny adolescent narrator, one that starts with promise—and that augurs well for the career of its young author.” —Kirkus Reviews
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The Trapeze Artist A Novel An exceptional, break-out coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award–winning writer Will Davis. A man will endlessly torture his muscles until they shriek and complain. But he will not give in. He will take a hammer to his ceiling until the neighbors begin to watch from the window and the journalists knock at the door. He will continue to train and hack away at the house until it is finished and the trapeze is in place. Although his parents thought he was nice and kindhearted and teachers saw him as a good boy, secretly he hated his drab, ordered world and longed for more. Then, when he was fourteen, Edward arrived at his school. Edward exuded the coolness of a latter-day Oscar Wilde. Edward listened to Patti Smith, watched Fassbinder films, knew the writings of Gore Vidal, and, one evening, would kiss him in the moonlight. Forty years old and fleeing from a life he can no longer handle, he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he gets in his car and follows after it, refusing to listen to the doubts that plague him, determined to build a new home and family. The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present, and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision—a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family, and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions, and tempers of circus life, and, above all, of the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher …
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Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize in 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks), and static trapeze. He lives in London.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Chelsea Handler pb ISBN 978-1-58234-618-2 u.s. $14.95
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Urban Italian
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Andrew Carmellini with Gwen Hyman
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reporting at wit’s end St. Clair McKelway PB ISBN 978-1-60819-034-8 u.s. $18.00
The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst pb ISBN 978-1-58234-610-6 u.s. $15.95
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my horizontal life
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Methland Nick Reding pb ISBN 978-1-60819-207-6 u.s. $16.00
logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou pb ISBN 978-1-59691-452-0 u.s. $22.95
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The Arch and the Butterfly English edition
Mohamed Achaari A powerful tale of social and political change. Set in the author’s home country of Morocco, outside the ancient city of Marrakech, this is a moving story of identity, extremism, culture, and generational change. The narrator, Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his father and German-born mother, is caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the fast-changing world he lives in. The unexplained suicide of Yousif’s mother, for which Yousif blames his father, is part of the dark hinterland to the opening of the book, in which Yousif learns that his only son Yasin, whom he believed to be pursuing an education at a prestigious college in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. With his world in pieces, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif questions his own values and identity. His inner journey is reflected in the changes to the local community, strained by the emergence of a business mafia who care little for the legacy of Morocco’s past and who have “stolen” his wife, while his father, despite having lost his sight, spends his days trying to explain the traditions and history of the town to visiting tourists. bloomsbury qatar titles
Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short-story writer, journalist, former minister of culture in Morocco, and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. He has published a number of works of fiction and poetry, some of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel. fiction • november • paperback • u.s. $18.99 • 320 PAGES • 5 1 /16 " x 7 3 /4 " • ISBN 978-9-9921-7905-5
Traces arabic edition
Gamal al Ghitani Mystical reflections on life and love by Egypt’s greatest living writer. What remains of our memories after forgetting has done its work? How do we keep track of people we encountered and who were dear to us, the women we loved and the places we visited? How to extract those moments spent on nothing? How to avert the passage of time? Reaching his sixties, the narrator decides to put to paper the fragments of his memories and explore the traces that have survived their erasure. Neighborhoods of old Cairo, scenes of his childhood, his intimate encounters and the awakening of his senses, as well as the author’s travels, are layered in stories, tales, and anecdotes as well as in questions about the paradoxes of forgetfulness and the mystery of ultimate oblivion. Emotion and depth spring from these pages to make Gamal al Ghitani one of the greatest living writers in Arabic. Born in 1945 and educated as a tapestry maker in Cairo, Ghitani wrote his first work when he was sixteen and became a war reporter at the age of twenty-three. He has written thirteen novels and six collections of short stories. fiction • december • paperback • u.s. $14.99 • 400 PAGES • 5 1 /16 " x 7 3 /4 " • ISBN 978-9-9921-7919-2
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Gin and Juice The Victorian Guide to Parenting
Tyers & Beach Thanks to this attractive and authoritative compendium, hapless modern-day parents will at last profit from the wisdom of an era when Britain led the world in matters of industry, empire, and child-rearing … humor • september • hardcover • u.s. $14.99 • 160 PAGES • 4 3 /4 " x 7 1 /8 " • ISBN 978-1-4088-2434-4
Cooking for Real Life Joanna Weinberg
More than 180 recipes for whatever life throws at you. bloomsbury uk imports
cooking • september • hardcover • u.s. $39.95 • 320 PAGES • 7 7 /16 ” x 9 11 /16 ” • 4-COLOR throughout ISBN 978-1-4088-0180-2
How to Bake Paul Hollywood The last word in baking from England’s favorite expert. cooking • october • hardcover • u.s. $39.95 • 352 PAGES • 7 7 /16 " x 9 11 /16 " • 4-COLOR throughout ISBN 978-1-4088-1949-4
a card from angela carter Susannah Clapp A unique and dazzling portrait of Angela Carter by her friend and literary executor. category • septmeber • hardcover • u.s. $19.95 • 112 PAGES • 4 3 /8 " x 7" • ISBN 978-1-4088-2690-4
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The Phantom Army of Alamein How Churchill’s Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel
Rick Stroud Camouflage was one of the most surprising elements of the Battle of Alamein—the story is now told in full for the first time. history • decmeber • hardcover • u.s. $25.95 • 320 PAGES • 6 1 /8 " x 9 1 /4 " • ISBN 978-1-4088-2910-3
Boy Soldiers of the Great War Richard van Emden bloomsbury uk imports
The heartbreaking story of the boys, some as young as twelve, who fought and died in the trenches of the First World War. history • december • paperback • u.s. $13.95 • 352 PAGES • 5 1 /16 " x 7 3 /4 " • ISBN 978-1-4088-2472-6
The Armchair Olympian How much do you know about sport’s biggest competition? The Armchair Olympian is a strangely addictive read celebrating the glitz and glamour, wonder and weirdness of the Olympic Games. With stats, trivia, quotes and quizzes, you can test your knowledge and release your inner sporting geek! sports/games • September • paperback • u.s. $10.95 • 176 PAGES • 5 1 /16 " x 7 3 /4 " • ISBN 978-1-4081-6476-1
alex mackay’s cookbook for Everybody Everyday Exciting everyday food that everybody can cook. With 126 adaptable recipes, this really is a book for everybody who wants to cook delicious food every day—be they young, old, single, part of a large family, new to cooking, or an old hand. Let the adventure begin! cooking • September • hardcover • u.s. $25.99 • 320 PAGES • 7 7 /16 " x 9 11 /16 " • ISBN 978-1-4088-1093-4
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Danny Lewis The first book in more than ten years to focus on Bowie’s unique style, this volume pays homage to the man of Ziggy Stardust fame in a fashion retrospective. Filled with fabulous photographs, this book is a stunning fashion retrospective of the iconic and well-loved rock star. Apart from documenting five decades of Bowie’s unique sense of style, it also discusses the cultural and artistic influences that have shaped him, and how he has influenced others in turn. fashion october hardcover u.s. $25.99 192 PAGES 8 5 /8 " x 10 4 /5 " 125 color images ISBN 978-1-4081-7376-3
Danny Lewis has worked as a writer and editor for many years, including stints in publishing houses in Switzerland and Australia. He has also spent a good deal of time in the underground music scene in London, running clubs and playing in bands, which has left him with an enduring love of rock music.
Embellished New Vintage
Karen Nicol An inspiring and illuminating look-book, juxtaposing vintage pieces and techniques with contemporary work to nourish imagination with exciting influences and possiblities.
Visual arts September hardcover u.s. $55.00 208 PAGES 8 5 /8 " x 10 7 /8 " 4-color throughout ISBN 978-1-4081-0575-7
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Embellished is a visual feast of a journey through the process of inspiration and creativity, illustrating the way in which pieces and processes influence new work and ideas. Combining elements as diverse as exotic feathers, plastic jewellry, buttons, and vintage millinery straw, Karen Nicol will inspire you to come up with lavish creations beyond your wildest dreams. Karen Nicol is a well-known British textile artist who works for some of the top designers in the world. Among her clients are Louella, Antonio Beradi, Pentagram, Whistles, Lulu Guinness, M&S, and Courtaulds. She is a senior research fellow at the Royal College of Art.
Knitty Gritty The Next Steps
Aneeta Patel With detailed instructions, and photographs to accompany you at every step, Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps shows you how to knit lace, how to use beads, and how to read and create charts to knit Fair Isle and intarsia patterns using different colors. You will also learn the secrets of knitting in the round, so you too can knit socks like a pro! Aneeta teaches budding knitters all the tips and tricks of the trade, so that these patterns are accessible to anyone who has mastered the very basics of knitting. With projects including sweaters for adults and kids, gloves, hats, socks, and an array of seasonal knits, Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps is everything you need on the road to advanced knitting.
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Aneeta Patel is an artist and knitting teacher living in East London. She has taught knitting professionally for several years and holds classes all over London. Specializing in beginners’ knitting, Aneeta runs special events, knitting parties, and group and one-on-one teaching sessions. Aneeta also runs Knitting SOS, a free service offering emergency knitting advice to (often frantic) knitters. Knitting SOS is held via a monthly drop-in clinic, telephone, text, and email. For more information, see www.knittingsos.co.uk.
visual arts September paperback u.s. $24.95 128 PAGES 7 7 /16 " x 9 11 /16 " 200 color images ISBN 978-1-4081-3132-9
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Wisden Cricketer’s AlmanacK 2012 edited by Lawrence Booth The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Wisden 2012—the 149th edition—contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Including the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and some of the finest sports writing of the year—such as the brilliant obituaries—together with trenchant opinion, compelling features, and comprehensive records, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack truly is a “must-have” for every cricket fan. This is Lawrence Booth’s first year as editor of Wisden, although he has contributed for many years. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and well-liked authorities in the modern game.
almanac u.s. $100.00 1,632 PAGES 4 1 /8 " x 6 1 /2 " June / hardcover ISBN 978-1-4081-5634-6 july / paperback ISBN 978-1-4081-5694-0
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Classic Cycle Routes of Europe The 25 greatest road cycling races and how to ride them
Werner Müller-Schell The ultimate guide to the twenty-five greatest cycling journeys across the continent. Whether you’re a seasoned randonneur or an armchair dreamer, this is the book for you. A beautifully photographed and practical guide for any keen rider on how to complete some of the most famous rides across Europe. Each route is described in detail, with altitude, distance, maps, planning and preparation all included, along with background information and great stories associated with the area. Includes stunning photography and up-to-the-minute practical advice from an author who has been there and done it.
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Sports september paperback original u.s. $25.95 192 PAGES 6 1 /8 " x 9 1 /4 " ISBN 978-1-4081-5752-7
Classic Cycle Routes of Europe includes Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-BastogneLiege, and the Giro di Lombardia, along with twenty more classics, sweeping you through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. Werner Müller-Schell is a cycling journalist and contributor to the renowned cycling magazine Procycling.
The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness Morc Coulson and Sarah Bolitho The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness is an invaluable reference manual for anyone involved in prescribing exercise programs for pregnant women. Packed with practical tips on designing activity programs, as well as how to apply the correct techniques to over forty exercises, aided by full-color photos.
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This is an up-to-date practical guide to the underpinning theory and includes comprehensive recommended reading for each chapter. Learn about the physiological changes during pregnancy and how these affect exercise programs, including contraindications to be considered when working with pregnant clients. Also covered are the required legal and insurance elements. Morc Coulson is senior lecturer and the program leader of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunderland. He is the author of a number of books for fitness professionals, including The Advanced Fitness Instructor’s Handbook (2008) and Practical Fitness Testing (2009). Sarah Bolitho is Curriculum and Business Development Coordinator, Fitness Wales. She is the coauthor of Exercise Your Way to Health: Stress (2010).
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The Arvon Book of Crime Writing Michelle Spring and Laurie R. King The Arvon Foundation runs professional writing courses by published writers and provides expert tuition and creative support. The Arvon Book of Crime Writing captures the essence of Arvon teaching into a practical handbook for writers, packed with tips and advice from leading novelists as well as reflections on the genre itself and practical instruction on great storytelling. Contributors include Lee Child, P. D. James, and Ian Rankin. The Arvon Book of Crime Writing is divided into three sections: • Part 1
Essays on critical issues in the genre
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Guest Writers—twenty-five contributors offering advice and tips
• Part 3 How to Write Crime
Laurie R. King is a third generation Californian with a background in theology, whose first crime novel (A Grave Talent) won the Edgar and Creasey awards. Her yearly novels range from police procedurals and stand-alones to a historical series about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice). Her books have won the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards, and appear regularly on the New York Times bestseller list. King mentors novelists, and teaches both creative writing and academic writing. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
writing october Paperback original u.s. $20.00 256 PAGES 5 1 /16 " x 7 3 /4 " ISBN 978-1-4081-3122-0
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Michelle Spring, a Canadian who has lived in England for much of her adult life, taught social science before becoming a full-time writer. Her six published crime novels include Every Breath You Take (short-listed as Best First Novel for both an Anthony and an Arthur Ellis Award), Nights in White Satin, In the Midnight Hour (winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel), and The Night Lawyer. She mentors novelists, and teaches both creative writing and academic writing. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Writing Sally Cline Literary non-fiction, the revelation of a factual subject using literary techniques, is a genre of writing that is much discussed, increasingly studied, and attracts much critical attention as a form that continues to be examined and redefined as the landscape of media, literature, and communications evolves. Written by tutors from the Arvon Foundation, the prestigious professional writing course, The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Writing offers new insight into the critical impact and nature of this evolving genre, adding to the ongoing debate and offering valuable instruction to authors. The book is dvided into three sections: • Part 1
Essays on critical issues in the genre
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Guest Writers
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Advice and instruction
Contributions from over twenty guest authors include: Siri Hustvedt, Philip Hoare, Barry Lopez, and William Dalrymple. Sally Cline, award winning biographer, short-fiction writer, and winner of the BBC short story contest, is the author of ten books, including ground-breaking biographies of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for LAMBDA award), Zelda Fitzgerald, and Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett. She has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in International Writing, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, former Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund, has taught at Cambridge University, and mentored for the MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, where she is Writer in Residence.
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Harbour Manoeuvres Step by Step Lars Bolle and Klaus Andrews A comprehensive handbook for this essential but tricky skill ,using the unique approach of bird’s-eye view photos to guide helmsmen through each step of close-quarters maneuvring. This is the book that will act as an instructor alongside the novice or nervous experienced helmsman every step of the way, showing exactly what to do in each situation—berthing alongside with an onshore wind; an offshore wind; with a favorable tide; a contrary tide; with both wind and tide acting together or against etc. Bird’s-eye step-by-step photos show exactly what action to take. A unique handbook, Harbour Manoeuvres Step by Step covers in great detail everything needed to master this essential skill.
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Lars Bolle edited the German yachting magazine YACHT. Klaus Andrews is a freelance photographer who specializes in maritime photography. He has been a regular contributor to YACHT for fifteen years.
The Adlard Coles Maintenance Logbook for Sail and Power Robert Dearn An invaluable working reference for boat owners, enabling them to organize their boat information in one place in order to manage the servicing and maintenance of their vessel more efficiently. Boats need regular upkeep, but keeping track of everything related to boat maintenance can be a time-consuming hassle. This logbook will prove a real boon to all boat owners who want to keep a record of the myriad elements relating to their boat in one convenient place for easy reference. The days of hunting down scraps of paper, receipts, or certificates are gone: with the Adlard Coles Maintenance Logbook, boat owners will have everything they need in an ordered fashion. With color-coded sections for quick and easy reference, the book includes pages for recording: sailing october paperback original u.s. $22.95 96 PAGES 7 7 /16 " x 9 11 /16 " color throughout ISBN 978-1-4081-7230-8
• part numbers of equipment, navigation lightbulb sizes and strengths, engine part numbers, rigging screw sizes, etc. • replacement dates for lifejacket cylinders, flares, gas plumbing pipes, water filters, etc. • the next service date for liferaft, engine, water filters, seacocks • navigation software pin numbers and passwords • gauges, strengths, thicknesses, and lengths of halyards, rigging wire, pipes, etc. For over twenty years, Robert Dearn ran Sea Chest, the largest chandlery in the West of England. A former Yachtmaster instructor and examiner, he has written several logbooks for the RYA. He is currently the harbormaster of the River Yealm, South Devon.
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Skipper vs Crew / Crew vs Skipper Tim Davison Skippers and crew have very different agenda, and nowhere does it become more evident than in their secret innermost—but not very often expressed—thoughts about the other. This brilliantly original humor giftbook has two beginnings. Opened one way, it sends up skippers (from the crew’s point of view). Flipped over and opened the other way, it sends up crew instead (from the skipper’s perspective). As with many fractious encounters between these two natural enemies, the book ends somewhere in the middle with stalemate. Bringing into play all the scenarios that cause stress, hilarity, scorn, angst, and difficulty on a boat, when both sides co-exist in close proximity, this is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of each side that the other will heartily relate to and endorse. Tim Davison has owned nineteen Lasers, several Laser 11s, and a 470—in which he managed to come in last in the Olympic trials. After that he went back to his original ambition—to be a nautical author. He did, however, win the National Championships in the Moth class four times. He was the owner and publisher of Fernhurst Books.
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Reeds Crew Handbook Bill Johnson Presented in bite-sized topics in a very accessible and undaunting fashion, and packed with color illustrations to guide crew through each task, the Reeds Crew Handbook will prove an invaluable primer for new crew before going to sea, and a handy pocket-sized aide-memoire for experienced crew when under sail. It will give them all the essential knowledge they need to undertake the tasks traditionally handled by crew aboard any size of yacht, including: • Steering (both with a tiller and with a wheel) • Raising, dropping, and reefing a sail • Boat handling (using tide, wind, etc.) • Handling lines (throwing, coiling, lassoing, etc.) • Tying up a boat on a pontoon and against a quay wall • Attaching bow and stern lines and springs • Handling an anchor • Using the radio
sailing november Paperback original u.s. $11.95 224 PAGES 5 1 /2 " x 8 1 /4 " ISBN 978-1-4081-5571-4
• Basic first aid • Essential knots A Cambridge-educated engineer, Bill Johnson swapped his career for long-distance sailing. He stopped logging miles sailed somewhere around 50,000. He has been a sailing instructor for ten years, focusing on the RYA courses from beginner to Yachtmaster level, and Bill’s strength is in explaining tricky subjects.
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