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contents bloomsbury press Furies Lauro Martines Root and Branch (pb) Rawn James. Jr. The Double V Rawn James, Jr. Intel Wars (pb) Matthew M. Aid What Matters in Jane Austen? John Mullan The Secret Life of Pronouns (pb) James W. Pennebaker Unfinished Empire John Darwin Out of the Labyrnith (pb) Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan Hope Against Hope Sarah Carr Ebony and Ivy Craig Steven Wilder The Art of the Infinite (pb) Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan Gospel of Freedom Jonathan Rieder Nothin’ but Blue Skies Edward McClelland Survival of the Beautiful (pb) David Rothenberg

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Words from the White House Paul Dickson Éminence (pb) Jean-Vincent Blanchard Last Ape Standing Chip Walter Physics on the Fringe (pb) Margaret Wertheim The Joy of Sexus Vicki León The Accidental Feminiist (pb) M. G. Lord Bill Veeck (pb) Paul Dickson The International Bank of Bob Bob Harris Everybody Matters Mary Robinson American Crisis (pb) William M. Fowler, Jr. Midlife Eating Disorders Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D. The Good Book (pb) A. C. Grayling In the Kingdom of the Sick Laurie Edwards Shadow of the Rock (pb) Thomas Godford

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A History of the Present Illness Louise Aronson 36 The Uninvited Liz Jensen 37 Ada’s Rules (pb) Alice Randall 39 Semper Fidelis Ruth Downie 40 Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (pb) Christine Sneed 41 Ignorance Michèle Roberts 42 Illegal Procedure (pb) Josh Luchs and James Dale 43 A Prince Among Stones Prince Rubert Lowenstein 44 The Golden Scales (pb) Parker Bilal 44 Dogstar Rising Parker Bilal 46 The Namesake (pb) Connor Fitzgerald 47 Respect Yourself Robert Gordon 48 Little Known Facts Christine Sneed 49

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Jack Holmes and His Friend (pb) Edmund White 51 The Searchers Glenn Frankel 52 That Deadman Dance (pb) Kim Scott 53 Al Capp Denis Kitchen and Michael Schumacher 54 The Teleportation Accident Ned Beaumann 55 This Magnificent Desolation Thomas O’Malley 56 The Infinite Tides (pb) Christian Kiefer 57 The Walking Laleh Khadivi 58 The Many Not the Few Richard North 59 Clay Melissa Harrison 60 The Power of Silence Graham Turner 61 Saul Bellow’s Heart Greg Bellows 62 Vow Wendy Plump 63 Forecast Mark Buchanan 65 One Good Egg Suzy Becker 66 Lost Cat Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton 67 The Night Rainbow Claire King 69 Constance Patrick McGrath 70 A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (pb) Suzanne Joinson 71 Mimi Lucy Ellman 73 Whatever Happened to the Metric System? John Marciano 74 This Love is Not For Cowards (pb) Robert Andrew Powell 75 Equilateral Ken Kalfus 76 How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin Leslie Woodhead 77 Our Divided Political Heart (pb) E. J. Dionne, Jr. 78 Exorcising Hitler (pb) Frederick Taylor 79 The Great Divergence (pb) Timothy Noah 80 The POwer of Music (pb) Elena Mannes 81

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JANUARY 2013

Furies War in Europe, 1450€“1700 Lauro Martines A master historian reveals the dark side of a golden agethe brutal warfare that ravaged Europe and shaped the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.

HISTORY / EUROPE Bloomsbury Press | January 2013 9781608196098 | $28.00/$29.50 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Insert Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV: Kay McCauley, Aurous, Inc. Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608196180 MARKETING

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We think of the Renaissance as a shining era of human achievementa pinnacle of artistic genius and humanist brilliance, the time of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Montaigne. Yet it was also an age of constant, harrowing warfare. Armies, not philosophers, shaped the face of Europe as modern nation-states emerged from feudal society. In Furies, one of the leading scholars of Renaissance history captures the dark reality of the period in a gripping narrative mosaic. As Lauro Martines shows us, total war was no twentieth-century innovation. These conflicts spared no civilians in their path. A Renaissance army was a mobile city—indeed, a force of 20,000 or 40,000 men was larger than many cities of the day. And it was a monster, devouring food and supplies for miles around. It menaced towns and the countryside—and itself—with famine and disease, often more lethal than combat. Fighting itself was savage, its violence increased by the use of newly invented weapons, from muskets to mortars. For centuries, notes Martines, the history of this period has favored diplomacy, high politics, and military tactics. Furies puts us on the front lines of battle, and on the streets of cities under siege, to reveal what Europes wars meant to the men and women who endured them. PRAISE

Praise for Lauro Martines "A thoroughly good read that is also reliable history, scrupulously documented yet with its pages uncluttered by footnotes. . . Lauro Martines [writes] with scholarly authority and an admirable combination of clarity and pace."—The Wall Street Journal "Fascinating. . . Martines is a master researcher and, like a collector showing off his treasures, his delight in his findings sparkles on every page."—The Philadelphia Inquirer "An intriguing book. . . Every situation and character Martines presents to us is of marvelous complexity."—The New York Review of Books Lauro Martines is one of the worlds foremost historian's of the Italian Renaissance and early modern Europe. He is the author of nine books, most recently the critically acclaimed titles Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence and April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. Born in Chicago, he was a professor of history at UCLA. He now lives in London with his wife, the novelist Julia OFaolain.

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JANUARY 2013

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Root and Branch Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Rawn James, Jr. The stirring history of the legal fight to end segregation, and the unlikely partnership of two lawyers who led the way.

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Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of court challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling Jim Crow one statute at a time. Charles Hamilton Houston laid the groundwork, reinventing the law school at Howard University (where he taught a young, brash Thurgood Marshall) and becoming special counsel to the NAACP. Later, Houston and Marshall traveled through the South, often at great personal risk, chipping away, case by case, at the legal foundations of racial oppression. The buttoned-up Houston and the easygoing Marshall made an unlikely pair—but their partnership made an unforgettable impact on American history. "[James] moves nimbly through the complex legal issues Houston and his team raised. To add a poignant touch, he interweaves Houstons and Marshall's powerful stories. And he gives their campaign a stirringly triumphal arc, the story of a whole nation being forcedby the fierce will of two learned mento overcome."—The Washington Post PRAISE

"With deft portrayals of Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall and captivating accounts of the cases they were involved in, Rawn James, Jr. brings back to our attention central figures in the nations efforts to use constitutional law to confront and overcome our history of segregation and racism."—Mark Tushnet, Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center "Very informative, serious, and easy to read."—Booklist A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr., has practiced law for a decade in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their children.

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JANUARY 2013

The Double V How Two World Wars and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military Rawn James, Jr.

The stirring story of America’s black troops and their long struggle for equality on the battlefield and at home—a "Double Victory"

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Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle. Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African Americans had used military service to do their patriotic duty and to advance the cause of civil rights. The fight for a desegregated military was truly a long war—decades of protest and labor highlighted by bravery on the fields of France, in the skies over Germany, and in the face of deep-seated racism on the military bases at home. Today, the military is one of the most truly diverse institutions in America. In The Double V, Rawn James, Jr.the son and grandson of African American veteransexpertly narrates the remarkable history of how the strugge for equality in the military helped give rise to their fight for equality in civilian society. Taking the reader from Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama, The Double V illuminates the African American military tradition as a metaphor for their unique and dynamic role in American history.

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JANUARY 2013

Intel Wars The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror Matthew M. Aid "A full-color, detailed snapshot of how the Obama administration is using intelligence to battle terrorism."—The Washington Post The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's spy establishment still struggles to keep pace with a host of determined enemies around the world. POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL FREEDOM & SECURITY Bloomsbury Press | January 2013 9781608194988 | $18.00/$19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 56 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First Serial, Audio

In Intel Wars, leading espionage historian Matthew M. Aid delivers the inside stories of our decade-long struggle against terrorism—its hard-won successes and bedeviling failures. Based on extensive, on-the-ground interviews on the front lines and in D.C., as well as revelations from Wikileaks cables and other newly declassified documents, Intel Wars is the most authoritative account yet written of the secret war that America is still fighting.

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"Richly detailed."—Kirkus Reviews

Matthew M. Aid is the author of The Secret Sentry, the definitive history of the National Security Agency, and a leading intelligence historian and expert on the NSA. He is a regular commentator on intelligence matters for the New York Times, the Financial Times, National Journal, the Associated Press, CBS News, NPR, and many others. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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JANUARY 2013

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved John Mullan An acclaimed literary scholar asks twenty seemingly trivial questions that reveal deep truths about Jane Austen and the lasting power of her novels.

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Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call one another, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen?, John Mullan shows that we can best appreciate Austen's brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. Asking and answering some very specific questions about what goes on in her novels, he reveals the inner workings of their greatness. In twenty short chapters, each of which explores a question prompted by Austens novels, Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most in her beloved fiction. Readers will discover when Austen's characters had their meals and what shops they went to; how vicars got good livings; and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen? illuminates the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and daring as a novelist. It uses telling passages from Austen's letters and details from her own life to explain episodes in her novels: readers will find out, for example, what novels she read, how much money she had to live on, and what she saw at the theater.

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"Rich in critical and literary-historical insights . . . Communicated in plain English."— The Times Literary Supplement (UK)

Written with flair and based on a lifetime's study, What Matters in Jane Austen? will allow readers to appreciate Jane Austen's work in greater depth than ever before.

"Ever insightful . . . Wholly satisfying, and a great education for book-lovers and wouldbe novelists alike."—Financial Times "A wealth of sharp mini-essays."—The Guardian (UK) John Mullan is a professor in the English department at University College London and the author of How Novels Work. He writes a popular column on fiction for the Guardian, and has served as a judge for the Man Booker Prize. Mullan lectures widely on Jane Austen around the world.

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JANUARY 2013

The Secret Life of Pronouns What Our Words Say About Us James W. Pennebaker "Penetrating . . . lively and accessible."—The New York Times Book Review In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologist and language expert James W. Pennebaker uses his groundbreaking research in computational linguistics—in essence, counting the frequency of words we use—to show that our language carries secrets about our feelings, our self-concept, and our social intelligence. Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / GRAMMAR Bloomsbury Press | January 2013 9781608194964 | $18.00/$19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 40 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W Subrights: Agent: Mullane Literary Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608194803 MARKETING

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Using innovative analytic techniques, Pennebaker X-rays everything from John McCain's tweets to the Federalist Papers. Who would have predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay is likely to make lower grades in college? Or that a world leader's use of pronouns could reliably presage whether he will lead his country into war? You'll learn what Lady Gaga and William Butler Yeats have in common, and how Ebenezer Scrooge's syntax hints at his self-deception and repressed emotion in this sprightly, surprising tour of what our words are saying—whether we mean them to or not. PRAISE

"Ingenious."—Slate "Interesting and provocative . . . An apt reminder that we express ourselves in more ways than we know."—The Wall Street Journal "Provocative . . . Eye-opening . . . The Secret Life of Pronouns is studded with museworthy examples of language's hidden power."—The Dallas Morning News James W. Pennebaker is the chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Writing to Heal and Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions, which has been translated into a dozen languages. You can analyze your own language at his website, www.secretlifeofpronouns.com.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Unfinished Empire The Global Expansion of Britain John Darwin A provocative new history of Britain's empire, and how it really came to rise and fall, from the acclaimed author of After Tamerlane. John Darwin's After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of "massive erudition" and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain’s imperium—a work that is sure to stand as the most authoritative, most compelling treatment of the subject for a generation. HISTORY / GENERAL Bloomsbury Press | February 2013 9781620400371 | $35.00 Hardback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV: The Wylie Agency Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781620400388 MARKETING

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Darwin unfurls the British Empire’s beginnings and decline and its extraordinary range of forms of rule, from settler colonies to island enclaves, from the princely states of India to ramshackle trading posts. His penetrating analysis offers a corrective to those who portray the empire as either naked exploitation or a grand "civilizing mission." Far from ever having a "master plan," the British Empire was controlled by a range of interests often at loggerheads with one another and was as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength. It shows, too, that the empire was never stable: to govern was a violent process, inevitably creating wars and rebellions. Unfinished Empire is a remarkable, nuanced history of the most complex polity the world has ever known, and a serious attempt to describe the diverse, contradictory ways—from the military to the cultural—in which empires really function. This is essential reading for any lover of sweeping history, or anyone wishing to understand how the modern world came into being. PRAISE

Praise for After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000 Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, 2008 Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by Choice magazine "Astonishingly comprehensive, arrestingly fresh and vivid."—John Gray "Elegant and brilliant . . . Wonderful and imaginative . . . A deeply significant book."— The Sunday Times (UK) "Undoubtedly a great work, a book that goes truly global in chronicling the history of one of our abiding concerns: the pull and limitations of absolute power."—St. Petersburg Times "A work of massive erudition."—The Guardian (UK) John Darwin has written extensively on the decline of Britain's empire and teaches imperial and global history at Oxford, where he is a Fellow of Nuffield College. His books include After Tamerlane, Britain and Decolonization, and The Empire Project. 10

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MARCH 2013

Out of the Labyrinth Setting Mathematics Free Robert Kaplan "In this sparkling narrative, mathematics is indeed set free."— Michael Shermer

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Who hasn't feared the math Minotaur in its labyrinth of abstractions? The subject can seem convoluted and forbidding. Yet to do mathematics is to wrestle with "accessible mysteries"—and Out of the Labyrinth shows how exhilarating the challenge can be. Robert and Ellen Kaplan are founders of the Math Circle, a pioneering learning program begun at Harvard in 1994 and now spreading around the world. In their classrooms students ages six to sixty have discovered mathematics as the highest form of intellectual play, while exploring topics that range from Roman numerals to quantum mechanics. The Kaplans reveal the secrets of their highly successful approach, leading readers out of the labyrinth and into the joyous embrace of mathematics. Stocked with puzzles, colorful anecdotes, and insights from the authors' own teaching experience, Out of the Labyrinth is both an engaging and practical guide for parents and educators, and a treasure chest of mathematical discoveries. For any reader who has felt the excitement of mathematical discovery—or tried to convey it to someone else—this volume will be a delightful and valued companion. "[The Kaplans'] literate and passionate argument for 'setting mathematics free' can do more for American education than any number of government reports."— Fernando Gouvea, Colby College PRAISE

"Out of the Labyrinth rejoices in the serious play of mathematics and explains how to think about math as a truly common pursuit . . . This beautiful book—full of fun and full of the wisdom of a lifetime of teaching—is so deftly done that by the time the Kaplans tell us that math is our other native language, we believe them utterly."—Barry Mazur, Harvard University, author of Imagining Numbers "No thinking teacher of mathematics can fail to be inspired by the tales of children creating mathematics related in Out of the Labyrinth."—Steve Kennedy, Carleton College Robert and Ellen Kaplan have taught subjects ranging from Sanskrit through mathematics to philosophy and history, and founded the Math Circle in 1994. Robert Kaplan is the author of the bestselling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, and together they wrote The Art of the Infinite. Ellen has, with their son Michael, written Chances Are and Bozo Sapiens. Their website is www.themathcircle.org.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Hope Against Hope Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children Sarah Carr A moving portrait of school reform in New Orleans through the eyes of the students and educators living it. Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynns parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. EDUCATION / GENERAL Bloomsbury Press | February 2013 9781608194902 | $27.00/$28.50 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H B&W Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV: Waxman Literary Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608195138 MARKETING

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Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use science, data, and hard work to build a model school. Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must fight each day not only to educate the citys teenagers, but to keep the Walker community safe and whole. In this powerful narrative non-fiction debut, the lives of these three characters provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-firstcentury America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world. Sarah Carr has written about education for the last twelve years, reporting on the growth in online learning in higher education, the battle over vouchers and charter schools in urban districts, and the struggle to educate Chinas massive population of migrant children. Her work has been honored with numerous national awards and fellowships, most recently a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. She lives in New Orleans.

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Ebony and Ivy Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities Craig Steven Wilder

A groundbreaking, incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America. A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's dark past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. Many of America's revered colleges and universities—from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC—were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each dependent on the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the tuition of matriculating scholars. Enslaved Americans waited on professors and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. And, as Wilder shows, not only were our leading universities financed by slavery, they were breeding grounds of the racist ideas that sustained it. Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study, the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics.

Craig Steven Wilder is professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has taught at Williams College and Dartmouth College. Wilder grew up in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood and received his PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of A Covenant with Color and In the Company of Black Men.

MARCH 2013

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MARCH 2013

The Art of the Infinite The Pleasures of Mathematics Robert Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan A classic now available in a new, expanded edition—a witty, literate, and accessible tour of the world of mathematics.

The Art of the Infinite takes infinity, in its countless guises, as a touchstone for understanding mathematical thinking. Robert and Ellen Kaplan guide us through the "Republic of Numbers," where we meet both its upstanding citizens and its more shadowy dwellers; and transport us across the plane of geometry into the unlikely realm where parallel lines meet. The journey is enriched by deft character studies of great mathematicians (and equally colorful lesser ones). And as we go deeper into infinity, we explore the most profound mystery of mathematics: Are its principles eternal truths that we discover? Or ones that we invent? "Very enjoyable reading . . . Related in a cheerful conversational tone with frequent allusions to, and quotations from, many other fields of knowledge, including literature, history, and philosophy . . . This volume should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers interested in learning more about the beauty of mathematics."—Library Journal

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"Anyone interested in a serious introduction to mathematics will delight in this volume. The Kaplans' background in languages and linguistics inclines them to a depth of literary allusion that few writers in any technical field can match."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review "A patient reader who loves thinking about thinking will be rewarded by the book's end; by the final pages, he or she will have personally experienced, via these diagrams and problems, many of the great discoveries in mathematics."—Publishers Weekly Robert and Ellen Kaplan have taught subjects ranging from Sanskrit through mathematics to philosophy and history, and founded the Math Circle in 1994. Robert Kaplan is the author of the bestselling The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero, and together they wrote Out of the Labyrinth. Ellen has, with their son Michael, written Chances Are and Bozo Sapiens. Their website is www.themathcircle.org.

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APRIL 2013

Gospel of Freedom Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation Jonathan Rieder

The full story of a landmark American document—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"—on its fiftieth anniversary.

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"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely." King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"—a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter— illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King’s surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice. PRAISE

Praise for The Word of the Lord is Upon Me "Absolutely brilliant ... Fantastic, an amazing book."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Arguably the most creative book about King to date."—The Christian Century "Eye-opening ... Rieder provides the best anatomy of King’s verbal imagination yet."— The Nation Jonathan Rieder is professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism. He has been a regular commentator on TV and radio, a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and a contributing editor for the New Republic.

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Nothin' But Blue Skies The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland Edward McClelland

A rich history of America’s Rust Belt—its riveters, rioters, and revival— that traces the culture and society of the biggest boomtown in history. The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy"—the greatest manufacturing center in the world—in the years during and after World War II, thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots, strikes, burning rivers, and oil embargoes. A vibrant, quintessentially American character bloomed in the region's cities, suburbs, and backwaters. But the innovation and industry that defined the Rust Belt also helped to hasten its demise. An air conditioner invented in Upstate New York transformed the South from a sweaty backwoods to a non-unionized industrial competitor. Japan and Germany recovered from their defeat to build fuel-efficient cars in the stagnant 1970s. The tentpole factories that paid workers so well also filled the air with soot, and poisoned waters and soil. The jobs drifted elsewhere, and many of the people soon followed suit. Nothin' but Blue Skies tells the story of how the country's industrial heartland grew, boomed, bottomed, and hopes to be reborn. Through a propulsive blend of storytelling and reportage, celebrated writer Edward McClelland delivers the rise, fall, and revival of the Rust Belt and its people.

Edward McClelland is the author of Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President, The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fisherman, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes, and Horseplayers: Life at the Track. He has contributed to the New York Times, Playboy, Slate, the Nation, and many other publications. He lives in Chicago.

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PRAISE Praise for Edward McClelland "If you want to understand the ‘Chicago-style’ politics that have shaped our president—the real thing, not the right-wing cartoon—you have to read Young Mr. Obama."—Joan Walsh, editor in chief of Salon, on Young Mr. Obama "Captures a slice of North Americana with the precision of a Walker Evans photograph and sentences worthy of John McPhee."—Neal Pollack on The Third Coast "Brilliantly captures the pace of track life."—Chicago SunTimes on Horseplayers

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APRIL 2013

Survival of the Beautiful Art, Science, and Evolution David Rothenberg "An amazing book."—Rick Bass, author of Winter: Notes from Montana

"The peacock’s tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That’s because the theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process that has more to do with aesthetics than with the practical. Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin's observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, philosopher and musician David Rothenberg probes why animals, humans included, have innate appreciation for beauty—and why nature is, indeed, beautiful. PRAISE

"Survival of the Beautiful is just about the best travel literature of the mind out there."—Roald Hoffman, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry "A searching, accessible, and often ecstatic book."—The Wall Street Journal "A fun, freewheeling discussion of the role of aesthetics in evolution and a celebration of the beauty to be found in the great diversity of life."—Kirkus Reviews

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David Rothenberg is Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of books including Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing. His articles have appeared in Parabola, The Nation, Wired, Dwell, and Sierra.

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JANUARY 2013

Words from the White House Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents Paul Dickson A unique collection of words, phrases, and slogans that have helped define American culture.

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The founding fathers (a term created by Warren G. Harding for his "front porch campaign" of 1920) felt that coining words and creating new uses for old ones was part of their role in creating a new American culture and language, distinct from the proscriptive King's English. Noah Webster called the creation of such Americanisms "acts of defiance," along with such radical ideas as universal literacy and public libraries. Ever since, American presidents have enriched our vocabulary with words, phrases, and concepts that weve put to general use. Acclaimed lexicographer Paul Dickson has compiled the first collection of new words and lexical curiosities originating on Pennsylvania Avenue. Organized chronologically, each entry contains the definition, etymology, and a brief essay placing the word or phrase in its cultural context. From Washington (tin can) and Jefferson (who alone gets credit for some one hundred coinages, including belittle and the expression holding the bag), to Lincoln (relocate) and Teddy Roosevelt (bully pulpit), to Ike (mulligan) and Obama (Snowmageddon), they collectively provide an illuminating tour of more than two centuries of our history.

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Bloviate ... lunatic fringe ... iffy ... military industrial complex ... Anglophobia ... kitchen cabinet ... public relations ... ottoman ... pedicure ... point well taken ... personal shopper ... normalcy Paul Dickson has written some dozen word books and dictionaries, including The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, A Dictionary of the Space Age, and Slang. An occasional contributor to the late William Safireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s "On Language" column in the New York Times, Dickson has coined two words of his own: "word word" (as in the question "Are we talking about an e-book or a book book?") and "demonym" (the name for a person from a specific locality, e.g., New Yorker). He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Eminence Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France Jean-Vincent Blanchard A major new biography of one of history’s most powerful and fascinating statesmen. Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through the story of his life and through Alexandre Dumas’s portrayal of him as a ruthless political mastermind in the classic The Three Musketeers. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORICAL Walker & Company | February 2013 9780802778529 | $18.00/$19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 48 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 16-pg color/b&w insert Subrights: Walker subrights: First Serial, audio Film/TV and Translation: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780802717047 MARKETING l

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Jean-Vincent Blanchard’s rich and insightful new biography brings Richelieu fully to life in all his complexity. His careful understanding of politics as spectacle speaks to contemporary readers; much of what he accomplished was promoted strategically through his great passion for theater and literature. ƒminence offers a rich portrait of a fascinating man and his era, and gives us a keener understanding of the dark art of politics. "Blanchard's captivating biography vividly captures the rise to power of a seminal figure who was instrumental in creating France as we know it."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Lovers of intrigue and derring-do will enjoy Jean-Vincent Blanchard's Eminence ... [His] lively style will appeal to general readers, while history buffs will appreciate his careful footnotes and plethora of primary sources."—The Baltimore Sun PRAISE

"Vivid ... Readers conditioned by Alexander Dumas’s The Three Musketeers to see Richelieu as an arch villain will be prompted to a rethinking by Eminence."—The Wall Street Journal "Jean-Vincent Blanchard, professor of French at Swarthmore, has written an elegant and readable new biography that reveals what a political genius Richelieu really was ... Given the richness and complexity of the source material, this is no mean accomplishment."—The Weekly Standard Jean-Vincent Blanchard is an associate professor of French literature and politics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He has published on a broad range of subjects in politics, history, religion, philosophy, and the arts. This is his first book published in English.

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JANUARY 2013

Last Ape Standing The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived Chip Walter Twenty-seven human species evolved but only one remains. How did that happen? Over the past 150 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twentyseven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. These weren't simply variations on apes, but upright-walking humans who lived side by side, competing, cooperating, sometimes even mating with our direct ancestors. Why did the line of ancient humans who eventually evolved into us survive when the others were shown the evolutionary door? HISTORY / EXPEDITIONS & DISCOVERIES Walker & Company | January 2013 9780802717566 | $26.00/$27.50 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H insert and art t/o Subrights: Film/TV: Fifi Oscard Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9780802778925 MARKETING

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Chip Walter draws on new scientific discoveries to tell the fascinating tale of how our survival was linked to our ancestors being born more prematurely than others, having uniquely long and rich childhoods, evolving a new kind of mind that made us resourceful and emotionally complex; how our highly social nature increased our odds of survival; and why we became self aware in ways that no other animal seems to be. Last Ape Standing also profiles the mysterious "others" who evolved with us—the Neanderthals of Europe, the "Hobbits" of Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia and the just-discovered Red Deer Cave people of China who died off a mere eleven thousand years ago. Last Ape Standing is evocative science writing at its best—a witty, engaging and accessible story that explores the evolutionary events that molded us into the remarkably unique creatures we are; an investigation of why we do, feel, and think the things we do as a species, and as people—good and bad, ingenious and cunning, heroic and conflicted. Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau chief, feature film screenwriter, PBS documentary filmmaker, and author-in-residence at the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Economist, Discover, Scientific American, and numerous other publications and websites. He is author of three books and his writing has been published in six languages. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Physics on the Fringe Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything Margaret Wertheim What drives a man with no science training to think he can succeed where Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking have failed?

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In 1993, Jim Carter, a trailer park owner in Enumclaw, Washington, sent out to a select group of scientists a letter announcing the publication of a book in which he proposed a complete alternative theory of physics. Gravity and matter, the periodic table, and the creation of the universe—all these Carter explained through wildly creative ideas perfected through backyard experiments using garbage cans and a disco fog machine to make giant smoke rings. For the past fifteen years, acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of Jim Carter and other mavericks and outsiders who invent alternate theories of the universe. By considering the motivations behind their doit-yourself theories and homemade experiments, Wertheim raises the question of what role an amateur can play in relationship to science. Deeply human, literally fantastical, infused with wit and humor, Physics on the Fringe challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for. PRAISE

A lovely book."—Oliver Sacks "The book is entertaining—even laugh-out-loud funny in places—but it’s equally enlightening."—The Wall Street Journal "A rare peek into this world of alternative theories, that never loses sight of Carter’s humanity—whether one accepts his theory or not."—Discovery News Margaret Wertheim is a science writer who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications, and is the author of Pythagoras' Trousers and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace. She founded the nonprofit Institute For Figuring, through which she created the "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" project, which is now the largest participatory art/science project in the world. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Visit her website: www.theiff.com

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The Joy of Sexus Lust, Love, and Longing in the Ancient World Vicki León From the author of Working IX to V, a titillating guide to all things erotic in the ancient world. HISTORY / ANCIENT Walker & Company | January 2013 9780802719973 | $17.00/$18.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 7.000 in W | 7.000 in H B&W t/o Subrights: Film/TV: InkWell Management Walker Subrights: First serial, audio MARKETING

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In her previous books, Vicki León put readers in the sandals of now obsolete laborers, ranging from funeral clowns to armpit pluckers, and untangled the twisted threads of superstition and science in antiquity. Now, in this book of astonishing true tales of love and sex in long-ago Greece, Rome, and other cultures around the Mediterranean, she opens the doors to shadowy rooms and parts the curtains of decorum. León goes far beyond what we think we know about sex in ancient times, taking readers on a randy tour of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressing, and gender-bending. She explains citizens’ fear of hermaphrodites, investigates the stinging price paid for adultery despite the ease of divorce, introduces readers to a surprising array of saucy pornographers, and even describes the eco-friendly dildos used by libidinous ancients. Love also gets its due, with true tales of the lifelong bonds between military men, history’s first cougar and her devoted relationship with Julius Caesar, and the deification of lovers. PRAISE

"Drawing on the same outrageous sense of humor that's made her Uppity Women series so popular, León demonstrates how uncannily similar the workaday experiences of the ancient world are to ours."—Publishers Weekly on Working XI to V "An endlessly fascinating book, full of things that are shocking, unsettling, and, of course, just plain weird."—Booklist on How to Mellify a Corpse Vicki León calls the central coast of California home but returns often to her Mediterranean sources. Having honed her research skills by unearthing nine hundred achievers for her Uppity Women series of books, she's delved deeply into the ancient world with Working IX to V, How to Mellify a Corpse, and, of course, The Joy of Sexus. Visit her website at www.vickileon.com.

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FEBRUARY 2013

The Accidental Feminist How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice M. G. Lord

Brilliant cultural historian M. G. Lord reveals the unexpected feminist content in Elizabeth Taylor's iconic roles.

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From her characters in National Velvet (1944) and A Place in the Sun (1951) to Giant (1956), Butterfield 8 (1960), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Elizabeth Taylor repeatedly, if not intentionally, introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas such as gender discrimination, sexuality, birth control and abortion rights, and the oppressed housewife’s anguish. The legendary actress lived her life defiantly in public—undermining postwar reactionary sex roles; helping directors thwart Hollywood’s Production Code, which restricted film content from 1934 to 1967; fund-raising for AIDS research in the 1980s; championing gay rights. Yet her powerful feminist impact has been hidden in plain sight. Drawing on unpublished letters and scripts, and on interviews with Kate Burton, Gore Vidal, Robert Forster, Austin Pendleton, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Smith, and others, The Accidental Feminist will surprise Taylor and film fans alike with its originality—and add a startling dimension to the star’s enduring mystique. "Apparently Taylor wasn't an accidental feminist—she was a natural-born one."—Newsday PRAISE

"With The Accidental Feminist, M. G. Lord makes the intriguing case that for Elizabeth Taylor, too much was never enough—not for the woman, not for the actress and not for the society that produced the theater of her life."—The New York Times Book Review "[An] intriguing thesis by the lively feminist cultural critic M. G. Lord . . . Lord writes with clarity, and her close analyses of every Taylor title from National Velvet and Cleopatra to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Little Foxes are a pleasure . . . La Liz would have loved the hubbub."—Entertainment Weekly M. G. Lord is an acclaimed cultural critic and investigative journalist, and the author of the widely praised books Forever Barbie and Astro Turf. Since 1995 she has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Times’s Arts & Leisure section. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, and the Hollywood Reporter. She lives in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 2013

Bill Veeck Baseball's Greatest Maverick Paul Dickson A definitive look at one of baseball's greatest innovators and ambassadors. A must-read."—Claire Smith, ESPN A masterful biography of one of most influential, sharp-witted, and often zany figures in baseball history, whose drive and imagination helped transform the game and the country. As owner of the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, and then the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox— twice—Veeck truly changed the face of baseball. Praise for Bill Veeck: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / SPORTS Walker & Company | April 2013 9780802778307 | $18.00/$19.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 448 pages | Carton Qty: 32 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 16-page B&W insert Subrights: Walker Subrights: First serial, audio, and translation Film/TV: Grosvenor Literary Agency Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780802717788 MARKETING

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"Bill Veeck incorporates the picaresque anecdotes and populist charm of Veeck’s memoirs into a narrative marked by Mr. Dickson’s broad knowledge and fluid authority. The result is a biography that newcomers to the Veeck legend are likely to find immensely appealing, but one that also makes him new again for those who have already savored the baseball showman’s own episodic volumes."—The Wall Street Journal PRAISE

"Paul Dickson’s excellent biography Baseball’s Greatest Maverick is among the few great biographies set in sports."—The Boston Globe "Paul Dickson, author of several superb baseball books, has done more than write the best baseball biography so far this decade. He’s also written an important piece of baseball history."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune "The proof of goodness is usually in the details, so it becomes clear right off the bat that Dickson has written an authoritative work."—Los Angeles Times "Bill Veeck comes as close to a ‘must-read’ as any baseball book in recent memory. Grade: Home run."—The Cleveland Plain Dealer Paul Dickson is the author of several classic baseball books, including The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, The Unwritten Rules of Baseball, The Hidden Language of Baseball, and The Joy of Keeping Score. He is also the author of the seminal narrative history Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and the coauthor of the acclaimed The Bonus Army: An American Epic. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.

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The International Bank of Bob Connecting Our World One $25 Loan At a Time Bob Harris

The inspiring memoir of an ordinary American who turned his brief brush with opulence into a joyful adventure of investing in the world's working poor. Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs created such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better. Bob found his way to Kiva.org, the leading portal through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as twenty-five to fifty dollars, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99 percent, so he reloaned the money to others over and over again. After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-to-day lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;political and emotionalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in parts of the world that Americans never see. Told with humor and compassion, The International Bank of Bob brings the world to our doorstep, and makes clear that each of us can actually,make it better.

Bob Harris has had a diverse career as a TV writer, stand-up comedian, TV and radio personality, and political columnist. He has appeared on Jeopardy! thirteen times, staging some of the most memorable upsets and collapses in the show's history. His first book, Prisoner of Trebekistan, chronicling his Jeopardy! experience, was widely praised, as was his second, Who Hates Whom, a pocket summary of more than thirty conflicts around the world. He holds an honors degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University. Bob lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website at www.bobharris.com.

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PRAISE Praise for Bob Harris: "A rollicking ride of intellectual discovery and emotional growth. He provokes much laughter—unlike his buzzer skills, his comic timing never fails him—and a few unexpected tears . . . it's a pleasure to tag along."—The Wall Street Journal on Prisoner of Trebekistan "A surprisingly touching memoir."—Entertainment Weekly on Prisoner of Trebekistan "Intriguingly informative . . . revelatory—and wryly funny about some very serious subjects . . . Harris’s sly wit and infectious curiosity make understanding world chaos fascinating reading . . . witty, horrific, and necessary."—The Boston Globe on Who Hates Whom

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Everybody Matters My Life Giving Voice Mary Robinson

The compelling memoir of one of the worlds most remarkable women: the first female president of Ireland and former United Nations high commissioner for human rights. One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance, Robinson reveals, in Everybody Matters, what lies behind the vision, strength, and determination that made her path to prominence as compelling as any of her achievements. Born in 1944 into a deeply Catholic family—the only girl among five childrenshe was poised to become a nun before finding her own true voice.Ever since, she has challenged convention in pursuit of fairness—whether in the Church, in government and politics, or in her own family. As an activist lawyer, she won landmark cases advancing the causes of women and marginalized people against the prejudices of the day, and in her twenty years in the Irish Senate she promoted progressive legislation, including the legalizing of contraception. She shocked the political system by winning election as Irelands first woman president in l990, redefining the role and putting Ireland firmly on the international stage. Her role as UN high commissioner for human rights, beginning in 1997, was to prove an even bigger challenge; she won acclaim for bringing attention to victims worldwide but was often frustrated both by the bureaucracy and by the willingness to compromise on principle, which reveal the deep and inherent barriers to changing the status quo. Now back in Ireland and heading her Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate Justice, she has found the independence she needs to work effectively on behalf of the millions of poor around the world most affected by climate change. Told with the same calm conviction and modest pride that has guided her life, Everybody Matters will inspire anyone who reads it with the belief that each of us can, in our own way, help to change the world for the better.

Mary Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, president of Ireland from 1990–1997, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997–2002. Robinson has been honorary president of Oxfam International since 2002, and has chaired numerous bodies, including the GAVI Alliance, vaccinating children worldwide, and the Council of Women World Leaders (of which she was a cofounder). She is a member of the Elders, an independent group of global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela. A member of the American Philosophical Society, she is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of 29

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PRAISE "Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world."— President Barack Obama, on awarding her the Presidential Medal of Freedom "She has a judge’s rectitude, a campaigner’s zeal, the warmth of an old friend—and an acute sense of how to focus the global spotlight on a cause."—Time magazine

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MARCH 2013

American Crisis George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 William M. Fowler Jr. The dramatic two years, from October 1781 to November 1783, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.

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Many believe the American Revolution ended in October 1781, after Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British army at Yorktown. In fact, the war effectively continued for two more traumatic years. During that time, the American Revolution came as close to being lost as at any time since it began. In American Crisis, the distinguished historian William M. Fowler Jr. vividly chronicles this critical, rarely documented period through the eyes of those who lived and influenced it. He skillfully reveals the internal and personal tensions that paralyzed both the British government and Congress, antagonized loyalists and patriots still reeling from the years of conflict, and roiled the army from its leadership through the ranks—culminating in George Washington’s legendary address to his officers on March 15, 1783, which may well have prevented the army from marching on Congress. Bringing original insight and fascinating perspective to the events and forces through which our independence was preserved, American Crisis fills an important gap in our understanding of the revolutionary period in America.

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"‘Huzzah!’ for William Fowler Jr. His superb American Crisis brings to life, with great clarity and understanding, one of the least-known, most important chapters in the long struggle for independence, and leaves no doubt of how much, once again, was owed to George Washington for how things turned out."—David McCullough, author of John Adams, 1776, and The Greater Journey "Vivid descriptions of personalities from all camps and a spellbinding narrative prove that in the hands of accomplished author and academic Fowler, history need not be dull. [A] superb chronicle."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) William M. Fowler Jr. is Distinguished Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. Prior to that, for eight years he was director of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is the author of Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754–1763; Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783–1815; The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock; and Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan. He lives in Reading, Massachusetts.

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MARCH 2013

Midlife Eating Disorders Your Journey to Recovery Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D. A ground-breaking book about what triggers midlife eating disorders and how to overcome them, written by the director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program.

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In most people’s minds, "eating disorder" (ED) conjures images of a thin, white, upper-middle-class teenage girl. The ED landscape has changed. Countless men and women in midlife and beyond, from all ethnic backgrounds, also struggle with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, purging disorder, and binge eating disorder. Some people have suffered since youth; others relapsed in midlife, often after a stressor such as infidelity, divorce, death of a loved one, menopause, or unemployment. Still others experience eating disorder symptoms for the first time in midlife. Primary care physicians, ob-gyns, and other practitioners may overlook these disorders in adults or, even worse, demean them for not having outgrown these adolescent problems. Treatments for adults must acknowledge and address the unique challenges faced by those middle-aged or older. Midlife Eating Disorders—a landmark book—guides adults in understanding "Why me?" and "Why now?" It shows a connection between the rise in midlife ED and certain industries that foster discontent with the natural aging process. It also gives readers renewed hope by explaining how to overcome symptoms and access resources and support. Renowned eating disorder specialist Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., helps partners and family members develop compassion for those who suffer with ED—and helps health professionals appreciate the nuances associated with detecting and treating midlife eating disorders. Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program. She has been featured or quoted in Vogue, Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is author of The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like With Who You Are and Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop. Bulik lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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APRIL 2013

The Good Book A Humanist Bible A C Grayling

An audacious book by a seminal thinker—a secular, humanist Bible drawn from the wisdom and inspiration in the world’s great literature.

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Drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both Western and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques of editing, redaction, and adaptation that produced the holy books of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions, The Good Book consciously takes its design and presentation from the Bible. In its beauty of language and its arrangement into short chapters and verses for ease of reading and quotability, it offers the non-religious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of secular humanist traditions that are older, far richer, and more various than Christianity. Organized in twelve main sections—Genesis, Histories, Wisdom, The Sages, Parables, Consolations, Lamentations, Proverbs, Songs, Epistles, Acts, and the Good—The Good Book opens with meditations on the origin and progress of the world and human life in it, then devotes attention to the question of how life should be lived, how we relate to one another, and how vicissitudes are to be faced and joys appreciated. Inspired by the writing of Herodotus and Lucretius, Confucius and Mencius, Seneca and Cicero, Montaigne, Bacon, and so many others, The Good Book fulfills its audacious purpose in every way. "I suppose some might be offended by The Good Book but they needn't be. You don't have to be a nonbeliever to find solace and wisdom in the distilled ideas presented here."—The Huffington Post PRAISE

"A marvel, a ‘distillation’ of over a thousand authoritative texts, edited, redacted, and assembled in the manner of the (Holy) Bible, though by one man rather than many; written in a crisp, beautiful English; printed and bound like the precious object it clearly wishes to become. This is high praise, which Grayling, a philosopher at the University of London and the author of histories, biographies, and books demonstrating the everyday applicability of Humanist philosophy, amply deserves."—The New Yorker A. C. Grayling is a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the acclaimed Among the Dead Cities, Descartes, Toward the Light of Liberty, Meditations for the Humanist, and Thinking of Answers. A fellow of the World Economic Forum and past chairman of the human rights organization June Fourth, he contributes frequently to the Times (London), the Financial Times, the Economist, the New Statesman, and Prospect. He lives in London.

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APRIL 2013

In the Kingdom of the Sick A Social History of Chronic Illness in America Laurie Edwards A landmark book about the growth in chronic illnesses and how science, technology, and culture are impacting the lives of people who are sick.

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Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability. There has been an alarming rise in illnesses that defy diagnosis through clinical tests or have no known cure. Millions of people, especially women, with illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome face skepticism from physicians and the public alike. And people with diseases as varied as cardiovascular disease, HIV, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes have been accused of causing their preventable illnesses through their lifestyle choices. We must balance our faith in medical technology with awareness of the limits of science, and confront our throwback beliefs that people who are sick have weaker character than those who are well. Through research and patient narratives, health writer Laurie Edwards explores patient rights, the role of social media in medical advocacy, the origins of our attitudes about chronic illness, and much more. What The Noonday Demon did for people suffering from depression, In the Kingdom of the Sick does for those who are chronically ill. Laurie Edwards has an M.F.A. and teaches health and science writing at Northeastern University. She has had several chronic illnesses since childhood. Her blog www.achronicdose.com receives several thousand monthly visitors and is linked to more than 180 medical blogs. Edwards is author of Life Disrupted: Getting Real About Chronic Illness in Your Twenties and Thirties, named one of 2008s Best Consumer Health Books by Library Journal. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.

SHADOW OF THE ROCK will be published in July of 2013.

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JANUARY 2013

A History of the Present Illness Louise Aronson Sixteen elegant and original linked stories from a potent new voice in fictionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a doctor with an MD from Harvard and an MFA in fiction.

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A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco: the elderly Chinese immigrant who must sacrifice his demented wife's well-being to his Americanized son's authority, the busy Latina physician whose eldest daughter's need for more attention has disastrous consequences, the psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved but may herself be crazy, the gay doctor who learns very different lessons about family from his life and his work, and the young veteran whose injuries become a metaphor for the rest of his life. Together, these deeply humane stories, at once honest, incisive, and compassionate, offer a portrait of health and illness in American today. Like that of Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese, Aronsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing is based on personal experience and addresses topics of current social relevance. Masterfully told, A History of the Present Illness creates a world pulsating with life, speaking truths about what makes us human. Louise Aronson has an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MD from Harvard. She has received the Sonora Review prize, the New Millennium short fiction award, and three Pushcart nominations. Her fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review and the Literary Review, among other publications. She is an associate professor of medicine at UCSF, where she cares for older patients and directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco...

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The Uninvited Liz Jensen

For fans of Neil Gaiman and Justin Cronin’s The Passage, a suspenseful literary novel by the "sharp, funky, funny, and prophetic"* novelist. *(Fay Weldon) A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Asperger’s Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioral patterns and an outsider's fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Hesketh’s Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behavior of his beloved stepson, Freddy. But when Hesketh’s Taiwan contact dies shockingly and more acts of sabotage and child violence sweep the globe, he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life, his career, and, most devastatingly of all, his role as a father. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo.

Liz Jensen is the author of seven previous novels, including Ark Baby, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award, War Crimes for the Home, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax, and, most recently, The Rapture. Her work has been published in more than twenty countries. Jensen lives in London.

JANUARY 2013

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Praise for Liz Jensen "Excellent... it’s a master class on how to write an engaging thriller about a relevant contemporary issue while still respecting the reader’s brain cells... You’ll be gripped."—The Guardian on The Rapture "Apocalyptic global climate change fuels Jensen’s terrifying near-future tale... In gorgeous prose, Jensen paints a depressing but oddly hopeful portrait of a modern doomsday scenario."—Publishers Weekly on The Rapture (starred review) "Wonderfully strange... An affecting psychological novel about transgression and the mysteries of the subconscious."— People on The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (four stars) "Equal parts Gothic tale, crime drama, and psychological suspense story, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop... An exhilarating, darkly inventive read."—Elle on The Ninth Life of Louis Dr...

FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | January 2013 9781608199921 | $24.00 Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial Film/TV, Audio, Translation: Aitken Alexander Associates Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781620401170

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DECEMBER 2012

Ada's Rules A Sexy Skinny Novel Alice Randall It is impossible not to fall in love with the plucky plus-size heroine of [Ada’s Rules]."—Publishers Weekly, starred review When Ada Howard receives an announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion, signed with a wink by an old flame, she starts taking stock of her life, her marriage, and the hundred or so pounds she’s gained since her college days, and decides it’s high time for a health and beauty revival. So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule: Don’t Keep Doing What You’ve Always Been Doing. And so begins a long journey toward a new look and a new perspective—on what Ada wants, and on what she’s always had. Bloomsbury USA | December 2012 9781608199495 | $14.00/$15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 68 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Subrights: McCormick & Williams Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198276 MARKETING

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"[A] deliciously satisfying journey."—Essence "[Randall’s] keen observations of black culture and the human condition impart a true celebration of aging, health, and beauty."—Booklist "Part romance novel, part weight-loss guide, part manifesto for living, it has the potential to launch what [Randall] calls 'a body culture revolution.'"—The Daily Beast, Women in the World "[Randall] takes on weight loss and the politics of fat with rollicking humor, compassion and a touch of sadness ... In Ada Howard, Randall has pulled off the tough trick of creating a truly relatable, deliciously complicated character."—BookPage Alice Randall is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, and Rebel Yell. Randall lives with her husband in Nashville and is currently writerin-residence at Vanderbilt University. Like Ada, she’s done battle with her weight.

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JANUARY 2013

Semper Fidelis A Novel of the Roman Empire Ruth Downie In the newest novel in the bestselling Medicus series, Gaius Petreius Ruso contends with the charismatic, long-awaited Emperor Hadrian and the distinctly unimpressed Empress Sabina. Back at his post as a doctor in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Ruso uncovers a new danger even closer to home than the neighboring barbarians. FICTION / HISTORICAL Bloomsbury USA | January 2013 9781608197095 | $25.00/$26.50 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.313 in T

As mysterious injuries, and even deaths, begin to appear in the medical ledgers, it’s clear that all is not well amongst the native recruits to Britannia’s imperial army. Is the much- decorated Centurion Geminus preying on his weaker soldiers? And could this be related to the appearance of Emperor Hadrian?

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Bound by his sense of duty and ill-advised curiosity, Ruso begins to ask questions nobody wants to hear. Meanwhile his barbarian wife, Tilla, is finding out some of the answers—and marked as a security risk by the very officers Ruso is interrogating.

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With Hadrian’s visit looming large, the fates of the legion, Tilla, and Ruso himself hang in the balance.

Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestselling Medicus, as well as Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, and Caveat Emptor. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon, England.

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JANUARY 2013

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry Stories Christine Sneed A striking debut story collection, winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.

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The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances flourish in these stories, as do self-doubt and, in most cases, serious regret. Mysterious, dangerous benefactors, dead and living artists, movie stars and college professors, plagiarists, and distinguished foreign novelists are among the many different characters. No one is blameless, but villains are difficult to single out—everyone seemingly bears responsibility for his or her desires and for the outcome of difficult choices so often made hopefully and naively. "If this story collection crackles with the energy of youth, it also feels written by a cool-eyed soul reincarnated at least three times ... By turns funny and pitiless, these tales amount to a vision. The book’s voice is unforced in its ready wit, detached compassion. There is an admirable candor. Each character’s sexuality seems the natural outcome of a life fully risked."—Allan Gurganus, contest judge and author of The Practical Heart and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All PRAISE

"It's easy to get beaten down by this job: Read a series of mediocre books and you begin to feel like you've lost that loving feeling. The best part of the gig is that a book always comes around to smack you out of your daze. Sneed's debut story collection was this year's wake-up call. Simply beautifully written stories."—Time Out Chicago (from the citation of "Best Books of the Year") "This is an exceptionally smart, connective, and moving collection."—Booklist Christine Sneed is the author of Little Known Facts. She has an MFA from Indiana University and teaches creative writing at DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Pacific University. Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry won AWP's Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was named the Chicago Writer's Association Book of the Year, received Ploughshares's first-book prize, the John C. Zacharis Award, and was named one of the 7 best...

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JANUARY 2013

Ignorance A Novel Michèle Roberts A stunning novel set in wartime France from Booker-shortlisted author Michèle Roberts. In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the color of an undelivered letter.

Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angèle Baudry grow up side by side in the Catholic village of Ste. Madeleine, but their worlds could not be more different. MarieAngèle is the grocer’s daughter, inflated with ideas of her own piety and rightful place in society. Jeanne's mother washes clothes for a living. She used to be a Jew until this became too dangerous. Jeanne does not think twice about stealing food when she is hungry, nor about grasping the slender chances life throws at her. Marie-Angèle does not grasp; she aspires to a life of comfort and influence. When war falls out of the sky, the forces that divide the two girls threaten to overwhelm those that bind them together. In this dizzying new order, the truth can be buried under a pyramid of recriminations.

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Michèle Roberts's new novel is a mesmerizing exploration of guilt, faith, desire, and judgment, bringing to life a people at war in a way that is at once lyrical and shocking. PRAISE

Praise for Michele Roberts: "The Looking Glass holds up a mirror to the dark sources of creativity at every stage of its carefully interlocked narrative . . . The gorgeous surfaces of the world, its earthy passions, lend the novel a sensual texture . . . that reflects desire, glimpsing the springs of creativity and the contours of a bygone age."—The New York Times Book Review on The Looking Glass Michèle Roberts is the author of twelve highly acclaimed novels, including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House, which won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Half English and half French, Roberts lives in London and in the Mayenne, France. She is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and was recently made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

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JANUARY 2013

Illegal Procedure A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football James Dale "The wildest ride in sports literature."—John Clayton, ESPN Featuring a new afterword by the author.

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For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs violated NCAA rules by making loans to numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to lateround draft picks. After cleaning up his act in 2003, he moved to a new agency, only to be targeted and pushed out of the business for a new violation—one he arguably did not commit. Since then he has taken on a new role: whistle-blowing, truth-telling reformer. And in telling his own confessional story, Luchs pulls back the curtain on the real economy of college football: how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship jocks. This is both an engrossing, honest memoir and a stunning and necessary read for anyone who loves the game. It’s also a first step toward fixing a broken system. PRAISE

"A cautionary confessional . . . With some distance from the sports-agent game, [Luchs] has come up with some interesting proposals to address the corruption of college football."—The Wall Street Journal "With unflinching honesty and no holds barred, Illegal Procedure would be an entertaining and enlightening read at any time. Considering the NCAA scandals of the last couple years, it's now an important one also. This is the reality college sports, not the charade presented on TV."—Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports Josh Luchs was a sports agent from 1990 to 2008, before being suspended by the NFL Players Association. He now works in commercial real estate in Encino, California. James Dale has collaborated on books with Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer and renowned sports agent/negotiator Ron Shapiro. His book with Johns Hopkins cardiologist Dan Munoz is forthcoming. He is also the author of The Obvious: All You Need to Know in Business. Period.

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JANUARY 2013

A Prince Among Stones That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures Prince Rupert Lowenstein A wry, funny, and fascinating memoir of life with the Rolling Stones, to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. "He is a great financial mind for the market. He plays that like I play guitar. As long as there's a smile on Rupert's face, I'm cool."—Keith Richards on Prince Rupert Lowenstein

MUSIC / BUSINESS ASPECTS Bloomsbury USA | January 2013 9781620400340 | $27.00/$28.50 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.500 in W | 9.250 in H 16-page color insert Subrights: Film/TV: Lowenstein Investments Limited Bloomsbury subrights: Translation, first serial, audio Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781620400357

In 1968 Mick Jagger couldn't understand why the Rolling Stones were broke. The man he asked for help was a German prince, a merchant banker. They forged an unlikely alliance which re-invented the business of rock 'n' roll. As a youthquake shook the Establishment, Prince Rupert Loewenstein thrived in both worlds, never relinquishing his elegance or decorum. For nearly forty years Prince Rupert worked with the Stones as—in his own words—"a combination of bank manager, psychiatrist, and nanny," usually enthralled with his clients but often bemused and exasperated with them, too. Coolly impartial and dryly humorous, this is a refreshingly different take on the rock 'n' roll world from within its inner sanctum. Born in Majorca in 1933, Prince Rupert Lowenstein was a stockbroker for the American firm Bache & Co. before going on to form a consortium that bought the investment bank Leopold Joseph & Sons. Five years later he met Mick Jagger and became accountant to the Rolling Stones, a position he held for the following thirty-seven years. Prince Rupert now lives in Richmond, London, with his wife Princess Josephine; they have three children.

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FEBRUARY 2013

The Golden Scales A Makana Mystery Parker Bilal

"Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo . . . its smells and sounds almost [seep] from the pages."—The Economist

Bloomsbury USA | February 2013 9781608197965 | $14.00/$15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 4.188 in W | 6.875 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury Subrights: Audio, First Serial Film/TV and Translation: AM Heath and Co. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608197941 MARKETING

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In this fresh, absorbing Egyptian mystery, Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a private detective. In need of money, he takes a case from the notoriously corrupt mogul Saad Hanafi, owner of a Cairo soccer team, whose star player, Adil Romario, has gone missing. Soon, Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted city, encountering Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters, vengeful women, and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter—a trail that leads him back into his own story, stirring up painful personal memories and bringing him face-to-face with an old enemy from his past . . . PRAISE

"The Golden Scales is one of those rare books in which the setting serves as a character itself: Cairo is portrayed as a living, breathing entity whose very existence shapes the lives of those residing within its confines."—BookPage "Bilal's portrait of a soulful, broken man dominates his series kickoff, both an accomplished genre caper and a fine example of literary fiction."—Kirkus Reviews Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. His works include In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier, and The Drift Latitudes. He currently lives in Barcelona.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Dogstar Rising A Makana Mystery Parker Bilal The second Makana mystery: a gripping crime novel set against the backdrop of a country on the edge of revolution.

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Summer, 2001. The mutilated bodies of young boys are turning up in the backstreets of Cairo, and the finger of suspicion is pointing at the city's Coptic community. As Makana, a private investigator who fled his native Sudan a decade ago, watches the embers of religious hatred begin to glow, he has a premonition that history may be about to repeat itself. But for now, Makana has another case to solve, involving a disgruntled travel agent, stolen money, and threatening letters—an assignment that appears to point to nothing more than a family feud. That is, until Makana meets Meera, a woman with a dangerous secret who asks for his help— and stumbles upon an unlikely link to the murdered boys. When the travel agent's office becomes the backdrop to a brutal killing Makana is the sole witness, and he attracts the unwanted attention of not only the state security services and the police but also a disreputable Sudanese businessman— who claims to hold the key to Makana's past. His search for answers takes him from the labyrinth of Cairo to the city of Luxor and an abandoned monastery near the tombs of the pharaohs, where he uncovers a web of intrigue, violence, and secrecy that reaches deep into Egypt's political heart... Parker Bilal is the pseudonym for Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written six critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been shortlisted and awarded a number of prizes. His works include In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier, and The Drift Latitudes, as well as the first Makana novel, The Golden Scales. He currently lives in Barcelona.

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APRIL 2013

The Namesake A Commissario Alec Blume Novel Conor Fitzgerald

"Fitzgerald provides an insightful glimpse into the machinations of Italian police work and the criminal world." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear warning to the authorities in Romea message of defiance and intimidation from a powerful crime syndicate. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781620400128 | $15.00/$16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 368 pages | Carton Qty:

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Commissario Alec Blume, interpreting the reference to his other ongoing casea frustrating one in which he's so far been unable to pin murder on a mafia boss operating at an untouchable distance in Germany knows he's too close to it. Handing control of the investigation to his partner, Caterina, Blume takes a backseat. And while Caterina embarks on questioning the Milanese widow, Blume has had an underhand idea of his own to lure the arrogant mafioso out of his hiding place ...

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[Blume] is one of those Italian coppers, like both Salvo and Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti, who is more interested in people than he is in any abstract concept of right and wrong. And Fitzgerald gives him a full cast of interesting peopleincluding several Mafioso families, portrayed with textured subtletywith whom to interact."—Booklist "Fitzgerald's feat of blending Italys storied past with a contemporary thriller is done extraordinary well ... If your readers loved Michael Dibdins Aurelio Zen series, get them started on this one."—Library Journal Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the UK, the United States, and Italy. He has produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies based in Rome, and founded a successful translation company. He is married with two children and lives in Rome. The Namesake is the third in his series of Italian crime novels.

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APRIL 2013

Respect Yourself Stax Records and the Soul Explosion Robert Gordon The story of the legendary Memphis record label, by the premier authority on the subject.

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The story of Stax reads like a Greek tragedy—with a belated happy ending. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the Civil Rights Movement. The success they garner soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his sister for an AfricanAmerican partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, like Icarus, the heights they achieve result in their tragic demise. They lose everything they've created. The sister bides her time, then quietly rises again. The sanctuary they all created—Stax Records—has since been erased from the earth, but the music has inspired countless others, and the original temple has been rebuilt as a museum. Set in the world of 1960s and '70s soul music, Respect Yourself is a characterdriven story of racial integration, and then of racial independence and black power. It's about music and musiciansIsaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, and Booker T. and the MG's, the label's interracial house band. It's about a small independent company's struggle to survive in an increasingly conglomerate-oriented world. And always at the center of the story is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling through volatile years. Told by one of our leading music chroniclers, Respect Yourself will be the book to own about one of our most treasured cultural institutions and the city that created it.

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Praise for Robert Gordon: "Mr. Gordon's sharp and comprehensive biography . . . recognize[es] Waters's failings while giving full respect to his mojo."—The New York Times on Can't Be Satisfied "A welcome addition to the canon of rock history . . . [Gordon] takes up the mantle of Guralnick, Palmer, and Marcus to capture the other Memphis . . . tapping a rich and highly personal vein of soul and fire."—The Austin Chronicle on It Came From Memphis (Best of the Year) Robert Gordon has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of It Came from Memphis, CanÕt Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, and The Elvis Treasures. He won a Grammy in 2011 for his liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His film work includes producing and directing the documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story for PBSÕs Great Performances.

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Little Known Facts A Novel Christine Sneed

From Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Christine Sneed, her exciting debut novelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;peeling back the layers of fame, family, and identity surrounding a charismatic Hollywood star. The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Fordlike staturehis girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the peripherylong to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Billy (Will to everyone but his family) are Renns grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less-important extensions of their father.They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. Most of us can imagine the perks of celebrity, but Little Known Facts offers a page-turning, perceptive story of its effectsthe fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. With Little Known Facts, Christine Sneed emerges as one of the most insightful chroniclers of our celebrity-besotted age, telling a story of influence and affluence, about forging identity and happiness and a moral compass; the question being, if we could have anything on earth, would we choose correctly?

Christine Sneed has a creative writing MFA from Indiana University and has lived in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, since 1998.She teaches creative writing at DePaul University, Northwestern University, and Pacific University. Her story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won AWP's 2009 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, first-fiction category, was named the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and has been chosen as the recipient of Ploughshares's 2011 first-book prize, the John C. Zacharis Award. It was also long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and named one of the seven best books of the year by Time Out Chicago. Sneed's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshar...

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PRAISE Praise for Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: "Sneed takes you to places you may not have been before and gives them the feel of authentic experience . . . She writes mainly about women, young and old, women with open hearts and women who are terrifically observant of their own emotions as well as the souls of others."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alan Cheuse, NPR "Ten finely delineated tales featuring protagonists entangled in less-than-ideal romantic scenarios constitute this year's winner of the Grace Paley Prize . . . Sneed writes with the care of a fine stylist and the heart of a sympathetic reader."â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Jack Holmes and His Friend A Novel Edmund White “Surprising, funny and clever.”—San Francisco Chronicle Jack Holmes and Will Wright both arrive in New York in the calm before the storm of the 1960s. Coworkers at a cultural journal, they soon become good friends. Their friendship is complicated: Jack is gay, and in love with Will. But over the two decades of their acquaintance, from the first stirrings of the gay liberation movement to the catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic, their bond will evolve—and these men will evolve—in entirely unanticipated ways. Through a tumultuous period in history, Edmund White has woven a delicate tale of friendship, sensibility, and sexuality. FICTION / LITERARY Bloomsbury USA | February 2013 9781608197255 | $15.00/$16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 36 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: ICM Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608197033 MARKETING l

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In tender prose, White does justice to the erotic potential of the story . . . An elegant study of the paradoxes and half-truths that emerge in long-standing friendships."—The New Yorker "Taken together, [Jack’s and Will’s] stories form a deep and powerful picture of love, desire, affection, rejection, and despair in a great American city about to become writhen with AIDS . . . In chapter after chapter, White proves himself to be one of the finest practitioners of angst-ridden scene-making about people in love with desire and desirous for real love."—Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered, NPR Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Hotel de Dream. His nonfiction includes City Boy and other memoirs; The Flaneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University.

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The Searchers The Making of an American Legend Glenn Frankel In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and the Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and retold over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays and, in the 1950s, to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne: "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest . . . and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" HISTORY / UNITED STATES Bloomsbury USA | February 2013 9781608191055 | $28.00/$29.50 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H B&W t/o

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Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.

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Praise for Glenn Frankel "A scrupulously researched, riveting examination of people who fought to make their country a better place."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The New York Times Book Review on Rivonia's Children "This superb, gripping piece of reportage is a pivotal account of a new Israel struggling to be born."â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Publishers Weekly on Beyond the Promised Land Glenn Frankel worked for nearly thirty years for the Washington Post, as a reporter, a foreign correspondent, and editor of the Washington Post Magazine. As Jerusalem bureau chief, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for "sensitive and balanced reporting from Israel and the Middle East." His first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel, won the National Jewish Book Award. His second, Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South...

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MARCH 2013

That Deadman Dance A Novel Kim Scott

"Never has a first contact story been so true and powerful with its happiness and heartbreak all wound up together. Perfectly written."—Linda Hogan, author of Mean Spirit

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Acclaimed Australian writer Kim Scott draws on his Aboriginal heritage in a sweeping novel that reimagines the story of colonizer and colonized with lyrical power and hopeful vision. Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy’s young life, the ships have been bringing European settlers to the south coast of Western Australia, where Bobby’s people, the Noongar, have always lived. Bobby has been quick to assist the newcomers and easy to please, helping them till the land and hunt the whales, but not everyone is so happy with the progress of the white colonists, and eventually, things begin to change. Livestock disappears, crops are destroyed, the Europeans assert their power, and Bobby is drawn into a series of events that will change his world forever. WINNER Miles Franklin Award, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for South East Asia and Pacific, Victorian Prize for Literature, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal

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"Exuberant...Meticulously researchedÉScott writes lyrically of this lush land and its initially naive inhabitants in this elucidating chronicle of early Native confrontations remarkably similar to those in the U.S."—Booklist "Piquant and lyrical...The historical interaction between these two cultures in a changing 19th-century Australia is given full play in Scott’s ambitious, elegiac storytelling."—Publishers Weekly "An extraordinary work, both realist and visionaryÉ Scott’s scope is vast and his way of telling complex... That Deadman Dance is a novel to read, recite, and reread."—Sydney Morning Herald Kim Scott was born in 1957 to a white mother and an Aboriginal father. His first novel, True Country, was published in 1993. His second, Benang: From the Heart, won the 2000 Miles Franklin Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, making Scott the first Aboriginal writer honored. (He won a second time for That Deadman Dance.) He has also published short stories and poetry. Scott currently lives in Western Australia with his wife and two children.

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Al Capp A Life to the Contrary Denis Kitchen Michael Schumacher The first major biography of Al Capp, creator of Li’l Abner—a comics legend and a deeply complicated man. More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp’s death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li’l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as "hogwash" and "double-whammy." Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS Bloomsbury USA | February 2013 9781608196234 | $30.00 Hardback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 4/c insert Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First serial, Audio Film/TV, Translation: David Black Agency Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608197866 MARKETING

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Though Li’l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg— leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a twenty-year feud that ended in Fisher’s suicide. Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country. With unprecedented access to Capp’s archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have written a probing biography. Capp’s story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure—told here with authority and heart.

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Praise for Will Eisner: "Demonstrates Schumacher’s intense passion for, and deep knowledge of, his subject ... Engaging for both the curious and the ardent fan."—Kirkus Reviews "[Schumacher] keenly chronicles Eisner’s brilliant career within a lively history of American comics."—Booklist (starred review) Praise for The Art of Harvey Kurtzman "A book worth consulting and treasuring for a lifetime."—BoingBoing.net "[Does] invaluable service to the man’s legacy ... Kitchen is an outstanding cartoonist himself and I credit him with selecting the definitive showcase of Kurtzman’s art."—All Things Considered, NPR Denis Kitchen, an underground cartoonist, founded the pioneering Kitchen Sink Press and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen, a monograph of his art career, was published in 2009. He lives in western Massachusetts. 53

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MARCH 2013

The Teleportation Accident A Novel Ned Beauman

"Funny, scandalous, decadent, and erudite, The Teleportation Accident is a hugely enjoyable madness."—Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World

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In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another—a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldn’t care less about him. Heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a crime writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at Caltech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation. Following his breathtaking debut, Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman ups the ante, creating in The Teleportation Accident a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, L.A. noir, science fiction, and satire, and proving himself a star on the rise. PRAISE

Praise for Boxer, Beetle "A premise as wonderfully outlandish as any we’ve seen in a long while... oddball and rambunctious... funny, raw and stylish."—The New York Times "Prodigiously clever and energetically entertaining."—The Guardian (UK) "An ebulliant and thrilling narrative... Irreverent, profane, and very funny... [Beauman] writes prose that, like [Michael] Chabon’s, has the power to startle."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A bizarre and funny mystery that is filled with eccentric scholarship... Those seeking something completely different will be amply rewarded."—Booklist (starred review) Ned Beauman was born in 1985 and studied philosophy at Cambridge University. He has written for the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Literary Review, AnOther magazine, Dazed & Confused, and several other magazines and newspapers. Beauman lives in New York.

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MARCH 2013

This Magnificent Desolation A Novel Thomas O'Malley From a writer of universally praised prose, comes a heartbreaking and romantic story of a boy’s unique coming of age. Duncan’s entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth. FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | March 2013 9781608192793 | $26.00/$27.50 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV, Translation: 3 Arts Entertainment Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608194704 MARKETING

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Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky. She often ends her nights in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who works as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world—and his wounds run deep, too. Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home. A heart-breaking, soaring novel, This Magnificent Desolation explores the shifting landscape of memory, the many facets of loneliness, and the redemptive power of the imagination. Praise for In the Province of Saints: "Spectacular...It’s O’Malley’s prose that will keep readers in awe. He is a remarkable new voice."—Booklist "[O’Malley’s] prose rings as beautiful and oddly shaped as anything since Dylan Thomas."—Hartford Courant PRAISE

Praise for In the Province of Saints: One of Booklist’s 10 Best First Novels, 2005 and the New York Public Library’s 25 Books to Remember, 2005 "One flawless paragraph after another...[O’Malley] makes a striking addition to what seems to be an ever-expanding collection of masterpieces about Ireland’s Troubles."— The Washington Post "Beautifully written...A familiar Irish song, but the words will break your heart."—The New York Times Book Review

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The Infinite Tides A Novel Christian Kiefer "An astute, impressive, and ambitious debut."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Keith Corcoran has spent his entire life preparing to be an astronaut. Finally aboard the International Space Station, hundreds of miles above Earth’s swirling blue surface, he receives word that tragedy has befallen his family and that, in its wake, his wife has left him. Returning to earth, to his now empty suburban home, Keith is alone with the memories and feelings he can barely acknowledge. FICTION / LITERARY Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608198627 | $15.00/$16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 36 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

His experiences in space quickly dwindle to a distant memory. What remains are cul-de-sacs, big box stores, enormous parking lots. And yet out of this landscape come reconnection, friendship, and, finally, a sense of how to live under the weight of gravity.

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"Smart, lyrical, deeply moving."—T.C. Boyle

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This novel will break your heart and take your breath away."—Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road "A subtle and moving novel, a reentry and recovery story that eloquently inhabits the terrain of grief and endurance."—Antonya Nelson, author of Bound "A breathtakingly beautiful and honest rendering of one man’s massive life crisis. Part Space Oddity, part Revolutionary Road, this is a magnificently original novel."— Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead "The Infinite Tides is the most emotionally and syntactically sophisticated debut I have seen, possibly ever."—Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted Christian Kiefer earned his Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. He is also an accomplished poet, songwriter, and recording artist. He lives in the hill country northeast of Sacramento with his wife and five sons.

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The Walking A Novel Laleh Khadivi

Set during the Iranian Revolution, a story of exodus and of finding a new home a world away, in the dreamland of Los Angeles.

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Two brothers from a small Iranian mountain villageSaladin, who has always dreamed of leaving, and Ali, who has never given it a thoughtare forced to flee for their lives in the aftermath of a political killing. The journey is beset by trouble from the start, but over the treacherous mountains they go, on foot to Istanbul and onward by freighter to the Azores. There, after a painful parting, Saladin alone continues on the final leg, on a cargo plane all the way to Los Angeles. He will have a new life in California, but will never be whole again without his beloved brother and the living heritage that has always defined him. The Walking is the second novel in a trilogy about Laleh Khadivis homeland of Iran, a country poised between the ancient and the modern and tossed by political winds that have buffeted the entire globe. Here, Khadivi tells the story of exodus from homeland, an experience that hundreds of thousands of Iranians underwent, and that millions of others, from different places around the world, have also lived through. In the story of two brothers, Khadivi brilliantly explores the tension alive in all immigrants, between the love and attachment to the place they must leave and the hopes and dreams that lie in the places they are headed. PRAISE

Praise for The Age of Orphans: "Introduces a writer with a strong, unflinching voice and a penetrating vision."— Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Has a lyrical style reminiscent of The English Patient author Michael Ondaatje as she strings images of a bustling Tehran or the stillness of the Zagros Mountains. The Age of Orphans evocatively captures the desperate longing for home, family and a life erased. It's an affecting tale."—The Plain Dealer "A remarkable first novel ... Highly recommended."—Library Journal (starred review) Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, first to Belgium and then to Puerto Rico, finally settling in Canada and the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. She now lives in San Francisco.

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MARCH 2013

The Many Not The Few The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain Richard North The definitive and objectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but controversialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;history of the Battle of Britain. Immortalized in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "was so much owed by so few," the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend: Britain was saved from German invasion by the gallant band of Fighter Command Pilots in their Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the public owed them their freedom. HISTORY / MILITARY Bloomsbury USA | March 2013 9781620401002 | $28.00/$29.50 Can. Hardback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H 8-page b&w insert section

Richard North's radical re-evaluation of the Battle of Britain dismantles this mythical retelling of events. Taking a wider perspective than the much-discussed air war, North takes a fresh look at the conflict as a whole to show that the civilian experience, far from being separate and distinct, was integral to the Battle. This recovery of the people's stolen history demonstrates that Hitler's aim was not the military conquest of England, and that his unattained target was the hearts and minds of British people. Richard North is one of Britain's expert defense analysts, through his Defence of the Realm blog. Formerly a research director in the European Parliament, North is also a political analyst; his EU Referendum blog examines Britain's place in the world with particular reference to its membership in the European Union. He has co-authored four bestselling books with the Sunday Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker, including The Great Deception. He is the author of Ministry of Defeat.

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MARCH 2013

Clay A Novel Melissa Harrison An intimate and captivating portrait of four people struggling with the concrete confines of city life.

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The city is a strange place for Jozef. After living in a Polish village for much of his life, he is struggling to adjust to the tall, grey landscape of apartment living, and his job in a local deli serving french fries and fried chicken to brash, self-assured children makes him feel even more disconnected from the surrounding population. It is only when he encounters TC, a troubled boy running away from school, that Jozef finds a kindred spirit with whom he can share his fascination with the natural world. The two are noticed in a small litter-strewn park by a friendly local, the elderly and recently widowed Sophia, who has been attempting to spark an interest in nature in her granddaughter, Daisy. While Sophia sends Daisy letters each week about the growth of the flowers in the park, Jozef attempts to extract, over games of chess, the details of TC's troubled home lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;left broken by the departure of the boy's father. Like leaves twisting in the wind, the lives of these four figures are blown together, defying the gravity affecting the world around them. That is, until the pressures of modern life intervene. Melissa Harrison was born in Great Britain in 1975, and is the youngest child in a family of six. She studied English at Oxford and graduated with first class honors in 1996. She has worked as a book and magazine editor and currently writes for Time Out, Stuff, and The Guardian. Melissa lives in South London with her husband, Anthony, and rescue dog, Scout. She writes about her local environment on her website, Tales of the City: http://www.talesofthecity.co.uk.

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MARCH 2013

The Power of Silence The Riches That Lie Within Graham Turner In the modern world, we are assaulted on all sides by noise, but silence can change your life—this book explains why and how. Many people find the very notion of silence uncomfortable, even alarming or embarrassing. They are gripped by a kind of agoraphobia of the spirit. Many try to obliterate silence by turning up the volume control of music or television, or the volume of their days.

The Power of Silence explores the world of silence—a mysterious and unfathomable realm, perhaps the most underused of all resources--and those who recognize its value. It is based on extensive interviews with those whose business is silence and who understand its creative and therapeutic uses. Graham Turner explores how the desert fathers sought silence and solitude. Psychotherapists talk of the creative value of silence in their practice as do— perhaps surprisingly—musical composers. The great Catholic centers of contemplation are investigated, as are the practitioners of Zen and those who try to heal the sickness of the mind. A silent moment is time for tranquility and reflection—something beyond ourselves. The value of welcoming quiet has become a great gap in modern human awareness, and this book seeks to restore our belief in the power of silence. After gaining a first class degree at Oxford, Graham Turner worked for The Scotsman and The Sunday Times. He then became nationally recognised as the BBC's first Economics Correspondent. Thereafter he worked for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph writing substantial features which had considerable national influence. He currently lives in Oxford.

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APRIL 2013

Saul Bellow's Heart A Son's Memoir Greg Bellow A revealing portrait of a literary icon who hid behind stories and partial truths, never letting the public see his true self. In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers, his father, the Nobel Prize–winning author Saul Bellow, Greg Bellow offers a view no one else has of a man known to be quick to anger, prone to argument, but palpably vulnerable to criticism. Yet there was always a bond of tender emotion between Saul Bellow and Greg, his firstborn. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608199952 | $26.00/$27.50 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 36 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 2 8p B&W inserts Subrights: Film/TV: InkWell Management Bloomsbury Subrights: First Serial, Audio Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608199976

In Saul Bellow’s Heart, Greg Bellow gives voice to a side of Saul unknown to most others, the "Young Saul"—emotionally accessible, often soft, with a set of egalitarian social values and the ability to laugh at the world’s folly and at himself. Saul’s accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his social views hardened. This is the "Old Saul" most known to the world, and these changes taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son, now an adult, so sorely that Greg often worried whether it would survive. But theirs were differences of mind, not of the heart. Interweaving memories, personal stories, and autobiographical references in Saul’s books that only he could recognize, Greg Bellow reveals himself to be a fine prose stylist, never shying away from the truth about his father’s frame of mind. In Saul Bellow’s Heart, he has written a memoir that gives equal weight to the rebellious, irreverent, and ambitious young writer who raised him, and the older literary giant, famous but still fiercely private.

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Gregory Bellow, PhD, was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the Core Faculty of the Sanville Institute. He lives in Redwood City, California.

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Vow A Memoir of Marriage and Infidelity Wendy Plump

A nuanced memoir of marriage and long-term commitment as experienced through one couple's infidelities. Monogamy is one of the most important vows we make in our marriages. Yet it is a rare spouse who does not face some level of temptation through the allure of other people. Sometimes the issues are resolved before anyone is hurt. But sometimes, as with Wendy Plump's marriage, the fallout is confronted head-onâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when not one but both spouses cheat. In early 2005, Wendy Plump found out about her husband's second family. They lived just a mile from the home she shared with her sons in the farmlands of Pennsylvania. But the discovery followed betrayals of her own, earlier in the marriage. Most discussions of infidelity focus on one side and therefore provide a skewed perspective. In this unique, 360-degree look, Plump delivers a searing, confessional story about the challenges of marriage that reads like a conversation between old friends. From the view of both betrayer and betrayed, Plump looks at the ordeal of finding out, the recovery, the ebb and flow of passion, the daily play of personality that can lead to fulfillment or disillusionment, family and friends and therapists, illicit attraction, the lovers, the lies, the alibis, even the undeniable pleasures affairs gave her as a younger woman. As she explores the wreckage of her own marriage, Plump offers a beautifully told narrative of hope, recovery, and wonder for the pull of couplehood that reawakens a belief in the value of fidelity and commitment.

Wendy Plump has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for over twenty years. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, New Jersey Monthly Magazine and has won, through the Times of Trenton, several New Jersey Press Association Awards. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her sons.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608198238 | $25.00/$26.50 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV, Translation: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781620400715

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MARCH 2013

Forecast What Extreme Weather Can Teach Us About Economics Mark Buchanan A groundbreaking book that uses physics to show how instability is inherent in economic markets, just as storms are a part of weather. Picture an early scene from The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy hurries home as a tornado gathers in what was once a clear Kansas sky. Hurriedly, she seeks shelter in the storm cellar under the house, but, finding it locked, takes cover in her bedroom. As she soon discovers, it doesn’t offer much protection. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | March 2013 9781608198511 | $24.00/$25.00 Can. Hardback | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H

Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions—storms—seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react. Why are we so often blindsided by these things, left outdoors with nothing but our little dogs? More to the point: how did Kansas go from blue skies to tornadoes in such a short time?

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In this deeply researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets—that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions—are simply wrong. Markets really act more like the weather: A brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or even hours. Mark Buchanan is a physicist and science writer. He is the author of three previous books, Ubiquity, Nexus, and The Social Atom, and has been an editor of the science journal Nature as well as New Scientist. His articles have appeared in Science, Wired, the New York Times, the Independent, and the Harvard Business Review. He currently writes monthly columns for the financial media outlet Bloomberg View, as well as for Nature Physics. He lives in Dorset, England, with his wife and two dogs.

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APRIL 2013

One Good Egg An Illustrated Memoir Suzy Becker From 2-million-copy bestselling author Suzy Beckera humorous, poignant, delightfully illustrated memoir about finally making the Baby Decision. For the first twenty-three years of her life, Suzy Becker was sure she would have at least two babies. Then it took another fifteen years to decide to go ahead and have just one. One Good Egg is the funny, warmhearted story of her journey to fertility and becoming a mom, illustrated throughout with hundreds of her clever and charming cartoons. HUMOR / TOPIC Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608192762 | $25.00/$26.50 Can. Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 40 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W throughout Subrights: Film/TV: Edite Kroll Literary Agency Bloomsbury subrights: Audio, First Serial Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608193264 MARKETING

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Suzy Becker found professional success in her twenties, and by her thirties, she decided she had everything she needed—the home, the savings, the friends, the family, and the gumption—to have a baby alone. At age thirty-nine, she joined the ranks of the 6 million women who need medical help to conceive. In One Good Egg, she chronicles her travels through the maze of fertility treatments, constantly considering and reconsidering how far she was willing to go, inwardly convinced none of it would ever work. She learned she was pregnant on her way to tape an essay for NPR, and five months later married her true love. You cannot adequately prepare for certain realities, like giving birth or parenthood, but with One Good Egg, Suzy Becker provides the perfect companion for her readers’ own journey to motherhood and beyond. PRAISE

Praise for Suzy Becker’s I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse? "A unique tragicomedy of a memoir."—Entertainment Weekly (ÒA,Ó Editor’s Choice) "A wonderful book, funny and touching, harrowing and sweet."—Anne Lamott "[A story of] tenacity, renewal, and the process of learning, for the second time in one’s life, to laugh."—O, The Oprah Magazine Suzy Becker began her career as an award-winning advertising copywriter, and then founded the Widget Factory, a greeting card company. She is the author of the international bestseller, All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?, and several books for children. She lives with her family, two dogs, and a formerly feral cat in central Massachusetts. Visit her website at www.suzybecker.com.

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Lost Cat A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology Caroline Paul

What do our pets do when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not with us? Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton offer a tender, hilarious illustrated look at how they used everything from cutting-edge technology to ... Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn't get worse. But then her beloved cat, Tibia, disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, mourned his loss. Yet weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into their lives. His owners were overjoyed. But they were also...jealous. Their shy, anxious cat had suddenly become a swashbuckling adventurer. Where had he gone? And, more importantly, did he love someone else more? Caroline and Wendy were determined to find out. Using GPS technology, cat cameras, psychics, pet detectives, and animal communicators, the authors of Lost Cat embarked on a quest to discover what their cat did when they weren't around. Told through writer Caroline Paul's rich and warmly poignant narrative and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton's playful and astute four-color illustrations, Lost Cat is a book for animal lovers, pet owners, and anyone who has ever done anything desperate for love.

Caroline Paul (www.carolinepaul.com/) is the author of East Wind, Rain (HarperCollins, 2006) and Fighting Fire (St. Martin's, 1999). Wendy MacNaughton (wendymacnaughton.com/) is the creator of the acclaimed Rumpus illustrated column Meanwhile, and her work has appeared widely from Time Out New York to 7x7 and GOOD magazines to Gizmodo and the New York Times.

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PRAISE Praise for Caroline Paul: “A compelling behind-the-scenes story . . . immediate and real.”—San Francisco Chronicle on Fighting Fire “A rare glimpse through female eyes into the testosteroneladen world of the firehouse . . . Fighting Fire offers perhaps the most compelling explanation yet as to why some people actually enjoy the window-shattering, blood-boiling, bonemelting heat of a roaring blaze.”—Entertainment Weekly on Fighting Fire “Paul's graceful, objective tone may be the book's greatest strength . . .When it's over, we don't want to leave.”—The New York Times Book Review on East Wind, Rain

PETS / CATS Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608199778 | $20.00/$21.00 Can. Hardback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: 36 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 4-color throughout Subrights: Film/TV: Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency Bloomsbury Subrights: First serial, audio Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608199815

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APRIL 2013

The Night Rainbow A Novel Claire King A powerful debut about grief and salvation, told from the perspective of one little girl with a valiant imagination.

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It is summer in the south of France, and Pea and her little sister Margot spend their days running free, inventing games in the meadow behind their house. But Pea has worries beyond her five and a half years. Her father has died in an accident, and her mother has just lost a baby. Maman is English, already isolated in this small, foreign village, and in her compounded grief, she has retreated even further. Pea and Margot stay out of her way and try to make things better, but they can’t make Maman happy again. When Pea befriends Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does, she wonders if he could be a new papa. But why do the other villagers view Claude with suspicion, and what secrets does his large empty house hold? Beautifully written, haunting, and full of surprises, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion, and the blessings and perils of imagination. Claire King was born in England, educated at Cambridge, and is the fiction editor for The View from Here magazine. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the BBC’s Opening Lines program and the Bristol Short Story Prize. She lives in the south of France with her husband and two children. This is her first novel.

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APRIL 2013

Constance A Novel Patrick McGrath

From the author of Asylum, a new novel of psychological suspense, the story of a marriage haunted by trauma and descending into crisis.

FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608199433 | $24.00/$25.00 Can. Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 32 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Second Serial First Serial, Audio, Film/TV: ICM Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781620400579 MARKETING

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The cool, beautiful Constance Schuylerlives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party,she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance withrelentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, bookfilled apartment. She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Frightened, desperate, and alone,Constance makes a disastrous decision andthen looks on asher world rapidly fallsapart. Her only consolation, as the cityswelters in an interminable heat wave, is the friendship of Sidney's son, Howard,a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself. The story of a marriage in crisis and a family haunted by trauma, Constance is also atale of resilience and loyalty, and of the moral inspirationthat can lead even the most lost of soulsback to the light. PRAISE

"Taut, tension-filled . . . A chilling story that works as both a Freudian parable and an old-fashioned gothic shocker."—The New York Times on Asylum "Patrick McGrath can write a love story like no other man alivedark, a little twisted, very passionate . . . loaded with exact and unexpected sensuous detail."—Peter Carey on Port Mungo "Beautifully crafted and paced, Trauma [is] either a superb psychological thriller or a masterly evocation of modern alienation and despair . . . A terrific literary entertainment, one that will keep you on edge."—The Washington Post on Trauma Patrick McGrath is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Asylum, Martha Peake, Port Mungo, Trauma, and Spider. Three of his novels have been adapted into films, including David Cronenberg's Spider (2002), for which McGrath wrote the screenplay. Born in London, McGrath lives in New York.

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A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar A Novel Suzanne Joinson

"Thrilling . . . This is an impressive debut, its prose as lucid and deep as a mountain lake."—The New York Times Book Review In 1923, missionaries Eva English and her sister, Lizzie, travel to the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, but Eva, with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, is ready for adventure. In present-day London, a young woman finds a man sleeping outside her front door. The next morning, the bedding she lent him is neatly folded and there is an exquisite drawing on her wall. Tayeb, in flight from his Yemeni homeland, befriends Frieda, and, when she learns she has inherited the contents of an apartment belonging to a dead woman she has never heard of, they embark on an unexpected journey together. A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar interweaves the unforgettable stories of Frieda and Eva—and the ways in which they challenge and negotiate the restrictions of their societies as they make their hard-won way towards home—and explores the fault lines that appear when traditions from different parts of an increasingly globalized world crash into each one another.

Suzanne Joinson works in the literature department of the British Council, specializing in the Middle East, North Africa, and China, and is the Arts Council funded writer-in-residence at Shoreham Airport in the UK. Her personal blog is http://delicatelittlebirds.wordpress.com/, she tweets at @suzyjoinson, and her Web site is at www.suzannejoinson.com.

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PRAISE Praise for A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar "Beautifully written in language too taut, piercing, and smartly observed to be called lyrical, this atmospheric first novel immediately engages, nicely reminding us that odd twists of fate sometimes aren’t that odd. Highly recommended."— Library Journal (starred review) "Present and past meld into an exploration of conflicting traditions in an impressive debut . . . An intriguing window into the difficulties of those who attempt to reach across cultural barriers."—Publishers Weekly, boxed review "What does a woman in 21st-century London have to do with missionaries in 1920s China? Find out as this charming novel toggles between past and present."—O, The Oprah Magazine, "10 Titles to Pick Up Now"

FICTION / LITERARY Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608198337 | $16.00/$17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Film/TV: The Sayle Literary Agency Bloomsbury subrights: Audio, Translation Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198115

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FEBRUARY 2013

Mimi Lucy Ellmann A whirlwind Manhattan romance like you've never read before. It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi. Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then it's back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn. FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | February 2013 9781620400203 | $15.00/$16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 56 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, translation Film/TV, Audio: David Godwin Associates MARKETING

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Sparkling, polemical, irreverent, slippery, and sexy, Mimi is a love story, a call to arms, and Lucy Ellmann's most tender and dazzling book. It's also the feminist novel of the century. (So far.) PRAISE

Praise for Lucy Ellmann: "[A] batty and highly amusing screed of a novel ... At its best Dot in the Universe reads like [Larry] David, Tracey Ullman and Will Self channeling Jonathan Swift; by turns scathing, self-pitying and operatic, the novel manages to be manic, nutty and Rabelaisian all at the same time... [A] thoroughly unstoppable voice."—The New York Times on Dot in the Universe "[A] filthy, hilarious, and absolutely furious little novel ... The mad plot—affair, betrayal, murder—is just a vehicle for Ellmann's stunning riffs on everything from the language of handbags to drainage."—Entertainment Weekly on Doctors & Nurses Lucy Ellmann was born in Evanston, Illinois, and now lives in Scotland. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the 1988 Guardian Fiction Prize. She has also written Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango?, Dot in the Universe, and Doctors & Nurses.

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APRIL 2013

Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Became the Last Country on Earth to Keep its Feet John Marciano With echoes of Dava Sobel's storytelling and Bill Bryson's erudite charm, a one-of-a-kind history of how we measure the world.

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The American standard system of measure is odd, unintuitive, and seemingly inconsistent: How did we arrive at twelve inches to a foot, three feet to a yard, let alone 1,760 yards to a mile? And why havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we ever gone back to streamline it? The rest of the world is on the metric system, and America's flirtation with it goes back to the founding days of the republic. When Gerald Ford signed the Metric Bill, America finally prepared to give up its feet and pounds. So what happened? The history of why America never went metric gets to the root question of our place in the world: both how we measure it and who we are within it. This story is about far more than marks on a ruler: it encompasses the aftermath of wars (Napoleonic, Civil, and World), revolutions (American, French, Industrial), and the meaning (cultural, economic, social) of how we choose to divide up the world. Read this book and you'll never again read the Frost line "miles to go before I sleep," or eat a footlong sub, without wondering: Whatever happened to the metric system? John Bemelmans Marciano is the author and illustrator of many books, including the distinctive reference books Anonyponymous and Toponymity, as well as the children's books Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Harold's Tail. A word and math geek, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter, and two cats.

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APRIL 2013

This Love Is Not For Cowards Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez Robert Andrew Powell

"Wonderful, and sad…less about sports than the things sports are about: hope, belief, loyalty, resiliency, determination."— NPR.org

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Robert Andrew Powell’s brave and observant portrait of Juarez, Mexico—one of the world’s most violent cities—is in part a search for deliverance. Nothing reveals the spirit of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city’s beloved but hardluck soccer club. This team has been a lifeline to some of Powell’s enduring characters, like charismatic American midfielder Marco Vidal, team owner Francisco Ibarra, Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, and of course the dubiously named crew of Indios fans, El Kartel. Powell chronicles the Indios’ final season in the Mexican major league — and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. As he travels across Mexico with the team, Powell reflects on this struggling nation and its watchful neighbor to the north. This story is not just about sports, or even community, but about the strength of humanity in a place where chaos reigns. Robert Andrew Powell is the author of We Own This Game. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Play, Slate, Mother Jones, Inc., 5280, Sports Illustrated, Runner’s World, the Kansas City Star; on This American Life; and in The Best American Sports Writing. He also produced a documentary, Year of the Bull, which first aired on Showtime. He has won a James Beard Award for his food writing and twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award. He lives in Miami.

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Equilateral A Novel Ken Kalfus

From National Book Award finalist Kalfus, an elegant, irreverant novel about the centuries-old quest for interplanetary communication.

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Equilateral is a concise book motivated by an expansive, timely idea: contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. It's the late nineteenth century, and British astronomer Sanford Thayer has won international funding for his scheme to excavate an equilateral triangle, three hundred miles to a side, from the remote wastes of Egypt's Western Desert. Nine hundred thousand Arab fellahin have been put to work on the project, even though they can't understand Thayer's obsessive purpose. They don't believe him when he says his perfect triangle will be visible to the highly evolved beings who inhabit the planet Mars, signaling to them the existence of civilization on Earth. Political and religious dissent rumble through the camps. There's also a triangle of another sort—a romantic one involving a secretary who looks after Thayer but doesn't suffer fools, and a mysterious servant girl he covets despite not sharing a common language. In the windblasted, lonely, fever-dream outpost known only as Point A, we plumb the depths of self-delusion and folly that comprise Thayer's characteristically human enterprise. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white astronomical diagrams, Equilateral is an intellectual comedy that's extravagant in its conception and intimately focused on the implications of Empire, colonization, exploration, the Other, and who that Other might someday be. PRAISE

"Brilliant...It's an engaging and provocative enterprise, a novel that challenges accepted pieties and dislodges expectations."—The New York Times Book Review on A Disorder Peculiar to the Country "Singularly imaginative...[An] exceptionally smart, provocative novel."—Washington Post on A Disorder Peculiar to the Country "Kalfus is doing what most gifted historical novelists do: picking one of the moments when the star of modernity first appeared in the sky, then staring at it until its very gravity seems to increase, drawing into its orbit any stray comets in the vicinity."—San Francisco Chronicle on The Commissariat of Enlightenment Ken Kalfus is the author of two novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and named one of the "books of the decade" by the Associated Press. He's also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. 75

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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution Leslie Woodhead The improbable, irresistible story of how the music of the Beatles helped bring down the Soviet Union—plus eight neverbefore-seen photos of the Beatles from 1963.

MUSIC / GENRES & STYLES Bloomsbury USA | April 2013 9781608196142 | $26.00/$27.50 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H B&W insert; art t/o? Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, Audio Film/TV: Rogers, Coleridge & White, Ltd. Other Available Formats: Trade_Paperback ISBN: 9781608196203 MARKETING

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Imagine a world where the music of the Beatles was against the law—a world of bootleg recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors smuggling contraband LPs, students kicked out of school for listening to the Fab Four, records seized by police, illegal broadcasts secretly taped from western radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but rather the USSR, where a vast nation of Beatles fans risked repression to hunt down the music that would change their lives. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a vital part in transforming an entire generation of Soviet youth, seducing them to abandon seventy years of bland official culture and liberating them to challenge decades of rigid authoritarianism. Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the jazz age, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired in the USSR— where kids made guitars from kitchen tables to play—battered down the walls of state culture and prepared millions of fans for a new world. Leslie Woodhead’s How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin tells the unforgettable, wild, and unmistakably Russian story of Soviet kids who discovered that all you need is Beatles. By stealth, by way of whispers, through secret bootleg tapes or illicit late night broadcasts, the kids tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. PRAISE

Praise for Leslie Woodhead: "With his recent memories of the Kafkaesque world of the cold war frontline, Leslie Woodhead could hardly keep a straight face, and neither will you after reading this delightfully irreverent memoir ... [Woodhead] exudes a wonderful sense of nostalgia for a world of lost innocence."—The Sunday Times (London) on My Life as a Spy Leslie Woodhead is one of Britain's most distinguished documentary filmmakers and made the first-ever film with the Beatles, in 1962. His films have won many international awards, including recognition by the Emmys and Peabodys in America and by BAFTA and the Royal Television Society in the UK. He is the author of two books, My Life as a Spy and A Box Full of Spirits. He lives in Cheshire, England.

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Our Divided Political Heart The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent E.J. Dionne "Tea Partiers and Occupiers alike may be surprised and enlightened by this lucid analysis, all the more convincing for its sympathetic treatment of both sides."—Publishers Weekly

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Who are we as a nation? And what is it that's tearing us apart? In Our Divided Political Heart, E. J. Dionne Jr., one of our most respected political commentators, argues that Americans can't agree on who we are because we can't agree on who we've been. The American tradition, Dionne says, points not to radical self-reliance and self-interest, but to a balance between our love of individual freedom and our devotion to community.With a deep understanding of our nation's past, Dionne crafts an incisive analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning our current political atmosphere. He shares the Tea Party's engagement with the American past, but takes on its distortions of our history while rooting the Occupy Wall Street movement in America's civic and Populist traditions. Dionne offers both a fascinating tour of American history-from the Founding Fathers to Clay and Lincoln, on to Populism, the Progressives, and the New Dealers—and an interpretation of our moment's politics that shatters conventional wisdom. He reclaims the American idea of the federal government as an active and constructive partner with the rest of society in promoting prosperity, opportunity, and American greatness. And he challenges progressives to embrace their country's story—to redefine progress and to put an end to our fears of decline. Our Divided Political Heart is indispensable for all who seek a path out of America's current impasse. PRAISE

This is a brilliant book about America's current political divide."—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin "A thrilling book, from one of America's most universally respected minds. You should buy it."—Rachel Maddow "Through all the twists and turns of American history, E. J. Dionne Jr. brings his story straight to the point. It delivers a sharp shock of recognition."—Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas? E. J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, and University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown. He appears regularly on NPR, MSNBC, and NBC's Meet the Press. His numerous books include the bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee. Dionne lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with wife, Mary Boyle, and their three children.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Exorcising Hitler The Occupation and Denazification of Germany Frederick Taylor The first major account of the birth of democracy in the ruins of Hitler's Germany, from "one of the brightest historians writing today" (Newsweek).

The collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 was an event nearly unprecedented in history. Only the fall of the Roman Empire fifteen hundred years earlier compares to the destruction visited on Germany. The country's cities lay in ruins, its economic base devastated. The German people stood at the brink of starvation, millions of them still in POW camps. This was the starting point as the Allies set out to build a humane, democratic nation on the ruins of the vanquished Nazi stateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;arguably the most monstrous regime the world has ever seen. In Exorcising Hitler, master historian Frederick Taylor tells the story of Germany's Year Zero and what came next. He describes the bitter endgame of war, the murderous Nazi resistance, the vast displacement of people in Central and Eastern Europe, and the nascent cold war struggle between Soviet and Western occupiers. The occupation was a tale of rivalries, cynical realpolitik, and blunders, but also of heroism, ingenuity, and determinationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not least that of the German people, who shook off the nightmare of Nazism and rebuilt their battered country. Weaving together accounts of occupiers and Germans, high and low alike Exorcising Hitler is a tour de force of both scholarship and storytelling, the first comprehensive account of this critical episode in modern history. Frederick Taylor studied history and modern languages at Oxford and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries,and is the author of the bestsellers Dresden and The Berlin Wall.

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The Great Divergence America's Growing Income Inequality Timothy Noah A dynamic, brilliant exploration of income inequality in America, and the dangers it poses to our democracy, based on Timothy Noah's award-winning articles from Slate. For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of Americans collect almost 20% of the nation's income—more than double their share in 1973. We have less equality of income than Venezuela, Kenya, or Yemen. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / GENERAL Bloomsbury Press | January 2013 9781608196357 | $16.00/$17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W charts Subrights: Agent: The Wylie Agency Ltd

What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has until now been treated as little more than a talking point, a club to be wielded in ideological battles. But it may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes—a sharp, fundamental shift in the character of American society, and not at all for the better. The income gap has been blamed on everything from computers to immigration, but its causes and consequences call for a patient, non-partisan exploration. In The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah delivers this urgently needed inquiry, ignoring political rhetoric and drawing on the best work of contemporary researchers to peer beyond conventional wisdom. Noah explains not only how the Great Divergence has come about, but why it threatens American democracy— and most important, how we can begin to reverse it. The Great Divergence is poised to be one of the most talked-about books of 2012, a jump-start to the national conversation about what kind of society we aspire to be in the 21st century: a land of equality, or a city on a hill—with a slum at the bottom. PRAISE

“Essential reading.”—Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) on Twitter “Superb… Noah is our unpretentious Detective Columbo, walking us through theories of the case.”—The American Prospect “Both much needed and a delight to read.”—The New York Review of Books "This is the book the 99% has been waiting for."—Barbara Ehrenreich "So you're busy and stressed and have time to read just one book on America's faultline crisis of widening inequality. This is the one . . . A must read."—Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men Timothy Noah writes as "TRB," the lead columnist at The New Republic. He wrote for Slate for a dozen years, and previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Monthly. He edited two collections of the writings of his late wife, Marjorie Williams, including the New York 79

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Kenya: A Natural History A Natural History Steve Spawls & Glenn Matthews This is a comprehensive overview of the natural history of Kenya, a country with an incredibly diverse range of habitats, flora and fauna.

For its size, Kenya probably has the most diverse range of habitats of any country in Africa, if not the world. Within its borders there are alpine peaks, montane forests, high plateaux, savannas, lowland forests, coastal woodlands and wetlands, and a string of varied lakes in the Great Rift Valley. The range of wildlife to be found in the region is correspondingly diverse. this book explores the wildlife and habitats in great detail and gives a thorough overview of Kenya's natural history. Steve Spawls is a herpetologist who has lived and worked in Kenya for many years. He is the senior author of A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa. Glenn Mathews has lived all his life in Kenya where he operates safaris.

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FEBRUARY 2013

Walking on Water The daredevil acrobatics of a pioneering photographer Kos Evans A spectacular showcase of the most dramatic, most eyecatching images taken by Kos Evans, the daredevil nautical photographer who has made her name by getting right up close to the action.

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Kos Evans has blazed a trail through the photographic world with her unique style and daredevil antics. Famous for her amazing, innovative angles, she stands out because of the often dangerous lengths she goes to to get the best shot. Some of her most well-known images were taken from the top of masts, or hanging over the sides of boats, or in the water, capturing speeding boats from only inches away. This photographic showcase features her most amazing and beautiful pictures. With descriptive captions detailing the background of each shot (how she came to be taking it, the difficulties she encountered), this collection tells the story of Kos's incredible skill and and intrepid acrobatics. Walking on Water is a gorgeous celebration of outstanding marine photography, packed with spectacular images that take you close to the action. For her entire career Kos has captured dramatic, eyecatching shots that made her the envy of her peers; this book provides a unique insight into the work and skills of a remarkable indomitable female photographer who has made her distinctive mark in what is very much a tough man's world. The book also includes a foreword by Duran Duran singer and keen sailor Simon Le Bon. Kos Evans has been photographing boats and the sea since her teens. She has photographed many of the major marine events (America's Cup, Whitbread Round the World Race, Sydney-Hobart Race, Fastnet Race and more) as well as undertaking assignments for the like of Sir Robin KnoxJohnston, Sir Peter Blake and Ben Ainslie. She has won numerous awards for her work, and has made enough of a name for herself that she is known worldwide simply as 'Kos'.

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JANUARY 2013

The Power of Music Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song Elena Mannes A pathbreaking exploration into how and why the human organism—and the ebb and flow of the cosmos—is moved by the undeniable effect of music.

The award-winning creator of the acclaimed documentary "The Music Instinct: Science & Song," explores the power of music and its connection to the body, the brain, and the world of nature. Only recently has science sought in earnest to understand and explain this impact. One remarkable recent study, analyzing the cries of newborns, shows that infants' cries contain common musical intervals. Physics experiments show that sound waves can physically change the structure of a material; musician and world-famous conductor Daniel Barenboim believes musical sound vibrations physically penetrate our bodies, shifting molecules as they do. The Power of Music follows visionary researchers and accomplished musicians to the crossroads of science and culture, to discover: how much of our musicality is learned and how much is innate? Can examining the biological foundations of music help scientists unravel the intricate web of human cognition and brain function? Why is music virtually universal across cultures and time—does it provide some evolutionary advantage? Can music make people healthier? Might music contain organizing principles of harmonic vibration that underlie the cosmos itself? PRAISE

"Preliminary but striking investigations into the effects of music on everything from string theory to a baby's cry."—Kirkus Reviews "Truly powerful and fascinating!"—Judy Collins, singer, songwriter, and author "[Mannes] digs deeply into stunning new research into music's importance in our lives and reveals that science and art are muses that nourish each other and enrich individual lives."—Bill Moyers Elena Mannes has won six Emmys and many other national awards for her documentaries. She is a member of one of the first families of American music. Her grandparents founded the Mannes College of Music in New York City; her great uncle, Walter Damrosch, conducted the Metropolitan Opera and was the instigator for the building of Carnegie Hall. She lives in New York City.

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Index Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice, The; M. G. Lord. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel; Alice Randall. . . . . . . . 38 Aid, Matthew M.; Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary; Denis Kitchen. . . . . . . . . . 53 American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783; William M. Fowler Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Aronson, Louise; A History of the Present Illness. . . . . . . . . . 35 Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics, The; Robert Kaplan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Beauman, Ned; The Teleportation Accident: A Novel. . . . . . . 54 Becker, Suzy; One Good Egg: An Illustrated Memoir. . . . . . . 65 Bellow, Greg; Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir. . . . . . . . 61 Bilal, Parker; Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery. . . . . . . . . . 45 Bilal, Parker; The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery. . . . . . 44 Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick; Paul Dickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Blanchard, Jean-Vincent; Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Buchanan, Mark; Forecast: What Extreme Weather Can Teach Us About Economics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Bulik, Ph.D., Cynthia M.; Midlife Eating Disorders: Your Journey to Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Carr, Sarah; Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children. . . . . . . . . . .12 Clay: A Novel; Melissa Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Constance: A Novel; Patrick McGrath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Dale, James; Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Darwin, John; Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Dickson, Paul; Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick. . . . 26 Dickson, Paul; Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents. . . . 20 Dionne, E.J. , Jr.; Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery; Parker Bilal. . . . . . . . . 45 Double V: How Two World Wars and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, The; Rawn James, Jr.. . . 6 Downie, Ruth; Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities; Craig Steven Wilder. . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Edwards, Laurie; In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Ellmann, Lucy; Mimi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France; Jean-Vincent Blanchard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Equilateral: A Novel; Ken Kalfus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Evans, Kos; Walking on Water: The daredevil acrobatics of a pioneering photographer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice; Mary Robinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany; Frederick Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Fitzgerald, Conor; The Namesake: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Forecast: What Extreme Weather Can Teach Us About Economics; Mark Buchanan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Fowler Jr., William M.; American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Frankel, Glenn; The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Furies: War in Europe, 1450€“1700; Lauro Martines. . . . . . . 4 Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery, The; Parker Bilal. . . . . 44 Good Book: A Humanist Bible, The; A C Grayling. . . . . . . 33 Gordon, Robert; Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation; Jonathan Rieder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Grayling, A C; The Good Book: A Humanist Bible. . . . . . . . . 33 Great Divergence: America's Growing Income Inequality, The; Timothy Noah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Harris, Bob; The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our World One $25 Loan At a Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Harrison, Melissa; Clay: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 History of the Present Illness, A; Louise Aronson. . . . . . . . 35 Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children; Sarah Carr. . . . . 12 How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution; Leslie Woodhead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Ignorance: A Novel; Michèle Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football; James Dale. . . . . . . . . 42 In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America; Laurie Edwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Infinite Tides: A Novel, The; Christian Kiefer. . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror; Matthew M. Aid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our World One $25 Loan At a Time, The; Bob Harris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel; Edmund White. . . . 50 James, Jr., Rawn; Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 James, Jr., Rawn; The Double V: How Two World Wars and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Jensen, Liz; The Uninvited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Joinson, Suzanne; A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Joy of Sexus: Lust, Love, and Longing in the Ancient World, The; Vicki León. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Kalfus, Ken; Equilateral: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Kaplan, Ellen; Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Kaplan, Robert; The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Kenya: A Natural History: A Natural History; Steve Spawls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Khadivi, Laleh; The Walking: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Kiefer, Christian; The Infinite Tides: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 King, Claire; The Night Rainbow: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Kitchen, Denis; Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary. . . . . . . . . . . 53 Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel, A; Suzanne Joinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived; Chip Walter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 León, Vicki; The Joy of Sexus: Lust, Love, and Longing in the Ancient World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Little Known Facts: A Novel; Christine Sneed. . . . . . . . . . . 48 Lord, M. G.; The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology; Caroline Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Lowenstein, Prince Rupert; A Prince Among Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures. . . . 43 Mannes, Elena; The Power of Music: Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Many Not The Few: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain, The; Richard North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Marciano, John; Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Became the Last Country on Earth to Keep its Feet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Martines, Lauro; Furies: War in Europe, 1450€“1700. . . . . . . . 4 McClelland, Edward; Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland. . . . . . . 17 McGrath, Patrick; Constance: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Midlife Eating Disorders: Your Journey to Recovery; Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Mimi; Lucy Ellmann. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Mullan, John; What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Namesake: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel, The; Conor Fitzgerald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Night Rainbow: A Novel, The; Claire King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Noah, Timothy; The Great Divergence: America's Growing Income Inequality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 North, Richard; The Many Not The Few: The Stolen History of the Battle of Britain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland; Edward McClelland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 O'Malley, Thomas; This Magnificent Desolation: A Novel. . . .55 One Good Egg: An Illustrated Memoir; Suzy Becker. . . . . 65 Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent; E.J. Dionne, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . 77 Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free; Ellen Kaplan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Paul, Caroline; Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Pennebaker, James W.; The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything; Margaret Wertheim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Plump, Wendy; Vow: A Memoir of Marriage and Infidelity. . . 62 Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories; Christine Sneed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Powell, Robert Andrew; This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Power of Music: Pioneering Discoveries in the New Science of Song, The; Elena Mannes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Power of Silence: The Riches That Lie Within, The; Graham Turner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Prince Among Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures, A; Prince Rupert Lowenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Randall, Alice; Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel. . . . . . . . . 38 Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion; Robert Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Rieder, Jonathan; Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Roberts, Michèle; Ignorance: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Robinson, Mary; Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation; Rawn James, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Rothenberg, David; Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir; Greg Bellow. . . . . . 61 Scott, Kim; That Deadman Dance: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, The; Glenn Frankel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, The; James W. Pennebaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Semper Fidelis: A Novel of the Roman Empire; Ruth Downie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Sneed, Christine; Little Known Facts: A Novel. . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sneed, Christine; Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry: Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Spawls, Steve; Kenya: A Natural History: A Natural History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution; David Rothenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Taylor, Frederick; Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Teleportation Accident: A Novel, The; Ned Beauman. . . . 54 That Deadman Dance: A Novel; Kim Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez; Robert Andrew Powell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 This Magnificent Desolation: A Novel; Thomas O'Malley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Turner, Graham; The Power of Silence: The Riches That Lie Within. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain; John Darwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Uninvited, The; Liz Jensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Vow: A Memoir of Marriage and Infidelity; Wendy Plump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Walking on Water: The daredevil acrobatics of a pioneering photographer; Kos Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Walking: A Novel, The; Laleh Khadivi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Walter, Chip; Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Wertheim, Margaret; Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything. . . . . . . . . . 23 What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved; John Mullan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Became the Last Country on Earth to Keep its Feet; John Marciano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 White, Edmund; Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel. . . . . 50 Wilder, Craig Steven; Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Woodhead, Leslie; How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents; Paul Dickson. . . 20