APRIL 2011 THROUGH AUGUST 2011
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L I T T L E , B R O W N A N D C O M PA N Y Dear Friends, I’ve had more late nights than is strictly healthy lately, and it’s thanks to Mulholland Books, our new suspense fiction imprint. For a while now I’ve sensed a new generation of suspense writers rising—determined to entertain at all costs, to take genre fiction seriously, to surprise relentlessly. And based on what I’ve been reading during those clockless nights, Mulholland is finding those writers! The imprint’s inaugural list is led by former LA prosecutor Marcia Clark, whose debut GUILT BY ASSOCIATION is as sharp and funny a legal thriller as I’ve come across in years. I dare you to start one of Duane Swierczynski’s novels and put it down—if you haven’t read The Wheelman, go do so now!—and we’re excited to launch a new trilogy of thrillers from him. Mark Billingham and Michael Robotham, two of the smartest, sharpest, fastest-paced suspense writers in the UK today, bring their talents to amazing new stories. Grand Master Lawrence Block’s new Matthew Scudder novel, A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF, shows why every writer in the land lauds him. He is hardcore Old School, the man everyone learns from, and this new novel is the match of his greatest. Future lists bring the extraordinary talents of Charlie Huston, Greg Rucka, and many more to the list, too many great writers to mention here—check out the catalog beginning on page 51. Mulholland will find the next generation of superstar suspense writers. How can I be so certain? It’s run by the next generation of superstar publishing professionals, editor John Schoenfelder and marketing director Miriam Parker. For proof, you need look no further than our website, mulhollandbooks.com, where these two are already assembling commentary from some of the genre’s most interesting writers, reviewers, and influencers. Mulholland’s motto is “You never know what’s coming around the curve.” I have my seat belt buckled, and I hope you’ll join us for the ride! Yours,
Michael Pietsch.
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Little, brown hardcovers 10th Anniversary
Flashback: A Novel
22
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro 20 Years Younger: Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger!
16-17
25
38
8-9
47
George Pelecanos David Bowie: Starman
The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
23
46
45
James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Now You See Her
Emily Luchetti and Lisa Weiss
49
David Sloan Wilson Clyde Edgerton
The Fearless Baker: Scrumptious Cakes, Pies, Cobblers, 24 Cookies, and Quick Breads that You Can Make to Impress Your Friends and Yourself
Michael Connelly
15
Michael V. Pantalon, PhD
The Night Tr ain: A Novel
Megan Abbott
The Fifth Witness
Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything—Fast
42
Paul Trynka The End of Everything: A Novel
14
James Patterson and Marshall Karp
Tina Fey The Cut: A Novel
In Zanesville: A Novel
Kill Me If You Can
The Monks of New Skete Bossypants
Kevin Mitnick with William L . Simon Foreword by Steve Wozniak
Jo Ann Beard
Meg Mitchell Moore The Art Of R aising A Puppy: Completely Revised and Updated
48
Robert Weintraub 26
Anna North The Arrivals: A Novel
Ghost In ThE wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
Bob Greene with Harold Lancer, MD, Diane L. McKay, PhD, Ronald L. Kotler, MD America Pacifica: A Novel
40
Dan Simmons
The Oper ators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan
41
28
30-31
Michael Hastings The Pale King
12-13
David Foster Wallace 10-11
The Ridge
Michael Koryta
36-37
See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody
39
Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad Silver Girl: A Novel
32-33
Elin Hilderbrand The Sun’s Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet
20-21
44
Anne Zouroudi Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
58
Fun and Games
57
Duane Swierczynski
Duane Swierczynski
52-53
Marcia Clark Hell and Gone
Triple Crossing: A Novel 27
55
Lawrence Block
34-35
60
59
Sebastian Rotella The Wreckage
Don Van Natta Jr.
56
Michael Robotham
ansel adams
back bay
ANSEL ADA MS 2012 engagement c alendar
63
ANSEL ADA MS 2012 wall c alendar
62
ANSEL ADA MS Backlist
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Guilt by Association
Tom McNeal Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Bloodline
18-19
James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales To Be Sung Underwater: A Novel
54
Mark Billingham
Pete Hamill The Taint of Midas: A Novel
The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing and The Ones You Do
Daniel Woodrell 43
Bob Berman Tabloid City: A Novel
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C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
79
Jeff Sharlet City of Veils: A Novel
91
Zoë Ferraris Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
72
Lyanda Lynn Haupt The Cypress House
77
Michael Koryta Day for Night: A Novel
Frederick Reiken
71
Down by the River where the dead men go
85
George Pelecanos
Saints and Sinners: Stories
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
82-83
Shame the Devil
Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival
A Firing Offense
85
Dean King Illustrated by Gordon Morrison
89
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
George Pelecanos The Four Fingers of Death: A Novel
Rick Moody 70
The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion
78
Herman Wouk
The Wife’s Tale: A Novel
86
A World Without Islam
88
Graham E. Fuller
68-69
Katie Crouch
Little, Brown Trade Paperback 90
Anne Zouroudi
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
98
John Newcomb 76
John Feinstein Mr . Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel
73
Lori Lansens
Kristin van Ogtrop
Moment of Glory: The Year Underdogs Ruled Golf
87
Evan Thomas
Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom
The Messenger of Athens: A Novel
85
George Pelecanos
Sam Kean
Men and Dogs: A Novel
74-75
Edna O’Brien
84
The stokes Field guide to the birds of north america
99
Donald and Lillian Stokes
Natasha Solomons Nick’s Trip
85
George Pelecanos Portr ait of an Addict As a Young Man: A Memoir
92-93
94
Eleanor Catton Rescue: A Novel
Anita Shreve
Readers’ Picks Hachette Speakers Bureau
Bill Clegg The Rehearsal: A Novel
Fall 2010/winter 2011 backlist
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lives in Manhattan, where she is the third funniest person in her household, after her husband and five-year-old daughter.
She’s a comic genius, every woman’s imaginary best friend, and the thinking man’s sex symbol. Tina Fey didn’t get this far without pulling on her bossypants. Before there was Liz Lemon, before there was “sarah Palin,” before there was “Weekend Update”—there was a woman with a dream. A dream that one day she would write a book about how she got here. But she had to get there first. On her way to becoming an award-winning superstar, Tina Fey struggled through some questionable haircuts, some after-school jobs, the rise of nachos as a cultural phenomenon, a normal childhood, a happy marriage and joyful motherhood. her story must be told! Fey’s pursuit of the perfect beauty routine may actually give you laugh lines, and her depiction of her whirlwind tour of duty as the Other sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live takes you behind the scenes of a comedy event that transfixed the nation. now, Fey can reflect on what she’s learned: You’re no one until someone calls you bossy. • Tina Fey has received numerous awards for her comedy writing, including five Emmys, five Writers Guild Awards, and the Kennedy Center’s annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In addition to her successful television writing, she wrote the screenplay for the wildly popular movie Mean Girls. • Tina Fey’s popularity and stardom continue to rise. Entertainment Weekly named her the #2 “Performer of the Decade” in 2009. She co-starred with Steve Carell in the hit movie Date Night, which grossed more than $150 million worldwide. The first female head writer of Saturday Night Live and the popular co-host of “Weekend Update,” she then went on to create, write, and star in the critically acclaimed TV series 30 Rock.
“i reached under the bed for the whiskey bottle. Little freckles of blood dotted the sheets under my shoulder. Oh God, another tattoo? i pulled at my skin ’til i could see the twisted ink. it was the Chinese word for shamrock. Looking out at the sun rising over the Denver Civic Center, i asked myself three questions. One, who was this man in the bed with me? Two, could love really triumph over logic in matters of the heart and in my spirit’s journey through Me to Our actuality? And three, who was this other dude in the bed with me?”
…is just a brief example of what you will not find in this book! “‘Get in the pool, Fey,’ he said. And when Kevin spacey tells you to take your top off and swim, you do it. it doesn’t matter that Val Kilmer is watching, or that the ‘pool’ is really the Los Angeles River. This was hollywood, dammit, and i was gonna splash around in it until i got famous and/or drowned or both. ‘What’s your deal?’ asked Anthony Kiedis as he stroked my cheek…with a Wheat Thin. ‘i’m a writer,’ i said, sounding more like a little girl than i wanted to and farting a little bit. it was that night that i had the idea for Avatar.”
…is neither true nor in the book! But it is product placement for Wheat Thins!
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the Fifth Witness Michael Connelly 978-0-316-06935-9
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Michael Connelly,
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a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and a former journalist, has won numerous crime fiction prizes. He lives in Florida.
The Lincoln Lawyer is back in the explosive new legal thriller from #1 bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too—and he’s certain he’s on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he “has the nerve and timing of a whole SWAT team” (New York Times Book Review). • Connelly’s new novel, The Reversal (LB, 978-0-316-06948-9, 2010), also featuring Mickey Haller, was published in October. • Nine Dragons (LB, 978-0-316-16631-7, 10/09), spent five weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list and has already sold more than a million copies across all formats. His previous book, The Scarecrow (LB, 978-0-316-16630-0, 5/09), debuted at #1 and stayed on the list for six weeks. • The film adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei, will be released in March 2011.
Excerpt from The Fifth Witness: “Mickey, you have to get over to Van Nuys Division right away.” There was a strong urgency in her voice. Van Nuys Division was the LAPD’s central command for operations in the sprawling San Fernando Valley, the north side of the city. “I’m working the south end today. What’s going on up there?” “They have Lisa Trammel there. She called.” Lisa Trammel was a client. In fact, my very first foreclosure client. I had kept her in her home for going on eight months and was confident I could take it at least another year further before we dropped the bankruptcy bomb. But she was consumed by the frustrations and inequities of her life and could not be calmed or controlled. She’d taken to marching in front of the bank with a placard decrying its fraudulent practices and heartless actions. That is, until the bank got a temporary restraining order against her. “Did she violate the TRO? Are they holding her?” “Mickey, they’re holding her on suspicion of murder.”
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Praise for David Foster Wallace:
“ A prose magician…. He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane.”
the Pale king David Foster Wallace 978-0-316-07423-0
$27.99 ($30.99 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 496 pgs Territories: U.S., Canada, and Open Market • First Serial rights: Little, Brown and Company; UK, Translation, and Performance rights: Bonnie Nadell • Editor: Michael Pietsch
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David Foster Wallace
wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water. He died in 2008.
David Foster Wallace’s final and most ambitious undertaking—an audacious, hilarious novel that will be a major publishing event. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has. THE PALE KING remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace’s death, but it is a deeply intriguing and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with fundamental ideas—questions of life’s meaning and of the ultimate value of work and family— through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace’s unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for a writer who dared to take on the most daunting subjects the human spirit can imagine.
•D avid Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (LB, 978-0-316-92004-9, 2/96; Back Bay, 978-
0-316-92117-6, 2/97; Back Bay, 978-0-316-06652-5, 11/06) was the defining novel of a generation, influencing writers like Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, and scores of others. It was a national bestseller with more than 350,000 copies in print.
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• Since the publication of Infinite Jest in 1996, fans have eagerly awaited another novel
from the celebrated essayist and story writer. • A website created in conjunction with the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center will showcase the draft manuscript, journal entries, and other aspects about the making of this posthumous novel.
“ One of the most influential literary voices of this, or any other generation....Wallace was an author of unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition.” —THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON)
Excerpt from THE PALE KING: IRS WORKER DEAD FOR FOUR DAYS
Supervisors at the IRS’s regional complex in Lake James township are trying to determine why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for four days before anyone asked if he was feeling all right. Merrill Blumquist, 53, who had been employed as a tax return examiner with the agency for over thirty years, suffered a heart attack in the open-plan office he shared with twenty-five other co-workers at the agency’s Regional Examination Center on Self-Storage Parkway. He quietly passed away last Tuesday at his desk, but nobody noticed until late Sunday evening when an office cleaner asked how the examiner could still be working in an office with all the lights off. Mr. Blumquist’s supervisor, Mr. Scott Thomas, said, “Merrill was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night. He was very focused and diligent, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn’t say anything. He was always absorbed in his work, and kept to himself.” A post-mortem examination by the Tazewell County Coroner’s Office yesterday revealed that he had been dead for four days after suffering from a coronary. Ironically, according to Thomas, Blumquist was part of a special task force of IRS agents examining the tax affairs of medical partnerships in the area when he died.
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“ The Best Mind of His Generation” —A.O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES
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the untold story of Babe ruth’s 1923 Yankees, their first championship season in the brand new Yankee Stadium.
Before the 27 World series wins, before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter—the Yankees were new York’s also-ran franchise. They didn’t even have a stadium, renting out the new York Giants’ Polo Grounds and, embarrassingly, losing to them when it counted: in the Fall Classic. But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, and everything changed. Babe Ruth bounced back from a contentious season to carry the team to their first title, justifying his new stadium’s nickname, “The house That Ruth Built.” This is the untold tale of the Yankees’ break-out season, filled with stories of new York and baseball in arguably their greatest eras. Robert Weintraub’s fresh reporting vividly illuminates the singular year that made the Yankees the storied franchise they are today.
• The first book to give the full story of the Yankees’ first big season of 1923—the season that established the team as the ones to beat—and the building of Yankee Stadium. • Yankees fans are book buyers, too, as seen with titles such as The Big Bam (Random House, 5/07), Luckiest Man (Simon & Schuster, 3/06) and Joe DiMaggio (Simon & Schuster, 9/01). • This tale from the 1920s, with its cast of famous characters (Ruth, John McGraw, Casey Stengel, Lou Gehrig, and many more), lends itself to rich descriptions and colorful details—and offers strong parallels to modern-day baseball.
the House that ruth Built A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Robert Weintraub 978-0-316-08607-3
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From the acclaimed author of The Boys of My Youth, comes a debut novel about the vivid moment just before we step out of childhood. The 14-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar—a sidekick, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that “fudge” can’t be said with an English accent. Luckily, she has a best friend with whom she shares the everyday adventures of a 1970s American girlhood, incidents through which a world is revealed, and character is forged. In time, their friendship is tested—by their families’ claims on them, by a clique of popular girls who stumble upon them, and by the first, startling, subversive intimations of womanhood. With dry wit and piercing observation, Jo Ann Beard shows us that in the seemingly quiet streets of America’s innumerable Zanesvilles is a world of wonders, and that within the souls of the overlooked often burns something radiant.
• Jo Ann Beard’s autobiographical essays The Boys of My Youth (LB, 978-0-316-08554-0, 1998) won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Even 12 years after publication, the trade paperback edition continues to sell steadily. A repackaged trade paperback edition will be released simultaneously with IN ZANESVILLE. •T he Boys of My Youth continues to be taught in undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs across the country, which has introduced Jo Ann Beard’s work to a new generation of readers.
In Zanesville A Novel Jo Ann Beard 978-0-316-08447-5
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“ Bob changed my life.” —OPRAH WINFREY
20 Years Younger Look Younger, Feel Younger, Be Younger! Bob Greene with Harold Lancer, MD, Diane L. McKay, PhD, and Ronald L. Kotler, MD 978-0-316-13378-4
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Bob Greene
is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss.
Million-copy bestseller Bob Greene gives us the definitive anti-aging book. It’s time to turn back the clock! In 20 YEARS YOUNGER, Bob Greene offers readers a practical, science-based plan for looking and feeling their best as they age. The cutting-edge program details easy and effective steps we can all take to rebuild the foundation of youth and enjoy better health, improved energy, and a positive outlook on life. The four cornerstones of the program are: an exercise regimen for fighting muscle and bone loss, a longevity-focused diet, sleep rejuvenation, and wrinklefighting skin care. Woven throughout the text is practical advice on changing appearances, controlling stress, staying mentally sharp, navigating medical tests, and much more. Readers will walk away with a greater understanding of how the body ages and what they can do to feel—and look—20 years younger. •T he Best Life Diet (Simon & Schuster, 12/06; revised 12/08) has sold more than one million hardcovers, and The Total Body Makeover (Simon & Schuster, 12/05) and Get With the Program! (Simon & Schuster, 12/03) have sold 400,000 hardcovers each. Greene is also the coauthor with Oprah Winfrey of the four-million copy hardcover bestseller Make the Connection (Hyperion, 9/96). • Bob Greene is a frequent guest on Oprah, and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Rachael Ray, The Dr. Oz Show, and more. He is a contributing editor for O, The Oprah Magazine. • Harold Lancer, MD, is a Beverly Hills dermatologist. Diane L. McKay, PhD, is a nutrition specialist and scientist at Tufts University. Ronald L. Kotler, MD, is cofounder of the Pennsylvania Hospital Sleep Disorders Center.
Excerpt from 20 YEARS YOUNGER:
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It’s commonly accepted that the body undergoes certain changes with age. To some extent those changes are inevitable. What is less known, though, is that the life you lead is largely responsible for how quickly, profoundly, and noticeably you age. Much of what we think of as aging—wrinkles, weight gain, memory loss, lack of energy, certain types of illnesses—are not largely attributable to too many days gone by. Rather, they’re a direct result of sedentary living, poor diet, lack of sleep, insufficient (or nonexistent) skin care, and even a defeatist attitude. It stands to reason, then, that if you reverse those habits—if you get moving, eat with an eye toward good health, sleep soundly and adequately, protect and nourish your skin, and start thinking young again—the signs of aging will reverse themselves, too. Some people have gotten the message that the life you lead can indeed turn back the clock. But others have misinterpreted the message to mean that they should zealously pursue any program that promises everlasting youth. Extreme exercise regimens, severely restrictive diets, cosmetic surgery makeovers—they may all seem like quick and effective ways to return the body to its youthful self, but more often than not they’re just counterproductive. This book offers natural, research-verified strategies for getting your body—and mind—in top form. Restore your health with a good, solid lifestyle plan, and you can actually lower your physiological age.
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Those Guys Have All The Fun Inside the World of ESPN James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales 978-0-316-04300-7
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James Andrew Miller (above) was previously Sr. Executive Producer for Anderson Cooper 360 and Executive V.P. of Original Programming for USA Network. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Tom Shales (below)
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won his Pultizer Prize for television criticism in the Washington Post. He lives in McLean, Virgina.
The first complete and never-before revealed history of ESPN—“the worldwide leader” and the rowdiest frat house in sports TV. ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into the Internet, radio, magazines, mobile phones, and more, while ESPN’s personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Dick Vitale, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network’s soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent oral history of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen. • Nearly 500 current and former ESPN employees, including announcers and analysts, were interviewed for the book as well as sports stars including LeBron James, Peyton Manning, and Jeff Gordon. • The revelations and stories in THOSE GUYS HAVE ALL THE FUN are going to generate enormous controversy, tabloid features, and online frenzy. • There is an enormous core audience for the book: The ESPN empire includes six networks in the U.S. and 46 networks worldwide. • Shales and Miller’s Live from New York (LB, 978-0-316-78146-6, 10/03) was a New York Times bestseller that has netted over 200,000 copies. As much as SNL has had a cultural impact, its ratings have never come close to ESPN’s.
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A Novel Pete Hamill 978-0-316-02075-6
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PETE HAMILL
tabloid City
Pete Hamill
is a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. He is the author of 20 previous books including the bestselling novels Forever and Snow in August and the bestselling memoir, A Drinking Life. He lives in New York City.
From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, the extraordinary drama of one fateful day in the greatest city in the world. In a stately West Village townhouse, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity circles around their shocking deaths: The head of one of the city’s last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe. The City is many things: a proving ground, a decadent playground, or a palimpsest of memories—a historic metropolis eclipsed by modern times. As much a thriller as it is a gripping portrait of the city of today, TABLOID CITY is a new fiction classic from the writer who has captured it perfectly for decades. • Hamill has a broad and dedicated fan base. His last three novels, North River (9780-316-34058-8, LB, 6/07), Forever (978-0-316-34111-0, LB, 12/02), and Snow in August (978-0-316-34094-6, LB, 5/97), have sold more than 860,000 copies in all formats. Forever and Snow in August were New York Times bestsellers. • As the only person to have been editor-in-chief of both New York tabloids, Pete Hamill knows his subject like no one else. He has also appeared on Today, Imus in the Morning, The O’Reilly Factor, Morning Joe, Charlie Rose, among other programs.
Excerpt from TABLOID CITY: Briscoe sees the group of curious citizens, the cops, the firemen, the huddle of reporters. A few nod. He nods back. Fonseca is there too, and Briscoe motions him aside. -How bad is it? -Pretty bad, Fonseca says, looking at a notebook. Both women stabbed to death, Mr. Briscoe. Kitchen knife, maybe. There’s one missing from one of those racks. The cops are searching sewers. It looks like the Watson woman got it first, in the hall outside the bedroom door. Then the Harding woman opened the door, they figure. And she got it. She was naked under a bathrobe. The Watson woman was fully clothed. There’s blood all over. -God… Briscoe inhales the wet ashy air, lets it out slowly. -Watson’s husband is a cop, Fonseca says. Ali Watson. Ray Kelly was here and took him away somewhere, I guess to comfort him. Wouldn’t let him in the house, for obvious reasons. I got a picture of Kelly and Watson on my cell phone, sent it already. -Ali Watson’s a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Briscoe says. Tell Helen, but tell her I said she shouldn’t put that in the paper. I’ll tell Matt to keep Ali’s face out of the paper too. Who knows what he’s working on. Do they have any suspects? -I don’t know, Fonseca says. They’re not saying much at all. The women were killed, then whoever did it used some kind of an accelerant to cover himself.
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Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married, but a shocking crime pushes the Women’s Murder Club back to full throttle before the gifts are even unwrapped.
Detective Lindsay Boxer’s wedding becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl left for dead and the kidnapping of her newborn baby. she soon discovers that not only have the criminals left no evidence—but the victim may be hiding a secret as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life— a woman accused of murdering her husband in front of her children. Yuki’s career rests on a guilty verdict, so when Lindsay discovers evidence that could save the defendant, she must choose. should she trust her best friend or follow her instinct? With James Patterson’s unique brand of white-hot speed and unquenchable action, 10Th AnniVERsARY is the Women’s Murder Club at its most thrilling best.
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• Dr. Pantalon’s method is used at GE, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the National Institutes of Health, Harvard, Hazelden, in most U.S. emergency rooms, and in many other corporations and institutions. He gives over 100 seminars a year. • Fans of Getting to Yes (Penguin, 12/91), Crucial Conversations (McGraw-Hill, 6/02), and Get Anyone to Do Anything (St. Martin’s Press, 5/00) will be amazed by this revolutionary approach. • I NSTANT INFLUENCE is the only motivational approach scientifically proven to succeed in seven minutes or less. It is based on an approach tested in over 100 clinical trials.
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A vibrantly illustrated beginner’s baking guide offering expert instruction from James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Emily Luchetti.
What could be more satisfying than presenting friends and family with a perfectly crafted homemade dessert, fresh out of the oven? Yet for many, the idea of baking is intimidating; rolling out pie dough or making a cake from scratch is akin to climbing Mount Everest. THE FEARLESS BAKER is a beginner’s baking guide written to empower home cooks with spot-on advice and a cache of go-to recipes. Renowned pastry chef Emily Luchetti conducted training sessions with real-life novice bakers to discover their most common pitfalls and troubleshoots throughout the book with time-tested techniques. Charming color illustrations and photographs of real-life beginning bakers in action complete the instruction, turning even the most tentative baker into a fearless one.
• Luchetti is one of the country’s most acclaimed pastry chefs and author of five cookbooks, including A Passion for Ice Cream (Chronicle Books, 6/06). She has received numerous awards, including the 2004 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef. She currently writes a blog for the San Francisco Chronicle website. • With a wide selection of recipes, from classic to highly original, this book will appeal to novice bakers as well as Luchetti’s food-world admirers. • Includes many summer-friendly fruit recipes, like crumbles, puffs, trifles, and fools, which will be timely publicity hooks. A great gift for moms, newlyweds, or grads. • Lisa Weiss is a food writer and stylist. She has co-authored five successful cookbooks, including The Complete Meat Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9/01) with Bruce Aidells. She lives in Tiburon, California.
The Fearless Baker Scrumptious Cakes, Pies, Cobblers, Cookies, and Quick Breads that You Can Make to Impress Your Friends and Yourself Emily Luchetti and Lisa Weiss 978-0-316-07428-5 $29.99 ($32.99 in Canada) • Cookbook • 7 ½ x 9 ½ • 304 pgs
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What happens when an empty nest fills up
again? A captivating debut about growing up and coming home. It’s early summer when Ginny and William’s peaceful life in Vermont comes to an abrupt halt. First, their daughter Lillian arrives, with her two children in tow, to escape her crumbling marriage. Next, their son Stephen and his pregnant wife Jane show up for a weekend visit, which extends indefinitely when Jane ends up on bed rest. When their youngest daughter Rachel appears, fleeing her difficult life in New York, Ginny and William find themselves consumed again by the chaos of parenthood—only this time around, their children are facing adult problems. By summer’s end, the family gains new ideas of loyalty and responsibility, exposing the challenges of surviving the modern family—and the old adage, once a parent, always a parent, has never rung so true.
• The strong commercial appeal of the characters and topics in THE ARRIVALS will speak to readers of bestselling women’s fiction, like that of Marisa de los Santos, Elin Hilderbrand, and Sue Miller. • The novel addresses many issues relevant to modern women—the struggles of settling down, starting a family, balancing work and parenting, and eventually facing an empty nest—making it an ideal choice for book clubs and reading group discussions. • Little, Brown will publish Meg Mitchell Moore’s next novel in May 2012.
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The startling debut novel about a teenage
girl’s search for her missing mother on an island paradise turned dystopian nightmare. In the not too distant future, 18-year-old Darcy lives on the island of America Pacifica—one of the last places on earth that is still habitable after the second ice age. Education, food, and basic means of survival are the province of a chosen few, while most struggle under the thumb of a mysterious, corrupt dictator. To Darcy, America Pacifica is simply home—the only one she’s ever known, made bearable by her loving though enigmatic mother. But when her mother doesn’t come home one night, Darcy is forced on a quest through the dark underbelly of the island to find her, learning along the way of the far-reaching influence of its egomaniacal leader and the disturbing, deadly truth of her mother’s role in Pacifica’s early history.
• Anna North’s nonfiction has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, and her fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, where it was nominated for a National Magazine Award. She is now a staff writer at Jezebel.com, one of the most popular women’s blogs (over 1.8 million visitors per month). • With the same imaginative spark that drove Kazuo Ishiguro, Suzanne Collins, and Margaret Atwood’s bestselling speculative fiction, AMERICA PACIFICA presents a not too distant future that begs the question of what mankind is doing to the very earth we rely on for survival.
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Anna North graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2009, having received a TeachingWriting Fellowship and a Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship. North grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn.
The exceptional life and times of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the greatest female athlete ever.
This is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never found a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf becoming the first woman to play against men in a PGA tour event. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: to go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. A rollicking saga, stretching across the first half of the 20th century, WONDER GIRL is as fresh, heartfelt, and graceful as Babe herself.
• A beloved icon of the 20th century sports world, Babe is a legend whose magnificent life story is largely unknown to a new generation of readers. • Van Natta’s First Off the Tee (Public Affairs, 3/03) was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as one of the year’s top sports books by Sports Illustrated and a New York Times Notable Non-Fiction Book. • Surveys have shown that LPGA fans are among the most affluent and loyal of any sport—with a surprising audience of both men and women. And there is a large audience of golf fans who have long been underserved by publishers when it comes to books about the female greats.
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to save her own life, nina Bloom vanished.
now, to rescue an innocent man, she confronts the killer she thought she escaped forever.
nina Bloom would do anything to protect the successful life she’s built in new York—including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can’t let him pay for the real killer’s crimes. her secret life began 18 years ago, when she had looks to die for, a handsome police officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. Just when she learns she’s pregnant, her world is shattered by a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity. now, years later, nina risks everything to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. in a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action-filled story yet.
• James Patterson holds the New York Times bestseller list record with 60 titles and has sold more than 205 million copies of his novels worldwide. • James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge have coauthored five New York Times bestsellers, including the popular Michael Bennett series. Worst Case (978-0-316-03622-1, LB, 2/10) is their most recent novel. Their fourth book in the series, Tick Tock (978-0-316-03791-4, LB), will be published in January 2011.
now You See Her James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 978-0-316-03621-4
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Praise for “The Runaway General:”
“ The kind of story that ricochets through Washington— and around the world—at lightning speed.” —NewSweek
The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan Michael Hastings 978-0-316-17625-5 $27.99 ($30.99 in Canada) • Political Science • 6 x 9 ¼ • 352 pgs 12 photos, 2 maps • Territories: U.S., Canada, and Open Market; First Serial, UK, Translation, and Performance rights: Wylie Agency (Scott Moyers) • Editor: Geoff Shandler
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LUCIAN READ
the Operators
Michael Hastings
is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, GQ, Slate, Salon, and Foreign Policy, among other places. He lives in Vermont.
From the Rolling Stone reporter whose articles shocked the world, an explosive account of our nightmare in Afghanistan. In June 2010, Michael Hastings’s extraordinary, uncensored Rolling Stone article, “The Runaway General,” shocked the world and set off a series of events that culminated in the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal. Now, The Operators will lead us even deeper into the war, its politics, and its major players at a time when such insight is demanded and desperately needed. Based on exclusive reporting in Afghanistan, Europe, the Middle East, and Washington, DC, this landmark work of journalism will elucidate as never before the United States’ involvement in Afghanistan in vivid, unforgettable detail. Part wild travelogue, part exposé, and part sobering analysis, The Operators promises an unprecedented behind-the-scenes account of the war from the only journalist uniquely poised to tell it. • There is intense anticipation within the White House and Pentagon about what Hastings will say next. • Hastings comes out of a great tradition of Rolling Stone writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Cameron Crowe, and P.J. O’Rourke. • The book will be published to coincide with the scheduled American troop draw down.
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“ The most impact-laden story of the year…was written by a perfect specimen of the new breed of journalist-commentator that will hopefully come to replace the old breed sooner rather than later, and which has already collectively surpassed the old guard by every measure that counts—for instance, not being forever wrong about matters of life and death.” —Vanity Fair “He’s the hottest thing in journalism. So what’s next?”
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“Queen of the summer novel... so deliciously addictive that it will be the ‘it’ beach book of the summer.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW)
A Novel Elin Hilderbrand 978-0-316-09966-0
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Elin Hilderbrand
lives on Nantucket, the setting for her nine previous novels, with her husband and their three young children. Hilderbrand is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fiction workshop at the University of Iowa.
A sparkling summertime novel about best friends, love, and money from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing—because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars. Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie’s had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can’t offer complete escape, and they’re plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie’s brother Toby—Meredith’s high school boyfriend—arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had. Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. • There are more than 1.5 million copies of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels in print and her sales continue to grow. The Island (LB, 978-0-316-04387-8, 7/10), her latest novel, had a 175,000-copy first printing in hardcover and will be published in paperback in March 2011. • Hilderbrand’s books consistently appear on the New York Times bestseller list: The Island and The Castaways (LB HC, 978-0-316-04389-2, 7/09; Back Bay PB, 978-0316-04390-8, 6/10) both debuted at #10 on the hardcover list, A Summer Affair (LB, 978-0-316-01861-6, 6/09) debuted at #10 on the paperback list, and Barefoot (LB, 978-0-316-01859-3, 6/08) spent six months on the paperback list. Excerpt from SILVER GIRL: Meredith Martin Delinn had died many deaths—emotional, psychological, social, moral, and of course, financial—but her bleakest moment came in the weeks after Freddy was indicted but before his conviction and sentencing. Meredith was still living in the apartment at 824 Park Avenue, although she, too, was a prisoner of sorts. The reporters—a mob of thugs wielding cameras like handguns and microphones like jackknives—were clotted around the awning of her building with glaring interrogation lights and double-parked satellite trucks, waiting for Meredith to emerge. To Meredith’s knowledge, none of her neighbors had spoken—to do so would be unseemly; this was the Upper East Side—except for 81-year-old Mrs. Whitby from the seventh floor. Mrs. Whitby was British, she was as regal and oblivious as a character from Evelyn Waugh, but she must have been more oblivious than anyone could have guessed because she was quoted in the Daily News as saying, “Meredith is a lovely woman. With wonderful taste in books.” Meredith had been grateful; she believed, with the crumb of self-esteem that she had remaining, that she was lovely and she did have wonderful taste in books. That she also happened to be married to Frederick Xavier Delinn—or Freddy X as the media tagged him—who had cheated over thirteen thousand investors out of fifty billion dollars might have escaped Mrs. Whitby’s notice, but the eight million other New Yorkers were vigilant. They wanted Meredith beheaded in a public ceremony on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum.
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To Be Sung Underwater
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A Novel Tom McNeal 978-0-316-12739-4
Tom McNeal
has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Growing up, he spent his summers at his mother’s family’s Nebraska farm, a setting to which he is still drawn.
A surprising literary love story from the author of Goodnight, Nebraska that asks: what if you rediscovered your first love? Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that “picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio.” Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to want. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn’t look back. Twenty years later, Judith’s marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say? TO BE SUNG UNDERWATER is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget. • Tom McNeal’s celebrated first novel, Goodnight, Nebraska (Random House, 2/98), won the California Book Award and the James Michener Prize. • TO BE SUNG UNDERWATER is a beautifully written novel that will appeal to readers of Alice McDermott, Colm Toibin, Ian McEwan, and Alice Sebold. • Since his debut novel, McNeal has been the recipient of an NEA grant and has published, with his wife, Laura, four critically-acclaimed YA novels with Knopf which have won many honors including the California Book Award for Juvenile Literature and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.
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Excerpt from TO BE SUNG UNDERWATER: Judith Whitman had reached the age of forty-two without serious casualty or setback. This was not mere luck. All her life she’d constructed plans for her life sturdy enough to weather the seasons but skeletal enough to allow for necessary modifications. Without seeming to step carefully, she’d stepped carefully. She’d built not just a formidable life, but the very one she’d wanted. At the moment she gave a clerk in a mini-storage yard a name not her own, Judith had a successful career, a smart, socially capable daughter, and a husband who loved her. She also had two secrets. Judith held the conviction that, above the more routine types of love formed—and, she believed, diluted—by blood ties or economic pragmatism or even geographic proximity, there existed the kind of love that, as she once explained it to Lucy Meynke, picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio de Janeiro. (“The Rio Variation, we’ll call it,” Judith said. Lucy Meynke remarked that she herself had most often experienced the kind of love that picked you up in Minneapolis and set you down in St. Paul.) Judith believed in the Rio Variation because she had herself experienced it, but only once, and that with a boy she’d thereafter abandoned, and yet never quite left behind. This boy was her first secret.
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work has been translated into 20 languages. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, he lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and St. Petersburg, Florida.
A new supernatural thriller from international bestseller Michael Koryta: a man discovers a deadly force that has plagued an idyllic town for over a century. On an isolated ridge in the Kentucky woods stands a homemade lighthouse, hundreds of miles from any substantial body of water. Local reporter Roy Darmus has always found it an amusing oddity—until he is selected as the recipient of a suicide note from its builder. Roy enters the bizarre structure to find the walls covered in maps bearing the names of the dead—including his own parents, who were killed in a car accident when he was a boy. Roy soon has a storytelling assignment more daunting than anything he’s seen before: convincing people that an age-old legend has in fact come to life. With haunting atmosphere and a tension-coiled plot, THE RIDGE is a terrifying journey into the heart of darkness. • So Cold The River (978-0-316-05364-8, BB) was a critics’ favorite and was one of Entertainment Weekly’s “18 Books We Can’t Wait to Read” and Amazon.com’s “Best Books of the Month” for June and “Best Books of the Year…So Far.” It was also a GLBA/MBA Indie Bestseller. It will be released in paperback in January 2011. • The Cypress House (978-0-316-05372-3), Koryta’s second book with Little, Brown, will be released in hardcover in January 2011. The paperback will be released in May (see page 77) and will include a teaser chapter of THE RIDGE. • Michael Koryta is the author of five novels published by St. Martin’s Press: Tonight I Said Goodbye (9/04), Sorrow’s Anthem (2/06), A Welcome Grave (6/07), Envy the Night (8/08), and The Silent Hour (8/09).
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Excerpt from THE RIDGE: A month later, Wyatt French, as if determined to support Audrey Clark’s side of things instead of his own, began to build a lighthouse on his property above Blade Ridge Road. The public response was clear: Wyatt French wasn’t just a reckless drunk, he was a crazy man. He’s probably writing to ask for my help, Roy thought as he tore open the envelope. Sorry, bud—I couldn’t write this one even if I wanted to. Inside was a piece of lined paper of the sort used in children’s notebooks. The message was printed in uneven capital letters. Dear Mr. Darmus – You were right. Wasn’t me, was the road. You just didn’t look far enough. Didn’t look hard enough. I don’t blame you. More to it than I can explain. And I’m not one who would be heard, anyhow. The mountain could tell it, if it could talk. I’ve had enough of this life. I really have. That accident, though, was not my fault. Not mine, not this world’s. If I felt I could make a soul believe me, I might stay around to try. I’m getting scared of what’s out there, though. I’m getting scared of the dark. I’m getting scared of what I could do in the dark. I write you for a simple reason—you can make sure people know that I won’t be the last. They’d best be watching. You tell them Wyatt French said this: sleep with one eye open.
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“ Michael Koryta’s novel is being compared to the writings of Stephen King and Peter Straub. He lives up to the comparison.” —USA TODAY
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The essential guide for puppy owners—the
classic, 600,000-copy bestseller—revised and updated for the first time in two decades. For more than 30 years, the Monks of New Skete have been among America’s most trusted authorities on dog training, canine behavior, and the animal/human bond. In their two now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend and THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY, the Monks draw on their experience as long-time breeders of German shepherds and as trainers of dogs of all breeds to provide—brilliantly distilled—the indispensable information and advice that every dog owner needs. This new edition of THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY features new photographs throughout, along with updated chapters on play, crating, adopting dogs from shelters and rescue organizations, raising dogs in an urban environment, and the latest developments in canine health and canine behavioral theory.
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• THE ART OF RAISING A PUPPY and How to be Your Dog’s Best Friend (LB, 10/78, revised, LB, 9/02) have together sold more than 1.2 million copies to date. • No other book offers such clear, compassionate, and comprehensive guidelines for raising a puppy and building a lasting, loving relationship with your dog. • In addition to revisions and updating throughout, this new edition features one monk’s personal journal of caring for a puppy through the first months of its life. • The Monks of New Skete were recently inducted into the International Association of Canine Professionals Hall of Fame. • Previous edition: ISBN 978-0-316-57839-4, 3/91
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full-force autobiography from a hero of american punk, Bob Mould, the founder of Hüsker Dü who set the standard for blazing guitars and soul-baring lyrics. Bob Mould emerged at the epicenter of America’s punk rock scene upon forming Hüsker Dü in 1979. Their music roused a generation. For the very first time, Mould opens up to tell the passionate story of life inside that furnace, creating music that mattered. He details the growth of his own music, from an early love of 1960s AM radio pop hits to the Ramones to the making of Hüsker Dü classics like “Makes No Sense At All” and “Celebrated Summer.” Revealing his struggles with homosexuality, intimate relationships, and drug and alcohol addiction, Mould takes us on a whirlwind ride, culminating with his sobriety, his solo career, creating the band Sugar, and most of all, finding his place in the world. A classic story of individualism and persistence, Mould’s autobiography is an open account of one man’s driving force, which altered the shape of American music. • For many listeners, Hüsker Dü’s album Zen Arcade (1984) was the dawn of America’s punk era. It’s a milestone of American music, filled with raging yet melodic songs that have stood the test of time. • Co-writer Michael Azerrad’s seminal history of the American punk era, This Band Could Be Your Life (Back Bay, 978-0-316-78753-6, 7/02), has sold more than 60,000 copies and singles out Bob Mould as one of music’s key influences. • Bob Mould’s openness about his sexuality is a unique and powerful aspect of his story.
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a daring thriller from the author of the terror set in the near future of a bankrupt america addicted to a dangerous drug.
The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn’t care: they’re addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom’s wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he’s lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he’s still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor’s son. This flashback addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past. A provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible, FLASHBACK proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.
• Drood (LB, 978-0-316-00702-3, 2/09) and The Terror (LB, 978-0-316-01744-2, 1/07) both debuted on the New York Times extended bestseller list. Drood will be published in mass market in 1/11. • Acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) optioned Drood months before publication and plans to direct the film. • Simmons’ ability to blend suspense with historical and literary fiction has earned praise from Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Lincoln Child, who called The Terror “nothing less than a revelation.” • Black Hills (RA, 978-0-316-00698-9, 2/10) and Drood garnered rave reviews in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times. The Terror was named a “Best Book of 2007” by Entertainment Weekly and USA TODAY.
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several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos (EOS, 6/05) and The Terror. He lives in Colorado.
Two teenagers from opposite sides of the
tracks fuel the latest from the Southern master known for his “achingly poignant and ripsnortingly funny” novels. (Raleigh News & Observer) In 1963 at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown’s Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father’s shop in their small North Carolina town. Meanwhile, Dwayne’s forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. His mother hopes music will allow him to escape the racist South. A dancing chicken and a mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams and maintain their friendship, even while their world says both are impossible. In THE NIGHT TRAIN, Edgerton’s trademark humor reminds us of our divided national history and the way music has helped bring us together.
• THE NIGHT TRAIN will remind readers of other classic coming-of-age novels, like A Separate Peace, Sounder, and To Kill a Mockingbird. • Edgerton is the author of seven bestsellers, including Raney (Algonquin, 1/85), Walking Across Egypt (Algonquin, 1/87), and Lunch at the Piccadilly (Algonquin, 1/03). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and five of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. The hardcover edition of The Bible Salesman (LB, 978-0-316-11751-7, 8/08) spent six weeks on the SIBA bestseller list. • As a songwriter with a band, Edgerton is well-qualified to write about music and musicians.
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the definitive biography of David Bowie, the first modern rock star.
“Ziggy Stardust,” “Changes,” “Under Pressure,” “Let’s Dance,” “Fame,” “Heroes,” and of course, “Starman.” These are the classic songs of David Bowie, the artist whose personas are indelibly etched in our pop consciousness alongside his music. He wrote and recorded with everyone from Iggy Pop to Freddie Mercury to John Lennon, sold 136 million albums, has one of the truly great voices, and influenced bands as wide-ranging as Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. Paul Trynka illuminates Bowie’s seemingly contradictory life and his many reinventions as an artist, offering over 300 new interviews with everyone from classmates to managers to lovers. He reveals Bowie’s broad influence on the entertainment world, from movie star to modern-day icon, trend-setter to musical innovator. This book will define Bowie for years to come.
• Exhaustively researched, including hundreds of new interviews with the most important people from David Bowie’s life, Paul Trynka has put together the authoritative biography of this legendary musician. • Trynka’s last biography, Iggy Pop (Broadway Books, 4/07), is the decisive account of Iggy Pop’s life; it received glowing print coverage, including three starred trade reviews. • Bowie is an elder-statesman with edge, and he continues to maintain a celebrated presence in pop culture through his music, his film appearances, and rumors of both unreleased recordings and a hoped-for return to the stage.
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A wide-ranging summer science read describing
the sun’s profound effects on our lives, our history, and our future. Did you know that scientists are beginning to think that the sun is safer than sunscreen? That whenever we see the sun on the horizon, it’s actually a phantom image because the sun has already set? That career pilots have a one percent higher incidence of cancer because of their time in the sky? Or that the sun’s unusual dormancy is causing our climate to be cooler than it otherwise would be? Peppered with memorable anecdotes about spectral curiosities, THE SUN’S HEARTBEAT is a robust narrative that explores the sun’s birth, its life as a self-sustaining ultra-H-Bomb fusion explosion, and its spectacular future death. Astronomer Bob Berman’s expert observations tell a dramatic story about the familiar star that crosses our sky daily.
• Bob Berman offers new theories on recent, surprising solar activity, making this a timely and newsworthy exploration. Berman offers new theories on how long the sun will last and talking points about climate change. • Berman has extensive media experience, including appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and Today, and is well-connected in science journalism. He is currently a columnist and contributing editor for Astronomy; the host of Strang e Universe, a weekly public radio program in the Northeast; and the science editor of Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Old loyalties, new intrigues, and fatal greed collide on a seemingly idyllic Greek island.
Gabrilis Kaloyeros is the caretaker for the ruined Temple of Apollo on the beautiful Greek island of Arcadia, and for decades has worked hard to protect it. But when crooked developers take over the island, he is persuaded through unscrupulous means to sign away his interest. Hours later he meets a violent, lonely death. Hermes Diaktoros finds his friend’s battered body by a dusty roadside and quickly becomes the prime suspect. But soaring property values mean that many stand to gain from Gabrilis’s death, and Hermes resolves to find the true culprit. He will avenge his old friend through methods that are, as ever, unorthodox. Anne Zouroudi tells a spellbinding mystery set in an enchanted place, where the myths of the ancient past intersect with the realities of contemporary life, with deadly results.
• Like Donna Leon’s Venetian Commissario Guido Bronetti series, and Alexander McCall Smith’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Anne Zouroudi’s novels combine smart writing, appealing characters, and foreign locales to set them apart from the mystery crowd. • Foreign rights for The Messenger of Athens (RA, 978-0316-07542-8, 7/10) have now been sold in 10 countries, and Anne Zouroudi’s books have been translated into 11 languages. • The trade paperback of The Messenger of Athens will be published in July 2011, see page 90.
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Anne Zouroudi was born in England and has lived in the Greek islands. Her attachment to Greece remains strong; the country is the inspiration for much of her writing. She now lives in northern England.
the haunting new novel of a vanished girl
and the best friend left behind from “one of the most exciting and original voices of her *lAuRA liPPMAN generation.”*
Thirteen-year-olds Lizzie Hood and Evie Verver are inseparable. To Lizzie, the Verver household is the world’s most perfect place, and her family, including her big-hearted father and impossibly glamorous older sister Dusty, is the world’s most perfect family. Then Evie disappears. The only clue: a maroon sedan Lizzie spotted earlier in the day. As panic spreads through the suburban community, everyone looks to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, upset? Would she have gotten into a stranger’s car? Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth, pushing herself to the dark center of Evie’s world. Titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secrets and lies that make her wonder if she knew her best friend at all.
• Megan Abbott won a 2008 Edgar Award for her third novel, Queenpin (Simon & Schuster, 6/07); she was nominated in 2006 and 2010 for her novels Die a Little (Simon & Schuster, 2/05) and Bury Me Deep (Simon & Schuster, 7/09). • James Ellroy, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Lisa Scottoline, and Kate Atkinson have heaped praise upon her novels, as have reviewers. • Abbott perfectly captures the poignancy of adolescence in THE END OF EVERYTHING, which may remind readers of The Virgin Suicides (FSG, 4/93).
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“Writers such as James ellroy, Richard Price, dennis lehane, donald Westlake, Walter Mosley, laura lippman, James sallis, Megan Abbott, and George Pelecanos have managed to infuse crime novels with a quality of writing not seen since the days of dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain.”
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the world’s two best assassins hunt a man who
has stolen $13 million in diamonds—with a bonus for the one who can kill the other in the process.
Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New york City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts— until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won’t stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge. Trailing him is the Ghost, the world’s greatest assassin, who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There’s only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now, the Ghost is on Bannon’s trail—but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear forever. From “America’s #1 storyteller” (Forbes) comes a high-speed, high-stakes, winner-take-all thrill ride of adrenalin-fueled suspense.
• James Patterson has sold more than 205 million copies of his books worldwide. • He is the only author to debut at #1 on five different New York Times bestseller lists: Fiction, Mass Market Fiction, Children’s Chapter Books, Children’s Series, and Nonfiction. • He is the first writer in the world to hit one million ebooks sold. • Marshall Karp has written and produced numerous TV shows, plays, and movies. He is the author of the Lomax and Biggs book series.
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Meet Spero Lucas—the newest literary hero
from george Pelecanos, new York times bestselling author and writer for the Wire. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defense attorney. He’s good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas’s specialty hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It’s the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what’s going on. But before he can close in on what’s been taken, he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life? Lucas Spero is George Pelecanos’s greatest creation, a young man making his place in the world one battle and one mission at a time. The first in a new series of thrillers featuring Spero Lucas, THE CUT is new confirmation of why George Pelecanos is “perhaps America’s greatest living crime writer.” (Stephen King).
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• The Night Gardener (978-0-316-15650-9, LB, 8/06) debuted at #12 on the New York Times bestseller list, and both The Way Home (978-0-316-15649-3, LB, 5/09) and The Turnaround (978-0-316-15647-9, LB, 8/08) debuted on the extended bestseller list. • Pelecanos was an Emmy-nominated writer and producer of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and is on the writing team of the new HBO series Treme.
A Novel George Pelecanos 978-0-316-078429
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evin Mitnick’s long-awaited memoir of computer hacking and FBi skirting, revealed now after seven years of governmentmandated silence. Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful— and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could. The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a three-year run from the FBI. He creates fake identities, finds jobs at a law firm and hospital, and keeps tabs on his myriad pursuers—all while continuing to hack into computer systems and phone company switches that were considered flawless. A modern, technology-driven adventure story, GHOST IN THE WIRES is a dramatic account of the joy of outsmarting security programs, the satisfaction of code-cracking, and the thrill of unbelievable escape.
• Kevin Mitnick’s legions of fans made his first book, the classic internet security guide The Art of Deception (Wiley, 10/02), a success, with more than 140,000 copies sold worldwide. • Like Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can (Broadway Books, 8/00), Mitnick’s story is unbelievable but true, the definitive tale of cyber crime and capture. Silenced for seven years by an agreement with the government, Mitnick is now able to provide a full account. • A glowing foreword was written by Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Inc. and one of the world’s most respected computer scientists. • William Simon is a bestselling coauthor of numerous books, including the New York Times bestselling Steve Jobs biography iCon (Wiley, 2006) and Kevin Mitnick’s previous two books. He lives in California.
ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker Kevin Mitnick with William l. simon Foreword by steve Wozniak 978-0-316-03770-9
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“Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breaches…Mitnick…reveals clever tricks of the ‘social engineering’ trade and shows how to fend —FoRBeS them off.”
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Kevin Mitnick, a one-time “most wanted” criminal of cyberspace, is now a security consultant. He is the author of The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion (Wiley 2/05). He lives in Las Vegas.
A top evolutionist uses science to address the challenges of a typical American city.
After decades of studying animals in their habitats, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had a radical idea to apply evolutionary science to the study of a city. Cities are like organisms, so why not study them as such? Inspired to become an agent of change in his postindustrial hometown, Wilson descended on its neighborhoods with a scientist’s eye. What does bullying feed on? How can we give kids the best start in life? Is spirituality expanding into new areas, or shrinking? How does neighborhood quality affect test scores? After learning how these traits “live” throughout a city, how can we improve the lives of its citizens? Filled with original research and the latest science, and written in an appealing, personal narrative, THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT is a significant book that strives to define how places define us.
The Neighborhood Project Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time David Sloan Wilson 978-0-316-03767-9
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• David Sloan Wilson has been pushing the envelope of evolutionary thought for decades: by challenging the concept of selfish genes, by studying religion as a product of evolution, and now by using evolution to improve the many aspects of everyday life. He is one of biology’s foremost, and most wide-ranging thinkers. • Wilson encourages other cities to adapt the approaches found in THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT, and the progress in Binghamton can be tracked at bhp.binghamton.edu. • He has written three academic books, authored hundreds of papers, and published Evolution for Everyone (Delacorte Press, 3/07) for a general audience. Praise for Evolution for Everyone:
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MULHOLLAND BOOKS MISSION STATEMENT Mulholland Drive is a winding stretch of road that follows the ridgeline of the Hollywood Hills. Its hairpin turns, sharp cliff faces, and breathtaking views of Los Angeles are shrouded in secrecy and imbued with drama, making them synonymous with suspense. The mysteries of Mulholland have inspired countless novels, films, and works of art, from the classic mysteries of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain to the voices of James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Michael Mann, David Lynch, and David Hockney. The goal of Little, Brown’s Mulholland Books is simple: to publish books you can’t stop reading. Whatever their form—crime novels, thrillers, police procedurals, spy stories, even supernatural suspense—the promise of a Mulholland Book is that you’ll read it leaning forward, hungry for the next word. With a focus on online community building, internet marketing, and authentic connections between authors, readers, and publisher, Mulholland Books will be at the center of a web of suspense. The history of suspense is long and storied, and Mulholland Books is proud to be part of its future. Unexpected, fresh, and with a 21st century approach to publishing, meet Mulholland:
You never know what’s coming around the curve.
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Marcia Clark on life as a d.A.:
“I wanted to re-live those times. No lights, no cameras, just people who’d been wronged and the chance to bring them justice. There were late nights and hard work, but it felt good. And it was fun.”
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Marcia Clark
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is a former Los Angeles, California, deputy district attorney and is a frequent legal commentator and columnist. She lives in Los Angeles.
The gripping, debut legal thriller by the worldrenowned former L.A. prosecutor. Los Angeles D.A. Rachel Knight is a tenacious, wise-cracking, and fiercely intelligent prosecutor in the city’s most elite division. When her colleague, Jake, is found dead at a grisly crime scene, Rachel is shaken to the core. She must take over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman from a prominent family. But she can’t stop herself from digging deeper into Jake’s death, a decision that exposes a world of power and violence and will have her risking her reputation—and her life—to find the truth. With her tremendous expertise in the nuances of L.A. courts and crime, and with a vibrant ensemble cast of characters, Marcia Clark combines intimate detail, riotous humor, and visceral action in a debut thriller that marks the launch of a major new figure on the crime-writing scene. •A s a prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson “Trial of the Century,” Marcia Clark is one of the most recognized figures from the legal world. • Clark wrote a bestselling nonfiction book about the Simpson trial, Without a Doubt (Viking, 5/97). • Clark has appeared on programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, and Today and is constantly called upon by major media to discuss hot legal topics. She is a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and writes periodically for The Daily Beast. • Already at work on her second novel, Clark is dedicated to writing at a book-a-year pace. GUILT BY ASSOCIATION has huge potential as the first of a winning legal thriller series in the vein of Lisa Scottoline. This is the first in a two-book deal. Excerpt from Guilt By Association: I’d told Bailey, “I admit, our chances of solving Jake’s case are probably going to get somewhat slimmer if we’re dead, but if I’m right, and this was random, then we’ll have shut ourselves down for no reason.” Bailey hadn’t liked it, but I’d eventually wheedled her down…on one condition: “You don’t leave the office without me. Ever. You never leave for work before 8 a.m.” Fine by me, not exactly nature’s freshest flower before noon anyway— “—and when you do walk to the courthouse, you wear a vest.” That momentarily cooled my jets. I hate those things with a blinding passion. Stiff, hot, uncomfortable—but worst of all, they make you look like Frankenstein. I’d opened my mouth to protest, but Bailey had held up her hand. “Non-negotiable, Knight.” I’d capitulated. But as I opened my closet doors, I reflected that it was a hell of a day to take my first crack at working a bullet-proof. Today, I was having lunch with Lieutenant Graden Hales, which meant I had enough wardrobe issues on my hands without worrying about body armor couture. I decided on a roomy cream-colored blazer, but had to settle for carrying my .22 Beretta, because the pockets weren’t big enough for the .357. I wouldn’t ordinarily have made that compromise, but since I’d be wearing the vest, I still felt loaded for bear.
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“ hat people say about Cormac McCarthy… goes double for Woodrell. Possibly more.” —new York magazine
In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of excons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell’s three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father. THE BAyOU TRILOGy highlights the origins of a one-of-a-kind author, a writer who for over two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.
• Woodrell’s profile has been heightened by the success of the movie adaptation of Winter’s Bone (978-316-13161-2, LB, 6/10), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. • The third novel in this collection, The Ones You Do, has been optioned by Oscar-nominated director Juanita Wilson, whose first full-length motion picture As If I’m Not There debuted at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. • Three acclaimed novels bound together in a beautiful trade paperback edition will become a prized collectible. • Woodrell is beloved by the mystery community, readers and writers alike. He has been blurbed by Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Ken Bruen, Megan Abbott, and Joe Lansdale and this trilogy turns up consistently as a favorite wherever and whenever crime fiction is discussed.
the Bayou trilogy Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing and The Ones You Do daniel Woodrell 978-0-316-13365-4
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Five of Daniel Woodrell’s eight novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A recipient of the PEN West Award, Woodrell lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.
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rand Master Lawrence Block brings his greatest character, Matthew Scudder, back into action in his most personal case. Matthew Scudder is finally on the straight and narrow when he runs into “High-Low” Jack Ellery, a childhood friend from the Bronx. In Scudder, Jack sees the moral man he might have become. In Jack, Scudder sees the hardwon sobriety he hopes to achieve. Then Ellery, following to the letter the dictates of Alcoholics Anonymous’ famous 12 steps, is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, and Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery—and get him killed in the process. Exploring themes of loss, nostalgia, and redemption, for Lawrence Block A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF circles back to how it all began, reestablishing why the Matthew Scudder series is widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of American detective fiction.
• Within the realm of mystery and suspense, Lawrence Block is a legend, a household name, and perennial favorite of readers and critics alike. Classified a Grand Master of mystery fiction, Block writes with a level of clarity and power that draws the reader in from sentence one, and holds attention throughout. • A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF is the 17th book in the Matthew Scudder series, which has sold millions of copies worldwide.
a Drop of the Hard Stuff lawrence Block 978-0-316-12733-2
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n international thriller based on one of the biggest bank heists in history. Someone is bombing the banks of Baghdad. On the streets of London, an ex-cop, Vincent Ruiz, is robbed of his briefcase. And Richard North, a top tier VP at an international finance powerhouse, vanishes. North holds the key that connects these three seemingly unrelated events—or did, until he disappeared without a trace. As Ruiz tracks down the thieves, it quickly becomes clear that he has been mistaken for someone else. Someone who still has something that powerful men want and will do anything to get back. As usual, it’s all about the money: who has it, who’s lost it, and who’s ultimately going to pay, as clandestine agents emerge from the shadows and powerful nations seek to control information and bury secrets, whatever the cost.
• From Stephen King, who selected Robotham’s most recent novel Shatter (Doubleday, 3/09) as one of his top 10 novels of 2009, to People, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post, Robotham has been widely praised. • With intense psychological suspense, rapid-fire banter, and nail-biting action, Michael Robotham’s multi-faceted approach to crime fiction announces the arrival of a talent who can be compared to many of the current masters of the genre—Ian Rankin, Elmore Leonard, and Lee Child.
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the first of three explosive pulp thrillers
arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation and Marvel Comics scribe Duane Swierczynski.
Charlie Hardie, an ex-cop still reeling from the revenge killing of his former partner’s entire family, fears one thing above all else: that the same thing will happen to him. Languishing in self-imposed exile, Charlie has become a glorified house sitter. His latest gig comes replete with an illegally squatting B-movie actress who rants about hit men that specialize in making deaths look like accidents. Unfortunately, it’s the real deal. Hardie finds himself squared off against a small army of the most lethal men in the world. It’s nothing personal—the girl just happens to be the next name on their list. For Hardie, though, it’s intensely personal. He’s not about to let more innocent people die. Not on his watch.
• Swierczynski is also known in the comic book community as a writer for top Marvel properties X-Men, Punisher, Cable, and Deadpool. Crossover coverage on comic websites will help propel this series. • He is the author of several acclaimed crime thrillers, including Severance Package (Minotaur, 5/08), which has been optioned by Lionsgate Films. • The rapid-fire release of three books over a six-month period will keep the series on the minds of readers and satisfy a rabid fan-base. The second book, Hell and Gone, will be published in August 2011 (see page 60) and the third book Point and Shoot, will be published in Fall 2011.
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chilling, relentlessly paced thriller of an evil that has crossed generations and must now be stopped, from the author Lee Child has called “the new wave leader” of crime fiction. Night and day, country music lover Detective Tom Thorne is on call to solve the most difficult crimes. It’s a schedule that has pushed his fragile relationship with his girlfriend to the breaking point. In an attempt to avoid becoming like the Hank Williams song, “A Stranger in the Night,” Thorne eagerly takes charge of what seems like, for once, an ordinary domestic murder. But when a mysterious sliver of bloodstained X-ray that was found clutched in the victim’s fist is replicated at other crime scenes around the city, it becomes clear that the past is coming back to haunt the city of London. Detective Thorne realizes that a killer is targeting the children of victims of an infamous serial killer from years before. Before everyone on the list is killed, Thorne must stop the most twisted killer he has ever hunted.
• From Lee Child and Michael Connelly to Harlan Coben, George Pelecanos, and Laura Lippman, Mark Billingham has stellar quotes from many of the world’s top names in crime and suspense fiction. • BLOODLINE is the eighth book in the Tom Thorne series, the first seven were published by Harper Collins. • The UK’s Sky1 is creating a six-part series based on Billingham’s books featuring David Morrissey (State of Play, Red Riding, Nowhere Boy), Natascha McElhone (Californication, Solaris, The Truman Show), Aidan Gillen (Queer As Folk, The Wire), and Sandra Oh (Sideways, Grey’s Anatomy).
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Mark Billingham worked as an actor, a TV
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gritty, fast-paced thriller about a young undercover cop caught up in a dangerous chase through the border underworlds of Latin america. Valentine Pescatore, a volatile rookie Border Patrol agent, is trying to survive the trenches of The Line in San Diego. He gets in trouble and finds himself recruited as an informant by Isabel Puente, a beautiful U.S. agent investigating a powerful Mexican crime family. As he infiltrates the mafia, Pescatore falls in love with Puente. But he clashes with her ally Leo Mendez, chief of a Tijuana anti-corruption unit. Politically charged violence escalates, plunging Pescatore into the lawless “triple border” region of South America and a showdown full of bloodshed and betrayal. Writing with rapid-fire intensity, Sebastian Rotella captures the despair and intrigue of the borderlands, where enforcing the law has become an act of subversion. TRIPLE CROSSING is an explosive and riveting debut.
• A prize-winning investigative journalist with 23 years of experience at the Los Angeles Times, Rotella covered the U.S.-Mexico border and knows the terrain firsthand. • John Malkovich’s production company is developing TRIPLE CROSSING as a four-part mini-series for the Sundance Channel, to air in 2011. • Fans of the movie Traffic and the television series The Wire will be drawn to this dark, realistic world of smuggling, violence, and treachery, a murky and surreal landscape that blurs the lines between cops and criminals.
triple Crossing A Novel sebastian Rotella 978-0-316-10530-9
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the second of three high-energy books from
Duane Swierczynski brings Charlie Hardie to a literal hell on earth.
Want to know why there aren’t more Zodiac killers and Mansons and Bin Ladens running loose in the world? Because they’re here—in an experimental facility hidden in a blank spot on the map. A place to send those too dangerous to kill. Where they can be contained. Studied. Neutralized. Hardie’s been whisked off to this top-secret prison as revenge for his actions in FUN AND GAMES. But he’s not an inmate. He’s the warden. He can leave at any time, but that means releasing the monsters, too—a price too steep to ever pay. But when Hardie realizes he’s unwittingly endangered his family, all bets are off, and he’s getting out—even with the most dangerous killers alive right at his heels.
• Duane Swierczynski has a high-profile blog (http:// secretdead.blogspot.com/), Twitter account, and Facebook page, and regularly contributes to top mystery/crime websites. He is the author of several acclaimed crime thrillers, including Severance Package (Minotaur, 5/08), which has been optioned by Lionsgate Films. • Duane Swierczynski understands entertainment and provides it at the highest level. The Charlie Hardie series will delight fans of action movies, comic books, and propulsive storytelling. • The first book, Fun and Games, will be published in 6/11. (see page 57) The third book, Point and Shoot, will be published in September 2011.
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Ansel Adams
Thirty-five years ago, Ansel Adams chose Little, Brown and Company as the exclusive authorized publisher of his books, calendars, and posters. He established a special Publishing Rights Trust to supervise state-of-the-art image reproduction, using superb design and the finest papers, thus ensuring the meticulous attention to reproduction quality that has always marked his work. The result of the Ansel Adams–Little, Brown collaboration has been a series of celebrated publications—perhaps the most successful singleartist publishing program in history.
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Ansel Adams 2012 WALL CALENDAR Ansel Adams
With superb reproductions of breathtaking Ansel Adams photographs, the magnificent Ansel Adams wall calendar remains an annual bestseller.
The 2012 Wall calendar features 14 exquisite, high-quality reproductions of Adams’ photographs carefully selected and ordered to reflect the changing seasons. These stunning images—majestic mountain vistas, intimate nature studies, and landscapes of the American West— will delight all year long. A classic as popular now as ever, the ANSEL ADAMS WALL CALENDAR is an elegant addition to any home or office.
Ansel Adams 2012 Wall Calendar Ansel Adams 978-0-316-12958-9
$18.99 ($20.99 in Canada) • 12 ½ x 15 ½ • 24 pgs Territories: World • Editor: Michael Sand
•P erhaps the most popular and long-lived calendar ever published, the ANSEL ADAMS WALL CALENDAR has sold over five million copies since it was first published in 1983 and more than 100,000 are sold annually. • The calendar’s superb, large-scale duotone reproductions are suitable for framing at year’s end.
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2012 ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR Ansel Adams
This classic desk calendar, with 50 reproductions of Ansel Adams photographs of the American wilderness, is both practical and a pleasure to use.
Ansel Adams 2012 Engagement Calendar Ansel Adams 978-0-316-12959-6
$18.99 ($20.99 in Canada) • 9 x 9 128 pgs • Territories: World • Editor: Michael Sand
The 2012 ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR features a wide range of Ansel Adams’ most beloved images, all impeccably printed in duotone to the high standards established by Adams himself. From iconic National Parks photographs to intricate nature and architectural studies, the selection features images both familiar and rarely seen. Ample space for recording appointments and a section of monthly calendars are provided for long-term planning. Elegant and practical, the Engagement Calendar is the perfect desk organizer and an attractive gift. • A new square format gives the calendar a fresh look and allows for the inclusion of additional vertical images.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
ANSEL ADAMS: 400 PHOTOGRAPHS
978-0-316-11772-2 $40.00 (HC) $46.50 in Canada
ANSEL ADAMS: CLASSIC IMAGE ESSAYS
978-0-8212-1629-3 $45.00 (HC) $70.00 in Canada
OUR NATIONAL PARKS
978-0-8212-1910-2 $21.99 (PB) $27.50 in Canada
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ANSEL ADAMS AT 100
978-0-8212-2515-8 $150.00 (HC) $210.00 in Canada 978-0-8212-2865-4 $40.00 (PB) $44.00 in Canada
CALIFORNIA
978-0-8212-2369-7 $55.00 (HC) $61.00 in Canada
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SOUTHWEST
978-0-8212-0699-7 $50.00 (HC) $67.50 in Canada
ANSEL ADAMS:
ANSEL ADAMS IN
THE AMERICAN
IN COLOR
THE NATIONAL PARKS
WILDERNESS
978-0-316-05641-0 $35.00 (HC) $43.00 in Canada
978-0-316-07846-7 $40.00 (HC) $49.99 in Canada
978-0-8212-1799-3 $150.00 (HC) $200.00 in Canada
EXAMPLES: THE MAKING
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
THE GRAND CANYON
OF 40 PHOTOGRAPHS
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AND THE SOUTHWEST
978-0-8212-1750-4 $39.99 (PB) $54.00 in Canada
YOSEMITE
978-0-8212-2196-9 $21.99 (PB) $28.99 in Canada
NATURAL AFFINITIES
978-0-316-11832-3 $40.00 (HC) $44.00 in Canada
978-0-8212-2650-6 $21.95 (PB) $29.95 in Canada
YOSEMITE AND THE HIGH SIERRA
978-0-8212-2134-1 $55.00 (HC) $61.00 in Canada
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CALENDARS
ANSEL ADAMS 2011
ANSEL ADAMS 2011
ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR
WALL CALENDAR
978-0-316-08061-3 $18.99/$20.99
978-0-316-08060-6 $18.99/$20.99
BIOGRAPHY
CHILDREN’S BIOGRAPHY
ANSEL ADAMS:
ANSEL ADAMS:
ANSEL ADAMS:
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
LETTERS 1916-1984
AMERICA’S
978-0-8212-1596-8 $65.00 (HC Illus. Ed.) $87.00 in Canada 978-0-8212-2241-6 $16.99 (PB) $21.50 in Canada
978-0-8212-2682-7 $17.95 (PB) $24.95 in Canada
PHOTOGRAPHER
978-0-316-82445-3 $19.95 (HC) $27.95 in Canada
TECHNICAL BOOKS
THE ANSEL ADAMS GUIDE
THE CAMERA
THE NEGATIVE
THE PRINT
Basic Techniques of Photography, Book One, Revised Edition 978-0-8212-2575-2 $38.99 (PB) $48.99 in Canada
978-0-8212-2184-6 $25.00 (PB) $29.99 in Canada
978-0-8212-2186-0 $25.00 (PB) $29.99 in Canada
978-0-8212-2187-7 $25.00 (PB) $29.99 in Canada
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There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both a sign of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. CROW PLANET is a call to experience the wildlife in our midst, reminding us that we don’t have to head to faraway places to encounter “nature.” Even in the cities and suburbs where we live we are surrounded by wildlife such as crows. Through observing them we enhance our appreciation of the world’s natural order, and find our own place in it. Haupt, a trained naturalist, uses science, scholarly research, myth, and personal observation to draw readers into the “crow stories” that unfold around us every day, culminating in a book that transforms the way we experience our neighborhoods and our world.
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Utne, Orion, Open Spaces, and other publications. She lives in West Seattle.
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“ Edna O’Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.”
—ALICE MUNRO
With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O’Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who—whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York—remind us of our own humanity. In “Send My Roots Rain,” Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel—expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of “Shovel Kings” have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland—exiles in both places. “Green Georgette” is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; “Old Wounds” illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O’Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives. • Oprah.com recently named Edna O’Brien one of the 10 great Irish writers of all time, and credits her “for paving the way for a new generation of Irish writers.” • Edna O’Brien, author of The Country Girls Trilogy (Plume, 1987), The Light of Evening (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006), Byron in Love (Norton, 2009), and other books, is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. • Selected Shorts at Manhattan’s Symphony Space will devote May 25th, 2011, to the stories in SAINTS AND SINNERS, which are to be read by various actors and introduced by Edna O’Brien. The program will be broadcast on National Public Radio. • Like the fiction of Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge; RH, 9/08), Marilynne Robinson (Home; Picador, 9/09), and Alice Munro (The View from Castle Rock; Vintage, 1/08), SAINTS AND SINNERS will be eagerly embraced by reading groups.
Excerpt from “Old Wounds,” SAINTS AND SINNERS: In our front garden, there were a few clumps of devil’s pokers—spears of smoldering crimson when in bloom, and milky yellow when not. But my mother’s sister and her family, who lived closer to the mountain, had a ravishing garden: tall festoons of pinkish-white roses, a long low border of glorious golden tulips, and red dahlias that, even in hot sun, exuded the coolness of velvet. When the wind blew in a certain direction, the perfume of the roses vanquished the smell of dung from the yard, where the sow and her young pigs spent their days foraging and snortling. My aunt was so fond of the piglets that she gave each litter pet names, sometimes the same pet names, which she appropriated from the romance novels she borrowed from the library and read by the light of a paraffin lamp, well into the night. Our families had a falling out. For several years there was no communication between us at all, and when the elders met at funerals, they did not acknowledge one another and studiously looked the other way. Yet we were still intimately bound up with each other and any news of one family was of interest to the other, even if that news was disconcerting.
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“ Edna O’Brien has, for a halfcentury, been the advance scout for the Irish imagination. There is no living Irish writer who compares in terms of style, stamina, depth, or meaning. She has consistently been the necessary edge of who we are. She is a riverrun writer, bringing us back and propelling us forward—continuing, always, to create arias of belonging.” —COLUM MCCANN, AUTHOR OF 2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
“ One great virtue of Edna O’Brien’s writing is the sensation it gives of a world made new by language....A lyric language which is all the more trustworthy because it issues from a sensibility that has known the costs as well as the rewards of being alive.” —SEAMUS HEANEY, FROM “CITATION, LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD”
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great page-turner....Feinstein paints a very personal picture of the obstacles players on —CHICAGO NOW the tour have to overcome.” After dominating the world of golf from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled with his game in 2003, allowing four relative unknowns to win major championships. Mike Weir triumphed in the Masters, becoming the first Canadian to win a major. Jim Furyk emerged victorious in the U.S. Open. In the British Open, Ben Curtis became the first player since Francis Ouimet in 1913 to win while playing in his first major championship. And Shaun Micheel prevailed at the PGA Championship with the first tour victory of his career. How does one moment of glory affect the unsung underdog for years to follow? John Feinstein chronicles the golfers’ experiences and brings his unique insights to the ways their success has changed—and haunted—their lives forever.
• MOMENT OF GLORY appeared on The Wall Street Journal’s Sports & Recreation bestseller list. • John Feinstein is the pre-eminent golf writer in America. From his early bestsellers A Good Walk Spoiled (LB, 6/95) and The Majors (LB, 4/99) to his recent Are You Kidding Me? with Rocco Mediate (LB, 5/09), Feinstein gets to the heart of golf’s greatest dramas. • PGA tournaments draw millions of spectators and television viewers each year and provide abundant opportunities for promoting John Feinstein’s books on golf. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-02531-7, 5/10
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• So Cold the River sold through four hardcover printings (37,000 copies) and marked a stunning turn in Koryta’s career, which is now advancing at warp speed. It will be published in trade paperback in January 2011. • Little, Brown will publish Koryta’s new novel, The Ridge, in June 2011 (see page 36). • Koryta’s fiction has been translated into twenty languages and there are more than a quarter-million copies of his books in print worldwide. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-05372-3, 1/11
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• THE LANGUAGE GOD TALKS has garnered praise from readers of all ages and backgrounds—from Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel to novelist Marisha Pessl to Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. • The book’s signature blend of science, religion, history, and personal reminiscence holds appeal for a broad and diverse audience. • Herman Wouk’s acclaimed books include The Will to Live On, This Is My God, Pulitzer Prize-winner The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. • Herman Wouk, at age 95, remains a towering figure in contemporary American letters. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-07845-0, 4/10
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• C STREET was serialized in both Harper’s magazine and The Nation, and was featured in a cover story of The Advocate. • The Family (Harper Perennial, 2/09) appeared on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list for more than six months and has sold more than 139,000 paperback copies. • A s the leading expert on the Family and fundamentalist politicians, Jeff Sharlet makes frequent appearances on TV programs ranging from The Daily Show to Hardball to The Rachel Maddow Show. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-09107-7, 9/10
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“ Is there a more deft storyteller around than Anita Shreve? RESCUE is by turns harrowing and heartfelt.” —RICHARD RUSSO, AUTHOR OF THAT OLD CAPE MAGIC
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“ A beautiful novel about the limits of forgiveness and the fragility of family. Pitch-perfect all the way to the final line.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Moonlight Mile
Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair—and in Sheila’s troubled world. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course, and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila’s return is sure to unleash all the questions he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel? A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, RESCUE is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again. • More than 10 million copies of Anita Shreve’s novels have been sold in the United States alone. Since 2001, Shreve’s books have spent 100-plus weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. • Shreve’s previous novel, A Change in Altitude (LB, 9/09) appeared on the New York Times hardcover and trade paperback bestseller lists and has sold 230,000 copies. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-02072-5, 11/10
“ With taut, evocative prose, Anita Shreve takes us deeply into a single father’s love for his daughter. His profession is rescuing strangers from serious harm, but what if those closest to him are beyond rescue? What if some of us are seemingly beyond saving?” —Andre Dubus III, author of The Garden of Last Days
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“ This book is why I love Anita Shreve: her prose is so flawlessly disciplined and elegant; the characters seem too real to be made out of words and the story she unfolds is gripping, fiercely intelligent, and deeply moving. RESCUE is a literary novel for those ruled by the —Augusten Burroughs, author of You Better Not Cry heart.”
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“ Great good fun.... A lively and edifying history of the elements.... An engrossing, adventurous read.” —SALON.COM
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements Sam Kean 978-0-316-05163-7 $14.99 ($16.99 in Canada) • Science • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 416 pgs
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The surprise runaway bestseller that’s “Ebullient.... A timely conversation piece....A nonstop parade of lively science stories” (New York Times). Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it’s also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. THE DISAPPEARING SPOON masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery—from the Big Bang through the end of time. *Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear. • A n immediate New York Times bestseller, already in its seventh hardcover printing (59,500 copies to date). • THE DISAPPEARING SPOON is science for a broad readership, edifying in the classroom yet entertaining enough to read at the beach. • T he periodic table is not yet complete and is therefore a topic of exciting and newsworthy science: the race to discover the next elements is on and the competition is fierce. • Sam Kean has signed on to write two more books on science and history for Little, Brown, to be published in 2012 and 2014. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-05164-4, 7/10
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“ This is nonfiction to make you sound smart over summertime gin and tonics: the human history behind the periodic table.” —TIME “That mystifying chart on the wall in high school chem class, decoded.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES
“ Irresistible....Kean is brimming with puckish wit, and his love for the elements is downright infectious....He gives science a whiz-bang verve so that every page becomes one you cannot wait to turn just to see what he’s going to reveal next.... The alchemy of this book is the way Kean makes you see and experience and appreciate the world differently, with a real sense of wonder and a joy of discovery, this is downright elemental.” —BOSTON GLOBE “ Kean’s conversational prose sizzles....His palpable enthusiasm and the thrill of knowledge and invention the book imparts can infect even the most right-brained reader.” —MIAMI HERALD “ Kean unpacks the periodic table’s bag of tricks with such aplomb and fascination that material normally as heavy as lead transmutes into gold.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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tender, sweetly comic first novel about the perils of fitting in, told “with humor and compassion” (Boston Globe). At the outset of World War II, Jack Rosenblum and his family escape Berlin for London. Jack embraces the welcome pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like “the English.” He acquires Saville Row suits and a Jaguar. He never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse. But one key item—membership in a golf club— remains elusive. So Jack hatches a wild idea: he’ll build his own golf course. Jack’s wife, Sadie, does not share this obsession. She wants to cook her mother’s recipes and remember the life they left behind. But when Jack relocates them to the country, Sadie watches their savings deplete as he pursues his quixotic dream. In this gently surprising first novel, Natasha Solomons tells the captivating love story of a couple making a new life—and their wildest dreams—come true.
• Movie rights have been sold, and Film Four, who made Four Weddings and a Funeral, will produce the film version of the novel. • A #1 international bestseller. • The novel’s bittersweet humor and World War II nostalgia make it a winning choice for reading groups. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-07758-3, 6/10
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“A beguiling debut novel sure to appeal to the legion of fans of novels like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
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MR. ROSENBLUM DREAMS IN ENGLISH was inspired in part by her childhood memories of her grandparents’ cottage, bought with restitution money from Germany. The recipes in the novel are from her grandmother’s ancient cookbook.
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• The raw, honest voice of Mary Gooch reveals a new truth about body image and self worth—and gives reading groups plenty to discuss. • Lansens’s previous novel, The Girls, was a book club favorite and has sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.S. • T HE WIFE’S TALE immerses us in the life of a contemporary woman in much the same way that Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone (Pocket, 1992) and Julia Glass’s Three Junes (Pantheon, 2002) do—and will strongly appeal to readers of those bestselling novels. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-06931-1, 2/10
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“ Lansens’s rendering of the hell that is compulsive eating somehow transcends....Mary Gooch becomes real and unforgettable.” —SLATE.COM
Ontario. She took the journey, along with the heroine of THE WIFE’S TALE, to America’s Pacific coast and lives with her family in Los Angeles.
UNBOUND recounts the amazing journey
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that 30 women and 86,000 men took in an effort to escape Chiang Kai-shek’s advancing soldiers....A unique look at a turning point for —HOUSTON PRESS China.” In October 1934, 30 brave Chinese women left their respective homes to join the Chinese Communist Army and march against the hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers who had surrounded them. Together with 86,000 Red Army soldiers—including future Chinese leaders Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Zhou Enlai—these women embarked on an epic escape, covering more than 4,000 brutal miles in the course of one year. The journey would be one of the most horrific in history, but remarkably almost every woman would live to tell the tale. And then they were forgotten. In UNBOUND Dean King reveals the astonishing true story of this tiny group of revolutionaries. A landmark piece of historical detective work and dramatic storytelling, King’s book is an unforgettable tale of love, friendship, and survival against all odds.
• Like many of the most successful paperbacks on China— from Life and Death in Shanghai (Penguin, 5/88) to Wild Swans (Touchstone, 8/03) to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House, 2/06)—UNBOUND has women as its central characters. Not only does it have potential with readers of history and narrative nonfiction, but with reading groups, too. • There are more than 100,000 copies of Dean King’s Skeletons on the Zahara (LB, 2/04) in print. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-16708-6, 3/10
Unbound A True Story of War, Love, and Survival Dean King 978-0-316-16709-3
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“King has done brilliant work bringing the march to life with a plethora of vivid, well-researched details....The evocations of the marchers’ experiences will linger long after the historical details slip from readers’ memories.” —RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
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A tour de force by one of the foremost
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authorities on global Muslim politics.”
—JOHN L. ESPOSITO, AUTHOR OF THE FUTURE OF ISLAM
This extremely provocative and illuminating “what if” journey through history, geopolitics, and religion investigates whether there is something unique in Islam and its followers that breeds violence and conflict. Spanning the rise of Muhammad to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day, the book examines and analyzes the roots of terrorism, the conflicts in Israel and Chechnya, and the role of Islam in supporting and energizing the anti-imperial struggle. Fuller’s startling conclusion? Contrary to the claims of many of today’s most respected politicians, thinkers, theologians, and soldiers, East-West relations in a world without Islam might not look vastly different from what we see today. And, thankfully, such recognition provides a map to a more peaceful future, making A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM both a brilliant examination of the past and a visionary look forward.
• A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM is already sparking extensive debate and controversy in its first months of publication in hardcover. • The paperback edition will include a new afterword in which Fuller examines more recent events in light of his thesis. • A s a former operations officer and later vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA and now as an academic, Fuller is unlike most who write about the Middle East. He has extensive ground-level knowledge of Middle Eastern issues and the region’s politics, languages, and history. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-04119-5, 8/10
A World Without Islam Graham E. Fuller 978-0-316-04120-1
$14.99 ($16.99 in Canada) • Political Science • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 352 pgs Publishing background: LB hardcover • Territories: World Editor: Geoff Shandler
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Graham E. Fuller is an adjunct professor of
history at Simon Fraser University and has written numerous books and articles about the Middle East. He lived and worked in the Muslim world for nearly two decades and now resides in Squamish, B.C.
It’s sci-fi as only Rick Moody could write it—
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in turns touching and outrageous.”
–VERY SHORT LIST
Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won’t sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching a manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet’s first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the Arizona desert. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. Its crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.
• For fans of 1970s classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Catch-22, and The Crying of Lot 49. • Space travel continues to fascinate, as shown by the recent 40th anniversary commemorations of the Apollo moon landing and renewed international interest in a manned mission to Mars. • Moody has received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-11891-0, 7/10
The Four Fingers of Death A Novel Rick Moody 978-0-316-11893-4
$15.99 ($17.99 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 752 pgs
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“ Entertaining and often poignant.”
—THE NEW YORKER
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Anne Zouroudi writes beautifully—her books
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have all the sparkle and light of the island landscapes in which she sets them.”
—ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched by the modern world. So when the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police—governed more by archaic rules of honor than by the law—are quick to close the case, dismissing her death as an accident. Then a stranger arrives, uninvited, from Athens, announcing his intention to investigate further. Hermes Diaktoro’s methods of investigation are unorthodox, and his message to the islanders is plain—tell the truth or face the consequences. But Hermes brings his own mystery into the web of dark secrets and lies. Who has sent him to Thiminos, and on whose authority is he acting? Rich in images of Greece’s beautiful islands and evoking a life unknown to most outsiders, this compelling novel leads the reader into a world where the myths of the past are not forgotten, and forbidden passion still has dangerous consequences.
• The start of a captivating new crime series about modern Greece, the Seven Deadly Sins, and a stranger with the key to every secret. • Little, Brown will publish Zouroudi’s second novel featuring Hermes Diaktoros, The Taint of Midas, in 7/11 (see page 42). • Publication rights have now been sold in 10 countries. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-075428, 7/10
The Messenger of Athens A Novel Anne Zouroudi 978-0-316-069915
$14.99 ($16.99 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 352 pgs Publishing background: RAB hardcover • Territories: U.S., Canada and Open Market • Editor: Reagan Arthur
“A cautionary tale about the deadly sin of lust—a riveting story told with the help of flashbacks and in a mix of first-and third-person voices. It proves as surprising as a classic detective story, and as sad and inevitable as an —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ancient Greek drama.”
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“Atmospheric....Zouroudi has a deft way with words and an uncanny ability to create a sense of place.”
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Mesmerizing...wonderfully engaging...
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absolutely satisfying....Ferraris uses her firsthand knowledge to write books that open up a closed world.” —HUFFINGTON POST Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner’s office, is determined to make her work mean something. When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. Katya soon discovers that the dead girl was a young filmmaker named Leila whose controversial documentaries earned her many enemies. Was it Leila’s connection to an incendiary Koranic scholar or a missing American man that got her killed? In CITY OF VEILS, the award-winning novelist Zoë Ferraris combines a thrilling, fast-paced mystery with a rare and intimate look into women’s lives in the Middle East. • Z oë Ferraris’s first novel, Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin, 6/08), won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for First Fiction, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a Book Sense pick, and won the ALA Alex Award for (adult to YA) crossover novels. • CITY OF VEILS reprises characters readers have come to love from Finding Nouf. Ferraris will do call-ins and other outreach to book clubs and libraries eager for the follow-up to her beloved debut. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-07427-8, 8/10
City of Veils A Novel Zoë Ferraris 978-0-316-07426-1
$14.99 ($16.99 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 416 pgs
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“ A formidably talented writer....An adroitly plotted, fast-paced mystery....Ferraris’s characters are compelling and utterly human.” —BOSTON GLOBE
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“ A devastating memoir....Clegg’s book is both harrowing and hopeful: a triumph.”
—PEOPLE
Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man A Memoir Bill Clegg 978-0-316-05466-9
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Bill Clegg
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is a literary agent in New York. PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN is his first book.
“ Riveting....A spare, elegant book...You won’t be able to stop reading until it’s all gone—and you will crave more.”
—VOGUE
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, representing a growing list of writers. He had a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind to want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life— and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN is an utterly compelling narrative—lyrical, irresistible, harsh, and honest—from which you simply cannot look away.
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• The hardcover edition, now in its third printing (39,000 copies), appeared on the extended New York Times bestseller list and was an “Editors’ Choice” selection. • A uniquely compelling addition to the literature of addiction, which includes such notable recent bestsellers as David Sheff’s Beautiful Boy (Mariner, 1/09) and Mary Karr’s Lit (Harper Perennial, 11/09). • T he book’s dark subject matter aside, this is a work of startling ambition and accomplishment—the debut of an outstandingly gifted writer. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-05467-6, 6/10
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“ Rings true in brutal, blunt strokes.”
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“ Mesmerizing....Reading it is like letting the needle down on a Nick Drake album. Clegg tells his story in short, atmospheric paragraphs, each separated by white space, each its own strobe-lighted snapshot of decadent poetic memory....Clegg can write.” —NEW YORK TIMES
“ Clegg spares no one’s feelings, least of all his own; it’s not the brutality that makes this book worthwhile but rather the strange beauty of the stream-of-consciousness prose.” —GQ
“ This narrative of addiction is itself addictive, and strangely beautiful.”
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“ Beautifully rendered in spare and elegant prose, a rumination on the human condition that recalls William Styron’s memoir of depression, Darkness Visible.” —CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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wildly brilliant and precocious first novel.... This young writer is astonishingly talented, and her writing can steal any scene.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
All the world’s a stage—and nowhere is that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. A teacher has had an affair with his underage student, and though her friends pretend to be dismayed, they are secretly curious and jealous. They obsessively examine the details of the affair under the watchful eye of their stern and enigmatic saxophone teacher, whose focus may not be as strictly on their upcoming recital as she implies. When the local drama school turns the story of the scandal into their year-end show, the real world and the world of the theater are forced to meet. With both performances—the musicians’ and the acting students’— approaching, the boundaries between dramas real and staged, private and public, begin to dissolve. THE REHEARSAL is a tender portrait of teenage yearning and adult regret, an exhilarating, darkly funny, provocative novel about the complications of human desire.
• THE REHEARSAL was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize. • Eleanor Catton is the recipient of the prestigious Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship to study at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-07433-9, 5/10
The Rehearsal A Novel Eleanor Catton 978-0-316-074322
$14.99 (NCR) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 336 pgs
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“Imagine Sue Sylvester’s lines from Glee delivered by Judi Dench and you’ll begin to capture the tone taken by the —NEW YORK TIMES teachers in this mordant debut novel.” “Satisfaction derives from the extraordinarily inventive writing and a plot that works on multiple levels.” —NPR.ORG
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Back Bay Readers’ Picks - Fall 2010 Your guide to books for Reading Groups from Back Bay
Men and Dogs Katie Crouch 978-0-316-00214-1 $13.99/$15.50 April 2011
Saints and Sinners
Edna O’Brien 978-0-316-12272-6 $13.99/$15.50 May 2011
The Wife’s Tale
Lori Lansens 978-0-316-06932-8 $14.99/NCR July 2011
Just Let Me Lie Down
Day for Night
Rescue
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
Kristin van Ogtrop 978-0-316-06829-1 $14.99/$16.99 April 2011
Anita Shreve 978-0-316-02073-2 $14.99/$16.99 June 2011
Frederick Reiken 978-0-316-077576 $14.99/$16.99 April 2011
Natasha Solomons 978-0-316-07759-0 $13.99/NCR June 2011
Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man Bill Clegg 978-0-316-05466-9 $14.99/$16.99 August 2011
City of Veils Zoë Ferraris 978-0-316-07426-1 $14.99/$16.99 August 2011
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The Dogs of Babel
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The Heretic’s Daughter
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The Lovely Bones
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Secrets to Happiness
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When Everything Changed
When Will There Be Good News?
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Winter’s Bone
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A perennial bestseller with more than 250,000 copies sold, this ingenious and now-classic field guide to identifying wildflowers has been given a fresh new look. At the heart of NEWCOMB’S WILDFLOWER GUIDE is a revolutionary identification system based on natural structural features that are easily visible even to the untrained eye. Upon encountering an unknown plant in the field, the reader asks himself a brief series of questions—about flower type, plant type, leaf type, etc.—and is directed to the page on which the plant can be found. A beautiful illustration on the facing page confirms the identification. This handsome, pocket-size guide—which encompasses all the wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines of northeastern and north-central North America— features more than 1,200 illustrations, 175 of them in full color. It carries the official endorsement of the Garden Club of America. • bullet
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• NEWCOMB’S WILDFLOWER GUIDE was originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown in 1977. The paperback edition, released in 1989, has sold through 18 printings—and is now graced with a handsome new cover.
Lawrence Newcomb Illustrated by Gordon Morrison 978-0-316-60442-0
$19.99 ($25.99 in Canada) • Nature/Wildflowers • 4 ¾ x 7 ¾ 512 pgs • 1,025 b/w drawings • 175 4/c drawings • Territories: World English • Editor: Terry Adams
“I have tried Newcomb’s key on flowers I know, and have been delighted by the ease with which they can be identified. The illustrations seem clear, precise, and definitive. This very salutary combination should make this guide a boon to the amateur as well as the profes—ELIOT PORTER sional botanist.” “This book has the potential for reintroducing a generation of new amateurs—young and old—to the pleasures of knowing the wildflowers.” —ROLAND C. CLEMENT, NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
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Lawrence Newcomb (1911–1981) was a bank auditor by profession
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these bestselling field guides. The ultimate field guide for today’s birders—the most comprehensive, most colorful, most useful identification guide to the birds of North America ever produced. It encompasses: • 854 species, from backyard favorites to the latest highinterest rarities • 3,400 stunning color photographs organized in an uncluttered, easy-to-view format • All significant plumages, including male, female, summer, winter, immature, morphs, notable subspecies, and birds in flight • The most complete identification clues of any North American field guide • A special downloadable bonus CD featuring more than 600 bird sounds
The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• Spring 2011 will be the first birding season for this landmark field guide, which was published to an outpouring of critical acclaim in October 2010.
Donald and Lillian Stokes 978-0-316-01050-4
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816 pages • 3,400 4/c photos • 674 maps • Territories: World Editor: Tracy Behar
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How Music Works
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Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook
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Stuntman! Hal Needham 978-0-316-07899-3 $25.99/$28.99
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Marriage and Other Acts of Charity
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My Paper Chase
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Hard Revolution
The Naming of the Dead
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Cleaving Julie Powell 978-0-316-00337-7 $14.99/$16.99
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Connected Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, James H. Fowler, PhD 978-0-316-03613-9 $15.99/$17.99
Daniel Martin John Fowles 978-0-316-29039-5 $16.99/$18.99
He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back
Next
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James Hynes 978-0-316-05193-4 $14.99/$16.99
Hell to Pay
Outliers
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Malcolm Gladwell 978-0-316-01793-0 $16.99/$18.99
Holidays on Ice
A Question of Blood
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The Imperial Cruise
Resurrection Men
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The Island
Right As Rain
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In CHEAP We Trust
So Cold the River
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The Lineup
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Lunch in Paris
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The Magus
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Exit Music
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Doors Ian Rankin 978-0-316-07878-8 $14.99/NCR
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A Lucky Child
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When Everything Changed Gail Collins 978-0-316-01404-5 $15.99/$17.99
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The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America Donald Stokes, Lillian Stokes 978-0-316-01050-4 $24.99/$27.99
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