SEPTEMBER 2014 THROUGH MARCH 2015
L I T T L E , B R O W N • M U L H O L L A N D B O O K S • B A C K B AY B O O K S
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Dear friends, Temptation is everywhere, particularly for those of us who work with books. There’s always a new galley coming across our desks, teasing us with its untold pleasures. It’s a constant battle to stay focused, and maybe that’s why we are all so enthralled with Walter Mischel, the legendary psychologist who has tested children—and their ability to demonstrate self control—for decades. In THE MARSHMALLOW TEST, he’s going to show us all that self-control is an acquirable skill, one that can be mastered with terrific benefits in every area of our lives. But this Fall/Winter list is one that might melt even the steeliest resolve. In NEVERHOME, Laird Hunt’s masterful Civil War novel, you’ll travel the road home with one of the most fascinating soldiers you’ve ever read. We’re thrilled to welcome David Bezmozgis to our list with his brilliant novel about personal history and responsibility, THE BETRAYERS. Harriet Lane’s chilling novel, HER, peels back the layers of a fraught and dangerous female friendship. Several of our bestselling authors are back: James Patterson’s greatest Alex Cross cliff hanger is concluded in HOPE TO DIE; Michael Connelly has dreamed up Harry Bosch’s most challenging case yet in THE BURNING ROOM; and Elin Hilderbrand shows us what island life is like at Christmas with her new novel WINTER STREET. Flyboys author James Bradley returns to bring fresh insight into EastWest relations with THE CHINA MIRAGE. Karen Page revolutionizes our pantries once again with THE VEGETARIAN FLAVOR BIBLE, and beloved NPR critic Maureen Corrigan examines the vast pleasures of reading—and re-reading— The Great Gatsby. Oh, and did I mention that we’re publishing the incomparable Carlos Santana’s memoir? I hope that the dazzling array of titles we’re presenting here will do some serious damage to your willpower, and that you’ll find yourself putting aside all the things you should do in favor of the pure delight of a great book. Once you have, let me know what you think! All the best,
Reagan Arthur reagan.arthur@hbgusa.com
SEpteMBEr 2014 – MARCH 2015
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table of contents
Little, brown hardcovers About Time
The David Foster Wallace Reader
41
Vahram Muratyan
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year
Steve Fraser 50
Matthieu Ricard
Delicious Foods: A Novel
23
56-57
James Hannaham The Dynamite Room: A Novel
69
Jason Hewitt The Fifth Heart
The Beatles Lyrics
11
Tavis Smiley with David Ritz
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death 61 of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
44
David Foster Wallace
65
Dan Simmons
Hunter Davies The Betr ayers: A Novel
12-13
David Bezmozgis The Book of Wanderings: A Mother-Daughter Pilgrimage
10
James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge The Burning Room
James Bradley A Cool and Lonely Cour age: The Untold Story Sister Spies in Occupied France
Susan Ottaway
21
51
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Edited by Larry Siems 48- 49
Harriet Lane Hope to Die
24-25
14-15
David Perlmutter, MD
Her: A Novel 43
Fredrik T. Olsson The China Mir age: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
The Gr ain Br ain Cookbook: More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health
GuantĂĄnamo Diary 34-35
Michael Connelly Chain of Events: A Novel
54-55
Vani Hari 67
Kimberly Meyer Burn
The Food Babe Way: Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days
38
James Patterson Houses of Civil War America: The Homes of Robert E . Lee, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and Others Who Shaped the Era
42
Hugh Howard, Original Photography by Roger Straus III
In the Red: A Novel
20
Elena Mauli Shapiro
Ruhlman’s How to Roast: Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook
31
Michael Ruhlman
Know Your Beholder: A Novel
59
Adam Rapp
See How Small: A Novel
52
Scott Blackwood
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures
70 Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
William deBuys
64
Jeffrey Lieberman, MD
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live Expanded Anniversary Edition
22
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
17
Maureen Corrigan
James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
Spoiled Br ats: And Other Stories The Lost Boys Symphony: A Novel
68
Mark Andrew Ferguson
Stiletto: A Novel
Man at the Helm: A Novel
66
32
Simon Rich 60
Daniel O’Malley
Nina Stibbe The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
58
Rob Dunn Mark Twain’s America: A Celebration in Words and Images
30
8-9
47
The Vegetarian Flavor Bible
26-27
Karen Page Photographs by Andrew Dornenburg What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night
40
Refe and Susan Tuma 18-19
Laird Hunt NYPD Red 3
36-37
Carlos Santana
George Pelecanos Neverhome
16
Seth Casteel The Universal Tone: My Life
Walter Mischel The Martini Shot: A Novella and Short Stories
33
Frederick Barthelme Underwater Puppies
Harry L. Katz and the Library of Congress Foreword by Lewis Lapham The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
There Must Be Some Mistake: A Novel
Winter Street: A Novel
28
Elin Hilderbrand 63
James Patterson & Marshall Karp One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History
46
ansel adams
Peter Manseau Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac
29
Mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza Private Vegas
AN S E L ADA M S Bac k li st 45
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin
39
David Ritz The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
62
Dominic Tierney Ruhlman’s How to Br aise: Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook
Michael Ruhlman
Ansel adams in yosemite valley
53
94 95 -97
mulholland books Brood
back bay 76
Chase Novak Broken Monsters
72-73
88
79
80
78
Kazuaki Takano Hardcase: A Novel
81
86-87
91
84
Thomas O’Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy She’s Leaving Home: A Novel
85
82-83
89
Watching You: A Novel
108
134
122-123
114-115
Donna Tartt I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Iron Horses: America’s Race to Bring the Railroads West
104-105
77
110
Robert Hilburn 120
Ted Thompson 111
Nina Stibbe 106-107
Eleanor Catton The Maid’s Version: A Novel
90
112
Walter R. Borneman
The Luminaries: A Novel
Joe Lansdale Michael Robotham
The Goldfinch: A Novel
Love , Nina: A Nanny Writes Home
Richard Lange The Thicket: A Novel
Frog Music: A Novel
The Land of Steady Habits: A Novel
Stephen Lloyd Jones Sweet Nothing: Stories
For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Johnny Cash: The Life
William Shaw The String Diaries: A Novel
100
Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb
Michael Robotham Serpents In the Cold
129
Brad Stone
Emma Donoghue
C.J. Sansom Life or Death
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
92
William Shaw Lamentation
The Double: A Novel
Rosemary Mahoney
David Morrell The Kings of London
The Directive: A Novel
75
Dan Simmons Inspector of the Dead
102
George Pelecanos
C. J. Sansom Genocide of One
Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football
Matthew Quirk
Sebastian Rotella Dominion: A Novel
128
Nicholas Dawidoff 74
Robin Cook The Convert’s Song: A Novel
The Bear: A Novel
Claire Cameron
Duane Swierczynski Coma: A Novel
113
Dan Simmons
Lauren Beukes Canary
The Abominable: A Novel
101
Daniel Woodrell The Matchmaker : A Novel
124-125
Elin Hilderbrand Oper ation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen
118
The Outcasts: A Novel
103
Kathleen Kent The Red Road: A Novel
133
Denise Mina Red Sky in Morning: A Novel
109
Paul Lynch Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By
119
Timothy Wilson Foreword by Daniel Gilbert Saints of the Shadow Bible: A Novel
127
Ian Rankin The Str anger: Barack Obama in the White House
126
Chuck Todd Those Who Wish Me Dead: A Novel
116-117
Michael Koryta The Three: A Novel
121
Sarah Lotz To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel
130-131
Joshua Ferris The Visionist: A Novel
132
Rachel Urquhart Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life
137
Chris Kresser
little, brown trade paperback Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE® Way
140
Deborah Carlisle Solomon The Blood Sugar Solution: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now!
138-139
Mark Hyman, MD The Stokes Beginner’s Guide to the Birds of North America
Donald and Lillian Stokes
136
Holiday backlist
142-143
reader’s picks
144
Hachette Speakers Bureau
145
Spring/Summer 2014 backlist
146-148
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“The discoveries that grew out of the marshmallow studies add up to one of the most insightful research stories in the history of psychology. Whatever it is now, your view of human nature will change profoundly as you read this brilliant book.”
the Marshmallow test Mastering Self-Control Walter mischel 978-0-316-23087-2
$29.00 ($32.00 in Canada) • Psychology • 6 x 9 ¼ • 304 pgs 4 b/w illustrations • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: Brockman, inc. • editor: Tracy Behar e-book: 978-0-316-23085-8 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
miCheLe TOLeLA mYerS
—dANieL KAhNemAN, AuThOr OF ThiNkiNG, FasT aNd sloW
Walter Mischel
holds the Robert Johnston Niven chair as Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology at Columbia University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in New York.
Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child sits in front of a tray with one marshmallow on one side and two on the other. He is told he can either eat the one now or wait and get the two later. What will he do? And what are the implications for his behavior later in life? The world’s leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life. Self-control predicts SAT scores and sense of self-worth; helps us regulate painful emotions; protects us against stress; and lets us reach the goals that matter to us. But is self-control prewired, or can it be taught? In THE MARSHMALLOW TEST, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and what its implications are for parenting, education, public policy, personal success, and more. Engaging and authoritative, THE MARSHMALLOW TEST will change our views about human nature. • Mischel is the third-ranked living psychologist of the 20th century, according to the APA. • THE MARSHMALLOW TEST is a compelling combination of important research and practical application that has implications for every reader, and will appeal to fans of Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Goleman. • THE MARSHMALLOW TEST integrates more than 50 years of in-depth groundbreaking research by Mischel and his colleagues. It is his first popular book.
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Excerpt from The Marshmallow Test: As my students and my children can testify, self-control does not come naturally to me. I have been known to call my students in the middle of the night to ask how the latest data analysis was going, even though it began only that evening. At dinners with friends, to my embarrassment my plate is often the first to be clean, when others are far from done. My own impatience, and the discovery that strategies to keep it in check can be learned, has kept me studying self-control for a lifetime. The Marshmallow Test, and the experiments that have followed over the last 50 years, have helped stimulate a remarkable wave of research on self-control. It began in the 1960s with preschoolers at Stanford University’s Bing Nursery School, in a simple study that challenged them with a tough dilemma. We gave the children a choice between one marshmallow that they could have immediately, and two marshmallows, for which they would have to wait, alone, for up to 20 minutes. The struggles we observed as these children tried to restrain themselves from eating the one marshmallow could bring tears to your eyes, leave you roaring with empathic laughter, and give you fresh hope for the potential of even young children to resist temptation and persevere for their delayed rewards. But what does the Marshmallow Test really show? Is the ability to delay gratification prewired? How can it be taught? What is its downside? This book speaks to these questions, and the answers are often surprising.
September hardcover
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Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to new York City—and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career.
At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord, whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding, has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of welldressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With no clear crime or evidence, Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the demented caller seriously—and is drawn into an underground criminal world of terrifying depravity.
• The Michael Bennett series is the #1 bestselling New Yorkbased detective series ever, with over 14 million Michael Bennett books sold worldwide. • The previous book in the Michael Bennett series, Gone (LB, 978-0-316-21098-0), was released in September 2013, and has already shipped more than 600,000 copies. The paperback will be released in June 2014 (GCP, 9781-455-51584-4). • Michael Ledwidge is the author of ten novels including seven New York Times bestsellers co-authored with James Patterson. He lives with his wife and three children in Connecticut.
Burn James Patterson & michael Ledwidge 978-0-316-21104-8
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 416 pgs Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK: random house uK; Performance rights: James Patterson entertainment • editor: reagan Arthur Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-5547-4 • $35.00/$39.00 Large Print edition: 978-0-316-41063-2 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-21102-4 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr.’s assassination. Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling author and awardwinning broadcaster Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of King’s life, revealing the minister’s trials and tribulations—denunciations by the press, rejection from the president, dismissal by the country’s black middle class and militants, assaults on his character, ideology, and political tactics, to name a few—all of which he had to rise above in order to lead and address the racism, poverty, and militarism that threatened to destroy our democracy. Smiley’s DEATH OF A KING paints a portrait of a leader and visionary in a narrative different from all that have come before. Here is an exceptional glimpse into King’s life—one that adds both nuance and gravitas to his legacy as an American hero.
• Smiley has a wide audience thanks to his PBS and PRI programs. He has over 245,000 Twitter followers and is the author of multiple previous New York Times bestsellers, including What I Know For Sure (Doubleday, 2006) and The Covenant with Black America (Third World Press, 2007). • As Bill O’Reilly’s most recent books have shown, the public is fascinated by the stories surrounding the deaths of our most famous leaders. • David Ritz is the author of two biographies and several novels. He co-wrote with Tavis Smiley on their previous bestseller What I Know for Sure, and Ritz has collaborated with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Etta James, and Smokey Robinson.
Death of a king The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year Tavis Smiley with david ritz 978-0-316-33276-7
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Biography • 6 x 9 ¼ • 304 pgs 8 pp b/w insert • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Vigliano Associates, Ltd. editor: John Parsley Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-2868-3 • $35.00/$39.00 Large Print edition: 978-0-316-41065-6 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-33275-0 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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“A brilliant dissection… It’s harrowing, but also thrilling, to see our nature revealed with such unflinching precision. This outstanding novel definitively establishes Bezmozgis as one of the foremost writers of his generation.” —BeN FOuNTAiN, WiNNer OF The NATiONAL BOOK CriTiCS CirCLe AWArd FOr BillY lYNN's loNG halFTime Walk
A Novel david Bezmozgis 978-0-316-28433-2
$26.00 (NCr) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 240 pgs Territories: u.S. and Open market • First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown; uK rights: Penguin uK; Translation and Performance rights: iCm Partners • editor: Ben george
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the Betrayers
David Bezmozgis
is an award-winning writer and filmmaker whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Zoetrope, and Best American Short Stories. He was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” writers in 2010. He lives in Toronto.
A compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is “self-assured, elegant, perceptive...and unflinchingly honest.” —New York Times
This incandescent novel describes one momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the West Bank settlements, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior. He and the fierce young Leora flee the scandal for Yalta, where, shockingly, he encounters the former friend who denounced him to the KGB almost 40 years earlier. In a whirling 24 hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own ethical dilemmas in the Israeli army, and the wife who stood by his side through so much. In prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness. • David Bezmozgis has received impressive critical acclaim for his previous two works of fiction, both of which were named New York Times Notable Books. He is often compared to the likes of Philip Roth, Leonard Michaels, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Saul Bellow. • Bezmozgis has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times First Book Award. His collection Natasha and Other Stories (FSG, 2004) won the Toronto Book Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for First Book.
Excerpt from THE BETRAYERS: A movement in the window drew his eye and Kotler turned from the black absorption of the mountains. Faster than a thought, his knees buckled, responding to an overwhelming impulse to drop to the ground, to get out of sight. Kotler caught himself and stood rigidly, his knees still slightly and comically bent. Blood battered his heart as if to dislodge it. The fear was one he hadn’t known in years. Framed in the window was a man, Svetlana’s husband, arrested by some worry or introspection, his profile presented to Kotler. Kotler’s thoughts swirled, sense convoluted with nonsense. He knew that the man could not see him, but he feared the man could see him. He knew the year was 2013 and that the Soviet Union no longer existed, but he felt the cold menace of the KGB, sensed the nearness of his old tormentors. He knew he was an Israeli citizen, a husband and father, a dissident champion, but he felt isolated and vulnerable, helpless to stave off the horror. In the window, the man blinked his eyes and wearily ran his hand through his white hair. He cleared his throat, opened his mouth to call out to his wife, squinted as he listened for her reply, and then shuffled from the room.
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More Than 150 Life-Changing Gluten-Free Recipes to Transform Your Health david Perlmutter, md 978-0-316-33425-9 $30.00 ($33.00 in Canada) • Cooking • 7 ½ x 9 ¼ • 304 pgs
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is recognized globally as a thought leader in brain science. He is the recipient of the Linus Pauling Award and author of Grain Brain, The Better Brain Book, Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten, and Power Up Your Brain. He lives and practices in Naples, Florida.
The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain, with more than 150 delicious recipes for complete health and vitality. David Perlmutter, MD, revolutionized the way we think about our health with his groundbreaking book Grain Brain, which exposed the devastating effects of wheat, sugar, and carbs on the brain. But by eating the right foods, you can spur the growth of new brain cells and take control of your “smart genes.” THE GRAIN BRAIN COOKBOOK presents more than 150 delectable recipes that keep your brain vibrant and sharp while dramatically reducing your risk for debilitating neurological diseases as well as relieving more common, everyday conditions. Dr. Perlmutter equips you with the tools to build a gluten-free diet high in “good fats” and full of wholesome, flavorful, easy-to-make meals. • Grain Brain (LB, 978-0-31623480-1, 9/13) was a #1 national bestseller, and has sold more than 400,000 copies across all formats. • Dr. Perlmutter is the only doctor in the country who is a board-certified neurologist and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and counts among his supporters William Davis, Mark Hyman, and Mehmet Oz. • Dr. Perlmutter has extensive lecture and media experience. He has appeared on 20/20, CNN, Dr. Oz, Today, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, Fox and Friends, and more.
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Excerpt from The Grain Brain Cookbook: Green Mango, Watercress, and Arugula Salad
Serves 6
I find this salad very refreshing since the green mangos are not at all sugary. The tongue-tingling chilies and the peppery greens contrast beautifully with the sweet-tartness of the mango. The popularity of Thai cooking has brought green mangos to the neighborhood supermarket, but if you can’t find them, replace them with jicama or under-ripe pears. 1 tablespoon stevia Juice of 3 limes 1 teaspoon sesame oil 4 red birds’ eye chilies, stemmed, seeded, and finely minced Coarse salt to taste
2 large green mangos 10 ounces watercress sprigs, tough ends removed 3 ounces baby arugula leaves 1 tablespoon black sesame seeds, optional
Place the stevia in a small nonstick saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring frequently, for just a minute or so or just until it has melted completely. Remove from the heat and whisk in the lime juice and sesame oil. Add the chilies and stir to combine. Season with salt to taste. Set aside to cool. Combine the watercress and arugula in a large mixing bowl. Set aside. Peel the mangos and then cut the flesh into julienne strips. Toss the mango strips into the greens. Pour the cooled sauce over the top and toss to combine. Mound equal portions of the salad in the center of each of six salad plates. Sprinkle with sesame seeds, if desired, and serve.
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new York times bestselling author and
photographer Seth Casteel’s follow-up to the phenomenal Underwater Dogs—now with puppies. The world fell in love with swimming canines in Seth Casteel’s first book, Underwater Dogs. Now, in more than 80 previously unpublished portraits of underwater puppies, we see man’s best friends at their most playful and exuberant. Each vibrant and colorful underwater image shows off the wild and sublime range of emotions of puppies, cute and irresistible to the very last drop.
Underwater Puppies Seth Casteel 978-0-316-25489-2
$21.00 ($23.00 in Canada) • Photography • 10 x 8 ¼ • 144 pgs
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• Underwater Dogs (LB, 0-316-22770-4, 10/12) was the bestselling book of photography in 2012/2013 (Bookscan) and spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. • The list of media outlets that have already covered Casteel’s work is staggering. It includes the New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Today, Business Insider, Animal Planet, as well as the front page of outlets AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and hundreds of others. Praise for Underwater dogs:
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“The arresting portraits in Seth Casteel’s Underwater dogs reveal what’s happening below the surface. Teeth gnashing, paws paddling, primal and hilarious, these canines bubble with irresistible energy.” —o, The oPRah maGaZiNe
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Seth Casteel is an award-winning photographer
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the “Fresh air” book critic investigates the
enduring power of the great gatsby— “the great american novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.” It’s a staple on American high school reading lists, and it has remained current for over half a century. But do even its biggest fans know all there is to appreciate about The Great Gatsby? Maureen Corrigan, a Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out that while Fitzgerald’s masterpiece may be the most widely read novel in America, most of us read it when we are too young. Offering a fresh perspective on what makes Gatsby great—and very odd—SO WE READ ON takes readers into archives, high school classrooms, and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel’s hidden depths. SO WE READ ON is a rousing consideration of Gatsby: not just its literary achievements, but also its rocky path to becoming a “classic,” its surprising debt to hardboiled crime fiction, and its profound commentaries on the enduring themes of race, class, and gender. With rigor, wit, and infectious enthusiasm, Corrigan inspires you to re-experience this great novel—and also writes an entirely new and fascinating story of her own.
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• Corrigan has been an influential NPR book critic for more than twenty years. She has traveled the country discussing Gatsby for the “Big Read” project run by The National Endowment for the Arts, and has taught it to generations of college students. • The recent, much-publicized, and high-grossing movie adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio made The Great Gatsby one of the top-selling books of 2013.
How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures maureen Corrigan 978-0-316-23007-0
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Literary Criticism • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ 240 pgs • 12 b/w photos • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, First Serial, and Performance rights: Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency inc. editor: reagan Arthur e-book: 978-0-316-23008-7 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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“A beguiling and evocative story about love and loss, duty and deceit.” —KeViN POWerS, AuThOr OF The YelloW BiRds
neverhome Laird hunt 978-0-316-37013-4
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 272 pgs
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Laird Hunt
is the author of several works of fiction and a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA Award in Fiction. Currently on the faculty of the University of Denver’s creative writing program, he lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his family.
An extraordinary novel about a wife who disguises herself as a man and goes off to fight in the Civil War. She calls herself Ash, but that’s not her real name. She is a farmer’s faithful wife, but she leaves her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. NEVERHOME is the harrowing story of Ash Thompson, during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed, hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Laird Hunt’s dazzling new novel plumbs the story of the secretive woman who chose to fight instead of wait. It is also a mystery story: why did she leave and her husband stay? Why can she not return? Will she ever make it back home? In gorgeous prose, Hunt’s rebellious young heroine fights her way through history, across the country, and ultimately into our hearts. • Hunt was a nominee for both the PEN Faulkner and the PEN USA Literary awards and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for his previous novel, Kind One. • A brilliant twist on a timeless classic: what if Penelope were the warrior traveling home to Odysseus?
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Excerpt from Neverhome: I gave my name as Ash Thompson down out of Darke County. “Where in Darke County?” they asked me, and I told them, even though I could see straight off they weren’t listening, that where was in the Northwest corner of that fine county on my Daddy’s farm. After they had cracked on my teeth and whistled at my thick fingers and had me scrape my thumb calluses across the wood tabletop, they gave me my blues. A week later, when they saw I didn’t mind work and hadn’t run off, they handed me my firearm. It was a model 1861 muzzle-loading Springfield rifle with flip-up sights, percussion lock, and they said you could use it to kill a man a quarter mile away. That was something to think about. How you could rifle a man down was looking at you and you at him but never see his face. I hadn’t figured it that way when I had figured it back home. I had figured that it would be fine big faces firing back and forth at each other, not threads of color off at the horizon. A dance of men and not just their musket balls. There was another fellow, little bitty thing made me look tall, said something not too far off these lines aloud as we stood there staring at our Springfields. “Don’t you worry, sweetheart,” said to him the officer was handing out the hardware, “you’ll get so close to those rebel boys you won’t know whether to kiss or kill.”
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“ Strange, original, and utterly brilliant—Laird Hunt is one of the most talented young writers on the American scene today.” —Paul Auster “I love Laird Hunt’s fiction.” —Rick Moody
“ There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt’s stories—with its echoes of habit caught in a timeless dialect, so we see the world he gives us as if new.” —Michael Ondaatje
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a darkly erotic novel about a good girl
gone bad.
When Irina—Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her— arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man named Andrei. Andrei awakens a powerful sensuality in Irina. And he has money—lots of it. For the first time, Irina feels free. But the longer she stays with Andrei, the more she is certain that she can’t leave, and that she may be complicit in Andrei’s “work.” Then an unexpected friendship with a young Russian bride opens the door to escape, and also revenge. A tantalizing, edgy exploration of women and love, power and money—interwoven with potent, unusual, and nervy Romanian fairy tales—IN THE RED asks what the legacy of love is, and who will be left unscathed.
• IN THE RED blends a tantalizing sexual edge with strong, literary prose for fans of Mary Gaitskill and The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Lloyd (Picador, 2012). • Elena Mauli Shapiro’s debut novel 13, rue Thérèse (LB, 2011) received critical acclaim and sold more than 25,000 copies in all formats.
in the red A Novel elena mauli Shapiro 978-0-316-40536-2
$25.00 ($28.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 304 pgs Territories: World english • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Frederick hill Bonnie Nadell Literary Agency editor: Laura Tisdel e-book: 978-0-316-40535-5 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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Elena Mauli Shapiro was born and raised in
Paris. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University, an MFA in fiction from Mills College, and an MA in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband.
the incredible true story of British special
agents eileen and Jacqueline nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War.
When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering to serve for British intelligence at age 21, Eileen was posted to Nazi-occupied France to send encoded messages of crucial importance for the Allies, until her capture by the Gestapo. Eileen was not the only agent in her family—her sister Jacqueline was a courier for the French Resistance. While Jacqueline narrowly avoided arrest, Eileen was tortured by the Nazis, then sent to the infamous Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. Astonishingly, this resourceful young woman eventually escaped her captors and found her way to the advancing American army. In this amazing true story of triumph and tragedy, Susan Ottaway unveils the secret lives of two sisters who sacrificed themselves to defend their country.
• This fascinating story has only recently come to light and Ottaway is the first to write a book on the Nearne sisters. • The author has collected firsthand accounts from the Nearne’s few surviving family members. She was also one of the only writers to interview the very private Eileen Nearne on her wartime experiences before her death. • The secret lives of female spies on both sides of the Atlantic have captivated the public. A COOL AND LONELY COURAGE is a real-life story that will appeal to fans of the 2013 miniseries The Bletchley Circle and books by Alan Furst, Joseph Kanon, and Sebastian Faulks.
a Cool and Lonely Courage The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France Susan Ottaway 978-0-316-32698-8
$27.00 • Biography/history • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 336 pages • 10 b/w photos • Territories: u.S. and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Large Print, and Book Club rights: Little, Brown; Translation rights: Lownie Literary Agency Ltd., • editor: Asya muchnick e-book: 978-0-316-32697-1 • $12.99
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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of
Saturday night Live, a rollickingly updated edition of LiVe FrOM neW YOrk with more than 100 pages covering the past decade. When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades. Now a fourth decade has passed—and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.
Live From new York An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live Expanded Anniversary Edition James Andrew miller and Tom Shales 978-0-316-29504-8
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Non-Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 656 pgs 16 pgs b/w photos • Territories: World • Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: iCm Partners • editor: geoff Shandler e-book: 978-0-316-29507-9 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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the definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as
first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to america.
For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime—songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and universities and with collectors and friends. Many have never been published before. More than 100 songs and lyrics are reproduced in THE BEATLES LYRICS, providing Hunter Davies a unique platform to tell the story of the music. The intimacy of these reproductions—there are sections crossed out and rewritten, and words tossed into the final recordings that were never written down—ensures that THE BEATLES LYRICS will be a treasure for musicians, scholars, and fans everywhere.
• Hunter Davies knew and worked with the Beatles during their heyday and wrote their first and only authorized biography. He has unparalleled access. • Davies is well-versed in the complicated Beatles copyright regulations and has cleared use of the lyrics from Sony, and he also has had the support of Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney. • Along with The Beatles Anthology (Chronicle, 2000) and The John Lennon Letters (LB, 978-0-316-20080-6, 2012), this will be an essential Beatles book that every fan has to own.
the Beatles Lyrics hunter davies 978-0-316-24716-0
$35.00 ($39.00 in Canada) • music • 7 ½ x 9 5⁄8 • 400 pgs
100 4/c photos • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK and Translation rights: Orion Books; Performance rights: united Agents • editor: John Parsley e-book: 978-0-316-24715-3 • $16.99/$16.99
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“James Bradley has once again given us the human face of a war we thought we knew, and in doing so has forced us not only to rethink our history but, far more important, to refeel it.” —hAmPTON SideS, AuThOr OF GhosT soldieRs
The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia James Bradley 978-0-316-19667-3
$35.00 ($39.00 in Canada) • history • 6 x 9 ¼ • 400 pgs • 30-40 b/w photos, 6 maps • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: William morris endeavor editor: geoff Shandler Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-61113-669-2 • $35.00/$39.00 Large Print edition: 978-0316-41067-0 • $37.00/$40.00 e-book: 978-0-316-19666-6 • $16.99/$16.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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James Bradley
is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Imperial Cruise, Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. He lives in New York State.
From the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao’s ascent. In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America’s engagement in Asia. Now comes his most engrossing work yet. Beginning in the 1850s, Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans who made their fortunes in the China opium trade. As they—good Christians all—profitably addicted millions, American missionaries arrived, promising salvation for those who adopted Western ways. And that was just the beginning. From drug dealer Warren Delano to his grandson Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from the port of Hong Kong to the towers of Princeton University, from the era of Appomattox to the age of the A-Bomb, THE CHINA MIRAGE explores a difficult century that defines U.S.-Chinese relations to this day. • All of James Bradley’s books have been tremendous bestsellers, selling millions of copies. The Imperial Cruise (LB, 978-0-316-00895-2, 11/09) netted more than 250,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. Flyboys (LB, 978-0-316-10584-2, 9/03), netted more than 1.4 million copies. His first book, Flags of Our Fathers published by Bantam (978-0553-11133-0, 5/00), was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a major motion picture. • THE CHINA MIRAGE explains why the U.S. and China were estranged for a generation, with grave implications for our relationship today. It will also shed light onto our own history, with revelations about the drug dealing history of some of our most famous families—including the Forbes, Cabots, and Delanos.
Excerpt from The China Mirage: Stories told by East Coast sea merchants about the heathen Chinese inflamed the hearts of Protestant churchmen bent on saving others’ souls. Soon from American church pulpits came tales of pagan, idolatrous, drug-addicted Chinese with strange business practices speaking a childish, fractured version of English; of a corrupt China with no right to view itself as superior; of a backward people unable to comprehend the glories of a rising Western civilization. China seemed a culture in collapse. The stories were a mirage, perceptions of a tiny number of American sea merchants barred from entering the real China and prohibited from learning the Chinese language. Like the blind man describing the elephant’s foot as the entire animal, these traders had only a peephole view of China. Sea merchants like Warren Delano had gathered their impressions confined to a plot of land outside Canton’s wall or in one of the coastal “New Chinas” where they supplied dope to drug dealers and were humored by wealthy Hong merchants charged with keeping the “Foreign Devils” isolated away from the general populace. The visitors had learned little about China’s reality, but back in the U.S. their superficial judgments filled the big blank American screen.
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Praise for The Imperial Cruise: “ Engrossing and revelatory, The Imperial Cruise is revisionist history at its best.” —New York Times Book Review “ For readers under the
impression that history is the story of good guys and bad guys, and that Americans are always the former, this book could be useful medicine.” —USA Today
Praise for Flyboys: “ Not just a ‘true story of courage’ but a frightening reminder of the savagery human beings are capable of and the terrible moral choices nations at war must make.” —Houston Chronicle Little, Brown and Company 25
“Open this book to just about any page and you will find yourself in an orchard of inspiration and useful information… accessible, instructional, and even playful.”
the Vegetarian Flavor Bible Karen Page Photographs by Andrew dornenburg 978-0-316-24418-3
$40.00 ($44.00 in Canada) • Cooking • 7 ½ x 10 • 496 pgs 70 color photographs • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: Karen Page • editor: michael Sand
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is a two-time James Beard Award-winning author whose books include The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat, which was named the IACP Cookbook of the Year and Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year. She lives with her husband, author and photographer Andrew Dornenburg, in New York City.
Inspiration for vegetarian cooking in the unique reference format pioneered in the James Beard Award-winning book The Flavor Bible. Throughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety of reasons, from ethics to economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor—which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. The Vegetarian Flavor Bible is an essential guide to culinary creativity, based on insights from dozens of imaginative restaurant chefs, representing such acclaimed restaurants as Crossroads and M.A.K.E. in Los Angeles; Candle 79, Dirt Candy, and Kajitsu in New York City; Green Zebra in Chicago; Greens and Millennium in San Francisco; Natural Selection and Portobello in Portland; Plum Bistro in Seattle; and Vedge in Philadelphia. Emphasizing plant-based whole foods including vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, the book provides an A-to-Z listing of hundreds of ingredients, from açaí to zucchini blossoms, with thousands of recommended flavor pairings. THE VEGETARIAN FLAVOR BIBLE will inspire home cooks and professional chefs alike to create more compassionate, healthful, and flavorful cuisine.
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Excerpt from The Vegetarian Flavor Bible: The starting point for your creativity in the kitchen can be literally anything. It often begins with the seasonal availability of a particular ingredient–such as spring’s first morel mushrooms, or the arrival of pomegranates in autumn—or even the desire to cook in a particular way, such as firing up the grill in summer or warming the house with an oven-braised dish in winter. It can begin with a craving for the flavors of a particular country or region: the garlic and herbs of Provence, or the chiles and coconut milk of Southeast Asia. Or it can begin with simple curiosity, such as the urge to experiment with a new ingredient or technique. Recognizing this, I’ve provided a similarly broad range of starting points in the easy-to-use A-to-Z (açai to zucchini blossoms) lists in The Vegetarian Flavor Bible: with an extensive variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, nuts, seeds, and other ingredients; dozens of world cuisines; and a broad array of flavorings and seasonings, from allspice to elderflower to toasted pumpkin seed oil. For years, I have traveled throughout North America, spending thousands of hours interviewing dozens of the most creative chefs and other experts on their most recommended flavor pairings. I’ve scoured their memories—along with their restaurant menus, websites, cookbooks, and other highly recommended books—for pairing insights. Their wisdom has been synthesized into the comprehensive information in The Vegetarian Flavor Bible, a treasure trove of pairing ideas for you to put to work in your own kitchen.
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“ Amazing….One of the year’s best cookbooks.” —Sandra Lee, Today show and sara moulton, good morning america
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Bestseller elin Hilderbrand’s first Christmas novel: a family gathers on nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises.
Conor Quinn owns a Bed and Breakfast on Nantucket and is a proud father of four—Patrick, Shane, Ava, and Bart, all grown and living in varying states of disarray. As Christmas approaches, Conor and his wife Mitzi anticipate a wonderful family reunion. But when Bart, the golden child and a recent Dartmouth graduate, announces that he has joined the Marines and is leaving for Afghanistan two days before Christmas, Mitzi is so distressed that she confesses to having an affair with a long-time guest at the Inn. As more secrets unravel and chaos ensues, it’s up to Ava to piece together the holiday before everyone leaves—possibly forever. Elin Hilderbrand makes us fall in love with the crazy, extraordinary Quinn family—and with the magic of Christmas.
• Every book LB has published with Elin Hilderbrand has been a New York Times bestseller, and there are over four million copies of her books in print. Beautiful Day (LB, 978-0-316-09978-3, 6/13) debuted at #7 on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover and spent more than four weeks on the list. Summerland (LB, 978-0-316-09989-9, 6/12) debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover and spent six weeks on the list.
Winter Street A Novel elin hilderbrand 978-0-316-37611-2
$25.00 ($28.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 256 pgs Territories: World english • First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: inkwell management editor: reagan Arthur Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-5501-6 • $30.00/$33.00 Large Print edition: 978-0-316-41066-3 • $27.00/$30.00 e-book: 978-0-316-37609-9 • $12.99/$12.99
Praise for Beautiful day: “A page-turner….She’s the queen of the beach read.”
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Elin Hilderbrand has lived on Nantucket for 20 years. She runs every morning, delivers her children to their sporting events, and frequents the front row at the Chicken Box. WINTER STREET is her 14th novel.
Mick Fleetwood, the drummer and cofounder
of the mega-selling band Fleetwood Mac, tells all.
In this candid, intimate portrait of a life lived in music, Mick Fleetwood sheds new light on well-known points in his history, including many incredible moments of recording and touring with Fleetwood Mac, as well as personal insights from a man who has been a major player in blues and rock ’n’ roll since his teens. The group Fleetwood Mac has sold over 140 million records worldwide, and they continue to attract a huge following, selling out their biggest arena tour ever in 2013, decades after their debut. Finally, the group’s admirers will have a unique portrait of what made Mick and the rest of the group tick in the midst of their massive success and personal trials.
• Music biographies of this era—like Neil Young’s Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press, 2012), Gregg Allman’s My Cross To Bear (William Morrow, 2012), Bob Dylan’s The Dylan Chronicles (Simon & Schuster, 2004), Eric Clapton’s Clapton (Crown, 2007) Rod Stewart’s Rod (Crown Archetype, 2012), and our own Life by Keith Richards (2010)—have sold very well.
Play On Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac mick Fleetwood and Anthony Bozza 978-0-316-40342-9
$30.00 ($33.00 in Canada) • Autobiography • 6 x 9 ¼ • 320 pgs
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n illustrated tribute to Mark twain’s life and work, featuring rare illustrations, photographs, and prints from the Library of Congress. Mark Twain is an American icon. We now know him as the author of classics, but in his day he was a controversial satirist and public figure who traveled the world and healed post-Civil War America with his tall tales, witty anecdotes, and humorous but insightful novels and stories. Twain’s legacy continues to flourish more than 100 years after his death. MARK TWAIN’S AMERICA features spectacular examples of graphic “Twainiana” from the unsurpassed collections of the Library of Congress with a lively narrative by author Harry L. Katz. Through letters, political cartoons, period book illustrations, photographs, and more, the Library’s rich trove of material will give readers an intimate look at Twain’s life as well as the literary life of America during his time.
• Published in November 2010, The Autobiography of Mark Twain has sold over 350,000 copies, showing that Twain continues to command a very sizable following. • The Library of Congress name on the book ensures rare historical material and the utmost level of integrity in research. • Carefully chosen excerpts from Twain’s travel writings and novels appear throughout the book, giving context to the marvelous visuals.
Mark twain’s america A Celebration in Words and Images harry L. Katz and the Library of Congress Foreword by Lewis Lapham 978-0-316-20939-7
$40.00 ($44.00 in Canada) • Literary history • 8 x 10 • 240 pgs 300 4/c and b/w photographs and illustrations • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Sandra dijkstra Literary Agency • editor: michael Sand e-book: 978-0-316-32916-3 • $19.99/$19.99
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the first in a new series of instructive singlesubject books covering basic to advanced techniques that will make you a better cook.
As an award-winning cookbook author, food writer, and online culinary expert, Michael Ruhlman has developed a reputation for providing lucid, no-nonsense cooking advice as sharp as a good chef ’s knife. In this first in a new series of books focusing on cooking methods, Ruhlman explores one of the most fundamental cooking techniques there is—roasting. RUHLMAN'S HOW TO ROAST combines practical advice —what tools you need, staple ingredients to have on hand, how to get the most out of your oven—with 25 original and mouthwatering recipes, chosen to showcase a wide range of roasting methods and results, from “The Icon” (roast chicken), to Roasted Winter Vegetables, to Monkfish Roasted with Tomatoes and Basil. Dozens of color photographs offer step-by-step illustration as well as finished-dish showpieces.
• This is the first in a series of single-subject books focusing on technique; the long-term vision is a Ruhlman Cooking Library that will be essential for any serious cookbook collection. The books in this series will be competitively priced, appealingly packaged, lucidly written, and easy to hold and to cook from. Ruhlman’s How to Braise will be published in February 2015. See page 53.
ruhlman’s How to roast Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook michael ruhlman 978-0-316-25410-6
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a brilliant new collection from “one of
the funniest writers in america” (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). In his collection SPOILED BRATS, Simon Rich takes his absurd, culture-skewering style to new heights, marrying the literary polish of writers like Karen Russell and George Saunders with the humor of Steve Martin to deliver truly dazzling tales. SPOILED BRATS is about the battle we fight with the ones who love us most: our parents. In “Family Business,” a young chimpanzee offends his working class father by choosing to become a research animal instead of joining the family grub-hunting business. In “Proud Mom” a young mother is so besotted she doesn’t realize her child is actually, truly a monster. And in “Animals” the fate of a terrified classroom hamster hangs in the balance when a notorious kid is picked for hamster care duty. SPOILED BRATS confirms Rich as one of the most “adept, inarguably funny” (San Francisco Chronicle) young writers at work today.
• “Sell-Out” from SPOILED BRATS was serialized by The New Yorker, rights were sold to Hollywood, and Rich is adapting it for the screen with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the geniuses behind Superbad and This Is the End. • Only 29, Rich has already established his comedy bona fides: he is currently filming a pilot based on The Last Girlfriend on Earth, he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, and he spent four years as a staff writer for Saturday Night Live, where he earned four Emmy nominations.
Spoiled Brats And Other Stories Simon rich 978-0-316-36862-9
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“it’s always fairly obvious when a ‘Shouts and murmurs’ piece in The New Yorker is the product of Simon rich. Telltale signs include the elegant skewering of adult human behavior, as glimpsed through the eyes of children, animals, spectral beings, or inanimate objectsand the fact that the reader is hunched over laughing.”
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“tHere MUSt Be SOMe MiStake is a little
miracle of faith, shown to us with an eyeopening attention to some of the glorious, perhaps even redemptive details of our dumbed-down so-called culture.”—ANN BeATTie
Wallace Webster lives alone in Kemah, Texas at Forgetful Bay, a condo development where residents are passing away at an alarming rate. As he monitors events in the neighborhood, Wallace keeps in touch with his ex-wife, his grown daughter, a former coworker for whom he has much averted eyes, and a somewhat exotic resident with whom he commences an off-beat affair. He sifts through the curious accidents that plague his neighbors, all the while reflecting on his past and shortening future. Required to reflect upon his own mortality, he wonders if “settling for” something less than he aspired to is a kind of cowardice, or just good sense. Beneath the arresting repartee and the ever-present and often satisfying banality of our modern lives—from Google searches to real life mysteries on TV—lies Frederick Barthelme’s affection for and curiosity about our human condition. THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE is warm and wry, beautifully written, and completely irresistible. • Six of Frederick Barthelme’s books have been New York Times Notable Book selections. Elroy Nights (Counterpoint, 2003) was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
there Must Be Some Mistake A Novel Frederick Barthelme 978-0-316-23124-4
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“Bosch has become one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction.” —chicaGo TRiBUNe
michael Connelly 978-0-316-22593-9
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 400 pgs Territories: World • Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Philip g. Spitzer Agency; uK rights: Orion • editor: Asya muchnick Hachette audio: Abr. Cd: 978-1-4789-8291-3 • $30.00/$33.00 unabr. Cd: 978-1-61969-426-2 • $40.00/$44.00 Large Print edition: 978-0-316-41070-0 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-22592-2 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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Michael Connelly,
a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and a former journalist, has won numerous crime fiction prizes. He lives in Florida.
Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he’s ever worked, in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random. In this gripping new thriller, Michael Connelly shows once again why Harry Bosch is “one of the greats of crime fiction” (New York Daily News). • Connelly’s last Harry Bosch thriller, The Black Box (LB, 978-0-316-06943-4, 11/12), debuted at #1 on both the Combined Print & E-book and E-book New York Times bestseller lists and has sold more than 1.2 million copies across all formats. • The pilot episode of Bosch, written by Michael Connelly and Emmy-nominated Eric Overmyer (The Wire, Treme) and starring Titus Welliver (Argo, The Good Wife) as Harry Bosch, will be available to viewers in early 2014 through Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Excerpt from The Burning Room: What bothered Bosch about the tableau was that the body had already been so violated for so long. Both legs gone, one arm taken at the shoulder, the surgical scars old but somehow raw and red. Deep down Bosch knew that the dead were the dead and they no longer suffered the cruelties of life, but even still he felt like saying enough was enough. When does it stop? Shouldn’t death be the relief from the tortures of life? But he didn’t say anything. He stood mute and just watched as he had a hundred times before. More than the outrage and the desire to speak out against the continuing atrocity upon Orlando Merced was Bosch’s need for the bullet Teresa Corazon was trying to pry loose from the dead man’s spine. “Got it!” She pulled her arms out of the hollow and sprayed the forceps with the hose attached to the table. She then held the instrument up to examine her find. She tapped the floor button for the recorder with her foot and went on the record. “A projectile appearing to be a large caliber bullet was removed from the anterior T-twelve vertebrae. It is in damaged condition with flattening. I will mark with my initials and turn over to Detective Hieronymus Bosch with the Open-Unsolved Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department.”
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“Passion, soul, and that elusive thing called sabor come through the music of Carlos Santana. His is always a surprising sound, ahead of its time—true world music before the term was even invented, but uniquely American in its multicultural reach….Santana is an artist who transcends musical genres and touches the heart across all generations.” —The KeNNedY CeNTer
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was born in Mexico and is one of the most important rock musicians of our time. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In the mid-sixties, legendary concert promoter Bill Graham discovered a young Carlos Santana and gave him a shot onstage at the Fillmore Auditorium. Santana would introduce the world to a sound that was equal parts Tito Puente, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix—a sinuous guitar tone and a band that blended Latin rhythms with rock and roll snarl. His performance at Woodstock would become legendary, and through the seventies and eighties, Santana remained a rock pioneer, playing with musical luminaries from Bob Dylan to Stevie Ray Vaughn. But it wasn’t until the late nineties that his guitar would flood top-40 radio again with his album Supernatural, which garnered nine Grammy Awards and introduced his music to a whole new generation. Santana’s story goes beyond rock excess and into the incredible strength and force of creativity that would help an immigrant kid from rural Mexico change the face of pop music for more than five decades. His accumulated wisdom and deep spirituality make for an intimate and thoughtful memoir that will travel through the inspiring and defining moments of his musical life and tell readers “there is a forgotten soul inside you.” • Santana’s fans range from classic rock fans who have been blasting Abraxas since the late sixties to a younger generation who know him from the Supernatural era, making for a broad audience that is unique in popular music. • Santana is still touring aggressively, taking an extended residency at the House of Blues in Las Vegas and continuing to play worldwide. He completed his first-ever Latin-themed CD entitled Corazon, a collaboration with many of the biggest Latin stars today. • Santana shoes (Carlos, at Macy’s) and tequila (Casa Noble) are huge marketing opportunities. • Santana has agreed to include unreleased audio and visual material for use in the audio edition and enhanced e-book of his memoir. • A Spanish-language edition will be published simultaneously.
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“ A thread runs through his multicultural, cross-generational music: the unifying power of the human spirit.” — John Roos, Los Angeles Times
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“no one gets this big without amazing natural
storytelling talent—which is what James Patterson has in spades. the alex Cross series —Lee ChiLd proves it.”
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross’s family—his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children—have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves? Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. HOPE TO DIE propels Alex Cross’s greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says “nobody does it better” than James Patterson.
• The previous book in the series, Cross My Heart (LB, 9780-316-21091-1, 2013), was released in November 2013 as a major publishing event, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Alex Cross. It ends with a shocking cliffhanger, and fans will be eagerly awaiting this sequel. • The Alex Cross series is the #1 U.S. detective series of the past twenty-five years, with more than 81 million copies sold.
Hope to Die James Patterson 978-0-316-21096-6
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the definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David ritz.
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via “Respect” and a rapidfire string of hits. She has evolved ever since, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions. Again and again, Aretha stubbornly finds a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continue to build. Her hold on the crown is tenacious, and in RESPECT, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture.
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rom the parents who brought us the web sensation “Dinovember” comes photographic proof of what toys do at night. Since Toy Story (and maybe since the very first toys!) children and their parents have wondered what it would be like if toys came to life. Refe and Susan Tuma take this wonder several steps further in WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID LAST NIGHT. Every November, writer and social media master Refe Tuma and his wife, Susan, work into the night to bring their four children scenes from the secret lives of their toys—specifically the nighttime antics of their plastic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs wreck bathrooms, destroy vases, rock out, encounter terrifying hot irons, even do the dishes with hilarious, magical results. Each scene is photographed in meticulous detail, letting viewers joyfully suspend disbelief and think to themselves—just LOOK what the dinosaurs did last night!
• The Dinovember Facebook page currently has more than 265,000 likes. Refe’s article 'Welcome to Dinovember,’ originally posted on Medium.com, has had over 3.5 million views and has been shared over 11 million times across the web.
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their four children and a herd of plastic dinosaurs. The Tumas began cataloguing their dinosaurs’ antics in 2012, igniting the imaginations of hundreds of thousands of children—young and old—across the world.
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n illustrated exploration of time and memory from the author of Paris Versus new York.
Take it, make it, lose it, have it, kill it, spend it, save it, forget it, break it, set it, repeat it, keep it: time flies and time crawls. This may be your first time or your last time, or you may be stuck in your routine. How we experience time shapes our relationships, memories, dreams, and nightmares. And only with time can possibility become reality. From the acclaimed illustrator and author of Paris Versus New York comes a visual memoir inspired by Muratyan’s travels across four continents and multiple time zones. Warm, funny, chic, thought-provoking, and as graphically pleasing as its predecessor, ABOUT TIME is a meditation on and celebration of how we spend our lives.
• Paris Versus New York (Penguin, 2013) was a bookseller and consumer favorite.
about time Vahram muratyan 978-0-316-41100-4
$22.00 ($24.00 in Canada) • Art • 5 x 7 • 224 pgs • Photos: 4/c, fully illustrated • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market editor: Laura Tisdel e-book: 978-0-316-41101-1 • $10.99/$10.99
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revealing historical and photographic tour of the homes of influential Civil War-era figures, including robert e. Lee, abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and many others. Timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, HOUSES OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA takes readers into the daily lives of the most important historical figures in the nation-defining conflict. Traveling from modest abolitionist homes to the plantations of the antebellum south, Howard and Straus bring the most intimate moments of the war to life. With insightful narrative and gorgeous photography, HOUSES OF CIVIL WAR AMERICA offers a fresh perspective on the men and women whose actions determined the fate of the nation.
• Among the notable houses in this book are those of Frederick Douglass, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. • This is an ideal gift book for anyone interested in U.S. history and architecture. This book presents a compelling narrative about an iconic moment in history through intimate looks at the lives and homes of presidents, generals, and literary figures as well as noted stops on the Underground Railroad.
Houses of Civil War america The Homes of Robert E. Lee, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and Others Who Shaped the Era hugh howard, Original Photography by roger Straus iii 978-0-316-22798-8
$40.00 ($44.00 in Canada) • Photography/history • 10 x 11 256 pgs • 200 4/c photographs and illustrations • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Brandt & hochman • editor: michael Sand e-book: 978-0-316-37634-1 • $19.99/$19.99
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stunning debut thriller about a code that threatens humanity—and the only man who knows how to crack it. For years, William has suspected that man-made disasters and terrorism could be predicted and perhaps even prevented. His obsession with decoding the clues hidden in human behavior and our DNA led to the breakdown of his career and his marriage. And now he is alone. Then one day, William simply disappears altogether. The authorities aren’t concerned but Christina, William’s long-suffering ex-wife, suspects foul play. She is right: William has been abducted by a top-secret organization that believes he may hold the missing piece of the puzzle they’ve worked to solve. But who and what are behind the organization? Can William deocde the riddle before it’s too late? A thrilling debut about humanity on the verge of crisis, taking readers from the streets of Berlin and Stockholm to a chateau in the Alps, CHAIN OF EVENTS explodes and then reconfigures the ties that bind us to one another: marriage, politics, and our DNA.
• Little, Brown pre-empted World English rights along with Sphere in the UK, and Warner Brothers optioned the film rights. Rights have now been sold in 25 countries. • Like The Passage by Justin Cronin (Ballantine, 2010) and early Michael Crichton, the prose here is character driven and accessible; quite different from the clinical, cold storytelling and exposition of other Scandinavian thrillers. • Fredrik T. Olsson is at work on a sequel which Little, Brown will publish.
Chain of events A Novel Fredrik T. Olsson 978-0-316-33500-3
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a selection of David Foster Wallace’s life’s
work, introducing readers to his remarkable humor, kindness, sweeping intellect, and versatility as a writer. THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER is a compilation from one of the most original writers of our age, featuring selections of his brilliant fiction and nonfiction. For new readers, this is an accessible introduction to the pleasures of reading Wallace; for fans, a must-have best-of; and for teachers, an invaluable tool. Astounding chapters from the novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King are here, along with legendary stories including “The Depressed Person,” “Good Old Neon,” and his previously uncollected first story. This collection also features Wallace’s essays delving into luxury (“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”), morality (“Consider the Lobster”), sports (“Roger Federer Both Flesh and Not”), literature, and the deep paradoxes of American life, plus reading lists from his life as a teacher.
• THE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE READER will feature previously unpublished writing, including Wallace’s teaching materials introduced with an essay by his mother, noted grammarian Sally Foster Wallace. Fans will be eager to read this never-before-seen work. • The Reader also features new writing by a dozen prominent authors and critics. Hari Kunzru, Jo Ann Beard, and Deborah Treisman, among others, have contributed afterwords to their favorite selections of Wallace’s work. • This will be an essential tool for teachers of writing, narrative nonfiction courses and American cultural studies, collecting selections from the writer’s entire body of work including fiction and nonfiction.
the David Foster Wallace reader david Foster Wallace 978-0-316-18239-3
$35.00 ($39.00 in Canada) • Literature • 6 x 9 ¼ • 800 pgs Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Book Club and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: Frederick hill Bonnie Nadell Literary Agency • editor: michael Pietsch Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-8306-4 • $40.00/$44.00 e-book: 978-0-316-32917-0 • $16.99/$16.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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What happens in Vegas…stays Private. Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: Seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds— especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It’s the perfect location for Lester Olsen’s lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous young women to fivestar restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides—and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters. But a hunt for two criminals leads him to the city of sin—and to a murder ring that is more seductively threatening than anything he’s witnessed before. PRIVATE VEGAS brings James Patterson’s Private series to a sensational new level.
• Private is one of Patterson’s newest and fastest-growing series, featuring the world’s most powerful investigation firm in cities around the globe. Private Berlin (LB, 9780-316-21117-8, 1/13) shipped over 300,000 copies, and Private L.A. (LB, 978-0-316-21112-3) will be released in February 2014. • PRIVATE VEGAS is co-authored by Maxine Paetro, who is the author of three novels and two works of nonfiction, and is the coauthor of more than a dozen books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.
Private Vegas James Patterson and maxine Paetro 978-0-316-21115-4
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fascinating look at the religions other than Christianity that have shaped america’s history. Peter Manseau’s ONE NATION, UNDER GODS is the first book to comprehensively examine the history of the United States through the lens of non-Christian religions. Dazzling in its scope and sweep, it challenges the master narrative of U.S. history and shows us how religious diversity made our country what it is today. From the resilient beliefs of the enslaved to the surprising role of unbelief before the Revolution, from “witches” in Salem and the Jewish Muslim on Columbus’s ship to the spirituality of the 1960s, this is an American history unlike any you’ve read.
One nation, Under gods A New American History Peter manseau 978-0-316-10003-8
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • history/religion • 6 x 9 ¼ • 416 pgs 15 b/w illustrations throughout • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Anderson Literary management • editor: John Parsley e-book: 978-0-316-24223-3 • $14.99/$14.99
• Peter Manseau is an award-winning author who has a growing following. ONE NATION, UNDER GODS is his most ambitious project to date. • Like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (Harper, 2003) and Ronald Takaki’s A Different Mirror (LB, 978-0-316-02236-1, 12/08), ONE NATION, UNDER GODS will challenge the master narrative of U.S. history. “here at last is the rest of the American story, in one great kaleidoscope of a book. Peter manseau has revealed the many too often obscured by ‘one nation.’ The truth is so much more vast and strange and funny and fascinating than that, and manseau, a brilliant writer of great wit, curiosity, and learning, is the perfect guide.” —JeFF ShArLeT, BeSTSeLLiNg AuThOr OF The FamilY
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Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction’s most revered writers.
George Pelecanos gets inside the minds and hearts of a cast of indelible characters: from the adoptive parents of Spero Lucas trying to expand and redefine their family, to a young boy involved in a drug deal gone bad, to a 1930s immigrant dishwasher facing down a corrupt Pinkerton agent. In the novella, “The Martini Shot,” Pelecanos takes readers behind the scenes of a cable TV cop show, where a writer gets caught up in drama more real than anything in a script. Crackling with energy, these stories bring readers to a new understanding of humanity, modern life, and circumstances that stack the deck against people who are just trying to make a decent life for themselves. Gritty, sexy, fast-paced, humane, THE MARTINI SHOT is Pelecanos at his very best.
• Pelecanos is the bestselling author of The Night Gardener (LB, 978-0-316-15650-9, 8/06), The Turnaround (LB, 978-0-316-15647-9, 8/08), and The Way Home (LB, 9780-316-15649-3, 5/09). The Night Gardener was voted “Best Book of 2006” by numerous publications and media outlets, including Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post Book World, and NPR’s Fresh Air. The Los Angeles Times nominated The Night Gardener for the 2006 Best Mystery/Thriller Book Award. • Pelecanos is beloved by other writers and has received high praise from writers such as Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Lee Child • Pelecanos was an Emmy-nominated writer on the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, which has a loyal fan base. He also was a writer and producer on the HBO series Treme.
the Martini Shot A Novella and Short Stories george Pelecanos 978-0-316-28437-0
$25.00 ($28.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 256 pgs
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“Highly entertaining and squirm inducing… Howard’s End meets All About Eve.” —NeW YoRk Times Book RevieW ON alYs, alWaYs
A Novel harriet Lane 978-0-316-36987-9
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wrote for The Guardian, The Observer, Vogue, and Tatler before the publication of her debut novel Alys, Always. She lives in North London with her husband and two children.
You don’t remember her—but she remembers you. On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina— sophisticated, generous, effortlessly in control—seems to have all the answers. It’s easy to see why Emma is drawn to Nina. But what does Nina see in her ? A seemingly innocent friendship slowly develops into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as Nina eases her way into Emma’s life. Soon, it becomes clear that Nina wants something from the unwitting Emma—something that might just destroy her. • A literary domestic thriller, HER deftly and hauntingly explores female friendship, the anxieties of motherhood, and the confusion of identity that can accompany it. • Lane’s first novel, Alys, Always (Scribner, 2012), was shortlisted for the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Book Award and longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel. It has been optioned for film by Sixteen Films, Ken Loach’s production company. • If Gone Girl was the he said/she said about a marriage, HER is the she said/she said about female friendship.
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I’m in the dry cleaners collecting a silk dress and some of Charles’s suits when I glimpse her through the glass. For a moment, she’s caught unseeingly in my reflection—tall to my slight, rosy to my sallow, bright where I am dark—and then she’s moving past while I stand there in the doorway. We’re so close that I can see the silver bangle on her golden wrist; so close that I can smell her, the freshness of the detergent on her clothes (a green cardigan over a pink linen shift, scuffed white plimsolls). Her hair’s loose this time, rather unkempt-looking, as if she hasn’t had time to brush it. She’s pushing one of those big triangular buggies, its handles hung with hessian bags, and there’s the child, Christopher, ferociously constrained by the safety harness, his face set with resentment. ‘No biscuits,’ she’s saying briskly. ‘It’s nearly lunchtime.’ When the lights change she crosses the road by the pizza restaurant, and I see the movement as someone seated in the window half-rises and waves at her. I feel in my bag for my sunglasses and put them on so when I walk past the restaurant a few moments later I can look in without anxiety. Emma is seated at a table with a few other women, and the kids are all in highchairs, throwing things on the floor, while the waiter stands back, smiling with pained tolerance, attempting to take the order.
“ A deft and lively brain-twist of a thriller for which the only word that seems apropos is ‘spellbinding.’”
I’d like to know where she lives.
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“ Fabulous....One thing is certain: Alys, Always is an enemy of productivity. I gobbled it up in one furtive sitting.” —USA Today “ Harriet Lane writes with style, wrapping her suspenseful debut in lovely bits of gently creepy description, as well as delicious social critique…. A fast, sharp read.” —Boston Globe
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Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism— and why we need it now more than ever. In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard demonstrated that true happiness is not tied to fleeting moments or sensations, but is an enduring state of soul rooted in mindfulness and compassion for others. Now he turns his lens from the personal to the global, with a rousing argument that altruism—genuine concern for the well-being of others—could be the saving grace of the 21st century. It is, he believes, the vital thread that can answer the main challenges of our time: the economy in the short term, life satisfaction in the mid-term, and environment in the long term. Ricard’s message has been taken up by major economists and thinkers, including Dennis Snower, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and George Soros. Matthieu Ricard makes a robust and passionate case for cultivating altruistic love and compassion as the best means for simultaneously benefitting ourselves and our society. It’s a fresh outlook on an ardent struggle—and one that just might make the world a better place.
• Little, Brown published the English-language edition of Happiness (LB, 978-0-316-05783-7, 4/06) and has 75,000 copies in print. The trade paperback is in its 10th printing. • Ricard’s books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and he travels around the world to teach and lecture. • Since 1989, Matthieu has served as the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to collaborative research between scientists and Buddhist scholars and meditators.
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The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World matthieu ricard 978-0-316-20824-6
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Non-fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 288 pgs Territories: World english • uK, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Translation rights: editions robert Laffont • editor: Judy Clain e-book: 978-0-316-20821-5 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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n unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. And, although he’s been cleared by a variety of intelligence agencies and ordered released by a federal judge, there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir—terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Slipped to his lawyers and published now for the first time, GUANTÁNAMO DIARY is a document of immense historical importance.
guantánamo Diary mohamedou Ould Slahi, edited by Larry Siems 978-0-316-32868-5
$29.00 ($32.00 in Canada) • Biography & Autobiography • 6 x 9 ¼ 400 pgs • Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: Waxman Leavell Literary Agency • editor: geoff Shandler e-book: 978-0-316-32860-9 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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“designated [by donald rumsfeld] for ‘special interrogation techniques….Slahi had been subjected to sleep deprivation, exposed to extremes of heat and cold, moved around the base blindfolded, and at one point taken into the bay on a boat and threatened —miami heRald with death.”
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riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose “that’s as fine as any being written by an american author today” (Ben Fountain). One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors—family, witnesses, and suspects—who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, grief fierce, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths are the three girls. They watch over the town and make occasional visitations, trying to connect with and enliven those they left behind: “See how small a thing it is that keeps us apart,” they say. A master of compression and lyrical precision, Scott Blackwood has surpassed himself with this haunting, beautiful, and enormously powerful new novel.
• Scott Blackwood’s previous novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here, earned him a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award in fiction, an AWP Award for the Novel, and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for best work of fiction. It was also a finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award.
See How Small A Novel Scott Blackwood 978-0-316-37380-7
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“This little gem of a book puts on lush display Scott Blackwood’s talent for measuring and connecting the previously un-connectable in lived experience, and making of it an entirely new whole which we immediately accept as true, natural, exhilarating, even inevitable. he is a lovely sentence writer, and this first novel sparkles with invention.”
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“Acute and nimble stories....So honest as they capture the dapple of emotions and perceptions that cross the mind like sunlight and shadow on a river....An impressive, —NeW YoRk Times Book RevieW accomplished debut.”
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the second in a new series of instructive
single-subject books covering basic to advanced techniques that will make you a better cook.
According to James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Michael Ruhlman, “Braising is what cooking is truly about—transformation. You start with a tough, often inexpensive, cut of meat, and through your care and knowledge as a cook, you turn it into something tender and succulent and exquisite. That is true cooking, cooking that engages both mind and soul.” Among the recipes featured in this second book in Ruhlman’s new “how-to” series are Moroccan Lamb Tagine, Classic Yankee Pot Roast, Mexican Pork and Posole Stew with Dried Chilis, Braised Fennel, and a Corned Beef and Cabbage Braise. As with the other books in this line, practical information about essential tools and staple pantry items will be outlined, along with straightforward and clearly presented advice and dozens of color photographs showcasing both finished dishes and step-by-step cooking techniques.
• This is the second in a series of single-subject books focusing on technique; the long-term vision is a Ruhlman Cooking Library that will be essential for any serious cookbook collection. The books in this series will be competitively priced, appealingly packaged, lucidly written, and easy to hold and to cook from. Ruhlman’s How To Roast (pg. 31) will be published in October 2014. • Ruhlman is revered by professional and home cooks alike for his dedication to craft and his no-nonsense cooking advice.
ruhlman’s How to Braise Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook michael ruhlman 978-0-316-25413-7
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“I want to applaud Vani for the work she’s doing. This is how you change the health of our nation.” — dr. mehmeT OZ
the Food Babe Way Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21 Days Vani hari 978-0-316-37646-4
$27.00 ($30.00 in Canada) • health • 6 x 9 ¼ • 304 pgs Territories: World • uK and Translation rights: Little, Brown Performance rights: Folio Literary management • editor: Tracy Behar Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-47895-531-3 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-37645-7 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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is a food activist and the creator of FoodBabe.com. In her work, she has been able to influence how food giants like Kraft, McDonalds, Whole Foods, Chipotle, and Chick-Fil-A developed healthier food policies.
Cut hidden food toxins, lose weight and get healthy in just 21 days. Did you know you are consuming hundreds of toxins every single day? That a juicy peach sprayed heavily with pesticides could be triggering your body to store fat? Does silly putty, one of the ingredients in McDonald’s French fries, sound appetizing to you? Chemicals are invading our foods, and they’re making us gain weight, look old, and get sick. In THE FOOD BABE WAY, activist Vani Hari, a.k.a. the Food Babe, reveals the dangers lurking in our foods, and spells out how to keep toxic chemicals out of your life, explaining what to avoid, what to use instead, and where to get it. Hari shows how to lose weight—without counting calories—and get healthy through a simple, practical, and accessible 21-day program, including easy-to-follow meal plans and mouthwatering recipes. With THE FOOD BABE WAY, you can change your food, change your body, and change the world. • After Hari discovered the truth about the food she had been eating, she developed the successful habits that allowed her to drop 30 pounds and shed a host of health issues, including eczema and allergies. Her investigation into what was making her sick led to her becoming one of the nation’s most influential food activists. • Hari’s platform is growing exponentially. FoodBabe.com receives more than 1.8 million unique visitors per month, has 213,000 Facebook fans and 35,000 followers on Twitter. • Hari has been featured in the New York Times and USA Today and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Good Morning America, and NBC News. • THE FOOD BABE WAY is poised to be a bestseller and will appeal to fans of JJ Virgin, Mark Hyman, Michael Pollan, and Skinny Bitch.
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Excerpt from The Food Babe Way: More than 80 million of us are dieting or following some sort of fitness program. Nonetheless, we still continue to get fatter and sicker. Why? Well, it’s not just from eating too many cookies. There’s more to it than that. Now we know that it’s also the foreign chemicals in and on our food that are making us sick and fat, no matter how faithfully we diet, or follow a nutritionally sound program. There are chemical ingredients in foods that may actually be programming us for weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, even cancer. You’ve heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” Let me rephrase it: You are the chemicals you eat. These toxins get in your body through food and set up camp in various places, particularly your pituitary master gland, thyroid, and adrenals, where they screw up hormone production and metabolism. When you eat crappy chemicals, your body becomes a fat, toxic waste dump. In fact, a juicy peach—a food sprayed heavily with chemical pesticides—could potentially be more fattening than a chocolate fudge sundae. Losing weight and getting healthy don’t have as much to do with calories, or fat grams or carb counting as you’ve been led to believe. Those are no longer the sole answer. Okay then, what is? The secret is to break free from food chemicals that are getting in your body’s way of burning fat and healing your health.
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“James Hannaham’s new novel is a tour de force. Gripping, haunting, and deeply moving, it beguiles the reader with the urgent immediacy of its characters’ lives, while also reverberating with universal themes of freedom and enslavement, love and survival.” —JeNNiFer egAN, PuLiTZer PriZe WiNNer FOr a visiT FRom The GooN sQUad
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was born in the Bronx and grew up in Yonkers, New York. He is the author of the novel God Says No (McSweeney’s, 2009). He teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute and Columbia University.
“ A tour de force” (Jennifer Egan) about a widow’s efforts to be reunited with her son. Darlene, a widow and mother devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband, turns to drugs to erase the trauma. In this fog of grief, she is lured with the promise of a great job to a mysterious farm run by a shady company, with disastrous consequences for both her and her young son Eddie who is left behind in a panicstricken search for her. Delicious Foods tells the gripping story of three unforgettable characters: a mother, her son, and the drug that threatens to destroy them. In Darlene’s haunted struggle to reunite with Eddie, and in the efforts of both to triumph over those who would enslave them, Hannaham’s daring and shape-shifting prose not only infuses their desperate circumstances with grace and humor, but also wrestles with timeless questions of love and freedom. • James Hannaham has received prestigious fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf. His work has appeared in BOMB, One Story, Spin, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. His debut novel was a Lambda Book Award finalist, and his writing has been reprinted in Best African American Essays. • Never before has America’s story of race relations and the crack cocaine epidemic been told in a mainstream novel, let alone with such inventiveness and imagination. • The character of Darlene is inspired by the real-life story of a woman who experienced this modern-day enslavement.
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Excerpt from Delicious Foods: In Louisiana they’d had a blond brick one-story ranch with a backyard—a real yard—a limitless rectangle of parched crabgrass that grew larger and greener in Eddie’s imagination the further time ran away with it. In the evenings, crowds of grackles would settle in a live oak in the corner by the chain-link fence. Their black, iridescent feathers had a natural elegance, and the birds peered at him with mocking intelligence, like well-dressed rich folks encountering a vagrant on a red carpet. The raspy noises they made sounded more like broken radios than birdcalls, and to make their cries they had to widen their beaks and puff their feathers with so much force that it looked like they might explode. The way they strutted and sneered, Eddie decided that these black birds had inside them the souls of angry black people from the olden days, ghosts come back to settle some old-time vendetta. His father, Nat Hardison, who might now qualify as such an outraged spirit, had lived in that house with them, but Eddie couldn’t summon many clear memories of him, only the photo his mother kept on a shelf by her bed, an image already mauve with sun damage, of Dad in his Air Force uniform, with an L-square jaw and high cheekbones, behind mirrored shades that obscured his pupils and mocked his clay brow, showing his teeth as he smiled, totally unaware that the lines of his future would soon come to a sharp point.
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n illuminating and wondrous history of a vital organ—the human heart. A vivid narrative exploration of our most vital organ, THE MAN WHO TOUCHED HIS OWN HEART tells the story of the heart from the first “explorers” who dug up bodies to plumb its chambers, through heart transplants and the latest unbelievable medical efforts to prolong our hearts’ lives. Why do so many of us die from heart diseases when our close kin such as chimpanzees don’t? Or why do we have four heart chambers when a snake gets by with two? Rob Dunn examines the breakthrough discoveries of the daring, bold, and perhaps even slightly crazy people who made them, including the doctor who indeed touched his own heart, and in doing so made a breakthrough from which nearly everyone benefits. In the “vein” of Sam Kean, Amy Stewart, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Rebecca Skloot, Rob Dunn provides a riveting tour of the four chambers we depend on most.
• Rob Dunn is the author of Every Living Thing (Smithsonian/ Harper, 2009) and The Wild Life of Our Bodies (Harper, 2011), which received rave reviews and was included on three “best of the year” roundups. • No comprehensive book on the story of hearts exists, particularly one that incorporates an evolutionary or biological perspective.
the Man Who touched His Own Heart True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery rob dunn 978-0-316-22579-3
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rom a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in Pollard, Illinois, 30-something Francis Falbo is holed up in an attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother’s death, his beloved wife’s desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band’s irreconcilable break-up. He hasn’t changed out of his bathrobe—“the uniform of a Life in Default”— for nine days. All he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants, becoming increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are by turns disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing. KNOW YOUR BEHOLDER is an uproarious and affecting novel about what we do when our lives have crumbled around us and we must collect the jagged pieces and begin anew. Seldom have our foibles and our efforts to persevere in spite of them been laid bare with such heart and hope.
• Rapp’s play Red Light Winter was a 2006 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and he is the recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. • Rapp has written and directed films starring actors such as Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, and Marisa Tomei. The film version of Red Light Winter, starring Olivia Wilde and produced by Scott Rudin, will be released in 2015. • Readers who loved Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity, Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys, and Jess Walter’s Financial Lives of the Poets will love Know Your Beholder.
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“i love Adam’s writing. his ironic bohemianism totally captures the scruff and tang of the great unwashed struggling literati. if Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Bukowski had a kid, he would be Adam rapp.”
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n this spirited sequel, the rook returns to clinch an alliance between deadly rivals and avert epic—and slimy—supernatural war. When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers—and the bureaucratic finesse—to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries: The Checquy—the centuries-old covert British organization that protects society from supernatural threats, and… The Grafters—a centuries-old supernatural threat. But as bizarre attacks sweep London, threatening to sabotage negotiations, old hatreds flare. Surrounded by spies, only the Rook and two women, who absolutely hate each other, can seek out the culprits before they trigger a devastating otherworldly war. STILETTO is a novel of preternatural diplomacy, paranoia, and snide remarks, from an author who “adroitly straddles the thin line between fantasy, thriller, and spoof ” (Booklist).
• The Rook (LB, 978-0-316-09879-3, 1/11) garnered great reviews and has sold more than 60,000 copies in all formats. Readers will be eager to follow Myfanwy Thomas’s next adventure. • In the spirit of Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair (Viking, 2002) series, Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon, 2010), Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (Crown, 2011), and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (GCP, 978-0-44656308-6, 3/10), STILETTO is smart fantasy for a mainstream audience, blending humor, supernatural elements, and espionage.
Stiletto A Novel daniel O’malley 978-0-316-22804-6
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 352 pgs Territories: World english • Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Performance rights: Foundry media, LLC • editor: Asya muchnick e-book: 978-0-316-22803-9 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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Daniel O’Malley graduated from Michigan State University and earned a Master’s Degree in medieval history from Ohio State University. He then returned to his childhood home, Australia, where he works for the Transport Safety Bureau.
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groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, american resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eatdog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser’s account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today’s delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year.
• Steve Fraser’s epic history of Wall Street, Every Man a Speculator (HarperCollins, 2005), and his acclaimed follow up, Wall Street (Yale University Press, 2008), received starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and Booklist, and raves in the New York Times and other major publications. • Fraser’s vivid storytelling, combined with acute analysis, will make the book a lodestar for those who hope to change the country for the better. • The AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be published amidst increasing political discussion and debate about the 1% and American inequality.
the age of acquiescence The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power Steve Fraser 978-0-316-18543-1
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • history • 6 x 9 ¼ • 480 pgs • 8 pages b/w photos, 2 maps • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: The Kneerim & Williams Agency editor: geoff Shandler e-book: 978-0-316-33374-0 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
Praise for every man a speculator: “A rollicking history….Fraser affords a panoramic view of decades of high endeavor and low greed.”
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Steve Fraser is the author of Every Man a Speculator, Wall Street, and Labor Will Rule (Free Press, 1991), which won the Philip Taft Prize for the best book in labor history. He lives in New York City.
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provocative blueprint for how the United States can successfully disengage from failing wars without compromising its core values or interests. For a century, the United States steadily accumulated a string of military triumphs. But since 1945 the onslaught of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan has exposed the country's inability to change course after battlefield setbacks—with grave consequences for thousands of American soldiers and our allies. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR provocatively explains how America can draw failed campaigns to a close without compromising its core values through three specific steps—surge, talk, and leave. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR is an essential guidebook for life in an era of unwinnable conflicts, a book made necessary not only by Iraq and Afghanistan, but by the future quagmires that may yet come.
• Based on interviews with dozens of leading generals, ambassadors, and secretaries of state, the book reveals how the United States can avert military disaster, negotiate with opponents, train local forces, withdraw its troops, bind the wounds of veterans, reconcile with enemies, learn from military loss, and foster national renewal. • Tierney’s is the first-ever guide to handling battlefield loss—an unprecedented approach sure to get attention. • One of the brightest stars of the next generation of diplomatic and military strategists, Dominic Tierney is a correspondent at The Atlantic and a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, among others. He has also appeared on NPR, CNN, and MSNBC.
the right Way to Lose a War America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts dominic Tierney 978-0-316-25488-5
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Political Science • 6 x 9 ¼ • 400 pgs 16 pp b/w photos, 10 maps • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Lippincott, massie, mcQuilkin editor: geoff Shandler e-book: 978-0-316-25487-8 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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hen the case is too hot to handle—it’s a job for nYPD red. Hunter Alden, Jr., a billionaire businessman, has it all: a sexy wife, a brilliant teenage son, and an ever-growing fortune. But his perfect life shatters one horrific night when he discovers the severed head of his chauffeur, stuffed in a bag marked, in blood, with his son’s initials. Now his son is missing, and the price to get him back might be too high—even for one of the world’s richest men. When NYPD Red, the elite task force for New York City’s most high-profile crimes, takes the case, Detective Zach Jordon and his partner—and ex-girlfriend—Kylie MacDonald have never seen anything so unspeakable. As the investigation continues, Zach and Kylie realize that the closer they get to the truth, the more their own lives are in danger. NYPD RED 3 is the next sensational thriller by James Patterson, the man Ian Rankin hails as “The Boss.”
• The new NYPD Red series builds on the enormous success of NYPD Red (LB, 978-0-316-19986-5, 10/12), which shipped almost one million copies across all formats since its publication. NYPD Red 2 (LB, 978-0-316-21123-9) will be released in March 2014. • Marshall Karp has written for stage, screen, TV, and is the author of The Rabbit Factory and three other mysteries featuring LAPD Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. NYPD RED is his third collaboration with James Patterson.
nYPD red 3 James Patterson & marshall Karp 978-0-316-40699-4
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 416 pgs Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK: random house uK; Performance rights: James Patterson entertainment • editor: reagan Arthur Hachette audio: 978-1-4789-2793-8 • $35.00/$39.00 Large Print edition: 978-0-316-40764-9 • $31.00/$34.00 e-book: 978-0-316-28456-1 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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rom charlatans to mesmerists to shrinks: the fascinating story of psychiatry’s demise and redemption in the field of medicine, by the President of the american Psychiatric association. In SHRINKS, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, shares the story of psychiatry’s origins and the checkered history of useless or harmful treatments—including hydrotherapy, lobotomies, and primal screaming—that made psychiatry the black sheep of medicine. Lieberman describes psychiatry’s scientific rehabilitation, beginning after WWII, with the discipline’s slow embrace of psychopharmacology, genetics, and neuroscience, and how it has been transformed into an evidence-based profession. With the latest information on how to know if something is wrong with you or your loved ones, and guidance on obtaining the best care, SHRINKS is a gripping and illuminating read, and an urgent call-toarms to start treating mental illness as a disease rather than a state of mind.
• Dr. Lieberman has excellent credentials and is extremely influential in the landscape of psychiatry. He is well connected and counts among his friends Dr. Oliver Sacks, Dr. Eric Kandel, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Andrew Solomon, and Kay Redfield Jamison. • Dr. Lieberman has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. He has also appeared on Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, and 60 Minutes. • SHRINKS will appeal to fans of Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jerome Groopman, Rebecca Skloot, Atul Gawande, and others. • More than 60 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from mental illness.
Shrinks The Untold Story of Psychiatry Jeffrey Lieberman, md 978-0-316-27886-7
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Psychology/mental health • 6 x 9 ¼ 304 pgs • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: The ross Yoon Agency • editor: Tracy Behar Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-7966-1 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-27884-3 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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n the tradition of Drood, a historical mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Henry James team up to solve a literary puzzle. In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams—member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover’s suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus—his threeyear absence after Reichenbach Falls, during which the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character. This leads to serious complications for James—for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power possibly named Moriarty that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows? • Drood and The Terror both debuted on the New York Times extended bestseller list. The Terror also reached #14 on the Publishers Weekly Bestseller List. • Acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, the forthcoming Hobbit films) optioned Drood months before publication and plans to direct. • Simmons is always a favorite of reviewers. Black Hills and Drood garnered rave reviews in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. The Terror was named a Best Book of 2007 by Entertainment Weekly and USA Today.
the Fifth Heart dan Simmons 978-0-316-19882-0
$28.00 ($31.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 336 pgs Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK, Translation, and Performance rights: richard Curtis Associates editor: Josh Kendall Hachette audio: unabr. Cd: 978-1-4789-8314-9 • $40.00/$44.00 e-book: 978-0-316-19880-6 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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a sharply funny debut novel about a gloriously
eccentric family.
Ten-year-old Lizzy lives a charmed life, until one evening in 1970 when her father’s affair is discovered, and he moves out. Lizzie, her brother and sister, and their newly divorced mother are packed off to a small English village, where the family is promptly shunned. Only a “man at the helm,” her children believe, will both gain them acceptance and put an end to their mother’s endless playwriting and pill-popping—and so they set out to find the best candidate for the job. What follows is a string of surprises, disasters, all sorts of animals and unsuitable men, and a journey that changes the family forever. Hilarious, eccentric, and occasionally heart-breaking, MAN AT THE HELM is a brilliant portrayal of a childhood spent in an unconventional family.
• Nina Stibbe’s memoir-in-letters, Love, Nina (LB, 978-0316-24339-1, 4/13) has been highly praised by Nick Hornby, Maria Semple, J. Courtney Sullivan, Deborah Moggach, Andrew O’Hagan, and others. • Stibbe has a lovely comic touch and keen powers of observation, especially when it comes to family relationships. She will appeal to readers with her warmth, humor, and true writer's eye.
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Seeking to heal old wounds, a mother and
daughter set out on the exotic adventure of a lifetime.
When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter are haunted by how Ellie came into being—Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment. Longing to reconnect with Ellie before she departs for college and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. As they leave behind the rhythms of ordinary life and retrace the footsteps of a medieval pilgrim, they visit Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and Egypt. In these exotic places—mysterious, spiritual, and infused with rich history—mother and daughter forge a new and lasting bond, and come closer to accepting the separate lives they must now lead.
• An excerpt of the book was selected for the Fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares. Other essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Fourth Genre, Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge and Third Coast. Holy City of the Wichitas was published in Ecotone and was chosen for inclusion in The Best American Travel Writing 2012. • Though Felix Fabri, the first century theologian whose footsteps Meyer retraces, voyaged at the end of the Middle Ages, pilgrimage as a metaphor for human life still has deep resonance, and travel as pilgrimage—to both sacred and secular shrines—is very much alive.
the Book of Wanderings A Mother-Daughter Pilgrimage Kimberly meyer 978-0-316-25121-1
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a startlingly original, genre-bending literary
debut in which a lovesick college student is visited by other versions of himself from the future.
College student Henry Edward’s grief over breaking up with his girlfriend Val has begun to manifest itself in bizarre ways. Cause and effect, once so reliable, no longer appear to be related in any recognizable manner. Either he’s hallucinating, or the strength of his heartbreak has unhinged reality itself. Blacking out after a particularly powerful vision, Henry awakens to find himself under the care of two strangers with whom he seems to share an unexpected familiarity. The kidnappers—one old, one middle-aged— claim to be different version of Henry from other dimensions. Val is the love of your life, they tell him; she was the love of our lives, too. And if you don’t get yourself together and fix this, you’ll be screwing it up for all three of us, forever.
• THE LOST BOYS SYMPHONY combines elements of literary fiction, adventurous high-concept fiction, magical realism and psychological suspense and will appeal to readers of many different genres. • The heartfelt love triangle of THE LOST BOYS SYMPHONY will draw in men and women readers alike. Its themes of youth looking at the old, and vice versa, will likewise appeal to many age demographics, even YA readers.
the Lost Boys Symphony A Novel mark Andrew Ferguson 978-0-316-32399-4
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a young english girl is held captive in her
house by a german soldier in this thrilling debut novel about the personal impact of war. It’s July 1940, and 11-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales to return home. Finding her English village abandoned, she breaks into her family’s boarded-up house to wait for their return. But inside she discovers a wounded German soldier with a gun—he says he won’t hurt her, but he won’t let her leave the house. Trapped in the claustrophobic confines of the house, Lydia slowly realizes that this soldier knows too much about her and her family, and that he’s plotting something for them both. THE DYNAMITE ROOM shrinks the global theatre of history’s most devastating war to a game of cat and mouse played out in a single house; the result is a moving portrait of war and how it affects soldiers and citizens alike.
• Jason Hewitt chose backstories and plotlines for THE DYNAMITE ROOM that involved lesser-known elements of WWII—such as the battle for Norway, the German euthanasia program, and the Nazi Pioneer Group 909. In doing so, Hewitt gives us a fresh look at a familiar war. • THE DYNAMITE ROOM explores the phenomenon of Stockholm Syndrome in portraying an intense relationship between a World War II Nazi soldier landed in England and the 11-year-old girl he holds hostage—thus creating a rather different kind of love story.
the Dynamite room A Novel Jason hewitt 978-0-316-32765-7
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 352 pgs Territories: u.S., Canada, and Open market • First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; uK: Simon and Schuster; Translation, and Performance rights: Janklow & Nesbit Associates • editor: Sarah murphy e-book • 978-0-316-32763-3 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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an award-winning author’s stirring quest to
find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast asia’s jungles.
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science—a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos. The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, THE LAST UNICORN is deBuys’s look deep into one of the world’s most remote places. As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty. • William deBuys has won many awards for his books, including being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for River of Traps (Trinity University Press, 2008). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a director of the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation in New York City, which funds community-based conservation and wildlife protection around the world.
the Last Unicorn A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures William deBuys 978-0-316-23286-9
$27.00 ($30.00 in Canada) • Nature • 6 x 9 ¼ • 320 pgs • 8 pgs of 4/c photos, 2 maps • Territories: World • uK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance rights: Fletcher & Company, LLC editor: John Parsley e-book • 978-0-316-23288-3 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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MULHOLLAND BOOKS Dear Reader: clip, but with every me and go at a startling co s on as se ing sh bli pu . These stories that surprise us the constant desire for ng ini new catalog, we gratify Beukes’s The Sh the success of Lauren Last year we witnessed swiftly rising profile r as a Fine Ar t, and the rde Mu ll’s rre Mo vid Da , Girls of Michael Robotham. though you several of these authors, of urn ret the rks ma on Our fall seas Lauren Beukes once at you read from them. wh by ew an d ke oc sh be will entive killer in Broken another disturbingly inv again introduces us to urns to save the danum-swilling hero ret lau ll’s rre Mo vid Da s, g Monster America with a thrillin Robotham comes to l ae ch Mi d an n, ee ld, Qu r with a heart of go t a Texan bank robbe standalone novel abou e he loves. desperate to save the on be mes that I’m sure we’ll debuting a few new na be o als l wil d llan lho Mu on Thomas m now. Keep your eyes fro s on as se s se es cc citing as su novel, and remember rdy’s epic Boston crime Pu las ug Do d an lley O’Ma ally gifted three-year-old longs to the preternatur the name Akili, which be One. Takano’s Genocide of at the heart of Ka zuaki
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Broken Monsters Lauren Beukes 978-0-316-21682-1
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 288 pgs Territories: U.S., Canada, and Open Market • UK: HarperCollins; First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print Rights: Little, Brown and Company; Translation Rights: A.M. Heath & Co. Performance Rights: Circle of Confusion • Editor: Josh Kendall e-book: 978-0-316-21683-8 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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is the author of The Shining Girls, a bestseller throughout the world and chosen as a Best Book of 2013 by Amazon.com, National Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly (by Stephen King), and Salon (by Joe Hill). She is also the recipient of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. She lives with her husband and daughter in Cape Town, South Aftrica.
New York Times bestselling author Lauren Beukes returns with her next smash crossover thriller. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards; half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused. The cops nickname him “Bambi,” but as stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you’re Detective Versado’s over-achieving teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you are the disgraced journalist, Jonno, you do whatever it takes to investigate what may become the most heinous crime story in memory. If you’re Thomas Keen—known on the street as TK—you’ll do what you can to keep clean, keep your head down, and try to help the broken and possibly visionary artist obsessed with setting loose The Dream, tearing reality, assembling the city anew. If Lauren Beukes’s internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a timejumping thrill ride through the past, her BROKEN MONSTERS is the genreredefining thriller about the horror of a city’s future. • Lauren Beukes’s previous novel, The Shining Girls (Mulholland, 0-316-21685-2, 6/13), was anointed one of the must-read books of the summer by the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, and many more. With over 36,000 copies sold in all formats, Beukes leapt from the genre shadows into the mainstream. • Beukes is a recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Best Novel, and the Nielsen’s Bookseller’s Choice Award. More praise for The Shining Girls: “Astonishing.” “A triumph.”
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Excerpt from BROKEN MONSTERS: The body. The-body-the-body-the-body, she thinks. Words lose their meaning when you repeat them. So do bodies, even in all their variations. Dead is dead. It’s only the hows and why that vary. Tick them off. Exposure. Gunshot. Stabbing. Bludgeoning with a blunt instrument, sharp instrument, no instrument at all when bare-knuckles will do. Wham, bam, thank you, m’am. It’s Murder Bingo! But even violence has its creative limits. Gabrielle wishes someone had told the sicko who did this. Because this body? This one is Yoo-neeq. Which happens to be the name of a sex worker she let off with a warning on Monday. It’s most of what the DPD does these days. Hands out empty warnings in The. Most. Violent. City. In. America. Duh-duhduh. She hears her daughter’s voice in her head – the dramatic horror movie chord Layla would punctuate that with. All the appellations that Detroit carries.
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Intro T he blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a
new genre—the medical thriller—is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it “minor surgery,” but Nancy Greenly, Sean book description Berman, and a dozen others—all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures—were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table: they never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan investigates and finds the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning. Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in— or a victim of—a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
title Coma subtitle A Novel authorCook Robin ISBN 978-0-316-33446-4
• COMA bullet was originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown in 1977 (978-0-316-15510-6). For decades it was available in a Signet mass market edition before going out of print. • COMA is the third book to be published in the Mulholland Classic series, which brings forgotten classic mysteries and cult favorites back into the public eye.
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Newly available in trade paperback—the
first in an acclaimed series of “dark and cinematic” (Chicago Tribune) crime novels in the hardboiled tradition.
Once Joe Kurtz demanded revenge—and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of touch, out of prison, and with only one friend in the world, Kurtz signs on with the Farinos, an organized crime family that has a problem in its own backyard. The Farinos don’t know it yet, but they will have an even bigger problem in Kurtz himself. Searching for a mob accountant gone missing, Kurtz starts rubbing the wrong people the wrong way for all the right reasons. Within forty-eight hours he’s got two low-rent, high-impact killers on his trail; a beautiful, ruthless woman in his bed; a legendary hit man flying in from Denmark; and the wreckage of his past falling down around him. And from there it only gets worse...
• This widely praised novel was originally published in hardcover by Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press (978-0-31227497-9, 2001) and is now being released in trade paperback for the first time. • HARDCASE is the first of three Joe Kurtz novels that Mulholland Books will rerelease. It will be followed by Hard Freeze in fall 2015 and Hard As Nails in fall 2016. • Sales for prior Simmons republications, including Carrion Comfort (SMP, 2009), The Crook Factory (Mulholland, 978-0-316-21345-5, 2/13), and Darwin’s Blade (Mulholland, 978-0-316-21349-3, 9/13) demonstrate that interest in Simmons’s backlist remains strong.
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$16.00 ($18.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 320 pgs Territories: U.S. and Open Market • Editor: Wes Miller
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Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy, and the woman who has adopted them fights for their lives—and her own.
Adam and Alice are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral. Will they succumb to the same physiological horror that destroyed their parents? Every change brings on terror—the voice cracking as it changes, the swelling of the breasts, the coarsening of down into actual hair. Their aunt, Cynthia, oversees renovations to the Twisden family’s Manhattan residence—torn apart by the children’s parents at their most savage—and struggles to give her niece and nephew the unconditional love they never had. Meanwhile, in the world outside, the forces of good and evil collide as a troop of feral offspring threatens to invade the refuge Cynthia is so determined to construct behind the Twisdens’ walls.
• Summit Entertainment has acquired the movie rights to Breed (Mulholland, 9/12) and BROOD. David Heyman, who produced the Harry Potter movies and Gravity, will produce. • Two of Spencer’s novels (Endless Love and Waking the Dead) have been made into acclaimed films starring Brooke Shields and Jennifer Connelly, respectively, and a remake of Endless Love will be released in February 2014.
Brood Chase Novak 978-0-316-22800-8
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 320 pgs Territories: World • UK, Translation, First Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print Rights: Little, Brown and Company; Performance Rights: Janklow & Nesbit • Editor: Judy Clain Hachette Audio: 978-1-61969-470-5 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-22801-5 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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“THE THICKET reads like a dark version of The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and feels like a Coen brothers movie. It’s the perfect mix of light and dark, with plenty of humor mixed in.” —HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jack Parker thought he’d already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-ofthe-century East Texas—orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle’s farm, when a traveling group of bandits murder Jack’s grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue. In the early throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack’s about to find out, blood and vengeance rule supreme.
The Thicket A Novel Joe Lansdale 978-0-316-18844-9
• Lansdale received the Edgar Award for his novel The Bottoms. He has also received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. • Lansdale’s books just keep getting better. THE THICKET and Edge of Dark Water have been his most acclaimed novels, earning comparisons to Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Stephen King. • Early 20th-century East Texas is a time and place perennially fascinating to readers, from Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy to Larry McMurty’s novels to Charles Portis’s True Grit. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-18845-6, 9/13
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A bestselling, award-winning Japanese thriller
about a child who may be the future of the human race—or the cause of its extinction.
During a briefing in Washington, DC, the president is informed of a threat to national security—a three-year-old boy named Akili is the first evolved human and is already the smartest being on the planet, capable of manipulating grand-scale events like pieces on a chess board. An American soldier, Jonathan Yeager, leads an international team of elite operatives deep into the heart of the Congolese jungle under orders to destroy Akili before his full potential can be realized. But Yeager has a very sick child, and Akili’s advanced knowledge of all things, medicine included, may be Yeager’s only hope for saving his son’s life. Soon Yeager finds himself caught between following orders and saving a creature with a hidden agenda, who plans to either save humanity as we know it—or destroy it.
• GENOCIDE OF ONE has sold over 370,000 copies in Japan in its first year of publication, was nominated for the Naoki Prize, and received the Yamada Futaro Literature Prize and the Mystery Writers of Japan Award. • A film adaption of GENOCIDE OF ONE is already in development by a major Hollywood studio with a highprofile star attached. • Philip Gabriel, who co-translated Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, has delivered a nuanced, pulse-pounding translation.
Genocide of One Kazuaki Takano 978-0-316-22622-6
$26.00 ($29.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 6 x 9 ¼ • 416 pgs Territories: World English • UK, Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Large Print Rights: Little, Brown and Company; Translation and Performance: The Wylie Agency • Editor: Wes Miller e-book: 978-0-316-22620-2 • $12.99/$12.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
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Kazuaki Takano studied Film Studies at Los
Angeles City College and has worked for many years as a scriptwriter in Japan. GENOCIDE OF ONE is his first novel to be translated into English.
Introglobal manhunt sweeps up a former federal A
agent when his childhood friend becomes the chief suspect in a terrorist rampage.
His stint in U.S. law enforcement behind him, bookhazardous description Valentine Pescatore has started over as a private investigator in Buenos Aires. Then he runs into a long-lost friend: Raymond Mercer, a charismatic, troubled singer who has converted to Islam. After a terrorist attack kills hundreds, suspicion falls on Raymond—and Pescatore. Angry and bewildered, Pescatore joins forces with Fatima Belhaj, an alluring French agent. They pursue the enigmatic Raymond into a global labyrinth of intrigue. Is he a terrorist, a gangster, a spy? Is his loyalty to Pescatore genuine, or just another lethal scam? From the jungles of South America to the streets of Paris to the battlegrounds of Baghdad, THE CONVERT’S SONG leads Pescatore on a race to stop a high-stakes campaign of terror.
•bullet Triple Crossing (Mulholland, 8/11) was selected by the New York Times Book Review’s Marilyn Stasio as the Best Debut Crime Novel and Best Action Thriller of 2011. The Orlando Sentinel also named it one of the Best Mysteries of 2011. • Rotella’s knowledge is drawn from the real world. At ProPublica, he covers international terrorism, organized crime, homeland security, and immigration. Previously, he worked for 23 years for the Los Angeles Times, serving as bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires. He was a Pulitzer finalist in international reporting in 2006. His reporting on the 2008 Mumbai attacks won two Overseas Press Club Awards and was the basis of the Emmy-nominated Frontline documentary, A Perfect Terrorist (2011).
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“IDntro azzling. The best novel of its kind since Robert Harris’s Fatherland.”
—CHARLES CUMMING, AUTHOR OF THE TRINITY SIX
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to book description the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule—the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints. But Churchill’s Resistance soldiers on. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The keeper of that secret? Frank Muncaster, a scientist, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital. David Fitzgerald—a civil servant, a spy for the Resistance, and a university friend of Frank’s—is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. In a spellbinding tale of suspense, DOMINION dares to explore how, in moments of crisis, history can turn on the decisions of a few brave men and women.
title Dominion subtitle A Novel author C. J. Sansom ISBN 978-0-316-25494-6
• DOMINION bullet reached #1 on UK paperback bestseller lists and was one of the UK’s top ten bestselling novels of the year. • Reading groups will respond strongly to DOMINION’s richly evoked themes of war, persecution, and oppressive rule, as well as its focus on how an entire country’s history can be shaped by the choices of a few men and women. • Mulholland will publish Lamentation, the new novel in Sansom’s popular Shardlake series, in February 2015 (see page 86). • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-25491-5, 1/14
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Inntro the Sixties, a battle for the soul of a city is
fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt and the corrupted.
November 1968. Judy Garland is performing drunk at book description the Palladium and the city of London is about to catch fire—literally. Called to a gas explosion, Detective Seargant Cathal Breen unearths a shocking discovery beneath the rubble. Mind-bending paintings by Bridget Riley and Peter Blake—and the garrotted body of one Jacob Pugh, a playboy god in the art world. With Detective Helen Tozer, Breen must infiltrate the artistic demimonde of a volatile and increasingly murderous city. THE KINGS OF LONDON unveils the real story of “swinging” London: the shadows beyond the spotlights, the condoning of corruption and the crimes committed in the name of liberation.
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•bullet Mulholland published the first book, featuring Detectives Breen and Tozer, She’s Leaving Home, in February 2011. There is one more title to come in this atmospheric, acutely observed trilogy set in 60s London. • Featuring luminaries of the 60s art world—Cy Twombly! Robert Fraser! Bridget Riley!—art lovers will enjoy this thrilling take on a familiar milieu.
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“THE STRING DIARIES is unputdownable. Stephen Lloyd Jones has written a debut novel as frightening and layered as Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian and as clever and riveting as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.” —BENJAMIN PERCY, AUTHOR OF RED MOON
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studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and is the director of a major London media agency. This is his first novel.
A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity. THE STRING DIARIES opens with a young woman frantically driving through the night—her daughter asleep in the back seat, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied through generations with string. The diaries hold the secret to the man—or thing—that has finally found and attacked them. But how can you fight an enemy that you cannot recognize? How can you escape, let alone destroy, a beast when that beast can assume the likeness of anyone, even your gravely wounded husband? Your daughter? The family friend who has entrusted you with the string diaries themselves? THE STRING DIARIES is a sweeping thriller that extends from the present day, to Oxford in the 1970s, to Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, all tracing back to a boy from an ancient royal family—a boy who can change his shape, and make terrible things occur. • A novel that will appeal to fans of historical thrillers, supernatural suspense, and general fiction readers alike. • An unusually sophisticated debut, THE STRING DIARIES promises great things to come. The author is currently at work on a sequel. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-25446-5, 7/14
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“ Grand, adventurous, and thrilling....A Magicians for grown-ups; a paranormal Perfume; a Discovery of Witches without vampire yoga—Stephen Lloyd Jones’s THE STRING DIARIES doesn’t bend genres; it seems to reinvent them.” —ANDREW LECOUNT, DIRECTOR OF SALES, HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
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A serial killer is stalking the streets of 1950s
Boston—and two friends are determined to track him down.
Cal O’Brien and Dante Cooper are struggling to rebuild their lives after World War II. Cal runs a company providing private security, whether to an honorable businessman who needs a night watchman or to an Irish Mafioso who needs to have someone’s legs broken. Dante is everything he’s not. A heroin addict trying and failing to stay clean, he feels the call to do good after it’s discovered that his sister-in-law was the latest victim of a serial killer targeting disadvantaged women. As Dante tries to kick his addiction and rectify his damaged past, Cal tries to rid himself of the horrible nightmares left over from his fighting in WWII Germany, and to redeem not only his friend, but also himself in the process. Quickly ensnared in a web of brutality and corruption, Cal and Dante traverse the violent underworld peopled by crooked politicians and police, pimps and junkies, and an old friend from the neighborhood whose unrestrained bloodlust is tearing the city apart. • SERPENTS IN THE COLD finds itself in the company of recent popular historical crime novels set in the northeast, such as Dennis Lehane’s Live By Night and Lyndsay Faye’s The Gods of Gotham. • With its sweeping portrait of a post-war city and the challenges faced by both the residents and local government, SERPENTS IN THE COLD transcends its strongly regional appeal.
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“Searing suspense and a haunting look at the 60s….Thriller writing at its best.”
—LINDA FAIRSTEIN
London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles’ Abbey Road recording studio. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp out near Abbey Road. With his reputation already tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this could be Breen’s last chance to prove he’s up to the job. Breen is of the generation for whom reaching adulthood meant turning into one’s parents and accepting one’s place in the world. But the world around him is changing beyond recognition. Nothing illustrates the shift more than Helen Tozer, the brazen and rambunctious young policewoman assisting him with the case. Together they navigate a world on edge: where conservative tradition gives way to frightening new freedoms and troubling new crimes.
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• The London 1968 setting and the plot set at the border of Beatlemania hold strong nostalgic appeal. Fans of Benjamin Black, Alan Bradley, and the TV series Life on Mars will delight in SHE’S LEAVING HOME. • Shaw’s new novel, The Kings of London, which Mulholland will publish in January 2015 (see page 81), takes up precisely where SHE’S LEAVING HOME leaves off: the police force rife with corruption as Christmas 1968 approaches. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-24684-2, 2/14
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“Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake lives and breathes in an utterly convincing world.” —PHILIPPA GREGORY
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As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart in the new installment of Sansom’s popular Shardlake series. Autumn, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. As Queen Catherine begins to lose the King’s favor, she turns to the shrewd, hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, to contain a potentially fatal secret. The Queen has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radical that if it came to the King’s attention, it could bring both her and her courtly sympathizers to ruination. The London printer into whose hands she entrusted the manuscript has been murdered, the book nowhere to be found. Shardlake’s investigations take him down a trail that begins among printshops in the filthy backstreets of London, but leads him once more to the labyrinthine world of court politics, where Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those who will support either side to further their ambition are the most dangerous of all. • The Matthew Shardlake series has sold more than 200,000 copies across all formats in the United States since the first novel was published in 2003. The most recent, Heartstone (Penguin, 2010), was a #1 international bestseller. Critics have selected prior entries for the USA Today and Washington Post Best Books of the Year lists. • Set during the final days of Henry VIII’s life, tracing a lost manuscript’s trail through printshops and the early days of the book industry, the new book in the Shardlake series opens at a high point after years of anticipation.
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“Among the most distinguished of modern historical novelists.”
—P. D. JAMES
“Sansom has an unerring sense of pace and a deft historical touch.”
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“ [Sansom] brings alive all levels of English society, from cutthroats and common soldiers to the king and queen themselves….Among the very best of recent —WASHINGTON POST ON HEARTSTONE historical thrillers.” “A richly entertaining and scholarly series. History never seemed so real.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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“Better than pretty much any other historical fiction out there.” —USA TODAY ON HEARTSTONE “Sansom seems to have born with, or instinctively acquired, that precious balance of —THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE creativity and research…. history and humanity.” “A truly great talent.”
—THE DENVER POST
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It’s dangerous enough when an ordinary college
girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she’s smarter than the kingpins, killers, and cops who control her.
Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her boyfriend. Unwilling to betray him but desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie has no choice but to become a “CI”—a confidential informant. Philly narcotics cop Benjamin Wildey is hungry for a career-making bust. The detective thinks he’s found the key in Sarie: her boyfriend scores from a mid-level dealer with alleged ties to the major drug gangs. Sarie turns out to be the perfect CI: a quick study with a shockingly keen understanding of the criminal mind. But Wildey, desperate for results, pushes too hard and inadvertently sends the 19-year-old into a death trap, leaving Sarie hunted by crooked cops and killers alike with nothing to save her—except what she’s learned during her harrowing weeks as an informant. Which is bad news for the police and the underworld. Because when it comes to payback, CI #1373 turns out to be a very quick study... • Duane Swierczynski won the Shamus Award and has been nominated for the Barry and Edgar Awards. • A prolific author across multiple genres, Swierczynski has built a loyal and supportive fanbase. • Sarie, inspired by the New Yorker article about college students busted for small narcotics offenses who are coerced into dangerous undercover work, is a lively and appealing protagonist.
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crime thrillers and also writes the X-Men spinoff Cable and Immortal Iron Fist for Marvel Comics. His latest novels include the Charlie Hardie series (Fun and Games, Hell and Gone, Point and Shoot) and Severance Package, which has been optioned by Lionsgate films. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children.
Intro S et on the dark side of Los Angeles, the masterful new collection from an award-winning and highly praised “natural-born storyteller” (Ron Rash).
In these gripping and intense stories, Richard Lange returns book description to the form that first landed him on the literary map. These are edge-of-your-seat tales: A prison guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a wildfire. An ex-con trying to make good as a security guard stumbles onto a burglary plot. A young father must submit to blackmail to protect the fragile life he’s built. SWEET NOTHING is an unforgettable collection that shows once again why T.C. Boyle wrote, “Lange’s stories combine the truth-telling and immediacy of Raymond Carver with the casual hip of Denis Johnson. There is a potent artistic sensibility at work here” (on Dead Boys).
•bullet Lange’s previous books were widely reviewed and highly praised. His debut collection, Dead Boys (LB, 8/07), won an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Lange received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. • Dead Boys was called “one of the best short story collections of the past 50 years” by the San Francisco Chronicle. • Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to Lange’s most recent novel, Angel Baby (Mulholland, 5/13), with Lange adapting his book for the screen. Angel Baby was a finalist for the Hammett Prize.
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“IRntro obotham not only builds suspense master-
fully but tops it off with a stunning twist.”—PEOPLE
Marnie Logan often feels like she’s being watched: a warm breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner book description of her eye that vanishes when she turns her head. She has reason to be frightened. Her husband, Daniel, has inexplicably vanished, and the police have no leads in the case. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin. The breakthrough arrives when Marnie shares with O’Loughlin her discovery of the Big Red Book, a collage of pictures, interviews, and anecdotes from Marnie’s friends and relatives that Daniel has been compiling as part of a surprise birthday gift. Daniel’s explorations into Marnie’s past led him to a shocking revelation on the eve of his disappearance: Anyone who has ever gotten close to Marnie has paid an exacting price. A cold-blooded killer is eliminating the people in Marnie’s life, and now that O’Loughlin is a part of it, he is next in line.
title Watching You subtitle A Novel author Robotham Michael ISBN 978-0-316-25201-0
• Mulholland bullet Books is raising Robotham’s profile with a series of events in 2014, which include a media lunch and meet-and-greets with booksellers and reviewers all over the country. • Mulholland has acquired the paperback and e-book rights to the Joe O’Loughlin series. The series will be promoted with a dedicated landing page and price discounting, bringing new readers to WATCHING YOU. • Robotham’s major new stand-alone novel, Life or Death, will be published by Mulholland in March 2015 (see page 91). • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-25200-3, 3/14
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prison sentence escape the day before he’s due to be released? Audie Palmer was sentenced to 10 years for a robbery in book description which four people died, including two members of his gang. Five million dollars has never been recovered from the robbery, and everybody believes Audie knows where the money is. For 10 years Audie has been beaten, stabbed, and threatened by inmates and guards, all desperate to know the secret. The day before he is due to be released, Audie suddenly vanishes. The hunt for Audie, and the money, is on. But Audie’s not running to save his own life—instead, he’s trying to save someone else. In what promises to be his most popular thriller yet, Robotham has created the ultimate underdog hero, an honorable criminal shrouded in mystery and ready to lead readers on a remarkable chase.
•bullet With intense psychological suspense, rapid fire banter, and nail biting action, Michael Robotham’s crime fiction will appeal to fans of Ian Rankin and Lee Child. • The hardcover publication of Watching You (Mulholland, 978-0-316-25200-3, 3/14) will include a pre-publication tour, major national advertising, reading group outreach, and extensive media coverage, which means the release of a subsequent novel will be met with the greatest attention and fanfare of Robotham’s career.
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“ ’ d gladly sign a petition to see Daniel Woodrell included on any roll call of America’s finest —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL living writers.” Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and in 1929 her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 people killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been a colossal accident? Alma thinks she knows the answer—and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. Her dogged pursuit of justice makes her an outcast and causes a long-standing rift with her own son. By telling her story to her grandson, Alma finally gains some solace—and peace for her sister. He is advised to “Tell it. Go on and tell it”—the story of his family’s struggles, suspicions, secrets, and triumphs.
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An unrivaled portrait of day-to-day life in the NFL: “Riveting...An instant classic.”
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By spending a year with the New York Jets, Nicholas Dawidoff entered a mysterious and private world with its own rituals and language. Equal parts Paper Lion, Moneyball, Friday Night Lights, and The Office, this absorbing, funny, and vivid narrative gets to the heart of a massive and stressful collective endeavor. Here is football in many faces: the polarizing, brilliant, and hilarious head coach; the general manager, whose job is to support (and suppress) the irrepressible coach; the defensive coaches and their in-house rivals, the offensive coaches; and of course the players. Wise safeties, brooding linebackers, high-strung cornerbacks, enthusiastic rookies, and a well-read nose tackle—they make up a strange and complex family. Dawidoff makes an emblematic NFL season come alive for fans and nonfans alike in a book about football that will forever change the way people watch and think about the sport.
• Selected by Shelf Awareness and Kirkus Reviews as one of the year’s best books. • A book on football for the ages; as a story with humans at its heart, it will remain a relevant glimpse into the NFL for years to come. • The New York Jets are one of the NFL’s most talked about teams; interest in them extends beyond their fanbase (already huge, thanks to the size of the New York market) and into football fans at large. • Dawidoff has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri, and Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy, as well as an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-19679-6, 11/13
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It’s the 19 century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she has been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, a man with a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate’s buried treasure. Meanwhile, Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women, and even children. As Lucinda’s and Nate’s stories converge, guns are drawn, debts are paid, and Kathleen Kent delivers an unforgettable portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to make a new life for herself. th
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“ Ms. Yousafzai has singlehandedly turned the issue of the rights of girls—and all children—to be educated into headline news. And she is a figure worth hearing.” —FINANCIAL TIMES
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was targeted by the Taliban and shot in the head in October 2012. She miraculously survived and continues her campaign for education. In recognition of her courage and advocacy, Malala won Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize in 2011 and became the youngest person ever nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
“ Riveting...It is difficult to imagine a chronicle of a war more moving, apart from perhaps the diary of Anne Frank.”
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When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. In October 2012, when she was 15, Malala almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala’s miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At 16, she became a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest nominee ever for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hailed by the Associated Press for its “arresting detail,” I AM MALALA will make readers believe in the power of one person’s voice to inspire change in the world. • I AM MALALA is currently in its 14th week on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold through 13 hardcover printings (570,000 copies) in addition to selling 80,000 e-books. • Malala will be the subject of a 2015 documentary focused on her advocacy for education equality, to be directed by Davis Guggenheim, the award-winning filmmaker behind Waiting for Superman and An Inconvenient Truth. • People named Malala its Hero of the Year in 2013. • At Glamour’s recent Women of the Year Awards ceremony, Malala shared the stage with Hillary Clinton, Lady Gaga, Barbra Streisand, Gabrielle Giffords, Lena Dunham, Katie Couric, and a host of supermodels—and, according to media accounts of the event, stole the show. • T he book’s coauthor, Christina Lamb, is one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents. She currently works for the Sunday Times and lives in London and Portugal with her husband and son. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-32240-9, 10/13
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“ A very clever, absurdly fun novel that reads like a cross between a locked-room mystery, a spaghetti Western, a game of Sudoku, and Edwin Drood.” —NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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The bestselling, Man Booker Prize–winning novel hailed as “a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand’s booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, THE LUMINARIES is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament. • Eleanor Catton is the youngest writer ever to win the Man Booker Prize. THE LUMINARIES also received the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in Canada, and has been included on countless lists of the year’s best books. • The novel has so far spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, with 100,000 hardcover copies (10 printings) and more than 30,000 e-books sold. • Reading groups will happily devour THE LUMINARIES. The novel’s astrological framework, exotic historical setting, and captivating characters are sure to spark discussion. • Catton’s first novel, The Rehearsal—which Kate Atkinson called “compulsively good”—won the 2009 Betty Trask Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. • Hardcover ISBN 978-0-316-07431-5, 10/13
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“ Note-perfect....Catton’s authority and verve are so impressive that she can seemingly take us anywhere; each time, we trust her to lead us back....A remarkable —GLOBE AND MAIL accomplishment.” “A finely wrought fun house of a novel.”
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at last, gives us a Jeff Bezos biography that can fit proudly on a shelf next to the best chronicles of America’s other landmark capitalists.” —FORBES
Amazon.com’s visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, and his book is the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. THE EVERYTHING STORE is the book the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.
• Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. • A New York Times and The Wall Street Journal bestseller, already in its third hardcover printing (57,500 copies). • Amazon is constantly in the news (coming soon: delivery by drone!); the public’s interest in the company and its enigmatic founder continues to grow. • The paperback edition will feature a new epilogue. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-21926-6, 10/13
The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone 978-0-316-21928-0
$18.00 ($20.00 in Canada) • Business • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 400 pgs 8 pgs b/w photos • Publishing background: LB hardcover Territories: World • Editor: John Parsley Hachette Audio: Unabr. CD: 978-1-61969-029-5 • $30.00/$33.00 Large Print Edition: 978-0-316-23990-5 • $30.00/$33.00 e-book: 978-0-316-21925-9 • $14.99/$14.99
“Mr. Stone tells this story with authority and verve, and lots of well-informed reporting....A dynamic portrait of —NEW YORK TIMES the driven and demanding Mr. Bezos.”
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Brad Stone has covered Amazon and technology
in Silicon Valley for more than 15 years, for publications such as Newsweek and the New York Times. He is a senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and lives in San Francisco.
“
Paul Lynch has a sensational gift for a sentence,
inherited from the likes of Cormac McCarthy, Sebastian Barry, and Daniel Woodrell.”
—COLUM MCCANN
It is 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man’s foreman is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The pursuit leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the choleric work camps of the Pennsylvania railroad, where both men will find their fates in the hardship and rough country of the fledgling United States. Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death. With lyrical prose balancing the stark realities of the hunter and the hunted, RED SKY IN MORNING is a visceral and meditative novel that marks the debut of a stunning new talent.
Red Sky in Morning A Novel Paul Lynch 978-0-316-23026-1
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• Selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Pick and an Amazon Best Book of the Month. • The novel is partially based on a true story in which 57 Irish workmen died at Duffy’s Cut outside Philadelphia in 1832. Although the reported cause was cholera, recent findings indicate violence was involved. Amtrak still runs trains through Duffy’s Cut today. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-23025-4, 11/13
“Compelling like a gorgeous, terrifying ghost story... Lynch’s language, which is musical, close, and alive, evokes something that seems quintessentially Irish.” —DAILY BEAST
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The national bestseller celebrated as “the
ultimate Johnny Cash biography….Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep.” —ROLLING STONE
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash’s extraordinary career stretched from his days at Sun Records with Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the remarkable creative last hurrah, at age 69, that resulted in the brave, moving “Hurt” video. As music critic for the Los Angeles Times, Hilburn knew Cash throughout his life: he was the only music journalist at the legendary Folsom Prison concert in 1968, and he interviewed both Cash and his wife June Carter just months before their deaths. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer’s inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of a towering figure in country music, a seminal influence in rock, and an icon of American popular culture. Hilburn’s reporting shows the astonishing highs and deep lows that marked the journey of a man of great faith and humbling addiction who throughout his life strove to use his music to lift people’s spirits. • Critics are unanimous: Hilburn’s JOHNNY CASH will stand the test of time and be the final word on Cash for years to come. • After five trips to press, the hardcover edition has 102,000 copies in print. • JOHNNY CASH appeared on the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times extended bestseller lists. • The audience for Cash’s music continues to be huge, and a new generation of fans is now embracing his recordings. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-19475-4, 10/13
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“Perhaps the richest biography of a musician I have ever read, and one of the best biographies I have read, period.”
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Robert Hilburn was the chief music critic and
pop music editor of the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades. He has reported extensively on pop legends, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Johnny Cash. He lives in California.
“
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude, and
aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I’ve ever read.” –MARIA SEMPLE, AUTHOR OF WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
In 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In frequent letters home to her sister, Nina described her trials and triumphs: there’s a cat nobody likes, suppertime visits from a famous local playwright, a mysteriously unpaid milk bill, and repeated misadventures parking the family car. Dinner-table discussions cover the gamut, from the greats of English literature, to swearing in German, to sexually transmitted diseases. There’s no end to what Nina can learn from these boys (rude words) and their broad-minded mother (the who’s who of literary London). A charming, hilarious, and sweetly inspiring celebration of bad food and good company, LOVE, NINA makes a young woman’s adventures in a new world come alive.
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• LOVE, NINA has already received rave reviews in the UK. • Stibbe’s first novel, Man at the Helm, will be published by Little, Brown in March 2015 (see page 66). • LOVE, NINA includes cameo appearances from Alan Bennett, Claire Tomalin, Stephen Frears, Deborah Moggach, and other luminaries, adding appeal for aficionados of British theater and literature. • Popular books and movies about nannies abound. People love to read about nannies, and Nina Stibbe will appeal to readers with her warmth, humor, and true writer’s eye. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-24339-1, 4/14 “I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It’s real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving...and I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud so frequently —NICK HORNBY, AUTHOR OF THE BELIEVER while reading.” “Hilarious and heartwarming. I have never laughed so hard reading a book.”
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—DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, AUTHOR OF THE WILDERNESS WARRIOR
After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In IRON HORSES, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, political posturing, and business dealings that unfolded as an increasing number of lines pushed their way across the country. Borneman brings to life the legendary robber barons behind it all and also captures the herculean efforts required to construct these roads—the laborers who did the back-breaking work, the brakemen who ran atop moving cars, the tracklayers crushed and killed by runaway trains. From backroom deals in Washington, DC, to armed robberies of trains in the wild deserts, from cattle cars to streamliners and Super Chiefs, all the great incidents and innovations of a mighty American era are made vivid in IRON HORSES.
• Now available in paperback and e-book for the first time. IRON HORSES, initially published under the title Rival Rails (Random House, 2010), received the Colorado Book Award in Biography/History. • Borneman’s The Admirals was a national bestseller and has to date sold more than 85,000 copies across all formats. • In May 2014, Little, Brown will publish Borneman’s new book, American Spring, hailed by Jon Meacham as “an engaging and illuminating account of some of the most critical weeks in American history.” • Borneman’s backlist sells. There are 60,000 copies of 1812 (HarperCollins, 2004) in print, and the book still sells thousands of copies each year. Borneman’s Polk (Random House, 2008) has more than 30,000 copies in print.
Iron Horses America’s Race to Bring the Railroads West Walter R. Borneman 978-0-316-37177-3
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—LOS ANGELES TIMES
Walter R. Borneman is the author of eight
acclaimed works of nonfiction, including 1812: The War That Forged a Nation, The French and Indian War, Polk, The Admirals, and, most recently, American Spring. He lives in Colorado.
“
THE ABOMINABLE contains enough mayhem and dread to satisfy any horror fan.”
—WIRED.COM
It’s 1924 and the race to summit the world’s highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers—a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American—find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley must be dead, but his mother refuses to believe it and pays the trio to bring him home. Deep in Tibet and high on Everest, the three climbers—joined by the missing boy’s female cousin— find themselves being pursued through the night. This terror becomes a matter of life and death at 28,000 feet— but who, or what, is pursuing them? And what is the truth behind the 1924 disappearances on Everest? As they fight their way to the top of the world, the climbers uncover a secret far more abominable than any mythical creature could ever be. This pulse-pounding tale of adventure and suspense is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.
The Abominable
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$18.00 ($20.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 688 pgs Territories: U.S., Canada and Open Market • Editor: Josh Kendall Hachette Audio: Unabr. CD: 978-1-619-69305-0 • $40.00/$44.00 Large Print Edition: 978-0-316-23991-2 • $31.00/$34.00 e-book: 978-0-316-19885-1 • $14.99/$14.99 Also available as a downloadable audio
• Simmons bases his novel in part on several famous historical climbing expeditions, and draws a detailed picture of the early 20th-century mountaineering era. • Simmons’s recent novels Drood and The Terror appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list. The Terror was named one of the year’s best books by Entertainment Weekly and USA Today. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-19883-7, 10/13
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“ A soaring masterpiece.” —WASHINGTON POST
“Extraordinary.” —NPR
“Brilliant.” —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
“A triumph.” — NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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$20.00 ($22.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 784 pgs Territories: U.S., Canada, and Open Markets Editor: Michael Pietsch
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A Novel Donna Tartt 978-0-316-05544-4
Donna Tartt
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was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into 30 languages.
Celebrated everywhere as one of the year’s best books—the #1 bestseller about a son, his mother, and a life-changing work of art. Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love—and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. THE GOLDFINCH is a mesmerizing, tell-all-your-friends triumph, hailed by Stephen King as “a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind.” (New York Times Book Review) • THE GOLDFINCH has sold more than 800,000 combined copies and is already in its 12th hardcover printing. • Named to more than 20 Best of the Year lists, THE GOLDFINCH has been chosen as a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. • A worldwide sensation, THE GOLDFINCH is a #1 bestseller in France and the Netherlands, with publication in more than 15 additional languages forthcoming. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-05543-7, 10/13
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“ Enthralling….A glorious, Dickensian novel that pulls together all Ms. Tartt’s remarkable storytelling talents into a rapturous, symphonic whole and reminds the reader of the immersive, stay-up-all-night pleasures of reading.” —NEW YORK TIMES “The year’s greatest literary escape.” “Massively entertaining.” “Heart-rending.” “A rare, literary page-turner.” “Wholly entrancing.”
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“ Warning: Michael Koryta's wonderful, riveting, and harrowing THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD may just move you to tears. Enjoy at your own risk.” —HARLAN COBEN, #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX YEARS AND STAY CLOSE
Those Who Wish Me Dead
$16.00 ($18.00 in Canada) • Fiction • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 432 pgs
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Michael Koryta
is the author of nine novels, most recently The Prophet. His novels The Ridge, The Cypress House, and So Cold the River were all New York Times notable books of the year and were nominated for several national and international awards. He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana.
“ Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-yourseat. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year—or any other year. The pace never lets up.”
—NELSON DEMILLE
After young Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he is plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. And so the nightmare begins. The killers, known as the Blackwell brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way. Soon all that remains between them and the boy are the couple who run the wilderness survival program, a woman who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower, and endless miles of desolate Montana mountains. While the clock ticks, the mountains are burning, and those who wish Jace Wilson dead are drawing ever closer. • Koryta’s novels have been translated into 20 languages and there are more than 400,000 copies of his books in print worldwide. • The Prophet was a New York Times bestseller. Envy the Night won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller. Koryta has also received the Great Lakes Book Award for Best Mystery and has been nominated for Edgar, Shamus, and Quill awards. • Each of Koryta’s novels published by Little, Brown is currently in development for film or TV, with screenwriters attached who have worked on projects ranging from Cormac McCarthy adaptations to the remake of Stephen King and Brian De Palma’s Carrie. • A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-12255-9, 6/14
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The author of the acclaimed bestseller Area 51 reveals the explosive dark secrets behind America’s post-WWII science programs.
In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany’s resources were the Third Reich’s scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis’ knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation, code-named Paperclip, to allow them to work in the U.S. without the public’s full knowledge. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including papers made newly available by direct descendants of the Third Reich’s ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century.
• Much like Area 51, OPERATION PAPERCLIP focuses on a large-scale government conspiracy, and Jacobsen is a master at revealing fantastic truths while grounding her findings in research and fact. • Annie Jacobsen was widely lauded for her thorough and exciting exposé of Area 51. The book spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 160,000 copies across all formats. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-22104-7, 2/14
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Annie Jacobsen is the author of Area 51 and a
former contributing editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
“
There are few academics who write with as
much grace and wisdom as Timothy Wilson. —MALCOLM GLADWELL REDIRECT is a masterpiece.”
What if there were a magic pill that could make you happier, turn you into a better parent, solve a number of your teenager’s behavior problems, reduce racial prejudice, and close the achievement gap in education? There is no such pill, but story editing—the scientifically based approach described in REDIRECT—can accomplish all of this. The world-renowned psychologist Timothy Wilson shows us how to redirect the stories we tell about ourselves and the world around us, with subtle prompts, in ways that lead to lasting change. Fascinating, groundbreaking, and practical, REDIRECT demonstrates the remarkable power small changes can have on the ways we see ourselves and our environment, and how we can use this in our everyday lives.
Redirect Changing the Stories We Live By Timothy Wilson Foreword by Daniel Gilbert 978-0-316-05190-3
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• Daniel Gilbert, author of the #1 bestseller Stumbling on Happiness (Knopf, 2006), will contribute a new foreword to this edition. He calls Wilson “one of the most brilliant, creative, and respected psychologists of his generation” and says REDIRECT “may be the single most important psychology book ever written.” • Wilson’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Science, Scientific American, and other publications. • REDIRECT is a “big idea” book that offers readers usable advice. Each chapter ends with a “Using It” section, giving the reader practical takeaways. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-05188-0, 9/11
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This assured, compassionate first novel channels
the suburban angst of Updike and Cheever... with pitch-perfect prose and endearingly —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW) melancholy characters.” Anders Hill, entering his early sixties and seemingly ensconced in the “land of steady habits”—a nickname for the affluent, morally strict hamlets of Connecticut that dot his commuter rail line—abandons his career and family for a new condo and a new life. Stripped of the comforts of his previous identity, Anders turns up at a holiday party full of his ex-wife’s friends and is surprised to find that the very world he rejected may be one he needs. Thus Anders embarks on a clumsy, hilarious, and heartbreaking journey to reconcile his past with his present. Like the early work of John Updike, Ted Thompson’s first novel finely observes a man in deep conflict with his community. With compassion for its characters and fresh insight into the American tradition of the “suburban narrative,” THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS introduces an auspicious talent.
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• A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program for spring 2014. • Ted Thompson’s fiction has been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and Best New American Voices. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-18656-8, 3/14
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“ With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family’s painful disappointments and powerful resilience. THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS combines Austen’s shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike’s compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”
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“It would probably never occur to New England white people that they are an ethnicity, but this sharp and funny saga of a Connecticut family unraveling is a detailed natural history of upper crust suburbanites and how they live (and drink).”
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Ted Thompson is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded a Truman Capote Fellowship. He was born in Connecticut and now lives in Brooklyn.
Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child
survivors. A religious fanatic who insists “the three” are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he’s right?
The world is stunned when four planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. There doesn’t seem to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters, a single child is the sole survivor. Dubbed “the three” by the press, these “miracle children” achieve international celebrity. Things take a dark turn when a fanatical preacher starts insisting that the young survivors are three of the four harbingers of the apocalypse. As the children’s behavior grows increasingly disturbing, even their loved ones start to suspect there could be some truth behind the conspiracy theory. And when a survivor from the fourth accident is found, deadly alliances are formed and it becomes ever more difficult— and dangerous—to decipher the truth. Combining the complexity of Lost and the thrills of Stephen King, THE THREE is an enormously ambitious thriller from a blazingly talented storyteller.
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• THE THREE is a pre-apocalyptic epic with impressive scope and global appeal—a novel in the vein of Justin Cronin’s bestseller The Passage. • Rights to THE THREE have sold in 15 countries. • Sarah Lotz has already put her prodigious imagination to work by collaborating on urban horror and pulp fiction zombie novels. THE THREE marks her solo debut. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-24290-5, 5/14
“Lotz is a ferociously imaginative storyteller whose twisty plots will kick the stairs out from under you. She’s a —LAUREN BEUKES, AUTHOR OF THE SHINING GIRLS talent to watch.”
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“ Donoghue flawlessly combines literary eloquence and vigorous plotting in her first fullfledged mystery, a work as original and multifaceted as its young murder victim.” —BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
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writes in many genres, both fiction and nonfiction, historical and contemporary, but is best known for her novels. Born in Dublin in 1969, she now lives in London, Ontario, with her partner and their two children.
From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: “Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range with FROG MUSIC—she shows genius.” —DARIN STRAUSS, AUTHOR OF HALF A LIFE
Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice— if he doesn’t track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It’s the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, neversolved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue’s lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. • Donoghue’s most recent novel, Room, has sold more than one million copies in the US. It remained on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for 34 weeks; the paperback edition held steady for six months in the top ten of the bestseller list, and the mass market edition also hit the list. • Readers who enjoy the novels of Hilary Mantel, Louise Erdrich, Ann Patchett, and Kate Atkinson will relish FROG MUSIC. • Sure to be a favorite with reading groups. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-32468-7, 4/14
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“ Donoghue’s first literary crime novel is a departure from her bestselling Room, but it’s just as dark and just as gripping....Her signature talent for setting tone and mood elevates the book from common cliffhanger to a true chef d’oeuvre.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
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“ Elin Hilderbrand has the romantic drama down.” —PEOPLE
The Matchmaker
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has lived on Nantucket for 20 years. She runs every morning, delivers her children to their sporting events, and frequents the front row at the Chicken Box. THE MATCHMAKER is her 13th novel.
A touching new novel from Elin Hilderbrand in which a dying woman sets out to find love for those closest to her—before it’s too late. Dabney Kimball Beech, the 48-year-old, fifth-generation Nantucketer, has had a lifelong gift of matchmaking (52 couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home: her husband, the celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech; her lover, journalist Clendenin Hughes; and her daughter, Agnes, who is engaged to be married to the wrong man. As time slips away from Dabney, she is determined to find matches for those she loves most—but at what cost to her own relationships? THE MATCHMAKER is a heartbreaking new novel about losing and finding love, even as you’re running out of time. • Every book Little, Brown has published with Elin Hilderbrand has been a New York Times bestseller. Beautiful Day debuted at #7 New York Times bestseller list in hardcover and spent more than four weeks on the list. • There are more than four million copies of her books in print. • Hilderbrand has a strong and enthusiastic social media presence, and she continues to find exciting new ways to connect with her fan base on a personal level. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-09975-2, 6/14
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From NBC’s award-winning Chief White House Correspondent—a strikingly provocative, behind-the-scenes account of President Obama’s White House tenure.
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that distinction turned out to be double-bladed. While he’d been a brilliant campaign politician, working inside the system—as president— turned out to be more of a challenge than Obama had ever imagined. In THE STRANGER, Chuck Todd draws upon his unprecedented inner-circle sources to create a gripping, fly-on-the-wall narrative. The result is the definitive account of Barack Obama’s audacious dive into the White House deep end.
• This paperback edition will be updated with new material taking the reader through the consequential 2014 midterm elections. • Chuck Todd is a regular on NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, Meet the Press, and MSNBC. • Taking full advantage of Todd’s deep knowledge of Washington’s ways, and his unparalleled sources, THE STRANGER is a gripping, “you are there” report that asks big questions and breaks big news. • Todd’s fans—self-proclaimed “Chuckolytes”—exemplify a dedicated following like that of no other reporter in Washington. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-07957-0, 4/14
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Rebus returns! “The most persistent cop in
the shop will still do whatever it takes to —KIRKUS REVIEWS crack a case.”
A young woman is found unconscious at the wheel of her car, and evidence at the scene suggests this was no ordinary crash. When it turns out that her boyfriend is the son of a high-ranking politician, and neither of them is willing to talk to the police, suspicion mounts. It’s their bad luck that John Rebus is back on the force—albeit with a big demotion—and he doesn’t generally take “no” for an answer. As Rebus sets about doing what he does best— aggravating people in power—he finds himself the subject of unwelcome scrutiny. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, with Rebus and his former team suspected of corruption...and worse. Known as “the Saints,” Rebus’s colleagues swore a bond of mutual loyalty on something called “the Shadow Bible.” Now, with Malcolm Fox as the investigating officer—and determined to use Rebus for his own ends— the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer.
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“John Rebus remains one of crime fiction’s crankiest, most interestingly complex figures....We can rejoice in Rebus’s return—the mean streets of Edinburgh are —SEATTLE TIMES better for it.” “Rankin bangs out a rich, rowdy prose...Rebus has become one of the great modern cops, a kind of Scottish cousin to Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch.”
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• SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE became an immediate New York Times hardcover bestseller. • Rankin’s previous novel, Standing in Another Man’s Grave (LB, 1/13), became his first New York Times bestseller, debuting at #8, and has sold more than 55,000 copies across all formats. • More than 600,000 copies of Ian Rankin’s novels have been sold in the U.S. • Some of the world’s most successful crime writers count themselves as Ian Rankin fans, including P. D. James, Jonathan Kellerman, Harlan Coben, and Michael Connelly. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-22455-0, 1/14
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A young girl must fend for herself and her
little brother after a brutal bear attack in this “emotional tour de force” (Megan Abbott). While camping with her family on a remote island, fiveyear-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of screaming. A rogue black bear has entered the family’s campsite and is attacking her parents. At her dying mother’s urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family’s canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna’s struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. Told in the innocent voice of a child, THE BEAR is a transporting tale about love, loss, and the raw instincts that enable us to survive.
The Bear A Novel Claire Cameron 978-0-316-23009-4
• With its memorable narrative voice and powerfully suspenseful story, this novel packs an emotional wallop and will give reading groups much to discuss. • THE BEAR was inspired in part by a real 1991 bear attack in Canada’s Algonquin Park, where Claire Cameron worked as a summer camp counselor. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-23012-4, 2/14
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“A vividly portrayed wilderness ordeal....Uplifting.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, “PICK OF THE WEEK”
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Claire Cameron’s writing has appeared in the
New York Times, the Globe & Mail, and The Millions. She worked as a wilderness instructor in Ontario’s Algonquin Park and for Outward Bound. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two children.
The author of the national bestseller The 500 returns with a pulse-pounding new thriller— the story of two brothers, billions of dollars, and the heist of a lifetime.
After escaping the corrupt back rooms of Washington, DC, Mike Ford is again playing a dangerous game—and this time the stakes are even higher. Mike’s brother is in over his head in a powerful conspiracy to steal a secret worth billions from the rarely understood, vitally important trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Trying to bail his brother out, Mike quickly finds himself playing a dangerous game, trapped into planning the heist himself, forced to call on all the skills of his criminal past in order to escape. In this sharp, fast-paced sequel to The 500, Mike Ford again stars as the cunning and courageous former con man with a big heart, and Matthew Quirk confirms that he is one of the most exciting thriller writers at work today.
The Directive A Novel Matthew Quirk 978-0-316-19863-9
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• Mike Ford, the hero of The 500, returns in a gripping new novel with all the hallmarks of some of the best contemporary thrillers: John Grisham’s The Firm as well as books by Harlan Coben and Lee Child. • The 500 has to date sold 60,000 copies across all formats. • The 500 was a finalist for every major crime-writing debut novel prize, including the Edgar, the Anthony, the International Thriller Writers, and the Strand Critics Awards. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-19864-6, 5/14 Praise for The 500:
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“ One of the funniest, saddest, sweetest novels I’ve read since Then We Came to the End.... It captures what it is to be alive in early 21st-century America like nothing else I’ve read.” –ANTHONY MARRA, AUTHOR OF A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
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is the author of the novels Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York.
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris. Paul O’Rourke—dentist extraordinaire, ambivalent New Yorker, avowed atheist, disaffected Red Sox fan, and connoisseur of the afternoon mochaccino—is a man out of touch with modern life. While his dental practice occupies his days, his nights are filled with regret as he ponders his mistakes with his ex-girlfriend (and receptionist) Connie, and alternately marvels at and rails against the optimism of the rest of humanity. So it goes, until someone begins to impersonate Paul online. Paul watches in impotent horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name to promote a little-known ancient religion. And what began as an outrageous violation of privacy soon becomes something far more soul-frightening: the possibility that the virtual “Paul” might be a better version of the man himself. Joshua Ferris’s dazzlingly inventive, brutally comic new novel cuts to the very heart of modern existence: the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the importance of good oral hygiene. • Joshua Ferris was chosen for the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers in 2010, the year his second novel, The Unnamed, was published. • The awards and honors for Joshua Ferris’s first book, Then We Came to the End, were numerous, prominent, and prestigious: finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of the year, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-03397-8, 5/14
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Praise for The Unnamed: “ A stunner, an unnerving portrait of a man stripped of civilization’s defenses. Ferris’s prose is brash, extravagant, and, near the end, chillingly beautiful.” —THE NEW YORKER “ Spellbinding...The Unnamed unfolds in a hushed, shadowed dimension located —SALON.COM somewhere between myth and a David Mamet play.” “Accomplished and daring.”
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An enthralling first novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge—but perhaps not—in an 1840s Shaker community.
After 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across the Northeast are experiencing extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of “Visionist” and bringing renown to their settlements. The City of Hope has not yet been blessed with a Visionist, but that changes when Polly arrives and is unexpectedly exalted. As she struggles to keep her dark secrets concealed in the face of increasing scrutiny, Polly finds herself in a life-changing friendship with a young Shaker sister named Charity, a girl who will stake everything—even her faith—on Polly’s honesty and purity.
The Visionist A Novel Rachel Urquhart 978-0-316-22810-7
• A selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program for spring 2014. • Urquhart’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, Elle, New York Times, Vogue, and Spy, among other publications. • Urquhart’s grandfather, the playwright and screenwriter Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, Gone with the Wind) bought a Shaker meeting house in the 1920s; a lifetime of summers and weekends spent in that unique home inspired this novel. • An exquisite, emotionally searing novel that reading groups will be eager to discuss. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-22811-4, 1/14
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Rachel Urquhart makes her debut as a novelist
with THE VISIONIST. She is the author of three Chic Simple lifestyle books. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
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Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but the arms dealer Michael Brown ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she’s encountered. Morrow is serving as a witness in Brown’s trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who’s expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad and a woman who’s spying on the people who put her in jail, Morrow has her hands full. And that’s even before she gets to her family issues. THE RED ROAD is a thrilling new novel from a masterful writer, proving once again that “If you don’t love Denise Mina, you don’t love crime fiction” (Val McDermid).
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• The rights for a television series based on Denise Mina’s stellar crime novels featuring Alex Morrow—which include Still Midnight (LB, 3/10), The End of the Wasp Season (LB, 9/11) and Gods and Beasts (LB, 2/13)—have been bought by Scott Rudin. • The challenges Alex Morrow faces in balancing work and family are sure to spark conversation in reading groups. • The End of the Wasp Season and Gods and Beasts were both recipients of the Theakstons Old Peculier Novel of the Year Award. • Mina was selected by the Stieg Larsson estate to adapt The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Millennium Trilogy for a 6-part DC Comics graphic novel series. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-18851-7, 2/14 Praise for Gods and Beasts:
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“
In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind... She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity.”
—ANDREW SOLOMON, AUTHOR OF FAR FROM THE TREE
Rosemary Mahoney sets out to tell the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learns, Mahoney is moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. She spends three months teaching at Tenberken’s international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world’s blind and their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating closeup, revealing their particular “quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world.” No one who reads FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO SEE will ever see the world in quite the same way again.
For the Benefit of Those Who See Dispatches from the World of the Blind Rosemary Mahoney 978-0-316-04343-4
• An Amazon Best Book of the Month. • Mahoney’s previous book, Down the Nile, was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Entertainment Weekly, and Publishers Weekly, as well as one of the seven best travel books of the year by Amazon. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-04342-7, 1/14
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$16.00 ($18.00 in Canada) • Social Science/Medicine • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ 320 pgs • Publishing background: LB hardcover • Territories: World English • Editor: Pat Strachan
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“A spiritual odyssey into the world of the blind....A beautiful meditation on human nature.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) “ With her wonderfully sharp prose and great sense of humor and humanity, Rosemary Mahoney has written a riveting narrative that combines world-class reporting, science, history, and travel writing.”
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Down the Nile 978-0-316-01901-9 $14.99/$16.99
in Kimmage, The Early Arrival of Dreams, and Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, among other books. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She lives in Rhode Island.
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A new landmark in nature guides: the most
authoritative, beautiful, and useful national beginner’s guide to birds.
Pocket-size, brilliantly colorful, and easy to use, THE STOKES BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA contains everything you need to identify and enjoy birds in your backyard and beyond. Whether you’re age 9 or 90, whether you’re a novice or advanced birder, this book will help you identify birds quickly and accurately. It offers more than 580 stunning color photographs, coverage of more than 250 species, key identification clues, descriptions of songs and calls, notes on feeding and nesting behavior, advice on selecting bird feeders and binoculars, important behavioral information and key habitat preferences, and up-to-date range maps. The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, this book is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other beginner’s guide on the market.
• The previous regional Stokes Beginner’s Guides to Birds (Eastern Region 978-0-316-81811-7, Western Region 978-0-316-81812-4) have sold more than 1 million copies. • Donald and Lillian Stokes, considered America’s “first family of birding,” are the authors of several bestselling nature guides. All of the Stokes guides have quickly established themselves as perennial bestsellers—and have collectively sold more than 5 million copies. • New birders are hatched every day! It is estimated that there are well over 50 million birders in the U.S. alone.
The Stokes Beginner’s Guide to the Birds of North America Donald and Lillian Stokes 978-0-316-01051-1
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582 4/c photos and 250 maps • Territories: World • Editor: Tracy Behar
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The national bestseller that “condenses
Kresser’s vast knowledge to help you look, feel, and perform your best.” —ROBB WOLF, AUTHOR OF THE PALEO SOLUTION
As the Paleo movement sweeps the nation, millions have discovered the health benefits of following the lifestyle of our hunter-gatherer forebears. But what happens when we hit a wall and weight loss stalls, energy flags, or we’re tired of restricted eating? In YOUR PERSONAL PALEO CODE, Chris Kresser uses the Paleo diet as a baseline from which readers can tailor a program to fit their lifestyle, body type, and genetic blueprint. Readers learn how to eliminate the toxic foods that cause illness and weight gain, how to sleep better, exercise like our ancestors, cultivate pleasure, and vastly improve overall health. Kresser further personalizes the prescription by addressing specific health conditions, from heart disease to digestive problems. Based on cutting-edge research, YOUR PERSONAL PALEO CODE provides a flexible program with quizzes, meal plans, and recipes to help anyone lose weight, reverse disease, and achieve optimum health.
Your Personal Paleo Code The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life Chris Kresser 978-0-316-32292-8
$17.00 ($19.00 in Canada) • Health and Fitness • 6 x 9 ¼ • 416 pgs Publishing background: LB hardcover • Territories: World Editor: Tracy Behar
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“ The fastest acting diet ever! Reach your dream weight with the diabesity cure.” —WOMAN’S WORLD
The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Feeling Great Now! Mark Hyman, MD 978-0-316-12736-3
$17.00 ($19.00 in Canada) • Health • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 448 pgs
Publishing background: LB hardcover • Territories: World Editor: • Tracy Behar
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Mark Hyman, MD,
is the chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine and founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center. His bestselling books include UltraMetabolism, The UltraMind Solution, and, most recently, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet. He lives in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The #1 bestseller that offers “a groundbreaking, science-based, easy-to-follow prescription. Start your journey to healing now!”
—MEHMET OZ, MD
Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that the secret to losing weight and preventing not just diabetes but also heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer is balanced insulin levels. Dr. Hyman describes the seven keys to achieving wellness—nutrition, hormones, inflammation, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and a calm mind—and explains his revolutionary six-week healthy-living program. With advice on diet, green living, supplements and medication, exercise, and personalizing the plan for optimal results, this book also teaches readers how to maintain lifelong health. Groundbreaking and timely, THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION is the fastest way to lose weight, prevent disease, and feel better than ever. • THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and spent six months on the list. It is now in its fourteenth printing, with 319,500 hardcovers in print. The Blood Sugar Solution Cookbook has sold more than 117,000 copies across all formats. UltraMetabolism (Scribner, 2006) has sold 370,000 copies, and The UltraSimple Diet (Scribner, 2009) has more than 400,000 copies in print. • Dr. Hyman is constantly in the media, appearing on 60 Minutes, Dr. Oz, Today, The Early Show, CBS This Morning, Katie Couric, CNN, PBS, NPR, and others. He has been featured in Salon, Huffington Post, Elle, Fitness, Glamour, Self, and more. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-12737-0, 2/12
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Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE® (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.
Your baby knows more than you think. That’s the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST is based on Gerber’s belief in babies’ natural abilities to develop at their own pace, without coaxing from helicoptering or hovering parents. The Educaring Approach helps parents see their infants as competent people with a growing ability to communicate, problem-solve, and self-soothe. BABY KNOWS BEST is a comprehensive resource that shows parents how to respond to their babies’ cues and signals; how to develop healthy sleep habits; why babies need uninterrupted playtime; and how to set clear, consistent limits. The result? More relaxed parents and more confident, self-reliant children.
• With the backlash against helicopter parenting, the RIE method is taking hold. It has been featured recently in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, and on CBS and other media outlets. • RIE is popular among Hollywood parents, and is taught in classes all over the U.S. Celebrities such as Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, Jason Alexander, Hank Azaria, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Dee Dee Myers all follow the RIE way. • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-316-21920-4, 12/13
Baby Knows Best Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE® Way Deborah Carlisle Solomon 978-0-316-21919-8 $16.00 ($18.00 in Canada) • Parenting • 5 ½ x 8 ¼ • 288 pgs 16 b/w photos • Publishing background: LB hardcover Territories: World • Editor: Tracy Behar
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“Brilliant...full of wisdom and calm guidance.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
“A treasure of insights and wisdom. I will be giving this invaluable book to every new mother I know.”
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STOCK UP FOR
THE BOOK OF JEZEBEL 978-1-4555-0280-6 $27.00/$30.00 Hardcover
THE CHRISTMAS KID 978-0-316-23274-6 $15.00/$17.00 Trade paperback
DAVID & GOLIATH 978-0-316-20436-1 $29.00/$32.00 Hardcover
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THE BOOK OF SCHMALTZ 978-0-316-25408-3 $25.00/$28.00 Hardcover
THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING 978-0-446-57176-0 $14.00/$16.00 Trade paperback
DANIEL
978-1-4555-1392-5 $60.00/$60.00 Hardcover
BUVETTE
978-1-4555-2552-2 $30.00/$33.00 Hardcover
A CHRISTMAS CAROL A Pop Up Book 978-0-316-03973-4 $30.00/$36.00 Hardcover
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY EARTH 978-0-316-22581-6 $23.00/$0.00 Hardcover
THE CAT WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS 978-0-316-24268-4 $14.00/$16.00 Trade paperback
CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK 978-0-82125-702-9 $35.00/$47.00 Hardcover
THE FAMILY TREASURY OF JEWISH HOLIDAYS 978-0-316-19313-9 $17.99/$19.99 Trade paperback
THE HOLIDAYS!
THE FOUR & TWENTY BLACKBIRDS PIE BOOK
HOLIDAYS ON ICE 978-0-316-07891-7 $10.00/$12.00 Trade paperback
978-1-4555-2051-0 $30.00/$33.00 Hardcover
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MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF
ROSE KENNEDY’S FAMILY ALBUM
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978-0-316-21337-0 $30.00/$33.00 Hardcover
978-1-4555-4480-6 $45.00/$45.00 Hardcover
978-0-316-20090-5 $24.99/$27.99 Hardcover
978-0-316-20164-3 $35.00/$39.00 Hardcover
ISA DOES IT
MAST BROTHERS CHOCOLATE
978-0-316-22190-0 $30.00/$33.00 Hardcover
978-0-316-23484-9 $40.00/$44.00 Hardcover
NEW AMERICAN HAGGADAH 978-0-316-06987-8 $16.00/$18.00 Trade paperback
SPONTANEOUS HAPPINESS 978-0-316-12942-8 $15.99/$17.50 Trade paperback
A PASSION FOR BREAD 978-0-316-20062-2 $35.00/$39.00 Hardcover
UNDERWATER DOGS 978-0-316-22770-4 $19.99/$19.99 Hardcover
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Little, Brown and Company Spring/Summer ’14 Backlist HARDCOVERS American Spring
Walter R. Borneman 978-0-316-22102-3 $30.00/$33.00
Angels Make Their Hope Here Breena Clarke 978-0-316-25400-7 $26.00/$29.00
Bartlett’s Poems for Occasions
The Fever
Megan Abbott 978-0-316-23105-3 $26.00/$29.00
Frog Music
Emma Donoghue 978-0-316-32468-7 $27.00/NCR Large Print Edition 978-0-316-40458-7 $29.00/NCR
Geoffrey O’Brien Foreword by Billy Collins 978-0-316-73501-8 $25.00/$37.00
Go Wild
Black Lake
The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball’s Greats
Johanna Lane 978-0-316-22883-1 $25.00/$28.00
Blue Mind
Wallace J. Nichols 978-0-316-25208-9 $27.00/$32.00
California
Edan Lepucki 978-0-316-25081-8 $26.00/$29.00
The Carnivore’s Manifesto
Patrick Martins with Mike Edison Foreword by Alice Waters 978-0-316-25624-7 $26.00/$29.00
The Closer
Mariano Rivera 978-0-316-40073-2 $28.00/$31.00 Large Print Edition 978-0-316-40460-0 $30.00/$33.00 Spanish Edition TP 978-0-316-27761-7 $16.00/$18.00
The Directive
Matthew Quirk 978-0-316-19864-6 $26.00/$29.00
Dirty Work
Gabriel Weston 978-0-316-23562-4 $25.00/$28.00
Egg
Michael Ruhlman 978-0-316-25406-9 $40.00/$44.00
Factory Man
Beth Macy 978-0-316-23143-5 $28.00/$31.00
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John J. Ratey M.D. and Richard Manning 978-0-316-24609-5 $27.00/$30.00
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum 978-0-316-21302-8 $35.00/$39.00
I Pity the Poor Immigrant Zachary Lazar 978-0-316-25403-8 $25.00/$28.00
Invisible
James Patterson and David Ellis 978-0-316-40534-8 $28.00/$31.00
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting Kevin Powers 978-0-316-40108-1 $23.00/$25.00
Love, Nina
Nina Stibbe 978-0-316-24339-1 $26.00/NCR
The Matchmaker Elin Hilderbrand 978-0-316-09975-2 $28.00/$31.00 Large Print Edition 978-0-316-40467-9 $30.00/$33.00
Michael Jordan
Roland Lazenby 978-0-316-19477-8 $30.00/$33.00
Mr. Tall
Tony Earley 978-0-316-24612-5 $25.00/$28.00
Never Mind Miss Fox Olivia Glazebrook 978-0-316-24289-9 $25.00/$28.00
The Nolan Ryan Beef and Barbecue Cookbook
Nolan Ryan with J.R. Rosenthal 978-0-316-24826-6 $27.00/$30.00
The Pink Suit
Nicole Kelby 978-0-316-23565-5 $26.00/$29.00
Rock Breaks Scissors William Poundstone 978-0-316-22806-0 $27.00/$30.00
The Rush
Edward Dolnick 978-0-316-17568-5 $28.00/$31.00
Season to Taste
Natalie Young 978-0-316-28248-2 $25.00/NCR
Six Amendments
Justice John Paul Stevens 978-0-316-37372-2 $25.00/$28.00
So Much a Part of You Polly Dugan 978-0-316-32032-0 $25.00/$28.00
The Stranger
Chuck Todd 978-0-316-07957-0 $29.00/$32.00 Large Print Edition 978-0-316-24520-3 $31.00/$34.00
Sweetness #9
Stephan Eirik Clark 978-0-316-27875-1 $26.00/$29.00
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Sam Kean 978-0-316-18234-8 $27.00/$30.00
Those Who Wish Me Dead Michael Koryta 978-0-316-12255-9 $26.00/$29.00
The Three
Sarah Lotz 978-0-316-24290-5 $26.00/$29.00
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Joshua Ferris 978-0-316-03397-8 $26.00/$29.00
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Death Will Have Your Eyes
Pop. 1280
The Getaway
Recoil
The Golden Gizmo
The Rip-Off
The Grifters
Roughneck
Bob Berman 978-0-316-21740-8 $27.00/$30.00
Heed the Thunder
Savage Night
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A Hell of a Woman
SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Jackal
The Kill-Off
Skinner
The Killer Inside Me
South of Heaven
Lost
The String Diaries
Murder as a Fine Art
The Suspect
The Nothing Man
A Swell-Looking Babe
Nothing More Than Murder
Texas by the Tail
Now and on Earth
The Transgressors
Overwatch
Weaponized
James Patterson 978-0-316-21129-1 $28.00/$31.00 Large Print Edition 978-0-316-21127-7 $30.00/$33.00
When Everything Changed (Keepsake Journal) Gail Collins 978-0-316-36982-4 $20.00/$22.00
When Paris Went Dark Ronald C. Rosbottom 978-0-316-21744-6 $28.00/$31.00
Zoom: How Everything Moves
After Dark, My Sweet Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40384-9 $15.00/$17.00
The Alcoholics
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40395-5 $15.00/$17.00
Angel Baby
Richard Lange 978-0-316-21983-9 $15.00/$17.00
Bad Boy
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40375-7 $15.00/$17.00
Bravo
Greg Rucka 978-0-316-18230-0 $26.00/$29.00
The Competition Marcia Clark 978-0-316-22097-2 $26.00/$29.00
Confessions
Kanae Minato 978-0-316-20092-9 $15.00/$17.00
The Criminal
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40396-2 $15.00/$17.00
Cropper’s Cabin
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40376-4 $15.00/$17.00
James Sallis 978-0-316-40324-5 $15.00/$17.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40397-9 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40398-6 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40405-1 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40377-1 $15.00/$17.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40373-3 $15.00/$17.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40400-6 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40406-8 $15.00/$17.00
Michael Robotham 978-0-316-25227-0 $15.00/NCR David Morrell 978-0-316-21678-4 $16.00/$18.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40401-3 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40393-1 $15.00/$17.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40394-8 $15.00/$17.00
Marc Guggenheim 978-0-316-21247-2 $26.00/$29.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40384-9 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40380-1 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40402-0 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40381-8 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40382-5 $15.00/$17.00 Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo 978-0-316-24708-5 $26.00/$29.00 Charlie Huston 978-0-316-13370-8 $16.00/$18.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40383-2 $15.00/$17.00 Stephen Lloyd Jones 978-0-316-25446-5 $26.00/$29.00 Michael Robotham 978-0-316-25225-6 $15.00/NCR Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40392-4 $15.00/$17.00
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40374-0 $15.00/$17.00 Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40403-7 $15.00/$17.00
Nicholas Mennuti with David Guggenheim 978-0-316-19990-2 $16.00/$18.00
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Little, Brown and Company Spring/Summer ’14 Backlist Whiskey Tango Foxtrot J.C. Shafer 978-0-316-25263-8 $26.00/$29.00
Wild Town
Jim Thompson 978-0-316-40404-4 $15.00/$17.00
You
Austin Grossman 978-0-316-19854-7 $15.00/$17.00
TRADE PAPERBACKS Do What You Are (Revised)
Paul D, Tieger, Barbara Barron, and Kelly Tieger 978-0-316-23673-7 $19.00/$21.00
Eating On the Wild Side Jo Robinson 978-0-316-22793-3 $16.00/$18.00
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times Roy Peter Clark 978-0-316-20432-3 $15.00/$17.00
Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers Clyde Edgerton 978-0-316-05693-9 $15.00/$17.00
True Food
Andrew Weil, MD, and Sam Fox with Michael Stebner 978-0-316-12940-4 $19.00/$21.00
ANSEL ADAMS Ansel Adams 2015 Engagement Calendar Ansel Adams 978-0-316-32803-6 $19.99/$21.99
Ansel Adams 2015 Wall Calendar Ansel Adams 978-0-316-32800-5 $19.99/$21.99
BACK BAY BOOKS Barefoot (Special Edition) Elin Hilderbrand 978-0-316-37155-1 $10.00/$11.00
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent 978-0-316-24392-6 $15.00/$17.00
Countdown
Alan Weisman 978-0-316-09774-1 $18.00/$20.00
Country Girl
Edna O’Brien 978-0-316-12271-9 $16.00/$18.00
The Devil’s Highway Luis Alberto Urrea 978-0-316-01080-1 $15.00/$17.00
The End of Night Paul Bogard 978-0-316-18291-1 $16.00/$18.00
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys Dean King 978-0-316-16707-9 $17.00/$19.00
The Fields
Kevin Maher 978-0-316-22355-3 $16.00/NCR
The First Rule of Swimming Courtney Angela Brkic 978-0-316-21736-1 $15.00/$17.00
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt 978-0-316-05544-4 $18.00/$20.00
The Hive
Gill Hornby 978-0-316-23477-1 $16.00/$18.00
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café Mary Simses 978-0-316-22587-8 $15.00/$17.00
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge Peter Orner 978-0-316-22461-1 $15.00/$17.00
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Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls David Sedaris 978-0-316-15470-3 $17.00/$19.00
The Liars’ Gospel Naomi Alderman 978-0-316-23279-1 $15.00/$17.00
Questions of Travel Michelle de Kretser 978-0-316-21923-5 $16.00/$18.00
The Secret Rescue Cate Lineberry 978-0-316-22024-8 $16.00/$18.00
Shorecliff
Ursula DeYoung 978-0-316-21338-7 $15.00/$17.00
Stella Bain
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A Summer Affair (Special Edition) Elin Hilderbrand 978-0-316-37157-5 $10.00/$11.00
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