Pan Macmillan Asia Monthly Catalogue - February 2013 US

FEBRUARY 2013 US TITLE HIGHLIGHTS Orders should be received by 2nd January 2013 to receive titles by on-sale-date.

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The Starboard Sea Amber Dermont

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Jason Prosper grew up in the elite world of Manhattan SUPERLEAD penthouses, Maine summer estates, old boy prep schools and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding school roommate.

When Cal commits suicide during his junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship. After a major hurricane hits New England, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason’s life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends. Set against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, The Starboard Sea is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing and the adult cost of teenage recklessness.

9781250023438

Trade Paperback

$14.99

29th Jan

320 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to SUPERLEAD protect her from heartbreak, and as a result, she is incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justine’s irrepressible curiosity - and her wish to lead a normal life - get the better of her, and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment. However, when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that will threaten everything she holds dear... and together Justine and Jason discover that love is the most powerful magic of all.

Crystal Cove Lisa Kleypas

9781250011756

Trade Paperback

$14.99

5th Feb

336 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

In The Power Trip you will meet Aleksandr Kasianenko, a billionaire SUPERLEAD Russian oligarch, as he sets sail on The Bianca. You’ll meet his sexy supermodel girlfriend, whom The Bianca is named after, and five dynamic, powerful, and famous couples invited on the yacht’s maiden voyage: Hammond Patterson, a driven Senator, and his lovely but unhappy wife, Sierra; Cliff Baxter, a charming, never-married movie star, and his ex-waitress girlfriend, Lori; Taye Sherwin, a famous black UK footballer and his interior designer wife, Ashley; Luca Perez, a male Latin singing sensation with his older decadent English boyfriend, Jeromy; and Flynn, a maverick journalist with his Asian renegade female friend, Xuan.

The Power Trip Jackie Collins

You will also meet Russian mobster, Sergei Zukov, a man with a grudge against Aleksandr. And Sergei’s Mexican beauty queen girlfriend, Ina, whose brother, Cruz, is a master pirate with orders to hold The Bianca and its illustrious rota of guests for ransom.

9781250035745

Paperback

$7.99

5th Feb

544 PP

St. Martin’s Press

1

Come Home Lisa Scottoline

Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter’s lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her - though it is stressful - and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill’s life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jill’s ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things don’t add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill can’t turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own. Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits to love of family?

9781250023292

Trade Paperback

$15.99

26th Feb

416 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

Already an international bestseller, the next book in Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s dynamic series featuring fiesty lawyer and sometime sleuth Thora Gudmundsdottir is chilling, unsettling, and compulsively readable. When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. She discovers that this isn’t an isolated incident; a woman disappeared from the site a few months earlier. When she confronts the natives, she encounters unexpected resistance. The townspeople believe that the area is cursed, and no one wants to get involved in the case. Soon, Thora finds herself in the middle of a case as bleak and unforgiving as the landscape itself.

FICTION

The Day Is Dark Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Last Days Adam Nevill

“Engaging, fresh, and exciting.”

James Patterson

9781250029409

2

$15.99

26th Feb

384 PP

Minotaur

When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle’s brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding an organization that became a testament to paranoia, murderous rage, and occult rituals. The shoot’s locations take him to the cult’s first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizonan desert where The Temple of the Last Days met its bloody end. But when he interviews those involved in the case, those who haven’t broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events plague the shoots. Troubling out-of-body experiences, nocturnal visitations, the sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly artifacts in their room make Kyle question what exactly it is the cult managed to awaken – and what is its interest in him?

9781250018182

Cloudland Joseph Olshan

Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback

$15.99

26th Feb

544 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

Once a major reporter for a national newspaper, Catherine Winslow has retreated to the Upper Valley of Vermont, where she pseudonymously writes a household hints column. While out walking during an early spring thaw, Catherine discovers the body of a woman leaning against a tree. She recognizes her as a woman reported missing during a blizzard weeks ago, and believed to be the latest victim of a serial killer. When her neighbor, a forensic psychiatrist, is pulled into the investigation, Catherine discovers that she has some unexpected connections to the serial murders. One is that the killings might be based on a rare, unfinished Wilkie Collins novel, the only nearby copy of which is in her own personal library, but is currently missing.

While she tries to sort out the significance of this, she learns that her much younger lover from a failed affair has unexpectedly resurfaced and is trying to maneuver his way back into her life.

Elegant, haunting, and profoundly gripping, Cloudland is an ingenious psychological trap baited with murder, deception and the intricacies of desire.

9781250021571

Trade Paperback

$14.99

26th Feb

304 PP

Minotaur

Faced with the potential dissolution of his marriage and the end of his quiet, settled life, reluctant spy Milo Weaver has no choice but to return to his old job as a “tourist” for the CIA. But before he can get back to the dirty work of espionage, he has to prove his worth to his new bosses. Armed with a stack of false identities, Milo heads back to Europe, and for nearly three months every assignment is executed perfectly. Then he’s instructed to kill the fifteen-year-old daughter of Moldovan immigrants, and make the body disappear. No questions. For Milo, it’s an impossible task, but ignoring his handlers is equally untenable. Suddenly he’s in a dangerous position, caught between right and wrong, between powerful self-interested foes, between patriots and traitors - especially now that he has nothing left to lose.

The Nearest Exit Olen Steinhauer 9781250025425

Paperback

$9.99

26th Feb

624 PP

St. Martin’s Press

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. Meanwhile, a surgeon’s lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife. Before she can follow-through on her crime of passion, though, the surgeon will cross paths with another remarkable woman, a cabaret singer whose heart beats delicately outside of her body. But when the surgeon promises to repair her condition, he sparks the jealousy of another man who would like to preserve the heart in a custom tailored bag. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders - their fates converge in a darkly beautiful web that they are each powerless to escape.

Revenge Yoko Ogawa

Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death - and the afterlife of the living.

Trade Paperback

$14.00

29th Jan

176 PP

FICTION

9780312674465

Picador

A drowned young woman is discovered on an abandoned pleasure boat drifting by the Stockholm archipelago - strangely, her clothes are dry. The next day in Stockholm, a man turns up dead, hanging from a lamp hook inside his completely bare state apartment - but how could he have hung himself with no furniture to climb upon? As Detective Inspector Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, he discovers that they are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events. From the internationally bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes another spellbinding tale of Nordic crime.

The Nightmare Lars Kepler 9781250024107

Trade Paperback

$16.00

29th Jan

528 PP

Picador

A delectable new erotic romance about a woman who gets a chance to live out her most illicit fantasy.

When Lindsay receives an invitation in the mail to live out her most illicit fantasies, she thinks it’s her best friend playing a joke. Little does she know, the invitation is from someone else. Someone who knows of her deepest desires…and intends to fulfill them.

Illicit Opal Carew

Erik was the one who sent Lindsay the invitation - and the one who orchestrates a steamy weekend getaway to explore her most decadent desires. From their first night together, there is an inexplicably deep connection between them, and with Lindsay in his arms, he feels both thrilled and unnerved. The truth is, he’s hiding a deep hurt, and as Lindsay brings his fantasies to life, he’s unwilling to let her go. But can he tell her how he knows her deepest fantasies, and will Lindsay stay with him if she learns the truth?

9780312674625

Trade Paperback

$15.99

26th Feb

288 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

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THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN LITERATURE

No Time Like the Present Nadine Gordimer

Steve and Jabulile, once clandestine lovers under a racist law forbidding sexual relations between black and white, are living in a newly - tentatively free South Africa. Both were combatants in the struggle for freedom against apartheid, and now, he, a university lecturer, and she, a lawyer, are parents of children born in freedom. But as the ideals of this “better life for all” are challenged by political corruption, racial tensions, and the vast gap between affluence and poverty, Steve and Jabulile consider leaving the country they so vehemently fought to free. In telling their story, and the stories of their friends and families, Nadine Gordimer captures the fragmented essence of a nation, struggling to define itself. The subject is contemporary, but Nadine Gordimer’s treatment is, as ever, timeless. With a clear-eyed fierceness and an intimate understanding of the darkest depths of the human soul, she addresses her theme: the inextricable link between personal life and political, communal history.

9781250024039

Trade Paperback

$16.00

5th Feb

432 PP

Picador

Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a private investigator. When a client is killed, execution style, Reilly finds himself in a world of pain. Someone wants him dead - but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing… a web of politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators. He needs to uncover the dangerous truth behind the bribery, blood, and backdoor deals that define the highest levels of both organized crime and State House politics - before it’s too late.

FICTION

Hard Knocks Howie Carr 9780765365323

Paperback

$9.99

29th Jan

400 PP

Forge

Rosalie MacKenzie is headed nowhere until she sees Smokey, a Siberian husky suffering from neglect. Rosalie finds the courage to rescue the dog, and united by the bond of love that forms between them - they save each other.

Soon Rosalie and Smokey are immersed in the world of competitive dogsled racing. Days are filled with training runs, the stark beauty of rural Wisconsin, and the whoosh of runners on snow. Rosalie discovers that behind the modern sport lies a tragic history: the heartbreaking story of the Chukchi people of Siberia. When Stalin’s Red Army displaced the Chukchi in 1929, many were killed and others lost their homes and their beloved Guardians the huskies that were the soul and livelihood of their people.

Alternating between past and present, telling of a struggling Chukchi family and a young woman discovering herself, An Echo Through the Snow An Echo Through takes readers on a gripping, profound, and uplifting dogsled ride to the Iditarod and beyond, on a journey of survival and healing. the Snow Andrea Thalasinos 9780765332530

Trade Paperback

$14.99

5th Feb

368 PP

Forge

The start of an epic high fantasy trilogy from a new British talent.

The Book of Eador, Abjurations 12:14, is very clear: Suffer ye not the life of a witch. For a thousand years, the Church Knights have obeyed that commandment, sending to the stake anyone who can hear the songs of the earth. There are no exceptions.

Novice Knight Gair can hear music no one else can: music with power. That means death by fire - until an unlikely intervention gives him a chance to escape the city and the flames. His only hope is the secretive Guardians of the Veil, though the few left have troubles of their own, for the Veil between worlds is weakening, and the Hidden Kingdom, ever-hungry for dominion over the daylight realm, is stirring. Far from ready, Gair must fight for his life, for Songs of the Earth all within the Order of the Veil, and for the woman he loves.

Elspeth Cooper 4

9780765368508

Paperback

$7.99

29th Jan

496 PP

Tor

Gina fell for the wrong guy. Joe came into her life promising her everything, and he gave it to her, along with a world of hell. But Gina was stronger than Joe realized. After years of suffering the terror of being married to a criminal, she took the one thing he ever gave her that she wanted - her son, Luke. Then she turned the bastard in.

With a gun and stolen diamonds in her purse, and derelicts, the law, and hit men on her tail, Gina takes Luke and runs. Los Angeles was only supposed to be a quick stop - sleep, eat, and continue running - but then they meet Gray…. He says he’s a sailor, but he seems to be hiding a lot. And when the time comes, he’s the only thing standing between her and the grave.

Sailor Tom Epperson 9780765328939

Trade Paperback

$15.99

19th Feb

352 PP

Forge

This standout title from a virtuoso talent takes readers inside a secretive op to assassinate a man in Iran responsible for rigging many of the roadside bombs used in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through the eyes of our hero, a talented surveillance operative suddenly plucked from home country duty, saddled with a partner he can’t stand, and dropped into the steaming marshland outside the bad guy’s house, Seymour shows us what it’s actually like to be a modern spy and soldier, inching carefully through the reeds, hiding every aspect of your existence - from your smell to your shadow. And knowing that success will save thousands of lives, but that failure will result in your government’s denial of your very existence. The suspense is taught and pulse-pounding all the way through to the touch-andgo climax that will have readers on the edge of their seats.

A Deniable Death Gerald Seymour Hardback

$25.99

12th Feb

448 PP

St. Martin’s Press

Linda Watts is a beautiful, talented Lao immigrant with a promising career - or she was, until she turns up dead in a cheap Bangkok guest house. Her death seems like a straightforward overdose to the Thai authorities, but her insurance company isn’t buying it. They hire Sebastian to travel halfway around the world to investigate, and so he finds himself completely out of place chasing faint leads through the broken streets of Bangkok. An award-winning journalist with decades of experience traveling in and reporting on Southeast Asia, Christopher Cox takes readers on a vibrant journey through a corrupt and labyrinthine police bureaucracy, a network of steamy Bangkok nightclubs, and grimy hostels to a place where you can you feel the humid air and smell the frying street food.

Along the way, he sprinkles in elements of romance as Sebastian finds himself falling for the beautiful and captivatingly mysterious Linda, and camaraderie with his father’s wise-cracking old Army buddy, a source who proves invaluable in navigating the back streets. For Sebastian, it’s the assignment of a lifetime, A Good Death Christopher R. Cox a journey that will change him forever in this richly imagined, compelling debut perfect for fans of John Burdett and Colin Cotterill.

9781250012319

Hardback

$24.99

19th Feb

304 PP

Minotaur

A powerful, heartfelt collection of essays from the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Gilead.

“Robinson is that rare essayist whose sentences make you sit up and pay attention... The greatest pleasures of this book are its provocations, which are inseparable from its prose... Her essays are psalms to an indivisible America.”

The Wall Street Journal Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation not only as a major American novelist but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this lucid but impassioned collection, Robinson expands upon the themes that have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor. Here she tackles the charged political and social climate in this country, the deeply embedded role of When I Was a Child generosity in Christian faith, and the nature of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates I Read Books Marilynne Robinson once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.

9781250024053

Trade Paperback

$15.00

29th Jan

224 PP

Picador

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FICTION

9781250018809

Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is Ava Lee - sleek, capable forensic accountant and sleuth. With the help of her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, Ava follows the money trail from San Francisco to Costa Rica to the casinos and illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas. Meanwhile, a vengeful adversary from Ava’s past has put out a contract on her life, and the shadowy hit man is close at her heels every step of the way. Will Ava recover the stolen cash without stepping into the crosshairs of a growing list of enemies? The first book of an electrifying new series, The Disciple of Las Vegas introduces Ava Lee: a deadly martial artist with a taste for luxury and a mind like a steel trap.

The Disciple of Las Vegas Ian Hamilton

9781250031938

Trade Paperback

$15.00

29th Jan

368 PP

Picador

A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss and love; a confession of what passed between two women who met as girls in 1960s Pasadena, California.

Coming of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers’ narrow expectations. Their struggle to define themselves against the backdrop of an American cultural revolution unites them early on, until one sweltering evening the summer before their last year of college, when a single act of betrayal changes everything. Decades later, Rebecca’s haunting meditation on the past reveals the truth about that night, the years that followed, and the friendship that shaped her.

FICTION

Autobiography of Us Aria Beth Sloss

Autobiography of Us is an achingly beautiful portrait of a decades-long bond.

A rare and powerful glimpse into the lives of two women caught between repression and revolution, it casts new light on the sacrifices, struggles, victories and defeats of a generation.

9780805094558

Hardback

$25.00

5th Feb

304 PP

Henry Holt

From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascinated by insane plans for world domination and the madmen who devise them. Typically, we see these villains through the eyes of good guys. This anthology, however, explores the world of mad scientists and evil geniuses - from their own wonderfully twisted point of view.

An all-star roster of bestselling authors - including Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson, Austin Grossman, Naomi Novik, and Seanan McGuire… twenty-two great storytellers all told - have produced a fabulous assortment of stories guaranteed to provide readers with hour after hour of high-octane entertainment born of the most megalomaniacal mayhem imaginable.

Everybody loves villains. They’re bad; they always stir the pot; they’re much more fun than the good guys, even if we want to see the good guys win.

Their fiendish schemes, maniacal laughter, and limitless ambition are The Mad Scientist’s legendary, but what lies behind those crazy eyes and wicked grins? How and why - do they commit these nefarious deeds? And why are they so set Guide to World on taking over the world?

Domination John Joseph Adams 9780765326454 Trade Paperback $14.99 19th Feb 368 PP Tor

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Theater, magic, art, and politics all blend in this amazing high-fantasy series from the imagination of Melanie Rawn.

Touchstone, the magical theater troupe, continues to build audiences. But Cayden is increasingly troubled by his “elsewhens,” the uncontrolled moments when he is plunged into visions of the possible futures. He fears that his Fae gift will forever taint his friendships; his friends fear that his increasing distance will destroy him.

Elsewhens Melanie Rawn

But worldly success follows them - an apparent loss in the Trials leads to Touchstone being selected to travel to the Continent with a Royal Embassy to collect Prince Ashgar’s new bride. They are the first theater artists to appear outside Albeyn for at least seventy years - for magic is suspect and forbidden elsewhere, and the Kingdom’s easy race mixing and magic use horrifies the people they are to travel among.

9780765328779

Hardback

$25.99

19th Feb

384 PP

Tor

A beautifully wrought new novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of Mr. Potter.

9780374180560

Hardback

$23.00

5th Feb

192 PP

NON-FICTION

See Now Then Jamaica Kincaid

In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid-her first in ten years-a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies.

This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a mother and father and their two children living in a small village in New England, as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future-for, as she writes, “the present will be a now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.” Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.

See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

7

In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year Frankenstein was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change - something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season.

Making use of a wealth of source material and employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants and royalty, politicians, writers, and scientists, The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change The Year Without engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures.

Summer William K. 9780312676452 Hardback $27.99 26th Feb 352 PP St. Martin’s Press Klingaman A harrowing journey through the dark realms of human nature.

NON-FICTION

Give Me Everything You Have James Lasdun

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author’s strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled “verbal terrorist,” who began trying, in her words, to “ruin him.” Hate mail-much of it violently anti-Semitic-online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat. James Lasdun’s account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humor, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, Middle Eastern politics, and the meaning of honor and reputation in the Internet age.

9780374219079

Hardback

$25.00

12th Feb

224 PP

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

What was it like to be an advertising woman on Madison Avenue in the 60s and 70s - that era of casual sex and professional serfdom? Mad Women is an immensely entertaining and bittersweet tell-all account of life in the New York advertising world by Jane Maas, a copywriter who succeeded in the primarily male jungle depicted in the hit show Mad Men.

Mad Women Jane Maas

Fans of the show are dying to know how accurate it is: was there really that much sex at the office? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women really second-class citizens? Jane Maas says the answer to all three questions is unequivocally “yes.” Her book, based on her own experiences and countless interviews with her peers, gives the full stories. Wickedly funny and full of juicy inside information, Mad Women also tackles some of the tougher issues of the era, such as unequal pay, rampant, jaw-dropping sexism, and the difficult choice many women faced between motherhood and their careers.

9781250022011

Trade Paperback

$14.99

29th Jan

272 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

Elizabeth II, one of England’s longest-reigning monarchs, is an enigma. In public, she confines herself to optimistic pieties and guarded smiles; in private, she is wry, funny, and an excellent mimic. Now one of Britain’s leading journalists and historians gets behind the mask and tells us the fascinating story of the real Elizabeth.

Born shortly before the Depression, Elizabeth grew up during World War II and became queen because of the shocking abdication of her uncle and the early death of her father. Only twenty-five when she ascended to the throne, she has been at the apex of the British state for six decades. She has entertained numerous world leaders, including every U.S. president since Harry Truman.

Brought up to regard family values as sacred, she has seen her heir, Prince Charles, conduct an adulterous affair before Princess Diana’s death and a The Real Elizabeth steady stream of family secrets poured into the open. Yet she has never said a word about any of the troubles she has endured.

Andrew Marr 8

9781250022844

Trade Paperback

$17.99

29th Jan

368 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

This is the story of the American divorcée notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his throne. “That woman,” so called by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, was born Bessie Wallis Warfield in 1896 in Baltimore.

Neither beautiful nor brilliant, she endured an impoverished childhood, which fostered in her a burning desire to rise above her circumstances. Acclaimed biographer Anne Sebba offers an eye-opening account of one of the most talked about women of her generation. It explores the obsessive nature of Simpson’s relationship with Prince Edward, the suggestion that she may have had a Disorder of Sexual Development, and new evidence showing she may never have wanted to marry Edward at all.

That Woman Anne Sebba

Since her death, Simpson has become a symbol of female empowerment as well as a style icon. But her psychology remains an enigma. Drawing from interviews and newly discovered letters, That Woman shines a light on this captivating and complex woman, an object of fascination that has only grown with the years.

9781250022189

Trade Paperback

$17.99

5th Feb

368 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

In The End of Big, Internet pioneer and Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Nicco Mele draws on nearly twenty years of experience to explore the consequences of revolutionary technology.

Our ability to connect instantly, constantly, and globally is altering the exercise of power with dramatic speed. Governments, corporations, centers of knowledge, and expertise are eroding before the power of the individual.

It can be good in some cases, but as Mele reveals, the promise of the Internet comes with a troubling downside.

9781250021854

Hardback

$25.99

29th Jan

304 PP

St. Martin’s Press

Banksy is perhaps the best known living artist. His pieces have fetched millions of dollars at the world’s most prestigious auction houses. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his film Exit Through the Gift Shop. Once viewed as vandalism, his work is now venerated; fans have gone so far as to dismantle the walls that he has painted on and tried to sell them for thousands of dollars. But for as famous as Banksy is, he is also utterly unknown. His identity is a mystery, he never shows his face in public, never gives interviews except by email. Now, in the first ever full-scale treatment of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success.

Stunningly presented and uniquely packaged, Banksy offers an eye-opening glimpse of an enigmatic figure and a riveting account of how a graffiti artist Banksy Will Ellsworth-Jones from Bristol became an international icon-and along the way turned the art world upside down.

9781250025739

Hardback

$27.99

12th Feb

336 PP

St. Martin’s Press

Say you’re a glamorous magazine writer with a serious Jimmy Choo habit, a weakness for five-star Balinese resorts, and a reputation for dating highborn British men. Then one day you find you’re swooning over a most unlikely suitor, an Indian journalist who turns out to be a prince (of sorts), but whose family palace is falling to pieces, and whose intimidating mother, upon meeting you for the first time, examines your hair for dandruff. Would you run for the hills?

A modern-day fairy tale, Where the Peacock Sings is a funny, insightful, and deeply moving chronicle of life in modern India as seen through the author’s complex relationship with her husband’s ancestral mansion, a century-old, hundred-room ramshackle palace called Mokimpur. Mokimpur is endearingly imperfect, a broken down relic in desperate need of a makeover. The Peacock Sings for Rain takes readers on a cross-cultural journey from the manicured gardens of Beverly Hills, to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and finally to the Where the rural Indian countryside as Alison comes to terms with her complicated new Peacocks Sing Alison Singh Gee family, leaves the modern world behind, and learns the true meaning of home.

9 9780312378783

Hardback

$24.99

19th Feb

288 PP

St. Martin’s Press

NON-FICTION

The End of Big Nicco Mele

Unless we exercise deliberate moral choice over the design and use of technologies, Mele says, we doom ourselves to a future that tramples human values, renders social structures chaotic, and destroys rather than enhances freedom. Both hopeful and alarming, thought-provoking and passionately-argued, The End of Big is an important book about our present and our future.

People today work harder and take better care of their health than any previous generation. So how could two thirds of us fail to measure up when it comes to eating right and exercising? HBO and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to bring you the nation’s foremost experts and definitive research on weight and weight loss. The Weight of the Nation explains how we got to this unhealthy place and how we can get to a healthier one by overcoming the forces that drive us to eat too much and move too little.

NON-FICTION

The Weight of the Nation John Hoffman

Based on the research behind HBO’s documentary series, The Weight of the Nation is the only book that tells it like it is: losing weight is hard, keeping it off is even harder, and there’s no quick fix. Weight loss takes a lot of work and a lifetime commitment, but thousands have done it and this book will show you how.

9781250025609

Trade Paperback

$15.99

5th Feb

224 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry, the famed Blackhorse Regiment, was a specialized cavalry outfit equipped with tanks and armored assault vehicles. On the morning of March 26, 1970, they began hearing radio calls from an infantry unit four kilometers away that had stumbled into a hidden North Vietnamese Army stronghold. Outnumbered at least six to one, the ninety-man American company was quickly surrounded, pinned down, and fighting for its existence. Helicopters could not penetrate the dense jungle, and artillery and air support could not be targeted effectively. Captain John Poindexter, Alpha Troop’s twenty-five-year-old commander, realized that his outfit was the only hope for the trapped company. With the courage and determination that makes legends out of ordinary men, they affected a daring rescue and fought a pitched battle - at considerable cost. Thirty years later, Poindexter was made aware that his award recommendations, and even the Blackhorse Riders records of the battle, had somehow gone missing. President Obama stepped to the podium on October 20, 2009, to award Alpha Troop with the Presidential Philip Keith Unit Citation: the highest combat award that can be given to a military unit.

9781250021229

Trade Paperback

$15.99

5th Feb

368 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the scholar Eric G. Wilson sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the gruesome, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists. A professor of English literature and a lifelong student of the macabre, Wilson believes there’s something nourishing in darkness.

“To repress death is to lose the feeling of life,” he writes. “A closeness to death discloses our most fertile energies.”

His examples are legion and startling in their diversity. Citing everything from elephant graveyards and Susan Sontag’s On Photography to the Tiger Woods sex scandal and Steel Magnolias, Wilson finds heartening truths wherever he confronts death. In Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, the perverse is never far from the sublime. The result is a powerful and delightfully provocative Everyone Loves a defense of what it means to be human-for better and for worse.

Good Train Wreck Eric G. Wilson 9780374533700

Trade Paperback

$14.00

19th Feb

224 PP

Sarah Crichton Books

Four-Legged Miracles is a collection of wondrous lost-and-found canine sagas - actual Lassie, Come Home tales - that highlight dogs’ remarkable abilities to return home despite almost unbelievable odds. Brad and Sherry Steiger have collected dramatic, carefully documented true-life anecdotes that showcase canines’ amazing intelligence, courage, and sometimes seemingly supernatural powers. Often, there are no sensible explanations for how the dogs have come home, overcoming obstacles like natural disasters and fierce wilderness areas, predators, crippling disease and grievous injuries, emotional distress, and more to find their families. These fascinating reunion stories include: Mason, the white terrier who crawled home on two broken legs to what remained of his family’s tornado-ravaged house; Buca, who sat on a hill over Utah’s Rte. I-15 for two months waiting for the car he knew would bring him home; and Eddie, the beagle, who walked 450 miles over four months to Four-Legged Miracles reunite with disabled four-year-old Jimmy, inspiring the boy to work harder on Brad Steiger & Sherry his own recovery.

10 Hansen Steiger 9781250005069

Trade Paperback

$14.99

5th Feb

288 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

This practical walking program takes readers from flabby to fit in 12 weeks with a variety of walks and easy-to-incorporate lifestyle changes.

This simple plan teaches readers how to incrementally build their walking speed so that they lose weight faster. Developed by former Prevention fitness director and walking expert Michele Stanten, Walk Your Butt Off! will not only get complete beginners started with a walking program but will also help the more than 100 million Americans who already walk for exercise to break through plateaus and boost their results. Readers will also come to view walking as an athletic endeavor and see their workouts asan inviolable part of their day. And, at no more than 30 minutes each, these daily walks can fit into even the busiest schedule. Paired with simple nutrition secrets from renowned sports nutritionist Leslie Bonci, this easy step-by-step guide Walk Your Butt Off! to permanent weight loss is suitable for everyone.

Sarah Lorge Butler 9781609618834

Trade Paperback

$19.99

26th Feb

320 PP

Rodale

No one can avoid gray hair and wrinkles, but what about preventing the brain from aging? Dr. Eric Braverman, “America’s Brain Doctor” and bestselling author has created a simple, science-based plan that can help prevent the worst mental side effects of aging: memory loss, cognitive decline, and mood changes. Dr. Braverman distills 35 years of research and clinical experience into a 6-step program that helps spur neurogenesis: growing new brain cells as one ages. By following the plan, readers can self-detect cognitive decline, reverse it, and boost the brain’s power and speed. In Younger Brain, Sharper Mind, readers will discover:

9781609619886

Trade Paperback

$16.99

29th Jan

304 PP

Rodale

A thought-provoking look at the impact of today’s tech-obsessed world and how to survive it. In Can’t Stop, MTV News correspondent and blogger Kim Stolz explores how dating, working, communication, politics, friendships, sexuality, the music and entertainment industries, our perceptions of fame and our own egos - in short, everything - are being changed forever by the constant demands of social media and technology.

Can’t Stop Kim Stolz

NON-FICTION

Younger Brain, Sharper Mind Eric R. Braverman

• The Braverman Brain Advantage Test - a fast and simple way to assess attention span, memory, and cognitive function • Special foods scientifically proven to support brain function • A comprehensive set of exercises - for both body and brain - designed to keep readers healthy and functioning at a high level even as the years go by

Stolz offers a firsthand account of the Millennials’ experience growing up alongside the rapid explosion of technology and social media. She relates personal anecdotes and weaves in evidence from pop culture and current events, as well as interviews with psychologists and anthropologists, for a 360-degree view. With tips and advice on how to deal with everything from privacy issues and safe sharing habits on Facebook, to how to truly unplug yourself from it all, this book is a thoughtful take on both understanding and surviving life in today’s tech-laden landscape.

9781609611507

Hardback

$21.99

26th Feb

256 PP

Rodale

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Stolen Nights Rebecca Maizel

Lenah Beaudonte discovers that she’s survived an incredibly dangerous ritual.

But the strong elemental magic she used has done more than just make Vicken human. It’s drawn the attention and anger of the Aeris, the four elements and most fundamental powers on earth. When they summon Lenah, she learns the shocking truth. Not only has Rhode been alive since conducting the ritual for her, but they are both to be punished. They have a choice: go back to their respective centuries and live out their human lives. Or they can stay in the present day... and never be with each other again. Rhode seems to want nothing to do with Lenah, but can that truly be how he feels? Is there a way Lenah can have both: her freedom as a human and her beloved? Not to mention Justin, who’s devastated that Lenah’s feelings for Rhode haven’t gone away. Meanwhile, the magic has drawn someone else to Lover’s Bay - a vicious, strangely powerful vampire queen whose plan is to take down those closest to Lenah, one by one.

As the new school year starts and a series of gruesome murders wreak havoc among Wickham’s students and staff, only Lenah, Vicken and Rhode know who’s behind them. And it’s up to them to find a way to stop her before it’s too late...

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

9780312649920

$9.99

29th Jan

320 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

Zoe is free. She has escaped the enslavement of the Community, disconnected from the hardware that had controlled her every thought and emotion, and evaded capture by the Chancellor intent on killing her.

She is finally free, but she is far from safe. Zoe and Adrien hide themselves from detection at the Foundation, an academy that trains teen glitchers to fight in the Resistance movement. Together, Zoe and her new team of superhuman fighters must risk their lives to rescue other glitchers and humans from the Chancellor’s control. Challenges abound at every turn, and Adrien, who has become silent, distant, and tormented by his visions of the future, only adds to the growing certainty of defeat. But worst of all, as Zoe’s team fights against impossible odds, distrust and betrayal leads to the terrible discovery that their greatest threat could already be lurking behind the safe walls of the Foundation.

Override Heather Anastasiu Full of high-adrenaline action and shocking twists, Override is a strong continuation of an exciting young adult trilogy.

9781250003003

Paperback

$9.99

12th Feb

336 PP

St. Martin’s Griffin

In the third House of Night novella, the secret history we’ve all been waiting for is finally revealed. Neferet, the Tulsa House of Night’s darkly seductive High Priestess, wasn’t always a powerful vampyre, but she has always been beautiful. Raised in turn-of-the-century Chicago in a motherless home, her beauty makes her the prey of unwanted attention and abuse, leaving her with scars that will never heal - and a Darkness that will eventually need to find its way out. But when she’s Marked and gains strength, both physical and magickal, she turns her anger into power and looks for a way to wreak vengeance. From victim to High Priestess, beautiful young woman to powerful seductress, Neferet’s journey begins.

Neferet’s Curse P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast

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Paperback

Homeland Cory Doctorow

9781250000255

Hardback

$17.99

5th Feb

400 PP

Tor Teen

California’s economy has collapsed, Marcus takes his parents and his university tuition with it. But M1k3y’s political past saves him and lands him a job as webmaster for a muckraking politician who promises reform.

Things are never simple, as Marcus discovers when his onetime girlfriend Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump full of hard evidence of conscious corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. But Marcus can’t out himself as the Bradley Manning of this leak, because if he does he’ll cost his employers the election. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. Nobody - his current girlfriend, his weary parents, his progressive-minded employer, his hacker admirers knows just how unsure of himself he really is. Meanwhile, hard people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’ve got plenty of experience inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Inflicting it on Marcus… or, worse, on people he loves.

9780765333698

Hardback

$17.99

5th Feb

400 PP

Tor Teen

In this seasonal tale based on the popular TV series, Rabbit and Mouse convince their friends just how much fun winter can be.

On the first day of winter, the Gibble Goose Girls sulk - the snow has made their favorite outdoor activities impossible! It’s up to Rabbit and Mouse to prove that the cold season has its own charms.

Adapted from the acclaimed animated TV show, which is based on Eric Rohmann’s Caldecott Medal-winning picture book My Friend Rabbit, this original story brings the beloved characters of Rabbit and Mouse to the beginning reader audience.

My Friend Rabbit and the Snow Geese Eric Rohmann

9781250016614

Paperback

$3.99

5th Feb

32 PP

Square Fish

The age-old story of Noah’s Ark combined with Eric Carle’s iconic art makes this an instant classic!

9781250021991

Paperback

$7.99

5th Feb

32 PP

Square Fish

A perfect “Easter basket” book about egg decorating, color identification, and gift giving.

Chester the Easter Bunny decorates six Easter eggs. He chooses the colors of the rainbow: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, and blue.

He then hides them for all his friends to find. On Easter, his friends discover his beautiful eggs, and they all celebrate the special day together.

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG READERS

Why Noah Chose the Dove Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Noah was a righteous man,” says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah.

Who will Noah decide to take with him when the Flood comes? Each of the animals boasts about their particular qualities in the hope of winning a place on the Ark. But only one animal shows the quality of modesty.

In a fresh and lively approach to the age-old account, Isaac Bashevis Singer sets down the dialogue of the animals as they vie with one another for a place on the Ark.

This cheerful book reinforces color identification and counting, and celebrates the Easter holiday.

Chester’s Colorful Easter Eggs Theresa Smythe 9780805093261

Hardback

$12.99

5th Feb

24 PP

Henry Holt

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Kitaro Shigeru Mizuki

Meet Kitaro. He’s just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is an antenna that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-powered, and he can blend into his surroundings like a chameleon. Oh, and he’s a three-hundred-and-fifty-yearold spirit monster. With all the offbeat humor of an Addams Family story, Kitaro is a lighthearted romp in which the bad guys always get what’s coming to them. Kitaro is bestselling manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki’s most famous creation. The Kitaro series was inspired by a kamishibai, or storycard theater, entitled Kitaro of the Graveyard. Mizuki’s series was created in 1959.

Originally the series was intended for boys, but once it was picked up by the influential Shonen magazine it quickly became a cultural landmark for young and old alike. Kitaro inspired half a dozen TV shows, plus numerous video games and films, and his cultural importance cannot be overstated.

Presented to North American audiences for the first time in this lavish format, Mizuki’s photo-realist landscapes and cartoony characters blend the eerie with the comic.

9781770461109

Trade Paperback

$26.95

5th Feb

432 PP

Drawn & Quarterly

Can the girls out-dance Carla to the Nationals, or will distractions undermine everything they’ve worked so hard for?

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Julie, Lucy and Alia are best friends and share the same passion: dance.

Piling on the classes, they’re training hard to get into the National Ballet Competition in Paris. One main rival is right in their very school: archenemy Carla. These three will have to balance competition, new boyfriends, and classes without letting things get out of hand.

Dance Class #4: Beka & Crip 9781597073844

Hardback

$10.99

26th Feb

48 PP

Papercutz

Baby Smurf arrives in the village! But for how long?

On a quiet night in their village, a stork visits the Smurfs and leaves a Baby Smurf on one of their doorsteps. But the next day, the stork returns - the Baby Smurf was delivered by accident and must be returned! As soon as they go to fetch the baby for the stork, they find it’s gone! Where did the Baby Smurf go? And will the Smurfs really have to return it?

The Smurfs #14: The Baby Smurf Peyo

9781597073813

Paperback

$5.99

26th Feb

56 PP

Papercutz

Brand new series from multiple award-winning author Emmanuel Guibert and renowned illustrator Marc Boutavant!

Ariol is your everyday tween donkey with blue glasses. He lives in the suburbs with his mom and dad. His best friend is a pig. He’s in love with a beautiful cow in his class. His teacher is a dog. His gym teacher is a huge rooster. In short, Ariol is just like you and me.

Ariol #1: Just a Donkey Like You and Me Farley Katz 14

9781597073998

Trade Paperback

$12.99

19th Feb

124 PP

Papercutz

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