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HIGHLIGHTS HOMER & LANGLEY: A Novel
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By E.L. Doctorow “[B]uoyant and entertaining. . . . E. L. Doctorow . . . [is] a writer of dazzling gifts and boundless imaginative energy. . . . In Homer & Langley, [he] has evoked an American folk-myth writ small, a touching double portrait of men whom social background and class privilege could not protect from extinction.” —Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker
LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER: A Novel
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By John Irving “Irving’s twelfth novel is full to bursting with story, character, and emotion. . . . At once a moving portrait of a father-and-son relationship, a homage to a quintessentially American fortitude forged by treacherous work and scant wages, and a tribute to the bonds of friendship, it offers multiple, beautifully written set pieces on grief, love, food, and family.” —Booklist, starred review
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
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By Colum McCann • A 2009 National Book Award Winner
“One of the most electric, profound novels . . . in years. Let the Great World Spin is an emotional tour de force. It is a heartbreaking book, but not a depressing one. [It] can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: The Bonfire of the Vanities.” —The New York Times Book Review
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
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By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
LOOK AT THE BIRDIE: Unpublished Short Fiction
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By Kurt Vonnegut By one of the most original writers in all of American fiction, here is Vonnegut’s posthumous, new volume of fourteen early and previously unpublished short works which offers insight into his developing literary style and includes pieces that explore such themes as innocence, ironic twists of fate, and morality.
THE EAVES OF HEAVEN: A Life in Three Wars
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By Andrew X. Pham “Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the foreign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective. . . . And now we can add Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.” —The New York Times Book Review
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THE JOURNEY A Novel By H. G. Adler; Translated by Peter Filkins
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ritten in 1950, after acclaimed author and Holocaust survivor H. G. Adler’s emigration to England, The Journey was not released in Germany until 1962. When award-winning translator Peter Filkins found it in German at a bookstore, he saw that Adler had depicted the Holocaust in a unique, truly modern, and deeply moving way. Avoiding specific mention of country or camps—even of Nazis and Jews—The Journey is a lyrical nightmare of a family’s ordeal and one member’s survival. Led by the doctor patriarch Leopold, the Lustig family finds itself “forbidden” to live, uprooted into a surreal and incomprehensible circumstance of deprivation and death. This cataclysm destroys father, daughter, sister, and wife and leaves only Paul, the son, to live again among those who saved or sacrificed him. “The Journey is a tribute to the survival of art and a poignant teaching in the art of survival. I tend to shy away from Holocaust fiction, but this book helps redeem an all-but-impossible genre.” —Harold Bloom
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“H.G. Adler’s works . . . survive as a magnificent achievement of courage, art, and the stubborn will to survive.” —Peter Demetz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Germanic Language and Literature, Yale University
“As important a find as Irène Némirovsky’s Suite Française, and as well translated into English, it is indeed, as Veza Canetti wrote to the author in 1962, ‘too beautiful for words and too sad.’ ” —Sander L. Gilman, author of Jurek Becker: A Life in Five Worlds
About the Author H. G. ADLER, born in Prague in 1910, was the author of twenty-six books of fiction, poetry, philosophy, and history. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Adler is best known for his studies of day-to-day life there, as documented in Theresienstadt 1941-1945 and Der verwaltete Mensch (Administrated Man). Also a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Adler lost his wife and her parents to the camps before leaving Czechoslovakia after the war to settle in England. Once there, he began writing novels about the Holocaust, The Journey being the first of five works of fiction. Working as a freelance writer and teacher throughout his life, Adler died in London in 1988.
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SOUL OF THE AGE: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare By Jonathan Bate • A Library Journal Best Book of 2009
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n this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeare’s life and connects them to his world and work as never before.
Here is the author as an infant, born into a world of plague and syphilis, diseases with which he became closely familiar; as a schoolboy, a position he portrayed in The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a clever, cheeky lad named William learns Latin grammar; as a lover, married at eighteen to an older woman already pregnant, perhaps presaging Bassanio, who in The Merchant of Venice won a wife who could save him from financial ruin. Here, too, is Shakespeare as a soldier, writing Henry the Fifth’s St. Crispin’s Day speech, with a nod to his own monarch Elizabeth I’s passionate addresses; as a justice, revealing his possible legal training in his precise use of the law in plays from Hamlet to Macbeth; and as a pantaloon, an early retiree because of, Bate postulates, either illness or a scandal. Finally, Shakespeare enters oblivion, with sonnets that suggest he actively sought immortality through his art and secretly helped shape his posthumous image more than anyone ever knew. Equal parts masterly detective story, brilliant literary analysis, and insightful world history, Soul of the Age is more than a superb new recounting of Shakespeare’s experiences; it is a bold and entertaining work of scholarship and speculation, one that shifts from past to present, reality to the imagination, to reveal how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
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For more information on Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen’s Royal Shakespeare Company project, go to pages 14-15.
“Enthralling, the most eloquent evocation of Shakespeare one is ever likely to encounter.” —Times Literary Supplement, U.K
About the Author JONATHAN BATE is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at the University of Warwick. Widely known as a critic, award-winning biographer, and broadcaster, Bate is the author of several books on Shakespeare and principal editor of the Modern Library’s and Royal Shakespeare Company’s highly acclaimed William Shakespeare: Complete Works (see page 15). Examination copies may be ordered online with a credit card at www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy
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BOOKS BY E.L. DOCTOROW
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HOMER & LANGLEY: A Novel
THE MARCH: A Novel
RAGTIME: A Novel
• A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
• Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 2006
From the master novelist of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and World’s Fair, comes a brilliantly conceived, mesmerizing rendering of the lives of New York’s fabled Collyer brothers. One blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged by mustard gas in the Great War, they live as recluses in their once grand mansion, and are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.
In this richly textured, evocative novel, E. L. Doctorow delves deeply into American history once again. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the final years of the Civil War has a profound impact on the outcome of the war and captures the full experience of the diverse characters caught up in the struggle.
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
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ALSO BY E.L. DOCTOROW THE BOOK OF DANIEL: A Novel
LOON LAKE: A Novel
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CREATIONISTS: Selected Essays, 1993-2006 Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7564-2 192pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
WELCOME TO HARD TIMES: A Novel Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7822-3 224pp. | $14.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SWEET LAND STORIES Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7177-4 | 160pp. $12.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
WORLD’S FAIR: A Novel Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7820-9 304pp. | $14.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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About the Author E. L. DOCTOROW’s work has been published in thirty-two languages. Among his honors are the National Book Award, three National Book Critics Circle awards, two PEN/Faulkner awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
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BOOKS BY JOHN IRVING LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER: A Novel By John Irving • A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
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Written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving’s remarkable twelfth novel begins in 1954 and spans five decades. The drama begins when a 12-year-old small-town boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear, and he and his father become fugitives, on the run from the constable and the demons inside themselves. “Irving’s twelfth novel is full to bursting with story, character, and emotion. . . . At once a moving portrait of a father-and-son relationship, a homage to a quintessentially American fortitude forged by treacherous work and scant wages, and a tribute to the bonds of friendship, it offers multiple, beautifully written set pieces on grief, love, food, and family.” —Booklist, starred review For author video and interview, go to: www.tinyurl.com/y15237r Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6384-0 | 576pp. | $28.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $14.00
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP By John Irving Irving’s classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her time. “Nothing in contemporary fiction matches it. . . . Irving’s blend of gravity and play is unique, audacious, almost blasphemous. . . . [B]rilliant, funny, and consistently wise; a work of vast talent.”—New Republic Ballantine | MM | 978-0-345-36676-4 | 624pp. | $7.99/$10.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-41801-2 | 528pp. | $16.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
ALSO BY JOHN IRVING THE CIDER HOUSE RULES Ballantine | TR 978-0-345-41794-7 640pp. | $16.00/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY: A Novel
A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR: A Novel
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About the Author JOHN IRVING published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Examination copies may be ordered online with a credit card at www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy
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SHADOW COUNTRY By Peter Matthiessen
• A 2008 National Book Award Winner
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eter Matthiessen’s great American epic—Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall text and collapsed the time frame while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. In Shadow Country, he has marvelously distilled a monumental work, realizing his original vision. Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.
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Shadow Country traverses strange landscapes and frontier hinterlands inhabited by Americans of every provenance and color, including the black and Indian inheritors of the archaic racism that, as Watson’s wife observed, “still casts its shadow over the nation.” Peter Matthiessen’s lyrical and illuminating work in the Watson narrative has been praised highly by such contemporaries as Saul Bellow, William Styron, and W. S. Merwin. Joseph Heller said “I read it in great gulps, up each night later than I wanted to be, in my hungry impatience to find out more and more.” “In every way, Shadow Country is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth—as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.” —The New York Review of Books
About the Author PETER MATTHIESSEN has written eight novels and also a book of short stories. His parallel career as a naturalist and environmental activist has produced numerous acclaimed works of nonfiction, most of them serialized in The New Yorker. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1974.
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LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN A Novel By Colum McCann • A 2009 National Book Award Winner • A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection • A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
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n the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.
Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
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“Mesmerizing . . . A Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day. . . . ” —Seattle Times
About the Author COLUM MCCANN is the National Book Award-winning and internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. Examination copies may be ordered online with a credit card at www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy
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BOOKS BY AZAR NAFISI
Paperback Forthcoming March 2010
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN: A Memoir in Books
THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter
By Azar Nafisi
By Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday).
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Paperback Forthcoming March 2010. Do not order before 3/1/2010. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7390-7 | 368pp. $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
About the Author AZAR NAFISI is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil and left Iran for America in 1997. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic, and is the author of Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels.
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BOOKS BY LISA SEE
Paperback Forthcoming February 2010
SHANGHAI GIRLS: A Novel
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN: A Novel
By Lisa See
By Lisa See
A fascinating new novel from author Lisa See about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in America while bound to the old.
• A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
“A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood.” —Booklist “See is masterly in her powerful depictions of the prejudice and harsh treatment the sisters encounter as they try to assimilate into the strange new world of Los Angeles. Possibly the best book yet from the author of Peony in Love; highly recommended. “ —Library Journal
This acclaimed novel by bestselling author Lisa See is told by 80-year-old Lady Lu, looking back over her life and the trials she endured with Snow Flower, her “old same,” with whom she communicated secretly throughout her oppressive life in China. This is a moving exploration of the power of memory, the dangers of oppression, and the redemptive powers of language. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6806-4 | 288pp. $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6711-4 | 336pp. $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
Paperback forthcoming February 2010. Do not order before 2/2/2010. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8053-0 | 336pp. $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
About the Author LISA SEE is the New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. The Organization of Chinese American Women named her the 2001 National Woman of the Year. She lives in Los Angeles.
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THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows • Selected for SaratogaReads! 2009-10 • A Library Journal Best Book of 2008 • A 2008 Washington Post Best Book
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wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. . . . As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society— born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
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Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. “[A] marvelous debut. . . . Reminiscent of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road, this is a warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining celebration of the power of the written word.” —Library Journal
About the Authors MARY ANN SHAFFER who passed away in February 2008, worked as an editor, librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel. Her niece, ANNIE BARROWS, is the author of the children’s series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half.
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THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS By Rebecca Skloot
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er name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though Henrietta has been dead for nearly sixty years. They were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of the atom bomb; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.
Forthcoming February 2010
Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to the small, dying town of Clover, Virginia —a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta’s children, unable to afford health insurance, wrestle with feelings of pride, fear, and betrayal. Their story is inextricably linked to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles that could determine whether we own the stuff we are made of. “An ideal book for classroom discussions in bioethics, history of science, and journalism. . . . An incredibly readable and smart text that should be a part of countless university discussions.” —Deborah Blum, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Do not order before 2/2/2010 Crown | HC 978-1-4000-5217-2 | 384pp. $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00 Recommended for courses in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Journalism, African-American Literature, Women’s Literature, and Science Writing
About the Author REBECCA SKLOOT teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis. She has worked as a correspondent for NPR’s RadioLab and PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere. For more information, visit www.Rebeccaskloot.com.
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OLIVE KITTERIDGE
Winner of the
By Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize • A 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner • A Library Journal Best Book of 2008
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t times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life—sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition—its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
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“Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force . . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air.” —The New Yorker
“Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.” —San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of Abide with Me, a national bestseller and Book Sense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is on the faculty of the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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BOOKS BY KURT VONNEGUT
NEW LOOK AT THE BIRDIE: Unpublished Short Fiction
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE: A Novel
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post—World War II America—a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
One of Vonnegut’s most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth’s ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.
Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33384-9 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit. Illustrated by author. Delacorte Press | HC | 978-0-385-34371-8 272pp. | $27.00/$33.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50
CAT’S CRADLE: A Novel
ALSO BY KURT VONNEGUT BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS OR GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY!: A Novel Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33420-4 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE SIRENS OF TITAN: A Novel Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33349-8 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
GALÁPAGOS: A NOVEL
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: Stories
Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33387-0 336pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33350-4 352pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
MOTHER NIGHT: A Novel
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Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33414-3 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
About the Author KURT VONNEGUT was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as “a true artist” with the publication of Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Complete Works By William Shakespeare; Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen
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rom the world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company, the first authoritative, modernized, and corrected edition of Shakespeare’s First Folio in three centuries. Skillfully assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.
Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century. Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike. Praise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works
Modern Library | HC 978-0-679-64295-4 | 2560pp. $65.00/$75.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $32.50
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“Timely, original, and beautifully conceived, this is a remarkable edition, one that makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro, Professor, Columbia University and author of 1599: A Year in the Life of Shakespeare
“Bate’s edition is incomparably superior to all the rest. His knowledge of textual problems and previous commentary seems to me prodigious in its detail and thoroughness; see, for example, what he says about successive early texts of Richard III. And his comments on individual plays are unfailingly perceptive. He’s about equally fine as scholar and critic; few excel in both roles, with their very different requirements. Bate is like an all-star shortstop who can also serve as an outstanding relief pitcher. . . . No other edition has ever impressed me so much.” —Joseph Sobran, author of William Shakespeare, Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time
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New Shakespeare Editions from Modern Library Modern Library has launched a major, new series of individual paperback plays from the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by acclaimed Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (William Shakespeare: Complete Works). visit: www.therscshakespeare.com
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6918-4 256pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
HAMLET Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6909-2 272pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
HENRY IV, PART 2
MACBETH
OTHELLO
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KING LEAR
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
RICHARD III
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HENRY IV, PART 1
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
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Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6912-2 208pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6917-7 208pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6913-9 272pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
ROMEO AND JULIET Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6921-4 240pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
THE SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6920-7 400pp. | $6.95/$7.95 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
THE TEMPEST Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6910-8 192pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
THE WINTER’S TALE Modern Library | TR 978-0-8129-6919-1 240pp. | $5.95/$6.99 Can. Exam Copy: $3.00
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MODERN LIBRARY
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THE CANTERBURY TALES By Geoffrey Chaucer Translated by Burton Raffel Introduction by John Miles Foley “A delight . . . provides more opportunities to savor the counterpoint of Chaucer’s earthy humor against passages of piercingly beautiful lyric poetry.” —Kirkus Reviews Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7845-2 672pp. | $17.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD By Charles Dickens Introduction by Matthew Pearl The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood’s lugubrious uncle, who coveted Rosa. Or did Drood orchestrate his own disappearance? As Charles Dickens died before finishing the book, the ending is intriguingly ambiguous. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-8045-5 400pp. | $12.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING. . . By Ralph Ellison Edited by John Callahan and Adam Bradley Unadorned and unedited, with supporting notes, introductions, and other scholarly material included for interested readers and scholars, here is the definitive version of the final work of American legend Ralph Ellison. Modern Library | HC | 978-0-375-75953-6 1136pp. | $50.00/$62.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $25.00
THE ADVENTURES OF AMIR HAMZA By Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami Translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s brilliant and widely acclaimed new translation, here is the first complete English rendition of a major Islamic epic that has captivated Arab and Indo-Persian audiences for centuries. It is thestory of Amir Hamza, the great adventurer who travels to exotic lands for his Persian Emperor. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7743-1 992pp. | $25.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
PARADISE LOST By John Milton Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition of Milton’s epic poem reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial Introduction, fresh commentary, and other features—annotations on Milton’s classical allusions, a chronology of the writer’s life, clean page layouts, and an index—that make it the definitive 21st-century presentation of John Milton’s timeless signature work. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75796-9 512pp. | $11.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES By L.M. Montgomery Introduction by Jack Zipes When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with nothing but a carpetbag and an over active imagination, she knows that she has found her home. But first she must convince the Cuthberts to let her stay, even though she isn’t the boy they’d hoped for. Includes an introduction by the noted children’s literature scholar Jack Zipes. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7903-9 320pp. | $8.00/$10.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE SOUTHERN WOMAN: Selected Fiction By Elizabeth Spencer Elizabeth Spencer firmly claims her place in the long heritage of the Southern short story with “a retrospective collection of 27 stories, written over a period of more than half a century, by a Southern writer whose best fiction merits comparison with the work of Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty . . . An excellent introduction to a substantial and distinctive oeuvre.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-8076-9 480pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE BELLY OF PARIS By Émile Zola Translated by Mark Kurlansky New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky’s deft translation brings new life to Emile Zola’s rich characters andstunning depiction of Les Halles, the food markets of 1850s Paris. The Belly of Paris is the dramatic story of Florent Quenu, a convict who has miraculously escaped imprisonment on Devil’s Island after being falsely accused of a killingduring a political demonstration. Back in Paris after his long confinement, Florent moves in with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market.
LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS: A Haitian Trilogy
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7422-5 368pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
By Marie Vieux-Chauvet Translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
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Marie Chauvet’s classic trilogy of three linked novellas is available in English for the first time, with an introduction by Edwidge Danticat. Suppressed immediately upon its initial French publication in 1968 and finally released in France in 2005, Love, Anger, and Madness is a scathing, visceral commentary not only on the oppressive regime but also the powerful racial, sexual, and class struggles that have long ruled Haiti. Time and again, scholars and readers of Haitian and French literature rank Chauvet as a major literary voice, which was confirmed when she was posthumously awarded the Prix Deschamps.
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7426-3 1376pp. | $18.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Modern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64351-7 416pp. | $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.75
LES MISÉRABLES By Victor Hugo Translated by Julie Rose
THE PRINCE By Niccolo Machiavelli Translated by Peter Constantine Introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7805-6 160pp. | $8.00/$10.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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MELVILLE HOUSE
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Melville House Publishing is an independent publishing house born out of the book blog MobyLives. They have built a list of good, solid literature, especially literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. They also have created the Art of the Novella series, showcasing some of the finest novellas ever published.
UNION JACK By Imre Kertész; Translated by Tim Wilkinson An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising’s brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, he recalls his unformed, youthful self, andlocates the moments of his intellectual and spiritual awakening—an awakening to a kind of radical subjectivity. Melville House | TR | 978-1-933633-87-9 | 80pp. | $13.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NEW BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER By Herman Melville Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world, Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City’s Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville’s most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, “I would prefer not to”? Melville House | TR | 978-0-974-60780-1 | 80pp. | $10.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
TALES OF BELKIN By Alexander Pushkin First published in 1830, Alexander Pushkin’s Tales of Belkin contains his first prose works, comprised of an introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by the scholar Ivan Belkin. Centering variously on military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian life. Melville House | TR | 978-1-933-63373-2 | 112pp. $10.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NEW THE BLINDFOLD TEST By Barry Schechter Ever since Jeffrey Parker attended one antiwar rally, he has had the worst luck: a life of bad jobs, broken relationships, and bizarre occurrences. Then he discovers it’s all been a government plot orchestrated by a rogue FBI agent obsessed with him. The Blindfold Test is a hysterical comedy which forces Parker and readers to uncover the truth not only about their country, but about themselves. Melville House | TR | 978-1-93363-374-9 | 272pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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A HAPPY MAN By Hansjorg Schertenleib; Translated by David Dollenmayer Is it possible to write compellingly about a happy person? Yes, because even happy people are surrounded by unhappy people. It’s not as if the hero of this book is a pleasant but unaware zombie. He’s a quirky jazz musician, but with a depressed wife and a rebellious daughter. They find his contentedness more and more irritating. Yet he just can’t help it—life makes him happy. Melville House | TR | 978-1-93363-381-7 | 192pp. | $13.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NEW LUCINELLA By Lore Segal A cult classic first published in the 1970’s, Lucinella is still as fresh as ever: the story of the whimsical poet Lucinella and her adventures among the literati. These pampered, complaining writer’s wonder what will put their lives in order. Lucinella and her circle busily go to parties and writers colonies and watch one another ‘s lives closely for signs of happiness, love and despair. Segal depicts it all with a perfect blend of love and malice. Melville House | TR | 978-1-93363-379-4 | 160pp. | $13.00/$16.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
NEW THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH By Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Ian Dreiblatt Written eight years after Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilych is the tale of a judge who slowly comes to understand that his illness is fatal. It’s a study on the acceptance of mortality only deepened by the death, during its writing, of one of Tolstoy’s own young children. The final result represents perhaps the most keenly realized melding of Tolstoy’s spirituality with his artistic skills. Melville House | TR | 978-1-93363-354-1 | 128pp. | $10.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE DEVIL By Leo Tolstoy; Translated by Louise Maude and Alymer Maude The Devil may be the most personally revealing—and startling—fiction Tolstoy ever wrote. Perhaps that’s because the gripping tale of an aristocrat overcome with unrelenting desire for one of the peasants on his estate was strikingly similar to an affair Tolstoy himself had. Regardless, the tale is a scintillating study of sexual attraction and human obsession. Melville House | TR | 978-0-974-60783-2 | 98pp. | $9.00/$13.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
EVERY MAN DIES ALONE by Hans Fallada; Translated by Michael Hofmann • A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
“[A] grim, powerful, epic portrait of life in Germnay under Nazi rule. Fallada keeps readers engaged with passionate prose that rushes events along at a thriller-like pace . . . A welcome resurrection for a great writer crucified by history.”—Kirkus Reviews The “signal literary event of 2009.”—The New York Times Book Review Melville House | TR | 978-1-933633-63-3 | 544 pp. | HC | $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.75 ALSO AVAILABLE BY HANS FALLADA: The Drinker Translated by Charlotte Lloyd and A.L. Lloyd Melville House | TR | 978-1-933633-65-7 | 320 pp. | TR | $16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Little Man, What Now? Translated by Susan Bennett Melville House | TR | 978-1-933633-64-0 | 352 pp. | TR | $16.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS www.nybooks.com/nyrb New York Review Books publishes a designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. NYRB Classics are, to a large degree, discoveries, the kind of books that people typically run into outside of the classroom and then remember for life. They may be considered a series of books of unrivaled variety and quality for discerning and adventurous readers.
EVERYTHING FLOWS By Vasily Grossman; Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler and Anna Aslanyan; Introduction by Robert Chandler
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This last novel by Vasily Grossman, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his extraordinary epic of besieged Stalingrad, Life and Fate, is about a man released after thirty years in the Soviet camps struggling to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. It is a testament of unequaled conviction to the horrors of oppression and the elation of liberty. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-173282 | 256pp. | $15.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SHORT LETTER, LONG FAREWELL By Peter Handke; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Introduction by Greil Marcus Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. In this spare and dreamlike novel, a young Austrian alternately pursues and flees his exwife, culminating in a Hollywood ending. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17306-0 | 192pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
VICTORINE By Maude Hutchins; Introduction by Terry Castle A sexual awakening novel that mixes elements of Adleran psychology, surrealism, and the American pastoral. “Hutchins writes like a lascivious I. Compton-Burnett.” —Time NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17270-4 | 208pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SOUL OF WOOD By Jakov Lind; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Introduction by Michael Kruger
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In the title novella and six stories here, Lind deals masterfully with a world of horror through fantasy, paradox, and sardonic distortion and brings to life the agonies of twentieth-century Europe. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17330-5 | 208pp. | $14.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE FORTUNES OF WAR: The Balkan Trilogy By Olivia Manning; Introduction by Rachel Cusk The Fortunes of War is a teeming, complex, and rich novel, alive with the uncertainty and adventure of civilian life during wartime. Manning’s mastery of the long form allows her to expand both outward and inward, tackling complexities of world politics and interpersonal relationships with equal panache. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17331-2 | 928pp. | $22.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $11.50
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THE WEDDING OF ZEIN By Tayeb Salih Introduction by Hisham Matar
Forthcoming in February 2010
A comic and redemptive story of an unlikely marriage, told through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of villagers. Salih’s classic novella appears with two of his finest short stories, “The Doum Tree of Wad Hamid” and “A Handful of Dates.” Do not order before 2/16/2010 NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17342-8 | 144pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE COMPANY THEY KEPT: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships Edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein From Anna Akhmatova’s description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky’s account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W.H. Auden), here is a collection of 27 accounts of the deep and abiding relationships many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had with each other. New York Review Books | TR | 978-1-5901-73343 | 316pp. | $19.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE QUEUE By Vladimir Sorokin; Translated by Sally Laird Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” “A brilliant set piece, conveying the absurdity, the dehumanization and, above all, the inevitability of waiting in line.”—Publishers Weekly NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17274-2 | 280pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
BELCHAMBER By Howard Sturgis; Introduction by Edmund White; Afterword by E. M. Forster “A story about moral choices. . . . it poses questions about good and bad behaviour and demonstrates effectively that virtue is rarely its own reward.” —Anita Brookner NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17266-7 | 368pp. | $15.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE COMPLETE FICTION By Francis Wyndham; Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst The earliest stories here, gathered under the title Out of the War, are brilliant vignettes of deprivation and desire written during World War II. “ . . . This is fiction of outstanding quality, short stories on the whole, posed somewhere between Henry James and Jane Austen.”—Los Angeles Times NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-590-17312-1 | 360pp. | $16.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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www.otherpress.com Other Press attracts authors who are guided by a passion to discover the limits of knowledge and imagination. We publish novels, short stories, poetry, and essays from America and around the world that represent literature at its best. Our nonfiction books—should they be history, current events, popular culture or memoir—explore how psychic, cultural, historical, and literary shifts inform our vision of the world and of each other.
“DEAREST GEORG”: Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 By Vesa Canetti and Elias Canetti; Edited by Karen Lauer and Kristian Wachinger
Forthcoming in February 2010
Spanning the major part of Elias’s struggle for literary recognition, from 1933, before the publication of his novel, Auto-da-Fé, to 1959, when he finished his monumental Crowds and Power, the Canetti letters provide an intimate look at these formative years through the prism of a veritable love triangle. Do not order before 2/2/2010 Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51297-5 | 200pp. | $24.95/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
WE ARE RICH By Dori Carter Written as a novel in stories, Dori Carter’s social satire gets into the hearts and souls of her characters, and presents a fresh look at our attitudes toward money and the ever-shifting nature of status in America. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51307-1 | 208pp. | $22.95/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50
UNCONFESSED: A Novel By Yvette Christiansë • PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force, an epic novel that connects the reader to the unimaginable through the force of poetry and a far-reaching imagination. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51281-4 | 360pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE LAST DAYS OF THE LACUNA CABAL: A Novel By Sean Dixon The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal is an offbeat rites-of-passage novel whose characters live out literature with ferocity and passion. It is a funny, quixotic debut that follows the members of a shallow, squabbling, time-wasting, protracted-adolescent book club as they find themselves transformed through the alchemy of the storyteller’s art. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-513125 | 304pp. | $15.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE AMERICAN GIRL By Monika Fagerholm
Forthcoming in February 2010
In 1969, a young American girl’s death in the swamps on the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland becomes part of local mythology, furnishing two girls with fodder for endless romantic imaginings. Part crime mystery and gothic saga, as well as a portrait of the psyche of young girls on the cusp of sexual awakening, here is a bewitching glimpse of the human capacity for survival and for self-inflicted wounds. Do not order before 2/16/2010. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-513040 | 512pp. | $15.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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BEG, BORROW, STEAL: A Writer’s Life By Michael Greenberg
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In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women’s department store; writing about golf, a game he has never played; and botching his debut as a waiter in a posh restaurant. Hilarious and bittersweet, Greenberg’s stories invite us into a world where the familial, the literary, the tragic and the mundane not only speak to one another, but deeply enjoy the exchange. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51341-5 | 232pp. | $19.95/$24.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
THE UNIT By Ninni Holmqvist; Translated by Marlaine Delargy • A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
The Unit is a gripping exploration of a society in the throes of an experiment, in which the “dispensable” ones are convinced under gentle coercion of the importance of sacrificing for the “necessary” ones. Ninni Holmqvist has created a debut novel of humor, sorrow, and rage about love, the close bonds of friendship, and about a cynical, utilitarian way of thinking disguised as care. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51313-2 | 272pp. | $14.95/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE PATIENCE STONE By Atiq Rahimi
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“For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. Until now. With The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman—and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions . . . it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It is without doubt an important and courageous book.” from the introduction by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51344-6 | 154pp. | $16.95/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $8.50
MERCY: A Novel By Lara Santoro With a swift, compressed narrative style and compassionate vision that recalls the works of Graham Greene, Lara Santoro offers an indelible portrait of Africa in the throes of an epidemic that will ultimately constitute the largest loss of life, love, memory, and hope in modern history. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51271-5 | 288pp. | $23.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00
FAREWELL SHANGHAI: A Novel By Angel Wagenstein; Translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova Farewell Shanghai is a fictional account of four refugees who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. Master storyteller Angel Wagenstein crafts an intense narrative of life and death, passionate love, and profound courage against the backdrop of the war and the millions of lives caught up in it. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51308-8 | 400pp. | $13.95/$15.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS
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For more than a third of a century, Shambhala Publications has been devoted to the magic, craft, and business of books. We’ve published hundreds of titles over the years and built a strong backlist of Buddhist, Judaica, and spiritual titles, including the works of Chögyam Trungpa and Pema Chödrön.
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF SAPPHO Edited by Willis Barnstone By the prize-winning poet and translator Willis Barnstone, this modern translation renders the delicacy and tenderness of Sappho’s poems, with a wealth of materials for understanding her work. Includes: extensive notes; a special section of “Testimonia”: appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch; a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems; and suggestions for further reading. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-590-30613-0 | 224pp. | $16.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: Bilingual Edition By Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Willis Barnstone Numerous poets have sought to bring these striking poems into English, with varying degrees of success. Willis Barnstone brings an approach honed through years of work on the philosophy of translation, about which he has written extensively, with a special concern for the creative balance between faithfulness to both the literal and the underlying meanings of a text. This dual-language edition allows the reader to compare versions face-to-face to get a clearer sense of the nuances of the translation. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-590-30152-4 | 240pp. | $14.00/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE GNOSTIC BIBLE: Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer This expanded edition of The Gnostic Bible includes the Gospel of Judas—the recently discovered and translated gnostic text that was an instant best seller on its original appearance in 2006—in its most accessible translation yet. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-59030-631-4 | 896pp. | $29.95/$37.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00
HAIKU: An Anthology of Japanese Poems By Stephen Addiss; Edited by Fumiko Y. Yamamoto and Akira Y. Yamamoto Haiku is a stunning celebration of the art form, with poems spanning from the 17th- and 18th-century to the late 20th century. This anthology brings together the most important poets in the haiku tradition—including Basho, Buson, and Issa—while adding surprising and little-known Japanese poets to enrich the collection. Shambhala | HC | 978-1-590-30730-4 | 208pp. | $18.95/$23.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.50
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NIKOLSKI: A Novel By Nicolas Dickner Translated by Lazer Lederhendler A charming and unique novel, Nikolski follows three characters as they search for home and ultimately break free from their families in order to live authentically. Trumpeter | TR | 978-1-590-30714-4 | 304pp. | $14.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
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By Han Shan; Translated by J.P. Seaton Cold Mountain Poems offers the incomparable poetry of Han Shan and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, newly translated and annotated by premier translator J. P. Seaton. Shambhala | HC | 978-1-590-30646-8 | 192pp. | $18.95/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.50
SIDDHARTHA By Hermann Hesse; Translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn This edition of Siddhartha offers a fresh translation that conveys the philosophical and spiritual nuances of Hesse’s text, paying special attention to the qualities of meditation experience. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-570-62721-7 | 112pp. | $11.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2009 Edited by Melvin McLeod The Best Buddhist Writing 2009 offers an eclectic mix of writing styles on a wide range of issues from a Buddhist point of view. Included are pieces by the Dalai Lama, Natalie Goldberg, Ruth L. Ozeki, Norman Fischer, John Tarrant, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Jack Kornfield, Susan Piver, Liza Dalby, Alan Weisman, Pema Chödrön, the Seventeenth Karmapa, Gabriel Cohen, Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche, Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward, John Welwood, Tom Robbins, John Daido Loori, Gehlek Rinpoche, Joan Sutherland, and Rabbi Rami Shapiro. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-590-30734-2 | 336pp. | $17.95/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
WALDEN By Henry David Thoreau; Foreword by Michael McCurdy This classic chronicle of Thoreau’s communion with nature is brought to new life with exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. “Michael McCurdy’s woodcuts are to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden as Rockwell Kent’s images are to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. We experience a perfect conversation between the writer and the artist. There is a quiet restraint within each woodcut. Nothing extra. In the spare, raw beauty of McCurdy’s images, he takes Thoreau’s philosophy, ‘simplify, simplify,’ and lays it bare. If one can hold the grace of a good life in hand, McCurdy’s work makes that experience possible. Each print becomes a window where we can view those moments in a private life, a transcendence through beauty.” —Terry Tempest Williams Shambhala | HC | 978-1-590-30638-3 | 496pp. | $18.95/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $9.50
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When four partners launched Steerforth Press in 1994, its first catalog featured “Manifesto for a New Press” which declared “Our interests fall into no category, no field, no niche; our tests of a book’s worth are whether it has been written well, is intended to engage the full attention of the reader, and has something new or important to say.” Our commitment to high quality general interest fiction and nonfiction has been unwavering.
www.steerforth.com AYN RAND FOR BEGINNERS By Andrew Bernstein; Illustrated by Owen Brozman
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Despite her contributions to the literary canon and the progression of philosophy, there has been no simple, comprehensive introduction to Ayn Rand’s books and ideas, until now. Ayn Rand For Beginners sheds new light on Rand’s monumental works and robust philosophy. In clear, down-toearth language, it explains Rand to a new generation of students in a manner that is entertaining, easy to read and comprehend. For Beginners | TR | 978-1-9343-8937-9 | 112pp. | $14.99/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ALL THAT I HAVE: A Novel By Castle Freeman In All That I Have, a sheriff confronts a series of trials that test his work, his marriage, and the settled order of his life. Wing is an experienced, practical man who enforces the law in his corner of Vermont with a steady hand and a generous tolerance. Things are not as they should be, however, in the sheriff’s small, protected domain. The outside world draws near, and threats multiply: the arrival in the district of a band of exotic, major league criminals; an ambitious and aggressive deputy; the self-destructive exploits of a local bad boy; Wing’s discovery of a domestic crisis. The sheriff’s response to these diverse challenges calls on all the personal resources he has cultivated during his working life: patience, tact, and (especially) humor. Steerforth | TR | 978-1-586-42151-9 | 176pp. | $13.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
GO WITH ME: A Novel By Castle Freeman The Vermont hill country is the stark, vivid setting for this gripping story of bold determination. The local villain, Blackway, is making life hellish for Lillian, a young woman from parts elsewhere. Her boyfriend has fled the state in fear, and local law enforcement can do nothing to protect her. She resolves, however, to stand her ground, and to fight back. In this modern-day drama, a kind of Greek chorus—enriches the telling of this unforgettable tale as the reader follows the threesome’s progress on their dangerous, suspenseful quest. “A small masterpiece of black comedy and suspense about a trio of backwoods heroes who embark upon a modern-day quest.”—Kirkus Reviews Steerforth | HC | 978-1-586-42139-7 | 176pp. | $21.95/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00
THE LAST DAY: A Novel By James Landis
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The Last Day is the powerful, redemptive story of a young U.S. Army sniper freshly returned from the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire. Armed with a sniper’s rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease travels across ideological borders and earns an appreciation for his enemy’s culture and for what connects us all as human beings. Upon returning home, he spends an entire day with Jesus visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes, and a willing heart. This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war and poetry in a way that is wholly original, and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families. Steerforth | TR | 978-1-5864-2165-6 | 304pp. | $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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ZOLAND POETRY: An Annual of Poems, Translations and Interviews - Volume One Edited by Roland Pease Zoland Poetry is a new annual volume of contemporary writing from around the globe, bringing together original English-language poems, translations into English, and interviews with featured poets. Includes poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis, Hugo Mujica, Ange Mlinko, Rachel Loden, Charles North, Barbara Jane Reyes, Raymond Queneau, and more. The online arm of the project—www.zolandpoetry.com—expands and updates work in the annual by including quarterly book reviews of recent poetry collections from here and abroad, original language material for the works in translation, translator essays and notes, and audio clips of select poets. Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-5819-5221-6 | 272pp. | $17.00/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ZOLAND POETRY: Volume Two Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-5819-5224-7| 248pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ZOLAND POETRY: Volume Three Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-581-95229-2 | 240pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Forthcoming in March 2010
ZOLAND POETRY: Volume Four Do not order before 3/23/2010 Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-581-95233-9 | 264pp. | $17.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE BOOK OF GETTING EVEN: A Novel By Benjamin Taylor “This elegiac novel features the long, tragic friendship of three young people coming of age in the 1970s.”—Library Journal Steerforth | HC | 978-1-5864-21434 | 176pp. | $23.95/$27.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.00
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL: A Novel By Benjamin Taylor The strange hothouse world of Galveston Island, Texas, has been good to the Mehmels, German Jewish immigrants who prosper there in the late nineteenth century, and whose second generation is still flush as the century turns. But destruction—moral and natural, including the great hurricane that nearly destroyed the city—is not far off, and for bookish, fourteen-year-old grandson Felix, last of the line, salvation lies in self-discovery. Pried away from his Ovid and Virgil, he is seduced by the rough, handsome bully who has long taunted him. And over the sultry summer of 1907, he asserts his independence and launches into manhood even as his family’s morale, sanity, and fortunes wane. Erotic as it is exalted, defiantly comic as it is sad, Tales Out of School is a timeless novel by a masterful contemporary writer. Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-5819-5227-8 | 304pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
PLAYING HOUSE: A Novel By Fredrica Wagman; Foreword by Philip Roth In his foreword Philip Roth writes, “The traumatized child; the institutionalized wife; the haunting desire; the ghastly business of getting through the day—what is striking about Wagman’s treatment of these contemporary motifs is the voice of longing in which the heroine shamelessly confesses to the incestuous need that is at once her undoing and her only hope.” Zoland Books | TR | 978-1-581-95225-4 | 176pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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GRAPHIC NOVELS “Many people tend to dismiss comics as lowbrow and juvenile but, in fact, comics are a complicated format that can express ideas, create characters, address issues, and tell stories in ways unmatched by other forms, such as literature and film. Because comics are both textual and visual…they can explore the rich ground upon which these two means of expression collide. In my classes I always try to use at least some comic book material, be it a complete work or an excerpt.” —Dr. Rocco Versaci, English Department, Palomar College
www.dccomics.com WATCHMEN By Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons • Winner of the Hugo Award • One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Novels
On the run from the law, half-insane hero Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet. Following two generations of masked superheroes from the close of World War II to the icy shadow of the Cold War comes this groundbreaking comic story—the story of The Watchmen. DC Comics | TR | 978-0-930-28923-2 | 416pp. | $19.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE ALCOHOLIC
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By Jonathan Ames; Illustrated by Dean Haspiel Acclaimed novelist Jonathan Ames’s touching, compassionate, and ultimately humorous story explores the heart of a failing writer who’s coming off a doomed romance and searching for hope. Unfortunately, the first place his search takes him is the bottom of a bottle as he careens from one off-kilter encounter to another in search of himself. Vertigo | TR | 978-1-4012-1057-1 | 136pp. $14.99/$18.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
INCOGNEGRO: A GRAPHIC MYSTERY By Mat Johnson; Illustrated by Warren Pleece • A 2009 Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novel
Writer Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America. Vertigo | TR | 978-1-401-21098-4 | 136pp. | $14.99/$16.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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www.dccomics.com/vertigo V FOR VENDETTA By Alan Moore; Illustrated by David Lloyd A new trade paperback edition of the graphic novel that inspired the movie. A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. Vertigo | TR | 978-1-4012-0841-7 | 296pp. | $19.99/$22.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
Villard Books AMERICAN WIDOW By Alissa Torres; Illustrated by Sungyoon Choi Beautifully and thoughtfully illustrated, American Widow is the affecting account of one woman’s journey through shock, pain, birth, and rebirth in the aftermath of the September 11th World Trade Center attack. Villard Books | HC | 978-0-345-50069-4 | 224pp. $22.00/$25.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00
PRIDE OF BAGHDAD By Brian K. Vaughan; Art by Niko Henrichon • Winner, IGN Award for Best Original Graphic Novel 2006
In the spring of 2003, a pride of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. Lost and confused, hungry but finally free, the four lions roamed the decimated streets of Baghdad in a desperate struggle to survive. In documenting the plight of the lions, Pride of Baghdad raises questions about the true meaning of freedom. Inspired by a true story, Vaughan and artist Niko Henrichon (Barnum!) have created a unique window into the nature of life during wartime, illuminating this struggle as only the graphic novel can. Vertigo | TR | 978-1-401-20315-3 | 136pp. | $12.99/$15.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE: A Novel By Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia When Naser, a Saudi outsider, and a mysterious girl exchange letters and then plan to meet, he is led into a strange relationship of blossoming love and thwarted desire, fraught with danger. Relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the Wahhabist Islam of Saudi state rule, and it isn’t long before Naser’s very real though illicit love affair must face the hardest test of all. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6799-2 | 320pp. | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
GEORGE, BEING GEORGE: George Plimpton’s Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals—and a Few Unappreciative Observers
Now in Paperback
Edited by Nelson W. Aldrich A collection of private reflections on Plimpton’s life from such literary greats as William Styron, Norman Mailer, Calvin Trillin, Peter Matthiessen, and Gay Talese, as well as his close personal friends and family members. “Affecting . . . A largely admiring mosaic with some pieces that glisten and illuminate.” —Kirkus Reviews Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7418-8 | 432pp. | $18.00/$22.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS By Maya Angelou A modern American classic beloved worldwide, Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in 1969, captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8002-8 | 304pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine | MM | 978-0-345-51440-0 | 304pp. | $6.99/$8.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER By Maya Angelou
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-8003-5 | 192pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
MAP OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD: A Novel By Tash Aw With the same lyrical evocation of an exotic yet tumultuous world that made The Harmony Silk Factory an international debut literary sensation, comes a vivid depiction of postcolonial Indonesia that confirms Tash Aw as “a writer to watch” (San Francisco Chronicle). Here is the haunting tale of a 16-year-old orphan’s quest to find his adoptive father who has been seized as part of the government’s repatriation acts. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52796-5 | 336pp. | $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50
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THE STORY OF FORGETTING: A Novel By Stefan Merrill Block • Shortlisted for The 2008 Mercantile Library’s John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize • A 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults
The compelling story of a 70-year-old hermit who has lost his family, and a 15-year-old, whose mother has Alzheimer’s Disease, who were both told stories of a fantastical place free from the sorrows of remembrance that will yield life-altering revelations of the bonds that join the two. It’s a tale of how history can become destiny, the imagination can transform reality, and loss can forge profound meaning. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7982-4 | 352pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER: A Novel By Merlinda Bobis The magical and the humble collide in this extraordinary novel from the awardwinning author of Banana Heart Summer. When a mute boy in Manila whisks an American tourist injured in a drive-by shooting to the safety of the hut he shares with his mother, their lives are transformed, as the wounded guest’s presence sparks long-buried memories—and reignites in them the power of love. Delta | TR | 978-0-385-34113-4 | 272pp. | $14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN: A Novel By Charles Bock The mystery of a twelve-year-old Las Vegas boy’s disappearance weaves together the lives of seemingly unconnected strangers—an illustrator, a stripper, an anarchist teenager, a band of runaways. Capturing Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance, here is a deviously funny and unyielding portrait of a tragedy we cannot help but recognize as our own. “Exceptional. . . . This novel deserves to be read more than once. . . . ” —Washington Post Book World Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7796-7 | 432pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU: GROWING UP HAUNTED: A Memoir By Jennifer Finney Boylan I’m Looking Through You is a funny, unsettling memoir of growing up in a haunted house. In prose that Augusten Burroughs hailed as “beautifully crafted, fearless, painfully honest, and inspiring,” and Anna Quindlen described as “funny, astonishing, and smart,” Boylan, an English professor at Colby College, examines what it means to be haunted, and explores how we find connections between the people we once were and the people we become. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2175-6 | 288pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN: A Story of Love and Honor By Dana Canedy
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Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Dana Canedy delivers a fiercely honest letter to her son, Jordan, about his father who was killed in Iraq when Jordan was only seven months old. “Unflinching and thorough, Canedy offers a sense of shared grief with other families whose loved ones have died in the war.” —Publishers Weekly Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-39600-6 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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AMERICA AMERICA: A Novel By Ethan Canin From the national bestselling author of For Kings and Planets, The Palace Thief, and Carry Me Across the Water, “one of the most satisfying writers on the contemporary scene” (The New York Times), comes a stunning novel, set in the Nixon era and today, about America, a great family, a political tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7989-3 | 496pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
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Edited by Susannah Carson; Foreword by Harold Bloom For two centuries, Jane Austen has enthralled her readers. The essayists of this volume tell us why they read Austen, and while personal, their reflections also go a long way towards explaining the phenomenon of Austen’s permanent popularity. Contributors include contemporary greats like Amy Bloom, Jay McInerny, and Anna Quindlen, as well as classic writers like Virginia Woolf, C.S. Lewis, and Harold Bloom. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6805-0 | 320pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
THE GUARDIANS: A Novel By Ana Castillo • A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
“The Guardians, a surprising and powerful novel, captures the vulnerability and stark beauty of life in a small, bordertown. Castillo instills the voices of her four main characterswith such passion and humanity, their vitality practically crackles on the page. Unforgettable and timely, Castillo will charm you once again with her literary magic.”—Cristina García, author of A Handbook to Luck Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7571-0 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE: A Novel By Margaret Cezair-Thompson With Jamaica in a state of emergency, the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own, and their remembrances capture the grace, beauty, and brutality that are indelible parts of the Jamaican experience. Epic in scope, scored by a rich, lyrical patois, here is a “seductive . . . powerful . . . heartbreakingly rich, beautiful story whose characters hauntingly embody their country’s travail. A very accomplished debut.”—Kirkus Reviews Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7983-1 | 368pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
AWAIT YOUR REPLY: A Novel By Dan Chaon
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• A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
With characters ranging from a man who cannot stop searching for his missing twin brother to a recent high school graduate who escapes her small town with her former history teacher, to a young man who gets shocking news and decides to remake himself, the lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways—and with unexpected consequences—in this literary masterwork with the momentum of a thriller. Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-47602-9 | 336pp. | $25.00/$29.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
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BALLISTICS: Poems By Billy Collins
Now in Paperback
In this stunning new collection of poetry, two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins touches on a greater array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before. Ballistics comes at the reader full force with moving and playful takes on life. Drawing inspiration from the world around him and from such poetic forebears as Robert Frost, Paul Valéry, and eleventh-century poet Liu Yung, Collins drolly captures the essence of an ordinary afternoon, reflectson his solitude, or meditates on the effects of love. As Collins strives to find truth in the smallest detail, studentsare given a fascinating, intimate glimpse into the heart and soul of a brilliantly thoughtful man and exemplary poet. Do not order before 2/16/2010. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7561-1 | 128pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
GARDENS OF WATER: A Novel By Alan Drew • A 2008 School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults
Set in a small town outside Istanbul, Alan Drew’s “remarkable” (New York Times Book Review) novel tells the story of a man and his family whose lives are thrown into chaos when the earthquake of 1999 destroys their home and way of life. When this Muslim man’s daughter falls in love with an American boy whose father intercedes to help, the tensions between the two cultures, two fathers, two faiths, explode. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7844-5 | 368pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT: Adventures of a Global Citizen By Firoozeh Dumas
Now in Paperback
• Selected for the 2010 Common Reading Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
In the bestselling and classroom-adopted memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, new motherhood, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the human condition. Random House | TR | 978-0-345-49957-8 | 256pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 ALSO AVAILABLE BY FIROOZEH DUMAS: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6837-8 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SACRED HEARTS: A Novel
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By Sarah Dunant In the bestselling tradition of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan, comes yet another set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy. Both a love story and an engrossing depiction of life in a cloistered community, this novel describes a sixteenth-century northern Italian convent that is disrupted by the arrival of a sixteen-year-old girl, confined against her will for the rest of her life. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6382-6 | 432pp. | $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50 ALSO AVAILABLE BY SARAH DUNANT: The Birth of Venus TR | 978-0-8129-6897-2 | 448pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 In the Company of a Courtesan TR | 978-0-8129-7404-1 | 400pp. | $13.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS 2010 Edited by Gerald Early and Randall Kennedy
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Here is the second volume in a new annual series showcasing each year’s best African American essays. Includes essays by writers ranging from Barack Obama to Colson Whitehead, Rita Dove to Margo Jefferson. One World | TR | 978-0-553-38537-3 | 400pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2010
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Edited by Gerald Early and Nikki Giovanni In the critically acclaimed tradition of last year’s edition, which was touted as a “treasure trove of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews) and a “masterful bouquet of literary flowers” (Publishers Weekly), comes the second volume in our new series showcasing each year’s best African American fiction. It includes Edwidge Danticat’s short story, “Ghost,” an excerpt from Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains, and works by John Edgar Wideman, Amina Gautier, and more. One World | TR | 978-0-553-38535-9 | 320pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE 19th WIFE: A Novel By David Ebershoff From the acclaimed author of The Danish Girl and Pasadena, here is a masterful novel set in the world of the Mormon Church, and in a strange modern polygamous sect, that intertwines a fictional memoir by Brigham Young’s nineteenth wife and a contemporary murder mystery about a woman accused of murdering her polygamist husband. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7415-7 | 544pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET By Jamie Ford
Now in Paperback
• Selected for the 2010 Schenectady One County, One Book Program
“Jamie Ford’s first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.” —Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Ballantine | TR | 978-0-345-50534-7 | 320pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
THE FOLDED WORLD: A Novel By Amity Gaige Charlie is an idealistic young social worker drawn into the lives of his mentally ill clients. Alice is a bookish young woman who hasn’t yet tried to reach, let alone cross, the boundaries of her potential. A new husband and father, Charlie risks his own cherished domestic world to try and help his clients beyond their haunted inner worlds into the larger world of love and connection. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7854-4 | 320pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN By Ernest J. Gaines “In this woman, Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.” —Newsweek Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-34278-0 | 272pp. | $13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE MULE By Juan Eslava Galan; Translated by Lisa Dillman Juan Castro Pérez is a simple muleteer caught in the brutal Spanish Civil War, never far from his closest companion—a mule named Valentina. In his attempt to protect Valentina, Juan unwittingly “fights” for both sides of the war and becomes a reluctant and unlikely hero of the people. “Galán’s portrait of war’s brutality and absurdity echoes both Hemingway and Heller. . . . ” —Kirkus Reviews Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38508-3 | 304pp. | $12.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
UNFINISHED DESIRES: A Novel By Gail Godwin
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From three time National Book Award finalist and beloved New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin; literary commercial fiction at its best, for readers of her classics such as Evensong and The Finishing School Gail Godwin’s sweeping, beautiful new novel profiles the friendships and tragedies of the Class of 1954 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, a Catholic school for girls in the mountains of North Carolina, as seen through the eyes of Mother Suzanne Ravenel. Random House | HC | 978-0-345-48320-1 | 416pp. | $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
THE BODY BROKEN: A Memoir By Lynne Greenberg In this powerful memoir, university professor and poetry scholar Lynne Greenberg describes her personal struggle of coping with chronic pain. From her frustration with doctors who could not relieve her suffering to her inspiring journey back to a productive and satisfying life, this visceral, lyrical account is a remarkable story of the courage and resilience of the human spirit and the power of putting mind over matter. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6742-8 | 240pp. | $25.00/$28.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
THE BLACK BOOK: 35th Anniversary Edition Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman; Foreword by Toni Morrison
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First introduced by Toni Morrison in 1974, “to create something that might last, that would bear witness to the quality and variety of black life,” here is a spectacular, deluxe 35th anniversary edition of The Black Book, a collection of over 500 images representing the rich history of African Americans from the era of the transatlantic slave trade through the start of the Civil Rights movement. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6848-7 | 224pp. | $35.00/$43.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $17.50
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THE ODYSSEY By Homer; Translated by Charles Stein This vibrant version of The Odyssey shows students not only what the Greeks thought about their gods, but the gods themselves. Summaries preceding each chapter and a list of recommended websites help expand the experience. And, unlike most translations, which exclude or minimize the magical aspects of the poem, this one gives these elements full play, so that the spirit of a universe predating the classical era shines through. North Atlantic Books | TR | 9781556437281 | 656pp. | $22.95/$25.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE INTENT ON: Collected Poems 1962-2006
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By Kenneth Irby This second volume in a new series of literary hardcovers features the poems of Kenneth Irby—a vibrant presence in the American poetry scene since the early 1960s—and collects the full range of his verse for the first time. The content represents both an original and distinctively American body of work, as well as a time capsule reflecting the turbulent social and political milieu of its era. North Atlantic Books | HC | 9781556438332 | 704pp. | $40.00/$49.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $20.00
NAMING THE WORLD: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer Edited by Bret Anthony Johnston Drawing on his own experience in teaching creative writing at Harvard and various prominent conferences across the country, Bret Anthony Johnston delivers an inspiring, interactive book on the craft of writing. Packed with more than 65 contributions from prominent authors and writing teachers, including Dorothy Allison, Richard Bausch, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Packer, Tom Robbins, and more, this guide is filled with creative springboards, practical advice, and hands-on exercises. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7548-2 | 400pp. | $15.00/$17.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
MISTER PIP By Lloyd Jones • Winner, Commonwealth Writer’s Prize • Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize
On a tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, one eccentric white man stays behind and reads to the children each day from Charles Dickens’s classic Great Expectations. So begins this fable-like, original story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-34107-3 | 272pp. | $12.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
BLINDSPOT: A Novel By Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
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• A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and distinguished historians Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Blindspot weaves together invention with actual historical documents in an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century fiction, from epistolary novels like Richardson’s Clarissa to Sterne’s picaresque Tristram Shandy. “An erudite and entertaining recreation of colonial America on the brink of the Revolution.”—The New York Times Book Review Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52620-3 | 544pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE BOOK OF THE UNKNOWN: Tales of the Thirty-six By Jonathon Keats Jonathan Keats evokes Isaac Bashevis Singer and Italo Calvino in this marvelous and mystical collection of original tales based on Jewish folklore. Drawing on traditional Jewish tales of golems and dybbuks, sin-eaters, wise elders, peasants and kings, this collection turns traditional morality tales upside down, celebrating the most unlikely anonymous saints who justify humanity in the mind of God. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7897-1 | 240pp. | $13.00/$15.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ONE MORE YEAR: Stories By Sana Krasikov
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• 2009, Finalist PEN Hemingway Award
A debut collection of short stories, mostly about the lives of middle-aged Russian women, that examine the immigrant experience, the disappointments and joys of marriage, the pulls between loyalties and cultures, the tensions between parents and children, and the strange nature of fate. “An amazingly mature work for a young author . . . shrewdly humane and formally exquisite . . . Krasikov’s as good as Junot Diaz and Jhumpa Lahiri.” —Miami Herald Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52440-7 | 256pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ELLINGTON BOULEVARD: A Novel By Adam Langer After a hiatus in Chicago, Ike Morphy and his dog Herbie return to their apartment on the rapidly gentrifying Upper West Side, and discover they will need to find a new home. The process of selling the apartment is complicated by the intermingling stories and intersecting lives of an unforgettable cast of characters who are by turns funny, pathetic, tragic, loathsome, affable, lovable, and above all, human. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52206-9 | 352pp. | $15.00/$17.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
HEAVENLY TREE, NORTHERN EARTH
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By Gerrit Lansing With themes at once personal and universal, spiritual and esoteric, human and erotic, this collection captures the creative spirit of poet Gerrit Lansing. Like Emily Dickinson, Lansing has created a body of poetic work that includes brilliant and memorable high spots like “The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward” and “In Northern Earth,” and also represents an integrated whole whose place in the canon of American literature is assured. North Atlantic Books | HC | 9781556437540 | 288pp. | $35.00/$43.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $17.50
BIG MACHINE: A Novel By Victor LaValle The imaginative, magical story of Ricky Rice—middling hustler, recovering dope fiend, and traumatized survivor of a suicide cult—who is inducted into a mysterious cabal of investigators searching for the literal voice of God. Written like “Garcia Marquez mixed with Edgar Allan Poe” (Mos Def), this jam-packed adventure is ultimately the story of the great struggle between doubt and faith that rages within us all. Do not order before 3/9/2010 Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52799-6 | 384pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE BLUE NOTEBOOK: A Novel By James A. Levine Set in Mumbai, India, this debut novel written by a doctor is powerfully told in the voice of a girl from the ages of six to fifteen, who was sold into sexual slavery. Searing, moving, and hopeful, it explores how people, in the most difficult of situations, can use storytelling to make sense of and give meaning to their lives. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52871-9 | 224pp. | $23.00/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50
HEAVY METAL ISLAM: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam By Mark LeVine In Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western music on the Middle East through interviews with musicians and fans. The result is a revealing tour of contemporary Islamic culture through the evolving music scene in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-35339-9 | 304pp. | $13.95/$15.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE VAGRANTS: A Novel By Yiyun Li This acclaimed first novel by the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is set in a small town in China in 1978-1979, and t-ells the story of people whose lives are torn apart by a political prisoner’s fate, and the subsequent counterrevolutionary movement. “[A] rich, expansive novel, which captures the anxieties and brutality of life during the last days of Maoism. . . . Li’s story has an empathetic, uncannily graceful tone.” —Kirkus Reviews Do not order before 2/16/2010. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7334-1 | 368pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
ON GOD: An Uncommon Conversation By Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, an author who has grappled with questions of good and evil throughout his work, now speaks intimately about the nature of God, His power and creativity, and the three-way relationship between God, the devil, and man. Written as a series of ten Platonic dialogues, here is a highly accessible discussion of the large existential questions that we all struggle to understand. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7940-4 | 240pp. | $16.00/$19.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE END OF THE JEWS: A Novel By Adam Mansbach This contemporary remix of the family saga follows the Brodskys: a self-destructing family of artists whose story maps the journey of Jewish Americans in the 20th century, from the new world shtetls of the Bronx to the assimilation anxiety of the suburbs. Not a typical Jewish generational epic, ultimately, this is a tale of rivalries and emotional violence within one family, that in the end, threaten to destroy it. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52042-3 | 320pp. | $14.00/$16.50 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 ALSO BY THE AUTHOR: Angry Black White Boy | Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-5487-9 | 352pp. | $12.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
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IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN By Hisham Matar • Winner, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize of Europe and South Asia • 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize
In the Country of Men is the acclaimed debut novel from Libyan author Hisham Matar which follows the plight of Suleiman, a nine-year-old boy living in Tripoli in Libya, after his father is forced to flee the family household by Qaddafi’s state police due to his involvement in anti-State activities. Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-34043-4 | 256pp. | $12.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
AMERICAN RUST: A Novel
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By Philipp Meyer • A 2009 New York Times Notable Book
“Philipp Meyer’s powerful first novel . . . everything about this story seems essentially American… in the tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy. Meyer’s tone is less polemic than John Steinbeck’s, but he’s working on the same broad scale.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52752-1 | 400pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS: A Novel By Susan Carol McCarthy • 2003 Chautauqua South Fiction Award • 2003 San Diego Magazine’s Book Award for Fiction • 2002 Deadly Pleasures’ Best U.S. First Novel • A Popular College Common Reading Selection
“Reminiscent of To Kill A Mockingbird, McCarthy’s debut novel is an engrossing story of one girl’s coming of age during the early years of the Civil Rights Movement.” —Library Journal Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38103-0 | 288pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
THE TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO: A Novel
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By Sarah McCoy “The Time It Snowed In Puerto Rico is a coming-of-age story of both character and place. In the voice of her lovably defiant adolescent narrator, Sarah McCoy tells a story of magic, myth, and mystery amid political and cultural unrest. You can’t help loving Verdita, the world she comes from and the world she yearns for. A delightful debut by a promising and saucy new writer.” —Sheri Reynolds, author of A Gracious Plenty Shaye Areheart Books | HC | 978-0-307-46007-3 | 224pp. | $19.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
THE CITY & THE CITY By China Miéville In this existential thriller, a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary city of Beszel, and Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, in a journey as psychic as it is physical. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, this is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights. Del Rey | HC | 978-0-345-49751-2 | 336pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
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UN LUN DUN By China Miéville “For style and inventiveness, turn to Un Lun Dun, by China Miéville, who throws off more imaginative sparks per chapter than most authors can manufacture in a whole book. Miéville sits at the table with Lewis Carroll and Deeba cavorts with another young explorer of topsy-turvy worlds.” —The Washington Post Book World Del Rey | TR | 978-0-345-45844-5 | 496pp. | $9.00/$11.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH: A Novel By Thomas Mullen Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced—the 1918 flu epidemic—Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval. A chance encounter, and the shots that are fired as a result, will have deafening reverberations throughout the town of Commonwealth, escalating until every human value—love, patriotism, community, family, friendship—not to mention the town’s very survival, is imperiled. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7592-5 | 432pp. | $13.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE
THE MANY DEATHS OF THE FIREFLY BROTHERS: A Novel By Thomas Mullen From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes an evocative new novel which details the Depression-era adventures and exploits of two celebrity bank robbers known as The Firefly Brothers by the press, the authorities, and those who worship their acts as brazen, heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system. It’s an imaginative and mythical saga that raises serious questions about justice, fate, and mortality. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6753-4 | 416pp. | $26.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
ORIGINS OF THE SPECIOUS: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language By Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman In Origins of the Specious, Woe Is I author Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman explode the misconceptions that have led generations of language lovers astray, revealing why some of grammar’s best-known “rules” aren’t—and never were—rules at all. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6660-5 | 288pp. | $22.00/$26.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.00
IN THE LAND OF INVENTED LANGUAGES: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language By Arika Okrent Written by author Akira Okrent, who has a Ph.D. in linguistics, The Land of Invented Languages is an informative book about language, as seen through the escapades of those who have tried to invent ones that work better than those we are born speaking. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52788-0 | 352pp. | $26.00/$30.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.00
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GERTRUDA’S OATH: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II By Ram Oren; Translated by Barbara Harshav Michael Stolowitzky, the only son of a wealthy Jewish family in Poland, was just three years old when war broke out and the family lost everything. His father, desperate to settle his business affairs, travels to France, leaving Michael in the care of his mother and Gertruda Bablinska, a Catholic nanny devoted to the family. When Michael’s mother has a stroke, Gertruda promises the dying woman that she will make her way to Palestine and raise him as her own son. Written with the invaluable assistance of Michael, now seventy-two and living in New York City, this poignant true story re-creates Michael and Gertruda’s amazing journey. Doubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-385-52718-7 | 320pp. | $24.95/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50
BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI: A Novel NEW
By Gaile Parkin
In a Rwanda struggling to heal from a civil war, people from all walks of life come to order cakes from Angel. But they stay to share their stories of loss and pain, of hope and redemption. Inspiring and profoundly human, this spellbinding debut novel relates the delicious craft of a baker, the bittersweet weight of the past, and the irrepressible dreams of a brighter future. Delacorte Press | HC | 978-0-385-34343-5 | 320pp. | $24.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.00
THE LAST DICKENS: A Novel By Matthew Pearl Matthew Pearl’s latest literary historical mystery is set in 1870, when news of Charles Dickens’ untimely death reaches America, and a young publisher sets off on a dangerous quest to discover the ending to Dickens’ unfinished final work. “Strongly recommended . . . Pearl enriches his story through an in-depth knowledge of Dickens’s career and literary works.”—Library Journal Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6656-8 | 400pp. | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $12.50 ALSO BY MATTHEW PEARL: THE DANTE CLUB: A Novel | Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7104-0 | 400pp. | $13.95/$21.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00 THE LAST DICKENS: A Novel | Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7802-5 | 416pp. | $15.00/$18.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE EAVES OF HEAVEN: A Life in Three Wars By Andrew X. Pham • One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World • One of the Los Angeles Times’ Favorite Books of the Year • One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian • A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
A son’s memoir of his Vietnamese father’s experiences throughout three wars, here is an evocative portrait of a country, and a family, at risk. “Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the foreign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective. . . . And now we can add Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.” —The New York Times Book Review Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-38121-7 | 320pp. | $16.00/$19.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM: Poems By Katha Pollitt National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and renowned political commentator, Katha Pollitt, delivers her long-awaited second poetry collection. Here, she evokes the joys and pains of parenthood, the private side of a literary life, and the complexities of love and marriage. She also turns to the Bible for inspiration, reinventing some of the oldest tales of Western Civilization into modern meditations on how we lead our lives. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6333-8 | 96pp. | $23.00/$26.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $11.50
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE By Princeton Review This unique and informative guide directs English and Communication majors to career paths that will make the most of their educational backgrounds. It includes practical advice on identifying career goals, profiles of popular career paths, interview and networking tips, a Q&A section with former English and Communication majors who are now successfully pursuing careers they love, listings of relevant internship and fellowship opportunities, and more. Princeton Review | TR | 978-0-375-76624-4 | 304pp. | $13.95/$17.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE WEEKEND NOVELIST REWRITES THE NOVEL: A Step-by-Step Guide to Perfecting Your Work By Robert J. Ray
Forthcoming in February 2010
This essential follow-up to the author’s bestselling The Weekend Novelist, offers a direct, practical approach to novelists of all levels for revising and reworking first drafts of their novel and preparing them for submission. The program is divided into a series of 17 weekend exercises designed to fit into a writer’s busy life, and includes 22 schematic illustrations that clearly break down the writing—and rewriting—process. Do not order before 2/16/2010 Watson-Guptill | TR | 978-0-8230-8443-2 | 272pp. | $16.99/$21.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: A Novel By Arundhati Roy Likened to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, this accomplished debut novel is a story of forbidden love and piercing political drama, centered on an affluent Indian family that is forever changed by a visit from their English relatives. “Roy’s clarity of vision is remarkable, her voice original, her story beautifully constructed and masterfully told.”—Publishers Weekly Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7965-7 | 352pp. | $15.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00
THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE: A Novel By Salman Rushdie The profoundly moving story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is also the story of two cities at the height of their powers—the hedonistic of the hedonistic Mughal capital, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance. Random House | TR | 978-0-679-64051-6 | 368pp. | $14.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $3.00 For more books by Salman Rushdie, visit www.randomhouse.com/academic
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POEMS FOR NEW ORLEANS By Edward Sanders Award-winning American poet and underground music legend Edward Sanders combines historical and political themes in this accessible suite of poems dealing with New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. The narratives tell a series of interconnected stories, past and present, which seek to discover the essence of New Orleans, celebrating its indomitability, its creativity, and its multicultural vitality and beauty in the face of every adversity and setback. North Atlantic Books | TR | 9781556437427 | 128pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
MARK TWAIN: MAN IN WHITE: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years By Michael Shelden A surprising portrait of American original Mark Twain in his final years, published on the 100th anniversary of Twain’s death, by the Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Shelden. Drawing on a number of unpublished sources, including Twain’s own journals, letters, and a revealing four-hundred-page personal account kept under wraps for decades (and still yet to be published), Mark Twain: Man in White brings the legendary author’s twilight years vividly to life. Random House | HC | 978-0-679-44800-6 | 528pp. | $30.00/$37.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $15.00
LIME TREE CAN’T BEAR ORANGE: A Novel By Amanda Smyth • A 2009 Booklist Top 10 First Novel
Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange is the story of one woman’s search for love and identity by Caribbean newcomer, Amanda Smyth. “The Caribbean’s tropical sights and smells permeate Smyth’s moving debut novel, but all is not paradise . . . . Smyth paints a vivid portrait of a naive young girl who learns some hard truths about herself and her family, but though Celia’s story is not always happy, it’s arresting and powerful, a shining testament to human resilience.” —The Miami Herald Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-46064-6 | 288pp. | $14.00/$17.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $3.00
SEMANTIC ANTICS: How and Why Words Change Meaning By Sol Steinmetz “Semantic Antics shines a light on the often complex evolution of the meaning of words. This approachable book brings word history to the life for the nonspecialist reader, without sacrificing accuracy.” —Jesse Sheildlower, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary RH Reference | HC | 978-0-375-42612-4 | 288pp. | $14.95/$16.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $7.50
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THERE’S A WORD FOR IT: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900 By Sol Steinmetz By the author of Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, here is an engaging overview of the explosive growth of American English since 1900. The chapters, organized by decades, reveal how radio and television, the movies, and the electronic revolution helped fuel the remarkable expansion of our language. And, as new words proliferated, how they in turn affected and influenced American culture. Do not order before 4/27/2010 Harmony | HC | 978-0-375-42617-9 | 160pp. | $19.99/$24.99 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
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THE CORAL THIEF: A Novel By Rebecca Stott
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• A 2009 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection
As riveting and beautifully rendered as Rebecca Stott’s first novel, Ghostwalk, this tale of a young medical student in post revolutionary Paris who discovers a radical theory of evolution is a tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our perception of the world in which we live. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-53146-7 | 304pp. | $25.00/NCR | Exam Copy: $12.50
TRANSLUCENT TREE By Nobuko Takagi When Chigiri, a divorced single mother, returns to Tsurugi City to care for her father, a once-famous sword maker, she is reunited with a documentary maker who filmed a story on her father 25 years ago. They begin a passionate love affair, which tragically ends when the man dies of cancer. At first suicidal, Chigiri is reminded they will always be connected, and realizes she must live on. Vertical | HC | 978-1-934-28714-9 | 192pp. | $19.95/$22.95 Can. | Exam Copy: $10.00
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— Index — 19TH WIFE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
CAT'S CRADLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
GRAPHIC NOVELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Addiss, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Cezair-Thompson, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . 32
Greenberg, Lynne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Addonia, Sulaiman S.M.Y. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chaon, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Greenberg, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adler, H.G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chaucer, Geoffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Grossman, Vasily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ADVENTURES OF HAMZA . . . . . . . . . . 16
Christianse, Yvette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
GUARDIANS, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ALCOHOLIC, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CIDER HOUSE RULES, THE. . . . . . . . . . . 5
GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO . . 10
Aldrich, Nelson W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
CITY & THE CITY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
HAIKU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ALL THAT I HAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS . . . . . . . . . 25
HAMLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
AMERICA AMERICA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Collins, Billy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Han Shan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
AMERICAN GIRL, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
COMPANY THEY KEPT, THE . . . . . . . . . 21
Handke, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
AMERICAN RUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
COMPLETE FICTION, THE. . . . . . . . . . . 21
HAPPY MAN, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
AMERICAN WIDOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
COMPLETE POEMS OF SAPPHO, THE . 24
Harris, Middleton A., Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Ames, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE, THE . . . . . 30
HEAVENLY TREE, NORTHERN EARTH . 37
Angelou, Maya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
CORAL THIEF, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
HEAVY METAL ISLAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY . . . . . . . . . 38
CREATIONISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
HENRY IV, PART 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES . . . . . . . . . . 16
DANTE CLUB, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
HENRY IV, PART 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . . . . . . . . . 15
"DEAREST GEORG" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hesse, Hermann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
DEATH OF IVAN ILLYCH, THE . . . . . . . 19
Holmqvist, Ninni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DEVIL, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
HOMER & LANGLEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Aw, Tash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Dickens, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
AWAIT YOUR REPLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Dickner, Nicolas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER . . 34
AYN RAND FOR BEGINNERS . . . . . . . . 26
DISCOVERING WORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Hugo, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
BAKING CAKES IN KIGALI . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dixon, Sean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hutchins, Maude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
BALLISTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Doctorow, E.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
I KNOW WHY CAGED BIRD SINGS . . . 30
BANTAM CLASSICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Drew, Alan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU . . . . . . 31
Barnstone, Willis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
DRINKER, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS . 11
Barnstone, Willis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
DUE CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
IN COMPANY OF THE COURTESAN . . 33
BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER. . . . . . . . . . 18
Dumas, Firoozeh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
IN LAND OF INVENTED LANGUAGES . 40
Bate, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Dunant, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN . . . . . . . . . 39
BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Early, Gerald, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
INCOGNEGRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
BEG, BORROW, STEAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
EAVES OF HEAVEN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
INTENT ON, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
BELCHAMBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ebershoff, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Irby, Kenneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
BELLY OF PARIS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ELLINGTON BOULEVARD . . . . . . . . . . 37
Irving, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
BELONGING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Ellison, Ralph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Johnson, Mat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bernstein, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE, THE. . . 42
Johnston, Bret Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
END OF THE JEWS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jones, Lloyd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
EVERY MAN DIES ALONE . . . . . . . . . . . 19
JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, A. . . . . . . . . . 31
EVERYTHING FLOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
JOURNEY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Fagerholm, Monika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Kamensky, Jane and Jill Lepore. . . . . . . . 36
Fallada, Hans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Keats, Jonathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
FAREWELL SHANGHAI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Kertesz, Imre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
FOLDED WORLD, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
KING LEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ford, Jamie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
KINGDOM AND THE POWER, THE . . . 44
FORTUNES OF WAR BALKAN TRILOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Krasikov, Sana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
FRACTION OF THE WHOLE, A . . . . . . . 45
Landis, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Freeman, Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Langer, Adam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
FUNNY IN FARSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Lansing, Gerrit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Gaige, Amity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
LAST DAY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Gaines, Ernest J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
LAST DAYS OF LACUNA CABAL, THE. . 22
Galan, Juan Eslava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
LAST DICKENS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
GALAPAGOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER . . . . . . 5
GARDENS OF WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
LAST TOWN ON EARTH, THE. . . . . . . . 40
GEORGE, BEING GEORGE . . . . . . . . . . 30
LAUGHING WITHOUT AN ACCENT . . 33
GERTRUDA'S OATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Lavalle, Victor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
GNOSTIC BIBLE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS . 39
GO WITH ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
LES MISERABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
GOD OF SMALL THINGS, THE . . . . . . . 42
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN . . . . . . . . 7
Godwin, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER . . . . . . . . . 30
GOOD THIEF, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Levine, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2009 . . . . . 25 BIG MACHINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 BIRTH OF VENUS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 BLACK BOOK, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 BLINDFOLD TEST, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 BLINDSPOT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Block, Stefan Merrill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 BLUE NOTEBOOK, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Bobis, Merlinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Bock, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 BODY BROKEN, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 BOOK OF DANIEL, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 BOOK OF THE UNKNOWN, THE . . . . . 37 Boylan, Jennifer Finney . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS . . . . . . . . 13 Canedy, Dana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Canetti, Veza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Canin, Ethan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 CANTERBURY TALES, THE. . . . . . . . . . . 16 Carson, Susannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Carter, Dori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Castillo, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Lakhnavi, Ghalib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
— Index — Levine, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Pearl, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Takagi, Nobuko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Li, Yiyun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Pease, Roland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Talebi, Niloufar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
LIME TREE CAN'T BEAR ORANGE. . . . . 43
Pham, Andrew X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
TALES OF BELKIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Lind, Jakov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
PLAYING HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . . . 27
LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? . . . . . . . . . 19
POEMS FOR NEW ORLEANS . . . . . . . . 43
Talese, Gay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
LOOK AT THE BIRDIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Pollitt, Katha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Taylor, Benjamin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
LOON LAKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, A . . . . . . . 5
TEMPEST, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS. . . . . . . . . . . 17
PRIDE OF BAGHDAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
THERE'S A WORD FOR IT . . . . . . . . . . . 43
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
PRINCE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
THINGS I'VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT. . . . . 8
LUCINELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Princeton Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Thoreau, Henry David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
MACBETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Pushkin, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Machiavelli, Niccolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
QUEUE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
THREE DAYS BEFORE THE SHOOTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mailer, Norman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
RAGTIME. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TIME IT SNOWED IN PUERTO RICO
Manning, Olivia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Rahimi, Atiq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tinti, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Mansbach, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Ray, Robert J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tolstoy, Leo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
MANY DEATHS OF FIREFLY BROTHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
READING LOLITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Toltz, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
RICHARD III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Torres, Alissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
MAP OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD . . . . . 30
Rilke, Rainer Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
TRANSLUCENT TREE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
MARCH, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ROMEO AND JULIET. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
TRUE HISTORY OF PARADISE, THE . . . 32
MARK TWAIN: MAN IN WHITE . . . . . . 43
Roy, Arundhati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Matar, Hisham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Rushdie, Salman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Matthiessen, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SACRED HEARTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
McCann, Colum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Salih, Tayeb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
McCarthy, Susan Carol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Sanders, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
McCoy, Sarah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Santoro, Lara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Mcleod, Melvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Schechter, Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
MELVILLE HOUSE BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . 18
Schertenleib, Hansjorg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Melville, Herman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
See, Lisa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MERCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Segal, Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Meyer, Philipp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SEMANTIC ANTICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, A . . . . 15
SHADOW COUNTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Mieville, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 40
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows . . 10
Milton, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Shakespeare, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
MIND-BODY PROBLEM, THE . . . . . . . . 42
SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . 24
MISTER PIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SHANGHAI GIRLS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MODERN LIBRARY CLASSICS . . . . . . . . 15
Shelden, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Montgomery, L.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SHORT LETTER LONG FAREWELL . . . . 20
Moore, Alan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 29
SIDDHARTHA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
MOTHER NIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Silvers, Robert B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . . . . . 15
SIRENS OF TITAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
MULE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Skloot, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Mullen, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE . . . . . . . . . . . 13
MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, THE . . . 16
Smyth, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Nafisi, Azar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 NAMING THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. . . . . . . . . 20
SOLEMN LANTERN MAKER, THE . . . . . 31
NIKOLSKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS, THE . . 15
O'Conner, Patricia T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SONNETS TO ORPHEUS BILINGUAL . . 24
ODYSSEY, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sorokin, Vladimir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COMPLETE WORKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Okrent, Arika . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SOUL OF THE AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
WINTER'S TALE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
OLIVE KITTERIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SOUL OF WOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, THE . . 5
ON GOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SOUTHERN WOMAN, THE. . . . . . . . . . 17
WORLD'S FAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
ONE MORE YEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Spencer, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
WRITER'S LIFE, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Oren, Ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
STEERFORTH PRESS BOOKS. . . . . . . . . 26
Wyndham, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ORIGINS OF THE SPECIOUS. . . . . . . . . 40
Steinmetz, Sol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Zola, Emile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
OTHELLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
STORY OF FORGETTING, THE . . . . . . . 31
ZOLAND POETRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
OTHER PRESS BOOKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Stott, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
PARADISE LOST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Strout, Elizabeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Parkin, Gaile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Sturgis, Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
PATIENCE STONE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SWEET LAND STORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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