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May...... 2.

June...... 9.

July ...... 18

August...... 26.

Valentine’s Day Feature...... 30

Plume Highlights...... 32.

New Titles by Plume Authors ...... 33

Reading Group Guides ...... 36

Gotham Books...... 38.

Portfolio...... 56

Overlook...... 60.

Order Info...... 80

Index...... 82

Cover design and illustration by Melissa Jacoby PLUME A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor’s Wife Somebody Else’s Daughter A Novel Elizabeth Brundage Photo © Sigrid Estrada Photo

Like The Doctor’s Wife —which The Boston Globe a blind eye, and the headmaster’s wife is busy keeping called “a compelling read”—Somebody Else’s Daughter her husband’s current indiscretions well hidden . is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and Building to a breathtaking collision between two disturbing characters . In the idyllic Berkshires, at the fathers—biological and adoptive, past and present— prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that Somebody Else’s Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller threaten to come to light . Willa Golding, a student, and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in has been brought up by her adoptive parents in emotional turmoil . elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and “[A] deft balancing act of taut plot and richly drawn shameful past . Her biological father, a failing writer characters. . .Brundage is a storyteller supreme.” and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he —Wally Lamb abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the “Riveting…very moving and completely involving. . . school . A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Brundage is a brilliant novelist.” Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn —Richard Bausch

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2 MAY • PLUME A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor’s Wife Somebody Else’s Daughter A Novel Elizabeth Brundage

“Brundage has a penchant for turning topical subjects into gripping novels…Sex, drugs, violence and murder are all in the Brundage mix.” —The Washington Post

“[A] well-turned thriller. . . Brundage writes with startling clarity.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A taut tale of suspense rounded out with sharp observations on parenting, adoption and the fraught business of keeping up appearances.” —New York Observer

elizaBETH BRUNDAGE is the author of The Doctor’s Wife and holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received a James Michener Award . She lives with her family in upstate New York .

978-0-452-29537-7 MARKETING U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Online Readers Guide On Sale: 4/28/09 • Targeted Online Advertising Fiction • Regional Author Events 5 1/2” x 8 1/4” / 352 pages • National Print Features Rights: W00 • www.elizabethbrundage.com Pub History: Viking HC, 978-0-670-01900-7 Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • PLUME 3 “[A] delightful and eccentric new tale”* from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club Wit’s End A Novel Karen Joy Fowler Photo © Laurie Roberts Photo

In Karen Joy Fowler’s newest novel, the bestselling she has writer’s block . As one woman searches for truth, author of The Jane Austen Book Clubonce again delivers the other struggles to control the reality of her fiction . top-notch storytelling, creating characters both oddball Rima soon becomes enmeshed in Addison’s household and endearing in a voice that is utterly and memorably of eccentrics: a formerly alcoholic cook and her irksome her own . Wit’s End is a clever, playful novel about son, two quirky dog-walkers, a mysterious stalker, the finally allowing oneself to grow up—with a dash of tiny characters that populate Addison’s dollhouse crime- mystery thrown in . scene replicas, and even Maxwell Lane himself . But, At loose ends and weary from her recent losses—the wrapped up in a mystery that may or may not be of her deaths of an inventive if at times irritating father and own creation, Rima discovers to her surprise that the her beloved brother—Rima Lansill comes to Wit’s ultimate solution to this puzzle is the new family she End, the home of her legendary godmother, bestselling has found at the house called Wit’s End . mystery writer Addison Early, to regroup…and in search Playfully exploring the blurred boundaries between of answers . For starters, why did Addison name one reality and virtual reality, fiction and fact, Karen Joy of her characters—a murderer—after Rima’s father? Fowler subverts the whodunit and gives us a thoroughly But Addison is secretive and feisty, so consumed with modern meta-mystery with wit, warmth, and heart . protecting her famous fictional detective, Maxwell Lane, from the vagaries of the Internet that—rumor has it— ALSO AVAILABLE

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4 MAY • PLUME “[A] delightful and eccentric new tale”* from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club Wit’s End A Novel Karen Joy Fowler

“Fowler’s understated wit and storytelling skills are in full flower.” —*The Boston Globe

“[A] Rubik’s cube of a book…this is venturesome work.” —The Seattle Times

“Fowler’s subtle humor glides across these pages.” —The Washington Post

“[A] cyber-gothic-mystery-romance (you heard it coined here), and it’s a lovely read.” —The Sunday Oregonian

KAREN JOY FOWLER’s most recent novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, was on bestseller lists nationwide and spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times list . Along with her first two novels, it was a New York Times Notable Book . Fowler lives in Santa Cruz, California .

978-0-452-29006-8 MARKETING U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Local Author Events On Sale: 4/28/09 • National Review Attention Fiction • Online Readers Guide 5 5/16” x 8” / 336 pages • Targeted Online Rights: E30 Advertising Pub History: Putnam HC, • www.karenjoyfowler.com 978-0-339-15475-1 Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • PLUME 5 Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 200 urban legends about comic book culture Was Superman a Spy? And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed Plume Brian Cronin Original

Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like priceless back issues in the seventy-plus years of the comic book industry, including:

• Elvis Presley’s trademark hairstyle was based on a comic book character (True) • Stan Lee featured a gay character in one of Marvel’s 1960s war comics (False) • Wolverine of the X-Men was originally meant to be an actual wolverine! (True) • What would have been DC’s first black superhero was changed at the last moment to a white hero (True) • A Dutch inventor was blocked from getting a patent on a process because it had been used previously in a Donald Duck comic book (True) With many more legends resolved, Was Superman a Spy? is a must-have for the legions of comic book fans and all seekers of “truth, justice, and the American way ”.

978-0-452-29532-2 MARKETING BRIAN CRONIN is the writer and U.S. $14.00 / $15.50 CAN. • 6-copy counter display producer of the Comics Should On Sale: 4/28/09 978-0-452-29353-3 Be Good blog at Comic Book U.S. $84.00 / $93.00 CAN. Resources . A devoted comic book Comics/Popular Culture • National Publicity reader, he has been writing the 5 5/16” x 8” / 256 pages • National Feature b/w photos and illustrations Attention online column, “Comic Book throughout • goodcomics.comic Urban Legends Revealed” since Rights: E30 bookresources.com June 2005 . Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book Photo © Meredith Berrett © Meredith Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 6 MAY • PLUME From the author of the “hugely entertaining”* The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, lessons in debunking the faulty arguments we hear every day The Duck That Won the Lottery Plume And 99 Other Bad Arguments Original Julian Baggini

This latest book from the pop philosophy author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten tackles an endlessly fascinating area of popular debate—the faulty argument . Julian Baggini provides a rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating, and entertaining quotes from a wide range of famous people in politics, the media, and entertainment, including Donald Rumsfeld, Emma Thompson, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Chris Martin . Each entry takes as its starting point an example of highly questionable—though oddly persuasive—reasoning from a broad variety of subjects . As Baggini teases out the logic in the illogical, armchair philosophers and aficionados of the absurd will find themselves nodding their heads as they laugh out loud . The Duck That Won the Lottery is perfect fodder for any cocktail party and pure pleasure for anyone who loves a good brain twister .

“Julian Baggini has come to the rescue. The prolific philospher’s latest work is a curiosity cabinet of spurious reasoning and spin.” —Financial Times

JULIAN BAGGINI is the 978-0-452-29541-4 MARKETING cofounding editor of The U.S. $15.00 / NCR • National Print Features Philosopher’s Magazine . He writes On Sale: 4/28/09 • Online Promotions regularly for The Guardianin the • www.julianbaggini.com Philosophy UK and is the author of The Pig • www.badarguments.com 5 5/16” x 8” / 336 pages Also Available That Wants to Be Eatenand co- b/w illustrations throughout author of Do You Think What You Rights: N00 Think You Think? Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book

The Pig That Wants Photo Courtesy of the Author of Courtesy Photo *Publishers Weekly to Be Eaten 978-0-452-28744-0 U.S. $14.00 / NCR SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • PLUME 7 “Dowd presents evolution as a sacred epic of emerging complexity.” —The New York Times Thank God for Evolution How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World Michael Dowd

Few issues have revealed deeper divisions in our society than the debate between creationism and evolution, between religion and science . Yet from the fray, Reverend Michael Dowd has emerged as a reconciler, finding faith strengthened by the power of reason .

With evidence from contemporary astrophysics, geology, biology, anthropology, and evolutionary psychology, Thank God for Evolution lays out a compelling argument for how religion and science can be mutually enriching forces in our lives .

Praised by Nobel laureates in the scientific community and religious leaders alike, Thank God for Evolutionwill expand the horizon of what is possible for self, for relationships, and for our world .

“Dowd masterfully unites rationality and spirituality in a world view that celebrates the mysteries of existence… A powerful book!” —Craig Mello, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

978-0-452-29534-6 MARKETING The Reverend MICHAEL DOWD is U.S. $16.00 / $17.50 CAN. • Author Lectures America’s evolutionary evangelist . On Sale: 4/28/09 • National Publicity He and his wife, Connie Barlow, • National Radio Phoners an acclaimed science writer, have Religion/Science • www.thankgodfor traveled the country sharing their 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 448 pages evolution.com b/w illustrations throughout sacred view of cosmic, biological, Rights: W00 and human evolution . They are Pub History: Viking HC, also the creators of the leading 978-0-670-02045-4 website in the sacred evolution Also available as an e-book movement, www .thegreatstory .org . Photo © mbryanthompson.com Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 8 MAY • PLUME The secret gadgetry behind the art of espionage Spycraft The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry Robert Schlesinger Foreword by George J. Tenet, former director of Central Intelligence

In this the first book ever written about the CIA’s Office of Technical Service, former director Robert Wallace (a real-life Q, straight out of the James Bond films) and internationally renowned intelligence historian H . Keith Melton offer an unprecedented look at the CIA’s most secretive operations and the devices that made them possible . Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions— including the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the current War on Terror—the authors show how the CIA carries out its missions employing amazingly inventive tools . Illustrated with images never before seen by the public—and featuring everything from micro cameras to wired kitties to exploding pancakes—Spycraft is both a fantastic encyclopedia of gadgetry and a revealing primer on the fundamentals of high-tech espionage .

“Details of operational activity are as engrossing as the descriptions of the equipment.” —Library Journal

“Reveals more concrete information about CIA tradecraft than any book… [Deserves] a five cloak-and-dagger rating.” —The Washington Times

ROBERT WALLACE is the former 978-0-452-29547-6 MARKETING director of the CIA’s Office of U.S. $18.00 / $20.00 CAN. • Author Lectures Technical Service . On Sale: 5/26/09 • National Print Features H. KEITH MELTON is the • Radio Satellite Tour History/Espionage • www.ciaspycraft.com technical tradecraft historian at 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 576 pages the Interagency Training Center Two 16-page b/w photo inserts in Washington, D .C . b/w photos and illustrations HENRY Robert SCHLESINGER throughout writes for Popular Science Rights: W00 Pub History: Dutton HC, covering intelligence technologies 978-0-525-94980-0 and counterterrorism . Robert Wallace - Photo Courtesy of the Author of Courtesy - Photo Wallace Robert Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PLUME 9 The New York Times bestseller and ultimate beach read from the author of Second Chance The Beach House A Novel Jane Green Photo © Chris Lloyd Photo

Nan Powell is a free-spirited, sixty-five-year-old widow Slowly people start moving in to the house, filling who’s not above skinny-dipping in her neighbors’ pools it with noise, laughter, and with tears . As the house when they’re away and who dearly loves her Nantucket comes alive again, Nan finds her family and friends home . But when she discovers that the money she expanding . Her son comes home for the summer, and thought would last forever is dwindling, she realizes she then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside- must make drastic changes to save her beloved house . down . As she did so masterfully in her New York Times So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer bestseller Second Chance, Jane Green once again proves in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and herself one of the preeminent writers of contemporary direct access to the beach . women’s fiction .

Coming June 2009 Also Available from Viking

Second Chance swapping lives the other woman Dune Road 978-0-452-28944-4 978-0-452-28850-8 978-0-452-28714-3 978-0-670-02086-7 U.S. $15.00 / NCR U.S. $15.00 / NCR U.S. $15.00 / NCR U.S. $24.95 / NCR

10 JUNE • PLUME The New York Times bestseller and ultimate beach read from the author of Second Chance The Beach House A Novel Jane Green

“Green gives you a clear sense of Nantucket’s weathered splendor and offers up a refreshing summertime getaway…best read on a deck chair somewhere.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“A sweetly memorable summer story, capturing the relaxing, renewing quality of life at the shore. . .” —New Orleans Times-Picayune

“Breezy…deeply appealing.” —Connecticut Post

“Green’s best novel in years, a compelling, unputdownable read.” —Booklist

JANE GREEN is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Second Chance, To Have and to Hold, Swapping Lives, The Other Woman, Bookends, and Babyville . She lives in Connecticut with her family .

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SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PLUME 11 The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. Photo © Kip May Photo

On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty- For Taylor, her stroke was a blessing and a revelation . seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist It taught her that by “stepping to the right” of our experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere left brains, we can uncover feelings of well-being of her brain . As she observed her mind deteriorate to that are often sidelined by “brain chatter ”. Reaching the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or wide audiences through her talk at the Technology, recall any of her life—all within four hours—Taylor Entertainment, Design (TED) conference and her alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive appearance on Oprah’s online Soul Series, Taylor and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched of complete well-being and peace, and the logical, by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner sequential left brain, which recognized she was having peace is accessible to anyone . a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost . It would take her eight years to fully recover .

12 JUNE • PLUME The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist’s own stroke led to enlightenment My Stroke of Insight A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

“Transformative…[Taylor’s] experience…will shatter [your] own perception of the world.” —ABC News

“[Dr. Taylor] brings a deep personal understanding to something she long studied: that the two lobes of the brain have very different personalities.” —The New York Times

“Fascinating…invaluable…fearless…This book is about the wonder of being human.” —Robert Koehler, Tribune Media Services

JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, Ph.D., is a neuroanatomist affiliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine . She is the national spokesperson at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank), and one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, 2008 .

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SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PLUME 13 “A soaring thing of joy whose only purpose—and I mean this as a compliment—is to delight and entertain.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air The Little Book A Novel Selden Edwards Photo © JoAnn Carney Photo

Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards’s dazzling “Delightfully mad. . .a thrilling adventure.” first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination . —San Francisco Chronicle Wheeler Burden—banking heir, philosopher, student “The product of a writer in full command of his gifts.” of history, legend’s son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, —Louisville Courier-Journal half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero—one day finds “A wide-ranging novel of grand ideas. . .a graceful waltz of a himself wandering not in his hometown of San book, spinning at times at dizzying speed, but leaving behind a Francisco in 1988 but in a city and time he knows haunting, unforgettable melody.” mysteriously well: Vienna, 1897 . Before long, Wheeler —New Orleans Times-Picayune acquires a mentor in Sigmund Freud, a bitter rival, “Back to the Future for the intellectual set.” a powerful crush on a luminous young woman, and —Entertainment Weekly encounters everyone from an eight-year-old Adolf Hitler to Mark Twain as well as the young members of his own family . Solving the riddle of Wheeler’s dislocation in time will ultimately reveal nothing short of one eccentric family’s unrivaled impact upon the course of human history .

14 JUNE • PLUME “A soaring thing of joy whose only purpose—and I mean this as a compliment—is to delight and entertain.”

—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A New York Times The Little Book Bestseller A Novel Selden Edwards

“Inventive, bracing, poignant and well written. . . it should be at the top of everyone’s summer reading list.” —Tucson Citizen

“It’s hard not to be thoroughly taken with such an approach to both the real and imagined past.” —New York Daily News

“Required reading.” —New York Post

A graduate of Princeton and Stanford universities, SELDEN EDWARDS is a former English teacher and headmaster . He began writing The Little Book in 1974 . Edwards lives near Santa Barbara, California .

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SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PLUME 15 “A clear-eyed. . .elegant depiction of the desperation and denial of the white-collar wino.” —Salon.com Drunkard A Hard-Drinking Life Neil Steinberg

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons . But he also loved to drink . Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man’s descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety . Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking . As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink, and tries to shore up his faltering marriage, he is confronted by the greatest test he has ever faced, and finds himself in the process . Steinberg’s gripping memoir is a frank and often painfully funny account of the stark-yet-common realities of a disease that affects millions .

“Hysterically funny.” —New York Post

“A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright.” —Chicago Magazine

“Steinberg is a lively writer, with a keen gift for observation.” —Washington Post Book World

978-0-452-29543-8 MARKETING NEIL STEINBERG is a columnist U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Local Author Events for the Chicago Sun-Times and On Sale: 5/26/09 • National Print Features the author of five previous books . • National Radio Phoners He lives in Northbrook, Illinois, Memoir 5 5/16” x 8” / 288 pages with his wife and two sons . Rights: E00

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SUGGESTED ORDER 16 JUNE • PLUME A “hilarious and utterly irreverent tale” (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coach Kick the Balls A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach Alan Black

Growing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death . In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant living in suburban California, coaches the Dragons, a pee- wee team that proves an embarrassment to his beloved sport . They’re pampered . They’re soft . They’ve been told by their overprotective parents that (gasp!) “winning isn’t everything ”. Using drills and bombast, Black attempts to whip the team into shape .

Kick the Balls is a sidesplitting memoir of grass stains and free kicks, a no-holds-barred account of one man’s bafflement by an alien culture, and a stinging satire of American parenthood . Alan Black’s voice—howling from the sidelines—is that rare thing: a fresh, original, winning comic talent .

“Savagely hilarious.” —Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do with My Life?

“Any suburbanite with kids in organized sports will find Black a riot.” —Publishers Weekly

ALAN BLACK slings whiskey for 978-0-452-29539-1 MARKETING a living . He wrote this, his first U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Local Author Events book, between closing time and On Sale: 5/26/09 • National Feature dawn . Attention Memoir/Sports • www.alanblack.info 5 1/16” x 7 3/4” / 272 pages Rights: W00 Pub History: Hudson Street Press HC, 978-1-59463-047-7 Also available as an e-book Photo © Ana Manley Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PLUME 17 The acclaimed author of Chang and Eng returns with a literary showstopper that is nothing short of “brilliant” (Washington Post) More Than It Hurts You A Novel Darin Strauss

Josh Goldin’s happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight- month-old son to the emergency room in severe distress . Dr . Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her baby . As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their breaking points .

Darin Strauss’s extraordinary novel is set in a world turned upside down—where doctors try to save babies from their parents, police use the law to tear families apart, and the people you think you know best end up surprising you the most .

“[A] brilliant, sharp, suspenseful novel.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

“Wrenching and flawlessly involving.” —New York Daily News

“Chilling, insightful and bold.” —Chicago Tribune

“Riveting.” —Publishers Weekly

978-0-452-29552-0 MARKETING DARIN STRAUSS is the author U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Online Readers Guide of the international bestseller On Sale: 6/30/09 • Local Author Events Chang and Eng and the New York • Targeted Online Advertising Times Notable Book The Real Fiction • National Review Attention McCoy. Also a screenwriter, he is 5 5/16” x 8” / 416 pages • www.darinstrauss.com currently adapting Chang and Eng Rights: E00 Also Available Pub History: Dutton HC, for the screen with Gary Oldman . Chang 978-0-525-95070-7 and Eng Strauss lives in Brooklyn and Also available as an e-book 978-0-452-28109-7 teaches at New York University . U.S. $15.00 / $19.50 CAN. Photo © Robert Birnbaum © Robert Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 18 JULY • PLUME An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the future of the United States in the light of Roman history Empires of Trust How Rome Built—and America Is Building—a New World Thomas F. Madden

Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us . Maybe the U .S . will continue to dominate the world for centuries . Now award-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic view of our nation’s future .

Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and the U .S . was built on trust between allies, not the conquest of enemies . The far-reaching implications of this fact are essential reading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now and in the years ahead .

Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazingly obvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history, Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopeful inspiration .

“An entertaining comparison by an astute historian. . .Gems for history buffs as well as those who have never considered that something that happened before 1900 might matter.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A breakout book.” —Richard Ellis, author of Founding Fathers

THOMAS F. MADDEN is a 978-0-452-29545-2 MARKETING professor of history at Saint U.S. $17.00 / $18.50 CAN. • National Radio Phoners Louis University . His previous On Sale: 6/30/09 • National Print Features books include The New Concise • www.thomasmadden.com History History of the Crusades and Enrico 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 352 pages Dandolo and the Rise of Venice . Rights: W00 He has been featured in The New Pub History: Dutton HC, York Times, The Washington Post, 978-0-525-95074-5 and USA Today, and on A&E Also available as an e-book television, the History Channel, PBS, and National Public Radio . Photo Courtesy of the Author of Courtesy Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER JULY • PLUME 19 The New York Times bestseller—from the author of Math Doesn’t Suck—teaches girls how to kick pre-algebra butt

Kiss My Math Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss Danica McKellar

In her New York Times bestselling books, actress and finally “get” negative numbers, variables, absolute math genius Danica McKellar shatters the “math nerd” values, exponents, and more . As she did so effectively in stereotype and gives girls the tools to ace middle-school Math Doesn’t Suck, McKellar uses personality quizzes, math in her unique, just-us-girls style . Now, in her reader polls, real-life testimonials, and stories from her second book, Kiss My Math, McKellar empowers a new own life—in addition to clear instruction, helpful tips, crop of girls—seventh to ninth graders—to tackle the and practice problems—revealing why pre-algebra is next level of mathematics: pre-algebra . easier, more relevant, and more glamorous than girls think . McKellar is clearly reaching her audience: parents, Stepping up not only the math but the sass and style, teachers, and especially girls are asking for more . McKellar helps math-phobic teenagers chill out and

Also Available Math Doesn’t Suck 978-0-452-28949-9 U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN.

20 JULY • PLUME The New York Times bestseller—from the author of Math Doesn’t Suck—teaches girls how to kick pre-algebra butt

Kiss My Math Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss Danica McKellar

Praise for Danica McKellar

“McKellar has a message for girls: Cute and smart is better than cute and dumb.” —USA Today

“Every page of this winning book is lively and interesting… McKellar’s message isn’t just to clear up math confusion, but to encourage teenage girls to claim their smarts and their power.” —The Boston Globe

DANICA McKELLAR, famous for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, is also an internationally recognized mathematician . Chosen as ABC World News Tonight’s “Person of the Week” for writing the bestseller Math Doesn’t Suck, she makes frequent national media appearances on TV and radio .

978-0-452-29540-7 MARKETING U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • 12-copy floor display On Sale: 6/30/09 978-0-452-29358-8 U.S. $180.00 / $198.00 CAN. Education / Mathematics • 16-copy mixed floor display 6” x 9” / 352 pages 978-0-452-29359-5 b/w line drawings, graphs, U.S. $240.00 / $264.00 CAN. photos, and other artwork • National Publicity throughout • National Radio Phoners Rights: W00 • National Print Features Pub History: Hudson Street Press • www.kissmymath.com HC, 978-1-59463-049-1 • www.danicamckellar.com Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER JULY • PLUME 21 A timely and entertaining psychological look at why we’re afraid and what to do about it The Science of Fear How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain Daniel Gardner

From terror attacks to bursting real estate bubbles, from crystal meth epidemics to online sexual predators and poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding . Yet we are the safest and healthiest humans in history . Why are we so worried?

The Science of Fearis an introduction to the new brain science of risk, dissecting the fears that misguide and manipulate us every day . Award-winning journalist Daniel Gardner demonstrates how irrational fear springs from the ways humans miscalculate risks based on our hunter- gatherer brains . With the exclusive cooperation of risk- science pioneer Paul Slovic and other leading experts, Gardner reveals how our “gut” reactions lead us astray . Understanding our irrational fears frees us from political and corporate manipulation, and makes our choices better, and our lives braver .

“Excellent…analyses everything from the media’s predilection for irrational scare stories to the cynical use of fear by politicians… [A] cheery corrective to modern paranoia.” —The Economist

978-0-452-29546-9 MARKETING DANIEL GARDNER is a columnist U.S. $16.00 / $17.50 CAN. • National Feature and senior writer for The Attention On Sale: 6/30/09 Ottawa Citizen . He has received • National Radio Phoners numerous awards for his writing, Psychology/Economics • Online Promotions 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 352 pages • www.dangardner.ca including Amnesty International’s Rights: F25 Media Award and the Michener

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SUGGESTED ORDER 22 JULY • PLUME A year inside the fierce rivalries and big business of competitive videogaming Game Boys Triumph, Heartbreak, and the Quest for Cash in the Battleground of Competitive Videogaming Michael Kane

A technology-fueled spin on a classic sports tale, Game Boys profiles “cyberathletes” who compete for dominance in the professional gaming circuit, a world populated with rivalries, big egos, corporate sponsorships, and large cash prizes . Michael Kane’s pioneering account of the lifestyle and business of gaming takes readers to the heart of “e-sports,” what many consider the successor in sports entertainment to the X-games and competitive poker.

Following the top teams—3D and CompLexity, a rivalry as bitter as the Yankees versus the Red Sox—Kane profiles the star players as they cheat, strategize, sign with rival teams, and get berated by sideline-pacing coaches . Are gamers really the athletes of tomorrow? They act like they are .

A lively tour of the quirks and dramas of a subculture on the cusp of big things, Game Boys is a tale of sports glory and a glimpse into the lucrative business of gaming .

“Like any good sports book, this one is about the game and the personalities in equal measure.” —Booklist

“You’ll find yourself rooting for Kane’s game boys.” —Penthouse

MICHAEL KANE is an 978-0-452-29544-5 MARKETING entertainment features writer for U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Sports Radio Phoner the New York Post and a former On Sale: 6/30/09 Campaign sports writer and editor at the • National Feature Sports/Games Denver Post . His writing has also Attention 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 320 pages • www.gameboysbook.com appeared in ESPN Magazine and b/w photos throughout Sport magazine . He lives in New Rights: E00 York City . Pub History: Viking HC, 978-0-670-01896-3 Also available as an e-book Photo © Luke Ratray © Luke Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER JULY • PLUME 23 A “smart, sharply observant, even gently funny”* debut novel of heartache and joy And Sometimes Why A Novel Rebecca Johnson

Witty and surprising, Rebecca Johnson’s first novel is about the unexpected links between one family and the world around them . Sophia and Darius have a well-worn marriage, two teenage daughters, and no foreseeable drama on the horizon . One morning, the two girls fight over the keys to the family car and set into motion an accident . The accident triggers a chain of events involving Harry, a still handsome B-list celebrity game-show host; Anton, a sexually repressed unemployed filmmaker; and Misty, who has reached month seven of what was supposed to be a six- month campaign to make something of herself . Profoundly honest, this is a novel about the unpredictability of life, and the joy and heartache of how deeply one person’s life can affect so many others .

“Johnson’s prose is wonderful.” —*The Washington Post

“Wise and affectingly humane.” —Vogue

“The powerful story and characters will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.” —Booklist

978-0-452-29007-5 MARKETING REBECCA JOHNSON has been U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • Online Readers Guide a contributing editor to Vogue On Sale: 6/30/09 • National Review Attention for the past eleven years . She • www.rebeccajohnson has written “Talk of the Town” Fiction author.com 5 5/16” x 8” / 320 pages columns for The New Yorker and Rights: W00 was a contributing editor at Talk Pub History: Putnam HC, magazine . 978-0-399-15452-2 Also available as an e-book Photo © Kevin Sturman © Kevin Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 24 JULY • PLUME “Honest, sad, witty, and fierce, here is a breakthrough breakup anthology that will break your heart.” —ZZ Packer, author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Love Is a Four-Letter Word Plume True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts Original Edited by Michael Taeckens Introduction by Neil Pollack

From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret . Fearlessly revealing their shattered hearts and crushed egos; their indiscretions and indignities; their delusions, desperation, and disappointments, these talented writers capture the dark side of love in prose ranging from comic to poetic, poignant to cringe-inducing . Also featuring three cartoon/ graphic essays as a sixteen-page color insert, this anthology is perfect for anyone who’s ever loved and lost .

“These dispatches from the deep dark depths of romantic doom will make you cringe, laugh, wince, sigh, laugh again, [and] nod along. . .Here’s the end of love, or what sometimes passes for it.” —Jonathan Miles, author of Dear American Airlines

“Hilarious, poignant, and insightful.” —Jennifer Gilmore, author of Golden Country

MICHAEL TAECKENS is the 978-0-452-29550-6 MARKETING publicity director for Algonquin U.S. $16.00 / $17.50 CAN. • Local Author Events Books and received his On Sale: 7/28/09 • National Review and MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Feature Attention Popular Culture • National Radio Phoners Workshop . He lives in Durham, 5 5/16” x 8” / 304 pages North Carolina . 16-page color insert Rights: E00 Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book Photo © Courtney Wilson © Courtney Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER AUGUST • PLUME 25 The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture—and “will leave you awestruck”*

The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Daniel J. Levitin Photo © Arsenio Coroa © Arsenio Photo

Daniel J . Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This Is Dr . Levitin combines cutting-edge scientific research Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as from his music cognition lab at McGill University it transformed our understanding of how music gets in and work in an array of related fields; his own our heads and stays there . Now in his second New York sometimes hilarious experiences in the music business; Times bestseller, his genius for combining science and and illuminating interviews with musicians such art reveals how music shaped humanity across cultures as Sting and David Byrne, as well as conductors, and throughout history . anthropologists, and evolutionary biologists . The World in Six Songs is, ultimately, a revolution in our Dr . Levitin identifies six fundamental song functions or understanding of how human nature evolved—right up types—friendship, joy, comfort, religion, knowledge, to the iPod . and love—then shows how each in its own way has enabled the social bonding necessary for human culture “Works much like a great piece of pop music whose combined and society to evolve . He shows, in effect, how these elements can induce feelings of enlightenment and euphoria.” —*The New York Times “six songs” work in our brains to preserve the emotional history of our lives and species . “Masterful. . .Eminently enjoyable” —Los Angeles Times

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26 AUGUST • PLUME The author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture—and “will leave you awestruck”*

The World in Six Songs How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature Daniel J. Levitin

“A must-read. . .A literary, poetic, scientific, and musical treat.” —Seattle Times

“An exemplary mix of scientist and artist, student and teacher, performer and listener.” —Library Journal, starred review

“A fantastic ride.” —New Scientist

“Leading researchers in music cognition are already singing its praises.” —Evolutionary Psychology

DANIEL J. LEVITIN, the author of the New York Times bestseller and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist This Is Your Brain on Music, is the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and runs the Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University . Before becoming a research scientist and author, he was a record producer and a professional musician .

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SUGGESTED ORDER AUGUST • PLUME 27 Ladies and gentlemen, start your spaceships! How to Build Your Own Spaceship The Science of Personal Space Travel Piers Bizony Plume Original

Personal space travel is no longer the stuff of science fiction . The future is here: Civilians are launching into orbit . As early as 2010 paying customers will have the opportunity to experience weightlessness, courtesy of Virgin Galactic’s inaugural launch .

How to Build Your Own Spaceship takes readers on a fun and quirky trip to the forefront of commercial space travel—the latest technology, the major business players, and the personal and financial benefits that are ripe for the picking . Science-writer Piers Bizony’s breadth of knowledge, quick wit, and no-nonsense explanations of the hard science in this emerging arena will satisfy even the most dedicated space fanatics . With practical advice (from picking the best jet fuel to funding your own fleet of space crafts), unbelievable space facts, and fascinating photos, Bizony’s user-friendly guide to blasting off is a must-have ticket to the final frontier .

“[Bizony] writes with the easy tone you’d want to hear from your space pilot… Strap yourselves down, and boldly go on a joyride out of this world.” —The Times (UK)

978-0-452-29533-9 MARKETING PIERS BIZONY has written about U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • National Print Features science, history, and cosmology On Sale: 7/28/09 • National Radio Phoners for a wide variety of publishers . • Online Promotions The Rivers of Mars, his critically Science 5 5/16” x 8” / 224 pages acclaimed analysis of the life on b/w photos and illustrations Mars debate, was shortlisted for throughout the NASA/Eugene M . Emme Rights: G12 Award for Astronautical Writing . Pub History: A Plume Original Also available as an e-book Photo © Fiona Haser Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 28 AUGUST • PLUME An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive . . . one breath at a time Learning to Breathe One Woman’s Journey of Spirit and Survival Foreword by the Alison Wright Dalai Lama

While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck . As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care—in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death—Alison drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every breath as if it would be her last .

Despite countless surgeries and a grueling recovery, Alison set herself the goal of achieving a new dream: to one day climb Mount Kilimanjaro—and she reached the summit on her fortieth birthday . Gasping for air once again, she stood at the highest point in Africa, determined to never again take a single breath for granted . Perfect for readers who love spiritual authors traveling abroad, such as Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea), this memoir is an amazingly inspirational tale of how a life- changing accident transformed one woman’s faith .

“[A] profound writer… a true pilgrim…There is muscle and tears here, and the fiercest flame of inspiration.” —Richard Gere

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SUGGESTED ORDER PLUME • BACKLIST 35 READING GROUP GUIDES

All Plume Reading Group Guides are available at www.penguin.com New for Summer 2009

And Sometimes Why The Beach House The Little Book Rebecca Johnson Jane Green Selden Edwards July 2009 June 2009 June 2009 More Than It Hurts You Somebody Else’s Daughter Wit’s End Darin Strauss Elizabeth Brundage Karen Joy Fowler July 2009 May 2009 May 2009 Also Available DOROTHY ALLISON TRACY CHEVALIER PATRY FRANCIS Cavedweller Burning Bright The Liar’s Diary Trash Falling Angels Bastard Out of Carolina Girl With a Pearl Earring Danielle Ganek The Lady and the Unicorn Lulu Meets God and JULIA ALVAREZ The Virgin Blue Doubts Him How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents In the Name of Salomé JENNIFER CHIAVERINI CATHERINE GOLDHAMMER In the Time of the Butterflies The Cross-Country Quilters Still Life with Chickens Something to Declare The Master Quilter JANE GREEN ¡Yo! The Quilter’s Legacy Second Chance The Runaway Quilt Swapping Lives Maggie Anton Round Robin Rashi’s Daughters Book 1: Joheved The Other Woman Rashi’s Daughters Book 2: Miriam T COOPER Adena Halpern Lipshitz 6, or The Ten Best Days of My Life PHILIP BEARD Two Angry Blondes Dear Zoe JON HASSLER LISA DAILY The New Woman DAVID BENIOFF Fifteen Minutes of Shame City of Thieves The Staggerford Flood MARISA DE LOS SANTOS VIRGINIA IRONSIDE SUSAN BREEN Love Walked In The Fiction Class No! I Don’t Want to E .L . DOCTOROW Join a Book Club ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE City of God The Doctor’s Wife DIANE JOHNSON ALEXANDRA ENDERS L’Affaire JULIE L . CANNON Bride Island Le Divorce The Romance Readers’ Book Club Le Marriage EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY JENNIFER LEE CARRELL The Garden of Ruth SHAWNE JOHNSON The Speckled Monster The Song of Hannah Getting Our Breath Back Interred with Their Bones The Triumph of Deborah CATHY KELLY HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN CHARLOTTE FAIRBAIRN Someone Like You Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader

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NINA KILLHAM BERNICE L . MCFADDEN ALICE PUNG Believe Me This Bitter Earth Unpolished Gem Loving Donovan STEPHEN KING Sugar AYN RAND The Gunslinger: The Warmest December Anthem The Dark Tower I Atlas Shrugged The Drawing of the Three: JUDITH MOORE The Fountainhead The Dark Tower II Fat Girl The Waste Lands: EVA RICE The Dark Tower III KATE MORGENROTH The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets Wizard and Glass: They Did It with Love R .A . SCOTTI The Dark Tower IV TONI MORRISON Basilica HARI KUNZRU Paradise DENNIS SMITH The Impressionist MEG ROSOFF San Francisco Is Burning Transmission Just in Case My Revolutions What I Was DARIN STRAUSS Chang and Eng MARK KURZEM BÁRBARA MUJICA The Mascot Frida ECKHART TOLLE A New Earth Sarah-Kate Lynch JOYCE CAROL OATES House of Daughters We Were the Mulvaneys Kate Veitch Without a Backward Glance JUDITH LINDBERGH GEORGE ORWELL The Thrall’s Tale 1984 ROBYN YOUNG Brethren ANNA MAXTED Animal Farm Crusade A Tale of Two Sisters GREG PALAST LYNN YORK LEE MARTIN Armed Madhouse The Piano Teacher Quakertown ARTURO PÉREZ-REVERTE The Sweet Life RUSSELL MARTIN Queen of the South Danielle Picasso’s War Laurie viera Rigler Younge-Ullman JOHN MAY Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict Falling Under Poe & Fanny JOHN PERKINS The Secret History of the American Empire Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

SUGGESTED ORDER PLUME • READING GROUP GUIDES 37 Naptime activist, blogger, and MomsRising.org executive team member Amy Tiemann provides moms with practical steps for bringing their own dreams back into focus Mojo Mom Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family Amy Tiemann, Ph.D. Photo © Sue Ann Miller © Sue Photo

Mommy Mojo is that feeling you get when you’re activist” and changing the world in one hour a week; a parent at the top of your game: juggling the kids making peace with chaos as a sign of a productive and the many facets of your life, and keeping your household; and enlisting Daddy as a mojo partner own needs in balance. While plenty of books provide for a happier relationship. Providing dozens of ways information on pregnancy, child care, and the to embrace parenting while fostering a strong sense controversy between stay-at-home mothers and career of personal identity and satisfaction, Mojo Mom is a women, none address the question “Who am I, now dynamic new lifeline for every mother who has felt she that I’m a mother?” In Mojo Mom, Amy Tiemann has no time for herself. delivers the answers. “Mojo Mom hits the spot, for any mom who needs a friend. It’s Centered around three essential steps—self-care, honest, personal, political, caring, and inspirational, all at the same time. This is the mom-book to keep at your bedside.” creativity, and leadership, Mojo Mom helps every reader —Miriam Peskowitz, author of The Truth Behind the Mommy explore her true self, whether she has been a mom for Wars and coauthor of The Daring Book for Girls three months or thirteen years, along with practical advice for sparking long-range wishes and goals. Calling for an end to the “mommy wars,” Tiemann encourages each mom to uncover her individual calling, with advice on: long-term career and financial planning that goes beyond “opting out”; becoming a “naptime

38 APRIL • GOTHAM BOOKS A Gotham Books Trade Paperback Original

“Mojo Mom is a much-needed catalyst for living the precious gift of personal power we each long for at every stage of life. Give this book to every Mom you know— but give it to yourself first!” —Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International

A former high school teacher, AMY TIEMANN holds a Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University and is on the executive team of MomsRising.org. A major voice in the mothers-advocacy movement, she has been interviewed in newspapers coast to coast and on television shows such as Today. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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SUGGESTED ORDER APRIL • GOTHAM BOOKS 39 The host of the Golf Channel’s Swing Fault Solutions helps golfers get fit in a program enhanced by Hank Haney’s legendary swing analysis

Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes Fix Your Swing by Putting Flexibility, Strength, and Stamina in Your Golf Bag Katherine Roberts Photo © Jaime Kowal Photography Photography © Jaime Kowal Photo

Golfers spend outrageous sums of money every year on • Exercises to obtain yoga-quality levels of new balls, clubs, and swing instruction in an effort to flexibility improve their game. But what holds back most amateur • Nine of the most common swing flaws, from golfers isn’t their equipment or even their swing; it’s “coming over the top” to the “chicken wing,” their fitness. In Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes, seasoned with exercises designed by Roberts to overcome instructor and fitness expert Katherine Roberts outlines the physical deficiencies at the root of the a precise combination of flexibility and strength problem training that will get any golfer in shape to play • A full workout program for better back health their best. Including swing corrections by top-flight and stronger core muscles instructor Hank Haney, Roberts’s program features:

• Tests to measure baseline stability and mobility Enhanced with one hundred photographs, Swing Flaws • The ideal warm-up exercises for golfers and Fitness Fixes is an invigorating new approach that • Techniques for simultaneously improving solves age-old golfing woes. posture, balance, and strength

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“My students have improved their game with Katherine’s unique and effective program.”—Hank Haney

“Working with Katherine for the last couple of years has allowed me to compete at a very high level.” —Gary McCord, pro golfer and CBS broadcaster

“Katherine’s program gives you the edge you need to crush it off the tee!” —Sean “The Beast” Fister, long-drive champion

KATHERINE ROBERTS is a certified fitness trainer, yoga instructor, and golf coach. Host of a golf-fitness show on the Golf Channel, she teaches clinics for ESPN and Nike and gives presentations at top resorts worldwide. Also the author of Yoga for Golfers, she divides her time between Scottsdale, Arizona, and Vancouver.

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SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS 41 Now in paperback: the New York Times bestselling book of inspirational advice and wisdom for young women from the powerhouse public speaker, star of CSI: NY, and bestselling author of Letters to a Young Brother Letters to a Young Sister DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper Foreword by Gabrielle Union

Letters to a Young Sister unfolds as a series of letters challenging questions. Letters to a Young Sister features written by older brother Hill to a universal Young answers from admirable women such as Angela Bassett, Sistah. She’s up against the same challenges as every Ciara, Michelle Obama, Chanel Iman, Tatyana Ali, young woman: from relating to her parents and Eve, Malinda Williams, Kim Porter, and many more. dealing with peer pressure, to juggling schoolwork and Every young sister needs to know that it’s okay to crushes and keeping faith in the face of heartache. In dream big and to deFINE her own destiny. For young his straight-talking style, Hill Harper helps his young women, parents, teachers, and mentors sister build self-confidence, self-reliance, self-respect, alike, this is a book that will educate, and encourages her on her journeys toward becoming uplift, and inspire. a strong and successful woman. Harper also hits up his friends—via e-mail—to help him answer some truly

A Hardcover Bestseller: Letters to a Young Sister debuted at #5 on the New York Times Advice, How to, and Miscellaneous List. There are 85,000 copies in print after five printings.

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42 MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS “When Hill told me about Letters to a Young Sister, my first thought was how badly I could have used a book like this growing up.” —Gabrielle Union

“This book would make a wonderful gift for any teen looking to find her place in life.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

HILL HARPER is the author of the award-winning bestseller Letters to a Young Brother. Also an award-winning actor, he currently stars in CSI: NY. Hill graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and cum laude from Harvard Law School and holds a master’s degree from the Kennedy School of Government. Named one of People’s Sexiest Men Alive, he lives in Los Angeles.

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SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS 43 The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. America’s most visible sports commentator recounts some of the most dramatic moments in American sports and pays tribute to the man who inspired him—his beloved father Always by My Side A Heartwarming Story of Faith, Loyalty, Love, Optimism, Courage, and Grace Jim Nantz with Eli Spielman

Photo © John P. Filo CBS © John P. Photo Foreword by President George H.W. Bush

As vivid as an instant replay, Always by My Side gives with former president George H. W. Bush and his readers an insider’s look into an unprecedented sixty- friendships with such sports royalty as Arnold Palmer, three-day stretch from February through April of 2007, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Peyton when Jim Nantz became the first broadcaster to call the Manning, Tony Dungy, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Super Bowl, the Final Four, and the Masters. Though Mike Krzyzewski, John Wooden, and many others. Nantz was unable to share the voyage with his dad, the Always by My Side turns every devoted son felt his father’s presence every step of the day into Father’s Day. way, and used this championship odyssey to celebrate the people, venues, and moments that tapped into all “Wonderfully well-written and heartfelt.” the goodness that his dad—and his dad’s generation— —Don Imus represent. “This book is fantastic . . . and so timely given the roiled circumstances in our In recounting the highlights of more than two thrilling culture.”—Rush Limbaugh decades with CBS Sports, Nantz recalls legendary voices of his youth—such as Jim McKay, Chris Schenkel, Pat “The book is filled with fun anecdotes Summerall, Jack Whitaker, and Dick Enberg—who that sports fans would trade over a beer with a guy who’s rubbed elbows with sparked his imagination and shaped his style. everyone from superstar quarterbacks Always by My Side traces Nantz’s life and career, Tom Brady and Dan Marino and along the way readers are treated to an array to venerable coaches.” of memories, including Nantz’s special relationship —New Haven Register

Always by My Side was a hardcover New York Times bestseller with 151,000 copies in print after six printings.

44 MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS With a New Afterword

“Like life, this is a book filled with lighter moments, more challenging moments…and good relationships.” —Matt Lauer, NBC’s Today show

“Entertaining, enlightening, and often touching.” —President George H. W. Bush

Jim Nantz, the 2007 National Sportscaster of the Year, is the signature face and voice of CBS Sports. He has covered nearly every one of the network’s sporting events since 1985. He lives in Connecticut. Eli Spielman is an award-winning marketing consultant and writer. He has won seven Emmys during his twenty-five years with CBS Sports. He lives in New Jersey.

978-1-592-40408-7 MARKETING U.S. $15.00 /$16.50 CAN. • 12-copy floor display, On Sale: 5/5/09 978-1-592-40473-5, U.S. $180.00/$198.00 CAN. Memoir/Sports • Author Events 5 5/16” x 8” / 288 pages • National Publicity One 8-page b/w photo insert • National Feature Attention Rights: W00 • Radio Tour Pub History: Gotham Books HC, • Online Promotions 978-1-592-40361-5

SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS 45 The intimate, life-affirming journey of recovery and rehabilitation from a major stroke, written by one of morning television’s most beloved personalities After the Stroke My Journey Back to Life Mark McEwen with Daniel Paisner Foreword by Bill Cosby

Mark McEwen was at the top of his game and enjoying life when he suffered a stroke. Misdiagnosis delayed his treatment and nearly cost him his life. A candid and moving memoir, After the Stroke traces one man’s recovery while his wife worked valiantly to care for both him and their children. McEwen offers insights into the warning signs of stroke as well as prevention and treatment options. Though stroke is the number-one cause of disability among adults in the United States—and the third-leading cause of death—it is also one of the least-discussed conditions.

“Mark McEwen is one of America’s great communicators. Read this book and you’ll learn about the adventures of morning television, but you’ll also find out how love and hard work brought a man who almost died back to life.” —Harry Smith, anchor of The Early Show on CBS

“A book about what you can do to save a life, including your own. [McEwen] is a true champion, committed to restoring dignity to stroke survivors.” —James Baranski, CEO of the National Stroke Association

978-1-592-40460-5 MARKETING Mark McEwen was a fixture U.S. $15.00/$16.50 CAN. • Published for National Stroke on CBS’s The Early Show from On sale: 5/5/09 Month 1987 to 2002 and also worked • Author Lectures as a correspondent on the prime- Memoir/Health • Radio Tour time news magazine 48 Hours. 5 5/16” x 8” / 256 pages • National Print Features Rights: E00 • www.markmcewen.com At the time of his stroke, he Pub History: Gotham Books HC, was an anchor at WKMG-TV (with the title Change in the in Orlando. He lives in central Weather) 978-1-592-40460-5 Florida. Daniel Paisner is the author or coauthor of more than forty books, including seven New Photo © Chris Garlington Photo York Times bestsellers.

SUGGESTED ORDER 46 MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS A spirited look at the history of alcohol, from the dawn of civilization to the modern day Drink A Cultural History of Alcohol Iain Gately

Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind’s love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day.

Drink further documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, the Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, the slave trade, and the failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the world’s most famous drinks—and the world’s most famous drinkers. Packed with trivia and colorful characters, Drink amounts to an intoxicating history of the world.

“Thorough, informative, briskly readable, and witty.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“This is a book to be read with pleasure, best sipped in leisure like good bourbon.” —Dallas Morning News

Iain Gately is the author of 978-1-592-40464-3 MARKETING Tobacco: A Cultural History of U.S. $18.00 /$20.00 CAN. • Online Promotions How an Exotic Plant Seduced On Sale: 5/5/09 Civilization. Raised in Hong History/Food Kong, he studied law at 6” x 9” / 560 pages Cambridge University and Rights: E00 worked in the financial markets Pub History: Gotham Books HC, of London, where he currently 978-1-592-40303-5 lives. Photo © Paul Newton © Paul Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • GOTHAM BOOKS 47 From getting the best value from the boulangerie to ordering a steak without getting sneered at, an A-to-Z guide to fitting in en Français Pardon My French Unleash Your Inner Gaul Charles Timoney

Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown into French life headfirst twenty-five years ago when he and his wife moved to her native France. He had studied French in school, but his memory of vocabulary lists and conjugation drills proved no match for day-to-day living. As he blundered his way toward fluency, he kept a list of words and phrases that wonderfully (sometimes wickedly) epitomized aspects of the French culture—and were used only by native speakers.

Pardon My French tackles the delightful absurdities of French life and language and steers readers past the potential embarrassments of speaking French in France. It is a book no student, traveler, or language maven should be without.

“Coming to France? Forget the rest, read the best. This book will save you from being the butt of the Frenchman’s humour.” —French News

“A Francophile’s humorous guide to the French language. A kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves meets A Year in the Merde.” —Bookseller

978-1-592-40462-9 MARKETING A native of Oxford, England, U.S. $14.00 / $15.50 CAN. • National Print Features Charles Timoney has lived On Sale: 6/2/09 in France for the past twenty- five years, working as a patent Language/French 5 5/16” x 8” / 256 pages attorney. He lives outside Paris Illustrated with cartoons with his wife and their two throughout children. Rights: E00 Pub History: Gotham Books HC, 978-1-592-40373-8 Photo courtesy of the author of courtesy Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 48 JUNE • GOTHAM BOOKS High notes, high drama, and high jinks collide as elite collegiate a cappella groups compete to be the best in the nation Pitch Perfect The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory Mickey Rapkin

Journalist Mickey Rapkin follows a season in collegiate a cappella, covering the breathtaking displays of vocal talent, the groupies (yes, a cappella singers have groupies), the rock-star partying (and run-ins with the law), and all the bitter rivalries. Along the way are encounters with a cappella alums like John Legend and Diane Sawyer and fans from Prince to presidents.

Bringing a lively new twist to America’s fascination with talent showdowns, Pitch Perfect is sure to strike a chord with readers.

“Finally, a journalist with the courage to investigate the cutthroat world of college a cappella. . . .Rapkin has the perfectly bemused and giddy tone to tell these stories with the reverence they deserve.” —New York Post

“Rapkin’s book reveals a world with as much discord as harmony.” —Newsweek

“Look out, barbershop quartets. Mickey Rapkin uncovers the dirty truth behind collegiate a cappella groups.” —Marie Claire

Mickey Rapkin is a senior 978-1-592-40463-6 MARKETING editor at GQ and has written U.S. $15.00 /$16.50 CAN. • Author Events for The New York Times and On Sale: 4/7/09 • Radio Tour Entertainment Weekly. He lives in • National Review and Music Brooklyn. Feature Attention 5 5/16” x 8” / 288 pages • Online Promotions Rights: W00 • www.mickeyrapkin.com Pub History: Gotham Books HC, 978-1-592-40376-9 Photo © Taghi Naderzad © Taghi Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER APRIL • GOTHAM BOOKS 49 An inside look at the creation of the new breed of superstar golfers Driven Teen Phenoms, Mad Parents, Swing Science and the Future of Golf Kevin Cook

Golf keeps looking for the next phenom who will take over the game the way Tiger Woods did in the mid-nineties. But in all likelihood this young golfer will not be discovered but created in a gated three-hundred-acre complex in Florida called the David Leadbetter Golf Academy. Here exists a fierce training ground, where ultra-high-tech cameras provide cutting-edge swing analysis and young players spend almost every waking hour on the driving range.

In Driven, award-winning journalist Kevin Cook shows how the game has evolved from a sport of paunchy men to one populated with muscular youngsters blasting tape- measure drives. A vivid snapshot of a rapidly changing game, Driven is a riveting look at the making of golf’s next generation.

“Stalag Leadbetter sounds like the golf-learning inferno these kids all need—to get away from their imperious parents. Driven is not a bedtime story, but it’s a must read!”—Gary McCord, PGA Tour pro, bestselling author, and CBS golf commentator

978-1-592-40469-8 MARKETING Kevin Cook is the author of U.S. $15.00/$16.50 CAN. • Radio Tour Tommy’s Honor, which won the On Sale: 7/7/09 • Online Promotions United States Golf Association’s 2007 Herbert Warren Wind Golf 5 5/16” x 8” / 240 pages Book Award. An award-winning Rights: E00 journalist and former editor in One 8-page b/w photo insert chief of Golf Magazine, Cook Pub History: Gotham Books HC, has been a senior editor at Sports 978-1-592-40394-3 Illustrated, executive editor of Travel & Leisure Golf, and guest commentator on CNN and Photo © Pamela Marin © Pamela Photo ESPN. He lives in New York City.

SUGGESTED ORDER 50 JULY • GOTHAM BOOKS From a world-renowned neurologist, the first book to feature a scientifically substantiated program for the only treatment for Alzheimer’s: prevention The Anti-Alzheimer’s Prescription The Science-Proven Plan to Start at Any Age Vincent Fortanasce, M.D.

Alzheimer’s is a devastating and frightening disease, and as baby boomers age it’s on the brink of becoming the great epidemic of the twenty-first century. Fortunately, by making proper lifestyle choices and avoiding certain risk factors, most people can prevent Alzheimer’s, and it can be delayed in those who are genetically predisposed. The Anti- Alzheimer’s Prescription presents a unique four-step program that includes menus, recipes, exercises, stress reduction techniques, and neurobics to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s by as much as 70 percent.

Dr. Fortanasce, who witnessed his own father’s painful decline from the disease, is determined to stop Alzheimer’s from becoming pandemic.

“The brain has a marvelous power to muster up its own internal medicine to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. This book will show you how.” —William Sears, M.D., author of the Sears Parenting Library series

“The perfect game plan to prevent Alzheimer’s disease.” —Tommy Lasorda, former MLB pitcher and manager

Vincent Fortanasce, 978-1-592-40461-2 MARKETING M.D., directs a highly ranked U.S. $15.00/$16.50 CAN. • Author Lectures neurological rehabilitation center On Sale: 8/4/09 • National Publicity in Southern California. Named • National Print Features Health/Brain Science one of the top 100 physicians in • Online Promotions 5 5/16” x 8” / 352 pages • www.anti-alzheimers.com Los Angeles county, he hosts a Rights: W00 monthly radio show, syndicated Pub History: Gotham Books HC, worldwide on EWTN. He lives 978-1-592-40279-0 in Southern California. Photo © Vincent Hazat, Getty images images Getty Hazat, © Vincent Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER AUGUST • GOTHAM BOOKS 51 A beautiful keepsake that families will treasure, in the tradition of bestselling fill-in journals like All About Me

After I’m Gone Thoughts, Wishes, Memories, and Secrets to Share with Those I Love Susan Davies

create your own last lecture

Death is something we all must face, and we will that they want to share. There is also room for special inevitably leave loved ones behind to pick up the pieces messages for spouses, children, grandchildren, and close and go on with their lives. After I’m Gone gives anyone, friends, as well as practical and specific instructions for at any stage of life, the opportunity to record a unique memorial services and locating important documents. personal history, to shape a lasting legacy, to leave Filling out the journal will help clear a conscience, behind details regarding final wishes, and to help loved reveal long-kept secrets, preserve little-known family ones through the grieving process. history, and pass wisdom and lasting insight to a new generation. Through a series of more than two hundred questions and prompts, readers examine the way they wish to be After I’m Gone will leave readers with the peace of mind remembered as they delve into their memories and past; that nothing important was left unsaid. The result is a their values and beliefs; their favorite things, cherished thoughtful book to share with loved ones, filled with possessions, joys, and regrets; and lessons learned some of the most meaningful messages they’ll ever read.

52 AUGUST • GOTHAM BOOKS A Gotham Books Trade Paperback Original

SUSAN DAVIES is a licensed social worker and experienced grief counselor. With more than three decades of experience in the mental health field, she practices in Torrance, California.

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SUGGESTED ORDER AUGUST • GOTHAM BOOKS 53 PERFECT FOR THE NEW YEAR

HOW STARBUCKS SAVED MY LIFE DO YOU! Michael Gates Hill Russell Simmons with Chris Morrow 978-1-592-40404-9 978-1-592-40368-4 U.S.13.00/ $14.50 CAN. U.S. $15.00/ $16.50 CAN.

WHY GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS GET IN THE GAME James Hollis, Ph.D. Cal Ripken, Jr., with Donald T. Phillips 978-1-592-40341-7 978-1-592-42080-9 U.S. $15.00/ $16.50 CAN. U.S. $15.00/ $15.00 CAN.

SUGGESTED ORDER 54 GOTHAM BOOKS • BACKLIST AND THE NEW YOU

IT’S CALLED WORK FOR REASON! SELF MAGAZINE’S 15 MINUTES Larry Winget TO YOUR BEST SELF 978-1-592-40281-6 Lucy Danziger and the Editors of Self U.S. $15.00/ $18.00 CAN. 978-1-592-40323-2 U.S. $25.00/ $30.00 CAN.

FINDING MEANING IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL James Hollis, Ph.D. Thomas Moore 978-1-592-40207-6 978-1-592-40133-8 U.S. $15.00/ $21.00 CAN. U.S. $15.00/ $21.00 CAN.

SUGGESTED ORDER GOTHAM BOOKS • BACKLIST 55 The amazing story of what Inc. calls “The coolest little startup in America.” Revolution in a Bottle From Worm Poop to a Garbage Empire That Is Redefining Green Business A Tom Szaky, founder of TerraCycle Portfolio Paperback Original

While a freshman at Princeton, Tom Szaky co-founded a company that recycles garbage into worm poop, liquefies it, then packages it in used soda bottles, creating TerraCycle Plant Food. Five years later, this all-natural, highly effective fertilizer is available in every Home Depot, Target,Wal‑Mart, and more than 3000 other locations. It’s a thrilling entrepreneurial success story—and just the beginning of what makes Revolution in a Bottle fascinating.

Szaky argues for a new approach to business, an “eco- capitalism” based on a “triple bottom line.” Every business, he says, should aspire to be good for people, good for the environment, and (last but definitely not least) good for profits. He shows how the first two goals can help the third.

Many companies brag about being environmentally- friendly. But no one does it as effectively as TerraCycle. Now they’re also reusing garbage to create new products, from bird feeders to tote bags, and even engaging major companies like Kraft and General Mills to sponsor their waste streams. 978-1-59184-250-7 MARKETING In the spirit of TerraCycle, this book will be printed on U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • 6-copy counter display, On Sale: 3/31/09 978-1-59184-252-1 U.S. $90.00 / 100% recycled materials. $99.00 CAN. Business / Environment • National Publicity 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 256 pages • Author Lectures and Events Tom Szaky, 26, is co-founder and CEO of TerraCycle, producer of Rights: W00 • Online Promotions the world’s first products that are made entirely from and packaged Pub History: A Portfolio Original • Tie-ins with Earth Day entirely in waste. Based in Trenton, New Jersey, TerraCycle now has • www.terracycle.net annual sales of $8 million, sustained five-year growth of over 200% per year, and has been featured by hundreds of major media outlets.

SUGGESTED ORDER 56 APRIL • PORTFOLIO “A book about how to succeed anywhere—not just in business.” —Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley It’s Not About the Coffee Leadership Principles From a Life at Starbucks Updated with a New Howard Behar with Janet Goldstein Afterword Foreword by Howard Schultz, Starbucks Founder and Chairman

During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the company grow into a world- renowned brand. Now he reveals the ten principles that guided his leadership—and not one of them is about coffee.

Behar shows that if you think of your staff as people (not labor costs) they will achieve amazing results. He discusses the importance of building trust, telling hard truths, thinking independently, and more. And he shares inside stories of key turning points for Starbucks, as it fought to hang on to its culture while growing exponentially.

“The most down-to-earth, in-the-trenches, straightforward, and utterly useful leadership book I’ve ever read.” —James A. Autry, author of The Servant Leader

“The tips inside are intelligent, heartfelt, tested and honed in reality. Bravo.” —David Allen, author of Getting Things Done

Howard behar joined Starbucks as a senior executive in 1989, 978-1-59184-272-9 MARKETING when it had just twenty-eight stores. His positions have included U.S. $15.00 / $16.50 CAN. • National Publicity executive vice president of sales and operations, president of On Sale: 4/28/09 • Business Radio Campaign Starbucks International, and president of Starbucks North America. • Visit www.HowardBehar.com Business / Leadership He has also served on the company’s board of directors since 1996. 5 1/16” x 8” / 208 pages He lives in Seattle with his wife, Lynn. Rights: W00 Janet goldstein is a publishing consultant who has worked with Pub History: Portfolio HC, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and nonprofits. 978-1-59184-192-0 Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER MAY • PORTFOLIO 57 “This is the best book on Buffett in years. Compelling, penetrating, and highly valuable.” —Lawrence Kudlow, host, CNBC’s Kudlow and Company Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect What You Can—and Can’t—Learn from the World’s Greatest Investor Vahan Janjigian

Warren Buffett is the most successful investor of all time. His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made him one of the world’s richest men. Yet while his track record is hard to argue with, the Buffett way isn’t the only way, nor is it always the best way, to invest.

Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect dispels many myths about Buffett and his “solid as a rock” style. It shows readers how to learn from the master’s best moves while avoiding strategies that don’t apply to small investors -- and avoiding Buffett’s mistakes, such as sometimes riding his winners too long.

“The author takes a contrarian – or at least mildly dissenting – view of Mr. Buffett’s investing acumen. . . Mr. Janjigian also sheds light on Mr. Buffett’s magic. Mr. Buffett has two large advantages that the average investor doesn’t have, advantages that are often overlooked by those who try to mimic him.” —The Wall Street Journal

“This is exactly what has been missing from the litany of Buffett books. Vahan’s razor sharp arguments make this book a unique— and important— work for every Buffett friend or foe.” —Barbara Marcin, portfolio manager, Gabelli Blue Chip Value Fund

978-1-59184-270-5 MARKETING “Clear and compelling.” —Publishers Weekly U.S. $16.00 / $17.50 CAN. • National Publicity On Sale: 4/28/09 • Business Radio Campaign

Business / Investing VAHAN JANJIGIAN is chief investment strategist at Forbes. He is 5 5/16” x 8” / 256 pages coauthor of the Forbes Stock Market Course, editor of the Forbes b/w charts and graphs Growth Investor and Special Situation Survey investment newsletters, througout Rights: W00 and a frequent contributor to Forbes and Forbes.com. He also sits on Pub History: Portfolio HC, the investment committee of Hillview Capital Advisors, LLC. He 978-1-59184-196-8 lives in Rye Brook, New York. Also available as an e-book

SUGGESTED ORDER 58 MAY • PORTFOLIO “Well-founded advice based on hard-won experience.” —Financial Times How to Get Rich One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets Felix Dennis

Felix Dennis is an expert at proving people wrong. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, he created a publishing empire, founded Maxim magazine, made himself one of the richest people in the UK, and had a blast in the process.

How to Get Rich is different from any other book on the subject because Dennis isn’t selling snake oil, investment tips, or motivational claptrap. He merely wants to help people embrace entrepreneurship, and to share lessons he learned the hard way. He reveals, for example, why a regular paycheck is like crack cocaine; why great ideas are vastly overrated; and why “ownership isn’t the important thing, it’s the only thing.”

“Nothing if not entertaining, even inspiring.” —Time

“An unexpected gem.” —Forbes

“Engaging and blunt.” —BusinessWeek

“Entertaining and practical advice.” —Inc

“If Machiavelli sat down at his iMac to confect The Billionaire Prince, it might sound remarkably like Felix Dennis’s How to Get Rich.” —The Wall Street Journal 978-1-59184-271-2 MARKETING U.S. $16.00 / $17.50 CAN. • National Publicity FELIX DENNIS is the chairman of Dennis Publishing, which publishes On Sale: 5/26/09 • Visit www.felixdennis.com The Week among many other magazines. He was the founder Business /Memoir of Maxim, one of the most successful new magazines of the last 5 1/2” x 8 7/16” / 320 pages decade. He has written several volumes of poetry that have been Rights: E00 performed live onstage by the Royal Shakespeare Company. His other Pub History: Portfolio HC, interests include breeding rare pigs, drinking French wine, collecting 978-1-59184-205-7 first edition books, and avoiding business meetings. He has homes in Also available as an e-book London, Stratford-upon-Avon, New York City, Connecticut, and the Caribbean island of Mustique.

SUGGESTED ORDER JUNE • PORTFOLIO 59 The classic work by the American master of art and design— repackaged for a new era Milton Glaser: Graphic Design Milton Glaser Photo © Molly Kromhout Photo

Widely regarded as the most famous book of its kind, Now, repackaged and redesigned in a stunning new Milton Glaser: Graphic Design explores the extraordinary paperback edition, this design-world classic is as vital as achievement of America’s pre-eminent graphic artist. it has ever been. In it, Glaser not only undertakes a remarkably wide- “Elegant . . . a book in which the text and the picture positively ranging representation of his oeuvre but also addresses embrace and dance together . . . to read this book and to look at the influences on his work, the responsibilities of the the pictures is almost one and the same activity.” artist, the hierarchies of the traditional art world, and the —The New York Times role of graphic design in the area of his creative growth. “A resplendent collection… Chock full of pictures that have, His work ranges from posters to book and record however subtly, changed our visual lives.” —New York covers; from store and restaurant design to toy creations, magazine formats, and logotypes—all of which define “A dazzler… presents a brilliantly representative gallery of the work of one of the outstanding graphic artists of our time.” the look of our time. —Publishers Weekly

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60 May • OVERLOOK MILTON GLASER, born in New York in 1929, graduated from Cooper Union in New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Glaser was co-founder and design director of New York magazine and a founder of Pushpin Studio, a group whose work has been exhibited around the world. His other books include Art Is Work and Drawing Is Thinking, both available from The Overlook Press. He has been an instructor and a board member at the School of Visual Arts, New York, since 1961. His work has been the subject of exhibitions around the world; he has been honored with one-man shows at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou. Among many awards throughout the years, he received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, for his profound and meaningful long-term contribution to the contemporary practice of design. He is married to Shirley Girton Glaser and lives in New York City and Woodstock, New York.

978-1-59020-207-4 MARKETING U.S. $29.95 / $33.00 CAN. • National Review On Sale: 4/28/09 Attention • Author Events Art / Design 5 1/2” x 7 3/4” / 320 pages Rights: W05 Pub History: Overlook HC, 978- 0-87951-013-8 Overlook PB, 978-0-87951-188-3

SUGGESTED ORDER May • OVERLOOK 61 Finally in paperback—a “sweet treat, just in time for summer” (Publishers Weekly) for ice cream lovers everywhere Ice Cream The Delicious History Marilyn Powell

In this delicious history of ice cream, we are taken on an exotic journey from the old world to the new, from ice harvesting in ancient China to birthday celebrations in the age of Louis XIV, and even to otherworldly Pop-art ice cream cones painted by Andy Warhol. It’s a story filled with adventure, myth, and intriguing trivia. Did you know the Scots believed ice cream parlors were dens of iniquity? Or that there are more than seven hundred flavors around the world? Ice cream is one of the world’s oldest and most democratic of pleasures. Complete with illustrations and beloved recipes, Ice Cream: The Delicious Historyis pure delight.

“A book to inspire a sundae kind of love.” —Hartford Courant

“Like Mark Kurlansky’s bestselling Salt… Powell’s impressive research and personal reflections illuminate an overlooked cranny of our day-to-day lives.” —Toronto Star

978-1-59020-208-1 MARKETING MARILYN POWELL has taught at Sarah Lawrence College in New York U.S. $14.00 / $15.50 CAN. • National Review and and published in Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum,and Books in On Sale: 4/28/09 Feature Attention Canada. An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and producer, she holds • Online Promotions a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. Food/History 4 5/8” x 7 3/4” / 256 pages b/w illustrations throughout Rights: E00 Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-58567-797-9

SUGGESTED ORDER 62 May • OVERLOOK “A dark Conradian drama, set in a beautifully illuminated Istanbul, where the past is always with us.” —Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Enlightenment A Novel Maureen Freely

In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Can Jeannie be saved? Is she as innocent as she seems?

“A story almost impossible to summarize but hard to forget. Freely is an almost perversely original writer. . .A brave, unflinching work of art.” —The Washington Post Book World

“[Freely] possesses an exceptional command of language. . .An ingenious novel about appearance and reality. . .You will not put it down.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“A complex, often riveting novel. . .quietly stunning.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

MAUREEN FREELY was born in 978-1-59020-209-8 MARKETING the United States and grew up U.S. $14.95 / $16.50 CAN. • National Review Attention in Istanbul. She was educated at On Sale: 4/28/09 • Author Events Harvard University. Perhaps best • Online Promotions Fiction known as translator of the Nobel 5 3/8” x 8” / 400 pages Prize-winning author Orhan Rights: E00 Pamuk, she is a journalist and Pub History: Overlook HC, a professor at the University of 978-1-59020-074-2 Warwick. She lives in England. Photo © Cathryn Kilgarriff © Cathryn Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER May • OVERLOOK 63 A new and utterly surprising look at the history behind the birth of the United States The Fourth of July and the Founding of America Peter de Bolla

The United States is a nation that touts its diversity, but there is one tradition that Americans love to share. Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate (and, in effect, re-enact) the founding of their country. Independence Day is one of our favorite traditions—but much of the inherited lore that surrounds this holiday is mythological, not historical. In this book, Peter de Bolla teases out the true story of the Fourth of July. De Bolla traces the holiday’s history from 1776 through the Civil War, the Cold War, and the present. This enlightening exploration of America’s birthday offers a fascinating window into the history of the nation and its people.

“Americans, unlike poets, are made, not born. Peter de Bolla, in his witty monograph on that most patriotic of days, July 4, dismantles the making machinery…[An] elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America.” —The Financial Times

978-1-59020-210-4 MARKETING PETER DE BOLLA is Professor U.S. $14.95 / $16.50 CAN. • National Review and of Cultural History and Fellow On Sale: 4/28/09 Feature Attention of King’s College at Cambridge University. History / US 5 3/8” x 8” / 192 pages b/w illustrations throughout Rights: E00 Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-58567-933-1 Photo Courtesy of the Author of Courtesy Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 64 May • OVERLOOK “It’s been a long time since I’ve come across a set of lists quite so piquant and entertaining as Ten Bad Dates With De Niro.” —Louis Bayard, Salon (Critic’s Pick) Ten Bad Dates with De Niro A A Book of Alternative Movie Lists Leonard’s Pick* Edited by Richard T. Kelly Illustrated by Andrew Rae

What are the Top Ten movies for making cigarettes look cool? Do good films ever win the Oscar? What is film’s most tragic farewell, greatest opening-credit sequence, grisliest murder, loosest screen adaptation, most gratuitous use of sex and violence? How do you make a great movie without a movie camera? And why do Robert De Niro’s characters behave so badly to women? Born of the cinéphile’s well-known love of lists, Ten Bad Dates with De Niro is a symposium and celebration of viewing pleasures, private passions, and cinematic lost causes. Contributors include a fine cast of critics, filmmakers, and writers ranging from Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers to Andrew O’Hagan and George Pelecanos.

“A stimulating, necessary volume—and virtually alone among cinematic studies in the wit of its arguments and the seductiveness of its style.” —Richard Schickel, Los Angeles Times

“Addictive…” —Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Richard T. Kelly is a journalist 978-1-58567-971-3 MARKETING and documentary filmmaker. U.S. $17.95 / $20.00 CAN. • National Review Attention His books include Sean Penn: On Sale: 4/28/09 • Online Promotions His Life and Times, The Name of Film / Film Reference this Book is Dogme 95, a study of 5” x 8” / 480 pages the Danish film movement co- b/w illustrations throughout founded by Lars von Trier, Alan Rights: E00 Clarke, and the novel Crusaders. Pub History: Overlook/Rookery HC, 978-1-58567-960-7 He lives in London.

Photo © Sarah Lee © Sarah Photo *Leonard Maltin

SUGGESTED ORDER May • OVERLOOK / Rookery 65 Sixty-five luminous satirical tales, from “a writer who recorded, with unfailing style and wit, an era’s troubles and a people’s voice.” (Los Angeles Times) The Galosh And Other Stories Mikhail Zoshchenko Translated from the Russian by Jeremy Hicks

In his prime, satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko was more widely read in the Soviet Union than either Pasternak or Solzhenitsyn. His stories give expression to the experience of the ordinary Soviet citizen struggling to survive in the 1920s and ’30s, beset by an acute housing shortage, ubiquitous theft and corruption, and the impenetrable new language of the Soviet state. Written in the semi-educated talk of the man or woman on the street, these stories enshrine one of the greatest achievements of the people of the Soviet Union—their gallows humor. In The Galosh, Zoshchenko, the self-described “temporary substitute for the proletarian writer,” combines wicked satire with an earthy empathy and a brilliance that places him squarely in the classic Russian comic tradition.

“A very important book for anyone who loves Russian literature… This slender volume… fills a huge gap in our understanding of Soviet life and art.” —Buffalo News

“It is difficult to imagine a more accessible volume of Russian fiction.” —Los Angeles Times

978-1-59020-211-1 MARKETING MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO (1895- U.S. $13.00 / NCR • National Review and 1958) was born in Poltava, but On Sale: 5/26/09 Feature Attention lived nearly all of his life in St. • Online Promotions Petersburg, Russia. He published Fiction 5 3/8” x 8” / 213 pages his first collection of stories Rights: A00 in 1921 and was greeted with Pub History: Overlook HC, enormous popular success. He 978-1-58567-631-6 worked as a writer and translator of fiction, essays, screenplays, and drama until his death.

SUGGESTED ORDER 66 June • OVERLOOK “At once pleasing to look at and to read… An inviting brisk survey of Cossack history.” —The Washington Post Book World The Cossacks An Illustrated History John Ure

The Cossacks have always exerted a strong pull on the imagination, whether as the ferocious horsemen who harassed Napoleon’s retreating army all the way to the gates of Paris, or as the fiercely independent renegades responsible for famous and bloody rebellions over the last four centuries. This splendidly illustrated volume, complete with seven maps and 89 color and black-and-white illustrations, tells the tale of these great warriors, from the times of Ivan the Terrible through the Soviet empire. It is a story of rebellion, repression, and resurgence, irrevocably intertwined with Russian history and culture. The Cossacks emerge from this narrative in all their brilliant glory— dashing and cruel, unpredictable and immensely brave.

“An appropriately rattling good yarn. . .An excellent introduction to the subject.” —The Daily Telegraphy

“A fresh, sensual history.” —The Spectator

SIR JOHN URE started his career 978-1-59020-212-8 MARKETING with the British diplomatic U.S. $24.95 / $27.50 CAN. • National Review and service in Russia, where he On Sale: 5/26/09 Feature Attention learned the language, before History / Russian going on to be Ambassador to 8 1/4” x 10 3/4” / 288 pages Cuba, Brazil, and Sweden. He is 52 color & 37 b/w illustrations, the author of eight well-reviewed and 7 maps travel books and writes regularly Rights: E00 for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-58567-138-0 Telegraph, and Times Literary Supplement. He lives with his Photo © Caroline Ure © Caroline Photo family in Kent, England.

SUGGESTED ORDER June • OVERLOOK 67 “Brilliant, hilarious, violent little stories.” —George Saunders, The New York Times Book Review Today I Wrote Nothing The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms Translated from the Russian by Matvei Yankelevich

Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but the full breadth of his achievement is only in recent years, following the opening of Kharms’s archives, being recognized internationally. Thanks to the efforts of translator and poet Matvei Yankelevich, English language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms’s literary reputation—a reputation that grew in Russia even as the Soviet establishment worked to suppress it.

Both a major contribution for American scholars and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin McDonagh, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharmsis an invaluable collection for readers of innovative writing everywhere.

As featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times Book Review.

978-1-59020-042-1 MARKETING DANIIL KHARMS (1905-1942) was U.S. $15.95 / $17.50 CAN. • National Review and born in St. Petersburg and grew up On Sale: 5/26/09 Feature Attention amidst the Bolshevik revolution. • Author Events As a young man he became well Fiction • Online Promotions 6” x 9” / 288 pages known, along with other writers Rights: E00 in the OBERIU movement he Pub History: Overlook HC, founded, as an eccentric poet and 978-1-585677-43-6 performer of the early Soviet literary scene. He died of starvation in state custody after being arrested on suspicion of anti-Soviet activities.

SUGGESTED ORDER 68 June • OVERLOOK “Perhaps the greatest English language poem of this century.” (The New York Times) Finally in Paperback! Circus Days and Nights Robert Lax

Jack Kerouac called Robert Lax “one of the great original voices of our times...a Pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it, simply, in his own way.” Though many hold him to be one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, Lax has maintained a low profile, living and writing in seclusion on the Greek island of Patmos. In Circus Days and Nights, Lax’s three great long poems on the circus—“Circus of the Sun,” “Mogador’s Book,” and “Sunset City”—are collected together for the first time, placing this early masterwork in the position within American literature that it so richly deserves.

“Among America’s greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words.” —The New York Times Book Review

ROBERT LAX (1915-2000) 978-1-59020-213-5 MARKETING worked as an editor at The New U.S. $19.95 / $22.00 CAN. • National Review and Yorker and contributed to many On Sale: 5/26/09 Feature Attention anthologies and magazines Poetry including The New Yorker and 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” / 228 pages The New Republic. In 1962 he Rights: E00 moved to Patmos, Greece; since Pub History: Overlook HC, then his poetry and journals have 978-1-585670-41-3 been published throughout the world. His books include Circus of the Sun, 33 Poems, Love Had a Compass and A Thing That Is: New Poems.

SUGGESTED ORDER June • OVERLOOK 69 Meet the female “Braveheart” in this vibrantly imagined, rousingly atmospheric and impeccably researched novel of Jacobite Scotland White Rose Rebel A Novel of the Female “Braveheart” Janet Paisley

White Rose Rebel tells the riveting story of the historical figure known as Colonel Anne—Scottish heroine and female “Braveheart.” Anne Farquharson is elated when the Jacobites rebel in 1745, fighting to regain the Stuart throne of Scotland for Bonnie Prince Charlie, and horrified when her husband, Aeneas Macintosh, joins the English army. She raises his clan and, with her previous lover at her side, joins the uprising to become its legendary Colonel Anne. Inspired by the true story,White Rose Rebel marks the exciting debut of a wonderfully fresh and vivid voice in historical fiction, as it explores the grand themes of women’s rights and national identity, love and marital discord, loyalty and betrayal.

“Richly textured…a complex, passionate love triangle; a realistic look at the horrific consequences of war…a satisfying resolution… notable.” —Publishers Weekly

“Cinematic…a tragic slice of history converted into popular, impassioned fiction.” —Kirkus

“A little history and romance, and a lot of blood: What’s not to love?... Compelling.”—Tennessean

978-1-58567-972-0 Janet Paisley is an award- U.S. $14.95 / NCR winning poet, playwright, and On Sale: 5/26/09 screenwriter. Her poetry and stories have been translated into Fiction 5” x 7 3/4” / 400 pages seven languages and are widely Rights: A00 anthologized. White Rose Rebel is Pub History: Overlook/Rookery her first novel. She lives in HC, 978-1-58567-959-1 Scotland. Photo © Marianne Mitchelson Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER 70 June • OVERLOOK / Rookery “A fine new biography,” (The New Yorker) finally available in paperback John Stuart Mill Victorian Firebrand Richard Reeves

Now in paperback, Richard Reeves’s beautifully written book is the definitive life of one of the heroic giants of Victorian England. A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay “On Liberty” and one of the most passionate reformers and advocates of his revolutionary, opinionated age. As a journalist he fired off a weekly article on Irish land reform as the people of that nation starved, as an MP he introduced the first vote on women’s suffrage, fought to preserve free-speech and opposed slavery, and, in his private life, pursued for two decades a love affair with another man’s wife. Exploring Mill’s life and work in tandem, Reeves’s book is a riveting and authoritative biography of a man raised to promote happiness, whose life was spent in the pursuit of truth and liberty for all.

“The best book I have read in a long time” —Literary Review

RICHARD REEVES is a leading 978-0-1-59020-237-1 social and political commentator, U.S. $19.95 / $22.00 CAN. writing regularly for the Observer, On Sale: 6/30/09 New Statesman, Guardian, Biography and Prospect. He is a former 6” x 9” / 544 pages Columnist of the Year and Young Rights: E00 Financial Journalist of the Year Pub History: Overlook HC, and has held research fellowships 978-1-59020-076-6 at the Institute for Public Policy Research and the University of London. Photo © Caroline Forbes © Caroline Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER JULY • OVERLOOK 71 From the genius mind of John Cowper Powys, at long last a paperback of the classic novel of life, love, and an earthwork fortress with a bizarre power of influence Maiden Castle A Novel John Cowper Powys

The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists. Maiden Castle is the story of Dud No-man, a historical novelist widowed after a yearlong unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues to haunt him. Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness, Dud takes Wizzie Ravelston, an itinerant circus performer, into his home and heart. Yet even as the characters in Dorchester struggle with the perplexities of love, desire, and faith, it is the looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts the otherworldly force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives.

“The story of men and women whose characters have been made or marred by the loss of their first loves and first faiths, of their struggle to readjust themselves, and of the devastation created by the struggle.” —Malcolm Elwin

“The only novels produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.” —George Steiner, The New Yorker

978-1-59020-214-2 MARKETING JOHN COWPER POWYS (1872- U.S. $24.95 / $27.50 CAN. • National Review and 1963) lived in the U.S. as well as On Sale: 6/30/09 Feature Attention his native England, and was the author of ten novels, including Fiction Also available Porius, Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury 6” x 9” / 496 pages PORIUS Rights: E00 978-1-58567-955-9, $27.95 Romance, Weymouth Sands, as Pub History: Overlook HC, well as many works of criticism A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE 978-1-58567-101-4 978-0-87951-681-9, $27.95 and philosophy.

OWEN GLENDOWER 978-1-58567-521-0, $24.95

WEYMOUTH SANDS 978-0-87951-706-9, $24.95

SUGGESTED ORDER 72 July • OVERLOOK “Required reading for parents.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Lolita Effect The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It M. Gigi Durham, Ph.D. With a new introduction Upon its hardcover publication, The Lolita Effect started a media sensation. Now, after the book has been featured on Fox, in People magazine, on Salon.com, and in print and online review venues all over the country, Overlook is pleased to be publishing it in paperback. Brand name thong underwear for ten-year-olds; oversexed and underdressed celebrities gone wild; dolls with companion “sexy” clothing lines for preteen girls: how do we raise sexually healthy young women in this kind of environment? The Lolita Effectoffers parents, teachers, counselors, and other concerned adults effective and progressive strategies for resisting the violations and repressions that put girls at risk.

“Educational, informative, and extremely relatable.” —Feminist Review

“In a well-written and well-researched book, [Durham] exposes a troubling phenomenon and calls readers to action.” —Publishers Weekly “Serves both to alarm and educate; consider it required reading for parents and their daughters.” —Booklist

M. GIGI DURHAM, PH.D., is a 978-1-59020-215-9 MARKETING professor of journalism and mass U.S. $14.95 / $16.50 CAN. • National Review and communication at the University On Sale: 6/30/09 Feature Attention of Iowa. A passionate advocate for • Author Events Parenting • Online Promotions children’s rights and social justice, 5 3/8” x 8” / 288 pages she lives with her husband and Rights: W05 two daughters in Iowa City. Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-59020-063-6 Photo © Lifetouch Portrait Studios Portrait © Lifetouch Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER July • OVERLOOK 73 The internationally recognized magisterial history that traces the development of modern Western thought to its origins in Ancient Greek literature The Wooden Horse The Liberation of the Western Mind, from Odysseus to Socrates Keld Zerunieth

What is the foundation of the Western world’s conceptions of society, philosophy, and literature? By tracing the processes by which consciousness evolved from its roots in the mother cults of Ancient Greece, world-renowned historian Keld Zerunieth seeks out the answer—his conclusion is the groundbreaking The Wooden Horse. By examining Homer’s great epic poems, The Illiad and The Odyssey, Zeruneith explores this fundamental paradigm shift, which constituted nothing less than the liberation of the modern mind, providing startlingly original insight into the psychological forces behind the genesis of European and American culture.

“A sweeping, accessible inquiry into what the makers of classical Greek literature were thinking about… A readable, vigorous survey.” —Kirkus

“Zeruneith successfully combines historical analysis and philosophical reflection to show how the ancient Greeks’ emphasis on intellect and rationality influenced our understanding.” —Library Journal

978-1-59020-041-4 Keld Zeruneith is an U.S. $23.95 / $30.00 CAN. internationally recognized Now Available literary scholar and historian. History / Philosophy Among his many awards is the 6 x 9” / 432 pages Gyldendal Prize, Denmark’s Rights: W05 most distinguished literary Pub History: Overlook HC, honor, which was awarded for 978-1-58567-818-1 The Wooden Horse upon its publication there in 2004.

SUGGESTED ORDER 74 NOW AVAILABLE • OVERLOOK The lavishly illustrated, sparkling portrait of the pioneering arbiter of style, the creator of the New Look Christian Dior The Biography Marie-France Pochna With an introduction by John Galliano

Christian Dior, the legendary French fashion designer, caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastations of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Dior’s collection with its pinched waste and generous folds of fabric, was dubbed the “New Look” by the press, especially the American fashion journalists. Dior was crowned “The King of Fashion,” and he immediately reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world.

With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie- France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and luxury and situates Dior’s fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris cultural life.

“Zooms in on the unveiling of the New Look… Ms. Pochna brings to her subject a reporter’s doggedness and a mechanic’s knack for assembling a whole from dozens of parts.” —The New York Times Book Review

Born and educated in France, 978-1-59020-082-7 MARKETING MARIE-FRANCE POCHNA U.S. $24.95 / $27.50 CAN. • National Review and obtained a law degree from Paris On Sale: 7/28/09 Feature Attention University and became a member • Author Events Fashion / Biography of the Paris Bar. The undisputed 9 1/4” x 7 1/2” / 320 pages authority on Dior, she is often Duotone illustrations invited to lecture on him all over throughout the world. Her previous books Rights: W05 include biographies of the Italian Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-585677-02-3 magnate Gianni Agnelli and the fashion designer Nina Ricci. Photo Courtesy of the Author the Author of Courtesy Photo

SUGGESTED ORDER August • OVERLOOK 75 Direct from churchyards in all fifty states, the celebrated photo album of the American marriage of church and real estate

Church Signs Across America Steve and Pam Paulson Photo Courtesy of the Author the Author of Courtesy Photo

Church Signs Across America celebrates the wit, charm, small, and of every denomination. From “Seven and poetry of church signs from every state in the days without prayer makes one weak” to “The Ten United States At once reverent and witty, these signs Commandments are not multiple choice” to “Looking offer fascinating glimpses into American life that are for a lifeguard? Ours walks on water,” the photos in this variously humorous, inspirational, kitschy, backward, collection are witty and wise—and already an uplifting and kind—and occasionally all those things at once. and amusing classic. After finding their inspiration for the book during a Now with over 50,000 hardcover copies in print, road trip from Florida to Alaska, husband and wife Church Signs Across America is finally in paperback to team Steve and Pam Paulson traveled through all fifty bring the laughs to a bigger congregation. states photographing the signs of churches large and

76 August • OVERLOOK Direct from churchyards in all fifty states, the celebrated photo album of the American marriage of church and real estate

Church Signs Across America Steve and Pam Paulson

“Steve Paulson and Pam Paulson have found and documented the uncommon poetry and sly wit used to rouse the flock, and the book is curiously inspirational.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Some of the most divine display advertising this side of the road to Damascus.” —Life

“A fascinating glimpse into one of the smallest God-damned literary scenes in America.” —Sacramento News & Review

STEVE PAULSON and PAM PAULSON, a husband and wife team, lived in Southern California for ten years before moving to Florida. Pam and Steve drove cross-country for three summers taking the photographs for Church Signs Across America, their first book.

978-1-59020-216-6 MARKETING U.S. $14.00 / $15.50 CAN. • National Review and On Sale: 7/28/09 Feature Attention • Author Events Religion / Photography 7 1/4” x 8 1/2” / 176 pages Color photos throughout Rights: W05 Pub History: Overlook HC, 978-1-58567-714-6

SUGGESTED ORDER August • OVERLOOK 77 The acclaimed chronicle of the life of the great beat poet, finally in paperback The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg A Narrative Poem Edward Sanders

Allen Ginsberg: poet, activist, visionary, soul of the Beat Generation. For many, Ginsberg’s powerful and unflinchingly honest poetry empowered the counterculture of the 50s and 60s. In this unsentimental documentary portrait, the celebrated poet Ed Sanders, a Ginsberg contemporary and friend, charts a path through what he calls “Forest Ginsberg,” the life and times of one of our century’s most popular and controversial literary figures.

“Nothing but the facts, man, in great detail, and poetry is in the detail (the concrete is most poetic, Allen always said)…A fine journalist gets it all down, without catering to his subject, and here Allen rises from it, alive in our minds and hearts.” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Ed Sanders’s intimate and detailing biography gives us a primary record of all the significant particulars of this endearing man’s extraordinary life.”—Robert Creeley

978-1-59020-236-4 MARKETING EDWARD SANDERS is a poet U.S. $19.95 / $22.00 CAN. • National Review and and journalist. The recipient of On Sale: 7/28/09 Feature Attention a Guggenheim Fellowship and a • Author Events National Endowment for the Arts Poetry / Biography 5 3/8” x 8” / 256 pages Fellowship, he is the author of Rights: E00 many books of poetry and of the Pub History: Overlook HC, bestselling The Family.He lives 978-1-58567-101-4 with his wife in Woodstock, New York. Photo © Photo © Lisa Law © Lisa © Photo Photo

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A F After I’m Gone...... 52-53 Fortanasce, Vincent...... 51 After the Stroke...... 46 Fourth of July, The...... 64 Always by My Side...... 44-45 Fowler, Karen Joy...... 4-5 And Sometimes Why...... 24 Freely, Maureen...... 63 Anti-Alzheimer’s Prescription...... 51 G B Galosh, The...... 66 Baggini, Julian...... 7 Game Boys...... 23 Beach House, The...... 10-11 Gardner, Daniel...... 22 Behar, Howard...... 57 Gately, Iain...... 47 Bizony, Piers...... 28 Glaser, Milton...... 60-61 Black, Alan...... 17 Goldstein, Janet...... 57 Brundage, Elizabeth...... 2-3 Green, Jane...... 10-11 C H Christian Dior...... 75 Harper, Hill...... 42-43 Church Signs Across America...... 76-77 Hicks, Jeremy...... 66 Circus Days and Nights...... 69 How to Build Your Own Spaceship...... 28 Cook, Kevin...... 50 How to Get Rich...... 59 Cossacks, The...... 67 I Cronin, Brian...... 6 Ice Cream...... 62 D It’s Not About the Coffee...... 57 Davies, Susan...... 52-53 J de Bolla, Peter...... 64 Janjigian, Vahan...... 58 Dennis, Felix...... 59 John Stuart Mill...... 71 Dowd, Michael...... 8 Johnson, Rebecca...... 24 Drink...... 47 Driven...... 50 K Drunkard...... 16 Kane, Michael...... 23 Duck That Won the Lottery...... 7 Kelly, Richard T...... 65 Durham, M. Gigi...... 73 Kharms, Daniil...... 68 E Kick the Balls...... 17 Kiss My Math...... 20-21 Edwards, Selden...... 14-15 Empires of Trust...... 19 L Enlightenment...... 63 Lax, Robert...... 69 Even Buffett Isn’t Perfect...... 58 Learning to Breathe...... 29

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Letters to a Young Sister...... 42-43 S Levitin, Daniel J...... 26-27 Sanders, Edward...... 78 Little Book, The...... 14-15 Schlesinger, Henry Robert...... 9 Lolita Effect, The...... 73 Science of Fear, The...... 22 Love is a Four-Letter Word...... 25 Somebody Else’s Daughter...... 2-3 Spielman, Eli...... 44-45 M Spycraft...... 9 Madden, Thomas F...... 19 Steinberg, Neil...... 16 Maiden Castle...... 72 Strauss, Darin...... 18 McEwen, Mark...... 46 Swing Flaws and Fitness Fixes...... 40-41 McKellar, Danica...... 20-21 Szaky, Tom...... 56 Melton, H. Keith...... 9 Milton Glaser: Graphic Design...... 60-61 T Mojo Mom...... 38-39 Taeckens, Michael...... 25 More Than It Hurts You...... 18 Taylor, Jill Bolte...... 12-13 My Stroke of Insight...... 12-13 Ten Bad Dates with De Niro...... 65 Thank God for Evolution...... 8 N Tiemann, Amy...... 38-39 Nantz, Jim...... 44-45 Timoney, Charles...... 48 P Today I Wrote Nothing...... 68 Paisley, Janet...... 70 U Pardon My French...... 48 Ure, John...... 67 Paulson, Pam...... 76-77 Paulson, Steve...... 76-77 W Pitch Perfect...... 49 Wallace, Robert...... 9 Pochna, Marie France...... 75 Was Superman a Spy?...... 6 Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg, The...... 78 White Rose Rebel...... 70 Powell, Marilyn...... 62 Wit’s End...... 4-5 Powys, John Cowper...... 72 Wooden Horse, The...... 74 World in Six Songs, The...... 26-27 R Wright, Alison...... 29 Rae, Andrew...... 65 Rapkin, Mickey...... 49 Y Reeves, Richard...... 71 Yankelevich, Matvei...... 68 Revolution in a Bottle...... 56 Roberts, Katherine...... 40-41 Z Zerunieth, Keld...... 74 Zoshchenko, Mikhail...... 66

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