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Contents • Fall 2009 • September – March

Recent Highlights ...... 4

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books...... 8

Mariner Books ...... 58

Backlist ...... 124

Index of New Titles...... 132

Bookstore Sales Representatives ...... 136

Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information ...... 137

International Information ...... 138

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2 7Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Recent Awards

PEN/Faulkner Award: Finalist Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Parenting Books/Pregnancy and Childbirth Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award, by Lucy Puryear Biography/Memoir: Finalist Why I Came West by Rick Bass Silver Mom’s Choice Award, Family and Parenting Books/Health, Nutrition, Fitness and Safety 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Weight Loss Confidential by Anne M. Fletcher Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Special Award of the Jury Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: Finalist by Jacques Pépin Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, The Strand Critics Award: Shortlisted USA Winner, Best Health and Nutrition Book Master of the Delta by Thomas H. Cook The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight Cold in Hand by John Harvey and Eating Great by Pam Anderson

National Award for Arts Writing: Finalist Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez USA Winner, Best Fish and Seafood Book Fish Without a Doubt Edgar Awards, Best Fact Crime: Nominee by Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, WILLA Literary Awards: Finalist USA Winner, Best Culinary History Book The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss A Short History of the American Stomach by Frederick Kaufman Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Nominee Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Long-listed Friendly Fire by A. B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire by A. B. Yehoshua

American Library Association’s Alex Award (American Library Association): Winner Reading List, Mystery: Shortlisted Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe International Association of Culinary Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and Professionals Awards: Finalists Parenting Books/Contemporary Families Olives and Oranges by Sara Jenkins and Mindy Fox Choosing Single Motherhood by Mikki Morrissette (International category) The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great Gold Mom’s Choice Award, Family and by Pam Anderson (Health and Special Diet category) Parenting Books/Special and Exceptional Needs What Your Explosive Child Is Trying to Tell You American Horticultural Society Book Award by Douglas A. Riley Native Ferns, Moss, and Grasses by William Cullina

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com 7 3 Just Published

J.R.R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

The first publication of Tolkien’s retelling of the epic tale of the Norse hero Sigurd the dragon slayer and the terrible revenge of his wife Gudrún upon those who wronged her

any years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own Mversion, now published for the first time, of the great legend of northern antiquity,in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún. The Lay of the Völsungs tells of the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of the dragon Fáfnir, whose treasure Sigurd took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie ISBN 978-0-547-27342-6 • $26.00 1 1 Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and their MAY • Fiction • 384 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes CTN 12 • Terr: US • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: HarperCollins UK the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood brotherhood. In that court was great love but also great hate, Deluxe Slipcased Edition 1 1 brought about by the power of the Niflungs’ mother, an ISBN 978-0-547-29628-9 • $75.00 • 6 ⁄2 x 9 ⁄4 enchantress skilled in the arts of magic. In dramatic scenes • National announcement ads, of confused identity,thwarted passion, jealousy,and bitter including the New York Times strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild mounts to its end: • National TV ad campaign Sigurd’s murder at the hands of his blood brothers and including the Sci-Fi channel Brynhild’s suicide. • Interactive online campaign with fan, social networking, fantasy, and education sites, The Lay of Gudrún tells of the fate of Gudrún, sister including blogs, webcasts, podcasts, discussion of the Niflung lords, after Sigurd’s death: her forced marriage forums, e-mail newsletters, digital to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), postcards, web advertising, search engine marketing (GoogleAdWords, Yahoo), and more his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge. • National review coverage J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth • Expect feature coverage and fan media, including online and educational/institutional and the author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, • Updated full-color brochure with Tolkien backlist and The Children of Húrin.

4 7Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Ongoing promotion f o r t h e New York Times Bestseller!

From the expert who forever changed how we think about animals, a groundbreaking look at how animals feel

“Packed with fascinating insights, unexpected observations, and a wealth of how-to tips, Grandin’s peppy work ably challenges assumptions about what makes animals happy.”

—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Species by species, insight by insight, it builds into something kind of momentous: Fall Promotion the realization or confirmation (depending on your perspective) that animals possess very complex minds • Feature in full-color, full-page holiday book ad, New York Times, December 10 and that science is just beginning to provide tiny glimpses of this uncharted territory.” • Coming from HBO: The Temple Grandin Story, starring Claire Danes —Boston Globe • Lecture tour: Little Rock, April 30; Sioux Falls, June 12; Omaha, July 29; Fresno, September 1; Philadelphia, “Animals Make Us Human is sure to become September 16; Phoenix, September 18; Washington, D.C., November 7; a classic in the field of human/animal relationships. Springfield, Illinois, November 17; Temple’s focus on emotions as the key to welfare and Corpus Christi, December 3 well-being is a gift to animals everywhere, including • Fall tour: Philadelphia; Phoenix; us—the animals lucky enough to be able to read it.” Madison, Wisconsin; Skokie, Illinois; Washington, D.C.; Corpus Christi —Patricia McConnell, Ph.D., author of For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotions in You and Your Best Friend

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com 7 5 Recent Highlights

A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates NOW An Otto Penzler Book January 2010 In this chilling novel from “one of the great artistic forces of our time” (The Nation), an elderly aristocrat develops an obsession with a sixteen-year-old working-class girl and leaves readers asking who’s innocent and who’s the villain. 978-0-15-101516-0 • $22.00 • JANUARY

Practicing Catholic by James Carroll “His book is actually a loving critique of a very human institu- tion that is both in need of salvation and simultaneously an agent of grace. Brilliant prose, historically insightful, and sincere passion remain hallmarks of the author’s work.” —Library Journal 978-0-618-67018-5 • $28.00 • APRIL

Hungry Monkey A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater by Matthew Amster-Burton The delightful tale of a restaurant critic, his daughter, and the joys of rediscovering food through a child’s eyes—with recipes. “This charming, funny book is full of great ideas for family meals. In a world of culinary pandering to kids, where vegetables in disguise pass for cuisine, Amster-Burton gets the recipe right” (Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad). 978-0-15-10132-4 • $23.00 • MAY

Stepmonster A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do by Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. What woman with stepchildren has not, in order to diffuse the often overwhelming emotions and challenges of the role, referred to herself as a “stepmonster”? Wednesday Martin’s empowering and original book shines a light on what’s unhelpful to women in the usual take on stepmothering— namely, the focus on stepchildren and the emphasis on how to be a substitute parent. Instead, Stepmonster unlocks the mysteries of why stepmothers think, feel, and act the way they do. 978-0-618-75819-7 • $25.00 • MAY

6 7Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Recent Highlights

Strokes of Genius Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played by L. Jon Wertheim From a unique inside vantage point comes a riveting and intellectually provocative account of the greatest tennis match ever played, the 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, written by the preeminent tennis writer in America in the tradition of John McPhee’s classic Levels of the Game. 978-0-547-23280-5 • $24.00 • JUNE

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka This exciting debut novel, set in Poland on the eve of World War II, evokes a magical realism that will appeal to fans of Jonathan Safran Foer. Based on the author’s grandparents’ story, the novel tells of a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, his courtship of the beautiful Anielica Hetma´nska, and the war that delays their marriage for six long years. Nearly fifty years later, their granddaughter, Beata, leaves her village for Krakow, the place where her grandparents lived as newlyweds after the war and the setting of her grandmother’s most magical stories. 978-0-547-05507-7 • $25.00 • AUGUST

Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum 2009 Award for First Fiction, Finalist Alex Award A riveting debut set in Saudi Arabia and featuring compelling characters, Finding Nouf “reads like a breeze . . . Ferraris offers a fascinating glimpse inside domestic Saudi Arabia. Even better, she has written a fascinating thriller, not only an academic treatment. Finding Nouf turns out to be a great beach read” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). 978-0-547-23778-7 • $13.95 • PA • MAY

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles “A flinty, funny, irreverent, and heartbreaking first novel. The writing reminded me of brilliant, early-days Martin Amis—except with redemption and hope. It’s not easy to write a book this good, but Jonathan Miles makes it seem effortless.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 978-0-547-23790-9 • $13.95 • PA • JUNE

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com 7 7 Thirty years ago, two players entered the NBA

Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullan When the Game Was Ours

In this remarkable collaboration, two NBA legends open up as never before to give the definitive account of their decades-long rivalry cum friendship

rom the moment these two players took the court on Fopposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. Each pushed the other to greatness—together Bird and Johnson collected eight NBA championships and six MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at a critical time. When the relationship started they were rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends. With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, When the Game Was Ours transports readers to an electric era of basketball ISBN 978-0-547-22547-0 • $26.00 and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two play- When the Game Was Ours ers dead set on besting each other. From the heady days NOVEMBER • Sports/Memoir • 352 pages • 6 x 9 of trading championships to the darker days of injury and Two 8-page 4-color inserts • CTN 12 • Terr: illness, we come to understand Larry’s obsessive devotion World • Rights: P/M/A: William Morris Agency to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. B/T/S: HMH • 12-copy floor display: We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic ISBN 978-0-547-30501-1 • $312.00 pain and its exacting toll. In Magic we see a young, invincible • National media with Larry Bird and star struggle with the sting of defeat, not just as a player but Magic Johnson as a team leader. When he learns he has contracted HIV we • Press conference at publication hear in his own words how that devastating news affected his • National TV and Radio Satellite Tour relationships in basketball and beyond. But always, in both cases, we see these men prevail. • Live online events A compelling, up-close-and-personal portrait of basket- • Tie-in with HBO documentary ball’s most inimitable duo, When the Game Was Ours is • Cross-promotion with the NBA and NCAA a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint. It is also a • 12-copy floor display rollicking ride through professional basketball’s best times. • Jacket blowups available • Advance reading copies

8 NOVEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com 7 together and made history. Here’s their story.

ECOULDHAVESHUTTEREDTHECURTAINS and cranked up the H volume of the television. Instead, Magic Johnson acted on his perverse urge to witness the celebration that was unfolding around him, staring blankly out the window of his Boston hotel, fixated on the sea of green below.

Thousands of fans clogged the streets, many wearing shamrock- June 12, 1984 colored T-shirts, creating a gleeful gridlock of traffic in an already B O S T O N, historically congested city.Cars honked, fireworks crackled, and grown men danced an Irish jig in celebration of the Celtics’ Game 7 MASSACHUSETTS victory over the Lakers to win the 1984 NBA Championship.

“It was bedlam,’’ Magic said. “I made myself watch. It made me feel worse, but I deserved to be miserable. We should have won that series. I’ve always prided myself on getting it done in crunch time. What happened?”

He already knew the answer. LARRYBIRDHAPPENED . I

Author Profiles

LARRY BIRD played thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1998. He was head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000 and currently serves as their president of basketball operations.

EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON JR. played thirteen seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2002. Currently he is the chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enter-

JACKIE MACMULLAN is a nationally recognized sports columnist who spent three decades at the Boston Globe. She is a frequent correspondent for ESPN and a regular contestant on ESPN’s Around the Horn.

AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES - Bird: Indianapolis / Johnson: Los Angeles / MacMullan: Westford, Massachusetts © MAUREEN FLETCHER

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • NOVEMBER 9 Kent Meyers Twisted Tree A Novel

From the acclaimed author of The Work of Wolves comes a new tale of one town in South Dakota and how one person’s life is echoed in the lives of others.

ayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people Hof small-town Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event—their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl’s story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter with a disturbingly thin Hayley Jo. An ex-priest remembers baptizing Hayley Jo and seeing her with her best friend, Laura, whose mother ISBN 978-0-15-101389-0 • $24.00 the priest once loved. And Laura berates herself for all the Twisted Tree running they did, how it fed her friend’s addiction, and how SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 304 pages • 6 x 9 there were so many secrets she didn’t see. And so, Hayley CTN 12 • Terr: World • Rights: P/M: Lukeman Jo’s absence recasts the lives of others and connects them, Literary Management • B/T/A/S: HMH her death rooting itself into the community in astonishingly violent and tender ways. ALSO AVAILABLE Solidly in the company of Aryn Kyle, Kent Haruf, and The Work of Wolves Peter Matthiessen, Kent Meyers is one of the best contempo- 978-0-15-603142-4 • $15.00 PA rary writers on the American West. Here he also takes us into The River Warren the complexity of community regardless of landscape, and 978-0-15-601062-7 • $13.00 PA offers a tribute to the powerful effect one person’s life can have on everyone she knew.

• Regional author appearances, including a keynote spot at the Western KENT MEYERS is the author of The Work of Wolves, Light in Literature Association’s annual meeting the Crossing, The River Warren, and The Witness of Combines. • Reading group promotion He is a recipient of an ALA Alex Award, two Minnesota Book • Jacket blowups available Awards, and a Mountains and Plains Book- sellers Association Award. His work has been • Advance reading copies included in the New York Times list of notable books and published in a wide array of prestigious magazines.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Spearfish, South Dakota © ZINDIE MEYERS

10 SEPTEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com “Wandering through the supermarket one day, I tossed a few things into my cart

E B M O for dinner: a can of coconut milk ... C LA TE IT IG BR jasmine rice, free-range chicken. ©

Then it hit me: we couldn’t have

easily gotten many of these things

five years ago. The more I thought

about it, the more I realized that we need a book for the way we cook now.”

—RUTHREICHL

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • SEPTEMBER 11 A new culinary world calls for a

TODAY

More than 1,000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen

Edited by RUTH REICHL

OWWECOOKHASCHANGEDMOREIN Hthe past ten years than in the entire history of American food. We shop in farmers’ markets, and we think more about where our food comes from. We’re America’s most respected eating more fish and more cooking expert focuses on vegetables and grains. International ingredients the present chapter in the are available now in every American food revolution supermarket. We want memorable dishes we can cook at home, we want them to be healthier, we want them on the table faster than ever, and we want impeccable results the first time. With hundreds of recipes for every budget and occasion, Gourmet Today speaks to our needs. It’s filled with stunning globe-trotting meals, simple ways to pre- pare all the common vegetables, fast suppers, cocktails and appetizers, and over 300 desserts. The celebrated food authority and best-selling author Ruth Reichl personally selected each of the recipes. Every one was tested and retested by the Gourmet test kitchen, ensuring that even beginners get perfect results.

12 SEPTEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com BOLDNEWCOOKBOOK

Inside GOURMET TODAY

• More than 650 recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less

• Hundreds of recipes for satisfying vegetarian main dishes

• Nearly 100 recipes for sustainable fish and shellfish, with suggested substitutes for each recipe to ensure the freshest results

• A chapter of nearly 100 cocktails and nonalcoholic drinks

• Scores of sensational grilled dishes, from Brown Sugar Barbecued Chicken to Grilled Corn with Chipotle Mayonnaise

• 100-plus vegetable side dishes, from artichokes and broccoflower to zucchini and yucca, plus suggestions for preparing every common vegetable in the simplest possible way

• Recipes for economical, highly flavorful cuts of meat

• Hundreds of illustrations of ingredients and techniques

• Durable sewn binding with two bound-in ribbons

RUTH REICHL, Gourmet’s editor in chief, is the author of the best-selling memoirs Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me with Apples, Garlic and Sapphires, and the forthcoming Not Becoming My Mother. She is the executive producer of the two-time James

E Beard Award–winning Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, which airs B M O C on public television across the country. LA TE IT RIG JOHN WILLOUGHBY, Gourmet’s executive editor, who © B collaborated on shaping and editing the book, is available for recipe demonstrations and other publicity. He is the coauthor of nine cookbooks, including the best- selling Thrill of the Grill. He has appeared many times on television and radio. S E N A Y EDITORS’ RESIDENCE - New York City LO U OM © R

www.hmhbooks.com • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • SEPTEMBER 13 $750,000 national marketing campaign 250,000 first printing

• National on-sale date: September 22, 2009

• National media tour with Gourmet editor in chief Ruth Reichl, including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Milwaukee, and Kansas City

• TV satellite tour with executive editor John Willoughby

• Free subscription to Gourmet with purchase of book

• National drive-time radio tour

• National advertising, including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and National Public Radio

• Holiday catalog advertising, including NCIBA and NEIBA

• Eye-catching 10-copy floor display

• Trade advertising in Gourmet Retailer

• Full-page color advertisements in the August, September, November, and December 2009 issues of Gourmet, and the May and November 2010 issues

• Website promotion and advertising on gourmet.com, including recipe demonstration videos

• E-marketing campaign, including outreach to bloggers and food sites, online chats with Ruth Reichl, and widgetsfor family and “Mom” sites

• E-mail blasts to Gourmet subscribers (900,000 circulation) ISBN 978-0-618-61018-1 • Promotional video available for accounts, including Q&A with $40.00 Ruth Reichl and recipe demonstrations by the Gourmet team Gourmet Today • Dedicated website: www.gourmettodaycookbook.com SEPTEMBER • Cooking • 1,152 pages 8 x 10 • More than 300 b/w line drawings • Ongoing advertising and publicity campaigns throughout 2010, throughout • CTN 5 • Terr: US, C, O including Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, summer, and fall holidays Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Doe Coover Agency

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14 SEPTEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Margaret Drabble The Pattern in the Carpet A Personal History with Jigsaws

An innovative mix of memoir, jigsaw history, and the strange delights of puzzling

he Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with TJigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others “a soothing relief” from melancholy and depression. We learn that jigsaws began as dissected maps used as a teaching tool in the late eighteenth century; that the first board game, the Royal Game of the Goose, dates from the Renaissance and is attributed to Francesco de Medici; that in America, following the stock market crash of October 1929, there was a boom in puzzle manufacturing. Drabble introduces us to ISBN 978-0-547-24144-9 • $25.00 her beloved Auntie Phyl, and describes childhood visits to The Pattern in the Carpet the house in Long Bennington on the Great North Road, SEPTEMBER • Memoir • 368 pages • 6 x 9 their first trip to London together, the books they read, the CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B: Atlantic jigsaws they completed. She offers penetrating sketches of Books T/A/P/M/S: Sterling Lord Literistic her parents, her siblings, and her children; she shares her thoughts on the importance of childhood play,on art and ALSO AVAILABLE writing, on aging and memory.And she does so with her The Sea Lady customary intelligence, energy,and wit. This is a memoir 978-0-15-603426-5 • $14.00 PA like no other. The Needle’s Eye 978-0-15-602935-3 • $14.00 PA

• Select interviews and profiles MARGARET DRABBLE is the author of The Sea Lady, • National print and online advertising The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle’s Eye, • Postcard mailings among other novels. She has written biogra- • Advance reading copies phies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson, and she is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. For her contributions to contemporary English literature, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - London © RUTH CORNEY

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • SEPTEMBER 15 From the best-selling author of

Lise Eliot, Ph.D. Pink Brain, Blue Brain How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps—And What We Can Do About It

A neuroscientist shatters the myths about gender differences, arguing that the brains of boys and girls are largely shaped by how they spend their time.

n the past decade we’ve heard a lot about the innate differ- Iences between males and females, so we’ve come to accept that boys can’t focus in a classroom and girls are obsessed with relationships: “That’s just the way they’re built.” In Pink Brain, Blue Brain, neuroscientist Lise Eliot turns that thinking on its head. Calling on years of exhaustive research and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity,Eliot argues ISBN 978-0-618-39311-4 • $24.00 that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at Pink Brain, Blue Brain birth become amplified over time, as parents and teachers— SEPTEMBER • Parenting/Psychology • 384 pages and the culture at large—unwittingly reinforce gender stereo- 6 x 9 • 20 b/w line drawings • CTN 12 types. Children themselves exacerbate the differences by Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: Witherspoon playing to their modest strengths. They constantly exercise Associates • A/S: HMH those “ball-throwing” or “doll-cuddling” circuits, rarely straying from their comfort zones. But this, says Eliot, is just what they need to do. And • National author tour, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco she offers parents and teachers concrete ways to help. Pre- senting the latest science regarding development from birth • National drive-time radio tour to puberty,she zeroes in on the precise differences between • Promotional book video boys and girls, erasing harmful stereotypes. Boys are not, in • Online promotion, including parenting sites and blogs fact, “better at math,” but at certain kinds of spatial reason- ing. Girls are not naturally more empathetic; they’re allowed • Postcard mailings to ob/gyn and pediatricians’ offices to express their feelings. By appreciating how sex differences • Academic marketing emerge, rather than assuming that they are fixed biological facts, we can help all children reach their fullest potential, • Advance reading copies close the troubling gaps between boys and girls, and ultimately end the gender wars that currently divide us.

16 SEPTEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com What’s Going On in There?

From PINKBRAIN, BLUEBRAIN

FYOU’VEREADANYTHINGABOUTBOY-GIRL and girls is the idea that sex differences in the brain Idifferences, you probably think that scientists have are necessarily “innate.” Ignoring the fundamental discovered all kinds of disparities in brain structure, plasticity that enables the brain to learn or know function, and neurochemistry.These claims have anything, several popular authors confound “brain” been spreading like wildfire, but there are problems with “nature,” promoting a view of sex differences as with every one. Some are blatantly false, plucked fixed, hard-wired, and predetermined biological facts. out of thin air because they sound about right; others But—and this is the point lost on most popular are cherry-picked from single studies or extrapolated interpretations of neuroscience—nearly all the evi- from rodent research, without any effort to evaluate all dence for sex differences in the brain comes from the data critically.Yet they are nearly always presented studies of adult men and women. Who’s to say that to parents as proven and dramatic “facts” about boys’ such differences are caused by “nature” and not by and girls’ brains, with seemingly dire implications. learning—by the thirty or so years of experience as a One particularly insidious way in which neuro- male or female that any research subject invariably science has been misused to make claims about boys carries into the MRI scanner? I

Author Profile

LISE ELIOT, a graduate of Harvard, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is an associate professor of neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The mother of two sons and a daughter, she is also the author of What’s Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE - Lake Bluff, Illinois © BILL FROST

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • SEPTEMBER 17 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince Pop-Up

Saint-Exupéry’s worldwide classic, now in a stunning pop-up format

“What appears to be a fairy tale for children opens like the petals of the Little Prince’s flower into a fantasy that has lessons for all of us.”—School Library Journal

fter being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot A comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life. For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic The Little Prince has captured readers’ hearts. The HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN whimsical story with a fairy-tale feel has sold over 3 million ISBN 978-0-547-26069-3 • $35.00 The Little Prince Pop-Up copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes 1 the complete original text accompanied by Saint-Exupéry’s OCTOBER • Novelty • 64 pages • 8 ⁄4 x 11 4-color illustrations throughout • Deluxe beautiful illustrations brought to life through paper engineer- Pop-Up Edition • Terr: US, C, O (-EU) ing. A must-have for longtime fans, this edition will also Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Gallimard Jeunesse enchant a whole new generation.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY (1900–1944) was born in Lyon, France. Best known as the author and illustrator of The Little Prince, he also wrote several other books that became classics. A year after The Little Prince was published his plane disappeared over the Mediterranean while he was serving with a French air squadron on a reconnaissance mission.

18 OCTOBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com John Eisenberg That First Season How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory

On the fiftieth anniversary of Vince Lombardi’s first season in Green Bay, an irresistible and little-known comeback story for fans of The Junction Boys and The Boys of Winter

n the late 1950s, the once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were Ia laughingstock. They hadn’t fielded a winning team in more than a decade and were in jeopardy of losing their franchise to another city.The ultimate low came in 1958, when, with seven future Hall of Famers on the team, they went a lousy 1-10-1. They were desperately in need of a savior, and he arrived in the dead of winter from New York City. ISBN 978-0-618-90499-0 • $25.00 That First Season That First Season chronicles Vince Lombardi’s remark- OCTOBER • Sports • 288 pages • 6 x 9 able first year as head coach with the franchise he would rein- One 8-page b/w insert • CTN 12 • Terr: vent and etch forever in football history.In a single year, as US, C, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M: The Waxman the grizzled coach who took no bull, he transformed a team Agency • S: HMH of underachievers into winners and reignited fans in a city known for its passion for its sport. Based on exhaustive new ALSO AVAILABLE research and interviews, That First Season is the seldom- The Great Match Race studied prequel to a football career marked by greatness. 978-0-618-87211-4 • $14.95 PA Eisenberg cuts through the mist that surrounds the Lombardi legend to bring readers the real story of how the seeds of a football dynasty were sown. He also brings alive an incredible • National media from New York and ensemble tale of a team, a town, and a leader. Washington, D.C. • National drive-time radio tour • Author events in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay JOHN EISENBERG was an award-winning • Promotional author video sports columnist at the Baltimore Sun for two • Advance reading copies decades and is the author of seven books, most recently My Guy Barbaro, cowritten with jockey Edgar Prado, and The Great Match Race. He has written for Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, and Details, among other publications.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • OCTOBER 19 Drawn from a wealth of detailed scholarship and

Günter Grass Winner of the Nobel Prize The Tin Drum A Novel

The new translation of the classic novel, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication

he Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth T century,was published in Ralph Manheim’s outstand- ing translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass’s publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: a wealth of detailed scholarship, a wide range of newly available reference works, ISBN 978-0-15-101416-3 • $26.00 The Tin Drum and the author himself. The result is a translation that is OCTOBER • Fiction • 589 pages • 6 x 9 • CTN 12 faithful to Grass’s style and rhythm, restores omissions, Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: Steidl Verlag and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. A: Blackstone Audio • S: HMH After fifty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass’s amazing evocations ALSO AVAILABLE are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the Peeling the Onion • 978-0-15-603534-7 • $15.00 PA indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; Crabwalk • 978-0-15-602970-4 • $13.00 PA his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar’s midget friends Bebra, • Select national interviews and features the great circus master, and Roswitha Raguna, the famous • National print advertising, including the somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha; the New York Times Book Review and regional holiday catalogs Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, • Online promotion, including literary sites Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews— and blogs waiting to be discovered and rediscovered. • Academic marketing, including MLA programming and postcard mailings • Advance reading copies

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William J. Mann How to Be a Movie Star Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

Mann pulls back the curtain on an unseen Elizabeth Taylor, revealing a genius at big-time stardom and a heroine whose rebellion changed Hollywood.

n the 1960s, Elizabeth Taylor’s affair with the married IRichard Burton knocked John Glenn’s orbit of Earth off front pages nationwide. Yet despite all the years of gossip, the larger-than-life personality and influence of this very human woman has never been captured. William Mann, praised for Kate, uses untapped sources to show how Taylor ignited the sexual revolution with her on- and off-screen passions, helped kick down the studio system, and practically invented the big business of celebrity star-making. With un-put-downable storytelling, he reveals the full truth with- ISBN 978-0-547-13464-2 • $26.00 out losing Taylor’s magic, daring, or wit. How to Be a Movie Star Readers will feel they are sitting next to Taylor as she OCTOBER • Biography • 496 pages • 6 x 9 rises at MGM, survives a marriage engineered for publicity, One 32-page b/w insert • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O Rights: B: Faber & Faber • P/M: Baldi Literary feuds with Hedda Hopper and Mr. Mayer, wins Oscars, Agency • T/A/S: HMH endures tragedy,juggles Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, and her country’s conservative values. But it is the private Elizabeth who will surprise—a woman of heart and loyalty • National online and print advertising who defends the underdogs, a savvy professional whose • National media from New York and Los Angeles anger at her treatment by the studio led her to fight to control • Promotional book video her career. All the Elizabeths are here, finally reconciled and • Online promotion, including celebrity/gossip seen against the exciting years of her greatest spirit, beauty, blogs and literary sites and influence. Swathed in mink, staring us down with her • Regional holiday catalog advertising lavender eyes, disposing of husbands but keeping the dia- • Regional trade show promotion monds, here is Elizabeth Taylor leading her epic life on her • Jacket blowups available own terms, playing the game of stardom at which she remains, • Advance reading copies to this day,unmatched.

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Timothy Egan The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

A dramatic account of the worst wildfire in American history—and how it saved our forests

n The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environ- Imental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history,told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America, a tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt’s legacy. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping hundreds of small blazes into a roaring inferno that destroyed towns and timber in an eye-blink. Forest rangers assembled nearly ten ISBN 978-0-618-96841-1 • $26.00 thousand men—college boys, day workers, immigrants from The Big Burn mining camps—to fight the fire. But no living person had OCTOBER • History • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • 20 b/w seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor photographs throughout • CTN 12 • Terr: World Rights: P/M/S: Carol Mann Agency • B/T/A: HMH anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan narrates the struggles of the overmatched rangers with unstoppable dramatic force. Equally dramatic is the ALSO AVAILABLE larger story he tells of President Teddy Roosevelt and his The Worst Hard Time chief forester, Gifford Pinchot. Pioneering the notion of 978-0-618-77347-3 • $14.95 PA conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of national forests as our national treasure, owned by and preserved for every citizen. The robber • National author tour, including New York, barons fought them, but the fire saved the forests even as it Washington, D.C., Chicago, Kansas City, destroyed them: the heroism shown by the rangers turned Missoula, Denver, Seattle, Portland, public opinion permanently in favor of the forests even as it San Francisco, Los Angeles changed the mission of the Forest Service, with consequences • National print and online advertising felt in the fires of today. • Exclusive online interviews and Q&As The Big Burn tells an epic story,paints a moving portrait • Advance reading copies of the people who lived it, and offers a critical cautionary tale for our time.

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David Sax Save the Deli In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen

A lively tale of one man’s quest for the past, the future, and the best in delicatessen

“A Bromo-fueled cri de coeur on behalf of the uniquely Ashkenazic food that keeps its devotees, whether Jewish or not, from going goyish into that good night.” —Michael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch

s a journalist and lifelong deli obsessive, David Sax A was understandably alarmed by the state of Jewish delicatessen. A cuisine that had once been at the very center of Jewish life had become endangered by assimilation, homogenization, and health-food trends. He watched one beloved purveyor of deli after another shut down, only to ISBN 978-0-15-101384-5 • $24.00 be reopened as some bland chain restaurant laying claim Save the Deli to the very culture it had just paved over. OCTOBER • Food/Jewish Culture • 336 pages And so David set out on a journey across the United 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • 36 b/w photographs throughout States and around the world in search of authentic deli- CTN 12 • Terr: US, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: catessen. Was it still possible to save the deli? McClelland & Stewart Ltd. • A/S: HMH Join David as he investigates everything deli—its history,its diaspora, its next generation. He tells us about

• National author tour, including New York, the food itself—how it’s made, who makes it best, and Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, where to go for particular dishes. And ultimately there is Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles hope—David finds deli newly and lovingly made in places • Prepub event for media like Boulder, traditions maintained in Montreal, and iconic • E-card available for delis in the book institutions like the Second Avenue Deli resurrected in as well as community groups New York. So grab a pastrami on rye and sit down for a • Promotion to cooking websites great read. Save the Deli is an energetic cultural history • Active author website: savethedeli.com of Jewish food, a vibrant travelogue, and a rallying cry for a new generation of food lovers.

* Roger Bennett, author of Bar Mitzvah Disco and Camp Camp

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A rookie prison guard is caught between his sadistic colleagues and the drug-running inmates threatening his family in this bloody psychological thriller.

ewly minted prison officer Nicholas Glass has fallen Nin with the wrong crowd at “The Hilton,” a Scottish prison for violent offenders. The problem is, there’s no right crowd. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, Glass finds that each day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons uses outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, he agrees to do them a favor. But as their threats escalate and one favor leads to another, he grows ever closer to the breaking point. And when Glass breaks, he shatters. Slammer is a mile-a-minute thriller shot through with ISBN 978-0-15-101295-4 • $25.00 Slammer Guthrie’s unique dark humor and ultraviolent mayhem. NOVEMBER • Mystery • 272 pages • 6 x 9 His previous books have been lauded as “gripping noir” CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: (Entertainment Weekly) and “character driven and exciting” Polygon (Birlinn Ltd.) • A/S: HMH (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

• IndieBound advance access • Promotional author video • Mystery sampler • Mystery e-newsletter • Advance reading copies • Author website: www.allanguthrie.co.uk

ALLAN GUTHRIE is the author of Two-Way Split, which was nominated for the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger and received the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award; Kiss Her Goodbye, which was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Gumshoe Awards; Hard Man, winner of the inaugural Spinetingler Magazine Award; and Savage Night.

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28 NOVEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Masha Gessen Perfect Rigor A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

The true story of a mathematical mystery, a million- dollar prize, and the fate of genius in today’s world

n 2006 an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori IPerelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century.In 1998 the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven great unsolved mathematical problems and promised a million dollars to anyone who could find a solution. Perelman will probably be awarded the prize this fall, and he will probably decline it. Masha Gessen was determined to find out why. Drawing on interviews with Perelman’s teachers, class- ISBN 978-0-15-101406-4 • $26.00 Perfect Rigor mates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the NOVEMBER • Biography/Mathematics United States—and informed by her own background as a 288 pages • 6 x 9 • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O math whiz raised in Russia—Gessen set out to uncover the Rights: B/T/P/M: Elyse Cheney Literary nature of Perelman’s genius. What she found was a mind of A/S: HMH unrivaled computational power, one that enabled Perelman to pursue mathematical concepts to their logical end. But she also discovered that this very strength has turned out to be ALSO AVAILABLE his undoing: such a mind is unable to cope with the messy Blood Matters reality of human affairs. When the rivalries and passions of 978-0-15-603331-2 • $14.95 PA life intruded on Perelman’s platonic ideal, he began to with- (see pg. 93) draw—first from the world of mathematics and then, increasingly, from the world in general. In telling his story,Gessen • National media from New York and Boston has constructed a gripping tale that sheds rare light on the • National print advertising, including the unique burden of genius. New York Times Book Review • Online promotion, including Seed • Academic marketing with free eChapter MASHA GESSEN has written for Slate, the available New Republic, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, • Advance reading copies and other publications. She is also the author of three previous books.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • NOVEMBER 29 WHAT HAPPENS WHENANACTOR

Philip Roth The Humbling A Novel

Following the dark meditations on mortality and endings in Everyman and Exit Ghost and the bitterly ironic retrospective on youth and chance in Indignation, Roth has written another in his haunting group of late fictions.

verything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of EPhilip Roth’s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, “are melted into air, into thin air.” When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. “Some- ISBN 978-0-547-23969-9 • $22.00 thing fundamental has vanished.” His wife has gone, his The Humbling audience has left him, his agent can’t persuade him to make 1 3 NOVEMBER • Fiction • 160 pages • 5 ⁄4 x 7 ⁄4 a comeback. CTN 12 • Terr: US, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrify- The Wylie Agency ing self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant

• National media from New York that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day’s journey • National print and online advertising, including the New York Times into night, told with Roth’s inimitable urgency,bravura, and • Advance reading copies gravity,all the ways in which we convince ourselves of our solidity,all our life’s performances—talent, love, sex, hope, energy,reputation—are stripped off. The Humbling is Roth’s thirtieth book.

30 NOVEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com ISDESERTEDBYHISTALENT?

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e’d lost his magic. The impulse was spent. He’d American stage actors—none of it worked for any Hnever failed in the theater, everything he had done role now.All that had worked to make him himself had been strong and successful, and then the terrible now worked to make him look like a lunatic on thing happened: he couldn’t act. Going the stage. He was conscious of every moment he onstage became agony.Instead of the was on the stage in the worst possible certainty that he was going to be won- HE’DLOSTHIS way.In the past when he was acting derful, he knew he was going to fail. he wasn’t thinking about anything. It happened three times in a row,and What he did well he did out of by the last time nobody was interested, MAGIC.THEIMPULSE instinct. Now he was thinking about nobody came. He couldn’t get over to everything, and everything sponta- the audience. His talent was dead. WAS SPENT. neous and vital was killed—he tried Of course, if you’ve had it, you to control it with thinking and instead always have something unlike anyone else’s. I’ll he destroyed it. All right, Axler told himself, he always be unlike anyone else, Axler told himself, had hit a bad period. Though he was already in because I am who I am. I carry that with me—that his sixties, maybe it would pass while he was still people will always remember. But the aura he’d had, recognizably himself. He wouldn’t be the first all his mannerisms and eccentricities and personal experienced actor to go through it. A lot of people peculiarities, what had worked for Falstaff and Peer did. I’ve done this before, he thought, so I’ll find Gynt and Vanya—what had gained Simon Axler some way.I don’t know how I’m going to get it this his reputation as the last of the best of the classical time, but I’ll find it, I’ll find it—this will pass. I

In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, and Saul Bellow, among others. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize. Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achieve- ment in American Fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. The last of

eight volumes is scheduled for publication in 2013. © NANCY CRAMPTON

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • NOVEMBER 31 “Distinctive, poignant, genuine,

Jeffrey Koterba Inklings A Memoir

An acclaimed editorial cartoonist traces his success back to his chaotic boyhood home and his complicated father, who, like Koterba, suffers from Tourette’s syndrome.

hen Jeffrey Koterba was six, he started drawing Whis first cartoons, painstakingly copying from the Sunday Omaha World Herald’s funny papers and making up his own characters. With a pen and a sheet of white paper, he was able to escape into a world that was clean, expansive, and comfortable—a refuge from the pandemo- nium surrounding him. The tiny house Koterba grew up in was full to bursting with garage-sale treasures and televi- sions that his father, Art, repaired and sold for extra money. A hard-drinking one-time jazz drummer whose big ISBN 978-0-15-101492-7 • $25.00 dreams never seemed to come true, Art was subject to violent Inklings facial and vocal tics—symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome, a NOVEMBER • Memoir • 288 pages • 6 x 9 • 30 b/w line drawings throughout • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O condition that Jeffrey inherited—as well as explosions of Rights: B/T/P/M: AMB Literary Management temper and eccentricity that kept the Koterba family teeter- A/S: HMH ing on the brink of disaster. From the canyons of broken electronics, lightning strikes, screaming matches, and dis- couragements great and small emerged a young man deter- • National media mined to follow his creative spirit to grand heights. And • Author events in Omaha, Iowa City, and Seattle much to his surprise, Jeffrey found himself on a journey • Promotional author video back to his family and the father he once longed to escape. An exuberant, heartfelt memoir that calls to mind The • Online outreach, including exclusive interviews, video and audio podcasts, video content, Tender Bar and Fun Home, Inklings is infused with an and e-cards/widgets to social networks irresistible optimism all its own. • Advance reading copies

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From the acclaimed author of The Rituals of Dinner comes an illuminating exploration of the hidden history and meaning of gratitude.

nown as an “anthropologist of everyday life,” Margaret KVisser has, in five award-winning books, uncovered and illuminated the intriguing and unexpected meanings of ordinary objects and habits. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so frequently encountered that it often escapes notice: saying “Thank you.” What do we really mean by these two simple words? This fascinating inquiry into all aspects of gratitude ranges from the unusual determination with which parents ISBN 978-0-15-101331-9 • $25.00 teach their children to thank, to the difference between The Gift of Thanks speaking the words and feeling them, to the ways in which NOVEMBER • Sociology • 480 pages • 6 x 9 different cultures handle the complex matters of giving, CTN 12 • Terr: US, O (-EU) • Rights: B/T/P/M: receiving, and returning favors and presents. Visser illumi- PFD New York • A/S: HMH nates the fundamental opposition in our own culture between gift-giving and commodity exchange, and the similarities between gratitude and its opposite, vengefulness, as well as • Advance reading copies the cultural history and modern social science of thankfulness. • Author website: www.margaretvisser.com With her engaging combination of curiosity and erudition, Visser once again reveals the extraordinary in the everyday.

MARGARET VISSER is an award-winning author and essayist. Much Depends on Dinner was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times. The Rituals of Dinner won the IACP Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Visser’s most recent book, The Geometry of Love, was a finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize. Margaret Visser taught classics at York University for eighteen years and now devotes her time to research and writing.

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100 Words for Foodies Paperback Original An

A feast of 100 delectable food terms

mericans love talking about food almost as much as A they love eating it, and to describe it, the English language serves up an impressive spread of fascinating words. 100 Words for Foodies presents a delectable sampler of these words—words that grace the tables of restaurants and are bandied about the kitchen at home. The terms selected for this book cover the whole gamut of foodie terminology.There are words for implements and vessels, like mezzaluna and tagine, along with the names of techniques, like macerate, and methods, like deglaze. There are spices, including epazote and fenugreek; sauces, including nuoc mam and rouille; and dishes from almost every cuisine ISBN 978-0-547-23968-2 • $5.95 PA imaginable—baba gannouj (Egyptian), gado gado (Indone- 100 Words for Foodies sian), sancocho (Latin American), yakitori (Japanese), and NOVEMBER • Cooking/Language • 96 pages 1 zabaglione (Italian). 4 ⁄2 x 8 • CTN 50 • Terr: World • Rights: HMH Each entry has a definition and a pronunciation. Some 10-copy counter display: ISBN 978-0-547-26068-6 • $59.50 entries are enhanced with recipes, and others have word history notes that tell surprising backstories. For instance, did you know that coriander and cilantro come from the ALSO AVAILABLE same plant? Or that pho, the name of the quintessential 100 Words for Lovers Vietnamese soup, isn’t a native Vietnamese word but comes 978-0-547-21257-9 • $5.95 PA from the French feu, or “fire,” probably from the phrase 100 Words Every High pot au feu (borrowed into English for another kind of soup)? School Graduate Should Know Hip and informative, 100 Words for Foodies is one 978-0-618-37412-0 • $5.95 PA delight you won’t be able to resist. Take it to your next • National drive-time radio campaign dinner party.You’ll see smiles all around. • Promotion to online food communities, including yummer.com, bakespace.com, and seriouseats.com •“Magnetic poetry” of food words for the fridge

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • NOVEMBER 35 The eagerly anticipated first cookbook from

Barbara Lynch with Joanne Smart Stir Mixing It Up in the Italian Tradition

A James Beard Award–winning chef “with the soul of an Italian grandmother” (New York Times) shows how to make the robustly flavored dishes that have earned her national acclaim.

lthough Barbara Lynch was born and raised in South ABoston, not Tuscany,many critics believe her food rivals the best of Italy.It has been praised by Bon Appétit, ISBN 978-0-618-57681-4 • $35.00 Food & Wine, Gourmet, and many more. Stir Lynch’s cuisine is all the more remarkable because it NOVEMBER • Cooking • 352 pages • 9 x 10 is self-taught. Her story is reminiscent of Good Will Hunting: 60-plus 4-color photographs throughout • CTN 12 she grew up in the turbulent projects of Southie, where petty Terr: World • Rights: A/P/M: The Doe Coover crime was one of the few ways of getting by.But through Agency • B/T/S: HMH a mix of hunger for knowledge, hard work, and smarts, she created her own distinctive style of cooking, mining Italian and French classics for ideas and seasoning them with • Prepublication media event imagination. • National media from New York and Boston The 150 recipes in Stir combine sophistication with practicality: appetizers such as baked tomatoes and cheese and crisp, buttery brioche pizzas; dozens of the artful pastas Lynch is famous for, such as little lasagnas with chicken meatballs and potato gnocchi with peas and mushrooms; lobster rolls with aïoli; chicken wrapped in prosciutto and stuffed with melting Italian cheese; creamy vanilla bread pudding with caramel sauce. Lynch’s forthright opinions, her tips on achieving flavor and saving time, and the stunning photos make this cookbook a standout.

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Hank Stuever Tinsel A Search for America’s Christmas Present

A journey into the excess and beauty of Christmas in an American suburb, from a writer who is “wildly funny, caustic, and subversive” (Augusten Burroughs)

n Tinsel, Hank Stuever turns his unerring eye for the Iidiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, a suburb at once all-American and completely itself, to tell the story of the nation’s most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Stuever starts the narrative as so many start the Christ- mas season: standing in line with the people waiting to purchase flat-screen TVs on Black Friday.From there he follows three of Frisco’s true holiday believers as they navigate through the Nativity and all its attendant crises. Tammie Parnell, an eternally optimistic suburban mom, is the propri- ISBN 978-0-547-13465-9 • $24.00 etor of Two Elves with a Twist, a company that decorates Tinsel other people’s big houses for Christmas. Jeff and Bridgette NOVEMBER • Cultural Studies • 320 pages 1 1 Trykoski own the house that every town has—the one with 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 12 • Terr: World • Rights: P/M/S: the visible-from-space, most awe-inspiring Christmas lights. International Creative Management • B/T/A: HMH And single mother Caroll Cavazos just hopes that the life- affirming moments of Christmas might overcome the strug-

• Author appearances, including New York, gles of the rest of the year. Stuever’s portraits of this happy, Washington, D.C., Houston, Dallas, Austin megachurchy,shoparific community are at once humane, • Promotional book video heartfelt, revealing—and very funny. • Online promotion including interviews Tinsel is a compelling tale of our half-trillion-dollar of ‘characters’ and holiday eCards holiday,measuring what we’ve become against the ancient • Author website: www.hankstuever.com rituals of what we’ve always been. • Holiday display kit • Jacket blowups • Advance reading copies

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Terry Teachout Pops A Life of Louis Armstrong

“Pops is the book we have been waiting for: essential reading for anyone curious about music, American culture, and one man’s ability to inspire the world.” —Michael Cogswell, director, Louis Armstrong House Museum*

ouis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the L twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. He knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts, wrote the finest of all jazz autobiographies—without a collaborator—and created collages that have been compared to the art of Romare Bearden. The ranks of his admirers included Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock, and Orson Welles. Offstage he was witty,introspective, and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger- ISBN 978-0-15-101089-9 • $30.00 than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged Pops than his worshiping fans ever knew. DECEMBER • Biography • 512 pages • 6 x 9 The Wall Street Journal arts columnist Terry Teachout b/w photographs throughout • CTN 12 has drawn on a cache of important new sources unavailable Terr: World • Rights: A/P/M/S: Writers’ to previous Armstrong biographers, including hundreds of Representatives • B/T: HMH private recordings of backstage and after-hours conversations that Armstrong made throughout the second half of his life, • Author tour, including New York, Chicago, to craft a sweeping new narrative biography of this towering St. Louis, New Orleans figure. For the first time, the book offers full, accurate ver- • National and online advertising sions of such storied events as Armstrong’s decision to break • Promotional author video up his big band and his quarrel with President Eisenhower. Certain to be the definitive word on Armstrong for our gen- • Author website: www.terryteachout.com eration, Pops paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world, • Author blog: daily arts blog, About Last Night, on www.artsjournal.com and his music that will stand alongside Gary Giddins’s Bing • Online promotion, including jazz and Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams and Peter Guralnick’s Last Louis Armstrong sites and blogs Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley as a classic • Advance reading copies biography of a major American musician.

40 DECEMBER • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com been waiting for.”*

From POPS

THETWOMENMETFORTHEFIRSTTIME at rehearsal. A photographer snapped a picture of the shirt- sleeved Leonard Bernstein shaking hands with Armstrong. Both are smiling broadly,as are all the orchestra players visible in the photo, possibly because they had just heard the trumpeter greet the conductor with a genial “Yeah, daddy.” Then they got down to business. Though Armstrong had never worked with so large an ensemble, he was, as always, unfazed. Indeed he was cooler than Bernstein, who may not have known that his soloist, far from being an unlettered primitive who played only by ear, was a fluent sight reader who liked to warm up by blowing a tune from one of his favorite Italian operas:

He say, “Now, when you get to this cadenza and you get a little nervous or something, you know, well, just kind of shorten it or whatever it is.”I said, “Okay, daddy.”Well, you know, I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I’m ready, whether it’s rehearsal or anything. See? From the first rehearsal on down, we wailed. Well, from then on, he got confidence. © JACK BRADLEY COLLECTION, LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM It don’t take long for a person to relax once they hear me go down with the arrangement. After that, he got himself straightened. I

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TERRY TEACHOUT is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the chief culture critic of Commentary. He played jazz professionally before becoming a full-time writer. His books LEAN

include All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine, The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, [AUTHOR C and A Terry Teachout Reader. He blogs about the arts at www.terryteachout.com.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • DECEMBER 41 Elly Griffiths The Crossing Places A Ruth Galloway Mystery

“Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth— an inspired creation.”—Louise Penny, winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards

hen she’s not digging up bones or other ancient Wobjects, quirky,tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area of England called the Saltmarsh, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. When a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach nearby,Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for help. Nelson thinks he has found the remains of Lucy Downey,a little girl who went missing ten years ago. Since her disappearance he has been receiving bizarre letters about her, letters with ISBN 978-0-547-22989-8 • $25.00 references to ritual and sacrifice. The Crossing Places The bones actually turn out to be two thousand years 1 1 JANUARY • Mystery • 304 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 old, but Ruth is soon drawn into the Lucy Downey case and CTN 12 • Terr: US, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M: into the mind of the letter-writer, who seems to have both Quercus • S: HMH archaeological knowledge and eerie psychic powers. Then another child goes missing, and the hunt is on to find her. As the letter-writer moves closer and the windswept Norfolk • Mystery sampler landscape exerts its power, Ruth finds herself in completely • Mystery e-newsletter new territory—and in serious danger. • Advance reading copies The Crossing Places marks the beginning of an exciting new crime series featuring an irresistible heroine.

ELLY GRIFFITHS’s Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly’s husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt, who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled Elly’s head with the myths and legends of that area. Elly has two children and lives near Brighton. Though not her first novel, The Crossing Places is her first crime novel.

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42 JANUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Robert Stone Fun with Problems Stories

From “an iconic talent” (Washington Post) comes a beautiful and unsettling new collection of stories.

n Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once Iagain that he is “one of our greatest living writers” (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex, and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a screenwriter carries on a decades-long affair with a beautiful actress, whose descent into addiction he can neither turn from nor share; a bored husband picks up a mysterious woman only to find that his ego has led him woefully astray; a world-beating Silicon ISBN 978-0-618-38625-3 • $24.00 Valley executive receives an unwelcome guest at his mansion Fun with Problems 1 1 in the hills; a scuba diver guides uneasy newlyweds to a point JANUARY • Fiction • 208 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 CTN 12 • Terr: World • Rights: P/M/S: of no return. Fun with Problems showcases Stone’s great gift: Donadio & Olson • B/T/A: HMH pinpointing and making real the impulses—by turns violently coercive and quietly seductive—that cause us to conceal, reveal, and betray our truest selves. ALSO AVAILABLE Bay of Souls 978-0-618-44674-2 • $13.00 PA Dog Soldiers 978-0-395-86025-0 • $14.00 PA Outerbridge Reach 978-0-395-93894-2 • $15.00 PA

ROBERT STONE is the author of seven novels: A Hall of • National print and online advertising Mirrors, Dog Soldiers (winner of the National Book Award), • Author appearances A Flag for Sunrise, Children of Light, Outerbridge • National media from New York Reach, Damascus Gate, and Bay of Souls. His story collection Bear and His Daughter was a • Online promotion, including author interviews, e-cards, and widgets finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his memoir, to top literary and music sites Prime Green, was published in 2006. • Advance reading copies

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • JANUARY 43 Michele Scicolone The Italian Slow Cooker

Plug it in and come home to authentic Italian: our favorite cuisine meets America’s most popular cooking appliance.

inally,a book that combines the fresh, exuberant flavors Fof great Italian food with the ease and comfort of a slow cooker. Michele Scicolone, a best-selling author and an authority on Italian cooking, shows how good ingredients and simple techniques can lift the usual crockpot fare into the dimension of fine food. Pasta with Meat and Mushroom Ragu, Osso Buco with Red Wine, Chicken with Peppers and Mushrooms: these are dishes that even the most discriminat- ing cook can proudly serve to company,yet all are so carefree that anyone with just five or ten minutes of prep time can make them on a weekday and come home to perfection.

ISBN 978-0-547-00303-0 • $22.00 Simmered in the slow cooker, soups, stews, beans, The Italian Slow Cooker grains, pasta sauces, and fish are as healthy as they are deli- 1 1 JANUARY • Cooking • 240 pages • 7 ⁄2 x 9 ⁄8 cious. Polenta and risotto, “stir-crazy” dishes that ordinarily Forty 4-color photos throughout • CTN 12 need careful timing, are effortless. Meat loaves come out Terr: World • Rights: A/P/M/S: Sobel Weber perfectly moist, tough cuts of meat turn succulent, and Associates • B/T: HMH cheesecakes emerge flawless.

• National drive-time radio tour • Recipe postings on cooking websites

MICHELE SCICOLONE is the author of fourteen cookbooks, including the best-selling Sopranos Family Cookbook and Entertaining with the Sopranos. A sought-after spokes- person and cooking teacher, she has appeared many times on national television.

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44 JANUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Paul Theroux A Dead Hand A Crime in Calcutta A Novel

“No one writes with Theroux’s head-on intensity and raptness” (Pico Iyer), and nowhere is this more true than in this riveting tale of obsession and foul play in Calcutta.

erry Delfont, a travel journalist, leads an aimless life, Jstruggling in vain against his writer’s block, or “dead hand,” and flitting around the edges of a halfhearted romance. Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for his help. The story it tells is disturbing: a dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel; a seemingly innocent man in flight and fearing for his reputation as well as his life. Before long Delfont finds himself lured into the company of the letter’s author, the wealthy and charming Merrill Unger, ISBN 978-0-54726-024-2 • $26.00 and is intrigued enough to pursue both the mystery and the A Dead Hand FEBRUARY • Fiction • 256 pages • 6 x 9 woman. A devotee of the goddess Kali, Mrs. Unger intro- CTN • Terr: US, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: duces Delfont to a strange underworld where tantric sex The Wylie Agency and religious fervor lead to obsession, philanthropy and exploitation walk hand in hand, and, unless he can act in time, violence against the most vulnerable in society goes ALSO AVAILABLE unnoticed and unpunished. The Elephanta Suite A Dead Hand is an atmospheric and masterly thriller 978-0-547-08602-6 • $14.95 PA from “the most gifted, the most prodigal writer of his genera- The Stranger at the Palazzo D’Oro tion” (Jonathan Raban). 978-0-618-48533-8 • $14.00 PA Hotel Honolulu 978-0-618-21915-5 • $14.00 PA

• Select interviews, profiles, and appearances • National print and online advertising, including the New York Times PAUL THEROUX’s acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, • Mystery promotion Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. His • Advance reading copies renowned travel books include Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, and The Great Railway Bazaar. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod. © YINGYONG UN-ANONGRAK

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • FEBRUARY 45 A timely message of giving that’s igniting

Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen The Power of Half One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back

At a moment when Americans are reevaluating what really matters, the remarkable story of a family who set out to make a small difference in the world and ended up transforming themselves

t all started when fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen had Ia eureka moment. Seeing a homeless man in her neighbor- hood alongside a glistening Mercedes coupe, she said, “You know,Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.” Until that day,the Salwens had been caught up like so many of us in the classic American dream—providing a good life for their children, accumulating more and more stuff, ISBN 978-0-547-24806-6 • $24.00 doing their part but not really feeling it. So when Hannah The Power of Half 1 stopped in her tracks, her parents knew they had to act on FEBRUARY • Memoir • 224 pages • 5 x 7 ⁄2 CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: her urge to do something. As a family,they made the extraor- McCormick & Williams • A: Harper Audio • S: HMH dinary decision to sell their Atlanta mansion, downsize to a house half its size, and give half of their profit to a worthy charity.At first it was an outlandish scheme. “What, are you • National author tour including New York, crazy?” Then it was a challenge: “We are totally doing this.” Washington DC, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles Their plan eventually transported them across the globe and • National advertising, including USA Today well out of their comfort zone. In the end they learned that they had the power to change a little corner of the world. • National online promotion with audio/video, including like-minded web sites for parents, And they found themselves changing, too. youth groups and communities As Kevin Salwen says, “No one else is nuts enough • Promotion at NCTE, IRA and ALA to sell their house,” but what his family discovered along • Academic outreach, including cross-over with the way will inspire countless others, no matter what their HMH’s School Division(s) focusing to web casts, means or resources are. Warm, funny,and deeply moving, Reading Group/Teacher’s Guide promotions and The Power of Half is the story of how one family grew closer First Year Experience/Freshman Reads programs as they discovered that half could be so much more. • Advance readers copies

46 FEBRUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com A timely message of giving that’s igniting a movement, one family at a time a at family one movement, a igniting that’s giving of message timely A

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Compared to Jhumpa Lahiri, Flannery O’Connor, Isabel Allende, and Gabriel García Márquez, Gina Ochsner “manages . . . to capture our sundry human moments and make raw and unforgettable music of them” (Colum McCann).

Long-listed for the Orange Prize

n a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, Ithere’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade;

ISBN 978-0-618-56373-9 • $23.00 Olga, a translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight army veteran who always wears an aviator’s helmet; and Tanya. 1 1 FEBRUARY • Fiction • 384 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: her observations and her dreams to escape her job at the B/T/A/P/M/S: Sanford Greenburger All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum. When the museum’s Associates director hears of a mysterious American group seeking to fund art in Russia, he charges Tanya with luring them to the museum—which holds a fantastic and terrible collection of ALSO AVAILABLE art knockoffs created using the tools at hand, from foam to People I Wanted to Be 978-0-618-56372-2 • $12.00 PA chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. But while Tanya scrambles to save her dreams and her neighbors, she might also be getting closer to finding love right in her own • Author appearances courtyard. • IndieBound advance access • Advance reading copies GINA OCHSNER is the author of two collections of short stories, People I Wanted to Be and The Necessary Grace to Fall, both of which won the Oregon Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Nonrequired Read- ing, Glimmer Train, and others. She is a recipient of the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Ruth

Hindman Foundation Prize, Guggenheim and CLARAN C NEA grants, and the Raymond Carver Prize.

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48 FEBRUARY • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Dana Hand Deep Creek A Novel

A world-weary ex-marshal, a mysterious and alluring métis tracker, and a young Chinese mining company agent set out to solve a hideous crime on the banks of the Snake River.

daho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his Iyoung daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: more than forty Chinese gold miners, brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a métis mountain guide with too many secrets. As they track the killers across the Pacific Northwest, through haunted ISBN 978-0-547-23748-0 • $25.00 canyons and city streets, each must put aside lies and old Deep Creek grievances to survive a quest that will change them forever. FEBRUARY • Fiction • 320 pages • 6 x 9 Deep Creek is a historical thriller inspired by actual CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: events and people: the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in Cynthia Cannell Literary Agency • A/S: HMH remote and beautiful Hells Canyon, the middle-aged judge who went after their slayers, and the sham race-murder trial that followed. This American tragedy was long suppressed • Regional author appearances and the victims were nearly forgotten. Deep Creek teams • Online outreach to mystery sites, including eCard history and imagination to illuminate how and why, in a seamless, fast-moving tale of courage and redemption, loss • Regional show catalog promotion and love. It is a dazzling new novel for fans of Leif Enger, • Advance reading copies Lisa See, and Ivan Doig. • Author website: www.dana-hand.com

DANA HAND is the pen name of Will Howarth and Anne Matthews. Under their own names, they have published eighteen nonfiction books on American history, literature, and public issues. Deep Creek is their first novel.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • FEBRUARY 49 Beautifully written historical fiction by the masterly Clare Clark, whose “larger gift lies in the originality of her imagination”*

Clare Clark Savage Lands A Novel

A gripping story of love and betrayal from the novelist whose “rich Dickensian detail” (Washington Post Book World) and compelling characters have made her beloved by readers and critics alike

t is 1704, and while the Sun King, Louis XIV, rules France Ifrom the splendor of Versailles, fewer than two hundred souls live in Louisiana, the new and vast colony named in his honor. When the struggling settlers send a request that wives be dispatched from France, Elisabeth is among the twenty- three girls who set sail, to be married to men they know absolutely nothing about. Educated and skeptical, Elisabeth has little hope for happiness in her new life. Thus she is astonished when she, alone among the brides, finds herself ISBN 978-0-15-101473-6 • $25.00 passionately in love with her new husband, Jean-Claude, Savage Lands a charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious soldier. FEBRUARY • Historical Fiction • 384 pages • 6 x 9 Auguste, a poor cabin boy from Rochefort, must also CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O (-EU) • Rights: B/T/A/P/M: adjust to a startlingly unexpected future. Abandoned in a Aitken Alexander Associates • S: HMH remote native village, he is charged by the colony’s governor with mastering the tribe’s strange language and reporting on their activities. It is there that he is befriended by Elisabeth’s ALSO AVAILABLE husband and begins the slow process of assimilation back The Great Stink 978-0-15-60308-8 • $14.00 PA into life among the French. The Nature of Monsters The love Elisabeth and Auguste share for Jean-Claude 978-0-15-603408-1 • $14.00 PA changes both of their lives irrevocably. When in time he betrays them both, they find themselves bound together in ways they never anticipated. • National print advertising, including With the same compelling prose and vividly realized the New York Times Book Review characters that won her widespread acclaim for The Great • Reading group promotion Stink and The Nature of Monsters, Clare Clark takes us deep • Advance reading copies into the heart of colonial French Louisiana.

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lisabeth squirmed down the bed, struggle to recall the girl she was before him, E pulling the quilt over her head, burying when her self was all in her head, and her body herself beneath its comforting weight. Of all was only trunk and arms and legs, its passing the things she had brought with appetites satisfied by a warm cloak her to Louisiana he loved the He had or an apricot tart. With him, in this sea-green quilt the best. He liked strange land, where the swamp whis- to tease her that he would have breathed his pered and the vast fruits swelled and married her for the quilt alone warm life rotted, she was flesh, all flesh. The and, when he took it in his arms weight of her, once densely crammed and danced with it about the into her. into her head, now tangled itself luxuri- cabin, twirling its skirts in sea- ously about her ribs and tingled in her green swoops, she laughed, swallowing the limbs. Her skin eased and opened. Her muscles prickle of disquiet that caught in her throat. melted. Even her bones softened, so that she The quilt smelled of him. She inhaled and moved with the indolence of a sun-drunk cat. again her body stirred. These days she had to He had breathed his warm life into her. I

CLARE CLARK is the author of The Great Stink, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and The Nature of Monsters. She discovered the story of Louisiana and the first French settlers in America when working on The Nature of Monsters, which is set in London in the same period, and did much of the research for Savage Lands in the Historic Collection in New Orleans. The story of Elisabeth Savaret is based on the true story of the women who became known as the casket girls, young girls of marriageable age who were sent from France to Louisiana as wives for the colonists. Many residents of New Orleans still claim to be descended from these original casket girls.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • FEBRUARY 51 Marion Meade Lonelyhearts The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney

“The brief lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney make a great story, and Marion Meade tells it with flair, erudition, and consummate wit. A literary page-turner.” —Diane Jacobs, author of Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges

athanael West—novelist, screenwriter, playwright, Ndevoted outdoorsman—was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), renowned as the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood. ISBN 978-0-15-101149-0 • $28.00 Eileen McKenney—accidental muse, literary heroine— Lonelyhearts MARCH • Biography • 432 pages • 6 x 9 was the inspiration for her sister Ruth’s humorous stories, Two 8-page b/w inserts • CTN • Terr: World My Sister Eileen, which led to stage, film, and television Rights: A/P/M/S: Wallace Literary Agency adaptations, including Leonard Bernstein’s 1953 musical B/T: HMH Wonderful Town. She grew up in Cleveland and moved to Manhattan at twenty-one in search of romance and adventure. Husband and wife were intimate with F. Scott Fitzgerald, ALSO AVAILABLE Dorothy Parker, Katharine White, S. J. Perelman, Bennett Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin Cerf, and many of the other literary, theatrical, and movie 978-0-15-603059-5 • $14.00 PA notables of their era. With Lonelyhearts, Marion Meade restores West and McKenney to their rightful places in the • National media from New York rich cultural tapestry of interwar America. • Postcard mailing for bookstores • Advance reading copies MARION MEADE is the author of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties and Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Madame Blavatsky, and Victoria Woodhull and edited The Portable Dorothy Parker. Her two novels are Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard and Sybille.

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52 MARCH • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Melissa Milgrom Still Life Adventures in Taxidermy

An intimate journey through the world of taxidermy by a New York Times contributor who recently stuffed her first squirrel

t’s easy to dismiss taxidermy as a kitschy or morbid side- Iline, the realm of trophy fish and jackalopes or an anachro- nistic throwback to the dusty diorama. Yet it is a world full of intrepid hunter-explorers, eccentric naturalists, and gifted museum artisans, all devoted to the paradoxical pursuit of creating the illusion of life. Into this subculture of insanely passionate animal lovers ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose journey stretches from the family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an ISBN 978-0-618-40547-3 • $25.00 English sculptor preserves the animals for Damien Hirst’s Still Life most disturbing artworks. She wanders through Mr. Potter’s MARCH • Popular Culture • 320 pages 1 1 Museum of Curiosities to watch dealers vie for preserved 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 12 • Terr: World English Rights: T/A/P/M/S: Janklow & Nesbit Victorian oddities, and visits the Smithsonian’s offsite lab, Associates • B: HMH where taxidermists transform zoo skins into vivacious beasts. She tags along with a Canadian bear trapper—the three-time World Taxidermy Champion—as he resurrects an extinct • National media from New York Irish elk using DNA studies and Paleolithic cave art for refer- • Online outreach to taxidermy websites, ence; she even ultimately picks up a scalpel herself. Trans- literary blogs, and the American Museum formed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, of Natural History Milgrom takes us deep into the world of taxidermy and • Presence at the World Taxidermy reveals its uncanny appeal. Championship • Advance reading copies • Author website: www.melissamilgrom.com

MELISSA MILGROM has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications; she has also produced radio segments for National Public Radio. She has a master’s degree in American studies from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • MARCH 53 Exciting new editions of two flagship titles in the Peterson Field Guide® series

Roger Tory Peterson Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition

Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Western North America, Fourth Edition

ITH ALL-NEW RANGE MAPS, Wupdated text, and 40 new paintings, the completely revised editions of two classic Peterson Field Guides are sure to be valuable additions to any birder’s pocket or daypack. At a trim size of 5 x 8, they are portable but also beautifully illustrated. Photographs, while modern-looking and colorful, capture just one moment in time. The paintings in these guides, however, show all of a bird’s key field THE BEST-SELLING FIELD GUIDE since marks and use the Peterson Identification System 1934, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern to make bird identification easier for beginning and Central North America is now in its sixth edition. and intermediate bird watchers. With clear, succinct accounts of more than 500 species, A team of professional birders has updated accurate and beautiful paintings on 159 color plates, the text, maps, and art for these authoritative guides. and 512 maps annotated with extensive range infor- Expert birders also created 33 entertaining and mation, this is the most up-to-date and accessible field easy-to-use video podcasts, which are available for guide for bird watchers in eastern North America. download. They make enjoyable and educational viewing on a computer desktop or MP3 player. ISBN 978-0-547-15246-2 • $19.95 • FLEXI Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern Includes access to and Central North America, Sixth Edition 33 VIDEO MARCH • Reference • 472 pages • 5 x 8 • 159 color PODCASTS plates • CTN 22 • Terr: World • Rights: HMH Previous ISBN 978-0-395-74046-0

54 MARCH • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Exciting new editions of two flagship titles in the Peterson Field Guide® series © ESTATE OF RODGERTORY PETERSON

ROGER TORY PETERSON (1908–1996), one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identifica- tion System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

LAST UPDATED IN 1990, the Peterson Field These editions include updated material Guide to Western Birds covers nearly 600 species by Michael O’Brien, Paul Lehman, Bill on 176 color plates, with 588 comprehensive range Thompson III, Michael DiGiorgio, Larry maps, now included with the illustrations. Every Rosche, and Jeffrey A. Gordon. bird watcher in western North America will want to own this long-awaited, up-to-date fourth edition. ALSO AVAILABLE Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America ISBN 978-0-547-15270-7 • $19.95 • FLEXI 978-0-618-96614-1 • $26.00 Peterson Field Guide to Birds of FLEXI Western North America, Fourth Edition MARCH • Reference • 512 pages • 5 x 8 • 176 color • Television advertising and placement on Birding Adventures plates • CTN 20 • Terr: World • Rights: HMH Previous ISBN 978-0-618-13218-8 • National print advertising in both birding and general media • Promotion at birding and nature festivals across the nation

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • MARCH 55 Ray Banks No More Heroes A Cal Innes Novel

The explosive third novel in the “audacious and volatile” (Boston Globe) Cal Innes series

t’s the hottest summer on record in Manchester, England, Iand down-at-heel private eye Cal Innes is struggling to keep cool. He has taken a job evicting families on behalf of local slumlord Donald Plummer, while the English National Socialists bring racial tensions to the boiling point. A fire- bomb attack on a Plummer property thrusts Innes into the spotlight when he rescues a child from the burning building. But when Plummer hires him to track down the arsonists, Innes finds himself dealing with more than neo-Nazis and his rapidly worsening addiction to painkillers. Time is running ISBN 978-0-15-101459-0 • $25.00 out, and the temperature keeps rising. Manchester needs a No More Heroes hero, and Cal Innes is the closest it has. MARCH • Mystery • 272 pages • 6 x 9 Discover why the best-selling author Laura Lippman CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: declared that Ray Banks “raises the bar for hardboiled Polygon (Birlinn Ltd.) • A/S: HMH fiction on both sides of the Atlantic.”

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56 MARCH • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com Anil Ananthaswamy The Edge of Physics A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

An intrepid journalist takes us from desolate deserts to derelict mines to answer some of the most burning questions in physics today.

hysics is in crisis. For more than two centuries, our Punderstanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But in the past few decades we’ve made astonishingly little progress. What will finally break the impasse and get physics back on track? In this timely and original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the world’s most audacious physics experiments: the telescopes and detectors that promise to shed new light on things like dark matter, dark ISBN 978-0-618-88468-1 • $25.00 energy, and the phenomenon of quantum gravity (which The Edge of Physics MARCH • Physics/Astronomy • 288 pages string theory tries to explain). He soon finds himself at the 5 x 8 • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: ends of the earth, in cold and remote and sometimes danger- B/T/P/M: Conville & Walsh • A/S: HMH ous places. As it turns out, extreme physics requires extreme environments.

Reporting from some of the most inhospitable and • Online advertising and promotion, dramatic research sites on our planet—from the Himalayas to including Seed Antarctica—Ananthaswamy weaves together stories about the • Banner advertising with links to people and places at the heart of this research while beauti- author interviews and excerpts fully explaining the problems that scientists are trying to • Early outreach to blogs, including solve. In so doing, he provides a unique portrait of the universe ARC mailings and e-cards and our quest to understand it. An atmospheric, engaging, • Advance reading copies and illuminating read, The Edge of Physics depicts science as a human process and in a very real sense brings cosmology— with all its rarefied concepts—back down to earth.

ANIL ANANTHASWAMY is a consulting editor for New Scientist in London, where he has also worked as a deputy news editor. He also contributes to National Geographic News.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • www.hmhbooks.com • MARCH 57

Author of the national bestseller

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Animals Make Us Human Creating the Best Life for Animals

“For pet owners, Temple Grandin’s perspective is invaluable.”—Entertainment Weekly

ow can we give animals the best life—for them? HWhat does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours. Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually ISBN 978-0-547-24823-3 • $14.95 easy,but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Animals Make Us Human Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin JANUARY • Nature/Animals • 352 pages 5 identifies the core emotional needs of animals and then 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2009 Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101489-7 • Terr: US, C, O explains how to fulfill the specific needs of dogs and cats, Rights: B/T/P/M: Dunow, Carlson and Lerner horses, farm animals, zoo animals, and even wildlife. A: Recorded Books • S: HMH Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day,how to keep • National author tour, including Chicago, pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in Los Angeles, Tempe, Tucson, Miami, the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us St. Louis, Atlanta to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment • Major print and online advertising, including and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. the New York Times and People magazine Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost • Pitch to national morning shows thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. • Online promotion to animal and autism groups, This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever owned, such as autismspeaks.com and animalrescuefoundationinc.org cared for, or simply cared about an animal. • Reading group promotion, including online reader’s guide and partnership with www.readinggroupchoices.com

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“Profoundly researched, focused, absorbing . . . The Man Who Made Vermeers brings hard light to van Meegeren’s machinations and (very bad) character.” —The New Yorker

Edgar Award nominee for Best Fact Crime

t’s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren Ifamous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: a lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeer paintings, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it’s a story that’s ISBN 978-0-547-24784-7 • $14.95 been believed ever since. Too bad it isn’t true. The Man Who Made Vermeers Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen docu- 5 AUGUST • History • 352 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 ments from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new 88 b/w photos throughout • CTN 24 biography of the world’s most famous forger. Neither unap- HMH Hardcover 2008 • Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101341-8 • Terr: US, C, O preciated artist nor antifascist hero, van Meegeren emerges Rights: B/A/P/M/S: Lippincott Massie as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook—a talented Mr. McQuilkin • T: HMH Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: not only was van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and ’30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of van Meegeren’s legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.

JONATHAN LOPEZ is a columnist for Art & Antiques. He speaks five languages and traveled to four countriesto research van Meegeren. Lopez is the technical consultant for a feature-length documentary on art forgery and has written articles on van Meegeren for De Groene Ams- terdammer, Holland’s oldest weekly magazine, and for the London-based Apollo: The Interna- tional Magazine of the Arts. He lives in New York City. © MATTHEW SEPTIMUS

62 AUGUST • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback José Saramago Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Death with Interruptions A Novel

“Wonderfully absurd and meditative . . . an endearing love story that could make anyone sympathize with death herself.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“How can the most tender relationship that Saramago has ever written involve death as a nervous lover? This is a story that can’t possibly work or affect us, but it does, deeply, sweetly. It’s a novel to die for.” —Washington Post

obel Prize winner José Saramago’s brilliant new Nnovel asks, What happens when the Grim Reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of ISBN 978-0-547-24788-5 • $14.95 course causes consternation among politicians, religious Death with Interruptions leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 256 pages 5 in contrast, there is initially celebration—flags are hung out 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101274-9 • Terr: the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits US, C, O (-EU) • Rights: B: Harvill Secker T/A/P/M: Dr. Ray-Güde Mertin • S: HMH home: families are left to care for the permanently dying, life insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, ALSO AVAILABLE and parrots. Blindness Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone 978-0-15-600775-7 • $15.00 PA with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experi- The Cave ment. What if no one ever died again? What if she, death 978-0-15-602879-0 • $14.00 PA with a small d, became human and were to fall in love? Seeing 978-0-15-603273-5 • $14.00 PA

JOSÉ SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the • National advertising Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he • Academic marketing, including online was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. promotion and postcard mailings He lives in the Canary Islands.

MARGARET JULL COSTA has established © JOSÉ FRADE herself as the premier translator of Portuguese literature into English.

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • SEPTEMBER7 63 “A highly readable and fascinating account of

Stephen Baker The Numerati

“A must-read for anyone who wants to understand life and business in the Google age.”—Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail

very day we produce loads of data about ourselves Esimply by living in the modern world: we click on web pages, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls. Companies like Yahoo! and Google are harvesting an average of 2,500 details about each of us every month. Who is looking at this information, and what are they doing with it? Journalist Stephen Baker explores these questions and provides us with a fascinating guide to the world we’re enter- ing—and to the people controlling that world. The Numerati have infiltrated every realm of human affairs, profiling us as workers, shoppers, voters, potential terrorists—and lovers. ISBN 978-0-547-24793-9 • $14.95 The implications are vast. Privacy evaporates. Our bosses The Numerati can monitor our every move. Retailers can better tempt us SEPTEMBER • Science/Business • 256 pages to make impulse buys. But the Numerati can also work on 5 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 our behalf, diagnosing an illness before we’re aware of the Previous ISBN 978-0-618-78460-8 • Terr: US, C, O symptoms, or even helping us find our soulmate. Entertain- Rights: B/T/P/M: Levine Greenberg Literary ing and enlightening, The Numerati shows how a powerful Agency • A: Blackstone • S: HMH new endeavor—the mathematical modeling of humanity— will transform every aspect of our lives.

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Ivan Doig The Eleventh Man A Novel

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riven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 Dstarting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history,charging through the season undefeated. Two

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Poet Laureate of the United States, 2006–2007

“Hall’s direct tone softens the extraordinariness of his life . . . When asked, at a Library of Congress dinner, the subject of his writing, he replied, ‘Love, death, and New Hampshire.’”—The New Yorker

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onald Hall’s invaluable record of the making of a poet Dbegins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut, where, as the doted-upon son of thwarted parents, he first realized that poetry was “secret, dangerous, wicked, and delicious.” Hall eloquently writes of summers ISBN 978-0-547-24794-6 • $14.95 spent at his grandparents’ home on Eagle Pond, New Hamp- Unpacking the Boxes shire, and of the poetry and books that moved and formed SEPTEMBER • Memoir/Poetry • 208 pages him as a child and young man. Hall’s painful formative days 5 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2009 at Exeter, filled with adolescent efforts at poetry writing— Previous ISBN: 978-0-618-99065-8 an endeavor he wryly describes as more hormonal than Terr: World • Rights: P/M/S: Gerard artistic—were followed by a poetic self-liberation of sorts McCauley Agency • B/T/A: HMH at Harvard and in the postwar university scene at Oxford. After a failed first marriage, Hall met and married Jane ALSO AVAILABLE Kenyon, and the two poets returned to Eagle Pond. Fittingly, White Apples and the Taste of Stone the family home that loomed large in Hall’s childhood is 978-0-618-91999-4 • $16.95 PA where he has grown old, and at eighty learned finally “to live Eagle Pond in the moment—as you have been told to do all your life.” 978-0-618-83934-6 • $14.95 PA Unpacking the Boxes is a revelatory and poignant memoir The Best Day the Worst Day of one man’s life in poetry. 978-0-618-77362-6 • $13.95 PA

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68 SEPTEMBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Paul Tough Whatever It Takes Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America

With a new foreword

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hat would it take? W What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, but in big numbers? That question led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ISBN 978-0-547-24796-0 • $14.95 ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is Whatever It Takes testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty SEPTEMBER • Current Affairs • 320 pages 5 in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change Previous ISBN 978-0-61-856989-2 • Terr: everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, US, C, O • Rights: B/T/P/M: David even the child-rearing practices of their parents. McCormick Literary Agency • A/S: HMH President Obama has called the Harlem Children’s Zone “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort • National drive-time radio tour that is literally saving a generation of children in a neighbor- • NCTE promotion hood where they were never supposed to have a chance” and has vowed to replicate it in twenty cities nationwide. Care- • Academic marketing, including postcard mailings to education fully researched and deeply affecting, Whatever It Takes is a professors and programs dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transfor- mative social experiment of our time.

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paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • SEPTEMBER7 69 “Sweet humor and compelling writing make this

Nicholas Drayson A Guide to the Birds of East Africa A Novel

“This book is a sheer delight for birders and nonbirders alike.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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“Will appeal to Alexander McCall Smith fans, but definitely stands on its own and will beguile any reader who appreciates sharp wit and gentle charm.” —Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness

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“All in all, a deliciously wicked little romp, complete with a clever twist at the end.”—Seattle Times

“Good lines there are in abundance. And in the end, The Sealed Letter provides both the titillating entertainment readers like Helen and Fido crave and the more sober exploration of truth, commitment, and betrayal Harry might appreciate.” —New York Times Book Review

iss Emily “Fido” Faithfull is a “woman of business” Mand a spinster pioneer in the British women’s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once- ISBN 978-0-547-24776-2 • $13.95 dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is The Sealed Letter SEPTEMBER • Historical Fiction swept up in the intimate details of Helen’s failing marriage 5 416 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 and obsessive affair with a young army officer. What begins HMH hardcover 2008 • Previous IBSN as a loyal effort to help a friend explodes into an intriguing 978-0-15-101549-8 • Terr: US, O (-EU) courtroom drama complete with accusations of adultery, Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Anderson Literary counterclaims of rape, and a mysterious letter that could Management, LLC destroy more than one life. Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, The Sealed Letter is a riveting, provocative ALSO AVAILABLE drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian-style. Slammerkin 978-0-15-600747-4 • $15.00 PA Life Mask 978-0-15-603264-3 • $14.00 PA

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72 SEPTEMBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Ms. Hempel Chronicles

“When I opened this utterly charming novel, I fell in love with it.”—Carolyn See, Washington Post

“Such a beautiful book is Ms. Hempel Chronicles, the kind that gives its reader profound insights into ordinary, everyday life . . . Deeply affecting.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

PEN/Faulkner Award finalist

s. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new— Mnew to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their ISBN 978-0-547-24775-5 • $13.95 own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while Ms. Hempel Chronicles teaching a sex education class? SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 208 pages 5 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101496-5 • Terr: vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in US, C, O • Rights: T/A/P/M/S: Susan Golomb sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative and criti- Literary • B: Atlantic Books cally acclaimed of young writers comes a journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up. ALSO AVAILABLE Madeleine Is Sleeping 978-0-15-603227-8 • $13.00 PA

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paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • SEPTEMBER7 73 “The Toss of a Lemon joins the

Padma Viswanathan The Toss of a Lemon A Novel

“The Toss of a Lemon is a captivating novel that in relating the story of one Indian woman and her family tells the story of a changing society. I challenge any reader to start reading this book and give up on it.” —Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi*

ivakami is married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left Swith two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow’s whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: she moves back to her dead husband’s house to raise her children. There her servant Muchami, a closeted gay ISBN 978-0-547-24787-8 • $15.95 man who is bound by a different caste’s rules, becomes her The Toss of a Lemon public face. Their singular relationship holds three genera- 5 SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 640 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 tions of the family together through the turbulent first half CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 • Previous ISBN of the twentieth century,as India endures great social and 978-0-15-101533-7 • Terr: US, O • Rights: political change. But as time passes, the family changes too; T/P/M: Westwood Creative Artists • B/A/S: HMH Canada: Random House Canada Sivakami’s son comes to question the strictures of the very ANZ: University of Western Australia Press beliefs that his mother has scrupulously upheld. India: Westland Limited The Toss of a Lemon is heartbreaking and exhilarating, profoundly exotic yet utterly recognizable in evoking the tensions that change brings to every family.

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“Millet . . . has pulled off her funniest, most shrewdly thoughtful and touching novel. If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous.” —Village Voice

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2008 A Time Out New York Best Book of 2008

s a wealthy young real estate developer in Los Angeles, AT.lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people—from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers—but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the

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76 7SEPTEMBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash, 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith’s classic, with a new introduction by his son, James K. Galbraith

“Most intriguing for its depiction of the delusion that swept the culture, and the ways financiers and bankers, wishful academics and supine regulators willfully ignored reality and in the process encouraged the epic collapse of the stock market.“—New York Times

“Paints a vivid picture of how the supposedly rational capitalist system seemed to lose its collective mind, and it has spooky parallels with what we are witnessing now.” —Fortune

f Galbraith’s classic examination of the 1929 financial Ocollapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: “Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this ISBN 978-0-547-24816-5 • $14.95 book is. Galbraith’s prose has grace and wit, and he distills The Great Crash, 1929 a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the SEPTEMBER • Economics • 224 pages 1 1 nation’s oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Previous ISBN community.” 978-0-395-85999-5 • Terr: US, C, O • Originally published in 1955, Galbraith’s book has risen Rights: B: Penguin UK T/P/M/S: HMH A: Recorded Books once again as Americans look for perspective on the current global financial crisis. This new edition will be published on the eightieth anniversary of the great crash, with a new intro- ALSO AVAILABLE duction by the author’s son, the economist James K. Galbraith. The Affluent Society 978-0-395-92500-3 • $15.00 PA The Good Society JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1908–2006) was a critically 978-0-395-85998-8 • $15.00 PA acclaimed author and one of America’s foremost economists. The Essential Galbraith His most famous works include The Affluent Society, The Good 978-0-618-11963-9 • $16.00 PA Society, and The Great Crash. Galbraith was the recipient of the Order of Canada and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he was twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. • Academic marketing

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paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • SEPTEMBER7 77 “[Lehrer is] expert at both storytelling and hard

Jonah Lehrer How We Decide

A New York Times Bestseller

“Should we go with instinct or analysis? The answer, Lehrer explains in this smart and delightfully readable book, is that it depends on the situation. Knowing which method works best in which case is not just useful but fascinating. Lehrer proves once again that he’s a master storyteller and one of the best guides to the practical lessons from the new neuroscience.” —Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail

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ince Plato, philosophers have described the decision- Smaking process as either rational or emotional: we ISBN 978-0-547-24799-1 • $14.95 carefully deliberate or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as How We Decide researchers break open the mind’s black box with the latest OCTOBER • Psychology/Business • 256 pages tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how 5 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2009 the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend Previous ISBN 978-0-618-62011-1 • Terr: of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends US, C, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency on the situation. The trick is to determine when to lean on which part of the brain, and to do this, we need to think ALSO AVAILABLE harder (and smarter) about how we think. Proust Was a Neuroscientist Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing 978-0-547-08590-6 • $14.95 PA on cutting-edge research as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of “deciders,” from airplane pilots and • National drive-time radio tour hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players. He • Tie-in to author’s lecture schedule shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and • Academic marketing, including eChapter teasers improve military intelligence. His goal is to answer two questions: How does the human mind make decisions? And how • Social networking outreach can we make those decisions better? • Author blog: The Frontal Cortex

• Author website: www.jonahlehrer.com * Washington Post

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“A short fiction juggernaut.”—Wall Street Journal

dited by the critically acclaimed, best-selling author EAlice Sebold, the stories in this year’s collection serve as a provocative literary “antenna for what is going on in the world” (Chicago Tribune). The volume boasts great variety, from “famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds” (St. Louis Post- ISBN 978-0-618-79225-2 • $14.00 PA Dispatch), ensuring yet another rewarding, enduring edition The Best American Short Stories 2009 of the oldest and most popular Best American. Contributors 1 1 OCTOBER • Fiction • 320 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 include Daniel Alarcón, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Yiyun Li, CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O • Previous ISBN Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, and others. 978-0-618-78877-4 • 36-copy mixed floor display (ships empty) • ISBN 978-0-547-31931-5

ISBN 978-0-618-79224-5 • $28.00 CL The Best American Short Stories 2009 1 1 OCTOBER • 320 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O

ALICE SEBOLD is the best-selling author • New 36-copy mixed floor display of the novels The Almost Moon and The Lovely (ships empty) Bones and the memoir Lucky. She lives in • National advertising, including the California with her husband, the novelist Glen New York Times Book Review David Gold. The film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson, is scheduled • Online features and promotions at for release this year. www.bestamericanshortstories.com © REBECCA SAPP • Academic promotion HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin. Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the author of the novel The Birthdays.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Sebold: San Francisco / Pitlor: outside Boston

80 7OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Mary Oliver, editor • Robert Atwan, series editor Mary The Best American Essays® 2009 Oliver editor “If there’s a better reading companion for a long flight or a short vacation, I can’t think what it might be.”—Buffalo News

ontributors include Patricia Hampl, Michael Lewis, Jill McCorkle, CCynthia Ozick, John Updike, and others. MARY OLIVER is the author of twenty books, including The Leaf and the Cloud and What Do We Know. Her many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays ISBN 978-0-618-98272-1 • $14.00 since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies The Best American Essays 2009 and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide. OCTOBER • Essays • 320 pages 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Previous ISBN 978-0-618-98322-3 Oliver: Provincetown, Massachusetts / Atwan: Milton, Massachusetts

Dave Eggers, editor • Marjane Satrapi, introducer Dave The Best American Nonrequired Eggers Reading™ 2009 editor

“A bouillabaisse of nonrequired reading that should be required.” —Publishers Weekly

his “great volume” highlights the “very best of this year’s fiction, Tnonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and more” (OK!). DAVE EGGERS is the editor of McSweeney’s and a cofounder of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for youth located in seven cities across the United States. He is the author of four books, including What Is the What and How We Are Hungry. ISBN 978-0-547-24160-9 • $14.00 The Best American MARJANE SATRAPI is the author of the internationally best-selling and Nonrequired Reading 2009 award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis and OCTOBER • Literature • 320 pages Persepolis 2. Her other books include Embroideries and Chicken with 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O Plums, and she is a regular contributor to many publications, including Previous ISBN 978-0-618-90283-5 The New Yorker and the New York Times.

EDITOR’S RESIDENCE - Eggers: San Francisco, California

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • OCTOBER7 81 Jeffrey Deaver, editor • Otto Penzler, series editor The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009 Jeffrey “Top-notch . . . offers superb writing from authors Deaver both well and little known.”—Publishers Weekly editor

he best-selling novelist Jeffrey Deaver edits this latest collection Tof the genre’s finest from the past year. Contributors include Tom Bissell, Michael Connelly,Stephen King, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

JEFFERY DEAVER is the best-selling author of The Bodies Left Behind, ISBN 978-0-547-23750-3 • $14.00 The Sleeping Doll, The Cold Moon, The Blue Nowhere, The Bone Collector, The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 The Empty Chair, The Devil’s Teardrop, and fifteen other suspense novels. OCTOBER • Mystery • 320 pages OTTO PENZLER is the founder of the Mysterious Bookshop and the 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O Mysterious Press and is an Edgar Award winner. Previous ISBN 978-0-618-81267-7 EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Deaver: North Carolina / Penzler: New York City

Elizabeth Kolbert, editor • Tim Folger, series editor Elizabeth The Best American Science Kolbert and Nature Writing™ 2009 editor

“A wonderful series . . . where students find plenty of inspiration.” —New Scientist

lizabeth Kolbert, one of today’s leading environmental journalists, Eedits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors include Sue Halpern, Atul Gawande, Oliver Sacks, Nicholas Carr, and others.

ELIZABETH KOLBERT was a political reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before joining The New Yorker in 1999. Her series on global ISBN 978-0-547-00259-0 • $14.00 warming, “The Climate of Man,” was awarded the American Association The Best American Science for the Advancement of Science’s magazine writing award. Her stories and Nature Writing 2009 have also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother OCTOBER • Science/Nature • 320 pages Jones. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe. 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and writes about science Previous ISBN 978-0-618-83447-1 for several magazines.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Kolbert: Williamstown, Massachusetts / Folger: Gallup, New Mexico

82 7OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Simon Winchester, editor • Jason Wilson, series editor ™ The Best American Travel Writing 2009 Simon Winchester “The writing in this volume is so vibrantly good, you’ll feel like editor you’ve armchair-traveled around the world.”—Chicago Sun Times

cclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye A to this year’s volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include André Aciman, Lynne Cox, Kiran Desai, Chuck Klosterman, Calvin Trillin, and others.

SIMON WINCHESTER’s many books include The Professor and the Mad- man, The Map That Changed the World, Krakatoa, and A Crack in the Edge ISBN 978-0-618-85866-8 • $14.00 of the World. Each of these has been a New York Times bestseller and has The Best American Travel Writing 2009 appeared on numerous “best” and “notable” lists. Winchester was made OCTOBER • Travel • 320 pages 1 1 an officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 2006. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O Previous ISBN 978-0-618-85864-4 JASON WILSON is a columnist for the Washington Post‘s food section, as well as the editor of the online magazine The Smart Set.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Winchester: Massachusetts and New York City Wilson: Haddonfield, New Jersey

Leigh Montville, editor • Glenn Stout, series editor Leigh Montville The Best American Sports editor Writing™ 2009

“Memorable reading . . . a must for all sports collections.”—Booklist

ell established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American WSports Writing brings together the year’s finest writing on sports. Contributors include Michael Lewis, Amby Burfoot, Lisa Taddeo, Paul Solotaroff, and others.

LEIGH MONTVILLE, a former columnist for the Boston Globe and a former 978-0-547-06971-5 • $14.00 senior writer for Sports Illustrated, is the author of the best-selling Ted The Best American Sports Writing 2009 Williams, At the Altar of Speed, and The Big Bam. OCTOBER • Sports • 320 pages 1 1 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 • CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O GLENN STOUT is the author of Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Previous ISBN 978-0-618-75118-1 Dodgers, and The Cubs. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Montville: Winthrop, Massachusetts / Stout: Alburg, Vermont

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • OCTOBER7 83 Charles Burns, editor Charles Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, series editors Burns editor The Best American Comics™ 2009 Cover art by Michael Kupperman

“It’s hard to flip through this book without finding a lot worth reading (and rereading).”—The Onion, AV Club

ow in its fourth year, The Best American Comics show- Ncases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the web to create this excep- ISBN 978-0-618-98965-2 • $22.00 POB tional collection. Featuring the work of such luminaries as The Best American Comics 2009 Chris Ware, KAZ, and Robert Crumb, this volume is OCTOBER • Graphic Novel • 326 pages 1 “a genuine salute to comics” (Houston Chronicle). 7 x 9 ⁄4 • CTN 12 • Terr: US, C, O • Previous ISBN 978-0-618-98976-8

CHARLES BURNS grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman’s Raw magazine in the • National advertising, including select mid-1980s and took off from there, to an extraordinary range regional holiday catalogs of comics and projects, from Iggy Pop album covers to ads • Promotion at MoCCA (Museum of for Altoids. Burns has illustrated covers for Time, The New Comic and Cartoon Art) Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. He was also tapped as the official cover artist for the Believer at its inception in 2003. His eagerly awaited graphic novel Black Hole, published in 2005, received over a dozen Harvey Awards. Along with several other prominent graphic artists, Burns collaborated on Fear(s) of the Dark, an animated French horror film now touring the United States.

JESSICA ABEL is the author of the graphic novel La Perdida as well as two collections of stories and drawings from her series Artbabe. MATT MADDEN is a cartoonist and the author of 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style. Together, they are the authors of Drawing Words and Writing Pictures.

EDITORS’ RESIDENCES - Burns: Philadelphia Abel and Madden: Brooklyn, New York

84 7OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • hardcover John Harwood The Séance

“Harwood’s spellbinding second novel . . . pays homage to such nineteenth-century suspense masters as Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu . . . Harwood invokes the hoariest clichés of supernatural suspense, from stormy nights to haunted houses, and effortlessly makes them his own.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

raxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English Wcountryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inherited this dark place as well as the mysteries surrounding it. Having grown up in a house marked by the death of her sister, Constance is no stranger to mystery,secrets, and the dark magic around us. Her father was distant. Her mother was in perpetual mourning for her lost child. In a desperate attempt to coax her mother back to health, Constance took her to a séance, hoping she would find supernatural comfort. ISBN 978-0-547-24782-3 • $13.95 But tragic consequences followed, leaving Constance alone The Séance 5 in the world—alone with Wraxford Hall. Saddled with this OCTOBER • Fiction • 352 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 • Previous questionable bequest, she must find the truth at the heart ISBN 978-0-15-101203-9 • Terr: US, C, O (-EU) of all the disappearances, apparitions, betrayal, blackmail, Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Anderson Literary and villainy around her, even if it costs her her life. Management John Harwood’s second novel delivers on the great promise proven by his first, with this gripping mystery set in the heart of Victorian England. ALSO AVAILABLE The Ghost Writer 978-0-15-603232-2 • $14.00 PA

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JOHN HARWOOD is the author of The Ghost • Online promotion at Victorian blogs, Writer, which won the 2004 International Horror including wordpress.com Guild Award for best first novel. A professor • Cross-promotion in children’s catalog of English for twenty-five years, Harwood also wrote a biography of Olivia Shakespeare, an Edwardian novelist and lover of W. B. Yeats, who was the inspiration for Viola Hatherley, the central presence in The Ghost Writer.

Harwood lives in Victor Harbor, South Australia. © JODI NASH

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • OCTOBER7 85 Christopher Hibbert The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519

“A heavily researched and generally engrossing account of a famous dynasty.”—Publishers Weekly

“A straightforward, carefully researched narrative . . . Hibbert’s unsensationalized account of sensational material makes a fascinating read.”—Library Journal

he first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, TChristopher Hibbert’s latest history brings the family and the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy.The ISBN 978-0-547-24781-6 • $15.95 powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history The Borgias and Their Enemies as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. 5 OCTOBER • History • 336 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 • Previous fame—his daughter Lucrezia and her brother Cesare, who ISBN 978-0-15-101033-2 • Terr: US, O murdered Lucrezia’s husband and served as the inspiration Rights: T/P/M: Harold Ober Associates, Inc. for Machiavelli’s The Prince. The Borgias were notorious B: HarperCollins UK • A/S: HMH for seizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage, and murder. The story of the family’s dramatic • Academic marketing for course adoption rise from its Spanish roots to the highest position in Italian society is an absorbing tale.

CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT (1924–2008) wrote more than fifty acclaimed books, including The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici and Rome: The Biography of a City. A leading popular historian whose works reflected meticulous scholarship, he was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

86 7OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Betty Fussell Raising Steaks The Life and Times of American Beef

James Beard Award nominee

“Fussell approaches her subject with an uncommon capacity to suspend judgment, the better to collect as much information as possible . . . You can’t help admiring Fussell’s tireless willingness to crawl through thornbrush, ride in a parade dressed up as a cowgirl, sit through industry conferences, and suit up in near- biohazard gear to learn butchering.”—New York Times

“[Fussell’s] adventurous spirit is contagious, as is her unabashed pleasure in details.”—Saveur

hen we bite into a steak’s charred crust and pink Winterior, we bite into contradictions that have branded our nation from the start. We taste the competing fantasies of British pastoralists and Spanish ranchers that erupted in land ISBN 978-0-547-24769-4 • $14.95 wars between a wet-weather East and a desert West. We savor Raising Steaks 5 the ideas of wilderness and progress that clashed when we OCTOBER • Food • 320 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 replaced buffalo with cattle, and then cowboys with industrial 17 b/w illustrations throughout • CTN 24 machines. We see rugged individualism and corporate tech- HMH hardcover 2008 • Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101202-2 • Terr: US, C, O nology collide when we breed, feed, slaughter, package, and Rights: A/P/M/S: Watkins/Loomis Agency distribute the animals we turn into meat. And we participate B/T: HMH —like the cattlemen, chefs, feedlot operators, and scientists Fussell talks with—in the mythology that inspires cowboys to become technocrats and presidents to play cowboy. A celebration and an elegy for a uniquely American • E-card for beef industry groups dream, Raising Steaks takes an “unflinching look at the • Promotional giveaways on food networking ethical and environmental implications of modern meat . . . sites such as bakespace.com yet leaves us with a powerful hankering for a thick T-bone grilled rare” (Michael Pollan).

BETTY FUSSELL is the author of ten previous books, including The Story of Corn and My Kitchen Wars. A contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, Saveur, Food & Wine, Gastronomica, and other publications, she has also lectured widely on food history. Western born, she lives in New York City. © NANCY BUNDT

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • OCTOBER7 87 “These books reaffirm the author’s status as one

George Orwell Compiled and with an introduction by George Packer Facing Unpleasant Facts Narrative Essays

“These books reaffirm the author’s status as one of the definitive essayists in English literature . . . Throughout these essays, we are confronted with his humanism, which, as much as his intellect, motivates his work.” —David Ulin, Los Angeles Times*

eorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, produc- Ging throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write something,” comments George Packer in his foreword, “it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify,argue, judge— in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent.” ISBN 978-0-15-603313-8 • $14.95 Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell’s development Facing Unpleasant Facts as a master of the narrative essay and unites such classics as OCTOBER • Literature • 336 pages 5 “Shooting an Elephant” with lesser-known journalism and 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101361-6 • Terr: passages from his wartime diary.Whether detailing the hor- US, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: A. M. Heath rors of Orwell’s boyhood in an English boarding school or & Company Limited bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex.

GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction.

GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq and other works. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

88 7OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback of the definitive essayists in English literature.”*

George Orwell Compiled by George Packer Introduction by Keith Gessen All Art Is Propaganda Critical Essays

“We know Orwell for his novels, but it’s the way he saw the politics of language that makes him relevant.” —Newsweek

s a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at A home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.A frequent commen- tator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise ISBN 978-0-15-603307-7 • $14.95 to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary.With All Art Is Propaganda masterpieces such as “Politics and the English Language” and OCTOBER • Literature • 416 pages 5 “Rudyard Kipling” and gems such as “Good Bad Books,” 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101355-5 • Terr: “how to be interesting, line after line.” US, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: A. M. Heath & Company Limited

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• Discussion guide KEITH GESSEN was born in Russia and educated at Harvard. He is a founding editor of n+1 and has written about literature and culture for Dissent, The Nation, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. He is the author of the novel All the Sad Young Literary Men.

paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • OCTOBER7 89 “It’s all here—high society, big money, blue

Meryl Gordon Mrs. Astor Regrets The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

New York Times bestseller

“An even-handed and fascinating portrait of a wealthy family torn apart by money, jealousy, and emotional distance.”—USA Today

“A riveting cautionary tale of privilege, family resentment, and greed, Mrs. Astor Regrets reads like good fiction.”—National Public Radio

Updated with a new afterword

he fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist Twith the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father, Anthony ISBN 978-0-547-24798-4 • $14.95 Marshall, in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. Shortly Mrs. Astor Regrets after her death in 2007, Anthony was indicted on charges OCTOBER • Current Affairs • 352 pages 5 of looting her estate. 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2008 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-89373-7 • Terr: The New York journalist Meryl Gordon has interviewed US, C, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Brandt & not only the elite of Mrs. Astor’s social circle but also the Hochman large staff who cared for her during her declining years. The result is the behind-the-headlines story of the Astor empire’s unraveling, filled with never-before-reported scenes. • National print and online advertising, including This powerful, poignant saga takes the reader inside the the New York Times and The New Yorker gilded gates of an American dynasty to tell of three genera- • Select author appearances tions’ worth of longing and missed opportunities, and is filled with secrets of the sort that have engaged Americans • Online promotion from the era of Edith Wharton to the more recent days of Truman Capote. Even in this territory of privilege, no riches can put things right once they’ve been torn asunder. Mrs. Astor Regrets is an American epic about the bonds of money, morality,and social position.

* Tom Brokaw

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Praise for the Best New American Voices series

“A wonderful assortment of the coming attractions.” —Chicago Tribune

“A heads-up for readers interested in emerging talent.” —Hartford Courant An Original Paperback

he best-selling novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro Tbrings her expertise to this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Now in its eleventh year, this series gathers the best fiction from hundreds of nominations submitted ISBN 978-0-15-603425-8 • $13.95 by programs such as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Best New American Voices 2010 Hopkins’ master’s program and from summer conferences 5 OCTOBER • Fiction • 352 pages • 5 ⁄16 x 8 such as those at Sewanee and Bread Loaf. Joshua Ferris, CTN 24 • Terr: US, C, O • Previous ISBN Julie Orringer, William Gay,Lauren Groff, Maile Meloy, 978-0-15-603431-9 Amanda Davis, and Nam Le are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. Discover for yourself the dazzling variety of great fiction being produced in today’s top writers’ workshops.

DANI SHAPIRO is the author of six books, including the novels Black & White and Family History and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, and One Story and have been widely anthologized. She is the director of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She lives in Connecticut.

JOHN KULKA is an executive editor at large at Harvard University Press and lives in Connecticut.

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92 OCTOBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Masha Gessen Blood Matters From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene

“A liberating book . . . The enduring memory one takes away is Gessen’s intelligence and wit as she’s staring down the barrel of a gun.”—New York Times

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n 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had Ia mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: ISBN 978-0-15-603331-2 • $14.95 the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in Blood Matters possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves NOVEMBER • Medicine • 336 pages 5 through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2007 she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision—what to Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101362-3 • Terr: do with such knowledge—she explored the landscape of this US, C, O • Rights: B: Granta • T/P/M: Elyse brave new world, speaking with medical experts, religious Cheney Literary Associates • A/S: HMH thinkers, historians, and others facing genetic disorders.

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paperback • www.marinerbooks.com • Mariner • NOVEMBER 93 A. B. Yehoshua Friendly Fire A Novel

“Yehoshua achieves a remarkable artistry.” —New York Times Book Review

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94 NOVEMBER • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback L. Jon Wertheim Blood in the Cage Mixed Martial Arts, Pat Miletich, and the Furious Rise of the UFC

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Thomas Perry Runner A Jane Whitefield Novel

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Matt Beynon Rees The Samaritan’s Secret An Omar Yussef mystery

“Provocative . . . In a culture that thinks of terrorist bombers as martyrs, Rees’s modest protagonist, an aging Palestinian schoolteacher named Omar Yussef, is no one’s idea of a hero. But in two previous books . . . this decent man proved his courage by daring to keep an open mind in a closed society.” —New York Times Book Review

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mar Yussef journeys to Nablus with his family for the Owedding of his policeman friend Sami Jaffari. Omar ISBN 978-0-547-25472-2 • $13.95 had met Sami and his fiancée on a previous trip to Gaza. The Samaritan’s Secret 1 1 When the son of the leader of the Samaritan community is FEBRUARY • Mystery • 320 pages • 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 CTN 24 • Soho Press hardcover 2009 • Previous murdered, Omar is pulled into Sami’s investigation. They ISBN 978-156947-545-4 • Terr: US, C, O learn that the victim worked for the Palestinian Authority Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Soho Press and controlled hundreds of millions of dollars, which are now missing—and the World Bank is threatening to cut off all aid to the Palestinians if the money is not found. Omar ALSO AVAILABLE and Sami must navigate through the dark warrens of the The Collaborator of Bethlehem Nablus casbah and the secrets of the Samaritan people to 978-0-618-95965-5 • $13.95 PA find the killer and recover the missing funds before time A Grave in Gaza runs out. 978-0-547-08625-5 • $13.95 PA

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n the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, IJan Wong became one of only two Westerners permitted to study at Beijing University.One day a fellow student, Yin Luoyi, asked for help getting to the United States. Wong, ISBN 978-0-547-24789-2 • $14.95 then a starry-eyed Maoist, immediately reported her to the A Comrade Lost and Found authorities, and shortly thereafter Yin disappeared. Thirty- FEBRUARY • Memoir/History • 336 pages three years later, hoping to make amends, Wong revisits the 5 5 ⁄16 x 8 • CTN 24 • HMH hardcover 2009 Chinese capital to search for the person who has haunted Previous ISBN 978-0-15-101342-5 • Terr: her conscience. But Wong finds the new Beijing bewildering. US, O (-EU) • Rights: B/T/P/M: Westwood Creative Artists • A/S: HMH Phone numbers, addresses, and even names change with startling frequency.In a society determined to bury the past, Yin Luoyi will be hard to find. As Wong traces her way from one former comrade to the next, she unearths not only the fate of the woman she betrayed but a web that mirrors the strange and dramatic journey of contemporary China and rekindles all of her love for—and disillusionment with—her ancestral land.

JAN WONG was the Beijing correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1988 to 1994 and received a George Polk Award and other honors for her reporting. She has written for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications, and is the author of three books, including Red China Blues. She lives in North York, Ontario. © GEORGE WHITESIDE

102 FEBRUARY • Mariner • www.marinerbooks.com • paperback Philip Dray Capitol Men The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen

“Casts fresh light on the positive aspects of Reconstruction and powerfully dramatizes its negative side . . . Exhilarating and disturbing.” —New York Times Book Review

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Debra Gwartney Live Through This A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

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ully updated for 2010, The American Heritage High FSchool Dictionary, Fourth Edition, offers all the distinctive qualities that readers have come to expect from the American Heritage line without including obscene words or offensive slurs. It has a contemporary,readable defining style, clear guidance on English usage, and more than 2,500 photographs, drawings, and maps that enhance the definitions and invite browsing. ISBN 978-0-547-24767-0 • $26.00 New to this release are recently prominent terms such as The American Heritage® High School liveblog, plutino, and zipline. As in The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition College Dictionary, biographical entries have been updated JANUARY • Dictionaries/Reference 1 to include the forty-fourth U.S. president, Barack Obama, 1,664 pages • 7 x 9 ⁄2 • 2,500 b/w First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joseph photographs and illustrations • CTN 10 Biden. Geographical entries reflect the latest geopolitical Terr: World • Rights: HMH • Previous ISBN changes, and the currency table includes the adoption of 978-0-618-71487-2 the euro by additional countries, among other updates. In-depth usage notes based on the opinions of the renowned American Heritage Usage Panel enhance writing • Promotion at trade shows, skills and help readers discern the difference between con- including NCTE, IRA, and ALA ventional and quirky language use. Special features on syn- • Online and print promotion for onyms, regionalisms, and word histories enrich vocabulary homeschoolers, including The Link, the largest homeschooling magazine and show how language changes over time. The most comprehensive reference in its category, The American Heritage High School Dictionary is the ideal choice for any student, family,home, or school.

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Una McGovern and Paul Jenner Lost Lore

A celebration of traditional wisdom, from seafaring

Chambers and smoke signals to natural first aid

ost Lore is a celebration of the time-honored wisdom on L which people once relied. It draws on folklore, tradition, and superstition and is packed with amusing anecdotes and historical extracts that illuminate the beliefs and knowledge of our ancestors. It also brings to life the wisdom and practical skills that helped generation after generation, becoming lost only with the advent of mechanization and the technological age. Following in the footsteps of Lost Crafts, this is a beautiful book that will immerse readers in the pleasures of the past as they explore information that has been passed around

ISBN 978-0-550-10521-9 • $24.95 the campfire or schoolroom and handed down from parent Lost Lore to child. Among the skills included in the book are weather SEPTEMBER • Reference • 384 pages forecasting, understanding longitude and latitude, raft 5 3 9 ⁄8 x 7 ⁄8 • 4-color photographs and line making, telling time without a clock, making a fire without drawings • Terr: US, C matches, preserving by smoking, celebrating spring, wart charming, and curing drunkenness.

ALSO AVAILABLE Lost Crafts 978-0-550-10426-7 • $24.95

UNA McGOVERN is a British lexicographer who spends much of her leisure time developing her organic kitchen garden. COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR

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Chambers Concise Dictionary Chambers

An authoritative desktop dictionary of British English, perfect for everyday use

hambers Concise Dictionary focuses on British English as it is Cwritten and spoken today.It provides special coverage of current vocabulary and idioms as well as technical terms from science, comput- ing, business, and sport. Its attractive color layout gives it a clean, modern look, and entries have been carefully designed and constructed to be clear and self-explanatory.Definitions are in straightforward English, with no confusing jargon. This edition includes • definitions in plain English in a clear color layout • hundreds of spelling and grammar tips ISBN 978-0-550-10334-5 • $19.95 Chambers Concise Dictionary • free access to Chambers Reference Online for six months SEPTEMBER • Reference • 1,488 1 5 pages • 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄8 • Previous ISBN 978-0-550-10072-6 • Terr: US, C

The Chambers Thesaurus

Fully revised and updated: an authoritative, easy-to-use British English thesaurus in a modern, accessible A–Z format

his comprehensive, up-to-date word finder draws on the resources Tof its renowned companion volume, The Chambers Dictionary, to present a wide range of words in a clear and accessible format. An easy- to-use reference, it includes • more than 420,000 synonyms and antonyms • an A–Z listing of headwords for easy reference • up-to-date vocabulary,with an increased technological listing, as well as many rare and archaic terms • hundreds of explanations of the nuances of synonyms to ISBN 978-0-550-10333-8 • $35.00 help with choosing the right word for the right occasion The Chambers Thesaurus • boxes listing related words, such as kinds of dogs or medical terms SEPTEMBER • Reference • 1,136 1 pages • 7 x 10 ⁄2 • Previous ISBN 978-0-550-10067-24 • Terr: US, C

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ALL-NEW Larousse Mini Dictionaries EDITIONS

he best-selling Larousse Mini TDictionaries are the perfect references for travelers and beginning language learners, offering up-to-date coverage of Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. The Mini Dictionaries are packed Larousse Bilingual with information. They have been updated with revised cultural notes and reworked conversation guides and include 40,000 translations of ISBN 978-2-03-541003-0 core vocabulary words. The user- Larousse Mini Dictionary: friendly layout features Spanish-English/English-Spanish Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542125-8 • up-to-date coverage of everyday language ISBN 978-2-03-541002-3 Larousse Mini Dictionary: • special entries on culture French-English/English-French • abbreviations and acronyms Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542123-4 • extra help with frequently used words • conversation guides • practical tables of weights, measures, currency,and much more ISBN 978-2-03-541005-4 Larousse Mini Dictionary: Italian-English/English-Italian $5.95 PA • SEPTEMBER Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542157-9 Foreign Language/Reference 1 704 pages • 3 x 4 ⁄2 • Terr: US, C ISBN 978-2-03-541023-8 Larousse Mini Dictionary: Portuguese- English/English-Portuguese Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542148-7

ISBN 978-2-03-541004-7 Larousse Mini Dictionary: German-English/English-German Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542126-5

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Completely updated editions of this practical bilingual dictionary, perfect for anyone interested in achieving greater fluency in contemporary Spanish

Larousse Concise Dictionary Spanish-English/English-Spanish

he Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/ T English-Spanish is the ideal companion for those who wish to learn and become more fluent in contemporary Spanish. With 230,000 words, expressions, and translations, it includes most of the words users are looking for and is more comprehensive than the pocket or mini dictionary,yet it is still compact in size. This new edition offers extensive, up-to-date coverage of general and professional Spanish and includes Latin American terms. The supplement on life and culture in Latin America has been fully revised and updated.

ISBN 978-2-03-541009-2 • $12.95 PA Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish JUNE • Foreign Language/Reference 1 1 1,290 pages • 5 ⁄4 x 8 ⁄8 • Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542137-1 • Terr: US, C

ISBN 978-2-03-541010-8 • $22.95 CL Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish JUNE • Foreign Language/Reference 1 1 1,290 pages • 5 ⁄4 x 8 ⁄8 • Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542138-8 • Terr: US, C

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The best-selling dictionaries in

Larousse Pocket Dictionaries

or anyone speaking, reading, For studying a foreign language, the Larousse Pocket Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for everyday use. With its handy,portable paperback format, great price, and clear,

Larousse Bilingual easy-to-use layout, it contains up-to- date vocabulary in all subject areas. Included in this essential reference line are • 135,000 words, expressions, and translations • coverage of regional differences, such as Latin American Spanish and Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Brazilian Portuguese Spanish-English/ French-English/ English-Spanish English-French • hundreds of usage examples ISBN 978-2-03-541022-1 ISBN 978-2-03-541016-0 • abbreviations, acronyms, Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542084-8 Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542085-5 and proper nouns • verb conjugation tables

$6.95 PA • SEPTEMBER Foreign Language/Reference 1 768 pages • 4 ⁄4 x 7 Terr: US, C

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the Larousse bilingual line

Completely updated editions with a bold new look

Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Larousse Pocket Dictionary: German-English/ Italian-English/ Portuguese-English/ English-German English-Italian English-Portuguese

ISBN 978-2-03-541006-1 ISBN 978-2-03-541007-8 ISBN 978-2-03-541008-5 Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542087-9 Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542102-9 Previous ISBN 978-2-03-542093-0

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An all-new ESL program Larousse Mexico

Gramática inglesa Hablar inglés Inglés método inicial English Grammar Speaking English A Quick Guide to Learning English

overing the rules of both clear and practical guide esigned to be a supple- Cwritten and spoken gram- A for Spanish speakers Dmental program, this CD mar, this easy-to-use reference wanting to learn English quickly and small book offer practical for Spanish speakers is ideal for and easily.The two-color design exercises to practice English, beginning to intermediate users makes the ten lessons easy to reinforcing learning tools. who hope to improve their Eng- follow,and the companion CD The CD assures proper lish communication skills and ensures correct pronunciation. pronunciation, and the book build their knowledge of English Special callouts highlight includes real-world examples grammar. Self-tests and callout difficult areas of learning, and and idioms. All conversations boxes help point out pitfalls cultural information makes the are shown in both English and and keep learners on track. lessons interesting. Spanish to help comprehension.

ISBN 978-607-400-085-6 ISBN 978-607-400-080-1 Boxed Set/Slipcased/Casebound $6.50 PA $6.50 PA ISBN 978-607-400-083-2 Gramática inglesa Hablar inglés $9.00 SEPTEMBER • ESL/Reference SEPTEMBER • ESL/Reference Inglés método inicial 3 1 3 1 112 pages • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄8 112 pages • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄8 SEPTEMBER • ESL/Reference 1 1 Terr: US, C Terr: US, C 112 pages • 5 ⁄4 x 7 ⁄2 Terr: US, C

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from Larousse Mexico

Inglés método integral nivel 1 Boxed Set/Slipcased/Casebound English: An integrated approach: Beginner ISBN 978-607-400-076-4 $25.00 Inglés método integral nivel 2 Inglés método integral nivel 1 SEPTEMBER • ESL • 198 pages English: An integrated approach: Intermediate 3 1 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄8 • 4-color book and 4 audio CDs • Terr: US, C hese book-and-CD sets are perfect for Spanish speakers learn- Ting English. Based on an innovative new pedagogy,this system ISBN 978-607-400-077-1 $25.00 helps users learn everyday English, not textbook English. The full- Inglés método integral nivel 2 color book is filled with simple examples and exercises as well as SEPTEMBER • ESL • 198 pages memorization aids. Frequent self-tests help the learner stay on track, 3 1 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄8 • 4-color book and and cultural information keeps the lessons interesting. Covering 4 audio CDs • Terr: US, C both written and spoken English, these programs focus on grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary,and real-life usage, enabling users to communicate in English in no time. The beginner set contains twelve lessons. Upon completion, the user will have mastered the basics of English communication. The intermediate set contains twelve lessons. Upon completion, the user will be able to communicate effectively in a variety of circumstances, including renting a car, looking for employment, and going to the dentist.

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El pequeño Larousse BEST-SELLING Larousse ilustrado 2010 Spanish- language title The Little Illustrated Larousse 2010

Unparalleled in its wealth of content and features,

Larousse Mexico this definitive Spanish reference work is updated yearly, making it both inclusive and topical.

ISBN 978-607-400-139-6 • $39.95 his revised edition of the bestseller is a comprehensive Spanish- El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010 Tlanguage dictionary and encyclopedia in one. With updated entries NOVEMBER • Spanish Language/ reflecting current events, the latest edition of this full-featured reference 1 1 Reference • 1,888 pages • 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 includes 90,000 entries with 200,000 definitions. More than 5,000 4-color illustrations throughout full-color photographs, maps, tables, and drawings enhance the entries Previous ISBN 978-9-702-22200-2 and make browsing a pleasure. The encyclopedia section covers a wide Terr: US, C range of subjects, including the arts, architecture, nature, sports, history, science, and technology,all in a clear, easy-to-use format. This is the one reference that every Spanish speaker and student of the Spanish language should have on his or her bookshelf.

Enciclopedia quod 2010

A complete and comprehensive single-volume Spanish encyclopedia updated for 2010

n the tradition of El pequeño Larousse ilustrado, this single-volume Ireference is updated yearly and is in full color, with more than 4,200 photographs and illustrations and a dedicated website for animation and ISBN 978-607-400-140-2 • $43.50 Enciclopedia quod 2010 lengthy entries. Larousse enciclopedia quod is an indispensable reference JANUARY • Spanish Language/ for Spanish-speaking students and families seeking answers to the ques- 1 1 Reference • 1,388 pages • 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 tions who, what, where, and why. 4-color illustrations throughout Previous ISBN 978-9-702-22202-6 Terr: US, C

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Appealing Spanish-language cookbooks by some of the top chefs in Mexico

Guadalupe García de Léon Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta Mexican Party Food

his Spanish cookbook contains almost 50 recipes for Tcreative party foods that can be eaten in little bites. ISBN 978-970-22-2210-1 $10.50 POB Guadalupe García de Léon is a graduate of the Culinary Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta Institute of America andhas devoted her career to catering SEPTEMBER • 96 pages • 8 x 8 and parties. All of the recipes are marked for expense and 4-color throughout • Terr: US, C ease of preparation as well as cooking time. Chapters include cold bites, hot bites, pastries, and drinks. There is a color photograph of every finished dish, from traditional empanadas and tostadas to beautiful stuffed nopales, or cactus, making you want to start planning your next party right away.

Ricardo Muñoz Zurita Salsas mexicanas

icardo Muñoz Zurita, “a prophet and preserver of a Rculinary tradition” (Time), has written this complete, in-depth look at salsa, now the most frequently used condi- ment in the United States. Included in this book are recipes for 26 picos de gallo, 24 guacamoles, 25 fresh chile salsas, and 39 dried chile salsas. All of the recipes have descriptive head- notes and clear, concise instructions and can be made in ISBN 978-970-22-2212-5 20 minutes or less. $10.50 POB Salsas mexicanas SEPTEMBER • 96 pages • 8 x 8 4-color throughout • Terr: US, C

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Marabout: smart and appealing health and lifestyle books

he three new offerings in the Marabout line cover subjects on the minds of many women today. TThese affordable and colorful guides offer practical advice on a wide variety of topics. Organized in a clear and thoughtful manner, they make finding information as simple as possible. In fact, they are written as if you were sitting down with your girlfriends and having a heart-to-heart talk. Additional information is noted in sidebars and quizzes. Larousse Mexico La boda perfecta: The Perfect Wedding is a practical guide to making sure the most important of days comes off without any problems. Guadarropa ideal: Great Wardrobe is an enjoyable, practical guide to being perfectly dressed, whether for work or play. Sobreviviendo al divorcio: Surviving Divorce is a sensitive guide to help deal with all the emotional and practical problems associated with getting a divorce and moving on.

ISBN 978-970-22-2032-9 ISBN 978-970-22-1945-3 ISBN 978-970-22-2031-2 $7.95 $7.95 $7.95 La boda perfecta Guardarropa ideal Sobreviviendo al divorcio SEPTEMBER • 128 pages SEPTEMBER • 88 pages SEPTEMBER • 136 pages 1 1 1 6 x 8 ⁄4 • 4-color throughout 6 x 8 ⁄4 • 4-color throughout 6 x 8 ⁄4 • 4-color throughout Terr: US, C Terr: US, C Terr: US, C

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac makes every day special

The Old Farmer’s Almanac

reference book that reads like a magazine, the Almanac is packed A with facts, features, and fun that make every day special. The 2010 edition, which marks the publication’s 218th anniversary,features • weather predictions for every day and climatic trends for each season • the most accurate astronomical data under the sun, with best-viewing recommendations for every month • gardening advice for growing vegetables and flowers, and planting by the zodiac and much more!

ALSO AVAILABLE Handsome, clothbound, hardcover edition of The 2010 Old Farmer’s Almanac ISBN 978-1-57198-484-5 • $6.95 ISBN 978-1-57198-493-7 • $15.95 • Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-461-6 AVAILABLE • Reference • 288 pages 3 5 ⁄8 x 8 • Trade paper • CTN 40 Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-453-1 The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids Volume 3 blend of wacky facts, quirky stories, and fun activities presented in A colorful and compelling style that makes reading and learning fun. In this full-color edition you’ll find: • “green” pages, featuring energy alternatives, a trash trail, and more • articles on stars, sports heroes, weird weather, pets who work, the history of pizza, the origin of chocolate, desert-dwelling animals, and much more • a free Activity Guide on the companion website, Almanac4kids.com ISBN 978-1-57198-495-1 • $9.95 and more! AVAILABLE • Juvenile Reference 5 1 192 pages • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄4 • Illustrated, ALSO AVAILABLE full-color throughout • Previous 10-copy Almanac for Kids countertop display ISBN (Vol. 2) 978-1-57198-434-0 ISBN 978-1-57198-511-8 • $99.50 Previous ISBN (Vol. 2) 978-1-57198-435-7

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From the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

T. S. Eliot Illustrated by Axel Scheffler Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

T. S. Eliot’s famed feline poetry collection gets a colorful makeover.

T.S. Eliot’s playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world since they were first published in 1939. They were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Pos- sum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical Cats. Now with vibrant illustrations by the award-winning artist Axel Scheffler, this HARCOURT CHILDREN’S BOOKS captivating edition makes a wonderful new home for Mr. Mistoffelees, 978-0-547-24827-1 • $16.00 CL Growltiger, the Rum Tum Tugger, Macavity: The Mystery Cat, and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats many other memorable strays. OCTOBER • Poetry • 80 pages 11 7 x 8 ⁄16 • 4-color illustrations T. S. ELIOT (1888–1965) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He CTN 40 • Terr: US • Rights: is most famous for such poems as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” B/T/A/P/M and “The Waste Land.”

AXEL SCHEFFLER has achieved wide acclaim as a children’s book illustrator, with many of his books published throughout the world. Scheffler lives in London.

James Cross Giblin The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy

The meteoric career of a controversial politician whose name is now synonymous with unscrupulous tactics

ward-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of Joseph A (“call me Joe”) McCarthy,a man whose priorities centered on CLARION BOOKS power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both. 978-0-618-61058-7 • $22.00 CL The strengths and weaknesses of the man and the system that permit- The Rise and Fall of Senator ted his rise are explored in this authoritative, lucid biography,which Joe McCarthy sets McCarthy’s life against a teeming backdrop of world affairs and DECEMBER • Nonfiction • 288 struggles between military and political rivals at home. 1 pages • 7 ⁄2 x 9 • B/w photos throughout • CTN 20 • Terr: World JAMES CROSS GIBLIN received the Sibert Medal for The Life Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: HMH and Death of Adolf Hitler. He lives in New York City.

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Children’s Book Group

Pura The award-winning sequel to Belpré Breaking Through and The Circuit HONOR

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 978-0-547-25031-1 • $6.99 PA 978-0-547-24174-6 • $16.00 CL Más allá de mí Reaching Out, Spanish edition

978-0-547-25030-4 • $6.99 PA 978-0-618-03851-0 • $16.00 CL Reaching Out, English edition

OCTOBER • Nonfiction • 208 pages • 5 x 7 • CTN 24 PA • Francisco Jiménez 12 CL • Terr: US, C, O • Rights: B/T/A/P/M/S: Curtis Brown Másalládemí ReachingOut

ALSO AVAILABLE “This sequel tells [Jiménez’s] personal story in clear, simple, self-contained chapters that join together in a stirring narrative.” Senderos fronterizos —Booklist, starred review (Breaking Through) 978-0-618-22618-4 • $6.95 PA Breaking Through bsorbing, tender, and honest, this sequel to the award-winning 978-0-618-34248-8 • $6.95 PA A Breaking Through follows a migrant teen’s journey from high school Cajas de carton (The Circuit) through college. From the perspective of a young adult, Reaching Out 978-0-618-22616-0 • $6.95 PA describes the challenges Francisco faces when continuing his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed him to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family when he goes to Santa Clara University,but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico. This is the story of how Francisco copes with poverty,with his guilt over leaving his family financially strapped, with his self-doubt about succeeding academically,and with separation. Once again, his telling is honest and true—and inspiring.

FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ immigrated from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, to California, where he worked for many years in the fields with his family. He is now the chairman of the Modern Languages and Literature Department at Santa Clara University, the setting of much of Reaching Out.

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Fiction

The Time Traveler’s Wife Interpreter of Maladies The Hearts of Horses The Children of Húrin by Audrey Niffenegger by Jhumpa Lahiri by Molly Gloss by J.R.R. Tolkien 978-0-15-602943-8 978-0-395-92720-5 978-0-547-08575-3 978-0-547-08605-7 $14.95 $14.95 $13.95 $14.95

The Welsh Girl The Elephanta Suite A Passage to India The Whistling Season by Peter Ho Davies by Paul Theroux by E. M. Forster by Ivan Doig 978-0-618-91852-2 978-0-547-08602-6 978-0-15-671142-5 978-0-15-603164-6 $13.95 $14.95 $14.00 $14.95

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A Grave in Gaza Mrs. Dalloway In the Lake of the Woods Golden Country by Matt Beynon Rees by Virginia Woolf by Tim O’Brien by Jennifer Gilmore 978-0-547-08625-5 978-0-15-662870-9 978-0-618-70986-1 978-0-15-603437-1 $13.95 $13.00 $14.95 $14.00 Nonfiction

2009 Centennial of JamesAgee’s birth

Let Us Now Praise Beautiful Boy The God Delusion A Three Dog Life Famous Men by David Sheff by Richard Dawkins by Abigail Thomas by James Agee and 978-0-547-20388-1 978-0-618-90824-9 978-0-15-603323-7 Walker Evans $14.95 $15.95 $13.00 978-0-618-12749-8 $17.00

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Nonfiction

Proust Was a Dark Star Safari Modern Man in The Worst Day of Neuroscientist by Paul Theroux Search of a Soul My Life, So Far by Jonah Lehrer 978-0-618-44687-2 by C. G. Jung by M. A. Harper 978-0-547-08590-6 $15.00 978-0-15-661206-7 978-0-15-600718-4 $14.95 $14.00 $14.00

The Florist’s Daughter Fun Home Lincoln’s Melancholy Sex Sleep Eat by Patricia Hampl by Alison Bechdel by Joshua Wolf Shenk Drink Dream 978-0-15-603403-6 978-0-618-87171-1 978-0-618-77344-2 by Jennifer Ackerman $13.95 $13.95 $14.95 978-0-547-08560-9 $14.95

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Cookbooks

The Gourmet Cookbook Hello, Cupcake! Hungry Monkey 500 Things to Eat edited by Ruth Reichl by Karen Tack and by Matthew Amster-Burton Before It’s Too Late 978-0-618-80692-8 Alan Richardson 978-0-15-101324-4 by Jane and $40.00 978-0-618-82925-5 $23.00 Michael Stern $15.95 978-0-547-05907-5 $19.95

Jacques Pépin Olives and Oranges The Perfect Recipe Baking More Fast Food My Way by Sara Jenkins for Losing Weight by Dorie Greenspan by Jacques Pépin and Mindy Fox and Eating Great 978-0-618-44336-9 978-0-618-14233-0 978-0-618-67764-1 by Pam Anderson $40.00 $32.00 $35.00 978-0-618-83596-6 $27.00

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Reference

UPDATED for 2009!

The American Heritage® Roget’s II: The American Heritage® The American Heritage® Dictionary of the The New Thesaurus, Science Dictionary Dictionary of English Language Third Edition 978-0-618-88274-8 Business Terms 978-0-618-70172-8 978-0-618-25414-9 $21.95 978-0-618-75525-7 $60.00 $21.00 $15.95 PA 978-0-618-70173-5 $75.00 Print & CD-ROM Edition

BRAND- NEW Edition!

The American Heritage® 100 Words for Lovers The American Heritage® Curious George’s Medical Dictionary 978-0-547-21257-9 Children’s Dictionary Dictionary 978-0-618-82435-9 $5.95 PA 978-0-547-21255-5 978-0-618-98649-1 $28.00 CL $19.95 $12.95 978-0-618-94725-6 $14.00 PA

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Chambers/Larousse

Lost Crafts: The Chambers Foyle’s Philavery: Larousse Unabridged Rediscovering Dictionary, A Treasury of Dictionary: Traditional Skills Eleventh Edition Unusual Words Spanish-English/ by Una McGovern 978-0-550-10289-8 Collected by English-Spanish 978-0-550-10426-7 $50.00 Christopher Foyle 978-2-03-540221-9 $24.95 978-0-550-10329-1 $64.50 $15.95

Larousse Advanced Larousse Chinese Guía para mamás Dictionary: Phrasebook primerizas French-English/ 978-2-03-542155-1 (Guide for New Mothers) English-French $5.95 978-970-22-1314-7 978-2-03-542132-6 $7.95 $45.00

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Field Guides/Gardening A selection of new and best-selling titles

Peterson Field Guide® to Birdsong by the Seasons Understanding Birds of North America by Donald Kroodsma Perennials by Roger Tory Peterson 978-0-618-75336-9 by William Cullina 978-0-618-966614-1 $28.00 978-0-618-88346-2 $26.00 $40.00

Falconer on the Edge The Frogs and Toads of North America by Rachel Dickinson by Lang Elliott, Carl Gerhardt, 978-0-618-80623-2 and Carlos Davidson $24.00 978-0-618-66399-6 $19.95

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All Art Is Propaganda George Orwell...... 89 Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien Ms. Hempel Chronicles ...... 73

The American Heritage® College Dictionary, Fourth Edition ...108 Capitol Men Philip Dray...... 103

The American Heritage® High School Dictionary, Chambers Chambers Concise Dictionary ...... 111 Fourth Edition...... 109 Chambers The Chambers Thesaurus...... 111 Ananthaswamy,Anil The Edge of Physics ...... 57 Chambers Concise Dictionary Chambers ...... 111 Animals Make Us Human The Chambers Thesaurus Chambers...... 111 Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson...... 60 Choron, Sandra and Harry Planet Wedding...... 99 Baker, Stephen The Numerati...... 64 Clark, Clare Savage Lands...... 50 Banks, Ray No More Heroes ...... 56 A Comrade Lost and Found Jan Wong...... 102 The Best American Comics™ 2009 Charles Burns, ed...... 84 The Crossing Places Elly Griffiths...... 42 The Best American Essays® 2009 Mary Oliver, ed...... 81 A Dead Hand Paul Theroux...... 45 The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009 Jeffrey Deaver, ed....82 Death with Interruptions José Saramago ...... 63 The Best American Nonrequired Reading™ 2009 Dave Eggers, ed...... 81 Deaver, Jeffrey,ed. The Best American Mystery Stories™ 2009...82

The Best American Science and Nature Writing™ 2009 Deep Creek Dana Hand ...... 49 Elizabeth Kolbert, ed...... 82 Doig, Ivan The Eleventh Man ...... 66 The Best American Short Stories® 2009 Alice Sebold, ed...... 80 Donoghue, Emma The Sealed Letter ...... 72 The Best American Sports Writing™ 2009 Leigh Montville, ed...... 83 Drabble, Margaret The Pattern in the Carpet ...... 15

The Best American Travel Writing™ 2009 Dray,Philip Capitol Men ...... 103 Simon Winchester, ed...... 83 Drayson, Nicholas A Guide to the Birds of East Africa ...... 70 Best New American Voices 2010 Dani Shapiro, ed...... 92 The Edge of Physics Anil Ananthaswamy...... 57 The Big Burn Timothy Egan...... 24 Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries Bird, Larry,and Earvin Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullan 100 Words for Foodies ...... 35 When the Game Was Ours ...... 8 Egan, Timothy The Big Burn ...... 24 Blood in the Cage L. Jon Wertheim...... 95 Eggers, Dave, ed. The Best American Nonrequired™ Blood Matters Masha Gessen ...... 93 Reading 2009...... 81

Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta Larousse Mexico ...... 119 Eisenberg, John That First Season...... 19

La boda perfecta Larousse Mexico ...... 120 The Eleventh Man Ivan Doig ...... 66

The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431–1519 Eliot, Lise Pink Brain, Blue Brain ...... 16 Christopher Hibbert...... 86 Eliot, T.S. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats ...... 122 Brautigan, Richard Trout Fishing in America...... 98 Enciclopedia quod 2010 Larousse Mexico ...... 118 Burns, Charles, ed. The Best American Comics™ 2009 ...... 84 Facing Unpleasant Facts George Orwell...... 88

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Friendly Fire A. B. Yehoshua...... 94 Inglés método inicial Larousse Mexico ...... 116

Fun with Problems Robert Stone ...... 43 Inglés método integral nivel 1 Larousse Mexico...... 117

Fussell, Betty Raising Steaks...... 87 Inglés método integral nivel 2 Larousse Mexico...... 117

Galbraith, John Kenneth The Great Crash, 1929 ...... 77 Inklings Jeffrey Koterba...... 32

Gessen, Masha Blood Matters ...... 93 The Italian Slow Cooker Michele Scicolone...... 44

Gessen, Masha Perfect Rigor...... 29 Jiménez, Francisco Más allá de mí ...... 123

Giblin, James Cross The Rise and Fall of Senator Jiménez, Francisco Reaching Out...... 123 Joe McCarthy ...... 122 Johnson, Catherine, and Temple Grandin Animals Make Us The Gift of Thanks Margaret Visser ...... 34 Human...... 60

Gordon, Meryl Mrs. Astor Regrets ...... 90 Johnson, Earvin Magic, and Larry Bird with Jackie MacMullan When the Game Was Ours ...... 8 Gourmet Today Ruth Reichl, ed...... 12 Kolbert, Elizabeth, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Gramática inglesa Larousse Mexico ...... 116 Writing™ 2009...... 82

Grandin, Temple,and Catherine Johnson Animals Make Us Koterba, Jeffrey Inklings...... 32 Human...... 60 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: French-English/ Grass, Günter The Tin Drum...... 20 English-French ...... 112

The Great Crash,1929 John Kenneth Galbraith...... 77 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: German-English/ Griffiths, Elly The Crossing Places...... 42 English-German ...... 112

Guardarropa ideal Larousse Mexico...... 120 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Italian-English/ English-Italian...... 112 A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Nicholas Drayson ...... 70 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Portuguese-English/ Guthrie, Allan Slammer ...... 28 English-Portuguese...... 112

Gwartney,Debra Live Through This ...... 104 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Mini Dictionary: Spanish-English/ English-Spanish...... 112 Hablar inglés Larousse Mexico ...... 116 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: French-English/ Hall, Donald Unpacking the Boxes ...... 68 English-French ...... 114 Hand, Dana Deep Creek...... 49 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: German-English/ Harwood, John The Séance...... 85 English-German ...... 115

Hibbert, Christopher The Borgias and Their Enemies: Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Italian-English/ 1431–1519 ...... 86 English-Italian ...... 115

How the Dead Dream Lydia Millet...... 76 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Portuguese-English/ English-Portuguese...... 115 How to Be a Movie Star William J. Mann ...... 22 Larousse Bilingual Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Spanish-English/ How We Decide Jonah Lehrer ...... 78 English-Spanish...... 114

The Humbling Philip Roth...... 30 Larousse Bilingual/Spanish Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish- English/ English-Spanish...... 113

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Larousse Concise Dictionary: Spanish-English/ Lehrer, Jonah How We Decide...... 78 English-Spanish Larousse Bilingual ...... 113 The Little Prince Pop-Up Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ...... 18 Larousse Mexico Bocadillos mexicanos de fiesta ...... 119 Live Through This Debra Gwartney...... 104 Larousse Mexico La boda perfecta ...... 120 Lonelyhearts Marion Meade ...... 52 Larousse Mexico Enciclopedia quod 2010 ...... 118 Lopez, Jonathan The Man Who Made Vermeers...... 62 Larousse Mexico Gramática inglesa ...... 116 Lost Lore Una McGovern ...... 110 Larousse Mexico Guardarropa ideal...... 120 Lynch, Barbara, with Joanne Smart Stir ...... 36 Larousse Mexico Hablar inglés ...... 116 Mann, William J. How to Be a Movie Star ...... 22 Larousse Mexico Inglés método inicial ...... 116 The Man Who Made Vermeers Jonathan Lopez...... 62 Larousse Mexico Inglés método integral nivel 1...... 117 Más allá de mí Francisco Jiménez ...... 123 Larousse Mexico Inglés método integral nivel 2...... 117 McGovern, Una Lost Lore ...... 110 Larousse Mexico El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010 ...... 118 Meade, Marion Lonelyhearts ...... 52 Larousse Mexico Salsas mexicanas...... 119 Meyers, Kent Twisted Tree...... 10 Larousse Mexico Sobreviviendo al divorcio...... 120 Milgrom, Melissa Still Life ...... 53 Larousse Mini Dictionary: French-English/ English-French Millet, Lydia How the Dead Dream...... 76 Larousse Bilingual ...... 112 Montville, Leigh, ed. The Best American Sports Writing™ 2009 Larousse Mini Dictionary: German-English/ English-German ...... 83 Larousse Bilingual ...... 112 Mrs. Astor Regrets Meryl Gordon...... 90 Larousse Mini Dictionary: Italian-English/ English-Italian Larousse Bilingual ...... 112 Ms. Hempel Chronicles Sarah Shun-lien Bynum...... 73

Larousse Mini Dictionary: Portuguese-English/ English-Portuguese No More Heroes Ray Banks ...... 56 Larousse Bilingual ...... 112 The Numerati Stephen Baker ...... 64 Larousse Mini Dictionary: Spanish-English/ English-Spanish Larousse Bilingual ...... 112 Ochsner, Gina The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight...... 48

Larousse Pocket Dictionary: French-English/ English-French Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats T.S. Eliot ...... 122 Larousse Bilingual ...... 114 Oliver, Mary,ed. The Best American Essays® 2009...... 81 Larousse Pocket Dictionary: German-English/ English-German 100 Words for Foodies Larousse Bilingual ...... 115 Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries ...... 35 Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Italian-English/ English-Italian Orwell, George All Art Is Propaganda...... 89 Larousse Bilingual ...... 115 Orwell, George Facing Unpleasant Facts...... 88 Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Portuguese-English/ English-Portuguese Larousse Bilingual ...... 115 The Pattern in the Carpet Margaret Drabble...... 15

Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Spanish-English/ English-Spanish El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010 Larousse Mexico ...... 118 Larousse Bilingual ...... 114 Perfect Rigor Masha Gessen...... 29

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Perry,Thomas Runner...... 96 The Séance John Harwood ...... 85

Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Eastern and Central North Sebold, Alice, ed. The Best American Short Stories® 2009...... 80 America, Sixth Edition Roger Tory Peterson ...... 54 Shapiro, Dani, ed. Best New American Voices 2010...... 92 Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Western North America, Slammer Allan Guthrie...... 28 Fourth Edition Roger Tory Peterson ...... 55 Sobreviviendo al divorcio Larousse Mexico...... 120 Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide® to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Sixth Edition...... 54 Still Life Melissa Milgrom...... 53

® Peterson, Roger Tory Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Stir Barbara Lynch with Joanne Smart...... 36 Western North America, Fourth Edition...... 55 Stone, Robert Fun with Problems ...... 43 Pink Brain, Blue Brain Lise Eliot...... 16 Stuever, Hank Tinsel...... 38 Planet Wedding Sandra and Harry Choron ...... 99 Teachout,Terry Pops ...... 40 Pops Terry Teachout...... 40 That First Season John Eisenberg...... 19 The Power of Half Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen ...... 46 Theroux, Paul A Dead Hand...... 45 Raising Steaks Betty Fussell ...... 87 The Tin Drum Günter Grass...... 20 Reaching Out Francisco Jiménez ...... 123 Tinsel Hank Stuever ...... 38 Rees, Matt Beynon The Samaritan’s Secret ...... 100 The Toss of a Lemon Padma Viswanathan ...... 74 Reichl, Ruth, ed. Gourmet Today ...... 12 Tough,Paul Whatever It Takes ...... 69 The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy James Cross Giblin ...... 122 Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan ...... 98

Roth, Philip The Humbling...... 30 Twisted Tree Kent Meyers...... 10

Runner Thomas Perry ...... 96 Unpacking the Boxes Donald Hall ...... 68

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight Gina Ochsner...... 48 Visser, Margaret The Gift of Thanks...... 34

Saint-Exupéry,Antoine de The Little Prince Pop-Up...... 18 Viswanathan, Padma The Toss of a Lemon ...... 74

Salsas mexicanas Larousse Mexico ...... 119 Wertheim,L. Jon Blood in the Cage ...... 95

Salwen, Kevin, and Hannah Salwen The Power of Half...... 46 Whatever It Takes Paul Tough...... 69

The Samaritan’s Secret Matt Beynon Rees ...... 100 When the Game Was Ours Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson with Jackie MacMullan ...... 8 Saramago, José Death with Interruptions ...... 63 Winchester, Simon, ed. The Best American Travel Savage Lands Clare Clark ...... 50 Writing™ 2009...... 83

Save the Deli David Sax ...... 26 Wong, Jan A Comrade Lost and Found ...... 102

Sax, David Save the Deli...... 26 Yehoshua,A. B. Friendly Fire ...... 94 Scicolone, Michele The Italian Slow Cooker ...... 44

The Sealed Letter Emma Donoghue ...... 72

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