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An Anonymous Girl
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The next novel of psychological suspense and obsession from the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us
Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed.
When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she’s thinking…and what she’s hiding. As Jess’s paranoia grows, it FICTION / THRILLERS / becomes clear that she can no longer trust what in her life is real, and what is SUSPENSE one of Dr. Shields’ manipulative experiments. Caught in a web of deceit and St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly. 9781250133731 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us comes an 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W electrifying new novel about doubt, passion, and just how much you can trust Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press someone. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press
Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250133748 Audio ISBN: 9781250314215 Praise for The Wife Between Us: Audio ISBN: 9781250314208 "Readers who were enthralled by B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will love the skewed psychology and shifting perspectives of this MARKETING domestic thriller." —Library Journal, starred review Author Tour National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity “[A] jaw-dropping psychological thriller. This is not another eye-rolling story Online Publicity about the jealous ex-wife stalking her replacement...Unforgettable twists lead to National Advertising shocking revelations all the way through the epilogue.” —Publishers Weekly, Pre-Publication Advertising Indie Bound Whitebox Mailing starred review Major Pre-Order Campaign Major Evangelist Campaign "A fiendishly smart cat-and-mouse thriller" —New York Times Book Review Influencer Campaign (5+ markets) BuzzBooks Promotion Trade Advertising GREER HENDRICKS spent over two decades as an editor. Her writing has been published in The Social Media Outreach New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Tiered ARC distribution Early Reader Review Campaign SARAH PEKKANEN is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of seven previous Extensive NetGalley Campaign novels. A former investigative journalist and feature writer, her work has been published in The Email Marketing Bookstagrammer Campaign Washington Post, USA Today, and many others. Author Websites: sarahpekkanen.com; greerhendricks.com Together, they have written the New York Times bestselling novel The Wife Between Us. Active on Facebook: facebook.com/sara...
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Summoned to Thirteenth Grave A Novel
Darynda Jones
Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series.
Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity – which is the appropriate amount of time to make a person starkraving mad. But someone’s looking out for her, and she’s allowed to return after a mere hundred years in exile. Is it too much to hope for that not much has changed? Apparently it is. Bummer.
FICTION / MYSTERY & She’s missed her daughter, she’s missed Reyes, and Beep, but now that she’s DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS back on earth, it’s time to put to rest burning questions that need answers. What St. Martin's Press | 1/15/2019 9781250149411 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. happened to her mother? How did she really die? Who killed her? And are Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton cupcakes or coffee the best medicine? It all comes to a head in an epic Qty: 20 showdown between good and evil in this final smart and hilarious novel. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W
Subrights: UK Rights: ICM Partners PRAISE Translation Rights: ICM Partners Praise for The Grave: Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250149435 Audio ISBN: 9781250305152 “Sexy, sassy…Jones’s characters, both living and dead, are colorful and Audio ISBN: 9781250305145 endearing.” —The Associated Press on First Grave on the Right
“Jones perfectly balances humor and suspense…Will leave readers eager for her MARKETING next installment.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Second Grave on the National Print Publicity Online Publicity Left National Launch Advertising Prepublication Advertising “Crafty Jones shakes things up in a most diabolical way. As always, there is plenty Trade Advertising Blog Outreach of the weird and wacky, but there is also a heaping dose of high-stakes drama and Featured Backlist Promotions poignancy. This is one fantastic read!” –RT Book Reviews (4 ½ stars) on Eighth NetGalley Promotions Grave After Dark Email Marketing Campaign Early Reader Review Campaign Social Media Campaign New York Times and USA Today bestselling author DARYNDA JONES won a Golden Heart and a Heroes and Heartbreakers Promotion RITA for her manuscript First Grave on the Right. A born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of Tor.com Promotion dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man CriminalElement.com Promotion Romance Conferences Promotion and beast alike. Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her Author Website: daryndajones.com husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. Author Facebook: /darynda.jones.official, 42K
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Queen Bey A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Veronica Chambers
From the editor of the bestselling anthology The Meaning of Michelle, a celebration of one of the greatest stars of our time
Beyoncé. Her name conjures more than music, it has come to be synonymous with beauty, glamour, power, creativity, love, and romance. Her performances are legendary, her album releases events. She is not even forty but she has already rewritten the Beyoncé playbook more than half a dozen times. She is consistently provocative, political and surprising. As a solo artist, she has sold more than 100 million records. She has won 22 Grammys and is the most BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY nominated women in the award’s history. Her 2018 performance at Coachella / COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS St. Martin's Press | 3/5/2019 wowed the world. The New York Times wrote: "There's not likely to be a more 9781250200525 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. meaningful, absorbing, forceful and radical performance by an American Hardcover with dust jacket | 240 pages | Carton musician this year or any year soon." Artist, business woman, mother, daughter, Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W sister, wife, black feminist, Queen Bey is endlessly fascinating. Plus two 8-page color inserts Queen Bey features a diverse range of voices, from star academics to outspoken Subrights: Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press UK Rights: St. Martin's Press cultural critics to Hollywood and music stars.
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VERONICA CHAMBERS is the editor of the New York Times archival storytelling team, a new initiative devoted to publishing articles based on photographs recently rediscovered as the paper digitizes millions of images. She is the editor of The Meaning of Michelle, celebrating the former first lady, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a Time Magazine Top Nonfiction of the year. Veronica has written several books as well, including Mama’s Girl, a critically acclaimed memoir, and she co-wrot...
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The Perfect Liar A Novel
Thomas Christopher Greene
A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other, for fans of B.A. Paris and Paula Hawkins.
Susannah, a young widow and single mother, has remarried well: to Max, a charismatic artist and popular speaker whose career took her and her fifteen- year-old son out of New York City and to a quiet Vermont university town. Strong-willed and attractive, Susannah expects that her life is perfectly in place again. Then one quiet morning she finds a note on her door: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE. FICTION / THRILLERS / PSYCHOLOGICAL Max dismisses the note as a prank. But days after a neighborhood couple comes St. Martin's Press | 1/15/2019 to dinner, the husband mysteriously dies in a tragic accident while on a run with 9781250128218 | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton Max. Soon thereafter, a second note appears on their door: DID YOU GET Qty: 24 AWAY WITH IT? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Both Susannah and Max are keeping secrets from the world and from each other Translation: Marly Rusoff —secrets that could destroy their family and everything they have built. The Perfect Liar is a thrilling novel told through the alternating perspectives of Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250128041 Susannah and Max with a shocking climax that no one will expect, from the Audio ISBN: 9781250220240 bestselling author of The Headmaster’s Wife. Audio ISBN: 9781250220233
PRAISE Praise for The Headmaster's Wife: MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity "Greene’s genre-bending novel of madness and despair evokes both the predatory National Launch Advertising Prepublication Advertising lasciviousness of Nabokov’s classic, Lolita, and the anxious ambiguity of Gillian Early Reader Review Campaign Flynn’s contemporary thriller, Gone Girl." - Booklist NetGalley Promotion Blog Outreach New England Focus “A tightly woven, atmospheric thriller about a New England academic whose life Bear Pond Books Focus goes off the rails.” - People Pitch for NEIBA Email Marketing Campaign CriminalElement.com Promotion THOMAS CHRISTOPHER GREENE is the author of five previous novels: Mirror Lake; I'll Never Library Marketing Be Long Gone; Envious Moon; The Headmaster's Wife; and If I Forget You. His fiction has been Author Website: translated into 13 languages. In 2008, Tom founded Vermont College of Fine Arts, a top graduate thomaschristophergreene.com fine arts college, making him the youngest college president in the country at the time. He lives and Author Facebook: works in Vermont. /authorthomaschristophergreene
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The Holy Sh!t Moment How Lasting Change Can Happen in an Instant
James Fell
James Fell, social media dynamo and motivation expert, teaches readers how to skip the hard part and go directly from intention to committed action.
After years of helping people change, James Fell had a sudden insight about sudden insight: significant life change doesn’t often come from just putting one foot in front of the other, carefully observing and altering habits, slogging through baby steps toward new behavior. Rather, the research reveals that serious life turnaround usually happens in a moment, with a flash of inspiration. Epiphany arrives like a lightning strike, rapidly shifting the recipient of such SELF-HELP / PERSONAL enlightenment onto a new path that creates a better life. GROWTH / SELF-ESTEEM St. Martin's Press | 1/22/2019 9781250186317 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Motivational psychology has traditionally focused on slow and steady—gradual Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton improvement over time to reach a desired goal, whether it’s weight loss, career Qty: 24 change, battling addiction, or success in relationships. We’ve been told since 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes a frontispiece illustration toddlerhood that the tortoise beats the hare. But, through compelling science and powerful stories, James Fell shows us that the hare has the edge; overwhelming Subrights: U.K.: Foundry Literary desire can be awakened fast and furiously. When you learn to become attuned to Translation: Foundry Literary that sensation of sudden awakening, a new path can be followed almost Other Available Formats: effortlessly, because it feels like destiny. Ebook ISBN: 9781250186300 Audio ISBN: 9781250318497 Audio ISBN: 9781250318480 Everyone has the ability to experience the lightning strike. The Holy Sh!t Moment will teach you how to create a life-changing epiphany and go directly from intention to action.
MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity PRAISE National Print Publicity Online Publicity "Fell's book contains a rare combination of searing wit, laugh-out-loud analogy, Online Advertising Campaign and evidence-based research. I loved it." —Dr. Sarah McKay, Neuroscientist, Online Promotion Author of The Women's Brain Book: The neuroscience of health, hormones and Social Media Promotion Email Marketing Campaign happiness Blog Outreach QDT Promotion Included on Macmillan Speaker's Website “Through rigorous research, captivating storytelling, and practical tips, James Fell Author site: BodyforWife.com will take you on a wild ride to identify defining moments in your own life and how Active on Facebook: 64K followers to harness their power. Your life will never be the same.” —C. Nathan DeWall, Active on Twitter: @bodyforwife (18k followers) Ph.D., bestselling author of Psychology, Exploring Psychology, and Psychology in Everyday Life
James Fell, MA, MBA, is a motivation, health, and fitness writer for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. He has written extensively for Chatelaine and AskMen.com, and authored pieces in TIME Magazine, the Guardian, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and many other publications. He has a massive and highly engaged following on Facebook and Twitter, and his blog, BodyForWife.com, has millions of visitors a year. He is also the author of Lose It Right. He lives in Calgary.
6 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS APRIL 2019
The Spy in Moscow Station A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Eric Haseltine
The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow—before more American assets are rounded up and killed.
Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA
In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist—those in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the TRUE CRIME / ESPIONAGE Russian Foreign Ministry assert with confidence that he was a spy? Thomas Dunne Books | 4/30/2019 9781250301161 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Outsmarting honey traps and encroaching deep enough into enemy territory to Qty: 20 perform complicated technical investigations, Gandy accomplished his mission 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W in Russia, but discovered more than State and CIA wanted him to know. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press The Spy in Moscow Station tells of a time when—much like today—Russian Other Available Formats: spycraft had proven itself far beyond the best technology the U.S. had to offer. Ebook ISBN: 9781250301154 The perils of American arrogance mixed with bureaucratic infighting left the Audio ISBN: 9781250318329 country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian electronic Audio ISBN: 9781250318312 surveillance and espionage.
This is the true story of unorthodox, underdog intelligence officers who fought MARKETING an uphill battle against their own government to prove that the KGB had pulled National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity off the most devastating penetration of U.S. national security in history. If you Online Publicity think "The Americans" isn't riveting enough, you'll love this toe-curling TheHistoryReader.com Promotion nonfiction thriller. Early Reader Review Campaign Email Marketing Campaign DRC Posted on Edelweiss ERIC HASELTINE was Director of Research at the NSA and Associate Director of National Blog Outreach Intelligence in charge of Science and Technology for the U.S. Intelligence community. Before joining the NSA, he was Executive Vice President of Disney Imagineering. A PhD neuroscientist, he has given several popular TED talks on the future of science and is an inventor with over 70 patents and pending patents. He lives in California with his wife, Dr. Chris Gilbert.
7 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JANUARY 2019
The Wartime Sisters A Novel
Lynda Cohen Loigman
For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret.
"Loigman’s strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale
St. Martin's Press | 1/22/2019 9781250140708 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of Qty: 20 WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the Translation: Marly Rusoff & Associates two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges Other Available Formats: in their lives. Ebook ISBN: 9781250140722 Audio ISBN: 9781250202970 "One of my favorite books of the year." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Masterpiece
MARKETING "A stirring tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried National Print Publicity secrets.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge Online Publicity National Launch Advertising of Lost and Sold on a Monday Pre Publication Advertising Trade Advertising PRAISE BookExpo Book Group Speed Dating Promotion "The Wartime Sisters shows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to Whitebox Mailing IndieBound Promotion fight, and to help each other survive.” —Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling Book Club Outreach author of Those Who Save Us Discussion Guide Available Online Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "One of my favorite books of the year." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author NetGalley Campaign of The Dollhouse Email Marketing Campaign Author Website LyndaCohenLoigman.com Active on Facebook, Twitter and "A stirring tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.” Instagram —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Lost
Lynda Cohen Loigman grew up in Longmeadow, MA. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is now a student of the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and lives with her husband and two children in Chappaqua, NY.
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Hero Dogs How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners
Wilma Melville with Paul Lobo
The incredible memoir of how Wilma Melville turned a band of shelter dogs into one of America's foremost disaster-response assets in catastrophes from 9/11 to Katrina.
Ana and Hunter were failed service dogs. Recon was left for dead on the train tracks. Cody was returned to the shelter seven times before he turned two. To most, these dogs were unadoptable. Unsalvageable. Irredeemable. To retired gym teacher and grandma Wilma Melville, they were the heroes America needed. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS While volunteering as a canine search-and-rescue handler during the 1995 St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 9781250179913 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Oklahoma City bombing, Wilma saw how ill-prepared the country was to Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton respond to disasters. Then and there, beside her loyal Black Lab, Murphy, she Qty: 20 made a pact, singlehandedly founding the National Disaster Search Dog 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Includes one black-and-white photograph plus Foundation (SDF) and beginning a journey that would change the face of search- one 16-page color photograph insert and-rescue in America forever.
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press But even Wilma could not predict how desperately her idea would soon be needed. With 9/11, the scope of disaster response in America changed in an Other Available Formats: instant, and people across the country realized how crucial these dogs were, Ebook ISBN: 9781250179920 Audio ISBN: 9781250319104 launching the SDF to a national stage. Audio ISBN: 9781250319098 In this gripping, heartwrenching story, Wilma and writer Paul Lobo trace the paths of the amazing animals, firefighters, and volunteers who brought Wilma's MARKETING dream to fruition. They recount struggles and triumphs as the dogs and their National Broadcast Publicity handlers face off with hurricanes, bombings, and other staggering disasters. National Print Publicity Along the way, we witness the unshakeable bonds that develop between humans Online Publicity Email Marketing Campaign and these remarkable dogs. Organizational Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign WILMA MELVILLE is a retired Physical Education instructor, grandmother, and founder of the Extensive Blog Outreach National Disaster Search Dog Foundation. Still active within the Foundation, she serves on the Social Media Campaign Board of Directors and is involved with the planning of the National Training Center. Advance Access Promotion PAUL LOBO is a software engineer, army veteran, and writer of fiction and nonfiction. He has been Promotion with the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation involved with the SDF for over a year. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two Author Website: searchdogfoundation.org rescued pit bulls. Author Facebook: facebook.com/NationalDisasterSearchDogFoundation (106K followers) Author Twitter: @searchdogfdn (6.5K followers) Author Instagram: @searchdogfoundation
9 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS APRIL 2019
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald Robertson
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless PHILOSOPHY / HISTORY & SURVEYS / ANCIENT & individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment CLASSICAL and emotional resilience. St. Martin's Press | 4/2/2019 9781250196620 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Subrights: UK: Stephen Hanselman Translation: St. Martin's Press Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and Other Available Formats: guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives. Ebook ISBN: 9781250196637 Audio ISBN: 9781250315977 Audio ISBN: 9781250315960 Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and MARKETING essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face National Broadcast Publicity today. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign DONALD ROBERTSON is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, trainer, and writer. He was born Academic Marketing Campign in Ayrshire, Scotland, and after living in England and working in London for many years, he Online Promotion emigrated to Nova Scotia where he now lives. Robertson has been researching Stoicism and Blog Outreach applying it in his work for twenty years. He is one of the founding members of the non-profit QDT Savvy Psychology organization Modern Stoicism.
10 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JANUARY 2019
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life Daughter, Wife, Mother, and Widow
Lucy Worsley
A biography exploring the life Queen Victoria—both as a woman who defied convention and a queen who defined an era.
Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light. Going beyond an exploration of the Queen merely as a monarch, Worsley considers Victoria as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY period. The book is structured around the various roles that Victoria inhabited— / ROYALTY a daughter raised to wield power, a loving but tempestuous wife, a controlling St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 mother, and a cunning widow—all while wearing the royal crown. 9781250201423 | $32.50 / $42.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 24 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Far from a proto-feminist, Queen Victoria was socially conservative and never Plus two 8-page color photograph inserts supported women’s rights. And yet, Victoria thwarted the strict rules of Subrights: UK Rights: Hodder and Stoughton womanhood that defined the era to which she gave her name. She was Translation Rights: Hodder and Stoughton passionate, selfish, and moody, boldly defying the will of politicians who sought Other Available Formats: to control her and emotionally controlling her family for decades. How did the Ebook ISBN: 9781250201430 woman who defined Victorian womanhood also manage to defy its conventions? Audio ISBN: 9781250318343 Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria’s correspondence and the rich Audio ISBN: 9781250318336 documentation of her life, Worsley explores the identity of this powerful, difficult queen as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time. MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity PRAISE Online Publicity Indie Bookseller Mailing Praise for Jane Austen at Home: Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "Worsley offers us much that Austen's admirers wish to know...with humor and TheHistoryReader.com Promotion Email Marketing Campaign poignancy and common sense, just as Austen would have wished."—Amy Bloom, Author Twitter: @Lucy_Worsley (104K New York Times Book Review Followers) Author Website: lucyworsley.com " ...A personal look inside the life of a singular woman.... [the] intimate spaces in both this book and in Austen’s original works fly off the page in full-fledged color." —Madeleine Luckel, Vogue ALSO AVAILABLE
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The Pandora Room A Novel
Christopher Golden
When what appears to be the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient city, neighboring countries fight for ownership and unleash a terrible plague.
In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora’s Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings of the gods, the other all the world’s curses. Now, in a subterranean city in Northern Iraq, archaeologist Sophie Durand has discovered a secret chamber covered in writing that confirms that version of the tale—a chamber which contains a single jar. “Weird shit” expert Ben Walker joins Sophie’s team just as FICTION / THRILLERS / the mystery deepens and grows ugly. Those who believe the myth want to know SUPERNATURAL St. Martin's Press | 4/23/2019 which jar has been found in the Pandora Room, the one containing blessings, or 9781250192103 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. the one full of curses. Governments rush to lay claim, but jihadi forces aren’t Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton waiting for the dust to settle. Whatever the jar contains, they want it, no matter Qty: 20 who they have to kill…or what will emerge when they open it. For Sophie, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Walker, and the others, the Pandora Room may soon become their tomb. Subrights: UK Rights: Howard Morhaim Literary Agency Translation Rights: Howard Morhaim Literary PRAISE Agency Praise for Ararat: Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250192110 "The whole is more than the sum of its parts in this exceptional supernatural Audio ISBN: 9781250203083 thriller... solid prose, effective characterizations, and a willingness not to pull any plot punches." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
MARKETING National Print Publicity "ARARAT has that horror-adventure vibe that’s like candy to me. Delicious Terror Online Publicity Candy! Golden seizes your heart in his hands with a tale as terrifying as it is Early Reader Review Campaign thrilling!" —Chuck Wendig DRC Posted on Edelweiss Blog and Instagram Outreach Social Media Campaign CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Ararat, Snowblind, Dead Tor.com Promotion Ringers, Tin Men, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is Library Marketing Campaign the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Author Twitter: @ChristophGolden Golden is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities, Author Facebook: Facebook.com/ChristopherGoldenAuthor and the co-host of the popular podcast Three Guys with Beards. He lives in Massachusetts. Author Website: ChristopherGolden.com
12 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JANUARY 2019
The Coming Storm A Thriller
Mark Alpert
A new action-packed thriller from Mark Alpert
America is on the brink of collapse, devastated by a brutal government trying to silence its citizens, in the next action-packed thriller from Mark Alpert.
New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable and defenseless people into the flood-ravaged neighborhoods. The new laws are enforced by an army of genetically enhanced FICTION / THRILLERS / soldiers, designed to be the fiercest and cruelest of killers. Genetic scientist Dr. TECHNOLOGICAL St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 Jenna Khan knows too much about how these super-soldiers were engineered: 9781250065421 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. by altering the DNA sequence in ways that could change the fabric of humanity. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Escaping arrest and on the run, Jenna joins forces with a genetically enhanced Subrights: UK Rights: Writers House, LLC soldier gone rogue and a Brooklyn gang kingpin to resist the government’s plan Translation Rights: Writers House, LLC to manipulate the DNA of all Americans. The race is on to stop the evil Other Available Formats: experiment before it spreads the genetic changes…and transforms the human Ebook ISBN: 9781466872240 species forever. Audio ISBN: 9781250203007
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MARKETING "Mark Alpert knows his stuff and proves it yet again in The Furies. History, National Print Publicity science, and witchcraft blend seamlessly into a taut, riveting new thriller that Online Publicity Advance Access Promotion explores the secrets buried in our genetic code. From its frightening start to its NetGalley Promotion explosive ending, this book had my fingers tightening ever harder on its pages. Extensive Blog Outreach Here's a great story, expertly told." —James Rollins, New York Times bestselling CriminalElement.com Promotion Email Marketing Campaign author of The Eye of God on The Furies Early Reader Review Campaign MARK ALPERT, author of Final Theory, The Omega Theory, Extinction, and most recently The Furies, is a contributing editor at Scientific American. His work has also appeared in Fortune Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Playboy. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two children.
13 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JANUARY 2019
The Edge of Anarchy The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America
Jack Kelly
The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America.
The Edge of Anarchy offers a vivid account of the greatest uprising of working people in American history. At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country. Famine threatened, riots broke out along the rail lines. Soon the U.S. Army was on the march and gunfire HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 19TH CENTURY rang from the streets of major cities. St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 9781250128867 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. This epochal tale offers fascinating portraits of two iconic characters of the age. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton George Pullman, who amassed a fortune by making train travel a pleasure, Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W thought the model town that he built for his workers would erase urban squalor. includes 6 black and white photos Eugene Debs, founder of the nation’s first industrial union, was determined to wrench power away from the reigning plutocrats. The clash between the two Subrights: UK Rights: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment men’s conflicting ideals pushed the country to what the U.S. Attorney General Translation Rights: William Morris Endeavor called “the ragged edge of anarchy.” Entertainment
Other Available Formats: Many of the themes of The Edge of Anarchy could be taken from today’s Ebook ISBN: 9781250128874 headlines—upheaval in America’s industrial heartland, wage stagnation, breakneck technological change, and festering conflict over race, immigration, and inequality. With the country now in a New Gilded Age, this look back at the MARKETING violent conflict of an earlier era offers illuminating perspectives along with a National Print Publicity breathtaking story of a nation on the edge. Online Publicity TheHistoryReader.com Promotion Online Outreach (Railfan sites) PRAISE Early Reader Review Campaign DRC Posted on Edelweiss "Pay attention, because Jack Kelly’s Ragged Edge not only captures the flickering Kinetoscopic spirit of one of the great Labor-Capital showdowns in American history, it helps focus today’s great debates over the power of economic concentration and the rights and futures of American workers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
"Jack Kelly’s remarkable new book, Ragged Edge, explores an era of our industrial and labor history with remarkable parallels to our own moment: ascendant forces of all-powerful capital, a government beholden to it, new labor movements emerging from the ash...
JACK KELLY is a journalist, novelist, and historian, whose books include Band of Giants, which received the DAR's History Award Medal, and Heaven's Ditch. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, and other national periodicals, and is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. He has appeared on The History Channel and been interviewed on National Public Radio. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley. 14 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JANUARY 2019
Beyond These Walls Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Tony Platt
A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of the American criminal justice system reveals how the past bleeds into the present
The contemporary American criminal justice system imprisons more people than any other country in the world. Notorious for its brutal police tactics and unashamed of the astonishing cruelty of its prisons, it regularly turns a blind eye to the institutionalized racism on display 24/7. How did a nation supposedly built on the rule of law get to this point and what can be done about it?
SOCIAL SCIENCE / PENOLOGY Tony Platt’s groundbreaking book Beyond These Walls considers how the current St. Martin's Press | 1/8/2019 broken system can be fixed. He begins by asking readers what a prison is and 9781250085115 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. considers the commonalities between prisons, ghettos, and reservations. He Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 urges us to think about the public functions of private security, consider the 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W relationship between foreign and domestic criminal justice policies, and Plus one 16-page black-and-white photogragh understand how the public welfare system demeans and criminalizes many, but insert mostly poor women. Subrights: UK Rights: Trident Media Group Translation Rights: Trident Media Group Looking back and forth at the United States' past, Platt explores the deep Other Available Formats: historical roots of the Trump administration’s law and order agenda, with Ebook ISBN: 9781250085122 specific attention to race, class, and gender, and explains the failure of past reform efforts that have, ironically, led to an expansion of the police state rather than a contraction. Tony Platt’s Beyond These Walls is a call to action, a bold MARKETING plan for structural reforms that would guarantee justice for all. National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity TONY PLATT is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society, Online Publicity University of California, Berkeley. The author of eleven books dealing with issues of criminal Early Reader Review Campaign Major Influencer and Organizational justice, race, inequality, and social justice in American history, he previously taught at the University Outreach of Chicago, Berkeley, and California state universities. Platt’s experience as a political activist and African American Bookstore Outreach public intellectual informs his research and publications. He lives in Berkeley, CA. DRC Posted on Edelweiss Reading Group Guide
15 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
Connections in Death An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 48)
J. D. Robb
In this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York.
Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads—and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path. For expert help, they hire child psychologist Dr. Rochelle Pickering—whose own brother pulled himself out of a spiral of addiction and crime with Rochelle’s support. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE PROCEDURAL St. Martin's Press | 2/5/2019 Lyle is living with Rochelle while he gets his life together, and he’s thrilled to 9781250201577 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. hear about his sister’s new job offer. But within hours, triumph is followed by Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton tragedy. Returning from a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend, she finds Lyle Qty: 20 dead with a syringe in his lap, and Eve’s investigation confirms that this wasn’t 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W just another OD. After all his work to get clean, Lyle’s been pumped full of Subrights: UK Rights: Writers House poison—and a neighbor with a peephole reports seeing a scruffy, pink-haired girl Translation Rights: Writers House fleeing the scene. Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781250228413 Mass Market ISBN: 9781250308153 Ebook ISBN: 9781250201584 Now Eve and Roarke must venture into the gang territory where Lyle used to Audio ISBN: 9781250318114 run, and the ugly underground world of tattoo parlors and strip joints where everyone has taken a wrong turn somewhere. They both believe in giving people a second chance. Maybe even a third or fourth. But as far as they’re concerned, MARKETING whoever gave the order on Lyle Pickering’s murder has run out of chances… National Print Publicity Online Publicity PRAISE National One-Day Laydown National Launch Advertising "Robb expertly ratchets up the suspense as the endgame approaches in this deadly National Trade Advertising Prepublication Advertising chess match between Eve and her cunning opponent." —Publishers Weekly on Major Pre-order Campaign Dark in Death Social Media Campaign Heroes and Heartbreakers Promotion Tor.com Promotion "It is no secret that Robb’s Eve Dallas series continues to be one of the most CriminalElement.com Promotion popular brands in crime fiction. Add that to this installment’s perfectly executed Blog Outreach plot, snappy pacing, and judicious sprinkling of dry humor, and you have a Special Author Videos for Edelweiss and Accounts particularly enjoyable treat for loyal fans and curious new readers alike." Author Website: jdrobb.com —Booklist on Secrets in Death Author Blog: fallintothestory.com Author Facebook: /jdrobbauthor, 151K “Robb continues to impress.” —Publishers Weekly on Secrets in Death
J.D. ROBB is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Maryland.
16 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
Wild Bill The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin
The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO—the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger the Wild West.
James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other / HISTORICAL young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the St. Martin's Press | 2/5/2019 9781250173799 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Mississippi. Hardcover | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Wild Bill also fell in love—multiple times—before marrying the true love of his Includes one-color printed endpapers, black- and-white photographs throughout, plus one life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He would be buried 16-page black-and-white photograph insert however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane.
Subrights: UK Rights: RLR Associates Translation Rights: RLR Associates Even before his death, Wild Bill became a legend, with fiction sometimes supplanting fact in the stories that surfaced. Once, in bar in Nebraska, he was Other Available Formats: confronted by four men, three of whom he killed in the ensuing gunfight. A Ebook ISBN: 9781250174017 Audio ISBN: 9781250315885 famous Harper’s Magazine article credited Hickok with slaying 10 men that Audio ISBN: 9781250315878 day; by the 1870s, his career-long kill count was up to 100.
The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876, when cowardly MARKETING Jack McCall famously put a bullet through the back of his head during a card Author Tour game. Bestselling author Tom Clavin has sifted through years of western lore to National Broadcast Publicity bring Hickock fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Trade Advertising PRAISE Pre-Pub Online Advertising Online Advertising Praise for Dodge City: IndieNext Campaign Library Marketing Campaign Academic Marketing Campaign “Absorbing…Fun and revealing all the way through.” —The Wall Street Journal Extensive Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "Thorough, compelling and entertaining." —Houston Press NetGalley Promotion Feature Title: TheHistoryReader.com Macmillan Podcast Promotion "Rip-snorting good reading" —Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Email Marketing Campaign Author Website: tomclavin.com Also Available from Macmillan Audio: TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web ISBN 9781250315885 site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and Reckless. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.
17 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
The Girls at 17 Swann Street A Novel
Yara Zgheib
Inspired by her own experience, Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life.
Anna Roux was a ballerina in Paris, France, married to the man of her dreams. But beauty and grace eluded her. All she saw in the mirror was imperfection. A body that was terribly overweight. Changing her diet failed to make her thinner, and a knee injury sidelined her career.
FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN Despite a full recovery, Anna no longer dances. When her husband’s job brought St. Martin's Press | 2/5/2019 them to St. Louis, Missouri, she found little to occupy her days. Lonely, 9781250202444 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. homesick, and despairing, her appetite dwindled until she weighed a mere Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton eighty-eight pounds. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Now, Anna has taken up residence at 17 Swann Street, where women with Subrights: North American Rights: St. Martin's life-threatening eating disorders live. Every step Anna takes towards recovery Press UK Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency requires strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street. Translations Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency
Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250202468 "This book kept bringing tears to my eyes . . . of sadness and then finally joy. I Audio ISBN: 9781250314192 Audio ISBN: 9781250314185 think you have something quite magical and important here." - David Cully, President, Baker & Taylor
MARKETING "I just finished The Girls at 17 Swann Street and I"m about as close to speechless Author Events as I can get! It's extremely hard to craft a blurb that does this book justice. I National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity inhaled it!" - Nancy Simpson-Brice, Book Vault Online Publicity National advertising campaign "A riveting inside look at life with anorexia and the mindset of these young women Prepub advertising campaign Indiebound Whitebox mailing in the clinic." - Pamela Klinger-Horn, Excelsior Bat books Preorder campaign Evangelist Book Club campaign "I absolutely devoured this book. The writing is beautiful and makes this book a BuzzBooks Trade Advertising true page turner." - Suzanne Lucy,... BookExpo Book Group Speed Dating promotion Yara Zgheib is a Fulbright scholar with a Masters degree in Security Studies from Georgetown Social media outreach University and a PhD in International Affairs in Diplomacy from Centre D'études Diplomatiques et Early Reader Review campaign Discussion Guide Available online Stratégiques in Paris. She is fluent in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Yara is a writer for Reading Group Gold Dedicated email several US and European publications, including The Huffington Post, The Four Seasons Magazine, Netgalley promotions A Woman’s Paris, The Idea List, and Holiday Magazine. Author website: yarazgheib.com
18 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
The Warrior Code 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
Tee Marie Hanible
From American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible, comes her story of how she became a warrior…and how you can do it too.
By the age of fifteen, Tee’s father had been murdered, she’d become a ward of the state, had mastered foster care, been expelled from school, and even found herself a victim of gun violence on the streets of the South Side of Chicago.
Having been introduced to military reform school, Tee began to see a different path for her life, a path that would lead her to become a Warrior. SELF-HELP / MOTIVATIONAL & INSPIRATIONAL From her relentless drive to be more than her circumstances, Tee found herself St. Martin's Press | 2/5/2019 9781250156723 | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. as part of one of the first female classes of recruits to complete the Marine Corps Hardcover with dust jacket | 208 pages | Carton Crucible, as well as part of the first ever class of females to complete Marine Qty: 32 Combat Training. As the only woman to deploy with her unit in Iraq in 2003, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Tee is known as the badass female Gunnery Sergeant and trainer from FOX’s hit Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press show American Grit. Now she’s here to help you unleash the badass inside of Translation: St. Martin's Press you! Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250156730 Recently retired from the U.S. Marines after nineteen years of service, Tee Hanible became the first Audio ISBN: 9781250316455 female military expert on “American Grit.” She founded Operation Heroes Connect, an organization Audio ISBN: 9781250316448 that partners service members and veterans as mentors for at-risk youth. In 2012, she was featured in the Newsweek magazine “Heroes Edition.” She was the National Veteran's Chair for the Women's March and is currently an Executive Board member of the DC chapter. This is her first book. MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity Online Publicity Indie Bookseller Mailing Extensive Blog Outreach Military/Organization Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion Macmillan Podcast Promotion Email Marketing Campaign Author Twitter: @TheRealTeeMarie (193K Followers) Author Website: teehanible.com Also Available from Macmillan Audio: ISBN 9781250316455
19 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS APRIL 2019
Big Business A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
Tyler Cowen
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Stagnation
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical politicians like Bernie Sanders who, at a 2016 presidential campaign rally said, “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist,” to millennials, only 42 percent of whom support capitalism, belief in big business is at an all-time low. But are big companies inherently evil? If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / FREE America? Economist and bestselling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest ENTERPRISE problem is that we don’t love business enough. St. Martin's Press | 4/9/2019 9781250110541 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages | Carton In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and Qty: 24 their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press According to a 2016 Gallup survey, only 12 percent of Americans trust big Translation: St. Martin's Press business “quite a lot,” and only 6 percent trust it “a great deal.” Yet Americans
Other Available Formats: as a group are remarkably willing to trust businesses, whether in the form of Ebook ISBN: 9781250110558 buying a new phone on the day of its release or simply showing up to work in Audio ISBN: 9781250319067 the expectation they will be paid. Cowen illuminates the crucial role businesses Audio ISBN: 9781250319050 play in spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work, and creating the bounty on which we’ve all come to depend.
MARKETING PRAISE National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity “[The Complacent Class] provides an open invitation for the reader to think Online Publicity Online Advertising deeply.” —Derek Thompson, The Atlantic Social Media Campaign Organizational Outreach “The Complacent Class is refreshingly nonideological, filled with observations that Blog Outreach Independent Bookseller Mailing will resonate with conservatives, liberals and libertarians. ... a useful corrective to Author Website: the conventional wisdom that American ingenuity, sooner or later, will revive a http://marginalrevolution.com/ low-growth economy.” —The Wall Street Journal Author Twitter: @tylercowen (98.5K followers) "Cowen’s book… will have a profound impact on the way people think about the last thirty years." —Ryan Avent, Economist.com on The Great Stagnation
TYLER COWEN (Ph.D.) holds the Holbert L. Harris chair in economics at George Mason University. He is the author of a number of explanatory and text books, including The Complacent Class, as well as writing the most read economics blog worldwide, marginalrevolution.com. He has written regularly for The New York Times and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals.
20 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
Don't Label Me An Unusual Conversation for Divided Times
Irshad Manji
A unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity, by the NYT bestselling author, Oprah “Chutzpah” award-winner, and founder of the Moral Courage Project
In these United States, discord has hit emergency levels. Civility isn't the reason to repair our caustic chasms. Diversity is.
Don't Label Me shows that America's founding genius is diversity of thought. Which is why social justice activists won't win by labeling those who disagree POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES / with them. At a time when minorities are fast becoming the majority, a truly new CONSERVATISM & LIBERALISM America requires a new way to tribe out. St. Martin's Press | 2/26/2019 9781250157980 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Enter Irshad Manji and her dog, Lily. Raised to believe that dogs are evil, Manji Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 overcame her fear of the "other" to adopt Lily. She got more than she bargained 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W for. Defying her labels as an old, blind dog, Lily engages Manji in a taboo- Includes color endpapers busting conversation about identity, power, and politics. They're feisty. They're Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press funny. And in working through their challenges to one another, they reveal how Translation: St. Martin's Press to open the hearts of opponents for the sake of enduring progress. Readers who
Other Available Formats: crave concrete tips will be delighted. Ebook ISBN: 9781250182869 Audio ISBN: 9781250203038 Studded with insights from epigenetics and epistemology, layered with the lessons of Bruce Lee, Ben Franklin, and Audre Lorde, punctuated with stories about Manji's own experiences as a refugee from Africa, a Muslim immigrant to MARKETING the U.S., and a professor of moral courage, Don't Label Me makes diversity Author Events great again. National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity Online Publicity PRAISE Bookseller Outreach Organizational Outreach Praise for The Trouble With Islam Today: Influencer Campaign Email Marketing Campaign "...Feels like a revelation...a raw nerve ending for the West - shocking, raw, but Extensive Blog Outreach Tastemaker Campaign mercifully, joyously, still alive."— New York Times Book Review Online Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign "The Trouble with Islam is beyond controversial. It may ignite a firestorm of Author Twitter: @IrshadManji (21k followers) protest...her easy conversational style, addressed to 'my fellow Muslims,' makes it accessible to a wide range of readers."—The Toronto Star
Irshad Manji is founder of the award-winning Moral Courage Project at the University of Southern California and the New York Times bestselling author of The Trouble With Islam Today, translated into more than thirty languages and later adapted into the Emmy-nominated PBS film Faith Without Fear. Oprah Winfrey selected her as the first winner of the "Chutzpah" prize for boldness. Manji has lived and taught in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, and Los Angeles. She and her wife reside in Hawaii with th...
21 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
Daughter of Moloka'i A Novel
Alan Brennert
The highly anticipated sequel to Alan Brennert’s acclaimed book club favorite, and national bestseller, Moloka'i
Alan Brennert’s beloved novel Moloka'i, currently has over 600,000 copies in print. This companion tale tells the story of Ruth, the daughter that Rachel Kalama—quarantined for most of her life at the isolated leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa—was forced to give up at birth.
The book follows young Ruth from her arrival at the Kapi'olani Home for Girls in Honolulu, to her adoption by a Japanese couple who raise her on a strawberry FICTION / HISTORICAL and grape farm in California, her marriage and unjust internment at Manzanar St. Martin's Press | 2/19/2019 Relocation Camp during World War II—and then, after the war, to the 9781250137661 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. life-altering day when she receives a letter from a woman who says she is Ruth’s Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 birth mother, Rachel. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W
Other Available Formats: Daughter of Moloka'i expands upon Ruth and Rachel’s 22-year relationship, Ebook ISBN: 9781250137685 only hinted at in Moloka'i. It’s a richly emotional tale of two women—different in some ways, similar in others—who never expected to meet, much less come to love, one another. And for Ruth it is a story of discovery, the unfolding of a MARKETING past she knew nothing about. Told in vivid, evocative prose that conjures up the Author Events beauty and history of both Hawaiian and Japanese cultures, it’s the powerful and National Print Publicity poignant tale that readers of Moloka'i have been awaiting for fifteen years. Online Publicity Trade Advertising Pre-Pub Online Advertising PRAISE Online Advertising IndieNext Campaign Praise for Alan Brennert and Moloka'i: Book Club Promotion Reading Group Gold Selection "Alan Brennert is a brilliant scriptwriter. He's an even better novelist." —George Author Available for Call-ins to Bookclubs Library Marketing Campaign R.R. Martin Extensive Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "A dazzling historical saga." —The Washington Post NetGalley Promotion Social Media Campaign Email Marketing Campaign "Filled with original, fully realized characters who walk right off the page and into Author Facebook: /MolokaiBook (6.1K Likes) our hearts." —Jim Fergus, author of One Thousand White Women Author Website: alanbrennert.com “Beauty emanates from this poignant historical novel . . . The exquisite splendor of the setting complements the shining portrayal of the human spirit.” —The Huffington Post
ALAN BRENNERT is the author of Honolulu, Palisades Park, and Moloka’i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick; won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year; and was a 2012 One Book, One San Diego Selection. He won an Emmy Award for his work as a writer-producer on the television series L.A. Law.
22 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
The Moroccan Girl A Novel
Charles Cumming
In the tradition of Jason Matthews' New York Times bestseller The Kremlin's Candidate comes THE MOROCCAN GIRL, a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming, "the heir to John le Carré" (NPR).
Kit Carradine is the successful author of several best-selling novels. When he is approached by MI6 and asked to carry out a simple task on behalf of his country while attending a literary festival in Morocco, he jumps at the chance.
But all is not as it seems. Carradine soon finds himself on the trail of Lara FICTION / THRILLERS / ESPIONAGE Bartok, a leading figure in Resurrection, a violent revolutionary movement St. Martin's Press | 2/12/2019 targeting prominent right-wing political figures around the world. Caught 9781250129956 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. between competing intelligence services who want Bartok dead, Carradine faces Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton a choice: to abandon Bartok to her fate or to risk everything trying to save her. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W PRAISE Subrights: UK Rights: HarperCollins UK Translation Rights: Janklow & Nesbit “Full of thrills, wit and fine writing, with a plot and themes that might have been Other Available Formats: taken from today’s headlines...Superb espionage fiction.”—Peter Robinson, Ebook ISBN: 9781250129970 bestselling author of the Inspector Alan Banks series Audio ISBN: 9781250314376 Audio ISBN: 9781250314352 Praise for A Divided Spy: “Breathtaking...suspenseful...Kell brings a note of grace to the treacherous world of the spy novel.” —Washington Post MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “A smart, nuanced, readable tale, reminiscent of Olen Steinhauer or Robert Major Online Advertising Littell...Cumming has mastered the texture and language of espionage.” —USA Extenstive Social Media Plan Extensive NetGalley Campaign Today Travel Blog Outreach Influencer Campaign Promoted Excerpt CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the Alec Milius books and the Thomas Kell books, A Foreign Country, A Colder War, and A Divided Spy, as well as the New York Times bestselling thriller The Trinity Six and others. He lives with his family in London.
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23 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
In Putin's Footsteps Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones
Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler
A unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history showing how Russia's dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.
With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1983, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones. POLITICAL SCIENCE / WORLD / RUSSIAN & FORMER SOVIET After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a UNION St. Martin's Press | 2/19/2019 landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia’s 9781250163233 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton idea of a rousing New Year’s Eve address delivered every hour at midnight Qty: 24 throughout Russia’s eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Includes a frontispiece map plus one 8-page abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success color photograph insert of his presidency would rest on how the country’s outback citizens viewed their
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press place on the world stage. Translation Rights: SheilLand Associates Lmtd Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250163240 formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.
MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity PRAISE National Print Publicity Online Publicity Praise for Imagining Nabokov: Academic Marketing Campaign Early Reader Review Campaign "At times a sentimental book, this take on Nabokov's oeuvre gathers its themes Online Promotion Blog and Organizational Outreach —Nabokov, language, Russia—together in a loose weave at turns shapeless and Email Marketing Campaign captivating." —Publishers Weekly TheHistoryReader.com Feature "Combining literary criticism with political theory is often attempted and rarely done well. Nina Khrushcheva succeeds brilliantly."—Ian Buruma, Henry Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College
NINA KHRUSHCHEVA is the author of Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev, and a Professor of International Affairs at New School University. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times among others.
A contributing editor at The Atlantic and a New York Times Notable author, JEFFREY TAYLER has reported on Russia and the former Soviet Union for Foreign Policy, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, and more. He lives in Moscow.
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Forget You Know Me A Novel
Jessica Strawser
Strawser takes readers deep into an intimate friendship between two women. When one witnesses a shocking incident that should never have been caught on camera, the secrets and lies it exposes thr...
Molly and Liza have always been close in a way that people envy. Even after Molly married Daniel, both considered Liza an honorary member of their family. But after Liza moved away, things grew more strained than anyone wanted to admit—in the friendship and the marriage.
FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN When Daniel goes away on business, Molly and Liza plan to reconnect with a St. Martin's Press | 2/5/2019 nice long video chat over wine after the kids are in bed. But when Molly leaves 9781250184467 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. the room to check on a crying baby, a man in a mask enters, throwing Liza into Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton a panic—then her screen goes black. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W When Liza finally hears from Molly, her message is icy and terse, insisting Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press everything is fine. Liza is still convinced something is wrong, that her friend is in danger. But after an all-night drive to help her ends in a brutal confrontation, Other Available Formats: Liza is sure their friendship is over—completely unaware that she’s about to Ebook ISBN: 9781250184474 Audio ISBN: 9781250318534 have a near miss of her own. And Molly, refusing to deal with what’s happened, Audio ISBN: 9781250318527 won’t turn to Daniel, either. But none of them can go on pretending. Not after this.
MARKETING Forget You Know Me exposes the wounds of people who’ve grown apart, against National Print Publicity their will. Best friends, separated by miles. Spouses, hardened by neglect. A Online Publicity mother, isolated by pain. The man in the mask will change things for them all. National Launch Advertising Pre Publication Advertising Early Reader Review Campaign But who was he? And will he be back? NetGalley Campaign Blog Outreach PRAISE Discussion Guide Available Online Book Club Promotion “From the very first page, I was putty in Strawser’s hands...Forget You Know Me is Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign that book you can’t put down, and can’t stop thinking about when you are Library Marketing Campaign finished.” —Sally Hepworth, bestselling author of The Family Next Door Writer's Digest Promotion Author Website JessicaStrawser.com Active on Twitter (16,000 followers) "Friendships crack, marriages erode, and dangerous deceits rise to the surface in Active on Facebook and Instagram this twisty, emotionally complex, powder keg of a tale." —Emily Carpenter, bestselling author of Every Single Secret
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Almost Missed You: A Novel JESSICA STRAWSER (jessicastrawser.com) is editor-at-large at Writer’s Digest, where she was 2/2018 | 9781250107619 editorial director for nearly a decade. She’s the author of the book club favorites Almost Missed You 25 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
The Darkest Year The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman
The Darkest Year is a narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.
For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor comprised the darkest year of World War Two. Despite government attempts to disguise the magnitude of American losses, it was clear that the nation had suffered a nearly unbroken string of military setbacks in the Pacific; by the autumn of 1942, government officials were openly HISTORY / MILITARY / WORLD WAR II acknowledging the possibility that the United States might lose the war. St. Martin's Press | 2/19/2019 9781250133175 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Appeals for unity and declarations of support for the war effort in the aftermath Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton of Pearl Harbor made it appear as though the class hostilities and partisan Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W animosities that had beset the United States for decades — and grown sharper during the Depression — suddenly disappeared. They did not, and a deeply Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press divided American society splintered further during 1942 as numerous interest Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press groups sought to turn the wartime emergency to their own advantage. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250133182 Blunders and repeated displays of incompetence by the Roosevelt administration added to the sense of anxiety and uncertainty that hung over the nation.
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"In stitch and scope, Klingaman's vast tapestry depicts in a swift narrative Americans' struggles as they came to grips with the demands and terror of World War II. This is the book to start with to understand how total war transformed a once-reluc...
WILLIAM K. KLINGAMAN holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He is the author of seven previous books, including histories of the years 1816, 1918, 1929, and 1941.
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Secrets of a Soldier's Wife A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder
Shanna Hogan
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shanna Hogan tells the true story of a young Marine wife whose illicit affair ended in tragedy.
In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting her first child with her husband, U.S. Marine Corporal Jon Corwin—until the day she drove off into the desert and never returned. As temperatures climbed into the hundreds, friends and family teamed up with local law enforcement in a grueling search of Joshua Tree National Park. Nearly two months after her disappearance, Corwin's body was found at the TRUE CRIME / MURDER bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, a homemade garrote wrapped around her St. Martin's Press | 2/26/2019 9781250127303 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. throat. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Suspicions mounted within the tight-knit Marine community as residents 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W questioned if the killer was one of their own. Fellow Marine Christopher Lee Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph insert and his wife lived next door to the Corwins, and the two young couples had leaned on each other for support. But detectives soon discovered that Chris and Subrights: UK Rights - Martin Literary Erin's relationship had developed into a whirlwind romance that consumed them Management Translation Rights - Martin Literary Management both and called the paternity of Corwin's baby into question. Lee told investigators he'd gone out hunting the day of Corwin's disappearance, but his Other Available Formats: claims of innocence soon began to crumble. And while Corwin was researching Ebook ISBN: 9781250127327 Audio ISBN: 9781250203045 baby names, Lee was reportedly searching the internet for ways to dispose of a human body.
MARKETING Through interviews, court records, and extensive research, bestselling true-crime National Broadcast Publicity author Shanna Hogan constructs a chilling story of betrayal, deception, and National Print Publicity tragedy. Online Publicity NetGalley Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE CriminalElement.com Promotion Organizational Outreach “Picture Perfect is almost perfect...It isn't often that a true crime book reads like a Independent Bookseller Mailing Patricia Highsmith novel, with shades of Ruth Rendell.” —Huffington Post for Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story
“Hogan’s top-notch recounting of this good life gone bad is skillfully woven...A ALSO AVAILABLE tragic tale, engrossingly told.” —Booklist for The Stranger She Loved The Stranger She Loved: Dr. Martin MacNeill, His Beautiful Wife, and an Almost Perfect Murder “A riveting read that paints a vivid picture of this unfortunate couple who 2/2016 | 9781250080387 illustrate so clearly what happens when an obsessive relationship goes horribly Mass Market | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. awry.” —Bookreporter.com for Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder SHANNA HOGAN is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of four 10/2014 | 9781250003539 true-crime books including Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story. She has written for numerous Mass Market | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. publications and has received more than twenty awards for her feature writing and investigative reporting. Shanna was named Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Press Club in 2010 and again in 2011 by the Arizona Newspaper Association. She has appeared on The View, Dateline, 20/20, CNN, 27 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS FEBRUARY 2019
Mother Country A Novel
Irina Reyn
Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as a ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor.
The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian WOMEN president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American Thomas Dunne Books | 2/26/2019 9781250076045 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for Qty: 24 - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press
Other Available Formats: Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. Ebook ISBN: 9781466887374 Hopeful and full of humor, it is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.
MARKETING PRAISE National Print Publicity Online Publicity "[A] powerful, painstakingly imagined, timely and timeless novel." - Karen Joy Early Reader Review Campaign Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Digital Review Copy Posting on Edelweiss Ourselves and The Jane Austen Book Club NetGalley Outreach Discussion Guide Available Online Author Website: IrinaReyn.com "Reyn’s powerful narrative looks at motherhood through a fractured mirror Active on Twitter —revealing all the ways we deceive and sacrifice for our children, and all the ways we ache for forgiveness and love." —Hannah Tinti, award-winning author of The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley and The Good Thief
IRINA REYN is the author of What Happened to Anna K: A Novel and The Imperial Wife and the editor of the anthology Living on the Edge of the World. She has reviewed books for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in One Story, Tin House, Ploughshares, Town & Country Travel, etc. She teaches fiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, NY.
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Dark Tribute
Iris Johansen
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller.
Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history, would even talk to her, everything would be perfect. But the carefully constructed life Cara has built for herself is suddenly threatened when she is kidnapped by a mysterious man from her grandfather's past, setting off a violent chain of events that puts everyone Cara loves in danger. Will Cara become a tribute to her family's dark past, or will she be able to keep herself and her loved FICTION / THRILLERS / ones alive? SUSPENSE St. Martin's Press | 3/26/2019 New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller 9781250075888 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W PRAISE Subrights: UK Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency “Thrilling, emotional and downright riveting certainly sum up this incredible Translation Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency tale!” —RT Book Reviews on Shadow Play Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466887268 "In a genre laden with macho, action-hero figures, Johansen’s shrewd and steely female operative is as tough as they come."—Booklist on Live to See Tomorrow
MARKETING National Print Publicity “Iris Johansen expertly ratchets up the suspense as the action builds to a riveting Online Publicity conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Silencing Eve National One Day Laydown National Launch Advertising Early Reader Review Campaign IRIS JOHANSEN is The New York Times bestselling author of Mind Game, Night and Day, Hide Library Marketing Away, Shadow Play, Your Next Breath, The Perfect Witness, Live to See Tomorrow, Silencing Eve, Email Marketing Hunting Eve, Taking Eve, Sleep No More, What Doesn’t Kill You, Bonnie, Quinn, Eve, Chasing The Criminal Element Promotion Night, Eight Days to Live, Blood Game, Deadlock, and more. And with her son Roy Johansen, she Social Media Campaign has coauthored Night Watch, Sight Unseen, Close Your Eyes, Shadow Zone, Storm Cycle, and Silent Author Website: IrisJohansen.com Thunder. Active on Facebook (100,000)
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The Power of Agency The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms
Paul Napper, PsyD and Anthony Rao, PhD
From two eminent clinical psychologists, how to access your personal agency—your ability to create a meaningful life on your own terms—and adapt to living in “the age of overwhelm”
Described by the World Health Organization as the most anxious nation on earth, the United States finds itself living amidst a national epidemic. We struggle to keep clear minds and to think for ourselves, limiting our ability to make optimal decisions in our lives. Nonstop technology and an increasing focus on metrics and perfomance are part of everyday, and all of these things leave us BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / PERSONAL SUCCESS feeling, in a word, overwhelmed. St. Martin's Press | 3/5/2019 9781250127570 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Agency is the ability to act as an effective agent for oneself—thinking, Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton reflecting, and making creative choices, and acting in ways that direct us toward Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W the lives we want. Agency is what humans use to feel in command of their lives. For decades, agency has been a central concern of psychologists, sociologists, Subrights: UK: Aevitas Translation: Aevitas and philosophers seeking to help generations of people live in greater accord with their interests, values, and inner motivations. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250213495 Audio ISBN: 9781250316431 Renowned clinical psychologists Paul Napper and Anthony Rao offer seven Audio ISBN: 9781250316424 practices using mind and body to help you locate and develop your own agency. Based on years of research and real-world application, their methods equip you to succeed in a world requiring constant adaptation. Illustrated through the MARKETING stories of people who have developed higher levels of agency, The Power of National Broadcast Publicity Agency gives you the skills and insights to do less and reflect more before National Print Publicity making life choices—and plot the steps to create a life on your own terms. Online Publicity NetGalley Promotion Organizational Outreach PRAISE Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "The deceptive simplicity of The Power of Agency is rooted in the authors' close Online Promotion acquaintance with the complexity of modern life; their genius lies in their ability to Author Website: anthonyrao.com show us precisely how to run our own lives rather than to allow our lives to run us." —Edward Hallowell, M.D.
PAUL NAPPER leads a management psychology practice. His client list includes Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, universities, and start-ups. He held an advanced fellowship during a three-year academic appointment at Harvard Medical School (HMS). ANTHONY RAO is a cognitive-behavioral therapist. For over 20 years he was a pediatric psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an instructor at HMS. In 1998 he opened a specialized private practice. He appears regularly as an expert commentator.
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When All Is Said A Novel
Anne Griffin
Five toasts. Five people. One lifetime.
"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."
If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said?
At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice
FICTION / FAMILY LIFE Hannigan. He’s alone, as usual - though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool Thomas Dunne Books | 3/5/2019 and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. 9781250200587 | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W have meant the most to him. Through these stories - of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found its voice - the life of Subrights: Translation: Hodder & Stoughton one man will be powerful and poignantly laid bare. UK: Hodder & Stoughton Other Available Formats: Beautifully heart-warming and powerfully felt, the voice of Maurice Hannigan Ebook ISBN: 9781250200594 Audio ISBN: 9781250315823 will stay with you long after all is said and done.
PRAISE MARKETING "An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." National Print Publicity —John Boyne Online Publicity Indiebound White Box mailing Book club outreach "Griffin captures the texture of a night catching up with an old friend—the Discussion guide available online pleasures and comforts, the stories and surprises—one that you never want to end, Email marketing campaign Early Reader Review Campaign and all the more bittersweet because you know, of course, that it must." —Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
"Maurice Hannigan is one of those rare and unforgettable characters whose lives we enter, inhabit for a time all too brief, and emerge from deeply changed. Griffin is a writer with a bright, bright future." —Janet Peery
ANNE GRIFFIN is the winner of the John McGahern Award for Literature. Shortlisted for the Hennessey New Irish Writing Award and The Sunday Business Post Short Story Competition, Anne’s work has been featured in, amongst others, The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly, and she had an eight year career at Waterstones. Anne lives in Ireland with her husband and son. When All Is Said is her debut novel.
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Loonshots How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall
Loonshot: A neglected project, widely dismissed, its champion written off as unhinged
What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? Why do traffic jams appear out of nowhere on highways? What can we learn about innovation from a glass of water? In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior and the challenges of nurturing radical breakthroughs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Drawing on the science of phase transitions, Bahcall shows why teams, ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR St. Martin's Press | 3/19/2019 companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing 9781250185969 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. wild new ideas to rigidly rejecting them, just as flowing water will suddenly Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton change into brittle ice. Oceans of print have been written about culture. Qty: 20 Loonshots identifies the small shifts in structure that control this transition, the 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes 60 black-and-white sketches, graphs, same way that temperature controls the change from water to ice. and photographs throughout Using examples that range from the spread of fires in forests to the hunt for Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency terrorists online, and stories of thieves and geniuses and kings, Bahcall shows how this new kind of science helps us understand the fate of companies and Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250185976 empires. Loonshots distills these insights into lessons for creatives, Audio ISBN: 9781250203052 entrepreneurs, and visionaries everywhere.
Over the past decade, researchers have been applying the tools and techniques of
MARKETING phase transitions to understand how birds flock, fish swim, brains work, people National Broadcast Publicity vote, criminals behave, ideas spread, diseases erupt, and ecosystems collapse. If National Print Publicity twentieth-century science was shaped by the search for fundamental l... Online Publicity NetGalley Promotion Organizational Outreach PRAISE Blog Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign "Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, Online Advertising full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things Advance Access Promotion that change the world. It’s also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech Author Website: bahcall.com entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets behind successes everywhere." —Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees
SAFI BAHCALL received his BA summa cum laude in physics from Harvard and his PhD from Stanford. After working for three years as a consultant for McKinsey, he co-founded a biotechnology company developing new drugs for cancer and served as its CEO for 13 years. In 2008, he was named E&Y New England Biotechnology Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2011, he worked with the president's council of science advisors (PCAST) on the future of national research.
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In the Blink of an Eye
Jesse Blackadder
A deeply emotional drama that explores a family’s path to forgiveness and redemption in the aftermath of a tragedy.
The Brennans — parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby — have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart, Tasmania, to subtropical Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school, and life in a sprawling purple clapboard house, when one morning, tragedy strikes.
In the devastating aftermath, the questions fly. What really happened? And who's to blame? Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers FICTION / FAMILY LIFE in the last place imaginable. Jarrah — his innocence lost — faces a sudden and St. Martin's Press | 3/19/2019 frightening adulthood where nothing is certain. 9781250199959 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 In the Blink of an Eye is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W hope.
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MARKETING "Intimate, raw and beautiful."—Bryan Reardon, New York Times bestselling National Print Publicity Online Publicity author of Finding Jake National launch advertising Prepublication advertising Trade advertising Jesse Blackadder is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, freelance journalist and a budding Book club outreach screenwriter. Her novel The Raven's Heart won the Benjamin Franklin award for historical fiction, Discussion guide available online and she was awarded an Antarctic Arts Fellowship for her novel Chasing the Light. Early reader review campaign Email marketing
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108 Stitches Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game
Ron Darling with Daniel Paisner
This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America’s game to the men who played it.
In 108 Stitches, Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together a collection of wild, wise, and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime. SPORTS & RECREATION / BASEBALL / HISTORY Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a St. Martin's Press | 4/2/2019 uniform since 1983, and they in turn have played with or reported on just about 9781250184382 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. everybody who put on a uniform in a previous generation. Through relationships Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 24 with baseball legends on and off the field, like Yale coach Smoky Joe Wood, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Willie Mays, Bart Giamatti, Tom Seaver and Mickey Mantle, Darling's
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Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250184399 Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, Darling's experiences are interwoven with every athlete who has ever played, every coach or manager who ever sat in a dugout, and with every fan who ever played hooky from work or school to sit in the bleachers for a day game. MARKETING Author Events National Broadcast Publicity Darling's anecdotes come together to tell the story of his time in the game, and National Print Publicity the story of the game itself. Online Publicity Extensive Blog Outreach Social Media Campaign PRAISE Organizational Outreach Tastemaker Campaign Praise for Game 7, 1986: Early Reader Review Campaign Email Marketing Campaign "The book ... is a departure from the typical sports narrative. You know—hero Author Twitter: @RonDarlingJr (6700 followers) overcomes long odds, shines in big moment and the world swoons." —Anthony McCarron, The New York Daily News
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Daniel Paisner has collaborated with dozens of public figures on their autobiographies and memoirs, including I Feel Like Going On, with NFL great Ray Lewis; and, Chasing Perfect, with Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Hurley.
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Hollywood Godfather My Life in the Movies and the Mob
Gianni Russo with Patrick Picciarelli
The over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour.
Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set her brother Sonny—played by James Caan—up for a hit. Russo didn't have to act—he knew the mob inside and out: from his childhood in Little Italy, where Mafia legend Frank Costello took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger for New BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello during the Kennedy assassination, to having / ENTERTAINMENT & to go on the lam after shooting and killing a member of the Colombian drug PERFORMING ARTS St. Martin's Press | 3/12/2019 cartel in his Vegas club. 9781250181398 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Along the way, Russo befriended Frank Sinatra, who became his son's godfather, Qty: 20 and Marlon Brando, who mentored his career as an actor after trying to get 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph Francis Ford Coppola to fire him from The Godfather. Russo had passionate insert affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Liza Minelli, and scores of other celebrities. He
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press went on to star in The Godfather: Parts I and II, Seabiscuit, Any Given Sunday Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press and Rush Hour 2, among many other films, and also acted as producer on several. Hollywood Godfather is his no-holds-barred account of a life lived on Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250181411 the edge. It is a story filled with violence, glamour, sex—and fun. Audio ISBN: 9781250319081 Audio ISBN: 9781250319074 PRAISE "Gianni Russo walks the walk and talks the talk. What a life. Fascinating. A worthy read." —Robert De Niro, two-time Academy Award-winning actor MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity “Gianni Russo has seen a lot, done a lot, and tells it all. Amazing.”—Nick Pileggi, Online Publicity Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Goodfellas NetGalley Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign CriminalElement.com Promotion “Gianni Russo is a true character who has led a most colorful life.”—Gay Talese, TheHistoryReader.com Promotion Organizational Outreach journalist and New York Times bestselling author Independent Bookseller Mailing GIANNI RUSSO has appeared in forty-five movies, has been involved in the production of nineteen more, and has been in numerous TV shows. His most well-known roles include parts in The Godfather: Parts I and II; Goodnight, My Love; Lepke; Laserblast; Chances Are; The Freshman; Seabiscuit; and Rush Hour 2. He also has a part in the upcoming Barry Minkow biopic. His lifelong association with organized crime has seen him witness to mob history. He is also a singer with sold-out shows across the coun...
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Treason
Rick Campbell
A military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories—while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond—in this classic military tecnhothriller.
In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its strength and regain its role as a superpower. The Russian President refuses to greenlight a bold plan to disable American strategic nuclear capability and retake Ukraine and the Baltic States, fearing the potential consequences. At their first opportunity, the military overthrows the president in a coup. Then they use a narrow window to initiate their bold plan—the Zolotov option—which will render all of America's B2 bombers and ballistic missiles useless. With the U.S. off the board, they swiftly invade Ukraine with an overwhelming force, an invading army that even NATO FICTION / THRILLERS / can't hope to resist. MILITARY St. Martin's Press | 3/19/2019 9781250164650 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Now, it's game on. Without their primary weapons, the U.S. has to find a way to Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton fight back on multiple fronts. If they're to have any chance, they'll have to Qty: 20 overcome the malware that has grounded their ballistic missiles and planes, as 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes one black-and-white map well as secretly land a SEAL team to help rescue the imprisoned Russian President, and help retake control from the forces that are driving Europe into a Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press continental war. Translation: St. Martin's Press Other Available Formats: Rick Campbell, one of the finest young military thriller writers, returns with his Ebook ISBN: 9781250164667 biggest and boldest novel to date. Audio ISBN: 9781250319142 Audio ISBN: 9781250319135 PRAISE “Enthralling… The submarine and surface-ship battles are pitch-perfect, and MARKETING readers will shudder with every missile strike and every exploding depth charge.” Author Events National Print Publicity —Publishers Weekly on Blackmail Online Publicity Year-long social media campaign “The best novel about a submarine since Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October.” Backlist campaign Military outreach —Booklist (starred review) on The Trident Deception Blog Outreach Author Facebook: RickCampbellAuthor “A military, techo-thriller throwback to the early days of Tom Clancy mixed with the best of W.E.B. Griffin…Empire Rising is a high-tech shoot-’em-up for a more thoughtful generation.” —Providence Journal
RICK CAMPBELL is a retired Navy Commander who spent more than twenty years on multiple submarine tours. On his last tour, he was one of the two men whose permission was required to launch the submarine’s nuclear warhead-tipped missiles. Campbell is the author of four novels, including Empire Rising, Ice Station Nautilus, and Blackmail. He lives with his family in the greater Washington, D.C. area.
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Win or Die Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones
Bruce Craven
A guide to leading without losing your head, inspired by the bestselling books and smash television series.
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." —Cersei Lannister
One of the great joys of Game of Thrones is strategizing what bold moves you'd make in this bloody, volatile world—from the comfort of your living room. And one of the great terrors of being a leader is knowing your real world can be just as brutal—and offices bring no comfort. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / LEADERSHIP Every day you're presented with opportunities and challenges, and must decide Thomas Dunne Books | 3/19/2019 which roads to follow, which risks to confront, when to deny an opportunity and 9781250301178 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton when to pursue the call to adventure. And you won't know whether you'll profit Qty: 20 or fail while you're in the thick of it. In Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Game of Thrones, Bruce Craven brilliantly analyzes the journeys of the best and Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press worst leaders in Westeros, so that leaders can create their own narratives of Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press success. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250301185 Craven considers beloved characters such as Ned Stark, Jon Snow, Daenerys Audio ISBN: 9781250316165 Targaryen, and Tyrion Lannister as they make terrible decisions and fatal Audio ISBN: 9781250316158 mistakes, but also achieve incredible victories and surprising successes, learning and growing along their (often bloody) ways. Readers will learn how to face conflict and build resilience, develop contextual and emotional intelligence, MARKETING develop their vision, and more. National Broadcast Publicity National Print Publicity Online Publicity This entertaining and accessible guide will show readers how to turn danger into NetGalley Promotion opportunity, even when dragons threaten. Early Reader Review Campaign CriminalElement.com Promotion Tor.com Promotion BRUCE CRAVEN teaches his popular elective Leadership Through Fiction at Columbia Business TheHistoryReader.com Promotion School, where he also serves as the Director of Columbia’s Advanced Management Program. He has Organizational Outreach taught workshops in resilience and flexible thinking for organizations in the United States and Independent Bookseller Mailing Europe. He studied politics and literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz and has a MFA in Writing from Columbia University. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Coachella Valley in California.
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Someday Is Not a Day in the Week 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Sam Horn
Full of inspirational insights and advice, life hacks, and real-world examples, SOMEDAY will guide and motivate readers to go after what they want in life today rather than "someday."
Are you: • Working, working, working? • Busy taking care of everyone but yourself? SELF-HELP / MOTIVATIONAL & • Wondering what to do with the rest of your life? INSPIRATIONAL St. Martin's Press | 3/12/2019 • Planning to do what makes you happy someday when you have more time, 9781250201225 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. money, or freedom? Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 24 What if someday never happens? Sam Horn is a woman on a mission about not 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W waiting for SOMEDAY ... and this is her manifesto. She took her business on Subrights: UK Rights: Sterling Lord Literistic the road for a Year by the Water. During her travels, she asked people, “Do you Translation Rights: Sterling Lord Literistic like your life? Your job? If so, why? If not, why not?” Other Available Formats: The surprising insights about what makes people happy or unhappy, what Ebook ISBN: 9781250201232 they’re doing about it (or not), and why...will inspire you to carve out time for Audio ISBN: 9781250315854 Audio ISBN: 9781250315847 what truly matters now, not later.
Life is much too precious to postpone. It’s time to put yourself in your own story. The good news is, there are “hacks” you can do right now to make your MARKETING Tie in with Author Speaking life more of what you want it to be. And you don’t have to be selfish, quit your National Broadcast Publicity job, or win the lottery to do them. Sam Horn offers actionable, practical advice National Print Publicity in short, snappy chapters to show you how to get started on your best life — Online Publicity now. Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion Email Marketing Campaign PRAISE QuickandDirtyTips.com Promotion Active on Facebook "Sam Horn makes a compelling case for how we can be more playful, purposeful, Active on Instagram and passionate about our life and work NOW, not someday."— Radha Agrawal, Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong
"Are you happy with your life and work as they are—or are you ready to reinvent yourself and reimagine your future? Sam Horn's essential new book will inspire you and show you the path to create a meaningful, rewarding next act—starting today."—Dorie Clark, author of Reinventing You and adjunct professor, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
"Self-disruption is the key to achieving happiness and Sam Horn's refreshing new book gives readers 10 acti...
Sam Horn, CEO of the Intrigue Agency, is an international keynote speaker, author and book 38 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MARCH 2019
When Brooklyn Was Queer A History
Hugh Ryan
The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.
“Delicious, fun, and moving..a page-turning, intersectional, and engrossing read.” —Sarah Schulman, Stonewall Book Award-winning novelist and AIDS historian
No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told the sweeping story of queer Brooklyn. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer HISTORY / UNITED STATES / Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also STATE & LOCAL St. Martin's Press | 3/5/2019 been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting. 9781250169914 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, Qty: 20 moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes black-and-white photographs history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its throughout plus one 8-page color photograph retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is insert inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse Subrights: UK rights: Sterling Lord Literistic neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Translation rights: Sterling Lord Literistic Brooklyn’s queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250169921 PRAISE "Brilliant work.... This is an essential book.” —Garth Greenwell, author of the national bestseller What Belongs to You MARKETING Author Events National Broadcast Publicity "Enthralling.... An American story, of desire, surveillance, resistance, and creation National Print Publicity within the shadow of that great Brooklyn bridge. Ryan is immensely readable” Online Publicity Major Influencer Campaign —Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives Select NYC Events Extensive Blog Outreach "Tender, compelling, fascinating—Hugh Ryan is doing essential work here, Video Campaign bringing us stories of the lives we almost lost to time and gentrification....Brave and unstinting." —Alexander Chee, author of the Los Angeles Times bestselling The Queen of the Night
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. He is the Founder of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, and sits on the Boards of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, and the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Buzzfeed, the LA Review of Books, Out, and many other venues. He has received fellowships from the New York Public Library and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a residency at The Watermill Center.
39 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS MARCH 2019
The Billionaire Boondoggle How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs
Pat Garofalo
The first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump
It is widely believed, that a city in possession of a fortune must be in want of a partner who will drive economic development and thus be worth a substantial dowry of tax abatements, subsidies, and grants. These partners always prove faithless, though, especially when it comes to the entertainment industry. Never date an actor, as they say. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / GOVERNMENT & BUSINESS Thomas Dunne Books | 3/12/2019 From stadiums and movie productions to casinos and mega-malls to convention 9781250162335 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. centers and hotels, cities and states have paid out billions of dollars to the Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton world's corporate titans in an attempt to boost their economies, create new and Qty: 24 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W better jobs, and lure well-known events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl to within their borders, not to mention give officials a chance to have their Subrights: UK: The Stuart Agency pictures taken with celebrities. That Big Entertainment drives bigger economies Translation: The Stuart Agency is a myth, however, one that has nonetheless permeated every facet of policy Other Available Formats: making despite the overwhelming evidence that it results in a raw deal for the Ebook ISBN: 9781250162342 Audio ISBN: 9781250203069 taxpaying public. In The Billionaire Boondoggle, Garofalo takes readers on a tour of publically- subsidized corporate America to explain how that myth came to be, how much MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity money America's elected officials throw away, and why courting Big National Print Publicity Entertainment just courts disaster. Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign Organizational Outreach PRAISE Blog Outreach “Pat Garofalo has a real knack for finding the intersection of entertainment, Online Promotion DRC Posted on Edelweiss politics and economics, and writing about it in a way that shows just how important the issues involved really are. From sports stadiums to the Oscars to the lottery, his work makes it easy to understand how people get ripped off by their favorite teams, hobbies and past-times, and what lawmakers should do about it. His book would be a great addition to the world of business and economics writing.” –Robert Schlesinger, author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters
PAT GAROFALO is the managing editor for TalkPoverty.org at the Center for American Progress. He was previously an assistant managing editor for opinion at U.S. News & World Report and economic policy editor at ThinkProgress. Garofalo’s writing on economic policy has appeared in a host of top publications, including The Atlantic, The Week, NBC News Think, The Nation, and The Guardian, and he has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, and ABC News, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife.
40 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS FEBRUARY 2019
Dear George, Dear Mary A Novel of George Washington's First Love
Mary Calvi
A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals.
“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George Washington
Unrequited love might have sparked a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution. Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal FICTION / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Press | 2/12/2019 entries, Dear George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with his first 9781250162946 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battlefields, the novel creates 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes 4-color printed endpapers and one breathtaking scenes and riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main black-and-white photograph characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of greatness with his insecurities and his inspirations, using the very words he had spoken and written, and his Subrights: U.K.: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press ravishing love, whose outward beauty and refinement disguise madness.
Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250162939 Dear George, Dear Mary unveils details of a deception long hidden from the Audio ISBN: 9781250318473 world that ultimately led Mary Philipse to named a traitor, condemned to death Audio ISBN: 9781250318466 and left with nothing. While that may sound like the end, ultimately both Mary and George, achieve what they always wanted - freedom.
MARKETING MARY CALVI spent years wondering about the heiress who lived in the grand manor in her National Print Publicity hometown of Yonkers, New York. Curiosity propelled her to do her own research. This novel is Online Publicity based on what she uncovered. Calvi is a nine-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist at Independent Bookseller Mailing WCBS-TV. She serves as a New York television anchor and reporter. Mary is also First Lady of the Early Reader Review Campaign city of Yonkers where she serves as a member of the board of Hudson River Museum. This is her Social Media Campaign first novel. Email Marketing Campaign Organizational Outreach Online Advertising Author Facebook: facebook.com/mary.calvi.79 (18.1K followers) Author Twitter: @MaryCalviTV (17.7K followers) Author Instagram: @MaryCalviTV
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A Town Called Malice A Novel
Adam Abramowitz
A bike messenger navigates Boston’s gritty underworld of gangsters and blood money in this novel with more twists and turns than Boston’s streets.
Boston’s fastest-talking, baddest bike messenger Zesty Meyers is back in town…Bosstown.
Boston’s Big Dig has put a brand new shine on the city, its once insular neighborhoods awash with new money and runaway development. Not everybody is happy with the change. Zesty is struggling to keep his courier FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME business afloat and is falling behind on rent, while his brother, Zero, owner of a Thomas Dunne Books | 3/19/2019 9781250076304 | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. moving company stocked with ex-cons has hired an unemployed rabbi who Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton begins to exert a strange influence on the family and delivers most of his Qty: 20 sermons with his fists. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press When a rock and roll legend suspected of murdering his girlfriend reappears Translation: St. Martin's Press after thirty years on the run, Zesty is once again haunted by his family’s dark Other Available Formats: past and the mounting evidence that his father, Boston’s former Poker King now Ebook ISBN: 9781466887701 suffering from Alzheimer’s, has long been dealing from the bottom of the deck. Audio ISBN: 9781250203076 From shady bars to college campus underground poker leagues, Zesty’s speeding toward trouble, desperately trying to map out a future in a town where stop signs are optional, signaling is for the weak and Karma lurks around every corner with MARKETING payback on its mind. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Advance Access Promotion PRAISE Extensive Blog Outreach CriminalElement.com Promotion "The Big Dig is underway and the urban renewal that’s following in its wake Email Marketing Campaign threatens to reveal Boston’s long-buried secrets, in Abramowitz’s promising debut. Early Reader Review Campaign Abramowitz brings Boston alive with rich descriptions and caffeine-fueled Author Facebook: facebook.com/BosstownBook dialogue." —Publishers Weekly on Bosstown Author Twitter: @BosstownBook "This book is a caffeine and poker fueled adrenaline rush that I could not put down until the last twisting, violent hand had played out." —Sarah Silverman on Bosstown
"A worthy addition to the canon of Boston 'no-R' fiction, Bosstown is a wild ride." —Chuck Hogan, Hammett award-winning author of The Town on Bosstown
ADAM ABRAMOWITZ grew up in Allston and Boston’s South End working as a courier, bartender, doorman, and long-time mover at Nick’s Cheap and Friendly Moving Company. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston, Adam currently teaches in Mount Vernon, New York and is the author of Bosstown. He splits his time between New York City and Northfield, Massachusetts.
42 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS AUGUST 2019
Twilight of the Gods A Novel
Scott Oden
A Gathering of Ravens was called "satisfying...complex...and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now, Scott Oden continues the saga of Grimnir in this new epic fantasy novel.
In A Gathering of Ravens, he fought for vengeance. Now, Grimnir is back to fight for his survival.
It is the year of Our Lord 1218 and in the land of the Raven-Geats, the Old Ways reach deep. And while the Geats pay a tax to the King in the name of the FICTION / FANTASY / White Christ, their hearts and souls belong to the gods of Ásgarðr. But no man HISTORICAL can serve two masters. St. Martin's Press | 8/20/2019 9780312372958 | $27.99 Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Pledging to burn this Norse heresy from the land, famed crusader Konráðr the Qty: 20 White leads a host against the Raven-Geats, using torch and sword to bring forth 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1 lb Wt the light of the new religion. But the land of the Raven-Geats has an ancient Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press protector: Grimnir, the last in a long line of monsters left to plague Miðgarðr. Translation: St. Martin's Press And he will stand between the Raven-Geats and their destruction. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250022899 Aided by an army of berserkers led by their pale queen, Grimnir sparks off an epic struggle –not only against the crusaders, but against the very Gods. For there is something buried beneath the land of the Raven-Geats that Odin wants, MARKETING something best left undisturbed. Something the blood of the slain, Christian and National Print Publicity pagan, will surely awaken. Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign Promotion on Tor.com PRAISE Blog and Instagram Campaign Social Media Campaign Praise for A Gathering of Ravens: Email Marketing Campaign DRC Posted on Edelweiss "A satisfying saga that’s as complex as an old tree’s roots, and a pleasure to read." Author Twitter: @orcwriter Author Facebook: —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Facebook.com/ScottOdenAuthor Author Website: "Oden mixes an exciting and vibrant narrative with a wealth of historical detail to ScottOden.wordpress.com bring Grimnir and his world to life, providing the reader with an immensely satisfying and rewarding experience." —Booklist
"This novel creates a rich, grim fantasy world made from Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic myth with strands of Tolkien.... Recommended for lovers of Tolkien, dark fantasy and northern mythology." —Historical Novel Society
SCOTT ODEN was born in Indiana, but has spent most of his life shuffling between his home in rural North Alabama, a Hobbit hole in Middle-earth, and some sketchy tavern in the Hyborian Age. He is an avid reader of fantasy and ancient history, a collector of swords, and a player of tabletop role-playing games. His previous books include Men of Bronze, Memnon, and The Lion of Cairo. When not writing, he can be found walking his two dogs or doting over his lovely wife, Shannon.
43 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS APRIL 2019
Ladies Who Punch The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"
Ramin Setoodeh
Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.
When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chatfest didn’t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface.
Based on stunning interviews with nearly every host and unprecedented access, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY award-winning journalist Ramin Setoodeh takes you backstage where the stars / ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS really spoke their minds. Here's the full story of how Star tried to take over the Thomas Dunne Books | 4/2/2019 show, then Rosie, then Whoopi, while Barbara struggled to maintain control of it 9781250112095 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. all, a modern-day Lear with her media-savvy daughters. You'll read about how Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton so many co-hosts had a tough time fitting in, suffered humiliations at the table, Qty: 24 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W then pushed themselves away, feeling betrayed—one nearly quitting during a Plus one 8-page color photograph insert commercial. Meanwhile, the director was being driven insane, especially by
Subrights: UK Rights: Aevitas Rosie. Translation Rights: Aevitas Setoodeh uncovers the truth about Star’s weight loss and wedding madness. Rosie’s feud with Trump. Whoopi’s toxic relationship with Rosie. Barbara’s Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250112101 difficulty stepping away. Plus, all the unseen hugs, snubs, tears—and one dead Audio ISBN: 9781250316196 rodent. Audio ISBN: 9781250316189 Ladies Who Punch shows why The View can be mimicked and mocked, but it can never be matched. MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity RAMIN SETOODEH, an award-winning journalist, is the New York bureau chief for Variety. He National Print Publicity was formerly a senior writer at Newsweek and has also written for The Wall Street Journal, the Los Online Publicity Angeles Times, and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. He lives in New York National Advertising Email Marketing Campaign City. Social Media Campaign Active on Twitter (10,000) Active on Instagram
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The Girl He Used to Know
Tracey Garvis Graves
New York Times bestselling author of On the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love.
Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose, is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess.
Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game--and his heart--to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, quirks and all, and accepts the challenges involved in FICTION / CONTEMPORARY pursuing a relationship with her. Jonathan and Annika bring out the best in each WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 4/2/2019 other, finding the confidence and courage within themselves to plan a future 9781250200358 | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. together. What follows is a tumultuous yet tender love affair that withstands Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton everything except the unforeseen tragedy that forces them apart, shattering their Qty: 20 connection and leaving them to navigate their lives alone. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Subrights: World Rights: St. Martin's Press Now, a decade later, fate reunites Annika and Jonathan in Chicago. She's living the life she wanted as a librarian. He's a Wall Street whiz, recovering from a Israeli rights sold to Kinneret German rights sold to Droemer divorce and seeking a fresh start. The attraction and strong feelings they once UK/Comm rights sold to Orion/Trapeze shared are instantly rekindled, but unless they confront the fears and anxieties that drove them apart, their second chance will end before it truly begins. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250200365 Audio ISBN: 9781250315946 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250315939 "Tracey Garvis Graves has crafted an incredible story with a unique premise and characters you'll want to root for." —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times MARKETING bestselling author of It Ends with Us National Print Publicity Online Publicity "From page one, this enchanting story resonates with gentle humor and lush National Launch Advertising Prepublication Advertising detail." —Tammara Webber, New York Times bestselling author of Easy and Trade Advertising Breakable BookExpo Book Group Speed Dating Promotion White Box Mailing "I adore Tracey Garvis Graves' work." —Sarah Pekkanen, New York Times IndieBound Promotion bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us Advance Access Feature in Reading Group Gold eNewsletters Edelweiss Advertising "Smart and sensitive, with wholly original characters you can’t help but root for.” Early DRC Posting on Edelweiss —Camille Pagán, bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences Discussion Guide Available Online Blog Outreach Massive Early Reader Review Campaign, TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling coordinating with Natasha is a Book author. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been Junkie, Aestas Book Blog, Heroes and translated into twenty-nine languages, and is in development with MGM and Temple Hill Heartbreakers, Smart Bitches, Trashy Productions for a feature film. She is also the author of Uncharted, Covet, Every Time I Think of You, Books, an... Cherish, Heart-Shaped Hack, White-Hot Hack, and The Girl He Used to Know. She is hard at work on her next book.
45 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS APRIL 2019
The Stressed Years of Their Lives Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years
B. Janet Hibbs, Ph.D., and Anthony Rostain, M.D.
From leading adolescent mental health experts, a guide for parents of every college-bound kid on what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late
All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / is that the more we learn about adolescent development and risk, the more LIFE STAGES / TEENAGERS frightened we become for our children, and the more we want to stay involved in St. Martin's Press | 4/23/2019 our children’s lives. This becomes particularly necessary, and also particularly 9781250113139 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. challenging, when a child goes off to college: mid- to late adolescence, the years Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 just before and after students head off to college, coincides with the emergence 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W of many mood disorders and other major mental health issues. Recognizing how critical this period is, parents want to hold on tight—just at the moment their Subrights: UK Rights: The Ross Yoon Agency Translation: The Ross Yoon Agency teen’s healthy development requires that they pull back.
Other Available Formats: That’s why, when family psychologist Dr. B. Hibbs's own son came home from Ebook ISBN: 9781250113160 Audio ISBN: 9781427298126 college mired in a dangerous depressive spiral, she turned to Dr. Anthony Audio ISBN: 9781427298119 Rostain. A nationally recognized expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, he also has a secret superpower: he understands the arcane rules governing privacy and parental involvement in students’ mental health care on college campuses, MARKETING the same rules that sometimes hold parents back from getting good care for their National Broadcast Publicity kids. Now, these two doctors have combined their expertise in adolescent mental National Print Publicity health, and assembled this field guide for every parent of a college or Online Publicity National Launch Advertising college-bound student who wants to know what’s normal, what’s not, and how to Early Reader Review Campaign intervene before it’s too late. NetGalley Promotion Blog Outreach Email Marketing Campaign PRAISE QuickandDirtyTips.com Promotion “Childhood is disappearing for young adults, with the pressure to perform, the Macmillan Speakers Bureau Author website: drbhibbs.com seductions of social media and the fears of an uncertain future, as stress, anxiety Active on Twitter and depression are reaching epidemic proportions. I can think of no better guide than The Stressed Years of Their Lives for overwhelmed parents and stressed-out kids for navigating these turbulent times. This is required reading for the college set.” —Brigid Schulte, author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
ANTHONY ROSTAIN, M.D., M.A., is a nationally-recognized expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, and a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). B. JANET HIBBS M.F.T., Ph.D. has held faculty positions for more than 15 years in graduate programs for psychologists and marital and family therapists. She is the author of Try to See It My Way: Being Fair in Love and Marriage.
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Saving Meghan
D. J. Palmer
A riveting new thriller about a mother accused of deliberately making her daughter sick—a phenomenon known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy—and the secrets and lies that are revealed.
The Gerard family has lived a charmed life. Carl is a highly successful residential developer with millions in the bank who married his high school sweetheart, Becky, and they have a beautiful daughter, Meghan. But when Meghan is suddenly struck with a mysterious illness that starts out as chronic headaches and joint pain but progresses rapidly to affect her cognitive ability, the family begins to fracture as they search desperately for a diagnosis and and a cure for Meghan’s suffering. FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE St. Martin's Press | 4/9/2019 Dr. Zachary Fisher, a pediatrician and the foremost expect on a rare 9781250107459 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. mitochondrial disease, might just be the answer to their prayers. After the death Hardcover with dust jacket | 384 pages | Carton of his own son, Dr. Fisher dedicated his life to finding a way to cure the disease Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W with a passion that borders on obsession, and he is convinced that Meghan is suffering from the same illness. However, family secrets and clashing medical Subrights: UK Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency opinions begin to raise questions about the puzzling nature of Meghan’s illness. Translation Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency As the Gerards grow more and more suspicious of each other and their medical Other Available Formats: team, they must also race against the clock to decide whether to give Meghan a Ebook ISBN: 9781250107480 dangerous test that could prove once and for all what — or who — is Audio ISBN: 9781250314239 Audio ISBN: 9781250314222 responsible for her condition.
PRAISE MARKETING Praise for Saving Meghan: National Print Publicity Online Publicity Pre-Pub Online Advertising "Smart, chilling, and full of hairpin turns, Saving Meghan is highwire suspense of Online Advertising the first order. DJ Palmer is as sure-handed as any of the great thriller writers — Indie Bookseller Mailing Bonus Story Available Online and as tugging at our heart strings like Harlan Coben, and deftly pulling the rug out from eBook under us like Lisa Gardner. A spine-tingling tale of the dark undercurrents of eBook Backlist Offers Available family dysfunction and the redemptive power of love. Don’t miss this one!” —Lisa Library Marketing Campaign Extensive Blog Outreach Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Under My Skin Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion “DJ Palmer captivates readers with the fine line between a mother on a mission Social Media Campaign CriminalElement.com Promotion and a mother who’s gone way too far. With a young girl’s life hanging in the ... Email Marketing Campaign Author Facebook: /danielpalmerbooks (6K D.J. PALMER is the author of numerous critically acclaimed suspense novels. He received his Likes) Author Twitter: @danielpalmer master’s degree from Boston University. He lives with his wife and two children in New Hampshire Author Website: danielpalmerbooks.com where he is at work on his next novel. Author Facebook: /michaelpalmerthrille...
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The Mother-in-Law
Sally Hepworth
A twisty, compelling novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in murder...
From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their new country. Diana was happily married to Tom, and lived in wedded bliss for decades. Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother- in-law.
FICTION / CONTEMPORARY That was five years ago. WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 4/23/2019 Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that 9781250120922 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W But the autopsy finds no cancer. The autopsy does find traces of poison and suffocation. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: Rob Weisbach Creative Who could possibly want Diana dead? Management Why was her will changed at the eleventh hour to disinherit both of her adult children and their spouses? Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250120946 Audio ISBN: 9781250314444 With Lucy's secrets getting deeper and her relationship with her mother-in-law Audio ISBN: 9781250314437 growing more complex as the pages turn, this new novel from Sally Hepworth is sure to add to her growing legion of fans.
MARKETING PRAISE National Print Publicity Online Publicity "Hepworth deftly keeps the reader turning pages and looking for clues, all the National Launch Advertising while building multilayered characters and carefully doling out bits of their Prepublication Advertising Indiebound Campaign motivations." —Booklist on The Family Next Door Trade Advertising Social Media Outreach “A page-turner. All the pieces masterfully come together at the end to create a Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Campaign beautiful novel of courage and love in the face of sorrow.” —Booklist (Starred Discussion Guide Available Online Review) on The Mother’s Promise Email Marketing Campaign Library Marketing Campaign Author Website SallyHepworthAuthor.com “Hepworth dazzles in this smart and engaging tale...This intelligent, well-plotted Active on Facebook, Instagram and debut will draw readers in from the very first word and keep them engaged until Twitter the end.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Secrets of Midwives
SALLY HEPWORTH is a human resource professional. A graduate of Monash University in ALSO AVAILABLE Melbourne, Australia, Sally started writing novels after the birth of her first child. Sally has lived around the world, spending extended periods in Singapore, the UK, and Canada, and she now writes The Family Next Door: A Novel full-time from her home in Melbourne, where she lives with her husband and three young children. 3/2018 | 9781250120892 Hardcover with dust jacket | $26.99 / $34.99 Can.
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The League of Wives The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Heath Hardage Lee
The League of Wives follows the wives of five Vietnam POWs through their transformation from rule-bound wives to national lobbyists, international human rights figures, spies, & rescuers.
On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge government C-141 military transport plane at Clark Air Base HISTORY / UNITED STATES / in the Philippines. These soldiers had endured years of brutal torture, kept 20TH CENTURY shackled in solitary confinement, starving in rat-infested, mosquito-laden St. Martin's Press | 4/2/2019 prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. 9781250161109 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph Stockdale, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, insert who formed The National League, would never have called themselves Subrights: UK Rights: The Kneerim & Williams “feminists,” but they had become the POWs most fervent advocates, going to Agency extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom by relentlessly Translation Rights: The Kneerim & Williams Agency lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, arranging covert meetings with antiwar activists, learning encryption so that they could Other Available Formats: smuggle information out of Vietnam, and, most astonishingly, engaging in direct Ebook ISBN: 9781250161123 Audio ISBN: 9781250202987 negotiations with the North Vietnamese for their husbands’ release.
In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction similar to Hidden Figures, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time in The MARKETING National Broadcast Publicity League of Wives, a book certain to be on everyone’s must-read list. National Print Publicity Online Publicity NetGalley Promotion PRAISE Early Reader Review Campaign "With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to TheHistoryReader.com Promotion Organizational Outreach bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Independent Bookseller Mailing Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage Author Website: heathleeauthor.com that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, Author Facebook: facebook.com/heathleeauthor chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down." Author Twitter: @HeathLee1 — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man
“Heath Hardage Lee’s The League of Wives recounts the powerful story of how a cabal of indomitable POW and MIA wives relentlessly campaigned to free their captive husbands during the Vietnam War. Duty, honor, country, and love of fa...
HEATH HARDAGE LEE holds a B.A. in History with Honors from Davidson College, and an M.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Virginia. Heath created an exhibition, The 49 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS APRIL 2019
Wayfinding The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
M. R. O'Connor
Both sweeping and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human.
In this compelling narrative, journalist M.R. O’Connor travels to the Arctic, Australia and South Pacific to talk to master navigators who find their way using environmental cues, and learn how they are trying to preserve these unique practices in the age of GPS.
Along the way O’Connor talks to scientists and scholars about the fascinating evolution of our species’ navigation faculties, exploring questions like: Why are SCIENCE / NATURAL HISTORY we different from birds or whales that have the ability to migrate so far and St. Martin's Press | 4/30/2019 orient with astonishing precision? How did our ancient ancestors navigate? What 9781250096968 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. can artificial intelligence tell us about the roots of human intelligence and its Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 connection to wayfinding? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press What emerges is a revelatory account of the neurological basis of spatial Translation Rights: Tessler Literary Agency orientation within the brain’s hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state without memories of the past or ability to imagine a future. Studies reveal Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250200235 that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater health of our hippocampus, whereas atrophy in this region is associated with afflictions such as Alzheimer’s Disease, depression and PTSD.
MARKETING National Print Publicity A travel book for science geeks, Wayfinding is a captivating journey that charts National Broadcast Publicity how our profound capacities for exploration, memory, and storytelling results in Online Publicity powerful connections to the world around us. Outreach to Cartographers and Digital Mapmakers Travel and Expedition Blog Outreach PRAISE Outreach to Naval Sailing Community Library Marketing Campaign "This revelatory book has the qualities of a grand adventure.” —Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage
“An insightful examination of the human mind and navigation. An engaging read ALSO AVAILABLE from start to finish.” —Mary A. van Balgooy, executive director, Society of Woman 1/0001 | 9781250177056 Geographers
"I thoroughly enjoyed this deep and absorbing investigation. Fascinating." —Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator
M.R. O'CONNOR’s stories have appeared online in the The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Slate, The Atlantic, and Nautilus. Her reporting has received support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In 2016 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. A graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, she lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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White Peak
Ronan Frost
A new adventure book in the tradition of Matthew Reilly and James Rollins
Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he’s gathering a team willing to go to the ends of the earth chasing life.
Each of Rask's crew has beaten incredible odds to rise from the ashes of their old lives to where they are now. Together, their next task is to retrieve a painting that is believed to hide a map which, if genuine, marks it as a treasure of the Ahnenerbe, the occult wing of the SS, who had devoted dozens of expeditions in search of the three cintamani stones for their combined properties, and the lost city where they were rumored to lay hidden: Shambhala. But a mystical FICTION / THRILLERS St. Martin's Press | 5/21/2019 brotherhood sworn to protect the secrets of the ancients—the same secrets that 9781250130082 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. allow its members to defy death—will stop at nothing to ensure that Rask’s crew Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton fail. Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W In an adrenalin-pumping quest through some of the most savage terrains known Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press to man, the crew will be pushed to the limits of endurance and beyond. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press
Other Available Formats: RONAN FROST worked for the British Ministry of Defence where he was a liaison with Ebook ISBN: 9781250130099 intelligence operatives working behind the Iron Curtain during the last year of the Cold War. During Audio ISBN: 9781250202994 the first Gulf War, he worked with the Royal Navy. And then, he developed a plan with economic experts for the rationalization and centralization of the British Royal Navy which was presented to the House of Commons. Now retired from that life, he lives in Europe with his wife and dog. MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity CriminalElement.com Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign Blog Outreach Advance Access Promotion Library Marketing Campaign
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Wild at Heart America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption
Alice Outwater
In the tradition of The World Without Us, a beautifully written and ultimately hopeful history of our relationship with the natural world
Nature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years. NATURE St. Martin's Press | 4/2/2019 9781250085788 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon's gifts. The Puritans saw Nature as a Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton frightening wilderness, full of "uncooked meat." With the industrial revolution, Qty: 20 nature was despoiled and simultaneously celebrated as a source of the sublime. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W With little forethought and great greed, Americans killed the last passenger Includes b&w photos throughout pigeon, wiped out the old growth forests, and dumped so much oil in the rivers Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press that they burst into flame. But in the span of a few decades, our relationship with Translation Rights: Vicky Bijur Literary Agency nature has evolved to a more sophisticated sense of interdependence that brings Other Available Formats: us full circle. Across the US, people are taking individual action, planting native Ebook ISBN: 9781250085795 species and fighting for projects like dam removal and wolf restoration. Cities are embracing nature, too.
MARKETING Humans can learn from the past, and our choices today will determine whether National Print Publicity nature survives. Like the First Nations, all nations must come to deep agreement Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign that nature needs protection. This compelling book reveals both how we got here Organizational Outreach and our own and nature's astonishing ability to mutually regenerate. Blog Outreach Advance Access Promotion PRAISE "Infectiously readable, Wild at Heart captures the essence of ecology: Everything is connected, and every connection leads to ourselves." —Alan Weisman, author, The World Without Us and Countdown
"A concise portrait of nothing less than America’s relationship with nature... A vital work by an exceptionally level-headed, Earth-aware writer." —David James Duncan, author of The Brothers K and The River Why
Alice Outwater grew up on Lake Champlain, Vermont, and studied engineering at the University of Vermont and at MIT. She is the author of Water: A Natural History and consults in water quality. She has lived on a farm since 1991 in Vermont, Hawaii and finally Colorado.
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Doublespeak
Alisa Smith
The followup to the literate and action-packed historical thriller Speakeasy, Doublespeak finds plucky protagonist Lena on a journey back to her past.
Leiutenant Lena Stillman has been left, nearly alone, on her code-breaking base in Alaska. WWII has been over for two months, but while she is under the thumb of the powerful Miss Maggie due to crimes committed a lifetime ago, her choices are limited.
Wracked with guilt over the disappearance of a friend she might have grown to love, Corporal Link Hughes, Lena is determined to find him when she decodes a Russian message containing his name and his potential location: Siam. FICTION / THRILLERS / HISTORICAL Her past seems desperate to catch up with her, and in Siam she finds none other St. Martin's Press | 4/16/2019 than Bill Bagley—the man with whom she conducted a tempestuous love affair 9781250097859 | $26.99 Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton that led to delinquency and despair. Bill has escaped from prison to become a Qty: 24 Siamese business man, now dealing in weapons and drugs. Disgusted with the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W changes she sees in him, Lena continues to search for Link, but can't help but Subrights: UK Rights: Westwood Creative Arts feel that someone is dogging her footsteps... Translation Rights: Westwood Creative Arts Meanwhile, Bill's dark streak has only intensified after his time behind bars, and Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250097866 his newest plan involved not just robbing, but killing. German and Russian spies seem to be everyone, and Lena wonders if her time might be running out.
MARKETING PRAISE National Print Publicity Praise for Speakeasy: Online Publicity Extensive Blog Outreach CriminalElement.com Promotion “Alisa Smith’s novel Speakeasy, set in the thirties and forties, is written with great Early Reader Review Campaign Advance Access Promotion authority. A wonderful read, and very convincing.” —Richard Bausch, author of Email Marketing Campaign Something Is Out There and Peace Author Website: alisasmith.ca “A great achievement, and pure pleasure. Speakeasy drew me into its wild heart and didn’t let go.” —Ronald Wright, author of The Gold Eaters and A Short History of Progress
“Smith has crafted a fascinating, thought-provoking narrative that dares you to look away.” —Brian Payton, author of The Wind Is Not a River
ALISA SMITH is the bestselling co-author of Plenty: A Year of Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet (Crown). Her freelance writing has been published in Outside, Reader’s Digest, Utne Reader, Ms. Magazine, Canadian Geographic, Elle Canada, the National Post, and many others, winning two National Magazine Awards. She served as a judge for a various literary awards and has lectured widely on writing. She is based in Vancouver.
53 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS APRIL 2019
A Florida State of Mind An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
James D. Wright
A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes.
There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent—and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. Why are we so ready to wave goodbye to the Sunshine State? In A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State, James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and its sometimes- kooky, sometimes-terrifying denizens, but there's also plenty of room for hilarity. HISTORY / UNITED STATES / STATE & LOCAL Florida didn't just become weird; it's built that way. Uncharted swampland Thomas Dunne Books | 4/30/2019 doesn't easily give way to sprawling suburbia. It took violent colonization, land 9781250185655 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 240 pages | Carton scams to trick non-Floridians into buying undeveloped property, and the Qty: 24 development of railroads to benefit one man's hotel empire. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Includes two black-and-white photographs Even the most natural parts of Florida are unnatural. Florida citrus? Not from Subrights: UK Rights: Laura Dail Literary Agency here, but from China. Gators? Oh, they're from Florida all right, but that doesn't Translation Rights: Laura Dail Literary Agency make having 1 per every 20 humans normal. Animals...in the form of roadkill? Other Available Formats: Only Florida allows you to keep anything you kill on the road (and anything you Ebook ISBN: 9781250185662 find).
Yet everyone loves Florida: tourists come in droves, and people relocate to MARKETING Florida constantly (only 36% of residents were born there). Crammed with National Broadcast Publicity unforgettable stories and facts, Florida will show readers exactly why. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign JAMES D. WRIGHT is a sociologist at the University of Central Florida and a Florida resident for Indie Bookseller Mailing nearly two decades. He lives in St. Pete Beach with his wife and an assortment of cats and dogs. Blog Outreach Organizational Outreach DRC Posted on Edelweiss The History Reader Promotion Author Website: JamesWright.online
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We Are Mayhem A Black Star Renegades Novel
Michael Moreci
The second entry in the Star Wars-inspired series that Nerdist calls "the next big thing."
Though the ragtag group of misfits known as the Black Star Renegades won a decisive battle by destroying Ga Halle’s War Hammer, the war is far from over. In response to losing the crown jewel of its fleet, the evil Praxis empire has vengefully reinforced its tyranny across the galaxy--but its rule won't be had so easily. Led by hotshot pilot Kira Sen, a growing rebel force stands in the way of Praxis’s might. Not only do they possess the will to fight for galactic freedom, they also possess the ultimate ace in the hole: The mythical Rokura, the most FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / powerful weapon ever known. SPACE OPERA St. Martin's Press | 4/9/2019 Too bad Cade Sura hasn’t figured out to use it. 9781250117854 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.3 in W As Kira wages an increasingly bloody war against Praxis, Cade is left with only Includes 4-color printed endpapers once choice: With Ga Halle scouring every star system for the coveted weapon, Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Cade embarks on a dangerous mission into uncharted space to discover the Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Rokura’s origins. Only then can he learn how it can be wielded. Because if he
Other Available Formats: doesn’t, all hope for the galaxy might be lost. Ebook ISBN: 9781250117861 Audio ISBN: 9781250210456 PRAISE Praise for Black Star Renegades:
MARKETING National Print Publicity “Part 'Star Wars' homage, part unexpected coming-of-age novel...Moreci balances Online Publicity character with plot very well; the story moves at a brisk pace, and the frequent Extensive Blog Outreach action sequences fit in well with the overall story.” —Los Angeles Times Tor.com Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign Email Marketing Campaign “Those who dig Arthurian legend, Guardians of the Galaxy cosmic high jinks and Advance Access Promotion Library Marketing Campaign especially Star Wars mythology will find oodles to love.” —USA Today Author Website: michaelpmoreci.com Author Facebook: MICHAEL MORECI is a novelist and author of comic books who has been recognized as one of Facebook.com/michaelmoreciauthor Newcity Lit's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago 2018." His comics include the critically Author Twitter: @MichaelMoreci acclaimed sci-fi trilogy Roche Limit and the military horror drama Burning Fields. He's also written Author Instagram: michaelmoreci Suicide Squad for DC, Planet of the Apes for Boom!, and his other original titles include Curse, Hoax Hunters, ReincarNATE, and the forthcoming Black Hole Repo. As a novelist, Michael is currently writing Spy Swap, an ...
55 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS DECEMBER 2018
The Bloated Belly Whisperer See Results Within a Week and Tame Digestive Distress Once and for All
Tamara Duker Freuman, MS, RD, CDN
America's top digestive dietician shares her program to vanquish bloating in a groundbreaking book that will help readers see results in a week or less!
With 50 recipes from former Bon Appétit editor and cookbook author Kristine Kidd
Bloating: ugh. About the most common complaint they get from patients, according to gastroenterologists. But Tamara Duker Freuman, a highly trained HEALTH & FITNESS / DISEASES / GASTROINTESTINAL and sought-after nutritionist, knows something many doctors don’t: every St. Martin's Press | 12/24/2018 unhappy belly is unhappy in its own way. That’s why Tamara’s clients call her 9781250195234 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. “The Bloated Belly Whisperer,” and for good reason—for many years she’s Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton successfully helped her clients accurately describe their symptoms, and find a Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W course of treatment that delivers rapid and lasting relief. Includes two illustrations
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press In this book, Tamara guides readers through the same steps she would use in a Translation: St. Martin's Press consultation, first with a quiz to help them hone in on their specific symptoms, and then by discussing the latest research and patient stories to offer dozens of Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250195272 solutions that will reduce abdominal bloating in a week or less by: Audio ISBN: 9781250212894 · Helping identify the specific cause of bloating · Equiping readers with the right terminology and questions to take to their next MARKETING doctor’s visit National Broadcast Publicity · Teaching the most effective dietary remedies for each particular brand of National Print Publicity bloating Online Publicity · Laying out the tools and healthy practices to end abdominal distress and National Launch Advertising Prepublication Advertising bloating once and for all Blog outreach Netgalley campaign PRAISE Email marketing Social media campaign “Tamara is one of the most brilliant dietitians I know. Anyone who has ever had a QDT promotion Organizational outreach bloating problem will find this book to be an indispensable resource.” —Lisa Author website Drayer, MA, RD, a CNN health and nutrition contributor and author of The thebloatedbellywhisperer.com Beauty Diet
"Tamara is an AMAZING authority on eating to beat bloating, and this solutions-rich book is the next-best thing to a personal consultation with her!" —Keri Gans, MS, RDN, CDN, and author of The Small Change Diet
TAMARA DUKER FREUMAN, RN, CDN, MS is a nationally-known expert in digestive health and medical nutrition therapy for gastrointestinal diseases. In addition to her clinical work, Tamara is a high-profile nutrition writer whose advice is read by hundreds of thousands of people each month in publications including U.S. News & World Report’s eat + run blog where she is a contributor, and its syndicates, MSN Health, and Yahoo! Health. She lives in Nyack, NY with her husband and twin children. 56 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS OCTOBER 2018
Full Disclosure
Stormy Daniels
Candid, funny, and impassioned, Stormy Daniels's no-holds- barred memoir Full Disclosure demonstrates why she has become "the hero America needs" (Rolling Stone)
She was already well-known in some circles before March 6, 2018, but that's probably the first time you heard the name Stormy Daniels. That's the day she filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over a nondisclosure agreement negotiated before the election but never signed.
How did Stormy Daniels become the woman willing to take on a president? What is it like to be reviled by some, held up as a beacon of hope by others, and to be an object of fascination to all?
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: about how St. Martin's Press | 10/2/2018 she came to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full 9781250205568 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton stage, and everything about the events that led to the nondisclosure agreement Qty: 24 9.6 in H | 6.4 in W | 1.1 in T | 1 lb Wt and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her. frontispiece photo Stormy is funny, sharp, warm, and impassioned by turns. Her story is a Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press thoroughly American one, of a girl who loved reading and horses and who understood from a very young age what she wanted—and who also knew she'd Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250205575 have to get every step of the way there on her own. Audio ISBN: 9781250227812 Audio ISBN: 9781250227805 People can't stop talking about Stormy Daniels. And they won't be able to stop talking about her fresh, surprising, completely candid, nothing-held-back book.
MARKETING PRAISE Author Events National Broadcast Publicity “The latest and perhaps juiciest Trump tell-all to land this year” —The New York National Print Publicity Times Online Publicity National Online Advertising Campaign Major Social Media Advertising Campaign "Due to land in October like a late tropical storm, and could affect the midterm Finished Copy Outreach elections" —New York Magazine Twitter: @StormyDaniels, 810K followers
Stormy Daniels is an adult film actress, director and screenwriter who has also played roles and appeared as herself in a variety of mainstream movies and television shows, including "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Saturday Night Live." This is her first book.
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The Threat How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe
A dramatic insider account by the former deputy director of the FBI detailing how law enforcement battles terror threats, Russian crime, and attacks by the White House itself on the US Constituti...
On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / POLITICAL Democracy.” St. Martin's Press | 2/12/2019 9781250207579 | $29.99 / $38.99 Can. In The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career, and an Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W impassioned defense of the FBI’s agents, and of the institution’s integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution. Subrights: UK: Todd Shuster, David Granger Translation: Todd Shuster, David Granger The Threat recounts in compelling detail the time between Donald Trump’s Other Available Formats: November 2016 election and McCabe’s firing, set against a page-turning Ebook ISBN: 9781250207593 narrative spanning two decades when the FBI’s mission shifted to a new goal: Audio ISBN: 9781250229991 Audio ISBN: 9781250229984 preventing terrorist attacks on Americans. But as McCabe shows, right now the greatest threat to the United States comes from within, as President Trump and his administration ignore the law, attack democratic institutions, degrade human
MARKETING rights, and undermine the U.S. Constitution that protects every citizen. Author Events National Broadcast Publicity Andrew G. McCabe served as deputy director of the FBI from February 2016 to January 2018. He National Print Publicity began his career at the FBI in 1996, working first as a street agent on the Eurasian Organized Crime Online Publicity Task Force, and eventually as its supervisor. Later, he led the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, the National Online Advertising Campaign National Security Branch, and the Washington Field Office, and was the first director of the Major Social Media Advertising Campaign Finished Copy Outreach High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. He lives in Virginia with his wife Jill, their two children, and a dog.
58 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS MARCH 2019
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Organizer of Yale's "Duty to Warn" Conference
Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?
That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all POLITICAL SCIENCE / remains a cipher. COMMENTARY & OPINION Thomas Dunne Books | 3/19/2019 Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health 9781250212863 | $28.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 496 pages | Carton professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, Qty: 16 many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press bad, or both. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250179456 updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral Ebook ISBN: 9781250179463 and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects Audio ISBN: 9781427295248 him, affects the nation: From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and MARKETING beyond. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this National Broadcast Publicity edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state. National Print Publicity Major Social Media Campaign Outreach to Political Organizations It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.
PRAISE "This is an historic work in the history of American psychiatry. We have never been in this place before." —Lawrence O'Donnell
"There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump...profound, illuminating and discomforting" —Bill Moyers
"The stand these psychiatrists are taking takes courage, and their conclusions are compelling." —The Washington Post
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her degrees at Yale, interned at Bellevue, was Chief Resident at Mass General, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was also a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. She’s written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, edited nine academic books, and is author of the textbook Violence.
59 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MARCH 2019
Kushner, Inc. Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Vicky Ward
The first explosive full-length book about Javanka and their infamous rise
In the history of First Children of the United States, there is nothing quite like the story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump—two adults who have spent the past 30-something years living a life of luxury, devoid of personal responsibility. In Kushner Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward looks at their relentless, dangerous ascent through the levels of power of Washington D.C.. They’ve styled themselves as earnest, deserving inheritors, a fiction that places them and POLITICAL SCIENCE / their families at the center of an anachronistic Gilded Age New York. This AMERICAN GOVERNMENT / delusion may never have ended had they not forced themselves into the heart of EXECUTIVE BRANCH St. Martin's Press | 3/19/2019 Washington—a naked thrust for power that surprised even Trump. 9781250185945 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Knowing that the Trump brand could be ruined by Kushner Inc., President Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Trump was ambivalent about their presence in DC. But, Ivanka and Jared waltzed into Washington intent on using their newfound influence to grow their Subrights: UK Rights: William Morris Endeavor fortune. The intricacies of government – security clearance forms, protocols, Entertainment Translation Rights: William Morris Endeavor details of major policy initiatives –were minor nuisances. But their entitled Entertainment attitudes and ignorance of Washington politics backfired. As one billionaire and former friend confided, “They are hated now”. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250185952 Audio ISBN: 9781250214164 Kushner Inc. delves deeply into the lives of these two national figures, their families, friends, and enemies to create a portrait of two eternal children at play in the highest levels of power in the United States government. MARKETING National Television Publicity PRAISE National Radio Publicity National Print Publicity PRAISE FOR THE LIAR'S BALL BY VICKY WARD Online Coverage "Vicky Ward has done it again. She has taken a subject and a cast of characters, Author Appearances National Advertising Campaign many of whom we would not invite to dinner, and woven a page-turning, Email Marketing Campaign compelling tale. She transforms real estate players, who to most of us are stick Blog Outreach figures, into pulsating characters. Yes, they are greedy. But they also can be Influencer Outreach Author Website: vickyward.com visionary and vulnerable, and damn interesting." —KEN AULETTA, The New Author Facebook: /VickyPJWard Yorker Author Twitter: @VickyPJWard Author Instagram: @vpjw_
"The story of the world's most valuable office building is a gripping tale of boom and bust, battling billionaires, and huge egos flirting with disaster in their relentless, debt-financed pursuit of the ultimate trophy dea...
Vicky Ward is a New York Times Bestselling author, a magazine columnist and investigative reporter. The author of two best-selling books, The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley) and The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley), currently she is the editor at large at HuffPost and HuffPost’s long-form magazine, Highline. Additionally, she was a contributor 60 Index
108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Girls at 17 Swann Street, The: A Novel; Yara Zgheib. . . . . 18 Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game; Ron Golden, Christopher; The Pandora Room: A Novel...... 12 Darling...... 34 Greene, Thomas Christopher; The Perfect Liar: A Novel. . . . . 5 Abramowitz, Adam; A Town Called Malice: A Novel...... 42 Griffin, Anne; When All Is Said: A Novel...... 31 Alpert, Mark; The Coming Storm: A Thriller...... 13 Hanible, Tee Marie; The Warrior Code: 11 Principles to Anonymous Girl, An; Greer Hendricks...... 2 Unleash the Badass Inside of You...... 19 Bahcall, Safi; Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Haseltine, Eric; The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries...... 32 Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat...... 7 Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in Hendricks, Greer; An Anonymous Girl...... 2 the United States; Tony Platt...... 15 Hepworth, Sally; The Mother-in-Law...... 48 Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero; Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Tyler Cowen...... 20 Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners; Billionaire Boondoggle, The: How Our Politicians Let Wilma Melville...... 9 Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs; Pat Hibbs, Dr. B. Janet; The Stressed Years of Their Lives: Helping Garofalo...... 40 Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years. . . . 46 Blackadder, Jesse; In the Blink of an Eye...... 33 Hogan, Shanna; Secrets of a Soldier's Wife: A True Story of Bloated Belly Whisperer, The: See Results Within a Week Marriage, Obsession, and Murder...... 27 and Tame Digestive Distress Once and for All; Tamara Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob; Duker Freuman, MS, RD, CDN...... 56 Gianni Russo...... 35 Brennert, Alan; Daughter of Moloka'i: A Novel...... 22 Holy Sh!t Moment, The: How Lasting Change Can Happen Calvi, Mary; Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George in an Instant; James Fell...... 6 Washington's First Love...... 41 Horn, Sam; Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Campbell, Rick; Treason...... 36 Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life...... 38 Chambers, Veronica; Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter...... 4 Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius; Donald Robertson...... 10 Clavin, Tom; Wild Bill: The True Story of the American In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Frontier's First Gunfighter...... 17 Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones; Nina Khrushcheva . . . Coming Storm, The: A Thriller; Mark Alpert...... 13 ...... 24 Connections in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, In the Blink of an Eye; Jesse Blackadder...... 33 Book 48); J. D. Robb...... 16 Johansen, Iris; Dark Tribute...... 29 Cowen, Tyler; Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti- Jones, Darynda; Summoned to Thirteenth Grave: A Novel. . . .3 Hero...... 20 Kelly, Jack; The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Craven, Bruce; Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America. . . . 14 Thrones...... 37 Khrushcheva, Nina; In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Cumming, Charles; The Moroccan Girl: A Novel...... 23 Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones. . . . . 24 Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, The: 37 Psychiatrists Klingaman, William K.; The Darkest Year: The American Home and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated Front 1941-1942...... 26 and Expanded with New Essays; Bandy X. Lee...... 59 Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Daniels, Stormy; Full Disclosure...... 57 Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump; Dark Tribute; Iris Johansen...... 29 Vicky Ward...... 60 Darkest Year, The: The American Home Front 1941-1942; Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The William K. Klingaman...... 26 View"; Ramin Setoodeh...... 44 Darling, Ron; 108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and League of Wives, The: The Untold Story of the Women the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game...... 34 Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Daughter of Moloka'i: A Novel; Alan Brennert...... 22 Husbands Home; Heath Hardage Lee...... 49 Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's Lee, Bandy X.; The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 First Love; Mary Calvi...... 41 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Don't Label Me: An Unusual Conversation for Divided Updated and Expanded with New Essays...... 59 Times; Irshad Manji...... 21 Lee, Heath Hardage; The League of Wives: The Untold Story Doublespeak; Alisa Smith...... 53 of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Duker Freuman, MS, RD, CDN, Tamara; The Bloated Belly Their Husbands Home...... 49 Whisperer: See Results Within a Week and Tame Digestive Loigman, Lynda Cohen; The Wartime Sisters: A Novel...... 8 Distress Once and for All...... 56 Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Edge of Anarchy, The: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries; Safi Bahcall . . . . Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America; Jack ...... 32 Kelly...... 14 Manji, Irshad; Don't Label Me: An Unusual Conversation for Fell, James; The Holy Sh!t Moment: How Lasting Change Can Divided Times...... 21 Happen in an Instant...... 6 McCabe, Andrew G.; The Threat: How the FBI Protects Florida State of Mind, A: An Unnatural History of Our America in the Age of Terror and Trump...... 58 Weirdest State; James D. Wright...... 54 Melville, Wilma; Hero Dogs: How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, Forget You Know Me: A Novel; Jessica Strawser...... 25 and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Frost, Ronan; White Peak...... 51 Partners...... 9 Full Disclosure; Stormy Daniels...... 57 Moreci, Michael; We Are Mayhem: A Black Star Renegades Garofalo, Pat; The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Novel...... 55 Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs. . . 40 Moroccan Girl, The: A Novel; Charles Cumming...... 23 Garvis Graves, Tracey; The Girl He Used to Know...... 45 Mother Country: A Novel; Irina Reyn...... 28 Girl He Used to Know, The; Tracey Garvis Graves...... 45 Mother-in-Law, The; Sally Hepworth...... 48 Napper, Dr. Paul; The Power of Agency: The 7 Principles to Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Gunfighter; Tom Clavin...... 17 Life on Your Own Terms...... 30 Win or Die: Leadership Secrets from Game of Thrones; O'Connor, M. R.; Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Bruce Craven...... 37 Humans Navigate the World...... 50 Worsley, Lucy; Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Oden, Scott; Twilight of the Gods: A Novel...... 43 Changed Her Life: Daughter, Wife, Mother, and Widow. . . . . 11 Outwater, Alice; Wild at Heart: America's Turbulent Wright, James D.; A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption . . . of Our Weirdest State...... 54 ...... 52 Zgheib, Yara; The Girls at 17 Swann Street: A Novel...... 18 Palmer, D.J.; Saving Meghan...... 47 Pandora Room, The: A Novel; Christopher Golden...... 12 Perfect Liar, The: A Novel; Thomas Christopher Greene. . . . 5 Platt, Tony; Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States...... 15 Power of Agency, The: The 7 Principles to Conquer Obstacles, Make Effective Decisions, and Create a Life on Your Own Terms; Dr. Paul Napper...... 30 Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter; Veronica Chambers...... 4 Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life: Daughter, Wife, Mother, and Widow; Lucy Worsley...... 11 Reyn, Irina; Mother Country: A Novel...... 28 Robb, J. D.; Connections in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death, Book 48)...... 16 Robertson, Donald; How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius...... 10 Russo, Gianni; Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob...... 35 Ryan, Hugh; When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History...... 39 Saving Meghan; D.J. Palmer...... 47 Secrets of a Soldier's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder; Shanna Hogan...... 27 Setoodeh, Ramin; Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View"...... 44 Smith, Alisa; Doublespeak...... 53 Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life; Sam Horn...... 38 Spy in Moscow Station, The: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat; Eric Haseltine...... 7 Strawser, Jessica; Forget You Know Me: A Novel...... 25 Stressed Years of Their Lives, The: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years; Dr. B. Janet Hibbs...... 46 Summoned to Thirteenth Grave: A Novel; Darynda Jones ...... 3 Threat, The: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump; Andrew G. McCabe...... 58 Town Called Malice, A: A Novel; Adam Abramowitz...... 42 Treason; Rick Campbell...... 36 Twilight of the Gods: A Novel; Scott Oden...... 43 Ward, Vicky; Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. . . . 60 Warrior Code, The: 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You; Tee Marie Hanible...... 19 Wartime Sisters, The: A Novel; Lynda Cohen Loigman. . . . . 8 Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World; M. R. O'Connor...... 50 We Are Mayhem: A Black Star Renegades Novel; Michael Moreci...... 55 When All Is Said: A Novel; Anne Griffin...... 31 When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History; Hugh Ryan...... 39 White Peak; Ronan Frost...... 51 Wild at Heart: America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption; Alice Outwater ...... 52