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Ackroyd, Peter, THE CASEBOOK Lethem, Jonathan, CHRONIC CITY ...... 13 OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN ...... 35 Martin, Valerie, THE CONFESSIONS Atwood, Margaret, THE YEAR OF OF EDWARD DAY ...... 32 THE FLOOD ...... 34 Mezrich, Ben, THE ACCIDENTAL Byrne, Trevor, GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING ...... 29 BILLIONAIRES ...... 9

Caldwell, Christopher, REFLECTIONS ON Othmer, James P., ADLAND ...... 19 THE REVOLUTION IN EUROPE ...... 8 Page, Tim, PARALLEL PLAY ...... 20 Carhart, Thad, ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER ...... 12 Papp, Joseph, FREE FOR ALL ...... 28

Conroy, Pat, SOUTH OF BROAD ...... 33 Podhoretz, Norman, WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS? ...... 17 Durham, David Anthony, THE OTHER LANDS ...... 16 Pogrebin, Abigail, ONE AND THE SAME ...... 27

Gibson, Bob, SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES ...... 15 Ritz, David, WE’LL BE HERE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES ...... 25 Gibson, Graeme, THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS ...... 37 Rutherfurd, Edward, NEW YORK: THE NOVEL ...... 23 Hazleton, Lesley, AFTER THE PROPHET ...... 14 Shaffer, Paul, WE’LL BE HERE FOR Heller, Anne C., AYN RAND AND THE REST OF OUR LIVES ...... 25 THE WORLD SHE MADE ...... 38 Smith, Lee, THE STRONG HORSE ...... 26 Hoffman, David E., THE DEAD HAND ...... 22 Trofimuk, Thomas, WAITING FOR Jackson, Reggie, SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES ...... 15 COLUMBUS ...... 10

Kindred, Dave, MORNING MIRACLE ...... 18 Turan, Kenneth, FREE FOR ALL ...... 28

Krakauer, Jon, WHERE MEN WIN GLORY ...... 11 Twelve Hawks, John, THE GOLDEN CITY ...... 21

Lamster, Mark, MASTER OF SHADOWS ...... 36 Vaccaro, Mike, THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC ...... 24

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ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER, MORNING MIRACLE, Dave Kindred ...... 18 Thad Carhart ...... 12 NEW YORK: THE NOVEL, THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, Edward Rutherfurd ...... 23 Ben Mezrich ...... 9 ONE AND THE SAME, Abigail Pogrebin ...... 27 ADLAND, James P. Othmer ...... 19 THE OTHER LANDS, AFTER THE PROPHET, Lesley Hazleton ...... 14 David Anthony Durham ...... 16

AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE, PARALLEL PLAY, Tim Page ...... 20 Anne C. Heller ...... 38 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS, EUROPE, Christopher Caldwell ...... 8 Graeme Gibson ...... 37 SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES, THE CASEBOOK OF Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson ...... 15 VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, Peter Ackroyd ...... 35 SOUTH OF BROAD, Pat Conroy ...... 33 CHRONIC CITY, Jonathan Lethem ...... 13 THE STRONG HORSE, Lee Smith ...... 26 THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY, Valerie Martin ...... 32 WAITING FOR COLUMBUS, Thomas Trofimuk ...... 10 THE DEAD HAND, David E. Hoffman ...... 22 WE’LL BE HERE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES, THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC, Mike Vaccaro ...... 24 Paul Shaffer and David Ritz ...... 25

FREE FOR ALL, WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, Jon Krakauer ...... 11 Joseph Papp and Kenneth Turan ...... 28 WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS?, GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING, Trevor Byrne ...... 29 Norman Podhoretz ...... 17

THE GOLDEN CITY, John Twelve Hawks ...... 21 THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD, Margaret Atwood ...... 34 MASTER OF SHADOWS, Mark Lamster ...... 36

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BEN MEZRICH THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what followed.

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THOMAS TROFIMUK WAITING FOR COLUMBUS A Novel

A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary explorer Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the center of this captivating, romantic, and stunningly written novel.

ound in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, the mysteri- Fous man who calls himself Columbus appears to be just another delirious mental patient, until he begins to tell the PUBLICITY AND MARKETING “true” story of how he famously obtained three ships from • Advance Reader’s Edition Spanish royalty. • National Media Appearances, including NPR • National Print Features It’s Nurse Consuela who listens to these fantastical tales of • National Print Advertising in the New York adventure and romance, and tries desperately to make sense of Times • Online Promotion to literary sites and blogs why this seemingly intelligent man has been locked up, and eBook why no one has come to visit. As splintered fragments of the 978-0-385-53206-8 man beneath the façade reveal a charming yet guarded individ- $24.95 ual, Nurse Consuela can’t avoid the inappropriate longings she begins to feel. Something terrible caused his break with reality and she can only listen and wait as Columbus spins his tale to the very end. In the tradition of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and The Dogs of Babel, this unforgettable novel mines the darkest recesses of loss and the extraordinary capacity of the human spirit. It is an immensely satisfying novel that will introduce Thomas Trofimuk to readers who will want to hear his voice again and again.

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JON KRAKAUER WHERE MEN WIN GLORY The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey.

ike the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in Lhis previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda PUBLICITY AND MARKETING and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside • Advance Reader’s Edition in southeastern Afghanistan. • National Media Appearances, including NPR Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene • National Print Features • National Print Advertising, including the that a ranger in Tillman’s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, New York Times the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information • Online Advertising • Online Promotion from Tillman’s wife, other family members, and the American • Jacket Blowups Available public for five weeks following his death. Long after Tillman’s Random House Audio nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly 978-0-7393-5784-2 $30.00 ($37.00 Can) notified his closest relatives that he had “probably” been killed eBook by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the 978-0-385-52840-5 details of his death and who was responsible. $27.95 ($34.00 Can) Large Print Edition In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s jour- 978-0-7393-2763-0 nals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversa- $27.00 ($34.00 Can) tions with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive ALSO AVAILABLE research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate Under the Banner of Heaven mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling 978-1-4000-3280-8, $14.95 ($22.95 Can), Trade paperback: Anchor figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions Into Thin Air that led to his death. Infused with the power and authenticity 978-0-385-49478-6, $14.95 ($16.95 Can), readers have come to expect from Krakauer’s storytelling, Where Trade paperback: Anchor Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war. Into the Wild 978-0-385-48680-4, $13.95 ($15.95 Can), Trade paperback: Anchor JON KRAKAUER is the author of Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven 978-0-385-52226-7 R

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THAD CARHART ACROSS THE ENDLESS RIVER A Novel

From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, a historical novel about Jean- Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea, and his intriguing sojourn as a young man in 1820s Paris.

orn in 1805 on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jean- BBaptiste Charbonneau was the son of the expedition’s translators, Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau. Across the Endless River compellingly portrays this mixed-blood child’s mysterious boyhood along the Missouri among the Mandan PUBLICITY AND MARKETING tribe and his youth as William Clark’s ward in St. Louis. The • National Media Appearances, including novel becomes a haunting exploration of identity and passion NPR as eighteen-year-old Baptiste is invited to cross the Atlantic in • National Print Features • Online Promotion to historical fiction blogs; 1823 with a young German duke. author podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of publication During their travels throughout Europe, Baptiste is introduced eBook to a world he never imagined. Gradually, he senses the limita- 978-0-385-53205-1 $26.95 ($33.00 Can) tions of life as an outsider. His passionate affair with the duke’s older cousin helps him understand the richness of his heritage and the need to fashion his own future. But it is the beautiful and independent daughter of a French-Irish wine merchant Baptiste meets in Paris who most influences his ultimate decision to return to the frontier. Rich in the details of life in both frontier America and the European court, Across the Endless River is a captivating novel about a man at the intersection of cultures, languages, and customs.

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JONATHAN LETHEM CHRONIC CITY A Novel

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped up in their own delusions, desires, and lies.

hase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on CManhattan’s social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him raptur- ous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift; PUBLICITY AND MARKETING she in Earth’s stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated • Advance Reader’s Edition • Prepublication Advertising on Shelf by Upper East Side dinner parties. Awareness • National Media Appearances, including Into Chase’s cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed NPR • National Print Features free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are • 12-City Author Tour: New York, Washington fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and DC, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, San a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus’s countercultural savvy Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, and Miami and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, • National Print Advertising in the New York where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is com- Times and The New Yorker • Online Promotion, including plicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, jonathanlethembooks.com, author podcast a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the and viral author video available at doubleday.com at the time of publication, Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the bil- and promotion with online reading groups lionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the • Reading Group Guide (available at doubleday.com) answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of arti- • Jacket Blowups Available facts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. eBook 978-0-385-53215-0 Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem’s masterpiece is beau- $26.95 ($33.00 Can) tiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a ALSO AVAILABLE stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique. Motherless Brooklyn, 978-0-375-72483-1, $14.95 ($16.95 Can), Trade paperback: Vintage JONATHAN LETHEM is the author of seven novels. A The Fortress of Solitude, 978-0-375-72488-6, recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Lethem has $14.95 ($21.00 Can), Trade paperback: also published his stories and essays in The New Vintage Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. 978-0-385-51863-5 R E

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LESLEY HAZLETON AFTER THE PROPHET The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam

Narrative history at its most compelling, After the Prophet relates the dramatic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam.

ven as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over his successor Ehad begun. Pitting the family of his favorite wife, the controversial Aisha, against supporters of his son-in-law, the philosopher-warrior Ali, the struggle would reach its breaking point fifty years later in Iraq, when soldiers of the first Sunni dynasty massacred seventy-two warriors led by Muhammad’s grandson Hussein at Karbala. Hussein’s agonizing ordeal at Karbala was soon to become the Passion story at the core of PUBLICITY AND MARKETING Shia Islam. • National Media Appearances, including NPR Hazleton’s vivid, gripping prose provides extraordinary insight • National Print Features into the origins of the world’s most volatile blend of politics and • Online Promotion to Islam interest sites and blogs; author podcast available at religion. Balancing past and present, she shows how these doubleday.com at the time of publication seventh-century events are as alive in Middle Eastern hearts eBook and minds today as though they had just happened, shaping 978-0-385-53209-9 $26.95 ($33.00 Can) modern headlines from Iran’s Islamic Revolution to the civil war in Iraq. After the Prophet is narrative nonfiction at its finest and an emotional and political revelation for Western readers.

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BOB GIBSON and REGGIE JACKSON, with LONNIE WHEELER SIXTY FEET, SIX INCHES A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk About How the Game Is Played

Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a- lifetime opportunity to understand America’s pastime from their unique insider perspective.

egendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncen- L sored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about the game they love and how it was, is, and should be played. Their one-of-a-kind PUBLICITY AND MARKETING insider stories recall a who’s who of baseball nobility, including • National Media Appearances, including CNN, WFAN, and NPR Willie Mays, Alex Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, Billy • National Print Features Martin, and Joe Torre. This is an unforgettable baseball history • Select Author Appearances • National Print Advertising in the New York by two of its most influential superstars. Times • Radio Promotion on sports stations • Online Promotion BOB GIBSON, a two-time Cy Young Award winner and eight-time All Star, won 251 games and achieved a eBook 978-0-385-53216-7 lifetime ERA of 2.91 during his seventeen years with $25.95 ($32.00 Can) the St. Louis Cardinals. He is a special adviser to the Random House Audio Cardinals. REGGIE JACKSON hit 563 home runs and 5 CDs, abridged drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one- 978-0-7393-8483-1 year career; he played three World Series–winning $30.00 ($37.00 Can)

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DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM THE OTHER LANDS A Novel

The thrilling new installment in the ambitious Acacia trilogy, praised by the Washington Post as “gripping and sophisticated.”

few years have passed since the conquering of the Mein, A and Queen Corinn is firmly in control of the Known World—perhaps too firmly. With plans to expand her empire, she sends her brother, Dariel, on an exploratory mission to the Other Lands. There Dariel discovers a lush, exotic mainland ruled by an alliance of tribes that poses a grave danger to the stability of the Known World. Is Queen Corinn strong enough to face this new challenge? Readers of this bold, imaginative PUBLICITY AND MARKETING sequel will not be disappointed in the answer. • National Media Appearances, including NPR PRAISE FOR ACACIA • National Print Features • Print advertising in targeted science fiction and fantasy publications • Online Promotion —Time eBook 978-0-385-53211-2 $27.95 ($34.00 Can)

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NORMAN PODHORETZ WHY ARE JEWS LIBERALS?

From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant and provocative examination of a central question in American politics and culture that is sure to generate tremendous controversy.

orman Podhoretz says he has never in his entire life been Nasked any question on any subject as often as “Why are so many Jews liberals?”—or in its more specifically political form, “Why do most Jews always vote for the Democrats?” Podhoretz proposes to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show why, for most of that time, Jews quite sensibly concluded that they had much PUBLICITY AND MARKETING more to fear from the Right than the Left. But since the Six • National Media Appearances, including Day War of 1967, he argues, this position has no longer made C-SPAN, FOX, and NPR • National Print Features sense, and yet most Jews go on supporting the Democratic • Select Author Appearances Party and the liberal agenda. Reviewing the history of Jewish • Online Advertising on a conservative site such as newsmax.com political attitudes and thoroughly examining the available evi- • Online Promotion: author podcast available dence, he then demonstrates that all the usual explanations— at doubleday.com at the time of publication such as a passion for justice allegedly deriving from the eBook prophets of the Hebrew Bible—are either inadequate or flat- 978-0-385-53212-9 $24.95 ($29.95 Can) out false. Finally he proposes his own answer to the great puzzle of why most Jews remain as committed to liberalism as ever. ALSO AVAILABLE World War IV There is no more vigorous thinker or skilled polemicist in 978-0-307-38602-1 $14.95 ($16.95 Can) American intellectual life than Norman Podhoretz. In Why Trade paperback: Vintage Are Jews Liberals? he sums up his thinking on the political inclinations of his fellow Jews—in the process confounding conventional wisdom and changing the way we view American politics.

NORMAN PODHORETZ, who was the editor in chief of Commentary for thirty-five years, is now an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Making It, Breaking Ranks, Ex-Friends, My Love Affair with America, The Prophets, and World War IV. He holds the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest

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DAVEINDREDK MORNING M IRACLE Inside the Washington Post: The Fight to Keep a Great Newspaper Alive

An in-depth look at the Washington Post from a Post veteran. Morning Miracle definitively answers the question “Do newspapers still matter?” with a resounding yes.

hat The Kingdom and the Power did for the New York WTimes, Morning Miracle will do for the Washington Post. A reporter for more than forty years, Dave Kindred takes you inside the heart of the legendary newspaper and offers a unique opportunity to see what it really takes to produce world- class journalism every day. PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • National Media Appearances, including Granted unprecedented access to every nook and cranny of the NPR paper, including candid exchanges with its most celebrated • National Print Features • Select Author Appearances journalists, such as Bob Woodward, Sally Quinn, David • Online Promotion to media sites; author Broder, and former executive editor Ben Bradlee (who gave the podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of publication book its title), Kindred provides a no-holds-barred look at the eBook twenty-first-century newsroom. As it becomes more difficult to 978-0-385-53210-5 maintain journalistic integrity, stay relevant in the age of blogs, $26.00 ($32.00 Can) and meet Wall Street’s demands for profits, the newspaper— more than any other medium—also shoulders the tremendous responsibility of acting as a watchdog for democracy. Perhaps no one sums up the overwhelming challenges that face the Post and its power to endure better than the author himself: “It is still a miracle that you can put 700 over- caffeinated misfits in a newsroom, on deadline, adrenaline running, secrets to spill, and before midnight a messenger POSTPONEDdelivers a smoking-hot city edition to Don Graham’s manse in Georgetown.”

DAVE KINDRED has reported and written for newspapers and magazines for forty-five years. He has been a Washington correspondent, sports columnist, and general-interest columnist. His work has won the Red Smith Award, sports journalism’s highest honor, as

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JAMES P. OTHMER ADLAND Searching for the Meaning of Life on a Branded Planet

Liar’s Poker meets The Tipping Point meets Mad Men—a hilarious, personal, and sneakily profound chronicle of the past, present, and future of the advertising business.

dland is a book about advertising. Which is to say, it’s a A book about every issue and aspect of life on our morally conflicted, culturally challenged, ubiquitously branded planet. ihe Benabib Michael © On one level it’s the wickedly funny, compelling personal chronicle of the rise and fall of a modern-day ad man; a riveting insider’s look at the astonishing transformation taking place in PUBLICITY AND MARKETING advertising’s hottest idea factories; and an introduction to the • National Media Appearances, including people whose job is to know what makes us tick, what makes us NPR • National Print Features lean in, what we think we need and don’t know that we want. • Online Advertising targeting advertising and media professionals But take a step back from the tales of lavish shoots, agencies on • Online Promotion to advertising and media the brink, and pampered mega-brands and Adland becomes sites; viral author video; author podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of much more: a snapshot of how we live our lives on this earth at publication this particular moment . . . thirty seconds at a time. eBook 978-0-385-53213-6 Funny, profound, deeply thoughtful, and utterly unique, this $26.95 ($33.00 Can) book is both a wildly amusing, brilliantly recounted ride in Adland, and an exploration of the value of life in the information age.

—Jamie Barrett, Creative Director/Partner, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco

JAMES P. OTHMER was an award-winning creative director and copy- writer for more than twenty years at advertising giants including Young & Rubicam and N.W. Ayer. An excerpt from his acclaimed first novel The Futurist was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.

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TIM PAGE PARALLEL PLAY Life as an Outsider

In this captivating memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winner Tim Page writes about growing up gifted and unknowingly suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, expanding on a tremendously popular essay he wrote for The New Yorker.

n 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for Ihis work as the chief classical music critic of the Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called “lucid and illuminating.” Three years later, at the age of forty-five, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome—an autistic disorder characterized by often superior intellectual abilities but also by obsessive PUBLICITY AND MARKETING behavior, ineffective communication, and social awkwardness. • National Media Appearances, including C-SPAN and NPR Now, in a personal chronicle that is both hilarious and heart- • National Print Features • Select Author Appearances breaking, Page tells his early story through the prism of new- • Online Promotion to literary sites and found clarity. Here is the tale of a boy who was writing and blogs; author podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of publication directing his own silent films at the age of twelve, yet lacked the eBook coordination to participate in the simplest childhood games. It 978-0-385-53207-5 is the story of a child who was regularly described as a genius, $26.95 ($33.00 Can) but was unable to pass elementary school math and science. And it is the triumphant account of a disadvantaged boy who grew into a high-functioning, highly successful adult—perhaps not despite his Asperger’s but because of it, as Tim believes. A poignant portrait of a lifelong search for understanding, Parallel Play provides a unique perspective on Asperger’s and the well of creativity that can spring forth as a result of the condition.

TIM PAGE is a professor of journalism and music at the University of Southern California. He has been a music critic at the New York Times, Newsday, and the Washington Post. He lives in Baltimore and Los Angeles. ageSmith Maggie ©

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JOHN TWELVE HAWKS THE GOLDEN CITY A Novel

A world that exists in the shadow of our own. ...The thrilling conclusion to John Twelve Hawks’s Fourth Realm trilogy, The Golden City is packed with the knife- edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that made The Traveler and The Dark River international hits.

ohn Twelve Hawks’s previous novels about the mystical JTravelers and the Brethren, their ruthless enemies, gener- ated an extraordinary following around the world. The Washington Post wrote that The Traveler “portrays a Big Brother with powers far beyond anything Orwell could imagine” and Publishers Weekly hailed the series as “a saga that’s part A PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • National Print Features Wrinkle in Time, part The Matrix and part Kurosawa epic.” • National Print Advertising Internet chat rooms and blogs have overflowed with specula- • Online Advertising • Online Promotion: continue to build and tion about the final destiny of the richly imagined characters strengthen johntwelvehawks.com; author fighting an epic battle beneath the surface of our modern podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of publication world. eBook In The Golden City, Twelve Hawks delivers the climax to his 978-0-385-53012-5 $26.95 spellbinding epic. On the verge of finding his long-lost Traveler Random House Audio father, Gabriel faces an unimaginable new threat. His brother 10 CDs, unabridged Michael, now firmly allied with the enemy, pursues his relent- 978-0-739-31643-6 $40.00 ($47.00 Can) less ambition to wrest power from the calculating leaders of the Large Print Edition Brethren. And Maya, the Harlequin warrior pledged to protect 978-0-375-43442-6 Gabriel at all costs, is forced into a situation that will change $24.95 her life forever. ALSO AVAILABLE The Traveler A riveting blend of high-tech thriller and fast-paced adventure, 978-0-307-27859-3 The Golden City will delight Twelve Hawks’s many fans and $7.99 attract a new audience to the entire trilogy. Mass Market: Vintage The Dark River 978-1-307-38923-7 JOHN TWELVE HAWKS is the author of the New York Times bestsellers $7.99 The Traveler and The Dark River. Mass Market: Vintage

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DAVID E. HOFFMAN THE DEAD HAND The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.

uring the Cold War, world superpowers amassed nuclear Darsenals containing the explosive power of one million Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union secretly plotted to create the “Dead Hand,” a system designed to launch an automatic retal- iatory nuclear strike on the United States, and developed a fearsome biological warfare machine. President Ronald Reagan, PUBLICITY AND MARKETING hoping to awe the Soviets into submission, pushed hard for the • National Media Appearances, including C-SPAN and NPR creation of space-based missile defenses. • National Print Features • Select Author Appearances In the first full account of how the arms race finally ended, The eBook Dead Hand provides an unprecedented look at the inner 978-0-385-53217-4 motives and secret decisions of each side. Drawing on top- $30.00 ($37.00 Can) secret documents from deep inside the Kremlin, memoirs, and Random House Audio 8 CDs, abridged interviews in both Russia and the United States, David 978-0-7393-8485-5 Hoffman introduces the scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and $40.00 ($47.00 Can) spies who saw the world sliding toward disaster and tells the gripping story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and others struggled to bring the madness to an end. Moreover, he shows that when the Soviet Union dissolved, the danger continued, and the United States began a race against time to keep nuclear and biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue states.

DAVID E. HOFFMAN is assistant managing editor for foreign news at the Washington Post and author of The

Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. He lives Hoffman F. Carole © in Maryland.

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EDWARD RUTHERFURD NEW YORK: THE NOVEL

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city’s founding to the present day.

dward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a Erich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families. As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and America: the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • National Media Appearances, including great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded NPR Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and • National Print Features • 6-City Author Tour: Boston, New York, early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near- Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the Los Angeles • National Print Advertising in the New York ’90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled Times Book Review throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical • Online Promotion, including promotion with figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln online reading groups • Reading Group Guide (available at to Babe Ruth. doubleday.com) • Jacket Blowups Available New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd’s American eBook fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, 978-0-385-53023-1 family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the $30.00 Random House Audio search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation’s 8 CDs, abridged history. 978-0-739-38287-5 $38.00 ($46.00 Can) Large Print Edition 978-0-739-32845-3 $29.95

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EDWARD RUTHERFURD is the author of many books, including London, The Princes of Ireland, and The Rebels of Ireland.

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MIKE VACCARO THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC

Acclaimed sportswriter and author Mike Vaccaro presents a riveting, narrative account of what remains, nearly a century later, the greatest World Series ever played.

n October of 1912, seven years before gambling nearly Idestroyed the sport, the world of baseball got lucky. It would get two teams—the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants, winners of a combined 208 games during the regular season— who may well have been the two finest ball clubs ever assembled to that point. Most important, during the course of eight (yes, eight) games spanning nine days in that marvelous base- PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • National Media Appearances, including ball autumn, they would elevate the World Series from a NPR regional October novelty to a national obsession. The games • National Print Features • Radio Promotion in New York and Boston would fight for space on the front pages of the nation’s newspa- on sports stations pers, battling both an assassin’s bullet and the most sensational • Online Promotion, outreach to mlb.com, baseball blogs trial of the young century, with the Series often carrying the • Jacket Blowups Available day and earning the “wood.” eBook 978-0-385-53218-1 In The First Fall Classic, veteran sports journalist and author $24.95 ($29.95 Can) Mike Vaccaro brings to life a bygone era in cinematic and inti- ALSO AVAILABLE mate detail, featuring such memorable characters as “Smoky 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports Joe” Wood, Christy “Christian Gentleman” Mathewson, Boston 978-0-7679-2416-0 Mayor “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, and the Bull Moose candidate $13.95 ($15.95 Can) Trade paperback: Anchor for president, Teddy Roosevelt. Vaccaro gives fans a wonderful page-turner that re-creates the magic and suspense of the world’s first great series.

MIKE VACCARO is the lead sports columnist for the New York Post and the author of 1941: The Greatest Year in Sports and Emperors and Idiots. He has won more than fifty major journalism awards since 1989 and has

been cited for distinguished writing by the Associated Wenzelberg Charles © Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute. A graduate of St. Bonaventure University, he lives in New Jersey.

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PAUL SHAFFER with DAVID RITZ WE’LL BE HERE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES A Swingin’ Show-Biz Saga

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman’s band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir eoa Feingold Deborah © of a life in—and love of—show business.

ow does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip PUBLICITY AND MARKETING of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a H • National Media Appearances, including gig leading the band on Letterman? This book is Paul Shaffer’s CBS, CNN, and NPR • National Print Features answer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints in • Select Author Appearances Toronto, to his first legitimate job out of college—which found • National Print Advertising in the New York Times him working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner, • Radio Giveaway Promotion in top markets Martin Short, and Eugene Levy—to being first musical direc- • Online Promotion, including cross- tor of the nascent Saturday Night Live and helping to form the promotion with paulshaffersdayinrock.com; author podcast and viral author video Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave and available at doubleday.com at the time of playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has publication • Jacket Blowups Available lived the ultimate showbiz life. Now, in this hilarious, enter- eBook taining, and candid memoir—in which he dishes on everyone 978-0-385-53221-1 from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney $25.95 ($32.00 Can) Spears—Shaffer gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of his Random House Audio 5 CDs, abridged life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of 978-0-307-57709-2 twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater. $30.00 ($37.00 Can)

PAUL SHAFFER has been David Letterman’s musical director for the past twenty-seven years. He also co-composed “It’s Raining Men.” DAVID RITZ has cowritten memoirs with, among others, Ray Charles and Don Rickles. He also co-wrote “Sexual Healing.”

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LEE SMITH THE STRONG HORSE Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

In a provocative, timely book, a noted journalist and expert on Arab–American affairs overturns long-held Western myths about the Arab world, and offers a doctrine to help the United States correct its assumptions concerning the region.

anting to know why September 11 happened, journalist WLee Smith moved to Cairo. There, he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of East and West led to the attacks—was simply not the case. As Smith outlines in The Strong Horse, the problems of the Middle East have little to do with Israel, the United States, or the West in general. The strife PUBLICITY AND MARKETING exists within the Arab world itself. • National Media Appearances, including C-SPAN and NPR Through clear-eyed analysis, Smith explodes the many myths • National Print Features • Select Author Appearances permeating Americans’ understanding of the Arab world: colo- • Online Promotion: author podcast available nialism spurred the region’s ongoing turmoil; Arab liberals are at doubleday.com at the time of publication waiting for U.S. intervention; technology and democracy can eBook 978-0-385-53220-4 be transforming. In response to these untruths, Smith offers $26.00 ($32.00 Can) what he terms the “Strong Horse Doctrine”—that Arabs want to align themselves with strength, power, and violence. Given America’s ongoing interest in the Middle East, Smith says America needs to be the strong horse in order to reclaim its role there, and that only by understanding the nature of the region’s ancient conflict can we succeed.

LEE SMITH is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard. He has written for Slate, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and a variety of Arab media outlets. He is also a visiting fellow of the Hudson Institute. A native of New York, he lives in Beirut. ei Sturman Kevin ©

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ABIGAIL POGREBIN ONE AND THE SAME My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone’s Struggle to Be Singular

The author of Stars of David and a twin herself, journalist Abigail Pogrebin offers a poignant and personal look at what it’s really like to live with your mirror image and tells the story of many twins who struggle to balance intimacy and individuality.

riter. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is Wmany things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is “identical twin.” Pogrebin’s relationship with her sister, both as children, when they were inseparable, and today, when she longs for that uncomplicated intimacy, inspired her to examine the phenomenon of twinship—to learn how other PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • National Media Appearances, including identical pairs regard their doubleness and what experts are NPR learning about how DNA impacts our sense of identity and • National Print Features • Online Promotion, including author podcast shapes our lives. available at doubleday.com at the time of publication In One and the Same, Pogrebin presents a tapestry of twin- eBook ship, weaving science reporting and personal memoir with the 978-0-385-53222-8 revelatory stories of other twins, such as the football stars Tiki $26.00 ($32.00 Can) and Ronde Barber, who admit their twinship comes before their marriages; two sisters who stopped speaking for three years; a pair of bawdy, self-proclaimed “twin ambassadors” who have created a media empire around their twinness; and brothers whose shared genetic anomaly wrought unspeakable tragedy. In this stirring account, Pogrebin shows how living identical illuminates the struggle for singularity that defines us all.

ABIGAIL POGREBIN is the author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish. A Yale graduate, she has written for many national publications and has produced for 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, and Fred Friendly. She lives with her husband and two children in Manhattan—a mile from her identical twin sister, New York Times reporter Robin

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KENNETH TURAN and JOSEPH PAPP FREE FOR ALL Tales from the New York Shakespeare Festival

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan takes you behind the scenes at the Public Theater and tells the amazing story of how Joe Papp made American theatrical and cultural history.

ree for All is the irresistible oral history of the New York FShakespeare Festival and the Public Theater—two institutions that under the inspired leadership of Joseph Papp have been a premier source of revolutionary and enduring American theater. To tell this fascinating story, Kenneth Turan interviewed some 160 luminaries—including George C. Scott, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, PUBLICITY AND MARKETING David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wallace • National Media Appearances, including NPR Shawn—and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyingly • National Print Features rich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement. And at the • Select Author Appearances • Online Promotion to theater sites, center of this incredibly engrossing account of artistic daring especially publictheater.org and excellence the larger-than-life figure of Joseph Papp reigns eBook supreme. 978-0-385-53204-4 $35.00 ($43.00 Can) KENNETH TURAN (right) has been a film critic for the Los Angeles Times since 1991 and the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes since 1993. He teaches nonfiction writing and film criticism at the University of Southern California and provides regular reviews for Morning Edition on National Public Radio. Williams Patricia © JOSEPH PAPP (1921–1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 with the aim of making Shakespeare’s works accessible to the public.

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TREVOR BYRNE GHOSTS AND LIGHTNING A Novel

An outstanding debut novel from a young Irish novelist that echoes the poignant, comical, and gritty voices of Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe, and Irvine Welsh.

et in contemporary Dublin and the surrounding country- Sside, Ghosts and Lightning is a picaresque account of Denny Cullen’s life after he is called back home to attend his mother’s funeral. Denny—a sweet-natured but disillusioned young man who feels powerless in the face of death, dope, and the dole queue—is the steadiest in a cast of unstable characters. Denny and his lads fill their empty days with hooliganism, PUBLICITY AND MARKETING raucous parties, violence, and even an exorcism, but their fear- • National Media Appearances, including lessness and humor make them as irresistible as an expertly NPR • National Print Features pulled pint of Guinness. • Online Promotion, including author podcast available at doubleday.com at the time of publication eBook 978-0-385-53163-4 $24.00 [NCR]

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TREVOR BYRNE was born in 1981 and brought up in Clondalkin in south Dublin. He attended Trinity College and the University of Glamorgan. He is currently a tutor of creative writing at Glamorgan University. © Linda Brownlee

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VALERIE MARTIN THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY A Novel

Acclaimed author Valerie Martin returns with a dark comedy about love, sex, an actor’s ambition, and the perils of playing a role too well.

n this fictional memoir, Valerie Martin brilliantly re-creates I the seamy theater world of 1970s New York, when rents were cheap, love was free, and nudity on stage was the latest craze. Edward Day, a talented and ambitious young actor, finds his life forever altered during a weekend on the Jersey Shore, where he seduces the delicious Madeleine Delavergne © Jerry Bauer and is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, a PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • Prepublication Advertising on Shelf man who bears an eerie resemblance to Edward. Forever after, Awareness Edward is torn between his desire for Madeleine and his indebt- • National Media Appearances, including NPR edness to Guy, his rival in love and in art, on stage and off. • National Print Features • Online Promotion, including promotion with In The Confessions of Edward Day, Martin deftly explores the online reading groups artificial and rarified atmosphere of the theater as well as the • Reading Group Guide (available at doubleday.com and nanatalese.com) artist’s relentless search for emotional truth. The result is a eBook novel that dances between the darkness of a gothic horror tale 978-0-385-53203-7 and the klieg light glare of the late twentieth century. $25.00 ($29.95 Can) ALSO AVAILABLE Trespass 978-1-4000-9551-3 $14.95 ($16.95 Can) Trade paperback: Vintage Property —Edmund White 978-0-375-71330-9 $13.00 ($17.00 Can) Trade paperback: Vintage

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PAT CONROY SOUTH OF BROAD A Novel

The publishing event of the season: The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

gainst the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South ACarolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo’s older brother commits suicide at the age of ten, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, PUBLICITY AND MARKETING searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds • Advance Reader’s Edition • Prepublication Advertising on Shelf his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of Awareness high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor • National Media Appearances, including NPR Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison- • National Print Features escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and • 15-City Author Tour: New York, Boston, Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Jackson/Oxford, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle liaisons will ripple across two decades—from 1960s counter- • National Print Advertising in the New York culture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Times and USA Today • Reading Group Guide (pack of 10), ISBN The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages 978-0-385-53224-2 • Online Promotion, including patconroy.com happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken long- and with online reading groups ings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and • Jacket Blowups Available Charleston’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions. But the eBook 978-0-385-53214-3 final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is $29.95 ($37.00 Can) something no one is prepared for. South of Broad is Pat Conroy Random House Audio at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer 17 CDs, unabridged 978-0-739-38293-6 whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. $45.00 ($55.00 Can) Large Print Edition PAT CONROY is the bestselling author of The Water Is 978-0-739-32844-6 $30.00 ($37.00 Can) Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, The Pat Conroy Cookbook, and My Losing Season. He lives in South Carolina.

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MARGARET ATWOOD THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD A Novel

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.

he times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, Tand the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human PUBLICITY AND MARKETING • Advance Reader’s Edition life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer • Prepublication Advertising on locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, shelfawareness.com and pwdaily.com • National Media Appearances, including a God’s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where NPR many of the treatments are edible. • 10-City Author Tour: New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Have others survived? Ren’s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, and Miami her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the • National Print Advertising in the New York murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Times • Online Promotion to environmental and Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt polic- literary sites and blogs ing force of the ruling powers . . . • Reading Group Guide available at doubleday.com Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the • Jacket Blowups Available lion/lamb blends, the Mo’hair sheep with human hair, the pigs eBook 978-0-385-53208-2 with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp- $26.00 clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren Random House Audio and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can’t 9 CDs, unabridged 978-0-739-38397-1 stay locked away . . . $40.00 By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilari- Large Print Edition 978-0-739-32850-7 ous, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and $26.00 inventive. ALSO AVAILABLE Oryx and Crake, 978-0-385-72167-7, $14.95, MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than forty Trade paperback: Anchor books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace, Oryx

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PETER ACKROYD THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN A Novel

The incomparable Peter Ackroyd takes the tale of Frankenstein and turns it inside out with astounding results.

hen two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor WFrankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific authors. This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious PUBLICITY AND MARKETING Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. • Prepublication Advertising on Shelf Awareness These concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As • National Media Appearances, including Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate NPR the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But • National Print Features • Online Promotion these specimens prove imperfect for Victor’s purposes. Moving eBook his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in 978-0-385-53149-8 Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men—the res- $26.95 urrectionists—whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great ALSO AVAILABLE danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature The Lambs of London that will bear his name for eternity. 978-1-4000-7958-2 $12.95 Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Trade paperback: Anchor London: The Biography William Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and 978-0-385-49771-8 penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frank- $19.95 enstein is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century. Trade paperback: Anchor

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MARK LAMSTER MASTER OF SHADOWS The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens

The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe’s most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.

eter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master Pwith the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however, Rubens had no equal; his contemporaries revered him as the greatest painter of his era, if not in all history. His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite PUBLICITY AND MARKETING among monarchs and political leaders across Europe, and gave • National Media Appearances, including him perfect cover for the clandestine activities that shaped the NPR • National Print Features landscape of seventeenth-century politics. • Online Promotion at marklamster.com and with art and art history blogs and Rubens- In Master of Shadows, Mark Lamster tells the story of Rubens’s related sites • Reading Group Guide available at life and brilliantly re-creates the culture, religious conflicts, doubleday.com and nanatalese.com and political intrigues of his time. Commissions to paint mili- eBook tary and political leaders drew Rubens from his Antwerp home 978-0-385-53223-5 to London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome. The Spanish crown, rec- $26.95 ($33.00 Can) ognizing the value of his easy access to figures of power, enlisted him into diplomatic service. His uncommon intelligence, preternatural charm, and ability to navigate through ever-shifting political winds allowed him to negotiate a long- sought peace treaty between England and Spain even as Europe’s shrewdest statesmen plotted against him. And all the while, he was busy creating a catalog of art’s most enduring masterpieces. Master of Shadows weaves a gripping drama of cloak-and- dagger diplomacy with an insightful, authoritative exploration of Rubens’s art and the private passions that influenced it.

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GRAEME GIBSON THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS Echoes from the Peaceable Kingdom

In a wonderfully diverse selection of writings and gorgeous illustrations, this stunning companion to The PUBLICITY AND MARKETING Bedside Book of Birds explores the relationship • National Media Appearances, including between predators and their prey. NPR • National Print Features • Jacket Blowups Available he intricate, complex connection between the hunter and ALSO AVAILABLE Tthe hunted has defined animal life on earth throughout Bedside Book of Birds time. In The Bedside Book of Beasts, Graeme Gibson gathers 978-0-385-51483-5 $29.95 breathtaking works of art and literature that capture the power, Hardcover: Nan A. Talese grace, and inventiveness of both predators and their natural prey. The Bedside Book of Beasts presents myths, fables, poetry, and excerpts from nature and travel writing, journals, sacred texts, and works of fiction. Within these pages we encounter big cats, bears, wolves, and the small but voracious praying mantis, as well as works that bring to life the experience of more vulnera- ble prey. Portraits of such legendary evil beasts as the Minotaur, Grendel, and the biblical Leviathan add to the depth and breadth of the collection. An impressive array of art, both traditional and contemporary, as well as scientific, religious, and mythological drawings, paintings, and woodcuts make this volume an utterly unique gift for the holidays or any occasion. A fascinating exploration of the chain of life, of survival and mortality, The Bedside Book of Beasts evokes a profound sense of the eternal connection between humans and the creatures they endeavor to tame.

GRAEME GIBSON is the author of The Bedside Book of Birds, Five Legs, Perpetual Motion, and Gentleman Death. He is a past president of PEN Canada and the recipient of both the Harbourfront Festival Award and the Toronto Arts Award. At present he is the Joint Honorary President of the Rare Bird Club of Birdlife International. He lives in Toronto, Canada, with the 978-0-385-52459-9

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ANNE C. HELLER AYN RAND AND THE WORLD SHE MADE

The first complete and impartial biography of the writer and philosopher whose ideas permanently altered the American cultural and political landscape.

yn Rand is best known as the author of the perennially A bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Altogether, more than 12 million copies of the two novels have been sold in the United States. The books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the foundation of the Libertarian movement, and influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond. A passionate advocate of laissez-faire capitalism and individual PUBLICITY AND MARKETING rights, Rand remains a powerful force in the political percep- • National Media Appearances, including C-SPAN and NPR tions of Americans today. Yet, twenty-five years after her death, • National Print Features her readers know little about her life. • Select Author Appearances • Online Promotion, outreach to sites devoted to Ayn Rand; author podcast In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controver- available at doubleday.com at the time of sial author’s life from her childhood in Russia during the publication • Jacket Blowups Available Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in eBook Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the 978-0-385-52946-4 rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and $35.00 ($43.00 Can) 1960s. Throughout, Heller reveals previously unknown facts about Rand’s history and looks at Rand with new research and a fresh perspective. Based on original research in Russia, dozens of interviews with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, and previously unexamined archives of tapes and letters, Ayn Rand and the World She Made is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century.

ANNE C. HELLER has written for such publications as Lear’s, Mademoiselle, TriQuarterly, and Esquire. She is the former fiction editor of Esquire and Redbook, and a former executive editor at Condé Nast Publications.

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Alfred A.Knopf Index of Titles Page Page The American Civil War, John Keegan 85 Lincoln, Life-Size, Philip B. Kunhardt III, American Icon, Teri Thompson, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Kunhardt, Jr. 89 Christian Red 46 The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 83 Angel Time, Anne Rice 79 The National Parks, Dayton Duncan and The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser 94 Ken Burns 55 The Bauhaus Group, Nicholas Fox Weber 78 News of the World, Philip Levine 74 Blood’s A Rover, James Ellroy 63 Noah’s Compass, Anne Tyler 61 The Case for God, Karen Armstrong 57 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro 53 The Children’s Book, A. S. Byatt 69 Nothing Was the Same, Kay Redfield Civil War Wives, Carol Berkin 64 Jamison 65 The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, On Thin Ice, Richard Ellis* 92 Johnny Mercer 80 The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov 97 Conquering Fear, Harold S. Kushner 81 Painting Below Zero, James Rosenquist 86 Conversations with Woody Allen, Eric Lax 52 A Phone Call to the Future, Mary Jo Crossers, Philip Caputo 76 Salter 54 Crude World, Peter Maass 58 The Pleasures of Cooking for One, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Judith Jones 62 Stories, Leo Tolstoy 98 The Queen Mother, William Shawcross 93 Defend the Realm, Christopher Andrew 77 Redeeming Features, Nicholas Haslam 96 Easy, Marie Ponsot 84 Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff 73 Eating, Jason Epstein 82 Robert Redford, Michael Feeney Callan 95 The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chinua Achebe* 72 Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara 54 Endpoint and Other Poems, John Updike 45 The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, David Allen Sibley 48 A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore 59 The Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon 51 The Godfather of Kathmandu, John Burdett 75 Sweet Thunder, Wil Haygood* 68 Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo 91 Sheryl WuDunn 60 Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso 70 Hearts of the City, Herbert Muschamp 100 Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro 101 The Immortals, Amit Chaudhuri 50 The Truth About Love, Josephine Hart 49 In the Falling Snow, Caryl Phillips 56 The Vintage Caper, Peter Mayle 71 The Jazz Loft Project, Sam Stephenson 88 Wheeling Motel, Franz Wright 66 Jericho’s Fall, Stephen L. Carter 47 Who Shot Rock & Roll, Gail Buckland 67 Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Woodrow Wilson, John Milton Cooper, Jr. 90 Bastianich Manuali 87 The World in Vogue, Hamish Bowles 99

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Index of Authors Page Page Achebe, Chinua, The Education of a Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. British-Protected Child 72 Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Andrew, Christopher, Defend the Realm 77 Lincoln, Life-Size 89 Kushner, Harold S., Conquering Fear 81 Armstrong, Karen, The Case for God 57 Lax, Eric, Conversations with Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and Tanya Woody Allen 52 Bastianich Manuali, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy 87 Leithauser, Brad, The Art Student’s War 94 Levine, Philip, News of the World 74 Berkin, Carol, Civil War Wives 64 Maass, Peter, Crude World 58 Bowles, Hamish, The World in Vogue 99 Mayle, Peter, The Vintage Caper 71 Buckland, Gail, Who Shot Rock & Roll 67 Mercer, Johnny, The Complete Lyrics of Burdett, John, The Godfather of Johnny Mercer 80 Kathmandu 75 Moore, Lorrie, A Gate at the Stairs 59 Byatt, A. S., The Children’s Book 69 Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness 101 Calasso, Roberto, Tiepolo Pink 70 Muschamp, Herbert, Hearts of the City 100 Callan, Michael Feeney, Robert Redford 95 Nabokov, Vladimir, The Original of Laura 97 Caputo, Philip, Crossers 76 O’Hara, Frank, Selected Poems 54 Carter, Stephen L., Jericho’s Fall 47 Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence 83 Chaudhuri, Amit, The Immortals 50 Phillips, Caryl, In the Falling Snow 56 Cooper, Jr., John Milton, Woodrow Wilson 90 Ponsot, Marie, Easy 84 Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns, Rice, Anne, Angel Time 79 The National Parks 55 Rosenquist, James, Painting Below Zero 86 Ellis, Richard, On Thin Ice 92 Russo, Richard, That Old Cape Magic 91 Ellroy, James, Blood’s A Rover 63 Salter, Mary Jo, A Phone Call to the Future 54 Epstein, Jason, Eating 82 Shawcross, William, The Queen Mother 93 Gideon, Melanie, The Slippery Year 51 Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior 48 Hart, Josephine, The Truth About Love 49 Stephenson, Sam, The Jazz Loft Project 88 Haslam, Nicholas, Redeeming Features 96 Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton, Haygood, Wil, Sweet Thunder 68 Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red, Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes 53 American Icon 46 Jamison, Kay Redfield, Nothing Was Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich the Same 65 and Other Stories 98 Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass 61 Jones, Judith, The Pleasures of Cooking for One 62 Updike, John, Endpoint and Other Poems 45 Keegan, John, The American Civil War 85 Weber, Nicholas Fox, The Bauhaus Group 78 Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn, Wright, Franz, Wheeling Motel 66 Half the Sky 60 Zuckoff, Mitchell, Robert Altman 73

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JUST PUBLISHED John Updike Endpoint and Other Poems

ohn Updike’s last book, a stunning, moving collection of poems written Jover the past seven years, which he put together only weeks before he died.

John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsyl- lections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His books vania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the How- member of the staff of The New Yorker. He was the au- ells Medal, among other honors. He died in January thor of more than sixty books, including novels and col- 2009.

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July Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red American Icon The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime

sing Roger Clemens’s fidelity and drug use in Ustartling fall from professional ball, and grace—accusations of ste- provides an inside look roid use, investigation by at the way Congress has the Justice Department, dealt with the entire disclosure of sexual infi- issue. Jose Canseco, Alex delities, and the possible Rodriguez, and Chuck charges of perjury and Knoblauch are some of maybe even prison time the baseball players who to come—as a starting have substantial roles in point, this is the defini- this book. The writers tive book on corruption take us outside the white and the steroids era in lines and inside the deal- Major League Baseball. ings of sports executives, While Clemens is the cen- trainers, Congressmen, tral figure, the book ex- lawyers, a country west- amines the rise of illegal ern singer, a porn star, drugs in America’s fa- drug dealers, even a mur- vorite sport, the gym/ derer—all of whom have steroid culture in Texas, ties to the extraordinary the story of Andy Pettitte Clemens saga. and his father’s involvement with HGH, the An important, disturbing book, and one legal maneuverings in the Clemens/Brian that will rock and captivate baseball fans all McNamee case, and the culture of sexual in- over the country.

Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Chris- • National Media Appearances tian Red are the New York Daily News sports investigative team, • National Print Features which has been at the forefront of the issue of performance- • Drive-time Sports Radio Campaign enhancing drugs since the team’s inception in 2000. One of the • Author Tour: Boston, Houston, and only investigative units of its kind in American sports journalism, New York the I-Team has won more than a dozen major awards for its • National Print Advertising, including work. USA Today • Online Advertising on TheNewYork Times.com

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Stephen L. Carter Jericho’s Fall A novel

tephen L. Carter’s bril- Beck believes she is there Sliant debut thriller, to say good-bye, but she The Emperor of Ocean is quickly and unwittingly Park, spent eleven weeks drawn into a battle of on the New York Times wits being fought over an best-seller list and was explosive secret that for- followed by two nation- eign governments and wide best sellers, New powerful corporations England White and alike want to wrest from Palace Council. Now, in Jericho before he dies. Jericho’s Fall, Carter re- An intricate, fast- turns us to the high- moving thriller that stakes world of power, plumbs the emotional privilege, and conspiracy. depths of a failed love af- In an imposing house fair and a family torn in the Colorado Rockies, apart by mistrust, Jeri- Jericho Ainsley, former cho’s Fall embraces a head of the Central Intel- wide range of issues, from ligence Agency and long- the morality of intelli- time Wall Street titan, lies gence operations to the dying. Jericho summons meltdown of the world to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger financial system. And it creates, in Beck woman for whom he threw his career away DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our tur- twenty years ago, miring them both in scandal. bulent modern age.

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David Allen Sibley The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior

For the first time in flexibind: David Sibley’s authoritative and comprehensive guide to avian life. A trove of information about the biology, life cycles, and behavior of the eighty bird families of North America.

“Sibley’s artwork is more than impressive; it’s incredible! Paired with The Sibley Guide to Birds, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior will raise birding to a new level.” —Birder’s World “Another landmark in bird guides . . . This book should be read by all birders who want to make their hobby much more meaningful and satisfying.” —Don Messersmith, Audubon Naturalist News

“This is the book to turn the casual bird- watcher into a birder; it’s suffused with David Sibley’s quiet, concerned wonder.” —Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly

With 786 full-color paintings by David Allen Sibley and 16 maps Edited by Chris Elphick, John B. Dunning, Jr., and David Allen Sibley Nature • 6 x 9 1/2 • 608 pages • $39.95 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4386-6

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August Josephine Hart The Truth About Love A novel

rom the author of including love of coun- FDamage, a new novel try—in the past and dur- of piercing emotional ining the forty years tensity and intelligence— through which the novel about loss and love and moves. what it takes for the heart In the mother, we see and mind to bear them how the desperate atten- both. tion of her husband and The dramatic death of the delicate bravery of her a teenage boy in a small daughter lure her away Irish town in the early from grief. In the neigh- 1960s sets the story in bor, we see a man who motion, and three bril- knows all too well that liantly realized voices— “after a tragedy, many the boy’smother,his older survivors are lost.” In the sister, a German ex-pat sister, we see someone in- neighbor—summon this tent on embracing the world into existence. As “weapon of memory.” they struggle to make These voices speak whole sense of the tragedy, their lives, shaped in essential descriptions of its after- ways by the boy’s death, math mix with meditations and conversations and by the ways the past requires as much about other love tested, twisted, or lost— attention—and love—as the present.

Josephine Hart is the best-selling author of Damage, Sin, Obliv- • National Print Features ion, The Stillest Day, and The Reconstructionist. Her work has • National Print Advertising in The New been translated into twenty-seven languages. She lives in London York Times Book Review with her husband, Maurice Saatchi, and their two sons. • Reading Group Guide (Available at www.aaknopf.com at the time of publication) • Online Promotion on ReadingGroupGuides.com • Endcap/Author Poster (978-0-307-47138-3; n/c) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Amit Chaudhuri The Immortals A novel

rom the award-winning author of A New World, Fan incantatory new novel—at once plaintive and comic—about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future. 1980s Bombay. Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained in the classical idiom, but happily engaged in teaching the more popular songs to well-to-do women whose modern way of life he cov- ets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the roman- tically rebellious scion of an affluent family, and wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from Nirmalya’s mother (Shyam’s prize pupil), Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in both their lives. And as the novel unfolds, we see how the two families come to challenge and change each other, how student and teacher slowly mesh their differing visions of the world, and what place music holds in it. With exquisite sensuous detail, with quiet humor, generosity, and unsentimental poignancy, The Im- • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books mortals gives us a luminous portrait of the spiritual and emotional force of a revered Indian tradition, of two fundamentally different but intricately inter- Available in Vintage paperback: twined families, and of a society choosing between Freedom Song $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70400-0 the old and the new. A New World $12.00 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72480-0 Amit Chaudhuri is the author of several award-winning novels, as well as being an internationally acclaimed musician and essay- ist. Freedom Song: Three Novels received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. He is a contributor to London Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is currently professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.

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Melanie Gideon The Slippery Year A Meditation on Happily Ever After

or anyone who has soon she is going to sleep- Fever wondered Is this walk through the rest of all there is, Melanie her life. Devastating and Gideon’s poignant, hilari- sweet, moving and power- ous, exuberant medita- fully affirmative, The Slip- tion on the indignities pery Year is a conversation and consolations of mod- about all the things that ern domestic life will be matter: children, summer an inspiration to live dresses, sisters, dogs, love, more fully, laugh more loss, the passage of time— deeply, love more pas- andallthereasonstogoon sionately, and appreciate living when the only thing the inescapable absurdi- we can be certain of is that ties of every day. one day it will all end. The A few weeks before her SlipperyYearisthestoryof forty-fourthbirthday, Mel- a woman who consciously anie Gideon has an epiph- chooses to find beauty,sig- any: sooner, rather than nificance, and meaning, later, she is going to die. not by chucking it all but She realizes that if she by embracing the life she doesn’t wake herself up already has.

“Funny, wrenching and spot-on. Get ready to Melanie Gideon lives in San Francisco with her husband weep and laugh. Gideon weaves a kind of and son. The first chapter of The Slippery Year originally magic here, polishing the days until they gleam appeared in slightly altered form in the “Modern Love” like gold.” —Julia Scheeres, column of The New York Times. author of Jesusland

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Now in Paperback Eric Lax Conversations with Woody Allen His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking Updated and Expanded n discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, IAllen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.

“Fascinating . . . Readers will find a trove of Woody- on-Woody insight [and] something interesting on nearly every page.” —Baltimore Sun

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“You feel that you are in the same room, listening to someone asking intelligent, informed questions and hearing the subject giving intelligent, relaxed answers . . . An entertaining book.” —The Washington Times

Eric Lax is also the author of Woody Allen: A Biography and coauthor (with A. M. Sperber) of Bogart. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times. He is an officer of In- ternational PEN and lives in Los Angeles.

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September Kazuo Ishiguro Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

ne of the most celebrated writers of our time Ogives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a come- back, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . a man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . a struggling singer- songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . a gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . a young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . . Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combina- tion of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And as a result, these men and women find themselves at a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. In an exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Ishiguro reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision • National Media Appearances, including and subtlety,and with the arresting psychological and NPR and print features emotional detail that has marked all of his acclaimed • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review and The New and best-selling works of fiction. Yorker • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471338; Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six previous novels, including n/c) Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, which won the • Jacket Blowups Available Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro’swork has been translated into forty languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to litera- Available in Vintage paperback: ture, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et An Artist of the Floating World des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with $13.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-72266-3 his wife and daughter. Never Let Me Go $14.00 (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7877-6 Also available from Random House Audio A Pale View of Hills $12.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-72267-0 The Remains of the Day $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73172-6 5 3 The Unconsoled Fiction • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 240 pages $15.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73587-8 $25.00 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27102-0 When We Were Orphans Knopf Canada: $29.95 • 978-0-307-39787-4 $14.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72440-4

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KNOPF POETRY IN PAPERBACK Frank O’Hara Selected Poems Edited by Mark Ford he first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several Tdecades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. “Sensitively chosen and intelligently introduced . . . Ford’s selection makes it possible to see more clearly how inward O’Hara’s poetry was at its best . . . For O’Hara a poem was truthful when it was personal . . . [His] elegies succeed because long after he discarded any religious belief in immortality, he retained the aesthetic sensibility that took it seri- ously.” —Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books Frank O’Hara was the author of six volumes of poetry, the first of which was published in 1952. He was a curator at the Museum of Modern Art and wrote numerous essays on painting and sculpture. He died in 1966 at the age of forty.

Mark Ford has published several books of poetry and is the author of the critical biography Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams.

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Mary Jo Salter A Phone Call to the Future New and Selected Poems his “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years Tof “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation. “Only a few poets transcend the history of taste to participate in the history of art—and only in a handful of poems. Salter has been struck by lightning more than once.” —James Longenbach, The New York Times Book Review “Poems that are deeply human, brilliantly realized, and refreshingly perceptive.” —Julie Hale, BookPage Mary Jo Salter is the author of five previous books of poetry and a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home. She is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hop- Available in Knopf paperback: kinsUniversity.ShedivideshertimebetweenAmherst,Massachusetts,andBaltimore. Open Shutters $16.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71014-8 7 3 Poetry • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 240 pages • paperback $18.00 (Can. $22.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-71156-5

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Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns The National Parks America’s Best Idea

he companion ment and continued Tvolume to the protection of the new Ken Burns film: a parks, from the fa- magnificently illus- mous figures—John trated history of the Muir, Teddy Roo- American National sevelt, John D. Rock- Park System. efeller Jr. among In a rich, evocative, them—to the unsung deeply informative men and women. narrative, Dayton Here too are six ex- Duncan and Ken tended interviews with Burns examine how people whose lives each new park was have been shaped by brought into the their connections to system—from the ad- the American land- ventures and myth- scape (including Terry making to the intense Tempest Williams) political battles—and and a vast array of capture the particular breathtaking photo- importance, splendors, and ideals embodied graphs, both archival and contemporary. in each place. They introduce us to the peo- A glorious celebration of one of the most es- ple who were instrumental in the establish- sential expressions of American democracy.

• National Media Appearances, • 7-city Tour at the time of publi- • Online Advertising on including a morning show, cation: Boston, Chicago, Denver, TheNewYorkTimes.com and NPR, and print features Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Fodors.com • Pre-publication Tour and Washington, D.C. • Dedicated Web page throughout 2009, from January • National Television Advertising • Radio Giveaway Promotion on: Albuquerque, Atlanta, Campaign, including the • 8-copy Floor Display Baltimore, Bozeman, Denver, History Channel, the Travel (9780307471307; Knoxville, Las Vegas, Los Channel, National Geographic, $400.00/Can.: $496.00) Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, and the Today show Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake • Window Decal • National Print Advertising, (9780307471314; n/c) City, San Antonio, San including The New York Times Francisco, and Seattle Book Review • Jacket Blowups Available

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Caryl Phillips In the Falling Snow A novel

searing new novel from one of our most ad- Amired writers: the story of a man at a turning point in his life and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in the 1960s to immigrant West In- dian parents, raised primarily by his white step- mother—is in his forties, a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone: separated from his wife of twenty years (her family “let her go” for marrying a black man); kept at arm’s length by his seventeen-year-old son; es- tranged from his father; accused of harassment by a coworker. And beneath it all, a desperate feeling that his work and he himself are no longer relevant. Moving between past and present, the narrative uncovers the particulars of class, background, tem- perament, and desire that have brought Keith to this moment; and reveals how,often unwittingly,his wife, his son, and his father help him grasp the breadth of the changes that have occurred around him—and • National Print Advertising in Harper’s and The New York Review of Books what those changes will require of him. At once intimate and expansive, deeply moving in its portrayal of A selection of titles available in Vintage the vagaries of familial love and bold in its scrutiny of paperback: the personal and societal politics of race, this is Caryl The Atlantic Sound Phillips’s most powerful novel yet. $13.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70103-0 Cambridge Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up $13.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73689-9 in England. He is the author of three books of nonfiction and Crossing the River nine novels. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN $13.00 (NCR) • 978-0-679-75794-8 Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, Dancing in the Dark won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other awards $13.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-1-4000-7983-4 include the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Award, a Guggen- A Distant Shore heim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-3450-5 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in Foreigners New York. $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-7984-1

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Karen Armstrong The Case for God

nuanced exploration the efficacy of faith. Why Aof the part religion has God become incredi- plays in human life, past ble? Why is it that athe- and present, from one of ists and theists alike now the foremost commenta- think and speak about tors on religion at work God in a way that devi- today. ates so profoundly from Moving from the Pa- the thinking of our an- leolithic Age to the pres- cestors? Answering these ent, Karen Armstrong questions with the same details the great lengths depth of knowledge and to which humankind has profound insight that gone in order to experi- have marked all of her ence a sacred reality that acclaimed books, Arm- it has called God, Brah- strong makes clear how man, Nirvana, Allah, or the changing face of the Dao. Focusing especially world has necessarily on Christianity but in- changed the importance cluding Judaism, Islam, of religion at both the so- Buddhism, Hinduism, cietal and the individual and Chinese spirituality, level. And she makes a Armstrong examines the diminished im- powerful, convincing argument for drawing pulse toward religion in our own time, on the insights of the past in order to build a when a significant number of people either faith that speaks to the needs of our danger- want nothing to do with God or question ously polarized age.

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Peter Maass Crude World The Violent Twilight of Oil

stunning and revealing examination of oil’s in- Adelible impact on the countries that produce it and the people who possess it. Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse”—the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and to create new ones. New York Times Mag- azine writer Peter Maass employs tireless reporting and an eye for detail to present a vivid portrait of the world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of oil remaining in the country’s largest oil reservoir; to Equatorial Guinea, where two tennis courts grace the oil-rich dictator’s estate but bandages and aspirin are a hospital’s only supplies; and to Venezuela, where Hugo Chávez’s campaign to redistribute oil wealth creates new economic and political crises. Maass also introduces us to an American lawyer leading Ecuado- rians in an unprecedented lawsuit against Chevron; a Russian oil magnate imprisoned for his defiance of Vladimir Putin’s leadership; Nigerian villagers whose livelihoods are destroyed by the discovery of oil. • National Media Appearances, including Rebels, royalty, environmentalists, indigenous ac- C-SPAN, NPR, and print features tivists, CEOs—their stories, deftly and sensitively pre- • 6-city Author Tour: Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, sented, tell the larger story of oil in our time. and Washington, D.C. Crude World is a harrowing and essential account • National Print Advertising in The New of the consequences of our addiction to oil. York Times Magazine Peter Maass is a contributing writer to The New York Times Available in Vintage paperback: Magazine and has reported from the Middle East, Asia, South Love Thy Neighbor America, and Africa. He has written as well for The New Yorker, $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-679-76389-5 The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and Slate. Maass is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, which chron- icled the Bosnian war and won prizes from The Overseas Press Club and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York City.

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Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs A novel

he long-awaited new novel—a book of stunning power—by Tone of the most heralded writers of the past thirty years. Set just after the events of September 2001, about a twenty-year-old woman from a small midwestern farm, making her way, coming of age. Under the novel’s languid, easygoing surface, Moore’s deft, lyrical writing brings us up against the heart of racism, the shock of war, and the carelessness perpetrated against others in the name of love.

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Available in Vintage paperback: Lorrie Moore is the author of the story collections Birds of Amer- Anagrams ica, Like Life, and Self-Help, and the novels Who Will Run the $13.95 (Can. $17.95) • 978-0-307-27728-2 Frog Hospital? and Anagrams. Her work has won honors from Like Life the Lannan Foundation, The Irish Times, and the American $13.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-71916-5 Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Rea Award and the Self-Help PEN/Malamud Award. She is a professor of English at the Uni- $13.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978-0-307-27729-9 versity of Wisconsin in Madison. Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? $12.95 (Can. $19.95) • 978-1-4000-3382-9 5 3 Fiction • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 336 pages $25.00 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-40928-8 Doubleday Canada: $29.95 • 978-0-385-66824-8

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Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Half the Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

call to arms against our era’s most pervasive Ahuman rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a difficult birth; an Afghan wife beaten ruthlessly by her husband and mother-in-law. But we meet, as well, those who have triumphed—a formerly illiterate fis- tula patient who became a surgeon in Addis Ababa; an Indian woman who saved herself and her children from prostitution—and those who make it their work to provide hope and help to other women: the victim of gang rape who galvanized the international community and created schools in rural Pakistan; the former Peace Corps volunteer who founded an organization that educates and campaigns for women’s rights in Senegal. Through their stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to progress lies in unleashing women’s potential—and they make clear how each of us can help make that happen. Fiercely moral, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.

• National Media Appearances, including Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband and wife, won C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China as New York Times print features correspondents. Mr. Kristof won a second Pulitzer for his op-ed • 7-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, columns in the Times. He has also served as bureau chief in Hong Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo, and as associate managing editor. At Seattle, and Washington, D.C. the Times, Ms. WuDunn worked as a business editor and as a • Online Advertising on foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. They live in the New TheNewYorkTimes.com York area. • Jacket Blowups Available

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Anne Tyler Noah’s Compass A novel

rom Anne Tyler, a Baltimore. All he knows Fwise, gently humor- when he wakes up a day ous, and deeply compas- later in the hospital is that sionate novel about a his head is sore and ban- schoolteacher, forced to daged. retire at sixty-one, com- His effort to recover ing to terms with the final the moments of his life phase of his life. that have been stolen Liam Pennywell, who from him leads him on an set out to be a philosopher unexpected detour. What and ended up teaching fifth he needs is someone who grade,nevermuchlikedthe can do the remembering job at that run-down pri- for him. What he gets vate school, so early retire- is—well, something quite ment doesn’t bother him. different. What does bother him is We all know a Liam. In thathehaslostthememory fact, there may be a little of what happened the first of Liam in each of us. night after he moved into Which is why Anne his spare, efficient condo- Tyler’s lovely novel res- minium on the outskirts of onates so deeply.

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and • National Print Features grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her eighteenth novel. • National Print Advertising Campaign, Her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize including The New York Times Book in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute Review and The New Yorker of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. • Radio Giveaway Promotion • 9-copy Floor Display (9780307471321; Also available from Random House Audio $233.55/NCR) • Reading Group Guide (Available at Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition www.aaknopf.com at the time of $26.95 (NCR) • 978-0-7393-2864-4 publication) • Online Promotion at ReadingGroupGuides.com • Author web page • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Judith Jones The Pleasures of Cooking for One With more than 150 recipes

rom the legendary ed- leftovers to innovate— Fitor of some of the the remains of beef bour- world’s greatest cooks— guignon are transformed including Julia Child and into a ragu, pork tender- James Beard—a delight- loin becomes a stir-fry, ful book about the joys of red snapper is reinvented cooking for one. as a summery salad. In a book as passion- Jones is both an in- ate as it is practical, Ju- structor and a mentor, dith Jones demonstrates suggesting basic recipes that cooking for one for items—such as mari- presents unparalleled pos- nara sauce or home- sibilities for both pleas- made stock—that all ure and experimentation: cooks should have on we can cook with what- hand, teaching us how ever ingredients appeal to improvise through in- to us, using farmers’ mar- genious weekly menus, kets and specialty shops and supplying us with a to enrich our palates and lifetime’s worth of tips improve our health; we and strategies. can feel free to fail, since The Pleasures of Cook- the meal doesn’t have to be perfect (we have ing for One is a vibrant, wise celebration of only ourselves to impress); and we can use food and our own company.

Judith Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. • National Media Appearances, including Knopf. She is the author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food and NPR and print features the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of three books: • Author Tour: New York, Boston/New The Book of Bread; Knead It, Punch It, Bake It!; and The Book England, and Washington, D.C. of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with • National Print Advertising in The New Angus Cameron on The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, York Times Magazine and has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. • Online Advertising on Epicurious.com In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime and Facebook Achievement Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.

Available in Anchor paperback: The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-307-27744-2

With 25 full-color illustrations in text 1 1 Cookbooks • 6 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄4 • 304 pages $27.50 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27072-6

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James Ellroy Blood’s A Rover A novel

olitical noir as only paving the way for the PJames Ellroy can write mob’s casinos in the Do- it. The incendiary stand- minican Republic. A alone sequel to American young L.A. “wheelman” Tabloid and The Cold Six for divorce lawyers within Thousand—a massive tale tantalizing reach of the of corruption and retri- men who killed the bution, conspiracy and Kennedys and Martin cover-up. Luther King and took us It is summer,1968. The to the threshold of Water- country is exploding. We gate. Their lives collide in are running point with pursuit of the “Red God- three men: a Klan-raised, dess Joan”—and they Yale-educated FBI agent will all pay “a dear and infiltrating black-militant savage price to live His- groups at J. Edgar Hoo- tory.” ver’s racist behest and Once again James Ell- obsessed with a leftist roy razes and reconstructs shadow figure named our recent past. Blood’s A Joan Rosen Klein. An ex- Rover is his largest and cop and heroin runner greatest work of fiction.

James Ellroy’s previous novels American Tabloid and The zine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; My Dark Places, a Cold Six Thousand began the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. memoir, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big York Times Notable Book for 1996; The Cold Six Thou- Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were inter- sand was a Los Angeles Times Best Book and a New York national best sellers. American Tabloid was Time maga- Times Notable Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.

• Advance Reader’s Edition Minneapolis, New York, • Author Web page • National Media Appearances, Philadelphia, Portland, San • Endcap/Author Poster including NPR and print Francisco, Seattle, and (9780307471253; n/c) Washington, D.C. features • Downloadable Shelf-talker • 13-city Author Tour: Boston, • National Print Advertising, (Available at Chicago, Denver,Kansas City, including The New York Times www.aaknopf.com/marketing) Book Review Los Angeles, Miami, • Jacket Blowups Available

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Carol Berkin Civil War Wives The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant

n the life stories of three “accidental heroes”— Iwomen whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had—Carol Berkin, one of the nation’s premier historians, offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time. Drawing on private and public records, Berkin shows us how Angelina Grimké Weld bravely re- nounced her Southern family’s values, embracing the anti-slavery movement, only to find her voice silenced by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. In Varina Howell Davis, we see an independent mind and spirit that incurred the disapproval of her husband, Jefferson Davis, and made her ill-suited for her role as First Lady of the Confederacy, but served her well when she was lobbying for her husband’s release from prison. The wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Dent Grant, was a model of genteel domesticity, content with the restrictions of motherhood and with the al- ternating fame and disgrace, wealth and poverty, that her marriage entailed, until late in life when she glimpsed the price of dependency. • National Media Appearances, including Bringing these three remarkable women vividly C-SPAN, NPR, and print features alive, Berkin captures the tensions and animosities of • 4-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. the prewar era and the disruptions and anxieties gen- erated by the war and its aftermath, and connects us to our national past with rare immediacy and verve. Available in Vintage paperback: Revolutionary Mothers $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-7532-4 Carol Berkin received her B.A. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is currently Baruch College Presidential Professor of History and also teaches at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Revolutionary Mothers, A Brilliant Solution, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, and First Generations: Women in Colonial America. She lives in New York City and Guilford, Connecticut.

With 6 photographs in text 1 1 History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 384 pages $27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4446-7

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Kay Redfield Jamison Nothing Was the Same A memoir

rom the internation- overpowering grief, and Fally acclaimed author her efforts to distinguish of An Unquiet Mind, a grief from depression. haunting meditation on But she also recalls the mortality, grief, and loss. joy that Richard brought Perhaps no one but Kay her during the nearly Jamison—who combines twenty years they had the acute perceptions of a together. Wryly humor- psychologist with writerly ous anecdotes mingle elegance and passion— with bittersweet memo- could bring such a delicate ries of a relationship touch to the subject of los- that was passionate and ing a spouse to cancer. In loving—if troubled on spare and at times strik- occasion by her manic ingly lyrical prose, Jami- depression—as Jamison son looks back at her reveals the ways in relationship with her hus- which Richard taught band, Richard Wyatt, a her to live fully through renowned scientist who his courage and grace. battled severe dyslexia to become one of the A penetrating study of grief viewed from foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with deep inside the experience itself, Nothing Was characteristic honesty, she describes his slow the Same is also a deeply moving memoir by a surrender to cancer, her own struggle with superb writer.

Kay Redfield Jamison is professor of psychiatry at the Johns • National Media Appearances, including Hopkins University School of Medicine and codirector of the NPR and print features Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. She is the author of the • 10-city Author Tour: Baltimore, Boston, national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast; co- Denver,Los Angeles, Miami, New York, author of the standard medical text on manic-depressive (bipolar) Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and illness; and the author or coauthor of more than one hundred Washington, D.C. scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psycho- • National Print Advertising in The New pharmacology. She is the recipient of numerous national and York Times Book Review international scientific awards and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. Available from Vintage paperback: Exuberance $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70148-1 Night Falls Fast $14.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70147-4

An Unquiet Mind 7 3 Psychology • 4 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 224 pages $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-679-76330-7 $25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26537-1

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Franz Wright Wheeling Motel Poems

rom the indomitable Franz Wright, a luminous Fbook of reconciliation with the past and acceptance of what may come in the future. From his earliest years, he writes in “Will,” he had “the gift of impermanence / so I would be ready, / accompanied / by a rage to prove them wrong . . . that I too was worthy of love.” This rage comes coupled with the poet’s own brand of love, what he calls “one / strange alone / heart’s wish / to help all / hearts.” Po- etry is indeed Wright’s help, and he delivers it to us with a wry sense of the daily in America: in his wonderfully local relationship to God (whom he encounters along with a catfish in the emerald shallows of Walden Pond); in the little West Virginia motel of the title poem, on the banks of the Ohio River, where Tammy Wynette’son the marquee and he is visited by the figure of Walt Whitman, “examining the tear on a dead face.” In Wheeling Motel, Wright’s poetry continues to surprise us with its frank appraisal of our soul, with his combustible loneliness and unstoppable joy. Franz Wright’s most recent works include Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (which won the At 54 Pulitzer Prize for poetry), God’s Silence, and An instant of lucidity, an hour Earlier Poems. He has been the recipient of two outside of time, National Endowment for the Arts grants, a a life— Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, I glance at the left hand and the PEN/Voelcker Award, among other unclenched in the sunlight honors. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, shining on my desk with his wife, the translator and writer Elizabeth and think of my friend’s Oehlkers Wright. recent cremation— that takes a while. And I can’t wait Available in Knopf paperback: to return to this chair in which I am sitting, this The Beforelife $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-70943-2 world, the one where each object stands Earlier Poems $18.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71146-6 for nothing at all but its own inexplicable existence. God’s Silence $16.00 (Can. $19.00) • 978-0-375-71081-0 Walking to Martha’s Vineyard $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71001-8 7 3 Poetry • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 112 pages $26.00 (Can. $32.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26568-5

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October Gail Buckland Who Shot Rock & Roll A Photographic History, 1950–Present

he first book to Wertheimer ...Bob T explore the extra- Dylan and girlfriend ordinary work of the on a snowy Green- photographers who wich Village street, with their spectacular by Don Hunstein . . . images captured the en- John Lennon in ergy, intoxication, re- sleeveless New York bellion, and magic of City T-shirt, by Bob rock and roll. Gruen ...Jimi Hen- Who Shot Rock & drix, by Gered Mank- Roll brings together owitz, a photograph two hundred photo- made into a poster that graphs, including many hung on the walls of rare and never-before- millions of bedrooms seen images: searing, and college dorms . . . sensual, luminous, With text and cap- and often iconic por- tions by Gail Buckland, traits; album covers; behind-the-scenes and who writes about the photographs and the live concert shots. Here is Elvis in 1956— men and women who took them; about how not yet mythic but already beautiful, ten- they saw what they saw and captured what der, and sexy—photographed by Alfred they did: the spirit and essence of rock.

Gail Buckland has written and collaborated on eleven books of • National Media Appearances, including photographic history, including Fox Talbot and the Invention of NPR and print features Photography, The Magic Image (with Cecil Beaton), and The • Author Tour: Los Angeles, New York, American Century (with Harold Evans). She is former curator of and San Francisco the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, professor of the • Interviews/Promotions on Rock Radio history of photography at The Cooper Union, and guest curator Stations at many American museums. She lives in Warwick, New York, • Online Advertising on RollingStone.com and New York City. and TheOnion.com • Music Blog Advertising, including LargeHearted Boy and StereoGum • Jacket Blowups Available

With 175 illustrations in text, 87 in full color 1 1 Photography • 9 ⁄2 x 10 ⁄4 • 304 pages $40.00 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27016-0

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Wil Haygood Sweet Thunder The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson

rom the author of the critically acclaimed Sammy FDavis, Jr., biography In Black and White, a sweeping biography–cum–cultural history centered around one of the most iconic figures of boxing. Wil Haygood grounds the story of Sugar Ray Robinson’s spectacular rise to greatness firmly within the historical context of his lifetime: born in 1921, Robinson came of age when the country seethed with virulent racism. Georgia was his birthplace, but from the time he was young, Harlem was his home. It was there that he began boxing, at thirteen, and, in the 1940s and 1950s, became a staple figure, glamorous and electrifying, emerging as a powerful symbol of Black America. Among the great strengths of the book are the vivid descriptions of Sugar Ray’s unique blend of grace and ferocity in the ring. But with equal vividness, the author describes Robinson’s life outside the ring, weaving in portraits of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis—whose lives not only intersected with Sugar Ray’s but also contribute to the illumina- tion of his moment in our cultural and political his- • National Media Appearances, including tory. NPR and print features From scrappy street kid to cultural icon to the rel- • 4-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Detroit, New York, and Washington, D.C. ative obscurity of his last years, Sugar Ray comes • Online Advertising on sports sites and on hauntingly and powerfully to life against the vivid Facebook backdrop of the world he captivated. • Jacket Blowups Available Wil Haygood, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a staff writer for the Style section of The Washington Post. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award, the ASCAP Deems Tay- lor Outstanding Musical Biography Award, and the Nonfiction Book of the Year award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and it was named one of the top ten books of the year by the Chicago Tribune.

With 18 photographs in text 1 1 Biography/Sports • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 384 pages $27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4497-9

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A. S. Byatt The Children’s Book A novel

rom the Booker Prize–winning author of Posses- Fsion, a dazzling new novel that spans the years from the Victorian era through World War I and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves. When Olive Wellwood’soldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the Victoria and Albert Museum—a boy who could be a character out of one of Olive’s magical tales—she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the midsummer bacchanals the Wellwoods host at their rambling country house—and the private books that Olive writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. As these lives—of adults and children alike—unfold, lies are revealed, hearts are broken, and the damaging truth about the Well- woods is slowly uncovered. Yet a far larger danger awaits: the Great War lies ahead, and it will leave no one unscathed. Advance Reader’s Edition • Suspenseful, seductive, at once sweeping and inti- • National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features mate, The Children’s Book is a masterly literary • 12-city Author Tour: Bloomington, IN, achievement by one of our most essential writers. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Columbus, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, A. S. Byatt is the author of numerous novels, including A Raleigh/Durham, Richmond, Rochester, Whistling Woman, The Biographer’s Tale, Babel Tower, and Pos- and San Francisco session, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She has also writ- • National Print Advertising in The New ten two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects; five York Times Book Review collections of shorter works, including Little Black Book of Sto- • Reading Group Guide (Available at ries; and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic as www.aaknopf.com at the time of well as a novelist, she lives in London. publication) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at Also available from Random House Audio www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Roberto Calasso Tiepolo Pink

he eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giovanni TBattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with fres- coes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him—but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him, they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo’s series of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting these etchings as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo’s art. Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura, the art of not seem- ing artful. • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Roberto Calasso is the author of, among other works, The Ruin of Kasch; The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, which won Available in Vintage paperback: the Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Ka; and K. K. Together with Tiepolo Pink, these books form a work in $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7612-3 progress, all of whose parts deal with highly diverse yet closely in- Ka terconnected materials. Born in Florence, Calasso now lives in $16.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-679-77547-8 Milan. Literature and the Gods $13.00 (Can. $20.00) • 978-0-375-72543-2 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony $15.95 • 978-0-679-73348-5

Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen With 81 full-color illustrations in text 5 3 Art • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 320 pages $40.00 (Can. $47.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26766-5

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Peter Mayle The Vintage Caper A novel

eter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel of PFrance, filled with mouthwatering food, sumptuous wines, colorful characters, and lots of fun. The story begins in Hollywood, at the expensive home—and impressive wine cellar—of lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth’s insurance company—now saddled with a multimillion-dollar claim—Sam follows his leads, first to Bordeaux and the magnificent vineyards where so much wine is aged into delectable existence and then to Provence and the collectors who he rightly assumes might have envied Roth’s collection. Along the way, bien sûr, he’s joined by a beautiful and intelligent French colleague. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle’s seductive rendering of France’s • National Media Appearances, including NPR sensory delights—from a fine Pinchon-Lalande and • National Print Features, including food Léoville Barton to the bouillabaisse of Marseille and and wine publications young lamb in Bordeaux. Even the most sophisticated • 10-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, of oenophiles will learn a thing or two in this vintage Chicago, Denver,Los Angeles, Miami, work from a beloved author. New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. Peter Mayle is the author of eleven previous books, five of them • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review novels. He has received the Légion d’Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions. He has been living in Online Advertising, including • Provence with his wife, Jennie, for almost twenty-five years. Fodors.com, Facebook, and Google ad words Also available from Random House Audio • Author Web page (PeterMayle.net) • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471390; n/c) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Chinua Achebe The Education of a British-Protected Child Essays

new collection of Visitations,” we witness Aautobiographical es- the terrifying nature of the says from the celebrated African diaspora and what author of Things Fall it means not to know Apart—his first new book “from whence he came.” in more than twenty years. Politics and history figure Chinua Achebe’s char- in “What Is Nigeria to acteristically measured and Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished nuanced voice is every- Name,” and “Politics of where present in these sev- the Politicians of Lan- enteen beautifully written guage.” And Achebe’s ex- pieces. In “The Education traordinary family comes of a British-Protected into view in “My Dad and Child,” Achebe gives us a Me” and “My Daugh- vivid portrait of growing ters.” up in colonial Nigeria and Charmingly personal, inhabiting its “middle intellectually disciplined, ground,” recalling both his and steadfastly wise, The happy memories of read- Education of a British- ing novels in secondary Protected Child is an in- school and the harsher dispensable addition to truths of colonial rule. In “African-American the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.

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Mitchell Zuckoff Robert Altman The Oral Biography

obert Altman—visionary director, risk-taking Rproducer; eccentric family man, Hollywood icon—comes brilliantly to life in this rollicking oral biography. Altman burst onto the scene as a major film director in 1970 with M*A*S*H. His groundbreaking style helped usher in a new era of American filmmaking, and his most famous films—Nashville, Short Cuts, and The Player, among them—manipulated genre and form in ways that had never been done before nor replicated since. Here, in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque, the director’s life and career are recounted by those who knew him best: his sisters, wives, children, and old girlfriends; agents, producers, writers, fellow directors, and studio executives. We hear from Meryl Streep, Warren Beatty,Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Julie Christie, Elliott Gould, Robin Williams, and many others. We even hear from Altman himself. Mitchell Zuckoff, who was working with Altman on his memoirs before he died, weaves the interviews • National Media Appearances, including together into a seamless, riveting tale of an extraordi- NPR and print features nary life. From revelations about the director’s wom- • Author Tour: Boston, Los Angeles, and New York anizing and his brief career as a dog tattoo • National Print Advertising, including The entrepreneur to the heart transplant he tried to keep New York Times and LA Weekly secret and his notorious tempestuous nature, here is • Extensive Online Advertising on film Robert Altman as we’ve never seen him. sites • Jacket Blowups Available Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston Univer- sity. He is the author of three previous books, most recently Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend. As a re- Also available from Random House Audio porter with The Boston Globe, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and the recipient of numerous national writing awards. He lives near Boston with his wife and daughters.

With 119 photographs in text 1 1 Film/Biography • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 592 pages $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26768-9

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Philip Levine News of the World Poems

new collection from “a great American poet . . . Astill at work on his almost-song of himself” (The New York Times Book Review). In both lively prose poems and more formal verse Philip Levine brings us news from everywhere: from Detroit, where exhausted workers try to find a decent breakfast after the late shift, and Henry Ford, “supremely bored” in his mansion, clocks in at the plant . . . from Spain, where a woman sings a song that rises at dawn through an open window like the dust of ages . . . from Andorra, where an old commu- nist can now supply you with anything you want—a French radio, a Cadillac, or, if you have a week, an American film star. There are poems about a haunting past—an immigrant working in a loud automotive shop yearns for the silence of his native Siberia—and about a haunted present: in “Our Valley,” the presence of the ocean, “something massive, irrational, powerful” on the other side of mountains that “maintain that huge silence we think of as divine.” Available in Knopf paperback: Breath You have to remember this isn’t your land. $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71078-0 It belongs to no one, like the sea you once lived beside The Mercy and thought was yours. Remember the small boats $16.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70135-1 that bobbed out as the waves rode in, and the men New Selected Poems who carved a living from it only to find themselves $20.00 (Can. $27.95) • 978-0-679-74056-8 carved down to nothing. Now you say this is home, The Simple Truth so go ahead, worship the mountains as they dissolve in dust, $16.00 (Can. $24.00) • 978-0-679-76584-4 wait on the wind, catch a scent of salt, call it our life. What Work Is A rich, deeply felt collection from one of our mas- $15.00 (Can. $22.50) • 978-0-679-74058-2 ter poets.

Philip Levine was born and grew up in Detroit. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award in 1991 for What Work Is and the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for The Simple Truth. He divides his time between Fresno, Cali- fornia, and Brooklyn, New York.

Poetry • 6 x 9 • 80 pages $25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27223-2

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John Burdett The Godfather of Kathmandu A novel

onchai Jitpleecheep— Tietsin is enlightened and SJohn Burdett’s in- (eerily) charismatic, he imitable Thai police also has forty million dol- detective—is summoned lars of heroin for sale. If to the most shocking and Sonchai truly wants to be intriguing crime scene of an initiate into Tietsin’s his career. Solving the “apocalyptic Buddhism,” murder could mean a he has to pull off a deal promotion, but Sonchai, that will bring Vikorn reeling from a personal and Zinna to the same tragedy, is more inter- side of the table. The chal- ested in Tietsin, an exiled lenge is further compli- Tibetan lama based in cated when he meets Kathmandu who has be- Tara, a Tantric practi- come his guru. tioner who captivates him There are, however,ob- with her otherworldly stacles in Sonchai’s path techniques. to nirvana. Police Colonel Here is Sonchai put to Vikorn has just named the extreme test—as a Sonchai his consigliere cop, as a Buddhist, as an (he’s been studying The impossibly earthbound Godfather on DVD) in his ongoing battle with man—in John Burdett’s most wildly inven- Army General Zinna for control of Bangkok’s tive, darkly comic, and wickedly entertaining network of illegal enterprises. And though novel yet.

John Burdett is the author of A Personal History of Thirst, The • National Print Features Last Six Million Seconds, Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, and • National Print Advertising in The New Bangkok Haunts. He lives in Bangkok. York Times Book Review • Author Web page • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Philip Caputo Crossers A novel

rom the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith (“A Fmiracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more af- fecting reading experience”—Houston Chronicle), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past. When Gil Castle loses his wife in the destruction of 9/11, he retreats to his family’s sprawling ranch in Arizona. It’s a part of the world where drug lords have more power than police and violence is a constant presence. But it is also a world of vast, open space where Gil begins to rebuild his belief in the potential for happiness—until he starts to uncover the dark truths about his fearsome grandfather, a legacy that has been tightly shrouded in mystery in the years since the old man’s death. And when Gil comes to the aid of a Mexican man whose border-crossing drug deal has gone bad, his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder of the • National Media Appearances, including fact that while he may be able to reinvent himself, he NPR and print features might never escape his family’s past. • 6-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is New England, New York, Phoenix, and Philip Caputo’s most ambitious and brilliantly real- Tucson ized novel yet. • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Philip Caputo worked for nine years for the Chicago Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud Available in Vintage paperback: in Chicago. He is the author of seven other works of fiction and Acts of Faith two memoirs, including A Rumor of War, about his service in $15.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-72597-5 Vietnam, and four works of nonfiction. He divides his time be- Delcorso’s Gallery tween Connecticut and Arizona. $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-72509-8 Exiles $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-679-76838-8 Horn of Africa $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-72511-1 Indian Country $15.00 (Can. $23.00) • 978-0-375-72510-4 The Voyage $15.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-679-76839-5 1 1 Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 480 pages $27.95 (Can. $34.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-41167-0

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Christopher Andrew Defend the Realm A Centenary History of MI5

n unprecedented publishing event: to mark the Acentenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth- century British history, from its foundation by Cap- tain Kell of the British Army in October 1909, through two world wars, up to and including its present roles in counterespionage and counterterrorism. The book describes how MI5 has been managed, what its relationship has been with government, where it has triumphed, and where it has failed. In all of this no restriction has been placed on the judg- ments made by the author. Defend the Realm also reveals the identities of previously unknown enemies of the United Kingdom whose activities have been uncovered by the Service, adds significantly to our knowledge of many celebrated events and notorious individuals, and definitively lays to rest a number of persistent myths. Above all, it shows the place of this previously extremely secretive organization within the United Kingdom. Few • National Media Appearances, including books could make such an immediate and extraordi- C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and print features nary increase to our understanding of British history • 5-city Author Tour: Chicago, Los over the past century. Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Christopher Andrew is Britain’s leading historian of intelligence, • Online Advertising on TheNewYork professor of modern and contemporary history and chair of the Times.com, Slate.com, and history sites faculty of history at Cambridge University. He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study Group, coeditor of Intelligence and Na- tional Security, former visiting professor at Harvard, Toronto, Also available from Random House Audio and the Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC Radio and TV documentaries. His thirteen previous books include The Mitrokhin Archive, volumes 1 and 2, and a number of groundbreaking studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern history.

With 32 pages of photographs 1 1 Political Science/History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 704 pages $40.00 (NCR) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26363-6

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Nicholas Fox Weber The Bauhaus Group Six Masters of Modernism

he acclaimed biographer of Le Corbusier, TBalthus, and Sterling and Stephen Clark now gives us a vibrant, intimate portrait of six of the extraordinary artists and architects at the Bauhaus, the pioneering German art school that, during its fourteen years of existence, from 1919 to 1933, made possible many of the twentieth century’s greatest paintings, changed the look of buildings, objects, and graphic design throughout the world, and profoundly altered our way of seeing. Nicholas Fox Weber, for more than three decades as director of the Albers Foundation, was a longtime friend of Josef and Anni Albers, the only husband- and-wife pair at the Bauhaus (he was a painter, she a textile designer and weaver) and was told their stories about life at the Bauhaus. Now Weber renders that place and time with unprecedented richness, focusing on the Alberses and on their fellow artists and teachers Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius. Weber brilliantly captures what is missing from all other Bauhaus books— a feeling for their exuberant embrace of life, the spirit and flare with which they lived and worked, and their all-consuming goal of making art and architecture new. A group portrait infused with the powerful force of the individual personalities and passions of six remarkable artists.

Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Connecticut and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteen previous books, among them Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Coop- erstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, Leland Bell, and The Art of Babar. He and his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, live in Bethany, Connecticut, and in Paris.

• National Print Features • National Print Advertising in The New With 100 photographs in text and 16 pages of color York Review of Books 1 1 Art History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 544 pages $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26836-5

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Anne Rice Angel Time The Songs of the Seraphim A novel

nne Rice returns to stranger, a seraph, who Athe mesmerizing sto- offers him a chance to rytelling that has capti- save rather than destroy vated readers for more lives. O’Dare, who long than three decades in a ago dreamt of being tale of unceasing suspense a priest but, instead, set in time past—a meta- came to embody danger physical thriller about an- and violence, seizes his gels and assassins. chance. Now he is car- The novel opens in the ried back through the present. At its center: ages to thirteenth-century Toby O’Dare—a contract England, to dark realms killer of underground where accusations of rit- fame on assignment to kill ual murder have been once again. A soulless made against Jews, soul, a dead man walking, where children suddenly he lives under a series of die or disappear . . . Into aliases—just now: Lucky this primitive setting, O’- the Fox—and takes his Dare begins his perilous orders from “The Right quest for salvation, a Man.” journey of danger and Into O’Dare’s nightmarish world of lone flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and and lethal missions comes a mysterious love.

Anne Rice is the author of twenty-nine books. She lives in Ran- • Advance Reader’s Edition cho Mirage, California. • National Print Features • National Radio Interviews Also available from Random House Audio • National Print Advertising in The New York Times and People Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition • Online Advertising, including $25.95 (NCR) • 978-0-7393-7735-2 USAToday.com and romance sites • Radio Giveaway Promotion • 12-copy Floor Display (9780307471246; $311.40) • Jacket Blowups Available

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer Edited by Robert Kimball, Barry Day,and Miles Kreuger

he seventh volume in Knopf’s critically ac- During a career of more than four decades, Tclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published Mercer was nominated for the Academy in Johnny Mercer’scentennial year,contains the Award for Best Song an astonishing 18 times, texts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hun- and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchi- dred of them published here for the first time. son, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the of the Big Band era and were regularly featured Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music collaborators, who included Richard A. Whit- for both by Henry Mancini). ing, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome You’ve probably fallen in love with more Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to than a few of Mercer’s songs—his words have some of the most famous standards, among never gone out of fashion—and with this su- them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers perb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics el- Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” evated popular song into art. and “That Old Black Magic.”

Robert Kimball has edited the Com- Barry Day has written books on Noël Miles Kreuger, the president of the In- plete Lyrics of Cole Porter, Irving Coward, Dorothy Parker, Oscar stitute of the American Musical, is the Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Frank Loesser, Wilde, and P.G. Wodehouse. He lives author of Show Boat: The Story of a and Ira Gershwin. He lives in New in New York, London, and Palm Classic American Musical. He lives in York. Beach. Los Angeles. Also available: • Year-long 100th birthday tributes The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II in major cities throughout the U.S., $65.00 (Can. $75.00) • 978-0-375-41358-2 including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Savannah • Theatrical release of a biographical film in November; Executive Producer,Clint With 60 illustrations in text 1 1 Eastwood Music • 10 ⁄2 x 11 ⁄2 • 544 pages $65.00 (Can. $79.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26519-7

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Harold S. Kushner Conquering Fear Living Boldly in an Uncertain World

he author of When Bad Things Happen to TGood People now gives us an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it. It is an inescapable component of our lives: fear of unemployment; fear of aging, illness, losing beauty; fear of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable, hopeful book, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner teaches us to confront, master, and even embrace fear for a more fulfilling life. Combining his own thoughts with the teachings of religious and secular literature and with the true stories of people who have faced down their fears, Rabbi Kushner helps us see that fear can present us with extraordinary opportunities—to connect with our emotions, rethink our values, and change our lives, and the world, for the better. For those who fear helpless- ness, he suggests empowerment: through prayer, service, and knowledge. For those who fear for mankind’s future, he insists on hope and pragmatic measures such as working to protect the environment. For those who fear death, he proposes life— National Print Features • lived courageously and purposefully. National Radio Interviews • In Conquering Fear, we are again inspired by Rabbi • 10–12-city Author Tour, including Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, Kushner’s wisdom: at once deeply spiritual and emi- Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, nently practical. and Washington, D.C. • National Print Advertising in The New Harold S. Kushner is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, York Times Massachusetts, where he lives. His classic work, When Bad • Major Online Advertising Things Happen to Good People, was an international best seller. He was honored by the Christophers, a Roman Catholic organization, as one of the fifty people who have made the world a bet- Available in Anchor paperback: ter place in the last half century, and as clergyman of the year by Living a Life That Matters the national organization Religion in American Life. $12.95 (Can. $14.95) • 978-0-385-72094-6 The Lord Is My Shepherd Also available from Random House Audio $12.95 (Can. $16.00) • 978-1-4000-3335-5 Overcoming Life’s Disappointments $11.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978-1-4000-3336-2 When Bad Things Happen to Good People 5 3 $10.95 (Can. $12.50) • 978-1-4000-3472-7 Psychology • 5 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 192 pages $22.95 (Can. $27.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26664-4

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Jason Epstein Eating A Memoir

ason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher Jof Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, from his childhood summers in Maine, where his decision to improve upon his grandmother’s chicken pot pie led to a lifetime at the stove, to the great restaurants of postwar Paris and the narrow streets of New York’s Chinatown today; from a New Year’s dinner aboard the old Île de France with Buster Keaton to an evening at New York’s glamorous “21” restaurant with the dreaded Roy Cohn; from Chinese omelets with the great Jane Jacobs at the edge of the Arctic Ocean to a lobster dinner with the Mailers on Cape Cod, and a warning to examine the chair before you sit down to dinner with W. H. Auden. The author agrees with the Greek philosopher Her- aclitus that you can never step in the same river twice, that every act is unique and so is every dish. In this • National Media Appearances, including book, the more than forty recipes are told as stories NPR and print features that one would tell a friend in stove-side conversation, • Author Tour: Boston, New England, and New York rather than as the usual formulae. • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the Na- tional Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Fu- ture.

1 Biography • 5 x 7 ⁄2 • 192 pages $25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-4296-8

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Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence A novel

rom the universally acclaimed author of Snow Fand My Name Is Red, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. It is 1975 in Istanbul. Kemal, thirty, from an upper- class family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo. Their incandescent liaison will flicker and die when Füsun learns of Kemal’s engagement. But Kemal cannot forget her: he breaks up with his fiancée to pursue Füsun, only to lose her to another man. For nine years Kemal finds excuses to visit Füsun’s impoverished, conservative marital household, playing the kindly cousin, hoping to lure her back. But Füsun’s heart is hardened. From his visits Kemal will take away nothing but odd personal effects, possessions he will collect and cherish, in the private religion his adoration becomes. His hoard will make him famous—and a laughingstock—in Istan- bul society. And when a final chance at happiness is • National Media Appearances, including NPR and print features ripped away, all that remains to him is his museum, this map of a society’s rituals and mores, and of one • 8-city Author Tour: Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San man’s broken heart. Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic at- • National Print Advertising in The New tachment and the strange allure of collecting, this is York Times Book Review and The New Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement. Yorker Online Advertising, including Facebook • Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His • Author Web page novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471291; Award. His work has been translated into more than fifty lan- n/c) guages. He lives in Istanbul. • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at www.aaknopf.com) Also available from Random House Audio • Jacket Blowups Available

A selection of titles available in Vintage paperback: Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely My Name Is Red 1 1 $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-70685-1 Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 512 pages Snow $26.95 • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26676-7 $14.95 (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-70686-8 Knopf Canada: $34.95 • 978-0-676-97968-8

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Marie Ponsot Easy Poems

eave it to the graceful Marie Ponsot, now in her Llate eighties, to view her life in poetry as easeful. As she tells us, pondering what stones can hear, “Between silence and sound / we are balancing darkness, / making light of it.” Ponsot so beautifully makes light of all she touches; after more than a half century at her craft, she is accepting of what has come, whether it’s a joyous memory of her second-grade teacher in New York public school or the feeling of being “Orphaned Old,” less lucky in life since her parents died. She holds herself to the highest standard: to see clearly, to think, to deal openhandedly with the world, to “Go to a wedding / as to a funeral: / bury the loss” and also to “Go to a funeral / as to a wedding: / marry the loss.” This beloved poet, who confides that she meets works of great art “expectant and thirsty,” inspires the same spirit in her readers.

Glad tired gaudy we are more than we thought & as ready as we’ll ever be...... Marie Ponsot’s most recent books include The On dancing day Bird Catcher, winner of the National Book Crit- we’ll belt out tunes we’ll step to ics Circle Award for poetry,in 1998, and Spring- together ing: New and Selected Poems. Professor emerita till it’s time for us to say of English at Queens College, CUNY, she now there’s nothing more to say teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the nothing to pay no way 92nd Street Y and at the New School University. pay no mind pay no heed Her awards include the Phi Beta Kappa Medal, pay as we go. the Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association, and the Poetry Society of America’s from “Dancing Day II” Frost Medal for lifetime achievement. She lives in New York City.

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John Keegan The American Civil War A Military History

or the past half century, John Keegan, the great- Fest military historian of our time, has been re- turning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of such ill-trained, ill-equipped, and often starving combatants; the effective absence of deci- sive battles among some 260 fought. Now Keegan examines these and other puzzles with a peerless understanding of warfare, uncovering dimensions of the conflict that have eluded earlier historiography. While offering original and perceptive insights into psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics, Keegan reveals the war’s hidden shape—a consequence of leadership, the evolution of strate- gic logic, and, above all, geography. The American topography, Keegan argues, presented a battle space of complexity and challenges unmatched before or since. Out of a succession of mythic but chaotic engagements, he weaves an irresistible narrative illuminated with comparisons to the • National Media Appearances, including Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and other NPR and print features conflicts. • National Print Advertising, including The New York Times Book Review, The The American Civil War is sure to be hailed a de- Atlantic Monthly, and military finitive account of its eternally fascinating subject. periodicals • Online Advertising on Historynet.com John Keegan’s books include The Iraq War, Intelligence in War, and History.com The First World War,The Battle for History, Fields of Battle, and • Endcap/Author Poster (9780307471239; A History of Warfare. He lives in Wiltshire, England. n/c) • Downloadable Shelf-talker (Available at Also available from Random House Audio www.aaknopf.com/marketing) • Jacket Blowups Available Also available in a Random House Large Print Edition $30.00 (Can. $37.00) • 978-0-7393-2744-9

A selection of titles available in Vintage paperback: The Battle for History $12.00 (NCR) • 978-0-679-76743-5 A History of Warfare With 12 maps and 16 pages of photographs 1 1 $16.95 (NCR) • 978-0-679-73082-8 History • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 416 pages Intelligence in War $35.00 (Can. $42.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26343-8 $15.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-70046-0

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James Rosenquist with David Dalton Painting Below Zero Notes on a Life in Art

lively, candid memoir from one of our greatest Aliving artists—part of the 1960s Pop Art movement along with Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—whose vast canvases filled with dramatic, surreally juxtaposed images revolu- tionized twentieth-century painting. James Rosenquist writes about his childhood in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and about arriving in New York City in 1955, penniless but with a scholarship to the Art Stu- dents League. He describes meeting fellow painters Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, nights at the celebrated Cedar Tavern, and days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway painting movie or theater billboards, a craft that would directly influence his art. He writes openly about the art world, his dealers, and his clients. And he explains how he came to make such major works as Zone, F-111, and Star Thief, among others. Wonderfully anecdotal, captivating, and unexpected—a unique look inside the contemporary art • National Media Appearances, including world in the company of one of its icons. NPR and print features • Author Appearances in Miami and New York James Rosenquist has had more than fifteen retrospectives, with two at the Whitney Museum of American Art and four at the National Print Advertising in The New • Guggenheim Museum. He also has had one in Moscow, two in York Review of Books Spain, and one at the Smithsonian in Washington, in addition to many gallery and museum exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad. He divides his time between Florida and New York, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

David Dalton is the author of some fifteen books, including James Dean and a novel, Been Here and Gone. He lives in up- state New York with his wife and son.

With more than 135 illustrations in text, 24 pages of color, and a full-color gatefold 1 1 Biography • 7 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 400 pages $50.00 (Can. $62.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26342-1

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Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes

n this warmly writ- Quail in Parchment; Iten, lushly illus- from coastal waters, a trated new cookbook, Roast Lobster with Lidia delves into the re- Bread Crumb Top- gional cooking of many ping, and Zuppa di lesser known parts of Pesce. And in every re- Italy—Molise, Liguria, gion she discovers new Umbria, Abruzzo, Cal- ways with pasta. abria, Valle d’Aosta, Le Above all, no matter Marche, Trentino Alto where she is, Lidia Adige, Basilicata, and reaches the local people Sardinia—and explores who make great olive hidden treasures in oils, or harvest tiny the well-known gas- lentils, or produce tronomic domains of artisan cheeses and re- Lombardy and Emilia gional wines. The au- Romagna. thentic and delectable From the north, she recipes she brings home brings us a wealth of rice recipes, including to us are born out of these intimate connections Risotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saf- and, as always, out of her passion for the de- fron; from sheep country, a Braised Leg of lightfully varied foods of her native Italy. In ad- Lamb plus Lamb Chops with Olives; from dition, her daughter, Tanya, takes us on side farmlands, Rabbit with Onions and Stuffed trips to share her love of the country and its art. Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of five previous Tanya Bastianich Manuali received her Ph.D. in Renais- books, four of which have been accompanied by nation- sance art history from Oxford University.Since 1996 she ally syndicated public television series. She is the owner of has led food/wine/art tours to Italy. She lives in New the hugely successful New York City restaurant Felidia, York City. among others, and she lectures on Italian cuisine throughout the country. She lives on Long Island, New York. The companion volume to the new public television series beginning to air Spring 2009

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November Sam Stephenson The Jazz Loft Project The Photographs of W. Eugene Smith Taken from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957–1965

legendary underground jazz and photography A happening becomes a book. From 1957 to 1965, W.Eugene Smith—one of the masters of twentieth-century photography—lived in a loft building in New York City’swholesale flower district that was the site of famous after-hours jazz jam sessions. During his eight years there he took forty thousand pictures (the largest body of work in his career), photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on Sixth Avenue outside his window.Now,two hundred of these extraordinary, never-before-seen photographs have been gathered together. Here are Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelo- nious Monk, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Roland Kirk, Zoot Sims, and Chick Corea, to name a few. And the pimps, prostitutes, cops, dealers, and drug addicts who dropped by,along with the likes of Doris Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, and Salvador Dalí. Sam Stephenson, the foremost authority on Smith, has edited the photographs and written the text, which includes excerpts from the four thousand hours of audio recordings Smith made at the time, as well as firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tale(s). An extraordinary portrait of the underground world of jazz in 1960s New York and the extraordinary photographer who captured it all.

Sam Stephenson is a writer and lecturer at the Center for Docu- mentary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith’s Pittsburgh Project and W. Eugene Smith 55. He lives in Chatham County, North Carolina.

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Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W.Kunhardt, and Peter W.Kunhardt, Jr. Lincoln,Life-Size

n essential col- evident in the changes Alection of photo- in expression and affect graphic portraits of these portraits capture. Abraham Lincoln, in Each portrait is pre- a striking format, sented both in a stan- from the foremost dard illustrative size family of Lincoln and in life-size, and is scholarship. accompanied by a con- Taken across a span temporaneous quote of nearly twenty years, by or about Lincoln, from 1846 to 1865, enriching the story of these images provide us his life as related in his with a visual account continuously evolving of Lincoln’s inter- image. twined political and Published for the personal lives as we holiday season at the watch him age and ob- end of the highly antici- serve the toll taken by pated Lincoln bicenten- the Civil War in the nial, Lincoln, Life-Size final four years of his grants us an unprece- life. Here are a wide range of Lincolns—wise, dented appreciation of this extraordinary man. It melancholic, ruggedly handsome, downright will be a must for all Lincoln enthusiasts—and homely, serene—his complex character clearly for anyone fascinated by our greatest president.

Philip B. Kunhardt III is a writer and producer and is currently • National Print Features a Bard Center Fellow at Bard College. Peter W. Kunhardt is • Author Tour: Chicago, New York, and executive producer of KunhardtMcGee Productions. Peter W. Washington, D.C. Kunhardt, Jr., is assistant director of photography at the • National Print Advertising, including The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation. They are coauthors of Looking New York Times Book Review for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon and, along with • Online Advertising, including their father, the late Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip and Peter are History.com and CivilWar.com coauthors of Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography. • Jacket Blowups Available

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John Milton Cooper, Jr. Woodrow Wilson A Biography

he first major biography of Woodrow Wilson in Tnearly twenty years, from America’sleading Wil- son scholar. Woodrow Wilson was one of the most important presidents in American history: a Democrat who re- took the White House after sixteen years of Republi- can administrations, he helped create many of the regulatory bodies that would prove central to gover- nance in the twentieth century. He guided the nation through World War I, making the United States a world power for the first time. And though he lost the fight to bring the country into the League of Nations, he defined a new way of thinking about international relations that would bear fruit with the creation of the United Nations. John Milton Cooper guides us through Wilson’s personal and political worlds, bringing the man and his times to life. We see how Wilson cut his political teeth as president of Princeton and how he came virtually out of nowhere in 1912 to lead the Democrats to victory, applying his careful study of politics to his new office. We see him develop his vision for govern- • National Media Appearances, including ment and articulate it in tours around the country, C-SPAN and NPR speaking directly to the American people, which he • 4-city Author Tour: Chicago, Madison, New York, and Washington, D.C. believed was the best way to engender their most sus- • National Print Advertising in The New tained, and sustaining, support. York Review of Books and The Atlantic A long overdue, revelatory portrait of one of our Monthly most transformative presidents.

John Milton Cooper, Jr. is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he lives. He is the author of Breaking the Heart of the World: Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations and The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, among other books. He was recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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Richard Russo That Old Cape Magic A novel

ollowing Bridge of marriage of their daughter FSighs—a national best Laura’s best friend. Sure, seller hailed by The Boston Jack’s been driving Globe as “an astounding around with his father’s achievement . . . a master- ashes in the trunk, though piece”—Richard Russo his mother’s very much now tells the story of a alive and often on his cell marriage, and all the other phone. Laura’s boyfriend ties that bind, from parents seems promising, but be and in-laws to children careful what you pray for, and the promises of youth. especially if it happens to Thirty years ago, on come true. A year later, at their Cape Cod honey- her wedding, Jack has an- moon, Jack and Joy Grif- other urn in the car, and fin made a plan for their both he and Joy have future that has largely brought new dates. Full of been fulfilled. He left Los every family feeling imag- Angeles behind for the inable, wonderfully comic sort of New England col- and profoundly involving, lege his parents had as- That Old Cape Magic is pired to, and now the two surprising, uplifting and of them are back on the Cape—where he’d also unlike anything this Pulitzer Prize winner has spent his childhood vacations—to celebrate the ever written.

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Richard Ellis On Thin Ice The Changing World of the Polar Bear

he polar bear—the magnificent and mythic in- Thabitant of the Arctic—has captivated our imagination for centuries. Now, with this amazing creature symbolizing the perils of global warming, acclaimed science writer Richard Ellis gives us an impassioned examination of its extraordinary life—and illuminates a path for saving it from extinction. Ellis describes the largest of land predators in clarify- ing detail and elucidates its hunting, mating, reproduc- tion, and hibernation habits. He explains its venerated place in Inuit culture and charts its normal lifespan. But he also reiterates the ways in which that lifespan is being shortened and perhaps altogether eliminated: with the ever-increasing loss of sea ice, the bear’s ability to hunt for food is continuously diminished. Over the past twenty years alone, the population of polar bears has shrunk dramatically and today numbers just 22,000. Ellis discusses the U.S. government’s resistance to placing the polar bear on the endangered species list and makes clear that while the ideological and fiscal battles between oil excavation and conservation are waging, the polar bear is tumbling toward an extinc- • National Media Appearances, including tion that is preventable. NPR and print features Authoritative, urgent, vividly written, On Thin Ice • Select Author Appearances is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of • National Print Advertising in The Atlantic Monthly one of the world’s greatest natural treasures. • Online Advertising on adventure, nature, and ecology sites Richard Ellis is the author of more than twenty books, including Tuna: A Love Story; The Book of Whales; Dolphins and Por- poises; The Book of Sharks; Men & Whales; Monsters of the Sea; Available in Vintage paperback: Great White Shark (with John McCosker); Deep Atlantic; Imag- Imagining Atlantis ining Atlantis; and The Search for the Giant Squid. He is also a $14.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-70582-3 celebrated marine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in Tuna: A Love Story (July 2009) museums and galleries around the world. He has written and il- $15.95 (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-307-38710-3 lustrated articles for numerous magazines, including Audubon, National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American. He lives in New York City.

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William Shawcross The Queen Mother The Official Biography

he official and definitive biography of Queen Eliz- Tabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles—and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon—the ninth of the Earl of Strathmore’s ten children—was born on August 4, 1900, and, certainly, no one could have imagined that her long life (she died in 2002) would come to reflect a changing nation over the course of an entire century.Now,William Shawcross— given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother’s personal papers, letters, and diaries—gives us a portrait of unprecedented vividness and detail. Here is the girl who helped convalescing soldiers during the First World War . . . the young Duchess of York helping her reluctant husband assume the throne when his brother abdicated . . . the Queen refusing to take refuge from the bombing of London, risking her own life to instill courage and hope in others who were living through • National Media Appearances, including a morning show, NPR, and print features the Blitz . . . the dowager Queen—the last Edwardian, • 5-city Author Tour: Atlanta, Boston, the charming survivor of a long-lost era—representing Miami, New York, and Washington, her nation at home and abroad . . . the matriarch of the D.C. Royal Family and “the nation’s best-loved grand- • National Print Advertising in The New mother.” York Times and British Heritage Magazine A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a sin- • 9-copy Floor Display (9780307471345; gular history of Britain in the twentieth century. $315.00/NCR) • Jacket Blowups Available Born in 1946, William Shawcross is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster who appears regularly on television and radio. His articles have appeared in leading newspapers and journals throughout the world. He lives in London.

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Brad Leithauser The Art Student’s War A novel

he place is Detroit, the year is 1943. A pretty Tyoung woman climbs aboard a streetcar in the crowded wartime city. She is heading home, where another war—a domestic war—is about to erupt. Our heroine, Bianca Paradiso (Bea to her friends and family), is eighteen and an ambitious art student. She is determined to observe everything, and there is much to see in a thriving, sleepless city where auto- mobile production has been halted in favor of fighter planes and tanks, and where wounded soldiers have begun to appear with disturbing frequency. The glorious pursuit of art and the harrowing pursuit of military victory eventually merge when Bea is asked to draw portraits of wounded soldiers in a local hospital. Suddenly, bewilderingly, she must deal with lives maimed at their outset, and with headlong romantic yearnings that demand more of her than she feels prepared to give. In this, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has realized a double feat of imagination: a loving historical por- • National Print Advertising in The New York Review of Books trait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, and a keen and affectionate rendering of the artist as a Available in paperback: young woman. Rich, humorous, engrossing, The Art Curves and Angles Student’s War is Leithauser’s finest novel yet. $16.00 (Can. $19.00) • 978-0-375-71142-8 The Friends of Freeland Brad Leithauser is the author of five previous novels, five vol- $14.00 (Can. $19.50) • 978-0-679-77270-5 umes of poetry,two collections of light verse, a novel in verse, and a book of essays. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland.

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Michael Feeney Callan Robert Redford The Biography

he definitive biogra- correspondence, hundreds Tphy of Robert Red- of hours of taped inter- ford. views. Here is his family He has appeared on background and child- stage and screen, in front hood,hisrockystartinact- of and behind the camera, ing, the death of his son, earning Academy,Golden his star-making relation- Globe, and other awards ship with director Sydney and nominations for his Pollack, the establishment acting, directing, and pro- of Sundance, his political ducing. His Sundance involvement, artistic suc- Film Festival transformed cesses and failures, friend- the world of filmmaking. ships and romances. Here He is among the most is a portrait of a man widely admired Holly- whose iconic roles on wood stars of his gen- screen (Butch Cassidy and eration. But only now, the Sundance Kid, All the with this revelatory biog- President’s Men, The Nat- raphy, will we see behind ural) and directorial bril- the Hollywood facade to liance (Ordinary People, the surprising and com- Quiz Show) have both de- plex man. fined and obscured one of the most celebrated, Redford made available to Michael Feeney and until now least understood, public figures of Callan his personal papers: journals, script notes, our time.

Michael Feeney Callan is the author of short stories, for which he • National Media Appearances, including won the Hennessy Literary Award; two novels; and several plays, E!, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, NPR, as well as biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Richard Harris, Julie and print features Christie, and Sean Connery. He has worked for the BBC, ITV, • Radio Satellite Tour Ireland’s Ardmore Studios, and PBS as a writer, producer,and di- • 4-city Author Tour: Los Angeles, New rector of television dramas and documentaries. He lives in York, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco Dublin, Ireland. • National Print Advertising in The New York Times and LA Weekly Also available from Random House Audio • Extensive Online Advertising on film sites and to Facebook fans • Endcap Poster (9780307471352; n/c) • Jacket Blowups Available

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Nicholas Haslam Redeeming Features A Memoir

rom British designer Nicholas Haslam, a dazzling Fand witty account of his frenetic life—from the ’50s to the present—in London, the south of France, New York, Arizona, and Los Angeles, in a crowd of friends and acquaintances that includes virtually all of the cultural icons of our time. Haslam has found himself at the center of the most interesting circles wherever he is—at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In London in the late ’50s he crossed paths—and more—with Cecil Beaton, Fran- cis Bacon, Diana Cooper,Lucian Freud, David Hock- ney, and Noël Coward. In the ’60s, in New York, he encountered Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe while working at Vogue and Show magazines, before de- camping to a ranch in Arizona to raise Arabian horses, when he wasn’t commuting to Los Angeles to decorate for the stars. Back in England in the early ’80s, he attended the wedding of his cousin Diana Spencer and designed for everyone from the financier James Goldsmith to rocker Bryan Ferry. Haslam is a gifted and exuberant storyteller with • National Print Features an exacting eye for the telling detail. Redeeming Fea- • National Print Advertising in The New tures York Review of Books is a fascinating look at our culture, a compelling and wholly singular document of our times.

Nicholas Haslam is the author of a book about his interior design, Sheer Opulence, and has been a contributing editor of British Vogue and Tatler for many years. He also writes for The World of Interiors and The Spectator. He lives in London.

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Vladimir Nabokov The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun) A novel in fragments

t last: Vladimir Na- whether to honor his fa- A bokov’s final and ther’s wish or preserve for unfinished novel, in posterity the last piece of print—thirty years after writing of one of the his death, years in which greatest writers of the the fate of The Original twentieth century. His de- of Laura was in constant cision finally to allow and closely watched ques- publication will be pas- tion. sionately welcomed by When Nabokov died in both scholars and general 1977, he left instructions readers. And the ingen- for his heirs to burn the ious format of the book 138 handwritten index (which includes remov- cards that made up able facsimiles of the the rough draft of The index cards) will make an Original of Laura. But even more extraordinary Nabokov’s wife, Vera, occasion of this publish- couldn’t bear to destroy ing event. her husband’s last work, In its fragmented narra- and when she died, the tive—dark yet playful, fate of the manuscript fell preoccupied with mortal- to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy- ity—we are given one last experience of a four—the Russian novelist’s only surviving writer’s unparalleled creativity,a glimpse of his heir,and translator of many of his books—has last days, and a body of work finding its struggled for decades with the decision of apotheosis.

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Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Introduction by Richard Pevear new, vibrant translation of Tolstoy’s most im- Aportant short fiction, by the acclaimed translat- ing team whose War and Peace was a triumphant best seller. These incandescent stories from the mature author—some autobiographical, others moral para- bles, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evoca- tively drawn—include “Hadji Murat,” which Harold Bloom called “the best story in the world”; “The Devil,” a tale of sexual obsession based on Tolstoy’s own relationship with a married peasant woman on his estate in the years before his marriage; the celebrated title story, an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption; and seven others. Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation captures the richness, immediacy, and multiplicity of Tolstoy’s language and reveals the author as a passionate moral guide, an unflinching seeker of truth, and a creator of enduring and universal art.

Praise for Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translation of War and Peace: • National Print Features • National Print Advertising in The New “Shimmering . . . [It] offers an opportunity to see this York Times Book Review great classic afresh.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World A selection of translations by Pevear and Volokhonsky in Vintage paperback: “The English-speaking world is indebted to these two Crime and Punishment / Dostoevsky magnificent translators for revealing more of its hidden $15.95 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-679-73450-5 riches than any who have tried to translate the book Demons / Dostoevsky before.” —Orlando Figes, $17.95 (Can. $25.95) • 978-0-679-73451-2 The New York Review of Books The Double and The Gambler / Dostoevsky $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71901-1 Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia in 1828. He died in 1910. The Idiot / Dostoevsky $14.95 (Can. $17.50) • 978-0-375-70224-2 Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky live in Paris. Notes from Underground / Dostoevsky $11.95 (Can. $15.95) • 978-0-679-73452-9 War and Peace / Tolstoy $19.95 (Can. $22.95) • 978-1-4000-7998-8 1 1 Fiction • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 528 pages $28.95 (Can. $35.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26881-5

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Herbert Muschamp Hearts of the City The Selected Writing of Herbert Muschamp

he best work of the late Herbert Muschamp, Tformer architecture critic of The New York Times, and one of the most outspoken, lively, and influential voices in architectural criticism. Gathered here are pieces from The New Republic, The New York Times, and Artforum, as well as fragments of the book left unfinished. Muschamp drew on film, literature, and popular culture to write pieces that were passionate and personal, changing the landscape of architectural criticism in the process. He made it a subject accessible for everyone when, because of the heated debate between modernists and postmodernists, architecture had become part of a larger public dialogue. He reviewed architecture and design shows; he compared Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao to the body of Marilyn Monroe; he waxed poetic about a new design for Manhattan’s manhole covers. Early on he champi- oned the work of Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, and Santiago Calatrava, and • National Print Features • National Print Advertising in The New was drawn to the theoretical writings of architects York Review of Books such as Peter Eisenman. Included is his brilliant and poignant six-thousand-word piece about gay culture and Edward Durrell Stone’s museum at 2 Columbus Circle. Timely and often prescient, Hearts of the City is a dazzling collection of critical writing about the cityscapes that profoundly affect our lives.

Herbert Muschamp is the author of File Under Architecture and Man About Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City. He died in 2007.

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Alice Munro Too Much Happiness Stories

ine superb new sto- matician—on a winter Nries by one of our journey that takes her most beloved and ad- from the Riviera, where mired writers. she visits her lover, to A young wife and Paris, Germany, and the mother receives release Danish Isles, where she from the unbearable pain has a fateful meeting with of losing her children from a local doctor, and finally a most surprising source. to Sweden, where she In the aftermath of an un- teaches at the only univer- usual, humiliating seduc- sity in Europe willing to tion, a young woman employ a female mathe- reacts in a clever if less- matician. than-admirable way.Other With clarity and ease, stories uncover the “deep Alice Munro once again holes” in a marriage and renders complex, difficult their consequences, the events and emotions into unsuspected cruelty of stories that shed light on children, and how a boy’s the unpredictable ways in disfigured face molds his which men and women fate. And in the long title accommodate and often story,we accompany Sonia Kovalevsky—a late- transcend what happens in their lives. A com- nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathe- pelling, provocative—even daring—collection.

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THE JULIA WHO STARTED IT ALL!

Make sure you stock up on the classic work that forever changed the way America cooks. Now available with a movie tie-in bellyband. Julie and Julia —the new film by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams—opens August 7, 2009! The movie tells the story of Julia Child’s time in France and the making of Mastering the Art of French Cooking—and of Julie, a young woman determined to cook all 524 recipes from the classic cookbook in a single year. Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck With more than 100 illustrations by Sidonie Coryn 7 x 10 • 752 pages • 40.00 (Can. $60.00) • 978-0-375-41340-7

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CELEBRATE THE MOON LANDING Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the first moon landing—it’s almost like being there yourself.

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The World in Vogue People, Parties, Places Introduction by Hamish Bowles

rendsetters and news- in the Plaza Hotel; gar- Tmakers—actors, dens around the world artists, models, first designed by Miranda ladies, social figures—as Brooks; Valentino’s coun- they appeared in the try estate outside Paris; pages of Vogue from the the designers and movie 1960s to 2009, captured stars at the annual Cos- by such photographers as tume Institute party at the Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Metropolitan Museum; Horst, Edward Steichen, Mick Jagger and family Irving Penn, Richard in Mustique; Jacqueline Avedon, Helmut New- Kennedy and Michelle ton, Toni Frissell, Bruce Obama; Kate Moss, An- Weber, Herb Ritts, and gelina Jolie, Marlene Die- Annie Leibovitz. trich, Anjelica Huston, Here are the über- Nicole Kidman, Iman glamorous weddings of and David Bowie, Char- Plum Sykes in Yorkshire, lotte Rampling, and Lauren Davis in Carta- many more. gena, and Minnie Cush- Richly illustrated with ing to photographer Peter 400 color and black- Beard in Newport; Truman Capote writing and-white photographs, The World in about cruising the Dalmatian Coast with Lee Vogue is a stunning look at more than six Radziwill and the Agnellis; Gloria Steinem decades of portraits, houses, gardens, and reporting on the masked partygoers at the parties of celebrated figures from many Black and White Ball for Katharine Graham worlds.

Hamish Bowles is European editor at large for Vogue, and he • National Print Features mounted the 2001 Costume Institute exhibition “Jacqueline • Author Tour: Los Angeles, Miami, and Kennedy: The White House Years.” He has written for numer- New York ous publications, including The New York Times. He lives in • National Print Advertising in Vogue New York and London. • Jacket Blowups Available

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Author Index

Bell, Madison Smartt, Devil’s Dream ...... 120 McCall Smith, Alexander, The Lost Art of Gratitude* ...... 115 Brenner, Hannelore, The Girls of Room 28* . . . 127 Rees, Laurence, World War II Behind Closed Gordon, Mary, Reading Jesus...... 118 Doors...... 110

Jin, Ha, AGoodFall...... 124 Rubens, Michael, The Sheriff of Yrnameer. . . . . 111

Mallon, Thomas, YoursEver...... 122 Sebestyen, Victor, Revolution 1989 ...... 116

Mamet, David, The Wicked Son...... 128 Strassler, Robert B., editor, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika ...... 121 Mandelbrot, Benoit, The Fractalist...... 119 Urofsky, Melvin I., Louis D. Brandeis ...... 113 Marchetto, Marisa Acocella, Cancer Vixen .... 114 Vachss, Andrew, Haiku...... 123 Matsen, Brad, Jacques Cousteau* ...... 117 Wiesel, Elie, Rashi...... 129 McCall Smith, Alexander, La’s Orchestra Saves theWorld*...... 125 Wyld, Evie, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice*. . 112 Title Index

After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, Evie Wyld* . . 112 The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, Robert B. Strassler, editor ...... 121 Cancer Vixen, Marisa Acocella Marchetto . . . . . 114 The Lost Art of Gratitude, Alexander McCall Smith* ...... 115 Devil’s Dream, Madison Smartt Bell...... 120 Louis D. Brandeis, Melvin I. Urofsky...... 113 The Fractalist, Benoit Mandelbrot ...... 119 Rashi, ElieWiesel...... 129

The Girls of Room 28, Hannelore Brenner* ... 127 Reading Jesus, Mary Gordon ...... 118

A Good Fall, Ha Jin ...... 124 Revolution 1989, Victor Sebestyen ...... 116

The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens ..... 111 Haiku, AndrewVachss...... 123 The Wicked Son, David Mamet ...... 128 Jacques Cousteau, Brad Matsen* ...... 117 World War II Behind Closed Doors, Laurence Rees ...... 110 La’s Orchestra Saves the World, Alexander McCallSmith*...... 125 Yours Ever, Thomas Mallon ...... 122

* Of special interest to young adults

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-SALE O L AURENCE R EES EARLYN World I War I Behind Closed Doors STALIN, THE NAZIS AND THE WEST A gripping new history of World War II that shows how Stalin succeeded in gaining control over much of Eastern Europe after the defeat of the Nazis. A companion to the three-part PBS television series. Drawingn o material from recently opened Eastern European archives, Laurence Rees lays bare often shocking new information about the actions taken by Churchill, Roosevelt, and, most particularly, by Stalin during the war. The enthralling narrative is a blend of high-level politics and the experiences of those on the ground who bore the consequences of their leaders’ decisions. At the heart of the book is illuminating new testimony obtained from nearly one hundred participants in the conflict. With clarity and authority, Rees elucidates the true nature of the dealings between Churchill and Roosevelt, and of the Allies’ meetings at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. But perhaps most important, he sheds stunning new light on Stalin’s early amicable relationship with the Nazis and on how the Soviet leader was able to shape the course of the war, lead- 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations ing to a military victory for the Allies and to much 1 1 Military History • 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 448 pp. more insidious and lasting victories for himself. This $35.00 (Can. $43.00) is a stunning work of history that is certain to change ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37730-2 the way we think about both the waging and the out- come of World War II. Nationala Medi Attention “Reess i vastly well informed about the second world war. National Advertising, including The Atlantic, There are many surprises here, and much good detail . . . The New York Review of Books, The relationship between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill and The Wall Street Journal makes an ugly story, and Rees tells it extraordinarily well.” NPR Sponsorships —Sir Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

Cross Promotion with PBS Series (Air dates: L AURENCE R EES is the writer and producer of the May 6, 13, and 20) BBC/PBS television series World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis, and the West. His previous work includes the acclaimed television series and books The Nazis: A Warning from History, War of the Century, Hor- ror in the East, and Auschwitz: The Nazis and the “Final Solution,” for which he received the British Book Award for History Book of the Year. He lives in England.

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M ICHAEL R UBENS The Sheriff of Yrnameer A NOVEL

Hailed by Stephen Colbert as “a science fiction book your grandmother will love—if she’s a lustful, violent lady,” this mordant, fast-paced, witty tour of a delightfully improbable science fiction world combines The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with The Magnificent Seven. Our hero, Cole, is having a bad day. His sidekick has run off with his girlfriend. His ride has been disinte- grated by an officious traffic robot. And the space- ship he’s stolen to escape from a tentacled alien bounty hunter turns out to be filled with freeze-dried orphans. Reluctantly compelled to deliver the de- fenseless, fluid-less children to safety, Cole recruits a support team of humans, aliens, and one friendly—if cognitively challenged—computer. Their destination: the mysterious Yrnameer, thought to be the last un- trammeled planet in the galaxy. Imagine their con- sternation, then, when they arrive to find it threatened by Cole’s archenemy, the most infamous outlaw in the cosmos. Will Cole and his band of men and assorted others be able to defeat the vicious Runk? Will Yr-

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E VIE W YLD After the Fire, a Still Small Voice A NOVEL From one of Granta’s New Voices of 2008: a stunningly accomplished debut novel, set in Australia, about the inef- fable ties between fathers and sons—about the wars they fight between themselves and with others, and about the things they choose not to know about one another or about themselves. Frank has driven furiously out of Canberra to a shack by the ocean that he last visited as a teenager. He’s desperate to put certain painful memories behind him—including the turbulent departure of the woman he loves—and to be alone. But solitude isn’t easy to come by in a small town, and the past refuses to lie quiet. Forty years earlier, Leon returns to Australia from fighting in Vietnam, a broken man no longer able to live with his wife and child, tragically carrying on a family tradition: his father had been similarly torn apart—their home life destroyed—by his experiences in the Korean War. As the novel unfurls, as these two narratives weave around each other, we learn how Frank and 1 1 Fiction • 5 ⁄2" x 8 ⁄4" • 304 pp. Leon are both connected and perhaps destined to re- $24.00 (Can. $29.95) main separate. Evie Wyld—writing in a voice as ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37846-0 fierce as it is fresh—folds their stories into a lushly described background, a landscape both comforting and unforgiving. After the Fire, a Still Small Voice is Advance Reader’s Edition the work of a thrilling new talent. National Review Attention E VIE W YLD grew up in Australia and London, where National Advertising, including The New York she currently lives. She received an MA in Creative and Life Times Book Review Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was fea- Online Reading Group Guide tured as one of Granta’s New Voices in May 2008. Online Outreach and Promotion, including readinggroupguides.com and social networking sites

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M ELVIN I. U ROFSKY Louis D. Brandeis A LIFE

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court—a book that reveals not only Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, but also Bran- deis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. During Louis Brandeis’s twenty-three years as a Supreme Court justice (from 1916 to 1939), he developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech; laid the basis for a constitutionally protected right to pri- vacy; and developed the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Brandeis pioneered modern law practice and almost single-handedly developed the idea of pro bono legal work. He helped draft the Fed- eral Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission. As an economist and moralist, Brandeis argued not only that banking and stock broking had to be separate but also that both needed stringent federal regulation. As a Zionist he helped transform the movement into a powerful force in American Jewish affairs. Black-and-white illustrations throughout 1 1 Drawing on family papers and materials never Biography; Law • 6 ⁄4" x 9 ⁄4" • 928 pp. before available, Melvin Urofsky gives us the remark- $40.00 (Can. $49.00) able story of Brandeis’s effect on American society ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42366-6 and jurisprudence, and the electrifying story of his time. National Media Attention National Review Attention M ELVIN I. U ROFSKY is Professor of Law & Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Com- National Print Features monwealth University and was the chair of its History de- 5-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, New York, partment. He is the editor (with David W. Levy) of the San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. seven-volume collection of Brandeis’s letters, as well as the author of American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust National Advertising, including The New York and Louis D. Brandeis and the Progressive Tradition. He Times Book Review lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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M ARISA A COCELLA M ARCHETTO Cancer Vixen A TRUE STORY

Now in paperback: the groundbreaking graphic memoir that has inspired breast cancer patients to fight back— and do it with style. “What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, about- to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds . . . a lump in her breast?” That’s the question that sets this powerful, funny, and poignant graphic memoir in motion. In vivid color and with a taboo- breaking sense of humor, Marisa Acocella Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer—from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.

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A LEXANDER M C C ALL S MITH The Lost Art of Gratitude AN ISABEL DALHOUSIE NOVEL

The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel’s son, Charlie, is now of an age—eighteen months—to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel’s surprise, she finds Minty Auchterlonie, the high-flying financier she first encountered in The Sunday Philosophy Club. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never truly been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about the complicated troubles at the investment bank she heads, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis Pro- fessor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Her niece, Cat, of course, has a new, problematic man (a stunt man!) in her life. And Jamie—doting father of Charlie—is still pressing Isabel to solve his dilemma: getting her to marry him. 1 1 As always, there is no end to the delight in ac- Mystery • 5 ⁄2" x 8 ⁄4" • 288 pp. companying Isabel as she makes her way toward the $23.95 (No Canada) heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42514-1 and downright snooping, in her inimitable—and Also available from Knopf Canada: inimitably charming—fashion. 978-0-307-39701-0 • C$29.95 A LEXANDER M C C ALL S MITH is the author of the Also available from Random House Large Print: international phenomenon The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Born in what is now known as Zimbabwe, 978-0-7393-2863-7 • $23.95 (Can. $29.95) he was a law professor at the University of Botswana and the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Scotland. National Media Attention, including radio and print features

Also available in hardcover from Pantheon and in paperback from Anchor: National Advertising, including The New York Times Book Review and The Strand The Sunday Philosophy Club • $19.95 hc (NCR) • 978-0-375-42298-0 / $13.95 pb (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7709-0 NPR Sponsorships Friends, Lovers, Chocolate • $21.95 hc (NCR) • 978-0-375-42299-7 / Promotion on alexandermccallsmith.com $13.95 pb (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7710-6 The Right Attitude to Rain • $21.95 hc (NCR) • 978-0-375-42300-0 / L-card: 978-1-4000-9236-9 $13.95 pb (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7711-3 The Careful Use of Compliments • $21.95 hc (NCR) • 978-0-375-42301-7 / $13.95 pb (NCR) • 978-1-4000-7712-0 The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday • $23.95 hc (NCR) • 978-0-375-42513-4 / $13.95 pb (NCR) • 978-0-307-38707-3 PANTHEON / SEPTEMBER 115 P-Fa09_FINAL MM.qxp:P-Fa09_4p_r1 3/6/09 4:29 PM Page 116

V ICTOR S EBESTYEN Revolution 1989 THE FALL OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE

A revelatory account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during several months of astonishing revolution that profoundly changed the world. At the start of 1989, ten European nations were So- viet vassal states. By year’s end, they had all declared national independence, embarking on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Why did the USSR capitulate so readily? Victor Sebestyen draws on his firsthand knowledge as a reporter of the events of 1989, on scores of interviews with other witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material to answer these questions in unprecedented depth. Sebestyen tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women, some of whom found themselves almost miraculously transformed: the furnace stoker who became the Czech foreign minister; the Romanian poet who, just freed from jail, was made vice president of the newly liberated nation. We see power wielded or ceded by Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, Lech Wale˛sa, Václav Havel, and 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations Margaret Thatcher, among others. We learn how the 1 1 History • 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 336 pp. KBG helped bring down former allied regimes, how $26.95 (No Canada) the United States tried to slow the process, and why ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42532-5 the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire. National Review Attention Authoritative, riveting in both its broad politi- National Advertising, including The Atlantic cal sweep and its abundance of personal detail, this and The New York Review of Books is an essential addition to the annals of contemporary history.

V ICTOR S EBESTYEN is the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He has written for many British newspapers, and was an editor at the London Evening Standard. Born in Budapest, he lives in England.

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B RAD M ATSEN Jacques Cousteau THE SEA KING

The only complete biography of the man who explored and explained the magnificent world of the oceans as no one else before or since. With the cooperation of many of Jacques Cousteau’s collaborators, friends, and family, Brad Matsen gives us the first full picture of this remarkable life. Here is Cousteau working for the French resistance during World War II (for which he received France’s Croix de Guerre); developing—and risking his life testing—the regulator that made scuba diving possible; running the world’s largest scuba equipment manufacturing firm; becoming a legendary catalyst of the worldwide environmental movement; starring in “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” and in hundreds of documentaries; and publishing more than fifty books. And here is the widowed Cousteau marrying his longtime mistress—forty years his junior and the mother of two of his children—kindling a bitter family feud that continues to this day. Vividly conveying the people, the adventure, the science, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau’s life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who Black-and-white illustrations throughout 1 1 profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our Science; Biography • 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 336 pp. planet. $26.95 (Can. $33.00) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42413-7 B RAD M ATSEN is the author of Titanic’s Last Secrets, Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss, and many National Media Attention, including radio and other books about the sea and its inhabitants. He was a print features creative producer for the television series The Shape of Life, and his articles on marine science and the environment 6-city Author Tour: Boston, Chicago, Monterey, have appeared in Mother Jones, Audubon, and Natural New York, San Francisco, and Seattle History, among other publications. He lives on Vashon National Advertising, including The New York Island, off the coast of Washington State. Times Book Review Online Advertising, including social Also available from Vintage by Brad Matsen: networking sites Descent • $14.95 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7501-0 Online Promotion, including conservation and diving Web sites

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M ARY G ORDON Reading Jesus A WRITER’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE GOSPELS

One of our most admired writers takes us on a fresh and personal journey through the Gospels, exploring the mysteries surrounding Jesus. During the past few years, Mary Gordon, a Christian all her life, found herself at odds with many others who identify themselves as Christians. In an effort to understand whether or not she had “invented a Jesus to fulfill my own wishes,” she decided to read the Gospels as narrative and to study Jesus as a character. In this impassioned and eye-opening book, Gordon takes us through all the fundamental stories—the Prodigal Son, the Temptation in the Desert, the parable of Lazarus, the Agony in the Garden—pondering the intense strangeness of a deity in human form and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of resurrection. What she rediscovers— and reinterprets with her signature candor, intelligence, and straightforwardness—is a rich store of overlapping, sometimes conflicting teachings that feel both familiar and tantalizingly elusive. It is the mysterious figure of Jesus and his actual 5 1 Religion; Memoir • 5 ⁄8" x 8 ⁄4" • 224 pp. words that rest at the heart of the book and with $24.00 (Can. $29.95) which Gordon keeps us in thrall on every page. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42457-1 M ARY G ORDON is the author of six novels; the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and a collection of short stories. She is the recipient of a Lila National Media Attention, including radio and Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim print features Fellowship, the 1997 O. Henry Award for best story, and 4-city Author Tour: Boston, New York, the 2007 Story Prize. Currently New York’s official State San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Author, she teaches at Barnard College and lives in New National Advertising, including York City. Harper’s Magazine Online Advertising, including the National Also available from Anchor by Mary Gordon: Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org) and Circling My Mother • $14.95 pb (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-307-27761-9 commonwealmagazine.org Final Payments • $14.00 pb (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-307-27678-0 Pearl • $14.00 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7807-3 The Shadow Man • $13.95 pb (Can. $17.95) • 978-0-679-74931-8 The Stories of Mary Gordon • $15.95 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7808-0

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B ENOIT M ANDELBROT The Fractalist MEMOIR OF A GEOMETER

A fascinating memoir from the man who revitalized visual geometry, and whose ideas about fractals have changed how we look at both the natural world and the financial world. Benoit Mandelbrot might well be our most important living scientist. The creator of fractal geometry, he has significantly improved our understanding of, among other things, financial variability and biological rhythms. His work reveals hidden order in what was once perceived as rough, unpredictable, or chaotic. In The Fractalist, Mandelbrot recounts high points of his life with exuberance and an eloquent fluency, deepening our understanding of the evolution of his extraordinary mind. We follow his early years: born in Warsaw in 1924 to a Lithuanian Jewish family, he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle in Paris. As he stayed barely one step ahead of the Nazis until France was liberated, he studied geometry on his own and dreamed of using it to solve fresh problems of the real world. We observe his unusually broad education in Europe, and at Cal Tech, Princeton, and 16 pages of full-color illustrations 1 1 MIT. We learn about his fifty-year affiliation with the Memoir; Mathematics • 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 352 pp. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and his as- $30.00 (Can. $37.00) sociation with Harvard and Yale. An outsider to ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37735-7 mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new National Media Attention, including radio and geometry that combines revelatory beauty and a radi- print features cal way of unfolding formerly hidden laws governing Select Author Appearances, including Boston utter roughness, turbulence, and chaos. and New York Here is a remarkable life story of both the man National Advertising, including The New York and his unparalleled contributions to science, mathe- Times (Science Times) and scienceblogs.com matics, and the arts. Online Outreach and Promotion, including B ENOIT M ANDELBROT is Sterling Professor Emeri- science Web sites tus of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University and IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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M ADISON S MARTT B ELL Devil’s Dream A NOVEL ABOUT NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST

From the author of All Souls’ Rising (“A serious historical novel that reads like a dream.”—The Washington Post Book World )—a powerful new novel about Nathan Bed- ford Forrest, the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his acclaimed trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture, Madison Smartt Bell gives us a wholly new vantage point from which to view a complicated American icon. We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the more hidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooing the woman who would become his wife; battling an addiction to gambling; overcoming his abhorrence of the bureaucracy of the army to rise to its highest ranks. We see him taking part in the business of slave trading, but treating his own slaves humanely. We see him with his slave mistress, with whom he fathered several children, and we see him reveal his gift for inspiring courage but not change. As the novel unfolds, a vivid portrait comes into 1 1 Fiction • 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 336 pp. focus: a man whose fierceness was marked by fair- $26.00 (Can. $32.00) ness, a life filled with contradiction and integrity. In ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42488-5 Bell’s telling, it is also an evocation of genius and reti- cence.

National Review Attention M ADISON S MARTT B ELL is the author of thirteen 4-city Author Tour: Baltimore, Miami, previous works of fiction, including Soldier’s Joy and Any- Nashville, and Washington, D.C. thing Goes. He lives in Baltimore. National Advertising, including The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Magazine Also available from Vintage by Madison Smartt Bell: Online Promotion, including Civil War and All Souls’ Rising • $15.95 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7653-6 history Web sites Master of the Crossroads • $16.95 pb (Can. $21.95) • 978-1-4000-7838-7 The Stone That the Builder Refused $16.95 pb (Can. $23.95) • 978-1-4000-7618-5 Toussaint Louverture • $14.95 pb (Can. $16.95) • 978-1-4000-7935-3

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E DITED BY R OBERT B. S TRASSLER The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika Translated from the Greek by John Marincola • Introduction by David Thomas From the editor of the widely praised Landmark Thucydides and Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of the Hel- lenika, the major primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic period during which the alliances among Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Per- sia were in constant flux. And along with the volumes of Herodotus and Thucydides, it completes an ancient narrative of the military and political history of classical Greece. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition gives us a new, authoritative, and accessible translation by John Marincola, an introduction by David Thomas, and fourteen appendices written by some of the premiere classics scholars at work today. And unlike any other edition of the Hellenika, it also includes the relevant texts of Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus historian, which constitute the only contemporaneous works that can be used to assess Xenophon’s reliability and quality as a historian. Like the two Landmark editions that preceded it, 125 black-and-white illustrations and The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika is certain to be maps throughout 3 1 the most readable and comprehensive edition avail- History • 7 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 448 pp. $35.00 (Can. $43.00) able of this essential history. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-42255-3 R OBERT B. S TRASSLER is an unaffiliated scholar who holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Let- National Print Features ters from Bard College and is chairman of the Aston Select Author Appearances, including Boston, Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He lives New York, and Washington, D.C. in Brookline, Massachusetts. National Advertising, including The New York J OHN M ARINCOLA is the Leon Golden Professor of Times Book Review and The New York Classics at Florida State University. He is the author, coau- Review of Books thor, or coeditor of many books about Greek and Roman historiography, and has translated a number of classical texts. He lives in Florida.

Also available from Anchor by Robert B. Strassler in June 2009: The Landmark Herodotus • $24.95 pb (Can. $28.95) • 978-1-4000-3114-6

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T HOMAS M ALLON Yours Ever PEOPLE AND THEIR LETTERS

A delightful and wide-ranging chronicle of the art of letter writing that explores the offhand masterpieces dis- patched through the ages by messenger or postal service or BlackBerry. Thomas Mallon weaves a unique assortment of epis- tolary jewels into his own insightful and eloquent commentary on the circumstances and characters of the world’s most intriguing letter writers. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the court of Louis XIV; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tor- mented advice to his young daughter; the besotted midlife billets-doux of a suddenly rejuvenated Woodrow Wilson; the casually brilliant spiritual musings of Flannery O’Connor; the lustful boastings of Lord Byron; the cries from prison of Sacco and Vanzetti. Also included are travel bulletins, suicide notes, and hate mail—forms as varied as are the human experiences behind them. Yours Ever is a welcome reintroduction to a vast, rich, and entertaining literature—a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art. 5 1 Literary Studies • 5 ⁄8" x 8 ⁄4" • 352 pp. $26.95 (Can. $33.00) T HOMAS M ALLON is the author of seven novels, in- ISBN/EAN: 978-0-679-44426-8 cluding Dewey Defeats Truman and Bandbox, as well as A Book of One’s Own, an exploration of diary writing. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Select Author Appearances, including Washington, D.C. New York and Washington, D.C. National Advertising, including Harper’s Magazine Also available from Vintage by Thomas Mallon: Fellow Travelers • $14.95 pb (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-307-38890-2

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A NDREW VACHSS Haiku A NOVEL

From the author of the acclaimed Burke series: a searing new novel that follows a band of homeless outcasts on a mission to recover what each has lost. Ho is an ancient sensei who began training as a child, until war changed him forever. When his dismissive arrogance causes the death of a student he called “daughter,” Ho renounces not only his possessions but also his role as master, roaming the streets of an always-cold city in search of a way to atone. As if magnetized, a group slowly forms around him: Michael, an addicted gambler who finally lost himself; Ranger, a psychotic Vietnam veteran for whom reality is an ever-revolving door; Lamont, once a fearless street-gang warlord who degenerated into hope- less alcoholism when the literati who discovered his poetry discarded him; Target, a relentless “clanger” who speaks only by echoing speech sounds; and Brewster, an obsessive collector of 1950s “hard- boiled” paperbacks whose stash is housed in an abandoned building even vermin avoid. Late one night, Michael spots a woman in a 5 1 white Rolls-Royce throwing something into the river. Fiction • 5 ⁄8" x 8 ⁄4" • 224 pp. Convinced that the woman is a perfect blackmail tar- $24.95 (Can. $29.95) get, he attempts to recruit the others to search for her. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37849-1 But what transforms a halfhearted effort into a mission is the news that the building housing Brewster’s “library” is slated for demolition. Knowing that National Review Attention Brewster could not possibly survive such a loss is Alternative Advertising, including The Boston enough to bring them together in a search for the ul- Phoenix, Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, San timate problem-solver: money. Francisco Bay Guardian, Time Out New York, Each frantic knock opens another barred door as The Village Voice, and The Strand demolition draws nearer. And the answers to each Book Trailer man’s questions trigger shocking explosions that hit you with all the visceral power we have come to ex- Promotion on vachss.com pect from this fierce and dynamic writer.

A NDREW VACHSS is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. He divides his time between his native New York City and the Pacific Northwest.

Ask your Random House sales representative for a complete list of books by Andrew Vachss.

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H A J IN A Good Fall STORIES

In his first book of stories since The Bridegroom was published in 2000 (“Finely wrought . . . Every story here is cut like a stone.”—Chicago Sun-Times), National Book Award- winning Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. With the same profound attention to detail that is a hallmark of his previous acclaimed works of fiction, Ha Jin depicts here the full spectrum of immigrant life and the daily struggles—some minute, some grand—faced by these men, women, and children. A lonely composer takes comfort in the songs of his girlfriend’s parakeet; a group of young children declare their wish to change their names so that they might sound more “American,” unaware of how deeply this will sadden their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the help of a reluctant former student. All of Ha Jin’s characters struggle in situations that stir within them a desire to remain attached to their native land and traditions, as they also explore and take advantage of the newfound freedom, both social and economic, 1 1 Fiction • 5 ⁄2" x 8 ⁄4" • 224 pp. that life in a new country offers. $24.95 (Can. $29.95) In these deeply moving, acutely insightful, and ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37868-2 often strikingly humorous stories we are reminded again of the storytelling prowess of this superb writer.

National Review Attention H A J IN left his native China in 1985 to attend Brandeis University. He is the author of five novels, three story col- Select Author Appearances lections, and three books of poetry. He has received the Tie-in to Author’s Lecture Schedule National Book Award, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, the PEN/ National Advertising, including The New York Hemingway Award, the Asian American Literary Award, Times Book Review and the Flannery O’Connor Award. He lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. Online Promotion, including social networking sites A selection of titles available from Vintage by Ha Jin: The Bridegroom • $13.95 pb (Can. $17.95) • 978-0-375-72493-0 The Crazed • $13.95 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-375-71411-5 In the Pond • $13.95 pb (Can. $15.95) • 978-0-375-70911-1 Waiting • $14.95 pb (Can. $16.95) • 978-0-375-70641-7 War Trash • $14.95 pb (Can. $21.00) • 978-1-4000-7579-9 A Free Life • $15.95 pb (Can. $18.95) • 978-0-307-27860-9

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A LEXANDER M C C ALL S MITH La’s Orchestra Saves the World A NOVEL

The first stand-alone novel to be published by Pantheon from the best-selling author of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series: a delightful and moving story that celebrates the healing powers of friendship and music. It is 1939. Lavender—La to her friends—decides to flee London, not only to avoid German bombs but also to escape the memories of her shattered marriage. The peace and solitude of the small town she settles in are therapeutic . . . at least at first. As the war drags on, in need of some diversion and to boost the town’s morale, La organizes an amateur orchestra, drawing musicians from the village and the local RAF base. Among the strays she corrals is Felix, a shy, proper Polish refugee who becomes her prized recruit—and the object of feelings she thought she’d put away forever. Does La’s orchestra save the world? The people who come to hear it think so. But what will become of it after the war is over? And what will become of La herself? And of La’s heart? With his all-embracing empathy and his gentle 1 sense of humor, Alexander McCall Smith makes of Fiction • 5" x 7 ⁄4" • 304 pp. La’s life—and love—a tale to enjoy and cherish. $23.95 (No Canada) ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-37838-5 “Unlike anything else in McCall Smith’s work.” —The Independent National Review Attention “The evocation of war-torn England, with its palpable mood of defiance, determination and survival, is beautifully National Advertising, including The New York caught . . . An excellent re-creation of a woman of her Times Book Review The Scotsman time.” — Online Reading Group Guide A LEXANDER M C C ALL S MITH is also the author of Online Promotion on alexandermccallsmith.com the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs and readinggroupguides.com series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He lives in Scotland.

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H ANNELORE B RENNER The Girls of Room 28 FRIENDSHIP, HOPE, AND SURVIVAL IN THERESIENSTADT Translated from the German by John E. Woods and Shelley Frisch

From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In The Girls of Room 28, ten of these children— mothers and grandmothers today in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all over Europe were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decided that it was the young people who had the best chance to survive. Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind, and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, in dormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of staying healthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young men and women who had been teachers and youth workers) created a disciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. The counselors also made available to the young people the talents of an amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, and play- wrights—European Jews who were also on their way to Auschwitz. Under their instruction, the children Black-and-white illustrations throughout produced art, poetry, and music, and they performed Biography; Holocaust Studies 1 1 in theatrical productions, most notably Brundibar, 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4" • 352 pp. the legendary “children’s opera” that celebrates the $26.00 (Can. $32.00) triumph of good over evil. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-8052-4244-7 In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors—women in National Media Attention their late-seventies today, who reunite every year at a Select Author Appearances resort in the Czech Republic. Weaving her interviews National Advertising, including The New York with the women together with excerpts from diaries Times Book Review and The Jewish Week that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Promotion in the Schocken e-newsletter Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will that combined—in the girls and in their caretakers—to make survival possible.

H ANNELORE B RENNER is a print and broadcast journalist based in Berlin.

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D AVID M AMET JEWISH ENCOUNTERS The Wicked Son SCHOCKEN • NEXTBOOK ANTI-SEMITISM, SELF- HATRED, AND THE JEWS

Written with the searing honesty and verbal brilliance that is the hallmark of David Mamet’s work, The Wicked Son is a scathing look at one of the most destructive and tena- cious forces in contemporary life, a powerfully thought- provoking and important book that encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have themselves internal- ized this hatred.

“Like everything Mamet does, [The Wicked Son] is blunt and bracing, honest and provocative, original and gutsy.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Rare among the defenders of the Jews—and of Judaism— Mamet recognizes the romance in the story of his ancient religion and race, and finds the words beautiful enough to describe it.” —The International Jerusalem Post

“[Mamet’s] clarity, insight, and passion . . . can be both devastatingly witty and scathingly angry.” —The New York Post

“Incendiary.” —The Jewish Observer

3 Jewish History • 5 ⁄16" x 8" • 208 pp. D AVID M AMET is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. $12.95 paperback (Can. $15.99) He is the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cryptogram, ISBN/EAN: 978-0-8052-1157-3 Speed the Plow, November, and Boston Marriage, among other plays. He has also published three novels and many screenplays, children’s books, and collections of essays. National Advertising, including The New York Times Book Review and The Jewish Week Ask your Random House sales representative for a complete list of books by Promotion in the Schocken e-newsletter and David Mamet available from Vintage. on nextbook.org

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E LIE W IESEL JEWISH Rashi ENCOUNTERS SCHOCKEN • NEXTBOOK

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Page Page Boccaccio, Giovanni, Decameron 134 Maugham, W. Somerset, The Skeptical Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, Romancer 138 The Physiology of Taste 137 Tacitus, Annals and Histories 136 Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol Washington, Peter, ed., Detective Stories 135 and Other Christmas Books 139

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Page Page Annals and Histories, Tacitus 136 The Physiology of Taste, Jean Anthelme A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Brillat-Savarin 137 Books, Charles Dickens 139 The Skeptical Romancer, W. Somerset Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio 134 Maugham 138 Detective Stories, edited by Peter Washington 135

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GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

DECAMERON Translated and with an Introduction by J. G. Nichols

brilliant new translation of the work that Her- Aman Hesse called “the first great masterpiece of European storytelling.” In the summer of 1348, with the plague ravaging Florence, ten young men and women take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death, and corruption, featuring a host of characters, from lascivious clergymen and mad kings to devious lovers and false miracle-makers. Named after the Greek for “ten days,” Boccaccio’s book of stories draws on ancient mythology, contemporary history, and everyday life, and has influenced the work of myriad writers who came after him. J. G. Nichols’s new translation, faithful to the original but rendered in eminently readable modern En- glish, captures the timeless humor of one of the great classics of European literature. Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet, was born in 1313 and died in 1375. Born in Liverpool, England, J. G. Nichols is a poet, literary critic, and translator. He was awarded the John Florio Prize for his translation of the poems of Guido Gozzano. His translation of Petrarch’s Can- zoniere won the Premio Internazionale Diego Valeri in 2000.

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E d i t e d b y Pe t e r Wa s h i n g t o n

DETECTIVE STORIES

ow, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Clas- Nsics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective stories—riveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them. Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the 1920s and ’30s to the genre’s source in Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. The famous detectives who stalk these pages range from the brilliant and eccentric (Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin) to the deceptively unlikely (G. K. Chesterton’s humble priest, Father Brown; and Agatha Christie’s tweedy spinster, Miss Marple); from the tough-guy private eyes created by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to accidental by- standers, such as the perceptive neighbors in Susan Glaspell’s haunting “A Jury of Her Peers.” From classic whodunits featuring Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason and Georges Simenon’s In- spector Maigret to Jorge Luis Borges’s postmodern tribute to Poe in “Death and the Compass,” the sto- • National Print and Online Advertising ries in this volume will tantalize, perplex, and amaze. Peter Washington is the editor of the Everyman’s Also available from Everyman’s Library Pocket Classics: Pocket Classics Ghost Stories and many of the Every- Christmas Stories man’s Library Pocket Poets. $15.00 (Can. $21.00) • 978-0-307-26717-7 Ghost Stories $15.00 (Can. $17.00) • 978-0-307-26924-9 Love Stories $15.00 (Can. $17.00) • 978-0-307-27087-0 The Maples Stories by John Updike $15.00 (Can. $17.50) • 978-0-307-27176-1 EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS (August 2009) 1 3 Fiction • 4 ⁄2 x 7 ⁄16 • 400 pages • ribbon marker $15.00 (Can. $18.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27271-3 On sale: October 6, 2009

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T A C I T U S

ANNALS AND HISTORIES

Introduction by Robin Lane Fox

he complete historical works of the greatest Tchronicler of the Roman Empire in a wholly revised and updated translation. A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served as administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals, he writes about Augustus Caesar’s death and observes the inner workings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In the Histories, he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigning in one year, each over- thrown by the next. The Agricola, a biography of Tacitus’s father-in-law, Julius Agricola—the most celebrated governor of Roman Britain—is the first detailed account of the island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And in the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany come richly to life.

Translated by A. J. Church and W.J. Brodribb Revised and Updated by Dr. Eleanor Cowan

Cornelius Tacitus was born c. 55 A.D. and died in 117 A.D. Eleanor Cowan is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leicester University. Robin Lane Fox is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient His- tory at New College, Oxford.

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JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Translated by M. F. K. Fisher Introduction by Bill Buford culinary classic on the joys of the table—written Aby the gourmand who so famously stated, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are”— in a handsome new edition of M. F.K. Fisher’s distinguished translation and with a new introduction by Bill Buford. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, The Physiology of Taste is a historical, philosophical, and ultimately Epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical. Brillat- Savarin, who spent his days eating through the famed food capital of Dijon, lent a shrewd, exuberant, and comically witty voice to culinary matters that still resonate today: the rise of the destination restaurant, diet and weight, digestion, and taste and sensibility.

“Still the most civilized cookbook ever written.” —The New Yorker

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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

THE SKEPTICAL ROMANCER Selected Travel Writing Edited and with an Introduction by Pico Iyer

“Some fortunate persons find freedom in their own minds; I, with less spiritual power than they, find it in travel.” —W. Somerset Maugham

. Somerset Maugham was one of the seminal Wwriters of the twentieth century, and his travel writing has long been considered among his finest work. Now, acclaimed travel writer Pico Iyer maps out a masterful tour of these vivid, evocative pieces that are collected here for the first time. Maugham worked as a secret agent in Russia, published novels in London, staged plays in New York, and traveled throughout Europe, Asia, India, and the United States, chronicling his travels, wherever he went, with exceptional insight. Beginning with “In the Land of the Blessed Virgin” and culminating in “A Partial View,” Iyer selects vignettes of Maugham’s razor-sharp prose that track his transformation from a boyish traveler in Spain to a worldly man of letters. This is Maugham at his most keenly observant, direct, and powerful. Also available by Maugham: W. Somerset Maugham, author of such novels as Collected Stories Cakes and Ale and Of Human Bondage, was born in $25.00 (Can. $37.00) • 978-1-4000-4253-1 1874 and died in 1965. His books have sold nearly The Moon and Sixpence 40 million copies. $12.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72456-5 Pico Iyer is the author of many books about travel, in- The Painted Veil $21.00 (Can. $13.95) • 978-0-307-27777-0 cluding Video Night in Kathmandu. His most recent book is The Open Road. The Razor’s Edge $21.00 (Can. $14.00) • 978-1-4000-3420-8 Up at the Villa $13.95 (NCR) • 978-0-375-72462-6 EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS 7 1 Travel • 4 ⁄8 x 8 ⁄8 • 272 pages • ribbon marker $24.00 (NCR) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27212-6 On sale: November 3, 2009

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C H A R L E S D I C K E N S

A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BOOKS Introduction by Margaret Atwood

he final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles TDickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations. No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob Cratchit, of Bob’s kind- hearted lame son, Tiny Tim, and of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. First published in 1843, A Christmas Carol was republished in 1852 in a new edition with four other Christmas stories—The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. These beloved tales revived the notion of the Christ- mas “spirit”—and have kept it alive ever since. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth, England, and died in 1870. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto.

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Ackroyd, Peter, Thames 249 Delinsky, Barbara, While My Sister Sleeps 240–241 Alexander, Patrick, Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time 163 Everett, Daniel L., Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes 202 Aslam, Nadeem, The Wasted Vigil 162 Fairstein, Linda, Lethal Legacy 250–251 Bach, David, Lucha por tu dinero 224 Falcones, Ildefonso, La catedral del mar 218 Bamford, James, The Shadow Factory 242 Filkins, Dexter, The Forever War 150–151 Barnes, Julian, Nothing to Be Frightened Of 180–181 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side of Paradise and Flappers and Philosophers 172–173 Barnes, Kim, A Country Called Home 245 Fortey, Richard, Dry Storeroom No. 1* 164 Bass, Gary J., Freedom’s Battle 193 French, Patrick, The World Is What Bernhard, Thomas, Wittgenstein’s It Is 198–199 Nephew 186 Garber, Marjorie, Shakespeare and Brands, H.W., Traitor to His Class 236–237 Modern Culture 253

Brockman, Max, editor, What’s Next 154 García Márquez, Gabriel, Cien años de soledad 217 Brown, Dan, The Da Vinci Code (premium mass market) 239 Geniesse, Jane, American Priestess 238

Burnett, Allison, Undiscovered Gyrl 153 Gilder, Louisa, The Age of Entanglement 196

Child, Julia with Alex Prud’homme, Glass, Julia, I See You Everywhere 234–235 My Life in France (Movie Tie-in) 213 Goldwag, Arthur, Cults, Conspiracies, Choate, Pat, Saving Capitalism 155 and Secret Societies 169

Clark, Robert, Dark Water 246 Greenberg, Michael, Hurry Down Sunshine* 156–157 Darnton, John, Black and White and Dead All Over 233 Grisham, John, El asociado 219

Dary, David, Frontier Medicine 184 Harkaway, Nick, The Gone-Away World* 159

Davidson, Andrew, The Gargoyle 230–231 James, P.D., The Private Patient 194–195

de Bernières, Louis, A Partisan’s Jones, Jacqueline, Saving Savannah 203 Daughter 183 Kanfer, Stefan, Somebody 197 de Robertis, Carolina, La montaña invisible* 223 Kehlmann, Daniel, Me and Kaminski 187

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Kerper, Barrie, editor, Istanbul: Perl, Jed, Antoine’s Alphabet 205 The Collected Traveler 160–161 Poe, Edgar Allan, Great Tales Kritzler, Edward, Jewish Pirates of the and Poems* 171 Caribbean 248 Richardson, Mark, Zen and Now 158 Lansdale, Joe R., Leather Maiden, Rumble Tumble and Captains Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino Elegies & Outrageous 168, 200–201 The Sonnets to Orpheus 175

Lindsay, Jeff, Darkly Dreaming Dexter 152 Roizen, Michael F., and Mehmet Oz, Tú a dieta 220 Lukas, Christopher, Blue Genes 244 Roth, Philip, Indignation 176–177 Mahfouz, Naguib, Cairo Modern 254 Ryback, Timothy W., Hitler’s Private Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs Library 204 to Differ 232 Sapphire, Push (stickered cover) 212 Márai, Sándor, Esther’s Inheritance 185 Schulze, Ingo, New Lives 190 Maugham, W. Somerset, A Writer’s Notebook and The Narrow Corner 210–211 Shelley, Mary, The Original Frankenstein 174 Mirabal, Dedé, Vivas en su jardin 222 Shlaim, Avi, Lion of Jordan 191 Mishima, Yukio, Five Modern No Plays and The Sound of Waves 208–209 Shorto, Russell, Descartes’ Bones 166–167

Mochizuki, Aska, Spinning Tropics 207 Sjöwall, Maj, and Per Wahlöö, The Abominable Man and Morrison, Toni, A Mercy* 148–149 The Locked Room 188–189

Mortenson, Greg, Tres tazas de té 221 Straub, Peter, editor, Poe’s Children 243

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 226 Tanizaki, Junichiro, The Makioka Sisters 206

Obama, Barack, Los sueños de mi padre* 227 Thompson, Jason, A History of Egypt 255

O’Neil, Brian, Acting as a Business 182 Vachss, Andrew, Another Life 165

Orman, Suze, Plan de acción 2009 227 Valladolid, Marcela, México fresco 225

Peace, David, Nineteen Eighty 170 Walker, Kathryn, A Stopover in Venice 247

Peacock, Justin, A Cure for Night 192 Williams, Terry Tempest, Finding Beauty in a Broken World 178 Penzler, Otto, editor, The Vampire Archives* 179 Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat 254

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Abominable Man and The Locked Room, Esther’s Inheritance, by Sándor Márai 185 The, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö 188 Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Acting as a Business, by Brian O’Neil 182 by Terry Tempest Williams 178

Age of Entanglement, The, by Louisa Five Modern No Plays, by Yukio Mishima 208 Gilder 196 Flappers and Philosophers, by F. Scott American Priestess, by Jane Geniesse 238 Fitzgerald 173

Another Life, by Andew Vachss 165 Forever War, The, by Dexter Filkins 150–151

Antoine’s Alphabet, by Jed Perl 205 Freedom’s Battle, by Gary J. Bass 193

Ayatollah Begs to Differ, The, by Hooman Frontier Medicine, by David Dary 184 Majd 232 Gargoyle, The, by Andrew Davidson 230–231 Black and White and Dead All Over, by John Darnton 233 Gone-Away World, The,* by Nick Harkaway 159 Blue Genes, by Christopher Lukas 244 Great Tales and Poems,* by Edgar Cairo Modern, by Naguib Mahfouz 254 Allan Poe 171 Captains Outrageous, by Joe R. Lansdale 201 History of Egypt, A, by Jason Thompson 255 Cien años de soledad, by Gabriel García Márquez 217 Hitler’s Private Library, by Timothy W. Ryback 204 Country Called Home, A, by Kim Barnes 245 Hurry Down Sunshine,* by Michael Greenberg 156–157 Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, by Arthur Goldwag 169 I See You Everywhere, by Julia Glass 234–235 Cure for Night, A, by Justin Peacock 192 Indignation, by Philip Roth 176–177 Da Vinci Code, The (premium mass market), by Dan Brown 239 Istanbul: The Collected Traveler, edited by Barrie Kerper 160–161 Dark Water, by Robert Clark 246 Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, by Edward Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay 152 Kritzler 248

Descartes’ Bones, by Russell Shorto 166–167 La catedral del mar, by Ildefonso Falcones 218 Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, by Daniel L. Everett 202 La montaña invisible,* by Carolina de Robertis 223 Dry Storeroom No. 1,* by Richard Fortey 164 Leather Maiden, by Joe R. Lansdale 168 Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke 175 Lethal Legacy, by Linda Fairstein 250–251

El asociado, by John Grisham 219 Lion of Jordan, by Avi Shlaim 191

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Locked Room, The, by Maj Sjöwall and Shadow Factory, The, by James Bamford 242 Per Wahlöö 189 Shakespeare and Modern Culture, Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov 226 by Marjorie Garber 253

Los sueños de mi padre,* by Barack Somebody, by Stefan Kanfer 197 Obama 227 Sound of Waves, The, by Yukio Mishima 209 Lucha por tu dinero, by David Bach 224

Makioka Sisters, The, by Junichiro Spinning Tropics, by Aska Mochizuki 207 Tanizaki 206 Stopover in Venice, A, by Kathryn Walker 247 Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time, by Patrick Alexander 163 Thames, by Peter Ackroyd 249

Me and Kaminski, by Daniel Kehlmann 187 This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 172 Mercy, A,* by Toni Morrison 148–149 Traitor to His Class, by H. W. Brands 236–237 México fresco, by Marcela Valladolid 225 Tres tazas de té, by Greg Mortenson 221 My Life in France (Movie Tie-in), by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme 213 Tú a dieta, by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz 220 Narrow Corner, The, by W. Somerset Maugham 211 Undiscovered Gyrl, by Allison Burnett 153 New Lives, by Ingo Schulze 190 Vampire Archives, The,* edited by Nineteen Eighty, by David Peace 170 Otto Penzler 179

Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Vivas en su jardin, by Dedé Mirabal 222 Barnes 180–181 Wasted Vigil, The, by Nadeem Aslam 162 Original Frankenstein, The, by Mary Shelley 174 What’s Next, edited by Max Brockman 154 Partisan’s Daughter, A, by Louis de Bernières 183 While My Sister Sleeps, by Barbara Delinsky 240–241 Plan de acción 2009, by Suze Orman 227 White Heat, by Brenda Wineapple 254 Poe’s Children, edited by Peter Straub 243 Wittgenstein’s Nephew, by Thomas Private Patient, The, by P.D. James 194–195 Bernhard 186

Push (stickered cover), by Sapphire 212 World Is What It Is, The, by Patrick French 198–199 Rumble Tumble, by Joe R. Lansdale 200 Writer’s Notebook, A, by W. Somerset Saving Capitalism, by Pat Choate 155 Maugham 210

Saving Savannah, by Jacqueline Jones 203 Zen and Now, by Mark Richardson 158

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“It may be that you only get out of a book what you put into it and see in it only what you are.”

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M A J O R R E L E A S E A Mercy by Toni Morrison Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year “Spellbinding.... Dazzling.... Stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph.... This rich little masterpiece is a welding of poetry and history and psychological acuity that you must not miss.” —The Washington Post Book World Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like A Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part pay- ment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. Her slave mother has urged him to take her.This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected Also available: by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives. “Provocative.... In writing about the horror of slavery, Morrison finds a kind of ragged hope.” —The Boston Globe Beloved 978-1-4000-3341-6 The Bluest Eye: 978-0-307-27844-9 Jazz: 978-1-4000-7621-5 Love: 978-1-4000-7847-9 Playing in the Dark: 978-0-679-74542-6 Song of Solomon: 978-1-4000-3342-3 Sula: 978-1-4000-3343-0 Tar Baby: 978-1-4000-3344-7

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untamed, lawless world that was America in the EARLY seventeenth century with the same sort of lyrical, verdant prose that distinguished Beloved.... A heartbreaking account of lost innocence and fractured dreams...one of Morrison’s most haunting works yet.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Memorable...lyrical.... A miraculous tale of sorrow and beauty.... American history, the natural world, and human desire collide in a series of musical voices, distinct from one another— unmistakably Morrisonian in their beauty and power—that together tell this moving and morally complicated tale.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “Reads like the ur-text for all Morrison’s previous ﬁction.... Powerful.... Poetic.”—The Seattle Times “Ferociously beautiful.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Morrison lavishes some of her best writing in © TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS years on this pre-Revolutionary world, making it A READING GROUP TITLE so luminous and complex.” —Time A “Astonishing.” —Harper’s New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal “Shimmering, even beautiful.... A Mercy abounds Bestseller in near-biblical power and grace.” —People A Christian Science Monitor,Los Angeles Times, “A triumph.... Gorgeously written and haunted.” Rocky Mountain News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, —The Arizona Republic and Washington Post Best Book of the Year ADVERTISING Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature • National Print and Online Advertising in 1993. She lives in Rockland County, New York, PUBLICITY and Princeton, New Jersey. • Print Features and Proﬁles • Select Readings $15.00 (NCR) Trade/224 pp. IN-STORE PROMOTION ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27676-6 Fiction • 15-Copy Floor Display: $210.00/978-0-307-44738-8 VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL • 18-Copy Mixed Floor Display (12 Copies of On Sale: August 11, 2009 A Mercy and 6 Copies of Beloved): $257.70/ 978-0-307-44747-0 Available in Canada: Vintage Canada, $21.00, READING GROUP PROMOTION 978-0-676-97831-5 • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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M A J O R R E L E A S E The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Splendid.... Shines as a work of literature, illuminating the human cost of war.” —The Washington Post his unforgettable book has been hailed by critics and journalists alike as an instant T classic in the mold of Michael Herr’s Dis- patches and the war journalism of Hemingway and Orwell—the definitive, front-line account of our conflict with Islamic fundamentalism. Through Filkins’ eyes, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, the aftermath of the Septem- ber 11th attacks in New York City, and frontlines of battle in the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, is the only American reporter to have witnessed all of this firsthand, and from his experiences he has composed a riveting narrative that moves across vast and various landscapes filled with amazing characters and astonishing scenes. “Brilliant.... First rate.... Utterly harrowing.... Deserves to be ranked as a classic.” —Los Angeles Times “Stunning.... Haunting.... Unforgettable.... It is not facetious to speak of work like that of Filkins as defining the ‘culture’ of a war.” —Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Review

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“Unvarnished and unforgettable.” —Esquire “Dexter Filkins...is well on his way to becoming the preeminent war reporter of this tumultuous era.” —Seattle Post Intelligencer “The definitive—and heartbreakingly humaniz- ing—report from the front lines in Iraq.... A book that will be read fifty years from now.” —GQ “Brilliant, riveting, and deeply disquieting.... Very, very few people have seen as much of the front lines as Filkins, and only a handful have the talent to convey those lines.... Clear-eyed, unsentimental...superb.” —Townhall “Remarkably intense.... The Forever War will be one of the books that readers will turn to as they try to comprehend the mix of courage and folly that marked the bloody first years of this century.” —Dallas Morning News

“Dexter Filkins’s The Forever War is the best piece © JAMES HILL of war journalism I’ve ever read.... As tragic as the events he describes are, the book manages to be a A New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, thing of towering beauty.” Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle —Dave Eggers (Guardian Best Books of the Year) Bestseller Dexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for The A Boston Globe, Granta, Los Angeles Times, Rocky Mountain News, Slate, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York Times and has covered the wars in Time, USA Today, and Washington Post Best Book Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. He has been ADVERTISING a ﬁnalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has received • National Print and Online Advertising a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press PUBLICITY awards. He lives in New York City. • National Media Appearances, including NPR • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and $15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/432 pp. Features ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27944-6 • Promotion to Political Media, Bloggers and Current Affairs/Military Websites for Features and Reviews 2 maps • Appearances Upon Request On Sale: September 8, 2009 IN-STORE PROMOTION • 12-Copy Floor Display: $180.00 (Can. $239.40)/ 978-0-307-44736-4 www.DexterFilkins.net

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay SEPTEMBER MASS MARKET RELEASE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A macabre tour-de-force.” —The New York Times Book Review new mass market edition of the novel that inspired the hit Showtime series, in A time for the fourth season. Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different code. He’s a serial killer whose golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood splatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking simi- larity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being ﬂattered and being frightened—of himself or some other ﬁend. “Adrenaline-pumping gore balanced with large doses of hilarious black humor.” —USA Today “Like very little else you’ve read. Imagine if Han- Also available in trade paperback editions: Darkly Dreaming Dexter: 978-0-307-27788-6 nibal Lecter starred in CSI: Miami, and you’re Dearly Devoted Dexter: 978-1-4000-9592-6 halfway there.” —Time Dexter in the Dark: 978-0-307-27673-5 Jeff Lindsay lives in South Florida. His fourth novel in the Dexter series, Dexter by Design (978-0-385- 51836-9), will be published by Doubleday in Sep- tember 2009.

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett RELEASE

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J U S T P U B L I S H E D What’s Next? Dispatches on the Future of Science Edited by Max Brockman

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL “A preview of the ideas you’re going to be reading about in ten years.” —Steven Pinker n eighteen never-before-published essays, our top scientific young minds address the I urgent questions currently being posed in their fields of study. Covering subjects as diverse as astrophysics, paleoanthropology, climatology, and neuroscience, What’s Next? gives readers an excellent introduction to the scientific discoveries and debates that await us in the future. Some of the issues raised in What’s Next? include: Will climate change in the twenty-first century force a massive human migration to the North- ern Rim? What are the ethical implications of genetic engineering and can we devise a framework to govern its use? How does our sense of morality arise from the structure of the brain? What does the latest research in language acqui- sition tell us about the role culture plays in the way individuals think?

ONLINE ADVERTISING Smart, readable, and ﬁlled with fascinating research and ideas, What’s Next? is a great introduc- PUBLICITY tion to the science of the future. • Major Review Attention • Online Interviews, Features & Reviews “If these authors are the future of science, then • Features and Proﬁles in Science Interest the science of the future will be one exciting Publications and Websites • Appearances Upon Request ride!... A fascinating chronicle of the big, new www.edge.org ideas that are keeping young scientists up at night.” —Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness Max Brockman is an agent at Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency. He lives in New York City.

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Saving Capitalism Keeping America Strong by Pat Choate SEPTEMBER A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

n this urgent dissection of the U.S. financial system, well-known economist and bestselling Iwriter Pat Choate demonstrates the true gravity of our current crisis and forcefully argues for bold action to repair a capitalist system in desperate need of reform. A long-time critic of the free-market absolutism that brought about the current financial crisis, Choate puts forward new solutions designed not only help the United States recover as quickly as possible, but also to strengthen the country—and our capitalist system—for decades to come. He identifies necessary reforms to our financial reg- ulations, describes why the U.S. needs to make a comprehensive overhaul of its tax system (from direct tax to a simplified value-added tax), advo- cates changes to global trade rules and practices © KAY CASEY that have unfairly affected American workers and communities, and calls for a vigorous reinvest- ONLINE ADVERTISING ment in the “human capital” of America through PUBLICITY portable pensions, more affordable health care, • Review Coverage in Business Media and Websites and better education. • Op-ed & Off-the-Book-Page Articles • Business Radio Phoner Campaign, including Pat Choate is a political economist, policy analyst, NPR and the author of the books Agents of Influence, • Promotion to Business Bloggers and Websites for Preparing for War (forthcoming from Knopf), Features and, with Ross Perot, Save Your Job, Save Our Coun- try. In 1996, he was Ross Perot’s Reform Party vice presidential running mate. He lives with his wife outside Washington, D.C.

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M A J O R R E L E A S E Hurry Down Sunshine A Father’s Story of Love and Madness by Michael Greenberg

A Time Best Book of the Year “Lucid, realistic, compassionate, and illuminating.... In its detail, depth, richness and sheer intelligence, Hurry Down Sunshine will be recognized as a classic of its kind.” —Oliver Sacks, The New York Review of Books elating the extraordinary story of a family in crisis, Hurry Down Sunshine is a memoir R of exceptional power. Unsentimental, nuanced, and deeply humane, it will become essential reading in the literature of affliction alongside classics such as Girl, Interrupted and An Unquiet Mind. With remarkable candor and in vivid detail, Michael Greenberg recounts the summer when his fifteen-year-old daughter experiences a psychotic break and “was struck mad.” Beginning with Sally’s sudden, visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continuing, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric ward during the city’s most sweltering months, this is the tale of a family broken open, then painstakingly, movingly stitched together again. “Hurry Down Sunshine is about tenacity and ten- derness, feeling helpless but being present, about cracking up, then finding the wherewithal to glue the jagged pieces of your mind back together again. But mostly it’s about love.” —Oprah Winfrey, in her letter to readers in O, The Oprah Magazine “Remarkable.... What sets Hurry Down Sunshine

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apart...is Greenberg’s frank pessimism, dark humor and fundamental incapacity to make sense of his daughter’s ordeal.” —The New York Times Book Review “Triumphant.... Greenberg renders the details of his daughter’s breakdown with lyrical precision.” —The Washington Post “There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and it is madness itself.... The startling associative imagery that gives Green- berg’s writing its power is like a domesticated version of the madness that nearly carried away his daughter’s life.” —Time “This memoir of a family crisis captures the grief that transformed their lives.... Readers come away with a sense of the intractable nature of psy- chosis and the courage it requires for patients like Sally, whose struggles continue, merely to

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“Touching, warmly intimate, and unsparing.... A READING GROUP TITLE Like the best ﬁction, this memoir has tran- scended the merely particular and eccentric to A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year constitute a kind of hard-won art.” ADVERTISING —Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement • National Print and Online Advertising PUBLICITY Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the Times • National Media Appearances, including NPR Literary Supplement. He lives in New York. His new • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and book, Black Suit, Worn Once (978-1-59051-341-5) Features will be published by The Other Press in Fall 2009. • Promotion to City Reads Programs • Promotion to Parenting and Mental Health-Related $14.00 (NCR) Trade/240 pp. Media, Bloggers and Websites Features and Reviews ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47354-7 • Promotion to College Newspapers Memoir • Appearances Upon Request On Sale: September 8, 2009 IN-STORE PROMOTION • Advance Readers’ Edition • 12-Copy Floor Display: $168.00/978-0-307-44737-1 READING GROUP PROMOTION • Promotion to Reading Groups • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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Zen and Now On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Mark Richardson SEPTEMBER

“Assured and poetic.”—Los Angeles Times art travelogue, part meditation on an author and his work, Zen and Now is a trib- Pute to a beloved American book and the landscape that inspired it. Since it was ﬁrst published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has become a modern classic, a beautifully con- structed blend of travel narrative and philosophical inquiry that has moved generations of readers. One of those readers was journalist Mark Richard- son, who after rediscovering the book at middle age, decided to retrace Pirsig’s journey. From the back of his own motorcycle, Richardson investi- gates what happened to the reclusive Pirsig, his family, and the people described in the book in the years after its surprising success. “A harrowing account of the toll that the making of one man’s masterpiece exacted not only on himself but on those around him.” —The Wall Street Journal “Most notably for fans of the original, Zen and Now pushes the story forward, through Richard- A Rocky Mountain News Best Book son’s correspondence with the interview-averse ADVERTISING Pirsig, his editor, his ex-wife, and a second son, • National Print and Online Advertising Ted.” —The Boston Globe PUBLICITY Mark Richardson is a motorcycle and auto editor • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to Literary Bloggers and writer for the Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto. • Promotion to College Newspapers • Tie-in with events surrounding Zen and the Art of $15.00 Trade/288 pp. Motorcycle Maintenance’s 40th Anniversary ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39069-1 READING GROUP PROMOTION Philosophy 1 map • Promotion to Reading Groups VINTAGE DEPARTURES On Sale: September 8, 2009

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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway RELEASE

“A ﬂat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and EARLY Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle hilarious, action-packed look at the apoc- alypse that combines a touching tale of A friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied martial arts together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go-Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is not all it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domina- tion. Unlike anything else, The Gone-Away World is a remarkable literary debut that will be remembered and rediscovered for years to come. ONLINE ADVERTISING “Harkaway delivers plenty of action and sur- PUBLICITY prises.... Likely to be this season’s major • Promotion to Alternative Weeklies, College conversation-starter.”—San Francisco Chronicle Newspapers and Literary Bloggers • Fan Pages on Social Networking Websites “A gripping, satirical, postapocalyptic war epic including Facebook and MySpace populated with mimes, ninjas, bureaucrats, chi- www.NickHarkaway.com mera, and gun-toting nerds.” —New York Magazine Nick Harkaway lives in London.

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E Istanbul: The Collected Traveler An Inspired Companion Guide

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truly unique guide to one of today’s hottest tourist destinations, combining fasci- A nating articles and interviews by a wide variety of writers with the editor’s own indispensable tips and observations. Consulting Istanbul: The Collected Traveler while you’re planning your trip or bringing it along is like having your own savvy personal tour guide who knows the place intimately. The seductive, colorful, and in-depth pieces collected here illu- minate the delights of Turkish cuisine, the dazzling treasures and monuments of Istanbul, the rich pageant of history that has left its mark on the city, and the people and personalities that deﬁne it today. This edition features: • Enticing recommendations for related reading, including novels, histories, memoirs, and the most useful guidebooks. • An A–Z miscellany of concise and entertaining information—from Alexander the Great and Ataturk to Whirling Dervishes and Turkish Wines. ADVERTISING • Interviews, Q & As, and commentary from visi- • National Print and Online Advertising tors and residents such as Nobel Prize–winner PUBLICITY Orhan Pamuk. • Major Review Attention • Promotion to Travel Media, Bloggers and • Spotlights on unusual shops, restaurants, hotels, Websites for Features and Reviews and other experiences not to be missed. • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and Features Abundantly sprinkled with brief quotes from • Appearances Upon Request famous visitors to Istanbul and supplemented with practical advice, The Collected Traveler prepares you for an unparalleled experience of this extraordinary place.

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The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam SEPTEMBER “Harrowing yet beautiful.... With astonishing lyricism and compassion Aslam creates unforgettable characters.” —The Boston Globe n The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost ILovers, brilliantly knits together ﬁve seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan. There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg, looking for traces of her brother, a Russian soldier who disappeared years before; Casa, a young Afghani whose hatred of the Americans has plunged him into the blinding depths of zealotry; and James, an American Special Forces soldier. Aslam reveals the intertwining paths that

© RICHARD LEA-HAIR these characters have traveled, constructing a timely and intimate portrait of the complex ties A READING GROUP TITLE that bind us and the wars that continue to tear us ADVERTISING apart. • National Print Advertising “Extraordinary.... Aslam’s determination to gaze PUBLICITY resolutely at the darkest side of our many cold • Promotion to Literary Bloggers and hot wars is what gives The Wasted Vigil its READING GROUP PROMOTION depth and power.” • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Reading Groups —Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books • Online Advertising on Reading Group Sites “The power of Aslam’s novel lives in the explo- • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com sive adjacency of brutality and love, the poison of fanaticism diluted by the perfume of Persian lilacs.” —O, Oprah Magazine Also available: Maps for Lost Lovers: 978-1-4000-7697-0 Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and now lives in England.

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Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time A Reader’s Guide to Remembrance of Things Past © JUDE ALEXANDER

by Patrick Alexander SEPTEMBER n accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining— A novels of the past century. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust, aimed at the same audience that loved David Shapard’s Annotated Pride & Prejudice. At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel can seem daunting. It is in fact, after a century, as enjoyable and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust’s genius and appeal—he calls the work “outrageously bawdy and extremely funny”—and in his guide he makes it more accessible to the general reader through detailed plot summaries, historical and cultural background, a guide to the ﬁfty most important characters, maps, illustrations, and a brief biography of Proust. Essen- tial for readers and book groups currently reading Proust and who want help keeping track of the huge cast and intricate plot, this Reader’s Guide is also a wonderful introduction for stu- ADVERTISING dents and new readers and a memory-refresher • Academic Advertising in Publication of the Modern for long-time fans. Language Association Patrick Alexander is a director at the University PUBLICITY of Miami. He lives in Coral Gables, Florida. • Major Review Attention and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and Features $15.00 • Promotion to Literary Bloggers (Can. $18.95) Trade/320 pp. • Readings Upon Request ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47232-8 Literary Criticism Maps and illustrations throughout On Sale: September 8, 2009 The standard Moncrieff/Kilmartin translation of Remembrance of Things Past is available in three elegant volumes: Vol. 1—Swann’s Way & Within a Budding Grove: 978-0-394-71182-9 Vol. 2—The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain: 978-0-394-71183-6 Vol. 3—The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained: 978-0-394-71184-3 Also available: Swann’s Way: Remembrance of Things Past: 978-0-679-72009-6

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Dry Storeroom No. 1 The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey SEPTEMBER “A fascinating tour.” —The Seattle Times remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary people, meticulous A research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Richard Fortey takes his readers to a place where only a few privileged scientists, curators, and research specialists have been—the hallowed halls that hold the permanent collection of the Natural History Museum. Replete with fossils, jewels, rare plants, and exotic species, Fortey’s walkthrough offers an intimate view of many of the premiere scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Like looking into the mind of mankind and all the fascinating discoveries, ideas, and accomplishments that reside there, Fortey’s tour is utterly entertaining from first to last. “Lifts the veil on the inner penetralia of the world’s premiere natural history museum.” —The New York Review of Books ADVERTISING “An idiosyncratic, endearing, and colorful jour- • Online Advertising ney through the towers, vaults, libraries, collec- • Academic Advertising in Chronicle of Higher tions, offices, and cabinets that lie beyond the Education PUBLICITY public galleries.” —The Boston Globe • Promotion to Science Media, Bloggers and Richard Fortey lives in London. Websites for Features and Reviews $17.00 Trade/352 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27552-3 Also available: Natural History Illustrations throughout and 16 pages of color Earth: 978-0-375-70620-2 On Sale: September 8, 2009 Life: 978-0-375-70261-7 Trilobite: 978-0-375-70621-9

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Another Life A Burke Novel by Andrew Vachss SEPTEMBER “There’s no way to put a Vachss book down once you’ve begun.” —Detroit Free Press n this blistering conclusion to the nationally bestselling series, Burke is forced into a jour- Iney that will change the lives of the urban sur- vivalist and his outlaw family forever. The only person Burke has ever called father, known throughout the underground as “The Prof,” is in a coma, barely clinging to life in an off- the-books hospital. So when Pryce, a slippery man with government connections, offers the best medical services for the Prof and a clean slate for all concerned, Burke takes the contract without reading it. The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped. A highly professional snatch; no mistakes, no clues, and no ransom note. Burke’s job: get the kid back, what-

© NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT CHILDREN/PROTECT.ORG ever it takes. To do so, the ultimate man-for-hire must return to the day “Baby Boy Burke” was writ- ONLINE ADVERTISING ten on his birth certificate, and write, in the PUBLICITY blood of his enemies, the final act of this story. • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, “Vachss’s prose is as taut and street-wise as ever.” Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews —Associated Press www.vachss.com “Burke is the hardest, most twisted man in crime and thriller fiction.” —Contra Costa Times A selection of titles also available: Choice of Evil: 978-0-375-70662-2 Andrew Vachss new novel, Haiku (978-0-307- Dead and Gone: 978-0-375-72526-5 37849-1), will be published by Pantheon in Down Here: 978-1-4000-7611-6 November 2009. He lives in New York City and Flood: 978-0-679-78129-5 the Pacific Northwest. Mask Market: 978-0-307-45481-2 Only Child: 978-1-4000-3098-9 $15.00 (Can $18.95) Trade/256 pp. Sacrifice: 978-0-679-76410-6 ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-39039-4 Terminal: 978-0-307-38705-9 Crime Fiction VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD On Sale: September 1, 2009

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E Descartes’ Bones A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto SEPTEMBER NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book “Smart, elegantly written.... A feat of intellectual storytelling.” —The New York Times Book Review he bestselling author of The Island at the Center of the World presents a historical Tdetective story about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day. In 1650 René Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried far from home, in Stockholm. Sixteen years later, a French ambassador secretly unearthed Descartes’ bones and transported them back to France. There began a 350-year journey during which Descartes’ bones would intersect with some of the most momentous events in the history of thought: from the birth of science and the rise of democracy, to the earliest conflicts between scientific reason and faith. “A kind of intellectual adventure story.... Fanciful A READING GROUP TITLE and beguiling.... Shorto writes with wit, verve and ADVERTISING style. On every page, he offers up some new baffle- ment, curiosity or delight.” —Los Angeles Times • National Print Advertising • Academic Advertising in Chronicle of Higher “Shorto’s insights are keen.... He delves into the Education oddest and most unappetizing aspects of Des- PUBLICITY cartes’ story along with the inspiringly lofty ones.” • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to History Media, Bloggers and —The New York Times Websites for Features and Reviews “Shorto is a skilled raconteur. He distills cen- READING GROUP PROMOTION turies of scientific and religious debate while • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com keeping his story brisk and engaging.” www.DescartesBones.com —San Francisco Chronicle www.RussellShorto.com Russell Shorto lives in Amsterdam.

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Russell Shorto’s bestselling The Island at the Center of the World will be featured in conjunction with events celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage.

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Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale RELEASE

“There are scenes that stand your hair on EARLY end while you fall out of your chair laughing.... Be thankful Lansdale crafts such wild tall tales.”—Chicago Sun-Times brash amalgam of terrifying suspense, raw humor, and intriguing mystery that A unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of East Texas. After a harrowing stint in the Iraq war, Cason Statler returns home to the small East Texas town of Camp Rapture, where he drinks too much, stalks his ex-wife, and takes a job at the local paper, only to uncover notes on a cold case murder. With nothing left to live for and his own brother connected to the victim, he makes it his mission to solve the crime. Soon he is drawn into a murderous web of blackmail and deceit. To make matters worse, his deranged buddy Booger comes to town to lend a helping hand. “A literary grandson of grizzled ’40s writer Jim Thompson.... Lansdale writes as if he’s just slit his wrists and wants to get the story out before he loses too much blood.” —Houston Chronicle ONLINE ADVERTISING “Superb.... Reading Lansdale is like riding the PUBLICITY best tilt-a-whirl you’ve ever been on.” • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, —The Washington Post Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews • Readings Upon Request Joe Lansdale lives in Nacogdoches, Texas. www.JoeRLansdale.com $14.95 (Can. $18.95) Trade/304 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-71923-3 Also available by Joe R. Lansdale: Fiction VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD Lost Echoes: 978-0-307-27544-8 On Sale: August 18, 2009 Sunset and Sawdust: 978-0-375-71922-6

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Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more RELEASE by Arthur Goldwag A VINTAGE ORIGINAL EARLY

whip-smart reference that identiﬁes, describes, and otherwise supplies the A straight scoop on everything from the Bavarian Illuminati to Yale’s Skull & Bones, from Jim Jones and The People’s Temple to the 9/11 Truth Movement. Organized into three sections, alphabetically arranged, and cross-referenced, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies includes hundreds of entries, some brief and to the point, others extended essays. Each section has its own introduction explaining why certain individuals, events, places, and organizations have forever come to be associated with the dark, forbidden, and secretive side of life. All the greats are here: JFK assassination conspiracy theorists, the Pythagoreans, the Bilderberg Group, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Area 51, and Heaven’s Gate, as well as some surprises, like Oulipo, a select group of writers, mathematicians, and scientists (Italo Calvino was a member) who preached structure over content, and the Chauffeurs, a society of ONLINE ADVERTISING French criminals, who got their name from their PUBLICITY tactic of applying ﬁre to their victims’ feet. Infor- • Review Attention and Off-the-Book-Page Articles mative and entertaining—with just the right and Features amount of skepticism—Cults, Conspiracies, and • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR Secret Societies helps set the record straight on hun- • Promotion to College Newspapers dreds of mysterious meetings, savory secrets, intriguing individuals, and fascinating facts. Also available: Arthur Goldwag is also the author of ‘Isms and Isms and Ologies: 978-0-307-27907-1 ‘Ologies. A freelance writer and editor for more than twenty years, he has worked at Book-of-the- Month Club (where he created Traditions, a club devoted to Jewish interests), as well as at Random House and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Nineteen Eighty Book Three of The Red Riding Quartet by David Peace SEPTEMBER “Another winner from David Peace.... A must-read thriller of originality and style that conﬁrms him to be one of the best crime writers anywhere.” —Yorkshire Post (UK) ontinuing the narrative begun with Nine- teen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Cthis electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar,he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life. “Set in a world in which black comes in many shades, this powerful, stark and strangely poetic series is turning into a considerable achievement.” —The Guardian (UK) “Brilliant, not for the squeamish.” —The Times (UK) Also available: David Peace lives in Tokyo.

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Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe SEPTEMBER A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program

compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National A Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program. This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amon- tillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and such unforgettable poems as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.” Poe is widely credited with pioneering the detective story, represented here by “The Purloined Letter,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Also included is his essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he lays out his theory of how good writers write, describing how he con- structed “The Raven” as an example. Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston in 1809 and As a new selection for the National Endowment died under mysterious circumstances in Balti- for the Arts’ BIG READ Program, Selected Tales more in 1849. and Poetry will beneﬁt from major promotional support in the form of grants given to commu- $12.00 (Can. $15.00) Trade/224 pp. nities participating in the program, and NEA- ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47477-3 provided resources including: Fiction/Literature VINTAGE CLASSICS •Produced Radio and TV PSAS (Public Service On Sale: September 1, 2009 Announcements) and Print Ads •Printed and Online Reading Group Guides • Printed and Online Teacher’s Guides and Audio Guides • Publicity Materials • Organizational Assistance www.neabigread.org

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T W O V I N T A G E F. Scott Fitzgerald Two enduring works of ﬁction, now in Vintage Classics Editions

This Side of Paradise “As nearly perfect as such a work could be.... The glorious spirit of abounding youth glows throughout this fascinating tale.” —The New York Times ne of the most brilliant ﬁrst novels in the history of American literature, the book Othat launched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary career. Published in 1920, when the author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise recounts the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brings the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America of the years following World War I. Amory Blaine— egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative— inhabits a narrative interwoven with songs, poems, dramatic dialogue, questions and answers. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood is described with continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Fitzgerald’s formal inventiveness and verve heighten our sense that the world being described is our own, modern world.

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C L A S S I C S R E I S S U E S

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterﬂy’s wings.” —Ernest Hemingway SEPTEMBER Flappers and Philosophers “Fitzgerald is a master of the American short story.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer ll the glamour and cynicism of the dawn- ing Jazz Age are on display in F. Scott A Fitzgerald’s debut story collection. Flappers and Philosophers was ﬁrst published in 1920, on the heels of the young author’s smash hit novel This Side of Paradise. The collection contains some of his most famous early stories, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Ice Palace,” “Head and Shoulders,” and “The Off- shore Pirate.” In these pages we meet many of Fitzgerald’s trademark character types: the beautiful and headstrong young women and the dis- solute young men of what came to be called the Lost Generation. With their bobbed hair and dangling cigarettes, his characters are sophisticated, witty, and, above all, modern: the spoiled heiress who falls for her kidnapper, the intellectual student whose life is turned upside-down by a chorus girl, the feuding debutantes whose weapons are cutting words and a pair of scissors. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, was born in 1896 and died in 1940.

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The Original Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley) Edited by Charles E. Robinson SEPTEMBER A VINTAGE ORIGINAL “The novel the Shelleys wrote together represents a remarkable act of literary homage and collaboration and Charles E. Robinson’s revealing new edition allows modern readers to be there at its creation.” —The Independent (London) orking from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein, Charles E. Robinson Wpresents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shel- ley’s amendments and contributions. For the first time we can hear Mary’s sole voice, which is colloquial, fast-paced, and sounds more modern to a contemporary reader. We can also see for the first time the extent of Percy Shelley’s contribution—some 5,000 words out of 72,000— and his stylistic and thematic changes. His occas- sionally florid prose is in marked contrast to the directness of Mary’s writing. Interesting, too, are Percy’s suggestions, which humanize the monster, thus shaping many of the major themes of the novel as we read it today. In these two versions of Frankenstein we have an exciting new view of one of literature’s greatest works. Charles E. Robinson is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and previously edited The Frankenstein Notebooks.

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Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus A Dual Language Edition

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell SEPTEMBER A VINTAGE ORIGINAL “Stephen Mitchell’s translation of Rilke’s most demandingly difficult and loveliest work instantly makes every other rendering obsolete.” —William Arrowsmith vailable for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most A beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of Rilke’s two greatest masterpieces readers will discover an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thought; at the same time, Mitchell’s work has authority and power as poetry in its own right. ADVERTISING • Academic Advertising including The New York “Mitchell’s translation of the Duino Elegies— Review of Books and Publication of Modern Language Rilke’s masterpiece—is the best that has been Association made.... Intensely readable, yet he has not simplified the ideas.” —Stephen Spender, Also available: The New York Review of Books Letters to a Young Poet: 978-0-394-74104-8 Rainer Maria Rilke died in 1926. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: 978-0-679-73245-7 Stephen Mitchell is considered one of the pre- The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke: eminent translators of his generation and has 978-0-679-72201-4 translated many classic texts including Gilgamesh, The Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching and the Book of Job. He lives in Ojai, California.

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M A J O R R E L E A S E Indignation by Philip Roth

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Mesmerizing.... Philip Roth’s intrepid novel of self-revelation demands to be read in one sitting. It’s that good. It’s that audacious. It’s that compelling.” —The Seattle Times ndignation, Philip Roth’s twenty-ninth book, is a powerful exploration of a remarkable Imoment in American history. It is a novel that highlights his masterful ability to re-create a time and a place and to populate it with unforgettable characters, as he has done in American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, and The Human Stain. In 1951, the second year of the Korean War, a studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, begins his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. He is here seeking refuge from his father, a sturdy, hard- working neighborhood butcher, who seems to have gone mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy. Far from Newark, Marcus has to ﬁnd his way around the customs and constric- tions of another American world. “It is Roth’s virtuoso skill to couple Marcus’s companionable pleasure in part-time butchering A selection of titles also available: with his nightmare that the knives he wields so dexterously will be used on himself.” —The Boston Globe

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“Roth, blending the bawdy exuberance of his early period and the disenchantment of his recent work, demonstrates with subtle mastery, the ‘incomprehensible way one’s most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.’ ”—The New Yorker “We can see again his shocking ability to bring history to bear on the present. As always, the prose is well built—sinewy and graceful—and, as always, the wit is as sharp as a German knife. There are simply no novels by Roth in which you cannot detect the hand of a master.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “He is a master. And the short form serves the story: The shocking rush from this book comes from watching Roth expertly and quickly build up to a half-dozen ﬁnal pages that absolutely deliver the kill.” —Entertainment Weekly

Philip Roth has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, © NANCY CRAMPTON National Book Award, and PEN/Faulkner Award, among other literary prizes. His new novel, The A READING GROUP TITLE Humbling, will be published by Houghton Mifﬂin A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington in Fall 2009. Post and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year $15.00 (NCR) Trade/240 pp. A ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38891-9 New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Fiction Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA On Sale: October 6, 2009 Today, and Washington Post Bestseller ADVERTISING • National Print Advertising PUBLICITY • Promotion to Reading Groups and Literary Bloggers READING GROUP PROMOTION • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs • Online Advertising on Reading Group Sites • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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Finding Beauty in a Broken World

OCTOBER by Terry Tempest Williams

“Williams’s most important, most visceral, most demanding work. It should—no must—be read.” —The Baltimore Sun n impassioned and moving plea for a better relationship between the natural A world and humankind, from one of our most treasured writers. Constructing a narrative of hopeful acts, Williams travels the world to see how broken pieces of history and earth can create something new and whole. She learns about the art of mosaic in Ravenna, Italy. She studies the prairie dogs on the brink of extinction in the American South- west. And she travels to a small village in Rwanda where she joins survivors of the genocide to build a memorial from the rubble of war. Sparking social change and healing, Williams’s journey forms a singular meditation on how the natural

© ANN P. TEMPEST and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, and in tumult and peace. ADVERTISING “Intense, tough, profound.... A resounding hymn • National Print and Online Advertising to creativity, community and engagement.” PUBLICITY —Seattle Post-Intelligencer • National Media Appearances, Including NPR • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and “Offers its answers in fragments, pieces—as a Features mosaic must.... And yet there is always beauty.” • Promotion to Environmental Media, Bloggers and Websites for Features and Proﬁles —Los Angeles Times • Select Appearances Upon Request Terry Tempest Williams is the author of Refuge. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, Also available: and Wilson, Wyoming. Leap: 978-0-679-75257-8 $16.00 (Can. $19.95) Trade/432 pp. Red: 978-0-375-72518-0 ISBN/EAN: 978-0-375-72519-7 Refuge: 978-0-679-74024-7 Memoir An Unspoken Hunger: 978-0-679-75256-1 On Sale: October 6, 2009

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E The Vampire Archives The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published © CAROLYN HARTMAN

Edited by Otto Penzler OCTOBER With a Preface by Neil Gaiman and an Introduction by the Editor A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

he Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungri- est, undeadliest collection of vampire sto- Tries, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire ﬁction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stroker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include:

ADVERTISING Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose • National Print and Online Advertising Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger PUBLICITY Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker • Major Review Attention Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to Vampire Media, Bloggers and Bookshop in New York City. He is the editor,most Websites for Features and Reviews recently, of The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, and • Select Appearances the author or editor of many other titles. He lives in New York City.

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E Nothing to Be Frightened Of A Memoir by Julian Barnes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year “Beautiful and funny.... An elegant memoir and meditation, a deep seismic tremor of a book that keeps rumbling and grumbling in the mind for weeks thereafter.” —Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book Review eadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly funny, Nothing to Be Fright- Dened Of is a riveting, highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the ﬁnal diagnosis. A meditation on mortality as only Julian Barnes could write it: one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary ﬁgures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. An athe- ist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with A selection of titles also available: God, and at his own bloodline, which has Arthur and George: 978-1-4000-9703-6 The Lemon Table: 978-1-4000-7650-5 become, following his parents’ death, another Love, etc.: 978-0-375-72588-3 realm of mystery. Nothing to Be Frightened Of reveals Something to Declare: 978-1-4000-3087-3 how we all might go about living with the Flaubert’s Parrot: 978-0-679-73136-8 inevitable. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: 978-0-679-73137-5 “Surprisingly jocular—although also dead earnest.... Highly literary, thoughtful but playful.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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“Brilliantly written and also funny...the book is cunningly composed, in fact held together in a rather Proustian fashion.... Barnes has an extremely lively mind, and a distinctive voice, which gives a certain welcome jauntiness or gai- ety to his darker musings.” —Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books “Barbarously intelligent and a rare thing in literature...marvelously engaging, even uplifting.... Briskly, rigorously, this unusual book gives us something to think about until that nothingness comes knocking.” —John Freeman, Books We Like, NPR.org “A delicious mix of personal reminiscence, family history, literary criticism, and philosophical speculation.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Beautifully done.... An extended meditation on human mortality, but one that is neither clinical

nor falsely consoling. Instead, the witty and © ELLEN WARNER melancholic author simply converses with us about our most universal fear.” A READING GROUP TITLE —The Washington Post A New York Times Extended List Bestseller “Very entertaining and, best of all, wholesomely A Washington Post, Rocky Mountain News, and provocative.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Providence Journal Best Book of the Year ADVERTISING Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, two • National Print Advertising books of stories, and two collections of essays. He • Academic Advertising in Publication of Modern lives in London. Language Association PUBLICITY $15.00 Trade/256 pp. • Promotion to Literary Bloggers ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38998-5 Memoir READING GROUP PROMOTION On Sale: October 6, 2009 • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Reading Groups Available in Canada, Vintage Canada: $21.00, • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and 978-0-307-35699-4 more on www.readinggroupcenter.com www.julianbarnes.com

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Acting as a Business Strategies for Success

by Brian O’Neil © TESS STEINKOLK OCTOBER With a New Introduction by the Author REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION

ong regarded as an essential and extraordinarily useful handbook for actors, Acting Las a Business has become one of the classics of the genre. Avoiding the usual advice about persistence and luck, Brian O’Neil provides clear-cut guidelines that will familiarize actors at all levels with the business behind their art. Some of the insights he provides includes how to put together a winning theatrical résumé, practical ways to join the per- former’s unions, and tactics for getting an agent. In this new edition, O’Neil has updated the book to keep up with the latest show-business trends, including how best to use the Internet. Acting as a Business remains a necessary and integral part of any actor’s library. “O’Neil shares his business savvy in this slim, practical-minded actor’s guide that covers everything from approaching agents to assembling resumes.” —Entertainment Weekly

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières OCTOBER

“A novel of romantic obsession.... An intricate historical narrative.” —The New York Times Book Review he intimate new novel by the bestselling author of Corelli’s Mandolin is a love story Tat once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. England, late 1970s. Forty-something Chris is trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. Roza, in her twenties, the daughter of one of Tito’s parti- sans, has only recently moved to London from Yugoslavia. One evening, Chris mistakes her for a prostitute and propositions her. Instead of being offended, she gets into his car. Over the next months Roza tells Chris stories of her past. She’s a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life as she retells it—and Chris is rapt. This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on the seductive power of storytelling. “Two unreliable narrators perform a discordant but appealing duet.” —The Washington Post Book World A READING GROUP TITLE “I was caught up...and hoped that these two PUBLICITY desperate people might somehow ﬁnd more • Promotion to Literary Bloggers together. As anyone who’s read de Bernières READING GROUP PROMOTION knows, however, such hopes are never resolved in • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Reading simple ways.” Groups • Online Advertising on Reading Group Sites —Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times Book Review • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and Louis de Bernières is the author of Corelli’s Man- more on www.readinggroupcenter.com www.louisdebernieres.co.uk dolin. He lives in Norfolk, East Anglia.

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Frontier Medicine From the Atlantic to the Paciﬁc, 1492–1941

by David Dary © NED HOCKMAN OCTOBER

“Sturdy popular history.... Dary knows this material cold, and his narrative accumulates authority and dignity as it rolls along.... The results are both a horror show and undeniably engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review acked with fascinating facts about our medical past, Frontier Medicine is an engag- Ping and illuminating history of how our modern medical system came into being. In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since New World settlers ﬁrst began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. This is a story replete with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic healers and ingenious medicine men. With an engaging style and an eye for the telling detail. Dary charts the evolution of American medicine from these trial-and-error roots to its contemporary high-tech, high-cost pharmaceuti- cal and medical industry. “A grand-slam contribution to Western history.... A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year Dary, one of our greatest historians, reminds us PUBLICITY anew how health issues oftentimes determine • National Media Appearances, including NPR history.” —Douglas Brinkley • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and Features “Masterly.... Enthralling.... Dary is particularly • Promotion to Environmental Media, Bloggers effective at showing us the strengths and foibles of and Websites for Features and Proﬁles • Select Appearances Upon Request early American doctors.... Entertaining, enlight- ening material.” —The Wall Street Journal David Dary is the author of ten previous books on the West, and headed the School of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma, from which he recently retired. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

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Esther’s Inheritance by Sándor Márai OCTOBER

“Márai is one of the great modern novelists, in the same league as Gabriel García Márquez.” —The Washington Post Book World newly translated novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer: a tautly A suspenseful story of unrequited love and its still vivid consequences twenty years later. What is it to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for the more than two decades since Lajos disappeared from her life. Now all these years later, Lajos is return- ing, and the news brings both panic and excite- ment. While no longer young and thoroughly skeptical about Lajos, Esther still remembers how incredibly alive she felt when he was around. His presence bewitches everyone, and the greatest part of his charm—and his danger—lies in the deftness with which he wields that delicate power. Friends rally round protectively, but Lajos’s arrival begins a day of high theater that will leave Esther’s life dramatically changed again. “Spellbinding.... A passionate tale.... Deliciously PUBLICITY portentous: the deceptions woven around these • Promotion to Literary Bloggers characters introduce a sharp sliver of danger.” • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Deeply psychological.... Vivid and gripping.... Also available: Pristinely wrought and breathtakingly incisive.” Casanova in Bolzano: 978-0-375-71296-8 —Booklist (starred review) Embers: 978-0-375-70742-1 Rebels: 978-0-375-70741-4 Translated by George Szirtes. Sándor Márai is the author of Embers. He died in 1989.

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Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard OCTOBER

“A writer of great originality and fascination.” —The New York Review of Books rom the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard, a partly autobiograph- Fical novel that is also a stunning portrait of Paul Wittgenstein—the great philosopher’s nephew. It is 1967, in a Viennese hospital. In separate wards, two men lie bedridden: the narrator lies stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul is suffering from one of his periodic bouts of madness. Bernhard traces the growth of an intense friendship between two eccentric, obsessive men who share a passion for music, a strange sense of humor, brutal honesty, and disgust for the bour- geois of Vienna. Bernhard’s evocation of the fear and longing for intimacy he and his truest friend share in the face of death chronicles both the spiritual symmetry that bonds them for twelve years and the emotional betrayal that elicits Bern- hard’s eulogy. “Oddly moving and funny.... A meditative fugue Vintage will reissue six more works by Thomas for mad, brilliant voices on the themes of death, Bernhard, Gathering Evidence, Concrete, death-in-life and the artist’s and thinker’s role in Correction, Extinction, Lime Works, and society.” —Chicago Tribune Woodcutters, in subsequent seasons. “A memento mori that approaches genius.” —The Wall Street Journal Also available: Frost: 978-1-4000-3351-5 Translated from the German by David McLintock. Gargoyles: 978-1-4000-7755-7 Thomas Bernhard died in 1989. The Loser: 978-1-4000-7754-0 $14.00 (NCR) Trade/112 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-7756-4 Fiction VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL On Sale: October 6, 2009

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Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann OCTOBER

“A piercing look into the art world.... Kehlmann’s critique of celebrity, of fame and of the ugliness of self-promotion holds strong.”—San Francisco Chronicle ith edgy wit and intelligence, Daniel Kehlmann dives into the problems of W what is “truth” in our celebrity-crazed times and embraces the energy and humanity that lie beneath the pretensions of the art and journalistic worlds. A ﬁrecracker of a novel. Sebastian Zollner’s failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures. Searching for the break that will redeem him in the eyes of his peers, he sets out to write the essential biography on the eccentric painter Manuel Kaminski. All he needs to do is ingratiate himself with Kaminski’s family, wait for the great man to kick the bucket, and then reap the awards. But Kamin- ski has an agenda of his own—one that will take them both on a hilarious wild goose-chase. “Zollner is, in spite of everything, an endearing character who is both comic and sympathetic.... Can be absorbed and thoroughly enjoyed in one Also available: Measuring the World: 978-0-307-27739-8 sitting.” —Rocky Mountain News “Sebastian Zollner and Manuel Kaminski are quite a pair.... Laugh-out-loud funny.” —Las Vegas Review-Journal Daniel Kehlmann lives in Vienna. Pre-production of the ﬁlm adaptation of Me and Kamkinski is set to start in Fall 2009, with shooting in Germany, France and Belgium.

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Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö Two breathtakingly suspenseful installments in the classic Martin Beck Mysteries

The Abominable Man Introduction by Jens Lapidus “A taut, gripping narrative.... A book you won’t—easily—put down.” —Chicago Tribune he bloody murder of a police captain in his hospital room exposes the particularly Tunsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and sheer brutality. Nonetheless, Mar- tin Beck and his colleagues scour Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly riﬂeman. As the tension builds and a feeling of impending danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption. That’s when an even stronger sense of responsibility and something like shame urge him into taking a series of drastic steps, which lead to a shocking disaster.

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“One of the most authentic, gripping and profound collections of police procedurals ever accomplished.” —Michael Connelly OCTOBER The Locked Room Introduction by Michael Connelly “The best yet in a superb series of mysteries.” —Minneapolis Tribune young blonde in sunglasses robs a bank and kills a hapless citizen. Across town, A a corpse with a bullet shot through its heart is found in a locked room—with no gun at the scene. The crimes seem disparate, but to Martin Beck they are two pieces of the same puzzle, and solving it becomes the one way he can escape the pains of his failed marriage and the lingering effects of a near-fatal bullet wound. Exploring the ramiﬁcations of egotism and intel- lect, luck and accident, this tour de force of detection bears the unmistakable substance and gravity of real life.

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Beginning in 1963, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote a thirty-chapter mystery featuring Inspector Martin Beck every year for ten years. All ten Martin Beck mysteries are being made available in newly repackaged paperback editions, with the ﬁnal volumes, Cop Killer and The Terrorists, appearing in 2010. Per Wahlöö died in 1975. Maj Sjöwall lives in Sweden.

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New Lives by Ingo Schulze OCTOBER

“Ingo Schulze is an epic storyteller.” —Günter Grass n his long-awaited new novel, renowned Ger- man author Ingo Schulze provides a rich and Inuanced panorama of a world in transition. East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer— man of the theater, aspiring novelist—has turned his back on the art world and joined a startup newspaper. Before long, the former aesthete and rebel becomes obsessed with personal gain, and in a series of letters to his loved ones, Enrico vividly muses on his capitalist ventures and latent worldly ambitions. As Schulze peels away the lay- ers of Enrico’s previous existence, his antihero’s reinvention comes to embody all the question- able aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form. “Witty and elaborate.” —The New Yorker “May well be Germany’s best reuniﬁcation novel to date.... Exhilarating and perceptive.” —Booklist (starred) Translated from the German by John E. Woods. Also available: Simple Stories: 978-0-375-70512-0 Ingo Schulze has won the prestigious Alfred 33 Moments of Happiness: 978-0-375-70004-0 Doblin Prize and the Ernst Willner Prize for Lit- erature. He lives in Berlin.

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Lion of Jordan The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim OCTOBER

“Nuanced and human.... King Hussein’s whole life was spent in foreign affairs, and his story becomes the story of the Middle East over half a century.” —The New York Review of Books he first major account of the life of an extraordinary soldier and statesman, King THussein of Jordan. Throughout his long reign (1953–1999), Hus- sein remained a dominant figure in Middle East- ern politics and a consistent proponent of peace with Israel. For over forty years he walked a tightrope between Palestinians and Arab radicals on the one hand and Israel on the other. Avi Shlaim reveals that Hussein initiated a secret dialogue with Israel in 1963 and spent over a thousand hours in talks with countless Israeli officials. Shlaim expertly reconstructs this dialogue from previously untapped records and first-hand accounts, significantly rewriting the history of the Middle East over the past fifty years and shedding light on the far-reaching impact of Hussein’s leadership. “Excellent.... A particularly valuable account of Hussein’s relations with Israel and the Palestini- ans.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing.... Shlaim’s authority, and tenacity, are undeniable.... His narrative is gripping.” —The Nation Avi Shlaim is a professor of international relations at Oxford University.

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A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock OCTOBER

“Terrific.... Chilling.... When the prizes are awarded for this year’s best first novel, A Cure for Night will be competing for the gold.” —The Washington Post gripping debut featuring a young public defender in Brooklyn, A Cure for Night A introduces a powerful new voice to the world of legal thrillers. Joel Deveraux is a rising star at a Manhattan white-shoe law firm. But when he’s caught in a drug-related scandal, he is forced to resign and take a job with the Brooklyn Public Defender’s office. He arrives just in time for a high profile murder case, where he’s assigned to work with the tough and savvy Myra Goldstein. The defen- dant is a black pot dealer from the projects charged with the murder of a white college student. In this twisty journey through Brooklyn,

© JENNIFER MAY Justin Peacock paints a strikingly real portrait of the law as a form of urban combat. ONLINE ADVERTISING “Peacock blends taut courtroom drama with The PUBLICITY Wire’s gritty urban realism in this razor-sharp • Promotion to Legal/Crime Fiction Media, debut.” —Entertainment Weekly Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews • Readings Upon Request “A lively, dialogue-driven story of life on the www.ACureforNight.Typepad.com streets and in the courtroom, and in both arenas, anything goes.” —USA Today Justin Peacock received his law degree from Yale. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Freedom’s Battle The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention

by Gary J. Bass © SAMEER A. KHAN OCTOBER

“Lively, subtle, and comprehensive.... Sheds a penetrating light on current policy debates.” —Robert D. Kaplan, The Washington Post Book World hy do we let evil happen? Why do we sometimes rally to stop it? Whose lives W matter to us? These are the key questions posed by Gary Bass in this provocative look at the forgotten world of the ﬁrst human rights activists. Bass, a rising scholar at Princeton, illuminates the cultural and political landscapes of the nineteenth-century “atrocitarians,” as these activists were known, and shows us how a newly emer- gent free press exposed British, French, and American citizens to atrocities taking place beyond their shores, and galvanized them to action. Wildly romantic, eccentrically educated and full of bizarre enthusiasms, they were also morally serious people on the vanguard of a new political consciousness. Their legacy has much to teach us about our world’s current human rights crises.

A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington “Fascinating and well told.... Bass writes with a Post Best Book of the Year jaunty ﬂair and an eye for eccentric characters.” ADVERTISING —The New York Times Book Review • Academic Advertising in American Political Science Review “Full and fair-minded.... Bass relates these epi- PUBLICITY sodes masterfully, providing a wealth of detail in • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR ﬂuid prose.” —The Wall Street Journal • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and Features Gary J. Bass is an associate professor at Princeton • Promotion to Human Rights Interest Media, University. He lives in Princeton and New York Bloggers and Websites for Features and Reviews City. • Appearances Upon Request $17.00 (Can. $21.00) Trade/528 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27987-3 History On Sale: October 6, 2009

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M A J O R R E L E A S E The Private Patient An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P. D. James

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “For first-time readers and longstanding admirers alike, The Private Patient offers a clear view of the virtues that have distinguished James’s crime fiction since her first novel.” —The Washington Post wonderful new novel by bestselling author P. D. James, featuring the inim- A itable Adam Dalgliesh and set in a beautiful, stately English manor house turned medical clinic. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrives at the Cheverell Manor to have a facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a smooth operation and a comfortable week recu- perating. Two days later, however, she is strangled to death in her bed. To Commander Adam Dal- gliesh, who is called in to investigate, it doesn’t make sense. Yet as he digs deeper into the victim’s history, the suspects rapidly multiply, and it appears that the murder could have connections to a horrific crime that took place almost 350 years ago. When another body shows up, Dal- gliesh finds himself confronted by a disturbing new twist, which makes the question of guilt or innocence almost beyond the point.

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“P. D. James’s latest exercise in impeccable detection.” —The New York Times Book Review “Serves up a strong brew of social climbing, petty jealousies, score settling, gossip, and backstab- bing worthy of the nastiest Evelyn Waugh novel.” —Boston Globe “Elegant...compelling.... Continues the James tradition.... She comfortably tackles timeless concerns.” —Chicago Tribune “Intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James’s clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them.” —Providence Journal “The novel’s pointed descriptions, its gothic set- tings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James’ shoul- der while she wrote this terriﬁc literary mystery.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © ULLA MONTAN “A jewel in the crown of the woman considered A New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, by many the queen of crime ﬁction. P.D. James is Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, at the top of her form.” Washington Post, USA Today, and Wall Street —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Journal Bestseller ADVERTISING P. D. James lives in London and Oxford. • National Print and Online Advertising PUBLICITY $15.00 (NCR) Trade/368 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-45528-4 • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, Fiction Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews On Sale: November 3, 2009 • Promotion to Literary Bloggers IN-STORE PROMOTION • 15-Copy Floor Display: $225.00/978-0-307-44739-5 READING GROUP PROMOTION • Promotion to Reading Groups www.PDJamesBooks.com

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The Age of Entanglement When Quantum Physics Was Reborn by Louisa Gilder NOVEMBER

“Captivating.... A movingly human and surprisingly accessible picture of the unveiling of the quantum universe.... Admirably lucid.” —Chicago Tribune brilliant debut focusing on one of the piv- otal debates in quantum physics, when a A new generation of scientists challenged the thinking of Einstein. In 1935, Albert Einstein famously showed that there is a seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particles, which he dubbed “spooky action at a distance.” In that same year, Erwin Schrödinger christened this correlation “entanglement.” Yet its existence wasn’t ﬁrmly established until 1964, in a groundbreaking paper by the Irish physicist John Bell. Drawing on the papers, letters, and memoirs of the twentieth century’s greatest physicists, Louisa Gilder both

© KEVIN SPRAGUE humanizes and dramatizes the story by employing their own words in imagined face-to-face dia- ONLINE ADVERTISING logues. PUBLICITY “Gilder displays an ability to capture a personality • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR in a few words.” —The Washington Post • Promotion to Science and Language Media and Websites for Features and Reviews “A marvelous guide to the endlessly fascinating mystery of quantum mechanics—and to the equally fascinating way some of the world’s smartest scientists have wrestled with understanding it.” —Charles C. Mann, author of 1491 Louisa Gilder graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege in 2000. This is her ﬁrst book. She lives in Bodega Bay, California.

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Somebody The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

by Stefan Kanfer NOVEMBER

“Well-researched and beautifully written, the book is as fascinating...as the subject himself.” —Los Angeles Times tefan Kanfer gives us the definitive life of Marlon Brando, seamlessly intertwining the Sman and the work in a stunning and illuminating appraisal. Beginning with Brando’s turbulent childhood, Kanfer follows him to New York where he made his star-making Broadway debut as Stanley Kowal- ski in A Streetcar Named Desire at age twenty-three. Brando then decamped for Hollywood, and Kan- fer looks at each of Brando’s films over the years—from The Men in 1950 to The Score in 2001—offering deft and insightful analysis of his sometimes brilliant, sometimes baffling perfor- mances. And, finally, Kanfer brings into focus Brando’s self-destructiveness, ambivalence toward his craft, and the tragedies that shadowed his last years. “A vivid chronicle.... The Marlon Brando story is a fascinating and tragic one, and Kanfer gives it the size and understanding necessary to provide ADVERTISING an enthralling read.” —Peter Bogdanovich • Advertising in Film Quarterly “Stefan Kanfer has done a miraculous job in con- PUBLICITY veying the reckless, untidy, and darkening life.... • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to Entertainment Media, Bloggers A landmark in Brando studies.” and Websites for Features and Reviews —David Thomson Stefan Kanfer is the author of the bestseller Ball Also available: of Fire, a biography of Lucile Ball, and Groucho, Ball of Fire: 978-0-375-72771-9 a biography of Groucho Marx, and numerous The Essential Groucho: 978-0-375-70213-6 other books. He lives in New York. Groucho: 978-0-375-70207-5 Stardust Lost: 978-1-4000-7803-5 $16.00 (Can. $19.95) Trade/384 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-7804-2 Biography 16 pages of photographs On Sale: November 3, 2009

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French

A New York Times Best Book of the Year A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “Extraordinary.... Thrilling.... Masterly.... Full of intimate and moving revelations.” —The New Yorker he first major biography of one of our greatest writers—a fascinating, highly Tacclaimed account researched with the full cooperation of its Nobel Prize winning subject. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where V.S. Naipaul was born into an immigrant Indian family, Patrick French examines Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including a Also available: twenty-five-year-long affair. Naipaul’s extraordi- Tibet, Tibet: 978-1-4000-3417-8 nary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight. “Vivid.... One of the sprightliest, most gripping, most intellectually curious, and, well, funniest biographies of a living writer...to come along in years.” —The New York Times

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“A distinguished biography, one that aims to understand rather than simplistically condone or chastise.... A superb, clear-eyed study, always sympathetic, balanced and thoughtful.” —The Washington Post “Shrewd and honest.... A formidable achievement.... Contains a remarkable accumulation of rich, minute detail; covers a vast amount of history and politics in an effortless manner; and nav- igates difficult emotional territory with a very high degree of compassion, subtlety and authority.” —The Nation “Fully worthy of its subject, with all the dramatic pacing, the insight and the pathos of a first-rate novel. It is a magnificent tribute to Naipaul’s painful and unlikely struggle.... Impossible to put down.” —George Packer, The New York Times Book Review

“Excellent.... The great merit of a superb biogra- © JERRY BAUER phy, such as this one, is that it can deepen our understanding of the literary character by telling A Los Angeles Times, New York, Economist, Time, us more about its creator.... French gets it right.” and Washington Post Best Book —The New York Review of Books ADVERTISING • National Print Advertising “Astonishing (and astonishingly authorized).... • Academic Advertising in Publication of the Modern Shrewd and intelligent.” —The Atlantic Language Association “A prodigious achievement, a wonderful biogra- PUBLICITY phy, a justiﬁcation for the art of biography itself.” • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to Literary Bloggers —The Times Literary Supplement Patrick French has received the Somerset Maugham Award and the Heinemann Prize. He lives in London.

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Joe R. Lansdale Two more Hap and Leonard novels from the inimitable, award-winning mystery writer

Rumble Tumble “Lansdale has a zest for storytelling and a gimlet eye for detail.” —Entertainment Weekly ven though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he’s Estill got his job as a bouncer at a local club, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he’s got his main squeeze, ex-Sweet Potato Queen Brett Sawyer. Things go downhill, however,when Brett’s daughter, Tillie, who has been walking on the wrong side of the law—doing drugs and turning tricks— suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It won’t be easy—it never is—but nothing is going to stop Hap and Leonard as they hit the road destined for Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma to shake things up. And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel this promises to be a wild ride. “Funny, compulsive...enjoyably rafﬁsh.” —Esquire

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/256 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-45551-2 Fiction VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD On Sale: November 3, 2009

Other Hap and Leonard titles available:

Savage Season Mucho Mojo Two Bear Mambo Bad Chili 978-0-307-45538-3 978-0-307-45539-0 978-0-307-45549-9 978-0-307-45550-5 (May 2009) (May 2009) Other titles available by Joe R. Lansdale: Lost Echoes: 978-0-307-27544-8 Sunset and Sawdust: 978-0-375-71922-6

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“Lansdale gets better with each book.” —Rocky Mountain News NOVEMBER Captains Outrageous “Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts.” —Houston Chronicle hen Hap Collins saves the life of his employer’s daughter, he is rewarded W with a Caribbean Cruise, and he con- vinces his best friend Leonard Pine to come along. However, when the cruise sails on without them, stranding them in Playa del Carmen with nothing but their misfortune and Leonard’s ridiculous new hat, the two quickly find themselves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence. When they return to East Texas, they find that trouble has beaten them back, and when trouble’s around it doesn’t take long for Hap and Leonard to find it.

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/336 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-45552-9 Fiction Joe R. Lansdale’s next Hap and VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD On Sale: November 3, 2009 Leonard novel, Two Dogs Falling (978-0-307-27098-6) will be published by Knopf in Fall 2010. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazon by Daniel L. Everett NOVEMBER

“Immensely interesting and deeply moving.... Everett provides unique insights into Pirahã culture as well as examining their language in depth.” —New Scientist riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist A Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and linguistic implications. The Pirahã have no counting system, no ﬁxed terms for color, no concept of war, and no personal property. Everett was so impressed with their peaceful way of life that he eventually lost faith in the God he’d hoped to introduce to them, and instead devoted his life to the science of linguistics. Part passionate memoir, part scientiﬁc exploration, Everett’s life-changing tale is riveting look into the nature of language, thought, and life itself. ADVERTISING “A story of language and faith along the sweeping • National Print and Online Advertising banks of the Maici River.” —Time • Academic Advertising in Contexts PUBLICITY “Destined to become a classic of popular • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR enthnography.” —The Independent, London • Promotion to Science and Language Media and Websites for Features and Reviews Daniel Everett is Chair of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University. He lives in Floyd Knobs, Indiana.

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Saving Savannah The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones NOVEMBER

“A meticulous re-creation of the Civil War in Georgia’s rice kingdom.... Jones traces this tragic story with thoroughness and sophistication.” —The New York Times Book Review eeply researched and vividly written, Sav- ing Savannah is a panoramic portrait of a Dcity, and an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War years. Jacqueline Jones has written a brilliant evocation of time and place that transports the reader to the balmy, raucous streets of the fabled port city even as it chronicles the violent changes taking hold throughout the South and dividing the nation. This is not a book about military battles, but about the everyday lives of blacks and whites, rich and poor, men and women—plantation owners, ﬁeld hands, impoverished whites, and so- called “free people of color”—supporting, ﬁght- ing, or succumbing to slavery’s long reach, and confronting the transformations that would alter their city forever. “A history rich in social detail and written with ADVERTISING deep insight.” —The Boston Globe • Academic Advertising in Journal of American History “A compelling portrait of antebellum, wartime, PUBLICITY and postwar Savannah.” • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR —National Geographic Traveler • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs • Promotion to Civil War Media, Bloggers and Jacqueline Jones is the Harry S. Truman Profes- Websites for Features and Reviews sor of American History at Brandeis University. She lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Hitler’s Private Library The Books that Shaped His Life by Timothy W. Ryback NOVEMBER

“Crisply written.... Thoroughly engrossing.... Fascinating—and unnerving.” —The Washington Post Book World itler’s Private Library offers a remarkable view of Hitler’s intellectual evolution. It Halso demonstrates the ability of books not only to convey their contents but also to preserve in very real ways the life of the collector. During Hitler’s military service in World War I he began to amass a private library that he treasured, volumes of which accompanied him to the front during World War II and to the bunker where he committed suicide. Most of the books that comprised this library have disappeared, but some were found by Americans soldiers, and made their way to the Library of Congress, where they remained unexamined for several decades until Timothy Ryback came upon them. “Ryback neatly weaves together Hitler’s political career with his book-collecting habits.... Ryback has done a good job maintaining a balance between dispassionate inquiry and moral revul- A Washington Post Notable Book sion.” —The Economist PUBLICITY “Intriguing.... Ryback is the perfect guide, intelli- • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and Features gent, well-informed, and careful.” • Promotion to WWII and Jewish Media, Bloggers —The Seattle Times and Websites for Features and Reviews • Promotion to Jewish Community Centers for Timothy W. Ryback’s writing has appeared in The Appearances and Book Clubs Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He lives in Paris.

Also available: $16.00 (Can. $19.95) Trade/304 pp. The Last Survivor: 978-0-679-75826-6 ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-45526-0 History 47 illustrations On Sale: November 3, 2009

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Antoine’s Alphabet Watteau and His World by Jed Perl NOVEMBER

“A perfect match between writer and subject. This refined yet ebullient book offers an invaluable key to a great artist.” —Chicago Tribune rom one of our foremost art critics comes a unique assessment of Antoine Watteau Fthat reaffirms the contemporary relevance of the greatest of all painters of young love and imperishable dreams. In this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life, Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of Antoine Watteau, the pioneering bohemian artist who, despite his early death, has influenced innumerable painters and writers. Organized alphabetically, this brilliant book combines Watteau’s life and vision with the glamour and intrigue of eighteenth-century Paris, the riotous history of Harlequin and Pierrot, and the work of such modern giants as Cézanne, Picasso, and Samuel Beckett. “Elegant.... Perl aptly sums up this haunting quality at the heart of Watteau’s work.” —The Washington Post Book World PUBLICITY “As suggestive, high-spirited and accomplished as • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and one of Watteau’s own compositions.” Features —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • Promotion to Art Interest Media, Bloggers and Websites for Features and Reviews Jed Perl lives in New York City.

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The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

“A masterpiece of great beauty and quality.” —Chicago Tribune ne of the great classics of Japanese literature, a poignant yet unsparing portrait of Oa family—and an entire society—sliding into the abyss of modernity. In Osaka during the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a vanishing way of life. Tsuruko, the eldest sister, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The unmarried Yukiko is hostage to her family’s exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by ﬂinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances. Filled with vignettes of upper-class Japanese life and capturing both the decorum and the heartache of its protagonist, The Makioka Sisters is a stunning work of ﬁction. “Skillfully and subtly, Tanizaki brushes in a delicate picture of a gentle world that no longer Also available: exists.” —San Francisco Chronicle The Key & Diary of a Mad Old Man: 978-1-4000-7900-1 Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Sei- Naomi: 978-0-375-72474-9 densticker. Quicksand: 978-0-679-76022-1 The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother: Junichiro Tanizaki was awarded Japan’s Imperial 978-0-679-75791-7 The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Prize in Literature in 1949. He died in 1965. Arrowroot: 978-0-375-71931-8 $15.95 Seven Japanese Tales: 978-0-679-76107-5 (Can. $22.95) Trade/544 pp. Some Prefer Nettles: 978-0-679-75269-1 ISBN/EAN: 978-0-679-76164-8 Fiction VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL Currently available

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Spinning Tropics by Aska Mochizuki DECEMBER

A VINTAGE ORIGINAL First Recipient of the Knopf/ Kodansha Prize

lush and evocative story of expatriate life abroad and an intoxicating love affair— A a sexy, smart novel about the life and loves of a young Japanese woman living and working in Vietnam. Hiro, a young Japanese woman, is teaching language courses in Vietnam. There she meets Dung, a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese. They are instantly drawn to each other and fall in love. For both of them, it is their first time being in love with another woman. But when Hiro meets Konno, an older Japanese busi- nessman, her friendship with him begins to make Dung wildly jealous. What unfolds is a complicated, ultimately devastating love triangle. Set against the backdrop of a Vietnam on the economic rise, Mochizuki brings to life the buzz of motorcycles and the tastes of Vietnamese coffee and spicy papaya salads; the confines of the Viet- namese family; the lingering effects of long wars; Established in 2007, the Knopf/Kodansha Prize the rich who ride the economic wave and the celebrates the work of a previously unpublished poor who are left behind. Japanese author. The prize includes publication in English as a Vintage paperback original. Translated from the Japanese by Wayne P. Lam- ADVERTISING mers. • National Print and Online Advertising PUBLICITY Aska Mochizuki was born in Tokyo in 1973. Spin- • Major Review Attention ning Tropics, her first book, won the Kodansha/ • Promotion to Literary Bloggers Knopf prize in 2007. • Promotion to Asian Interest Media, Bloggers and Websites for Interviews and Reviews $14.00 (Can. $16.99) Trade/160 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47369-1 Fiction A VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL ORIGINAL On Sale: December 1, 2009

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Yukio Mishima Two classics by one of the most signiﬁcant post-war Japanese authors

Five Modern No Plays Translated and with an Introduction by Donald Keene “Mishima’s is a wonderful, astonishing and frightening creative energy.” —The New York Times Magazine he classic Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated peo- Tple throughout the world. Yukio Mishima infused new life into the form by adopting it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on a bench in Central Park. Here are five of his No plays, stunning in their contemporary nature and relevance—and finally made available again for readers to enjoy. “Historically, Keene’s translation of Mishima’s Five Modern No Plays is one of the most important Also available: Japanese literary events since World War II.... For After the Banquet: 978-0-375-70515-1 dramatic power and beauty the plays are second The Decay of the Angel: 978-0-679-72243-4 Forbidden Colors: 978-0-375-70516-8 only to the films of Akira Kurosawa.” Runaway Horses: 978-0-679-72240-3 —The Saturday Review The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea: 978-0-679-75015-4 $15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/224 pp. Spring Snow: 978-0-679-72241-0 ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47311-0 The Temple of Dawn: 978-0-679-72242-7 Drama The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: 978-0-679-75270-7 VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL On Sale: December 1, 2009

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“Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities.” —The Christian Science Monitor DECEMBER The Sound of Waves Translated by Meredith Weatherby “A story that is both happy and a work of art.... Altogether a joyous and lovely thing.” —The New York Times et in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. SIt tells of Shinji, a young fisherman, and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach, upon her return from another island, where she had been training to be a pearl diver. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers. “Of such classic design its action might take place at any point across a thousand years.” —San Francisco Chronicle

$14.00 (Can. $16.99) Trade/192 pp.192 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-679-75268-4 Yukio Mishima was born in Tokyo in Fiction VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL 1925 and is recognized as one of On Sale: December 1, 2009 Japan’s twentieth-century literary masters. He died in 1970.

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W. Somerset Maugham Two classics from the beloved master of twentieth-century literature

A Writer’s Notebook “Maugham is a great artist.... A genius.” —Theodore Dreiser Writer’s Notebook is a unique and exhilarating look into a great writer’s working A mind. For nearly ﬁve decades, Somerset Maugham kept an intimate journal. In it we are given access to the origins of his incomparable vision and the sensibilities that would bring him to the forefront of literature. Covering the years from his time as a medical student in London through his travels around the world as a great man, it is by turns playful, sharp-witted, and profoundly revealing. “From the beginning to end it manifests a lively and sympathetic intelligence, and the practiced hand of a master-craftsman.” —Malcolm Muggeridge

$16.00 (Can $19.95) Trade/384 pp. Also available: ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47319-6 Autobiography Cakes and Ale: 978-0-375-72502-9 VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL Christmas Holiday: 978-0-375-72461-9 On Sale: December 1, 2009 The Moon and Sixpence: 978-0-375-72456-5 The Painted Veil: 978-1-4000-3421-5 The Razor’s Edge: 978-1-4000-3420-8 Theatre: 978-0-375-72463-3 Up at the Villa: 978-0-375-72462-6

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“Maugham remains the consummate craftsman.... His prose is so compact, so economical, so closely motivated, so skillfully written that it rivets from first to last.” —Saturday Review of Literature DECEMBER The Narrow Corner “An expert craftsman.... His style is sharp, quick, subdued, casual.” —The New York Times he Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century’s finest Twriters. Island hopping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent, however, when a vicious storm forces them to seek shelter on the remote island of Kanda. There these three men fall under the spell of the sultry and stunningly beautiful Louise, and their tale spirals into a wicked story of love, murder, jealousy, and suicide. “Maugham’s excessively rare gift of story-telling... is almost the equal of imagination itself.” —The Sunday Times (London)

$15.00 (Can $18.95) Trade/304 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47320-2 Fiction W. Somerset Maugham is the author of VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL On Sale: December 1, 2009 such novels as The Painted Veil, The Razor’s Edge, and Of Human Bondage. He died in 1965. The Skeptical Romancer: Selected Travel Writing (978-0-307-27212-6), edited and with an introduction by Pico Iyer, will be published in November 2009 by Everyman’s Library.

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Push by Sapphire

Winner of the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award at the Sundance Festival Now a major motion picture from Lee Daniels Entertainment starring Mo’Nique, Lenny Kravitz, Paula Patton and Gabourey “Gabbie” Sidibe, directed by Lee Daniels, produced by Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel- Magness, Lisa Cortes and Tom Helle (“Monster’s Ball”). recious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to Pthe father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dis- miss her as just one more of Harlem’s casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time. “A horrific, hope-filled story that is brilliant, blunt, merciless.” —Newsday 2009 Movie Release

$12.95 (Can. $15.95) Trade/192 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47484-1 Fiction Stickered VINTAGE BOOKS Edition

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N E W M O V I E T I E - I N E D I T I O N My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme

An official tie-in and one of the inspirations for Julia Child’s life in the major motion picture Julie & Julia from Columbia Pictures, which follows Julia Child’s (Meryl Streep) life in France and Julie Powell’s (Amy Adams) life in Queens; starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci; directed by Nora Ephron from her screenplay. ulia Child almost single-handedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her Jcookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buy- ing food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years. August 7, 2009 Movie Release

$15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/368 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47485-8 Biography Movie Tie-in ANCHOR BOOKS Edition On Sale: June 30, 2009

Also available in a stickered non–movie tie-in edition: My Life in France: 978-0-307-27769-5

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Vintage Español announces an exciting new joint venture with Random House Mondadori to bring the best of Spanish-language literature and works in translation together under one roof.

Our Fall 2009 launch will include Gabriel García Márquez’s perennial classic as well as commercial bestsellers by John Grisham and Ildefonso Falcones.

Beginning in 2010, Vintage Español and Random House Mondadori together will publish 15 titles per season for Spanish-language readers in the U.S., including works by Dale Carnegie, Federico García Lorca, Ken Follett, Cormac McCarthy, and Mary Higgins Clark, among others.

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Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel García Márquez

“The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.” —The New York Times Book Review abriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, the finest example of magical realism, and, Gas the book that sparked the Latin Amer- ican Boom, one of most influential novels of the twentieth century. From its original publication in 1967, Cien años de soledad has enjoyed incredible critical and commercial success and has gone on to become a twentieth century classic as well as one of the most studied and admired works of literature of all time. Mixing narrative techniques and elements of both reality and fantasy with masterly ease, the novel tells the story of various generations of the Buendía family and of the rise and fall of the village of Macondo. A story about the circles and cycles of history, of love, life, time and the inevitability of death, through which we see all of Latin America, and, perhaps, all of humanity. “More lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone ADVERTISING one man.”—The Washington Post Book World • Targeted National Advertising PUBLICITY Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel • Major Review Coverage Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico.

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V I N T A G E E S P A Ñ O L A N D R A N D O M La catedral del mar (Cathedral of the Sea) by Ildefonso Falcones

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Believable and enthralling.... So beautifully structured that the last sixty pages detonate like a string of firecrackers.” —The Washington Post a catedral del mar has been published in thirty-two countries and has sold over two Lmillion copies, winning the Euskadi de Plata Prize for the best novel in Spanish, the Qué Leer Prize for the best book, and the prestigious Italian Giovanni Boccaccio award for the best foreign author. After his father abandons their land and flees the brutal feudal system, Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona to find a city of light and darkness, dominated by the construction of the city’s great pride—the cathedral of Santa María del Mar— and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. Starting as a simple porter, his prosperity, friendship with the Jewish population and secret love with a forbidden woman will thrust him into the hands of the Inquisition, where his own brother will decide whether he’ll live or die. In the spirit of Ken Follett’s classic bestseller, The Pillars of the Earth, La catedral del mar is an unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, a story of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war. “With La catedral del mar, Ildefonso Falcones dethrones Eduardo Mendoza and Arturo Pérez- Reverte...and has become Spain’s new Dan Brown.” —El Mundo Ildefonso Falcones lives with his wife and four children in Barcelona, where he works as a lawyer.

$17.00 (Can. $21.00) Trade/672 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47473-5 Fiction On sale: October 6, 2009

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H O U S E M O N D A D O R I F A L L T I T L E S El asociado (The Associate—Spanish-language edition) by John Grisham

A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL

vailable in Spanish for the first time, El asociado features all the elements, twists A and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world. Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want— even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about. Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed. With an unforgettable cast of characters and vil- lains, El asociado is vintage Grisham.

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V I N T A G E E S P A Ñ O L Tú a dieta El manual de instrucciones para reducir tu cintura (You on a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management— Spanish-language edition) by Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C. Oz

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he multimillion copy bestseller, now available in Spanish, is much more than a sim- Tple diet book. Tú a dieta is a complete manual for waist management. It will change forever the way you think about yourself and food. Recent biological and medical discoveries are outdating most diet books. Only recently have we begun to understand why so many of us struggle to lose weight and keep yo-yoing, why some people gain weight more easily than others, and that being healthy resides not in how much you weigh, but in your waist size. Now, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, authors of the multimillion bestselling YOU series, give us this new information in a user-friendly form. In Tú a dieta you will learn how your body really works and reacts to food, and you will learn the plan and formulas that will put you on your way to achieving and maintaining your ideal size. Michael F.Roizen, M.D., is a professor of anesthesiology and internal medicine at Case Western ADVERTISING Reserve Medical School and chair of the Division • Targeted National Advertising of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine, and PUBLICITY Comprehensive Pain Management at the Cleve- • Major Review Coverage land Clinic. Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is professor and vice chairman of surgery, New York Presbyterian-Columbia University, medical director of the Integrated Medical Center and director of the Heart Insti- tute, New York Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center. He appears regularly on the Oprah Win- frey show.

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F A L L T I T L E S Tres tazas de té La lucha de un hombre por promover la paz...escuela a escuela (Three Cups of Tea—Spanish-language edition) by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

he nationally bestselling account of one man’s campaign to build schools in Tthe most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia. In 1993, Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an Ameri- can climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson’s one- man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. Tres tazas de té is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man is changing the world—one school at a time. Greg Mortenson is the director of the Central Asia Institute. A former mountaineer and military veteran, he spends several months each year building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He ADVERTISING lives in Montana. • Targeted National Advertising David Oliver Relin has won more than forty PUBLICITY national awards for his writing and editing. He • Major Review Coverage lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Vivas en su jardín (Alive in Their Garden) by Dedé Mirabal With an Introduction by Julia Alvarez

he spellbinding, first person account of the struggle of four young women to T restore freedom and democracy to their country. In Vivas en su jardín, Dedé Mirabal tells the story of her own family, the true story on which Julia Alvarez based her novel In the Time of the Butterflies, later made into a movie starring Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos, and Marc Anthony. Born into a wealthy family who lost everything during Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, the four Mirabal sisters, known as “las mariposas” (the butterflies), founded the opposition group Move- ment of the Fourteenth of June. The deaths of three of the sisters at the hands of Trujillo’s tor- turers shocked the island and sparked a chain of events that led to the assassination of the dictator and the overthrow of his brutal regime. Dedé survived so that, in her own words, she “would be The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against able to tell you this story.” Dedé’s personal story Women is celebrated on November 25 gives readers unparalleled insight into the lives in honor of the Mirabal sisters. of these modern heroines and the events that PUBLICITY shaped a nation. • Major Review Coverage • Print Features, Profiles and Dedé, the only surviving Mirabal sister, lives in Interviews Salcedo, Dominican Republic, where she directs • National and Local Media the Museo Hermanas Mirabal, dedicated to pre- Appearances • Select Appearances by the Author’s serving the memory of her sisters. Daughter $15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/304pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47453-7 Memoir On sale: August 25, 2009

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La montaña invisible Una novela ( —

A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL “Lyrical and haunting—an evocative tribute to the endurance of women and the spirit of poetry.” —Diana Gabaldón rom Perón’s glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the Fhaven of a corner butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, one family traverses a changing South America and the uncharted terrain of their relationships with one another. On the first day of the millennium, a small town gathers to witness a miracle and unravel its por- tents for the century: the mysterious reappear- ance of a lost infant, Pajarita. Later, as a young woman in the capital city—Montevideo, brimming with growth and promise—Pajarita begins a lineage of fiercely independent women. Her daughter, Eva, survives a brutal childhood to pursue her dreams as a rebellious poet and along the hazardous precipices of erotic love. Eva’s daughter, Salomé, driven by an unrelent- ing idealism, commits clandestine acts that will end in tragedy as unrest sweeps Uruguay. But what saves them all is the fierce fortifying con- ADVERTISING nection between mother and daughter that will • Targeted Advertising in El Nuevo Herald bring them together to face the future. PUBLICITY Carolina de Robertis was raised in England, • Major Review Coverage Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan par- • Print Features, Profiles and Interviews ents. She lives in Oakland, California. • National and Local Media $15.00 Appearances (Can. $18.95) Trade/408 pp. • Tie-in with Knopf English language ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47235-9 tour Fiction A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL On sale: September 8, 2009 The English-language hardcover edition of The Invisible Mountain (978-0-385-66772-2) will be published by Knopf in August 2009.

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Lucha por tu dinero Evita que te estafen y ahorra una fortuna (Fight for Your Money: How to Stop Getting Ripped Off and Save a Fortune—Spanish-language edition) by David Bach

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1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach shows how to protect your money #and put thousands of dollars back in your pocket every year by taking on the “corporate machines” that are taking you to the cleaners. In Lucha por tu dinero, Bach, America’s favorite financial guru and consumer advocate, has written the ultimate guide to making smarter financial decisions and protecting yourself from companies that want to separate you from your hard-earned paycheck. Corporate America earns billions annu- ally from our financial ignorance. The time has come to fight back! Starting with an A-to-Z list of items for which you are paying too much—your cell phone, cable bill, cars, credit cards, insurance, health care, 401(k), airfare, hotels, and much more—Bach shows how you are being taken. Then, his “Fight for Your Money Toolkit” shows you how to fight back, with sample letters, call scripts, and real-life stories of ordinary people who have fought back and won. David Bach is the author of eight consecutive ADVERTISING national bestsellers, including the #1 New York • Targeted National Advertising Times bestsellers The Automatic Millionaire (El Mil- PUBLICITY lonario Automático) and Start Late, Finish Rich, and • Major Review Coverage most recently Go Green, Live Rich. He lives in New www.FinishRich.com York City.

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México fresco 100 recetas sencillas con auténtico sabor mexicano (Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor —Spanish-language edition) by Marcela Valladolid

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ith more than 100 delicious recipes, and beautiful color photography W throughout, México fresco introduces a new generation of Americans to the easy, exciting cuisine of modern Mexico. Crunchy beef tacos, over-stuffed burritos, and processed cheese-filled quesadillas may be Amer- ica’s idea of Mexican food, but Marcela Valladolid is ready to change that. In México fresco, Marcela shows how refreshing and easy-to-prepare the foods from her native country really are, deliver- ing vibrant flavor without forcing home cooks to locate hard-to-find ingredients or spend hours chained to the stove. Dedicated to traditional foods, Marcela also understands the difficulties of feeding a family on a weeknight. Her recipes are quick to pull ADVERTISING together, using easy-to-find ingredients and sim- • Major Review Coverage ple cooking techniques. You’ll find dishes such • Print Features, Profiles and as Cream of Avocado Soup with Lobster and Interviews Mango, Oaxaca-Style Short Ribs, and Fresh Guava • National and Local Media Appearances Layer Cake—all revelatory in their depth of • Co-promotion on Author’s Website flavor. PUBLICITY Marcela Valladolid is the host of Relatos con sabor • Major Review Coverage • Print Features, Profiles and (Stories with Flavor), which airs in every Latin Interviews American country on Discovery Travel and Liv- • National and Local Media ing as well as on Discovery Familia in the U.S. She Appearances will be the executive chef of a restaurant opening www.ChefMarcela.com this fall in San Diego.

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Lolita Una novela (Lolita—Spanish-language edition) by Vladimir Nabokov

“The only convincing love story of our century.” —Vanity Fair he brilliant twentieth-century classic TSpanish-language translation. First published in 1955 by the Olympia Press in Paris, Lolita is Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel. It tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hyper-civilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation. “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” —John Updike Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1899. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and launched his literary career in Berlin and Paris. In 1940 he moved to the United States, where he achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. Nabokov died in Mon- treux, Switzerland, in 1977.

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R E C E N T L Y P U B L I S H E D Los sueños de mi padre (Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance—Spanish- language edition) by Barack Obama “Fluidly, calmly, insightfully, Obama guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race.”—Washington Post Book World vailablen i Spanish for the ﬁrst time in the U.S., Los sueños de mi padre might be A the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader.

1 1 $17.00 (Can. $21.00) 6 ⁄8" x 9 ⁄4"/432 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47387-5 Memoir Dreams from My Father, trade A VINTAGE ESPAÑOL ORIGINAL paperback: 978-1-4000-8277-3 Also available: La audacia de la esperanza: 978-0-307-38711-0 Plan de acción 2009 de Suze Orman (Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan: Keeping your Money Safe and Sound—Spanish-language edition) by Suze Orman he nation’s go-to expert on ﬁnancial matters, Suze Orman, believes that 2009 is a Tcritical year for your money. Plan de acción 2009 de Suze Orman delivers honest, straightfor- ward guidance—what to do, when to do it, and how to do it—as only Suze Orman can.

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M A J O R R E L E A S E The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Spellbinding.... A page-turning adventure that will keep you reading well past bedtime.” —The Boston Globe n international sensation published in twenty-seven languages, The Gargoyle is A the mesmerizing story of one man’s descent into a personal hell and his quest for salvation. On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine. The driver survives the crash, but he is conﬁned to the burn ward suffering horrible injuries. There, he does nothing more than plot the suicide he will commit when released. Everything changes when Marianne Engel, a possibly schizophrenic sculptress of grotesques, enters his life. She insists they were lovers in medieval Germany, when he was a mer- cenary and she was a scribe in the monastery of Engelthal. As she spins the story of their past lives together, the man’s disbelief falters; soon, even the impossible can no longer be dismissed. “A transportingly unhinged debut.... Vigorous and impressive.” —The New York Times “An undeniably hot book.... It’s as engrossing as it is gruesome, the kind of horror you watch with one eye closed.... A hell of a story.” —The Washington Post

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“Like The Da Vinci Code, this novel keeps the

pages turning.” —The Plain Dealer EARLY “Take a deep breath and plunge into this novel. It’s a tale of love and redemption told through Davidson’s haunting prose.” —USA Today “The reader is kept guessing until the ﬁnal page.” —The Wall Street Journal “Mixes medical drama with medieval religious lore to explore the boundaries of faith and for- giveness.... Compelling.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Original and highly addictive.... A captivating novel.... An impressive, memorable debut.” —The Denver Post “A story that sweeps us in with no protest. You want to be lost in its pages.... The real tragedy of this book is that it ends.” —Daily News

“Beguiling.... Mixing romance, classic allusion © DEBORAH FEINGOLD and reality, Davidson’s debut is a bravura perfor- A READING GROUP TITLE mance.” —Marie Claire The Anchor edition will feature a stepback cover. Andrew Davidson lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA $15.00 Trade/480 pp. Today, and Washington Post Bestseller ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38867-4 ADVERTISING Fiction On Sale: July 28, 2009 • National Print and Online Advertising PUBLICITY Available in Canada: Vintage Canada, $21.00, • Promotion to Literary Bloggers 978-0-307-35678-7 • Promotion to Fantasy and Horror Websites and Bloggers for Features and Reviews IN-STORE PROMOTION • 12-Copy Floor Display: $180.00/978-0-307-44740-1 READING GROUP PROMOTION • Promotion to Reading Groups • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E The Ayatollah Begs to Differ The Paradox of Modern Iran

by Hooman Majd © MICHAEL HALSBAND SEPTEMBER A Los Angeles Times and Economist Best Book of the Year “Perhaps the best book yet written on the contradictions of contemporary Iran.... It captures like no book in recent memory the ethos of the country, in elegant and precise prose.” —Los Angeles Times he grandson of an eminent ayatollah and the son of an Iranian diplomat, journalist THooman Majd is uniquely qualified to explain contemporary Iran’s complex and mis- understood culture to Western readers. In The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, Majd offers an insightful tour of Iranian culture, introducing fascinating characters from all walks of life, including zealous government officials, tough female cab drivers, and open-minded, reformist ayatol- lahs. These deftly described encounters provide an intimate look at a paradoxical country that is both deeply religious and highly cosmopoli- tan, authoritarian yet informed by a history of democratic and reformist traditions. It’s an Iran that will surprise readers and challenge Western A New York Times Extended List Bestseller stereotypes. ADVERTISING • National Print and Online Advertising “Illuminating.... Captivating.... A discerning • Academic Advertising in American Political Science guide to a complex country.” Review, Chronicle of Higher Education —Christian Science Monitor PUBLICITY • National Media Appearances, including NPR “Essential reading for anyone wanting to under- • Print Features and Profiles stand the paradox that is Iran (as well as Amer- • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and ica) in the post-Bush world.” —GQ Features • Promotion to Political Media, Bloggers and Hooman Majd was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1957, Websites for Features and Reviews • Appearances Upon Request and educated in the West. Now an American citizen, he lives in New York City.

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“Addictively enjoyable.... An Agatha Christie whodunit as written by Carl EARLY Hiaasen.” —The New York Times Book Review powerful editor is found in the newsroom, stabbed to death with the very A spike he would use to “kill” stories—in this mordantly funny, keenly suspenseful mystery everyone is a suspect. Priscilla Bollingsworth is the ambitious young NYPD detective assigned to the case. Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, is taxed with writing about the murder for the paper. Together they must navigate the ink-infested waters of the New York Globe, a place whose denizens include the paper’s resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. With colleagues like these, who can name just one suspect? Armed with forty years of ﬁrsthand knowledge in journalism, John Darn- ton gives us a pitch-perfect mystery that enter- tains all over. ADVERTISING “Darnton delivers a well-turned whodunit that • National Print and Online Advertising reads like The Front Page with additional reporting PUBLICITY by Evelyn Waugh.... It’s a great read.” • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, —USA Today Bloggers, and Websites for Features and Reviews • Readings Upon Request “An entertaining evocation of life—and death— in a contemporary newsroom.... Fast-paced, well- written, and often very funny.” Also available: —The Philadelphia Inquirer The Darwin Conspiracy: 978-1-4000-3483-3 John Darnton lives in New York.

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M A J O R R E L E A S E I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Rich, intricate and alive with emotion.... An honest portrait of sister-love and sister- hate—interlocking, brave and forgiving— made whole through art.” —The New York Times Book Review ulia Glass, the bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of Three Junes, Jreturns with a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: committed to her work saving animals, but not to the men who fall for her. In this vivid, heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move further apart. All told with sensual detail and deft charac- terization, I See You Everywhere is a candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself. “Glass writes the sort of novels that you wish would go on forever.... I See You Everywhere is a lovely and heartbreaking book, and it ends far too soon.” —The Miami Herald

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“Nowhere are the ebbs and ﬂows, the complex

and often ugly nuances, the bonds and the EARLY breaks between sisters more achingly or more piercingly explored.” —USA Today “So heartbreakingly luminous that you’d swear Glass had access to your own most secret thoughts.” —Redbook “Extraordinarily good.... Unusually rich and complex.” —The Boston Globe “One doesn’t read so much as sink into a Julia Glass novel.... A haunting dissection of human fragility.” —People “Glass is Edith Wharton for the twenty-ﬁrst century.... Wharton wrote more than forty-eight books in her lifetime. American literature could use a few more from Glass.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Sheer pleasure for readers who love stories © PETER ROSS about complicated family relationships.” —San Francisco Chronicle A READING GROUP TITLE

Julia Glass lives in Massachusetts. A New York Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle $15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/304 pp. Bestseller ISBN/EAN: 978-1-4000-7577-5 A Best Book of the Year Fiction Christian Science Monitor On Sale: July 14, 2009 ADVERTISING • National Print and Online Advertising PUBLICITY • Print Features and Proﬁles • Promotion to Literary Bloggers • Readings Upon Request IN-STORE PROMOTION • 12-Copy Floor Display: $180.00 (Can. $227.40)/ 978-0-307-44741-8 READING GROUP PROMOTION • Promotion to Reading Groups • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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M A J O R R E L E A S E Traitor to His Class The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “Wonderful.... This may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for many years to come.” —The Christian Science Monitor brilliant evocation of the qualities that made FDR one of the most beloved and A greatest of American presidents. Drawing on archival material, public speeches, correspondence and accounts by those closest to Roosevelt early in his career and during his presidency, H. W. Brands shows how Roosevelt transformed American government during the Depression with his New Deal legislation, and carefully managed the country’s prelude to war. Brands shows how Roosevelt’s friendship and regard for Winston Churchill helped to forge one of the greatest alliances in history, as Roose- velt, Churchill, and Stalin maneuvered to defeat Germany and prepare for post-war Europe. “Excellent.... A sweeping account that adores its subject.... If you want to understand how a great president should act, Traitor to His Class is must reading.” —The New York Observer

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“Roosevelt was an extraordinarily complicated man and the author copes skillfully with his complexity.” —The Economist “Fresh, approachable, even-handed.... H. W. Brands, the gifted University of Texas historian, has produced...an exhaustive but not exhausting biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” —The Boston Globe “Brilliantly executed.... Lean, with no fatty padding or sermonizing. Brands is resolutely evenhanded in his treatment of FDR, and he makes no attempt to persuade his readers of FDR’s virtues or lack thereof.” —Dallas Morning News “If you haven’t read much about FDR’s life, this is a good place to start. If you have, this is a good place to get reacquainted. As events continue to swirl around us, you will sometimes feel eerily at

home.” —Providence Journal © BARTON WILDER “Well-researched and exquisitely detailed, Brands’ effort does not ignore Roosevelt’s foibles and fail- A New York Times Extended List and San Bestseller ures, personal and public.” Francisco Chronicle —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ADVERTISING • National Print and Online Advertising H. W. Brands is the bestselling author of The First • Academic Advertising in Journal of American American, which was a Pulitzer Prize ﬁnalist. He is History, Chronicle of Higher Education, American Political Science Review the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History PUBLICITY at the University of Texas at Austin. • National Media Appearances, including NPR • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and $19.00 1 1 (Can. $23.00) 6 ⁄8"x 9 ⁄4"/912 pp. Features ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27794-7 • Promotion to Political Media, Bloggers and Biography Websites for Features and Reviews. 16 pages of photographs On Sale: September 8, 2009 • Appearances Upon Request www.HWBrands.com

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American Priestess The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem by Jane Fletcher Geniesse SEPTEMBER “Lively.... Anna Spafford was, as the title has it, extraordinary.” —The New York Times Book Review or generations, the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem has been a retreat for Fforeign correspondents, diplomats, pil- grims and spies. However, few know its bizarre history. Carried by a wave of Protestant evangelism, Hor- atio Spafford, his wife, Anna, and their followers arrived in Jerusalem in 1881 hoping to witness the Second Coming. Branded heretics by established Christian missionaries, they nevertheless won over Muslims and Jews with their philanthropy. When Horatio died, Anna assumed leadership, shocking even her adherents by abolishing marriage and establishing an uneasy dictatorship. With a controversial heroine at its core, American Priestess provides a fascinating exploration of the seductive power of evangelicalism. “The story of an indomitable woman who, through endurance, will, and personal magnet- ism, became a leader, unmanning all rivals and A READING GROUP TITLE creating a ﬁefdom for her family.... A triumph.” ADVERTISING —The Boston Globe • Academic Advertising in Women’s Review of Books, “A vivid picture of a dedicated cult’s search for American Historical Review answers in the Holy Land and of the tense rela- READING GROUP PROMOTION tionships of religious groups in Jerusalem.” • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com —Janet Wallach, author of Desert Queen Jane Fletcher Geniesse lives in Florida and Wash- ington, D.C.

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J U S T P U B L I S H E D The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

PREMIUM MASS MARKET EDITION #1 Worldwide Bestseller—More Than 80 Million Copies Sold s millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci A Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown’s novel is a thrilling masterpiece—from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion. “Read the book and be enlightened.” —The Washington Post Book World “Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times “A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.” —People “Thriller writing doesn’t get any better than this.” —The Denver Post Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital The new premium mass market edition is being Fortress, Angels & Demons, and Deception Point. He published to coincide with the May release of the lives in New England. major motion picture Angels & Demons from Sony Pictures, starring Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor. 3 1 $9.99 (Can. $11.99) 4 ⁄16" x 7 ⁄2"/608 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-47427-8 Fiction Also available in trade paperback: The Da Vinci Code: 978-0-307-27767-1

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M A J O R R E L E A S E While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SIMULTANEOUS TRADE AND MASS MARKET RELEASE “Delinsky is a first-rate storyteller who creates believable, sympathetic characters who seem as familiar as your neighbors.” —The Boston Globe nce again New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky brings us a mas- Oterful family portrait, filled with thought- provoking insights into how emotions affect the decisions we make and how letting go can be the hardest thing to do and the greatest expression of love all at the same time. Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive heart attack, the news couldn’t be more shocking. At the hospital, the Snow family receives a grim prognosis: Robin may never regain consciousness. Feelings of guilt and jealousy flare up as Robin’s family struggles to cope. It’s up to Molly to make the tough decisions, and she soon makes discoveries that shatter some of her most cherished beliefs about the sister she thought she knew. “Delinsky is an engaging writer who knows how to interweave several stories about complex relationships and keeps her books interesting to the end.” —Newark Star-Ledger

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“Delinsky treads the same domestic themes as fellow best-seller Jodi Picoult.” —Entertainment Weekly “Delinsky may be as adept at chronicling contemporary life in New England as any writer this side of John Updike.” —Times Union (Albany) “Delinsky delves deeper into the human heart and spirit with each new novel.” —Cincinnati Inquirer “Delinsky uses nuance and detail to draw realistic characters and ensure that emotion is genuine.” —The Providence Journal “Delinsky is out there with the Anita Shreves and Elizabeth Bergs, perpetually bestselling authors who wrestle with bigger themes.” —Lexington Herald-Ledger Barbara Delinsky lives in New England.

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F E A T U R E D T I T L E The Shadow Factory The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford OCTOBER With a New Afterword by the Author NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “Important and disturbing.... This revealing and provocative book is necessary reading.” —The Washington Post Book World ames Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since Jhis reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now, Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech gaze within America’s borders. The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart two of the 9/11 hijack- ers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of surveillance to insure that it never happens again. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and by whom, and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be A and Bestseller New York Times Washington Post shocked and appalled at what is revealed here. ADVERTISING • National Print and Online Advertising “There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, PUBLICITY but until now no one has published a compre- • National Media Appearances, including NPR hensive and detailed report on the agency.” • Op-ed and Off-the-Book-Page Articles and —The New York Times Book Review Features • Promotion to Political Media, Bloggers and “Fascinating.... Bamford has distilled a troubling Websites for Features and Reviews chapter in American history.”—Bloomberg News James Bamford lives in Washington, D.C.

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Poe’s Children The New Horror—An Anthology Edited by Peter Straub OCTOBER

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book.” —The Washington Post rossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills, Poe’s Children bears all Cthe telltale signs of fearless, addictive ﬁc- tion. Horror writing is usually associated with formu- laic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, Poe’s Children brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Each story has been selected by New

© JERRY BAUER York Times bestselling author Peter Straub to rep- resent what he thinks is the most interesting ONLINE ADVERTISING development in our literature during the last PUBLICITY two decades. • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, Contributors include Dan Chaon, Elizabeth Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews Hand, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Evenson, Kelly www.PeterStraub.net Link, Jonathan Carroll, Glen Hirshberg, Ben- jamin Percy, Bradford Morrow, Peter Straub, Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ellen Klages, Tia V. Travis, Also available: Neil Gaiman, and John Crowley. Koko: 978-0-307-47220-5 (July 2009) Mystery: 978-0-307-47222-9 (January 2010) “Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently The Throat: 978-0-307-47223-6 (June 2010) unsettling book.” —The Washington Post Peter Straub lives in New York City.

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Blue Genes A Memoir of Loss and Survival by Christopher Lukas OCTOBER

“A book that makes you feel you should call the author and ask him to reassure you that he is OK.... Lukas has held on to life and to the story of a lifetime.” —The New York Times Book Review courageous, shattering, and utterly engrossing memoir of two brothers haunted A by a family history of mental illness. Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when he was a boy. No one spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolar disorder. The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable success; Tony as a gifted journalist (and author of the classic Common Ground), Kit as an accomplished television producer and director. After suffering bouts of depression, Kit was able to confront his family’s troubled past, but Tony never seemed to ﬁnd the contentment Kit had—he killed himself in 1997. With heartrending candor, Blue Genes captures the devastation of this family legacy and details the strength and hope that can provide a way of escaping its grasp. “Poignant.” —The New York Observer PUBLICITY • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs “A compassionate but clear-eyed view of his fam- • Promotion to Mental Health Related Media, ily history.” —The Washington Post Bloggers and Websites Features and Reviews Christopher Lukas lives near New York City.

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“Gorgeously written.... Lush and memorable.... A Country Called Home contains whispers of its literary ancestors but issues its own rich-throated cry into the wilderness.” —The Kansas City Star powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of A In the Wilderness. Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Con- necticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out to create their own farm in rural Idaho instead. The ﬁelds are in ruins when they arrive, so they hire a farmhand named Manny to help rebuild. But the sudden, frightening birth of their daughter, Elise, tests the young couple, and Manny is called upon to mend this fractured family. An extraordinary story of hope and idealism, A Country Called Home is a testament to the power of family—the family we are born to and the family we create.

A READING GROUP TITLE “In the tradition of the great Western writer Willa Cather, Kim Barnes has written a novel as deeply A Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News rooted in the soil of her native Idaho.” Bestseller and a Kansas City Star Best Book —The Oregonian PUBLICITY “Casts light on the yearning, restless human • Promotion to Literary Bloggers • Readings Upon Request heart.... Powerful.” —San Francisco Chronicle READING GROUP PROMOTION Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Reading Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Com- Groups • Online Advertising on Reading Group Sites ing of Age in Unknown Country—a ﬁnalist for the • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World. more on www.readinggroupcenter.com She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives on Moscow Mountain.

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Dark Water Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence by Robert Clark OCTOBER

“Gripping.... Clark’s stories of the flood are the stuff of thrilling documentaries.” —The Washington Post Book World dramatic account of the 1966 flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, Dark Water re- A creates the disaster and its aftermath through the voices of witnesses, past and present. Two young American artists wade heedlessly through the inundated city to see its devastated beauty; a Life magazine photographer stows away on an army helicopter to capture a drama that “could only be told by Dante”; a British student, one of thousands of “mud angels” who rushed to Florence to save its art, spends a month scraping mold from Cimabue’s ravaged Crucifixion amidst infighting between international art experts; and the author asks himself why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster. “A meditation on art, religion, the power of nature to destroy man’s legacy on this Earth and the against-all-odds determination of people— young and old, working class and cultured, rich ADVERTISING and poor—to save it.” —The Seattle Times • National Print Advertising “Lovers of Florence/Firenze will fall into Dark PUBLICITY Water headfirst.... A formidable accomplishment.” • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Book Clubs • Promotion to Literary and Italian Interest Media, —Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Bloggers and Websites for Interviews and Reviews Robert Clark lives in Seattle.

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A Stopover in Venice by Kathryn Walker OCTOBER

“A romance with heft and heart.... Walker writes feelingly of the slow burn experienced by those who get too close to a star.” —The Boston Globe fairy tale for women who don’t believe in fairy tales, A Stopover in Venice is an A enchanting debut novel. A young American woman is in Italy with her famous musician husband when, in a moment of fury, she grabs her luggage and steps off the train in Venice. Stranded and alone for the ﬁrst time in eight years, she gets a room at the Hotel Gritti Palace. As she explores the city, she comes across a group of boys tormenting a small dog. She res- cues the dog, and this impulsive act of deﬁance opens out into an adventure—and a mystery— that summons up centuries of the Venetian past, the discovery of a lost masterpiece, and the heroine’s reclamation of herself. “A tender little tale of a lost masterpiece.... Venice is lovely any time of year.” —Daily News “Emotional restlessness, thwarted desire, the insinuating attraction of the past: these are ADVERTISING Walker’s concerns.... Walker’s prose is always • National Print Advertising engaging.” —San Francisco Chronicle PUBLICITY • Promotion to Literary Bloggers Kathryn Walker lives in New Mexico and Con- READING GROUP PROMOTION necticut. • Promotion to Newspaper and Online Reading Groups $15.00 (Can. $18.95) Trade/320 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38650-2 Fiction On Sale: October 6, 2009

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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom— and Revenge

NOVEMBER by Edward Kritzler “Populated by so many remarkable characters—Jewish and otherwise—that picking a favorite is taxing. Fast-paced.... Never boring.”—San Francisco Chronicle lively work of history about an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ran- A sacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as the Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plun- dered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. Filled with high-sea adventures—including encounters with Captain Morgan and other legendary pirates—Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean reveals a hidden chapter in Jewish history and the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery.

ADVERTISING “Compelling.... An ambitious and expansive his- • National Print and Online Advertising tory of a mostly unexamined aspect of the Jewish PUBLICITY expulsion from Spain and Portugal.” • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR —Los Angeles Times • Promotion to JCCs and Jewish Book Festivals • Promotion to Jewish Interest Media, Bloggers “Kritzler should be commended for making us and Websites for Features and Reviews rethink a few historical assumptions. What’s www.JewishPiratesoftheCaribbean.com ‘Aarrgh!’ in Yiddish, anyway?” —The Washington Post Edward Kritzler is an historian and a former New York-based reporter. He lives in Jamaica.

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Thames The Biography by Peter Ackroyd NOVEMBER

“Wonderful.... Thames can be read all at once, with increasing delight, and afterwards dipped into, like stretches of the great waterway it charts and celebrates.” —Financial Times Magazine (London) n this perfect companion to London: The Biog- raphy, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into Ithe hidden byways of history, describing the river’s endless allure in a journey overﬂowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical ﬁgures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. The Thames as a source of artistic inspiration comes brilliantly to life as Ackroyd invokes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Turner, Shelley, and other writers, poets, and painters who have been enchanted by its many moods and colors.

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M A J O R R E L E A S E Lethal Legacy An Alexandra Cooper Novel by Linda Fairstein

MASS MARKET RELEASE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the best crime fiction writers in America today.... Fairstein is fantastic!” —Nelson DeMille eaturing a cast of elite and erudite characters, and a complex trail of clues that will Fhave you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein’s most beguiling thriller yet. When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr’s apartment on Manhat- tan’s Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with inves- tigators. Then another woman is found mur- dered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn into the strange and privileged world of the Hunt family, major benefactors of the New York Public Library and passionate rare book collectors. “Alexandra Cooper, like her creator Linda Fairstein, is a force to contend with; smart, tough, and literate to boot!” —Sue Grafton

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“Fairstein...makes the legal issues more exciting MASS than any high-speed chase.” —The New York Times “One of the most promising forces in crime ﬁction.” —Patricia Cornwell “Really knows what she’s writing about.” —James Patterson “Linda Fairstein is an important writer because she tells it like it is. Every page...is brimming with the kind of you-are-there reality that can only come from someone who has been there, seen it, done it.” —Michael Connelly “A champion teller of detective tales.” —USA Today Linda Fairstein is the bestselling author of ten previous Alexandra Cooper novels. For more than two decades she ran the Sex Crimes Unit

of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Ofﬁce. She © PETER SIMON lives in New York City and Martha’s Vineyard. A READING GROUP TITLE $7.99 (Can. $10.99) Trade/416 pp. ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-38778-3 A New York Times Extended List, USA Today, Crime Fiction Denver Post, and Washington Post Bestseller On Sale: November 30, 2009 ADVERTISING • National Print Advertising PUBLICITY • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR • Promotion to Mystery/Crime Fiction Media, Bloggers, and Website for Features and Reviews • Appearances Upon Request READING GROUP PROMOTION • Online Advertising on Reading Group Sites • Reading Group Guide, Feature, E-newsletter, and more on www.readinggroupcenter.com

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DECEMBER by Brenda Wineapple A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist “A tour de force that should delight specialists and casual readers alike.... Fascinating.” —Washington Post renda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, and Bsheds new light not only on the famously elusive poet, but on the roiling America of the nineteenth century. As the Civil War raged in 1862, an unusual relationship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Hig- ginson, a literary ﬁgure and abolitionist who ran guns to Kansas and commanded the ﬁrst Union regiment of black soldiers. Higginson wrote for The Atlantic Monthly, and when Dickinson sent him four of her poems he realized he had encountered a wholly original genius. The intense correspondence that followed over the next quarter century reveals much about Dickinson, Higgin- son, and the world they shared.

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Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber DECEMBER

“Sharply incisive.... Garber merrily illustrates how modern culture can miss Shakespeare’s original points.... Her book credibly demonstrates that the ever- changing timeliness of Shakespeare’s thoughts is what makes them timeless.” —The New York Times rom one of the world’s premier Shake- speare scholars, a magisterial new study Fwhose premise is “that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.” Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as “naturally” true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce’s Ulysses to George W. Bush’s reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber ADVERTISING discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined • Academic Advertising in Publication of the Modern in modern ﬁction, theater, ﬁlm, and the news, Language Association, Renaissance Quarterly, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, Shakespeare Quarterly political theory, business, medicine, and law. “Garber’s approach is eclectic.... She is an inspir- Also available: ing reader.” —The New Yorker Sex and Real Estate: 978-0-385-72039-7 Shakespeare After All: 978-0-385-72214-8 Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr., Profes- sor of English and American Literature and Lan- guage and chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard Univer- sity. She lives in Cambridge and Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature DECEMBER

“Intriguing.... Dostoyevskyan.... Mahfouz’s brilliance lies in portraying the mixture of good and evil in human character.... Mahfouz was Egypt’s Balzac.” —The New York Times ewly translated, Cairo Modern, one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most Ndaring novels, is the tale of a doomed ménage a trois. In 1930s Cairo there are vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time when the universities have just opened to women and heady new ideas from Europe are stirring the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student, determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret. His lack of connections makes finding a job nearly impossible, and in his desperation he agrees to marry the mistress of a high government official in return for a job. On the wedding day he discovers that his wife-to-be is Ihsan, his best friend’s beautiful former girlfriend, a poor student whose life has been ruined by her seductiveness. Despite their embarrassment, the two go through with the sham marriage and become partners in a pre- carious plot to make their way in Cairo’s high society and outwit their ill fortune. Translated by William M. Hutchins. Naguib Mahfouz died in Egypt in 2006.

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A History of Egypt From Earliest Times to the Present by Jason Thompson DECEMBER

“A remarkable work of synthesis, cohesion, and understanding.... Wonderfully vivid.... Extremely readable.... This is the first major work of its kind and it succeeds triumphantly.” —Al-Ahram Weekly he first-ever compact, accessible, one- volume history of all 5,000 years of Egypt- Tian history, highlighting the surprisingly strong connections between the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs and the modern-day Arab nation. Never before has anyone attempted to tie together in a single volume the many eras of Egyptian history, usually the strictly separate domains of specialists: Prehistoric, Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic, Medieval Islamic, Ottoman, British Colo- nial, and Modern. In taking on this daringly ambitious project, Jason Thompson makes the case © PHOTOCREDIT that few if any other countries have as many threads of continuity running through their entire historical experience. With its unprecedented scope and lively and readable style, A History of Egypt should appeal not only to students, but also ADVERTISING to tourists who want an overview of the land they • National Print Advertising are visiting, and anyone with a general interest in • Academic Advertising in American Historical the Middle East driven by its significant role in cur- Review, Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin rent events. PUBLICITY • Major Review Attention “Full of insights.... Thompson’s tone suggests a • Radio Phoner Campaign, including NPR deep respect for Egypt and its history.... Packing • Promotion to Ancient History and Travel Media, it all into one book without any major errors of Bloggers and Websites for Features and Reviews omission or emphasis requires considerable skill and breadth of vision.” —Daily News Egypt Jason Thompson is a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Colby College.

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Chinua Achebe Madison Smartt Bell The Education of a British-Protected Child Devil’s Dream 978-0-307-27255-3 (Knopf, October) 978-0-375-42488-5 (Pantheon, November) Anthills of Savannah, 978-0-385-26045-9 All Souls’ Rising, 978-1-4000-7653-6 Arrow of God, 978-0-385-01480-9 Master of the Crossroads, 978-1-4000-7838-7 Collected Poems, 978-1-4000-7658-1 The Stone that the Builder Refused, 978-1-4000-7618-5 Girls at War, 978-0-385-41896-6 Toussaint Louverture, 978-1-4000-7935-3 Home and Exile, 978-0-385-72133-2 Carol Berkin Hopes and Impediments, 978-0-385-41479-1 Civil War Wives A Man of the People, 978-0-385-08616-5 978-1-4000-4446-7 (Knopf, September) No Longer At Ease, 978-0-385-47455-9 Revolutionary Mothers, 978-1-4000-7532-4 Things Fall Apart, 978-0-385-47454-2 John Burdett Peter Ackroyd The Godfather of Kathmandu The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein 978-0-307-26319-3 (Knopf, October) 978-0-385-53084-2 (Nan A. Talese, October) Bangkok 8, 978-1-4000-3290-7 Albion, 978-0-385-49773-2 Bangkok Haunts, 978-1-4000-9706-7 The Clerkenwell Tales, 978-1-4000-7595-9 Bangkok Tattoo, 978-1-4000-3291-4 The Fall of Troy, 978-0-307-38649-6 The Lambs of London, 978-1-4000-7958-2 A.S. Byatt The Life of Thomas Moore, 978-0-385-49693-3 The Children’s Book London, 978-0-385-49771-8 978-0-307-27209-6 (Knopf, October) The Plato Papers, 978-0-385-49769-5 Angels & Insects, 978-0-679-75134-2 Shakespeare, 978-1-4000-7598-0 Babel Tower, 978-0-679-73680-6 Thames (November 2009), 978-0-307-38984-8 The Biographer’s Tale, 978-0-375-72508-1 Margaret Atwood The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, 978-0-679-76222-5 Elementals, 978-0-375-70575-5 The Year of the Flood The Game, 978-0-679-74256-2 978-0-385-52877-1 (Nan A. Talese, September) The Hedgehog, The White Goose... (September ’09), Alias Grace, 978-0-385-49044-3 978-0-679-73681-3 The Blind Assassin, 978-0-385-72095-3 Imagining Characters, 978-0-679-77753-3 Bluebeard’s Egg, 978-0-385-49104-4 Little Black Book of Stories, 978-1-4000-7560-7 Bodily Harm, 978-0-385-49107-5 The Matisse Stories, 978-0-679-76223-2 Cat’s Eye, 978-0-385-49102-0 Passions of the Mind, 978-0-679-73678-3 Dancing Girls, 978-0-385-49109-9 Possession, 978-0-679-73590-8 The Edible Woman, 978-0-385-49106-8 Sugar and Other Stories, 978-0-679-74227-2 The Handmaid’s Tale, 978-0-385-49081-8 Vintage Byatt, 978-1-4000-7745-8 Lady Oracle, 978-0-385-49108-2 The Virgin in the Garden, 978-0-679-73829-9 Life Before Man, 978-0-385-49110-5 A Whistling Woman, 978-0-679-77690-1 Moral Disorder and Other Stories, 978-0-385-72164-6 Negotiating With the Dead, 978-1-4000-3260-0 Roberto Calasso Oryx and Crake, 978-0-385-72167-7 Tiepolo Pink The Robber Bride, 978-0-385-49103-7 978-0-307-26766-5 (Knopf, October) Surfacing, 978-0-385-49105-1 K., 978-1-4000-7612-3 The Tent, 978-1-4000-9701-2 Ka, 978-0-679-77547-8 Wilderness Tips, 978-0-385-49111-2 Literature and the Gods, 978-0-375-72543-2 The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, 978-0-679-73348-5

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Philip Caputo John Twelve Hawks Crossers The Golden City 978-0-375-41167-0 (Knopf, October) 978-0-385-51430-9 (Doubleday, September) Acts of Faith, 978-0-375-72597-5 The Dark River, 978-1-4000-7930-8 DelCorso’s Gallery, 978-0-375-72509-8 The Traveler, 978-1-4000-7929-2 Exiles, 978-0-679-76838-8 Kazuo Ishiguro Horn of Africa, 978-0-375-72511-1 Nocturnes Indian Country, 978-0-375-72510-4 978-0-307-27102-0 (Knopf, September) The Voyage, 978-0-679-76839-5 An Artist of the Floating World, 978-0-679-72266-3 Amit Chaudhuri Never Let Me Go, 978-1-4000-7877-6 The Immortals A Pale View of Hills, 978-0-67-972267-0 978-0-307-27022-1 (Knopf, August) The Remains of the Day, 978-0-679-73172-6 Freedom Song, 978-0-375-70400-0 The Unconsoled, 978-0-679-73587-8 A New World, 978-0-375-72480-0 When We Were Orphans, 978-0-375-72440-4 The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature, Kay Redﬁeld Jamison 978-0-375-71300-2 Nothing Was the Same David Anthony Durham 978-0-307-26537-1 (Knopf, September) The Other Lands Exuberance, 978-0-375-70148-1 978-0-385-52332-5 (Doubleday, September) Night Falls Fast, 978-0-375-70147-4 Gabriel’s Story, 978-0-385-72033-5 An Unquiet Mind, 978-0-679-76330-7 Pride of Carthage, 978-0-385-72249-0 Ha Jin A Walk Through Darkness, 978-0-385-72036-6 A Good Fall Richard Ellis 978-0-307-37868-2 (Pantheon, November) On Thin Ice The Bridegroom, 978-0-375-72493-0 978-0-307-27059-7 (Knopf, November) The Crazed, 978-0-375-71411-5 Book of Whales, 978-0-394-73371-5 A Free Life, 978-0-307-27860-9 Imagining Atlantis, 978-0-375-70582-3 In the Pond, 978-0-375-70911-1 Tuna: A Love Story, 978-0-307-38710-3 Ocean of Words, 978-0-375-70206-8 James Ellroy Waiting, 978-0-375-70641-7 Blood’s A Rover War Trash, 978-1-4000-7579-9 978-0-679-40393-7 (Knopf, September) Judith Jones American Tabloid, 978-0-375-72737-5 The Pleasures of Cooking for One Because the Night, 978-1-4000-9529-2 978-0-307-27072-6 (Knopf, September) Blood on the Moon, 978-1-4000-9528-5 The Tenth Muse, 978-0-307-27744-2 The Cold Six Thousand, 978-0-375-72740-5 John Keegan Crime Wave, 978-0-375-70471-0 The American Civil War Destination: Morgue!, 978-1-4000-3287-7 978-0-307-26343-8 (Knopf, October) Hollywood Nocturnes, 978-0-307-27879-1 The Battle for History, 978-0-679-76743-5 My Dark Places, 978-0-679-76205-8 Fields of Battle, 978-0-679-74664-5 Suicide Hall, 978-1-4000-9530-8 The First World War, 978-0-375-70045-3 White Jazz, 978-0-375-72736-8 A History of Warfare, 978-0-679-73082-8 Mary Gordon Intelligence in War, 978-0-375-70046-0 Reading Jesus The Iraq War, 978-1-4000-7920-9 978-0-375-42457-1 (Pantheon, October) War and Our World, 978-0-375-70520-5 Circling My Mother, 978-0-375-72601-9 Pearl, 978-1-4000-7807-3 The Stories of Mary Gordon, 978-1-4000-7808-0

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Nicholas D. Kristof Alexander McCall Smith Half the Sky La’s Orchestra Saves the World 978-0-307-26714-6 (Knopf, September) 978-0-307-37838-5 (Pantheon, December) China Wakes, 978-0-679-76393-2 44 Scotland Street, 978-1-4000-7944-5 Thunder From the East, 978-0-375-70301-0 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, 978-1-4000-9509-4 Harold S. Kushner Blue Shoes and Happiness, 978-1-4000-7571-3 Conquering Fear Careful Use of Compliments, 978-1-4000-7712-0 Comforts of a Muddy Saturday, 978-0-307-38707-3 978-0-307-26664-4 (Knopf, October) Espresso Tales, 978-0-307-27597-4 Cuando a la Gente Buena le Pasan Cosas Malas, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, 978-1-4000-9508-7 978-0-307-27529-5 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, 978-1-4000-7710-6 Living a Life that Matters, 978-0-385-72094-6 The Full Cupboard of Life, 978-1-4000-3181-8 The Lord is My Shepherd, 978-1-4000-3335-5 The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, 978-1-4000-7524-9 Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, 978-1-4000-3336-2 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, 978-1-4000-7570-6 When Bad Things Happen to Good People, The Kalahari Typing School for Men, 978-1-4000-3180-1 978-1-4000-3472-7 Love Over Scotland, 978-0-307-27598-1 When Children Ask About God, 978-0-805-21033-0 Miracle at Speedy Motors, 978-0-307-27746-6 Brad Leithauser Morality for Beautiful Girls, 978-1-4000-3136-8 The Art Student’s War Portuguese Irregular Verbs, 978-1-4000-7708-3 978-0-307-27111-2 (Knopf, November) The Right Attitude to Rain, 978-1-4000-7711-3 Curves and Angles, 978-0-375-71142-8 The Sunday Philosophy Club, 978-1-4000-7709-0 A Few Corrections, 978-0-375-72558-6 Tears of the Giraffe, 978-1-4000-3135-1 The Friends of Freeland, 978-0-679-77270-5 The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, 978-0-307-45470-6 Jonathan Lethem The World According to Bertie, 978-0-307-38706-6 Chronic City Lorrie Moore 978-0-385-51863-5 (Doubleday, September) A Gate at the Stairs As She Climbed Across the Table, 978-0-375-70012-5 978-0-375-40928-8 (Knopf, September) The Disappointment Artist, 978-1-4000-7681-9 Anagrams, 978-0-307-27728-2 The Fortress of Solitude, 978-0-375-72488-6 Like Life, 978-0-375-71916-5 Girl in Landscape, 978-0-375-70391-1 Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, 978-1-4000-3382-9 Men and Cartoons, 978-1-4000-7680-2 Alice Munro Motherless Brooklyn, 978-0-375-72483-1 The Vintage Book of Amnesia, 978-0-375-70661-5 Too Much Happiness 978-0-307-26976-8 (Knopf, November) You Don’t Love Me Yet, 978-1-4000-7682-6 The Beggar Maid, 978-0-679-73271-6 Peter Maass Dance of the Happy Shades, 978-0-679-78151-6 Crude World Friend of My Youth, 978-0-679-78151-6 978-1-4000-4169-5 (Knopf, September) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Love Thy Neighbor, 978-0-679-76389-5 978-0-375-72743-6 Thomas Mallon Lives of Girls and Women, 978-0-375-70749-0 Yours Ever The Love of a Good Woman, 978-0-375-70363-8 978-0-679-44426-8 (Pantheon, November) The Moons of Jupiter, 978-0-679-73270-9 Fellow Travelers, 978-0-307-38890-2 Open Secrets, 978-0-679-75562-3 The Progress of Love, 978-0-375-72470-1 Runaway, 978-1-4000-7791-5 Selected Stories, 978-0-679-76674-2 Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You, 978-0-375-70748-3 The View From Castle Rock, 978-1-4000-7792-2 Vintage Munro, 978-1-4000-3395-9

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Vladimir Nabokov Richard Russo The Original of Laura The Old Cape Magic 978-0-307-27189-1 (Knopf, November) 978-0-375-41496-1 (Knopf, October) Ada, or Ardor, 978-0-679-72522-0 Bridge of Sighs, 978-1-4000-3090-3 The Annotated Lolita, 978-0-679-72729-3 Empire Falls, 978-0-375-72640-8 Bend Sinister, 978-0-679-72727-9 Mohawk, 978-0-679-75382-7 The Defense, 978-0-679-72722-4 Nobody’s Fool, 978-0-679-75333-9 Despair, 978-0-679-72343-1 The Risk Pool, 978-0-679-75383-4 The Enchanter, 978-0-679-72886-3 Straight Man, 978-0-375-70190-0 The Eye, 978-0-679-72723-1 The Whore’s Child, 978-0-375-72601-9 Glory, 978-0-679-72724-8 Victor Sebestyen Invitation to a Beheading, 978-0-679-72531-2 1989: Tearing Down the Curtain King, Queen, Knave, 978-0-679-72340-0 978-0-375-42532-5 (Pantheon, October) Laughter in the Dark, 978-0-679-72450-6 Twelve Days, 978-0-307-27795-4 Lolita, 978-0-679-72316-5 Lolita: A Screenplay, 978-0-679-77255-2 Neil Sheehan Look at the Harlequins!, 978-0-679-72728-6 A Fiery Peace in a Cold War Mary, 978-0-679-72620-3 978-0-679-42284-6 (Random House, October) Pale Fire, 978-0-679-72342-4 A Bright Shining Lie, 978-0-679-72414-8 Pnin, 978-0-679-72341-7 Wallace Stevens The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, 978-0-679-72726-2 Selected Poems Speak, Memory, 978-0-679-72339-4 978-0-307-28047-3 (Knopf, August) The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, 978-0-679-72997-6 The Collected Poems, 978-0-679-72669-2 Strong Opinions, 978-0-679-72609-8 The Necessary Angel, 978-0-394-70278-0 Transparent Things, 978-0-679-72541-1 Opus Posthumous, 978-0-679-72534-3 Vintage Nabokov, 978-1-4000-3401-7 The Palm at the End of the Mind, 978-0-679-72445-2 Caryl Phillips Robert B. Strassler In the Falling Snow The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika 978-0-307-27256-0 (Knopf, September) 978-0-375-42255-3 (Pantheon, November) The Atlantic Sound, 978-0-375-70103-0 The Landmark Herodotus (June 2009), 978-1-4000-3114-6 Cambridge, 978-0-679-73689-9 William Styron Crossing the River, 978-0-679-75794-8 Dancing in the Dark, 978-1-4000-7983-4 The Suicide Run A Distant Shore, 978-1-4000-3450-5 978-1-4000-6822-7 (Random House, October) The European Tribe, 978-0-375-70704-9 The Confessions of Nat Turner, 978-0-679-73663-9 Extravagant Strangers, 978-0-679-78154-7 Darkness Visible, 978-0-679-73639-4 The Final Passage, 978-0-679-75931-7 Lie Down in Darkness, 978-0-679-73597-7 Foreigners, 978-1-4000-7984-1 Set This House on Fire, 978-0-679-73674-5 Higher Ground, 978-0-679-76376-5 Sophie’s Choice, 978-0-679-73637-0 The Nature of Blood, 978-0-679-77675-8 The Long March and In the Clap Shack, 978-0-679-73675-2 A New World Order, 978-0-375-71403-0 This Quiet Dust, 978-0-679-73596-0 The Right Set, 978-0-375-70646-2 A Tidewater Morning, 978-0-679-75449-7 A State of Independence, 978-0-679-75930-0 Norman Podhoretz Why are Jews Liberals? 978-0-385-52919-8 (Doubleday, September) World War IV, 978-0-307-38602-1

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Andrew Vachss Haiku 978-0-307-37849-1 (Pantheon, November) Another Life (September 2009), 978-0-307-39039-4 Blossom, 978-0-679-77261-3 Blue Belle, 978-0-679-76168-6 Born Bad, 978-0-679-75336-0 Choice of Evil, 978-0-375-70662-2 Dead and Gone, 978-0-375-70662-2 Down Here, 978-1-4000-7611-6 Down in the Zero, 978-0-679-76066-5 Everybody Pays, 978-0-375-70743-8 False Allegations, 978-0-679-77293-4 Flood, 978-0-679-78129-5 Footsteps of the Hawk, 978-0-679-76663-6 The Getaway Man, 978-1-4000-3119-1 Hard Candy, 978-0-679-76169-3 Mask Market, 978-0-307-45481-2 Only Child, 978-1-4000-3098-9 Pain Management, 978-0-375-72647-7 Sacriﬁce, 978-0-679-76410-6 Safe House, 978-0-375-70074-3 Shella, 978-0-679-75681-1 Strega, 978-0-679-76409-0 Terminal, 978-0-307-38705-9 Two Trains Running, 978-1-4000-7938-4

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Index of Authors

Achebe, Chinua, Brands, H.W., The Education of a British-Protected Child* . . 72 Traitor to His Class ...... 236–237 Ackroyd, Peter, Brenner, Hannelore, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein . . . . 35 The Girls of Room 28* ...... 127 Ackroyd, Peter, Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, Thames ...... 249 The Physiology of Taste...... 137 Alexander, Patrick, Brockman, Max, editor, Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time . . . 163 What’s Next...... 154 Andrew, Christopher, Brown, Dan, Defend the Realm ...... 77 The Da Vinci Code (premium mass market) ...... 239 Armstrong, Karen, The Case for God ...... 57 Buckland, Gail, Who Shot Rock & Roll...... 67 Aslam, Nadeem, The Wasted Vigil ...... 162 Burdett, John, The Godfather of Kathmandu...... 75 Atwood, Margaret, The Year of the Flood ...... 34 Burnett, Allison, Undiscovered Gyrl...... 153 Bach, David, Lucha por tu dinero...... 224 Byatt, A. S., The Children’s Book ...... 69 Bamford, James, The Shadow Factory ...... 242 Byrne, Trevor, Ghosts and Lightning ...... 29 Barnes, Julian, Nothing to Be Frightened Of . . . . . 180–181 Calasso, Roberto, Tiepolo Pink ...... 70 Barnes, Kim, A Country Called Home ...... 245 Caldwell, Christopher, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. . . 8 Bass, Gary J., Freedom’s Battle ...... 193 Callan, Michael Feeney, Robert Redford ...... 95 Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and Tanya Bastianich Manuali, Caputo, Philip, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy . . . . . 87 Crossers ...... 76 Bell, Madison Smartt, Carhart, Thad, Devil’s Dream ...... 120 Across the Endless River ...... 12 Berkin, Carol, Carter, Stephen L., Civil War Wives...... 64 Jericho’s Fall...... 47 Bernhard, Thomas, Chaudhuri, Amit, Wittgenstein’s Nephew ...... 186 The Immortals ...... 50 Boccaccio, Giovanni, Child, Julia with Alex Prud’homme, Decameron ...... 134 My Life in France (Movie Tie-in) ...... 213 Bowles, Hamish, Choate, Pat, The World in Vogue...... 99 Saving Capitalism ...... 155

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Clark, Robert, Fortey, Richard, Dark Water ...... 246 Dry Storeroom No. 1* ...... 164 Conroy, Pat, French, Patrick, South of Broad ...... 33 The World Is What It Is ...... 198–199 Cooper, Jr., John Milton, Garber, Marjorie, Woodrow Wilson...... 90 Shakespeare and Modern Culture ...... 253 Darnton, John, García Márquez, Gabriel, Black and White and Dead All Over . . . 233 Cien años de soledad ...... 217 Dary, David, Geniesse, Jane, Frontier Medicine ...... 184 American Priestess ...... 238 Davidson, Andrew, Gibson, Bob, The Gargoyle...... 230–231 Sixty Feet, Six Inches ...... 15 de Bernières, Louis, Gibson, Graeme, A Partisan’s Daughter ...... 183 The Bedside Book of Beasts ...... 37 de Robertis, Carolina, Gideon, Melanie, La montaña invisible*...... 223 The Slippery Year...... 51 Delinsky, Barbara, Gilder, Louisa, While My Sister Sleeps...... 240–241 The Age of Entanglement ...... 196 Dickens, Charles, Glass, Julia, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas I See You Everywhere ...... 234–235 Books...... 139 Goldwag, Arthur, Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns, Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies . . 169 The National Parks ...... 55 Gordon, Mary, Durham, David Anthony, Reading Jesus...... 118 The Other Lands ...... 16 Greenberg, Michael, Ellis, Richard, Hurry Down Sunshine*...... 156–157 On Thin Ice* ...... 92 Grisham, John, Ellroy, James, El asociado ...... 219 Blood’s A Rover...... 63 Harkaway, Nick, Epstein, Jason, The Gone-Away World*...... 159 Eating ...... 82 Hart, Josephine, Everett, Daniel L., The Truth About Love...... 49 Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes ...... 202 Haslam, Nicholas, Fairstein, Linda, Redeeming Features...... 96 Lethal Legacy ...... 250–251 Haygood, Wil, Falcones, Ildefonso, Sweet Thunder*...... 68 La catedral del mar ...... 218 Hazleton, Lesley, Filkins, Dexter, After the Prophet ...... 14 The Forever War ...... 150–151 Heller, Anne C., Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Ayn Rand and the World She Made . . . . . 38 This Side of Paradise and Flappers Hoffman, David E., and Philosophers ...... 172–173 The Dead Hand...... 22

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Ishiguro, Kazuo, Leithauser, Brad, Nocturnes ...... 53 The Art Student’s War ...... 94 Jackson, Reggie, Lethem, Jonathan, Sixty Feet, Six Inches ...... 15 Chronic City ...... 13 James, P.D., Levine, Philip, The Private Patient ...... 194–195 News of the World ...... 74 Jamison, Kay Redfield, Lindsay, Jeff, Nothing Was the Same ...... 65 Darkly Dreaming Dexter...... 152 Jin, Ha, Lukas, Christopher, A Good Fall...... 124 Blue Genes...... 244 Jones, Jacqueline, Maass, Peter, Saving Savannah ...... 203 Crude World ...... 58 Jones, Judith, Mahfouz, Naguib, The Pleasures of Cooking for One ...... 62 Cairo Modern ...... 254 Kanfer, Stefan, Majd, Hooman, Somebody ...... 197 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ...... 232 Keegan, John, Mallon, Thomas, The American Civil War ...... 85 Yours Ever ...... 122 Kehlmann, Daniel, Mamet, David, Me and Kaminski ...... 187 The Wicked Son...... 128 Kerper, Barrie, editor, Mandelbrot, Benoit, Istanbul: The Collected Traveler . . . 160–161 The Fractalist...... 119 Kindred, Dave, Márai, Sándor, Morning Miracle ...... 18 Esther’s Inheritance ...... 185 Krakauer, Jon, Marchetto, Marisa Acocella, Where Men Win Glory ...... 11 Cancer Vixen ...... 114 Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn, Martin, Valerie, Half the Sky...... 60 The Confessions of Edward Day...... 32 Kritzler, Edward, Matsen, Brad, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean...... 248 Jacques Cousteau*...... 117 Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Maugham, W. Somerset, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., A Writer’s Notebook and Lincoln, Life-Size...... 89 The Narrow Corner...... 210–211 Kushner, Harold S., Maugham, W. Somerset, Conquering Fear ...... 81 The Skeptical Romancer ...... 138 Lamster, Mark, Mayle, Peter, Master of Shadows ...... 36 The Vintage Caper...... 71 Lansdale, Joe R., McCall Smith, Alexander, Leather Maiden, Rumble Tumble and La’s Orchestra Saves the World...... 125 Captains Outrageous...... 168, 200–201 McCall Smith, Alexander, Lax, Eric, The Lost Art of Gratitude ...... 115 Conversations with Woody Allen ...... 52

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Mercer, Johnny, Peace, David, The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer. . . 80 Nineteen Eighty ...... 170 Mezrich, Ben, Peacock, Justin, The Accidental Billionaires ...... 9 A Cure for Night ...... 192 Mirabal, Dedé, Penzler, Otto, editor, Vivas en su jardin ...... 222 The Vampire Archives*...... 179 Mishima, Yukio, Perl, Jed, Five Modern No Plays and Antoine’s Alphabet ...... 205 The Sound of Waves ...... 208–209 Phillips, Caryl, Mochizuki, Aska, In the Falling Snow ...... 56 Spinning Tropics ...... 207 Podhoretz, Norman, Moore, Lorrie, Why Are Jews Liberals?...... 17 A Gate at the Stairs ...... 59 Poe, Edgar Allan, Morrison, Toni, Great Tales and Poems* ...... 171 A Mercy*...... 148–149 Pogrebin, Abigail, Mortenson, Greg, One and the Same ...... 27 Tres tazas de té ...... 221 Ponsot, Marie, Munro, Alice, Easy ...... 84 Too Much Happiness...... 101 Rees, Laurence, Muschamp, Herbert, World War II Behind Closed Doors . . . . 110 Hearts of the City ...... 100 Rice, Anne, Nabokov, Vladimir, Angel Time...... 79 Lolita ...... 226 Richardson, Mark, Nabokov, Vladimir, Zen and Now ...... 158 The Original of Laura ...... 97 Rilke, Rainer Maria, O’Hara, Frank, Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Selected Poems...... 54 Orpheus...... 175 O’Neil, Brian, Ritz, David, Acting as a Business...... 182 We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives . . 25 Obama, Barack, Roizen, Michael F., and Mehmet Oz, Los sueños de mi padre*...... 227 Tú a dieta...... 220 Orman, Suze, Rosenquist, James, Plan de acción 2009 ...... 227 Painting Below Zero ...... 86 Othmer, James P., Roth, Philip, Adland ...... 19 Indignation ...... 176–177 Page, Tim, Rubens, Michael, Parallel Play...... 20 The Sheriff of Yrnameer ...... 111 Pamuk, Orhan, Russo, Richard, The Museum of Innocence ...... 83 That Old Cape Magic ...... 91 Papp, Joseph, Rutherfurd, Edward, Free for All...... 28 New York: The Novel ...... 23

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Ryback, Timothy W., Tolstoy, Leo, Hitler’s Private Library ...... 204 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories ...... 98 Salter, Mary Jo, A Phone Call to the Future ...... 54 Trofimuk, Thomas, Waiting for Columbus ...... 10 Sapphire, Push (stickered cover) ...... 212 Turan, Kenneth, Free for All...... 28 Schulze, Ingo, New Lives ...... 190 Twelve Hawks, John, The Golden City ...... 21 Sebestyen, Victor, Revolution 1989 ...... 116 Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass ...... 61 Shaffer, Paul, We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives . . 25 Updike, John, Endpoint and Other Poems...... 45 Shawcross, William, The Queen Mother ...... 93 Urofsky, Melvin I., Louis D. Brandeis ...... 113 Shelley, Mary, The Original Frankenstein...... 174 Vaccaro, Mike, The First Fall Classic ...... 24 Shlaim, Avi, Lion of Jordan...... 191 Vachss, Andrew, Another Life ...... 165 Shorto, Russell, Descartes’ Bones ...... 166–167 Vachss, Andrew, Haiku...... 123 Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Valladolid, Marcela, Behavior...... 48 México fresco...... 225 Sjöwall, Maj, and Per Wahlöö, Walker, Kathryn, The Abominable Man and A Stopover in Venice ...... 247 The Locked Room...... 188–189 Washington, Peter, ed., Smith, Lee, Detective Stories ...... 135 The Strong Horse...... 26 Weber, Nicholas Fox, Stephenson, Sam, The Bauhaus Group ...... 78 The Jazz Loft Project...... 88 Wiesel, Elie, Strassler, Robert B., editor, Rashi ...... 129 The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika . . 121 Williams, Terry Tempest, Straub, Peter, Finding Beauty in a Broken World . . . . . 178 Poe’s Children ...... 243 Wineapple, Brenda, Tacitus, White Heat ...... 254 Annals and Histories ...... 136 Wright, Franz, Tanizaki, Junichiro, Wheeling Motel ...... 66 The Makioka Sisters ...... 206 Wyld, Evie, Thompson, Jason, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice*...... 112 A History of Egypt ...... 255 Zuckoff, Mitchell, Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael Robert Altman...... 73 O’Keeffe, and Christian Red, American Icon ...... 46 * Books of special interest to young adults 269 Fa09_BM_FINAL MM.qxp:Combined_BM 3/6/09 5:20 PM Page 270

Index of Titles

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Antoine’s Alphabet, Books, JedPerl...... 205 Charles Dickens ...... 139 The Art Student’s War, A Gate at the Stairs, Brad Leithauser ...... 94 LorrieMoore...... 59 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ, A Good Fall, HoomanMajd...... 232 Ha Jin ...... 124 Ayn Rand and the World She Made, A Phone Call to the Future, AnneC.Heller...... 38 MaryJoSalter...... 54 The Bauhaus Group, The Abominable Man and The Locked Room, Nicholas Fox Weber ...... 78 Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö...... 188 The Bedside Book of Beasts, The Accidental Billionaires, Graeme Gibson ...... 37 BenMezrich...... 9 Black and White and Dead All Over, Across the Endless River, JohnDarnton...... 233 ThadCarhart...... 12 Blood’s A Rover, Acting as a Business, JamesEllroy...... 63 Brian O’Neil ...... 182 Blue Genes, Adland, Christopher Lukas ...... 244 James P. Othmer ...... 19 Cairo Modern, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, Naguib Mahfouz ...... 254 EvieWyld*...... 112 Cancer Vixen, After the Prophet, Marisa Acocella Marchetto ...... 114 Lesley Hazleton ...... 14 Captains Outrageous, The Age of Entanglement, Joe R. Lansdale ...... 201 Louisa Gilder ...... 196 The Case for God, The American Civil War, Karen Armstrong ...... 57 JohnKeegan...... 85 The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, American Icon, Peter Ackroyd ...... 35 Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael The Children’s Book, O’Keeffe, and Christian Red ...... 46 A. S. Byatt ...... 69 American Priestess, Chronic City, Jane Geniesse ...... 238 Jonathan Lethem ...... 13 Angel Time, Cien años de soledad, Anne Rice ...... 79 Gabriel García Márquez ...... 217 Annals and Histories, Civil War Wives, Tacitus...... 136 Carol Berkin ...... 64 Another Life, The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, Andew Vachss ...... 165 JohnnyMercer...... 80

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The Confessions of Edward Day, Easy, Valerie Martin ...... 32 MariePonsot...... 84 Conquering Fear, Eating, Harold S. Kushner ...... 81 JasonEpstein...... 82 Conversations with Woody Allen, The Education of a British-Protected Child, EricLax...... 52 Chinua Achebe* ...... 72 A Country Called Home, El asociado, Kim Barnes ...... 245 John Grisham...... 219 Crossers, Endpoint and Other Poems, PhilipCaputo...... 76 JohnUpdike...... 45 Crude World, Esther’s Inheritance, Peter Maass ...... 58 SándorMárai...... 185 Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Arthur Goldwag ...... 169 Terry Tempest Williams ...... 178 A Cure for Night, The First Fall Classic, Justin Peacock ...... 192 MikeVaccaro...... 24 The Da Vinci Code, (premium mass market), Five Modern No Plays, Dan Brown ...... 239 Yukio Mishima ...... 208 Dark Water, Flappers and Philosophers, Robert Clark ...... 246 F. Scott Fitzgerald...... 173 Darkly Dreaming Dexter, The Forever War, Jeff Lindsay ...... 152 Dexter Filkins ...... 150–151 The Dead Hand, The Fractalist, David E. Hoffman ...... 22 Benoit Mandelbrot...... 119 The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Free for All, Leo Tolstoy ...... 98 Joseph Papp and Kenneth Turan ...... 28 Decameron, Freedom’s Battle, Giovanni Boccaccio ...... 134 GaryJ.Bass...... 193 Defend the Realm, Frontier Medicine, Christopher Andrew ...... 77 David Dary ...... 184 Descartes’ Bones, The Gargoyle, Russell Shorto ...... 166–167 Andrew Davidson ...... 230–231 Detective Stories, Ghosts and Lightning, edited by Peter Washington ...... 135 Trevor Byrne ...... 29 Devil’s Dream, The Girls of Room 28, Madison Smartt Bell ...... 120 Hannelore Brenner*...... 127 Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, The Godfather of Kathmandu, Daniel L. Everett ...... 202 John Burdett ...... 75 Dry Storeroom No. 1, The Golden City, Richard Fortey*...... 164 John Twelve Hawks...... 21 Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus, The Gone-Away World, Rainer Maria Rilke ...... 175 Nick Harkaway* ...... 159

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Great Tales and Poems, Lethal Legacy, Edgar Allan Poe*...... 171 Linda Fairstein...... 250–251 Haiku, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, Andrew Vachss ...... 123 Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali ...... 87 Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. . . 60 Lincoln, Life-Size, Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt, Hearts of the City, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr...... 89 Herbert Muschamp ...... 100 Lion of Jordan, A History of Egypt, Avi Shlaim ...... 191 Jason Thompson ...... 255 The Locked Room, Hitler’s Private Library, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö...... 189 Timothy W. Ryback...... 204 Lolita, Hurry Down Sunshine, Vladimir Nabokov...... 226 Michael Greenberg* ...... 156–157 Los sueños de mi padre, I See You Everywhere, Barack Obama*...... 227 Julia Glass ...... 234–235 The Lost Art of Gratitude, The Immortals, Alexander McCall Smith ...... 115 Amit Chaudhuri...... 50 Louis D. Brandeis, In the Falling Snow, Melvin I. Urofsky...... 113 CarylPhillips...... 56 Lucha por tu dinero, Indignation, David Bach ...... 224 Philip Roth...... 176–177 The Makioka Sisters, Istanbul: The Collected Traveler, Junichiro Tanizaki ...... 206 edited by Barrie Kerper ...... 160–161 Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time, Jacques Cousteau, Patrick Alexander ...... 163 Brad Matsen* ...... 117 Master of Shadows, The Jazz Loft Project, Mark Lamster ...... 36 Sam Stephenson ...... 88 Me and Kaminski, Jericho’s Fall, Daniel Kehlmann...... 187 Stephen L. Carter...... 47 A Mercy, Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean, Toni Morrison* ...... 148–149 Edward Kritzler ...... 248 México fresco, La catedral del mar, Marcela Valladolid...... 225 Ildefonso Falcones ...... 218 Morning Miracle, La montaña invisible, DaveKindred...... 18 Carolina de Robertis* ...... 223 The Museum of Innocence, La’s Orchestra Saves the World, Orhan Pamuk ...... 83 Alexander McCall Smith ...... 125 My Life in France (Movie Tie-in), The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika, Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme . . . . . 213 Robert B. Strassler, editor ...... 121 The Narrow Corner, Leather Maiden, W. Somerset Maugham ...... 211 Joe R. Lansdale ...... 168

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The National Parks, The Private Patient, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns...... 55 P.D. James ...... 194–195 New Lives, Push (stickered cover), IngoSchulze...... 190 Sapphire...... 212 New York: The Novel, The Queen Mother, Edward Rutherfurd ...... 23 William Shawcross...... 93 News of the World, Rashi, Philip Levine ...... 74 ElieWiesel...... 129 Nineteen Eighty, Reading Jesus, DavidPeace...... 170 Mary Gordon ...... 118 Noah’s Compass, Redeeming Features, AnneTyler...... 61 Nicholas Haslam ...... 96 Nocturnes, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Kazuo Ishiguro...... 53 Christopher Caldwell...... 8 Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Revolution 1989, Julian Barnes ...... 180–181 Victor Sebestyen...... 116 Nothing Was the Same, Robert Altman, Kay Redfield Jamison ...... 65 Mitchell Zuckoff ...... 73 On Thin Ice, Robert Redford, Richard Ellis* ...... 92 Michael Feeney Callan...... 95 One and the Same, Rumble Tumble, Abigail Pogrebin ...... 27 Joe R. Lansdale ...... 200 The Original Frankenstein, Saving Capitalism, Mary Shelley ...... 174 PatChoate...... 155 The Original of Laura, Saving Savannah, Vladimir Nabokov...... 97 Jacqueline Jones...... 203 The Other Lands, Selected Poems, David Anthony Durham ...... 16 Frank O’Hara ...... 54 Painting Below Zero, The Shadow Factory, James Rosenquist...... 86 James Bamford ...... 242 Parallel Play, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, Tim Page ...... 20 Marjorie Garber ...... 253 A Partisan’s Daughter, The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Louis de Bernières ...... 183 Michael Rubens ...... 111 The Physiology of Taste, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ...... 137 David Allen Sibley ...... 48 Plan de acción 2009, Sixty Feet, Six Inches, SuzeOrman...... 227 Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson ...... 15 The Pleasures of Cooking for One, The Skeptical Romancer, JudithJones...... 62 W. Somerset Maugham ...... 138 Poe’s Children, The Slippery Year, PeterStraub...... 243 Melanie Gideon ...... 51

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Somebody, Waiting for Columbus, Stefan Kanfer ...... 197 Thomas Trofimuk ...... 10 The Sound of Waves, The Wasted Vigil, Yukio Mishima ...... 209 Nadeem Aslam ...... 162 South of Broad, We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, PatConroy...... 33 Paul Shaffer and David Ritz ...... 25 Spinning Tropics, What’s Next, Aska Mochizuki...... 207 edited by Max Brockman ...... 154 A Stopover in Venice, Wheeling Motel, Kathryn Walker ...... 247 Franz Wright ...... 66 The Strong Horse, Where Men Win Glory, LeeSmith...... 26 JonKrakauer...... 11 Sweet Thunder, While My Sister Sleeps, WilHaygood*...... 68 Barbara Delinsky ...... 240–241 Thames, White Heat, Peter Ackroyd ...... 249 Brenda Wineapple ...... 254 That Old Cape Magic, Who Shot Rock & Roll, RichardRusso...... 91 Gail Buckland ...... 67 This Side of Paradise, Why Are Jews Liberals?, F. Scott Fitzgerald...... 172 Norman Podhoretz ...... 17 Tiepolo Pink, The Wicked Son, Roberto Calasso...... 70 DavidMamet...... 128 Too Much Happiness, Wittgenstein’s Nephew, AliceMunro...... 101 Thomas Bernhard ...... 186 Traitor to His Class, Woodrow Wilson, H. W. Brands ...... 236–237 John Milton Cooper, Jr...... 90 Tres tazas de té, The World in Vogue, Greg Mortenson ...... 221 Hamish Bowles ...... 99 The Truth About Love, The World Is What It Is, Josephine Hart...... 49 Patrick French ...... 198–199 Tú a dieta, World War II Behind Closed Doors, Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet Oz. . . . . 220 Laurence Rees ...... 110 Undiscovered Gyrl, A Writer’s Notebook, Allison Burnett...... 153 W. Somerset Maugham ...... 210 The Vampire Archives, The Year of the Flood, edited by Otto Penzler* ...... 179 Margaret Atwood ...... 34 The Vintage Caper, Yours Ever, Peter Mayle ...... 71 Thomas Mallon ...... 122 Vivas en su jardin, Zen and Now, DedéMirabal...... 222 Mark Richardson...... 158

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