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Donald Hall EAGLE POND

• A collection of Poet Laureate Donald Hall’s beloved writings on Eagle Pond Farm, available for the first time in paperback

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-83934-6 • $14.95 his original paperback brings together for the first time all of ISBN-10: 0-618-83934-8 TDonald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home Eagle Pond in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy APRIL • Essays/Poetry and then lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includes 320 pages • 6 x 9 • A the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at b/w line drawings Eagle Pond; the poem “Daylilies on the Hill” from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected essays.

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“Donald Hall is one of America’s most distinctive and respected literary figures. For more than fifty years, he has written beautiful poetry on a wide variety of subjects that are often distinctly American and conveyed with passion.”

—Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, announcing the appointment of Donald Hall to be the nation’s fourteenth poet laureate © STEPHEN RATINER

DONALD HALL is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose, including White Apples and the ALSO AVAILABLE Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006. His work has garnered many honors, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for The One Day; the Lenore Marshall Award for The Happy Man; the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems; and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of his lifetime accomplish- ments. His poetry collection Without, which was written for Jane Kenyon during White Apples and The Painted Bed and after her illness, received the L. L. (978-0-618-34075-0) $14.00 PA the Taste of Stone Winship/PEN New England Award and was (978-0-618-53721-1) $30.00 CL The Museum of Clear Ideas a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Without (978-0-395-68085-8 ) $14.00 PA Prize. A member of the American Academy (978-0-395-95765-3) $14.00 PA of Arts and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit Old and New Poems the New Hampshire farmhouse where he The Best Day the Worst Day (978-0-899-19954-2 ) $16.95 PA and Jane Kenyon lived together. (978-0-618-77362-6) $13.95 PA Willow Temple (978-0-618-44661-2) $13.00 PA

Matt Donovan

VELLUM Poems

• An award-winning collection, with an introduction by Mark Doty • “Matt Donovan’s startling debut is a fiercely intelligent meditation on the ambiguity of human making . . . It’s a rare find, in a first book, such a coherent, articulated vision, but this remarkably accomplished poet brings us face to face with the bond between creation and destruction, and the darkly alluring fusion of beauty and ruthlessness at the core of art—even, of course, Donovan’s own.”—Mark Doty

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-82212-6 • $11.95 ellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates ISBN-10: 0-618-82212-7 V on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Vellum Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biog- APRIL • Poetry raphy, and personal narrative. In the poignant “Saint Catherine in an O,” 80 pages • 6 x 9 • A a knife bears unlikely duality—an object stirring with danger and grace. “A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs—/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE blood, he knows, will make him whole.” In other poems, he reflects upon Santa Fe, New Mexico master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice. • National Poetry Month sponsorship and promotion kits • Advertising in poetry journals MATT DONOVAN is the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for • Advance reading copies poetry, selected by Mark Doty and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Donovan is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the College of Santa Fe. He was educated at Vassar College, Lancaster University in England, the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and New York University’s MFA program, where he was a New York Times fellow. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife and son.

THE GREAT MATCH RACE When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle

• “A heart-stopping account of a race that surely must rank as one of the most thrilling on record.”—New York Times • “A lead-pipe cinch, mortal lock, lay-your-money-down sure thing of a book.”—Baltimore Sun • “Riveting.”—Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87211-4 • $14.95 page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment, ISBN-10: 0-618-87211-6 AThe Great Match Race is a captivating account of America’s first The Great Match Race sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three APRIL • Sports/History grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented 272 pages • 6 x 9 • Q sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-55612-5 of nine Kentucky Derbys in the space of a few hours. Eclipse was a majestic champion representing the North’s evolving industrial machine, and Henry was an equine arriviste embodying southern perceptions of superiority. Their thrilling match race would come to represent a • Racetrack promotion watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences • National advertising, including the that so fundamentally divided North and South. Saratoga Special, the Daily Racing Form, Renowned sports writer John Eisenberg captures all the pulse- and Civil War periodicals pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tension in an engrossing tale that, in the eyes of many reviewers, carries on the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit.

JOHN EISENBERG is a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun and the author of many acclaimed books, including, most recently, Native Dancer: Hero of a Golden Age. In 2003 his commentary helped anchor a broadcast that earned an Eclipse Award, the highest honor given for coverage of horse racing. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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COURAGE FOR THE EARTH Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson

• A centennial appreciation—for environmentally critical times—of Rachel Carson’s brave life and transformative writing, from renowned authors, activists, and scientists

achel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about the sea, including her best-selling The Sea Around Us, “set a standard for nature writing for ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87276-3 • $14.95 R all time to come” (Roger Caras). By the late 1950s, Carson was the most ISBN-10: 0-618-87276-0 Courage for the Earth respected science writer in America. APRIL • Nature She completed Silent Spring (1962) against formidable personal 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. In Silent Spring, Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” must surely be a basic human right. She was • Major media tying in to Rachel Carson the first to challenge the moral vacuity of a government that refused to take centennial and Earth Day responsibility for or to acknowledge evidence of environmental damage. • Advance reading copies • Posters and easelbacks In this volume, today’s foremost scientists and writers give compelling evidence that Carson’s transformative insights—her courage for the earth— are giving a new generation of activists the inspiration they need to move consumers, industry, and government.

Contributors include: John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, E. O. Wilson

PETER MATTHIESSEN’s many books include The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.

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Rachel Carson SILENT SPRING

• The classic that launched the environmental movement • Newly rejacketed for the Rachel Carson centenary, May 27, 2007 • Introduction by Linda Lear • Afterword by Edward O. Wilson

irst published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large Faudience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. A mainstay in bookstores, libraries, and the classroom, this newly jacketed edition will ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-24906-0 be available for the 100th anniversary of $14.95 S

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THE EDGE OF THE SEA • “Rachel Carson was first and foremost a writer of considerable literary style whose true love was the sea.”—from the introduction by Sue Hubbell ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-395-92496-9 his classic on marine life is one of Rachel Carson’s finest works. Through $14.00 Ther exploration of rocky shores, sandy beaches, and coral reefs Carson ISBN-10: 0-395-92496-0 transforms the seemingly simple animal and plant life in the sea into complex and The Edge of the Sea stunningly beautiful creatures deserving of our compassion, understanding, and, AVAILABLE • Nature finally, protection. 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q

THE COLLAR A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary

• “Pulls readers deeply into the complex lives of men struggling to transform themselves, or let themselves be transformed into priests.”—News & Observer • “An impressive portrait of a seminary and the men who enter it.”—Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87214-5 • $14.95 hat does it mean to take up God’s work? What motivates a man in ISBN-10: 0-618-87214-0 Wthese times to leave the secular for the spiritual life? In The Collar, The Collar Jonathan Englert finds the answers in the journey of five men toward the APRIL • Religion priesthood at Milwaukee’s Sacred Heart seminary. Like many modern 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • C seminarians these men have chosen a “second career” as priests. With Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 unprecedented access to this closed world, Englert introduces us to a Previous ISBN 0-618-25146-4 divorced father and avid hunter from Wyoming, an ex-salesman and Marine with ADHD, a recently widowed father of four, a blind musician, and a fifth-year pupil close to ordination. With wit and sometimes • Media from New York heartbreaking candor, they face the challenges of priestly life—from the • National print and online advertising traditional hurdles of obedience and chastity to the modern day skepti- cism of their friends and families. Jonathan Englert’s deft portrayal of the spiritual journey these men face will resonate with readers of The Cloister Walk as well as those curious about the challenges for men who don the collar today.

JONATHAN ENGLERT, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, attended Fordham University School of Law and has written for the New York Times among other publications. He is a convert to Catholicism and lives with Y E

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INCENDIARY CIRCUMSTANCES A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times

• “We are fortunate that Ghosh is out there, pen in hand, ear alert, looking for answers.”—San Francisco Chronicle, “Our Editors Recommend” • “A mind expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.”—Sunday Oregonian

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87221-3 • $13.95 ncendiary Circumstances stands as a compelling chronicle of the ISBN-10: 0-618-87221-3 I turmoil of our times—environmental, political, and cultural. In these Incendiary Circumstances topical essays from a true citizen of the world, Amitav Ghosh delivers APRIL • Current Affairs/Essays extraordinary firsthand accounts of pivotal world events that have taken 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • L place over the past twenty years. Ghosh visits the Andaman and Nicobar Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-37806-5 islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami, experiences the chaos in New York City on September 11, travels to an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan, interviews Pol Pot’s ALSO AVAILABLE sister-in-law in Cambodia, shares the elation of Egyptians when Naguib The Hungry Tide Mahfouz wins the Nobel Prize, and reports on the riots following Indira (978-0-618-71166-6) $13.95 PA Gandhi’s assassination. The Shadow Lines Ghosh is a master observer of the human condition, capable of (978-0-618-32996-0) $14.00 PA capturing a world in a single devastating detail. Taken together, the essays Circle of Reason in Incendiary Circumstances give us a clear view of our turbulent world (978-0-618-32962-5) $14.00 PA and serve as a powerful call to action.

AMITAV GHOSH is the best-selling author of four novels, including The Hungry • Academic promotion Tide and The Glass Palace. Educated in South Asia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom, Ghosh holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford. He divides his time between his homes in Kolkata, India, and Brooklyn, New York.

MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 93 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “Big Coal does for energy what Fast Food Nation did for the American meal.”—Jann Wenner

Jeff Goodell BIG COAL The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future

• “A compelling indictment of one of the country’s biggest, most powerful, and most antiquated industries . . . well-written, timely, and powerful.”—New York Times • “Should be read by anybody who owns a microwave, or an iPod, or a table lamp, which is to say everyone.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87224-4 • $14.95 iven the recent assertions made by the Bush administration, it ISBN-10: 0-618-87224-8 Gwould seem that coal is a glistening new energy alternative, the Big Coal answer to the current oil crisis. Few of us realize that coal is already one APRIL • Current Affairs/Environment of America’s biggest and most influential industries; Big Coal provides 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A more than half of the electricity consumed by Americans today. Every Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 time we flip a light switch or turn on the television, we burn a lump of Previous ISBN 0-618-31940-9 coal. And coal’s dominance is growing. The problem, Jeff Goodell points out in this eye-opening call to action, is that on close examination, the glowing promise of coal quick- • Author tour, including New York, ly turns to ash. Coal mining practices are setting us up for economic Philadelphia, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and environmental catastrophes. Forty percent of the carbon dioxide Austin, Toronto released into the atmosphere each year comes from coal-fired power • “Coal Hard Facts” viral video promotion, plants, and pollution from these plants has killed more than half a mil- including youtube, google video, myspace lion Americans in the last two decades. But we’ve become so compla- • Copromotion with activist groups • Bookmarks cent about our energy future that we haven’t invested in alternatives. In • Easelbacks this essential work, Goodell clearly explains how we got here and dis- • Online promotion cusses how we can get out.

“There is perhaps no greater act of denial in modern life than sticking a plug into an electrical outlet . . . Jeff Goodell breaks the spell with a single number: 20. That’s how many pounds of coal each person in the United States consumes, on average, every day to keep the electricity flowing.” —New York Times Book Review

“Big Coal gives its readers a clear sense of the trade-offs we face in our feverish quest for inexpensive energy.” —Washington Post Book World

A DISCUSSION WITH JEFF GOODELL © 2005 JONATHAN BARBER In your book, you call the coal industry JEFF GOODELL is the author of the New “an empire of denial.” What does that mean? York Times bestseller Our Story, an account of nine Quecreek miners who were trapped underground in 2002, among other books. The main reason we’re still burning over a billion tons of coal in He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone America today is that the coal industry has been tremendously suc- and a frequent contributor to the New York cessful at keeping us ignorant about what goes on behind the light Times Magazine, and his work has appeared switch. In this sense, the comeback of coal is a political story. It has in the New Republic, Wired, and GQ. He thrived largely because the hidden costs of coal consumption are lives in New York State. invisible to us as consumers. The illusion is that electricity flows down from a golden bowl in the sky, and that there is no link between America’s appetite for power and the millions of children in America who suffer from asthma, or the devastated mountains of West Virginia, or the fact that global warming threatens the stability of the earth’s atmosphere. In truth, we risk stirring up more Hurricane Katrinas just so we can crank up the AC.

SALVATION BLUES One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005

• “Rodney Jones’ Salvation Blues . . . must surely place him in the pantheon of great living American poets.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch • “Salvation Blues is welcome and should bring [Rodney Jones] new discoverers.”—W. S. Merwin

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87226-8 • $14.95 his expansive and accessible collection presents one hundred choice ISBN-10: 0-618-87226-4 Tpoems, including twenty-four pieces only published in this book, Salvation Blues from one of America’s “best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable APRIL • Poetry poets” (Poetry). In the tradition of William Faulkner and Sherwood 256 pages • 6 x 9 • A Anderson, Rodney Jones conjures an America that betrays stereotyping. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Playing the tension between history and modernity, his poems arise Previous ISBN 0-618-62430-9 where, as James Dickey put it, “the agrarian and industrial civilizations stand face to face, equally bewildered.” ALSO AVAILABLE Elegy for the Southern Drawl “One of the rare serious poets of our time whose work is both magnifi- (978-0-618-08249-0) $13.00 PA cent to others who attempt poetry and accessible and even important Kingdom of the Instant to readers who are not poets.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune (978-0-618-44664-3) $14.00 PA Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (978-0-395-71087-6) $14.00 PA RODNEY JONES was born in Alabama and is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Salvation Blues is his eighth book of poetry. Among his many honors, Jones was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, • National Poetry Month sponsorship and a Harper Lee Award. and promotion kits

THE KING OF SWINGS Johnny Goodman, the Last Amateur to Beat the Pros at Their Own Game

• “Like Goodman’s performance at Pebble Beach, The King of Swings is an epic triumph.”—Jeremy Schaap, author of Cinderella Man • “It’s been a while since I have so relished a biography of an athlete.”—Colman McCarthy, Washington Post • “Great storytelling.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87189-6 • $14.95 n orphan turned caddy born near the Omaha stockyards, Johnny ISBN-10: 0-618-87189-6 AGoodman was considered too small, too foreign, and too poor to The King of Swings play the country club game. But he swore he would prove everyone APRIL • Sports wrong, and before a nation’s riveted gaze this self-taught kid from the 368 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q wrong side of the tracks beat the legendary Bobby Jones in the 1929 U.S. 8 pages of b/w photos Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Amateur at a little-known California course called Pebble Beach. Good- Previous ISBN 0-618-51464-3 man’s victory sent shock waves through the rarified world of golf in the Roaring Twenties, but he was just getting started. The idealistic Good- man clung to his amateur status despite lucrative offers from sponsors and Hollywood, ultimately winning the 1933 U.S. Open—the last amateur to • Print advertising perform this stunning feat. A hero in the Depression-era press, Goodman • Easelbacks went on to win the 1937 U.S. Amateur—becoming only the fifth golfer in • Online promotions history to wear both crowns. Like The Greatest Game Ever Played, Michael Blaine’s King of Swings brings the story of one of golf’s forgotten heroes to life.

MICHAEL BLAINE is the author of two widely praised novels, The Desperate Season and The Midnight Band of Mercy. An avid golfer, he lives in upstate New York.

THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT A South African Journey

• Updated with a new preface and epilogue by the author • “Thoroughly researched, immensely readable . . . a work of vivid reportage and astute political analysis.”—San Francisco Chronicle

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75825-8 • $14.95 istory lies heavily on South Africa, and in an original literary form— ISBN-10: 0-618-75825-9 Hhalf-history, half-reportage—Adam Hochschild brings to bear a life- The Mirror at Midnight time’s familiarity with the country. He looks at the tensions of modern-day APRIL • History South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q Battle of Blood River—which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus One map would control that part of the world—and its contentious commemoration Penguin paperback, 1991 Previous ISBN 0-140-11785-7 by rival groups one hundred fifty years later. This incisive book is an unusual window onto a society that still today remains divided.

ALSO AVAILABLE King Leopold’s Ghost ADAM HOCHSCHILD was recently awarded a Lannan Literary Award for (978-0-618-00190-3) $15.00 PA Nonfiction. Among his many acclaimed books are King Leopold’s Ghost, a Bury the Chains National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and Bury the Chains, a National (978-0-618-61907-8) $16.00 PA Book Award finalist and winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Hochschild Half the Way Home teaches writing at the graduate school of journalism at the University of (978-0-618-43920-1) $13.00 PA California at Berkeley.

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NATIVE GUARD Poems

• “The graceful form conceals a gritty subject . . . Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines.”—Washington Post Book World • “Remarkable.”—Robert Pinsky • “Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor.”—Maxine Kumin

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87265-7 • $13.95 daughter of the American South and a child of an interracial marriage ISBN-10: 0-618-87265-5 Athat defied a law still on the books in 1966 Mississippi, Natasha Native Guard Trethewey does not shy away from the difficult themes that plague the APRIL • Poetry region’s past. At the spine of this collection is the forgotten story of the 64 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments called into ser- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-60463-4 vice during the Civil War. The racial legacy of this war echoes through elegiac poems that honor Trethewey’s mother and tell of her own fraught childhood. A haunted and beguiling narrative, Native Guard is caught in the intersection of national and personal experience. As David Madden, • National Poetry Month sponsorship and an acclaimed author and founder of the U.S. Civil War Center at promotion kits Louisiana State University, writes, “Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thing—artistically fine Civil War poetry that expresses ways the war and Reconstruction affect all Americans to this very day. She is our Native Guard.”

NATASHA TRETHEWEY is the author of Bellocq’s Ophelia and Domestic Work, selected by Rita Dove as the inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Among many honors, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Emory University.

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Elinor Lipman MY LATEST GRIEVANCE A Novel

• “Up there at the top is where this enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist belongs.”—Fay Weldon, Washington Post • A Book Sense Notable Book • A Boston Globe, NEBA, and PNBA bestseller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87235-0 • $13.95 ilarious. Sharp. Funny. Lovable. These are just samples of the ISBN-10: 0-618-87235-3 Hcountless words of praise for Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Griev- MAY • Fiction ance. This lively campus farce features the beguiling teenager Frederica 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q Hatch, the “Eloise of Dewing College.” Born and raised in the dormi- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 tory of this small women’s college, and chafing under the care of “the Previous ISBN 0-618-64465-2 most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civiliza- tion,” Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug—until the arrival of Miss Laura Lee French, a wannabe former Rockette and • Author appearances the new dorm mother at Dewing. • Book club visits The arrival of Miss French turns out to be a catalyst for havoc and • National print and online advertising, hilarity, for it just so happens that the new dorm mother was married— including the New York Times, The New in the distant past—to none other than Frederica’s earnest and distinct- Yorker, and Metro ly unglamorous father. Fearing scandal, the three Hatches and Miss • Reading group promotion French decide to keep this piece of history a secret. The result? A book that is pure delight and sure to please new readers and fans of Lipman everywhere.

FROM My Latest Grievance

“Lovable, psychologically intricate.” —New York Times

“Marvelously funny.” —Boston Globe

“Part of the recipe for a successful novel of manners is a happy ending, and Lipman delivers this with zest, humor, and good writing.” © CHESTER HIGGINS JR. —Philadelphia Inquirer ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of seven previous novels, including The Pursuit of “Frederica’s voice is witty but also true, thanks to Lipman’s excellent Alice Thrift, The Inn at Lake Devine, and timing, sharp and funny dialogue, and keen sense of audience. The Ladies Man. Her novel Then She Found What’s also true—and should earn this book a wide audience—is Me is coming to the big screen in 2007, that Lipman is a superb and entertaining writer.” directed by Helen Hunt and starring Hunt —Richmond Times-Dispatch and Bette Midler. Lipman divides her time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and “Fans of Lipman’s previous seven novels will recognize her New York City. remarkable facility with dialogue, her light-as-air prose, and her breezy ability to land a good crack.” —Chicago Tribune

“Turn Lipman loose on conflicting moralities and shifting allegiances, and you always will be entertained.” —Miami Herald

“Lipman’s wit and style are all her own. She is one of the best comic writers around, and the Hatch family is her most memorable creation yet.” —London Sunday Telegraph

“Somebody hand Elinor Lipman an award already.” —Christian Science Monitor

MY FATHER IS A BOOK A Memoir of Bernard Malamud

• “A must for anyone interested in the work of Bernard Malamud, or, indeed, the writer’s life.”—Mary Gordon • “My Father Is a Book does what the best reminiscences of artists do: it leads us back to the work.”—Boston Globe • “In this moving, intimate memoir, Bernard Malamud . . . springs gracefully to life on the page.”—Susan Cheever

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87263-3 • $14.95 ernard Malamud—a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, peer of Philip ISBN-10: 0-618-87263-9 BRoth and Saul Bellow, and a great influence on some of today’s most My Father Is a Book accomplished young writers—was a very private man. In this “beautifully MAY • Memoir written book” (Newsday), Malamud’s daughter brings the revered author 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q to vivid life. Culling from her own memories as well as her father’s person- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 al papers, including intimate letters and journals, she offers a unique Previous ISBN 0-618-69166-9 insight into the man and his work. Respectful in her revelations, she “ten- derly fills in the missing pieces of a man who exists as much on the page as ALSO AVAILABLE he does in her memory” (Vogue). A Potent Spell Enhancing our understanding of the relationship between an author’s (978-0-618-44673-5) $14.00 PA life and art in the spirit of Dream Catcher—Margaret Salinger’s memoir of life with her reclusive father—this New York Times Editors’ Choice is an indispensable companion for readers of Bernard Malamud’s fiction.

• Academic promotion • Author appearances JANNA MALAMUD SMITH is the author of two New York Times Notable books, A Potent Spell and Private Matters, which was also a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” pick. She has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Threepenny Review, among other publications. A practicing psy- chotherapist, she lives with her husband and two children in Massachusetts.

DEATH AND THE SUN A Matador’s Season in the Heart of Spain

• “Bullfighting isn’t for writers intimidated by Hemingway, but Edward Lewine does Papa proud.”—Sports Illustrated • “May be the most in-depth, incisively written guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a volume in his backpack.”—New York Times Book Review • A Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87230-5 • $13.95 n the tradition of Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, Edward Lewine ISBN-10: 0-618-87230-2 Ipresents an inspired account of the bullfighting subculture in modern- Death and the Sun day Spain. An aficionado himself, Lewine brilliantly captures the romance MAY • Sports/Travel and machismo associated with the art of bullfighting, as well as the addic- 272 pages • 6 x 9 • Q tive adrenaline rush that persistently beckons spectators and matadors to Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 Previous ISBN 0-618-26325-X the bullring. Anchored on the persona of Spain’s most famous torero, Francesco Rivera Ordóñez—the great-grandson of the bullfighter who was the inspiration for Pedro Romero in The Sun Also Rises—the book reveals a • Online advertising Spain few outsiders have seen. Vividly written, this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Spanish culture as it is reflected in the country’s passion for this beautiful yet deadly spectacle.

EDWARD LEWINE is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. This is his first book. Formerly an expert in old master drawings at Christie’s, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Alison Bechdel FUN HOME A Family Tragicomic

• “A splendid autobiography . . . refreshingly open and generous.”—Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A

• “A pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions.”—New York Times Book Review

ward-winning comics artist Alison Bechdel has been known for Adecades as “one of the best, one to watch out for,” in the words of Harvey Pekar. Her latest work—the groundbreaking, genre-busting, best-selling graphic narrative Fun Home—has established her as one of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87171-1 • $13.95 America’s most gifted and extraordinary memoirists as well. With its ISBN-10: 0-618-87171-3 stunning mix of graphic and literary forms, it has garnered exceptional Fun Home acclaim, receiving exuberant reviews, winning placement on bestseller JUNE • Memoir/Graphic Narrative lists across the country, and claiming seven foreign publishing deals to 240 pages • 6 x 9 • Q date. In the wake of this tremendous critical success, Fun Home has Two-color throughout also won new readers for Bechdel—on tour for the book she has been Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 greeted by standing-room-only crowds—and the paperback publica- Previous ISBN 0-618-47794-2 tion will no doubt continue to expand her audience. In Bechdel’s affecting account of her relationship with her late father, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and • Author tour, including New York, Burlington, power. Bechdel grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, in a Victorian Denver, Tempe, San Francisco house that her father was painstakingly restoring to its period glory. • National advertising Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and direc- • Tie-in with on-going lectures tor of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as • Online promotions the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently • Easelbacks with interior art come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few • Author Web site www.alisonbechdel.com weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

Extraordinary acclaim for Fun Home

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER: New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, BookSense, and others

An NPR Talk of the Nation Summer Reading List Pick Nominee for a Quill Award People magazine: Four Stars, Critics Choice Entertainment Weekly: Grade: A A BookSense Pick

© GREG MARTIN ~~~ ALISON BECHDEL began keeping a jour- “Stupendous . . . a rare, prime example of why graphic novels have nal when she was ten and has since been a taken over the conversation about American literature. The details— careful archivist of her own life. She is the visual and verbal, emotional and elusive—are devastatingly captured creator of the long-running syndicated by an artist in total control of her craft.”—Chip Kidd comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which appears in more than fifty alternative news- “A comic book for lovers of words.”—New York Times papers across the country. Her celebrated “If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little strip has also been collected into an funnier, you’d have Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.”—Amy Bloom award-winning series of books. She lives near Burlington, Vermont. “Heart-stopping . . . a beautiful, assured piece of work.”—Salon.com “The great writing of the twenty-first century may well be found in graphic novels and nonfiction . . . Fun Home is an astonishing advertisement for this emerging literary form.”—USA Today “A revelation . . . a true literary achievement, something with characters who baffle and disappoint and break hearts the way people do in life and in the best of prose.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “A masterwork.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Beautifully combines the mundane with the macabre, adding doses of wry, poignant humor on every page.”—Washington Post “Brilliant . . . a gripping story of filial sleuthery.”—Time

NOW IS THE HOUR A Novel

• “I love this book. Deft, funny, heartbreaking . . . the story stays with you long after the last page is turned.”—A. M. Homes • “Full of hope, sadness, and humor, this is an extended ballad in the voice of an appealing narrator.”—People • A Book Sense Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87264-0 • $14.95 igby John Klusener is hitchhiking to San Francisco. The year is ISBN-10: 0-618-87264-7 R1967, the town is Pocatello, Idaho. Fresh out of high school, Rigby Now Is the Hour John is leaving behind a pregnant ex-girlfriend, a depressed mother, a dis- JUNE • Fiction tant father, and the haydust of his harsh small-town Catholic upbringing. 480 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q As he stands by the side of the road desperately waiting for that one ride Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 out, he reflects on the events that brought him there: the discovery of love, Previous ISBN 0-618-58421-8 friendship, literature, and all the small joys that set him free. At once a tale of sexual awakening, racial enlightenment, and personal epiphany, Now Is the Hour is the disarming and sweetly winning story of one unforgettable • National advertising teenager who dares to hope for a different life. • Online promotions Set in an era of cultural upheaval, woven through with moral dilem- • Reading group promotions mas and universal themes, Now Is the Hour is destined to become a read- • Promotions at Pride festivals ing group favorite, as did Spanbauer’s novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.

TOM SPANBAUER is the author of the beloved classic The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for best fiction, and a “dazzlingly accomplished” novel, according to the Washington Post. His earlier novels are Faraway Places and In the City of Shy Hunters. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

THE DIN IN THE HEAD Essays

• “A brilliant, free-spoken critic engaged with the most vexing artistic issues . . . open the collection anywhere—I guarantee it—and you will feel the bite of her distinctive voice.” —Los Angeles Times • “The passion that fills these essays is invigorating.” —Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87258-9 • $14.95 ne of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has ISBN-10: 0-618-87258-2 Owon praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, The Din in the Head historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses JUNE • Essays/Literature on the essential joys of great literature. With razor-sharp wit and an inspir- 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ing joie de vivre, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-47050-6 Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Henry James, and others. In “Highbrow Blues” and in reflections on her own early fiction, she writes intimately of “the din in our heads, ALSO AVAILABLE that relentless inner hum,” and the curative power of literary imagination. Heir to the Glimmering World As Daphne Merkin has written, “Ozick’s is a strikingly independent and (978-0-618-61880-4) $13.00 PA articulate voice, one that rises above the madding crowd with rare clarity Trust: A Novel and force.” (978-0-618-47051-8) $14.00 PA

CYNTHIA OZICK is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed and award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her essay collection Quarrel & Quandary • Author appearances won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award, and her collection Fame & Folly • National advertising, including was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York. the New York Review of Books • Academic promotion

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James Carroll HOUSE OF WAR The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

• The controversial history of the Pentagon by a National Book Award–winning author • “A passionately persuasive, thoroughly researched indictment of this nation’s defense and foreign policy since World War II.”—Miami Herald • “Among the most important works of history produced in the past few years.”—San Francisco Chronicle

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87201-5 • $15.95 n House of War, New York Times best-selling author James Carroll ISBN-10: 0-618-87201-9 Iargues and then proves a radical thesis: the Pentagon has, since its House of War founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or JUNE • History/Current Affairs society. It is the ultimate loose cannon in American history, and no 688 pages • 6 x 9 • Q institution has changed this country more since the end of World War 16 pages b/w photos Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 II. From its “birth” on September 11, 1941, through the nuclear Previous ISBN 0-618-18780-4 buildup of the cold war and the eventual “shock and awe” of Iraq, Car- roll recounts how “the Building” and its denizens achieved what Eisen- hower called “a disastrous rise of misplaced power.” ALSO AVAILABLE This is not faded history. Carroll shows how the consequences of An American Requiem the American response to September 11, 2001—including two wars (978-0-395-85993-3) $15.00 PA and an ignited Middle East—form one end of an arc that stretches from Constantine’s Sword Donald Rumsfeld back to James Forrestal, the first man to occupy the (978-0-618-21908-7) $17.00 PA office of secretary of defense in the Pentagon. House of War confronts this dark past so we may understand the current war and forestall the next. • Author tour, including New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Seattle, Portland • Tie-in to author lectures • National advertising • Academic promotion

“Carroll draws a clear and deadly arc from the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the vengeance-ridden policies of today. His prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.”—Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States

he probing of questions about government fail- Tures before September 11, 2001, is meaningless when measured against the new jeopardy into which © PATRICIA PINGREE

America was plunged by the war that Bush embarked JAMES CARROLL is the author of the upon, or when measured against already evident New York Times bestseller Constantine’s failures to protect the nation from the attacks to Sword. He won the 1996 National Book Award for his memoir An American which that jeopardy inexorably leads. In late 2003, Requiem. His ten novels include the Donald Rumsfeld said, in an internal Pentagon memo, bestsellers Prince of Peace and Mortal Friends. Carroll lives in Boston. “We lack the metrics to know if we are winning or losing the Global War on Terror.” This odd assess- ment from a secretary of defense (one struggles to imagine Robert McNamara making such a statement) actually reflects the Pentagon’s interest in an open-ended war. Permanent war means permanent martial dominance. Never mind the jeopardy.

FROM HOUSE OF WAR

TURING’S DELIRIUM A Novel

• “A hybrid of cyberpunk and political thrillers . . . sleek, brisk, and clever.”—Entertainment Weekly • “An excellent page-turner.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “If William Gibson were a Bolivian, this might be the kind of novel he’d be writing.”—Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87259-6 • $13.95 elected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Turing’s Delirium is a ISBN-10: 0-618-87259-0 Smodern chapter in the age-old fight between oppressed and oppres- Turing’s Delirium sor. Set against the backdrop of a globalization crisis in near-future JUNE • Fiction Bolivia, it is complete with a corrupt government, a greedy multinational 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q corporation, a secret code-breaking organization called the Black Cham- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 ber, and a group of young computer hackers who are staging a revolution, Previous ISBN 0-618-54139-X which, despite being electronic, is far from bloodless. The thriller’s web of murder, intrigue, and deception is centered ALSO AVAILABLE around Miguel “Turing” Saenz, Black Chamber’s veteran cryptanalyst. The Matter of Desire Known for his code-breaking achievements, Turing is involved with the (978-0-618-39557-6) $12.00 PA government’s pursuit of Kandinsky, the elusive young “cyberhacktivist” leader who raids the virtual reality world for anti-globalization recruits. When Turing’s teenage daughter is drawn into the chase, Turing begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he had once supposed. • National advertising • Reading the World promotion • Online feature, houghtonmifflinbooks.com

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SAVE YOUR OWN A Novel

• “A romantic heroine unlike any other . . . Gillian, like Save Your Own, is a keeper.”—USA Today • “Hilarious, smart, and charming. Gillian is one of the most original characters I’ve encountered in recent fiction.” —Stephen McCauley • “[A] funny, engaging debut.”—People • A Book Sense Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87193-3 • $13.95 eet Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg: a virginal, narcoleptic, atheistic ISBN-10: 0-618-87193-4 MHarvard Divinity School student struggling to finish her Ph.D. the- Save Your Own sis. Gillian is barely equipped for life outside the walls of academia—but JUNE • Fiction when her fellowship is revoked, she has no choice but to venture into the 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q wider world. In need of a new source of income as well as interview sub- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-65114-4 jects for her dissertation, she takes a job at a halfway house for recovering addicts. Charged with the unlikely task of imposing order on the unruly tenants, including motorcycle-obsessed Janet, former prostitute Florine, and house martyr Stacy, pintsize Gillian is challenged in new and unex- • Author appearances pected ways every time she reports for work. Eventually her anxiety gives • National print and online advertising way to a newfound confidence as her time spent at Responsibility House leads her not only to accept those around her but also to accept herself. A delightful read for anyone who has ever wished they could be a little more than they are, Save Your Own is the perfect self-made Cinderella story.

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MR. LINCOLN GOES TO WAR

• “A stern reproach to the major actors of 1861 for the war they unleashed on the nation.”—Nelson D. Lankford, author of Richmond Burning • “No one interested in military tactics and skirmishes will be disappointed with Marvel’s opinionated, fast-paced story.” —Oregonian

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87241-1 • $15.95 his exciting work of groundbreaking history investigates the mystery ISBN-10: 0-618-87241-8 Tof how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it Mr. Lincoln Goes to War inevitable? Marvel vividly depicts President Lincoln’s first year in office, JULY • History from his inauguration through the rising crisis of secession and the first 432 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A several months of the war. Drawing on original sources and examining 6 maps and 55 drawings and halftones previously overlooked factors, Marvel leads the reader inexorably to the Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-58349-1 conclusion that Lincoln not only missed opportunities to avoid war but actually fanned the flames—and often acted unconstitutionally in prose- cuting the war once it had begun. The story unfolds with Marvel’s keen eye for the telling detail, on the battlefield as well as in the White House. • Academic promotion This is revisionist history at its best and necessary reading for Civil • Civil War roundtables War and Lincoln devotees alike.

WILLIAM MARVEL is the author of Lee’s Last Retreat, A Place Called Appomattox, Andersonville, and half a dozen other acclaimed books on the Civil War. He has won a Lincoln Prize, the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and the Bell Award. He lives in South Conway, New Hampshire.

GATSBY’S GIRL A Novel

• “A wonderfully elegiac novel that evokes the tenor and times of the ‘Lost Generation’ . . . marvelous.”—Denver Post • “[A] creative re-imagining of the woman whose voice was ‘full of money.’”—Washington Post Book World • A Book Sense Notable Book and a Great Lakes Book Award finalist

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87261-9 • $13.95 efore he wrote some of the twentieth century’s greatest fiction, before ISBN-10: 0-618-87261-2 Bhe married Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Ginevra, a fickle, young, Gatsby’s Girl Chicago socialite he met during a winter break from Princeton. After an JULY • Fiction ardent correspondence and one ill-fated visit, Ginevra threw over the 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A soon-to-be-famous novelist with “supreme boredom and indifference,” as Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-53725-2 Fitzgerald would later write. The rest is literary history: Ginevra would be the model for many of Fitzgerald’s coolly fascinating but unattainable heroines, including Isabelle in This Side of Paradise and the elusive object of Gatsby’s unrequited love, Daisy Buchanan. • Online advertising In this entertaining and moving novel, Caroline Preston imagines • Online reading group guide what life might have been like for Fitzgerald’s first love, following Ginevra • Summer reading bookmarks from her gilded youth as the daughter of a tycoon and through a disillu- • Outreach with historical societies sioned marriage and motherhood. An engrossing fictional portrait, Gatsby’s Girl “should be read by anyone interested in Fitzgerald’s work [or] the times in which he lived” (Bookpage).

CAROLINE PRESTON is the author of the novels Jackie by Josie, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book, and Lucy Crocker 2.0. A former man- uscript librarian, Preston discovered a wealth of inspiration for Gatsby’s Girl in Fitzgerald’s manuscripts and in archival material about Chicago high society and the jazz age. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Joseph Epstein

FRIENDSHIP An Exposé

• “Smart, delightfully literate and sophisticated.” —Los Angeles Times • “A thoughtful consideration of the pleasures and obligations of friendship . . . [Epstein is] honest, unsparing, and brimful of illuminating literary anecdotes.”—New York Times • A New York Times Editor’s Choice from the author of the bestseller Snobbery • A Book Sense Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87215-2 • $14.95 rom the writer whom James Atlas has deemed “the liveliest, most ISBN-10: 0-618-87215-9 Ferudite, and engaging essayist we have,” Friendship is a sharply Friendship entertaining examination of those complex and wonderful relationships JULY • Essays without which we’d all be lost. Joseph Epstein sketches an amusing yet 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 • Q serious anatomy of friendship in its contemporary guises: the duties and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 requirements of friendship, the various kinds of friendships, the differ- Previous ISBN 0-618-34149-8 ences between male and female friendships, the complications marriage ALSO AVAILABLE and family create—and what happens when sex enters the equation. Snobbery (978-0-618-34073-6) Moving easily from Aristotle to Seinfeld and drawing on his own $14.00 PA experiences with people both famous (Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison) Fabulous Small Jews and unknown (an army bunkmate), Epstein uncovers rich and often (978-0-618-44658-2) $13.00 PA surprising truths about our chosen companions.

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NARCISSUS LEAVES THE POOL Essays

• “Diamond hard prose . . . wickedly on-target humor.” —Washington Post Book World • First time in paperback, published now to coincide with Friendship

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87216-9 s he has done in Snobbery and Friendship, Joseph Epstein again displays $14.95 Ahis dazzling wit and charm in these sixteen agile, entertaining essays. Here ISBN-10: 0-618-87216-7 Epstein takes us from the amusingly personal to the broadly philosophical, Narcissus Leaves the Pool demonstrating time and again his talent for taking nearly any subject and polish- JULY • Essays ing it into a gem of sparkling wit and fascination. Among his targets this time are 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q topics such as name-dropping, talent versus genius, the cult of youthfulness, and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1999 Previous ISBN 0-395-94403-1 the information revolution.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of the bestseller Snobbery: The American Version among other books, and was formerly the editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Essays, and other places. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

THE INHABITED WORLD A Novel

• “A terrific novel.” — New York Times Book Review • “Resonant . . . the story is beautifully considered, with a crystalline calm at its center.”—Boston Globe • “Richly and lovingly observed . . . a truly moving performance.”—Stewart O’Nan • “A ghost story for our age.”—Claire Davis • A Book Sense Top Ten Pick

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87236-7 • $13.95 art psychological drama, part mystery, part modern ghost story, The ISBN-10: 0-618-87236-1 PInhabited World is a deeply affecting novel of love, loss, and longing. The Inhabited World Evan Molloy has been dead for nearly ten years when the mysterious, frag- JULY • Fiction ile Maureen moves into the bungalow near Puget Sound where he former- 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ly lived. Caught between this world and the next, Evan cannot remember Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 the events that led to his suicide. He begins to recall his life more clearly in Previous ISBN 0-61854335-X Maureen’s presence—his own failed marriages, an ill-fated affair, disap- pointments, and depression. As Maureen tries valiantly to restart her life after a recently ended love affair, she unknowingly offers her otherworldly • National advertising housemate a sort of redemption he never could have predicted. • Online promotions A stirring and satisfying read in the tradition of The Time Traveler’s • Feature at houghtonmifflinbooks.com Wife and The Dogs of Babel, The Inhabited World offers a quietly profound take on life and afterlife.

DAVID LONG is the author of the novels The Falling Boy and The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux and the story collection Blue Spruce, among other works. His fiction has been awarded an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Rosenthal Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and many other honors. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

HENRY ADAMS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

• A New York Times bestseller • “A sparkling and engaging book that everyone who cares about American history should read.”—Washington Post • “There could be no better introduction to the History.” —New York Review of Books

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87266-4 • $15.95 ulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a ISBN-10: 0-618-87266-3 Preassessment of Henry Adams as our nation’s greatest historian and Henry Adams and the Making of America his History as the “nonfiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century AUGUST • History in America.” Adams drew on his own southern fixations, his extensive 480 pages • 6 x 9 • Q foreign travel, his political service in the Lincoln administration, and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 Previous ISBN 0-618-13430-1 much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and ALSO AVAILABLE other techniques that have become the essence of modern history. “Negro President” The New York Times says, “to his reading of Adams’s History Garry (978-0-618-48537-6) $14.00 PA Wills brings a lucid style, imaginative analysis, and the talent for historical Why I Am a Catholic elucidation that won him a Pulitzer Prize.” Ambitious in scope, nuanced (978-0-618-38048-0) $14.00 PA in detail, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on the historian and the making of history.

• Academic promotion GARRY WILLS is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. He has won two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. Wills is a history professor emeritus at North- western University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

THE MAN ON WHOM NOTHING WAS LOST The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

• “A fascinating portrait of the relationship between a student and her teacher.”—New York Times • “Completely absorbing . . . the engaging record of a young woman’s intellectual journey.”—Boston Globe • “A very personal and poignant account of what it’s like to struggle to know someone you admire.”—Walter Isaacson

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87267-1 • $14.95 sychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s ISBN-10: 0-618-87267-1 Premarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost and teacher, biographer and subject. As an admiring college freshman, AUGUST • Memoir Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by Charles Hill. Hill was her 384 pages • 6 x 9 • Q world-wise professor, a former diplomat and behind-the-scenes operator Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 who shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser Previous ISBN 0-618-57467-0 to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. At Yale, Hill was never afraid to tell students how to think or what to do, and the Grand Strategy seminar he co-taught had developed a cult • Academic promotion following. • Online campaign Caught in his thrall, Worthen set out to write his biography, and sur- prisingly, Hill granted her full access to his meticulously documented life. Eventually, she would realize her teacher was both brilliant and fallible. The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost conveys both the joy and the heartache of coming to know someone you once revered.

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DISTURBANCE-LOVING SPECIES A Novella and Stories

• Absorbing, powerful fiction that explores modern Africa’s legacy of political and social upheaval • Winner of the 2006 Bakeless Prize for fiction • With a foreword by Lan Samantha Chang

n the tradition of Paul Theroux, Peter Chilson’s fiction debut delivers a ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-85870-5 • $13.95 Ifascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered ISBN-10: 0-618-85870-9 through the lens of the West. The collection explores the experiences of Disturbance-Loving Species Americans struggling to cope with life in Africa, and of Africans acclimat- AUGUST • Fiction ing to life in the United States. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our “disturbance- loving species” thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly uninhabitable situa- tions. In the opening novella, an idealistic young college graduate teach- ing in Niger witnesses his colleague’s abduction by soldiers at gunpoint. • Mariner advertising “American Food,” winner of the Gulf Coast Prize for fiction, finds a West African professor trying to preserve his culinary customs while living in a small Oregon town. Chilson, who went to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, captures in vivid detail the strange, exhilarating frisson between these two distinct cultures.

PETER CHILSON is the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, selected by Lan Samantha Chang and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, for Disturbance-Loving Species. His previous travelogue, Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction. Chilson teaches creative writing at Washington State University and lives in Moscow, Idaho.

SECRETS OF THE SAVANNA Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

• “Vividly written . . . Their story is thrilling—the kind of tale that wild-animal lovers won’t easily forget.”—People • From the Burroughs Medal–winning authors of the international bestseller Cry of the Kalahari • A Los Angeles Times bestseller • With a foreword by Alexandra Fuller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87250-3 • $14.95 n this thrilling real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dra- ISBN-10: 0-618-87250-7 Imatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, vil- Secrets of the Savanna lagers, and—in the end—themselves. The award-winning zoologists and JULY • Nature pioneering conservationists describe their work in the “remote and 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ruggedly beautiful” Luangwa Valley in northeastern Zambia, where the 8 pages of photos and 1 map elephant population had been severely depleted. As they studied the mys- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-395-89310-0 teries of the elephants’ recovery, they found remarkable behavioral simi- larities between elephants and humans. They also encountered a scientific mystery: how could there be so many baby elephants and so few females ALSO AVAILABLE old enough to be mothers? Ultimately, a young elephant named Gift pro- Cry of the Kalahari vided a clue to help them crack the elephants’ secret of survival. A stirring, (978-0-395-64780-6) $16.00 PA hopeful, and poignant portrait of life in Africa, Secrets of the Savanna is a Eye of the Elephant vivid record of the Owenses’ unique passions. (978-0-395-68090-2) $16.00 PA

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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Restless Genius

• National Book Award finalist and winner of the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for nonfiction • “Superb . . . Damrosch brilliantly offers a Rousseau for our age.”—Philadelphia Inquirer • “A magnificent accomplishment . . . One of the best biographies I’ve ever read.”—Boston Globe • A New York Times Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87202-2 • $15.95 n this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques ISBN-10: 0-618-87202-7 IRousseau, Leo Damrosch mines the influential philosopher’s letters, Jean-Jacques Rousseau memoirs, and writings to expose the eccentricities of a man who prefig- AUGUST • Biography ured the modern mind. An autodidact who had not written anything of 576 pages • 6 x 9 • Q significance by age thirty, Rousseau was an unlikely candidate for becom- b/w illustrations and photos throughout Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 ing one of the most significant thinkers of the eighteenth century. Yet the Previous ISBN 0-618-44696-6 power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social lives. The Social Contract had a direct influence on the Founding Fathers, his Con- fessions virtually created the genre of autobiography, and his ideas on child rearing have profoundly influenced modern educational theory. • Print advertising in the New York Traced with novelistic verve, Jean-Jacques Rousseau “provides an Review of Books ideal introduction to both this complex man and his troubling ideas. It is • Academic promotions an important book, but also a provocative and exceptionally entertaining • Online feature, on one” (Washington Post Book World). houghtonmifflinbooks.com

LEO DAMROSCH was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, among other honors. Currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of literature at Harvard University, he has written widely on eighteenth- century writers. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

What’s yellow, spans the year, and is read all over? The Old Farmer’s Almanac, of course! With its timeless blend of facts and fun, this Almanac—the original: often imitated, never equaled—continues to be America’s most popular annual publication.

To mark its 216th anniversary, the 2008 edition will feature • the most accurate astronomical data under the sun, with where and when viewing advice every month • weather predictions for every day and climatic trends for each season • garden features on dwarf vegetables, scented flowers, popping corn, and more • recipes for the very best baked goods: blue-ribbon winners from county and state fairs across the country • amusing and enlightening articles, ideas, hints, and charts that provide ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-423-4 • $6.95 simple solutions and shortcuts to everyday challenges • and much, much more! ISBN-10: 1-57198-423-2 The Old Farmer’s Almanac SEPTEMBER • Reference Added value this year: 304 pages • 5 3/8 x 8 • 96 full-color pages (that’s 32 more than ever before!) Trade paper • Carton quantity: 40 • Full-color national weather maps of winter and summer forecasts Previous ISBN 1-57198-390-2 • National, in-person TV, radio, and print publicity campaign beginning in September 2007 ALSO AVAILABLE Handsome, clothbound, hardcover edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-426-5 • $15.95 THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC DISPLAYS ISBN-10: 1-57198-426-7 24-copy Old Farmer’s Almanac counter display Previous ISBN 1-57198-396-1 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-424-1 • $166.80 ISBN-10: 1-57198-424-0 PUBLICITY Previous ISBN 1-57198-401-1 LOOK FOR: Almanac editors touring in more than twenty major markets nationwide, 48-copy Old Farmer’s Almanac floor display including New York, Detroit, Atlanta, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-425-8 • $333.60 Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Boston, ISBN-10: 1-57198-425-9 Denver, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Previous ISBN 1-57198-402-X Philadelphia, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tampa, Hartford, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Toronto, Baltimore, and more.

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A proven bestseller in its first edition with more than 220,000 copies sold, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids is back and better than ever with all new content for Volume 2.

Its full-color pages are loaded with • fun activities (assemble a time capsule, make a “dirt” cake, grow a vegetable forest) • quirky facts (the record for spitting a watermelon seed is 68 feet, 9 1/8 inches) • mind-manglers (what happens when it rains cats and dogs?) • feature stories about farm animals (“Hey, Ewe!”), fishing (where to find ISBN 13/EAN: 978-1-57198-434-0 • $9.95 PA worms—and how to keep ’em), famous bears ISBN 10: 1-57198-434-8 • JULY • Juvenile (these three are not found in a fairytale), insects Reference • 192 pages • 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 and creepy creatures (from bats to spiders), Illustrated, full-color throughout lefties, sports heroes, history, and the origin Previous ISBN (Vol. 1) 1-57198-358-9 of ice cream • and much, much more! LOG ON TO: Almanac4kids.com a companion Web site with 10-copy Almanac for Kids counter display interactive features and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-435-7 • $99.50 activities for every day. ISBN-10: 1-57198-435-6 / Previous ISBN (Vol. 1) 1-57198-406-2

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A GREEN THUMB’S FAVORITE—NOW A must-have for anyone who likes to IN ITS THIRTY-FIRST YEAR keep an eye on the sky. Each monthly spread features a full-color image of an Each monthly spread in this perennial exceptional weather event, plus weather bestseller offers gardening lore, timely trivia, a weather question answered by advice, and a beautiful full-color illustra- the “Old Farmer,” and a timeless tion. Plus, an outdoor planting table proverb. identifies the best days and moon phases Experience the charm of country living for planting vegetables. each month through engaging full-color photographs, holiday lore, and surpris- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-429-6 • $7.99 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-428-9 • $7.99 ing facts. Discover the best days for fish- ISBN-10: 1-57198-429-1 ISBN-10: 1-57198-428-3 ing, planting, setting eggs, and more. JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 Saddle-stitched ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-430-2 • $9.99 Saddle-stitched Previous ISBN 1-57198-392-9 ISBN-10: 1-57198-430-5 Previous ISBN 1-57198-391-0 JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 10 7/8 Saddle-stitched Previous ISBN 1-57198-393-7

The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 Engagement Calendar

It’s easy to stay organized with this charmingly illustrated hardbound desk calendar. The week-at-a-glance format provides ample space for appointments and notes, and each day offers a bit of useful advice, quirky history, or folk- lore. There are also pages to record addresses, birthdays and anniversaries, and plans for the future.

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 Every Day Calendar

This cleverly illustrated, page-per-day calendar features weather lore, quirky history, useful household hints, fun puzzles, and timeless proverbs. Folks will be tickled by the riddles and quotes and fascinated by the facts and lore. A great conversation starter, it’s also a perfect companion to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the world’s most popular annual.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-432-6 • $11.99 ISBN-10: 1-57198-432-1 JULY • Gift-boxed, page-per-day format 5 3/16 x 5 1/2 Plastic easelback Previous ISBN 1-57198-395-3