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Geneen Roth and Women Food and God CONTENTS VIKING Lost and Found 2 Caleb’s Crossing 4 A Father’s Love 6 Bullfighting 8 The First Husband 9 Twice Born 10 Railway Maps of the World 11 Black Milk 12 Hell Is Empty 13 The Big Fight 14 The Man in the Rockefeller Suit 16 The Borrower 18 Rules of Civility 20 Carthage Must Be Destroyed 22 An African Affair 23 The Beginning Infinity 24 Ordinary Geniuses 25 Mice 26 In Malice, Quite Close 28 Now You See It 29 The Echo Chamber 30 White Heat 31 PAMELA DORMAN BOOKS/VIKING 22 Britannia Road 32 Alice Bliss 34 The Last Letter from Your Lover 36 Hudson Street Press, Sentinel, Current, Portfolio, The Library of America, Overlook, Viking Young Readers 40 Index 100 Ordering Information 102 *(1((1 The #1 New 527+ York Times AUTHOR OF THE #1 New York Times Bestseller bestselling author WOMEN FOOD AND GOD of Women Food Lost and Found and God explores how emotional issues with money mirror those with UNEXPECTED REVELATIONS ABOUT FOOD AND MONEY food and dieting Praise for Geneen Roth and women food and god: “ When I first read Geneen Roth’s Women Food and God—in one big gulp—I knew I’d found something profound. This book is an opportunity to finally end the war with weight and unlock the door to freedom.” —Oprah Winfrey interview with Geneen Roth, O Magazine “ Many people are talking about wholeness today, but what makes Geneen Roth different is her microscopic honesty. She doesn’t hold back. Her work is about the objective truth, and you can feel it nourishing your body.” —Christiane Northrup, MD “ Geneen’s work will blow you away. It is beautiful and funny and deep, and most of all, she speaks the truth.” —Anne Lamott • 5-City Author Tour • National Radio Campaign 2 • National Publicity • 20-City Radio Satellite Tour • National Review & Feature • National Print Advertising Attention • Online Publicity & Promotions • National Television Campaign VIKING Ava i l a b l e i n M a rc h Lost and Found Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money GENEEN ROTH VIKING When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence, uncertainty, and abrupt reversals in their expecta- tions. The resulting shock was the catalyst for her to explore, in workshops and in her own life, how women’s habits and behaviors around money—as with food—can lead to exactly the situations they most want to avoid. Roth identified her own unconscious choices—binge shopping followed by periods of budgetary self- Photo: Stroud/Schelling deprivation, “treating” herself in ways that ultimately failed to sus- Geneen Roth is the author of seven bestselling books about tain, and using money as a substitute for love—among others. As women and food. Her work she examined the deep sources of these habits, she faced the hard has been featured in Time, Elle, truth about where her “self-protective” financial decisions had led. The New York Times, and other publications. Born in New York, As in all of her books, Roth relates her personal experience with she lives with her husband, Matt irreverent humor and hard-won wisdom. Here, she offers pro- Weinstein, in northern California. Visit geneenroth.com. vocative and radical strategies for transforming how we feel and behave about the resources that should, and ultimately can, sustain and support our lives. • Geneen Roth has made multiple appearances on Oprah, The View, 20/20, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America 978-0-670-02271-7 • She leads workshops with attendance in the thousands across the country $25.95 ($32.50 CAN) • Her original article about dealing with financial loss appeared at Salon.com H Self-help/Psychology C 1 R • Also available as an e-book 5 1⁄2 x 8 ⁄2 240 pp. Export rights: W00 A Agent: Ned Leavitt M Unabridged • 5 CDs, 6 hours First Serial, UK, Translation: Viking $29.95 ($37.50 CAN) • 978-0-14-242932-7 Audio: Penguin Audio ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PLUME 3 When Food Is Love Why Weight? 978-0-452-26818-0 $15.00 978-0-452-26254-6 $15.00 Feeding the Hungry Heart Appetites 978-0-452-27083-1 $15.00 978-0-452-27679-6 $15.00 Breaking Free from Emotional Eating 978-0-452-28491-3 $15.00 VIKING A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book Photo: Randi Baird Praise for People of the book: “ Intense, gripping . a tour de force.” —San Francisco Chronicle “ There’s a romance between Brooks and the world, and her writing is as full of heart and curiosity as it is intelligence and judgement.” —The Boston Globe “ Intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written and original . Brooks tells a believable and engaging story.” —The Washington Post “ [A] marvelously intertwined narrative, with one strand tied to the contemporary world and the other leading us back into European history, into wars and inquisitions and family tragedies, all of this making up a vividly narrated, powerfully emotional quest.” —The Dallas Morning News • 15-City Author Tour • National Radio Campaign 4 • National Publicity • National Print Advertising • National Review & Feature • Online Publicity & Promotions Attention • National Television Campaign VIKING Caleb’s crossing A Novel GERALDINE BROOKS VIKING Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard Geraldine Brooks is the of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from author of the novels People of the Book, March (winner of the Pulitzer Martha’s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate Prize) and Year of Wonders and from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks the nonfiction works Nine Parts of has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she The narrator of Caleb’s Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing lives on Martha’s Vineyard with up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of her husband, the author Tony pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an Horwitz, and their two sons. Visit geraldinebrooks.com. education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island’s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative, secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia’s minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awaken- ing the wrath of the tribe’s shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluc- tantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb’s crossing of cultures. 978-0-670-02104-8 Like Brooks’s beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, $26.95 ($33.50 CAN) Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Fiction Y Martha’s Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. 6 x 9 320 pp. Export rights: E30 MA Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb’s Crossing further establishes Agent: Kris Dahl @ ICM Brooks’s place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. First Serial, UK, Translation: Viking Audio: Penguin Audio • Nearly 2 million copies of Brooks’s novels in print 5 Unabridged • 10 CDs, 13 hours ALSO AVAILABLE FROM VIKING AND PENGUIN $39.95 ($50.00 CAN) • 978-0-14-242970-9 March People of the Book 978-0-14-303666-1 $15.00 978-0-670-01821-5 $25.95 Year of Wonders 978-0-14-311500-7 $15.00 978-0-14-200143-1 $15.00 VIKING The inspiring, heart-rending story of a father’s unwavering love for his son One Man’s Unrelenting Battle to Bring His Abducted Son Home Praise for Dav i d G o l d m a n : “ He has gone not just the extra mile, but mile after mile, back and forth, trying to make it clear that his son, Sean, deserves to be returned to him.” —Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “ David Goldman has demonstrated remarkable resolve, clarity of purpose, uncommon bravery, and deep and abiding love for his son. He is an inspiration—a true hero.” —Congressman Chris Smith • National Publicity • National Radio Campaign 6 • National Review & Feature • Online Publicity Attention VIKING A Father’s love One Man’s Unrelenting Battle to Bring His Abducted Son Home DAVID GOLDMAN VIKING David Goldman and his Brazilian wife, Bruna Bianchi, led what appeared to be a happy life in New Jersey. But in June 2004, Bianchi took their four-year-old son, Sean, to Brazil for what she said would be a two-week vacation. Once there, she informed Goldman that she was staying in Brazil—and keeping Sean, set- ting in motion an international controversy that would eventually reach the highest levels of the U.S. and Brazilian governments. It would be almost five years before David saw Sean again. Photo: Jeff Bark What kept David Goldman going when everything looked so Dav i d G o l d m a n grew up in Ocean Township, New Jersey, hopeless? In A Father’s Love, Goldman recounts his extraordinary the son of a charter boat captain. battle, despite overwhelming odds, to bring his abducted son back A graduate of Virginia Wesleyan home. It is a riveting story full of peculiar ironies, unfathomable College, Goldman found a career modeling and acting in television elements, threats, and legal twists and turns.
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