Fall 2012
September - December
Domestic Rights Guide
Harper ♦ William Morrow ♦ HarperOne
Ecco ♦ It Books ♦ Amistad ♦ Broadside Books
Morrow Cookbooks ♦ Harper Voyager
Perennial ♦ Harper Paperbacks
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HarperCollins Publishers Fall 2012 Domestic Rights Guide
Table of Contents
Harper Page 4
Broadside Books Page 10
Ecco Page 11
Harper Perennial Page 13
Harper Paperbacks Page 16
It Books Page 17
HarperBusiness Page 21
HarperOne Page 22
William Morrow Page 26
Harper Voyager Page 29
William Morrow Cookbooks Page 31
William Morrow Paperbacks Page 32
Avon/Harper mass market Page 35
3 Harper
Fiction
Chabon, Michael TELEGRAPH AVENUE September - $27.99 As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are longtime friends and co-owners of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives. Archy and Gwen are expecting their first baby; Nat and Aviva have a teenaged son. Cranky, flawed, and loving each other, they have worked to construct lives that reach across barriers of race and class. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fourth-richest black man in America, announces plans to go forward with the construction of his latest megastore, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. What they don’t know is that Goode’s announcement marks the climax of a decades-old secret history, encompassing a forgotten crime of the Black Panther era and the failure of American optimism about race. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, Telegraph Avenue is Michael Chabon’s most dazzling book yet. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Mary Evans Agency (212-979-0880)
Coplin, Amanda THE ORCHARDIST September - $25.99 At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he’s found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit, but later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge’s land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. As the girls begin to trust him, men arrive with guns, and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect the girls but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. The Orchardist is an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100)
Dean, Debra THE MIRRORED WORLD September - $25.99 Set against the unparalleled extravagance and artifice of 18th century St. Petersburg, a world of ice palaces and opera and masquerade balls, The Mirrored World is the reimagined life of St. Xenia, one of Russia’s most beloved holy women. Told by her younger cousin Dasha, a devoted friend and companion, The Mirrored World follows the friends from their younger years in the lower nobility through the tragedy and madness that transforms Xenia into a revered angel of mercy to the poor, a change perceived by many as a sharp rebuke to the lavish excesses of the court of the new empress, Catherine the Great. By the acclaimed author of The Madonnas of Leningrad. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; First serial, Dramatic: Marly Rusoff & Associates (914-961-7939)
Erdrich, Louise THE ROUND HOUSE October - $25.99 On a summer Sunday in 1988, an Ojibwe woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is raped. Traumatized, Geraldine refuses to share the details of what happened, either to the police or to her husband Bazil or her 13-year old son Joe, whose home life has been suddenly, irrevocably transformed. His mother slips deeper into depression while his father struggles with his own anger and grief. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill-prepared. Enlisting Joe’s help, Bazil, the tribal judge, pores through previous legal decisions searching for clues to the attacker’s identity. Confused, impatient, and frustrated, Joe sets out with three trusted friends to find the truth, a quest that begins at the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. Revered author Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her acclaimed, bestselling The Plague of Doves with this riveting novel. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Wylie Agency (212-246-0069)
4 Kingsolver, Barbara FLIGHT BEHAVIOR November - $27.99 The New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible returns with a book set in rural Appalachia. Dellarobia Turnbow is a twenty-nine-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming a mother and wife at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending small children on a failing farm, she mitigates her boredom in a flirtation with a younger man. Headed to his secluded mountain cabin, she finds a forested valley filled with silent red fire that appears to be a miracle. Her discovery elicits divergent reactions from all sides: fundamentalists claim it as a sign from God; climate scientists see it as an element of forthcoming disaster; politicians declaim its lessons; charlatans mine its opportunity; international media fan the story; and townspeople cope with the intrusion. After years lived entirely within the confines of one small community, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening and ultimately leading into confrontation with her family, her church, her town, and finally the world at large. Over the course of a single winter, her life will become the property of the planet and, perhaps for the first time, securely her own. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Frances Goldin Literary Agency (212-777-0047)
Kuhn, William MRS. QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN October - $21.99 Day-to-day life for Queen Elizabeth has grown increasingly wearisome after decades of public service and years of family scandal, so one day she decides to take things into her own hands, walking out of the palace unannounced one rainy day while wearing a skull-emblazoned hoodie. The Queen decides to visit the scene of so many happy memories, Her Majesty’s former royal yacht, Britannia, now moored in Leith, Scotland. All she has to do is get to Kings Cross Station and hop on a train from there. Meanwhile, an unlikely group of six courtiers are the only ones who know of the Queen’s disappearance, and they vow to find her and bring her back to the palace before MI6 turn her desertion into a major national scandal. A lively, witty debut novel that makes light of the rigidity and pomp and circumstance of the British monarchy, but that also breathes humanity into it, and into its central figure, Queen Elizabeth. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Kuhn Projects, LLC (212-929-2227)
Locke, Attica THE CUTTING SEASON October - $25.99 Belle Vie is a plantation of genteel beauty that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. For some it represents the values of the pre-Civil War South, for others it’s a reminder of slavery’s dark legacy. But when Caren Gray, the estate’s manager learns that the body of a young woman has just been found lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut, it’s suddenly the site of a murder investigation. There’s no telling who wanted the victim dead. A local? Someone with a grudge against the managing corporation? Gray is compelled to discover what, if anything, the woman’s violent death has to do with a mystery that originated in the slave quarters nearly two hundred years ago - a mystery that forces her to delve into the murky waters of the plantation’s past - all while creeping frighteningly closer to the realization that the killer may be a lot closer than she ever could have imagined. From the acclaimed author of Black Water Rising. First serial, UK, Audio: Harper; Translation, Dramatic: The Endeavor Agency (310-248-2000)
Zafón, Carlos Ruiz THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN June - $27.99 Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermín is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city’s dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940’s and the dark early days of Franco’s dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a journey fraught with jealousy, suspicion, vengeance, and lies, a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives. By the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Colchie Agency (718-921-7468)
5 Nonfiction
Bacharach, Burt ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART November - $27.99 Told in Burt Bacharach’s own words, Anyone Who Had a Heart is the story of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Over the course of his career, Bacharach has had seventy Top 40 hits, won three Academy Awards, eight Grammys, an Emmy, and been nominated for a Tony Award. Raised in Forest Hills, New York, Bacharach fell in love with music after sneaking into a Manhattan club to see Dizzy Gillespie play. A string of early successes in the late fifties led to his famous collaborations with Dionne Warwick, and the beginning of a lauded career scoring films. While he has written countless songs about the search for love and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost, Bacharach’s first three marriages ended in divorce and his daughter Nikki committed suicide at the age of forty. His long-running writing partnership with Hal David fell apart and the two did not speak for seventeen years. As powerful and moving as his most unforgettable songs, Anyone Who Had a Heart provides readers with a backstage pass to the world of show business, and a look at the life of an artist whose incredible body of work has earned him a unique position in the American cultural landscape. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Intellectual Property Group (310-402-5156)
Bennett, Tony WHEN I GET OLDER December - $25.99 Jumping off the immense success of his latest album, Duets II, Tony Bennett delivers a rich collection of stories following that theme. Chock-full of anecdotes and life lessons learned, When I Get Older will reflect on and pay tribute to the important relationships that colored Bennett’s career and life journey. Tony Bennett will bring to life the multitude of musicians and stars that he has known and worked with throughout his five decades as a music icon. 16-page color photo insert. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100)
Berman, Larry ZUMWALT October - $27.99 In December 1970 Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt landed on the cover of Time magazine, which called the charismatic Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) “the Navy’s most popular leader since WWII.” What set Zumwalt apart was his ability to enact radical change, a quality best exemplified by his success in integrating the most racist branch of the military. Zumwalt’s tenure as CNO (1970-1974) came at a time marked by a strong Soviet challenge to U.S. naval supremacy, a duplicitous end-game in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal and an Admirals’ spy ring. Zumwalt retired from the Navy in 1974. Anguished by the unwitting role he played in his own son’s death from exposure to Agent Orange, Zumwalt’s final battle was for Vietnam veterans and their children, spearheading a successful class action suit against the manufacturers of Agent Orange, earning him our nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The first major biography of this controversial figure by the author of Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: John W. Wright Literary Agency (212-647-8218)
Christie, Agatha THE GRAND TOUR December - $27.99 In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a year-long voyage around the British Empire with her husband, Archie Christie, as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Christie kept up a weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places she visited and telling the stories of the people she encountered as the mission traveled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Canada. These extensive and previously never-before-published letters are accompanied by hundreds of photos, as well as some of the postcards, newspaper clippings and memorabilia she collected on her trip. Edited and introduced by Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, this unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie, demonstrating how her appetite for including exotic plots and locations in her books began with this eye-opening trip. First serial: Harper; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd., UK (+011-44-208-741-7070)
6 Connors, Jimmy THE OUTSIDER September - $27.99 He was the common man’s hero, the champion who brought tennis to the masses. A renegade who loved to break the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and vulgar antics that turned his matches with John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Rod Laver, John Newcombe, and virtually every other opponent into prizefights. Whether he was loved or hated, the fascinating, supremely talented Jimmy Connors refused to be ignored. In The Outsider, Connors tells the complete, uncensored story of his life and “the tennis” – the game that defined him. He sets the record straight about his formidable mother Gloria, his relationship with America’s sweetheart, the legendary Chris Evert, and his rivalries with John McEnroe and others. Raucous and reflective, exciting and entertaining, his tell-it-all memoir is as brash, ballsy, and unforgettable as Connors himself. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Robin Straus Literary Agency (212-472-3282)
Friedkin, William THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION October - $27.99 The long-awaited memoir from the director of such classic films as “The French Connection” (winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director) and “The Exorcist” (hailed as the best horror film ever made). A maverick of American cinema in the late sixties through the late seventies, Friedkin now turns his hand to a different medium of storytelling, taking readers on a journey through the chance encounters and unplanned occurrences that led a bored young man in a poor neighborhood to opportunity and success. With keen wit and cunning intellect, Friedkin proves himself to be a gifted raconteur on the page, setting up scenes and dialogue that take readers on the movie set or in the editing room. Fast-paced and thrilling, Friedkin’s writing spans the streets of Chicago to the studios of Hollywood, cinematically setting the scene for his untold life story. First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Inkwell Management (212-922-3500)
Hale, Sheila TITIAN December - $34.99 Titian is, with Michelangelo and Raphael, one of the three towering giants of High Renaissance painting, and one of the greatest and most influential of all European artists. He was Venice’s greatest artist, and contributed to its Golden Age in the sixteenth century. He was notorious for disregarding authority and for his stubbornness. None of this, however, deterred his patrons, who included the Hapsburgs, Italian princes, the Pope, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. During his career, which spanned more than seventy years, Titian painted some two hundred pictures of which less than half survive. His work has been studied by generations of great artists. Sheila Hale’s magisterial biography, over ten years in the making, is sure to be hailed as a landmark biography of this challenging and fascinating artist. The book will contain black and white illustrations integrated throughout the text, as well as 24 pages of color plates. First serial: Harper; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., UK (+011-44-208-741-7070)
Howe, Sean TRUE BELIEVERS October - $25.99 Operating out of a tiny Madison Avenue office in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics introduced a series of superhero characters that thrilled not just children but also pop artists, intellectuals, and campus radicals: The Fantastic Four. Spider-Man. The Hulk. The X-Men. Iron Man. Thor. Daredevil. Throughout the decades-long journey to a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, Marvel’s identity has continually shifted from scrappy underdog to corporate behemoth. Over the years, its contributors struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, True Believers packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (212-337-0934)
7 Isherwood, Christopher LIBERATION November - $39.99 ‘A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,’ as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, capstone of a million-word masterwork, he greets advancing age with poignant humor and an unquenchable appetite for the new: aches, illnesses, and diminishing powers are clues to a predicament still unfathomed. These are the most concrete and the most mysterious of his diaries, candidly revealing the fear of death that crowded in past Isherwood’s fame, and showing how his life-long immersion in the day-to-day lifted him, paradoxically, toward transcendence. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: The Wylie Agency (212-246-0069)
LaCava, Stephanie AN EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS December - $24.99 An Extraordinary Theory of Objects is the story of Stephanie LaCava, an awkward, curious girl who finds solace and security in strange and beautiful objects as she navigates growing up in a foreign country. Forced to move to a suburb of Paris, she feels adrift, subject to latent anxieties and soon falls into a deep depression. Yet, even in her darkest moments she never stopped filtering the world through her own peculiar lens, discovering the strange sorts of beauty which surrounded her. Ranging from the grotesque (beetles and catacombs), the natural (mushrooms and lilies of the valley) to the cultural (Nirvana and other nineties touchstones) and the historical (Nancy Cunard, Jean Seberg) - all of these objects and people became an outsider’s talismans, allowing her to survive in a place where she feels she’s lost control. At once intensely personal and widely universal, LaCava’s journey reveals the magic of objects to distract us from our lives, construct order in an unpredictable world, and show the power of the stories we tell ourselves. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Kuhn Projects (212-929-2227)
Niven, Penelope THORNTON WILDER November - $39.99 Thornton Wilder was a pivotal figure in the twentieth century, both as a novelist and playwright, winning the Pulitzer Prize three times for both fiction and drama. He traveled constantly throughout his life, doing much of his best writing at resorts and in hotel rooms, and had a wide circle of friends in the theater, movies, and literature. Thornton Wilder is the first biography of the playwright and novelist to be based on thousands of pages of letters, journals, manuscripts, and other documentary evidence of Wilder’s life, work, and times. A multifaceted man—son, brother, student, teacher, novelist, playwright, lecturer, actor, musician, soldier, man of letters, international public figure—he was also enigmatic and intensely private. Thornton Wilder brings the private man center stage, and in the process, sheds new light on his life and work. Penelope Niven is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of Carl Sandburg and Edward Steichen. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Barbara Hogenson Agency (212-874-8084)
Perry, Michael VISITING TOM September - $25.99 Visiting Tom brings to life a dying breed of Americans who define the spirit of Perry’s memoirs of small-town life. These characters possess a fundamental knowledge, resilient spirit, and a brand of Yankee ingenuity that has proved most useful in difficult times - and which may be vanishing just when we find it most necessary. Structured around his visits with Tom (over 80 and “spry as heck”), Perry’s latest memoir entertains and inspires, proving, again, that “somewhere between Garrison Keillor’s idyllic-sweet Lake Wobegon and the narrow-mindedness of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street lies the reality of small-town life. By the author of Population: 485 and Coop. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: International Creative Management (212-556-5600)
8 Skinner, David THE STORY OF AIN’T October - $24.99 In 1934, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had determined that correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few – a position viewed by many as “the end of civilization.” Critical parties took particular umbrage at Webster’s Third’s treatment of “ain't.” The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: The Sagalyn Agency (301-718-6440)
Solo, Hope SOLO August - $24.99 Hope Solo cares about winning medals, not friends, thriving on competition and unafraid to say it or show it. Driven to succeed on her own terms, she’s never played it safe, even if it cost her a starting spot with the U.S. women’s soccer team during the 2007 World Cup. That aggressive determination is encapsulated in her forthright, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving memoir. At the center of her story is the sweet and sorrowful relationship with her father, a philanderer and a conman who was convicted of embezzlement. Drifting into homelessness after prison, he finally reconciled with his daughter when she was in college. Solo reveals how her father not only taught her the game, but also instilled in her the athlete’s mentality that defines who she is and how she plays. A woman who has repeatedly triumphed over adversity - from suddenly losing her dad to her battles with the U.S. national team, to her recovery from painful shoulder surgery - her story holds lessons and insight not only for her thousands of fans, but for us all. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Wasserman Media Group (310-407-0350)
Standiford, Les DESPERATE SONS November - $27.99 Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of American citizens decided that the conditions under which they were governed had become intolerable, and that no change would be forthcoming as a result of mere complaint and petition. Action would have to be taken. And because these actions were illegal, their undertakings and the identities of those who carried them out would be by necessity covert. The men who called themselves Sons of Liberty - Samuel Adams, John Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock among them - were patriots in the eyes of most Americans and remain so to this day. In the eyes of the British they were terrorists who deserved to pay with their lives for the things they had done. This is the story of how those forces metamorphosed from murmurings of a vague injustice to focused operations of resistance led by men whose names are now legend. Audio: Harper; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Inkwell Management (212-922-3500)
Townshend, Peter WHO I AM October - $29.99 This is the book that Pete Townshend - guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of The Who - has been writing for over a decade, spanning the life of one of history’s most talented musicians. Raised by an abusive grandmother in West London, Townshend describes a frenetic childhood of displacement...until meeting Roger Daltrey in high school. Together, they form the first incarnation of a band that will travel the world and bring them into the inner sanctums of Eric Clapton’s drug-ridden hotel rooms, and at the feet of Jimi Hendrix. The book describes Townshend’s most intimate memories and thoughts - everything from the first trial performance of Tommy, to his infamous arrest (and acquittal) on charges of child pornography. With his trademark eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Pete Townshend brings us a memoir that just so happens to also stand as a primary source for popular music’s greatest epoch. First serial, UK, Audio: Harper; Translation, Dramatic: Ed Victor, Ltd. (+011-44-207-304-4100)
9 Broadside Books
Bawer, Bruce CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION September - $25.99 The1960s and 1970s were a time of revolution in America’s universities as a new generation of scholars rejected traditional humanism in favor of a radical ideology. Traditional values were disparaged as weapons in an ongoing struggle of the powerful against powerless. Educators now sought to unmask the West as the perpetrator of global injustice, with the main focus now to be on the victims of Western oppression. This emphasis gave rise to a series of identity-based studies programs, including Women’s Studies, Black Studies, Gay Studies, Chicano Studies, and many more. As a result, the serious and objective study of human civilization has been replaced by “theoretical” approaches which emphasize group identity and victimhood. What has been the result of this transformation? What accomplishments can advocates of these disciplines point to? Author, critic, and essayist Bruce Bawer examines results and concludes that their influence has impoverished our thought, confused our politics, and filled the minds of their students with politically correct mush. First serial, UK: Broadside Books; Translation, Audio, Dramatic: John Talbot Agency (914-828-0455)
Freedman, Adam THE NAKED CONSTITUTION October - $26.99 More and more ordinary citizens have been asking where, exactly, the Constitution authorizes government-run healthcare, expropriation of key industries, gay marriage, civil trials for enemy combatants, and cap-and-trade. The answer, according to President Obama and his activist allies, is the “Living Constitution,” a dubious doctrine which holds that the meaning of our Constitution is dynamic and requires evolving interpretation. In The Naked Constitution, Adam Freedman explores the actual meaning of the Constitution, and shows how it has been increasingly abandoned in recent years, contributing to a vast expansion of government power. Defending the controversial doctrine known as “originalism,” Freedman will explain that the framers meant exactly what they said, and did not intend for the constitution to be subject to endless open-ended interpretation. First serial, Audio: Broadside Books; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Markson Thoma Literary Agency (212-243-8480)
Kesler, Charles I AM THE CHANGE September - $25.99 Who is Barack Obama? Even many liberals wonder if he really believes in anything. According to Charles Kesler, these disappointed liberals don’t appreciate the scope of Obama’s long-term stakes. Conservatives dismiss him as a socialist, hopelessly out of touch with the American mainstream. The fringe Right dwells on Obama’s Muslim upbringing and his missing birth certificate. What mainstream and fringe have in common is a stubborn underestimation of the man and the political movement he embodies. I Am the Change tries to understand Obama, based largely on his own writings, speeches and interviews. Kesler - a leading conservative scholar, educator, and journalist - takes Obama seriously as few other conservatives have, viewing him as an intelligent and thoughtful progressive who is intent on reinvigorating the liberal faith - but who fails to understand its contradictions and may prove to be its last great representative. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Broadside Books; Dramatic: Author c/o Broadside Books
Morris, Dick & Eileen McGann SCREWED! May - $27.99 Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, the New York Times bestselling authors of 2010: Take Back America and Catastrophe, take on the next threat to America: globalism. Increasingly, the political and corporate power elite encourage Americans to accept a global imperative, a policy which has led to economic catastrophe. The globalist elite believe they are destined to rule the new world. They want to tell us what to do, how to live, and how much we should earn. Meanwhile, other nations focus on their own self-interest, free from the kind of environmental regulations and labor laws constraining American corporations. They chant anti-American slogans while raking in our foreign aid. Screwed! examines the ways that nations and international organizations take advantage of us, details the staggering scale of the great American rip- off, and reveals how our own leaders are complicit in the process. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Broadside Books; Dramatic: Pottinger Media Group (212-581-7113)
10 Nickson, Elizabeth RAVAGED HEARTLAND September - $26.99 Investigative reporter Elizabeth Nickson documents how the environmental movement is actually destroying ecosystems and hurting rural communities in North America and beyond. In Ravaged Heartland, she details the ways in which today’s environmental movement has strayed from its scientific roots on issues ranging from land-management to biodiversity to global warming. She traces the billions of dollars environmental NGOs spend annually to convince us that the natural systems upon which we depend are collapsing. She visits the thriving communities turned to ghost towns as environmental legislation forces mines and mills to close, or forbids forest maintenance, allowing fires to run rampant, or prohibits subdivisions and land development, forcing residents to leave. Ravaged Heartland introduces us to the major fallacies of the environmental movement and the individuals who are fighting back. First serial, Audio: Broadside Books; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Trident Media Group (212-262-4810)
Ecco
Fiction
Engelmann, Karen THE STOCKHOLM EIGHT November - $25.99 For Emil Larsson, a young, self-satisfied bureaucrat in the glittering Stockholm of 1791, life is close to perfect. Until the evening Mrs. Sophia Sparrow, a fellow card sharp and proprietor of his local gaming and séance parlor, confides to him that he is a part of her Octavo, a fortune-telling theory of her own devising. The Octavo reveals a group of eight people that are the basis of every significant event in a person’s life. Knowing them, one can shape the event, be it the fate of a relationship or of a kingdom. Emil is intrigued by the idea, but when Sophia takes a mysterious folding fan in a card game cheat, the Octavos begin to fall into place and the events they portend mean life or death for King Gustav and the golden era that bears his name. Set against the rich, lustrous backdrop of late 18th century Stockholm - an era that rivals the reign of Louis XIV’s in finery, culture and frivolity – this illustrated novel is a sparkling collection of fictional and historical lives entwined in political intrigue, love, and magic as they try to steer the course of their nation into the next century. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: McCormick & Williams Literary Agency (212-691-9726)
Oates, Joyce Carol CARTHAGE September - $26.99 Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. When the community of Carthage joins Zeno’s frantic search, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects—a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility that their daughter may never return. A dark and riveting new work from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage plunges readers deep into the psyche of a wounded young soldier, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, and powerfully explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness. UK, Translation, Audio: Ecco; First serial, Dramatic: John Hawkins & Associates (212-807-7040 )
Nonfiction
Bar-Zohar, Michael & Nissim Mishal MOSSAD September - $26.99 The Mossad is today widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic; shrouded in a veil of secrecy, with many of its feats still unknown and its heroes left unnamed. Mossad pierces this veil for the first time, illuminating the dramatic and dangerous episodes that fill the shadowy history of the Mossad and that have shaped the history of Israel and the world at large. Writer, lawmaker, and espionage expert Michael Bar-Zohar and bestselling historian Nissim Mishal vividly render the heroic agents and operatives who risked everything in the face of unimaginable danger, offering readers a true boots-on-the-ground perspective that reveals in riveting detail the defining missions of the Mossad, among them, the purloining of the text of Khrushchev’s secret speech denouncing Stalin’s atrocities, the capture of Eichmann in Argentina, and the painstaking intelligence work that led the Israelis to knowledge of the Syrian nuclear facility. “This book tells what should have been known and isn’t—that Israel’s hidden force is as formidable as its recognized physical strength.” – Shimon Peres, President of Israel. First serial, Audio: Ecco; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Writers House (212-685-2400)
11 Kaku, Michio & Jesse Cohen (eds.) THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING 2012 September - $14.99 pbk Provocative and engaging, The Best American Science Writing 2012 covers the full spectrum of scientific inquiry—from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition. Edited by Michio Kaku, bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, co-founder of string field theory, theoretical physicist, and popularizer of science, the latest edition in this acclaimed series features articles from a wide variety of publications, providing a comprehensive overview of the year’s most compelling, relevant, and exciting scientific developments. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Ecco; Dramatic: Stuart Krichevksy Literary Agency (212-725-5288)
Lefebvre, Ludovic LUDOBITES October - $24.99 pbk Ludo Lefebvre is a culinary prodigy who worked at his first three-Michelin-star restaurant at age fourteen. By twenty-four he was running his own kitchens in Los Angeles and winning accolades at L’Orangerie and Bastide for serving the most imaginative, forward-thinking food the city had ever seen. In 2007, he traded fine-dining for the freedom to cook his own way, and the result was LudoBites, a “touring” restaurant that roves the streets of L.A., playing to different sold-out crowds every four months. LudoBites is the chronicle of that journey, showcasing the story and food of each of the seven different LudoBites incarnations. The recipes merge the techniques he perfected in the finest French restaurants with the simplicity forced upon him by the limits of a pop-up kitchen, and range from the playful (rice velouté topped with “Christmas Tree Oil”—a pine needle-infused oil he first created from his own Christmas tree) to the sophisticated (braised oxtail with black truffle and Cantal cheese-spiked polenta). Featuring beautiful full-color photography and a collection of narrative essays from Lefebvre himself, this book is the essential guide to an innovator hailed by Time as “the chef of the future.” First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Ecco; Dramatic: Fishbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Almond (310-556-1956)
Miller, Carol UP ALL NIGHT September - $24.99 As America’s first female rock n’ roll DJ, Carol Miller has been on the air since 1971, rising from a traditional, Jewish enclave in Queens to the top of the music industry, a tumultuous rise through male-dominated ranks that has earned her the respect, admiration, and love of some of rock’s biggest names, including Bruce Springsteen (who has Miller to thank for being the first to play his music in New York City), Paul McCartney, Robert Plant (Miller is the creator of the much imitated Zeppelin fan hour “Get the Led Out”), Steven Tyler, Paul Stanley of KISS (whom she dated, and who turned out to be a nice Jewish boy), David Lee Roth, and many more. While an amazing, star-studded ride through rock, Carol’s memoir is also the story of an eternal cultural outsider, and chronicles for the first time her battle with the ruthless form of breast cancer that has stricken all the women in her family. Told in Miller’s inimitable voice, this riotous tale of a distinctly American life will make you laugh, break your heart, and rekindle the righteous love that only rock can inspire. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Ecco
Moskin, Julia & Kim Severson COOKFIGHT November - $29.99 In 2009, Julia Moskin and Kim Severson, staff reporters for the New York Times “Dining” section, agreed to a dinner duel to be mediated by the paper’s legendary restaurant critic Frank Bruni. Armed with only $50.00, they each had to prepare a meal for six, a culinary battle non pareil that proved to be wildly popular with readers. CookFight is the year-long story of their escalating brinksmanship, as Moskin and Severson face-off on one cook’s dilemma after another, from the Passover Seder to the Thanksgiving table; from Easter ham to Christmas cookies; from summer’s bounty to winter’s doldrums. From January through December, the duo delivers a new “challenge” for each month—from the “budget” challenge that rocked the Times, to a “comfort” challenge, to a “vegetarian” challenge—the results of which are chronicled in hilarious, side-by-side narratives and delicious, inventive, recipes such as Julia’s Mozzarella, Red Grape, and Black Olive Salad or Kim’s Ginger and Cereal Milk Panna Cotta. With an introduction by Frank Bruni, color photography throughout, useful sidebars and cooking tips, and Kim and Julia’s sense of humor as they battle it out amid the competing demands of work and children, CookFight is an inspiring reminder of how meaningful it is to cook simply with and for friends and family. UK, Translation, Audio: Ecco; First serial, Dramatic: International Creative Management (212-556-5600)
12 Norman, Philip MICK JAGGER October - $34.99 From the bestselling author of John Lennon: The Life comes an exceptionally detailed, vibrantly written, in-depth account of the life of Mick Jagger. Building on over four years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with the many fascinating people who shared Jagger’s life and featuring several never-before-seen photographs, Mick Jagger provides fascinating insights into the iconic superstar’s childhood in well-heeled postwar England; the profound influence of the Blues on his musical education; his intense connection, tumultuous friendship, and creative partnership with Keith Richards; his relationship with the deeply troubled and charismatic Brian Jones; the women in his life—including Marianne Faithfull, Bianca Jagger, and Jerry Hall—and the rise of the Stones from an early ‘60s pop band to the tragic excesses of Altamont, and on through their enduring, indefatigable career. One of the world’s most instantly recognizable faces, Mick Jagger is perhaps the most private, most enigmatic superstar of all, and in Mick Jagger, Philip Norman reveals the man behind the myth, in the process creating the definitive record of this extraordinary musician. First serial, Audio: Ecco; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Sterling Lord Literistic (212-780-6050)
Robinson, Jancis, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz THE GRAPE October - $125.00 The first book of its kind in over a century, The Grape is a hugely exciting and gorgeously produced volume that examines viticulture as never before. In this comprehensive, alphabetically-presented profile of the 1,356 grape varieties of relevance to the wine lover, Janice Robinson, renowned wine correspondent for the Financial Times and author of The Oxford Companion to Wine, charts the complex relationships between the vines of the world (including unique and astounding family trees), recording with authority where and how they are grown, and—most importantly—what the wines made from them taste like. This full-color book also features detailed genetic analysis of each variety from internationally recognized botanist José Vouillamoz, employing the revolutionary DNA-related technology that has been correcting long- held misconceptions and revealing hidden relationships between the vines. From the cultural history of Pinot noir to the cutting-edge future of wine classification, The Grape is sure to be the “must-have” book for wine lovers, wine students, and wine professionals everywhere, deepening their understanding and appreciation of wine with every page. First serial, Audio: Ecco; UK, Translation, Dramatic: AP Watt Ltd. (+011-44-20-7405-6774)
Harper Perennial
Fiction
Bardsley, Greg CASH OUT October - $14.99 pbk The year is 2008. In three days, family man and corporate speechwriter Dan Jordan’s tech company stock will become fully vested. In three days, Dan Jordan will cash out with $1.1 million, leaving behind his hated, doublespeak-ridden job for a life on the beach with his wife and two children. In three days, Dan will finally live the life he’s supposed to. Or so he thought, right up to the point when he’s kidnapped by a gang of tiny IT nerds who threaten to get him fired before the options can vest, stalked and nearly killed by a corporate security muscle man, confronted with the possible disintegration of his marriage, and forced to keep his own sociopathic neighbor from ruining everything. A rollicking, hilarious debut full of outrageous characters, Cash Out is a fast-paced, twisting comic novel that unfolds in the epicenter of one of the most spectacular wealth-grabbing frenzies in history—Silicon Valley. First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: InkWell Management (212-922-3500)
Dawson, Jill LUCKY BUNNY November - $14.99 pbk Born into a family of criminals in London’s East End in the depths of the Depression, Queenie Dove has survived the Blitz and the Bethnal Green tube disaster to become a master thief in her own right, rising through the ranks of an all-female shoplifting gang before moving on to illicit endeavors of a more lucrative stripe. Sexy, daring, and clever, Queenie has long prided herself on her wits and her talent at staying one step ahead of the police, and despite her efforts to go on the straight and narrow path after the birth of her daughter, she’s drawn in by the promise of one final adventure. Told in the vivacious spirit of Moll Flanders, this tale of luck, deception and high drama is dark, deeply imagined entertainment. First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Hodder & Stoughton (+011-44-20-7873-6157)
13 Hadley, Tessa MARRIED LOVE October - $14.99 pbk In this new collection of short fiction from the acclaimed novelist Tessa Hadley, author of the New York Times Notable Book The London Train, a girl haunts the edges of her parents’ party; a film director drops dead, leaving his film unfinished and releasing his wife to a new life; an eighteen-year-old insists on marrying her music professor, then finds herself shut out from his secrets; and three friends who were intimate as teenagers meet up again after the death of the women who brought them together. Ranging widely across generations and classes, and evoking a world that expands beyond the pages, Married Love is a powerful, precise, and unflinching examination of domestic dramas, generational sagas, wrenching love affairs and epiphanies great and small, all marked by Hadley’s gifts for humor, warmth and truth. Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Joy Harris Literary Agency (212-924-6296)
Nonfiction
Al-Maria, Sophia THE GIRL WHO FELL TO EARTH October - $14.99 pbk Throughout her childhood in Washington State, Sophia Al-Maria knew that the two sides of her family were very different. Her mother’s side, the Hansens, were winners of the Puyallup Fair’s Dill Pickle Contest and owners of the only all-girl raspberry farm in the shadow of Mount Rainier. Her father’s side, the Al-Murrah, belonged to a Saudi tribe that was a stern holdout to modernity and the West. From summers spent in Qatar, to later moving there as a teenager to escape the dangers of Puyallup High School, Sophia tries to find her place as al-amerikiya (Arabic for “the American girl”) among her father’s Gulf relatives. As things unravel back home and abroad—the marriage of her sister to a much older Muslim man, her mother’s growing religious fervor, and her father’s taking of another wife—she learns that while wars might be fought between nations or even cultures, in the end it’s all in the family. First serial: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Tibor Jones & Associates (+011-44-20-7733-0555)
Aschenbrand, Periel ON MY KNEES October - $14.99 pbk Periel Aschenbrand, the provocative and critically acclaimed author of The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own, is the sort who would seem to have no fear. But when she breaks up with her long-time boyfriend shortly after her beloved grandmother passes away, she finds herself beaten down and in the midst of a major low in her life. At the beginning of On My Knees, she is drinking her days away on a plastic-covered couch as she squats in her dead grandmother’s apartment, wondering if she can ever bounce back. But it’s from this dark place that an unforgettable journey unfolds: a bawdy, gutter-minded adventure of crazy one night stands, ill-advised hookups with friends, a run-in with Philip Roth, bad mixtures of margaritas and pot, and, finally, a flight to Israel and an unexpected encounter that shows her love is still possible. First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Sterling Lord Literistic (212-780-6050)
Horan, Richard HARVEST October - $14.99 pbk In Seeds, acclaimed novelist and nature writer Richard Horan crisscrossed the country, seeking out the trees that inspired some of the greatest American writers. Harvest is the story of his next great American adventure, as he travels throughout the land in order to work the harvests of over a dozen essential or unusual food crops, from Kansas wheat, to Georgia peaches, to Cape Cod cranberries, in search of connections with the farmers, the soil, and the seasons. Horan’s lively prose and patented brand of seriousness and humor convey a great message of diligence, challenge, and hope. First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Helen Zimmerman Literary Agency (845-256-0977)
14 Jordan, Pete IN THE CITY OF BIKES September - $14.99 pbk An avid cycler, Pete Jordan (author of Dishwasher) had traveled to Amsterdam to study urban planning as part of his mission to make American cities more bicycle-friendly. However, once he set foot in the famed Dutch city, he was seduced by its biking culture, and couldn’t imagine ever leaving it. With his wife of two weeks Amy Joy in tow, Jordan threw himself into his new environs, and though the two faced hardships and homelessness at first, the deep pleasure they found in their daily cycling through the city carried them through, until fortune finally smiled on them in the form of Amy Joy’s apprenticeship to an aging bicycle mechanic with a spare flat above the shop for them share. Part memoir, part history, part tour of Jordan’s adopted homeland, In the City of Bikes is the engaging story of one couple’s struggle to find love, find themselves and build their future, all on two wheels. UK: Harper Perennial; First serial, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: McCormick & Williams Literary Agency (212-691-9726)
Leto, Lauren JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS LOVER October - $13.99 pbk From the co-author of the hilarious Texts from Last Night comes an incisive, addictively funny guide to literary debate that leaves no author (and no reader) unscathed. In Judging a Book by Its Lover, Lauren Leto expounds on everything from book club etiquette and the death of bookstores to the verbal tics of famous book critics, using her keen insight and lacerating wit to find out just why books mean so much to us, and what our favorite titles might say about us to others. With sections such as “Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author” (Dan Brown: “People who got lost in supermarkets when they were kids”) and “Twitter-Sized Reviews” (Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Work Week: “Ways to seem super narcissistic and annoying to clients, while exploiting international economies!”), this light-hearted, affectionate look at literature is the perfect addition to any book lover’s library. First serial: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100)
Koethe, John ROTC KILLS September - $14.99 pbk In this lyrical and meditative new collection of poems, Lenore Marshall Prize-winner John Koethe moves easily between autobiographical anecdote and philosophical reflection. “The Red Shoes” uses the 1948 film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale to evoke memories of the poet’s childhood and of his mother. “ROTC Kills,” with its provocative title, is actually a wistful poem about the ‘60’s viewed from forty years later. In “The Great Gatsby,” Koethe brings together Fitzgerald’s novel, the story of Henry Hudson’s search for the Northwest Passage, and his own coming to New York as a young man, compelled by dreams and the promise of something still undefined. Rich and resonant, ROTC Kills ruminates on the poet’s experience of time and consciousness with a moving poignancy and subtle sense of humor. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Perennial; First serial, Dramatic: Author c/o Harper Perennial
Mulgrew, Jason 236 POUNDS OF VICE PRESIDENT September - $14.99 pbk Jason Mulgrew’s Everything Is Wrong With Me was a raunchy, pitch-perfect rendering of his singularly insane but always endearing Philly childhood. Continuing this triumphant saga into the horribly awkward high school years, 236 Pounds of Vice President traces Jason’s adolescence, from the first sparks of puberty through to gaining full voting and cigarette- buying privileges; from happily living in the bubble of South Philly to his move to a prestigious private high school in a new, exciting part of the city (North Philly, murder center of Philadelphia). There, among students whose parents were pharmacists, lawyers, teachers and bankers; who lived in houses with lawns and swimming pools; whose families didn’t steal cable and who had never seen their fathers tackle another man at a sporting event, he is a stranger in strange land, adding extreme culture shock to the laundry list of laughably pathetic obstacles every young man faces, from love and sex (specifically, the lack thereof), to sports, food, music, family, friends, and as always, fighting. First serial: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100)
15 Sites, Kevin THINGS THEY CANNOT SAY October - $15.99 pbk Through his reporting and writing, award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites (In the Hot Zone) seeks to portray the human side of war’s inhumanity by looking at all sides of the conflict to understand the damage sustained by the people affected most. In The Things They Cannot Say, Sites turns his ear and lens to war’s combatants and asks the difficult questions about what they’ve seen, done, or failed to do in war. By compiling hours of past reportage and video footage, email correspondence, new phone conversations and interviews with soldiers, their family and friends, Sites shares the stories of twelve soldiers fighting in wars around the world, including those in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the hopes of transforming their pain into meaning and bringing a new perspective to the lingering horrors of war. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Perennial; Dramatic: Sterling Lord Literistic (212-780-6050)
Yalom, Marilyn HOW THE FRENCH INVENTED LOVE November - $14.99 pbk Love occupies an honored place in the French sense of identity, on a par with fashion, food, wine, and the rights of man. A Frenchman or woman without desire is considered defective, like someone missing the sense of smell or taste, and for hundreds of years, the French have championed themselves as guides to the art of love through their literature, paintings, songs, and cinema. In How the French Invented Love, acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works and from the people she has known, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l’amour has endured and evolved. First serial, Audio: Harper Perennial; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Sandra Djikstra Agency (858-755-3115)
Wicker, Marcus MAYBE THE SADDEST THING November - $13.99 pbk A winner of the 2010 National Poetry Series Prize as selected by D.A. Powell, Wicker’s work perpetuates the NPS tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets. As Wicker notes of his work, “Maybe the Saddest Thing” refers to a speaker’s obsessive impulse and willingness to interrogate everything. “Everything,” in this case, constitutes poems which ask, “In observing the world have I forgotten how to live in it?” Employing popular black icons, humor, and sonnet-like “self dialogues” as springboards to address themes of masculinity, identity and desire, Wicker’s voice is ever-shifting - one foot wandering the academy, the other planted firmly on the blacktop of contemporary culture. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Perennial; Dramatic: Author c/o Harper Perennial
Harper Paperbacks
Fiction
Harris, Oliver THE HOLLOW MAN September - $14.99 pbk Nick Belsey, a louche and charismatic London police detective, has hit rock bottom in his personal and professional life. Waking up in a crashed squad car, still drunk, with no wallet and no phone, Belsey has only a dim recollection of the night before. On what should be the last day of Belsey’s career, he checks in at the station to collect his things, but ends up flipping through the overnight files. There’s a missing-person report for Alex Devereux - worth a fortune, never seen, and lived alone - left his Porsche in the garage and a suicide note on his desk. Belsey sees an opportunity for a new start by stealing this man’s identity. It’s just a pity that so many others are looking for Devereux. Belsey quickly realizes that his would-be scam is about to be outclassed by a far more ambitious fraud, and the race to get to the elusive oligarch’s fortune first becomes a highly dangerous one. In The Hollow Man, Harris delivers both a tour de force of pace and a vividly evocative love-letter to London, and introduces readers to his seductive, worldly-wise, and cunning anti-hero. First serial, Audio: Harper Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: InkWell Management (212-922-3500)
16 La Plante, Lynda BLOOD LINE September - $14.99 pbk In the seventh book of the internationally bestselling series by British crime queen Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect), newly promoted DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case - or a full blown murder inquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, her superintendent fears that she is losing control. With no body there is no case, and Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest. First serial, Audio: Harper Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Melanie Jackson Agency (212-873-3373)
Nonfiction
Nader, Ralph THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS October - $14.99 pbk In this common-sense primer, civic pioneer Ralph Nader offers seventeen ambitious but workable solutions to our nation’s seemingly intractable economic and social problems. With his trademark pragmatism, Nader surveys the stark contrasts between the kind of society and economy America can and should have, and the way most people now have to live, and in seventeen hard-hitting chapters, he chastises corporate America and a complacent, commercialized government for the dispossession of the American people. From innovative job creation and education reform to rebooting the criminal justice system and cracking down on white-collar crime, Nader’s radical but practical solutions offer America a true path forward. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Perennial; Dramatic: Author c/o Harper Perennial
It Books
Fiction
Gordon-Levitt, Joseph THE TINY BOOK OF TINY STORIES: VOLUME 2 November - $14.99 Founded and directed by Golden Globe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hitRECord is an open collaborative production company where members can contribute the work in various forms including music, videos, text and drawings, and are then encouraged to add, edit, remix and collaborate with one another. Culled and curated by Gordon-Levitt himself (who is known in the community as RegularJOE) from the thousands of contributions submitted to the site since its inception, the first volume of The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories—“half short story collection, half communal poem” (Flavorwire)—proved to be immensely popular, and this second edition, fully illustrated and featuring all-new material, is an equally compelling compilation that once again unites art and voices from around the world to tell stories that defy size. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Creative Artists Agency (212-277-9000)
Ringwald, Molly WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU September - $24.99 In this compulsively readable debut collection of interlinked stories, author and actress Molly Ringwald (Getting the Pretty Back) explores the numerous betrayals, big and small, that one grapples with across a lifetime. Greta struggles with infertility; Phillip with infidelity; Peter with the fallout of being a former children’s television star; Betty with her estranged daughter; and Marina with her increasingly flamboyant toddler son, who prefers skirts to shorts and wants only to be addressed as “Olivia.” As the lives of these unforgettable characters converge and diverge in unexpected ways, readers are presented with a compelling portrait of the different ways in which we all inhabit the roles of betrayer and the betrayed. Ringwald is currently the star of the hit ABC Family drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which will premier its fifth season in 2012. Translation: It Books; First serial, UK, Audio, Dramatic: David Black Literary Agency (718-852-5500)
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Freeman, Mike UNDEFEATED September - $25.99 In celebration of the 40th anniversary, sports writer and acclaimed author Mike Freeman explores the Miami Dolphins’ legendary 1972 season—the only perfect season in NFL history—and the journey to the championship, filled with heartbreaking injuries, miraculous finishes, and tested relationships, culminating in legacy that endures to the present day. Led by coach Don Shula and featuring key players Bob Griese, Earl Morrall, and Larry Csonka, the ‘72 Dolphins team was inexperienced as a whole, but the grueling preseason training and the singular leadership of Shula took them one game at a time to the ultimate victory. The season, which culminated in a 14-7 win over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, was one full of trials and tribulations, and the team struggled to maintain its nearly perfect level of play throughout, especially after starting quarterback Griese broke his leg during the fifth game of the season. Packed with never-been-told details, classic photos, and new insights from players and coaches, Undefeated is the unique and often surprising story of this underdog team, this unbelievable season, and this benchmark moment in football history. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Mountain Lion, Inc. (609-730-1665)
Holmstrom, John THE BEST OF PUNK MAGAZINE November - $30.00 Launched in 1976, Punk magazine announced a new direction in American counterculture. Every musician who appeared on its cover became an icon of the era, but Punk not only championed music, it became a vital launching pad for writers, artists, cartoonists, and graphic designers as well. Lovingly collected for the first time and reproduced in facsimile form, along with behind-the-scenes commentary and the backstory on each issue as told by editor-in-chief John Holmstrom, The Best of Punk Magazine is the ultimate, must-have anthology, a fully illustrated opus containing interviews with The Ramones and the Sex Pistols, cartoons by R. Crumb, photos by Bob Gruen, and the articles that formed the groundwork for Please Kill Me, the legendary oral history of punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. First serial, UK, Audio: It Books; Translation, Dramatic: Riverside Literary Agency (413-772-0067)
Jean, Wyclef & Anthony Bozza PURPOSE September - $26.99 In the revelation-filled memoir that touches on the universal themes of poverty, immigration, religion, father/son relationships, and the heights of celebrity, Wyclef Jean, one of music’s most talented and innovative artists, provides a candid, illustrated and deeply personal look at his life and career, including the true inside story of The Fugees – the seminal hip hop group whose success catapulted him to global stardom. No stranger to the spotlight (as evidenced by the wave of press drawn to his recent presidential run in Haiti) Wyclef continues to be a major voice in the music world at large. Now for the first time, he tells his incredible true story, in this tale of drama, humor and inspiration in equal measure. First serial, Audio: It Books; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Creative Works Group, LLC (212-213-4245)
Meola, Eric STREETS OF FIRE October - $29.99 An intimate photographic look at Bruce Springsteen in 1977, a year that marked a transitional time period in Springsteen’s personal life and career while he created his fourth album, the iconic Darkness on the Edge of Town. Streets of Fire is a carefully curated collection of photographer Eric Meola’s work, some of which has never been published before – from his 1977 photo shoots with Bruce Springsteen. They span an afternoon spent in Holmdel at Telegraph Hill Road, drives on Highway 9, afternoons spent in Meola’s studio, and days goofing around playing softball with the rest of the “E Street Kings.” Deluxe in size, this book is more than a must-have item for Springsteen fans; it is a work of art just as memorable and moving as the album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Complete with an introduction from Meola, an insightful essay that puts the photo shoot into historical context, and running lyrics to several of Springsteen’s songs, this collectible volume shows Springsteen as he was-an artist at the crossroads of his fledgling career, writing about dark themes and finding redemption through his own words and image. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books, Dramatic: March Tenth, Inc. (201-387-6551)
18 Morton, Camilla DIANE VON FÜRSTENBURG AND THE TALE OF THE EMPRESS’S NEW CLOTHES November - $21.99 In an inventive reimagining of the classic fairytale, fashion journalist and international bestselling author Camilla Morton wraps an empowering new memoir of iconic designer and international jetsetter Diane von Fürstenberg together with a cautionary tale for fashionistas based on “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” in the process revealing details about the life and artistry of the fashion industry legend. A one-time Warhol muse, Studio 54 pinup, and real-life princess, von Fürstenberg challenged the centuries-old traditions of beauty, style, and protocol to create a wardrobe for women by a working woman, including the introduction of her revolutionary wrap dress that liberated women to be their most active and natural selves. Featuring art direction exclusively by Diane von Fürstenberg herself, this whimsical, lushly illustrated tale of a young empress will inspire readers to craft their own unique versions of “happily ever after.” This is the third title in the Fashion Fairytale Memoir series, following the stories of designers Christian Lacroix and Manolo Blahnik. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Capel & Land (+011-44-20-7734-2414)
Oxford, Kelly EVERYTHING IS PERFECT WHEN YOU’RE A LIAR October - $24.99 Straight-talking, often filthy, always raucously funny, former model turned stay-at-home mom Kelly Oxford has garnered an incredible following for her blog through her trademark blend of biting wit, self-deprecation, and a knack for seeing the hilarity in the everyday. Fans such as Roger Ebert, Jessica Alba, Tony Hawk, Diablo Cody, Kevin Nealon, Susan Orlean, Ann Curry, Adam McKay, Mindy Kaling, and Jonathan Ames have flocked to her support, and her online audience continues to grow. Now, Oxford has written a side-splitting book of essays that shine her blindingly sardonic light on life from her skewed perspective. From childhood to motherhood, from the zany to the tear-jerking, she covers it all, from topics like “My Soldier Face: Or how I awkwardly broke into modeling by ignoring adults who thought I was weird” to “What Did You Say About Your Sister’s Ass?: Bizarre sentiments from the mouths of children,” and much, much more. Oxford recently sold her sitcom pilot, The Mother of All Something, which is based on her life, to CBS with Jessica Alba and Jhoni Marchinko (Will & Grace) both attached to produce. Audio: It Books; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-586-5100)
Parker, Trey, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone THE BOOK OF MORMON August - $35.00 In this official tie-in to the smash Broadway hit from Trey Parker, Matt Stone (South Park) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), fans of the fantastically foul-mouthed and funny tale of a pair of mismatched Mormon missionaries adrift in deepest Africa will enjoy a gorgeously designed package featuring play lyrics, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos and stills, commentaries from the writers, director, choreographer, production crew, and cast, the entire production history, Q&A’s between the creators and Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, and others, along with scores of entertaining anecdotes. Winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon is the biggest Broadway show in decades, and this one-of-a-kind book will coincide with the launch of the upcoming national tour. Newmarket Press First serial, UK, Translation, Audio; Dramatic: TBD
Pope, Rosie MOMMY IQ October - $24.99 pbk Every woman wants a perfect, healthy pregnancy, but it’s easy to become overwhelmed and intimidated by the mountains of information and advice available to new parents. Enter Rosie Pope—pregnancy guru, mother of two, maternity fashion designer, and star of Bravo’s hit show Pregnant in Heels. With charm, wit, style and razor-sharp expertise, Pope cuts through the noise with Mommy IQ, a reliable and relatable roadmap that gives women the confidence and vital information they need to prepare and plan (and even relax and laugh a little) while enjoying pregnancy to the fullest. Chapter by chapter and month by month, Pope helps women raise their “Mommy IQ” by telling them what’s going on with the baby, their bodies, and their partners. Tackling everything that might weigh on a new mom’s mind—from fear-inducing prenatal testing and ultrasounds, to choosing the baby gear they actually need, to creating their birth plan—she guides new parents with her trademark humor, been-there insights, and plenty of medical facts from renowned experts and doctors to back it all up. Fully illustrated with color photos and featuring practical checklists, sidebars, personal stories, and a foreword by nationally recognized obstetrics specialist Dr. Amos Grünebaum (co-author of Dr. Ruth’s Pregnancy Guide for Couples), Mommy IQ is the ultimate must-have for any new mom or mom-to-be. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: 3 Arts Entertainment (212-213-4245)
19 Von Mueffling, Dini THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF FASHION September - $24.99 pbk Tracing 5,000 years of fashion trends and history, The Ultimate Book of Fashion shows readers how to achieve their favorite styles from each remarkable era. Featuring the work of iconic designers of the 20th century, including Coco Chanel and Christian Dior, this unique title also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the cutting-edge fashion of today, collaborating with living designers like Tory Burch and the duo behind Juicy Couture. With individual chapters detailing the changing modes of each century, readers receive fascinating insights into what’s driven and inspired fashion through the ages, from the Elizabethan Era to Jackie O. Exciting, informative, and interactive (with a DIY component that allows readers to develop their own style) – and filled with original illustrations, historical and celebrity photographs, timelines, and fun facts - The Ultimate Book of Fashion is a bible for any true fashion disciple. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Carol Mann Agency (212-206-5635)
Von Teese, Dita YOUR BEAUTY MARK October - $39.99 Dita Von Teese, the raven-haired beauty hailed as “Queen of the New Burlesque,” is renowned for her unerring sense of vintage glamour both on and off the stage, and now, for the first time, Dita divulges the beauty secrets that have earned her a frequent spot on international best-dressed lists and high-profile fashion show rosters. In Your Beauty Mark, Dita takes readers through every step of her many signature looks—from her perfectly coiffed hair to her flawless skin and makeup—and turns to experts and friends in the field for authoritative advice. With diet and exercise tips, information on skincare, and tricks for brow shaping, lipstick application, eye shadow and more, Dita empowers readers with the skills, confidence, and inspiration they need to discover their individual beauty expressions. Lavish four-color photographs and gorgeous step-by-step images make Your Beauty Mark the perfect holiday gift for anyone interested in classic style. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Dishell Multimedia Group (310-859-8513)
Wills, David AUDREY IN THE 60s November - $40.00 In this landmark photographic chronicle devoted to Audrey Hepburn at the pinnacle of her career in the 1960s, renowned curator and preservationist David Wills (Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis) brings together the definitive selection of images depicting one of the most iconic figures in modern fashion history during her most influential decade, including prints from some of the 20th century’s greatest photographers, including Douglas Kirkland, Bert Stern, Cecil Beaton, and many more. Celebrating Hepburn in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, and Wait Until Dark and featuring over 200 full- bleed photos, many of them rare or unseen, this unique collection brings her legacy into perfect focus. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: It Books; Dramatic: Stan Corwin Productions (310-277-3240)
Wilson, Ann & Nancy Wilson UNTITLED September - $26.99 For over three decades, sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson have been a part of the American rock n’ roll story. Starting in the 1970s with mega hits like “Crazy on You” and “Magic Man,” to the 1990s when they reinvented themselves as power balladeers and conquered MTV with “These Dreams” and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You,” to their critically acclaimed, 2010 release “Red Velvet Car,” Heart has always been, first and foremost, a showcase for these awesomely talented women, who have persevered in the face of personal scrutiny unknown by their male rock counterparts. Whether their relationships, their looks, Ann’s battle with weight, or Nancy’s recent divorce from longtime husband Cameron Crowe, many of the intimate aspects of their private lives have been fodder for journalists, taking precedence over the power of their music and their success. Now in this fully illustrated memoir, co-written with New York Times bestselling music biographer Charles Cross (Heavier Than Heaven), Ann and Nancy finally set the record straight and tell the quintessential rock n’ roll story from the unheralded female perspective, including tales of inter-band relationships and turmoil to rival Fleetwood Mac, the myriad ups and downs of their constantly evolving careers, and of course the requisite stories of sex, drugs and redemption that prove the sisters to be the ultimate rock survivors. UK, Audio: It Books; First serial, Translation, Dramatic: Provident Financial Management (310-282-0477)
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Hirsch, Paddy MAN VS. MARKETS September - $16.99 pbk After years of TV and radio coverage, gallons of newsprint ink, and billions of bits and bytes on blogs, do we really understand the financial engineering that brought the global economy to the brink of collapse? The language of economics is laden with terms and acronyms like leverage, securitization, MBS, CDS and CDO-so how does the average person crack the code? Paddy Hirsch: veteran journalist, senior editor at NPR’s Marketplace, and “Whiteboard Guru” provides the answer. Using the humor and the knowledge of our everyday experiences, Hirsch offers clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the instruments that power our financial system. Man vs. Markets breaks down what, exactly, makes the markets tick and allows the reader to simply comprehend what’s going on. Clever, insightful, and hugely educational, Paddy Hirsch translates the language of finance for the average American. First serial, UK, Audio: Harper Business; Translation, Dramatic: Linda Chester Agency (510-704-0971)
Nussbaum, Bruce CQ December - $27.99 Our world is changing in ways we find hard to comprehend. The old methods of dealing with problems don’t seem to work anymore. And knowing how to be creative is fast becoming a core competence of life today. In CQ, innovation expert Bruce Nussbaum charts the making of a new literacy: Creative Intelligence, or CQ. From corporate CEOs to K-12 teachers, creativity is increasingly seen as the antidote to the uncertainty that make our lives so insecure. Here, Nussbaum explores how people are learning how to be more creative in work and in life. He investigates the ways in which individuals, corporations, even nations are boosting their CQ and how that translates into their abilities to make new things and solve new problems within our new, increasingly complex environments. CQ is the next evolutionary step in our thinking about how to deal with the future. First serial, UK, Audio: Harper Business; Translation, Dramatic: Fletcher & Co. (212-614-0778)
Pernick, Ron & Clint Wilder CLEAN TECH NATION September - $29.99 From the authors of Clean Tech Revolution, comes the next definitive book on the Clean Tech industry. The 21st century will be dominated by the nations that lead the race in clean-tech development, deployment, and wealth creation. As this century’s second decade begins, China is dominant, and now leads the world in both solar and wind turbine manufacturing. South Korea is dedicating huge resources to a Clean Energy New Deal, and Japan, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and others are also aggressively pursuing the burgeoning clean-tech economic opportunity. If the US is to lead, we need to supercharge our efforts not only at the federal level, but within the states, cities, and companies that make up our great nation. In Clean Tech Nation, Pernick and Wilder provide a call to action, outlining the latest technology, policy, and financial tools the U.S. can wield to compete and win on this fast-changing, competitive global battlefield. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Business; Dramatic: Riverside Creative Management (203-422-0191)
Pozen, Robert C. EXTREME PRODUCTIVITY October - $25.99 Extreme Productivity is for those overwhelmed by their existing workload and faced with a myriad of competing demands and multiple projects of an urgent nature. It is the antidote to a calendar full of boring meetings, a schedule filled with travel, and a backlog of emails. Bob Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, there must be a critical shift in mindset from hours worked to results produced. Stop taking pride in working late and every weekend. Focus instead on the quality and quantity of what has actually been accomplished. He also explains how to evaluate one’s own comparative advantage not just to the talents of other executives or professionals, but relative to the skill requirements of the organization that employs them. Along the way, he provides the practical skills we need to be more productive, offering concrete suggestions and exercises to help maximize our time at work. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Business; Dramatic: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (212-337-0934)
21 White, Kate SWEET SUCCESS October - $24.99 Kate White - New York Times bestselling author, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, and hugely successful businesswoman, shares her secrets to success in this witty, straight-talking new career guide for women. Whether you’re just starting out, switching jobs, getting back into your career after a mommy sabbatical, or even when you wake up one morning and decide it’s time to reinvent what you do, Sweet Success shows you how to master the learning curve, make the right choices, and ultimately, achieve the next level of success in your career. With Kate White’s trademark savvy and wit, she will help readers learn how to grab the right moment for success; how to run with success and not fall back by playing it safe; and savoring success – it isn’t worth it if you don’t enjoy it. Sweet Success combines no-nonsense advice, behind- the-scenes stories, and a truly unique perspective to help readers get the most out of their careers. UK, Audio: Harper Business; First serial, Translation, Dramatic: Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (858-755-3115)
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Antine, Stacey APPETITE FOR LIFE September - $26.99 Any parent knows that most of the foods marketed as “kid-friendly” could hardly be called nutritious, but creating healthy eaters from early childhood on is one of the greatest struggles parents face, as the prospect of nightly battles at the dinner table is beyond daunting. With that in mind, Stacey Antine, founder of HealthBarn USA, a unique organization that provides hands-on healthy-lifestyle education for children and their families on a farm in New Jersey, has written this fun, practical, and proven guide, full of easy-to-make recipes for meals and snacks that help bring kids into the cooking and eating experience, which Antine says is key to raising healthy, adventurous eaters. Featuring color photos of Antine’s farm and over 100 recipes for all three meals plus snack time, Appetite for Life takes the guesswork out of feeding kids, and also helps parents learn to take the fight out of food, instead creating opportunities for fun and experimentation. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Allen O’Shea Literary Agency (203-359-9965)
Browne, Sylvia PAST LIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS November - $25.99 From renowned #1 New York Times-bestselling author and world-famous psychic Sylvia Browne (Afterlives of the Rich and Famous), a rare and riveting look at the lives of some of the world’s favorite celebrities-before they lived. Unlike any other book Browne has written, Past Lives of the Rich and Famous is a guide to what transpires before birth, giving readers an entertaining yet moving look at the past lives of seventy beloved celebrities. In it, Browne explains exactly what (often very surprising) sorts of lives these stars experienced before their most recent incarnation, giving readers a wholly new perspective on their favorite legends, and even divulges for the first time whether this is a celebrity’s final life, or whether he or she will continue the journey into other lives in the future. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency (212-481-8484)
Chopra, Deepak GOD October - $25.95 In this groundbreaking teaching novel, Deepak Chopra, beloved teacher and New York Times bestselling author of Buddha and Jesus, reveals the evolving nature of God, taking readers on an enlightening journey through history and helping them come to understand God through the lives of our most celebrated saints and sages. From Socrates to Joan of Arc, Rumi to Baal Shem Tov, Thomas the Apostle to Einstein, Chopra shows how the concept of God emerges in times of conflict, turning confusion into clarity and inspiration, and tells the story of the very human journey to know and understand the divine. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Trident Media Group (212-262-4810)
22 Greene, Tiger SACKING OBESITY September - $25.99 Tiger Greene had always been a “big kid,” but by age twelve he weighed 250 pounds-twice the normal weight for a child of his age-and suffered a host of obesity-related health problems. Determined to make a change but unable to find any other examples of kids facing the same challenges, Greene and his father founded Team Tiger, a non-profit foundation to help combat childhood obesity. Within just six months of his new diet and exercise regimen, he lost fifty pounds, cut his body fat percentage in half, and got off all his medications, but Tiger’s goal went far beyond reaching any target weight. He set a mission for himself—to help families all over the world get healthy—and to be a role model other kids can look to for inspiration. From devising healthier menu options for local Little League concessions, to partnering with NFL players for a series of sports and wellness camps to help obese kids around the country, Tiger has tirelessly worked to spread his message, and in this illustrated health and wellness guide, he shares his method for helping children change their lives. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: The Amy Rennert Agency (415-789-8955)
Hanh, Thich Nhat FEAR November - $25.99 In this powerful and practical strategic guide, renowned Zen master and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh explores the origins of fear and offers detailed practices on how to remove its toxic presence from our lives. Framed by a lifetime of mindfulness in action, Thich Nhat Hanh explores the path to peace, happiness and freedom within the context of fear, revealing how readers can overcome the deadly grip of their emotional burdens and anxieties. The revered Nobel Peace Prize winner also shares how happiness is found not in suppressing emotions, but by purposefully living in a meditative and mindful state. In this way readers can identify the source of pain that is responsible for their fear and cut it off from its roots, so that the pain might subside and they can truly embrace the gifts of life. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Linda Chester Literary Agency (212-218-3350)
Hitzmann, Sue THE MELT METHOD September - $25.99 In her career as an exercise physiologist and manual therapist, Sue Hitzmann began to realize how many of her clients lived with chronic pain—the result of injury, illness, childbirth, and the repeated movements of their day-to-day lives. Her desire to help those she saw suffering led to the creation of the MELT Method, her breakthrough self-treatment system that harnesses the enormous impact of precise movements, in a way that anyone can accomplish, right at home, in as little as ten minutes a day. Using simple equipment like foam rollers and small balls, readers will learn how to stimulate and hydrate the body’s connective tissue, making it more elastic and releasing the body’s long-held tension. This fully illustrated guide can help anyone get on the right track to combating chronic pain and erasing the effects of aging. First serial, UK, Audio: HarperOne; Translation, Dramatic: Doris Michaels Literary Agency (212-265-9474)
Joseph, Lawrence E. THE SUN FACTOR October - $25.99 In this riveting and groundbreaking account of our solar history, science journalist and bestselling author Lawrence Joseph reveals the monumental ways in which the sun’s activities have influenced our cultural, climatic, and economic past, and why they may be the key to our future. With an engaging voice and never-before-seen research, Joseph offers evidence that the changes in the sun’s behavior not only provoke shifts in the climate, but also disrupt our personal lives, determine the course of history, and shape our destiny. Connecting current research in solar physics to biology, politics and culture, Joseph purports that spikes in solar output have been correlated with drops in the stock market, and that the Vikings would not have discovered North America if fluctuations in solar activity hadn’t melted the formerly ice-choked North Atlantic. From these historical examples to the potentially catastrophic ramifications of high level solar activity in 2012 (predicted to be one of the greatest in history) and beyond, this provocative thesis is a fresh look at our familiar star. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: The Stuart Agency (212-586-2711)
23 Kallinis, Katherine & Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne THE CUPCAKE DIARIES: SWEET CELEBRATIONS November - $24.99 In this delectable follow-up to their nationally bestselling memoir and cookbook The Cupcake Diaries, sisters Katherine Kallinis and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes, serve up over 30 delicious cupcake recipes perfect for any special day. Featuring full-color photography throughout, this beautifully designed book includes illustrated step-by-step decorating instructions as well as demonstrations for small-scale tabletop sculptures, both of which are written with the home baker in mind. Going above and beyond ordinary cupcake ideas, The Cupcake Diaries: Sweet Celebrations provides recipes like frozen cupcake pops (perfect for summer) and Blue and Pink “gender reveal” cupcakes just for baby showers. Weaving in their personal memories of each special event, the sisters also dish up anecdotes that highlight both baking and entertaining tips for readers planning their next cupcake-filled occasion. In addition to their two Washington D.C. locations, the sisters are opening Georgetown Cupcake shops in New York City and Boston in 2012. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio; Dramatic: TBD
King, Rodney THE RIOT WITHIN May - $25.99 Rodney King was transformed into an iconic symbol of the problems of race relations in the U.S. after his brutal beating at the hands of the LAPD and the officers’ subsequent acquittal triggered massive riots that tore through the city of Los Angeles in 1992. Since his reluctant thrust into fame, King has mostly stayed out of the limelight, but to coincide with the 20th anniversary of his tragic experience, he has finally decided to share his story, from the beating itself and the violence that followed, to how he saw America change as a result, and his feelings about improved racial relations as they exist today. Though he has struggled with personal demons over the past two decades, from drug and alcohol addictions to the crippling emotional and physical damage inflicted on him in 1991, King has refused to be bitter about his experience, and instead has resolved to lift himself out of the legacy of his impoverished and abusive childhood to create a better life. Featuring color and black-and-white photos, The Riot Within is King’s first memoir, an indelibly told story of violence and healing that can teach us all valuable lessons about redemption and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Movable Type Management (917-289-1089)
Manning, Drew FIT2FAT2FIT June - $25.99 Based on the breakout website of the same name, Fit2Fat2Fit is the amazing story of personal trainer Drew Manning’s quest to go from fit to fat to fit again in one year to better understand the weight-loss struggles of many Americans. In May of 2011, Manning, an admitted fitness addict who has never been overweight, made the radical decision to completely let himself go, and for six months, he stopped exercising and ate a common American diet of fast food and refined, processed snacks. The result was a seventy-five-pound weight gain. He then devoted the next six months to losing the weight, sharing with online readers his meal plans and exercise strategies, along with the ups and downs of his journey. In this fully illustrated fitness guide, Manning reveals the details of his challenge, from the joy he felt at relaxing all his rules, to the negative impact his weight gain had on his health, family, and esteem, and shares with readers his most effective methods for reversing the effects of his unhealthy lifestyle. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Harvey J. Scott ([email protected])
Rugg, Gordon BLIND SPOT September - $27.99 In Blind Spot, Dr. Gordon Rugg reveals how we all make invisible mistakes according to the faulty assumptions we accept from experts, or our own expertise, and how we can all improve our problem-solving skills through use of what he calls the Verifier Method. Using this system, Rugg was able to crack the four-century-old mystery of the legendary Voynich Manuscript in a matter of weeks, even though he has no formal cryptographic training and had never seen the document before stumbling across it online. Even more remarkable is that Rugg does this sort of thing routinely, using his Verifier Method to understand precisely what experts know and to figure out when they have made mistakes, a method that has helped him analyze and improve our efforts to solve the world’s most vexing problem, from autism and Alzheimer’s to dyslexia to national security. Featuring illustrations throughout, Blind Spot is a fascinating exploration into the mysterious process of problem solving and re-engineering the way we think. First serial, Audio: HarperOne; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Foundry Literary + Media (212-929-5064)
24 Tobin, Greg THE GOOD POPE AND HIS GREAT COUNCIL October - $26.99 The Second Vatican Council is one of the most pivotal events in church history, and its legacy still reverberates through the Catholic Church today. Because of this historic meeting, Catholics hear the mass in their own language with a priest facing them, are encouraged to read the Bible for themselves and lay people are even encouraged to take on leadership positions in the church. In The Good Pope and His Great Council, author Greg Tobin follows the blessed Pope John XXIII’s footprints throughout the twentieth century, from his upbringing and church career to his surprise election as pope and the event that stunned the entire world: convening the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, through which Pope John advocated that the Catholic Church play a positive, humanizing and spiritual role in transforming this new world and saving it from looming self-destruction. Now, for the first time, Tobin presents a major, authoritative, illustrated biography of Pope John XXIII and argues that the rejection of his reforms directly resulted in the many crises within the Church today. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: LevelFiveMedia, LLC (973-821-5489)
Tuma-Young, Jennifer BALANCE YOUR LIFE, BALANCE YOUR SCALE September - $25.99 In this revolutionary weight loss and life change program, certified wellness coach and nationally recognized Curves spokeswoman Jennifer Tuma-Young demonstrates for readers how to achieve true balance in their lives by ditching the tired, old negative dieting mentality and embracing the bigger-picture plan of self-caring. Having lost 100 pounds through her own program, Tuma-Young has experienced the challenges facing those looking to make a positive change, and in Balance Your Life, Balance Your Scale, she shares tips, testimonials, stories, and example worksheets from real women who have signed up for her personal 30-Day Challenge and reported not just weigh loss, but higher energy, less stress, more joy, and a higher quality of life. Tuma-Young explains for readers how to make an essential food-life connection, discovering how food works in their body and in their lives, and offers a balanced plan for achieving lasting success. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: HarperOne; Dramatic: Folio Literary Management (212-400-1494)
Ubel, Peter A. THE OTHER END OF THE STETHOSCOPE September - $25.99 In The Other End of the Stethoscope, Dr. Ubel, a practicing physician, behavioral scientist, and hospital ethics consultant, posits that the only way to make medical decisions that work with your personal values and preferences is through strengthened doctor/patient communication, and in this must-read guide, he empowers readers with specific tools they can implement right now to improve their own medical decision making. Through case studies, groundbreaking research, and his own experience making medical decisions for his wife who was diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Ubel makes a vital case for revamping the way we communicate inside hospital and medical office walls, and provides an insightful look into the complex dilemmas, from decisions about preventive medication to cancer treatments to end-of-life care, that patients and their families routinely face in our modern healthcare system. First serial, Audio: HarperOne; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Levine Greenberg Agency (212-337-0934)
Weiss, Brian L. & Amy E. Weiss SOMETIMES MIRACLES HAPPEN September - $25.99 As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss, the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters, was at first astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from “the space between lives,” which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss’s family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career. Since that first experience, Dr. Weiss has become a recognized leader in the field of past life therapy, and a respected proponent of the belief in reincarnation. In this remarkable new book, Dr. Weiss details the ways in which people can improve and heal their current lives, while also exploring the more metaphysical topics of transcendence and the immortal soul. Filled with incredible stories, Sometimes Miracles Happen is practical guide for readers to improve their lives, evolve along their spiritual paths, and to experience more joy, love, and happiness in the present moment. First serial, Audio: HarperOne; UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (212-903-1147)
25 Williamson, Marianne THE LAW OF DIVINE COMPENSATION September - $22.99 In The Law of Divine Compensation, #1 New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned teacher Marianne Williamson (A Course in Weight Loss, A Return to Love) reveals the spiritual principles that will help readers overcome financial stress and unleash the divine power of abundance in their lives. In this powerful book, Williamson describes the difference between the two realms she says that we all have the power to inhabit: the physical realm, where we may find ourselves stressed by the fears of debt, unemployment, health bills, and more, and the spiritual realm, where she says God has promised to make abundance and prosperity available to us all. In short, Williams believes we operate by the laws of the world we inhabit, and that readers do not need to be worried, be preoccupied with their current financial situation, or fear the future. They simply need to live their lives to the best of their abilities, and embrace the right faith that the power of God can and will work with the universe to produce miracles in their lives. First serial, UK, Translation: HarperOne; Audio, Dramatic: Author c/o HarperOne
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Fiction
Lehane, Dennis LIVE BY NIGHT October - $27.99 In his first stand-alone novel since the huge bestselling success The Given Day, Dennis Lehane returns with an epic tale of prohibition and one man’s rise from petty thief on the streets of Boston to the greatest rum runner on the Gulf Coast. Joe Coughlin, the son of one of Boston’s most promising cops, has grown from a young adulthood of small crimes to bigger heists, finding satisfaction in his new lifestyle and filial rebellion. After serving time in prison, where he becomes the protégé of aging mob boss Pescatore, Joe is handed the opportunity of a lifetime: transforming a bootleg outfit into the most profitable rum running network between Florida and Cuba. With the passionate Graciela by his side, Joe rises to power—until Pescatore decides his own son is ready to take over. When Pescatore enlists the help of an old enemy, Joe faces a violent showdown in a battle for revenge against the two men who have continually exploited him throughout his life. Lehane has created a gripping masterpiece, once again transporting readers with remarkable literary skill, exceptional detail, a penetrating anti-hero, and the suspenseful plotting that has made him a New York Times bestseller and one of the most acclaimed novelists of our generation. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency (212-684-6936)
Lippman, Laura UNTITLED September - $25.99 New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman crafts a brilliant new stand-alone novel featuring a suburban madam, a convicted murderer whose sentence is about to be overturned, and the secret that threatens to shatter several lives. Heloise thought she was safe. Val, a murderer who she helped put behind bars, is on death row and she has rebuilt her life in a small, tight knit, suburban community where her past has not been questioned. When Val’s seemingly airtight conviction is overturned and he’s freed from prison, she is convinced he will hunt her down. For Heloise is hiding a secret—Val is her former pimp and the father of her son. What lengths will Heloise go to in order to protect her child and the life she’s built for him? Lippman’s most recent novels include The Most Dangerous Thing and I’d Know You Anywhere. Audio: William Morrow; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Vicky Bijur Literary Agency (212-580-4108)
Murphy, Shirley Russo CAT BEARING GIFTS December - $19.99 A car crash, a missing treasure, a dead thief, and a suspicious blond divorcee have feline P.I. Joe Grey and his four- legged cohorts clawing for justice in this lively new entry in the beloved, award-winning series. Kate Osborne, a divorcee, reappears with a fortune and a strange story about how she obtained it. Meanwhile, a terrible car crash involves tortoiseshell Kit and her elderly housemates, Lucinda and Pedric Greenlaw. The accident is terrifying enough, but then two mysterious men steal the car—and the secret treasure hidden inside its doors. When one of the thieves ends up dead, Joe must discover if the events are connected—and why. With the investigation in trouble, will they find the killer . . . or be left chasing their tails? Previous titles in the series include Cat Telling Tales and Cat Coming Home. UK: William Morrow; First serial, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Martha Millard Literary Agency (212-662-1030)
26 Santo, Courtney Miller THE ROOTS OF THE OLIVE TREE September - $24.99 A beautiful and touching debut novel about five generations of firstborn Keller women who live in the same house on an olive grove in secluded northern California. Matriarch Anna is 112 and trying to be the oldest woman in the world—and succeeding heartily. Her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great granddaughter Erin are also defying longevity norms. When a geneticist comes to study the women at the same time Erin announces she is pregnant with a firstborn boy, the Kellers’ roots are shaken wide open. Told in the third-person perspective of each of the Keller women, the story and mystery of their existence is revealed in compulsive prose. The Roots of the Olive Tree is a heartfelt, multi-generational saga that will appeal to fans of Kristin Hannah and readers of such novels as The Secret Life of Bees. First serial, UK, Audio: William Morrow; Translation, Dramatic: Janklow & Nesbit (212-421-1700)
Nonfiction
Asimov, Eric HOW TO LOVE WINE October - $24.99 A beautifully written, thought-provoking memoir/manifesto from the New York Times’ acclaimed, highly respected chief wine critic. For most, choosing the right wine comes with strong feelings of anxiety—there’s the sense of inadequacy when you find yourself, clueless, scanning the shelves of your local wine store. Asimov knows that while wine anxiety is normal, it’s also the greatest obstacle to deriving pleasure from this incredible yet complex beverage. In How to Love Wine, Asimov weaves in stories of his love affair with wine and also incorporates in-depth discussions of beautiful and rare wines to help readers overcome their feelings of dread and instead instill in them a sense of discovery. Asimov writes frankly about favorite vineyards, fascinating people, and current wine issues, including trends he finds both interesting and alarming. How to Love Wine will help diminish readers’ anxiety, bolster their confidence, and transform them from wine neophytes to connoisseurs. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; Dramatic: David Black Agency (718-852-5500)
Fitzpatrick, David SHARP September - $25.99 When he was in his early twenties, David Fitzpatrick began cutting himself with a razor blade. Feeling overwhelmed and lost, the act of self-mutilation gave him the semblance of control missing from his life. For two decades, he struggled to overcome this dangerous and bloody addiction, a difficult battle from which he would emerge spiritually renewed. In this compelling, deeply honest memoir, Fitzpatrick recounts his quest to understand and conquer the mental forces that kept him from leading a normal life. It is also a poignant tale of hope - a soul-baring journey of a lost man who wrestles with the darkness to reclaim his life. As he shares his experiences, Fitzpatrick also credits the lessons learned from the broken people in his life - knowledge that led to his own emotional resurrection. A universal story of pain, determination, love, and reconciliation, Sharp reminds us that, no matter the odds, it is never too late to start again. UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; First serial, Dramatic: 3 Arts Entertainment (212-213-4245)
Hampton, Dan VIPER PILOT October - $26.99 Top Gun meets Tom Clancy in this riveting memoir from Dan Hampton, one of the most decorated F-16 pilots in American history—a true life story that is both a rare look into the elite world of fighter pilots and a thrilling first-person account of contemporary air combat. With the onset of the Iraq War, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Hampton saw extensive action for which he received a remarkable three Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor and a Purple Heart. Hampton offers readers a fascinating look into the mind and making of those elite few who have “the right stuff.” He recounts gripping stories of saving American soldiers on the ground from certain death, of evading heat-seeking missiles that were locked on his tail, and of being wounded in an enemy’s air strike on his base. He also reveals what it takes both mentally and physically to become the best of the best. A thrilling true story of courage and commitment rife with excitement, danger, and glory, Viper Pilot is one remarkable man’s tale of what’s like to be a true hero of the skies. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; Dramatic: Herman Agency (413-298-0077)
27 La Russa, Tony UNTITLED September - $26.99 In this thrilling comeback story, legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa reveals the behind-the-scenes details of how he led the St. Louis Cardinals to the 2011 World Series victory, despite countless injuries, mishaps, and roadblocks along the way. La Russa takes readers inside the dugout and the bullpen for one of the most dramatic World Series of all time, sharing how the hard-won secrets and astute philosophies from throughout his managerial career contributed to this victory. With six Pennants, two World Series wins, four Manager of the Year awards, and thirty-three years of experience under his belt, La Russa delivers a baseball story for the ages showing how the trials of his life culminated in one of the most exhilarating Octobers in sports history. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; Dramatic: IMG (212-774-6730)
Love, Courtney and Bozza, Anthony UNTITLED November - $28.99 For the first time, the provocative and controversial rock icon Courtney Love offers a no-holds-barred look at the shocking and chaotic story of her life. Written with New York Times bestselling writer Anthony Bozza and featuring exclusive photos from throughout her life, this book goes behind-the-scenes with one of this generation’s most polarizing pop culture figures, sparing no one and holding nothing back. From her rocky relationship with her hippie parents to her time stripping to make ends meet to the truth behind her much-publicized drug abuse and recovery, this memoir reveals an artist who, time after time, found herself on the edge of alternative just as it was going mainstream. Nothing is off limits, not her relationships with Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor, Ed Norton, and other celebrities, nor her heavily-scrutinized marriage to Kurt Cobain. This work captures her perennial journey from the fringe of pop culture to the flaming center and back again—demonstrating her flair for reinvention and her ability to stay relevant without losing her trenchancy—revealing an outspoken, creatively dangerous, and undeniably entertaining artist and woman who continues to shape popular culture. First serial, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; UK, Dramatic: Vigliano Associates (212-888-8525)
Nelson, Willie and Friedman, Kinky THE TROUBLEMAKER November - $21.99 A holiday tale of hitting rock bottom in Nashville, an outlaw’s redemption, and the true meaning of the holiday season—but told in irreverent Willie Nelson fashion—The Troublemaker is also a wild and colorful account of Nelson’s transition from struggling artist to country folk hero. After the sad but life-changing Christmas in Nashville in 1971, which saw Willie struggling with his music career, a failing marriage, and to top it off, his house burned down, he set about making music his own way. After travelling to Texas, he got back on the road and in the spirit of peace and togetherness, brought together hippies and rednecks as one audience for the first time. Willie would go on to create the “outlaw movement” with other trailblazing artists like Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, becoming the American folk hero he is today. As they say, the rest is history—or as Willie says, “If you fail at something long enough, you become a legend.” Written with fellow Texas troublemaker and bestselling author Kinky Friedman, this little volume is destined to be a Christmas classic. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; Dramatic: Vigliano Associates (212-888-8525)
Rogers, Kenny LUCK OR SOMETHING LIKE IT October - $26.99 For the first time, country music legend Kenny Rogers tells the story behind his phenomenal career, detailing his rise through the ranks to become one of the top-selling country artists of all time. Featuring a cast of characters ranging from Elvis to Dolly to Ray Charles, Rogers’ story offers a candid and eye-opening look at the world of country music, showing how mainstream success led to crossover artistic partnerships that pushed his musical boundaries. Rogers also details the important role that his faith and his upbringing played in giving him the perseverance he needed. With behind-the- scenes tales from the road, the secrets behind his biggest hits, and never-before-told personal stories, Rogers’s life defines an era in music history that is rapidly slipping away, a time when country music was more than just a part of pop culture—it was a way of life. First serial, UK: William Morrow; Translation, Audio, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment LLC (212-903-1147)
28 Savage, Michael UNITLED November - $19.99 Michael Savage, the mega-popular conservative radio host and New York Times bestselling author of Trickle Up Poverty returns with a collection of stories about tradition and family. Many of the stories were written throughout the years of Savage’s life and most of them are previously unpublished. All of the stories are connected in one way or another through one common theme, which is their humanity, their pathos. Savage is also the author of Trickle Down Tyranny, publishing in April, 2012. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow; Dramatic: Objective Entertainment (212-431-5454)
Wade, Dwyane UNTITLED September - $25.99 NBA star Dwyane Wade reflects on fathers and sons and the gratifying responsibilities of being a single dad in this triumphant memoir—an indelible and surprising story of hardship, parenthood, and unconditional love. In this deeply personal account, Wade shares the story of his childhood and the role his own father played during his growing up years, describing how important it was that, after his parents’ divorce, they agreed to be friends in order to raise their children amicably. He also reflects on how his positive relationship with his father resembles and profoundly influences the one he has with his two boys whom he won sole custody of in a painful divorce battle in 2011. For Wade, there are certain things that only a man can teach a boy, like how to tie a tie and walk the walk. The book will also feature highlights from his phenomenal basketball career—from his days playing hoops in Chicago, to Marquette University, to the NBA with the Miami Heat and a Gold Medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. In a narrative that spans two generations of the Wade family, this heartfelt memoir about the joys and responsibilities of parenting will lead by example, instructing fathers how to mold their sons into men. First serial, Audio: William Morrow; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Creative Artists Agency (212-277-9000)
Harper Voyager
Brom, Gerald KRAMPUS, THE YULE LORD November - $27.99 Brom, author of the acclaimed illustrated novel The Child Thief, returns with a retelling of the story of Krampus, the dark enemy of Santa Claus. When Jesse, a failed songwriter, witnesses a strange encounter on Christmas Eve—seven men cloaked in black beating up a man in a red suit and a sleigh—he steps in and all of the strange denizens disappear, leaving only a large sack. He soon discovers that Santa (the interloper) has stolen the magical bag of Krampus, the ancient trickster demon who punishes evildoers, and by picking it up, now he has become one of Krampus’s followers. The former Yule Lord will stop at nothing to reclaim his holiday, and return wild magic to the desperately poor denizens of Boone County. Soon Jesse is pulled into a dark, wild adventure that will span the globe, from the beginnings of Krampus himself to his own search to save his daughter and his own broken dreams. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Voyager; First serial, Dramatic: The Gotham Group (310-285-0001)
Douglas, Ian BLOODSTAR September - $7.99 pbk From New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas comes a new military science fiction series about the elite units of recon Marines and the Navy Medical Corps. As in ages past, the Medical Corps continues to provide the Marines with highly motivated and skilled men, women, and artificial intelligences who train with the Marines and who make combat drops with them onto alien and hostile planets. Their role has expanded since Humankind first began expanding to the stars; they serve now not only as medics, but as science technicians and specialists who must unravel alien ecosystems, psychologies, and biologies so that the Marines can better understand both the nature of their foes and the unique environmental dangers confronting them with each combat drop. The Navy Medical Corps is now more than doctors— they are first contact specialists, spies, and the first line of defense for Humankind—and it’s up to them to make sure that Humankind maintains their status in the galaxy. Audio: Harper Voyager; First serial, UK, Translation, Dramatic: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency (212-431-4554)
29 Drake, Jocelynn ANGEL’S INK October - $14.99 pbk Instant New York Times bestselling author Jocelynn Drake returns with a new series about a magical tattoo artist whose work can bring the wearer their heart’s desire. Gage, a rare escapee from the Ivory Towers, has become a tattoo artist in a world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and dozens of other creatures walk free and happy among the humans. However, there is one dark group - the warlocks and the witches. These magic users are dangerous and cruel, monitoring the use of magic by anyone other than themselves. In an effort to protect themselves the humans turn to Gage. Despite his best efforts to keep his head down, trouble continues to find Gage, but with the help of his warlock warden Gideon, he just might make it through this enchanted world alive. Drake’s most recent titles are Burn the Night and Wait for Dusk. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Voyager; First serial, Dramatic: Spencerhill Associates (518-392-9293)
Harrison, Kim UNTITLED October - $24.99 Kim Harrison, the sensational New York Times bestselling author, delivers a short story collection that no fan of the Hollows will be able to pass up! This collection brings together all-new, never-before-published short stories—including an original Hollows novella about Trent Kalamack’s (of Pale Demon) secret elven quest—plus the previously published Hollows short stories together in one volume for the very first time. Harrison’s most recent bestsellers are A Perfect Blood, A Pale Demon and Black Magic Sanction. UK, Translation, Audio: Harper Voyager; First serial, Dramatic: Richard Curtis (212-772-7363)
Kadrey, Richard DEVIL SAID BANG September - $24.99 The author of the acclaimed Sandman Slim pens a violent and atmospheric tale full of edgy fun and packed with angels and demons, monsters and madmen. While ruling the denizens of darkness does have a few perks, James Stark isn’t exactly thrilled at the course his career (not to mention his soul) has taken. Breaking out of Hell once was a miraculous trick, but can he do it again? While he’s working out the details of his latest escape plan, James has to figure out how to run his new domain and hold off a host of trigger-happy killers mesmerized by that bullseye on his back. Everyone in Heaven, Hell, and in between wants to be the fastest gun in the universe, and the best way to prove it is to take down Lucifer, aka James Stark. Then again, LA isn’t quite the paradise it once was, a ghost is creating serial killers and his angelic alter-ago is hiding somewhere with a secret cabal who can rewrite reality. Kadrey is also the author of Kill the Dead and Aloha From Hell. UK, Audio: Harper Voyager; First serial, Translation, Dramatic: Curtis Brown Ltd. (212-473-5400)
Spradlin, Michael P. BLOOD RIDERS October - $7.99 pbk Civil War vet Jonas R. Hollister is recruited by the U.S. government to hunt down and destroy an ancient tribe of vampires that is terrorizing the frontier territories of the Wild West in this action-packed new novel from New York Times bestselling author Michael P. Spradlin. Hollister has spent the last four years in Ft. Leavenworth, claiming it was a band of blood- sucking creatures that slaughtered eleven soldiers under his command. When a group of Colorado miners are slaughtered in much the same fashion as Hollister’s men, detective Allan Pinkerton arrives with a deal for Hollister: if he can track down and kill these creatures, he’ll be a free man. Joined by Pinkerton; Chee, a young man who was in Leavenworth with Hollister; Chee’s pet dog; and Samuel Colt; and aided by Abraham Van Helsing and a mysterious woman named Shania, Hollister pursues his quarry through the rugged terrain of the Wild West until they eventually meet their enemies for an epic showdown at an abandoned mining camp. First serial, Audio: Harper Voyager; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Chudney Agency (914-488-5008)
30 Testerman, Doyce HIDDEN THINGS September - $14.99 pbk An imaginative, vividly drawn debut novel in which a murder propels a young woman on an unexpected road trip across middle America with a mysterious stranger. Private investigator Calliope Jenkins receives a call from her best friend, business partner, and former lover Josh White at 5a.m., however according to the police he was killed at 3 a.m. Confused and suspicious, she heads to Iowa, to the small town where Josh was heading—the same town that holds uncomfortable secrets from his and Cally’s past. She’s accompanied by a mysterious stranger with intimate and deeply disturbing knowledge which neither she nor Josh ever shared. Beneath the quiet surface of the “magical” heartland lies a dark underbelly filled with dangerous detours, hidden traps, and deadly monsters disguised by friendly faces, and suddenly Cally’s investigation has become a chase . . . with her as the prey. First serial, UK, Audio: Harper Voyager; Translation, Dramatic: Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency (212-725-5288)
William Morrow Cookbooks
Douglas, Tom THE DAHLIA BAKERY COOKBOOK November - $35.00 Award-winning chef and cookbook author Tom Douglas presents the best loved recipes from his famous Dahlia Bakery in Seattle. This cookbook contains 135 delectable recipes for breakfasts, pastries, tarts, pies, cakes, cupcakes, cookies, puddings, ice creams, soup, sandwiches, and jams that are chef-tested and guaranteed to work in the home kitchen. In addition to these bakery treats, Douglas offers both sweet and savory variations to his beloved classics, such as Eggs Benedict with Scallion Hollandaise and Ham or the Breakfast Sandwich with Heirloom Tomato, Egg, and Herbed Chevre. Featuring informative sidebars, technique tips, difficulty ratings, and equipment advice—and filled with photos and stories that capture the flavors of Seattle—The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook is sure to please fans and newcomers alike. No matter where you live in the country, Tom Douglas delivers Seattle’s most swoon-worthy treats right into your home kitchen. First serial, Audio: William Morrow Cookbooks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Judith Riven Literary Agency (212-255-1009)
Hesser, Amanda and Stubbs, Merrill FOOD52 COOKBOOK II November - $35.00 The pioneers of the online community cookbook return with a second helping of delicious, seasonal recipes from the country’s most inventive home cooks—as compiled from the acclaimed Food52.com website. Powered by a thriving online community and edited by noted food writers Hesser and Stubbs, Food52.com solicits skilled home cooks who compete each week by sending in their “best” seasonally appropriate recipe within a particular category. While Hesser and Stubbs choose the finalists, the winners are ultimately determined by the votes of online readers. This year’s community favorites include: Porcini and Rosemary Crusted Beef Tenderloin with Port Wine Sauce, Afghan Dumplings with Lamb Kofta and Yogurt Sauce, Dilled, Crunchy Sweet-Corn Salad with Buttermilk Dressing and Boozy Watermelon Rosemary Lemonade. The Food52 Cookbook Ii captures the community spirit and flavor that have made the website a success, and includes the authors’ expert comments on every recipe, plus behind-the-scenes photos, tips and variations, reader comments, and brief features on the contributors. UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Cookbooks; First serial, Dramatic: International Creative Management (212-556-5719)
Lagasse, Emeril EMERIL’S KICKED-UP SANDWICHES October - $24.99 pbk Lagasse, one of America’s favorite chefs, introduces more than 100 simple, flavorful recipes for the world’s best sandwiches and the breads and condiments that make them shine! From classic sandwiches to unique culinary creations, Emeril’s Kicked-Up Sandwiches serves up recipes for every skill level and palate, including: Chopped Salad Wrap with Pan Roasted Chicken, Roquefort, and Bacon, Fried Soft Shelled Crab with a Lemon Caper Mayo, Curried Chicken Salad on Pumpernickel, Garden Burger with Cranberry Chutney, and Smashed Chickpeas on Naan with Mint Cilantro Chutney. Enjoy a savory breakfast wrap, an easy on-the-go lunch, or a satisfying hot meal. Lagasse’s sandwiches span a range of international flavors with varieties for any occasion. Recipes for hearty breads and versatile condiments round out this comprehensive book that’s sure to be a fan favorite. Lagasse’s most recent cookbooks are Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders and From Farm-to-Fork. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Cookbooks; Dramatic: MSLO (504-524-4241)
31 McCord, Catherine WEELICIOUS September - $27.50 From the wildly popular blog Weelicious.com, here are dozens of recipes and tips to get kids eating happily and healthily. Complete with beautiful color photos, tips and tools, pantry staples, feeding plans, and recipes never-before-seen on Weelicious.com, Weelicious makes it easy to get kids eating healthy foods from their first bite. McCord teaches parents how to make their kids into great eaters who appreciate food and are open to exciting new flavors. Readers will learn to stop being a short order cook, to inspire kids to eat healthy without resorting to sneaking or trickery and to shop effectively (and make it fun). From WeeNuggets to Chicken Wonton Soup, Rice Cooker Mac & Cheese to Broccoli Pesto, and Oven Baked “Fries” to Veg-wee Burgers, the recipes are perfect for little taste buds and sophisticated adult palates alike. More than just a cookbook, this is the ultimate cooking bible for moms—a resource that will stand the test of time even as their children grow into adulthood. First serial, Audio: William Morrow Cookbooks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: William Morris Endeavor (212-903-1138)
William Morrow Paperbacks
Fiction
Ashworth, Jenn COLD LIGHT October - $14.99 A beautiful and disturbing psychological thriller about the secrets between two fourteen-year-old girlfriends and the web of volatile lies, jealousy and perversion that comes between them ending in tragedy. Dark and with a surreal edge to its portrait of a small northern English town, Ashworth’s gripping novel captures the intensity of girls’ friendships and the dangers they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle. Like Tana French and Kate Atkinson, Jenn Ashworth is a master at creating incredibly creepy and appealing mysteries. She is also the author of A Kind of Intimacy. First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Hodder & Stoughton (+011-44-20-7873-6157)
Grose, Jessica SAD DESK SALAD September - $14.99 A tongue-in-cheek novel from a former Gawker writer about a savvy blogger who stumbles upon the biggest scoop of the year—and must reconcile her true values with the ruthless demands of a gossip and reality-obsessed culture. As writer for Chick Habit, a website for women and one of the most popular blogs on the Internet, Alex Lyons is fulfilling her dream of being a professional writer. Maybe she’s not quite championing the women’s rights issues she used to write about in college—but Alex churns out several posts a day, beginning with “hard” news at 8 a.m. (a meth-addicted former beauty queen, perfect!); morning and evening gossip roundups; and especially juicy posts for blog primetime, when women in their offices all over both coasts eat their sad desk salads. When an anonymous tipster sends Alex the juiciest scoop of the year—a politico’s squeaky-clean Ivy League daughter caught in the act of some very R-rated activity—it’s a no- brainer. However, as she prepares to ignite the next Internet feeding frenzy, Alex hesitates: is she ready to ruin the girl’s life? What Alex doesn’t anticipate is how the big scoop will send her own life spiraling out of control. Grose is a senior editor at Slate. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Weed Literary (212-206-0056)
Gray, Shelley Sheppard FOUND September - $12.99 In the third book in her Secrets of Crittenden County series, New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers another page-turning romance set in Amish country. Missing and The Search are the first two installments in this series. Avon Inspire First serial, UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: Avon Inspire
32 Harman, Patricia THE MIDWIFE OF HOPE RIVER September - $14.99 A stirring debut novel featuring Patience Murphy, an Appalachian midwife in the 1930s struggling against disease, poverty, and prejudices to bring new light, and life, into an otherwise cruel world. As a midwife working in hardscrabble conditions during the Depression, Patience’s only solace is her gift: the chance to escort mothers through the challenges of childbirth. Just beginning, she takes on the jobs no one else wants: those most in need—and least likely to pay. Patience is willing to do what it takes to fulfill her mentor’s wishes, but starting a midwife practice means gaining trust, and Patience’s secrets are too fragile to let anyone in. A practicing midwife, Harman is a regular presenter at national midwifery conferences. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Barbara Braun Associates (212-604-9023)
McElhatton, Heather JENNIFER JOHNSON IS SICK OF BEING MARRIED September - $14.99 From the author of the highly successful Pretty Little Mistakes and Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single, comes the next chapter in the story of Jennifer Johnson, an everywoman whose every thought, flaw and neurosis is on display. Jennifer is your average American woman…who just happened to marry the handsome wealthy son of a Midwest department store magnate. After a honeymoon from hell, Jennifer finds herself in an all too bizarre new life. Soon she’s organizing Valentine’s Day Abstinence dances with her mother-in-law’s church committee, sewing “size 4” tags into all of her clothing because she can’t possibly reveal the truth to her husband, and dining with a Trophy Wives club with their own theories about how to hold on the their men. Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Married is a laugh-out-loud, no-holds barred lesson about the “good life” and how getting what you want most might just be the worst thing for you. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Bright House, Inc. (612-309-2374)
McKenzie, Catherine FORGOTTEN September - $14.99 Emma Tupper is a young, dedicated lawyer with a bright future. When she takes a month-long leave of absence to take the African dream vacation that her mother never could, the consequences are unexpected. After she falls ill and spends six months trapped in a remote village thanks to a devastating earthquake, Emma returns home to discover that her friends, boyfriend, and colleagues believed her dead and that her life has gone on without her. As she struggles to recreate her old life, throwing herself into solving a big mystery for a client at work and trying to reclaim her beloved apartment from the handsome photographer who’s taken over her lease, everyone around her thinks she should take the opportunity to change. After all, how often does someone get a true fresh start in life? McKenzie is also the author of Spin, publishing in February 2012 and Arranged publishing in May 2012. First serial: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Audio, Dramatic: The Park Literary Group (212-625-8283)
Pierce, Gabriella THE LOST SOUL September - $13.99 From Alloy Entertainment, the packager of Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diaries, comes the third chapter in a richly gothic series about the darkness lurking behind the gilded halls of New York high society, and the elite Upper East Side Witches who rule Park Avenue. Pierce is also the author of 666 Park Avenue and Dark Glamour, the first two volumes in this series. First serial, UK, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Translation, Dramatic: Alloy Entertainment (212-329-8440)
Rice, Lisa Marie HEART OF DANGER October- $14.99 Romantic suspense has never been this thrilling and scintillating as rising star Lisa Marie Rice pens the first installment in her sizzling new series featuring three members of the Ghost Ops, a super secret military team who disappeared without a trace, only to reemerge for the ultimate battle and find strength equal to their own in the women they love. Avon Red First serial, UK, Audio: Avon Red; Translation, Dramatic: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency (212-431-4554)
33 Wallace, Danny CHARLOTTE STREET November - $14.99 From Danny Wallace, British writer, producer, and award-winning journalist, comes his debut novel, a romantic comedy in the vein of Nick Hornby and David Nicholls, about finding love, growing up, and making your own fate. Jason gave up his job as a teacher to pursue his journalistic dreams—writing snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper available on the train. Having recently discovered his ex-girlfriend is newly engaged, Jason is convinced he is in a rut. When he notices a girl on the street struggling with an armload of packages, he surprises himself by moving to help her. She smiles an incredible smile, and there’s something, a fleeting moment—what feels like a beginning—but then her cab pulls away, the sense of possibility cruelly cut off—until Jason notices that she’s dropped a disposable camera. In the hands of his socially inept best friend Dev, what begins as a half-joking idea becomes a full-fledged quest to find the woman of Jason’s dreams. Exploring that most common question—What if?—the ensuing adventure is surprising, wonderfully tender, and often hilarious. First serial, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Joseph Veltre (212-634-8142)
Nonfiction
Di Vincenzo, Mark UNTITLED October - $13.99 Following the bestselling compendium Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, Di Vincenzo delivers another essential guide packed with expert tips on timing for just about everything, from money and health to travel and food, including sections on beauty tips, pets, cars and children. Even more comprehensive than Di Vincenzo’s first bestseller, this latest volume covers yet more scenarios, telling you the best time—of the day, of the week, of the month, or of the year—to do almost anything, including: visit New York City if you’re on a budget, sell a used car, and tweet and retweet. With money-saving tips and solid advice throughout, this book will turn you into the savvy consumer you’ve always wanted to be. Timing truly is everything! First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Wolfson Literary Agency (646-454-1683)
Heimbuch, Craig AND NOW WE SHALL DO MANLY THINGS November - $15.99 In the tradition of A Walk in the Woods and The Know-It-All, Craig Heimbuch takes a wry look at some of our most deeply- cherished cultural beliefs and encourages men to reassess their definitions of manhood. Heimbuch was in his early thirties when he received a gift from his father—a 12-gauge Winchester over-under shotgun. He had never even thought of owning a gun, but the gift got him thinking: the men in his Midwestern family were enthusiastic hunters, and he, the black sheep so to speak, was possibly the only one who shied away. For most of his life, Heimbuch was quite comfortable with that, but now that he had a shotgun, he committed to overcoming his domesticated suburban lifestyle by diving headfirst into hunting culture for a year, with the ambition of participating in the annual Heimbuch family pheasant hunt. During his journey he discovers it is possible to be an active father, loving spouse, and hunter….without being mistaken for a gun-toting lunatic. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Dystel & Goderich (212-627-9100)
Largo, Michael THE BIG BOOK OF BEASTS September - $16.99 David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in this a one-of-a-kind treasury of the most strange and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals. Taking the original bestiaries as his inspiration, Largo returns readers to that captivating wonder of animals we all had as children and looks at the beasts we created with our imaginations, as well as ones long gone. He shares the animal kingdom’s most fascinating secrets and reveals fact after astonishing—and often hilarious—fact about their oddest behavior. Largo is the award-winning author of Final Exits and God’s Lunatics. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: William Morrow Paperbacks; Dramatic: Frank Weimann (646-442-5896)
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Ashe, Katharine HOW A SPY LOVES A LADY October - $7.99 Katharine Ashe is back with the third installment in her Falcon Club series featuring a man determined to be bad and a woman who is sure he’s her perfect hero. Ashe is also the author of When a Scot Loves a Lady and How to Be a Proper Lady, the first two volumes in this series. First serial, Audio: Avon; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Trident Media Group (212-333-1504)
Bennett, Sara SIN WITH A SCOUNDREL November - $7.99 Popular author Sara Bennett (Most Sinful Proposal, To Pleasure a Duke) delivers the concluding installment in the Victorian series about The Husband Hunter’s Club where the girls of Miss Debenham’s Finishing School believe the only husband worth having is a husband you have hunted yourself. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Nancy Yost Literary Agency (212-239-2861)
Burcell, Robin THE DARK HOUR December - $7.99 Award-winning mystery writer Robin Burcell pens the third thriller featuring FBI Forensic Artist Sydney Fitzpatrick in which Sydney helps a man track down both his missing wife and a criminal bioweapons organization. Burcell is also the author of Face of a Killer and The Bone Chamber, the first two volumes in this series. Harper First serial, Audio: Harper; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Jane Chelius Literary Agency (718-499-0236)
Cooper, Karina SACRIFICE THE WICKED October - $7.99 Paranormal romance author Karina Cooper presents the next volume in the Dark Mission series which unveils the Mission’s greatest plan, as a woman at the top of the power heap finds herself fighting to the death against those she used to call allies. Cooper is also the author of Blood of the Wicked, Lure of the Wicked, and All Things Wicked, the first three volumes in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Bradford Literary Agency (619-929-1633)
Cornwall, Lecia TO WED A DEVILISH DUKE December - $7.99 Kicking off a great new four book series, talented author Lecia Cornwall presents a stunning historical romance about a case of mistaken brides. Cornwall’s most recent title was The Price of Temptation. First serial, UK, Audio: Avon, Translation, Dramatic: Marsal Lyon Literary (858-492-8009)
Dare, Tessa A LADY BY MIDNIGHT September - $7.99 In the third installment of Tessa Dare’s historical Spindle Cove series, Kate and Samuel are reunited after many years and soon find themselves headed down the aisle. However, will a secret from Kate’s past destroy their happiness? The first two volumes in this series are A Night to Surrender and a Week to Be Wicked. First serial, UK, Audio: Avon; Translation, Dramatic: Cornerstone Literary Agency (323-930-6039)
Fletcher, Donna WED TO A HIGHLAND WARRIOR November - $7.99 Following Bound to a Warrior, Loved By A Warrior and A Warrior’s Promise this is the fourth volume in popular author Donna Fletcher’s current series, set in the thrilling Scottish Highlands, about four brave warriors destined to return the legendary king of Scotland to his throne. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon, Dramatic: Talbot/Fortune Agency (914-747-1211)
35 Foley, Gaelen MY SCANDALOUS VISCOUNT October - $7.99 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Gaelen Foley crafts the fifth installment in her Inferno Club series featuring a scandalous gathering of wealthy and highborn rakes devoted to their wicked pleasures. Foley is also the author of My Wicked Marquess, My Dangerous Duke, My Irresistible Earl, and My Ruthless Prince, the first four volumes in this series. First serial, Audio: Avon; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Nancy Yost Agency (212-239-2861)
Freveletti, Jamie UNTITLED November - $7.99 Critically acclaimed author Jamie Freveletti returns with the fourth installment of her series featuring brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge. In this new entry, the pulse pounding sequel to The Ninth Day, Emma must stop the spread of a mysterious sleeping sickness on an island where voodoo—and possibly worse—are practiced. Running with the Devil, Running Dark and The Ninth Day are the first three volumes in this series. Harper First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Harper; Dramatic: Irene Goodman Agency (212-604-0330)
Grace, Sable CHOSEN September - $7.99 The third installment in a paranormal series in which the Dark Breeds (vampires, demons, shape shifters) war with mortals, and one woman stands between them in a fight for survival. Grace is also the author of Ascension and Bedeviled, the first two volumes in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Roberta Brown Literary Agency (239-455-7190)
Guhrke, Laura Lee IF YOU WERE MINE December - $7.99 Laura Lee Guhrke presents the first installment in her new series about the lives of the nobility and servants who live on the Monforth Estate. New York Times bestselling author Guhrke’s most recent titles are Scandal of the Year and Trouble at the Wedding. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: The Axelrod Agency (518-392-2100)
Heath, Lorraine LORD OF TEMPTATION October - $7.99 New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath (Waking Up with the Duke, She Tempts the Duke) pens the second installment in a richly passionate new series about three dark and dangerous men determined to reclaim their birthright. One man raised on the streets, one hardened by a life at sea, and one toughened by regimental service...but each will discover that nothing they endured prepared them to be brought to their knees by love. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Writers House LLC (212-685-3346)
Hill, Sandra KISS OF SURRENDER October - $7.99 Always innovative, USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill crafts the second installment in a new series about Viking vampire angels. Kiss of Pride is the first volume in this series. First serial, Audio: Avon; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Bent Agency (347-787-7445)
James, Eloisa THE UGLY DUCHESS September - $7.99 Following the success of A Kiss at Midnight, When Beauty Tamed the Beast and The Duke is Mine, The Ugly Duchess is the fourth entry in New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James’ fairy tale retellings set in Regency England. This tale is a reimagining of the Ugly Duckling story. First serial, Audio: Avon; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Inkwell Management (212-922-3500)
36 Laurens, Stephanie THE LADY RISKS ALL October - $7.99 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Laurens presents another sizzling romance bound for the bestseller lists. Miranda Clifford, a spinster of good family has been brought up to believe that respectability is everything. Meanwhile, Neville Roscoe is, as far as all of society knows, the king of London’s gambling world. In short, he’s not the sort of man Miranda should even be seen with, much less get involved with…. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: The Nancy Yost Agency (212-239-2861)
Linden, Caroline THE WAY TO A DUKE’S HEART September - $7.99 From Caroline Linden comes the third installment in a breathtaking historical romance series about three brothers who may soon find themselves disinherited due to a long-ago scandal involving their father. The series focuses on the lives of the brothers as each one seeks their fortune—and love. Linden is also the author of Love and Other Scandals and Blame it on Bath, the first two volumes in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Spencerhill Associates (518-392-9293)
Liu, Marjorie M. A FURIOUS DARKNESS December - $7.99 Talented New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu (Taste of Crimson, Within the Flames) delivers the first thrilling installment in a new paranormal romance series. Stranded and lost, Zelena and her two siblings are separated and thrust into a fight for survival in a world where monsters might be the only friends they have—if they aren’t killed first, just for being human. First serial, UK, Audio: Avon; Translation, Dramatic: The Knight Agency (706-752-0096)
Long, Julie Anne A NOTORIOUS COUNTESS CONFESSES November - $7.99 Bestselling author Julie Anne Long crafts the sixth entry in her sensual and emotionally charged Pennyroyal Green series concerning the feud of the wealthy Eversea and Redmond families. Long is also the author of How the Marquess Was Won, the most recent volume in this series. First serial, UK, Audio: Avon; Translation, Dramatic: The Axelrod Agency (518-392-2100)
MacLean, Sarah ONE GOOD EARL DESERVES A LOVER December - $7.99 The second novel in the incredible new Fallen Angels series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean. The series features four Aristocrats, each exiled from society. Now royalty in the London underworld, each one searches for a love powerful enough to tame the darkness...and bring these fallen angels back into the light. MacLean’s most recent novel is A Rogue by Any Other Name, the first volume in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Trident Media Group (212-333-1531)
Maxwell, Cathy THE SCOTTISH WITCH: THE CHATTAN CURSE November - $7.99 New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell (His Christmas Pleasure, The Seduction of Scandal) delivers the second installment in a brand new series, about a family cursed to never fall in love—and what happens when they tempt fate. Lyon’s Bride: The Chattan Curse is the first volume in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Writers House (212-685-3346)
Neville, Miranda THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WICKED December - $7.99 Miranda Neville pens the first volume in a new series about reckless men and daring women, set in the bawdy and lusty Georgian era at the turn of the 19th century. Her most recent title was The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Bernstein Literary (212-799-1007)
37 Randol, Anna SINS OF A VIRGIN September - $7.99 Brilliant new talent Anna Randol pens another exotic, sultry and adventurous historical romance set in the Ottoman Empire in which Madeline Valdan is broke and without protection…so she decides to auction off her virginity. Randol is also the author of Secret in Her Kiss. First serial, UK, Audio: Avon; Translation, Dramatic: Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (760-814-8507)
Rodale, Maya SEDUCING MR. KNIGHTLY November - $7.99 Fan favorite Maya Rodale presents the fourth volume in her Writing Girls historical romance series. Rodale is also the author of Brave New Lord, the previous book in this series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: David Black Literary Agency (718-852-5523)
Sparks, Kerrelyn WILD ABOUT YOU October - $7.99 Sparks, a star of paranormal fiction, and author of Sexiest Vampire Alive and Wanted: Undead or Alive, delivers another captivating chronicle in her New York Times bestselling Love at Stake series featuring the lives of modern vampires and shifters. In this entry, a warrior finds passion and a second chance at love with the one woman who may just be the key to his survival. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: 3 Seas Literary (608-221-4306)
Staub, Wendy Corsi NIGHTWATCHER September - $7.99 New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub has crafted a taut, breathtaking new series set against the backdrop of 9/11—the day itself and the years since—tapping into our latent fears and never ending quest to understand that day. In this first book, a serial killer is on the loose in the newly terrorized city and Allison is the only one who can identify him—as long as she doesn’t become his next victim. Harper First serial, UK, Audio: Harper; Translation, Dramatic: Curtis Brown Ltd. (914-232-6577)
Staub, Wendy Corsi SLEEPWALKER October - $7.99 Following on the heels of Nightwatcher, comes the second installment in a heart-stopping new trilogy, about what happens when terror strikes close to home. It’s 10 years after 9/11 and Allison is now happily married to Mack. The anniversary of the attacks and the Nightwatcher killer weighs on Mack who has begun to sleepwalk, with no memory of where he’s been or what he’s done. When the women start dying again, just like they did a decade ago, a connection between the victims emerges—and that connection points to Mack. Terrified and desperate to prove his innocence, Allison must decide if she can trust her heart or if this time she’s trusted the wrong man. Harper First serial, UK, Audio: Harper; Translation, Dramatic: Curtis Brown Ltd. (914-232-6577)
Stone, Juliana KING OF THE DAMNED December - $7.99 Juliana Stone goes to the next level with the second book in the spinoff series of her Jaguar Warriors. The League of Guardians is comprised of supernatural beings of all shapes and species. In this installment, fallen angel Azaiel comes back from hell on a mission to solve a murder and ends up protecting the victim’s granddaughter. Stone’s last novel was Wicked Road to Hell, the first volume in this exciting paranormal series. First serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Avon; Dramatic: Bradford Literary Agency (619-929-1633)
Wilde, Lori A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS November - $7.99 In the vein of Sherryl Woods and Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde delivers the third volume in a new series set in Jubilee, Texas, a town full of horses, cowboys, and more than a little romance! The first two titles in this series are The Cowboy Takes a Bride which will publish in April, 2012 and The Cowboy and the Princess which will publish in August, 2012. First serial, Audio: Avon; UK, Translation, Dramatic: The Bent Agency (347-787-7445)
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