ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN DECEMBER 2017

The Bikini Body Motivation & Habits Guide

Kayla Itsines

The #1 Fitness Influencer in the world (Forbes) and social media star (over 18 million followers!) Kayla Itsines’ new guide on how to form good eating habits in just 28 days.

Use the power of motivation and good habits to become fitter, healthier and stronger, for life! HEALTH & FITNESS St. Martin's Griffin | 12/19/2017 Bikini Body Guides (BBG) co-creator Kayla Itsines, named the world’s number 9781250137616 | $27.99 / $36.50 Can. one fitness influencer by Forbes, shows you how to harness the power of Vinyl Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 16 motivation and build good habits around health and fitness. Drawing on more 10.3 in H | 8.3 in W Includes color photographs throughout than 40,000 survey responses from her global online community, as well as extensive research and her experience as a trainer, Kayla addresses what stops us Subrights: Translation: Pan Macmillan Australia from following through on our health and fitness goals. In her second book, The UK: Bluebird Books Bikini Body Motivation & Habits Guide, Kayla explores how you can overcome Other Available Formats: those obstacles, set goals and stick to a long-term plan for better health. Ebook ISBN: 9781250137623 Inside, you’ll find helpful checklists and templates, a 28-day meal plan, more than 200 simple and delicious recipes, shopping lists and a pull-out 28-day MARKETING workout poster. Targeted Author Appearances National Television Publicity National Radio Publicity Let global fitness phenomenon Kayla show you how YOU can stick to a plan for National Print Publicity long-term health. Online Publicity Online Advertising Campaign Extensive Blog Outreach Campaign "In this book, I give you the keys to achieving your goals and show you how to Major Social Media Campaign use motivation to create healthy habits that will stick." Major Newsletter Outreach and Email Marketing Campaign Author Website: kaylaitsines.com KAYLA ITSINES is a personal trainer with over 18 million social media followers. The “BBG” has Active on Facebook: grown into a phenomenon, with women all over the world following her workout and diet plan. facebook.com/k.itsines (11.8 million Kayla lives in Adelaide, Australia with her partner Tobi Pearce and her Siberian Husky Ace. followers) Active on Instagram: @kayla_itsines (6.9 million followers) Active on Twitter: @kayla_itsines (413,000 followers) Active on YouTube: youtube.co...

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This Was a Man The Final Volume of The Clifton Chronicles

Jeffrey Archer

The 7th and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles series brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss, and ambition to a dazzling conclusion.

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?

In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the FICTION / SAGAS Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? St. Martin's Griffin | 1/16/2018 9781250130051 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 24 completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes a family tree an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.

Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK Translation Rights: Macmillan UK Sebastian Clifton becomes Chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank but only after Hakim Bishara has to resign for personal reasons. Sebastian and Samantha’s Other Available Formats: talented daughter, Jessica, is expelled from the Slade School of Fine Art, but her Mass Market ISBN: 9781250061645 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250061638 aunt Grace comes to her rescue. Audio ISBN: 9781427278739 Ebook ISBN: 9781466867512 Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons. MARKETING Email Marketing Campaign In a devastating twist, tragedy engulfs the Clifton family when one of them Social Media Campaign receives a shocking diagnosis that will throw all their lives into turmoil. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Author Website: jeffreyarcher.co.uk This Was a Man is the captivating final installment of the Clifton Chronicles, a Active on Facebook: series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world and facebook.com/jeffreyarcherauthor (210k followers) enhanced Jeffrey Archer’s reputation as a master storyteller. Active on Twitter: @jeffrey_archer (29.5k followers) PRAISE “Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking ALSO AVAILABLE conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Cometh the Hour Cometh the Hour: Book Six Of the Clifton Chronicles “Archer packs a plot with thrills and chills enough for readers to keep turning the 10/2016 | 9781250061614 Mass Market | $9.99 / $12.99 Can. pages...The conclusion’s a turbo-charged cliffhanger.” —Kirkus Reviews on Mightier Than the Sword Cometh the Hour: Book Six Of the Clifton Chronicles 8/2016 | 9781250091789 JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain’s House Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. of Commons and twenty-four years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story Be Careful What You Wish For: A Novel collections—including Cometh the Hour, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller—have been 2/2015 | 9781250073181 international bestselling books. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Cambridge. 3 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

The Mother's Promise A Novel

Sally Hepworth

A poignant and breathtaking novel from the author of The Things We Keep and The Secrets of Midwives.

All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of and the identity of Zoe’s father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works—until it doesn’t. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Desperate to find stability for Zoe, Alice reaches out to two women who are WOMEN practically strangers, but who are her only hope: Kate, a nurse, and Sonja, a St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 9781250077769 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. social worker. As the four of them come together, a chain of events is set into Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 motion and they must confront their sharpest fears and secrets—secrets about 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W abandonment, abuse, estrangement, and the deepest longing for family. Imbued Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press with heart and humor in even the darkest moments, The Mother’s Promise is an Translation Rights: Rob Weisbach Creative unforgettable novel about the unbreakable bonds between mothers and Management daughters, and the new ways in which families are forged. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250077752 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781427282156 Ebook ISBN: 9781466889927 “A page-turner. All the pieces masterfully come together at the end to create a Audio ISBN: 9781427282163 beautiful novel of courage and love in the face of sorrow.” —Booklist (Starred Review) on The Mother’s Promise

MARKETING Online Advertising “Devastatingly beautiful.” —People Magazine on The Things We Keep Bookclub Outreach Tie-in with trade publication of The Family “Sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs Next Door Blog Outreach will be lining up.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on The Things We Keep Email Marketing Discussion Guide Available Online “Sally Hepworth’s novel enchants.” —Us Weekly on The Secrets of Midwives Library Marketing Campaign Email Marketing Online Publicity SALLY HEPWORTH is a former human resource professional and a graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Sally has lived around the world, spending extended periods in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and she now writes full-time from her home in Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her husband and two young children. ALSO AVAILABLE

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Close to Om Stretching Yoga from Your Mat to Your Life

Andrea Marcum

A beautifully illustrated, practical and philosophical, yoga book that promotes and teaches mindfulness in both your yoga practice and your everyday life.

Before Andrea Marcum was a sought after celebrity yoga teacher, she was someone who thought she couldn’t do yoga because she couldn’t be still. Now HEALTH & FITNESS / YOGA after sixteen years of teaching yoga, she works with network executives, global St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 9781250127594 | $19.99 brands, Hollywood actresses, and everyone in between. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 30 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W Yoga is the yoke of body, mind, and spirit, and in Close to Om, Marcum offers a Includes illustrations and color photographs program that teaches all three aspects of yoga. In the vein of Tara Stiles’ Yoga throughout Curves, Rebecca Pacheco’s Do Your Om Thing, and Sharon Saltzberg’s Real Subrights: UK Rights: Zachary Shuster Happiness, but showcasing Marcum’s signature unique style, it is a program that Harmsworth Literary combines the teaching of poses with the exploration of yoga philosophy and Translation Rights:Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary insight into meditation and mindfulness.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250127600 By the end of Close to Om, you will not only know a lot about yoga and its Audio ISBN: 9781427294197 poses, but you’ll also know more about you: who you are, what you want, and Audio ISBN: 9781427294180 how to get there—on and off your mat. The progression in Close to Om is the architecture of every yoga practice—and will show you that how you do your yoga is how you do your life. MARKETING National Print Publicity PRAISE Online Publicity Cross Promotion with LuLuLemon and “Andrea’s combination of a challenging class, and a great sense of humor are Other Yoga Brands Social Media Campaign unique, intelligent, and always leave me feeling better when I leave than when I Pre-Order Campaign arrived. She is an amazing teacher and I love her class.” —Heather Graham, Blog Outreach Campaign actress Author Website: andreamarcum.com Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/ustudio.yoga.7 (8400 “At our NBC Universal International Television executive retreat Andrea followers) convinced even the most skeptical on our team that mindfulness and yoga are Active on Instagram: @andreamarcum (4800 followers) exciting tools to improve our quality of life and job performance. Her approachable style allowed everyone to feel comfortable and made the session a great success.” —Michael Edelstein, President, NBC Universal International Television Production

ANDREA MARCUM has been teaching yoga in LA for sixteen years. She teaches at Yogaworks locally and at major events including Wanderlust festivals, as well as leading corporate and private retreats all over the world. Her classes are also available through My Yoga Gaia for streaming online and TV. Among her celebrity clients are actresses Heather Graham and Jennifer Jason Leigh, directors Noah Baumbach and Mark Pellington, and Oprah’s The Life You Want Tour celebrity life coach Angela Davis.

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Unf*ckology A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Amy Alkon

The Advice Goddess presents a pull-yourself-up-by- your-bootstraps, science-based guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair.

Amy Alkon presents Unf*ckology, a “science-help” book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. You can finally stop fear from being your boss and put an end to your lifelong social suckage. Have you spent your life shrinking from opportunities you were dying to seize but feel “that’s just who I am”? Well, screw that! You actually can change, and it doesn’t take exceptional intelligence or a therapist who’s looking forward to finally buying Aruba after SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH / SUCCESS decades of listening you yammer on. Transforming yourself takes revolutionary St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 science-help from Amy Alkon, who has spent the past 20 years translating 9781250080868 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. cutting-edge behavioral science into highly practical advice in her award- Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 winning syndicated column. In Unf*ckology, Alkon pulls together findings from 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes 14 black-and-white illustrations and neuroscience, behavioral science, evolutionary psychology, and clinical photographs psychology. She explains everything in language you won’t need a psych prof on speed-dial to understand—and with the biting dark humor that made Good Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck such a great read. She debunks widely-accepted but scientifically unsupported notions about Other Available Formats: self-esteem, shame, willpower, and more and demonstrates that: Ebook ISBN: 9781466892682 · Thinking your way into changing (as so many therapists and self-help books advise) is the most inefficient way to go about it. ALSO AVAILABLE Good Manners for Nice People Who · The mind is bigger than the brain, meaning that your body and your behavior Sometimes Say F*ck are your gym for turning yoursel... 6/2014 | 9781250030719 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. PRAISE “She is chatty, at times outrageous, but full of ideas about living politely in a society that she says has become too big for our brains to handle. As for Oscar Wilde, at the end of his life he is said to have commented: ‘The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork.’” —Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal

“Contradiction is part of what makes Ms. Alkon so captivating. Perhaps the biggest contradiction: The hisser can also be utterly lovely.” —Brooks Barnes, The New York Times

“Hilarious...and, above all, wise. It’s Emily Post as a beach read.” —Charlotte Allen, The Weekly Standard

AMY ALKON does "applied behavioral science," translating scientific research into highly practical advice. Alkon writes The Science Advice Goddess, an award-winning, syndicated column that runs in newspapers across the United States and Canada. She is also the author of Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck and I See Rude People. She has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, and does a weekly science podcast. She has 6 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

End Game

Lisa Renee Jones

The final novel in a stunningly sexy, explosive Dirty Money contemporary romance series from heralded New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.

Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in End Game, the smoldering, scorching final novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.

Sometimes in order to find the one you love, you need to lose yourself completely…

Emily is gone, and Shane hovers on the edge of being consumed by his FICTION / ROMANCE / darkness. Emily is in danger. His family’s empire is in turmoil. And he has blood SUSPENSE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 on his hands. As shocking twists, dark secrets, and explosive betrayals within 9781250083852 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. the Brandon family come to the light, Shane must fight harder than ever before. Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 28 But without Emily, he is no one… 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press With every desperate, powerful touch, Emily belongs to Shane. She has been Translation: St. Martin's Press found, but she still isn’t safe, and Shane will stop at nothing to keep her from Other Available Formats: harm. As they burn bright with passion, vengeance, and despair, the dangers they Ebook ISBN: 9781250083890 face grow closer and stronger. Emily has been opened up by Shane’s touch, Audio ISBN: 9781427295668 saved by the dark intimacy he craves. But can Emily save Shane?

It all comes to a head in the shattering conclusion to the Dirty Money series by MARKETING New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Blog Outreach NetGalley Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE Email Marketing Campaign Online Promotion at “High-octane romance set above the glittering lights of Denver is enhanced by the HeroesandHeartbreakers.com dominance of a powerful man and the cunning sweetness of a woman who isn’t National Advertising National Print Publicity cowed or swayed by his wealth.” —Publishers Weekly on Hard Rules Online Publicity Visit www.lisareneejones.com “Sure to leave readers desperate for the next installment.” —Kirkus Reviews on Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/AuthorLisaReneeJones, Hard Rules 276K Active on Twitter: @LisaReneeJones, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author LISA RENEE JONES is the author of the highly 36.6K acclaimed Inside Out series, and is now in development for a cable television show, to be produced by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland). In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today lists. ALSO AVAILABLE

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Just Between Us A Novel

Rebecca Drake

Four suburban mothers and friends conspire to cover up a deadly crime in this heart-stopping novel of suspense in the tradition of Lisa Scottoline and Lisa Unger.

Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal. Their jobs are steady, their kids are healthy. They’re as beautiful as their houses. But each of them has a dirty little secret, and hidden behind the veneer of their perfect lives is a crime and a mystery that will consume them all.

Everything starts to unravel when Alison spots a nasty bruise on Heather’s wrist. FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE She shares her suspicions with Julie and Sarah, compelling all three to St. Martin's Griffin | 1/9/2018 investigate what looks like an increasingly violent marriage. As mysterious 9781250167200 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. injuries and erratic behavior mount, Heather can no longer deny the abuse, but Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 she refuses to leave her husband. Desperate to save her, Alison and the others 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W dread the phone call telling them that she’s been killed. But when that call Subrights: UK Rights: Irene Goodman Agency finally comes, it’s not Heather who’s dead. In a moment they’ll come to regret, Translation Rights: Irene Goodman Agency the women must decide what lengths they’ll go to in order to help a friend. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466877719 Just Between Us is a thrilling glimpse into the underbelly of suburbia, where not all neighbors can be trusted, and even the closest friends keep dangerous secrets. You never really know what goes on in another person’s mind, or in their MARKETING marriage. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE Email Marketing Campaign Blog and Bookstagram Outreach Praise for Only Ever You: Library Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign “[A] gripping domestic thriller about a parent’s worst fear. Jill’s persistence and Author Facebook: Facebook.com/Rebecca.Drake.Writer patience will resound with readers, and the payoff only adds to the overall reading experience that is a must for fans of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner.” —Library Journal (Starred Review)

ALSO AVAILABLE “A twisty, compelling, and harrowing thriller that will hook and leave you Only Ever You: A Novel breathless. Drake ratchets up the suspense with each hairpin turn while offering a 3/2016 | 9781250068910 Hardcover | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. nuanced mosaic of voices, deftly exploring that wrenching, powerful love between mother and child.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author

REBECCA DRAKE is the author of the novels Don’t Be Afraid, The Next Killing, The Dead Place, which was an IMBA bestseller, and Only Ever You, as well as the short story “Loaded,” which was featured in Pittsburgh Noir. A graduate of Penn State University and former journalist, she is currently an instructor in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction M.F.A. program. Rebecca lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband and two children.

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The New York Times Sunday Funday Crosswords 75 Sunday Crossword Puzzles

Edited by Will Shortz

75 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles: everyone’s favorite!

The New York Times Sunday crossword is the undisputed king of crossword puzzles. This collection features 75 of them, all edited by Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and sure to put the “fun” in your Funday!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / - 75 themed Sunday New York Times crosswords CROSSWORDS - Portable packaging for solving on the go St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 - Smart, fresh vocabulary, fun themes, and pop-culture references 9781250160980 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 40 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

9 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

The One Man The Riveting and Intense Bestselling WWII Thriller

Andrew Gross

In this riveting historical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross, a US intelligence officer is sent into Auschwitz to help one man escape.

Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine. FICTION / THRILLERS / HISTORICAL Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan 9781250160539 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most Translation Rights: Writers House guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one Other Available Formats: man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war. Mass Market ISBN: 9781250079527 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250079503 Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller Audio ISBN: 9781427279866 Ebook ISBN: 9781466892187 from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.

MARKETING Author Facebook: @TheAndrewGross PRAISE (21k followers) “A haunting and ultimately thrilling tale of World War II, one that invokes a masterful blend of family and duty laced with heroism. Each of the characters, intriguing and richly drawn, wrestle with the unforgiving triangle of evil, guilt, and ALSO AVAILABLE the choices they must make. I’ve been an Andrew Gross fan for years. This is his The Saboteur: A Novel best book, bar none.” —Steve Berry 8/2017 | 9781250079510 Hardcover | $27.99 / $38.99 Can. “A high-stakes historical thriller that never relents. Suspenseful, taut, and terrific.” —David Morrell

“The One Man is the book of Andrew Gross’s career—unbearably suspenseful at times, heartbreaking and inspiring, surprising to the last page. It’s magnificent.” —Joseph Finder

ANDREW GROSS is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of nine novels, including No Way Back, Everything to Lose, and most recently, One Mile Under. He is also coauthor of five #1 New York Times bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. His books have been translated into over 25 languages. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Lynn. They have three children.

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Watch Me A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Jody Gehrman

A riveting thriller about one college student’s dark obsession with his professor.

For fans of You by Caroline Kepnes and Her by Harriet Lane comes a riveting novel of psychological suspense about how far obsession can go.

Kate Youngblood is disappearing. Muddling through her late 30s as a creative writing professor at Blackwood college, she’s dangerously close to never being noticed again. The follow-up novel to her successful debut tanked. Her husband left her for a woman ten years younger. She’s always been bright, beautiful, FICTION / THRILLERS / independent and a little wild, but now her glow is starting to vanish. She’s PSYCHOLOGICAL heading into an age where her eyes are less blue, her charm worn out, and soon St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 9781250144027 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Except one. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Jill Marr, Sandra Dijkstra Agency Sam Grist is Kate’s most promising student. An unflinching writer with razor-sharp clarity who gravitates towards dark themes and twisted plots, his raw Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250144034 talent is something Kate wants to nurture into literary success. But he’s not there Hardcover ISBN: 9781250178503 solely to be the best writer. He’s been watching her. Wanting her. Working his Audio ISBN: 9781427294050 way to her for years.

As Sam slowly makes his way into Kate’s life, they enter a deadly web of MARKETING dangerous lies and forbidden desire. But how far will his fixation go? And how National Print Publicity far will she allow it? Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign Netgalley Promotion A gripping novel exploring intense obsession and illicit attraction, Jody Bookclub Outreach Gehrman introduces a world where what you desire most may be the most Library Marketing Campaign dangerous thing of all. Email Marketing Campaign Author website:http://www.jodygehrman.com/ JODY GEHRMAN has authored ten published novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Active on Facebook: Jody’s plays have been produced or had staged readings in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, https://www.facebook.com/jody.gehrman Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for Active on Twitter: https://twitter.com their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from the /jodygehrman University of Southern California and is a professor of Communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.

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The True Flag Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course for the twentieth century and beyond.

How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again.

HISTORY / UNITED STATES / No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. 20TH CENTURY Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue 9781250159687 | $17.99 / $23.50 Can. whether to intervene in a foreign country. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one 8-page black-and-white In The True Flag, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth photograph section century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate Other Available Formats: faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their Hardcover ISBN: 9781627792165 debate gripped the nation as the best-known political and intellectual leaders Ebook ISBN: 9781627792172 took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Audio ISBN: 9781427288899 Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before—in the period when the nation was founded—have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a MARKETING question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. New in Paperback Mentions All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.

PRAISE “One could not ask for a timelier argument...Kinzer is right: the first debate over American empire at the end of the nineteenth century speaks to our own time.” —The New York Review of Books

“Important and lucid...Kinzer is an incisive historian of American foreign policy.” —The Christian Science Monitor

STEPHEN KINZER is the author of The Brothers, Reset, Overthrow, All the Shah’s Men, and other books. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe and as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.

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The Lost Season of Love and Snow

Jennifer Laam

The unforgettable story of Alexander Pushkin’s beautiful wife, Natalya, a woman much admired at Court, and how she became reviled as the villain of St. Petersburg.

At the age of sixteen, Natalya Goncharova is stunningly beautiful and intellectually curious. But while she finds joy in French translations and a history of Russian poetry, her family is more concerned with her marriage prospects. It is only fitting that during the Christmas of 1828 at her first public ball in her hometown of Moscow she attracts the romantic attention of Russia’s most lauded rebel poet: Alexander Pushkin. FICTION / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 9781250121882 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. Enchanted at first sight, Natalya is already a devoted reader of Alexander’s Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 serialized novel in verse, Evgeny Onegin. The most recently published chapter 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W ends in a duel, and she is dying to learn what happens next. Finding herself Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press deeply attracted to Alexander’s intensity and joie de vivre, Natalya hopes to see Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press him again as soon as possible.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250121899 What follows is a courtship and later marriage full of equal parts passion and Audio ISBN: 9781427295743 domestic bliss but also destructive jealousies. When vicious court gossip leads to Alexander dying from injuries earned defending his honor as well as Natalya’s in a duel, Natalya finds herself reviled for her alleged role in his death. With MARKETING beautiful writing and understanding, Jennifer Laam, and her compelling new National Print Publicity novel, The Lost Season of Love and Snow, help Natalya tell her side of the Online Publicity story—the story of her greatest love and her inner struggle to create a fulfilling Author Website; http://jenniferlaam.com/ Active on Twitter: @JenLaam (433 life despite the dangerous intrigues of a glamorous imperial Court. followers) Active on Facebook: PRAISE https://www.facebook.com /jenniferlaam.writer/ (271 likes) “A legacy worth reading, The Tsarina’s Legacy is an exciting adventure waiting at one’s fingertips. Jennifer Laam has taken readers to new heights in her latest novel...A fast-paced and well-developed story that all must read.” —San Francisco ALSO AVAILABLE Book Review on The Tsarina’s Legacy

The Tsarina's Legacy: A Novel 4/2016 | 9781250068798 “[A] lively tale that takes the reader back through the shadowy mysteries that still Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. surround the murders of the doomed imperial family of Russia... Laam [tells] her The Secret Daughter of the Tsar: A Novel of story with verve and imagination.” —Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling The Romanovs author of The Dressmaker on The Secret Daughter of the Tsar 10/2013 | 9781250028686 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. JENNIFER LAAM is the author of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar and The Tsarina’s Legacy. She earned her master’s degree in History from Oakland University in Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She has lived in Los Angeles and the suburbs of Detroit, traveled in Russia and Europe, and worked in education and non-profit development. She currently resides in Northern California.

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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca

This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation’s greatest crime fighters during an era when women were rarely involved BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY with investigations. Grace solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an / HISTORICAL 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. She focused on solving cases no one St. Martin's Griffin | 1/9/2018 9781250160836 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. else wanted and advocating for innocents. Grace became the first female U.S. Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 District Attorney and made groundbreaking investigations into modern slavery. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one 8-page black-and-white One of Grace’s greatest accomplishments was solving the Cruger case after photograph section following a trail of corruption that lead from New York to Italy. Her work Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls. But the victory Translation Rights: Mendel Media Group came with a price when she learned all too well what happens when one woman Other Available Formats: upstages the entire NYPD. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250072245 Ebook ISBN: 9781466883659 In the literary tradition of In Cold Blood and The Devil in the White City, Brad Ricca’s Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a true crime tale told in spine-tingling fashion. This story is about a woman whose work was so impressive that the papers gave MARKETING her the nickname of fiction’s greatest sleuth. With important repercussions in the New in Paperback Mentions present about kidnapping, the role of the media, and the truth of crime stories, the great mystery of the book—and its haunting twist ending—is how one woman can become so famous only to disappear from history completely.

PRAISE “Rambunctiously excellent....Ricca has a whopper of a story to tell, and he tells it with thrilling enthusiasm” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Brad Ricca’s new true-crime/biography, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, is sure to entice...It reads like the best crime fiction, with breakneck pacing and incredible characters surrounding a heinous and mysterious crime.” —BookReporter.com

BRAD RICCA earned his Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University where he currently teaches. The author of Super Boys, he has spoken on comics at various schools and museums, and he has been interviewed about comics by The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and All Things Considered on NPR. His film Last Son won a 2010 Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

14 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Will Shortz Presents Sudoku Forever: 200 Easy to Hard Puzzles Easy to Hard Sudoku Volume 2

Introduction by Will Shortz

The next in our new series: easy to hard sudoku puzzles.

Are you sweet on sudoku? Then you’re sure to enjoy these 200 puzzles that get progressively challenging as you go.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU Features: St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 - 200 easy to hard puzzles 9781250161017 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 - Big grids for easy solving 7.1 in H | 5 in W - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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JANUARY 2018 A Consequential President The Legacy of Barack Obama

Michael D'Antonio

A bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.

As Trump tries to tear down President Barack Obama’s impressive legacy, Michael D’Antonio shows how President Obama actually made America great again.

Obama’s campaign for the White House made the senator from Chicago a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY worldwide sensation and a transformative figure of hope. Elected after the Iraq / PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF War and the Great Recession had driven millions of Americans to despair, he STATE A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin quickly passed an economic recovery act and a program to save the U.S. auto | 1/9/2018 industry. Together, they powered a recovery that once again made America’s 9781250160485 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. economy the most vibrant in the world. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes 47 charts and graphs throughout That alone would have made him a truly successful president, but President Obama achieved so much more and against ferocious opposition. With Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press healthcare reform, President Obama ended a long-running crisis of escalating Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press costs and inadequate access to treatment for tens of millions of citizens. His Other Available Formats: Paris Agreement became the first treaty to address global warming in a Hardcover ISBN: 9781250081391 meaningful way. Ebook ISBN: 9781466893276 His successes abroad matched those at home. He oversaw the mission to kill Osama bin Laden at last. His measured diplomacy reduced the nuclear threat MARKETING National Print Publicity posed by Iran, normalized relations with Cuba, and left the world a safer place. Online Publicity Most of all, D’Antonio shows that President Obama restored dignity and ethics to the office of the president while running an administration almost entirely untainted by scandal and criminality—which few others can claim. ALSO AVAILABLE

The Truth About Trump PRAISE 6/2016 | 9781250116956 Mass Market | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. “[An] obligatory reference…for future historians grappling with the Obama The Truth About Trump presidency.” —The Washington Post 5/2016 | 9781250105288 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. “[A] massive trove of fact-checked, citation-provided facts.” —Chicago Tribune

As part of a team of journalists from Newsday, MICHAEL D’ANTONIO won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting before going on to write many acclaimed books, including Atomic Harvest, The State Boys Rebellion, and The Truth About Trump. He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New York.

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Hidden Depths A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves

Published for the first time in the U.S., an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

“I do love Vera!” —Val McDermid

“Cleeves offers up evocative settings and flawed characters with depth, making her mysteries wonderfully addictive. Her latest is no exception.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on Harbour Street

FICTION / MYSTERY & On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a 9781250135179 | $16.99 bath of water and covered with wild flowers. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who remains at large, Translation Rights: John Hawkins & Associates waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave… Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107343 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250107350 Audio ISBN: 9781427288448 “It would be foolish to discount Vera because she doesn’t dress smartly--she can Audio ISBN: 9781427288462 outfox even the wiliest of criminals, while wearing whatever she pleases, and readers will delight in getting the chance to see how such a quirky character evolved.” —Library Journal on The Crow Trap MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “Winning. It is Stanhope herself—a homely, overweight spinster with blotchy skin, Acorn Partnership a fondness for alcohol, and a toxic personality—who, using intuition and subtle Library Marketing Campaign intimidation, brings all the disorganization to an illogical but satisfying Author Website: AnnCleeves.com conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Silent Voices

ANN CLEEVES writes two series of traditional mysteries, both of which have been turned into hit ALSO AVAILABLE TV series. The Vera Stanhope books have been made into the hit series Vera which is available in the The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope U.S. through Amazon, Hulu, Acorn TV, and PBS. The other TV series, Shetland, is available on Mystery Netflix, Amazon, and PBS. She was presented the Lee Child Dead Good Readers’ Award for Best 2/2017 | 9781250122742 Loner or Detective for Vera. In 2017 Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger Award. She lives Trade Paperback | $16.99 in England.

The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 10/2016 | 9781250105424 Hardcover | $25.99

Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250104977 Trade Paperback | $16.99

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Among the Ruins A Mystery

Ausma Zehanat Khan

In Ausma Khan’s next powerful mystery, the murder of a filmmaker in Iran leads Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty into the heart of Iran’s tumultuous politics.

On leave from Canada’s Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country’s beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak’s break is cut short when he’s approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani. Zahra was murdered at Iran’s notorious Evin prison, where she’d been seeking the release FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE of a political prisoner. Khattak quickly finds himself embroiled in Iran’s PROCEDURAL tumultuous politics and under surveillance by the regime, but when the trail Minotaur Books | 1/9/2018 leads to Zahra’s family in Canada, Khattak calls on his partner, Detective Rachel 9781250096746 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Getty, for help. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Rachel uncovers a conspiracy linked to the Shah of Iran and the decades-old Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press murders of a group of Iran’s most famous dissidents. Historic letters, a Translation rights: St. Martin's Press connection to the Royal Ontario Museum, and a smuggling operation on the Other Available Formats: Caspian Sea are just some of the threads Rachel and Khattak begin unraveling, Hardcover ISBN: 9781250096739 while the list of suspects stretches from Tehran to Toronto. As Khattak gets Ebook ISBN: 9781250096753 Audio ISBN: 9781427282767 caught up in the fate of Iran’s political prisoners, Rachel sees through to the heart of the matter: Zahra’s murder may not have been political at all.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Unquiet Dead comes another MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions powerful novel exploring the interplay of politics and religion, and the intensely Online Promotion personal ripple effects of one woman’s murder.

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ALSO AVAILABLE “Iran’s stormy history is the atmospheric backdrop for Ausma Zehanat Khan’s A Dangerous Crossing Among the Ruins, the third book in her exceptional series…The story takes on the 2/2018 | 9781250096760 air of a James Bond movie, including an explosive finale.” —The Washington Post Hardcover | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. The Language of Secrets: A Mystery “Provocative…Deeply political without becoming pedantic, Khan’s crime novel 1/2017 | 9781250055170 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. offers a fictionalized yet very real look at a region that is steeped in both beauty and misery.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) The Unquiet Dead: A Novel 12/2015 | 9781250055187 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law and is a former adjunct law professor. She was Editor-in-Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine targeted to young Muslim women. A British-born Canadian, Khan now lives in Colorado with her husband.

18 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Spider from Mars My Life with Bowie

Woody Woodmansey

A first-hand look at Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era which saw a young David Bowie go from obscure artist to global phenomenon, by the last surviving member of his band, The Spiders from Mars.

The death of David Bowie in January 2016 rocked the globe. Millions of fans celebrated his music, his film and theatrical roles, his trend-setting influence on fashion and gender and popular culture.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Drummer Woody Woodmansey is the last surviving member of Bowie’s band, / COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS The Spiders from Mars, which helped launch his Ziggy Stardust persona and St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 made Bowie a star. In this first memoir to follow Bowie’s passing, Spider from 9781250165022 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Mars reveals what it was like to be at the white-hot center of Bowie’s Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W self-creation. With never-before-told stories and never-before-seen photographs, Plus two 8-page color photograph inserts Woodmansey offers details of the album sessions for The Man Who Sold the World, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane, and Hunky Subrights: UK: Matthew Hamilton Translation: Matthew Hamilton Dory: the four albums that made Bowie sensational. And, as fame beckoned but eventually consumed Bowie, Woodmansey recalls the wild tours, eccentric Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250117618 characters, and rock ‘n roll excess that drove the band apart. Ebook ISBN: 9781250117625 A vivid and unique evocation of a transformative musical era and the enigmatic, visionary musician at the center of it, with a foreword by legendary producer MARKETING Tony Visconti, Spider from Mars is for everyone who values David Bowie. New in Paperback Mentions Author Twitter: @WoodyWoodmansey PRAISE “Woodmansey recounts wild tours, behind-the-scenes drama, and album sessions...revealing.” —USA Today

“Any rock memoir is going to have its share of great stories, and Woodmansey doesn’t disappoint.” —The Current, Minnesota Public Radio

MICHAEL “WOODY” WOODMANSEY was the drummer for David Bowie’s the Spiders from Mars from 1969-1973 on the hit albums The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Born in Driffield, Yorkshire, in 1951, he is the last surviving member of the Spiders from Mars. He continues to play with his band Holy Holy and lives in London.

19 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Thanks Fur Last Night

Eve Langlais, Milly Taiden, and Kate Baxter

Three hot stories about three sexy shifters from a trio of today’s hottest paranormal romance authors, headlined by bestselling authors Eve Langlais and Milly Taiden!

Enter a world of smoldering shifters in this anthology headlined by New York Times bestselling authors Eve Langlais and Milly Taiden with never published novellas!

Bearing His Sin Cole should have killed Anja the moment he realized she was his mate. Instead, now they’re on the hunt, chasing the morons who think they can force her to FICTION / ROMANCE / marry another man. Like hell. And while this shapeshifting bear might have his COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES share of sins, he’s not going to let little things like murder and mayhem prevent St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 him from having the woman meant to be the keeper of his heart. 9781250159717 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Bought by the Bear Josilyn Martinez just needed the money to help raise her nephew. That’s it. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press There’s no other reason she would take a job posing as a shifter’s mate so he can Translation: St. Martin's Press assure his grandmother he’s settled down. And there’s definitely no good reason Other Available Formats: she should get involved with the hard, hot, and handsome shifter that’s hired her. Ebook ISBN: 9781250159748 Xander just needs a fake mate for a week, but what’s a bear shifter to do when the impostor mate he hired turns out to be his actual mate? MARKETING Blog Outreach NetGalley Outreach The Alpha and I Early Reader Review Campaign Devon Kincaid is happy with her new life in Lowman, Idaho. She’s not even Online Promotion at interested in finding a man. But when she finds a bleeding man—a hot, hard, HeroesandHeartbreakers.com handsome, naked bleeding man—in the snow one night, Devon brings him home National Advertising National Print Publicity to care for him. He’s definitely not like any man she’s ever met before, but what Online Publicity she doesn’t realize is that he’s not just a man, but an Alpha werewolf shifter… Visit evelanglais.com; millytaiden.com; katedouglas.com Active on Facebook: EVE LANGLAIS is a New York Times bestselling Canadian author who loves to write hot romance. Facebook.com/eve.langlais.98, 17K Likes; She enjoys strong alpha male heroes, shifters, and a happily ever after. Facebook.com/MillyTaidenPage 30.6K Likes; MILLY TAIDEN is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the renowned Facebook.com/KateDouglas.authorpage, Paranormal Dating Agency, the Sassy Mates books, and the Federal Paranormal Unit novels. 4K Likes Active on Twitter: @EveLanglais, 8K KATE BAXTER is a die-hard romantic with a thing for Shakespeare. She lives in the great Followers; @MillyTaiden, 5.9K Followers; northwest and writes about all things fanged, furry, and undead. @WolfTales, 2K Followers

20 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary A Radical's Struggle to Remake America

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

A new look at Thomas Jefferson and his revolutionary ideas for the United States by the author of James Madison and the Making of America

Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans were full citizens and the role of education in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY the new country. In his new book, Kevin Gutzman gives readers a new view of / PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF Jefferson—a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing country. STATE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 Jefferson’s philosophy about the size and power of the federal system almost 9781250161505 | $17.99 / $23.50 Can. completely undergirded the Jeffersonian Republican Party. His forceful advocacy Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 of religious freedom was not far behind, as were attempts to incorporate Native 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Americans into American society. His establishment of the University of Includes one 8-page black-and-white photograph section Virginia might be one of the most important markers of the man’s abilities and character. He was not without flaws. While he argued for the assimilation of Subrights: UK Rights: The Stuart Agency Translation Rights: The Stuart Agency Native Americans into society, he did not assume the same for Africans being held in slavery while—at the same time—insisting that slavery should cease to Other Available Formats: exist. Many still accuse Jefferson of hypocrisy on the ground that he both held Hardcover ISBN: 9781250010803 Ebook ISBN: 9781250010810 that “all men are created equal” and held men as slaves. Jefferson’s true character, though, is more complex than that as Kevin Gutzman shows in his new book about Jefferson, a revolutionary whose accomplishments went far beyond the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity PRAISE "In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to ALSO AVAILABLE human equality." -Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American James Madison and the Making of America Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 2/2013 | 9781250023193 Trade Paperback | $19.99 / $27.99 Can. KEVIN R. C. GUTZMAN, JD, PhD, is author of James Madison and the Making of America. Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University and a faculty member at LibertyClassroom.com, he is the author of several books, including best-sellers, has published in all the leading history journals, and writes and speaks frequently for popular audiences. He lives with his son in Connecticut.

21 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

The Undesired A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Published in 30 countries around the world, international Icelandic superstar Yrsa produces a chilling and unforgettable tale of madness and murder.

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray...

Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more St. Martin's Griffin | 1/16/2018 sinister? 9781250152220 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller with her crime novels, and you 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W might want to sleep with the light on after reading The Undesired... Subrights: UK Rights: Hodder & Stoughton Translation Rights: Hodder & Stoughton PRAISE Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107404 “I can see why so many people are enthusiastic about Yrsa’s work. It’s very Ebook ISBN: 9781250107411 engaging, fresh, and exciting.” —James Patterson Audio ISBN: 9781427294425 “This spooky, haunting thriller will grab the attention of readers who enjoyed Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.” —Library Journal (Starred MARKETING Review) on The Silence of the Sea New in Paperback Mentions

“Nordic mystery writers can raise goose bumps as few others can, and Sigurdardottir shows she’s one of the best.” —Booklist (Starred Review) on I ALSO AVAILABLE Remember You The Silence of the Sea: A Thriller 1/2017 | 9781250115553 YRSA SIGURDARDÓTTIR (pronounced UR-suh SIG-ur-dar-daughter) lives with her family in Trade Paperback | $15.99 Reykjavík. She is a director of one of Iceland’s largest engineering firms. Her work is climbing Someone to Watch Over Me: A Thriller bestseller lists all over the world, and films are currently in production for several of her books. 2/2016 | 9781250080974 Trade Paperback | $15.99 I Remember You: A Ghost Story 3/2014 | 9781250045621 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $0.00 Can.

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Homemade Soup Recipes 103 Easy Recipes for Soups, Stews, Chilis, and Chowders Everyone Will Love

Addie Gundry

Cooking gets cozy with stovetop and slow cooker soups, stews, chilis, and chowders for the whole family to enjoy, in Cutthroat Kitchen star Addie Gundry's collection of homemade soup recipes.

COOKING / COURSES & DISHES / SOUPS & STEWS In Addie's home, the delightful sound of a simmering pot on the stovetop signals St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 that a hearty soup or stew is on its way. When it comes to creating a cozy 9781250161727 | $19.99 / $25.99 Can. atmosphere and showing off your cooking chops, there’s nothing like an easy Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 22 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W homemade soup recipe to bring family together. This cookbook has classics like Includes color photographs throughout for all Old-Fashioned Potato Soup and Beef Stew, as well as new culinary hits like 103 recipes Chicken Parmesan Soup and Pulled Pork Chili. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Homemade Soup Recipes is the tenth in a series of RecipeLion cookbooks. Other Available Formats: RecipeLion is part of Prime Publishing LLC, a lifestyle multi-platform brand Ebook ISBN: 9781250161710 focused on cooking and crafting content.

PRAISE MARKETING "Watching Addie's star shine has been truly inspiring. She is definitely going to be National Print Publicity Online Publicity an impactful leader in the next generation of chefs." Online Promotion —Rick Tramonto Email Marketing Campaign with Recipe Lion Blog Outreach Campaign Addie Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She Social Media Advertising has worked for Christian Etienne, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on Cookstr Promotion and Outreach management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, she Social Media Campaign won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network. As the executive producer for RecipeLion, Addie Recipe Trailer Campaign creates culinary content for multiple web platforms and communities. She excels at making easy recipes elegant.

23 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

Swiss Vendetta A Mystery

Tracee de Hahn

In Tracee de Hahn’s magnetic debut, Swiss police detective Agnes Lüthi finds herself trapped in a château during the blizzard of the century when she’s called out on her first homicide.

Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband’s death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has FICTION / MYSTERY & been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL Château Vallotton at the edge of Lac Léman, a young woman has been found Minotaur Books | 1/9/2018 stabbed to death. The woman, an appraiser for a London auction house, had 9781250161529 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. been taking inventory at the château, a medieval fortress dripping in priceless Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W works of art and historical treasures.

Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press Agnes finds it difficult to draw answers out of anyone—the tight-lipped Swiss Translation rights: St. Martin's Press family living in the château, the servants who have been loyal to the family for Other Available Formats: generations, the aging WWII survivor who lives in the neighboring mansion, Hardcover ISBN: 9781250109996 Ebook ISBN: 9781250110008 even the American history student studying at the Vallotton château’s library. As the storm rages on, roads become impassible, the power goes out around Lausanne, and Agnes finds herself trapped in the candlelit halls of the château with all the players of the mystery, out of her depth in her first murder case and MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions still struggling to stay afloat after the death of her husband. Online Promotion Tracee de Hahn’s mesmerizing debut is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter.

PRAISE “A body found right before a blizzard! A snowed-in candlelit chateau on a Swiss lake! A house full of wealthy suspects—all with something to hide! And an outsider detective trying her best to solve a murder... Does it get better than this? This is a perfect book to bring in for classic mystery fans, including fans of Louise Penny, Martin Walker, Agatha Christie. Definitely a debut to keep your eyes on!” —McKenna Jordan, Murder by the Book

TRACEE DE HAHN completed degrees in architecture and European history at the University of Kentucky and then lived in Europe, including several years in Switzerland. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband, a Swiss architect, and their Jack Russell Terriers. Swiss Vendetta is her first novel.

24 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

A Death in the Dales A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody

A delightful traditional British cozy featuring private investigator Kate Shackleton.

Set in 1920s England, Frances Brody’s seventh mystery featuring her “refreshingly complex heroine” (Kirkus Reviews) Kate Shackleton is sure to be enjoyed by fans of Agatha Christie, Jacqueline Winspear, and M.C. Beaton.

A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued with guilt, believing the wrong FICTION / MYSTERY & man has been convicted. Following her death, it seems that the truth will never DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL be uncovered in the peaceful village of Langcliffe... Minotaur Books | 1/16/2018 9781250098832 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 A village of secrets 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W But it just so happens that Freda’s nephew is courting the renowned amateur Subrights: UK Rights: Piatkus sleuth Kate Shackleton, who decides to holiday in Langcliffe with her Translation Rights: Luxton Harris indomitable teenage niece, Harriet. When Harriet strikes up a friendship with a Other Available Formats: local girl whose young brother is missing, the search leads Kate to uncover Hardcover ISBN: 9781250098825 another suspicious death, not to mention an illicit affair. Ebook ISBN: 9781250098849 The case of a lifetime As the present mysteries merge with the past’s mistakes, Kate is thrust into the MARKETING secrets that Freda left behind and realizes that this courageous woman has New in Paperback Mentions entrusted her with solving a murder from beyond the grave. It soon becomes clear to her that nothing in Langcliffe is quite as it appears, and with a murderer on the loose and an ever-growing roster of suspects, this isn’t the holiday Kate was expecting... ALSO AVAILABLE

Death in the Stars: A Kate Shackleton Mystery PRAISE 2/2018 | 9781250154798 “This is a solid British traditional mystery that should please series regulars and Hardcover | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. newcomers alike.” —Library Journal Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery 9/2017 | 9781250067500 “Frances Brody matches a heroine of free and independent spirit with a vivid Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. evocation of time and place. A Death in the Dales is a novel to cherish. ”— Daily Murder on a Summer's Day: A Kate Mail (UK) Shackleton Mystery 2/2017 | 9781250067517 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. “It’s very difficult to recommend further reading which comes up to the standard of the Kate Shackleton books.” —The Bookbag

FRANCES BRODY lives in the North of England, where she was born and grew up. Frances started her writing life in radio, with many plays and short stories broadcast by the BBC. She has also written for television and theatre. Before turning to crime, she wrote sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium.

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Hidden Depths A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves

Published for the first time in the U.S., an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

“I do love Vera!” —Val McDermid

“Cleeves offers up evocative settings and flawed characters with depth, making her mysteries wonderfully addictive. Her latest is no exception.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on Harbour Street

FICTION / MYSTERY & On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a 9781250107343 | $27.99 bath of water and covered with wild flowers. Hardcover | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 16 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who remains at large, Translation Rights: John Hawkins & Associates waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave… Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250107350 PRAISE Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250135179 Audio ISBN: 9781427288448 “It would be foolish to discount Vera because she doesn’t dress smartly--she can Audio ISBN: 9781427288462 outfox even the wiliest of criminals, while wearing whatever she pleases, and readers will delight in getting the chance to see how such a quirky character evolved.” —Library Journal on The Crow Trap MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “Winning. It is Stanhope herself—a homely, overweight spinster with blotchy skin, Acorn Partnership a fondness for alcohol, and a toxic personality—who, using intuition and subtle Library Marketing Campaign intimidation, brings all the disorganization to an illogical but satisfying Author Website: AnnCleeves.com conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Silent Voices

ANN CLEEVES writes two series of traditional mysteries, both of which have been turned into hit ALSO AVAILABLE TV series. The Vera Stanhope books have been made into the hit series Vera which is available in the The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope U.S. through Amazon, Hulu, Acorn TV, and PBS. The other TV series, Shetland, is available on Mystery Netflix, Amazon, and PBS. She was presented the Lee Child Dead Good Readers’ Award for Best 2/2017 | 9781250122742 Loner or Detective for Vera. In 2017 Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger Award. She lives Trade Paperback | $16.99 in England.

The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 10/2016 | 9781250105424 Hardcover | $25.99

Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250104977 Trade Paperback | $16.99

26 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel of suspense and emotional justice.

On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He’s applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he’s ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable.

But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.

Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he’s being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Raz’s father died only a few FICTION / THRILLERS / months ago, leaving her son in a vulnerable place where any new father figure SUSPENSE might influence him for good, or evil. St. Martin's Griffin | 2/27/2018 9781250099570 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Heather Larkin is a struggling single mother who lives for her son Justin’s 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W baseball games. But Justin is shy, and Heather fears he is being lured down a Subrights: UK Rights: Trident Media Group dark path by one of his teammates, a young man from an affluent family whose Translation Rights: Trident Media Group fun-loving manner might possibly conceal his violent plans.

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250099563 Mindy Kostis succumbs to the pressure of being a surgeon’s wife by filling her Ebook ISBN: 9781250099587 days with social events and too many gin and tonics. But she doesn’t know that Audio ISBN: 9781427282095 her husband and her son, Evan, are keeping secrets from her—secrets that might Audio ISBN: 9781427282101 destroy all of them.

At the center of all of them is Chris Brennan. Why is he there? What does he MARKETING want? And what is he willing to do to get it? National Print Publicity Online Publicity Online Advertising One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller that will have readers riveted up to the Reading Group Gold Selection shocking end, with killer twists and characters you won’t soon forget. Book Club Outreach Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign PRAISE Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/LisaScottoline (77,000 Praise for Lisa Scottoline: followers) Author Website: scottoline.com “An intense, breathless ride.” —Jodi Picoult

“Packed with emotion.” —Sandra Brown ALSO AVAILABLE

Damaged: A Novel “Scottoline grabs her readers by the jugular and won’t let go.” —Library Journal 8/2017 | 9781250099648 (Starred Review) Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can.

Don't Go LISA SCOTTOLINE is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 2/2017 | 9781250117007 twenty-seven novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the U.S., she has been Mass Market | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. published in thirty-five countries, and her thrillers have been optioned for television and film. Lisa Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/2016 | 9781250104618 and those critically acclaimed stories have been adapted into a series of memoirs. She lives in the Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Philadelphia area.

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FEBRUARY 2018 The Hope Chest A Novel

Viola Shipman

“A graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read.” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in The Rain

The discovery of one woman’s heirloom hope chest unveils precious memories and helps three people who have each lost a part of themselves find joy once again.

Ever since she was diagnosed with ALS, fiercely independent Mattie doesn’t feel like herself. Her devoted husband, Don, doesn’t want to imagine life without FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN his wife of nearly fifty years, but Mattie isn’t likely to make it past their A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin anniversary. | 2/13/2018 9781250111111 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. But when Rose, Mattie’s new caretaker, and her young daughter, Jeri, enter the Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W couple’s life, happiness and the possibility for new memories return. Together they form a family, and Mattie is finally able to pass on her memories from the Subrights: UK Rights: Wendy Sherman hope chest she received from her mother. Associates Translation Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates A beautiful story about the unconditional love and support of family, The Hope Other Available Formats: Chest will remind you that hope can be found where and when you least expect Hardcover ISBN: 9781250105073 Ebook ISBN: 9781250105080 it. Audio ISBN: 9781427282408 Audio ISBN: 9781427282415 PRAISE “[The Hope Chest] demonstrates the enduring power of love and kindness...a good

MARKETING choice for fans of gentle, heartwarming fiction.” —Booklist Online Publicity Bookclub Outreach “Saugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along Discussion Guide Available Online Tie-in with hardcover publication of The with the emotional support and care that families and friends can provide. [The] Recipe Box novel will be embraced by fans of Richard Paul Evans.” —Library Journal Blog Outreach Email Marketing Library Marketing Campaign “A love story filled with hope...beautifully written.” —RT Book Reviews

VIOLA SHIPMAN is a penname for Wade Rouse, a popular, award-winning memoirist. Rouse chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family ALSO AVAILABLE stories inspire his writing. Rouse lives in Michigan and writes regularly for People and Coastal The Charm Bracelet: A Novel Living, among other places, and is a contributor to All Things Considered. He is the author of The 1/2017 | 9781250071330 Charm Bracelet and the forthcoming novel The Recipe Box. Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can.

28 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Dodge City Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Tom Clavin

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation.

Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 19TH CENTURY St. Martin's Griffin | 2/27/2018 Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the 9781250160560 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one map and one 16-page black- they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was and-white photograph section left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to Subrights: UK Rights: RLR Associates Translation Rights: RLR Associates team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250071484 Audio ISBN: 9781427283061 #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin’s Dodge City tells the true Ebook ISBN: 9781466882621 story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the Audio ISBN: 9781427283078 remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely MARKETING untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Regional Author Events PRAISE Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com Targeted Outreach to Independent “Absorbing…. Fun and revealing all the way through… Mr. Clavin gives Earp his Booksellers due, but one of the virtues of his book is the welcome light it shines on its other Promotion on TheHistoryReader.com protagonist, Bat Masterson, who comes across as much more interesting, human Author website: tomclavin.com and fun.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Two of the most fabled lawmen of the American West’s fascinating careers are brought to life in Tom Clavin’s Dodge City.” —New York Post

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and Reckless. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

29 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Dreaming in Chocolate A Novel

Susan Bishop Crispell

A story of love, hot chocolate, and one little girl’s wish for her mother that will make your heart swell.

At twenty-seven, Penelope Dalton is quickly ticking off items on a bucket list. Only the list isn’t hers. After her eight year-old daughter Ella is given just six months to live, Penelope is determined to fill Ella’s remaining days with as many new experiences as she can.

With an endless supply of magical gifts and recipes from the hot chocolate café Penelope runs alongside her mother in a small town nestled in the Appalachian FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Mountains, she is able to give her daughter almost everything she wants. The WOMEN one sticking point is Ella’s latest addition to her list: get a dad. And not just any St. Martin's Griffin | 2/6/2018 dad. Ella has her sights set on Noah Gregory, her biological father and the only 9781250089076 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 person Penelope knows to have proved her true love hot chocolate wrong. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Now Noah’s back in town for a few months—and as charming as ever—and the Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press World rights: St. Martin's Press part of her that dreamed he was her fate in the first place wonders if she made the right decision to keep the truth of their daughter from him. The other, more Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250089083 practical part, is determined to keep him from breaking Ella’s heart too. Audio ISBN: 9781427295736 But as Ella’s health declines, Penelope must give in to her fate or face a future of regrets.

MARKETING Online Publicity PRAISE Early Reader Reviews Featured Title on ReadingGroupGold.com “Come for the life-changing chocolates and opinionated apothecary table, stay for Email Marketing Campaign the enchanting eight-year old and complicated secrets. After reading Susan Bishop Library Marketing Campaign Active on Facebook: Crispell’s charming Dreaming in Chocolate, you’ll want to take up residence in /AuthorSusanBishopCrispell Malarkey, sip magical hot cocoa, and change your own fate!” —Amy Reichert, Active on Twitter: @sbcrispell author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake Author website susanbishopcrispell.com

“An endearing and beautifully spun tale. Susan Bishop Crispell teaches us that, even in a life surrounded by the mystical and inexplicable, sometimes, finding true love is the real magic.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, author of Dear Carolina

SUSAN BISHOP CRISPELL earned a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina—Wilmington. Susan lives and writes near Wilmington, NC with her husband and their two literary-named cats. She is the author of The Secret Ingredient of Wishes.

30 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

A Divided Spy A Novel

Charles Cumming

In this brilliant novel of modern espionage by New York Times bestselling author Charles Cumming, MI6’s Thomas Kell faces off against a handsome and charismatic Russian double agent.

Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin.

Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy who is in FICTION / THRILLERS / ESPIONAGE possession of a terrifying secret. As Kell tracks his man from Moscow to St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 London, he finds himself in a high stakes game of cat and mouse in which it 9781250025555 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 lb Wt As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack Subrights: UK Rights: Harper Collins UK looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6—or Translation Rights: Janklow & Nesbit Associates to his own conscience? Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250021038 PRAISE Hardcover ISBN: 9781250021045 Audio ISBN: 9781427282057 “Breathtaking…suspenseful… Kell brings a note of grace to the treacherous world Audio ISBN: 9781427282064 of the spy novel.” —Washington Post

“A gripping tale of revenge, betrayal and the personal price that spying exacts.” MARKETING National Print Publicity —People Magazine National Online Publicity Facebook Advertising “A smart, nuanced, readable tale, reminiscent of Olen Steinhauer or Robert Littell. Video Interview Goodreads Giveaways …[A Divided Spy is] a fine specimen of a genre headed back toward the Kremlin.” —USA Today

CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the first Thomas Kell book, A Foreign Country, as well as ALSO AVAILABLE the New York Times bestselling thriller The Trinity Six, and others including A Spy by Nature and The Hidden Man: A Novel Typhoon. He lives with his family in London. 11/2015 | 9780312366384 Trade Paperback | $16.99

A Colder War: A Novel 6/2015 | 9781250025548 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can.

31 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

The New York Times Hardest Crosswords Volume 1 50 Friday and Saturday Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain

Edited by Will Shortz

The first in a new series featuring only the toughest crossword puzzles from The New York Times.

Are you up for the challenge? Many puzzle fans love the deviously difficult New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords: They’re the hardest puzzles around, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / and once you’ve conquered them, you’re a true Puzzlemaster! CROSSWORDS St. Martin's Griffin | 2/20/2018 Features: 9781250160966 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. Spiral Bound | 64 pages | Carton Qty: 80 - 50 New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords 11 in H | 8.5 in W - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Spiral binding for convenient lay-flat solving

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

32 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Almost Missed You A Novel

Jessica Strawser

The sensational debut that New York Times bestselling author Garth Stein calls “an emotional powerhouse of a novel” now in trade paperback.

Violet and Finn were “meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she can’t believe her luck. Life is good.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach—just St. Martin's Griffin | 2/6/2018 packs up the hotel room and disappears. And takes their son with him. Violet is 9781250107619 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. suddenly in her own worst nightmare, and faced with the knowledge that the Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 man she’s shared her life with, she never really knew at all. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Caitlin and Finn have been best friends since way back when, but when Finn Translation: St. Martin's Press shows up on Caitlin’s doorstep with the son he’s wanted for kidnapping, Other Available Formats: demands that she hide them from the authorities, and threatens to reveal a secret Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107602 that could destroy her own family if she doesn’t, Caitlin faces an impossible Ebook ISBN: 9781250107626 choice. Audio ISBN: 9781427288288 Told through alternating viewpoints of Violet, Finn, and Caitlin, Jessica Strawser’s Almost Missed You is a powerful story of a mother’s love, a MARKETING Online Publicity husband’s betrayal, connections that maybe should have been missed, secrets Online Advertising that perhaps shouldn’t have been kept, and spaces between what’s meant to be Bookclub Outreach and what might have been. Tie-in with hardcover publication of Not That I Could Tell Blog Outreach PRAISE Email Marketing Social Media Campaign “Fans of smart women’s fiction mixed with a fast-paced plot should not miss this Author website:https://jessicastrawser.com/ startling first novel.” —Library Journal Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com /jessicastrawserauthor/ “An emotional powerhouse of a novel. Strawser’s tale of guilt, blame, redemption, Active on Twitter: @jessicastrawser and forgiveness is a must read.” —Garth Stein New York Times bestselling author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain

ALSO AVAILABLE “A deft exploration of the mysteries of marriage, the price we pay for our secrets, and just how easy it is to make the worst choices imaginable.” —Chris Bohjalian, Not That I Could Tell 3/2018 | 9781250107886 New York Times bestselling author of The Sandcastle Girls and Midwives Hardcover | $26.99 / $34.99 Can. JESSICA STRAWSER (jessicastrawser.com) is the editorial director of Writer’s Digest magazine and the author of Almost Missed You, named to Barnes & Noble’s Best New Fiction list for March 2017 and PopSugar’s Best Spring Reads. She has written for The New York Times Modern Love, Publishers Weekly and other fine venues, and lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati.

33 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku Volume 1 200 Challenging Puzzles

Introduction by Will Shortz

The first in a new series: hard puzzles for serious sudoku solvers.

Do you have what it takes? These 200 challenging sudoku puzzles from Will Shortz will keep your mind sharp!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU - 200 hard puzzles St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 9781250161024 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. - Big grids for easy solving Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz 7.1 in H | 5 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

34 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku Volume 2 200 Challenging Puzzles

Introduction by Will Shortz

The next in a new series: hard puzzles for serious sudoku solvers.

Do you have what it takes? These 200 challenging sudoku puzzles from Will Shortz will keep your mind sharp!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU - 200 hard puzzles St. Martin's Griffin | 2/20/2018 9781250161031 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. - Big grids for easy solving Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz 7.1 in H | 5 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

35 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It. From WWE's The New Day

The New Day

A fun, full color book for fans of WWE's The New Day tag team with all the silliness, positivity, unicorns, trombones, and twerking fans can get.

WWE's Reigning RAW champion tag team, The New Day, presents the ultimate guide into their storyline world. Narrated by The New Day, their new book, The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It (It's Twerked For Us!) is the only resource fans need to embrace the power of positivity and live the New Day way SPORTS & RECREATION / of life. Broken into several brief, “in-world” chapters, this tongue-in-cheek WRESTLING handbook will have even the most booty of individuals clapping, gyrating and St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 9781250147004 | $21.99 / $28.99 Can. radiating positivity like the New Day themselves. Hardcover | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Fans will learn: Includes color photographs throughout · How to Project Positivity; Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press · Top 10 signs you might be “booty” - see definition of the New Day’s Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press trademark insult- “booty” inside; Other Available Formats: · How to dance like Big E and/or How to twerk Like a Man; Ebook ISBN: 9781250147011 · Learn to play the trombone in 3 easy steps; · What your choice of headwear says about you.

MARKETING By the time you finish this book, you'll be an expert at picking out positive National Author Tour coordinating with attire, loving unicorns, and knowing how to battle nefarious WWE tag teams WWE appearances with a smile on your face. Protip: Eat your Booty O's every morning for added National Television Publicity National Radio Publicity strength! National Print Publicity Online Publicity Major Promotional Support with WWE PRAISE Online Advertising "A source of constant entertainment as duplicitous positive-energy Social Media Campaign, Facebook.com/BigE, 1.5M+ fans, evangelists...sore-winner trombone serenades, unicorn headgear, playground Facebook.com/KofiKingston, 3.5M+ fans, antagonism, and more good gyrations than we can handle." —Rolling Stone Facebook.com/XavierWoodsPhD, 535K+ fans, Facebook.com/TheNewDayWWE, 48K+ fans, Facebook.com/WWE, 34M+ The New Day are WWE's reigning RAW Tag Team Champions, the longest running tag champs in fans, Facebook.com/WWEPublishing, history. Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods made their team debut on RAW in 2014, and 2.5M+ fans they've been kicking butt with a smile ever since. They were Rolling Stone's "2015 Wrestler of the Campaign website: TheNewDayBook.com Year" collectively. Whether they're popping out of Booty O's cereal boxes wearing zany outfits and unicorn horns, or twerking while playing their trombone, “Francesca,” they're in it to win it with positivity and style.

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FEBRUARY 2018 No Barriers A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy

National bestseller— “A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible.” —Brad Meltzer, NYT bestselling author

Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest. When the mountain was finally behind him, his expedition leader slapped him on the back and said something that would affect the course of Erik’s life: “Don’t make Everest the greatest thing you ever do.”

No Barriers is Erik’s response to that challenge. It is the moving story of his BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way | 2/6/2018 home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal to facing the most terrifying 9781250088796 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. reach of his life: to solo kayak the thunderous whitewater of the Grand Canyon. Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Plus two 16-page color photograph inserts PRAISE Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press “A wonderful tribute to the greatness of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews Translation rights: St. Martin's Press (Starred Review) Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250088789 “No Barriers is amazing. Erik’s story is an inspiration to all of us.” —Mark Ebook ISBN: 9781250088802 Audio ISBN: 9781427283009 Burnett, TV producer Audio ISBN: 9781427283016 “A shining testament...Weihenmayer’s powers of discernment are acute, startling, and deeply inspirational.” —Kevin Fedarko, New York Times bestselling author of MARKETING The Emerald Mile New in Paperback Mentions Organizational Outreach “Guaranteed to inspire.” —Booklist

“An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine.” —Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air, on Touch the Top of the World

ERIK WEIHENMAYER is the bestselling author of Touch the Top of the World, an adventurer, and motivational speaker. He lives in Colorado.

BUDDY LEVY is an author, educator, journalist, and speaker who lives in Idaho.

37 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

A Baker's Year Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery

Tara Jensen

A year in the life of Instagram bread-baking sensation Tara Jensen as she teaches readers how to bake bread and pies, build the perfect fire to cook with, and live a simple, satisfying life.

Why do so many people make pilgrimages to Tara Jensen’s North Carolina Smoke Signals Bakery? Why do 100,000 people follow her Instagram feed @bakerhands? It’s because Tara bakes the most exquisite bread in the US, using COOKING / METHODS / BAKING a wood-fired oven that she tends with her own two hands. It could also be to St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 learn how she makes her bubbly, deep-dish fruit pies or to see the crisp pizzas 9781250127389 | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. that are sometimes covered with fresh flowers. It could be something deeper: Hardcover | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 24 9.5 in H | 8 in W Tara Jensen has learned to live a simple life, close to the land that feeds her Includes 75 color photographs throughout and oven. In her first book, she shares her philosophy of simple living and her trove four-color endpapers of recipes with others. A Baker’s Year takes readers month-by-month through the Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press seasons at Smoke Signals for porridge and waffles in winter, crusty bread in Translation: St. Martin's Press spring, pies and pizza in the summer, and celebration cakes for end-of-the-year holidays. Along the way, Tara writes about how to live in a more peaceful world, Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250127396 shares stories from her own life, mourns romances lost, and celebrates the promise of a new relationship. Tara Jensen’s A Baker’s Year is destined to be a classic of cookbook shelves in the tradition of The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth and When French Women Cook. Illustrated throughout with Tara’s MARKETING National Radio Publicity photographs and drawings, A Baker’s Year is a true American original. Think of National Print Publicity it as The Tassajara Bread Book meets Eat Pray Love. Online Publicity Online Advertising Campaign Email Marketing Campaign PRAISE Blog Outreach Campaign Cookstr Promotion and Outreach “To aspiring bakers and established chefs and food geeks and fawning journalists, Quick and Dirty Tips Promotion Including she represents an elusive ideal: the young breadmaker who structures her life Podcast Appearance around the rhythms of a wood-burning oven, not the demands of a high-volume Social Media Outreach Author Website: smokesignalsbaking.com production facility. At a moment when ‘artisanal’ has gone the way of cliché, Active on Instagram: @bakerhands Jensen actually embodies it. Her dedication shows in each bread and pie, which (99,000 followers) she patterns with intricate handmade stencils and cutout shapes.” —Bon Appétit on Active on Tumblr: smokesignalbaking.tumblr.com Tara Jensen Author Events TARA JENSEN is an artist and baker living a solitary life at Smoke Signals, a wood fired bakery deep in the mountains of North Carolina. Jensen baked her way through her twenties in professional settings, keeping handwritten journals as she went. Baking has now become her personal practice, which she shares with students from around the world. When not teaching she spends her days chopping wood, mixing dough, and studying the stars. Her Instagram feed, @bakerhands, has 100,000 followers.

38 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

The Aspiring Screenwriter's Dirty Lowdown Guide to Fame and Fortune Tough Lessons You Need to Know to Take Your Script from Premise to Premiere

Andy Rose

This will be a humorous and pithy guide to the craft of writing a screenplay and the business of being a screenwriter.

The stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater is lit. Movie stars abound in tuxes and gowns, and Bradley Cooper slowly opens the sealed envelope, glances to the PERFORMING ARTS / FILM & audience, and reads “And the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay goes to….” VIDEO / SCREENWRITING St. Martin's Griffin | 2/6/2018 You kiss your guest on the cheek, shake hands with Spielberg, and head for the 9781250159496 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. stage. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Winning an Oscar is a moment that most writers only dream of. But for those Subrights: UK Rights: Folio Literary daring and talented few brave enough to take their hopes to Hollywood, there Management are clear and tangible steps to take if one knows the path. The Aspiring Translation Rights: Folio Literary Management Screenwriter’s Dirty Lowdown Guide to Fame and Fortune provides that path. Other Available Formats: And Andy Rose has walked it. Ebook ISBN: 9781250159502 With years of experience with every major film studio and network, dozens of successful screenplays including feature films McHale’s Navy and Splash 2; the MARKETING TV movie Richest Cat in the World; and TV shows Life With Louie and UC: National Print Publicity Undercover, Andy knows the business. He’s here to debunk the big screen and Online Publicity Blog Outreach teach you how to write a blockbuster screenplay and equally important, how to sell it.

Andy has worked with the best: Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, David Geffen, and Harvey Weinstein to name a few. He has filled this book with real life examples to learn from including contracts, screenplays, treatments, press, and more. For anyone who’s ever dreamed of writing a screenplay, for anyone who’s wondered how to sell one, this is a must read.

PRAISE “I just wanted to...thank you for providing me with the skills I needed... I am also now a member of the Writers Guild East and even have an L.A. manager.” —Wendy Mohler, Web series 666; Adapted novel, Shattered

ANDY ROSE teaches both intermediate and advanced screenwriting. He has written and/or produced over two dozen projects for almost every major Hollywood studio and network, including the feature films McHale’s Navy and Splash 2; the TV movie Richest Cat in the World; and the TV shows Life With Louie and UC: Undercover. A WGA member, he has also written numerous articles for MovieMaker Magazine, a national publication on independent filmmaking.

39 MINOTAUR BOOKS FEBRUARY 2018

The Last Illusion A Molly Murphy Mystery

Rhys Bowen

Irish sleuth Molly Murphy is hired to protect none other than Harry Houdini after the on-stage death of a magician’s assistant in the lastest in Bowen’s award-winning series.

Irish immigrant and PI Molly Murphy is thrilled to have a ticket to see the illusionists that are all the rage—indeed, Harry Houdini himself has returned from Europe for a brief run on Broadway. But Houdini can’t even take the stage when to the crowd’s shock the opening act saws into his assistant. The stunned performer accuses Houdini of tampering with his equipment, and he’s not the only one critical of “The King of Handcuffs” who by raising the stakes has put FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL other acts out of business. With everyone on edge, Houdini’s wife hires Molly as Minotaur Books | 2/20/2018 an investigator and bodyguard, but how can she protect a man who risks his life 9781250160522 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. every night? Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W With wit, charm, and historical detail, multiple award winner Rhys Bowen Subrights: UK rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency makes early twentieth century New York come vividly to life. Translation rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency

Other Available Formats: PRAISE Mass Market ISBN: 9780312535353 Ebook ISBN: 9781429958554 Praise for In a Gilded Cage:

“This installment outshines the others… Don’t miss this great period puzzler MARKETING reminiscent of Dame Agatha’s mysteries and Gillian Linscott’s Nell Bray series.” New in Paperback Mentions —Booklist

“Delightful… As ever, Bowen does a splendid job of capturing the flavor of early ALSO AVAILABLE 20th-century New York.” —Publishers Weekly

Time of Fog and Fire: A Molly Murphy Mystery RHYS BOWEN is author of the Anthony and Agatha Award-winning Molly Murphy mysteries, the 3/2017 | 9781250052070 Edgar Award-nominated Evan Evans series, and the Royal Spyness series. Born in England, she Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. lives in San Rafael, California. Away in a Manger: A Molly Murphy Mystery 11/2016 | 9781250052063 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. The Edge of Dreams: A Molly Murphy Mystery 2/2016 | 9781250052056 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can.

40 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

Never Let You Go A Novel

Chevy Stevens

A stunning and thrilling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing.

Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life.

Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the FICTION / THRILLERS sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move. Her new boyfriend St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 9781250137166 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. is threatened. Her home is invaded, and her daughter is shadowed. Lindsey is Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 convinced it’s her ex-husband, even though he claims he’s a different person. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W But has he really changed? Is the one who wants her dead closer to home than Subrights: UK Rights: William Morris she thought? Translation Rights: William Morris With Never Let You Go, Chevy Stevens delivers a chilling, twisting thriller that Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250034564 crackles with suspense as it explores the darkest heart of love and obsession. Ebook ISBN: 9781250034571 PRAISE Praise for Never Let You Go: MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “Stevens’s taut writing and chilling depiction of love twisted beyond recognition Online Advertising make this a compelling read.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Reading Group Gold Selection Book Club Outreach Email Marketing Campaign “Disturbing, suspenseful, and just a little nerve-wracking.” —Library Journal Social Media Campaign Author Website: chevystevens.com Active on Facebook: “A fast-paced thriller with a surprise twist.” —Kirkus Reviews Facebook.com/ChevyStevens (24,000 followers) “The gripping, often terrifying story follows Lindsey as she endures the roller coaster that is survival and in the end finds an outcome that she never expected... Stevens’ portrayal is spot-on.” —Booklist ALSO AVAILABLE

That Night: A Novel CHEVY STEVENS grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still lives on the island with her 2/2017 | 9781250117014 husband and daughter. When she’s not working on her next book, she’s camping and canoeing with Mass Market | $7.99 / $10.99 Can. her family in the local mountains. Her debut novel, Still Missing, won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel. Those Girls: A Novel 6/2016 | 9781250091932 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can.

Always Watching: A Novel 4/2016 | 9781250081186 Mass Market | $7.99 / $9.99 Can.

41 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

Two Good Dogs A Novel

Susan Wilson

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a sequel to One Good Dog.

Single mom Skye Mitchell has sunk her last dime into a dream, owning the venerable, if run-down LakeView Hotel in the Berkshire Hills. It’s here where she believes she’ll give her fourteen-year-old daughter Cody a better life. But being an innkeeper is more challenging than she imagined, and Cody still manages to fall in with the wrong crowd. In addition, Cody is keeping an earth- shattering secret that she’s terrified to reveal. The once loving, open girl has now become completely withdrawn, and Skye is both desperate and helpless to reach FICTION / CONTEMPORARY her. WOMEN St. Martin's Griffin | 3/6/2018 9781250078131 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. When Adam March and his pit bull Chance check into the hotel, it becomes the Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 first of many visits. Here in these peaceful mountains he finds an unexpected 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W relief from his recent bereavement. He and the beleaguered innkeeper form a Subrights: UK Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency tentative friendship. Adam knows the struggles of raising a difficult teenager and Translation Rights: Jane Rotrosen Agency Skye understands loneliness. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250078124 And then there is Mingo, a street kid with a pit bull dog of his own. When Cody Audio ISBN: 9781427291240 discovers an overdosed Mingo, Adam takes the boy’s dog not just for Ebook ISBN: 9781466890466 safekeeping, but to foster and then rehome. But the dog isn’t the only one who Audio ISBN: 9781427291257 needs saving. A makeshift family begins to form as four lost people learn to trust and rely on each other, with the help of two good dogs.

MARKETING Online Advertising PRAISE Online Publicity Bookclub Outreach “The heartwarming moments of this story are balanced with the darker realities of Featured Title on ReadingGroupGold.com a small town. That harmony makes the happy ending all the more rewarding and Library Marketing leaves the reader with a narrative of love and redemption that never becomes Email Marketing Author Website: susanwilsonwrites.com cloying.” —Library Journal on The Dog Who Saved Me

“[C]aptivating...will keep you hooked until the last page is turned.” —Modern Dog magazine on A Man of His Own ALSO AVAILABLE The Dog Who Saved Me: A Novel “An emotion-packed story. As with Marley and Me and The Art of Racing in the 1/2017 | 9781250132598 Rain, it’s hard not to like a book where a dog is a major player.” —Kirkus Reviews Trade Paperback | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. on The Dog Who Danced A Man of His Own 12/2015 | 9781250080530 Mass Market | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. SUSAN WILSON is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling The Dog Who Danced and One Good Dog. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.

42 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

Mercies in Disguise A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

Gina Kolata

New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata’s riveting story of a family’s genetic illness and their courageous daughter’s decision to separate her fate from that genetic flaw—now in paperback!

The phone rings; the doctor has the results. “Are you ready Amanda?” The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. But she had to find out. MEDICAL / GENETICS St. Martin's Griffin | 3/20/2018 In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times reporter and bestselling 9781250064448 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 32 author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an upstanding family in small 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W town South Carolina. Many of them were doctors, but still, they are struck down by an inscrutable illness. Finally, they discover the cause of the disease after a Subrights: UK: Brockman, Inc. Translation: Brockman, Inc. remarkable sequence of providential events. Meanwhile, science, progressing for 50 years along a parallel track, handed the Baxleys a question—not a cure, but a Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250064349 blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease. Science offered Ebook ISBN: 9781250123992 another dilemma—fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children.

A work of narrative nonfiction said by The Washington Post to recall The

MARKETING Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise tells the story of a family New in Paperback Mentions that took matters into its own hands when medicine could not help. It’s a story of a family dealing with unspeakable tragedy without being driven apart. It’s the story of a young woman—Amanda Baxley—who faced the future, determined to find a way to disrupt her destiny.

PRAISE “Beautifully told story, with lots of affection for the subjects. As a family with our own genetic disorder issues, I found this intellectually fascinating and emotionally difficult. It’s an important book that I can recommend to anyone who likes science writing.” —Angela Schroeder, Sunrise Bookshop, Indie Next recommender

“Gripping...Kolata’s book reads like a medical thriller.” —Publishers Weekly

“Absorbing...the interweaving tales of science, family, and medical ethics make for a compelling read.” —Library Journal

GINA KOLATA (M.A.) is a writer and medical reporter for The New York Times. She has previously written five books and edited three collections of popular science writing. Ms. Kolata lives with her husband in Princeton, New Jersey.

43 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

The River of Kings A Novel

Taylor Brown

Two brothers travel a storied river’s past and present in search of the truth about their father’s death in the second novel by the acclaimed author of Fallen Land.

In The River of Kings, award-winning author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands—two brothers’ journey, their father’s past, and the dramatic history of an ancient river’s earliest people—to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination.

Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak Georgia’s Altamaha River FICTION / LITERARY St. Martin's Griffin | 3/20/2018 bearing their father’s ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a 9781250165510 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven Includes 3 maps and illustrations throughout with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press to found a French settlement at the river’s mouth, which began as a search for Translation: St. Martin's Press riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and Other Available Formats: native tribes, leaving the fort in ruins and a few survivors fleeing for their lives. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250111753 Ebook ISBN: 9781250111760 Twining past and present in one compelling narrative, and illustrated with drawings that survived the 1564 expedition, The River of Kings is Taylor Brown’s second novel: a dramatic and rewarding adventure through history, MARKETING myth, and the shadows of family secrets. Discussion Guide Bound in Book Discussion Guide Available Online Author Available for Call-in to Bookclubs PRAISE Active on Twitter: @Taylor.Brown.Fiction Active on Facebook: @Taybrown "Drawing comparisons to James Dickey's Deliverance and Charles Frazier's Cold Author Website: taylorbrownfiction.com Mountain...impressive...intense...haunting." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Author Tour National Print Publicity Online Publicity "A literary achievement...powerful." —Kirkus (Starred Review)

"I read Taylor Brown's new novel in a state of astonishment--at the bold undertaking, the exhilarating narrative, and the vivid language...a startling ALSO AVAILABLE portrait of America's soul." —Bobbie Ann Mason Gods of Howl Mountain: A Novel 3/2018 | 9781250111777 Hardcover | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. TAYLOR BROWN grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina. His fiction has appeared in more than 20 publications, he Fallen Land: A Novel 1/2017 | 9781250116840 is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist in both the Machigonne Fiction Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Contest and the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Fallen Land was his first novel; his third novel, Gods of Howl Mountain, will be published in March 2018 by SMP. He lives in North Carolina.

44 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

The New York Times Totally '90s Crosswords 200 Easy to Hard Puzzles from Da Bomb Decade

Edited by Will Shortz

A phat collection of easy to hard New York Times crossword puzzles from the 1990s.

Remember the 90s? Flannel shirts, “The Rachel” haircut, ska punk, Ken Starr, and New York Times crossword clues like these:

53 Across: “Warrior Princess” of TV 39 Across: Yankee manager Joe GAMES & ACTIVITIES / 106 Down: “The Simpsons” tavern owner CROSSWORDS St. Martin's Griffin | 3/20/2018 9781250160997 | $12.99 / $17.99 Can. Get psyched for this compilation of crossword puzzles originally published in Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 32 The New York Times from 1993-1999! Slip on your clogs and take a walk down 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W memory lane as you ponder the clever, pop-culture-loaded clues the Times is famous for.

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

45 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

The New York Times Mini Crosswords: 150 Easy Fun-Sized Puzzles Mini Crosswords Volume 2

Joel Fagliano

The next in the fun-size series of New York Times mini crossword puzzle books.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES / The next big thing in puzzles is also the smallest! This volume of New York CROSSWORDS Times mini crossword puzzles is chock-full of fun, in easy and convenient St. Martin's Griffin | 3/27/2018 9781250149268 | $9.99 / $12.99 Can. bite-sized portions. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 90 6 in H | 4.8 in W - 150 easy mini puzzles Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press - Portable size for on-the-go solving Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press - Available in print for the first time

JOEL FAGLIANO is the digital puzzles editor at The New York Times. He also works as the assistant to Will Shortz on the print puzzles. He’s a 2014 graduate of Pomona College, with a major in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Joel lives in New York City.

46 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

ConBody The Revolutionary Bodyweight Prison Boot Camp, Born from an Extraordinary Story of Hope

Coss Marte

An incredible bodyweight-only fitness book written by Coss Marte, a former Lower East Side drug dealer who found purpose and inspiration in prison—by developing a kick-butt workout. HEALTH & FITNESS / EXERCISE St. Martin's Griffin | 3/20/2018 ConBody is former Lower East Side drug dealer, Coss Marte’s, bodyweight-only 9781250126023 | $17.99 / $23.50 Can. approach to fitness. Created in prison with only the space of his own cell and no Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 24 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W equipment to work with, Coss designed a plan that helped him go from Includes 161 black-and-white photographs dangerously obese with a five year prognosis to losing 70 pounds and training throughout other inmates. Subrights: UK Rights: WME Translation Rights: WME Before prison, Coss was flying high, dealing drugs, and making money hand Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250126030 over fist as a teenager. But after watching his life and those of his loved ones fall apart, he realized things had to change. Once he saw that his workout plan was not only effective, but accessible, he knew he’d found a pathway to health and

MARKETING ultimately to a new life. Author Events National Broadcast Publicity When he left prison, he returned to the Lower East Side where any betting National Print Publicity person would tell you he’d be back slinging crack in no time. But instead he Online Publicity National Radio Publicity worked out in his old hangouts and gained a small following that turned into an Online Advertising acclaimed business winning entrepreneurial awards and the support of Shark Targeted Author Appearances Tank’s Barbara Corcoran. Extensive Blog Outreach Campaign Major Social Media Campaign Author Website: conbody.com Coss’s method works. Just ask the thousands of clients who attend his classes. These exercises are for anyone, anywhere. Male, female, rich, poor, all you need is yourself and the space of a jail cell to get to work. It’s perfect for busy lifestyles on the go and can be done in hotel rooms, small apartments, and in your backyard. With fun, engaging exercises, ConBody will help you get and stay healthy.

PRAISE “Meet the Ex-Con whose prison workout is taking over New York...Even after Marte was busted by the feds at his Bronx stash house, he was still obsessed with making money...Today, he’s channeling that entrepreneurial spirit into a proper business.” —NYPost.com

COSS MARTE is the owner and creator of ConBody, a growing gym and fitness business based on bodyweight and inspired by prison workouts. He was a Lower East Side drug dealer running his own crew and making bank before he turned his life around and became a legal entrepreneur committed to helping others get healthy and breaking down stereotypes to help other ex-cons like himself have a second chance at life.

47 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2018

Will Shortz Presents Math Magicians Sudoku: 150 Puzzles for Clever Kids Sudoku for Kids Volume 2

Introduction by Will Shortz

150 easy sudoku puzzles to sharpen kids' math skills.

Now kids can enjoy the puzzle that keeps their parents’ minds racing and pencils sharpened. This edition, newly repackaged and designed for children 8 and up, begins with a sudoku lesson from Will Shortz and very easy 4x4 grids to warm up. Then young solvers advance to more challenging 6x6 grids and finally traditional 9x9 sudoku puzzles. JUVENILE NONFICTION / GAMES & ACTIVITIES / PUZZLES St. Martin's Griffin | 3/27/2018 Features: 9781250161048 | $9.99 / $12.99 Can. - 150 puzzles Trade Paperback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: 44 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W - Four difficulty levels including smaller “kid grids” - Fun commentary and illustrations - Edited by legendary New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz - Big grids with lots of space for easy solving

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

48 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2018

Proving Ground

Peter Blauner

Edgar Award-winner Peter Blauner introduces New York police detective Lourdes Robles tracking the case of a murdered criminal defense attorney and his Iraq war veteran son.

After ten years, Edgar Award-winner and New York Times bestseller Peter Blauner is back.

After spending a decade writing for TV, Peter Blauner bursts back onto bookshelves with a quintessential New York City crime novel that is as much about family and second chances as it is about greed and revenge. Intricate, sweeping, tense, and shocking, Proving Ground heralds the return of a major crime fiction talent. FICTION / CRIME Minotaur Books | 3/6/2018 9781250117465 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Nathaniel Dresden is an Iraqi war veteran having trouble settling back into life Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 stateside and coming to terms with his actions overseas, when his father, a 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W famously controversial criminal defense attorney loathed by every cop in the Subrights: UK rights: Inkwell Management city, is gunned down in a Brooklyn Park one night. With no witnesses, no leads, Translation rights: Inkwell Management Nathaniel might be the only one who really wants to find the killer. Except Other Available Formats: perhaps for the investigating detective, Lourdes Robles, who has just returned Hardcover ISBN: 9781250117441 from probation after her partner’s actions got her sidelined for months and who Ebook ISBN: 9781250117472 knows that not screwing up this case is her last chance to prove herself. Audio ISBN: 9781427285928 Audio ISBN: 9781427285935 Proving Ground is a crime novel, a story about the quest for redemption, and a portrait of contemporary NYC, all told in Peter Blauner’s singularly brilliant voice. MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions Facebook Advertising PRAISE “Peter Blauner has proven to be a master of the urban darkside, his crime novels suffused with a knowing compassion for the bottom dogs who live in the Minotaur’s maze that is New York City. Proving Ground is one of his finest efforts.” —Richard Price

“Taut narration, spot-on dialogue, and sharply etched action sequences make this one a must read. I couldn’t put the sucker down.” —Stephen King

“With Proving Ground, Peter Blauner continues to prove why he’s one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature. A beautifully written and relentlessly exciting thriller.” —Dennis Lehane

PETER BLAUNER is an Edgar-winning, New York Times bestselling author of six previous novels, including Slow Motion Riot and The Intruder. He spent the 1980s covering crime, politics and other forms of socially-abhorrent behavior for New York magazine. For the past decade he has been working in television, writing for several shows in the Law & Order franchise and the CBS show Blue Bloods. He was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife.

49 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2018

The Graves A Novel

Pamela Wechsler

In Pamela Wechsler’s latest novel featuring upper crust Boston DA Abby Endicott, Abby becomes personally embroiled in a serial killer case whose victims are all young women.

Abby Endicott, the chief of the District Attorney’s homicide unit in Boston, returns in the heart-racing follow-up to Mission Hill. Things are looking good for Abby: she’s top pick to be the next District Attorney, and her musician boyfriend Ty has moved in, despite her upper crust family’s objections. But a serial killer is on the loose, and with two college-aged girls dead and one missing, time is running out. When the sons of a prominent senator are linked to FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE the murders, Abby pushes back, stopping at nothing to find justice for the girls. PROCEDURAL This time, the killer could be right under her nose, and she may be the next Minotaur Books | 3/27/2018 victim. 9781250160553 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W In The Graves, former prosecutor turned television writer Pamela Wechsler delivers in her latest Abby Endicott novel. Subrights: UK rights: Levine Greenberg Rostan Translation rights: Levine Greenberg Rostan PRAISE Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250077882 “With a tough and terrific heroine in Boston Brahmin and homicide chief (yes, Ebook ISBN: 9781466890220 that’s right) Abby Endicott, Mission Hill is a perfect mix of suspense, character, and authenticity.” —Susan Elia MacNeal

“Riveting, suspenseful and heartbreakingly realistic. Pam Wechsler joins the ranks of Boston’s finest with her searing and authentic look inside the prosecution...Mission Hill is terrific.” —Hank Phillippi Ryan

“Wechsler’s multilayered plot realistically touches on legal ethics, political intrigue and construction double-dealings with aplomb with plenty of twists.” —Associated Press

PAMELA WECHSLER grew up in the Boston area and is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston University School of Law. After spending years as a criminal prosecutor at local, state, and federal levels, she moved to LA, where she was as a legal consultant and writer for network television shows, including various Law and Order franchises, Conviction, and Canterbury’s Law. She is currently a writer and co-producer on the CBS show Doubt.

50 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2018

Conviction A Novel

Julia Dahl

In Julia Dahl’s powerful novel, Rebekah Roberts investigates a murder that occurred in Brooklyn after the Crown Heights riots of 1991, for which the wrong man may have been convicted.

In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on.

Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter: I didn’t do it. FICTION / MYSTERY & Frustrated with her work at the city’s sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig. But DETECTIVE witnesses are missing, memories faded, and almost no one wants to talk about Minotaur Books | 3/13/2018 9781250083708 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. that grim, violent time in New York City—not even Saul Katz, a former cop and Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 her source in Brooklyn’s insular Hasidic community. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W

Subrights: UK rights: Levine Greenberg So she goes it alone. And as she gets closer to the truth of that night, Rebekah Translation rights: Levine Greenberg finds herself in the path of a killer with two decades of secrets to protect. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250083692 From the author of the Edgar-nominated Invisible City comes another timely Ebook ISBN: 9781250083715 thriller that illuminates society’s darkest corners. Told in part through the eyes of Audio ISBN: 9781427282699 a jittery eyewitness and the massacre’s sole survivor, Conviction examines the power—and cost—of community, loyalty, and denial.

MARKETING PRAISE New in Paperback Mentions Online Promotion “A thrilling, utterly absorbing crime novel. With tender-tough reporter Rebekah Roberts at the story’s center, it jolts the heart, while also raising bigger, troubling questions—about criminal confessions, urban fear, and the many, many ways our ALSO AVAILABLE moral and ethical convictions can both guide us and mislead us, and ultimately save us.” —Megan Abbott Run You Down: A Novel 3/2016 | 9781250043429 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. Praise for Run You Down: Invisible City: A Novel 3/2015 | 9781250043412 “Evocative.” —NPR’s Fresh Air Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can.

“[A] strong sequel…Aviva emerges as a woman with the great strength to survive.” —The New York Times Book Review

JULIA DAHL is a journalist specializing in crime and criminal justice. Her first novel, Invisible City, was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, won the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and writes for CBSNews.com.

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350+ Beading Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets How to be better at what you do

Jean Power

The ultimate beading reference book.

From the beginner to the consummate professional, 350+ Beading Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets is a beader’s on-call, 24-hour-a-day resource for every beading need.

CRAFTS & HOBBIES / BEADWORK Starting with the basics and working up to expert tips for a great finish, 350+ St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 Beading Tips is an indispensable reference book that can be used over and over 9781250162762 | $22.99 / $32.99 Can. by crafters of all levels. Featuring step-by-step color photographs, clear Trade Paperback | 160 pages instructions, and an extensive glossary, this handy guide is an essential resource 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W Includes color photographs throughout whether you are stringing, wiring, or bead weaving. The techniques are organized in the order you need them when making a project, starting with the Subrights: UK Rights: Quarto Translation Rights: Quarto right tools and materials to finishing tips for neat, professional results. You can even dip in for help with a particular problem! Beginning with instructions for creative knot work, quick and easy stringing, and working with wire, beaders can soon graduate to mixing vintage and modern beads, incorporating charms MARKETING and findings in their work, and even rescaling and designing their own patterns. Online Promotion Blog Outreach Social Media Campaign Whether you’re using crystals or seed beads, wirework techniques or stitches, making jewelry as gifts or to sell, Jean Power’s 350+ Beading Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets has all the answers.

ALSO AVAILABLE PRAISE 350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: Updated Edition--More Tips! More “Ever feel as if you need a constant reference to basic techniques as you work Tricks! through a beading project? This book is the perfect companion to have handy as 7/2017 | 9781250125101 your string, bend wire, weave through seed beads, and make mistakes that you Trade Paperback | $22.99 / $32.99 Can. think there’s no way out of! Jean Power has done a stellar job of assembling all the 350+ Knitting Tips, Techniques, and Trade FAQs of beading into one little book. You’ll want to keep it in plain sight for all Secrets: How to Be Better at What You Do 7/2017 | 9781250125125 your beading adventures...and mishaps!” —Bead Design Studio Magazine Trade Paperback | $22.99 / $32.99 Can. JEAN POWER is a professional, award-winning beading and jewelry designer, writer, and teacher. Jean’s beading and jewelry designs have been published in numerous magazines and books around the world, including in Bead & Button, Beadwork, Step-By-Step Beads, and Jewelry Crafts. She is the editor of Bead, the UK’s first magazine devoted entirely to beading and jewelry making.

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350+ Quilting Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets How to be better at what you do

Susan Briscoe

The ultimate reference book for all quilters.

Quilt to impress using 350+ Quilting Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets to perfect your quilting creativity and mastery. The basics of quilting may seem like a no-brainer, but mastering all the techniques needed to create a beautiful, professional-looking quilt can take years. But 350+ Quilting Tips is here to help! CRAFTS & HOBBIES / QUILTS & QUILTING With this indispensable resource you can learn all the inside knowledge you’ll St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 need to make quilts you can proudly display or give to your very best friends 9781250162779 | $22.99 / $32.99 Can. and family. Whether you are a beginner or just eager to perfect your skills, this Trade Paperback | 160 pages is the perfect companion for any level of quilter. 9.5 in H | 7.5 in W Includes color photographs throughout Taking you through the entire process of quilt making from start to finish, 350+ Subrights: UK Rights: Quarto Translation Rights: Quarto Quilting Tips is packed with essential techniques explained using specially commissioned, detailed step-by-step instructions and artwork. Each topic is self-contained on one to two pages and arranged in a logical, easy-to-follow sequence. Plus, there are troubleshooting tips along the way just in case you run MARKETING into a quilting kerfuffle! In addition to useful basics, like how to plan a design or Online Promotion Blog Outreach chain-piece strips together, you also learn everything from practical finishing Social Media Campaign and embellishment methods to exciting new techniques like how to digitally print on fabric.

Drawing on years of teaching experience, expert quilt maker Susan Briscoe is ALSO AVAILABLE the perfect guide to help you create a beautiful, personalized quilt to cherish. 350+ Crochet Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: Updated Edition--More Tips! More SUSAN BRISCOE is a professional textile designer, author, and teacher specializing in patchwork Tricks! and quilting. In addition to teaching, she also judges at national quilt shows. 7/2017 | 9781250125101 Trade Paperback | $22.99 / $32.99 Can. 350+ Knitting Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: How to Be Better at What You Do 7/2017 | 9781250125125 Trade Paperback | $22.99 / $32.99 Can.

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The Counterfeit Heiress A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander

In this thrilling mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, Lady Emily travels to Paris where she struggles to unmask a murderer amid a case of assumed identities and shadowy figures

This reissue is part of the Minotaur Signature Editions program.

After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress FICTION / THRILLERS / trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella SUSPENSE Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the Minotaur Books | 3/6/2018 intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of 9781250175151 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. them dead? Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle begins to Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press emerge: No one has actually seen Estella Lamar in years, since her only contact Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press has been through letters and the occasional blurry news photograph. Is she even Other Available Formats: alive? Emily and Colin's investigation of this double mystery takes them from Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250067432 Ebook ISBN: 9781250024688 London to Paris, where, along with their friend Cécile, they must scour the Audio ISBN: 9781427244352 darkest corners of the city in search of the truth. Audio ISBN: 9781427244369 PRAISE “One of Lady Emily's most interesting cases.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The Lady Emily mysteries have only strengthened as the series continues, combining fascinating historical details with vivid descriptions bringing the Victorian period to life.” —RT Book Reviews

"Readers will relish Alexander's lyrical evocation of British landscapes and her gift for crafting engaging characters." —Publishers Weekly on Behind the Shattered Glass

TASHA ALEXANDER attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, divide their time between Chicago and the UK.

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Wicked Autumn A Max Tudor Novel

G. M. Malliet

“Rarely have I read descriptions that have left me gasping, in both their hilarity and their painful truth. A wonderful read.” —Louise Penny

This is part of the Minotaur Signature Editions program.

The first in a delightful series set in the bucolic English hamlet of Nether Monkslip, Wicked Autumn stars a handsome and eligible vicar with a shadowy past as a secret agent. Max Tudor has all the village ladies swooning until one of them turns up dead. Perfect reading for Agatha Christie fans, Wicked Autumn is FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL wickedly entertaining. Minotaur Books | 3/6/2018 9781250175052 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. Wicked Autumn was nominated for the Agatha Award and named a top mystery Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 of 2011 by Library Journal. It received starred reviews from Library Journal, 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one map Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, where it was compared to novels by Agatha Christie and Louise Penny. Subrights: UK Rights: Constable & Robinson Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet’s charming first Max Tudor novel Other Available Formats: is perfect for traditional mystery lovers and cozy fans. Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250004109 Ebook ISBN: 9781429983891 PRAISE “Exquisitely well written, a tongue-in-cheek village mystery to be savored.” —Julia ALSO AVAILABLE Spencer-Fleming In Prior's Wood: A Max Tudor Mystery 4/2018 | 9781250092809 “The Father Max Tudor books are just excellent. G. M. Malliet has crafted the Hardcover | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. English village of our dreams.” —Charlaine Harris Devil's Breath: A Max Tudor Mystery 4/2017 | 9781250092786 Hardcover | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. “G. M. Malliet has brought the village cozy into the 21st century.” —Charles Todd The Haunted Season: A Max Tudor Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250079305 “[Malliet] may be the best mystery author writing in English at the moment (along Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. with French). She’s certainly the most entertaining.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

G. M. MALLIET’s first St. Just mystery won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and was chosen by Kirkus Reviews as a best book of the year. It was nominated for several awards, including the Anthony, the Macavity, and a Left Coast Crime award for best police procedural. She has since been nominated for nearly every major crime-writing award. She attended graduate school in Cambridge and Oxford; she and her husband travel frequently to the UK, the setting for her books.

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Caught in the Revolution Witnesses to the Fall of Imperial Russia

Helen Rappaport

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes a gripping portrait of a St. Petersburg (then named Petrograd) at the outbreak of the Russian revolution.

Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.

Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin’s Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St Petersburg) was in turmoil—felt nowhere HISTORY / EUROPE / RUSSIA & THE FORMER SOVIET UNION more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors St. Martin's Griffin | 4/10/2018 who filled hotels, clubs, bars, and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos 9781250164414 | $17.99 / $23.50 Can. breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Trade Paperback | 544 pages | Carton Qty: 16 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes two 8-page black-and-white photograph Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, sections governesses, volunteer nurses, and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking Subrights: UK Rights: Peters Fraser & Dunlop Translation Rights: Peters Fraser & Dunlop of the Titanic; to the black valet of the US Ambassador, far from his native Deep South; to suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, who had come to Petrograd to Other Available Formats: inspect the indomitable Women’s Death Battalion led by Maria Bochkareva. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250056641 Ebook ISBN: 9781466860452 Audio ISBN: 9781427284785 Helen Rappaport draws upon this rich trove of material, much of it previously unpublished, to carry us right up to the action—to see, feel, and hear the Revolution as it happened to an assortment of individuals who suddenly felt MARKETING themselves trapped in a “red madhouse.” New in Paperback Mentions Blog Outreach Author Twitter: @HelenRappaport PRAISE “Splendid... the stories these witnesses tell is endlessly fascinating.” —The New York Times Book Review

ALSO AVAILABLE “A multifaceted account of the 1917 Russian Revolution… Rappaport brings the The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra streets and spirit of the early-20th-century Petrograd to life on the page.” 6/2015 | 9781250067456 —Harper’s Bazaar Trade Paperback | $17.99 / $20.50 Can. “A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs

HELEN RAPPAPORT is the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters. She studied Russian at Leeds University and is a specialist in Russian and Victorian history. She lives in West Dorset.

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He Said/She Said A Novel

Erin Kelly

On the eve of a solar eclipse, a couple forced into hiding discovers that they can no longer run from their past in this taut psychological suspense novel.

In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they’ll share.

FICTION / THRILLERS / But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and SUSPENSE a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her Minotaur Books | 4/24/2018 9781250160546 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. word against his. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a Subrights: UK rights: Zoe Pagnamenta lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to Translation rights: Zoe Pagnamenta wonder—did she trust the wrong person? Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250113696 15 years later, Kit and Laura are living under assumed names and completely off Ebook ISBN: 9781250113702 the digital grid: no Facebook, only rudimentary cell phones, not in any Audio ISBN: 9781427288110 directories. But as the truth catches up to them, they realize they can no longer keep the past in the past.

MARKETING From Erin Kelly, queen of the killer twist, He Said/She Said is a gripping tale of New in Paperback Mentions Promotion on Criminal Element the lies we tell to save ourselves, the truths we cannot admit, and how far we Blog and Bookstagram Outreach will go to make others believe our side of the story. Author Twitter: @MsErinKelly PRAISE “He Said/She Said" is a thriller to savor, and should be one of the highlights of the summer.” -- Associated Press

“This first-rate psychological thriller and deft exploration of the delicate dance of marriage and the secrets people keep works on multiple levels, and the passages about the early days of Laura and Kit’s relationship—filled with the gossamer promise of new love—make what's in store for them even more harrowing. A stunning conclusion will take more than a few days to fade from memory.” -- Kirkus Starred Review

“Kelly brings readers a truly intriguing thriller, with dark twists and moments that truly mess with the psyche. He Said/S...

ERIN KELLY is best known for her bestelling debut novel, The Poison Tree, which was a major ITV drama and longlisted for the John Creasy Dagger Award. She is the author of three further acclaimed standalone psychological thrillers and in 2013 was chosen to write the official novel of the Bafta-winning Broadchurch. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages. Erin has 57 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2018

Climate of Hope How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope

From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense.

The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. They approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions: without agreeing on POLITICAL SCIENCE / PUBLIC every point, they share a belief that cities, businesses, and citizens can lead—and POLICY / ENVIRONMENTAL win—the battle against climate change, no matter which way the political winds POLICY in Washington may shift. St. Martin's Griffin | 4/17/2018 9781250142085 | $17.99 / $23.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 In Climate of Hope, Bloomberg and Pope offer an optimistic look at the 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W challenge of climate change, the solutions they believe hold the greatest promise, Plus two 8-page color inserts that include and the practical steps that are necessary to achieve them. Writing from their photographs and graphs own experiences and sharing their own stories from government, business, and Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press advocacy, Bloomberg and Pope provide a road map for tackling the most Translation: St. Martin's Press complicated challenge the world has ever faced. Along the way, they turn the Other Available Formats: usual way of thinking about climate change on its head: from top down to Ebook ISBN: 9781250182128 bottom up, from partisan to pragmatic, from costs to benefits, from tomorrow to Hardcover ISBN: 9781250142078 today, and from fear to hope. Ebook ISBN: 9781250142092 Audio ISBN: 9781427288479 Bloomberg and Pope explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous. They aim to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens—and MARKETING National Print Publicity even, someday, by Washington. Extensive Online Publicity Op-eds & Essays PRAISE Academic Marketing Campaign Blog Outreach “A hopeful book of strategies for delivering the planet from our worst Author Website: mikebloomberg.com Michael Bloomberg Facebook: 500K Likes environmental depredations. …a thoughtful, eminently reasonable set of Michael Bloomberg Twitter: 1.65m proposals.” —Kirkus Followers Carl Pope Facebook: 1.2K Likes Carl Pope Twitter: 4K Followers MICHAEL BLOOMBERG is the founder of Bloomberg LP. He served as Mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 and was appointed as the Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change by the U.N. Secretary-General in 2014. CARL POPE is the former Executive Director and Chairman of the Sierra Club. He is now the principal adviser at Inside Straight Strategies and serves as a Senior Climate Adviser to Bloomberg. The author of three books, he writes regularly for Bloomberg View and Huffington Post.

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The Stiletto Agreement

JaQuavis Coleman

A gritty, dramatic, pulse-pounding street thriller by New York Times bestselling author JaQuavis Coleman.

One wife. One mistress. One deadly game of sex, deception, and betrayal...

Both wife and mistress are attached to the same man, a man heir to the throne of a powerful business. The same man that had led them on for years and kept secrets from them both. But now he’s thousands of miles away, duct-taped and bound to a chair in a basement in Detroit, Michigan.

As the intricate plan concocted between the two women unfolds, more and more layers of secrets are exposed. What starts out as a quest for ransom money turns into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. Within 72 hours, sex, manipulation, lies, FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN / URBAN and altered plans will all explode into unpredictable consequences that will St. Martin's Griffin | 4/24/2018 change their three lives forever... 9781250081285 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W PRAISE

Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press “An excellent, exciting read for newcomers, longtime Cartel followers, and all Translation: St. Martin's Press urban-lit fans.” —Booklist on The Cartel 6: The Demise Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427295651 “[T]hese authors may just be the most successful literary couple in America.” —T Magazine

MARKETING “[T]he duo is taking the world of street literature by storm.” —Rolling Out National Print Publicity Online Publicity Online Advertising JAQUAVIS COLEMAN is the prolific writer from Flint, Michigan and is known for his witty street Early Reader Review Campaign tales that depict the street/urban lifestyle. His clever storytelling ability gives readers a perspective Bookseller Outreach from a young street hustler and the authenticity is evident. In 2013 he was honored by Ebony Social Media Campaign magazine as being one of the top 100 most influential African Americans in the country. He’s the Email Marketing Campaign author of The Dopeman series and The Cartel series with Ashley Antoinette Coleman.

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Chaser A Dive Bar Novel

Kylie Scott

The third highly anticipated novel in the sexy Dive Bar series from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott!

Local bad boy and manwhore, Eric, is having a tough time scoring given his dreadful but well-earned reputation. When Jean moves to town, she seems heaven-sent by the sex gods. Only problem is, she wants nothing to do with him.

Having arrived in town pregnant due to an inebriated one night stand, Jean is determined to turn her life around and be the kind of mother she always wished she’d had. Once she begins to show, Eric is horrified—and determined to steer FICTION / ROMANCE / clear of her. But circumstances keep throwing them together, and they soon CONTEMPORARY discover feelings they can't deny. But can Eric give up his manwhoring ways to St. Martin's Griffin | 4/17/2018 9781250083234 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. be the man Jean needs? Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W PRAISE Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Jane Rotrosen Agency “Filled with knowing. Confusion. Understanding. Above all, love.” —Abbi Glines, New York Times bestselling author of The Vincent Boys series on Dirty Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250083296 Audio ISBN: 9781427282989 “Killer writing, laugh-out-loud humor and so heart-warming you will blush all over.” —Katy Evans, New York Times bestselling author of the Real series on Dirty

MARKETING “While retaining her mischievous and wisecracking signature style, Scott has also Blog Outreach brought tenderness and honesty to the material that is truly delightful.” NetGalley Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on Deep Email Marketing Campaign Online Promotion at KYLIE SCOTT is the New York Times bestselling author of the Stage Dive series. HeroesandHeartbreakers.com National Advertising National Print Publicity Online Publicity Visit kyliescott.com Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/kyliescottwriter, 32K Active on Twitter: @KylieScottbooks, 11.4K

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The New York Times Take It Easy Crosswords 75 Easy Crossword Puzzles

Edited by Will Shortz

Relax and enjoy with these 75 easy New York Times crossword puzzles!

Easy puzzles are the best! They offer the intellectual challenge, vocabulary building, and sheer fun of solving, but won’t have you tearing your hair out. Enjoy the thrill of filling in that last little box!

Featuring: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / - 75 easy Times crosswords CROSSWORDS - Puzzles edited by Will Shortz St. Martin's Griffin | 4/24/2018 - Convenient, travel-size volume: portable and affordable 9781250160959 | $7.99 / $10.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 96 pages | Carton Qty: 56 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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The New York Times Super Sunday Crosswords Volume 1 50 Sunday Puzzles

Edited by Will Shortz

The first in a new series of New York Times Sunday crosswords: bigger and better!

The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy years. It’s America’s favorite—and most famous—crossword puzzle. GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Now the extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better: easier on the eyes for CROSSWORDS stress-free solving! St. Martin's Griffin | 4/3/2018 9781250161000 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. Spiral Bound | 64 pages | Carton Qty: 80 Features: 11 in H | 8.5 in W - Fifty New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by Puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold new series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, stay-flat solving

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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The New York Times Easy Crossword Puzzles Volume 19 50 Monday Puzzles from the Pages of The New York Times

Edited by Will Shortz

Volume 19 of the popular series: 50 easy puzzles edited by Times crosswords editor Will Shortz!

For solvers who want more of the fun and less of the challenge of solving the legendary New York Times crossword comes this collection of light and fun GAMES & ACTIVITIES / CROSSWORDS puzzles. All the puzzles in this book originally appeared in Monday editions of St. Martin's Griffin | 4/17/2018 the paper—the easiest of the week—and they’re fun to do while still providing 9781250161055 | $11.99 / $15.99 Can. the same high standards that have always been the mark of The New York Times Spiral Bound | 64 pages | Carton Qty: 80 and its crossword editor, Will Shortz. 11 in H | 8.5 in W Volume nineteen in the Will Shortz edited New York Times Easy Crosswords series contains: - Fifty of the Times’ Monday crosswords - Puzzles that are fun and totally solvable by all puzzlers, from beginner to expert - Covered spiral binding for convenient, lay-flat solving

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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Pregnancy, OMG!

Nancy Redd

NYT bestselling author Nancy Redd’s visual guide to pregnancy and all the bizarre, hilarious, and often unanticipated changes a woman’s body can go through.

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THIS COULD HAPPEN?!— This is not the thought you want to be having when you’re frantically Googling whether your pregnancy symptoms are normal or an emergency.

Just when you thought there could never be another pregnancy book, Pregnancy, HEALTH & FITNESS / OMG! comes along, and you realize how much the current market is missing. PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH Did you know that: your nose can change size and shape? Your fingernails, far St. Martin's Griffin | 4/3/2018 9781250113184 | $19.99 / $25.99 Can. from growing long and strong, can crack or fall off? You can completely Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 20 (temporarily) lose your sense of smell? That 5% of women grow a third boob? 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W More seriously, that 25-50% percent of the partners of women with postpartum Includes color photographs throughout depression develop it themselves, or that 20% of pregnancies end in Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press miscarriage? Translation: St. Martin's Press

Other Available Formats: This is a one-stop guide to every change a woman’s body can go through while Ebook ISBN: 9781250113191 pregnant, and is unlike anything for expectant parents on the market: it is illustrated by full-color photographs of a diverse set of real pregnant women of all shapes, sizes and ages. Featuring Nancy Redd’s trademark warmth, humor, MARKETING and candor, and partnered with the advice and vetting of a medical expert, this Online Publicity book tackles embarrassing, confusing, and less-widely discussed issues that Online Advertising many pregnant women face. It offers practical tips and techniques to ease even Email Marketing Campaign Blog Outreach Campaign the strangest problems, helping to dispel panic and shame, and providing women Quick and Dirty Tips Promotion Including with the resources they need for a healthy pregnancy. Podcast Appearance Social Media Outreach Author Website: nancyredd.com PRAISE Active on Twitter: @nancyredd (20,000 followers) Praise for Nancy Redd and Body Drama: Active on Instagram: @nancyredd (14,300 followers) “Demystifies female bodies and shows them as they really look: curvy, sometimes Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/nancyredd (11,600 pimply and never perfect.” —Glamour followers) “Body Drama should be center stage in every young woman’s life. It will make you love every little thing about your body: your sags, your tags, your lumps, your bumps. It’s a book of liberation and it’s fun.” —Eve Ensler

NANCY REDD is the author of the instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller Body Drama, a photographic guidebook to puberty for girls; a journalist; and a mother of two. Originally from Martinsville, VA, she now lives in New York City with her husband and children. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

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Shadow Play The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy

William Klaber and Philip Melanson

This updated edition for the 50th anniversary of RFK’s murder explores ignored witness accounts, coerced testimony, bullet-hole evidence, and other issues surrounding the political homicide.

On June 4, 1968, just after he had declared victory in the California presidential primary, Robert Kennedy was gunned down in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Captured a few feet away, gun in hand, was a young Palestinian-American named Sirhan Sirhan. The case against Sirhan was HISTORY / UNITED STATES / declared by the police to be “open and shut” and the court proceedings against 20TH CENTURY him were billed as “the trial of the century;” American justice at its fairest, St. Martin's Griffin | 4/24/2018 swiftest, and most sure. But was it? Shadow Play explores these pressing 9781250166616 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. questions: Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph - Why did some LAPD interrogators refuse to accept the testimony of key insert witnesses, continuing to challenge them until they changed their stories? Subrights: UK: Sterling Lord Literistic - Why were the police files of the murder investigation sealed for over twenty Translation: Sterling Lord Literistic years? - Why did Sirhan’s attorneys fail to challenge any of the physical evidence at his trial?

MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions Updated to include new information about an audio recording of the shooting and other evidence from the crime scene, Shadow Play challenges the official assumptions and conclusions about this most troubling, and perhaps still unsolved, political homicide.

PRAISE “An engrossing and compellingly written narrative.” —Gary Bellow, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Harvard University

“What makes [the authors’] analysis different from earlier accounts of this national tragedy is that they were able to inspect the voluminous LAPD files on the case that had been kept from the public for twenty years after the assassination.” —Samuel Dash, Georgetown University Law Center, and former chief counsel, Watergate committee

WILLIAM KLABER earned a Golden Reel Award nomination in 1993 for The RFK Tapes, a nationally broadcast, one-hour public radio documentary on the murder of Robert Kennedy.

PHILIP H. MELANSON was a political science professor and the chair of the Robert Kennedy Assassination Archives at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He died in 2006.

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X Marks the Spot

Opal Carew

A woman ends up in the wrong bed and finds herself torn between her soon-to-be-ex-husband and his best friend in the latest erotic romance from bestselling author Opal Carew.

Opal Carew takes desire to a whole new level in her latest erotic, standalone romance!

Abi has been in love with Del for years, but they never got around to acting on their mutual attraction. And then she met and married his best friend, Liam.

But when Abi and Liam’s marriage falls apart, Abi decides to take control of her life and find her happily-ever-after with Del. So when they’re all staying in a FICTION / ROMANCE / EROTICA St. Martin's Griffin | 4/3/2018 country inn for her brother’s wedding, Abi decides to slip into Del’s bed and 9781250116802 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. seduce him…except she accidentally ends up in Liam’s instead. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Liam never stopped loving Abi, and he plans to use every blazing hot trick in his Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press book to keep her in his bed…even if it means sharing her with Del. Translation: St. Martin's Press

Other Available Formats: X Marks the Spot is emotional, sexy, and is Opal Carew at her best! Ebook ISBN: 9781250116819 Audio ISBN: 9781427295637 PRAISE “With deft attention to detail...and a flirtation with the forbidden...this pleasing

MARKETING love story will satisfy romance fans.” —Publishers Weekly Blog Outreach NetGalley Outreach “Carew brings erotic romance to a whole new level...she sets your senses on fire!” Early Reader Review Campaign Email Marketing Campaign —Reader to Reader Online Promotion at HeroesandHeartbreakers.com “You might find yourself needing to turn on the air conditioner because this book National Advertising National Print Publicity is HOT! Ms. Carew just keeps getting better.” —Romance Junkies Online Publicity Visit opalcarew.com “A dip in an icy pool in the winter is what I needed just to cool off a little once I Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/Opal Carew, 4.2K Likes finished this yummy tale!” —Night Owl Reviews (5 stars) Active on Twitter: @OpalCarew, 2.2K Followers “Carew is truly a goddess of sensuality in her writing.” —Dark Angel Reviews

OPAL CAREW is the author of twenty erotic romances for St. Martin's Press. She lives in Canada ALSO AVAILABLE and makes regular trips to the US to speak at conferences and industry events.

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Modern Death How Medicine Changed the End of Life

Haider Warraich, M.D.

“Warraich’s elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey....He succeeds in humanizing a complex topic.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gene

There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience are almost nothing like what they were mere decades ago. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and SOCIAL SCIENCE / DEATH & dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland’s classic How We Die and Atul Gawande’s DYING Being Mortal. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the St. Martin's Griffin | 4/10/2018 cellular level up to the very definition of death itself. 9781250160843 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Beyond its ecology, epidemiology, and economics, the very ethos of death has changed drastically in recent years. Modern Death, Dr. Warraich’s debut book, Subrights: UK Rights: Trident Media Group explores the rituals and language of dying that have developed in the last Translation Rights: Trident Media Group century, and how modern technology has not only changed the hows, whens, and Other Available Formats: wheres of death, but also the what of death. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250104588 Ebook ISBN: 9781250104595 Delving into a vast body of social, religious, financial, geographical, and medical research, Modern Death provides an enriched understanding of how dying today differs from the past, what our ancestors got right, and how trends MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions and events have transformed this most final of human experiences.

PRAISE “Warraich concludes this sensitive review of a painful subject with guarded optimism that a cultural shift toward open discussion is now occurring. An important contribution to a serious discussion of profound life-and-death issues.” —Psychology Today

“Warraich thoughtfully investigates the often alarming realities of death in early 21st-century America.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Warraich demystifies what is known and unknown about how cells and bodies die, while sensitively grappling with the changing cultural landscape surrounding the end of life.” —Scientific American

DR. HAIDER WARRAICH graduated from medical school in Pakistan in 2009. He did his residency in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, one of the main teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. He is currently a fellow in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. His medical and Op Ed pieces have appeared in many media outlets including the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, and the LA Times among others.

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Murder on the Flying Scotsman

Carola Dunn

In 1923, a family feud over an dying relative’s inheritance leads to murder aboard the famous train, the Flying Scotsman in the latest Daisy Dalrymple mystery.

In the spring of 1923, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple boards the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train. On board, she meets an old schoolmate, Anne Breton, along with all her relatives. They are all en route to the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it stands, Alistair’s will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, while the rest of the family is each hoping to convince the dying Alistair to change his will in their favor.

FICTION / MYSTERY & Daisy, meanwhile, has her hands full when young Belinda Fletcher, the daughter DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS St. Martin's Griffin | 4/24/2018 of Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, stows away aboard 9781250162328 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. the train. Daisy barely has time to take notice of the intricate family feud Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 unfolding around her—until the presumptive heir, Albert McGowan is found 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W dead—murdered—on the train. Now Daisy is surrounded by an entire family of Subrights: UK: Constable & Robinson suspects and becomes, once again, embroiled in the murder investigation. Translation: St. Martin's Press

Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781466820647 “Dunn’s forebears are writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. They set the standard for classic cozy puzzles, and Heirs of the Body’s unfussy

MARKETING prose and straightforward plot lend themselves well to this venerable tradition.” New in Paperback Mentions —Seattle Times

“Cunnning...appropriate historical detail and witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece.” —Publishers Weekly on The Bloody ALSO AVAILABLE Tower Buried in the Country: A Cornish Mystery 12/2016 | 9781250047038 Hardcover | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. “Dunn and Daisy are at the top of their game in the entertaining, old-school story

Superfluous Women: A Daisy Dalrymple of drawing room manners mixed with murder.” —Booklist on Sheer Folly Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250105752 CAROLA DUNN is the author of many mysteries featuring Daisy Dalrymple, including Sheer Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Folly, Gone West and Heirs to the Body, as well as numerous historical novels. Born and raised in The Winter Garden Mystery: A Daisy England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon. Dalrymple Mystery 3/2016 | 9781250080745 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can.

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Shakespeare's Landlord A Lily Bard Mystery

Charlaine Harris

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris’s Shakespeare series returns to print in this stunning mystery.

Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily Bard came to the small town of Shakespeare to escape her dark and violent past. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. So when she spots a dead body being dumped in the town green, she’s inclined to stay well away. But she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and despite her best efforts, she’s dragged into the murder case. Lily doesn’t care who did it, but when the police and local community start pointing FICTION / MYSTERY & fingers in her direction, she realizes that proving her innocence will depend on DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS finding the real killer in quiet, secretive Shakespeare. Minotaur Books | 4/17/2018 9781250107282 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 PRAISE 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Praise for Aurora Teagarden: Subrights: UK rights: JABberwocky Translation rights: JABberwocky “The energetic, highly entertaining novel is like seeing a dear friend and picking Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250107275 up the relationship.” —Associated Press

”Absorbing…Harris weaves a complex tale of difficult family dynamics that

ALSO AVAILABLE highlights the horrors of being a teenager. Aurora, a smart and witty protagonist, possesses all the Southern charm necessary to carry this entertaining series.” All the Little Liars: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery —Publishers Weekly 8/2017 | 9781250090041 Mass Market | $7.99 / $10.99 Can. “A delightful series.” —Library Journal

“Harris’s style is well suited to the material, frothy and fast-paced with a wealth of witty descriptions.” —Publishers Weekly

“Entertaining fare.” —Booklist

CHARLAINE HARRIS is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. In addition to the Shakespeare mysteries, she is also the author of the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, the Harper Connelly mysteries, the Cemetery Girl mysteries, and the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series, which is the basis for the HBO show True Blood. Harris now lives in Texas with her husband.

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Devil's Breath A Max Tudor Mystery

G. M. Malliet

“The Father Max Tudor books are just excellent. G. M. Malliet has crafted the English village of our dreams.” —Charlaine Harris

Agatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers, cozy fans, and Agatha Christie devotees with her critically acclaimed mysteries featuring handsome spy-turned-cleric Max Tudor.

Recently, Max’s former life as an MI5 agent caught up with him, threatening his newfound happiness with Awena and baby son Owen. Realizing there is no FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL escape from his past, Max, with his bishop’s tacit permission, has offered his Minotaur Books | 4/10/2018 services to MI5 on an as-needed basis. 9781250159342 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Now it’s time for Max to follow through. The body of glamorous film star 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one map Margot Browne has washed ashore from a luxury yacht and Max’s former colleague, Patrice Loga,n wants his help to find the murderer. Subrights: UK Rights: Constable & Robinson Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press It’s a perfect “closed circle” murder since victim Margot must have been killed Other Available Formats: by one of the actors, stylists, screenwriters, or second-tier royalty aboard. Patrice Hardcover ISBN: 9781250092786 suspects the yacht’s owner, a playboy film director she’s been keeping tabs on Ebook ISBN: 9781250092793 for smuggling, but Max isn’t so sure. Max and DCI Cotton interview the suspects as they loll about one of the luxury hotels dotting the waterfront. The investigation into Margot’s lurid past uncovers a host of motives—it seems she MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions was not the only person on board with a secret they’d kill to keep.

PRAISE

ALSO AVAILABLE “It’s great to see the return of Malliet’s wit in a high-seas whodunit that deftly skewers the Hollywood high life.” —Kirkus Reviews on Devil’s Breath In Prior's Wood: A Max Tudor Mystery 4/2018 | 9781250092809 Hardcover | $25.99 / $33.99 Can. “Devil’s Breath, like all of Malliet’s novels, has clever plotting, entertaining The Haunted Season: A Max Tudor Mystery characters, stylish settings, and a deliciously unorthodox view of the human 9/2016 | 9781250079305 condition. Plus it’s laced with wickedly wry humor. You won’t want to miss this Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. series.” —Open Letters Monthly

“[Malliet] may be the best mystery author writing in English at the moment (along with Tana French).” —Cleveland Plain Dealer on A Demon Summer

G. M. MALLIET’s Death of a Cozy Writer received the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was named one of the best books of 2008 by Kirkus Reviews. It went on to earn Anthony and Macavity nominations. The first books in the Max Tudor series—Wicked Autumn, A Fatal Winter, Pagan Spring, and A Demon Summer—also were nominated for the Agatha Award. She and her husband live in the Washington, D.C. area. Visit her at GMMalliet.com.

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Watch Me A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Jody Gehrman

FICTION / THRILLERS / PSYCHOLOGICAL St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 9781250178503 | $28.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover | 320 pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W

Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250144027 Ebook ISBN: 9781250144034 Audio ISBN: 9781427294050

MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity Early Reader Galley Giveaways Netgalley Promotion Bookclub Outreach Library Marketing Campaign Email Marketing Campaign Author website:http://www.jodygehrman.com/ Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jody.gehrman Active on Twitter: https://twitter.com /jodygehrman

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Instastyling How to Take the Best Photographs for Instagram Success

Leela Cyd

Capturing success on Instagram

Instagram is a digital wonderland of stunning photographs and inspirational images, but how can you make sure that your own photos stand out amidst the rainbow of eye candy? To master Instagram and earn that coveted double tap of approval, you need to have a strong personal brand and an aspirational style that PHOTOGRAPHY / TECHNIQUES captures the viewer. Instastyling will help you achieve both. St. Martin's Griffin | 1/16/2018 9781250182210 | $21.99 / $28.99 Can. Vinyl Paperback | 192 pages Author Leela Cyd has an eye for photography and keen sense of digital Includes color photographs throughout media—and she has the Instagram following to prove it. Instastyling is full of Subrights: UK Rights: Quarto useful advice for making the most of Instagram. From tips on arranging the Translation Rights: Quarto perfect composition and styling your shots to making the most of natural lighting and telling story with your work, the book will help you capture the attention of the Instagram community.

Lella Cyd is a food, lifestyle, and travel photographer and stylist with over sixty thousand followers on Instagram. She has worked as a freelance photographer for various magazine including Apartment Therapy, Conde Nast Traveller, Kinfolk, and Kitchn.com. Living in Santa Barbara, California, Leela has travelled extensively and her work is rooted in celebrating natural, imperfect beauty wherever you find it.

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Blast the Sugar Out! Lower Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, Live Better

Ian K. Smith

From the New York Times #1 bestselling author of the SHRED diets, a book that fills an urgent need and supports all dieters who know cutting sugar is key.

Do you want to lose weight? In BLAST the Sugar Out!, Ian K. Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shred Power Cleanse, will guide you to eat well—and frequently—while controlling carbohydrates and dropping pounds to get to goal. You will lose weight on this diet—and start losing fast.

HEALTH & FITNESS / DIET & NUTRITION / WEIGHT LOSS Has your doctor suggested you get your blood sugar numbers down? St. Martin's Griffin | 12/26/2017 9781250186324 | $15.99 / $20.99 Can. This 5-week plan comprised of simple, affordable, accessible food as well as Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 32 more than 50 sugar swaps will immediately lower your blood sugar levels 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W painlessly and easily. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press Do you need a plan that will decrease your fat and increase your lean Other Available Formats: muscle? Hardcover ISBN: 9781250130136 Ebook ISBN: 9781250130143 The BLAST the Sugar Out! five-week program is structured and clear about what you must eat at meals and for snacks every day to keep on track. There’s no meal skipping, plenty of food, and short bursts of exercise to super-charge your ALSO AVAILABLE results. Super Shred: The Big Results Diet: 4 Weeks, 20 Pounds, Lose It Faster! You won’t be hungry on BLAST the Sugar Out! You’ll eat, drink, and learn to 1/2017 | 9781250118219 really taste good food again. Mass Market | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. Features more than 45 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and smoothies to The Shred Power Cleanse: Eat Clean. Get satisfy every craving. Lean. Burn Fat. 12/2016 | 9781250115874 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Ian K. Smith, M.D. is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of SHRED, SUPER SHRED, THE Shred: The Revolutionary Diet: 6 Weeks 4 SHRED POWER CLEANSE and other top-selling titles. He has created two national health Inches 2 Sizes initiatives--the 50 Million Pound Challenge and the Makeover Mile—and has served two terms on 4/2014 | 9781250038272 the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. A graduate of Harvard, Columbia, and the Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, Smith is an avid fitness enthusiast and sportsman.

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Come Sundown

Nora Roberts

The #1 New York Times bestseller now available in paperback.

A saga of love, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession…

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born. She never returned, and the Longbows don’t talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume she’s dead. But she isn’t. She is not far away,

FICTION / ROMANCE / part of a new family, one she never chose—and her mind has been shattered… SUSPENSE St. Martin's Griffin | 4/24/2018 When a bartender leaves the resort late one night, and Bo and Cal discover her 9781250123084 | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. battered body in the snow, it’s the first sign that danger lurks in the mountains Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 16 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W that surround them. The police suspect Cal, but Bo finds herself trusting him—and turning to him as another woman is murdered and the Longbows are Subrights: UK Rights: Writers House stunned by Alice’s sudden reappearance. The twisted story she has to tell about Translation Rights: Writers House the past—and the threat that follows in her wake—will test the bonds of this Other Available Formats: strong family, and thrust Bodine into a darkness she could never have imagined. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250123077 Ebook ISBN: 9781250123107 PRAISE “Roberts always tells a good story that balances romance and suspense, but in this MARKETING title, the narrative is deeper, the mystery is more layered, and with Alice, Roberts Online Publicity moves into another level of exploring physical and emotional trauma and the National Print Advertising National Online Advertising powerful balm of family and love. [Roberts] is moving into more complex and Blog Outreach darker storytelling, to terrific effect.” --Kirkus Starred Review Online Promotion Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign "With its take-no-guff heroine, who understands the importance of family and HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Promotion friends, and a compelling plot peppered with domestic details and composed of Visit noraroberts.com equal measures of spine-tingling suspense and sexy romance, this is quintessential Visit fallintothestory.com Active on Facebook: Roberts."--Booklist Rave Re... Facebook.com/noraroberts, 638K NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Come Sundown, The Obsession, The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are ALSO AVAILABLE more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Keedysville, MD. Irish Thoroughbred 3/2018 | 9781250162632 Hardcover | $20.00 / $26.00 Can.

Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1 12/2017 | 9781250122957 Hardcover | $27.99 / $36.00 Can.

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Essential Slow Cooker Recipes 103 Fuss-Free Slow Cooker Meals Everyone Will Love

Addie Gundry

In Essential Slow Cooker Recipes, America's favorite appliance turns out classic one pot meals, from overnight breakfasts to hearty entrees to comforting desserts.

A slow cooker is the ideal partner in crime when it comes to tackling dishes that can be too time- and work-intensive for every day, like French onion soup or COOKING / METHODS / SLOW chicken cordon bleu. And in this cookbook, we’re going way beyond the COOKING expected soups and stews. There are recipes for appetizers like BBQ Meatballs, St. Martin's Griffin | 1/9/2018 9781250123381 | $19.99 / $25.99 Can. breads like Slow Cooker Dinner Rolls, make-ahead breakfasts like Banana Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 22 Pecan French Toast, and desserts like Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Not to 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W mention slow cooker twists on beloved recipes like Lasagna, Meatloaf, and Includes a color photograph for every recipe Stuffed Peppers. throughout

Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Addie Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press has worked for Christian Etienne, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on Other Available Formats: management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, she Ebook ISBN: 9781250123398 won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network. As the executive producer for RecipeLion, Addie creates culinary content for multiple web platforms and communities. She excels at making easy recipes elegant.

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Easy Chicken Recipes 103 Inventive Soups, Salads, Casseroles, and Dinners Everyone Will Love

Addie Gundry

In Easy Chicken Recipes, the reliable workhorse protein finds a personality in inventive casseroles, comforting soups, hearty salads and more quick and easy weeknight dishes.

From a perfectly golden roaster chicken surrounded with herbed potatoes to COOKING / SPECIFIC INGREDIENTS / POULTRY soups, salads, and casseroles that make myriad uses of the resulting leftovers, St. Martin's Griffin | 3/13/2018 Easy Chicken Recipes is perfectly poised to answer home cooks' twin boredom 9781250146281 | $19.99 / $25.99 Can. with and reliance upon the old standby: a chicken dinner. This book includes Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 22 easy appetizers like spicy chicken potstickers, inventive casseroles like Frontier 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W Includes a color photograph for every recipe Chicken and noodle casserole, comforting soups, backyard favorites like Buffalo throughout Chicken Sandwiches and more quick and easy weeknight dishes for the oven,

Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press the skillet, the slow cooker, and the grill. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Addie Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250146342 has worked for Christian Etienne, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, she won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network. As the executive producer for RecipeLion, Addie creates culinary content for multiple web platforms and communities. She excels at making easy MARKETING recipes elegant. Online Promotion Email Marketing Campaign with Recipe Lion Blog Outreach Campaign Social Media Advertising Cookstr Promotion and Outreach Social Media Campaign Recipe Trailer Campaign

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350+ Beading Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: How to Divided Spy, A: A Novel; Charles Cumming...... 31 be better at what you do; Jean Power...... 52 Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest 350+ Quilting Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets: How to Town in the American West; Tom Clavin...... 29 be better at what you do; Susan Briscoe...... 53 Drake, Rebecca; Just Between Us: A Novel...... 8 Alexander, Tasha; The Counterfeit Heiress: A Lady Emily Dreaming in Chocolate: A Novel; Susan Bishop Crispell . . . . Mystery...... 54 ...... 30 Alkon, Amy; Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Dunn, Carola; Murder on the Flying Scotsman...... 68 Confidence...... 6 Easy Chicken Recipes: 103 Inventive Soups, Salads, Almost Missed You: A Novel; Jessica Strawser...... 33 Casseroles, and Dinners Everyone Will Love; Addie Gundry Among the Ruins: A Mystery; Ausma Zehanat Khan...... 18 ...... 76 Archer, Jeffrey; This Was a Man: The Final Volume of The End Game; Lisa Renee Jones...... 7 Clifton Chronicles...... 3 Essential Slow Cooker Recipes: 103 Fuss-Free Slow Aspiring Screenwriter's Dirty Lowdown Guide to Fame and Cooker Meals Everyone Will Love; Addie Gundry...... 75 Fortune, The: Tough Lessons You Need to Know to Take Your Script from Premise to Premiere; Andy Rose...... 39 Ewen, Ettore; The Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It.: From WWE's The New Day...... 36 Baker's Year, A: Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery; Tara Jensen . . . . Gehrman, Jody; Watch Me: A Gripping Psychological Thriller ...... 38 ...... 11, 71 Bikini Body Motivation & Habits Guide, The; Kayla Itsines . Graves, The: A Novel; Pamela Wechsler...... 50 ...... 2 Gross, Andrew; The One Man: The Riveting and Intense Bestselling WWII Thriller...... 10 Blast the Sugar Out!: Lower Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, Live Better; Ian K. Smith, M.D...... 73 Gundry, Addie; Easy Chicken Recipes: 103 Inventive Soups, Salads, Casseroles, and Dinners Everyone Will Love...... 76 Blauner, Peter; Proving Ground...... 49 Gundry, Addie; Essential Slow Cooker Recipes: 103 Fuss-Free Bloomberg, Michael; Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, Slow Cooker Meals Everyone Will Love...... 75 and Citizens Can Save the Planet...... 58 Gundry, Addie; Homemade Soup Recipes: 103 Easy Recipes Book of Booty: Shake It. Love It. Never Be It., The: From for Soups, Stews, Chilis, and Chowders Everyone Will Love . . 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