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Alfred A. Knopf Publisher of Borzoi Books Fall 2009 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:21 PM Page 43 Alfred A.Knopf Index of Titles Page Page The American Civil War, John Keegan 85 Lincoln, Life-Size, Philip B. Kunhardt III, American Icon, Teri Thompson, Peter W. Kunhardt, and Peter W. Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Kunhardt, Jr. 89 Christian Red 46 The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk 83 Angel Time, Anne Rice 79 The National Parks, Dayton Duncan and The Art Student’s War, Brad Leithauser 94 Ken Burns 55 The Bauhaus Group, Nicholas Fox Weber 78 News of the World, Philip Levine 74 Blood’s A Rover, James Ellroy 63 Noah’s Compass, Anne Tyler 61 The Case for God, Karen Armstrong 57 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro 53 The Children’s Book, A. S. Byatt 69 Nothing Was the Same, Kay Redfield Civil War Wives, Carol Berkin 64 Jamison 65 The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, On Thin Ice, Richard Ellis* 92 Johnny Mercer 80 The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov 97 Conquering Fear, Harold S. Kushner 81 Painting Below Zero, James Rosenquist 86 Conversations with Woody Allen, Eric Lax 52 A Phone Call to the Future, Mary Jo Crossers, Philip Caputo 76 Salter 54 Crude World, Peter Maass 58 The Pleasures of Cooking for One, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Judith Jones 62 Stories, Leo Tolstoy 98 The Queen Mother, William Shawcross 93 Defend the Realm, Christopher Andrew 77 Redeeming Features, Nicholas Haslam 96 Easy, Marie Ponsot 84 Robert Altman, Mitchell Zuckoff 73 Eating, Jason Epstein 82 Robert Redford, Michael Feeney Callan 95 The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chinua Achebe* 72 Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara 54 Endpoint and Other Poems, John Updike 45 The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, David Allen Sibley 48 A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore 59 The Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon 51 The Godfather of Kathmandu, John Burdett 75 Sweet Thunder, Wil Haygood* 68 Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and That Old Cape Magic, Richard Russo 91 Sheryl WuDunn 60 Tiepolo Pink, Roberto Calasso 70 Hearts of the City, Herbert Muschamp 100 Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro 101 The Immortals, Amit Chaudhuri 50 The Truth About Love, Josephine Hart 49 In the Falling Snow, Caryl Phillips 56 The Vintage Caper, Peter Mayle 71 The Jazz Loft Project, Sam Stephenson 88 Wheeling Motel, Franz Wright 66 Jericho’s Fall, Stephen L. Carter 47 Who Shot Rock & Roll, Gail Buckland 67 Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Woodrow Wilson, John Milton Cooper, Jr. 90 Bastianich Manuali 87 The World in Vogue, Hamish Bowles 99 * Books of special interest to young adults 43 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:21 PM Page 44 Index of Authors Page Page Achebe, Chinua, The Education of a Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. British-Protected Child 72 Kunhardt, and Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., Andrew, Christopher, Defend the Realm 77 Lincoln, Life-Size 89 Kushner, Harold S., Conquering Fear 81 Armstrong, Karen, The Case for God 57 Lax, Eric, Conversations with Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio, and Tanya Woody Allen 52 Bastianich Manuali, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy 87 Leithauser, Brad, The Art Student’s War 94 Levine, Philip, News of the World 74 Berkin, Carol, Civil War Wives 64 Maass, Peter, Crude World 58 Bowles, Hamish, The World in Vogue 99 Mayle, Peter, The Vintage Caper 71 Buckland, Gail, Who Shot Rock & Roll 67 Mercer, Johnny, The Complete Lyrics of Burdett, John, The Godfather of Johnny Mercer 80 Kathmandu 75 Moore, Lorrie, A Gate at the Stairs 59 Byatt, A. S., The Children’s Book 69 Munro, Alice, Too Much Happiness 101 Calasso, Roberto, Tiepolo Pink 70 Muschamp, Herbert, Hearts of the City 100 Callan, Michael Feeney, Robert Redford 95 Nabokov, Vladimir, The Original of Laura 97 Caputo, Philip, Crossers 76 O’Hara, Frank, Selected Poems 54 Carter, Stephen L., Jericho’s Fall 47 Pamuk, Orhan, The Museum of Innocence 83 Chaudhuri, Amit, The Immortals 50 Phillips, Caryl, In the Falling Snow 56 Cooper, Jr., John Milton, Woodrow Wilson 90 Ponsot, Marie, Easy 84 Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns, Rice, Anne, Angel Time 79 The National Parks 55 Rosenquist, James, Painting Below Zero 86 Ellis, Richard, On Thin Ice 92 Russo, Richard, That Old Cape Magic 91 Ellroy, James, Blood’s A Rover 63 Salter, Mary Jo, A Phone Call to the Future 54 Epstein, Jason, Eating 82 Shawcross, William, The Queen Mother 93 Gideon, Melanie, The Slippery Year 51 Sibley, David Allen, The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior 48 Hart, Josephine, The Truth About Love 49 Stephenson, Sam, The Jazz Loft Project 88 Haslam, Nicholas, Redeeming Features 96 Thompson, Teri, Nathaniel Vinton, Haygood, Wil, Sweet Thunder 68 Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red, Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes 53 American Icon 46 Jamison, Kay Redfield, Nothing Was Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich the Same 65 and Other Stories 98 Tyler, Anne, Noah’s Compass 61 Jones, Judith, The Pleasures of Cooking for One 62 Updike, John, Endpoint and Other Poems 45 Keegan, John, The American Civil War 85 Weber, Nicholas Fox, The Bauhaus Group 78 Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn, Wright, Franz, Wheeling Motel 66 Half the Sky 60 Zuckoff, Mitchell, Robert Altman 73 44 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:29 PM Page 45 JUST PUBLISHED John Updike Endpoint and Other Poems ohn Updike’s last book, a stunning, moving collection of poems written Jover the past seven years, which he put together only weeks before he died. John Updike was born in 1932, in Shillington, Pennsyl- lections of short stories, poems, and criticism. His books vania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the How- member of the staff of The New Yorker. He was the au- ells Medal, among other honors. He died in January thor of more than sixty books, including novels and col- 2009. • National Print Advertising in The New York Times Book Review Poetry • 5 x 8 • 112 pages $25.00 (Can. $29.95) • ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-27286-7 MARCH Alfred A. Knopf 45 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:21 PM Page 46 July Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Christian Red American Icon The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America’s Pastime sing Roger Clemens’s fidelity and drug use in Ustartling fall from professional ball, and grace—accusations of ste- provides an inside look roid use, investigation by at the way Congress has the Justice Department, dealt with the entire disclosure of sexual infi- issue. Jose Canseco, Alex delities, and the possible Rodriguez, and Chuck charges of perjury and Knoblauch are some of maybe even prison time the baseball players who to come—as a starting have substantial roles in point, this is the defini- this book. The writers tive book on corruption take us outside the white and the steroids era in lines and inside the deal- Major League Baseball. ings of sports executives, While Clemens is the cen- trainers, Congressmen, tral figure, the book ex- lawyers, a country west- amines the rise of illegal ern singer, a porn star, drugs in America’s fa- drug dealers, even a mur- vorite sport, the gym/ derer—all of whom have steroid culture in Texas, ties to the extraordinary the story of Andy Pettitte Clemens saga. and his father’s involvement with HGH, the An important, disturbing book, and one legal maneuverings in the Clemens/Brian that will rock and captivate baseball fans all McNamee case, and the culture of sexual in- over the country. Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, and Chris- • National Media Appearances tian Red are the New York Daily News sports investigative team, • National Print Features which has been at the forefront of the issue of performance- • Drive-time Sports Radio Campaign enhancing drugs since the team’s inception in 2000. One of the • Author Tour: Boston, Houston, and only investigative units of its kind in American sports journalism, New York the I-Team has won more than a dozen major awards for its • National Print Advertising, including work. USA Today • Online Advertising on TheNewYork Times.com 1 1 Sports • 6 ⁄4 x 9 ⁄4 • 464 pages $26.95 (Can. $33.00) • ISBN/EAN: 978–0-307–27180–8 46 Alfred A. Knopf JULY 22112_K-Fa09_f_MM.qxp:K-Fa09_1p_r1 3/6/09 3:21 PM Page 47 Stephen L. Carter Jericho’s Fall A novel tephen L. Carter’s bril- Beck believes she is there Sliant debut thriller, to say good-bye, but she The Emperor of Ocean is quickly and unwittingly Park, spent eleven weeks drawn into a battle of on the New York Times wits being fought over an best-seller list and was explosive secret that for- followed by two nation- eign governments and wide best sellers, New powerful corporations England White and alike want to wrest from Palace Council. Now, in Jericho before he dies. Jericho’s Fall, Carter re- An intricate, fast- turns us to the high- moving thriller that stakes world of power, plumbs the emotional privilege, and conspiracy. depths of a failed love af- In an imposing house fair and a family torn in the Colorado Rockies, apart by mistrust, Jeri- Jericho Ainsley, former cho’s Fall embraces a head of the Central Intel- wide range of issues, from ligence Agency and long- the morality of intelli- time Wall Street titan, lies gence operations to the dying.