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Kate Taylor Elizabeth Arnold Milton Rokeach, Introduction by Rick Moody A MAN IN UNIFORM: A Novel WHEN WE WERE FRIENDS: A Novel THE THREE CHRISTS OF YPSILANTI A seductive and gripping historical mystery for From the bestselling author of Pieces of My On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in readers of A. S Byatt. A page turning journey Sister's Life, an utterly riveting new novel Michigan, social psychologist Milton Rokeach through 19th-century Parisian society, in about the bonds of friendship and the lengths brought together three paranoid schizophrenics. which nothing is as it appears. to which a mother will go to protect a child. The men had one thing in common: each 978-0-307-88519-7 | $25.00 | Crown | HC | January | E 978-0-553-59252-8 | $15.00/$17.00C | Bantam | TR | March | E believed himself to be Jesus Christ. 978-1-59017-384-8 | $16.95/$18.95C Lisa Napoli Jonathan Coe New York Review Books | TR | March RADIO SHANGRI-LA: What I Learned in THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth MAXWELL SIM: A Novel Kyung-sook Shin PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM: A Novel In a country just beginning to open its doors to Maxwell’s father is absorbed by poetry. His best the modern world, which measures its success friend doesn’t return calls. His daughter prefers On a visit to Seoul, Mom is right behind her in Gross National Happiness rather than GDP, her Blackberry to conversation. And he has 70 husband when suddenly their train pulls out Lisa Napoli comes to appreciate her life for friends on Facebook—but absolutely no one to of the station without her, and she is lost, the adventure it is. talk to. An examination of personal attachments possibly forever. 978-0-307-59391-7 | $24.95 | Knopf | HC | April | ] 978-0-307-45302-0 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | February | ] E amid the digital welter of instant communication. 978-0-307-35919-3 | $29.95 | Random House Canada | HC 978-0-307-59481-5 | $26.95/NCR | Knopf | HC | March | E

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Tea Obreht THE TIGER’S WIFE: A Novel It is the present day in a Balkan country recently Tobias Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim rising from the specter of civil bloodshed. Natalia, SCORECASTING: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports and How a young doctor is on a mission of mercy on the Games Are Won other side of the border when she receives word of University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz her beloved grandfather's death in a remote field teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer Jon Wertheim to hospital under circumstances shrouded in confu- look at the hidden influences and subtle biases that shape and sion and mystery. 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Set in ancient Palestine, 978-0-345-51765-4 | $26.00/$30.00C | ESPN Books | HC | March The Way is the story of Anna, a tomboy with an androgynous appearance. Pete Williams and Major League Baseball E BASEBALL: Play the MLB Way: The Official Playing and 978-0-307-71769-6 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | March | Coaching Manual of Major League Baseball* Alexander Yates Featuring full-color action photos of MLB stars as well as youth MOONDOGS: A Novel players, this book includes extensive instructions and diagrams of Benicio is mourning the loss of his mother and all the skills needed to master the game, plus special tips from star travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged players on their skills and their practice regimens. father. Howard has been kidnapped by a meth-addled 978-0-7893-2218-0 | $29.95/$34.00C | Universe | HC | March cabdriver with grand plans to sell him to local terrorists. 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Rosamund Lupton SISTER: A Novel * As one woman risks everything to uncover the truth about her sister's last moments, this debut novel with a knockout twist shows that nothing is as durable—and nothing as exceptional—as the bond between sisters. Beatrice's little sister Tess has been found dead, apparently by suicide. But Bee is convinced that something more sinister is On a mission to amuse, bemuse, entertain, and inform responsible for her sister's untimely death. Moving (and usually all at the same time), Quirk Books has already into Tess's apartment, throwing herself headlong into her sister's life—and all its secrets—Bee published some huge hits, including Signing Their Lives becomes single-minded in her search for a killer. Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the 978-0-307-71651-4 | $24.00/$27.00C | Crown | HC | June | E Declaration of Independence, and the infamous Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 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Jim Davis 978-0-307-59143-2 | $35.00/$40.00C | Clarkson Potter | HC February GARFIELD SHOVELS IT IN: His 51st Book Garfield returns—weighing more than ever!—for Alan Bradley his 51st book, a brand-new, full-color compilation A RED HERRING WITHOUT MUSTARD: strip book and another must-have for Garfield fans. A Flavia de Luce Mystery They are all here—Jon, Odie, Nermal, and, of In the third installment of this bestselling, course, our favorite fat cat, Garfield! award-winning, sister-poisoning, bicycleriding, 978-0-345-52419-5 | $14.00/$16.00C | Ballantine | TR | January murder-investigating, mad, merry, and utterly captivating series, Flavia de Luce comes to the Alice Hoffman rescue when a Gypsy woman is charged with the THE RED GARDEN abduction of a local child. Flavia must draw upon From the bestselling author of The Third Angel her encyclopedic knowledge of poisons—and Gypsy and The Story Sisters comes an unforgettable lore—to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice, and shimmering new book about love, family ties, to solve a greater—and far more personal—mystery... and generational secrets. What really happened to her long-vanished mother? 978-0-307-39387-6 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | January 978-0-385-34232-2 | $23.00 | Delacorte Press | HC | February ] E 978-0-385-66586-5 | $29.95C | Doubleday Canada | HC | ] E

5 Kevin Brockmeier Princeton Review THE ILLUMINATION: A Novel ENGLISH & READING A series of interconnected stories finds a data WORKOUT FOR THE ACT analyst, a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a mission- 978-0-375-42807-4 | $16.99/$18.99C | Princeton Review | TR | February ary, a writer, and a street vendor connected by a MATH & SCIENCE WORKOUT FOR THE ACT private journal of love that is lost following a 978-0-375-42808-1 | $16.99/$18.99C | Princeton Review | TR | February fatal car accident. In each case the human pain These two new titles in the ACT series provide observed is revealed as illumination, so that extra, focused practice and as more and more one’s wounds glitter and blaze with light. high schoolers are taking the ACT, these are the 978-0-375-42531-8 | $24.95/$27.95C | Pantheon | HC ideal study aids. The extra targeted, subject-spe- February | E cific practice and preparation will boost scores and improve chances for admission. Steve Cash THE REMEMBERING: Book Three of The Meq Yoani Sanchez This final novel in the trilogy that began with The HAVANA REAL: One Woman Fights to Meq and continued with Time Dancers concludes the Tell the Truth about Cuba Today story of Zianno Zezen, born in 1879, who discovers A simple diary of what it’s like to live under the when he turns twelve that he will not age any Castro regime in Cuba: the difficulty of shopping further until the event foretold in Meq legend and chronic hunger; the art of repairing ancient called the Remembering. Steve Cash is a nationally appliances; the struggle for real news; fear of known singer-songwriter whose talent in writing admission to hospitals that lack sterilization lyrics has crossed over into writing fantasy. equipment; and a life structured by a propaganda 978-0-345-47094-2 | $15.00/$17.00C | Del Rey | TR | February | E that pushes deep into every facet of society. Each dispatch is a brutal and honest depiction Rebecca Dean of Cuba today. THE GOLDEN PRINCE 978-1-935554-25-7 | $16.95/$18.95C | Melville House | TR E Royal intrigue, romance, and illicit affairs—Rebecca February | Dean delivers another glorious novel that will do for Edward VIII what Philippa Gregory has done Sharon J. Smith for Henry VIII. THE YOUNG ACTIVIST’S GUIDE TO BUILDING A GREEN MOVEMENT 978-0-7679-3056-7 | $14.99/$16.99C | Broadway | TR Original December | E AND CHANGING THE WORLD A powerful and practical guide to environmental Michio Kaku activism featuring proven strategies and lessons PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE: How Science Will learned from the winners of the Earth Island Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives Institute's Brower Youth Awards—America's top by the Year 2100 honor for young green leaders. A stunning and provocative vision of the future 978-1-58008-561-8E | $14.99/$16.99C | Ten Speed Press | TR based on interviews with over 300 of the world’s February | top scientists. The Internet will be in your contact lens. Computers and appliances will be controlled Jean Auel via tiny sensors that pick up brain scans. Radically THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES: A Novel new spaceships will exist. An exhilarating, won- With The Land of Painted Caves, Auel give fans drous ride through the next hundred years. the finale to Earth’s Children series they've been 978-0-385-53080-4 | $28.95/$33.00C | Doubleday | HC waiting for, and she does not disappoint as she February | ] E continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar and their little daughter Jonayla. www.jeanauel.com Allison Pearson 978-0-517-58051-6 | $30.00/$35.00C | Crown | HC | March | E I THINK I LOVE YOU: A Novel 1974, Wales. Thirteen-year-olds Petra and Sharon Neal Bascomb are obsessed with David Cassidy and enter a contest THE NEW COOL: A Visionary Teacher, to meet their idol. 1998, London. Forty-year-old His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Petra is cleaning out her mother’s closet and Battle of Smarts discovers the letter her mother had intercepted— A captivating narrative that follows a team of declaring her the winner of the contest. So 24 high school students and their remarkable, years later, 20 lbs. heavier, the girls reunite for an MacArthur Genius Awarding winning, mentor all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas to meet their through a season of an unusual sport—one that teen idol at last! Poignant and hilarious. celebrates brains rather than brawn and has 978-1-4000-4235-7 | $24.95/$27.95C | Knopf | HC | February | ] E profound implications for America’s future. 978-0-307-58889-0 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | March | ] E

6 Anthony Brandt THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage Multicultural The enthralling and harrowing history of the adventurers who searched in vain for the fabled Northwest Passage in expedition after expedition for over thirty-five years. A rich and engaging work that captures the glory and the folly of this tragic enterprise. 978-0-307-27656-8 | $16.95/$18.95C | Anchor | TR | March | ] E

Brian Christian THE MOST HUMAN HUMAN: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive Richard Kluger A provocative exploration of the ways in which THE BITTER WATERS OF MEDICINE CREEK: computers are reshaping our ideas of what it A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America means to be human. Its starting point is the The riveting story of the brutal confrontation between Native Turing Test which pits artificial intelligence Americans and white settlers in the Washington Territory in 1853. against people to determine if computers and Through their experiences, the history of Native American injustice “think.” In 2008 the top AI program came short shines brightly. of passing the Turing Test by just one vote! 978-0-307-26889-1 | $28.95/$33.00C | Knopf | HC | March | ] E 978-0-385-53306-5 | $27.95/$32.00C | Doubleday | HC | March | E Rob Ruck Billy Collins RACEBALL: How the Major Leagues Colonized HOROSCOPES FOR THE DEAD: Poems the Black and Latin Game The new volume of poetry by the former Poet Award-winning writer Rob Ruck presents the interweaving histories Laureate of the United States—and one of of the MLB’s largest minority contingents, African Americans and America's most popular poets. In this moving and Latin Americans. Ruck explains these two groups’ impact on society. playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an 978-0-8070-4805-4 | $25.95/$29.00C | Beacon Press | HC | March | E array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into Rebecca Skloot the intricate folds of life. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS * 978-1-4000-6492-2 | $24.00/$27.00C | Random House | HC Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put E March | down, this bestseller captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. Now in paperback! Ben Dolnick 978-1-4000-5218-9 | $15.00/$17.00C | Broadway | TR | March | ] E YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE Fifteen years in the life of the Vine family in the Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. Jacob is SACRED TRASH: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza the middle child—his brother Will is class president The story of the recovery from a Cairo geniza (a repository for —the sister Cara is a sweet charmer. Jacob doesn’t worn-out texts) of the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts know who he is and when his mother falls ill he ever discovered. Letters, poems, wills, marriage contracts, prescrip- is even less sure. From high school, through tions, prayers, children’s primers, amulets…a panoramic view of a college and beyond, that question always remains: vibrant Mediterranean Judaism. who will you become? 978-0-8052-4258-4 | $27.95/$32.00C | Schocken/Nextbook | HC | April | E 978-0-307-39087-5 | $14.95/$16.95C | Vintage Original | TR March | E Miranda Kennedy SIDEWAYS ON A SCOOTER: Life and Love in India Fernanda Eberstadt What happens when a twenty-something NPR reporter abandons RAT life and her boyfriend to move alone to Delhi? Miranda Kennedy's Rat is fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, living with intimate look at the lives of six Indian women tells as much about her unmarried mother in a farmhouse compound our own Western assumptions as it does about the developing in the French Pyrenees with other single-parent society she's living in. families. When her mother’s current boyfriend 978-1-4000-6786-2 | $26.00/$30.00C | Random House | HC | April becomes menacing, she takes her adopted brother and runs off to find her father in London. She has Chika Unigwe never met or spoken to her father and this is a jour- ON BLACK SISTERS STREET: A Novel ney towards that one person who might finally Four very different women have made their way from Africa to explain who she is and where she belongs. Belgium to claim for themselves the riches of Europe. Then the 978-0-307-47239-7 | $15.00/$17.00C | Vintage | March | E sudden murder of one of them shatters their fragile world and, drawn together by tragedy, the women tell the stories they have kept secret. 978-1-4000-6833-3 | $25.00/NCR | Random House | HC | April

7 Tony Fitzjohn BORN WILD: The Extraordinary Story of One Graphic Novels Man’s Passion for Africa An exotic, insane, fantastically entertaining mem- oir from the man who worked hand in hand with George Adamson of Born Free fame in helping reintroduce lions to the wild. Tony has years' worth of photographs to accompany his story, which will include a sixteen page color insert. 978-0-307-71603-3 | $24.00 | Harmony | HC | March | E

Daniel Fox HIDDEN CITIES In this action-packed series finisher, the war is GB Tran bubbling forth out of the straits near Taishu, and VIETNAMERICA: A Family's Journey * things are getting tough in Santung, with its own In this graphic memoir, Vietnamese American artist Tran tells the governor doing his evil best to subvert the town's story of his family's experiences during the Vietnam War. For defenses. General Ping Wen is battling Yu Sheng readers of Persepolis and Maus, “This could make the top nonfiction and his band of jade-enhanced fighters for the city, GNs of 2011 lists and become a worthy addition to the growing and meanwhile, Han and his friends are seeking roster of quality war-themed comics.” —Library Journal to escape the island—by means of the dragon. 978-0-345-50872-0 | $30.00/$34.00C | Villard | HC | January 978-0-345-50303-9 | $15.00/$17.00C | Del Rey | TR | March | E Ben Katchor Paul S. Kemp THE CARDBOARD VALISE * STAR WARS: The Old Republic: Deceived Welcome to Outer Canthus. A vast panorama of humane hamburger stands, exquisitely ethereal ethnic restaurants, and wild tracts of In the awesome trailer created for Star Wars: The land that fit neatly next to high-rise hotels. The graphic novel as a Old Republic (a story-driven, massive multiplayer, travelogue—the story of a fantastical nation and three people who, online PC game), a mysterious Sith Lord infiltrates in some way or another, inhabit its shores. the Jedi Temple, takes on a Jedi Master, prevails... E and the Jedi Temple is destroyed, thus setting the 978-0-375-42114-3 | $25.95/$29.00C | Pantheon | HC | February | stage for the famous Treaty of Coruscant. Our book tells the tale of this Sith Lord: his background, his Clamp and Shaenon Garrity progression up through the Sith Lord hierarchy, CLAMP IN AMERICA * to the events that end with the destruction of The enigmatic four-woman team of manga creators from Japan Coruscant, capital of the Old Republic. known as CLAMP emerges into the light to reveal CLAMP’s origins, ] inspirations, and secrets! 978-0-345-51138-6 | $27.00/$31.00C | LucasBooks | HC | March | 978-0-345-51002-0 | $27.99/$32.99 | Del Rey | TR | February Elizabeth Moon Christopher Hart KINGS OF THE NORTH DRAWING FANTASTIC FURRIES: The second in a new series set in the highly popular The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Anthropomorphic Characters * fantasy world of the female paladin Paksenarrion Targeted to the broadest range of furrydom fans, from aspiring and Duke Phelan's Company. In Kings of the North, artists who enjoy drawing animals, comics, and fantasy art to the evil threatens King Kieri on two fronts, as invaders ardently devoted fans of all things furry. advance on his borders and dark magic threatens his kingdom from within. 978-0-8230-3345-4 | $19.99/$22.99C | Watson-Guptill | TR | March | E 978-0-345-50875-1 | $26.00/$30.00C | Del Rey | HC | March | E Chris Roberson; Illustrated by Michael Allred IZOMBIE VOL. 1: Dead to the World * Jeffrey Overstreet Gwen Dylan, a 20-something, gravedigger must eat a human brain THE ALE BOY’S FEAST: A Novel once a month to keep from losing her memories, but in the Overstreet completes his epic saga of The Expanse process she becomes consumed with the thoughts and personality and its people in a final, sweeping adventure that of the dead person and goes about righting their wrongs until she will resolve intriguing mysteries and enthrall and eats her next brain. satisfy fantasy readers. 978-1-4012-2965-8 | $14.99/$16.99C | Vertigo | TR | March 978-1-4000-7468-6 | $14.99/$16.99C | WaterBrook Press TR Original | March | E Daniel Clowes MISTER WONDERFUL: A Love Story* Meet divorced, middle-aged, newly unemployed Marshall. He’s been set up on a blind date. She’s 40 minutes late, but arrives and turns out to be a catch. So what’s the catch? A bittersweet look at the potential for human connection graphically rendered by one of the best cartoonists of his time. 978-0-307-37813-2 | $19.95/$22.95C | Pantheon | HC | April | E

8 Seryn Potter and Patti Gilstrap Jay Cantor FLIRT SKIRTS: Learn How to Sew, Customize, AARON & AHMED and Style Your Very Own Skirts An emotional look at the root causes of terrorism Whip up the perfect skirt—or three—in no time! from MacArthur Prizewinning author Jay Cantor. Flirt Skirts shows how to design and create 21 After his wife is killed in the 9/11 attacks, Aaron fabulous one-of-a-kind skirts. “If you're not Goodman becomes obsessed with terrorism. He exactly Project Runway material but still want to gives up his career as a doctor to become an get behind a sewing machine, the crafty experts interrogator, and it’s at Guantanamo that he at Home Ec will teach you the tricks of the trade." meets Ahmed, a prisoner who might confirm —Jacquelyn Lewis for New York Magazine Aaron’s hypotheses, but also may lead him to 978-0-307-58669-8 | $21.99/$24.99C | Potter Craft | TR Original very big trouble. March 978-1-4012-1186-8 | $24.99/$27.99C | Vertigo | HC | April

Hugh Raffles Randy Christensen, M.D. INSECTOPEDIA ASK ME WHY I HURT: The Kids Nobody Wants A stunningly original exploration of the ties that and the Doctor Who Heals Them bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly Dr. Christensen, a Phoenix pediatrician, has dedi- accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably cated his life to caring for society's throwaway different species with whom we share the world. kids—unloved adolescents who live on the streets For as long as humans have existed, insects have with no health care whatsoever. This inspiring been our constant companions. Yet we hardly memoir is a devastating, yet ultimately affirmative, know them. Illustrations throughout. look at an abjectly neglected population and a 978-1-4000-9696-1 | $16.95/$18.95C | Vintage | TR | March reminder can make a difference. 978-0-307-71899-0 | $24.99/$27.99C | Broadway | HC | April Ngugi wa Thiong o DREAMS IN A TIME OF WAR: Governor Deval Patrick A Childhood Memoir A REASON TO BELIEVE: Lessons from an Ngugi deftly etches a bygone time in rural Kenya. Improbable Life Born in 1938 to a father with four wives and a In the tradition of Dreams from My Father, score of children, he captures the landscape, the visionary, leader and politician, Deval Patrick people and their culture—a life under colonialism offers readers intimate, heartfelt, and hopeful and war, and the troubled relationship between an lessons drawn from his own experiences as to emerging Christianized middle class and the rural how to live a life and help build a country and poor. A rich and moving memoir. community of which one can be proud. 978-0-307-47621-0 | $15.00/$17.00C | Anchor | TR | March | E 978-0-7679-3112-0 | $21.99/$24.99C | Broadway | HC | April | ] E

Carolyn Turgeon Robert V.S. Redick MERMAID: A Twist on the Classic Tale THE RIVER OF SHADOWS A compulsively readable retelling of The Little After a harrowing escape from their first landfall Mermaid in the same lush and beautiful prose as in the southern lands and worse disasters in the her previous novel, Godmother: The Secret city where they seek refuge, the crew of the Cinderella Story. Chathrand discover that the worst imaginable thing 978-0-307-58997-2E | $14.00/$16.00C | Three Rivers Press | TR has happened: Arunis has stolen the Nilstone. to Original | March | pursue him, they must travel the River of Shadows, a waterway rumored to be connected to the Michael Uslan spirit realm. THE MARRIED LIFE: ARCHIE LOVES VERONICA 978-0-345-52381-5 | $27.00/NCR | Del Rey | HC | April | E It’s the married life! Michael Uslan explores Archie’s “road not taken” in this chronicle of an John Elder Robison alternate future in which Archie marries his dark- BE DIFFERENT: Adventures of a Free-Range haired paramour, Veronica. How will this affect Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, the rest of his Pals and Gals? Misfits, Families & Teachers 978-1-879794-64-1 | $12.95/$14.95C | Archie Comics | TR | March The author of the New York Times bestselling Look Me in the Eye returns, with endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different. 978-0-307-88481-7 | $24.00/$27.00C | Crown | HC | April | ] E

9 Frank Calabrese, Jr. SPOTLIGHT ON: Memoir/Biography OPERATION FAMILY SECRETS: How a Mobster’s Son and the FBI Brought Down Karen Abbott Chicago’s Murderous Crime Family AMERICAN ROSE: A Nation Laid Bare: The gripping true story of how the son of the The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee most violent mobster in Chicago worked with the Karen Abbott's first book, Sin in the Second City, FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office to put his was a huge success. Now she tells the story of father behind bars. In the process, he brought Gypsy Rose Lee, a fascinating celebrity with a down the last great American crime syndicate— secret past, described by Life magazine as “the the 100-year-old Chicago “Outfit." only woman in the world with a public body 978-0-307-71772-6 | $24.99/$27.99C | Broadway | HC | March | E and a private mind, both equally exciting," set against the worlds of Vaudeville, burlesque, Amy Finley and America's coming-of-age. HOW TO EAT A SMALL COUNTRY: A Family’s 978-1-4000-6691-9 | $26.00/$30.00C | Random House | HC Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time December | ] E What happens when the dream of being a televi- sion celebrity chef comes true—and turns out to Rodney Crowell be a nightmare? Amy Finley tells her story of CHINABERRY SIDEWALKS: A Memoir how her Next Food Network Star fame broke apart Crowell has released nearly twenty albums in four her marriage, and how moving to France and decades and is a member of the Songwriters Hall cooking and eating with her family every day of Fame. The son of a hard-drinking father who helped bring them back together. took him to hear Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, 978-0-307-59138-8 | $24.00/$27.00C | Clarkson Potter | HC and a epilepsy-racked mother who improvised March wildly when the bills went unpaid, Rodney presents an indelible depiction of the bloodlines he came Gabrielle Hamilton from and his parents ultimately redeeming romance. BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef 978-0-307-59420-4 | $24.95/$27.95C | Knopf | HC | January | ] E This book follows Gabrielle Hamilton's culinary education—from growing up in a food-centric Gail Godwin; Edited by Rob Neufeld rural home in New Jersey with a French mother THE MAKING OF A WRITER, VOLUME 2: and bohemian father, to killing her first chicken, Journals, 1963-1969 to the great adventure of backpacking around the The second and final volume of three-time world alone at nineteen, to the vagaries of finally National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin's opening her own restaurant in New York City. journals; an insightful window into Godwin's 978-1-4000-6872-2 | $25.00/$28.95C | Random House | HC early life for avid readers, aspiring writers, March | ] E and her many devoted fans. 978-1-4000-6433-5 | $26.00/$30.00C | Random House | HC Stacey Lannert January | E REDEMPTION: A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars Maxine Hong Kingston A gripping, inspirational memoir of a young I LOVE A BROAD MARGIN TO MY LIFE woman who killed her father after years of abuse, Kingston — writer, peace activist, teacher, mother— spent half of a lifetime in prison, and triumphed sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. over the harshest of circumstances. She also finds the fate of her Woman Warrior, 978-0-307-59213-2 | $24.99/$27.99C | Crown | HC | March | E and takes Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China. E Mireya Mayor; Foreword by Jane Goodall 978-0-307-27019-1 | $24.95/$27.95 | Knopf | HC | January | PINK BOOTS AND A MACHETE: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to Mark Richard National Geographic Explorer * HOUSE OF PRAYER NO. 2: Against all odds, this self-professed former “girly A Writer’s Emergence from the South girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants His father left NASA to become a solitary forester. blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright His mother searched for spiritual enlightenment in Scholar to renowned primatologist and ultimately, a black Pentecostal church, the House of Prayer quintessential adventurer. Now, after a decade's No. 2. The son was born with hip defects and worth of thrilling exploits, Mayor recounts her diagnosed as retarded. Mark went on to become life in this awe-inspiring new book. the youngest radio disc jockey in America, a 978-1-4262-0721-1 | $26.00/$30.00C | National Geographic | HC deckhand, an aerial photographer, private investi- March | E gator, bartender…and award-winning author. A revealing portrayal of a writer’s evolution. 978-0-385-51302-9 | $23.95/$26.95C | Nan A. Talese | HC February | E

* Books of Interest to Young Adults. 10 Margaret Robison THE LONG JOURNEY HOME: A Memoir The mother of the bestselling memoirists STAFF PICKS Augusten Burroughs and John Elder Robison FOR MORE PICKS, VISIT finally tells her own heartbreaking story of her Southern Gothic childhood, tormented marriage, www.randomhouse.biz/libraries/staffpicks motherhood, mental breakdown, and journey or add RHLibrary as a friend on back to sanity and contentment, in luminous, Librarything.com or GoodReads.com evocative prose. 978-1-4000-6869-2 | $26.00/$30.00C | Spiegel & Grau | HC March | E

Hamilton Cain THIS BOY’S FAITH: A Memoir In the spirit of Rick Bragg, Patricia Hampl, and Stephen Dubner, This Boy's Faith is a memoir about growing up Southern and religious, and confronting a childhood pervaded by religion, violence, and a mother who minces words better than a food processor. 978-0-307-46394-4 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | April | E

Mary Johnson AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRST: One Woman's Extraordinary Journey of Faith, Hope, and Clarity The story of Mary Johnson's twenty years as a Missionary of Charity—working alongside Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor—and a fasci- nating depiction of the daily struggle to live a life of religious service. 978-0-385-52747-7 | $26.00 | Spiegel & Grau | HC | April 978-0-385-66697-8 | $29.95C | Bond Street Books | HC | ] E

Patricia Harman ARMS WIDE OPEN: A Midwife’s Journey In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in Appalachia. In this new book, Patsy reaches back to tell us how she first learned to deliver babies, and to tell us of her youthful Jen’s Pick experiments in living a natural life. 978-0-8070-0138-7 | $24.95/$27.95C | Beacon Press | HC | April Rebecca Hunt MR. CHARTWELL: A Novel Leigh Montville Set in 1964, on the eve of Churchill's EVEL KNIEVEL retirement from Parliament, this literary The red, white, and blue cape of a cultural icon gem gives unique insight into the crushing is pulled back to reveal the unknown, complex, battle against depression. Black Pat, “the black dog" of depression is and controversial man known to millions around a presence that Winston Churchill is all too familiar with. Slobbering the world as Evel Knievel. The father of extreme and annoying, his job is to remind his “clients" of why they should sports, the personification of excitement and be unhappy. While Churchill has managed to come to a sort of peace danger…but who was the man behind the with the dog's appearances and has a modicum of control over the all-American saga? visits, it is Esther Hamerhans, a young widow still struggling over 978-0-385-52745-3 | $26.95/$32.00C | Doubleday | HC | April | ] E the circumstances of the death of her husband that is most susceptible to Black Pat's manipulations. When Esther is assigned to transcribe Gary Spencer Millidge Churchill's retirement speech for him, Black Pat's charges are destined ALAN MOORE: STORYTELLER to meet. Can their brief connection help Esther as she tries to send Drawing on new and unpublished interviews, as Black Pat on his way, or is he destined to stay with her for life? well as rarely seen art and photos, this is the first This darkly comic, completely original debut is a quick read and book on Alan Moore’s work to have Moore’s delivers an ultimately satisfying ending. cooperation and support, making it a must-have 978-1-4000-6940-8 | $24.00/NCR | The Dial Press | HC | February for any fan and for anyone interested in the art of visual storytelling. 978-0-7893-2229-6 | $45.00/$53.00C | Universe | HC | May

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Kyung-sook Shin Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM: DAYTRIPPER A Novel You can tell it’s getting closer to winter How often do you think about your time in New York when your favorite Mother? My Mom passed in 2001 but book on the Spring list is the one about almost every day she appears in my Death. Well, I guess it’s about mortality— thoughts, offering me advice (and criticism!). so maybe I could also say it’s about Life. The story follows the life This truly universal story of a family living in Korea and what of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez (That first name takes some happens to them when their Mother is lost is so touching, so real, getting used to.) a struggling literary denizen of Brazil with a famous so personal—so heartbreaking. Mom and Dad are on their way to a novelist father. Each chapter features an important period in Bras’s family event and in the crowded station—the train pulls out without life, and at the end of each chapter, he dies. Meets the woman of his her—and she is lost, possibly forever. We see the desperate search. dreams…dies. Becomes a father…dies. Publishes his book…dies. Then Daughters, son, husband—each reflects internally upon their version the following chapter remains oblivious to his death (like South Park of their past life with Mom and surprising revelations emerge. Did they and Kenny, for those familiar). The authors remind us of how fragile we really know her? Was she happy? When Mom finally speaks in her all are and how precious (and precarious!) every moment of life—but own voice, yet another layer of complications and emotions are evoked. not in a preachy, condescending way. The illustrations and the writing Destined to become a book discussion classic, this book will cause from this Brazilian duo are beautiful and honor even its high-concept you to realize that you can really never fully know your Mom. narrative. Easily the smartest graphic novel I’ve seen in 2010. A feature title at ALA-Midwinter, San Diego. 978-1-4012-2969-6 | $19.99/$22.99C | Vertigo | TR | February 978-0-307-59391-7 | $24.95 | Knopf | HC | April 978-0-307-33919-3 | $29.95 | Random House Canada | HC | ] E Erica’s Pick Marie’s Pick Michelle Moran Tea Obreht MADAME TUSSAUD: THE TIGER’S WIFE A Novel of the French Revolution * The time: the present. The place: a Balkan With Madame Tussaud, Moran proves country ravaged by civil bloodshed. Grieving once again that she can deliver what I treasure for her grandfather, Natalia, a young doctor most in historical fiction. From Ancient Egypt struggles to determine why he left their family to Revolutionary France, I’ll follow her anywhere! to die alone in a field hospital far from home. Her heroines are richly developed, strong characters. Her depictions Natalia grows increasingly convinced that her grandfather, a prominent of the personal lifestyles and political intrigues are engrossing and physician, was searching for an odd character from his past—a vagabond transport you to another time and place through well researched who called himself "the deathless man." This brief synopsis only detail and evocative narrative. E scratches the surface of The Tiger’s Wife. In this debut novel, Tea Obreht, 978-0-307-58865-4 | $25.00/$28.95C | Crown | HC | April | one of the youngest writers ever to be featured in The New Yorker, combines a masterful storytelling cadence with the rich depth of a Taylor Stevens plot and place that is both “old world” and time transcendent. THE INFORMATIONIST: A Thriller * Expertly crafted, The Tiger’s Wife takes on a subtle mythical quality, It can be hard to know where to turn after the final pages of the leaving the reader with the sense that he or she is engrossed in a Stieg Larsson trilogy. I say leave chilly Scandinavia behind and story that will surely stand the dusty-shelved test of time. embrace the oppressive African heat presented in The Informationist. 978-0-385-34383-1 | $25.00/$28.95 Can. | Random House | HC | March | ] E Stevens’ protagonist, Vanessa Munroe, incorporates the physical acuity of Jason Bourne with the analytical mind and deceptively petite frame of Lisbeth Salander. Who could ask for more in a heart pounding thriller? 978-0-307-71709-2 | $23.00/$25.95C | Crown | HC | March | ] E

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