HarperCollinsPublishers Highlights from our Fall 2011 List

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For more information on these titles visit: www.harpercollinscatalogs.com Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Fiction Drawn to Dom, a confident and artistic Deborah Lawrenson studied English at Author Residence: Kent, United wealthy older man she barely knows, Cambridge University, and has worked Kingdom and Provence, France Deborah Lawrenson bookish Eve recklessly embarks on a whirl- as a journalist for various publications in The Lantern wind affair that offers a new life and a new England, including the Daily Mail, the Mail ISBN 13: 9780062049698 home. But with autumn’s arrival the days be- on Sunday, and Woman’s Journal magazine. gin to cool as does Dom. An evocative and She and her family spend as much time as On Sale: 8/9/2011 sensuous tale of romantic and psychological possible at a crumbling hamlet in Provence, $25.99 suspense set against an exquisite landscape, France, the setting for The Lantern. The 100K The Lantern is a gripping story of past and Lantern is her first novel to be published in present, love and jealousy, secrets and lies. the United States. 40 years ago, Richard Forthrast fled to Neal Stephenson is the author of Anathem, Author Residence: Seattle, WA Canada to avoid the draft, and got rich smug- the three-volume historical epic The Baroque Neal Stephenson gling marijuana. He became addicted to an Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The Reamde online fantasy game about world domination System of the World) as well as Cryptonomi- ISBN 13: 9780061977961 which allowed him to launder his ill-gotten con, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and gains and begin his own computer gaming Zodiac. On Sale: 9/20/2011 company. But, the line between fantasy and $35 reality becomes dangerously blurred when 250K a young man accidently triggers a virtual war—and Richard is caught at the center. Known only as The Kid, a young man must One of America’s most prestigious fiction Author Residence: Upstate New Russell Banks rebuild his life in the wake of incarceration writers, Russell Banks is president of the York and Miami, FL Lost Memory of Skin for sexual offenses. In this provocative International Parliament of Writers and a new novel, Banks probes the zeitgeist of a member of the American Academy of Arts ISBN 13: 9780061857638 troubled society where zero tolerance has and Letters. His work has been translated On Sale: 9/27/2011 erased any hope of compassion and where into twenty languages and has received $25.99 isolating the offender has perhaps created a numerous international prizes and awards. new kind of victim. 50K

Pen, Will and Cat shared a remarkable Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times Author Residence: Wilmington, DE friendship in college until it abruptly ended bestselling author and award-winning Marisa de los Santos and they went their separate ways. Now, six poet with a Ph.D. in literature and creative Falling Together years later, Cat desperately reaches out for writing. Her past books include Belong to ISBN 13: 9780061670879 help. The girls’ reunion sends the friends on Me and Love Walked In. a journey across the world... a journey that On Sale: 10/4/2011 will change everything. An emotionally pre- $25.99 cise novel about friendship, family and love. 250K

Following the mayhem in Sandman Slim and Richard Kadrey has published five novels, Author Residence: San Francisco, CA Kill the Dead, Stark returns for another har- including Sandman Slim, Butcher Bird, Richard Kadrey rowing, supernatural mission. Lucifer is back and Metrophage, as well as more than fifty Aloha from Hell in Heaven, God’s on vacation, and an insane stories. He has been immortalized as an ISBN 13: 9780061714320 killer prepares to mount a war. Stark must action figure, and his short story“Goodbye return to Hell to follow his suidical plan that Houston Street, Goodbye,” was nominated On Sale:10/18/2011 includes rescuing his long-lost love, stop- for a British Science Fiction Association $23.99 ping an insane serial killer, and preventing Award. 30K Heaven and Hell from completely destroying the other—or being destroyed. HarperCollinsPublishers 1 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Fiction Caroline Preston Preston pulls from her own extraordinary Caroline Preston is the author of three Author Residence: Charlottesville, VA collection of vintage ephemera to create the previous novels, Jackie by Josie (a New York The Scrapbook of first ever scrapbook novel, transporting us Times Notable Book), Lucy Crocker 2.0, and Frankie Pratt back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian Gatsby’s Girl. She has worked as an archivist ISBN 13: 9780061966903 culture of the 1920s and introducing us at the Peabody/ Essex Museum and Harvard to an unforgettable heroine: the spirited, University. She is married to the writer On Sale: 10/25/2011 ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt as she Christopher Tilghman. $25.99 travels the world, searching for meaning in 40K life, only to discover it in the one place she hadn’t thought to look — home.

Tim Dorsey offers the perfect antidote for all was a reporter and editor for the Author Residence: Tampa, FL those sappy feel-good holiday stories with Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is Tim Dorsey this zany blockbuster extravaganza in which the author of thirteen novels: Electric Bar- When Elves Attack his wonderfully deranged Floridaphile serial racuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, ISBN 13: 9780062092847 killer, Serge Storm, delivers his special brand Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big of Christmas Cheer. Bamboo, Roadkill, Hammerhead On Sale: 10/25/2011 Ranch Motel, , Triggerfish $16.99 Twist, , Cadillac Beach, 75K and .

The marvelous land of Oz is knotted with Gregory Maguire is the bestselling author Author Residence: Boston, MA Gregory Maguire social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is Mirror, Mirror; and the Wicked Years series, Out of Oz under house arrest, and the Cowardly Lion including Wicked, Son of a Witch, and A Lion ISBN 13: 9780060548940 is on the run from the law. And look who’s Among Men. Wicked, now a beloved classic, knocking at the door...Dorothy. Amid all is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award- On Sale: 11/1/2011 this chaos, Elphaba’s granddaughter, the winning Broadway musical of the same $26.99 tiny green baby born at the close of Son of a name. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, 400K Witch, has come of age. Now, Rain will take and culture both at home and abroad. up her broom in an Oz wracked by war.

Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO First Novel Tom Violet has failed, once again, to have Matthew Norman has an MFA from George Author Residence: Baltimore, MD sex with his wife. And that’s not the worst Mason University, and is an advertising Matthew Norman of it. Pushed to the brink, Tom decides to copywriter. He lives with his wife and Domestic Violets take things in an entirely different direction daughter. ISBN 13: 9780062065117 by enacting a series of truly stupid plans for revenge and self-improvement that, of On Sale: 8/9/2011 course, go completely haywire. An in-house $14.99 favorite recommended for readers of Tom 75K Perrotta and Jonathan Tropper.

HarperCollinsPublishers 2 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Trade Paperback Following the death of their grandmother, Katherine Webb studied History at Durham Author Residence: Berkshire, sisters Erica and Beth return to Storton University, has spent time living in London England Katherine Webb Manor where they spent their childhood and Venice, and now lives in Berkshire, Eng- The Legacy summers. As they begin to sort through their land. Having worked as a waitress, au pair, ISBN 13: 9780062077301 grandmother’s belongings, memories come personal assistant, potter, bookbinder, library flooding back including those concerning assistant, and formal housekeeper at a manor On Sale: 8/30/2011 their cousin Henry, whose disappearance house, she now writes full time. $14.99 tore the family apart. As past and present 60K converge, the sisters must come to terms with betrayal and a heartbreaking legacy. The third book in the Detective Kubu mys- Stanley Trollip received his PhD from Author Residence: Johannesburg, Michael Stanley tery series, Death of the Mantis concerns the the University of Illinois in Educational South Africa Death of the Mantis murder of a fractious ranger named Monzo. Psychology in 1976. He has held professor- His body is found surrounded by three ships studying how to improve teaching and ISBN 13: 9780062000378 Bushmen. Were they trying to help or were learning through the use of computers. On Sale: 9/6/2011 they the murderers? As more murders occur, Michael Sears taught Mathematics and $14.99 Kubu journeys deep into Botswana to find Computer Science in Johannesburg, and the truth. An authentic and original look at has worked at Anglo American, a major 25K modern-day Africa, a juxtaposition of tribal international mining house associated with culture, lingering racism, and colonialism. the diamond giant De Beers. When Sylvie Bates-McAllister, a recently- Sara Shepard graduated from New York Author Residence: Philadelphia, PA widowed mother of two, receives a phone University and has an MFA in Creative Writ- Sara Shepard call from the prestigious school founded by ing from Brooklyn College. She is the author Everything We Ever Wanted her grandfather, her family is thrown into of the bestselling young adult series, Pretty ISBN 13: 9780062080066 chaos. The phone call awakens questions Little Liars and The Lying Game, as well as lain dormant for years, revealing a tangled the adult novel, The Visibles. On Sale: 10/11/2011 web of secrets that ties the family together $14.99 and forces them to confront the question: 100K what if the life you always planned for, and dreamed of, isn’t what you want at all? Opium Nation is a veteran reporter’s five Fariba Nawa has written for The San Author Residence: Fremont, CA year exploration of a fractured Afghanistan Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Sci- Fariba Nawa dominated by the drug trade, as well as her ence Monitor, Mother Jones, The Sunday Opium Nation own story—the personal narrative of a life- Times Magazine (London), Newsday, and ISBN 13: 9780061934704 long exile’s poignant, difficult homecoming. The Village Voice. She has been a guest on Nawa deftly illuminates the bitter changes numerous television and radio shows, includ- On Sale: 11/8/2011 that have overtaken Afghanistan after ing NPR, the BBC, MTV, NBC, and CBS’s $14.99 decades of war as she struggles to reconcile 48 Hours. 25K Afghanistan’s hardships with the opportuni- ties that American life has afforded her. A collection of stories including And Now to Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) has been Author Deceased God the Father in which a vicar coaches a called one of the great shapers of popular Daphne du Maurier young couple divided by class issues, Tame culture and the modern imagination. Among The Doll Cat in which an older man falls in love with her more famous works are Jamaica Inn, ISBN 13:9780062080349 a much younger woman, and And His Letters The Scapegoat, Rebecca, and the short story Grew Colder, which follows the progression The Birds, all of which were subsequently On Sale: 11/22/2011 of a relationship through the love letters made into films, the latter two directed by $14.99 the couple write each other. Each story in Alfred Hitchcock. 25K the collection highlights du Maurier’s deep understanding of human nature. HarperCollinsPublishers 3 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Re-Issued Paperback A Test of Wills introduces Inspector Rutledge Charles Todd, a mother and son writing Author Residence: Delaware and for the first time. It is 1919, and the War to team, is the New York Times bestselling North Carolina Charles Todd End All Wars has been won, but for the Scot- author of thirteen Ian Rutledge mysteries, A Test of Wills land Yard Inspector, back from the battle- three Bess Crawford mysteries, and one ISBN 13: 9780062091611 fields of France, there is no peace. A popular stand-alone novel. colonel has been murdered in Warwickshire, On Sale: 8/16/2011 and the main suspect is a decorated war hero $14.99 and close friend of the Prince of Wales. The 25K case is a political minefield, and Rutledge may not escape with his career intact. Go inside this spellbinding record of a Gary Small has been a practicing psy- Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA doctor’s most bewildering cases, from chiatrist for more than 20 years and is the Gary Small & Gigi Vorgan naked headstands and hysterical blindness co-inventor of brain imaging technology The Other Side of the Couch to shrinking penises and self amputations. that may hold broad implications for the ISBN 13: 9780061803840 It is an illuminating journey into the mind treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and brain of a practicing psychiatrist and his life in aging. He is the Director of the Memory and On Sale: 11/15/2011 medicine as it evolves over time—a behind- Aging Research Center and the Center on $14.99 the scenes look at the field and a variety of Aging at UCLA. His wife, Gigi Vorgan, is 25K mental diseases as they’ve never been seen a coauthor of The Memory Prescription, The before. Longevity Bible, and The Memory Bible.

Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Thriller Theresa MacLean steps into another forensic Lisa Black is the author of three previous Author Residence: Cape Coral, FL mess when the body of a local criminal thrillers featuring Theresa MacLean: Trail Lisa Black defense attorney is found in a Cleveland of Blood, Evidence of Murder, and Takeover. Defensive Wounds hotel. Two more bodies are found in quick A latent fingerprint examiner and CSI in ISBN 13: 9780061989414 succession, and the authorities know they Florida and a former forensic scientist for have a serial killer on their hands. the Cleveland coroner’s office, she is a mem- On Sale: 9/27/2011 As Theresa searches for the threads that tie ber of the American Academy of Forensic $24.99 the cases together, she begins to fear that she Sciences and has testified in more than fifty 40K is closer to danger than she realizes. homicide trials.

Guillermo Del Toro & Vampires have taken over the Earth, forcing Chuck Hogan is the author of several ac- Author Residence: Chuck Hogan humans into vast internment camps, harvest- claimed novels, including Devils in Exile Chuck Hogan: Massachusetts ing them for sustenance and the pleasure of and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Guillermo Del Toro: Los Angeles, CA The Night Eternal the Master Race. But in this final chapter of Hammett Award. Guillermo del Toro made ISBN 13: 9780061558269 the trilogy, a ragtag network of humans roam his feature directorial debut in 1995 with free, continuing a desperate resistance. They the filmCronos , and has since gone on to On Sale: 10/25/2011 are determined to disrupt the devastating direct several popular films includingPan’s $26.99 new world order, and with the help of aveng- Labyrinth, which garnered enormous critical 250K ing “angels” will defeat the vampires and praise worldwide and won three Academy reclaim the planet for humanity. Awards.

HarperCollinsPublishers 4 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Mystery Years ago, they were all the best of friends. Laura Lippman is the author of eleven Tess Author Residence: Baltimore, MD, But as time passed and circumstances Monaghan novels including The Girl in the New Orleans, LA and New York, NY Laura Lippman changed, they grew apart and began to Green Raincoat; six stand-alone novels, The Most Dangerous Thing forget about the past and the terrible lie they including Every Secret Thing, What the ISBN 13: 9780061706516 shared. Now, these long ago friends are Dead Know, Life Sentences, and I’d Know suddenly thrown together again, and the rev- You Anywhere; and one short story collec- On Sale: 8/23/2011 elations begin. Each wonders if their secret tion, Hardly Knew Her. Lippman has won $25.99 has been discovered—and if someone within numerous awards for her work, including the *Laura Lippman will appear in 150K the circle is out to destroy them. Uncover the Edgar, Quill, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, New Orleans! truth in this stand alone novel. Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity. When Bess Crawford returns from France Librarian-favorite, Charles Todd is a mother Author Residence: Delaware and on leave, she finds a bruised and shivering and son writing team responsible for thirteen North Carolina Charles Todd woman at her London flat. The woman Ian Rutledge mysteries, three Bess Crawford A Bitter Truth reveals that she has fled from her abusive mysteries, and one stand-alone novel. ISBN 13: 9780062015709 husband. Before Bess can understand what is going on, a wounded soldier is murdered, On Sale: 8/30/2011 and not only is Bess caught in the middle of $24.99 a manhunt for a killer, she becomes a prime 75K suspect herself!

Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Memoir In this much anticipated new memoir, Lucette Lagnado is the author of The Man Author Residence: New York, NY Lagnado revisits her own early years in in the White Sharkskin Suit, for which she Lucette Lagnado America, first, as a schoolgirl in Brooklyn, received the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish The Arrogant Years and later, as a reporter. A stranger growing Literature in 2008, and is the coauthor of ISBN 13: 9780061803673 up in a strange land, when she turns sixteen, Children of the Flames: Dr. Mengele and Lagnado’s adolescence is further complicat- the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. On Sale: 9/6/2011 ed by cancer. Its devastating consequences Joining the Wall Street Journal in 1996, she $25.99 would rob her of her “arrogant years”—the has received numerous awards and is cur- 50K years defined by an overwhelming sense of rently a senior special writer and investiga- possibility, invincibility, and confidence. tive reporter. A charming, witty and revealing memoir by John Lithgow has won five Emmys, two Author Residence: New York, NY one of our most cherished performers. Tony Awards, and two Golden Globe and Los Angeles, CA John Lithgow Through the vivid stories in Drama, John Awards, and he’s been nominated twice Drama Lithgow shares a backstage history of his for the Academy Award for Best Actor in ISBN 13: 9780061734977 struggle, crisis, and discovery, and the scenes a Supporting Role. He is also a New York of his early life and career that took place Times bestselling author of eight books for On Sale: 9/27/2011 before he became a nationally-known star. children. $26.99 Above all, Drama is a tribute to the most 100K important influence in John Lithgow’s life: his father, Arthur Lithgow.

HarperCollinsPublishers 5 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Memoir Scott Bolzan & On December 17, 2008, 46-year-old Scott Scott Bolzan’s life has been marked by Author Residence: Arizona Bolzan awoke in a hospital with no memory determination and perseverance since his Joan Bolzan of who he was or how he got there. After days as an offensive guard in the NFL. My Life, Deleted slipping and hitting his head in his office Since suffering a traumatic brain injury, he ISBN 13: 9780062025470 bathroom, Scott had suffered profound has traveled the country sharing his inspira- retrograde amnesia, one of the most severe tional story. On Sale: 10/4/2011 cases on record. My Life, Deleted is the $25.99 inspiring story of one couple who faced a 50K real-life nightmare, and then started anew.

Soto weaves together the diverse strands One of the most renowned ballet dancers in Author Residence: New York, NY of his life: being the son of a “muy macho the world, Jock Soto joined the New York Jock Soto Puerto Rican father” and a “beautiful City Ballet in 1981, a career that lastest until Every Step You Take Navajo princess of a mother;”; being gay in his farewell performance in 2005. He has ISBN 13: 9780061732386 a straight world; and having a career notable danced featured roles in over forty ballets, for its auspicious start and consistent suc- and has been a permanent member of the On Sale: 10/4/2011 cess. Soto recalls his professional relation- faculty at the School of American Ballet $24.99 ships with other ballet icons and describes since 1996. In 2007 he was the subject of a 30K the newest chapter in his life, teaching at the critically acclaimed PBS documentary about renowned School of American Ballet. his life, Water Flowing Together. Darrell Hammond Darrell Hammond invites you into his past, Darrell Hammond is an award-winning actor Author Residence: New York, NY from a harrowing childhood defined by and comedian, and was a regular on Satur- God, If You’re Not Up There, abuse, to an adulthood of alcoholism and day Night Live for a record-setting fourteen I’m F*cked self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations seasons, from 1995 to 2009, where he earned ISBN 13: 9780062064554 and misdiagnoses, to the peak of fame and a reputation as a master of celebrity voices success as the longest-tenured cast member and impressions. He continues to perform On Sale: 11/8/2011 of Saturday Night Live. Enter the dark- new material at the Comedy Cellar in New $25.99 est corners of his life, on both sides of the York City. 75K camera, as he expresses himself with brutal honesty and a fierce comic wit. Often referred to as the ”hardest working Regis Philbin is a cultural icon having Author Residence: New York, NY man in television,” Regis Philbin has rubbed remained in front of the television camera and Connecticut Regis Philbin elbows and egos with countless personalities. for more than 50 years! Best known for his Untitled His innate curiosity and wit have enabled daytime talk show, Live!, Philbin has also ISBN 13: 9780062109750 him to learn great life lessons from the most hosted several game shows, including Who legendary and formidable of them. Now in Wants to Be a Millionaire and America’s On Sale: 11/15/2011 a most unique memoir Regis shares all that Got Talent. In 2006 he was inducted into the $25.99 these experiences have taught him about National Association of Broadcasters Hall 500K achieving success and happiness—and about of Fame and the Television Academy’s Hall maintaining both for as long as he has! of Fame.

HarperCollinsPublishers 6 Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO Nonfiction Hardcover In this engaging collection of observations. The youngest of the Ephron sisters, Amy Author Residence: Los Angeles, CA Amy Ephron draws vivid portraits of the Ephron is a bestselling and award-winning Amy Ephron ups and downs of a woman’s life—friend- novelist. Her magazine pieces and essays Loose Diamonds ships, romance, marriage, divorce, jealousy, have appeared in Vogue, Saveur, House ISBN 13: 9780061958748 and love—into a rich and comic portrait of Beautiful, Harper’s Bazaar, the National modern life. She beautifully explores the Lampoon, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington On Sale: 9/6/2011 power of love and loss and celebrates the Post, Defamer, and her own online $22.99 value of memories. magazine, One for the Table. 25K

Set against the backdrop of New Tom Ryan and Atticus M. Finch were Author Residence: New Hampshire Hampshire’s White Mountains, Tom Ryan inducted into the Massachusetts Society for Tom Ryan and his dog, Atticus M. Finch, embark on Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Tom cur- Following Atticus the challenge of a lifetime in this true story rently writes the popular “The Adventures of ISBN 13: 9780061997105 of love, loss, and the resilience of the human Tom & Atticus” column in the NorthCountry and animal spirit. News and Mountainside Guide and the blog, On Sale: 9/20/2011 “The Adventures of Tom and Atticus.” $25.99 100K

A brilliantly original and gripping investiga- Frances Wilson was educated at Oxford Author Residence: London, UK tion of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce University and lectured in nineteenth and Frances Wilson Ismay, the Titanic’s owner, which explores twentieth century English Literature for How to Survive the Titanic how that loss impinges on memory and fifteen years before becoming a full time ISBN 13: 9780062094544 identity--a subtle and difficult question writer. Her books include Literary Seduc- deftly illuminated by the contemporaneous tions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted On Sale: October literary master Joseph Conrad. Readers and The Ballad of Dorothy Word- $26.99 sworth, which won the British Academy 30K Rose Mary Crawshay Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Fall 2011 Titles TITLE JACKET DESCRIPTION AUTHOR BIO NonFiction Trade Paperback An homage to the feminine side of geek Leslie Simon is author of Wish You Were Author Residence: New York, NY culture from films to crafts to independent Here: An Essential Guide To Your Favorite Leslie Simon movies. Geek Girls Unite celebrates women Music Scenes and co-author of Everybody Geek Girls Unite like Tina Fey, Natalie Portman and Bjork, Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. ISBN 13: 9780062002730 who have proven that sometimes the smart- She is currently an editor at MTV.com and est move is marching to your own drummer. was formerly senior editor at Buzznet.com. On Sale: 10/18/2011 Each chapter is dedicated to a crosssection Her work has appeared in Kerrang!, Teen $14.99 of the geek elite—fangirls, music fanatics, People, and Alternative Press. 30K bookworms, craft mavens, funny girls, and film buffs.

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