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Penguin classics Wuthering Heights Anti-Oedipus: Emily Brontë • 978-0-14-310543-5 • $16.00 Capitalism and Schizophrenia A Death in the Family • Sept 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari • Translated by James Agee • Intro by Steve Earle • Cover art designed by acclaimed illustrator Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and R. Helen Lane • 978-0-14-310571-8 • $15.00 • Oct 2009 • The Ruben Toledo. • Preface by Michel Foucault classic American novel, re-published for the • 978-0-14-310582-4 • $16.00 • Aug 2009. 100th anniversary of Agee’s birth. Winner of The Strange Adventures of Mr. Andrew the Pulitzer Prize. • “The work of a writer whose Hawthorn and Other Stories Rostam: Tales of Love and War power with English words can make you John Buchan • Edited with an Intro by Giles from the Shahnameh gasp.”—Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Foden • 978-0-14-144242-6 • $16.00 • Aug 2009. Abolqasem Ferdowsi • Translated with an Intro Review. by Dick Davis • 978-0-14-310589-3 • $16.00 Who Would Have Thought It? • Oct 2009 • Selected adventures of Persia’s The Mahabharata María Amparo Ruiz de Burton • Edited with an Hercules, from Iran’s great national epic Anonymous • Translated and Edited with an Intro by Amelia María de la Luz Montes • “Davis’s wonderful translation shows Western Intro by J.D. Smith • 978-0-14-044681-4 • $20.00 • 978-0-14-310587-9 • $15.00 • Sept 2009 readers why Ferdowsi’s masterpiece is one of • Aug 2009 • New translation by Cambridge • A major rediscovery—the first novel by a [Persia’s] most revered and beloved classics.” University’s emeritus reader of Sanskrit. Mexican American woman. —Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.

Pride and Prejudice The Canterbury Tales: A Selection The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, Jane Austen • 978-0-14-310542-8 • $16.00 • Sept Geoffrey Chaucer • Translated and Edited and Selected Writings 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an Intro by Colin Wilcockson Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Edited with an Intro • Cover art designed by acclaimed fashion • 978-0-14-042445-4 • $15.00 • Aug 2009 and Notes by Denise D. Knight illustrator Ruben Toledo. • Features Middle English with a facing-page • 978-0-14-310585-5 • $13.00 • Oct 2009. modern prose translation. The Actual Faust: Part II Saul Bellow • Intro by JoSepth O’Neill The Expression of the Emotions Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Newly Trans- • 978-0-14-310584-8 • $13.00 • Dec 2009 • A in Man and Animals lated with an Intro by David Constantine literary maestro’s dissection of the affairs of the Charles Darwin Edited by Sharon Messenger • Preface by A.S. Byatt • 978-0-14-044902-0 heart. • “The work of a great master still locked • Intro by Joe Cain • 978-0-14-143944-0 • $18.00 • $14.00 • July 2009. in unequal combat with Eros and Time.” —The • Aug 2009 • Illustrated new edition issued to New York Times Book Review. commemorate the 200th anniversary of The Scarlet Letter Darwin’s birth. Nathaniel Hawthorne • 978-0-14-310544-2 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum • $16.00 • Sept 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Heinrich Böll • Translated by Leila Vennewitz On the Origin of Species Edition • Cover art designed by Ruben Toledo. • New intro by Kurt Andersen Charles Darwin • Edited with an Intro and • 978-0-14-310540-4 • $15.00 • Oct 2009 • Nobel Notes by William Bynum • 978-0-14-043912-0 The Golden Bowl Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s powerful novel • $12.00 • Oct 2009 • Bicentennial edition with Henry James • Newly Edited with Intro & Notes about a woman terrorized by the media. cover design by Damien Hirst. by Ruth Bernard Yeazell • Series Editor, Philip Horne • 978-0-14-144127-6 • $12.00 • Sept 2009.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) The Qur’an A Tiger for Malgudi The Histories Translated with an Intro by Tarif Khalidi and The Man-Eater of Malgudi Tacitus • Translated by Kenneth Wellesley • 978-0-14-310588-6 • $20.00 • Oct 2009 R.K. Narayan • Intro by Pico Iyer • Newly Revised with an Intro by Rhiannon Ash • Deluxe Classics Edition. • “This translation • 978-0-14-310580-0 • $16.00 • Aug 2009 • Two • 978-0-14-044964-8 • $14.00 • Sept 2009. gives a glimpse of the grandeur of the gems from the father of modern Indian fiction. original....A magnificent achievement.” Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy —Ziauddin Sardar, The Guardian (London) The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Leo Tolstoy • Translated by Aylmer Maude and • “A landmark in the history of English Rainer Maria Rilke • Translated with an Intro Leo Wiener • Edited with an Intro by Jay Parini translations of the Qur’an.” by Michael Hulse • 978-0-14-118221-6 • $14.00 • 978-0-14-119119-5 • $14.00 • Nov 2009. —Times Literary Supplement. • Sept 2009. Resurrection The Alexiad Stung With Love: Poems and Fragments Leo Tolstoy • Translated with an Intro and Notes Anna Komnene • Translated by E.R.A Sewter Sappho • Translated by Aaron Poochigian by Anthony Briggs • 978-0-14-042463-8 • $16.00 • Revised with an Intro and Notes by Peter • Foreword by Carol Ann Duffy • Nov 2009 • An intimate psychological tale of Frankopan • 978-0-14-045527-4 • $18.00 • Sept • 978-0-14-045557-1 • $14.00 • Nov 2009 • First guilt, anger and forgiveness that presents a 2009 • Newly revised edition of the first narrative time in Penguin Classics. panoramic description of social life in Russia at history written by a woman. the end of the nineteenth century. The Theory of Moral Sentiments The Saga of Gösta Berling Adam Smith • Intro by Amartya Sen • Edited Fathers and Sons Selma Lagerlöf • Translated by Paul Norlen with Notes by Ryan Patrick Hanley Ivan Turgenev • Newly Translated by Peter • Intro by George C. Schoolfield • 978-0-14-310592-3 • $17.00 • Nov 2009 Carson • Intro by Rosamund Bartlett • After- • 978-0-14-310590-9 • $16.00 • Oct 2009 • The • The 250th anniversary edition of the influential word by Tatiana Tolstaya • 978-0-14-144133-7 first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature treatise on social responsibility that has shaped • $13.00 • Dec 2009 • Vividly captures the hopes and the first new English translation in more leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama. and fears, regrets and delusions of a changing than 100 years • “Among [women novelists] of Russia around the middle of the nineteenth great talent or genius, none is to be placed Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team century. higher than Selma Lagerlöf.”—Marguerite John Steinbeck • Intro by James Meredith Yourcenar. • 978-0-14-310591-6 • $15.00 • July 2009 • Short The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stories and an essential World War II report with Mark Twain • Intro by John Seelye • Notes by The Prince original black and white photos. Guy Cardwell • 978-0-14-310594-7 • $16.00 Niccolò Machiavelli • Translated with an Intro • Nov 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Tim Parks • 978-0-14-310586-2 • $13.00 The Short Novels of John Steinbeck with cover art by Lilli Carré. • Nov 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. John Steinbeck • 978-0-14-310577-0 • $30.00 • July 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Journey to the Centre of the Earth Moby-Dick Or, The Whale Includes “Tortilla Flat,” “The Red Pony,” “Of Jules Verne • Newly Translated by Frank Wynne Herman Melville • Foreword by Nathaniel Mice and Men,” “The Moon Is Down,” “Cannery • Intro by Jane Smiley • Notes by P.W. Cogman Philbrick • 978-0-14-310595-4 • $17.00 • Nov Row,” and “The Pearl.” • 978-0-14-144197-9 • $10.00 • Oct 2009. 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with cover art by Tony Millionaire. Ethan Frome Edith Wharton • Intro and Notes by Elizabeth Ammons • 978-0-14-310593-0 • $12.00 Part of the Penguin Great Ideas Series • Nov 2009 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition All titles are $10.00 and will be published November 2009 with cover art by Jeffrey Brown. Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life The Evils of Revolution Days of Reading of a Free Black Edmund Burke • 978-0-14-104246-6 Marcel Proust • 978-0-14-104253-4 Harriet E. Wilson • Edited by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts Some Anatomies of Melancholy The Invisible Hand • 978-0-14-310576-3 • $13.00 • Aug 2009 • For Robert Burton • 978-0-14-104247-3 Adam Smith • 978-0-14-104254-1 the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American Nature A Confession classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries Ralph Waldo Emerson • 978-0-14-104248-0 Leo Tolstoy • 978-0-14-104255-8 about its author’s life.

The Sickness Unto Death An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed Soren Kierkegaard • 978-0-14-104249-7 and Exhausted Peoples of Europe Leon Trotsky • 978-0-14-104256-5 Useful Work v. Useless Toil William Morris • 978-0-14-104250-3 The Significance of the Frontier in American History Human Happiness Frederick Jackson Turner • 978-0-14-104257-2 Blaise Pascal • Edited by Elda Rotor

In Consolation to His Wife Plutarch • 978-0-14-104252-7

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 2 POETRY A Map of Home Inherent Vice Randa Jarrar • 978-0-14-311626-4 • $15.00 • Sept Thomas Pynchon • 978-1-59420-224-7 • $27.95 2009 •“The narrative voice is so perfect... the • Aug 2009 • Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Rope characters are unique and alive, born storytellers Pynchon­—private eye Doc Sportello comes out Alison Hawthorne Deming • 978-0-14-311636-3 and poets fill the pages.”—Leslie Marmon Silko, of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as • $18.00 • Oct 2009 • Thirty-two new poems author of Ceremony. • “Jarrar takes all the sappy, free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with from a poet renowned for her lyricism, wisdom, beloved clichés about ‘where you hang your hat’ the L.A. fog. and originality. and blows them to smithereens in her caustically comic debut novel.”—The Christian Science Pharmakon, Dearest Creature Monitor. or The Story of a Happy Family Amy Gerstler • 978-0-14-311635-6 • $18.00 • Oct Dirk Wittenborn • 978-0-14-311567-0 • $15.00 2009 • A surreal new collection from a National City of Strangers • July 2009 • “Eccentric coming-of-age story Book Critics Circle Award Winner. Ian Mackenzie • 978-0-14-311578-6 • $14.00 about an entire culture’s maturation process.” • July 2009 • Story of two estranged brothers at —Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Circus Days and Nights odds on how to view their Nazi-sympathizer Robert Lax • 978-1-59020-213-5 • $19.95 • June father • “Visceral narrative powered by taut prose 2009 • “Among America’s greatest poets, a true and braced with sturdy philosophical and minimalist who can weave awesome poems psychological underpinnings.”—Publishers World fiction from remarkably few words.”—The New York Weekly. Times Book Review. Art in America Rashi’s Daughters, Book III: Rachel: Martial’s Epigrams: A Selection Ron McLarty • 978-0-14-311554-0 • $15.00 A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Garry Wills • 978-0-14-311627-4 • $16.00 • Nov • Aug 2009 • “McLarty’s storytelling skills shine Medieval France 2009 • Pulitzer-Prize winning author and in this ribald, riotously funny...poignant Maggie Anton • 978-0-452-29568-1 • $15.00 Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern novel.”—David Baldacci. • Aug 2009 • The eleventh century is vividly University translates Martial’s epigrams. brought to life in a book that captures the Velva Jean Learns to Drive struggles and triumphs of a strong Jewish Jennifer Niven • 978-0-452-28945-1 • $15.00 woman. • Aug 2009 • Set in Appalachia in the years before American fiction World War II...a poignant stoy of a spirited The China Lover young girl growing up in the south. Ian Buruma • 978-0-14-311608-0 • $16.00 • Sept 2009 • From the Henry R. Luce Professor of The Unpossessed City Songs for the Missing Human Rights & Journalism at Bard College Jon Fasman • 978-0-14-311615-8 • $15.00 • Nov Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-14-311602-8 • $15.00 • “A fascinating fictional biography—not only 2009 • “Fasman’s Moscow is beautiful, tragic, • Sept 2009 • From the author of Last Night at of an iconic film star, but of film as an expres- brutal, and exhilarating.”—Booklist • “Literate the Lobster comes a moving portrait of a family sion of a nation’s culture and psyche.” and engaging….The moving story of a smart, and a town in the wake of a daughter’s disap- —The Washington Post. humble man making peace with his roots, pearance • “O’Nan is on a kind of mission to coming of age as an adult.”—The Los Angeles restore a simple, true sense of humanity to the The Creator’s Map Times. novel.”—New York Times Book Review. Emilio Calderón • Translated by Katherine Silver • 978-0-14-31550-2 • $15.00 • July 2009 • “An The Women’s Room The Well and the Mine intricately plotted, compelling read that vividly Marilyn French • 978-0-14-311450-5 • $16.00 Gin Phillips • 978-1-59448-449-0 • $15.00 conjures up the Rome of World War II.”—Juan • Featuring Foreword by Dorothy Allison and • June 2009 • “A tight-knit miner’s family Gómez-Jurado, author of God’s Spy. Linsey Abrams • Originally published in 1977, struggles against poverty and racism in this this iconoclastic novel expresses the inner lives evocative first novel, set in Depression-era The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling of women who abandoned their education or Alabama...Phillips fully enters the lives of her Geoffrey Chaucer • Retold by Peter Ackroyd professions to marry in the 1950s and ultimately chracters and brings them vibrantly to the • 978-0-670-02122-2 • $35.00 • Nov 2009 found themselves adrift after divorce • “All of page.”—Publishers Weekly • “Much like To Kill • Highly readable version in modern English. French’s women pulse with life and a Mockingbird, The Well and the Mine is about individuality.”—The New York Times. the strange contortions forced on humanity by Juliet, Naked racism and poverty.”—Los Angeles Times. Nick Hornby • 978-1-59448-887-0 • $25.95 The Magicians • Sept 2009 • A quintessential Nick Hornby tale Lev Grossman • 978-0-670-02055-3 • $26.95 It Feels So Good When I Stop of rock ‘n roll, super fandom, and the truths and • Aug 2009 • A young man practices magic in the Joe Pernice • 978-1-59448-874-0 • $25.95 • Aug lies we tell ourselves about love. real world • “Stirring....Lev Grossman delivers a 2009 • “A hard-boiled slacker chronicle of superb coming of age fantasy.”—Junot Diaz, heartbreak and self-renewal, as smart as it is An Education: A Screenplay author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. funny, written in one of the most arresting Nick Hornby • 978-1-59448-453-7 • $15.00 voices I’ve come across.”—Tom Perrotta, author • Oct 2009 • A coming-of-age tale set in London The Lazarus Project of Little Children. in 1961. Aleksandar Hemon • 978-1-59448-375-2 • $16.00 • May 2009 • A National Book Award Finalist. • “Hemon is...a natural storyteller and a poet, a maker of amazing, gorgeous sentences in what is his second language.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 3 Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried Short Stories / essays Writings of Daniil Kharms to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Fairy Tales Daniil Kharms • Translated by Matvei Ludmilla Petrushevskaya • Selected and Yankelevich • 978-1-59020-042-1 • $15.95 • June Translated with an Intro by Keith Gessen and Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It 2009 • “We’re reminded that narrative is not life, Anna Summers • 978-0-14-311466-6 • $15.00 Maile Meloy • 978-1-59448-869-6 • $25.95 but a trick a writer does with language, to make • Oct 2009 • Book of otherworldly power filled • July 2009 • “These 11 stories are quick, beauty.”—George Saunders, The New York Times with vanishings and apparitions, nightmares powerful jabs, startling in their economy; you’re Book Review. and twists of fate, mysterious ailments and propelled toward each ending, certain she won’t supernatural interventions. be able to wrap it up in one more page, and Glover’s Mistake you’re proved wrong every time.” Nick Laird • 978-0-670-02097-3 • $25.95 • July One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich —Time Magazine. 2009 • Explores the nature of contemporary Alexander Solzhenitsyn • Intro by Yevgeny romance among damaged souls • “Offers twisted Yevtushenko • Afterword by Eric Bogosian WOOF!: Writers on Dogs redemption in its hilarious nod to selfishness of • 978-0-451-22814-7 • $14.00 • Aug 2009 • One Edited by Lee Montgomery • Intro by Elizabeth all stripes.”—Publishers Weekly. of the most significant works ever to emerge Marshall Thomas • 978-0-14-311600-4 • $15.00 from Soviet Russia. • Aug 2009 • “An especially fetching collection of The Piano Teacher essays.”—O Magazine. Janice Y.K. Lee • 978-0-14-311653-0 • $15.00 Dracula: The Un-Dead • Nov 2009 • “This is a rare and exquisite story.... Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt • 978-0-525-95129-2 Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Transports you out of time, out of place, into • $26.95 • Oct 2009 • The true sequel to Bram Zadie Smith • 978-1-59420237-77 • $25.95 a world you can feel on your very skin.” Stoker’s classic novel, written by his direct • Nov 2009 • From the author of On Beauty, a —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. descendent. sparkling collection of her nonfiction.

Family Album The Island at the End of the World Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories Penelope Lively • 978-0-670-02124-6 • $25.95 Sam Taylor • 978-0-14-311625-7 • $14.00 • Sept of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and • Nov 2009 • The novel of a “perfect” English 2009 • From the author of The Amnesiac. • “[A] Broken Hearts childhood, recalled years later by the six powerful mystery story, but also a carefully Edited by Michael Taeckens • Intro by Neil children—each of whom safeguarded a family observed book about the underbelly of family Pollack • 978-0-452-29550-6 • $16.00 • Aug 2009 secret. life.”—The Observer (London). • Includes true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret from Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Deaf Sentence Ice Land Shteyngart, Kate Christensen and others. David Lodge • 978-0-14-311605-9 • $15.00 • Oct Betsy Tobin • 978-0-452-29569-8 • $15.00 • Sept 2009 • “Showcases the author’s ability to use 2009 • A meditation on desire, the nature of sympathy and slapstick humor to create an belief, and the redemptive power of the earth set appealingly hapless hero.”—Michiko Kakutani, in Iceland, 1000 A.D. • “A lyrically written epic SCience Fiction The New York Times. inspired by the beauty and the history of that island, and the rich world of Norse mythology From the Library of America The Penguin Book of Classical Myths that infuses it.”—Sunday Telegraph (London). Jenny March • 978-0-14-102077-8 • $17.00 • Nov Five Novels of The 1960’s and 1970’s 2009 • From renowned classics scholar comes an Love and Summer Phillip K. Dick • Edited by Jonathan Lethem essential guide. • The greatest legends of all time, William Trevor • 978-0-670-02123-9 • $25.95 • 978-1-59853-025-4 • $35.00 • July 2008 splendidly retold. • Sept 2009 • From the author of Felicia’s Journey, • Includes Martian Time-Slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, Cheating at Canasta and The Story of Lucy Gault. Now Wait for Last Year, Flow My Tears, The The Sacred Book of the Werewolf • A haunting love story about the choices of the Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly • Five Victor Pelevin • Translated by Andrew Bromfield heart from the acclaimed Irish master. visionary novels in one authoritative • 978-0-14-311603-5 • $15.00 • Oct 2009 • The collection. world’s first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance The Informers • “Racy, thought-provoking, and perverse.” Juan Gabriel Vásquez • Translated by Anne VALIS and Later Novels —The New York Times Book Review. McLean • 978-1-59448-878-8 • $25.95 • Aug Phillip K. Dick • Edited by Jonathan Lethem 2009 • The first book published in English from • 978-1-59853-044-5 • $35.00 The King’s Gold today’s brightest Latin American literary talent. • July 2009 • A Maze of Death, VALIS, Now the Arturo Pérez-Reverte • Translated by Margaret • “Intelligence and unsparing tone will hold Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Jull Costa • 978-0-452-29542-1 • $15.00 • Sept readers rapt.”—Publishers Weekly (starred Timothy Archer. Strange and powerful. 2009 • The fourth adventure of Captain review). Alatriste. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps Arturo Pérez-Reverte • Translated by Margaret Peter Straub, Editor • 978-1-598-53047-6 Jull Costa • 978-0-399-15603-8 • $25.95 • Sept • Oct 2009 • $35.00 • A collection of stories 2009 • The fifth adventure of Captain Alatriste. calculated to unsettle and delight. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940’s to Now Peter Straub, Editor • 978-1-598-53048-3 • Oct 2009 • $35.00 • A collection of stories by contemporary authors who push the genre in new and startling directions.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 4 writing / journalism A Question of Freedom: The Dragon Book A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Com- Jack Dunn and Gardner Dozois, Editors ing of Age in Prison • 978-0-441-01764-5 • Nov 2009 • $24.95 Bang the Keys R. Dwayne Betts • 978-1-58333348-8 • $23.00 • Nineteen original stories by a new collection Jill Dearman • 978-1-592-57914-3 • $16.95 • Aug • Aug 2009 • Powerful coming-of-age story. • of celebrated authors. 2009 • A step-by-step guide to the proven Dwayne Betts incarcerated for 10 years in an writing method Dearman uses in her writing unforgiving place— a place in which he also Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit workshop that focuses on one of the thematic discovered the incredible power of books and Mercedes Lackey • 978-0-756-40585-4 • Oct building blocks and includes tips and anecdotes reading. He’s writing his own lfe-changing book, 2009 • $25.95 • A novel of King Arthur and his from established writers and artists. which may well prevent other young men from legendary queen. making that detour to prison. A searing and ulti- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: mately uplifting story.”—Hill Harper, best The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller The Untold History of English selling author of Letters to a Young Brother and Chronicle: Day One John McWhorter • 978-1-592-40395-0 • $15.00 Letters to a Young Sister. Patrick Rothfuss • 978-0-756-40589-2 • Sept • Oct 2009 • A look at how centuries of 2009 • $16.00 • Paperback edition of The New intermingling with other languages led to our Born Round York Times bestseller. strange and wonderful English vernacular. Frank Bruni • 978-1-59420-231-5 • $25.95 • Sept 2009 • Traces the unusual path Bruni took to Woe is I, Revised and Expanded Third Wireless become a New York Times restaurant critic • “An Charles Stross • 978-0-441-01719-5 • $24.95 Edition: The Grammarphobe’s Guide intricate, honest and sometimes painful • July 2009 • The first major short story to Better English in Plain English examination of extremely complex lifelong collection from the science fiction guru Patricia T. O’Conner • 978-1-59448-890-0 relationship with eating, and with over- • Prize-winning author of the Coyote trilogy. • $22.95 • Sept 2009 • An accessible guide to eating.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, conquering the pitfalls of the English language Love. that untangles new complexities in our ever-expanding lexicon. House of Cards: Love, Faith and Other YOUNG ADULT Social Expressions LITERATURE Memoir: A History David Dickerson • 978-1-59448-881-8 • $24.95 Ben Yagoda • 978-1-59448-886-3 • $25.95 • Nov • Oct 2009 • Honest memoir by an ex-greeting 2009 • From critically acclaimed cultural and card writer, virgin fundamentalist, and “This The Vast Fields of Ordinary literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of American Life” contributor. Nick Burd • 978-0-803-73340-4 • $16.99 • “Burd memoir, in all its forms and manifestations. addresses the themes of family, unrequited love, Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man’s bullying, and sexuality in a fresh and believable Imprisonment in a Modern Russian Gulag manner. His use of language is beautiful, his memoir / bio / Tig Hague • 978-1-592-40492-6 • $15.00 • Sept words paint clear picutres of Dade’s complex 2009 • How one tiny mistake catapulted a man psyche....A refreshingly honest, sometimes autobiography into a modern-day gulag in Putin’s Russia—and funny and often tender novel.”—School Library how love got him through it • “Hague draws Journal (starred review). sharp grotesques of the guards and prisoners, Hometown Appetites: The Story of and does not spare the reader his own bouts of Paper Towns Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food hopelessness, cowardice and venality...presents John Green • 978-0-525-47818-8 • Nov 2009 Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate the struggle to remain human in an inhuman • $17.99 • “Green’s prose is astounding—from Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris environment.”—Publishers Weekly. hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk, to • 978-1-592-40484-1 • $15.00 • Sept 2009 • “An complex philosophizing, to devastating enthusiastic, significant rehabilitation of Shooting Stars observation and truths....He skirts the stock Paddleford’s career as food writer from 1936 to LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger coming-of-age character arc....Instead, the teen 1966 at New York Herald Tribune....The authors • 978-1-59420-232-2 • $26.95 • Sept 2009 • Tale thinks deeper and harder—about the beautiful make an upbeat case for reconsidering of the power of teamwork to transform young and terrifying ways we can and cannot know Paddleford’s achievement.”—Publishers Weekly. lives, from basketball superstar LeBron James those we love.” —School Library Journal (starred and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday review.) Woodrow Wilson: A Life Nights Lights, Buzz Bissinger. Louis Auchincloss • 978-0-14-311640-0 • $14.00 Impossible • Nov 2009 • “This taut, fair representation leaves Churchill: A Life Nancy Werlin • 978-0-14-241491-0 • $9.99 • Aug the reader entertained by an informed story- Paul Johnson • 978-0-670-02105-5 • $24.95 2009 • “Modern logic and methodology mesh teller, and informed by an entertaining • Nov 2009. splendidly with fairy lore....The conclusion is historian.”—Kirkus Reviews. startingly wholesome, comfortable and Traveling with Pomegranates: complete...the melding of magic and practicality The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: A Mother-Daughter Story provides a lovely whole.”—Kirkus Reviews The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor (starred review). and a World of Literary Obsession • 978-0-670-02120-8 • $25.95 • Sept 2009 Allison Hoover Bartlett • 978-1-59448-891-7 • Memoir told in two voices as mother and • $24.95 • Sept 2009 • The story of an infamous daughter travel from South Carlina through book thief, his victims, and the man determined Greece, Turkey, and France—both at a cross- to catch him • “A meticulous and fascinating roads in life and struggling for a new definition book...A fine read.”—Larry McMurtry, of self. author of Lonesome Dove.

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 5 Dante: A Life current affairs political science R.W.B. Lewis • 978-0-14-311641-7 • $14.00 • Dec 2009 • “[A] loving and unassumingly learned biography.”—The New York Times Book Review. Stones into Schools ¡Obámanos!: The Birth of a • “Lewis shows himself a particularly spry Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan New Political Era craftsman here; this may well be one of the most • 978-0-670-02115-4 • $25.95 • Dec 2009 • Picks Hendrik Hertzberg • 978-1-59420-236-0 pleasurable biographies of Dante....Anyone in up where Three Cups of Tea left off and mixes • $25.95 • Nov 2009 • The election viewed in real search of a brief but eloquent guide to the life of Greg’s ongoing narrative with a candid look at time through the eyes of a celebrated political the Florentine master should not hesitate to turn the current political and social situation in analyst. to this book.”—Publishers Weekly. Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Battle for America, 2008: The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive The Story of an Extraordinary Election and Times of L. Frank Baum in the Hybrid Economy Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Rebecca Loncraine • 978-1-592-40449-0 Lawrence Lessig • 978-0-14-311613-4 • $17.00 • 978-0-670-0211-6 • $29.95 • Aug 2009 • A • $27.500 • Aug 2009 • A lively tour of a • Oct 2009 • “Once dubbed a ‘philosopher king definitive account, from the earliest stages of the fascinating era and its most intriguing story- of Internet law,’ [Lessig] writes with a unique nominees’ campaigns through a thorough analy- teller. mix of legal expertise, historic facts and sis of what actually happened at the voting polls cultural curiosity....A wealth of interesting and why. 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Google’s inner workings, distinguished media that came together to produce enduring change.” analyst Ken Auletta presents a revealing, —Doris Kearns Goodwin. Julia Child: A Life forward-looking examination of the outsized Laura Shapiro • 978-0-14-311644-8 • $14.00 influence Google has had on the changing Latino in America • Aug 2009 • The delicious life of one of the most media landscape. • “Ken Auletta has produced Soledad O’Brien with Rose Arce beloved figures in twentieth century American the seminal book about media in the digital age. • 978-0-451-229465-8 • $17.00 • Oct 2009 culture. • Soon to be a major motion picture It is a triumph of reporting and analysis...”— • From the award-winning CNN anchor. with Meryl Streep. Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe. The Audacity to Win: The Inside Stories The Meaning of Matthew: and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Whole Earth Discipline: Victory Transformed An Ecopragmatist Manifesto David Plouffe • 978-0-670-02133-8 • $27.95 Judy Shepard • 978-1-59463-057-6 • $25.95 Stewart Brand • 978-0-670-02121-5 • $25.95 • Nov 2009 • Plouffe not only put Obama in the • Aug 2009 • Captures the historical significance • Oct 2009 • An icon of the environmental and White House, he changed the face of politics and and complicated civil rights issues surrounding counterculture movement outlines a provocative this is his story of that campaign. one young man’s life and death. approach for reclaiming our planet. The Healing of America: The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Sadia Shepard • 978-0-14-311577-9 • $16.00 America Under Attack on 9/11 and Fairer Health Care • July 2009 • “A meditation on how our John Farmer • 978-1-59448-894-8 • $26.95 • Sept T.R. 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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 6 Learning from the Cold War: The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, European & world Rebuilding America’s Strategic Vision in Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America HISTORY the 21st Century Steven Johnson • 978-1-59448-401-8 • $16.00 Jonathan Stevenson • 978-0-14-311574-8 • Oct 2009 • “Johnson does not simply describe • $17.00 • Sept 2009 • “A penetrating and the system within which Priestley and his The War That Killed Achilles: The True inventive exploration of the Cold War and its contemporaries hashed out the features of Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War aftermath.”—Jessica Stern, author of Terror in classical science; he sets it against other, later Caroline Alexander • 978-0-670-02112-3 the Name of God. systems for comprehending physical reality, • $26.95 • Oct 2009 • Alexander takes apart an showing laymen how far we have come from the epic tale we think we know—the Trojan War of classical age of science.”—Russell Shorto, The the Iliad—and reconstructs it to provide a New York Times Book Review. • “Arresting startling and persuasive picture of Homer’s american HISTORY account of the career of Joseph Priestley....[A] original intent, and the profoundly anti-war rich examination of the intersections where version of the Iliad. culture and science meet from a scrupulous The Partnership: historian who never offers easy answers to D-Day: The Battle for Normandy The Making of Goldman Sachs troubling questions.”—Kirkus Book Review. Antony Beevor • 978-0-670-02119-2 • $32.95 Charles D. Ellis • 978-0-14-311612-7 • $20.00 • Oct 2009 • The definitive account of D-Day • Oct 2009 • The New York Times Book Review. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln from the author of international bestsellers “Exhaustively researched...paints a convincing as Commander and Chief Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin. portrait of an institution that has got most of James M. McPherson • 978-0-14-311614-1 the important things right.”—The Economist. • $17.00 • Oct 2009 • “Few historians write as Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela well as McPherson....McPherson draws on and the Game That Made a Nation American Therapy: The Rise almost fifty years of research to present a cogent John Carlin • 978-0-14-311572-4 • $16.00 • Aug of Psychotherapy in the United States and concise narrative of how Lincoln, working 2009 • “Describes Mandela’s...improbable, and Jonathan Engel, Ph.D. • 978-1-592-40491-9 against enormous odds, saved the United brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful black • $16.00 • Nov 2009 • “Important and necessary States.”—The New York Times Book Review. and fearful whites around...a game of rugby.” book for anyone wishing to review either the • “The definitive portrait of Lincoln as war —The New York Times Book Review. landscape of contemporary Americana, or the leader.”—The Washington Post • Co-winner of disposition of contemporary therapy in the 2008 Lincoln Prize. Invictus: Movie Tie-in Edition of Playing America. ”—James Hollis, Ph.D., Jungian the Enemy analyst and author. Final Voyage: Arctic Disaster and the End • 978-0-14-311715-5 • $16.00 • Nov 2009 • Soon of America’s First Oil Era to be a major motion picture with Morgan Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Peter Nichols • 978-0-399-15602-1 • $26.95 • Oct Freeman and Matt Damon. Barton Gellman • 978-0-14-311616-5 • $18.00 2009 • Illuminates the unprecedented rise and • Sept 2009 • By the Pulitzer-Prize winning devastating fall of American’s first oil industry. The Enemy Within: A Short History Washington Post reporter • “Could well turn out of Witch-Hunting to be the most revealing account of Cheney’s Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a John Demos • 978-0-14-311633-2 • $17.00 • Oct activities as vice president that ever gets Playwright, and a Spy Saved the 2009 • “No scholar has done more to illuminate written.”—James Mann, The Washington Post. American Revolution the terrifying psychology of witchcraft in Joel Paul • 978-1-59448-883-2 • $25.95 • Nov Most Evil Western culture than John Demos. The Enemy 2009 • Unconventional tale told through the Steve Hodel with Ralph Pezzullo Within is a masterful synthesis of this actions of three men whose machinations • 978-0-525-95132-2 • $26.95 • Sept 2009 phenomenon.”—David Oshinsky, author of turned the tide of the American Revolution. • Illuminates the life of LAPD Detective Hodel’s Polio: An American Story. father, believed responsible for the infamous Iroquois Diplomacy Napoleon’s Wars: An International History “Black Dahlia” murder, and details further on the Early American Frontier Charles Esdaile • 978-0-14-311628-8 • $18.00 crimes in what has become a continually Timothy J. Shannon • Colin G. 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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 7 The Ascent of Money: The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Green Metropolis: What the City Can A Financial History of the World Between the Wars Teach the Country About True Niall Ferguson • 978-0-14-311617-2 • $18.00 Richard Overy • 978-0-670-02113-0 • $35.00 Sustainability • Nov 2009 • “[An] excellent, just-in-time guide • Dec 2009 • From one of Britain’s top historians David Owen • 978-1-59448-882-5 • $25.95 • Oct to the history of finance and financial crisis.” comes a reassessment of the British mindset in 2009 • “Owens advances the provocative —The Washington Post. the 1920s and 30s—and how it shaped the fears argument that the asphalt jungle is greener than and dreams of the century to follow. the places where most Americans live. A The King and the Cowboy: hard-hitting book that punctures many Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the The Forsaken: eco-balloons.”—Witold Rybczynski, Meyerson Seventh, Secret Partners An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia Urbanism Professor at U Penn. David Fromkin • 978-0-14-311618-9 • $16.00 Tim Tzouliadis • 978-0-14-311542-7 • $17.00 • Dec 2009 • An intimate look at two extraordi- • July 2009 • “The horror that was Stalinist Russia Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens nary figures and their secret collaboration—one is still incomprehensible to many Americans.... Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs On to that turned the alliance structure of the political Reading this book is certain to open their Facebook world upside down • “Thrilling and unexpected.” eyes.”—Richard Pipes, The New York Sun. Sarah Schmelling • 978-0-452-29573-5 • $15.00 —The New York Times Book Review. • Sept 2009 • A laugh-out-loud book that brings The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the all of our favorite characters to life in today’s Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: Dark Ages, 400-1000 hectic and overly connected cyber world, The Biography of a Cause Chris Wickham • 978-0-670-02098-0 • $35.00 re-imagining them in the language of Facebook. Tom Gjelten • 978-0-14-311632-5 • $17.00 • Sept • Aug 2009 • A vivid portrait of a vast and varied 2009 • “A fair, balanced, and yet extremely world which presents a fresh understanding of Dispatches from Juvenile Hall: provocative portrait of the rum dynasty and its the crucible in which Europe would ultimately Fixing a Failing System love-hate affairs with Spain, Castro and the U.S. be created. Lisa Smith, Linda Wagner, and John Aarons government.”—The New York Times. • 978-0-14-311622-6 • $15.00 • Sept 2009 • Offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the When China Rules the World: The End juvenile crime epidemic. of the Western World and the Birth social & CULTURAL of a New Global Order STUDIES A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Martin Jacques • 978-1-594-20185-1 • $29.95 Communities That Arise in Disasters • Nov 2009 • The first book to fully explain the Rebecca Solnit • 978-0-670-02107-9 • $27.95 upheaval that China’s ascendance will cause and How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: • Sept 2009 • Examines reactions to disasters the realigned global power it will create. Being Young and Arab in America from the San Francisco earthquake to Katrina • “A tour de force....What Martin Jacques set out Moustafa Bayoumi • 978-0-14-311541-0 • $15.00 • “The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account to do— and has done in meticulous detail— • Aug 2009 • An eye-opening look at how young of human nature I’ve come across in many was to challenge what he regards as a danger- Arab- and Muslim-Americans are forging lives years....A landmark book,”—Bill McKibben. ously false premise: that the rise of China will be for themselves in a country that often mistakes • “This vividly written, cogently argued book benign.”—The Independent (London). them for the enemy • Winner of the 2008 Arab makes a compelling—and timely—case for the American Book Award. ability of ordinary people to surmount the direst Thucydides: The Reinvention of History of circumstances.”—Publishers Weekly. Donald Kagan • 978-0-670-02129-1 • $26.95 A Place Called Canterbury: Tales • Nov 2009 • Yale historian and bestselling author of the New Old Age in America The Thing Itself: of The Peloponnesian War examines Thucydides Dudley Clendinen • 978-0-14-311530-4 • $16.00 On the Search for Authenticity as the first modern historian, and the purposes • July 2009 • “Mr. Clendinen has written his Richard Todd • 978-1-59448-384-4 • $16.00 and character of his great work. book with rueful respect and understanding.” • Aug 2009 • “There is a sweet memoir embed- —The New York Times. ded in this book of cultural criticism.”—The Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, New York Times. Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle Feed Your Head: Think Differently, Master for Saudi Arabia Digital Culture, Create Your Own Economy Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Robert Lacey • 978-0-670-02118-5 • $27.95 • Oct Tyler Cowen • 978-0-525-95123-0 • $25.95 • July Change in a Digital Era 2009 • The complex story of what happened 2009 • An essential guide to success in a radically Markos Moulitsas Zúniga • 978-0-451-22806-2 within the Middle East’s oil-rich theocracy— new hyper-networked age. • $15.00 • Aug 2009 • “The most coherent guide while we weren’t looking. to political organizing—on or off the Internet— Pop Charts: A Graphical Guide penned in a generation.”—Al Giordano. Hitler’s Empire: to Popular Culture How the Nazis Ruled Europe GraphJam.com • 978-1-592-40487-2 • $12.00 Mark Mazower • 978-0-14-311610-3 • $20.00 • Nov 2009 • Music, movies, and TV shows • Sept 2009 • “With stunning command of the rendered into neat little graphs. 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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) 8 Psychology PHILOSOPHY / religion Beyond Tolerance: How People Across America Are Building Bridges Between Faiths Inevitable Grace: Breakthroughs in the The Essential Study Bible Gustav Niebuhr • 978-0-14-311555-7 • $15.00 Lives of Great Men and Women: Guides American Bible Society • 978-1-58542736-9 • Aug 2009 • “Anyone…interested in dialogue to Your Self-Realization • $19.95 • Sept 2009. among individuals, communities, and nations Piero Ferrucci • 978-1-58542-725-3 • $16.95 will benefit from Beyond Tolerance’s wisdom • Aug 2009 • Now back in print, this classic guide Heidegger and A Hippo Walk Through and humanity.”—Elie Wiesel. to transpersonal experiences demonstrates how Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy exceptionally creative and talented people (and Jokes!) to Explain Life, Death, the The Faith Instinct: How Religion become capable of remarkable feats. Afterlife, and Everything in Between Evolved and Why It Endures Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Nicholas Wade • 978-1-59420-228-5 • $25.95 Beauty and the Soul: The Extraordinary • 978-0-670-02083-6 • $19.95 • Oct 2009 • From • Nov 2009 • Noted writer offers a convincing Power of Everyday Beauty to Heal Your the authors of Plato and a Platypus. case based on a broad range of scientific Life evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion. Piero Ferrucci • 978-1-58542-707-9 • $23.95 Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: • Sept 2009 • Argues that the ability to appreciate The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead beauty—is vital to leading a happy, balanced, Edited with an Intro by Graham Coleman • With and satisfying life. Commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Education • 978-0-670-02128-4 • $23.95 • Dec 2009 • An What We May Be: Techniques accessible and moving introduction to The for Psychological and Spiritual Growth Tibetan Book of the Dead, with insightful new What’s Math Got to Do with It?: How Through Psychosynthesis essays. Parents and Teachers Can Help Children Piero Ferrucci • 978-1-58542-726-0 • $16.95 Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject • Aug 2009 • “The publication of this book The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Jo Boaler • 978-0-14-311571-7 • $16.00 • July certifies that our consciousness is rising.” Edition: A Handbook for Living 2009 • The Marie Curie Professor of Math at the —M. Scott Peck, M.D., author of The Road Less His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler, Sussex University, U.K., outlines solutions that Travelled. 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In this Fire shows how parents and teachers can create Drive: The Surprising Truth About What groundbreaking book on the emerging science extraordinary children. Motivates Us of faith, Barbara Bradley Hagerty discovers the Daniel H. Pink • 978-1-59448-884-9 • $26.95 links between science and spiritual experience. Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance • Jan 2009 • The author of A Whole New Mind Fingerprints of God will provoke you, intrigue Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right delivers a paradigm-changing examination of you and inspire you.”—Sister Helen Prejean, Colleges—And Find Themselves what truly motivates us and how to harness that author of Dead Man Walking. David L. Marcus • 978-1-59420-214-8 • $26.95 knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our • Aug 2009 • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist lives and our work. The Principles of Uncertainty spends a year with a high-school guidance Maira Kalman • 978-0-14-311646-2 • $20.00 counselor who gets kids into the right colleges. 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Leonard Maltin • 978-0-452-29557-5 • $20.00 From Eternity to Here: The Origin • Aug 2009 • Includes more than 300 new entries. of the Universe and the Arrow of Time A World Without Ice Sean Carroll • 978-0-525-95133-9 • $26.95 • Oct Henry Pollack, Ph.D. • 978-1-58333-357-0 Gimme Something Better: The Profound, 2009 • A theoretical physicist from Cal Tech • $26.00 • Oct 2009 • From University of Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless offers a vision of the whole universe—and Michigan geophysics professor who shared the History of Bay Area Punk from the Dead beyond. Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore comes an Kennedys to Green Day accessible, comprehensive examination of ice as Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor The Penguin Dictionary of Science, a force of nature and the consequences the • 978-0-14-311380-5 • $18.00 • Oct 2009 3rd Edition world faces without it. • An oral history of the modern punk-revival’s Edited by M.J. 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