MARINER BOOKS • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 75 “Must reading for every physician who cares for patients and every patient who wishes to get the best care.”

Jerome Groopman HOW DOCTORS THINK

• A New York Times bestseller • Includes a new afterword with additional advice for patients • Winner, 2007 Health/Self-Improvement Quill Award • “This is medicine at its best, ‘a mix of science and soul.’” — New York Times • “A unique, important, and wonderful book . . . You’ll never look at your own doctor in the same way again.” — Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of Freakonomics

n average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doc- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05364-6 • $15.95 O tors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often decisions How Doctors Think made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be MARCH • Medicine 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 wrong — with catastrophic consequences. In this myth-shattering book, 12-copy floor display • $179.40 Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes behind ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05979-2 the decisions doctors make. He pinpoints why doctors err and shows Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 when and how they can — with our help — avoid snap judgments, Previous ISBN 978-0-618-61003-7 embrace uncertainty,communicate effectively,and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact our health. Groopman draws on a wealth of research, extensive interviews with some of the country’s best doctors, and his own experiences as a doctor and as a patient. In a new after- • National TV advertising including word for the paperback edition, Groopman offers patients and their Oprah and the CNN and Oxygen networks • National media from New York and Boston family members practical suggestions for improved communication • National advertising, including the New York with their physicians. Times and The New Yorker How Doctors Think reveals a profound view of twenty-first-century • Online promotion medical practice, providing medical students, doctors, and patients • Promotional bookmarks with the vital information they need to improve health care. • 12-copy floor display

76 MARINER BOOKS / MARCH • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM and every patient who wishes to get the best care.”—Time

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“[Groopman’s] task is to offer practical advice to both JEROME GROOPMAN, M.D., holds the patients and physicians. He succeeds at both.” Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of —Washington Post Book World Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is chief of experimental medicine at Beth “A fascinating exploration of the subconscious forces Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. that influence how doctors approach illness.” His previous books include the New York Times bestseller The Anatomy of Hope, — San Francisco Chronicle Second Opinions, and The Measure of “Elegant, tough-minded . . . deeply affecting . . . remarkable. Our Days. He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Groopman lives in Brookline, Here is Groopman at the peak of his form, as a physician Massachusetts. and as a writer. Readers will relish the result.” — Michael Crichton, New York Times Book Review

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“A mixture of methodological theorizing, personal history,and entertaining stories of misdiagnoses and miraculous saves.” — Ne w York

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MARINER BOOKS / MARCH • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 77 A Mariner Original

Edward Docx PRAVDA A Novel

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FROM PRAVDA

sabella suddenly saw her brother clearly as a stranger might. Yes, he was handsome in what she always Ithought of as his famous-for-something-but-nobody- is-sure-what look, but now his slight scruffiness, his tou- sled hair, his loose shirt, his jeans, his battered boots — they somehow told against him. Where before there had © MONICA CURTIN been a casual confidence dressing down, she now saw

anguish dressing up. His manner no longer said, “I don’t AUTHOR PROFILE care to manage any better — take it or leave it,” but EDWARD DOCX is the author of the instead, “This is the best I can manage.” acclaimed The Calligrapher, named a San “How you feeling?” she asked. Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. He was a Sunday columnist and arts editor “Fantastic. All go.” for national newspapers in the UK. Now a Isabella smiled. “I mean, can you take a drink or are full-time writer, he still contributes to British and American newspapers and appears you going to crash?” frequently as a cultural critic on television “I’d love a drink. I would absolutely love a drink.” and radio. Pravda was long-listed for the Gabriel eased into his seat and grimaced. “I didn’t sleep 2007 Man Booker Prize. last night — in fact, I can’t remember when I last slept. I’m totally wasted. What are you thinking?” “I’m thinking vodka. It can only help.” “Tonics separate?” Gabriel found a lopsided grin. She smiled in return. Vodka that was worth tasting — it meant they were in Russia together again . . .

MARINER BOOKS / MARCH • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 79 Martin Gayford

THE YELLOW HOUSE Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence

• “Offers fascinating interpretations of the work that came out of the short, stormy conjunction of their lives.” — Entertainment Weekly • “Brings fresh insights into the personalities and work of this odd couple of art.” — Los Angeles Times • “Informative and entertaining.” — The New Yorker

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-99058-0 • $14.95 rom October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow The Yellow House Fhouse in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the APRIL • Art/Biography odd couple of the art world — one calm, the other volatile — and the 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 denouement of their living arrangement was explosive. Making use of new 63 b/w halftones and 1 b/w line drawing evidence and Van Gogh’s voluminous correspondence, Martin Gayford Little, Brown hardcover, 2007 describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged Previous ISBN 978-0-316-76901-3 ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Gayford also makes a persuasive analysis of Van Gogh’s mental illness— the probable bipolar affliction that led him to commit suicide at the age of thirty-seven. The • National advertising, including Yellow House is a singular biographical work, as dramatic and vibrant as The New Yorker the work of these brilliant artists.

MARTIN GAYFORD was educated at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of the University of London. He is the coeditor of The Grove Book of Art Writing. Currently the chief art critic for Bloomberg Europe, Gayford lives in Cambridge, England, with his wife and two children.

80 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Mark Slouka

THE VISIBLE WORLD A Novel

• “An atmospheric mix of adventure, mystery, and romance . . . The sheer beauty of Mark Slouka’s prose will draw comparisons to The English Patient. ” — Gary Shteyngart • “A vibrantly told love story.” — Washington Post Book World • A top-ten Book Sense pick and a Border’s Original Voices selection

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MARK SLOUKA is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction, including the novel God’s Fool, named a Y Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and the

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MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 81 The dramatic sequel to the best-selling Empress Orchid

Anchee Min THE LAST EMPRESS A Novel

• “Evokes the intrigue and opulence of nineteenth-century China while telling the story of its improbably dominant ruler.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review • “The vision of an empress who very nearly had it all: vulnerability and strength, motherhood and power, earthiness and dignity, compassion and ambition.” — Washington Post • “Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation.” — Rocky Mountain News

he last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history,marked by humiliating foreign incursions and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05370-7 • $13.95 T The Last Empress domestic rebellions, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing APRIL • Fiction Dynasty.The only constant during this tumultuous time was the power 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 wielded by one woman, the resilient, ever-resourceful Tsu Hsi— or Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min’s Previous ISBN 978-0-618-53146-2 critically acclaimed, best-selling novel covering her rise to power. The Last Empress is the story of Orchid’s dramatic transition from a strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvy ALSO AVAILABLE leader who ruled China for more than four decades. Anchee Min offers Becoming Madame Mao a powerful revisionist portrait based on extensive research of one of the (978-0-618-12700-9) $13.95 PA Wild Ginger (978-0-618-38043-5) $13.00 PA most important figures in Chinese history.Tsu Hsi was viciously maligned by the Western press of the time as the “Dragon Lady,” a manipulative, bloodthirsty woman who held on to power at all costs. • National advertising, including In this concluding volume Min gives us a compelling, very human the New York Times Book Review leader who assumed power reluctantly and who sacrificed all she had • Author appearances to protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die. • Reading group promotion • Bookmarks available for accounts and inserted in Empress Orchid • Easelbacks copromoting Empress Orchid and The Last Empress • Downloadable shelf-talkers

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Acclaim for THE LAST EMPRESS

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ANCHEE MIN was born in Shanghai. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collec- tive, where a talent scout for Madame STOCK UP ON THE FIRST BOOK Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to IN THE RIVETING JOURNEY OF TSU HSI work as a movie actress. She is the author of five novels, including the bestsellers Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid and the memoir Red Azalea, an international bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in northern California. “A stirring,exotic novel that is a treat for the senses and intellect alike.” —Los Angeles Times

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Aaron Baker

MISSION WORK Poems

• A vibrant debut collection from the winner of the 2007 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize • In this prize-winning collection, the poet evokes his childhood as the son of missionaries in Papua New Guinea • Foreword by Stanley Plumly

ission Work is an arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker’s experiences as a child of missionaries living among the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-98267-7 • $12.95 M Mission Work Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea. APRIL • Poetry Rich with Christian and Kuman myths and stories, the poems explore 64 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 Western and tribal ways of looking at the world — an interface of vastly different cultures and notions of spirituality,illuminated by the poet’s own struggles as he comes of age in this unique environment. The images conjured in Mission Work are viscerally stirring: natives • National Poetry Month sponsorship slaughter pigs for a Chimbu wedding ceremony; a cloud of mosquitoes • Poetic Voice podcast moves through a slender ray of sunlight; hands sting as they beat a drum made of dried snakeskin. Quieter moments are shot through with the unfa- miliar as well. In “Bird of Paradise,” a father angles his son’s head toward the canopy of the jungle to catch sight of an elusive bird. Stanley Plumly,this year’s judge for the Bakeless poetry prize, states, “Throughout this remarkably written and felt first book, the reader, like the author himself, ‘can’t tell if this is white or black magic,’ Christian, tribal, or both at once.”

AARON BAKER is the winner of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, selected by Stanley Plumly and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Baker received his MFA at the University of Virginia. His work has been previously published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and Poetry, among other publications. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at Hollins University.

84 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Dale Peterson

JANE GOODALL The Woman Who Redefined Man

• A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe and Denver Post • “Absorbing . . . a remarkable account of what a person can accomplish through courage and self-sacrifice.” — New York Times

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05356-1 • $17.95 his essential biography of one of the most influential women of the Jane Goodall Tpast century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall’s accom- APRIL • Biography plishments have been. Goodall was a secretarial school graduate when 768 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 Louis Leakey,unable to find someone with more fitting credentials, first Sixteen pages of b/w photos sent her to Gombe to study chimps. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Previous ISBN 978-0-395-85405-1 In this acclaimed work, Dale Peterson details how this young woman of uncommon resourcefulness and pluck would go on to create a paradigm shift in the field, helping to set radically new standards in the study of ani- ALSO AVAILABLE mal behavior. He vividly captures the triumphs and setbacks of her dra- Africa in My Blood matic life, including the private quest that led to her now-famous activism. (978-0-618-12735-1) $15.00 PA Candid and illuminating, this book will be a revelation even to readers Beyond Innocence who are familiar with the public Goodall as presented in her own writing. (978-0-618-25734-8) $15.00 PA Peterson, a longtime Goodall collaborator, has a unique knowledge of his In the Shadow of Man subject, and he provides a deeper understanding of the woman who has (978-0-618-05676-7) $15.00 PA been a role model and inspiration for so many people.

DALE PETERSON is the coauthor with Jane Goodall of Visions of Caliban, a • Tie in with Jane Goodall’s spring lecture New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Book, and the editor schedule of her two books of letters, Africa in My Blood and Beyond Innocence. Peterson’s • Earth Day promotion other books include The Deluge and the Ark, Chimpanzee Travels, Storyville • Academic promotion USA, Eating Apes, and, with Richard Wrangham, Demonic Males. He lives in Massachusetts.

MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 85 A New York Times bestseller, now in paperback

Natalie Angier THE CANON A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

• “Though we live in an era of stunning scientific understanding, all too often the average educated person will have none of it . . . The Canon is an excellent introduction (or refresher) to the beautiful basics of science, and I hope it is widely read. It could make the country smarter.” — Steven Pinker, New York Times Book Review

ith the intelligence and exuberance that rocketed Woman to Winternational acclaim, best-selling science writer Natalie Angier ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05346-2 • $15.95 distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials in a work that is The Canon both entertaining and inspiring. Angier interviewed hosts of scientists, APRIL • Science posing the simple question “What do you wish everyone knew about 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 science?” The Canon provides their answers, covering the fundamen- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 tals of the hard sciences: scientific process, probability,calibration, Previous ISBN 978-0-618-24295-5 physics, chemistry,evolutionary biology,cellular and molecular biology, geology,and astronomy.Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide to the basic concepts of each discipline, ALSO AVAILABLE Woman describing how they are relevant to us every day and striving “to make (978-0-395-69130-4) $25.00 CL the invisible visible, the distant neighborly,the ineffable affable.” Even Natural Obsessions the most science-phobic reader will find Angier’s passion infectious as (978-0-395-92472-3) $15.00 PA she delivers a one-stop education to rival Bill Bryson’s A Short History The Beauty of the Beastly of Nearly Everything. (978-0-395-79147-9) $16.00 PA

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Extraordinary acclaim for Natalie Angier and THE CANON

“An intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing.” —Richard Dawkins

“She writes with such verve, humor, and warmth that even readers who may have flunked any of those subjects in high school will still be willing to give them a second chance.” — Library Journal, starred review

“An astonishingly literary science book . . . Angier’s gift for metaphor lights up the dustiest corner . . . If any book can help © DARRYL ESTRINE the public learn to love science, this is it.” —Nature NATALIE ANGIER writes about biology for the New York Times, where she has won a “Natalie Angier makes planets and particles sexy . . . She turns Pulitzer Prize, the American Association for guys with lab coats and pocket protectors into Daniel Craig. Don’t the Advancement of Science Journalism ask how she does it, but she does.” Award, and other honors. She is the author —Sylvia Nasar of the National Book Award finalist Woman: An Intimate Geography, The Beauty “A witty,idiosyncratic primer on the sciences . . . A rhapsodic of the Beastly, and Natural Obsessions. personal essay from one of the great science writers of our time—an Angier lives outside of Washington, D.C. eminence whose love of snotty cells and crazy creatures may be second only to her love of language.” —Washington Post Book World

“Every single sentence of The Canon sparkles with enough intelligence and wit to delight science-phobes and science-philes alike. I loved it!” —Barbara Ehrenreich

“An essential experience. Her command of language shames the poets; her grasp of how science works exposes the joy and beauty of discovery that—I thought—belonged only to the scientists.” —Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate

“A sprightly carousel ride through the world of science.” —San Francisco Chronicle

MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 87 Jim Gorant

FANATIC 10 Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die

• “Gorant offers a solid defense of everyone who ever skipped work to catch a day game at Wrigley or tailgated outside Lambeau Field in subzero weather.”— Rocky Mountain News • “If you can’t make it to all these great events yourself, I urge you to read this book before you die.”— Seth Davis, sports analyst for CBS and staff writer at Sports Illustrated

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05363-9 • $13.95 f you had to pick the top-ten iconic sporting events, what would they Fanatic Ibe? Jim Gorant asked himself this question, and the answer resulted in a APRIL • Sports yearlong journey into the heart of sports. From the Kentucky Derby to the 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 • OO Super Bowl, from a day game at Wrigley Field to a fortnight at Wimble- Ten b/w photos don, from the NCAA Final Four to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Gorant takes us along for the ride, evoking the best (and sometimes the Previous ISBN 978-0-618-61298-7 worst) sports has to offer. He enters the inner sanctum of NASCAR, witnesses Jack Nicklaus teeing off for the last time at the Masters, and takes part in one of college football’s biggest rivalries — Ohio State versus • Online advertising and promotion Michigan. Fanatic is a rollicking story of the ultimate sports road trip. Jim Gorant captures these ten unforgettable events in all their color and commotion and gives sports fans everywhere reason to cheer.

JIM GORANT is a senior editor and writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the author of two previous books, Fit for Golf, with the renowned PGA Tour trainer Boris Kuzmic, and America’s Top Golf Courses. He has also written for many publica- tions, including Men’s Journal, Travel + Leisure Golf, GQ, and Men’s Health. He lives in New Jersey.

88 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Galway Kinnell

STRONG IS YOUR HOLD Poems

CD Included • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • Featuring a CD of the poet reading the full collection • “Kinnell delights in earth’s crude beauty via elegantly playful odes to everything that slithers, wriggles, and writhes.” — Entertainment Weekly

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05366-0 • $14.95 ere in paperback for the first time is the celebrated eleventh book Strong Is Your Hold Hof poems by Galway Kinnell. The book’s title derives from Walt APRIL • Poetry Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / 80 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 Strong is your hold O love.” In this striking collection, Kinnell gives us Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations Previous ISBN 978-0-618-22497-5 of sexuality,poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning ALSO AVAILABLE requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The A New Selected Poems collection also affords the singular experience of hearing the poet read (978-0-618-15445-6) $14.00 PA his own work, with an extraordinary audio recording included on CD. Three Books (978-0-618-21911-7) $20.00 PA The Book of Nightmares GALWAY KINNELL has been deemed “one of the true (978-0-395-12098-9) $15.00 PA master poets of his generation” by the New York Times. O L

Among the many honors he has received are a Pulitzer Prize, T a National Book Award, and a MacArthur fellowship. He is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 89 Ann Cummins

YELLOWCAKE A Novel

• “A gorgeous novel about people who are as tender and ornery and passionate and mixed-up and real as the people we know in real life . . . I love this book.”— Ann Packer • “A soulful meditation on the half-life of disaster and the half-life we face without love.”— Day to Day, National Public Radio • “Rich and touching.”— Washington Post

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05357-8 • $13.95 n the remarkable follow-up to her critically acclaimed short story Yellowcake Icollection Red Ant House, Ann Cummins crafts an absorbing novel of APRIL • Fiction the American Southwest. Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • OO families — the Irish-Catholic Mahoneys and the Navajo Attcitys — who Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 despite their differences are joined through shared history and tragedy. Previous ISBN 978-0-618-26926-6 Two decades ago, Ryland Mahoney and Woody Attcity had both worked processing the radioactive concentrate yellowcake in a New Mexican ura- ALSO AVAILABLE nium mill. Now both men are facing terminal illness. Woody’s daughter is Red Ant House convinced that the mine is to blame and is determined to help her father (978-0-618-26925-9) $12.00 PA fight for compensation. But Ryland wants no part of dredging up their past — or acknowledging his future — choosing instead to focus on his own daughter’s upcoming marriage. Cummins’s complex and fascinating characters shine through in a • Author appearances, including gripping read that is radiant with heartache and humor and the possibility San Francisco Bay Area and of redemption. Southwestern cities • Mariner advertising • Promotional easelbacks ANN CUMMINS is the author of Red Ant House, a San Francisco Chronicle best- seller and Best Book of the Year. The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, Cummins divides her time between Oakland, California, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.

90 MARINER BOOKS / APRIL • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Neal Bascomb

RED MUTINY Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

• “As gripping as a novel by C. S. Forester or Patrick O’Brian . . . a remarkable book.”— Los Angeles Times • “Reveals all the complexity, excitement, and significance of those eleven fateful days . . . [Bascomb] tells the story of the mutiny with a masterful touch and perfect pacing.” — Seattle Times

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05352-3 • $15.95 n 1905 more than seven hundred Russian sailors mutinied against their Red Mutiny Iofficers aboard the battleship Potemkin, one of the most powerful bat- MAY • History tleships in the world. Led by the charismatic firebrand Matyushenko, they 416 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 risked their lives to take control of their ship and fly the red flag of revolu- 8 pages b/w photos tion. What followed was a violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-59206-7 harrowing days and came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself. Red Mutiny is a pulse-pounding story that alternates between the opu- lent court of Nicholas II and the drama on the high seas. Neal Bascomb ALSO AVAILABLE combines extensive research and fresh information from Soviet archives to The Perfect Mile tell the true story of the deadliest naval mutiny in history.Readers of Tom (978-0-618-56209-1) Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October and Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart $14.95 PA of the Sea will discover a terrific adventure filled with epic naval battles, heroic sacrifices, treachery,bloodlust, and the rallying cries of freedom.

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MARINER BOOKS / MAY • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 91 Cullen Murphy

ARE WE ROME? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

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SENIOR YEAR A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball

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THE GOLDILOCKS ENIGMA Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?

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94 MARINER BOOKS / MAY • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Susan Richards Shreve

WARM SPRINGS Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven

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MARINER BOOKS / JUNE • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 95 A feast for the human heart.*

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MARINER BOOKS / JUNE • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 97 Julia Whitty

THE FRAGILE EDGE Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

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A DAY AT THE BEACH A Novel

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MARINER BOOKS / JUNE • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM 99 Oliver August

INSIDE THE RED MANSION On the Trail of China’s Most Wanted Man

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OLIVER AUGUST spent seven years in China as the Beijing bureau chief for the Times of London. He was previously the paper’s youngest-ever New York correspondent. He now reports from the Middle East.

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Steven Wingate

WIFESHOPPING Stories

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n honest, absorbing debut fiction collection, Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05365-3 • $12.95 A Wifeshopping understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love- JULY • Fiction starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women 208 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men’s paths for only a few hours or moments. In “Beaching It,” an artist traveling on the summer circuit begins an • Author appearances affair with a rich, married local. In “Me and Paul,” a lonely traveler adopts • Online campaign, including myspace.com an alter ego to help him impress a single mother. In “Bill,” a trip to a flea • Bookmarks market highlights the essential differences between a man and his fiancée. • Author website at www.stevenwingate.com Throughout this thoroughly entertaining read, Wingate’s sympathetic characterizations reveal both the hopefulness and the heartache behind our earnest but sometimes misguided attempts at intimacy.

STEVEN WINGATE’s stories have received awards from Gulf Coast and The Journal and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Wifeshopping is the recipient of the 2007 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, selected by Amy Hempel and awarded by the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Wingate teaches writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and lives in Lafayette, Colorado.

102 MARINER BOOKS / JULY • WWW.MARINERBOOKS.COM Jabari Asim

THE N WORD Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05349-3 • $14.95 he debate over the N word touches almost every aspect of American The N Word Tpopular culture: Does it ever have an appropriate place in the AUGUST • Current Affairs media? Are rappers justified in using it? Should Huckleberry Finn, which 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • OO repeats it 215 times, be taught in high school? Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 As the cultural critic Jabari Asim explains, none of these questions Previous ISBN 978-0-618-19717-0 can be pondered effectively without a clear knowledge of the word’s bitter legacy.Here he draws on a wide range of examples from science, politics, the arts, and more to reveal how the slur has both reflected and spread the • National print and online advertising, scourge of bigotry in America over the past four hundred years. He pon- including Mother Jones and Google ders the contributions of cultural figures such as Thomas Jefferson and • Academic promotion Mark Twain, W.E.B.Du Bois and Margaret Mitchell, Dave Chappelle and NWA.Through this history,Asim shows how completely our national psyche is affected by the use of the word, and why it’s such a flashpoint today.

JABARI ASIM is the editor in chief of The Crisis, the NAACP’s flagship publication. For the previous eleven years he was an editor at the Washington Post Book World. His writing Y has appeared in Essence, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the Hungry Mind Review, Emerge, and

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DUSTIN BEALL SMITH’s Key Grip won the 2007 Bakeless Prize for nonfiction, awarded by the Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and judged by Terry Tempest Williams. Smith teaches at Gettysburg College and lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and New York City.

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THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC for Kids, Volume 2

A proven bestseller in its first edition with more than 220,000 copies sold, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Volume 2, is the next delightful book in this series. Not only do kids love it, but parents, grandparents, and teachers do, too!

Its full-color pages are loaded with • fun activities • quirky facts • feature stories on topics such as farm animals, fishing, famous bears, insects and creepy creatures, lefties, sports heroes, history,and the origin of ice cream • and much, much more! ISBN 13/EAN: 978-1-57198-434-0 • $9.95 PA “Part how-to guide, part trivia trove, it’s AVAILABLE • Juvenile Reference packed with information in the form of lists, calendars, charts, 192 pages • 5 5/8 x 8 1/4 and short articles. Keep it in the car as a distraction during road Illustrated, full-color throughout trips. Get ready for a backseat chorus of ‘Hey,listen to this!’” Previous ISBN (Vol.1) 978-1-57198-358-9 —Florida Times-Union

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac The Old Farmer’s Almanac Best Home Baking Blue Ribbon Recipes Irresistible Recipes from Award-Winning Recipes from America’s Blue-Ribbon Bakers Around the Country This fun cookbook features more than 130 Cooks will find recipes for everything from recipes for delightfully delicious baked appetizers to desserts here, including baked goods that took top honors at state fairs and goods, soups and stews, entrées, and pickles specialty food festivals around the nation. and preserves. Valuable tips and hard-won Mouthwatering selections include pies and cakes; breads and secrets from the prizewinners are also muffins; cookies, brownies, and bars; and more—plus valuable featured, as well as information on food fairs hints and tips. and festivals across the nation.

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The Old Farmer’s The Old Farmer’s The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2009 Almanac 2009 Almanac 2009 Weather Gardening Calendar Country Calendar Watcher’s Calendar

A must-have for anyone who likes to A GREEN THUMB’S keep an eye on the sky.Each monthly FAVORITE—NOW IN ITS spread features a full-color image of an THIRTY-SECOND YEAR! exceptional weather event, plus weather Each monthly spread in this perennial trivia, a weather question answered by bestseller offers gardening lore, timely the “Old Farmer,” and a timeless advice, and a beautiful full-color Experience the charm of country living proverb. illustration. Plus, an outdoor planting each month through engaging full-color table identifies the best days and moon photographs, holiday lore, and surpris- ISBN-13/EAN: phases for planting vegetables. ing facts. Discover the best days for fish- 978-1-57198-4579 • $8.99 ing, planting, setting eggs, and more. JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 ISBN-13/EAN: Saddle-stitched 978-1-57198-456-2 • $8.99 ISBN-13/EAN: Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-429-6 JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 8 3/8 978-1-57198-458-6 • $9.99 Saddle-stitched JULY • Wall format • 10 7/8 x 10 7/8 Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-428-9 Saddle-stitched Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-430-2

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2009 Engagement Calendar

It’s easy to stay organized with this charmingly illustrated hardbound desk calendar. The week-at-a-glance format provides ample space for appointments and notes, and each day offers a bit of useful advice, quirky history,or folklore. There are also pages to record addresses, birthdays and anniversaries, and plans for the future.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-459-3 • $14.99 JULY • 7 x 10 Full-color, high-gloss, hardcover Concealed Wire-O binding Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-431-9

The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2009 Every Day Calendar

This cleverly illustrated, page-per-day calendar features weather lore, quirky history,useful household hints, fun puzzles, and timeless proverbs. Folks will be tickled by the riddles and quotes and fascinated by the facts and lore. A great conversation starter, it’s also a perfect companion to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, America’s most popular annual.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-460-9 • $11.99 JULY • Gift-boxed, page-per-day format 5 3/16 x 5 1/2 Recyclable plastic easelback Previous ISBN 978-1-57198-432-6

OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC / WWW.ALMANAC.COM 111 A FANTASTICALLY FUNNY NEW NOVEL BY TWO-TIME NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER LOIS LOWRY

Lois Lowry THE WILLOUGHBYS

• Four “old-fashioned” children become worthy and deserving orphans and even find a wealthy benefactor in this hilariously tongue-in-cheek tale. • A Walter Lorraine title

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-97974-5 • $16.00 bandoned by their ill-humored parents to the care of an odious The Willoughbys A nanny,Tim, the twins Barnaby A and Barnaby B, and their sister, MARCH • Fiction Jane, attempt to fulfill their roles as good old-fashioned children. 112 pages • 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 • OO Following the models set in lauded tales from A Christmas Carol to b/w illustrations Mary Poppins, the four Willoughbys hope to attain their proscribed 9-copy floor display ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05730-9 • $144.00 happy ending too, or at least a satisfyingly maudlin one. However, it is an unquestionably ruthless act that sets in motion the transformations that lead to their salvation and to happy endings for not only the four • National author tour, including New York, children, but their nanny,an abandoned baby,a candy magnate, and Washington, D.C., Seattle, Michigan, Oregon, his long-lost son too. Replete with a tongue-in-cheek glossary and Wisconsin, Vancouver bibliography,this hilarious and decidedly old-fashioned parody pays • National publicity playful homage to classic works of children’s literature. • 9-copy floor display • ARC mailings and giveaways • Bookmarks • National advertising • Conference promotions • Promotions and author podcast at www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com • Book Sense promotion • Learn more about Lois Lawry at www.loislowry.com

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LOIS LOWRY TALKS ABOUT THE INSPIRATION FOR THE WILLOUGHBYS

“I grew up on classic children’s literature, including fairy tales, so it has always permeated my consciousness. Somehow I was reminded of Hansel and Gretel, and the fact that their parents dropped them off in the woods intending that they die of starvation. Couldn’t do that in a book for kids today! I thought. Then chuckling, I thought: Why not? And so I created the Willoughby parents, who go off on a lengthy vacation and then send the children a postcard saying, in essence: By the way,the house is for sale. When someone buys it, you will have to find another place to live. Leave your clothes; we might be able to sell them. © HMCO

“The Willoughbys is simply a spoof, or takeoff, on classic LOIS LOWRY is a preeminent voice in contem- children’s literature of the past, with all of its stock conventions: the porary children’s literature, with a canon of orphans and villains and coincidences and long-lost heirs who turn more than thirty books for readers of all ages, up at the last minute.” including The Giver and Number the Stars, both winners of the prestigious Newbery Medal. She recently received the Margaret A. Edwards THE WILLOUGHBYS COMES COMPLETE WITH A UNIQUE GLOSSARY, Award, which honors an author for her lifetime AS WELL AS A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL THE BOOKS MENTIONED contribution to young adult literature. Lowry has IN THE TEXT. BELOW IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT'S INCLUDED. received countless honors and captured the imaginations of generations of devoted fans. ALABASTER is actually a kind of mineral used for sculptures. But it can also be an She divides her time between Massachusetts adjective meaning white like that mineral. See if you can remember where the word and Maine. alabaster appears in “America the Beautiful.” Then you can be a Jeopar dy! cont estant, as this author once was.

CONFECTIONARY has to do with candies. You can also spell it with an e: confectionery ALSO AVAILABLE (remember that, if you are ever on Wheel of Fortune). A confectioner is a guy who makes or The Giver sells candy.Willy Wonka is a confectioner. (978-0-395-64566-6) $16.00 CL Gathering Blue MALEVOLENT means wanting to harm others or having an evil influence. Even though if (978-0-618-05581-4) $16.00 CL you glance quickly at the word, it may look like “male violent,” this word has nothing to do with males. It is actually pronounced mah-LEV-oh-lent. Some females are very malevolent. Messenger (978-0-618-40441-4) $16.00 CL Looking Back (978-0-395-89543-6) $17.00 CL NEFARIOUS means utterly,completely wicked. The character in The Wizard of Oz could Number the Stars have been called the Nefarious Witch of the West but authors like to use the same beginning (978-0-395-51060-5) $16.00 CL consonant, often. Perhaps L. Frank Baum crossed out nefarious after wicked came to his mind. Thank goodness, because Nefarious would be a terrible name for a musical. Gossamer (978-0-618-68550-9) $16.00 CL

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Illustrated by H. A. Rey CURIOUS YOU: ON YOUR WAY!

• This new book, illustrated with classic Curious George art, is the perfect choice for celebrating graduations, or any accomplishment big or small.

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91975-8 • $12.95 urious You: On Your Way! is a perfect sendoff for people of all ages Curious You: On Your Way! Centering a new phase of their lives. Follow along with George in APRIL • Picture Book scenes from many of his original books as he provides words of congratu- 32 pages • 8 1/4 x 8 1/2 • OO lations and encouragement to anyone who has accomplished much but Full-color illustrations still has many things to see, to do, and to dream. 6-copy counter display The ideal gift book for a graduation, promotion, or any occasion, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-547-05760-6 Curious You: On Your Way! gives reason to celebrate all of the milestones $96.00 of our lives. This inspirational story reminds readers young and old who are moving up or moving on that they have a special someone cheering for them as far as their curiosity can take them!

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