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Jeff Abbott BLAME Grand Central Publishing July 2017 North America

New York Times-bestselling and award-winning author Jeff Abbott returns with a thrilling psychological suspense novel.

Teenager Jane Norton is behind the wheel when her car crashes off a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving Jane with amnesia. She remembers nothing of the days leading up to the crash—or why David wrote her a note, begging her to help him. Two years later, a still-broken Jane—abandoned by friends and family, blamed for David’s death—receives an anonymous message: I know what really happened. I know what you don't remember. David’s grieving mother, Perri, tries to keep Jane from bringing up the past. Meanwhile, someone is destroying the lives of those connected to the accident: the paramedics, the lawyers, the witnesses. What happened on that fateful night—and what does Jane truly remember? Jane and Perri must join forces to unearth the truth . . . before a killer takes more than memories.

Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown.

Also Available: The Whit Mosley Series: A KISS GONE BAD (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Japanese/Hayakawa; Portuguese (Portugal)/Porto Editora); BLACKJACK POINT (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Japanese/Hayakawa Shobo; CUT AND RUN (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Japanese/Hayakawa). Standalone novels: PANIC (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; German/Aufbau), film option to Weinstein Co; FEAR (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; German/Aufbau); COLLISION (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; French/Le Cherche Midi; German/Heyne), film option to Garlin Pictures; TRUST ME (Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; French/Le Cherche Midi; German/Heyne; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Italian/Rizzoli; Norwegian/CappelenDamm).

Upcoming Title: THE THREE BETHS (Grand Central, TBD), a new standalone.

Jeff Abbott is the New York Times-bestselling, award-winning author of many mystery and suspense novels, including the Sam Capra series. He has been called “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Washington Post). He is the 2016 President of the Mystery Writers of America. His novel PANIC is being developed as a TV series at the Weinstein Company, and Jeff is attached as a screenwriter and producer.

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Jeff Abbott THE FIRST ORDER Grand Central Publishing January 2016 North America

The new Sam Capra thriller Jeff Abbott fans have been waiting for.

The darkest day of Sam Capra's life was when he watched his brother, Danny, executed by extremists in an online video. But now, evidence has surfaced that Danny may still be alive—leading a secret, hidden life for the past six years while the world believed him to be dead. What's more, Sam discovers that Danny may be plotting a murder that could change history: assassinating the Russian president.

Determined to stop his brother from committing a murder that may cause a war, Sam goes undercover in a one- man mission to save the world—and to save his brother.

“This is a thoroughly riveting addition to one of the most compelling espionage series in modern fiction.” – BookPage

"Fast paced and just plausible enough to satisfy readers who demand realism in their adrenaline-fueled thrillers, the book should definitely appeal to action fans. Each novel in the series can be read as a stand-alone, which means newcomers can plunge right in. Go for it." – Booklist

“An epic struggle between two brothers throws Russian-American relations in jeopardy during this strong installment of Abbott's series. . . . Abbott loads his story with entertaining plot twists . . . The bond and betrayal between the two brothers add emotional depth to the action.” – Kirkus

“One of the best thriller writers of our time.” – Harlan Coben

“Abbott writes suspense classics.” – Lee Child

“The Sam Capra novels are crafted like a Swiss watch, intricate and always effective.” – Michael Koryta

Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Portuguese (Portugal)/Porto Editora.

Companion Titles: ADRENALINE (Grand Central, 2011). Foreign sales: UK/Little Brown; Bulgarian/ERA Media; French/J’ai Lu; German/Heyne; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Norwegian/CappelenDamm; Polish/Buchmann; Portuguese (Portugal)/Civilização Editora; Romanian/Editura Acuma; Swedish/Damm; Turkish/Pegasus. Summer Great Reads choice by The Today Show and Good Morning, America. THE LAST MINUTE (Grand Central, July 2012). Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; Bulgarian/ERA Media; French/J’ai Lu; German/Heyne; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Norwegian/CappelenDamm; Portuguese (Portugal)/Civilização Editora; Swedish/Damm. Winner of the International Thriller Writers Award. DOWNFALL (Grand Central, July 2013). Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; French/J’ai Lu; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Norwegian/CappelenDamm; Portuguese/Porto Editora. An Amazon July 2013 Best Book of the Month. INSIDE MAN (Grand Central, July 2014). Foreign Sales: UK/Little, Brown; French/J’ai Lu; Hungarian/Jaffa Kiado; Norwegian/CappelenDamm; Portuguese (Portugal)/ASA II Edições.

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Howard Behar THE MAGIC CUP Center Street Press/Hachette Book Group March 2016 World English

Inspired by his landmark years as one of the three leaders who built the Starbucks organization, as well as the enthusiastic response to his first book It’s Not About the Coffee, Howard Behar now shares an inspiring business parable about the power of doing what’s right—not what’s most expedient or immediately profitable—to overcome obstacles and gain more than one ever thought possible.

Vince Steadfast is the new CEO of an iconic glassworks manufacturer, Verity Glassworks. The firm’s artistic glory days are in the past and recent management and financial turmoil have thrown the company’s future in jeopardy. The task for Steadfast is to keep his bearings, confront his fears and weaknesses, and complete a quest for the very soul of the company. Along the way, Steadfast encounters a motley but talented group of employees--from a mysterious elevator operator to the company historian to an elfin designer--who join him on the quest. They must learn to believe in one another, and to believe in the company they have nearly given up on, if they have any chance at all in succeeding. As they search together for the Treasure Beyond All Price, Steadfast discovers that only by filling his glass cup (a priceless gift from his mentor) with leadership actions based on universal values can he and his new team begin to steer the company into the future. THE MAGIC CUP is a modern business parable to inspire readers and entire organizations to remember, believe in, and act on the bigger purpose, values, and success they aspire to—and to reap the personal and business rewards that ensue.

Foreign Sales: Chinese (simplified)/Beijing Standway Books; Japanese/Toyokan; Turkish/Alfa Yayinlari.

For twenty-one years Howard Behar led Starbucks’s domestic business as President of Starbucks North America, and he became the founding President of Starbucks International. During his tenure, he participated in the growth of the company from only 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. Howard’s first book was It’s Not About the Coffee (Portfolio, 2009). Foreign Sales: Chinese (complex)/Wisdom Distribution Services; Chinese (simplified)/CITIC; Japanese/Nikkei BP; Lithuanian/Media Incognito; Portuguese (Brazil)/Sextante; Portuguese (Portugal)/Pergaminho; Russian/Alpina Business Books; Spanish/Urano; Thai/Samnukphim Eureka; Vietnamese/Tre Publishing.

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Lisa Brackmann GO-BETWEEN Soho Crime July 2016 World English

Emily runs a successful bistro in California, where she lives with her handsome boyfriend, Jeff, a volunteer firefighter. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business, but so what? It's true that the bistro was funded by drug money, and sure, firefighting isn’t really Jeff’s main job—that would be flying Humboldt's finest weed to out-of-state customers. And sure, he isn’t really Emily’s boyfriend, more like the guy she’s stuck with by circumstance. Actually, his name isn’t Jeff, it’s Danny; and Emily’s real name is Michelle Mason, although no one can ever know that. She’s on the run from her past—which has just caught up with her in its ugliest form: Gary, an ex-CIA and black ops agent who got her and Danny into this whole mess, and who Michelle should have killed when she had the chance.

When Gary shows up at Michelle’s restaurant the same night Danny is arrested by the DEA during what should have been a routine flight, Michelle knows they’ve been set up. Danny’s life is on the line: he’s dangling bait in a maximum-security Houston jail, prey to Gary and whatever shadowy powers Gary works for. Gary will help Michelle if she’ll just do him one little favor: take a job in Houston working for the figurehead of a multimillion- dollar anti-crime nonprofit. But Michelle knows whatever she’s getting into isn’t what it seems. All she can do is hope she figures out what Gary's real endgame is before she--or someone close to her—pays the ultimate price.

“Brisk. . . . The edgy plot never lets up, touching on the war on drugs, for-profit prisons, and nefarious nonprofits.” – Publishers Weekly

Companion Title: GETAWAY (Soho Crime, 2012).

Lisa Brackmann’s debut novel ROCK PAPER TIGER, set on the fringes of the Chinese art world, made several “Best of 2010” lists, including Amazon’s Top 100 Novels and Top 10 Mystery/Thrillers, and was nominated for the Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best First Novel. Her second novel, GETAWAY, won the Los Angeles Book Festival Grand Prize and was nominated for the T. Jefferson Parker SCIBA award. HOUR OF THE RAT, #2 in the Ellie McEnroe series, was short-listed for Left Coast’s World Mystery award, as was Ellie #3, DRAGON DAY (and was a Seattle Times Top 10 Mystery Pic). Lisa lives in San Diego.

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Glenn Cooper THE QUANTUM PRIEST Lascaux Media, LLC Spring 2017 World English

The first in a new series of historical thrillers featuring a remarkable new protagonist, Cal Donovan, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology.

Cal is asked by the Vatican to investigate a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Skeptical but intrigued, Cal flies to Italy to interview the priest himself, Giovanni Berardino, as well as his colleagues and family members. Giovanni agrees to a meeting but Cal can’t shake the feeling that the priest isn’t telling him everything. And he’s certain that Irene, Giovanni’s older sister, is lying in order to protect him. But with the help of a doctor and the Vatican library some answers begin to coalesce.

Cal is stunned when his investigation reveals that Giovanni’s wounds are not self-inflicted and that his condition may be genuine. The Vatican, fearing a cult of personality, decides to cover up his findings. But when Giovanni is kidnapped from his church in the middle of the night, Cal realizes that the priest still holds the key to an earth- shattering secret that another, more sinister group is desperate to control—a shadowy neo-Nazi organization that believes they can use Giovanni to carry out their plans. Cal and Irene must unravel the mystery and find Giovanni in a perilous race against the clock—before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed.

Foreign Sales: Italian/Casa Editrice Nord; Japanese/Take Shobo.

Upcoming Title: THE DEBT, book two in the Cal Donovan series.

Glenn Cooper’s thrillers have sold six million copies in thirty languages. His books, including the LIBRARY OF THE DEAD trilogy, which is under development as a film series, have consistently been bestsellers throughout Europe.

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Leesa Cross-Smith WHISKEY & RIBBONS Hub City Press Spring 2018 North America

Monday, July 11th. The sky is pink. The Kentucky summer air, humid. Sergeant Eamon Royce kisses his wife goodbye in their living room, then kneels and kisses her stomach. Their son is due in less than three weeks. Evi tells Eamon that she loves him. She tells him to be safe.

If anyone had told Evi that morning that just six months later she’d be in that same room, straddling Eamon’s best friend and adopted brother on a piano bench as a blizzard roared outside and whiskey roared in their veins—she would have been speechless. She would have shaken her head, laughed, maybe, said that they must be confusing her for Dalton’s on-again, off-again lover Frances.

But Evi would have had no way of knowing, that morning, that the key of her life was about to drastically change—and that in the aftermath of the events that would begin to unfold that day, Dalton, suddenly, would become the only part of her life that made sense.

Told from Evi, Dalton, and Eamon’s alternating perspectives, WHISKEY & RIBBONS takes us to the beginning, to the day Evi and Eamon first meet. To the smile on Eamon’s face when he tells Dalton that this is the woman he is going to marry—and to the fear in his heart when he realizes that marrying Evi, that starting a family with Evi, might mean an end to the only career he’s ever known. To Dalton, struggling to make sense of his life next to Eamon’s, to his decision to track down the biological father he’s never known. And to the reveal of colossal, kaleidoscopic secrets, secrets that shift Evi, Dalton and Eamon’s relationships with each other completely.

In the vein of Jojo Moyes’ After You, WHISKEY & RIBBONS explores the life that continues beyond loss, with a complicated and yet vital brotherly dynamic reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout’s The Burgess Boys. It’s a meditation on grief, hope, motherhood, brotherhood, and surrogate fatherhood, and a requiem for marriage, friendship, and family. Above all, it’s a novel about what it means—and whether it’s possible—to heal.

Leesa Cross-Smith is the author of the collection Every Kiss a War (Mojave River Press, 2014), which was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She is a consulting editor for Best Small Fictions 2017 and the co-founder of literary magazine WhiskeyPaper. Her work has appeared in Best Small Fictions 2015, SmokeLong Quarterly, Little Fiction, Wigleaf Top 50, Longform Fiction, Carve Magazine, Hobart, NANO Fiction, Monkeybicycle, Pithead Chapel, Gigantic Sequins, Folio, American Short Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, Juked, Word Riot, Sundog Lit, The Rumpus, and many others.

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Eileen Curtright THE BURNED BRIDGES OF WARD, NEBRASKA Little A/Amazon Publishing December 2015 World English

Rebecca Meer’s hometown of Ward, Nebraska, is small—so small that she can’t even sneak home after a drunken girls’ night without running into at least three people she knows. But she has bigger problems than her reputation. The head doctor at her fertility clinic is losing his mind, and his wild behavior could cost them the business. Her super successful ex-boyfriend has blown back into town and somehow become her son’s fifth-grade teacher—and now her son is asking awkward questions about the end of their relationship. Rebecca can’t even run the PTA’s annual food drive without getting mixed up with criminals. In Eileen Curtright’s astute comedy, her debut novel, we see just how far a stressed-out single parent with go to be the “perfect” mother.

“Bursting with well-drawn, quirky characters, Curtright’s debut novel is screamingly funny.” – Kirkus

“Eileen Curtright’s first novel, THE BURNED BRIDGES OF WARD, NEBRASKA, is as refreshing as it is occasionally insane. . . . You’d have to be awfully hard-hearted not to fall for Rebecca’s charms as she finds her way to the respect—and self-respect—she deserves.” – The Washington Post

Foreign Sales: German/Amazon Publishing; Polish/Marginesy.

Eileen Curtright is the author of Miss Lone Star, a duel novella with bestseller David Liss (who praises Eileen as a “scathingly-witty observer of contemporary culture”). She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband and daughters.

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Cynthia Eden WRECKED Avon Books/HarperCollins Publishers May 2017 World English

In New York Times-bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s gripping new LOST (Last Option Search Team) novel, who’s the cat and who’s the mouse?

LOST Agent Ana Young was only fourteen when she was abducted by a madman, but unlike many kidnapping victims, she made it home. Now, her mission is to find the missing. But her new case has her on the hunt for the escaped convict who’s obsessed with her. And Ana has an unlikely partner—the sexy, supposedly-by-the-book FBI agent she had one amazing night with and had to forget.

FBI Special Agent Cash Knox knows that Ana, the petite, tough-ass former bounty hunter, can get the job done again. But this time, someone else leads them to “Bernie-the-Butcher,” someone who’s been watching Ana. Waiting for her.

Now, catching a deranged murderer means Ana must trust her guarded heart to the gorgeous, complicated G-man she wasn’t supposed to fall for.

Companion Titles: BROKEN (Avon Books, March 2015. Foreign Sales: German/Bastei Lübbe; Thai/Amarin); TWISTED (Avon Books, April 2015. Foreign Sales: German/Bastei Lübbe); SHATTERED (Avon Books, October 2015. Foreign Sales: German/Bastei Lübbe); TORN (Avon Books, May 2016. Foreign Sales: German/Bastei Lübbe); TAKEN (Avon Books, November 2016).

Cynthia Eden is a New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author of paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, and her novel DEADLY FEAR was named a RITA® finalist for best romantic suspense. Her books have been translated into Dutch, German, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Thai.

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Barry Gifford WRITERS Seven Stories Press November 2015 World English

In WRITERS, great American storyteller Barry Gifford paints portraits of famous writers caught in imaginary vulnerable moments in their lives. In prose that is funny, grotesque, and a touch brutal, Gifford shows these writers at their most human and exposed. Here is Ernest Hemingway drunkenly setting explosive trip wires outside his home in Cuba and Albert Camus conversing with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room. Gifford also conjures up Martha Gellhorn, Jack Kerouac, B. Traven, John Huston, Nelson Algren, Arthur Rimbaud, Jane Bowles, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Bolaño, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.

In Gifford’s house of mirrors, we are offered a unique perspective on this group of literary greats. We see their obsessions loom large—and none larger than a shared preoccupation with mortality. And yet these stories, which are meant to be performed as plays, are also tender and thoughtful exercises in empathy. Gifford asks: What does it mean to devote oneself entirely to art? And as an artist, what defines success and failure?

Foreign Sales: Chinese (simplified)/Nanjing University Press.

Upcoming Title: THE CUBAN CLUB (Seven Stories Press, Fall 2017), a follow up to THE ROY STORIES.

Barry Gifford is an author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness. WILD AT HEART was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. He has received awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish.

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Richard Kadrey THE WRONG DEAD GUY Harper Voyager June 2017 World English

New York Times-bestselling author Richard Kadrey is back with a new entry in his comedic, fast-paced supernatural series—a sequel to THE EVERYTHING BOX.

Woolrich, Coop's boss at the Department of Peculiar Science (DOPS), wants Coop to break into a traveling antiquities show and steal a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a powerful Egyptian wizard named Mnevis. Coop agrees, and with the help of Morty, Giselle, and Phil, he successfully steals the sarcophagus.

The next day, Woolrich calls the team into his office. The DOPS opened the sarcophagus and didn't find the mummy they were expecting. Well, it was the right mummy, but it wasn't exactly dead. In fact, the mummy, Mnevis, woke up and escaped by using magic they hadn't encountered before. Of course, Woolrich blames Coop for the screw-up and wants him to fix things. According to their research, it looks like Mnevis probably wants an ancient magical manuscript that will help him bring his old lover back to life.

That doesn't sound so bad, says Coop.

Bayliss frowns. His lover is Shemetet, a warrior sorceress bent on conquering the world.

Chaos ensues, and suffice it to say it involves a Necronomicon, the FBI, and an elephant. Coop wants to run, but when he figures out there's no place to go, he sucks it up and realizes he has to play the hero one more time. But if he manages to save the world, he's definitely going to want a lot of answers. Also, a raise.

“A goofy, flamboyant, and breathless horror adventure by one of the genre’s sharpest creators.” – Kirkus

Companion Title: THE EVERYTHING BOX (Harper Voyager, May 2016). Foreign Sales: Hungarian/Agave Konyvek; Polish/Mag; Russian/Eksmo.

Upcoming Title: UNTITLED COOP HEIST #3 (Harper Voyager, TBD).

New York Times-bestselling author Richard Kadrey has published ten novels and more than fifty short stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, his short story "Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye" was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award, and his novel BUTCHER BIRD was nominated for the Prix Elkaban in France.

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Richard Kadrey THE EVERYTHING BOX Harper Voyager May 2016 World English

Coop is a thief who specializes in stealing magic objects. He has no magical abilities, just a natural resistance to magic, the way some people never seem to catch colds. After getting out of prison for trying to steal a magical artifact, Coop is out of a job—until a mysterious (and probably evil) rich man offers him a lot of money to steal a magical box. Coop puts together a gang of fellow thieves to help him steal it—and then discovers a secret government agency is after it as well. Along with the Mafia. And a cult. And another cult. And then there’s the angel who misplaced the box, four thousand years ago, who would really like to find it before he loses his job.

THE EVERYTHING BOX is the first book in a brand new comic fantasy series. It’s lighter in tone than Kadrey’s earlier Sandman Slim novels, more in the tradition of Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett.

“Just plain fun. Offbeat and whimsical, the apocalypse never seemed so gut-bustingly funny. . . . The pacing is fast, the dialogue quippy, and the characters are larger than life. THE EVERYTHING BOX is a fantastic read and a hell of a start to this series.” – San Francisco Book Review

“A rolling bouncy-house of a caper tale, THE EVERYTHING BOX abounds with quick-witted characters, snarky dialogue, and surreal analogies. If you haven’t sampled Richard Kadrey’s take on fantasy yet, this is a great place to start.” – Christopher Moore, New York Times-bestselling author of Lamb, A Dirty Job, and The Serpent of Venice

“Kadrey’s plot doesn’t depend on magic; instead, magic is the broth bringing all manner of delicious ingredients together in this wonderful stew of a story. This unusual urban fantasy is a delight.” – Publishers Weekly

“Richard Kadrey's The Everything Box is a manic and hilarious Venn diagram of Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, and the Book of Revelations. The last time the end of the world in a novel was this funny, aliens destroyed Earth to build a hyperspace bypass through it.” – Matt Wallace, author of Envy of Angels and Lustlocked

Foreign Sales: Hungarian/Agave Konyvek; Polish/Mag; Russian/Eksmo.

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Richard Kadrey THE KILL SOCIETY Harper Voyager June 2017 World English

Sandman Slim returns in this stunning, high-octane ninth thriller in the series, filled with the intense, kick-ass action and inventive fantasy that are the hallmarks of New York Times-bestselling author Richard Kadrey.

Sandman Slim has been to Heaven and Hell and many places in between, but now he finds himself in an unknown land: the far, far edge of the Tenebrae, the desolate home of the lost dead. Making his way inland with nothing but his unerring instinct for trouble to guide him, he collides with a caravan of the damned on a mysterious crusade, led by the ruthless Magistrate. Alone and with no clue how to get back home, he throws in with this brutal bunch made up of human souls, Hellion deserters, rogue angels—and Father Traven.

Slim didn’t land in Tenebrae by chance. His little stunt of trying to open Heaven has set off a tsunami across the universe. Now, the afterlife is falling apart because of the ensuing warfare. And when Heaven finds out Slim is close by, the angels put a fat bounty on his head.

It’s one thing to ride with a ferocious criminal pack across the treacherous plains—it’s another to do it when everyone in the land of the dead is itching to keep you there permanently. But Slim’s not too worried. He’s been fighting cosmic forces bent on destroying Heaven, Hell, Earth, and him for years. A pack of vicious bounty hunters, vengeful angels, and dangerous enemies with friendly smiles isn’t going to stop him fixing the chaos he’s caused . . . one way or another.

Companion Titles: SANDMAN SLIM (Harper, 2009). Foreign sales: Czech/Polaris, French/Denoel; German/Rowohlt; Italian/Fanucci; Japanese/Hayakawa; Polish/Zysk i Ska; Russian/AST. KILL THE DEAD (Harper, 2010). Foreign sales: Czech/Polaris; Japanese/Hayakawa. ALOHA FROM HELL (Harper, 2011). Foreign sales: Czech/Polaris. DEVIL SAID BANG (Harper, 2012), KILL CITY BLUES (Harper, 2013), THE GETAWAY GOD (Harper, 2014), a 2014 Goodreads Choice Award nominee; KILLING PRETTY (Harper, 2015); THE PERDITION SCORE (Harper, 2016).

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Crystal Hana Kim IF YOU LEAVE ME William Morrow Winter 2018 World English

A powerful, elegantly wrought debut reminiscent of Lily King’s Euphoria and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.

A year has passed since the start of the Korean War, when teenaged Haemi, her mother, and her little brother were forced to flee their home to escape the encroaching Red Army. Now living in a small Southern village among other refugees, Haemi and her childhood friend Kyungwhan risk arrest by sneaking out at night past curfew to drink—and to try to forget, at least temporarily, the pain of their new existence. When Kyungwhan’s older cousin, Jisoo, sets his sights on Haemi, she realizes that marrying Jisoo will mean much-needed security for her family but an end to her relationship with Kyungwhan. As Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, then a lover, the long- simmering tension and secrets between Haemi and the two men become impossible to contain.

The story is broken into five sections spanning sixteen years with chapters that alternate between several characters’ points of view. IF YOU LEAVE ME is many things: a timely war story about what it means to be a refugee; a timeless love story with echoes of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights; and a riveting, sensual, heartrending exploration of female agency and autonomy. At its heart it is the story of a complicated and conflicted young woman in a changing world.

An excerpt from IF YOU LEAVE ME published in the Southern Review was awarded the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Emerging Writers Prize

“Crystal Hana Kim’s IF YOU LEAVE ME marks the debut of a striking new voice. A story of family, love, and war set against the violent emergence of modern Korea, Kim has a gift for the lasting image. Moment by moment, her characters come alive.” – Gary Shteyngart

Crystal Hana Kim holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MS in Education from Hunter College and is also a contributing editor for Apogee Journal. She has received fellowships and support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation. IF YOU LEAVE ME was chosen as runner-up in the 2015 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest, and an excerpt was recently published in The Southern Review. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband.

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John Langan THE FISHERMAN Word Horde June 2016 North America

Bram Stoker Award nominee

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

“Superb.” – The New York Times Book Review

“A profound tale of loss set against a disquieting backdrop of cosmic horror.” – New York Journal Review of Books

Foreign Sales: Dutch/Karakter.

John Langan is the author of HOUSE OF WINDOWS and THE WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY, a story collection. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

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Ursula K. Le Guin THE FOUND AND THE LOST Saga Press/Simon & Schuster October 2016 North America

A new collection of Le Guin’s novellas and longer short fiction with a new foreword by the author. This collection includes classics such as “Vaster than Empires and More Slow” and “The Birthday of the World.”

Foreign Sales: Chinese (simplified)/Beijing Imaginist Time; Hungarian/Gabo Kiado; Italian/Mondadori.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s works of science fiction and fantasy for children and adults are renowned for their moral and literary complexity. The six-part EARTHSEA CYCLE for young adults has sold millions of copies and been translated into over thirty languages. Her 1969 novel THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS is considered epoch-making for its radical exploration of gender roles and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for that year—the first of several more of each that Le Guin has earned since. She has also won the National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award, and was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, among many other honors. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award.

Ursula K. Le Guin THE COMPLETE ORSINIA The Library of America September 2016 World English

In a career spanning half a century, Ursula K. Le Guin has produced a body of work that testifies to her abiding faith in the power and art of words. She is best known for imagining future intergalactic worlds in brilliant books that challenge our ideas of what is natural and inevitable in human relations—and that celebrate courage, endurance, risk-taking, and above all, freedom in the face of the psychological and social forces that lead to authoritarianism and fanaticism. It is less well known that she first developed these themes in the richly imagined historical fiction collected in this volume, which inaugurates the Library of America edition of her works.

This volume gathers Le Guin’s enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction writings set in the imaginary central European country of Orsinia, collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. Itale Sorde, the idealistic heir to Val Malafrena, an estate in the rural western provinces, leaves home against his father’s wishes to work as a journalist in the cosmopolitan capital city of Krasnoy, where he plays an integral part in the revolutionary politics that are roiling Europe.

Thirteen additional stories trace the history of Orsinia from the twelfth century, when it first emerges as an independent kingdom, to 1989, when its repressive Stalinist government falls in an Orsinian Velvet Revolution. The poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,” Le Guin’s first published work, joins two never before published songs in the Orsinian language.

THE COMPLETE ORSINIA also features a newly researched chronology of Le Guin’s life and career, and detailed notes. The beautiful full-color endpaper map of Orsinia is drawn by Le Guin herself.

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Forrest Leo THE GENTLEMAN Penguin Press August 2016 World English

An Amazon Best Book of the Month September 2016 Indie Next Pick

A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of P.G. Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who accidentally sells his wife to the devil—then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. Featuring spot illustrations by New York Times-bestselling illustrator Mahendra Singh.

When Lionel Savage, a popular poet in Victorian London, learns from his butler that they're broke, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money, only to find that his muse has abandoned him!

Distraught and contemplating suicide, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil—the polite "Gentleman" of the title—who appears at one of the society parties Savage despises. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home, where he employs Dante Alighieri as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party's over and Vivien has disappeared, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord.

Newly in love with his wife, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes his butler, an antiquarian bookseller, a swashbuckling Buddhist, the inventor of a flying machine, and Savage's spirited kid sister, Lizzie, freshly booted from boarding school for a "dalliance with the dean’s son." Throughout, his cousin's quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana.

Lionel and his friends encounter trapdoors, duels, anarchist-fearing policemen, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh, action-packed, and very, very funny, THE GENTLEMAN is a devil of a good time.

“In his debut, Leo does an inspired job of parodying the conventions of Victorian fiction. Hilarious dialogue, a Pythonesque sense of the absurd, and comical complications worthy of Thorne Smith at his devilish best round out the tale.” – Publishers Weekly

“The hilarious footnotes offered by his ‘editor’ add depth and insight to his musings. With lively illustrations by Mahendra Singh (The Hunting of the Snark), this debut Victorian steampunk novel is a fun romp with witty wordplay, a diverse array of quirky characters, and a surprisingly lovely ending.” – Library Journal

“An effervescent book with a cheerfully lunatic plot. Cavalier, funny, and totally engrossing, it’s a delicious crumpet of a novel that will leave you wondering if Forrest Leo drinks tea with the devil.” – Sara Levine

“Let us all bow down before the nutty and delightful romp that is THE GENTLEMAN. An assured stylist tells a hilarious story with perfect pacing and aplomb: yes, please.” – Henry Alford, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners

Foreign Sales: German/Aufbau Verlag; Romanian/Editura Rao.

Forrest Leo was born and raised in remote Alaska. He grew up without running water or electricity, and took a dogsled to school. The son and grandson of writers, he started writing plays in high school and holds a BFA in acting from NYU. His plays have been produced in Alaska and New York, and have twice been semifinalists for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. THE GENTLEMAN is his first novel.

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M.L. Longworth THE CURSE OF LA FONTAINE Penguin Group (USA) April 2017 World English

In the latest captivating installment of M.L. Longworth’s acclaimed Verlaque & Bonnet Provençal Mystery series, the newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curse.

Chef Bear Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It’s an immediate success— glowing reviews and a loyal clientele, including our favorite investigative duo, Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend his restaurant’s seating into a historic courtyard, some very powerful neighbors are against him. The local historical society wants the courtyard, which witnessed a seventeenth-century hanging and two World War II-era murders, to remain untouched.

Valets charges on, even after a skeleton is found buried next to the courtyard’s ancient fountain. But when Valets begins receiving threatening letters, he becomes convinced that his life is in danger. And then the fountain inexplicably stops running. By disturbing the garden, has Bear triggered an age-old curse? And can newlyweds Verlaque and Bonnet solve the mystery before someone else ends up dead? Set against the blossoming backdrop of the south of France, M. L. Longworth’s latest is sure to thrill fans of Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri.

“Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail—great wine, delicious meals, and fine company.” – Publishers Weekly

Foreign Sales: German/Aufbau Verlag.

Companion Titles: DEATH AT THE CHATEAU BREMONT (Foreign Sales: German/Aufbau; Polish/Wydawnictwo Smak Słowa; Russian/AST); MURDER ON THE RUE DUMAS (German/Aufbau; Polish/Wydawnictwo Smak Słowa; Russian/AST); DEATH IN THE VINES (German/Aufbau; Polish/Wydawnictwo Smak Słowa; Russian/AST); MURDER ON THE ÎLE SORDOU (German/Aufbau); MYSTERY OF THE LOST CÉZANNE(German/Aufbau).

Upcoming Title: VALERE’S GHOSTS (Penguin, Spring 2018). An aging, controversial author moves into an old home and encounters sinister activities. Verlaque and Bonnet and are called to investigate the ghosts from the author’s checkered past.

M.L. Longworth has lived in Aix-en-Provence since 1997. She has written about the region for the Washington Post, the Times (London), the Independent (London), and Bon Appétit. She is the author of a bilingual collection of essays, Une Américaine en Provence, as well as the Provençal Mystery series. She divides her time between Aix and Paris, where she teaches writing at NYU’s Paris campus.

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Geoff Mak LORDS Picador USA/Macmillan Spring 2018 World English

A novel about the fluid nature of identity and the subversive power of protest, LORDS tells the story of Lou, a young Asian-American expatriate journalist stationed in Ankara during the Arab Spring. Lou becomes entangled in all sides of political upheaval through his involvement with a promiscuous government official, a whistleblowing hacker, and an ambassador’s disillusioned daughter. Each pursue their own agendas as Lou struggles to find stability in a world falling apart around him.

Geoff has an exceptional talent for blending unexplored reportage from this time with brave and heartbreaking characters of his own invention, rendering LORDS a roman à clef of unique perspective and clear prescience. Much like The Flamethrowers and Leaving the Atocha Station, LORDS questions the morality of dissent, the erosion of reasoned discourse, and the politics of basic human relationships.

Justin Torres, Karen Russell, Rachel Kushner, Rivka Galchen and Claire Vaye Watkins have pledged praise.

Geoff Mak’s writing has appeared in Flavorwire, Forbes, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, and Guernica. He is the founding fiction editor of The Offing.

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Emily St. John Mandel STATION ELEVEN Knopf Doubleday September 2014 United States

Winner of the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award National Book Award Finalist PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times and National Indie Bestseller

On a winter night in Toronto, an actor dies of a heart attack in the fourth act of King Lear. But Arthur Leander’s death attracts little notice, because a rapidly-spreading flu pandemic has just reached North America, and early estimates put the mortality rate over 99%. Within days society has begun to unravel, within weeks the electrical grid is down and telecommunication systems have collapsed, and within months civilization as we know it has come to an end.

Twenty years later, the horse-drawn caravans of the Traveling Symphony move down the eastern shore of Lake Michigan under a summer sky. The Symphony has been on the road for fifteen years, performing Shakespeare and classical music in the scattered settlements of the new world. The sparsely-populated landscape is for the most part tranquil now, but when two of the Symphony’s musicians disappear from a town ruled by a violent prophet, they’re forced to flee beyond the borders of the known territory. STATION ELEVEN follows the interlinked lives and fates of Arthur, the actor who died on stage; Kirsten, an actress with the Traveling Symphony, who was eight years old and on stage when Arthur died; Miranda, Arthur’s first wife, who created the mysterious Station Eleven comic books that Kirsten carries with her two decades after the collapse; and Clark, Arthur’s oldest friend, who unexpectedly becomes the curator, post-apocalypse, of the Museum of Civilization.

STATION ELEVEN is a human story, a story of fascinating links and relationships, of our obsession with objects, and our need for art (“Because survival is insufficient”). Life can and does continue, and the characters strive for the things they did before: to entertain, to laugh, to love, and to rebuild. This elegant, remarkable novel is high concept, character-driven literary fiction in the vein of Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles. And the deftly crafted structure is reminiscent of Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply.

“The best novel I read this year . . . Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.” – George R. R. Martin, bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire

“This is a brilliantly constructed, highly literary, postapocalyptic page-turner, and should be a breakout novel for Mandel.” – Library Journal, starred review

“In the burgeoning postapocalyptic literary genre, Mandel's transcendent, haunting novel deserves a place alongside The Road (2006), The Passage (2010), and The Dog Stars (2012).” – Booklist, starred review

Film option to Stone Village Pictures.

Foreign Sales: Canada/HarperCollins Canada; UK/Picador; Bulgarian/Ex Libris; Chinese (complex)/Solo Press; Chinese (simplified)/New Star Press; Croatian/Znanje; Czech/Argo; Danish/Forlaget Iris; Dutch/Atlas Contact; Estonian/Varrak; French/Payot/Rivages; German/Piper; Greek/Icarus; Hebrew/Babel; Hungarian/Gabo Kiado; Italian/Bompiani; Japanese/Shogakukan; Korean/Bookroad; Lithuanian/Lithuanian Writers’ Union; Macedonian/Pablisher; Norwegian/Font Forlag; Polish/Papierowy Księżyc; Portuguese (Brazil)/Intrinseca; Portuguese (Portugal)/Presença; Romanian/Editura Rao; Russian/Eksmo; Serbian/Vulkan; Spanish/Kailas; Thai/WeLearn; Turkish/Pegasus.

Also Available: LAST NIGHT IN MONTREAL (Unbridled, 2009). Foreign sales: French/Payot/Rivages; Italian/Fanucci. THE SINGER’S GUN (Unbridled, 2010). Foreign sales: French/Payot/Rivages; Dutch/Meulenhoff. THE LOLA QUARTET (Unbridled, 2012). Foreign Sales: French/Payot/Rivages. 20

Frances Mayes THE WOMEN IN SUNLIGHT Crown Publishing Group Spring 2018 North America

An affirming, light-hearted novel about belonging and reinvention from the bestselling author of UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.

Kit Raine is an American writer living in Italy. When three American women move to her Tuscan neighborhood, she begins to question what such arrivals mean and what departures means for expats like her.

The story Kit tells belongs to the three women—new friends, all older single women—who have opted out of the fates expected of them in America, and have taken a lease on a stone manse close to Kit’s property. They are escaping, reinventing, reevaluating. Above all, they are novices in a foreign culture, figuring out the language and the day to day. What they share is a gusto for life and a sturdy if indefinite determination to thrive. Thrive they do. Released from their former lives, encouraging each other, and finding a lot of why-not courage, each woman develops the submerged, attenuated aspect of her core self. Though there are setbacks and complications because of continuing tensions from home, their stories are big affirmations of late-life possibilities and of big acceptance of an alternative way of living when the lives they had are gone.

In addition to her bestselling Tuscany memoirs UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, BELLA TUSCANY, and EVERY DAY IN TUSCANY, Frances Mayes is the author of the travel memoir A YEAR IN THE WORLD; The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, and illustrated books IN TUSCANY and BRINGING TUSCANY HOME (with Edward Mayes); SWAN, a novel; The Discovery of Poetry, a text for readers; and five books of poetry. Her works have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.

JoAnna Novak I MUST HAVE YOU Skyhorse/Arcade Fall 2017 World English

The year is 1999, and Elliot, a precocious 13-year-old diet coach, has a problem: Lisa, one of her clients, stayed home sick today, and she isn’t returning Elliot’s instant messages. She’s probably still weirded out about watching one of her father’s porno tapes with Elliot at last weekend’s sleepover. But the truth is that Lisa can’t be bothered with Elliot right now. Lisa’s busy dating a 19-year-old drug dealer named Junior Carlos. Junior Carlos is busy worrying about his supply of cocaine, which his capricious poetry professor Anna just confiscated. And Anna should be worried about her daughter, Elliot, but all she’s thinking about is Junior Carlos—and how she must have him. What unfolds for Anna, Elliot, Lisa, and Junior Carlos is a fever dream of desire, hunger, and lost innocence. Wrought with the simmering obsession of Alexandra Kleeman’s You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine and Scott Spencer’s Endless Love, I MUST HAVE YOU is a debut novel of rare honesty and provocation.

JoAnna Novak is a Boston-based writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Guernica, Conjunctions, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Joyland, Day One, The New Orleans Review, and more. Lydia Davis, Sarah Gerard, Ottessa Moshfegh, Teddy Wayne, and other friends of JoAnna have all read and committed to endorsing I MUST HAVE YOU.

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Benjamin Percy THE DARK NET Houghton Mifflin Harcourt August 2017 World English

Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy’s terrifying new horror novel.

The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the Web. Some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. It is a virtual underworld, but now an ancient darkness has found a new gathering place. And these demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world—unless others can stop them.

Twelve-year-old Hannah, who has been fitted with the Oculus, a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness, wonders why she sees shadows surrounding some people. An emotionally shut-off journalist named Lela has stumbled upon a story nobody wants her to uncover. Someone will kill to keep her quiet. Mike Juniper—a one-time child evangelist who suffers from personal and literal demons—has an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs. And Derek, a hacker with a cause, believes himself a soldier of the Internet, part of a cyber army akin to Anonymous. But he has no idea what the Dark Net really contains.

Set in present-day Portland, THE DARK NET is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back.

“Written in vivid, often lyrical prose, but with exhilarating comic-book energy, THE DARK NET is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader’s heart. Quirky but very human characters confront an explosive emergence of the supernatural into our world, in this imaginative, spooky, swiftly paced tale threaded through with dark humor.” – Dean Koontz

“THE DARK NET kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. Percy reveals an upgraded, rebooted battle between good versus evil — a fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read.” – Chuck Wendig, New York Times-bestselling author of Blackbirds and Zer0es

“Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years. . . . His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock ’n’ roll. . . . and what a ride it is.” – James Lee Burke, bestselling author of Feast Day of Fools, Heaven’s Prisoners, and Neon Rain

"Benjamin Percy's THE DARK NET channels the spirit of your favorite sprawling and epic, 1980s horror/thriller novels into a tightly paced, nasty, unrelenting twenty-first-century nightmare. An addictive and frightening read." – Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Foreign Sales: UK/Hodder & Stoughton; French/Editions Super8.

Benjamin Percy is the author of THE DEAD LANDS (Grand Central, April 2015), RED MOON (Grand Central, May 2013. Foreign Sales: Dutch/De Bizige Bij; French/Albin Michel; German/Blanvalet; Hungarian/Geopen; Italian/Sperling & Kupfer; Portuguese (Brazil)/Sextante; Russian/Atticus; and TV rights to Fox), and THE WILDING (Graywolf Press, 2010. Foreign Sales: French/Albin Michel; German/Luchterhand Literaturverlag; Japanese/Hayakawa), as well as the story collection REFRESH, REFRESH (Graywolf Press, 2007. Foreign Sales: Arabic/Albawtaka Review; French/Albin Michel; German/Luchterhand Literaturverlag; Italian/Mondadori; Spanish/Vuelta). He also works for Detective Comics and writes the Green Arrow series with artist Patrick Zirchner. Temple Hill is producing RED MOON for Fox TV, with James Ponsoldt attached to direct the pilot. 22

Ayn Rand IDEAL: The Novel and the Play NAL/Penguin Group (USA) July 2015 North America

A brand new novel by Ayn Rand published for the first time in 2015.

IDEAL follows the beautiful and celebrated screen actress Kay Gonda, a character inspired by real-life movie star Greta Garbo, who pleads for help from six of her most devoted fans: an upstanding family man, a farmer, an artist, an evangelist, a wealthy playboy, and a lost soul. Gonda tells each fan that she is wanted by the police for murder and needs to hide. By the end of the night, she has tested the integrity of six people who claim that she is their ideal.

Though IDEAL was originally written as a novel, Ayn Rand scrapped the first draft and rewrote it as a play, which premiered in 1934. The manuscript was recently rediscovered by the Ayn Rand Institute and was published in its original form for the first time in July 2015. This never-before-seen work will thrill dedicated readers and is a true publishing event.

Foreign Sales: Bulgarian/Iztok-Zapad; Chinese (simplified)/Beijing Alpha Books; Italian/Corbaccio; Russian/AST; Spanish/Unión Editorial; Turkish/Persona Yayinlari.

Ayn Rand is best known for her two best-selling novels, THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED, and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism. She has been a significant influence among libertarians and political conservatives. Her works have sold over thirty million copies in English and have been translated into over forty languages.

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Wendy Corsi Staub SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE Crooked Lane Books October 2016 North America

New York Times-bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub is back with the second in her critically acclaimed Lily Dale mystery series.

After agreeing to stay in Lily Dale through the winter as caretakers of the Valley View Guesthouse and its feline residents, widowed mom Bella Jordan and her son Max are looking forward to the peaceful off-season after a hectic summer. That is until the medium next door, Odelia Lauder, recruits Bella to host a destination wedding for the world’s most petulant bride, Johneen Maynard, a friend of Odelia’s granddaughter. Things take an even more stressful turn as the wedding day looms amidst an October blizzard, when suddenly the Spirits start giving Odelia a major heads up that the bride might be fated for death. If there’s any truth to her premonitions, the wedding is off—and that’s the least of their problems. It's a race to figure out who would want to kill Johneen—before her attacker has a chance to strike.

“A touch of the paranormal, a hint of romance, and a sweet and sympathetic protagonist will lure readers to enchanting Lily Dale again and again.” – Publishers Weekly

Companion Title: NINE LIVES (Crooked Lane Books, October 2015)

Wendy Corsi Staub BONE WHITE William Morrow March 2017 World English

New York Times-bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub revisits Mundy’s Landing—a small town with a blood-soaked past.

The town of Mundy’s Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie.

“We shall never tell.” Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson Mundy travels to her ancestral hometown to trace her past. In Mundy’s Landing, she connects with long lost relatives—and a closet full of skeletons going back centuries.

In the year since former NYPD Detective Sullivan Leary solved the historic Sleeping Beauty Murders, she—like the village itself—has made a fresh start. But someone has unearthed blood-drenched secrets in a disembodied skull, and is hacking away at the Mundy family tree, branch by branch.

Companion Titles: BLOOD RED (September 2015); BLUE MOON (July 2016), a 2017 Edgar Award nominee.

Wendy Corsi Staub is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than seventy‐five titles. She won the 2008 RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, and the 2007 RWA‐NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the RWA Rita award. She is also a five‐time winner of the Westchester Library Association's Washington Irving Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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Denise Swanson MURDER OF A CRANKY CATNAPPER Berkley/Penguin Group (USA) September 2016 North America

In the 19th installment in this New York Times-bestselling series, a school psychologist has her hands full after a school board sourpuss meets a bitter end. With her morning sickness finally abated, Skye Denison Boyd is ready to pounce on the pertinent problems she faces as Scumble River School’s psychologist. After trying almost every trick in the book to aid a handful of troubled fourth grade boys, Skye opts for the innovative approach of pet therapy with the assistance of the local vet, a Siberian husky, and a Maine coon cat.

Unfortunately the first session only breeds disaster and draws the ire of cantankerous school board member Palmer Lynch. But then Lynch is found dead in his home with the therapy cat hidden in his garage. With a clowder of questions unleashed, Skye finds herself dealing with a killer who isn’t pussyfooting around.

Denise Swanson is the New York Times-bestselling author of the Scumble River and Devereaux’s Dime Store cozy mystery series. Her work has been nominated for the Agatha Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

Duane Swierczynski REVOLVER Mulholland Books July 2016 World English

Shortlisted for the Reading List Council’s Best Mystery of 2016 and for the 2016 Hamett Prize

Three generations torn apart—by bullets fired fifty years ago.

Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops—one black, one white—are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy.

Philadelphia, 1995: Homicide detective Jim Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, has been sprung from prison. Jim stalks the ex-con, hoping to finally learn the truth.

Philadelphia, 2015: Jim's daughter Audrey, a forensic science student, re-opens her grandfather's murder for a research paper. But as Audrey digs deeper, she comes to realize that Stanton probably didn't pull the trigger—and her father may have made a horrible mistake...

"Swierczynski just gets better and better . . . A bleak, powerful tale of corruption and the lasting effects of crime . . . Swierczynski's riskiest move yet [is] a resounding success." – Booklist, starred review

“Swierczynski's snappy dialogue, athletic pacing and cliffhanger chapter endings make this a tight read. It contains the author's characteristic sense of humor but is also affecting with precise prose.” – Shelf Awareness

Film option to Original Film and Sony TV.

Duane Swierczynski is the Edgar-nominated author of nine novels including CANARY (Foreign sales: Dutch/Lannoo; French/Rivages; Polish/Wydawnictwo RM), SEVERANCE PACKAGE, and the Shamus Award- winning Charlie Hardie series (FUN AND GAMES, HELL AND GONE, and POINT AND SHOOT). He's written over 250 comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Valiant, and most recently wrote The Black Hood, the first comic for Archie's new Dark Circle imprint. 25

Bradford Tatum ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BURBANK Harper Perennial October 2016 North America

This sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin’s first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret. A secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a terrible price as well.

A young girl awakens in a hastily dug grave—vague memories of blood and fever, her mother performing a mysterious ceremony before the world went away. Germany has lost the first great war and Europe has lost millions more to the Spanish Flu epidemic. But Maddy has not only survived, she has changed. No longer does she eat, sleep, or age. No longer can she die. After taking up with a pair of street performers, she shocks and fascinates the crowds with her ability to survive outrageous traumas. But at a studio in Berlin, Maddy discovers her true calling: film.

With her intimate knowledge of fear, death, and realms beyond the living, she practically invents the modern horror genre on the spot. Before long, she travels to California and insinuates herself in Hollywood as the genius secretly behind The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and Frankenstein. And yet she must remain in the shadows— a chilling apparition suspended eternally between worlds.

“The gorgeous, lush writing easily conjures the grit and glamour of the golden age of Hollywood. . . . Cameos by Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff will undoubtedly delight film buffs, as will the meticulously researched depiction of the dawn of filmmaking.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

"ONLY THE DEAD KNOW BURBANK is a dreamy, mysterious waltz with the famous monsters of filmland—from the gothic darkness of a Bavarian village, through world war, to the flickering brilliance of Golden-age Hollywood. Tatum brings an insider's knowledge of the movie biz, and his love letter to America's great national obsession with the horror movie is by turns caustic, hilarious and terrifying. A saga of un-death, immortality, and the difference between the two, this glittering new novel is a must-read for the modern monster." – Nick Seeley, author of Cambodia Noir

Bradford Tatum was a staff writer for Dick Wolf on NBC’s Deadline and has written and directed two award- winning films, Standing on Fishes and Salt. His film currently in production is endowed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His novel I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU EVERYTHING won both the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award and the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Award.

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Kim van Alkemade HIS BACHELOR GIRL St. Martin’s Press Fall 2018 World English

In 1939, millionaire beer brewer Col. Jacob Ruppert dies and bequeaths much of his fortune, including Yankee Stadium and the legendary team to former actress Helen Winthrope. The press and the public clamor for answers as to who this woman is and what her real relationship to the famously confirmed bachelor tycoon might be. Maybe the answers lie with Albert Kramer, Ruppert’s personal secretary. Albert and Helen’s close friendship has evolved through the years between the wars, but when Helen discovers that Albert is leading a double life, the two of them swear to keep each other’s confidences. Albert and Helen are by Ruppert’s side through the building of Yankee Stadium and the Babe Ruth years. Their relationship to Ruppert and the increasing interest he takes in both of their destinies remains a mystery. Ruppert always seems to be involved in some way as Helen makes her way personally and professionally, to the point where Helen finds herself hosting for him when he builds a grand estate on the Hudson. Albert finds himself increasingly responsible for seeing Ruppert’s wishes fulfilled and the millionaire comes to increasingly rely upon his loyalty, especially when it concerns Miss Winthrope. When Ruppert’s own secrets are finally revealed, Helen and Albert are forced to confront the truth about their relationship to Ruppert—and to each other.

HIS BACHELOR GIRL is a novel about the destructive potential of secrets and the redemptive power of love. Its world is a counterpoint to the Jazz Age image people have of Prohibition Manhattan. And with echoes of the world of THE GREAT GATSBY, Kim vividly renders a time in American history when the role of women was radically changing. Helen becomes what was called a new woman or bachelor girl. Albert and Helen become the lenses through which we see this world brought to life and the very different ways in which they misunderstand their relationship to Jacob Ruppert, (a name then on a par with the Astors and the Vanderbilts, but which is mostly forgotten today), create just one layer of tension that runs throughout the novel. Their lives and the perspectives they embody, of the New Woman and the gay subculture, unexpectedly enmeshed in a world of great wealth and power, fuel this page-turning novel.

Kim van Alkemade is also the author of ORPHAN #8, a New York Times bestseller and Target Book Club Pick (William Morrow, 2015). Foreign Sales: Czech/Baronet; Danish/HarperCollins Nordic; Dutch/Harlequin Holland; Finnish/HarperCollins Nordic; Italian/De Agostini; Japanese/Harlequin Japan; Norwegian/Cappelen Damm; Portuguese (Brazil)/Rocco; Spanish/Harper Español; Swedish/HarperCollins Nordic; Turkish/Olimpos Yayincilik).

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Nick White HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER Blue Rider Press/Penguin Group (USA) June 2017 World English

Like the work of Garth Greenwell, Justin Torres, and Hanya Yanagihara, Nick White’s HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER explores sexual identity with a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and place, and represents the introduction of an exciting new literary voice. HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER revolves around one summer in the Mississippi countryside at a camp designed to “cure” young teenage boys of their budding homosexuality. Narrated by Will Dillard, a survivor of Camp Levi, the novel becomes, itself, an act of remembering and recovery.

When the novel opens, Will is a graduate student in the Midwest, and he learns that a movie will soon be released inspired by the events of that summer at camp—a movie that wildly misconstrues what actually happened to Will and the other boys. Based on a memoir by a counselor at Camp Levi, the movie has undergone many rewrites before becoming, in its final incarnation, a “slasher flick.”

The publicity surrounding the movie forces Will to confront his own troubled history and his possible culpability in someone else’s death at the camp. Like many queer stories, the narrative is circular, with Will recounting what led to his being sent off for “rehabilitation,” the bizarre two months he spent at camp, and the new life he has constructed for himself now, years later, by lying about his past to his community of friends. Throughout the novel, he braids these stories of himself together, going back and forth in time, culminating with his traveling back to Mississippi, to the abandoned campsite, to uncover the mysteries of that pivotal summer in his life and perhaps reclaim his story from those who have stolen it.

"Nick White’s HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER is radiant with contradiction: it's a story about facing up to a devastating past that’s often laugh-out-loud funny; a book about terrible violence that’s lit with the redemptive force of love. In documenting the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy, White has given us a new and exuberantly queer Southern Gothic.” – Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

“HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER is an enthralling debut novel that deals with the controversial subject of gay conversion therapy and its cruel effect on a teenage boy. It is also a suspenseful story about redemption and survival.” – John Rechy, author of City of Night

“Call it a psychological thriller or a deeply felt chronicle of childhood trauma or a bold query into an identity crisis. No matter how you categorize the novel, HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER is a winning debut, and Nick White is a powerful, fearless, cerebral writer.” –Benjamin Percy, author of The Dark Net, Thrill Me, and Red Moon

“A writer of enormous gifts, Nick White doesn't flinch. His sure-handed, beautifully-written debut novel HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER is very much a tale for these tumultuous times, and it's also a book that I expect will be re- read and savored for many years to come.” –Steven Yarbrough, author of The End of California

“Nick White’s spellbinding debut novel HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER is both terrifying and timely. . . . The suspense will urge you to read faster but the skillful language needs to be savored. In the midst of pure terror, there is also a lush wonderful sense of place and a gift for wit and comic relief; there is also courage and hope.” – Jill McCorkle, author of Life after Life

Upcoming Title: SWEET & LOW, a short story collection (Blue Rider Press, Fall 2018).

Nick White is a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He earned his MFA from Ohio State. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, Indiana Review, Day One, The Hopkins Review, Third Coast, and Hayden’s Ferry, among others. His story “The Lovers,” originally published in TLR, will be featured in Best American Short Stories 2017.

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Yaron Brook and Don Watkins EQUAL IS UNFAIR: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality St. Martin’s Press April 2016 World English

A startling, controversial argument that the key to reviving the American Dream of limitless opportunity is not to fight economic inequality—but to celebrate it.

We've all heard that inequality is threatening America's status as the land of opportunity. The rich are getting richer, the poor and middle class are stagnating, and it's becoming exponentially harder for people to rise from the bottom to the top. Everyone from Nobel Prize-winning economists to the President of the United States tells us that, in order to revive the American dream, we have to fight economic inequality. But what if the real threat to the American dream is not inequality itself, but the very campaign being waged against it?

In EQUAL IS UNFAIR, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook argue that opportunity, for better or worse, goes hand in hand with enormous inequality. Only when people are free to earn and keep huge fortunes do we get the dynamism and innovation that fuel widespread prosperity and economic mobility. Tackling every major issue in the debate - including the origins, measurement and long-terms outcomes of inequality - the authors give a startling rebuttal to the received wisdom of today's politicians and pundits, and argue that what we should be fighting is not economic inequality, but the policies advocated in the name of reducing inequality - from confiscatory tax rates to burdensome regulations to campaign finance restrictions - that truly keep people from achieving all they can. These barriers, and not the high incomes of successful producers, are what account for the growing sense that the system is rigged and the American dream is in peril.

Foreign Sales: Portuguese (Brazil)/TopBooks.

Also Available: FREE MARKET REVOLUTION. Foreign Sales: Chinese (simplified)/Shanghai Translation; German/Juwelen Verlag; Greek/Liberty Forum.

Yaron Brook is executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. He is an internationally sought-after speaker and debater, and the host of the weekly internet radio show, The Yaron Brook Show. Previously a columnist at Forbes.com, his articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Dailyand many other publications.

Don Watkins is one of today's most vocal opponents of the welfare state and coauthor, with Yaron Brook, of the national best-seller FREE MARKET REVOLUTION: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government. A fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, Mr. Watkins studies inequality, Social Security reform, the welfare state, and the moral foundations of capitalism. A Forbes.com columnist from 2010 to 2013, his writings have also appeared in The Guardian, USA Today, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Investor's Business Daily, The Daily Caller, and FoxNews.com, among many others.

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Bruce Chadwick LAW & DISORDER: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD St. Martin’s Press April 2017 World English

Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high. The staggering amount of crime threatened to topple a city that was experiencing meteoric growth and striving to become one of the most spectacular in America.

For the first time, award-winning historian Bruce Chadwick examines how rampant violence led to the founding of the first professional police force in New York City. Chadwick brings readers into the bloody and violent city, where race relations and an influx of immigrants boiled over into riots, street gangs roved through town with abandon, and thousands of bars, prostitutes, and gambling emporiums clogged the streets.

The drive to establish law and order and protect the city involved some of New York’s biggest personalities, including mayor Fernando Wood, police chief Fred Tallmadge, and journalist Walt Whitman.

LAW & DISORDER is a must read for fans of New York history and those interested in how the first police force, untrained and untested, battled to maintain law and order.

A first serial excerpt from LAW & DISORDER will run in the New York Post on April 16, 2017.

Bruce Chadwick is a historian and author of 29 previous books of American history. Bruce has taught a course on crime at Rutgers University for the past fifteen years, and covered crime for many years as a reporter for the New York Daily News.

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Jim Collins and Morten Hansen GREAT BY CHOICE HarperCollins October 2011 North America

Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Using research methods similar to those in BUILT TO LAST and GOOD TO GREAT, the authors examine ten companies that weathered thirty years of unpredictable, tumultuous times and remained great. Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, this book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, and uplifting.

Foreign Sales: Chinese simplified/CITIC; Chinese complex/Yuan-Liou; Dutch/Business Contact; Estonian/Kuppar; Finnish/Talentum Media Oy; French/Pearson France; French Canadian/Transcontinental; German/Campus Verlag; Hebrew/Pecker; Indonesia/Gramedia Pustaka Utama; Japanese/Nikkei BP; Korean/Gimm-Young; Norwegian/Universitetsforlaget; Polish/MT Biznes; Portuguese/Editorial Nexo Literario; Portuguese (Brazil)/HSM Editora; Romanian/Curtea Veche; Russian/MIF; Slovak/Eastone; Spanish (LA)/Editorial Norma; Swedish/Bookhouse; Turkish/Boyner; Vietnamese/Tre Publishing; Ukrainian/Nash Format.

Jim Collins has authored or coauthored six books that have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. They include the international bestseller GOOD TO GREAT, translated into 36 languages, the classic BUILT TO LAST, co- authored by Jerry I. Porras, which has been a fixture on the Businessweek bestseller list for more than six years; and HOW THE MIGHTY FALL, a New York Times bestseller that examines how great companies can self-destruct. GREAT BY CHOICE distinguishes itself from Jim’s prior books by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.

Morten Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley (School of Information) and at INSEAD, France. His award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals, and he is the winner of the Administrative Science Quarterly award for having made exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies.

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Shelley DeWees NOT JUST JANE: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature Harper Perennial October 2016 World English

Charlotte Turner Smith. Mary Robinson. Sara Coleridge. Mary Elizabeth Braddon. All female writers living around the time of Jane Austen, whose novels were highly successful at the time but whose legacies failed to gain the traction of Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, or Mansfield Park. Instead, these writers’ works have remained in the dusty world of academia while Austen’s work has transcended the classroom and penetrated every facet of pop culture. But the contemporary relevance and urgency of these under-known writers—who are all in print due to their importance in academia—makes them ripe for their own transition into the mainstream.

In this fascinating cultural history, Shelley uses her extensive knowledge of the period and her passion for the underdog to usher in a new class of writers whose work interacts with, celebrates, and transcends Jane Austen’s classic titles.

“NOT JUST JANE restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.” – Amanda Foreman

“Fun. . . . Lovers of Austen’s books and film adaptations of her work will find much to enjoy in this informative overview of authors in conversation with Austen.” – Library Journal

“Interweaving the fascinating stories . . . and the social, cultural, and economic realities of their times, an insightful group portrait of these groundbreaking women emerges. Lively. . . . An important contribution to the scholarship of women’s literature.” – Booklist

“An industrious work by an adoring reader. . . . [DeWees’s] converting zeal is apparent on every page, holding up passages of poems and novels to tempt us. With verve and brio, she imagines her modern self into her subjects’ minds.” – The Wall Street Journal

Shelley DeWees is an English professor and award-winning researcher, expat (an American living in South Korea), tattooed feminist, and confessed lover of all British literature. Her writings and reviews have been seen on Austenprose, Jane Austen's World, and Jane Austen Today, and regularly appear in Groove Korea magazine where she was recently distinguished as Writer of the Year. She’s also the founder of the Vegan Uprising, a punky, spunky guide to running and vegetarian eating that will launch in 2014 on TheVeganU.com. She lives in Seoul.

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Preston W. Estep III, Ph.D. THE MINDSPAN DIET: Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk, Minimize Memory Loss, and Keep Your Brain Young Ballantine Bantam Dell May 2016 North America

From an esteemed scientist and director of the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School comes a revolutionary plan for curbing memory loss and improving cognitive longevity that will forever change how you think about diet and aging.

All around the world people are living longer than ever, but record numbers of us are experiencing cognitive decline and other brain disorders later in life. New studies show that Alzheimer’s Disease is a leading cause of death in developed countries, along with heart disease and cancer. But there is good news: We now have the knowledge to extend both lifespan and mindspan, ensuring that our mind and body stay in peak form at any age.

Studying the diets of the "Mindspan Elite"— those populations that live longest with low levels of dementia—as well as the way that certain food additives and ingredients interact with our genes, Dr. Preston Estep explains how the recent slew of popular brain-and-aging books have steered us down the wrong dietary path. Shattering myths about just what foods are (and are not) beneficial to our brains, THE MINDSPAN DIET reveals a simple plan to slow down cognitive decline. Startling in its revelations about healthy eating over the age of forty, it challenges us to rethink our approach to many common foods and nutrients, including:

 Iron: While iron-fortified foods sound healthy, high iron intake can be toxic, especially for people over forty, and increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.  Whole Grains: Processed grains like white rice, pasta, and flour are actually staples in the diets of the most cognitively healthy cultures!  Protein: Thought of as the miracle macronutrient, a high level of protein is actually hard on kidneys, promotes cancer, and may accelerate the progression of dementia.

Complete with fifty delicious recipes and recommendations for foods, shopping, and how to read nutrition labels, Dr. Estep shows that you can enjoy the richest flavors life has to offer and remain lean, healthy, and cognitively intact for a very long life.

“Fascinating, important . . . Estep includes plenty of practical info on improving one’s mindspan and puts some refined grains back on the table. The book includes extensive notes and an appendix with ‘cheat sheets.’” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Presenting a sensible regimen that people can follow easily, this recommended diet book with useful information about aging is for most consumer health collections.” – Library Journal

“Founded on rigorous scientific evidence and up-to-date research, The Mindspan Diet debunks myths and misinformation that have become widespread among nutritional ‘experts.’ It provides a few simple changes that we can all incorporate to give ourselves the best opportunity for longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.” – Matt Kaeberlein, Ph.D., professor of pathology and founding director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington

Foreign Sales: UK/Oneworld; Chinese (simplified)/Cheers; Dutch/Maven; French/Hachette Pratique; German/VAK Verlag; Japanese/Bunkyosha; Portuguese (Portugal)/Zero a Oito; Spanish/Editorial Océano México.

Preston W. Estep III, Ph.D. received a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard Medical School. He is now both Director of Collections (managing sample collection and genome sequencing) and Director of Gerontology at the Harvard Personal Genome Project. A co-founder and adviser to multiple biomedical startups and nonprofit organizations, he is also chairman of the Mind First Foundation, which he co-founded with Harvard Medical School Professors George Church and Ron Kessler. Dr. Estep lives in Weston, Massachusetts. 33

Joshua Hunt THE UNIVERSITY OF NIKE Melville House Fall 2017 World English

In the world of college sports, winning means big dollars. And with big dollars come the amenities to continued success: first-rate gear, impeccable facilities and sponsorship. But the cost is autonomy, individuality, and revisionist history. This fragile balancing act is further tested when the goals of a university begin to clash with the major corporation footing the bill. At the heart of this paradigmatic shift in the business model of college sports is the case of the University of Oregon and their benefactor, Nike. Nike took Oregon from relative obscurity to a perennial contender and a proving ground for the latest technology and recruitment strategy on a national stage.

This shift can be personified by two men: David Frohnmayer, a failed politician who became the Oregon’s longest serving president, and Phil Knight, an Oregon alum and the co-founder and CEO of Nike. In this explosive exploration of money, blackmail, corporate greed and the privatization of an American public school, Joshua Hunt examines the lengths two powerful men went to make a controversial, secret experiment work. By battling both each other and the problems that arise from balancing corporate success and the goals of higher education, Frohnmayer and Knight drastically and irrevocably changed the way Division I athletic programs operate in America.

Joshua Hunt’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Playboy, and the Atavist, among others. The proposal for THE UNIVERSITY OF NIKE has already earned Joshua the Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing from Columbia University’s School of Journalism, from which he is a graduate.

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Brian Jay Jones THINK AND WONDER: The Life and Art of Dr. Seuss Little, Brown & Co. North America

A new, authoritative biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel—a.ka. Dr. Seuss—the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than forty books for children from New York Times-bestselling biographer Brian Jay Jones.

For many, the first book they ever read—or had read to them—was a Dr. Seuss book. His iconic characters—the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax, Sam-I-Am—are immediately recognizable around the globe. And 25 years after his death, the Seuss legacy is stronger than ever. While Seuss has sold over 650 million books, a staggering 450 million of them have been sold since he passed away in 1991.

THINK AND WONDER will have an appeal that spans continents, religions, age, culture, and languages. Its readers will include anyone who triumphantly read their first words in the pages of Green Eggs and Ham, warmly received Oh, The Places You’ll Go! for a high school graduation gift, or read The Lorax to their own children, not to mention the millions of viewers who saw the multiple films based on his work.

The works of Dr. Seuss have a new relevance in these interesting times. With a populist figure ranting about American isolationism, fomenting hatred, and spurring racism, everything old is new again. In the early 1940s, these were exactly the dangerous politics that Dr. Seuss railed against in his early cartoons. Seuss also seems to appeal to our better angels when it comes to migrants and refugees. In the 1940s, as Hitler’s troops bulldozed one nation after another, sending refugees streaming out across Europe, many seeking safety and sanctuary in a skeptical United States, Seuss captured American ugliness in a cartoon featuring a woman reading a book called “Adolf the Wolf” to two children, telling them, “…and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones. But those were Foreign Children and it didn’t really matter.”

This will be an intensely researched comprehensive biography of one of the most iconic pop culture figures of the 20th century from one of today’s leading biographers.

Brian Jay Jones is the New York Times-bestselling biographer of game-changers in popular culture, including WASHINGTON IRVING: An American Original (Arcade, 2008); JIM HENSON: The Biography (Ballantine, 2013. Foreign Sales: UK/Virgin; Polish/Marginesy; Portuguese (Brazil)/Darkside); GEORGE LUCAS: A Life, a Kirkus best book of 2016. (Little, Brown & Co, 2016. Foreign Sales: UK/Headline; Chinese (simplified)/Hachette Phoenix; Croatian/Profil; Czech/Paseka; Finnish/LIKE; French/Hachette Heroes; German/Edel; Hungarian/Libri Kiado; Italian/Il Castoro; Polish/Wielka Literara; Portuguese (Brazil)/Verus Editora; Russian/Eksmo; Spanish/Penguin Random House Spain). He served as president of the Biographers International Organization.

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David Kaufman SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin St. Martin’s Press July 2016 World English

From her roots in a small Texas town to the years she reigned as the toast of Broadway, Mary Martin’s life spanned the twentieth century and dominated the Golden Age of musical theater. In 1939, after an unsuccessful attempt at Hollywood stardom, she came to New York to audition for Cole Porter's new show Leave It to Me. After winning the part and singing the bawdy "My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” overnight stardom—and the cover of Life magazine—were both hers. Just over a decade later, she created the role of Army nurse Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific, a show that also took home the Tony Award for Best Musical. After that, she flew as Peter Pan, created the role of Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and took Hello, Dolly! on the road around the U.S. and to Vietnam. Martin’s uncanny ability to make everyone in the audience feel as if she were communicating directly to them turned each of her performances into an “event” and made her a star for the ages.

But Martin’s personal life was the exact opposite of the homespun fairy tale lives she evoked on stage. In moving to the city to kickstart her career, she left behind her husband and their young son, the actor Larry Hagman. Rumors about her relationships with Jean Arthur and Janet Gaynor swirled around her. Her second husband, Richard Halliday, was a haughty, closeted gay man who, as her manager, brought glamour, sophistication, and a will of iron to Mary's life. They were a powerful twosome.

Peopled with legends like Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Noel Coward, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Hedda Hopper, Yul Brynner, and a starry cast of thousands, David Kaufman's SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS is the delectable story of the one and only Mary Martin—the little girl from Texas who captured the world’s heart and created a legend in the process.

“Theater critic Kaufman excels in providing revelatory contrasts between public and private personas. . . . Glittering is the operative word. Martin was a thoroughly captivating performer for her entire lengthy career and Kaufman’s work does right by her.” – Library Journal

David Kaufman is the bestselling author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door as well as a longtime theater critic and contributor to The New York Times, The Nation, and Vanity Fair.

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Jennifer Kries WAKING ENERGY: 7 Timeless Practices Designed to Reboot Your Body and Unleash Your Potential Harper Elixer Summer 2017 World English

Internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator and fitness and wellness expert Jennifer Kries offers a groundbreaking synthesis of the greatest wisdom traditions of the East—from QiGong to yoga—to help readers reboot energy reserves and unleash their potential.

Modern life is stressful and depleting. We all want more energy, but choosing among the variety of wellness practices can be overwhelming—but with WAKING ENERGY, Jennifer Kries’s life-changing wellness program, you don’t have to. Instead, WAKING ENERGY features seven distinct practices that can either stand alone as their own complete rituals, or as parts of a whole, including QiGong, Kundalini Yoga, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Five Tibetans, Pilates, Inner Smile, Healing Sounds, and Meditation.

Combining the best of Western athleticism, Eastern philosophies, and ancient practices from the greatest wisdom traditions, WAKING ENERGY invites you to develop a level of energy mastery that will empower, enliven, enlighten and engender true transformation in their health, spiritual richness, and longevity and:

• develop the body you’ve always dreamed of; • liberate the hidden power of your mind; • find the peace of mind you crave; • unleash focus and concentration; • learn the tools to live your very best and longest life.

Each chapter focuses on one tradition, succinctly explaining the historical background of the practice; its philosophy; and the relevant exercises and movement sequences (illustrated with photographs of Jennifer demonstrating the postures)—and includes a quick reference guide for daily practice. Jennifer also offers step-by- step advice for combining the techniques to truly transform your health, fitness, spiritual insight, and longevity.

With simplicity, clarity, and grace, WAKING ENERGY shows you how to experience a joyful connection to yourself and tap into an astonishing reserve of power to create your healthiest, most vibrant self.

Jennifer Kries is an integrated wellness and fitness expert, an author, a speaker, and an internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator. Her award-winning The Method Series DVDs have sold over 15 million units worldwide, and she has appeared on Fit TV’s The Method Show. She has trained, performed with, and choreographed for dance companies worldwide, including the New York City Ballet, Hubbard Street Chicago, Opus I Contemporary, Balletto di Toscana, the Bat Sheva Dance Company, Philadanco, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Lar Lubovitch. She founded her own company, Contemporary Dance Theatre New York, in 1997, which has performed at Lincoln Center and other renowned venues. She lives in San Diego, California.

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Harold S. Kushner NINE ESSENTIAL THINGS I’VE LEARNED ABOUT LIFE Knopf Doubleday September 2015 North America

From the beloved author of WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, deeply moving and illuminating reflections on what it means to live a good life.

As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the best-selling author of twelve books on faith, ethics, and how to apply the timeless wisdom of religious thought to everyday challenges, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner has demonstrated time and again his understanding of the human spirit. In this compassionate new work, his most personal since WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, Kushner relates how his time as a twenty-first-century rabbi has shaped his senses of religion and morality. He elicits nine essential lessons from the sum of his teaching, study, and experience, offering a lifetime’s worth of spiritual food for thought, pragmatic advice, inspiration for a more fulfilling life, and strength for trying times.

With fresh, vital insight into belief (“there is no commandment in Judaism to believe in God”), conscience (the Garden of Eden story as you’ve never heard it), and mercy (forgiveness is “a favor you do yourself, not an undeserved gesture to the person who hurt you”), grounded in Kushner's brilliant readings of Scripture, history, and popular culture, NINE ESSENTIAL THINGS I’VE LEARNED ABOUT LIFE is compulsory reading from one of modern Judaism’s foremost sages.

Distilling the wisdom of an extraordinary career, this profoundly inspiring yet practical guide to well-being is truly the capstone to Kushner’s luminous oeuvre.

Foreign Sales: German/Gütersloher Verlagshaus; Portuguese (Brazil)/Verus Editora.

Harold S. Kushner is rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in the Boston suburb of Natick, Massachusetts. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he is the author of more than a dozen books on coping with life’s challenges, including the bestselling WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, CONQUERING FEAR, and OVERCOMING LIFE’S DISAPPOINTMENTS. His books have been translated into Complex Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

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Ursula K. Le Guin STEERING THE CRAFT: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Houghton Mifflin Harcourt September 2015 North America

A new edition of an essential guide to the writing craft, presented by a brilliant practitioner of the art.

Completely revised and rewritten to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern era, this handbook is a short, deceptively simple guide to the craft of writing. Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Each chapter combines illustrative examples from the global canon with Le Guin’s own witty commentary and an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. She also offers a comprehensive guide to working in writing groups, both actual and online.

Masterful and concise, STEERING THE CRAFT deserves a place on every writer's shelf.

“Admirably direct, and as entertaining as it is enlightening. . . . this book is a star by which to set one’s course.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A succinct, clear, and encouraging companion for aspiring writers.” – Kirkus

“There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin.” – Slate

“Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. She creates stories for everyone from New Yorker literati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses.” – Boston Globe

Foreign Sales: Chinese (complex)/Ecus Cultural Enterprise; Chinese (simplified)/Gingko Beijing Books; Turkish/TEAS Press.

Ursula K. Le Guin WORDS ARE MY MATTER: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016 Small Beer Press October 2016 World English

A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more from one of our best and most thoughtful writers.

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of our foremost public literary intellectuals and this collection of her recent talks, essays, introductions, and book reviews is the best manual we have for traveling the worlds explored in recent fiction; the most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.

“That’s this collection in a nutshell: Everywhere something to think about.” – Publishers Weekly

“Le Guin remarks on a character’s ‘humor so dry it’s almost ether.’ That praise applies to Le Guin as well in a collection notable for its wit, unvarnished opinions, and passion.” – Kirkus

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Ursula K. Le Guin NO TIME TO SPARE Houghton Mifflin Harcourt December 2017 North America

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.

Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she’s in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice—sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical—shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it.

On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.” On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?” On her new cat: “He still won’t sit on a lap…I don’t know if he ever will. He just doesn’t accept the lap hypothesis.” On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.” And on all that is unknown, all that we discover as we muddle through life: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. She is the winner of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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Benjamin Percy THRILL ME: Essays on Fiction Graywolf Press October 2016 World English

Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Essays Collections of Fall 2016 Washington Independent Review of Books’s 25 Favorite Books of 2016 Signature Reads’s 17 Best Essay Collections of 2016

Looking for an antidote to the “literary or genre” binary mode of thinking? Benjamin Percy's THRILL ME is just what you need. It’s a craft book like none you’ve ever read before—no, really, what other craft book can you name that uses Jaws, exploding helicopters, flaming chainsaws, and the work of genre-bending heavyweights like Kelly Link and Michael Chabon to make its points about aesthetics? Percy breaks down barriers to show how writers craft thrilling tales of all types. The essays on urgency and violence alone will raise the hair on your neck, and the title essay is a reader’s manifesto for the kinds of books that made us readers and writers in the first place.

"[A] lively, helpful guide. . . . [Percy] provides precise advice concerning basics like suspense, setting, and style. . . . His evocative personal anecdotes invigorate even familiar material. . . . In each essay we glimpse an industrious Percy at the daily grind of writing, rereading and editing his fiction. . . . Beyond craft or theory, and perhaps more helpful than any advice, this book serves as a reminder that writing is hard work." – The New York Times Book Review

“Percy’s essays skillfully dissect the structure, mechanics, and concrete details of what makes good writing sparkle.” – Publishers Weekly

“Would-be writers will find Percy’s passionate, pragmatic cheerleading inspiring and energizing.” – Kirkus

“[Percy’s] genre-busting, electrifying fiction is opening doors for a new generation of writers. Thrill Me practices what it preaches—it’s a craft book that somehow manages to be a thrilling read…Warmly personal and deviously scholarly, Thrill Me is terrific.” – Karen Russell

Benjamin Percy is the author of The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015), Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, May 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), as well as the forthcoming THE DARK NET (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. He is the writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.

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Bud Shaw, MD LAST NIGHT IN THE O.R.: A Transplant Surgeon’s Odyssey Plume/Penguin Group (USA) September 2015 World English

A pioneering transplant surgeon shares memories from a life in one of medicine’s most demanding fields.

The early 1980s marked a revolution in the field of liver transplantation, and surgeon Bud Shaw was on the front lines. As a patient’s chance of survival increased, the number of transplants performed grew at a dizzying rate. Sharing vibrant vignettes from his early days as a medical student to his work under Dr. Tom Starzl, the pioneer of liver transplant surgery, to opening an internationally renowned center in Nebraska, Dr. Shaw takes us on an intimate journey through the world of high-stakes surgery.

An exhilarating and beautifully written memoir filled with real-life moments straight out of a Chuck Palahniuk novel, LAST NIGHT IN THE O.R. taps the core of what it means to be human.

“Shaw's lean prose is lucid on technical aspects and moves briskly, more so than in some late-career memoirs, and he offers insights into medical professionals' private perspectives as well as a sobering sense of human fragility and the scientific strides taken to counter it. A bracing, unusual personal narrative that should appeal to aspiring physicians as well as to those considering the ‘big questions’ around high-risk surgery.” – Kirkus

Foreign Sales: Chinese (Complex)/Ecus Cultural Enterprises; Chinese (simplified) Grand China Publishing House.

Bud Shaw, MD, is an internationally renowned transplant surgeon who founded one of the world’s most respected transplant centers at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. He is a founding editor of the prestigious Liver Transplantation medical journal and the author of over 300 journal articles and 50 book chapters. He retired from active practice and the department chairmanship in 2009 and now focuses on teaching and the value of narrative studies in medical education and clinical practice.

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Joe Starita A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor St. Martin’s Press November 2016 World English

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On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche graduated at the top of her medical class. At the time it was still rare for women to become doctors, since many believed women might become too easily alarmed and incapable of rendering proper medical treatment. But her graduation was even more notable because she was a member of the Omaha people, when Native Americans were considered by many to be lazy savages, or worse.

Armed with her degree, La Flesche returned home to care for her demoralized and destitute people. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 850 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. For the last twenty years of her life, La Flesche effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe— she delivered babies, treated tuberculosis and influenza, banned communal drinking cups, insisted on screen doors, kept a lantern burning in her home so it could always be found in storms, and finally achieved her dream: building a hospital for her people in a remote, isolated corner of the Great Plains.

This is the story of a woman who started a library for children, translated complex legal documents, cooked and delivered meals to the hungry and disabled, presided at funerals, delivered sermons, sang in the church choir, and embraced the Native American Church. Who took trains to Washington, D.C., to crusade against the injustice of federal policies that threatened to steal the land her people legally owned. Who went to her state capitol to make impassioned speeches railing against the whiskey peddlers preying on the Omaha, sowing disease and violence and domestic abuse—all for five hundred dollars a year. In the end, Susan La Flesche Picotte crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bi-cultural identity to improve the lot of her people—physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.

Joe Starita is a veteran investigative reporter, the former New York Bureau Chief for Knight-Ridder newspapers and the acclaimed author of two previous books: THE DULL KNIFES OF PINE RIDGE: A Lakota Odyssey (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995; Foreign Sales: Dutch/Bosch en Keunig; French/Albin Michel; German/Droemer Knaur; Japanese/Kobunsha) and “I AM A MAN”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice (St. Martin’s Press, 2009). The Dull Knifes was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is the focus of an upcoming PBS documentary. Since the release of I AM A MAN, Starita has given more than 120 talks and workshops, explaining to diverse audiences the legal, social and political significance of Standing Bear’s 1879 landmark legal victory.

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Jonathan White TIDES: Discovering the Science and Wonder of the Ocean Trinity University Press February 2017 World English

In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci was convinced that tides were caused by the breathing of a large creature, and he set out to calculate the size of its lungs. If he had been right about this, and if he had traveled in his studies far enough, he would have found not one but hundreds of creatures, each with its own breath, inhaling and exhaling at different intervals, all overlapping. Two hundred years after Leonardo, Isaac Newton found the greatest lungs of all—if there was to be only one pair—in the body of the moon.

TIDES combines lyrical prose, colorful travel narrative, and provocative scientific analysis and inquiry into this most elemental, yet mysterious, phenomenon that keeps the waters of the earth in constant and often dramatic motion. The restlessness of the earth’s oceans can be explained scientifically, but it can also be described poetically as the water’s desire for the moon. Having spent most of his life on the water, and years traveling the world studying tidal phenomena, author Jonathan White shares with readers the many dimensions of the tides, along with absorbing accounts of how tides really work and how they influence the human cultures that live by their rhythms. He examines waves, tide energy, and the influence the tides have on sea life, and offers a fascinating historical look at the ways in which people have thought about tides through the ages.

The book also features an introduction by Peter Matthiessen, the three-time National Book Award winner and naturalist who passed away in 2014.

“Anyone inclined to take the movement of the tides for granted will think twice after reading this wide-ranging study from a conservationist and avid sailor. . . . White's heightened awareness of the planet's "cosmic beat" is bound to make readers more sensitive to the mysteries of what might otherwise seem commonplace.” – Kirkus

“I found [TIDES] an incredibly rich read. . . . It imparts substantive understanding, the linkages to the human dimensions, and the ephemeral nature of our existence. No one who is the least bit intrigued by the subject, will have satisfied their interest without reading your book. It will be the classic work on tides for the long foreseeable future.” – Roger McManus, President Emeritus of The Ocean Conservancy

Foreign Sales: Chinese (simplified)/Beijing United.

Jonathan White’s first book, Talking on the Water, published by Random House/Sierra Club Books in 1994, recounted his experience of transforming a dilapidated schooner into a floating classroom to which he invited noted environmentalists, writers and scientists to discuss humanity's place within nature and the lessons we can learn from animals, the land and indigenous peoples. He is a member of numerous conservation boards and committees, a trustee of the San Juan Preservation Trust, and chair of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative.

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