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GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING What's Mine and Yours Naima Coster Summary From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships. A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years. On one side of the integration debate is Jade, Gee's steely, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss, she is determined to give her son the tools he'll need to survive in America as a sensitive, anxious, Grand Central Publishing young Black man. On the other side is Noelle's headstrong mother, Lacey May, a white woman who refuses to 9781538702345 Pub Date: 3/2/21 see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn't protect On Sale Date: 3/2/21 herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father, Robbie. $28.00 USD/$35.00 CAD Hardcover When Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divi... 352 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Contributor Bio Print Run: 25K Naima Coster is the author of HALSEY STREET, and a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Naima's Fiction / Family Life FIC045000 stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Kweli, The Paris Review Daily, Catapult, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Fordham University and Yale. She has taught writing for over a decade, in community settings, youth programs, and universities. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Sarahland Sam Cohen Summary "Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its cast of unforgettable protagonists -- almost all of whom are named Sarah. In SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, both demanding and thrillingly providing for its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish college Sarah passively consents to a form-life in pursuit of an MRS degree and is swept into a culture of normalized sexual violence. Another reveals a version of Sarah finding pleasure-and a new set of problems-by playing dead for a wealthy necrophiliac. A Buffy-loving Sarah uses fan fiction to work through romantic obsession. As the Grand Central Publishing collection progresses, Cohen explodes this search for self, insisting that we have more to resist and repair 9781538735060 Pub Date: 3/9/21 than our own personal narratives. Readers witness as the ever-evolving "Sarah" gets recast: as a bible-era On Sale Date: 3/9/21 trans ... $24.00 USD/$30.00 CAD Hardcover Contributor Bio 208 Pages Sam Cohen was born and raised in suburban Detroit. Her fiction is published in Fence, Bomb, Diagram, and Carton Qty: 20 Gulf Coast, among others. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a PhD fellow at the University of Print Run: 25K Southern California, Cohen lives in Los Angeles. Fiction / Short Stories FIC029000 HBG Adult Winter 2021 - Page 1 GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING Two Meals a Day Mark Sisson Contributor Bio Mark Sisson is a health and fitness expert, and the founding father of the ancestral health movement. A former world-class endurance athlete, with a 2:18 marathon and a fourth-place finish in the Hawaii Ironman World Triathlon Championships, Mark's blog, MarksDailyApple.com, and Primal Blueprint lifestyle program have paved the way for primal enthusiasts to break free from conventional wisdom's diet and exercise principles. Grand Central Publishing Along with his blog, Mark is an entrepreneur presiding over a wide-ranging primal enterprise: The Primal 9781538736951 Pub Date: 3/9/21 Kitchen healthy condiment line, the educational books and multimedia courses, and a health coach On Sale Date: 3/9/21 certification company. $28.00 USD/$35.00 CAD Hardcover 304 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Print Run: 120K Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition HEA006000 Win Harlan Coben Summary The new novel from Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger on Netflix. Contributor Bio Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. His Myron Bolitar series has earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many of his books have been developed into Netflix series, including his adaptation of The Stranger, headlined by Richard Armitage, and The Woods. He lives in New Jersey. Grand Central Publishing 9781538748213 Pub Date: 3/16/21 On Sale Date: 3/16/21 $29.00 USD/$37.00 CAD Hardcover 384 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Print Run: 750K Fiction / Thrillers FIC031010 HBG Adult Winter 2021 - Page 2 GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING Elizabeth & Margaret The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters Andrew Morton Summary For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the New York Times bestsellingauthor of 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system-and her fraught relationship with its Grand Central Publishing expectations-was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and 9781538700464 Pub Date: 3/30/21 government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret On Sale Date: 3/30/21 to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. $28.00 USD/$35.00 CAD Hardcover From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the ... 400 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Contributor Bio Print Run: 75K Andrew Morton studied history at the University of Sussex, England, with a focus on aristocracy and the Biography & Autobiography / Royalty 1930s. Morton has written extensively on celebrity including biographies of Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, and BIO014000 Madonna, as well as the British royal family. He has written bestselling biographies of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Andrew, and Meghan Markle. His #1 New York Times bestselling biography Diana: Her True Story won international acclaim, described by critics as a "modern classic" and "the closest we will ever come to her autobiography." The Hero Code Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived Admiral William H. McRaven Summary From the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed -- a short, inspirational book about the qualities of true, everyday heroes. Contributor Bio Admiral William H. McRaven is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed and the New York Times bestseller Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations. In his thirty-seven years as a Navy SEAL, he commanded at every level. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S. Special Operations Forces. After retiring from the Navy, he served as the Chancellor of the University of Texas System Grand Central Publishing from 2015 to 2018. He now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Georgeann. 9781538719961 Pub Date: 4/6/21 On Sale Date: 4/6/21 $22.00 USD/$28.00 CAD Hardcover 160 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Print Run: 750K Self-Help / Personal Growth SEL016000 HBG Adult Winter 2021 - Page 3 GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING Breakout Paul Herron Summary Ravenhill Correctional Institute, a notorious, maximum-security prison in Miami, Florida, home to the abandoned military prison, The Glasshouse. Hurricane Anna - a superstorm made up of two Category 5 hurricanes coming together to wreak unprecedented havoc along the eastern seaboard. When the superstorm hits, the correctional officers at Ravenhill flee, opening all the cell doors and leaving the inmates to fend for themselves as the floodwaters rise. But Jack Constantine -- an ex-cop serving ten years for killing one of his wife's murderers, isn't going to just lay down and die. Not when his wife's two remaining killers are among the prisoners relocated to the Glasshouse to ride out the storm. Grand Central Publishing 9781538737033 Pub Date: 4/6/21 Meanwhile, Kiera Sawyer, a Correctional Officer on her first day at work is the only officer left behind when On Sale Date: 4/6/21 the others flee. Sawyer rescues Jack and offers to team up. If they can make it to the Glasshouse they might $28.00 USD/$35.00 CAD just survive the hurricane. But that involves making their way through the prison, fighting off eight hundred Hardcover blood-crazed inmates as the building fills with water and the wall crum... 368 Pages Carton Qty: 20 Contributor Bio Print Run: 40K Paul Herron is an author whose previous work has been optioned by CBS.