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The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.

Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility, and moral depravity. The strong-willed, patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, certainly doesn’t belong behind bars. And sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, with few prospects and fewer friends, shouldn’t be publicly shamed and packed off to a state-run reformatory. But such were the laws—and morals—of 1916.

Constance uses her authority as deputy sheriff, and occasionally exceeds it, to investigate and defend these women when no one else will. But it's her sister Fleurette who puts Constance's beliefs to the test and forces her to 9780544409996 • $26.00 / Hardcover reckon with her own ideas of how a young woman should and shouldn't Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions behave. SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 304 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • Against the backdrop of World War I, and drawn once again from the true B/T/A/P/M: Tessler Literary Agency story of the Kopp sisters, Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions is a spirited, S: HMH page-turning story that will delight fans of historical fiction and lighthearted detective fiction alike.

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• 1 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Vanessa Grigoriadis Blurred Lines Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus

What is really happening behind closed doors on America’s college campuses?

A new sexual revolution is roiling this country, and college students are on the frontlines, rallying around a new set of slogans: “Yes Means Yes,” “We Believe You,” “It’s Never Her Fault.” Fighting over the very definitions of rape, assault, and consent, students and administrators are locked in a confrontation that seems impossible to resolve. When casual sex, online dating, and alcohol-fueled parties dominate the social lives of many college students, it’s hard to understand what rules—if any—control dating and sex. The outcome of this debate will redefine how we think about sex and gender in America. 9780544702554 • $28.00 / Hardcover Blurred Lines Vanessa Grigoriadis offers the first investigation into why this debate SEPTEMBER • Current Aﬀairs • 320 pages • Carton emerged, how it is evolving, and where it may lead us. Her account draws Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • on detailed firsthand reporting, as she embeds at schools both large and B/T/A/P/M: William Morris Endeavor small and talks candidly with dozens of students. With clarity and fresh S: HMH insight, she weighs the accounts of survivors and the accused, and hears from activists, parents, and administrators. The sum of her fascinating, fly-on-the-wall research is a revelatory account of how long-standing codes • National author tour to New York, Boston, DC, of sex and power are being rewritten from scratch. Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, and Chicago • National drive-time radio tour VANESSA GRIGORIADIS is a contributing editor • National print, online, and radio advertising at the New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, • Academic and library promotion specializing in pop culture, youth movements, and investigatory journalism. She is a National Magazine Award winner and has been featured E-book available 9780544702608 on MSNBC, CNN, Dateline, andInvestigation/ Discovery shows.

Author’s residence: New York

EAMON DOLAN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 2 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Elly Griﬃths The Blood Card

In the third Magic Men mystery, the ﬁrst partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II’s coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?

Elizabeth II’s coronation is looming, but DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortuneteller. Meanwhile, his old pal, the magician Max Mephisto, is rehearsing for his television debut, a Coronation Day variety show. But upon hearing that their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, has been found dead in his flat, the two men join forces to find out what happened.

While Max is stuck in rehearsals, Edgar finds himself heading to New York, hot on the trail of a mesmerist he’s sure has valuable information for them—and his trusty sergeant, Emma, investigates some important leads at 9780544750302 • $25.00 / Hardcover home. As the clock ticks down to Coronation Day, the team must scramble The Blood Card to keep Max’s small-screen debut from ending in a dangerously explosive SEPTEMBER • Mystery • 384 pages • Carton Qty: finale. 12 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • A: Blackstone Audio. B/T/P/M/S: Janklow & Nesbit (Kirby Kim) ELLY GRIFFITHS is the recipient of the Mary Higgins Clark Award and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. Her work has been praised ALSO AVAILABLE as “gripping” (Louise Penny), "captivating" (Wall Street Journal), and “must-reads for fans of Smoke and Mirrors 978-0-544-52795-9 $25.00 HC crime ﬁction” (Associated Press).

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• 3 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Robert I. Sutton The Asshole Survival Guide How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule

“Help, I’m dealing with an asshole! What can I do?”

Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has heard this question asked in a thousand different ways. The Asshole Survival Guide presents Sutton’s signature prescriptive advice for anybody who is feeling oppressed, demeaned, or disrespected by assholes.

Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a 9781328695918 • $28.00 / Hardcover cogent and methodical game plan, starting with diagnosis—what kind of The Asshole Survival Guide SEPTEMBER • Business/Self-Help • 224 pages • 1 asshole problem, exactly, are you dealing with? From there, Sutton b-w image • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • provides field-tested, evidence-based, and sometimes surprising strategies A: Simon & Schuster Audio. /S: HMH. B/T/P/M: aimed at specific asshole-deflecting goals—avoiding them, outwitting them, Fletcher & Co (Christy Fletcher) disarming them, sending them packing, and developing one’s protective psychological armor. Sutton even teaches readers how to look inward to stifle one’s own inner jackass. • National author tour including New York, DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle Ultimately, this survival guide is about developing an outlook and personal • National drive-time radio tour plan that will help you preserve the sanity in your work life, and stop all • National advertising • Online promotion, including LinkedIn, e-blasts, those perfectly good days from being ruined by some jerk. podcasts, author interviews, and quizzes

ROBERT SUTTON is a Stanford University professor and author of six management E-book available 9781328695925 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss. He is an IDEO Fellow and cofounder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the Stanford Design Institute.

Author’s residence: Stanford, California

• 4 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September James Kugel The Divine and the Human The Great Shift of Belief in the Biblical Era

A world-renowned scholar summarizes a career of study to ask the biggest questions, revealing how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical era made us who we are today.

Why does the Bible depict a world in which, surprisingly often, humans encounter the divine—wrestling an angel, addressing a burning bush, issuing a prophecy without any choice in the matter? These stories spoke very differently to their original audience than they do to us, and they reflect a radically distinct understanding of reality and the human mind. Yet over the course of the thousand-year Biblical era, encounters with God changed dramatically. As James Kugel argues, this transition allows us to glimpse a massive shift in human experience as the modern, Western idea of the individual is born. 9780544520554 • $30.00 / Hardcover The Divine and the Human In this landmark work, Kugel fuses revelatory close readings of ancient texts SEPTEMBER • Religion/History • 560 with modern scholarship from a range of fields, including neuroscience, pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World English • anthropology, psychology, and archaeology, to explain the origins of belief, B/A/S: HMH monotheism, worship, divine omniscience, and—crucially—the human T/P/M: Frances Goldin Literary Agency sense of self. In the tradition of books such as The Swerve and The Better Angels of Our Nature,The Divine and the Human tells the story of a revolution in human consciousness and the enchantment of everyday • National media from New York life. This book will make believers and seekers think differently not just • National online advertising • Academic promotion about the Bible but about the entire history of the human imagination.

JAMES KUGEL is the Starr Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University. His E-book available 9780544520578 many books include The Bible As It Was, winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and How to Read the Bible, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for the best book of 2007.

Author’s residence: Tel Aviv, Israel

• 5 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Peter Cawdron Retrograde

The international team at the Mars Endeavour colony is prepared for every eventuality except one—what happens when disaster strikes Earth?

+BDLFU$ PN JOH4PPO Venturing into space and traveling to Mars sounds like an exotic adventure, but the reality is living in lava caves hundreds of feet below the surface of a rocky, frozen, lifeless planet is exacting on the Mars Endeavour crew. After the exhilaration of reaching the surface of Mars has worn off for the public, the exploration of Mars has moved into its scientific phase. The only viable option for long-term habitation lies beneath the surface of the planet, where humans can be shielded from harsh cosmic radiation.

Connor, Harrison, and Liz are senior members of the U.S. module. When war breaks out on Earth, and rumors begin spreading on Mars, they find 9781328834553 • $24.00 / Hardcover their core principles rocked by the devastation and loss of friends and Retrograde family. Who can you trust on an international mission when your countries SEPTEMBER • Science Fiction • 256 pages • Carton are at war? As the colonists struggle to figure out what really happened on Qty: 12 • Territory: World Earth, grief and anger become pitted against camaraderie and the spirit of exploration. • Advertising • Library promotion • Online promotion, including Goodreads PETER CAWDRON is the author of Anomaly as well as more than twenty novels, • Advance reading copies novellas, and short stories.

Author’s residence: E-book available 9781328834522 Queensland, Australia

JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS/HOUGHTON • 6 • MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Tova Mirvis The Book of Separation

The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless world

Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. To observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family.

But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Tova decides to leave her husband and her faith. After years of trying to silence the voice inside her that said she did not agree, did not fit in, did not believe, she strikes out on her own to discover what she does believe and who she really is. This will mean forging a new 9780544520523 • $26.00 / Hardcover way of life not just for herself, but for her children, who are struggling with The Book of Separation what the divorce and her new status as “not Orthodox” mean for them. SEPTEMBER • Memoir • 288 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • B/T/A/P/M/S: The Book Group This is a memoir about what it means to decide to heed your inner compass at long last. To free the part of yourself that has been suppressed, even if it means walking away from the only life you’ve ever known. Honest and courageous, Tova takes us through her first year outside her marriage and ALSO AVAILABLE community as she learns to silence her fears and seek adventure on her own Visible City path to happiness. 978-0-544-48388-0 $14.95 PA

TOVA MIRVIS is the author of three novels: • National media from New York Visible City, The Outside World, and The Ladies • Author tour, including New York, Boston, and Auxiliary, a national bestseller. Her essays have Memphis appeared in various publications including • JCC events nationwide the New York Times, the Boston Globe • National advertising, including the New York Times Magazine, the Huﬃngton Post, and Poets and • Reading group promotion, including online Writers, and her ﬁction has been broadcast on discussion guide NPR. • Library promotion Author’s residence: Newton, Massachusetts E-book available 9780544520547

• 7 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September

John Lennon, Jean Jullien Imagine

One of the world’s most beloved songs, in picture book format for the ﬁrsttime

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

9781328808653 • $18.99 / Hardcover Picture Join one little pigeon as she sets out on a journey to spread a message of Book tolerance around the world. Featuring the lyrics of John Lennon’s iconic Imagine song and illustrations by the award-winning artist Jean Jullien, this poignant SEPTEMBER • Picture Book • 32 pages • full color and timely picture book dares to imagine a world at peace. Imagine will be illustrations • Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: US,C • published in partnership with human rights organization Amnesty B/T/A/P/M: Frances Lincoln UK International.

was a founding member of the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. www.johnlennon.com National advertising campaign National and regional media campaign is the illustrator of several celebrated children's books, including Radio satellite tour Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor, and This Is Not a Book, a Publishers International Day of Peace events Weekly Best Picture Book of 2016. www.jeanjullien.com Event kit/guide for educators, librarians, booksellers and parents Author’s residence: #ImaginePeace social media campaign Video trailer Illustrator: London, England, and Los Angeles, California Poster Picture Book Parade campaign featuring giveaways, social media promotion, and more! Conference promotions

• CLARION BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com September Sarah Perry After the Eclipse A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

A ﬁerce memoir of a mother’s murder, a daughter’s coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave herlife

When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah’s bedroom.

The killer escaped unseen; it would take the police twelve years to find him, time in which Sarah grew into adulthood, struggling with abandonment, police interrogations, and the effort of rebuilding her life when so much 9780544302655 • $27.00 / Hardcover had been lost. Through it all she would dream of the eventual trial, a After the Eclipse conviction—all her questions finally answered. But after the trial, Sarah’s SEPTEMBER • Memoir • 368 pages • Carton Qty: questions only grew. She wanted to understand her mother’s life, not just 12 • Territory: US,C,O • her final hours, and so she began a personal investigation, one that drew her B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency back to Maine, taking her deep into the abiding darkness of a small American town.

• National media from New York Told in searing prose, After the Eclipse is a luminous memoir of • Author appearances • National advertising uncomfortable truth and terrible beauty, an exquisite memorial for a mother • Social media promotion, including Facebook stolen from her daughter, and a blazingly successful attempt to cast light on advertising her life once more. • Reading group promotion • LGBT and feminist outreach SARAH PERRY holds an MFA in nonﬁction from Columbia University and was publisher of E-book available 9780544302211 Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. She received a writers’ fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education.

Author’s residence: Brooklyn, New York

• 8 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Sridhar Pappu The Year of the Pitcher Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age

The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3–1 deﬁcit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series.

In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter who eschewed the team charter and his Detroit Tigers teammates to zip cross-country in his own plane. For one season, the nation watched as these two men and their teams swept their respective league 9780547719276 • $28.00 / Hardcover championships to meet at the World Series. Gibson set a major league The Year of the Pitcher record that year with a 1.12 ERA. McLain won more than 30 games in 1968, OCTOBER • Sports • 416 pages • 16-20 b+w a feat not achieved since 1934 and untouched since. Together, the two have photos • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World • come to stand as iconic symbols, giving the fans “The Year of the B/T/A/S: HMH P: Ross Yoon Literary Agency Pitcher” and changing the game. Evoking a nostalgic season and its incredible characters, this is the story of one of the great rivalries in sports and an indelible portrait of the national pastime during a turbulent year—and the two men who electrified fans from all walks of life. • National media from New York • National sports radio tour • Advertising SRIDHAR PAPPU is “The Male Animal” • Library promotion columnist for the New York Times. He began his award-winning career as a feature writer for the Chicago Reader and has served as a E-book available 9781328768131 columnist at the New York Observer, a correspondent for the Atlantic, and as a staﬀ writer at the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.

Author’s residence: Brooklyn, New York

• 9 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Jonathan Eig Ali A Life

The deﬁnitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle

He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us over and over again). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth century’s greatest radicals and most compelling figures. At his funeral in 2016, eulogists said Ali had transcended race and united the country, but they got it wrong. Race was the theme of Ali’s life. He insisted that America come to grips with a black man who wasn’t afraid to speak out or break the rules. He didn’t overcome racism. He called it out. “I am America,” he once declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”

9780544435247 • $30.00 / Hardcover Ali Ali went from being one of the most despised men in the country to one of OCTOBER • Biography • 576 pages • 16-24 b&w the most beloved. But until now, he has never been the subject of a complete, photos • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • unauthorized biography. Jonathan Eig, hailed by Ken Burns as one of B: Simon & Schuster UK America’s master storytellers, breaks new ground and radically reshapes T/P/M: David Black Literary Agency our understanding of the slippery figure who was Muhammad Ali. Eig had A/S: HMH access to all the key people in Ali’s life, including his three surviving wives and his managers. He also had access to thousands of pages of new FBI and Justice Department files, as well dozens of hours of newly discovered • Author tour, including New York, Philadelphia, audiotaped interviews from the 1960s. Chicago, Louisville, Nashville, and Miami • National media from New York Jonathan Eig’s Ali breaks bold new ground, revealing Ali in the • National sports radio tour • National advertising, including the New York complexityhe deserves, shedding importantOFX MJHIUPOIJTQPMJUJDT Times BOEIJTOFVSPMPHJDBMDPOEJUJPO" MJJTBTUPSZBCPVUSBDF BCPVUB • Online promotion, including Facebook, e-blasts, CSVUBMTQPSU BOEBCPVUBGBTDJOBUJOHN BOX IPTIPPLVQUIFX PSME and podcasts • Library promotion

JONATHAN EIG is the critically acclaimed, best-selling author of numerous books including Luckiest Man and Opening Day. He is a contributing writer to the Wall Street Journal and is currently working with Ken Burns to develop a four-part documentary on Ali.

Author’s residence: Chicago, Illinois

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• 10 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October T. S. Eliot Collected Poems, 1909–1962

The deﬁnitive text of Eliot’s collected poems

"A monumental achievement, and one that frames important and timelyquestions about the state of Eliot’s reputation." Guardian

T. S. Eliot’s Collected Poems, 1909–1962, first published in the 1960s and reset in 2002, is Eliot's own lifelong curation of his poems. Over the years, certain printing discrepancies and modifications by publishers have crept in, not always in the text’s best interests. These have now been resolved conclusively, following the meticulous research on Eliot’s poems by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue in The Poems of T. S. Eliot (2015), which created stable texts that are presented in this new setting as a revised edition of Eliot’s classic volume.

This new edition will delight and inform all those who read Eliot for 9780544960084 • $29.99 / Hardcover pleasure and for study. Here are the definitive marvels and landmarks from Collected Poems, 1909–1962 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land through to Four OCTOBER • Poetry • 240 pages • Carton Qty: Quartets. 12 • Previous ISBN 9780151189786 • Territory: US • THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to All rights: Faber & Faber, UK England in 1914 and published his ﬁrst book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965. ALSO AVAILABLE

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• 11 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Alison McGhee Never Coming Back

From best-selling author Alison McGhee, an urgent, poignant story of a mother and daughter seeking connection at the very moment they seem to be slipping away from each other

When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her mother, Tamar, a fiercely independent but loving woman who raised Clara on her own, all but pushed her out the door, forcing Clara to build a new life for herself, far from her roots, far from her high school boyfriend, far from the life she has always known.

Now more than a decade has passed, and Clara, a successful writer, has been summoned home. Tamar has become increasingly forgetful and can no longer live on her own. But just as her mother’s memory is beginning to slip away, Clara’s questions are building. Why was Tamar so insistent that Clara leave home all those years ago? Just what secrets was she hiding? If Clara, 9781328767561 • $26.00 / Hardcover too, carries inside her the gene for early-onset Alzheimer’s, what does that Never Coming Back mean for her own future? OCTOBER • Fiction • 256 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • With great tenderness and humanity, Alison McGhee tells the story of a A/S: HMH. B/T/P/M: Doug Stewart, Sterling Lord Literistic young woman finding her way in life, determined to know her mother—and by extension herself—before it's too late.

ALISON McGHEE’s best-selling novel Shadow • Author appearances, including New York, Baby was a Today Book Club pick, and her Vermont, Minneapolis, outhern California picture book for adults, Someday, was a #1 New • National online advertising, including • Reading group promotion York Times bestseller. She has been the recipient of four Minnesota Book Awards, the Geisel Medal, a MacDowell Colony residency, E-book available 9781328764348 and several ALA awards.

Author’s residence: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Vermont; California

• 12 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Peter Manseau The Apparitionists A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead

In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler, took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of lost loved ones alongside his living subjects. At a time when iconic artists like Mathew Brady were remaking American culture with their cameras, Mumler was a sensation: the affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amid rumors of séances held in the White House.

9780544745971 • $27.00 / Hardcover Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief, hungry for The Apparitionists proof of the existence of ghosts, and desperate for contact with their dead OCTOBER • History • 288 pages • 30 run-in b&w images • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • husbands and sons. It took a circuslike trial of Mumler on fraud charges, B/T/S/P/M: Anderson Literary (Kathleen starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and Anderson). A: HMH manipulation. And even then, the judge sided with the defense—nobody ever solved the mystery of his spirit photography. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while grasping desperately for something to • Author appearances • History, mystery, and academic promotion believe in.

PETER MANSEAU is the author of the nonﬁction E-book available 9780544745988 books Vows;Rag and Bone;One Nation, Under Gods; and Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He is the Smithsonian’s ﬁrst curator of religion in more than a century.

Author’s residence: Annapolis, Maryland

• 13 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Alan Pell Crawford How Not to Get Rich The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain

An uproarious account of Mark Twain’s endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets

Mark Twain’s lifetime spans America’s era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term “Gilded Age” failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in America notorious for its wealth and excess.

Instead, Twain’s mining firm failed, despite striking real silver. He ended up somehow owing money over his 70,000 acres of inherited land. And his 9780544836464 • $27.00 / Hardcover plan to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the Amazon How Not to Get Rich fizzled when no ships would sail to South America. Undaunted, Twain OCTOBER • Business/Finance/History • 192 poured his money into the latest newfangled inventions of his time, all of pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World English • which failed miserably. B/A/S: HMH, T/P/M: Writers' Representatives/Glenn Hartley In Crawford’s hilarious telling, the familiar image of Twain takes on a new and surprising dimension. Twain’s story of financial optimism and perseverance is a kind of cracked-mirror history of American business • Academic and holiday promotion itself—in its grandest cockeyed manifestations, its most comical lows, and • Get-rich-quick trading cards its determined refusal to ever give up.

E-book available 9780544836716 ALAN P. CRAWFORD is a former U.S. Senate speechwriter, congressional press secretary, and magazine editor. He has reviewed books on American history, politics, and culture for the Wall Street Journal since 1993. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and elsewhere.

Author’s residence: Richmond, Virginia

• 14 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Emily MidorikawaEmma Claire Sweeney "4FDSFU4JTUFSIPPE

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

A fascinating look at the little-known relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their literary collaborators and friends, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world’s best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family 9780544883734 • $27.00 / Hardcover servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, A Secret Sisterhood who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of OCTOBER • 288 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • the seemingly aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Territory:US,O • Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but S HMH. B/T/A/P/M: Tessler Literary Agency who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship fired by an underlying erotic charge.

• National media from London and New York • Targeted online advertising Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, A Secret • Online promotion, including Facebook Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. They advertising were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and • Reading group promotion inspiring, but always—until now—tantalizingly consigned to the shadows.

E-book available 9780544883789 Writers and friends EMILY MIDORIKAWA and EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY co-run the website SomethingRhymed.com. Emma is author of the novel Owl Song at Dawn, Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and they both teach at New York University in London.

Author’s residence: Midorikawa: London Sweeney: Hemel Hempstead

• 15 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October A. J. Baime The Accidental President Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s ﬁrst four months in oﬃce, when this unlikely, small-town Washington outsider had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance

Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man, still considered an obscure Missouri politician. That is, until he was shockingly thrust in over his head after FDR's sudden death. At the climactic moments of the Second 9780544617346 • $30.00 / Hardcover World War, Truman had to play judge and jury during the founding of the The Accidental President United Nations, the Potsdam Conference, the Manhattan Project, the Nazi OCTOBER • History • 464 pages • 1 8-page surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop insert • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • the bomb and end World War II. Tightly focused, meticulously B/T/A/P/M: Waxman Leavell Literary Agency S: HMH researched, and using documents not available to previous biographers, The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during this tumultuous, history-making 120 days, when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher. ALSO AVAILABLE

Go Like Hell A.J. BAIME is the New York Times bestselling 978-0-547-33605-3 $15.95 PA author of The Arsenal of Democracy (2014) and Go Like Hell (2009). Both books are in The Arsenal of Democracy 978-0-544-48387-3 $14.95 PA development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also • National author tour, including New York, appeared in the New York Times, Popular DC, Chicago, Kansas City, and San Francisco Science, and Men’s Journal. • National media from New York Author’s residence: • National online advertising, including the New York Times Granite Bay, California • Online promotion, including podcasts and author interviews • Academic promotion • Library promotion

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• 16 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Phil Harrison The First Day

Set in Ireland and New York, a debut novel about an aﬀair and its explosive consequences—the sins of the father visited on the son in unexpected and irreversible ways

+BDLFU$ PN JOH4PPO Outside an east Belfast mission hall, pastor and family man Samuel Orr meets Anna, a young Beckett scholar. They embark on an intense, passionate affair, their connection fueled by their respective love of Christ and Beckett. When Anna falls pregnant the affair is revealed. The repercussions are slow to emerge but inescapable, and the fallout when it finally comes is shocking, cruel, and violent.

Over thirty years later Sam, their son, is in New York, living a steady, guarded life, his childhood and family safely abandoned. But the sins of the 9781328849663 • $23.00 / Hardcover fathers are visited often on their children, and the past crashes into his life The First Day as violently as in his youth. He is forced to confront the fears he has kept OCTOBER • Fiction • 224 pages • Carton Qty: close all these years. 12 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) The First Day is the story of an affair and its consequences—on family and • National media from New York on faith. It is an intense, questioning novel of the search to understand our • National online advertising origins and to free ourselves from the burdens of our early years. It's a • Library outreach and promotion stunning debut, meditative and compelling, incantatory, at times devastating and always mesmerizing. E-book available 9781328849670 PHIL HARRISON's first feature film, The Good Man, was released in 2014. His earlier short, Even Gods, won the short film award at the Belfast, Galway, and Cork Film Festivals in 2011, and was short-listed for the best short script at the 2012 Irish Screenwriting Awards. The First Day is his debut novel.

Author’s residence: Belfast, Ireland

• 17 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Jessica Yu Garden of the Lost and Abandoned The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves

The fascinating and joyful story of Gladys Kalibbala, a Ugandan "orphan sleuth," who works to connect missing and castaway children to their families

The problem by most lights is overwhelming: at least 5,000 children live on the streets of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala. Some forget the names of their villages. The youngest may not know the names of their parents. But Gladys Kalibbala—part journalist, part detective, part Good Samaritan—does not hesitate to dive into difficult or even dangerous situations to aid a child. Author of a newspaper column called 9780544617063 • $27.00 / Hardcover “Lost and Abandoned,” she is a resource that police and others turn to Garden of the Lost and Abandoned when they stumble across a stranded kid with a hidden history. NOVEMBER • Nonﬁction • 336 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • Jessica Yu delivers an acutely observed story of this hard-nosed B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency and warm-hearted woman, the children she helps, and the twists of fate they experience together. The subplot of Gladys’s garden—her precarious dream of providing a home and livelihood for her • Author appearances, including New York, Los vulnerable charges—adds fascinating depth. Garden of the Lost and Angeles, and San Francisco Abandoned chronicles one woman's altruism, both ordinary • National online advertising • Library promotion and extraordinary, in a way that is impossible to forget, and impossible not • Promotional book trailer to take to heart.

JESSICA YU is an Academy Award–winning ﬁlmmaker known for her documentary and E-book available 9780544618435 feature work. This is her ﬁrstbook.

Author’s residence: La Canada, California

• 18 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Jeﬀrey A. Engel When the World Seemed New George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War

Based on unprecedented access to previously classiﬁed documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of history—the end of the Cold War.

The end of the Cold War was the greatest shock to international affairs since World War II. In that perilous moment, Saddam Hussein chose to invade Kuwait, China cracked down on its own pro-democracy protesters, and regimes throughout Eastern Europe teetered between democratic change and new authoritarians. Not since FDR in 1945 had a U.S. president faced such opportunities and challenges.

As the presidential historian Jeffrey Engel reveals in this page-turning 9780547423067 • $35.00 / Hardcover history, behind closed doors from the Oval Office to the Kremlin, George When the World Seemed New H. W. Bush rose to the occasion brilliantly. Distrusted by such key allies as NOVEMBER • History • 624 pages • 8-pp. b-w Margaret Thatcher and dismissed as too cautious by the press, Bush had insert • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • the experience and the wisdom to use personal, one-on-one diplomacy with B/T/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency world leaders. Bush knew when it was essential to rally a coalition to push A: HMH Iraq out of Kuwait. He managed to help unify Germany while strengthening NATO. Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and interviews with all of the principals, When the World Seemed New is a • Author appearances riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of a president with his hand on the tiller, • National advertising • Academic promotion guiding the nation through a pivotal time and setting the stage for the twenty-first century.

E-book available 9780544931848 JEFFREY A. ENGEL, PhD, is an award-winning American history scholar and director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. The author or editor of nine books, he is an expert on the U.S. presidency and American diplomatic history.

Author’s residence: Dallas, Texas

• 19 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Aaron Carroll The Bad Food Bible How and Why to Eat Sinfully

Physician and popular New York Times Upshot contributor Aaron Carroll mines the latest evidence to show that many “bad” ingredients actually aren’t unhealthy, and in some cases are essential to our well-being.

Advice about food can be confusing. There's usually only one thing experts can agree on: some ingredients—often the most enjoyable ones—are bad for you, full stop. But as Aaron Carroll explains, these oversimplifications are both wrong and dangerous: if we stop consuming some of our most demonized ingredients altogether, it may actually hurt us. In The Bad Food 9780544952560 • $25.00 / Hardcover Bible, Carroll examines the scientific evidence, showing among other The Bad Food Bible things that you can: NOVEMBER • Nonﬁction • 224 pages • 12 b&w illustrations • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • ·Eat red meat several times a week: The health effects are negligible for S; HMH. A/B/T/P/M: Writers House most people, and actually positive if you're 65 or older. ·Have a drink or two a day: As long as it's in moderation, it will protect you against cardiovascular disease without much risk. • National media from New York ·Enjoy a gluten-loaded bagel from time to timetime: It has less fat and • National radio tour sugar, fewer calories, and more fiber than a gluten-free one. • National radio and online advertising • Social media cards ·Eat more salt: If your blood pressure is normal, you should be more • Preroll video on author's vlog worried about getting too little sodium than having too much.

Full of counterintuitive lessons about food we hate to love, The Bad Food E-book available 9780544952577 Bible is for anyone who wants to forge eating habits that are sensible, sustainable, and occasionally indulgent.

AARON E. CARROLL, MD, MS, is a professor of pediatrics and the director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. Coauthor of three previous books, he hosts YouTube’s popular “Healthcare Triage” channel and contributes to the New York Times at the Upshot blog.

Author’s residence: Carmel, Indiana

• 20 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the ﬁrst time with Tolkien’s "Corrigan" poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien.

Set in "Britain’s land beyond the seas" during the Age of Chivalry, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun tells of a childless Breton lord and lady (the "Aotrou" and "Itroun" of the title) and the tragedy that befalls them when Aotrou seeks to remedy their situation with the aid of a magic potion obtained from a corrigan, or malevolent fairy. When the potion succeeds and Itroun bears twins, the corrigan returns seeking her fee, and Aotrou is forced to choose between betraying his marriage and losing his life.

Originally written in 1930 and long out of print, this early but seminal work was the outcome of a comparatively short but intense period in Tolkien's life when he was deeply engaged with Celtic, and particularly Breton, myth and legend. Like The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún,The Fall of Arthur, and 9781328834546 • $24.00 / Hardcover The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun The Story of Kullervo, it belongs to a small but important corpus of NOVEMBER • Fiction/Fantasy • 128 pages • Carton Tolkien’s ventures into "real-world" mythologies, each of which in its own Qty: 12 • Territory: US way would be a formative influence on his own legendarium.

Edited with notes and commentary by Verlyn Flieger and a prefatory note on ALSO AVAILABLE the text by Christopher Tolkien. Beren and Lúthien 978-1-328-79182-5 $.00 HC J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and the author of such The Story of Kullervo classic and extraordinary works of ﬁction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and 978-0-544-94724-5 $14.99 PA The Silmarillion.

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary VERLYN FLIEGER, PhD, is retired from the University of Maryland as professor 978-0-544-57030-6 $15.95 PA emerita in the Department of English, where her specialties were the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and comparative mythology. • Advertising • Online promotion, including e-newsletters, Author’s residence: Facebook, and Twitter Flieger: Silver Spring, Maryland

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• 21 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Noah Strycker Birding Without Borders An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Traveling to countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars,Noah Strycker became the ﬁrst person to see more than half theworld’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpack, binoculars, and a series of one-way tickets, he traveled across forty-one countries and all seven continents, eventually spotting 6,042 species—by far the biggest birding year on record.

This is no travelogue or glorified checklist. Noah ventures deep into a world of blood-sucking leeches, chronic sleep deprivation, airline snafus, breakdowns, mudslides, floods, war zones, ecologic devastation, 9780544558144 • $27.00 / Hardcover conservation triumphs, common and iconic species, and scores of Birding Without Borders passionate bird lovers around the globe. By pursuing the freest creatures on NOVEMBER • Nature • 320 pages • 12 photos and the planet, Noah gains a unique perspective on the world they share with 4 drawings • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • us—and offers a hopeful message that even as many birds face an uncertain B/T/A/P/M/S: Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency future, more people than ever are working to protect them.

• National author tour including New York, Seattle, Portland, Texas, and Florida NOAH STRYCKER is associate editor of Birding • Online advertising magazine and the author of several books. He • Promotion at birding and nature shows has studied birds worldwide and works as a across the country guide on expedition cruises to Antarctica and the Arctic, spreading the inspiration of birds E-book available 9780544558151 from pole to pole.

Author’s residence: Oregon

• 22 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Umberto Eco Chronicles of a Liquid Society

A posthumous collection of essays by the great novelist, essayist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco.

Umberto Eco began writing a regular column called "La Bustina di Minerva" for the Italian weekly magazine L’Espresso in 1985. Its title referred to a brand of matchbook that had two white spaces inside, useful for brief jottings. Eco intended his articles to be short notes and digressions on ideas that came to mind, generally inspired by topical events. But not always, since just as topical for him was rereading a page of Herodotus, a Grimms’ fairy tale, or a Popeye comic strip.

The pieces in this volume reflect on many aspects of our “liquid society,” when a sense of community is lost, and fellow travelers become rivals. With dazzling erudition and a keen sense of the everyday, the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose writes on popular culture and politics, being seen, 9780544974487 • $24.00 / Hardcover conspiracies, the old and the young, cellphones, mass media, racism, good Chronicles of a Liquid Society manners, and the crisis in ideological values. A final gift to his readers NOVEMBER • Essays • 304 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • —astute, witty, illuminating. S: HMH. B/T/A/P/M: La nave di Teseo Editore, Italy UMBERTO ECO (1932–2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and novels, including The Name of the Rose,The Prague ALSO AVAILABLE Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Numero Zero Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, 978-0-544-81183-6 $14.95 PA and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government. Eco was The Prague Cemetery an honorary member of the American 978-0-547-84420-6 $15.95 PA Academy of Arts and Letters. The Name of the Rose 978-0-544-17656-0 $15.95 PA

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• 23 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Galway Kinnell, Edward Hirsch Collected Poems

The deﬁnitive collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award winner Galway Kinnell

“It’s the poet’s job to figure out what’s happening within oneself, to figure out the connection between the self and the world, and to get it down in words that have a certain shape, that have a chance of lasting.” —Galway Kinnell

This long-awaited volume brings together for the first time the life’s work fo a major American voice.

In a remarkable generation of poets, Galway Kinnell was an acknowledged, true master. From the book-length poem memorializing the grit, beauty, and swarming assertion of immigrant life along a lower Manhattan avenue, to searing poems of human conflict and war, to incandescent reflections on 9780544875210 • $35.00 / Hardcover love, family, and the natural world—including "Blackberry Eating,” "St. Collected Poems Francis and the Sow," and “After Making Love We Hear Footsteps”—to the DECEMBER • Poetry • 700 pages • Carton Qty: unflinchingly introspective poems of his later life, Kinnell’s work lastingly 12 • Territory: World • shaped the consciousness of his age. B/T/A/S: HMH. P/M: Author's estate

Spanning 65 years of intense, inspired creativity, this volume, with its inclusion of previously uncollected poems, is the essential collection for ALSO AVAILABLE old and new devotees of a “poet of the rarest ability . . . who can flesh out The Book of Nightmares music, raise the spirits, and break the heart.” (Boston Globe) 978-0-395-12098-9 $15.95 PA

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Author’s residence: E-book available 9780544874343 Sheﬃeld, Vermont

• 24 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com December Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters

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 9781328661593 • $22.00 / Hardcover Ursula’s blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters No Time to Spare to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it. DECEMBER • Essays • 192 pages • 1 b-w illustration • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • A/B/T/P/M/S: Curtis Brown 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: ALSO AVAILABLE “He still won’t sit on a lap…I don’t know if he ever will. He just doesn’t Steering the Craft accept the lap hypothesis.” On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell 978-0-544-61161-0 $14.95 PA takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to Finding My Elegy commit crime.” And on all that is unknown, all that we discover as we 978-0-547-85820-3 $22.00HC muddle through life: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.” Lavinia 978-0-15-603368-8 $14.95 PA

URSULA K. LE GUIN was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Among her honors • Author appearances are a National Book Award, ﬁve Hugo and ﬁve Nebula awards, the Janet • Online advertising on Goodreads • Memes for social media Heidinger Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

E-book available 9781328661036 Author’s residence: Portland, Oregon

• 25 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com December Sam Wasson Improv Nation How We Made a Great American Art

From the best-selling author of Fosse, a sweeping yet intimate—and often hilarious—history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular.

At the height of the McCarthy era, an experimental theater troupe set up shop in a bar near the University of Chicago. Via word-of-mouth, astonished crowds packed the ad-hoc venue to see its unscripted, interactive, consciousness-raising style. From this unlikely seed grew the Second City, the massively influential comedy theater troupe, and its offshoots—the Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade,SNL, and a slew of others.

Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv in this richly reported, scene-driven narrative that, like its subject, moves fast and digs deep. He 9780544557208 • $28.00 / Hardcover shows us the chance meeting at a train station between Mike Nichols and Improv Nation Elaine May. We hang out at the after-hours bar Dan Aykroyd opened so that DECEMBER • History/Performing Arts • 400 pages • 16-pp. 4-color insert • Carton Qty: friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner would always 12 • Territory: US,C,O • have a home. We go behind the scenes of landmark entertainments from The B/T/P/M/S: The Robbins Oﬃce A: HMH Graduate to Caddyshack, The Forty-Year Old Virgin to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we commune with a host of pioneers—Mike Nichols and Harold Ramis (both of whom Wasson interviewed days before they died), ALSO AVAILABLE Dustin Hoffman, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, and many more. With signature verve and nuance, Fosse 978-0-544-33461-8 $16.95 PA Wasson shows why improv deserves to be considered the great American art form of the last half-century—and the most influential one today.

• National author tour, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles • National media from New York and Los Angeles SAM WASSON is the author of ﬁve books, including the best-selling Fosse and • National advertising on various comedy Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. At Wesleyan University he joined the Desperate Measures podcasts and websites • Online promotion, including improv troupe, cofounded its annual 24-hour show, and earned limited Facebook, podcasts, and author interviews admiration for his parody of Virginia Woolf. • Promotional book trailer • Author website: samwasson.com; author Author’s residence: Twitter: @samwasson Los Angeles, California

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EAMON DOLAN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 26 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com December David DeSteno Emotional Success How Three Key Emotions Provide What We Want and Need from Life

A pioneering psychologist reveals the most eﬀective route to success relies on just three emotions

A string of bestsellers has alerted us to the link between greatness and grit—the ability to persevere and control one’s impulses. But no book yet has revealed the most accessible and powerful path to grit: our three prosocial emotions. These feelings—gratitude, compassion, and pride— rather than the traditionally mentioned willpower and self-denial, are the most practical and successful stepping stones. While willpower is depleted all too fast, prosocial emotions become stronger with use. These emotions are also contagious. People around us become more likely to apply them when we do. 9780544703100 • $28.00 / Hardcover Emotional Success This myth-shattering book explains why prosocial emotions are so JANUARY • Psychology/Self help • 288 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • effective. They evolved specifically to help us delay our gratification. B/T/P/M: Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency Compassion disables our innate desire for short-term gains and makes us A/S: HMH more resilient. DeSteno shows us how to strengthen our prosocial emotions, right now and for the future. Whether your child is taking the Marshmallow Test or you’re about to tackle the Whole30, Emotional

• National author tour, including New York, Success will give you the tools you need to pull you through. Washington DC, Seattle, and San Francisco • National online advertising, including NPR DAVID DeSTENO is a professor of psychology at • Academic promotion Northeastern University. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, where he is editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion. His E-book available 9780544703124 work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Paciﬁc Standard, and more.

Author’s residence: Canton, Massachusetts

EAMON DOLAN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 27 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Anthony Davenport Your Score An Insider's Secrets to Understanding, Controlling, and Protecting Your Credit Score

The most comprehensive insider’s look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score—and most importantly, how to ﬁx it

Like it or not, a healthy credit score is essential if you want to participate in today’s financial world. But very few people actually understand how their credit score is determined. Worse yet, most don’t know how their score is used by all kinds of companies and banks to dictate financial terms that will strongly affect their daily lives.

When consumers interact with the world of credit, they do so from a position of weakness. In Your Score, Anthony Davenport aims to change that. Finally, here is a road map for navigating the confusing world of 9781328695277 • $22.00 / Hardcover consumer credit. Drawing on the real stories of his own firm’s high-profile Your Score clients, as well as the stories of middle-class Americans, he reveals the JANUARY • Personal Finance • 224 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World • hidden credit pitfalls that await even the most careful consumer and shares A/B/T/S: HMH. P/M: Farley Chase Literary Agency smart strategies to avoid them.

An accessible but detailed manual, Your Score finally lets readers take control of their credit score, understand how to play the game, and gain an insider’s • Author appearances • National radio tour knowledge of how to better navigate the most important financial decisions • Targeted online advertising of their lives.

In 2010, ANTHONY DAVENPORT founded a E-book available 9781328694652 credit management firm that now represents many professional athletes, celebrities, and top financial professionals. He has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo Finance, WisePiggy, and others and has taught financial literacy to NFL athletes.

Author’s residence: Brooklyn, New York

• 28 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Deborah Reed The Days When Birds Come Back

An old house brings three very diﬀerent people together in this emotionally searing novel of love and second chances, from the author of the hugely popular Things We Set on Fire.

June is undoubtedly in transition. Reeling from her divorce and faced with a completely stalled career, she’s recently returned to the beautiful Oregon coast where she grew up, where she must decide what to do with her late grandparents’ charming cedar-shingled home, a place haunted by memories of her childhood.

June hires Jamison to renovate the old house to sell. He too is unmoored as he struggles to redefine his marriage in the aftermath of tragic loss. Over the course of the summer, their conversations quickly turn to the personal. With every picnic break they share and with every decision they make on 9780544817357 • $24.00 / Hardcover the finer points of the home, they are undeniably falling in love. But can The Days When Birds Come Back these two wounded souls actually be together? It will take a third to tip the JANUARY • Fiction • 288 pages • Carton Qty: balance when Maeve, who has secrets of her own, arrives to buy the lovingly 12 • Territory: US,C,O • restored home, ultimately finding peace within its walls. A/S: HMH. B/T/P/M: Waxman Leavell Literary Agency (Larry Kirshbaum) Brimming with empathy and a sense of possibility, The Days When Birds Come Back, like the house itself, is a graceful testament to finally letting go of the past. • Author appearances, including Portland and Los Angeles • National print and online advertising DEBORAH REED is the author of the novels • Reading group promotion Olivay, Things We Set on Fire, and Carry Yourself Back to Me. She has written two thrillers under her pen name Audrey Braun. She holds a E-book available 9780544817401 master's of ﬁne arts in creative writing and is codirector of the Black Forest Writing Seminars.

Author’s residence: Manzanita, Oregon

• 29 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Jonathan Moore The Night Market

From an author who consistently gives us “suspense that never stops,”* a near-future thriller that makes your most paranoid fantasies seem like child’s play.

*James Patterson

It’s late Thursday night, and Inspector Ross Carver is at a crime scene in one of the city’s last luxury homes. The dead man on the floor is covered by an unknown substance that’s eating through his skin. Before Carver can identify it, six FBI agents burst in and remove him from the premises. He's pushed into a disinfectant trailer, forced to drink a liquid that sends him into seizures, and is shocked unconscious. On Sunday he wakes in his bed to find his neighbor, Mia—who he’s barely ever spoken to—reading aloud to him. He can’t remember the crime scene or how he got home; he has no 9780544671898 • $24.00 / Hardcover idea two days have passed. Mia says she saw him being carried into their The Night Market building by plainclothes police officers, who told her he’d been poisoned. JANUARY • Thriller • 272 pages • Carton Qty: Carver doesn’t really know this woman and has no way of disproving her, 12 • Territory: US,C,O • but his gut says to keep her close. B/T/P/M: The Martell Agency; A: Recorded Books. S: HMH A mind-bending, masterfully plotted thriller—written in Moore's "lush, intoxicating style"*—that will captivate fans of Blake Crouch, China Miéville, and Lauren Beukes, The Night Market follows Carver as he works ALSO AVAILABLE to find out what happened to him, soon realizing he's entangled in a web of The Dark Room conspiracy that spans the nation. And that Mia may know a lot more than 978-0-544-78467-3 $24.00 HC she lets on.

The Poison Artist 978-0-544-81182-9 $14.95 PA *Justin Cronin

JONATHAN MOORE is the author of ﬁve books. • Author appearances in San Francisco Before completing law school in New Orleans, • National print and online advertising in Mystery Scene and Locus he was a teacher, a bar owner, a counselor at a • Library and mystery promotions wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and • Author available to Skype into events an investigator for a criminal defense attorney • Inclusion in the HMH Sci-ﬁ book club in Washington, DC.

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• 30 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Dr. Nadine Burke Harris The Deepest Well Healing the Long-Term Eﬀects of Childhood Adversity

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle.

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as an innovative, crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was her patient Diego—a boy who had stopped growing four years earlier after a sexual trauma—who galvanized her to dig deeper into the connections between toxic stress and the lifelong illnesses she was tracking among so many of her patients and their families. A survey of more than 17,000 adult patients’ “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs, like divorce, substance abuse, or neglect, had proved that the higher a person’s ACE score the worse their health—and now led Burke Harris to an astonishing breakthrough. Childhood stress changes our neural systems and lasts a 9780544828704 • $27.00 / Hardcover lifetime. The Deepest Well JANUARY • Nonﬁction • 272 pages • Carton Qty: Through storytelling that delivers both scientific insight and moving 12 • Territory: US,C,O • stories of personal impact, Burke Harris illuminates her journey of B/T/P/M: Idea Architects (Doug Abrams). A/S: discovery, from innovative research labs nationwide to her own pediatric HMH. practice in San Francisco’s poverty-ridden Bayview-Hunters Point. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health • National author tour, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, interventions outlined in The Deepest Well will represent vitally important Minneapolis, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los hope for change. Angeles, and San Francisco • National advertising, including the New York DR. NADINE BURKE HARRIS is founder and CEO Times, Washington Post, and the Atlantic • Library and academic promotion of the Center for Youth Wellness in San • Online promotion, including Facebook, Twitter, Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. She is the and e-newsletters subject of a New Yorker proﬁle and the recipient of a Heinz Award in 2016, among many other honors. Her TED talk, “I Was E-book available 9780544828728 Thinking Too Small,” has been viewed over 2.4 million times.

Author’s residence: San Francisco, California

• 31 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Thisbe Nissen Our Lady of the Prairie

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises—and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself

In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad 9781328662071 • $25.00 / Hardcover —long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter Our Lady of the Prairie —grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into JANUARY • Fiction • 384 pages • 12 b&w photos • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa A/B/T/P/M/S: William Morris Endeavor (Eric returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny’s wedding. There, Phillipa Simonoﬀ) must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband.

• National author tour, including New York, Boston, Portland, Austin, Madison, Iowa City, Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a Kalamazoo match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. • Online advertising • Library promotion • Advance reading copies Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp—a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart. E-book available 9781328663054

THISBE NISSEN is author of a story collection, Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night, and two novels, The Good People of New York and Osprey Island. Her ﬁction has been published in the Iowa Review and the American Scholar, among others, and her nonﬁction has appeared in Vogue and Glamour. She teaches at Western Michigan University.

Author’s residence: Battle Creek, Michigan

• 32 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com January Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Call Me Zebra

From an award-winning young author, a novel following a feisty heroine’s idiosyncratic quest to reclaim her past by mining the wisdom of her literary icons—even as she navigates the murkier mysteries of love.

Zebra is the last in a line of anarchists, atheists, and autodidacts. When war came, her family didn’t fight; they took refuge in books. Now alone and in exile, Zebra leaves New York for Barcelona, retracing the journey she and her father made from Iran to the United States years ago.

Books are Zebra’s only companions—until she meets Ludo. Their connection is magnetic; their time together fraught. Zebra overwhelms him with her complex literary theories, her concern with death, and her obsession with history. He thinks she’s unhinged; she thinks he’s pedantic. Neither are wrong; neither can let the other go. They push and pull their way across the Mediterranean, wondering with each turn if their love, or 9780544944602 • $24.00 / Hardcover lust, can free Zebra from her past.? ? Call Me Zebra FEBRUARY • Fiction • 288 pages • Carton Qty: An adventure tale, a love story, and a paean to the power of language and 12 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • literature starring a heroine as quirky as Don Quixote, as introspective as B/T/A/S/P/M: Wolf Literary Services Virginia Woolf, as whip-smart as Miranda July, and as spirited as Frances Ha, Call Me Zebra will establish Van der Vliet Oloomi as an author “on the verge of developing a whole new literature movement” (Bustle). • Pre-pub media event • Author appearances • National online advertising • Social media promotion, including reading lists AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI is the author and playlists of two books. She was a 2015 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a MacDowell E-book available 9780544944152 fellowship, and a Fulbright fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Guernica, and other places.

Author’s residence: South Bend, Indiana, and Florence, Italy

• 33 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com February F. Diane Barth I Know How You Feel The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women’s Lives

An expert's rich exploration of the intense, complicated landscape of women's friendships.

“Do I have enough friends?” “Why did my friendship end?” and “What makes a good friendship work?"

These are questions that F. Diane Barth, a psychotherapist widely recognized for her expertise in women’s relationships, fields all the time. In I Know How You Feel, she draws out engaging stories from a lively and diverse cast of women, many of whom speak about feelings they haven't shared before. She explores how life changes affect women's friendships in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Interweaving examples from classic women’s 9780544870277 • $27.00 / Hardcover literature to chick flicks, she provides grounded advice on how to I Know How You Feel manage betrayal and rejection, how to deal with a narcissistic or bossy FEBRUARY • Nonﬁction • 288 pages • Carton Qty: friend, what to do when your best friend and your family don’t get along, 12 • Territory: World • how to let go of a friendship that has stopped working, and much more. A B/T/A/S: HMH. P/M: Judith Riven Literary Agency timely, empathetic guide for women in their twenties to their sixties and beyond.

• National media from New York F. DIANE BARTH has worked as a • National drive-time radio tour • Finished copy mailings to BFF inﬂuencers psychotherapist in New York City for more than • Academic promotion and outreach to women's three decades. Her Psychology Today blog, organizations often on the subject of women’s friendships, has over 4,000,000 views.

E-book available 9780544870291 Author’s residence: New York, New York

• 34 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com February Ian Thomsen The Soul of Basketball The Epic Showdown Between LeBron, Kobe, Doc, and Dirk That Saved the NBA

From a seasoned NBA expert and acclaimed Sports Illustrated writer, the compelling story of the last decade of the NBA, as seen through the lens of the unforgettable 2010–2011 season

The Soul of Basketball is the compelling narrative of the changing guard in the NBA over the past decade, as played out during the pivotal 2010–2011 season, which saw stars fall, new heroes rise, the game stop and somehow find rebirth. It started withThe Decision, that infamous moment when uber-star LeBron James made the ill-advised announcement that he was joining Miami to cast aside the single-superstar model of Michael Jordan and play alongside some of the best in the NBA. But it didn’t work, and in the process LeBron became the personification of a sport that had lost its 9780547746517 • $27.00 / Hardcover way. The Soul of Basketball centers around the stories of LeBron, Kobe The Soul of Basketball Bryant, Doc Rivers, Dirk Nowitzki, and other NBA celebrities that year, FEBRUARY • Sports & Recreation/Basketball • 288 pages • One b-w 8-page insert • Carton Qty: each traversing a make-or-break season that would change the league forever. 12 • Territory: US,C,O • B/T/A/P/M/S: David Black Literary Agency In the tradition of Moneyball and The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, veteran NBA writer Ian Thomsen paints a portrait of a game in the throes of change. Chronicling this last season of what fans should have regarded as

• National media from New York the best basketball ever played, Thomsen tells the larger story of a league in • National sports-radio tour crisis. From Miami to Boston, Los Angeles to Dallas, Cleveland to the NBA • National online advertising offices in downtown Manhattan, this is a fascinating narrative about the • Twitter: @IanThomsen business of sports that paves the way for the new guard, such as Steph Curry, to thrive. E-book available 9780547746890

IAN THOMSEN is the special contributor to NBA.com has been writing about sports in America and around the world for three decades on behalf of the Boston Globe, the National Sports Daily, the International Herald Tribune, and Sports Illustrated.

Author’s residence: Swampscott, Massachusetts

• 35 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com February Kim Fu The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

From the award-winning author of For Today I Am a Boy, a gripping and deeply felt novel about a group of young girls at a remote camp—and the night that changes everything and will shape their lives for decades to come

A group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and nervous energy, they set off on an overnight kayaking trip to a nearby island. But before the night is over, they find themselves stranded, with no adults to help them survive or guide them home.

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore traces these five girls—Nita, Kayla, 9780544098268 • $23.00 / Hardcover Isabel, Dina, and Siobhan—through and beyond this fateful trip. We see The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore them through successes and failures, loving relationships and heartbreaks; FEBRUARY • Fiction • 256 pages • Carton Qty: we see what it means to find, and define, oneself, and the ways in which the 12 • Territory: US,O • same experience is refracted through different people. In B/T/P/M/S: Westwood Creative Artists Ltd. diamond-sharp prose, Kim Fu gives us a portrait of friendship and of the A: HMH families we build for ourselves—and the pasts we can't escape.

KIM FU is the author of the poetry collection ALSO AVAILABLE How Festive the Ambulance and the novel For Today I Am a Boy, which won the Edmund For Today I Am a Boy White Award, was a ﬁnalist for the 978-0-544-53852-8 $14.95 PA PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. • Reading group promotion • Online promotion, including podcasts and author interviews Author’s residence: • Advance reading copies Seattle, Washington • Author website: www.kimfu.ca/

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• 36 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com February Marcus Wicker Silencer

A Mariner Original

Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Oddisee meet traditional verse in this urgent collection of poems by Pushcart winner and NAACP Image Award ﬁnalist Marcus Wicker

Welcome to Marcus Wicker’s Midwest where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police brutality in twenty- first-century America. Precisely contradictory,bittersweet, witty, and heartbreaking, Silencer is where the political and the personal collide. Driven by the sounds of hip-hop and reimagined forms and structures, Wicker's explosive second book is composed of poems at war with themselves, verses in which the poet questions his own faith in God, in hope, in the American Dream, and in himself. Pushing our ideas of 9781328715548 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback traditions and expectations, these poems and queries work in concert Silencer towards creating a new dialectic. SEPTEMBER • Poetry • 80 pages • Carton Qty: 48 • Territory: World • MARCUS WICKER, recipient of a Ruth Lilly A/S: Author retains. B/T/P/M: HMH fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Cave Canem fellowship, is the National Poetry Series–winning author of Maybe the Saddest • Author appearances, including in New York, Thing. Wicker’s poems have appeared in The Washington, DC, Chicago, and Ann Arbor Nation, Poetry, the Boston Review, and more. • National online advertising • National Poetry Month promotion Author’s residence: • Library and academic outreach Lansing, Michigan

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• 37 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com September Hugh Howey Machine Learning New and Collected Stories

A Mariner Original

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy.

9781328767523 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of Machine Learning boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his OCTOBER • 352 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Territory: best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand US,C,O • and Beacon 23. A/B/T/S/P/M: Kristin Nelson Literary Agency Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the ALSO AVAILABLE world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this Beacon 23 volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. These 978-0-544-83960-1 $28.00 HC stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to 978-0-544-83963-2 $14.95 PA video games, and each story is accompanied by an author’s note exploring Shift the background and genesis of each story. 978-0-544-83961-8 $28.00 HC 978-0-544-83964-9 $15.95 PA Howey’s incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories Dust a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short 978-0-544-83962-5 $28.00 HC works—from a modern master at the top of his game. 978-0-544-83826-0 $15.95 PA

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• 38 • JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS/MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Hugh Howey Machine Learning New and Collected Stories

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy

9781328767530 • $28.00 / Hardcover Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of Machine Learning boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his OCTOBER • 352 pages • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand US,C,O • A/B/T/S/P/M: Kristin Nelson Literary Agency and Beacon 23.

Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the ALSO AVAILABLE world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this Beacon 23 volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. These 978-0-544-83960-1 $28.00 HC 978-0-544-83963-2 $14.95 PA stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author’s note exploring Shift the background and genesis of each story. 978-0-544-83961-8 $28.00 HC 978-0-544-83964-9 $15.95 PA Howey’s incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories Dust a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short 978-0-544-83962-5 $28.00 HC 978-0-544-83826-0 $15.95 PA works—from a modern master at the top of his game.

• Sci-ﬁ targeted advertising HUGH HOWEY is the author of the award-winning Molly Fyde saga and the New • Library and academic promotion • E-blasts York Times and USA Today best-selling Wool series. The Wool Omnibus won Kindle • Sample chapter in the back of other Hugh Book Review's 2012 Indie Book of the Year Award and has been translated in Howey books forty countries.

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JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS/HOUGHTON • 39 • MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Molly Tanzer Creatures of Will and Temper

A Mariner Original

A Victorian urban fantasy featuring duelists, demons, and the dark arts, inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray

Victorian London is a place of fluid social roles, vibrant arts culture, fin-de- siècle wonders . . . and dangerous underground diabolic cults. Fencer Evadne Gray cares for none of the former and knows nothing of the latter when she’s sent to London to chaperone her younger sister, aspiring art critic Dorina. Unfortunately for Evadne, she soon learns too much about all of it when Dorina meets their uncle’s friend, Lady Henrietta “Henry” Wotton. A semi-respectable aristocrat in public, in private she is secretly in the thrall of a demon obsessed with beauty and pleasure.

When Lady Henry and Dorina immediately hit it off, Evadne abandons her 9781328710260 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback chaperone duties and enrolls in a fencing school. There, she meets the Creatures of Will and Temper fencing master she’s always dreamed of. But soon, George reveals he is more NOVEMBER • Fantasy • 368 pages • Carton Qty: than just a teacher. He has dedicated himself to eradicating demons and 24 • Territory: World English • their servants, and he needs Evadne’s help. As Evadne gets pulled further B: HMH. A/P/M/S/T: Donald Maas Lit Agency into this hidden world, she begins to suspect that Lady Henry might (Cameron McClure). actually be a diabolist. Even worse, she believes Dorina may have joined her. Combining swordplay, demons, and high society, Creatures of Will and Temper shows a timeless world and adventure readers won't soon forget. ?• Advertising • Library promotion • Online promotion, including Facebook, Twitter, MOLLY TANZER is the Sydney J. Bounds and Wonderland Book Award–nominated and Goodreads author of Vermilion (an NPR and io9 Best Book of 2015), A Pretty Mouth, the • Advance reading copies historical crime novel The Pleasure Merchant, and other works.

Author’s residence: E-book available 9781328710369 Boulder, Colorado

• 40 • JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS/MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com November $PNJOHJO4QSJOH

Jade Chang The Wangs vs. the World

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An October 2016 Indie Next Pick A PopSugar Best Book for Fall A BuzzFeed Incredible Book for Fall A Nylon Amazing Book for Fall A Bustle Book for Your Fall TBR List A Millions Most Anticipated Book A Frisky Book to Read for Fall

Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he 9781328745538 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and The Wangs vs. the World packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. Together with their JULY • Fiction • 368 pages • Carton Qty: wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey 24 • Territory: US,O • from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of the B: Fig Tree/PRH; Canada: Harper Canada; eldest Wang daughter, Saina. The trip brings them together in a way money /T/P/M:Marc Gerald, United Talent Agency. A: never could. Recorded Books

“Highly entertaining” (BuzzFeed), this “fresh Little Miss Sunshine” (Vanity Fair)is a “compassionate and bright-eyed novel” (New York Times Book • Online advertising • Reading group promotion Review), an epic family saga, and a new look at what it means to belong in • FYE promotion America. “When the Wangs take the world, we all benefit” USA( Today).

JADE CHANG has covered arts and culture as a E-book available 9780544734203 journalist and editor. She is the recipient of a Sundance Fellowship for arts journalism, the AIGA Winterhouse Award for design criticism, and the James D. Houston Memorial Scholarship from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.

Author’s residence: Los Angeles

MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com July Carli Lloyd, Wayne Coﬀey When Nobody Was Watching My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World

A New York Times Bestseller

“If you are a real soccer player—then this is the book for you to read . . . Inspiring and uplifting. ”—GoalNation

In 2015, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team won its first FIFA championship in sixteen years, culminating in an epic final game that electrified soccer fans around the world. It featured a gutsy, brilliant performance by team captain and midfielder Carli Lloyd, who made history that day, scoring a hat trick during the first sixteen minutes.

But there was a time when Carli almost quit the sport. In 2003 she was struggling, her soccer career at a crossroads. Then she found a trusted 9781328745620 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback trainer, James Galanis, who saw in Carli a player with raw talent, skill, and a When Nobody Was Watching great dedication to the game. Together they set to work, training day and SEPTEMBER • Memoir/Sports • 272 pages • 37 night, fighting, grinding it out. Despite all the naysayers, the times she was photos over 2 8-pp sections • Carton Qty: 24 • benched, the moments when her self-confidence took a nosedive, she HMH hardcover, 2016 succeeded in becoming one of the best players in the world. Previous ISBN: 978-0-544-81462-2 • Territory: US,C,O • B/T/P/M: William Morris Endeavor (Jay Mandel); S: HMH. A: Penguin Random House Audio. CARLI LLOYD is the captain of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team that won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. She also represented the U.S. team in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics ﬁnals.

• Online advertising WAYNE COFFEY is an award-winning sports journalist and the New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty books.

E-book available 9780544814554 Author’s residence: Lloyd: Houston, Texas Coﬀey: Sleepy Hollow, New York

• 41 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com September Peter Ho Davies The Fortunes

A New York Times Editors' Choice A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016

“Davies writes with a rare emotional resonance and a deft sense of structure; it's hard not to be in awe of the way he's composed this complex, beautiful novel . . . Stunning.” —NPR

“Davies [is] a master storyteller.” —Entertainment Weekly

Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a 9781328745484 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial The Fortunes SEPTEMBER • Fiction • 288 pages • 1 b-w writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over rendering • Carton Qty: 24 • a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and HMH hardcover 2016, Previous broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. ISBN 978-0-544-26370-3 • Territory: US,C,O PETER HO DAVIES is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Welsh Girl (long-listed for the Booker Prize), The Ugliest House in the World, and Equal Love. Davies was chosen by Granta as one of the Best of Young British Novelists ALSO AVAILABLE in 2003. He teaches at the University of Michigan. The Welsh Girl 978-0-618-91852-2 $13.95 PA Author’s residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan • Author appearances • Paperback review attention • Reading group promotion, including Reading Group Choices, Book Reporter, and BookMovement

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• 42 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com September Take Pride

“An intriguing new way to think about a complicated emotion.” —New York

“A revelation.” —Angela Duckworth, best-selling author of Grit

Why did Paul Gauguin abandon middle-class life to follow the path of a starving artist? What explains the massive success of Steve Jobs, a man with great ideas but weak programming skills and a questionable managerial style? How did Dean Karnazes—the famed “Ultramarathon Man”—transform himself from a directionless desk jockey into an extreme athlete who once ran fifty marathons in fifty days?

As the renowned emotion researcher Jessica Tracy reveals in Take Pride, each of these superachievers has been motivated by an often maligned emotion: pride. Its dark, hubristic side is well known, but Tracy shows that

9781328745477 pride is also essential for helping us become our best, brightest selves. It Take Pride makes us strive for excellence. In the right doses and the right contexts, it Psychology • Carton Qty: • has been proven to boost creativity, motivate altruism, and confer power and HMH hardcover 2016, Previous prestige on those who display it. Avoiding the bad kind of pride while ISBN 978-0-544-27317-7 nurturing the good kind, Tracy argues, might just be the secret to success.

• Territory: World JESSICA TRACY is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. • Academic promotion Her groundbreaking research on the science of pride has been published in leading psychological journals and covered by hundreds of media outlets.

E-book available 9780544273085 Author’s residence: Vancouver, British Columbia

• 43 • www.hmhbooks.com Elly Griﬃths Smoke and Mirrors

“Absorbing . . . Another great series.” —San Jose Mercury News

“Clever, immensely likeable.” —Wall Street Journal

“Excellent . . . Evoking both the St. Mary Mead of Agatha Christie and the theater world of Ngaio Marsh.” —Booklist

It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a production of Aladdin starring Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were strangled to death in the woods and left alongside a trail of candy—a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of “Hansel and Gretel.”

Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a dark child, wrote 9781328745590 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the key to the case Smoke and Mirrors lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie’s SEPTEMBER • Mystery • 352 pages • Carton Qty: and Mark’s deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters 24 • performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max’s help in penetrating HMH hardcover 2016, previous ISBN the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection? 978-0-544-52795-9 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • B/T/P/M/S: Janklow & Nesbit A: Blackstone Audio ELLY GRIFFITHS is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Magic Men mysteries. She is the recipient of the Mary Higgins Clark Award and ALSO AVAILABLE the CWA Dagger in the Library Award.

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• 44 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com September Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor The Best American Short Stories 2017

"[A] terriﬁc and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." —USA Today

The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it" (San Francisco Chronicle), making her the perfect person to helm this literary time capsule of a collection.

MEG WOLITZER, guest editor, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking.

HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior 9780544582767 • $28.00 / Hardcover editor at Houghton Miﬄin Harcourt. She is the The Best American Short Stories 2017 author of the novels The Birthdays and The OCTOBER • Short Stories • 304 pages • Carton Qty: Daylight Marriage. 12 • HMH hardcover, 2016; previous 978-0-544-58275-0 Author’s residence: • Territory: US,C,O Wolitzer: New York City Pitlor: Outside of Boston

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• 45 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Meg Wolitzer, Heidi Pitlor The Best American Short Stories 2017

“[A] terriﬁc and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you.” —USA Today

MEG WOLITZER, guest editor, is the New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking.

HEIDI PITLOR, series editor, is a former senior 9780544582903 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback editor at Houghton Miﬄin Harcourt. She is the The Best American Short Stories 2017 author of the novels The Birthdays and The OCTOBER • Short Stories • 304 pages • Carton Qty: Daylight Marriage. 24 • Mariner paperback, 2016; previous 978-0-544-58289-7 Author’s residence: • Territory: US,C,O Wolitzer: New York City Pitlor: Outside of Boston

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• 46 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Ben Katchor, Bill Kartalopoulos The Best American Comics 2017

“Every last page is worth a look.” —Bustle

Ben Katchor, “the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip” (New York Times Book Review), selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2017 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make sure "the Best American Comics brand is poised to enjoy a killer second decade" (Bookgasm). 9780544750364 • $25.00 / Hardcover The Best American Comics 2017 BEN KATCHOR, guest editor, is the cartoonist of OCTOBER • Comics • 352 pages • 4-color Hand-Drying in America; The Jew of New throughout • Carton Qty: 12 • York;Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The HMH POB, 2016; previous ISBN Beauty Supply District; and The Cardboard 978-0-544-75035-7 Valise. He has received a Guggenheim • Territory: US,C,O Memorial Foundation fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. ALSO AVAILABLE BILL KARTALOPOULOS is a comics critic, The Best American Comics 2016 educator, curator, and editor. He teaches 978-0-544-75035-7 $25.00 POB comics history at the School of Visual Arts. The Best American Comics 2015 978-0-544-10770-0 $25.00 POB Author’s residence: Katchor: New York • National radio advertising, including NPR's Kartalopoulos: Brooklyn Selected Shorts' annual sponsorship

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• 47 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Hope Jahren, Tim Folger The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017

“Undeniably exquisite . . . Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova

“An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian

“[A] stellar compendium . . . Delightful to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

A renowned scientist and the best-selling author of Lab Girl, Hope Jahren selects the year's top science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across disciplines.

9781328715517 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback HOPE JAHREN, guest editor, is an award- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 winning scientist and the best-selling author of OCTOBER • Best American/Science • 336 Lab Girl. pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Mariner paperback 2016, previous ISBN TIM FOLGER, series editor, is a contributing 978-0-544-74899-6 editor at Discover and writes about science for • Territory: US,C,O several magazines.

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• 48 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Leslie Jamison, Robert Atwan The Best American Essays 2017

“They do what the essay form arguably does best: engaging the personal in order to reach larger themes . . . The essay form forces authors to take measure of themselves, and allows the reader to do so as well.” —Publishers Weekly

The best-selling essayist Leslie Jamison picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing her incredible ability to “stitch together the intellectual and the emotional with the finesse of a crackerjack surgeon” (NPR) to the task.

LESLIE JAMISON, guest editor, is the best-selling author of The Empathy Exams. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, 9780544817333 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia The Best American Essays 2017 Quarterly Review, and The Believer. OCTOBER • Essays • 288 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Mariner paperback, 2016; previous ISBN ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of 978-0-544-81210-9 The Best American Essays since its inception in • Territory: US,C,O 1986.

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• 49 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Howard Bryant The Best American Sports Writing 2017

“Excellent . . . A no-brainer pickup for the sports collection.” —Booklist

For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a s o l i d r e p u t a t i o n b y s h o w c a s i n g t h e g r e a t e s t s p o r t s j o u r n a l i s m o f the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.

9780544821552 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback &41/5IF.BHB[JOF The Best American Sports Writing 2017 OCTOBER • Sports • 416 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Mariner paperback, 2016; previous ISBN: 978-0-544-61731-5 • Territory: US,C,O GLENN STOUT, series editor, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception in 1991. ALSO AVAILABLE

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• 50 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October John Sandford, Otto Penzler The Best American Mystery Stories 2017

“A venerable series . . . there isn’t enough Xanax in anyone’s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these twenty skillful stories will unleash.” —Kirkus Reviews

Number-one New York Times best-selling author John Sandford—“one of the great summer-read novelists of all time” (Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly)—selects the best mystery writing of the year that “will have you on the edge of your seat” (USA Today).

JOHN SANDFORD, guest editor, is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of forty published novels, all of which have appeared, 9780544949089 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback in one format or another, on the New York The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 Times bestseller list, among them the Prey OCTOBER • Mystery • 384 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • novels, the Kidd novels, and the Virgil Flowers Mariner paperback, 2016; previous ISBN novels. 978-0-544-52718-8 • Territory: US,C,O • OTTO PENZLER, series editor, is a renowned B/T/A/P/M: Nat Sobel Associates, S: HMH (original mystery editor, publisher, and columnist. He material only) owns The Mysterious Bookshop in New York.

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• 51 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Charles Yu The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding deﬁnitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance.” —Washington Post

Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Charles Yu, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 continues to explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Yu bringing his unique view—literary, meta, and adventurous—to the series’ third edition.

9780544973985 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback CHARLES YU, guest editor, is the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 Universe, Sorry Please Thank You, and Third Class Superhero. OCTOBER • Science ﬁction/Fantasy • 320 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of numerous Mariner paperback, 2016 anthologies, and of the magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare. Previous ISBN: 978-0-544-55520-4 • Territory: US,C,O Author’s residence: Adams: Lompoc, California ALSO AVAILABLE Yu: Santa Monica, California

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• 52 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Sarah Vowell The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017

“A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be diﬀerent if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required.” —USA Today

Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of 826 Valencia and 826 Michigan writing labs to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection.

SARAH VOWELL, guest editor, is the best-selling author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Unfamiliar Fishes, The Wordy Shipmates, Assassination Vacation, and 9781328663801 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback The Partly Cloudy Patriot. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 OCTOBER • Literature • 432 pages • Carton Qty: 826 NATIONAL is a family of seven nonproﬁt 24 • organizations dedicated to helping Mariner paperback, 2016; previous ISBN underserved students, ages six through 978-0-544-81211-6 eighteen, with their creative and expository • Territory: US,C,O writing skills.

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• 53 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Lauren Collins, Jason Wilson The Best American Travel Writing 2017

“The Best American Travel Writing has been the gold standard for short-form travel writing from newspapers, magazines, and the Internet since its inception.” —New York Times Book Review

Everyone travels for different reasons, but whatever those reasons are, one thing is certain—they come back with stories. Each year, the best of those stories are collected in The Best American Travel Writing, curated by one of the top writers in the field, and each year they “open a window onto the strange, seedy and beautiful world, offering readers glimpses into places that many will never see or experience except through the eyes and words of these writers.” This far-ranging collection of top notch travel writing is, quite simply, the genre’s gold standard.

9781328745736 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback The Best American Travel Writing 2017 LAUREN COLLINS is a staﬀ writer at The New OCTOBER • Travel • 304 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Yorker and the author of When in French: Love in Mariner paperback, 2016 a Second Language. She lives in Paris with her Previous ISBN: 978-0-544-81209-3 husband and daughter.

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• 55 • www.hmhbooks.com Tyler Anbinder City of Dreams The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

A New York Times Top 100 Book of 2016

“Told brilliantly, even unforgettably . . . with fascinating details . . . While this is a New York story, it really is an American story, one that belongs to all of us.” —Boston Globe

“Anbinder’s sweeping City of Dreams scores big . . . Richly textured.” —New York Times Book Review

New York has been America’s city of immigrants for nearly four centuries. Growing from Peter Minuit’s tiny settlement of 1626 to one with more than 3 million immigrants today, the city has always been a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. City of Dreams is the long-overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York’s both famous and forgotten 9781328745514 • $17.99 / Trade Paperback City of Dreams immigrants: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York OCTOBER • 768 pages • ~125 b-w images and became a founding father; Russian-born Emma Goldman, who throughout, 12 maps • Carton Qty: 12 • condoned the murder of American industrialists as a means of aiding HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN downtrodden workers; Dominican immigrant Oscar de la Renta, who 978-0-544-10465-5 dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Over ten years • Territory: World • in the making, Tyler Anbinder’s story is one of innovators and artists, B/T/S; HMH. P/M/A: Jill Grinberg revolutionaries and rioters, staggering deprivation and soaring triumphs. In so many ways, today’s immigrants are just like those who came to America in centuries past—and their stories have never before been told with such • Academic promotion breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit. • Online promotion including Facebook

E-book available 9780544103856 TYLER ANBINDER is a professor of history at George Washington University. He is the author of three books, including the prize- winning Five Points and Nativism and Slavery. His ancestors came to New York from southwest Germany, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.

Author’s residence: Arlington, Virginia

• 56 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Steve Young, Jeﬀ Benedict QB My Life Behind the Spiral

“This book is a terriﬁc read.” —Jim Rome

“I couldn’t put it down.” —Brian Kilmeade

“Details his great football life . . . A remarkable story. An amazing saga.” —Mike Francesa

Steve Young produced some of the most memorable moments in NFL history. But Young’s most impressive victories have been personal ones that were won off the field when no one was watching.QB is a remarkably revealing memoir of a Mormon boy with a 4.0 GPA, a photographic memory, and a severe case of childhood separation anxiety.

9781328745729 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback QB As an eighth-string quarterback at Brigham Young University, Young OCTOBER • Sports • 416 pages • 2 8-pp persevered through homesickness and a coach who said he’d never make it inserts • Carton Qty: 24 • as a quarterback. Determined to prove his coach wrong, Young became an HMH hardcover, 2016 All-American, finished second in the Heisman voting, and was the top draft 978-0-544-84576-3 choice coming out of college. After signing the largest contract in sports • Territory: US,C,O • history, he was so overwhelmed by expectations that he nearly walked away B/T/A/P/M: InkWell (Richard Pine); S: HMH. from football.

Young’s quest was always about grit. Now, he shares the experience of being • Online advertising on Deseret News and inside his helmet while he runs through opponents both on and off the Facebook field.

E-book available 9780544845770 STEVE YOUNG is a two-time NFL MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, and a ﬁrst-ballot Hall of Famer. He is a member of ESPN’s weekly NFL coverage and appears regularly on television. Young holds undergraduate and law degrees from Brigham Young University.

Author’s residence: Palo Alto, California

• 5 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October David Bodanis Einstein's Greatest Mistake A Biography

“What Bodanis does brilliantly is to give us a feel for Einstein as a person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that does this as well . . . Whenever there’s a chance for storytelling, Bodanis triumphs.” —Popular Science

“Fascinating.” —Forbes

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life, he was ignored by most working scientists, and his ideas were opposed by even his closest friends. How did this happen?

Best-selling biographer David Bodanis traces the arc of Einstein’s 9781328745521 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback life—from the skeptical, erratic student to the world’s most brilliant Einstein's Greatest Mistake physicist to the fallen-from-grace celebrity. An intimate biography in OCTOBER • Science/Biography • 304 pages • 42 which “theories of the universe morph into theories of life” (The Times), b-w photos and line drawings • Carton Qty: 24 • Einstein’s Greatest Mistake reveals what we owe Einstein today—and how HMH hardcover 2016, Previous ISBN much more he might have achieved if not for his all-too-human flaws. 978-0-544-80856-0 • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • B/T/A/S/P/M: Conville & Walsh DAVID BODANIS taught for many years at Oxford University and has written numerous books, including E=mc2, an international • Academic promotion bestseller that was translated into two dozen • Online promotion, including Facebook languages and long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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• 5 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Lawrence Levy To Pixar and Beyond My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

“Enchanting . . . A crisp, even elegant, narrative.”New York Times

“Life obviously is about more than business, but few books discuss both so well.” —Fortune

“Levy has written a fascinating look at one of the most innovative companies of the early twenty-ﬁrst century.” —Publishers Weekly

After Steve Jobs was dismissed from Apple in the early 1990s and was struggling with NeXT, he turned his attention to an obscure graphics art company that he owned called Pixar.

9781328745613 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained To Pixar and Beyond lawyer and Silicon Valley executive, to persuade him to help get Pixar off OCTOBER • Business • 272 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • the ground. When Levy came to Pixar, he found the company was verging HMH hardcover, 2016 on failure. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next. 978-0-544-73414-2 • Territory: US,C,O • Set in the worlds of Silicon Valley and Hollywood, this book takes readers S: HMH; B/T/A/P/M: McCormick & Williams inside Pixar, Disney, law firms, and investment banks. It provides an up-close, firsthand account of Pixar’s amazing ascent, Levy’s enduring collaboration and friendship with Jobs, and how Levy came to see in Pixar • Academic promotion deeper lessons that can apply to many aspects of our lives. • Online promotion, including Facebook

E-book available 9780544734197 LAWRENCE LEVY is a former Silicon Valley attorney and business executive who was personally hired by Steve Jobs in 1994 to be the chief ﬁnancial oﬃcer and executive vice president of Pixar Animation Studios. Originally from London, Levy earned degrees from Indiana University and Harvard Law School.

Author’s residence: Palo Alto, California

• • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Danny Orbach The Plots Against Hitler

“Comprehensive . . . Superb . . . Likely to become the deﬁnitive general history of the subject.” —Publishers Weekly

“Combines intellectual history with thriller dynamics . . . [A] thoughtful and . . . gripping look at a historical counternarrative that remains relevant and disturbing.” —Kirkus Reviews

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. A year later, all political parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler’s dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged—soldiers, schoolteachers, politicians, diplomats, theologians, even a carpenter—who would try repeatedly to end the Führer’s genocidal reign. This dramatic book tells the full story of those noble, ingenious, and doomed efforts. This is history at its most suspenseful, as we witness secret midnight meetings, 9781328745675 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback crises of conscience, fierce debates among old friends about whether and The Plots Against Hitler how to dismantle Nazism, and the various plots themselves being devised OCTOBER • History • 436 pages • 4pp b-w and executed. photos • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN Orbach’s fresh research takes advantage of his singular skills as a linguist 978-0-544-71443-4 and historian to offer profound insight into the conspirators’ methods, • Territory: US,C,O • motivations, fears, and hopes. Though we know how this story ends, we’ve B/T/P/M: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency S: HMH. Audio: Dreamscape had no idea until now how close it came—several times—to ending very differently.The Plots Against Hitler fundamentally alters our view of World War II and sheds bright—even redemptive— light on its darkest days.

• Academic and reading group promotion DANNY ORBACH holds a B.A. in history and East Asian studies from Tel Aviv University and a E-book available 9780544715226 Ph.D. in history from Harvard. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Aﬀairs and is a senior lecturer in history and East Asian studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Author’s residence: Jerusalem, Israel

• 6 • EAMON DOLAN/MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Rory Stewart The Marches A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland

“The prose explodes . . . Stewart’s walk across the Middleland brings Cumbria brilliantly alive . . . This is travel writing at its best.” —Guardian

“The miracle of The Marches is not so much the treks Stewart describes, pulling in all possible relevant history, as the monument that emerges to his beloved father.” —New York Times Book Review

In The Places In Between Rory Stewart walked some of the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he travels with his eighty-nine-year-old father—a comical, wily, courageous, and infuriating former British intelligence officer—along the border they call home.

On Stewart’s four-hundred-mile walk across a magnificent natural 9781328745651 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback landscape, he sleeps on mountain ridges and in housing projects, in hostels The Marches and farmhouses. With every fresh encounter—from an Afghanistan veteran OCTOBER • Travel • 352 pages • 14 maps • Carton based on Hadrian’s Wall to a shepherd who still counts his flock in sixth- Qty: 24 • century words—Stewart uncovers more about the forgotten peoples and HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN languages of a vanished country, now crushed between England and 978-0-544-10888-2 Scotland. • Territory: US,O (-EU) • B/T/P/M: Sterling Lord Literistic Stewart and his father are drawn into unsettling reflections on landscape, A: Recorded Books S: HMH their parallel careers in the bygone British Empire and Iraq, and the past, present, and uncertain future of the United Kingdom. And as the end approaches, the elder Stewart’s stubborn charm transforms this chronicle of nations into a fierce, exuberant encounter between a father and a son. This ALSO AVAILABLE is a profound reflection on family, landscape, and history by a powerful and The Places In Between original writer. 978-0-15-603156-1 $15.99 PA RORY STEWART is the best-selling author of The The Prince of the Marshes 978-0-15-603279-7 $16.99 PA Places In Between and The Prince of the Marshes. His books have won literary prizes in four countries and have been translated into nine languages. A member of Parliament, he • Academic promotion currently serves as minister of state for international development.

Author’s residence: E-book available 9780544105799 Cumbria, United Kingdom

• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Ward Just The Eastern Shore

“In Just’s hands, the ambiguous motives behind the paper’s pursuit of the story are riveting . . . The novel stands on Just’s memorable study of Ned. Your heart goes out to this kindly, complex man who’s ‘not truly interested in the things of his own life, preferring the lives of others.’“ —Seattle Times

Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president’s daughter and father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs—Ned offers no resistance to his publisher’s argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career until eventually, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy-era Washington, D.C., Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations—the gorgeously limned themes running through Ward 9781328745576 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback Just’s elegiac and masterly new novel. The Eastern Shore OCTOBER • Fiction • 208 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN WARD JUST's eighteen previous novels include 978-0-544-83658-7 American Romantic, the National Book Award • Territory: US,C,O • finalist Echo House, and An Unfinished Season, A/B/T/P/M/S: Janklow & Nesbit winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Jeﬀ Pearlman Gunslinger The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre

A New York Times Bestseller

Nominated for the PEN/ESPN Literary Writing Award

“The compelling, complete story of [Favre’s] legend, and his faults.” —Chicago Tribune

In Gunslinger, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he 9781328745682 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a Gunslinger fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he OCTOBER • Sports • 464 pages • 2 8-pp b-w photo couldn’t bear to leave. sections • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2016 Gritty and revelatory, Gunslinger is a big sports biography of the highest Previous ISBN: 978-0-544-45437-8 order, a fascinating portrait of the man with the rocket arm whose life has • Territory: US,C,O • been one of triumph, fame, tragedy, embarrassment, and—ultimately B/T/A/P/M: David Black Literary Agency S: HMH —redemption.

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Donald Hall The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Former poet laureate Donald Hall selects the essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.

Long-Listed for the 2016 National Book Award

The ability to write poems has “abandoned” Donald Hall, now in his eighties, one of the most significant—and beloved—poets of his generation. Instead of creating new poems, he has looked back over his astonishingly rich body of work and hand-picked poems for this final, concise volume that will delight and endure.

The Selected Poems of Donald Hall is the definitive collection, showcasing poems rich with humor and eros and “a kind of simplicity that succeeds in 9781328745606 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback The Selected Poems of Donald Hall engaging the reader in the first few lines” (Billy Collins). NOVEMBER • Poetry • 160 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2015, previous ISBN “However wrenching [Hall’s poems] may be from line to line, they tell a 978-0-544-55560-0 story that is essentially reassuring: art and love are compatible, genius is companionable, and people stand by one another in the end.” —New York • Territory: World • Times Book Review B/T/M: HMH A/P/S: The Strothman Agency

DONALD HALL, who served as poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007, is a ALSO AVAILABLE member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the National Essays After Eighty Medal of the Arts, awarded by the president. 978-0-544-57031-3 $15.95 PA

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com November Amos Oz Judas

“[A] magnificent novel . . . Oz pitches the book’s heartbreak and humanism perfectly from first page to last, as befits a writer who understands how vital a political role a novelist can play.” —New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Scintillating . . . An old-fashioned novel of ideas that is strikingly and compellingly modern.” —Observer

Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by

9781328745491 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate Judas relationship, reveals its secrets. NOVEMBER • Fiction • 320 pages • N-A • Carton Qty: 24 • At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the HMH hardcover 2016, Previous state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is ISBN 978-0-544-46404-9 Amos Oz’s most powerful novel in decades. • Territory: US,C,O (-EU) • B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency

AMOS OZ is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, ALSO AVAILABLE which have been translated into thirty languages. He is the recipient of several major Between Friends 978-0-544-22774-3 $14.95 PA international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, Scenes from Village Life the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish 978-0-547-84019-2 $12.95 PA Book Award.

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com November Jonathan Moore The Dark Room

“If you like Michael Connelly’s novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room.” —James Patterson

“Moody and macabre with an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, this book leaves an uncomfortable, indelible impression that can’t be shaken . . . San Francisco has never been so menacing.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is at an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco’s mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain’s cold-case investigation, must wait. At City Hall, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first, an unforgettable blonde; the second, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third, the woman drinking from a flask; and last, the woman naked, unconscious, and shackled to a bed. The 9781328745569 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations are on the way The Dark Room unless the mayor takes his own life. DECEMBER • Thriller • 304 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN An “electrifying noir thriller,”* The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for 978-0-544-78467-3 the blackmailer, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the • Territory: US,C,O • mayor casts in his shadow. B/T/P/M: Alice Martell Literary Agency. S: HMH. A: Recorded Books *Booklist, starred review

ALSO AVAILABLE JONATHAN MOORE is the author of ﬁve books. The Night Market Before completing law school in New Orleans, 978-0-544-67189-8 $24.00 HC he was a teacher, a bar owner, a counselor at a wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and The Poison Artist an investigator for a criminal defense attorney 978-0-544-81182-9 $14.95 PB in Washington, D.C.

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com December Megan Marshall Elizabeth Bishop A Miracle for Breakfast

“A sure-handed, beautifully constructed book that captures the color of Elizabeth Bishop’s life—melancholy and ecstatic, anchored by whiskey and words, by turns New England grim and toucan-vibrant—on the page. Megan Marshall performs her own miracle: here is how poetry gets written.” —Stacy Schiﬀ, author of The Witches, Cleopatra, and Véra

Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet she has never been fully understood as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known, a secret affair, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian 9781328745637 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. Elizabeth Bishop DECEMBER • Biography • 368 pages • 45 b-w By alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir, photos throughout • Carton Qty: 24 • Megan Marshall, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN workshop at Harvard, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse 978-0-544-61730-8 of the ways poetry and biography, subject and biographer, are entwined. • Territory: US,C,O • B/T/A/P/M: Brockman, Inc. MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 S: HMH Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Mark ALSO AVAILABLE Lynton History Prize and was a ﬁnalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. The Peabody Sisters 978-0-618-71169-7 $16.95 PA Author’s residence: Margaret Fuller 978-0-544-24561-7 $16.95 PA Boston, Massachusetts

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• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com December Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, Sean Lynch Spark How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success

“A straightforward presentation that promotes values of conduct most of us would be proud to share.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A myth-destroying book that will make you rethink both the theory and practice of leadership.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

Pinpointing leaders is not an easy task. All managers know that within their organization there are certain key employees who are “sparks”—those rare individuals who have a natural drive not only to get the job done, but to go far beyond what is called for. These special employees truly get more accomplished in a day than others can in a week or more. These “sparks”

9781328745644 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback are the unique and essential people in your workplace who can help Spark transform your company in all sorts of magical ways. And it’s your job to JANUARY • Business • 224 pages • 2 b-w find them, empower them, and enable them to become the true leaders they illustrations • Carton Qty: 24 • are destined to be. HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN 978-0-544-71618-6 Based on hard-earned insights and case studies gleaned from their military • Territory: World • experience as well as corporate leadership training, Angie Morgan (U.S. B/T/S: HMH. Audio: Brilliance. P/M: Zachary Marine Corps), Courtney Lynch (U.S. Marine Corps), and Sean Lynch Schuster Harmsworth Lit Agency (U.S. Air Force) reveal how you can pinpoint the sparks within your ranks, and how you can unleash them to take your company to the next level.

• Facebook advertising • HMH business book newsletter The authors run Lead Star, a consulting ﬁrm focusing on corporate leadership. COURTNEY E-book available 9780544716230 LYNCH has a law degree from the William and Mary Law School, and ANGIE MORGAN has an MBA from the University of Michigan. Both are former Marines. SEAN LYNCH is a Yale alumnus and former U.S. Air Force ﬁghter pilot.

Author’s residence: Angie Morgan: Traverse City, Michigan Courtney Lynch: Glen Allen, Virginia Sean Lynch: Bradenton, Florida

• 6 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Jennifer Mueller Creative Change Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It

“This enlightening book not only shows why people reject creativity but provides solutions on how to switch one’s thinking and truly welcome it.” —Publishers Weekly

“This book completely changed the way I think about creative innovation.” —Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and So Good They Can’t Ignore You

All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive. But according to startling research from management professor Jennifer Mueller, business 9781328745668 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback leaders chronically reject creative solutions, even as they profess Creative Change commitment to innovation. JANUARY • Business • 256 pages • 1 b-w illustration • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2016 Mueller’s research also reveals that it’s not just CEOs but educators, 978-0-544-70309-4 parents, and other social trendsetters who struggle to accept new and • Territory: World • creative ideas. Mueller parses the tough questions that these findings raise. B/T/S: HMH. A: Brilliance Audio. Could people have an inherent prejudice against creative ideas? Could the P/M: The Anderson Literary Agency mindset we use to evaluate ideas turn this prejudice on or off ? Mueller describes how to shift your mindset to better recognize creative opportunity, and she provides counterintuitive recommendations to help • Business and academic promotion people embrace the creative ideas they want.

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Professor JENNIFER MUELLER holds a doctorate in social psychology and has taught at top business schools, including Wharton, the Yale School of Management, and New York University's Stern School of Business. Her viral paper “The Bias Against Creativity” won attention from over one hundred media outlets.

Author’s residence: Solana Beach, California

• • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Elinor Lipman On Turpentine Lane

“Warm, clever, a little silly, a lot of fun.” —Kirkus Reviews

At thirty-two, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It’s a peaceful life, really, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiancé is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss, or a mother who lives too close, or a philandering father who thinks he’s Chagall.

When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune, then, that Faith has found a friend in affable, collegial Nick Franconi, 9781328745583 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback officemate par excellence . . . On Turpentine Lane JANUARY • Fiction • 320 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Elinor Lipman may well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN 978-0-544-80824-9 our era, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is • Territory: US,C,O • funny, poignant, and a little bit outrageous. A/B/T/P/M/S: William Morris Endeavor

ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of ten novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine and My Latest ALSO AVAILABLE Grievance, winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize. The View from Penthouse B In 2001 she won the New England Book Award 978-0-544-22807-8 $14.95 PA in ﬁction.

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• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Leigh Gallagher The Airbnb Story How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Enemies

“An engrossing story of audacious entrepreneurism and big-industry disruption, [this] is a tale for our times.” —Charles Duhigg,author of Smarter Faster Better

This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lodging platform that has become, in under a decade, the largest provider of accommodations in the world. At first just the wacky idea of cofounders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb’s $30 billion valuation is now larger than Hilton's and Marriott's. Airbnb is beloved by millions of hosts and travelers around the world. After all this success, this is the first book to fully investigate the phenomenon of Airbnb. 9781328745545 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback The Airbnb Story Fortune editor Leigh Gallagher explores the success and the controversy of JANUARY • Business • 256 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2016, previous ISBN Airbnb. Hotel industry leaders wrestle with the disruption it has caused 978-0-544-95266-9 them, and residents and customers alike struggle with the unintended • Territory: US,C,O • consequences of the platform. This is also the first in-depth study of B: Virgin Books/Random House UK. A/T/S: HMH. Airbnb's leader, Brian Chesky, the quirky young CEO, as he steers the P/M: Trident/Melissa Flashman company into increasingly uncharted waters.

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Author’s residence: New York, New York

• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Derek B. Miller The Girl in Green

“A penetrating, poetic, and unexpectedly disarming book about the ageless conﬂict in the Middle East by a writer who has made that topic his specialty.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Arwood and Benton are improbable knights-errant . . . [who] make thoroughly beguiling action-adventure heroes.” —Booklist, starred review

1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is a Midwestern American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus, or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish—it’s hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in 9781328745507 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they The Girl in Green are trying to protect her. The two men walk away into their respective lives. JANUARY • Fiction • 336 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • But something has cracked for them both. HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN 978-0-544-70625-5 Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and • Territory: US,C,O • are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same B/T/S/P/M: Janklow & Nesbit. A: HMH girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she?

ALSO AVAILABLE DEREK B. MILLER has worked on international Norwegian by Night peace and security for think tanks, diplomatic 978-0-544-29266-6 $14.95 PA missions, and the United Nations. His ﬁrst novel, Norwegian by Night, was an Indies • Paperback review attention Choice Honor Book, an Economist Top Novel of • Reading group promotion, including Reading 2013, and a winner of the Crime Writers' Group Choices, Book Reporter, and BookMovement Association John Creasey Dagger Award.

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• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Melanie Wallace The Girl in the Garden

“In this exceptional novel, Melanie Wallace conveys the depths and complexities of life in a seemingly uneventful New England village. The Girl in the Garden strikingly aﬃrms Eudora Welty’s belief ‘that one place understood helps us understand all other places better.’” —Ron Rash, author of Serena and Above the Waterfall

When June arrives on the coast of New England, baby in arms, an untrustworthy man by her side, Mabel—who rents them a cabin—senses trouble. A few days later, the girl and her child are abandoned.

June is soon placed with Mabel’s friend Iris in town, and her life becomes entwined with a number of locals who have known one another for decades: a wealthy recluse with a tragic past; a forsaken daughter returning for the first time in years, with a stranger in tow; a lawyer, whose longings he can never reveal; and a kindly World War II veteran who serves as the town’s 9781328745712 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback sage. Surrounded by the personal histories and secrets of others, June finds The Girl in the Garden the way forward for herself and her son amid revelations of the others’ JANUARY • Fiction • 240 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • pasts, including loves—and crimes—from years ago. HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN 978-0-544-78466-6 In vivid, nuanced prose, Melanie Wallace— “a writer with a tender regard • Territory: World • for the marginal, the missing, and the lost ”*—explores the time-tested B/T: HMH; A: Recorded Books. P/M/S: Folio Literary bonds of a small community, the healing power of friendship and love, and whether the wrongs of the past can ever be made right.

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E-book available 9780544784208 MELANIE WALLACE is the author of The Housekeeper, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and Blue Horse Dreaming, which was long-listed (in translation, as Sauvages) for France’s Prix Femina.

Author’s residence: Thessaloniki, Greece

• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Emily Jeanne Miller The News from the End of the World

“A beautifully crafted, emotional portrait of a Cape Cod family whose teenage daughter may not be the only one out of options. The austere beauty of the oﬀ-season landscape seems to bring out hard truths and scour away secrets. I loved it.” —Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Summer Before the War

Vance Lake is broke, jobless, and recently dumped. When he takes refuge at his twin brother Craig’s house on Cape Cod, he finds himself smack in the middle of a crisis that would test the bonds of even the most cohesive family, let alone the Lakes: seventeen-year-old Amanda is pregnant. Craig is heartbroken and full of rage, his exasperated wife, Gina, is on the brink of an affair, and Amanda is indignant, ashamed, and very, very scared.

9781328745460 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback Told in alternating points of view, The News from the End of the World The News from the End of the World follows one family into a crucible of pent-up resentments, old and new JANUARY • Fiction • 288 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN secrets, and memories long buried. Only by coming to terms with their 978-0-547-73441-5 pasts, both as individuals and together, do they stand a chance of emerging • Territory: US,C,O intact.

EMILY JEANNE MILLER graduated from ALSO AVAILABLE Princeton University and holds an MFA from Brand New Human Being the University of Florida. She has received 978-0-544-00224-1 $15.99 PA fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, • Reading group promotion, including online and is the author of Brand New Human Being. discussion guide, e-newsletters, and social media outreach Author’s residence: Washington, D.C., and Cape Cod, Massachusetts E-book available 9780547734514

•7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com January Donald T. Phillips Lincoln on Leadership for Today Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues

“[An] intelligent and often moving look at one of the nation’s greatest presidents.” —Publishers Weekly

Based on Abraham Lincoln’s life, writings, and speeches, best-selling author Donald T. Phillips analyzes what America’s sixteenth president said and did in his own day with regard to the issues that confront us today.

How would Lincoln view race relations, terrorism, gun control, women’s equality, and the influence of special interest groups on Congress? How would he react to the invasion of Iraq and the Great Recession? How would he feel about the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots, a worker’s right to strike, the minimum wage, and labor unions? Would 9781328745699 • $16.99 / Trade Paperback Lincoln have a mobile phone and embrace the whirl of social media? Lincoln on Leadership for Today FEBRUARY • Current Aﬀairs • 336 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Phillips grounds his analysis in an illuminating understanding of Lincoln’s HMH hardcover, 2016 own words and actions and offers a fascinating thesis that longtime fans and 978-0-544-81464-6 newcomers alike will be eager to debate. • Territory: World • B/T/A/S: HMH P/M: Robert Barnett, Williams & DONALD T. PHILLIPS is known for his Connolly best-selling trilogy: Lincoln on Leadership, The Founding Fathers on Leadership, and Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership. He has coauthored bestsellers with Phil Mickelson, coach Mike Krzyzewski, Cal Ripken, Jr., and • Academic promotion others. • Online promotion, including HMH's business e-newsletter

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• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com February Lisa Servon The Unbanking of America How the New Middle Class Survives

“[A] startling and absorbing exposé . . . Required reading for fans of muckraking authors like Barbara Ehrenreich.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A smart, lucid, and original take on how our banking system became such a mess. This is an important book.” —Jake Halpern, author of Bad Paper

What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student have in common? All three are victims of our dysfunctional mainstream bank and credit system. Today nearly half of all Americans live paycheck to paycheck, as income volatility has doubled over the past thirty years. Banks, with their monthly fees and high overdraft charges, take advantage 9781328745705 • $15.99 / Trade Paperback of these fluctuations rather than help their lower- and middle-income The Unbanking of America customers manage them. FEBRUARY • Sociology/Current Aﬀairs • 272 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • Lisa Servon delivers provocative dispatches from inside a range of banking HMH hardcover, 2017, previous ISBN alternatives serving a steadily increasing number of Americans. She works 978-0-544-60231-1 as a teller at RiteCheck, a check-cashing business in the South Bronx; as a • Territory: US,C,O • payday lender in Oakland, California; and looks closely at the workings of a B/T/P/M: Elyse Cheney Literary Associates tanda, an informal lending club. And she delivers fascinating, hopeful A/S: HMH portraits of the entrepreneurs reacting to the unbanking of America—and designing systems to transform how nonwealthy Americans can gain the access to and agency over their own money that they, especially, need. • Advertising • Library and academic promotion LISA SERVON is a professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania and a former dean of the New School. Her work on E-book available 9780544611184 consumer ﬁnancial services has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic online, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere.

Author’s residence: New York City

• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com February Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein The Baron in the Trees

A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own terms

Cosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by and a new century dawn.

The Baron in the Trees exemplifies Calvino’s peerless ability to weave tales that sparkle with enchantment. This new English rendering by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein breathes new life into one of Calvino’s most beloved works. 9780544959118 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback The Baron in the Trees ITALO CALVINO’s superb storytelling gifts OCTOBER • Fiction • 240 pages • Carton Qty: 24 • earned him international renown. At the time HMH paperback, 1977, previous ISBN of his death, in 1985, he was the 978-0-15-610680-1 most-translated contemporary Italian writer. • Territory: US,C,O

ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated widely from the ALSO AVAILABLE Italian, including works of Elena Ferrante and Primo Levi. Invisible Cities 978-0-15-645380-6 $15.95 PA Author’s residence: Goldstein: New York City If on a winter's night a traveler . . . 978-0-15-643961-9 $14.95 PA

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• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com October Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein Last Comes the Raven And Other Stories

The ﬁrst complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections

Throughout his stories, Calvino delights in discovering hiddentruths beneath the surface of everyday life. Blending reality and illusionwith elegance and precision, the tales in this collection take place in aWorld War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with visionary and fablelike qualities. Three novice burglars accidentally break into a pastry shop; a pair of children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits—and his life—when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. 9780544146709 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback Last Comes the Raven Stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but • Fiction • 288 pages • Carton Qty: FEBRUARY the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, 24 • Territory: US,C,O • including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency addition to Calvino’s legacy.

ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained ALSO AVAILABLE worldwide renown as the author of Invisible The Complete Cosmicomics Cities,The Baron in the Trees, and numerous 978-0-544-57787-9 $15.95 PA collections of ﬁction and essays.

Six Memos for the Next Millennium ANN GOLDSTEIN has translated widely from the 978-0-544-14667-9 $13.95 PA Italian, including the works of Elena Ferrante, Into the War Primo Levi, Alessandro Baricco, and other 978-0-544-14638-9 $13.95 PA authors.

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• 7 • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com February Italo Calvino, Ann Goldstein The Written World and the Unwritten World Essays

A collection of essays oﬀering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature

Reading, writing, translating; the avant-garde and tradition; the fate of the novel: these are some of the themes of The Written World and the Unwritten World. A collection of essays, forewords, articles, interviews, notes, and other occasional pieces, this work displays Calvino’s remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work—now rendered in English by Ann 9780544146990 • $14.99 / Trade Paperback Goldstein—is a major statement in literary criticism. The Written World and the Unwritten World FEBRUARY • Literary Criticism • 288 pages • Carton ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained Qty: 24 • Territory: US,C,O • worldwide renown as the author of Invisible B/T/A/P/M/S: The Wylie Agency Cities, The Baron in the Trees, and numerous collections of ﬁction and essays.

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• • MARINER BOOKS www.hmhbooks.com February Find Five Ways to Do It

From the beloved Property Brothers, an inspiring, personal, and laugh- out-loud memoir

Jonathan and Drew Scott, also known as the Property Brothers on their wildly popular HGTV home renovation shows, follow up their New York Times bestseller with the book their fans have been waiting for. For the first time, the brothers reveal never-heard-before tales of their childhood and 'JOE'JWF8BZTUP %P*U4&15&.#&3 their rise to fame, from their early years as competitive bagpipers and struggling actors to how they bought their first house when they were just seventeen. They soon found their true passion in life, combining their natural gift for entertaining a crowd with the skills they’d learned buying, ALSO AVAILABLE renovating, and selling homes. In addition to hilarious behind-the-scenes %SFBN)PNF stories from the sets of their shows, Jonathan and Drew discuss how family and upbringing has inspired their success in life, and the importance of having fun in doing what you love. Throughout, the brothers keep fans laughing, with the clever and sometimes zany sibling banter they’re best • National media known for. • National 10-city author tour • National print and online advertising • Online marketing and social media promotion JONATHAN SCOTT, a renowned designer, and DREW SCOTT, a seasoned realtor, • Author website: www.thescottbrothers.com star in HGTV’s Property Brothers,Property Brothers at Home,Buying & Selling, and Brother vs. Brother. They have worked in real estate for over ﬁfteen years.

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT • 80 • www.hmhbooks.com Brent Ridge,Josh Kilmer-Purcell Beekman 1802: A Seat at the Table Recipes to Nourish Your Family, Friends, and Community

From the beloved founders of Beekman 1802, more than 115 seasonal recipes for enjoying and sharing with those you love

Beekman 1802: A Seat at the Table is Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s most personal cookbook yet, built on food that became a part of the authors’ move from New York City to Sharon Springs, New York—population 500. Based on the tradition of food at the center of community, more than 115 recipes embody the traditional story of stone soup, in which everyone 9780544850217 • $30.00 / Hardcover brings together their small piece to the pot to create something much Beekman 1802: A Seat at the Table greater than its parts. SEPTEMBER • Cookbooks • 256 pages • 175 4-color photos • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World • With recipes organized by season and interwoven with menus, bios of the B/T/A/S: HMH. P/M: Beekman Media; Sharon creative individuals who are part of the authors’ small-town community, Springs, NY and tips and tricks for making the varied dishes, readers will turn to the book again and again to nourish their own communities. Whether roasting a turkey for a November Friendsgiving, pulling out some frozen-in-season • National media Zucchini Blossom Squares for last-minute holiday guests, enjoying fresh • Online advertising • Online marketing and social media promotion pea pesto and crostini for a springtime supper, or quick-pickling a summer • Author website: beekman1802.com garden surplus, there will always be a seat at the table.

BRENT RIDGE and JOSH KILMER-PURCELL are the E-book available 9780544850224 founders of Beekman 1802, a lifestyle company built around their farm and focused on seasonal living. They have been featured in print and television media. Rose Marie Trapani is a recipe developer.

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• 8 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Better Homes and Gardens Better Homes and Gardens 100 Recipes You’ll Make Forever Perfected in Our Test Kitchen for Success in Yours

Photo tutorials, step-by-step instructions, and secrets for success that home cooks will turn to again and again

Every home cook needs a core of reliable favorites to execute flawlessly. Through clear instruction and photography, this collection provides the tools for making 100 perfect, reliable, and foolproof dishes, from the creamiest mac and cheese to the most flavorful fish tacos.

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• 8 • BETTER HOMES & GARDENS www.hmhbooks.com September Joanne Chang, Karen AkunowiczKristin Teig Myers+Chang at Home Recipes from the Beloved Boston Eatery

From beloved chef and author Joanne Chang, the ﬁrst cookbook from her acclaimed Boston restaurant, Myers+Chang

Award-winning and beloved chef Joanne Chang of Boston’s Flour bakery may be best known for her sticky buns, but that’s far from the limit of her talents. When Chang married acclaimed restaurateur Christopher Myers, she would make him Taiwanese food for dinner at home every night. The couple soon realized no one was serving food like this in Boston, in a cool 9780544836471 • $32.00 / Hardcover but comfortable restaurant environment. Myers+Chang was born and has Myers+Chang at Home turned into one of Boston’s most popular restaurants, and will be celebrating SEPTEMBER • 320 pages • 80 full-color its tenth anniversary in 2017, just in time for publication of this photographs • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: World • long-awaited cookbook. These recipes, all bursting with flavor, are meant to B/T/A/S: HMH P/M: Dystel & Goderich be shared, and anyone can make them at home—try Dan Dan Noodle Salad, Triple Pork Mushu Stir-fry, or Grilled Corn with Spicy Sriracha Butter. This is food people crave and will want to make again and again. Paired • Pre-publication media event with the couple's favorite recipes, the photography perfectly captures the • National media spirit of the restaurant, making this book a keepsake for devoted fans. • Online advertising • Online marketing and social media promotion James Beard Award winner JOANNE CHANG is chef and co-owner of Flour Bakery + Café in E-book available 9780544836730 Boston. In 2007 she opened Myers+Chang in the South End with her husband, Christopher Myers. She is the author of three cookbooks.

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• 8 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Jacques Pépin, Tom Hopkins A Grandfather’s Lessons In the Kitchen with Shorey

The grand master of cooking has a new apprentice in the kitchen: his granddaughter.

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RUX MARTIN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 8 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Michael SolomonovSteven Cook

Federal Donuts The (Partially) True Spectacular Story

A zany chronicle of the rise of America’s hottest donut mini empire—with recipes—by the authors of Zahav, the James Beard 2016 Book of the Year

9780544969049 • $16.99 / Hardcover Federal Donuts “We knew absolutely nothing about making donuts.” So begins this quirky SEPTEMBER • 160 pages • TK 4c photos • Carton Qty: 30 • Territory: US,C,O • story of how two James Beard Award winners hatched a harebrained idea S: HMH. B/T/A/P/M: David Black Agency. that resulted in a mini empire and turned Philadelphia into a donut destination. Federal Donuts is at once an ode to an American passion and a collection of recipes for the cult-favorite hits.

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MICHAEL SOLOMONOV and STEVEN COOK own the acclaimed restaurants Zahav, Federal Donuts, Dizengoﬀ, and Abe Fisher. Born in Israel and raised in Pittsburgh, Solomonov was named Eater 2016 Chef of the Year and won the 2011 James Beard Award for Best Chef, Mid-Atlantic.

Author’s residence: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

RUX MARTIN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 8 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com September Betty Crocker Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook

Easy Appetizers • Festive Cocktails • Make-Ahead Brunches • Christmas Dinners • Food Gifts

Betty Crocker updates a beloved classic, with more than 200 recipes and 125 photos that showcase the best of the Christmas season. From new cookies and cocktails to fresh ideas for main dishes, appetizers and gifts from the kitchen, this is the one-stop book for every cook

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• National media With more than 63 million cookbooks sold since 1950, BETTY CROCKER is the • Online marketing and social media promotion name readers trust for reliable recipes and great ideas. For over 75 years, Betty • Cross-promotion with General Mills Crocker has provided advice to millions of Americans through cookbooks, magazines, and television.

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• • BETTY CROCKER www.hmhbooks.com October Instant Pot Cookbook

The best and most comprehensive cookbook for mastering your Instant Pot--the hottest-selling kitchen appliance in years

Tasting Table calls the Instant Pot “the hottest kitchen tool since George +BDLFU$ PN JOH4PPO Foreman’s pint-size grill” and everyone from Ruth Reichl to top food bloggers rave about its efficiency, convenience, and affordability. Now, with this licensed cookbook—one of the most comprehensive published to date—you can discover exactly how much this miracle appliance can do. This full-color cookbook features recipes for all the functions of the Instant Pot, from everyday staples to surprising new dishes. You’ll find more than 175 recipes for everything from breakfast to dessert, including delicious soups and stews, vegetable mains and sides, jams and yogurts—even an entire cheesecake. This must-have cookbook is the perfect companion to the best-selling kitchen appliance to come along in decades.

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT • 8 • www.hmhbooks.com Betty Crocker Betty Crocker Lost Recipes

A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cook

Betty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with a retro/nostalgic twist. Eighty percent of the book includes tried-and-true recipes that simply aren’t in today’s cooking repertoire—mainly from-scratch recipes that are hard to find. Twenty percent is a fun look back at some of the cooking customs of the past that may not be worth repeating, but are worth remembering. Features include ideas like “How to Throw a 9781328710338 • $25.00 / Hardcover Hawaiian Tiki Party,” and the robust introductory pages contain interesting Betty Crocker Lost Recipes stories, anecdotes, and artwork from Betty Crocker’s history. Recipes are OCTOBER • Cookbooks • 240 pages • 50+ 4-color carefully curated to ensure that they are still relevant, achievable, and made photos • Carton Qty: 16 • Territory: World with available ingredients—think Beef Stroganoff, Chicken à la King, Waldorf Salad, and Chiffon Cake. These lost recipes are ready to grace the ALSO AVAILABLE tables of whole new generation of cooks.

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• • BETTY CROCKER www.hmhbooks.com October Robyn Eckhardt, David Hagerman Istanbul and Beyond Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey

The most extensive and lushly photographed Turkish cookbook to date, by two internationally acclaimed experts

Standing at the crossroads between the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia, Turkey boasts astonishingly rich and diverse culinary traditions. Journalist Robyn Eckhardt and her husband, photographer David Hagerman, have spent almost twenty years discovering the country’s very best dishes. Now they take readers on an unforgettable epicurean adventure, beginning in Istanbul, home to one of the world’s great fusion cuisines. From there, they journey to the lesser-known provinces, opening a vivid 9780544444317 • $35.00 / Hardcover world of flavors influenced by neighboring Syria, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Istanbul and Beyond Georgia. OCTOBER • 352 pages • 140 to 150 photos; 25% b & w • Carton Qty: 8 • Territory: World English • From village home cooks, community bakers, café chefs, farmers, and B: HMH T/A/P/M/S: Janis A. Donnaud & Associates fishermen, they have assembled a broad, one-of-a-kind collection of authentic, easy-to-follow recipes: “The Imam Fainted” Stuffed Eggplant; Pillowy Fingerprint Flatbread; Pot-Roasted Chicken with Caramelized Onions; Stovetop Lamb Meatballs with Spice Butter; Artichoke Ragout • National media • Online advertising with Peas and Favas; Green Olive Salad with Pomegranate Molasses; Apple • Online marketing and social media promotion and Raisin Hand Pies. Many of these have never before been published in • Author website: www.eatingasia.typepad.com English.

E-book available 9780544444348 ROBYN ECKHARDT’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Food & Wine. DAVID HAGERMAN has photographed around the world for Travel + Leisure,Saveur, and the New York Times. Their food blog, EatingAsia, is a two-time Saveur award winner and has been praised by the New York Times,Food 52, and The Splendid Table.

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RUX MARTIN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October Erin Jeanne McDowell The Fearless Baker Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro

Top food stylist and Food52’s popular baking columnist shares her baking secrets.

When people see Erin McDowell frost a perfect layer cake, weave a lattice pie crust, or pull a rich loaf of brioche from the oven, they often act as though she’s performed culinary magic. “I’m not a baker,” they tell her. But in fact, expert baking is not at all unattainable, nor is it as inflexible as 9780544791435 • $25.00 / Hardcover most people assume. The key to freedom is to understand the principles The Fearless Baker behind how ingredients interact and how classic methods work. Once these OCTOBER • 288 pages • 4c photos, 75-100 color concepts are mastered, favorite recipes can be altered and personalized line drawings • Carton Qty: 12 • Territory: US,C,O • A/S: HMH. B/T/P/M: Doe Coover Literary Agency almost endlessly.

With the assurance born out of years of experience, McDowell shares insider tips and techniques that make desserts taste as good as they look. • National media • Online advertising With recipes from flourless cocoa cookies and strawberry-filled popovers • Online marketing and social media promotion (easy), through apple cider pie and black-bottom crème brûlée (medium), • Promotional author video to a statuesque layer cake crowned with caramelized popcorn (difficult), • Author website: erinjeannemcdowell.com and “Why It Works,” “Pro Tip,” and make-ahead sidebars with each recipe, this exciting, carefully curated collection will appeal to beginning and experienced bakers alike. E-book available 9780544791442 ERIN McDOWELL is a baking columnist for Food52, the recipe editor for PureWow, a food stylist for Sift magazine, and has styled more than sixty cookbooks and dozens of magazine and newspaper articles.

Author’s residence: Guttenberg, New Jersey

RUX MARTIN/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN • 9 • HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com October James Peterson Sauces Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making, Fourth Edition

The acclaimed authority on sauce making, completely updated and, for the ﬁrst time, featuring invaluable step-by-step color photographs

Every good cook knows that a great sauce is one of the easiest ways to make an exemplary dish. Since its James Beard Award–winning first edition, James Peterson’s Sauces has remained the go-to reference for professionals and sophisticated home cooks, with nearly 500 recipes and detailed explanations of every kind of sauce. This new edition, published nearly ten years after the previous one, tacks with today’s movement toward lighter, fresher flavors and preparations and modern cooking methods, while also 9780544819825 • $60.00 / Hardcover elucidating the classic sauces and techniques that remain a foundation of Sauces excellence in the kitchen. The updated, streamlined design also features, NOVEMBER • 624 pages • 300 full color for the first time, full-color photos that clearly show these essential sauces photographs • Carton Qty: 6 • Territory: World • B/T/A/S: HMH. P/M: Arnold Goodman Associates at every step—bringing the author’s expertise to life like never before.

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• 9 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Sri Rao Bollywood Kitchen Home-Cooked Indian Meals Paired with Unforgettable Bollywood Films

A gorgeously illustrated cookbook pairing Bollywood movies with Indian menus and recipes

Bollywood, India’s film industry, produces hundreds of movies each year, selling twice as many tickets as Hollywood. Bollywood movies, all of which are musicals, are a kaleidoscope of brilliant color, attracting hundreds of millions of devoted fans around the world. As the Indian population in the 9780544971257 • $25.00 / Hardcover United States continues to grow (3.1 million and counting), and Indian Bollywood Kitchen culture is in the zeitgeist with yoga, meditation, food, and fashion, now is NOVEMBER • 256 pages • 30 color food photos and 80 movie stills and poster • Carton Qty: the perfect time for this book. A must for movie enthusiasts and Indian food 12 • Territory: US,C,O • lovers alike, this unique cookbook pairs favorite films, available on all major A/S: HMH. B/T/M/P: David Larabell, Creative Artists media streaming sites, with delicious, home-cooked dinner menus. Agency, NY Contrary to perception, Indian food isn’t difficult to prepare, and Sri Rao shares simple techniques developed by Indian American families like his. Accompanied by gorgeous film stills and movie posters,Bollywood Kitchen • National media is “dinner and a movie” the Indian way. • Author events • Online advertising SRI RAO is a screenwriter based in New York • Online marketing and social media promotion City and a devoted home chef of Indian cuisine. • Author website: www.sriraonyc.com One of the few Americans working in Bollywood, he has produced or written three E-book available 9780544971295 major ﬁlms, and has sold TV projects to networks including ABC, NBC, Fox, and BBC America.

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• • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com November Mark Bittman How to Cook Everything Vegetarian 2e Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

The ultimate guide to meatless meals, completely updated and better than ever, now for the ﬁrst time featuring color photos

Ten years ago, this breakthrough cookbook made vegetarian cooking accessible to everyone. Today, the issues surrounding a plant-based diet—health, sustainability, and ethics—continue to resonate with more and more Americans, whether or not they’re fully vegetarian. This new edition 9781118455647 • $35.00 / Hardcover has been completely reviewed and revised to stay relevant to today’s cooks: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian 2e New recipes include more vegan options and a brand-new chapter on DECEMBER • 784 pages • Full color photos and line smoothies, teas, and more. Charts, variations, and other key information illustrations • Carton Qty: 6 • Territory: World have been updated. And, new for this edition, the recipes are showcased in bright full-color photos throughout. With these photos and a host of ALSO AVAILABLE recipes destined to become new favorites, this already classic vegetarian How to Bake Everything cookbook will continue to be more indispensable than ever. 978-0-470-52688-0 $35.00 HC MARK BITTMAN is the author of more than How to Cook Everything The Basics twenty books, including the best-selling, 978-0-470-52806-8 $35.00 HC award-winning How to Cook Everything series. How to Cook Everything, Second Edition Formerly a New York Times columnist and 978-0-764-57865-6 $35.00 HC writer, he now devotes his time to cookbooks, teaching, and food-related advocacy. • National media • National author tour • National print and online advertising • Online marketing and social media promotion • Author website: www.markbittman.com

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• 9 • HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT www.hmhbooks.com December Diabetic Living Editors Diabetic Living Eat Smart, Lose Weight Your Guide to Eat Right and Move More

A practical and innovative guide to weight loss for people who want to take control of their health with simple changes to their diet and lifestyle—from the experts at Diabetic Living

This newest addition to the Diabetic Living collection is ideal for people with diabetes who want to lose weight by learning how to eat healthfully and move more. The first part of the book features more than 100 healthful, calorie-conscious, and carb-counted recipes—from budget-friendly meals 9781328739964 • $19.99 / Trade Paperback to perfectly portioned snacks—plus tips on how to conquer cravings and Diabetic Living Eat Smart, Lose Weight stay on track. The second part shows easy ways to add movement every day. DECEMBER • Cookbooks • 252 pages • full color throughout • Carton Qty: 20 • Territory: World Everyone will find ways to meet their weight loss goals and get fit, including how to get started with stretching exercises tailored to specific needs. All exercises include variations so that readers will not have to buy gym ALSO AVAILABLE equipment to complete a workout. Diabetic Living Healthy Makeovers for Diabetes 978-0-544-80064-9 $19.99 PA Diabetic Living® is the No. 1 lifestyle magazine for people living with diabetes, written and reviewed by experts in diabetes management, as well as people Diabetic Living Eat to Beat Diabetes 978-0-544-58265-1 $27.00 SPIRAL living with diabetes. See DiabeticLivingOnline.com for more helpful tips and delicious recipes. Diabetic Living Meals by the Plate 978-0-544-30213-6 $19.99 PA

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• 9 • BETTER HOMES & GARDENS www.hmhbooks.com December Whole30 Day by Day

The new must-have companion for the wildly popular Whole30 program —tips, tricks, hacks, advice, and more, to help you maximize your Whole30 success every day of the program

Whole30 Day by Day is the essential accompaniment to the New York Times bestseller The Whole30; a must-purchase for loyal, long-time fans and Whole30 newbies alike. This unique flexibound format book walks you through the Whole30 one day at a time, providing advice, tips, tricks, and hacks never before shared in print, the result of feedback from thousands of fans. Whole30 Day by Day is the next best thing to having Whole30 cocreator Melissa Hartwig right there by your side, coaching you the whole way through. Melissa will take you through the basics of the plan, share helpful resources, and walk you through the important reintroduction phase. She also provides introspective assignments and space to track your experience, in a format compact enough to carry with you everywhere.

MELISSA HARTWIG is a certiﬁed sports nutritionist who specializes in helping people change their relationship with food. She is the cocreator of the Whole30 program and the New York Times best-selling coauthor of It Starts with Food and Whole30 %BZCZ%BZ The Whole30. %&$&.#&3tCarton Qty:

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT • 9 • www.hmhbooks.com Whole30 Fast & Easy Recipes

A follow-up to the best-selling The Whole30 Cookbook with more fabulous recipes, all fast and easy to prepare

Millions of people have transformed their lives with Whole30, yet cocreator Melissa Hartwig wants to make it even easier to achieve Whole30 success—with delicious, compliant, fast, and easy recipes. This new collection is the follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Whole30 Cookbook. These 150 recipes are perfect for weeknight cooking, lunches in a hurry, and hearty breakfasts that still get you out the door on time. There are nearly effortless skillet meals, stir-fries, sheet-pan suppers, and slow-cook and no-cook meals, most of which can be made in 30 minutes or less. And forget about hard-to-find specialty ingredients; almost everything called for can be found in any supermarket. Whether you’re doing your first Whole30 or your fifth, or just looking for some healthy, fast, and easy recipes to try, this collection is a must-have for any kitchen.

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