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Contents • Fall 2007

New Releases ...... 2

Recent Highlights ...... 4

Houghton Mifflin Books ...... 6

Reference ...... 69 Effective January 1, 2007, the Library of Congress is using 13-digit ISBNs (same as Mariner Books ...... 77 the EAN), phasing out the use of 10-digit ISBNs. As the publishing industry makes The Old Farmer’s Almanac ...... 116 this transition, both the ISBN-10 and the ISBN-13/EAN will be included in Houghton Mifflin books and catalogs. Houghton Mifflin Children’s Books ...... 117

Reference Backlist Titles ...... 128

Larousse and Chambers Titles ...... 130

Peterson Field Guides® ...... 134

Kaufman Field Guides ...... 138

Taylor’s Gardening Guides® ...... 139

Rights Information ...... 141

Index of New Titles ...... 145

Bookstore Sales Representatives ...... 149

Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information ...... 150

International Information ...... 151 Prices and terms: Recent Awards ...... 152 Resellers are free to charge any price they wish for the books listed in this catalog. All prices and discounts are subject to change without notice.

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HOW DOCTORS THINK by Jerome Groopman, M.D.

“A unique, important, and wonderful book . . . You’ll never look at your doctor the same way again.”—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of Freakonomics

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61003-7 ISBN-10: 0-618-61003-0 • $26.00 MARCH • Medicine/Health 320 pages • 6 x 9 • Carton Qty: 12

THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN by J.R.R. Tolkien (Edited by Christopher Tolkien) With illustrations by Alan Lee

The first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien in three decades—since the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977—The Children of Húrin reunites fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and men, dragons and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs. Presented for the first time as a complete, standalone story, this stirring narrative of adventure, heroism, suffering, and forbidden love will appeal to casual fans and expert readers alike, returning them to the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien.

ALSO PRESENTING: THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN, DELUXE EDITION ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-90441-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-90441-7 $75.00 • APRIL • Literature • 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-89464-2 The deluxe edition contains a gatefold frontispiece exclusive to this edition. The blue outer ISBN-10: 0-618-89464-0 • $26.00 CL case will be foil-stamped with a motif created by Alan Lee. APRIL • Literature • 320 pages 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 • Carton Qty: 12 More than 8 illustrations and a two-color gatefold map

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Natalie Angier THE CANON A WHIRLIGIG TOUR OF THE BEAUTIFUL BASICS OF SCIENCE The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It is vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—from stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. “Every sentence sparkles with wit and charm . . . it all adds up to an intoxicating cocktail of fine science writing.”—Richard Dawkins ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-24295-5 • ISBN-10: 0-618-24295-3 • $27.00

Mark Slouka THE VISIBLE WORLD A fantastically romantic story of lost love and political intrigue. “An atmospheric mix of adventure, mystery, and romance, as well as a nuanced tale of one family coping with the nightmare of history. The sheer beauty of Mark Slouka’s prose will draw comparisons to The English Patient.”—Gary Shteyngart ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75643-8 • ISBN-10: 0-618-75643-4 • $24.00

Cat Cora COOKING FROM THE HIP FAST, EASY, PHENOMENAL MEALS “The book is packed with dishes that are not only punchy, flavorful, and healthy, but also FAST and simple—which is what most of us need, day in, day out.” —Ted Allen, food and wine specialist for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and author of The Food You Want to Eat ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72990-6 • ISBN-10: 0-618-72990-9 • $30.00

Robert Emmons THANKS! HOW THE NEW SCIENCE OF GRATITUDE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPIER “We can all be grateful to Robert Emmons for this pioneering work. By interweaving wisdom literatures, his own gratitude experiments, and people’s true stories, he points the way to authentic life satisfaction and joy. Readers will not engage this book without rethinking their own outlooks.”—David G. Myers, Ph.D., author of The Pursuit of Happiness ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-62019-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-62019-2 • $25.00

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Jim Gorant FANATIC TEN THINGS ALL SPORTS FANS SHOULD DO BEFORE THEY DIE Bill Bryson meets Rick Reilly in this highly entertaining and informative journey to the ten sporting events no self-respecting sports fan should miss. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61298-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-61298-X • $24.00

Taylor Antrim MARINER ORIGINAL THE HEADMASTER RITUAL A fast-paced story that traces the complicated path of young men refining their convictions and escaping from the shadows of their fathers. “Here it is: a first novel in which the characters are distinct, their inner lives believable, their initiations integrating the public, the private, the personal, and the political.”—Ann Beattie ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75682-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-75682-5 • $13.95

Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® COLLEGE DICTIONARY, FOURTH EDITION Access it your way: read it, hear it, download it. This 2007 update of the American Heritage® College Dictionary now includes a downloadable Windows®/Mac® version of American’s favorite dictionary and a thesaurus complete with text-to-speech reading of all the definitions and real-voice pronunciations. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-83595-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-83595-4 • $26.95

David Sheff BEAUTIFUL BOY A FATHER’S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS SON’S METH ADDICTION Based on a powerful New York Times Magazine piece, a beautifully written firsthand account of a father’s struggle with his son’s meth addiction by an award-winning writer and commentator. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68335-2 • ISBN-10: 0-618-68335-6 • $26.00

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Rudolph Delson MAYNARD AND JENNICA A Novel

An uproarious and deeply moving tour de force of a debut that is both a portrait of our times and a wildly original New York love story

© ALEX FREUND aynard is a defeated musician, a reformed misanthrope who Mmakes a hobby of surreptitiously filming the fashion faux AUTHOR PROFILE pas of New York City subway commuters. On an uptown Number Six Train, in the summer of 2000, he meets Jennica, a nostalgic RUDOLPH DELSON was raised in San Californian and Princeton graduate who calculates that she’s been Jose, California, and went to Stanford and N.Y.U. Law School. Except for a lonesome 68.53 percent of her adult life. It is hardly love at first sight. brief stint in Berlin, where he earned But when they meet again at Maynard’s film screening, their romance money by selling subscriptions to his does indeed blossom. And as with most things in life, everyone has occasionally risqué personal letters, he an opinion. has made a living, miscellaneously, as In the case of Maynard and Jennica, everyone includes: many a paralegal, a law clerk, and a litigation living and some dead relatives, a blond-bombshell Russian-Israeli associate. He quit his job at the law scam artist, a hip-hop impresario, a shabby lawyer, a long-lost friend, firm on the eve of his thirtieth birthday and a writer for The New Yorker. Exuberantly illuminating much that to write this, his first novel. Translation is true and often horrifying about our times, page-turning and wryly rights have already sold in five countries and film rights to Maynard and funny, Maynard and Jennica remains at heart a love story. Delson has Jennica have been optioned by Scott given us a pair of lovers who are human, flawed, complex, and at once Rudin. eccentric and deeply familiar—and in whose story we continue to feel invested long after we’ve turned the last page.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Brooklyn, New York

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Maynard Gogarty tells us what happened on the subway and dissects a dilemma (early August 2000):

here was a woman with beauty spots, and a misunderstand- Ting with the authorities—all on a Lexington Avenue local, uptown. She was one of these women who strike your heart and leave it resounding, like a bell. It’s a simple story. But may I give a preface, a brief preface, and then we can discuss what I did wrong? A preface: You step onto the subway, the subways constituting a borough unto themselves, with different hostilities and different hopes, a whole mobile county of curiosities, and—there she is! This creature with angelic blood, and a cup of iced coffee, and the scent of some recherché shampoo, and her smile just so. Her halo quivering every time the subway rattles. And you must decide what to do. Do you say something, or do you say nothing? Dignity would seem—dilemmatically, to require both and yet to permit neither. The subway is, after all, one of the most dignified places ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-83448-8 • $24.00 ISBN-10: 0-618-83448-6 to open an affair. Love should contain a constituent element of Maynard and Jennica irreducible destiny, and destiny is exactly what is lacking when—. SEPTEMBER • Fiction When Battery Park businessmen ransom dates with chesty 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 socialites from commercial matchmakers in midtown. Or, or when idle and gelatinous West Side freelancers, suctioned to coffee-shop tables like sea anemones, filter through the classifieds in the Village • National author tour, including New York, Voice for ads reading “Woman seeks Manly Polyp.” And destiny Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Portland is what is lacking when, after months of inhaling one another’s • National advertising, including the New York Times dander, the mustard-breathed attorney commences his case, his Book Review and The New Yorker lascivious case, against his homely, hot-doggy paralegal. Or, or • New York City subway promotion and advertising when the bag boy at Gristedes propositions the Gristedes cashier. • Publication announcement postcards Love should not be the spoils of a deliberate campaign or the • Advance reading copies convenient alliance of a war of attrition. Love should be an instant • Online promotion and outreach to literary communities and supernatural uproar in the soul. It should be the resounding • BEA promotion of a bell. • Book festival and trade show appearances • Author Web site www.rudolphdelson.com

*Andrew Sean Greer, author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli

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WHEN WE WERE BAD

A rising British star makes her American debut with an excoriatingly funny yet deeply humane novel about a glamorous London family that happens to be falling apart

verything is in order in the house of Rubin. This marvelous, dynastic ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88343-1 • $24.00 EJewish family is getting ready to marry off their perfect eldest son, ISBN-10: 0-618-88343-6 Leo. History, community, even gastronomy all unite the guests lucky When We Were Bad enough to attend this joyous occasion. AUGUST • Fiction 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A2 But when the groom—one minute before exchanging vows—bolts with the wrong woman, the myths that have defined this family start to AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE take on darker overtones. Mendelson’s satiric eye, which in her two London, England earlier novels has won her comparisons to the writing of Evelyn Waugh, is on full display here. But in these pages, she is also describing a world rarely explored in British society: the complicated, singular world of English Jews who often wear their Jewishness uneasily amidst an • Advance reading copies Anglican culture. • Online advertising, including Already hailed by Meg Wolitzer as “just the kind of snapping-smart, nextbook.org • Promotion to book festivals and Jewish witty writer I like,” Charlotte Mendelson’s perfectly calibrated When We book fairs Were Bad will firmly place her on the American map. • Extensive Web promotion

CHARLOTTE MENDELSON works in British publishing as an acquiring editor. She is the author of two highly praised novels, Daughters of Jerusalem and Love in Idleness. In winning two awards designed Y B

to spot talent in writers under the age of thirty-five (the Somerset L E H

Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), as well as S E

being short-listed for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year T A K

Award, Mendelson joins the company of writers such as David © Mitchell, Ian McEwan, and Zadie Smith.

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THE ELEPHANTA SUITE Three Novellas

A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India

his startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-94332-6 • $25.00 Thardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s ISBN-10: 0-618-94332-3 characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent’s well-worn paths The Elephanta Suite to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation SEPTEMBER • Fiction 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai’s reeking slums. And a young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCES In these pages, we also meet Indian characters as singular as they Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Hawaii are indicative of the country’s subtle ironies: an executive who yearns to become a holy beggar, an earnest young striver whose personality is rewired by acquiring an American accent, a miracle-working guru, ALSO AVAILABLE and more. Hotel Honolulu As ever, Theroux’s portraits of people and places explode stereo- (978-0-618-21915-5) $14.00 PA Blinding Light types to exhilarating effect. The Elephanta Suite urges us toward a fresh, (978-0-618-71196-3) $14.95 PA compelling, and often inspiring notion of what India is, and what it can Dark Star Safari do to those who try to lose—or find—themselves there. (978-0-618-44687-2) $15.00 PA

PAUL THEROUX’s highly acclaimed books include Blinding Light, • National advertising, including Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The New Yorker The Old Patagonian Express, and Fresh Air Fiend. • Online promotion • Select national interviews and features • Author appearances • First serial to The New Yorker

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Jonathan Chait THE BIG CON The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economists

A brilliantly revealing look at how a small group of economic hucksters have taken over the American political system and perverted our nation’s policies

© WILL O’LEARY merican politics has been hijacked. Not by “neocons” or A“theocons,” but by a fringe group of extremists obsessed with AUTHOR PROFILE radical ideas that favor no one but themselves and their business JONATHAN CHAIT is senior editor at interests. With dark and engaging wit, Jonathan Chait shows how these the New Republic and a nationally canny zealots gamed the political system and the media so that once syndicated columnist for the Los unthinkable policies—without a shred of academic or expert support— Angeles Times. Chait comments that now drive the American agenda, regardless of which party is in power. “Economic debates are not what they Why did these ideas succeed in Washington? How did they take seem to most people. What seems control of policy and sell short the country’s future? And how do they like a technical debate is often, quite continue to do so? Chait tells the outrageous and eye-opening story, simply, a scam. Economists are usually unable to explain this to the general expertly explaining just how politics and economics work in public, but if you have just a little bit Washington. Through vivid portraits of self-interested politicians of patience in wading through the and pseudo-economists, and in wry analysis of their bogus theories, details you can understand what’s Chait gives us the tools to understand what’s really behind economic happening. And once you understand, debates in Washington: a riveting drama of greed and deceit. then you see economic debates in Washington in a totally different way. You learn, in essence, to decode your daily newspaper, translate it from impenetrable Washington-ese. And you discover it is anything but dull.”

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Washington, D.C.

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from The Big Con

t is often difficult to get our minds around the fact that IAmerican economic policy has been taken over by sheer loons. Economists, after all, are a fairly sober lot. Even if they’re wrong, we tend to assume that their theories have at least undergone some fairly grueling academic scrutiny before reaching the point of becoming theories at all. It is shocking to discover that supply-side economics, for example, is completely off the wall. How did this theory ever make it through a review process? The answer is, it didn’t. As Princeton economist Paul Krugman notes,“Not only is there no major [economics] department that is supply-side in orientation, there is no economist whom one might call a supply-sider in any major department.” So if supply-side economics did not ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68540-0 • $25.00 come out of the economics profession, where did it origi- ISBN-10: 0-618-68540-5 nate? From the writings and discussions of journalists and The Big Con political pundits. Admittedly, as a journalist myself, I see SEPTEMBER • Current Affairs nothing wrong with writing about economic policy. But this 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 crowd was not merely commenting on economic policy; they were claiming to have disproved the collective wisdom of the economics establishment. • National media from New York, Washington, D.C., And here is what makes supply-side ideology’s rise Los Angeles even more baffling. One might expect a radical ideology • National advertising to have the benefit of smooth, reassuring intellectual • Online promotion and outreach, including political front men, individuals whose bearing attested to the and economic sites • Tie-in with New Republic and author’s lectures doctrine’s eminent good sense and mainstream bona fides. And yet if you look at its two most preeminent authors, Jude Wanniski and George Gilder, this is not the impression you get. Let me put this delicately. On second thought, let me say it straight out: They are deranged.

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IN A CARDBOARD BELT! Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage

From the author of Snobbery and Friendship, an engaging collection of essays ranging from memoir to cultural observation and literary criticism

oseph Epstein has been called America’s “liveliest, most erudite and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72193-1 • $26.00 Jengaging essayist” (James Atlas), and In a Cardboard Belt! provides ISBN-10: 0-618-72193-2 ample proof for the claim. Taking his title from the wounded cry of In a Cardboard Belt! once-great Max Bialystock in The Producers—“Look at me now! Look SEPTEMBER • Essays 432 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 at me now! I’m wearing a cardboard belt!”—Epstein gives us his largest and most comprehensive collection to date. Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE he uses to deft and devastating effect his signature gifts: wide-ranging Evanston, Illinois erudition, sparkling humor, and a penetrating intelligence. In personally revealing essays about his father and about his years as a teacher, in deeply considered examinations of writers from Paul Valéry to Truman ALSO AVAILABLE Capote, and in incisive take-downs of such cultural pooh-bahs as Harold Snobbery Bloom and George Steiner, Epstein presents us with what is surely (978-0-618-34073-6) $14.00 PA the best work of our country’s most singular talent, engaged with the Narcissus Leaves the Pool (978-0-618-87216-9) $14.95 PA richness and variety of life, witty in his response to the world, and Friendship always entertaining. (978-0-618-87215-2) $14.95 PA

JOSEPH EPSTEIN was born and educated in Chicago, where for thirty years he taught English and writing at Northwestern University. From 1975 to 1997 he was the editor of the American Scholar. • Academic promotion • Author appearances

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THE HEADMASTER’S DILEMMA A Novel

On the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the author the Los Angeles Times has called “one of America’s best novelists,” revisits the prep school world of his famed book The Rector of Justin

he Headmaster’s Dilemma shows Mr. Auchincloss returning to the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88342-4 • $25.00 T subject of his most famous novel, The Rector of Justin. Published in ISBN-10: 0-618-88342-8 1964, that novel took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader The Headmaster’s Dilemma the full life story of a much beloved and revered, if also feared, headmas- SEPTEMBER • Fiction 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 ter of an exclusive New England prep school. In The Headmaster’s Dilemma, we see up close what happens when a school’s ideals and founding principles collide with the exigencies of change. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE The Headmaster’s Dilemma is the story of what happens when New York City Michael Sayre, the handsome, avant-garde headmaster of Averhill, the great New England prep school, is faced with a school administrator’s worst nightmare: a lawsuit brought by fervent parents in response to an ALSO AVAILABLE incident involving their son and an upperclassman. To make matters The Rector of Justin worse, Michael is losing support from both the board of trustees—led by (978-0-618-22489-0) $13.00 PA The Friend of Women and Other Stories the conniving Donald Spencer—and senior faculty members. With the (978-0-618-71866-5) $24.00 CL help of his supportive wife, Michael attempts to right these wrongs, while keeping Averhill’s best interests in mind.

• National review attention LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS is the author of more than sixty books. He has • Bookmarks received the NAIBA Legacy Award for lifetime literary achievement • Author retrospectives and is the former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2000 the New York Landmarks Conservancy honored him as a “Living Landmark.”

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Jonathan Waxman A GREAT AMERICAN COOK Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs

The first cookbook by “one of the founders of contemporary American cooking.”—Colman Andrews

“My number-one mentor finally shares his culinary secrets in this long-awaited book.”—Bobby Flay, from the foreword

© JOHN KERNICK o Alice Waters, Ruth Reichl, Thomas Keller, Bobby Flay, TDeborah Madison, and other movers and shakers of the food AUTHOR PROFILE world, Jonathan Waxman is a culinary giant who has helped invent contemporary American cooking. His exuberant style “set the agenda JONATHAN WAXMAN grew up in Berkeley, California, studied political of New York dining” (New York Times) and ushered in a new spirit of science and wine making at the excitement in food. The forceful flavors of his dishes are unabashedly University of California at Berkeley, rustic and engagingly straightforward. and was a professional jazz trombon- In A Great American Cook, Waxman presents his greatest recipes ist. He apprenticed in France, was to the home cook for the first time. They include chef for Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse, and opened a succession of famous • Red Pepper Pancakes with Corn Sauce and Smoked Salmon, a classic restaurants in New York City, including appetizer he created when he ran the kitchen of Chez Panisse the legendary Jams. He is chef-owner • Crispy Chicken and Goat Cheese Burritos, one of his most-ordered of Barbuto, an Italian bistro in the items West Village, and West County Grill in • His signature Grilled Chicken with JW Fries, the dish that made him Sonoma, California. famous • Pizza with Bacon, Scallions, Parmesan, and Tomatoes, his favorite family supper AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE • “Restaurant-Style” Vegetables, the colorful accompaniment to any New York City main dish Waxman’s motto: Let your ingredients do the talking. Lighten up! Enjoy yourself !

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“Jonathan Waxman has managed ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65852-7 • $35.00 to teach and inspire hundreds ISBN-10: 0-618-65852-1 of the best younger chefs now A Great American Cook cooking in restaurants all over SEPTEMBER • Cookbooks 304 pages • 8 x 10 • A4 this country. He is quite possibly 50 color photos the best natural, instinctual cook I know.” —Colman Andrews • National media • Author tour, including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Providence, Washington D.C., Chicago “Happiness is a Manhattan • Sample recipes at www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com restaurant that feels like home. • Online outreach to cooking Web sites and blogs Waxman’s menu cuts a wide swath across Waxman’s life, which has spanned Milan and Venice by way of Berkeley to New York.” —Gourmet

PHOTOGRAPHS © JOHN KERNICK

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THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY DEFINE-A-THONTM FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN

THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY DEFINE-A-THONTM FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE

Go beyond the spelling bee. Take the Define-a-Thon Word Challenge!

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-44501-1 • $5.95 he American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon for the ISBN-10: 0-618-44501-3 High School Freshman and The American Heritage Dictionary The American Heritage Dictionary T Define-a-Thon for the High School Freshman Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate offer an entertaining way SEPTEMBER • Games/Language to help middle-schoolers, high school students, and graduates become 96 pages • 4 1/2 x 8 • OO vocabulary masters. Written by the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries, these books will encourage students and parents alike to ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-90875-2 • $5.95 energize their word power. ISBN-10: 0-618-90875-7 The books have two parts—a challenge section and an answers section. The American Heritage Dictionary Each question in the challenge section consists of a definition along with Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate four candidate words, of which only one is correct. The answers section SEPTEMBER • Games/Language 96 pages • 4 1/2 x 8 • OO gives the correct answer and shows that word in an example sentence. It also provides word histories and quotations by respected authors. 10-copy mixed counter display • $59.50 All the candidate words are defined, and there is a separate list of the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-93843-8 correct answers for quick look-up. These books offer a fun and easy way 2 pockets of 5 books each, for anyone who enjoys language to get on good terms with some useful new Freshman and Graduate words and to appreciate the importance of a strong vocabulary. Ships packed

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Define-a-ThonTM Improve your National Campaign vocabulary with the new • Cross-country Define-a-Thon word game sensation Word Challenge tour moderated by an American Heritage Dictionary editor • National drive-time radio tour First read the question • Visit www.defineathon.com ~ A description of The American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon with sample questions ~ Authorless event kits including: - Nametags - Request for questions Then find the answer - Winner’s certificate - Rules - Poster - Postcard • National advertising • Promotion to teachers and librarians • National author tour to book festivals, trade shows, and bookstores in New York, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Austin, and other locations

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THE OPTIMISTIC CHILD A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

The best-selling book on preventing childhood depression, with a new afterword

n The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91809-6 • $14.95 PA Iteachers, and coaches a proven program to prevent depression in chil- ISBN-10: 0-618-91809-4 dren. In a thirty-year study Seligman and his colleagues discovered the The Optimistic Child link between pessimism—dwelling on the most catastrophic cause of any SEPTEMBER • Parenting/Psychology 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 setback—and depression. Seligman shows adults how to teach children Harper Perennial, 1996 the skill of optimism to combat pessimism and its disastrous conse- Previous ISBN 0-06-097709-4 quences: depressed mood, resignation, underachievement, and even unexpectedly poor physical health. As Seligman states in his new afterword for this edition, “Teaching AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE children optimism is more, I realized, than just correcting pessimism . . . Wynnewood, Pennsylvania It is the creation of a positive strength, a sunny, but solid, future-minded- ness that can be deployed throughout life—not only to fight depression and to come back from failure, but to be the foundation of success and • Online promotion to parenting and vitality.” mental health sites

MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books, including Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness. He is past president of the American Psychological Association as well as the division of clinical psychology of the American Psychological Association, and former director of clinical training in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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THE HISTORY OF THE HOBBIT

A beautiful boxed set: the definitive examination of how Tolkien The History of the Hobbit Boxed Set came to write his original masterpiece, including the complete ISBN 13/EAN: 978-0-618-96440-6 • $95.00 unpublished draft and little-known illustrations and unpublished ISBN-10: 0-618-96440-1 maps, along with a new edition of the classic work itself. SEPTEMBER • Literary Criticism • B2

irst published in 1938, The Hobbit is a story that “grew in the Tolkien, The Hobbit, 70th Anniversary Edition ISBN 13/EAN: 978-0-618-96863-3 • $25.00 telling,” and many characters and events in the published book are F ISBN-10: 0-618-96863-6 completely different from what Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his SEPTEMBER • Fiction young sons as part of their “fireside reads.” For the first time, The 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 11/16 • B2 History of the Hobbit reproduces the original version of one of literature’s most famous stories, and includes many little-known illustrations and The History of the Hobbit, vol. 1 previously unpublished maps for The Hobbit created by Tolkien himself. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-96847-3 • $35.00 Also featured are extensive annotations and commentaries on the date of ISBN-10: 0-618-96847-4 composition, how Tolkien’s professional and early mythological writings SEPTEMBER • Literary Criticism influenced the story, the imaginary geography he created, and how he 480 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 11/16 • B2 came to revise the book in the years after publication to accommodate The History of the Hobbit, vol. 2 events in The Lord of the Rings. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-96919-7 • $35.00 These two volumes are boxed together with a new edition of The ISBN-10: 0-618-96919-5 Hobbit with a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text SEPTEMBER • Literary Criticism incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien’s own 480 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 11/16 • B2 drawings and color illustrations, including the rare “Mirkwood” piece.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE JOHN D. RATELIFF is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. For Seattle, Washington many years, he worked with the Tolkien manuscripts at Marquette University and has written extensively on Tolkien and the Inklings. He lives in Seattle with his family. • Online advertising and promotion • Featured at www.lordoftheringstrilogy.com

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Philip Roth EXIT GHOST A Novel

The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth’s nine Zuckerman books

ike Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has Lchanged, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no © NANCY CRAMPTON terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. In 1997 PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connec- Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 tions that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They the highest award of the American will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return Academy of Arts and Letters, the to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, won the National Book Award and whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: the National Book Critics Circle intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body. Award. He has won the PEN/ The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman’s youth, Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman’s first literary hero, The Plot Against America received E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American novel on an American theme for writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. 2003–2004.” Recently Roth received The third connection is with Lonoff’s would-be biographer, a PEN’s two most prestigious prizes: young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to the 2006 PEN/Nabokov Award and Lonoff’s “great secret.” Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or the 2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and ani- Achievement in American Fiction. mosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant Roth is the only living American possibilities. writer to have his work published in Haunted by Roth’s earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer’s insatiable commitment to fiction.

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from Exit Ghost

walked to West 71st Street, startled, at Columbus Circle, Ito see that the bulky fortress of the Coliseum had metamorphosed into a pair of glass skyscrapers joined at the hip and lined at street level with swanky shops. I wandered into the arcade and out, and when I continued north on Broadway it was not so much that I felt myself in a foreign country but as though some optical trick were being played on me so that things appeared as in the reflection of a funhouse mirror, everything simultaneous- ly familiar and unrecognizable. Not without some hard- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91547-7 • $26.00 ship, I’d conquered the solitary’s way of life, knew its tests ISBN-10: 0-618-91547-8 and satisfactions, and over time had shaped the scope of Exit Ghost my needs to its limitations, long ago abandoning excite- OCTOBER • Fiction ment, intimacy, adventure, and antagonisms in favor of 304 pages • 5 3/8 x 8 • US / OM quiet, steady, predictable contact with nature and reading and my work. Why invite the unanticipated, why court any more shocks or surprises than those that aging would be • Select national interviews and features, including National Public Radio sure to deliver without my prompting? Yet I continued up • National advertising, including the New York Times, Broadway, past the crowds at Lincoln Center that I did not USA Today, and National Public Radio wish to join, the theater complexes whose movies I had • BEA promotion • Advance reading copies no inclination to see, the leather goods shops and • Online promotion at www.nathanzuckerman.com gourmet food shops whose merchandise I didn’t care to buy, unwilling to oppose the power of the crazed hope of rejuvenation that was affecting all my actions.

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THE CUBS The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball

From the critically acclaimed authors of Red Sox Century and Yankees Century, the definitive narrative history of the Chicago Cubs

hey were America’s most successful baseball club at the turn of the Ttwentieth century, but at the turn of this century the Cubs have not won a World Series in nearly one hundred years. Yet, the Cubs have some ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-59500-6 • $35.00 of the most devoted fans in all of sport. ISBN-10: 0-618-59500-7 Glenn Stout chronicles the long, rich, counterintuitive history of this The Cubs team in all its depth, nuance, and color, including OCTOBER • Sports history 480 pages • 9 x 10 1/2 • A4 • A rare look at Chicago’s early baseball history in the 1860s and 1870s 200 b/w halftones • The magical 1906 season—116 wins, the most in MLB history • Ernie Banks’s legendary career AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES • 1969’s heartbreaking loss to the Amazin’ Mets Stout: Alburg, Vermont • The tumultuous ownership reign of chewing-gum magnate Phillip Johnson: Braintree, Massachusetts Wrigley and his son William • Sammy Sosa’s sixty-plus home runs—and later corked bat and steroids ALSO AVAILABLE allegations Red Sox Century, • The true story behind the “Curse of the Billy Goat”—what has really Expanded and Updated “cursed” the Cubs (0-618-62226-8) $40.00 CL Yankees Century (0-618-08527-0) $40.00 CL Complementing the text are more than two hundred gorgeous black- The Dodgers (0-618-21355-4) $35.00 CL and-white photographs as well as essays by noted Cubs chroniclers, including Scott Turow, William Nack, Rick Telander, Penny Marshall, Mike Royko, and more. A must-have for Cubs fans past and present, The Cubs • Advertising and promotion with the tells the complete story in a single narrative for the first time since 1945. Chicago Cubs • Regional catalogs • National sports media GLENN STOUT has been the series editor of The Best American Sports • Saturation events and media in Chicago Writing since its inception. RICHARD A. JOHNSON is the curator at the ™ and surrounding area New England Sports Museum. Together they have written numerous illustrated sports books, including Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, and The Dodgers.

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THE DOOR Poems

The first collection of poems in more than a decade from the best-selling Margaret Atwood ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-94272-5 • $25.00 ISBN-10: 0-618-94272-6 he Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since Morning in The Door T the Burned House in 1995. Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in SEPTEMBER • Poetry tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from 96 pages • 6 x 9 • B3 the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The collection begins with poems that • National Poetry Month promotion consider the past and ends with harbingers of things to come. As the New • Advance reading copies York Times has said, “Atwood’s poems are short, glistening with terse, • Select national interviews and features bright images.” Personal and compelling, The Door interrogates the • Author appearances certainties that we build our lives on.

MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than forty books of fiction,

poetry, and critical essays. Among her many awards are the Los E D I S

Angeles Times Book Award for The Handmaid’s Tale in 1986, the E T I Giller Prize in Canada for Alias Grace in 1996, and the Booker Prize H W

for The Blind Assassin in 2000. Her latest novel, Oryx and Crake, was G R O published in 2003, and Moral Disorder, a collection of short stories, E G

was published in 2006. ©

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Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus THE DEATH OF S C I N

O ENVIRONMENTALISM, R I V N E

N AND THE POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY A C I R E M A

Current tactics can’t solve today’s complex global crises. S C I

N The “bad boys of environmentalism” call for a bold and O R I

V empowering new vision N E

N A C I R E M A

© nvironmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus AUTHOR PROFILE Etriggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that environmental- MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER and TED ism cannot deal with global warming and should die so that a new NORDHAUS have spent their entire careers working with environmental politics can be born. Global warming is far more complex than past organizations. The two are managing pollution problems, and American values have changed dramatically directors of American Environics, a since the movement’s greatest victories in the 1960s, but environmen- social values research and political talists keep fighting the same old battles. Seeing a connection between strategy firm, and are senior fellows the failures of environmentalism and the failures of the entire left-lean- with the Breakthrough Institute. ing political agenda, the authors point the way toward an aspirational Their vision of a new, more effective politics that will resonate with modern American values and be capable environmentalism is reflected in these of tackling our most pressing challenges. proposals already introduced in In this eagerly awaited follow-up to the original essay, the authors Congress: “The New Apollo Project,” by Representative Jay Inslee; “Health give us an expansive and eloquent manifesto for political change. Care for Hybrids,” by Senator Barack What Americans really want, and what could serve as the basis for a Obama; and “Global Warming new politics, is a vision capable of inspiring us to greatness. Making Preparedness,” by Senators John Kerry the case for abandoning old categories (nature/market, left/right), the and Olympia Snowe. authors articulate a pragmatism fit for our times that has already found champions in such prominent figures as Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama. AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES This book will hit the same nerve as What’s the Matter with Oakland, California Kansas and Don’t Think of an Elephant. But its analysis will reshape American politics for decades to come.

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“‘The Death of Environmentalism’ . . . has provoked a civil war among tree-huggers for its assertion that ‘modern environmentalism, with all of its unexamined assumptions, outdated concepts, and exhausted strategies, must die so that something new can live.’ Sad to say,the authors are right.” —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

from The Death of Environmentalism, and the Politics of Possibility

nvironmentalists see global warming and the destruction of Ethe Amazon as crises of too much rather than too little progress. They see in China’s and India’s newfound prosperity not the birth of values capable of improving the lives of more than 2.5 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65825-1 • $25.00 billion people and protecting the natural world, but rather a threat ISBN-10: 0-618-65825-4 to ecological stability. If environmentalists see opportunity at all The Death of Environmentalism, and the Politics of Possibility they see it in the same technological fixes they peddle in the rest of OCTOBER • Current Affairs the developed world: fuel efficient cars, fluorescent light bulbs, and 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 better appliance standards. Given all the ways environmentalists have sought to constrain economic development, Brazil, China, and India rightly remain • National author tour, including New York, Washington, skeptical that environmentalists can be trusted to deliver on their D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle promise of “sustainable development.” In order to persuade the • Online promotion, including ecards and podcasts governments of China, India, and Brazil to care about ecological • Tie-in to author lectures and conferences crises, they will need to see rapid progress on their human crises. • Debates in environmental, conservation, science, As prosperity in those countries rises, social values will change, and political media and political demand for solutions to ecological issues will grow. • Promotion on author’s Web site: Embracing greater prosperity for China, India, and Brazil— www.deathofenvironmentalism.com or, for that matter, Harlem—is not only good for the environment, it is also good politics.

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L. Jon Wertheim RUNNING THE TABLE The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler

From a popular senior writer for Sports Illustrated comes this high-stakes, boys-on-the-road story about the most unlikely of phenoms—a heavyset, bipolar, and endlessly charming pool hustler named Kid Delicious

© DAVID BARRY n most sports the pinnacle is Wheaties-box notoriety. But in the Iworld of pool, notoriety is the last thing a hustler desires. Such is the AUTHOR PROFILE dilemma that faces one Danny Basavich, an affable, generously propor- A senior writer for Sports Illustrated, tioned Jewish kid from Jersey, who flounders through high school until L. JON WERTHEIM has been on the he discovers the one thing he excels at—the felt—and hits the road. full-time staff of the magazine since Running the Table spins the outrageous tale of Kid Delicious and 1997 and has covered a broad range his studly—if less talented—set-up man, Bristol Bob. Never was there a of topics, including tennis, the NBA, more entertaining or mismatched pair of sidekicks, as together they go and business and social issues in underground into the flavorfully seamy world of pool to learn the sports. His work has been featured art of the hustle and experience the highs and lows of life on the road. in The Best American Sports Writing™ Their four-year odyssey takes them from Podunk pool halls to slick numerous times, and he is the author of three previous books. Film rights to urban billiard rooms across America, as they manage one night to take Running the Table were optioned by down as much as $30,000, only to lose so much the next night that LionsGate, and the film is currently in they lack gas money to get home. With every stop, the action gets development. A member of the New hotter, the calls get closer, and Delicious’s prowess with a cue stick Jersey and New York bar associations, becomes known more and more widely. Ultimately, Delicious sheds Wertheim received his B.A. from Yale his cover once and for all and becomes professional pool’s biggest and his J.D. from the University of sensation since Minnesota Fats. Pennsylvania Law School. In a book sure to appeal to fans of Bringing Down the House and Positively Fifth Street, Wertheim evokes a subculture full of nefarious AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE but loveable characters and illuminates America’s fascination with New York City games and gambling. He also paints a lasting portrait of an insanely talented and magnetic hustler, who is literally larger than life.

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from Running the Table

The rhythms of road playing are maddeningly erratic. The rush of busting a local player and peeling back on the interstate with a swollen grubstake is tempered by days of numbing inactivity, frittering away hours in gloomy rooms. A week into the trip, Delicious and Bristol had yet to find action and had spent more time than they cared to ponder just waiting. Still, their spirits hadn’t flagged much. Delicious and Bristol were never at a loss for conversation, each holding the other in thrall with childhood stories. Both realized that, different as they were, a mutual admiration was taking hold. In Bristol, Delicious saw a trim, good-looking, self-styled badass, plenty comfortable in his own skin. Bristol was firm and assertive in his opinions and tastes. He seemed to possess the owner’s manual for life, always saying the right thing, dressing the right way, and getting the girls. At the pool table, his fierce pride and unwavering discipline offset skills that weren’t especially ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-66474-0 • $24.00 remarkable. Delicious reckoned that if he could get Bristol to ISBN-10: 0-618-66474-2 loosen up and stop acting like a jackass when he played, he could Running the Table be a hell of a hustler. OCTOBER • Sports Bristol stood in awe of Delicious’s pool skills, his ability to 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 One 8-page b/w insert read a table and then fire off balls with ruthless accuracy. But he was equally awed by Delicious’s comportment during games—his immunity from pressure and boundless charm. As for Delicious’s convex figure, his ability to sleep sixteen straight hours, his • National media from New York personality quirks, and his fragile mental • National advertising health, Bristol figured it was all part of the • Advance reading copies guy’s endearing overall makeup. “How • Author appearances come I beat a guy out of a hundred bucks and he wants to kick my ass,” Bristol once asked, “and you beat a guy out of a thousand and he wants to bring you home for dinner?”

Stephen King, editor Heidi Pitlor, series editor THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES® 2007

America’s best-selling story anthology, featuring guest editor Stephen King and new series editor Heidi Pitlor

“A short-fiction juggernaut.”—Wall Street Journal

dited by the best-selling author and pop culture icon Stephen King, this year’s collection is an eclectic and exciting mix of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71348-6 • $14.00 PA E diverse voices. The results are “flavor-filled, literate, and textually ISBN-10: 0-618-71348-4 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71347-9 • $28.00 CL complex . . . a heady treat for lovers of short fiction” (Booklist). With ISBN-10: 0-618-71347-6 King at the helm, it’s certain that “if you buy one book this year, [you The Best American Short Stories 2007 will] ensure a little bang for your buck with this journey through the OCTOBER • Fiction vibrant worlds of twenty authors” (San Diego Union–Tribune). 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-54352-6 PA 36-copy floor display • $536.00 Contributors include Richard Russo, John Barth, Jim Shepard, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-96772-8 Alice Munro, William Gay, T.C. Boyle, Mary Gordon, Kate Walbert, Ann Beattie, and Louis Auchincloss.

Introducing the Best American Short Stories new series editor Heidi Pitlor

HEIDI PITLOR is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin.

O Her fiction has been published in Ploughshares, and she is the N A

D author of the novel The Birthdays. She lives with her husband R O I G

and twin son and daughter outside of Boston, Massachusetts. L I E N

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STEPHEN KING is the author of sixty books, including Misery, The Green Mile, Cell, and Lisey’s Story, as well as about four hundred short stories, including “The Man in the Black Suit,” which won the O. Henry Prize in 1996. King was the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award from the National Book Foundation.

National promotion for the best-selling series

• Select national interviews and features • Panel events with contributors in major markets, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle • National advertising, including New York Times Book Review and NPR • Online promotion and outreach • Dedicated interactive site at www.bestamericanshortstories.com • All-new eye-catching 36-copy floor display

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CHRIS WARE is the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, ISBN-13/EAN: which won the American Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. 978-0-618-71876-4 • $22.00 POB ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE is an author and coeditor of Punk Planet. ISBN-10: 0-618-71876-1 Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, The Best American Comics 2007 OCTOBER Gilbert Hernandez, Seth, and Art Spiegelman. • Graphic Novel 368 pages • 7 x 9 1/4 • A4 b/w and full-color art throughout Previous ISBN 978-0-618-71874-0 POB Carl Hiaasen, editor Otto Penzler, series editor THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES™ 2007

“A standout collection.”—Kirkus Reviews

est-selling novelist Carl Hiaasen edits this year’s collection of the finest Bmystery writing from the past year. Filled with both mystery veterans and talented new voices, this “showcase series” (Booklist) features “masters of the genre . . . in an enticing collection” (Charlotte Observer). ISBN-13/EAN: CARL HIAASEN is a columnist for the Miami Herald and the author of many best- 978-0-618-81265-3 • $14.00 PA selling novels, including Nature Girl, Basket Case, and Skinny Dip. His first novel ISBN-10: 0-618-81265-2 for young readers, Hoot, was also a bestseller and received a Newbery Honor Award. ISBN-13/EAN: OTTO PENZLER is the founder of the Mysterious Bookshop and the Mysterious Press. 978-0-618-81263-9 • $28.00 CL ISBN-10: 0-618-81263-6 Contributors include Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, John Dufresne, The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 Louise Erdrich, William Gay, and David Means. OCTOBER • Mysteries 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-51747-3 PA

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Prices subject to change. www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com Copyright © 2007 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Introduction by Sufjan Stevens Dave Eggers, editor THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING™ 2007 “Electric . . . compelling . . . will appeal to more than the usual fans of story anthologies.”—Booklist Cover art by Carson Ellis

his lively latest volume of The Best American Nonrequired Reading boasts the Tbest in fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and “anything else that defies categorization” (USA Today). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students ISBN-13/EAN: from his San Francisco writing center, it’s an ever-eclectic “bouillabaisse of nonre- 978-0-618-90281-1 • $14.00 PA quired reading that should be required” (Publishers Weekly). ISBN-10: 0-618-90281-3 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-90276-7 DAVE EGGERS is the author of four books, including How We Are Hungry and What $28.00 CL Is the What. He is the editor of McSweeney’s and the founder of 826 Valencia, a San ISBN-10: 0-618-90276-7 Francisco writing lab for young people. SUFJAN STEVENS, guest introducer, is a singer- The Best American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his critically acclaimed albums, including Nonrequired Reading 2007 Greetings from Michigan, Seven Swans, and Illinois, all from the Asthmatic Kitty label he OCTOBER • Literature founded with his stepfather. 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-57051-5 PA Contributors include Alison Bechdel, Stephen Colbert, Scott Carrier, Lee Klein, Matt Klam, and others.

David Foster Wallace, editor Robert Atwan, series editor THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS® 2007 “If there’s a better reading companion for a long flight or a short vacation, I can’t think what it might be.”—Buffalo News dited by the critically acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, this year’s Ecollection brings together “witty, diverse” (San Antonio Express-News) essays that offer “universal insights [that] take us deep inside the writers’ minds” (Miami ISBN-13/EAN: Herald). 978-0-618-70927-4 • $14.00 PA ISBN-10: 0-618-70927-4 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including the ISBN-13/EAN: novel Infinite Jest and the essay collection Consider the Lobster. He has been the recipient of a 978-0-618-70926-7 • $28.00 CL MacArthur Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and numerous other awards. ROBERT ISBN-10: 0-618-70926-6 ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. The Best American Essays 2007 OCTOBER Contributors include Jo Ann Beard, Mark Danner, Malcolm Gladwell, Louis Menand, • Essays 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Molly Peacock, and others. Previous ISBN 978-0-618-70529-0 PA

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“Crackerjack writing from some of the country’s best-known sports journalists.”—Publishers Weekly

ritically acclaimed author and journalist David Maraniss edits this collection Cof the best sports writing from the past year. Not just for readers of the sports page, this year’s selections embrace the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitement. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75116-7 • $14.00 PA DAVID MARANISS is an associate editor at the Washington Post and the author of the ISBN-10: 0-618-75116-5 critically acclaimed and best-selling sports biographies Clemente and When Pride ISBN-13/EAN: Still Mattered, among other books. GLENN STOUT is the author of Red Sox Century, 978-0-618-75115-0 • $28.00 CL Yankees Century, The Dodgers, and The Cubs. ISBN-10: 0-618-75115-7 The Best American Sports Writing 2007 OCTOBER • Sports Contributors include Michael Lewis, Ian Frazier, Bill Buford, Daniel Coyle, 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Mimi Swartz, Jeff MacGregor, Chris Ballard, and Steve Friedman. Previous ISBN 978-0-618-47022-8 PA

Susan Orlean, editor Jason Wilson, series editor THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING™ 2007

“The writing in this volume is so vibrantly good, you’ll feel like you’ve armchair-traveled around the world.”—Chicago Sun Times

est-selling author and New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean edits this year’s Bvolume of the finest travel writing from the past year. “Full of insights, humor, the exotic and distant, and the ordinary and near” (Library Journal), this collection is “a perfect mix of exotic locale and elegant prose” (Publishers Weekly). ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-58218-1 • $14.00 PA SUSAN ORLEAN is the New York Times best-selling author of The Orchid Thief (which ISBN-10: 0-618-58218-5 was the inspiration for the film Adaptation), among other books. She has been a staff ISBN 13/EAN: writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Outside, Rolling 978-0-618-58217-4 • $28.00 CL JASON WILSON Stone, Vogue, and Esquire. has written for the Washington Post, Condé ISBN-10: 0-618-58217-7 Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Salon. The Best American Travel Writing 2007 OCTOBER • Travel Contributors include Ian Frazier, Ann Patchett, David Halberstam, Peter Hessler, 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 and others. Previous ISBN 978-0-618-58215-0 PA

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“A wonderful series . . . where students find plenty of inspiration.” —New Scientist

ne of today’s leading science writers, best-selling author Richard Preston, Oedits this year’s collection of the finest science and nature writing from the past year. Featuring a mix of new voices and prize-winning writers, this collection is “a terrific sampling of science writing at its best” (Booklist). ISBN-13/EAN: RICHARD PRESTON is the author of five books, including The Hot Zone, The Cobra 978-0-618-72231-0 • $14.00 PA Event, and The Demon in the Freezer (his Dark Biology trio). A regular contributor to ISBN-10: 0-618-72231-9 The New Yorker, he holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University and has won ISBN-13/EAN: numerous awards for his writing, including the American Institute of Physics Award 978-0-618-72224-2 • $28.00 CL and the National Magazine Award. TIM FOLGER is a contributing editor at Discover and ISBN-10: 0-618-72224-6 writes about science for several magazines. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 Contributors include James Gleick, Neil deGrasse Tyson, John Horgan, OCTOBER • Science/Nature William Langewiesche, and Heather Pringle. 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-72222-8 PA

Introduction by Harvey Cox Philip Zaleski, editor THE BEST AMERICAN SPIRITUAL WRITING™ 2007

“Some of the best recent American writing, period.”—Booklist

n this edition of this “excellent annual” (America), Philip Zaleski culls Icompelling and timely essays and poetry with selections ranging from perennial favorites to fresh new voices, all gracefully probing the role of faith in modern life while offering both spiritual insight and literary excellence. ISBN-13/EAN PHILIP ZALESKI is the author of many acclaimed books on religion, including Prayer: 978-0-618-83346-7 • $14.00 PA A History. He is a research associate in the department of religion at Smith College. ISBN-10: 0-618-83346-3 HARVEY COX is the author of the groundbreaking Secular City and many other books, ISBN-13/EAN: including The Seduction of the Spirit. He is a professor of theology at Harvard Divinity 978-0-618-83333-7 • $28.00 CL School. ISBN-10: 0-618-83333-1 The Best American Spiritual Writing 2007 Contributors include Robert Bly, Adam Gopnik, George Packer, OCTOBER • Religion Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, and others. 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Previous ISBN 978-0-618-58645-5 PA

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Bill Plaschke with Tommy Lasorda I LIVE FOR THIS Baseball’s Last True Believer S E M I T

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An award-winning sportswriter shows us one of baseball’s most famous and enduring legends as we’ve never seen him before, revealing the secrets of his amazing, unlikely success and his unvarnished opinions on the S

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© ommy Lasorda is perhaps baseball’s most famous and popular Tfigure. At seventy-nine, after twenty years of managing and fifty- BILL PLASCHKE has been a sports seven years with one franchise, this Hall of Famer still suits up in columnist at the Los Angeles Times Dodger Blue every day. He also keeps a travel schedule that would since 1996 and is a regular panelist dizzy the most frequent of frequent fliers. The embodiment of the on ESPN’s Around the Horn. His work American dream, Lasorda went from a scrawny, overlooked Italian has been featured frequently in The Best American Sports WritingTM. kid of average ability to become one of the world’s most recognizable TOMMY LASORDA is one of the most baseball faces. And he fought for it every step of the way. successful managers in baseball In I Live for This Bill Plaschke strips the veneer from one of base- history, a Hall of Famer who led the ball’s last living legends to show how grit and determination really can Dodgers to eight division titles and transform a life. We think we know this jovial manager from the rah-rah two world championships in twenty style that has always raised eyebrows in the world of baseball. Some seasons as manager. He also managed view him as an anachronism. Some love him like Santa Claus. But the United States to its first-ever there’s one thing they all agree on: Lasorda is a success. gold medal in baseball at the 2000 With gleaming insight and remarkable candor, Plaschke takes us Olympics. Lasorda currently serves as executive senior vice president for inside the day-to-day world of this baseball great to reveal a side of the Dodgers. He lectures around the Lasorda that few people really know. And along the way, we’re treated world, promoting baseball. to some of the most outrageous stories in sports. We also discover Lasorda’s unshakable opinions about what plagues baseball today. Bravely and brilliantly, I Live for This dissects the personality AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES to give us the person. In the end we’re left with an indelible portrait Lasorda: Fullerton, California of a legend that, if Lasorda has anything to say about it, we won’t Plaschke: La Canada, California ever forget.

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FROM the Introduction

first suspected in 1990—and confirmed throughout the next fifteen years—that Tommy Lasorda is nothing like his national Iperception. There has been a constant, pervasive paradox in all my travels with Tommy. Treacherous, yet tender. Filled with modern-day bluster, yet reeking of old-fashioned baseball. He can be lovable, vengeful, unselfish, unkind, all at the same time, all in the ten minutes that it takes him to walk from the Dodger box seats to the Dodger press box. How did a bowlegged, raw-knuckled, short-tempered little fat guy come to rule what was once the most glamorous kingdom in sports? Since 1990, Tommy Lasorda has endured a lot. His only son, Tommy Jr., died at age thirty-five. His only heart gave out and nearly killed him, forcing him into retirement. His first love, the Dodgers, abandoned him after retirement. His beloved game rewarded him, inducting him into the Baseball Hall of Fame in ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65387-4 • $25.00 1997. His country enlisted him to coach the 2000 U.S. Olympic ISBN-10: 0-618-65387-2 team, a journey that resulted in a gold medal, the trip of his life. I Live for This Recently the Dodgers smartly brought him back into the fold OCTOBER • Sports / Biography as a vice president; baseball pushed him back to the forefront with 256 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 popular postseason commercials; the world embraced him as the One 8-page b/w insert World Baseball Classic ambassador; and groups everywhere are again clamoring for his appearance. Today, Tommy Lasorda is, by all accounts, the most popular • National tour with Tommy Lasorda, including baseball figure in the world. But he is also perhaps the most com- New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, plex. He is still the guy surrounded by fans but fighting loneliness, Los Angeles, San Francisco the guy showered with accolades but fighting insecurity, the poor • National drive-time radio tour kid from a small Pennsylvania town who has something to prove, a • National advertising complicated, shadow-filled, true American baseball hero. • Copromotion with Dodgers The last real baseball hero. • Online promotion

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Jennifer Ackerman SEX SLEEP EAT DRINK DREAM A Day in the Life of Your Body

An entirely new way of looking at the human body

© ROBERT LLEWELLYN he acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman lends her keen eye Tand lively voice to this marvelous exploration of the human body. AUTHOR PROFILE Taking us through a typical day, from the arousal of our senses in the JENNIFER ACKERMAN writes for National morning to the reverie of sleep and dreams, Ackerman reveals the body Geographic, the New York Times, and as we’ve never seen it: busy, cunning, and miraculous. other publications. As a journalist, she Advances in genetics and medical imaging have allowed us to peer has tracked the rare red-crowned crane more deeply inside ourselves than ever before, and one of the most in Hokkaido, interviewed a chimpanzee, amazing recent discoveries is that we are deeply rhythmic creatures. chased a hurricane with geologists on a North Carolina barrier island, crossed The human body is like a clock—actually an entire shop of clocks— the Pacific in a research vessel studying measuring out the seconds, minutes, days, and seasons of life. Weaving the effects of global warming, and pieces of her own life with that of “everyman,” Ackerman shows the searched for dinosaur and early bird importance of synchronizing our actions with these biological fossils in a remote corner of Liaoning rhythms—and how defying them can cause us real harm. We learn Province in northeastern China. The the best time of day to drink a cocktail, take a nap, run a race, give a author of Notes from the Shore and presentation, or take medication, along with a host of other fascinating Chance in the House of Fate, she has facts (such as why you always succumb to a cold while your spouse been the recipient of a grant from the doesn’t even though you’ve both been exposed to the same sick child). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and literature fellowships from the National Endow- At once entertaining and deeply practical, this fascinating book will ment for the Arts and the Bunting make you consider your body in a whole new light. Institute of Radcliffe College. She is married to the novelist Karl Ackerman and has two daughters.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Charlottesville, Virginia

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from Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream

ou are your body. It holds you in and holds you up. It Yconstrains you and controls you, delights and disgusts you. And yet its activities are mostly a mystery. Let’s face it: We’re all body-conscious to one degree or another, acutely aware of our physical façades—the symmetry and wrinkle of face, the curve of torso, girth of thigh, roll of belly, flare of feet. But how many of us have a handle on the drama unfolding inside? As Saint Augustine said, we go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains and the courses of the stars, yet pass by the miracle of our own inner lives without wondering. In health, the body often operates so smoothly that we can almost forget it exists. Most often it’s some failure or perturbation that captures the attention. In fact, many of us spend our time trying not to be aware of what’s occurring within. No ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-18758-4 • $25.00 news is good news. ISBN-10: 0-618-18758-8 Not so. This came home to me some time ago when I suc- Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream cumbed to a virulent flu after a stressful run of life. The flu sucked OCTOBER • Science the juice out of me for weeks and robbed me of all the facets of 272 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 physical existence I relish: the satisfactions of work and exercise, the sweet smell of my children and other sensual pleasures, appetite and eating, restful sleep. When I emerged from my illness, I felt not only the relief and joy of having my body back, but a sud- • National author tour, including New York, Boston, den sharp desire to learn more about it. What was the nature of Washington, D.C., Virginia, Seattle, San Francisco those pleasures my healthy body so enjoys? And the problems that • National advertising, including the New York Review occasionally plague it? I realized I didn’t have a clue what went on of Books, Seed, Prevention inside me, in sickness or in health. I had no idea, for example, what • Advance reading copies underlies digestion and its precursor, hunger—that mysterious • Virtual author tour loop that translates the absence of nutrients into the craving for • Online promotion to science Web sites comfort food—or, for that matter, its antithesis, nausea. I hadn’t the foggiest idea what a virus did to my body, or alcohol to my brain, or cumulative stress to my energy and health. I knew my body did some things more effectively in the morning, others in the afternoon or evening, but didn’t have an inkling why.

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CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE

Have a happy Christmas in the Cotswolds with a volume of three heartwarming holiday tales from Fairacre

hree beloved Christmas tales—“No Holly for Miss Quinn,” ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91810-2 • $14.95 T“Village Christmas,” and “The Christmas Mouse”—are offered ISBN-10: 0-618-91810-8 here as one enchanting holiday volume. As frost sparkles on cottage NOVEMBER • Fiction • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A2 roofs and smoke rises from chimneys, the Cotswold village of Fairacre 240 pages • b/w line illustrations throughout is a perfect vision of Christmas joy—but celebrations of the season do not always go as expected. In this collection, the school’s endearing headmistress, Miss Read, recounts some of the most memorable Fairacre Christmases. An unwanted change of plan disrupts the festivities in “No Holly for Miss Quinn”; a dramatic birth kindles goodwill in “Village Christmas”; and a surprise visitor arrives on Christmas Eve in “The Christmas Mouse.” For uplifting reading no one rivals Miss Read, and her Christmas tales brim with good cheer.

“The more turbulent the real world, the more charming we may find the stability of Miss Read’s tiny fictional world.” —Los Angeles Times

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FARTHER AFIELD When Miss Read takes a tumble down the stairs, Amy Garfield steps in to care for her, marking the renewal of a lovely and unique friendship. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88436-0 • $12.95 PA ISBN-10: 0-618-88436-X • 224 pages

MISS CLARE REMEMBERS and EMILY DAVIS Dolly Clare and Emily Davis, childhood friends and retired teachers, use their deep knowledge and understanding of Fairacre to help members of the community. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88434-6 • $12.95 PA MISS READ is the pseudonym ISBN-10: 0-618-88434-3 • 240 pages of Mrs. Dora Saint, a retired schoolteacher beloved for her novels of English rural life, TYLER’S ROW especially those set in Thrush Fairacre isn’t the utopia the Hale family expected it to Green and Fairacre, fictional be, and they must adapt to ordinary life in a village full villages comfortably nestled in of extraordinary quirks. the heart of the Cotswolds. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88435-3 • $12.95 PA Millions of readers around the ISBN-10: 0-618-88435-1 • 240 pages world have been drawn into Miss Read’s cozy world, beginning more half a century ago VILLAGE AFFAIRS with the publication of her debut The villagers are alarmed when they hear the startling novel, Village School. rumor that the town’s schools will be closed and the children bused to nearby Beech Green. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-96242-6 • $12.95 PA Berkshire, England ISBN-10: 0-618-96242-5 • 240 pages ALSO AVAILABLE A PEACEFUL RETIREMENT in Miss Read’s Fairacre Series: Village School In the final book of the Fairacre series, Miss Read bids (978-0-618-12702-3) $12.00 PA her pupils farewell and finds that the next chapter of her life is full of surprises. Village Diary ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-88438-4 • $12.95 PA (978-0-618-88415-5) $12.95 PA ISBN-10: 0-618-88438-6 • 160 pages Village Centenary (978-0-618-12703-0) $12.95 PA

NOVEMBER • Fiction • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A2 • b/w line illustrations throughout Farewell to Fairacre (978-0-618-15456-2) $12.00 PA

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Sherry Yard DESSERTS BY THE YARD From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills: Recipes from the Sweetest Life Ever

Foreword by Wolfgang Puck

Spago’s pastry chef to the stars and author of the James Beard Award–winning Secrets of Baking shares the recipes that propelled her to the top of her profession

© HARRY LANGDON ight after night at Spago in Beverly Hills, Sherry Yard dazzles Nthe powerful, rich, and famous with incredible desserts. Her SHERRY YARD is the executive pastry marvelous confections have won over patrons from Madonna to Frank chef for Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Sinatra. Now the country’s premier pastry chef reveals the recipes that which includes Spago, Cut, and have made her a star in her own right and won her two coveted James Chinois. Her desserts play leading Beard Awards. roles at the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Emmy Desserts by the Yard begins with inspirations from Yard’s child- Awards. In addition to winning a hood, such as My Favorite White Birthday Cake with Chocolate and James Beard Award for Outstanding Butter Fudge Frosting, and culminates in the spectacular creations she Pastry Chef in 2002, she won a makes every year for the Academy Awards. Included here are some of James Beard Award for Best Dessert Yard’s most famous recipes: the slinky crème brûlée she perfected Cookbook for The Secrets of Baking. when she worked at New York’s Rainbow Room, the coffeecake that She was named Pastry Chef of the made Campton Place Hotel San Francisco’s most popular breakfast Year by Bon Appétit in 2000. spot, and the souffléed crème fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce she learned in Vienna. Don’t miss the chocolate caramel tart that Hugh AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Grant loves, former President Clinton’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, Beverly Hills, California or the treat that made actress Suzanne Pleshette exclaim, “Bitch! You’re gonna make me fat!” Desserts don’t get easier than Yard’s No-Bake Cheesecake, more decadent than Chocolate Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Gelato, or more holiday-perfect than Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie. In sidebars to each recipe, Yard shares tricks and techniques along with hilarious anecdotes that show her pluck, determination, and generosity.

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“I am addicted to Sherry’s sweets. Her range is tremendous.” —Wolfgang Puck

Memories of my Brooklyn childhood

Black & White Cookies

What I remember ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-51522-6 • $35.95 ISBN-10: 0-618-51522-4 about Atlantic City Desserts by the Yard are the sweets NOVEMBER • Cookbooks Russe Charlotte 400 pages • 8 x 10 • A4 75 color photos

ALSO AVAILABLE The Secrets of Baking (978-0-618-13892-0) $35.95 CL

• National media • National author tour, including New York, Los Angeles, Ch ocolate Hot & Cold San Francisco, Chicago, Las Vegas, Orlando • National print and online advertising From my first job at • Promotion to food bloggers New York City’s Rainbow Room PHOTOGRAPHS © RON MANVILLE

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PLANET CAT A CAT-alog

The cat’s out of the bag—a delightful book on all things feline that no cat lover can afford to miss

ollowing in the paw prints of Planet Dog (“A must for households ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-81259-2 • $14.95 PA Fhappily beset by paw prints.”—Parade), here is the cat’s meow: a ISBN-10: 0-618-81259-8 lively, entertaining, one-of-a-kind assemblage of more than 400 lists on all Planet Cat things cat. It’s all here, from the origins of the species to care and training NOVEMBER • Pets 416 pages • 8 x 8 • A4 to breeds and behavior to famous cats in history, art, and literature. The 170 b/w halftones and book even includes a list of celebrity cat people. Illustrated with more line drawings than 150 photographs and line drawings, this irresistible package is sure 5-copy counter display • $74.75 to delight cat lovers everywhere. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-96171-9

Featuring: • How to say cat in 46 languages • Great gifts for the pampered cat • Hemingway’s cats • Cat food recipes • National advertising • Cats who changed history • An IQ test for your cat • Online promotion • Why cats paint • Human habits that drive cats crazy • 5-copy counter display • Tricks you can teach your cat • And more!

ALSO AVAILABLE Planet Dog SANDRA CHORON is a writer, editor, literary agent, book packager, (978-0-618-51752-7) designer, and author with her husband, HARRY CHORON, of Planet $14.95 PA Dog, College in a Can, The Book of Lists for Teens, and The All New 5-copy counter Book of Lists for Kids, among other works. ARDEN MOORE is an display • $74.75 award-winning freelance writer and editor and a nationally ISBN-13/EAN: recognized expert on pets. 978-0-618-62751-6

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THE HEARTS OF HORSES A Novel

A breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek, the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for “gentling” wild horses

n the winter of 1917, when a young woman shows up at his doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George Bliss hires her I ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-79990-9 • $24.00 on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, ISBN-10: 0-618-79990-7 beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but feisty girl with a serious The Hearts of Horses knowledge of horses. NOVEMBER • Fiction So begins the irresistible tale of nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen, a 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man’s world. At the time, it was thought that the only way to break a horse was to “buck the AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE wild out of him,” but when the ranchers in this remote county of Eastern Portland, Oregon Oregon witness Martha talking in sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair—and getting miraculous results—she earns a place of respect in the ALSO AVAILABLE community. Along the way, she helps a family save their horses when The Jump-Off Creek their wagon slides into a ravine; she gentles a horse for a dying man—a (978-0-618-56587-0) $12.00 PA last gift to his young son; she clashes with a hired hand who is abusing Wild Life horses in unspeakable ways; and gradually, she comes to feel enveloped (978-0-618-13157-0) $13.00 PA by a sense of belonging and family she’s never had before. With the elegant sweetness of Plainsong and a pitch-perfect sense of western life reminiscent of Annie Dillard, The Hearts of Horses is a • Author appearances remarkable story about the connections between and among people and • Advance reading copies animals and how they touch one another in the most unexpected and • Author Web site www.mollygloss.com profound ways.

MOLLY GLOSS is the author of The Dazzle of Day, a New York Times Notable Book, The Jump-Off Creek, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and Wild Life, winner of the James Tiptree Award for literary fantasy.

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Jonah Lehrer PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST

From a rising journalist and Rhodes scholar, a dazzling look at how five writers, a painter, a composer, and a chef discovered the truth about the mind

© LORI DUFF n this technology-driven age, it’s tempting to believe that science can Isolve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases AUTHOR PROFILE and even sent humans into space. But as Jonah Lehrer argues in this JONAH LEHRER, age twenty-five, is sparkling and original book, science is not the only path to knowledge. editor at large for Seed magazine. A In fact, where the brain is concerned, art got there first. graduate of Columbia University and Focusing on a group of artists—a painter, a poet, a chef, a a Rhodes scholar, Lehrer has worked composer, and a handful of novelists—Lehrer shows how each one in the lab of Nobel Prize–winning discovered an essential truth about the human mind that science is neuroscientist Eric Kandel and studied only now rediscovering. We learn, for example, how Proust first with Hermione Lee at Oxford. He has revealed the fallibility of memory; how George Eliot discovered the coauthored a peer-reviewed paper in Genetics and worked as a line cook brain’s malleability; how the French chef Escoffier discovered umami at Melisse (in Los Angeles) and at Le (the fifth taste); how Cézanne worked out the subtleties of vision; and Cirque 2000, and as a prep cook at how Gertrude Stein exposed the deep structure of language a full half- Le Bernardin. As a journalist he has century before Chomsky. It’s the ultimate tale of art trumping science. profiled Brian Greene and Elizabeth More broadly, Lehrer shows that there is a cost to reducing every- Gould, spent several days in the kitchen thing to atoms and acronyms and genes. Measurement is not the same of the Fat Duck, and recorded bird as understanding, and this is what art knows better than science. An songs and ruminated on Stravinsky for ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, National Public Radio. He has written Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science to listen more closely to art, for Nature, NPR, NOVA, ScienceNow, and the MIT Technology Review, and for the right minds can combine the best of both to brilliant effect. writes a highly regarded blog known as the Frontal Cortex.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Concord, New Hampshire

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FROM Proust Was a Neuroscientist

used to work in a neuroscience lab. We were trying Ito figure out how the mind remembers, how a collection of cells can encapsulate our past. I was just a lab technician, and most of my day was spent per- forming the strange verbs of bench science: amplify- ing, vortexing, pipetting, sequencing, digesting, and so on. It was simple manual labor, but the work felt profound. Mysteries were distilled into minor questions, and if my experiments didn’t fail, I ended up with an answer. The truth seemed to slowly accumu- late, like dust. At the same time, I began reading Proust. I would often bring my copy of Swann’s Way into the lab and read a few pages while waiting for an experiment to finish. All I expected from Proust was a little entertainment, or perhaps an education in the art of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-62010-4 • $24.00 constructing sentences. For me, his story about one man’s memory was simply that: a story. It was a work ISBN-10: 0-618-62010-9 of fiction, the opposite of scientific fact. Proust Was a Neuroscientist NOVEMBER But once I got past the jarring contrast of • Science forms—my science spoke in acronyms, while Proust 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 preferred meandering prose—I began to see a sur- 11 halftones to run with text prising convergence. The novelist had predicted my experiments. Proust and neuroscience shared a vision of how our memory works. If you listened • closely, they were actually saying the same thing. National author tour, including New York, Boston, This book is about artists who anticipated the New Hampshire, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle • discoveries of neuroscience. It is about writers and National advertising, including New York Review of painters and composers who discovered truths about Books • the human mind—real, tangible truths—that science Copromotion with Seed • is only now rediscovering. Their imaginations fore- Online outreach to science and literature blogs told the facts of the future. and book groups • Promotion on author’s site www.jonahlehrer.com

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ALL THINGS RECONSIDERED My Birding Adventures

“His tales read like pulp adventure.”—Outside

“This collection of small gems . . . displays an elegant and precise writing style.”—Publishers Weekly

“His was a perspective perhaps unrivaled among modern naturalists . . . these narratives, which cover much more than birding, are rich, absorbing, and of great general interest.”—Library Journal

oger Tory Peterson’s unique perspective on birding comes to life ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-92615-2 • $14.95 PA Rin this collection of columns. In these highly personal narratives, ISBN-10: 0-618-92615-1 he recounts his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the All Things Reconsidered world to observe and record nature. From the incident when his boat NOVEMBER • Nature 320 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 capsized in freezing water off the coast of Maine while the octogenarian 80 b/w halftones was filming a documentary, to his own experiences searching for the Houghton Mifflin hardcover 2006 Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Peterson’s sense of adventure and curiosity Previous ISBN 978-0-618-75862-3 cannot be extinguished. The essays and photographs included here were carefully selected by Bill Thompson III, the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, in which the columns originally appeared. • Feature at bird festivals around the country ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He created the Peterson Identification System, which has been called the greatest invention since binoculars and is used in the Peterson Field Guide® series. BILL THOMPSON III is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest and the author of Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges.

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AMERICA FROM THE AIR A Guide to the Landscape Along Your Route

An illustrated guide, in both book and CD-ROM, of landscapes seen from airplane windows across the United States

his is a guide to what an airline passenger sees from his seat while ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-70603-7 • $18.95 PA Tflying over the United States. Through its ingenious construction ISBN-10: 0-618-70603-8 and a map of preferred flight paths, it’s easy to find those pages that America from the Air DECEMBER correspond to whatever flight a passenger happens to be on, and then to • Travel 352 pages • 9 x 7 1/2 • A4 identify features that can be seen from the air. The book marries geology, More than 150 color photographs natural history, and human history for a glorious portrait of the continent, from the Atlantic City Boardwalk to Mount Saint Helens. Each two-page spread features an aerial photo with captions AUTHORS’ RESIDENCE identifying features passengers will see and an essay interpreting the Portland, Oregon features. Each chapter is a Flight Corridor, with pages sequenced to follow a trip from takeoff to landing. Because many flight paths overlap, the fifteen corridors cover the forty most heavily traveled flight segments • National advertising in the continental United States, plus many others. In many regions of the • Online outreach to air travel, business, country, readers will have a new page to read about every twenty minutes. and geology Web communities The entire book is also on the included CD-ROM, which can easily be • Landscape postcard giveaway used on a laptop in the air.

DANIEL MATHEWS is a writer who has always been enamored of views from mountains. He is the author of Cascade-Olympic Natural History and Rocky Mountain Natural History. JAMES S. JACKSON is a geologist and adjunct professor of geology at Portland State University. He has flown more than a million miles on commercial flights.

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Stephen Berry HOUSE OF ABRAHAM Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War

A rising star among historians charts the fortunes of a family shattered by the Civil War—Mary Todd Lincoln’s family—and their surprising impact on how Lincoln fought that war

© STEVE EXUM 2007 or all the talk of the Civil War “pitting brother against brother,” Fthere has never before been a single book that traces the story AUTHOR PROFILE of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family could better STEPHEN BERRY is an assistant professor illustrate the personal toll the war took than Lincoln’s own. Mary of history at the University of North Todd Lincoln was one of fourteen siblings who were split between Carolina, Pembroke. He is the author the Confederacy and the Union. Three of her brothers fought, and of All That Makes a Man: Love and two died, for the South. Several Todds—including Mary herself— Ambition in the Civil War South, and bedeviled Lincoln’s administration with their scandalous behavior. has been awarded fellowships from the Award-winning historian Stephen Berry tells their family saga with the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of narrative intricacy and emotional intensity of a novelist. The Todds’ American History, among other honors. struggles haunted the president and moved him to avoid tactics or While researching his previous book, he rhetoric that would dehumanize or scapegoat the Confederates. Draw- found a cache of love letters between ing on his own familial experience, Lincoln was inspired to articulate a Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister Elodie and a humanistic, even charitable view of the enemy that seems surpassingly Confederate officer, which hinted at the wise in our time, let alone his. war’s profound impact on the Todds, With brio and rigor, Berry fills a gap in Civil War history, showing and vice versa. Berry realized that the how the war changed one family and how that family changed the Todds might reasonably be called the course of the war. As they debate each other about the issues of the First Family of the Civil War, and that— remarkably—no book had ever been day, and comfort each other in the wake of shared tragedy, the Todds written about them. With House of become a singular microcosm and metaphor for the country as a whole. Abraham, he has filled that gap at last.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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from House of Abraham

milie Todd, the Southern sister closest to the Lincolns, was Ethe last to pour hate into spaces love had once filled. In 1864, she wrote a blistering letter to Lincoln, blaming him for all her family’s misery. Her husband and two brothers lay buried in hasty graves, some in places she had never heard of. At twenty- eight, she was threatened with becoming a brotherless, fatherless, husbandless mother of two. The man who’d made her so, the com- mander-in-chief of the Union army, was her own brother-in-law and, perhaps most painfully, the only man left who could help her. What could she do with such grief but lay it at his door? In the trials of the Todds, Lincoln understood the nation’s fractured families, and took their collective grief and fashioned it into words that gave the war whatever redemptive meaning it has. Four months after Emilie Todd had written him that his minie bul- lets had destroyed her world, Lincoln delivered his second inau- gural address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-42005-6 • $28.00 firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on ISBN-10: 0-618-42005-3 to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to House of Abraham care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and NOVEMBER • History his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and last- 288 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 ing peace among ourselves and with all nations.” It was a message One 8-page b/w insert to the thousand sundered families like the Todds, united by blood, divided by bloodshed. Shortly after penning her infamous letter, Emilie learned that Lincoln himself had been assassinated. Without hesitation, she • National advertising, including the New York Times immediately wrote to his son Robert to ask if he needed her to and the New York Review of Books come comfort him. The Civil War was, above all things, a mosaic • Academic promotion of family crises. At its end, the Todds discovered what they ought • Author tour of library and historical society events to have known all along: friends may forget each other, and couples in New York, Washington D.C., North Carolina, may uncouple. But a family remains. Kentucky • Online outreach to Civil War and history sites

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Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., Director, Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic THE KAZDIN METHOD FOR PARENTING THE DEFIANT CHILD With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills

The director of the acclaimed Yale Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic distills his thirty years of work with children into a step-by-step method for parents—with a bound-in DVD featuring effective tips for common problems © JOEL BENJAMIN

AUTHOR PROFILE startling percentage of child-behavior books are filled with advice ALAN E. KAZDIN is John M. Musser Athat sounds reasonable, fits in with what parents believe already Professor of Psychology at Yale about child-rearing, and is—as Dr. Kazdin proves—guaranteed to fail. University and Director of Yale’s The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child makes available to Parenting Center and Child Conduct parents for the first time Dr. Kazdin’s proven program—one based on Clinic. He is the president-elect of the thirty years of work with kids and backed up by the most long-term and American Psychological Association respected research devoted to any therapy for children. and the author of many professional- Kazdin shatters decades’ worth of accumulated myths about audience books on child psychology tantrums, time-outs, punishments fitting the crime, and much more. and behavior published in dozens of countries. A recent profile in the Yale Think you know how to use a reward or points chart? How to praise Alumni Magazine says, “When your your child? How to punish effectively? Think again. kid whines, screams, hits, kicks, and With the practicality of Ferber and the warmth of Brazelton, bites—relax. Alan Kazdin can help you Kazdin leads parents through every step of the Kazdin method in find your inner parent.” action—how to use tone of voice, when and how to touch, how to lead your child in a “practice” session, how to adjust your approach for different-age children, how to involve nonoffending siblings, and more. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE The program is temporary, but the results are permanent—for very Hamden, Connecticut young children to adolescents, and even beyond. This is the lifesaving handbook for parents of children who are occasionally, or too often, “out of control.”

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from Chapter 2 of The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child

The Positive Opposite Approach Let’s change one parental habit right now, and for good. Instead of thinking of your child’s behavior in terms of what you don’t want—He has too many tantrums, or It drives me crazy when she doesn’t listen—start thinking in terms of the behavior you do want. The key is the idea of a positive opposite: the behavior you want, which will replace the behavior you don’t want. So concentrate on the positive opposite and the principle of replacing what you don’t want with what you do want. It’s much easier to build up a behavior you want by positively rewarding it than it is to wipe out a behavior you don’t want via punishment or other negative means. Take a look at my charts, but try making your own by listing five DVD with things you don’t want your child to do, and then thinking of a parenting tips positive opposite for each. included

He has too many tantrums. When he gets frustrated, I want him to tell me so with nice words and a calm body.

It drives me crazy when I want her to listen to me ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-77367-1 • $26.00 she doesn’t listen. the first time I say something. ISBN-10: 0-618-77367-3 The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child JANUARY • Parenting He throws his clothes all I want him to place them 288 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 over the floor in the bedroom. in his dresser or closet.

She refuses to eat vegetables I would like her to try a few • National author tour, including New York, Boston, at dinner no matter how I bites of vegetables with dinner. Wahington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco prepare them. • National drive-time radio tour • Advance reading copies • Buzz booklet He has an annoying habit of Let it go—this behavior will • Postcards rubbing the back of his head probably drop out by itself • Tie-in with author’s lecture and conference schedule when he is talking. before long! • Online promotion with parenting Web sites

She does not do her I want her to sit quietly at her homework. desk and do schoolwork for twenty minutes.

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PRAVDA A Novel

A saga of secrets and lies in a single family across the generations—set in London, New York, Paris, and Saint Petersburg.

nspired by the author’s own family history, Pravda is a haunting ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-53440-1 • $25.00 Ichronicle of suspicion and loss, love and loyalty, and the destructive ISBN-10: 0-618-53440-7 legacy of deceit. Pravda Thirty-two-year old Gabriel Clarke arrives in Saint Petersburg from JANUARY • Fiction 384 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 London to find his mother dead in her apartment. Reeling from grief, Gabriel and his twin, Isabella, bury their mother and struggle to make sense of their loss. Unknown to either, their mother had long ago aban- AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE doned a son, Arkady, now an utterly amoral Russian predator determined London, England to claim his birthright. Aided by an ex-seminarian and heroin addict whose addiction is destroying him, Arkady tracks down the twins, uncov- ering shocking secrets that had been hidden from them their entire lives. ALSO AVAILABLE Edward Docx’s “sharp and wryly funny” (People) first novel, The The Calligrapher Calligrapher, was hailed for its “fiendish cleverness” (New York Times) (978-0-618-48534-5) $13.00 PA and established him as an author of “ferocious talent” (Seattle Times). For several years Edward Docx was a Sunday columnist and arts editor for national newspapers in the United Kingdom. Now a full-time writer, • Reading group promotion he still contributes to British and American newspapers and appears • Online promotion, including frequently as a cultural critic on television and radio. downloadable conversation with the author • Advance reading copies • Author appearances in New York EDWARD DOCX is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The and San Francisco Calligrapher, named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. • Author Web site www.edwarddocx.com

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOLDIERS GONE? The Transformation of Modern Europe

An eminent historian offers a sweeping look at Europe’s tumultuous twentieth century, showing how the rejection of violence after World War II transformed a continent

n the last decade we’ve seen an ever-widening rift between the United ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-35396-5 • $26.00 IStates and Europe, most visibly over Iraq. As one pundit put it, ISBN-10: 0-618-35396-8 “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” But as Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? James J. Sheehan reminds us in his timely book, it wasn’t always thus. JANUARY • History 288 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 How did America and Europe come to take such different paths? 8 halftones In Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? Stanford historian Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history. For centuries, nations defined themselves by their willingness and ability to AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE wage war. But after World War II, Europe began to redefine statehood, Berkeley, California rejecting ballooning defense budgets in favor of material well-being, social stability, and economic growth. Sheehan reveals how and why this happened, and what it means for America as well as the rest of the • world. Academic promotion Succinct yet broad in scope, Sheehan’s authoritative history provides much-needed context for understanding the fractured era in which we live.

JAMES J. SHEEHAN is Dickason Professor in the humanities and a professor of history at Stanford University, and former president of the American Historical Association. The author of several books on German history, he has written for the New York Times Book Review and Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

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Paul Roberts THE END OF FOOD

The best-selling author of The End of Oil turns his attention to food and finds that the system we’ve entrusted with meeting one of our most basic needs is dramatically failing us.

© KAREN DICKINSON ith his trademark comprehensive global approach, Paul Roberts Winvestigates the startling truth about the modern food system: PAUL ROBERTS is the author of The the way we make food, market and consume it, and even think about it End of Oil, which was a 2005 New is no longer compatible or safe for the billions of consumers the system York Public Library Helen Bernstein was built to serve. Book Award finalist, and he is a The emergence of large-scale and efficient food production regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine. A long-time observer changed forever our relationship with food and ultimately left a of both business and environmental vulnerable and paradoxical system in place. Over 1.1 billion people issues, he is an expert on the worldwide are “over-nourished,” according to the World Health complex interplay of economics, Organization, and are at risk of obesity-related illness, while roughly technology, and the natural world. as many people are starving. Meanwhile the natural systems all food is dependent upon have been irreparably damaged by chemicals and destructive farming techniques; the pressures of low-cost food AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE production court contamination and disease; and big food consumers, Leavenworth, Washington such as China and India, are already planning for tightened global food supplies, making it clear that the era of superabundance is behind us. Vivid descriptions, lucid explanations, and fresh thinking make The End of Food uniquely able to offer a new, accessible way to understand the vulnerable miracle of the modern food economy. Roberts presents clear, stark visions of the future and helps us prepare to make the decisions—personal and global—we must make to survive the demise of food production as we know it.

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from The End of Food

Contamination In a food system that emphasizes large-scale, low-cost production and global sourcing, food-borne illness is not only inevitable, but will become far worse. Current concerns about E. coli will soon be superseded by fears of disease in fish and shrimp farms, while avian flu will emerge as the first serious destabilizer of the modern food economy.

End of the Green Revolution After saving the world from mass starvation in the 1960s and 1970s, the new super-hybridized varieties of wheat, corn, and rice are hitting technical and ecological production limits. To feed 10 billion people by 2050, crop yields in many areas will have to more than double—a jump plant specialists worry is simply impossible.

Food Security ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-60623-8 • $26.00 The emergence of Asia as a powerhouse consumer, and the growth ISBN-10: 0-618-60623-8 of food alliances between wealthy food importers such as China The End of Food and land-rich exporters such as Brazil, is reshaping global food JANUARY • Current Affairs politics and making “food security” the next flashpoint for interna- 416 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 tional relations. Meanwhile, the United States’ historic status as the OPEC of food, by dint of its massive surplus grain capacity, is eroding: just last year, America shifted from a net food exporter to ALSO AVAILABLE a net food importer. The End of Oil (978-0-618-56211-4) $14.00 PA

Social Ramifications Food’s central role in social relationships, individual and cultural identity, and simple pleasure is being eroded under a system • National author tour, including New York, that divorces production from consumption (often by years and Washington, D.C., Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, thousands of miles) and reduces participation to the simple act San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Toronto • National radio drive-time tour of consumption. At the same time, our pleasure in food is increas- • National advertising, including the New York Times ingly tainted by concerns over obesity and food-borne-illness. The • Advance reading copies ultimate solution to impending crises is to reimagine our entire relationship to food.

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Frederik Peeters BLUE PILLS A Positive Love Story

From one of Europe’s most acclaimed young comics artists, a deeply personal story that will resonate with all of us who have chosen to love in the face of great challenges SELF-PORTRAIT

AUTHOR PROFILE ne summer night at a house party, Fred met Cati. Though they Obarely spoke, he vividly remembered her gracefulness and Frederik Peeters, born in 1974, is an abandon. They meet again years later, and this time their connection established comics artist. Blue Pills has is instantaneous. But when things become serious, a nervous Cati tells sold in a number of languages (includ- him that she and her three-year-old son are both HIV positive. With ing Polish and Korean), won the Pre- great beauty and economy, Peeters traces the development of their mios La Carcel de Papel in Spain for intimacy and their revelatory relationship with a doctor whose affection Best Foreign Comic, and was awarded the Polish Jury Prize at Angoulême, and frankness allow them to fully realize their passionate connection. the prestigious comics festival, where Then Cati’s son gets sick, bringing Fred face to face with death. It it was also nominated for Best Book. forces him to question the meaning of life, illness, and love—until a Acquired and translated by the same Socratic dialogue with a mammoth helps him recognize that living with editor who brought Persepolis to the illness is also a gift; it has freed him to savor his life with Cati. United States, Blue Pills is Peeters’s first As in the best graphic memoirs, Blue Pills puts into art and human book to be translated into English. It terms a daunting subject in a way that is refreshingly honest and pro- has sold over 20,000 copies in its origi- foundly accessible. A brave and unsentimental romance, Blue Pills nal French. Frederik Peeters currently lives with his girlfriend, her son, and will resonate with anyone whose love has faced great obstacles and their young daughter in Geneva. triumphed.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Geneva, Switzerland

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-82099-3 • $18.95 ISBN-10: 0-618-82099-X Blue Pills JANUARY • Graphic Memoir 192 pages • 6 x 8 7/8 • A4 6-copy counter display • $113.70 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-93419-5

• Online advertising • Posters • Postcards • 6-copy counter display • National review attention • Online promotion with comics sites

*L’oeil electrique/The Electric Eye (France)

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Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D. WEIGHT LOSS CONFIDENTIAL How Teens Lose Weight and Keep It Off—and What They Wish Parents Knew

“If I had to pick one book to help a teen, parent, or physician address teen weight issues, it would definitely be Weight Loss Confidential.”—Helen Seagle, weight program director, Kaiser Permanente

“This book provides hope and genuine possibilities to millions of children and adolescents.”—Holly Wyatt, M.D., Center for Human Nutrition, University of Colorado ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-94344-9 • $15.00 PA “Shatters several myths about teenage weight loss.”—Jane ISBN-10: 0-618-94344-7 Brody, New York Times Weight Loss Confidential JANUARY • Health/Fitness s any parent knows, teens listen to teens—more than to anyone else. 272 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 A Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Hailed by leading doctors, nutritionists, and journalists as a “must- Previous ISBN 978-0-618-43366-7 read” that “tells it like it is,” Weight Loss Confidential is the only book to go to the real experts on teen weight loss: adolescents who have succeeded. ALSO AVAILABLE Using the approach that made her book Thin for Life an award-winning Thin for Life bestseller, Anne M. Fletcher interviews more than one hundred teens who (978-0-618-34055-2) have lost weight—some as much as one hundred pounds—to discover what $15.00 PA works. Bolstered with the latest scientific research, Weight Loss Confiden- Thin for Life Daybook tial challenges conventional assumptions and empowers teens and parents (978-0-618-34424-6) $15.00 PA in the struggle against our number-one health problem today. • National author tour, including Orlando, Inside Weight Loss Confidential: Atlanta, Denver, Saint Louis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh • 9 myths about weight loss • National print and online advertising • Top 10 reasons for teen weight gain • Sample week from journal available online • Teens’ advice to parents on how to help at www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com • 10 teen strategies for changing eating habits • National radio drive-time tour • 6 tactics parents often resort to that make things worse— • Author podcast available at and what to do instead www.hougtonmifflinbooks.com • Author Web site www.annemfletcher.com

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Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D.

WEIGHT LOSS CONFIDENTIAL JOURNAL Week-by-Week Success Strategies for Teens from Teens

An inspirational weekly journal to help teens stay motivated and on track with weight goals

octors, nutritionists, and formerly overweight teens agree: the best Dally in the battle against excess pounds is a journal. Filled with heart-to-heart coaching from teens who have succeeded ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-43372-8 • $15.00 in losing a major amount of weight, Weight Loss Confidential Journal COMB BOUND helps teens focus on changing their eating and exercise habits one week ISBN-10: 0-618-43372-4 at a time. Each week features a success strategy from a teen, a brief look Weight Loss Confidential Journal at how he or she turned the corner on weight problems, and candid teen- JANUARY • Weight Loss to-teen advice. The teens also serve up their favorite quick, healthful 240 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 ideas for snacks and meals. The friendly spiral-bound format provides Two-color interior plenty of space for tracking progress and setting specific goals.

ANNE M. FLETCHER, M.S., R.D., is the author of Thin for Life, the Thin for Life Daybook, Eating Thin for Life, and Sober for Good. As Y H

a registered dietitian, she has counseled hundreds of clients with P A R

weight problems in clinical settings. Fletcher was executive editor G O T

of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter and a contributing O H P

editor for Prevention. She has won several National Health Informa- G N I K

tion Awards as well as awards from the American Medical Writers L E O J

Association and the American Psychological Association. She has © raised three teenagers.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Southern Minnesota

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FANON A Novel

Wideman’s first novel in a decade conjures the author of The Wretched of the Earth and his urgent relevance today

ideman’s fascinating new novel weaves together fiction, biography, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-94263-3 • $24.00 Wand memoir to evoke the life and message of Frantz Fanon, the ISBN-10: 0-618-94263-7 influential author of The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Fanon was a fierce, FEBRUARY • Fiction 240 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Mar- tinique in 1927, Fanon fought to defend France during World War II and then later against France in Algeria’s war for independence. The Wretched AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE of the Earth, written in 1961, inspired leaders of liberation movements New York City from Steve Biko in South Africa to Che Guevera to the Black Panthers in the United States. ALSO AVAILABLE Wideman’s novel is disguised as the project of a contemporary God’s Gym African-American novelist, Thomas, who undertakes writing a life of (978-0-618-71199-4) $12.94 PA Fanon. The result is an electrifying mix of perspectives, traveling from Philadelphia Fire (978-0-618-50964-5) $13.00 PA Manhattan to Paris to Algeria to Pittsburgh. Part whodunit, part screen- Hoop Roots (978-0-618-25775-1) $13.00 play, and part love story, Fanon introduces the French film director Jean-Luc Godard to ailing Mrs. Wideman in Homewood, and chases the meaning of Fanon’s legacy through our violent, post–9/11 world, which seems determined to perpetuate the evils Fanon sought to rectify. • Advance reading copies • Select national interviews and features • Author appearances JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than eighteen works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and most recently the story collection God’s Gym. He teaches at Brown University.

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NATIVE FERNS, MOSS & GRASSES From Emerald Carpet to Amber Wave: Serene and Sensuous Plants for the Garden

Award-winning author William Cullina’s beautifully illustrated book of “background” plants for North American gardens

ith this new volume, Cullina completes the set of stunning books ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-53118-9 • $40.00 Won native plants for the garden that includes Wildflowers and ISBN-10: 0-618-53118-1 Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines. All three books combine Cullina’s fresh Native Ferns, Moss, and Grasses and entertaining style with encyclopedic information about the plants and FEBRUARY • Gardening 320 pages • 8 1/2 x 11 • A4 specific instructions on how to grow and propagate them. 300 color photos Cullina compares a garden made up of nothing but bright colors to the detergent shelves in a supermarket, where every package screams for attention. What makes a true garden out of a collection of flowering AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE plants are the ferns, mosses, and grasses that are the verdant canvas on Woodstock, Connecticut which nature paints its portraits. These are the plants, he says, that bring a level of refinement and sophistication to the garden unmatched by any flowers. Without these plants, nothing would hold the garden together. ALSO AVAILABLE Cullina shares information that will make you see landscaping as never Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (978-0-618-09858-3) $40.00 CL before. As Michael Pollan wrote of Cullina’s tree book, “This is one of Growing Wildflowers those exceedingly rare reference books that you’ll find yourself consulting (978-0-395-96609-9) $40.00 CL simply for the pleasures of its prose.” Understanding Orchids (978-0-618-26326-4) $40.00 CL

WILLIAM CULLINA is director of research and development for the New England Wild Flower Society nurseries. He is the author of Understanding Orchids and of the forthcoming Understanding • Author tour, including New York, Perennials. He is in great demand as a speaker, and spends much Martha’s Vineyard, Philadelphia of his time when the nursery is under snow traveling around the • National advertising country talking about his subjects. • Gardening Web site promotion • Author Web site www.williamcullina.com

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Samantha Hunt THE INVENTION OF EVERYTHING ELSE

A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days

© NINA SUBIN rom the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New Yorker’s Fmost famous resident on New Year’s Day 1943, Louisa—obsessed AUTHOR PROFILE with radio dramas and the secret lives of the guests—is determined to SAMANTHA HUNT has spent four years befriend this strange man. As Louisa discovers their shared affinity for researching Nikola Tesla, in the course pigeons, she also begins to piece together Tesla’s extraordinary story of of which she has appeared in several life as an immigrant, a genius, and a halfhearted capitalist. Meanwhile, Tesla-related documentaries, visited Louisa—faced with her father’s imminent departure in a time machine Tesla fanatics across the country, and to reunite with his late wife, and pleasantly unsettled by the arrival in explored the five subterranean floors her life of a mysterious mechanic (perhaps from the future) named of the still-standing Hotel New Yorker. Arthur—begins to suspect that she has understood something about She is the author of the acclaimed first the relationship of love and invention that Tesla, for all his brilliance, novel The Seas, and her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and never did. McSweeney’s and on This American The Invention of Everything Else luminously resurrects one of the Life. She recently received the first- greatest scientists of all time, Nikola Tesla, while magically transporting ever “5 under 35” award from the us—à la Steven Millhauser and Michael Chabon—to an early twentieth- National Book Foundation. century New York City thrumming with energy, wonder, and possibility.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Brooklyn, New York

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from The Invention of Everything Else

he follows the sound of their footsteps to the end of the hall Swhere, after so much darkness, she finally sees something—a glow, thin as a knife blade coming from beneath the door of Room 3327. Someone in that room has stolen all the electricity. From inside the room, power, electricity, whirling motion, and glowing light as bright as the sun spills out into the dark. The porter and the manager each raise a hand to cover their eyes. And there in the aura of this wonder, is a man most unlike other men. A slender frame, terrific height, silver hair that reaches down his forehead in a peak. Louisa notices the dark hollows of his cheeks and even the fine length of his fingers on the door jamb. Louisa catches her breath. He is lovely, like Dracula grown old, like cold black branches covered with snow in the winter. “Mr. Tesla, the electricity . . .” the manager says as though ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-80112-1 • $24.00 intending to scold but, out of fear or respect, unable. ISBN-10: 0-618-80112-X The Invention of Everything Else “Forgive me. I will fix it immediately,” the man says and FEBRUARY • Fiction comes out into the hallway. As he is about to close his door, in a 256 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 sliver of light his eye catches Louisa’s tucked back in the shadows. She feels her breath and blood lose grip of her body as though he could suck the power from her as he had from the building. She • National author tour, including New York, doesn’t move because she doesn’t mind. His look holds her there San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston, for a moment before he closes the door to his room behind him, Burlington, Vermont still watching her, plunging the hallway back into darkness. • Copromotion with Seed • Enhanced advance reading copies • Online advertising and promotion • Author Web site www.samanthahunt.net

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PETERSON FIELD GUIDES® FINDING YOUR WINGS A Workbook for Beginning Bird Watchers

A step-by-step workbook that guides readers through the challenges of enjoying bird watching

urton Guttman firmly believes that people learn best by doing. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-78216-1 • $14.95 PA BNo other book for beginning bird watchers involves the reader so ISBN-10: 0-618-78216-8 actively in the exciting first steps of learning to watch birds. This work- Peterson Field Guides®: Finding Your Wings book is filled with quizzes and exercises that prepare the reader for going MARCH • Nature 320 pages • 7 x 10 • A4 birding and help beginners develop a sense of accomplishment and 150 b/w and color drawings and 75 progress. With each chapter covering a different aspect of bird watching, color photographs the author guides readers along a threefold path: learning how to really see birds, how to sort birds by category, and how to learn the easiest birds first. Exercises include analyzing what types of food birds’ bills are AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE adapted for and sketching the shapes of birds in different categories. Olympia, Washington Quiz questions ask readers to identify what type of duck feeds by tipping its rear end up in the air and extending its neck downward, or to identify a small brownish bird clinging to a weed stalk and picking out seeds. • Authorless event kit Plenty of room is provided for writing and sketching, and answers are • Promotion at birding festivals throughout supplied in the back of the book. the country • Outreach to the Outdoor Writers of America Association BURTON GUTTMAN is a professor of biology who has been teaching • Sample pages available online at birding workshops and courses for many years. His concern about www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com society’s increasing alienation from the natural world—at a time when the earth needs our protection more than ever—motivated him to write a book that helps people get to know and love nature, so they will want to protect it.

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CIVIL AND STRANGE

From a notable new voice in Irish fiction, a refreshingly mature debut that introduces us to three interconnected lives in a vibrant, modern Ireland

ivil and Strange transports us to a changing Ireland through the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-82936-1 • $24.00 Cstories of thirty-eight-year-old Ellen; her uncle Matt, a local farmer; ISBN-10: 0-618-82936-9 and widowed Beatrice, each at a crossroads in their respective lives. Civil and Strange Eager to escape Dublin and her failed marriage, Ellen hopes to MARCH • Fiction 288 pages • 6 x 9 • B2 recapture the magic of her childhood summers in Ballindoon. The last thing she expects is to fall in love—and with a younger man. Even more surprising is the gossip she invites and the heavy toll that small-town life AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE exacts on her privacy. But as Ellen grows close to Matt and to Beatrice, Dublin, Ireland she begins to understand how the web of connections that defines her new life can also be sustaining. She watches Matt endure and then recover from the death of his embittered wife. Shaken from the suicide of her elder son, Beatrice rejoices in the reappearance of her long-lost • Advance reading copies • younger son. Their fortitude teaches Ellen that even tradition-bound National review attention • Online and print advertising, including Ballindoon allows for new beginnings. Anchored by the cadences of its www.IrishAmerica.com and the Irish Echo Irish setting and the love story at its heart, Civil and Strange offers a • Online reader’s guide moving exploration of the possibilities open to us, at any age, in any place, if only we are brave enough to embrace them.

CLÁIR NÍ AONGHUSA is an award-winning poet and short-story writer, and has twice been short-listed for the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Emerging Fiction Writer Award.

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EARTHLY Poems

“Erica Funkhouser’s Earthly is a book of quiet authority, wise to gravity and to loss, unpanicked, generous, and at home in the natural world.”—Rosanna Warren

rica Funkhouser’s spirited fifth collection considers what it means to ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-93342-6 • $22.00 Ebe earthly. She gives us a world in which granite foundation stones ISBN-10: 0-618-93342-5 resemble “ceremonial animals, their throats unslit,” and where the other- Earthly ness of the real world collides with the reality of one’s imagination. The MARCH • Poetry 96 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 central poem in the collection, “Pome,” cuts into the mythos of Johnny Appleseed, the biology of apple farming, and the poet’s own lavishly rendered memories of growing up on a farm. The final section of the book AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE consists of a group of sonnets written as an homage to the Holy Sonnets Essex, Massachusetts of John Donne—witty, graceful poems that limn the coming into con- sciousness of a young poet. A departure from both Funkhouser’s previous historical narratives and her compressed lyrics, the wide and sweeping poems in Earthly are sure to deliver this poet her greatest recognition yet. • National Poetry Month sponsorship • Poetic Voice podcast • Advance reading copies ERICA FUNKHOUSER is the author of four previous books of poems, including Pursuit and The Actual World. She is a lecturer in the department of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Essex, Massachusetts.

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AMALIA’S TALE A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice

A courtroom drama and quest for justice in a country hurtling toward modernity, from the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

quintessential David versus Goliath saga, Amalia’s Tale tells of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-55106-4 • $24.00 Aa wholly unexpected triumph of the poor against the rich and ISBN-10: 0-618-55106-9 of a crusading city attorney who fought on behalf of an impoverished Amalia’s Tale peasant. Amalia Bagnacavalli, an illiterate young woman from the MARCH • History 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 mountains near Bologna, is forced by poverty to take in a child from the city’s foundling home to wet-nurse. When she contracts syphilis from the sickly and malformed baby given to her, the city fathers AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE callously dismiss her pleas for treatment and restitution. Providence, Rhode Island Bewildered and frightened, Amalia seeks out Augusto Barbieri, an ambitious attorney looking to make a name for himself. The young lawyer takes up her cause, fighting the case for years through the Italian ALSO AVAILABLE court system before winning an unprecedented victory for his by-now Prisoner of the Vatican broken client. An unforgettable story and a landmark in the struggle (978-0-618-61919-1) $14.00 PA for basic human rights—A Civil Action in nineteenth-century Italy— Amalia’s Tale is the story of a rural woman whose life was ruined and the man from the city who would not stop—or so it seemed—until he • Academic promotion had seen justice done. • National review attention

DAVID I. KERTZER is the author of, among other books, Prisoner of the Vatican, The Popes Against the Jews, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. He is provost of Brown University and professor of anthropology and Italian studies.

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KAUFMAN FIELD GUIDE TO MAMMALS OF NORTH AMERICA

Now with a new lower price and a new ISBN, the Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals invites nature lovers to discover North America's wild animals

his comprehensive guide treats every species of wild mammal found ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-95188-8 • $19.95 FLEXI Tnorth of the Mexican border, from squirrels and chipmunks to griz- ISBN-10: 0-618-95188-1 zly bears and jaguars as well as those in offshore waters. More than 1,200 Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals photographs have been digitally edited to show correct sizes, comparative of North America AVAILABLE • Nature colors, and the field marks necessary for identification in the wild. 352 pages • 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 • A4 With each title in the distinguished Kaufman Field Guide series, More than 1,200 color photographs Kenn Kaufman engages and educates naturalists of all ages and skill levels Previous ISBN: 978-0-618-15313-8 about the wonders of nature. In Mammals of North America, the format has been designed for easy field use, with illustrations, maps, and text arranged side by side. Detailed range maps show where each species is AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES common or rare. The authoritative text discusses the identification of Bowers and Bowers: these animals and the essential facts about their habitats and behavior. Tucson, Arizona; Hundreds of illustrations show tracks, dens, and other signs that we may Kaufman: Ohio notice even when the animals themselves are out of sight. ALSO AVAILABLE Kaufman Field Guide Naturalists and photographers Nora Bowers and Rick Bowers have to Birds of North America studied and photographed wildlife throughout North America. (978-0-618-57423-0) $18.95 PA Kenn Kaufman is the originator of the Kaufman Field Guide series, Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North which includes books on birds, butterflies, and insects. America (978-0-618-15310-7) $18.95 PA Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America (978-0-618-76826-4) $19.95 PA

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THE MYSTERY GUEST

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COLD SASSY TREE A Novel

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OLIVE ANN BURNS was born in 1924 on a farm in Banks County, Georgia, and went to school in nearby Commerce, which was the model for Cold Sassy. She received a degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and for ten years was on the Sunday magazine staff of the Atlanta Journal- Constitution. She turned to fiction writing as a respite during treatment for cancer. She completed Cold Sassy Tree and a partial manuscript for its sequel, Leaving Cold Sassy, before her death in 1990.

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LEAVING COLD SASSY A Novel

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nyone who came under the spell of Cold Sassy Tree will delight in ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91980-2 • $13.95 this unfinished sequel, which returns to the story of the unforgettable ISBN-10: 0-618-91980-5 A Leaving Cold Sassy Will Tweedy. Joined by such beloved characters as Grandpa Blakeslee SEPTEMBER • Fiction and Miss Love, Will, at age twenty-five, now faces the complexities of 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 adult life: he falls in love with his wife-to-be, and grapples with the influ- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1992 (OP) ences of the modern world of 1917 on his rural Georgia town—recently Previous ISBN 0-899-19908-9 renamed “Progressive City.” Delta trade paperback, 1994 Before her death in 1990, Olive Ann Burns expressed her wish that Previous ISBN 0-385-31220-2 the fifteen chapters she had written of Will’s story be published as they are here, along with her notes for future scenes. In addition, Burns’s long- time editor and friend, Katrina Kenison, leaves us with an appreciative reminiscence of the beloved author and the legacy she left behind.

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Ward Just FORGETFULNESS A Novel

• A New York Times Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of 2006 by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times • Entertainment Weekly: Grade: A • A Top Twenty Book Sense pick

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91849-2 • $13.95 homas Railles, an American expatriate and former “odd-jobber” ISBN-10: 0-618-91849-3 Tfor the CIA, is a successful painter living with his beloved wife, Forgetfulness Florette, in a small village in the Pyrenees. On an ordinary autumn day, SEPTEMBER • Fiction Florette goes for a walk in the hills and is killed by unknown assailants. 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Her death devastates Thomas, and in its aftermath he struggles to make Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 sense of a world that seems defined by violence and pain. Was her Previous ISBN 0-618-63463-0 death simply a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it somehow connected to Thomas’s work with the CIA? When ALSO AVAILABLE French officials detain four Moroccan terrorists and charge them with An Unfinished Season Florette’s murder, Thomas is invited by his boyhood friend (and for- (978-0-618-56828-4) $13.00 PA mer handler) Bernhard to witness the interrogation. His search for The Weather in Berlin answers in this shadow world will lead him to a confrontation that will (978-0-618-34079-8) $13.95 PA change him forever. Echo House (978-0-395-90138-0) $14.00 PA Ward Just’s most gripping and insightful novel yet, Forgetfulness is a devastating exploration of one man’s grief and his struggle to understand the attraction of vengeance. • National advertising, including The New Yorker • Reading group promotion • Author events in New York and Washington, D.C.

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FORGETFULNESS

“One of Just’s best novels. Forgetfulness is a wonderful addition to his distinctive and distinguished body of work.” —New York Times Book Review

“Forgetfulness is an intellectual and emotional marvel of a book.” —Boston Globe

“A master at blending the personal and political .. . rich in details, atmosphere, and moral ambiguities.” —USA Today © NINA BRAMHALL

“Mr. Just’s finest novel yet.” WARD JUST is the author of fourteen —Wall Street Journal previous novels, including the National Book Award finalist Echo House and An “A narrative that captures the emotional pitch of Unfinished Season, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of the Chicago Tribune’s living in a world that’s politically fraying.” Heartland Award, and a New York Times —Chicago Sun-Times Notable Book. He lives on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. “A masterfully realized addition to the modern literature of the conflicted shadow world, worthy to be shelved alongside Graham Greene and John le Carré.” —Los Angeles Times

“[A] mature meditation on the personal, private grief that’s cultivated in a global war on terror, the search for subtle moral truths in a climate of slogans and curses.” —Washington Post Book World

“One of the large pleasures of this short, extremely thoughtful book is to watch the way Just, a master, sets up in a few pages the themes that are going to be with us for the duration.” —San Francisco Chronicle

TOLSTOY LIED A Love Story

• “A love story with heft, weight, and dazzle . . . infectiously enjoyable.”—Tova Mirvis • “What a deep pleasure this novel is—full of probing ideas, moments of hilarity, and a vivid, surprising story.” —Elizabeth Graver • “Cuts to the very core of what a love story should be: not about how we find happiness, but about what it means to do so.”—San Francisco Chronicle

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91983-3 • $13.95 achel Kadish offers a take on modern love in a romantic comedy ISBN-10: 0-618-91983-X Rthat is as enchanting as it is intelligent. Tolstoy famously wrote, Tolstoy Lied “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own SEPTEMBER • Fiction way.” To thirty-three-year-old English professor Tracy Farber, this 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 celebrated maxim is questionable at best. If Tolstoy is to be taken at his Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 word, only unhappiness can be interesting and happiness must be dull Previous ISBN 0-618-54669-3 and pedestrian. Disturbed, Tracy secretly nurtures an unusual project: proving that ALSO AVAILABLE happiness is interesting, in literature and in life. Although challenging From a Sealed Room master Tolstoy is a potential threat to her job security, Tracy is confident. (978-0-618-56241-1) After all, she’s her own perfect example—content with friends and work $13.95 PA and satisfied to be single. But little does she know that her best proof will come when she meets George, who will sweep her off her feet and challenge all of her theories. When love proves more complicated than • Reading group promotion Tracy had imagined, she wonders if she’ll ever find happiness that fulfills • Mariner advertising both her head and her heart. • Author appearances • Author Web site www.rachelkadish.com RACHEL KADISH is the author of the novel From a Sealed Room. Among her many honors are a Koret Award, a National O

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THE LIVES OF ROCKS Stories

• “One of this country’s most intelligent and sensitive short story writers.”—New York Times Book Review • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91966-6 • $13.95 ick Bass has been quietly astounding fiction readers for years with ISBN-10: 0-618-91966-X R his distinctive prose. The Lives of Rocks finds him at the top of his The Lives of Rocks form with a collection of short fiction that is at once exquisitely crafted OCTOBER • Fiction and undeniably moving. Set in Montana, Texas, and Mississippi, these 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 ten stories explore Bass’s signature theme of humankind’s relationship Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-59674-7 with the environment. The title story deals with the limits of human isolation in the wilderness; in “Pagans,” three childhood friends look back on the dangerous games of their youth; in “Her First Elk,” a woman ALSO AVAILABLE recalls her most significant hunting experience. These stories are The Diezmo distinguished by their maturity and depth. As the Seattle Times wrote (978-0-618-71050-8) of Bass, “With a strong understanding of the forces of nature, he’s carved $13.95 PA out his own rocky niche in the literary world . . . The Lives of Rocks digs The Hermit’s Story deeply into the geology of the human condition. [These are] highly (978-0-618-38044-2) $12.00 PA polished gems to be turned over in the mind, again and again.” The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness (978-0-395-92475-4) $13.00 PA

RICK BASS is the author of many acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction. His first short story collection, The Watch, received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award, and The Hermit’s Story was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Bass’s • National advertising stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award. Bass grew up in Texas and now lives in Montana’s Yaak Valley.

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James Kynge CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future—and the Challenge for America

• Winner of the Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award • “With a fresh perspective and a fine eye for arresting detail, Kynge brings alive all the complexities, contradictions, and characters that are the features of China’s whirlwind development.”—Economist, Best Books of the Year

“ et China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” LNapoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate across the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China’s ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91906-2 • $14.95 ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food—and its ISBN-10: 0-618-91906-6 export of goods, workers, and investments—drastically reshapes world China Shakes the World trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and OCTOBER • Business/Current Affairs visionaries, factory workers and store clerks, Kynge describes the 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 faces, and the consequences of both. He details the variety of China’s Previous ISBN 0-618-70564-3 deep and systemic weaknesses—fraud and corruption, environmental crises, faltering government institutions, an aging population—that threaten even greater global disruptions. As Thomas Friedman did in • Online advertising and promotion The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Kynge gives us a lucid and necessary • Copromotion with business organizations account of a far-reaching phenomenon. • Academic promotion

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INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD

“This sharply penned warning shows how China’s silken threads pervade every aspect of global commerce and geopolitics.”—Wired

“An excellent book, far more useful and sensible than most business bestsellers or the majority of general introductions to modern China . . . balanced and very readable.”—Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong © LUCY KYNGE

“Resident in China for many years, [Kynge] is admirably JAMES KYNGE is the former China bureau knowledgeable about the subject and the country.He tells the story chief of the Financial Times in Beijing. of China’s rise with sympathy and insight.”—Guardian (U.K.) A journalist in Asia for two decades, he is fluent in Mandarin and has visited every “Captures the ambivalence that many intelligent people feel about the Chinese province. He has spoken at the rise of China . . . excellent reporting.”—Far Eastern Economic Review World Economic Forum and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and he has been a guest on CNN, Today, the “Reveal[s] the complexity and scale of what’s happening [in China] BBC, and National Public Radio. He lives in a way that is gripping.”—Jeffrey Garten, author of The Mind of in Beijing. the CEO

“China is a changing world, and James Kynge’s book captures the essence of that change.”—Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs

“James Kynge is one of our most insightful writers on Chinese economics and business . . . A convincing work of reportage and analysis, it forcefully demonstrates the impact of China on our jobs, our politics, and even our health.”—Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Wild Grass: Three Tales of Change in Modern China

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Edna O’Brien THE LIGHT OF EVENING A Novel

• A Best Book of the Year: Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Rocky Mountain News, Boston Phoenix • “A delicate, everyday, even humorous love between mother and daughter is revealed as the grandest of passions.” —Nuala O’Faolain

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91973-4 • $13.95 novel of dreams and affections, lamentations and betrayals, The ISBN-10: 0-618-91973-2 ALight of Evening delves deep into the intense relationship between The Light of Evening a mother and daughter. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the ailing OCTOBER • Fiction Dilly Macready eagerly awaits a visit from her long-estranged daughter, 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Eleanora. Years before, Eleanora fled Ireland for London when her Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 sensuous first novel caused a local scandal. Her mother beseeches her Previous ISBN 0-618-71867-2 to return home, sending letters that are priceless in their mix of love, guilt, and recrimination. For all her mother’s disapproval, Dilly herself ALSO AVAILABLE knows something of Eleanora’s need for freedom: as a young woman in In the Forest the 1920s, she left Ireland for a new life in New York City before heart- (978-0-618-33965-5) $13.00 PA break sent her back home. As she does in much of her stunning fiction, Wild Decembers O’Brien reveals a fierce and intimate knowledge of the forces that both (978-0-618-12691-0) $13.00 PA bind families together and keep them at odds. A Pagan Place (978-0-618-12690-3) $13.00 PA

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“The powerful bonds and deep divisions between mothers and daughters form the dark currents beneath The Light of Evening ... O’Brien is still writing beautifully about the often painful and startling ways in which women learn about men, about love, about the world— and about themselves.”—Francine Prose, People, starred review

“You’ll turn the pages of this book with the greatest reluctance, and that is because each page is so seductive, so dazzling, you won’t want to leave it. Whether the setting is Brooklyn or London or the County Clare itself, richness of detail and atmosphere draws you in.” © NIGEL CASE —Frank McCourt* EDNA O’BRIEN is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including The Country “Lyrical and lacerating. Fully merits the adjective ‘bravura.’” Girls Trilogy, House of Splendid Isolation, —Los Angeles Times Book Review and Wild Decembers. Among others, she “O’Brien’s vivid, musical prose wafts us into the past, enveloping was awarded the National Medal for fiction from the National Arts Club. An honorary us in its sights and sounds and smells . . . surprising yet satisfying.” member of the American Academy of Arts —Boston Globe and Letters, she was born and raised in “[O’Brien] understands the honeycomb of family life like few writers Ireland and has lived in London for many years. at work today.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Lush with wild yet carefully bridled language and vivid in imagery.” —Elle

“Reading Edna O’Brien is like going into a special place full of radiant energy and intense understanding, unlike any other reading enclosure I know.”—Alice Munro

DARK WILD REALM Poems

• “Collier writes elegant, accessible, closely observed poems. It’s a pleasure to encounter the words he so precisely selects . . . His writing seeks the unstable spaces between light and shadow, waking and sleep, spirit and body, and the places where the living and dead pass one another.” —Washington Post Book World

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91991-8 • $13.95 ward-winning poet Michael Collier’s elegiac fifth collection is ISBN-10: 0-618-91991-0 Ahaunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: Dark Wild Realm from a consideration of the weight of sparrows to a cardinal that crashes NOVEMBER • Poetry into his window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as 80 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 myth makers and lively messengers carrying memories from lost friends. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian revelation, such as waking to the Previous ISBN 0-618-58222-3 laughing sounds of birdsong, with the drama of Greek tragedy, taking on voices from Medea. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates ALSO AVAILABLE are the real subjects of the book. Birds are the resurrectionists, writes The Ledge Collier in the opening poem, “Birds Appearing in a Dream.” As Vanity (978-0-618-21910-0) Fair praised, his poems “tread nimbly between moments of everyday $13.00 PA transcendence and spiritual pining.”

MICHAEL COLLIER is the director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and • National Poetry Month sponsorship teaches at the University of Maryland. He has published four previous collections of poetry, including The Ledge, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Prize and the • Poetic Voice podcast National Book Critics Circle Award. The former Maryland poet laureate, he lives • Academic promotion in Catonsville, Maryland.

CHEATING DESTINY Living with Diabetes

• “Hirsch has written the book that people who care about diabetes have been waiting for . . . [He] persuasively illustrates an epidemic that is at odds with modern society at almost every level.”—Washington Post • “Hirsch includes material about himself, his brother, and his son to make his searing points.”—Seattle Times

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91899-7 • $14.95 istinguished journalist and best-selling author James S. Hirsch offers ISBN-10: 0-618-91899-X Dan engaging blend of history, reportage, advocacy, and memoir that Cheating Destiny speaks for, and to, the more than twenty million Americans who live with NOVEMBER • Science diabetes. Hirsch is intimately familiar with the disease: he has lived with 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 type 1 diabetes for three decades. His brother, Irl, also a diabetic, is one Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-51461-9 of the country’s leading diabetologists. Most poignantly, his young son, Garrett, was diagnosed with it at age three. Hirsch draws on all this expertise to craft an incisive, surprising portrayal of the science behind ALSO AVAILABLE the disorder and its skyrocketing impact on our economy and society. Two Souls Indivisible Cheating Destiny offers revealing views of life with diabetes: the urge (978-0-618-56210-7) toward secrecy that many diabetics feel, the glycemic roller coaster $14.00 PA they ride, the everyday psychological and emotional hurdles, and the Riot and Remembrance perseverance—even heroism—required for survival. Anyone who lives (978-0-618-34076-7) $14.00 PA with diabetes—or loves a diabetic—will find here an empowering voice. Hurricane (978-0-618-08728-0) $15.00 PA

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LAST SEEN LEAVING A Novel

• “Don’t read [it] before bed, or else you’ll never fall asleep.” —Jane • “Brainy, quirky, and bold, this is anything but your grandma’s cozy mystery novel.”—Elle • “[A] compelling tale of mother-daughter estrangement.” —Entertainment Weekly • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91976-5 • $13.95 hen twenty-something drifter Miranda Cassidy wrecks her car one ISBN-10: 0-618-91976-7 Wnight on the way home from a bar, she seizes the accident as an Last Seen Leaving opportunity to reinvent her life. Hitching a ride with a mysterious NOVEMBER • Fiction stranger, she finds quick work and a fresh start hundreds of miles away 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 in an ocean-side vacation town, and she doesn’t look back. Besides, she Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 figures, who is going to miss her? Previous ISBN 0-618-44144-1 But when her frantic mother finds no forwarding address, she senses something terrible has happened. Past secrets come crashing back. The ALSO AVAILABLE memory of the tragic disappearance of Miranda’s father years before and Josie and Jack the force of long-buried emotions drive her on a frantic quest to find her (978-0-618-44143-3) daughter, no matter what the cost. $13.00 PA As she did in her darkly thrilling debut, the cult favorite Josie and Jack, Braffet explores the often ambiguous nature of love and danger in a page-turner that will have readers riveted until the final twist. • Author tour, including New York and Brooklyn Book Fest • Online promotion including mystery bookstores and reading groups • Author Web site www.kellybraffet.com KELLY BRAFFET is the author of the acclaimed novel Josie and Jack. Born in Long Beach, California, in 1976, Braffet has

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WHITE APPLES AND THE TASTE OF STONE Poems 1946–2006

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91999-4 • $16.95 hroughout his career, Donald Hall has garnered numerous acco- ISBN-10: 0-618-91999-6 Tlades and honors, including the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society White Apples and the Taste of Stone of America, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles DECEMBER • Poetry Times Book Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, culminating in 2006 448 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 with his appointment as poet laureate of the United States. White Apples Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-53721-X and the Taste of Stone collects more than two hundred poems from across sixty years of Hall’s celebrated career, and includes poems recently published in The New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, and the New ALSO AVAILABLE York Times. It is Hall’s first selected volume in fifteen years, and the first The Best Day the Worst Day to include poems from his seminal bestseller Without. Those who have (978-0-618-77362-6) come to love the work of Donald Hall throughout his storied career will $13.95 PA welcome this vital and important addition to his body of work. For the Eagle Pond uninitiated it is a spectacular introduction to this critically acclaimed (978-0-618-83934-6) $14.95 PA and beloved poet. The Painted Bed (978-0-618-34075-0) $14.00 PA

DONALD HALL is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose. His work has garnered many honors, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award. A member • National advertising of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit the • National Poetry Month sponsorship New Hampshire farmhouse where he and Jane Kenyon lived together. • Poetic Voice podcast • Academic promotion

WILLIAM JAMES In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

• A Best Book of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly • “A magnificent biography, written with ease and panache . . . and suffused with a well-judged admiration for its subject.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World • “With this book, Richardson establishes himself as the dean of American biographers.”—Megan Marshall

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91989-5 • $17.95 rize-winning biographer Robert D. Richardson has written the ISBN-10: 0-618-91989-9 Pdefinitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life William James and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, DECEMBER • Biography and religion—and on modernism itself. A pivotal member of the Meta- 656 pages • 6 x 9 • OO physical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, and older Two 8-page b/w photo sections brother of extraordinary siblings Henry and Alice, William emerges here Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-43325-2 as an immensely complex man. Richardson’s thought-provoking and utterly moving work, ten years in the making, draws on a vast number of unpublished letters, journals, and family records. Through impassioned scholarship, Richardson illuminates James’s hugely influential works: • National advertising The Varieties, Principles of Psychology, Talks to Teachers, and Pragma- • Academic promotion tism. Finally, brought richly to life through Richardson’s brilliant insights, James is given his due as a man whose influence resonates in innumerable areas of modern life.

ROBERT D. RICHARDSON is the author of the acclaimed biographies Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind and Emerson: The Mind on Fire. He is the recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Melcher Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other honors. Richardson lives in Key West, Florida; Wellfleet, Massachusetts; and Hillsborough, North Carolina.

THE FIRST TOTAL WAR Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

• “Masterly . . . an essential book.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history.”—Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles • “A fascinating and brilliant work of history.”—Paul Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91981-9 • $15.95 he twentieth century is usually seen as “the century of total war,” but ISBN-10: 0-618-91981-3 Tas historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenome- The First Total War non actually began much earlier, in the age of Napoleon. Bell takes us JANUARY • History from campaigns of “extermination” in the blood-soaked fields of western 432 pages • 6 x 9 • A4 France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to central Euro- 20 b/w halftones Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 pean battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between Previous ISBN 0-618-34965-0 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction, and our modern attitudes toward war were born. Ever since, the dream of perpet- ual peace and the nightmare of total war have been bound tightly together in the Western world—where “wars of liberation,” such as the one in Iraq, • Academic promotion can degenerate into gruesome guerrilla conflict. • Tie-in with author’s conference schedule With a historian’s keen insight and a journalist’s flair for detail, Bell exposes the surprising parallels between Napoleon’s day and our own in a book that is as timely and important as it is unforgettable.

DAVID A. BELL is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a contributing editor for the New Republic. Bell has written for the New York Times, Slate, and Time and was featured on the History Channel’s program on the French Revolution. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Matt Beynon Rees THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM An Omar Yussef Mystery

• “Rees’s ability to blend the political and the emotional is reminiscent of Graham Greene.”—David Liss, author of A Conspiracy of Paper • “Offers a vivid portrait of Palestinian life today.” —Washington Post • “[A] powerful first novel.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-95965-5 • $13.95 he Collaborator of Bethlehem is the riveting first novel in a new ISBN-10: 0-618-95965-3 T mystery series set in the heart of the Middle East. The murder of The Collaborator of Bethlehem a leader of the Palestinian Martyrs Brigade leads to the arrest of George JANUARY • Fiction Saba, a Palestinian Christian accused of collaborating with the Israelis. 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • B4 Omar Yussef, a modest history teacher at a United Nations school in Soho Press hardcover, 2007 the West Bank, is impelled to investigate the murder to exonerate his Previous ISBN 978-1-56947-442-6 former pupil, whom he knows is innocent. As he struggles to save his friend, Omar Yussef is drawn into a tangled plot where it is impossible to tell friend from enemy. Matt Beynon Rees has written a richly • Mariner advertising detailed, absorbing mystery that illuminates the Palestinian conflict and • Online promotion, including mystery its political complexities from within. bookstores and reading groups The Collaborator of Bethlehem is the first in a series of mysteries • Author Web site www.mattbeynonrees.com featuring Omar Yussef. The second book, A Grave in Gaza, will be published in hardcover by Soho Press in February 2008.

FROM THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM

Omar Yussef made his way back to the mourning tent. He put the bullet casing in the pocket of his jacket. Hussein Tamari was talking about Louai Abdel Rahman in a loud voice at the edge of the tent.“The martyr,” he called him. It struck Omar Yussef that there was security in the thought that a man died as a martyr. There was no groaning and © DAVID BLUMENFELD bleeding and wishing not to die in a case of martyrdom. MATT BEYNON REES has covered the For those who lived on, it was as though there had been Middle East as a journalist for a decade, with the vast majority of that time spent no death. among Palestinians and Israelis. He is the former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time, where he is currently a contributor. Born in Wales, he is the author of Cain’s “A beautifully written story.I have walked the streets of Bethlehem Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the with Omar Yussef, smelled the dust and fear, tasted his food, Middle East. shared his anger and his hope. His decency is a light in the gloom. I shall not forget him.” —Anne Perry, author of Dark Assassin

“Matt Beynon Rees has taken a complex world of culture clash and suspicion and placed upon it humanity.” —David Baldacci, author of The Collectors

“Vividly captures the fabric of daily Palestinian life.” —Boston Globe

ABSOLUTE ZERO AND THE CONQUEST OF COLD

• An epic story of scientific adventure, now the basis for a two-part PBS documentary

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-08239-1 • $14.00 n this engrossing scientific chronicle, a perennial paperback favorite, ISBN-10: 0-618-08239-5 ITom Shachtman combines science, history, and adventure in the Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold story of our four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets of cold. Now AVAILABLE • Science / History a documentary based largely on Shachtman’s acclaimed book promises 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 to bring these exhilarating scientific accomplishments to a new audience. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1999 Underwritten by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Previous ISBN 0-395-93888-0 Sloan Foundation and set to air on PBS and the BBC, the documentary was produced by British Emmy Award winner David Dugan, in collaboration with Meredith Burch of Meridian Productions in Washington, D.C. • Academic promotion Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold demonstrates how temperature • Absolute Zero Web site: science produced astonishing scientific insights and applications that have www.absolutezerocampaign.org revolutionized civilization. It also illustrates how scientific advancement, fueled by fortuitous discoveries and the determination of individuals, shapes our understanding of and relation to the world.

TOM SHACHTMAN is the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. He has been the scriptwriter for documentaries broadcast by ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, and PBS, including Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold.

FAME JUNKIES The Hidden Truths Behind America’s Favorite Addiction

• “Brims with insight about our obsession with celebrity.” —Boston Magazine • “Displays an evocative, insiderish style reminiscent, however slightly, of Tom Wolfe’s when he peered into 1960s celebrity culture.”—Wall Street Journal • “Presents a lot of evidence about America’s obsession with fame and celebrity: some of it funny, some of it surprising, much of it disturbing.”—Washington Post • A Top-Twenty Book Sense Pick ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91871-3 • $13.95 ISBN-10: 0-618-91871-X Fame Junkies hy do more people watch American Idol than the nightly news? JANUARY • Popular Culture WWhat is it about Paris Hilton’s dating life that is so intriguing? 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 Why do teenage girls when given the option of “pressing a magic button Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 and becoming either stronger, smarter, famous, or more beautiful” Previous ISBN 0-618-45369-5 predominantly opt for fame? In this entertaining and enlightening book, Jake Halpern explores the fascinating and often dark implications of America’s obsession with ALSO AVAILABLE fame. He travels to a Hollywood home for aspiring child actors and Braving Home enrolls in a training program for aspiring celebrity assistants. He visits (978-0-618-44662-9) $13.00 PA the offices of Us Weekly and a laboratory where monkeys give up food to stare at pictures of dominant members of their group. The book culminates in Halpern’s encounter with Rod Stewart’s biggest fan, a woman from Pittsburgh who nominated the singer for Hollywood’s • Online advertising Walk of Fame. • Online reader’s guide Fame Junkies reveals how psychology, technology, and even • Author tour, including New York, evolution conspire to make the world of red carpets and velvet ropes Los Angeles so enthralling to all of us on the outside looking in. • Author Web site www.jakehalpern.com

JAKE HALPERN has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and LA Weekly, among other publications, and is the author of the critically acclaimed Braving Home. A commentator and freelance producer for NPR’s All Things Considered, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Peter Ho Davies THE WELSH GIRL A Novel

• “A beautiful, ambitious novel that takes the reader into the most personal corner of war. It is emotionally resonant and perfectly rendered.”—Ann Patchett • “A memorable writer of sinewy intelligence and rare grace.”—David Mitchell

et in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, Peter SHo Davies’s profoundly moving first novel traces a perilous wartime romance. Barmaid Esther Evans has lived all of her seventeen years on a sheep farm in Snowdonia, and she yearns for a taste of the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91852-2 • $13.95 wider world. But in the final, harrowing months of World War II, the ISBN-10: 0-618-91852-3 world unexpectedly comes to her, in the form of a POW camp set up The Welsh Girl nearby. It is there that she first encounters Karsten, a young German JANUARY • Fiction corporal of tormented conscience, struggling to reconcile his surrender 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 with his sense of honor. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 The consequences of their relationship resonate through the Previous ISBN 0-618-00700-8 lives of an unforgettable ensemble cast of characters: Esther’s proud nationalist father, the resentful English evacuee who lives on the farm, ALSO AVAILABLE Equal Love the German-Jewish interrogator sent to Wales to investigate the British (978-0-618-00699-1) $12.00 PA Army’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this thought- The Ugliest House in the World provoking work, all will come to question where they belong and (978-0-395-92480-8) $13.00 PA where their loyalties lie.

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Acclaim for PETER HO DAVIES and THE WELSH GIRL ...

“An ambitious,layered meditation on what it means to be from a particular place . . . Ideas do more than gird the novel’s absorbing world; they animate it. Davies’s achievement is significant.” —Jennifer Egan, New York Times Book Review

“If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl . . . evocative.”—USA Today

“Peter Ho Davies, whose short stories over the past decade have © BERING PHOTOGRAPHY demonstrated his quicksilver brilliance with the material of ordinary lives, has at last taken the plunge and produced a novel. Sentence by PETER HO DAVIES is the author of two sentence, character by character, scene by scene, it’s one of the best highly acclaimed short story collections, of the winter so far.”—Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune The Ugliest House in the World and the New York Times Notable Book Equal Love. His first novel, The Welsh Girl, was “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” selected as a Barnes and Noble Discover —Los Angeles Times Book Review New Writers selection. He lives in Ann Arbor, where he is on the faculty of the “Davies appears to be able to inhabit anyone.”—Newsday graduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan. “Resonates with an authenticity that had to be earned . . . The specifics of Esther’s world . . . grant the novel a moody authority reminiscent of another age.”—Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe

“In this skilled, beautifully empathetic novel, the intersection of English troops, German POWs, and Welsh families with their flocks yields surprising insights into what it means to have a home territory. Peter Ho Davies is a wonderful writer.”—Andrea Barrett

“[A] beautifully written story of life and love on the outskirts of war . . . This first novel by Davies . . . has been anticipated—and with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review

SKY TIME IN GRAY’S RIVER Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

• “An instant classic . . . one of the very best accounts of a closely observed life.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer • “A man who truly knows the people and the landscape and loves every leaf and inch and birdcall of it, down to the footprints of the ants.”—Ursula K. LeGuin • “A beautiful, big-hearted book from a leading figure in the resurgence of American nature writing.”—Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91979-6 • $13.95 uch the way Donald Hall’s Seasons at Eagle Pond captured New ISBN-10: 0-618-91979-1 MEngland, Sky Time in Gray’s River captures the essence of the rural Sky Time in Gray’s River Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and south- JANUARY • Nature/Travel western Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about 256 pages • 5 x 8 • A4 the village of Gray’s River spoke to him on a visit thirty years ago. Ever Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 since then he has lived in the village, one of the first to be established near Previous ISBN 0-395-82821-X the mouth of the Columbia River, tenuously connected to the world of the twenty-first century. Sky Time brings Gray’s River to life by compressing ALSO AVAILABLE those thirty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the people, Where Bigfoot Walks plants, and animals month by month through the seasons. (978-0-395-85701-4) Through his story of how the village has changed his life, Pyle illus- $15.00 PA trates how a special place can change anyone lucky enough to find it. Sky Chasing Monarchs Time in Gray’s River shows that you don’t have to travel far to see some- (978-0-618-12743-6) $14.00 PA thing new every day—if you know how to look.

ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE is the author of fourteen books, including Chasing Monarchs, Where Bigfoot Walks, and Wintergreen, which won the John Burroughs Medal. A Yale-trained ecologist and a Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in southwestern Washington.

CHARITY GIRL A Novel

• “Lively and illuminating . . . marr[ies] the facts of history with the details that make a fictional life come alive.”—Anita Shreve, Washington Post Book World • “Even while capturing the great sweep of the period, Charity Girl celebrates most the depth of the characters’ lives.” —Matthew Pearl • A Top-Twenty Book Sense Pick

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91978-9 • $13.95 uring World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at ISBN-10: 0-618-91978-3 Da Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her Charity Girl repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her JANUARY • Fiction age. Determined to find love on her own terms, she is intoxicated by her 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 newfound freedom and the patriotic fervor of the day. That is, until a Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 Previous ISBN 0-618-54629-4 soldier reports her as his last sexual contact, sweeping her up in the government’s wartime crusade against venereal disease. Deemed a threat to the country and quarantined in a detention center, Frieda finds in the Home’s confines a group of brash, unforgettable women who help her • Reading group promotion see the way to a new kind of independence. • Author Web site Charity Girl is based on an ugly, little-known chapter in American www.lowenthal.etherweave.com history that saw fifteen thousand women across the nation incarcerated. Like When the Emperor Was Divine, Lowenthal’s novel is poignant, provocative historical fiction that will leave readers moved and astonished by the shameful facts that inspired it.

MICHAEL LOWENTHAL is the author of two previous novels, The Same Embrace and Avoidance. He was impelled to write Charity Girl by a sentence in Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors that made brief mention of the unjust incarceration of women during World War I. Lowenthal teaches writing at Boston College and Lesley University, and he lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

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Jeremy Schaap TRIUMPH The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics

• From the best-selling author of Cinderella Man • “A remarkable job of tackling a complex subject and bringing it to life.”—John Feinstein • “You think you know about Jesse Owens. You think you know the whole story about the ’36 Olympics. Think again.”—Mike Lupica

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91910-9 • $14.95 n 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers ISBN-10: 0-618-91910-4 Igoose-stepping, an African-American son of sharecroppers won a Triumph staggering four Olympic gold medals and single-handedly crushed FEBRUARY • Sports Hitler’s myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 1936 Olympic games is that of an athletic performance that transcends 8 pages b/w photos Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2007 sports. It is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one Previous ISBN 0-618-68822-6 remarkable man. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Owens family, previously unpublished interviews, and exhaustive archival research, Jeremy Schaap transports us to Germany and tells the ALSO AVAILABLE dramatic tale of Owens and his fellow athletes at the contest dubbed Cinderella Man the “Nazi Olympics.” (978-0-618-71190-1) $13.95 PA With his trademark incisive reporting and rich storytelling, Schaap reveals what really transpired over those tense, exhilarating weeks. Like Neal Bascomb’s The Perfect Mile and David Margolick’s Beyond Glory, • Online advertising and promotion Triumph is a nuanced and riveting work of sports history.

PRAISE FOR TRIUMPH

“A behind-the-scenes look at a complex, gifted man . . . Schaap draws a full portrait of Owens as a superstar athlete but a second-class citizen in the 1930s.” —Hartford Courant

“The best part of Triumph lies in the new material Schaap © DONNA SVENNEVIK/ABC unearthed, describing the furious behind-the-scenes machinations over boycotting Hitler’s Olympics . . . Schaap has produced a JEREMY SCHAAP is an ESPN anchor and valuable, readable book.” national correspondent, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella —Cleveland Plain Dealer Man. His work has been published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Parade, and the New York Times. He “Vividly written . . . Triumph is strongest when it focuses on Owens’s lives in New York City. wins and losses and how they intersect with the politics of the time.” —Jewish Daily Forward

“Verdict: incredible drama behind extraordinary feats.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“You ought to go out this weekend and buy Jeremy Schaap’s book Triumph, about Jesse Owens and the ’36 Olympics. He is as good a writer as he is a reporter, and that is saying plenty.” —New York Daily News

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Howard Norman DEVOTION A Novel

• “Any novel by Howard Norman is cause for celebration . . . a wonderfully intelligent author whose every work possesses an incisiveness of visitation and depth of spirit.”—Lorrie Moore • The newest fiction masterwork from the author of The Bird Artist, a National Book Award finalist • A Top-Twenty Book Sense Pick

oward Norman’s latest novel—an intense and intriguingly Hunconventional love story—sets out to explore a great mystery: why seemingly quiet, contained people lose control. Like many of Norman’s celebrated works, Devotion begins with a crime. David Kozol ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91974-1 • $13.95 has assaulted his father-in-law on a London street. What could possibly ISBN-10: 0-618-91974-0 enrage David enough that he would strike the father of his new bride? Devotion Why would William, a gentle caretaker of an estate in Nova Scotia— FEBRUARY • Fiction which includes a flock of swans—be so angry at the man who has just 208 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 married his beloved daughter Maggie? And what would lead Maggie Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 to believe that David has been unfaithful to her? Previous ISBN 0-618-73541-0 At its core, Devotion is an elegantly constructed, unsparing examination of love in its various forms—romantic, filial, and, of course, love for the vast open spaces of the natural world. It will • Mariner advertising dazzle Norman fans and new readers of this accomplished writer. • Reading group promotion

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From Devotion

o David, the simple fact was love at first sight. The moment provided Tthe definition. He felt a complete realignment of emotions, along with the unbearable advance regret at not seeing this woman again. Whatever her name might be, whatever her life might be. He felt these pangs, felt them almost hypnotically. He was prepared to get into his own taxi and despite all cinematic cliché order the driver to “follow that cab,” he felt such stupefying urgency about her.

HOWARD NORMAN has been nominated twice for the National Book Award and has “Like the enigmatic swans, the book is both simple and mysteri- received the Lannan Award for fiction, a ous . . . Rarely has such a short novel touched on so many truths Guggenheim fellowship, and a Whiting or probed such operatic depths.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch Award. He is the author of five previous novels, including The Bird Artist and The Haunting of L., two memoirs, and many books for children. He lives in Washington, “Being devoted may look like being trapped. But as Mr. Norman D.C., and Vermont. demonstrates, a placid exterior can be deceptive.”—New York Sun

“Deals with a powerful theme: how love endures despite our best efforts to sabotage it.”—Publishers Weekly

“The swans are a teasing, complex image—of beauty,fidelity, mystery,the souls we like to think we possess, and the kind of fragility that invites violation.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Michael Patrick MacDonald EASTER RISING A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion

• “Where All Souls reads as a eulogy for a lost neighborhood, Easter Rising punches through its bindings like a punk rock zine.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “Alternately funny and heartbreaking.”—Newsweek • A Top-Twenty Book Sense Pick and Boston Globe bestseller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-91863-8 • $13.95 ichael Patrick MacDonald’s memoir All Souls told the story of ISBN-10: 0-618-91863-9 Mthe loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and Easter Rising gangsterism of Irish South Boston. In his numerous speaking engage- MARCH • Memoir ments ever since, MacDonald is frequently asked, “How did you get 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A4 out?” Easter Rising is the searing answer to that question. Desperate Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 to escape the “normal” route of violence and drugs that surrounds him, Previous ISBN 0-618-47025-5 MacDonald finds his identity in the burgeoning punk rock movement. His forays into the Boston underground and New York’s East Village pull him into the club scene vortex of Johnny Rotten, Mission of • National author tour, including New York, Burma, and the Clash. Boston, Washington, D.C., Denver, Portland At nineteen MacDonald heads to Paris and then London. Running • National advertising out of money, he contacts his Irish immigrant grandfather—who once • Ongoing lecture schedule accused him of “worshipping the devil with the punk rocks.” Grandpa • Online promotion offers a loan, but only if Michael promises to visit Ireland. It is this • Author Web site journey “home” that offers MacDonald a chance at reconciliation with www.myspace.com/michaelpatrickmacdonald his tumultuous past.

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MY ÁNTONIA A Novel

• Recently selected by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read • A perennial bestseller, originally published by Houghton Mifflin, with a foreword by Kathleen Norris

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-395-75514-3 • $6.95 y Ántonia is one of eight classic American novels featured in the ISBN-10: 0-395-75514-X MNational Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative, designed to My Ántonia restore reading to the center of American culture. The Big Read provides MARCH • Fiction citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 their communities and is supported by expansive outreach and publicity campaigns. Over one hundred communities will participate in 2007, ALSO AVAILABLE each with a program lasting approximately one month. A kick-off event O Pioneers is followed by panel discussions, film screenings, and lectures or public (978-0-395-08365-9) $6.95 PA readings devoted to the book. The Song of the Lark Willa Cather’s heartfelt novel is the unforgettable story of an (978-0-395-34530-6) $6.95 PA immigrant woman’s life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains. Through Jim Burden’s affectionate reminiscence of his childhood friend, the free- spirited Ántonia Shimerda, a larger, uniquely American portrait emerges, both of a community struggling with unforgiving terrain and of a woman • Academic promotion, including school who, amid great hardship, stands as a timeless inspiration. and college advertising

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THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

With its timeless blend of facts and fun, The Old Farmer’s Almanac—the original: often imitated, never equaled—continues to be America’s most popular annual publication.

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