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SPRING 2016 LITERARY FICTION

AN UNRESTORED WOMAN: And Other Stories Shobha Rao (Flatiron Books, March 2016)

“With a sophisticated sense of pacing and patience… characters are meticulously developed within each story and the collection as a whole examines how little power a person might have over his or her own destiny when confronted with war and international disputes. Stunning and relentless.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred)

“Rao’s raw and breathtaking short story collection is set against an epic canvas, yet her character studies are intimate. Exquisite turns of phrase and editing with a fine-edged scalpel only add to an outstanding and memorable debut.” -- Booklist (starred)

“What an astonishing collection! Provoking, ferocious, moving, splendid, generous and essential. I seemed to finish the book in a different world than the one in which I began it.” – Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble

Debut author Shobha Rao moved to the U.S. from India at the age of seven. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015.

BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS Chitra Divakaruni (Simon & Schuster, April 2016)

“The always enchanting and enlightening Divakaruni spins another silken yet tensile saga about the lives of women in India and as immigrants in America… Divakaruni’s gracefully insightful, dazzlingly descriptive, and covertly stinging tale illuminates the opposition women must confront, generation by generation, as they seek both independence and connection.” — Booklist (starred)

“Three generations of Indian women struggle with the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters. In a novel spanning India and the United States over 60 years, richly drawn characters negotiate the desire for education against family obligations and romantic entanglements… Divakaruni's novel explores the moments that reverberate across generations as well as the quiet erosions of culture that happen over time. [This is] a novel of quiet but deeply affecting moments.” – Kirkus Reviews

Chitra Divakaruni is the bestselling and award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices, among others. Her books have translated into 29 different languages, and she has had works published in many literary magazines. She currently holds the Betty and Gene McDavid chair at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program.

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SUMMER/FALL 2016 LITERARY FICTION

BRIGHTFELLOW: A Novel Rikki Ducornet (Coffee House Press, July 2016)

“A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat.” —New York Times

“Linguistically explosive . . . one of the most interesting American writers around.” —The Nation

“Ducornet—surrealist, absurdist, pure anarchist at times—is one of our most accomplished writers, adept at seizing on the perfect details and writing with emotion and cool detachment simultaneously. [Her style] is penetrating and precise but also sensual without being overwrought. You experience a Ducornet novel with all of your senses.”—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach Trilogy

A feral boy comes of age on a campus decadent with starched sheets, sweating cocktails, and homemade jams. Stub is the cause of that missing sweater, the pie that disappeared off the cooling rack. Then Stub meets Billy, who takes him in, and Asthma, who enchants him, and all is found, then lost. A fragrant, voluptuous novel of imposture, misplaced affection, and emotional deformity.

The author of nine previous novels as well as collections of short stories, essays and poems, Rikki Ducornet has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, honored twice by the Lannan Foundation, and the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

REMEMBERING 1942: and Other Chinese Stories (Arcade, November 2016) Translated by & Sylvia Li-chun Lin

From one of China’s most prominent contemporary authors comes a new collection of short stories featuring a diverse cast of ordinary people struggling against life’s obstacles—from bureaucratic to economic—against a background of their own personal conflicts. The masterful title story explores the legacy of the drought and famine that struck Henan Province in 1942 through the lens of one man’s personal journey through war and revolution. Each story is rich in wit, insight, and empathy-- together they bring into focus the realities of China’s past and present, evoking clearly the often Kafkaesque circumstances of contemporary life in the world’s most populous nation.

Liu Zhenyun is the author of six bestselling novels, including I Did Not Kill My Husband which sold 1.2 million copies in China. His fiction has won numerous prizes in China and Hong Kong and has been translated into several languages. Several films have been made based on his novels, including the blockbuster Cell Phone. He is a graduate of Peking University's department.

Howard Goldblatt is a translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, including the works of Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner . Sylvia Li-Chun Lin co-translated the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize-winning novel, Three Sisters, by . She has also been the winner of the Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize.

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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION

THE SLAVE’S CAUSE: A History of Abolition Manisha Sinha (Yale University Press, February 2016)

“The Slave’s Cause captures the myriad aspects of this diverse and far-ranging movement and will deservedly take its place alongside the equally magisterial works of Ira Berlin on slavery and Eric Foner on the Reconstruction Era.” –Wall Street Journal

“The movement gets the big, bold history it deserves--militant, interracial, and nearly forgotten, the Anti-Man-Hunting League epitomizes The Slave’s Cause, a stunning new history of abolitionism.”--The Atlantic

“It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement. Sinha has given us a full history of the men and women who truly made us free.”— Ira Berlin for New York Times Sunday Book Review

“With The Slave’s Cause, Manisha Sinha joins [the company of some of our most gifted and perceptive historians.] The Slave’s Cause takes its place as a starting point for anyone interested in the history of abolitionism.”— Chronicle of Higher Education

One of Eric Foner’s top students, Manisha Sinha is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities among several others. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (University of North Carolina 2000).

THE BRAZEN AGE: New York City and the American Empire— Politics, Art, and Bohemia David Reid (Pantheon, March 2016)

“Having read or seen nearly every artifact of this period, Reid delivers his opinion in a score of unrelated but brilliant chapters on iconic New York individuals (Berenice Abbott, Weegee), groups (returning soldiers, homosexuals), politics (the 1948 elections, leftist magazines), and bohemia (Greenwich village again and again). A historical tour de force.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred)

A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an unprecedented and unique synthesis of genius, ambition, and the avant-garde. While concentrating on those five years, David Reid also reaches back to the turn of the twentieth century to explore the city’s progressive politics, radical artistic experimentation, and burgeoning bohemia.

David Reid is a co-editor of Sex, Death and God in L.A. and West of the West: Imagining California. His essays, articles, reviews, and interviews have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times Book Review, and in various anthologies, including Pushcart Prize. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION

ADULTERY: Infidelity and the Law Deborah L. Rhode (Harvard University Press, March 2016)

“Rhode succeeds in providing an unparalleled sociolegal take on the issues of infidelity and adultery with a focus on how the continued patrolling and protection of sexual relationships is not only no longer necessary, but also that it holds inherent discrimination—and is thus archaic law.”—Library Journal

“A brilliant and beautifully-written jaunt through the history and present-day landscape of adultery. A wonderful combination of fascinating storytelling about human relationships and deep insight into the workings of the legal system.” —Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Gould School of Law

At a time when legal and social prohibitions on sexual relationships are declining, Americans are still nearly unanimous in their condemnation of adultery. Over 90 percent disapprove of cheating on a spouse. In this comprehensive account of the legal and social consequences of infidelity, Deborah Rhode explores why, by exposing the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts, and makes a compelling case for repealing adultery laws and prohibitions on polygamy.

Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University.

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE: A History of American Mountaineering Maurice Isserman (W.W. Norton & Company, April 2016)

“Isserman brings his wide-ranging insight and engaging prose style to [Continental Divide]. The result is an account both educational and, perhaps surprisingly, thrilling.” –Booklist

“Isserman brings…diverse stories together in a cohesive narrative with a strong combination of in-depth research and welcoming prose that even a novice can understand. His passionate scholarship [produces] an easily accessible account of the exploration, subjugation, conservation, and appreciation of the great peaks of the U.S. and the world.”--Publishers Weekly

In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally seen as obstacles to civilization; over time they came to be viewed as places of redemption and renewal. The White Mountains stirred the transcendentalists; the Rockies and Sierras pulled explorers westward toward Manifest Destiny; Yosemite inspired the early environmental conservationists. Isserman traces the evolving social, cultural, and political roles mountains played in shaping the country. A magnificent, deeply researched history, Continental Divide tells a story of adventure and aspiration in the high peaks that makes a vivid case for the importance of mountains to American national identity.

Maurice Isserman is the coauthor of Fallen Giants, a prize-winning history of Himalayan mountaineering. He is a professor of history at Hamilton College and lives in Clinton, New York. 5 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates Spring / S u m m e r 2 0 1 6

SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION

ONE WILD BIRD AT A TIME: Portraits of Individual Lives Bernd Heinrich (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2016)

“An eminent biologist shares the joys of bird-watching and how observing the anomalous behaviors of individual birds has guided his research. An engaging memoir of the opportunities for doing scientific research without leaving one’s own backyard.” – Kirkus Reviews

In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich’s “passionate observations [that] superbly mix memoir and science” (New York Times Book Review) lead to fascinating questions — and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher, while bringing food to the young in their nest, is attacked by the other flycatcher nearby. Why? Heinrich “looks closely, with his trademark ‘hands-and- knees science’ at its most engaging, [delivering] what can only be called psychological marvels of knowing” (Boston Globe).

Bernd Heinrich is an acclaimed scientist and the author of award-winning books. He writes for Scientific American, Outside, American Scientist, and Audubon, and has published book reviews and op-eds for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

YOU BELONG TO THE UNIVERSE: Buckminster Fuller and the Future Jonathon Keats (Oxford University Press, April 2016)

"A wonderfully written and highly necessary book about one of the 20th century's most enigmatic outliers." – Douglas Coupland, author and artist

A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing nor sewage. Yet in spite of his brilliant mind and life-long devotion to serving mankind, Fuller’s expansive ideas were often dismissed, and have faded from public memory since his death. From transportation to climate change, urban design to education, You Belong to the Universe demonstrates that Fuller’s holistic problem-solving techniques may be the only means of addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues. Keats’s timely book challenges each of us to become comprehensive anticipatory design scientists, providing the tools for continuing Fuller's legacy of improving the world.

Jonathon Keats is a writer, artist and experimental philosopher. He is the author of the story collection The Book of the Unknown (Random House), winner of the American Library Association's 2010 Sophie Brody Medal, as well as Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology (2010) and Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age (2013), both published by Oxford University Press.

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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION

ALIBABA: The House That Jack Ma Built Duncan Clark (Ecco, May 2016)

“Useful, business-minded reporting on an unconventional corporate magnate, containing both corporate and human-interest perspectives.” – Kirkus Reviews

An engrossing, insider’s account of how a school teacher built one of the world’s most valuable companies—rivaling Walmart & Amazon—and forever reshaped the global economy. In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into one of the world’s largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Duncan Clark tells Alibaba’s tale in the context of China’s momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before.

Duncan Clark first met Jack Ma in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba. Granted unprecedented access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet’s impact on the country to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of Alibaba’s rise. A British citizen who grew up in the UK, US, and France, Duncan was recently appointed OBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, for services to British commercial interests in China.

ANATOMY OF MALICE: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals Joel Dimsdale (Yale University Press, May 2016)

“A masterful and rigorous portrayal of the trial of the Nazi war criminals. Superbly written and meticulously researched, this is a riveting narrative of the trial, the Nazi criminals, and the psychologist who analyzed them.” —Dr. Irvin Yalom, Stanford University

Once the ashes had settled after World War II, the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, inviting a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, to explore the minds of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorschach inkblot tests. The findings were so disconcerting that portions of the data were hidden away for decades and the research became a topic for vituperative disputes. Gilbert thought the war criminals’ malice stemmed from depraved psychopathology. Kelley viewed them as ordinary men who were creatures of their environment. Who was right? Drawing on his decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience since Nuremberg, Joel E. Dimsdale looks anew at the findings and examines in detail four of the war criminals, Robert Ley, Hermann Göring, Julius Streicher, and Rudolf Hess. Anatomy of Malice takes us on a complex and troubling quest to make sense of the most extreme evil.

Joel Dimsdale is distinguished professor emeritus and research professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He lives in La Jolla, California.

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SPRING 2016 NON-FICTION

POSSESSION: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present Erin Thompson (Yale University Press, May 2016)

“With elan and insight, Erin Thompson delves into the fascinating history of the human obsession to personally own physical relics of the past. Possession illuminates the complex psychological and social motives that drive individuals to collect antiquities, from ancient Roman emperors and Renaissance popes to modern connoisseurs and today's looters (and destroyers) of archaeological treasures.” —Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons and The Poison King

Possession tells the story—fascinating and often bizarre—of the evolution of private collecting of antiquities, from the time of the Romans up until the present, when 20th century collectors have been arrested, fined, and had their collections seized, even as they purchase glaring forgeries—all in the name of the love of the past.

Erin Thompson is America’s only full-time professor on art crime, and is an expert on the damage done to humanity’s shared heritage through looting, theft, and the deliberate destruction of art. She has discussed topics including ISIS’ attacks on art, museum security, and art forgery on CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera America, and the Freakonomics podcast. Thompson has written articles on the links between terrorism and antiquities in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg View. ENGINEERING EDEN: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight Over Controlling Nature Jordan Fisher-Smith (Random House, June 2016)

"This is a walk in the woods like Thoreau never imagined…this astonishing book, with its brilliant interweaving of murder, irony and natural history, invents a new genre.” – Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear

From the author of Nature Noir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005) comes the fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When young Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it. Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it--leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it.

Jordan Fisher-Smith worked for 21 years as a park ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. He has since written for numerous publications including Men’s Journal and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. He is the author of Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra. 8 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates Spring / S u m m e r 2 0 1 6

SUMMER 2016 NON-FICTION

THE EMANCIPATION OF CECILY MCMILLAN: An American Memoir Cecily McMillan, with introduction by Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina (Nation, July 2016)

One of the most iconic images of the Occupy Wall Street protests is a nighttime shot of a slightly disheveled young woman, dressed in bright yellow and green for St. Patrick's Day, running, curly hair flying, mouth open mid-gasp as a grimacing cop in uniform reaches out to grab her from behind. That woman was Cecily McMillan. The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is the intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young millennial, chronicling her journey from her trailer park home in Southeast Texas, to that pivotal night in Zuccotti Park. Unwittingly thrust into the limelight with her arrest, Cecily has proven herself to be a sophisticated political thinker, a charismatic public figure, dedicated activist, and voice of her generation. As she told Mother Jones upon her arrest: "to me [activism] isn't political so much as personal. It's whatever I can do to make life better."

Cecily McMillan is an activist, union organizer and advocate for prison reform whose participation in and arrest during the Occupy Wall Street movement, along with her trial and conviction, have been widely covered by the national media, including the New York Times and Rolling Stone, among others. Her own writing has appeared in the New York Times and Alternet.

THE FALL OF HEAVEN: The Pahlavis & the Final Days of Imperial Iran Andrew Scott Cooper (Holt, August 2016)

Praise for Oil Kings (Simon & Schuster, 2011): “[A] compelling chronicle of America's involvement with Middle East petroleum states." –Los Angeles Times

In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.

Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. His research has appeared in The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets. He holds a PhD in the history of US-Iran relations and masters' degrees in strategic studies and journalism. 9 | Sandra Dijkstra & Associates Spring / S u m m e r 2 0 1 6

SUMMER 2016 NON-FICTION

TROUBLED REFUGE: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War Chandra Manning (Knopf, August 2016)

Praise for What This Cruel War Was Over (Knopf, 2007) “An engagingly written, convincingly argued social history with a point – that those who did the fighting in the Union and Confederate armies ‘plainly identified slavery as the root of the Civil War.’” – Publishers Weekly (starred)

By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines, in crowded and dangerous places that became known as contraband camps. Despite how dangerous these camps were, some 12-15 percent of the Confederacy’s slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them. Contraband camps became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse. Ranging from stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to the debates in Congress, Troubled Refuge probes what the camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there. This alliance, which would outlast the war, helped to destroy slavery and ward off the surprisingly tenacious danger of re-enslavement; however, it also raised unsettling questions about the relationship between American civil and military authority, and reshaped the meaning of American citizenship.

Award winning author Chandra Manning currently serves as a special adviser to the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She has written over a dozen articles published in both books and journals, such as North and South, Civil War History, and the Journal of American History. She is the author of the What This Cruel War Was Over (Knopf, 2007) which won the Avery O. Craven Award given by the Organization of American Historians.

HOPELESS BUT OPTIMISTIC: Journeying through America's Endless War in Afghanistan Douglas Wissing (University of Indiana Press, August 2016)

Award-winning journalist Douglas Wissing’s poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is to kill.

Douglas A. Wissing is an award-winning journalist and author of eight books, including Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban and Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times among other publications.

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SUMMER 2016 SPORTS

SPITTING IN THE SOUP: Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports Mark Johnson (Velo Press, July 2016)

Doping is a practice as old as sport. From baseball to track and field, cycling to horse racing, doping to win has been a part of sports for over 150 years. Today, the athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs are villainized as cheaters and morally flawed people whose presence in sports is an affront to the athletes who don’t take short cuts. But this tidy worldview cheats sports fans. Doping in sport is certainly an individual decision, but to blame only the athletes ignores decades of historical context and the cultural ecosystem in which teams, coaches, athletes, sports federations, and even spectators play a role. The truth is messy—and more shocking. In Spitting in the Soup, sports journalist Mark Johnson explores the dirty game of doping, its underground methods, the deals made behind closed doors, and the insidious cycle that keeps drugs in sports. Johnson unwinds the doping culture from the early days when pills meant progress and uncovers the complex relationships underlying today’s sports culture.

Mark Johnson covers cycling as a writer and photographer. His work has been published in cycling titles including VeloNews, Cycling Weekly, and Ride Cycling Review, as well as general-interest publications including The Wall Street Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune. A category 2 road cyclist, Mark has bicycled across the United States twice and completed an Ironman triathlon. He has a PhD in English literature from Boston University and lives in Del Mar, California.

SUMMER 2016 COMMERCIAL FICTION

I LIKE YOU JUST FINE WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND Ann Garvin (Adams Media, June 2016)

“It’s not enough that Ann Garvin is hilarious. Then she has to go ahead and be compassionate and wise about the hopeful car-wreck that is most of humanity…Garvin builds an unorthodox family that’s both tight knit and forever at odds, and not one of those family members feels any less than rich, real, and complex–just what a novel needs.”–Michelle Wildgen, author of You’re Not You and Bread and Butter

Tig Monahan, radio therapist, finds out the hard way that nothing is fair in love and war--or family. Everything is falling apart in psychologist, Tig Monahan’s life. Her mother’s dementia is wearing her out, her boyfriend takes off for Hawaii without her, and her sister inexplicably disappears leaving her newborn behind. When a therapy session goes horribly wrong, Tig finds herself unemployed and part of the sandwich generation trying to take care of everyone and failing miserably. Just when she thinks she can redefine herself on the radio, as an arbiter of fairness, she discovers a family secret that nobody saw coming. It will take everything plus a sense of humor to see her way clear to a better life, but none of that will happen if she can’t let go of her past.

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FALL 2016 COMMERCIAL FICTION

BERTRAND COURT Michelle Brafman (Prospect Park, September 2016)

“Michelle Brafman eavesdrops on the human hart, and reports back to us in Bertrand Court with honesty, compassion, and soul. This si gorgeous writing, in stories lit with grace.” – Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People Don’t Live Like This

Bertrand Court, the captivating new novel by Michelle Brafman, intertwines seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives--all tied to a single cul-de-sac in suburban Washington, D.C. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, the cast of characters respond to life’s bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences.

Michelle Brafman has received numerous awards for her fiction, which has appeared in the Pushcart Anthology, Lilith, Fifth Wednesday Journal, the Minnesota Review, Blackbird, and others. Her nonfiction pieces have been published in Slate, Tablet, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. She was selected as a Visiting Scribe by the Jewish Book Council, and currently teaches fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program, and also teaches at George Washington University. She lives in Glen Echo, Maryland.

SPRING 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE

THE WAGES OF SIN: An Ozarks Mystery (Book 3) Nancy Allen (Witness Impulse, April 2016)

In rural McCown County, Missouri, a young pregnant woman is found beaten to death in a trailer park. The only witness to the murder is Ivy, her six-year-old daughter, who points to her mom’s boyfriend and father of the unborn child. Prosecutor Madeleine Thompson promises the community justice, and in the Ozarks, that can only mean one thing: a death sentence. When Madeleine’s first choice for co-counsel declines to try a death penalty case, she is forced to turn to assistant prosecutor Elsie Arnold. Elsie is reluctant to join forces with her frosty boss, but the road to conviction seems smooth—until unexpected facts about the victim arise, and the testimony of Ivy becomes increasingly crucial. Against Elsie’s advice, Madeleine brings in the state attorney general’s office to assist them, while cutthroat trial attorney Claire O’Hara joins the defense. Elsie will not let the power of prosecution—of seeking justice—be wrested from her without a fight. She wants to win the case, and to avenge the death of the mother and her unborn child. But as the trial nears, Elsie begins to harbor doubts about the death penalty itself. Meanwhile, Ivy is in greater danger than anyone knows.

Nancy Allen practiced law for fifteen years as Assistant Missouri Attorney General and Assistant Prosecutor in her native Ozarks. She's tried over thirty jury cases, including murder and sexual offenses, and is now a law instructor at Missouri State University. The first of the Ozarks mysteries, The Code of the Hills, was published in 2014 by HarperCollins/Witness, followed by A Killing at the Creek, published in 2015.

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SUMMER 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE

TWO FOR THE SHOW Jonathan Stone (Diversion, May 2016)

Chas is a detective who doesn’t stake out cheating husbands, track down missing persons, or match wits with femmes fatales. Instead of pounding the pavement, he taps a computer keyboard. He can get the goods on anyone, and it’s all to make sure superstar Las Vegas mind reader Wallace the Amazing stays amazing. Thanks to Chas’s steady stream of stealthy intel, Wallace’s mental “magic” packs houses every night. But when someone threatens to call the psychic showman’s bluff, the sweet gig takes a sour―and sinister―turn. Who’s the clean-cut couple gunning for Wallace with an arsenal of dirty tricks? Why does Wallace keep upping the ante instead of backing down? And just how much does Chas really know about his mysterious boss’s life…or his own? The tangled truth―of blackmail, kidnapping, and false identities―quickly becomes the biggest case of his strange, secret career.

Jonathan Stone is the author of the critically acclaimed Julian Palmer series, and is also the recipient of a Claymore Award for best unpublished crime novel. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a Scholar of the House in fiction writing. His short story “Mailman,” which appeared in Killer Nashville Noir: Cold-Blooded was selected by Otto Penzler and Elizabeth George for The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

HOT START: A Cordell Logan Mystery David Freed (Permanent Press, August 2016)

A notorious, international big game hunter and his beautiful, former flight attendant wife are gunned down at long range late one sweltering summer night while swimming naked on their seaside estate in opulent Rancho Bonita, California. Police investigators are convinced that the killer is a strident, outspoken animal rights activist with both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence against him would appear overwhelming--until rumors begin to surface that others may have had their own reasons for committing murder. The last thing flight instructor, aspiring Buddhist, and ex-government assassin Cordell Logan wants to do is become involved in the investigation. He and the accused, however, have mutual friends. Reluctant at first, Logan finds himself caught up in an increasingly confounding enigma, one that swirls around a popular Congressman with close ties to the White House, a European call girl ring, and a ruthless Czech crime boss who'll stop at nothing to protect his interests. Pursuing the truth will take Logan to places few others would dare go, exposing him to dangers that even he may not survive.

David Freed is a screenwriter, novelist and former award-winning investigative journalist for The Los Angeles Times, where he was an individual finalist for the Pulitzer Prize's Gold Medal for Public Service, the highest award in American journalism, and later shared in a Pulitzer Prize for the newspaper's coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots. His 8,600- word exposé in The Atlantic, detailing how the FBI pursued the wrong suspect in a string of anthrax murders following 9/11, was short-listed as a 2011 finalist in Feature Writing by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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SUMMER 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE

BRAIN STORM: An Angela Richman, Death Investigator Mystery Elaine Viets (Thomas & Mercer, August 2016)

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenager, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes. Misdiagnosed by the resident neurologist, Dr. Gravois, and mended by gauche yet brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Jeb Travis Tritt, Angela faces a harrowing recovery. It’s a drug-addled, hallucinating Angela who learns that Dr. Gravois has been murdered…and the chief suspect is the surgeon who saved her life. Angela doesn’t believe it, but can she trust her instincts? Her brain trauma brings doubts that she’ll ever recover her investigative skills. But she’s determined to save Dr. Tritt from a death-row sentence—even if her progress is thwarted at every turn by a powerful and insular community poised to protect its own.

Award-winning author Elaine Viets has written twenty-nine mysteries in three series, including the bestselling Dead-End Job series, featuring South Florida private detectives Helen Hawthorne and her husband, Phil Sagemont. She is a director-at-large of the Mystery Writers of America and a frequent contributor to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine as well as anthologies edited by Charlaine Harris and Lawrence Block.

A TASTE OF BLOOD AND ASHES: A Jared McKean Mystery Jaden Terrell (Permanent Press, September 2016)

When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin's distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down during an attack by a frenzied stallion. Jared believes someone else is behind the arson. One thing is for certain, Alfie's killers are about to know what it means to murder a friend of Sam, former corporate troubleshooter, former professional boxer and all-around ornery bull dog, and Jackie, a defense lawyer often described as an avenging angel. Knowing the arsonist is almost certainly someone in community of those who breed and show Walking Horses, Jared and his new assistant, his half-sister Khanh, attend a local horse show in hopes of flushing out the culprit. There are suspects aplenty, including a groom on the run from a powerful cartel, a modern day robber baron, and a beautiful gold-digger whose dreams are filled with fire. Secrets pile on top of secrets, and as Zane's memories of the events leading to his accident begin to return, the situation becomes deadly. Jared and Khanh find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer who will do anything to keep the past in the past.

Jaden Terrell is a Shamus Award finalist and the internationally published author of three Jared McKean mysteries. Terrell is a contributor to Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for writers of crime fiction and is a recipient of the 2009 Magnolia Award for service to the South-eastern Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.

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FALL 2016 MYSTERY / THRILLER / SUSPENSE

THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA Alex Dolan (Diversion, September 2016)

“As a thriller writer, Alex Dolan is set to be one of the best.” -- Fresh Fiction

40 years ago, Gabriel Kasson was one of the wealthiest men in America, while an artist known as Qi was heralded as the next Andy Warhol. Kasson planned on commissioning a vast art museum in Manhattan, ostensibly to house the works of Qi, but after an acrimonious falling out, Qi stopped painting, and Kasson boxed up Qi’s inventory of work and expunged the artist from public memory. A Cold War has existed between these two families ever since, and very few people remember the artist at all. Today, Qi’s painting of a young Chinese empress reappears in New York. A man stabs himself in the heart while staring empress outside the Fern Gallery. The descendants of the Kasson and Qi families converge, and their conflict escalates into a blood feud. Each family is willing to destroy the other, and once Paire, a young art student fresh to the city, begins to covet the Empress painting, she is woven into this war.

Alex Dolan received his master’s degree from Columbia University, where he focused on writing and editorial craft. He has also worked as a literary critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and contributed to several publications, including Writer’s Digest.

CASTING BONES: A Quentin Archer Mystery Don Bruns (Severn House, October 2016)

"Bruns is a crafty old pro, and every ounce of his skill and style is packed into Casting Bones - charismatic characters, superb locations, and a great hard-edged story. If you love the crime genre, this is not just highly recommended, but mandatory." – Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

"This thriller immediately casts a spell on you and doesn't let you go until the very last page! Utterly compelling, rich with atmosphere and characters you'll never forget, Casting Bones finds author Bruns at the top of his game. And I can't think of a better portrayal of the most exotic city in America: New Orleans." --Jeffery Deaver, No. 1 international bestselling author

When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer uncovers several disturbing facts about the late judge’s past. But it’s only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to make headway in the investigation. Voodoo queen Solange Cordray volunteers at the dementia center where her mother lives. When she starts reading the mind of one of her patients, she learns that a secretive organization known as Krewe Charbonerrie may be behind the murder. And the second murder. And the third.

Don Bruns is an award-winning novelist, songwriter, musician and advertising executive who lives in South Florida. He is the author of five novels in the Mick Sever Caribbean mystery series and seven Lesser and Moore mysteries.

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SPRING 2016 YOUNG ADULT

THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN Roshani Chokshi (St. Martin’s Press, April 2016)

"A swoony romance, betrayal, and a journey to power and self-affirmation, with [an] animal sidekick in the best tradition, work together to create a spell that many readers will willingly succumb to. Richly imagined, deeply mythic, filled with lovely language with violet overtones: this is an author to watch." --Kirkus Reviews

Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Her world is upheaved when her father arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. When her wedding takes a fatal turn, Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. As Akaran's queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar's wife, she finds friendship and warmth. But Akaran has its own secrets - thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Beneath Akaran's magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in danger. When she ignores Amar's plea for patience, her discoveries put more than new love at risk - it threatens the balance of all realms, human and Otherworldly. Now, Maya must confront a secret that spans reincarnated lives and fight her way through the dangerous underbelly of the Otherworld if she wants to protect the people she loves.

Roshani Chokshi is a 2008 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in Loose Change, In The Fray, and The Feminist Wire.

EVERLAND Wendy Spinale (Scholastic, May 2016)

“In an exemplary debut, Spinale uses Gwen and Hook’s voices to offer glimpses into the psyche of a man desperate to please his cruel mother and a girl intent on saving the only family she has left. This is a magical, wondrous treat, with a conclusion that’s nothing less than epic.”-- Publisher’s Weekly (starred)

London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. Children are the only survivors, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, Joanna and Mikey. In order to survive, they scavenge, while avoiding the ruthless Marauders ― the German Army led by Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer. Unsure if the virus has spread past England’s borders, Captain Hook hunts for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the survivors. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation, grabbing Joanna in the process. As Gwen sets out to save her, she meets a mysterious boy named Pete, who offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella. But in a place where help has a steep price and every promise is bound by blood, it will cost Gwen. And are she, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart Captain Hook?

Wendy Spinale is a former character actor for the Disneyland Theme Park (so she’s very familiar with the world of make believe). Everland is her debut novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her family.

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SUMMER 2016 YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN’S

SONGBYRD Anna Silver (JollyFish, June 2016)

Living on the road with her mother, all Innocence Byrd has ever really wanted is a normal, stable life in one place. But Stonetop, a small town in the Texas Hill Country, is not that place--until she meets Jace. Even as she begins to take comfort in Jace's company, Innocence is plagued by nightmares of a terrible event in her past, and the ever-growing fear that whatever she and her mother have been running from will finally catch up. Suddenly, secrets are bubbling to the surface, hers and her mother's, the secrets of their heritage. Women of the Byrd family have unusual gifts. Inside each of them is a deadly seed. As Innocence becomes increasingly aware of her family's mysterious and sometimes frightening powers-and as her own powers begin to surface, Innocence has to decide who she can really trust. Unable to elude their haunted past, three generations of Byrd women must not only unite, but embrace their heritage as a gift-and their key to a future of love and understanding. The real question becomes, can Jace trust her? Because, as it turns out, there is nothing truly innocent about Innocence at all.

Anna Silver is an author and artist based in Houston. Her art has been featured in the Houston gallery Las Manos Magicas. She studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's University. Otherborn, her first published novel from Sapphire Star Publishing, has been featured on 2 of Amazon's "Bestsellers" lists. She also has a sequel called Astral Tide.

MISUNDERSTOOD: Why the Humble Rat May be Your Best Pet Ever Rachel Toor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR, June 2016)

As personal as it is informational, Misunderstood is a unique nonfiction book about pet rats in general, and a wonderful rat named Iris in particular. Brimming with smarts and energy just like its furry subjects, Rachel Toor’s text blends history and science with profiles of interesting people and autobiographical anecdotes as it joyfully sets the record straight about why this reviled creature is actually a most amazing species. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of domestic rats—and may be convinced to adopt one themselves.

Rachel Toor writes a monthly column in The Chronicle of Higher Education and a bi-monthly one in Running Times magazine, where she is a senior writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The LA Times, Ploughshares, Glamour, Inside Higher Ed, Reader’s Digest, Runner’s World, Ascent, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) and others. Rachel is currently associate professor of Creative Writing at the Inland Northwest Center for Writers in Spokane, the graduate writing program of Eastern Washington University.

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SPRING 2016 SCI-FI/FANTASY

NETTLE KING: A Night and Nothing Novel Katherine Harbour (Harper Voyager, April 2016)

“Full of exciting moments.” – Publisher’s Weekly

The mesmerizing conclusion to the Night and Nothing series—part Buffy the Vampire Slayer and part Alice in Wonderland—finds Finn fighting against the land of the dead. When her beloved Jack disappears, Finn vows to find him—even if it means a daring odyssey into the land of the dead. But saving Jack comes at a terrible price: a dangerous fissure has opened, giving the dead access to the true world. The lines between worlds are more blurred than ever. Finn’s sister, Lily, recently returned from the Ghostlands, seems to bear no scars from her time there. But then their friend Moth returns from Sombrus, the magical house once owned by Seth Lot, bearing shocking news. Something evil—a fearsome creature bearing a striking resemblance to Jack—has escaped Sombrus and is now stalking Fair Hollow, killing everyone it encounters, transforming them into terrifying Jacks and Jills and recruiting the Unseelie.

It will not stop until it gets what it wants--Finn.

Katherine Harbour was born in Albany, New York and now lives in Sarasota, FL. She has had short stories published in small press magazines.

THE DEVOURING GOD James Kendley (Harper Voyager Impulse, May 2016)

Runaways in southern Japan are stripping the flesh from their victims, and only a disgraced former detective can stop the spreading madness in this dark and thrilling sequel to The Drowning God (Harper Voyager Impulse, 2015).

It’s been three years since security guard Tohru Takuda and his reluctant band of monster-hunters defeated the Kappa of the Naga River. Now, a mysterious artifact is driving innocents in Southern Japan to flay their friends alive, and the grisly murders turn Takuda’s world upside down. Disheartened and impoverished, he struggles to lead his rag-tag team to find the artifact before it poisons the entire nation. Takuda is caught between the police, the bloodthirsty murderers, and forces conspiring to harness the artifact’s horrible powers.

And all the while, he must watch his back, because the most dangerous killer may be lurking among his own men.

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SPRING 2016 ROMANCE

UNTIL IT’S RIGHT Jamie Howard (Swerve, March 2016)

Haley Mitchell is tired of moping. With her broken heart repaired with a thick layer of duct tape, she's ready to put her ex behind her and move on. After a chance encounter in a club, she's convinced she's met Mr. Perfect. But when he accidentally gives her the wrong number, the stranger on the other end of her texts becomes her confidant.

Kyle Lawson has always had more luck with computers than women. So when the new temp, Haley, arrives, he has the misfortune of falling for her, only to land firmly in the friend zone. But when he learns the mysterious woman he's been texting is actually Haley, he keeps the entire thing a secret.

As things move straight from platonic to decidedly hot, Kyle must come clean about his secret texting identity and risk losing the woman he's fallen in love with.

Jamie Howard is a legal and compliance specialist. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art from Ramapo College. When she’s not tapping away at the keyboard, you can find her devouring books and perfecting her gaming skills. She lives with her husband, son, and three dogs in New Jersey, and is almost always awake early enough to see the sun rise, even on the weekends.

WITHOUT BORDERS Amanda Heger (Diversion, April 2016)

For Annie London, a month in a Central American rainforest means handing out mosquito nets, giving medical aid, and teaching children about the birds and the bees. With any luck, it will also land her application in the "accepted" pile at a top tier medical school. But as soon as she steps off the plane, Annie realizes her bug spray, feeble Spanish, and medical supplies won't help her deal with her new feelings for Felipe--her best friend's older brother, who's much hotter than she remembers, and who also happens to be the doctor in charge of the trip.

Gawking "volun-tourists" may keep his family's medical clinic afloat, but Dr. Felipe Gutierrez doesn't have to like them. Or the way they make snap judgments about his practice and the people he cares for. But when his old crush, Annie, shows up to volunteer, her killer curves and kind smile fan the embers of a flame Felipe didn't realize he'd been carrying. A flame that makes him question all his preconceived notions.

As ideas and cultures clash, Annie and Felipe must decide how far outside their comfort zones they are willing to go--both for their work and for one another.

Amanda Heger is a writer and attorney based in the Midwest. Without Borders is her debut novel.

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2016 ROMANCE SERIES

New from Sophia Henry :

POWER PLAY (Book 2 in Pilots Hockey Series) February 2016 (Random House Flirt)

Gabriella Bertucci has her reasons to be standoffish with guys, especially Landon Taylor, a star defenseman on the minor-league Detroit Pilots and her serious crush. But when Landon comes through for her in a moment of crisis, Gaby starts to wonder if there might be more to him that she originally thought. Landon isn’t afraid of telling Gaby that he’s got it for her bad, but she seems unwilling to believe it. Though Landon enjoys his reputation as a cool-headed athlete, he hates losing—both on the rink and off. One minute Gaby’s tempted to give in; the next, she’s getting cold feet. How can she trust a superstar hockeyplayer like Landon to stick around?

INTERFERENCE (Book 3 in the Pilots Hockey Series) May 2016 (Random House Flirt)

When Linden Meadows’s little brother’s new--and hot--hockey coach benches him in the middle of a game, Linden lets him have it. The coach, Jason Taylor, patrols the streets as a member of the Bridgeland Police Department when he’s not being yelled at by hockey moms. After Jason pulls Linden over for speeding, he begins to see that there’s more to her--their chemistry leads to good company, intense conversation, and an intimacy that pushes beyond the boundaries of friendship. Linden’s sure she’s found the man to round out their family. But when Holden’s deadbeat dad forces his way back into the picture, Jason starts to back off. He needs time—to heal, to grow, and to love with all his heart.

Sophia Henry is a graduate from Central Michigan University. She Lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons.

New from Tara Wyatt:

PRIMAL INSTINCT (Book 2 of the Bodyguard Series)

May 2016 (Forever Romance)

The first time he lays eyes on Taylor Ross in a bar, Colt Priestley approaches and shamelessly flirts with the world-famous singer, and gives her a night in his bed that neither of them will soon forget. When Taylor's record label hires a bodyguard to keep tabs on her, she's less than thrilled to find it's her off-the-charts one-night stand who shows up for the job. She's terrified of letting herself fall for the damaged ex-Army Ranger, and she's determined to push him away. Yet every moment they're together simmers with tension. As the danger from an obsessed stalker mounts, Taylor and Colt are tempted to cross that line again-- and there's no telling how hot this song will get.

CHAIN REACTION (Book 3 of the Bodyguard Series) August 2016 (Forever Romance)

"If you love tough guys with a side of sweet, strong heroines with a hint of wild, and suspense with a spark of humor, this is definitely the book for you. Tara Wyatt has created a swoonworthy bodyguard series with primal passion, unexpected twists, and surprising laughs!"-Rebecca Zanetti, New York Times bestselling author

Tara Wyatt is the recipient of the Unpublished Winter Rose Award, Linda Howard Award of Excellence and the Heart of the West Award. Tara lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her family.

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2016 PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTS

GATEWAY TO FREEDOM: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad Eric Foner (W.W. Norton & Company, January 2016) New York Times bestseller

“Pulitzer Prize winning Eric Foner’s Gateway to Freedom is mandatory, and riveting, reading for anyone who cares deeply about the city’s history or needs reminding that slavery legally ended in New York only in 1827.” – New York Times

WAKING FROM THE DREAM David L. Chappell (Duke University Press, January 2016)

“Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, this revisionist work has a double-edged title. It examines not only the Civil Rights struggle but the struggle of many—activists, scholars, and more—to control King’s legacy and image.” —Library Journal

THE AMAZONS: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press, March 2016)

“National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor presents the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world… likely to become a classic.” – Princeton Review

CREATURES OF A DAY: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy Irvin Yalom (Basic Books, March 2016)

“Yalom has genuinely inspiring insights to share about the value of therapy…The stories Yalom offers of his patients’ failures and triumphs are frequently moving and will invoke the reader’s empathy.” —Publishers Weekly

RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History Cynthia Barnett (Broadway, April 2016)

Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, Miami Herald, and Kirkus Reviews

2 WEEKS TO A YOUNGER BRAIN Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan (Humanix, April 2016)

“Dr. Small’s ability to translate scientific breakthroughs into practical strategies helps us all protect our brain health. This book is a must-read for boosting memory and optimizing brain power.” —P. Murali Doraiswamy, MD, Senior Fellow, Duke University Center for the Study of Aging

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2016 PAPERBACK HIGHLIGHTS

BIG SCIENCE: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Changed the Course of History Michael Hiltzik (Simon & Schuster, July 2016) Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews

“Lucidly written…Hiltzik’s tale is important for understanding how science and politics entwine in the United States, and he moves it along efficiently, with striking details and revealing quotations.” – New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)

I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND Liu Zhenyun, translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Arcade, August 2016)

“Liu has written a masterful tale that will make you laugh even as you despair [and] will linger in your memory long after you have finished.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

THE GAY REVOLUTION: The Story of the Struggle Lillian Faderman (Simon & Schuster, September 2016) Winner, 81st Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by The Washington Post, New York Times, and Kirkus Reviews

“The Gay Revolution will equip readers with a greater knowledge of the movement’s history, and an appreciation for the crucial role of individual acts of courage in winning and safeguarding equality. And it’s a great read.” – American Prospect

THE MAKING OF ASIAN AMERICA: A History Erika Lee (Simon & Schuster, September 2016) Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews

"Sweeping [and] fascinating… I suspect Erika Lee will soon join [the canon of key Asian-American historians]." - Oliver Wang, New York Times Book Review

FISHBOWL Bradley Somer (St. Martin’s Press, November 2016)

“An irrepressible novel—breezy, funny, sexy, and bursting with life.” – Tom Perrotta, author of Election and Little Children

THE WAR ON ALCOHOL: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State Lisa McGirr (W.W. Norton & Company, November 2016) Selected as a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews

“[This] fine history of Prohibition . . . could have a major impact on how we read American political history.”—James A. Morone, New York Times Book Review

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