HENRY HOLT AND CO. MAY 2012

Bring Up the Bodies A Novel

Hilary Mantel

The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor hist...

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. FICTION / HISTORICAL Henry Holt and Co. | May 2012 9780805090031 | $28.00 At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 16 9.3in H | 6.1in W | 1.6in T terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her Subrights: powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring 1st serial, 2nd serial, Audio, Book Club, Electronic, Reprint Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427225825 the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head? Ebook ISBN: 9781429947657 PRAISE MARKETING National Media Attention Praise for Wolf Hall: National Review and Feature Attention National Advertising Campaign Library Marketing “Arch, elegant, richly detailed.”— Advance Reader's Edition “[Mantel] always goes for color, richness, music.”—The New Yorker Online Promotions and Features “In the very first rank of historical novels…magnificent”—The Atlantic “Ms. Mantel’s best novel yet.”—The Economist “It’s no wonder that [Hilary Mantel’s] masterful book won [the] Booker Prize”— “Dazzling…both spellbinding and believable.”—The New York Times Book Review “Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a startling achievement”—The New York Review of Books

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Wolf Hall, which sold more than 200,000 copies and won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Her previous works include her novel, A Place of Greater Safety, and her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. She lives in England with her husband.

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Killing Kennedy The End of Camelot

Bill O'Reilly

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-best...

More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but HISTORY / UNITED STATES also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its Henry Holt and Co. | October 2012 9780805096668 | $28.00/$32.00 Can. culture-changing aftermath. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 9.3in H | 6.1in W In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain Other Available Formats: the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations Audio ISBN: 9781427226846 of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires Ebook ISBN: 9780805096675 a number of formidable enemies, among them Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Alan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, powerful elements of organized crime have begun to talk about targeting the president and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

In the midst of a 1963 campaign trip to Texas, Kennedy is gunned down by an erratic young drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes the scene, only to be caught and shot dead while in police custody.

The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. Killing Kennedy chronicles ...

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Bill O'Reilly is the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the 3 HENRY HOLT AND CO. AUGUST 2012

Winter Journal Paul Auster

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and l...

"That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well.

Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he Henry Holt and Co. | August 2012 wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional 9780805095531 | $26.00 Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 20 memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a 8.3in H | 5.5in W highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers. Subrights: First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, Electronic, Reprint PRAISE Other Available Formats: Praise for Paul Auster Audio ISBN: 9781427225764 Ebook ISBN: 9780805095562 "Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —The New York Review of Books MARKETING National Review and Feature Attention "One of America's greats." —Time Out Chicago National Advertising Campaign Library Marketing "A genuine American original." —The Boston Globe Advance Reader's Edition Online Promotions and Features “One of America’s greatest living novelists.” —The Observer (London)

“Contemporary American writing at its best . . . It has the illusion of effortlessness.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Paul Auster is definitely a genius.” —Haruki Murakami

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Sunset Park, Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Triology, among many other works. His books have been translated into forty-three languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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We Sinners A Novel

Hanna Pylväinen

This stunning debut novel—drawn from the author's own life experience—tells the moving story of a family of eleven in the American Midw...

The Rovaniemis and their nine children belong to a deeply traditional church (no drinking, no dancing, no TV) in modern-day Michigan. A normal family in many ways, the Rovaniemis struggle with sibling rivalry, parental expectations, and forming their own unique identities in such a large family. But when two of the children venture from the faith, the family fragments and a haunting question FICTION / FAMILY LIFE Henry Holt and Co. | August 2012 emerges: Do we believe for ourselves, or for each other? Each chapter is told 9780805095333 | $23.00/$26.50 Can. from the distinctive point of view of a different Rovaniemi, drawing a nuanced, Hardback | 208 pages | Carton Qty: 24 kaleidoscopic portrait of this unconventional family. The children who reject the 5.5in W church learn that freedom comes at the almost unbearable price of their close Subrights: family ties, and those who stay struggle daily with the challenges of resisting the Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, Electronic, temptations of modern culture. With precision and potent detail, We Sinners Reprint follows each character on their journey of doubt, self-knowledge, acceptance, Other Available Formats: and, ultimately, survival. Ebook ISBN: 9780805095340

MARKETING PRAISE National Review and Feature Attention National Advertising Campaign “We Sinners is not only beautiful and heartbreaking, it is important—for what it says Library Marketing about faith, family, and for the humane light it sheds on the cultural fissures that affect Advance Reader's Edition every American. This is a book that reminds the reader, on every page, of the uniquely Online Promotions and Features illuminating power of fiction.”—Meghan O'Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye “An elegant and penetrating book.”—Salvatore Scibona, author of The End

"In her brilliant, kaleidoscopic family portrait, Hanna Pylväinen explores with unusual insight the territory of love and faith.”—Andrea Barrett, author of the National Book Award winning Ship Fever and The Air We Breathe

Hanna Pylväinen graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was also a postgraduate Zell Fellow. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony residency and a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachussetts. She is from suburban Detroit.

5 HENRY HOLT AND CO. NOVEMBER 2012

1862 Abraham Lincoln and the Making of America

David Von Drehle

The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation’s history

As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union’s top general was gravely ill. The Confederacy—with its booming economy, expert military leadership, and commanding position on the battlefield— had a clear view to victory. To a remarkable extent, the survival of the country depended on the judgment, cunning, and resilience of the unschooled frontier HISTORY / UNITED STATES lawyer who had recently been elected president. Henry Holt and Co. | November 2012 9780805079708 | $28.00/$32.00 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 12 Twelve months later, the Civil War had become a cataclysm but the tide had 9.3in H | 6.1in W | 1.0lb Wt turned. The Union generals who would win the war had at last emerged, and the 1 8-pg. insert with 16-20 b&w illus Confederate Army had suffered the key losses that would lead to its doom. The Subrights: blueprint of modern America—an expanding colossus of industrial and financial might—had been indelibly inked. And the man who brought the nation through its First Serial, Second Serial, Book Club, darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln, had been forged into a singular leader. Electronic, Reprint, British, Translation

Other Available Formats: In 1862, acclaimed author David Von Drehle has created both a deeply human Ebook ISBN: 9780805096088 portrait of America’s greatest president and a rich, dramatic narrative about our most fateful year. MARKETING National Media Attention National Review and Feature Attention PRAISE National Advertising Campaign Praise for Triangle: Academic Marketing Library Marketing Advance Reader's Edition “An enthralling chronicle . . . Von Drehle’s spellbinding and detailed reconstruction of Online Promotions and Features the disaster is complemented by an equally gripping account of the factory owners’ subsequent manslaughter trial.” —Mike Wallace, The New York Times

"Triangle carries the reader deep into a portrait of early 20th Century New York…when colorful machine politicians battled socialists, suffragists and upright progressive reformers for the soul of an increasingly immigrant city. Von Drehle paints the young Jewish and Italian immigrants who labored at Triangle…he is clearly captivated by their spirit."- The Chicago Tribune

David von Drehle is the author of three previous books, including the award-winning Triangle, a history of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire that The New York Times called "social history at its best." An editor-at-large at Time magazine, he and his family live in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World A Novel

Sabina Berman

A transporting and brilliant comic novel narrated by an unforgettable woman: Karen Nieto, an autistic savant whose idiosyncrasies prove...

As intimate as it is profound, and as clear-eyed as it is warmhearted, Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World marks an extraordinary debut by the award- winning Mexican playwright, journalist, and poet Sabina Berman. FICTION / LITERARY Henry Holt and Co. | August 2012 9780805093254 | $23.00/$26.50 Can. Karen Nieto passed her earliest years as a feral child, left alone to wander the Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 24 vast beach property near her family's failing tuna cannery. But when her aunt 8.3in H | 5.5in W Isabelle comes to Mexico to take over the family business, she discovers a real Subrights: girl amidst the squalor. So begins a miraculous journey for autistic savant Karen, First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, who finds freedom not only in the love and patient instruction of her aunt but Electronic, Reprint eventually at the bottom of the ocean swimming among the creatures of the sea. Other Available Formats: Despite how far she's come, Karen remains defined by the things she can't do— Ebook ISBN: 9781429974325 until her gifts with animals are finally put to good use at the family's fishery. Her

MARKETING plan is brilliant: Consolation Tuna will be the first humane tuna fishery on the National Review and Feature Attention planet. Greenpeace approves, fame and fortune follow, and Karen is swept on a National Advertising Campaign global journey that explores how we live, what we eat, and how our lives can defy Library Marketing even our own wildest expectations. Advance Reader's Edition Online Promotions and Features Reading Group Guide Online PRAISE "A brilliant revelation of a story..."–Rolling Stone (Mexico) “A novel of extraordinary sensitivity...it will move you more than you can imagine.”–El Mundo (Spain)

"Little by little, without our realizing it, this haunting book leads us to a jarring question: Can it be that first we simply are, and only later do we think? To this question pulsing at the core of our lives, our heroine Karen Nieto responds with a resounding Yes! For whether or not we're aware of it, first we exist, and only then do we think." -- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Academy Award-nominated director of Babel and 21 Grams

Sabina Berman is a four-time winner of the Mexican National Theatre Prize for her plays; she also writes film scripts, poetry, prose, and journalism, and has published several novellas. Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, which will be published in twenty-five territories, is her first novel. She lives in Mexico.

Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University and has translated numerous works of fiction by Argentine, Mexican, Catalan and Spanish writers. She lives

7 HENRY HOLT AND CO. NOVEMBER 2012

The Heat of the Sun A Novel

David Rain

An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off to introduce us to ano...

With Sophie Tucker belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him, Ben "Trouble" Pinkerton first appears to us through the amazed eyes of his Blaze Academy schoolmate, the crippled orphan Woodley Sharpless. Soon Woodley finds his life inextricably linked with this strange boy's. The son of Lieutenant Benjamin FICTION / GENERAL Henry Holt and Co. | November 2012 Pinkerton and the geisha Madame Butterfly, Trouble is raised in the United States 9780805096705 | $26.00 by Pinkerton (now a Democrat senator) and his American wife, Kate. From early Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 in life, Trouble finds himself at the center of some of the biggest events of the 9.3in H | 6.1in W century—and though over time Woodley's and Trouble's paths diverge, their lives Subrights: collide again to dramatic effect. First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, Electronic, Reprint From Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to WPA labor during the Great Other Available Formats: Depression; from secret work at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to a revelation on a Ebook ISBN: 9780805096712 Nagasaki hillside by the sea—Woodley observes firsthand the highs and lows of MARKETING the twentieth century and witnesses, too, the extraordinary destiny of the National Review and Feature Attention Pinkerton family. Library Marketing Advance Reader's Edition Online Promotions and Features David Rain's The Heat of the Sun is a high-wire act of sustained invention—as playful as it is ambitious, as moving as it is theatrical, and as historically resonant as it is evocative of the powerful bonds of friendship and of love.

David Rain is an Australian writer who lives in London. He has taught literature and writing at universities, including Queen's University of Belfast, University of Brighton, and Middlesex University, London.

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Our Harsh Logic Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010

Breaking the Silence

Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "one of the most important books on Isr...

The very name of the Israel Defense Forces—which many Israelis speak of as "the most moral army in the world"—suggests that its primary mission is the defense of the country's territory. Indeed, both internationally and within Israel, HISTORY / MIDDLE EAST support for the occupation of Palestinian territory rests on the belief that the Metropolitan Books | September 2012 army's actions and presence in the West Bank and Gaza are essentially defensive 9780805095371 | $30.00/$34.50 Can. and responsive, aimed at protecting the country from terror. Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 9.3in H | 6.1in W 10 photos throughout, 4 Au-supplied maps But Israeli soldiers themselves tell a profoundly different story. In this landmark Subrights: work, which includes hundreds of soldiers' testimonies collected over a decade, First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, what emerges is a broad policy that is anything but defensive. In their own words, Electronic, Reprint, British, Translation the soldiers reveal in human and vivid detail how the key planks of the army's Other Available Formats: ostensibly protective program—"prevention of terror," "separation of populations," Ebook ISBN: 9780805095388 "preservation of the fabric of life," and "law enforcement"—have in fact served to accelerate acquisition of Palestinian land, cripple all normal political and social life, MARKETING and ultimately thwart the possibility of independence. National Media Attention National Review and Feature Attention National Advertising Campaign The many soldiers who have spoken out have taken aim at a silence of complicity, Advance Reader's Edition both within Israel and in the wider world, that perpetuates the justification for Online Promotions and Features occupation. In the process, they have created a gripping and immediate record of oppression. Powerful and incontrovertible, Our Harsh Logic is a supremely significant contribution to one of the ...

Breaking the Silence, one of Israel's most internationally lauded NGOs, was established in Jerusalem in 2004 by Israel Defense Forces veterans to document the testimonies of Israeli soldiers who have served in the occupied territories.

9 METROPOLITAN BOOKS NOVEMBER 2012

Detroit City Is the Place to Be The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

Mark Binelli

The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark Binell

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo- pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. SOCIAL SCIENCE / GENERAL Metropolitan Books | November 2012 9780805092295 | $28.00/$32.00 Can. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 and Rolling Stone writer Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. 9.3in H | 6.1in W Chapter opener photos Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"—its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie—he tracks the signs of blight repurposed, from the school Subrights: for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic Second Serial, Book Club, Electronic, Reprint farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and the mayor's Other Available Formats: realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty Ebook ISBN: 9781429974615 neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.

MARKETING National Review and Feature Attention Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of Advance Reader's Edition possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of Online Promotions and Features crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning—what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century.

PRAISE Praise for Mark Binelli's Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!

“The best thing about Binelli’s novel is the writing, the combustive energy of his prose, the sheer inventiveness of the language…. A witty, original novel, ambitious in form and scope.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Binelli effortlessly captures his characters’ competing voices [with] joyful nostalgia, pinpoint characterizations and postmodern brio.” —The New York Times Book Review

Mark Binelli is the author of the novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Born and raised in the Detroit area, he now lives in New York City.

10 METROPOLITAN BOOKS NOVEMBER 2012

Demand the Impossible Conversations on the Decline of U.S. Empire and Global Democratic Uprisings

Noam Chomsky

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers

In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, POLITICAL SCIENCE / the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents Metropolitan Books | November 2012 his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying 9780805096156 | $16.00/$18.50 Can. Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: insight. 8.3in H | 5.5in W

Subrights: The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, Reprint, than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, British, Translation as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an Other Available Formats: unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today. Audio ISBN: 9781427225856 Ebook ISBN: 9780805096163 PRAISE MARKETING National Review and Feature Attention “Chomsky is a global phenomenon... perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy National Advertising Campaign on the planet.” Academic Marketing Library Marketing —Samantha Power, The New York Times Book Review Advance Reader's Edition Online Promotions and Features “Sitting down and talking to Noam Chomsky about current affairs has to be one of the most illuminating experiences going. But what if you can’t always think of the best questions? Not to worry: David Barsamian’s interviews with Chomsky consistently ask penetrating and provocative questions. If you’re familiar with Chomsky, he will still manage to surprise you.” —Political Affairs

Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.

David Barsamian, director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio, is the winner of the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism. Barsamian lives in Boulder, .

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Anne Frank The Biography

Melissa Muller

Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (...

Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become "the human face of the Holocaust." For this nuanced portrait of her famous subject, biographer Melissa Müller drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends, on previously unavailable correspondence, even, in the BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / process, discovering five missing diary pages. Full of revelations, Müller's richly HISTORICAL textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood Metropolitan Books | November 2012 girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting. 9780805087314 | $30.00/$34.50 Can. Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3in H | 5.5in W Now, fifteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come 2 8 pg inserts b&w photos to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate Subrights: with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the First serial, Second serial, Book Club, Electronic Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate. Other Available Formats: Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an Ebook ISBN: 9780805096262 indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died. MARKETING National Review and Feature Attention Academic Marketing PRAISE Library Marketing Advance Reader's Edition “Müller pays respect to the legend, but she also does something long overdue. She saves Online Promotions and Features Anne Frank from idolatry and impersonal symbolism by restoring her physical presence.” —Time

“One might ask, what remains to be said about Anne Frank? Quite a bit, as it turns out.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“A meticulous and gripping narrative.” —Newsweek

Melissa Müller is the author of numerous books on the history of the Third Reich. Her biography of Anne Frank has been translated into eighteen languages to date. Müller lives in Munich with her family.

12 METROPOLITAN BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2012

We Meant Well How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

Peter Van Buren

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or...

Charged with rebuilding Iraq, would you spend taxpayer money on a sports mural in Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhood to promote reconciliation through art? How about an isolated milk factory that cannot get its milk to market? Or a pastry class training women to open cafés on bombed-out streets that lack water and POLITICAL SCIENCE / INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS electricity? Metropolitan Books | September 2012 9780805096811 | $14.00/$16.00 Can. As Peter Van Buren shows, we bought all these projects and more in the most Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 8.0in H | 5.3in W | 1.1in T expensive hearts-and-minds campaign since the Marshall Plan. We Meant Well is his eyewitness account of the civilian side of the surge—that surreal and bollixed Subrights: First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, attempt to defeat terrorism and win over Iraqis by reconstructing the world we Electronic, Reprint, British, Translation, Dramatic had just destroyed. Leading a State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team on its quixotic mission, Van Buren details, with laser-like irony, his yearlong Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780805094367 encounter with pointless projects, bureaucratic fumbling, overwhelmed soldiers, Ebook ISBN: 9781429995238 and oblivious administrators secluded in the world's largest embassy, who fail to realize that you can't rebuild a country without first picking up the trash. MARKETING New and Noteworthy Online Promotions and Features A work of "scathing, gallows humor" (The Boston Globe), We Meant Well is a www.WeMeantWell.com tragicomic voyage of ineptitude and corruption that leaves its writer—and readers—appalled and disillusioned, but wiser.

PRAISE A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title Publishers Weekly Top Ten Political Books for Fall 2011 Kansas City Star Top 100 Books of 2011

“If Joseph Heller’s war had begun in 2004, this would be the book he wrote. A bravura performance of farce in real life.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Laugh-out-loud funny...In more than 250 pages of text, Van Buren can think of almost no expenditure that made sense or helped with the long-term goal of stabilizing Iraq. Read it and weep, or laugh—or probably both.” —Dallas Morning News

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Soldiers First Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point

Joe Drape

Bestselling author Joe Drape reveals the unique pressures and expectations that make a year of Army football so much more than just a t...

The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League–caliber education and year-round military training. After SPORTS & RECREATION / graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the FOOTBALL Times Books | September 2012 world. These young men are not just football players, they are soldiers first. 9780805094909 | $26.00/$29.00 Can. Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 20 New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape takes us inside the world of Army 8.3in H | 5.5in W 8-pg. photo insert football, as the Black Knights and their third-year coach, Rich Ellerson, seek to turn around a program that had recently fallen on hard times, with the goal to beat Subrights: Navy and "sing last" at the Army-Navy game in December. The 2011 season would prove a true test of the players' mettle and perseverance. First Serial, Second Serial, Book Club, Reprint, Electronic, Translation, Audio With unprecedented access to the players and the coaching staff, Drape Other Available Formats: introduces us to this special group of young men and their achievements on and Ebook ISBN: 9781429955348 off the field. Anchoring the narrative and the team are five key players: quarterback Trent Steelman, the most gifted athlete; linebacker Steve Erzinger, MARKETING National Media Attention who once questioned his place at West Point but has become a true leader; National Review and Feature Attention Andrew Rodriguez, the son of a general and the top scholar-athlete; Max Jenkins, National Advertising Campaign the backup quarterback and the second-in-command of the Corps of Cadets; and Library Marketing Advance Reader's Edition Larry Dixon, a talented first-year running back. Together with Coach... Online Promotions and Features www.joedrape.com PRAISE Praise for Our Boys:

“The most improbable, unabashed love story I’ve read in years.” – Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“Hoosiers on a football field.” – New York Post

“A compelling story expertly told.” – ESPN.com

“Drape gives the reader a team worth rooting for.” – Publishers Weekly

Joe Drape is the author of the New York Times bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains 14 TIMES BOOKS AUGUST 2012

First Cameraman The Improbable Story of How a Disheveled Film Professor Became the First Official White House Videographer, and What He Learned Inside

Arun Chaudhary

The first official White House videographer chronicles his time capturing behind-the-scenes moments of the president and his administra...

From the early months of the 2008 campaign and through the first two and a half years of the Obama administration, Arun Chaudhary had a unique perspective on POLITICAL SCIENCE / the president of the United States. "I'm sort of like President Obama's wedding GOVERNMENT videographer," he explains, "if every day was a wedding with the same groom but Times Books | August 2012 9780805095722 | $28.00/$32.00 Can. a constantly rotating set of hysterical guests." Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3in H | 6.1in W Some of the moments Chaudhary captures are small, like the president throwing 25-30 b&w photos throughout warm-up pitches deep inside Busch Stadium in St. Louis before the All-Star Subrights: game. Some are intensely emotional, as when Obama comforts a grieving teenager whose father had died in a devastating tornado. And some are just plain First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, bizarre—like getting thrown out of the Indian parliament by his belt, or being Electronic, Reprint trapped in a White House bathroom while Obama conducts a YouTube town hall

Other Available Formats: on the other side of the door. Ebook ISBN: 9780805095739 Film and politics have been intertwined ever since the first Edison reels rattled in MARKETING projection halls a century ago. But with the advent of new technologies and a new National Media Attention National Review and Feature Attention public that is hungry for images of their leaders, Chaudhary has been in the right National Advertising Campaign place at the right time to participate in the interplay of film and politics at the very Library Marketing highest level. His entertaining and eye-opening book—which includes stories and Advance Reader's Edition images of key players such as Barack and Michelle Obama, , and Online Promotions and Features Hillary Clinton, among others—gives readers a unique view of their government and their president in the...

Arun Chaudhary served as the first official White House videographer from 2009 to 2011 and was also a key member of Obama's new media team during the 2008 campaign. He previously worked in film in New York and was a member of the NYU Graduate Film Department faculty. He received his MFA in filmmaking from NYU and his BA in film theory from Cornell University. Chaudhary has been profiled by The New York Times, the BBC, National Journal, Politico, Fortune, and many political websites. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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The Second Nuclear Age Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics

Paul Bracken

A leading national security strategist offers a compelling new way to "think about the unthinkable"

The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge. It's not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global power politics is changing because of the reemergence of nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear age. POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLITICAL FREEDOM & SECURITY In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul Bracken of Yale University Times Books | November 2012 argues that we need to pay renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their 9780805094305 | $28.00/$32.00 Can. presence will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws on his Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 9.3in H | 6.1in W years of experience analyzing defense strategy to make the case that the United 8-10 b&w illustrations throughout States needs to start thinking seriously about these issues once again, especially as new countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through war-game Subrights: scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how nuclear weapons are changing the First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, calculus of power politics, and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South Electronic, Reprint, British, Translation Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such crises. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781429945042 Frank in its tone and farsighted in its analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential guide to the new rules of international politics. MARKETING National Media Attention National Review and Feature Attention Paul Bracken is the author of Fire in the East and The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces. National Advertising Campaign He is a professor of management and political science at Yale University, and was previously a Advance Reader's Edition member of the senior staff of the Hudson Institute under Herman Kahn and a consultant to the Online Promotions and Features Rand Corporation. He serves on several Department of Defense advisory boards and works with global multinational corporations on strategy and technology issues. He lives in Connecticut.

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1862: Abraham Lincoln and the Making of America; David Von Drehle...... 6 Anne Frank: The Biography; Melissa Muller...... 12 Auster, Paul; Winter Journal...... 4 Berman, Sabina; Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World: A Novel...... 7 Binelli, Mark; Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis...... 10 Bracken, Paul; The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics...... 16 Breaking the Silence; Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010...... 9 Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel; Hilary Mantel...... 2 Chaudhary, Arun; First Cameraman: The Improbable Story of How a Disheveled Film Professor Became the First Official White House Videographer, and What He Learned Inside ...... 15 Chomsky, Noam; Demand the Impossible: Conversations on the Decline of U.S. Empire and Global Democratic Uprisings ...... 11 Demand the Impossible: Conversations on the Decline of U.S. Empire and Global Democratic Uprisings; Noam Chomsky...... 11 Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis; Mark Binelli...... 10 Drape, Joe; Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point...... 14 First Cameraman: The Improbable Story of How a Disheveled Film Professor Became the First Official White House Videographer, and What He Learned Inside; Arun Chaudhary...... 15 Heat of the Sun: A Novel, The; David Rain...... 8 Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot; Bill O'Reilly...... 3 Mantel, Hilary; Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel...... 2 Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World: A Novel; Sabina Berman...... 7 Muller, Melissa; Anne Frank: The Biography...... 12 O'Reilly, Bill; Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot...... 3 Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010; Breaking the Silence. . . . .9 Pylväinen, Hanna; We Sinners: A Novel...... 5 Rain, David; The Heat of the Sun: A Novel...... 8 Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics, The; Paul Bracken...... 16 Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point; Joe Drape...... 14 Van Buren, Peter; We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People...... 13 Von Drehle, David; 1862: Abraham Lincoln and the Making of America...... 6 We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People; Peter Van Buren ...... 13 We Sinners: A Novel; Hanna Pylväinen...... 5 Winter Journal; Paul Auster...... 4 General Ordering Information

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