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2 Beilock, Sian Nonfiction CHOKE: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Success and Failure at Work LAM and at Play September 2010; Hardcover

We all know the thrill when everything seems to click: whether it is on the playing field, giving a speech, playing a musical instrument, or leading a meeting at the office. Unfortunately, we also know the opposite experience, when we freeze and cannot put one foot or one thought in front of the other. How is it that we can perform effortlessly one day or at one type of task and then choke on the next? Until now experts have pointed either to innate talent or intense practice as the primary sources of high-level performance. But new research by Sian Beilock, an innovative young scientist analyzing the psychology of performance, reveals how various factors aside from talent or practice can make or break an individual’s performance. Using the most advanced brain imaging techniques like fMRIs and brilliantly constructed studies conducted in her two performance laboratories, Beilock has produced groundbreaking studies that have grabbed the attention of Olympic-level athletes, educational experts, and Fortune 500 business executives eager to understand these mysteries of the brain. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, with PhDs in kinesiology and psychology.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Free Press Audio/Film: Strothman Agency/Dan O’Connell; [email protected] Japanese: Kadawade Shobo Korean: Book21 Portuguese (B): Best Seller

Bhandari, Heather Darcy, and Jonathan Melber Nonfiction ART WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career WO’S March 2009; Trade Paperback Original

In an art market so cutthroat that one dealer likens it to “The Sopranos, except nobody gets killed,” there’s tremendous need for a nuts-and-bolts guide to pursuing a career as an artist. Unlike other creative professionals, visual artists don’t have managers to run their careers or agents to help them find gallery representation. New artists have few places to turn for guidance on how to promote themselves or manage their careers. ART WORK is the resource that all emerging artists—from painters and sculptors to video and performance artists—will look to for advice: how to negotiate the best gallery deal possible, how to sell directly to the public, which are the best residency programs and grant providers, and where to get health insurance. Heather Darcy Bhandari is a director of Mixed Greens Gallery in New York City and lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design and Hunter College. Jonathan Melber is a litigator at an arts-and-entertainment law firm.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Trident Media Group/Melissa Flashman; [email protected]

3 Coats, John Nonfiction ORIGINAL SINNERS: A New Interpretation of Genesis LAM November 2009; Hardcover

The stories of Genesis are embedded in the foundations of civilization, shaping our awareness of who we are as a people and as individuals, the religious and non-religious alike. Since our beginning the Bible has been either at the center of the public forum, or hovering nearby. Today, it is center stage, and the howling from the extremes over its importance, its veracity, and its proper place goes on and on. Meanwhile, what of those in the middle, the marginally religious to the non-religious—readers who may sense those genetic markers, who are curious about those stories and characters, but want neither to be saved by religion nor saved from it? In Original Sinners John Coats offers an approach to reading Genesis that neither discourages nor requires a religious point of view, but takes it entirely as story and metaphor. By way of a unique weave of exegesis, exposition, humor, and personal essay, he invites readers to look beneath the millennia of historical, religious, and cultural interpretation, and he re-imagines the stories and characters in a humanizing, familiar light. John Coats is a graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is a contributor to The Best American Spiritual Writing.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Trident Media Group/Eileen Cope; [email protected]

Coren, Stanley Nonfiction THE MODERN DOG: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live With Dogs Today LAM December 2008; Hardcover

Dogs are invented creatures, created by humans in the sense that we have been continually shaping and changing them for at least 15,000 years. We are also continually shaping and changing the nature of our relationships to our dogs, fitting them into our lives in different ways and finding new jobs for them to do. This means that the modern dog, his world, and his involvements with humans are quite different today from what existed a century ago. This is a book about the modern dog, a series of snapshots of various aspects of how we interact with dogs, how society responds to dogs, how our relationships with dogs have changed over history, and where dogs fit into our personal and emotional lives. Often it is how people respond to and interpret the actions of dogs (and dog owners) that has a greater effect on the dog’s life than the behavior patterns that have been programmed into the dog’s genes. Science, folklore, religious writing, tradition, and the actions of political bodies all affect the interactions between humans and canines and, drawing on all of the above, this exploration of the nature of the modern dog is much more of a romp than a formal exposition. Dr. Stanley Coren is the author of How Dogs Think, How to Speak Dog, The Intelligence of Dogs, and Pawprints of History.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version/Film: Free Press

4 Gordon, Dan Nonfiction POSTCARDS FROM HEAVEN: Messages of Love from the Other Side LAM November 2008; Hardcover

Affecting and humorous, Postcards from Heaven is about the comforting, helpful, sometimes life- changing messages and synchronicities that author Dan Gordon has received all his life from deceased loved ones. Gordon presents these moments as “postcards from heaven.” Usually not big enough messages to be characterized as revelations or letters, these signs are important and cherished nonetheless. Written with a cinematic smoothness and pacing, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny as well as sobbingly poignant in its recounting of grief and loss, Postcards chronicles the inspiring messages that Gordon has received from his grandfather, brother, and son, among others—after they had died. As he tells his stories, Gordon relates other people’s postcards also and opens readers’ eyes to their own experiences, making it okay to admit to these unusual events and signs. In its true, anecdotal evidence for the existence of life after death, Postcards from Heaven allows readers to appreciate and celebrate their own afterlife contacts and synchronicities. Dan Gordon is a screenwriter whose credits include Murder in the First, Wyatt Earp, The Assignment, and The Hurricane.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Ryan Fischer-Harbage Agency; [email protected]

Greenland, Susan Kaiser Nonfiction THE MINDFUL CHILD: How to Help Your Kid De-Stress Childhood— LAM and Become a Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate Adult September 2009; Hardcover

The Mindful Child will appeal to a new generation of parents because it speaks directly to one of their most important goals: de-stressing childhood so their children can achieve whatever aspirations they set for themselves. It brings together parenting and the powerful movement of mindfulness training, formerly only available for adults. Most parenting books focus on one problem—the defiant child, the angry child, the lonely child. But this book starts from a different premise: that the problems of children, no matter what they are, are exacerbated by stress because children have no idea that stress can be ameliorated by any action on their part. Kids need skills to help them diminish stress, and The Mindful Child will help parents help their children develop those skills, walking parents through fun exercises, step by step, that will result in a child’s ability to use these skills spontaneously. Greenland is the founder of InnerKids, a nationally recognized leader in teaching mindful awareness practices to children and teens. She is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Susan Rabiner, Literary Agent; [email protected]

5 Greenside, Mark Nonfiction I’LL NEVER BE FRENCH (No Matter What I Do): Living in a Small Village in BrittanyLAM November 2008; Hardcover

Humorous, charming, often affecting, I’ll Never Be French recounts how Mark Greenside’s working retreat in Brittany turned into a semi-permanent stay and second home. When Mark, a Jewish New Yorker, political lefty, and lifelong skeptic, is dragged by his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend to Finistere, Brittany, the westernmost edge of France, overnight he becomes incapable of the simplest day-to-day tasks. Without any money, dumped by his girlfriend, and living alone in a country where he doesn’t speak the language, he searches in vain for bay leaf at the street market—to the extreme puzzlement of the vendors—not realizing it grows wild throughout the region; and he asks “Where is the bunny?” when shopping for bread; he pesters his insurance man with horrific hypotheticals posed in equally horrific French that, according to European insurers, could never happen. Mark puts his trust in the decent, working-class villagers he encounters, and this trust is rewarded again and again. With the guidance of his welcoming, colorful, and sometimes bemused neighbors, Mark buys a house, gets insurance, opens a bank account, and discovers a specialized local artisan for every broken appliance. Mark Greenside is the author of the story collection I Saw a Man Hit His Wife.

Territory: World excluding France 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency; [email protected]

Hempton, Gordon Nonfiction ONE SQUARE INCH OF SILENCE: One Man’s Search for Natural Silence LAM in a Noisy World April 2009; Hardcover

One Square Inch of Silence is the unique narrative of author Gordon Hempton’s coast-to-coast sound safari, ultimately leading to Washington DC, where he presses his concern for quiet in our national parks, specifically the national treasure close to his home: Olympic National Park. As he crosses the nation, Hempton listens intently to the voice of the landscape and the collective voices of those he meets along the way, and he reflects on his unusual life’s work: recording the under-appreciated realm of nature’s symphony—bird song, bugling elk, melting ice—a soul-soothing but endangered terrestrial soundscape that is fast disappearing in the steady advance of manmade tumult. Hempton asks why natural quiet isn’t part of the global ecological agenda. The unchecked loss of silence is a canary in a coal mine—if we turn a deaf ear to the loss of natural quiet, we cannot expect to fare better with more complex environmental crises. Hempton is an acoustic ecologist and an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist, providing services to Smithsonian, National Geographic, and National Public Radio. John Grossman has written for Smithsonian, Audubon, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Artists Literary Group/Joe Veltre; [email protected]

6 Hitchcock, William I. Nonfiction THE BITTER ROAD TO FREEDOM: A New History of the Liberation of Europe MJB October 2008; Hardcover

The liberators of Europe in 1944 and 1945, from the brave GIs who stormed the beaches at Normandy, to General Patton’s tank troops who raced across the Rhine, have been celebrated in scores of books and movies. Yet what was it like for the peoples and countries they freed? From France to Poland to Germany, from concentration-camp internees to refugees, farmers to shopkeepers, husbands and wives to children, the experience of liberation was often difficult and dangerous. Their gratitude was mixed with guilt, or resentment. Their lives were difficult to reassemble. As William Hitchcock’s searing story of Europe in 1945 makes clear, if we want to understand the war and its implications for today’s world, we must view 1945 from the point of view of the Europeans. Hitchcock’s deeply moving narrative carries readers from country to country as the Allies advance on both the western and eastern fronts. Based on an extraordinary range of sources, including personal accounts from every country along the shifting front lines, Hitchcock brings ordinary Europeans and ordinary GIs to life. William Hitchcock is the author of The Struggle for Europe and From War and Peace.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Free Press Audio/Film: Susan Rabiner Literary Agency; [email protected] British: Faber & Faber Dutch: Prometheus Italian: Mondadori Swedish: Forum

Hunsaker, Dr. Phillip L., and Dr. Tony Alessandra Nonfiction THE NEW ART OF MANAGING PEOPLE, UPDATED AND REVISED: WO’S Person-to-Person Skills, Guidelines, and Techniques Every Manager Needs To Guide, Direct, and Motivate the Team October 2008; Trade Paperback Reissue

When a manager establishes a friendly yet productive working atmosphere, the benefits to the whole organization are substantial. The New Art of Managing People provides practical strategies, guidelines, and techniques for developing the interpersonal skills necessary to improve relations with employees, understand the differences between people, assess and improve current working situations, and create trust between managers and employees. Person-to-person skills are the key to developing an effective team of satisfied, energetic workers. Letting workers express their own personalities and maximize their potentials will reduce stress within the work force, create a positive spirit throughout the company, and increase the organization’s productivity and profitability. Hunsaker is the author of You Can Make It Happen and Managing Organizational Behavior. Alessandra is the author of Charisma, The Platinum Rule, and Collaborative Selling.

Territory: World British/Translation/Electronic Version: Free Press Audio/Film: Authors c/o Free Press Portuguese (B): Campus Spanish: Planeta

7 Leonard, Annie Nonfiction THE STORY OF STUFF WO’S April 2010; Hardcover

Annie Leonard’s marvelous internet movie “The Story of Stuff” has been viewed more than 3 million times by 1.5 million individual viewers. 30,000 people have signed up for her email newsletter. She has become immediately popular because her message is startlingly simple and accessible. She says, “We have a problem with stuff. We use too much of it. And way too much of it is toxic.” Leonard talks about economics and the planet in a way that people find immediately engaging, in part because she is not hitting us over the head with her message or with what we have to do to save the planet. In her book The Story of Stuff she shows her contagious curiosity about the way the world works, and she brings together information about economics, culture, and the environment as she walks lay people through the materials economy, from extraction through production, distribution, and consumption to disposal. The book is organized around the five steps of the materials economy, and, calling herself a “toxics traveler,” she tells stories from her travels all over the world that show each step in action and its effects on the earth and the communities that live and work near the sites. Leonard is coordinator of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and serves on the boards of the International Forum for Globalization and the Environmental Health Fund. Over the last 20 years she’s worked with dozens of environmental organizations, including Greenpeace International.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: David Black Literary Agency/Linda Lowenthal; [email protected] Dutch: Bruna Korean: Gimm Young Italian: Mondadori Portuguese (B): Jorge Zahar German: Econ

Mas Masumoto, David Nonfiction WISDOM OF THE LAST FARMER: Fathers, Sons, and the Legacy LAM of the Land August 2009; Hardcover

David Mas Masumoto’s family is a dying breed: they work a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Mas’ father had a stroke on the fields of their 80-acre farm, Mas confronted life’s big questions: what do his and his father’s lives mean? How will his father let go of his work? What has his father lived for? Wisdom of the Last Farmer is the harvest of his father’s wisdom, and his own, gathered from a lifetime of farming and surviving. The narrative loosely follows Mas, his wife, and two grown children as they nurture his father’s recovery from his stroke. The son must teach the father to farm again and, in so doing, asks himself which stories need to be passed on to his daughter and son. The stories encapsulate universal questions of work along with wisdom that could only be gleaned from the earth: What is the price of perfection? What is the worth of farming expertise when we live in an information-driven world? How do we maintain tradition while working in the modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace, as Mas ultimately decides to abandon the ninety-year old grapevines that no longer make economic sense? Yet, by the end of the work day, he understands the feeling of accomplishment and discovers that it’s when he lets go—of both his father and control of nature—that wisdom manifests itself. Masumoto is the author of Epitaph for a Peach.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Wales Literary Agency/Elizabeth Wales; [email protected] 8 McClellan, Stephanie, M.D., and Beth Hamilton, M.D. Nonfiction SO STRESSED LAM April 2010; Hardcover

Drs. McClellan and Hamilton are internationally renowned specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Newport Beach, California. Every day in their practice they see that chronic stress is destroying the health and sense of well-being of their patients. Their mission in writing So Stressed is to present the cutting-edge research on women and stress so that women can have a clear picture of what stress is doing to every cell in their bodies, show how chronic stress disrupts the intricate balance of the body’s systems, demonstrate how stress contributes to the development of specific diseases and premature aging, and provide programs for defusing stress and explain why the recommended techniques work for stress relief. McClellan and Hamilton are advocates for women’s health and counselors on the cutting edge of most women’s health issues. In their practice, they simplify and explain medical information so their patients can make informed decisions about their medical choices. Women travel from all over the world to consult with them.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Vigliano Associates/David Vigliano; [email protected] British: S&S UK Dutch: Archipel Spanish: Norma

McGraw, Dr. Phil Nonfiction REAL LIFE: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life DVA September 2008; Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Life Strategies, The Ultimate Weight Solution, Self Matters, Love Smart, Relationship Rescue, and Family First, comes this important book on learning how to cope with the seven inevitable crises of life. Doing what he does best, Dr. Phil McGraw prepares readers for what can be truly awful moments and shows readers not just how to survive, but how to master any situation. It is one thing to know how to manage the day-to-day turbulence of your life, but it’s another thing all together when you’re faced with a potentially devastating crisis. In REAL LIFE, Dr. Phil explores how to take control in the face of one of these life-altering events. With his trademark calm, he divides up these events into seven categories: Loss, Fear, Adaptability, Physical Health, Mental Health, Addiction, and Existential Crisis.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Dupree, Miller & Associates/Jan Miller; phone (214) 559-2665; fax (214) 559-7243 British: S&S UK Dutch: Het Spectrum Hebrew: Oram Spanish (ex Spain): Santillana Mexico

9 Mercer, Michelle Nonfiction WILL YOU TAKE ME AS I AM: Unraveling Joni Mitchell’s Blue WO’S April 2009; Hardcover

In her rich exploration of the making of Joni Mitchell’s classic album Blue, Michelle Mercer touches on the themes of travel, love, and growth that find such eloquent expression in this enormously popular and influential album, and that have led generations of young people to come of age listening to it. Uneasy with the success she achieved as a folk singer, Mitchell left Los Angeles for the caves of Matala, Greece, where she composed new music in anonymity, taking inspiration from the land and the people. When she returned to her life to release Blue, it launched her to megastar status, resonating with tens of thousands of college kids and twenty-somethings. Today, the album still sells 40,000 copies a year; it was ranked #30 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was listed among Time’s All-Time 100 Albums. Mercer describes Mitchell’s music it in ways that are readily illuminating for the lay reader: Mitchell’s unusual way of marrying lyrics to melody; how her lyrics clarify for people their own confusing emotions; how she plays with minor and major chords to achieve her unusual blend of wonder and melancholy; and how she pioneered confessional song writing, which has remained a dominant form ever since. Mercer gained unprecedented access to Mitchell, who is notoriously leery of the media. Lively and astute, this astonishing book will attract Mitchell’s legions of fans for its new insights into Mitchell’s life and art. Mercer is the author of Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Harvey Klinger, Inc./David Dunton; [email protected]

Nelson, Noelle C. Nonfiction YOUR MAN IS WONDERFUL: How to Appreciate Your Partner, Romance Your LAM Differences, and Love the One You’ve Got January 2009; Hardcover

Once upon a time, you knew a wonderful man. Maybe it was during those magical few weeks of courtship, or the honeymoon period of your marriage. Then one day you turned around and your prince had become a toad. In Your Man Is Wonderful, Dr. Noelle Nelson shows you how to alter your relationship to let you see that your toad is still a prince. A positive-thinking How to Want What You Have, this step-by-step program shows how to recognize your guy’s positive qualities and rehabilitate your relationship so that wonderful man can step into the open. Men and women are different, but not so different that they cannot create a healthy relationship and mutually support one another. Filled with inspiring real-life anecdotes from the couples Nelson has counseled, this is a realistic and hopeful way for women to discover that Mr. Right has been right there all along. Noelle C. Nelson is a psychologist and author of nine books, including the bestselling Dangerous Relationships: How to Identify and Respond to the Seven Warning Signs of a Troubled Relationship and Winning! Using Lawyers’ Courtroom Techniques to Get Your Way in Everyday Situations.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Manus & Associates/Dina Fischer; [email protected]

10 Ni, Maoshing Nonfiction SECOND SPRING: Dr. Mao’s Hundreds of Natural Secrets for Women in LAM Pre-Menopause and Menopause April 2009; Hardcover

Beginning at age 35, women’s minds and bodies begin to change hormonally, physically, and emotionally. Second Spring is a breakthrough program for women to reclaim midlife using entirely natural methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)—without drugs, hormonal replacement therapy, or medication. Dr. Mao’s complete lifestyle program allows women to rejuvenate their bodies with individualized programs that address diet, nutrition, herbs, tonics, supplements, exercise, awareness practices, acupressure, relationships, and sex. Dr. Mao’s TCM approach to these changes sees them as a flowering of feminine potential, not a draining of vitality and energy. Dr. Maoshing Ni is an authority in anti-aging medicine. He is co-founder of Yo San University in Los Angeles and has been featured in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Laurie Dolphin Agency; [email protected]

Obmascik, Mark Nonfiction HALFWAY TO HEAVEN: My White-Knuckled—and Knuckle-Headed—Quest LAM for the Rocky Mountain High May 2009; Hardcover

A stay-at-home dad, Mark Obmascik had reached the phase when his kids had stopped viewing him as Superman. So when his oldest son hiked up Pikes Peak for summer camp—and then asked Obmascik to accompany him on an attempt at another summit—he jumped at the chance for more father-and-son time. Mark came away with the climbing bug. Halfway to Heaven is the humorous, sometimes harrowing story of his middle-aged quest for one of the loftiest prizes in American mountaineering: climbing to the summits of all the Fourteeners, fifty-four of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains. Though danger is always present—the Colorado Fourteeners have killed more climbers than Mount Everest—Mark knew his aging scalp couldn’t afford the hair-raising adventures of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. The adventure turned out to be as much about midlife as mountaineering and the ways that weekend warriors can survive both. Obmascik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Big Year.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Jody Rein Books; [email protected]

11 O’Brien, Stacey Nonfiction WESLEY THE OWL: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl LAM August 2008; Hardcover

Wesley the Owl is a love story that begins the day a newborn owlet is thrown out of the nest, so irreparably injured that he can never survive on his own in the wild. He desperately needs someone to come to his rescue, feed him every two hours, and offer him a permanent home. A young biologist named Stacey O’Brien steps up to the challenge and embarks on a 19-year journey unlike any she could have imagined. For the millions of people who are animal lovers and love a good animal story, Wesley the Owl shows how two very different species grow to love each other and learn to live together. By turns playful, funny, informative, and deeply moving, this heartwarming book also reveals the inner life of owls. O’Brien is trained as a biologist specializing in wild animal behavior. She graduated from Occidental College with a BS in Biology and continued her education at Caltech, where she became involved with owl research at the Beckman Laboratories of Behavioral Biology, working under renowned owl expert Dr. Mark Konishi.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Castiglia Literary Agency/Sally van Haitsma; phone 858.755.8761; fax 858.755.7063 Chinese (cc): Prophet/Eurasian Korean: EunHaeng NaMu Portuguese (B): Globo

Osteen, Joel Nonfiction DAILY READINGS FROM BECOME A BETTER YOU: 90 Devotions for Improving DVA Your Life Every Day October 2008; Hardcover

Joel Osteen is one of the world’s best known pastors. His weekly televised services reach millions of viewers around the world, and his speaking tours regularly sell out even the largest venues. As a companion to his bestselling Become a Better You, he offers this beautifully compiled collection of motivational and inspirational readings to prepare and assist us in becoming the people that God wants us to be. This book provides enlightening, insightful, and inspiring words for all readers. The readings correspond beautifully with the seven values that Osteen emphasizes in Become a Better You. Joel Osteen is the pastor at Lakewood Church and is considered by many to be “America’s voice of hope.” He is the author of Your Best Life Now and Become a Better You, both New York Times bestsellers.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Dupree, Miller & Associates/Jan Miller; phone 214.559.2665; fax 214.559.7243 Korean: Duranno Spanish: Peniel

12 Osteen, Joel Nonfiction IT’S YOUR TIME DVA October 2009; Hardcover

Scheduled for publication next fall, It’s Your Time will be Joel Osteen’s next major book and is certain to become another mega-bestseller. Osteen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Your Best Life Now and Become a Better You, which has sold more than 1.6 million copies and has been on the New York Times bestseller list for an impressive six months. Osteen is Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Listed by several sources as America’s largest and fastest-growing congregation, Lakewood Church has over 40,000 adult attendees every week. Millions more watch Osteen’s broadcast on national and international television networks. He lives with his wife, Victoria, and their children in Houston.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Dupree, Miller & Associates/Jan Miller; phone 214.559.2665; fax 214.559.7243 British: S&S UK

Osteen, Joel Nonfiction THE OSTEEN MINISTRY BIBLE DVA April 2009; Hardcover

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Lakewood Church, this bible is designed for everyday use. It is filled with years’ worth of Joel Osteen’s inspirational and encouraging insights and is created to guide both new and old readers of the scriptures in how to apply the life-changing principles of God’s Word to their daily lives. The Osteen Ministry Bible features book introductions, reading plans, devotional inserts, purposed scriptures, and indices. The text is the New Living Translation. The book is available in both standard hardcover and deluxe leather-bound editions.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Dupree, Miller & Associates/Jan Miller; phone 214.559.2665; fax 214.559.7243

13 Osteen, Victoria Nonfiction LOVE YOUR LIFE: Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole DVA October 2008; Hardcover

In an age when the pressures of the modern family are often complicated with the pressures of the modern world, many women are struggling to strike a balance among a wide variety of issues. From their own careers to their kids’ school to matters of faith and health, women are juggling many roles that do not always go hand in hand. In the large majority of cases, the mother is the parent most likely to be dealing with these crucial issues. In Love Your Life Victoria Osteen, wife of pastor and mega- bestselling author Joel Osteen, speaks directly to women and gives them a pathway to understanding that great responsibility and to learn to embrace its beautiful choices. Osteen writes here of balancing life, whether it is career and children, community and church, or all of the above. She provides a simple plan for embracing the finest aspects of life and infusing them in yourself by allowing your priorities to work together. She believes that you must teach yourself the principles of self love in order to be able to pass them on. Osteen speaks nearly every week about the role of women to the large congregation that makes up Lakewood Church. The book is a powerful tool for all women to help them to better savor their lives and enjoy their family, their friends, and themselves.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Dupree, Miller & Associates/Jan Miller; phone 214.559.2665; fax 214.559.7243 Afrikaans: Struik Christian Media

Piver, Susan Nonfiction THE WISDOM OF A BROKEN HEART: Why It Hurts So Much and How to LAM Make It Stop September 2009; Hardcover

Those who have experienced the reality of a truly broken heart know that it is something far worse than a few weeks of moping around. Real heartbreak is more like a form of insanity. Your mind becomes unpredictable and unstable. Any song, story, movie, or overheard conversation has the power to destroy emotional equanimity on the spot. Everything reminds you of your sorrow. You become manic with fear that this heartache will never end. Heartbreak can make truly sane people into lunatics and misanthropes. You literally lose control of your mind. This book will help you get it back. It will take you on a spiritual journey through heartache that will leave you firmly convinced of your personal power and secure in your indestructible ability to love. The Wisdom of a Broken Heart explains how to live with this overwhelming condition and, beyond coping with it, how it can actually strengthen and soften your heart. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, it says in a thousand different ways (through daily reminders, affirmations, poems and so on), the most important thing of all to remember, and the easiest to forget: You’re going to be okay. Susan Piver is author of the bestselling The Hard Questions and writes columns for Body and Soul and the Shambhala Sun.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Stephanie Tade Agency; [email protected]

14 Roizen, Michael F., M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Nonfiction YOU: BEING BEAUTIFUL: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty DVA November 2008; Hardcover

The YOU phenomenon continues to grow as Dr. Michael Roizen and Dr. Mehmet Oz work to educate readers about their health. In YOU: Being Beautiful, Roizen and Oz delve deep into the modern notion of beauty. They delineate the science of the body as it relates to beauty, offering practical wisdom as they answer such questions as, how do you keep your body looking beautiful by modern standards? and why does it work as it does? Then, with their characteristic humor and clarity, they go through the body and show you how to use the latest science to keep each part beautiful from head to toe, hair to nail. This is another tour de force from America’s favorite doctors. Roizen and Oz are the New York Times bestselling authors of YOU: The Owner’s Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a Diet, and YOU: Staying Young.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Candice Fuhrman Literary Agency; [email protected] British: HarperCollins UK Chinese (sc): Yilin Press Korean: Gimm Young Portuguese (P): ASA/Lua de Papel

Roizen, Michael F., M.D., and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. Nonfiction YOU: PREGNANT DVA October 2009; Hardcover

From America’s favorite doctors comes the ultimate guide to pregnancy. The YOU brand has become a blockbuster series that readers relish for the scientific information, surprising health advice, unique and sometimes irreverent illustrations, and a playful, yet authoritative tone. Michael F. Roizen, M.D., is the cofounder and originator of the very popular RealAge.com website. He is chair of the Division of Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, and Pain Management at the Cleveland Clinic. Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., is the health expert of The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a professor and vice chairman of surgery at New York Presbyterian Columbia University and the medical director of the Integrated Medicine Center and director of the Heart Institute.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Candice Fuhrman Literary Agency; [email protected] British: HarperCollins UK Korean: Gimm Young Portuguese (P): ASA/Lua de Papel

15 Sadat, Jehan Nonfiction MY HOPE FOR PEACE AQ March 2009; Hardcover

From the former First Lady of Egypt, New York Times bestselling author, crusader for women’s rights, and widow of the slain Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar Sadat, comes a timely, clear-eyed examination of the defining issues of the Middle East. With grace, candor, and the weight of more than half a century’s experience grappling with the conflicts and contests that still plague the region, Jehan Sadat sounds a clarion call to look to the example of her husband, whose peace with Israel has endured and whose leadership, in the face of seemingly insuperable obstacles, can help to illuminate a way forward in these equally troubled times. Drawing on life together with her husband and her firsthand knowledge of the recent history of the Middle East, Sadat distills the lessons of former peace accords. Along the way, she outlines the origins of modern Islamic terrorism, addresses the attendant misconceptions about her faith, and debunks many of the myths of Muslim womanhood. My Hope for Peace is an unforgettable book about a legacy the world would do well to remember. Sadat is the author of A Woman of Egypt.

Territory: World English excluding Middle East and North Africa 1st Serial/British/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Translation/Film: American University in Cairo Press/Jessica Papin; [email protected]

Schwartz, Tony, and Jean Gomes Nonfiction UNTITLED ON CORPORATE CULTURE EL January 2010; Hardcover

This new book is an essential manifesto for business leaders who seek to attract, inspire and retain their employees by creating cultures that give workers the energy and autonomy to do their best work. Today’s outdated value exchange is time for money. Companies pay workers for their time and treat them like extensions of machinery or computers. Enlightened management will understand that workers want more than money; they want satisfaction, self-expression, and an opportunity to feel passionate about their work. This book explains how to create such workplace conditions, starting with the CEO and on down through the ranks. Tony Schwartz is co-author of The Power of Full Engagement, which has sold over 300,000 copies in English and sold rights in 28 foreign territories.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: The Martell Agency/Alice Martell; [email protected]

16 Shimoff, Marci, with Carol Kline Nonfiction HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out DVA February 2009; Trade Paperback Reprint

National bestseller! Everyone wants to be happy; it’s the goal of all we do. Yet so many people are unhappy today: one in five women in America is on anti-depressants. Happy for No Reason presents three startling, new ideas and a practical program that will forever change the way you look at creating happiness in your life: 1. Happiness is not an emotion, a spike of elation or euphoria. True happiness is a lasting, neurophysiological state of peace and well-being. 2. True happiness is not based on what we do or have. It doesn’t depend on external reasons or circumstances. 3. We all have a happiness set-point. No matter what happens to us, we tend to return to a set range of happiness. We’re so busy trying to change our outer world, yet what we really need to do is change is our happiness set-point. Based on cutting-edge scientific research and interviews with genuinely happy people and illustrated with inspiring stories, Happy for No Reason lays out a powerful, holistic program for raising your happiness set-point. Shimoff is the co-author of several of the Chicken Soup for the Soul titles.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Solow Literary Enterprises/Bonnie Solow; [email protected] Arabic: Dar Al Kitab Al Arabi Hebrew: Modan Romanian: Curtea Veche British: S&S UK Indonesian: Gramedia Russian: Exmo Bulgarian: Hermes Italian: Corbaccio Slovak: Ikar Chinese (cc): China Times Japanese: Mikasa Slovene: Vale-Novak Chinese (sc): Guangxi Science Korean: Minumsa Spanish: Urano Czech: Euromedia Latvian: Atena Thai: Post Publishing Danish: Borgens Polish: Helion Turkish: Kuraldisi French: Un Monde Different Portuguese (B): Best Seller Vietnamese: Tri Viet-First News German: Mosaik/Goldmann Portuguese (P): Porto

Stross, Randall Nonfiction PLANET GOOGLE: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know EL September 2008; Hardcover

Journalist Randall Stross achieved unprecedented access to the Google headquarters and top management, including notoriously close-to-the-vest CEO Eric Schmidt, and to a wide range of sources who have worked with Google or monitored its activities. He reveals for the first time the astonishing scope of what Google is setting out to accomplish and explores the implications for the business world and for our culture at large. Google’s vision is to become the one-stop-shopping home of and manager of all of the world’s information, from news to financial data; historical facts; the contents of all books, films, and TV; and an incredibly detailed record of the Earth’s geography. More controversially, it wants all the personal information it can get access to: records of where each of us has been searching on the web; what we’ve been reading, writing, and buying; whom we’ve been talking to; and what our interests are. Key to Stross’ revelations is the central point that Google does not see this mission as in any way sinister; it is almost evangelical in its zeal that in “organizing all the world’s information” it will be fulfilling the promise of computing envisioned by the founders of the science. Of course, others see things differently, and Stross delves deeply into the troubling questions about what sorts of power Google will be obtaining, what kinds of invasion of our privacy it may engage in, and what our culture can do to constrain it. Randall Stross is author of The Microsoft Way and eBoys and writer of the “Digital Domain” column for the New York Times.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency; [email protected] British: Atlantic Books French: Village Mondial Chinese (cc): Yuan Liou Italian: Sperling & Kupfer Chinese (sc): China Industry & Commerce Thai: WeLearn

17 Swensen, David F. Nonfiction PIONEERING PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: An Unconventional Approach WO’S to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated January 2009; Hardcover Reissue

During his twenty years as Yale’s Chief Investment Officer, David Swensen has transformed the management of the university’s portfolio and become one of the country’s most highly regarded money managers. By focusing on unconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity, Swensen has achieved an annualized return of 16.2%, which has propelled Yale’s endowment into the top tier of institutional funds. In this book Swensen draws on his experience and understanding of the financial markets to provide a compendium of powerful investment strategies. When the book was first published seven years ago, it was an instant hit among institutional investors and has continued to sell steadily. This revised edition contains new material and updated figures and statistics throughout. Swensen’s book has become an indispensable road map for creating a successful investment program for every institutional fund manager. Any student of markets will benefit from Pioneering Portfolio Management. Swensen is also the author of Unconventional Success.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version/Film: Free Press German (previous edition): Murmann Japanese (previous edition): Kinyu Zaisei Jyoho Italian (previous edition): Il Sole 24 Ore

Taffel, Ron Nonfiction CHILDHOOD UNBOUND: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves—Confident Parenting LAM in a Sky’s the Limit World January 2009; Hardcover

Today’s pre-high school aged kids present enormous challenges to their parents and educators. They are a bundle of apparent contradictions: back-talking yet open with their parents; astonishingly sexually experimental, yet surprisingly restrained about actual relationships; verbally abusive yet deeply committed to intense friendships. In short, they are quite different from how their parents were at that age. Ron Taffel offers a groundbreaking diagnosis that three profound social shifts have shaped this generation and made it so distinctive: 1. Their parents are post-Boomers who have instilled in their kids an ethic of non-authoritarianism, wanting to be their kids’ friends, not the dictators that their parents were. 2. These kids are the first to come of age in the 21st century, and they are totally free from the social and economic tensions of the 20th century. 3. They are the first generation of true web natives, and the no-bounds world of the web is a huge force in their lives. In Childhood Unbound Taffel argues that the essential key to successful parenting is a new set of rules. He points out that many parents allow their kids too much freedom, and he shows that what kids need is precisely the opposite: their lives are so fast-moving, so chaotic in many ways, that they need their parents and educators to engage in their lives much more forcefully. Through a wealth of examples from real families he has counseled, he shows how to use his methods and offer effective guidance in the ways that are now required. Ron Taffel is author of Breaking Through to Teens, When Parents Disagree, and Parenting by Heart, among other titles.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: David Black Literary Agency/Linda Loewenthal; [email protected]

18 Twenge, Jean M., PhD, and W. Keith Campbell, PhD Nonfiction THE NARCISSISM EPIDEMIC: The Age of Entitlement LAM April 2009; Hardcover

Facebook, Botox, Reality TV: We are a culture of self-adoration. We spend more time answering “About Me” on social networking sites than asking our neighbors “How are you?” We teach children to sing “I am special, I am special, look at me” instead of telling them to respect their elders and mind their manners. And in 2006, the Time magazine Person of the Year was YOU, complete with a mirror on the cover so, like Narcissus, you could see your own face. In The Narcissism Epidemic Drs. Jean Twenge and Keith Campbell draw from their extensive research in narcissism as well as decades of other experts’ studies to expose the pernicious, widespread rise of narcissistic culture, the reasons behind this increase, and the costs of narcissism for relationships, family, business, schools, and society. Filled with arresting anecdotes that illustrate the hold narcissism has on us today, The Narcissism Epidemic is a riveting window into the effects of narcissism on people, a probing analysis of the culture at large, and a prescription to combat both the individual and the general problems of this epidemic. Twenge is the author of Generation Me. Campbell is the author of When You Love a Man Who Loves Himself.

Territory: World excluding UK 1st Serial/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press British/Film: Kneerim & Williams/Jill Kneerim; [email protected]

Walsh, Peter Nonfiction ENOUGH ALREADY! Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You SD February 2009; Hardcover

Everything seems to move so fast these days that you can barely keep up. It’s easy for your life to spin out of control. Most of us are so overwhelmed by work, bills, kids, school, and family commitments that we rush from person to person and place to place, sometimes giving one area of our lives too much attention and other areas not enough, thereby creating a life out of balance. This crazy imbalance and the resulting stress and unhappiness are the clutter that Peter Walsh tackles in this book. Walsh examines the five key areas of your life (family, relationships, work, health, and spirituality) and shows how each is interrelated. If one is cluttered, that clutter will creep into the other areas of your life. Using a step-by-step plan to tackle each area of your life, Walsh helps you examine not just the physical clutter, but the emotional and mental clutter that gets in your way and holds you back. Walsh is the author of It’s All Too Much and Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?. He is the organizational guru on TLC’s hit show Clean Sweep and a regular on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Paradigm/Lydia Wills; [email protected] Australia/NZ: S&S Australia

19 Wechsler, Amy Nonfiction THE MIND-BEAUTY CONNECTION: 9 Days to Reverse Stress Aging DVA and Reveal More Youthful, Beautiful Skin October 2008; Hardcover

Liking the way you look is essential to your health and happiness, but that’s not easy these days when so many of us are operating on warp speed. Women are coping with ever-increasing job demands, clamoring kids or aging parents, or both; shopping, cooking, and housework; car maintenance, vet appointments, financial pressures. It’s all making us super-stressed, tightly wound, and severely sleep deprived. It’s also taking a toll on our looks. Stress aging—how our crazy lives are affecting our skin—presents today’s biggest challenge both to looking great and feeling great about our looks. And Amy Wechsler, a dermatologist and a psychiatrist, is the expert to help us. Emotional aging is very reversible. You can interrupt the cycle of life problems and skin troubles once you’ve recognized the connection. This book helps determine your current SkinAge, including how much is physical and how much is emotional. It helps you choose the renewal plan right for your psyche, face, and wallet. And it helps you adopt a mind-beauty maintenance regimen that will keep your skin looking and feeling terrific. Wechsler has appeared on the Today Show and Real Simple, and her work has been in The New York Times, O, and Vanity Fair. She has partnered with RealAge (promoters of the Roizen and Oz YOU books) to launch SkinAge, where she offers her theories, advice, and diagnostic techniques.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Candice Fuhrman Literary Agency; [email protected] Portuguese (B): Campus

Yergin, Daniel Nonfiction THE PRIZE: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power MKL December 2008; Trade Paperback Reissue

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize! Daniel Yergin’s The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded it. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein and beyond. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our modern age, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement, and great importance. This new edition contains revised and updated material. Daniel Yergin is an authority on world affairs and the oil business. He is also the author of Shattered Peace and The Commanding Heights, among other titles.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Free Press Film: Author c/o Free Press

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21 The A.V. Club Nonfiction INVENTORY BR October 2009; Trade Paperback Original

The “Inventory” columns—quirky, detailed lists compiled with knowledge and humor—have become one of the most popular elements of the print and online editions of The A.V. Club, the arts and entertainment section of The Onion humor newspaper. This collection is a perfect impulse buy for pop culture enthusiasts (even those not familiar with The A.V. Club) and the ideal, instantly browseable, but deceptively immersive addition to any coffee table or bathroom. It contains some of the best lists from the website plus many new ones, including “24 Great Films Too Painful to Watch Twice,” “14 Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Originals,” and even “14 Tragic Movie Masturbation Scenes.” Filled with strong opinions (is David Bowie’s “Young Americans” ruined by saxophone?) and bizarre facts (is there really a Disney cartoon featuring a Nazi fox?), Inventory will challenge, enlighten, and entertain, one fascinating list at a time. The A.V. Club has grown to several hundred thousand unique online visits per month at www.avclub.com, in addition to its large hard-copy readership.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/Dan Greenberg; [email protected]

Bach, James Nonfiction THE SECRETS OF A BUCCANEER SCHOLAR SM/WF September 2009; Hardcover

James Bach, who dropped out of school as a teen, has become a compelling advocate for lifelong learning outside institutional boundaries—what he calls buccaneer scholarship—which is becoming easier thanks to digital technology. Bach’s argument is moving and inspirational in a way that will appeal to a spectrum of readers. Despite his lack of formal education, Bach has become a world-class software expert specialized in testing. Through his work at Apple and elsewhere, he’s become a name in tech communities across the world. Although he is widely perceived as a kind of genius, he compellingly contends that his ideas about buccaneer scholarship are practicable by all. The son of Richard Bach (author of the classic, worldwide bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull), James Bach is a charismatic, experienced speaker in connection with his software testing business.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/Dan Greenberg; [email protected] British: S&S UK German: Kunstmann Italian: Sperling & Kupfer

22 Bardach, Ann Louise Nonfiction WITHOUT FIDEL: In Miami, Havana and Washington, DC CR April 2009; Hardcover

In this concise and immensely topical book, Ann Louise Bardach examines the end of Castro’s days and his long planned succession from three distinct vantage points: Miami, Washington DC, and Havana. In Miami she surveys hardline Cuban exiles who welcome Castro’s demise, with a keen focus on Castro’s sworn enemies, the fiery militants Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada, whose sole regret is that they did not succeed in assassinating their nemesis. In Washington she examines the Bush Administration’s plans for the post-Castro transition as it forcefully resists the lifting of the US embargo and the normalizing of relations with what they regard as a pariah state. And in Havana she reports on the events surrounding Castro’s mystery illnesses and multiple surgeries and penetrates the shroud of secrecy surrounding his health; she then moves onto the transfer of power to Fidel’s brother Raul, long his co-ruler, reflecting on the status of this peculiar arrangement and the issues of a more long-lasting succession that it raises. Bardach is the author of Cuba Confidential and The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: Janklow & Nesbit/Tina Bennett; [email protected]

Boudin, Chesa Nonfiction GRINGO: A Radical Coming of Age in Latin America CR April 2009; Hardcover

1999 was the beginning of a dramatic shift in Latin America as Hugo Chavez took power in Venezuela, heralding what would soon be a steady procession of election victories for left-leaning leaders across the continent. It was also the year when a curious gringo teenager from a storied American radical family arrived in Guatemala on the first of a number of Latin American adventures that would profoundly shape his entry into adulthood. Accompanying Chesa Boudin on his various journeys around Latin America, we witness students battling police in Santiago on the anniversary of General Pinochet’s coup; join the lines formed outside banks by those impoverished in Argentina’s financial crisis; travel the Brazilian Amazon by decrepit ferry boat; and join Boudin in his work inside the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, as Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian revolution gathers pace. Boudin is a Rhodes Scholar and is the co-author of The Venezuelan Revolution. He contributes regularly to The Nation.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: Jill Grinberg Literary Management; phone 212.620.5883; fax 212.627.4745

23 Buffett, Mary, and David Clark Nonfiction WARREN BUFFETT AND THE INTERPRETATION OF FINANCIAL RFL STATEMENTS October 2008; Hardcover

Warren Buffett’s mentor, Benjamin Graham, wrote a book entitled The Interpretation of Financial Statements in 1937. This short, simple book was written for the lay investor and is still published in hardcover today. David Clark and Mary Buffett’s book is modeled after Graham’s and updated for today’s market, explaining how to interpret a financial statement from Warren Buffett’s perspective. The book offers a unique window into Buffett’s process of analysis. Very few people have access to the information that these authors have. They understand how Buffett looks at financial statements, and they explain how to read statements like Buffett does in terms that are easy enough for lay investors to understand and detailed enough for professional investors and Buffettologists. Mary Buffett and David Clark are the authors of Buffettology, The New Buffettology, and The Tao of Warren Buffett.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Authors c/o Scribner British: S&S UK Portuguese (B): Sextante Portuguese (P): Actual Editora

Chin, Staceyann Nonfiction THE OTHER SIDE OF PARADISE: A Memoir AG June 2009; Hardcover

No one knew Staceyann Chin’s mother, Hazel, was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Jamaica on Christmas day. With a mother who did not want her and a father she did not know, no one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive. It was her grandmother who, through the early years of Staceyann’s nomadic childhood shifting from one relative’s house to another, nurtured Staceyann and her older brother. But when the three were separated, Staceyann was thrust into a dysfunctional and damaging home in Paradise, Jamaica. Here, she faced far greater troubles than absent parents. So, armed with fierce determination and uncommon intelligence she discovered a way to break out of this unforgiving world. Chin plumbs tender and unsettling memories as she writes about growing up in Jamaica, coming out as a lesbian, and finding her father and ultimately her voice. Told with grace, humor and courage, hers is an unforgettable story of triumph against all odds. Staceyann Chin has a hugely successful career as a performance artist and poet. She was one of the stars of the Tony Award winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Her one-woman shows Hands Afire and Unspeakable Things have been performed Off- Broadway and around the world. In 2007 she made her film debut in Across the Universe.

Territory: World excluding UK Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/British/Audio/Film: Frances Goldin Literary Agency; [email protected]

24 Cohen, Robert Fiction AMATEUR BARBARIANS: A Novel SAM July 2009; Hardcover

Amateur Barbarians is an exuberant comedy of midlife panic, of the longing for some wider world and more purposeful fate than the one that we know awaits us all. The novel charts the twinned, often wayward trajectories of two men on either side of their forties: Teddy, a blustery but gentle bear of a man unmoored by his brother’s death and a health scare of his own, finds himself unemployed, on the wrong side of the law, and withdrawing from his family in his fumbling attempt to discover an experience greater and more substantial—or at least different—than what he has known. Meanwhile Oren, heretofore perpetually (and gladly) unmoored, finds himself strangely content to settle into a humble routine and profession that belie his formerly grand expectations for himself. Ultimately, the paths of the two men overlap as Teddy’s searching takes him on a rash trip to Africa and unwittingly leaves Oren to assume the trappings of the life he has left behind, including Teddy’s wife Gail. With an expert hand, Cohen traces the melancholy searching of two men at the meridian of life and the damage they both receive and inflict on their respective journeys. An uncannily precise and deeply entertaining look at the terror of an unlived life and the tempting prospect of an alternate existence, this book is a brash and witty exploration of the human condition. Robert Cohen is author of The Organ Builder, The Here and Now, and Inspired Sleep.

Territory: World English British/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Translation/Audio/Film: Denise Shannon Agency; [email protected]

Diamant, Anita Fiction THE DREAM: A Novel NG September 2009; Hardcover

The Dream is based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than 200 prisoners from the Atlit internment camp, a prison for illegal immigrants run by the British military in mandatory Palestine. The story is told through the eyes of four young women at the camp: Shayndel, a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans; Leonie, a Parisian beauty forced into prostitution; Tedi, a Dutch Jew sent into hiding who wants only to forget; and Sorah, a survivor of Auschwitz. Along with a cast of unique supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit, these women, haunted by unspeakable memories and innumerable losses, find salvation in their bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of recreating themselves in a strange new country. A tale of hardship, resilience, and community rendered in stunning detail, The Dream couples the history of World War II, the Holocaust, and the founding of the state of Israel with Diamant’s singular gift for unforgettable characters and storytelling in a riveting, historical novel that is ultimately about the redemptive power of female friendship, healing, and love. Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of The Red Tent, Good Harbor, and The Last Days of Dogtown.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: ICM/Amanda Urban; [email protected]

25 Freeman, John Nonfiction DON’T SEND: The Unbearable Tyranny of Email CR May 2009; Hardcover

The average corporate worker now sends and receives over 130 emails per day; by 2009, that number is expected to reach 200. A recent survey showed that more than 40 percent of us check our work email while on vacation. Worldwide in 2006, 50 billion emails were sent every day. The effects of this deluge are both profound and, as John Freeman argues in a never-before-undertaken analysis, often detrimental. Drawing on a variety of sources from linguistics, anthropology, and behavioral science, he describes in precise and eloquent prose the military origins of email, its effects on our patterns of communication and thought, and its increasingly pervasive dominance in commerce, politics, and personal relationships. Freeman has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal.

Territory: World English British/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Translation/Film: The Gernert Company/Sarah Burnes; [email protected]

Greene, Ross W. Nonfiction LOST AT SCHOOL: Why Our Kids With Behavioral Challenges SAM are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them October 2008; Hardcover

Lost At School provides a contemporary, sophisticated, enlightened understanding of challenging kids and describes a groundbreaking, desperately needed, practical model called Collaborative Problem Solving, for helping them and their teachers and parents. The book sets forth two simple but revolutionary notions. First, challenging kids have a form of learning disability. In other words, it is lagging developmental skills that set the stage for their challenging behavior. And second, when adults apply the same compassion as they do with other recognized learning disabilities, kids overcome their challenges, teachers’ frustration diminishes, and parents stop wondering if their kids are going to graduate. These notions stand in stark contrast to the traditional view of challenging behavior that is so prevalent in schools: that such behavior is intentional, purposeful, goal-oriented, attention-seeking, and limit-testing. Suspension, detention, expulsion, and corporal punishment make a great deal of sense from this old-school point of view. But these practices make no sense whatsoever given what we now know—based on research in the neurosciences over the past 30 years—about how challenging kids come to be challenging. Dr. Ross Greene is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The Explosive Child.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: Wendy Lipkind Agency; [email protected] Danish: Pressto

26 Hermann, Nellie Fiction THE CURE FOR GRIEF: A Novel SAM August 2009; Trade Paperback Reprint

A luminous debut novel, The Cure for Grief is an unparalleled account of coming-of-age in the vortex of family tragedy. It centers on Ruby Bronstein, who from an early age is aware of the fragility and mystery of life, frequently admonished by her father—a Holocaust survivor who carries flies and spiders outside the house rather than kill them—to choose life, for “life is the highest good.” When a series of tragedies rocks the Bronstein family and Ruby’s life becomes defined more by loss than by possibility, Ruby reels from grief and, desperate for a normal adolescence, withdraws at home while also concealing the extent of the tragedies and her own suffering from her friends. She goes to summer camp, attends school functions, and falls in love, becoming, in effect, one Ruby at home and one Ruby elsewhere. But every experience is shadowed by what she has witnessed, and despite her profound longing to connect to both her present and her past, she remains caught until she discovers how to reconcile the distance between herself and the people she loves. A moving, intimate book written in clear-eyed prose, The Cure for Grief announces a brilliant new writer with a keen insight into the emotional life of the family, the power of sibling love, the excruciating effects of loss, and ultimately, the enduring potential for resilience. Nellie Hermann is a graduate of Brown University and the MFA program at Columbia University.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency; [email protected]

Hogan, Chuck Fiction SUGAR BANDITS: A Novel CH June 2009; Hardcover

In Sugar Bandits, the next gripping page-turner from acclaimed suspense novelist Chuck Hogan, a native son of Boston returns home from the war in Iraq and becomes embroiled in a struggle against sophisticated drug dealers for enormous amounts of cash. Hogan is the Hammett Award-winning author of The Killing Moon, Prince of Thieves, and The Standoff, among other titles.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: ICM/Heather Shroder; [email protected]

27 Horowitz, Alexandra Nonfiction INSIDE OF A DOG: What Dogs Think and Know CH September 2009; Hardcover

Alexandra Horowitz is a cognitive scientist who does research in the field of dog cognition; she is also an unabashed dog person. Inside of a Dog is the synthesis of these two perspectives. As a dog owner, Horowitz is naturally curious about what her dog thinks about. As a cognitive scientist researching animal cognition she is intent on understanding the minds of animals who cannot say what they know. The book introduces the reader to the science of the dog—of their perceptual and cognitive abilities— and uses that introduction to draw a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. During most of her study of dog cognition Horowitz lived with her own dog, who was a constant source of delight and mystery, filling Horowitz’s mind with questions and ideas. Her own scientific journey, and the insights she uncovered, allowed her to understand her dog better. Readers will be able to do the same. Horowitz is a term assistant professor of psychology at Barnard College of Columbia University and a former staffer at The New Yorker.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: ICM/Kris Dahl; [email protected] British: S&S UK Dutch: Balans Italian: Mondadori Portuguese (B): Best Seller Spanish: RBA Libros

Hyman, Mark Nonfiction THE ULTRAMIND SOLUTION: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First BW December 2008; Hardcover

The UltraMind Solution speaks directly to the massive generation of boomers who, for the first time, are encountering diminishing memory and focus, among other effects of life on earth and the human brain. This latest installment in the “Ultra” series teaches readers how to use their bodies to heal themselves, making lifestyle changes that will improve memory, mood, and attention span as well as battling everything from brain fatigue to depression. The UltraMind Solution includes the 7 Keys to Brain Health and a simple 6 week program that will cleanse, heal and strengthen the brain. Each section has a quiz for the reader to access the affects of each particular key on their brain function, provides a list of diagnostic tests for clinical treatments, and shows a how to implement healing solutions from changes in nutrition to supplements, hormones, detoxification, and fighting brain “allergies.” Hyman is the bestselling author of Ultraprevention and Ultrametabolism.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Inkwell Management/Richard Pine; [email protected] Chinese (cc): Big Forest Hebrew: Focus

28 Lee, Ma-Ling Nonfiction THE EDUCATION OF A VERY YOUNG MADAM BW January 2009; Hardcover

Part Happy Hooker, part The New New Thing, our very young madam takes us inside the oldest profession in the world, now being plied with the latest technology to create a huge market among middle-class men. She’ll tell us the secrets of how a successful prostitute and, more importantly, a madam, who without ever laying eyes on her clients, makes $20,000 a day. Our author is from Korea and raised in the US, who, having discovered she had a knack for marketing and managing a business at 17, started a brothel. When the police finally shut it down, she bought her first internet mailing list, set up an off-shore server, and reached a huge clientele. In The Education of a Very Young Madam our madam explains how she uses the latest technology to make unbelievable sums of money in a business that demands discretion, quick-thinking, and intuition.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: John Boswell Management/Christa Bourg; phone 917.991.2373; fax 866.799.5356 British: S&S UK Czech: KMa Russian: Family Leisure

Martin, Steve Nonfiction BORN STANDING UP: A Comic’s Life NG September 2008; Trade Paperback Reprint

National bestseller! By 1978 Steve Martin was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is the story of why he did stand-up and why he walked away. Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, Martin has always been a writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, amusing, and beautifully written. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times—the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: ICM/Esther Newberg; [email protected] British: S&S UK Italian: Excelsior 1881 Portuguese (B): Matrix

29 Mastras, George Fiction FIDALI’S WAY: A Novel CH January 2009; Hardcover

Disillusioned with American life, Nick Sunder has spent the past several months backpacking through the Middle East and Southeast Asia, most recently in the company of a beautiful French woman he met in India. When the woman is found brutally murdered in the tribal lands of Pakistan, Nick is soon arrested and tortured by the Pakistani police. Amazingly he escapes their custody and heads off through the steep mountains of Kashmir, the highest warzone on earth. With the help of an eccentric Kashmiri smuggler-philosopher and Fidali, their mysterious companion, Nick reaches the idyllic mountain village of Gilkamosh. When Gilkamosh itself is struck by a horrific act of terrorism, Nick’s search for meaning becomes more complicated as competing forces threaten to tear the village apart. George Mastras is a television writer who has worked on the staffs of The Evidence, The Dresden Files, and Breaking Bad.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: ICM/Sloan Harris; [email protected] Dutch: De Fontein

Meyer, Michael Nonfiction THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: The Untold Story Behind the CR Fall of the Berlin Wall September 2009; Hardcover

1989 was of a year of magnificent and unfathomable upheaval. Revolutions ignited across Eastern Europe, setting the stage for the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most epochal day of that epochal year was November 9: the day the Berlin Wall fell. The Year That Changed the World tells definitively and from the ground up the story behind the Wall’s collapse. The borders of East Germany opened in the dramatic way that they did because of a freak accident, a small and utterly human blunder, and the fall of the Wall owes more to happenstance and individual acts of courage by a few than by culminating historic forces. Michael Meyer chronicles the stories of these obscure moments and individuals, those few who masterminded wide-ranging political, humanitarian, and economic reforms that changed the course of history. The book includes interviews with a range of key players, among them Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, George H.W. Bush, Miklos Nemeth, Imre Poszgay, Emil Constantinescu, Horst Teltschik, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Elie Wiesel, Henry Kissinger, and Nicolae Ceausescu. Meyer is Director of Communications for the United Nations Secretary-General. Between 1988 and 1992, he was Newsweek’s Bureau Chief for Germany, Central Europe, and the Balkans, writing more than twenty cover stories on the break-up of communist Europe and German unification.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/James Levine; [email protected] British: S&S UK Portuguese (B): Jorge Zahar Italian: Il Saggiatore Spanish: Norma Norwegian: Versal

30 Mort, Terry Nonfiction THE PATROLS OF PILAR CH August 2009; Hardcover

In 1942 and 1943 Ernest Hemingway patrolled the waters off Cuba’s north shore in his fishing boat, Pilar, looking for German submarines. These patrols were managed by the US Navy and were a small but useful part of anti-submarine warfare at a time when U-boat attacks against merchant shipping in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean were taking horrific tolls. While almost no attention has been paid to these patrols, they were a useful military contribution as well as a central event to Hemingway around which important historical, literary and biographical themes revolve. His desire to volunteer grew out of his experience in the Spanish Civil War, and his interest in espionage and intelligence work was sharpened in Spain and found new expression in Cuba. Hemingway viewed the patrols as both a job and a metaphor; they became a foundation for his future works The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream. The patrols gave him the opportunity to be the hero of his own life and to exercise his taste for command, bravado, tall tales, and camaraderie. The Patrols of Pilar is a fascinating exploration into why Hemingway went to sea in this moment of his life. Terry Mort is a decorated Navy veteran, a writer for Field & Stream, and the author of studies of fly fishing, Mark Twain’s travel writing, Jack London’s adventure stories, and Zane Grey’s essays on angling.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Fox Chase Agency/A.L. Hart; phone 610.341.9840; fax 610.341.9842

Neme, Laurel A., with a foreword by Richard Leakey Nonfiction ANIMAL INVESTIGATORS: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab SAM is Catching Poachers, Solving Crimes, and Saving Endangered Species April 2009; Hardcover

Animal Investigators, a “CSI for wildlife,” brings readers inside the first and only forensic lab in the world dedicated to animals in the wild. Like other crime labs, it links a suspect to a crime. Yet it handles more than 30,000 species of victims, which makes the work of a regular police lab, with a mere one species to worry about, seem like a vacation spot. The wildlife forensic scientists have no set procedural guidebook to follow, especially since victims often arrive as unidentifiable parts like an ivory statuette or vial of medicinal powder, and with an average of 700 cases a year, the lab’s scientists are forging a new field of science as they go. Environmental journalist Laurel Neme takes readers behind the scenes of investigations as the lab’s experts are called in to help with illegal trade in Amazon Indian feather art, trade in black bear gallbladders used in traditional Chinese medicine, and Alaskan walrus slaughtered for their ivory, among other cases. Neme writes for Earth Negotiations Bulletin, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense, and Rainforest Action Network.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: Folio Literary/Jeff Kleinman; phone 212.400.1494; fax 212.967.0977

31 Olsher, Dean Nonfiction FROM SQUARE ONE: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords BR June 2009; Hardcover

From Square One is longtime crossword solver Dean Olsher’s wide-ranging survey of crossword culture and history. It is about the psychology—even the metaphysics—of crosswords: their offering of a universe without chaos and uncertainty, providing the solver the promise of reason and design. Full of original reporting, the book tackles the overblown claim that solving crosswords prevents Alzheimer’s. That would be great, but Olsher discovers that it is, in fact, more likely that the drive to solve crosswords is a mental illness. People speak of puzzle obsession, using the term as a lighthearted metaphor, but there is reason to believe that actual addiction is in play. Olsher tries to determine if crosswords are a minor art form, a potentially harmful vehicle for self-anesthesia, or both. The common thread that ties the various episodes together: Olsher takes readers inside the making of a puzzle by one of his favorite professional puzzle writers, Francis Heaney. The puzzle is created right before the reader, in stages, throughout the book. Dean Olsher is a radio broadcaster and creator and host of the NPR program The Next Big Thing. He also contributes regularly to All Things Considered.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: David Black Literary Agency/Gary Morris; [email protected]

Parkhurst, Brooke Fiction BELLE IN THE BIG APPLE: A Novel with Recipes BW September 2008; Hardcover

Belle in the Big Apple is part of a long tradition of hugely entertaining, funny, poignant novels of young people who move to the big city in search of career opportunities, money, fame, love, and of course, themselves. Like the heroine of The Devil Wears Prada, Belle Lee enters the vicious world of New York media, not Vogue but rather the most morally corrupt television news network imaginable, and finds that life in the white hot center is not all it’s cracked up to be. Hired by Richard Aimes of the American News Channel, a 24-hour a day “fluffing” of the conservative agenda, Belle is left under the watchful eye of producer Cheryl Burke, a “bony woman with a tiny ass in shoulder pads,” and the fun truly begins. After a year at the network, Belle decides to treat herself on her birthday by quitting and making a living doing what she truly loves: writing, cooking, and writing about cooking. On a short trip home, she meets a man on her parents’ front porch, a chef, who soon makes his way to New York. Parkhurst writes the “Belle in the Big Apple” blog and contributes to Condé Nast’s Elasticwaist.com.

Territory: World British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Audio/Film: Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents/Bill Contardi; phone 212.840.5760; fax 212.840.5776

32 Rabin, Nathan Nonfiction THE BIG REWIND: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture BR July 2009; Hardcover

The Big Rewind is longtime Onion A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin’s hilarious tale of triumph over adversity. Through the sturdy prism of pop culture, this painfully funny memoir chronicles an amusingly traumatic childhood that sent the author ricocheting from a mental hospital to a foster family and then to a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, where he lived for five years. Each of the memoir’s 22 chapters uses a song, book, TV show, or movie as a springboard to discuss a period in the author’s life. Unwitting accomplices in Rabin’s surreal journey include Jean-Luc Godard, Dr. Dre, J.D. Salinger, and The Simpsons. This is a fun book about depression and perhaps the most entertaining one ever written about parental abandonment, suicide attempts, mental hospitals, group homes, abortion, and sexual humiliation. It’s also the heartfelt, emotional tale of a motherless child’s search for family and acceptance and a black-comic valentine to the author’s irascible, lovable, hard- luck dad. Nathan Rabin is Head Writer of The A.V. Club and co-writer of A.V. Club collections Tenacity of the Cockroach and the forthcoming Inventory.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency/Dan Greenberg; [email protected]

Ruhlman, Michael Nonfiction RATIO: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking BW April 2009; Hardcover

As the world fills up with ever more complicated recipes with never-ending ingredient lists, Michael Ruhlman blasts through the noise and takes us back to what is real: simple ratios that are the very “truth” of cooking. Pie dough is 3-2-1, or three parts flour to two parts lard to one part water. Cookies are 1-2-3, or one part sugar, two parts fat, and three parts flour. Distilling dishes to their essence—a few basic techniques and even fewer ingredients—is what every cook needs to know, professional or amateur, to create the cornerstone dishes of Western cooking, all without a recipe. Ruhlman is the author of The French Laundry Cookbook, The Making of a Chef, and The Elements of Cooking.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency; [email protected]

33 Siebert, Charles Nonfiction HUMANZEE CH June 2009; Hardcover

This singular book focuses not on chimpanzees in the wild or those that are the subjects of research but another population entirely: the discarded, retired, forgotten, abused, and abandoned chimps that live in a netherworld of human making, acculturated to humans, abstracted from their origins, and whose existence provokes difficult and significant questions about man’s relation to animals, as well as philosophical questions about how we treat our own elderly. Charles Siebert tells of his travels in Africa, where he encountered some of the last remaining chimps in the wild, and his travels elsewhere through the dark heart of captive chimpdom. He met them everywhere in the course of his safari: chimps in research labs and roadside zoos; chimps dressed in party caps for children’s birthdays; chimps injected with HIV and hepatitis for drug tests; chimps strapped to high-speed centrifuges and crash sleds for space flight and seat-belt tests; chimps in breeding compounds for making more chimps; chimps in private retirement homes for former ape actors. In the end, Siebert’s communion with one chimp in particular leads to a number of moving revelations about the fraught moment that we humans have arrived at in our relationship with our animals, suggestive of a new and positive way for human beings to see our fellow creatures, and to see ourselves in relation to them. Charles Siebert is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of two memoirs and a novel.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman Literary Agency/Chuck Verrill; [email protected]

Stanton, Doug Nonfiction HORSE SOLDIERS: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers CH Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan May 2009; Hardcover

From the bestselling author of In Harm’s Way comes another intrepid true-life tale of men at war overcoming great odds to survive. Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Outnumbered 40 to 1, they capture the strategic city of Mazar-e Sharif and rest easy—until the action takes a wholly unexpected turn. During a surrender of Taliban troops, the Horse Soldiers are ambushed and, still dangerously outnumbered, they must fight for their lives in the city’s ancient fortress. As the Horse Soldiers struggle to retrieve the body of a slain CIA officer and rescue their comrades-in-arms, they face what military planners will call the most intense urban combat of the time. One of the book’s protagonists received the Distinguished Service Cross for his efforts, the first soldier awarded this in 30 years. In the aftermath of the battle, John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” emerges from the rubble unscathed. The unlikely discovery of Lindh and the death of the CIA officer, the first American to be killed in post-9/11 conflict, shocks the world and garners massive global media attention. Doug Stanton writes for Esquire, Men’s Journal, and Outside.

Territory: World British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner 1st Serial/Film: ICM/Sloan Harris; [email protected]

34 Tequila, Tila Nonfiction HOOKING UP WITH TILA TEQUILA: A Guide to Love, Fame, Happiness, Success, BR and Being the Life of the Party December 2008; Hardcover

Thanks to MySpace and MTV’s A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Tila has risen from web celebrity to cultural icon. Time magazine called her “the Madonna of MySpace” not just because she shares the older singer’s penchant for going through different looks like new sets of lingerie, but because Tila’s taboo-bending lack of inhibition makes her a trailblazer for her times. Yet Tila Tequila (née Nguyen), the four-foot-eleven child of Vietnamese immigrants, remains something of a mystery. Hooking Up with Tila Tequila provides an exclusive look beyond the virtual pin-up to the real-life Tila. In her own candid words, she tackles the subjects that most interest her dedicated followers, from making it big to getting what you want in bed, with stops along the way to explore her taste in music, fashion, and the fine art of pole dancing. She also includes real questions from fans and dishes out her unique brand of truth, “Tequila-style.” Each chapter includes extensive, never-before-seen photographs from Tila’s private collection. Tila offers the secrets of how to hook up like Tila, or with someone like Tila—or, if you’re spectacularly lucky, maybe even with Tila herself!

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Electronic Version: Scribner Audio/Film: Vigliano Associates/David Vigliano; [email protected]

Welch, Suzy Nonfiction 10-10-10: Transform Your Life With Clear, Consistent, Guilt-Free Choices NG/SAM March 2009; Hardcover

Today the world offers us more options than in any previous era, but it also pushes us to have more priorities, to make more choices, and to make them faster. The result: a crisis of doing too much, or not enough, and making our decisions based on impulse, stress, or guilt. Suzy Welch draws on her own experiences to show how patterns of decision-making lead to an existence of accommodation and often frustration or sadness. Welch offers an exciting, effective strategy that can change this course, using compelling real-life examples and tools to demonstrate how to clarify and confront your deepest personal goals, values, fears, and dreams to live life deliberately rather than reactively. The rule is deceptively simple, but the results are extraordinary: When faced with a decision, determine the consequences of your various options after 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years. Using the framework of 10-10-10 allows you to sort out your decisions and match them with the expectations and values you hold dearest. Most importantly, it allows you to chart a new path with focus, balance, and joy. Suzy Welch, former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, is a columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine. She is coauthor, with her husband Jack, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Winning and of “The Welch Way,” published in BusinessWeek and internationally by the New York Times Syndicate.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Williams & Connolly/Robert Barnett; [email protected] British: S&S UK Italian: De Agostini Catalan: ARA Llibres Japanese: Kodansha Chinese (cc): Commonwealth Korean: Bookhouse/Munhakdongne Dutch: Kosmos Portuguese (B): Prestigio/Ediouro German: Arkana/Goldmann Portuguese (P): Pergaminho Hebrew: Matar Russian: Eksmo

35 Yglesias, Rafael Fiction A HAPPY MARRIAGE: A Novel NG July 2009; Hardcover

A Happy Marriage is the story of the 27-year union of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret. Told from the husband’s point of view, with touching and sometimes brutal candor, the narrative alternates between the first three weeks of their acquaintance—a comic and romantic misadventure—and the bittersweet final weeks of Margaret’s life as she says goodbye to her family, friends, and children. The narrative is punctuated throughout by intense recollections of moments of crisis and joy. Written with an intense devotion to character and emotional suspense, A Happy Marriage, neither sentimental nor cynical, portrays just that: a partnership which, despite obstacles and unwanted separation, brings maturity and great pleasure to the lives of two people. The book brings into sharp relief the ebb and flow of marriage, illuminating and complicating our notion of one of life’s most exalted institutions. Marriage, as Yglesias’ novel shows, is not a lifelong act of selflessness and romance, but a varied, complicated union of family, values, sexuality, ambition, and loyalty. This is a stunningly candid and moving love story by an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter whose return to fiction after a long hiatus will be heralded by critics and readers alike. Rafael Yglesias is author of Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil, as well as several other novels and screenplays.

Territory: World 1st Serial/British/Translation/Audio/Electronic Version: Scribner Film: Janklow & Nesbit Associates/Lynn Nesbit; [email protected]

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