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henry holt metropolitan books HENRY HOLT AND CO. AUGUST 2015 The Beautiful Bureaucrat A Novel Helen Phillips A young wife's new job pits her against the universe in this inventive and compulsively pageturning first novel from "one of the most exciting young writers working today" (Jenny Offill) In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as The Database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings—the office's scarred pinkish walls take on a living quality, the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls. When one evening her husband FICTION / LITERARY Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, Henry Holt and Co. | 8/11/2015 9781627793766 | $25.00 / $28.99 Can. her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread. Hardcover | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H As other strange events build to a crescendo, the haunting truth about Josephine's 2 illustrations work begins to take shape in her mind, even as something powerful is gathering Subrights: its own form within her. She realizes that in order to save those she holds most First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, Electronic, Reprint, British, Translation dear, she must penetrate an institution whose tentacles seem to extend to every corner of the city and beyond. Both chilling and poignant, The Beautiful Other Available Formats: Bureaucrat is a novel of rare restraint and imagination. With it, Helen Phillips Ebook ISBN: 9781627793773 enters the company of Murakami, Bender, and Atwood as she twists the world MARKETING we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder—luminous and National Review and Feature Attention new. National Media Attention Online Promotions and Features Advance Reader's Edition PRAISE One of the most exciting young writers working today, and I envy those who get to discover her work here."—Jenny Offill "A satisfying parable of love and life, death and birth, and the travails of transposed numbers." —Joshua Ferris "The compulsive quality of a mystery and the furious urgency of a fever dream…full of heart and strangeness."—Leslie Jamison "A funny, subversive, enigmatic, melancholy wonder…one of my favorite recent novels, equal parts Franz Kafka and Lydia Davis."—Kevin Brockmeier Helen Phillips is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and the Italo Calvino Prize, among others. Her collection, And Yet They Were Happy, was also a finalist for the McLaughlinEsstmanStearns Prize, and her work has been featured on NPR's Selected Shorts and appeared in Tin House, Electric Literature, Slice, BOMB, Mississippi Review, and PEN America. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and children. 2 HENRY HOLT AND CO. SEPTEMBER 2015 Untitled O'Reilly 2 Bill O'Reilly HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 20TH CENTURY Henry Holt and Co. | 9/22/2015 9781627792417 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. Hardcover | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 6.1 in W | 9.3 in L Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427262295 Ebook ISBN: 9781627792424 3 HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2015 Petty The Biography Warren Zanes An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty BIOGRAPHY & was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll AUTOBIOGRAPHY / made it otherwise. From meeting Elvis, to seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, to ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS / GENERAL producing Del Shannon, backing Bob Dylan, putting together a band with George Henry Holt and Co. | 10/20/2015 Harrison, Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne, making records with Johnny Cash, 9780805099683 | $30.00 / $34.50 Can. and sending well more than a dozen of his own celebrated recordings high onto Hardcover | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H the charts, Tom Petty's story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Now in his 1520 photos in 1 16pg. color insert midsixties, still making records and still touring, Petty, known for his reclusive style, has shared with Warren Zanes his insights and arguments, his regrets and Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9780805099690 lasting ambitions, and the details of his life on and off the stage. MARKETING This is a book for those who know and love the songs, from "American Girl" and National Review and Feature Attention "Refugee" to "Free Fallin'" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance," and for those who National Media Attention National Advertising Campaign want to see the classic rock and roll era embodied in one man's remarkable story. Online Promotions and Features Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us Advance Reader's Edition what the music can do and where it can take us. Zanes holds a PhD in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester. He was a member of the bands Del Fuegos and the Dust Brothers, and continues to record music. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, and he has served as a V.P. at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and is currently the Executive Director of Little Steve Van Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation. 4 HENRY HOLT AND CO. OCTOBER 2015 Thirsty Dragon China’s Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines Suzanne Mustacich An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux's attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common—old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. INTERNATIONAL / GENERAL Henry Holt and Co. | 10/27/2015 9781627790871 | $28.00 / $32.50 Can. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money Hardcover | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how 6.1 in W | 9.3 in H the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the Subrights: delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, First Serial, Second Serial, Audio, Book Club, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and littleknown actors who are Electronic, Reprint transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are Other Available Formats: finding new markets—and ever higher prices—in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Ebook ISBN: 9781627790888 Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. MARKETING National Review and Feature Attention At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and National Media Attention ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behindthescenes look at the challenges Online Promotions and Features facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines. Advance Reader's Edition Suzanne Mustacich is a contributing editor at Wine Spectator. She was previously a Bordeaux correspondent for Agence France Presse, a columnist for the Chinese magazine Wine Life, a contributor to Wine Business International, and a television producer for NBC News and several production companies. She holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an enology diploma from the University of Bordeaux. She lives in Bordeaux with her family. 5 HENRY HOLT AND CO. NOVEMBER 2015 It Ended Badly Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History Jennifer Wright A humorous, wellresearched pop history of the disastrous love lives of prominent historical figures, from Lord Byron to Elizabeth Taylor If you are lying in bed right now, a pint of ice cream in one hand, a bottle of scotch in the other, and this book clenched between your teeth (one tooth is missing from last night's bar fight), with tears streaming down your face over how much you loved, loved, loved your ex, let me commend you on how well you are coping. You could be doing so much worse. So much worse. You could be HISTORY / ESSAYS Henry Holt and Co. | 11/3/2015 beheading your ex, or castrating strangers, or starting an exciting new life with a 9781627792868 | $21.00 / $23.99 Can. sex doll. YOU ARE A HERO. Hardcover | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.5 in W | 8.3 in H 40 b&w images throughout In It Ended Badly, New York Observer columnist Jennifer Wright guides you through thirteen of the worst breakups of notable figures in history—from Subrights: First Serial, Second Serial, Book Club, Emperor Nero (sadist, murderer several times over), to Viennese artist Oskar Electronic, Reprint, British, Audio Kokoschka (he of the aforementioned sex doll), to Norman Mailer (public stabbing).