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“This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the window of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto of the anticolonial revolution.”—Time

60th Anniversary Edition Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox With a Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha and a Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre

MARKETING With a new essay irst published in 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a mas- Fans of Fanon’s work include Ta-Nehisi terful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological Coates, Claudia Rankine, Cornel West, Viet Ftrauma, and revolutionary struggle. In 2020, it found a new readership Thanh Nguyen, Desmond Cole, John Edgar in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and the centering of narratives Wideman, Mitchell Jackson, among others interrogating race by Black writers. Bearing singular insight into the rage and Tie-in to 60th anniversary of the publication of frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in spurring historical Wretched of the Earth and of Frantz change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colo- Fanon’s death nial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touch- stone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Translated by Richard Philcox, and featuring now-classic critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha, as well as a new essay, this sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most Also available: A Dying Colonialism famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti- Black Skin, White Masks (978-0-8021-5027-1 • USC • $16) (978-0-8021-4300-6 • Toward the African Revolution racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. USCO • $16) (978-0-8021-3090-7 • USC • $17) “The writing of Malcolm X or Eldridge Cleaver or Amiri Baraka or the FRANTZ FANON was born in Martinique in Black Panther leaders reveals how profoundly they have been 1925. He served in the French Army during World War II, and later studied medicine and psychiatry in moved by the thoughts of Frantz Fanon.” —BOSTON GLOBE France, where he published his first book, Black Skin, White Masks in 1952. He joined the Algerian “This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.” Nationalist Movement in the mid-1950s, and —ANGELA DAVIS published The Wretched of the Earth shortly before dying of leukemia in December 1961.

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A 115-year-old man lies on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler

Late City A Novel Robert Olen Butler

MARKETING visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaper- This is Robert Olen Butler’s frst literary novel man Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of since Perfume River, which garnered praise the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the from the New York Times Book Review, A dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam’s life, from his child- New Yorker, Miami Herald, Washington hood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World Post, and Richard Ford, among others War I to a newspaper career in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties and the Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain decades that follow, moments of history are brought sharply into focus. won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fction and Sam grows up in Louisiana with a harsh father, and escapes by enlisting in has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide the army as a sniper. The hardness his father instilled in him helps him make it E-galleys available on NetGalley and out of World War I alive, but we come to realize that it also prevents him from Edelweiss contending with the emotional wounds of war. Back in the U.S., Sam moves virtual author tour to Chicago and begins a career as a newspaperman, meets his wife, and has a major review coverage son, whose fate counters Sam’s at almost every turn. promotion at regional trade shows As he contemplates his relationships—with his parents, his brothers in library marketing including ALA arms, his wife, his editor, and most importantly, his son—Sam is amazed at backlist eBook promotions what he still has left to learn about himself after all these years in this heart- ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is rending novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner. the Pulitzer Prize–winning author “Butler’s prose is fluid, and his handling of his many time-shifts as lucid as it is of twenty-four previous novels and urgent. His descriptive gifts don’t extend just to his characters’ traits or their Flor- short story collections, including A ida and New Orleans settings, but to the history he’s addressing.” Good Scent from a Strange —New York Times Book Review, on Perfume River Mountain, A Small Hotel, and Perfume River. He is also the author “No synopsis can convey the deceptive richness of Butler’s storytelling. The writing of a book on the creative process, From Where You style, precise and beautiful, discloses more than the simple surface action of any © COURTESYDream OF WFSU PUBLIC MEDIA . He has won four National Magazine Awards one passage . . . Perfume River tells a human story that sums up in an entire era in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald of American life.” —Miami Herald, on Perfume River Award for Outstanding Achievement in American

Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

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From British journalist and bestselling author Tom Bradby, a brilliantly plotted sequel to Double Agent which draws former MI6 agent Kate Henderson back into her quest to unmask a Russian agent in the British government

Triple Cross A Sequel to Internationally Bestselling Double Agent Tom Bradby

MARKETING ate Henderson is on vacation with her children in France, visiting her Tom Bradby is a British novelist, screenwriter estranged husband and attempting to rebuild her shattered life, when and journalist, his previous novels have all she receives an unexpected and most unwelcome visit from an old been bestsellers in the UK K adversary: the UK Prime Minister. He has an extraordinary story to tell—and E-galleys available on NetGalley and Edelweiss he needs her help. targeted outreach to mystery/thriller press A Russian agent has come forward with news that the PM has been the library marketing including ALA victim of the greatest misinformation play in the history of MI6. It’s run out social media campaign via Facebook, Twitter, of a special KGB unit that exists for one purpose alone: to process the intelli- and Instagram gence from “Agent Dante,” a mole right at the heart of MI6 in London. mystery and thriller advertising campaign Kate is hesitant to get re-involved in the case that so jeopardized her men- including Crimespree, Mystery Scene, tal health and her family, but against her better judgement, she is forced back CrimeReads, and the Strand into the fray in a top-secret, deeply flawed, and dangerous investigation. But backlist eBook promotions now she’s damaged goods. Her onetime allies no longer trust her. And neither also available as a Recorded Books do her enemies. As she works through the case, Kate realizes that while she is audiobook investigating MI6 for moles, they’re investigating her. And, as she predicted, TOM BRADBY is a British this return to intelligence work wreaks havoc on the personal life she is so try- novelist, screenwriter, and ing to restore. Another masterpiece of spy-craft from the internationally journalist. As a broadcaster, he is bestselling author of Double Agent. best known as the current anchor “Bradby’s portrayal of squabbling Whitehall folk continues to be intriguing and of the UK network ITV’s News at distinctive (and piquantly naughty, coming as it does from ITV’s chief anchor- Ten. He has written seven

© TONY WARD man).” —Sunday Times (UK), on Double Agent previous novels. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ “Ops go sideways, betrayals abound, and good people die. Bradby keeps the Association Steel Dagger for thriller of the year, and reader guessing to the last. Fans of cerebral spycraft in the vein of le Carré will both The White Russian and The God of Chaos were enjoy this outing.” —Publishers Weekly, on Secret Service shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger for crime novel of the year. He lives in London.

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“Bradby masterfully combines textured psychological PRAISE FOR TOM BRADBY drama with a rip-roaring plot that boasts several “An enjoyably labyrinthine tale with a light touch dizzying switchbacks along the way to a genuinely and the odd naughty satirical echo.” shocking conclusion.”—Booklist (starred review) —Sunday Express (UK), on Double Agent “Bradby’s fans will welcome his heroine's return.” —Kirkus Reviews, on Double Agent “A gripping thriller.” —Sunday Times (UK), on Secret Service Double Agent “Tere are resonant echoes of le Carré here—in the A Sequel to Internationally way the betrayals reach from marriage beds to the Bestselling Secret Service seats of governments—but there is also a distinctly contemporary feeling in the idea that truth, even when Tom Bradby it’s discoverable, may no longer matter.” idnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate —Booklist (starred review), on Secret Service knows she’s in trouble. But when he offers her con- “Cracking, uber-topical spy thriller . . . Bradby defly Kclusive evidence that the British Prime Minister is a works in current fears of Moscow infltrating our live agent working for Moscow, Kate’s holiday quickly institutions amid a plot full of twists and turns.” becomes the start of her next mission. —Financial Times, on Secret Service The defector has proof of the PM involved in a sordid “Enthralling and fast-moving . . . packed with scandal and a financial paper trail that undeniably links details of modern tradecraf in the twilight world of him to the Russians, but his motives are anything but clear. spooks, against a background of politics at its most Riddled with doubt that the evidence she is presented Machiavellian, it is the stuf headlines are made of.” with may not in fact be as bulletproof as it seems, Kate —Daily Mail (UK), on Secret Service reopens the investigation into the PM. As she works through the case, Kate runs up against key people at the “Teems with twists and the denouement is imaginative heart of the British Establishment, who refuse to acknowl- and unexpected.”—The Times (UK), on Secret Service edge the reality in front of them. This mission will push her “An excellent thriller straight out of today ’s dangerously close to the edge as she continues her relentless headlines . . . a fast, riveting yarn.” fight for the truth. —The Sun (UK), on Secret Service “In Bradby’s engrossing sequel to 2019’s Secret Service, MI6 agent Kate Henderson rides point on a career-jeopardizing investigation of Prime Minister James Ryan . . . The tantaliz- ingly ambiguous ending will leave the reader wondering Also available: what’s in store for Kate.” —Publishers Weekly Secret Service (978-0-8021-4824-7 • $16 • USOxE) “The character of Kate is just terrific. She’s honest, brave and whip smart . . . If any of you are missing the Cold War espio- nage novels of the 1970s and 1980s, this series is for you.” —Deadly Pleasures A Deadly Pleasures “Best Mysteries of 2020” selection also available as a Recorded Books audiobook

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Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid launches her first new series in nearly twenty years with 1979, a propulsive thriller in which investigative journalist Allie Burns must use her talents for something closer to home—the murder of a friend

1979 An Allie Burns Novel Val McDermid

MARKETING McDermid’s books have sold more than 16 © ALAN MCCREDIE million copies worldwide ailed as Britain’s “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid’s award-winning, This is the frst new series from McDermid internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for more since 2003, and joins her internationally than thirty years. Now, in 1979, she returns to the past with the intro- beloved series, the Karen Pirie novels and H the Tony Hill & Carol Jordan novels duction of Allie Burns, an investigative journalist whose stories lead her into world of corruption, terror, and murder. E-galleys available on NetGalley and Edelweiss The year started badly and only got worse—blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For journalist Allie Burns, however, some- targeted outreach to Mystery/Thriller press one else’s bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and library marketing including ALA the year is ripe with possibilities. But Allie is a woman in a man’s world. Des- social media campaign via Facebook, Twitter, perate to get away from the “women’s stories” the Glasgow desk keeps and Instagram assigning her, she strikes up an alliance with wannabe investigative journalist mystery and thriller advertising campaign including Crimespree, Mystery Scene, Danny Sullivan. From the start, their stories create enemies. First an interna- CrimeReads, and the Strand tional tax fraud, then a potential Scottish terrorist group aiming to cause backlist eBook promotions mayhem ahead of the impending devolution referendum. And then Danny is found murdered in his flat. For Allie, investigative journalism just got per- sonal. The first novel in McDermid’s newest series, 1979 is an atmospheric jour- ney into the past with intriguing insight into the present, and the latest addition to McDermid’s crime pantheon. ’s bestselling novels have won VAL MCDERMID “You won’t read any police procedurals set in the United Kingdom featuring a the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award, and female protagonist that are better than the ones Val McDermid writes.” the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger and —NPR, on Broken Ground Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She is also a multiple finalist for the Edgar Award, including for the Fact Crime nominee Forensics.

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“McDermid is at the top of her game and readers will PRAISE FOR VAL MCDERMID be highly rewarded for taking this new journey at her “McDermid remains unrivalled . . . brilliant.” side.”—CrimeReads —Observer (UK), on How the Dead Speak “McDermid’s books are relentlessly excellent, with sympathetically fawed characters, well-crafed storylines, a clever twist or two, and crisp dialogue. It’s Still Life no wonder she’s considered the queen of Scottish crime fction.”—BookPage, on Broken Ground A Karen Pirie Novel “Further evidence that her ‘Queen of Crime’ status will Val McDermid not be challenged.”—Scotsman, on How the Dead Speak “McDermid excels in putting the reader at the center of the action . . . When all is said and done, rough justice is achieved in Te Skeleton Road, but my bones tell me we haven’t seen the last of Inspector Pirie—or at least I hope not.” —Janet Napolitano, Los Angeles Times “Still Life shows that [McDermid] is still at the height of her powers; it is deeply enjoyable, one of her best.” “Tere are few other crime writers in the same league —The Scotsman (UK) as Val McDermid. Her stories are ingeniously plotted, n the latest installment of her propulsive series featuring moody . . . Absorbing . . . It’s Karen’s character that’s DCI Karen Pirie, Britain’s “Queen of Crime” takes us the enduring draw of this series . . . Out of Bounds into the shadowy world of forgery, where things are is another terrifc and intricate suspense novel by a I never what they seem. When a lobster fisherman discovers a writer who has given us 30 of them. As I said, there dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth, Karen is called in to are few other crime writers in the same league as Val investigate. She quickly discovers that the case will require McDermid.”—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, untangling a complicated web—including a historic disap- on Out of Bounds pearance, art forgery, and secret identities—that seems to orbit around a painting copyist who can mimic anyone from Holbein to Hockney. Meanwhile, just as the man responsible for the death of the love of her life is released from prison, a traffic crash leads to the discovery of a skele- ton in a suburban garage. Tightly plotted and intensely gripping, Still Life is Val McDermid at her best. “Vividly sketched characters, a colorful narrative, and myriad twists keep the pages turning . . . McDermid continues her reign as queen of the police procedural.”—Publishers Weekly

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The first full and authoritative biography of a towering figure in America’s—indeed the world’s—musical and cultural history

King of the Blues The Rise and Reign of B.B. King Daniel de Visé

MARKETING “He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.” The frst full and authoritative biography of —Eric Clapton B.B. King iley King, ever to be known as B.B., (1925–2015) was born into deep Includes a comprehensive guide to King’s poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper recordings, a list of all lyrics referenced in father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. the book, and lists of King’s band members R Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by by era, along with a map of Mississippi and a 16-page insert section of photographs a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka E-galleys available on NetGalley and White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with Edelweiss his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, gener- author appearances ations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric 20-city radio satellite tour Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. major review coverage King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. promotion at regional trade shows Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed inces- social media campaign via Facebook, Twitter, santly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some and Instagram real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his bookseller buzz mailings landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His newsletter cooperative advertising available career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose also available as a Dreamscape audiobook back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies Also available: took advantage of artists, especially those of color. The Comeback (978-0-8021-4718-9 • $17 • USCO) Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more— and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.” danieldevise.com $30.00 (Canada: $38.99) Rights sold: Grove Press UK 6 x 9, 496 pp. All other rights: Grosvenor Literary Agency Biography (BIO004000) (Bethesda, tel.: 301-444-4454) 978-0-8021-5805-5 Carton quantity: 12 eISBN: 978-0-8021-5807-9 Export: USCO World rights: Atlantic Monthly Press Residence: Garrett Park, Maryland

9 Excerpt B.B. King and his band played a legendary outdoor concert at Chicago’s Cook County Jail on September 10, 1970. Te concert began at 1 p.m. Fify guards with thick batons and .50 caliber semiautomatic rifes roamed the perimeter and perched atop towers. Concerts didn’t get much more real. Sens- ing tension in the air, the announcer hurried things along. And then B.B. climbed atop the old gallows, clad in an olive green plaid suit. A gunshot blast from Sonny Freeman’s snare drum announced the frst song: “Every Day I Have the Blues.” B.B. spun the volume knob to awaken Lucille, his sinuous, symmet- rical Gibson guitar. He played his frst notes, climbing up to a “blue” third, bending the string with his powerful fngers. B.B. failed his lef wrist up and down to create the shimmering

vibrato that was his trademark. B.B. felt that he and Lucille © JOHN M W KING spoke with the same voice, one picking up where the other lef DANIEL DE VISÉ is the author of the critically acclaimed Andy and of. A few bars later, it was B.B.’s turn. Ev’ry day, ev’ry day I have Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV the blues, he sang, a rich, booming baritone that formed way Show and The Comeback: Greg LeMond, The True King of American back in his clenched throat. Two minutes later the song was Cycling and a Legendary Tour de France, and coauthor of I Forgot to over and the yard erupted in applause and cheers. Te gig Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia. He shared a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his “made me sad and glad,” he recalled. “Sad that so many brothers journalism and has worked at the Washington Post and Miami Herald, were behind bars, glad that I was reaching out to my own people.” among other newspapers. He lives in Maryland.

PRAISE FOR THE LEGENDARY B.B. KING “No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama “It is grace to be able to play like B.B. King.”—Carlos Santana “B.B. King has infuenced more rock and blues musicians than anyone else in history.” —Bonnie Raitt “Te greatest thing that happened to blues guitar playing was B.B. King. He created a one- man revolution.”—Elvin Bishop “If it was not for B.B. King, there would be no Clapton, no Harrison, no Beck. Tere’d be no lead guitar, no rock 'n' roll as we know it.”—Michael Bloomfield “It’s difcult to fathom a world without B.B. King. He’s been with me literally since the dawn of my musical consciousness.”—Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top

“Every guitar player I see, I tell them, ‘Y’all should put two B’s on your guitar.”—Buddy Guy “One part of me says, ‘Yes, of course I can play.’ But the other part of me says, ‘Well, I wish I could just do it like B.B. King.”—John Lennon

10 NOVEMBER

Celebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood Rangers

Brothers in Arms One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War From D-Day to V-E Day James Holland

MARKETING n the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and Normandy ’44 has now sold some 33,000 among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry copies in all editions and was the unit in the last days of horses in combat, whose officers were landed gentry bestselling book on the 75th anniversary of I leading men who largely worked for them, they were switched to the “mecha- D-Day. Big Week has sold 24,000 copies in nized cavalry” of tanks in 1942. Winning acclaim in the North African all editions, and Sicily ’43, is up to 12,000 copies barely three months since campaign, the Sherwood Rangers then spearheaded one of the D-Day land- publication ings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, led the way across France, were the first British troops to cross into Germany, and contributed mightily to Germany’s author appearances surrender in May 1945. major review coverage Inspired by Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, acclaimed WWII histo- targeted outreach to military press rian James Holland memorably profiles an extraordinary group of citizen backlist eBook promotions soldiers constantly in harm’s way. Their casualties were horrific, but their ranks immediately refilled. Informed by never-before-seen documents, letters, photographs, and other artifacts from Sherwood Rangers’ families—an ongo- ing fraternity—and by his own deep knowledge of the war, Holland offers a One of WWII’s finest historians, uniquely intimate portrait of the war at ground level, introducing heretofore JAMES HOLLAND is the unknowns such as Commanding Officer Stanley Christopherson, squadron author of Sicily ’43, Normandy commander John Semken, and Sergeant George Dring, and other memorable ’44, Big Week, The Rise of Germany characters who helped the regiment become the single unit with the most bat- and The Allies Strike Back in the War tle honors of any ever in the British army. He weaves the Sherwood Rangers’ in the West trilogy, and Dam Busters. exploits into the larger narrative and strategy of the war, and also brings fresh © WILKY PHOTO He has written and presented the analysis to the tactics used. BAFTA shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain Following the Sherwood Rangers’ brutal journey over the dramatic eleven and Dam Busters for the BBC, and his WWII podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, now has millions of months between D-Day and V-E Day, Holland presents a vivid and original listeners. perspective on the endgame of WWII in Europe.

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12 DECEMBER

On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies

Crown & Sceptre A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II Tracy Borman © LIBI PEDDER

MARKETING ince William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Interest in the British royal family is always Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England’s various high, as witnessed by the ratings and Skingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain’s throne: viewership of Netfix’s The Crown “shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue’s gallery of Borman is an accomplished historian who weak, lazy, or evil monarchs,” as Tracy Borman evocatively describes them in takes readers behind the throne to present her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these the personalities and lived fabric of 955 years has the throne’s occupant been unambiguously English—whether monarchy Norman French, the Welsh-born Tudors, the Scottish Stuarts, and the E-galleys available on NetGalley and Hanoverians and their German successors to the present day. Edelweiss Appealing to the intrinsic fascination with British royalty, Borman lifts the major review coverage veil to reveal the remarkable characters and personalities who have ruled and, NPR and talk radio campaign since the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, more ceremonially reigned—a backlist eBook promotions crucial distinction explaining the staying power of the monarchy as the royal family has evolved and adapted to the needs and opinions of its people, avoid- ing the storms of rebellion that brought many of Europe’s royals to an abrupt end. Richard III; Henry VIII; Elizabeth I; George III; Victoria; Elizabeth II: TRACY BORMAN is England’s joint Chief their names evoke eras and the dramatic events, which Borman recounts. She Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and Chief is equally attuned to the fabric of monarchy: royal palaces; the way monarchs Executive of the Heritage Education Trust. She is the author of many highly acclaimed books, have been portrayed in art, on coins, in the media; the ceremony and pag- including Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him, eantry surrounding the crown. The Private Lives of the Tudors, Thomas Cromwell, In 2024, Elizabeth II would eclipse France’s Louis XIV as the longest Queen of the Conqueror, Elizabeth’s Women, reigning monarch in history. Crown & Sceptre is a fitting tribute to her andWitches, as well as the trilogy of novels The King’s remarkable longevity and that of the magnificent institution she represents. Witch, The Devil’s Slave, and The Fallen Angel. Borman is also a regular broadcaster and Also available: Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him The Private Lives of the Tudors (978-0-8021-4833-9 • $20 • US) (978-0-8021-4833-9 • $18 • US) accomplished public speaker.

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13 GROVE PRESS Hardcovers SEPTEMBER

“A story of rescue, identity, deracination, and connection, this novel is timely and urgent and a lot of fun.”— Rebecca Makkai

The Wrong End of the Telescope A Novel Rabih Alameddine

MARKETING rom National Book Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman and the Alameddine’s breakout novel, An Unnecessary author of four other acclaimed novels, Rabih Alameddine, comes a trans- Woman was a fnalist for the National Book porting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey Award, the National Book Critics Circle F among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Award, and the PEN Open Book Award Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee The Angel of History won the Arab American camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her Book Award and the Lambda Literary friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her Award for Gay Fiction, and was named Best beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. Book of the Year by Washington Independent Review of Books, Literary Hub, But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes and Shelf Awareness to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western vol- prepublication reading copies unteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp’s children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch E-galleys available on NetGalley and Edelweiss with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at author appearances all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya’s secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as major review coverage Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she promotion at regional trade shows confronts the circumstances of the migrants’ displacement, as well as her own library marketing including ALA constraints in helping them. prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alam- on Goodreads and Amazon Vine eddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most indieBound bookseller outreach campaign wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refu- reading group guide available online at gees into Mina’s singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling groveatlantic.com tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a backlist eBook promotions humanitarian crisis. also available as an Audible audiobook

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15 Excerpt You suggested I write this. You, the writer, couldn’t. You tried writing the refugee story. Many times, many diferent ways. You failed. And failed again. Maybe failed better. Still you couldn’t. More than two years afer you and I met in Lesbos, you were still trying. You tackled it from one direction, then another, to no avail. You were too involved, unable to disentangle yourself from the tale. You said that you couldn’t calibrate the correct distance. You weren’t able to fnd the right words even afer numerous sessions on your psychiatrist’s couch. I should write this thing, you told me. You called it a thing, OLIVER WASOW ficking your hand with a dismissive Levantine gesture. Every © idiot thinks they’re a writer; they’re not. Every dullard thinks RABIH ALAMEDDINE is the author of the novels they have a tale to tell; they don’t. But I should. I have a good The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; one. You insisted I write the refugee story, as well as your story I, the Divine; Koolaids; and the story collection, The Perv. In and mine. Tis thing. 2019, he won the Dos Passos Prize.

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16 SEPTEMBER

By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller’s collection of essays, Things I Have Withheld, blends memoir and criticism to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender

Things I Have Withheld Essays Kei Miller

MARKETING n this moving, critical, and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning Kei Miller’s most recent novel, Augustown, was writer Kei Miller explores the silences in which so many important things a fnalist for the PEN Open Book Award, and Iare kept. Miller examines the experience of discrimination through this was named one of the best books of the silence and what it means to breach it—to risk words, to risk truth; and year by Slate, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus through the body and the histories those bodies inherit—the crimes that Reviews, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel haunt them, and how the meanings of our bodies can shift as we move through E-galleys available on NetGalley and the world, variously assuming privilege or victimhood. Edelweiss Through letters to James Baldwin, encounters with Soca, Carnival, family author appearances secrets, love affairs, questions of aesthetics, and more, Miller powerfully and national media campaign including print and imaginatively recounts everyday acts of racism and prejudice from a black, radio interviews male, queer perspective. Through a disarmingly personal lens, this collection social media promotions and online is an account of his experiences in Jamaica and Britain, working as an artist advertising, including Literary Hub and intellectual, making friends and lovers, discovering the possibilities of prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways music and dance, of literary criticism, culture, and storytelling. on Goodreads and Bookmarks With both the epigrammatic concision and conversational cadence of his reading group guide available online at poetry and novels, Things I Have Withheld is a great artistic achievement: a groveatlantic.com work of innovation and beauty which challenges us to interrogate what seems unsayable and why—our actions, defense mechanisms, imaginations, and interactions—and those of the world around us.

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17 Excerpt Tis is what comes to mind when I consider the silence: how I saved my words for the stairwell in Streatham Hill, London, right outside the fat where I lived at the time; how I would sit there many nights, a little shell-shocked, and mumbling to myself. If that sounds a bit like madness, maybe it is because that is what it was. I had ended up in a bad relationship. It was never violent but always volatile. I could never predict what would set things of—what might produce the latest bout of rage. I felt ashamed as well, to be a man such as I was, such as I am—tall and black—and so fearful of a person I was supposed to feel safe with; afraid of doing the wrong thing, and especially afraid of saying the wrong thing. Instead, I saved my words for the stair- well—rehashing arguments to myself, trying to unravel them, to understand them, and wondering how I might say things better the next time. I was ofen accused of being silent, which was fair. My silence was also a strategy—a way to survive. Whenever I risked words —however carefully, however sofly, even if it was just to answer the innocuous question, ‘How are you feeling?’—it could be met

with such an explosive tantrum that I quickly learned to rarely © NAOMI take the risk. Te specifcs of that experience were new to me; I KEI MILLER is a Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist, had never been in a relationship like it before. My reaction, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and winner of the however—the way I responded—was familiar. It was an old prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for his collection habit. Sitting on that stairwell at nights only emphasized what The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. In 2010, had always been true for me—that the moments when I am the Institute of Jamaica awarded him the Silver Musgrave most in need of words are exactly the moments when I lose faith Medal for his contributions to Literature and in 2018 he in them, and when I fall back into silence. was awarded the Anthony Sabga Medal for Arts & Letters.

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18 OCTOBER

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

12 Bytes How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next. Jeanette Winterson

MARKETING rom the New York Times–bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You 12 Bytes has already been listed as one of the most Can Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson, comes an original and entertaining anticipated books of 2021 by the Guardian, Fnew collection drawing on her years of thinking and reading about artifi- Evening Standard, and Financial Times cial intelligence in its bewildering manifestations. She looks to history, Frankissstein was named one of the Best Books religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer sci- of 2019 by Library Journal, Hudson ence to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that Booksellers, and Publishers Weekly, and one are happening now. of Bookmarks’ Best Reviewed SciFi and When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or Fantasy Books of 2019 will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves E-galleys available on NetGalley and in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when Edelweiss humans form connections with non-human helpers, teachers, sex workers, author appearances and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions national media campaign including print and about gender? Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by radio interviews biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it social media promotions and online time to join Elon Musk and leave Planet Earth? advertising, including Literary Hub With wit, compassion, and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI’s most interest- ing talking points, from the algorithms that data-dossier your whole life, to the weirdness of backing up your brain. “One of the most gifted writers working today.” —New York Times Book Review

“Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides.” —Vanity Fair

“To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her . . . [she is] fierce, curious, brilliant.” —O Magazine

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19 Excerpt Humans love separations—we like to separate ourselves from other humans, usually in hierarchies, and we separate ourselves from the rest of biology by believing in our superiority. Te up- shot is that the planet is in peril, and humans will fght humans for every last resource.

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20 OCTOBER

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalist Bethany Ball comes a biting and darkly funny new novel that follows a set of privileged, jaded Connecticut suburbanites whose cozy, seemingly picture-perfect lives begin to unravel amid shocking turns of fate and revelations of long-held secrets

The Pessimists A Novel Bethany Ball

MARKETING “The Pessimists is honest and hilarious—treating suburban angst, marriage, and What to Do About the Solomons was a fnalist private school life both seriously and with the humor they’re due. Ball writes with for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; the sharpened pen of writers like Meg Wolitzer and Taffy Brodesser-Akner, but a New York Times Editors’ Choice, with a dangerous edge and a pathos all her own.” —Rebecca Makkai Paperback Row selection and one of “10 New Books We Recommend This Week”; “This novel was perfection.” —Mary Beth Keane and an Amazon Best Book of the Month elcome to small town Connecticut, a place whose inhabitants seem to (fction/literature) have it all—the status, the homes, the money, and the ennui. There’s E-galleys available on NetGalley and Tripp and Virginia, beloved and idolized hosts, whose basement hides, Edelweiss W among other things, a secret stash of guns and a drastic plan to survive the end author appearances times. There’s Gunter and Rachel, recent transplants who left New York City to major review coverage raise their children, only to feel imprisoned by the banality of suburbia. And library marketing including ALA Richard and Margot, community veterans whose extramarital affairs and battles social media promotions and online with mental health are disguised by their enviably polished veneers and perfect advertising, including Literary Hub children. At the center of it all is the Petra School, the most coveted of all the backlist eBook promotions private schools in the state, a supposed utopia of mindfulness and creativity, with also available as a HighBridge audiobook a history as murky and suspect as our character’s inner worlds. Also available: With deep wit and delicious incisiveness, Bethany Ball peels back the veneer What to Do About the Solomons (978-0-8021-2785-3 • $16 • USCO) of upper-class white suburbia to expose the destructive consequences of unchecked privilege and moral apathy in a world that is rapidly evolving without them. The Pessimists is a superbly drawn portrait of a community, and its couples, torn apart by unmet desires, duplicity, and dangerous levels of discontent. “A sweet-and-sour gimlet of a novel. It goes down easy, with a satirical edge and a knock-out punch.” —Lauren Acampora BETHANY BALL was born in “Ball's singular, indelible voice is reminiscent of Joan Didion: probing, wise, and

© CHRIS X. CARROLL Detroit and lives in New York. deeply human.” —Jonathan Vatner

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21 OCTOBER

Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Rick Bass, Ocean Vuong, Rickey Laurentiis, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the hope and pain of the ever- changing present

Freeman’s: Change The Best New Writing on Change Edited by John Freeman

MARKETING “Illuminating . . . Perfect reading for our ever-accelerating times.” Several contributors from Freeman’s have —NPR’s Book Concierge gone on to publish award-winning books including Olga Tokarczuk, Tommy Orange, he Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to reimagine our homes, work, and Valeria Luiselli relationships, and adapt to a new way of life—one with far fewer possibili- Freeman’s now has international partners in the Tties for interaction. And yet, in this period of intense isolation, we’ve faced UK (Grove Press), Australia (Text Publishing), dilemmas which are nearly universal. How to love, to care for aging parents, Sweden (Polaris), Italy (Edizioni Black Cofee), to find a home, attend to a planet in flux, fight for justice. This vast range of Romania (Black Button), and China (Archipel) experiences is captured by our greatest storytellers, essayists, and poets, in the E-galleys available on NetGalley and new issue of Freeman’s: Change. Edelweiss Some pieces explore the small moments that serve as new routines in a life author appearances lived at home, as in Joshua Bennett’s essay, where a Coltrane playlist sets the national print and feature attention stage for early morning dances with his newborn son as they watch the sun social media promotions and online come up. Sometimes, it’s the absence of change that drives us to the edge. In advertising, including Literary Hub Lina Mounzer’s “The Gamble,” a father’s incessant hope for a better life fes- ters and sinks the whole family after they leave Lebanon during the Civil War. JOHN FREEMAN was the In Kamel Daoud’s heartbreaking tale, a widow’s attempt to retreat into the editor of Granta until 2013. His unchanging past edits her son right from her reality. And in “Final Days,” Say- books include Dictionary of the aka Murata imagines a future without aging, where people must choose how Undoing, How to Read a Novelist, and when they want to die, consulting guidebooks like Let’s Die Naturally! Tales of Two Americas, and Tales of Super Deaths for Adults & The Best Spots. Two Planets. His poetry includes the

© DEBORAH TREISMAN With new writing from Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Zahia Rahmani, collections Maps, The Park, and the forthcoming Wind, Trees. In 2021, he edited the Yoko Ogawa, Yasmine El Rashidi, Lina Meruane, and Aleksandar Hemon, and anthologies There's a Revolution Outside, My Love with featuring work from never-before-published writers like Elizabeth Ayre, Free- Tr a c y K . Sm i t h , a n d The Penguin Book of the Modern man’s: Change opens a window into the many-sided ways we adapt. American Short Story. An Executive Editor at Knopf, he “Ambitious.” —O Magazine teaches writing and literature classes at NYU.

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22 NOVEMBER

A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge cultural phenomenon that is live rock

Rock Concert The Oral History of an American Rite of Passage Marc Myers

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23 “Marc Myers’s “Marc A T Monument, where we sang Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”Dylan’s the “Blowin’Bob in sang we Monument,where be performing in singers gospelWashington onjoinMarch to For the the For It was euphoric and extraordinary for us, especially when the the when especially us, for extraordinary and euphoric was It crowd of about 250,000 marched a mile along the National Mall on the steps that included speeches and performances. We sang the of organizers by invited were artists folk 1963, August In Paul and Mary) Peter, of member and singer-songwriter (folk Yarrow Peter massive crowd. the and activism political artists’ the of note took musicians fore Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. and Pete Seeger’s “If IHad aHammer.” Excerpt an outdoor audience that reached to the horizon. Serious rock Serious horizon. the to reached that audienceoutdoor an the samethe two songs. to the Lincoln Memorial. f e event began in the morning with a rally at the Washington the at rally a with morning the in began event e er the performances at the Washington Monument, the the Monument, Washington the at performances the er “A cultural history of the elusive hit single, focused on artists’ recollections and studio alchemy . . . . . alchemy studio and recollections artists’ on focused single, hit elusive the of “Ahistory cultural f rst time, young pop music artists performed before performed artists music pop young time, rst

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A funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel that was one of the highest selling debuts of recent years in Korea, the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul

Love in the Big City A Novel Sang Young Park Translated by Anton Hur

MARKETING ove in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one A surprise runaway bestseller in Korea that of Korea’s most exciting young writers. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit was immensely popular with young readers Lthe top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particu- Perfect for fans of Han Kang, Sayaka Murata, and Cho Nam-Joo larly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership. Grove has sold rights in Germany and the Netherlands Told in four parts that recall the structure of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both prepublication reading copies the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. E-galleys available on NetGalley and Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to Edelweiss class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best major review coverage friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxi- social media promotions and online eties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and advertising, including Literary Hub ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jae- prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, and hee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother Bookmarks and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might SANG YOUNG PARK was end up being the great love of his life. born in 1988 and studied French at A brilliantly written novel filled with powerful sensory descriptions and Sungkyunkwan University. He both humor and emotion, Love in the Big City is an exploration of millennial worked as a magazine editor, loneliness as well as the joys of queer life, that should appeal to readers of copywriter, and consultant for seven Sayaka Murata, Tao Lin, and Cho Nam-Joo. years before debuting as a novelist in

© BONG-GON KIM 2016. The title story from his short story collection The Tears of an Unknown Artist, or Zaytun Pasta was one of Words Without Border’s most read pieces ever. He lives in Seoul.

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25 Excerpt of her instantly sobered me up. Jaehee could barely catch her breath as she laughed at how shocked I was to see her. Ten she Te summer we turned twenty, Jaehee and I became best friends. said, in her typically brash voice: I had a funny drinking rule back then where I would do any- —Just eat him, why don’t you? thing I was told by whomever bought me a drink, and so on that fateful day, there I was again with a man of an unknown age in Before I knew what was happening, I’d burst out laughing at the Hamilton Hotel parking lot, sucking face. He had bought her joke, and at some point I realized the man I was kissing me about six shots of tequila at some basement club. Te moon had disappeared, and I can’t even recall his face now. But I do and streetlamp and neon signs of the whole world seemed to be remember more or less what Jaehee and I talked about in the shining their lights just for me, and I could hear the strains of a parking lot. Kylie Minogue remix in my ear. It wasn’t important who the guy —You’ll keep it a secret around campus, right? was. Te only thing that mattered was that I existed with some- one, there in those dark streets of the city, and that was why I —Of course. I’m a broke bitch, but I’m loyal. was wrestling tongues with a stranger. Just when I thought the —Weren’t you surprised? Me with a man. heat of the whole world was about to overfow, just for me, I felt —Not at all. a hard slap on my back. In the midst of my complete drunken- ness I thought, A hate crime! And in full drama-queen mode, I —Since when did you know? detached my lips from his and turned around, ready for a fst- —Since the moment I laid eyes on you. fght—but there stood Jaehee. Like always, she was holding a Te usual cliché. lipstick-smudged Marlboro Red in one hand, and the sight

PRAISE FOR LOVE IN THE BIG CITY

“Sang Young Park is my new favorite writer, as in his work we see life in modern Korea in what I think of as a fuller way, due to the inclusion of queer lives there. Tis novel is bawdy, hilarious, heartbreaking, fearless.”—Alexander Chee “I am completely smitten with Young, the brutally honest protagonist of Sang Young Park’s exciting new novel, Love in the Big City. Tis is a book that reveals its depths slowly, carefully ofering details which resonate throughout the entire work. I loved growing older with Young, and I was continually surprised by his capacity for love and disappointment. Tis is rich, brilliant territory that will move queer literature forward.”—Garrard Conley, New York Times–bestselling author of Boy Erased “How could a story be as intense as this, as fresh as this? Page afer page, we discover contradictory emotions that are both surprising and beautiful. I was so eager to read on that my fngers turned each new page before I’d fnished the last. I hope he writes another novel that inspires such hard and fast intimacy.”—Kyung-Sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mom “A leading author of Korean queer literature and the hottest name of the moment.”—The Hankyoreh “I cried when I got to the end. As cliched as it sounds, reading this book made me feel that ‘this summer night, this big city, because of you’ I could believe in love again.”—Brunch.co.kr “Love in the Big City is a compelling novel that deserves to be widely read. It expands our expectations and assumptions about what contemporary Korean literature is and can be.” —Yoo Jun, Professor of Korean Literature at Yonsei University

26 NOVEMBER

By the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of Writers & Lovers, Lily King’s first collection of extraordinary short stories

Five Tuesdays in Winter Stories Lily King

MARKETING ith Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King’s books catapulted onto Writers & Lovers was an instant New York bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further Times bestseller, with over 200,000 copies cementing her reputation as one of the most “brilliant” (NYTBR), sold in the US W “wildly talented” (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fic- Writers & Lovers was a Read With Jenna tion. Now, for the first time, King collects ten of her finest short stories—half Today Show book club pick, Belletrist book published in leading literary magazines and half brand new—opening fresh club pick, and the New York Times Book realms of discovery for fans and new readers alike. Review Group Text book club pick Told in the intimate voices of uniquely endearing characters of all ages, prepublication reading copies these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting E-galleys available on NetGalley and violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspo- Edelweiss ken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds author appearances much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to major review coverage housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence in her summer job becomes a catalyst for promotion at regional trade shows strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his library marketing including ALA granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unspar- targeted library outreach including Library ingly honest, some even slipping slyly into the surreal, these stories are, above Reads all, about King’s enduring subject of love. social media promotions and online Lily King’s literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose and her gift for advertising, including Literary Hub creating lasting and treasured characters, is on full display in this curated prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases this extraordi- on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, narily gifted author writing at the height of her career. Bookmarks, and Amazon Vine indieBound bookseller outreach campaign “Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” —Ann Patchett also available as a Blackstone audiobook “[F]irmly in the top rank of our most accomplished novelists.” —Andre Dubus III

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27 Excerpt Te summer I was fourteen, a few months afer my mother had moved us out of my father’s house, I was ofered a job on Wid- ows’ Point babysitting this old lady’s grandchildren who had come to visit for two weeks. Mrs. Pike got her dresses ftted at my mother’s shop and the two of them made these arrange- ments without consulting me. It wasn’t like my other babysitting jobs, a few hours at a time. I had to live there. I can’t remember the conversation with my mother, if I’d wanted to go or if I’d put up a fght. I fought her on so many things back then. Te Point was a frying pan–shaped spit of land that thrust out into the Atlantic. Beyond it, at low tide, you could see a cres- cent of rocks ofshore, but at high tide the water hid them en- tirely. No doubt it was those rocks, several hundred years earlier, that made the widows who’d given the Point its name. My father © WINKY LEWIS still owned the house I’d grown up in on the handle of the pan LILY KING is the New York Times–bestselling author of five novels, and to get to the Pikes’ from our apartment downtown I had to including, most recently, Writers & Lovers and Euphoria. Her work has pass it on my bike. He was in rehab again, in New Hampshire won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New this time, but still I kept my head low as I pedaled by. All I saw England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, a was the bed of fowers along the road, untended since last fall, MacDowell Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and she has been a finalist for new shoots and buds trying to push through brown husks. Tis the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Hemingway was the third time we’d moved out and I hoped the last. Award. She lives in Portland, Maine.

PRAISE FOR WRITERS & LOVERS

“Wonderful, witty, heartfelt.”—Washington Post “Generously infused with heart and soul and wisdom and wit.”—NPR “Delightful . . . An unmistakable broadside against fction’s love afair with macho strivers… Te emotional force of Writers & Lovers is considerable.”—New York Times Book Review “Writers & Lovers is exactly the book we need now. I could not stop reading.”—Judy Blume “Haunting, incisive . . . King is brilliant.”—Elle “Comic and compassionate.”—Wall Street Journal “A d e fning classic for struggling young writers.”—Vulture

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28 NOVEMBER

The first collection of general essays in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some never before published

The Search for the Genuine Selected Nonfiction Jim Harrison

MARKETING ew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was a Harrison’s backlist continues to sell, writer with a poet’s economy of style and a trencherman’s appetites cumulatively netting over 750,000 copies N and ribald humor. Over the course of his storied career, he published Published in 27 languages, Harrison was one forty works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, in addition to his many essays of America’s most beloved and critically- and columns for magazines like Esquire, Field & Stream, Sports Illustrated, and acclaimed authors Men’s Journal, among others. E-galleys available on NetGalley and In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously pub- Edelweiss lished essays, Harrison muses on everything from grouse hunting to Zen major review coverage Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone social media promotions and online and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski advertising, including Literary Hub to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life—and, for prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death—on the on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, US/Mexico border. Bookmarks, and Amazon Vine Written with Harrison’s trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated backlist eBook promotions zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may newsletter cooperative advertising available think they know Harrison’s nonfiction, from a true “American original” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Harrison lived and wrote on his own terms, undaunted by gatekeepers whose credentials he was only too happy to question . . . Few American writers of recent times have had his erudition, his audacity, his phenomenal memory, the breadth and quality of his accomplishment.” —Thomas McGuane, Literary Hub

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29 Excerpt Night fshing. In Te Snow Walker, Farley Mowat observes what all linguists know, that the Inuit have over a hundred com- pound words to describe varieties and conditions of snow. Te conditions of night are as various but there’s never been any call for the thesaurus. Night is just night. Certainly not a time to be walking around in the woods looking for a river that you were sure abutted the end of a particular path. Your ears strain for the sound of rushing water. Nothing. You turn around and the path doesn’t look like a path anymore. Above the whine of mosqui- toes you hear your heart beating. If you pause long enough the owls will begin again. You make another careful tack into the woods. Your sweat mixed with mosquito repellent stings your eyes. Your fy rod catches in the tag alders and bends danger- ously. But then you spot a landmark clump of yellow birch and stop long enough to hear the river just beyond. Tere is a strange fragrance to a river at night that I’ve never been able to identify, some water-washed mixture of fern, rotting poplar, cedar, and the earthen odor of logjams. If you fsh long enough alone at night and are a trife unstable anyway, the moon that guides your casts across the river smells vaguely MCSPADDEN © WYATT metallic, just as the sun that burns the frst dew of afer dawn JIM HARRISON (1937–2016) was the author of thirty-nine other smells copperish. Tis will sound farfetched only to those who works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, haven’t been there. I knew a young Ojibwe Indian once who The Road Home, Returning to Earth, and The English Major. A member demonstrated to me how he could fnd deer by their scent. Ten of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a he got drunk one day and went to Vietnam and hasn’t been Guggenheim Fellowship, his work has been published in twenty-seven heard from since. languages.

PRAISE FOR JIM HARRISON

“Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times “Harrison is truly one of those writers whose books are hard to put down.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “One of the few truly high-test males who’ve passed through the eye of the needle.”—Louise Erdrich, MS “[Harrison] can sweep a reader of her feet with his wordplay, even if he is just describing the weather.” —Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times “Extravagantly talented, critically adored, more famous than most literary novelists . . . Jim Harrison gave his life to [writing], and American literature is richer as a result.”—Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review

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30 DECEMBER

Destined to be a modern classic from “an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction” (Colm Tóibín), Small Things Like These is Claire Keegan’s landmark new novel, the tale of one man’s courage—and a remarkable portrait of love and family

Small Things Like These A Novel Claire Keegan

MARKETING “Claire Keegan creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems Keegan’s frst novel to be published in North to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.” America —Hilary Mantel

Keegan’s award-winning writing has been “Keegan takes the clichés of Irish rural life and sets them ablaze . . . she insists that compared to Anton Chekhov, Annie Proulx, things matter.” —Anne Enright, Irish Times John Cheever, Seamus Heaney, and William Trevor Rights sold in ten countries t is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, prepublication reading copies Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, who is father to five girls, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order E-galleys available on NetGalley and Edelweiss I to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both major review coverage his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. national print and feature attention Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for genera- promotion at regional trade shows tions to come, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting and inspiring story targeted library outreach including Library of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically cele- Reads brated and iconic writers. social media promotions and online advertising, including Literary Hub prepublication buzz campaign with giveaways “Claire Keegan is the real deal.” —NPR on Shelf Awareness, PW, Goodreads, “Keegan’s writing is delicate: not prudish, but exact.” —New York Times Book Review Bookmarks, and Amazon Vine indieBound bookseller outreach campaign “As good as Chekhov.” —David Mitchell, Telegraph (UK) reading group guide available online at groveatlantic.com

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31 Excerpt In October there were yellow trees. Ten the clocks went back the hour and the long November winds came in and blew, and stripped the trees bare. In the town of New Ross, chim- neys threw out smoke which fell away and drifed of in hairy, drawn-out strings before dispersing along the quays, and soon the river, dark as stout, swelled up with rain. Te people, for the most part, unhappily endured the weather: shop-keepers and tradesmen, men and women in the post of- fce and the dole queue, the mart, the cofee shop and super-

market, the bingo hall, the pubs and the chipper all commented, © MURDO MACLEOD in their own ways, on the cold and what rain had fallen, asking what was in it – and could there be something in it – for who CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and been translated into more than twenty could believe that there, again, was another raw-cold day? Chil- languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was dren pulled their hoods up before facing out to school, while chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won their mothers, so used now to ducking their heads and running the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the to the clothesline, or hardly daring to hang anything out at all, British Isles. Foster was recently selected by The Times (UK) as one of the had little faith in getting so much as a shirt dry before evening. top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Her stories And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees of those few Best American Stories. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton who still knelt to say the rosary. Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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“Te best stories here are so textured and “Reading these stories is like moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, coming upon work by Ann Beattie that it’s easy to imagine readers savoring or Raymond Carver at the start them many years from now. And to imagine of their careers.” critics, far in the future, deploying lofy —Jerry Griswold, new terms to explain what it is that makes Los Angeles Times Book Review Keegan’s fction work.” —Maud Newton, New York Times Book Review THE MYSTERIOUS PRESS AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK IN SEPTEMBER AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK IN OCTOBER

“Evocatively rendered and emotionally resonant, “This spellbinding collection from Oates carefully this literary crime novel is the real deal. Morrow’s [treads] the boundary between psychological and gothic tale bears comparison with Poe’s own supernatural expressions of the macabre . . . This work.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) superb outing is sure to captivate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Forger’s Daughter Cardiff, by the Sea A Novel Four Novellas of Suspense Bradford Morrow Joyce Carol Oates

hen a scream shatters the summer night outside his rom one of the most important contemporary Ameri- country house, reformed literary forger Will can writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting W becomes ensnared in a plot to counterfeit the rarest F collection of four novellas. book in American literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s first, Tamerlane, In the title novella, a young art historian is led to (re) of which only a dozen copies are known to have survived. Fac- discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in far- ing threats to his life and family, coerced by his former nemesis away Cardiff, Maine. And the collection grows ever more and Henry Slader, Will must rely on the skills of his daughter enthralling from there. Nicole to help create a flawless forgery. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful The Forger’s Daughter portrays the world of literary forgery pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing as diabolically clever, genuinely dangerous, and inescapable, it threats past and present. would seem, to those who have ever embraced it. “There is artistry in the successful re-creation of rare books “Oates’s invention has never flagged . . . She has produced, and manuscripts . . . There is honor indeed among (literary) over the past three decades, a veritable feast of taut, noirish thieves.” —Wall Street Journal thrillers and acute psychological suspense stories that will fill many a night’s worth of avid reading.” —Los Angeles Times “The novel flits evocatively from upstate New York farmhouses to Manhattan auction houses, and there’s an aptly gothic “Splendidly chilling . . . This is not just a book of anti-male tinge to the tense drama that ensues.” —The Guardian morality; it crackles with dark forces that sneak in and out of view, building a portrait of an untrustworthy universe. Yet to A New York Times “10 Best Crime Novels of 2020,” a PW Best the female victims, Oates also offers the transcendence of Mysteries & Thrillers of 2020, and an Amazon Best Books of the Month (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense) escape and revenge.” —Financial Times also available as a HighBridge audiobook

BRADFORD MORROW is the author of eight previous novels, including The Forgers, The Diviner’s Tale, and most recently, The Prague Sonata, as well as a short story collection, The Uninnocent. He JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of such national bestsellers is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the recipient of anthologies and journals. A professor of literature and Bard Center the National Book Award for them and the 2010 President’s National Fellow at Bard College, he lives in New York City. Humanities Medal.

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“Another heady Irish stew spiked with wayward “The Butcher’s Boy—the professional killer we epigrams, one-word paragraphs, and lots and lots first met in Thomas Perry’s debut novel back of Jamesons. Sláinte.”—Kirkus Reviews in 1982—hasn’t lost his extremely sharp edge.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

A Galway Epiphany Eddie’s Boy A Jack Taylor Novel A Butcher’s Boy Novel Ken Bruen Thomas Perry

“There’s something endearing about this profoundly cynical “One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary series, with its idiosyncratic style . . . and blistering assaults crime fiction . . . This dark but illuminating return to his fic- on two great Irish traditions: Catholicism and local politics. tional roots is Perry at his representative best. It rarely gets Jack Taylor, the self-destructive protagonist, is Irish with a sui- better than that.” —Washington Post cidal vengeance.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review homas Perry’s Butcher’s Boy is back, living in England x-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor has finally escaped with his aristocratic wife under the name of Michael violent Galway for a quiet retirement in the country T Schaffer. But her annual summer party brings strangers E when, on a trip back into the city, he is hit by a truck to their house, and, with them, an attempt on Michael’s and left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. life. He is thrust into action to figure out why the mafia is When he awakens weeks later, Ireland is in a frenzy over the after him—again—and how to stop them. so-called “Miracle of Galway.” People have become con- He’s meticulous in his approach, pitting two prominent vinced that the two children seen tending to him are saintly, mafia families against each other to eliminate his enemies and the site of the accident sacred. So begins Jack’s investiga- one by one. But will he be able to escape this new wave of tion into three mysteries that become ever more intertwined. young contract killers? Perry’s Edgar Award–winning Sharp and sardonic as ever, “the Godfather of the mod- Butcher’s Boy returns in full force in this exhilarating new ern Irish crime novel” (Irish Independent) is at his brutal installment in the beloved series. best in A Galway Epiphany. “Superbly crafted . . . Perry delivers a master class in the art of “One of contemporary genre fiction’s most unique series.” propulsive tension.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) —Bookreporter.com “There is certainly much to admire in the skill with which Perry “The sixteenth installment of Jack Taylor’s ode to Galway is works, from his flawless plotting to his tight and muscular another bleakly poetic, sharply insightful thriller.” —Booklist prose style.” —Associated Press also available as a Dreamscape audiobook Perry is one of America’s premier thriller writers and the Mysteri- ous Press’s bestselling author KEN BRUEN received a doctorate in metaphysics, taught English in also available as a HighBridge audiobook South Africa, and then became a crime novelist. The critically acclaimed author of fifteen previous Jack Taylor novels and The White THOMAS PERRY is the bestselling author of over twenty novels, Trilogy, he is the recipient of two Barry Awards and two Shamus Awards including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, Forty Thieves, and has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Award. He lives in Galway, and The Butcher’s Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Ireland. Southern California.

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THE AWKWARD BLACK MAN WALTER MOSLEY

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“P. J. O’Rourke is a national treasure . . . [his] amazing “Thompson’s illuminating new book . . . breaks talent for finding the humor in things that aren’t new ground . . . [It] succeeds in restoring the funny is undiminished, as is his affection for the lucky, strangeness, and the lost potential, of this crazy, perplexing country he had the good fortune to aborted moment of self-rule.” be born in.”—Boston Globe —New York Review of Books A Cry From How the West Stole the Far Middle Democracy from the Dispatches from Arabs a Divided Land The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its P. J . O ’ R o u r k e Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance Elizabeth F. Thompson

. J. O’Rourke says we’ve worked ourselves into a state hen Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman of anger and perplexity, and it’s no surprise because Empire, Arab nationalists rose against the Turks P perplexed and angry are what Americans have been W and allied with the British on the promise of an since the Roanoke Colony got lost. This astute and enter- independent Arab state. After the war, the Arabs’ represen- taining look at the state of these United States includes tative to the Paris Peace Conference, Prince Faisal, won essays on everything from our fraught history (“Oh Beauti- American support for their self-determination. But other ful for . . . Pilgrim Feet?”) to the political effects of social Entente powers plotted to protect their colonial interests. media, (“Whose Bright Idea Was It to Make Sure that Every Under threat of occupation, the Syrian Congress declared Idiot in the World Was in Touch with Every Other Idiot?”). independence and crowned Faisal king of a ‘civil represen- A plan is advanced to reform federal poverty programs, tative monarchy.’ “Just Give Them the Money.” And a rant is made against the France and Britain refused to recognize this Damascus “Internet of Things” because your juicer is sending fake government and the French invaded and crushed the Syr- news to your Fitbit about what’s in your refrigerator. This is ian state in July 1920. How the West Stole Democracy from P. J . a t h i s f i n e s t . the Arabs is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary, “Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva brief moment of unity and hope—and of its destruction. piece.” —Richard Nixon “Thompson fashions an original, authoritative study, laying out the process of the ‘theft’ of Syrian democracy . . . Bitter lessons from “P. J. O’Rourke is like S.J. Perelman on acid.” —Chris Buckley the past unearthed and expertly reexamined.”—Kirkus Reviews P. J. O’Rourke is one of the defning commentators and humorists of his generation and this book is a must-buy for “This expertly researched account brings to life a meaningful but his thousands of fans underexplored chapter in world history.” —Publishers Weekly also available as a HighBridge audiobook also available as a Tantor audiobook ELIZABETH F. THOMPSON is a leading historian of the modern P. J . O ’ R O U R K E has written nineteen books on subjects as diverse as Middle East and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American politics and cars and etiquette and economics. Parliament of Whores and University’s School of International Service. She is the author of two Give War a Chance both reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. He previous books, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege is a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me and editor-in- and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, winner of two national book chief of the free web magazine American Consequences. He lives in rural prizes, and Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional New England, as far away from the things he writes about as he can get. Government in the Middle East.

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A Lover’s Discourse Chicago’s Great Fire A Novel The Destruction and Xiaolu Guo Resurrection of an Iconic American City Carl Smith

“Through her precise and unflinching language, a revealing “A wonderfully thoughtful and concise retelling of the tragedy account emerges of how one mind opens to another.” and its aftermath . . . Goes beyond the disaster and its causes —USA Today to recount the remarkable way the city sprang back.” —Richard Babcock, Wall Street Journal iaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese writ- ers of her generation, winner of the National Book etween October 8–10, 1871, much of the rapidly Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, and one of developing city of Chicago was destroyed by a raging X fire. Close to one-third of Chicago’s more than Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. B In A Lover’s Discourse, Guo’s first novel in six years, a 330,000 people were left homeless. Now, on the 150th Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doc- anniversary of the fire, eminent Chicago historian Carl toral program at the height of the Brexit campaign. She Smith has written the first full and authoritative chronicle meets a Western man and the two begin to build a life of one of the most cataclysmic disasters in U.S. history, in together. Playing with language and the cultural differences the process overturning numerous myths about it, not least that the lovers must navigate, this witty, intimate, and ten- that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow had anything to do with starting it. der novel confirms Xiaolu Guo as one of our most talented The dramatic story of the fire—revealing human nature in and incisive literary voices. all its guises—became one of equally remarkable renewal, as Chicago quickly rose back up from the ashes thanks to “A fiercely intelligent book . . . trenchant and moving.” local determination and the world’s generosity and faith in —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) the city’s future. also available as a HighBridge audiobook “A bracing and impeccably written history by a true master of the craft.” —Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire Published on the 150th anniversary of the fre XIAOLU GUO was born in south China. She studied film at the also available as a Blackstone audiobook Beijing Film Academy and published six books in China before she CARL SMITH is the Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and moved to London in 2002. In addition to her award-winning literary American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern career, Xiaolu has directed several critically acclaimed films including University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary She, a Chinese and a documentary about London, Late at Night. Xiaolu Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief; The is based in London and Berlin with her partner and daughter. Plan of Chicago; and City Water, City Life.

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“Lots of fascinating detail and insight into James’s “Sweeping, beautifully told, and supremely backstabbing court . . . An enjoyable read.” entertaining, Midnight Train to Prague explores —Times (UK) the human cost of war . . . and the amazing resilience of the human spirit.” —Historical Novel Society (UK)

The Fallen Angel Midnight Train A Novel to Prague Tracy Borman A Novel Carol Windley

n the gripping conclusion to Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era “The very best historical fiction transports you to a time and a trilogy, Frances Gorges hopes finally to find some quiet place, and [Midnight Train to Prague] does exactly that.” I away from the secrets and vices of the court of King —Savvy Reader James I. However, when a handsome stranger appears at a n her breakout novel, acclaimed short story writer Carol courtier’s country estate, he immediately draws the wander- Windley returns with Midnight Train to Prague, a time- ing eyes of the King, throwing the established order of the I less tale of friendship, romance, betrayal, and survival. court into upheaval. George Villiers is ambitious and vio- In 1927, Natalia Faber meets Count Miklós Andorján, lent, ready to take down whatever—and whoever—stands a journalist and adventurer, and one year later, they marry in his way, including Frances and her husband Sir Thomas and build a life on his family’s estate. Years later, Germany Tyringham. With a meticulous eye for detail and evocative has invaded Russia. When Miklós fails to return from the storytelling, The Fallen Angel is a riveting conclusion to eastern front, Natalia goes to Prague to wait for him. While Tracy Borman’s trilogy set during the first Stuart monarch’s there, she meets the daughter of a woman who inspired her reign. many years ago, Anna. Arrested, separated and deported to “The final installment of Borman’s lively trilogy . . . Entertaining camps, their friendship grows as they fight to survive and and delicious Stuart-era scandalmongering.” —Kirkus Reviews be reunited with their families. Written in Windley’s lush, also available as an Audible audiobook measured prose, Midnight Train to Prague is a rich and sprawling epic of love and war, bringing beauty and hope Also available: to one of the darkest periods in history. The Devil’s Slave (978-0-8021-5729-4 • $18 • USCOxE) “[An] enthralling epic . . . Fans of WWII fiction will appreci- The King’s Witch ate this accomplished take.” —Publishers Weekly (978-0-8021-2959-8 • $16 • USCOxE) A Globe and Mail (Toronto) and Toronto Star bestseller TRACY BORMAN is England’s joint Chief Curator of Historic also available as a Blackstone audiobook Royal Palaces and Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust. She is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books including Henry CAROL WINDLEY is the author of the novel Breathing Under VIII and the Men Who Made Him; The Private Lives of the Water and two story collections: Giller Prize finalist Home Schooling and Tudors; Thomas Cromwell; Queen of the Conqueror; Elizabeth’s Visible Light, which won the Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Prize and was Women; andWitches; as well as the novels The King’s Witch and The nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Governor Devil’s Slave. Borman is also a regular broadcaster and public speaker. General’s Literary Award. She lives on Vancouver Island.

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MARKETING “Emotional, evocative prose. ” —New York Times PHOTO CREDIT The hardcover publication featured profles of “The wonder of this memoir is its unembellished truth. It is written by a man whose Byrne in the New York Times, Boston Globe, amazing story is the stuff of Literature. ” —Edna O’Brien and Literary Hub, and major reviews appeared in People magazine, USA Today, s a young boy growing up on the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne Washington Post, and Airmail sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working- Byrne did many high profle virtual events A with such luminaries as Colm Tóibín, Roddy class parents and the eldest of six children, he harbored a childhood desire to Doyle, Wesley Stace, Lily King, and Colum become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing McCann the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been Instant UK bestsellerAdvance Praise for Heartexpelled, of Palm taking took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory laborer to get paperback review coverage by. In his spare time, he visited the cinema, and it was here that he could begin national TV and radio coverage to imagine a life beyond the grey world of sixties Ireland. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change social media campaign via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film also available as a Recorded Books and theater. audiobook Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost van- ished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, GABRIEL BYRNE was born in Dublin and Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambiva- has starred in over eighty films for some of the cinema’s leading directors. He won a Golden lence of fame. Globe for his performance on HBO’s In Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a Treatment. On Broadway, he won the Outer lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies. Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and has been “A masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts.” —Colum McCann nominated twice for a Tony Award. He lives in Manhattan and Maine. “Leads with felicity, candor, humor, and empathy.” —Richard Ford

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MARKETING “A treasure, one of the best non-fiction books I’ve ever read.”—Newark Star-Ledger Updated with new reporting on the USPS “Sweeping and entertaining . . . Offers a host of interesting anecdotes.” during the COVID-19 pandemic and the —New York Times Book Review 2020 election he first major history of the United States Postal Service in decades, now national TV and radio coverage updated with new reporting, Neither Snow nor Rain is the fascinating, op-eds at publication T centuries-long story of an extraordinary American creation, originally social media campaign via Facebook, Twitter, founded by Benjamin Franklin. In this rich, character-driven, multifaceted and Instagram history, journalist Devin Leonard relates how the USPS bound far-flung also available as a Recorded Books Americans together, fostered a common culture, and helped American busi- audiobook ness to prosper. While over recent decades the USPS has been more imperiled than ever, the horrors of COVID-19 and the surge of mail-in voting during the pivotal 2020 election led to renewed support and energy for this essential service that offered a crucial source of contact and connection in a time of unprecedented isolation. Neither Snow nor Rain vibrantly reaffirms the impor- tance of the Postal Service to American lives and the future of the country. “Engaging [and] well-written.” —Washington Post

DEVIN LEONARD is a senior “Delectably readable . . . Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other writer for Bloomberg News and a page . . . Delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit, and heart.” regular contributor to Bloomberg —Chicago Tribune Businessweek. Previously a senior writer at Fortune and a staff writer “Intensely readable . . . Colored by entertaining and lively retellings.”—The Nation for the New York Observer, he has © DANIELLA ZALCMAN also written for the New York Times, New York magazine, Wired, and the Philadelphia Daily News. He lives in Manhattan.

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“With shades of Carmen Maria Machado and “[A] lively history of the first half-century of Karen Russell, Hunter turns in an unforgettable animation . . . The arc of Wild Minds is magical realist story of power, revenge, and appropriately weird, full of high-flown transformation.”—Esquire, “Best Books for Fall” aspirations and zany anecdotes.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

The Harpy Wild Minds

Megan Hunter The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation Reid Mitenbuler

“[A] beautiful, poetic account of [a] marriage, and also an “Wild Minds assembles its history with love and a sense of insightful character study . . . The Harpy soars.” —NPR occasion.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker n Wild Minds, Reid Mitenbuler relates the vivid and ucy has devoted her life to her children and home, set- untold story of the five-decade Golden Age of classic ting her career aside, when she learns one day that her I animation and the often larger-than-life artists who cre- L husband, Jake, is having an affair. As the couple submit ated some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the to a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy begins to pre-television twentieth century, from Felix the Cat to Bugs change, surrendering to a transformation of both mind and Bunny, from Popeye to Betty Boop. The likes of Winsor body from which there is no return. McCay and Otto Messmer in the teens and ‘20s, followed Told in dazzling, musical prose, The Harpy is an electri- by Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Mel Blanc, fying story of marriage, infidelity, and power. At once and many others, devised and developed a new art form mythical, otherworldly, and fiercely contemporary, this is a that would become an integral part and reflection of dark, staggering fairy tale by the author of the #1 Indie American culture, ultimately inspiring the colorful subver- Next Pick, The End We Start From, Megan Hunter. sions of The Simpsons and BoJack Horseman today. “Mitenbuler’s real target is a quintessentially American story “A potent contemporary fable . . . riveting.”—The Guardian (UK) of daring ambition, personal reinvention and the eternal tug- of-war of between art and business . . . A gem.” “[G]lints in its biting precision; Megan Hunter knows how to —Adam Frank, NPR wield the knife.” —Literary Hub Esquire’s “Best Books for Fall” “Juicy tales abound about the films and the wildly imaginative people who made them. Mr. Mitenbuler tells their stories with Vogue’s “14 Novels Vogue Editors Recommend for Fall” relish and clarity.” —John Canemaker, Wall Street Journal Literary Hub’s “65 Favorite Books of the Year” A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice also available as a Recorded Books audiobook also available as a Recorded Books audiobook MEGAN HUNTER’s first novel, The End We Start From has been translated into eight languages. It was a Barnes & Noble Discover Awards finalist, and won the Foreword Reviews Editor’s Choice Award. REID MITENBULER is the author of Bourbon Empire. His writing Her poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in the White has appeared in the Atlantic, the Daily Beast, Slate, Quartz, Salon, Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, BOMB, and elsewhere. and other publications. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

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“Randall Kenan is an American master.” —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage

A Visitation of Spirits A Novel Randall Kenan

MARKETING “With A Visitation of Spirits, Randall Kenan continues James Baldwin’s legendary Randall Kenan passed away suddenly on tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain.’” —San Francisco Chronicle August 28, 2020. He was 57 years old. A hen A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan (1963- Visitation of Spirits is his frst novel, and his 2020) was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one short story collection Let the Dead Bury the Dead was a fnalist for the National Book W who brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, Critics Circle Award and named a New York one of the few writers to do so. His work has won the Lambda Literary Award Times Notable Book for gay fiction, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize, and he was His most recent collection, If I Had Wings, awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and the Prix de Rome. was longlisted for the National Book Award His groundbreaking first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, is the powerful story in Fiction of Horace Cross, a popular and high-achieving sixteen-year-old boy, who wrestles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attacted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tims Creek. Raised on stories of prophets, revelations, and dreams, his internal struggles take shape in his mind as demons and angels battling for his soul, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. Horace seeks help from his cousin, Reverend James “Jimmy” Greene, but he finds himself ill-prepared to help the boy, plagued by demons of his own. And as Horace spirals out of control, Jimmy must ask himself what it says about him and his community that they RANDALL KENAN (1963– cannot reconcile the spirits of the past with those of the future. 2020) was the former chancellor Weaving mythos and the hard realities of rural Black life and easily gliding of the Fellowship of Southern between past and present, A Visitation of Spirits is a classic novel of growing up Writers and a professor of English and comparative literature at the from a literary giant. University of North Carolina– “A genius, our Black Marquez.” —Terry McMillan Chapel Hill. He lived in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

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“More than a novel of miracles, it is truly a miraculous novel.”—Valerie Ryan, Seattle Times

Peace Like a River A Novel Leif Enger 20th anniversary edition With a new introduction by the author

MARKETING “Book lovers inclined to complain that novelists don’t write gripping yarns any- National Bestseller more would do well to pick up a copy of Peace Like a River, a compelling blend of traditional and artfully offbeat storytelling . . . a miracle well worth witnessing New York Times Bestseller . . . Grade: A.” —Amanda Heller, Boston Globe Time and Los Angeles Times best book of the year eif Enger’s debut is an extraordinary novel–an epic of generosity and heart that reminds us of the restorative power of great literature. The story of a Sold over 1 million copies father raising his three children in 1960s Minnesota, Peace Like a River is reading group guide available L at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting meditation on Also available: Virgil Wander the possibility of magic in the everyday world. (978-0-8021-4712-7 Sprinkled with playful nods to biblical tales, beloved classics such as Huck- • $17 • USCOxE) leberry Finn, the adventure stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the westerns So Brave, Young, and Handsome of Zane Grey, Peace Like a River unfolds like a revelation. In a new twentieth (978-0-8021-4417-1 • $16 • USCO) anniversary edition of his landmark debut novel, Leif Enger revisits its memo- rable first publication on 9/11 and considers the extraordinary journey the LEIF ENGER was raised in book has led him on ever since. Osakis, Minnesota, and worked “You don’t see novels like this one very often. Peace Like a River reminds a reader as a reporter and producer for of Kent Haruf’s Plainsong or even Norman MacLean’s A River Runs Through It. It’s Minnesota Public Radio before got that pure American loss of innocence theme, that belief in and fascination writing his bestselling debut with miracles, that insistence on the goodness of men outside of the law.” novel Peace Like a River, winner

© ROBIN ENGER —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review of the Independent Publisher Book Award and a Time magazine best book of the year. His other novels, So Brave, Young, and Handsome and Virgil Wander are both a national bestsellers. He and his wife Robin live in Minnesota.

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