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Z A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler

A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald

Picture a late-May morning in 1918, a time when Montgomery wore her prettiest spring dress and finest floral perfume—same as I would wear that evening . . .

Thus begins the story of beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre on FICTION / HISTORICAL the day she meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club St. Martin's Press | 3/26/2013 dance. Fitzgerald isn’t rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of 9781250028655 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 all things, to be a writer in New York. No matter how wildly in love they may be, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Zelda’s father firmly opposes the match. But when Scott finally sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Zelda defies her parents to board a train to New Subrights: UK Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates York and marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Life is a sudden Translation Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates whirl of glamour and excitement: Everyone wants to meet the dashing young Other Available Formats: author of the scandalous novel—and his beautiful, perhaps even more scandalous Audio ISBN: 9781427230140 wife. Zelda bobs her hair, trades in her provincial finery for daring dresses and Ebook ISBN: 9781250028648 plunges into the endless party that welcomes the darlings of the literary world to New York, then Paris and the French Riviera. MARKETING It is the Jazz Age, when everything seems new and possible—except that * National Print Publicity * Print Advertising Campaign dazzling success does not always last. Surrounded by a thrilling array of * Online Advertising Campaign magnificent hosts and mercurial geniuses—including Sara and Gerald Murphy, * Pre-Publication Advertising Gertrude Stein, and the great and terrible Ernest Hemingway—Zelda and Scott * Indiebound Whitebox Mailing * Advance Readers' Editions find the future both grander and stranger than they could have ever imagined... * Published to tie-in with major motion picture on May 10, 2013: The Great Gatsy, directed by Baz Luhrmann PRAISE * A Read-It-First.com Selection and "An utterly engrossing portrayal of Zelda Fitzgerald and the legendary circles in which DearReader.com Author Promotion * Reading Group Guide Promotions she moved. In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, Fowler shines a light on * Email Marketing Campaign Zelda instead of her more famous husband, providing both justice and the voice she * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: ThereseFowler.com struggled to have heard in her lifetime." —Sara Gruen

"A novel that is as heartbreaking as it is mesmerizing. Just magnificent." —Caroline Leavitt

"A wonderfully engaging read. . . . both a compelling love story and a poignant tale of a woman coming into her own as an artist." —Heidi W. Durrow

THERESE ANNE FOWLER has an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina University. The author of three contemporary novels, Fowler was inspired to capture Zelda’s life on paper when she learned that the famous flapper and her own mother passed away the same day. When Z first sold to a publisher in London the same day The Great Gatsby was published, she knew it was fate. Fowler lives in Boca Raton, Florida.

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And Then I Found You A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry

In this heartfelt novel of love, loss, and reunion, a woman reconnects with her first love, and the daughter they placed for adoption some thirteen years before

Kate Vaughn is getting on with her life. The upscale boutique she owns in Bluffton, South Carolina, is thriving. Her relationship with her family is strong, and she has a steady and gregarious boyfriend. But when she discovers he is about to propose, Kate has to face the truth: she wants to love him more than she does. It’s not the first time. Something is holding Kate back . . . and she knows what that something is. She lives with the memory of it every day. Now, however, for FICTION / CONTEMPORARY the first time in her life, Kate understands that she won’t fully love until she lets WOMEN go of the past. In an impulsive decision to visit her ex-love in Birmingham, St. Martin's Press | 4/9/2013 9780312610760 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Alabama, Kate starts a chain reaction of events that will change her life in Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 12 unexpected ways. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase "inspired by a true story." By UK Rights: St. Martin's Press travelling back to the painful day when her own sister placed her infant daughter Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press for adoption, the author explores the limits of courage, and the price of a selfless Other Available Formats: act. This luminous novel—Henry's best yet—ultimately asks: Can what is lost Ebook ISBN: 9781250036780 ever be found?

MARKETING * National Radio Publicity PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Online Advertising Campaign "As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you—and * Book Club Site Advertising Campaign it can change your life. I think it’s the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever * Discussion Guide Available Online written." —Dorothea Benton Frank * Blog Outreach & IndieBound Campaign * Early Reader Reviews on Goodreads * A Read-It-First.com Promotion "Explores the labyrinth of a woman's heart—mother, daughter, sister, friend, lover. * HeroesAndHeartbreakers.com Promotion Moving and beautifully written." —Mary Alice Monroe * Email Marketing Campaign * Social Media Campaign "And Then I Found You is Henry at her best, brimming with heart and compassionate * Author Website: PattiCallahanHenry.com * Author Facebook: /Patti-Callahan- wisdom." —Joshilyn Jackson Henry/198184910208178 * Author Twitter: @PCalHenry "And Then I Found You will surprise you, provoke you, and rearrange your heart." — Jacquelyn Mitchard

ALSO AVAILABLE PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is The New York Times bestselling author of seven novels. She lives Coming Up for Air with her husband and three children in Alabama. 5/2012 | 9781250007841 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

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The Prince of Paradise The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

John Glatt

The New York Times bestselling author of Lost and Found recounts the brutal murder of Ben Novack, scion of Miami Beach royalty, and his gilded childhood at the legendary Fontainebleau Hotel

Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau hotel, he spent his childhood surrounded by some of the world’s biggest stars, including Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, Elvis Presley, and Ann-Margret, who performed regularly at the Fontainebleau’s La Ronde Room. TRUE CRIME / GENERAL St. Martin's Press | 4/16/2013 He sat by while his parents entertained presidents and movie stars, as they 9781250035721 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. reigned over Miami Beach in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, and when the family business Hardback | 448 pages | Carton Qty: 16 went sour he became wealthy in his own right, founding a multi-million dollar 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph business using connections he made at the Fontainebleau. insert

Subrights: But Ben, Jr.’s luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would end in another hotel UK Rights: Dystel & Goderich room—a thousand miles away from the one where he grew up—when police Translation Rights: Dystel & Goderich found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250035738 Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar situation—when his wife Narcy duct-taped him to a chair for twenty-four hours and robbed him. MARKETING * National Radio Publicity Claiming it was a sex game, he never pressed charges and never followed * National Print Publicity through with a divorce. Now prosecutors claimed Narcy let the vicious killers into * Online Promotion the room and watched as they beat her husband with dumbbells. They also * Author Website: JohnGlatt.com suspected she was involved in the horrendous death of Novack’s mother, just three months before. But it would be Narcy’s own daughter who implicated her to the police—in this twisted case of passion, perversion, and paradise lost. ALSO AVAILABLE Love Her to Death: The True Story of a Millionaire Businessman, His Gorgeous PRAISE Wife, and the Divorce That Ended in Murder “One of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today.” —Harold Goldberg, VH1.com 4/2012 | 9780312947859 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. Praise for The Royal House of Monaco: Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee “How do you say ‘juicy’ in French.” —People Magazine Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World 9/2010 | 9780312388270 “A real guilty Pleasure.” —Entertainment Weekly Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. Playing With Fire: The True Story of a English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of twenty books, and has over thirty years of experience Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio Turned Fatal programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, A Current Affair, BBC World 3/2010 | 9780312365172 News, and A&E Biography. Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can.

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The Omni Diet The Revolutionary PLANT + PROTEIN Program to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, Fight Inflammation, and Change Your Life Forever

Tana Amen, B.S.N., R.N., Foreword by New York Times Bestselling Author Daniel G. Amen

"Cuts through the confusion about what to eat and gives America a roadmap to good food and good health all at once." —Mark Hyman, MD, author of The Blood Sugar Solution

Give Tana Amen two weeks and she will change your life with The Omni Diet, a HEALTH & FITNESS / DIETS science-based nutritional and lifestyle program that bridges the gap between St. Martin's Press | 4/16/2013 plant-based and high-protein programs. It offers readers a simple plan that 9781250029843 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 provides both: an abundance of illness-fighting nutrients from whole living foods 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H and high quality protein to keep the brain sharp and muscles and organs

Subrights: functioning at peak condition. The balance of 70% plant-based foods and 30% UK Rights: St. Martin's Press protein restores energy, slashes risk of disease, optimizes brain and hormone Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press functioning, produces dramatic weight loss, and promotes health from the inside Other Available Formats: out. Ebook ISBN: 9781250029850 The Omni Diet offers three, two-week phases, followed by a maintenance plan MARKETING that is the guide to a lifetime of healthy living. With many delicious recipes and important advice and tips, such as how to mimic longevity-inducing calorie * National One Day Laydown: 4/16/13 restriction without drastically cutting calories, readers will see results * National Author Tour * Nat. Broadcast, Radio, Print Publicity immediately—in their weight and in their overall health. * Online Advertising Campaign w/Video Campaign & Pre-Order Offer The Omni Diet emphasizes foods that: * Tie-in to the Daniel Plan Marketing Machine (500,000 uniques/monthly) * PBS Special by Daniel Amen to feature l Decrease systemic inflammation Tana & air on up to 180 stations l Optimize brain function * Faith-Based Marketing w. Rick Warren/Saddleback Church (65,000+) l Offer high-quality calories that satiate * Email Marketing Campaign via the Amen l Provide large quantities of nutrients Clinics (500,000 subscribers) l Break the chain of food addiction by balancing hormones * Facebook&Twitter: /DrDanielAmen (37,000) & @DocAmen (64,0... l Increase energy and youthfulness

PRAISE "The Omni Diet is a thoughtful, practical approach to eating. Discover delicious, wholesome food that benefits your health for good." —Mehmet Oz, MD

TANA AMEN, BSN, RN, is a nurse, health and fitness expert, and nationally renowned speaker. She is the lead nutrition consultant, coach, for the wildly popular Daniel Plan, a healthy lifestyle plan comissioned by Pastor Rick Warren, which included Dr. Amen, Dr. Mark Hyman, and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Amen works closely with her New York Times bestselling husband, Daniel Amen, MD, offering guidance and support to hundreds of thousands of Amen followers at The Amen Clinics.

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Mortal Sins Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal

Michael D'Antonio

An explosive, sweeping account of the pedophile scandal that has sent the Catholic church into a tailspin and the fight to bring it to justice

In the mid-1980s a dynamic young monsignor assigned to the Vatican’s embassy in Washington criss-crossed America to investigate the problem of pedophile priests. At every stop he found secret files revealing complaints that had been hidden from police and covered-up by the hierarchy. He also understood that the US judicial system was eager to punish offenders and those who aided them. He presented all this to the American bishops, warning that the church could be RELIGION / CHRISTIAN devastated by scandal and bankrupted by its legal liability. They ignored him. CHURCH Thomas Dunne Books | 4/23/2013 9780312594893 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Meanwhile, a young lawyer listened to a new client describe a sexual relationship Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 16 with a priest that began when he was ten years-old. His parents' complaints were 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H downplayed by Church officials who offered them money to go away. He saw a Subrights: claim that any defendant would want to settle. Then he began to suspect he was UK Rights: William Morris Endeavor onto something bigger, involving thousands of priests who had abused countless Translation Rights: William Morris Endeavor children while the church had done almost nothing about it. The lawsuit he filed Other Available Formats: would touch-off a legal war of historic and global proportions. Ebook ISBN: 9781250034397 Part history, part journalism, and part true-crime thriller, Mortal Sins promises to MARKETING * National Broadcast Publicity strike the same chords as All President’s Men, The Informant, and As the * National Print Publicity Band Played On as it reveals a long and ferocious battle for the soul of the * National Radio Publicity largest and oldest organization in the world. * National Pre-Publication Online Advertising Campaign * Online Promotion PRAISE * Academic Marketing Campaign * Author Website: MichaelDantonio.net Praise for The State Boys Rebellion: "D'Antonio . . . is an exceedingly able storyteller. . . . A gripping story." —Chicago Tribune

"Stunning . . . a vivid, careful, and ultimately momentous piece of journalism." —The Boston Globe

“D'Antonio's book is both engaging and valuable. . . . In moving and eloquent detail, Michael D'Antonio shows what happens to people when public policy enacts bad science.” —The Washington Post

As part of a team of journalists from Newsday, MICHAEL D’ANTONIO won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting before writing many acclaimed books, including Atomic Harvest and The State Boys Rebellion. He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated.

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Fly Away Kristin Hannah

The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers her next blockbuster novel

Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane became a touchstone novel in women’s lives. Across the world, women embraced the story of Tully and Kate’s enduring friendship. They laughed with Tully and cried with Kate and anguished over Tully's fractured relationship with her mother. Now, five years later, in Fly Away, Kristin Hannah returns to the world of these unforgettable characters and asks the question…

How do you hold yourself together when your world has fallen apart?

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Fly Away is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each WOMEN other—plus a miracle—to transform their lives. St. Martin's Press | 4/23/2013 9780312577216 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 12 An emotionally-complex, heartwrenching novel about love, family, motherhood, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H loss, and redemption, Fly Away reminds us that where there is life, there is hope and where there is love, there is forgiveness. Told with her trademark visceral Subrights: UK Rights: The Jane Rotrosen Agency storytelling and illuminating prose, Kristin Hannah reveals why she is one of the Translation Rights: The Jane Rotrosen Agency most beloved writers of our day. Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427212665 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781427232236 Ebook ISBN: 9781250031808 “By reversing traditional expectations, Hannah (Night Road) calls attention to the modern female soldier and offers a compassionate, poignant look at the impact of war on MARKETING family.” —Publishers Weekly on Home Front * National One Day Laydown: 4/23/13 * National Author Tour “Home Front's heart-wrenching portrayal of one veteran’s trials points out how much * National Radio & Print Publicity * National Radio, Print & training goes into preparing for war–and how little is done to teach returning soldiers Online Advertising Campaign incl. Pre- how to be parents again.” —People Magazine Pub Trade Ads * Book Club Site Advertising Campaign * Blog Outreach, Online Reviewer "A stirring, inspiring celebration of heroism in its many incarnations." —Family Programs, Email Marketing Circle on Home Front * Extensive Social Media Campaign * Author Website & Facebook: "Hannah's best work yet." —Seattle Times on Home Front KristinHannah.com & /AuthorKristinHannah (66,000 Likes) * Tie-in to extensive national marketing KRISTIN HANNAH is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels. A former lawyer campaigns for Home Front and Firefly turned writer, she is the mother of one son and lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest and Lane Hawaii.

ALSO AVAILABLE Home Front 1/2013 | 9781250023278 Paperback / softback | $15.99/$18.50 Can. Night Road 1/2012 | 9780312364434 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. Winter Garden

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Battleship The Story of a Champion

Dorothy Ours

The moving story of an undersized horse who made history— and the two people who believed in him unconditionally

The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an American heiress. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the teenage jockey’s father, trusting the boy and the horse that the British nicknamed “The American Pony” to handle a race course that newspapers called “Suicide Lane.” As a result, Battleship became the first American horse to win England’s monumental, century-old Grand National steeplechase—the smallest National winner ever. At age seventeen, British jockey Bruce Hobbs became the SPORTS & RECREATION / race's youngest winner. HORSE RACING St. Martin's Press | 4/30/2013 9780312641856 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Hobbs started life with an advantage: his father, Reginald, was a superb Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 professional horseman. But Reg Hobbs also made extreme demands, putting 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Bruce in situations that horrified the boy’s mother and sometimes terrified the plus 8 page black & white photo insert child. Bruce had to decide just how brave he could stand to be. Subrights: UK Rights: John A. Ware Literary Agency On the other side of the Atlantic, the enigmatic Marion duPont grew up at the Translation Rights: John A. Ware Literary Agency estate now known as James Madison’s Montpelier—the refuge of America’s “Father of the Constitution.” Rejecting her chance to be a debutante, denied a Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250021328 corporate role because of her gender, Marion chose a pursuit where horses spoke for her. She would be pulled beyond her own control by Battleship and leave her MARKETING film star husband, Randolph Scott, to see this quest to its end. With its reach from Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight to Cary Grant’s Hollywood, Battleship’s story is * National Print Publicity an epic true adventure. * Sports Radio Publicity * Online Promotion * Outreach to horse racing community PRAISE "Dorothy Ours's writing is so lyrical, and this story is completely fascinating. Readers don't have to care a whit about horses to be fascinated by this—the themes Ours explores ALSO AVAILABLE are universal. Battleship is not 'just' a horse story; this is a story for everyone." Man o' War: A Legend Like Lightning 5/2007 | 9780312341008 —Laura Hillenbrand, #1 bestselling author of Unbroken and Seabiscuit Paperback / softback | $15.99/$18.99 Can. DOROTHY OURS is a racing authority who worked for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. She is the author of Man O' War, the runner-up for the inaugural Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, established to honor the best racing-related books published each year. She has written articles for racing publications and served as a John H. Daniels Research Fellow at the National Sporting Library studying Battleship—the first steeplechase project funded by this program. She lives in New Jersey.

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Lookaway, Lookaway A Novel

Wilton Barnhardt

“Move over, Tom Wolfe! Writing with brilliance and brio, Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth.” —Lee Smith FICTION / LITERARY St. Martin's Press | 5/7/2013 9781250020833 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 12 Carolina’s high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H it meet the new wealth of bankers, real estate speculators, and carpetbagging Subrights: social climbers. Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family’s legacy UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, the one-time college golden boy and descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was Other Available Formats: mysteriously short-circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Audio ISBN: 9781427229328 Ebook ISBN: 9781250021502 Civil War re-enactor. Jerene’s brother Gaston is an infamously dissolute bestselling historical novelist who has never managed to begin his long-dreamed- MARKETING of masterpiece, and their sister Dillard’s unfortunate life decisions and losses have rendered her a near-recluse. * National Author Tour * National Radio Publicity As the four Johnston children—smart but reckless Annie, good-boy minister Bo, * National Print Publicity * National Print Advertising might be gay but that’s okay Joshua, and damaged, dangerous Jerilyn—flounder * PrePub Advertising in their adult lives, Jerene must take action to preserve the family's legacy, * Online Advertising Campaign Duke’s fragile honor, and what's left of the dwindling family fortune. She will stop * Advance Reader’s Editions * Indiebound Whitebox Campaign at nothing to keep what she has—is it too much to ask for one ounce of * SIBA Feature Title and Promotions cooperation from her heedless family? Wilton Barnhardt has written a full-bore, * Promotion with the Pulpwood Queens headlong, hilarious narrative of a family coming apart, a society changing beyond * Online Promotion * Email Campaign recognition, and an unforgettable woman striving to pull it all together. * Read-it-First Selection: * Reading Group Guide & Promotion on PRAISE ReadingGroupGold.com * Library Marketing Campaign “The big Southern novel I've been wanting to read all my life. . . . His characters—both male and female—are rich and genuinely hilarious, expressed with a dangerous level of

humor and pain.” —Mark Childress

"A wild romp through the South, and therefore the history of our nation, written by an absolute ringmaster of fiction." —Alice Sebold

“A fresh and innovative take on the traditional family saga . . . the new Barnhardt goes down smooth and delivers with a kick." —Karen Joy Fowler

“Earns a place on the bookshelf between J.K. Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces and Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons.” —Ron Rash

WILTON BARNHARDT is the author of three previous novels: Emma Who Saved My Life, Gospel, and Show World. A native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he is the director of the Masters in Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, 9 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS MAY 2013

Back in the Fight The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up

Sergeant Joseph Kapacziewski and Charles W. Sasser

The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb

On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner’s hatch and exploded, shattering Kapacziewski’s right leg below the knee, damaging his right hip, and severing a nerve and artery in his right arm. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MILITARY St. Martin's Press | 5/7/2013 He endured more than forty surgeries, but his right leg still wasn’t healing as he 9781250010612 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. had hoped, so in March 2007, Kapacziewski chose to have it amputated with one Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H goal in mind: to return to the line and serve alongside his fellow Rangers. One Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph year after his surgery, Kapacziewski accomplished his goal: he was put back on insert the line, as a squad leader of his Army Ranger Regiment. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press On April 19, 2010, during his ninth combat deployment (and fifth after losing his Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press leg), Kapacziewski’s patrol ran into an ambush outside a village in eastern Other Available Formats: Afghanistan. After a fellow Ranger fell to withering enemy fire, shot through the Ebook ISBN: 9781250021281 belly, Sergeant Kap and another soldier dragged him seventy-five yards to safety and administered first aid that saved his life while heavy machineguns tried to kill MARKETING them. His actions earned him an Army Commendation Medal with “V” for Valor. He had previously been awarded a Bronze Star for Valor—and a total of three * National Print Publicity * National Radio Publicity Purple Hearts for combat wounds. * Prominent Online Media Coverage * National Online Advertising Campaign Kapacziewski's memoir is an inspiring and thrilling tale readers will never forget. * CommandPosts.com Promotion * Social Media Campaign: www.Facebook.com/OfficialJoeKap PRAISE "A bold, raw, and authentic account of unparalleled intestinal fortitude of an American Ranger that grips you like a flying arm bar. Destined to be the defining work of American warrior spirit in the War on Terror era. Make no mistake, the U.S. Army Rangers made Joe Kap a killer man—nobody offers apologies or excuses, it’s what Rangers have done for centuries." —Dalton Fury, New York Times bestselling author of Kill Bin Laden and Black Site

Since losing his leg, SFC JOE KAPACZIEWSKI has completed three triathlons and finished the New York Marathon twice on behalf of “Lead The Way Fund,” a non-profit organization established to raise money for disabled U.S. Army Rangers and the families of Rangers who have died, been injured, or are currently in harm’s way around the world. When not deployed to war zones, he often visits wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center and Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio.

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Long Live the King Fay Weldon

From the award-winning writer of the original Upstairs Downstairs—the second novel in an irresistible trilogy about an Earl's family and his servants at the turn of the twentieth century

As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: The Dilberne fortune has been restored, and the grand Dilberne Court, with its one hundred rooms, has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Chicago heiress, Minnie, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law, Lady Isobel. As Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in the preparations of the coronation of FICTION / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Press | 5/7/2013 Edward VII, they debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, 9781250028006 | $25.99 Adela. Isobel and Minnie want to take her in; Robert and Arthur do not. While Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 they argue, Adela runs away and joins a travelling group of spiritualists and has a 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H life-saving run-in with the king. Subrights: With Long Live the King, Fay Weldon continues the magnificent trilogy that UK Rights: Head of Zeus began with Habits of the House. As the award-winning writer for the pilot Translation Rights: Head of Zeus episode of the original Upstairs Downstairs, Weldon brings her Other Available Formats: deservedly famous wit and insight to this novel of love and desire, morals and Audio ISBN: 9781427230126 Ebook ISBN: 9781250028013 manners.

MARKETING PRAISE * National Print Publicity * National Print Advertising Praise for Habits of the House: * Online Advertising Campaign "Always a ripe target for mockery and disdain, the British aristocracy comes in for a * Social Media Campaign * Early Reader Reviews on thorough drubbing in Weldon’s snarky send-up." —Booklist Goodreads.com * Online Publicity Campaign “An entertaining romp for Downton Abbey fans. . . . Weldon did the screenwriting for * Book Community Outreach * Author Website: FayWeldon.co.uk the first episode of Upstairs Downstairs so she has form in this arena.” —The Guardian

“A splendidly fun romp.” —The Times ALSO AVAILABLE Habits of the House “The trademark Weldon wit is very much in evidence.” —The Spectator 1/2013 | 9781250026620 Hardback | $25.99 “I predict a happy success for the trilogy, in print and on the screen. Julian Fellowes must look to his laurels, and Downton Abbey may find itself running second to 17 Belgrave Square.” —The Scotsman

FAY WELDON is an English novelist and screenwriter who, at the age of 16, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. She won a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of Upstairs Downstairs. A Commander of the British Empire, her books include Praxis, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Heart of the Country, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; Worst Fears, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and Wicked Women, which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award.

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Hang in There, Baby! Jenni Pulos

SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH St. Martin's Press | 8/20/2013 9781250028198 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H

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Love Me Anyway A Novel

Tiffany Hawk

"A dark, funny, beautifully written debut about two lonely women who take to the skies to find independence, and maybe themselves, in the process." —Julie Buxbaum, author of The Opposite of Love

FICTION / GENERAL Thomas Dunne Books | 5/7/2013 When twenty-three-year-old Emily Crane’s marriage to her abusive high school 9781250021472 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. sweetheart ends, she trades in her dull smalltown life for an all-access pass to see Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 the world as a flight attendant. Hoping for a new start, she moves to San 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Francisco to bunk with six other new flight attendants. Among them is KC Subrights: Valentine, a free spirit who encourages Emily to shed her mousy ways and start UK Rights: Chalberg & Sussman collecting experiences as exciting as her passport stamps. Emily soon follows Translation Rights: Chalberg & Sussman KC’s advice a little too well, falling in love with an older, married co-worker Other Available Formats: named Tien. But as Emily and Tien become more deeply entangled, KC grows Ebook ISBN: 9781250022820 distraught. And neither her friends nor co-workers know the real reason she became a flight attendant: to find her father who abandoned her as a child. As MARKETING * Online Promotion Emily and KC fly from Vegas to Boston, San Francisco to London, Chicago to * Author Website: TiffanyHawk.com Delhi, each searching for love and acceptance, they’re torn between passion and moral conviction, freedom and belonging.

An assured debut from a former flight attendant, Love Me Anyway deftly captures the complexities of love, friendship, and family, the excitement and loneliness that come from living everywhere and nowhere, and the surprising detours life can take when you set out to discover the world.

PRAISE "As irresistible as a non-stop flight to Paris, Love Me Anyway is an unexpectedly haunting look at loneliness, the struggle for love, belonging and independence, and how to keep two feet on the ground even when you’re thousands of miles in the sky." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You

"Love Me Anyway knocked me out. I wasn't prepared for the emotional depth and unsparing candor Hawk brings to her poignant debut novel." —Jillian Medoff, bestselling author of I Couldn't Love You More

"Hawk deftly balances the funny, the painful and the tender." —Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much

A former flight attendant, TIFFANY HAWK is a graduate of UCLA and the MFA program at UC Riverside. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, National Geographic Traveler, The Potomac Review, StoryQuarterly, and NPR’s "All Things Considered." A few years ago, she did the one thing flight attendants aren’t supposed to do and married a pilot. Together with their son, she and her husband now live wherever the Air Force sends them.

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Pirate Alley A Novel

Stephen Coonts

Grafton and Carmellini are back and joined by the Navy SEALs to battle terrorists on the high seas in this action-packed tale by New York Times bestseller Stephen Coonts

A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute FICTION / THRILLERS all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative St. Martin's Press | 5/14/2013 9780312372842 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the Subrights: passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military UK Rights: Trident Media Group response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to Translation Rights: Trident Media Group negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, Other Available Formats: and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to Ebook ISBN: 9781250023315 save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war. MARKETING

* National One Day Laydown: 5/14/13 PRAISE * National Print Publicity * National Radio Publicity "A great, realistic read that could mirror current events. Coonts details this ship high- * National Print Advertising Campaign jacking and take-down as if he has first-hand experience WITH the SEAL Teams." * National Online Advertising Campaign —Howard Wasdin, author of Seal Team Six * National Radio Advertising Campaign * Advance Reader’s Editions * Ebook Promotion "Stephen Coonts takes another master turn with Pirate Alley. . . . The buildup and final * Promotion with CommandPosts denouement will cost more than a few readers a good night’s sleep—and change the way * Author Website: StephenCoonts.com you view pirates, cruise ships and Washington forever." —Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of American Sniper ALSO AVAILABLE Deep Black: Death Wave “Coonts knows how to write and build suspense . . . a natural storyteller.” —The New 11/2011 | 9780312375492 York Times Book Review on Liars and Thieves Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. The Disciple STEPHEN COONTS is the author of sixteen New York Times bestselling books that have been 11/2010 | 9780312358099 translated and published around the world. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, he Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law. He lives in The Assassin: A Novel Colorado. 8/2009 | 9780312994464 Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can.

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LEAD

American Warrior The True Story of a Legendary Ranger

Gary O'Neal with David Fisher

The epic story of one of America's greatest soldiers, Ranger Hall of Fame member Gary O'Neal, who served his country for forty years

Chief Warrant Officer Gary O’Neal is no ordinary soldier. For nearly forty years, he has fought America’s enemies, becoming one of the greatest Warriors this nation has ever known. Part Native American, O’Neal was trained in both BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MILITARY military combat and the ways of his native people, combining his commitment to Thomas Dunne Books | 5/14/2013 freedom with his respect for the enemy, his technical fighting skills with his fierce 9781250004321 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. warrior spirit. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph From his first tour in Vietnam at seventeen to fighting in both Gulf wars, O’Neal insert was nothing less than a super soldier. A minefield of aggression bordering on a Subrights: justice-seeking vigilante, O’Neal kept fighting even when wounded, refusing to surrender in the face of nine serious injuries and being left more than once. UK Rights: Frank Weimann at The Literary O’Neal earned countless military honors as a member of the elite Army Rangers Group International corps, a founding member of the legendary first Department of Defense Translation Rights: Frank Weimann at The Literary Group International antiterrorist team, a member of the Golden Knights Parachuting Team, and more, devoting his life to training the next generation of soldiers. His unbelievable true Other Available Formats: stories are both shocking and moving, a reminder of what it means to be a true Ebook ISBN: 9781250022752 American hero. MARKETING * National Print Publicity In O’Neal’s own words, he "wasn’t born a warrior"—life made him one. * National Broadcast Publicity American Warrior will serve as inspiration for American men and women in * National Radio Publicity * National Online Advertising uniform today, as well as appeal to the countless veterans who served their * Email Marketing Campaign country alongside O’Neal. * Featured title on CommandPosts.com * Blog Outreach CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER GARY LEE O’NEAL (Ret.) trained from childhood in the warrior traditions of the Oglala Sioux and devoted nearly forty years with the U.S. Army Rangers and Special Forces. He lives in Raeford, North Carolina.

DAVID FISHER is the author of numerous bestsellers, including collaborations with George Burns, Terry Bradshaw, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, Johnnie Cochran, William Shatner, Mafia Hitman Joey Black, and most recently, Harry Markopolos, the Madoff whistleblower.

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LEAD

The Military Quotation Book, Revised for the 21st Century More Than 1,100 of the Best Quotations About War, Leadership, Courage, and Victory

James Charlton

An impressive treasury of bold, satirical, and witty observations about men and war, with new additions for the twenty-first century

Revised and updated to include more than 1,100 quotations, The REFERENCE / QUOTATIONS Military Quotation Book brings together the wisdom of fallen heroes, living Thomas Dunne Books | 5/14/2013 9781250004505 | $17.99/$19.99 Can. politicians, honored statesman, and rebellious writers—quoting official edicts as Hardback | 176 pages | Carton Qty: 28 well as off-the-record remarks. 5.000 in W | 7.125 in H Subrights: Among the most authoritative—and the most opinionated—are: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: James Charlton, James Charlton Associates l General Douglas MacArthur: "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." Other Available Formats: l Winston Churchill: "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human Ebook ISBN: 9781466834729 qualities." MARKETING l Joseph Stalin: "Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can * Online Publicity Campaign reach." * CommandPosts.com Promotion l Voltaire: "An admiral has to be put to death now and then to encourage the others." l Dwight D. Eisenhower: "Nothing is easy in war." l Franklin D. Roosevelt: "A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

With new sections on gays and women in the military, James Charlton has written the essential modern guide to military quotations. Perfect for everyone who loves the military—history buffs, speechmakers, veterans, and anyone in active military service—The Military Quotation Book is a loaded canon of memorable expressions.

PRAISE "This powerful collection of quotes from wartime leaders and heroes . . . is sure to inspire. A wonderful reference for anyone giving a speech, it also serves as a testament to courage for veterans and active-duty military personnel.” —Barnes & Noble

"Whether one believes that patriotism is 'the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons,' (Bertrand Russell) or that 'the man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife' (Teddy Roosevelt), one will find something provocative.” —Publishers Weekly

JAMES CHARLTON lives in New York, New York. 16 Jacket Cover ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

Always Watching Chevy Stevens

A "chilling, compelling read" (William Landay, author of Defending Jacob)—family secrets and missing memories collide in the latest from The New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing

Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at FICTION / THRILLERS St. Martin's Press | 6/18/2013 rest. But she has demons of her own—some she can barely think about and 9780312595692 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. some she can’t even remember. Nadine’s mother was a wildly unpredictable Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 manic depressive. There are whole chunks of Nadine’s life that are black holes. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia. And her Subrights: daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When UK Rights: William Morris Translation Rights: William Morris a new patient, Heather Simeon, is brought to the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine is assigned to work with her. As Nadine gently Other Available Formats: coaxes the story out of Heather, she learns of some troubling parallels to their Ebook ISBN: 9781250031891 lives. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her own history, and the MARKETING damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a * National Print Publicity commune by a river on remote Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? * National Print and Online Advertising Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the Campaign * Advance Reader’s Editions group’s leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today? As the * Pre-Pub Trade Advertising dual stories unfold, Nadine finds herself drawn to uncover her own secrets and * IndieBound Campaign learn why you can sometimes leave the past, but you can never escape. * Original eStory Campaign * Extensive Blog Outreach * Early Reader Reviews on PRAISE Goodreads.com * A Read-It-First.com Promotion "A harrowing tale of manipulation that got under my skin by the end of the first * CriminalElement.com Promotion chapter." —Linwood Barclay, international bestselling author of Trust Your Eyes * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: ChevyStevens.com "Chevy Stevens intelligently and relentlessly pulls the reader deeper into the * Author Facebook: /ChevyStevens - 15,000 Likes nightmarish world of a cult while compelling you to read just one more page." * Author Twitter: @ChevyStevens —Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister

"A winner . . . her best so far." —Regina Barnes, Toadstool Bookshop ALSO AVAILABLE Never Knowing "Compelling, harrowing, intriguing." —Gary Shulze, Once Upon a Crime 5/2012 | 9781250009319 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. "Wow, Chevy's done it again! When buried secrets explode to the surface." —David Still Missing 5/2011 | 9780312573577 Menard, Watermark Book Co. Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. CHEVY STEVENS grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still calls the island home. When she’s not working on her next book, she’s camping and canoeing with her husband in the local mountains.

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Earned in Blood My Journey from Old-Breed Marine to the Most Dangerous Job in America

Thurman Miller

The epic story of a young man’s journey from the most notorious battles of World War II to the most dangerous occupation in America

Born in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia in 1919, Thurman Miller was the sixteenth of eighteen children in a family so poor, the local coal miner's kids looked down on them. For Thurman, Appalachia was not just a region: it was a culture, a frame of mind, a history, a family, a being.

HISTORY / MILITARY St. Martin's Press | 5/21/2013 Miller enlisted in 1940 and served in World War II with the legendary unit K-3-5 9781250004994 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. of the First Marine Division, made famous in HBO's The Pacific. He was Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 24 involved in some of the most horrific battles in the Pacific Theater, including 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Guadalcanal and New Britain, where as Gunney Sergeant he sent men to their Includes 3 maps plus one 8-page black-and- white photograph insert deaths and narrowly escaped it himself. Upon returning stateside, suffering badly from the malaria he contracted in the Pacific and unable to find work, Miller took Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press a job in the coal mines in his home state of West Virginia, where he toiled in Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press darkness for thirty-seven years. The blackness of the mines fed the terrors he lived with since the battlefield and the backbreaking labor ate away at his already Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250021267 compromised body. Bowed but unbroken, Miller survived because of his strength and lifelong devotion to his beloved wife of sixty-five years—a relationship that MARKETING shines brightly in this distinctly American journey.

* National Print Publicity PRAISE * Online Promotion * Featured on CommandPosts.com “T.I. Miller is as fine a Marine as ever put on the uniform. In training and in combat, he was my mentor, my example, and my inspiration.” —R.V. Burgin, author of Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific

“At the end of this book I am left with a profound respect for this man, and filled with awe and gratitude. The levels of horror that he . . . endured in the name of service to country, home, and freedom is simply unimaginable.” —Marcus Brotherton, bestselling author of A Company of Heroes

"A dramatic and compelling story, one every American should read and ponder." —Homer Hickam, author Rocket Boys and October Sky

THURMAN MILLER, a native of Otsego, West Virginia, served as Gunny Sergeant with the First Marine Division in World War II and was one of the first Marines ashore on Guadalcanal. He fought in several other historic South Pacific battles, including New Britain, and after the war worked in the coal mining industry for over three decades. He formerly served as president of the West Virginia Chapter of the First Marine Division and lives near Beckley, West Virginia.

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Reviver A Novel

Seth Patrick

CSI meets The Sixth Sense in this compelling horror/thriller that has already been optioned by the producers of The Dark Knight Returns!

FICTION / THRILLERS Jonah Miller is a Reviver, able to temporarily revive the dead so they can say Thomas Dunne Books | 6/18/2013 9781250021700 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. goodbye to their loved ones—or tell the police who killed them. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Jonah works in a department of forensics created specifically for Revivers, and Subrights: he’s the best in the business. For every high-profile corpse pushing daisies, it’s Jonah’s job to find justice for them. But while reviving the victim of a brutal UK Rights: Harriet Sanders at Pan Macmillan UK murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is on the other side Translation Rights: Harriet Sanders at Pan watching. Waiting. His superiors tell him it's only in his mind, a product of stress. Macmillan UK Jonah isn't so certain. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250021694 Then Daniel Harker, the first journalist to bring revival to public attention, is murdered. Jonah finds himself getting dragged into the hunt for answers. Working MARKETING * National Print Publicity with Harker's daughter Annabel, he becomes determined to find those responsible * National Broadcast Publicity and bring them to justice. Soon they uncover long-hidden truths that call into doubt * Email Marketing Campaign everything Jonah stands for, and reveal a sinister force that threatens us all. * Featured title on Tor.com * Social Media Campaign * Blog Outreach Putting the paranormal in the police department, first-time author Seth Patrick blends genre lines with this edgy crime thriller. The first novel in the Reviver trilogy, Reviver is sure to appeal to fans of Dean Koontz and Justin Cronin.

SETH PATRICK was born in Northern Ireland. An Oxford mathematics graduate, he works as a programmer in an award-winning game company. He lives in England with his wife and two young children. Reviver is his first novel.

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The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane A Novel

Kelly Harms

A debut novel with huge bookclub potential—about luck and love, and winning a sweepstakes—with a cast of characters who will charm readers from the very first page

The HomeSweetHome network’s Free House Sweepstakes has just announced this year’s lucky winner of a brand-new, fully-loaded dream home: Janine Brown of Cedar Falls, Iowa.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY For Janey Brown, hearing her name called on television feels like the inescapable WOMEN fruition of her Aunt Midge’s endless string of harebrained plans, each of them Thomas Dunne Books | 5/21/2013 designed to drag Janey into the world outside the tiny kitchen where she is 9781250011381 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 happiest submerging her anxiety and grief in the pursuit of the perfect pot-au-feu. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Meanwhile, across town, Nean Brown just knows that house is her destiny. When Subrights: UK Rights: Waxman Leavell Agency she hears her name, it’s almost not even a surprise. Good fortune took its sweet Translation Rights: Waxman Leavell Agency time showing up in her life, but better late than never. For Nean the house

Other Available Formats: promises an escape from the latest in her revolving door of crappy jobs and drunk Ebook ISBN: 9781250022646 boyfriends, from being the kind of person other people look at but don’t see.

MARKETING Both Janine Browns head for their new hometown of Christmas Cove, Maine to claim the prize, and when their lives intersect, they discover that more than just a * National Print Publicity million-dollar dream home awaits them at water’s edge. In the vein of Mary Kay * Online Publicity * SIBA promotions Andrews, the Good Luck Girls will win you over. * Targeted bookseller outreach * Online Promotion PRAISE * Book Club Campaign * Blog Outreach "Janey and Nean each have a common name and uncommon hard luck, and when they * A Read-it-First.com and DearReader.com Author Promotion suddenly have in common a sweepstakes house, their lives begin to change . . . Their * Reading Group Gold Newsletter quirky wit will win you over, even as they fumble through their crazy new life . . . Alive * Library Marketing Campaign with warmth and wit; I enjoyed it right through to the satisfying end." —Kristina Riggle, author of Real Life & Liars

“A delightful book bursting with good humor, fast action, and delicious food. Aunt Midge is a pure joy, and I loved Harm’s surprising, spirited, and generous slant on what it takes to make a family.” —Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Breeze

KELLY HARMS is a former editor and literary agent where she worked with a wide array of bestselling and award-winning authors of commercial fiction. She traded New York City for the writing life in Madison, Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and young son. She currently works as a freelancer and amateur baking enthusiast—Harms can make a lot of things, but not clafoutis. This is her first novel.

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Extra Sensory The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind

Brian Clegg

A pop-science look at the untapped abilities of human beings, from ESP to Telekenesis and other real life sciences that are currently being studied today

We'd all love to have 'psi' abilities like telepathy, telekinesis, and remote viewing. But is there any solid evidence to back up these talents, or are they nothing more than fantasy? We still only understand a small percentage of the capabilities of

SCIENCE / GENERAL the human brain—and we shouldn’t dismiss such potential powers out of hand. St. Martin's Press | 5/21/2013 Although there is no doubt that many who claim these abilities are frauds, and no 9781250019066 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. one has yet won James Randi’s $1M prize for demonstrating ESP under lab Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H conditions, we still have a Nobel prize winner suggesting a mechanism for telepathy, serious scientists researching the field and university projects that Subrights: produced potentially explosive results. What’s the verdict? By looking at possible UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press physical mechanisms for ESP and taking in the best scientific evidence, the reader can discover if this is all wishful thinking and deception, or a fascinating Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250031686 reality. The truth is out there.

MARKETING PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Academic Marketing Campaign Praise for Gravity: * Author Website: BrianClegg.net "Although by far the feeblest of the four universal forces, gravity is the only one we experience continuously. Every inquisitive person should read a book about it, preferably this one . . . Clegg's skills never flag and his account remains lucid and free of jargon, bad jokes, and math phobia." —Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Clegg's accessible presentation offers insight into everything from Aristotelian science to black holes and string theory as it reveals the complexities and surprise of a familiar force that continues to surprise scientists." —Publishers Weekly

BRIAN CLEGG holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.

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Shakespeare's Pub A Barstool History of London As Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn

Pete Brown

A history of Britain told through the story of one very special pub, from "The Beer Drinker's Bill Bryson" (Times Literary Supplement)

Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And

HISTORY / EUROPE then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last St. Martin's Press | 5/21/2013 six hundred years? 9781250033888 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way Includes black-and-white photographs out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare popped in from the throughout nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers Subrights: changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain—while UK Rights: Pan Macmillan UK sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250033871 The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect example. All life is here, from murderers, MARKETING highwaymen, and ladies of the night to gossiping peddlers and hard-working * National Print Publicity clerks. So sit back and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and 'the * Online Publicity * Blog Campaign targeting Beer beer drinker's Bill Bryson' (UK's Times Literary Supplement) takes us on an Review Websites entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone * Online Promotion: Giveaways on Beer that ever drank in one pub. Sites and Goodreads.com * Author Website: PeteBrown.blogspot.com PRAISE Praise for Man Walks Into a Pub: "A pleasant antidote to more po-faced histories of beer." —Guardian

"Like a good drinking companion, Brown tells a remarkable story: a stream of fascinating facts, etymologies and pub-related urban phenomena." —Times Literary Supplement

"Packed with bar-room bet-winning facts and entertaining digressions, this is a book into which every pub-goer will want to dip." —Express

PETE BROWN used to advertise lager for a living, until he realized that writing books about beer was even more fun, and entailed drinking even more beer. He appears regularly on television as a beer expert, writes on beer for a variety of publications and is the author of Man Walks into a Pub and the award-winning travel book Three Sheets to the Wind. He was named the British Guild of Beer Writers Beer Writer of the Year 2009. He lives in London.

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The Adventuress A Novel

Nicholas Coleridge

A delightfully wicked novel following the rise and rise of Cathy Fox, a modern-day Becky Sharp

No one forgets Cath Fox. From her scorpion tattoo to her other worldly charms, she's a shrewd woman-on-the-make who will not be swayed in her quest for the top.

From her humble beginnings as a matron's assistant at a top girls' boarding school, Cath embarks on a journey that will take her from a Portsmouth backstreet to the boardrooms of the global empires. With a cast of footballers, media moguls, lords FICTION / GENERAL and dukes, Coleridge charts the rise of a woman who will not be denied, right to Thomas Dunne Books | 5/28/2013 9781250028259 | $25.99 the very pinnacle of society—a Royal Wedding. Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 16 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Nicolas Coleridge has been praised by everyone from Tina Brown to The New Subrights: Yorker to Graydon Carter for his irresistibly funny and flawless dissection of UK Publisher: Orion Publishing Group; social mores. Cutting a sweep from the 80s to the present day, this Vanity Fair Translation Rights: Ed Victor Ltd for our age is keenly observed, hilarious, and utterly addictive. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250028266 PRAISE

MARKETING "Cathy Fox is a woman who will not be denied . . . and you'll love her brazen nerve and * Online Review Campaign chutzpah." —Glamour (UK)

"Sizzlingly funny and incredibly filthy, each scene bubbles with mischief and white- ALSO AVAILABLE water-rapids you to the next. . . . [Coleridge] delivers hugely readable, witty, sharp and Pride and Avarice: A Novel 4/2011 | 9780312680299 sexy fiction." —The Lady Paperback / softback | $15.99 Godchildren Praise for Nicholas Coleridge: 9/2009 | 9780312604820 “Coleridge dissects the social mores . . . with the precision of Tom Wolfe.” —The New Paperback / softback | $21.99 Yorker A Much Married Man 5/2008 | 9780312382261 Paperback / softback | $19.99 “Nicholas Coleridge makes a witty and acerbic guide to this arcane, and largely secret, world.” —Julian Fellowes, author of Snobs; Academy Award-wining writer of Gosford Park

A former newspaper journalist and magazine editor, NICHOLAS COLERIDGE joined Conde Nast as editorial director of the British company in 1989. He has been managing director since 1991 and president of Conde Nast International since 2012. He is the author of four previous novels and lives in London and Worcestershire with his wife and four children.

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The Weight of a Human Heart Stories

Ryan O'Neill

"You will be astounded by the hugeness of his heart, and by the breadth and depth of his vision. O'Neill is a writer of limitless imagination." —Hector Tobar, author of The Barbarian Nurseries FICTION / LITERARY St. Martin's Press | 5/28/2013 9781250024992 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Ranging from Australia and Africa to Europe and Asia and back again, The Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Weight of a Human Heart heralds a fresh and important new voice in fiction. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Ryan O'Neill takes us on a journey that is sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, Subrights: and wholly original. UK Rights: Old Street Publishing Translation Rights: Black Inc. Australia A young Tutsi girl flees her village on the brink of the Rwandan genocide. A Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250025005 literary stoush—and an affair—play out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mother’s disturbing secrets through the MARKETING broken key on a typewriter. * National Print Publicity * National Advertising Campaign With imagination, wit, and a keen eye, Ryan O'Neill draws the essence of the * Indie bookstore mailing campaign: Advance Access human experience with a cast of characters who stick with you long after you * Online Promotion turn the last page of this brilliant short story collection. * Library Marketing Campaign

PRAISE “Brilliant collection.” —The Independent (UK)

“Uproarious, dazzling collection” —The Monthly (Australia)

“Inventive, witty, and profoundly human, Ryan O'Neill is one of Australia's best short story writers." —Simon Van Booy, author of Everything Beautiful Began After and winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award

“Refreshing, funny, devastating. O’Neill's stories offer glimpses into worlds readers need to see, worlds that are vile, beautiful, and utterly human.” —Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Birds of a Lesser Paradise

RYAN O'NEILL was born in Glasgow in 1975 and lived in Africa, Europe, and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. A Hal Porter and Roland Robinson award-winner, his fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings, and Westerly. The Weight of a Human Heart has been shortlisted for the 2012 Queensland Literary Prize–Steele Rudd Award. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.

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Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award

Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia, theater critic for the Newark Star Ledger, takes an intriguing look at the Broadway musical by turning the Tony Award on its head

Not since Not Since Carrie has a book about the Broadway musical taken such a gimlet-eyed look at this quintessential American art form. In Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks, popular syndicated theatre critic Peter Filichia chronicles PERFORMING ARTS / THEATER the American musical by looking at those shows that did not win the Tony St. Martin's Press | 5/28/2013 9781250018434 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Award. Every spring the American Theatre Wing bestows its annual Tony Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Awards. Only those shows that have reached Broadway are nominated and while 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H all Tonys are created equal, the universally acknowledged biggest prize is the Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph insert Best Musical Tony. But did the best musical always win Best Musical? And were there other factors that kept a more deserving show from winning? Filichia Subrights: answers these questions and more as he looks at all 153 previous Best Musical UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rigths: Linda Konner Literary Nominees that didn’t win. In 1959 when Ethel Merman and a variety of strippers Agency took the stage, there was a tie between "The Sound of Music" and "Fiorello". In Other Available Formats: 1971, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" and its ghostly showgirls lost to a "groovy" re- Ebook ISBN: 9781250018441 tuning of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" best forgotten. And, in 1957, "West Side Story" was bested by the fine people of River City Iowa singing their Americana MARKETING hearts out in "The Music Man". If you love Broadway, hate the Tonys and still * National Print Publicity can't figure out how a show you hated won the Tony Award for Best Musical, * Online Promotion * Academic Marketing Campaign you will love riding through the years with Peter Filichia, one of America's most * Author Website: PeterFilichia.com respected and popular theatre critics.

PRAISE Praise for Peter Filichia: “One of our most important theater writers.” —Charles Strouse, composer of Annie and Bye Bye Birdie

“I read him all the time.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked

“The finest interviewer I have ever encountered.” —Joseph Stein, author of Fiddler on the Roof

PETER FILICHIA is the theater critic for the Newark Star-Ledger and its television station, News 12 New Jersey. He has served four terms as president of the Drama Desk, the New York Association of Drama Critics. A frequent contributor to theater publications and the writer of many cast-album CD liner notes, he lives in New Jersey.

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The Tainted Throne Empires of the Moghul: Book IV

Alex Rutherford

The fourth installment in the internationally bestselling historical adventure series set in the Moghul Empire, featuring a culture reminiscent of the Dothraki in A Game of Thrones

India, 1606. Jahangir, the triumphant Moghul Emperor and ruler of most of the Indian subcontinent, is doomed. No amount of wealth and ruthlessness can protect him from his sons' desire for power. The glorious Moghul throne is worth any amount of bloodshed and betrayal; once Jahangir raised troops against his own father; now he faces a bloody battle with Khurram, the ablest of his warring FICTION / HISTORICAL Thomas Dunne Books | 5/28/2013 sons. Worse is to come. Just as the heirs of Timur the Great share intelligence, 9780312597030 | $27.99 physical strength, and utter ruthlessness, they also have a great weakness for Hardback | 448 pages | Carton Qty: 16 wine and opium. Once Jahangir is tempted, his talented wife, Mehrunissa, is only 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Includes one map too willing to take up the reins of the empire. And with Khurram and his half- brothers each still determined to be their father's heir, the savage battle for the Subrights: Moghul throne will be more ferocious than even Timur could have imagined.

UK Rights: Headline Review (UK Publisher) Translation Rights: Michael Carlisle of InkWell PRAISE Management "A tale of ambition, power and death. The book is definitely a must read if not for Other Available Formats: anything but to get a feel of India’s past.” —Post Noon (India) on The Tainted Throne Ebook ISBN: 9781250034458

MARKETING “This series has developed into a fascinating insight into the rise and fall of a great and * National Print Publicity glorious dynasty. Bloody battles, brutal killings and treachery—what more could you * E mail Marketing Campaign ask for?” —Historical Novels Society on Ruler of the World * Pre-Pub Online Giveaway * Author and Book Website: EmpireOfTheMoghul.co.uk "The hand-to-hand combat pulsates with heroic vigor and plentiful gore, sure to entertain fans, and the climax paves the way for the next epic entry." —Publishers Weekly on A Kingdom Divided ALSO AVAILABLE

Ruler of the World: Empire of the Moghul ALEX RUTHERFORD is the pen name for Diana and Michael Preston, whose nonfiction has been 5/2013 | 9781250032034 awarded the Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Prize and been praised worldwide. They Paperback / softback | $16.99 are also authors of Raiders from the North, A Kingdom Divided, and most recently Ruler of the A Kingdom Divided: Empire of the Moghul World. They live in London. 6/2012 | 9781250007292 Paperback / softback | $15.99 Raiders from the North: Empire of the Moghul 5/2011 | 9780312573225 Paperback / softback | $15.99

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Ladies' Night Mary Kay Andrews

The New York Times bestselling author is back with another page turning beach read about a woman whose life is turned upside down when she discovers her husband cheating on her

Rising media star and lifestyle blogger Grace Stanton's own life gets torpedoed after she drives her cheating husband's pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool in a fit of anger. Soon she's locked out of her own palatial home, checking account, and blog, forced to move in with her widowed mother who lives above, and owns, The Sandbar, a rundown beach bar. Attending court- mandated weekly "divorce recovery" therapy sessions with a group of three other women, marital misfits whose only common denominator is betrayal, Grace and the women soon ditch their therapist and move their Wednesday "Ladies' Night" FICTION / CONTEMPORARY sessions to The Sandbox. They begin to help each other, walking a fine line WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 6/4/2013 between revenge and justice, as each one finds closure in ways previously 9781250019677 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. unimagined. Can Grace figure out a new way home and how strong she needs to Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 16 be to get there? Told with Mary Kay Andrews’s unique blend of humor, heart, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H and unpredictable plot twists, Ladies' Night will have you raising a glass and Subrights: cheering these characters on. UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press PRAISE Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427230812 Praise for Spring Fever: Ebook ISBN: 9781250019653 "An enjoyable escape." —Publishers Weekly

MARKETING * National One-day Laydown: June 4, "Andrews deftly combines a winsome love story and compelling family drama, and the 2013 idyllic small-town setting and surprising twists and turns are tailor-made for laid-back * National Author Tour * National Radio Publicity summer pleasure reading." —Booklist * National Print Publicity * National Print Advertising * Online Advertising Campaign "Andrews delivers a satisfying read that will leave a taste as tangy, delicious and sweet * Advance Reader’s Editions as an ice-cold bottle of Quixie soda." —Kirkus Reviews * Major Summer Reading Bookclub Campaign * “Ladies Night” Event Kits "A book you will want to sink your teeth into." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution * E-book Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign MARY KAY ANDREWS is The New York Times bestselling author of Spring Fever, Summer * Online Promotion and Preorder Campaign Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, * Excerpt in the St. Martin’s Griffin edition and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, of Spring Fever (May 2012) Georgia. * Author Website: MaryKayAndrews.com

ALSO AVAILABLE Spring Fever 3/2013 | 9780312642723 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. Summer Rental 5/2012 | 9780312642709 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

27 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

The Last Line A Novel

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and William H. Keith

Bestselling author and real-life spy Anthony Shaffer enters the realm of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor with a thriller rooted in the shadow world of espionage, government power, and betrayal

With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels south of the border have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a deadly plot aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America. DIA case officer Chris Teller races to unravel the details of Operation Shah Mat—Checkmate—before nuclear devastation and a plot to carve a new nation out of the American Southwest change the shape and security of the U.S. FICTION / THRILLERS forever. But Teller will soon discover that his most deadly and pernicious enemies Thomas Dunne Books | 6/4/2013 9781250007759 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. are not bloodthirsty drug lords, but a terrifying and treasonous cabal within the Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 heart of the U.S. government itself. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: After battling Pentagon censorship with his bestselling memoir, Anthony Shaffer UK Rights: St. Martin's Press follows in the footsteps of Dalton Fury with this explosive, all-too-believable Translation Rights: The Grosvenor Literary Agency thriller.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250013682 PRAISE Praise for Operation Dark Heart: MARKETING “Takes you inside the espionage world, a labyrinth of secret agencies that do not like to * National TV Publicity share secrets." —Army Times * National Radio Publicity * Prominent Online Media Coverage "A nonfiction book that frequently reads like an adventure novel." —Booklist * National Online Advertising Campaign * CommandPosts.com Promotion “A gripping account, filled with amazing detail, of an otherwise secret world.” —Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers ALSO AVAILABLE Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special “Riveting.” —Playboy Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan--- and the Path to Victory 10/2011 | 9780312606916 LT. COL. ANTHONY SHAFFER is a Bronze Star Medal recipient and a lieutenant colonel in the Paperback / softback | $15.99/$18.50 Can. U. S. Army Reserve. A CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer, he has more than twenty- five years of experience in the intelligence community. He is a Senior Fellow and Special Lecturer at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, D.C. and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Operation Dark Heart.

28 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Flat Water Tuesday A Novel

Ron Irwin

A stunning novel of boarding school, family secrets, deep and passionate love, and the brutal pain of sports training

Rob Carrey, the son of a working-class cabinet maker, arrives at the Fenton School with a scholarship to row and a chip on his shoulder. Generations of austere Fenton men have led the rowing team, known as the God Four, to countless victories—but none are as important or renowned as the annual Tuesday-afternoon race against their rival, Warwick.

FICTION / COMING OF AGE But first Rob must complete months of preparation driven by their captain, Thomas Dunne Books | 6/4/2013 Connor Payne’s vicious competitive nature. As the race nears, the stakes rise, 9781250030030 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 tempers and lusts are fueled, and no one can prevent the horrible tragedy that 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H befalls one of them. Includes one map Subrights: Fifteen years later, Rob returns home from a film shoot in Africa to end a UK Rights: St. Martin's Press heartbreaking relationship with his girlfriend, Carolyn. But when a phone call Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press from one of the God Four compels him to attend the reunion at Fenton, no part of Other Available Formats: Rob’s past remains sequestered for long and nothing about his future is certain. Audio ISBN: 9781427231796 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250035981 Ebook ISBN: 9781250030023 As much about the sport of rowing as it is a novel of finding oneself, not once, but again in mid-life; Flat Water Tuesday is a testament to the pride and passion of MARKETING youth, and an ode to the journey of forgiveness.

* National Print Publicity PRAISE * National Print Advertising Campaign * Pre-Publication Advertising "All you ever wanted to know about the world of competitive rowing is contained in the * Advance Readers’ Editions * IndieBound Whitebox Mailing pages of Ron Irwin's new novel, whose hero is not only a prodigious oarsman but the * Online Promotion lover of two memorably realized women." —J.M. Coetzee * Book Browse First Impressions * Library Marketing Campaign “A gripping read . . . Irwin is adept at revealing the tricky bonds between rowers, and the * A Read-It-First.com Selection way those bonds can shape—and misshape—a life.” —Tom McNeal, author of To Be * Netgalley Promotion * Author Website: RonaldIrwin.com Sung Underwater * Social Media Campaign: Twitter.com/RonIrwin, "A propulsive, heart-stopping story in the tradition of such sporting classics as Bernard Facebook.com/RonaldIrwin Malamud’s The Natural. A world-class champion of a novel." —Amber Dermont, New York Times bestselling author of The Starboard Sea

RON IRWIN was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and attended boarding school and college in New England, where he was a member of a number of winning rowing crews. He is currently the writer in residence for the University of Cape Town’s MA in Creative Writing program, where he has taught since 1999. Irwin holds a Masters in Literary Studies and a Masters in Creative Writing, and has worked as a freelance documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is married and has three children.

29 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

The Spy Who Loved The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville

Clare Mulley

Called a "tautly written account of secret operations in occupied Europe," (The Economist), this is the untold story of Britain's first female special agent of World War II

In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.

BIOGRAPHY & The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocratic and his wealthy Jewish wife, she AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MILITARY St. Martin's Press | 6/4/2013 would become one of Britain’s most daring and highly decorated special agents. 9781250030320 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Having fled to Britain on the outbreak of war, she was recruited by the Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 16 intelligence services and took on mission after mission. She skied over the 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus two 8-page black-and-white photograph hazardous High Tatras into Poland, served in Egypt and North Africa, and was inserts later parachuted into Occupied France, where an agent’s life expectancy was only six weeks. Her courage, quick wit, and determination won her release from Subrights: UK Rights: Pan Macmillan arrest more than once, and saved the lives of several fellow officers, including Translation Rights: Andrew Lownie Literary one of her many lovers, just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More Agency importantly, the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Other Available Formats: Allied war effort, and she was awarded the George Medal, the OBE and the Ebook ISBN: 9781250030337 Croix de Guerre.

MARKETING Granville exercised a mesmeric power on those who knew her. The Spy Who * National Print Publicity * Online Review Campaign Loved tells the extraordinary story of this charismatic, difficult, fearless, and * Author Website: ClareMulley.com altogether extraordinary woman.

PRAISE A stunning biographical achievement." —Alison Weir, author of Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth

"[Granville] carried out some of the most daring missions ever conceived . . . Careful research has created sustained tension, vitality, and immediacy which are truly page- turning." —Gordon Thomas, author of The Pope’s Jews and Gideon’s Spies

"A breath-taking story, told with panache and sympathy for an extraordinary heroine . . . Required reading for anyone interested in understanding what makes an ordinary person act with superhuman courage in times of adversity." —Anne Sebba, author of That Woman

CLARE MULLEY is the author of The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb, which won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize.

30 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Gloria Swanson The Ultimate Star

Stephen Michael Shearer

The first in-depth biography of film legend Gloria Swanson, whose unforgettable role in Sunset Boulevard overshadowed her true life

Gloria Swanson was Hollywood’s first successful glamour queen. Her stardom in the 1920s earned her millions of fans and millions of dollars. Realizing her box- office value early in her career, Swanson took control of her life. Soon she was not only producing her own films, she was choosing her scripts, selecting her leading men, casting her projects, creating her own fashions, guiding her publicity, and living an extravagant and extraordinary lifestyle. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / She also collected a long line of lovers (including Joseph P. Kennedy) and married ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS men of her choosing (including a Marquis, thus becoming America’s “first” Thomas Dunne Books | 6/4/2013 royalty). As a devoted and loving mother, she managed to successfully raise three 9781250001559 | $29.99/$34.50 Can. children. Perhaps most importantly, as a keen businesswoman, she was also able Hardback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H to continue her career for more than sixty years, and her astounding comeback in Plus two 16-page black-and-white photograph Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard not only catapulted her back into the limelight, inserts but it also created her long misunderstood personae. Subrights: UK Rights: Castiglia Literary Agency In this comprehensive biography, Stephen Michael Shearer tells the life story of Translation Rights: Castiglia Literary Agency the woman who defined what a movie icon is. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250013668 PRAISE

MARKETING Praise for Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr: * National Print Publicity “A fascinating biography that recreates Hollywood’s Golden Age of Glamour.” * Online Publicity Campaign * Author Website: SMSMyBooks.com —Publishers Weekly

"Much more than a standard Hollywood biography." —Edge Magazine ALSO AVAILABLE Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr "In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious 9/2010 | 9780312550981 nonsense of Lamarr's movies." —The Wall Street Journal Hardback | $29.99/$34.50 Can.

STEPHEN MICHAEL SHEARER is the author of Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life and Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr. He has written for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and is also a former model and actor, having appeared on stage, television, and in film. Shearer currently resides in Minnesota and New York City.

31 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

Spell It Out The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling

David Crystal

The fascinating and surprising history of English spelling from David Crystal, everyone's favorite expert logophile

With The Story of English in 100 Words, David Crystal took us on a tour through the history of our language. Now, with Spell It Out, he takes on the task of answering all the questions about how we spell: "Why is English spelling so difficult?" Or "Why are good spellers so proud of their achievement that when they see a misspelling they condemn the writer as sloppy, lazy, or uneducated?" In thirty-seven short, engaging and informative chapters, Crystal takes readers on a LANGUAGE ARTS & history of English spelling, starting with the Roman missionaries’ sixth century DISCIPLINES / SPELLING St. Martin's Press | 6/4/2013 introduction of the Roman alphabet and ending with where the language might be 9781250003478 | $22.99 going. He looks individually at each letter in the alphabet and its origins. He Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 28 considers the question of vowels and how people developed a way to tell whether 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H or not it was long or short. He looks at influences from other cultures, and Subrights: explains how English speakers understood that the “o” in “hopping” was a short UK Rights: InkWell Management, LLC vowel, rather than the long vowel of “hoping”. If you’ve ever asked yourself Translation Rights: InkWell Management, LLC questions like “Why do the words “their”, “there” and “they’re” sound alike, but Other Available Formats: mean very different things?” or “How can we tell the difference between Ebook ISBN: 9781250028860 “charge” the verb and “charge” the noun?” David Crystal’s Spell It Out will spell

MARKETING it all out for you. * Online Promotion * Author Website and Blog: PRAISE -DavidCrystal.com -david-crystal.blogspot.com Praise for The Story of English in 100 Words: “The best word book to come down the pike in many a moon . . . An ingenious idea, and only David Crystal could have pulled it off." —Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart ALSO AVAILABLE Kellerman, authors of Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the The Story of English in 100 Words English Language and bloggers at Grammarphobia.com 3/2013 | 9781250024206 Paperback / softback | $16.00/$18.50 Can. “Brisk [and] exuberant . . . Crystal delights in exposing all the many wacky ways we English speakers make new words.” —San Francisco Chronicle

DAVID CRYSTAL is the author of The Story of English in 100 Words and Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. In 1995, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to the English language. He lives in the United Kingdom.

32 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Sons of Zeus A Novel

Noble Smith

A young fighter must save his city from a genocidal invasion in this debut that calls to mind the historical adventures of Steven Pressfield and Conn Iggulden

Sons of Zeus launches an epic series set in 432 BC during the "Pearl Harbor" of the Ancient World—the treacherous sneak attack that started the bloody war between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Sparta. Between these superpowers sits the independent city-state of Plataea where the young Nikias dreams of glory in the Olympic games as he studies “the pankration”—the FICTION / ACTION & no-holds-barred ultimate fighting of the era. ADVENTURE Thomas Dunne Books | 6/4/2013 9781250025579 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. An act of violence in defense of his beloved threatens to send Nikias into exile. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: But before his trial can take place a traitor opens the city gates to a surprise 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Includes one black-and-white map attack force and the citizens are trapped inside their own fortress. As Nikias seeks to discover the identity of the man who betrayed the city, he makes a Subrights: UK Rights: Movable Type daring escape, gathers an army and leads this ragtag band into a suicidal battle at Management Translation Rights: Movable Type Management the gates of the citadel—a battle that will decide the fates of his family, his friends, and the girl he loves. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250026422 A richly detailed action-adventure, Sons of Zeus marks the start of a thrilling new MARKETING series. * National Print Publicity * Online Promotion * Bonus Story Available Online and as PRAISE eBook Praise for Stolen from Gypsies: “So witty and plain funny that I found myself laughing out loud. Noble Smith delivers on every page.” —Alfred Uhry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Driving Miss Daisy ALSO AVAILABLE

The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life “A wonderful book, full of wit, mirth and wild imagination.” —The Californian 10/2012 | 9781250025562 Hardback | $22.99/$26.50 Can. “Noble Smith’s wit and inventiveness, and the astonishing range of his learning recreates the picaresque novel almost single-handedly, then promptly stands it on its head, all the while reminding us of what real storytelling always was, and still can be. The book is a pure delight.” —Peter S. Beagle, Hugo and Nebula Award-winner and author of The Last Unicorn

NOBLE SMITH is an award-winning playwright who has worked as a video game writer, a documentary film executive producer and the media director of an international human rights foundation. He is also the author of The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and children.

33 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Stolen Escape from Syria

Louise Monaghan with Yvonne Kinsella

In the vein of Not Without My Daughter, a memoir recounting a mother's crusade to rescue her kidnapped daughter from her abusive ex-husband during the tumultuous days of the Arab Spring

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan walked across a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old child from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Fearing for her BIOGRAPHY & daughter's future under the oppressive Sharia law, the Irish mother returned to AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL her ex-husband, Mostafa Assad, to bide her time until she could escape with her MEMOIRS daughter. Thomas Dunne Books | 6/4/2013 9781250030276 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Once in his homeland, she too was held captive, locked inside a run-down house 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H with little food and no hope of deliverance. Severely beaten by Mostafa —she Subrights: was even left unconscious on the ground in front of their child—she and her little girl miraculously escaped. UK Rights: Mainstream (UK Publisher) Translation Rights: Yvonne Kinsella at Prizeman This suspenseful account will pull at your heartstrings, enveloping you in and Kinsella harrowing events that no mother would dare imagine and culminating with the Other Available Formats: triumphal feats this mother achieved. Smuggled across a heavily patrolled Ebook ISBN: 9781250030269 mountain range in the dead of night through bomb attacks and sniper fire, Monaghan and her daughter speak to the transcendent bond between mother and MARKETING * National Print Publicity child. * Online Outreach PRAISE "An incredible journey to the hell of the Syrian warzone." —Sunday World

"Reads like a thriller . . . an extraordinary story." —Irish Sunday Independent

LOUISE MONAGHAN studied travel and tourism before working as a senior travel consultant. She is now trying to rebuild her life in Cyprus surrounded and protected by a large group of friends.

34 Jacket Cover ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

My Isl@m How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind and Broke My Heart--- and Doubt Freed My Soul

Amir Ahmad Nasr

A poignant, honest, and uplifting memoir of how blogging and the internet opened the eyes and heart of one young Muslim man to a world beyond his religious fundamentalist upbringing BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS The recent Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions have demonstrated to the world that St. Martin's Press | 6/11/2013 young Muslim freedom fighters today have something explosive in their hands. 9781250016799 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 12 No, it’s not a bomb. It’s a computer connected to the Internet. And it has the 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H power to help ignite an uprising, and blow apart the structures of ignorance, repression and indoctrination that too often still imprison the Muslim mind. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press Part inspirational memoir, part passionate call to freedom and democracy, My

Other Available Formats: Isl@m tells the tale of how the internet opened Amir Ahmad's eyes and heart to a Ebook ISBN: 9781250016485 world beyond the conspiracy theories and religious fundamentalism of his early youth. In his honest, provocative, and courageous debut, Ahmad steps out from MARKETING behind the curtain of anonymity and emerges as a voice of a new generation of * National Print Publicity Muslims. * National Radio Publicity * Author Appearances * IndieBound Campaign Set in war-ravaged Sudan, the oil-rich Arab Gulf nation of Qatar, multi-religious * Major Online Publicity & Social Media Malaysia, the United States, and the new frontiers of the Western and Muslim Campaign: Utilizing author’s network of blogger friends political blogospheres, My Isl@m is a disarming and uplifting tale of doubt, soul- * Extensive Blog Outreach searching, and finally finding peace in the most unexpected of places. My Isl@m * Early Reader Reviews on is ultimately about the author's journey of spiritual awakening and why and how Goodreads.com * A Read-It-First.com Selection the internet will not only help reform the political landscape of the Arab and * Email Marketing Campaign Muslim worlds, but also significantly shape the future of Islam as well. * NetGalley Campaign * Author Website & Blog: VirtuesOfIrreverence PRAISE * Author Facebook * Author Twitter: @SudaneseThinker: "Amir is one of the most exciting and dynamic Muslim voices to come on the stage in 6,000 Followers years. Read this funny and enlightening book and find out why." - Reza Aslan, * Macmillan Speaker’s Bureau international best-selling author of No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War

"As a former Christian fundamentalist, I deeply resonate with Amir's faith journey. Regardless of your religious background, if you're struggling with belief or if you're curious about how the digital revolution is impacting religious thought and empowering a new generation of young activists, this book is a must!"- Michael Dowd, bestselling author of Thank God for Evolution

AMIR AHMAD NASR began his blog, The Sudanese Thinker, a three-time finalist for the Weblog Awards, in 2006. He is pursuing a master's degree in philosophy with a focus on Islam and ethics and is also researching the impact of new media on contemporary Islamic thought. His writing appears regularly on "Comment Is Free" at The Guardian, he has made appearances on Al-Jazeera and Huffington Post Live, and has been a featured speaker at Oslo Freedom Forum and other conferences. He lives in Malaysia.

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SMP LEAD

Black Venus A Novel

James MacManus

A vivid novel of Charles Baudelaire and his lover Jeanne Duval, the Haitian cabaret singer who inspired his most famous and controversial poems, set in nineteenth-century Paris

For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife or Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French city decades earlier, when the likes of Dumas and Balzac argued literature in the cafes of the Left Bank. Amongst the bohemians the young Charles Baudelaire FICTION / HISTORICAL Thomas Dunne Books | 5/7/2013 stood out—dressed impeccably thanks to an inheritance that was quickly 9781250014238 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. vanishing. Still at work on the poems which he hoped would make his name, he Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 spent his nights enjoying the alcohol, opium, and women who filled the seedy 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H streets of the city. Subrights: UK Rights: Ed Victor, Ltd. One woman would catch his eye—a beautiful Haitian cabaret singer named Translation Rights: Ed Victor, Ltd. Jeanne Duval. Their lives would remain forever intertwined thereafter, and their Other Available Formats: romance would inspire his most infamous poems—leading to the banning of his Ebook ISBN: 9781250020925 masterwork Les Fleurs du Mal and a scandalous public trial for obscenity.

MARKETING * National Print Publicity Black Venus recreates the classic Parisian literary world in vivid detail, complete * Online Promotion with not just an affecting portrait of the famous poet but also his often * Author Website: JamesMacManus.com misunderstood, much-maligned muse.

PRAISE ALSO AVAILABLE The Language of the Sea: A Novel Praise for The Language of the Sea: 5/2011 | 9780312648473 "Blending mystical fantasy with contemporary science, MacManus weaves an Hardback | $24.99/$28.99 Can. otherworldly tale of one man’s frenzied search for identity and fantastic quest for survival." —Booklist

“This is one of those rare things, a passionate book, written with feeling. Gripping drama plus well-drawn characters and a wonderfully absorbing and moving read.” —Daily Mail (UK)

“Borrowing from the old Scots folk tale of the skelpies, it’s an expert and beautifully- crafted piece of work.” —News of the World (UK)

JAMES MACMANUS is the managing director of the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Ocean Devil, which was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and The Language of the Sea. He lives in England.

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Painted Hands A Novel

Jennifer Zobair

The Namesake meets Sex and the City in this engaging and provocative debut novel about friendship and the love lives of American Muslim women

Muslim bad girl Zainab Mir has just landed a job working for a post-feminist, Republican Senate candidate. Her best friend Amra Abbas is about to make partner at a top Boston law firm. Together they’ve thwarted proposal-slinging aunties, cultural expectations, and the occasional bigot to succeed in their careers. What they didn’t count on? Unlikely men and geopolitical firestorms.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY When a handsome childhood friend reappears, Amra makes choices that Zainab WOMEN Thomas Dunne Books | 6/11/2013 considers so 1950s—choices that involve the perfect Banarasi silk dress and a 9781250027009 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. four-bedroom house in the suburbs. After hiding her long work hours during their Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 courtship, Amra struggles to balance her demanding job and her unexpectedly 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H traditional new husband. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Zainab has her own problems. She generates controversy in the Muslim Translation Rights: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin community with a strapless magazine spread and friendship with a gay reporter. Other Available Formats: Her rising profile also inflames neocons like Chase Holland, the talk radio host Ebook ISBN: 9781250027016 who attacks her religion publicly but privately falls for her hard. When the political

MARKETING fallout from a terrorist attempt jeopardizes Zainab's job and protests surrounding a * Online Promotion woman-led Muslim prayer service lead to violence, Amra and Zainab must decide * Library Marketing Campaign what they’re willing to risk for their principles, their friendship, and love. * Social Media Campaign * Author Website: JenniferZobair.com PRAISE “A debut with an original and refreshing premise–Jennifer Zobair’s novel is . . . a positive portrait of modern Muslim women, prominent in their professions and at large within their communities, written with affection and detail.” —Roopa Farooki, author of The Flying Man

“Zobair lifts the veil on three American Muslim women, taking readers into a world that will challenge their assumptions . . . an important addition to the canon of ethnic fiction, showcasing the difficulty of being both American and Muslim.” —Anne Cherian, author of The Invitation

JENNIFER ZOBAIR grew up in Iowa and attended Smith College and Georgetown Law School. She has practiced corporate and immigration law and as a convert to Islam, has been a strong advocate for Muslim women's rights. Zobair lives with her husband and three children outside of Boston.

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Red Star Falling A Thriller

Brian Freemantle

“Freemantle, certainly one of the top espionage writers today, may very well be one of the best of all time.” —Booklist

After a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin finds himself in the custody of the FSB, Russia's secret service organization and descendent of the KGB. His position in British intelligence has been discovered, and the Russians are eager to have their revenge for his having exposed a triple agent they had spent decades fostering.

Desperate to learn if his wife and daughter were able to reach England without BOOKS / FICTION him, Charlie knows that his stay with the Russians could come to an abrupt, Thomas Dunne Books | 6/11/2013 9781250032249 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. deadly end if he doesn't find a way to give them what they want—or at Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 least what they think they want—while trying to find out the fate of his family. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Meanwhile, the British intelligence forces are at each others' throats as they Subrights: attempt to discover who revealed Charlie's identity. Was the culprit working in UK Rights: Jonathan Clowes Ltd. Literary their own self-interest or, more worryingly, for the Russians? Agents; Translation: Jonathan Clowes Ltd. Literary Agents PRAISE

MARKETING Praise for Brian Freemantle: * Online Promotion “Praised as more than a match for John le Carré, Freemantle will not disappoint * Library Marketing Campaign readers.” —Library Journal

“If Brian Freemantle isn’t the best writer of spy novels around, he’s certainly, along with ALSO AVAILABLE John le Carré, in the top two. . . . It doesn’t get much better than this.” —The Red Star Burning: A Thriller 6/2012 | 9781250006363 Philadelphia Inquirer Hardback | $26.99/$31.00 Can. “His thrillers . . . are both sleek and tough, filled with gritty characters and superb Red Star Rising: A Thriller plotting.” —Chicago Tribune 8/2010 | 9780312315535 Hardback | $25.99/$31.00 Can. “Impossible to put down . . . marvelous . . . real genius.” —The Washington Post

BRIAN FREEMANTLE is the author more than thirty books, which have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. These include fifteen previous novels in the Charlie Muffin series, most recently Red Star Burning. He has been foreign editor and chief foreign correspondent for the London Daily Mail and foreign correspondent for the London Daily Sketch, among others. He lives in England.

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Sweet Salt Air Barbara Delinsky

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky—a woman has a secret that may save the life of her best friend's husband—or destroy him

Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's family's island house, but they have since grown apart. A successful travel writer, Charlotte lives on the road, while Nicole, a food blogger, lives in Philadelphia with her surgeon-husband, Julian. When Nicole returns to the island house in order to write a book about island food, she invites her old friend Charlotte for both sentimental and practical reasons. Outgoing and passionate, Charlotte has a gift for talking to people and making friends, and Nicole would like her help interviewing locals for her book. Missing a genuine connection, Charlotte agrees. FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 6/18/2013 But what both women don't know is that they are each holding a secret that may 9781250007032 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. change their relationship forever. Are the bonds of friendship strong enough to Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 16 weather past indiscretions and betrayals? Can love survive an honest mistake? 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: Filled with real, gut-wrenching emotion as well as a strong romantic UK Rights: Writers House storyline, Sweet Salt Air is a new offering from a beloved storyteller guaranteed Translation: Writers House to make you laugh and cry. Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427230737 Ebook ISBN: 9781250020383 PRAISE “Delinsky combines her understanding of human nature with absorbing, unpredictable MARKETING * National Print Publicity storytelling—a winning combination.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) on The Secrets * National TV & Print Advertising Between Us Campaign * Online Advertising Campaign * IndieBound Campaign "Delinsky has a knack for exploring the battlefields of contemporary life.” —Kirkus * Original eStory Campaign Reviews on Not My Daughter * Social Media Campaign * Early Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com “Delinsky does a wonderful and realistic job portraying family dynamics.” —Library * A Read-it-First.com Selection Journal on While My Sister Sleeps * HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign “A writer who continues to earn her bestseller status." —Bookreporter.com on Escape * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: BarbaraDelinsky.com * Author Facebook & Twitter: /BDelinsky & “Delinsky never fails to entertain.” —RT Book Reviews on The Summer I Dared @BarbaraDelinsky * Advance Reader's Editions BARBARA DELINSKY is a New York Times bestselling author with more than thirty million copies of her books in print. She has been published in twenty-eight languages worldwide. A lifelong New Englander, Delinsky earned a B.A. in psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in ALSO AVAILABLE sociology at Boston College. Delinsky enjoys knitting, photography, and cats. Love Songs 1/2013 | 9781250025326 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. Warm Hearts 9/2012 | 9781250018953 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. 39 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Wear Your Dreams My Life in Tattoos

Ed Hardy with Joel Selvin

The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand

“Ed Hardy” is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubiquitous. But long before the fashion world discovered his iconic designs, the man behind the eponymous brand spearheaded nothing less than a cultural revolution. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS, In Wear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and PHOTOGRAPHERS leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a valid and rich art form, through Thomas Dunne Books | 6/18/2013 to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multi-billion dollar branding 9781250008824 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 empire. From giving colored pencil tattoos to neighborhood kids at age ten to 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H working with legendary artists like Sailor Jerry to learning at the feet of the Includes black-and-white illustrations masters in Japan, the book explains how this Godfather of Tattoos fomented the throughout plus two 8-page color photograph explosion of tattoo art and how his influence can be witnessed on everyone, from inserts countless celebs to ink-adorned rockers to butterfly-branded, stroller-pushing Subrights: moms. With over fifty different product categories, the Ed Hardy brand generates over $700 million in retail sales annually. UK Rights: St. Martin’s Press Translation Rights: St. Martin’s Press Vividly packaged with original Ed Hardy artwork and ideal for ink devotees and Other Available Formats: Ed Hardy aficionados alike, Wear Your Dreams is a never-before-seen look at Ebook ISBN: 9781250021076 the tattoo artist who rocked the art world and has left a permanent mark on

MARKETING fashion history. * National Broadcast Publicity * National Radio Publicity PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Prominent Online Media Coverage “Great insight . . . I couldn't put this book down once I started reading it! A truly great * Cross-Promotion with Hardy’s company and partners American success story that shouldn't be missed!” —Ace Frehley * Social Media Campaign: Facebook.com/EdHardy (1.68 million) “Hardy broke the mold . . . As this book shows, he is bad to the bone.” —Lita Ford

“Gaps that once were divided are now unified as a result of his work.” —Dave Navarro, lead guitarist for Jane’s Addiction

A leader in the tattoo world, ED HARDY's renown led to a lucrative licensing agreement in 2004 that made “Ed Hardy” an international retail and lifestyle phenomenon. He currently splits his time between San Francisco, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Coauthor JOEL SELVIN, who has covered pop music since 1970 for the San Francisco Chronicle, coauthored the #1 New York Times bestselling Red and authored the award winning Ricky Nelson and Summer of Love. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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Justice for Sara Erica Spindler

Bestselling author Erica Spindler returns with a chilling new suspense novel about a woman who goes home ten years after her sister's murder to find the true killer

When seventeen-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an FICTION / THRILLERS St. Martin's Press | 8/6/2013 eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial 9781250012524 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had something to do Subrights: with Sara’s death . . .

UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Now, years later, Kat is still haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder and Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press continues to receive chilling anonymous letters, but she has tried to move on with Other Available Formats: her life. Until, on the tenth anniversary of Sara’s death, she receives a letter that Audio ISBN: 9781427230751 makes the past impossible to ignore: "What about justice for Sara?" What about Ebook ISBN: 9781250012531 justice for Sara? And for herself? Kat realizes that going back to Liberty,

MARKETING Louisiana, might be the only way to move forward and find some peace. And * National Print Publicity there’s a killer out there who was never caught. * Online Advertising Campaign * E-mail Marketing Campaign But the town she’s come back to is hardly different from the one she left. The * Online Promotion * Early Reader Reviews secrets and suspicions still run deep. Kat has an ally in Detective Luke Tanner, * A Read-It-First.com Selection son of the former Liberty police chief, but he may be her only one. With plenty of * Social Media Campaign enemies, no one to trust and a killer determined to keep a dark secret buried, Kat * Original E-Story * Featured Title on Criminal Element must decide if justice is worth fighting—and dying—for. * Featured Title on Heroes & Heartbreakers * Author Website: EricaSpindler.com PRAISE "Spindler’s chilling novels explore our deepest fear—that danger is closer than we think. She is a master of addictive suspense." —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times ALSO AVAILABLE bestselling author Watch Me Die 2/2012 | 9781250003270 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. “Filled with more twisted, dark paths than an ancient cemetery, Watch Me Die is a thriller guaranteed to chill your blood and set your teeth on edge.” —Lisa Jackson Blood Vines 2/2011 | 9780312363932 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can. “[A] gripping romantic suspense thriller . . . The plot takes numerous twists and turns until reaching the startling conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Watch Me Die

“Atmospheric, with new Orleans color . . . A fast-paced suspense with a little romance thrown in." —RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on Watch Me Die

New York Times bestselling author ERICA SPINDLER has written thirty novels, including Watch Me Die, Blood Vines, Breakneck, and Last Known Victim. She lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons.

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SMP LEAD

Carpathian David Golemon

The Event Group tackles their most challenging mission yet in the newest adrenaline rush from The New York Times bestselling author of Legacy

FICTION / ACTION & Rumors of the seemingly magical victory that allowed the Exodus of Israelites ADVENTURE Thomas Dunne Books | 6/18/2013 from Egypt have resonated through the archaeological world for decades. Now 9781250013002 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. evidence has been discovered that explains how the ancient Hebrews destroyed Hardback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: the unstoppable army of Pharaoh—a tribe of warriors who disappeared after the 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H destruction of the City of Jericho, taking with them the most valued treasures of a Subrights: people without a homeland. UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Today a treasure of a different kind is unearthed at the lost ruins of Jericho, Other Available Formats: one that will change the history of God’s Chosen people for all time—the petrified Ebook ISBN: 9781250013019 remains of an animal that could not exist. Enter the Event Group. Led by Col. MARKETING Jack Collins, the Group's brilliant men and women gather to discover the truth * National Radio Publicity behind not only the Exodus, but also the magnificent animals that led the defeat of * Back Ad in the St. Martin's Paperbacks Pharoah’s army. On a whirlwind race to save the most valuable treasure and Edition of Ripper (April 2013) * Blog Outreach artifacts in the history of the world from those who would destroy them, the Event * Tor.com Featured Title Group will come face to face with every myth, legend and historical truth that has * Author Website: EventGroupFiles.com ever unfolded in the mythic and larger than life Carpathians—or as the area was once known—Transylvania, the land of Vlad the Impaler.

ALSO AVAILABLE Reminiscent of the works of James Rollins, Preston and Child, and Matthew Ripper Reilly, Carpathian is the latest in an action-packed series about the nation’s most 7/2012 | 9780312580803 secret agency—The Event Group. Hardback | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Legacy: An Event Group Thriller 8/2011 | 9780312580797 PRAISE Hardback | $25.99/$29.99 Can. “An explosive combination that features the author’s immense imagination. It’s difficult Primeval: An Event Group Thriller to ground such fantastic science and weirdness in reality, but Golemon makes it look 7/2010 | 9780312580780 Hardback | $24.99/$29.99 Can. effortless . . . tense, terrifying—and worth the investment.” —Associated Press on Ripper

“Golemon knows how to make readers turn the pages, and Primeval will only further enhance his reputation.” —Booklist

“A tale worthy of the giants of the genre like Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Matthew Reilly.” —Megalith.com on Legend

DAVID L. GOLEMON makes his home in New York. Carpathian is the eighth novel in his Event Group Series.

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One Soufflé at a Time A Memoir of Food and France

Anne Willan

Life stories and recipes from founder of the legendary La Varenne Cooking School and—along with Julia Child—one of the English-speaking women who brought French food to home chefs everywhere BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 6/18/2013 Anne Willan’s La Varenne Cooking School—in its original location in Paris and 9780312642174 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. its longtime home in Burgundy—trained thousands of chefs, food writers and Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H home cooks. Along with Julia Child, Willan became known for demystifying Plus one 16-page color photograph insert classic French culinary technique for regular people who loved food. Under her cheerful no-nonsense instruction, anyone could learn to truss a chicken, make a Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press bernaise, loft a soufflé. Willan’s more than thirty cookbooks, including The Art of Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press French Provincial Cooking and the seventeen volume Look & Cook series influenced tens of thousands more who could not travel to France to study with

MARKETING her. * National Print Publicity * Online Promotion One Soufflé At A Time bubbles with warm, funny stories of the food * Social Media Campaign * Author Website: LaVarenne.com establishment—from Child and her co–author Simone Beck, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney, and more—and how they lived in a place they all loved more than anywhere else. It’s also a fish-out-of-water story about a typical and very determined Englishwoman’s storming the bastions of the insular, male French culinary establishment to create an institution.

Featuring fifty recipes—from Coquilles St. Jacques to Chocolate Snowball—and written in Willan’s open, sharp, fast voice, One Soufflé At A Time is a memoir from the last big personality of her culinary era to be heard from.

ANNE WILLAN grew up in England, received a Master’s degree from Cambridge University, and taught cooking in London and Paris before founding La Varenne in 1975. She was also an editor at Gourmet and food editor of the Washington Star. She lives in Southern California.

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Survivor Auschwitz, the Death March and My Fight for Freedom

Sam Pivnik

Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the extraordinary story of how he survived the Holocaust

Sam Pivnik is the ultimate survivor from a world that no longer exists. On fourteen occasions he should have been killed, but luck, his physical strength, and his determination not to die all played a part in Sam Pivnik living to tell his extraordinary story.

In 1939, on his thirteenth birthday, Pivnik's life changed forever when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived the two ghettoes set up in his home town of Bedzin BIOGRAPHY & and six months on Auschwitz’s notorious Rampe Kommando where prisoners AUTOBIOGRAPHY / were either taken away for entry to the camp or gassing. After this harrowing HISTORICAL St. Martin's Press | 6/18/2013 experience he was sent to work at the brutal Fürstengrube mining camp. He 9781250029522 | $26.99 could have died on the ‘Death March’ that took him west as the Third Reich Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 collapsed and he was one of only a handful of people who swam to safety when 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph the Royal Air Force sank the prison ship Cap Arcona in 1945, mistakenly insert believing it to be carrying fleeing members of the SS.

Subrights: UK Rights: Hodder & Stoughton He eventually made his way to London where he found people too preoccupied Translation Rights: Hodder & Stoughton with their own wartime experiences on the Home Front to be interested in what Other Available Formats: had happened to him. Ebook ISBN: 9781250029539 Now in his eighties, Sam Pivnik tells for the first time the story of his life, a true MARKETING tale of survival against the most extraordinary odds.

* National Print Publicity * Library Marketing Campaign SAM PIVNIK was born in Poland in 1926. In 1943 his family was sent to Auschwitz II where * Academic Marketing Campaign Pivnik’s parents and five siblings were murdered. After many brushes with death, Pivnik was * Author Website: SamPivnik.org liberated by the British Army in 1945. He now shares his memories through lectures and talks.

M J TROW is the author of many books on historical subjects, including War Crimes: Underworld Britain in the Second World War. He studied military history at King’s College, London.

44 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

Super Boys The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster---the Creators of Superman

Brad Ricca

In the vein of Schulz and Peanuts, the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay

Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches of Cleveland libraries, boarded- up high schools, and secret, private collections, Brad Ricca's Super Boys is the first ever full biography about Superman’s creators. Among scores of new BIOGRAPHY & discoveries, the book reveals the first stories and pictures ever published by the AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GENERAL two, where the first Superman story really came from, the real inspiration for Lois St. Martin's Press | 6/4/2013 Lane, the template for Superman’s costume, and much, much more. Super Boys 9780312643805 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: also tracks the boys’ unknown, often mysterious lives after they left Superman, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H including Siegel's secret work during World War II and never-before-seen work Includes 50 black-and-white photographs and from Shuster. illustrations throughout plus two 8-page black- and-white photograph inserts Super Boys explains, finally, what exactly happened with the infamous check for Subrights: $130 that pulled Superman away from his creators—and gave control of the UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press character to the publisher. Ricca also uncovers the true nature of Jerry’s father’s death, a crime that has always remained a mystery. Super Boys is the story of a Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250031679 long friendship between boys who grew to be men and the standard that would be impossible for both of them to live up to. MARKETING * National Radio Publicity PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Tor.com Promotion "The title Super Boys says it all . . . the truly amazing biography of two of the most * Email Marketing Campaign * Online Publicity Campaign important names in popular fiction." —Stan Lee * Outreach to Superman and comic book websites "No square panels or word balloons can contain Ricca's gripping effervescence: * Author Website: Brad-Ricca.com it's headier than a bird or a plane or a speeding bullet." —Tracy Daugherty, author of Just One Catch

"Super Boys isn't just a history of Superman. It's practically a transcript of the character's origins . . . Beautiful and heartbreaking." —Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author

"As a citizen of the modern world, you need to read this book." —Neal Adams

BRAD RICCA earned his Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University where he currently teaches. He has spoken on comics at various schools and museums, and he has been interviewed about comics topics by The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and All Things Considered on NPR. His film Last Son won a 2010 Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival.

45 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

The Lost Whale The True Story of an Orca Named Luna

Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm

The heartbreaking and true story of a lonely orca named Luna who befriended humans in Nootka Sound, off the coast of Vancouver Island

One summer in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a young killer whale called Luna got separated from his pod. Like humans, orcas are highly social and depend on their families, but Luna found himself desperately alone. So he tried to make contact with people. He begged for attention at boats and docks. He looked soulfully into people's eyes. He NATURE / MARINE LIFE St. Martin's Press | 6/25/2013 wanted to have his tongue rubbed. When someone whistled at him, he squeaked 9780312353643 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. and whistled back. People fell in love with him, but the government decided that Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 being friendly with Luna was bad for him, and tried to keep him away from 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Plus one 8-page color photograph insert humans. Policemen arrested people for rubbing Luna’s nose. Fines were levied. Undaunted, Luna refused to give up his search for connection and people Subrights: went out to meet him, like smugglers carrying friendship through the dark. But UK Rights: ICM Translation: ICM does friendship work between species? People who loved Luna couldn't agree on how to help him. Conflict came to Nootka Sound. The government built a huge Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250031983 net. The First Nations’ members brought out their canoes. Nothing went as planned, and the ensuing events caught everyone by surprise and challenged the MARKETING very nature of that special and mysterious bond we humans call friendship. The * National Print Publicity Lost Whale celebrates the life of a smart, friendly, determined, transcendent * Online Outreach being from the sea who appeared among us like a promise out of the blue: that the * Regional Outreach * Social Media Campaign greatest secrets in life are still to be discovered.

PRAISE Praise for the documentary The Whale (a Critics’ Pick for The New York Times and The Washington Post): “There is a gossamer lyricism to The Whale . . . The nuance of [the whale’s] gestures were wondrous to behold: playful, exuberantly extending the fin of friendship . . . The issues surrounding the emotional lives of animals . . . are explored in The Whale with a quiet dignity and gorgeous images.” —The New York Times

“Stunning and emotionally wrought . . . Begs for post-movie discussion.” —The Washington Post

MICHAEL PARFIT is a British Columbia-based writer and filmmaker. He was born in London, England. He graduated from University of Southern California with a degree in journalism. With his wife, Suzanne Chisholm, Michael produced and directed more than twenty stories for the National Geographic Channel.

SUZANNE CHISHOLM has produced and filmed documentaries and has done more than a dozen pieces for the National Geographic Today Show.

46 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JUNE 2013

The Looking Glass Brother Peter von Ziegesar

The fascinating true story of Peter von Ziegesar's life of privilege mirrored by that of his half-brother of the same name, a homeless schizophrenic man and former violin prodigy

Peter Von Ziegesar grew up in the shadow of luxury. His father worked for a financial printing company and they lived a comfortable life in New Canaan, Connecticut. His mother, however, was a member of one of the gilded age families—the Davisons. Ensconced in several houses, Peter’s maternal clan populated Peacock Point, one of the most exquisite enclaves of wealth and power. Summers were filled with the glistening water of the Long Island Sound, pristine beaches, croquet games, butlers in formal wear serving dinners and an endless stream of cocktails. After a string of affairs, Peter's father left his BIOGRAPHY & wife and remarried. The idyll of Peacock Point was tarnished, but Peter’s life AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS took an unexpected twist. When his father remarried, his new wife came with St. Martin's Press | 6/25/2013 children, one—a younger boy—also named Peter. Little Peter was a violin 9780312592981 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. prodigy expected to become the next Paderewski. But as Little Peter grew, he Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H became more reckless and divorced from reality until he was diagnosed a schizophrenic and began to live as a homeless person. The Looking Glass Subrights: Brother is Peter von Ziegesar’s memoir of an early life lived in luxury and an UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press adulthood spent looking after a wholly different brother of the same name. Woven through this remarkable memoir are memories of Peter’s father, his experience of Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781429989909 fatherhood, luxurious scenes from Peacock Point and the care he now gives to Little Peter, whenever he drifts in or out of his life. MARKETING * National Print Publicity PETER VON ZIEGESAR a New York-based filmmaker and screenwriter. He has written articles, * IndieBound Campaign essays and reviews on film and art for many national publications, including DoubleTake, The New * Blog Outreach York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, and Art in America. His short fiction won a * Social Media Campaign * NetGalley Campaign PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize. His work as a film and multimedia artist has received national attention, including a solo exhibition at the Hirschhorn Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. He lives in New York City.

47 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JUNE 2013

Sons of Thunder Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology

Selected and Introduced by Neil Bradford

An anthology of the best motorcycle literature from top authors including Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alberto Granado, and T. E. Lawrence

Today’s most notable literati recall their experiences as riders in this inspiring collection of motorcycle writings. With an article from Hunter S. Thompson and an excerpting of Robert M. Pirsig’s wildly successful Zen and the Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance, this high-octane anthology delves into the pleasures and perils of this unrivalled machine. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / ESSAYS Thomas Dunne Books | 6/25/2013 From Dahl’s secret childhood motorbike to the Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s poetic 9781250020963 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. musings on the biker, each motorcyclist brings a different perspective to the Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: machine that unites them. Facing more than just the elements of the road, the 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H riders simultaneously take physical and emotional journeys, surrendering to the Subrights: mental release the bike brings. Danger lurks around every bend, but above all is the rider’s desire for speed, the constant craving to go faster and further than one UK Rights: Seonaid MacLeod at Mainstream has ever gone before. Publishing Translation Rights: Seonaid MacLeod at Mainstream Publishing At times literary and lyrical, at others tactile and thrilling, Sons of Thunder is a Other Available Formats: collection that will fuel avid riders and escapist readers. This celebration of one of Ebook ISBN: 9781250020956 mankind’s greatest machines shows us that when the going gets tough, sometimes you just need to take a ride. MARKETING * Online Promotion * Library Marketing Campaign PRAISE “Inspiring and oddly touching volume about the competing joys and uncertainties of two- wheeled life. A bedside book for all bikers.” —Peter McKay, Daily Mail

“Bradford’s collection leaves very little of the blessed planet untouched . . . an armchair traveler is spoilt for choice.” —Hindustan Times

“Conveying to others with words the life-long love of motorcycling—the thrill of it, the sheer joy—is impossible. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. And this is a very good attempt.” —Steve Berry, TalkSport

“A marvellous book . . . an altogether entertaining read.” —Frieda Hughes, poet and author of Stonepicker

NEIL BRADFORD has ridden motorcycles for more than thirty years. He has owned Hondas, Kawsakis, Triumphs, Aprilias and a Ducati but always returns to flat-twin BMWs and currently rides a GS1200 Adventure. He works in publishing and lives in London.

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The Twelve Caesars The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome

Matthew Dennison

An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the twelve Caesars

One of the them was a military genius, one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned, another earned the nickname "sphincter artist". Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide—and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come down to posterity as the "twelve Caesars"— Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian. Under their rule, from 49 BC to AD 96, Rome HISTORY / ANCIENT St. Martin's Press | 6/25/2013 was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy 9781250023537 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. would survive in the West for more than a thousand years. Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 16 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of colorful biographies Includes 12 black-and-white illustrations throughout of each emperor, triumphantly evoking the luxury, license, brutality, and sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith. But as well as vividly recreating the Subrights: UK Rights: Atlantic Books lives, loves, and vices of this motley group of despots, psychopaths and perverts, Translation Rights: Atlantic Books he paints a portrait of an era of political and social revolution, of the bloody overthrow of a proud, five-hundred-year-old political system and its replacement Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250023544 by a dictatorship which, against all the odds, succeeded more convincingly than oligarchic democracy in governing a vast international landmass. MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Academic Marketing Campaign PRAISE “Dennison offers his own idiosyncratic take on these twelve caesars . . . [his] approach combines thoughtful reflection and analysis with gossipy irreverence in a bewitching ALSO AVAILABLE cocktail.” —Daily Express on The Twelve Caesars Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography 1/2011 | 9780312658649 "Unputdownable . . . these histories from 2,000 years ago are riveting in their insight, Hardback | $27.99 black humor, and sheer readability.” —Daily Mail on The Twelve Caesars The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter “An erudite, nuanced, and engrossing portrait of a turbulent era and of an empress 10/2009 | 9780312564971 Paperback / softback | $21.99 demonized for refusing to be invisible.” —Publishers Weekly on Livia, Empress of Rome

“Fascinating.” —Vogue on The Last Princess

MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Princess and Livia, Empress of Rome. As a journalist, he contributes to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life, and The Spectator. He is married and lives in London and North Wales.

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Eye for an Eye A Dewey Andreas Novel

Ben Coes

When assassins kill the person he loves most in the world, Dewey Andreas will risk everything and fight anyone, no matter the cost, for revenge

Dewey Andreas has been instrumental in stopping a series of deadly terrorist attacks, which hasn’t gone unnoticed in the darkened corners around the world. But when Dewey helps uncover Chinese intelligence’s highest level asset in Israel’s Mossad, he makes himself too much of a danger to ignore. Fao Bhang, head of China’s state security, puts an immediate kill order on Andreas.

FICTION / THRILLERS Dewey is tracked to Argentina, where he went with his girlfriend Jessica Tanzer, St. Martin's Press | 7/9/2013 9781250007162 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. U.S. National Security Advisor, to witness the signing of a treaty ending Iran’s Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 nuclear program. After surviving an attack from an old nemesis, Andreas faces a 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Chinese kill-team that fails to take him out—but the collateral damage is both Subrights: horrifying and personal. Never one to turn the other cheek, Andreas starts his UK Rights: Aaron Priest Agency revenge by taking out two top deputies to Fao Bhang. Bhang, facing potentially Translation Rights: Aaron Priest Agency fatal internal opposition due to the diplomatic disaster in Argentina, tries to keep Other Available Formats: the situation from spiraling out of control. Using the leverage of America’s debt to Audio ISBN: 9781427230713 China, Bhang pressures the U.S. not to respond and to repudiate Andreas. Cut Ebook ISBN: 9781250026095 loose and now rogue, Andreas faces the full weight and might of Chinese intelligence. Andreas, on the other hand, is determined to bring swift and terrible MARKETING * National Broadcast Publicity justice to Fao Bhang—no matter the odds or the armies that he will have to fight * National Print Publicity his way through. * National Radio Publicity * Online Advertising Campaign * E-book Promotion There are only two possible outcomes, and only one Dewey Andreas. * Excerpt in the St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition of The Last Refuge (May 2013) PRAISE * Author Website: BenCoes.com Praise for Ben Coes: “Envision Clancy, Forsyth, and le Carre all writing in their prime . . . then kick in the ALSO AVAILABLE boosters.” —Brad Thor The Last Refuge: A Dewey Andreas Novel 4/2013 | 9781250028228 Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. “Ben Coes has created a hero who ranks with the protagonists in a Vince Flynn or Brad Thor thriller . . . The Last Refuge is a winner and will keep readers turning the pages." Coup d'Etat 4/2012 | 9780312580773 —The Associated Press Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. Power Down “Terrific! With a gripping story, compelling characters, a relentless pace, and nerve- 8/2011 | 9780312580759 wracking suspense, Power Down is one of the must-read thrillers of the year.” —Vince Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. Flynn

BEN COES is the author of the critically acclaimed Power Down and Coup d’Etat. He is a former speechwriter for the George H .W. Bush White House, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, a campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s run for governor in 2002, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. He lives in Wellesley, Massachussets.

50 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Close My Eyes Sophie McKenzie

Gone Girl meets Before I Go to Sleep in this riveting psychological thriller about a grieving mother who finds out years after her daughter’s death that her child may still be alive

It's been eight grief-filled years since Geniver Loxley lost her daughter, Beth. Once a writer, Gen has settled into a life of half-hearted teaching while her husband, Art, makes his name and their fortune—and pressures her into yet another round of IVF. For Gen, battle-scared from years of failed attempts to get pregnant with a second baby, this feels like a cruel attempt to replace Beth. Life without her child is inconceivable, unbearable—but still it goes on.

FICTION / SUSPENSE And then a woman arrives on Gen's doorstep, saying the very thing she longs to St. Martin's Press | 7/9/2013 9781250033895 | $25.99 hear: that her daughter was not stillborn, but was spirited away as a healthy child, Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 16 and is out there, waiting to be found. So why is Art reluctant to get involved? To 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H save his wife from further hurt? Or is it something else . . . something more Subrights: sinister? What is the truth about Beth Loxley? UK Rights: Simon and Schuster (UK) Translation Rights: United Agents (UK) Close My Eyes is a deeply chilling and addictively compelling page-turner that Other Available Formats: grabs onto the reader and doesn’t let go. Audio ISBN: 9781427232175 Ebook ISBN: 9781250033918 PRAISE MARKETING Close My Eyes starts with a parent's worst nightmare and builds from there, twists and * Extensive Early Buzz Campaign * National Print Publicity twists again, delivering a final punch that will leave you gasping." —Joseph Finder, New * National Print & Online Advertising York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets and Paranoia Campaign using Video * Book Club Site Advertising & Pre-Pub Trade Ads SOPHIE MCKENZIE is also the bestselling author of more than fifteen novels for children and * Blog Outreach, IndieBound Campaign, teens in the UK, including the award winning Girl, Missing and Sister, Missing. She has won Online Early Reviewer Programs & Email numerous awards, was one of the first Richard and Judy children’s book club winners, and has Marketing twice been longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. McKenzie lives in London and writes full- * CriminalElement.com & Read-it- First.com time. * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: SophieMckenziebooks.com * Author Facebook & Twitter: /SophieMckenzieAuthor & @SophieMckenzie_ * Advance Reader’s Editions

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Fifth Grave Past the Light Darynda Jones

Darynda Jones is back with the fifth installment of the series that grows exponentially with each release—and now on The New York Times bestseller list!

Charley Davidson may not look like your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper, but she has vowed to reap grimness wherever she goes despite this unfortunate fact. Sadly, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes FICTION / PARANORMAL Farrow, moves in next door. Since he is her main suspect in an arson case, she St. Martin's Press | 7/9/2013 9781250014405 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth. But when dead Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 women start appearing in her apartment, one after another, each lost, confused, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H and terrified beyond reason, Charley has no choice but to ask for his help, Subrights: especially when it becomes apparent that her own sister Gemma is the serial UK Rights: Janklow & Nesbit killer’s next target. With Reyes’s ability to observe incorporeally, surely he can Translation Rights: Janklow & Nesbit find out who’s responsible. Even if he can’t, arsonist or not, he is the one man Other Available Formats: alive who could protect Gemma no matter who or what came at her. But he Audio ISBN: 9781427230799 wants something in return. Charley. All of her, body and soul. And to keep her Ebook ISBN: 9781250014382 sister safe, it is a price she is willing to pay.

MARKETING * National Print Publicity PRAISE * Online Publicity Campaign * National Print Advertising "Smart, wickedly hilarious." —Publishers Weekly (starred) on Third Grave Dead * National Online Advertising Campaign Ahead * Video Trailer * Preorder Campaign with Street Team * Email Marketing Campaign “Jones skillfully establishes the novel’s setting and keeps up the pace with plenty of * Blog Tour * Ebook Promotion action. And let’s be honest—the sex is pretty hot, too. Fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon and * Featured on other authors of paranormal romance will love this series debut.”—Library Journal HeroesandHeartbreakers.com (starred) on First Grave on the Right * Excerpt in St. Martin’s Paperback edition of Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (April 2013 “Jones’s wickedly witty debut will delight.” —Booklist (starred) on First Grave on the * Author Right Facebook: facebook.com\darynda.jones.official * Author Website: Darynda.com New York Times and USA Today bestselling author DARYNDA JONES won a RITA Award for best first novel for First Grave On The Right. As a born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of ALSO AVAILABLE dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man and beast alike. Jones lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. 10/2012 | 9781250014467 Hardback | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Third Grave Dead Ahead 7/2012 | 9781250008282 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. Second Grave on the Left 12/2011 | 9781250002709 Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can.

52 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JULY 2013

Amy Falls Down A Novel

Jincy Willett

A scathingly funny and wickedly humorous roman-a-clef by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists—about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accident

The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching and reviewing—she’s done a lot of thinking . . . but very little writing. On an unassuming morning, in her slippers,

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Amy trips in her backyard, goes head-over-heels, and into the side of a WOMEN birdbath. The hospital clears her of head injury—so Amy returns home. When a Thomas Dunne Books | 7/9/2013 local reporter shows up for a scheduled interview—Amy is not quite herself. 9781250028273 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H The article paints Amy as a the zen-goddess of writing, publishing . . . and life. Her bizarre interview was interpreted as the rambling of a true genius. But all Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press that really happened was: Amy fell down! Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press The next thing she knows, friends and fans are coming out of the Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250028280 woodwork. Suddenly Amy is on radio shows, keynoting a major publishing event, and guiding a local writers’ retreat. But the strangest thing of all: Amy starts to MARKETING write. * National Print Publicity * National Print Advertising * Indiebound Whitebox Mailing Readers witness Amy confront her past and present, and choose to take down * Pre-Publication Advertising in Shelf the walls she so carefully wrote up around her. Amy Falls Down is a novel Awareness E-Newsletter both surprisingly heartwarming and a witty mirror into today's publishing world— * National Print Advertising * E-Book Promotion: downpriced as only Jincy Willett could write. promotion of Winner of the National Book Award PRAISE * BookBrowse First Impressions Campaign Praise for Winner of the National Book Award: * Online Promotion * Library Marketing “The funniest novel I have read, possibly ever.” —Augusten Burroughs * Reading Group Guide Available * Author Website: JincyWillett.com "Riotous [and] hugely funny." —The New York Times "The author mows down worlds of artistic and psychological twaddle with killer sprays of language. Willett is effortlessly, furiously funny. . . . A." —Entertainment Weekly

JINCY WILLETT is the author of Jenny and the Jaws of Life and Winner of the National Book Award, and The Writing Class which have been translated and sold internationally. Her stories have been published in Cosmopolitan, McSweeney's Quarterly and other magazines. She frequently reviews for The New York Times Book Review. Willett spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing—sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately.

53 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger Beth Harbison

Told with her inimitable wit and emotional resonance, New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison’s Met the Wrong Guy will make you think about love the way you never have before

At twenty-one, Ashley Barton was on her way to the alter to marry Burke Morrison, her high school sweetheart, when something derailed her. Rather, someone derailed her—another man who begged her right up to the last minute to reconsider the marriage, because he loved her more. Besides, the other man told her, Kevin had been cheating on her. For a long time. His argument was FICTION / CONTEMPORARY compelling, and Ashley wrestled with the obligation of fulfilling her guests’ WOMEN St. Martin's Press | 7/9/2013 expectations—providing a wedding—and running for her life. 9780312599133 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 She chose running. With the best man.Who happened to be Burke’s brother, 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Frank. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press This relationship doesn’t work either. The practical, dependable Frank can’t Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press compete with his wild brother’s memory, so Ashley opts for neither, and, instead, Other Available Formats: spends the next seventeen years working in her family’s Middleburg, Virginia, Audio ISBN: 9781427230843 bridal shop, Talk of the Gown, where she subconsciously does penance for the Ebook ISBN: 9781250031907 disservice she did to marriage. MARKETING But when the two men return to town for another wedding, old angers, flames, * National Print Publicity hostilities, and passions are reunited. Just because you’ve traded the good guy for * IndieBound Campaign the bad guy for no guy doesn’t mean you have to stay away from love for the * Blog Outreach rest of your life, does it? * Early Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com * A Read-it-First.com Selection PRAISE * HeroesAndHeartbreakers.com Promotion “Harbison dazzles in her latest, a perfect blend of chick lit and women’s fiction . . . * NetGalley Promotion * Social Media Campaign Absolutely first-rate.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) on When In Doubt, Add Butter * Paperback Tie-In: When in Doubt, Add Butter (June 2013) "Touching, truthful, and profoundly satisfying, Harbison delivers her finest work yet." * Author Website: BethHarbison.com —Jen Lancaster, New York Times bestselling author of Jeneration X on Always * Author Facebook: Something There to Remind Me Facebook.com/AuthorBethHarbison “Harbison continues to wow readers with her charm and genuine characters.” —Booklist on Hope In A Jar ALSO AVAILABLE When in Doubt, Add Butter BETH HARBISON is The New York Times bestselling author of When In Doubt, Add Butter, 6/2013 | 9780312599089 Always Something There To Remind Me; Thin, Rich, Pretty; Hope In A Jar; Secrets of a Shoe Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. Addict; and Shoe Addicts Anonymous. She grew up in Potomac, Maryland, outside Washington, Always Something There to Remind Me D.C., and now shares her time between that suburb, New York City, and a quiet home on the 5/2012 | 9780312599119 eastern shore. Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. Thin, Rich, Pretty 5/2011 | 9780312381998 54 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

It Runs in the Family A Memoir

Richard Manning

A powerful, ambitious memoir of family secrets, destructive faith, and all-consuming fire

It Runs in the Family is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance, truths and secrets, rural and urban labor, and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force.

Richard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, in a family of working people and Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of BIOGRAPHY & many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder, power lineman, factory worker, small AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL businessman. His mother concealed her own childhood's darkness beneath a MEMOIRS St. Martin's Press | 7/9/2013 religious faith that explained away uncertainty, illness, and tragedy. 9780312620301 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Manning grew up learning how to work and what to believe—but came to 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 0.056 in T understand his family's seemingly-normal facade as a mask for troubling secrets. Subrights: It Runs in the Family is the story of Manning's journey away from his family, one UK Rights: Sterling Lord Literistic Translation Rights: Sterling Lord Literistic that ranges from their Michigan farm to the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he Other Available Formats: had vowed to leave behind. Linking his own life with the larger story of his family, Ebook ISBN: 9781250031365 the land they inhabited, and the right-wing fundamentalist politics gaining ground in MARKETING America, Richard Manning offers a singular memoir. * National Print Publicty * Online Promotion * Social Media Campaign PRAISE "Richard Manning is the West's greatest journalist. Read this book, and then everything else he has written, and everything he ever will write." —Rick Bass, author of Colter, Why I Came West, and The Wild Marsh

RICHARD MANNING is an award-winning author and journalist. He has written seven books, including Rewilding the West: Restoration of a Prairie Landscape, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, and Grassland: The Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie. He lives in Montana.

55 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Hunting Eve Iris Johansen

The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us book two in a heart-stopping new Eve Duncan trilogy

The stakes are raised even higher in Hunting Eve as Eve battles the man who is holding her prisoner. Secrets about why Eve has been targeted come into the light, bringing Eve even closer to danger. With its cliffhanger ending, Hunting Eve sets up perfectly for the finale, Silencing Eve.

PRAISE Praise for Eve:

FICTION / SUSPENSE “Gripping . . . Johansen deftly baits the hook for the next volume.” —Publishers Weekly St. Martin's Press | 7/16/2013 (starred) 9781250019998 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. Hardback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H “The suspense and action will entertain all, even those new to the series.” —Library Journal (starred) Subrights: UK Rights: The Jane Rotrosen Agency Translation Rights: The Jane Rotrosen Agency Praise for Quinn: Other Available Formats: “Will leave readers breathlessly anticipating the final installment.” —Publishers Ebook ISBN: 9781250020000 Weekly (starred)

MARKETING * National One-Day Laydown: July 16, "Johansen’s intense storytelling style drags readers into a whirlpool of danger and 2013 treachery that can have horrifying results. It’s awesome!” —RT Book Reviews * National Print Publicity * National Television Advertising * Online Advertising Campaign Praise for Bonnie: * Social Media Campaign: "A stunning finale." —Publishers Weekly (starred) Facebook.com/OfficialIrisJohansen (77,000) * E-book Promotion: Taking Eve 1-week "A stunning conclusion to a very popular trilogy." —Booklist only downprice, June 2013 * Author Website: IrisJohansen.com IRIS JOHANSEN is The New York Times bestselling author of What Doesn't Kill You; Bonnie; Quinn; Eve; Chasing The Night; Eight Days to Live; Blood Game; Deadlock; Dark Summer; Pandora's Daughter; Quicksand; Killer Dreams; On The Run; Countdown; Firestorm; Fatal Tide; ALSO AVAILABLE Dead Aim; No One To Trust and, with Roy Johansen, Close Your Eyes, Storm Cycle, and Silent Taking Eve Thunder. 4/2013 | 9781250019981 Hardback | $27.99/$31.99 Can. What Doesn't Kill You 4/2012 | 9780312651237 Hardback | $27.99/$29.99 Can. Bonnie 1/2012 | 9780312651282 Paperback / softback | $7.99/$9.99 Can.

56 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

The Millionaire and the Mummies Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings

John M. Adams

The biography of Theodore Davis, rich American robber baron and famous early twentieth-century discoverer of eighteen tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings

Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century HISTORY / ANCIENT Theodore Davis was the most famous name in archaeology in the world; his St. Martin's Press | 7/16/2013 9781250026699 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. career turned tomb-robbing and treasure-hunting into a science. Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Using six of Davis’s most important discoveries—from the female Pharaoh Includes one map and 12 black-and-white photographs throughout Hatshepsuts’ sarcophagus to the exquisite shawbti statuettes looted from the Egyptian Museum on January 29th, 2011—as a lens through which to focus his Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250026705 quintessentially American rags-to-riches tale, Adams chronicles the dizzying rise of a poor country preacher’s son who, through corruption and fraud, amassed MARKETING tremendous wealth in Gilded-Age New York and then atoned for his ruthless * National Print Publicity career by inventing new standards for systematic excavation. Davis found a * Online Publicity Campaign record eighteen tombs in the Valley and, breaking with custom, gave all the spoils * Author Website: JohnMerlinAdams.com of his discoveries to museums. A confederate of Boss Tweed, friend of Teddy Roosevelt and rival of J. P. Morgan, the colorful “American Lord Carnarvon” shared his Newport mansion with his Rembrandts, his wife and his mistress. Drawing on rare and never before published archival material, the first biography of Davis ever written rehabilitates a tarnished image through a thrilling tale of crime, adventure, and history.

PRAISE "This fascinating tale, told with panache, is a must-read for anyone interested in ancient Egypt, archaeology, art and the history of collecting." —Professor Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo, author of The Mummy in Ancient Egypt

"Evocative, erudite, irresistibly readable, The Millionaire and the Mummies brilliantly brings to life one of the key movers of the golden age of Egyptian archaeology. It is an exhaustively researched page-turner. An utterly compelling account of a completely extraordinary man.” —Paul Sussman, author of Labyrinth of Osiris

JOHN M. ADAMS is director emeritus of the Orange County Public Library. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the American Research Center in Egypt (the professional organization for U.S. Egyptologists) and founded the Southern California Chapter of ARCE and served as its president. He is a regular contributor to Kmt: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. He edited the Egyptological newsletter Sedjem for five years.

57 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JULY 2013

Nearer Home A Nola Céspedes Mystery

Joy Castro

The irresistible, razor-sharp second book in the post-Katrina New Orleans-set crime series featuring unforgettable and gutsy reporter Nola Céspedes

Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. More than the heat of the dawning New Orleans day, she’s trying to outrun her growing unease with the man she's seeing, who is pushing her to get more serious. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE Thomas Dunne Books | 7/16/2013 Not convinced Dr. Taffner’s murder was the random work of a psychopath, and 9781250004581 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. not one to put much trust in the good ol’ boys of the NOPD, Nola takes it upon Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H herself to investigate. She discovers that Dr. Taffner was working on two explosive stories, both of which would shock even this notoriously corrupt city. Subrights: And when an apparently related murder occurs in the middle of New Orleans’ UK Rights: Curtis Brown Translation Rights: Curtis Brown packed Jazz Fest, Nola realizes it’s only a matter of time before she becomes a ruthless killer's next target.

MARKETING Rich with details of New Orleans and featuring an original, tough heroine as • National Print Publicity • Online Promotion fascinating as the city itself, Nearer Home is the perfect follow-up to Joy • Featured Author on Castro’s Hell or High Water, confirming her status as a talented new crime CriminalElement.com writer to watch. • Author Website: JoyCastro.com

ALSO AVAILABLE "Exquisite New Orleans background . . . a flawed but plucky heroine, and skillfully paced suspense make this a stay up way past your bedtime read." Hell or High Water: A Novel 7/2012 | 9781250004574 —Booklist (starred) Hardback | $25.99/$29.99 Can. The Language of the Sea: A Novel PRAISE 5/2011 | 9780312648473 Hardback | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Praise for Hell or High Water: “A terrific mystery . . . I can’t wait to see what Joy Castro does next.” —Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River

"So thick and rich with authentic New Orleans details that you’ll be wiping sweat off your brow and smelling the crawfish étouffée. Joy Castro has crafted a complex, conflicted, and hauntingly real heroine with Nola Céspedes." —Alex Kava, New York Times bestselling author of The Maggie O’Dell series, Whitewash and One False Move

JOY CASTRO teaches literature at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. She is the author of Hell or High Water, Island of Bones and The Truth Book (selected as an ABA Book Sense Notable Book in 2005).

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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll 50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones

Bill Janovitz

On the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll presents the story of the Rolling Stones as told through fifty of their most representative songs

"You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Paint It Black," "Satisfaction:" you BIOGRAPHY & know all the words but how much do you really know about the inspiration behind AUTOBIOGRAPHY / them? Or how their melodies were created? COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS St. Martin's Press | 7/23/2013 9781250026316 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. All artists reveal themselves through their work and the Rolling Stones are no Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 20 different: each song exposes a little more of their soul. Rocks Off promises to 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Includes 20 black-and-white photographs reveal that soul by deconstructing their best tunes from their incredible fifty years throughout of record making. Written by Stones fanatic, musician, and writer Bill Janovitz,

Subrights: this is a song-by-song chronicle that maps the landmarks of the band's career UK Rights: St. Martin's Press while expanding upon their recording and personal history through insightful and Foreign Rights: St. Martin's Press energetic prose. With its conversational tone—much like friends pouring over old Other Available Formats: records on a Saturday afternoon—the book presents the musical leaps taken by Ebook ISBN: 9781250026323 the band and a discussion of how the lyrical content both reflected and influenced popular culture. The song choices—fifty in all—are chronological and subjective; MARKETING most of them are the classic hits, however, the book digs deeper into beloved * Online Promotion * Blog Outreach album tracks and songs with unique stories behind them. * Author Website: BillJanovitz.com Looking through the prism of the Stone's music in a fresh way, Rocks Off is the ultimate listening guide and thinking man's companion that will spur readers to dust off those old albums and listen in with a new-found perspective on one of the most famous and acclaimed rock 'n' roll bands of all time.

PRAISE Praise for Exile on Main Street: "Bill Janovitz's riveting look at Exile on Main Street is a must-read, not just for diehard Stones fans, but for anyone in interested in rock 'n roll, American roots music, the Sixties, and pop culture in the broadest sense. Janovitz combines the perspectives of historian, memoirist, critic, and fan in a concise appreciation of this monumental record; you'll never think about the Rolling Stones in quite the same way again after reading it." —Tom Perrota

BILL JANOVITZ is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter in the band Buffalo Tom. He's also released three solo albums. He wrote Exile on Main Street about the iconic Stones album in the critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series. He has written extensively for the All Music Guide online site and has also contributed to BostonMagazine.com, the Boston Phoenix, and Post Road magazine. He lives in Massachusetts with his family.

59 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JULY 2013

The Invention of Murder How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

Judith Flanders

In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction

Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous—transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera—even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in HISTORY / EUROPE Thomas Dunne Books | 7/23/2013 parallel, each imitating the other—the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to 9781250024879 | $26.99 Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn Hardback | 576 pages | Carton Qty: 12 influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Includes black-and-white illustrations Cornwell. throughout Subrights: In this fascinating book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many UK Rights: Harper Press different types of murder—both famous and obscure—from the crimes (and Translation Rights: Harper Press myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper to the tragedies of the murdered Other Available Formats: Marr family in London’s East End; Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching Ebook ISBN: 9781250024886 business in Edinburgh; and Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and MARKETING poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, The Invention of * Online Publicity Campaign * Discussion Guide Available Online Murder is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most * Blog Outreach: Victorian, Historical & readable. True Crime Blogs * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Author Website & Blog: PRAISE JudithFlanders.co.uk * Author Twitter: @JudithFlanders "Engrossing . . . Flanders excels at following the trends in detection and how this was reflected in writing." —Sunday Times (London)

"This is so much more than a compendium of famous crimes . . . Flanders’s knowledge of the period is both wide and extraordinarily deep. She writes incisively, and often with dark wit. Best of all, she had a wonderful ability to make connections and to show us familiar sights from unexpected angles . . . in this unrelievedly excellent book." —Independent (UK)

"Compelling . . . remarkable . . . in this intelligent and comprehensive compendium of murder, she has left no gravestone unturned." —Sunday Telegraph (UK)

JUDITH FLANDERS is an international bestselling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era. Her first book, A Circle of Sisters, was published to great acclaim, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and her second book, Inside the Victorian Home, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. Judith is a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives in London. 60 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Outrageous Fortune Growing Up at Leeds Castle

Anthony Russell

In his stunning memoir, Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society

"We were all very polite in the 1950s and none more so than I (granted, I had no choice). We combed our hair neatly and showed respect for our elders and betters in whom we placed bountiful trust to do the right thing at all times on our behalf. But when Elvis became 'All Shook Up' and invited us to love him tenderly, the world took note . . . Nothing was the same again. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL Certainly not I." MEMOIRS St. Martin's Press | 7/23/2013 Leeds Castle has been hailed as "the loveliest castle in the world." Once home to 9781250006011 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Kings and Queens, it fell into disrepair for nearly a century until Anthony Russell's 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H grandmother, Lady Baillie, purchased it in 1926 and restored it to its former glory. Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph It was in the fairytale setting of Leeds Castle, surrounded by a moat and insert sprawling grounds, that Anthony spent his childhood. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Anthony enjoyed luxury on an epic scale, but despite the embrace of his nanny Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press and the love of his mother (from a distance), life was often lonely and fraught Other Available Formats: with the fear of breaking some unwritten rule of the Castle Way—perhaps not Ebook ISBN: 9781250031372 the best preparation for life outside the castle walls.

MARKETING * National Print Publicty By the 1960s, a new world began to disrupt the polite reserve of the Castle Way, * Online Promotion with new music and mores and social freedom—both alluring and alarming to a young man who had spent his youth in splendid isolation. Outrageous Fortune is an extraordinarily entertaining memoir—touching and at turns very funny and very sad. It is a uniquely vivid and intimate glimpse into a world gone by.

ANTHONY RUSSELL was educated at Stowe School, England. For more than five hundred years his family has served Kings and Queens of England as ministers, privy counsellors, generals, and prime minister. He was raised at Leeds Castle, Kent, where his childhood was centered around the feudal world of Lady Baillie, his very rich and aristocratic grandmother. A writer, musician and a composer, he currently divides his time between Los Angeles, California, and France.

61 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

The Secrets of Lost Cats One Woman, Twenty Posters, and a New Understanding of Love

Dr. Nancy Davidson

Debut author Nancy Davidson uncovers the inspiring, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind lost cat posters to learn the truths of our relationships with our cats—and each other

Nancy Davidson understands the feelings that go into a lost cat poster. When her orange tabby, Zak, disappeared she made one herself. Several days after he went missing, Zak was found. Nancy was ecstatic. Zak seemed happy, too; although

BIOGRAPHY & being a cat, it was hard to tell. AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS From that moment on, Nancy became acutely aware of lost cat posters. She St. Martin's Press | 7/23/2013 studied their language, composition, and design. One day, she took a poster home. 9781250006264 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 28 And then another. Soon, Nancy was collecting lost cat posters. She was drawn to 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H their folk art quality, but mostly she was intrigued by the messages themselves— Includes 20 black-and-white photographs the stories behind the posters. So she reached out to the owners, calling them to throughout offer sympathy and support. Being a therapist she shouldn’t have been surprised Subrights: how quickly people confided in her. But she was. What they told her forms the UK Rights: Writer's House basis of this engaging and insightful book. Translation Rights: Writer's House

Other Available Formats: The Secrets of Lost Cats traces the evolution of Davidson’s obsession with lost Ebook ISBN: 9781466835320 cat posters. From the astonishing, almost implausible posters she encounters in

MARKETING New York, Connecticut, Alaska, Spain, and Amsterdam to the daring, deception, * National Print Publicity dedication, and emotional complexity of the lost cat owners themselves and, * Outreach to Lost Pet Online ultimately, the insights brought to light by Nancy’s shrewd but never self-serious Communities analysis, The Secrets of Lost Cats provides readers with an absorbing read that * Book Community Outreach * Social Media Campaign: Pinterest & illuminates love, loss, and recovery, and the spaces in between. Tumblr * NetGalley Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign PRAISE "This wonderful book puts an end to the notion that there are cat people and dog people. There are only people—and the animals they love." —Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of You Had Me At Woof

NANCY DAVIDSON is a psychotherapist and weekend feline sleuth. She splits her time between New Haven, Connecticut, and Manhattan.

62 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Crazy Rich Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty

Jerry Oppenheimer

Heirs to a Band-Aid and baby powder fortune, the Johnsons enjoy unimaginable wealth—but their lives have been marred by drug abuse, sexual aberration, bitter feuds, and tragic suicide

From the founders in the late nineteenth century to Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, billionaire owner of the New York Jets, the Johnson dynasty mirrors BIOGRAPHY & the Kennedy clan in its propensity for scandal and tragedy. Now all is revealed in AUTOBIOGRAPHY / RICH & this scrupulously researched unauthorized biography by Jerry Oppenheimer. The FAMOUS New York Times bestselling author of biographies of the Kennedys, the Clintons, St. Martin's Press | 7/30/2013 9780312662110 | $27.99/$31.99 Can. the Hiltons and Martha Stewart, Oppenheimer uncovers the very private lives of Hardback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 the Johnson family, their immense power, their extraordinary wealth, and 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H provocative dramas: Plus one 8-page color photograph inserts

Subrights: l The Thrice-married Johnson heiress whose lovers included a Wall Street UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press baron’s daughter and, reputedly, a First Lady l The failed suicides of a prominent Johnson brother and sister, and their Other Available Formats: bizarre marriages and kinky sex games Ebook ISBN: 9781250010933 l The health-obsessed dynasty ruler who abandoned his son and his mother MARKETING because they were too fat * National Radio Publicity l The Johnson wife and mother—her photos once festooned a mobster’s * National Print Publicity prison cell—who would walk away with a claimed $100 million divorce * Online Advertising Campaign * Online Publicity Campaign settlement * Sell Piece Available for Accounts: Johnson & Johnson Scandalous Family Based on scores of exclusive, on-the-record interviews with family, friends, Tree - also to be used for Online Promotion business associates, lovers, and detractors, Crazy Rich serves up a host of revelations about the family that was once termed "perhaps the most dysfunctional family in the Fortune 500. ALSO AVAILABLE Front Row: Anna Wintour: What Lies PRAISE Beneath the Chic Exterior of Vogue's Editor in Chief “A wicked debunking of Stewart’s carefully crafted persona.” —People on Just Desserts 2/2006 | 9780312323110 Paperback / softback | $16.99/$18.99 Can. “After reading House of Hilton, you'll wonder why anyone wouldn't beg to be dropped from the speed dial of a family that makes the Osbournes look like the Brady Bunch.” —The New York Times

JERRY OPPENHEIMER is the bestselling author of unauthorized biographies of public figures including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Hilton family. In addition to being a biographer he has also worked in several different capacities as a journalist, including as an investigative reporter and a producer of television news programs and documentaries.

63 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

Dogtripping 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Canine Cross- Country Adventure

David Rosenfelt

David Rosenfelt's moving and funny account of a cross- country move from California to Maine, and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundation

When mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, as well as refrigerators full of food, and

PETS / DOGS stoves and microwaves on which to cook them. But traveling with twenty-five St. Martin's Press | 7/30/2013 dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated, despite the RVs, the 9781250014696 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. extra kibble, volunteers (including a few readers), and camping equipment. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H Rosenfelt recounts the adventure of moving his animal companions across the Plus one 8-page color photograph insert United States with humor and warmth, and tells the tale of how he and his wife became passionate foster parents for rescue dogs, culminating in the creation of Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250014702 the Tara Foundation and successfully placing several thousand dogs with loving families. MARKETING * National Print Publicity PRAISE * Regional Author Tour and Appearances * Indiebound Campaign Praise for the Andy Carpenter series: * Social Media Campaign * Online Publicity Campaign “Warmhearted, satisfyingly inventive and almost too clever for its own good.” * Author Website: DavidRosenfelt.com —Kirkus Reviews on Heart of a Killer

“Rosenfelt walks a line between pulse-pounding suspense and laugh-out-loud humor . . . One of the best in the business.” —Associated Press “Heartwarming to dog lovers, absorbing to fans of courtroom byplay.” —Kirkus Reviews on One Dog Night “Excellent . . . All will marvel at the way Rosenfelt builds suspense.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) on On Borrowed Time

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar and Shamus Award-nominated author of five stand-alones and ten previous Andy Carpenter novels, most recently Leader of the Pack. He and his wife live in Maine with the twenty-five dogs they have rescued.

64 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JULY 2013

A Street Cat Named Bob And How He Saved My Life

James Bowen

This inspiring book, which monopolized the #1 spot on the London Times bestseller list, tells the heartwarming story of a street musician and the ginger cat who saved his life

When street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London, barely making enough money to feed himself, and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent but very sick animal, whom he named Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his PETS / CATS way, imagining that he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas. Thomas Dunne Books | 7/30/2013 9781250029461 | $24.99 Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Perfect for fans of Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat That Changed the 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H World and Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love, this book about the Subrights: transformative power of love between man and animal is guaranteed to win over UK Rights: Hodder & Stoughton countless American readers. A film version is in the works. Translation Rights: Mary Pachnos, Aitken Alexander Associates PRAISE Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250029478 "A warm and poignant memoir of how an injured ginger cat transformed the life of a man living on the streets . . . A book with the strong ingredients that made Marley and Me MARKETING and Dewey big successes . . . An instantly bestselling memoir that, beside its * National Broadcast Publicity * National Print Publicity heartwarming tale of their friendship, offers an insight into the injustice of life on the * Early Reader Reviews streets." —The Guardian (UK) * Social Media Outreach * A Read-It-First.com Selection * Book Club Promotion "A heartwarming tale with a message of hope." —Daily Mail (UK) * Library Marketing Campaign "Fans . . . queued around the block at James and Bob's first signing. The purrfectly behaved Bob signed an impressive 180 books in just two hours." —Bookseller (UK)

JAMES BOWEN is a street musician in London. He found Bob the Cat in spring 2007, and the pair have been inseparable ever since.

65 Jacket Cover THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS JULY 2013

The Kennedy Chronicles The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose-Colored Glasses

Kennedy

Kennedy’s off-the-wall memoir reliving the music and the madness as an MTV VJ in the 1990s

Back when MTV still played music, the outrageous, outspoken VJ Kennedy was BIOGRAPHY & thrust headfirst into the world of fame, gaining a new perspective on music and AUTOBIOGRAPHY / unparalleled access to the most talented artists of the era. ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS Thomas Dunne Books | 7/30/2013 Despite her young age, Kennedy boldly asked the taboo questions that no one else 9781250017475 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. would. In the midst of the alternative revolution and the birth of grunge, she talked Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 to everyone from fame-averse Seattle musicians to vapid celebrities, navigating 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph between true artists and phonies. Fame followed Kennedy wherever she went, insert and her riotous memoir dishes a plethora of celebrity encounters: dragging Jon Subrights: Stewart to a strip club, getting naked with Jenny McCarthy, making out in a coffin with Dave Navarro, and even inspiring the Goo Goo Dolls song "Name." UK Rights: JL Stermer at N.S. Bienstock, Inc. Interspersing her memoir with priceless interviews with such game-changers as Translation Rights: JL Stermer at N.S. Henry Rollins, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, and Pat Smear of Nirvana, Bienstock, Inc. Kennedy presents a juicy and revealing narrative perfect for the Gen Xers that Other Available Formats: grew up with her and MTV. Ebook ISBN: 9781250028723 In her characteristically edgy and irreverent voice, Kennedy chronologically picks MARKETING up where the recent hit book I Want My MTV left off and holds nothing back as * National Print & Radio Publicity * Radio Contests to win Books: via she offers candid accounts of Courtney Love, diva Tabita Soren, and reality-TV author’s DJ friends star "Puck" Rainey. The Kennedy Chronicles is the ultimate insider’s look at the * IndieBound Campaign & Blog Outreach golden age of MTV during the years of Alternative Nation, MTV Beach House, * Social Media Campaign: Book featured by author’s contacts & professional and The Real World. outlets including: * Early Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com PRAISE * A Read-It-First.com Selection & "No VJ had more fun than Kennedy . . . her book has the same snappy wit she brought to DearReader.com Email Marketing Campaign her TV appearances." —Rob Tannenbaum, coauthor of I Want My MTV * NetGalley Campaign * Author Website: KennedyNation.com * Author Facebook: /KennedyNation: “Kennedy brought a sweet, sharp, daffy intelligence to MTV that could never be replaced 23,000 Likes after she left. The good news: It's still in full flower.” —Kurt Loder * Author Twitter: @KennedyNation: 24,000 Followers “A mix of Terry Southern's Candy Christian and Woody Allen's Zelig, Kennedy's story is an irresistible story of sex, drugs, and rock 'n'roll that helps explains why the '90s were so goddamned great.” —Nick Gillespie, editor-in-chief of reason.com and reason TV

KENNEDY was an MTV VJ for nearly six years and interviewed a range of celebrities on MTV News and at events like the Grammys and VMAs, as well as hosted a series of specials called “How-To With Kennedy.” Featured as a pop-culture/political pundit on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, E! and Oxygen, she now hosts Music in the Morning with Kennedy on 98.7 FM, one of the top alternative radio stations in the country, and joins Discovery's hit show Pitchmen. 66 Jacket Cover ST. MARTIN'S PRESS JULY 2013

The Ghosts of Bungo Suido P. T. Deutermann

A thrilling WWII adventure set in a submarine in the Pacific, by the Boyd Award-winning author of Pacific Glory

In late 1944, America’s naval forces face what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwarf every other ship at sea. Built in secrecy, these ships seem invincible, and lay waste to any challengers. American military intelligence knows of two such ships, but there is FICTION / SEA STORIES rumored to be a third, a newly-built aircraft carrier, ready to launch from Japan’s St. Martin's Press | 7/30/2013 heavily-defended and mined Inland Sea. Such a ship would threaten U.S. Pacific 9781250018021 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: forces, allow Japan to launch air attacks against the U.S. mainland, and change 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H the course of the war.

Subrights: UK Rights: Nick Ellison Agency No American submarine has penetrated the Inland Sea; five boats and their Translation Rights: Nick Ellison Agency crews have perished in the Bungo Suido strait. Lieutenant Commander Gar Other Available Formats: Hammond—an aggressive, attacking leader with a reckless streak—is now Ebook ISBN: 9781250018038 captain of a new submarine. Hammond may be the navy’s only hope to locate and stop the Japanese super-ship before it launches . . . if it even exists. MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Promotion P.T. Deutermann’s previous World War II adventure, Pacific Glory, won * Author Website: PTDeutermann.com acclaim from readers and reviewers, and was honored with the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, administered by the American Library Association. In The Ghosts of Bungo Suido, Deutermann presents ALSO AVAILABLE another sweeping, action-filled WWII novel, based on a true event from the The Last Man: A Novel Pacific theater. 5/2012 | 9780312599454 Hardback | $25.99/$29.99 Can. PRAISE Pacific Glory: A Novel 3/2012 | 9781250002778 Praise for Pacific Glory: Paperback / softback | $14.99/$16.99 Can. "An epic, eloquent, and stirring tribute to those who served in the Pacific campaign Pacific Glory: A Novel during World War II . . . a war novel that is both sweeping and intensely personal." — 3/2011 | 9780312599447 Library Journal (starred) Hardback | $25.99/$29.99 Can.

“Entertaining . . . those who like pulse-thumping action, cinematic prose, and intrepid heroes will be rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly

P. T. DEUTERMANN is the author of fifteen previous novels, including The Last Man and Pacific Glory, which won the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction. Deutermann spent twenty-six years in military and government service, which included a Pearl Harbor tour of duty; his father was a Vice Admiral in the WWII Pacific theater, and his uncle and older brother were submariners, whose stories helped inform this novel. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.

67 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS AUGUST 2013

Undercover Cop How I Brought Down the Real-Life Sopranos

Mike Russell with Patrick W. Picciarelli

The true story of a New Jersey State Trooper's infiltration of the Genovese crime family and how he decimated the organization

Working undercover, Mike Russell was infiltrating a Mafia crime family when a turn for the worst left him with a gunshot to the back of the head. Left to die in an alley, Russell survived the botched hit and went on to orchestrate one of the biggest mafia takedowns of all time.

Urged by his police handlers, Russell used his cover story—an ex-cop fired for excessive force who now made his living from an oil delivery business—and TRUE CRIME / ORGANIZED street skills to assimilate into the Genovese crime family in New Jersey, ultimately CRIME Thomas Dunne Books | 8/6/2013 leading to more than fifty arrests of mobsters, corrupt prison officials, and even a 9781250005878 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. state senator. Straddling the thin line between collecting evidence and Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: participating in the very crimes he was leaking to the cops, Russell consistently 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H placed himself at risk—especially when his police handlers disregarded his wishes Plus one 8-page black-and-white photograph insert and his well-being, conducting premature raids on the gangsters. With his marriage suffering and his family in danger, Russell took extraordinary steps to Subrights: ensure his financial security and safety, demanding better terms from the police and allowing a film crew to document the final moments of the epic bust for a UK Rights: Frank Weimann at The Literary Group documentary that was later sold to HBO. Translation Rights: Frank Weimann at The Literary Group A real-life version of The Sopranos, Undercover Cop immerses readers in Other Available Formats: the colorful yet harrowing trials of a standout cop who faced the mob on his own Ebook ISBN: 9781250021113 terms, disrupting organized crime in New Jersey and forever redefining undercover police work. MARKETING * Outreach to Police/Law Enforcement Wives Organizations PRAISE * Online Publicity Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion “Nobody did undercover better than Mike Russell. His story is grittier than The * CommandPosts.com Promotion Sopranos, more volatile than Goodfellas. A must read.” —George Anastasia, author of * Author Website: MikeRussellMobCop.com The Last Gangster and The Goodfella Tapes * Author Facebook: /Mike-Russell-Mob- Cop/192842750775353 “Mike Russell is one tough cop. This book is a great read.” —the late Henry Hill, * Author YouTube Channel: Youtube.com/user/pattiemice subject of Wiseguy, the basis of Scorsese’s Goodfellas

MIKE RUSSELL spent twenty years in law enforcement and is currently the president of Mob Cop Productions, making films and other media about what he knows best. He resides in Florida.

PATRICK W. PICCIARELLI, a Vietnam vet, spent twenty years in the NYPD and is a licensed private investigator and adjunct writing professor at Seton Hill University. The author of Jimmy the Wags, My Life in the NYPD, he regularly contributes to Hardboiled magazine, among others. He lives in Monessen, Pennsylvania.

68 THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS AUGUST 2013

Let Freedom Ring Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington

Kitty Kelley

Bestselling author Kitty Kelley goes behind the lens of a legendary photographer to capture a pivotal moment in our nation's history: The March on Washington

It was a Wednesday—August 28, 1963—but people wore their Sunday best, PHOTOGRAPHY / PHOTOESSAYS & despite the heat and humidity. The marchers, black and white, celebrity and DOCUMENTARIES unknown, came in droves from all over the nation, heading for the towering spire Thomas Dunne Books | 8/13/2013 of the Washington Monument in D.C. All of them shared the same dream: 9781250021465 | $24.99/$28.99 Can. Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 20 freedom and equality for 19 million African Americans. Almost 300,000 strong, 7.500 in W | 9.125 in H they had come to Washington, D.C., from around the world to bear witness and Includes over 100 color and black-and-white to petition Congress to pass the President’s Civil Rights bill. photographs throughout Subrights: Stanley Tretick, a seasoned photojournalist of immense talent who had earned his UK Rights: St. Martin's Press stripes taking many of the most popular photos of President Kennedy and his Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press family, was also in the crowd, drawing inspiration from the historic scenes Other Available Formats: unfolding before him. In this magnificent book, just in time for the fiftieth Ebook ISBN: 9781250022837 anniversary of the March on Washington, his iconic, stirring photographs of that day are collected for the first time. Accompanied by an insightful essay and MARKETING * National Author Tour captions from bestselling author Kitty Kelley that provide a fascinating behind- * National Broadcast Publicity the-scenes narrative of the March, this beautiful keepsake of a book brings * National Print Publicity America at her best vibrantly to life. * National Online Publicity * Outreach to Baptist and African American community organizations PRAISE * Blads * Macmillan Speakers Bureau Praise for Stanley Tretick: * Author Website: KittyKelleyWriter.com "President Kennedy's photographic Boswell." —Look Magazine

Praise for the work of Kitty Kelley: ALSO AVAILABLE "Kelley has relentlessly probed the intersections between fame, wealth, and influence, Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the Kennedys raising hackles every time." —New York Times Book Review 11/2012 | 9780312643423 Hardback | $29.99/$34.50 Can. "If I had to choose between Kitty Kelley's version . . . and, say, Tom Brokaw's, I'd put more trust in the little blonde lady to tell me the truth without fear or favor." —Village Voice

“The most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time.” —William Safire on His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

KITTY KELLEY is an internationally acclaimed writer, whose bestselling biographies focus on some of the most influential and powerful personalities of the last fifty years. Kelley’s last five books have all been number one on The New York Times bestseller list, including her latest, Oprah: A Biography.

69 ST. MARTIN'S PRESS AUGUST 2013

Unbeatable Notre Dame's 1988 Championship and the Last Great College Football Season

Jerry Barca

Perhaps the best undefeated team in the history of college football—the dramatic true story of the 1988 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and their incredible unbeaten season

Unbeatable is the first book to tell the complete story of the incredible 1988 season that brought the fledgling Fighting Irish back to the top of college sports in what many consider to be the greatest unbeaten season of college football ever played. With a completely unlikely but forever memorable cast of characters— including the slight, lisping coach Lou Holtz; the black quarterback from the SPORTS & RECREATION / FOOTBALL projects, Tony Rice; five foot nothing Asian kicker, Reggie Ho; punishing running St. Martin's Press | 8/13/2013 back Reggie Watters; and a crazed and ferocious defensive line, among others— 9781250024831 | $26.99/$31.00 Can. Notre Dame whipped millions of fans into a frenzy. This roller coaster season of Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H football includes the infamous Catholics vs. Convicts game (Notre Dame vs. Plus one 16-page color photograph insert Jimmy Johnson's #1 ranked Miami Hurricanes). The two teams were undefeated when they met at Notre Dame Stadium, with the Irish winning in the final seconds Subrights: UK Rights: RLR Associates by a final score of 31-30. Translation Rights: RLR Associates Other Available Formats: With original reporting and interviews with everyone from the players to the Ebook ISBN: 9781250024848 coaches, detailed research, and access to the Notre Dame archives, Jerry Barca tells a gripping story of an unbelieveable season and the players who would MARKETING become legends. More than a Notre Dame book, Unbeatable is a compelling narrative of one of the most incredible sports stories of the last century— * National Print Publicity the unlikely tale of an underdog team coming together and making history. * National Radio Publicity * Major Promotion with Notre Dame * Author Website: JerryBarca.com JERRY BARCA graduated from Notre Dame in 1999. While on campus he worked in the athletic department. He's currently a journalist whose writing has appeared on SI.com and in the Star- Ledger, Asbury Park Press, Home News Tribune, Syracuse Post-Standard, Herald News, the Courier-Post, and numerous Notre Dame game programs. He can be heard talking sports on Sirius/XM’s Ron and Fez Show. He lives in New Jersey.

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The Truth Michael Palin

“An ingeniously plotted, beautifully written and hugely enjoyable book that raises tricky questions about... our need for heroes [and] the price of personal compromise.’” —The Daily Telegraph

For the first time since his much-beloved tale Hemingway's Chair was published in 1998, Michael Palin pens a new novel featuring the warm and witty story of an everyman, a tantalizing offer, a journey to India, and the search for the truth. Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime—to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly influential activist and humanitarian. His search to find out the real story behind FICTION / GENERAL Thomas Dunne Books | 8/13/2013 the legend takes Mabbut to the lush landscapes and environmental hotspots of 9781250028242 | $24.99 India. The more he discovers about Melville, the more he admires him—and the Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: more he connects with an idealist who wanted to make a difference. But is his 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H quarry really who he claims to be? As Keith discovers, the truth can be whatever Subrights: we make it. UK Rights: Orion Books Translation Rights: Orion Books

Other Available Formats: "[Palin's] book is well paced, his prose, carefully hewn, his characters fully Ebook ISBN: 9781250028235 developed and convincingly human. And his comic timing is impeccable." —The MARKETING Washington Post on Hemingway's Chair * National Print Publicity * TV show and accompanying book Brazil "This book's strenghts are . . . its dry, deftly, understated wit, its careful plot and will both publish in August * Online Promotion character construction; it's clever, on-the-money dialogue . . . Those pleasures * Early Reader Review Campaign carry you a long way." —The New York Times Book Review on Hemingway's * Excerpt in the trade paperback reissue Chair of Hemingway’s Chair (August 2013)

PRAISE “An entertaining story of hero worship, compromise and grubby trade-offs.” —Tatler

“It's a feel-good story leaving the reader on a real high.” —The Observer

“Palin's dryly understated exasperation with the absurdities of daily life and his ear for dialogue raise an appreciative smile.” —The Sunday Times Culture

“Well-crafted, warm hearted—and wholly recommended.” —Reader’s Digest

MICHAEL PALIN is a comedian, novelist, actor, playwright, and Python. He also happens to be one of the funniest people on the planet.

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Women of a Dangerous Age A Novel

Fanny Blake

A warm, witty and revealing novel about women of a certain age perfect for fans of Elizabeth Berg, Erica Bauermeister, and Liane Moriarty

Lou is married to a man who no longer loves her. It’s time to move on, to begin a new business venture, and to start her life over. To celebrate her new-found freedom, she travels to India, where, in front of the Taj Mahal, she befriends Ali, another woman traveling alone.

Ali is a serial mistress whose latest lover has just changed the rules on her, asking FICTION / CONTEMPORARY her to make her life with him. But when she returns home, she discovers WOMEN Thomas Dunne Books | 8/13/2013 her would-be partner is not the man she took him for. She, too, needs a new 9781250020949 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. beginning. Hardback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H As Lou and Ali put their pasts behind them, they start to discover new possibilities Subrights: for life and for love, until they have the shocking realization that they have far UK Publisher Rights: Blue Door more in common than they thought. Translation Rights: Aitken Alexander Associates A wry, honest and heartfelt novel of female friendship, romance, and self- Other Available Formats: discovery, Women of a Dangerous Age celebrates that powerful time in a Ebook ISBN: 9781250020932 woman's life when she seeks to reconcile her current life with the life she wants, MARKETING and celebrates the beauty of second chances. * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Campaign * Discussion Guide Available Online PRAISE * Featured Title on "A cracking plotline . . . Lou, the heroine, divorcée owner of a dress shop, is a winning ReadingGroupGold.com * Blog Campaign creation. She’s a sort of grown-up Bridget Jones, good-natured, chaotic, romantic, big * Social Media Campaign knicker-owning and fond of large glasses of white wine. A happy, liberating read." * A Read-It-First.com Selection & DearReader.com Email Marketing —Daily Mail on Women of a Dangerous Age Campaign * Author Facebook: /FannyBlakeBooks "A delightful, witty take on middle-aged womanhood . . . A delicious read." —Saga on * Author Twitter: @FannyBlake1 * Paperback Tie-In: What Women Want Women of a Dangerous Age (July 2013) "Fanny writes with hilarity, warmth and truth about how to navigate the tricky waters of womanhood." —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife and ALSO AVAILABLE Lucia, Lucia on What Women Want What Women Want: A Novel 7/2013 | 9781250033055 Paperback / softback | $15.99/$18.50 Can. FANNY BLAKE was a publisher for many years, editing both fiction and non-fiction before becoming a freelance journalist and writer. She lives in London.

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City of Fog Gregg Hurwitz

From The New York Times bestseller—a man starts receiving anonymous threats intended for others, putting himself and everyone he loves in the path of a relentless killer

Daniel Brasher has always been something of a disappointment to his old-money aristocratic San Francisco mother. Some years ago, Daniel left his high-paying FICTION / THRILLERS St. Martin's Press | 8/20/2013 job as a money manager to marry his community organizer wife and work at a job 9780312625528 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now Hardback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: he’s ready to move on, start a private practice, and settle into a new, more stable 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H life. Subrights: UK Rights: Sphere But before he leaves, he finds an envelope in his department mailbox––one Translation Rights: Aaron Priest Agency intended for someone else that was placed in his slot by accident. Opening the Other Available Formats: envelope, Daniel finds an unsigned piece of paper, a note that says only “admit Ebook ISBN: 9781250026101 what you’ve done or you will bleed for it. you have 'til november 15 at midnite.” With the deadline already passed, Daniel discovers that the person to MARKETING * Regional Author Tour whom the envelope was addressed was brutally murdered. But this first warning * National Print Publicity is only the beginning. * Online Advertising Campaign * Social Media Campaign * Featured Author on Criminal Element Soon, Daniel finds more warnings to other people in his office mail, ones that the * E-book Promotion police cannot track, and to victims that cannot be saved. Daniel's efforts, * Excerpt in the St. Martin’s Paperbacks however, have alerted the killer to his involvement and next he gets a threat of his edition of The Survivor (April 2012) * Library Marketing Campaign own. Now with the clock ticking, Daniel—with no clue what he’s supposed to * Author Website: GreggHurwitz.net have done or to what action he must confess—must somehow appease, or outwit, a seemingly unstoppable killer.

ALSO AVAILABLE PRAISE The Survivor 7/2013 | 9781250029430 “A gripping book . . . It’s hard to imagine that he can top this one, but, based on past Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. performance, don’t bet against it.” —Booklist (starred) on The Survivor You're Next 3/2012 | 9781250005892 “One of the top writers. Hurwitz can be counted on to consistently deliver enough thrills Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. to satisfy even the most demanding readers.” —Chicago Sun-Times on They're They're Watching Watching 4/2011 | 9780312544171 Paperback / softback | $9.99/$11.99 Can. “All great thrillers make you think; this one makes you feel as well." —Providence Journal-Bulletin on You're Next

"Smart and relentlses . . . Hurwitz starts the pressure early and never, never lets up.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer on You're Next

GREGG HURWITZ is the author of thirteen novels, most recently The Survivor. He is a producer and writer for television and has written for both Marvel and DC comics. He lives in Los Angeles.

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But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry

Julia Reed

Julia Reed adds a little southern flavor to the globe in her hilarious new essay collection

Julia Reed is an indefatigable practitioner of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry. In her new book, she takes us around the world southern style. From the quenelle of La Cote Basque, New York City's legendary bastion of haute cuisine to the salt-crusted steaks of Madrid's Alkalde, Julia's taste was ingrained early on at her mother's southern table. She can tell you which Spanish Pimenton is the HUMOR / FORM best just as she knows why you should never get rid of those earrings your aunt St. Martin's Press | 8/20/2013 left you in her will. Reed writes about the bounty of a Southern garden and the 9781250019042 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. burden of your mother filling the back seat of your car with corn and commanding Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H you to haul it away. Over a glass or two, she talks about the best gin and tells the story of how her father drove around the Mississippi Delta armed with a Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press thermos full of Gin Rickeys and how said thermos of libation eased his way when Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press trying to sell grain bins to farmers in 98 degree weather. She gives her mother's recipe for spinach and artichoke casserole, topped with Ritz crackers, and Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250019059 remembers how her mother served it to diplomats and family members alike. Particularly, she remembers preparing a big Spanish meal one evening MARKETING when as she began to make the sangria, a childhood friend asked where the * Co-Promotion with Taigan.com & their vodka was. When Reed replied that there was no vodka in sangria, her friend said online magazine Fetch * Online Publicity Campaign "But, Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!" and another great collection of * Book Community Outreach essays by Julia Reed was born. * Social Media Campaign PRAISE

ALSO AVAILABLE Praise for Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other "Reed is another Southern writer with a fine hand for storytelling and cooking. Though Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life you'll want to cook from her book, first you'll want to take it to the porch hammock to (with Recipes) read. Each tasty tale—from her collard green chronicle to her Frozen Assets anecdote 4/2009 | 9780312359577 Paperback / softback | $15.99/$18.50 Can. on ice cream—will whet your appetite for more." —The Post and Courier (SC)

“[A] charming collection. Reed's wit and her eye for the telling historical detail shine through.” —The Times Picayune

"No matter what your tastes, Ham Biscuits has something to tempt your taste buds." —The Clarion Ledger

JULIA REED is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where she writes the magazine's Food and Drink column. She is author of Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties, Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena and The House on First Street, My New Orleans Story. Reed lives in New Orleans.

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Brazil Michael Palin

From the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to the bustling metropolis of São Paulo, Michael Palin explores the diverse country of Brazil in this new book featuring gorgeous color photos throughout

Michael Palin has traveled around the world, exploring countless countries for the BBC. Now, Palin treks Brazil for the first time for a new BBC series, which went on the air in October 2012, and discovers the incredible diversity of this nation, one of four new global superpowers. From the Venezuelan border and the forests of the Lost World to the headwaters of the Xingu, Palin encounters a TRAVEL / SOUTH AMERICA diverse group of people, including the indigenous hunter-gatherers of the interior, Thomas Dunne Books | 8/20/2013 the descendents of African slaves with their vibrant culture of rituals, festivals, 9781250032065 | $35.00 Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: and music, a large community of German descent who celebrate their patrimony 7.690 in W | 10.770 in H | 0.980 in T at the biggest beer festival outside Munich, and the wealthy guachas of the Includes color photographs throughout Pantanal. His journey ends at the border with Uruguay and the spectacular Subrights: Iguacu Falls. A potent mix of races, religions, and cultures, of unexplored UK Rights: Orion Books wildernesses and bustling modern cities, Brazil comes to life through Palin's eyes, Translation Rights: Orion Books and readers looking for an escape will be unable to resist this beautiful and informative look at one of the most interesting and dynamic countries in the world. MARKETING * National Print Publicity PRAISE * TV show tie-in for Brazil * Author Website: PalinsTravels.co.uk Praise for Michael Palin: "Witty and entertaining." —The New York Times

ALSO AVAILABLE "Charming and often hilarious." —The New York Daily News Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980--1988 3/2011 | 9780312682026 Hardback | $32.50 "Ever affable and eclectic, Palin disarms and delights. He has an unerring eye for the bizarre. His book is sheer escapism, pure entertainment, and I love it." —The Sunday Times (UK)

"Italy, Paris, back to Africa, and on to Cuba and Key West, Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure works on many different levels: There's Palin's charm and self-deprecating style. There are his keen insights on life, balanced nicely by pure silliness from time to time . . . A delightful travelogue." —The Baltimore Sun

MICHAEL PALIN established his reputation with Monty Python's Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. A self-confessed dromomaniac (travel addict), he has written books to accompany seven very successful travel series, including Himalaya.

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A History of Ancient Egypt From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid

John Romer

A history of the earliest days of ancient Egypt from famed archaelogist John Romer

The ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaelogist John Romer draws on a lifetime of research to tell one history's greatest stories; how, over more than a thousand years, a society of farmers created a rich, vivid world where one of the most astounding of all human-made landmarks, the Great Pyramid, was built. Immersing the reader in the Egypt of the past, Romer examines and challenges the long-held theories HISTORY / ANCIENT about what archaelogical finds mean and what stories they tell about how the Thomas Dunne Books | 8/20/2013 Egyptians lived. More than just an account of one of the most fascinating periods 9781250030115 | $29.99 Hardback | 512 pages | Carton Qty: 20 of history, this engrossing book asks readers to take a step back and question 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H what they've learned about Egypt in the past. Fans of Stacy Plus two 8-page color photograph inserts Schiff's Cleopatra and history buffs will be captivated by this re-telling of Other Available Formats: Egyptian history, written by one of the top Egyptologists in the world. Ebook ISBN: 9781250030108 PRAISE MARKETING * Online Publicity Campaign "Scholarly, passionate, and exquisitely written . . . it is remarkable how this book gives * Academic Marketing Campaign us almost nothing of the ancient Egypt we think we know . . . [Romer writes] with all the care and exactitude of a pharanoic engineer with a plumb line . . . a stunning, clear- sighted history of ancient Egypt." —The Sunday Times (UK)

"After a long wait, we have an up-to-date, stimulating account of the birth of what may turn out to be the world's oldest civilization." —Nature (UK)

"His physical descriptions are superb . . . A book to be read and thought about." —Financial Times (UK)

JOHN ROMER has worked in Egypt since 1966 on archaeological digs in many key sites, including the Valley of the King and Karnak. He led the Brooklyn Museum expedition to excavate the tomb of Ramasses XI. He wrote and presented a number of television series, including The Seven Wonders of the World, Romer's Egypt, Ancient Lives, and Testament. He lives in Italy.

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Trident K9 Warriors My Tale From the Training Ground to the Battlefield with Elite Navy SEAL Canines

Mike Ritland with Gary Brozek

With a huge 60 MINUTES feature coming in March 2013, this is the first book to take readers inside the world of elite Navy SEAL working dogs

PETS / DOGS St. Martin's Press | 3/5/2013 As a SEAL on combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working 9781250024978 | $25.99/$29.99 Can. dog in action and instantly knew he'd found his true calling. While the SEAL Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 20 teams had used dogs in the past, they never had dogs trained specifically by 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Plus one 16-page color photgraph insert SEALs, for SEALs. To fill this void, Ritland started his own company after he retired, training and supplying dogs for the west coast SEAL teams. He knew that Other Available Formats: less than 1% of all working dogs had what it takes to contribute to the success of Audio ISBN: 9781427233523 Ebook ISBN: 9781250024985 our nation’s elite combat units. He searched the globe for animals who fit the profile.

The results were a revelation: highly trained working dogs capable of handling both detection and apprehension work in the most extreme environments and the tensest of battlefield conditions. Though fiercely aggressive and athletic, these dogs develop a close bond with the handlers they work side-by-side with and the other team members. Truly integrating themselves into their units, these K9 warriors are much like their human counterparts—unwavering in their devotion to duty, strong enough and tough enough to take it to the enemy through pain, injury, or fear.

For the first time ever, readers get an inside look at these elite K9 warriors—who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake saving countless lives asking for little in the way of reward. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest an...

PRAISE "After a stellar career in the Teams, Mike Ritland has gone on to train working K9's for some of the most elite units in the U.S. Special Operations community. These dogs are integrated into Special Operations at all levels of mission planning. They HALO parachute from high altitude, chase enemy squirters, and detect explosive booby traps, to name just a few tasks. If you want to learn about these amazing animals, the sacrifices they've made, and their effectiveness in combat, then read Navy SEAL K9 Warriors." —Brandon Webb, Former Navy SEAL, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Circle, and Editor-in-Chief SOFREP.com

MIKE RITLAND joined the Navy in 1996 and graduated with BUD/S class 215. After years as a member of SEAL Team 3 he became a BUD/S instructor and then started his own company to train dogs for the west coast SEAL teams. Today he continues to supply working and protection dogs to a host of clients. He started the K9 Warrior Foundation to help retired military dogs after their service.

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Adams, John M.; The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Filichia, Peter; Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks: A Very Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings...... 57 Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Adventuress, The: A Novel; Nicholas Coleridge...... 23 Win the Tony Award...... 25 Ahmad Nasr, Amir; My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Flanders, Judith; The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Mind and Broke My Heart---and Doubt Freed My Soul...... 35 Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime . Always Watching; Chevy Stevens...... 17 ...... 60 Amen, Tana , BSN, RN; The Omni Diet: The Revolutionary Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel; Ron Irwin...... 29 PLANT + PROTEIN Program to Lose Weight, Reverse Fly Away; Kristin Hannah...... 7 Disease, Fight Inflammation, and Change Your Life Forever . . Fowler, Therese Anne; Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald...... 2 ...... 5 Freemantle, Brian; Red Star Falling: A Thriller...... 38 American Warrior: The True Story of a Legendary Ranger; Ghosts of Bungo Suido, The; P. T. Deutermann...... 67 Gary O'Neal...... 15 Glatt, John; The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Amy Falls Down: A Novel; Jincy Willett...... 53 Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder...... 4 And Then I Found You: A Novel; Patti Callahan Henry. . . . . 3 Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star; Stephen Michael Andrews, Mary Kay; Ladies' Night...... 27 Shearer...... 31 Back in the Fight: The Explosive Memoir of a Special Golemon, David L.; Carpathian...... 42 Operator Who Never Gave Up; Joseph Kapacziewski. . . . . 10 Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane, The: A Novel; Kelly Barca, Jerry; Unbeatable: Notre Dame's 1988 Championship Harms...... 20 and the Last Great College Football Season...... 70 Hang in There, Baby!; Jenni Pulos...... 12 Barnhardt, Wilton; Lookaway, Lookaway: A Novel...... 9 Hannah, Kristin; Fly Away...... 7 Battleship: The Story of a Champion; Dorothy Ours...... 8 Harbison, Beth; Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Black Venus: A Novel; James MacManus...... 36 Finger...... 54 Blake, Fanny; Women of a Dangerous Age: A Novel...... 72 Hardy, Ed; Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos...... 40 Bowen, James; A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved Harms, Kelly; The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane: A Novel My Life...... 65 ...... 20 Bradford, Neil; Sons of Thunder: Writing from the Fast Lane: A Hawk, Tiffany; Love Me Anyway: A Novel...... 13 Motorcycling Anthology...... 48 Henry, Patti Callahan; And Then I Found You: A Novel...... 3 Brazil; Michael Palin...... 75 History of Ancient Egypt, A: From the First Farmers to the Brown, Pete; Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London Great Pyramid; John Romer...... 76 As Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Hunting Eve; Iris Johansen...... 56 Inn...... 22 Hurwitz, Gregg; City of Fog...... 73 But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria: Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry; Julia Reed...... 74 Invention of Murder, The: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime; Judith Carpathian; David L. Golemon...... 42 Flanders...... 60 Castro, Joy; Nearer Home: A Nola Céspedes Mystery...... 58 Irwin, Ron; Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel...... 29 Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger; Beth It Runs in the Family: A Memoir; Dick Manning...... 55 Harbison...... 54 It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: 50 Tracks that Tell the Story of the City of Fog; Gregg Hurwitz...... 73 Rolling Stones; Bill Janovitz...... 59 Clegg, Brian; Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience Janovitz, Bill; It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: 50 Tracks that Tell the of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind...... 21 Story of the Rolling Stones...... 59 Close My Eyes; Sophie McKenzie...... 51 Johansen, Iris; Hunting Eve...... 56 Coes, Ben; Eye for an Eye: A Dewey Andreas Novel...... 50 Jones, Darynda; Fifth Grave Past the Light...... 52 Coleridge, Nicholas; The Adventuress: A Novel...... 23 Justice for Sara; Erica Spindler...... 41 Coonts, Stephen; Pirate Alley: A Novel...... 14 Kapacziewski, Joseph; Back in the Fight: The Explosive Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up...... 10 Johnson & Johnson Dynasty; Jerry Oppenheimer...... 63 Kelley, Kitty; Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Crystal, David; Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Images of the March on Washington...... 69 Extraordinary Story of English Spelling...... 32 Kennedy Chronicles, The: The Golden Age of MTV D'Antonio, Michael; Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Through Rose-Colored Glasses; Kennedy...... 66 Catholic Scandal...... 6 Kennedy; The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Davidson, Dr. Nancy; The Secrets of Lost Cats: One Woman, Through Rose-Colored Glasses...... 66 Twenty Posters, and a New Understanding of Love...... 62 Ladies' Night; Mary Kay Andrews...... 27 Delinsky, Barbara; Sweet Salt Air...... 39 Last Line, The: A Novel; Anthony Shaffer...... 28 Dennison, Matthew; The Twelve Caesars: The Dramatic Lives Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the of the Emperors of Rome...... 49 March on Washington; Kitty Kelley...... 69 Deutermann, P. T.; The Ghosts of Bungo Suido...... 67 Long Live the King; Fay Weldon...... 11 Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, and 3 RVs on Our Lookaway, Lookaway: A Novel; Wilton Barnhardt...... 9 Canine Cross-Country Adventure; David Rosenfelt...... 64 Looking Glass Brother, The; Peter von Ziegesar...... 47 Earned in Blood: My Journey from Old-Breed Marine to the Most Dangerous Job in America; Thurman Miller...... 18 Lost Whale, The: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna; Michael Parfit...... 46 Extra Sensory: The Science and Pseudoscience of Telepathy and Other Powers of the Mind; Brian Clegg. . . .21 Love Me Anyway: A Novel; Tiffany Hawk...... 13 Eye for an Eye: A Dewey Andreas Novel; Ben Coes. . . . . 50 MacManus, James; Black Venus: A Novel...... 36 Fifth Grave Past the Light; Darynda Jones...... 52 Manning, Dick; It Runs in the Family: A Memoir...... 55 McKenzie, Sophie; Close My Eyes...... 51 Military Quotation Book, Revised for the 21st Century, Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London As Seen The: More Than 1,100 of the Best Quotations About War, Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn; Leadership, Courage, and Victory...... 16 Pete Brown...... 22 Miller, Thurman; Earned in Blood: My Journey from Old-Breed Shearer, Stephen Michael; Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star Marine to the Most Dangerous Job in America...... 18 ...... 31 Millionaire and the Mummies, The: Theodore Davis's Smith, Noble; Sons of Zeus: A Novel...... 33 Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings; John M. Adams. . . 57 Sons of Thunder: Writing from the Fast Lane: A Monaghan, Louise; Stolen: Escape from Syria...... 34 Motorcycling Anthology; Neil Bradford...... 48 Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal; Sons of Zeus: A Novel; Noble Smith...... 33 Michael D'Antonio...... 6 Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Mulley, Clare; The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Story of English Spelling; David Crystal...... 32 Christine Granville...... 30 Spindler, Erica; Justice for Sara...... 41 My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind and Broke Spy Who Loved, The: The Secrets and Lives of Christine My Heart---and Doubt Freed My Soul; Amir Ahmad Nasr . . . 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