ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Untitled Habit-Changing Eating Plan

Kayla Itsines

The #1 Fitness Influencer in the world (Forbes) and social media star (over 18 million followers!) Kayla Itsines’ new guide on how to form good eating habits in just 28 days.

One of the hardest parts of dieting is learning to change your habits. Too many diets promise quick fixes that you can follow for short periods of time, but aren’t sustainable as a lifestyle. Instagram-famous personal trainer, Kayla Itsines presents a new way to implement change in your life: by changing your habits. In just 28 days, readers learn Kayla’s tips and tricks, which they get a glimpse of through her wildly popular Instagram, but Kayla will also teach them how to HEALTH & FITNESS truly change their habits and live a healthy life. Full of recipes and color, readers St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 will be inspired and encouraged as Kayla leads them through meals, snacks, 9781250137616 | $26.99 / $37.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages exercises, and motivation to make real, lasting change! Includes color photographs throughout KAYLA ITSINES is a personal trainer with over 18 million social media followers. The “BBG” has Subrights: Translation: Pan Macmillan Australia UK: Bluebird Books grown into a phenomenon, with women all over the world following her workout and diet plan. Kayla lives in Adelaide, Australia with her partner Tobi Pearce and her Siberian Husky Ace. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250137623

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This Was a Man The Final Volume of The Clifton Chronicles

Jeffrey Archer

The 7th and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles series brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss, and ambition to a dazzling conclusion.

This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?

In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the FICTION / SAGAS Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? St. Martin's Griffin | 1/16/2018 9781250130051 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 24 completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary and receives 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes a family tree an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a job.

Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK Translation Rights: Macmillan UK Sebastian Clifton becomes Chairman of Farthings Kaufman bank but only after Hakim Bishara has to resign for personal reasons. Sebastian and Samantha’s Other Available Formats: talented daughter, Jessica, is expelled from the Slade School of Fine Art, but her Mass Market ISBN: 9781250061645 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250061638 aunt Grace comes to her rescue. Audio ISBN: 9781427278739 Ebook ISBN: 9781466867512 Meanwhile, Lady Virginia is about to flee the country to avoid her creditors when the Duchess of Hertford dies, and she sees another opportunity to clear her debts and finally trump the Cliftons and Barringtons. MARKETING Email Marketing Campaign In a devastating twist, tragedy engulfs the Clifton family when one of them Social Media Campaign receives a shocking diagnosis that will throw all their lives into turmoil. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Author Website: jeffreyarcher.co.uk This Was a Man is the captivating final installment of the Clifton Chronicles, a Active on Facebook: series of seven novels that has topped the bestseller lists around the world and facebook.com/jeffreyarcherauthor (210k followers) enhanced Jeffrey Archer’s reputation as a master storyteller. Active on Twitter: @jeffrey_archer (29.5k followers) PRAISE “Archer continues his storytelling magic to create characters of spellbinding substance, and readers can count on his surprising twists and shocking ALSO AVAILABLE conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Cometh the Hour Cometh the Hour: Book Six Of the Clifton Chronicles “Archer packs a plot with thrills and chills enough for readers to keep turning the 10/2016 | 9781250061614 Mass Market | $9.99 / $12.99 Can. pages...The conclusion’s a turbo-charged cliffhanger.” —Kirkus Reviews on Mightier Than the Sword Cometh the Hour: Book Six Of the Clifton Chronicles 8/2016 | 9781250091789 JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain’s House Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. of Commons and twenty-four years in the House of Lords. All of his novels and short story Be Careful What You Wish For: A Novel collections—including Cometh the Hour, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller—have been 2/2015 | 9781250073181 international bestselling books. Archer is married with two sons and lives in London and Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Cambridge. 3 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

The Mother's Promise A Novel

Sally Hepworth

A poignant and breathtaking novel from the author of The Things We Keep and The Secrets of Midwives.

All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of and the identity of Zoe’s father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works—until it doesn’t. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Desperate to find stability for Zoe, Alice reaches out to two women who are WOMEN practically strangers, but who are her only hope: Kate, a nurse, and Sonja, a St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 9781250077769 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. social worker. As the four of them come together, a chain of events is set into Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 motion and they must confront their sharpest fears and secrets—secrets about 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W abandonment, abuse, estrangement, and the deepest longing for family. Imbued Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press with heart and humor in even the darkest moments, The Mother’s Promise is an Translation Rights: Rob Weisbach Creative unforgettable novel about the unbreakable bonds between mothers and Management daughters, and the new ways in which families are forged. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250077752 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781427282156 Ebook ISBN: 9781466889927 “A page-turner. All the pieces masterfully come together at the end to create a Audio ISBN: 9781427282163 beautiful novel of courage and love in the face of sorrow.” —Booklist (Starred Review) on The Mother’s Promise

MARKETING Online Advertising “Devastatingly beautiful.” —People Magazine on The Things We Keep Bookclub Outreach Tie-in with trade publication of The Family “Sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs Next Door Blog Outreach will be lining up.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on The Things We Keep Email Marketing Discussion Guide Available Online “Sally Hepworth’s novel enchants.” —Us Weekly on The Secrets of Midwives Library Marketing Campaign Email Marketing Online Publicity SALLY HEPWORTH is a former human resource professional and a graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Sally has lived around the world, spending extended periods in Singapore, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and she now writes full-time from her home in Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her husband and two young children. ALSO AVAILABLE

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Close to Om Stretching Yoga from Your Mat to Your Life

Andrea Marcum

A beautifully illustrated, practical and philosophical, yoga book that promotes and teaches mindfulness in both your yoga practice and your everyday life.

Before Andrea Marcum was a sought after celebrity yoga teacher, she was someone who thought she couldn’t do yoga because she couldn’t be still. Now HEALTH & FITNESS / YOGA after sixteen years of teaching yoga, she works with network executives, global St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 brands, Hollywood actresses, and everyone in between. 9781250127594 | $19.99 Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 30 9.1 in H | 7.5 in W Yoga is the yoke of body, mind, and spirit, and in Close to Om, Marcum offers a Includes illustrations and color photographs program that teaches all three aspects of yoga. In the vein of Tara Stiles’ Yoga throughout Curves, Rebecca Pacheco’s Do Your Om Thing, and Sharon Saltzberg’s Real Subrights: UK Rights: Zachary Shuster Happiness, but showcasing Marcum’s signature unique style, it is a program that Harmsworth Literary combines the teaching of poses with the exploration of yoga philosophy and Translation Rights:Zachary Shuster Harmsworth insight into meditation and mindfulness. Literary Other Available Formats: By the end of Close to Om, you will not only know a lot about yoga and its Ebook ISBN: 9781250127600 Audio ISBN: 9781427294197 poses, but you’ll also know more about you: who you are, what you want, and Audio ISBN: 9781427294180 how to get there—on and off your mat. The progression in Close to Om is the architecture of every yoga practice—and will show you that how you do your yoga is how you do your life.

MARKETING National Print Publicity PRAISE Online Publicity Cross Promotion with LuLuLemon and “Andrea’s combination of a challenging class, and a great sense of humor are Other Yoga Brands unique, intelligent, and always leave me feeling better when I leave than when I Social Media Campaign Pre-Order Campaign arrived. She is an amazing teacher and I love her class.” —Heather Graham, Blog Outreach Campaign actress Author Website: andreamarcum.com Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/ustudio.yoga.7 (8400 “At our NBC Universal International Television executive retreat Andrea followers) convinced even the most skeptical on our team that mindfulness and yoga are Active on Instagram: @andreamarcum exciting tools to improve our quality of life and job performance. Her (4800 followers) approachable style allowed everyone to feel comfortable and made the session a great success.” —Michael Edelstein, President, NBC Universal International Television Production

ANDREA MARCUM has been teaching yoga in LA for sixteen years. She teaches at Yogaworks locally and at major events including Wanderlust festivals, as well as leading corporate and private retreats all over the world. Her classes are also available through My Yoga Gaia for streaming online and TV. Among her celebrity clients are actresses Heather Graham and Jennifer Jason Leigh, directors Noah Baumbach and Mark Pellington, and Oprah’s The Life You Want Tour celebrity life coach Angela Davis.

5 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Unf*ckology A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Amy Alkon

The Advice Goddess presents a pull-yourself-up-by- your-bootstraps, science-based guide to living a happier life by learning how to grow a pair.

Amy Alkon, The Advice Goddess, isn’t exactly the warm-and-fuzzy type. She’s the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps type. Her Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck was a big hit, and she’s following that no-nonsense guide to good behavior with her very own prescription for living better: Unf*ck Yourself! In her latest book, Amy is out to prove that loserhood, isn’t destiny. As she puts it “You can’t order a slightly used spine off eBay.” SELF-HELP / PERSONAL GROWTH / SUCCESS There’s no “find my balls” like “find my iPhone,” but there is actually a way out St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 of loserhood and it doesn’t require a therapist who’s looking forward to finally 9781250080868 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. buying that island after decades of listening to you jaw on. All you have to do is Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 behave as the confident person you want to be. In Amy’s words, this is not a 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes 14 black-and-white illustrations and self-help book, but a “science-help” book. Based on research in neuroscience photographs and behavior she shows readers how to get up off their couches and actually do something about their life. In chapters like “Eat Shit and Die,” “Jeer Pressure,” Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press and “You Suck, or...Do You?” she takes a science-based approach to why ritual is important, what shame actually is and how to beat it, and how confidence can Other Available Formats: lead to self-respect. With the same hilarious approach she took to etiquette, Amy Ebook ISBN: 9781466892682 Alkon now turns her gimlet eye on the self-help book and uses science to turn losers into winners.

ALSO AVAILABLE PRAISE Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck “She is chatty, at times outrageous, but full of ideas about living politely in a 6/2014 | 9781250030719 society that she says has become too big for our brains to handle. As for Oscar Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Wilde, at the end of his life he is said to have commented: ‘The world was my oyster, but I used the wrong fork.’” —Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal

“Contradiction is part of what makes Ms. Alkon so captivating. Perhaps the biggest contradiction: The hisser can also be utterly lovely.” —Brooks Barnes, The New York Times

“Hilarious...and, above all, wise. It’s Emily Post as a beach read.” —Charlotte Allen, The Weekly Standard

AMY ALKON does "applied behavioral science," translating scientific research into highly practical advice. Alkon writes The Science Advice Goddess, an award-winning, syndicated column that runs in newspapers across the United States and Canada. She is also the author of Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck and I See Rude People. She has been on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, and does a weekly science podcast. She has written for Psychology Today, Los Angeles ...

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End Game

Lisa Renee Jones

The final novel in a stunningly sexy, explosive Dirty Money contemporary romance series from heralded New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.

Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in End Game, the smoldering, scorching final novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones.

Sometimes in order to find the one you love, you need to lose yourself completely…

Emily is gone, and Shane hovers on the edge of being consumed by his FICTION / ROMANCE / darkness. Emily is in danger. His family’s empire is in turmoil. And he has blood CONTEMPORARY St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 on his hands. As shocking twists, dark secrets, and explosive betrayals within 9781250083852 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. the Brandon family come to the light, Shane must fight harder than ever before. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 But without Emily, he is no one… 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press With every desperate, powerful touch, Emily belongs to Shane. She has been Translation: St. Martin's Press found, but she still isn’t safe, and Shane will stop at nothing to keep her from Other Available Formats: harm. As they burn bright with passion, vengeance, and despair, the dangers they Ebook ISBN: 9781250083890 face grow closer and stronger. Emily has been opened up by Shane’s touch, Audio ISBN: 9781427295668 saved by the dark intimacy he craves. But can Emily save Shane?

It all comes to a head in the shattering conclusion to the Dirty Money series by MARKETING New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Blog Outreach NetGalley Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE Email Marketing Campaign Online Promotion at “High-octane romance set above the glittering lights of Denver is enhanced by the HeroesandHeartbreakers.com dominance of a powerful man and the cunning sweetness of a woman who isn’t National Advertising National Print Publicity cowed or swayed by his wealth.” —Publishers Weekly on Hard Rules Online Publicity Visit www.lisareneejones.com “Sure to leave readers desperate for the next installment.” —Kirkus Reviews on Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/AuthorLisaReneeJones, Hard Rules 276K Active on Twitter: @LisaReneeJones, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author LISA RENEE JONES is the author of the highly 36.6K acclaimed Inside Out series, and is now in development for a cable television show, to be produced by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland). In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today lists. ALSO AVAILABLE

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Just Between Us A Novel

Rebecca Drake

Four suburban mothers and friends conspire to cover up a deadly crime in this heart-stopping novel of suspense in the tradition of Lisa Scottoline and Lisa Unger.

Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal. Their jobs are steady, their kids are healthy. They’re as beautiful as their houses. But each of them has a dirty little secret, and hidden behind the veneer of their perfect lives is a crime and a mystery that will consume them all.

Everything starts to unravel when Alison spots a nasty bruise on Heather’s wrist. FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE She shares her suspicions with Julie and Sarah, compelling all three to St. Martin's Griffin | 1/9/2018 investigate what looks like an increasingly violent marriage. As mysterious 9781250167200 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. injuries and erratic behavior mount, Heather can no longer deny the abuse, but Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 she refuses to leave her husband. Desperate to save her, Alison and the others 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W dread the phone call telling them that she’s been killed. But when that call Subrights: UK Rights: Irene Goodman Agency finally comes, it’s not Heather who’s dead. In a moment they’ll come to regret, Translation Rights: Irene Goodman Agency the women must decide what lengths they’ll go to in order to help a friend. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466877719 Just Between Us is a thrilling glimpse into the underbelly of suburbia, where not all neighbors can be trusted, and even the closest friends keep dangerous secrets. You never really know what goes on in another person’s mind, or in their MARKETING marriage. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE Email Marketing Campaign Blog and Bookstagram Outreach Praise for Only Ever You: Library Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign “[A] gripping domestic thriller about a parent’s worst fear. Jill’s persistence and Author Facebook: Facebook.com/Rebecca.Drake.Writer patience will resound with readers, and the payoff only adds to the overall reading experience that is a must for fans of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner.” —Library Journal (Starred Review)

ALSO AVAILABLE “A twisty, compelling, and harrowing thriller that will hook and leave you Only Ever You: A Novel breathless. Drake ratchets up the suspense with each hairpin turn while offering a 3/2016 | 9781250068910 Hardcover | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. nuanced mosaic of voices, deftly exploring that wrenching, powerful love between mother and child.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author

REBECCA DRAKE is the author of the novels Don’t Be Afraid, The Next Killing, The Dead Place, which was an IMBA bestseller, and Only Ever You, as well as the short story “Loaded,” which was featured in Pittsburgh Noir. A graduate of Penn State University and former journalist, she is currently an instructor in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction M.F.A. program. Rebecca lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband and two children.

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The New York Times Sunday Funday Crosswords 75 Sunday Crossword Puzzles

Edited by Will Shortz

75 New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles: everyone’s favorite!

The New York Times Sunday crossword is the undisputed king of crossword puzzles. This collection features 75 of them, all edited by Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and sure to put the “fun” in your Funday!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / - 75 themed Sunday New York Times crosswords CROSSWORDS - Portable packaging for solving on the go St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 - Smart, fresh vocabulary, fun themes, and pop-culture references 9781250160980 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: 40 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

9 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

The One Man The Riveting and Intense Bestselling WWII Thriller

Andrew Gross

In this riveting historical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross, a US intelligence officer is sent into Auschwitz to help one man escape.

Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine. FICTION / THRILLERS / HISTORICAL Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan 9781250160539 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most Translation Rights: Writers House guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one Other Available Formats: man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war. Mass Market ISBN: 9781250079527 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250079503 Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller Audio ISBN: 9781427279866 Ebook ISBN: 9781466892187 from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.

MARKETING Author Facebook: @TheAndrewGross PRAISE (21k followers) “A haunting and ultimately thrilling tale of World War II, one that invokes a masterful blend of family and duty laced with heroism. Each of the characters, intriguing and richly drawn, wrestle with the unforgiving triangle of evil, guilt, and ALSO AVAILABLE the choices they must make. I’ve been an Andrew Gross fan for years. This is his The Saboteur: A Novel best book, bar none.” —Steve Berry 8/2017 | 9781250079510 Hardcover | $27.99 / $38.99 Can. “A high-stakes historical thriller that never relents. Suspenseful, taut, and terrific.” —David Morrell

“The One Man is the book of Andrew Gross’s career—unbearably suspenseful at times, heartbreaking and inspiring, surprising to the last page. It’s magnificent.” —Joseph Finder

ANDREW GROSS is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of nine novels, including No Way Back, Everything to Lose, and most recently, One Mile Under. He is also coauthor of five #1 New York Times bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. His books have been translated into over 25 languages. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Lynn. They have three children.

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Watch Me A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Jody Gehrman

A riveting thriller about one college student’s dark obsession with his professor.

For fans of You by Caroline Kepnes and Her by Harriet Lane comes a riveting novel of psychological suspense about how far obsession can go.

Kate Youngblood is disappearing. Muddling through her late 30s as a creative writing professor at Blackwood college, she’s dangerously close to never being noticed again. The follow-up novel to her successful debut tanked. Her husband left her for a woman ten years younger. She’s always been bright, beautiful, FICTION / CONTEMPORARY independent and a little wild, but now her glow is starting to vanish. She’s WOMEN heading into an age where her eyes are less blue, her charm worn out, and soon St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 9781250144027 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Except one. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Jill Marr, Sandra Dijkstra Agency Sam Grist is Kate’s most promising student. An unflinching writer with razor-sharp clarity who gravitates towards dark themes and twisted plots, his raw Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250144034 talent is something Kate wants to nurture into literary success. But he’s not there Hardcover ISBN: 9781250178503 solely to be the best writer. He’s been watching her. Wanting her. Working his Audio ISBN: 9781427294050 way to her for years.

As Sam slowly makes his way into Kate’s life, they enter a deadly web of dangerous lies and forbidden desire. But how far will his fixation go? And how far will she allow it?

A gripping novel exploring intense obsession and illicit attraction, Jody Gehrman introduces a world where what you desire most may be the most dangerous thing of all.

JODY GEHRMAN has authored ten published novels and numerous plays for stage and screen. Jody’s plays have been produced or had staged readings in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a professor of Communications at Mendocino College in Northern California.

11 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

The True Flag Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

Stephen Kinzer

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course for the twentieth century and beyond.

How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again.

HISTORY / UNITED STATES / No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. 20TH CENTURY Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted St. Martin's Griffin | 1/23/2018 more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue 9781250159687 | $17.99 / $24.99 Can. whether to intervene in a foreign country. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one 8-page black-and-white In The True Flag, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth photograph section century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate Other Available Formats: faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their Hardcover ISBN: 9781627792165 debate gripped the nation as the best-known political and intellectual leaders Ebook ISBN: 9781627792172 took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Audio ISBN: 9781427288899 Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before—in the period when the nation was founded—have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a MARKETING question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. New in Paperback Mentions All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.

PRAISE “One could not ask for a timelier argument...Kinzer is right: the first debate over American empire at the end of the nineteenth century speaks to our own time.” —The New York Review of Books

“Important and lucid...Kinzer is an incisive historian of American foreign policy.” —The Christian Science Monitor

STEPHEN KINZER is the author of The Brothers, Reset, Overthrow, All the Shah’s Men, and other books. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe and as the New York Times bureau chief in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for the Boston Globe. He lives in Boston.

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The Lost Season of Love and Snow

Jennifer Laam

The unforgettable story of Alexander Pushkin’s beautiful wife, Natalya, a woman much admired at Court, and how she became reviled as the villain of St. Petersburg.

At the age of sixteen, Natalya Goncharova is stunningly beautiful and intellectually curious. But while she finds joy in French translations and a history of Russian poetry, her family is more concerned with her marriage prospects. It is only fitting that during the Christmas of 1828 at her first public ball in her hometown of Moscow she attracts the romantic attention of Russia’s most lauded rebel poet: Alexander Pushkin. FICTION / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 9781250121882 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Enchanted at first sight, Natalya is already a devoted reader of Alexander’s Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 serialized novel in verse, Evgeny Onegin. The most recently published chapter 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W ends in a duel, and she is dying to learn what happens next. Finding herself Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press deeply attracted to Alexander’s intensity and joie de vivre, Natalya hopes to see Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press him again as soon as possible.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250121899 What follows is a courtship and later marriage full of equal parts passion and Audio ISBN: 9781427295743 domestic bliss but also destructive jealousies. When vicious court gossip leads to Alexander dying from injuries earned defending his honor as well as Natalya’s in a duel, Natalya finds herself reviled for her alleged role in his death. With MARKETING beautiful writing and understanding, Jennifer Laam, and her compelling new National Print Publicity novel, The Lost Season of Love and Snow, help Natalya tell her side of the Online Publicity story—the story of her greatest love and her inner struggle to create a fulfilling Author Website; http://jenniferlaam.com/ Active on Twitter: @JenLaam (433 life despite the dangerous intrigues of a glamorous imperial Court. followers) Active on Facebook: PRAISE https://www.facebook.com /jenniferlaam.writer/ (271 likes) “A legacy worth reading, The Tsarina’s Legacy is an exciting adventure waiting at one’s fingertips. Jennifer Laam has taken readers to new heights in her latest novel...A fast-paced and well-developed story that all must read.” —San Francisco ALSO AVAILABLE Book Review on The Tsarina’s Legacy

The Tsarina's Legacy: A Novel 4/2016 | 9781250068798 “[A] lively tale that takes the reader back through the shadowy mysteries that still Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. surround the murders of the doomed imperial family of Russia... Laam [tells] her The Secret Daughter of the Tsar: A Novel of story with verve and imagination.” —Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling The Romanovs author of The Dressmaker on The Secret Daughter of the Tsar 10/2013 | 9781250028686 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. JENNIFER LAAM is the author of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar and The Tsarina’s Legacy. She earned her master’s degree in History from Oakland University in Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. She has lived in Los Angeles and the suburbs of Detroit, traveled in Russia and Europe, and worked in education and non-profit development. She currently resides in Northern California.

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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

Brad Ricca

This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation’s greatest crime fighters during an era when women were rarely involved BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY with investigations. Grace solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an / HISTORICAL 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. She focused on solving cases no one St. Martin's Griffin | 1/9/2018 9781250160836 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. else wanted and advocating for innocents. Grace became the first female U.S. Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 District Attorney and made groundbreaking investigations into modern slavery. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one 8-page black-and-white One of Grace’s greatest accomplishments was solving the Cruger case after photograph section following a trail of corruption that lead from New York to Italy. Her work Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls. But the victory Translation Rights: Mendel Media Group came with a price when she learned all too well what happens when one woman Other Available Formats: upstages the entire NYPD. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250072245 Ebook ISBN: 9781466883659 In the literary tradition of In Cold Blood and The Devil in the White City, Brad Ricca’s Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a true crime tale told in spine-tingling fashion. This story is about a woman whose work was so impressive that the papers gave MARKETING her the nickname of fiction’s greatest sleuth. With important repercussions in the New in Paperback Mentions present about kidnapping, the role of the media, and the truth of crime stories, the great mystery of the book—and its haunting twist ending—is how one woman can become so famous only to disappear from history completely.

PRAISE “Rambunctiously excellent....Ricca has a whopper of a story to tell, and he tells it with thrilling enthusiasm” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Brad Ricca’s new true-crime/biography, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, is sure to entice...It reads like the best crime fiction, with breakneck pacing and incredible characters surrounding a heinous and mysterious crime.” —BookReporter.com

BRAD RICCA earned his Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University where he currently teaches. The author of Super Boys, he has spoken on comics at various schools and museums, and he has been interviewed about comics 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. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

14 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Will Shortz Presents Sudoku Forever: 200 Easy to Hard Puzzles Easy to Hard Sudoku Volume 2

Introduction by Will Shortz

The next in our new series: easy to hard sudoku puzzles.

Are you sweet on sudoku? Then you’re sure to enjoy these 200 puzzles that get progressively challenging as you go.

GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU Features: St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 - 200 easy to hard puzzles 9781250161017 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 - Big grids for easy solving 7.1 in H | 5 in W - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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JANUARY 2018 A Consequential President The Legacy of Barack Obama

Michael D'Antonio

A bold assessment of the lasting successes and major achievements of President Obama.

As Trump tries to tear down President Barack Obama’s impressive legacy, Michael D’Antonio shows how President Obama actually made America great again.

Obama’s campaign for the White House made the senator from Chicago a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY worldwide sensation and a transformative figure of hope. Elected after the Iraq / PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF War and the Great Recession had driven millions of Americans to despair, he STATE A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin quickly passed an economic recovery act and a program to save the U.S. auto | 1/9/2018 industry. Together, they powered a recovery that once again made America’s 9781250160485 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. economy the most vibrant in the world. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes 47 charts and graphs throughout That alone would have made him a truly successful president, but President Obama achieved so much more and against ferocious opposition. With Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press healthcare reform, President Obama ended a long-running crisis of escalating Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press costs and inadequate access to treatment for tens of millions of citizens. His Other Available Formats: Paris Agreement became the first treaty to address global warming in a Hardcover ISBN: 9781250081391 meaningful way. Ebook ISBN: 9781466893276 His successes abroad matched those at home. He oversaw the mission to kill Osama bin Laden at last. His measured diplomacy reduced the nuclear threat MARKETING National Print Publicity posed by Iran, normalized relations with Cuba, and left the world a safer place. Online Publicity Most of all, D’Antonio shows that President Obama restored dignity and ethics to the office of the president while running an administration almost entirely untainted by scandal and criminality—which few others can claim. ALSO AVAILABLE

The Truth About Trump PRAISE 6/2016 | 9781250116956 Mass Market | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. “[An] obligatory reference…for future historians grappling with the Obama The Truth About Trump presidency.” —The Washington Post 5/2016 | 9781250105288 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. “[A] massive trove of fact-checked, citation-provided facts.” —Chicago Tribune

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

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Hidden Depths A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves

Published for the first time in the U.S., an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

“I do love Vera!” —Val McDermid

“Cleeves offers up evocative settings and flawed characters with depth, making her mysteries wonderfully addictive. Her latest is no exception.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on Harbour Street

FICTION / MYSTERY & On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a 9781250135179 | $16.99 bath of water and covered with wild flowers. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who remains at large, Translation Rights: John Hawkins & Associates waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave… Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107343 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250107350 Audio ISBN: 9781427288448 “It would be foolish to discount Vera because she doesn’t dress smartly--she can Audio ISBN: 9781427288462 outfox even the wiliest of criminals, while wearing whatever she pleases, and readers will delight in getting the chance to see how such a quirky character evolved.” —Library Journal on The Crow Trap MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “Winning. It is Stanhope herself—a homely, overweight spinster with blotchy skin, Acorn Partnership a fondness for alcohol, and a toxic personality—who, using intuition and subtle Library Marketing Campaign intimidation, brings all the disorganization to an illogical but satisfying Author Website: AnnCleeves.com conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Silent Voices

ANN CLEEVES writes two series of traditional mysteries, both of which have been turned into hit ALSO AVAILABLE TV series. The Vera Stanhope books have been made into the hit series Vera which is available in the The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope U.S. through Amazon, Hulu, Acorn TV, and PBS. The other TV series, Shetland, is available on Mystery Netflix, Amazon, and PBS. She was presented the Lee Child Dead Good Readers’ Award for Best 2/2017 | 9781250122742 Loner or Detective for Vera. In 2017 Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger Award. She lives Trade Paperback | $16.99 in England.

The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 10/2016 | 9781250105424 Hardcover | $25.99

Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250104977 Trade Paperback | $16.99

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Among the Ruins A Mystery

Ausma Zehanat Khan

In Ausma Khan’s next powerful mystery, the murder of a filmmaker in Iran leads Detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty into the heart of Iran’s tumultuous politics.

On leave from Canada’s Community Policing department, Esa Khattak is traveling in Iran, reconnecting with his cultural heritage and seeking peace in the country’s beautiful mosques and gardens. But Khattak’s break is cut short when he’s approached by a Canadian government agent in Iran, asking him to look into the death of Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Zahra Sobhani. Zahra was murdered at Iran’s notorious Evin prison, where she’d been seeking the release FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE of a political prisoner. Khattak quickly finds himself embroiled in Iran’s PROCEDURAL tumultuous politics and under surveillance by the regime, but when the trail Minotaur Books | 1/9/2018 leads to Zahra’s family in Canada, Khattak calls on his partner, Detective Rachel 9781250096746 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Getty, for help. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Rachel uncovers a conspiracy linked to the Shah of Iran and the decades-old Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press murders of a group of Iran’s most famous dissidents. Historic letters, a Translation rights: St. Martin's Press connection to the Royal Ontario Museum, and a smuggling operation on the Other Available Formats: Caspian Sea are just some of the threads Rachel and Khattak begin unraveling, Hardcover ISBN: 9781250096739 while the list of suspects stretches from Tehran to Toronto. As Khattak gets Ebook ISBN: 9781250096753 Audio ISBN: 9781427282767 caught up in the fate of Iran’s political prisoners, Rachel sees through to the heart of the matter: Zahra’s murder may not have been political at all.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Unquiet Dead comes another MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions powerful novel exploring the interplay of politics and religion, and the intensely Online Promotion personal ripple effects of one woman’s murder.

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ALSO AVAILABLE “Iran’s stormy history is the atmospheric backdrop for Ausma Zehanat Khan’s A Dangerous Crossing Among the Ruins, the third book in her exceptional series…The story takes on the 2/2018 | 9781250096760 air of a James Bond movie, including an explosive finale.” —The Washington Post Hardcover | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. The Language of Secrets: A Mystery “Provocative…Deeply political without becoming pedantic, Khan’s crime novel 1/2017 | 9781250055170 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. offers a fictionalized yet very real look at a region that is steeped in both beauty and misery.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) The Unquiet Dead: A Novel 12/2015 | 9781250055187 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law and is a former adjunct law professor. She was Editor-in-Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine targeted to young Muslim women. A British-born Canadian, Khan now lives in Colorado with her husband.

18 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Spider from Mars My Life with Bowie

Woody Woodmansey

A first-hand look at Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era which saw a young David Bowie go from obscure artist to global phenomenon, by the last surviving member of his band, The Spiders from Mars.

The death of David Bowie in January 2016 rocked the globe. Millions of fans celebrated his music, his film and theatrical roles, his trend-setting influence on fashion and gender and popular culture.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Drummer Woody Woodmansey is the last surviving member of Bowie’s band, / COMPOSERS & MUSICIANS The Spiders from Mars, which helped launch his Ziggy Stardust persona and St. Martin's Griffin | 1/2/2018 made Bowie a star. In this first memoir to follow Bowie’s passing, Spider from 9781250165022 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Mars reveals what it was like to be at the white-hot center of Bowie’s Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W self-creation. With never-before-told stories and never-before-seen photographs, Plus two 8-page color photograph inserts Woodmansey offers details of the album sessions for The Man Who Sold the World, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Aladdin Sane, and Hunky Subrights: UK: Matthew Hamilton Translation: Matthew Hamilton Dory: the four albums that made Bowie sensational. And, as fame beckoned but eventually consumed Bowie, Woodmansey recalls the wild tours, eccentric Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250117618 characters, and rock ‘n roll excess that drove the band apart. Ebook ISBN: 9781250117625 A vivid and unique evocation of a transformative musical era and the enigmatic, visionary musician at the center of it, with a foreword by legendary producer MARKETING Tony Visconti, Spider from Mars is for everyone who values David Bowie. New in Paperback Mentions Author Twitter: @WoodyWoodmansey PRAISE “Woodmansey recounts wild tours, behind-the-scenes drama, and album sessions...revealing.” —USA Today

“Any rock memoir is going to have its share of great stories, and Woodmansey doesn’t disappoint.” —The Current, Minnesota Public Radio

MICHAEL “WOODY” WOODMANSEY was the drummer for David Bowie’s the Spiders from Mars from 1969-1973 on the hit albums The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Born in Driffield, Yorkshire, in 1951, he is the last surviving member of the Spiders from Mars. He continues to play with his band Holy Holy and lives in London.

19 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Thanks Fur Last Night

Eve Langlais, Milly Taiden, and Kate Baxter

Three hot stories about three sexy shifters from a trio of today’s hottest paranormal romance authors, headlined by bestselling authors Eve Langlais and Milly Taiden!

Enter a world of smoldering shifters in this anthology headlined by New York Times bestselling authors Eve Langlais and Milly Taiden with never published novellas!

Bearing His Sin Cole should have killed Anja the moment he realized she was his mate. Instead, now they’re on the hunt, chasing the morons who think they can force her to FICTION / ROMANCE / marry another man. Like hell. And while this shapeshifting bear might have his COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES share of sins, he’s not going to let little things like murder and mayhem prevent St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 him from having the woman meant to be the keeper of his heart. 9781250159717 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 350 pages | Carton Qty: 16 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Bought by the Bear Josilyn Martinez just needed the money to help raise her nephew. That’s it. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press There’s no other reason she would take a job posing as a shifter’s mate so he can Translation: St. Martin's Press assure his grandmother he’s settled down. And there’s definitely no good reason Other Available Formats: she should get involved with the hard, hot, and handsome shifter that’s hired her. Ebook ISBN: 9781250159748 Xander just needs a fake mate for a week, but what’s a bear shifter to do when the impostor mate he hired turns out to be his actual mate? MARKETING Blog Outreach NetGalley Outreach The Alpha and I Early Reader Review Campaign Devon Kincaid is happy with her new life in Lowman, Idaho. She’s not even Online Promotion at interested in finding a man. But when she finds a bleeding man—a hot, hard, HeroesandHeartbreakers.com handsome, naked bleeding man—in the snow one night, Devon brings him home National Advertising National Print Publicity to care for him. He’s definitely not like any man she’s ever met before, but what Online Publicity she doesn’t realize is that he’s not just a man, but an Alpha werewolf shifter… Visit evelanglais.com; millytaiden.com; katedouglas.com Active on Facebook: EVE LANGLAIS is a New York Times bestselling Canadian author who loves to write hot romance. Facebook.com/eve.langlais.98, 17K Likes; She enjoys strong alpha male heroes, shifters, and a happily ever after. Facebook.com/MillyTaidenPage 30.6K Likes; MILLY TAIDEN is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the renowned Facebook.com/KateDouglas.authorpage, Paranormal Dating Agency, the Sassy Mates books, and the Federal Paranormal Unit novels. 4K Likes Active on Twitter: @EveLanglais, 8K KATE BAXTER is a die-hard romantic with a thing for Shakespeare. She lives in the great Followers; @MillyTaiden, 5.9K Followers; northwest and writes about all things fanged, furry, and undead. @WolfTales, 2K Followers

20 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary A Radical's Struggle to Remake America

Kevin R. C. Gutzman

A new look at Thomas Jefferson and his revolutionary ideas for the United States by the author of James Madison and the Making of America

Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans were full citizens and the role of education in BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY the new country. In his new book, Kevin Gutzman gives readers a new view of / HISTORICAL Jefferson—a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing country. St. Martin's Griffin | 1/30/2018 9781250161505 | $17.99 / $24.99 Can. Jefferson’s philosophy about the size and power of the federal system almost Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 completely undergirded the Jeffersonian Republican Party. His forceful advocacy 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W of religious freedom was not far behind, as were attempts to incorporate Native Includes one 8-page black-and-white photograph section Americans into American society. His establishment of the University of Virginia might be one of the most important markers of the man’s abilities and Subrights: UK Rights: The Stuart Agency character. He was not without flaws. While he argued for the assimilation of Translation Rights: The Stuart Agency Native Americans into society, he did not assume the same for Africans being Other Available Formats: held in slavery while—at the same time—insisting that slavery should cease to Hardcover ISBN: 9781250010803 exist. Many still accuse Jefferson of hypocrisy on the ground that he both held Ebook ISBN: 9781250010810 that “all men are created equal” and held men as slaves. Jefferson’s true character, though, is more complex than that as Kevin Gutzman shows in his new book about Jefferson, a revolutionary whose accomplishments went far MARKETING beyond the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. National Print Publicity Online Publicity PRAISE "In this lively and clearly written book, Kevin Gutzman makes a compelling case ALSO AVAILABLE for the broad range and radical ambitions of Thomas Jefferson's commitment to

James Madison and the Making of America human equality." -Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize winning author of American 2/2013 | 9781250023193 Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 Trade Paperback | $19.99 / $27.99 Can. KEVIN R. C. GUTZMAN, JD, PhD, is author of James Madison and the Making of America. Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University and a faculty member at LibertyClassroom.com, he is the author of several books, including best-sellers, has published in all the leading history journals, and writes and speaks frequently for popular audiences. He lives with his son in Connecticut.

21 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2018

The Undesired A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Published in 30 countries around the world, international Icelandic superstar Yrsa produces a chilling and unforgettable tale of madness and murder.

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray...

Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE linked to the accident that killed his ex-wife. Was her death something more St. Martin's Griffin | 1/16/2018 sinister? 9781250152220 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Yrsa Sigurdardottir is a huge European bestseller with her crime novels, and you 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W might want to sleep with the light on after reading The Undesired... Subrights: UK Rights: Hodder & Stoughton Translation Rights: Hodder & Stoughton PRAISE Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107404 “I can see why so many people are enthusiastic about Yrsa’s work. It’s very Ebook ISBN: 9781250107411 engaging, fresh, and exciting.” —James Patterson Audio ISBN: 9781427294425 “This spooky, haunting thriller will grab the attention of readers who enjoyed Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.” —Library Journal (Starred MARKETING Review) on The Silence of the Sea New in Paperback Mentions

“Nordic mystery writers can raise goose bumps as few others can, and Sigurdardottir shows she’s one of the best.” —Booklist (Starred Review) on I ALSO AVAILABLE Remember You The Silence of the Sea: A Thriller 1/2017 | 9781250115553 YRSA SIGURDARDÓTTIR (pronounced UR-suh SIG-ur-dar-daughter) lives with her family in Trade Paperback | $15.99 Reykjavík. She is a director of one of Iceland’s largest engineering firms. Her work is climbing Someone to Watch Over Me: A Thriller bestseller lists all over the world, and films are currently in production for several of her books. 2/2016 | 9781250080974 Trade Paperback | $15.99 I Remember You: A Ghost Story 3/2014 | 9781250045621 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $0.00 Can.

22 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

Swiss Vendetta A Mystery

Tracee de Hahn

In Tracee de Hahn’s magnetic debut, Swiss police detective Agnes Lüthi finds herself trapped in a château during the blizzard of the century when she’s called out on her first homicide.

Inspector Agnes Lüthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just transferred to the Violent Crimes unit from Financial Crimes to try to shed all reminders of her old life following her husband’s death. Now, on the eve of the worst blizzard Lausanne has seen in centuries, Agnes has FICTION / MYSTERY & been called to investigate her very first homicide case. On the lawn of the grand DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL Château Vallotton at the edge of Lac Léman, a young woman has been found Minotaur Books | 1/9/2018 stabbed to death. The woman, an appraiser for a London auction house, had 9781250161529 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. been taking inventory at the château, a medieval fortress dripping in priceless Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W works of art and historical treasures.

Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press Agnes finds it difficult to draw answers out of anyone—the tight-lipped Swiss Translation rights: St. Martin's Press family living in the château, the servants who have been loyal to the family for Other Available Formats: generations, the aging WWII survivor who lives in the neighboring mansion, Hardcover ISBN: 9781250109996 Ebook ISBN: 9781250110008 even the American history student studying at the Vallotton château’s library. As the storm rages on, roads become impassible, the power goes out around Lausanne, and Agnes finds herself trapped in the candlelit halls of the château with all the players of the mystery, out of her depth in her first murder case and MARKETING New in Paperback Mentions still struggling to stay afloat after the death of her husband. Online Promotion Tracee de Hahn’s mesmerizing debut is an emotionally complex, brilliantly plotted mystery set against the beautiful but harsh backdrop of a Swiss winter.

PRAISE “A body found right before a blizzard! A snowed-in candlelit chateau on a Swiss lake! A house full of wealthy suspects—all with something to hide! And an outsider detective trying her best to solve a murder... Does it get better than this? This is a perfect book to bring in for classic mystery fans, including fans of Louise Penny, Martin Walker, Agatha Christie. Definitely a debut to keep your eyes on!” —McKenna Jordan, Murder by the Book

TRACEE DE HAHN completed degrees in architecture and European history at the University of Kentucky and then lived in Europe, including several years in Switzerland. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband, a Swiss architect, and their Jack Russell Terriers. Swiss Vendetta is her first novel.

23 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

A Death in the Dales A Kate Shackleton Mystery

Frances Brody

A delightful traditional British cozy featuring private investigator Kate Shackleton.

Set in 1920s England, Frances Brody’s seventh mystery featuring her “refreshingly complex heroine” (Kirkus Reviews) Kate Shackleton is sure to be enjoyed by fans of Agatha Christie, Jacqueline Winspear, and M.C. Beaton.

A murder most foul When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued with guilt, believing the wrong FICTION / MYSTERY & man has been convicted. Following her death, it seems that the truth will never DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL be uncovered in the peaceful village of Langcliffe... Minotaur Books | 1/16/2018 9781250098832 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 A village of secrets 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W But it just so happens that Freda’s nephew is courting the renowned amateur Subrights: UK Rights: Piatkus sleuth Kate Shackleton, who decides to holiday in Langcliffe with her Translation Rights: Luxton Harris indomitable teenage niece, Harriet. When Harriet strikes up a friendship with a Other Available Formats: local girl whose young brother is missing, the search leads Kate to uncover Hardcover ISBN: 9781250098825 another suspicious death, not to mention an illicit affair. Ebook ISBN: 9781250098849 The case of a lifetime As the present mysteries merge with the past’s mistakes, Kate is thrust into the MARKETING secrets that Freda left behind and realizes that this courageous woman has New in Paperback Mentions entrusted her with solving a murder from beyond the grave. It soon becomes clear to her that nothing in Langcliffe is quite as it appears, and with a murderer on the loose and an ever-growing roster of suspects, this isn’t the holiday Kate was expecting... ALSO AVAILABLE

Death in the Stars: A Kate Shackleton Mystery PRAISE 2/2018 | 9781250154798 “This is a solid British traditional mystery that should please series regulars and Hardcover | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. newcomers alike.” —Library Journal Death of an Avid Reader: A Kate Shackleton Mystery 9/2017 | 9781250067500 “Frances Brody matches a heroine of free and independent spirit with a vivid Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. evocation of time and place. A Death in the Dales is a novel to cherish. ”— Daily Murder on a Summer's Day: A Kate Mail (UK) Shackleton Mystery 2/2017 | 9781250067517 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. “It’s very difficult to recommend further reading which comes up to the standard of the Kate Shackleton books.” —The Bookbag

FRANCES BRODY lives in the North of England, where she was born and grew up. Frances started her writing life in radio, with many plays and short stories broadcast by the BBC. She has also written for television and theatre. Before turning to crime, she wrote sagas, winning the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin award for most regionally evocative debut saga of the millennium.

24 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2018

Hidden Depths A Vera Stanhope Mystery

Ann Cleeves

Published for the first time in the U.S., an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.

“I do love Vera!” —Val McDermid

“Cleeves offers up evocative settings and flawed characters with depth, making her mysteries wonderfully addictive. Her latest is no exception.” —Library Journal (Starred Review) on Harbour Street

FICTION / MYSTERY & On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Minotaur Books | 1/23/2018 from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a 9781250107343 | $27.99 bath of water and covered with wild flowers. Hardcover | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 16 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. Subrights: UK Rights: Macmillan UK But now, Vera must work quickly to find this killer who remains at large, Translation Rights: John Hawkins & Associates waiting for an opportunity to prepare another beautiful, watery grave… Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250107350 PRAISE Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250135179 Audio ISBN: 9781427288448 “It would be foolish to discount Vera because she doesn’t dress smartly--she can Audio ISBN: 9781427288462 outfox even the wiliest of criminals, while wearing whatever she pleases, and readers will delight in getting the chance to see how such a quirky character evolved.” —Library Journal on The Crow Trap MARKETING National Print Publicity Online Publicity “Winning. It is Stanhope herself—a homely, overweight spinster with blotchy skin, Acorn Partnership a fondness for alcohol, and a toxic personality—who, using intuition and subtle Library Marketing Campaign intimidation, brings all the disorganization to an illogical but satisfying Author Website: AnnCleeves.com conclusion.” —Publishers Weekly on Silent Voices

ANN CLEEVES writes two series of traditional mysteries, both of which have been turned into hit ALSO AVAILABLE TV series. The Vera Stanhope books have been made into the hit series Vera which is available in the The Crow Trap: The First Vera Stanhope U.S. through Amazon, Hulu, Acorn TV, and PBS. The other TV series, Shetland, is available on Mystery Netflix, Amazon, and PBS. She was presented the Lee Child Dead Good Readers’ Award for Best 2/2017 | 9781250122742 Loner or Detective for Vera. In 2017 Ann was awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger Award. She lives Trade Paperback | $16.99 in England.

The Moth Catcher: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 10/2016 | 9781250105424 Hardcover | $25.99

Harbour Street: A Vera Stanhope Mystery 9/2016 | 9781250104977 Trade Paperback | $16.99

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One Perfect Lie

Lisa Scottoline

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel of suspense and emotional justice.

On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He’s applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he’s ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable.

But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie.

Susan Sematov is proud of her son Raz, a high school pitcher so athletically talented that he’s being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But Raz’s father died only a few FICTION / THRILLERS / months ago, leaving her son in a vulnerable place where any new father figure SUSPENSE might influence him for good, or evil. St. Martin's Griffin | 2/27/2018 9781250099570 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Heather Larkin is a struggling single mother who lives for her son Justin’s 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W baseball games. But Justin is shy, and Heather fears he is being lured down a Subrights: UK Rights: Trident Media Group dark path by one of his teammates, a young man from an affluent family whose Translation Rights: Trident Media Group fun-loving manner might possibly conceal his violent plans.

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250099563 Mindy Kostis succumbs to the pressure of being a surgeon’s wife by filling her Ebook ISBN: 9781250099587 days with social events and too many gin and tonics. But she doesn’t know that Audio ISBN: 9781427282095 her husband and her son, Evan, are keeping secrets from her—secrets that might Audio ISBN: 9781427282101 destroy all of them.

At the center of all of them is Chris Brennan. Why is he there? What does he MARKETING want? And what is he willing to do to get it? National Print Publicity Online Publicity Online Advertising One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller that will have readers riveted up to the Reading Group Gold Selection shocking end, with killer twists and characters you won’t soon forget. Book Club Outreach Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign PRAISE Active on Facebook: Facebook.com/LisaScottoline (77,000 Praise for Lisa Scottoline: followers) Author Website: scottoline.com “An intense, breathless ride.” —Jodi Picoult

“Packed with emotion.” —Sandra Brown ALSO AVAILABLE

Damaged: A Novel “Scottoline grabs her readers by the jugular and won’t let go.” —Library Journal 8/2017 | 9781250099648 (Starred Review) Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can.

Don't Go LISA SCOTTOLINE is a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 2/2017 | 9781250117007 twenty-seven novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the U.S., she has been Mass Market | $8.99 / $12.99 Can. published in thirty-five countries, and her thrillers have been optioned for television and film. Lisa Corrupted: A Rosato & DiNunzio Novel also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/2016 | 9781250104618 and those critically acclaimed stories have been adapted into a series of memoirs. She lives in the Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Philadelphia area.

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FEBRUARY 2018 The Hope Chest A Novel

Viola Shipman

“A graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read.” —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in The Rain

The discovery of one woman’s heirloom hope chest unveils precious memories and helps three people who have each lost a part of themselves find joy once again.

Ever since she was diagnosed with ALS, fiercely independent Mattie doesn’t feel like herself. Her devoted husband, Don, doesn’t want to imagine life without FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN his wife of nearly fifty years, but Mattie isn’t likely to make it past their A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin anniversary. | 2/13/2018 9781250111111 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. But when Rose, Mattie’s new caretaker, and her young daughter, Jeri, enter the Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W couple’s life, happiness and the possibility for new memories return. Together they form a family, and Mattie is finally able to pass on her memories from the Subrights: UK Rights: Wendy Sherman hope chest she received from her mother. Associates Translation Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates A beautiful story about the unconditional love and support of family, The Hope Other Available Formats: Chest will remind you that hope can be found where and when you least expect Hardcover ISBN: 9781250105073 Ebook ISBN: 9781250105080 it. Audio ISBN: 9781427282408 Audio ISBN: 9781427282415 PRAISE “[The Hope Chest] demonstrates the enduring power of love and kindness...a good

MARKETING choice for fans of gentle, heartwarming fiction.” —Booklist Online Publicity Bookclub Outreach “Saugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along Discussion Guide Available Online Tie-in with hardcover publication of The with the emotional support and care that families and friends can provide. [The] Recipe Box novel will be embraced by fans of Richard Paul Evans.” —Library Journal Blog Outreach Email Marketing Library Marketing Campaign “A love story filled with hope...beautifully written.” —RT Book Reviews

VIOLA SHIPMAN is a penname for Wade Rouse, a popular, award-winning memoirist. Rouse chose his grandmother’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family ALSO AVAILABLE stories inspire his writing. Rouse lives in Michigan and writes regularly for People and Coastal The Charm Bracelet: A Novel Living, among other places, and is a contributor to All Things Considered. He is the author of The 1/2017 | 9781250071330 Charm Bracelet and the forthcoming novel The Recipe Box. Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $22.99 Can.

27 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

Dodge City Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Tom Clavin

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation.

Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad. Before long, Dodge City’s streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent and turbulent town in the West. HISTORY / UNITED STATES / 19TH CENTURY St. Martin's Griffin | 2/27/2018 Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the 9781250160560 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 20 American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Includes one map and one 16-page black- they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was and-white photograph section left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to Subrights: UK Rights: RLR Associates Translation Rights: RLR Associates team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250071484 Audio ISBN: 9781427283061 #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin’s Dodge City tells the true Ebook ISBN: 9781466882621 story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the Audio ISBN: 9781427283078 remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely MARKETING untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now. National Print Publicity Online Publicity Regional Author Events PRAISE Reader Reviews on Goodreads.com Targeted Outreach to Independent “Absorbing…. Fun and revealing all the way through… Mr. Clavin gives Earp his Booksellers due, but one of the virtues of his book is the welcome light it shines on its other Promotion on TheHistoryReader.com protagonist, Bat Masterson, who comes across as much more interesting, human Author website: tomclavin.com and fun.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Two of the most fabled lawmen of the American West’s fascinating careers are brought to life in Tom Clavin’s Dodge City.” —New York Post

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and Reckless. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

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Dreaming in Chocolate A Novel

Susan Bishop Crispell

A story of love, hot chocolate, and one little girl’s wish for her mother that will make your heart swell.

At twenty-seven, Penelope Dalton is quickly ticking off items on a bucket list. Only the list isn’t hers. After her eight year-old daughter Ella is given just six months to live, Penelope is determined to fill Ella’s remaining days with as many new experiences as she can.

With an endless supply of magical gifts and recipes from the hot chocolate café Penelope runs alongside her mother in a small town nestled in the Appalachian FICTION / CONTEMPORARY Mountains, she is able to give her daughter almost everything she wants. The WOMEN one sticking point is Ella’s latest addition to her list: get a dad. And not just any St. Martin's Griffin | 2/6/2018 dad. Ella has her sights set on Noah Gregory, her biological father and the only 9781250089076 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 person Penelope knows to have proved her true love hot chocolate wrong. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Now Noah’s back in town for a few months—and as charming as ever—and the Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press World rights: St. Martin's Press part of her that dreamed he was her fate in the first place wonders if she made the right decision to keep the truth of their daughter from him. The other, more Other Available Formats: practical part, is determined to keep him from breaking Ella’s heart too. Ebook ISBN: 9781250089083 Audio ISBN: 9781427295736 But as Ella’s health declines, Penelope must give in to her fate or face a future of regrets.

MARKETING Online Publicity PRAISE Early Reader Reviews Featured Title on ReadingGroupGold.com “Come for the life-changing chocolates and opinionated apothecary table, stay for Email Marketing Campaign the enchanting eight-year old and complicated secrets. After reading Susan Bishop Library Marketing Campaign Crispell’s charming Dreaming in Chocolate, you’ll want to take up residence in Active on Facebook: /AuthorSusanBishopCrispell Malarkey, sip magical hot cocoa, and change your own fate!” —Amy Reichert, Active on Twitter: @sbcrispell author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake Author website susanbishopcrispell.com “An endearing and beautifully spun tale. Susan Bishop Crispell teaches us that, even in a life surrounded by the mystical and inexplicable, sometimes, finding true love is the real magic.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, author of Dear Carolina

SUSAN BISHOP CRISPELL earned a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina—Wilmington. Susan lives and writes near Wilmington, NC with her husband and their two literary-named cats. She is the author of The Secret Ingredient of Wishes.

29 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

A Divided Spy A Novel

Charles Cumming

In this brilliant novel of modern espionage by New York Times bestselling author Charles Cumming, MI6’s Thomas Kell faces off against a handsome and charismatic Russian double agent.

Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin.

Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy who is in FICTION / THRILLERS / ESPIONAGE possession of a terrifying secret. As Kell tracks his man from Moscow to St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 London, he finds himself in a high stakes game of cat and mouse in which it 9781250025555 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 1 lb Wt As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack Subrights: UK Rights: Harper Collins UK looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6—or Translation Rights: Janklow & Nesbit Associates to his own conscience? Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250021038 PRAISE Hardcover ISBN: 9781250021045 Audio ISBN: 9781427282057 “Breathtaking…suspenseful… Kell brings a note of grace to the treacherous world Audio ISBN: 9781427282064 of the spy novel.” —Washington Post

“A gripping tale of revenge, betrayal and the personal price that spying exacts.” MARKETING National Print Publicity —People Magazine National Online Publicity Facebook Advertising “A smart, nuanced, readable tale, reminiscent of Olen Steinhauer or Robert Littell. Video Interview Goodreads Giveaways …[A Divided Spy is] a fine specimen of a genre headed back toward the Kremlin.” —USA Today

CHARLES CUMMING is the author of the first Thomas Kell book, A Foreign Country, as well as ALSO AVAILABLE the New York Times bestselling thriller The Trinity Six, and others including A Spy by Nature and The Hidden Man: A Novel Typhoon. He lives with his family in London. 11/2015 | 9780312366384 Trade Paperback | $15.99

A Colder War: A Novel 6/2015 | 9781250025548 Trade Paperback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can.

30 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

The New York Times Hardest Crosswords Volume 1 50 Friday and Saturday Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain

Edited by Will Shortz

The first in a new series featuring only the toughest crossword puzzles from The New York Times.

Are you up for the challenge? Many puzzle fans love the deviously difficult New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords: They’re the hardest puzzles around, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / and once you’ve conquered them, you’re a true Puzzlemaster! CROSSWORDS St. Martin's Griffin | 2/20/2018 Features: 9781250160966 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. Spiral Bound | 64 pages | Carton Qty: 80 - 50 New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords 11 in H | 8.5 in W - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Spiral binding for convenient lay-flat solving

WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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Almost Missed You A Novel

Jessica Strawser

The sensational debut that New York Times bestselling author Garth Stein calls “an emotional powerhouse of a novel” now in trade paperback.

Violet and Finn were “meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she can’t believe her luck. Life is good.

FICTION / CONTEMPORARY WOMEN So no one is more surprised than she when Finn leaves her at the beach—just St. Martin's Griffin | 2/6/2018 packs up the hotel room and disappears. And takes their son with him. Violet is 9781250107619 | $15.99 / $22.99 Can. suddenly in her own worst nightmare, and faced with the knowledge that the Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 man she’s shared her life with, she never really knew at all. 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Caitlin and Finn have been best friends since way back when, but when Finn Translation: St. Martin's Press shows up on Caitlin’s doorstep with the son he’s wanted for kidnapping, Other Available Formats: demands that she hide them from the authorities, and threatens to reveal a secret Hardcover ISBN: 9781250107602 that could destroy her own family if she doesn’t, Caitlin faces an impossible Ebook ISBN: 9781250107626 choice. Audio ISBN: 9781427288288 Told through alternating viewpoints of Violet, Finn, and Caitlin, Jessica Strawser’s Almost Missed You is a powerful story of a mother’s love, a MARKETING Online Publicity husband’s betrayal, connections that maybe should have been missed, secrets Online Advertising that perhaps shouldn’t have been kept, and spaces between what’s meant to be Bookclub Outreach and what might have been. Tie-in with hardcover publication of Not That I Could Tell Blog Outreach PRAISE Email Marketing Social Media Campaign “Fans of smart women’s fiction mixed with a fast-paced plot should not miss this Author website:https://jessicastrawser.com/ startling first novel.” —Library Journal Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com /jessicastrawserauthor/ “An emotional powerhouse of a novel. Strawser’s tale of guilt, blame, redemption, Active on Twitter: @jessicastrawser and forgiveness is a must read.” —Garth Stein New York Times bestselling author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in the Rain

ALSO AVAILABLE “A deft exploration of the mysteries of marriage, the price we pay for our secrets, and just how easy it is to make the worst choices imaginable.” —Chris Bohjalian, Not That I Could Tell 3/2018 | 9781250107886 New York Times bestselling author of The Sandcastle Girls and Midwives Hardcover | $26.99 / $37.99 Can. JESSICA STRAWSER (jessicastrawser.com) is the editorial director of Writer’s Digest magazine and the author of Almost Missed You, named to Barnes & Noble’s Best New Fiction list for March 2017 and PopSugar’s Best Spring Reads. She has written for The New York Times Modern Love, Publishers Weekly and other fine venues, and lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati.

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Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku Volume 1 200 Challenging Puzzles

Introduction by Will Shortz

The first in a new series: hard puzzles for serious sudoku solvers.

Do you have what it takes? These 200 challenging sudoku puzzles from Will Shortz will keep your mind sharp!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU - 200 hard puzzles St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 9781250161024 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. - Big grids for easy solving Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz 7.1 in H | 5 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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Will Shortz Presents Hard Sudoku Volume 2 200 Challenging Puzzles

Introduction by Will Shortz

The next in a new series: hard puzzles for serious sudoku solvers.

Do you have what it takes? These 200 challenging sudoku puzzles from Will Shortz will keep your mind sharp!

Features: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / SUDOKU - 200 hard puzzles St. Martin's Griffin | 2/20/2018 9781250161031 | $11.99 / $16.99 Can. - Big grids for easy solving Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 - Introduction by legendary Puzzlemaster Will Shortz 7.1 in H | 5 in W WILL SHORTZ, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993, also founded and directs the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the World Puzzle Championship. He is the Puzzlemaster for NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Shortz lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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FEBRUARY 2018 No Barriers A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon

Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy

National bestseller— “A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible.” —Brad Meltzer, NYT bestselling author

Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest. When the mountain was finally behind him, his expedition leader slapped him on the back and said something that would affect the course of Erik’s life: “Don’t make Everest the greatest thing you ever do.”

No Barriers is Erik’s response to that challenge. It is the moving story of his BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way | 2/6/2018 home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal to facing the most terrifying 9781250088796 | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. reach of his life: to solo kayak the thunderous whitewater of the Grand Canyon. Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Plus two 16-page color photograph inserts PRAISE Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press “A wonderful tribute to the greatness of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews Translation rights: St. Martin's Press (Starred Review) Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250088789 “No Barriers is amazing. Erik’s story is an inspiration to all of us.” —Mark Ebook ISBN: 9781250088802 Audio ISBN: 9781427283009 Burnett, TV producer Audio ISBN: 9781427283016 “A shining testament...Weihenmayer’s powers of discernment are acute, startling, and deeply inspirational.” —Kevin Fedarko, New York Times bestselling author of MARKETING The Emerald Mile New in Paperback Mentions Organizational Outreach “Guaranteed to inspire.” —Booklist

“An inspiration to other blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine.” —Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Into Thin Air, on Touch the Top of the World

ERIK WEIHENMAYER is the bestselling author of Touch the Top of the World, an adventurer, and motivational speaker. He lives in Colorado.

BUDDY LEVY is an author, educator, journalist, and speaker who lives in Idaho.

35 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2018

A Baker's Year Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery

Tara Jensen

A year in the life of Instagram bread-baking sensation Tara Jensen as she teaches readers how to bake bread and pies, build the perfect fire to cook with, and live a simple, satisfying life.

Why do so many people make pilgrimages to Tara Jensen’s North Carolina Smoke Signals Bakery? Why do 100,000 people follow her Instagram feed @bakerhands? It’s because Tara bakes the most exquisite bread in the US, using COOKING / METHODS / BAKING a wood-fired oven that she tends with her own two hands. It could also be to St. Martin's Griffin | 2/13/2018 learn how she makes her bubbly, deep-dish fruit pies or to see the crisp pizzas 9781250127389 | $25.99 / $36.99 Can. that are sometimes covered with fresh flowers. It could be something deeper: Hardcover | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 24 9.5 in H | 8 in W Tara Jensen has learned to live a simple life, close to the land that feeds her Includes 75 color photographs throughout and oven. In her first book, she shares her philosophy of simple living and her trove four-color endpapers of recipes with others. A Baker’s Year takes readers month-by-month through the Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press seasons at Smoke Signals for porridge and waffles in winter, crusty bread in Translation: St. Martin's Press spring, pies and pizza in the summer, and celebration cakes for end-of-the-year holidays. Along the way, Tara writes about how to live in a more peaceful world, shares stories from her own life, mourns romances lost, and celebrates the promise of a new relationship. Tara Jensen’s A Baker’s Year is destined to be a MARKETING National Radio Publicity classic of cookbook shelves in the tradition of The Auberge of the Flowering National Print Publicity Hearth and When French Women Cook. Illustrated throughout with Tara’s Online Publicity photographs and drawings, A Baker’s Year is a true American original. Think of Online Advertising Campaign it as The Tassajara Bread Book meets Eat Pray Love. Email Marketing Campaign Blog Outreach Campaign Cookstr Promotion and Outreach PRAISE Quick and Dirty Tips Promotion Including Podcast Appearance “To aspiring bakers and established chefs and food geeks and fawning journalists, Social Media Outreach she represents an elusive ideal: the young breadmaker who structures her life Author Website: smokesignalsbaking.com Active on Instagram: @bakerhands around the rhythms of a wood-burning oven, not the demands of a high-volume (99,000 followers) production facility. At a moment when ‘artisanal’ has gone the way of cliché, Active on Tumblr: Jensen actually embodies it. Her dedication shows in each bread and pie, which smokesignalbaking.tumblr.com Author Events she patterns with intricate handmade stencils and cutout shapes.” —Bon Appétit on Tara Jensen

TARA JENSEN is an artist and baker living a solitary life at Smoke Signals, a wood fired bakery deep in the mountains of North Carolina. Jensen baked her way through her twenties in professional settings, keeping handwritten journals as she went. Baking has now become her personal practice, which she shares with students from around the world. When not teaching she spends her days chopping wood, mixing dough, and studying the stars. Her Instagram feed, @bakerhands, has 100,000 followers.

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The Aspiri