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Contents • Spring 2007

Recent Awards ...... 3

Recent Highlights ...... 4

Houghton Mifflin Books ...... 6

Reference ...... 68 Effective January 1, 2007, the Library of Congress will begin using 13-digit ISBNs (same as the EAN), phasing out the use of Houghton Mifflin Children’s Books ...... 80 10-digit ISBNs. As the publishing industry makes this transition, both the ISBN-10 Mariner Books ...... 85 and the ISBN-13/EAN will be included in Houghton Mifflin books and catalogs. The Old Farmer’s Almanac ...... 124

J.R.R. Tolkien Backlist Titles ...... 132 Cover design by Stephanie Torta

Reference Backlist Titles ...... 136

Larousse and Chambers Titles ...... 138

Peterson Field Guides® ...... 142

Kaufman Field Guides ...... 146

Taylor’s Guides® ...... 147

Rights Information ...... 149

Index of New Titles ...... 153

Bookstore Sales Representatives ...... 157

Ordering, Subsidiary Rights, and Publicity Information ...... 158

International Information ...... 159 Prices and terms: Resellers are free to charge any price they wish for the books listed in this catalog. All prices and discounts are subject to change without notice.

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Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. RECENT AWARDS • RECENT AWARDS • RECENT AWARDS [ [ Donald Hall Named Poet Laureate of the United States Outdoor Writers Association of America’s Excellence in Craft Award American Dietetic Association’s Media The Grail Bird, by Tim Gallagher [ Excellence Award [ Anne Fletcher PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction Rebuilt, by Michael Chorost [ California Book Awards Gold Medal for Nonfiction [ Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild PEN Center USA Literary Award in Research Nonfiction Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild Francis Parkman Prize [ The Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall PEN/Nabokov Award [ Philip Roth Great Lakes Book Award for Fiction: Finalists [ Gatsby’s Girl, by Caroline Preston Pulitzer Prize: Finalist [ Torch, by Cheryl Strayed The Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall

Kiriyama Prize Quill Award: Nominee, Best Graphic Novel [ The Reindeer People, by Piers Vitebsky Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel [

Lambda Literary Award Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award: [ February House, by Sherrill Tippins Distinguished Honor [ Judgment Days, by Nick Kotz Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Finalist Incentive of the Maggot, by Ron Slate Robert Ridgway Award (Sponsored by the American [ Birding Association) [ Los Angeles Times Book Prize The Singing Life of Birds, by Donald Kroodsma Bury the Chains, by Adam Hochschild [ Science in Society Journalism Book Award (Sponsored [ MacArthur Fellowship by the National Association of Science Writers) David Carroll Pandora’s Baby, by Robin Marantz Henig

[ MacArthur Fellowship Washington State Book Award [ David Macaulay The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan [ Mark Lynton History Prize Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation [ The Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall Legacy Award: Nominee Third Girl from the Left, by Martha Southgate Massachusetts Book Award [ The Peabody Sisters, by Megan Marshall [ [ [

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Michael Patrick MacDonald EASTER RISING AN IRISH AMERICAN COMING UP FROM UNDER A coming-of-age memoir by the author of the national bestseller All Souls, “a well-wrought tale of personal transformation, Easter Rising hits all the right notes.” —Clint Conley, Mission of Burma ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-47025-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-47025-5 • $24.00

Ward Just FORGETFULNESS An absorbing novel about revenge and terrorism from the author of Pulitzer Prize–nominated An Unfinished Season, “superb—as suspense, as theater, as psychological warfare . . . [Just] is as seductive a raconteur as ever: companionable and worldly in an unaffected way . . . Vintage Just.”—Kirkus ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-63463-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-63463-0 • $25.00

Richard Dawkins THE GOD DELUSION An impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of “intelligent design,” or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East— or Middle America. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68000-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-68000-4 • $27.00

Edna O’Brien THE LIGHT OF EVENING A personal and moving novel by the author of Wild Decembers, “this is a book supple with mature power and feeling, where a delicate, everyday, even humorous love between mother and daughter is revealed as the grandest of passions.” —Nuala O’Faolain ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71867-2 • ISBN-10: 0-618-71867-2 • $25.00

Harvey Pekar, editor Anne Elizabeth Moore, series editor THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2006 The newest addition to the best-selling series—the first Best American annual dedicated to the finest in graphic literature. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71874-0 • ISBN-10: 0-618-71874-5 • $22.00

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Dorie Greenspan BAKING FROM MY HOME TO YOURS From the James Beard and IACP award–winning author of Baking with Julia comes a masterpiece filled with more than 300 recipes that any cook can reproduce. “A book that every home baker will love—and have fun with. Dorie’s style makes you feel that you have a good friend in the kitchen with you.”—Barbara Fairchild, editor-in-chief, Bon Appétit ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-44336-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-44336-3 • $40.00

Anne M. Fletcher WEIGHT LOSS CONFIDENTIAL A groundbreaking study showing how teens find weight-loss success, by the author of the best-selling Thin for Life. “If I had to pick one book to help a teen, parent, or physician address teen weight issues, it would definitely be Weight Loss Confidential.—Helen M. Seagle, program director of weight management for Kaiser Permanente, Colorado. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-43366-7 • ISBN-10: 0-618-43366-X • $26.00

Howard Norman DEVOTION “Any novel by Howard Norman is cause for celebration. In this, his newest, he demonstrates with marveling deliberation that devotion is its own romantic adventure. Here is a wonderfully intelligent author whose every work possesses an incisiveness of visitation and depth of spirit.”—Lorrie Moore ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-73541-9 • ISBN-10: 0-618-73541-0 • $24.00

Sara Pritchard Mariner LATELY A sparkling collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book Crackpots, Lately offers more of the charming, offbeat, and empathetic characters that distinguished her debut. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61004-4 • ISBN-10: 0-618-61004-9 • $12.95

Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull THE J.R.R. TOLKIEN COMPANION AND GUIDE CHRONOLOGY, VOL. 1 / READER'S GUIDE, VOL. 2 The most comprehensive, in-depth reference to Tolkien’s life and works ever published includes synopses of all his writings, a Tolkien A–Z, a who’s who, and a chronology. Boxed Set: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39113-4 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39113-4 • $100.00 Chronology, Vol. 1: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39101-1 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39101-0 • $50.00 Reader’s Guide, Vol. 2: ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-39102-8 • ISBN-10: 0-618-39102-9 • $50.00

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Natalie Angier THE CANON A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

From the Pulitzer prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science around us

DARRYL ESTRINE ith the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman Wan international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a “guided NATALIE ANGIER writes about biolo- twirligig through the scientific canon.” She draws on conversations gy for the New York Times, where with hundreds of the world’s top scientists, and her own work as a she has won a Pulitzer Prize, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times, to create a American Association for the thoroughly entertaining guide to scientific literacy. People magazine Advancement of Science journalism says, “Angier has that rare dual talent: a true passion for science award, and other honors. She is the combined with a poet’s linguistic flair.” Those gifts are on full display author of The Beauty of the Beastly, in The Canon, an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become Natural Obsessions, and Woman, named one of the best books of the a classic. year by the Los Angeles Times, The Canon is a joyride through the major scientific disciplines: Chicago Tribune, People, National physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. It’s vital reading Public Radio, Village Voice, and for anyone who wants to understand the great issues of our time—from Publishers Weekly, among others. stem cells and bird flu to evolution and global warming. It’s also one of A New York Times bestseller and those rare books that reignites our childhood delight in figuring out National Book Award finalist, how things work: we learn what’s actually happening when our ice Woman is “a text so necessary and cream melts or our coffee gets cold, what our liver cells do when we eat abundant and true that all efforts of its kind, for decades before and after a caramel, how the horse shows evolution at work, and that we really it, will be measured by it” (Los are all made of stardust. It’s Lewis Carroll meets Lewis Thomas—a Angeles Times Book Review). Angier book that will enrapture, inspire, and enlighten. lives with her husband and daughter outside of Washington, D.C.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Takoma Park, Maryland

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aybe you’re one of those people who hasn’t clicked with Mscience since that dreadful year of high school when you flunked physics because you showed up for the final exam an hour late, in your pajamas, and carrying an insect collection. Or maybe you fulfilled your college science requirements by taking courses like the Evolutionary Psychology of Internet Dating, and you regret that you still can’t tell the difference between a proton, a photon, and a moron. Or maybe you’re just curiouser and curiouser and you don’t know where to start. You think that the beginning might be a reasonable place, but whose beginning? Not the kiddie beginning, not the contemptuous or embarrassing or didac- tic digit-wagging beginning, but the beginning as an adult. The beginning as a relationship between equals, you and science. And before you raise your hands defensively, and cry, Whoa, that’s not ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-24295-5 • $27.00 a fair competition, me versus science, let me say, It’s not you ISBN-10: 0-618-24295-3 against science, but you with science, you the taxpayer who sup- The Canon ports science whether you realize it or not, you the person who MAY • Science • 320 pages • 6 x 9 • Q does science more often than you’d suspect. Every time you try to isolate a problem with the vacuum cleaner, for example—machine ALSO AVAILABLE heats up; machine stops running; holy hairball, when was the last Woman: An Intimate Geography time you changed the bag in this thing, anyway? Or when you (978-0-395-69130-4) $25.00 CL know that if you don’t stir the hollandaise sauce constantly at a hot The Beauty of the Beastly (978-0-395-79147-9) $15.00 PA but not boiling temperature you’ll end up with a mass too lumpy to pour over your asparagus. You do science, you support science, • National author tour, including New York, Boston, you’re baking the cake, you may as well lick the spoon. Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles • National advertising, including New York Times, Seed, New York Review of Books • Promotional audio-CD • Online advertising and promotions • Academic promotions • Science in literature store promotions

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / MAY • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 7 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “A lavish, stirring, exotic novel that is a treat for the senses and intellect alike.”—Los Angeles Times on Empress Orchid

Anchee Min THE LAST EMPRESS A Novel

Following the national bestseller Empress Orchid, the dramatic, heroic story of the woman who presided over the last decades of the Ch’ing dynasty

© LEI Q. MIN he last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period Tin China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions ANCHEE MIN was born in Shanghai and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing in 1957. At seventeen she was sent dynasty. The only constant during this tumultuous time was the to a labor collective, where a talent power wielded by one person: the resilient, ever-resourceful Tzu Hsi, scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai or Empress Orchid, as readers came to know her in Anchee Min’s Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She came to the critically acclaimed novel covering the first part of this complex United States in 1984 with the help woman’s life. of actress Joan Chen. Her memoir, The Last Empress is the story of Orchid’s dramatic transition from Red Azalea, was named one of the a strong-willed, instinctive young woman to a wise and politically savvy New York Times Notable Books of leader. Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the 1994 and was an international best- spotlight of the world stage, Orchid must not only face the perilous seller, with rights sold in twenty condition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal countries. Her novels Becoming losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to early Madame Mao and Empress Orchid death. Yearning only to step aside, and yet growing constantly into were published to critical acclaim and were national bestsellers. Her her role, only she—allied with the progressives, but loyal to the two other novels, Katherine and conservative Manchu clan of her dynasty—can hold the nation’s rival Wild Ginger, were published to factions together. wonderful reviews and impressive Anchee Min offers a powerful revisionist portrait based on foreign sales. extensive research of one of the most important figures in Chinese history. Viciously maligned by the western press of the time as the “Dragon Lady,” a manipulative, blood-thirsty woman who held onto AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE power at all costs, the woman Min gives us is a compelling, very human Walnut Creek, California leader who assumed power reluctantly, and who sacrificed all she had to protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die.

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ecause of Nuharoo’s restrictions and my own Court schedule I had hardly been a presence during Tung Chih’s Bchildhood. Although I had kept the marks on my door- frame measuring my son’s latest height, I knew few of his favorite things or thoughts, only that he resented my expectations for him. He couldn’t stand my questioning him, and even my morning greetings made him knit his eyebrows. He told everyone that Nuharoo was much easier to please. The fact that Nuharoo and I competed for his affection made matters worse. It was understand- able that he had little respect for me. I was desperate for his love, yet the more I begged, the less he desired me. Now all of a sudden, it seemed, he was an adult. My time to be close with him had passed. With a smile on his face, Tung Chih entered the Grand Hall, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-53146-2 • $25.00 dressed in the color of gold. Unlike his father, Tung Chih would ISBN-10: 0-618-53146-7 participate in the selection. Thousands of fine maidens from all The Last Empress over China were led through the gates into the Forbidden City for MARCH • Fiction • 352 pages • 6 x 9 • Q 12-copy floor display • $300.00 the eyes of the Emperor. ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-89441-3 “Tung Chih has never been willing to rise early, but today, 14-copy mixed floor display • $284.00 he was up before the eunuchs,” Nuharoo told me. 2 pockets of 4 books each, Last Empress I wasn’t sure if I should take this as good news. Tung 1 pocket of 6 books, Empress Orchid PA ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-89372-0 Chih’s experience at the brothel haunted me. With Doctor Shen- pao-tien’s help, Tung Chih seemed to have brought the disease ALSO AVAILABLE under control. But no one was sure that he was completely cured. Empress Orchid (978-0-618-56203-9) $14.00 PA Tung Chih would be given total freedom to do whatever Becoming Madame Mao (978-0-618-12700-9) $13.00 PA he preferred with his private life now that he was considered • National author tour, including San Francisco, “officially ascended to the throne.” To Tung Chih, marriage Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, equaled freedom. D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Toronto • National advertising, New York Times • Advance reading copies • Bookmarks and shelf talkers • Academic promotion • 12-copy floor display • 14-copy mixed floor display, with Empress Orchid

SPACE WALK Poems

A book of poems that fearlessly explores the unsettling inner and outer spaces of post-9/11 culture, from the award-winning author of Far Side of the Earth

“Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well-founded. I greatly admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.”—Seamus Heaney

pace Walk blasts off into realms of experience that show the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68424-3 • $22.00 Simagination’s limitless capacity to be both brutal and uplifting. While ISBN-10: 0-618-68424-7 many of the poems in this daring collection confront head-on our current Space Walk American realities of empire, state violence, the endless “crisis-chatter” of MARCH • Poetry 112 pages • 6 x 9 • Q talking heads, and the eerie, weightless feeling of impending catastrophe, they are tethered to the gravitational pull of love and hope. In Sleigh’s poems, rocket motors and pancake houses, space stations and mom’s AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE kitchen, terrorist organizations and Sundays in a museum are all part of Brooklyn, New York love’s intergalactic amplitude. As the poet writes in “After Nietzsche,” “In the face that must conceal / what is necessary / to bear / love appears in the face / of the face of what is necessary.” Hailing Tom Sleigh’s work, the ALSO AVAILABLE Los Angeles Times writes that he “stakes a claim on the planet of the imagi- Far Side of the Earth nation.” In The New Yorker’s words, he “asserts the importance of poetry (978-0-618-49238-1) $13.00 PA itself,” showing us in Space Walk its restorative, recuperative powers.

• National Poetry Month sponsorship TOM SLEIGH is the author of seven collections of poetry. He has and promotion kits received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace • Advertising in poetry journals Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous • Advance reading copies awards, including the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Award and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at Hunter College in New York and resides in Brooklyn.

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THE BROKEN STRING Poems

An award-winning poet’s new collection that praises life through the power of music

n Grace Schulman’s luminous new collection, music inspires ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-44370-3 • $22.00 Imeditations on joy, faith, death, and the heart. The title refers to Itzhak ISBN-10: 0-618-44370-3 Perlman’s resolution to perform despite a missing string, and so the book The Broken String celebrates life in its fullness and in its limitations. Here Thelonius Monk MARCH • Poetry 96 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A evokes Creation when he snaps his fingers “to shape pain into order.” At a street intersection where churches and a synagogue stand together, the poet recalls that “music soared in quarrels, / moans, blues, calls-and- AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE answers, hymns that rose up / together from stone.” Hailed by Harold New York City Bloom as “a vital and permanent poet,” Grace Schulman praises the day even in moments of deepest sorrow.

• National Poetry Month sponsorship GRACE SCHULMAN is the recipient of the Aiken-Taylor Award, the and promotion kits Delmore Schwartz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and three Push- • Advertising in poetry journals cart prizes. Library Journal selected her collection Days of Wonder: • Advance reading copies New and Selected Poems as one of the best books of poetry for 2002. She lives in New York City, where she is distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY; poetry editor of the Nation; and a former director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y.

SHORT & SWEET Sophisticated Desserts in Thirty Minutes or Less

Now in paperback “With 7 ingredients max, Melanie Barnard has proven that the best recipes are often the simplest ones.”—Sara Moulton, executive chef, Gourmet “Smartly assembled with recipes that are appealing and sophisticated.”—New York Times “These 150 streamlined recipes will have you putting decadent desserts on the table in no time.”—Country Home

hort & Sweet is all about instant gratification. Using ordinary ingredi- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87269-5 • $14.95 PA Sents (seven ingredients or less) and radically streamlined techniques, ISBN-10: 0-618-87269-8 James Beard Award–winner Melanie Barnard shows how to make elegant Short & Sweet desserts in less than thirty minutes. From fruit desserts to mousses and MARCH • Cooking 240 pages • 9 x 9 • Q puddings, to cakes and cookies, to frozen desserts, and even to candies 8 pages of color photographs for gift giving, all your favorites are here: Baked Fudge Cake, Strawberry Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1999 Cream Shortcakes, Chocolate Thin Mint Triangles, Country Apple Tart, Previous ISBN 0-395-90145-8 Scotch Butterscotch Sauce, Broiled Peach Crunch, plus 150 more.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE New Canaan, Connecticut

MELANIE BARNARD has written or cowritten thirteen cookbooks,

including the James Beard Award–winning American Medical T H G Association Family Cookbook and 365 More Ways to Cook Chicken. I R L She is the restaurant critic for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich E M M I H

Times Connecticut daily newspapers and appears often on local and E N

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J.R.R. Tolkien Edited by Christopher Tolkien • With illustrations by Alan Lee ®

THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-89464-2 $26.00 he first complete book by J.R.R. Presented for the first time as a ISBN-10: 0-618-89464-0 T Tolkien in three decades—since complete, standalone story, this The Children of Húrin the publication of The Silmarillion in stirring narrative will appeal to casual APRIL • Literature 1977—The Children of Húrin reunites fans and expert readers alike, return- 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the ing them to the rich landscape and More than 8 illustrations and Rings with Elves and Men, dragons characters unique to Tolkien. a 2-color gatefold map and Dwarves, Eagles and Orcs.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / APRIL • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 13 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. An investigation of the most incendiary word in our culture today

Jabari Asim THE N WORD Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why

A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word

WILL O’LEARY n 2003, Randall Kennedy’s book Nigger started an intense Iconversation about the use and implications of that epithet. JABARI ASIM is deputy editor of the The N Word moves far beyond Kennedy’s short, provocative book Washington Post Book World. He by revealing how the slur has both reflected and spread the scourge also writes a weekly syndicated of bigotry in America over the last 400 years. column on popular culture. His Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring writing has appeared in Essence, Salon.com, the Los Angeles Times, image of the “nigger.” In Jefferson’s seminal but now obscure essay, the Village Voice, the Hungry Mind he marshaled a welter of pseudo-science to define the stereotype of a Review, Emerge, and elsewhere. shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self control. Asim He lives in Maryland with his wife reveals how nineteenth-century “science” then colluded with popular and five children. culture to amplify this slander. What began as false generalizations became institutionalized in every corner of our society: the arts and sciences, sports, the law, and on the streets. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Asim’s conclusion is as original as his premise. He argues even Baltimore, Maryland when uttered with the opposite intent by hipsters and hip-hop icons, using the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America’s socio-economic ladder. But, Asim also proves, there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those who truly understand its twisted history— from Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle to Mos Def. Only when we know its legacy can we loosen this slur’s grip on our national psyche.

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upporters defend such lyrics as keeping it real, or merely reflecting accurately what Sis said and done in urban neighborhoods on a daily basis. But that explanation fails to account for other rappers, whose “reports” on the same conditions use far different language. “Nigger” and/or “nigga” appear far less frequently in the work of socially conscious rappers such as Chuck D of Public Enemy, Mos Def, Common, and Lauryn Hill, although they also address such ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-19717-0 • $26.00 potentially explosive issues as inner city poverty, ISBN-10: 0-618-19717-6 racial discrimination, and relations between black The N Word men and women. Just as much of black cultural APRIL • Current Affairs/Cultural Studies output can be considered as a counternarrative 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q to the majority culture’s enduring myth of black inferiority, the work of intellectually astute hip-hop artists can be heard as a counternarrative • National author tour, including New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles to gangsta rap’s legacy of rampant nihilism. • National radio drive-time Because much of gangsta rap turns a blind eye • Advance reading copies to history, it often abets a white supremacist • National advertising, including Mother Jones agenda by keeping alive dangerous stereotypes linking African Americans to laziness, criminal violence, and sexual insatiability. Instead of standing up to “the Man,” gangsta rappers serve as his henchmen.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / APRIL • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 15 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “[Davies] can make sense out of quite daunting ideas…”—New York Times Book Review

Paul Davies COSMIC JACKPOT Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life

The author of the classic bestseller The Mind of God takes on one of today’s deepest scientific mysteries

EFFY ALEXAKIS / MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY eople have long gazed in wonder at the universe and asked, Why Pare we here? Until recently, the answer has been the province of PAUL DAVIES is an internationally priests and philosophers, but now scientists are starting to weigh in acclaimed physicist and cosmologist with ideas that are both surprising and deeply controversial. In his new now at Arizona State University, book, physicist Paul Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries where he is setting up a pioneering point to a perplexing fact: many basic features of the physical uni- center for the “study of life, the universe, and everything.” In addition verse—from the speed of light to the most humble carbon atom—seem to his many scientific awards, he is tailor-made to produce life. A radical new theory says it’s because our the recipient of the 1995 Templeton universe is just one of an infinite number of universes, each one slightly Prize—the world’s largest annual different. Our universe is bio-friendly by accident; we just happened prize—for his work on science and to win the cosmic jackpot. religion. He is the author of more While this multiverse theory is compelling, it has bizarre implica- than twenty books, including The tions, from infinite copies of each of us to Matrix-like simulated uni- Mind of God, About Time, The Origin verses. Davies believes there’s a more satisfying solution to the question of Life, and How to Build a Time of existence: the observations we make today could help shape the Machine. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence post- nature of reality in the remote past. If this is true, then life and, detection committee, so that if SETI ultimately, consciousness aren’t just incidental byproducts of nature, succeeds in finding intelligent life, but central players in the formation of the universe. he will be among the first to know. Whether he’s elucidating dark matter or dark energy, M-theory The asteroid 1992OG was officially or the multiverse, Davies brings the leading edge of science into sharp renamed Pauldavies in his honor. focus, making us think about the cosmos in new and thrilling ways.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Phoenix, Arizona

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FROM Cosmic Jackpot

e human beings have been made privy to the deepest Wworkings of the universe. Other animals observe the same natural phenomena as we do, but alone among the creatures on this planet, Homo sapiens can also explain them. How has this come about? Somehow the universe has engineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, not just mind, but understanding. The evolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merely to watch the show, but to unravel the plot. What is it that enables something as small and delicate and adapted to terres- trial life as the human brain to engage with the totality of the ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-59226-5 • $26.00 cosmos and the silent mathematical tune to which it dances? ISBN-10: 0-618-59226-1 For all we know, this is the first and only time anywhere in Cosmic Jackpot the universe that minds have glimpsed the cosmic code. If APRIL • Science humans are snuffed out in the twinkling of a cosmic eye, it 320 pages • 6 x 9 • Q may never happen again. The universe may endure for a 35 b/w line drawings trillion years, shrouded in total mystery, save for a fleeting pulse of enlightenment on one small planet around one average star in one unexceptional galaxy, 13.7 billion years • National author tour, including New York, Boston, after it all began. Chicago, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles Could it just be a fluke? Might the fact that the deepest • National advertising, including Seed level of reality has connected to a quirky natural phenomenon and New York Review of Books we call “the human mind” represent nothing but a bizarre and • Advance reading copies temporary aberration in an absurd and pointless universe? • Academic promotions Or is there an even deeper subplot at work?

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / APRIL • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 17 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “The Visible World reveals what is invisible within us. It’s a pure pleasure to turn its pages.”—Ha Jin

Mark Slouka THE VISIBLE WORLD A Novel

An exquisite, powerfully romantic novel about a son’s attempt to understand his mother’s past

© MIRIAM BERKLEY he unnamed narrator of The Visible World, the American-born Tson of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an AUTHOR PROFILE atmosphere haunted by fragments of a past he cannot understand. The child of Czech immigrants himself, Nowhere is this more true than in regard to his mother, Ivana, a MARK SLOUKA draws on his personal spontaneous, passionate woman moving ever closer to genuine despair. experience and the inevitable intru- As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to learn about a love sions of the past on the present. He is affair between his then young mother and a member of the Czech the author of the novel God’s Fool, Resistance named Tomas, an affair whose untimely end, he senses, named a Best Book of the Year lays behind Ivana’s unhappiness. Ultimately unable to complete his by the San Francisco Chronicle, the knowledge of the past, he imagines the two lovers as participants in short story collection Lost Lake, a one of the more dramatic moments of the war: the actual assassination New York Times Notable Book in 1998, and the nonfiction work War of the of a high-ranking Nazi official. And, in the almost unimaginably roman- Worlds. Three of his essays have been tic story he tells, he creates the ending of their story and the beginning selected for inclusion in The Best of his own. American Essays, and his short story From an author whose gifts recall Milan Kundera and W. G. “The Woodcarvers Tale” won the Sebald, The Visible World is a literary page-turner and an immensely National Magazine Award for fiction. powerful novel about the vagaries of love and our need to make sense He is a contributing editor at Harper’s of life through the telling of stories. Magazine, and is currently the director for the writing program at the University of Chicago.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Chicago, Illinois

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“The Visible World gains on itself from page to page, deepening its shadow, enlarging its implication, refining the pitch of its clear tragic note. It’s also a genuine page-turner, a read.”—SVEN BIRKERTS

ike all children, there were many things I didn’t understand. I didn’t understand why it was that the roses of Karlovy LVary, when dipped into a bucket of mineral water at the cost of ten crowns a stem, would grow streaked with gray and green deposits ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75643-8 • $24.00 and harden to stone. I didn’t understand the story I’d overheard of ISBN-10: 0-618-75643-4 twenty-year-old Robert Nezval, the poet’s son, whose mother had The Visible World walked into the family parlor one winter afternoon to find him APRIL • Fiction playing the piano with both his wrists slashed. 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q But some things I knew. I knew there had been a war. That all the people we knew had gone through it in one way or another. That Czechoslovakia, the country my parents came from, had been taken over. That some had fought back, and others hadn’t. • Author tour, including New York, Chicago, I knew other things. I knew that once upon a time there had Los Angeles, San Diego been someone for whom my mother had cared very much. Who • National print and online advertising, including the had gone out hunting in the rain one morning and never returned. MLA Journal, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Yorker Who had lost his way in the forest. Or leaned too far over the • Advance reading copies • Postcards water. I knew this the way children know things, and knowing it • Online promotion didn’t trouble me. It had to be that way so that things could be the • First serial Granta way they were now. So that in the early mornings my father could draw me whales with his fountain pen instead of working on his dissertation—three quick strokes made a spout; a single touch of ink, a backward-glancing eye.

THE SINGING LIFE OF BIRDS The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong

“Donald Kroodsma’s big, engaging book, The Singing Life of Birds . . . addresses hundreds of fascinating questions.”—Boston Globe

“The Singing Life of Birds is science writing at its best.”—Birding CD “Kroodsma is a warm, encouraging guide to the world of birdsong, Included and his enthusiasm is contagious.”—Publishers Weekly

on Kroodsma has a rare ability to make science entertaining. Tens of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-84076-2 • $16.95 PA Dthousands of readers have already gone behind the music of bird- ISBN-10: 0-618-84076-1 song. From the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, the book was The Singing Life of Birds universally acclaimed for encouraging the reader to listen to birdsong with APRIL • Nature 496 pages • 7 x 9 • Q an inquisitive mind. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 The Singing Life of Birds is a fascinating read for anyone who yearns Previous ISBN 0-618-40568-8 to understand the hidden dramas unfolding in his or her own backyard. Using highly personal stories, Kroodsma puts the reader inside the mind of a research scientist to explore how and why birds sing and how we can AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE better understand them through their songs. He deals with questions such Amherst, Massachusetts as How does an individual acquire its songs—are they innate and encoded in the DNA, or are they learned? How and why do songs of individuals differ from place to place? Why do birds expend so much effort in • Author tour, including Philadelphia, singing? San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego • National advertising • Promotion at birding shows • Online promotions

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A NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN TREES

An Environmental Classic

With an introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg

A beautiful new gift edition of two 1950s classics by one of the best nature writers of the twentieth century

“ volume for a lifetime” is how The New Yorker described the first of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-79904-6 • $40.00 ADonald Culross Peattie’s two great classics, referred to elsewhere as ISBN-10: 0-618-79904-4 “the most eloquent, informative, and entertaining books ever written A Natural History of North American Trees about the trees of North America.” APRIL • Nature 656 pages • 6 x 9 • Q In Peattie’s accounts of more than one hundred tree species, we learn Previous ISBNS: about everything from how the tree was discovered to the part trees A Natural History of Eastern Trees played (or oversaw) in our country’s history, including the Penn Treaty 0-395-58174-5 Elm; the beech trees where Audubon painted the Passenger Pigeons; the A Natural History of Western Trees wood that earned the nickname “Old Ironsides”; the tulip trees that 0-395-58175-3 Daniel Boone hollowed out to make a canoe for his family; and the com- mercial uses of its wood—for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, match sticks, house construction, box crates, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. The result is a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, but it often is heartbreaking as well. While Peattie looks for the better side of man’s nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that has doomed so much of America’s virgin forests. No one will read this book without the occasional lump in the throat. More than one hundred of the original, stunning black-and-white illustrations by Paul Landacre make this a visual as well as a literary treat.

DONALD CULROSS PEATTIE (1898–1964), a trained botanist, published two dozen books in his lifetime, but the tree books are the ones he is remembered for.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / APRIL • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 21 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. “Impeccably researched and brilliantly practical. Thank you, thank you, Dr. Ludwig.”—Christiane Northrup, M.D.

David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D. with Suzanne Rostler, M.S., R.D. ENDING THE FOOD FIGHT Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World

A pioneering pediatrician and researcher delivers a landmark book for families of overweight children

JASON GROW s an endocrinologist at Harvard, Dr. David Ludwig pioneered the Ause of a low-glycemic diet in combating obesity. His groundbreak- AUTHOR PROFILE ing research is the basis for some of the most successful diets of the last decade, including the “South Beach Diet” and “SugarBusters.” Ten DR. DAVID LUDWIG is an associate pro- years ago, Dr. Ludwig founded the Optimal Weight for Life Program fessor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical (OWL) at Children’s Hospital Boston. There he and his team tailored School, as well as director of the OWL program at Children’s Hospital Boston. his low-glycemic diet for children and combined it with a powerful He has published more than seventy nine-week progressive plan that benefits the patient and the entire articles in major scientific journals. Dr. family. Ludwig’s research, including reports This scientifically proven approach addresses, for the first time, on the relationship between childhood all three key factors affecting body weight—biology, behavior, and obesity and the consumption of fast environment—and integrates them into a practical prescription for food and soda, is regularly covered in weight loss. It also recognizes the challenges children and their parents national media. SUZANNE ROSTLER is a face in today’s toxic food world. We are surrounded not only by high- dietician at the OWL clinic. She calorie, low-quality fast food, but also by more and more “fake food”: received a master’s of science in clinical nutrition from New York processed foods unlike anything found in nature. University. In Ending the Food Fight, Dr. Ludwig shares his program with parents everywhere, giving them all the tools they need to help their children win the food fight, once and for all. ~~~ “With childhood obesity soaring, it is essential to draw on cutting-edge research in nutrition to develop effective programs for prevention and treatment. Ending the Food Fight does just that. I highly recommend it.” —ANDREW WEIL, M.D.

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In his groundbreaking book, Dr. Ludwig shows how to • Harness the clinic’s nine-week progressive plan and permanently improve your family’s lifestyle and eating habits • Avoid “fake foods” to lose weight without feeling hungry or rundown • Give kids age-appropriate information about food and eating to help them make better choices for their bodies

“This book comes from a wise and caring physician and nutritionist whose compassion and devotion to children’s health shines through on every page . . . Should give hope and courage to any parent wondering how best to help an overweight child.” —MARION NESTLE, author of What to Eat and professor of nutrition, New York University

“At a time when obesity in children has already become ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68326-0 • $26.00 an epidemic this book should be a must for all parents.” ISBN-10: 0-618-68326-7 —T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D., professor of Ending the Food Fight pediatrics emeritus, Harvard Medical School APRIL • Health/Fitness 320 pages • 6 x 9 • Q “Dr. Ludwig is our hope for a healthier, saner society.” 30 charts/tables and 50 recipes —MARK HYMAN, M.D., author of Ultrametabolism

“This book has the potential to revolutionize the way we deal with childhood obesity.” • National media from New York, Boston, Washington, —SANDRA WOODRUFF, past president of the D.C., Los Angeles, and San Francisco Florida Dietetic Association • National radio drive-time • Lecture tour “Anyone caring for children will want to read this book.” • Online campaign —WALTER WILLETT, M.D., chair of the department • Outreach to public health professionals of nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

“This book is fresh, compassionate, and above all, right.” —KELLY D. BROWNELL, Ph.D., chair of the department of psychology, Yale University

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / APRIL • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 23 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Andrew Beyer BEYER ON SPEED New Strategies for Racetrack Betting

“A wonderfully entertaining and informative book . . . All race fans should read it.”—Daily Racing Form

With a new preface

© 2001, THE WASHINGTON POST. PHOTO BY NATE ndrew Beyer shows the handicapper how to make his Beyer PARSONS. REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION. ASpeed Figures the focal point of a horse wagering strategy for AUTHOR PROFILE pursuing spectacular profits. No serious horseplayer should be without Beyer on Speed. It ANDREW BEYER thoroughly revolution- explains how to relate speed figures to such factors as pace, track bias, ized handicapping when he created his “Beyer Speed Figures,” a measure and track conditions. It helps the bettor utilize the new opportunities of how fast a horse has run in a given for picking winners, such as video replays or a successfully structured race, and an indispensable tool for pick-six ticket—whether betting online, on the phone, or at the track. horseplayers. Making the necessary Written in Beyer’s engaging, rapid-fire prose, Beyer on Speed reveals calculations to develop a set of figures optimal use of the figures based on computer analysis of more than for each horse in each race was too 10,000 races. This invaluable book on wagering is a classic of the sport time-consuming for most horseplay- and can be enjoyed by the novice as well as the advanced player. ers, so in 1992 the Daily Racing Form commissioned Beyer and his associ- ates to provide his speed figures for every horse competing in North America. Beyer has been a columnist for the Washington Post since 1978, and contributes regularly to the Daily Racing Form. He is considered one of the leading experts on horse racing.

AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Washington, D.C.

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An advanced guide to handicapping, with a new preface

he Winning Horseplayer offers the sophisticated T bettor invaluable advice on a full range of topics and introduces the concept of trip handicapping. Beyer offers an unbeatable combination of case studies and lively anecdotes through which bettors can substantially improve their chances of making a profit.

PICKING WINNERS A Horseplayer’s Guide

With a stunning new jacket

“If the Daily Racing Form is the horseplayer’s Bible, I believe that Beyer has written its most ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87172-8 • $15.00 PA informative Testament.”—Bill Nack ISBN-10: 0-618-87172-1 Beyer on Speed APRIL • Sports 288 pages • 6 x 9 • A ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87178-0 • $15.00 PA ISBN-10: 0-618-87178-0 The Winning Horseplayer • Racetrack promotion AVAILABLE • Sports National print and online advertising, • including the Daily 208 pages • 6 x 9 • A Racing Form and Saratoga Special ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-395-70132-4 • $15.00 PA ISBN-10: 0-395-70132-5 Picking Winners AVAILABLE • Sports 240 pages • 6 x 9 • A

THE CHEATER’S GUIDE TO BASEBALL

An uproarious and wholly original history of cutting corners and playing dirty in the national pastime—you’ll never watch baseball the same way again

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GUERRILLA MARKETING Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

The book that started the guerrilla marketing revolution, expanded and completely updated for the twenty-first century

hen Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levin- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-78591-9 • $14.95 PA Wson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business ISBN-10: 0-618-78591-4 owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based on Guerrilla Marketing hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has given APRIL • Business 384 pages • 6 x 9 • Q birth to a new way of learning about market share and how to gain it. In Previous ISBN (Third Edition) this completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Levinson offers a 0-395-90625-3 new arsenal of weaponry for small-business success in the next century. 5-copy counter display • $74.75 Filled with strategies for marketing on the Internet (explaining when and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87537-5 precisely how to use it), tips for putting other new technologies to work, programs for targeting prospects and cultivating repeat and referral business, and management lessons in the age of telecommuting and freelance AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE employees, this book will be the entrepreneur’s marketing bible in the San Francisco, California twenty-first century.

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Cat Cora with Ann Krueger Spivack COOKING FROM THE HIP Fast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals

The Food Network’s first and only female Iron Chef champion shares her secrets for creating unforgettable dinners in no time flat

“With her boundless energy and southern drawl, the kitchen goddess charms audiences and dazzles palates with Mediterranean-inspired dishes.”—Vanity Fair © DEBORAH JONES

AUTHOR PROFILE s the star of the enormously popular TV program Iron Chef A America, Cat Cora regularly battles the legendary chefs Bobby CAT CORA attended the Culinary Insti- Flay, Mario Batali, and Masaharu Morimoto to create spectacular meals tute of America and trained with such in record time. So she is used to putting together inspired dishes on a celebrated chefs as Larry Forgione, George Blanc, and Roger Vergé. She moment’s notice. Now the vivacious chef and mom shows how to recently starred in NBC’s Celebrity apply her friendly “go-with-what-you’ve-got” philosophy to create sim- Cooking Showdown. As president ple, sensational meals. and cofounder of Chefs for Humanity, Cooking from the Hip showcases more than 100 dishes, divided she spearheads a number of charity into convenient categories: FAST (thirty minutes or less), EASY events, including Hurricane Katrina (interruption-proof), FUN (relaxing to prepare with friends), and relief efforts for New Orleans and her PHENOMENAL (special dishes for special evenings). Cooks can turn native state, Mississippi. ANN KRUEGER to whichever section suits their needs, whether it be dinner in twenty SPIVACK wrote the series Michael Chiarello’s Napa for public television minutes or a fantastic recipe for a spur-of-the-moment Friday get- and Visions of Chocolate. together. “Cooking from the hip” means flexibility. It means cutting down steps, combining just a few ingredients in inventive ways, pulling in AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES leftovers, and wowing family and friends in the process. Cora: Fairfield, California Spivack: Gilroy, California

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Faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University Edited by Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, MRCVS with Lawrence Lindner PUPPY’S FIRST STEPS Raising a Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Dog

The book for the enlightened dog owner: a groundbreaking, whole-dog approach for raising a puppy from the halls of one STAN GROSSFELD of the most prestigious and pioneering veterinary schools in A world renowned animal behaviorist, the world NICHOLAS DODMAN is the best-selling author of the immensely popular The Dog Who Loved Too Much, The Cat ove over Monks of New Skete. Sit down Cesar Millan. Your Who Cried for Help, and Dogs Behav- Mtheories are outmoded and not universally supported by science. ing Badly, among other books. He has Puppy’s First Steps is a comprehensive, accessible, and humane guide appeared on Oprah, the Today Show, to puppies from one of the world’s premiere veterinary schools. Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nowhere else will readers find this whole-dog approach—a unique CNN, among many other television combination of training, behavior, and health care. and radio programs. CUMMINGS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT Based on cutting-edge research, real day-to-day clinical experi- TUFTS UNIVERSITY treats more than ence, and unparalleled expertise, the faculty of the Tufts University 28,000 patients annually. Its four-year Cummings School, led by the renowned animal behaviorist Nicholas program that leads to a doctor of Dodman, provides the very best information on the health and behav- veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) degree is ior of puppies. Covering everything from how to pick a puppy, what to consistently ranked among the top feed him, and how to housetrain, to why puppies behave the way they programs in the country. LAWRENCE do and what to do in a host of medical situations, Puppy’s First Steps is LINDNER was a collaborating writer the only book a puppy owner will need. on Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis, a New York Times bestseller, and has written for numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Condé Nast Traveler, Woman’s Day, and McCalls, among others.

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Experience shows that the first twelve months of a dog’s life are the most essential time for his or her physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

Get your puppy off on the right foot with advice from the experts at Tufts Veterinary School.

• Whole-Dog Approach: Experts at the Cummings School have the unique expertise to look at a puppy from all sides—health, behavior, and proper training. Their integrative, body-and-mind approach sets them apart from the one-size-fits-all mentality that pervades the dog training world. • Evidence Based: This book is not about just one dog trainer or breeder’s “idea” for what works most of the time. Puppy’s First Steps is based on observation and experiment from the frontlines of the veterinary field. • Positive Training: The popular school of thought says the best way to train a pup is to punish or “correct” his bad behavior. But the experts at the Cummings School have found that dogs behave better—and more consistently—when rewarded for their ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-66304-0 • $24.95 good actions rather than punished for their bad ones. In fact, bad ISBN-10: 0-618-66304-5 actions are best managed by the absence of reward. Puppy’s First Steps • Preventative Medicine: Tufts is world renowned for its emer- APRIL • Pets/Reference gency dog care and high-tech facilities, but this book also focuses 288 pages • 7 x 9 • Q on the everyday care of puppies and what they need to thrive, 70 photographs throughout from the most effective training to environmental enrichment to revolutionary ideas about diet and nutrition. • Advice You Can Trust—and Embrace: Experts at the Cum- mings School demonstrate puppy training in a way that enables • National media from New York and Boston an owner to feel comfortable and sure, and won’t jeopardize a • Print advertising long, healthy bond between owner and pet. • National radio drive-time • Putting the Dog’s Needs First: Others may claim to be dog • Online advertising whisperers, but experts at the Cummings School believe it is • Advance reading copies more important to be dog listeners. Based on a vast knowledge of • Promotional dog bowls the canine species, they help owners “listen” to and consider the dog’s needs. Understanding and meeting these needs almost always results in what the owner wanted in the first place.

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GOOD BIRDERS DON’T WEAR WHITE 50 Tips from North America’s Top Birders

“The greatest compilation of birding know-how of all time.” —Pete Dunne, from the foreword

light and fun collection of birding advice, with contributions from ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75642-1 • $8.95 PA AKenn Kaufman, David Sibley, Pete Dunne, Tim Gallagher, Don and ISBN-10: 0-618-75642-6 Lillian Stokes, Bill Thompson III, and forty-four others. Good Birders Don’t Wear White Original essays from the biggest names in birding dispense advice to APRIL • Nature 224 pages • 5 x 7 • Q birders of every level, on topics ranging from feeding birds and cleaning 25 b/w line drawings binoculars to pishing and pelagic birding. Whether satirizing bird snobs 8-copy counter display • $71.60 or relating the traditions and taboos of the birding culture, each essay is ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87549-8 chock-full of helpful information and entertaining as well. Pete Dunne’s lively foreword kicks off the collection of essays, which are organized by category. Half of the essays are illustrated with delightful black-and-white line drawings by artist Robert Braunfield. • National media and events with contributors A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the • Promotion at birding shows nationwide • 8-copy counter display Roger Tory Peterson Institute.

Good Birding Tips • Take field notes • Go birding in bad weather • Keep your optics clean

• Do your part for conservation • Use a scope • Learn birdsongs

• Slow down and see more birds

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ONCE UPON A GAME Baseball’s Greatest Memories

A baseball lover’s delight—a stirring and beautifully illustrated collection of personal memories from the game’s greatest stars and celebrities

n Once Upon a Game, Alan Schwarz, author of the critically acclaimed ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-73127-5 • $19.95 IThe Numbers Game, assembles a delightful collection of personal ISBN-10: 0-618-73127-X memories about baseball from some of the game’s all-time legends and its Once Upon a Game most famous fans. Derek Jeter tells how at age ten he declared to his par- MAY • Sports/Baseball 144 pages • 7 x 7 • A ents that he would be a major leaguer; Ernie Banks recalls the moment he 70 b/w and color photos coined the phrase “Let’s play two!”; Mike Piazza recounts his backyard batting lesson with Ted Williams. With intimacy and insight, dozens of the game’s greatest players remember the finest moments of their careers. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Lavishly illustrated and handsomely designed, Once Upon a Game is New York City a one-of-a-kind collective reminiscence.

Includes personal reflections from Yogi Berra, Kevin Costner, Reggie Jackson, Pedro Martinez, Cal Ripken Jr., Nolan Ryan, Charles Schulz, • National media from New York and more. • Online promotions • Advance reading copies A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Association.

ALAN SCHWARZ is the senior writer of Baseball America magazine, the host of “Baseball Today” on ESPN.com, and a regular contributor to the New York Times. His first book, The Numbers Game, was ESPN’s 2004 Baseball Book of the Year. He is a frequent on-air guest analyst for ESPN, National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation, and MSNBC.

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Nicole Mones THE LAST CHINESE CHEF A Novel

A sensuous new novel from the author of the best-selling Lost in Translation

KRISTIN FINNEGAN he Last Chinese Chef is the transporting story of how the sensual, T romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect AUTHOR PROFILE ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.

NICOLE MONES is the author of the New For food writer Maggie McElroy, it’s been a year of trying to get York Times Notable Book Lost in Trans- her equilibrium back in the wake of her husband’s premature death. lation and A Cup of Light. She started Now comes a shock: a paternity claim has been filed against her hus- a textile business in China at the end band’s estate. Could he, while working in his firm’s Beijing office, have of the Cultural Revolution and ran it for fathered a child? eighteen years, and she brings to her As Maggie plans a difficult trip to China to investigate the claim, fiction writing an in-depth understand- she is offered a chance to profile chef and rising star Sam Liang. What ing of China and its culture. Mones is begins as a hoped-for distraction while in Beijing, however, turns into a a frequent contributor to Gourmet life-changing event. As Maggie watches three generations of Liangs magazine, which ran an excerpt of The Last Chinese Chef—marking the first prepare sumptuous feasts together, she is moved by the Chinese belief time Gourmet has ever published fiction that food must always be eaten in a circle of family and friends. As she in its pages. reads Sam’s grandfather’s account of life as a cook in the Emperor’s kitchen, Maggie discovers the centrality of food in Chinese history. And as Sam cooks a chicken as soft as velvet—spiced along centuries’- AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE old notions of what heals the heart—Maggie begins to fall in love. Portland, Oregon In the end, Maggie does unravel the truth about her husband. But most profoundly, The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman coming home to herself in the most unexpected of places.

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he plucked a morsel from the side of the bird, low on the Sbreast where the moistness of the thigh came in, and tasted it. It was soft as velvet, chicken times three, shot through with ginger and the note of onion. Small sticks of bone, their essence exhausted, crumbled in her mouth. She passed them into her hand and dropped them on the plate. “But it’s perfect,” she said. “All chicken should be cooked that way, all the time. I may have never tasted anything so good.” “Thank you.” “I mean it.” She bit into another piece, succulent, soft, perfect- ed. It made her melt with comfort. It put a roof over her head and a patterned warmth around her so that even though all her anguish was still with her it became, for a moment, something she could bear. She closed her eyes in the bliss of relief. She finished and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61966-5 • $24.00 passed out the bones. “Are you going to make this for the ban- ISBN-10: 0-618-61966-6 quet?” The Last Chinese Chef “No,” he said. “This I made for you.” MAY • Fiction 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q She looked up quickly. “These are flavors for you, right now,” he explained, “to benefit you. Ginger and cilantro and chives; they’re very powerful. Very healing.” • National author tour, including New York, “Healing of what?” she said, and put her chopsticks down. Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, She felt his human force suddenly, as if he were standing quite close Los Angeles to her instead of sitting across the counter, and she sat up in appre- • National advertising hension. • Online promotions “Grief,” he said. • Advance reading copies Grief? The unpleasant nest of everything she felt pressed up • Copromotions with food magazines against the surface: sadness, shame, anger at Matt. Anger at Sam for and Asian cultural organizations presuming, for intruding; gratitude to Sam for those same things. Her voice, when it came out, sounded bewildered. “You’re treating me for grief?” “No,” he insisted. “I’m cooking for you. There’s a difference.”

THE FRAGILE EDGE Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

A master diver and filmmaker on the mystery, fragility—and heart-stopping adventure—of underwater life in the South Pacific

ulia Whitty paints a mesmerizing, scientifically rich portrait of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-19716-3 • $25.00 Jteeming coral reefs off Rangiroa in French Polynesia—the underwater ISBN-10: 0-618-19716-8 equivalent of an African big game safari—where hammerhead sharks, The Fragile Edge the thugs of the reef, rule a cascading chain of extraordinary underwater MAY • Travel/Adventure 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q creatures. Equally inspiring for armchair or expert divers, The Fragile Edge illuminates eastern-influenced diving techniques that transform our AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE understanding of diving from sport to breath-inspired art. Whitty reports Sebastapol, California on the latest ways in which science extends our understanding of unfath- omable waters, including the sonar tracking of a huge, unknown loner with a voice louder than that of any known species. ALSO AVAILABLE On the island of Mo’orea in the South Pacific, she witnesses the A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga entrapment of a group of spinner dolphins caught inside the sieve (978-0-618-11980-6) $12.00 PA between barrier reef and coral atoll. In this and scores of other intensely memorable scenes, Whitty emerges as one of our finest writers on the mystery, beauty, and fragility of the underwater ocean world. • National adventure/travel media from west coast • National advertising • Online promotion • Advance reading copies JULIA WHITTY is the author of A Tortoise for the Queen of • Mother Jones magazine copromotion

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ARE WE ROME? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

A compelling look at the unexpected ways America resembles ancient Rome and what we must do to avoid a catastrophic fall.

he rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-74222-6 • $23.00 Tthe beginning of our Republic. Today, we focus less on the Roman ISBN-10: 0-618-74222-0 Republic than on the Empire that took its place. Depending on who’s Are We Rome? doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call MAY • Current Affairs 192 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q to action, or a dire warming of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Cullen Murphy ventures past the pundits’ rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Rome’s demise. Working on a canvas that extends far beyond the issue Medfield, Massachusetts of an overstretched military, Murphy reveals a wide array of similarities between the two empires: the blinding, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of corruption; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of “privatization.” • Author tour, including New York, Most pressingly, he argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeon- Washington, D.C., Boston • National advertising in the Atlantic ing corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the Monthly world outside—two things that are in our power to change. • Copromotion with Atlantic Monthly In lively, richly detailed historical stories based on the latest scholar- magazine, including event outreach ship, the ancient world leaps to life and casts our own contemporary • Academic advertising world in a provocative new light. • Online campaign with political sites Y As managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly for more than two L H T decades, CULLEN MURPHY worked with many of today’s best writers N O M

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left to become the editor at large at Vanity Fair. He is the author of A L T A The Word According to Eve and Rubbish. E H T

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / MAY • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 39 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A call to action for parents of the very youngest consumers

Susan Gregory Thomas BUY, BUY BABY The Mass Seduction of Our Youngest Consumers, and How It’s Changing the American Family

An investigative journalist examines how marketers exploit infants and toddlers, and the broad, often shocking, impact of that exploitation in our society at large

GREG MARTIN t’s no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecu- Irities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils AUTHOR PROFILE the chilling fact that these corporations are using—and often funding—

SUSAN GREGORY THOMAS is an inves- the latest research in child development in order to sell things directly tigative journalist and broadcaster. to babies and toddlers. Thomas offers other, perhaps even more Formerly a senior editor at U.S. News unnerving epiphanies: the lack of evidence that “educational” shows & World Report and co-host of public and toys provide any educational benefit at all for young children; and television’s Digital Duo, she has also the growing evidence that some of these products actually impair early written for Time, the Washington Post, development, and could harm our kids socially and cognitively for life. Glamour, and elsewhere. She has two Underlying these revelations is a dangerous economic and cultural children, five and three years old. shift: our kids are becoming consumers at alarmingly young ages and suffering all the ills that rampant materialism used to visit only on AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE adults—from anxiety to hyper-competitiveness to depression. Brooklyn, New York Thomas blends prodigious reportage with an empathetic voice. Her two daughters were toddlers while she wrote this book, and she never loses sight of the temporal and emotional challenges that parents face. She shows how we can help our kids live at their natural pace, not the frenetic clip that serves only the toddler-industrial complex. Buy, Buy Baby helps us fight the power marketers wield by exposing the false fears they spread.

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hat might be called the baby genius Wphenomenon—the widely held notion that infants and toddlers can be made smarter via exposure to the right products and TV programs—has spread throughout the toy industry. Today, to be com- petitive in the baby and toddler business, a toymaker must make toys that encourage “learning,” or at least claim that they do. The fastest-growing segment of the $3.2 billion infant and preschool toy business is represented by “educational” products, those that are advertised to stimulate babies’ and toddlers’ cognitive ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-46351-0 • $25.00 abilities. Indeed, the demand for such playthings has ISBN-10: 0-618-46351-8 completely transformed the toy industry. It has helped Buy, Buy Baby catapult dot-com era start-ups such as LeapFrog into MAY • Current Affairs the major leagues. It has also drastically shifted the 288 pages • 6 x 9 • Q 10 b/w halftones business strategies of long-time players such as Mattel’s Fisher-Price and Hasbro’s PlaySkool, as they try to compete in a market driven by so-called educational value as defined by wholesale buyers who • National media from New York and Washington, D.C. employ no educational guidelines in their decisions, • National radio drive-time but who are governed only by how they believe • National advertising, Mother Jones • Online campaign with parenting sites customers will respond to packaging claims. It is now • Academic promotion standard practice for anyone marketing to very young children and their families to make certain that his product—and brand—wears what is called an educational halo. As one kids’ marketing executive affirmed, if your company can establish a halo,“you can pretty much get away with anything.”

THE KNOWLEDGE DEFICIT Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

“American schools are failing to teach our children to read intelligently, and The Knowledge Deficit explains why . . . indispensable.”—Wall Street Journal

n The Knowledge Deficit, the esteemed education critic, activist, and ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87225-1 • $13.95 PA Ibest-selling author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., illuminates the real issue in educa- ISBN-10: 0-618-87225-6 tion today: without an effective curriculum, American students are losing The Knowledge Deficit the global education race. This book corrects popular misconceptions APRIL • Education 192 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q about hot issues in education, such as standardized testing, and takes to Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 task educators’ claims that they are powerless to overcome class differ- Previous ISBN 0-618-65731-2 ences. Hirsch explains why schools have taken the wrong path in response to No Child Left Behind, and shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE needed for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehen- Charlottesville, Virginia sion. In the end, Hirsch gives parents and teachers specific tools for enhancing children’s abilities to fully understand what they read. ALSO AVAILABLE The New Dictionary E. D. HIRSCH, JR., is the author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy and of Cultural Literacy a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is president and (978-0-618-22647-4) $29.95 CL founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization The New First Dictionary of Cultural devoted to educational reform. Literacy (978-0-618-40853-5) $15.00 PA

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ROADFOOD SANDWICHES Recipes and Lore from Our Favorite Shops Coast to Coast

The best-selling authors of Roadfood and Two for the Road serve up the finest sandwiches in America and tell how to make them, where to find them, and why we love them

“Jane and Michael Stern are America’s leading authorities on the culinary delights to be found while driving.”—Newsweek ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72898-5 • $14.95 PA ISBN-10: 0-618-72898-8 Roadfood Sandwiches n this eating tour of America, the gurus of the road, Jane and Michael MAY • Cooking IStern, hunt down nearly 100 examples of supreme sandwichery and 240 pages • 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 • A show how to recreate them in the kitchen. Two-color throughout The United Sandwiches of America includes nearly every state, from California (a quintessential Grilled Gruyère with Braised Leeks on multi- grain from Clementines in L.A.), to New York (Chopped Liver from the AUTHORS’ RESIDENCE famous Katz’s Deli), up to Maine (an overflowing, warm lobster roll from West Redding, Connecticut the Maine Diner in Wells), and down to Florida (a Cuban: ham, pork, Swiss, and garlicky salami with pickles, lettuce, and tomato). It embraces ALSO AVAILABLE the Muffuletta of New Orleans and the Hot Brown of Louisville (white Two for the Road turkey meat under sizzling cheese with tomato and bacon), not to be (978-0-618-32963-2) $24.00 CL confused with the Hot Truck of Ithaca, New York (a pizza sub). Julia (978-0-618-87268-8) $13.95 PA May 2007 Child’s when-nobody’s-looking favorite is here (baked beans on a master- ful brown bread), and so is Elvis’s beloved Peanut Butter and Banana. Each of the legendary heroes, hoagies, wraps, grinders, blimps, gyros, and subs comes with its own quirky story. All in all, it’s a giant • Author tour, including Philadelphia, St. Louis, Miami, New York, Connecticut slice of life. • Regional promotions

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are contributing editors to Gourmet, where they write the James Beard Award–winning monthly column “Roadfood.” In 1992 the Sterns received a James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award.

TWO FOR THE ROAD Our Love Affair with American Food

The rollicking story of thirty years on the road, by two “culinary giants.”—Salon

“Jane and Michael Stern write about ordinary food so simply and exuberantly that I couldn’t help thinking as I read this latest book of theirs, that they deserved a room of their own in the Smithsonian Institution, right next to Julia Child’s Cambridge kitchen.” —NORA EPHRON, New York Times Book Review

art memoir, part guidebook, part cookbook, and all parts hilarious, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87268-8 • $13.95 PA P Two for the Road shares the lessons the Sterns have learned during ISBN-10: 0-618-87268-X thirty years of sampling regional fare on America’s back roads. If you want Two for the Road a great restaurant, forget the Yellow Pages, ask the local cop—and avoid MAY • Cooking/Memoir 292 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A anything that calls itself “world famous.” Sure bets are places with a giant Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 plastic pig on the roof or pictures of Jesus on the walls. As the Sterns Previous ISBN 0-618-32963-3 search for the Holy Grail of barbecue, they relate achingly funny adventures and misadventures, and what emerges is a big picture of America, revealing exotic eating customs that flourish right under our noses. AUTHORS’ RESIDENCE West Redding, Connecticut

JANE and MICHAEL STERN are contributing editors to Gourmet, where they write the James Beard Award–winning monthly column “Roadfood.” They appear weekly on The Splendid Table on National • Author tour, including Philadelphia, Public Radio. In 1992 the Sterns received a James Beard Lifetime St. Louis, Miami, New York, Connecticut Achievement Award and were inducted into the Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America.

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PETERSON REFERENCE GUIDES: GULLS OF THE AMERICAS

The flagship title in a new series, Peterson Reference Guides, is the first comprehensive guide to gulls of the Americas and includes more than 1,100 color photographs

overing the thirty-six species of gulls that occur in North and South ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72641-7 • $35.00 CAmerica, this unparalleled resource includes detailed identification ISBN-10: 0-618-72641-1 information for the many plumages gulls display as they mature. More Peterson Reference Guides: than just a field guide, this large and ambitious volume is the definitive Gulls of the Americas MAY • Nature reference work on gulls of the Americas. A group of birds that is popular 560 pages • 7 x 10 • Q among birdwatchers, gulls can be frustrating to identify, as they can take up to four years to mature, with different plumages each year. With 1,160 photographs illustrating these plumages, and descriptions by two of AUTHORS’ RESIDENCES North America’s top gull experts, this new reference guide is the authori- Howell: Bolinas, California tative word on gulls. Dunn: Bishop, California

STEVE N. G. HOWELL has written more than six books and two hundred papers and book reviews on birds, including Hummingbirds • National advertising of North America, A Bird-finding Guide to Mexico, and A Guide to • Promotion at seashore birding festivals the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. He has been in New Jersey, Texas, Massachusetts, affiliated with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory for twenty years and Louisiana is currently a senior birding tour leader for WINGS, Inc. JON DUNN is the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Warblers and chief consultant for the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / MAY • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 45 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. An uncommonly illuminating look at common fruits and vegetables, including 100 recipes

Russ Parsons HOW TO PICK A PEACH The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table

From the author of the best-selling How to Read a French Fry, a provocative cook’s-eye view of the revolution at the produce counter

© MARISSA ROTH ritics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French CFry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable One of the foremost food journalists voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factual of the nation, RUSS PARSONS is information.” the food and wine columnist of the Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest Los Angeles Times. He has been food topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, and writing about food and agriculture for more than twenty years and has nowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigerate won many James Beard Awards that peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those differ- for his newspaper articles, as well ent varieties of pears? Most of us aren’t sure. as the IACP/Bert Greene Award for Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market by distinguished writing. He lives in illuminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts about California, which produces more vegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providing than half of the fruits and vegetables instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whether grown in this country. explaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never be refrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomato AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE business in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor, Long Beach, California or giving tips on how to recognize a ripe melon, How to Pick a Peach is Parsons at his peak.

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What’s Your Vegetable IQ?

1. To prepare asparagus for cooking, you should a) cook the entire stalk and trim any tough parts before serving. b) trim the tough part with a knife. c) hold the tip in one hand, the base in the other, and snap off the tough part.

2. Which variety of corn is sweeter and has more corn flavor? a) yellow b) white c) bicolor (yellow and white)

3. When buying tomatoes out of season, for the best flavor choose ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-46348-0• $27.00 a) vine-ripened tomatoes ISBN-10: 0-618-46348-8 b) tomatoes sold still on the vine How to Pick a Peach c) grape tomatoes MAY • Cooking 416 pages • 6 x 9 • Q 4. To get really fresh artichokes a) avoid those with black spots on the leaves. ALSO AVAILABLE b) rub the leaves together and see if they squeak. How to Read a French Fry (978-0-618-37943-9) $14.00 PA

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taste better. taste sugar than the others, and because of because and others, the than sugar

think they actually make the artichokes the make actually they think Grape tomatoes are much higher in higher much are tomatoes Grape c)

3. • 6-city author tour, including New York, Los Angeles,

are frost spots, and some experts experts some and spots, frost are Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland where you live. live. you where Black spots don’t hurt. They They hurt. don’t spots Black b) 4.

less—which color you like depends on depends like you color less—which • California saturation tour

flavorful because of their leaves. their of because flavorful

gives yellow corn its color is flavor- is color its corn yellow gives • Postcard to IACP members, CSAs, and bookstores

tomatoes on the vine only smell more more smell only vine the on tomatoes The carotene that carotene The None of the above. the of None

2. • Refrigerator magnet with storage tips when the surface is barely red, and red, barely is surface the when

Vine-ripened tomatoes are picked are tomatoes Vine-ripened the last 1 1 last the inches or so with a knife. a with so or inches 1/2 • Advance reading copies

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ping wastes too much asparagus; trim asparagus; much too wastes ping • Online promotion

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THE FLEXITARIAN TABLE Inspired, Flexible Meals for Vegetarians, Meat Lovers, and Everyone in Between

The first cookbook to satisfy everyone at the table: easy, stylish menus for vegetarians, semivegetarians, and even meat eaters to share, by a winner of the James Beard and IACP awards

Flex•i•tar•i•an (n) 1. A person who consumes mainly vegetarian food but occasionally eats chicken or fish.

oday a single family can include strict vegetarians and passionate ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65865-7 • $30.00 Tmeat lovers. When company shows up, the situation gets even more ISBN-10: 0-618-65865-3 complicated. How can one meal please everybody without driving the The Flexitarian Table cook crazy? JUNE • Cooking 304 pages • 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 • Q The award-winning author, caterer, and personal chef to the stars More than 70 full-color photographs by Peter Berley has the answer: flexible, exciting menus designed to satisfy Quentin Bacon vegetarians and nonvegetarians simultaneously. Composed of two or three simple dishes, the forty seasonally arranged menus are of several kinds. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Brooklyn, New York • “Convertible” meals that can be prepared with a vegetable and/or meat protein: Crispy Pressed Chicken/Tofu with Garlic and Mint • Hearty vegetarian meals to please the staunchest meat lover: Saffron Lasagna with Vegetables and Gruyère • Six-city author tour, including New York, • Meals featuring fish, poultry or, occasionally, red meat, with ample Long Island, San Francisco, Portland, vegetable sides that can double as mains: Grilled Harissa Shrimp with Seattle, Vancouver • National advertising Fresh Corn Polenta • Online promotion All of the 150 dishes in the book can be mixed and matched.

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which won a James Beard Award and an IACP Award. He is a K N I E

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WARM SPRINGS Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven

A rich and moving memoir of childhood illness and its aftermath by one of the last Americans to have experienced childhood polio

ust after her eleventh birthday in 1950 and at the height of the frighten- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-65853-4 • $24.00 Jing childhood polio epidemic, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the ISBN-10: 0-618-65853-X sanitarium at Warm Springs, Georgia. It was a place famously founded by Warm Springs FDR, “a perfect setting in time and place and strangeness for a hospital of JUNE • Memoir 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q crippled children.” 8-page b/w photo insert There the young Shreve meets Joey Buckley, paralyzed from the waist down and determined to leave Warm Springs able to play football. The dual shocks of first love and separation from her fiercely protective AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE mother propel Shreve careening between bad girl rebellion to over- Washington, D.C. achieving saint. This indelible portrait of the psychic fallout of childhood illness ends—like Tobias Wolff’s Old School—with a shocking collision between adolescent drive and genteel institution. During Shreve’s stay at Warm Springs, the Salk vaccine was • Author appearances in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Warm discovered; Shreve is now among the last Americans to have survived Springs, Georgia childhood polio. Her memoir is both a fascinating historic record and • Advance reading copies an intensely felt story of childhood. • Online promotion

SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE has published thirteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things. She is a professor of English at George Mason University and formerly cochairman and president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.

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Neal Bascomb RED MUTINY Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mile comes a riveting look at the rebellion that inspired the Russian Revolution

JILLIAN MCALLEY n 1905 after being served rancid meat, more than 600 Russian Navy Isailors mutinied against their officers aboard what was then the most NEAL BASCOMB is the critically powerful battleship in the world. Theirs was a life barely worth living— acclaimed author of The Perfect a life of hard labor and bitter oppression, an existence similar in its Mile, a New York Times bestseller, hopelessness and injustice to most of the working class in Russia at the as well as Higher: A Historic Race to time. Certainly their rebellion came as no surprise. Still, against any the Sky and the Making of the City. A former editor and journalist, Bas- reasonable odds of success, the sailors-turned-revolutionaries, led by comb has appeared in documen- the charismatic firebrand Matiushenko, risked their lives to take control taries on A&E and the History Chan- of the ship and raise the red flag of revolution. What followed was a nel. He has also written for the New violent port-to-port chase that spanned eleven harrowing days and York Times. Foreign rights to Red came to symbolize the Russian Revolution itself. Mutiny have been sold in the United A pulse-quickening story that alternates between the opulent court Kingdom, Italy, Brazil, and Spain. A of Nicholas II and the razor’s-edge tension aboard the Potemkin, Red native of St. Louis, Bascomb now Mutiny is a tale threaded with terrific adventure, epic naval battles, lives in New York with his wife and heroic sacrifices, treachery, bloodlust, and a rallying cry to freedom daughter. that would steer the course of the twentieth century. It is also a fine work of scholarship that draws on the long-closed Soviet archives to AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE shed new light on this seminal event in Russian and naval history. New York City

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FROM RED MUTINY

he sailors stood stiffly at attention on the quarterdeck, a sea of Tmen in white and blue, the long ribbons hanging from their caps embroidered with the name Potemkin. Assembled at the port and starboard sides of the deck their lines stretched from the ship’s stern to the hulking black steel of the aft turret. It was a few minutes after noon, and the sun appeared swollen red in the blue sky. Watching the heavyset captain pass between the ranks and awkwardly climb onto the capstan, Matiushenko waited amongst the others to see what he would do. Golikov was known to simply stare at a sailor until he withered, but this time he had an entire crew challenging his authority. He was a speck amidst the hun- ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-59206-7 • $26.00 dreds of sailors surrounding him. Most quietly despised him or ISBN-10: 0-618-59206-7 what he represented or both. Each had his reason: an overzealous Red Mutiny punishment received; a family that suffered without help because JUNE • History of his conscription; sleeping quarters more suited for cattle; the 384 pages • 6 x 9 • Q indignity of being forbidden to walk on a city street; a life divided One 8-page b/w insert into four- to eight-hour watches; the threat of dying in a war against an enemy he didn’t know existed; a lack of hope—or perhaps too ALSO AVAILABLE much hope—in the future. The rotten batch of borsch was merely a The Perfect Mile symbol of each sailor’s own particular reason. But Golikov under- (978-0-618-56209-1) $14.00 PA stood none of this. “It seems you all are dissatisfied with the soup.” He addressed the crew, Giliarovskii standing behind him like an enforcer. “Very • National advertising well then, I shall seal a container of it and send it to the chief com- • Online advertising and promotions mander in Sevastopol for inspection. But I’m warning you, only • Advance reading copies bad will come out of it for you. I’ve repeatedly told you, and I shall • Academic promotions not repeat myself again, of what’s in store for sailors who forget discipline. You will be hanged.”

SENIOR YEAR A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball

A celebrated sportswriter chronicles his son’s senior year as an aspiring slugger in this “heartfelt, humorous and engaging book filled with the lasting lessons of life.”—Tim Russert

n Senior Year, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sports writing talents on his son’s senior year of high school, a turning point in any I ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-72905-0 • $24.00 young life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Using ISBN-10: 0-618-72905-4 that experience, Shaughnessy circles back to his own boyhood and calls Senior Year upon the many sports greats he’s known over the years—Ted Williams, JUNE • Sports/Memoir Roger Clemens, Larry Bird—to capture that uniquely American rite of 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A passage that is sports. Two b/w photos as frontispiece Sam Shaughnessy came by his love of sports naturally. As a boy his father was so baseball obsessed that he played games by himself and did- AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE n’t even let himself win. Sam was born a natural hitter and quickly ascend- Newton, Massachusetts ed the ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonish- ALSO AVAILABLE ing ability to hover between success and failure in everything he does, Reversing the Curse Sam is finally a senior, and it’s all on the line: what college to attend; how (978-0-618-71191-8) $13.95 PA to keep his grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether or Fenway, Expanded and Updated (March 2007) not his final high school baseball season, which features foul weather, a (978-0-618-73736-9) $29.95 CL hitting slump, and a surprising clash with a longtime coach, will end in Spring Training disappointment or triumph. (978-0-618-21399-3) $28.00 CL All along the way, Dad is there, chronicling that universal experience of putting your child out on the field—and in the world—and hoping for • Advance reading copies the best. With gleaming insight, wicked humor, and, at times, the search- • Easelbacks for Father’s Day and graduation ing soul of an unsure father, Shaughnessy illuminates how sports connect generations and how they help us grow up—and let go. D L E F

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A DAY AT THE BEACH A Novel

A moving portrait of a complex marriage set against the backdrop of a national tragedy

“Helen Schulman is one of the most gifted writers of our generation.”—Jennifer Egan

he marriage of Gerhard and Suzannah Falktopf is already in ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-74654-5 • $24.00 Ttrouble when tragedy strikes on the morning of September 11, ISBN-10: 0-618-74654-4 2001. As the quintessentially hip, downtown, art couple—he a famous A Day at the Beach choreographer; she his muse, principal dancer, and now mother to their JUNE • Fiction 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q four-year-old son—the strains in their marriage have been kept at bay by the glamorous velocity of their lives. Though they themselves escape harm when the planes crash into the AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE towers, husband and wife are suddenly cast into a unpredictable psycho- New York City logical space that allows their buried selves, and their sharp differences, to rise to the surface. Packing up the car, with their gorgeous young nanny in tow, they head for the safety of the Hamptons. But despite their seemingly soft landing in this cocoon of privilege, unleashed demons • National print and online advertising, continue to push them to their psychic limits—so much so that by the including the New York Times, salon.com, and Nest next morning they will hardly recognize each other. • Advance reading copies Taking place over a manic twenty-four hours, A Day at the Beach • Summer reading promotions gives us a fast-paced, razor-sharp story whose personal tragedy contains sparks of dark humor about American life pre- and post-9/11. It is a story that will speak to our memories of that day, and of how—for all of us, and in so many different ways—it meant the end of a world and the birth of something new. Or so it seemed. . . .

HELEN SCHULMAN is the author of the novels P.S., The Revisionist, and Out of Time, and the short story collection Not a Free Show. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The Paris Review, and the New York Times Book Review.

Jim Gorant FANATIC Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die

Every sports fan’s dream—a rollicking journey to the greatest sports events for fans

STAN GROSSFELD hen Jim Gorant, a Sports Illustrated staffer and lifelong sports Wfan, realized that he had never actually attended any of sports’ JIM GORANT is a senior editor and most iconic events, he wondered, What kind of sports fan am I, any- writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the way? And if he had to pick the top ten events, what would they be? author of two books, Fit for Golf, These questions resulted in a growing obsession, first with determining with renowned PGA Tour trainer the events that should make the list and then with actually attending Boris Kuzmic, and America’s Top Golf Courses. He has also written for them. What began as a personal challenge quickly evolved into a year- many publications, including Men’s long journey into the heart of sports in this country by way of its most Journal, Travel & Leisure, GQ, and iconic and beloved events. Men’s Health. From the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl, from a day game at Wrigley to a fortnight at Wimbledon, from the NCAA Final Four to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, Gorant takes us along for the ride, AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE evoking the best (and sometimes worst) sports has to offer in a style Montclair, New Jersey that marries Bill Bryson and John Feinstein. We’re there as Gorant enters the inner sanctum of NASCAR, witnessing the pomp and cir- cumstance while perched atop an RV; as he encounters a fire-eating Patriots fan at the Super Bowl; and as he watches Jack Nicklaus tee off at the Masters for the last time. Part adventure, part pilgrimage, Fanatic captures these events in all their color and commotion and reveals why sports matter so much to so many. This is the perfect gift for sports enthusiasts—no matter what their allegiances.

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FROM “The Kentucky Derby”

know for many people part of the appeal is the horses them- Iselves. I imagine the devotees who press up against the iron fence that surrounds the entire scene, craning and stretching to get a view of the animals, are the horse lovers. They revere them. Talk about their personalities and character. The true fanatics have camped out in the best spots along the edge of the fence. Two guys next to me sit on a cooler drinking Coors Light from cans. I know they’ve been there for a while because when one of them raises his hand to drink, pink sunburn lines appear on his arm where his sleeve rides up. Beside them a blonde in a rhinestone-encrusted blue dress and horseshoe-shaped earrings studded with diamonds shouts into a cell phone, “Tell him he better rate that horse. If he doesn’t rate that horse he’ll never ride it again.” Not only does she own horses, she wants everyone to know it. A Kentucky State Trooper stands inside the gate where the jockeys enter. “Hey how can I get a seat like that?” someone asks him. The officer smiles. “Join the police force.” “No, thanks,” the guy yells back. “You got an easier way?” “Yeah,” the officer says. “Become a millionaire.” ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-61298-7 • $24.00 ISBN-10: 0-618-61298-X The Super Bowl Fanatic JUNE • Sports The Daytona 500 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 • A 10 b/w photographs The Final Four 5-copy counter display • $120.00 The Masters ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87536-8 The Kentucky Derby

Wimbledon • National media from New York Day Game at Wrigley Field • National radio drive-time tour • Online promotions Ohio State vs. Michigan • Advance reading copies • 5-copy counter display Lambeau Field Fenway Park, Opening Day

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / JUNE • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 55 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. The first guide to this critical aspect of pregnancy

Lucy J. Puryear, M.D. UNDERSTANDING YOUR MOODS WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Emotions, Mental Health, and Happiness—Before, During, and After Pregnancy

A nationally recognized expert on women’s reproductive mental health offers the first book on the emotional passages of pregnant women

JEFF WILSON ucy J. Puryear—a mother of four—is a pioneering expert in Lwomen’s emotional health before, during, and after pregnancy. AUTHOR PROFILE Through stories from her own practice, she lifts the lid off little-dis- LUCY J. PURYEAR, M.D., is a practicing cussed feelings that are virtually universal for pregnant women. She psychiatrist specializing in women’s explains exactly what is happening to your hormonal system trimester reproductive mental health. She has by trimester, including what she calls the postpartum “fourth been director of the Baylor Psychiatry trimester.” Dr. Puryear’s clear and compassionate advice on reducing Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine, the risk of postpartum depression will be of special interest, with this and was expert witness for the defense issue of urgent concern both in the media and in our homes. in the trial of Andrea Yates. She lives in Here, and throughout her book, Dr. Puryear illustrates why Houston, Texas. knowledge is power when it comes to the overwhelming hormonal floods that accompany pregnancy and postpartum. AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE Houston, Texas Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting includes reassuring, expert advice on • how to deal with the normal fears most women face • making a birthing plan for emotional well-being • how and why to get essential rest • real-life bonding with your baby • eating disorders and OCD • how to make decisions about necessary medications during pregnancy

A book as essential to a woman’s emotional health during pregnancy as What to Expect When You’re Expecting is to her physical health.

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FROM Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting

t the time I started my professional life there were very few Apsychiatrists who knew about the interplay between women’s hormonal fluctuations and the effect of these changes on a woman’s mood and mental health. I became an expert in treating women with severe premenstrual syndrome, pregnancy and psychiatric illness, postpartum and mood disorders, and psychiatric illness during menopause. Today there are more women asking for this specialized type of care than I can possibly see. I have patients who come from very far away because there is no one in their area with the specialized knowledge to care for them during pregnancy or postpartum. Many women slip through the cracks. Unfortunately, women having emotional symptoms during ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-34107-8 • $24.00 pregnancy or after the baby is born nearly always feel shame and ISBN-10: 0-618-34107-2 guilt. They believe if they are experiencing anything besides great Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting joy, all the time, that they are bad mothers. This compounds the JUNE • Pregnancy/Health problem of getting the right help. It is time to acknowledge how 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q disabling emotional problems during pregnancy and postpartum can be for women and their families and how the proper recognition and treatment can change lives for generations. Women with postpartum mood disorders will be at increased • Author tour, including New York, Washington, D.C., Houston risk for a recurrence with subsequent pregnancies and around the • Major online campaign, including outreach to health time of menopause. It is important for women, their families, and professionals physicians who treat women to realize that the reproductive years are a time when a woman’s mental health is linked to what is happening to her hormonally. Having a baby isn’t just a physical experience, it is a profound emotional one as well.

ON KINGDOM MOUNTAIN A Novel

In the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Country of the Pointed Firs, the story of a remarkable woman’s struggle to preserve a unique and endangered place

et in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain recounts ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-19723-1 • $24.00 Sthe life and times of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. A renowned local ISBN-10: 0-618-89723-0 bookwoman and bird carver, she is the sole proprietor and last resident On Kingdom Mountain of a remote and wild mountain situated on the U.S.–Canadian border, JULY • Fiction 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q now threatened by the “Connector,” a proposed new highway over her mountain. On Miss Jane’s fiftieth birthday, a mysterious stunt pilot and weather- AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE maker enters her life, crashing his biplane onto the frozen lake at the foot Irasburg, Vermont of the mountain. He brings with him a riddle—handed down from his grandfather—containing a clue to the whereabouts of $100,000 in stolen gold that may be buried on Miss Jane’s property. As she and the footloose ALSO AVAILABLE aviator befriend each other and begin to search for the treasure, Miss Jane Waiting for Teddy Williams finds herself confronted by the most important decisions of her life. (978-0-618-61903-0) $13.00 PA The True Account Abounding with Howard Frank Mosher’s trademark action scenes, (978-0-618-43123-6) $13.00 PA from daring bank robberies to outrageous comedy to a passionate and A Stranger in the Kingdom surprising love affair, On Kingdom Mountain is rooted deeply in Mosher’s (978-0-618-24010-4) $14.00 PA own family history, in one of America’s last frontiers, and in a way of life on the brink of extinction.

• Author tour, including San Francisco, HOWARD FRANK MOSHER is the author of ten books, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Waiting for Teddy Williams, The True Account, and A Stranger in Denver, plus New England saturation the Kingdom, which, along with Disappearances, was corecipient • Advance reading copies of the New England Book Award for fiction. He lives in Vermont. • Bookmarks • Easelbacks

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INSIDE THE RED MANSION On the Trail of China’s Most Wanted Man

A suspenseful, slyly irreverent journey into the heart of new China by the Beijing bureau chief of the Times of London

ue to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China’s ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-71498-8 • $26.00 Dmost wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run ISBN-10: 0-618-71498-7 from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsized Inside the Red Mansion tale of rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, in the JULY • Current Affairs 288 pages • 6 x 9 • Q hope that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will also One map better understand the tectonic forces transforming modern China. Lai embodies the story of China’s recent success as well as its Achilles’ heel: the blending of its command economy with the free market AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE is riddled with corruption. Moving ever closer to the elusive tycoon, Beijing August introduces us to a people in the midst of head-spinning self-transformation. We meet a nightclub hostess and her gaggle of “Miss Tempo- raries”; powerful businessmen on a debt-settling round of nocturnal golf; and a foie gras king who markets his goose liver by the ton and prefers it • Author tour, including New York and Washington, D.C. deep fried. This is a China seething with desire, engaged in a slap-stick • Online advertising fight with its past, and hell bent on the future. • Advance reading copies Inside the Red Mansion is the first book to capture the giddy vibe of • Posters and postcards contemporary China and its darker vulnerabilities.

After studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford

University, OLIVER AUGUST joined the Times of London to become N I T R

its youngest ever New York correspondent. He spent seven years A M

in China as Beijing bureau chief and will be moving to the Middle G E R G East in 2006. ©

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Taylor Antrim THE HEADMASTER RITUAL A Novel

A novice teacher and an alienated senior endure a year under the hand of the school’s manipulative headmaster, who has a sinister agenda of his own

JOYCE RAVID ournalist Taylor Antrim’s debut is a clear-eyed examination Jof hidden worlds whose complexities and rules can only be AUTHOR PROFILE understood from inside: the insular ecosystem of boarding school; the thorny dynamics of fathers and sons; and the self-deluding excesses TAYLOR ANTRIM is an editor at of blind ideological commitment. ForbesLife and a regular contributor Dyer Martin, a new history teacher at the prestigious Britton to the New York Times and Vogue. His work has appeared in Esquire, School, arrives in the fall ready to close the door on the failures of his the San Francisco Chronicle, the past: a disastrous first job, a broken relationship, and acute uncertainty Village Voice, and other magazines about his future. James, a lonely senior, just wants to make it through and journals. A graduate of Stanford his last year unscathed, avoiding both the brutal hazing of dorm life and and of Oxford, Antrim earned his the stern and unforgiving eye of his father, the school’s politically radi- MFA from Virginia, where he held cal headmaster, Ed Wolfe. the Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. Dyer and James are inescapably drawn into Wolfe’s hidden agenda for Britton, however, when the headmaster orders Dyer to set up and AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE run a Model UN for students. As the United States moves steadily New York City toward a conflict with an increasingly hostile North Korea—whose pursuit of nuclear technology is pushing the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon—Wolfe’s political fervor begins to consume him, and he sets in motion a plan that will jeopardize his job, his school, and even the life of his own son. .

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“Here it is: a first novel in which the characters are distinct, their inner lives believable, their initiations various and complex. Taylor Antrim has written a book that forces us to grapple with the challenges of integrating the public, the private, the personal, and the political.” —ANN BEATTIE

FROM

eadmaster Wolfe scratched his cheek with a fingernail—a Hlow, rough sound. “You know Britton’s motto?” Dyer’s mind raced. “Not by heart, I’m afraid.” “‘Youth from Every Quarter.’ Sounds nice—except when you consider that for the last two hundred years we’ve been a game preserve for New England Wasps. ‘Youth from Every Quarter’ means no power class, no hegemony of thought. No elite. The word itself should be meaningless. But our elite is alive and well. Last year we ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75682-7 • $24.00 had Henry Fieldspar in the upper form. You recognize the name?” ISBN-10: 0-618-75682-5 “Son of Angus?” Angus Fieldspar was a Republican senator The Headmaster Ritual from Tennessee. JULY • Fiction “Major donor to the school. Or ex-donor, I should say. Henry 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q thought his name meant he could get away with anything, but then he was caught drinking and what they call ‘cruising’ in the same night. We give you two strikes here. Those were his. Discipline is a question for the collective. You’d call that a radical cliché, per- • National print and online advertising haps.” Wolfe thought for a moment, then held his hand flat above • Author tour, including New York and Massachusetts his stomach. “Think of the school as a balanced seesaw. Privilege • Advance reading copies one class of student over another . . .” He tilted his hand up and • Postcards down, then let it drop to the arm of the chair. A puff of dust rose • Online promotion like smoke. Outside, in heavy, syncopated tones, a carillon began to ring. Dyer felt a headache coming on, a bunched feeling in his forehead. He tried to assure himself that he’d made no major missteps, that they were still building a rapport. “Do we have many senators’ sons?” Dyer asked, smiling. “I’m getting rid of them one by one.” Wolfe deadpanned a stare, then smiled and leveraged himself up from the chair.

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David Sheff BEAUTIFUL BOY A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction

Anyone who cares about an addict will find hope in Sheff’s forthright, one-of-a-kind account of his struggle to overcome his son’s methamphetamine habit

BART NAGEL heff’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s Spoint of view—a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent AUTHOR PROFILE into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff’s son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, DAVID SHEFF’s work has appeared in and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith the New York Times, Outside, Rolling who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the Stone, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His piece for the New York Times Maga- streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first subtle warning zine, “My Addicted Son,” generated signs, the denial (by both child and parents), the three A.M. phone calls several hundred letters from readers (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab, and, at last, and won an award from the American the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the Psychological Association for “Out- rest of the family must care for each other too, lest they become addict- standing Contribution to Advancing the ed to addiction. Understanding of Addiction.” Meth is the fastest-growing drug in the United States, as well as the most addictive and the most dangerous—wreaking permanent brain AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE damage faster than any other readily available drug. It has invaded Inverness, California every region and demographic in America. This book is the first that treats meth and its impact in depth. But it is not just about meth. Nic’s addiction has wrought the same damage that any addiction will wreak. His story, and his father’s, are those of any family that contains an addict—and one in three American families does.

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very time the phone rings, my stomach constricts. Where Ecan he be? I cannot imagine, or more accurately, I choose not to imagine. I push away the grisliest thoughts. Finally I call the police and the hospitals, asking if he is in jail or if there has been an accident. Each time I call, I brace myself for unthinkable news. I rehearse the conversation—the stolid, disembodied voice, and the words: “He is dead.” I rehearse hearing it in order to prepare myself. I go toward the thought, pace around it. He is dead. Waiting is ghastly, but I can do nothing else. This horror lasts four days. Then one night he calls. His voice trembles, but still it brings a wave of relief. “Dad . . .” ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-68335-2 • $26.00 “Nic.” ISBN-10: 0-618-68335-6 “I . . .” Weakly. “I blew it.” A guttural sigh. “I’m in trouble.” Beautiful Boy “Where are you?” AUGUST • Current Affairs/Memoir He tells me and I hang up. 352 pages • 6 x 9 • Q I drive to meet him in an alleyway behind a bookstore in San Rafael. I stop the car and get out near a wall of trash bins strewn with empty bottles, broken glass, torn cardboard, and grimy blan- kets. • Advance reading copies “Dad . . .” • National author tour, including San Francisco, The muffled, scratchy voice comes from behind another series Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York of bins. I walk toward it, pushing aside discarded boxes, turn the • National advertising corner, and see Nic shakily walking toward me. My son is bruised, sallow, skin and bone, and his eyes are vacant black holes. When I reach him he goes limp in my arms. I half carry him to the car, his feet shuffling beneath him. In the car, before he passes out, I tell him that he must go into rehab. “That’s it,” I say. “There’s no choice now.” “I know, Dad.”

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARDCOVER / AUGUST • WWW.HOUGHTONMIFFLINBOOKS.COM 63 Prices subject to change. Copyright © 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. A leading researcher and scholar in positive psychology presents groundbreaking science

Robert Emmons, Ph.D. THANKS! How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier

An eloquent examination of why gratitude plays a critical role in the search for human happiness.

GABRIEL UNDA s editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology, Dr. Robert AEmmons is uniquely qualified to put Albert Schweitzer’s famous AUTHOR PROFILE dictum “Gratitude is the secret to life” to a rigorous scientific test. In a book that will appeal to readers of Stumbling on Happiness and DR. ROBERT EMMONS is a professor at Martin Seligman’s classic Learned Optimism, Emmons draws on the the University of California, Davis, and one of the leading scholars in the posi- first major scientific study of the subject to show how the systematic tive psychology movement. He is also cultivation of gratitude can measurably change people’s lives. editor-in-chief of the Journal of Posi- tive Psychology. His work on gratitude • People who regularly practice grateful thinking can increase their has been featured in the Washington “set point” for happiness by as much as 25 percent. Post, the New Republic, Newsweek, • These increases can be sustained over a period of months—challeng- and other mainstream media. Dr. ing the previously held notion that our set points for happiness are Emmons has received multiple grants frozen at birth. from the National Institute of Mental • Maintaining a gratitude journal for as little as three weeks results in Health and the John Templeton Foun- dation. better sleep and more energy.

Emmons also reaches beyond science to bolster the case for gratitude AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE by weaving in the writings of philosophers, novelists, and theologians. Davis, California Like no other book has before, Thanks! inspires readers to embrace gratitude and all the benefits it can bring into our lives.

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ratitude can be a bitter pill to swallow, Ghumbling us and demanding as it does that we confront our own sense of self-sufficiency. So we may avoid it as we avoid going to the doctor for our annual prostate exam. But it is also good medicine, and the side-effects are few. Across cultures and time spans, experiences and expressions of gratitude have been treated as both basic and desirable aspects of human personality and social life. Gratitude is literally one of the few things that can measurably change people’s lives. Our groundbreaking research has shown that grateful people experience higher levels of positive ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-62019-7 • $25.00 emotions such as joy, enthusiasm, love, happiness, ISBN-10: 0-618-62019-2 Thanks! and optimism, and that the practice of gratitude as AUGUST • Psychology/Self-help a discipline protects a person from the destructive 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q impulses of envy, resentment, greed, and bitterness. We have discovered that a person who experiences gratitude is able to cope more effectively with

everyday stress, may show increased resilience in • National media from New York and Washington, D.C the face of trauma-induced stress, and may recover • National radio drive-time more quickly from illness and benefit from greater • National advertising, including the New York Times physical health. Experiencing gratitude leads to and The New Yorker • Online campaign, including e-cards increased feelings of connectedness, improved • Academic outreach relationships, and even altruism. Happiness is facilitated when we enjoy what we have been given, when we “want what we have.”

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Miss Read VILLAGE DIARY STORM IN THE VILLAGE OVER THE GATE THE FAIRACRE FESTIVAL THE CAXLEY CHRONICLES

Open the gate to Fairacre, America’s favorite English village, with these five charming editions in Miss Read’s most popular series

“Here you’ll find delicious wit, quirky characters, the colorful intrigues of daily life, and certainly love and laughter . . . Delightful.”—Jan Karon, author of the best-selling Mitford series

he English village of Fairacre, comfortably nestled in the heart MISS READ is the pseudonym of Mrs. Tof the Cotswolds, is a picturesque place of tile-roof cottages, a Dora Saint, a retired schoolteacher historic church, a post office, and a small primary school. Through the beloved for her novels of English school’s beloved headmistress, Miss Read, we meet the inhabitants rural life, especially those set in the of Fairacre and share in their trials and tribulations, their milestone fictional towns of Thrush Green and celebrations, and their daily joys. Fairacre. Millions of readers around the world have been drawn into Fairacre’s cozy spell, beginning more than half a century ago with the AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE publication of Miss Read’s debut novel, Village School. These five new Berkshire, England paperback editions will invite readers to spend more time with the endearing inhabitants of Fairacre. The heartwarming tales of Miss Read “remind us of what is really important . . . and if we can’t live in her world, it’s certainly a comforting place to visit” (USA Today).

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“The more turbulent the real world, the more charming we may find the stability of Miss Read’s tiny fictional world.”—Los Angeles Times

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Nina Lugovskaya I WANT TO LIVE The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia The diary that sent a thirteen-year-old girl and her family to five years of hard labor and seven years of Siberian exile ecently unearthed in the archives of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, this Rdiary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin’s Russia—when ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-60575-0 fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. $17.00 • ISBN-10: 0-618-60575-4 NINA LUGOVSKAYA’s experience in exile silenced her forever. She lived I Want to Live in the ancient town of Vladimir with her husband until her death in 1993. JUNE • Memoir 267 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 b/w photographs James Rumford BEOWULF A Hero’s Tale Retold A richly illustrated and graphic retelling of how Beowulf defeated Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon that threatened his kingdom ames Rumford forges his own account of Beowulf with the few Anglo-Saxon Jwords still present in our language. These iron-strong ancient words recall the boldness of the original poem and together with Rumford’s illustrations, they ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75637-7 fashion an unforgettable story. $18.00 • ISBN-10: 0-618-75637-X JAMES RUMFORD lives in Honolulu with his wife and has been writing and Beowulf illustrating children’s books for more than ten years and has garnered several AUGUST • Picture Book 48 pages • 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 awards for his work. Full-color illustrations

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Donald Hall EAGLE POND

• A collection of Poet Laureate Donald Hall’s beloved writings on Eagle Pond Farm, available for the first time in paperback

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-83934-6 • $14.95 his original paperback brings together for the first time all of ISBN-10: 0-618-83934-8 TDonald Hall’s writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home Eagle Pond in New Hampshire, where he visited his grandparents as a young boy APRIL • Essays/Poetry and then lived with his wife Jane Kenyon until her death. It includes 320 pages • 6 x 9 • A the entire, previously published Seasons at Eagle Pond and Here at b/w line drawings Eagle Pond; the poem “Daylilies on the Hill” from The Painted Bed; and several uncollected essays.

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DONALD HALL is the fourteenth poet laureate of the United States and the author of more than two dozen books of poems and prose, including White Apples and the ALSO AVAILABLE Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946–2006. His work has garnered many honors, among them the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for The One Day; the Lenore Marshall Award for The Happy Man; the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America for Old and New Poems; and the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in recognition of his lifetime accomplish- ments. His poetry collection Without, which was written for Jane Kenyon during White Apples and The Painted Bed and after her illness, received the L. L. (978-0-618-34075-0) $14.00 PA the Taste of Stone Winship/PEN New England Award and was (978-0-618-53721-1) $30.00 CL The Museum of Clear Ideas a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Without (978-0-395-68085-8 ) $14.00 PA Prize. A member of the American Academy (978-0-395-95765-3) $14.00 PA of Arts and Letters, Hall continues to inhabit Old and New Poems the New Hampshire farmhouse where he The Best Day the Worst Day (978-0-899-19954-2 ) $16.95 PA and Jane Kenyon lived together. (978-0-618-77362-6) $13.95 PA Willow Temple (978-0-618-44661-2) $13.00 PA

Matt Donovan

VELLUM Poems

• An award-winning collection, with an introduction by Mark Doty • “Matt Donovan’s startling debut is a fiercely intelligent meditation on the ambiguity of human making . . . It’s a rare find, in a first book, such a coherent, articulated vision, but this remarkably accomplished poet brings us face to face with the bond between creation and destruction, and the darkly alluring fusion of beauty and ruthlessness at the core of art—even, of course, Donovan’s own.”—Mark Doty

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-82212-6 • $11.95 ellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates ISBN-10: 0-618-82212-7 V on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Vellum Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biog- APRIL • Poetry raphy, and personal narrative. In the poignant “Saint Catherine in an O,” 80 pages • 6 x 9 • A a knife bears unlikely duality—an object stirring with danger and grace. “A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs—/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how AUTHOR’S RESIDENCE blood, he knows, will make him whole.” In other poems, he reflects upon Santa Fe, New Mexico master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice. • National Poetry Month sponsorship and promotion kits • Advertising in poetry journals MATT DONOVAN is the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for • Advance reading copies poetry, selected by Mark Doty and awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Donovan is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the College of Santa Fe. He was educated at Vassar College, Lancaster University in England, the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, and New York University’s MFA program, where he was a New York Times fellow. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife and son.

THE GREAT MATCH RACE When North Met South in America’s First Sports Spectacle

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87211-4 • $14.95 page-turning mix of history, horse racing, and pure entertainment, ISBN-10: 0-618-87211-6 AThe Great Match Race is a captivating account of America’s first The Great Match Race sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three APRIL • Sports/History grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented 272 pages • 6 x 9 • Q sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-55612-5 of nine Kentucky Derbys in the space of a few hours. Eclipse was a majestic champion representing the North’s evolving industrial machine, and Henry was an equine arriviste embodying southern perceptions of superiority. Their thrilling match race would come to represent a • Racetrack promotion watershed moment in American history, crystallizing the differences • National advertising, including the that so fundamentally divided North and South. Saratoga Special, the Daily Racing Form, Renowned sports writer John Eisenberg captures all the pulse- and Civil War periodicals pounding drama and behind-the-scenes tension in an engrossing tale that, in the eyes of many reviewers, carries on the tradition of Laura Hillenbrand’s Seabiscuit.

JOHN EISENBERG is a sports columnist for the Baltimore Sun and the author of many acclaimed books, including, most recently, Native Dancer: Hero of a Golden Age. In 2003 his commentary helped anchor a broadcast that earned an Eclipse Award, the highest honor given for coverage of horse racing. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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COURAGE FOR THE EARTH Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson

• A centennial appreciation—for environmentally critical times—of Rachel Carson’s brave life and transformative writing, from renowned authors, activists, and scientists

achel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about the sea, including her best-selling The Sea Around Us, “set a standard for nature writing for ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87276-3 • $14.95 R all time to come” (Roger Caras). By the late 1950s, Carson was the most ISBN-10: 0-618-87276-0 Courage for the Earth respected science writer in America. APRIL • Nature She completed Silent Spring (1962) against formidable personal 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. In Silent Spring, Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” must surely be a basic human right. She was • Major media tying in to Rachel Carson the first to challenge the moral vacuity of a government that refused to take centennial and Earth Day responsibility for or to acknowledge evidence of environmental damage. • Advance reading copies • Posters and easelbacks In this volume, today’s foremost scientists and writers give compelling evidence that Carson’s transformative insights—her courage for the earth— are giving a new generation of activists the inspiration they need to move consumers, industry, and government.

Contributors include: John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, E. O. Wilson

PETER MATTHIESSEN’s many books include The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord. He lives in Sagaponack, New York.

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Rachel Carson SILENT SPRING

• The classic that launched the environmental movement • Newly rejacketed for the Rachel Carson centenary, May 27, 2007 • Introduction by Linda Lear • Afterword by Edward O. Wilson

irst published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large Faudience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. A mainstay in bookstores, libraries, and the classroom, this newly jacketed edition will ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-24906-0 be available for the 100th anniversary of $14.95 S

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THE COLLAR A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary

• “Pulls readers deeply into the complex lives of men struggling to transform themselves, or let themselves be transformed into priests.”—News & Observer • “An impressive portrait of a seminary and the men who enter it.”—Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87214-5 • $14.95 hat does it mean to take up God’s work? What motivates a man in ISBN-10: 0-618-87214-0 Wthese times to leave the secular for the spiritual life? In The Collar, The Collar Jonathan Englert finds the answers in the journey of five men toward the APRIL • Religion priesthood at Milwaukee’s Sacred Heart seminary. Like many modern 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • C seminarians these men have chosen a “second career” as priests. With Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 unprecedented access to this closed world, Englert introduces us to a Previous ISBN 0-618-25146-4 divorced father and avid hunter from Wyoming, an ex-salesman and Marine with ADHD, a recently widowed father of four, a blind musician, and a fifth-year pupil close to ordination. With wit and sometimes • Media from New York heartbreaking candor, they face the challenges of priestly life—from the • National print and online advertising traditional hurdles of obedience and chastity to the modern day skepti- cism of their friends and families. Jonathan Englert’s deft portrayal of the spiritual journey these men face will resonate with readers of The Cloister Walk as well as those curious about the challenges for men who don the collar today.

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INCENDIARY CIRCUMSTANCES A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times

• “We are fortunate that Ghosh is out there, pen in hand, ear alert, looking for answers.”—San Francisco Chronicle, “Our Editors Recommend” • “A mind expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.”—Sunday Oregonian

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AMITAV GHOSH is the best-selling author of four novels, including The Hungry • Academic promotion Tide and The Glass Palace. Educated in South Asia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom, Ghosh holds a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford. He divides his time between his homes in Kolkata, India, and Brooklyn, New York.

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Jeff Goodell BIG COAL The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87224-4 • $14.95 iven the recent assertions made by the Bush administration, it ISBN-10: 0-618-87224-8 Gwould seem that coal is a glistening new energy alternative, the Big Coal answer to the current oil crisis. Few of us realize that coal is already one APRIL • Current Affairs/Environment of America’s biggest and most influential industries; Big Coal provides 352 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A more than half of the electricity consumed by Americans today. Every Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 time we flip a light switch or turn on the television, we burn a lump of Previous ISBN 0-618-31940-9 coal. And coal’s dominance is growing. The problem, Jeff Goodell points out in this eye-opening call to action, is that on close examination, the glowing promise of coal quick- • Author tour, including New York, ly turns to ash. Coal mining practices are setting us up for economic Philadelphia, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and environmental catastrophes. Forty percent of the carbon dioxide Austin, Toronto released into the atmosphere each year comes from coal-fired power • “Coal Hard Facts” viral video promotion, plants, and pollution from these plants has killed more than half a mil- including youtube, google video, myspace lion Americans in the last two decades. But we’ve become so compla- • Copromotion with activist groups • Bookmarks cent about our energy future that we haven’t invested in alternatives. In • Easelbacks this essential work, Goodell clearly explains how we got here and dis- • Online promotion cusses how we can get out.

“There is perhaps no greater act of denial in modern life than sticking a plug into an electrical outlet . . . Jeff Goodell breaks the spell with a single number: 20. That’s how many pounds of coal each person in the United States consumes, on average, every day to keep the electricity flowing.” —New York Times Book Review

“Big Coal gives its readers a clear sense of the trade-offs we face in our feverish quest for inexpensive energy.” —Washington Post Book World

A DISCUSSION WITH JEFF GOODELL © 2005 JONATHAN BARBER In your book, you call the coal industry JEFF GOODELL is the author of the New “an empire of denial.” What does that mean? York Times bestseller Our Story, an account of nine Quecreek miners who were trapped underground in 2002, among other books. The main reason we’re still burning over a billion tons of coal in He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone America today is that the coal industry has been tremendously suc- and a frequent contributor to the New York cessful at keeping us ignorant about what goes on behind the light Times Magazine, and his work has appeared switch. In this sense, the comeback of coal is a political story. It has in the New Republic, Wired, and GQ. He thrived largely because the hidden costs of coal consumption are lives in New York State. invisible to us as consumers. The illusion is that electricity flows down from a golden bowl in the sky, and that there is no link between America’s appetite for power and the millions of children in America who suffer from asthma, or the devastated mountains of West Virginia, or the fact that global warming threatens the stability of the earth’s atmosphere. In truth, we risk stirring up more Hurricane Katrinas just so we can crank up the AC.

SALVATION BLUES One Hundred Poems, 1985–2005

• “Rodney Jones’ Salvation Blues . . . must surely place him in the pantheon of great living American poets.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch • “Salvation Blues is welcome and should bring [Rodney Jones] new discoverers.”—W. S. Merwin

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87226-8 • $14.95 his expansive and accessible collection presents one hundred choice ISBN-10: 0-618-87226-4 Tpoems, including twenty-four pieces only published in this book, Salvation Blues from one of America’s “best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable APRIL • Poetry poets” (Poetry). In the tradition of William Faulkner and Sherwood 256 pages • 6 x 9 • A Anderson, Rodney Jones conjures an America that betrays stereotyping. Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Playing the tension between history and modernity, his poems arise Previous ISBN 0-618-62430-9 where, as James Dickey put it, “the agrarian and industrial civilizations stand face to face, equally bewildered.” ALSO AVAILABLE Elegy for the Southern Drawl “One of the rare serious poets of our time whose work is both magnifi- (978-0-618-08249-0) $13.00 PA cent to others who attempt poetry and accessible and even important Kingdom of the Instant to readers who are not poets.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune (978-0-618-44664-3) $14.00 PA Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (978-0-395-71087-6) $14.00 PA RODNEY JONES was born in Alabama and is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Salvation Blues is his eighth book of poetry. Among his many honors, Jones was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Southeast Booksellers Association Award, • National Poetry Month sponsorship and a Harper Lee Award. and promotion kits

THE KING OF SWINGS Johnny Goodman, the Last Amateur to Beat the Pros at Their Own Game

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ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87189-6 • $14.95 n orphan turned caddy born near the Omaha stockyards, Johnny ISBN-10: 0-618-87189-6 AGoodman was considered too small, too foreign, and too poor to The King of Swings play the country club game. But he swore he would prove everyone APRIL • Sports wrong, and before a nation’s riveted gaze this self-taught kid from the 368 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q wrong side of the tracks beat the legendary Bobby Jones in the 1929 U.S. 8 pages of b/w photos Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Amateur at a little-known California course called Pebble Beach. Good- Previous ISBN 0-618-51464-3 man’s victory sent shock waves through the rarified world of golf in the Roaring Twenties, but he was just getting started. The idealistic Good- man clung to his amateur status despite lucrative offers from sponsors and Hollywood, ultimately winning the 1933 U.S. Open—the last amateur to • Print advertising perform this stunning feat. A hero in the Depression-era press, Goodman • Easelbacks went on to win the 1937 U.S. Amateur—becoming only the fifth golfer in • Online promotions history to wear both crowns. Like The Greatest Game Ever Played, Michael Blaine’s King of Swings brings the story of one of golf’s forgotten heroes to life.

MICHAEL BLAINE is the author of two widely praised novels, The Desperate Season and The Midnight Band of Mercy. An avid golfer, he lives in upstate New York.

THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT A South African Journey

• Updated with a new preface and epilogue by the author • “Thoroughly researched, immensely readable . . . a work of vivid reportage and astute political analysis.”—San Francisco Chronicle

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-75825-8 • $14.95 istory lies heavily on South Africa, and in an original literary form— ISBN-10: 0-618-75825-9 Hhalf-history, half-reportage—Adam Hochschild brings to bear a life- The Mirror at Midnight time’s familiarity with the country. He looks at the tensions of modern-day APRIL • History South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q Battle of Blood River—which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus One map would control that part of the world—and its contentious commemoration Penguin paperback, 1991 Previous ISBN 0-140-11785-7 by rival groups one hundred fifty years later. This incisive book is an unusual window onto a society that still today remains divided.

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NATIVE GUARD Poems

• “The graceful form conceals a gritty subject . . . Trethewey has a gift for squeezing the contradictions of the South into very tightly controlled lines.”—Washington Post Book World • “Remarkable.”—Robert Pinsky • “Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor.”—Maxine Kumin

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87265-7 • $13.95 daughter of the American South and a child of an interracial marriage ISBN-10: 0-618-87265-5 Athat defied a law still on the books in 1966 Mississippi, Natasha Native Guard Trethewey does not shy away from the difficult themes that plague the APRIL • Poetry region’s past. At the spine of this collection is the forgotten story of the 64 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A Louisiana Native Guards, one of the first black regiments called into ser- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-60463-4 vice during the Civil War. The racial legacy of this war echoes through elegiac poems that honor Trethewey’s mother and tell of her own fraught childhood. A haunted and beguiling narrative, Native Guard is caught in the intersection of national and personal experience. As David Madden, • National Poetry Month sponsorship and an acclaimed author and founder of the U.S. Civil War Center at promotion kits Louisiana State University, writes, “Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thing—artistically fine Civil War poetry that expresses ways the war and Reconstruction affect all Americans to this very day. She is our Native Guard.”

NATASHA TRETHEWEY is the author of Bellocq’s Ophelia and Domestic Work, selected by Rita Dove as the inaugural winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Among many honors, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Grolier Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Emory University.

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Elinor Lipman MY LATEST GRIEVANCE A Novel

• “Up there at the top is where this enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist belongs.”—Fay Weldon, Washington Post • A Book Sense Notable Book • A Boston Globe, NEBA, and PNBA bestseller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87235-0 • $13.95 ilarious. Sharp. Funny. Lovable. These are just samples of the ISBN-10: 0-618-87235-3 Hcountless words of praise for Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Griev- MAY • Fiction ance. This lively campus farce features the beguiling teenager Frederica 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q Hatch, the “Eloise of Dewing College.” Born and raised in the dormi- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 tory of this small women’s college, and chafing under the care of “the Previous ISBN 0-618-64465-2 most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization,” Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug—until the arrival of Miss Laura Lee French, a wannabe former Rockette and • Author appearances the new dorm mother at Dewing. • Book club visits The arrival of Miss French turns out to be a catalyst for havoc and • National print and online advertising, hilarity, for it just so happens that the new dorm mother was married— including the New York Times, The New in the distant past—to none other than Frederica’s earnest and distinct- Yorker, and Metro ly unglamorous father. Fearing scandal, the three Hatches and Miss • Reading group promotion French decide to keep this piece of history a secret. The result? A book that is pure delight and sure to please new readers and fans of Lipman everywhere.

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“Lovable, psychologically intricate.” —New York Times

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“Part of the recipe for a successful novel of manners is a happy ending, and Lipman delivers this with zest, humor, and good writing.” © CHESTER HIGGINS JR. —Philadelphia Inquirer ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of seven previous novels, including The Pursuit of “Frederica’s voice is witty but also true, thanks to Lipman’s excellent Alice Thrift, The Inn at Lake Devine, and timing, sharp and funny dialogue, and keen sense of audience. The Ladies Man. Her novel Then She Found What’s also true—and should earn this book a wide audience—is Me is coming to the big screen in 2007, that Lipman is a superb and entertaining writer.” directed by Helen Hunt and starring Hunt —Richmond Times-Dispatch and Bette Midler. Lipman divides her time between Northampton, Massachusetts, and “Fans of Lipman’s previous seven novels will recognize her New York City. remarkable facility with dialogue, her light-as-air prose, and her breezy ability to land a good crack.” —Chicago Tribune

“Turn Lipman loose on conflicting moralities and shifting allegiances, and you always will be entertained.” —Miami Herald

“Lipman’s wit and style are all her own. She is one of the best comic writers around, and the Hatch family is her most memorable creation yet.” —London Sunday Telegraph

“Somebody hand Elinor Lipman an award already.” —Christian Science Monitor

MY FATHER IS A BOOK A Memoir of Bernard Malamud

• “A must for anyone interested in the work of Bernard Malamud, or, indeed, the writer’s life.”—Mary Gordon • “My Father Is a Book does what the best reminiscences of artists do: it leads us back to the work.”—Boston Globe • “In this moving, intimate memoir, Bernard Malamud . . . springs gracefully to life on the page.”—Susan Cheever

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87263-3 • $14.95 ernard Malamud—a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, peer of Philip ISBN-10: 0-618-87263-9 BRoth and Saul Bellow, and a great influence on some of today’s most My Father Is a Book accomplished young writers—was a very private man. In this “beautifully MAY • Memoir written book” (Newsday), Malamud’s daughter brings the revered author 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q to vivid life. Culling from her own memories as well as her father’s person- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 al papers, including intimate letters and journals, she offers a unique Previous ISBN 0-618-69166-9 insight into the man and his work. Respectful in her revelations, she “ten- derly fills in the missing pieces of a man who exists as much on the page as ALSO AVAILABLE he does in her memory” (Vogue). A Potent Spell Enhancing our understanding of the relationship between an author’s (978-0-618-44673-5) $14.00 PA life and art in the spirit of Dream Catcher—Margaret Salinger’s memoir of life with her reclusive father—this New York Times Editors’ Choice is an indispensable companion for readers of Bernard Malamud’s fiction.

• Academic promotion • Author appearances JANNA MALAMUD SMITH is the author of two New York Times Notable books, A Potent Spell and Private Matters, which was also a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” pick. She has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Threepenny Review, among other publications. A practicing psy- chotherapist, she lives with her husband and two children in Massachusetts.

DEATH AND THE SUN A Matador’s Season in the Heart of Spain

• “Bullfighting isn’t for writers intimidated by Hemingway, but Edward Lewine does Papa proud.”—Sports Illustrated • “May be the most in-depth, incisively written guide to bullfighting available in English. Every drunken sophomore riding the rails to Pamplona this summer ought to keep a volume in his backpack.”—New York Times Book Review • A Los Angeles Times bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87230-5 • $13.95 n the tradition of Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, Edward Lewine ISBN-10: 0-618-87230-2 Ipresents an inspired account of the bullfighting subculture in modern- Death and the Sun day Spain. An aficionado himself, Lewine brilliantly captures the romance MAY • Sports/Travel and machismo associated with the art of bullfighting, as well as the addic- 272 pages • 6 x 9 • Q tive adrenaline rush that persistently beckons spectators and matadors to Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 Previous ISBN 0-618-26325-X the bullring. Anchored on the persona of Spain’s most famous torero, Francesco Rivera Ordóñez—the great-grandson of the bullfighter who was the inspiration for Pedro Romero in The Sun Also Rises—the book reveals a • Online advertising Spain few outsiders have seen. Vividly written, this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding Spanish culture as it is reflected in the country’s passion for this beautiful yet deadly spectacle.

EDWARD LEWINE is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. This is his first book. Formerly an expert in old master drawings at Christie’s, he graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Alison Bechdel FUN HOME A Family Tragicomic

• “A splendid autobiography . . . refreshingly open and generous.”—Entertainment Weekly, Grade: A

• “A pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions.”—New York Times Book Review

ward-winning comics artist Alison Bechdel has been known for Adecades as “one of the best, one to watch out for,” in the words of Harvey Pekar. Her latest work—the groundbreaking, genre-busting, best-selling graphic narrative Fun Home—has established her as one of ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87171-1 • $13.95 America’s most gifted and extraordinary memoirists as well. With its ISBN-10: 0-618-87171-3 stunning mix of graphic and literary forms, it has garnered exceptional Fun Home acclaim, receiving exuberant reviews, winning placement on bestseller JUNE • Memoir/Graphic Narrative lists across the country, and claiming seven foreign publishing deals to 240 pages • 6 x 9 • Q date. In the wake of this tremendous critical success, Fun Home has Two-color throughout also won new readers for Bechdel—on tour for the book she has been Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 greeted by standing-room-only crowds—and the paperback publica- Previous ISBN 0-618-47794-2 tion will no doubt continue to expand her audience. In Bechdel’s affecting account of her relationship with her late father, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and • Author tour, including New York, Burlington, power. Bechdel grew up in a small Pennsylvania town, in a Victorian Denver, Tempe, San Francisco house that her father was painstakingly restoring to its period glory. • National advertising Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and direc- • Tie-in with on-going lectures tor of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as • Online promotions the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently • Easelbacks with interior art come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few • Author Web site www.alisonbechdel.com weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

Extraordinary acclaim for Fun Home

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER: New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, BookSense, and others

An NPR Talk of the Nation Summer Reading List Pick Nominee for a Quill Award People magazine: Four Stars, Critics Choice Entertainment Weekly: Grade: A A BookSense Pick

© GREG MARTIN ~~~ ALISON BECHDEL began keeping a jour- “Stupendous . . . a rare, prime example of why graphic novels have nal when she was ten and has since been a taken over the conversation about American literature. The details— careful archivist of her own life. She is the visual and verbal, emotional and elusive—are devastatingly captured creator of the long-running syndicated by an artist in total control of her craft.”—Chip Kidd comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which appears in more than fifty alternative news- “A comic book for lovers of words.”—New York Times papers across the country. Her celebrated “If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little strip has also been collected into an funnier, you’d have Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.”—Amy Bloom award-winning series of books. She lives near Burlington, Vermont. “Heart-stopping . . . a beautiful, assured piece of work.”—Salon.com “The great writing of the twenty-first century may well be found in graphic novels and nonfiction . . . Fun Home is an astonishing advertisement for this emerging literary form.”—USA Today “A revelation . . . a true literary achievement, something with characters who baffle and disappoint and break hearts the way people do in life and in the best of prose.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “A masterwork.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Beautifully combines the mundane with the macabre, adding doses of wry, poignant humor on every page.”—Washington Post “Brilliant . . . a gripping story of filial sleuthery.”—Time

NOW IS THE HOUR A Novel

• “I love this book. Deft, funny, heartbreaking . . . the story stays with you long after the last page is turned.”—A. M. Homes • “Full of hope, sadness, and humor, this is an extended ballad in the voice of an appealing narrator.”—People • A Book Sense Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87264-0 • $14.95 igby John Klusener is hitchhiking to San Francisco. The year is ISBN-10: 0-618-87264-7 R1967, the town is Pocatello, Idaho. Fresh out of high school, Rigby Now Is the Hour John is leaving behind a pregnant ex-girlfriend, a depressed mother, a dis- JUNE • Fiction tant father, and the haydust of his harsh small-town Catholic upbringing. 480 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q As he stands by the side of the road desperately waiting for that one ride Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 out, he reflects on the events that brought him there: the discovery of love, Previous ISBN 0-618-58421-8 friendship, literature, and all the small joys that set him free. At once a tale of sexual awakening, racial enlightenment, and personal epiphany, Now Is the Hour is the disarming and sweetly winning story of one unforgettable • National advertising teenager who dares to hope for a different life. • Online promotions Set in an era of cultural upheaval, woven through with moral dilem- • Reading group promotions mas and universal themes, Now Is the Hour is destined to become a read- • Promotions at Pride festivals ing group favorite, as did Spanbauer’s novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon.

TOM SPANBAUER is the author of the beloved classic The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for best fiction, and a “dazzlingly accomplished” novel, according to the Washington Post. His earlier novels are Faraway Places and In the City of Shy Hunters. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

THE DIN IN THE HEAD Essays

• “A brilliant, free-spoken critic engaged with the most vexing artistic issues . . . open the collection anywhere—I guarantee it—and you will feel the bite of her distinctive voice.” —Los Angeles Times • “The passion that fills these essays is invigorating.” —Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87258-9 • $14.95 ne of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has ISBN-10: 0-618-87258-2 Owon praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, The Din in the Head historical, and moral issues. Her new collection of spirited essays focuses JUNE • Essays/Literature on the essential joys of great literature. With razor-sharp wit and an inspir- 256 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ing joie de vivre, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-47050-6 Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Henry James, and others. In “Highbrow Blues” and in reflections on her own early fiction, she writes intimately of “the din in our heads, ALSO AVAILABLE that relentless inner hum,” and the curative power of literary imagination. Heir to the Glimmering World As Daphne Merkin has written, “Ozick’s is a strikingly independent and (978-0-618-61880-4) $13.00 PA articulate voice, one that rises above the madding crowd with rare clarity Trust: A Novel and force.” (978-0-618-47051-8) $14.00 PA

CYNTHIA OZICK is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed and award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her essay collection Quarrel & Quandary • Author appearances won the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award, and her collection Fame & Folly • National advertising, including was a finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York. the New York Review of Books • Academic promotion

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James Carroll HOUSE OF WAR The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

• The controversial history of the Pentagon by a National Book Award–winning author • “A passionately persuasive, thoroughly researched indictment of this nation’s defense and foreign policy since World War II.”—Miami Herald • “Among the most important works of history produced in the past few years.”—San Francisco Chronicle

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87201-5 • $15.95 n House of War, New York Times best-selling author James Carroll ISBN-10: 0-618-87201-9 Iargues and then proves a radical thesis: the Pentagon has, since its House of War founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or JUNE • History/Current Affairs society. It is the ultimate loose cannon in American history, and no 688 pages • 6 x 9 • Q institution has changed this country more since the end of World War 16 pages b/w photos Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 II. From its “birth” on September 11, 1941, through the nuclear Previous ISBN 0-618-18780-4 buildup of the cold war and the eventual “shock and awe” of Iraq, Car- roll recounts how “the Building” and its denizens achieved what Eisen- hower called “a disastrous rise of misplaced power.” ALSO AVAILABLE This is not faded history. Carroll shows how the consequences of An American Requiem the American response to September 11, 2001—including two wars (978-0-395-85993-3) $15.00 PA and an ignited Middle East—form one end of an arc that stretches from Constantine’s Sword Donald Rumsfeld back to James Forrestal, the first man to occupy the (978-0-618-21908-7) $17.00 PA office of secretary of defense in the Pentagon. House of War confronts this dark past so we may understand the current war and forestall the next. • Author tour, including New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Seattle, Portland • Tie-in to author lectures • National advertising • Academic promotion

“Carroll draws a clear and deadly arc from the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the vengeance-ridden policies of today. His prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.”—Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States

he probing of questions about government fail- Tures before September 11, 2001, is meaningless when measured against the new jeopardy into which © PATRICIA PINGREE

America was plunged by the war that Bush embarked JAMES CARROLL is the author of the upon, or when measured against already evident New York Times bestseller Constantine’s failures to protect the nation from the attacks to Sword. He won the 1996 National Book Award for his memoir An American which that jeopardy inexorably leads. In late 2003, Requiem. His ten novels include the Donald Rumsfeld said, in an internal Pentagon memo, bestsellers Prince of Peace and Mortal Friends. Carroll lives in Boston. “We lack the metrics to know if we are winning or losing the Global War on Terror.” This odd assess- ment from a secretary of defense (one struggles to imagine Robert McNamara making such a statement) actually reflects the Pentagon’s interest in an open-ended war. Permanent war means permanent martial dominance. Never mind the jeopardy.

FROM HOUSE OF WAR

TURING’S DELIRIUM A Novel

• “A hybrid of cyberpunk and political thrillers . . . sleek, brisk, and clever.”—Entertainment Weekly • “An excellent page-turner.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “If William Gibson were a Bolivian, this might be the kind of novel he’d be writing.”—Chicago Tribune

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87259-6 • $13.95 elected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Turing’s Delirium is a ISBN-10: 0-618-87259-0 Smodern chapter in the age-old fight between oppressed and oppres- Turing’s Delirium sor. Set against the backdrop of a globalization crisis in near-future JUNE • Fiction Bolivia, it is complete with a corrupt government, a greedy multinational 304 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q corporation, a secret code-breaking organization called the Black Cham- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 ber, and a group of young computer hackers who are staging a revolution, Previous ISBN 0-618-54139-X which, despite being electronic, is far from bloodless. The thriller’s web of murder, intrigue, and deception is centered ALSO AVAILABLE around Miguel “Turing” Saenz, Black Chamber’s veteran cryptanalyst. The Matter of Desire Known for his code-breaking achievements, Turing is involved with the (978-0-618-39557-6) $12.00 PA government’s pursuit of Kandinsky, the elusive young “cyberhacktivist” leader who raids the virtual reality world for anti-globalization recruits. When Turing’s teenage daughter is drawn into the chase, Turing begins to suspect that his work is not as innocent as he had once supposed. • National advertising • Reading the World promotion • Online feature, houghtonmifflinbooks.com

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SAVE YOUR OWN A Novel

• “A romantic heroine unlike any other . . . Gillian, like Save Your Own, is a keeper.”—USA Today • “Hilarious, smart, and charming. Gillian is one of the most original characters I’ve encountered in recent fiction.” —Stephen McCauley • “[A] funny, engaging debut.”—People • A Book Sense Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87193-3 • $13.95 eet Gillian Cormier-Brandenburg: a virginal, narcoleptic, atheistic ISBN-10: 0-618-87193-4 MHarvard Divinity School student struggling to finish her Ph.D. the- Save Your Own sis. Gillian is barely equipped for life outside the walls of academia—but JUNE • Fiction when her fellowship is revoked, she has no choice but to venture into the 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q wider world. In need of a new source of income as well as interview sub- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-65114-4 jects for her dissertation, she takes a job at a halfway house for recovering addicts. Charged with the unlikely task of imposing order on the unruly tenants, including motorcycle-obsessed Janet, former prostitute Florine, and house martyr Stacy, pintsize Gillian is challenged in new and unex- • Author appearances pected ways every time she reports for work. Eventually her anxiety gives • National print and online advertising way to a newfound confidence as her time spent at Responsibility House leads her not only to accept those around her but also to accept herself. A delightful read for anyone who has ever wished they could be a little more than they are, Save Your Own is the perfect self-made Cinderella story.

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MR. LINCOLN GOES TO WAR

• “A stern reproach to the major actors of 1861 for the war they unleashed on the nation.”—Nelson D. Lankford, author of Richmond Burning • “No one interested in military tactics and skirmishes will be disappointed with Marvel’s opinionated, fast-paced story.” —Oregonian

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87241-1 • $15.95 his exciting work of groundbreaking history investigates the mystery ISBN-10: 0-618-87241-8 Tof how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it Mr. Lincoln Goes to War inevitable? Marvel vividly depicts President Lincoln’s first year in office, JULY • History from his inauguration through the rising crisis of secession and the first 432 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A several months of the war. Drawing on original sources and examining 6 maps and 55 drawings and halftones previously overlooked factors, Marvel leads the reader inexorably to the Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-58349-1 conclusion that Lincoln not only missed opportunities to avoid war but actually fanned the flames—and often acted unconstitutionally in prose- cuting the war once it had begun. The story unfolds with Marvel’s keen eye for the telling detail, on the battlefield as well as in the White House. • Academic promotion This is revisionist history at its best and necessary reading for Civil • Civil War roundtables War and Lincoln devotees alike.

WILLIAM MARVEL is the author of Lee’s Last Retreat, A Place Called Appomattox, Andersonville, and half a dozen other acclaimed books on the Civil War. He has won a Lincoln Prize, the Douglas Southall Freeman Award, and the Bell Award. He lives in South Conway, New Hampshire.

GATSBY’S GIRL A Novel

• “A wonderfully elegiac novel that evokes the tenor and times of the ‘Lost Generation’ . . . marvelous.”—Denver Post • “[A] creative re-imagining of the woman whose voice was ‘full of money.’”—Washington Post Book World • A Book Sense Notable Book and a Great Lakes Book Award finalist

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87261-9 • $13.95 efore he wrote some of the twentieth century’s greatest fiction, before ISBN-10: 0-618-87261-2 Bhe married Zelda, F. Scott Fitzgerald loved Ginevra, a fickle, young, Gatsby’s Girl Chicago socialite he met during a winter break from Princeton. After an JULY • Fiction ardent correspondence and one ill-fated visit, Ginevra threw over the 320 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • A soon-to-be-famous novelist with “supreme boredom and indifference,” as Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-618-53725-2 Fitzgerald would later write. The rest is literary history: Ginevra would be the model for many of Fitzgerald’s coolly fascinating but unattainable heroines, including Isabelle in This Side of Paradise and the elusive object of Gatsby’s unrequited love, Daisy Buchanan. • Online advertising In this entertaining and moving novel, Caroline Preston imagines • Online reading group guide what life might have been like for Fitzgerald’s first love, following Ginevra • Summer reading bookmarks from her gilded youth as the daughter of a tycoon and through a disillu- • Outreach with historical societies sioned marriage and motherhood. An engrossing fictional portrait, Gatsby’s Girl “should be read by anyone interested in Fitzgerald’s work [or] the times in which he lived” (Bookpage).

CAROLINE PRESTON is the author of the novels Jackie by Josie, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book, and Lucy Crocker 2.0. A former man- uscript librarian, Preston discovered a wealth of inspiration for Gatsby’s Girl in Fitzgerald’s manuscripts and in archival material about Chicago high society and the jazz age. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Joseph Epstein

FRIENDSHIP An Exposé

• “Smart, delightfully literate and sophisticated.” —Los Angeles Times • “A thoughtful consideration of the pleasures and obligations of friendship . . . [Epstein is] honest, unsparing, and brimful of illuminating literary anecdotes.”—New York Times • A New York Times Editor’s Choice from the author of the bestseller Snobbery • A Book Sense Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87215-2 • $14.95 rom the writer whom James Atlas has deemed “the liveliest, most ISBN-10: 0-618-87215-9 Ferudite, and engaging essayist we have,” Friendship is a sharply Friendship entertaining examination of those complex and wonderful relationships JULY • Essays without which we’d all be lost. Joseph Epstein sketches an amusing yet 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 • Q serious anatomy of friendship in its contemporary guises: the duties and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 requirements of friendship, the various kinds of friendships, the differ- Previous ISBN 0-618-34149-8 ences between male and female friendships, the complications marriage ALSO AVAILABLE and family create—and what happens when sex enters the equation. Snobbery (978-0-618-34073-6) Moving easily from Aristotle to Seinfeld and drawing on his own $14.00 PA experiences with people both famous (Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison) Fabulous Small Jews and unknown (an army bunkmate), Epstein uncovers rich and often (978-0-618-44658-2) $13.00 PA surprising truths about our chosen companions.

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NARCISSUS LEAVES THE POOL Essays

• “Diamond hard prose . . . wickedly on-target humor.” —Washington Post Book World • First time in paperback, published now to coincide with Friendship

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87216-9 s he has done in Snobbery and Friendship, Joseph Epstein again displays $14.95 Ahis dazzling wit and charm in these sixteen agile, entertaining essays. Here ISBN-10: 0-618-87216-7 Epstein takes us from the amusingly personal to the broadly philosophical, Narcissus Leaves the Pool demonstrating time and again his talent for taking nearly any subject and polish- JULY • Essays ing it into a gem of sparkling wit and fascination. Among his targets this time are 336 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q topics such as name-dropping, talent versus genius, the cult of youthfulness, and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 1999 Previous ISBN 0-395-94403-1 the information revolution.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN is the author of the bestseller Snobbery: The American Version among other books, and was formerly the editor of the American Scholar. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Essays, and other places. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

THE INHABITED WORLD A Novel

• “A terrific novel.” — New York Times Book Review • “Resonant . . . the story is beautifully considered, with a crystalline calm at its center.”—Boston Globe • “Richly and lovingly observed . . . a truly moving performance.”—Stewart O’Nan • “A ghost story for our age.”—Claire Davis • A Book Sense Top Ten Pick

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87236-7 • $13.95 art psychological drama, part mystery, part modern ghost story, The ISBN-10: 0-618-87236-1 PInhabited World is a deeply affecting novel of love, loss, and longing. The Inhabited World Evan Molloy has been dead for nearly ten years when the mysterious, frag- JULY • Fiction ile Maureen moves into the bungalow near Puget Sound where he former- 288 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ly lived. Caught between this world and the next, Evan cannot remember Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 the events that led to his suicide. He begins to recall his life more clearly in Previous ISBN 0-61854335-X Maureen’s presence—his own failed marriages, an ill-fated affair, disap- pointments, and depression. As Maureen tries valiantly to restart her life after a recently ended love affair, she unknowingly offers her otherworldly • National advertising housemate a sort of redemption he never could have predicted. • Online promotions A stirring and satisfying read in the tradition of The Time Traveler’s • Feature at houghtonmifflinbooks.com Wife and The Dogs of Babel, The Inhabited World offers a quietly profound take on life and afterlife.

DAVID LONG is the author of the novels The Falling Boy and The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux and the story collection Blue Spruce, among other works. His fiction has been awarded an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Rosenthal Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and many other honors. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

HENRY ADAMS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

• A New York Times bestseller • “A sparkling and engaging book that everyone who cares about American history should read.”—Washington Post • “There could be no better introduction to the History.” —New York Review of Books

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87266-4 • $15.95 ulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills makes a compelling argument for a ISBN-10: 0-618-87266-3 Preassessment of Henry Adams as our nation’s greatest historian and Henry Adams and the Making of America his History as the “nonfiction prose masterpiece of the nineteenth century AUGUST • History in America.” Adams drew on his own southern fixations, his extensive 480 pages • 6 x 9 • Q foreign travel, his political service in the Lincoln administration, and Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 Previous ISBN 0-618-13430-1 much more to invent the study of history as we know it. His nine-volume chronicle of America from 1800 to 1816 established new standards for employing archival sources, firsthand reportage, eyewitness accounts, and ALSO AVAILABLE other techniques that have become the essence of modern history. “Negro President” The New York Times says, “to his reading of Adams’s History Garry (978-0-618-48537-6) $14.00 PA Wills brings a lucid style, imaginative analysis, and the talent for historical Why I Am a Catholic elucidation that won him a Pulitzer Prize.” Ambitious in scope, nuanced (978-0-618-38048-0) $14.00 PA in detail, Henry Adams and the Making of America throws brilliant light on the historian and the making of history.

• Academic promotion GARRY WILLS is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. He has won two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. Wills is a history professor emeritus at North- western University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.

THE MAN ON WHOM NOTHING WAS LOST The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

• “A fascinating portrait of the relationship between a student and her teacher.”—New York Times • “Completely absorbing . . . the engaging record of a young woman’s intellectual journey.”—Boston Globe • “A very personal and poignant account of what it’s like to struggle to know someone you admire.”—Walter Isaacson

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87267-1 • $14.95 sychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s ISBN-10: 0-618-87267-1 Premarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost and teacher, biographer and subject. As an admiring college freshman, AUGUST • Memoir Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by Charles Hill. Hill was her 384 pages • 6 x 9 • Q world-wise professor, a former diplomat and behind-the-scenes operator Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 who shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser Previous ISBN 0-618-57467-0 to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. At Yale, Hill was never afraid to tell students how to think or what to do, and the Grand Strategy seminar he co-taught had developed a cult • Academic promotion following. • Online campaign Caught in his thrall, Worthen set out to write his biography, and sur- prisingly, Hill granted her full access to his meticulously documented life. Eventually, she would realize her teacher was both brilliant and fallible. The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost conveys both the joy and the heartache of coming to know someone you once revered.

MOLLY WORTHEN graduated in 2003 from Yale University, where she wrote a prize-winning newspaper column. She has also written for the Toledo Blade, the

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DISTURBANCE-LOVING SPECIES A Novella and Stories

• Absorbing, powerful fiction that explores modern Africa’s legacy of political and social upheaval • Winner of the 2006 Bakeless Prize for fiction • With a foreword by Lan Samantha Chang

n the tradition of Paul Theroux, Peter Chilson’s fiction debut delivers a ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-85870-5 • $13.95 Ifascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered ISBN-10: 0-618-85870-9 through the lens of the West. The collection explores the experiences of Disturbance-Loving Species Americans struggling to cope with life in Africa, and of Africans acclimat- AUGUST • Fiction ing to life in the United States. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson 224 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our “disturbance- loving species” thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly uninhabitable situations. In the opening novella, an idealistic young college graduate teaching in Niger witnesses his colleague’s abduction by soldiers at gunpoint. • Mariner advertising “American Food,” winner of the Gulf Coast Prize for fiction, finds a West African professor trying to preserve his culinary customs while living in a small Oregon town. Chilson, who went to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, captures in vivid detail the strange, exhilarating frisson between these two distinct cultures.

PETER CHILSON is the winner of the 2006 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, selected by Lan Samantha Chang and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, for Disturbance-Loving Species. His previous travelogue, Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for creative nonfiction. Chilson teaches creative writing at Washington State University and lives in Moscow, Idaho.

SECRETS OF THE SAVANNA Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

• “Vividly written . . . Their story is thrilling—the kind of tale that wild-animal lovers won’t easily forget.”—People • From the Burroughs Medal–winning authors of the international bestseller Cry of the Kalahari • A Los Angeles Times bestseller • With a foreword by Alexandra Fuller

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87250-3 • $14.95 n this thrilling real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dra- ISBN-10: 0-618-87250-7 Imatic story of their last years in Africa, fighting to save elephants, vil- Secrets of the Savanna lagers, and—in the end—themselves. The award-winning zoologists and JULY • Nature pioneering conservationists describe their work in the “remote and 272 pages • 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 • Q ruggedly beautiful” Luangwa Valley in northeastern Zambia, where the 8 pages of photos and 1 map elephant population had been severely depleted. As they studied the mys- Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2006 Previous ISBN 0-395-89310-0 teries of the elephants’ recovery, they found remarkable behavioral similarities between elephants and humans. They also encountered a scientific mystery: how could there be so many baby elephants and so few females ALSO AVAILABLE old enough to be mothers? Ultimately, a young elephant named Gift pro- Cry of the Kalahari vided a clue to help them crack the elephants’ secret of survival. A stirring, (978-0-395-64780-6) $16.00 PA hopeful, and poignant portrait of life in Africa, Secrets of the Savanna is a Eye of the Elephant vivid record of the Owenses’ unique passions. (978-0-395-68090-2) $16.00 PA

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Y species in the wild have resulted in landmark discoveries, and their conservation S S R E O T work continues after thirty years. They lecture widely on behalf of the Owens R H U T O U Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. They live in Idaho. A C

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Restless Genius

• National Book Award finalist and winner of the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for nonfiction • “Superb . . . Damrosch brilliantly offers a Rousseau for our age.”—Philadelphia Inquirer • “A magnificent accomplishment . . . One of the best biographies I’ve ever read.”—Boston Globe • A New York Times Notable Book

ISBN-13/EAN: 978-0-618-87202-2 • $15.95 n this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques ISBN-10: 0-618-87202-7 IRousseau, Leo Damrosch mines the influential philosopher’s letters, Jean-Jacques Rousseau memoirs, and writings to expose the eccentricities of a man who prefig- AUGUST • Biography ured the modern mind. An autodidact who had not written anything of 576 pages • 6 x 9 • Q significance by age thirty, Rousseau was an unlikely candidate for becom- b/w illustrations and photos throughout Houghton Mifflin hardcover, 2005 ing one of the most significant thinkers of the eighteenth century. Yet the Previous ISBN 0-618-44696-6 power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social lives. The Social Contract had a direct influence on the Founding Fathers, his Con- fessions virtually created the genre of autobiography, and his ideas on child rearing have profoundly influenced modern educational theory. • Print advertising in the New York Traced with novelistic verve, Jean-Jacques Rousseau “provides an Review of Books ideal introduction to both this complex man and his troubling ideas. It is • Academic promotions an important book, but also a provocative and exceptionally entertaining • Online feature, on one” (Washington Post Book World). houghtonmifflinbooks.com

LEO DAMROSCH was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships, among other honors. Currently the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of literature at Harvard University, he has written widely on eighteenth- century writers. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

What’s yellow, spans the year, and is read all over? The Old Farmer’s Almanac, of course! With its timeless blend of facts and fun, this Almanac—the original: often imitated, never equaled—continues to be America’s most popular annual publication.

To mark its 216th anniversary, the 2008 edition will feature • the most accurate astronomical data under the sun, with where and when viewing advice every month • weather predictions for every day and climatic trends for each season • garden features on dwarf vegetables, scented flowers, popping corn, and more • recipes for the very best baked goods: blue-ribbon winners from county and state fairs across the country • amusing and enlightening articles, ideas, hints, and charts that provide ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-423-4 • $6.95 simple solutions and shortcuts to everyday challenges • and much, much more! ISBN-10: 1-57198-423-2 The Old Farmer’s Almanac SEPTEMBER • Reference Added value this year: 304 pages • 5 3/8 x 8 • 96 full-color pages (that’s 32 more than ever before!) Trade paper • Carton quantity: 40 • Full-color national weather maps of winter and summer forecasts Previous ISBN 1-57198-390-2 • National, in-person TV, radio, and print publicity campaign beginning in September 2007 ALSO AVAILABLE Handsome, clothbound, hardcover edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-426-5 • $15.95 THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC DISPLAYS ISBN-10: 1-57198-426-7 24-copy Old Farmer’s Almanac counter display Previous ISBN 1-57198-396-1 ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-424-1 • $166.80 ISBN-10: 1-57198-424-0 PUBLICITY Previous ISBN 1-57198-401-1 LOOK FOR: Almanac editors touring in more than twenty major markets nationwide, 48-copy Old Farmer’s Almanac floor display including New York, Detroit, Atlanta, ISBN-13/EAN: 978-1-57198-425-8 • $333.60 Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Boston, ISBN-10: 1-57198-425-9 Denver, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, Previous ISBN 1-57198-402-X Philadelphia, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tampa, Hartford, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Toronto, Baltimore, and more.

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A proven bestseller in its first edition with more than 220,000 copies sold, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids is back and better than ever with all new content for Volume 2.

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 Engagement Calendar

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2008 Every Day Calendar

This cleverly illustrated, page-per-day calendar features weather lore, quirky history, useful household hints, fun puzzles, and timeless proverbs. Folks will be tickled by the riddles and quotes and fascinated by the facts and lore. A great conversation starter, it’s also a perfect companion to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the world’s most popular annual.

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