new books for literature course use & adoption spring 2016

PENGUIN CLASSICS The Tale of Tales The Penguin Book Giambattista Basile • Translated with Notes by of Russian Poetry Nancy L. Canepa • Foreword by Jack Zipes • Edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Early Fiction in England: 978-0-14-312914-1 • $20.00 • Feb 2016 • Soon Irina Mashinski • Notes by Robert Chandler • to be a major motion picture, The Tale of Tales From Geoffrey of Monmouth 978-0-14-119830-9 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A col- is a fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 lection of the very best of Russian poetry, from to Chaucer storytellers over 5 days. • “With stories marked the late eighteenth century to the modern day. • Edited with an Introduction by Laura Ashe • by vertiginous fantasy, spirited wit, and “A lucky find for Slavic scholars, English-speaking 978-0-14-139287-5 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A baroque excess, Basile redefined the fairy tale Russophiles, and poetry lovers of many stripes.”— new anthology exploring the reinvention of for European audiences. Nancy Canepa’s Russian Life fiction in the twelfth century, after an absence splendid…translation captures all the narrative of hundreds of years. energy and stylistic élan of The Tale of Sherlock Holmes: The Novels Tales.”—Maria Tatar, chair of the Program in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Introduction by Emma: 200th-Anniversary Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University and translator/editor of The Turnip Princess Michael Dirda • 978-0-14-310713-2 • $25.00 • Annotated Edition Nov 2015 • All four of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Jane Austen • Edited with a New Introduction The Master and Margarita: legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a Graphic Deluxe edition. by Juliette Wells • 978-0-14-310771-2 • $17.00 • 50th-Anniversary Edition Sep 2015 • The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and Mikhail Bulgakov • Translated by Richard Pevear Middlemarch marriage—now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe and Larissa Volokhonsky • Foreword by Boris George Eliot • New Foreword by Rebecca Mead Edition with a cover designed by illustrator Fishman • 978-0-14-310827-6 • $16.00 • Feb • 978-0-14-310772-9 • $16.00 • Nov 2015 • Dadu Shin and notes drawing specially from 2016 • A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the George Eliot’s beloved masterpiece in a the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College. 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a in a newly revised version of the acclaimed foreword by the author of the bestselling In the Heat of the Night: Pevear and Volokhonsky translation. • “One of memoir My Life in Middlemarch. the truly great Russian novels of [the twentieth] The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel century.”—The New York Times Book Review Shahnameh: John Ball • Foreword by John Ridley • 978-0-14-310774-3 • $15.00 • Dec 2015 • A The Bloody Chamber: The Persian Book of Kings 50th-anniversary edition of the classic mystery And Other Stories: Abolqasem Ferdowsi • Translated by Dick novel featuring African American police Davis • With a New Foreword by Azar Nafisi • detective Virgil Tibbs that inspired the 75th-Anniversary Edition 978-0-14-310832-0 • $25.00 • Mar 2016 • A Oscar-winning film starring Sidney Poitier. Angela Carter • Introduction by Kelly Link • newly revised and expanded version of the 978-0-14-310761-3 • $16.00 • May 2015 • For great national epic of Persia. • “Dick Davis [is] the 75th anniversary of Angela Carter’s birth, a our pre-eminent translator from the Persian… Deluxe Edition of the most celebrated book by Thanks to Davis’s magnificent translation, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman and Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh live again in other contemporary masters of supernatural English.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post I’m Sara Clemens, fiction. • “A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant…distinguished by bold, Manager, Penguin inflected language and ornate, indeed often Academic Marketing. bloody, imagery.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The New You can contact me York Times Book Review with any questions or requests at sclemens@ PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP penguinrandomhouse.com Latin Literature POETRY Translated by Michael Grant • 978-0-14- Perchance to Dream: 139811-2 • $20.00 • Dec 2015 • A classic Selected Stories introduction to Latin literature, with Charles Beaumont • Foreword by Ray Dog Songs: Poems translations of the best passages from Virgil, Bradbury • Afterword by William Shatner • Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others. 978-0-14-310765-1 • $16.00 • Oct 2015 • A Mary Oliver • 978-0-14-312583-9 • $16.00 • selection of Charles Beaumont’s finest stories, Sep 2015 • Penguin • A collection of new and The Scarlet Letter including five stories that he later adapted for favorite poems, celebrating the dogs that have enriched the poet’s world. Nathaniel Hawthorne • New Introduction by Twilight Zone episodes. Robert Milder • New Foreword by Tom Felicity: Poems Perrotta • Notes by Thomas E. Connolly • Songs of a Dead Dreamer 978-0-14-310766-8 • $8.00 • Dec 2015 • The and Grimscribe Mary Oliver • 9781594206764 • $24.95 • Oct text of this edition, the result of exhaustive 2015 • Penguin • In this collection of new Thomas Ligotti • Foreword by Jeff Vander- examination of Hawthorne’s manuscript and poems, Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver meer • 978-0-14-310776-7 • $17.00 • Oct various other historical records, is approved by turns her eye from the grace of the natural 2015 • Two terrifying modern classics by a the Center for Scholarly Edition of the Modern world to the even more mysterious landscape cult horror favorite, in time for their 30th and Language Association. of the human heart. 25th anniversaries. • “The best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction.”—Washington The Road Not Taken: Les Misérables Post Book World Victor Hugo • Newly Translated with Notes by Finding America in the Poem Christine Donougher • Introduction by Robert The Case Against Satan Everyone Loves and Almost Tombs • 978-0-14-310756-9 • $25.00 • Mar 2016 Ray Russell • Foreword by Laird Barron • Everyone Gets Wrong • The first new Penguin Classics translation in 978-0-14-310727-9 • $15.00 • Oct 2015 • Ray forty years of Victor Hugo’s thrilling masterpiece. David Orr • 978-1-59420-583-5 • $25.95 • Aug Russell—praised by Stephen King and • “Donougher’s translation is a magnificent 2015 • Penguin • In this cultural “biography” of Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated achievement. It reads easily, sometimes racily, Robert Frost’s beloved poem, Orr offers a look practitioner of Gothic fiction—resurrected and Hugo’s narrative power is never let down.” at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic exorcism with this classic 1962 horror novel. —William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement complexity, and its historical journey. • “David Orr has written the best popular explanation to The Origin Myth date of the most popular poem in American h i s t or y.” —New York Times Book Review of Acoma Pueblo Areopagitica Edward Proctor Hunt • Edited with an and Other Writings The Road Not Taken Introduction and Notes by Peter Nabokov • John Milton • 978-0-14-043906-9 • $16.00 • Jan and Other Poems Translated by Henry Wayne Hunt • 978-0-14- 2016 • A major new edition, this annotated Robert Frost • Edited with an Introduction by 310605-0 • $16.00 • Sep 2015 • A newly edited book is an authoritative edition of Milton’s David Orr • 978-0-14-310739-2 • $15.00 • Aug version of a masterpiece of American Indian major prose works, including Of Education, The 2015 • Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition • mythology with re-inserted material. Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and the Frost’s most-beloved early poems, selected by Divorce tracts, as well as the famous 1644 award-winning poet David Orr as a companion A Portrait of the Artist as a polemical tract opposing licensing and to The Road Not Taken (Penguin Press) in time censorship, Areopagitica. Young Man: Centennial Edition for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken.” James Joyce • New Introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard • New Notes by Seamus Deane • Pal Joey: The Novel and It Shouldn’t Have Illustrated by Roman Muradov • 978-0-14- The Libretto and Lyrics Been Beautiful 310824-5 • $16.00 • May 2016 • For the John O’Hara • Foreword by Thomas Mallon • Lia Purpura • 978-0-14-312690-4 • $20.00 • centennial of its original publication, a Deluxe 978-0-14-310775-0 • $16.00 • Nov 2015 • For Sep 2015 • Penguin • A collection of short Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works. its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra’s poems, arranged by the four seasons, that deal centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that with themes of time and memory, The Story of Hong Gildong inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit metamorphosis and indeterminacy, as reflected Broadway musical, and featuring the musical’s Newly Translated by Minsoo Kang • 978-0-14- in both the natural and the human worlds. 310769-9 • $15.00 • Mar 2016 • The first modern libretto and lyrics. • “[O’Hara] was as acute a translation of the quintessential Korean classic: social observer as Fitzgerald, as spare a stylist the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins as Hemingway.”—Los Angeles Times a group of robber bandits and becomes a king. The Mysteries of Paris Billy Budd, Bartleby, Eugene Sue • Translated by Carolyn Betensky and Other Stories and Jonathan Loesberg • Foreword by Peter Herman Melville • Introduction by Peter M. Brooks • 978-0-14-310712-5 • $30.00 • Dec 2015 Coviello • 978-0-14-310760-6 • $11.00 • Feb • The first new translation in over a century of the 2016 • A new Penguin Classics black spine brilliant epic novel that inspired Les Misérables. edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty.

2 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Forty Rooms Olga Grushin • 9781101982334 • $26.95 • Feb 2016 • Marian Wood Books • The internationally lauded author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now delivers a novel that deals with issues of women’s identity, of women’s choices, in a way no modern novel has explored so deeply. • “Grushin’s beautifully constructed puzzle is a triumph of singular yet universal genius.”—New York Magazine The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd • 978-0-14-312170-1 • $17.00 • May 2015 • Penguin • From the celebrated author Re Jane US FICTION of The Secret Life of Bees: a novel of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a Patricia Park • 978-0-14-310794-1 • $16.00 • voice in the world. • “Monk’s compelling work Apr 2016 • Penguin • A journey from Queens to 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl of historical fiction stands out from the rest Brooklyn to Seoul and back, Re Jane is a critically- because of its layers of imaginative details in acclaimed, contemporary coming-of-age story Mona Awad • 978-0-14-312848-9 • $16.00 • the lives of actual abolitionists…This richly and a poignant Korean American debut. • “Re Feb 2016 • Pengiun • A darkly funny literary imagined narrative brings both black history Jane is packed with authenticity, poignancy and debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is the and women’s history to life.”—Library Journal humor. I was enchanted by this modern retelling story of one woman’s journey from fat of Jane Eyre as the tough yet vulnerable narrator adolescence to an ex-fat adulthood, as she seeks The Expatriates captured my heart.”—Jean Kwok love and acceptance from everyone except herself. • “Hilarious and cutting. Mona Awad Janice Y. K. Lee • 978-0-525-42947-0 • $27.00 • The Knife has a gift for turning the every day strange and Jan 2016 • Viking • A transporting novel about Ross Ritchell • 978-0-14-751775-3 • $16.00 • Feb luminous, for finding bright sparks of humor in motherhood, marriage, and the elusive nature 2016 • Blue Rider Press • A morally provocative the deepest dark. She is a strikingly original of happiness, focusing on the lives of three very debut novel about a U.S. Special Forces unit and strikingly talented new voice.”—Laura Van different American women living in Hong operating in Afghanistan, written by a former Den Berg, author of Find Me Kong. • “Lee’s women are complex and often flawed, which makes the stories of their soldier in a U.S. Special Operations Command The Secret Chord strength all the more compelling in this tale of direct-action team. • “The book’s sense of family, motherhood, and attempts at moving authenticity is impeccable. The larger experiences Geraldine Brooks • 978-0-670-02577-0 • $27.95 on.”—Publishers Weekly of comradeship and loss, the ineffable questions • Oct 2015 • Viking • An enthralling novel of morality and complicity in combat—these about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer West of Sunset issues will resonate with men and women far Prize-winning author of March and People of beyond the special operation’s community…. Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-14-312824-3 • $16.00 • the Book. It’s a novel about the world we actually live Dec 2015 • Penguin • This moving novel about in.”—Brian Turner, The Washington Post The Regional Office the legendary final years of F. Scott Fitzgerald is an intimate portrait of a man trying his best to Prudence is Under Attack! hold together a world that’s flying apart, if not Manuel Gonzales • 978-1-59463-241-9 • $27.95 gone already. • “An intimate portrayal of a flawed David Treuer • 978-1-59463-407-9 • $16.00 • • Apr 2016 • Riverhead • A high-concept sci-fi man who never gave up… O’Nan inhabits Feb 2016 • Riverhead • A haunting about love, tragi-comedy by the author of The Miniature Fitzgerald’s very being.”—Philadelphia Inquirer loss, race, and desire in World War II-era Wife, about a plot to overthrow a powerful America. Most profoundly, Prudence is about underground organization as foretold by a City of Secrets the secrets we choose to keep, the ones we can’t help but tell, and who—and how—we’re mystical prophecy, in a world beset by dark, Stewart O’Nan • 978-0-670-78596-4 • $22.00 • allowed to love. • “Tender and devastating… [A] unseen forces. Apr 2016 • Viking • A timely moral thriller of master class on suspense, shifting perspective the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem and conflicting desire.”—Anthony Marra,The Fates and Furies after the Second World War. Lauren Groff • 978-1-59463-447-5 • $27.95 • Washington Post Sep 2015 • Riverhead • A dazzling examination of a marriage and a portrait of creative Gold Fame Citrus partnership written by one of the best writers Claire Vaye Watkins • 978-1-59463-423-9 • of her generation. • “An unabashedly ambitious $27.95 • Sep 2015 • Riverhead • The much- novel that delivers—with comedy, tragedy, anticipated first novel from a Story Prize- well-deployed erudition and unmistakable winning “5 Under 35” fiction writer, Gold Fame glimmers of brilliance throughout.”—The New Citrus is a love story set in a devastatingly York Times imagined near future. • “A tour-de-force first novel blisters with drought, myth, and originality…. On each page [Watkins] spikes her novel with a ticking, musical intelligence…. Critics will reference Annie Proulx’s bite and Joan Didion’s hypnotic West, but Watkins is magnificently original.”—Kirkus (starred)

3 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP WORLD FICTION A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James • 978-1-59463-394-2 • $17.00 • City of Clowns Sep 2015 • Riverhead • Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, A Brief History of Seven Daniel Alarcón • Illustrated by Sheila Alvarado Killings is a “thrilling, ambitious...intense” (Los • 978-1-59463-333-1 • $22.95 • Nov 2015 • Angeles Times) novel that explores the attempted Riverhead • A graphic rendering of Daniel assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. • Alarcon’s story, City of Clowns, in which a “It’s epic in every sense of that word: sweeping, grieving young Peruvian journalist begins mythic, over-the-top, colossal and dizzyingly chronicling the life of street clowns, sad complex....A testament to Mr. James’s vaulting characters who populate the violent and ambition and prodigious talent.”—The New York corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into Times their haunting, fantastical world. The Story of the Lost Child: The Association of Small Bombs The Blue Line Neapolitan Novels, Book Four Karan Mahajan • 978-0-525-42963-0 • $26.00 • Ingrid Betancourt • 978-1-59420-658-0 • Elena Ferrante • Translated by Ann Goldstein • Mar 2016 • Viking • A deeply humane novel $27.00 • Jan 2016 • Penguin • From the 978-1-60945-286-5 • $18.00 • Sep 2015 • about the effects of terrorism on victims and Colombian French politician and activist, a Europa • The final book in the Neapolitan perpetrators. • “A brilliant examination of debut novel about freedom and fate. Drawing Novels about the brilliant, bookish Elena and aftermath, how life is built of consequences, on history and personal experience, The Blue the fiery, uncontainable Lila. In this book, both both imagined and unimagined, the tight web Line is a deeply felt portrait of a woman coming are adults; life’s great discoveries have been of human life and human sympathy. Karan of age as her country falls deeper and deeper made, its vagaries and losses have been Mahajan knows everyone, on every side of a into chaos. suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship detonation: the lost, the grieving, the innocent, remains the gravitational center of their lives. the guilty, the damaged. It’s hilarious and also Sudden Death devastating.”—Elizabeth McCracken Álvaro Enrigue • Translated by Natasha Wimmer The Pope’s Daughter • 978-1-59463-346-1 • $27.00 • Feb 2016 • Dario Fo • Translated by Anthony Shugaar • 978- What Is Not Yours Riverhead • A postmodern historical novel 1-60945-274-2 • $17.00 • Aug 2015 • Europa • In Is Not Yours: Stories about the clash of empires and ideas, told his first novel, Nobel laureate Dario Fo recounts Helen Oyeyemi • 978-1-59463-463-5 • $27.00 • through a tennis match in the 16th century the story of Renaissance Italy’s most powerful and Mar 2016 • Riverhead • From the award- between the Italian artist Caravaggio and the immoral family and their favorite daughter, Lucre- winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox Spanish poet Quevado, played with a ball made zia Borgia. • “Lucrezia Borgia enthralls Fo, and he comes an enchanting collection of intertwined from beheaded Anne Boleyn’s hair. signals his enthusiasm with arch, knowing humor stories. • “These modern fairy tales from directed at the reader… Fo’s Lucrezia is more award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi…will Hiding in Plain Sight femme fatale than incestuous poisoner.” —Kirkus unlock your imagination with stories of love, Nuruddin Farah • 978-1-59463-410-9 • $17.00 loss, and...keys...magical, feverish, spooky, and • Sep 2015 • Penguin • An exploration of the Blood-Drenched Beard delightful.”—Marie Claire tensions between liberty and obligation, the Daniel Galera • Translated by Alison Entrekin • ways in which gender and sexual orientation 978-0-14-312836-6 • $16.00 • Jan 2016 • Penguin define us, and the unintended consequences of • From Brazil’s most acclaimed young novelist, the secrets we keep. • “A rich exploration of the story of how a troubled young man’s restor- political and social crises… [and] a sensitive ative journey to the seaside becomes a violent story about living in the shadow of grief, struggle with his family’s past. • “Galera’s keen learning to forgive and trying to answer the sense of characters and unflinching depictions of question, ‘What does it mean to be Somali in the sometimes awkward desperation of coastal this day and age?’”—Washington Post life ground the story and give it a gritty feel that is consistently satisfying.”—Publishers Weekly The Man Who Snapped His Fingers Fariba Hachtroudi • Translated by Alison Anderson • 978-1-60945-306-0 • $16.00 • Feb 2016 • Europa • Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, the French-Iranian author’s Frog English-language debut explores themes as old as Mo Yan • Translated by Howard Goldblatt • time: the crushing effects of totalitarianism and 978-0-14-312838-0 • $17.00 • Jan 2016 • Penguin the infinite power of love. • “Hachtroudi • In his first major publication since winning enchants her readers with this rich work that is at the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, the once a love story and a political tale.”—L’Express author of Red Sorghum tells the story of how the controversial one-child policy in China devastated the life of a village midwife, Gugu, and all those who knew her. • “Goldblatt’s translation is inviting, while Yan’s tale deftly explores the human toll of national policy and historical forces.”—Publishers Weekly

4 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP SHORT STORIES / The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories: ESSAYS / LETTERS / Warped & Wonderful LITERARY CRITICISM Short Stories Etgar Keret • 978-1-59463-324-9 • $16.00 • Oct 2015 • Riverhead • Brief, intense, funny, and Bohemians, Bootleggers, honest, Etgar Keret’s stories are snapshots that Flappers, and Swells: illuminate the hidden truths of life. • “Etgar The Best of Early Vanity Fair Keret is a genius…”—The New York Times Edited by Graydon Carter with David Friend • The Republic of Imagination: Introduction by Graydon Carter • 978-0-14- A Life in Books 312790-1 • $18.00 • Nov 2015 • Penguin • In honor of the 100th anniversary of Vanity Fair Azar Nafisi • 978-0-14-312778-9 • $17.00 • Sep magazine, this collection celebrates the 2015 • Penguin • A passionate memoir that WRITING / MEMOIR / publication’s early catalogue of writers, with argues for the power of fiction to transform BIOGRAPHY / works by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, P. G. lives right here in America, by the author of Wodehouse, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Gertrude Reading Lolita in Tehran. • “[T]his blend of AUTOBIOGRAPHY Stein, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sherwood memoir, biography, and a deep reading of three Anderson, Robert Benchley, Langston Hughes— quintessentially American literary texts makes and many others. • “Pieces [that] are at once of a successful case for the importance of fiction. J. M. Coetzee and the Life of their moment and timeless.”—The New Yorker Nafisi links the freedom of imagination that unites all readers to the founding ideals of our Writing: Face-to-Face with Time Tales of Two Cities: country and the personal values we claim as David Attwell • 978-0-525-42961-6 • $27.95 • The Best and Worst of Times Americans.” —The Boston Globe Sep 2015 • Viking • A critical biography and study of J.M. Coetzee’s authorship—its sources, in Today’s New York The Unprofessionals: process, the influence of other writers, and its Edited by John Freeman • 978-0-14-312830-4 • New American Writing development, spanning the entire arc of his $16.00 • Sep 2015 • Penguin • Through fiction from The Paris Review impressive career. • “A fascinating, highly and reportage, leading literary lights including readable and tremendously insightful account Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, and Lydia Davis The Paris Review • Edited by Lorin Stein • of the processes through which some of the convey the indignities and heartbreak, the 978-0-14-312847-2 • $16.00 • Nov 2015 • greatest novels of our time came into being.”— callousness and solidarities, of living side by Penguin • A collection celebrating the bold Derek Attridge, University of York side with people of starkly different means. writers at the forefront of today’s literary world—featuring stories, essays, and poems The Good Story: Discontent and Its Civilizations: from The Paris Review by Zadie Smith, Emma Exchanges on Truth, Fiction Cline, Ben Lerner and many others. Dispatches from Lahore, and Psychotherapy New York, and London The Witch: J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz • 978-0-525- Mohsin Hamid • 978-1-59463-403-1 • $16.00 • And Other Tales Re-told 42951-7 • $27.95 • Sep 2015 • Viking • A Feb 2016 • Riverhead • The bestselling author fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and Jean Thompson • 978-0-14-751698-5 • $16.00 • of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to the art of storytelling between a writer with a Sep 2015 • Plume •The National Book Award Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia traces the fracture long-standing interest in moral psychology and finalist’s new collection revisits beloved fables lines generated by a decade and a half of a psychotherapist with training in literary that represent our deepest, most primeval fears seismic change, from the “war on terror” to the studies. • “Coetzee’s writing is characteristically and brings the fairy tale into the modern age. • struggles of individuals to maintain humanity spare and penetrating....Kurtz proves both a “[S]pooky, enthralling, and morally complex…. in the rigid face of ideology, or the indifferent lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, Thompson skillfully infuses our banal world of face of globalization. • “Elegant, piercing [and] bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to technology, reality TV, and pop psychology with often funny.”—The Chicago Tribune life with rare precision and immediacy.”— genuine horror…. as eerie as anything you’ll find Literary Review (UK) Immigrant Voices, Volume 2 in the Brothers Grimm.”—Publishers Weekly Edited by Gordon Hutner • 9780451472816 • The Brothers: The Road $15.00 • June 2015 • NAL • A collection of to an American Tragedy essays providing a comprehensive vision of Masha Gessen • 978-1-59463-400-0 • $16.00 • immigration to the United States in the late May 2016 • Riverhead • Named a Best Book of twentieth and twenty-first centuries featuring the Year by Time • Gessen explores how the Aleksander Hemon, Dr. Rose Ihedigbo, American dream went wrong for Tamerlan and Gustavo Pérez Firmat and more. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the nightmare that resulted. • “Meticulously researched and provocative… Gessen asks courageous questions about the dark side of the justice system, providing a vital counternarrative to the account of the bombing given by mainstream media.”—Publisher’s Weekly

5 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP Why We Write About Swimming Studies Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists Leanne Shapton • 978-0-399-17484-1 • $18.00 on Why They Expose • May 2016 • Blue Rider Press • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Swimming Themselves (and Others) Studies is author and artist Leanne Shapton’s in the Name of Literature illustrated memoir about the competitive Edited by Meredith Maran • 978-0-14-218197-3 pressures and meditative calm found in the • $16.00 • Jan 2016 • Plume • Twenty of sport she trained for as a teenager. • “Swimming America’s best-known memoirists—including Studies expresses what it’s like to be haunted by Sue Monk Kidd, Cheryl Strayed, and Anne the person one used to be, and the search for Lamott— share insights, anecdotes, and the how that person exists in the present. Leanne truth about writing about your own life Shapton writes with such curiosity, ruefulness, intelligence, and grace.”—Sheila Heti, author of In Order to Live: How Should a Person Be? The Sense of Style: A North Korean Girl’s The Thinking Person’s Guide Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and Journey to Freedom to Writing in the 21st Century the Road to Canterbury Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers • Paul Strohm • 978-0-14-312783-3 • $18.00 • 978-1-59420-679-5 • $27.95 • Sep 2015 • Steven Pinker • 978-0-14-312779-6 • $17.00 • Oct 2015 • Penguin • Teacher’s guide available Penguin • A harrowing escape from tyranny Sep 2015 • Penguin • The bestselling linguist at penguin.com/tguides • A micro-biography of and into a new life of advocacy, from a North and cognitive scientist applies his gift for Geoffrey Chaucer, focusing on the surprising Korean defector and human rights activist. explaining difficult ideas to the topic of writing, in a short and entertaining writing guide for story of the tumultuous year that led to the Undocumented: the twenty-first century. • “[The Sense of Style] creation of The Canterbury Tales. • “Strohm’s is more contemporary and comprehensive than victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat account is A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey The Elements of Style…. [Pinker’s] voice is touching, but the real thrill is his portrait of from a Homeless Shelter calm, reasonable, benign, and you can easily Chaucer’s London, one square mile of church to the Ivy League see why he’s one of Harvard’s most popular bells pealing, neighbors gossiping, politicians lecturers.”—The New York Times conniving, severed heads rotting on spikes Dan-el Padilla Peralta • 978-1-59420-652-8 • (quite near Chaucer’s windows), and poetry $27.95 • July 2015 • Penguin • An Choosing Hope: rising out of all this.”—The New Yorker undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of Moving Forward from his Princeton class. • “Peralta’s simple and Life’s Darkest Hours unadorned yet fast-moving narrative provides Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis with Robin Gaby Fisher • an insightful read for anyone passionate about 978-0-399-17445-2 • $26.95 • Oct 2015 • Putnam immigration reform.”—Library Journal • Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis saved the lives of fifteen students by piling them into a bathroom in her first-grade classroom. Choosing Hope bears witness to a tragedy, but even more so it is a testament to a decision that we can all make to choose hope in order to conquer tragedy. • “In the face of unspeakable tragedy and horror, [Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis] gives us a beautiful portrait of the power of hope and love in the healing of a person, a community, and a country.”—former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords

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