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Finding the Space to Lead Janice Marturano Hope Against Hope (pb) Sarah Carr The Wars of Reconstruction Douglas P. Egerton The Double V (pb) Rawn James, Jr. Money Mania Bob Swarup Gospel of Freedom (pb) Jonathan Rieder A New History of Life Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink Poison Spring E. G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Miriam Pawel

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Once You Break a Knucle D. W. Wilson A More Beautiful Question Warren Berger Good in a Crisis (pb) Margaret Overton A Feathered River Across the Sky Joel Greenberg WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM More Powerful Than Dynamite (pb) Thai Jones Pig’s Foot Carlos Acosta A History of the Present Illness (pb) Louise Aronson Before We Met Lucy Whitehouse This Magnificent Desolation (pb) Thomas O’Malley Constance (pb) Patrick McGrath The Walking (pb) Laleh Khadivi Inside a Pearl Edmund White Dogstar Rising (pb) Parker Bilal The Ghost Runner Parker Bilal The Wives of Los Alamos TaraShea Nesbit Vow (pb) Wendy Plump A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain, adapted by Seymour Chwast Little Known Facts (pb) Christine Sneed International Night Mark Kurlansky and Talia Kurlansky Spectrums (pb) David Blatner The Adventures of Henry Thoreau Michael Sims Last Ape Standing (pb) Chip Walter The Last Gift Abdulrazak Gurnah The Searchers (pb) Glenn Frankel Everybody Matters (pb) Mary Robinson The Victorian Internet (pb) Tom Standage The International Bank of Bob (pb) Bob Harris Forecast (pb) Mark Buchanan The Ghost Apple Aaron Thier Ballistics (pb) D. W. Wilson How Paris Became Paris Joan DeJean Beasts Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson The God Argument (pb) A. C. Grayling The Man Who Walked Away Maud Casey WWW.BLOOMSBURY.COM BLOOMSBURY PRESSBACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS Still Life My LifeasaWife Family Life Shaken Not Stirred Herbs Fruit Hedgerow Sea Fishing Veg Patch Mushrooms The Strangers Who Came Home BLOOMSBURY DISTRIBUTION AND SPECIALIST TITLES Flora The Cooked Seed(pb) ORDER INFORMATION SUBSIDI MACMILLAN GIFTREPRESENTATIVES BLOOMSBURY BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS Lion Heart Nothing Holds Back theNight Equilateral The Monopolists The Ten Commandments Saul Bellow’s Heart The Giraffe’s Neck Maggie &Me Coup deFoudre The Poets’ Wives Egg Good One (pb) The Real Food Cookbook

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BLOOMSBURY PRESS JANUARY 2014

Finding the Space to Lead A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership

Janice Marturano

Executives and leaders from all over the world have sought out Janice Marturano’s mindful leadership training. Finding the Space to Lead brings it to readers everywhere.

Are you facing another “crazy busy” day? Sometimes “leader” seems to mean “person who deals with problems nonstop.” What if you could hit the Pause button on your day and meet your challenges with a sense of space and clear focus? And what if you had a way not just of “getting things done,” but also ensuring that what gets done connects with your deepest values?

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / In this plainspoken, accessible guide, Janice Marturano, an executive with LEADERSHIP Bloomsbury Press | 1/7/2014 decades of experience in Fortune 500 corporations, shows us how to integrate the 9781620402474 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. practice of mindfulness—meditation and self-awareness—with effective Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: techniques of management and mentorship. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Scientific research has shown that mindfulness practices enhance mental health MARKETING and improve performance in every field of endeavor. Leaders who have Š National print and online consumer undergone Marturano’s training report that it provides a “transformative advertising campaign at publication experience” that made them better, more focused managers. Š Cross-promote with Institute for Mindful Leadership This is not a “new age” book nor a new “flavor of the month” training program. Š Author events in NYC It brings the principles of mindfulness into the everyday life of anyone in a

Š National print and online review leadership role. It offers specific exercises that address real-world issues, campaign including managing your calendar, meetings, to-do lists, strategic planning, and the

Š National radio and TV features interpersonal challenges of the workplace. Whether you lead all or part of a company, nonprofit, class, or family, Finding the Space to Lead can help you do Š Social media campaign at publication just that.

Janice Marturano is the founder and director of the Institute for Mindful Leadership. Formerly a vice president and deputy general counsel at General Mills, she initiated that company’s mindful leadership training. In 2013, Marturano led the first workshop on mindful leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She writes regularly for the Huffington Post, and has been profiled in Forbes, the Financial Times, and the New York Times, among others. She lives in New Jersey.

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Hope Against Hope Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children

Sarah Carr

“A tremendous achievement.” —Bookforum

Geraldlynn is a lively, astute fourteen-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynn’s parents hope their daughter’s new school will prepare her for college—but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own.

Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter EDUCATION / GENERAL school with a group of newcomers determined to show the world they can use Bloomsbury Press | 2/4/2014 9781608195138 | $18.00 / $19.00 Can. science, data, and hard work to build a model school. Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W Mary Laurie is a veteran educator who becomes principal of one of the first public high schools to reopen after Katrina. Laurie and her staff find they must Other Available Formats: fight each day not only to educate the city's teenagers, but to keep their school Hardcover ISBN: 9781608194902 community safe and whole. MARKETING In this powerful narrative nonfiction debut, the lives of these three characters Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide provide readers with a vivid and sobering portrait of education in twenty-first- century America. Hope Against Hope works in the same tradition as Random Š Outreach to education, local-interest and social justice blogs and websites Family and There Are No Children Here to capture the challenges of growing up and learning in a troubled world. Š Academic marketing campaign

Š Social media campaign at publication PRAISE “It’s work like this that makes journalism truly matter, that makes clear that reportage is not merely about fact and argument and theory, but about human lives in the balance.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme “Hope Against Hope is storytelling at its absolute finest.” —Alex Kotlowitz, author of The Other Side of the River and There Are No Children Here

“This is an important book about education writ large.” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of The Dreamkeepers

Sarah Carr has written about education for the last twelve years, reporting on the growth in online learning in higher education, the battle over vouchers and charter schools in urban districts, and the struggle to educate China’s massive population of migrant children. Her work has been honored with numerous national awards and fellowships, most recently a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia University. She lives in New Orleans.

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The Wars of Reconstruction The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

Douglas R. Egerton

A masterful new history, telling the stories of African-American activists and officeholders who, in the face of murderous violence, risked their lives for equality after the Civil War.

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. That same year, Hiram Revels and Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African-American U.S. senator and congressman respectively. In South Carolina, only twenty years after the death of arch-secessionist John C. Calhoun, a black man, Jasper J. Wright, HISTORY / UNITED STATES took a seat on the state’s Supreme Court. Not even the most optimistic Bloomsbury Press | 1/21/2014 9781608195664 | $30.00 / $31.50 Can. abolitionists thought such milestones would occur in their lifetimes. The years of Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: Reconstruction marked the United States’ most progressive moment prior to the 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H civil rights movement. B&W t/o Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First and Previous histories of Reconstruction have focused on Washington politics. But in Second Serial, Audio this sweeping, prodigiously researched narrative, Douglas Egerton brings a bigger, Film/TV: POM Inc. even more dramatic story into view, exploring state and local politics and tracing the struggles of some fifteen hundred African-American officeholders, in both the MARKETING North and South, who fought entrenched white resistance. Tragically, their Š National print and online review movement was met by ruthless violence—not just riotous mobs, but also targeted campaign assassination. With stark evidence, Egerton shows that Reconstruction, often cast Š Author events in NY State as a “failure” or a doomed experiment, was rolled back by murderous force. The

Š Promotion of author's digital backlist Wars of Reconstruction is a major and provocative contribution to American prior to publication history.

Š Social media campaign at publication PRAISE Š Outreach to history, Civil War, and African American history blogs for Year of Meteors

“Thanks to Egerton’s insight into 19th-century political strategy and skullduggery, the ALSO AVAILABLE graceful Year of Meteors reads like a fresh insider-informed exposé of a modern Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, presidential election.” —The Christian Science Monitor Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War “A lively, expertly rendered narrative of politics as a prelude to war.” —Kirkus Reviews 9/2010 | 9781596916197 (starred review) Hardback | $29.00

Douglas R. Egerton is a professor of history at LeMoyne College. He is the author of six books, including Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America. He lives near Syracuse, New York.

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The Double V How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military

Rawn James, Jr.

The stirring story of America’s black soldiers and sailors and their century-long struggle to achieve equality in uniform.

On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman desegregated all branches of the United States military by executive order—a bold and courageous move by the Missouri-born president. But it was also the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle.

Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African Americans had put themselves in HISTORY / UNITED STATES Bloomsbury Press | 2/11/2014 harm’s way to serve their country—and to show they deserved equality with 9781608196227 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. whites. The fight for a desegregated military was truly a long war—decades of Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: protest and labor highlighted by valor on countless battlefields and in the face of 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 1 8p B&W insert deep-seated racism on the military bases at home. Today, the military is one of the most truly diverse institutions in America. In The Double V, Rawn James, Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608196081 Jr.—the son and grandson of African American veterans—expertly narrates the remarkable history of how the struggle for equality in the military helped give rise MARKETING to the fight for equality in civilian society.

Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide PRAISE Š Digital assets: excerpts available on “Smart and insightful . . . An immensely readable book with plenty of modern relevance Bloomsbury.com; book trailer as today’s American military considers who should be able to fight and how . . . James Š Social media campaign on [is] an excellent storyteller.” —Christian Science Monitor Bloomsbury accounts

Š Academic marketing campaign “As long as inequality persists, this tale of persistence, sacrifice, and triumph will continue to inspire.” —Publishers Weekly

ALSO AVAILABLE A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr., has practiced Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton law for a decade in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their children. Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation 1/2013 | 9781608193899 Paperback / softback | $18.00 / $19.00 Can.

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Money Mania A Human History of Financial Speculation

Bob Swarup

Twenty-five centuries of financial bubbles, investment manias, and human folly explained, with rich historical detail and an insider’s financial acumen

Financial crises are to us what natural disasters were to our ancient ancestors. Their unpredictable nature and their punishing aftermath make them objects of mystery and morbid fascination. Money Mania is a sweeping account of those crises and their consequences, from ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown of 2008. Acclaimed commentator and financier Bob Swarup reveals the common human foibles that lead us into periodic bouts of self-destruction and amnesia. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Greek bailouts in the fourth century b.c., the collapse of the Roman Empire, ECONOMIC HISTORY runaway inflation in medieval China, a dystopian century bookended by Louis Bloomsbury Press | 1/21/2014 9781608198412 | $27.00 / $28.50 Can. XIV and the French Revolution, the Great Depression, and more become lenses Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: into our nature as humans. 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First Serial, In an effort to understand why financial crises seem to occur with such regularity Audio and why we never seem to learn, Money Mania brings the dazzling insight and Film/TV: Trident Media Group deep understanding of 1493 and Guns, Germs, and Steel to a milieu not known for circumspection. The story of why we speculate, panic, and go bust is the story MARKETING of what makes us human. In Bob Swarup’s brilliant first book, the low lights Š National print, broadcast, and online financial history comes to foolish, frantic, fascinating life. media coverage

Š Social media campaign at publication Bob Swarup is an investor, thought leader, and commentator on finance and investing. Born in India in 1977, he holds an MA from the University of Cambridge, two master’s degrees, and a Ph.D. in Š Digital assets: excerpts and Q&A with author on Bloomsbury.com cosmology from Imperial College London. He has managed investments, sat on the boards of hedge funds and private equity firms, worked closely with leading think tanks, advised policymakers and Š Outreach to history and finance industry alike, and is an award-winning journalist. He lives in London. bloggers

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Gospel of Freedom Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

Jonathan Rieder

The first book to reveal the full story and pivotal significance of a landmark American document—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s passionate “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

“I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. As the leader of a campaign to topple Jim Crow in that brutally racist city, King was thrown in jail on Good Friday 1963. Alone in his cell, reading a smuggled newspaper, he was stung to find a statement from eight “moderate” white

HISTORY / UNITED STATES clergymen who branded the protests extremist and “untimely.” Bloomsbury Press | 4/8/2014 9781620400593 | $14.00 / $15.00 Can. King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the “Letter from Birmingham Paperback / softback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Jail”—a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln, and would inspire not Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781620400586 just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. MARKETING Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the “Letter”— Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the “Letter” and Š Academic marketing campaign the man who wrote it: no softhearted “dreamer” but an angry prophet who Š Promotion of author's digital backlist chastised white indifference, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, prior to publication and knew that moral appeal without struggle cannot bring justice. Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com PRAISE Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts “Gospel of Freedom is an indispensable guide to one of the most important documents of the twentieth century.” —Daniel T. Rodgers

“Jonathan Rieder has written a vital book that gives the Birmingham letter its due as a piece of sacred literature in the long war against Jim Crow.” —Jon Meacham

“A must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the civil rights movement, King, and America itself.” —Booklist, starred review

Jonathan Rieder is professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism. He has been a regular commentator on TV and radio, a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and a contributing editor for the New Republic.

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A New History of Life The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink

Two scientists at the cutting edge of the field offer a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of the history of our planet and the life that calls it home.

Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, form the backbone of how most readers understand the history of life on Earth. In reality, the currently accepted history of our planet has radically changed in the past

SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES generation, let alone since Darwin’s time. The current “master narrative” is so Bloomsbury Press | 3/4/2014 out of date and pockmarked with discarded ideas that it’s past time for a “new 9781608199075 | $30.00 / $31.50 Can. history of life.” Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward—both scientists who have Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H published groundbreaking work in their fields, one an acclaimed author of popular B&W books as well—are a perfect team to fill the gap.

Unafraid of controversy, Kirschvink and Ward will show that many of our most MARKETING cherished beliefs about the evolution of life are wrong. Gathering and analyzing Š National print and online review years of discoveries and research not yet widely known to the public, A New campaign History of Life proposes a different origin of species from the one Darwin Š Academic marketing proposed, one which includes eight-foot-long centipedes, a frozen “snowball Š Pre-publication online consumer and Earth,” and the seeds for life originating on Mars. blogger review campaign Š Digital assets: charts and facts to Drawing on their years of study across scientific disciplines, Ward and Kirschvink share online paint a picture of the origins of life on Earth that is at once too fabulous to imagine Š Social media campaign at publication and too familiar to dismiss—and looking forward, A New History of Life brilliantly assembles insights from cutting-edge research to understand how life on Earth can and might evolve in the future.

Peter Ward is a professor of biology and professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. His popular science writing has earned many honors, including nominations for the Keck Science Writing Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

Joe Kirschvink is a professor of geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. His pioneering work in Earth science includes formulating and naming the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis.

10 Poison Spring The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

E.G. Vallianatos with McKay Jenkins

An insider’s account of how political pressure and corporate arm- twisting undermined the Environmental Protection Agency, with devastating effects on public safety and the environment.

Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed on the menu, but many are in your food.

These are some of the dangerous synthetic chemicals produced in the millions of pounds and dumped into the environment every day, not just in the U.S. but around the world. They seep into our water supply, are carried thousands of miles by wind and rain, and constitute, in the words of one scientist, “biologic death bombs with a delayed time fuse and which may prove to be, in the long run, as dangerous to the existence of mankind as the arsenal of atom bombs.” All of these poisons are approved—or in some cases, simply ignored—by the EPA.

For twenty-five years E. G. Vallianatos saw the EPA from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from huge corporations were turning it from the public’s watchdog into a “polluter's protection agency.” Based on his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and hundreds of documents Vallianatos collected inside the EPA, Poison Spring reveals how the agency has continually reinforced the chemical-industrial complex.

Writing with acclaimed environmental journalist McKay Jenkins, E. G. Vallianatos provides a devastating exposé of how the agency created to protect Americans and our environment has betrayed its mission. Half a century after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring awakened us to the dangers of pesticides, we are poisoning our lands and waters with more toxic chemicals than ever.

E. G. Vallianatos is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is Their Land, as well as over 180 articles, including pieces in Alternet.org and Truth-Out.org. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. He worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five years, and now lives in Claremont, California. His coauthor McKay Jenkins has been writing about humans and the natural world for just as long. His most recent book, What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World, was hailed as “a Silent Spring for the human body” by Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone. Jenkins is the Cornelius Tilghman Professor of English, Journalism, and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware, where he has won the Excellence in Teaching Award.

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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez A Biography

Miriam Pawel

A searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez’s movement.

Cesar Chavez founded a labor union, launched a movement, and inspired a generation. He rose from migrant worker to national icon, becoming one of the great charismatic leaders of the 20th century. Two decades after his death, Chavez remains the most significant Latino leader in US history. Yet his life story has been told only in hagiography—until now.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GENERAL In the first comprehensive biography of Chavez, Miriam Pawel offers a searching Bloomsbury Press | 3/25/2014 yet empathetic portrayal. Chavez emerges here as a visionary figure with tragic 9781608197101 | $35.00 / $37.00 Can. flaws; a brilliant strategist who sometimes stumbled; and a canny, streetwise Hardback | 512 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H organizer whose pragmatism was often at odds with his elusive, soaring dreams. B&W He was an experimental thinker with eclectic passions—an avid, self-educated historian and a disciple of Gandhian non-violent protest. Drawing on thousands of

MARKETING documents and scores of interviews, this superbly written life deepens our understanding of one of Chavez’s most salient qualities: his profound humanity. Š National print, broadcast, and online review campaign Pawel traces Chavez’s remarkable career as he conceived strategies that Š Author events Salinas, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, San Francisco, empowered the poor and vanquished California’s powerful agriculture industry, Sacramento, Denver, NYC, and and his later shift from inspirational leadership to a cult of personality, with tragic Boston consequences for the union he had built. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez reveals Š Academic marketing campaign how this most unlikely American hero ignited one of the great social movements

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Š Pre-publication online consumer and Miriam Pawel is the author of The Union of Their Dreams, widely acclaimed as the most nuanced blogger review campaign history of Cesar Chavez’s movement. She is a Pulitzer-winning editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She was recently awarded a National Endowment Š Social media campaign at publication for the Humanities fellowship, and lives in Southern California.

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Once You Break a Knuckle Stories

D.W. Wilson

From the prizewinning author of Ballistics, the collection of knockout stories that first brought him acclaim.

In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy’s death. A heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. Sons challenge fathers and break taboos.

Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D. W. Wilson’s stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how FICTION / SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) our loves can fall short or mislead us, how even friendship—especially Bloomsbury USA | 1/7/2014 friendship—can be something dangerously temporary. An intoxicating cocktail of 9781608199945 | $15.00 adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day.

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Š Promotion of author's digital backlist prior to publication D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. His stories have won the BBC National Short Story Award, been shortlisted for the CBC Short Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication Story Prize, and been nominated for three Canadian National Magazine Awards. Once You Break a Knuckle was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Wilson has also written a novel, Ballistics. He lives in London. ALSO AVAILABLE Ballistics: A Novel 6/2013 | 9781620400777 Hardback | $26.00

14 A More Beautiful Question The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

Warren Berger

To get the best answer—in business, in life—you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science.

It may be the most underappreciated tool at our disposal, one we learn to use well in infancy—and then abandon as we grow older. Critical to learning, innovation, success, even to happiness—yet often discouraged in our schools and workplaces—it can unlock new business opportunities and reinvent industries, spark creative insights at many levels, and provide a transformative new outlook on life. It is the ability to question—and to do so deeply, imaginatively, and “beautifully.”

In this fascinating exploration of the surprising power of questioning, innovation expert Warren Berger reveals that powerhouse businesses like Google, Nike, and Netflix, as well as hot Silicon Valley startups like Pandora and Airbnb, are fueled by the ability to ask fundamental, game-changing questions. But Berger also shares human stories of people using questioning to solve everyday problems—from “How can I adapt my career in a time of constant change?” to “How can I step back from the daily rush and figure out what really makes me happy?”

By showing how to approach questioning with an open, curious mind and a willingness to work through a series of “Why,” “What if” and “How” queries, Berger offers an inspiring framework of how we can all arrive at better solutions, fresh possibilities, and greater success in business and life.

Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world’s leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. His writing and research on questioning appears regularly in Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Glimmer, a groundbreaking analysis of innovative thinking that was named one of Businessweek’s Best Innovation and Design Books of 2009. Berger has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s World News, CNN, and NPR’s All Things Considered. He lives in New York. His website is www.AMoreBeautifulQuestion.com.

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Good in a Crisis A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Near-Death Experiences

Margaret Overton

“Great-memoir alert: Who knew that a bitter divorce, midlife dating and an aneurysm could be this entertaining?” —Ladies’ Home Journal

Good in a Crisis is Overton’s laugh-out-loud story about the impossibility of a quick recovery after the end of a long marriage. It chronicles her harrowing search for Mr. Right; a brain aneurysm; the deaths of close friends; and the realities of midlife—including some particularly awkward moments that take place

BIOGRAPHY & as she tries to find her footing in the new middle age. It’s an inspirational tale AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL about loss of life, loss of love, loss of innocence; about spirituality, self-delusion, MEMOIRS and even sheer stupidity. It’s written from a physician’s perspective, but it’s not Bloomsbury USA | 1/7/2014 about medicine, per se; it’s about coming of age in adulthood, and making an 9781608197781 | $16.00 / $15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: effort to help others through the awful events that can cluster in midlife. An 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H unforgettable memoir, Good in a Crisis will make you laugh and cry, and leave

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Other Available Formats: PRAISE Hardcover ISBN: 9781608197644 “Tragedy isn’t usually funny. But don’t tell that to ... Margaret Overton [who] chronicles the demise of her 20-year marriage, the challenge of overcoming a brain aneurysm, MARKETING middle-age dating, and the death of close friends. Hilarious, right? Yet, somehow, this Š Coverage in paperback columns book is.”—Chicago Tribune Printers Row Journal Š Giveaways and promotions with book clubs “Margaret Overton summons fierce candor—along with an intact sense of humor and a

Š Author video available on doctor’s eye for detail—to tell the story of how she survived a perfect storm of disasters Bloomsbury.com and ended up stronger, wiser, and ready for a kinder future.”—Rosellen Brown Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication “Grimly hilarious ... Brutally funny reading about midlife coming-of-age.”—Kirkus Reviews

Margaret Overton is an anesthesiologist with an M.F.A. in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine and Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Chicago, and Good in a Crisis is her first book. Visit her website at margaretoverton.com.

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A Feathered River Across the Sky The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction

Joel Greenberg

The epic story of why passenger pigeons became extinct and what that says about our current relationship with the natural world.

In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America’s birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar. Feeding flocks would appear as “a blue wave four or NATURE / ANIMALS five feet high rolling toward you.” Bloomsbury USA | 1/7/2014 9781620405345 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: John James Audubon, impressed by their speed and agility, said a lone passenger 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H pigeon streaking through the forest “passes like a thought.” How prophetic—for 16 p color insert, and b&w although a billion pigeons streamed over Toronto in May of 1860, little more than Subrights: fifty years later passenger pigeons were extinct. The last of the species, Martha, Film/TV: The Strothman Agency died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. Bloomsbury subrights: serial and audio As naturalist Joel Greenberg relates in gripping detail, the pigeons’ propensity to MARKETING nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting Š National review and broadcast media market and recreational hunting. The spread of railroads and telegraph lines campaign created national markets that allowed the birds to be pursued relentlessly. Š Author events in IL Passenger pigeons inspired awe in the likes of Audubon, Henry David Thoreau,

Š Tie-in with the 2014 “Project James Fenimore Cooper, and others, but no serious effort was made to protect Passenger Pigeon” campaign the species until it was way too late. Greenberg’s beautifully written story of the

Š Social media campaign at publication passenger pigeon provides a cautionary tale of what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably. Š Digital assets: paintings and images of birds Joel Greenberg is a research associate of the Chicago Academy of Sciences Peggy Notebaert Š Outreach to birding, conservation, and history bloggers Nature Museum and the Field Museum. Author of three books, including A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg has taught natural history courses for the Morton Arboretum, Brookfield Zoo, and Chicago Botanic Garden. He helped spearhead Project Passenger Pigeon to focus attention on human-caused extinctions. Greenberg lives in Westmont, Illinois. Visit his blog at Birdzilla.com.

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More Powerful Than Dynamite Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

Thai Jones

“An engrossing account of the events of 1914.” —Sam Roberts, The New York Times

In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists’ mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem HISTORY / UNITED STATES Bloomsbury USA | 1/14/2014 tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were 9781620405185 | $18.00 / $17.00 Can. three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were Paperback / softback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H B&W throughout massacre of his company’s striking workers.

Subrights: Agency: Ghosh Literary More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast Other Available Formats: includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Hardcover ISBN: 9780802779335 Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little known, including Frank MARKETING Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too Š Coverage in paperback columns crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her Š Academic marketing campaign red tights and for spitting in millionaires’ faces. Historian and journalist Thai Jones Š Promotion of author's digital backlist creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with prior to publication modernity. Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com PRAISE Š Feature placement on Bloomsbury website at time of publication “More Powerful Than Dynamite read[s] like the best of novels. Jones’ retelling of the year is filled with action, subterfuge and . . . textured plotlines . . . . [He] captures the actors and events with a deftness and polish rarely seen in historical nonfiction.” —Alex Lemon, The Dallas Morning News

“[A] fascinating new book . . . about various social and cultural goings-on in early 20th- century New York City.” —Kevin Canfield, The Daily Beast

“A wonderful new book!” —Fox News

Thai Jones is author of A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. Formerly a reporter for Newsday, he is a graduate of Vassar College and the Columbia School of Journalism, and has earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History at Columbia University.

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Pig's Foot A Novel

Carlos Acosta, translated by Frank Wynne

The debut novel from the world-renowned Cuban dancer—a multigenerational story of his homeland.

Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales—some taller than others—of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love, and identity that span three generations.

One day, Oscar wakes to find that he is alone in the world. As the sole descendent of his family line, he is not sure what to do or where to go, but he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: “No man knows who he is until he knows his past, the history of his country.” FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 1/14/2014 As Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village of Pata de Puerco and the meaning 9781620400814 | $26.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: of the magical pig’s-foot amulet he has inherited, the search for his country’s 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H hidden history becomes entangled with the search for the truth about himself.

Subrights: Serial, Audio, Translation: Bloomsbury Ambitious in scope, yet intimate in tone, rippling with vitality and driven by Film/TV: Felicity Bryan Associates passion, full of dark comedy, magical history, and startling revelations, Pig’s Foot is a dazzling evocation of Cuba’s tumultuous history—a spellbinding and MARKETING unexpected debut from an author of many talents.

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Carlos Acosta, born in Havana, now lives in London. He has been a principal at the American Ballet Theater, the Houston Ballet, the English National Ballet, and the Royal Ballet, and created the semiautobiographical, Olivier-nominated show Tocororo. He has acted in films including New York, I Love You, and is the author of a memoir, No Way Home.

Frank Wynne’s translations have won the IMPAC, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize. He lives in London.

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A History of the Present Illness Stories

Louise Aronson

Sixteen “lovely, nuanced” (The New York Times) linked stories from a potent new voice—a doctor with an M.D. from Harvard and an M.F.A. in fiction.

A History of the Present Illness takes readers into overlooked lives in the neighborhoods, hospitals, and nursing homes of San Francisco, offering a deeply humane and incisive portrait of health and illness in America today. An elderly Chinese immigrant sacrifices his demented wife’s well-being to his son’s authority. A busy Latina physician’s eldest daughter’s need for more attention has disastrous consequences. A young veteran’s injuries become a metaphor for the FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 1/14/2014 rest of his life. A gay doctor learns very different lessons about family from his 9781620400074 | $16.00 / $16.00 Can. life and his work. And a psychiatrist who advocates for the underserved may Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: herself be crazy. Together, these honest and compassionate stories introduce a 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H striking new literary voice and provide a view of what it means to be a doctor and Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: Audio a patient unlike anything we’ve read before. Translation, film/TV: Brandt & Hochman Other Available Formats: In the tradition of Oliver Sacks and Abraham Verghese, Aronson’s writing is Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198306 based on personal experience and addresses topics of current social relevance. Masterfully told, A History of the Present Illness explores the role of stories in MARKETING medicine and creates a world pulsating with life, speaking truths about what Š Coverage in paperback columns makes us human. Š Book club marketing campaign

Š Pitch single story for serialization in PRAISE print or online “Joins the ranks of those immortalizing the small, realistic retails of modern medical Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication care.” —Abigail Zuger, M.D., The New York Times

Š Digital assets: author video, book “Aronson’s examination of medical culture in stories, of the brutality and tenderness at excerpts available online home and hospital, is a gem.” —Washington Independent Review of Books

“These stories are about medicine exactly in the way that medicine is about life: here hospitals contain whole worlds, physicians contain their patients, and the emotional and physical gestures of the urge to heal contain the whole fruitful and fruitless work of human connection.” —Chris Adrian, M.D., author of The Children’s Hospital and The Great Night

Louise Aronson has an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She has received the Sonora Review Prize, the New Millennium Short-short Fiction Award, and three Pushcart nominations. She is an associate professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, where she cares for older patients and directs the Northern California Geriatrics Education Center and UCSF Medical Humanities. She lives in San Francisco.

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Before We Met A Novel

Lucie Whitehouse

For fans of Gone Girl, a gripping psychological thriller about the lies we tell ourselves and the passions that drive us.

Hannah, independent, headstrong, and determined not to follow in the footsteps of her bitterly divorced mother, has always avoided commitment. But one hot New York summer she meets Mark Reilly, a fellow Brit, and is swept up in a love affair that changes all her ideas about what marriage might mean.

Now, living in their elegant, expensive London townhouse and adored by her fantastically successful husband, she knows she was right to let down her guard. FICTION / SUSPENSE Bloomsbury USA | 1/21/2014 9781620402757 | $25.00 / $25.00 Can. But when Mark does not return from a business trip to the U.S. and when the Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: hours of waiting for him stretch into days, the foundations of Hannah’s certainty 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H begin to crack. Why do Mark’s colleagues believe he has gone to Paris not Subrights: Serial: Bloomsbury America? Why is there no record of him at his hotel? And who is the mysterious Audio, Translation, Film/TV: Jankow & Nesbit woman who has been telephoning him over the last few weeks? UK Hannah begins to dig into her husband’s life, uncovering revelations that throw MARKETING into doubt everything she has ever believed about him. As her investigation leads

Š National print and online media her away from their fairytale romance into a place of violence and fear she must coverage decide whether the secrets Mark has been keeping are designed to protect him or

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Š Book club marketing campaign “Psychological suspense as quiet and elegant as a Swiss watch but as powerful as a Š Digital assets: reading group guide locomotive . . . Subtle, intelligent, accessible, and highly recommended.” —Lee Child available on Bloomsbury.com “The sort of book you pick up desultorily a half-hour before bedtime and find yourself still reading at 3 A.M. . . . Engrossing.” —Laura Miller, Salon

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1975, studied classics at Oxford University, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is author of The House at Midnight and The Bed I Made.

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This Magnificent Desolation A Novel

Thomas O'Malley

“A beautiful, floating novel. Thomas O’Malley writes with grace and style and bravery. He is a great talent.” —Colum McCann

Duncan’s entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Age ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose.

Duncan is sure that his mother is dead, until the day she turns up to claim him. FICTION / GENERAL Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in Bloomsbury USA | 1/21/2014 9781608194704 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. a San Francisco bar through a haze of whiskey cut with sharp regret. She often Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: ends her nights in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea Subrights: 3Arts Entertainment silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world—and his wounds run deep too. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608192793 A heartbreaking, soaring novel, This Magnificent Desolation explores the MARKETING shifting landscape of memory, the many facets of loneliness, and the redemptive Š Coverage in paperback columns power of the imagination.

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“Astonishing… The prose is incantatory, the images arresting and beautiful, the emotional resonance of nearly every moment heartbreaking or jubilant . . . Give yourself over to O’Malley’s pace, and the reward will be one of the best novels you’re likely to read this year.” –Star Tribune (Minneapolis–St. Paul)

Thomas O’Malley is the author of In the Province of Saints, named one of the best novels of 2005 by Booklist and by the New York Public Library. He earned his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he teaches at Dartmouth College. Raised in Ireland and England, O’Malley currently lives in the Boston area.

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Constance A Novel

Patrick McGrath

“Constance is an intricate, multi-layered and, in the end, surprisingly tender work from a master writer.” —John Banville

The aloof and enigmatic Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Intoxicated by her chilly beauty, Sidney pursues the young woman with restless determination and soon proposes marriage. Constance accepts and, with some misgivings, moves into his dark, book-filled apartment.

But Constance is a haunted woman. When her father, a doctor, makes a FICTION / GENERAL devastating revelation, she’s forced to revisit the childhood she spent with her Bloomsbury USA | 1/28/2014 9781620400579 | $15.00 / $15.00 Can. dissipated sister, Iris, in a broken-down house on the Hudson River. Meanwhile, Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: Iris’s lover, an older man who plays piano in a seedy cocktail lounge, threatens 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Constance’s already shaky marriage, and before long, her world begins to fall Subrights: apart. Her only consolation is the friendship of Sidney’s son Howard, a strange, ICM delicate child, not unlike Constance herself . . . Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608199433 A compelling story of a troubled marriage and a damaged family, Constance is also a tale of resilience and loyalty, and of the sudden unexpected glimpse of MARKETING moral inspiration in the midst of crisis that can lead even the most lost of Š Coverage in paperback columns souls back to the light. nationwide

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Š Digital assets: excerpts available “A gripping, painful family saga . . . Patrick McGrath's story of a woman struggling to online save herself from nonexistence is told with clear-sighted compassion. As Constance slips in and out of reality, McGrath never once loses his hold on her as a character—her anguish, her mania and her charm.” —Oprah.com “Relationships are not what they seem in this stealthy melodrama about power struggles, repression, and madness . . . Ravishing in its troubled eroticism, jolting in its lightning-strike illuminations of malignant lies, secrets, and despair, this is one stormy tale.” —Booklist

Patrick McGrath is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Spider, Asylum, Martha Peake, Port Mungo, and Trauma. Three of his novels have been adapted into films, including David Cronenberg’s Spider in 2002, for which McGrath wrote the screenplay. Born in London, McGrath lives in New York.

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The Walking A Novel

Laleh Khadivi

“Nakedly passionate . . . The precision of Khadivi’s sentences, each with a gentle rhythm and a sure-footed intelligence, engenders deep sympathy.” —The New York Times Book Review

Saladin Khourdi has always known he will leave Iran. He spends his days in the cinema, dreaming of Hollywood stars in swimming pools. For his older brother, Ali, Iran is their home, their history. But both have to leave when the 1979 revolution leads to a killing in their mountain village. For both, there is a question

FICTION / GENERAL of how far they will go, weighing the danger of return against the danger of Bloomsbury USA | 1/21/2014 continuing. 9781608194377 | $16.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Laleh Khadivi’s novel moves fluidly through time, and from the Khourdi brothers to the broader chorus of the Iranian diaspora, to create a stunning sense of a Subrights: Trident Media people caught between the ancient and the modern, tossed by political currents. In Other Available Formats: the story of Saladin and Ali, she explores the tension in all immigrants, the Hardcover ISBN: 9781596916999 attachment to the place they must leave, and the dreams in the places they land.

MARKETING It is, at last, Saladin alone who touches down in Los Angeles. He is hungry and Š Coverage in paperback columns homeless, but he is not invisible—the city is unexpectedly heated with hate as the Š Promotion of author's digital backlist hostage crisis unfolds back in Iran. Los Angeles means avoiding confrontation prior to publication while searching for work, counting coins, and collecting sand in his shoes. But as Š Pre-publication online consumer and Saladin slowly makes connections in this new place, he must determine whether blogger review campaign home can be made anew. Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication PRAISE “A deeply personal and revelatory novel.” —Booklist ALSO AVAILABLE “[M]anages to convey painful truths with a rare combination of grit and tenderness. That The Age of Orphans: A Novel 3/2010 | 9781608190423 makes it not just an important addition to the literature of California’s immigrants, but Paperback / softback | $14.00 also a universal story of suffering and resilience told with elegance and compassion.” — The Age of Orphans: A Novel Los Angeles Times 3/2009 | 9781596916166 Hardback | $24.00 “[P]owerfully told. She depicts the Islamic Revolution as a wrenching cataclysm whose aftershocks rippled through all aspects of life in Iran. But she is at her best when considering those who fled, their mixed feelings of relief at having escaped and concern for those they left behind.” —Financial Times

Laleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan, Iran, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled, first to Belgium and Puerto Rico, finally settling in Canada and the United States. Khadivi received her M.F.A. from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. She now lives in San Francisco.

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Inside a Pearl My Years in Paris

Edmund White

From the celebrated author of The Flâneur and City Boy: a memoir of Edmund White’s Paris.

When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn’t speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left fifteen years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, he’d made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL He’d also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, MEMOIRS through which he’d come to understand French life and culture in a deeper way. Bloomsbury USA | 2/11/2014 9781608195824 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: The book’s title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half- 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy). White fell headily in love with the city and its culture: Subrights: Serial: Bloomsbury Translation, Audio, Film/TV: ICM both intoxicated and intellectually stimulated. He became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet; he wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and he became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Inside a Pearl MARKETING recalls those fertile years for White. It’s a memoir which gossips and ruminates, Š National online consumer advertising and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an campaign at publication aura of enchantment. Š National print and online review campaign PRAISE Š Promotion of author's digital backlist prior to publication “So witty, so insightful, so bristling with gossip, that one almost fails to notice that it is

Š Author events in NYC, Princeton, Key an essential chronicle of a revolution . . . City Boy is full of [charm], even when West, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San discussing weighty topics.” —Harper’s on City Boy Francisco, and Boston

Š Pre-publication online consumer and “For readers familiar with both the author and his subject, certain features of this blogger review campaign ramble through Paris past and present will come as no surprise . . . But White’s genius

Š Social media campaign at publication as a flâneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our delectation, from his encounters with present-day royalists to Colette’s . . . antidote for food poisoning.” —The New Yorker on The Flâneur ALSO AVAILABLE Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel Edmund White is the author of two previous memoirs, My Lives and City Boy, and a previous 2/2013 | 9781608197255 book on Paris, The Flâneur. His many novels include the autobiographical A Boy’s Own Story and, Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. most recently, Jack Holmes & His Friend. He is also known as a literary biographer and essayist. Jack Holmes and His Friend: A Novel White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University. 1/2012 | 9781608197033 Hardback | $26.00 / $29.00 Can. City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s 9/2010 | 9781608192342 Paperback / softback | $16.00

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Dogstar Rising A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal

“His second novel set in Egypt is as gripping as the first . . . [Bilal’s] skills are evident in the pace, confidence, and emotional truth of this brilliant novel.” —Sunday Times (UK), Must Reads

It is the summer of 2001, and in Cairo’s crowded streets, the heat is rising…

The unsolved murders of young boys are fanning the embers of religious hatred in the city. As tensions mount, Makana, a private investigator who fled his home in FICTION / CRIME Sudan a decade ago, has a premonition that history may be about to repeat itself. Bloomsbury USA | 1/14/2014 9781620405314 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: Hired to investigate threats made against a hapless travel agent, Makana finds 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H himself drawn to Meera, a woman who knows what it is like to lose everything— and who needs his help. But Makana’s troubled past is trying to lay claim to him Subrights: A. M. Heath once again, this time in the form of a businessman with a powerful secret.

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198719 When Makana witnesses a brutal killing, he attracts the attention of both the state security services and a dangerous gangster family. His search for answers takes MARKETING him from the labyrinth of Cairo to the city of Luxor and an abandoned monastery

Š Promotion of author's digital backlist near the tombs of the pharaohs, where he uncovers a web of intrigue, violence, prior to publication and secrecy that reaches deep into Egypt’s political heart.

Š Pre-publication online consumer and blogger review campaign PRAISE Š Outreach to mystery bloggers and “[An] excellent crime novel . . . The pleasure the book offers is the realistic, eye-opening crime websites picture of a place and a lifestyle. Parker Bilal has written several novels but this is only Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication his second mystery. More please.” —Literary Review (UK)

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, ALSO AVAILABLE Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written seven critically acclaimed literary novels. His works include In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier, and The Drift The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery Latitudes, as well as two other Makana novels, The Golden Scales and the latest, The Ghost 2/2013 | 9781608197965 Paperback / softback | $17.00 / $15.00 Can. Runner. He currently lives in Barcelona. The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery 1/2012 | 9781608197941 Hardback | $25.00 / $29.00 Can.

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The Ghost Runner A Makana Mystery

Parker Bilal

Makana travels into the desert heart of Egypt to solve a series of brutal murders and explore the shifting sands of the past in the third installment of Bilal’s acclaimed mystery series.

It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 FICTION / MYSTERY & echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo’s streets. DETECTIVE Bloomsbury USA | 2/4/2014 9781620403402 | $26.00 / $26.50 Can. Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his despondency 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl. Subrights: In a country where honor killings are commonplace and the authorities seem all too eager to turn a blind eye, Makana determines to track down the perpetrator. Serial: Bloomsbury He finds unexpected assistance in the shape of Azza, a woman who seems to Audio, Translation, Film/TV: A.M. Heath & Co. share Makana’s hunger for justice.

MARKETING Seeking answers in the dead girl’s past he travels to Siwa, an oasis town on the Š National print and online review edge of the great Sahara Desert, where the law seems disturbingly far away and campaign old grievances simmer just below the surface. As violence follows him through Š Promotion of author's digital backlist the twisting, sandblown streets and an old enemy lurks in the shadows, Makana prior to publication discovers that the truth can be as deadly and as changeable as the desert beneath Š Pre-publication online consumer and his feet. blogger review campaign Š Outreach to mystery bloggers and PRAISE crime websites “An enthralling read.” —The Guardian (UK) on The Golden Scales Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication “Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo.” —The Economist on The Golden Scales

ALSO AVAILABLE “Both an accomplished genre caper and a fine example of literary fiction.” —Kirkus Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery Reviews on The Golden Scales 1/2014 | 9781620405314 Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. “His second novel set in Egypt is as gripping as the first . . . [Bilal’s] skills are evident in Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery the pace, confidence, and emotional truth of this brilliant novel.” —Sunday Times (UK) 2/2013 | 9781608198719 on Dogstar Rising Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery Parker Bilal is the pseudonym for Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, 2/2013 | 9781608197965 Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written six critically acclaimed literary Paperback / softback | $17.00 / $15.00 Can. novels. His works include In the Hour of Signs, Travelling with Djinns, The Carrier, and The Drift Latitudes, as well as the first two novels in the Makana Mystery series, The Golden Scales and Dogstar Rising. He currently lives in Barcelona.

28 The Wives of Los Alamos A Novel

TaraShea Nesbit

A bold and emotionally charged debut novel told in the collective voices of the wives of the men who created the atom bomb.

Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago—and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with a P.O. box for an address in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of a project that didn’t exist as far as the public knew. Though they were strangers, they joined together—adapting to a landscape as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the banalities of everyday life and the drama of scientific discovery.

And while the bomb was being invented, babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos gradually transformed from an abandoned school on a hill into a real community: one that was strained by the words they couldn’t say out loud, the letters they couldn’t send home, the freedom they didn’t have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges to the people of Los Alamos, as the scientists and their families struggled with the burden of their contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind.

The Wives of Los Alamos is a novel that sheds light onto one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history, and a testament to a remarkable group of women who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy.

TaraShea Nesbit's writing has been featured in the Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other literary journals. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at the University of Denver and the University of Washington in Tacoma and is the nonfiction editor of Better: Culture & Lit. A graduate of the M.F.A. program at Washington University in St. Louis, TaraShea is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Denver. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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Vow A Memoir of Marriage (and Other Affairs)

Wendy Plump

“Disarmingly honest, beautifully insightful . . . by turns gut- wrenching and addictive . . . Every woman should read this memoir.” —Redbook

There are so many ways to find out. From a cell phone. From a bank statement. From some weird supermarket encounter. One morning in early January 2005, Wendy Plump’s friend came to tell her that her husband was having an affair. It was not a shock. Actually, it explained a lot. But what Wendy was not prepared for was the revelation that her husband also had another child, living within a mile of their home. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS Monogamy is one of the most important of the vows we make in our marriages. Bloomsbury USA | 2/4/2014 Yet it is a rare spouse who does not face some level of temptation in their 9781620400715 | $16.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: married life. The discovery of her husband’s affair followed betrayals of Wendy’s 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H own, earlier in the marriage. The revelations of those infidelities had tested their relationship, but for Wendy, it was commitment—the sticking with it—that Subrights: Serial, Audio: Bloomsbury mattered most, and when her sons were born, she knew family had to come first. Translation, Film/TV: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner But with another woman and another family in the picture, she lost all sense of

Other Available Formats: certainty. Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198238 Wendy Plump boldly walks one relationship’s fault lines, exploring infidelity from MARKETING the perspective of both betrayer and betrayed. Moving fluidly from the intimate to Š Coverage in paperback columns the near-universal, she considers the patterns of adultery, the ebb and flow of nationwide passion, the undeniable allure of the illicit, the lovers, and the lies. Frank, Š Social media campaign on intelligent, and important, Vow will forever alter your understanding of fidelity, and Bloomsbury accounts the meaning of the promises we make to those we love. Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com PRAISE Š Book club marketing campaign “Vow is brilliant from both a literary and a psychological perspective. A tremendous achievement.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed “[Plump’s] memoir is like a conversation with a super-smart pal.” —Ladies’ Home Journal

“It’s rare to see infidelity portrayed in the round . . . [A] gutsy, intelligent examination of vows and the tantalizing allure of the illicit.” —NPR.org

Wendy Plump has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for over twenty years. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and New Jersey Monthly and has won several New Jersey Press Association Awards. She lives in Pennsylvania with her sons.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain, adapted by Seymour Chwast

A Mark Twain classic gets a makeover from the illustrator NPR has called “diabolically witty” and “devilishly expressive.”

Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, and The Odyssey, but it is in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court that he has found his match. Inspired by Twain’s comic irreverence for the COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Knights of the Round Table, Chwast’s illustrations showcase his humor at its GENERAL finest. He brings us a brilliant imagining of the beloved hero, Hank Morgan, as Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 well as the full cast of Camelot characters, from Merlin to Lancelot to the king 9781608199617 | $22.00 / $23.00 Can. Hardback | 128 pages | Carton Qty: himself. With a bold and colorful design and no shortage of witty surprises, this is 7.250 in W | 10.250 in H Mark Twain as you’ve never seen him before. 2/c interior

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MARKETING “So cannily rendered that it makes Dante’s complex masterwork easily understood for Š National print and online review any reader. Divine.” —Chip Kidd on Dante’s Divine Comedy campaign “Diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings… a sort of high-end, WHAM- Š Pre-publication online consumer and blogger review campaign POW Cliff's Notes. Fiendishly entertaining.” —NPR.org on Dante’s Divine Comedy

Š Promotion of author's digital backlist prior to publication Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual Š Digital assets: e-card and Pinterest- communications. In 1985 the name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio’s ready illustrations director. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and created three previous Š Social media campaign including graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante's Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, and The giveaways at publication Odyssey. He lives in New York City.

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Little Known Facts A Novel

Christine Sneed

“Impressive . . . hypnotic . . . hard to put the book down. . . . Sneed is such a gifted writer.” —Curtis Sittenfeld, The New York Times Book Review (cover)

The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford–like stature— his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery—long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn’s grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less-important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 9781608199679 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. Most of us can imagine the perks of celebrity, but Little Known Facts offers a Paperback / softback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: clear-eyed story of its effects—the fallout of fame and fortune on family 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H N/A members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. With Little Known Facts, Christine Sneed emerges as one of the Subrights: ICM most insightful chroniclers of our celebrity-obsessed age, telling a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness and a moral compass; Other Available Formats: the question being, if we could have anything on earth, would we choose Hardcover ISBN: 9781608199587 correctly? MARKETING PRAISE Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide “Entertaining . . . inventive . . . A clever take and a fun read.” —Los Angeles Times Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts “Sneed possesses uncanny insight into the power dynamics in families, friendships and workplaces . . . Little Known Facts is one of those rare novels that is both profound and Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com fun.” —Chicago Tribune, Editor’s Choice Š Book club marketing campaign “Sneed is a graceful prose stylist . . . Little Known Facts is clean, spare and uncluttered.” —San Francisco Chronicle

ALSO AVAILABLE “Sneed’s wit, curiosity, empathy, and ability to divine the perfect detail propel this Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made psychologically exquisite, superbly realized novel.” —Booklist (starred review) Cry: Stories 2/2013 | 9781620400456 Christine Sneed's story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won AWP's Paperback / softback | $14.00 / $15.00 Can. 2009 Grace Paley Prize, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (first fiction), was named the Chicago Writers Association "Book of the Year," and received Ploughshares' 2011 John C. Zacharis Award for a first book. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University and Pacific University and lives in Evanston, Illinois. Visit her website at www.christinesneed.com.

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International Night A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*

Mark Kurlansky and Talia Kurlansky

From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a menu a week from across the globe and more than 250 tasty, accessible recipes and tidbits, both cultural and historical, for parents and kids.

Once a week Mark Kurlansky spins a globe and wherever his daughter Talia's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. This tradition has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with Talia—and now the readers of International Night—the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world, writing about food, culture, and history. COOKING / REGIONAL & His charming pen-and-ink drawings appear throughout the book. ETHNIC Bloomsbury USA | 2/25/2014 International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals— 9781620400272 | $27.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each—one for every week 7.000 in W | 10.000 in H of the year. Some are old favorites from Mark's repertoire, and others have been B&W throughout gleaned from research, but they are always his own versions, drawn from Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: First serial, techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to audio, translation chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Every recipe can be Film/TV: Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency carried out—easily—by any amateur chef, and they are designed to be completed with the assistance of children. MARKETING

Š National print and online consumer Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with advertising campaign overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and

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Š Pre-publication online consumer and PRAISE blogger review campaign “An immensely entertaining read.” —Los Angeles Times on Salt Š Promotion of author's digital backlist prior to publication “Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable Š Digital assets: video, e-card and idea and turns out a book of pure delight. Such is the case of Mark Kurlansky and the Pinterest-ready illustrations codfish." —David McCullough on Cod Š Social media campaign including online Google + or ShinDig hangout at “Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” —The New York Times on publication The Big Oyster

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the ALSO AVAILABLE World, 1968, and The Big Oyster, among other books. He's received many impressive awards, What?: Are These the 20 Most Important including the 2011 National Parenting Publications Gold Award for World Without Fish and the Questions in Human History--Or is This a 1999 James Beard Award for Food Writing for Cod. The children's book The Story of Salt received Game of 20 Questions? an ALA Notable Book Award. He lives in New York. Visit his website at 4/2011 | 9780802779069 www.markkurlansky.com. Hardback | $15.00

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Spectrums Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity

David Blatner

From the author of The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book, an engaging guide to the intricacies of the world around us.

In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, SCIENCE / GENERAL heat, and time. There is actually very little in this universe that we can feel, touch, Bloomsbury USA | 2/11/2014 see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It’s not an easy task to stretch the mind 9781620405208 | $17.00 / $16.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 192 pages | Carton Qty: to encompass both billions of years and billionths of seconds; the distance to 7.000 in W | 8.000 in H Jupiter and the size of a proton; the tiny waves of visible light and gargantuan but two color throughout invisible gamma rays; or the freezing point of helium and the heat generated by Other Available Formats: the blast of an atom bomb; but we must explore these far-reaching spectrums to Hardcover ISBN: 9780802717702 gain perspective on our small but not insignificant place in the universe. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner helps us “grok”—to MARKETING understand intuitively—the six spectrums covered in this book, making our daily Š Coverage in paperback columns lives richer and more meaningful through greater appreciation of the bizarre and nationwide beautiful world in which we live. Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com; book trailer PRAISE Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts “Leavened with wit and colorful anecdotes, each section reveals a wealth of astonishing and quirky details about the world around us . . . Complete with illustrative charts, Š Academic marketing campaign photos, and pithy quotes from celebrities as diverse as George Carlin and Max Planck, Blatner’s work is one of those rare nonfiction gems that make learning about science ALSO AVAILABLE eyeopening and fun.” —Booklist The Flying Book: Everything You've Ever Wondered About Flying On Airplanes “I found myself charmed and, yes, even amazed by some of Mr. Blatner’s examples.” — 10/2005 | 9780802776914 Peter Pesic, The Wall Street Journal Paperback / softback | $13.00 The Joy of Pi 9/1999 | 9780802775627 David Blatner is known for his award-winning books, including The Joy of Pi, The Flying Book, Paperback / softback | $14.00 and various others in computer science, including titles on InDesign, Quark XPress, and Photoshop. He lectures worldwide on electronic publishing. More than five hundred thousand copies of his books are in print in twelve languages. He and his wife and son live in Seattle, Washington.

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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Michael Sims

A revealing portrait of the formative years of the famed American writer—out of which he became the patron saint of nonviolent activism and environmentalism.

Henry David Thoreau is an American intellectual icon; what made him so was the decade between his graduation from Harvard and his departure from the cabin he built himself on Ralph Waldo Emerson's land at Walden Pond—out of which he became one of America's most influential writers. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LITERARY Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 In a detailed and textured narrative, Sims brings Thoreau to life—striding across 9781620401958 | $26.00 / $26.50 Can. the page like a radical folksinger rather than the curmudgeonly recluse who Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: occupies our mental image. In this youthful period, he wrote his first book and 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.125 in T b&w throughout refined the journal entries that formed the core of his later work, Walden; joined the anti-slavery campaign and studied Native American culture; spent the night in Subrights: Bloomsbury subrights: book club, jail that led to his celebrated essay, Civil Disobedience, which would in time first serial, audio Film/TV: Sanford J. Greenburger Associates inspire the likes of Gandhi and Martin Luther King; developed a scientific/poetic Inc. response to nature; and aligned with the Transcendental movement, which questioned assumptions about God, citizenship, and the Industrial Revolution.

MARKETING Sims relates intimate moments in Thoreau's daily life—teaching Nathaniel Š National print and online media campaign Hawthorne to row a boat; tutoring Emerson's nephew on Staten Island—and the deep influence of his parents and his beloved older brother, John, whose tragic Š National broadcast media campaign early death haunted him. Chronicling Thoreau's youthful transformation, Sims Š Digital assets: excerpts available on shows how his intellectual development would influence the rest of his life, and Bloomsbury.com resonate throughout American literature and history. Š Pre-publication bookseller and blogger outreach PRAISE Š Author events in New England “Immensely charming.” —The Boston Globe

“A fine stylist, Mr. Sims portrays these scenes with a beauty and an economy of ALSO AVAILABLE language that would make the co-author of The Elements of Style proud. He is a worthy The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an disciple.” —The Wall Street Journal American Classic 5/2012 | 9780802778161 “E. B. White was both a true friend and a good writer. So is Sims, who has opened the Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. doors and windows in his gentle and wise biography about a man who gave us Charlotte, The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Wilbur, Stuart, and so many beautiful stories . . . [A] lovingly rendered portrait.” —Los Collection of Victorian Detective Stories Angeles Review of Books 12/2011 | 9780802779182 Paperback / softback | $20.00 / $23.00 Can. Michael Sims is the author of the acclaimed The Story of Charlotte's Web, Apollo's Fire: A Day on The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Earth in Nature and Imagination, Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic Form, and the editor of Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories 6/2011 | 9780802777546 and The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories. He lives in Hardback | $25.00 / $30.00 Can. western Pennsylvania.

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Last Ape Standing The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived

Chip Walter

Twenty-seven human species evolved but only we remain. Why?

Over the past 180 years scientists have discovered evidence that at least twenty- seven species of humans evolved on planet Earth. What enabled us to survive when all the others were shown the evolutionary door?

Chip Walter tells the intriguing tale of how against all odds and despite nature’s capricious ways we stand here today, the planet’s most dominant species. Drawing on a wide variety of scientific disciplines, he reveals how a rare SCIENCE / LIFE SCIENCES evolutionary phenomenon led to the uniquely long childhoods that make us so Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 9781620405215 | $17.00 / $17.00 Can. resourceful and emotionally complex. Walter explains how the evolution of our Paperback / softback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: highly social nature has shaped our moral (and immoral) behavior. He also plumbs 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H the roots of our creativity and investigates why we became self-aware in ways 8p 4/c insert and art t/o that no other animal is. Along the way, Last Ape Standing profiles the mysterious Subrights: Fifi Oscard Literary Agency “others” who evolved with us—the Neanderthals of Europe, the “hobbits” of Other Available Formats: Indonesia, the Denisovans of Siberia, and the recently discovered Red Deer Cave Hardcover ISBN: 9780802717566 people of China, who died off just as we stood on the brink of civilization eleven thousand years ago. MARKETING Š Coverage in paperback columns Last Ape Standing is evocative science writing at its best—a witty, engaging, nationwide and accessible story that explores the evolutionary events that molded us into the Š Promotion of author's digital backlist remarkably unique creatures we are. prior to publication

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Š Social media campaign on “Exceptionally well-written overview of man’s evolutionary history.” —Booklist Bloomsbury accounts “If all science books were this witty and well-written, everyone would be a nerd.” — Pittsburgh Post Gazette

ALSO AVAILABLE Chip Walter is the founder of the popular website AllThingsHuman.net, a former CNN bureau Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human chief and documentary filmmaker, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment 2/2008 | 9780802716255 Technology Center. His articles have appeared in the Economist, Discover, Scientific American, and Paperback / softback | $15.95 / $17.50 Can. his original pieces based on Last Ape Standing appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Slate. He is author of four books and he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human 10/2006 | 9780802715272 Hardback | $25.95

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The Last Gift A Novel

Abdulrazak Gurnah

An astounding meditation on family, self, and the meaning of home by the Booker-shortlisted author of Desertion.

One day, long before the troubles, he slipped away without saying a word to anyone and never went back. And then another day, forty-three years later, he collapsed just inside the front door of his house in a small English town. It was late in the day when it happened, on his way home after work, but it was also late in the day altogether. He had left things for too long and there was no one to blame for it but himself.

FICTION / GENERAL Abbas has never told anyone about his past—before he was a sailor on the high Bloomsbury USA | 2/11/2014 9781620403280 | $26.00 seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a drugstore in Exeter, before they Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: settled into a quiet life with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him unable to speak about things he Subrights: Rogers, Coleridge & White thought he would one day have to.

Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both MARKETING born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna Š National print and online review now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the campaign relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been Š Pre-publication online consumer and spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and blogger review campaign is captivated by a young woman with dark blue eyes and her own complex story Š Promotion of author's digital backlist to tell. Abbas's illness forces both children home, to the dark silences of their prior to publication father and the fretful capability of their mother, Maryam, who has never thought Š Social media campaign at publication to find herself—until now.

PRAISE “Abdulrazak Gurnah is an often captivating storyteller, with a voice both lyrical and mordant, and an oeuvre haunted by memory and loss.” —The Guardian (UK)

“Here is a writer at the top of his form, who commands a strong sense of narrative, a meticulous eye for family dynamics, and an understanding of the corrosive psychology of colonialism.” —The Seattle Times

“Gurnah has some of the sharpness and clarity of VS Naipaul and more than a dash of Ben Okri's measured poetic diction.” —New Statesman (UK)

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar and lives in England, where he teaches at the University of Kent. He is the author of seven novels, which include Paradise, shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prizes; By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

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The Searchers The Making of an American Legend

Glenn Frankel

The New York Times bestseller “A vivid, revelatory account.” —The New York Times Book Review

Released in 1956, The Searchers, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, would become, almost immediately, a legendary film. In fact, its source material—a novel by Alan LeMay, based on a true story—was already American legend.

One hundred and twenty years earlier, in East Texas, young Cynthia Ann Parker HISTORY / NATIVE AMERICAN Bloomsbury USA | 2/4/2014 was kidnapped by Comanches. Raised by the tribe, she eventually became the 9781620400654 | $18.00 / $19.00 Can. wife of a warrior and the mother of three children, including future chief Quanah Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: Parker. It was twenty-four years before the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H B&W t/o restored her to her white family—foreign to her by then.

Subrights: Ross Yoon Agency Cynthia Ann’s story was told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American myth. The dominant story that emerged is one that departs Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608191055 dramatically from the history: a story of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxieties about the sullying of white women by “savages.” In MARKETING John Ford’s retelling, he cast Wayne, the archetypal hero, in the role of searcher and savior. And yet the film both upholds that dominant story and undermines it, Š National consumer advertising campaign at publication baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the making of America. Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide

Š Author events in TX Glenn Frankel begins in 1950’s Hollywood, and then takes us back to the open West. His book is a nuanced anatomy of a timeless story that, in every telling, Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts tells us more about who we’ve been and who we are as a nation.

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Š Book club marketing campaign “Casts a haunting, harrowing spell.” —Entertainment Weekly “A must-read for movie fans and anyone interested in mythmaking and the American West . . . Frankel’s excellent research and analysis and his fine writing raise the bar for the ‘making of’ film book.” —Associated Press “[A] fascinating new book about [The Searchers] and the history behind it.” —Martin Scorsese, The Hollywood Reporter “A riveting account of the war for the American West.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Impeccably researched . . . A fascinating journey from fiction to fact, from glorified legend to brutal event.” —The Washington Post

Glenn Frankel worked for twenty-seven years for the Washington Post, and won a Pulitzer Prize as Jerusalem bureau chief. His first book, Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel won the National Jewish Book Award. His second, Rivonia’s Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa, was a finalist for South Africa’s Alan Paton Award. Frankel is currently the director of the School of Journalism at the University of

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Everybody Matters My Life Giving Voice

Mary Robinson

The inspiring memoir by the first female president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, one of the Elders, and now United Nation Special Envoy.

One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance, BIOGRAPHY & Robinson reveals, in Everybody Matters, what lies behind the vision, strength, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GENERAL and determination that made her path to prominence as compelling as any of her Bloomsbury USA | 2/25/2014 achievements. 9781620405239 | $17.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H As an activist lawyer, she won landmark cases advancing the causes of women 16p 4/c insert; 4 b&w images t/o and marginalized people against the prejudices of the day, and in her twenty years Subrights: Lynn C. Franklin Associates in the Irish Senate she promoted progressive legislation, including the legalizing of contraception. In l990, she shocked the political system by becoming Ireland’s Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780802779649 first woman president, redefining the role and putting Ireland firmly on the international stage. In her role as UN High Commissioner for human rights, MARKETING beginning in 1997, she won acclaim for bringing attention to victims worldwide.

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Š e-Book promotion timed to Women's can, in our own way, help to change the world for the better. History Month and St. Patrick's Day PRAISE “Robinson fashions a stately, forthright autobiography . . . She details her work at hot spots across the globe, and writes engagingly and warmly of her current foundation addressing issues of climate change and world poverty.” —Publishers Weekly

“This is an extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman, who is also one of my heroes.” —Peter Gabriel

Mary Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. She is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation—Climate Justice, and lives with her husband, Nick Robinson, in Dublin and Mayo.

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The Victorian Internet The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

Tom Standage

A new edition of “a dot-com cult classic,” (Wall St. Journal) by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses— the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world’s first Internet.

The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph’s creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. HISTORY / WORLD Bloomsbury USA | 2/25/2014 B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank 9781620405925 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. the world quicker and further than ever before, and its story mirrors and predicts Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: that of the Internet in numerous ways. 5.063 in W | 7.752 in H B&W t/o PRAISE Subrights: Brockman Inc.

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The International Bank of Bob Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

Bob Harris

The inspiring memoir of an ordinary American who turned his brief brush with opulence into a joyful adventure of investing in the world’s working poor.

Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs created such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better. Bob found his way to Kiva.org, the leading portal BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as MEMOIRS twenty-five to fifty dollars, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99 percent, so he reloaned the 9781620405222 | $18.00 / $18.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: money to others over and over again. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H 16-page 4/c insert, maps on chap openers After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results Subrights: firsthand. In The International Bank of Bob, he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Film/TV: Marly Rusoff Literary Agency Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and Bloomsbury Subrights: First serial, audio enterprising people we’ve ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life—political Other Available Formats: and emotional—in parts of the world that Americans never see. Told with humor Hardcover ISBN: 9780802777515 and compassion, The International Bank of Bob brings the world to our doorstep, and makes clear that each of us can, actually, make it better. MARKETING

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Bob Harris has had a diverse career as a TV writer, stand-up comedian, TV and radio personality, and political columnist. His first book, Prisoner of Trebekistan, chronicling his Jeopardy! experience, was widely praised, as was his second, Who Hates Whom, a pocket summary of more than thirty conflicts around the world. He holds an honors degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Case Western Reserve University. Bob lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website at www.bobharris.com.

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Forecast What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics

Mark Buchanan

A master lesson on a smarter kind of economics.

Positive feedback—when A produces B, which in turn produces even more A— drives not only abrupt climate changes, but also the most important and disruptive events in economics and finance, from asset bubbles to debt crises, bank runs, and even corporate corruption. But economists, with few exceptions, have ignored this reality for fifty years, holding on to the unreasonable belief in the wisdom of the market. It’s past time to be asking how markets really work. Can we replace economic magical thinking with a better means of predicting what the BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / financial future holds, in order to prepare for—or even avoid— the next extreme GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 2/25/2014 economic event? 9781608198535 | $17.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: In Forecast, physicist and acclaimed science writer Mark Buchanan answers 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H B&W t/o (17 images) these questions and more in building a new model for economics, one that accepts that markets act much like the weather does. While centuries of classical Subrights: financial thought have trained us to understand “the market” as something that Bloomsbury subrights: Serial, audio Film/TV: Garamond Agency always returns to equilibrium, economies work more like our atmosphere—a loose surface balance riding on a deeper torrent of fluctuation. Market instability is as Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608198511 natural—and dangerous—as a prairie twister. With Buchanan’s help, we can better govern the markets and weather their storms. MARKETING

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The Ghost Apple A Novel

Aaron Thier

A blistering debut novel by a writer who brilliantly inhabits a panoply of voices to satirize both the indignities of modern life and the darker forces that bubble beneath.

"Every college I looked at, the students were like, ‘Whoa, this place is awesome!’ Then I came to Tripoli and everyone was like, ‘I don’t know. You get used to it. It’s not so bad.’ So I thought I might as well come here." — Adam Longman, Class of 2011

Tripoli College is a humble New England institution. Originally founded as a free FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/18/2014 school for Native Americans, it is now beset by financial problems and so has 9781620405277 | $25.00 / $25.00 Can. entered into an increasingly troubling financial relationship with a snack food Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: corporation. Big Anna® deposes the college president, uses the campus as a 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H testing ground for their latest “dietary and mood additive,” and creates a field Subrights: studies program in the Caribbean, where students in the (literal) field soon learn the true price of their Human Power Technology practices. Audio: Bloomsbury First serial, Translation, Film/TV: Cannell Literary Agency Set amidst this madness is a quasi love story, between Bill Brees, a dean going undercover as a student, utterly bemused by how things have changed since his undergrad days, and Maggie, an African American student startled into the MARKETING realization that maybe nothing changes at all. Š National print and online review campaign The Ghost Apple is told through a wealth of documents: tourism pamphlets, Š Promotion of author's digital backlist course catalogs, blog posts, historical letters, and slave narratives. Slowly, they prior to publication reveal the extent of Tripoli's current crisis, and highlight those larger crises—of Š Pre-publication online consumer and genocide, slavery, ignorance and indifference —on which the college and the blogger review campaign nation were founded . . . and on which we continue to subsist. Š Social media campaign at publication

PRAISE “A meditation on globalization, higher education, slavery, disease, and the addictive effects of all-you-can-eat pudding, this novel is at once lyrical and satirical, formally inventive and steeped in tradition. It is the sort of book that makes you laugh only until you realize how astringent its bite is.” —David Leavitt

Aaron Thier and his wife live by their wits in north Florida. His essays have appeared in the Nation and the New Republic.

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Ballistics A Novel

D.W. Wilson

“Wilson’s voice is distinctive, confident, and completely enthralling.” —Geoff Dyer

Fleeing the fallout of a relationship gone wrong, Alan West returns to the small town in the valley where he grew up. But when Cecil West, the grandfather who raised him, suffers a heart attack, Alan is given a mission: track down the father he’s never known, so that the dying man can make his peace.

And so Alan begins his search for the elusive Jack, a man who skipped town before his son could walk. The quest will lead Alan to Archer, an old American FICTION / GENERAL soldier who went AWOL into Canada at the height of the Vietnam War. Through Bloomsbury USA | 3/4/2014 9781620400784 | $16.00 him, Alan will learn the stories of his father, his grandfather, and of Archer’s own Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: daughter, Linnea—stories of two broken families who came together, got too 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H close, and then fell apart. Subrights: Curtis Brown Ltd Together, Alan and Archer set off on a journey through the burning mountains, to Other Available Formats: see what mistakes of the past might still be righted. Hardcover ISBN: 9781620400777 PRAISE MARKETING

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Š Coverage in paperback columns “Wilson’s world is dangerous and unpredictable, and his writing has a terrific, nationwide understated force.” —The Times (London) Š Digital assets: excerpts available on Bloomsbury.com D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. Š Tie-in promotion with Once You Break His stories have won the BBC National Short Story Award, been shortlisted for the CBC Short a Knuckle Story Prize, and been nominated for three Canadian National Magazine Awards. A story collection, Once You Break a Knuckle, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Wilson lives in London.

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How Paris Became Paris The Invention of the Modern City

Joan DeJean

When Paris became the ultimate destination city.

At the start of the seventeenth century, Paris, like many European cities, was still emerging from its medieval past. But in the space of that century, Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we now know, putting its own brand on urban space.

Most people associate the signature characteristics of Paris with the nineteenth century. Joan DeJean demonstrates that the Parisian urban model was in fact invented two hundred years earlier, when the first full design for the city was HISTORY / EUROPE implemented. During this period, Paris saw many changes: It became the first city Bloomsbury USA | 3/11/2014 to tear down its fortifications. A large-scale plan was created and executed, with 9781608195916 | $28.00 / $29.50 Can. organized streets and boulevards, modern bridges, sidewalks, and public parks. Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H Venues opened for urban entertainment, from opera and ballet to another pastime B&W/color invented in Paris: recreational shopping. Parisians enjoyed the earliest street

Subrights: lighting and public transportation, even as theirs became Europe’s first great walking city. Serial, Audio: Bloomsbury Film/TV, Translation: The Martell Agency A century of planned development made Paris beautiful and exciting. It gave people reasons to be out in public as never before and as nowhere else. It gave MARKETING Paris its modern identity as a place that people dreamed of seeing. As Joan DeJean shows us in this compelling portrait of a city in transition, by 1700 Paris Š National print, broadcast, and online review campaign had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life. Š Author events in NYC and Philadelphia PRAISE Š Academic marketing

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Joan DeJean is Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of ten books on French literature, history, and material culture, including most recently The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began and The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour. She lives in Philadelphia and, when in Paris, on the street where the number 4 bus began service on July 5, 1662.

46 Beasts What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain—orca whales, big cats, etc.—can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.

There are two supreme predators on the planet with the most complex brains in nature: humans and orcas. In the twentieth century alone, one of these animals killed 200 million members of its own species, the other killed none. Jeffrey Masson’s fascinating new book begins here: There is something different about us.

In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed what animals can teach us about our own emotions—about love (dogs), contentment (cats), grief (elephants), among others. But animals have much to teach us about the negative emotions such as anger and aggression as well, and in unexpected ways. In Beasts he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the “wild” is mostly a matter of projection. We link the basest human behavior to animals, to “beasts” (“he behaved no better than a beast”), and claim the high ground for our species. We are least human, we think, when we succumb to our primitive, animal ancestry. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.

Animals, at least predators, kill to survive, indeed, but there is nothing in the annals of animal aggression remotely equivalent to the violence of humankind. Our burden is that humans, and in particular humans in our modern industrialized world, are the most violent animals to our own kind in existence, or possibly ever in existence on earth. We lack what all other animals have: a check on the aggression that would destroy the species rather than serve it. It is here, Masson says, that animals have something to teach us about our own history. In Beasts, he brings to life the richness of the animal world and strips away our misconceptions of the creatures we fear, offering a powerful and compelling look at our uniquely human propensity toward aggression.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, an ex-psychoanalyst and former director of the Freud Archives, is the author of numerous bestselling, critically acclaimed books on animal emotions, including Dogs Never Lie About Love and When Elephants Weep. He lives in New Zealand with his family. Visit his website at www.jeffreymasson.com.

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“Most of us see humans as morally superior to animals in every respect, while describing our uniquely human bad behavior (war, torture, enslavement, extermination) as ‘brutish, animalistic, inhuman, sub-human’—as if it reflected ‘animal’ origins. But Jeffrey Masson has made me aware that humans in fact are the only animals that exhibit this behavior, and do so frequently and massively. A groundbreaking book.” —Daniel Ellsberg for When Elephants Weep NATURE / ANIMALS “If animals could read they would be filled with joy and Bloomsbury USA | 3/4/2014 gratitude to the authors—as I am. It is scholarly, vivid, and 9781608196159 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. compelling. Please read it.” —Dr. Jane Goodall Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H B&W illustrations “[The book’s] chief appeal is not so much what it makes us think as the remarkable range of feelings it explores and Subrights: Bloomsbury: Translation, first serial, audio evokes.” —The New York Times Film/TV: Andy Ross Agency

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The God Argument The Case against Religion and for Humanism

A.C. Grayling

A powerful argument for humanism as an alternative to organized religion, by one of the world’s leading public intellectuals.

Examining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief, The God Argument is a landmark book in the ongoing debate about the place of religion and secularism in our world.

While A. C. Grayling is a clear critic of religion as a guiding force, unlike some of religion’s opponents, he carefully considers the various arguments for the RELIGION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/11/2014 existence of God and the many reasons people believe in a deity. More important, 9781620401927 | $17.00 / $18.00 Can. he then offers a powerful alternative to religion as a worldview—humanism—an Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: approach to life for those who wish to live with intellectual integrity, based on 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H reason, evidence, and a desire to do and be good, and one which does not Subrights: interfere with people’s rights to their own beliefs and freedom of expression. Film/TV: Felicity Bryan, Ltd. Bloomsbury: audio Humanism, as Grayling reveals it, is an ethics of sympathy and tolerance based on the best endeavor to make sense of human nature and the human condition. Other Available Formats: Though it recognizes why the various faiths first arose, it nonetheless argues that Hardcover ISBN: 9781620401903 organized religion should no longer be given a privileged position in society. MARKETING Thoughtfully provocative, intellectually expansive, The God Argument makes a Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts powerful case that secular belief, free of religious dogma, allows for a much more compassionate and caring world view. Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide

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Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of A. C. Grayling is professor of philosophy and master of the New College of the Humanities, Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values London. He is the author of the acclaimed Among the Dead Cities, Descartes: The Life and Times of 5/2011 | 9781408803073 Paperback / softback | $18.00 a Genius, Toward the Light of Liberty, and, most recently, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible. He lives in London. The Good Book: A Humanist Bible 3/2011 | 9780802717375 Hardback | $35.00

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The Man Who Walked Away A Novel

Maud Casey

The third novel from a New York Times Notable author, about the early days of psychiatry and the poignant relationship between a doctor and patient.

In a trance-like state, Albert walks—from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia—all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he’s left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images. FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/18/2014 9781620403112 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Walked Away imagines Albert’s wanderings and the anguish that caused him to Subrights: Jean V. Naggar Agency seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.

MARKETING In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Š National print and online review campaign Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to Š Author events in Washington, D.C., MD, and VA reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in Š Book club marketing campaign search of wonder and astonishment. Š Digital assets: reading group guide available on Bloomsbury.com PRAISE Š Pre-publication online consumer and blogger review campaign “Chief among the many pleasures of Genealogy is Casey's compassionate, joyful, lyrical Š Social media campaign at publication voice: she guides us with kindness, gusto, and humor through a generation-spanning, redemptive story about that blessed/cursed, tragicomic animal, the American family.” — George Saunders

“Casey is a stand-up philosopher posing vexing questions about human existence. She’s funny, inventive . . . a dazzling narrative dare.” —The New York Times Book Review on The Shape of Things to Come (New York Times Notable Book of the Year)

Maud Casey is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable, and Genealogy, and a collection of stories, Drastic. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and has received fellowships from the Fundación Valparaiso, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Château de Lavigny, and the Passa Porta residency at Villa Hellebosch. She lives in Washington, D.C., and teaches at the University of Maryland and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson.

50 The Cooked Seed A Memoir

Anchee Min

“Astonishing . . . Min’s indomitable and magnificent memoir spans the full spectrum of the human experience . . . Portrays a woman of formidable strength.” —Booklist (starred review)

In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with Red Azalea, her memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. The story left off as she fled her homeland, but a whole new life was just beginning. Nearly twenty years later, Anchee has written the next chapter.

From the shocking deprivations of Communism, Anchee is transported to America, with its bounty. But it’s a bounty she still can’t access: She speaks no English, has no money and no clear path. Anchee teaches herself the language by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, and sleeps in unheated rooms in desolate neighborhoods. Lonely, struggling financially, and fearful of her visa expiring, she marries badly and then divorces, taking on the challenge of raising her daughter, Lauryann, as a single mother. But it is her dream for Lauryann’s future that will give her the courage and strength to endure. The story of Anchee’s eventual success—as a mother, a wife, a writer, and a woman—is an immigrant story that illuminates so many things we take for granted. And it is a universal story, about moving forward until you find a path – or find you’ve been blazing one all along.

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao’s Shanghai Film Studio selected her to work as an actress in propaganda films. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty-seven countries. She has since published six novels, including Empress Orchid, Becoming Madame Mao, and, most recently, Pearl of China.

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PRAISE “Moving . . . An uplifting work of incredible grit and fortitude.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[Min’s] memoir methodically reconstructs [her] painstaking first years in Chicago, living on a pittance, scrounging for work, amazed at what she considered luxurious dorm living, and guilt-ridden at her inability to rescue her family back home . . . Watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and reading Jane Eyre helped pave her yellow brick road to literary success, as she delineates captivatingly in this work.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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52 Flora A Novel

Gail Godwin

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, “a luminously written, heartbreaking book” (John Irving).

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen’s decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three, Helen lost her mother, and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother’s twenty-two-year-old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America, will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

This darkly beautiful novel about a child and a caretaker in isolation evokes shades of The Turn of the Screw and also harks back to Godwin’s memorable novel of growing up The Finishing School. With a house on top of a mountain and a child who may be a bomb that will one day go off, Flora tells a story of love, regret, and the things we can’t undo.

Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist, is the bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including Father Melancholy’s Daughter, Evensong, The Good Husband, and Evenings at Five, and her journal in two volumes, The Making of a Writer (with editor Rob Neufeld). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. Visit her website at www.gailgodwin.com.

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PRAISE “Godwin’s under-your-skin characters are perfectly realized, and the held-breath plot is consummately choreographed. But the wonder of this incisive novel . . . is how subtly Godwin laces it with exquisite insights into secret family traumas, unspoken sexuality, class and racial divides, and the fallout of war.” — Booklist (starred review)

“Unsparing yet compassionate; a fine addition to Godwin’s long list of first-rate fiction bringing 19th-century richness of detail and characterization to the ambiguities of modern life.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[A] stirring and wondrous novel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/25/2014 9781620401224 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H

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Nothing Holds Back the Night A Novel

Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan mines her personal history in this novel about her mercurial mother—in the wake of her suicide.

Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile’s occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic and in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized, medicated, and released in a kind of trance. Young Delphine was left to wonder: FICTION / GENERAL What changed her, or what shaped her all along? Bloomsbury USA | 3/25/2014 9781620404850 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: In this brilliant investigation into her own family history, Delphine de Vigan 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H attempts to “write her mother,” seeking out something essential as she interviews Subrights: aging relatives, listens to recordings, and reads Lucile’s own writings. It is a Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès history of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences. There are untimely deaths and failures of memory. There are revelations and MARKETING there is the ultimately unknowable. And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction: De Vigan must choose from differing accounts and fill in Š National print and online review campaign important gaps, using her writer’s imagination to reconstruct a life.

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ALSO AVAILABLE “De Vigan keeps you going with lovely language . . . The book isn’t just about these two strangers and what they have in common, it is about what all of us have in common, Underground Time: A Novel 11/2011 | 9781608197125 strangers or not.” —Bust Paperback / softback | $16.00 / $17.50 Can. “De Vigan’s lucid take on the fragility of our purchase on happiness and the frenzied No and Me 8/2010 | 9781599904795 madness of our cities clearly comes through in this bracingly acerbic novel.” —Star Hardback | $16.99 / $21.00 Can. Tribune (Minneapolis–St. Paul) “[An] elegantly constructed, sympathetic, compelling, enjoyable novel.” —The Guardian (UK)

“An engrossing, well-paced story that takes us into a world most of us know but rarely discuss.” —Booklist

Delphine de Vigan is the author of several novels, two of them available in English: No and Me, awarded the 2008 Prix des Libraires (Bookseller’s Prize), and Underground Time, shortlisted for the 2009 Prix Goncourt. Nothing Holds Back the Night has sold over half a million copies in France, and is being translated into more than 25 languages. De Vigan lives in Paris.

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Lion Heart A Novel

Justin Cartwright

A rich, contemporary tale of belief, identity, the nature of fiction, and the power of romance, Lion Heart is Justin Cartwright’s most inventive and powerful work to date.

Richard Cathar recalls his recently deceased father, Alaric, as a delusional hippie, one who fancied himself an intellectual and a historian. One of many far-fetched claims was that he had discovered—and then lost—documentation of a meeting between his hero, Richard the Lionheart, and Robin Hood after the Third Crusade. FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/18/2014 9781620401835 | $26.00 / $26.50 Can. In a quest to sort out the fact and fiction of his father’s life, Richard (named for Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: the legendary king) leaves London and travels to Jerusalem, where he falls in love 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H with the mysterious Noor, a journalist who herself has many secrets. Back in Subrights: England, he continues his research, finding his own evidence that Richard the Serial: Bloomsbury Lionheart recovered the True Cross from Saladin. Again he sets out, this time on Audio, Translation, Film/TV: United Agents Ltd the trail of the True Cross, which leads him through the Middle East and Europe—and to the powerful sense that myth and history may be inseparable. MARKETING

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ALSO AVAILABLE “Few living British novelists write English fiction quite as well as Cartwright. [What] Other People's Money: A Novel sets him apart from most if his contemporaries is that, beneath the humour and the 4/2011 | 9781608192731 Paperback / softback | $15.00 irony, he has a subtle awareness of the essential fragility of humans.” —The Irish Times Oxford Revisited: A City Revisited 8/2009 | 9781596910935 Justin Cartwright's novels include In Every Face I Meet, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Leading Hardback | $18.00 the Cheers, winner of the Whitbread Novel Award; White Lightning, shortlisted for the Whitbread; The Promise of Happiness, winner of the Hawthornden Prize; and, most recently, Other People's Money, named Spear’s Book Award Novel of the Year and included in Kirkus Reviews’ Best of Fiction Top 25. Cartwright was born in South Africa and now lives in London.

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Equilateral A Novel

Ken Kalfus

“A compact and deeply satisfying work of fiction, which, moreover, boasts that rarest of endings: one that's surprising yet, if you've been reading closely, inevitable.” —NPR.org

It’s the late nineteenth century, and British astronomer Sanford Thayer has won international funding for his scheme to excavate an equilateral triangle, three hundred miles to a side, from the remote wastes of Egypt’s Western Desert. Nine hundred thousand Arab fellahin have been put to work on the project, even though they can’t understand Thayer’s obsessive purpose. They don't believe him when he says his perfect triangle will be visible to the highly evolved beings who inhabit FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 3/11/2014 the planet Mars, signaling the existence of civilization on Earth. Political and 9781620400166 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. religious dissent rumbles through the camps. There's also a triangle of another Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: sort—a romantic one, involving Thayer’s secretary, who’s committed to the man 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H B&W diagrams t/o and his vision, and the mysterious servant girl he covets without sharing a common language. In the wind-blasted, lonely, fever-dream outpost known only Subrights: as Point A, we plumb the depths of self-delusion and folly that comprise Thayer’s Bloomsbury: Audio Film/TV: C. Fletcher & Company characteristically human enterprise.

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“Staggeringly intelligent.” —Tin House

“Kalfus has crafted a powerful, mesmerizing story about ambition—and its limitations.” —The Daily Beast

Ken Kalfus is the author of two previous novels, The Commissariat of Enlightenment and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, the latter of which was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and named one of the “books of the decade” by the Associated Press. He’s also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His books have been translated into more than ten foreign languages. He lives in Philadelphia.

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Coup de Foudre A Novella and Stories

Ken Kalfus

From National Book Award finalist Ken Kalfus, fifteen intellectually adventurous comedies, including a title novella ripped from the headlines.

The third collection by the celebrated author of Thirst and PEN/Faulkner Award FICTION / SHORT STORIES finalist Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, Coup de Foudre is the (SINGLE AUTHOR) Bloomsbury USA | 4/22/2014 groundbreaking work of literary invention Ken Kalfus’s fans have come to 9781620400852 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. expect. The book is anchored by the biting title novella, a sometimes comic, Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid in a New York hotel. With irony Subrights: Bloomsbury: Audio and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock and the First serial, translation, film/TV: C. Fletcher & hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct. Company In “The Moment They Were Waiting For,” a murderer on death row casts a spell MARKETING granting the inhabitants of his city the foreknowledge of the dates they will die. In Š National print and online review “An Earthquake in China,” a baseball player contends with a publicity visit to a campaign hospitalized child who is far more ill than expected. “The Un-“ is a nostalgic story Š Pitch single story for serialization in of a young writer's struggles as he tries to surmount the colossal, heavily guarded print or online wall that apparently separates published writers from those who are not. Š Early outreach to booksellers, consumers and lit bloggers The stories in Coup de Foudre vary boldly in theme, setting, and tone, yet they Š Promotion of author's digital backlist each share Kalfus’s distinctive humor and intellect, inextricably bound with high prior to publication literary ambition. Š Social media campaign on Bloomsbury accounts at publication PRAISE Praise for Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies: ALSO AVAILABLE “Kalfus is a virtuoso." —Jim Shephard, The New York Times Book Review Equilateral: A Novel 4/2013 | 9781620400067 “So full of pleasure and wonder from sentence to sentence and page to page that it Hardback | $24.00 / $25.00 Can. touches the reader physically, as Borges once put it, ‘like the closeness of the sea or of the morning’. . . . Extraordinary.” —San Francisco Chronicle

Ken Kalfus is the author of three novels, Equilateral, The Commissariat of Enlightenment, and A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, the latter a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and named one of the “books of the decade” by the Associated Press. He’s also published two collections of stories, Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the basis for the HBO film Pu-239. His books have been translated into more than ten languages.

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Maggie & Me Coming Out and Coming of Age in 1980s Scotland

Damian Barr

“As gripping as a thriller, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, this book will resonate long after you finish it. A triumph.” —S. J. Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep

On October 12, 1984, an IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Miraculously, Margaret Thatcher survives. Meanwhile, in small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mother rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive.

Damian, his sister, and his Catholic mother move in with her sinister new BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL boyfriend, while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous “Mary the MEMOIRS Canary.” Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the Bloomsbury USA | 4/8/2014 sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Thatcher takes 9781620405888 | $16.00 Paperback / softback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions, and makes greed good. But 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Damian follows Maggie's advice, working hard and planning his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life, and—in spite of violence, strikes, and Subrights: Bloomsbury: Audio, first serial AIDS—manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. Conville & Walsh: Translation, film/TV Maggie & Me is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's MARKETING Britain. It’s about coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady. Š National print and online review campaign PRAISE Š Book club marketing campaign

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“Shocking and funny in equal measure, and will have you weeping with laughter and sorrow.” —The Independent on Sunday (UK)

Damian Barr has been a journalist for more ten years writing mostly for The Times (UK) but also the Independent, the Telegraph, Financial Times, the Guardian, and Granta. He is the author of Get It Together: A Guide to Surviving Your Quarterlife Crisis, featured on Richard & Judy, and has cowritten two plays for BBC Radio 4. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and host of the infamous Shoreditch House Literary Salon. He lives in Brighton, England. Follow him on Twitter at @Damian_Barr.

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The Giraffe's Neck A Novel

Judith Schalansky

From the author of Atlas of Remote Islands, a brilliant, biting allegory of the former East Germany, set in that most absurd of places: a school.

Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she's been FICTION / GENERAL teaching biology for more than thirty years. But nothing will change the fact that Bloomsbury USA | 4/22/2014 9781620403389 | $26.00 / $27.50 Can. her school is going to be closed in four years: In this dwindling town in the eastern Hardback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Inge's husband, who 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H was a cattle inseminator before the reunification, is now breeding ostriches. Their B&W illustrations throughout daughter, Claudia, emigrated to the United States years ago and has no intention Subrights: of having children. Everyone is resisting the course of nature that Inge teaches Serial, Audio: Bloomsbury; Film/TV: Suhrkamp every day in class. Verlag, Berlin When Inge finds herself experiencing intense feelings for a ninth-grade girl, her MARKETING biologically determined worldview is shaken. And in increasingly outlandish ways, Š National print and online review she tries to save what can no longer be saved. campaign

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Š Pre-publication online consumer reunification.” —Der Spiegel on The Giraffe’s Neck review campaign via Goodreads and Amazon Vine For Atlas of Remote Islands “A fascinating volume on a unique subject.” —Daily Herald (Utah) “The author's prose . . . is poetic and clever, descriptive and dramatic.” —The Washington Post

“[A] gorgeous book that combines lyrical storytelling and whimsical mapmaking . . . Schalansky spins tales of murder, revolution, and cannibalism . . . with macabre glee.” —Time

Judith Schalansky was born in 1980 in Greifswald, Germany. She has degrees in both history of art and communication design and works as a freelance writer and designer in Berlin. She is the author of Fraktur Mon Amour and Atlas of Remote Islands, which was selected as an indie bookseller favorite of 2010 on NPR. This is her first novel.

60 The Ten Commandments The Hidden History of the Truths We Live By

David Bodanis

The author of the bestselling E=mc2 decodes the history of ten ancient rules that have influenced the world’s civilizations for the last three thousand years.

The Ten Commandments originated in the tumultuous period when Bronze Age empires were crashing to destruction and groups of refugees in Canaan needed new rules for how to survive together cooperatively. Old directives from kings and priests were no longer enough—and the commandments was a social contract that filled the gap.

David Bodanis’s The Ten Commandments is an eye-opening work of cultural history chronicling the enormous impact on civilization the commandments have had, sometimes notably by efforts to subvert them. For example, in eighteenth century France, Charles-Gilbert Romme flouted the fourth commandment by introducing the one-hundred-minute hour and the ten- day week, eliminating the Sabbath. In 1929, Joseph Stalin decreed a five-day week, keeping factories open around the clock. With each worker having a different day off, there was no longer a common Sabbath.

From the ninth commandment, about bearing false witness, leading to our courts’ “innocent until proven guilty” to the fifth commandment, about honoring parents, being used by Louis XIV to justify the Divine Right of Kings, by John Locke to refute kingly authority, and by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, Bodanis relates the human drama surrounding each commandment and broadens our understanding of and appreciation for arguably the most important and enduring tenets of Western civilization.

David Bodanis lectured at the University of Oxford for many years, and is the author of the bestseller E=mc2, Electric Universe, Passionate Minds, and numerous popular science books. Bodanis also is a futurist and business speaker in the United States and abroad. Born in Chicago, he lives in London.

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“A lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism.” —The Washington Post

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62 The Real Food Cookbook Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks

Nina Planck

The much-anticipated, beautifully illustrated cookbook from the beloved author of Real Food.

When Nina Planck toured to promote her two earlier books, Real Food and Real Food for Mother and Baby, the question she heard most was, “When are you going to write a cookbook?” At long last, The Real Food Cookbook is here.

In a dietary landscape overfull with low-carb bread and dubious advice about triglycerides, Planck is revolutionary in her complete embrace of a more old-fashioned and diverse way of eating. Aptly described by the Washington Post as “a cross between Alice Waters and Martha Stewart,” Planck showcases traditional, real foods—produce, dairy, meat, fish, eggs—through tempting and straightforward recipes for the beginner or regular home cook.

The Real Food Cookbook takes 150 classic dishes, from starters, soups, and salads to the center of the plate, to sweets and the cheese course, and makes them anew, transforming them with Nina’s signature approach: using fresh herbs, good butter, seasonal fruits and vegetables, grass-fed and pastured meats, and whole grains. With essays and tips throughout, sharing Nina's own real-food lifestyle, The Real Food Cookbook will provide inspiration for any omnivorous cook or eater. Find recipes for every occasion: a cheese plate with drinks, a family Seder, Easter egg salads, a summer barbeque. Learn how Nina stocks her pantry and where she buys real food. Whether you’re preparing the meals or simply eating them, everyone will enjoy the stories, feast on one hundred gorgeous full-color photographs, and beg the family cook to make the meals Nina loves.

Nina Planck is a farmers' daughter, food writer, farmers' market entrepreneur, local foodist, and advocate for traditional foods. She is the author of The Farmers' Market Cookbook, Real Food: What to Eat and Why, and Real Food for Mother and Baby, and the founder of the wildly popular London Farmers' Markets. Nina is a gifted speaker, a home cook, and a mother of three. She lives in New York City with her husband, Rob Kaufelt, proprietor of Murray’s Cheese, and their three children.

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“[Planck's] capacity for humor and self-deprecation makes for good company, and her intelligence and skepticism inspire COOKING / GENERAL confidence.” —Holly Brubach, The New York Times Bloomsbury USA | 4/15/2014 9781608196753 | $28.00 / $29.50 Can. “Persuasive and invigorating. A valuable and eye-opening Hardback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: book.” —Michael Pollan 7.250 in W | 9.000 in H | 1.000 in T Colour “Compellingly smart.” —Mark Bittman Subrights: The Unter Agency

“A cross between Alice Waters and Martha Stewart.” — Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post ALSO AVAILABLE Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, “The antidote to the faddists, alarmists, and kooks who all too Eating for Two, and Baby's First Foods often dominate American food discourse.” —David Kamp 3/2009 | 9781596913943 Paperback / softback | $17.00 / $18.50 Can. “An important book.” —Hannah Wallace, Los Angeles Times Real Food: What to Eat and Why Book Review 6/2007 | 9781596913424 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.50 Can.

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One Good Egg An Illustrated Memoir

Suzy Becker

“Suzy Becker is a wonderful writer, hilarious, touching, and sweet.” —Anne Lamott, author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Operating Instructions

For the first twenty-three years of her life, Suzy Becker was sure she would have at least two babies. Then it took another fifteen years to decide to go ahead and have just one. One Good Egg is the funny, warmhearted story of her journey to fertility and becoming a mom, illustrated throughout with hundreds of her clever and charming cartoons.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL Suzy Becker found professional success in her twenties, and by her thirties, she MEMOIRS decided she had everything she needed—the home, the savings, the friends, the Bloomsbury USA | 4/22/2014 family, and the gumption—to have a baby alone. At age thirty-nine, she joined the 9781608193264 | $15.00 / $15.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: ranks of the six million women who need medical help to conceive. In One Good 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H Egg, she chronicles her travels through the maze of fertility treatments, constantly B&W throughout considering and reconsidering how far she was willing to go, inwardly convinced Subrights: Edite Kroll Literary Agency none of it would ever work. She learned she was pregnant on her way to tape an essay for NPR, and five months later married her true love. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781608192762 You cannot adequately prepare for certain realities, like giving birth or MARKETING parenthood, but with One Good Egg, Suzy Becker provides the perfect

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“[A] funny, happily-ever-after story …This smile-inducing first-person journey is a worthwhile investment for anyone going through infertility treatment and anyone else who just wants a good chuckle.” —Booklist

“Tender and funny, this appealing modern love story is greatly enhanced by the author's drawings.” —Kirkus Reviews

Suzy Becker began her career as an award-winning advertising copywriter, and then founded the Widget Factory, a greeting card company. She is the author of the international bestseller All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, I Had Brain Surgery, What’s Your Excuse?, and several books for children. She lives with her family, one well-meaning dog, and a formerly feral cat in central Massachusetts. Visit her website at www.suzybecker.com.

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The Poets' Wives A Novel

David Park

FICTION / GENERAL Bloomsbury USA | 4/1/2014 An absorbing novel about the lives of the women most 9781620405246 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandelstam, and 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H an imagined contemporary Irish poet. Subrights: Serial, Audio, Translation: Bloomsbury What does it mean to be a poet’s wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights Film/TV: The Sayle Literary Agency of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and oftentimes, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to “the great man”? MARKETING

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PRAISE for The Light of Amsterdam

“Quietly moving . . . Park uncovers an essential sadness in each of these lost souls—a failure of courage or imagination that’s all the sadder for being fully recognized and regretted—yet the book is surprisingly funny, too.” —The Boston Globe

“Poetic, hopeful.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“A humane and deeply empathetic writer, Park turns the most ordinary of interactions into a moving story of people’s greatest hopes and fears.” —Booklist

“These are gentle, winning souls doing their best with their burdens.” —The New York Times Book Review

David Park has written eight books, most recently The Light of Amsterdam. He has been winner of the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, a Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, and a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and is a three-time winner of the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award. He has been shortlisted three times for the Irish Novel of the Year Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland, with his wife and two children.

66 The Monopolists Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind America's Favorite Board Game

Mary Pilon

The inside story of the world’s most famous board game—a buried piece of American history with an epic controversy that continues today.

With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emails stories ever, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins.

Most Americans who play Monopoly think it was invented by an employed Pennsylvania heater salesman who sold his game to Parker Brothers in 1935 and lived happily ever after on royalties. That story, however, is not exactly true.

Ralp Anspach, an everyman and WWII refugee, unearthed the real story and it traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, the Quakers, and to a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie. The Monopolists is in part Anspach's David-versus-Goliath talke of his 1970s battle against Parker Brothers, one of the most beloved companies of all time. Anspach was a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game, which hailed those who busted up trusts and monopolies instead of those who took control of all the properties. While he and his lawyers researched previous Parker Brothers lawsuits, he accidentally discovered the true history of the game, which began with Magie's Landlord's Game. That game was invented more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly and she waged her own war with Parker Brothers to be credited as the real originator of the game. Ironically, the Landlord's Game, like Anti-Monopoly, was underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today. It isn't surprising that Magie's game was widely embraced by left-wing intellectuals for decades, including members of Franklin Roosevelt's famed Brain Trust.

More than just a book about board games, The Monopolists illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century--a social history of American corporate greed that reads like the best detective fiction, told through the real-life winners and losers in the Monopoly wars.

Mary Pilon is a sports reporter at the New York Times. She was previously a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal where she 67 MARKETING

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Saul Bellow's Heart A Son's Memoir

Greg Bellow

“A fascinating personal document written with much sympathy, yet an admirable candor.” —Joyce Carol Oates

In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest memoir, Greg Bellow offers a unique look inside the life of his father, one of America’s greatest twentieth- century writers. Saul Bellow, the famous but fiercely private Nobel Prize winner, was known to be quick to anger and prone to argument, but he shared a tender bond with Greg, his firstborn.

In Saul Bellow’s Heart, Greg gives voice to a side of Saul unknown to most, the BIOGRAPHY & “young Saul”—emotionally accessible, often soft, with a set of egalitarian social AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL MEMOIRS values and the ability to laugh at the world’s folly and at himself. Saul’s Bloomsbury USA | 4/8/2014 accessibility and lightheartedness waned as he aged, and his social views 9781608199976 | $16.00 / $17.00 Can. hardened. This is the “old Saul” most well known to the world, and these changes Paperback / softback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 5.512 in W | 8.252 in H taxed the relationship between Bellow and his son, now an adult, so sorely that 2 8p B&W inserts Greg often worried that it wouldn’t survive. But theirs were differences of mind, not of the heart. Subrights: InkWell Management Other Available Formats: Interweaving memories, personal stories, and autobiographical references in Hardcover ISBN: 9781608199952 Saul’s books on which he can shed a unique light, Greg Bellow reveals himself to MARKETING be a fine prose stylist and never shies away from the truth about his father.

Š Coverage in paperback columns nationwide PRAISE Š Academic marketing campaign “A portrait of the artist at close quarters, and at a little distance; a confirmation of the Š Digital assets: video and excerpts deep autobiographical roots of Bellow’s fiction; and a revelation of what it means to be a available on Bloomsbury.com child, in this case one of three sons, of the most lavishly acclaimed American writer of Š Social media campaign on the second half of the twentieth century.” —Joyce Carol Oates Bloomsbury accounts “[A] richly personal portrait . . . Replete with compelling inside-literature tales, this is a loving and exacting remembrance of a ‘literary lion.” —Booklist

“Wrenchingly candid . . . I was deeply moved by Greg Bellow’s memoir of his passage from pain to acceptance.” —Leon Wieseltier

Gregory Bellow, Ph.D., was a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist for forty years and remains a member of the core faculty of the Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work. He lives in Redwood City, California.

69 WISDEN JANUARY 2014

The Strangers Who Came Home Australia's First International Cricket Tour

John Lazenby

A compelling and beautifully-drawn social history of the first Australian cricket tour of England.

The Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest, and arguably the most keenly-contested rivalry, in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen.

The Strangers Who Came Home is a compelling social history which brings the momentous summer of 1878 to life, telling the story of the extraordinary men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in England SPORTS & RECREATION / CRICKET (as well as several in Philadelphia on their return journey) during a demanding but Wisden | 1/28/2014 ultimately triumphant homecoming; how their glorious achievements on the field 9781408842874 | $36.00 / $38.00 Can. of play threw open the doors to international sports touring, and how these men Hardback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 6.024 in W | 9.213 in H from the colonies provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket.

John Lazenby has worked as a freelance journalist for The Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph and as a sports broadcaster for both radio and television. His first book, Test of Time: Travels in Search of a Cricketing Legend was selected as a finalist for the MCC/Cricket Society’s Book of the Year award in 2005, longlisted for the William Hill Prize and chosen as one of The Wisden Cricketer’s Books of the Year for 2005. He lives in London.

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Mushrooms River Cottage Handbook No.1

John Wright

In the first of an exciting new River Cottage Handbook series, mycologist John Wright uncovers the secret habits and habitats of Britain's thriving mushrooms.

In the first of an exciting new River Cottage Handbook series, mycologist John Wright explains the ins and outs of collecting, including relevant UK laws, conservation notes, practical tips and identification techniques. He takes us through the 72 species we are most likely to come across during forays in Britain's forests and clearings: old friends the Chanterelle and Cep, as well as a whole colourful host of more unfamiliar names—edible species including the

COOKING / SPECIFIC Velvet Shank, the Horn of Plenty, the Amethyst Deceiver, the Giant Puffball and INGREDIENTS the Chicken in the Woods, and poisonous types such as the Sickener, the Death Bloomsbury USA | 1/28/2014 Cap and the Destroying Angel. 9780747589327 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 5.410 in W | 7.920 in H | 0.990 in T The handbook is completed by more than 30 simple and delicious mushroom Colour images throughout recipes from the River Cottage team. With color photographs throughout, line Subrights: drawings, a user-friendly key and an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, US only The River Cottage Mushroom Handbook is a comprehensive and collectable guide, destined to be an indispensable household reference.

ALSO AVAILABLE John Wright has been introducing nervous people to the world of mushroom hunting since 1994. Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10 He has accompanied Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on several mushroom hunts for the River Cottage 4/2014 | 9781408808832 TV series, and has become a regular lecturer and guide at River Cottage HQ. Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9 4/2014 | 9781408808818 Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7 3/2014 | 9781408801857 Hardback | $32.00 / $26.50 Can.

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Veg Patch River Cottage Handbook No.4

Mark Diacono

In the fourth River Cottage handbook, Mark Diacono tells us everything we need to know to create our own productive, organic garden, no matter where we live.

Drawing directly from his experience as an acclaimed climate-change gardener, and of setting up a kitchen garden from scratch for River Cottage, Mark explains the practical aspects of organic growing, introduces us to a whole world of vegetables we may not have previously considered, and does away with alienating gardening jargon once and for all.

COOKING / SPECIFIC In clear, concise sections we learn about seed trays, supporting plants with INGREDIENTS climbing structures, mulching, composting, companion planting, irrigation and Bloomsbury USA | 2/18/2014 9780747595342 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. promoting pollination, and there are additional tables showing sowing and Hardback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: harvesting times, plant sizes, and alternative varieties of plants for different sites. 5.520 in W | 7.890 in H | 0.985 in T Colour images throughout About thirty recipes and a directory of useful addresses finish the book, and the handbook is complemented by bright color photography throughout. Practical and ALSO AVAILABLE inspiring, with a textured hard cover and an introduction by Hugh Fearnley- Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10 Whittingstall, Veg Patch is destined to join Handbooks No. 1, 2 and 3 as an 4/2014 | 9781408808832 indispensible household reference. Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9 A smallholder, environmental consultant and writer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment 4/2014 | 9781408808818 to sustainable, ethically produced food. Otter Farm, his smallholding in East Devon, has become Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. famous as home to the UK's first olive grove, as well as orchards of almonds, peaches and apricots. Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7 Mark also works closely with the River Cottage team, and has recently planted a kitchen garden at 3/2014 | 9781408801857 the River Cottage stores in Axminster. Hardback | $32.00 / $26.50 Can.

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Sea Fishing River Cottage Handbook No.6

Nick Fisher

A thoroughly practical guide to catching, preparing and cooking sea fish, from the bestselling River Cottage Handbook series.

From renowned fishing expert Nick Fisher comes this concise and beautifully illustrated guide to fishing along British coastline. All that's needed is a beach, pier, harbour, estuary or boat. Nick covers all the basics, such as when and where to go fishing, and then profiles the sea fish that you are likely to catch (each one clearly photographed), covering their conservation status, season, habitat and method of catching. Next he gets down to the nitty gritty, with a guide to tackles, COOKING / METHODS rods, reeds, rigs, knots and bait, and step-by-step advice on all the sea fishing Bloomsbury USA | 3/11/2014 techniques. And for once you've made your catch, there are 30 delicious recipes 9781408801833 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. from River Cottage. Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 5.410 in W | 7.850 in H | 0.970 in T Colour images throughout Nick Fisher is a leading fishing pundit who created, researched and presented five successful series of Screaming Reels for BBC's Channel 4, and presented the Sony Award-winning Radio 5 Live show Dirty Tackle. He is the co-author of the award-winning River Cottage Fish Book, and writes ALSO AVAILABLE regularly for the Shooting Times as well as for all the major British newspapers. Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10 4/2014 | 9781408808832 Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9 4/2014 | 9781408808818 Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7 3/2014 | 9781408801857 Hardback | $32.00 / $26.50 Can.

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Hedgerow River Cottage Handbook No.7

John Wright

In the seventh of the River Cottage Handbook series, John Wright explores the culinary delights of the British hedgerow.

Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods—these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free and delicious pickings to be found in the British countryside, and how to prepare and cook them.

First John touches on the basics for the hedgerow forager, with an introduction to conservation, safety, the law, and all the equipment that you may need. Next he guides you through the tasty edible species to be found. Each one is accompanied COOKING / METHODS Bloomsbury USA | 3/18/2014 by photographs for identification, along with their conservation status, habitat, 9781408801857 | $32.00 / $26.50 Can. distribution, season, taste, texture and cooking methods—not forgetting, of course, Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: some fascinating asides and diversions about their taxonomy and history. Fifty 5.430 in W | 7.850 in H | 0.970 in T Colour images throughout species are covered, including bilberries, blackberries, raspberries, common mallow, dandelions, hedge garlic, horseradish, pignuts, nettles, sloes, sweet chestnuts, water mint, bulrushes and wild cherries. After this there is a section ALSO AVAILABLE describing the poisonous species to steer clear of, with identifying photographs as Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10 well as warnings about nasty 'lookalikes'. Finally, there are thirty delicious recipes 4/2014 | 9781408808832 Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. to show how you can make the most of your (edible) findings. Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9 4/2014 | 9781408808818 Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hedgerow is an indispensable Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. household reference, and an essential book to have by your side for every trip into Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No.4 the countryside. 2/2014 | 9780747595342 Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. John Wright's passion for the foraging life is unbounded; he can be found from waist-deep in the sea collecting seaweed to ten feet up a tree picking mushrooms. He has become a regular lecturer and guide at River Cottage HQ. His first book, Mushrooms, was described in the Independent as ‘the best guide to gathering and eating wild mushrooms there has ever been' and was shortlisted for the Jeremy Round award. His second book, Edible Seashore, describes the joys of foraging down by the sea.

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Fruit River Cottage Handbook No.9

Mark Diacono

In the ninth River Cottage Handbook, Mark Diacono explains how to nurture and grow your own garden fruit

Growing fruit at home is a delicious and altogether more enjoyable alternative to buying it in the shops. Mark Diacono offers a practical and accessible guide to making the most of your garden and what it has to offer.

The first part of the book is an A-Z of the different varieties of fruit, with old favourites like apples, cherries, plums, blackcurrants, white currants, redcurrants, strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb as well as more COOKING / SPECIFIC exotic species like figs, grapes, cranberries, Japanese wine berries and apricots. INGREDIENTS Each is accompanied by a photograph, with detailed advice on when and how to Bloomsbury USA | 4/22/2014 9781408808818 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. grow and harvest. Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 5.420 in W | 7.830 in H | 0.990 in T In the second part of the book, Mark gives straightforward guidelines on Colour images throughout techniques like pruning and training, as well as how to deal with problems or pests. There is a section dedicated to growing under covers and in containers. ALSO AVAILABLE Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10 Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and with 30 delicious recipes, 4/2014 | 9781408808832 beautiful, full-colour photographs and a directory of useful addresses, this is the Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. ideal reference for any aspiring fruit grower. Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7 3/2014 | 9781408801857 A smallholder and writer, Mark Diacono is known for his commitment to sustainable, ethically Hardback | $32.00 / $26.50 Can. produced food. Mark leads the Garden Team at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage - Sea Fishing: River Cottage Handbook No.6 running the garden courses, giving talks and hosting events at River Cottage HQ and appearing in 3/2014 | 9781408801833 the River Cottage TV series. Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can.

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Herbs River Cottage Handbook No.10

Nikki Duffy

In the tenth River Cottage Handbook, Nikki Duffy shows how to grow and cook with herbs.

Herbs are the most liberating and confidence-boosting of ingredients: grow some and you feel like a proper gardener, bring some into the kitchen and you feel like a proper cook. They allow you to experiment and bring individuality to your cooking while, at the same time, anchoring you in sound culinary tradition because herbs are often responsible for those key flavours that 'make' a dish. Not only that but they are a step on the road to a more self-sufficient, homegrown, organic way of eating.

COOKING / SPECIFIC In the first part of the book, Nikki explains how to get the most from herbs. She INGREDIENTS outlines the basic choosing, picking and using guidelines. The second part is a Bloomsbury USA | 4/29/2014 catalogue of herbs, each with grow-your-own notes, flavour descriptions and 9781408808832 | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. Hardback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: mini-recipes. Among the forty herbs that Nikki describes are basil, bay, bergamot, 5.079 in W | 7.795 in H chives, coriander, dill, fennel, horseradish, hyssop, marigold, marjoram, mint, Colour images throughout parsley, perilla, rocket, rosemary, sage, scented geranium, tarragon, thyme, wild garlic and winter savory. ALSO AVAILABLE Following this are over fifty wonderful and adaptable recipes for everything from Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9 4/2014 | 9781408808818 herb-scented cakes and biscuits to soups, stuffings and tarts, where more than Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can. one herb is, or can be, used. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7 and full-colour photographs, Herbs is a must-have book for every kitchen. 3/2014 | 9781408801857 Hardback | $32.00 / $26.50 Can. Formerly deputy editor of the award-winning magazine Waitrose Food Illustrated, Nikki Duffy also Sea Fishing: River Cottage Handbook No.6 wrote a weekly food column in the Guardian. She worked for three years as the River Cottage food 3/2014 | 9781408801833 editor and is now a freelance food writer. Hardback | $25.00 / $26.50 Can.

76 ABSOLUTE PRESS JANUARY 2014

Shaken Not Stirred A Boozy Quiz

Graham Tarrant

The perfect present for drink buffs and quiz lovers to test their knowledge on their favorite subject.

Which Highland glen was famous for its whisky smugglers? Who said: ‘If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.’? How many times is Irish whiskey normally distilled? What do Armagnac and the French musketeer d’Artagnan have in COOKING / BEVERAGES common? Absolute Press | 1/28/2014 9781472903631 | $13.99 / $15.00 Can. Hardback | 112 pages | Carton Qty: Such questions abound in Shaken, not Stirred, the brilliant quiz book for trivia- 6.299 in W | 7.677 in H loving bibulous friends. There are 500 questions in 50 themed sections embracing Colour vector silhouette drink themed wine, beer, spirits, cocktails, liqueurs, drinking terms and toasts, as well as drink- background art related songs, movies, fiction, advertising slogans and famous quotes. This compilation of spirituous delights is the ultimate boozy companion to the foodie ALSO AVAILABLE quiz book Everything But the Oink! and promises many entertaining evenings Everything But The Oink when sharing a bottle or two. As Benjamin Franklin said: There cannot be good 10/2011 | 9781906650605 living where there is no good drinking! Hardback | $12.00

Graham Tarrant is the author of a variety of books on many different subjects. Quiz books hold a particular fascination and he is the foodie quizmaster for the Observer Food Monthly at Christmas.

77 BLOOMSBURY USA APRIL 2014

Family Life Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing

Elisabeth Luard

An extraordinary and moving memoir of an unconventional, unforgettable family.

Not everyone keeps an eagle owl in the spare bedroom cupboard, plays chess for the French Foreign Legion, or goes to school on an obstinate donkey. But this was all just a day in the life of the four Luard children. For the Luards, growing up as their family travelled across Europe, life was a series of adventures. Yet no family is immune to tragedy, and in Francesca, the eldest of three daughters, we find a true heroine. Honest, perceptive and passionate, she tells her own story – until she can tell it no more. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL Full of anecdotes and peppered with their favourite recipes, Family Life is an MEMOIRS extraordinary story of joy, grief and, above all – love. Elisabeth Luard gives a Bloomsbury USA | 4/29/2014 truthful and moving mother’s account of their unconventional, unforgettable tale. 9781408831076 | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 5.079 in W | 7.795 in H Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer whose work includes The Old World Kitchen, a New York Times benchmark cookbook of the twentieth century, The Food of Spain and Portugal, European Festival Food, Sacred Food and The Latin American Kitchen. She contributes regularly to ALSO AVAILABLE The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Country Living and The Oldie and is currently director of The Oxford My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What Symposium on Food & Cookery. She lives in west Wales. to Do About Other Women 4/2014 | 9781408831250 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. Still Life: Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids 4/2014 | 9781408831427 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse 11/2011 | 9781408806463 Hardback | $50.00

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My Life as a Wife Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women

Elisabeth Luard

A story of laughter and hope as well as sadness, written by a woman of spirit.

Born in London during the Blitz, Elisabeth Luard – step-daughter of a British diplomat and reluctant debutante in her teens - was working as an office typist at Private Eye when she fell for the ‘King of Satire’ Nicholas Luard. At just twenty-one years old, she married him. As the pioneer of Britain's satire movement, Nicholas was intelligent, handsome and charismatic, yet he was also unreliable, a philanderer and very often only just ahead of the bank. Their life together may not always have been easy, but it was certainly never dull. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL Tracing the fascinating years they spent together in London to their years in MEMOIRS Spain, France, the Hebrides and Wales with their four children, Luard’s frank and Bloomsbury USA | 4/29/2014 bittersweet memoir takes us through the best and the worst of their marriage, and 9781408831250 | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. Paperback / softback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: chronicles Nicholas’s devastating descent into alcoholism. Yet this is also a story 5.079 in W | 7.795 in H of hope as well as sadness - the healing power of children, the comfort and 2x8pp intergrated pleasure of good food and the simple joy of making life work. Both honest and tender, it is an account of a life shared and, above all, of a love story with flaws. ALSO AVAILABLE Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer whose work includes The Old World Kitchen, a Damn Thing New York Times benchmark cookbook of the twentieth century, The Food of Spain and Portugal, 4/2014 | 9781408831076 European Festival Food, Sacred Food and The Latin American Kitchen. She contributes regularly to Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Country Living and The Oldie and is currently director of The Oxford Still Life: Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life Symposium on Food & Cookery. She lives in west Wales. After Kids 4/2014 | 9781408831427 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse 11/2011 | 9781408806463 Hardback | $50.00

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Still Life Klipfisk, Cloudberries and Life After Kids

Elisabeth Luard

Funny, uplifting and insightful, Still Life is memoir which explores new worlds through the kitchens, market places and traditions of the locals.

When her children flew the nest, Elisabeth Luard decided it was time to discover new worlds, beyond the family. As a prize-winning food writer, Elisabeth Luard chose to explore through her cookery. Guided by s trail of enticing aromas and flavours, Luard travels from kitchen to field to restaurant, taking us on a journey that criss-crosses the globe, from the gastronomic delights of the Bosphorus to life in the Arctic circle and the glitzy cuisine of Hollywood. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PERSONAL Full of the sparkling anecdotes of the people she meets, and scattered with exotic MEMOIRS recipes picked up along the way, Elisabeth Luard provides a window into fragile, Bloomsbury USA | 4/29/2014 9781408831427 | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. often vanishing, ways of life as she explores new countries through the kitchens, Paperback / softback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: market places and traditions of the locals. Funny, uplifting and insightful, Still Life 5.079 in W | 7.795 in H offers a fresh look at the world outside the family.

ALSO AVAILABLE Elisabeth Luard is an award-winning food writer whose work includes The Old World Kitchen, a New York Times benchmark cookbook of the twentieth century, The Food of Spain and Portugal, Family Life: Birth, Death and the Whole Damn Thing European Festival Food, Sacred Food and The Latin American Kitchen. She contributes regularly to 4/2014 | 9781408831076 The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Country Living and The Oldie and is currently director of The Oxford Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. Symposium on Food & Cookery. She lives in west Wales. My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and What to Do About Other Women 4/2014 | 9781408831250 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $17.00 Can. A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse 11/2011 | 9781408806463 Hardback | $50.00

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Acosta, Carlos; Pig's Foot: A Novel...... 20 Giraffe's Neck, The: A Novel; Judith Schalansky...... 60 Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The: A Young Man's God Argument, The: The Case against Religion and for Unlikely Path to Walden Pond; Michael Sims...... 36 Humanism; A.C. Grayling...... 49 Aronson, Louise; A History of the Present Illness: Stories. . . 21 Godwin, Gail; Flora: A Novel...... 53 Ballistics: A Novel; D. W. Wilson...... 45 Good in a Crisis: A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Barr, Damian; Maggie & Me: Coming Out and Coming of Age Near-Death Experiences; Margaret Overton...... 17 in 1980s Scotland...... 59 Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation; Good and Evil; Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson...... 47 Jonathan Rieder...... 9 Becker, Suzy; One Good Egg: An Illustrated Memoir...... 65 Grayling, A.C.; The God Argument: The Case against Religion Before We Met: A Novel; Lucie Whitehouse...... 22 and for Humanism...... 49 Bellow, Greg; Saul Bellow's Heart: A Son's Memoir...... 69 Greenberg, Joel; A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction...... 18 Berger, Warren; A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas...... 15 Gurnah, Abdulrazak; The Last Gift: A Novel...... 38 Bilal, Parker; Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery...... 27 Harris, Bob; The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time...... 42 Bilal, Parker; The Ghost Runner: A Makana Mystery...... 28 Hedgerow: River Cottage Handbook No.7; John Wright . . . . Blatner, David; Spectrums: Our Mind-boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity...... 35 ...... 74 Bodanis, David; The Ten Commandments: The Hidden History Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10; Nikki Duffy...... 76 of the Truths We Live By...... 61 History of the Present Illness, A: Stories; Louise Aronson . . Buchanan, Mark; Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and ...... 21 the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. . . . . 43 Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Carr, Sarah; Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, Struggle to Educate America's Children; Sarah Carr...... 5 and the Struggle to Educate America's Children...... 5 How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City Cartwright, Justin; Lion Heart: A Novel...... 56 ; Joan DeJean...... 46 Casey, Maud; The Man Who Walked Away: A Novel...... 50 Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris; Edmund White...... 26 Chwast, Seymour; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's International Bank of Bob, The: Connecting Our Worlds Court...... 32 One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time; Bob Harris...... 42 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A; Seymour International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Chwast...... 32 Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Recipes*; Constance: A Novel; Patrick McGrath...... 24 Mark Kurlansky...... 34 Cooked Seed, The: A Memoir; Anchee Min...... 51 James, Jr., Rawn; The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military...... 7 Coup de Foudre: A Novella and Stories; Ken Kalfus. . . . . 58 Jones, Thai; More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Crusades of Cesar Chavez, The: A Biography; Miriam Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy . . . Pawel...... 13 ...... 19 DeJean, Joan; How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City...... 46 Kalfus, Ken; Coup de Foudre: A Novella and Stories...... 58 Diacono, Mark; Fruit: River Cottage Handbook No.9...... 75 Kalfus, Ken; Equilateral: A Novel...... 57 Diacono, Mark; Veg Patch: River Cottage Handbook No.4 . . . Khadivi, Laleh; The Walking: A Novel...... 25 ...... 72 Kirschvink, Joe; A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth . . Dogstar Rising: A Makana Mystery; Parker Bilal...... 27 ...... 10 Double V, The: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military; Rawn James, Jr...... 7 Kurlansky, Mark; International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World *Including More than 250 Duffy, Nikki; Herbs: River Cottage Handbook No.10...... 76 Recipes*...... 34 Egerton, Douglas R.; The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era...... 6 and Why We Survived; Chip Walter...... 37 Equilateral: A Novel; Ken Kalfus...... 57 Last Gift, The: A Novel; Abdulrazak Gurnah...... 38 Everybody Matters: My Life Giving Voice; Mary Robinson . 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