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Macmillan is pleased to offer a diverse selection of broadly appealing, critically acclaimed books—all of them ideally suited for First-Year Experience Table of Contents: and Common Reading programs.

Accessible yet challenging, timely Non-fiction....4 yet classic, these are books that invite campus-wide discussion while also Poetry and Fiction....53 fostering individual growth, that ask questions and make demands of all College Success....72 who pick them up—books meant to open doors, change minds, undercut Insider’s Guides....74 assumptions, spark debates. Macmillan Speakers....76 Above all, these books will help students to succeed across all manner Custom Publishing....77 of academic disciplines by addressing them—and stimulating Keep in Mind....78 them, and moving them—as only the best books can. As a class or on Ordering Information....79 their own, freshmen achieve their very best, as readers and as students, when they’re “on the same page” as their peers. That’s where these books come in.

*The First-Year Experience® is a service mark of the University of South Carolina. A license may be granted upon written request to use the term The First-Year Experience in association with products designed to assist educators in creating programs to enhance the first college year. This license is not transferable without written approval of the University of South Carolina. 3 The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert NON-FICTION Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“Your view of the world will be fundamentally changed . . . Kolbert is an astute observer, excellent explainer, and superb synthesizer, and even manages to find humor in her subject matter.” —The Seattle Times

ver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring theO sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamanian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day.

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Picador Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Paperback • 336 pp • $16.00 Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. ISBN: 978-1-250-06218-5 She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children. e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Linfield College (OR); Occidental College (CA) 4 Being Mortal Medicine and What Matters in NON-FICTION the End Atul Gawande

“Being Mortal, Atul Gawande’s masterful exploration of aging, death, and the medical profession’s mishandling of both, is his best and most personal book yet.” —The Boston Globe

edicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of Mmedicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person’s last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

Atul Gawande is author of three bestselling Metropolitan Books books: Complications; Better; and The Checklist Hardcover • 304 pages • $26.00 Manifesto. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and ISBN: 978-0-8050-9515-9 Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard e-book Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He and his wife have three audiobook children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs East Central University Honors Program (OK); Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health Science (OH); University of Massachusetts Medical School

5 Spare Parts Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream Joshua Davis NON-FICTION “It’s the most American of stories: how determination and ingenuity can bring triumph over long odds. There are too few stories like this written about Latino students. Poignant and beautifully told, Spare Parts makes you feel Cristian, Lorenzo, Luis, and Oscar’s frustration at the obstacles and indignities they face—and makes you cheer as they rise to overcome each one of them.” —Sonia Nazario, author of Enrique’s Journey

n 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix,I Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. And build a robot they did. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a level competition—and yet, against all odds . . . they won! But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement—will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis’s Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out.

Joshua Davis is a contributing editor Farrar, Straus and Giroux at Wired, cofounder of Epic magazine, Paperback • 240 pp • $14.00 and the author of The Underdog, a ISBN: 978-0-374-53498-1 memoir about his experiences as an arm wrestler, backward runner, and e-book matador. The article “La Vida Robot,” the movie Spare Parts, and the Also Available: Spanish language edition documentary, Underwater Dreams, Los inventores: Cuatro adolescentes are all based on his reporting. He lives inmigrantes, un robot y la batalla por el in San Francisco, California. sueño Americano ISBN: 978-0-374-28450-3 e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs Alamo Heights High School (TX); Concordia University (TX); Hood College (MD); Nash Community College (NC); Norwalk Community College (CT); Oakland University, The Honors College (MI); Salem State University (MA); University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science 6 Humans of New York: NON-FICTION Stories Brandon Stanton

“A wondrous mix of races, ages, genders, and social classes, and on virtually every page is a surprise.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

n the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton set out to create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera, he began crisscrossing the city, covering thousands of miles onI foot, all in an attempt to capture New Yorkers and their stories. The result of these efforts was a vibrant blog he called “Humans of New York,” in which his photos were featured alongside quotes and anecdotes. The blog has steadily grown, now boasting millions of devoted followers; and in the summer of 2014, the UN chose Brandon to travel around the world on a goodwill mission that had followers meeting people from Iraq to the Ukraine to Mexico City via the photos he took. Ever since Brandon began interviewing people on the streets of New York, the dialogue he’s had with them has increasingly become as in-depth and moving as the photo themselves. Humans of New York: Stories presents a whole new group of humans, complete with stories that delve deeper and surprise with greater candor.

Brandon Stanton studied at the University of St. Martin’s Press Georgia and worked as a bond trader in Chicago Hardcover • 432 pp • $29.99 before founding Humans of New York in the ISBN: 978-1-250-05890-4 summer of 2010. He is the creator of Humans of New York (also published by St. Martin’s Press) as well as the children’s book, Little Humans. e-book Stanton lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at St. John’s University (NY) 7 A More Beautiful Question The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

NON-FICTION Warren Berger

“Is there a relationship between innovation and the ability to ask ambitious questions? The journalist and innovation expert Berger argues there is, and in this breezy management book he seeks to improve our capacity to question . . . One closes Berger’s book newly conscious of the significance of smart questions.” —The New York Times Book Review

arren Berger shows that one of the most powerful forces for igniting change in business and in our daily lives is a simple, under-appreciated tool—one that has been available to us since childhood.W Questioning—deeply, imaginatively, “beautifully”—can help us identify and solve problems, come up with game-changing ideas, and pursue fresh opportunities. So why are we often reluctant to ask “Why?” As Berger shows, the most creative, successful people tend to be expert questioners. They’ve mastered the art of inquiry, raising questions no one else is asking—and finding powerful answers. The author takes us inside red-hot businesses like Google, Netflix, IDEO, and Airbnb to show how questioning is baked into their organizational DNA. He also shares inspiring stories of artists, teachers, entrepreneurs, basement tinkerers, and social activists who changed their lives and the world around them—by starting with a “beautiful question.” A More Beautiful Question outlines a practical Why / What If / How system of inquiry that can guide you through the process of innovative questioning—helping you find imaginative, powerful answers to your own “beautiful questions.”

Warren Berger’s writing and research on Bloomsbury questioning and innovation has appeared in Hardcover • 272 pp • $26.00 Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and ISBN: 978-1-62040-145-3 Wired. His previous book was Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Business and Your Life.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Quinnipiac University (CT) 8 On the Run NON-FICTION Fugitive Life in an American City Alice Goffman

“A remarkable feat of reporting . . . The level of detail in this book and Goffman’s ability to understand her subjects’ motivations are astonishing— and riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review

ailed as an “extraordinary new book” (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker), Alice Goffman’s on- the-ground account documents the effects of the American criminal justice system in a predominatelyH African-American neighborhood in Philadelphia. Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationships, jobs—into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance—some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices.

Alice Goffman is assistant professor of sociol- Picador ogy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paperback • 304 pp • $16.00 For more information, please watch Goffman’s ISBN: 978-1-250-06566-7 TED Talk, How We’re Priming Some Kids for College—and Others for Prison. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at California State University, East Bay 9 Black Man in a White Coat A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine

NON-FICTION Damon Tweedy, M.D.

“A timely, thought-provoking examination of our heartbreaking health care system.” —USA Today

hen Damon Tweedy begins medical school, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined aW new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of most health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care.

Dr. Damon Tweedy is a graduate of Duke Picador Medical School and Yale Law School. He is Hardcover • 304 pp • $26.00 an assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke ISBN: 978-1-250-04463-1 University Medical Center and staff physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has published articles in the Journal of the e-book American Medical Association and the Annals of Internal Medicine. His columns and op-eds about race and medicine have appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer and the Atlanta © Stocks Photography Journal-Constitution. He lives outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.

10 Who We Be A Cultural History of Race in NON-FICTION Post-Civil Rights America Jeff Chang

“Who We Be is ambitious in its scope, an impressive gathering of a wide range of artists of color, with their creative interventions and politically charged war stories.” —The New York Times Book Review

ace. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called theR colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed— and not changed—over the half-century? After eras framed by words like “multicultural” and “post- racial,” do we see each other any more clearly? From the dream of integration to the reality of colorization, Who We Be remixes comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin into a powerful, unusual, and timely cultural history of the idea of racial progress. In this follow-up to the classic Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang brings fresh energy, style, and sweep to the essential American story. “The book is especially useful for novices looking for a primer on race and culture, but it would behoove anyone who has an interest in what it means to be an American to read it.” —Reniqua Allen, San Francisco Chronicle

Jeff Chang’s first book was the award-winning Picador Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Paperback • 416 pp • $20.00 Generation. He is the Executive Director of the ISBN: 978-1-250-07489-8 Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University and lives in California. e-book

11 Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free Héctor Tobar

NON-FICTION Includes New Material for the Paperback Now the Major Motion Picture The 33

“Weaving together the drama of the miners’ harrowing ordeal below ground with the anguish of families and rescuers on the surface, Tobar delivers a masterful account of exile and human longing, of triumph in the face of all odds.” —Los Angeles Times

hen the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. AfterW the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-one filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit, Deep Down Dark captures the profound ways in which the lives of everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed. “Whether the story is completely new to you, or if you were one of the millions glued to the news reports and wondering, will they make it—physically, emotionally, spiritually—you’ll be greatly rewarded to learn how they did.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Picador journalist and a novelist. He is the author of The Paperback • 336 pp • $16.00 Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and ISBN: 978-1-250-07485-0 The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children. e-book

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Earlham College (IN); Indiana State University; Ramapo College (NJ) 12 The Modern Savage NON-FICTION Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals James McWilliams

“In poignant, powerful, and persuasive prose, McWilliams reveals the scope of the cruelty that takes place even on the smallest and—supposedly—most humane animal farms.” —Marc Bekoff, The Huffington Post

n the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco- freaksI into a mainstream movement. Although animal products are often labeled “cage free,” “free range,” and “humanely raised,” can we trust these goods to be safe, sound, or ethical? In The Modern Savage, James McWilliams pushes back against the questionable moral standards of a largely omnivorous world and explores the “alternative to the alternative”—not eating domesticated animals at all. In poignant, powerful, and persuasive prose, McWilliams reveals the scope of the cruelty that takes place even on the smallest and—supposedly—most humane animal farms. In a world increasingly aware of animals’ intelligence and the range of their emotions, McWilliams advocates for the only truly moral, sustainable choice—a diet without meat, dairy, or other animal products. McWilliams’s The Modern Savage is a riveting expose of an industry that has typically hidden behind a veil of morality, and a compelling account of how to live a more economical, environmental, and ethical life.

James McWilliams is a writer and historian St. Martin’s Griffin living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of five Paperback • 304 pp • $15.99 previous books on food, animals, and ISBN: 978-1-250-07022-7 agriculture, including Just Food and A Revolution in Eating. His work has appeared e-book in The New York Times, Harper’s magazine, Slate, The Atlantic, and a wide variety of other publications.

13 I Am Because You Are How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community NON-FICTION Jacob Lief with Andrea Thompson Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

“Lief ’s straightforward yet moving work delineates step by step how their initial good intentions became a powerful tool for transforming young lives.”—Kirkus Reviews

n 1998, Jacob Lief, a 21-year-old university student, met school teacher Malizole “Banks” Gwaxula in a township tavern in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After bonding over beers and a shared passionI for education, Gwaxula invited Lief to live with him in the township. Inspired by their fortuitous meeting—which brought together two men separated by race, nationality, and age—and by the spirit of ubuntu, roughly translated as “I am because you are”—the two men embarked on an unexpectedly profound journey. Their vision? To provide vulnerable children in the townships with what every child deserves—everything. Today, their organization, Ubuntu Education Fund, is upending conventional wisdom about how to break the cycle of poverty. Shunning traditional development models, Ubuntu has redefined the concept of scale, focusing on how deeply it can impact each child’s life rather than how many it can reach. Ubuntu provides everything a child needs and deserves, from prenatal care for pregnant mothers to support through university. I Am Because You Are sets forth an unflinching portrayal of the unique rewards and challenges of the nonprofit world while offering a bold vision for a new model of development.

Jacob Lief is the cofounder and CEO of Rodale Books Ubuntu Education Fund. In 2010, he was Hardcover • 240 pp • $18.00 named a Young Global Leader by the World ISBN: 978-1-62336-661-2 Economic Forum, and in 2012, was selected as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative advisory board. He splits his time between Brooklyn, New York and, and Port Elizabeth South Africa.

Andrea Thompson is an editor and author whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

14 The Argonauts NON-FICTION Maggie Nelson

“The Argonauts is a moving exploration of family and love, but it’s also a meditation on the seductions, contradictions, limitations, and beauties of being normal, as a person and as an artist.” —The New Yorker

aggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and Mlanguage. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making. Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. “Nelson’s vibrant, probing and, most of all, outstanding book is also a philosophical look at motherhood, transitioning, partnership, parenting and family—an examination of the restrictive way we’ve approached these terms in the past and the ongoing struggle to arrive at more inclusive and expansive definitions for them.” —NPR

Maggie Nelson is a poet, a critic, and the Graywolf Press author of several nonfiction books, including Hardcover • 160 pp • $23.00 The Red Parts, The Art of Cruelty, Bluets, and ISBN: 978-1-55597-707-8 Jane. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, and lives in Los Angeles, California. Available in April 2016 Paperback • 160 pp • $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-555597-735-1

15 Fully Alive Discovering What Matters Most Timothy Shriver Winner of the Christopher Award

NON-FICTION “This is a beautiful book about love, meaning, and triumph . . . I was lifted, edified, riveted.” —Anne Lamott

s chairman of Special Olympics, Timothy Shriver has dedicated his life to the world’s most forgotten minority—people with intellectual disabilities. And in a time when we are all more rudderlessA than ever, when we’ve lost our sense of what’s ultimately important, when we hunger for stability but get only uncertainty, he has looked to them for guidance. Fully Alive chronicles Shriver’s discovery of a radically different, and inspiring, way of life. We see straight into the lives of those who seem powerless but who have turned that into a power of their own, and through them learn that we are all totally vulnerable and totally valuable at the same time. In addition, Shriver offers a new look at his family: his parents, Sargent and Eunice Shriver, and his uncles, John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, all of whom were resolute advocates for those on the margins. Here, for the first time, Shriver explores the tremendous impact his aunt Rosemary, born with intellectual disabilities, had on his entire family and their legacy.

Timothy Shriver is the third child of Eunice Sarah Crichton Books/FSG Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics. Paperback • 304 pp • $15.00 As chairman of the Special Olympics, he ISBN: 978-0-374-53582-7 serves more than three million athletes in 180 countries. He lives in Maryland with his wife and five children. e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Ohio Dominican University (OH) 16 Dreamland The True Tale of America’s NON-FICTION Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones

“Quinones’ research ensures that there is something legitimately interesting (and frequently horrifying) on every page. A-.” —Entertainment Weekly

ver the past fifteen years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin—the cheapest, most addictiveO form of the opiate—to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before—from Charlotte, NC and Huntington, WVA, to Salt Lake City and Portland, OR—were overrun with it. How could heroin, long considered a drug found only in the dense, urban environments and trafficked into the United States by enormous Colombian drug cartels, be so incredibly ubiquitous in the American heartland? Who was bringing it here; and perhaps more importantly, why were so many townspeople suddenly eager for the comparatively cheap high it offered? Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of American capitalism: The stories of young men in Mexico, independent of the drug cartels, in search of their own American Dream via the fast and enormous profits of trafficking cheap black tar heroin to America’s rural and suburban addicts; and that of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on pain with its new and expensive miracle drug, Oxycontin. Quinones illuminates just how these two stories fit together as cause and effect: hooked on costly Oxycontin, American addicts were lured to much cheaper black tar heroin and its powerful and dangerous long-lasting high. Dreamland is a scathing and incendiary account of drug culture and addiction spreading to every part of the American landscape.

Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, Bloomsbury Press and author of three acclaimed books of Hardcover • 384 pp • $28.00 narrative nonfiction. He is formerly a reporter ISBN: 978-1-62040-250-4 with the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for 10 years. He and his family live in Southern California. Available in April 2016 Paperback • 384 pp • $18.00 ISBN: 978-1-62040-252-8

17 This I Believe The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman NON-FICTION Foreword by Studs Terkel Introduction by Jay Allison

“This cumulative effect of these ‘personal credos’ is inspiring and invigorating.” — Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune

ased on the National Public Radio series of the same name, this book features eighty essayists— from the famous to the unknown—completing the thought that begins the book’s title. Each pieceB compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others. Featuring a well-known list of contributors— including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike—the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk from Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells Yellow Pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island’s parole board. The result is a trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs—and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them—reveal the American spirit at its best. Included are guidelines for students writing their own This I Believe essays. Picador Paperback • 320 pp • $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8050-8658-4

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18 This I Believe II More Personal Philosophies of NON-FICTION Remarkable Men and Women Edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick

“By turns moving, thoughtful, cheering and heartbreaking, in an age of irony these essays offer a little something to believe in.” —Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times

his second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventy-five more essayists—both writers known and unknown—who complete the thought that begins in the book’s title. Among the Tcontributors are musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Bela Fleck, Elie Wiesel, the founder Craigslist.org, and an anthropology student at the University of Chicago. Each piece, whether poignant or humorous, compels the reader to think about how they have formed their own personal beliefs and about the extent to which they express them to others. Readers will also find wonderful and surprising essays about forgiveness, personal integrity, and honoring life and change. Here is a welcome, stirring, and rovocative communion with the minds and hearts of a diverse, new group of people—whose beliefs and the remarkably varied ways in which they choose to express them reveal the American spirit at its best. This edition also contains an appendix on how to write a This I Believe essay.

Dan Gediman is currently the Executive Director of This I Picador Believe, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Louisville, Paperback • 288 pp • $16.00 Kentucky. More information about This I Believe can be ISBN: 978-0-8050-9089-5 found at thisibelieve.org. e-book

© Nubar Alexanian audiobook Jay Allison is an independent broadcast journalist and a six-time Peabody Award winner. He hosted and produced This I Believe on NPR and is the founder of the public radio station on Cape Cod. © Nubar Alexanian

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“Equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, Home is Burning proves that with family, tragedy always has NON-FICTION company.” —James Frey

t twenty five years old, Dan Marshall is living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles. Until his mother calls, Dan thought things were going great at home; but, it turns out, his mom’s cancer, whichA she had battled throughout his childhood with tenacity, is back. And to add insult to injury, his loving father has been diagnosed with ALS. Dan is now headed home to Salt Lake City, Utah. Never has there been a more reluctant family reunion: His older sister is resentful, having stayed closer to home to bear the brunt of their mother’s illness. His younger brother comes to lend a hand, giving up a journalism career and evenings cruising Chicago gay bars. His next younger sister, a sullen teenager, is a rebel with a cause. And his baby sister—through it all—can only think about her beloved dance troop. They put their petty differences aside and form Team Terminal, battling their parents’ illnesses as best they can, when not otherwise distracted by the chaos that follows them wherever they go. As Dan steps into his role as caregiver, wheelchair wrangler, and sibling referee, he watches pieces of his previous life slip away, and comes to realize that the further you stretch the ties that bind, the tighter they hold you together.

Dan Marshall grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah Flatiron Books and attended UC Berkeley. After college, Dan Hardcover • 320 pp • $27.99 worked at a strategic communications public ISBN: 978-1-250-06882-8 relations firm in Los Angeles. He left work and returned to Salt Lake City to take care of his e-book sick parents. While caring for them, he started writing detailed accounts about many of their audiobook weird, sad, funny adventures. Home Is Burning is his first book.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at University of Michigan College of Literatures, Science, and the Arts 20 Men We Reaped NON-FICTION A Memoir Jesmyn Ward National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

“A brilliant book about beauty and death. The beauty is in the bodies and the voices of the young men she grew up with in the towns of coastal Mississippi, where a kind of de facto segregation persists.” —Los Angeles Times

esmyn’s memoir shines a light on the community she comes from, in the small town of DeLisle, Mississippi, a place of quiet beauty and fierce attachment. Here, in the space of four years, she lost Jfive young men dear to her, including her beloved brother—lost to drugs, accidents, murder, and suicide. Their deaths were seemingly unconnected, yet their lives had been connected, by identity and place, and as Jesmyn dealt with these losses, she came to a staggering truth: These young men died because of who they were and the place they were from, because certain disadvantages breed a certain kind of bad luck. Because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle. The agonizing reality commanded Jesmyn to write, at last, their true stories and her own. Men We Reaped opens up a parallel universe, yet it points to problems whose roots are woven into the soil under all our feet. “Ward’s words are heavy, profoud, and honest. They take us beyond the news headlines that often strip young black men of their humanity.” —Antwaun Sargent, Chicago Tribune

Jesmyn Ward received her M.F.A. from the Bloomsbury University of Michigan and is currently an Paperback • 272 pp • $16.00 assistant professor of creative writing at Tulane ISBN: 978-1-608-19765-1 University. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, the latter of which won the 2011 National Book Award.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Tulane University (LA); University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; University of Mississippi School of Medicine 21 The World Beyond Your Head On Becoming an Individual in an

NON-FICTION Age of Distraction Matthew B. Crawford

“I find Crawford’s diagnosis of our scatterbrained ennui to be on target, and his book is peppered with startling insights.” —John Keilman, Chicago Tribune

n The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one’s own mind. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behaviorI of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life. “The result is a book that mixes intricate argument with examples from everyday life, including accounts both of its hassles and of hands-on, attention-saturated activities like glassblowing, hockey and short-order cooking.” —The New York Times

Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the Farrar, Straus and Giroux University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Hardcover • 320 pp • $26.00 Studies in Culture and a fabricator of compo- ISBN: 978-0-374-29298-0 nents for custom motorcycles. He is also the author of the bestselling book Shop Class as e-book Soulcraft. audiobook

Available in April 2016 • • © Adam Ewing Paperback 320 pp $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-374-53591-9

22 Keep It Fake NON-FICTION Inventing an Authentic Life Eric G. Wilson

“[A] terrific new philosophical investigation.” —Clancy Martin, The New York Times Book Review

hoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they appeal to what we want to believe: that there’s an authentic self to which we canS be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we’re inventing identities on Facebook, paying thousands for plastic surgeries, and tuning in to news that simply verifies our opinions. Reality bites, after all, and becoming disillusioned is a downer. In Keep It Fake, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there’s no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping the raw data of our right into fabulous stories or we’re so saturated by society’s conventions that we’re always acting out prefab scripts, we can’t help but be phony. But is that really so bad? Our ability to remake ourselves into the people we want to be, or at least remake ourselves to look like the people we want to be, is in fact a magical process that can be liberating in its own way. Because if we’re all a bunch of fakes, shouldn’t we embrace that? And if everything really is fake, then doesn’t the fake become real—really? In lively prose, Keep It Fake answers these questions, uncovering bracing truths about what it means to be human and helping us turn our necessary lying into artful living.

Eric G. Wilson is the Thomas H. Pritchard Sarah Crichton Books/FSG Professor of English at Wake Forest University Hardcover • 240 pp • $25.00 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the ISBN: 978-0-374-18102-4 author of Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, Against Happiness, The Mercy of Eternity, and e-book five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.

23 The Thinking Life How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction P. M. Forni

NON-FICTION “[Forni] offers sound advice on how to incorporate thinking into a hectic lifestyle.” —Portland Book Review

rofessor Forni, founder of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, is America’s civility expert. In his first two books, Choosing Civility and The Civility Solution, he taught readers the rules of civil Pbehavior and ways of responding to rudeness. In The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance of thinking in our lives: how we do it, why we don’t do enough of it and why we need to do more of it. In twelve short chapters, he gives readers a remedy for the Age of Distraction, an age fueled by the internet, video games, smartphones, and tablets—all of which make constant demands on our attention, diverting it from one thing to another. “Mr. Forni goes into great detail about how to make good decisions, ones made critically, ethically and rationally. His advice is simple but non-patronizing as he instructs on how to avoid emotional decisions while thinking things through. The book winds down by making the case that the practice of true thinking, when placed at the center of one’s life, can make for a much more rewarding life experience . . . P.M. Forni’s book should help anyone who wants to learn how to think in the din of endless cable news channels, cellphone conversations, Facebook obsession and tweeting.” —Perry Munyon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

P. M. Forni is a professor at Johns Hopkins St. Martin’s Griffin University. He is author of Choosing Civility, Paperback • 192 pp • $13.99 The Civility Solution, and The Thinking Life. ISBN: 978-0-312-62572-6 His work has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post. He has appeared on NPR and Oprah. e-book He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Coppin State University (MD); Martin Methodist College (TN) 24 Choosing Civility The Twenty-five Rules of NON-FICTION Considerate Conduct P. M. Forni

“A slim but powerful book.” —Linell Smith, The Baltimore Sun

ost of us would agree that thoughtful behavior and common decency are in short supply, or simply forgotten in hurried lives of e-mails, cellphones, and multitasking. Forni’s book identifies Mand explains twenty-five rules that are most essential for our connecting effectively and happily with others. He provides examples of how to put each rule into practice and so make life—and the lives of others—more enjoyable, companionable, and rewarding.

St. Martin’s Griffin | Paperback • 208 pp • $12.99 | ISBN: 978-0-312-30250-4 | e-book

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The Civility Solution What to Do When People Are Rude P. M. Forni

“Forni will be remembered as one of the greatest generals in our nation’s struggle for civility.” —Smithsonian magazine

hough confronted with rudeness every day, many people don’t know how to respond. P. M. Forni shows how to respond to others’ negative behavior by being assertive as well as civil. In doing so, The suggests that the cycle of rudeness can be broken. In a simple and practical handbook, Forni takes a closer look at the challenges of human interaction and presents logical solutions that reinforce good behavior and make our world a more civil place. “Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . His approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years.” —The Wall Street Journal

St. Martin’s Griffin | Paperback • 192 pp • $14.99 | ISBN: 978-0-312-36964-4 | e-book 25 City of Thorns Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Ben Rawlence

NON-FICTION This book collects the profiles of nine residents living in the world’s largest refugee camp.

ituated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, in the midst of an inhospitable northern Kenyan desert landscape largely characterized by thorn bushes, is Dadaab, the world’s largest refugeeS camp. Founded in 1992 as a temporary camp for 30,000 refugees fleeing violence and unrest in Sudan, it has since metastasized into a permanent home to some 500,000 people. A city like no other, its half a million residents barter their meager food rations, create homes for themselves from plastic sheets and sticks, and use open sewers. Due to its inaccessible location and the extremely high risk of kidnapping, very few western journalists have visited Dadaab, let alone spent any length of time there. Dadaab and the surrounding region are now largely controlled by al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s Somalian cell, and the camp and its desperate residents have become a hotbed for recruiters. Despite these dangers, Ben Rawlence has spent large periods of the last three years in the camp and has followed the lives of six people: Guled, the conscripted child-soldier who flees to the camp across Somalia; Nisho, as old as Dadaab itself, born in the camp twenty five years ago; and Muna, whose marriage to a Christian Lost Boy from Sudan sparks uproar and sectarian violence. Ben’s sensitive portraits of the camp’s inhabitants invite readers to imagine how they might behave should they, like so many millions of people around the world, find themselves imprisoned in such a camp with little hope and with the world’s eyes firmly askance.

A graduate of SOAS (University of London) and Picador the University of Chicago, Ben Rawlence has Hardcover • 352 pp • $26.00 dedicated much of the past ten years to working ISBN: 978-1-250-06763-0 as a researcher for Human Rights Watch. Ben is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent, and has written for a wide e-book range of publications including the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Prospect. His previous book, Radio Congo, was chosen by the Economist as a Book of the Year. © Jonny Donovan

26 Irritable Hearts NON-FICTION A PTSD Love Story Mac McClelland

“[McClelland] draws a valuable portrait of what it is like to live with PTSD . . . Irritable Hearts striking candor will win McClelland the empathy she deserves.” —Sonia Faliero, The New York Times Book Review

n 2010, human rights reporter Mac McClelland traveled to Haiti to cover the devastation wrought by the earthquake. Returning home, McClelland cannot stop reliving vivid scenes of violence. SheI can’t eat or sleep or stop crying. It becomes clear that she is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Her bewilderment about this sudden loss of control is magnified by the intensity of her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Haiti who claimed a place in her confused heart. With inspiring fearlessness, McClelland sets out to repair her broken psyche. Investigating her own illness, she discovers she is far from alone: while we most frequently associate PTSD with veterans, it is often caused by trauma other than combat, and can even be contagious—close proximity to those afflicted can trigger its symptoms. As McClelland confronts the realities of her disorder, she opens her heart to the love that seems to have found her at an inopportune moment. Irritable Hearts is an unforgettable exploration of vulnerability and resilience, control and acceptance. It is a riveting and hopeful story of survival, strength, and love.

Mac McClelland is also the author of For Us Flatiron Books Surrender Is Out of the Question. Her work has Paperback • 320 pp • $16.99 appeared in Mother Jones, The New York Times, ISBN: 978-1-250-05350-3 and Rolling Stone, among other publications. e-book

27 A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah NON-FICTION “[Beah’s] honesty is exacting, and a testament to the ability of children ‘to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.’” —The New Yorker

his is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. At the age of twelve, Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable Tby violence. By thirteen, he had been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal. “Everyone in the world should read this book. Not just because it contains an amazing story, or because it’s our moral, bleeding-heart duty, or because it’s clearly written. We should read it to learn about the world and about what it means to be human.” —Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World

Ishmael Beah is a UNICEF Ambassador Sarah Crichton Books/FSG and Advocate for Children Affected by War; a Paperback • 204 pp • $13.00 member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s ISBN: 978-1-250-06566-7 Rights Advisory Committee; and president of the Ishmael Beah Foundation. Radiance of Tomorrow, his first novel, is also published by e-book Sarah Crichton Books. You can follow him on Twitter at @IshmaelBeah. audiobook

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Adams State College (CO); Appalachian State Univ. (NC); Ball State Univ. (IN); Boston Univ.; Central College (IA); Coastal Carolina Univ. (SC); College of the Holy Cross (MA); College of Wooster (OH); Columbus State Univ. (GA); Community College of Baltimore County; Cushing Academy (MA); Durham Technical Community College (NC); Eastern Kentucky Univ.; Florida Community College, Jacksonville; Florida Gulf Coast Univ.; Grand Valley State Univ. (MI); Greensboro College (NC); Gwynedd-Mercy College (PA); Henderson State Univ. (AR); Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis; Iowa Lakes Community College; Johnson State College (VT); Juniata College (PA); Kennesaw State Univ. (GA); Lakeland College (WI); Millersville Univ. (PA); Morningside College (IA); New York Institute of Technol- ogy; Newbury College (MA); Northern Arizona Univ.; Otterbein College (OH); Pennsylvania State Univ., Abington; Ramapo College (NJ); Rhode Island College; Roger Williams Univ. (RI); Stonehill College (MA); SUNY, Brockport; SUNY, Buffalo; SUNY, Old Westbury; SUNY, Potsdam; Syracuse Univ. (NY); Texas A&M International Univ.; The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Univ. of Akron; Univ. of Iowa; Univ. of Kentucky; Univ. of Maine; Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro; Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington/Univ. College; Univ. of Pittsburgh, Johnstown; Univ. of Ten- nessee; Univ. of Toledo; Univ. of Utah, Logan; Univ. of Vermont; Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; Utah State Univ.; Valparaiso Univ. (IN); Washburn Univ. (KS); Webster Univ. (MO); Wright State Univ. (OH) 28 A Thousand Miles to Freedom NON-FICTION My Escape from North Korea Eunsun Kim with Sébastien Falletti Translated by David Tian

“[A] gripping memoir.” —Elle

unsun Kim was born in North Korea. As a child Eunsun loved her country . . . despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as Ethe country-wide famine escalated. By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun’s father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun was in danger of the same. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Before finally reaching South Korea and freedom, Eunsun and her family would live homeless, fall into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survive a North Korean labor camp, and cross the deserts of Mongolia on foot. Now, Eunsun is sharing her remarkable story to give voice to the tens of millions of North Koreans still suffering in silence. Told with grace and courage, her memoir is a riveting exposé of North Korea’s totalitarian regime and, ultimately, a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea. At the St. Martin’s Press age of eleven, she fled to South Korea with her Hardcover • 240 pp • $24.99 mother and sister. Today, Eunsun works at an ISBN: 978-1-250-06464-6 NGO promoting human rights in North Korea. She lives in Seoul, South Korea. e-book

29 Justice What’s the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel

“Reading Justice by Michael Sandel is an intoxicating invitation to take apart and examine how we arrive at NON-FICTION our notions of right and wrong.” —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

his book is an exploration of the meaning of justice, one that invites readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, Tsame-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, the moral limits of markets—Michael J. Sandel dramatizes the challenge of thinking through these conflicts, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. Sandel’s “Justice” course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. Justice offers readers the same journey that captivates Harvard students. “More than exhilarating; exciting in its ability to persuade this student/ reader, time and again, that the principle now being invoked—on this page, in this chapter—is the one to deliver the sufficiently inclusive guide to the making of a decent life.” —Vivian Gornick, Boston Review

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback • 320 pp • $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-374-53250-5

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Brigham Young University (UT); Case Western Reserve University (OH); Culver-Stockton College (MO); Kennesaw State University (GA); Sacred Heart University (CT); St. John’s University (NY); University of Cincinnati (OH) 30 What Money Can’t Buy NON-FICTION The Moral Limits of Markets Michael J. Sandel

“Sandel is just the right person to get to the bottom of the tangle of moral damage that is being done by markets to our values.”—Jeremy Waldron, The New York Review Review of Books

hould we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight ourS wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can’t Buy, Michael J. Sandel—“the world’s most relevant living philosopher” (Newsweek)—takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relationships. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. “There is no more fundamental question we face than how to best preserve the common good and build strong communities that benefit everyone. Sandel’s book is an excellent starting place for that dialogue.” —Kevin J. Hamilton, The Seattle Times

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert Farrar, Straus and Giroux M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard Paperback • 256 pp • $15.00 University. His work has been the subject of ISBN: 978-0-374-53365-6 television series on PBS and the BBC. e-book

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Skidmore College (NY); The University of Texas at Austin; University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts 31 Notes from No Man’s Land American Essays Eula Biss NON-FICTION Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

“This book is a beautiful exercise in consciousness; in bringing both intelligence and experience to bear on a subject that has implications for the way one behaves in the world.” —Los Angeles Times

n a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies, Eula Biss explores race in America. Her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in theseI essays—teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago’s most diverse neighborhood. As Biss moves across the country—from New York to California to the Midwest—she brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television shows. These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighborhoods participate in preserving racial privilege. “Biss writes like a poet, evoking images with a cool passion, and she plays with ideas on the page and challenges readers to work out their own rhythms.” —Chicago Tribune

Graywolf Press Paperback • 208 pp • $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-55597-518-0

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at University of Cincinatti; University of Kansas; Washington University in St. Louis (MO) 32 On Immunity NON-FICTION An Inoculation Eula Biss A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year

“This is cultural commentary at its highest level, a searching examination of the most profound issues of health, identity and the tensions between individual parenting decisions and society.” —The Washington Post

n becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses our fear of the government, the medical establishment, what may be in our children’s air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Eula suggestsO that we cannot immunize our children, or ourselves, against the world. She researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America and the world, historically and in the present moment. As she explores the metaphors surrounding immunity, Biss extends her conversations with other mothers to meditations on the myth of Achilles, Voltaire’s Candide, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Susan Sontag’s AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is an inoculation against our fear and a moving account of how we are all interconnected—our bodies and our fates. “Biss’ eye-opening nonfiction work critiques America’s fear of vaccines while examining the connection between soul and body.” —Entertainment Weekly, “A Dozen Fall Books We’re Dying to Read”

Eula Biss holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing Graywolf Press from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. in non- Paperback • 224 pp • $16.00 fiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her ISBN: 978-1-55597-720-7 work has been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, a Jaffe Writers’ Award, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. She teaches writing at Northwestern University.

33 The Big Truck That Went By How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

NON-FICTION Jonathan M. Katz With a New Afterword by the Author

“[The Big Truck That Went ]By offers wrenching tales of the suffering of ordinary Haitians and a devastating account of good intentions gone awry.” —The Boston Globe

n January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondentO in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and how the world reacted to a nation in need. More than half of American adults gave money for Haiti, part of a monumental response totaling $16.3 billion in pledges. But three years later the relief effort has foundered. It’s most basic promises—to build safer housing for the homeless, alleviate severe poverty, and strengthen Haiti to face future disasters—remain unfulfilled. The Big Truck That Went By presents a sharp critique of international aid that defies today’s conventional wisdom. Katz follows the money to uncover startling truths about how good intentions go wrong, and what can be done to make aid “smarter.” “Katz eloquently blends personal anecdotes and Haitian history with in-depth reportage to show how one catastrophe led to so many more, and how, three years later, Haiti has barely moved forward.” —Associated Press

Jonathan M. Katz was the 2010 recipient of Palgrave Macmillan Trade the Medill Medal of Courage in Journalism and Paperback • 336 pp • $18.99 the 2012 winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work- ISBN: 978-1-137-27897-5 in-Progress Award for this book. He wrote and edited for the Associated Press for eight years, three and a half years of which he spent living e-book in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Avila University (MO); The College of New Jersey; University of Iowa College of Public Health 34 Scarcity NON-FICTION The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

“A compelling, important argument, and Scarcity is likely to change how you view both entrenched poverty and your own ability—or inability—to get as much done as you’d like.” —The Boston Globe

endhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for theS same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why the same sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus, and Scarcity reveals not only how it leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success. “Mullainathan and Shafir contend that applying the science of scarcity to poverty might help change people’s attitudes about the poor . . . Their discussion about poverty elevates it from stereotypes that the poor are just lazy or irresponsible. So understanding how the poor may be thinking can result in more effective anti-poverty programs.” —The Washington Post

Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of Picador economics at Harvard University, is a recipient Paperback • 304 pp • $17.00 of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” ISBN: 978-1-250-05611-5 and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. e-book © Alissa Fishbane Eldar Shafiris the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

NON-FICTION “Samet is uniquely positioned to ponder and probe the intellectual and emotional challenges confronting the modern officer corps . . . [Her] musings are fascinating, and for serving officers, they should be required reading.” —The Washington Post

n her critically acclaimed, award-winning book Soldier’s Heart, Elizabeth D. Samet grappled with the experience of teaching literature at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Now, with NoI Man’s Land, Samet contends that we are entering a new moment: a no man’s land between war and peace. Major military deployments are winding down, but soldiers are wrestling with the aftermath of war and the trials of returning home while also facing the prospect of low-intensity conflicts for years to come. Drawing on a range of experiences—from a visit to a ward of wounded combat veterans to correspondence with former cadets, from a conference on Edith Wharton and wartime experience to teaching literature and film to future officers—Samet illuminates an ambiguous passage through no man’s land that has left deep but difficult-to-read traces on our national psyche, our culture, our politics, and, most especially, an entire generation of military professionals. Thus, Elizabeth D. Samet offers a moving, urgent examination of what it means to negotiate the tensions between war and peace, between “over there” and “over here”—between life on the front and life at home.

Elizabeth D. Samet received her B.A. from Picador Harvard and her Ph.D. in English literature Paperback • 240 pp • $18.00 from Yale, and she is the author of Soldier’s ISBN: 978-1-250-07493-5 Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point. She has been an English professor at West Point for ten years. e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at University of Michigan College of Literatures, Science, and the Arts. 36 Blackballed NON-FICTION The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses Lawrence Ross

Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine, returns with an exposé of racism on college campuses.

ollege” is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one’s socioeconomic station. Today, though, “Cthis word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial politics on campus. Does this association disturb our idealized visions of what happens behind the ivied walls of higher learning? It should—because campus racism on college campuses is as American as college football on Fall Saturdays. Blackballed is a book that rips the veil off America’s hidden secret: America’s colleges have fostered a racist environment that makes them a hostile space for African American students. It exposes the white fraternity and sorority system, with traditions of racist parties, songs, and assaults on black students; and the universities themselves, who name campus buildings after racist men and women. It also takes a deep dive into anti-affirmative action policies, and how they effectively segregate predominately white universities, providing ample room for white privilege. A bold mix of history and the current climate, Blackballed is a call to action for universities to make radical changes to their policies and standards to foster a better legacy for all students.

Lawrence C. Ross, Jr. is a bestselling author, St. Martin’s Press lecturer, writer, filmmaker, social media and Hardcover • 288 pp • $25.99 consumer trends expert. He is the author of The ISBN: 978-1-250-07911-4 Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities and has written reg- e-book ular pieces for CNN, The Grio, The Root, Ebony, and USA Today. He lives in Westchester, CA.

37 How We Are Vincent Deary The How to Live Trilogy: Book One

“A series of imaginatively written digressions, detours and tableaux that draw on an impressive range of

NON-FICTION references—from Maimonides and the desert fathers, to Proust and Primo Levi, to Mad Men and Friends.” —Financial Times

ow We Are is an astonishing debut and the first part of the monumental How to Live trilogy, a profound and ambitious work that gets to the heart of what it means to be human: how we are,H how we break, and how we mend. In this first installment, we explore the power of habit and the difficulty of change. As Vincent Deary shows us, we live most of our lives automatically, in small worlds of comfortable routine—what he calls Act One. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, so for the most part we avoid it. But inevitably, from within or without, something comes along to disturb our small worlds—some News from Elsewhere. And with reluctance, we begin the work of adjustment: Act Two. Over decades of psychotherapeutic work, Deary has witnessed the theater of change—how ordinary people get stuck, struggle with new circumstances, and finally transform for the better. He is keenly aware that novelists, poets, philosophers, and theologians have grappled with these experiences for far longer than psychologists. Drawing on his own personal experience and a staggering range of literary, philosophical, and cultural sources, Deary has produced a mesmerizing and universal portrait of the human condition.

Vincent Deary is a health psychologist at Nor- Farrar, Straus and Giroux thumbria University who specializes in helping Paperback • 272 pp • $15.00 people change their lives for the better. How We ISBN: 978-0-374-53596-4 Are is his first book.

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38 Cool NON-FICTION How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World Steven Quartz and Anette Asp

“People want to find it and brands want to be it, but what is it and why do we all care so much? Cool probes the far reaches of our brain to answer these questions, shining a light on the essence of cool and the fundamental motivations that make us all human.”—Jonah Berger, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and bestselling author of Contagious

f you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi’s jeans their iconic allure, look no further—in Cool, Steven QuartzI and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends and enduring successes. We live in a world of conspicuous consumption, where the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, and the food we eat lead double lives: they don’t merely satisfy our needs; they also communicate our values, identities, and aspirations. Quartz and Asp bring together groundbreaking findings in neuroscience, economics, and evolutionary biology to present a new understanding of why we consume and how our concepts of what is “cool”—be it designer jeans, smartphones, or craft beer—help drive the global economy. Quartz and Asp show how these ancient motivations make us natural-born consumers and how they sparked the emergence of “cool consumption” in the middle of the twentieth century, creating new lifestyle choices and routes to happiness. Examining how cool was reshaped in the 1990s by a changing society and the Internet, they unpack the social motivations behind today’s hip, ethical consumption, arguing that we should embrace, rather than deny, the power of consumerism.

Steven Quartz is a professor of philosophy Farrar, Straus and Giroux and cognitive science and the director of the Hardcover • 304 pp • $26.00 Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the ISBN: 978-0-374-12918-7 California Institute of Technology. He lives in Malibu, California. e-book Anette Asp is a former project manager at the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory Available in April 2016 at the California Institute of Technology and Paperback • 304 pp • $15.00 is currently the communications manager of a leading telecommunications company. She lives ISBN: 978-0-374-53593-3 in Stockholm, Sweden.

39 The Good Soldiers David Finkel Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

NON-FICTION Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award

“A masterpiece that, like a great novel, carries you into other people’s lives, and stays with you long after you have finished reading it.” —Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post

t was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as “the surge.” Among those called to carry it out were the armyI infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion known as the Rangers. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home—forever changed. “Mr. Finkel does a vivid job of conveying what these young men think while out on hazardous patrols, how they feel when they kill a suspected insurgent and how they react when they see one of their own comrades go down or be burned alive . . . It is Mr. Finkel’s accomplishment in this harrowing book that he not only depicts what the Iraq war is like for the soldiers of the 2-16—14 of whom die—but also the incalculable ways in which the war bends (or in some cases warps) the remaining arc of their lives. He captures the sense of comradeship the men develop among themselves. And he also captures the difficulty many of the soldiers feel in trying to adapt to ordinary life back home in the States, and the larger disconnect they continue to feel between the war that politicians and generals discussed and the war that they knew firsthand.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at American University (DC); Century College (MN); The College of Charleston (SC); Framing- ham State University (MA); Kalamazoo College (MI) 40 Thank You for Your Service NON-FICTION David Finkel National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award Finalist

“Together with its masterful prequel The Good Soldiers, [Thank You for Your Service] measures the wages of the war in Iraq—the wages of war, period—as well as anything I’ve read.” —Frank Bruni, The New York Times

o journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous “surge,”N a grueling fifteen-month tour of Baghdad that changed all of them forever. In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel follows many of those same men as they return home and struggle to reintegrate— both into their family lives and into American society at large. He is with them in their most intimate, painful, and hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after war is like—not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done. This book is an act of understanding, and it offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of two essential questions: When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thanking them for?

David Finkel is a staff writer for The Washing- Farrar, Straus and Giroux ton Post. In 2012, he received a MacArthur Fel- Paperback • 272 pp • $16.00 lowship for his journalism, and in 2006 he won ISBN: 978-1-250-05602-3 the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. Finkel lives in Maryland. e-book

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Adelphi University (NY); Louisiana State University Honors College; University of Delaware 41 There Was and There Was Not A Journey Through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond NON-FICTION Meline Toumani National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

“Toumani’s extraordinary There Was and There Was Not tackles the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide, opening provocative lines of inquiry into the identities we inherit, and transform.” —Vogue

eline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this Menmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey’s refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince governments, courts and scholars of their clashing versions of history. Frustrated by her community’s all-consuming campaigns for genocide recognition, Toumani leaves a promising job at The New York Times and moves to Istanbul. Instead of demonizing Turks, she sets out to understand them, and in a series of extraordinary encounters over the course of four years, she tries to talk about the Armenian issue, finding her way into conversations that are taboo and sometimes illegal. Along the way, we get a snapshot of Turkish society in the throes of change, and an intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place.

Meline Toumani has written extensively for Picador The New York Times on Turkey and Armenia as Paperback • 304 pp • $18.00 well as on music, dance, and film. A journalism ISBN: 978-1-250-07410-2 fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, she was also the coordinator of the Russian-American Journalism Institute e-book in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Born in Iran and ethnically Armenian, she grew up in New Jersey and California and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. © Mark Smith

42 I Believe in ZERO NON-FICTION Learning From the World’s Children Caryl M. Stern

“Caryl Stern offers a poignant and personal account from the front lines of her work to protect the most vulnerable children in the world today.”—Timothy P. Shriver, Chairman and CEO, Special Olympics Inc., and author of Fully Alive

n I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl M. Stern draws on her travels around the world, offering memorable stories that present powerful and sometimes counter-intuitiveI lessons about life. This book reflects her—and UNICEF’s—mission to reduce the number of preventable deaths of children under the age of five from 19,000 each day to zero. Each of the stories in I Believe in ZERO focuses on a particular locale—Bangladesh, Mozambique, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Brazilian Amazon—and weaves together fascinating material on the country and its history, an account of the humanitarian crises at issue, and depictions of the people she meets on the ground. Stern tells of mothers coming together to affect change, of local communities with valuable perspectives of their own, and of children who continue to sustain their dreams and hopes even in the most dire of situations. Throughout, Stern traces her emerging global consciousness—and describes how these stories can positively impact our own children.

Caryl M. Stern has spent more than thirty St. Martin’s Griffin years in the non-profit sector as a child advocate Paperback • 288 pp • $15.99 and civil rights activist. Since May 2007, she’s ISBN: 978-1-250-06028-0 served as President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, leading the day-to-day work of the e-book organization’s National Office and five Regional Offices. She lives with her family in New York.

43 Beautiful Souls The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times Eyal Press NON-FICTION “[Beautiful Souls] provides rich, provocative narratives of moral choice . . . Press makes us wonder if we would have the strength to act against the crowd, and in so doing spread a bit of light in our own dark times.” —The Washington Post

istory has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but what about its flip side, what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention? Through these dramatic storiesH of unlikely resisters, Beautiful Souls shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not only by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but also by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions. On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel’s most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn’t want to serve in the occupied territories. Drawing on groundbreaking research by moral psychologists and neuroscientists, this deeply reported work of narrative journalism examines the choices and dilemmas we all face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill.

Eyal Press is also the author of Absolute Picador Convictions. His work has appeared in The Paperback • 208 pp • $16.00 New York Review of Books, The New York Times ISBN: 978-1-250-02408-4 Magazine, The Nation, The Raritan Review, and numerous other publications. He lives in New York City. e-book

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Brown University (RI); College of the Holy Cross (MA); Middlesex School (MA); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University, Berks; Queens University (NC); St. Joseph’s College (NY); Washington College (MD) 44 Picking Cotton NON-FICTION Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption Jennifer Thompson- Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo

“An unbelievable tale of injustice, faith, forgiveness and, ultimately, friendship.” —Andrea Lea, Paste

n 1984, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and because she had studied his face intently during the attack, she laterI identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken—but Jennifer’s positive identification was the evidence that compelled a jury to put him behind bars. After eleven years in prison, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face. They forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge ideas about memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness. “The story of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, as told in first-person voices in this gripping, well-written book, is exceptional.” —St. Petersburg Times

Jennifer Thompson-Cannino lives in North St. Martin’s Griffin Carolina with her family. She speaks frequently about Paperback • 312 pp • $16.99 the need for judicial reform and is a member of the ISBN: 978-0-312-59953-9 North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission. e-book Ronald Cotton speaks at various schools and confer- ences about issues of witness identification and judicial © Witter Scott reform. He lives in North Carolina with his family.

Erin Torneo is a Los Angeles-based writer. She was a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellow. © Witter Scott

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Concordia University (MN); East Carolina University (NC); Florida State College, Jacksonville; Georgia Gwinnett College; Georgia Perimeter College; Iowa Lakes Community College; North Carolina Central University; Queensborough Community College (NY); Roberts Wesleyan College (NY); University of Kentucky; University of Mount Olive (NC); University of North Carolina at Pembroke; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Wheelock College (MA) 45 Breaking In The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice Joan Biskupic

NON-FICTION “Biskupic clearly and compellingly recounts how Sotomayor plotted her rise to the pinnacle of the judicial branch of government.” —The Seattle Times

t was little surprise in 2009 that President Barack Obama nominated a Hispanic judge to replace the retiring justice David Souter. The fact that there had never been a nominee to the nation’s highest courtI from the nation’s fastest growing minority had long been apparent. So the time was ripe—but how did it come to be Sonia Sotomayor? In Breaking In, Joan Biskupic answers that question. This is the story of how two forces providentially merged—the large ambitions of a talented Puerto Rican raised in the projects in the Bronx and the increasing political presence of Hispanics, from California to Texas, from Florida to the Northeast—resulting in a historical appointment. And this is not just a tale about breaking barriers as a Puerto Rican. It’s about breaking barriers as a justice. Biskupic, the author of highly praised judicial biographies of Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, now pulls back the curtain on the Supreme Court nomination process, revealing the networks Sotomayor built and the skills she cultivated to go where no Hispanic has gone before. As a Supreme Court justice, Sotomayor has shared her personal story to an unprecedented degree. But there is yet more to know about the rise of Sonia Sotomayor. Breaking In offers the larger, untold story of the woman who has been called “the people’s justice.”

Joan Biskupic has covered the U.S. Supreme Sarah Crichton Books/FSG Court for more than twenty years and is the Paperback • 288 pp • $15.00 author of several books, including American ISBN: 978-0-374-53566-7 Original and Sandra Day O’Connor.

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46 Frank NON-FICTION A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage Barney Frank

“Frank makes fascinating political history. It helps that it’s funny.” —James Kirchick, The Wall Street Journal

rowing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a Gcareer out of the first attraction and to keep the second a secret. Now, sixty years later, his sexual orientation is widely accepted, while his belief in government is embattled. Frank is one man’s account of the country’s transformation—and the tale of a truly momentous career. In this feisty and often moving memoir, Frank candidly discusses the satisfactions, fears, and grudges that come with elected office. He recalls the emotional toll of living in the closet and how his public crusade against homophobia conflicted with his private accommodation of it. He discusses his painful quarrels with allies; his friendships with public figures, from Tip O’Neill to Sonny Bono; and how he found love with his husband, Jim Ready, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage. He also demonstrates how he used his rhetorical skills to expose his opponents’ hypocrisies and delusions. Through it all, he expertly analyzes the gifts a successful politician must bring to the job, and how even Congress can be made to work. Frank is the story of an extraordinary political life, an original argument for how to rebuild trust in government, and a guide to how political change really happens—composed by a master of the art.

Barney Frank represented the Fourth Picador Congressional District of Massachusetts for Paperback • 416 pp • $17.00 nearly five decades and chaired the House ISBN: 978-1-250-08326-5 Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2013. He is the first member of congress to enter e-book a same-sex marriage while serving in office. He is a regular commentator on MSNBC and lives audiobook near Portland, Maine, with his husband.

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

NON-FICTION Bob Harris

“The journey Harris describes takes him to a host of nations, including Peru, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and he devotes a chapter to each nation. And the tour feels like an important review of the strengths of micro- lending and its limitations.” —The Boston Globe

ired by Forbes Traveler 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 createH 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 through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as $25-50, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99%, so he re-loaned the money to others over and over again. After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in this book he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we’ve ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life-political and emotional-in much of the world that Americans never see. Told with humor 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.

Bob Harris has had a diverse career as a Bloomsbury stand-up comedian, TV and radio personality, Paperback • 416 pp • $18.00 magazine columnist, voiceover performer, TV ISBN: 978-1-620-40522-2 writer, and political activist. He has appeared on Jeopardy! thirteen times, winning $170,000 in cash and prizes. He is the author of Prisoner of Trebekistan and Who Hates Whom. Bob lives in Los Angeles.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Avila University (MO) 48 Junkyard Planet NON-FICTION Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Adam Minter

“[Minter] proves to be an excellent guide to this sprawling and bewildering trade . . . As Mr. Minter’s fascinating book makes clear, actions matter more than intentions, and little things add up.” —The Wall Street Journal

hen you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want andW turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner—travels deeply into a vast, often hidden, multibillion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment. Minter takes us from back-alley Chinese computer recycling operations to high-tech facilities capable of processing a jumbo jet’s worth of recyclable trash every day. Junkyard Planet reveals how “going green” usually means making money— and why that’s often the most sustainable choice, even when the recycling methods aren’t pretty. Minter traces the export of America’s recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don’t. Junkyard Planet—“a well-researched narrative” (The Star Tribune)—reveals that we might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.

Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap Bloomsbury Press dealers in Minneapolis. He became a profes- Paperback • 304 pp • $17.00 sional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai ISBN: 978-1-60819-793-4 correspondent for Bloomberg View, in addition to making regular contributions to The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He blogs at shanghaiscrap.com.

49 Pro Reclaiming Abortion Rights Katha Pollitt With a New Afterword

NON-FICTION “With Pollitt’s characteristic wit and logic, Pro marshals science, history, medicine, religion, statistics and stories of real women’s lives—with all the ‘tangled secret misfortunes’ of families—to make a myth-busting argument that abortion is a social good.” —Time

orty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, “abortion” is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that one in three American women will have terminated at least Fone pregnancy by menopause. Even those who support a woman’s right to an abortion often qualify their support by saying abortion is a “bad thing,” an “agonizing decision,” making the medical procedure so remote and radioactive that it takes it out of the world of the everyday, turning an act that is normal and necessary into something shameful and secretive. Meanwhile, with each passing day, the rights upheld by the Supreme Court are being systematically eroded by state laws designed to end abortion outright. In this urgent, controversial book, Pollitt reframes abortion as a common part of a woman’s reproductive life, one that should be accepted as a moral right with positive social implications. In Pro, Pollitt takes on the personhood argument, reaffirms the priority of a woman’s life and health, and discusses why terminating a pregnancy can be a force for good for women, families, and society. It is time, Pollitt argues, that we reclaim the lives and the rights of women and mothers.

Katha Pollitt, the author of Virginity or Picador Death!, is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Paperback • 288 pp • $16.00 Nation. She has won many prizes and awards ISBN: 978-1-250-07266-5 for her work, including the National Book Critics Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveler, and two National Magazine e-book Awards for Essays and Criticism. She lives in New York City.

50 It Happened on the Way to War NON-FICTION A Marine’s Path to Peace Rye Barcott

“Timely, relevant, and critically important.” —Greg Barrett, The Huffington Post

s a twenty-year-old college student heading into the Marines, Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya to better understand extreme ethnic violence. HeA learned Swahili, asked questions, and listened to young people talk about how they survived in poverty. With the help of Tabitha Atieno Festo, a nurse, and Salim Mohamed, a hardscrabble community organizer, Rye built a nongovernmental organization—Carolina for Kibera—that would develop a new generation of leaders from within one of Africa’s largest slums. He continued his leadership in CFK while serving as a Marine and took the tools he learned in Nairobi to become a more effective counterinsurgent and peacekeeper. “[The book] is detailed, vivid, earnest, and remarkable in rendering with equal intensity his interactions with poor children in Nairobi and his experiences at OCS or on patrol in Fallujah. I was struck by its epigraph, which is also the slogan of Carolina for Kibera: ‘Talent is universal; opportunity is not.’ That is one of the clearest lessons of my own experience around the world over the years. It is heartening, in the current political mood, that a young, talented, ambitious American would choose that as the theme he wanted to stress. It is an interesting book . . . and an encouraging story.” —James Fallows, The Atlantic

Rye Barcott co-founded the non-governmental Bloomsbury organization Carolina For Kibera to prevent Paperback • 368 pp • $17.00 violence through participatory development. He ISBN: 978-1-60819-431-5 served in the Marine Corps and earned master’s degrees from Harvard University, where he was a Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. He lives in North Carolina and works at Double Time Capital, a clean energy investment firm.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Boca Raton High School (FL); Broward College (FL); East Carolina University (NC); LaGrange College (GA); North Carolina State University; SUNY, Potsdam 51 Mindware Tools for Smart Thinking Richard E. Nisbett

“The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me NON-FICTION my view of the world.” —Malcolm Gladwell, The New York Times Book Review

cientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of theseS tools remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard E. Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail. Nisbett has made a distinguished career of studying and teaching such powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, sunk costs and opportunity costs, and causation and correlation, probing the best methods for teaching others how to use them effectively in their daily lives. In this groundbreaking book, Nisbett shows us how to frame common problems in such a way that these scientific and statistical principles can be applied to them. The result is an enlightening and practical guide to the most essential tools of reasoning ever developed—tools that can easily be used to make better professional, business, and personal decisions. “With clear explanations of relevant principles from statistics, formal logic, economics, and psychology, Nisbett does indeed assemble a powerful toolkit for examining the validity of claims made by marketers, politicians, and scientists.” —The Boston Globe

Richard E. Nisbett is a professor of Farrar, Straus and Giroux psychology at the University of Michigan Hardcover • 336 pp • $27.00 and one of the world’s most respected ISBN: 978-0-374-11267-7 psychologists. He has received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association e-book and many other national and international awards. His books The Geography of Thought and Intelligence and How to Get It have won multiple awards and have been translated © Sarah Nisbett into many languages.

52 Citizen An American Lyric Claudia Rankine Winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize Winner of the PEN Open Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

“Part protest lyric, part art book, Citizen is a dazzling expression of the painful double consciousness of POETRY black life in America.” —Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post

laudia Rankine’s new book—“a precise, complex, clear-eyed, and masterful work of art” (Guernica)—recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century Cdaily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions andexpectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named “post-race” society. “It is a swift and gripping read.” —Boston Review

Claudia Rankine is the author of four previous Graywolf Press books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: Paperback • 160 pp • $20.00 An American Lyric. She currently teaches at ISBN: 978-1-55597-690-3 Pomona College.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Grand Valley State University (MI); Howard University (DC); Keene State College (NH); New York University Tisch School of the Arts; Washington College (MD); Washington University in St. Louis (MO) 53 Find Me A Novel Laura van den Berg

“Find Me has a psychological depth and a desolate, noirish gravity. The whole shimmering novel hangs together and propels the reader forward with its unusual brand of dream logic . . . By the time I closed the book, I knew Find Me’s spectral visions of Amer- ica would haunt me, and I knew I would want to read it again.” —The Rumpus

oy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness Jthat begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune. When Joy’s immunity gains her admittance to a hospital in

FICTION rural Kansas, she sees a chance to escape her bleak existence. There she submits to peculiar treatments and follows seemingly arbitrary rules, forming cautious bonds with other patients— including her roommate, whom she turns to in the night for comfort, and twin boys who are digging a secret tunnel. As winter descends, the hospital’s fragile order breaks down and Joy breaks free, embarking on a journey from Kansas to Florida, where she believes she can find her birth mother, the woman who abandoned her as a child. On the road in a devastated America, she encounters mysterious companions, cities turned strange, and one very eerie house. As Joy closes in on Florida, she must confront her own damaged memory and the secrets she has been keeping from herself. “From this memorable novel’s eerie first paragraph to its enigmatic ending, Laura van den Berg has invented something beautiful indeed.” —Los Angeles Times

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida Farrar, Straus and Giroux and earned her M.F.A. at Emerson College. Paperback • 288 pp • $15.00 She is the author of the story collection The ISBN: 978-0-374-53607-7 Isle of Youth—also published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She lives in the Boston area and is a Writer-in-Residence at Bard College. e-book

54 10:04 NON-FICTION A Novel Ben Lerner

“This masterful, at times dizzying novel reevaluates not just what fiction can do but what it is.” —Tiffany Gibert, Time Out New York (five-star review)

n the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. FICTION InI a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his own mortality and the prospect of fatherhood in a city that might soon be underwater. A writer whose work Jonathan Franzen has called “hilarious . . . cracklingly intelligent . . . and original in every sentence,” Lerner captures what it’s like to be alive now, during the twilight of an empire, when the difficulty of imagining a future is changing our relationship to both the present and the past. “Mr. Lerner is among the most interesting young American novelists at present . . . In 10:04, he’s written a striking and important novel of New York City, partly because he’s so cognizant of both past and present. He’s a walker in the city in conscious league with Walt Whitman . . . We come to relish seeing the world through this man’s eyes.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, Picador in 1979. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Paperback • 256 pp • $16.00 Station, won the 2012 Believer Book Award, ISBN: 978-1-250-08133-9 and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded The Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize. Lerner is a e-book professor of English at Brooklyn College.

55 The Ploughmen A Novel Kim Zupan

“The Ploughmen is a remarkable novel, beautifully exe- cuted . . . And it’s absolutely beautiful, from its tragic opening scene to its tough, necessary end.” —NPR

teeped in the lonesome Montana country, unyielding as it is beautiful, The Ploughmen is the story of two men—an aging killer awaiting trial, and a troubled young deputy—who sit across from each otherS in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell. John Gload is a killer so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of seventy-seven, has he faced a long-term jail sentence. Valentine

FICTION Millimaki, the low man in the Copper County sheriff ’s department, is given the delicate assignment of extracting more information from Gload as he awaits his trial date. As their conversations deepen and pressure from the sheriff ’s department mounts, a brazen act of violence leaves these two haunted souls yoked by the secrets they share and by the harsh country that keeps them. In language that is sumptuous and evocative, Zupan takes us deep into the hearts and minds of two very different men, exploring our capacity for violence, our hunger for connection, and the inescapability of the past. “Zupan is committed to shrewd storytelling . . . The book features plenty of suspense. What it offers in addition are Zupan’s considerable skills with description and mood . . . The Ploughmen is a dark and imaginative debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

Kim Zupan, a native Montanan, lives in Picador Missoula and grew up in and around Great Paperback • 272 pp • $16.00 Falls. For twenty-five years Zupan made a ISBN: 978-1-250-07478-2 living as a carpenter while pursuing his writing. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Montana and presently e-book teaches carpentry at Missoula College.

56 Purity NON-FICTION A Novel Jonathan Franzen

“As he did in The Corrections and Freedom, Franzen once again begins with a family, but his ravenous intellect strides the globe, drawing us through a collection of cleverly connected plots infused with Major Issues of the Day.” —The Washington Post

oung Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her FICTION Yrelationship with her mother—her only family—is hazardous. But she doesn’t have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she’ll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world—including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn’t understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters—Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers—and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other Farrar, Straus and Giroux novels, most recently The Corrections and Free- Hardcover • 576 pp • $28.00 dom, and five works of nonfiction and trans- ISBN: 978-0-374-23921-3 lation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project, all published by FSG. He is a member of e-book the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French audiobook Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

57 Wolf in White Van A Novel John Darnielle Winner of the Alex Award

“Wolf in White Van is a stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.”—The New York Times Book Review

solated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. As the creator of “Trace Italian”—a text-based role-playing game that’s playedI through the mail—Sean guides subscribers through his intricately imagined terrain, turn by turn, as they search out sanctuary in a ravaged, savage future America. But when Lance and Carrie, two

FICTION teenaged seekers of the Trace, take their play outside the game, disaster strikes, and Sean is called on to account for it. In the process, he is pulled back through time, toward the beginning and the climax: the moment of his own self-inflicted departure from the world in which most people live. Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, “Wolf is about the way storytelling can deliver you, though not always save you, from the blistering, profound pain of adolescence—or just existence . . . John Darnielle is a great songwriter, tipping light toward every kind of human suffering, and his powers are on full display in Wolf in White Van. The prose lives like Sean’s imagination: a breathing, growing thing” (NPR).

John Darnielle is a writer, composer, guitarist, Picador and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats; Paperback • 224 pp • $16.00 he is widely considered one of the best lyricists ISBN: 978-1-250-07471-3 of his generation. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and son. e-book

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58 The Sellout NON-FICTION A Novel Paul Beatty

“The Sellout is a comic masterpiece, but it’s much more than just that—it’s one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time, written by an author who truly understands what it means to talk about the history of the country.”—NPR

biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty’s The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It FICTION challengesA the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians. Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father’s pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family’s financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town’s most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Tuff, Picador Slumberland, and The White Boy Shuffle, and the Paperback • 304 pp • $16.00 poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and ISBN: 978-1-250-08325-8 Joker, Joker, Deuce. He was the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. e-book He lives in New York City.

59 The Laughing Monsters A Novel Denis Johnson

“A thriller of spies and black marketeers that’s hard to put down for all the right reasons.” —New York magazine

driko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He’sA probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko’s

FICTION stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko’s fiancée, a college girl named Davidia from Colorado. Together the three set out to visit Adriko’s clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Adriko, Nair, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness. A high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world, Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. “Johnson’s tenth novel is a stunner . . . [His] sentences are always brilliant, but it is in the interstices, the gray areas of the story, that he really excels.” —David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

Denis Johnson is the author of eight novels, Picador one novella, one book of short stories, three Paperback • 240 pp • $16.00 collections of poetry, two collections of plays, ISBN: 978-1-250-07491-1 and one book of reportage. His novel Tree of Smoke won the 2007 National Book Award. e-book

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60 Lila NON-FICTION A Novel Marilynne Robinson National Book Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

“No writer can see life whole. There’s too much of it, too many sides, to be comprehended by a single vision. But some books give us a sense of such whole- ness, and they are precious for it. Lila is such a book.” —Chicago Tribune

arilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, FICTION Mhomeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church—the only available shelter from the rain—and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson’s Gilead and Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the Picador novels Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Paperback • 272 pp • $16.00 Prize), and Housekeeping, and four books of ISBN: 978-1-250-07484-3 nonfiction, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and e-book Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. audiobook

61 Peacekeeping A Novel Mischa Berlinski Available in March 2016

Mischa Berlinski returns with his second novel, Peacekeeping, an enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world’s most intriguing country.

hen Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He’s sent toW the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town’s

FICTION complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinc- es the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. When Terry falls in love with the judge’s wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster. Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski’s gifts as a storyteller. Like his previous novel, it explores a part of the world that we neither understand nor control—and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.

Mischa Berlinski was born in New York in Sarah Crichton Books/FSG 1973. His first novel, Fieldwork, was a finalist Hardcover • 400 pp • $27.00 for the National Book Award. In 2013, Berlins- ISBN: 978-0-374-23044-9 ki was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Addison M. Metcalf Award. e-book

62 Make Your Home Among Strangers NON-FICTION A Novel Jennine Capó Crucet

“Crucet’s smart, scathing, and hilarious depiction of a Cuban-American girl at a fancy northeastern university is set in 1999—and involves and Elián González-inspired subplot—but its incisive take on race and class makes it both urgently of-the-moment and destined to be a classic.” —Vanity Fair

hen Lizet—the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school—secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her FICTION decisionW to leave Miami. Just weeks before she’s set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy—Lizet’s older sister, a brand-new single mom—without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Amidst this turmoil, Lizet begins her first semester at Rawlings College, distracted by both the exciting and difficult moments of freshman year. But the privileged world of the campus feels utterly foreign, as does her new awareness of herself as a minority. Struggling both socially and academically, she returns to Miami for a surprise Thanksgiv- ing visit, only to be overshadowed by the arrival of Ariel Hernandez, a young boy whose mother died fleeing with him from Cuba on a raft. The ensuing immigration battle puts Miami in a glaring spotlight, captivating the nation and entangling Lizet’s entire family, especially her mother. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life forever. Urgent and mordantly funny, Make Your Home Among Strangers tells the moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it’s the new story of what it means to be American today.

Jennine Capó Crucet is the author of the St. Martin’s Press story collection How to Leave Hialeah, winner Hardcover • 400 pp • $26.99 of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, John Gardner ISBN: 978-1-250-05966-6 Book Prize, and Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award. She was raised in Miami and is currently e-book assistant professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

63 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore A Novel Robin Sloan

“A jaunty, surprisingly old-fashioned fantasy about the places where old and new ways of accessing knowledge meet . . . [Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore] cleverly uses the technological age in the service of its fantasy.” —San Francisco Chronicle

he Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed Thim a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after just a few days on the job, Clay begins to realize that this store is even more curious than the name suggests. The store

FICTION must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes, and soon he’s embarked on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and roped his friends into helping him figure out just what’s going on. But once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. “A fantastic story . . . I loved diving into the world that Sloan created, both the high-tech fantasyland of Google and the ancient analog society. It’s packed full of geeky allusions and wonderful characters, and is a celebration of books, whether they’re made of dead trees or digits. I will point out, though, that if you get the hardcover [or paperback] version of the book, the dust jacket glows in the dark—something you won’t find on your Kindle. Of course, I didn’t know that until Google told me.” —Jonathan H. Liu, Wired

Robin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now Picador splits his time between San Francisco Paperback • 304 pp • $16.00 and the Internet. ISBN: 978-1-250-03775-6

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona 64 The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. NON-FICTION A Novel Adelle Waldman

“A smart, engaging 21st-century comedy of manners in which the debut novelist Adelle Waldman crawls convincingly around inside the head of one Nathaniel (Nate) Piven.” —The New York Times Book Review

riter Nate Piven’s star is rising. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both magazine assignments and women: Juliet, the hotshot business reporter; Elisa, his gorgeous FICTION ex-girlfriend,W now friend; and Hannah, “almost universally regarded as nice and smart, or smart and nice,” who holds her own in conversation with his friends. When one relationship grows more serious, Nate is forced to consider what it is he really wants. In Nate’s 21st-century literary world, wit and conversation are not at all dead. Is romance? Novelist Adelle Waldman plunges into the psyche of a flawed, sometimes infuriating modern man—one who thinks of himself as beyond superficial judgment, yet constantly struggles with his own status anxiety, who is drawn to women, yet has a habit of letting them down in ways that may just make him an emblem of our times. With tough-minded intelligence and wry good humor The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.—“a delectable analysis of contemporary dating” (The Washington Post)—is an inside look at how Nate really thinks about women, sex and love.

Adelle Waldman worked as a reporter at Picador the New Haven Register and The Plain Dealer Paperback • 256 pp • $15.00 (Cleveland). Her articles have also appeared in ISBN: 978-1-250-05045-8 The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Brooklyn, e-book New York.

65 Radiance of Tomorrow A Novel Ishmael Beah

“There is an allegorical richness to Beah’s storytelling and a remarkable humanity to his characters.” —The New York Times Book Review

hen Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic. Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called “arguably the most readW African writer in contemporary literature,” has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and

FICTION Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. As others, battered and bruised, begin to file back, Bockarie tries to rekindle a sense of tradition, but he and his countrymen are best by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, and rape; and the depredations of a mining company intent on taking the town’s land. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they’re forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times. “Beah has a resilient spirit and a lyrical style all his own . . . His characters retain their hopefulness in a way that’s challenging and inspiring.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone Sarah Crichton Books/FSG in 1980. His first book, A Long Way Gone: Paperback • 272 pp • $14.00 Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, was a New York Times ISBN: 978-0-374-53503-2 bestseller and has been published in more than forty languages. You can follow him on Twitter e-book at @IshmaelBeah. audiobook

66 Goodhouse NON-FICTION A Novel Peyton Marshall

“Partly inspired by the 19th-century Preston School of Industry, a reform school in Northern California, Goodhouse asks how much of our destiny is really in our control. It’s a thought-provoking look at a plausible near-future that will appeal to teens as well as adults.”—The Oregonian (Portland)

ith soaring literary prose and the tense pacing of a thriller, the first-time novelist Peyton Mar- shall imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first century—in a trans- FICTION formedW America—the sons of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state—removed from their homes and raised on “Goodhouse” campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a savage place—part prison, part boarding school—and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer’s Church of Purity, is intent on destroying each campus and purifying every child with fire. We see all this through the eyes of James, a transfer student who watched as the radicals set fire to his old Goodhouse and killed nearly everyone he’d ever known. In addition to adjusting to a new campus with new rules, James now has to contend with Bethany, a brilliant, medically fragile girl who wants to save him, and with her father, the school’s sinister director of medical studies. Soon, however, James realizes that the biggest threat might already be there, inside the fortified walls of Goodhouse itself. Partly based on the true story of the nineteenth-century Preston School of Industry, Goodhouse explores questions of identity and free will—and what it means to test the limits of human endurance.

Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Farrar, Straus and Giroux Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in Paperback • 336 pp • $14.00 The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space, ISBN: 978-0-374-53586-5 Blackbird, Etiqueta Negra, FiveChapters, and Best New American Voices 2004. She lives in Portland, e-book Oregon.

67 Fives and Twenty-Fives A Novel Michael Pitre

“Mr. Pitre, who joined the Marines in 2002 and was deployed twice to Iraq before returning home to get an M.B.A., provides an unblinking, razor-edged portrait of the war through the lives of members of his fictional platoon.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

t’s the rule—always watch your fives and twenty-fives. When a convoy halts to investigate a possible roadside bomb, stay in the vehicle and scan five meters in every direction. A bomb inside five meters cutsI through the armor, killing everyone in the truck. Once clear, get out and sweep twenty-five meters. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahead. Fives and

FICTION twenty-fives mark the measure of a marine’s life in the road repair platoon. Dispatched to fill potholes on the highways of Iraq, the platoon works to assure safe passage for citizens and military personnel. Their mission lacks the glory of the infantry, but in a war where every pothole contains a hidden bomb, road repair brings its own danger. Lieutenant Donavan leads the platoon, painfully aware of his shortcomings and isolated by his rank. Doc Pleasant, the medic, joined for opportunity, but finds his pride undone as he watches friends die. And there’s Kateb, known to the Americans as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of American culture—from hip-hop to the dog-eared copy of Huck Finn he carries—is matched only by his disdain for what Americans are doing to his country. Returning home, they exchange one set of decisions and repercussions for another, struggling to find a place in a world that no longer knows them.

Michael Pitre joined the U.S. Marines in 2002, Bloomsbury deploying twice to Iraq and attaining the rank Paperback • 400 pp • $17.00 of Captain before leaving the service in 2010 ISBN: 978-1-62040-755-4 to get his M.B.A. at Loyola. He lives in New Orleans.

68 Salvage the Bones NON-FICTION A Novel Jesmyn Ward Winner of the National Book Award

“Salvage the Bones is a beautiful read. Ward’s redolent prose conjures the magic and menace of the southern landscape.”—The Dallas Morning News

hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t FICTION showA concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets; she’s fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel’s framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family—motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce—pulls itself up to face another day. “[Salvage the Bones] is a gripping, tightly told tale, and a fine novel . . . This may be the best account you’ll read of Hurricane Katrina. Ward draws much of her story, its tone a wise blend of detachment and ferocity, from her own hardscrabble experiences.” —Pamela Miller, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. Bloomsbury Her debut novel, Where the Line Bleeds received Paperback • 288 pp • $16.00 the Black Caucus of the American Library Asso- ISBN: 978-1-60819-626-5 ciation Honor Award and was a finalist for both the Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Florida A&M University; Rocky Mountain College (MT); Salem College (NC); Vanderbilt University (TN) 69 One Foot in Eden A Novel Ron Rash Winner of the Appalachian Book of the Year

“Equal parts vintage crime novel and Southern Goth- ic, full of aching ambivalence and hard compromises, and rounded off by bad faith and bad choices . . . A veritable garden of earthly disquiet.” —Los Angeles Times

on Rash—acclaimed poet and short-story writer and John Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Studies—presents a debut novel about a small-town sheriff investigating the murderR of a local thug. But problems arise when the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. One Foot in Eden is “written with the crisp precision and evocative images you’d

FICTION expect from a talented poet, especially one with deep roots in the [Carolina] region. His characters are vivid, thoroughly human. And his narrative unfolds in mesmerizing fashion . . . A page-turner with a palpable, moving sense of time and place, and an abiding compassion for the troubled humans who move through its pages” (The Charlotte Observer). “One Foot in Eden is a forceful but never forced narrative. Rash moves his tragedy along with great authority, revealing motives that build to the complexity of each character as well as our fascination with them and the outcome of their lives. It is a finely polished novel.” —The Columbia State

Ron Rash is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize Picador and the James Still Award from the Fellowship Paperback • 240 pp • $16.00 of Southern Writers. Rash is the author of sev- ISBN: 978-0-312-42305-6 eral novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight (winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award). e-book He lives in Clemson, South Carolina.

Used in First-Year Experience Programs at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute (SC); Clemson University (SC); Coker College (SC); Francis Marion University (SC); Limestone College (SC); University of South Carolina, Upstate; University of Virginia; Virginia Highlands Community College; Western Carolina University; Wofford College (SC) 70 Saints at the

River NON-FICTION A Novel Ron Rash Winner of the Weatherford Award

“As a stylist, Rash never falters, offering rich metaphors that quietly bring the nuances of Tamassee and the river to life.”—The Post & Courier (Charleston)

he people of a small South Carolina town are thrown into the national spotlight when a twelve- year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy. The girl’s par- Tents want to rescue the body, while environmentalists believe the rescue will cause permanent damage to the river and set a dangerous precedent. Maggie, a newspaper photographer who was raised in the town FICTION and has been sent to cover the story, finds herself revisiting the past she’s fought hard to leave behind.

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The World Made Straight A Novel Ron Rash

“Rash’s novels are complex and compelling, told in graceful conscientious prose, and The World Made Straight is his finest yet.”—The Charlotte Observer

ravis wanders into the woods, discovers a large grove of marijuana, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After several hours on the forest floor, Travis is released by the farmer who set it—but his Tconfrontation with the subtle evils that underlie the life of his small Appalachian community has begun. Travis then leaves his parents’ home to live with Leonard, a one-time schoolteacher who now deals pot to make ends meet. A student-mentor relationship develops and the fate of these two outsiders becomes increasingly entwined as the community’s past and corrupt present engulf them from every direction.

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Used in First-Year Experience Programs at University of West Georgia; Western Carolina University 71 Please contact us for packaging options at [email protected] Connections Empowering College and Career Success Paul A. Gore, Wade Leuwerke, A. J. Metz First Edition

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Your College Experience Strategies for Success John K. Gardner and Betsy O. Barefoot Twelfth Edition

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Your College Step by Step to Experience College and Career Strategies for Success Success John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot, John N. Gardner & Betsy O. Barefoot and Negar Farakish Sixth Edition Two-Year College Edition Bedford/St. Martin’s Bedford/St. Martin’s Paperback • 208 pp • $37.00 net Paperback • 400 pp • $56.00 net ISBN: 978-1-4576-7251-4 ISBN: 978-1-4576-6576-9 LaunchPad LaunchPad COLLEGE SUCCESS

Your College Experience A Pocket Guide to Strategies for Success College Success John N. Gardner & Betsy O. Barefoot Jamie Shushan

Concise Eleventh Edition Bedford/St. Martin’s Bedford/St. Martin’s Paperback • 256 pp • $25.00 net Paperback • 256 pp • $52.50 net ISBN: 978-1-4576-1981-6 ISBN: 978-1-4576-7252-1 73 Bedford/St. Martin’s INSIDER’S GUIDES Please contact us for packaging options at [email protected]

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The Empathy Age of Ambition Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith Exams in the New China Essays Evan Osnos Leslie Jamison Winner of the National Book Award Graywolf Press Paperback • 248 pages • $16.00 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperback • 416 pages • $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-55597-671-2 ISBN: 978-0-374-17584-9

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An Idea Whose The Memory Time Has Come Painter Two Presidents, Two Parties, and A Novel the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Gwendolyn Womack Todd S. Purdum Picador Hardcover • 336 pages • $26.00 Picador ISBN: 978-1-250-05303-9 Paperback • 432 pages • $18.00 e-book ISBN: 978-1-250-06246-8 e-book

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