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Unaccountable Marty Makary, M.D. 2 Hidden Harmonies (pb) Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan 4 El Narco (pb) Ioan Grillo 5 Volcker William L. Silber 6

.bloomsburypress.com What’s the Economy Good For, Anyway? (pb) John de Graaf and David K. Batker 8 America Aflame (pb) David Goldfield 9 Fever Season Jeannette Keith 10 www The Watchers Stephen Alford 11 Bloomsbury Press Backlist highlights 12

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The Wild Duck Chase Martin J. Smith 13 Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands (pb) Roger L. Di Silvestro 14 Leningrad (pb) Anna Reid 15 Mirror Earth Michael D. Lemonick 16 Spectrums David Blatner 17 A More Perfect Heaven (pb) Dava Sobel 18 The Sugar Barons (pb) Matthew Parker 20 The Damnation of John Donellan Elizabeth Cooke 21 Leonardo and The Last Supper Ross King 22 The Miracle of Trees Olavi Huikari 24

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Salvage the Bones (pb) Jesmyn Ward 26 Welcome to Your Child’s Brain (pb) Sandra Aamondt, Ph.D. and Sam Wang, Ph.D. 28 The Shadow Scholar Ed Dante 29 The Odyssey Seymour Chwast 30 The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History Jim Baker and Bernard M. Corbett 32 Just Plain Dick Kevin Mattson 33 Wilderness Lance Weller 34 Midnight in Austenland (pb) Shannon Hale 36 Painter of Silence Georgina Harding 37 Rabid Pamela Redmond Satran 38 Raising Wrecker (pb) Summer Wood 40 The Man Who Never Died (pb) William M. Adler 41 Unbored Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen 42 Rip Tide (pb) Stella Rimington 44 The Geneva Trap Stella Rimington 45 Prophet’s Prey (pb) Sam Brower 46 .bloomsburyusa.com Finding Casey Jo-Ann Mapson 47 Don’t Shoot (pb) David M. Kennedy 48

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A Halloween Treat Edward Gorey 51 Saint Melissa the Mottled Edward Gorey 51 Decades Cameron Silver with Rebecca DiLiberto 52 Ru Kim Thúy 54 50 Licks Pete Fornatale with Bernard M. Corbett 55 Zoo Time Howard Jacobson 56 Polpo Russell Norman 58 The Light of Amsterdam David Park 59 The Hungry Ear edited by Kevin Young 60 Big Ray Michael Kimball 61 The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl Celia Lewis 62 Hard Twisted C. Joseph Greaves 63 Life! Death! Prizes! Stephen May 64 Babysitting George Celia Walden 65 Wilpon’s Folly Howard Megdal 66

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2 Unaccountable What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care Marty Makary, M.D.

An urgent call for action from a leading surgeon to make our health care more transparent, more democratic, and safer for patients.

Dr. Marty Makary is co-developer of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande’s bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he’s also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical sponges inside patients, amputates the wrong limbs, and overdoses children www because of sloppy handwriting. Over the last ten years, neither error rates nor costs have come down,

despite scientific progress and efforts to curb expenses. Why? .bloomsburypress.com To patients, the health care system is a black box. Doctors and hospitals are unaccountable, and the lack of transparency leaves both bad doctors and systemic flaws unchecked. Patients need to know more of what health care workers know, so they can make informed choices. Accountability in health care would expose Marty Makary, M.D., dangerous doctors, reward good performance, and force positive change nationally, using the power of the M.P.H., is a surgeon at free market. Unaccountable is a powerful, no-nonsense, non-partisan diagnosis for healing our hospitals Johns Hopkins Hospital and reforming our broken health care system. and a professor of health policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Excerpt from Unaccountable: Health. He is a regular medical commentator From my earliest days as a medical student I’ve wondered why the same patient wheeled off for heart bypass for CNN and FOX News, surgery in Houston would simply be given an aspirin in San Francisco. I have long considered it self-evident that and appears weekly on a good medicine is not local; best practices are universal. Good and bad medical care in the U.S. is sold on an open wide variety of programs market, except that (unlike in other free markets) consumers have no information to make decisions … to discuss health In the last few years, experts who gauge the quality of medical care have formalized fair and simple ways to topics. He is a leading measure how well patients do at individual hospitals. These statistics are telling; they identify the good and the patient-safety researcher bad outliers. [But] as a result of the failure in information transparency in America, we are left frustrated with our and led the World Health health care, forced to walk blind into the local hospital or doctor’s office. Hospitals are black boxes—and they Organization’s effort to like it that way. develop ways to measure health care quality. He tweets @DrMartyMD.

3 Also available Mathematics September Paperback U.S. $18.00 / Can. $19.00 304 pages 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-398-1

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.bloomsburypress.com The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem Robert and Ellen Kaplan have taught mathematics Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan www to people from six to sixty, at leading independent “Hidden Harmonies is a stunning book, taking the most classic theorem in mathematics and schools and, most recently, exposing its story, its human story, for what it really is: true poetry.”—James Tanton, educator, at Harvard University. mathematician, and author of The Encyclopedia of Mathematics Robert Kaplan is the author of the bestselling A squared plus b squared equals c squared. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet this familiar expression The Nothing That Is: A opens a gateway into the riotous garden of mathematics, and sends us on a journey of exploration in the Natural History of Zero, company of two inspired guides, Robert and Ellen Kaplan. With wit, verve, and clarity, they trace the life of which has been translated the Pythagorean theorem, from ancient Babylon to the present, visiting along the way Leonardo da Vinci, into 10 languages, and Albert Einstein, President James Garfield, and the Freemasons—not to mention the elusive Pythagoras together they wrote The himself, who almost certainly did not make the statement that bears his name. As in the authors’ bestselling Art of the Infinite and Out The Nothing That Is and Chances Are …, the excitement of mathematics leaps from the pages of Hidden of the Labyrinth. Ellen Harmonies. Kaplan is also coauthor of Chances Are: Adventures Praise for Hidden Harmonies: in Probability and Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err Is “Showing the theorem’s endless versatility, the Kaplans and their logic- and symbol-permeated text will engage those Human, cowritten with who delight in doing the math.”—Booklist her son Michael Kaplan. “The Kaplans have given us a wonderful, fun, and entertaining math book.”—Library Journal They live in Southampton, Massachusetts. 4 Crime/Current affairs november Paperback U.S. $18.00 / Can. $19.00 336 pages Praise for El Narco: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" 8-page color insert “El Narco achieves ISBN 978-1-60819-401-8 something unattempted in the English-language TERRITORY world, all languages reporting on the Mexican CANADA Bloomsbury Press via Penguin drug war: it lays out in clear agency Curtis Brown Ltd terms the contours of a world that has existed for MARKETING years and only grown more National print and broadcast media barbaric as it’s graduated campaign to ‘war’ status.” Online consumer advertising campaign —Bookforum Coverage in paperback columns Tie-in to breaking news www

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El Narco Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency Ioan Grillo hoto: Joh n D i c ke p hoto: “Terrific—full of vivid front-line reporting; diverse interviews; a sense of history; a touch of Ioan Grillo has covered social science; clarifying statistics; and realistic reviews of what might be done to improve Mexico since 2001 for top things, none of it easy. It is essential reading.”—Steve Coll, NewYorker.com newspapers, magazines, and TV stations in the U.S. The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police and the UK. He reports for chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs Time as well as producing shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans presentations for PBS, ABC, are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico’s democracy? The and Channel 4 (UK). He United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, and lots of money at the problem. But in regularly appears on radio secret, Washington is at a loss. Who are these mysterious figures who threaten Mexico’s democracy? What and TV, commenting on is El Narco? Mexican crime and other issues. He has witnessed El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands, from police and military bullet-riddled barrios to marijuana-covered mountains. The conflict spawned by El Narco has given rise operations, mafia killings to paramilitary death squads battling from Guatemala to the Texas border (and sometimes beyond). In and major drug seizures; this “propulsive … high-octane” book (Publishers Weekly), Ioan Grillo draws the first definitive portrait of he has discussed the drug Mexico’s cartels and how they have radically transformed in the past decade. war with two Mexican

presidents, three attorneys Praise for El Narco: general, and the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, “This excellent work packs the punch of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorrah.”—Booklist among others. 5 Business and Economics September Hardcover u.s. $30.00 / can. $31.50 352 PAGES 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-070-6 also available as an ebook

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6 Volcker the triumph of persistence William L. Silber

A biography of a true financial hero: former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who steered America’s economy through multiple crises—drawn from unprecedented access to Volcker’s papers and Volcker himself.

Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents—three Democrats and two Republicans—have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did nothing less than restore the reputation of an American financial system on the verge of collapse. After the 2008 financial meltdown, the nation turned again to Volcker to restore trust in a shaky financial system: President Obama would name his centerpiece Wall Street regulation the Volcker Rule. www Volcker’s career demonstrated that a determined central banker can prevail over economic turmoil—so long as he can resist relentless political pressure. His resolve and independent thinking—sorely tested Bu siness l o f Schoo ern .bloomsburypress.com by Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan—laid the foundation for a generation of economic stability. Indeed, William L. Silber argues, it was only Volcker’s toughness on monetary policy that “forced

Reagan to be Reagan” and to rein in America’s deficit. N YU St p hoto: Noted scholar and finance expert Silber draws on hours of candid personal interviews and complete William L. Silber is access to Volcker’s personal papers to render dramatic behind-the-scenes accounts from Volcker’s one of America’s most career at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve: secret negotiations with European ministers; respected experts on confrontations with the White House; crisis conferences with Wall Street titans, and even tense boardroom finance and banking. rebellions within the Fed itself. Filled with frank commentary from Volcker himself—including why He is currently Marcus he was personally irked with the “Volcker Rule” label—this will be the definitive account of Volcker’s Nadler Professor of indispensable role in American economic history. Finance and Economics and Director of the Glucksman Institute for Praise for William Silber’s When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: Research in Securities Markets at the Stern School of Business, NYU. “Brilliant.”—The New York Times His many books include “Fascinating work of financial history.”— The Washington Post When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The “More than just a ripping yarn—and it is that—[this] is a cautionary tale of how humankind can get suckered Great Financial Crisis into so believing economic myths that they take on a dangerous reality.”— The Washington Times of 1914 and the Origins Advance praise for Volcker: of America’s Monetary Supremacy. He is “William L. Silber weaves a subtle link between the three crises that tested Paul Volcker: gold in 1971, inflation in coauthor of the standard 1979, and sub-prime mortgages in 2007. He tells the story of Volcker’s success in a lively and authoritative style, textbook Money, Banking but unless America heeds the lessons for fiscal responsibility that Silber draws from Volcker’s record, the crisis and Financial Markets that lies ahead could make those past upheavals seem tame by comparison. Every member of Congress and and, with Lawrence every concerned citizen should read this book.”—Nouriel Roubini, chairman, Roubini Global Economics, Ritter, of the classic and author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance Money.

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also available ebook HC ISBN 978-1-60819-510-7 U.S. $25.00 What’s the Economy For, Anyway? Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing John de Graaf is the Happiness national coordinator of Take Back Your Time, an John de Graaf and David K. Batker

.bloomsburypress.com organization challenging time poverty and overwork “With our economy tattered and listing, it’s an excellent moment to ask basic questions: What should we be aiming for as a society, and what’s necessary to get there? Happily, other parts

www in the U.S. and Canada (see www.timeday.org), of the world provide many of the answers, as John de Graaf and David K. Batker show in this and a frequent speaker extremely valuable volume.”—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New on issues of overwork Planet and over-consumption in America. In this funny, readable, and thought-provoking book, activists John de Graaf (coauthor of the bestselling Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen economic issues, challenging the reader to consider the goal of our economy. Emphasizing powerful American ideals, including teamwork, pragmatism, and equality, de Graaf and Batker set forth a simple goal for any economic system: the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest run. Drawing from history and current enterprises, they show how the good life is achieved when people and markets work together with an active government to create a more perfect o rre economy—one that works for everyone.

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America Aflame How the Civil War Created a Nation David Goldfield

“Riveting, often heartbreaking … [A] masterly synthesis of political, social, economic and religious history … Goldfield’s thought experiment in alternative history is provocative in the ise Hedin -Lou arie best sense. Most history books try to explain the past. The exceptional ones, of which America Aflame is a distinguished example, remind us that the past is ultimately as inscrutable as the M p hoto: future.”—New York Times Book Review David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey In this spellbinding history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era Professor of History at since James M. McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom. Where other scholars have seen the conflict as a the University of North triumph of freedom, Goldfield paints it as America’s greatest failure: a breakdown of society caused by the Carolina, Charlotte. He infusion of evangelical religion into the world of politics. is the author of many works and textbooks The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the on Southern history, United States one nation and eliminated the divisive force of slavery. The victorious North moved ahead, a including Still Fighting land of innovation and industry. Religion was supplanted by a gospel of economic and scientific progress, the Civil War, Southern and the South was left behind. The “fiery trial” of war transformed our country—a conflagration captured Histories, Black, White and in vivid detail in America Aflame. Southern, and Promised Land. Praise for America Aflame:

“A monumental new appraisal of the war.”—Los Angeles Times 9 History October Hardcover U.S. $30.00 / Can. $31.50 288 pages 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-222-9 also available as an ebook

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em o n The Epidemic of 1878 That Almost Destroyed Memphis, and

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St Su san p hoto: Brilliant new history from an acclaimed scholar—the forgotten story of the epidemic that Originally trained as a nearly destroyed an American city, and the desperate valor of those who stayed behind to journalist, Jeanette Keith fight the fever. obtained her Ph.D. in history from Vanderbilt While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic University in 1990 and was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just is currently professor of a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was history at Bloomsburg particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn’t flee the city, seventeen thousand University in Bloomsburg, contracted the fever, and more than five thousand died—the equivalent of a million New Yorkers dying Pennsylvania. She is the in an epidemic today. author of several books, Fever Season chronicles the drama in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course including Country People in late October. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a profound–and never more relevant–account in the New South and the of how a catastrophe inspired reactions both heroic and cowardly. Some ministers, politicians, and police award-winning Rich Man’s fled their constituents, while prostitutes and the poor risked their lives to nurse the sick. War, Poor Man’s Fight. Using the vivid, anguished accounts and diaries of those who chose to stay and those who were left behind, Fever Season depicts the events of that summer and fall. In its pages we meet people of great courage and compassion, many of whom died for having those virtues. We also learn how a disaster can shape the future of a city.

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The Watchers A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I Stephen Alford

A thrilling history of Queen Elizabeth I’s secret service and its ruthless war against the enemies er tch le of the realm—a vivid portrait of the original “national security state.” a x ine F

In a Europe aflame with wars of religion and dynastic conflicts, Elizabeth I came to the throne of a realm hoto: M p hoto: encircled by menace. To the great Catholic powers of France and Spain, England was a heretic pariah Stephen Alford is a fellow state, a canker to be cut away for the health of the greater body of Christendom. Elizabeth’s government, in history at King’s College, defending God’s true Church of England and its leader, the queen, could stop at nothing to defend itself. Cambridge, and the author Headed by the brilliant, enigmatic, and widely feared Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan state of the acclaimed Burghley: deployed every dark art: spies, double agents, cryptography, and torture. William Cecil at the Delving deeply into sixteenth-century archives, Stephen Alford offers a groundbreaking, chillingly vivid Court of Elizabeth I, The depiction of Elizabethan espionage, literally recovering it from the shadows. In his company we follow Early Elizabethan Polity: Her Majesty’s agents through the streets of London and Rome, and into the dank cells of the Tower. We see William Cecil and the the world as they saw it—ever unsure who could be trusted or when the fatal knock on their own door British Succession Crisis, might come. The Watchers is a riveting exploration of loyalty, faith, betrayal, and deception with the highest 1558–1569, and Kingship possible stakes, in a world poised between the Middle Ages and modernity. and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. He writes for the Times Literary Praise for Burghley: Supplement and other periodicals. “A remarkable book … Chilling reading … A classic example of history written to the highest standards.” —The Independent on Sunday (UK)

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Mrs. Woolf and the family of secrets servants Russ Baker Alison Light pb ISBN 978-1-60819-006-5 pb ISBN 978-1-59691-694-4 u.s. $20.00 u.s. $20.00 .bloomsburypress.com www the Spirit Level the irish americans Richard Wilkinson and Jay P. Dolan Kate Pickett pb ISBN 978-1-60819-341-7 PB ISBN 978-1-60819-010-2 u.s. $18.00 u.s. $18.00

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Nature September Advance praise for Hardcover The Wild Duck Chase: u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 256 PAGES “Martin Smith investigates 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" a little-known federal 16-page color insert program and finds ISBN 978-0-8027-7952-6 it brimming with fun also available as an ebook characters, a quirky culture, and valuable TERRITORY World english lessons for anyone who CANADA walker via penguin wants government to Walker subrights first serial and audio actually work.” Film/TV and translation writers house —Mark Obmascik, author, The Big Year: A MARKETING Tale of Man, Nature, and National print, online, and broadcast media campaign Fowl Obsession Focused outreach to environmental, nature, birding, art, and pop culture websites and publications “Smith’s tale of the noble and obscure federal duck Promote with state-level duck stamp programs stamp contest, and the Tie-in with announcement of contest winner in men who love it just a bit www October 2012 too much, is a delight to Digital assets: social media campaign leading up to read.”—Edward Humes, . w publication Pulitzer Prize–winning alkerbooks.com Serial opportunities journalist and author The Wild Duck Chase Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest Martin J. Smith ng t ri c k Lo

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The Wild Duck Chase takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it played out during the 2010 Federal Duck Stamp Contest—the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. Ju s t p hoto: Martin J. Smith is editor Since 1934, the duck stamp, which is bought annually by hunters to certify their hunting license, has in chief of the monthly generated more than $750 million, and 98 cents of each collected dollar has been used to help purchase Orange Coast magazine or lease 5.3 million acres of waterfowl habitat in the U.S.—the core of the National Wildlife Refuge System. and a former senior editor As Martin J. Smith chronicles in his revealing narrative, within the microcosm of the duck stamp contest are of the Los Angeles Times intense ideological and cultural clashes between the mostly rural hunters who buy the stamps and the Magazine. He is author mostly suburban and urban birders and conservationists who decry the hunting of waterfowl. At issue is of three crime novels, preserving the habitat of ducks and other waterfowl for all to enjoy: If the number of hunters continues to and his nonfiction books decrease—and unless nature lovers support the duck stamp program—this landmark conservation effort include Oops: 20 Life faces possible extinction. Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America The competition also fuels dynamic tensions between competitors and judges, and among the invariably and Poplorica (both with ambitious, sometimes obsessive, and often eccentric artists—including Minnesota’s three fabled Hautman coauthor Patrick J. Kiger). brothers, the “New York Yankees” of competitive duck painting. Martin Smith takes readers down an Smith lives in Southern arcane and uniquely American rabbit hole into a wonderland of talent, ego, art, controversy, scandal, big California. money, and migratory waterfowl. 13 American History September paperback u.s. $18.00 / Can. $19.00 368 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" 20 B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-7844-4

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www “I owe more than I can ever express to the West, which of course means to the men and women I met in the West.”—Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands chronicles the turbulent years Roosevelt spent as a rancher in the Badlands of Dakota Territory, following the sudden deaths on February 14, 1884, of his wife, two days after giving birth, and of his mother. Grief-stricken—and driven by doubts about his career after failed attempts as a reformer fighting political corruption—the young, Harvard-educated New York politician left his infant daughter in his sister’s care and went to live on a Badlands ranch he had bought a year earlier. Drawing on Roosevelt’s own accounts and on diverse archives, Roger Di Silvestro tells the exciting story Roger L. Di Silvestro is a of how the character and commitment of the future president and conservationist were forged during senior editor at National roundups, bronco busting, fist fights, grizzly bear hunts, and encounters with horse thieves as the Old Wildlife magazine and the West drew to its end. In the dramatic life story of Theodore Roosevelt, few adventures exceed those that author of In the Shadow he found in the Badlands. of Wounded Knee and several nature books, including The Endangered Praise for Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands: Kingdom and Reclaiming the Last Wild Places. He “TR was a man of his times, and his time in the Badlands was a moment of wild resurrection.” lives in Virginia, near —American Heritage Washington, D.C. “Fascinating biographical sketch … Di Silvestro paints a vivid panorama of the fast-vanishing frontier and plays the material straight.”—Publishers Weekly

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Leningrad . w alkerbooks.com The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944 Anna Reid c e y Mut kin A majestic narrative history of the epic World War II siege of Leningrad, interwoven with a indelible personal accounts of daily life drawn from diarists on both sides. hoto: St p hoto: Anna Reid is the author On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler’s brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was of The Shaman's Coat: surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters A Narrative History of of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and Siberia and Borderland: drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid chronicles the Nazis’ deliberate A Journey Through the decision to starve Leningrad into surrender, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the History of the Ukraine. She horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the ordeal of life in the blockaded city. holds a master’s degree Leningrad tackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the fault of Stalin in Russian history and as of Hitler? Why didn’t the Germans capture the city? Why didn’t it collapse into anarchy? What decided reform economics from who lived and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style, Leningrad gives voice to the dead the University of London’s and throws new light on one of the twentieth century’s greatest calamities. School of Slavonic and

East European Studies. Praise for Leningrad: She was Ukraine correspondent for the “Excerpts from the diaries kept by Leningraders during the blockade balance Reid’s lively academic prose. Economist and the Daily Juxtaposed with the ravings of two dictators, the siege diarists carry the book with a raw, desperate eloquence.” Telegraph from 1993 to —The New Yorker 1995, and from 2003 to 2007 she ran the “In the first full-length book on the siege since 1969, Anna Reid used [a trove of new material] to compelling effect foreign-affairs program to tell this horrific and occasionally inspiring story.”—The Economist at the think tank Policy “With access to candid diaries, police records, and government and military archives, [Reid] gives a detailed and Exchange. harrowing account of life and death in Leningrad … The people themselves have regained their voices.” —The Wall Street Journal 15 Science October Hardcover u.s. $26.00 / Can. $27.50 288 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" 10 b&w illustrations throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-7900-7 also available as an ebook

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. w Mirror Earth o p J essi c a Harr p hoto: Michael D. Lemonick The Search for Our Planet’s Twin www has written many Time Michael D. Lemonick magazine cover stories on science, including its 1996 The dramatic race to be the first to find an Earth-like planet capable of sustaining life as we story on the discovery of know it. the first planets beyond the solar system. He also In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky has been published in Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More Discover, New Scientist, than five hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Newsweek, Wired, and Scientific American. He Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science is the author of four writer Michael D. Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror books, most recently Earth unveils their passionate quest. Geoff Marcy, at the University of California, Berkeley, is the world’s Echo of the Big Bang and most successful planet hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar planets. Bill Borucki, at the The Georgian Star: How NASA Ames Research Center, struggled for more than a decade to launch the Kepler mission—the only William and Caroline planet finder, human or machine, to beat Marcy’s record. David Charbonneau, at Harvard, realized that Herschel Revolutionized Earths would be much easier to find if he looked at tiny stars called M-dwarfs rather than stars like the Our Understanding of the Sun—and that he could use backyard telescopes to find them! Cosmos. Lemonick lives in Unlike those in other races, the competing scientists actually consult and cooperate with one another. Princeton, New Jersey. But only one will be the first to find Earth’s twin. Mirror Earth is poised to narrate this historic event as the discovery is made.

16 Popular Science October Hardcover Praise for u.s. $24.00 / can. $25.00 The Joy of Pi: 304 PAGES 7" x 8" “This little book is a ISBN 978-0-8027-1770-2 treasure trove of facts, also available as an ebook folklore, quotes, uses, puzzles, and even the TERRITORY World, all languages first 1 million digits of CANADA walker via penguin pi … The rich history of Walker subrights First Serial, Audio, and this ratio is never boring, Translation as anecdotes and weird Film/TV Reid Boates Literary Agency trivia pop up throughout.” —Science News MARKETING National print, online, and radio media “A beautifully designed, campaign poetic little book about Digital galleys on NetGalley the ratio’s history, nature Focused outreach to science, math, nature, and use. The book is a education, and general-interest publications delightful testimonial to

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In Spectrums, David Blatner blends narrative and illustration to illuminate the variety of spectrums that affect our lives every day: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. There is actually very little in this universe that we can feel, touch, see, hear, or possibly even comprehend. It’s not an easy task to stretch the mind to encompass both billions of years and billionths of seconds; the distance to Jupiter and the size David Blatner is known of a proton; the tiny waves of visible light and gargantuan but invisible gamma rays; or the freezing point for his award-winning of Helium and the heat generated by the blast of an atom bomb. Exploring these far-reaching spectrums books, including The Joy gives us fascinating perspective on our small but not insignificant place in the universe. With easy-to-read, of Pi, The Flying Book, engaging, and insightful observations, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams, Blatner helps and various books on us “grok”—understand intuitively—six spectrums we encounter constantly, making our daily lives richer computer science topics, and more meaningful through greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live. such as InDesign, Quark XPress, and Photoshop.

He lectures worldwide Praise for The Flying Book: on electronic publishing. More than 500,000 copies “The Flying Book delivers, ranging from the deeply wonky, a revisionist discussion of the Bernoulli effect of his books are in print in involving wing lift, to the nitty-gritty, such as why vacuum toilets are better than flush types. A good gift for a twelve languages. He and long flight.”—San Antonio Express-News his wife and son live in Seattle, Washington. “Fun facts for airline airplane geeks who, if possible, would ride in planes like dogs in pickups, with their heads out the window.”—The Washington Post 17 History October Paperback u.s. $16.00 / can. $17.00 288 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" B&W images throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-7894-9

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A More Perfect Heaven How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos Longitude PB Dava Sobel ISBN 978-0-8027-1529-6 U.S. $14.00 Publishers Weekly’s Best Science Book for Fall 2011 also available as an eBook An unforgettable portrait of scientific achievement, and of the ever-present tensions between science and faith, from the bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter.

By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had developed an initial outline of his heliocentric theory—in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, and not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades,

Copernicus expanded his theory and compiled in secret a book-length manuscript that tantalized www mathematicians and scientists throughout Europe. For fear of ridicule, he refused to publish.

In 1539, a young German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, drawn by rumors of a revolution to rival . w the religious upheaval of Martin Luther’s Reformation, traveled to Poland to seek out Copernicus. Two Galileo’s Daughter PB alkerbooks.com years later, the Protestant youth took leave of his aging Catholic mentor and arranged to have Copernicus’s ISBN 978-0-8027-7965-6 manuscript published, in 1543, as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial U.S. $17.00 Spheres)—the book that forever changed humankind's place in the universe. also available as an eBook In her elegant, compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the conflicting personalities and extraordinary discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution. At the heart of the book is her play “And the Sun Stood Still,” imagining Rheticus’s struggle to convince Copernicus to let his manuscript see the light of day.

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“Ms. Sobel is an elegant stylist, a riveting and efficient storyteller, a writer who can bring the dustiest of subjects to full-blooded life—poignant, in the case of Galileo; cautious but also loving, loyal and feisty in the case of Copernicus.”—Katherine Bouton, The New York Times “Lively, inventive … a masterly specimen of close-range cultural history. Ms. Sobel certainly brings Copernicus to life, perhaps better than any other author. Ms. Sobel presents a thoroughly researched and eminently readable edder account of a major scientist who celebrated the sun yet lurks in the shadows.”—The Wall Street Journal ibi P

“A delightful immersion into tumultuous times.”—Mike Brown, The Washington Post L p hoto: Dava Sobel is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling titles Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Illustrated Longitude, and The Planets. She lives in East Hampton, New York.

19 History Praise for The Sugar November Barons: Paperback “An engaging journey to u.s. $20.00 / can. $21.00 a mercifully vanished 464 PAGES world.” 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" —The Wall Street 41 b&w images Journal ISBN 978-0-8027-7798-0 also available as an ebook “A tumultuous rollercoaster of a book … Mr. Parker TERRITORY U.S. and Canada tells an extraordinary, CANADA walker via penguin neglected and shameful agency Inkwell Management story with gusto.” —The Economist MARKETING “This is a rousing, fluently Coverage in print paperback columns written narrative history, Focused outreach to history websites and full of color, dash, and publications forceful personalities, but Academic marketing it’s also a subtle social portrait of plantation life and governance.” also available —Publishers Weekly ebook HC ISBN 978-0-8027-1744-3 U.S. $30.00 alkerbooks.com

. w The Sugar Barons Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies www Matthew Parker

The dramatic and largely untold story of the rise and fall of the great Caribbean sugar dynasties.

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic Matthew Parker was center of the Western world’s greatest power struggles as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes born in Central America growing and trading in sugar—a commodity so lucrative it became known as “white gold.” Matthew Parker and spent part of his vividly chronicles how the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England’s childhood in the West commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Indies, acquiring a lifelong Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on fascination with the whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third history of the region. He of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the The Sugar Barons is the author of Panama plantation culture. Broad in scope, rich in detail, freshly links the histories of Europe, the Fever, the story of the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which building of the Panama is still felt today. Canal, and Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II. He lives in London. 20 History October Hardcover Praise from the UK u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 for The Damnation of 304 PAGES John Donellan: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" 22 b&W images “A fascinating account ISBN 978-0-8027-7996-0 … A potent brew of also available as an ebook resentment, loyalty and sexual bad behaviour … TERRITORY u.s. and canada Just as Kate Summerscale CANADA walker via penguin did in The Suspicions Walker subrights First serial of Mr.Whicher, Cooke Film/TV, Audio, and translation Profile Books focuses on legal procedure and forensic MARKETING evidence to gripping National print, online, and radio media effect.” campaign —The Mail on Sunday Digital galley on NetGalley “True life period crime Online consumer advertising is gruesomely well Focused outreach to true crime, history, served by this forensic and general-interest publications examination of a death in www Digital assets: interactive maps, character 1780 … Cooke’s analysis

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“In her highly readable The Damnation of John Donellan book Elizabeth Cooke A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian re-examines events and England coincidentally uncovers a mystery with all the Elizabeth Cooke component parts of an Agatha Christie thriller. A masterful forensic reconstruction of the death of a young English nobleman 232 years ago. It’s gripping stuff.” Was it murder? Was the right person convicted? —The Daily Express On August 30, 1780, in Warwickshire, England, twenty-year-old Theodosius Boughton, the dissolute heir to a vast fortune and baronetcy, died suddenly and in violent convulsions after taking a medication prescribed by his doctor. Was he poisoned by his mother, who insisted that he drink the draft despite its scent of bitter almonds? His brother-in-law, John Donellan, who hurriedly rinsed and broke the bottle containing the medicine after Theodosius’s death? His cousin, who desperately wanted the baronetcy? The jealous maid with whom Theodosius frequently cavorted? Many had a score to settle or stood to benefit financially from his demise. Elizabeth Cooke is the But perhaps he wasn’t murdered at all. Could he have died from the quack medicines—including author of ten novels. Little mercury—he used to treat his debilitating syphilis? Or was it a heart attack or stroke, rare in young men but White Lies was televised the cause of the deaths of his father and grandfather? Or an epileptic fit? With the cleverness of a master by the BBC, and The Ice detective and the literary skill of the finest crime writers, Elizabeth Cooke deconstructs the evidence, Child recounts the story chronicles the sensational trial that ensued, and provides intriguing new proof that Donellan, who was of the doomed Franklin executed for the murder, may not have been guilty after all. In the process, she opens a fascinating window expedition to find the on the dark and violent underbelly of Georgian society. Northwest Passage. She lives in Dorset, England.

21 History/Art November Hardcover u.s. $28.00 320 PAGES 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" 16-page color insert and B&W images throughout ISBN 978-0-8027-1705-4 also available as an ebook

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“One of architecture’s great tales.”—Newsweek on Leonardo and The Last Supper Brunelleschi’s Dome Ross King “Scrupulously researched, written with wit and The fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the creation of one of history’s greatest panache, Ross King’s masterpieces. Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling is a sublime Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history’s most peek into a remarkable influential and beloved works of art—The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, era.”—The Miami Herald the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three, in an era on Michelangelo and the when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious Pope’s Ceiling commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father: His 75 tons of bronze had been expropriated to be turned into

cannons to help repel a French invasion of Italy. The commission to paint The Last Supper in the refectory www of a Dominican convent was a small compensation, and his odds of completing it were not promising: Not only had he never worked on a painting of such a large size—15' high x 30' wide—but he had no . w

experience in the extremely difficult medium of fresco. alkerbooks.com In his compelling new book, Ross King explores how—amid war and the political and religious turmoil around him, and beset by his own insecurities and frustrations—Leonardo created the masterpiece that would forever define him. King unveils dozens of stories that are embedded in the painting. Examining who served as the models for the Apostles, he makes a unique claim: that Leonardo modeled two of them on himself. Reviewing Leonardo’s religious beliefs, King paints a much more complex picture than the received wisdom that he was a heretic. The food that Leonardo, a famous vegetarian, placed on the table reveals as much as do the numerous hand gestures of those at Christ’s banquet. As King explains, many of the myths that have grown up around The Last Supper are wrong, but its true story is ever more interesting. Bringing to life a fascinating period in European history, Ross King presents Gh ilks th an original portrait of one of the world’s greatest geniuses through the lens of his most famous work.

Ju di p hoto: Ross King is the highly Praise for The Judgment of Paris: praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome (the “The Judgment of Paris tells a well-known story, but one seldom recounted in such vivid detail, or with such a Book Sense Nonfiction novelistic sense of plot and character … In all, King pulls off a tour de force of complex narrative that readers of Book of the Year in his previous books about the Sistine Chapel or Brunelleschi’s dome will have come to expect.” 2000), Michelangelo —The New York Times Book Review and the Pope’s Ceiling “Riveting … Such material could have been tedious in less nimble literary hands. But so thorough is King’s grasp (on the New York Times of the Second Empire’s cultural politics, so ironic his wit and choice of detail, that his text remains a page-turner extended bestseller list), throughout.”—Los Angeles Times The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives outside Oxford in England.

23 Two new titles in the acclaimed Wooden Books series

The Miracle of Trees Olavi Huikari

What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? How many different kinds of trees are there, and where do they live? In this beautiful little book, illustrated with rare old engravings and specially commissioned drawings, internationally renowned Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on an unforgettable journey deep into the secrets of these most majestic of Earth’s life forms. Professor Olavi Huikari is one of the world’s foremost experts on trees and forestry. He was until recently head Science of the department of forestry at Helsinki University, Finland. November hardcover TERRITORY U.S. and Canada u.s. $12.00 / can. $12.99 CANADA Walker via penguin 64 PAGES WALKER SUBRIGHTS first serial and audio 5 1/2" x 6 5/8" Film/TV and translation Wooden Books Ltd. 48 b&W illustrations ISBN 978-0-8027-7789-8 MARKETING National media campaign Coverage in gift book roundups Online promotion via www.woodenbooks.com Grammar alkerbooks.com The Structure of Language . w Rachel Grenon www In the ancient scholarly curriculum, grammar formed part of the Trivium, with its sister sciences of logic and rhetoric. Logic asks: When is a sentence true? Rhetoric asks: Which is the right sentence? Grammar purely asks: When is a sentence correct? In Grammar, Rachel Grenon defines the rules governing the construction of words, phrases, sentences, and extended text or speech. Beginning with the rules behind ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Greek, she then focuses on how the rules of English have developed— from nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, to tenses, the passive voice, questions, imperatives, and Language much more. With diagrams, engravings, and witty cartoon illustrations, this original take on a classic subject November is essential for anyone interested in language. hardcover Rachel Grenon is a freelance writer, translator, and editor. She holds a master’s degree in French cultural studies u.s. $12.00 / can. $12.99 from Columbia University, and has also studied Latin, Spanish, Italian, and German. A native Texan, Rachel now 64 PAGES lives outside Cambridge, England, with her husband, Pierre, and their four children. 5 1/2" x 6 5/8" 52 B&W illustrations TERRITORY U.S. and Canada ISBN 978-0-8027-4358-9 CANADA Walker via penguin WALKER SUBRIGHTS first serial and audio Film/TV and translation Wooden Books Ltd.

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A History of the the lost history of world in 6 glasses 1914 Tom Standage Jack Beatty PB ISBN 978-0-8027-1552-4 HC ISBN 978-0-8027-7811-6 u.s. $15.95 u.s. $30.00

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Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for fiction National Bestseller reading group guide salvage the bones available a novel Jesmyn Ward

“Masterful … Salvage the Bones has the aura of a classic about it.”—The Washington Post

They heard it on the radio: a hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch’s hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries, too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she’s pregnant. The children of this family have always been short on nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face the building storm—and the day that will dawn after. www

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“In her totally captivating novel, Jesmyn Ward gives powerful, visceral, eloquent voice to people and T p hoto: Jesmyn Ward circumstances that were both suddenly visible when Hurricane Katrina struck and, simultaneously, grew up all-too-invisible to others before and since.” in DeLisle, Mississippi, —Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Washington and lives there now. She received her MFA from “Salvage the Bones is an amazing contribution to literature and Katrina literature, specifically. It is a story the University of Michigan destined—to paraphrase the poet Mary Oliver—to break your heart in order to break it open.” and has been a Stegner —Lucy Kogler, Talking Leaves Books, Buffalo, New York Fellow at Stanford and a Grisham Visiting Writer Praise for Salvage the Bones from the media: in Residence at the University of Mississippi. “Ward’s writing is startling in its graphic clarity … [This] author has an unusual gift.”—The Boston Globe She is currently an “The novel’s hugeness of heart and fierceness of family grip and hold on like Skeetah’s pit bull.” assistant professor of —O, the Oprah Magazine creative writing at the University of South “Searing … Salvage the Bones is a beautiful read. Ms. Ward’s redolent prose conjures the magic and menace of Alabama. She is also the the Southern landscape.”—The Dallas Morning News author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds, and of a “A taut, wily novel, smartly ploted and voluptuously written.”—The New York Times Book Review forthcoming memoir, Men We Reaped.

27 Science September Also available Paperback U.S. $16.00 / can. $17.00 Welcome to Your Brain PB 336 PAGES ISBN 978-1-59691-523-7 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" U.S. $15.00 B&W illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-933-4

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.bloomsburyusa.com Times. She lives in Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., and Sam Wang, Ph.D. Northern California with Foreword by Ellen Galinsky her husband. www “Can’t understand your child’s behavior? Relax, parents …These two neuroscientists explain it Sam Wang, Ph.D., is all.”—The Sacramento Bee an associate professor of neuroscience at In this critically acclaimed, popular, and essential book, neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang Princeton University. He (who is also a parent) explain the facets and functions of the developing brain, discussing salient subjects has published over fifty like sleep problems, language learning, gender differences, and autism. They dispel common myths about articles on the brain in important subjects like the value of educational videos for babies, the meaning of ADHD in the classroom, leading scientific journals and the best predictor of academic success (hint: it’s not IQ). This book helps you know when to worry, how and received numerous to respond, and, most important, when to relax. awards. His research and analysis have been Welcome to Your Child’s Brain upends myths and misinformation with practical advice, surprising featured in the Wall Street revelations, and real, reliable science. It’s essential reading for parents of children of any age, from infancy Journal and the New York well into their teens. Times, and he has made numerous television Praise for Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: and radio appearances, including on NPR. He lives “Neuroscientists Aamodt and Wang take a fresh approach to brain research … The authors are consummate in Princeton, New Jersey, myth busters … In this info-packed text, Aamodt and Wang offer some familiar advice as well as some with his wife and daughter. thought-provoking revelations.”—Publishers Weekly “Dr. Wang and Dr. Aamodt playfully and engagingly introduce us to the hidden talents of our children’s brains.” —Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of The Dr. Oz Show 28 Current Affairs/education September hardcover u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 272 PAGES 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-723-1 also available as an ebook

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The Shadow Scholar How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat Ed Dante

The shocking story of one man’s ten-year career writing term papers for money.

Last fall, a writer using the pseudonym Ed Dante wrote an explosive article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, confessing to writing term papers for a living. Technically, they are “study guides,” and the companies that sell them—there are quite a few—are completely legal and easily found with Google. For Ed Dante is the about $10–20 a page, Dante’s former employers will give you a custom essay, written to your specifications. pseudonym of a writer During Dante’s career, he wrote made-to-order papers for everything from introductory college courses to living in Philadelphia. He Ph.D. dissertations. There was never a shortage of demand. has kept his real name The Shadow Scholar is Dante’s account of this dubious but all-too-relevant career. In stories embarrassing, secret to facilitate his absurd, hilarious, and ultimately sobering, he explores not merely his own misdeeds but the bureaucratic research and reporting and cash-hungry colleges, lazy students, and even misguided parents who helped make it all possible. for this book, but it will be revealed on the advance With unemployment pushing 10 percent and many college grads living with their parents, the need for this reading copies. book has never been more urgent. As this bitingly funny memoir reveals, colleges and graduate schools are victims not merely of tough economic times but of a profound sense of entitlement and apathy. Here is a searing, often maddening indictment of the big business of college.

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30 The Odyssey Adapted by Seymour Chwast

Design legend Seymour Chwast lends his “diabolically witty, devilishly expressive” style (NPR) to one of the Western world’s most celebrated classics.

Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. Now he turns to Homer’s Odyssey, one of the best-known stories in history. The tale is one that begs for visual interpretation, filled with mythic characters we all know well: the Cyclops, the Lotus-Eaters, the cannibal Laestrygonians, the Sirens, the monster Scylla (beside the whirlpool Charybdis), Poseidon, Athena, and Zeus. Featuring a bold black, white, and blue interior design throughout, and imbued with Chwast’s own sly humor, The Odyssey brings us a dazzling new vision of one of the epic journeys.

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“Seymour’s take on this timeless classic is not only charming and clever, it is so cannily rendered that it makes www Dante’s complex masterwork easily understood for any reader. Divine.” —Chip Kidd, graphic designer and author of The Cheese Monkeys .bloomsburyusa.com “A clever reimagining of a classic … The lamentations of the damned were never so much fun.” —Entertainment Weekly

Praise for The Canterbury Tales: Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper “[A] lighthearted read. Cartoonish touches and playful anachronisms help bring these stories into this century.” Union, where he studied —The Philadelphia Inquirer illustration and graphic design. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Also available Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio’s director. Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and has created two previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante’s Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales. He lives in New York City. Visit Dante’s Divine Comedy HC The Canterbury Tales HC www.pushpininc.com. ISBN 978-1-60819-084-3 ISBN 978-1-60819-487-2 U.S. $20.00 U.S. $20.00 31 previously announced—fall­ 2011

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The Most Memorable Games in Patriots Jim Baker has been History .bloomsburyusa.com a regular contributor to ESPN.com. He is the The Oral History of a Legendary Team www coauthor of numerous Jim Baker and Bernard M. Corbett books, including The Bill James Historical Baseball Relive the most glorious and important moments in New England Patriots history. Abstract, Mind Game, and The Most Memorable Tom Brady marching the team upfield in the final minute of the 2001 Super Bowl. Troy Brown playing Games in Giants History. offense, defense, and special teams. The Tuck Rule. A rogue groundskeeper plowing a path for kicker John He lives in Texas. Smith at the end of a scoreless, snowy game. Gino Cappelletti setting the AFL record for points in a game against the Houston Oilers. These are the moments Patriots fans love to remember, now retold by the Bernard M. Corbett is players who lived them. the radio voice of Harvard University football Once a top team in the AFL in the 1960s, the Patriots have returned to glory as one of the NFL’s best and Boston University franchises for the past decade, and enthusiasm for them has never been higher. Sportswriters Jim Baker hockey. He is the author and Bernard M. Corbett relive the evolution of the team, telling the war stories of players from John Hannah or coauthor of fourteen and Steve Grogan to Troy Brown and Rodney Harrison. Moving through thirteen of the team’s biggest books, including The Only games, they put a fresh spin on the stories all Pats fans love, with detail and color from the players who Game That Matters: The were there, on the field, making history. Harvard/Yale Rivalry, The The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History is a perfect gift for the serious fan—not just a collectible, Beanpot, and The Most but the kind of book to hunker down with and enjoy. Memorable Games in Giants History.

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Just Plain Dick Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the Madman Election of 1952 Kevin Mattson co b S ilberberg a A look behind the scenes at one of the most famous campaign speeches—Richard Nixon’s

“Checkers” speech, to be published on its sixtieth anniversary. J p hoto: Kevin Mattson is the It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a “salesman against Connor Study Professor socialization.” But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining of Contemporary History to do to keep his place on Eisenhower’s Republican ticket, so he took to the airwavess. In making his at Ohio University. He speech, Nixon left behind lines about a “Republican cloth coat” and a black and white cocker spaniel is the author of Rebels named “Checkers.” The speech saved and bolstered Nixon’s political career and set the tone for the 1952 All!, When America Was campaign. Great, Upton Sinclair Just Plain Dick is political history and more. It’s the story of a young man nearing a nervous breakdown and and the Other American staging a political comeback. While the narrative focuses tightly, almost cinematically, on the 1952 election Century, Intellectuals in cycle—from the spring primary season to the summer conventions, and then to the allegations against Action, and “What the Nixon through to the speech in September and finally the election in November—Mattson also provides Heck Are You Up To, Mr. a broad-stroke depiction of American politics and culture during the Cold War. President?” Mattson writes for the American Prospect, With publication scheduled during the 2012 election season, readers will see Nixon’s contribution to Dissent, the Nation, the current campaign styles. Here is a story of phony populism, a hatred of elites (tagged “eggheads” back New York Times Book then), and emotionally charged appeals erasing a rational assessment of a politician’s qualifications. An Review, the Washington entertaining and suspenseful read, Just Plain Dick is ideal election context for political junkies and those Post Book World, and fascinated with 1950s America. many other publications.

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Advance praise for Wilderness: “Lance Weller’s magnificent Wilderness is a brilliant, singular achievement. Now and again comes a novel that is so wholly its own that any comparison shrivels away. Lance Weller has given us this, not only in the tale, which is deeply compelling and superbly page-turning but most importantly, a thoughtful and illuminating exploration of who we are and how we got here. These people are heartrendingly beautiful, fragile and resilient but also ugly, hateful and hurtful. And Weller masterfully raises the stakes as he draws these webs of humanity with prose constructed with compelling art and ease.” —Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall

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“Weller has crafted a novel of stories within stories, all interwoven in prose so exquisite and descriptive Wilderness that you will want to read A Novel Wilderness more than one time, and all in one Lance Weller sitting to capture this novel in its salvific beauty. Put Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain meets David Guterson’s East of the Mountains in this sweeping aside your day, open up historical novel of a Civil War veteran’s last journey on the Pacific Coast. Wilderness, and take a dive into this fabulous work of Thirty years after the Civil War’s Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his fiction.” way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a —Annie Philbrick, Bank driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his Square Books, Mystic, CT heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It’s a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war. www As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after

his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he .bloomsburyusa.com took part in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life—from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and finally to the unbearable memory of the wife and child he lost as a young man. Haunted by tragedy, loss, and unspeakable brutality, Abel has somehow managed to hold on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. In its contrasts of light and dark, wild and tame, brutal and tender, and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended, Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character, but a story about who we are as human beings, a people, and a nation. Lance Weller’s immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers.

Excerpt from Wilderness:

The old man sat and rocked and tried not to remember his younger days when he was a married man and soldiering was the farthest thing from his mind. He tried hard not to see his wife, his infant daughter. After a while, the breath c ke greg fran p hoto: that escaped his bearded lips was hot and he covered his eyes with his right palm and left it there until it was over. Lance Weller has Far to the west, where the night was fast upon the ocean’s rim, the clouds had blown back and the old man could published short fiction in see stars where they dazzled the water. He breathed and rocked before the fire. His thoughts, beyond his control, several literary journals. went from painful recollections of women and family, to worse remembrances of war because it had been his He won Glimmer Train’s experience that one often led to the other—stoking its fires until there was not a man who could resist and, upon Short Story Award for yielding, survive as a man still whole. New Writers and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A Washington native, he has hiked and camped extensively in the landscape he describes. He lives in Gig Harbor, WA, with his wife and several dogs. 35 Also available fiction september Paperback U.S. $15.00 / can. $16.00 reading 288 PAGES group guide 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" available ISBN 978-1-59691-289-2 Austenland PB TERRITORY U.S. and Canada ISBN 978-1-59691-286-1 CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin U.S. $12.99 agency Barry Goldblatt Literary also available as an eBook

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Also Available ebook HC isbn 978-1-60819-625-8 U.S. $22.00 .bloomsburyusa.com o m y sans midnight in austenland a novel www hoto: kell p hoto: Shannon Hale Shannon Hale is the author of two previous Bestselling author Shannon Hale offers up mystery, romance, and a lot of fun in this modern novels for adults, homage to Jane Austen. Austenland and The Actor and the Housewife. Her Charlotte Kinder is in need of true escape when she heads from Ohio to Pembrook Park, a Jane Austen– novels for young adults themed retreat in the British countryside. But as it turns out, this vacation is no time to relax. Hearts include the Newbery are racing and stomachs fluttering in a tangle of intrigues—real and pretend, sinister and romantic— Honor–winning bestseller increasingly tough to sort out. It’s midnight in Austenland, and Charlotte is about to prove herself a heroine Princess Academy, the worthy of Austen herself. Books of Bayern series, and Book of a Thousand Days, and she has cowritten Praise for Midnight in Austenland: two graphic novels for young readers, Rapunzel’s “Hale’s fans will be thrilled to revisit Pembrook Park and reunite with its regulars. Hale provides a welcome, witty Revenge and Calamity Jack, glimpse of a side of Austen rarely explored in the many contemporary riffs on her work.”—Publishers Weekly with her husband, Dean “Hale’s light romantic comedy will appeal to chick-lit fans as well as Austenites … looking for a fresh way to Hale. They live with their explore the author’s enduring legacy.”—Library Journal four small children near Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit her website at www.squeetus.com 36 Fiction reading September group guide hardcover available U.S. $26.00 / can. $27.50 288 PAGES Praise for The Solitude of Thomas 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-770-5 Cave: also available as an ebook “Austere but atmospheric TERRITORY World, all languages debut … [Harding’s] CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin accounts of Cave’s daily Bloomsbury Subrights serial, audio, Film, struggle for survival are and translation powerful, and she reveals myriad gradations of MARKETING light and color in what National print and online media campaign first appears a blank and unchanging landscape.” Early word-of-mouth outreach to literary —The New Yorker bloggers Marketing to book clubs “Deeply affecting … [with] scenes of devastating www Focused outreach to literary publications pathos.”—The New York and websites Times Book Review .bloomsburyusa.com Digital assets: Reading Group Guide, author Q&A, social media campaign at publication

Painter of Silence A Novel Georgina Harding

An intimate and devastating portrait of Eastern Europe during and after WWII, and the story of an utterly original friendship.

It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook’s son at the manor house at Poiana, where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin’s world stayed the same size, Safta’s expanded to embrace languages, society, and a fleeting love one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same.

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38 rabid Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy? Pamela Redmond Satran

The next hilarious hit from the author of the New York Times bestselling humor book How Not to Act Old—a funny, fun, fully illustrated look at our over-the-top dog-obsessed society, for dog lovers and dog skeptics alike.

Dogs now dominate the $55 billion a year pet business, with nearly 40 percent of American households owning a total of 78.2 million dogs. Dog products, dog services, dog admiration—okay, let’s call it dog worship—has become totally over the top, with doggie treadmills, dog swimming pools, caffeine-free doggie java, dog massage, dog perfume, aromatherapy, hair coloring, and, yes, dog tattoos that would have seemed outlandish a generation ago when applied to your everyday household Rover. www But Rover isn’t called Rover anymore: he’s called Rufus. Or Lola, according to the Tumblog Hipster Puppies.

In fact, all Top Ten Dog Names are people names. And the canine Rufus doesn’t stay home alone all day; .bloomsburyusa.com he goes to Doggie Daycare. Eats brightly frosted martini-shaped doggie treats. Wears designer tutus. Gets married on the beach. Has… Well, you’ll see. With hilarious full-color photos throughout, Rabid holds a humorous mirror up to our dog-centered society, helping us laugh at our own behavior and at the even-more-insane antics of all those other dog people.

Praise for Pamela Redmond Satran: Pamela Redmond Satran is the author of the New “Ms. Satran’s take on the latest generation gap is as insightful as it is entertaining—a comic blend of advice and York Times bestselling anthropology that skewers both young and old.” humor book How Not —Christina Binkley, The Wall Street Journal, on How Not to Act Old to Act Old, optioned by DreamWorks. She is also the author of seven novels and the coauthor of eight baby name books, including the bestselling Beyond Jennifer & Jason. Satran is a columnist for Glamour and contributes frequently to such publications as the Daily Beast, the New York Times, and More magazine. Visit her website at pamelaredmondsatran .com.

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Also Available ebook HC published as Wrecker isbn 978-1-60819-280-9 U.S. $20.00 Raising Wrecker A Novel Summer Wood .bloomsburyusa.com “Opening [Raising Wrecker] is akin to unwrapping a gift wrapped with great care. Summer y berkle miriam p hoto: www Wood … delivers a rare treat in this story of a boy and his mothers. It unfolds along a Summer Wood is the deliciously unpredictable path, one that can and should be savored.”—The Denver Post author of Arroyo. In 2007 she received the Wrecker is born in 1965 in flower-powered San Francisco. By his third birthday, his mother has landed in Gift of Freedom Award prison and he’s been taken by the state. So when an uncle claims the boy and brings him to a place called from A Room of Her Bow Farm, Wrecker is scared and angry and quick to cause chaos. Here among the California redwoods, Own Foundation for her a clan of eccentrics will come together to raise one remarkable child, and feel themselves transformed. work on Raising Wrecker. Charting two decades of an unconventional family, Raising Wrecker celebrates the highs and lows, joys and She teaches writing at pains, of real and ragged love. the University of New

Mexico’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, and Praise for Raising Wrecker: in 2009 she directed the first NEA Big Read in “This sensitive novel inspires nostalgia for the days when a boy could spend his youth running wild in the Taos. She has lived with woods … and it reminds us of what a difference it makes when adults truly open their hearts to a child who her family in Taos for needs to be loved.”—High Country News the past twenty years. “A big hearted novel … [Wood] writes with a warmth and compassion that radiates from her pages. It’s impossible Visit her website at not to fall in love with Wrecker as he grows up, and perhaps more importantly, with his family.”—BookPage summerwoodwrites.com

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HC isbn 978-1-59691-696-8 U.S. $30.00 .bloomsburyusa.com The Man Who Never Died The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon William M. Adler

“William Adler has given Joe Hill’s remarkable story an artist’s touch. Careful, powerful, and profoundly moving, The Man Who Never Died is narrative history at its best.” —Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice

In 1914, Joe Hill, the prolific songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World (also known as the Wobblies), was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. In the first major biography of the radical historical icon, William M. Adler explores an extraordinary life and presents persuasive evidence of Hill’s innocence. Hill would become organized labor’s most venerated martyr, and a hero to folk singers such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. His story shines a beacon on the early-twentieth-century American experience and exposes the roots of issues Phuo ng N g uy en p hoto: critical to the twenty-first century. William M. Adler has contributed to numerous

publications, including Praise for The Man Who Never Died: Esquire, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Texas “As relevant today as ever … As this splendid, sympathetic biography makes clear, Joe Hill spent his life on the run Monthly, and the from the dark realities of capitalism, but Hill’s true genius was his refusal to surrender to despair.” Texas Observer, and —The Boston Globe is the author of Land of Opportunity “A fast-paced chronicle of a life that would have gone unsung if not for Hill’s martyrdom in the wake of a mockery and Mollie’s Job of a trial.”—Chicago Tribune . He lives with his wife and son in “Hill’s status as a labor icon and the debate about his conviction certainly never died. [Adler] makes the strongest Denver, Colorado. Visit case yet that Hill was wrongfully convicted.”—The New York Times themanwhoneverdied .com. 41 Crafts & Hobbies/Games/ Sports and Recreation October paper over boards with a holographic cover U.S. $25.00 / Can. $26.50 352 PAGES 7 1/2" x 10" 4-Color illustrations throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-641-8

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42 Unbored the essential field guide to serious fun Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen Designed by Tony Leone Joshua Glenn is With an Introduction by Mark Frauenfelder cofounder of the websites Significant Objects, The most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published— Hilobrow, and Semionaut, jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share and has authored and together. edited a number of books. Together with Elizabeth Unbored is the guide and activity book every modern kid needs. Vibrantly designed, lavishly illustrated, Foy Larsen, he writes a brilliantly walking the line between cool and constructive, it’s crammed with activities that are not only fun parenting column based and doable but also designed to get kids engaged with the wider world. on Unbored for Slate. He www With contributions from a diverse crowd of experts, the book provides kids with information to round lives in Boston and has out their worldview and inspire them to learn more. From how-tos on using the library or writing your two sons, ten and thirteen. .bloomsburyusa.com representative to a graphic history of video games, the book isn’t shy about teaching. Yet the bulk of the 350-page mega-resource presents hands-on activities that further the mission in a fun way, featuring the Elizabeth Foy Larsen best of the old as well as the best of the new: classic science experiments, crafts and upcycling, board was a member of the team game hacking, code-cracking, geocaching, skateboard repair, yarn bombing, stop-action movie-making— that launched Sassy, a plus tons of sidebars and extras, including trivia, best-of lists, and Q&As with leading thinkers whose magazine for teen girls. culture-changing ideas are made accessible to kids for the first time. Her writing on families has appeared in the Los Just as kids begin to disappear into their screens, here is a book that encourages them to use those tech Angeles Times, Mother skills to be creative, try new things, and change the world. And it encourages parents to participate. Jones, the Daily Beast, and Unbored is exciting to read, easy to use, and appealing to young and old, girl and boy. Parents will be elsewhere. She lives in comforted by its anti-perfectionist spirit and humor. Kids will just think it’s awesome. Minneapolis and has two Contributors include: Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE magazine; Colin Beavan, the No Impact Man; Douglas sons and a daughter, ages Rushkoff, renowned media theorist; Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG; John Edgar Park, a CG seven to twelve. supervisor at DisneyToon Studios; and Jean Railla, founder of GetCrafty.com and Etsy consultant. Tony Leone is a principal of Leone Design. His work has been honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Brand Design Association, and has been featured in Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, and elsewhere. He has a son in kindergarten and a newborn daughter.

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Also Available eBook Rip Tide HC ISBN 978-1-60819-489-6 U.S. $25.00 A Novel Stella Rimington .bloomsburyusa.com “The densely imagined counterterrorist culture Rimington creates beneath the tradecraft is as www compelling as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews

In this fast-paced novel from the former director of MI5, a British-born Pakistani is discovered among a gang of pirates attacking a cargo ship off the Somalian coast, setting agent Liz Carlyle on a case that will unravel across continents and ideological boundaries, and ultimately bring bigger, more explosive trouble—far closer to home. A riveting story full of treachery, Rip Tide is also a reminder that terror can lurk in the unlikeliest places. Published in paperback to coincide with Rimington’s newest novel, this is a relevant, insightful story with a unique perspective on a crucially important issue.

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“Rimington’s best work demonstrates a flair for narrative, with a sense of authenticity and an insider’s grasp on the pressing issues of the day.”—The Washington Post “Rimington’s thought-provoking fifth thriller featuring MI5 agent Liz Carlyle … Rich with authentic details from Rimington’s own life as director general of MI5, this is a must-read for fans of contemporary spy fiction.” —Publishers Weekly “Like the earlier Carlyle novels, this one is closer in tone to John le Carré … Rimington, herself a long-serving MI5 officer (and former director general), gives the reader a nice sense of the intricacies of the British intelligence services.”—Booklist 44 Fiction October hardcover u.s. $25.00 / can. $26.50 304 PAGES 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-872-6 also available as an ebook

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The Geneva Trap A Liz Carlyle Novel Stella Rimington hu g h es jamie

MI5 agent Liz Carlyle finds her past catching up with her when a rogue Russian spy warns her of a plot to hack into the West’s military. p hoto: Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security At a tracking station in Virginia, U.S. Navy officers watch in horror as one of their communications satellites Service (MI5) in 1968. plummets into the Indian Ocean and panic spreads through the British and American intelligence services. During her career she When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the cyber sabotage, he worked in all the main refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and how is he connected to Liz? fields of the Service: counter-subversion, Is this a Russian plot to disable the West’s defenses? Or is the threat coming from elsewhere? As Liz and counter-espionage, and her team search for a mole inside the Ministry of Defense, the trail takes them from Geneva, to Marseilles, counter-terrorism. She and to Korea in a race against time to stop the Cold War from heating up. was appointed director general in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and five Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk. 45 Praise for Prophet’s Prey: with a new Current Affairs afterword “[A] thrilling and disturbing October by the The San tale.”— Paperback author Francisco Bay Guardian U.S. $16.00 / can. $17.00 “An excruciatingly 336 PAGES detailed, nightmarish 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" saga demonstrating the 16-page B&W insert sometimes inexplicable ISBN 978-1-60819-324-0 power of human evil.” —Kirkus Reviews TERRITORY U.S. & Canada CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin “[A] gripping memoir and agency Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, detective tale…. of one Inc. man’s megalomania.” —Publishers Weekly MARKETING “A chilling portrait of Online consumer advertising campaign inhuman zealotry.” Tie-in to ongoing FLDS news —Booklist Author events in UTah

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t ri c k br o wer “A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extremely disturbing and absolutely hoto: pa p hoto: riveting.”—Jon Krakauer, from the preface Private detective Sam Brower is the investigator From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, the who pushed forward the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the long and hard legal battles page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a façade of against the radical FLDS religion to further criminal activities and a madman’s vision. and Warren Jeffs. Raised in the Mormon Church In Prophet’s Prey, Brower implicates Jeffs in his own words, bringing to light the contents of Jeffs’s personal (mainstream LDS), he lives priesthood journal, discovered in a hidden underground vault, and revealing to readers the shocking in Cedar City, Utah. inside world of FLDS members whose trust he earned and who showed him the staggering truth of their Visit his website at lives. www.prophetsprey.com.

46 Fiction October Hardcover U.S. $26.00 / can. $27.50 384 PAGES Also available 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-763-7 also available as an ebook

TERRITORY World English CANADA bloomsbury via penguin Bloomsbury Subrights first serial, audio, and book club film/tv Gelfman Schneider Literary Agents, Inc. Solomon’s Oak PB MARKETING ISBN 978-1-60819-407-0 National print and online media campaign U.S. $16.00 Early-word-of-mouth outreach and also available as an eBook giveaways Marketing to book clubs www Focused outreach to literary publications and websites .bloomsburyusa.com Author appearances in the Southwest Finding Casey A Novel Jo-Ann Mapson

A ghost, a birthday gift, and an ailing child are parts to a puzzle that will change the lives of one o n t allis New Mexico family forever—from the bestselling author of Solomon’s Oak. ewar

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a s t p hoto: resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the Jo-Ann Mapson is the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged author of ten previous in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister, Casey, disappeared—in a novels, including the time before she’d ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a beloved Solomon’s Oak, few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she’d finally buried. winner of the American Library Association’s A love story, a family story, a story of searching and the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament 2011 RUSA Award for to human resilience. This completely stand-alone novel, featuring beloved characters from Solomon’s Oak, Women’s Fiction, Hank & will charm Mapson’s readers and move her into a larger sphere. Chloe, Blue Rodeo (a CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers Praise for Jo-Ann Mapson: The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives “If you haven’t discovered Jo-Ann Mapson yet, you’re in for the finest of treats—her books will move you from out- in Santa Fe, New Mexico, loud laughter to bittersweet tears.”—Jodi Picoult with her husband and “One of the most gifted writers of the contemporary [American] West.”—Los Angeles Times their four dogs. “Mapson creates characters so real you could recognize them coming down the road.”—Chicago Tribune 47 Current affairs October Paperback U.S. $17.00 / can. $18.00 320 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" ISBN 978-1-60819-414-8

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n Ulmens t vo y lle Don’t Shoot HC ISBN 978-1-60819-264-9 U.S. $28.00 One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in hoto: S ib p hoto: Inner-City America David M. Kennedy is the director of the Center for David M. Kennedy .bloomsburyusa.com Crime Prevention and Control and a professor “Don’t Shoot will do for the fight against violence what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for the www of criminal justice at John environmental movement a generation ago.”—Malcolm Gladwell Jay College. Kennedy has received two Webber “Part jeremiad, part gripping crime thriller,”* Don’t Shoot is David M. Kennedy’s chronicle of his decades-long Seavey awards from the crusade to solve one of America’s most pressing and shameful social problems. Kennedy, who engineered International Association the “Boston Miracle” in the 1990s, cutting youth homicide by two-thirds at the height of the crack epidemic, of Chiefs of Police, two reveals the history and the strategy behind his commonsense yet revolutionary approach to ending crime. Innovations in American He has refined an approach in which everyone—gang members, drug dealers, cops, and neighbors— Government awards comes together in a giant community meeting, an intervention and an affirmation of a shared desire from the Kennedy School for safety and peace. The proof is in the miraculous results. Don’t Shoot offers a bold way forward in of Government, and combating one of our country’s most intractable social problems. (*Boston Globe) a Herman Goldstein Problem-Oriented Policing Praise for Don’t Shoot: Award. His work has been used as a model or “[An] important book … This is how we, as a nation, can and must finally back out of the rolling destruction, by source for safety and drug death and mass incarceration, of our cities, our society, and our moral character.”—The Boston Globe intervention initiatives by the Clinton and Bush “Impassioned… It’s an unorthodox book, part memoir, part polemic, with a spirit and style closer to The administrations, and by Autobiography of Malcolm X than to your typical book of wonkery. Like Malcolm X, Kennedy has no time for the the Bureau of Justice. pieties of the left or the right … [A] gripping account of a life spent combating violence.” Kennedy lives in Brooklyn, —The Washington Post Book World New York. “What is brilliant about Don’t Shoot is its specificity, its insistence that street violence has its own special contours and patterns that can be understood, and manipulated … that maybe crime itself [can] be bargained with.” 48 —The New Republic music October Hardcover U.S. $75.00 / can. $79.00 304 PAGES 12" x 12" ISBN 978-1-60819-999-0

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Abbey Road Alistair Lawrence is a The Best Studio in the World music enthusiast and Alistair Lawrence, foreword by Sir George Martin critic for BBC Music and Kerrang! magazine. A big photographic celebration of the world’s most celebrated recording studio—a beautiful gift for any music fan. Sir George Martin Abbey Road studios have been on the cutting edge of recording for eighty years, hosting some of the is a record producer, biggest names in music over the decades: the Beatles, of course, who immortalized it with the title of their composer, arranger, 1969 album; Pink Floyd; Kate Bush; Duran Duran; Radiohead; Florence and the Machine. Any number of and conductor. He albums made here have gone gold or platinum, picking up Grammys and other awards along the way. has produced thirty Famed producers and sound engineers at the studios have developed groundbreaking new techniques, number-one hit singles in including automatic double tracking at the instigation of John Lennon. And it’s also been a landmark in the UK and twenty-three moviemaking: here were recorded John Williams’s original scores for five Star Wars films, as well the scores in the U.S. Martin is for the Lord of the Rings trilogy—two of them awarded Oscars. perhaps most famed for his association with This gorgeous book includes a full history and time line, facts and figures, a discography with famous the Beatles, whom he album covers from the 1930s to now, and a wealth of never-before-seen photos and treasures from the signed to their first studio’s own archive. It’s an incredible document of cultural history, for anyone who values music and recording contract in how it’s made. 1962, auditioning them in studio three at Abbey Road.

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Hand Me Down World

.bloomsburyusa.com A Novel Lloyd Jones www

“An extraordinary novel … [Jones] is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today.”—The Guardian (UK)

We begin in Tunisia, where a young woman’s son is stolen from her, taken by his father back to Berlin, far from reach. And yet this mother will do anything to reclaim him; she embarks on a journey first across the james darren p hoto: Mediterranean, and then across Europe. Her story emerges through a kaleidoscope of voices of the people Lloyd Jones ’s many she meets along the way—a taxi driver, a hunter, a snail collector, a street performer, a blind man—all of Biografi books include (a whom view the anonymous traveler through their own lens. But her sacrifices won’t be fully understood New York Times Notable until she retells her own story, bringing the novel to its powerful conclusion. Book), Here at the End

of the World We Learn to Dance, and Mister Pip, Praise for Hand Me Down World (Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award): which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ “Hand Me Down World slowly reveals itself, like a jigsaw puzzle. This is the story of a mother’s determined Prize and was shortlisted courage … She possesses a fierce kind of hope that no one can take from her.”—Newsday for the Man Booker Prize. “Compelling … vivid … intense … One of the most significant novelists writing today.”—Sunday Times (UK) He lives in Wellington, New Zealand. “An absorbing work recommended for fans of Peter Carey, whose novels have a similar dreamy, shifting quality.” —Library Journal

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A Halloween Treat Edward Gorey

A brand-new Gorey gem for Halloween—including a spooky story and a collection of his illustrations of ghosts, ghouls, and spectres.

In A Halloween Treat, kids and cats go trick-or-treating and gather loot that might be tricks—or perhaps the best treat imaginable: their very own monsters. This short vignette, published in book form for the first time, will be an undiscovered delight for Gorey fanatics. But that’s only half the fun: Turn the book over to read from the other direction, and you’ll delve into a collection of Gorey’s charmingly ghastly ghosts, curated from his extensive oeuvre. A Halloween Treat is the perfect thing to give to your favorite trick-or-treater, or to curl up with yourself on a chilling Halloween night.

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Saint Melissa the Mottled www Edward Gorey .bloomsburyusa.com A rare, hilarious, and irreverent never-before-published story from the ironic and offbeat Edward Gorey.

Saint Melissa was canonized not for her performance of healing miracles and martyrdom, but despite (or because of?) her Miracles of Destruction—rough-and-tumble hijinks and dabbles in the supernatural. Instead of the skills proper young ladies studied, Saint Melissa was adept at the bringing on of migraines, the refinement of lust, and the involutions of penmanship and calligrams. And as Gorey wrote, “letters she wrote are still to be delivered, traps she set are still to be sprung, pronouncements she devised are still to be promulgated, objects she hid are still to be found.”

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TERRITORY World English CANADA bloomsbury via penguin Bloomsbury Subrights Edward St. John Gorey (1925–2000), a truly prodigious and original artist, gave to the world more First Serial than one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest, and The Wuggly Translation, Film/TV Donadio Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; and & Olson a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times. Gorey’s masterful pen-and-ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical MARKETING acclaim and an avid following throughout the world. National print and online media campaign

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51 Beauty/Fashion November Hardcover U.S. $60.00 / Can. $63.00 320 PAGES 9 1/8" x 12 1/4" 4-color illustration throughout ISBN 978-1-59691-663-0

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52 Decades 100 Years of Style and Fashion Cameron Silver with Rebecca DiLiberto

The most celebrated vintage fashion expert in Hollywood presents a decade-by-decade guide to the most influential looks of the last century.

What Cameron Silver doesn’t know about fashion is not worth knowing. For fifteen years he has owned Decades, the renowned vintage boutique on Melrose Avenue, hunting the world for couture from decades past, matching gorgeous red-carpet gowns to actresses including Chloe Sevigny and Michelle Williams, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez. In Decades, Silver commits all his sartorial knowledge to paper in an oversized, visually stunning book: ten chapters, each devoted to the iconic looks of a decade. Josephine Baker and Zelda Fitzgerald show off their legs in the ’20s; Jackie O embodies feminine polish in the ’60s; Calvin Klein’s minimalism meets Marc Jacobs’s grunge remix in the ’90s. This true fashion bible includes original designer sketches and patterns and photos of rare couture as styled decades ago and today. There are contributions from and interviews with movie stars, models, and style icons, fashion editors and

revered designers. Decades is a fashion treasure: a century of colorful history to inspire the stylish of today www for years to come. Cameron Silver founded .bloomsburyusa.com the Decades boutique Images from Decades: in Los Angeles in 1997. He is a favorite pundit on E! Entertainment and Access Hollywood, and was named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Names and

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Fiction November Praise from France Paperback Original for Ru: u.s. $14.00 reading 160 PAGES group guide “Kim Thúy’s writing flows 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" available like poetry—it transports ISBN 978-1-60819-898-6 and appeases. It is also available as an ebook powerful and evocative. This first novel provides TERRITORY u.s. only a rare feeling of bliss.” CANADA random house —Le Figaro Bloomsbury Subrights serial and audio “Rich in sense and film/tv and Translation Random House imagery… Past and Canada present mingle, reconstructing the course MARKETING of a singular life.” National print and online media campaign —Le Monde Early buzz campaign

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.bloomsburyusa.com Winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award and an international success, an exquisite autobiographical novel of a Vietnamese refugee finding her way—and finding her voice—on hoto: B en oît L p hoto: www new shores. Kim Thúy was born in Saigon and arrived in At ten years old, Kim Thúy fled Vietnam on a boat with her family, leaving behind a grand house and the Quebec at age ten in 1978. many less tangible riches of their home country: the ponds of lotus blossoms, the songs of soup vendors. She has degrees from the The family arrived in Quebec, where they found clothes at the flea market, and mattresses with actual University of Montreal in fleas. Kim learned French and English and, as she grew older, seized what opportunities an immigrant linguistics and translation could: she put herself through school picking vegetables and sewing clothes, worked as a lawyer and and in law, and lives in interpreter, and later as a restaurateur. She was married and a mother when the urge to write struck her, Montreal, where she now and she found herself scribbling words at every opportunity—pulling out her notebook at stoplights and devotes herself to writing. missing the change to green. The story emerging was one of a Vietnamese émigré on a boat to an unknown future: her own story fictionalized and crafted into a stunning novel. Sheila Fischman is a two-time winner of both The novel’s title, Ru, has meaning in both Kim’s native and her adoptive languages: in Vietnamese, ru is a the Canada Council lullaby; in French, a stream. And it provides the perfect name for this slim yet potent novel. With prose that Prize for Translation and soothes and sings, Ru weaves through time, flows and transports: a river of sensuous memories gathering Columbia University’s power. It’s a classic immigrant story told in a breathtaking new way. Felix-Antoine Savard Award, and has also Praise for Ru (Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Grand Prix RTL-Lire; received the Governor Shortlisted for the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie): General’s Award for Translation and the “The major events in the fall of Vietnam are painted in delicate strokes, through the daily existence of a woman Molson Prize for the Arts. who has to reinvent herself elsewhere. A tragic journey described in a keen, sensitive and perfectly understated 54 voice.”—Governor General’s Literary Award jury citation paperback original

Popular Culture November Paperback original U.S. $17.00 / can. $18.00 240 PAGES 7" x 10" 2-color interior; B&W images throughout ISBN 978-1-60819-921-1 Also available as an eBook

TERRITORY World, All languages Canada Bloomsbury via Penguin Bloomsbury subrights Translation, first serial, and audio film/tv Direct Pete Fornatale is an award-winning MARKETING broadcaster and rock icon National print, online, and broadcast media who has been a fixture on campaign the New York radio scene Gift roundups for the past forty years. He Digital galleys on NetGalley is most recently the author www Targeted outreach to music and boomer of Back to the Garden: publications, Rolling Stones fansites The Story of Woodstock .bloomsburyusa.com and How It Changed a Digital assets: photos, slideshows, giveaways, Generation, and he can be author Q&A, social media campaign on heard on WFUV radio’s Bloomsbury accounts leading up to Mixed Bag. He lives in publication 50 Licks New York City. myths and stoires from half a century of the Rolling Stones Pete Fornatale with Bernard M. Corbett

Fifty great rock-and-roll stories of the Rolling Stones, as they tour for the fiftieth year— based on exclusive material and featuring never-before-seen interviews with the band, and illustrated throughout.

Behold the Rolling Stones: run-ins with the law, chart-topping successes, and now the World’s Greatest Continually Operating Rock and Roll Band. 50 Licks tells the story of the Stones, right from its very origins. On July 12, 1962, London’s Marquee Club debuted a new act, a blues-inflected rock band named after a Muddy Waters song—the­ Rolling Stones. They were a hard-edged band with a flair for the dramatic, Bernard M. Corbett is styling themselves as the devil's answer to the sainted Beatles. the radio voice of Harvard A young, inexperienced producer named Andrew Loog Oldham first heard the band at a session he University football and remembers with four words: “I fell in love.” Though unfamiliar with such basic industry practices as mixing Boston University hockey. a recording, he made a brilliant decision—he pitched the band to a studio that had passed on the Beatles. He is the author and Afraid to make the same mistake twice, they signed the Stones, and began a history-making career. coauthor of fifteen books. He lives in Stoneham, This is just one of the fifty classic stories that make up 50 Licks, each named for a different Stones song. Massachusetts, and is a Many are never before told, some are from exclusive interviews—including with elusive bassist Bill lifelong Rolling Stones fan. Wyman—and all are told by the people who lived them. Part oral history, part memorabilia, this fiftieth- anniversary book is the Stones album every collector will need to have.

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The Mighty Walzer PB Zoo Time ISBN 978-1-60819-685-2 A Novel U.S. $16.00 also available as an eBook Howard Jacobson No More Mr. Nice Guy PB The new novel from the acclaimed author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker ISBN 978-1-60819-687-6 Prize in 2010. U.S. $16.00 also available as an eBook Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife, Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful redhead, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like like sisters than like mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy’s It PB peace of mind, suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough ISBN 978-1-60819-798-9 U.S. $18.00

to write any of them. www also available as an eBook Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished.

His publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the .bloomsburyusa.com meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn’t expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it’s time to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn’t. And out of that desire he imagines squeezing one more great book. By turns angry, elegiac, and rude, Zoo Time is a novel about love—love of women, love of literature, love of laughter. It shows our funniest writer at his brilliant best.

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“Like all of [Jacobson’s] work, The Finkler Question has a kind of energy that you have to look at through your fingers, like an eclipse. As the brightness of his brilliance is hard to look at, so is the darkness of his humor. I An award-winning don’t know a funnier writer alive.”—Jonathan Safran Foer writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson is the “Like Phillip Roth, to whom he is fairly compared, Howard Jacobson is a magnificent prose stylist who is often at acclaimed author of The his most serious when he is being uproariously funny.”—Slate Mighty Walzer (winner of “Mr. Jacobson doesn’t just summon Roth; he summons Roth at Roth’s best. This prizewinning book is a riotous the Bollinger Everyman morass of jokes and worries about Jewish identity, though it is by no means too myopic to be enjoyed by the Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki wider world. It helps that Mr. Jacobson’s comic sensibility suggests Woody Allen’s, that his powers of cultural Nights (longlisted for the observation are so keen, and that influences as surprising as Lewis Carroll shape this book.” Man Booker Prize), No —The New York Times More Mr. Nice Guy, The Act of Love, and, most “The acrobatic wit and biting humor Jacobson displayed in Kalooki Nights and The Mighty Waltzer is honed sharp recently, the Man Booker in The Finkler Question. Masterfully, Jacobson will bury a joke only to knock you out with a punch line 10 pages Prize–winning The Finkler later.”—San Francisco Chronicle Question. He lives in London.

57 Cooking Praise from the UK for November Polpo, the restaurant: Hardcover “Inspiring.” u.s. $50.00 / Can. $52.50 —The Daily Telegraph 320 PAGES 7 1/8" x 10 7/16" “Brilliant.”—The Observer 4-color photographs throughout “This one’s a winner.” ISBN 978-1-60819-909-9 —The Evening Standard TERRITORY world, all languages “The hottest table in town.” CANADA bloomsbury via penguin —Metro Bloomsbury subrights serial and “A smash hit in the making.” translation —Harden’s film/tv and audio william morris endeavor

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.bloomsburyusa.com a venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) Russell Norman www A luscious cookbook of little-known Venetian specialties from one of London's hottest er tch le restaurants. u rie F Tucked away in London’s edgy Soho district, Polpo is one of the most irrepressibly buzzing restaurants in

hoto: L a p hoto: town. Critics and food aficionados have been flocking to this understated bacaro where Russell Norman Russell Norman spent a serves up small dishes—think tapas—from the backstreets of Venice. A far cry from the tourist-trap decade running several eateries of the famous floating city, this kind of cooking is unfussy, innovative, and exuberantly delicious. venerated London The 120 recipes in this book range from salads and snacks to small main courses, drinks, and desserts, restaurants before including asparagus with Parmesan and anchovy butter; warm duck salad with beets and walnuts; setting up his own place crispy baby pizzas with zucchini, mint, and chilli; scallops with lemon and peppermint; soft-shell crab in in the scruffy Soho Parmesan batter with fennel; fizzy bellinis and glasses of bright orange spritz; panacotta with poached district, serving authentic rhubarb; and warm autumn fruits with amaretto cream. The recipes are accompanied by luminescent Venetian cuisine. Polpo photography within a dazzling design, all of which capture the unfrequented corners, bustling bacari, was an instant hit and has and sublime waterways of Venice as they’ve never been seen before. Polpo is a dazzling tribute to Italy’s been followed in quick greatest hidden cuisine. succession by Polpetto, da Polpo and Spuntino. Russell Norman lives in London.

58 Fiction November Hardcover Praise for The Big U.S. $26.00 / can. $27.50 Snow: 384 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" “A closely observed tale ISBN 978-1-60819-702-6 of how transfigured Also available as an eBook landscapes and familiar yearning converge … TERRITORY World, All Languages Absorbing.” CANADA bloomsbury via penguin —The Washington Post Bloomsbury Subrights serial, audio, and translation Film/TV sayle literary agency

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Three families set off for weekends in Amsterdam where the problems of home reveal themselves in a new light—from “a writer of consequence” (The Boston Globe). ho mps o n

It is December; Christmas is approaching and the magic of one of Europe’s most beautiful cities beckons. A father looks for himself in the past, struggling to deal with a recent divorce, his teenage son in tow. A single, selfless mother accompanies her only daughter and friends for a weekend-long bachelorette party. And a C . T C o lin p hoto: husband treats his wife to a birthday weekend away, somehow heightening her anxieties and insecurities David Park has written about age, desire, and motherhood. seven books, most recently the hugely During their brief stay in the city, the confusions and contradictions inherent in their relationships assert acclaimed The Truth themselves in unexpected ways, forcing each couple into a sometimes painful reassessment and a new Commissioner. He was the awareness of the price that love demands. As these people brush against one another in the squares, winner of the Authors’ museums, and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured in the winter light as they encounter the Club First Novel Award, complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. Tender and humane, elevating the andthe Bass Ireland Arts ordinary to something timeless and important, The Light of Amsterdam is a novel of compassion and rare Award for Literature, dignity. and three-time winner of the University of Praise for The Truth Commissioner: Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award. He has twice been “With guile and wonderful imaginative sympathy, Park stays afloat on the most treacherous thematic currents.” shortlisted for the Irish —The New York Times Novel of the Year Award. He lives in County Down, “Powerful … Park humanizes all the participants but never backs away from the dark crime at the heart of the Northern Ireland, with his narrative … Chilling and heartbreaking.”—Booklist (starred) wife and two children.

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A potent novel revealing a son’s complicated feelings in the aftermath of his abusive father’s death—“funny and terrifying and … his masterpiece” (Sam Lipsyte). R a p hoto: Michael Kimball is Big Ray’s temper and obesity define him. When Big Ray dies, his son feels mostly relief, dismissing his other the author of The Way emotions. Yet years later, the adult son must reckon with the outsized presence of his father’s memory. the Family Got Away, This stunning novel, narrated in more than five hundred brief entries, moves between past and present, Dear Everybody, and, between his father’s death and his life, between an abusive childhood and an adult understanding. Shot most recently, Us, and through with humor and insight that will resonate with anyone who has experienced a complicated his novels have been parental relationship, Big Ray is a staggering family story—at once brutal and tender, sickening and translated into a dozen beautiful. languages. His work has been featured on NPR’s

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62 Fiction November Hardcover Advance praise for U.S. $25.00 / Can. $26.50 Hard Twisted: 288 PAGES 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" “Hard Twisted reads like ISBN 978-1-60819-855-9 the perfect amalgam of Also available as an eBook Cormac McCarthy and Jim Thompson: violent, TERRITORY World English hilarious, and as bracing CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin and painful as the blow Bloomsbury subrights audio and Second Serial of a dog quirt across the Film/TV, Translation, and first serial David face. Utterly irresistible.” Black Agency —Pinckney Benedict, author of Town Smokes MARKETING and Miracle Boy and National print advertising Other Stories National print, online, and radio media campaign Focused outreach to true crime, mystery,

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A Novel M p hoto: C. Joseph Greaves C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now based in Santa Fe. “Hard Twisted is fictional crime, with an exceptional true story as its spine, written in prose as His discovery of two stylish and engaging as one will find … [A] compelling saga of murder, mystery, and good and human skulls in a remote evil at its rawest in the hardscrabble rural Southwest of the 1930s.” Utah canyon would lead, —Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter and Four Days in November eighteen years later, to the completion of Hard In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are Twisted, named Best befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Historical Novel of 2010 The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously in the SouthWest Writers disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer’s captive on a crime international writing spree—culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas, “skeleton murder” trial of 1935. contest, in which Greaves C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, was also honored with the historic figures, America’s last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public grand-prize Storyteller Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl’s coming of age in a world as cruel as Award. Greaves is also it is beautiful. writing an L.A.-based mystery series; the first installment, Hush Money, will be published by Minotaur in Spring 2012. 63 paperback original

Fiction December Paperback original Advance praise for reading u.s. $15.00 / Can. $16.00 Life! Death! Prizes!: group guide 256 PAGES available 5 1/2" x 6 1/8" “Life! Death! Prizes! is a ISBN 978-1-62040-001-2 raw, funny and heartfelt also available as an ebook book, full of surprising tenderness and hope—a TERRITORY World, All languages fine achievement.” CANADA bloomsbury via penguin —A. L. Kennedy, Costa Bloomsbury subrights Audio, Translation, award–winning author and Serial of What Becomes film/tv Annette Green

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.bloomsburyusa.com Poignant, funny, and with echoes of Roddy Doyle and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this is a story of grief, resilience, and brotherly love. www Billy’s mother is dead. He knows—because he reads about it in magazines—that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother’s death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them.

Stephen May’s first novel, Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA Tag, was published by a mothers, social services, and Oscar’s own prodigal father all think, he feels certain that he is the one for small Welsh press and the job. won the Reader’s Choice The boys’ new world—where bedtimes are arbitrary, tidiness is optional, and healthy home-cooked Award at the Welsh Book meals pile up uneaten in the freezer—is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it’s also a world that teeters of the Year Awards in perilously on its axis. As Billy’s obsession with his mother’s missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the 2009, despite Stephen’s one thing that really matters: the only family he has left. not being Welsh. Stephen lives in Yorkshire, where he works for the Arts Advance praise for Life! Death! Prizes!: Council. “Left in charge of his six-year-old brother after their mother’s murder, Billy is a depressed, profane, randy, impecunious teenager, given to vengeful rages and obsessed with a video game; he also turns out to be one of the wisest and most appealing parents I’ve ever encountered. I don’t know how he does it, but Stephen May manages to balance hilarity and sadness in nearly every sentence of this deftly comic, completely engaging, and at times absolutely hair-raising novel. Life! Death! Prizes! deserves every one of its exclamation marks.” —Suzanne Berne, Orange Prize–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood 64 paperback original Praise from the UK for Memoir/Sports Babysitting George: December “[A] memoir of a brief but Paperback original formative friendship U.S. $16.00 / Can. $17.00 … It encapsulates a 272 PAGES celebrity’s relationship 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" with his own fame, which ISBN 978-1-60819-942-6 is this book’s achievement Also available as an eBook throughout.”—The Telegraph TERRITORY World English CANADA Bloomsbury via Penguin “In vivid dialogue and Bloomsbury subrights audio fond memory, [Walden] Translation, Serial, and Film/TV Ed Victor gives candid background Ltd color and rare balanced complexity to the tragedy MARKETING of a dying man in his National print and online media campaign last days.” —The Times (London) Targeted outreach to women’s, addiction, alcoholism, soccer, and sports blogs and “Funny, affectionate and

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A moving account of a rookie journalist’s memorable summer in the company of world- renowned soccer star George Best, as he neared the end of his life. pringle mark As a young reporter, Celia Walden receives an unusual assignment: track down a global superstar and keep him away from all other journalists. That man is soccer player George Best, who made his debut for p hoto: Manchester United at age seventeen and was the star of a star team throughout the 1960s. Enormously Celia Walden was born skilled and ruggedly handsome, idolized by men and women alike, he was referred to as “the fifth Beatle,” in Paris in 1975. She is and still holds a firm place among the world’s all-time best players. a senior feature writer for the Daily Telegraph, a But in 2004, George Best is nearing sixty and deteriorating like a much older man. A notorious alcoholic correspondent for British and philanderer, he has just received a liver transplant and has Antabuse tablets sewn into his stomach GQ, and an interviewer lining. His wife has left him again. When Celia finds him in a bar in Malta, he isn’t exactly delighted to see for British Glamour. She her. He’s been chased by journalists all his life. Yet as Celia’s assignment to “babysit” George around the is also a regular on a clock stretches out over months, an unlikely sort of friendship develops, and she gets to know George as a number of TV programs, funny, volatile, and complex human being, an avid reader and member of MENSA, ravaged by alcohol and and a commentator gradually withering under the constant glare of the spotlight. on the British royals Babysitting George is a tender account of a unique relationship between a young journalist and a dying star. for NBC and Extra. Her It questions the exploitative nature of tabloid journalism; the terrifying, all-consuming nature of addiction; first novel, Harm’s Way, and the implausible meetings that can change one’s life. was published in 2008. With her husband, Piers Morgan, and their young child, she divides her time between New York and Los Angeles. 65 recently published

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Wilpon’s Folly The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets Howard Megdal .bloomsburyusa.com The remarkable story of Fred Wilpon, a man who lost everything in one day, then lost it all www again over the next three years.

On December 11, 2008, in the middle of a busy baseball offseason, Bernard Madoff was arrested for orchestrating a massive financial fraud. Among his chief investors was Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who not only lost a major revenue stream as a result, but is now being sued for “fictitious profits” that he now owes el M egdal ch to other Madoff victims. To the tune of almost a billion dollars.

hoto: R a p hoto: How did this happen? Where did Wilpon go wrong, and why does a fraud victim suddenly owe money? Howard Megdal is a The truth about these questions has been largely hidden, but in this short book, the whole story is fully writer for the websites revealed. In this tight narrative, Howard Megdal tells the dramatic financial tale and proves a surprising SNY.tv, MLBTradeRumors truth: Wilpon’s thirty-year reign as owner of the Mets is about to end. .com, New York Baseball Perhaps the most public victim of the Madoff scandal, Wilpon now faces a long road, and likely a difficult Digest, and Amazin’ offseason. Here Megdal articulates both Wilpon’s position and those against him. Like Michael Lewis’s Avenue. He lives in The Big Short, this book unravels the world of a major investment scandal through an entertaining and Airmont, New York, with recognizable story. his wife, daughter, and an organizational depth chart of the Mets on the wall. Praise for Wilpon’s Folly: He is the author of two books, Taking the Field “[A] bombshell book.”—New York Post and The Baseball Talmud.

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Fiction December reading Paperback original group guide U.S. $16.00 / can. $17.00 available Praise for My Side of 320 PAGES the Story: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" ISBN 978-1-62040-003-6 “A gay British teenager Also available as an eBook delivers a sniping, witty rant à la Holden TERRITORY World, all languages Caulfield … A first novel CANADA Bloomsbury USA via Penguin featuring a truculent, Bloomsbury subrights Translation, First funny adolescent Serial, and audio narrator, one that starts film/tv The Ampersand Agency with promise—and that augurs well for the career MARKETING of its young author.” National print and online media campaign —Kirkus Reviews Review coverage on literary, indie, and women’s interest publications and websites www Digital galleys available on NetGalley Reading group guide and marketing to book .bloomsburyusa.com clubs Excerpts and extra content on Bloomsbury.com and social media The Trapeze Artist A Novel Will Davis

An exceptional, break-out coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award–winning writer Will Davis. y anle A man will endlessly torture his muscles until they shriek and complain. But he will not give in. He will take a hammer to his ceiling until the neighbors begin to watch from the window and the journalists knock at the door. He will continue to train and hack away at the house until it is finished and the trapeze is in place. ndrew St

Although his parents thought he was nice and kindhearted and teachers saw him as a good boy, secretly A p hoto: he hated his drab, ordered world and longed for more. Then, when he was fourteen, Edward arrived at his Will Davis is the author of school. Edward exuded the coolness of a latter-day Oscar Wilde. Edward listened to Patti Smith, watched two novels, My Side of the Fassbinder films, knew the writings of Gore Vidal, and, one evening, would kiss him in the moonlight. Story, which won the Betty Forty years old and fleeing from a life he can no longer handle, he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing Trask Prize in 2007, and why, only that he must, he gets in his car and follows after it, refusing to listen to the doubts that plague him, Dream Machine. He has determined to build a new home and family. trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present, and future of one life to create a work of startling (rope), tissu (silks), and dexterity and vision—a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free static trapeze. He lives in himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family, and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow London. up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions, and tempers of circus life, and, above all, of the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher …

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the lemon tree The nasty bits Sandy Tolan Anthony Bourdain pb ISBN 978-1-59691-343-1 pb ISBN 978-1-59691-360-8 u.s. $17.00 u.s. $15.95

Anthony Bourdain’s my horizontal life Les Halles Cookbook Chelsea Handler Anthony Bourdain pb ISBN 978-1-58234-618-2 u.s. $14.95 hc ISBN 978-1-58234-180-4 u.s. $40.00

pearl of china Urban Italian Anchee Min Andrew Carmellini with Gwen Hyman PB ISBN 978-1-60819-312-7 u.s. $15.00 hc ISBN 978-1-59691-470-4 u.s. $35.00 .bloomsburyusa.com www

reporting at wit’s end Methland St. Clair McKelway Nick Reding pb ISBN 978-1-60819-207-6 PB ISBN 978-1-60819-034-8 u.s. $16.00 u.s. $18.00

The Line of Beauty logicomix Alan Hollinghurst Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou pb ISBN 978-1-58234-610-6 pb ISBN 978-1-59691-452-0 u.s. $15.95 u.s. $22.95

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The Arch and the Butterfly English edition Mohamed Achaari

A powerful tale of social and political change.

Set in the author’s home country of Morocco, outside the ancient city of Marrakech, this is a moving story of identity, extremism, culture, and generational change. The narrator, Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his father and German-born mother, is caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the fast-changing world he lives in. The unexplained suicide of Yousif’s mother, for which Yousif blames his father, is part of the dark hinterland to the opening of the book, in which Yousif learns that his only son Yasin, whom he believed to be pursuing an education at a prestigious college in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. With his world in pieces, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif questions his own values and identity. His inner journey is reflected in the changes to the local community, strained by the emergence of a business mafia who care little for the legacy of Morocco’s past and who have “stolen” his wife, while his father, despite having lost his sight, spends his days trying to explain the traditions and history of the town to visiting tourists. bloomsbury q atar titles Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short-story writer, journalist, former minister of culture in Morocco, and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. He has published a number of works of fiction and poetry, some of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Russian, and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel.

fiction • november • paperback • u.s. $18.99 • 320 PAGES • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • ISBN 978-9-9921-7905-5

Traces arabic edition Gamal al Ghitani

Mystical reflections on life and love by Egypt’s greatest living writer.

What remains of our memories after forgetting has done its work? How do we keep track of people we encountered and who were dear to us, the women we loved and the places we visited? How to extract those moments spent on nothing? How to avert the passage of time? Reaching his sixties, the narrator decides to put to paper the fragments of his memories and explore the traces that have survived their erasure. Neighborhoods of old Cairo, scenes of his childhood, his intimate encounters and the awakening of his senses, as well as the author’s travels, are layered in stories, tales, and anecdotes as well as in questions about the paradoxes of forgetfulness and the mystery of ultimate oblivion. Emotion and depth spring from these pages to make Gamal al Ghitani one of the greatest living writers in Arabic. Born in 1945 and educated as a tapestry maker in Cairo, Ghitani wrote his first work when he was sixteen and became a war reporter at the age of twenty-three. He has written thirteen novels and six collections of short stories. fiction • december • paperback • u.s. $14.99 • 400 PAGES • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • ISBN 978-9-9921-7919-2

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Gin and Juice The Victorian Guide to Parenting Tyers & Beach

Thanks to this attractive and authoritative compendium, hapless modern-day parents will at last profit from the wisdom of an era when Britain led the world in matters of industry, empire, and child-rearing …

humor • september • hardcover • u.s. $14.99 • 160 PAGES • 4 3/4" x 7 1/8" • ISBN 978-1-4088-2434-4

Cooking for Real Life Joanna Weinberg

More than 180 recipes for whatever life throws at you.

cooking • september • hardcover • u.s. $39.95 • 320 PAGES • 7 7/16” x 9 11/16” • 4-COLOR throughout ISBN 978-1-4088-0180-2

How to Bake bloomsbury uk imports bloomsbury Paul Hollywood

The last word in baking from England’s favorite expert.

cooking • october • hardcover • u.s. $39.95 • 352 PAGES • 7 7/16" x 9 11/16" • 4-COLOR throughout ISBN 978-1-4088-1949-4

a card from angela carter Susannah Clapp

A unique and dazzling portrait of Angela Carter by her friend and literary executor.

category • septmeber • hardcover • u.s. $19.95 • 112 PAGES • 4 3/8" x 7" • ISBN 978-1-4088-2690-4

70 The Phantom Army of Alamein How Churchill’s Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel Rick Stroud

Camouflage was one of the most surprising elements of the Battle of Alamein—the story is now told in full for the first time. history • decmeber • hardcover • u.s. $25.95 • 320 PAGES • 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • ISBN 978-1-4088-2910-3

Boy Soldiers of the Great War Richard van Emden

The heartbreaking story of the boys, some as young as twelve, who fought and died in the trenches of the bloomsbury uk imports First World War. history • december • paperback • u.s. $13.95 • 352 PAGES • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • ISBN 978-1-4088-2472-6

The Armchair Olympian How much do you know about sport’s biggest competition?

The Armchair Olympian is a strangely addictive read celebrating the glitz and glamour, wonder and weirdness of the Olympic Games. With stats, trivia, quotes and quizzes, you can test your knowledge and release your inner sporting geek! sports/games • September • paperback • u.s. $10.95 • 176 PAGES • 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" • ISBN 978-1-4081-6476-1

alex mackay’s cookbook for Everybody Everyday Exciting everyday food that everybody can cook. With 126 adaptable recipes, this really is a book for everybody who wants to cook delicious food every day—be they young, old, single, part of a large family, new to cooking, or an old hand. Let the adventure begin! cooking • September • hardcover • u.s. $25.99 • 320 PAGES • 7 7/16" x 9 11/16" • ISBN 978-1-4088-1093-4

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A&C Black visual arts

David Bowie Style Danny Lewis

i v e r ch The first book in more than ten years to focus on Bowie’s unique style, this volume pays homage to the man of Ziggy Stardust fame in a fashion retrospective.

Filled with fabulous photographs, this book is a stunning fashion retrospective of the iconic and well-loved rock star. Apart from documenting five decades of Bowie’s unique sense of style, it also discusses the

y A y © Du ff Du ff Photo t: cultural and artistic influences that have shaped him, and how he has influenced others in turn.

Credi Danny Lewis has worked as a writer and editor for many years, including stints in publishing houses in Switzerland fashion and Australia. He has also spent a good deal of time in the underground music scene in London, running clubs and october playing in bands, which has left him with an enduring love of rock music. hardcover u.s. $25.99 192 PAGES 8 5/8" x 10 4/5" 125 color images ISBN 978-1-4081-7376-3 .bloomsburyacademicusa.com

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An inspiring and illuminating look-book, juxtaposing vintage pieces and techniques with contemporary work to nourish imagination with exciting influences and possiblities.

Embellished is a visual feast of a journey through the process of inspiration and creativity, illustrating the way in which pieces and processes influence new work and ideas. Combining elements as diverse as Visual arts exotic feathers, plastic jewellry, buttons, and vintage millinery straw, Karen Nicol will inspire you to come September up with lavish creations beyond your wildest dreams. hardcover Karen Nicol is a well-known British textile artist who works for some of the top designers in the world. Among her u.s. $55.00 clients are Louella, Antonio Beradi, Pentagram, Whistles, Lulu Guinness, M&S, and Courtaulds. She is a senior research 208 PAGES fellow at the Royal College of Art. 8 5/8" x 10 7/8" 4-color throughout ISBN 978-1-4081-0575-7

72 Knitty Gritty The Next Steps Aneeta Patel

With detailed instructions, and photographs to accompany you at every step, Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps shows you how to knit lace, how to use beads, and how to read and create charts to knit Fair Isle and intarsia patterns using different colors. You will also learn the secrets of knitting in the round, so you too can knit socks like a pro! Aneeta teaches budding knitters all the tips and tricks of the trade, so that these patterns are accessible to anyone who has mastered the very basics of knitting. With projects including sweaters for adults and kids, visual arts gloves, hats, socks, and an array of seasonal knits, Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps is everything you need on September the road to advanced knitting. paperback Aneeta Patel is an artist and knitting teacher living in East London. She has taught knitting professionally for several u.s. $24.95 years and holds classes all over London. Specializing in beginners’ knitting, Aneeta runs special events, knitting 128 PAGES www parties, and group and one-on-one teaching sessions. Aneeta also runs Knitting SOS, a free service offering emergency 7 7/16" x 9 11/16" knitting advice to (often frantic) knitters. Knitting SOS is held via a monthly drop-in clinic, telephone, text, and email. For 200 color images more information, see www.knittingsos.co.uk. ISBN 978-1-4081-3132-9 .bloomsburyacademicusa.com

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The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Wisden 2012—the 149th edition—contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Including the eagerly awaited Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and some of the finest sports writing of the year—such as the brilliant obituaries—together with trenchant opinion, compelling features, and comprehensive records, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack truly is a “must-have” for every cricket fan. almanac This is Lawrence Booth’s first year as editor of Wisden, although he has contributed for many years. He is also cricket u.s. $100.00 writer for the Daily Mail and author of several critically acclaimed cricket books. He is one of the most respected and 1,632 PAGES well-liked authorities in the modern game. 4 1/8" x 6 1/2" June / hardcover ISBN 978-1-4081-5634-6 july / paperback ISBN 978-1-4081-5694-0

73 A&C Black

Classic Cycle Routes of Europe The 25 greatest road cycling races and how to ride them Werner Müller-Schell

The ultimate guide to the twenty-five greatest cycling journeys across the continent. Whether you’re a seasoned randonneur or an armchair dreamer, this is the book for you. A beautifully photographed and practical guide for any keen rider on how to complete some of the most famous rides across Europe. Each route is described in detail, with altitude, distance, maps, planning and preparation all included, along with background information and great stories associated with the area. Includes stunning photography and up-to-the-minute practical advice from an author who has been there and done it. Sports Classic Cycle Routes of Europe includes Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne- september Liege, and the Giro di Lombardia, along with twenty more classics, sweeping you through the Netherlands, paperback original Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, and Norway. u.s. $25.95 Werner Müller-Schell Procycling. 192 PAGES is a cycling journalist and contributor to the renowned cycling magazine 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" ISBN 978-1-4081-5752-7

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The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness is an invaluable reference manual for anyone involved www in prescribing exercise programs for pregnant women. Packed with practical tips on designing activity programs, as well as how to apply the correct techniques to over forty exercises, aided by full-color photos. This is an up-to-date practical guide to the underpinning theory and includes comprehensive recommended reading for each chapter. Learn about the physiological changes during pregnancy and how these affect exercise programs, including contraindications to be considered when working with pregnant clients. Also covered are the required legal and insurance elements. fitness november Morc Coulson is senior lecturer and the program leader of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Paperback original Sunderland. He is the author of a number of books for fitness professionals, including The Advanced Fitness u.s. $29.95 Instructor’s Handbook (2008) and Practical Fitness Testing (2009). 240 PAGES Sarah Bolitho is Curriculum and Business Development Coordinator, Fitness Wales. She is the coauthor of 7 7/16" x 9 1/16" Exercise Your Way to Health: Stress (2010). 4-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS ISBN 978-1-4081-5381-9

74 Methuen Drama The Arvon Book of Crime Writing Michelle Spring and Laurie R. King

The Arvon Foundation runs professional writing courses by published writers and provides expert tuition and creative support. The Arvon Book of Crime Writing captures the essence of Arvon teaching into a practical handbook for writers, packed with tips and advice from leading novelists as well as reflections on the genre itself and practical instruction on great storytelling. Contributors include Lee Child, P. D. James, and Ian Rankin. The Arvon Book of Crime Writing is divided into three sections: • Part 1 Essays on critical issues in the genre • Part 2 Guest Writers—twenty-five contributors offering advice and tips

• Part 3 how to Write Crime writing Michelle Spring, a Canadian who has lived in England for much of her adult life, taught social science before october becoming a full-time writer. Her six published crime novels include Every Breath You Take (short-listed as Best First Paperback original Novel for both an Anthony and an Arthur Ellis Award), Nights in White Satin, In the Midnight Hour (winner of the u.s. $20.00 www Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel), and The Night Lawyer. She mentors novelists, and teaches both creative writing and 256 PAGES academic writing. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" ISBN 978-1-4081-3122-0 .bloomsburyacademicusa.com Laurie R. King is a third generation Californian with a background in theology, whose first crime novel (A Grave Talent) won the Edgar and Creasey awards. Her yearly novels range from police procedurals and stand-alones to a historical series about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice). Her books have won the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards, and appear regularly on the New York Times bestseller list. King mentors novelists, and teaches both creative writing and academic writing. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Writing Sally Cline

Literary non-fiction, the revelation of a factual subject using literary techniques, is a genre of writing that is much discussed, increasingly studied, and attracts much critical attention as a form that continues to be examined and redefined as the landscape of media, literature, and communications evolves. Written by tutors from the Arvon Foundation, the prestigious professional writing course, The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Writing offers new insight into the critical impact and nature of this evolving genre, adding to the ongoing debate and offering valuable instruction to authors. The book is dvided into three sections: writing • Part 1 Essays on critical issues in the genre october • Part 2 Guest Writers Paperback original u.s. $20.00 • Part 3 Advice and instruction 256 PAGES 5 1/16" x 7 3/4" Contributions from over twenty guest authors include: Siri Hustvedt, Philip Hoare, Barry Lopez, and William Dalrymple. ISBN 978-1-4081-3123-7 Sally Cline, award winning biographer, short-fiction writer, and winner of the BBC short story contest, is the author of ten books, including ground-breaking biographies of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for LAMBDA award), Zelda Fitzgerald, and Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett. She has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in International Writing, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, former Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund, has taught at Cambridge University, and mentored for the MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, where she is Writer in Residence. 75 www.bloomsburyacademicusa.com 76 A dlard Coles ISBN ISBN paperback original P col aperback original or throughout 978-1-4081-7230-8 978-1-4081-5895-1 l 4-co 7 8 7 1 / september / 16 or images 4 u.s. $22.95 u.s. $39.95 144 PAGES " x 11 october " x 9 96 PAGES sailing sailing 11 1 / / 16 32 " " contributor toYACHT Klaus Andrews is afreelance photographer whospecializes inmaritime photography. Hehasbeenaregular GermanyachtingLars Bolleeditedthe magazine YACHT this essential skill. A unique handbook,Harbour Manoeuvres Step by Step covers ingreat detail everything neededtomaster etc. Bird’ an offshore wind; with afavorable tide;acontrary wind tide;with both andtideacting oragainst together step way, ofthe showing exactlywhattodoineachsituation—berthing alongside with anonshore wind; This will is bookthat the actasaninstructor alongside novice the ornervousexperienced helmsman every ’ bird skill,usingtheuniqueapproachof handbookforthisessentialbuttricky A comprehensive Lars BolleandKlausAndrews Harbour M With color-coded sections forquick and easyreference, book includes the pages forrecording: owners will have everything they needinan ordered fashion. down scraps of paper, receipts, or certificates are gone: with the myriadthe elementsrelating totheir boatinoneconvenient place foreasy reference. Thedays ofhunting time-consuming hassle. This logbookwill prove areal boontoallboatowners whowant tokeep arecord of Boats needregular upkeep, butkeeping track ofeverything related toboatmaintenance canbea efficiently. andmaintenanceoftheirvessel more tomanagetheservicing in oneplaceorder forboat owners, An invaluable enabling them to organize their boat information working reference Dearn Robert The A Y instructor andexaminer, hehaswritten several R logbooksforthe For over twenty years, Sail and Power ealm, South Devon. ealm, South • • • • • gauges, strengths, thicknesses, andlengths ofhalyards, rigging wire, pipes, etc. navigation software pinnumbers andpasswords nextservicethe dateforliferaft, engine, water filters, seacocks replacement datesforlifejacket cylinders, flares, gasplumbing pipes,water filters, etc. rigging screw sizes, etc. part numbers ofequipment,navigation lightbulb sizes andstrengths, engine partnumbers, s-eye maneuvring. view photostoguidehelmsmenthrougheachstepofclose-quarters s-eye step-by-step photosshowexactlywhatactiontotake. dlard ColesM forfifteenyears. obert Dearn ranRobert Sea anoeuvres Step by Step Chest, largest the West chandlery in the of England. A former aintenance L . Y A. Heis currently harbormaster River the of the Adlard Coles Maintenance Logbook , boat ogbook for Y achtmaster Skipper vs Crew / Crew vs Skipper Tim Davison

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80 Lawrence, Alistair 49 INDEX Lemonick, Michael D. 16 50 Licks 55 Leningrad 15 Aamondt, Sandra, Ph.D., and Sam Wang, Ph.D. 28 Leonardo and The Last Supper 22 www Abbey Road 49 Lewis, Celia 62 Adlard Coles Maintenance Logbook for Sail and Power, The 76 Lewis, Danny 72 .bloomsburypress.com Adler, William M. 41 Life! Death! Prizes! 64 Alford, Stephen 11 Light of Amsterdam, The 59 America Aflame 9 Makary, Marty, M.D. 2 Arvon Book of Crime Writing, The 75 Man Who Never Died, The 41 Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Writing, The 75 Mapson, Jo-Ann 47 Babysitting George 65 Mattson, Kevin 33 Baker, Jim, and Bernard M. Corbett 32 May, Stephen 64 Big Ray 61 Megdal, Howard 66 Blatner, David 17 Midnight in Austenland 36 Bolle, Lars, and Klaus Andrews 76 Miracle of Trees, The 24 Booth, Lawrence 73 Mirror Earth 16 Brower, Sam 46 More Perfect Heaven, A 18 Chwast, Seymour 30 Most Memorable Games in Patriots History, The 32 Classic Cycle Routes of Europe 74 Müller-Schell, Werner 74 Cline, Sally 75 Nicol, Karen 72 Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Fitness, The 74 Norman, Russell 58 Cooke, Elizabeth 21 Odyssey, The 30 Coulson, Morc, and Sarah Bolitho 74 Painter of Silence 37 Damnation of John Donellan, The 21 Park, David 59 Dante, Ed 29 Parker, Matthew 20 David Bowie Style 72 Patel, Aneeta 73 Davis, Will 67 Polpo 58 www Davison, Tim 77 Prophet’s Prey 46 de Graaf, John, and David K. Batker 8 Rabid 38

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