F A L L THE2 CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP 0 1 6 THE CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP FALL 2016 SEPTEMBER-JANUARY Carisa Hays Kate Tyler Vice President, Vice President, Publicity & Marketing Executive Director of Publicity, Director, Clarkson Potter The Crown Publishing Group 212-572-2551 · [email protected] 212-782-9277 · [email protected] Rachel Rokicki Kristin Casemore Publicity Director Director of Publicity Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, Ten Speed Press, Watson-Guptill, and Broadway Books and Amphoto 212-782-8455 · [email protected] 510-285-2944 · [email protected] Tammy Blake Beverly Rykerd Vice President, Publicity Director Director of Publicity Crown Archetype, Harmony Books, WaterBrook Multnomah and Three Rivers Press 719-268-1935 · [email protected] 212-572-2542 · [email protected] The Crown Publishing Group, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC Rachel Rokicki Publicity Director Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway Books 212-782-8455 · [email protected] CROWN The Power of Meaning Crafting a Life That Matters Emily Esfahani Smith Publicist: Rachel Rokicki | 212-782-8455 | [email protected] Publicist: Hannah Frail | 212-572-2247 | [email protected] SUMMARY For anyone exhausted or disillusioned by the pursuit of happiness, here is the antidote: a book about meaning, a better route to a fulfilling life. The Power of Meaning draws on philosophy, literature, and the latest research in social psychology, as well as Emily Esfahani Smith’s prodigious reporting, to introduce us to the “meaning mind-set.” With a warm, assured voice that moves effortlessly from Aristotle to Louis C.K., Smith lays out the four pillars of meaning: belonging, purpose, storytelling, and transcendence. As she plumbs the meaning of meaning, she visits a tight-knit fishing village to investigate belonging, stargazes in West Texas, experiences the power of storytelling at a Moth event, and talks to dozens of seekers of meaning—from a former astronaut to a group of medieval enthusiasts. Finally, she shows us how we can lean on the pillars in difficult times, and how we might begin to build a culture of meaning in our schools, workplaces, and communities. Stirring, inspiring, and story-driven, The Power of Meaning will strike a profound chord in anyone seeking more in life. AUTHOR BIO EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH writes about culture, relationships, and psychology for the Atlantic, New Criterion, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, and other publications. She holds an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in applied positive psychology. A native of Zurich, she grew up in Montreal and lives in Michigan. Crown 9780553419993 On-Sale Date: 1/10/2017 HC $28.00 Self-Help - Personal Growth - General 5 The Fifth Petal A Novel Brunonia Barry Publicist: Rebecca Welbourn | 212-782-9634 | [email protected] Publicist: Shannon McCain | 212-572-6067 | [email protected] SUMMARY Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, returns to her contemporary, otherworldly Salem with this spellbinding thriller, a complex brew of suspense, seduction, and murder. When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem’s chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem’s most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed “The Goddess Murders,” in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed on Halloween night in 1989. He finds unexpected help in Callie Cahill, the daughter of one of the victims newly returned to town. Neither believes that the main suspect, Rose Whelan, respected local historian, is guilty of murder or witchcraft. But exonerating Rose might mean crossing paths with a dangerous force. Were the women victims of an all-too-human vengeance, or was the devil raised in Salem that night? And if they cannot discover what truly happened, will evil rise again? AUTHOR BIO BRUNONIA BARRY is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She lives in Salem with her husband, Gary Ward, and their dog, Angel. Crown 9781101905609 On-Sale Date: 1/24/2017 HC $27.00 Fiction - Contemporary Women PRAISE FOR THE FIFTH PETAL “In contemporary Salem, a murder has taken place, with roots that reach back to the seventeenth-century witch trials. Filled with twists and turns, as well as ancient tradition and modern mystery, Barry’s story has deft pacing, a marvelous sense of place, and a quirky cast of characters. The Fifth Petal is another haunting tale by the author of The Lace Reader where past and present collide.” —DEBORAH HARKNESS, New York Times bestselling author of the All Souls trilogy “Brunonia Barry’s Salem is alive with rich history, and with a unique and colorful cast of characters: witches and healers, lace readers, the well-to-do and the down-and-out. And everyone’s got secrets. The Fifth Petal is a mesmerizing take on the ways the past affects and influences the present.”—JENNIFER McMAHON, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and The Night Sister 7 The Tea Planter’s Wife A Novel Dinah Jefferies Publicist: Hannah Frail | 212-572-2247 [email protected] SUMMARY The #1 international bestseller set in Ceylon about an Englishwoman who weds a charming tea plantation owner only to discover he’s keeping dark secrets. In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, set in 1920s Ceylon, Gwendolyn marries a rich and charming widower after a whirlwind romance. When she joins him at his tea plantation, she plans to be the perfect wife and, someday, mother. But life in Ceylon is not what Gwen expected. The plantation workers are resentful and her new sister-in-law, treacherous. Gwen finds herself drawn to a Sinhalese man and worries about her husband’s connection to an American widow. But most troubling are the terrible secrets in her husband’s past that soon force Gwen to make a devastating choice. What happened to his first wife? Will the darkness of his past destroy their marriage and Gwen’s chance at happiness? The Tea Crown Planter’s Wife is an utterly engrossing, compulsive 9780451495976 page-turner that climaxes with more than one On-Sale Date: 9/13/2016 heartbreaking twist. HC $26.00 Fiction - Historical AUTHOR BIO DINAH JEFFERIES was born in Malaysia and has lived in Italy, Spain, and England. She now lives with her husband and Norfolk terrier in Gloucestershire, where she writes full-time. The Tea Planter’s Wife is her US debut. The Tea Planter¹s Wife has sold in 19 territories internationally and has sold over 320,000 copies in combined print, ebook, and audio in the UK to date. 8 Rogue Heroes The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War Ben Macintyre Publicist: Dyana Messina | 212-572-2098 [email protected] SUMMARY From the author of Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends, the untold story of one of WWII’s most important secret military units. BEN MACINTYRE’s latest reveals the incredible story of the last secret organization of World War II—Britain’s Special Air Service, or, the SAS. Facing long odds against the Axis forces along the African coast, Britain turned to the brainchild of one of its most unlikely heroes: David Stirling, a man whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. With the help of his colleague Jock Lewes, Stirling assembled a crack team of daring, dangerous men who would parachute in behind enemy lines to sabotage the Nazi war machine. In its blunt dismissal of the old rules of battle, the SAS would change not only the course PRAISE FOR BEN MACINTYRE of the war, but the very nature of military combat. Writing with unprecedented SAS archival access, “Puts other spy tales to shame.” —People Macintyre offers a remarkable psychological portrait “It should be said loud and clear that Macintyre is a of elite soldiers of whom everything was asked. supremely gifted storyteller. He spins quite a yarn. His books are absurdly entertaining. I would kill for AUTHOR BIO his keen wit. He takes us into a world of bounders, spivs, roués, and men (and women) on the make…. BEN MACINTYRE is a writer at large for the Times of Double Cross is a blast.” —Boston Globe London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, and “Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths Agent Zigzag, among other books. Macintyre has also of spycraft, and has a keen eye for absurdity.” written and presented BBC documentaries of his work. —The New Yorker “[A] complex, absorbing final installment in his Crown trilogy about World War II espionage….Macintyre 9781101904169 is a master storyteller. Employing a wry wit and On-Sale Date: 10/4/2016 a keen eye for detail, he delivers an ultimately HC $28.00 winning tale fraught with European intrigue and History - Military - World War II subtle wartime heroics.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Superb….the story comes alive again in all its stupendous, unimaginable duplicity.…intensely readable” —Washington Post 9 Weapons of Math Destruction How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Cathy O’Neil Publicist: Sarah Breivogel | 212-572-2722 [email protected] Publicist: Liz Esman | 212-572-6049 [email protected] SUMMARY A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life—and threaten to rip apart our social fabric. We live in the age of the algorithm. The decisions that affect our lives where we go to school, whether we get a car loan are increasingly being made by mathematical models.